5/28/2023 0 Comments Fog City Temptation by Nathan Bay![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their feelings quickly flourish into an obsessive and all-consuming mutual yearning. On a muggy August evening, the actor has a fling with a man named Rex. Los Angeles - A brooding closeted movie star is swept away in a tense love affair at the bathhouse. Is there a way for Charles to find happiness with his military man or is their secret relationship doomed? After their first steamy encounter, Charles finds himself feeling more than just physical attraction to the handsome Army hunk.īut in the conservative post-World War II era of the 1950s, the world outside the bathhouse would never accept the love between two gay men, much less an interracial romance. It starts with a fist full of rope and a pulse-pounding game of role play, as the alpha male soldier Ricky demands complete and total submission from Charles. San Francisco - A sexy and mysterious soldier explores forbidden fantasies with an adventurous young man at the bathhouse. This sizzling boxed set includes three delicious tales set in California during the summer of 1955: Leave your hang-ups and inhibitions at the door because this is a place where anything goes. Welcome back to the bathhouse, a place where your wildest fantasies can come true. ![]()
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![]() ![]() he continued to work into his eighties, and his work never ceased to amaze, to entertain, and to generate controversy. Heinlein’s books were among the first works of science fiction to reach bestseller status in both hardcover and paperback. The series charts the social, political, and technological changes shaping human society from the present through several centuries into the future. His Future History series, incorporating both short stories and novels, was first mapped out in 1941. He was a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for his novels Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Starship Troopers (1959), Double Star (1956), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966). In 1939 he sold his first science fiction story to Astounding magazine and soon devoted himself to the genre. He settled in California and over the next five years held a variety of jobs while doing post-graduate work in mathematics and physics at the University of California. Naval Academy in 1929, but was forced by illness to retire from the Navy in 1934. Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907, and was raised there. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also reprised her role alongside fellow original series cast-member George Takei for the franchise’s 30th anniversary on an episode of spinoff series “Star Trek: Voyager” in 1996. She would not return to “Trek” until the franchise took the leap to the big screen with the 1979 release of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” Whitney subsequently appeared in a cameo role in “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock,” and then again as Rand in “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” and “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.”Īlso Read: Leonard Nimoy's Funeral: Read Touching Eulogy for the Beloved Actor After appearing in the first eight episodes, Rand was released from her contract as part of a creative retooling of the show. Rand’s death comes just a few months after Leonard Nimoy, who portrayed Mr. Kirk’s ( William Shatner) personal assistant in the original “Star Trek” series, and several of its subsequent films, died Friday in her California home, The Fresno Bee reports. Grace Lee Whitney, best known for portraying Captain James T. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Rice waubgeshig![]() His final role with CBC was host of Up North, the afternoon radio program for northern Ontario. In 2014, he received the Anishinabek Nation’s Debwewin Citation for excellence in First Nation Storytelling. He spent most of his journalism career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a video journalist, web writer, producer and radio host. He graduated from Ryerson University’s journalism program in 2002. His journalism experience began in 1996 as an exchange student in northern Germany, writing articles about being an Indigenous teen in a foreign country for newspapers back in Canada. His short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies. His latest novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, became a national bestseller and received widespread critical acclaim, including the Evergreen Award in 2019. A French translation was published in 2017. His debut novel, Legacy, followed in 2014. ![]() His first short story collection, Midnight Sweatlodge, was inspired by his experiences growing up in an Anishinaabe community, and won an Independent Publishers Book Award in 2012. ![]() Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation on Georgian Bay. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments English inn signs by Jacob Larwood![]() ![]() Yes, ‘ The Goat’ has but not the ‘Goat and Compasses’. There are two theories within, the ‘mason’ theory and the ‘religious’ theory plus a fascinating statement that ‘The Goat’ has become ‘a favourite sign outside our English inns’. But let’s examine that cutting a little closer. ![]() Long may it continue to be, in the new communities now being planned.īy ‘new communities’ they were probably talking about ‘new towns’ so perhaps the cuttings is late 1940s/early 1950s. What we see for certain, from such signs and names, is how deeply the inn is woven into the pattern of our country’s story. The compasses may have indicated that mine host was a mason.Ī more loveable legend from the 17th century has it that the name was originally “God encompass us”, reminding us that the inn inherited the ancient hospitality of the monasteries. THE GOAT as a symbol sprang from a long-past mythology to become a favourite sign outside our English inns. My starting point was the cutting itself which reads: ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments I want my hat back review![]() ![]() The patterning of the book is established early on. Our main speaker, the bear, speaks in black, and the rest of the characters he interrogates speak in red. Bonus points for reading it aloud to kids too, as their reactions will make this book even more memorable.Īnalysis: Dialogue I Want My Hat Back is told entirely in dialogue, and author/illustrator Jon Klassen uses color rather than quotation marks and dialogue tags to differentiate the speakers. ![]() If you have not yet read I Want My Hat Back (or, its incredible follow-up, the Caldecott Award-Winning This is Not My Hat), then you are in for a treat. I am participating in Picture Books 14:14, a challenge created by Christie of Write Wild that encourages bloggers to review 14 picture books in 14 days, starting on Feb. Awards: A Geisel Honor Book and a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm extremely excited for the rest of the series to evolve and use the previous Cosmos series formula as a sort of foundation to continue captivating and inspiring the audience. ![]() Neil's tribute to Carl was touching in explaining how Carl inspired 'just a 17 year old kid from the Bronx' to become one of the most influential scientists of our modern generation. It's obvious he's passionate about this show. I can't think of anyone better to narrate this story other than Neil. Also, now that graphics technology is more advanced than it was years ago during the first Cosmos series, the illustrations are much more telling and mesmerizing this helps the viewer to visually break down some complexities that Neil alludes to in some of his narrative discussion. What makes the Cosmos remake most exciting to me is that new theories such as the 'Multiverse' theory and new findings are inevitably making its way to the front-line of grand-audience explanations of the universe. You can tell he enjoys telling the story of the Cosmos. Absolutely blown away by Neil deGrasse Tyson's hosting of Cosmos. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Where dreams descend![]() ![]() Throughout the book, magicians mysteriously disappear, fall ill, and, in one instance, have their eyes removed. ![]() One of the magical acts goes awry, and Kallia is cut by the shards when the mirror shatters. Several male magicians make comments about how there's no place for a female magician in the competition. Kallia often has recurring nightmares of someone trying to capture her and often feels like she's being watched or haunted by Jack, her former teacher. ![]() Parents need to know that Where Dreams Descend is the first book in Janella Angeles' dramatic Kingdom of Cards fantasy duology about Kallia, a powerful magician who happens to be the only female participating in a dangerous competition. Mentions of whiskey, champagne, gin, and wine.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Think grow![]() No! They regret the things that they never did, even though they knew they wanted to. ![]() When people look back on their lives, they don’t regret the things they have tried. Here’s a fun statistic: you have survived 100% of the things you’ve tried so far. Today, I’m going to tell you what the Think And Grow Rich Mindset is all about, and how you can apply it to your business.īecause the way you think is the way you are. You need to believe in yourself, and you need to know that you will always fail 100% at the things you don’t try, so today is the day you start. Mindset is important at every step of your business. If you've joined the Credit Hero Challenge, you know that faith and belief is such an important part of your success in the program, and that remains true well beyond our challenge. If you're looking to start your own business, whether it’s credit repair or anything else, it's important to be in the right headspace to get started. ![]() ![]() Your journey into building a new business starts with Mindset. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments The life you can save![]() ![]() ![]() We want to create the same thing for effective organizations. Other, less effective charities are getting donations because they provide that fuzzy feeling, among other things. The focus is entirely on making people feel awesome by doing good effectively. Make donating to effective charities provide a happy, fuzzy feeling. The problem is that donating money to effective charities does not provide a significantly happy, fuzzy feeling. People mostly do good based on getting a happy, fuzzy feeling. Unfortunately, most people are not effective altruists (yet!). ![]() I have a MSc in Software Engineering and currently live in Stockholm where I am active in an effective altruism group. Since then I have been both learning more and more about effective altruism and trying to apply its practices in my own life. I first came into contact with the ideas of effective altruism a couple of years ago by reading Practical Ethics by Peter Singer. We are doing this because we share EA values and want to do good in the world in the best way we can - and what we do best is software.įirst, a bit of background about me. ![]() I'm a software developer at a small IT company that has been developing a mobile application pro bono in collaboration with The Life You Can Save since October. ![]() |
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