Kenneth Atchity's Blog, page 194

Prehistoric sharks escaped mass extinction by diving deeper

 An artist's illustration of a falcatid shark, one of the three cladodontomorph shark species discovered. These species of sharks were smaller, had unique teeth, and often sported hook-like dangles above their head — unlike modern shark species.

The most severe extinction in the earth's history began 252 million years ago, wiping out 90 percent of ocean species and 70 percent of life on land. Modern sharks and their relatives were among the few that survived this "Great Dying," and new fossil finds hint as to how they may have clung on to life.

A paleontological dig site in southern France, containing sediment from a much younger Cretaceous ocean floor, now have yielded fossilized teeth of a tiny shark relative, indicating that the fish found refuge by swimming to deeper oceans.
ne of the tiny little cladodontomorph shark teeth (scale bar indicates 0.5 mm) discovered in 135 million-years-old rocks, whereas this shark group was thought to have gone extinct 120 million years earlier.





Guillaume Guinot
One
of the tiny T-shaped teeth typical of cladodont sharks, less than a
millimeter long, discovered in 135 million-years-old rocks.



The collection of millimeter-long teeth belong to three species of cladodontomorph sharks — not massive fish like we know them to be, but tiny, inch-long swimmers — relatives of modern sharks, skates and rays. They thrived in the Permian ocean prior to the extinction and researchers had thought they had perished in the Great Dying — until they were found in soil that was 135 million years fresh.

The tiny sharks, fleeing the acidic coastal waters of the end-Permian, moved to deeper oceans, and lived there for a hundred million years, Guillaume Guinot, a researcher at the Natural History Museum in Geneva, Switzerland, and his colleagues explain in the Tuesday issue of Nature Communications.

"It changes our view of how dramatic this extinction event was," Guinot told NBC News. The find suggests that there may be many more fishes living in deep ocean sediment deposits that haven’t been found yet, and that may indicate that the "extinction wasn’t that dramatic for cartilaginous fishes."

The new findings also allow for the possibility that modern sharks survived the die off in a similar way, by moving to deep open ocean that was perhaps less changed. "These are just ideas," he clarified, because there is no hard, ossified evidence that modern sharks also swam to deeper oceans and died (and fossilized) there.

 

Reposted from NBC News

The Messiah Matrix - A Review

What a wild ride! THE MESSIAH MATRIX is akin to Dan Brown’s THE DEVINCI CODE  and  ANGELS AND DEMONS.  The author is a professor of literature and classics, and has written papers on Greek, Roman and Italian literature.  Don’t let any of that throw you off. This man can write a thriller that makes you sit up and take notice.

The main characters, Father Ryan McKeown, and archeologist Emily Scelba, are on the hunt for the truth about the death of Monsignor Oscar Isaac, and for a rare coin which may or may not be connected to the man’s death. Finding the coin could make Emily’s career soar. Finding the killer could keep Ryan from being the next target.

The story is told from several different points of view, and in several different eras of church history, as well as the history of Father Ryan and Emily. I really enjoyed this book. It’s great for mystery buffs, lovers of church history, and readers of suspense and thriller fiction.





Reposted from Ryder Islington's Blog

Former Secret Service agent tells of Jacqueline Kennedy

Clint Hill, retired Secret Service agent for Jacqueline Kennedy, tells
his experiences on the first lady's security detail during the second
day of "The Kennedy Legacy: 50 Years Later" symposium at Bismarck State
College.


Former Secret Service Agent Clint Hill said he first felt let down when he was assigned to protect Jacqueline Kennedy instead of President John F. Kennedy. He had been assigned to President Dwight Eisenhower’s detail before.

It would mean accompanying the first lady for dull card games, droll tea parties, fashion shows and shopping trips, or so he thought. He was in for a surprise about where the athletic and adventurous woman would take him — to the Virginia countryside for horseback riding, Paris, India, Pakistan and Greece.

Hill, a North Dakota native, and journalist Lisa McCubbin, penned “Mrs. Kennedy and Me,” which details his time with the first family through November 1963. He provided colorful and poignant answers Wednesday at “The Kennedy Legacy: 50 Years Later” symposium. The event runs through this afternoon at Bismarck State College’s National Energy Center of Excellence.

Jacqueline Kennedy also was not thrilled about having security, according to Hill.

“She didn’t want me there because she didn’t want somebody looking over her shoulder,” he said.

They both got along very well after their first meeting. Hill was called to be at the first lady’s side when she went into labor with son John F. Kennedy Jr., two weeks after they met, and later after she lost her baby, Patrick.

McCubbin quizzed Hill about the book’s content Wednesday. Hill’s memories are both humorous and sad.

“She was an accomplished horsewoman and loved to ride horses,” Hill said of Jacqueline Kennedy. “That’s when she was happiest.”

Mrs. Kennedy’s charm and knowledge of French history convinced French leaders to loan the United States the Mona Lisa painting.

Hill tried to stay out of pictures, but he is found in a few film clips and outings with the family.

Photos include Hill with a perplexed expression as the first lady is presented a new horse in Pakistan. Hill said Mrs. Kennedy was ecstatic. Hill, shown in a picture standing next to Mrs. Kennedy, was not. He had to get the animal back to the states.

Another picture shows Hill accompanying the president and his wife on a 50-mile hike. Hill only had dress shoes to wear before he was called to the long walk. The first couple rewarded him for the last-minute assignment with a handmade paper “medallion.” Hill keeps it to this day. He showed videos of him shuttling the children to the shore and back to the boat at Hyannis Port.

He said when baby Patrick died, he and the other agents felt the loss like he was their own child.

Jacqueline Kennedy confided to Hill that she planned to help her husband with the 1964 presidential election because she had been unable to do so when she was carrying baby John. It was shortly before the Kennedy assassination.

Hill was the Secret Service agent who climbed up on the limousine in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, after the president was shot. He said he was trying to protect both President and Mrs. Kennedy.

He said President Kennedy was a man who wanted to help people.

“He was a wonderful man. He was very loyal to his family, devoted to his wife, too,” Hill said of John F. Kennedy. “I think many of the programs that he wanted developed were developed later on by other presidents.”



Reposted From Bismark Tribune

Fran Lewis' in depth review of The Messiah Matrix

A matrix is defined as “ A situation or surrounding substance within which something else originates, develops, or is contained.” Within the pages of this intricate novel we learn about the origins of situations in the past the have reflected themselves in the present as the author takes us back in time to 70A.D. when Flavius Josephus the Historian decided to add 100 words that would change the course of history and the perspective on the existence of one man who was and still is crucial to the Church and Christianity, Christ. Did he really exist? Why is that so many scholars, writers never make mention to actually seeing Jesus in person. Those investigating this issue found one physical reference in a document titled: Testimonium Flavianum added to an edition of his book: Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews, where he makes mention of his existence. Antiquities 18.3.3. “Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct to this day.”

According to history Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to his death. Some who became his disciples did not abandon him. Some reported that he appeared three days after he was crucified and he was the Messiah.  But, our novel begins with the murder of a Monsignor authorized we are told by the Holy Mother Church as related by his killer who seeks redemption from Father Ryan and absolution for his sins. But, no sooner does the young Priest begin speaking to him in the Confessional, this man runs out of the church and finds himself the next victim. Why was he sent? Why would the Holy Mother Church order the death of this great man and what do the final words of the killer mean?

Diving in the ancient Harbor in Israel, Emily, an archeologist and her team are diving below the surface and encounter some rough waters. Hidden below the surface in a boat that has been there for many years is a treasure that will change the course of many lives and endanger those that found it. Two of her student divers remain below the surface during this dangerous storm causing Emily to have to find out their fate. Diving, searching and finally learning the reason why their rise to the surface was delayed she decides to complete what they started. Beneath and stuck in a krater was a gold coin. But, not just any gold coin one that was enveloped in bronze by its first owner who left it there thinking he might return for it at a later date but never did. “The Augustan Aureus: never released, was sitting in the palm of her hands.” The author vividly describes the coin: the figure portrayed is wearing a crown that appears to look like thorns. His face has a beard and the thorns look like a halo of spikes differing from the coin depicted on the cover of this book. Within the coin the creator inscribed: Chi and Rho, Greek Letters. The discussion was exciting and heated between Emily and her two students as the history behind the coin is revealed, their excitement palpable and the need to protect the coin noted. Meeting a man named Luke who Emily feels might provide more answers and perhaps funding for her team to continue their research in this field.

Father Ryan relates his meeting with our late Monsignor and the fact he too was in search of answers regarding Christ and his existence. Throughout Chapter 10 he relates what he learned about the man, the many scholars who published documents back then but never mentioned seeing Jesus in person and determining how to handle the fact that the killer, an Albanian man died in his arms and whether he should report it. The chapter relates information about Herod, the slaughter of male infants and the rumor of a royal birth. It continues with his meetings with the Monsignor, his lifestyle and wondering what he might have found in the Sibyl’s cave that got him killed.

Three separate plots: two murders, a coin that could change it all and a Priest that wants to find the connection between the death of the clergyman and the secret he might have buried with him. The Messiah Matrix will hopefully answer this question, leave readers asking more of their own and hopefully enlighten everyone about the research and the history related to Jesus and his existence.

Getting to understand Father Ryan we learn just what a threat he seems to be to the Vatican when summoned to the office of the Procurator General of the Society of Jesus and we hear his tone, his threats to Ryan and the end result in being attacked, entombed when looking at the sarcophagus of St. Paul and then bumping into Emily and finding out it is the Bishop and many attached to the Jesuits that are involved. Followed, shot at, attacked and learning the name of the bishop behind it all is not even the tip of the iceberg for these two when they team up to find out what caused someone kill Oscar Isaac their beloved Monsignor. The book is replete in history and the Monsignor found a link between Jesus and Augustus, which is explained in detail. Next, the cameo of the Emperor Augustus with a crown and holding the royal Roman Scepter carved they think during the time Christ was depicted on the center of the holy cross. This cameo was said to mean that the emperor was the “earthly representative of the almighty power of God.” He was also hoping to find the coin that Emily recovered and he thought his research important for the “origins of Christianity,” dangerous to the church and the Vatican. Finding the coin that was so valuable and the events that followed alerted Ryan to why he had to fear Pimental the Procurator. But, there is much more as the man who cleaned the coin, translated the words for the one person she thought she could trust but not only stole it from her but intended to capitalize on it, realized that on the coin in Greek were the words: God and son of god embossed across from the name: Jasius Augustus.

As you read this novel many different viewpoints come to light regarding Jesus as the Son of God and the Roman Emperor Augustus thought to be the real Son of God according to the Monsignor’s research. If this is true and he is said to be  son of god then the Christian Savior should be considered even more a Son of God which explains the tension that mounts within this novel between the Christian church, the Jesuits and the conflict that Father Ryan and Emily face as they come in contact with those that are behind the events that almost took their lives and did take the lives of three others. The Antiquities of the Jews and the crown that was worn by Apollo and the evidence found in the cave and presented to them will give every reader pause for thought, reason to do the research into what is presented themselves and make your own final decision. The cult of Augustus was “reinstated by Constantine,” and revived in the present. In other words Augustus had “designated a dozen of his pontiffs as August ales, to spread the rubrics of his cult throughout the empire.” In reality what Emily and the Monsignor uncovered is from what is depicted on her coin: the bearded image of Augustus wearing the Crown of Thorns- standing for the golden spiked one worn by Apollo. In reality when they asses what they have found, rendered all of the information in the files found in the catacombs and more the end result is that Isaac surmised that : Jesus was Augustus and Ryan has been asked to continue on with his work called the Messiah Matrix.

Was Jesus a real person? From the research presented within this novel the author relates that Augustus founded Christianity. The story created by Pimental and the Bishop would change the course of history. Stating that the imperial cult of Augustus Caesar was Christianity in itself. As we hear Pimental and Emily speak and the research of the Monsignor revealed we learn what others believe to be the truth: that Jesus Christ was “ simply the imperial cult name for the deified Caesar Augustus and the Church Fathers would later spin the manufactured mythology to create a literal biblical Jesus.” When the truth as they tell it unfolds the answers reflect that a mythology emerged into religious power and housed itself with the guardians and those who related the what they thought the real version of religion. Temptations rise, lives are placed in danger as Emily and Ryan face the challenge of their lives but first they have to escape what has been planned for them by those that appear to want them to submit to their will. A final scene will make readers hold their breath as Emily and Ryan are sent head first into a boiling underground river and hope to emerge unscathed.

Characters that are quite interesting and a storyline you will have decide for yourself whether you believe or not. As you read the final chapters and hear the voices from the past of the Emperors, Virgil as he is honored and allowed to sit with the Emperor. What is truth and what did they decide to recreate and change you will have to read and hear the voices of Virgil, Augustus and those in attendance to find out. Creating a cult, which would unify the people of the empire and bring peace. A document or book that would relate the facts and events the way they had conceived them making one man the true God in the eyes of the people. When Ryan and Emily present their findings and you read the last chapter and the chart they created of the events from start to finish, you the reader will decide: Was the real Jesus the one born in a manger or was Jesus: Jesus Augustus? You decide after reading this outstanding novel whose research and an ending that will bring it all full circle.

Fran Lewis: reviewer

Fran Lewis' Just Reviews ... The Messiah Matrix

A matrix is defined as “ A situation or surrounding substance within which something else originates, develops, or is contained.” Within the pages of this intricate novel we learn about the origins of situations in the past the have reflected themselves in the present as the author takes us back in time to 70A.D. when Flavius Josephus the Historian decided to add 100 words that would change the course of history and the perspective on the existence of one man who was and still is crucial to the Church and Christianity, Christ. Did he really exist? Why is that so many scholars, writers never make mention to actually seeing Jesus in person. Those investigating this issue found one physical reference in a document titled: Testimonium Flavianum added to an edition of his book: Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews, where he makes mention of his existence. Antiquities 18.3.3. “Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct to this day.”

According to history Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to his death. Some who became his disciples did not abandon him. Some reported that he appeared three days after he was crucified and he was the Messiah.  But, our novel begins with the murder of a Monsignor authorized we are told by the Holy Mother Church as related by his killer who seeks redemption from Father Ryan and absolution for his sins. But, no sooner does the young Priest begin speaking to him in the Confessional, this man runs out of the church and finds himself the next victim. Why was he sent? Why would the Holy Mother Church order the death of this great man and what do the final words of the killer mean?

Diving in the ancient Harbor in Israel, Emily, an archeologist and her team are diving below the surface and encounter some rough waters. Hidden below the surface in a boat that has been there for many years is a treasure that will change the course of many lives and endanger those that found it. Two of her student divers remain below the surface during this dangerous storm causing Emily to have to find out their fate. Diving, searching and finally learning the reason why their rise to the surface was delayed she decides to complete what they started. Beneath and stuck in a krater was a gold coin. But, not just any gold coin one that was enveloped in bronze by its first owner who left it there thinking he might return for it at a later date but never did. “The Augustan Aureus: never released, was sitting in the palm of her hands.” The author vividly describes the coin: the figure portrayed is wearing a crown that appears to look like thorns. His face has a beard and the thorns look like a halo of spikes differing from the coin depicted on the cover of this book. Within the coin the creator inscribed: Chi and Rho, Greek Letters. The discussion was exciting and heated between Emily and her two students as the history behind the coin is revealed, their excitement palpable and the need to protect the coin noted. Meeting a man named Luke who Emily feels might provide more answers and perhaps funding for her team to continue their research in this field.

Father Ryan relates his meeting with our late Monsignor and the fact he too was in search of answers regarding Christ and his existence. Throughout Chapter 10 he relates what he learned about the man, the many scholars who published documents back then but never mentioned seeing Jesus in person and determining how to handle the fact that the killer, an Albanian man died in his arms and whether he should report it. The chapter relates information about Herod, the slaughter of male infants and the rumor of a royal birth. It continues with his meetings with the Monsignor, his lifestyle and wondering what he might have found in the Sibyl’s cave that got him killed.

Three separate plots: two murders, a coin that could change it all and a Priest that wants to find the connection between the death of the clergyman and the secret he might have buried with him. The Messiah Matrix will hopefully answer this question, leave readers asking more of their own and hopefully enlighten everyone about the research and the history related to Jesus and his existence.

Getting to understand Father Ryan we learn just what a threat he seems to be to the Vatican when summoned to the office of the Procurator General of the Society of Jesus and we hear his tone, his threats to Ryan and the end result in being attacked, entombed when looking at the sarcophagus of St. Paul and then bumping into Emily and finding out it is the Bishop and many attached to the Jesuits that are involved. Followed, shot at, attacked and learning the name of the bishop behind it all is not even the tip of the iceberg for these two when they team up to find out what caused someone kill Oscar Isaac their beloved Monsignor. The book is replete in history and the Monsignor found a link between Jesus and Augustus, which is explained in detail. Next, the cameo of the Emperor Augustus with a crown and holding the royal Roman Scepter carved they think during the time Christ was depicted on the center of the holy cross. This cameo was said to mean that the emperor was the “earthly representative of the almighty power of God.” He was also hoping to find the coin that Emily recovered and he thought his research important for the “origins of Christianity,” dangerous to the church and the Vatican. Finding the coin that was so valuable and the events that followed alerted Ryan to why he had to fear Pimental the Procurator. But, there is much more as the man who cleaned the coin, translated the words for the one person she thought she could trust but not only stole it from her but intended to capitalize on it, realized that on the coin in Greek were the words: God and son of god embossed across from the name: Jasius Augustus.

As you read this novel many different viewpoints come to light regarding Jesus as the Son of God and the Roman Emperor Augustus thought to be the real Son of God according to the Monsignor’s research. If this is true and he is said to be  son of god then the Christian Savior should be considered even more a Son of God which explains the tension that mounts within this novel between the Christian church, the Jesuits and the conflict that Father Ryan and Emily face as they come in contact with those that are behind the events that almost took their lives and did take the lives of three others. The Antiquities of the Jews and the crown that was worn by Apollo and the evidence found in the cave and presented to them will give every reader pause for thought, reason to do the research into what is presented themselves and make your own final decision. The cult of Augustus was “reinstated by Constantine,” and revived in the present. In other words Augustus had “designated a dozen of his pontiffs as August ales, to spread the rubrics of his cult throughout the empire.” In reality what Emily and the Monsignor uncovered is from what is depicted on her coin: the bearded image of Augustus wearing the Crown of Thorns- standing for the golden spiked one worn by Apollo. In reality when they asses what they have found, rendered all of the information in the files found in the catacombs and more the end result is that Isaac surmised that : Jesus was Augustus and Ryan has been asked to continue on with his work called the Messiah Matrix.

Was Jesus a real person? From the research presented within this novel the author relates that Augustus founded Christianity. The story created by Pimental and the Bishop would change the course of history. Stating that the imperial cult of Augustus Caesar was Christianity in itself. As we hear Pimental and Emily speak and the research of the Monsignor revealed we learn what others believe to be the truth: that Jesus Christ was “ simply the imperial cult name for the deified Caesar Augustus and the Church Fathers would later spin the manufactured mythology to create a literal biblical Jesus.” When the truth as they tell it unfolds the answers reflect that a mythology emerged into religious power and housed itself with the guardians and those who related the what they thought the real version of religion. Temptations rise, lives are placed in danger as Emily and Ryan face the challenge of their lives but first they have to escape what has been planned for them by those that appear to want them to submit to their will. A final scene will make readers hold their breath as Emily and Ryan are sent head first into a boiling underground river and hope to emerge unscathed.

Characters that are quite interesting and a storyline you will have decide for yourself whether you believe or not. As you read the final chapters and hear the voices from the past of the Emperors, Virgil as he is honored and allowed to sit with the Emperor. What is truth and what did they decide to recreate and change you will have to read and hear the voices of Virgil, Augustus and those in attendance to find out. Creating a cult, which would unify the people of the empire and bring peace. A document or book that would relate the facts and events the way they had conceived them making one man the true God in the eyes of the people. When Ryan and Emily present their findings and you read the last chapter and the chart they created of the events from start to finish, you the reader will decide: Was the real Jesus the one born in a manger or was Jesus: Jesus Augustus? You decide after reading this outstanding novel whose research and an ending that will bring it all full circle.

Fran Lewis: reviewer

Terry Stanfill (Realms of Gold) Featured in Le Chatillon Ai et L'Auxois

BURGUNDY, France October 24, 2013

Jaime Suchlicki and The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-Amercian Stuides Host a Book Presentation for My Cuba Libre: Bringing Fidel Castro to Justice November 12th

                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             







The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American
Studies

Invites you to a book presentation




“MY CUBA LIBRE:
Bringing Fidel Castro to Justice”

by

George J. Fowler
III, Esq.

























This book is the author’s very
personal story of his lifelong battle to remove the dictator from power and
bring democracy to his homeland.  Fowler
exposes the monstrous actions of the Communist Party of Cuba and makes a firm
case for indicting Castro for crimes against humanity.  My Cuba Libre attacks the status quo
that has allowed Castro to remain on the world stage.




INTRODUCTION:    Jaime
Suchlicki, is
the Emilio Bacardi Moreau Distinguished Professor of History, Editor of the Cuban
Affairs Journal and Director of The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American
Studies, University of Miami.  Author of
several books including Mexico: From Montezuma to the Rise of the
PAN; Cuba: From Columbus to Castro, and Breve
Historia de Cuba.




COMMENTATOR:  Guy A. Lewis, former U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the five Cuban
spies in the Brothers to the Rescue murders. 
Mr. Lewis served as an Assistant United States Attorney for more than 15
years. He has been involved in many notable cases, including US v Noriega, La
Red Avispa, and the ValuJet prosecution. 
He served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida
from 2000 to 2002, and then was elevated to the Director of the Executive
Office of United States Attorneys in 2002. In 2004, he left government service,
where he now serves as a founding partner in the Miami law firm of Lewis Tein,
PL.



AUTHOR:                  George J. Fowler III, Esq., was born in Cuba and
became a refugee in the United States in 1960. Most of his adult life Mr.
Fowler has been involved in issues regarding violations of human rights in
Cuba. For the past 20 years, Mr. Fowler has been pro-bono General Counsel of
the Cuban American National Foundation. He has written extensively on this
issue and appeared numerous times in radio and TV shows speaking on the
subject.  He is active with the
Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, an organization devoted to supporting the
dissident movement in Cuba and aiding Cubans who make it to the United States.
Mr. Fowler was one of the attorneys for Elian Gonzalez.  He serves on the United States Commission
on Civil Rights (Louisiana Advisory Committee). 
Mr. Fowler has actively prosecuted cases against police departments and
the United States government involving violations of civil and human
rights.  






Mr.
Fowler is the founding
partner of the international law firm, Fowler Rodriguez with offices in New
Orleans, Houston, Miami, Mobile, Gulfport, Bogota and Cartagena, Colombia, and
is recognized internationally as a trial lawyer.  The firm is known as one of the top maritime and
international law firms in the country. 
Mr. Fowler is founder and chairman of the Tulane Latin American Law
Institute an organization devoted to stamping out corruption in Latin
America.  He is also the founder, President
and Board Member of the New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation, Louisiana’s
premier Latin American organization which has awarded over 500 scholarships to
worthy Hispanic students.  




Mr. Fowler serves
on the Board of the World Trade Center, Metropolitan Crime Commission, the New
Orleans Police & Justice Foundation, and on the Executive Board of the Boy
Scouts.  Mr. Fowler served as Chairman of
the International Section of the Louisiana State Bar Association and of the
Admiralty and Maritime Committee for the Section of International Law and Practice
of the American Bar Association.




DATE:                                    Tuesday, November 12, 2013   

6:30 Cocktails courtesy of
Bacardi            7:00 Presentation




WHERE:                    Casa Bacardi/Institute for Cuban and
Cuban-American Studies

University
of Miami, 1531 Brescia Avenue, Coral Gables     

                                      


RSVP:                         The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American
Studies (305) 284-CUBA (2822).   







The book will be available for sale during the event. 

It can also be purchased through Amazon.com in print
or eBook.

Book Publisher Macmillan Bolsters Film Shingle Run By Brendan Deneen

Macmillan Publishers has strengthened its commitment to shepherding film and TV adaptations of its book titles by forming Macmillan Entertainment. The division will be run by executive editor Brendan Deneen, who has been an editor since 2010 at the St. Martin’s Press imprint Thomas Dunne Books. This isn’t exactly a big revelation, considering that Deneen has been setting up film projects for Macmillan since 2010, when book, magazine and newspaper publishers really started seeing the revenue potential of holding onto ancillary rights and sharing in the riches of option deals.


Deneen came to publishing from the film business, starting as a development/production executive for Scott Rudin and for Bob and Harvey Weinstein. The label already has projects at MGM, Legendary Pictures, Sony Pictures Television, BenderSpink, and The Weinstein Company, among others. Editors throughout Macmillan are generating original ideas in conjunction with Macmillan Entertainment, developing them first as books and then into multimedia ventures, especially film and television. Macmillan Entertainment also works with literary agencies, negotiating film and TV deals on their behalf and assisting the creative development of existing and forthcoming Macmillan books into feature films and/or television series.

Just last week, Deneen set the sci-fi novel Day One with We’re The Millers producer Benderspink.

“Macmillan Entertainment was originally launched as Macmillan Films from within Thomas Dunne Books,” Macmillan Publishers CEO John Sargent said. “After several early successes, we decided to expand this strategy across the group. While we will be selective in our projects, Macmillan Entertainment will allow us to actively pursue film and TV opportunities, and Brendan’s experience will prove valuable to both our authors and editors.”
Deneen said: “I’m excited to further build Macmillan Entertainment and extend our reach into Hollywood. We’re working on a number of amazing projects and think this is a win-win scenario for authors, agents, editors, producers, and studios.”

The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies Hosts a Book Presentation by Author George J. Fowler III November 12th

 



“MY CUBA LIBRE: Bringing Fidel Castro to Justice”  by George J. Fowler III

This
book is the author’s very personal store of his lifelong battle to
remove the dictator from power and bring democracy to his homeland. 
Fowler exposes the monstrous actions of the Communist Party of Cuba and
makes a firm case for indicting Castro for crimes against humanity.  My
Cuba Libre attacks the status quo that has allowed Castro to remain on
the world stage.





DATE: Tuesday, November 12, 2013

6:30 Cocktails courtesy of Bacardi 

7:00 Presentation 



WHERE: Casa Bacardi/Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies
University of Miami, 1531 Brescia Avenue, Coral Gables 



RSVP: The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (305) 284-CUBA (2822).



PRESENTATION: Jaime Suchlicki

AUTHOR:George J. Fowler III, was born in Cuba and became a refugee in the United States in 1960. Most of his adult life Mr. Fowler has been involved in issues regarding violations of human rights in Cuba. For the past 20 years, Mr. Fowler has been pro-bono General Counsel of the Cuban American National Foundation. He has written extensively on this issue and appeared numerous times in radio and TV shows speaking on the subject.
He is active with the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, an organization devoted to supporting the dissident movement in Cuba and aiding Cubans who make it to the United States. Mr. Fowler was one of the attorneys for Elian Gonzalez.  He serves on the United States Commission on Civil Rights (Louisiana Advisory Committee).  Mr. Fowler has actively prosecuted cases against police departments and the United States government involving violations of civil and human rights. 

Mr. Fowler is the founding partner of the international law firm, Fowler Rodriguez with offices in New Orleans, Houston, Miami, Mobile, Gulfport, Bogota and Cartagena, Colombia, and is recognized internationally as a trial lawyer.  The firm is recognized as one of the top maritime international law firms in the country.  Mr. Fowler is founder and chairman of the Tulane Latin American Law Institute an organization devoted to stamping out corruption in Latin America.  He is also the founder, President and Board Member of the New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation, Louisiana’s premier Latin American organization which has awarded over 500 scholarships to worthy Hispanic students. 

Mr. Fowler serves on the Board of the World Trade Center, Metropolitan Crime Commission, the New Orleans Police & Justice Foundation, and on the Executive Board of the Boy Scouts.


Mr. Fowler served as Chairman of the International Section of the Louisiana State Bar Association and of the Admiralty and Maritime Committee for the Section of International Law and Practice of the American Bar Association.

The book will be available for sale during the event. 


It can also be purchased through Amazon.com in print or eBook.

New Story Merchant Book: Conversations With Dolphins

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One of humankind's oldest questions is, are we the only sentient beings in the Universe? Recent discoveries of exoplanets—worlds that may support life in other solar systems—have refueled the debate; but are we sure that we are the only sentient species on our home planet? If we knew for sure that dolphins have language and regularly exchange information would it not forever change our view of animals, in particular our fellow mammals? All those with an enquiring mind will enjoy reading this accessible and enjoyable account concerning recent groundbreaking research conducted by Jack Kassewitz and John Stuart Reid. As this booklet shows, humankind has taken a giant leap forward in answering this important question.

Conversations with Dolphins is a unique true story that takes the reader into the fascinating world of acoustic-physics researcher John Stuart Reid, a leading authority on cymatics, the science of visible sound. Reid takes us on a stimulating journey in which we follow the very thoughts that led him to develop the CymaScope instrument and to image the sonic pictures that he and Floridian dolphin researcher, Jack Kassewitz, believe constitutes our first glimpse of the dolphin sono-visual language. Kassewitz and Reid have begun to explore the extent of the dolphin language and to answer the question, can dolphins create bio-sonar pictures from their imagination, without relying on imaging objects? Their important research could quite literally lead to humankind being able to hold conversations with dolphins.