![]() ![]() As Scatty herself says, "we had little or no emotion. ![]() She's also part of a unique race, too-the Clan Vampires. For one thing, Scatty is a vampire, but she doesn't drink blood. Seriously, the more we learn about her, the more she strikes us as unique. She's different in more ways than one, and that's why we love her. In any case, it's clear this girl stands out in a crowd. ![]() With hair like that, she's got a punk-rock streak that won't be denied, and we can't help but wonder if Josh isn't crushing a bit when he says, "I think she's cool" (8.34). Her red hair was so vibrant that Sophie wondered if she had died it that color" (7.51). Her skin was pale, dappled with freckles, and her round face was dominated by grass green eyes. Despite the fact that she's 2000 years old (yep, you read that right), she looks frankly the same age as the twins themselves: "The twins were shocked to discover that they were looking at a girl not much older than themselves. Maybe some wrinkles and gray hair? Not our Scatty. You'd think someone who has been around for a couple millennia might be looking a little rough. With names like that, she's bound to be awesome. Her full name is Scathach, also known as The Warrior Maid, The Shadow, The Daemon Slayer, and The King Maker. She's got awesome martial arts moves, her very own dojo, and-oh yeah-she's a vampire, too. Seriously, we wish we had her on Shmoop's team. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Kids can imagine racing to the rescue with this Hoist toy, inspired by the Transformers Rescue Bots Academy animated TV show. ![]() Little heroes can enjoy twice the fun with 2 modes of play, converting this Hoist action figure from tow truck to robot and back again.Boys and girls will love pretending to race to the rescue with this 6-inch collectible Transformers toy robot! Little heroes ages 3 and up can imagine going on daring missions with one of their favourite Transformers Rescue Bots Academy characters! Designed with Easy 2 Do conversion and sized right for small hands, the Hoist toy converts from robot mode to vehicle mode and back again in 1 simple step! In bot mode, the Hoist figure features a fun, button-activated “Hauling Hook” rescue tool, inspired by the one featured in the animated series. Bright yet shy, powerful tow truck Hoist is the Rescue Bots Academy's most endearing member - as well as its resident inventor! ![]() ![]() ![]() Now the roles are reversed and it’s the son’s turn to hold his mother and rock her to sleep. The touching story takes a twist when the mother inevitably gets too old and sick to hold her son anymore. She still sings him the same song and rocks her sleeping son like she used to do when he was little. ![]() Even after her son has left home, she drives across the town with a ladder strapped to her car roof, and climbs through her son’s window. The same happens in the story when the persistent mother continues to treat her grown up son like her little baby. The little boy grows up and soon turns into a restless two year old but the mother’s love remains the same and she continues to sing the same song even when he grows into a messy nine year old and then into a raucous teenager.Ī mother’s love never changes and in her eyes her child always remains a baby no matter how old he or she may have grown. Love You Forever begins with a scene in which a young mother is pictured carrying her sleeping baby as she gently sings to him a song about how she will love him forever and how he would always be her baby. The children’s book tells the story of a mother whose love never wavers throughout her son’s life. A heart touching story, Love You Forever gently reaffirms the love of a parent for her child. ![]() ![]() Appalled at such a prospect, Angwin conducts a series of experiments to try to protect herself, ranging from quitting Google to carrying a “burner” phone, showing how difficult it is for an average citizen to resist the dragnets reach. In a world where we can be watched in our own homes, where we can no longer keep secrets, and where we can be impersonated, financially manipulated, or even placed in a police lineup, Angwin argues that the greatest long-term danger is that we start to internalize the surveillance and censor our words and thoughts, until we lose the very freedom that makes us unique individuals. In Dragnet Nation, award-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin reports from the front lines of Americas surveillance economy, offering a revelatory and unsettling look at how the government, private companies, and even criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast amounts of our personal data. And the federal government, we recently learned, has been conducting a massive data-gathering surveillance operation across the Internet and on our phone lines. Our smartphones and cars transmit our location, enabling us to know whats in the neighborhood but also enabling others to track us. ![]() ![]() We see online ads from websites weve visited, long after weve moved on to other interests. An inside look at whos watching you, what they know and why it matters. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and she is a 4 time LAMBDA finalist. Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British romance author and artist. Includes short stories from Misfits, Slide, Strays, What Remains, Dream, and much more. ![]() ![]() Garrett is also an award winning cover designer, taking the silver medal at the Be She/Herīonus Material available for all books on Garrett's Patreon account. In 2017, she won the EPIC award in contemporary romance with her military novel, Between Ghosts, and the contemporary romance category in the Bisexual Book Awards with her novel What Remains. Sign up here: Facebook Fan Group, Garrett's Den. She/Her Bonus Material available for all books on Garrett's Patreon account. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some organisations working in this area in India have already converted textbooks including NCERT textbooks for higher classes from IX to XII, while textbooks in Braille are available for all classes. ![]() With a view of helping the visually impaired students have access to knowledge and information, a project was undertaken by the National Council of Educational Research and Training(NCERT).The intention was to make the textbooks accessible to these students and by converting the printed textbooks into audio books. The vast majority of visually impaired students are thus excluded from the mainstream. In India educational resources for visually impaired are not many and most of the available materials are not actually accessible to them. Education for the visually impaired is made available through the medium of sound and touch. ![]() ![]() In the event, she feels let down by both, and commits suicide herself. ![]() Aimée is also being courted by Whispering Glades's head embalmer, Mr Joyboy. Barlow arranges his burial at Whispering Glades, a vast funeral park, where he meets Aimée Thanatogenos (first name: "loved one", surname: "bringer of death"), a mortuary cosmetician, whom he woos by sending her poems culled from an anthology. His mentor, Sir Francis Hinsley, commits suicide after being fired from the same studio. Story: Dennis Barlow, a poet, throws in his post at Megalopolitan film studios for a job at a pet cemetery, The Happier Hunting Ground. The Loved One was his next work of fiction, published in 1948 after a proposed Hollywood adaptation of Brideshead came to nothing. ![]() It was a novel that, with its class nostalgia and anti-modern outlook, seemed out of step with the postwar mood. The second world war, however, interrupted his literary output, before he re-established himself with Brideshead Revisited, published in 1945. Author: The brother of the then better-known novelist Alec, Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) shot to fame in the 1930s with a string of acidic social satires - Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust, Scoop. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And she exquisitely, uncomfortably describes the difference between making our children happy or raising brave, engaged human beings. She also discovered a stark gulf between what we want to be true - and what is true - in vulnerability between men and women. ![]() She’s frank about the resistance her own findings awakened in her, a classic American perfectionist who wore exhaustion as a status symbol. And it’s based on data - social scientific research she conducted first into shame and then into qualities that distinguish lives with a strong sense of worthiness. KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: In a culture where we like to fix or prevent vulnerability, Brené Brown is reviving the knowledge that our struggles make us who we are. You know, the moments I look back in my life, and think, those were the moments that made me - were moments of struggle. BRENÉ BROWN: I think we lose sight of the beauty, the most beautiful things I look back on in my life are coming out from underneath things I didn’t know I could get out from underneath. ![]() ![]() ![]() Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited from Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, and Frost, the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently, and to observe with passion. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple." As she writes, "I could not be a poet without the natural world. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood "friend" Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, "a place to enter, and in which to feel," and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be." "In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. ![]() One of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year! ![]() ![]() The roster is, overall, both racially and nationally diverse-though as Chinese-American dancer Yuan Yuan Tan has spent most of her life in this country, East Asia seems underrepresented. ![]() ![]() Brazilian soccer star Sisleide “Sissi” Lima do Amor is the one athlete in the lineup. Marie Curie gets a nod for her two Nobel prizes, Egyptian Aisha Rateb for her trailblazing legal career, and Joanne “J.K.” Rowling for Harry Potter. Activists’ causes include the right to an education (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexico, and Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan), environmentalism (Wangari Maathai, Kenya), anti-war protests (Leymah Gbowee, Liberia) and women’s suffrage (Kate Sheppard, New Zealand, whose cause included Maori women). ![]() A scope-broadening companion to She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World (2017).Īrranged in their subjects’ birth order (though frequently without any dates), the brief tributes focus on the achievements of selected women from countries other than the U.S. ![]() |