5/31/2023 0 Comments Read it and weep by jenn mckinlay![]() ![]() ![]() Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. A gifted storyteller, Jenn McKinlay writes a mystery that combines the challenges of wedding planning. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She immediately comes to the conclusion that her life is in danger. ![]() Shortly after she gets engaged to be married herself, Helen hears a whistle late at night for the first time. A few hours before she died, Julia asked her sister if she had ever heard a whistle late at night. The last words which she spoke to Helen concerned a "speckled band". Julia died in agony two weeks before she was due to be married. Following the mysterious death of her twin sister Julia two years earlier, Helen Stoner has become the only person (apart from an old housekeeper) to share the home of her bad tempered stepfather Dr. In the story, a woman named Helen Stoner approaches Sherlock Holmes for help. In August 1905, the story was published, under the title "The Speckled Band", in the New York World newspaper. It would be republished in October of the same year as the eighth of the twelve stories in the anthology The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. ![]() It was first published in the February 1892 issue of the magazine The Strand. "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Front cover of a 1982 Chinese graphic novel adaptation of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band". ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Surrender by K. Piet![]() ![]() Exercises and data-based practicals help readers to consolidate their skills, with solutions and data sets given on the companion website. The issues in the book are specific to insurance data, such as model selection in the presence of large data sets and the handling of varying exposure times. ![]() Using insurance data sets, this practical, rigorous book treats GLMs, covers all standard exponential family distributions, extends the methodology to correlated data structures, and discusses recent developments which go beyond the GLM. ![]() Until now, no text has introduced GLMs in this context or addressed the problems specific to insurance data. GLMs are used in the insurance industry to support critical decisions. This is the only book actuaries need to understand generalized linear models (GLMs) for insurance applications. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Tennessee williams play the glass![]() ![]() Williams had originally doubted the play would have a broad appeal for audiences because the material was so personal (Lutz 42). In 1944 the work evolved into The Glass Menagerie. Later that year, Williams rewrote the story into the unsuccessful script, “The Gentleman Caller,” while working as a screenwriter in Hollywood for MGM. The short story, “Portrait of a Girl in Glass,” was completed in 1943. The Glass Menagerie went through several incarnations before it opened in Chicago. Its success continued when the play opened in New York on March 31, 1945, where it had a run of 563 performances and earned Williams his first New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for the best play of the year, the Donaldson Award from Billboard magazine, and the Sidney Howard Memorial Award from the Playwrights Company (Lutz 9). Soon the play was grossing $15,000 weekly, almost five times the take of the first week” (Norma Jean Lutz, “Biography of Tennessee Williams,” Bloom’s BioCritiques Tennessee Williams, ed. ![]() The play opened to a small audience in Chicago on a chilling December 26, 1944, but “by the third week. ![]() One of the best known plays of the American theatre, The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams’s first critical and financial success. ![]() |