Cold storage books6/24/2023 However, during the same 30+ years the apparent threat has also been ignored and this military storage is now civilian storage units. For 30+ years this organism has remained almost dormant in cold storage deep within a mountain. The only survivors being two military specialists and a small sample of the organism. Unable to save the people, the US Government firebombed the place. If our governments are storing batches of these deadly organisms, what happens if they are neglected.ĭuring the 80s a mutated organism lay waste to a remote village. David Koepp is an author who is aware of the threat but shows in Cold Storage that the threat may not come from without, but within. Sound all dystopian and farfetched? This is what I was reading in the paper this very morning as super bugs are becoming increasingly prevalent and our conventional medicines are having no effect. We are only one mutation away from an organism that could wipe out humans.
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Columbus Day by Craig Alanson6/24/2023 Using an Super Softie ice cream truck with a crudely painted Barney the Dinosaur they manage to injure one Ruhar and capture another.Īfter performing first aid, they hand this Ruhar soldier over to the U.S. Army Specialist organizes a few of the fellow residents of Thompson Corners, Maine after seeing a Ruhar dropship crash into a farm. The human response is negligible due to the overwhelming technological capabilities of the Ruhar.ĭuring said raid Joseph Bishop a U.S. On Columbus Day (circa 2030), an alien civilization, named the Ruhar, attack earth without warning, destroying critical infrastructure. The section(s) below SCHMAYBE includes Spoilers. We shouldn't even be fighting the Ruhar, they aren't our enemy, our allies are." So, I went from fighting with the US Army in Nigeria, to fighting in space. The UN Expeditionary Force hitched a ride on Kristang ships to fight the Ruhar, wherever our new allies thought we could be useful. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. "We were fighting on the wrong side, of a war we couldn't win. Seven ways we lie6/24/2023 Everyone knows she’s a saint, not a sinner but when love is involved, who is Juniper to resist temptation? When she begins to crave more and more of the one person she can’t have, her charmed life starts to unravel. No one would argue that Juniper-obedient daughter, salutatorian, natural beauty, and loyal friend-is anything but perfect. But it’s Juniper Kipling who has the furthest to fall. The juniors at Paloma High School all have their secrets, whether it’s the thespian who hides her trust issues onstage, the closeted pansexual who only cares about his drug-dealing profits, or the neurotic genius who’s planted the seed of a school scandal. Book excerpt: In Seven Ways We Lie, a chance encounter tangles the lives of seven high school students, each resisting the allure of one of the seven deadly sins, and each telling their story from their seven distinct points of view. This book was released on with total page 368 pages. Book Synopsis Seven Ways We Lie by : Riley Redgateĭownload or read book Seven Ways We Lie written by Riley Redgate and published by Abrams. Unconditional parenting6/24/2023 I am becoming a better mother as I am more sensitive to my teenage son’s emotional needs. What does being an orphan mean? By Ruchika Om Jain.Reading these articles, I only arrived at one conclusion there is no straight answer. Some of os.me member blogs helped shape my thoughts and bring about this article. Is there a better parenting approach? Maybe, read on to find out. It is the most challenging emotion to achieve, and parenting is a precious blessing Mother Nature gives us to understand and experience it through our children. Unconditional love is the foundation of our existence, yet it is often misunderstood. Everybody has ups and downs in their lives, right? in the video).” My tiny little experience of high in the video – “I am happy as long as my sons are happy. A wildly philandering husband struggles at last to prove his faithfulness to the wife he's always loved. But El is not the only Plainview native with a hurdle to overcome. El Walker, the great guitar bluesman, comes home to give a command performance in Plainview, Indiana, a place he'd sworn-and for good reason-he'd never set foot in again. Forrest Payne, the owner of the Pink Slipper Gentleman's Club, and Miss Beatrice Jordan, famous for stationing herself at the edge of the club's parking lot and yelling warnings of eternal damnation at the departing patrons, their wedding summons a legend to town. When a late life love affair blooms between Mr. "From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, an exuberant and poignant new novel of passions, family, and forgiveness. The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan6/24/2023 Percy and Annabeth race to their friends’ aid, with Jason, Piper, Frank, and Hazel close behind. Just then, Leo’s flying ship starts firing on the Roman camp. The seven demigods must come from both camps. She and Annabeth conclude that the Great Prophecy-or, as the Romans call it, the Prophecy of Seven-is about combining the forces of Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter. Their praetor, Reyna, is willing to listen to the Greeks, however. Many of the Romans, particularly their augur, Octavian, view the Greeks with great suspicion. They reach Camp Jupiter safely and after six long months, Annabeth and Percy are finally reunited. If he’s right, then Percy is in Camp Jupiter.Īnnabeth sets sail for California aboard an incredible flying ship built and captained by Leo Valdez. Percy, Jason suspects, is being used in a similar way. Her goal was for him to get to know the demigods of Camp Half-Blood so that when she returned his memories, he could bridge the gap between the Romans and the Greeks. Hera plucked him from Camp Jupiter, his home, stole his memories, and got him here. He is not a child of Zeus, but of Jupiter, Zeus’s Roman aspect. She finally gets a lead from Jason, of all people, whose memories have returned. Annabeth Chase has been searching for Percy for months. Pinpoint by Greg Milner6/23/2023 A single GPS timing flaw, whether accidental or malicious, could bring down the electrical grid, hijack drones, or halt the world financial system. We have let it saturate the world's systems so completely and so quickly that we are just beginning to confront the possible consequences. While GPS has brought us breathtakingly accurate information about our planetary environment and physical space, it has also created new forms of human behavior. In Pinpoint, Greg Milner takes us on a fascinating tour of a hidden system that touches almost every aspect of our modern life. It is as ubiquitous and essential as another Cold War technology, the Internet. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps land planes, route mobile calls, anticipate earthquakes, predict weather, locate oil deposits, measure neutrinos, grow our food, and regulate global finance. Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Pinpoint tells the story of GPS, a scientific marvel that enables almost all modern technology-but is changing us in profound ways. The end michael hopf6/23/2023 He noted that not only was she a real estate agent, but her name was also Land. she approached him, gave him her card, and told him if he wanted a piece of land to give her a call. He met a young woman in San Diego, in the year 2002. After working for a decade, for many clients all over the world, he did not really have a solid family life. He met some great people that he still knows on this first detail he worked. The first detail he was given was protecting the Saudi Royal family in both Washington, D. He was trained intensively and after graduating, he started working. It was better money, plus he thought it is much cooler to say he is a bodyguard. It was a short lived job, and it does not pay as good as some might think, and he almost died.Īfter this, he became a bodyguard. He took a job working oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico, after leaving the Marines. He was born again in the year 1989 as a Marine on Parris Island, South Carolina. He hoped that he could truly experience life and journey all over the world. He went against the chance to go to a good school and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He had a good home and loved both his siblings and parents, but his desire to see the world burned deep in him. Michael Hopf was born in the year 1970, and long wished to see the entire world the first eighteen years of his life. Graphic by Steven Heller6/23/2023 Graphic design books aren't just made for students or beginners they're also an important part of continuing to develop and evolve as a designer. So without further ado, here's my list of 10 best books for learning graphic design. Most of the books from my list must be included in your book collection if you want to be an expert graphic designer. You can buy physical book (Hardcover) or you can buy it in eBook version (Kindle). These are all essential books for creatives like you, and the best thing is that they are all available online. These books that I will enumerate will help you learn the basics of graphic design as well as its history and relevance to us as designers. No matter how long we work as graphic designers, we still have to learn from experts who made tutorials and guidelines to serve as our reference. I believe that as a professional artist, we must always be open to new learning and knowledge. From basic books for beginners and students to more advanced books for professionals who want to level up-I’ve got you all covered. The millennium trilogy6/23/2023 Recently, per IndieWire, Amazon announced a new TV series about the franchise's titular character Lisbeth Salander. Many films have been released over the last decade based on the Millenium franchise. In 2011, David Fincher directed an English remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which was subject to universal acclaim, earning the film a number of awards. The original film trilogy was in the books' native language of Swedish, and while those films were well-received, critics argued that due to the language barrier, the series didn't reach as wide an audience as it could have if the films were made in English. In 2009, Larsson's home country of Sweden chose to recreate the Millenium trilogy on the silver screen. With all the success of the novels, what better way to celebrate such a popular franchise than to adapt it into films? While only the first three books were released initially, the success of those three led to the other related novels Larsson wrote to be released. In 2008, Larsson became one of best-selling fiction authors thanks to the English translation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest becoming the bestselling books in 2010. Stieg Larsson is the journalist and activist responsible for the best-selling Millennium trilogy of crime novels, which were published in 2005 after Larsson's death in 2004. |