6/29/2023 0 Comments Cipher by S.E. BennettIt encrypt the first letters in the same way as an ordinary Vigenère cipher,īut after all letters in the key have been used it doesn't repeat the sequence. The Vigenère Autokey Cipher is a more secure variant of the ordinary Vigenère cipher. Gronsfeld ciphers can be solved as well through the Vigenère tool. The Vigenère cipher is an improvement of the Caesar cipher, by using a sequence of shifts instead of applying the same shift to every letter.Ī variant of the Vigenère cipher, which uses numbers instead of letters to describe the sequence of shifts, is called a Gronsfeld cipher. Despite being called the Vigenère cipher in honor of Blaise de Vigenère, it was actually developed by Giovan Battista Bellaso. The Vigenère cipher was invented in the mid-16th century and has ever since been popular in the cryptography and code-breaking community. To use Atbash, you simply reverse the alphabet, so A becomes Z, B becomes Y and so on. It is believed to be the first cipher ever used. The Atbash Cipher is a really simple substitution cipher that is sometimes called mirror code.
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6/29/2023 0 Comments John updike 1971Too Far to Go (the Maples stories) (1979).Shillington served as a base for his fictional town of Olinger, the embodiment of suburbia. He was an eleventh generation American, and his family spent his childhood in Shillington, Pennsylvania, living with Linda’s parents. John Hoyer Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on March 18, 1932, to Wesley Russell and Linda Updike, née Hoyer. Children: Elizabeth, David, Michael, and Miranda Margaret.Spouses: Mary Pennington, Martha Ruggles Bernhard.Awards and Honors: Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction (1982, 1991) two National Book Awards (1964, 1982) 1989 National Medal of Arts 2003 National Humanities Medal Rea Award for the Short Story for outstanding achievement 2008 Jefferson Lecture, the U.S.Parents: Wesley Russell Updike, Linda Updike (née Hoyer).Known For: Pulitzer Prize winning American writer whose fiction explored the tensions of the American middle class, sexuality, and religion. Though a tad dramatic, this tale of adventure and heroism under dire circumstances is an enjoyable read, filled with rich details about this period in Venetian history. Jews are the scapegoats for everything that goes wrong for the Christians, and now the plague is returning to Venice. Although the count is kind to Hannah, his brothers and servants are openly hostile. Hannah asks the count for an enormous sum of money if she successfully delivers the baby, in order to ransom her husband. The Midwife of Venice is a gripping historical page-turner, enthralling readers with its suspenseful action and vivid depiction of life in sixteenth-century Venice. Because of an edict against Jews giving medical treatment to Christians, Hannah’s rabbi forbids her to go she would risk not only her own life but also the position of the entire Jewish community if she helps the countess. The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich Review. But when a count implores her to attend to his wife, who has been laboring for days to. Hannah is paid a secret visit by a count, who wants her to help his deathly ill wife deliver their baby. About the Book:Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothersa gift aided by the secret birthing spoons she designed. Now he is awaiting ransom by the Venetian Jewish community. Isaac, her husband, was captured at sea while on a business trip and sent to Malta to be sold into slavery. Hannah, the heroine of this novel, is a gifted midwife who lives in the Jewish ghetto of Venice in 1575. Now I am wrestling with Jaime and Brienne. Finally finished a clutch of Cersei chapters that were giving me fits. He says though the book is proceeding, it's not going as quickly as some readers would like. He elaborates by saying he's finished a series of chapters around Cersei Lannister that had been giving him trouble and has since moved on to chapters about Jaime Lannister and Brienne of Tarth. On Martin's blog Not a Blog, he briefly summarizes the recent progress he's made on the book. Related: The Winds Of Winter Theory Finally Fixes GOT's Rickon Stark Failures The book does not have a release date at the time of writing. Martin has teased that The Winds of Winter will be his longest book to date, explaining the long time he's taken to complete it. The Winds of Winter will pick up immediately after the events of A Dance of Dragons and see the return of many popular characters, including Tyrion Lannister, Arya Stark, and Theon Greyjoy. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Tales of neveryon“We both were like, ‘This takes away the genuineness of it all,’ but we also understood that we live in Hollywood,’” the “Cheetah Girls” star said of her new wife. It was hard, she said, “because I knew something was different about Miranda.”įortunately, Pearman-Maday understood and signed. Tales of Nevèr on Quotes Showing 1-7 of 7. I’m like, ‘She’s from the industry.’ And my mom was bugging me.” “She was like, ‘You got to get it signed. We were in this outdoor French-type of restaurant, and my mom had been bugging me,” Raven-Symoné said. She said she would ask her romantic partners to sign “before the naughty times” and shared that she even reluctantly asked her wife Miranda Pearman-Maday to sign an NDA. Raven-Symoné got her big break as a little girl starring on “The Cosby Show.” She went on to have her own incredibly popular Disney series, “That’s So Raven” and currently stars in the revival, “Raven’s Home.” 1,473 ratings, 3. “It took me a while to wrap my head around it because it’s very impersonal, but someone in our position needs to do that.” “All of my relationships, especially, obviously, when I started dating, I had to get people to sign NDAs,” she said. The former child actress shared recently on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast that she asked everyone she dated to sign an NDA to prevent them from sharing publicly about their personal relationship. Not even Raven-Symoné’s now wife avoided a non-disclosure agreement in order to be involved with the star. Tickets for “Arsenic and Old Lace are available online (click the button above) or in person at the Bank of the Arts at 317 Middle Street in New Bern. The play gained popularity as a result of the. Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic black comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family.ĭirected by Sue Baldwin, “Arsenic and Old Lace” promises to provide a lively evening full of classic entertainment. Arsenic and Old Lace, written by Joseph Kesselring in 1939, was first performed on stage in January 1941. This hilarious group shows they’ve been around a long time. We tend to think of dysfunctional families as a recent label. Many remember the 1944 Frank Capra film starring Cary Grant. On January 10, Broadway gave them exactly what they were looking for in the form of a hilarious new play by Joseph Kesselring, Folks needed light entertainment as they were worried about war in Europe and the growing fear that America would be pulled into it. Written in 1939, Arsenic and Old Lace was first presented in 1941. The North Carolina History Theater will present Joseph Kesselring’s “Arsenic & Old Lace” at the North Carolina History Center’s Cullman Hall at 529 S. Treat yourself to some classic fun with this outstanding comedy. The plot centers on the Brewster family, a once elite American bloodline that has now descended into homicidal insanity. Like as not it would come to that if she did not give in to her stepbrother?s demands after this demonstration of his seriousness, but while his patience held, he did not want to blacken her with bruises that would elicit comment at her wedding. Blood trickled down the center of her chin from biting her lips to keep from screaming. She also was being held fast by two men at arms, the same two who had dragged her into this chamber to witness her stepbrother?s brutality. Across the small chamber, Rowena Belleme watched. This kept her upright when she might have buckled, kept her there to receive another blow, and still another. They stood well behind her, her arms twisted just so to thrust her forward so they would not take a blow meant for her. But she was supported, by two of the knight?s men at arms. A blow like that would have easily sent her to the floor if she were not supported. And when his open palm cracked across her cheek, her thin body jerked to the side with the force of it. Her blond head reached no higher than his broad shoulders. PRISONER OF MY DESIRE JOHANNA LINDSEY Chapter 1 England, 1152 The lady was small and fragile, but with the tall knight standing before her, her frailty was much more apparent. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Talent is overratedSo, what makes a great performance in ANYTHING?! If talent means that success is easy or rapid, as most people seem to believe, then something is obviously wrong with a talent-based explanation of high achievement.” In math, science, musical composition, swimming, X-ray diagnosis, tennis, literature-no one, not even the most “talented” performers, became great without at least ten years of very hard preparation. Subsequent research in a wide range of fields has substantiated the ten-year rule everywhere the researchers have looked. In a famous study of chess players, Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon and William Chase proposed “the ten year rule,” based on their observation that no one seemed to reach the top ranks of chess players without a decade or so of intensive study, and some required much more time.Įven Bobby Fischer was not an exception when he became a grand master at age sixteen, he had been studying chess intensively for nine years. 6/27/2023 0 Comments The becoming of noah shawHis light blue eyes are clouded over and staring at nothingness as he leans on his cane, his hand trembling. I tried to heal him when that was a thing I realised I could do. Now, however, he sags beside my grandmother, half of his face twisted into a permanent grimace after a stroke two years ago. Hunter of pheasants, of foxes, but not of fortune-that he inherited from his father, who inherited it from his father, and on it goes. Lord Elliot II, was once a strapping, reed-backed but jolly Englishman’s Englishman. This is quite literally our ancestral home, built in the fifteen hundreds by Henry the Somethingth. Next to her, my grandfather softly droops under the grand dome above us, painted by some hideously famous artist centuries ago. Imagine it: five of us gathered like a wilting bouquet, my grandmother the lone thistle standing. WE ARE A TEARLESS, TINY crowd, we survivors of David Shaw. From her first public protest, aged five, to her instrumental role in spreading the church's invective via social media, her formative years brought their difficulties. Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church - the fire-and-brimstone religious sect at once aggressively homophobic and anti-Semitic, rejoiceful for AIDS and natural disasters, and notorious for its picketing the funerals of American soldiers. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world of extreme discipline, of siblings vanishing in the night. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. It was an upbringing in many ways normal. A brave, unsettling, and fascinating memoir about the damage done by religious fundamentalism' NPRĪ Radio Four Book of the Week Pick for June 2021Īs featured on the BBC documentaries, 'The Most Hated Family in America' and 'Surviving America's Most Hated Family' 'A nuanced portrait of the lure and pain of zealotry' New York Times 'Such a moving, redemptive, clear-eyed account of religious indoctrination' - Pandora Sykes 'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' - Louis Theroux |