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![]() ![]() The cops can find nothing to identify him and he can’t remember anything to help… except the name Ethan and one recurring place from his dreams. When he wakes up in the hospital, the victim of a brutal beating, John Doe has no memories of who he is or who hurt him. He knows things have to change and but when the new guy turns up, with a troubled family in tow – he just isn’t prepared for how much.ĭon’t forget to check out Nikyta’s review of Crooked Tree Ranch to see what she thought of it!Ī man without memories, and the cop who never gave up hope. His brothers convince him that he needs to get an expert in to help the business grow. ![]() With his sister, Ashley, niece, Kirsten and nephew, Josh, in tow, he moves lock stock and barrel from New York to Montana to start a new life on Crooked Tree Ranch.įoreman and part owner of the ranch, ex rodeo star Nathaniel ‘Nate’ Todd has been running the dude ranch, for five years ever since his mentor Marcus Allen became ill. ![]() On the spur of the moment, with his life collapsing around him, Jay Sullivan answers an ad for a business manager with an expertise in marketing, on a dude ranch in Montana. ![]() ![]() In an interview with CNET, actress Sofia Vergara talked about building a smart house that lets her not only watch movies in her at-home theater, but also allows her to Skype with family and use her social media on a mega screen.īill Gates demonstrates an HP TouchSmart PC in 2007. ![]() "What differentiates the pricier smart home systems is the scale of installation and personalization." Personalization is the key in smart homes of rich peopleĬelebrity homes are the perfect examples of what personalized smart home systems can look like. "Affluent households are far more likely to become early adopters of new technology than the average consumer, and smart home systems are no different," Winnie Bekmanis, who works in product marketing for the Internet of Things (IoT) at Qualcomm, told Business Insider. But if a couple of hundred of dollars can buy the average consumer these gadgets, what can those who have unlimited resources get out of their smart home systems? The answer: pretty much everything and anything they want. With the creation of products like the Amazon Echo and Google Home, that dream is closer to becoming a reality for the mass market. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of us have dreamed about living in a home where mundane tasks - like washing the dishes or turning on the TV - can be outsourced to a device. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() ![]() ![]() A slow, simple, fulfilling life in a place where nothing exciting or out of the ordinary ever happens. Instead of a lifetime of battle, my biggest concerns are building a house, the size of my harvest, and the way the girl from the nearby village glares at me when I tease her. but Qi makes everything kind of wonky, so it’s probably fine. Slice of life cultivation novel, very wholesome, about a reincarnated person trying to get away from Xianxia tropes. I’m not used to seeing a chicken move with such grace. Tilling a field by hand is fun when you’ve got the strength of ten men-though maybe I shouldn’t have fed those Spirit Herbs to my pet rooster. ![]() Arrogant Masters? Heavenly Tribulations? All that violence and bloodshed? Yeah, no thanks. Unfortunately for him, he died, and now I’m stuck in his body. A man powerful enough to defy the heavens. farming? Jin Rou wanted to be a cultivator. ![]() A laugh-out-loud, slice-of-life martial-arts fantasy about. ![]() ![]() ![]() A couple of days later, Lena learns from her grandparents that her family and Kostos' family are sworn enemies stemming from an old family feud. A young man swims over and sets her free, later introducing himself as Kostos, a Greek-American like her. One day in Greece, Lena is sitting at the dock, drawing (while wearing the traveling pants) when she accidentally falls in the water, and the leg of the pants gets caught on something. Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen part the next day, and the movie focuses on each girl separately. The girls decide to share the pants among them equally over the summer as a way of keeping together when they are apart. ![]() ![]() On the eve of their separation, the girls visit a thrift shop and find a pair of pants that magically fits all four of them perfectly, although they have different measurements. Lena is spending the summer in Greece with her grandparents Tibby is staying at home Bridget is going to soccer camp and Carmen is visiting her father in South Carolina. ![]() They are best friends and have been together all their lives in Bethesda, Maryland, but are about to separate for the summer. The movie centers around four teenage girls: Lena Kaligaris, Tabitha "Tibby" Tomko-Rollins, Bridget Vreeland, and Carmen Lowell. ![]() ![]() Pablo and Alejandro’s critique of the role of the United States reflects many Cubans’ sense that their fates and resources were always in the hands of outsiders who did not have their best interests at heart. Once Cuba managed to regain the power to hold elections, the United States intervened in its politics to protect American business and political interests.ĭuring the 1920s, these interests were the production of sugar and rum people like the Perez and Rodriguez families reaped the rewards of this system, placing them in conflict with the ordinary Cubans who gained nothing from this prosperity. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the United States quickly assumed control and made Cuba a part of its empire in the Western hemisphere. With the breakup of the Spanish empire, Cuba gained its independence near the turn of the 20th century. Cuba was a part of Spain’s empire in the Americas. ![]() ![]() Eric Mamajek about a potential exoplanet system that he discovered and Ron visualized.Īrtist impression of the birth of KOI 55-01 and KOI 55-02.Īrtist impression of Upsilon Andromeda b. The Art of Space is the most comprehensive celebration of space art ever to be published, profiling the development of space-based art in a variety of media. You can also listen to the second part of this interview with Ron, and a follow-up interview with Dr. This led us to Ron and resulted in a two part podcast all about his extraordinary work. We recently came across his art illustrating a news article about an unusual exoplanet system which might actually have a ring system like Saturn’s. He’s written and illustrated many books, one of which, “Out of the Cradle,” is a classic and a huge inspiration to our generation.Ĭlick to listen! (10MB MP3, right-click to save) Not only is he an amazingly talented illustrator, but he’s also the author, consultant, and former art director for the National Air & Space Museum’s Albert Einstein planetarium. ![]() ![]() In The Art of Space, award-winning artist and best-selling author Ron Miller presents over 350 high-quality and often photorealistic images that chart how artists throughout history, working with the knowledge and research available. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, he is a necromancer, or someone who can summon and speak to the dead. Sam LaCroix is sort of a loser-ish college drop-out working at a fast food restaurant when he discovers, quite by accident, that he is not who he thought he was. I found myself laughing out loud throughout, and delighting at the chapter titles, which are all the names of songs or obvious variations thereof. The author has a great sense of humor, and a knack for writing sensitive, well-rounded characters of all ages and both genders (except for the bad guys, who are all bad, but in a bumbling bad way that just adds to the fun). I picked it up because it has been the recipient of quite a few awards, so I was a bit surprised (in spite of the title!) to see that it included not only paranormal characters, but a number of new ones I never even knew existed! (…or that don’t exist, as the case may be.) Nevertheless, instead of making the book seem more absurd, it just made it way more diverting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thayer’s protagonists are acquainted with death, cruelty, and injustice. Instead, they are sensitive, righteous young men who take beating after beating from a world where God observes more than he intervenes. His protagonists are not the guilt-drenched youths of Levi Peterson’s fiction, whose forbidden experiments with sin and sex leave them feeling acutely the classic division between body and spirit. For the last half-century, Thayer has been writing stories about young Mormon men, still naïve in the faith, whose battles with wilderness and human nature leave them emotionally and physically scarred, yet also hopeful and spiritually more mature. ![]() Loyal readers of Douglas Thayer’s fiction will not be surprised–at least initially–by his latest novel, Will Wonders Never Cease: A Hopeful Novel for Mormon Mothers and Their Teenage Sons (Zarahemla Books, 2014). ![]() ![]() ![]() Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. The journal was written by a woman whose physician husband has rented an old mansion for the summer. ![]() The story is written as a collection of journal entries narrated in the first person. It is also lauded as an excellent work of horror fiction. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century. A Story") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. " The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. Cover of a 1901 edition of The Yellow Wallpaper ![]() |