![]() ![]() “Of course I do! Here in Winter Heights, we do it bigger and better than those idiots in Snow Hills ever could. “Don’t you do the same thing every year?” I ask. She’s the one who’s in charge of the town’s Christmas decorations and the big show they put on. I came here for a job and some easy money. I didn’t come here for small-town gossip. He’s been doing it for the better part of an hour. ![]() “Her daughter is the holiday consultant you mentioned?” I try to steer the mayor away from ranting about the Grable women. “Especially with that harpy Ellen Grable in charge. “As I’ve said, there’s simply no way Snow Hills has won for the past three years without cheating.” Mayor McGovern thumps his palm on his desk. MINK’s Note: Is there anything better than holiday love? Maybe a kitty, a coffee, and holiday love. Health Insurance for Students in Australia: Detailed Discussion ![]()
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![]() ![]() Treacherous deals with ancient powers, alluring curses, prowling monsters, and fairy-tale enchantment fill the pages of this timely collection that centers transgender characters figuring out where they belong and choosing themselves. Defying the gender-bound traditions enforced by the Council of Elders, Ciano braves siren-infested waters to pursue their dream. Ari thought magic school would solve their problems, but as they struggle with incantations, they still feel like an outcast. ![]() Tilluster College couldn’t take away Rae’s magic, so instead they threaten to kill everyone Rae loves. In this fantasy anthology featuring entries by a broad range of trans authors, transgender teens discover strength, truth, and magic in themselves as they fight oppressive societal expectations and define their own destinies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lupov put his fingers through his thinning hair as though to reassure himself that some was still left and sipped gently at his own drink. He had a trick of doing that when he wanted to be contrary, and he wanted to be contrary now, partly because he had had to carry the ice and glassware. Later, an argument develops when one of the two, Adel, contends that that the solar power supply will last forever: ![]() After this achievement, we then see the Multivac’s two attendants, who are hiding from the publicity in an underground chamber, having a drink and relaxing. In this tale, after the computer has been running for several decades, it finally develops a system that provides unlimited solar power for humanity. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov ( Science Fiction Quarterly, November 1956) 1 is a one of his “Multivac” stories about a giant computer. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was fascinated by fossils and human evolution as a school kid, but I had no idea that I could actually study the subject. How did you first get involved with Paleoanthropology?.I’ve also been very involved with the British part of the story over the last 20 years or so, directing the Leverhulme-funded Ancient Human Occupation of Britain projects, and then co-directing the Calleva Foundation-funded Pathways to Ancient Britain projects, with Nick Ashton at the BM. I’ve been working at the Natural History Museum since 1973, but I do also have a life, family and friends outside of the Museum! My research interests now are focused on reconstructing the last half million years or so of human evolution, collaborating with a range of colleagues in palaeoanthropology, archaeology, genetics, geochronology and palaeoclimates. To start off I think I would just like to have you introduce yourself a little bit: Stringer! Thank you for joining us today, how are you doing? ![]() ![]() Georgiana was born in 1757 and died in 1806 so this book is set against the excesses and massive changes of the latter half of the eighteenth century. ![]() She does a great job in presenting the Duchess throughout her life and in all her colours and shades as a young girl, rejected wife, desperate gambler, impetuous campaigner, caring mother and always- good friend. But Foreman doesn't falter in the tale though, and neither does she pore with salacious enjoyment over the detail. With a story like this Amanda Foreman would have been hard pressed to fail in a book on Georgiana, 5th Duchess of Devonshire. ![]() ![]() What better material can you start with than the most well-known menage a trois in English history - involving one of the wealthiest men of his age, and Duke at that, his wife the most popular and influential woman of her age, Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire - and their best friend? ![]() ![]() The earliest versions of this story by J.R.R. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Túrin and Niënor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled. ![]() Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the Dark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Against them he sent his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Their brief and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Húrin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North and the tragedy of Túrin and his sister Niënor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves. ![]() There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but that were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. ![]() ![]() ![]() As drains are being cleaned out, Herbert Smithers makes a find: a mud-encrusted knife of "'Indian workmanship. Setting: Spitalfields, adjacent to Whitechapel, specifically Dorset Street. (Adapted for radio's THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER: November 1951) Selected and Edited by Peter Haining (born 1940) On Jon Jermey's Anthology Scorecard, LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT rates 11 out of 22 (11/22 = 50%), with exactly half of the stories qualifying as mysteries however, the reader is invited to view this book for him/herself some might beg to differ. (with a duplication: John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson). The book has twenty-two stories slightly more than a third of the authors are not listed on the GADetection Wiki, while two thirds are: If you have never been there and plan to go, you might want to think twice. However, for every poet who found Londontown appealing there may have been an Eliot who saw it as an "Unreal city, under the brown fog of a winter dawn" it is with that sombre outlook that most of the authors in Peter Haining's LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT (1996) seem to view London. Much ink has been spilled in praise of London it is evidently one of the world's great cities. Haining, Peter (Ed.) - London After Midnight (1996) ![]() ![]() ![]() As far as can be judged from the testimony of Christian writers in the 2d and 3d centuries, Mark composed his Gospel in Greek some time between A.D. Mark (first century A.D.), one of the 12 Apostles chosen by Jesus, is traditionally considered the author of the Second Gospel. ![]() ![]() These books are called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John because they were traditionally thought to have been written by Matthew, a disciple who was a tax collector John, the “Beloved Disciple” mentioned in the Fourth Gospel Mark, the secretary of the disciple Peter and Luke, the traveling companion of Paul. John Mark is named in the Acts of the Apostles as an assistant accompanying Paul and Barnabas on their missionary journeys. It is the shortest and the earliest of the four Gospels, presumably written during the decade preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 ce. ![]() Peter, whose teachings the Gospel may reflect. Mark the Evangelist (Acts 12:12 15:37), an associate of St. 12 Are Matthew Mark Luke and John real people?.9 What was the profession of Matthew Mark Luke and John?.7 Why is the Gospel of Mark so important?.6 How long was the Bible written after Jesus died?.5 Did Matthew Mark Luke and John know Jesus?.2 What was Mark’s occupation in the Bible?. ![]() ![]() ![]() Therefore, it may well be that the way tomatoes or small trees respond to this kind of disturbance (not only from the wind) is part of their genetic repertoire.ħ Speyside single malt scotch that should be on every whisky lover’s radar in India ![]() The same is true, of course, for movement caused when animals brush past plants-plants that are less stable are more likely to fall over. The shorter the plant, the less leverage the wind gets and the less pressure there is on the plant’s roots, so a tomato plant with a shorter, thicker stem is more stable. This, however, is not the plant saying it loves you, too, but rather the plant reacting to what it likely experiences as a breeze blowing by, because the wind elicits a similar response. All you have to do, for example, is stroke your tomato plants for a few minutes each day and they slow their upward growth and put their energy into growing thicker stems instead. But might the tree be aware of your touch in some other way? There is one strong contender here-with young trees, at least-and this is a process known as thigmomorphogenesis, which is when plants grow more slowly after being touched. When you hug a tree, nothing electric happens, because, as you now know, your voltages are the same. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Rosalyn is not upset until her sister Veronica asks to join the discussion group. A small, subversive subgroup has in fact formed within the e-mail loop to complain about Rosalyn's holier-than-thou attitude and to share their own personal imperfections with one another. SAHM I Am centers on Rosalyn, the leader of the e-mail group, who pretends her life is much more settled than is actually the case. So the whole story is told in their emails to each other." Efken continued, "There is some fun material with them and their children, but the focus is more on their relationships with each other and their struggles as women trying to meet the demands of motherhood and still keeping their own sense of personhood." "They all know each other through an email discussion loop. The book "is a comedy about stay-at-home mothers from around the U.S.," Efken stated in an online interview with Anne McDonald for Dancing Word. SIDELIGHTS: Meredith Efken's first novel, SAHM I Am, attracted critical attention for its humorous portrayal of the life of a stay-at-home mother-SAHM-and the relationships she forms through e-mail with women like herself. WORK IN PROGRESS: At Home for the Holidays, a sequel to SAHM I Am. MEMBER:American Christian Fiction Writers, Christian Authors Network, Word Sowers Christian Writers. Education: Graduated from Vineyard Leadership Institute, 2006.ĪDDRESSES: Home-Omaha, NE. PERSONAL: Married husband's name Jason children: Jessamyn, Catrin. ![]() |