![]() Photos from the ship showed what appeared to be bullet holes from small arms fire scattered across the luxurious Kalizma. ![]() The satellite tracking data analyzed by the AP, cross-referenced with coordinates authorities earlier offered for the site of the incident, identified the Cook Islands-flagged Kalizma as the yacht involved in the shooting. ![]() “The yacht penetrated territorial waters and sailed in them without raising the flag of the yacht’s country, as well as (it) refused to respond and stop in clear violation of international maritime law,” the Yemeni Coast Guard said. A later statement from the Yemeni Coast Guard, posted online, acknowledged the death and said its forces along with Yemen’s navy tried to stop the Kalizma as it was operating in a “very suspicious way” close to the shore and did not answer radio calls. The Coast Guard “returned fire and followed the yacht for approximately an hour until communications with the yacht could be established and the misunderstanding between the parties resolved.”Īmbrey said one Yemeni Coast Guard member was killed. ![]() onboard the yacht then opened fire on the approaching Yemenis and attempted to escape perceived pirates,” Ambrey said. Ambrey, a maritime intelligence company, said in a brief that a Yemeni Coast Guard contingent had approached a Cook Islands-flagged yacht which hadn’t responded to radio calls.Īccording to the Coast Guard, “an armed security team. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ron Hubbard’s Illustrator of the Future Award of 2007. ![]() Jessica and her family reside in Sherman Oaks, California.īrittany Jackson (Bea for short) is a New York Times bestselling illustrator who attended the College for Creative Studies and is the grand prize winner and returned alumni of L. ![]() Jessica’s blog, Happy Mama Happy Babies, is an authentic motherhood and lifestyle platform that shares her family’s adventures, growth chronicles, and everything in between. The mother-daughter duo has since penned four additional children’s books in hopes of inspiring others to dream big dreams. Jessica’s debut children’s picture book, written with her oldest daughter, Parker, was nominated for a 2020 NAACP Image Award. Jessica Curry is a New York Times bestselling author, blogger, and work-at-home mama to three children Parker, Ava, and Cash. ![]() Precocious Parker lives with her mother, father, younger sister, and baby brother. Currently, Parker is in first grade, where she loves to explore art and new books. Parker Curry, six years old, is a New York Times bestselling author and dynamic young mind with a love for ballet and reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() Woven into that story is another flashback, to Gamache’s experiences on the day of the real-life mass shooting in 1989 at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, where a man with a gun slaughtered 14 women, most of them engineering students at the university, and injured another 14 people. They soon discovered that she had also trafficked her children, 13-year-old Fiona and 10-year-old Sam, and that the crime was even more tragic than they imagined. They first worked together, when Gamache was head of homicide for the Surete du Quebec, on the murder of an addict and sex worker named Clotilde Arsenault. ![]() Penny opens this book with a flashback to Gamache’s first meeting with the man who would become both his professional right hand and his son-in-law, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. “A World of Curiosities” is Penny’s 18th novel, not counting “State of Terror,” the bestselling 2021 thriller she co-wrote with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Related: Read a review of Louise Penny's "Kingdom of the Blind." ![]() ![]() ![]() Back matter details a short history of peaceful protests and defines related terms. Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights by Rob Sanders - A primer for peaceful protest, resistance, and activism from the author of Rodzilla and Pride: The Story. It's a tribute to the potent rhythm of Sanders's text and exuberant cut-paper images by Schorr (Better Together) that the litany never grows wearying in fact, the book relays useful, action-based suggestions as it moves along. Placards that read "#RESIST" and "LOVE IS LOVE" are among the first images in a later spread, a knitter creates a pink hat as she watches an African-American football player take a knee on television. Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights: A Read Aloud Churchill Library 329 subscribers Subscribe 1. Join others in the fight." While some of the suggestions are timeless ("STRIKE," written in big white letters on a black background), and a few illustrations reference specific movements (the 1965 Delano grape strike), much of the book feels timely. 26, 1970, a full 50 years after the passage of the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote, 50,000 feminists. Proudly progressive and unabashedly direct, this anthem is dedicated to "those who lost their lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School." Writing in stirring, crisp imperatives, Sanders (Pride) creates a to-do list for change: "Inquire. Womens Strike for Peace and Equality, New York City, Aug. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elliot wins five, and almost wins six, but is stopped by his sister Wendy, who knows what happens to the kids who win six King Coins. He invites them to camp, where Elliot and Wendy compete in sports to win King Coins. They are discovered by Buddy, a camp counselor at Camp Jellyjam. Elliot and Wendy were in the trailer when the trailer came loose from their parents' car and crashed into a tree. ![]() ![]() Their parents were uneasy about the idea at first, but they eventually agreed. After a futile game of Car Geography, Elliot asked if he and Wendy could ride in the trailer for a while. Their mother tried to get them to play a game, but to no avail. It wasn't very exciting and Elliot was soon pestering his mother about how bored he was, saying that he wanted to go to camp. Elliot and Wendy were going on a road trip with their parents to Wyoming, which was a very long trip. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He also leads the Fund’s Working Farms Fund program, which aims to protect farmland surrounding metropolitan areas while helping next-generation farmers work towards affordable farm ownership. Much of Funderburke’s work involves the critical purchase of at-risk, yet underutilized properties in vulnerable downtown communities for the creation of parks and greenspaces through The Conservation Fund’s Parks with Purpose program. Since 2009, Funderburke has worked out of the nonprofit’s Atlanta office where he’s served as both regional counsel and a real estate manager, spearheading nearly 200 conservation projects across Georgia and Alabama.įunderburke’s portfolio of work includes many impactful and high-profile projects in Atlanta, including the protection of the former Chattahoochee Brick Company site, the Atlanta Beltline, Lake Charlotte Nature Preserve and the Urban Food Forest at Browns Mills. ATLANTA - The Conservation Fund, America’s leader in land protection, is pleased to announce the promotion of Stacy Funderburke to Georgia State Director. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a masterful work of research, writing and – most importantly – proper distance from the biographer’s subject. Several friends had recommended Chernow’s bio I wasn’t disappointed. Was he the late 18th / early 19th century version of our 21st century John Muir? What was really behind the mask – I wanted to learn more.īefore taking up a direct source on Jefferson I turned to his greatest enemy, Alexander Hamilton, an historical figure I knew vaguely. I’ve had this issue with Ambrose before (and I know enough about his writing to stay away from his excoriated Eisenhower bio), and while I enjoyed his bio of Meriwether Lewis, it was his portrayal of Thomas Jefferson that had me scratching my head. It started when I was reading Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage, this niggling feeling of discomfort I get when reading a book when the author seems to be taking opportunities to lionize his/her subjects – or at the very least, portraying them in a simplistic, single facet. ![]() |