Haunted ground by erin hart6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When asked to stay around in order to complete an archeological survey for Osborne, Maguire agrees and devastating secrets from the modern era are revealed. Yes, there is more than one puzzle to be solved. The policeman continues his own, mostly single-minded, investigation. There is no sign of Osborne’s wife, but Maguire and Gavin get caught up in the mystery of discovering who the centuries old red-haired woman was and how only her perfectly preserved head came to be there. The unique properties of the bogs have been known to preserve artifacts, bodies, and even food for centuries and they hold a fascination for archeologists. And so are the police, who are looking for a missing woman married to a local landowner, Hugh Osborne. ![]() Nora Gavin, an American lecturer with Irish roots, has a special interest in bog bodies and is also notified. He is used to finding odd bits of pottery, but this day, he finds a woman’s head buried in the bog.Ĭormac Maguire, a Dublin archeologist helping out the National Museum, is asked to oversee the excavation in order to preserve this rare find. ![]() Erin Hart’s debut novel, "Haunted Ground ," opens with Brendan McGann digging for peat to use as winter fuel, a ritual his ancestors have practiced in that very spot in East Galway as far back as anyone can remember. ![]()
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Chocolate joanne harris6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Within this theoretical framework, identity is seen as indexical and occasioned, rather than as being a person’s essence. The ethnomethodological perspective is further supplemented by Communication Accommodation Theory (Coupland, Coupland and Giles 1991), which has also concerned itself with the study of identity and ageing, as well as the concept of ‘face’ (Brown and Levinson 1987), which is equivalent to the conversation analytic notion of ‘preference’. Conversation Analysis (Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson 1974) and, especially, Membership Categorization Analysis (Sacks 1992), to analyze authentic conversational data culled from both everyday encounters and television programmes. It combines two strands of the Ethnomethodological study of talk-in-interaction (Garfinkel 1967), i.e. ![]() This dissertation examines the methodic construction of the social identity old person in everyday talk. Thessaloniki: Enyalio Foundation, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2011. ![]() One arranged murders book6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() By declaring himself beforehand, ABC has actually saved these persons from bearing the burden of the crime. On interviewing the families and friends of the victims, Poirot observes that in every case, there was at least one person who had a motive to be the murderer. The ABC has left only one apparent clue with the dead body of every victim – ABC railway guides. Poirot and police reach the house of Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston only to find him murdered in the woods. The third letter however goes astray and reaches Poirot only on the morning of the day of the murder. Now, everybody is taking Mr ABC seriously. ![]() ABC proceeds in alphabetical order and the second letter is followed by murder of a girl called Elizabeth “Betty” Bernard in Bexhill. But, Poirot is proved right when an old lady shopkeeper named Alice Ascher is found murdered in Andover. While Poirot’s sixth sense tells him to take this man seriously, the police department considers it as one of the many anonymous notes they receive on daily basis. ![]() ABC informing him about the murder he is going to commit giving the exact date and place of the crime. The chase starts when Poirot receives a typewritten letter from a Mr. The book is considered one of her best works and is a thrilling adventure from start to end.The book features Hercule Poirot in his full glory along with Arthur Hastings and Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard. Published in 1936, The ABC Murders added significantly to Agatha Christie’s fame as a genius of a crime-writer. ![]() The singularity is nearer amazon6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Stacy Liberatore writes at Daily Mail, Now the former Google engineer believes technology is set to become so powerful it will help humans live forever, in what is known as the singularity. He thinks we’ll be able to live forever via age-reversing “nanobots.” These “tiny robots” will correct damaged cells and make us immune to disease, thus leading to radically increased human longevity. He’s not telling you to seek union with God and achieve immortality the old-fashioned way. No, he’s not a spiritual leader predicting the eschaton. Ray Kurzweil, a former Google engineer, thinks that humanity is a mere “eight years away” from achieving immortality. TagAmazon nanobot Type post Author News Date MaCategorized Transhumanism Tagged Altos Labs, Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, Daily Mail, Elon Musk, Google, immortality, Jeff Bezos, Nanobots, Nanotechnology, transhumanism Pre-order Immortality Now (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently) A Google engineer predicts the "singularity" is coming and that we should get on board News Ma2 Transhumanism ![]() Hand Me Down by Melanie Thorne6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When she chooses starting a new family over raising her first born girls, Elizabeth and Jaime are separated and forced to rely on the begrudging kindness of increasingly distant relatives.A string of broken promises that begins with Liz’s mother swearing, ‘I would never hurt you, Liz. Their mother, once a loving parent, is going through a post post adolescent rebellious streak and finds love with a dangerous ex con. ![]() Their father, who’d rather work the system than a job, pours every dollar into his many vices, denying his daughters the shoes and clothing they need. Fourteen year old Elizabeth Reid has spent her life protecting her sister, Jaime, from their parents’ cruel mistakes. A tough, tender, debut novel, in the tradition of Dorothy Allison and Janet Fitch, Hand Me Down is the unforgettable story of a girl who travels between California and Utah in search of her true family, having never been loved best of all. ![]() The grand strategy of philip ii6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Both men failed to achieve most of their policy goals both sacrificed lives, resources and reputation on a prodigious scale both left their countries Robert Strange McNamara, the author of this lament, has, like Philip II, generally had a very bad press. It existed then, it exists today, and it ought to be recognized and planned for when organizing a government. I have never seen a thoughtful examination of the problem. It has existed at all times and in most countries. This predicament is not unique to the administration in which I served or to the United States. ![]() There were only twenty-four hours in a day, and we often did not have time to think straight. Simply put, we faced a blizzard of problems, ![]() One reason the Kennedy and Johnson administrations failed to take an orderly, rational approach to the basic questions underlying Vietnam was the staggering variety and complexity of other issues we faced. ![]() ![]() The vibrant illustrations originate from actual photographs taken of his characters. His poetic writing is humorous and fanciful. ![]() He writes in third person to give his subjects center stage. The physician is both author and illustrator. The beautiful illustrations are nicely paired with the poetic writing. They are heartwarming and amusing stories told in rhyme. The stories are inspired by the author's relationship with various animals, both pets and wildlife. The True Tail Tale series is a collection of children's books. The article on the front page of The Boston Globe captivated readers from around the world! These caught the eye of a staff reporter of The Boston Globe. ![]() Pepito's true story was documented in videos shared on social media. "This was perhaps the finest care a squirrel without health insurance could receive in the United States." - The Boston Globe The Pepito The Squirrel books are based on the real life adventures of Pepito, who was injured when very young, and the retired physician who nurtured him back to good health. ![]() Truth Be Told by Carol Cox6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Eventually it impacts everyone except the very top. It doesn't just punish & abuse the minorities, the "others". So between lost revenue, lost jobs, lost employees, well Ron, how are you going to spin that!?Īnd I'm going to keep saying it, they have no idea what authoritarainism can be like. And now you see what big business can do to a state that messes with Mickey Mouse! Seems that I also heard on the news that Disney is rethinking personnel changes, you know, not sending people to Florida. Christian theology, they could care less. In case they don't know, big money doesn't usually care about religion, all it cares about is the bottom line. Wait til they piss off one of their dark money friends. Let's see them play with the mega-banks that have been created from lack of regulation. Who would have thought that it would be republicans that would turn against Big Business. Oh no, they won't do that, I forgot a fertilized egg is a person & deserves all the rights of a person outside the womb. Generic question: "What the hell is going on?" Are Republicans that stupid, selfish, self-centered, unpatriotic, greedy? Do they really want to throw the baby out with the bath water. All that I can say is: "GO MICKEY!!!!!!!" Who would have thought that US democracy would have to depend on a mouse? Wow, just Wow!Įvery day, E-V-E-R-Y D-A-Y, I think it can't get any worse & then I wake up & it is! ![]() Sigrid undset kristin lavransdatter6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() There is nothing new under the sun and time doesn’t alter the fact that we all struggle with wrong decisions, weakness of character, and our own wilfulness. Despite its setting, and the peculiarities of the time period, this story could fit right into our own times. It is a saga, the pilgrimage of a woman from childhood to the end of her life, transporting the reader back in time and place to 14th Century Scandinavia. Kristin Lavransdatter is Sigrid Undset’s most famous work and is set in medieval Norway. If you decide to read Kristin L, make sure to get either the book above or the individual books – ‘The Wreath,’ ‘The Wife,’ and ‘The Cross.’ I’m thankful I did because The Wreath doesn’t have a satisfying end! Each book deals with a different time in Kristin’s life and The Wreath ends with Kristin’s marriage and the revelation of a secret her mother had kept hidden from Kristin’s father. I didn’t have the book and had no idea if it could be read as a stand-alone, so I decided to order the Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition which includes all three titles in the trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() My monthly book club scheduled The Wreath, the first book in Sigrid Undset’s trilogy, Kristin Lavransdatter, for the month of May. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ralph is a mouse who lives in the run-down Mountain View Inn, a battered resort hotel in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California. Mouse character in the following decades, and a film adaptation of The Mouse and The Motorcycle was produced in 1986. Cleary went on to write two more books featuring the Ralph S. The book was released as a selection of the Weekly Reader Children's Book Club (Intermediate Division) and won the William Allen White Children's Book Award in 1968. ![]() The story and characters were inspired both by Cleary's son, who while recovering from a fever played with miniature cars and motorcycles, and by a neighbor who had shown Cleary a small mouse that had been trapped in a bucket. Mouse, a house mouse who can speak to humans (though typically only children), goes on adventures riding his miniature motorcycle, and who longs for excitement and independence while living with his family in a run-down hotel. It is the first in a trilogy featuring Ralph S. The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary, illustrated by Louis Darling and published in 1965. ![]() |