The SBAHC-700s making a beach landing will tie down some of our mobile rail guns and reserve mechs. Those massive mobile rail cannons and special munitions they have can kill a lot of our troops if we let them get too close. The Warlords, Pirates and Marxists have put together an enormous assault force. “Martha, we’re in for the fight of our lives. The mech units will use the plasticrete barriers for cover when the Cartel Submersible Beach Assault Hover Craft (SBAHC-700) begin their attack.īill turns to Martha with a sad smile. Heavy hover lifters moved around the beach for miles depositing massive plasticrete barriers. The azure blue sky held only wispy strands of clouds rapidly moving west. The wind driven waves pounded into the flat beach throwing a white misty spray into the air. A cool brisk wind swept across the beach from the ocean carrying with it the promise of the oncoming storm. They’re inspecting the beach defenses located at the Republic base on Planet H-252 (Hell). Colonel Bill Jackson, Sniper Team/Division Commander (Hog Boss), and Naval Captain Martha Franklin of the troop assault carrier Tripoli and Task Force Commander, slowly walked the beach hand in hand.
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Review all the devils are hereWhen the mortgage market began to collapse, AIG was on the hook for billions in credit protection in the form of CDSs. AIG began to sell a ton of CDSs, viewing the sale of those securities as “virtually no risk at all.” “Their internal models told them that there was a 99.85 percent chance that they would never have to pay out a penny.”.One party-a bank-would buy credit default swaps to protect against a default in its loan portfolio.” “A credit default swap is essentially an insurance policy against the possibility of default-credit protection, it came to be called.Thus could a $15 million tranche do $1 billion of damage.”
When la migra catches him at the border and he’s thrown into an immigration center, his dreams for being a real family start to disappear. In a world filled with hate, how can you know what love is?Įscaping a violent and abusive environment, eight-year-old Emanuel Martinez attempts to cross through three countries to be with his mother, Ana, whom he hasn’t seen since he was a baby. I received a copy of this book from Celebratelit for a fair and honest opinion that I gave of my own free will. The Spanish was explained but it was hard to keep looking at the bottom of the page. I had a little trouble with this book with all the Spanish. I do hope to read the next book in the series. I enjoyed Emanuel and his mother and Lauren. This is an interesting story that has to do with immigration. She enjoys being back in the Garden State but admits to being tempted every so often to run away from home and live in Italy. Though she is a convert to ebooks, she still loves paper books the best, and there are a couple thousand of them residing in her home with her.īorn and raised in New Jersey, she is living there again after years in Washington, DC, and North Carolina for school and work. She usually has at least two books started at once and never goes anywhere without her Kindle. She has a fondness for travel (and a long list of places she wants to visit and revisit), taking photos, family history, fabulous shoes, baking treats which she shares with friends and family, and of course reading. Her stories have changed over the years, but one thing has remained consistent - they all end in happily ever after. After many years and a few career detours, she has returned to that original plan. Antonia Aquilante has been making up stories for as long as she can remember, and at the age of twelve, decided she would be a writer when she grew up. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Vice Versa by Jack WoodfordThat said, there are many expensive processes that Maker’s undergoes that underscore the Samuels family’s dedication to quality over the bottom line. The chef is so local he used to sneak into the property as a kid and swim in their 14-acre pond. They’ve just opened the first farm-to-table restaurant on the Trail, Star Hill Provisions, helmed by Newman Miller who understands the way to a foodie’s heart. Maker’s Mark might just be the most progressive distillery in how it caters to customers. After experiencing most of the largest distilleries and visiting with a handful of craft whiskey makers, we can say these (and, of course, Wild Turkey) are some must-see highlights from the Trail. For an easy entry point, the AWT can be enjoyed by staking down in Louisville, Kentucky, and Nashville, and venturing forth from these urban centers in hazy but thoroughly enjoyable day trips. Comprised of a dozen or so major distillers, many more smaller boutique distilleries, and a sundry of bourbon-related POIs (for example: coopers, still-makers, taverns, museums), the American Whiskey Trail is not so much a plotted path as it is a conceptual treasure map. To feel its place of origin, its terroir. The American Whiskey Trail is more than a place for bourbon enthusiasts to appreciate what they’ve spent so much time investing in, but it’s a means to do so through immersion at the source. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Zamyatin myMyself had created all this, and I'm like a tower, I'm afraid to move So I felt that I ? not generations of people,īut I myself ? I had conquered the old God and the old life, I Transparent dwellings, the squared harmony of our gray-blue ranks. The sparkling glass of the sidewalks, the divine parallelepipeds of the Time in my life, I saw everything: the unalterably straight streets, Morning in the hangar, I saw again, as though right then for the first In the English-speaking world My has appeared in several translations. Soviet Union, and it was not until 1988 when Zamyatin was The book was considered a "malicious slander on socialism" in the Russian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist, whose famous anti-utopia My (1924, We) prefigured Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), and inspired George Orwell's 1984 (1949). Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884-1937) - name also written Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin All pages are unmodified as they originally appeared some links and images may no longer function. The original website was published by Petri Liukkonen under Creative Commons BY-ND-NC 1.0 Finland and reproduced here under those terms for non-commercial use. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Combined with carefully-constructed sound design, its presence in the montages accentuates the intense, vibrant sensory experience of a nonverbal autistic person to the non-autistic viewer. The stylisation does have a pragmatic use though. Here, Rothwell opts for a heavily-graded visual aesthetic which consequently makes the non-fiction sequences look less real. They aren’t mutually exclusive categories of course-this is after all a documentary film-but they do entail different qualities. It muddles the lines between documentary and film. Based on a book of the same name purportedly written (more on that later) by Naoki Higashida-a Japanese man with nonverbal autism- The Reason I Jump from director Jerry Rothwell follows the lives of people around the world who also have the disorder, a subset of autism defined by an inability to speak.Īlso featured throughout are their family members, including translator David Mitchell (not the comedian), who helped render Higashida’s prose in English.īlending interviews, a re-enactment of Higashida’s childhood, and photography montages doesn’t make for entirely successful filmmaking. Upon realising that he had passed away, she took responsibility for the idea herself. She was going to write to John Holt and ask him to write a book for teenagers, in comparison to the many he’d written for parents and educators. Initially she simply intended to write a letter. It was following this realisation that Grace Llewellyn decided to write a book for kids. They were still school, they were still adults telling kids what to do. Of this time she says, “The fact remained: they weren’t that much different, they really weren’t. Refreshed and with hope that she could make a difference Grace spent the next two years teaching at a very small private school, where she had complete control over the curriculum. Like so many who read his work, a few pages was all it took to convince her, but she went on to read most of his books. During that year she discovered the work of John Holt. She then took a year off to travel and figure out what it was she wanted to do – since teaching was all she was qualified for. It was more than long enough to show her that something was wrong with the system. Grace Llewellyn taught public school for a year. I first read it before my older children were teenagers. She wrote her book, The Teenage Liberation Handbook, in 1991 at 26 years of age. Grace Llewellyn is an unschooling advocate, and highly esteemed author. Education essay homeschool philosophy resources The Philosphy of Education He never asserts that his ideas are any more or less valid than anyone else’s. Suggest connections others might not necessarily have come up with but modestly, His curiosity causes him to pose questions and Questioning locals and those more in-the-know than him, as well as those In reading his writing he enthuses you with his own questing sense ofĬuriosity, which was not simply nurtured over long time and meticulous reading,īut is also augmented by his own travels and practical investigations – Weightiest of subject matter is the real key to what makes him a wonderfulĮducator. Like Romer, Kriwaczek’s lightness of touch when dealing with the In reading thisīook I was constantly put in mind of another favourite author of mine, John Romer. The BBC, making documentary programmes on scientific and religious topics,īefore turning his hand to writing books on ancient history. Working in Afghanistan, he later went on to become a radio and TV producer with A trained dentist who had spent many years Before he passed away in 2011 Paul Kriwaczek Looked him up in more detail, I find I more than likely have come across himīefore without ever knowing it. Kriwaczek’s writings before, and now having read the book through, and having 5/20/2023 0 Comments Zathura van allsburgIn double spread illustrations that shimmer against the surreal events of the story, readers will be holding their breath with each new threat the boys face in the satisfying enigma that is Zathura.Ĭhris was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 18, 1949, the second child of Doris Christiansen Van Allsburg and Richard Van Allsburg. Only the mind and hand of Chris Van Allsburg’s could create this fantastic world where shifts in time and space and perspective take the reader on such an extraordinary journey. At the story's end which becomes, miraculously, the beginning, we find that Walter's feelings for his little brother are greatly altered. The first book in seven years by Chris Van Allsburg, Zathura is a dramatic adventure that promises a breathtaking and unforgettable experience. This time the name of the game is Zathura and the battling Budwing boys are in for the ride of their lives. Now after twenty years, Chris Van Allsburg is ready to reveal what happens when Danny and Walter roll the dice. On the last page of the Caldecott-winning book Jumanji, young Danny Budwing is seen running after his brother, Walter, with a game tucked under his arm. Acclaimed author Chris Van Allsburg’s daring companion to Caldecott-award winning Jumanji-a tale of intergalactic adventure and sibling rivalry where a roll the dice transports two brothers to the mythical land of Zathura. |
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