To tamp down on any misconceptions out there, Reddit hosted an expert panel on the subject Tuesday, fielding questions on the Pacific Northwest's impending demise in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session. From the piece, one quote has stood out from a FEMA regional official: “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.” At issue is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is primed to unleash an earthquake that may go down as America's worst natural disaster in recorded history. Is the Pacific Northwest about to be wiped out in a massive earthquake? A New Yorker article on the region's seismic vulnerabilities has provoked widespread interest in the subject, if not outright panic.
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This is the kernel of the legend and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Lúthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril. Her father, a great elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year.Įssential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lúthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal elf. The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Moore ( Bloodsucking Fiends) gets style points for his wild imagination as Biff recalls his journey with Jesus-dubbed Joshua here according to the Greek translation-into and out of the clutches of Balthasar, then into a Buddhist monastery in China and finally off to India, where they dabble in the spiritual and erotic aspects of Hinduism. Louis, where the angel who shepherds "Levi who is called Biff" has to put Christ's outrageous sidekick under de facto house arrest to get him to complete his task. The action starts in modern America, specifically in a room at the Hyatt in St. A childhood pal of the savior is brought back from the dead to fill in the missing 30-year "gap" in the Gospels in Moore's latest, an over-the-top festival of sophomoric humor that stretches a very thin though entertaining conceit far past the breaking point. Pepper and Abbey Road albums, considered by many the greatest rock recordings of all time. Emerick would also engineer the monumental Sgt. Then, in 1966, at age nineteen, Geoff Emerick became the Beatles’ chief engineer, the man responsible for their distinctive sound as they recorded the classic album Revolver, in which they pioneered innovative recording techniques that changed the course of rock history. In 1964 he would witness the transformation of this young and playful group from Liverpool into professional, polished musicians as they put to tape classic songs such as “Eight Days A Week” and “I Feel Fine.” He later worked with the Beatles as they recorded their singles “She Loves You” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” the songs that would propel them to international superstardom. Geoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age fifteen, and was present as a new band called the Beatles recorded their first songs. |