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Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding
Edited by Nicolas Lemay-Hébert
This innovative Handbook offers a new perspective on the cutting-edge conceptual advances that have shaped – and continue to shape – the field of intervention and statebuilding. Learn More
Transnational Business Governance Interactions
Edited by Stepan Wood, Rebecca Schmidt, Errol Meidinger, Burkard Eberlein, Kenneth W. Abbott
From agriculture to sport and from climate change to indigenous rights, transnational regulatory regimes and actors are multiplying and interacting with poorly understood effects. This interdisciplinary book investigates whether, how and by whom transnational business governance interactions (TBGIs) can be harnessed to improve the quality of transnational regulation and advance the interests of marginalized actors. Learn More
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance
Edited by Stephen Elstub, Oliver Escobar
Democratic innovations are proliferating in politics, governance, policy, and public administration. These new processes of public participation are reimagining the relationship between citizens and institutions. This Handbook advances understanding of democratic innovations, in theory and practice, by critically reviewing their importance throughout the world. The overarching themes are a focus on citizens and their relationship to these innovations, and the resulting effects on political equality. The Handbook therefore offers a definitive overview of existing research on democratic innovations, while also setting the agenda for future research and practice. Learn More
Global Challenges, Governance, and Complexity
Edited by Victor Galaz
There is an increased interest in integrating insights from the complexity sciences to studies of governance and policy. While the issue has been debated, and the term of 'complexity' has multiple and sometimes contested interpretations, it is also clear the field has spurred a number of interesting theoretical and empirical efforts. The book includes key thinkers in the field, elaborates on different analytical approaches in studying governance, institutions and policy in the face of complexity, and showcases empirical applications and insights. Learn More
Social Capital, Social Support and Stratification
Edited by Ronald S. Burt, Yanjie Bian, Lijun Song, Nan Lin
This insightful book explores the spread of network imagery in three areas of sociology – social capital, social support, and China – using as its protagonist a man active in all three: Nan Lin. Social Capital, Social Support and Stratification provides a unique combination of Nan Lin's core contributions to the field presented alongside new and original analyses. Learn More
Individual Choice and Social Welfare: Theoretical Foundations of Political Economy
Edited by Viktor J. Vanberg
This important research literature review discusses some of the most prominent literature in the field of individual choice and economic welfare. It analyses material exploring how economics as a scientific enterprise may inform political decision-making. The premise is explored paradigmatically through different interpretations including utility-individualism in the context of welfare economics, preference-individualism in social choice theory, and choice-individualism in constitutional economics. The review covers the foundational literature as well as contemporary pieces, which have sparked further discussion in the field. This review will be valuable to researchers and scholars alike as well as to all those gravitating towards this fascinating topic. Learn More
The Globalization of Russian Gas
James Henderson, Arild Moe
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Gazprom has dominated the Russian gas industry. However, the markets in which it operates have changed dramatically, with the company increasingly being challenged at home and abroad. At this critical moment, this insightful book analyses the involvement of the Russian gas industry in the changing international gas market and the dramatic implications for Russia's role as a global supplier of gas in the future. Learn More
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Handbook on Gender and Violence
Edited by Laura J. Shepherd
Containing contributions from leading experts in the field, this Handbook explores the many ways gender and violence interact across different contexts and offers a range of disciplinary perspectives. This comprehensive volume connects micro-level interpersonal violence to macro-level structural forms of violence across three discrete but interrelated sections: concepts, representations, and contexts. Learn More
Michael E. Milakovich, Jean-Marc Wise
Today quality of education hinges less on mode of instruction or institutional reputation than on the commitment of individual administrators and instructors to understand and apply digital learning. Digital Learning reveals the technologies behind successful implementation of online learning and teaching, and introduces the most important concepts and relationships in plain language. Readers are also provided with a glossary of key terms and a selection of resources. Learn More
A Research Agenda for Climate Justice
Edited by Paul G. Harris
Climate change will bring great suffering to communities, individuals and ecosystems. Those least responsible for the problem will suffer the most. Justice demands urgent action to reverse its causes and impacts. In this provocative new book, Paul G. Harris brings together a collection of original essays to explore alternative, innovative approaches to understanding and implementing climate justice in the future. Through investigations informed by philosophy, politics, sociology, law and economics, this Research Agenda reveals how climate change is a matter of justice and makes concrete proposals for more effective mitigation. Learn More
Stephen Browne
Over three-quarters of a century, the UN has been impacted by major changes in the balance of powers among its member states, and is today threatened by nationalistic instincts. In this book, former UN insider Stephen Browne documents the textured history and numerous faces of the UN, from peacekeeper to humanitarian and development actor to stalwart defender of global human rights. Learn More
Edited by John S. Pedersen, Adrian Wilkinson
Big data and 'the package' of the digital society is de-mystified in this important book. A group of international experts frame the debates around big data and analyse its impact in different sectors in practice. They also examine whether big data and the digital society can deliver on its promises. Learn More
Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion
Edited by Russell Sandberg, Norman Doe, Bronach Kane, Caroline Roberts
Following 9/11, increased attention has been given to the place of religion in the public sphere. Across the world, Law and Religion has developed as a sub-discipline and scholars have grappled with the meaning and effect of legal texts upon religion. The questions they ask, however, cannot be answered by reference to Law alone therefore their work has increasingly drawn upon work from other disciplines. This Research Handbook assists by providing introductory but provocative essays from experts on a range of concepts, perspectives and theories from other disciplines, which can be used to further Law and Religion scholarship. Learn More
Economics is business and politics is power. In this insightful book, David Reisman explores the interaction between authority and exchange in a global village where individual nation states – once the pinnacle of political organization – increasingly depend on each other for their material well-being. Learn More
Governing Marine Living Resources in the Polar Regions
Edited by Nengye Liu, Cassandra M. Brooks, Tianbao Qin
Bringing together leading scholars from across a diverse range of disciplines, this unique book examines a key question: How can we best conserve marine living resources in the polar regions, where climate change effects and human activities are particularly pressing? Learn More
Capitalism in Transformation
Edited by Roland Atzmüller, Brigitte Aulenbacher, Ulrich Brand, Fabienne Décieux, Karin Fischer, Birgit Sauer
Presenting a profound and far-reaching analysis of economic, ecological, social, cultural and political developments of contemporary capitalism, this book draws on the work of Karl Polanyi, and re-reads it for our times. The renowned authors offer key insights to current changes in the relations between the economy, politics and society, and their ecological and social effects. Learn More
Political Corruption in Africa
Edited by Inge Amundsen
Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social phenomena in a way that is often overlooked in contemporary studies. Chapters argue that political corruption includes two basic, critical and related processes: extractive and power-preserving corruption. Learn More
Handbook on Human Rights Impact Assessment
Edited by Nora Götzmann
Human rights impact assessment (HRIA) has increasingly gained traction among state, business and civil society actors since the endorsement of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights by the Human Rights Council in 2011. This timely and insightful Handbook addresses HRIA in the context of business and human rights. Learn More
Philanthropy in Education
Edited by Natasha Y. Ridge, Arushi Terway
Challenging commonly held perceptions of philanthropic organisations, this book brings together a range of interdisciplinary contributors from across the globe to explore the most pressing issues facing those working in and with philanthropy and education. It focuses on the increasing influence of new philanthropic actors on the global education sector, offering a thorough insight into the topic. Learn More
State Governance of Mining, Development and Sustainability
Tracy-Lynn Field
States in mineral-rich jurisdictions must promote mining as a development industry just as they must protect people and environment from the worst excesses of extractivism. State Governance of Mining, Development and Sustainability explores how the State's role in facilitating a developmental and sustainable mining industry has been defined. In doing so, this astute book considers the impact of the policies and laws of mineral-rich States themselves, multilateral international governance institutions, industry associations, and environmental justice advocates in the areas of property relations, mineral taxation, environmental management and mine closure. Learn More


According to his official FAA biography, Nield has more than 30 years of aerospace experience. He came to the FAA after a stint as senior scientist for Orbital Sciences Corporation's Advanced Programs Group.
Chaired by Vice President Mike Pence, the space council met at the Kennedy Space Center Wednesday to review recommendations that will be sent to the president for approval, reiterating the administration's push to end government funding of the International Space Station in 2025 in favor of one or more commercially-developed follow-on outposts.
With cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin at the controls in the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft's center seat, flanked on the left by flight engineer Mark Vande Hei and on the right by Joe Acaba, the Russian spacecraft separated from the station's Poisk module at 6:08 p.m. EST (GMT-5) to begin the three-and-a-half-hour trip home.
After moving a safe distance away from the station, Misurkin and Vande Hei monitored a critical four-minute 39-second rocket firing that slowed the spacecraft by 286 mph, just enough to lower the far side of the orbit deep into the atmosphere for a fiery plunge back to Kazakhstan.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a new re-entry forecast for China's Tiangong-1 space lab. The 8.5-ton spacecraft is now expected to fall into Earth's atmosphere between March 24 and April 19, though ESA officials stressed that this is a rough estimate.
As astronauts prepare for trips to destinations beyond low-Earth orbit, their last steps before boarding an Orion spacecraft will be across a crew access arm on the mobile launcher at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This week, the agency reached an important milestone on the path to Exploration Mission-1 with the installation of the crew access arm at about the 274-foot level on the mobile launcher tower.
The Exploration Ground Systems team at Kennedy has been overseeing installation of umbilicals and other launch accessories on the 380-foot-tall mobile launcher in preparation for stacking the first launch of the Space Launch System rocket, called the SLS, with an Orion spacecraft. The SLS will be the largest launch vehicle in the world, designed for missions beyond low-Earth orbit carrying crew and cargo to the Moon or beyond.
The third stage of an Indian Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. II rocket re-entered the atmosphere on March 1, 2018 after spending over two and a half years spiraling down from a Geostationary Transfer Orbit. GSLV's Cryogenic Upper Stage known as C15 is 2.8 meters in diameter and 8.7 meters long with an inert mass of around 2.5 metric tons, using aluminum alloy for its tanks and structural frame with one CE-7.5 engine sitting at the base of the stage.
SpaceX turned heads around the world on February 6 with the first-ever launch of Falcon Heavy. The 230-foot-tall rocket's three boosters helped push Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster into space, peeled off after running low on fuel, and then careened toward Earth.
Two of the 16-story boosters rocketed to a safe landing (the third fell into the ocean), and the flight was hailed as a huge success. It proved SpaceX could lift twice as much payload to space for about 25% of the cost of its closest competitor while recycling rocket parts worth tens of millions of dollars.
Stratolaunch, the world's biggest airplane, hit a new milestone recently, taxiing down the runway at 46 mph. While that may not sound like much, it's worth watching the video to see this 500,000-pound beast with twin fuselages and a wingspan of 385 feet lumbering down the concrete. The chase cars look like Micro Machines next to this thing.
It's a big improvement over a low-speed test conducted last December, in which the Stratolaunch traveled down a runway at just 28 mph. Previously, the massive aircraft successfully conducted a test of its six turbofan engines at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. All of these incremental milestones are said to be leading up to the Stratolaunch's first test flight in 2019.
Ever planned of going to space and staying there for a short vacation? You soon can, through various commercial space flight options, the latest of which will be from none other than space exploration pioneers Russia — there are plans for a new Russian space tourism program to kick off sometime next year, according to a report.
And exactly what does the upcoming Russian space program entail? According to the report, the Russian plan involves allowing paying customers — the space tourists, that is — to go all the way to the International Space Station (ISS) and go on spacewalks for the very first time. Spacewalking will be just one item in the itinerary, however, as the planned trips are going to be 10 days long.
When word got out that the Trump administration wanted to end government funding of the International Space Station by 2025, resistance to the idea was swift and forceful.
In a rare sign of just how unpopular it was, two senators from opposing parties — Democrat Bill Nelson of Florida and Republican Ted Cruz of Texas — immediately came out against the proposal, which was contained in the president's 2019 budget blueprint.
But former NASA astronaut Sandy Magnus said that stepping away from the space station could be seen as a sign of progress toward the eventual goal of sending humans out into the solar system. By transferring management of the ISS to private industry, she said, NASA still could lease space to continue its research in low Earth orbit while focusing more of its efforts on places like the moon and Mars.
But although the Google Lunar X Prize competition is over, PTScientists' "Mission to the Moon" is not. The group aims to launch a lander and two small rovers to the moon from Cape Canaveral, Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during the 50th-anniversary year of NASA's Apollo 11 moon landing.
New details of China's ambitious launch plans for 2018 have been divulged, along with updates on the progress of new medium and super-heavy Long March launch vehicles.
Li Hong, president of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, the major space launch vehicle manufacturer in China and a subordinate of the main space contractor, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), revealed the details in an interview with state media.
According to Li, China plans to launch 36 Long March rockets in 2018, up from 16 last year and the current national record of 22 set in 2016.
Airbus, in cooperation with IBM, is developing CIMON (Crew Interactive MObile CompanioN), an AI-based assistant for astronauts for the DLR Space Administration. The technology demonstrator, which is the size of a medicine ball and weighs around 5 kg, will be tested on the ISS by Alexander Gerst during the European Space Agency's Horizons mission between June and October 2018.
In space, no one can hear you sob.
The link between extraterrestrial exploration and emotional distress has been well-documented for decades, though those feelings aren't always about what people experience in space. Buzz Aldrin, for one, lived with depression for years after walking on the moon, partly because that accomplishment outstripped so much of what he experienced after. Space travel, however, presents psychiatric risks of its own, especially over the course of protracted missions in cramped quarters.
Enter an ongoing research project—funded in part by a NASA grant—at Florida Polytechnic University that would use technology embedded in astronauts' suits to evaluate their well-being and adjust conditions accordingly.
Scientists have developed rechargeable batteries that can operate at temperatures low enough to operate in hostile environments such as Antarctica or the warmer regions of Mars.
The performance of current lithium batteries declines below minus-20 degrees Celsius, dwindling to 12% by minus-40. This means, for example, that the batteries that power the Mars Rovers need to be heated to keep them from grinding to a halt.
However, research published in the journal Joule unveils a lithium battery design with good performance as low as minus-70 degrees Celsius. The design substitutes conventional metal electrodes for organic polymers and employs a low-freezing-point electrolyte – the chemical which carries the current within the battery.
Russian State Space Corporation Rosсosmos and the China National Space Administration signed on Saturday the agreement of intent for cooperation in the sphere of exploration of the Moon and the Outer space as well as on the creation of the Joint Data Center on the Lunar projects, the corporation said in a statement.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called for international cooperation on a manned mission to the moon. Abe made the appeal in a video message to a meeting of the International Space Exploration Forum in Tokyo on Saturday. Ministers and representatives of space agencies from some 50 countries, including the United States, China and Russia, as well as international organizations, participated in the gathering.
Abe said that space frontiers are now part of the social infrastructure essential to people's daily lives, such as satellite communications and observations of the Earth. He said that global cooperation should be strengthened based on technical capabilities and a relationship of trust developed through various international joint projects. Abe stressed that countries should work hand-in-hand to go to the moon and beyond.
Even though Congress has yet to formally consider President Trump's new budget for NASA, the space agency is already moving swiftly to implement some of its core principles. Among those is a White House desire to end a separate program within the agency focused on the development of advanced new spaceflight technologies intended to keep NASA at the cutting edge.
With an annual budget that has varied between $500 million and $1 billion, the Space Technology Mission Directorate was created in 2010 to develop the kinds of technology NASA needed to explore deeper into space, such as advanced propulsion and power systems, in-space manufacturing, and new means of landing on far-off worlds. If humans really were to expand beyond low-Earth orbit, research and development of these new technologies was deemed critical.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the storied agency that put humans on the moon in 1969, is adrift on Earth in 2018.
In its second year without a permanent leader, NASA is trying to pivot back toward human spaceflight for the first time since the space shuttle program ended in 2011. Simultaneously, it faces critical decisions about how to end America's role in the International Space Station. And there's that issue of commercial space billionaires putting it out of business entirely.
The Trump administration has twice nominated Representative Jim Bridenstine, 42, an Oklahoma Republican, to the post of NASA administrator. And twice, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee voted along party lines to send his nomination to the full Senate. And there it has languished.
A deep-dive analysis of the defense industrial base will be submitted to the White House in mid-April. Requested by President Trump last July, the hugely anticipated study will look at all sectors of the defense industry from a broad national security perspective.
The United States has accused Moscow of openly breaching Cold War-era treaties by developing what Russian President Vladimir Putin called a new generation of "invincible" hypersonic weapons and submarines.
Putin unveiled the new arsenal Thursday in a state of the nation address, challenging Washington to a new arms race ahead of a March 18 presidential election that will all but certainly confirm his grip on power.
Putin left his usual Kremlin perch to speak from a nearby exhibition center — allowing him to show a series of video montages of missiles crossing mountains and oceans, heading over the Atlantic before striking the US eastern seaboard.
After 30 years of trying, the head of Strategic Command believes the time and technology are finally ripe for satellites to track both ballistic missiles and emerging threats such as hypersonics.
Launching rockets to space is a high-stakes, unforgiving business, with razor-thin margins between success and failure and catastrophic consequences when things go wrong. Sometimes the smallest problems can doom a payload—and in the most tragic circumstances, an entire crew.
Here are 10 examples from recent history that reminds us of how tough this business can be.
In 2003, Brazil had high hopes to become a spacefaring nation. The country occupies a perfect spot on the equator, where the Earth's spin bestows extra lifting power upon a rocket. But in August, three days before a scheduled launch by the Brazilian Space Agency, the town of Alcantara shook with a massive explosion.


Take time the week school gets out to fill out the registration forms for the upcoming school year. It will feel much better to know this task is complete, rather than have it hanging over your head all summer long.
Record important dates for the upcoming school year on the calendar now. Include dates like the first day of school, school holidays, and so on. If you didn't get these dates from your school yet, they're probably posted on your district's website.
By taking a few simple action steps now, you can clear away last year's school paper clutter and really enjoy your vacation from school paper!


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The Spindlers
To Patrick, of course—
And to my sister,
who has rescued me many times from the dark,
and for whom I would gladly go Below.
The Changeling, and the Letters Spelled in Cereal
Several Falsehoods and One Broomstick
The Rat
The Troglod Market
The Lumer-Lumpen
The Palace Gate
The Dance of the Nids
The Court of Stones
The Nocturni
The Live Forest
The Seeds of Hope
The Queen's Spies, and the Way Across the Chasm
The Groaning Table
The River of Knowledge
The Reward
The Queen of the Spindlers
The Hall of Mirrors
The Final Test
A Bit of Magic
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One night when Liza went to bed, Patrick was her chubby, stubby, candy-grubbing and pancake-loving younger brother, who irritated and amused her both, and the next morning, when she woke up, he was not.
She could not describe the difference. He looked the same, and was wearing the same pair of ratty space-alien pajamas, with the same fat toe sticking out of the hole in the left foot of his red socks, and he came down the stairs exactly the same way the real Patrick would have done: bump, bump, bump, sliding on his rump.
But he was not the same.
In fact, he was quite, quite different.
It was something in the way he looked at her: It was as though someone had reached behind his eyes and wrung away all the sparkle. He walked quietly—too quietly—to the table, sat nicely in his chair, and placed a napkin on his lap.
The real Patrick never used a napkin.
Nobody else noticed a thing. Mrs. Elston, Liza's mother, continued sorting through the stack of bills on the kitchen table, making occasional noises of unhappiness. Liza's father continued passing in and out of the room, his tie unknotted and wearing only one sock, muttering distractedly to himself.
The fake-Patrick picked up his spoon and gave Liza a look that chilled her to her very center.
Then the fake-Patrick began to eat his cereal, methodically, slowly, fishing all the alphabet letters out of his Alpha-Bits one by one and lining them up along the rim of his bowl.
Liza's heart sank. She knew, at that moment, what had happened, as well as she knew that the sky was up and the ground was down and if you turned around fast enough in a circle and then stood still, the world would keep turning the circle for you.
Patrick's soul had been taken by the spindlers. And they had left this thing, this not-younger-brother, in its place.
"Mom," she said, and then, when her mother did not immediately respond, tried again a little louder. "Mom."
"Mmm?" Mrs. Elston jumped. She squinted at Liza for a moment, the same way she had looked at the instruction sheet that came along with the Easy-Assemble Coffee Table in Mahogany, the one she had had to return to the store after she could not figure out how to screw the legs on.
"Patrick's being weird," Liza said.
Mrs. Elston stared blankly at her daughter. Then she whirled around, suddenly, to her husband. "Did you ever pay the electric bill?"
Mr. Elston didn't seem to hear her. "Have you seen my glasses?" he asked, lifting the fruit bowl and peering underneath it.
"They're on your head."
"Not those glasses. My reading glasses."
Mrs. Elston sighed. "It says this is our final notice. I don't remember a first notice. Didn't we pay the electric bill? I could have sworn …"
"I can't go to work without my glasses!" Mr. Elston opened the refrigerator, stared at its contents, closed the refrigerator, and rushed out of the room.
Across the table, the fake-Patrick began rearranging the cereal letters on the outside of his bowl. He spelled out three words: I H-A-T-E Y-O-U. Then he folded his hands and stared at her with that strangely vacant look, as though the black part of his eyes had eaten up all the color.
Liza's insides shivered again. She slid off her chair and went over to her mother. She tugged at the sleeve of her mother's nightgown, which had a small coffee stain at its elbow. "Mommy."
"Yes, princess?" she asked distractedly.
"Patrick's freaking me out."
"Patrick," Mrs. Elston said, without looking up from her notepad, on which she was now scribbling various figures. "Stop bothering your sister."
Here's what the real Patrick would have done: He would have stuck out his tongue, or thrown his napkin at Liza in retaliation, or he would have said, "It's her face that's the bother."
But this impostor did none of those things. The impostor just stared quietly at Liza and smiled. His teeth looked very white.
"Mom—" Liza insisted, and her mother sighed and threw down her pencil with so much force that it bounced.
"Please, Liza," she said, with barely concealed impatience. "Can't you see that I'm busy? Why don't you go outside and play for a bit?"
Liza knew better than to argue with her mother when she was in a mood. So she went outside. It was a hot and hazy morning—far too hot for late April. She was hoping to see one of the neighbors out doing something—watering a plant, walking a dog—but it was very still. Liza almost never saw the neighbors. It was not that kind of neighborhood. She didn't even know most of their names: only Mrs. Costenblatt, who was so old she looked exactly like a prune.
Today, as on most days, Mrs. Costenblatt was sitting on her porch, rocking, and fanning herself with one of the Chinese delivery menus that were often stuck—mysteriously, invisibly, in the middle of the night—under the front door.
"Hello," she called out to Liza, and waved.
"Hello," Liza called back. She liked Mrs. Costenblatt, even though Mrs. Costenblatt hardly ever moved except to rock in her chair, and could not be counted on to do anything interesting.
"Would you like a glass of lemonade?" Mrs. Costenblatt called out. "Or a cookie?" She offered Liza lemonade and a cookie every time they saw each other, unless it was winter, in which case she offered hot chocolate and a cookie. Mrs. Costenblatt liked to rock even in cold weather, and she would appear on her porch so bundled in blankets and scarves, she looked like an overstuffed coatrack.
"Not today, thank you," Liza said regretfully, as she always did. She was not allowed to accept things to eat or drink from Non-Family Members. Liza often wished the rule applied to Family Members instead. She would much rather have had one of Mrs. Costenblatt's cookies than her au
nt Virginia's tuna casserole.
She wondered whether she should tell Mrs. Costenblatt about Patrick, but decided against it. Two weeks earlier, at recess, when she had tried to tell Christina Millicent and Emma Wong about the spindlers and the constant threat they posed, they had laughed at her and called her a liar. Mrs. Costenblatt was a good listener—partly, Liza thought, because she couldn't hear very well—but Liza didn't want to risk it.
There was only one thing that Liza hated more than liars, and that was being accused of being one.
At one edge of the yard, a pile of pinecones had been neatly stacked. Liza had arranged them this way only yesterday, thinking that she and Patrick might play a round of Pinecone Bowling in the morning. But of course she could not play with the false Patrick; he would no doubt find a way to cheat.
She had a sudden, wrenching, fierce desire for Anna, her old babysitter, to come home. She would have played Pinecone Bowling. In fact, she had invented it.
Last fall Anna had gone away to college, which meant that she had moved and couldn't babysit anymore, and instead Liza and Patrick were left with Mandy, who always chewed her gum too loudly and didn't like to play games—she didn't like anything, really, except talking on the phone. Anna had come over to babysit several times during her Christmas vacation, but on her spring break she had gone away with her friends. Liza and Patrick had gotten a water-warped postcard from her, but most of the writing had been too blurry to read.
In addition to the postcard she had sent from the beach, she had sent two letters from college, and a white sweatshirt with a fierce-looking bear on the front, explaining in the attached note that it was her school's mascot. Patrick had cried like a baby when it turned out the sweatshirt was in Liza's size, and she had finally lent it to him. He had promptly spilled tomato sauce on it, and she'd refused to speak to him for an entire day.
Liza knew it was stupid, but sometimes she fantasized that Anna would turn up again and confess her deepest secret: that Liza and Patrick were, in fact, her siblings, and they had all been torn apart by some horrible event when they were little and forced into different families.
Liza's fantasies were a little hazy after that point, but she thought that somehow she, Anna, and Patrick would end up on a long journey together, hunting down some of the magical creatures Anna had always told them about, like gnomes and nimphids (who were beautiful but bad-tempered).
Liza sighed. Anna would also have known what to do about the spindlers. She was, after all, the person who had first told Liza and Patrick about them. She was the one who had warned them about the strange spider creatures and had told them what they must do to be protected.
Liza scanned the yard for gnomes, but saw nothing. Only last week, Patrick—the real Patrick—had spotted one scampering into the rhododendron.
"Look, Liza!" he had cried out, and she had turned just in time to see a hard, brown hide, which was as cracked and weathered as a leather purse.
It was too hot for the gnomes today, Liza decided. Anna had told Liza they preferred cool climates.
Liza pressed her face up against the small fir tree that stood next to the birdbath, inhaling deeply. It was easier to see the magic through its branches, she found. The scratchy needles poked deeply into her skin, and she stood and squinted through the layers of green. Looking at the world through the fir tree meant seeing only the essential things: the vivid green of the grass, dew glistening on petals, a robin flicking its tail, a squirrel rustling through the rhododendron, a miracle of life and growth that forever pulsed under the ordinariness.
And, of course, it was only when looking through the tree that you could make a wish and have it come true—Anna had also told them that.
Liza spoke a wish quietly into the scratchy branches.
We will not repeat it. Everyone knows that only wishes that are kept secret will ever come true. But know this: The wish was about Patrick.
Liza heard a step behind her. She turned and saw the Patrick-who-was-not-Patrick standing on the front porch, watching her.
Liza sucked in a deep breath, gathered her courage, and said, "You are not my brother."
Not-Patrick stared at her with flat blue eyes. "Yes, I am," he said calmly.
"You aren't."
"Am too."
"Prove it," Liza said, crossing her arms, and she tried to think of a question whose answer only the real Patrick would know. She was quiet for a bit. At last she asked, "When you are playing hide-and-seek on a rainy day, what is the best hiding space?"
"Behind the bookcase in the basement," not-Patrick answered automatically. "In the crawl space that smells like mold."
Liza was disappointed. He had gotten it right; this fake-Patrick was obviously smarter than she gave him credit for—smarter, she wouldn't wonder, than the real Patrick. (Though that wasn't saying much. Only a week ago the real Patrick had tried to turn the basement into a swimming pool by flooding the sink! Absurd.) Maybe she needed to ask a harder question.
"What must you do every night before you go to sleep?" Liza said, eyeing the not-Patrick narrowly to see whether there was any hesitation or shiftiness in his answer.
But he responded promptly, drawing a big X across his chest, "You must cross yourself once from shoulder to hip and say out loud, 'Sweep, sweep, bring me sleep. Clear the webs from my room with the bristliest broom.'"
Liza was stunned. She had been sure—positive!—that the question would baffle not-Patrick, but his answer was correct, and he stood looking at her with an expression of triumph. When Anna had first discovered the spindlers, she had invented this rhyme as a way of keeping the spindlers at bay while they slept. Everyone knows there is nothing a spider fears more than a broom, and someone sweeping with it, and the broom charm had, in fact, protected them for years.
Patrick—the real Patrick—must have forgotten to say the broom charm last night before he went to sleep. He and Liza had been fighting—Patrick had accused her of stealing his favorite socks, which were blue and embroidered with turtles, as though she would ever have worn anything so ridiculous—and Liza called him paranoid, and when he did not know what that meant, he stormed into his room and slammed the door.
He was distracted; that must be why he had not said the broom charm. Liza felt a heavy rush of guilt. It was her fault, at least partially.
And so the spindlers had gotten him: They had dropped down from the ceiling on their glistening webs of shadowed darkness and dropped their silken threads in his ear, and extracted his soul slowly, like a fisherman coaxing a trout from the water on a taut nylon fishing line. In its place they deposited their eggs; then they withdrew to their shadowed, dark corners and their underground lairs with his soul bound closely in silver thread.
And the soulless shell would wake the next morning, and walk, and talk, as not-Patrick was walking and talking.
But eventually, the soulless shell would crumble to dust, and a thousand spindlers—nested and grown—would burst forth, like a lizard hatching from an egg. And distraught parents would wake up, believing their children to have been kidnapped while they slept, and they would appear tearfully on television, begging for their children's safe return, when really the spindlers were to blame.
Liza felt a sudden tightness in her throat.
"You see!" not-Patrick crowed. "I told you. I am your brother."
Then Liza was struck by an idea.
"Come here," she said to not-Patrick, and even though she was filled with revulsion by the closeness of this imitation, this cold and cardboard thing, she forced herself to stand still as he approached.
Suddenly she lunged for him and began tickling his stomach.
The real Patrick was extraordinarily ticklish and would have screamed with laughter and tried to shove Liza off and begged for mercy. Liza loved the sound of Patrick's laugh. It came in short, explosive bursts, as though each time he was relearning how to do it.
r /> This Patrick stood still, watching her dully. "What are you doing?" he asked.
Liza pulled away. She then had the same feeling she'd had several years ago, when she had swung too high and too fast on the swings at the playground, and the world teetered underneath her: a feeling of triumph but also of terror. She knew it. This Patrick was not the real Patrick. And that meant that the soul of the real Patrick had been bound up in silver thread and carried deep underground, and that inside the body of not-Patrick, insects were nesting.
Liza drew herself up to her full four feet four inches. "I am not afraid of you," she said to not-Patrick, but she was of course speaking to all those infant spindlers sleeping soundly in their thousands of soft eggs, somewhere deep inside his chest. And of course she was afraid. She was more afraid than she had ever been in her life. "I will find my real brother, and I will bring him back."
And then she spun quickly on her heel and stalked off toward the house, so not-Patrick and the tiny monsters he carried inside him would not see that she was shaking.
All afternoon Liza tried to remember what Anna had told her about spindlers. She thought about asking her mother whether she still had Anna's cell phone number, but at the last minute decided against it. What if Anna was busy doing something Important and got angry when Liza called? Worse, what if she didn't remember Liza at all?
Instead she got out a notebook and made a little list for herself: "Everything I Know About Spindlers and Their Habits."
Spindlers were not like regular spiders. They had eight legs, of course, but at the end of their legs they had human hands; and they had only two eyes, like a person's, although their eyes were enormous and crescent-shaped, and they could see perfectly well in even the darkest night. Furthermore, though they were often as small as a pinhead, they could quite easily swell to the size of a house cat or larger. Some of the largest spindlers could grow to the size of a car, and in their large-jawed mouths they had one hundred teeth, each as sharp as a fang.

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A: Given this directory structure:
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├── dirtest
│   ├── bar.txt
│   └── foo
│       └── foo.txt
└── index.js

You have several ways to do this.  Let's consider the most easy to layout using async/await, comments are in the code:
const fs = require("fs");
const path = require("path");
const util = require("util");

// Promisify the fs functions we will use (or use require("fs").promises)
const astat = util.promisify(fs.stat);
const areaddir = util.promisify(fs.readdir);

/**
 * Get a list of all files in a directory
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 */
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      // Recurse if it is a directory, otherwise return the filepath
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    }));
}

getFiles(".")
  .then(files => JSON.stringify(files, null, 4))
  .then(console.log)
  .catch(console.error);

This will produce a nested array of files with paths prepended:
[
    [
        "dirtest/bar.txt",
        [
            "dirtest/foo/foo.txt"
        ]
    ],
    "index.js"
]

You could then augment this to get a flattened list of files by drawing from this question: Merge/flatten an array of arrays in JavaScript?:
/**
 * Flatten an arbitrarrily deep Array of Arrays to a single Array
 * @param {Array} arr Array of Arrays to flatten
 * @returns {Array} The flattened Array
 */
function flatten(arr) {
  return arr.reduce((flat, toFlatten) => flat.concat(Array.isArray(toFlatten) ? flatten(toFlatten) : toFlatten), []);
}

/*
 * Same code from above snippet
 */

getFiles(".")
  .then(flatten)
  .then(files => JSON.stringify(files, null, 4))
  .then(console.log)
  .catch(console.error);

Which produces:
[
    "dirtest/bar.txt",
    "dirtest/foo/foo.txt",
    "index.js"
]

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Wins by the Sri Lanka cricket team in the one-day format have today become so few and far between that any win is looked forward to with eager and anticipation that with it the side would come out of the rut it has fallen into. Two back to back defeats in the ongoing Bangladesh one-day Tri-series was not the ideal start for the New Year for Sri Lanka who had gone through a rather lean period in 2017 losing 23 of the 29 ODIs played. However with their backs against the wall and facing an early exit after the two defeats, Sri Lanka had a must win game against Zimbabwe on Sunday to stay in the tournament.
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Read the company history on their web site. Link in the OP's post.
https://www.horten-aircraft.com/en/the-history/
-yes,effective and interesting...
iff compare with Kaspers BKB1-A ?
henryk, Dec 15, 2019
Personal experience - I've used them a couple times as temporary installations. Last time johnson bar felt "off" and was waiting 4 months for parts... Used it for piece of mind mostly.
So i could see where it would be handy if you had a ridiculously lowvis design. I don't think you'd need anything like that in the horten though - unless it has a delta style approach angle.
You used a back-up camera installed in an airplane for visual reference on approach and landing?
Th back-up cameras on the vehicles that I drive lack depth of field, and are relatively low resolution at any distance.
I've never owned an aircraft with attrocious visibility issues.
What i do know is when it was installed - it was occasionally handy to get a quick height verification.
Id submit you don't need a 4k HD spot a gnat at 50' resolution to get an general view of attitude, altitude and alignment. Quick glimpse is really all you need - not something you'd ever look at for more than a split second
I've long dreamed of a "structural analysis for real people" book, written in plain English, with real-world examples you can replicate.
A book like that would make you legendary.
Hot Wings said: ↑
Yep. One of the better analogies I've heard compares it to a bike chain to illustrate how the electrical flow needs to make a complete circle.
Anyhow, a belly window on that Horten would certainly help. Cameras are nice, but you can't eyeball distance with them.
"a delta style approach angle."
=compare AoA with LE Vortex generator
and "normal" DELTA =
henryk said: ↑
Sure find a modern exception
I was thinking more in the terms of homebuilts like the verhees deltas where vision is really compromised.
Very interesting the cutting leading edge at the wing root. Any opinions on that feature? It seems like they intend to get turbulent airflow (swirl) as close to the center section as possible in order to land in a controlable attitude in slow flight and high angle of attack.
A gopro 4k at the belly should permit enough vision for landing.
A camera is a very good idea, but go for high resolution and a quality screen.
What about adding a LIDAR sensor, they are getting very cheap now and only will get better and cheaper.
You could have a big counter telling you how close to the ground.
-LE Vortex Generator is simple construction...
cluttonfred
If only for use in the landing phase, an ultrasonic range sensor, Arduino controller and a 7 segment LED display (say, flashing below a certain critical distance) would be all you'd need for a "ground detector." There are readily available sensors that are set up for a maximum range of 5 or 6.5 m out of the box from places like Adafruit or Sparkfun.
cluttonfred, Dec 16, 2019
It would need to be mounted on a giroscope to always focus vertically if we consider they high angle of attack at landing
From what i have grasped traditional le vortex generators dont work on deltas as they are placed after the le. The swirl is very dependant on the bluntness of the leading edge close to the root.
I was taught to land by watching the far end of the runway, not looking straight down.
Also your vision out the side will give you clues as to your altitude and attitude. In a c172, keeping the nose on the far end of the runway is about the right attitude.
Just guessing, but it looks like, in that new Horten plane, looking through that wind screen over the nose at the far end of the runway would also be about right.
Ever read "Stick and Rudder" by Wolfgang Langewiesche?
Aerowerx said: ↑
I don't think it applies to the horten design... but then look at a verhees d1 (there's a couple videos on youtube) and you'll see where the limits are - seriously doubt you'd have any visibility on final and these days that's something we can address. What was that incident a while back A TBM running over a vans at oshkosh - there's something to be said for reducing the risks.
an ultrasonic range sensor is to monitor height over runway when you are over 30 degrees angle of attack to pullback the stick at the right moment to stall the plane.
"Best Practice" that I have read about says to have the visibility over the nose at about 20-30 degrees. There may even be a mil spec on it.
From just looking at the pictures it appears to me that the Horten design meets that.
Even in a c172, which I have most of my hours in (what little there is ) you can't see under the nose. I have made some pretty darn good landings by watching the end of the runway, not the ground under me. Everyone should read "Stick and Rudder" and learn to fly that way. Buildings get bigger. Grass gets bigger. Runway gets bigger. And then...bump, screech. You're down. Without ever seeing under you!
Yeah I think the horten is probably a non issue in the visibility department - but we don't have any real idea of its landing attitude... It's more an issue for taildraggers and designs like the verhees where you're approach requires a high AOA.
The horten looks better than a few gliders I can think of - so I seriously doubt there's going to be issues.
Riggerrob
berridos said: ↑
https://www.horten-aircraft.com/en/
Wondering the effects of those fences on a flying wing. I expect the swirl to be closer to the fuse, but maybe this plane isnt really flying like a delta.
Those (mid-span) fences reduce span-wise air flow along the leading edge. Their primary function is to prevent the sort of "deep stall" suffered by Velocity canards. Sometimes Velocity wing tips would stall before the centre section and canard. This moved the centre of lift so far forward that the airplane pitched nose-high permanently. The only saving grace was its slow rate of descent when it landed in water. Velocity and Rutan solved the problem by adding wing fences. Rutan's wing fences are only on the underside and look like engine pylons on jet airliners: small, but enough to trip span-wise flow.
Supersonic jet fighters now use dogs' teeth to serve the same aerodynamic function as fences.
Riggerrob, Dec 16, 2019
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Keep in mind that this Horten com is not that Horten company from 80 years ago.
The original Horten company died out as a result of WW2. One of the brothers did move to Brazil and continued research. .
After WW2, Reimar Horten moved to Argentina where he developed several more flying wings, including the 4-engined Naranjero for transporting fruit. None of his post-war designs were manufactured in significant numbers. Reimar died in 1994, still in Argentina.
Riggerrob said: ↑
My comment was to the effect that the existing company is not the same one that was in WW2.
If you look at the existing company website you will see that they cooperated with Reimar Horten as their designer. He was not a "principal" in the new company, even though they used his name.


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This article contains A-Z tables of the incidence of intentional homicide in multi-municipal metropolitan areas and standalone municipalities with a predominantly urbanized population. It does not take into consideration capricious political divisions widely used in the media to represent a city, such as city proper or suburban municipalities. The urban population for each entry is required to be at least 100,000.

Some cities are considered to be larger than the official metropolitan area or municipality determined by a country's respective government. Conversely, some cities are also considered to be significantly smaller than their official metro area(s) designations. Because of this and the continual growth of most cities that might not immediately be captured, the widest neutrally-sourced boundaries for each city are used. This includes the crossing of international borders.

1980s by count

1980s by rate per 100,000

1990s by count

1990s by rate per 100,000

2000s by count

2000s by rate per 100,000

2010s by rate

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See also
 List of countries by intentional homicide rate
 List of cities by murder rate
 List of United States cities by crime rate (2012). 250,000+
 United States cities by crime rate (100,000–250,000)
 United States cities by crime rate (60,000-100,000)
 List of federal subjects of Russia by murder rate
 List of Brazilian states by murder rate
 List of Mexican states by homicides

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Ancient Underground City Found Hidden in Turkey's Trabzon Province
Archaeologists from Turkey have announced the discovery of an underground city dating back 4,000 years and ostensibly belonging to a Byzantine dynasty. The lost city was unearthed during urban transformation works in Turkey's northern Trabzon province.
Discovery of Underground Byzantine City Suspends Project in Turkey
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Emperor John II Komnenos , the most successful commander of the Komnenian army. ( Public Domain )
Byzantion, under the Komnenoi played a key role in the history of the Crusades in the Holy Land, while also "exporting" immense cultural and political influence in Europe, the Near East, and the lands around the Mediterranean Sea. The Komnenian emperors, particularly John and Manuel, exerted great influence over the Crusader states of Outremer, whilst Alexios I played a key role in the course of the First Crusade, which he helped bring about.
Moreover, it was during the Komnenian period that contact between Byzantium and the "Latin" Christian West, including the Crusader states, was at its most crucial stage. Venetian and other Italian traders became resident in Constantinople and the empire in large numbers (60–80,000 "Latins" in Constantinople alone), and their presence together with the numerous Latin mercenaries who were employed by Manuel in particular helped to spread Byzantine technology, art, literature and culture throughout the Roman Catholic west. Above all, the cultural impact of Byzantine art on the west in this period was enormous and of long lasting significance.
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Byzantine art - Mosaic of Daphni Monastery (ca. 1100). ( Public Domain )
The Komnenoi also made a significant contribution to the history of Asia Minor. By reconquering much of the region, the Komnenoi set back the advance of the Turks in Anatolia by more than two centuries. In the process, they planted the foundations of the Byzantine successor states of Nicaea, Epirus and Trebizond. Meanwhile, their extensive project of fortifications has left an enduring mark upon the Anatolian landscape, which can still be appreciated today.
Underground City Will Become a Tourist Attraction
Back to 2018, Ali Ayvazoğlu, Provincial Culture and Tourism Director, pointed out that Trabzon is historically known as the "city of tunnels," while he also added that the underground city is expected to be unearthed and become a tourist attraction in the following years.
Furthermore, Mr. Ayvazoğlu was happy to announce another discovery in the region that demonstrates the glorious Greek past and presence in modern-day Turkey. A Greek Orthodox chapel only accessible through a hidden passage was found during the restoration of historic Sümela Monastery in Trabzon province. Work has immediately been launched to reveal the chapel and open it for visitors, as Daily Sabah reports .
The Sümela Monastery as seen from across the narrow Altındere valley that it is located in, south of Trabzon in Eastern Turkey. ( CC BY-SA 3.0 )
According to Mr. Ayvazoğlu the newly discovered chapel reportedly has different murals depicting the "heaven and hell, and death and life." An excited Mr. Ayvazoğlu said that some very nice surprises are awaiting for the visitors and tourists after all renovation work is complete, "Visitors will have the opportunity to see places they were previously unable to visit," Ayvazoğlu stated via Daily Sabah , adding that with the use of modern technology local authorities will do their best during restoration in order to avoid mistakes of the past when archaeological jewels of Greek and Christian origin were severely damaged.
Top image: The area where the ancient underground city was discovered in Turkey's Trabzon province represented here. (Image credit: Sabah)
By Theodoros Karasavvas
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Theodoros
Theodoros Karasavvas, J.D.-M.A. has a cum laude degree in Law from the University of Athens, a Masters Degree in Legal History from the University of Pisa, and a First Certificate in English from Cambridge University. When called upon to do... Read More
Laurent MARTIN-COEUR wrote on 4 January, 2018 - 13:57 Permalink
Trabzon, historically known as Trebizond, is known to have been founded by milesian traders (from the greek city of Millet) in 756 BC.
If that underground city found near it is really 4000 years old, then it predates the city of Trebizond and must date back from the era of Hittite Empire that covered most of Anatolia in that time.
Maybe the article is talking of Byzantines because at their time that underground city got in use again which could explain the confusion, but if it's 4000 years old it just cannot be of Byzantine origin for timeline reasons.
Aymeric wrote on 4 January, 2018 - 10:00 Permalink
Do you even pay attention to what you write Mr Theodoros? I mean, Byzantine Empire started in 330 after JC, so there is not the slightest chance ever that it goes back 4000 years. Obviously "fake news" are not just about the present time...
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Thank you for all your support at cherry drop princesss over the last two years!
I have decided to start a new blog Me Set Free, I would love it if you continued to follow me there as well.
I'm so excited to be participating in my first ever blog tour! When I saw this advertised I just knew I had to participate, having loved the previous two books in this series.
Pepper Basham is an awsome author, and I'm pleased to share an interview with her as well as a review of her latest book.
Jessica Ross' scars run much deeper than the wounds of war. Determined to escape the ghosts of her past and the German influence on her nightmares, she returns home to the sleepy Appalachian town of Hot Springs, NC, only to find the renowned Mountain Park Hotel has been converted into a 'prison' for displaced Germans. To Jessica's dismay, her grandparents have befriended one of the treacherous internees.
August Reinhold has not only found kinship with Jessica's grandparents, but as they share their granddaughter's letters from the Front, he discovers a surprising bond drawing him toward the independent and beautiful woman. Displaced by a war and a painful history, he finds Hot Springs and the intriguing Jessica Ross a tempting place to start over. Determined to scale the heights of her bitterness and show her the power of love, August faces more than just Jessica's resistance but a more devious design to harm the civilian sailors housed in Hot Springs.
Will August's tender pursuit bring Jessica the healing and hope she needs, or will bitterness force her into the hands of a "true" enemy waiting to destroy much more than her heart?
Pepper Basham is an award-winning author who writes romance peppered with grace and humor. She currently resides in the lovely mountains of Asheville, NC where she is the mom of 5 great kids, speech-pathologist to about fifty more, lover of chocolate, jazz, and Jesus. Her debut historical novel, The Thorn Bearer, released in May 2015 and has garnered awards such as Reader's Favorites Award, finalist in the Grace Awards, shortlisted for the Inspy Awards, and a finalist in ACFW's Carol Awards. Her second historical novel, The Thorn Keeper, released in Feb 2016 and her first contemporary romance, A Twist of Faith, released in April 2016 with a 4 star review from Romantic Times. You can get to know Pepper on her website, Facebook, Instagram, or over at her group blog, The Writer's Alley.
1-I really love the faith journeys in your books, can you tell me something about your own faith journey? Thank you for saying that, by the way. I was blessed to be raised in a Christian home in a rural community where my family all lived within a few miles of each other. It was an amazing experience of closeness and love, but as many times happens, circumstances happened as I grew older that sent me into a storm of questioning my faith. Through that heart-searching, Word-seeking, journey, I discovered a deeper understanding of God's love for me in Christ that really became a stronger foundation. I've also had the beautiful experience of having a heritage of strong Christian women in my life who have been examples of God's strength in the storms of life – I think those examples paired with the beauty of God's grace, are at the heart of the spiritual elements of my novels.
2-What would you say to someone who is skeptical of reading Christian books?
I would say, "I understand. I can be skeptical of reading them too sometimes. But a good story is usually worth your time." IMO, a good story is ALWAYS worth the read.
3-What made you want to write Christian fiction? Has doing this impacted your faith?
I've always loved writing – ever since I was a little girl. I still have one of my first 'long' stories I wrote (and poorly illustrated) from when I was 10 years old. As I grew up, my faith impacted every part of my life (as it should) and naturally came out in my stories. It wasn't until I read Siri Mitchell and Mary Connealy that I realized I was actually writing in a market called CBA, but my hope and prayer is that I can write beyond one market and reach lots of readers – just by writing good stories.
4-I love historical fiction, particularly the world wars, what made you choose this era?
Hmm….I think they kind of chose me I'd never known much about them until I stumbled upon a book about the Lusitania at a yard sale and once I began researching the time period I was a lost cause. It hit me in the heart and I've been in love with it ever since. The clothing, the era, the British/American culture shifts. Absolutely love it!
5-What's the best book you have ever read? Wow, super tough question. I suppose you mean besides the Bible J And in fiction? I'm not sure I have a 'best book'. I love many for different reasons. Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Little Women, and Emma are some of my top favorite classics.
In more modern fiction I adore Redeeming Love, Courting Morrow Little, She Walks in Beauty, The Cautious Maiden, The Convenient Groom, and A Noble Groom, to name a few.
As I previously mentioned I loved the first two books in this series. They are Christian fiction books that aren't afraid to tackle hard topics, real emotions, and the complications they can create.
This book was no different. Jessica has spent the previous years serving as a nurse in the war, and has seen more pain and suffering than anyone woman should ever endure. This has, understandably, left her feeling bitter, and enormous resentment towards the Germans she encounters upon returning home. Especially one in particular.
Although I know most of us will never have to face such an extreme situation, I'm sure we can relate to these emotions, whether in our own personal lives, or in relation to the current political climate of distrust of foriegners.
I know fans of historical romance will love this book, but as it deals with such timeless issues as love and jealousy, I'm sure that other readers will enjoy it too. Just make sure to read the previous two books in the series first! Although this book does stand alone, you would be missing out on a huge treat in avoiding the first and second instalments!
Just dropping some reviews of awesome Christian fiction, that has been released in the last couple of months.
Avid reader of Cherry Drop Princess will know that I was initially quite sceptical of Christian fiction, until I read some that is! Yes, sure, some of them are cheesey, and badly written, but plenty aren't. And they're not all romance either. It's also refreshing to read something that's not going to be too icky, in either a gruesome or sexual way.
All these books are highly reccomended, but if I was forced to choose one favourite it would have to be Child of the River by Irma Joubert.
A lovely love story, Italy, art true love and redemption.
A portrait of Emily price tells the story of Emily, fixer extraordinaire! She can fix anything, from art to children's toys to coffee machines, but can she fix her own relationships.
Anyway, I highly reccomend thus book, a great one to sit back relax and read, preferably with a bit of chocolate close to hand!
A moving and emotional tale, based loosely on the parable of the prodigal son.
You know there's good storie and then there's great stories. This is a great story and one that I know will stay with me for a very long time to come.
I highly reccomend this story, especially to anyone who is atall musical, as there are many many musical references in this book, a lot of which went right over my head. At times I found these a little distracting, but not enough to ruin a beautiful tale, and I'm sure someone more musically inclined would love them!
The characters were great, especially strong willed Persomi, who took her life into her hands and overcame the hardships facing her, but my favourite thing about this book was the setting. The on,y other book I have read set in South Africa is the girl from the train, by the same author, so it was unique and interesting to me. It was a great reminder of how global the Second World War was, I normally tend to think of Europe, and forget that people all over the globe joined the fight, it was also interesting to read about how the apartheid affected Asians.
I highly recommend this book, not only for the unforgettable story, but for the interesting setting as well.
I am so conflicted about how to rate this book; parts were really good, but then some of it was just plain confusing.
I thought the characters were well don, I liked Eliyana, but she wasn't too perfect, got annoyed at times, and had some irritating habbits herself.
There were also a lot of plot twists, many of which I did see coming. This leads me into what I didn't like.
The book was just plain confusing, at times I was completely lost. There were so so many characters, I don't think that it helped that some of them had similar names.
I also found the writers style quite hard at times. She seemed to have a thing for One. Word. Sentences. At times there could be several on one page. she also loved sound effects (crunch, slam, sigh, etc etc) long words, and italics. While all these things can be good, they were over used, to the point of distracting the reader from the plot.
All in all it was a decent enough.book, I would be interested in reading more by the author.
Many thanks to net galley and the publisher for a review copy of this book.
One of those stories which is like a warm mug of hot chocolate-sweet and satisfying.
It's a fairly slow paced read, but interesting enough to keep you turning the pages.
Ella, an artist, has returned to her home town to look after her nan, who is recovering from a stroke. Perla, her nan is desperate to share a secret that has plagued her for years, but now finds herself unable to do so.
This book is worth the read, although not as enjoyable as earlier books in the series, it good conclusion to the saga.
I recommend this book to people who don't mind their stories set at a slower pace, or a love triangle/square.
Okay enough with the preamble, this story was an exciting page turner. Nancy is police officer who's had to go into hiding from a massive gang who is after her. As more secrets become revealed the plot gets thicker until you know your not going to bed until you've finished. Highly reccomended for fans of an exciting yet safe read.
Thanks for reading to the end. I'll be back next week, talking about how following is more important than leading, a devotional based around a child hood favourite, The Secret Garden, and starting a new series on spending ethically this Christmas.
After I heard that, I spent ages trying to work out if the desire for a husband was one that was from God, or not. After all, if it was actually from God then I would get it. Wouldn't I? I guess in my mind it was almost like having a crystal ball, work out if the desire is from God or not, and you have figured out your future.
I guess the people who were saying these things were trying to be helpful. But they really weren't that helpful to me.
Now I know that God can and will fulfil our deepest desires, (it says so in the bible, after all) but was the desire for a husband really my deepest desire, or the desire or was it the desire to be loved?
Many Christian counsellors agree that God does put in our hearts the desire to be loved, and the desire to be significant. The thing is, ultimately the only one who can fulfil those desires is him. He does give us thiste desires of our hearts, but just not always in the way we want him to.
Another well intentioned thing I was told, whilst I was single, was to seek God and then a husband would come along. What a load of poo! If this was true then how come there are holy people who never get married and awful people who manage to find a husband.
I don't think the people who say these things realise the damage they are doing with these words. It made me question my own spirituality, as if the reason I hadn't met someone yet was because I wasn't holy enough yet, making me doubly insecure. I don't think the popular quote "a woman's heart should be so lost in God that a man has to seek God to find her." Please be really careful about saying this one, because I know it's one of those things that sounds really spiritual, after all, we all need to get closer to God. But please never make anyone feel like the reason they are single is because they aren't holy enough.
Finally, this is one I had never personally heard (thankfully) but that seems to have become popular recently, I have seen it floating around the internet. And that is……….. Just Wait For Your Boaz. This is eisegesis (reading into the text something that was never there, (yes, I went to bible college and know long words!)) in the worst possible form! It makes absolutely no sense in the context of the story, to the point where I pull out my hair just wondering where this phrase could have possibly come from!
It's taken from the book of Ruth. She is a widow, who moves with her mother in law, Naomi (also widowed) to her home country, a land Ruth has never been to before. These two women are destitute to the point where the only way they can feed themselves is by picking up grains that have been dropped by the farm workers. (Something which is outlined in books of the law.) Fortunately Naomi has a single, rich, relative named Boaz.
Now, after hearing that you might think that Boaz swept in and swept Ruth of her feet.
He didn't. He was kind to her, but in no way did he sweep her off her feet.
Naomi had to tell her to get tarted up, put on some perfume, and then literally climb into his bed and lay at his feet, before he made the offer of marriage.
I can't see how climbing into someones bed to seduce them could ever be described as waiting for them! How can anyone claim the phrase wait for your Boaz, like it's a beautiful thing, when Ruth never waited for her Boaz!
She was married previous, to man we've no reason to believe she didn't love, and then lived in tough conditions with her mother in law and then finally had to climb into bed with a man in order to seduce him!
The truth of the matter is that not every will get married. I know that's a really sad thing to say and hear, and one that I had to wrestle with when I was single. But unfortunately, it's the truth.
God never promised us a spouse. But he did demonstrate his love for us in dying for us. And that is the greatest love you can ever know.
I know when everyone around you is getting married, it can seem so like a lame consolation prize. But it's not, its the best love you can ever experience, its a love that will never let you down and a love that will last forever. Please, try and grasp hold of this whether you are single or not, and please never make someone who is single feel as if they are somehow worth less, whether intentionally or not. That just is not true.
Feel free to share your thoughts on this, or any weird things you have been told.
*Please don't think I'm telling you to do what Ruth did, it prabably wont end well!
Whenever I move house I'm amazed by all the stuff that I have collected, rubbish, that I never even needed in the first place. Bin-bags and bin-bags full of the stuff.
But I get the impression that this isn't though only rubbish we carry through life. We carry unseen baggage as well. The secrets sins we have burred and hidden, the unkind words we have believed, the fears and worries and doubts. Without ever realising it we are dragging our own bin-bags full of baggage through life.
Maybe you are reading this, carrying unnecessary burdens. Burdens that you were never meant to carry.
Maybe you have been carrying them for so long it doesn't even feel like they are there any more. It feels like they have become part of you.
Maybe it has become so familiar that it is like a strange kind of security blanked. You don't know how to live without it.
Maybe you believed the lie that because Christian life is hard, it should be miserable, you don't realise that you can let these things go. That it's okay to let them go.
You do not need to carry the burden of unforgiveness or guilt.
You do not need to carry the burden of other people's expectations.
You can let these things go. You do not need to hold onto them. They are not part of you, even if it feels like they are.
Like an infection, polluting the body, when you get rid of these things, you can be whole a healthy and complete.
Like a heavy weight pressing on you, making you bend over, these burdens can shape and damage you. When you let go of them, you can stand up straight and walk tall again.
You do not need them. You can be free. You are allowed to be free. You are allowed to be happy. You are allowed to be complete. You can let go.
I love hearing testimonies in church. Stories of how God has completely changed a person's life around.
These stories are such an encouragement, and they really do strengthen my faith. But sometimes it seems churches only want to share the most dramatic stories.Stories of the people who once were drug dealers or suicidal criminals who God dragged from the pits of hell, and wrapped into his arms.From darkness to light; from broken to complete.
While these stories are great sometimes it can make people like me, and I imagine many people reading this, feel as though our stories are not worth sharing.
This is not truth, it's a lie many have come to believe, and even an excuse many have used.
But we do not need to believe this lie, our stories are worth sharing for so many reasons.
What do you find it easier to do: Count your blessings; or count your failures? Count the things that you have done, or count the things you haven't?
I know which one is easier for me.
I guess I'm good at complaining. My husband tells me, in his American accent, that it's a British thing.
Maybe it is, I'm not sure though.
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