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The andromeda strain novel7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Messages from the future (I wish I was freaking kidding) - Note to you guys in the future: instead of the cryptic "739528", maybe "hey, look on the space station!" would get your point across a little better.Telepathic germs (you gotta be freaking kidding).Even if decently edited to tighten up the pacing, there's then the problem of reeediculous plot devices that were added to this adaptation. Trimmed to two hours, this just might have been a watchable movie. The problem is, when length is more important a goal than quality, nothing can be left on the cutting-room floor. ![]() all of these had the unmistakable feel of an effort to reach a predetermined running time. (How appropriate that I first saw a commercial for it while waiting for the lousy "Indiana Jones 4" to begin.) So, so, so much padding! (And even so, A&E managed to stuff in almost 80 minutes of commercials in the two night run.) Ridiculous plot lines that go nowhere (the Geraldo-style reporter, "vent-mining"), unnecessary time-waster shots of animals eating each other (all just to establish the infection vector of a rat dropped onto a group of National Guardsmen) family squabbles that go nowhere. This is another example of a movie that has nothing going for it but the good feelings a viewer might have about the original. Save yourself a few tedious hours, skip this crap and see the 1971 original. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Or was she let go? It’s all very complicated, but one thing is clear to Anjali: her duty lies in fighting injustice, beginning with a little well-intentioned vandalism. After all, the British won’t hang a ten-year-old girl…or will they? Anjali’s mother used to be the officer’s secretary, but then resigned. Young Anjali, fired with patriotism, decides to paint a large Q (short for “Quit India”) on the local British officer’s house. Gandhi asks for peaceful civil disobedience, based on the principle of ahimsa or non-violence - to never hurt anyone. ![]() It’s 1942, and Gandhi, jailed by the British, has urged Indians to strike so the British “Quit India” already. It also acts as a welcome antidote to Empire defenders with their rallying cry of “But the railways!” Nope, dudes. Supriya Kelkar‘s Ahimsa (Tu Books, 2017) provides a lucid, thoughtful explanation of the ethos and evolution of India’s journey to self-governance. ![]() You know what I mean.Īfter many moons of fruitless searching, I found not one but two books that blew past our requirements. The books and graphic novels I’d read were often overtly jingoistic, and not quite suitable for South Asian kids raised outside in the West, often in mixed-race families. And I found I had a condition too - nuance. ![]() No fact-heavy, plot-starved novels, he begged. My 10-year-old son finally wanted to read about the Indian subcontinent’s independence movement, but had a condition set in stone - it had to be a compelling story. ![]()
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Deep and Dirty by Douglas Dell7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Implementation methods of this technology in various industries and advantages and disadvantages of using AI to ensure Occupational Safety are also discussed.ĭell EMC PowerScale with Superna for Healthcare ![]() It focuses on using AI technology to analyze data in real-time and provide meaningful output, such as a system of warnings to ensure workplace or occupational safety. ![]() This article examines how AI can help improve occupational safety in a number of industries. Topics such as digital transformation with 5G, various 5G industrial use-cases, taking 5G to the cloud and the impact of 5G on the economy are discussed and examined.Īssociate Sales Engineer Analyst Dell TechnologiesĬhief Technologist Artificial Intelligence, APJ Dell Technologies This article provides an overview of how modern businesses and technologies are or will use 5G to transform user experience. Impact of 5G and Digital Transformation on Storage ![]()
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A ferry of bones & gold7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Unless noted otherwise, titles & cosmetics are only rewarded upon reaching the maximum commendation grade. All commendations listed under a specific company will reward you a small amount of Reputation, for graded commendations this is rewarded once per grade. Some commendations unlock cosmetics or titles for purchase or immediate use. These requirements are, however, cumulative which means progress made will also also count towards future grades. ![]() Most Company commendations have five grades, with increasing requirements for higher grades. The list of commendations for each faction can be viewed within your reputation page (after opening the page, select which faction to view its list).
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![]() ![]() A brief biography of the author-artist by his grandson, Kim Gruelle, makes this edition especially valuable. He also illustrated various editions of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Working as a cartoonist, a children’s book illustrator, and a comics author, he’s most celebrated for creating the ‘Raggedy Ann’ stories and dolls. Johnny Gruelle's delicate illustrations are the perfect companions to the well-loved stories in this American classic, the only edition authorized by the Gruelle family. Johnny Gruelle (18801938) was an American artist and writer. Raggedy Ann also goes up in a kite, teaches two new dolls to be tolerant, and shares the excitement of a baby brother for Marcella, among several other tales. When, in one adventure, Raggedy Ann has to have her stuffing replaced, she gets her famous "I LOVE YOU" candy heart. She and the other dolls rescue Fido, the family dog, from the dogcatcher. After learning a lesson from a naughty raid on the pantry, Raggedy Ann's adventures show her striving to be good - and succeeding. ![]() Now she returns to delight a new generation in this carefully produced reissue, which restores the book to its original appearance.Īll the original stories are here, as Raggedy Ann comes to Marcella's nursery and quickly becomes the leader of the dolls. Since Raggedy Ann first appeared in print in 1918, she has charmed millions of readers with her always warm and optimistic outlook and calm approach to difficulties. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In Dickens's opening story, The Mortals in the House, the narrator's ("John") health "required a temporary residence in the country." Knowing this, a friend of the narrator had chanced to drive by the house-situated close to a railroad stop mid-way between Northern England and London-and had written to the narrator suggesting he travel down from the North and look the place over. Dickens began a tradition of Christmas publications with A Christmas Carol in 1843 and his Christmas stories soon became a national institution. The story appeared in the Extra Christmas Number on 13 December 1859. ![]() "The Ghost in the Garden Room" ( Elizabeth Gaskell) "The Ghost in Master B's Room" (Charles Dickens) "The Ghost in the Cupboard Room" ( Wilkie Collins) "The Ghost in the Picture Room" ( Adelaide Anne Procter) "The Ghost in the Double Room" ( George Augustus Sala) "The Ghost in the Clock Room" ( Hesba Stretton) "The Mortals in the House" (Charles Dickens) ![]() It was "Conducted by Charles Dickens", with Charles Dickens writing the opening and closing stories, framing stories by Dickens himself and five other authors. " The Haunted House" is a story series published in 1859 for the weekly periodical All the Year Round. The Haunted House in All the Year Round (1859) ![]()
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![]() ![]() She died at her London flat in January 2001. Storr continued writing novels into her eighties. She later married the economist Lord Balogh (1905–1985). They had three daughters, Sophia, Polly and Emma, but divorced in 1970. She had met the psychiatrist and author Anthony Storr (1920–2001) during her training and married him in 1942. Afterwards, while regularly producing children's books, she also worked as an editorial assistant for Penguin Books from 1966 to the early 1970s. ![]() From 1950 to 1963 she acted as a Senior Medical Officer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Middlesex Hospital. Without giving up this ambition, she studied medicine, qualifying as a doctor in 1944. She went on to study English literature at Newnham College, Cambridge, and at first pursued a career as a novelist without success. ![]() She attended St Paul's Girls' School, where she was taught music by Gustav Holst and became the school's organist. ![]() She was born in Kensington, London, one of three children of a barrister, Arthur Frederick Andrew Cole (1883–1968), and his wife, Margaret Henrietta, born Gaselee (1882–1971). She also wrote under the name Helen Lourie. Catherine Storr, Baroness Balogh (born Catherine Cole 21 July 1913 – 8 January 2001, ) was an English children's writer, best known for her novel Marianne Dreams and for a series of books about a wolf ineptly pursuing a young girl, beginning with Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf. ![]()
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Without merit goodreads7/7/2023 ![]() Poignant and powerful, Without Merit explores the layers of lies that tie a family together and the power of love and truth. ![]() When her escape plan fails, Merit is forced to deal with the staggering consequences of telling the truth and losing the one boy she loves. ![]() Merit retreats deeper into herself, watching her family from the sidelines, when she learns a secret that no trophy in the world can fix.įed up with the lies, Merit decides to shatter the happy family illusion that she's never been a part of before leaving them behind for good. His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her-until she discovers that he's completely unavailable. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn't earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother's former nurse, the little half-brother isn't allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. rating 157,460 Ratings Not every mistake deserves a consequence. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. Without Merit by Colleen Hoover 3.77 avg. ![]() Not every mistake deserves a consequence. From Colleen Hoover, the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us, comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth. ![]()
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Michael Moorcock by Michael Moorcock7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The idea that there are an infinite number of worlds as real as our own provides quite the platform for elaboration and conjecture by authors of today and tomorrow. Moorcock's multiverse was explained in detail in his introduction to his graphic novel Michael Moorcock's Multiverse (1999) in which he describes a quasi-infinite series of worlds separated by size and mass, effectively invisible to one another and varying very slightly, with major differences appearing only between widely separated realities in the 'chain'. This Multiverse concept has been accepted by Physics as the Many World Theorem lending authenticity to Moorcock's ideas. The Multiverse was introduced in Moorcock's early novel The Sundered Worlds (1963) and is an imaginative construct of transitorally intersecting parallel and alternate worlds, an apparently infinite series of concurrent, sometimes intertwined universes between which the Eternal Champion moves. ![]() Central to this ongoing series is Moorcock's concept of the Multiverse. One of the most impressive aspects of this achievement is the way in which he has linked much of his fiction together into one monumental sequence, The Tale of The Eternal Champion. Some of Moorcock's genre fiction is borderline SF, though most of it is better described as fantasy. The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. ![]()
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Devastation by M.J. Haag7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() For someone so eager to break free of her bad situation the FL is not exactly what you could call proactive. As for the female lead she entered the TSTL nonsensical female lead territory more than I could stand. Which while I realize is an unpleasant reality of life, once again it felt like it was used carelessly in the plot for shock value and lazy writing purposes. This book also dealt a lot with the FL not only being mentally abused but physically abused and the constant threat of rape. ![]() ![]() ![]() I read this fully knowing that the author likes to add more graphic mature elements to her stories, but this last book seemed like it had a lot of crude sexually graphic details that were were extremely unnecessary to the plot and just for cheap shock values. I downloaded this after listening to the authors Beauty and the Beast retelling. ![]() |