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Discworld watch series6/30/2023 Per the BBC’s synopsis, “The comedic yet thrilling series pits trolls, werewolves, wizards and other improbable heroes against an evil plot to resurrect a great dragon which would lead to the destruction of life as they know it.” Members of the team include “the captain of The City Watch Sam Vimes (Richard Dormer), the last scion of nobility Lady Sybil Ramkin (Lara Rossi), the naïve but heroic Carrot (Adam Hughill), the mysterious Angua (Marama Corlett) and the ingenious forensics expert Cheery (Jo Eaton-Kent) together with The Watch’s own idiosyncratic depiction of Death. Jingo, the 21st in Terry Pratchetts phenomenally successful Discworld series. The story follows a law enforcement team made up of fantasy and supernatural characters. As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces. It’s based on the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, featured in eight Discworld novels and also one short story. From BBC America comes the first image from The Watch, which Pratchett himself described as kind of a fantasy version of CSI. The Watch TV series muddles Terry Pratchett’s Discworld with ‘edgy’ humor It isn’t meant as a straight adaptation, but even so, it’s a tonal jumble By Zack Handlen Dec 18, 2020, 9:01am EST. Back in April, the late author Terry Pratchett‘s Narrativia production company announced a new initiative to bring his Discworld novels to “screens.” Whether said screens would turn out big or small, they didn’t make clear. The first of one of the most popular sub-series, that featuring the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, introducing their commanding officer, Samuel Vimes and their newest recruit, Carrot Ironfoundersson.
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The fires of vengeance evan winter6/30/2023 The action is never glorified Winter’s message is deeper than peace is good Winter is warning us that a society built on constant warfare and oppression of an underclass is the equivalent of living in Hell. Secondly, Winter has a deeper message that’s well worth absorbing. If Tau isn’t actually fighting he’s talking about fighting. That’s important because brutal fighting takes up most of the pages. So why would you want to suffer along with Tau? For one, Winter writes well his pacing is strong, and he writes compelling action scenes. This is a book pretty much devoid of humor or happy moments. He builds a team of his friends so that they can suffer the vicious tortures along with him. Tau is battered, torn and disrespected continuously throughout the book. Instead I can best describe this book as torture porn. Your entertainment won’t come from trying to guess where the plot is going very little of the outcomes are in doubt. This book tells the story of Tau who has risen from a downtrodden beginning to be the hero of the nation (that’s a spoiler for book 1). It stands out from standard tolkienesque fantasy in that it is set in an African inspired secondary world. Recommended by: Winter’s “The Fires of Vengeance” is the 2d book in a series named “The Burning”.
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And, as James Kowalczyk suggests in his story ‘Another Day, Another Victim,’ even demons with strange appetites have pasts they may wish to record in diaries.Ĭristina Deptula’s poem ‘Spontaneous Grace’, an ode to kindness and happy circumstance, is a takeoff on Beatnik writer Jack Kerouac’s concept of Spontaneous Prose. Carl Gridley’s elegant pieces mourn the death of people, relationships, books and the written word. Darlene Campos’ piece evokes the comfort she experienced from her grandmother and the Native American reservation where her relatives lived. Ed King’s narrator finds himself processing his recent breakup as he attempts to join Shanghai’s youth culture on his vacation. Peter Jacob Streitz’ poetry mentions past revolutions and the ghosts of subtle, non-life-threatening miseries. Felino Soriano’s poetry draws inspiration from jazz music, with words scattered on the page in a style reminiscent of improvisation. Our creative writing pieces reflect the influences of the past, cultural, historical or personal. This month, as in Salvador Dali’s famous painting with the melting clocks, we acknowledge the Persistence of Memory. Even as we look to the future, we sometimes find that our pasts cast long shadows. Greetings, readers, and welcome to August 2014’s issue of Synchronized Chaos Magazine.
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Choices by skyy6/30/2023 Its abundance of benefits offers increased efficiency and cost-effectiveness for businesses that engage in it. The increasing prevalence of cloud computing technology enhances global operations and reshapes contemporary business models continually.Ĭloud computing is a vital technology that provides remote access to computational resources such as data storage and software components over a network. This move came amidst the rapidly-evolving digital landscape heavily driven by technological advancements. Citigroup Inc., an acclaimed American multinational investment bank and financial services corporation, currently possesses a 0.13% stake in First Trust Cloud Computing ETF at the end of this most recent reporting period. The institutional investor purchased an additional 2,135 shares during this period, resulting in a total count of 57,326 shares owned worth $3,303,000. This development marks an excellent indicator for the future of technology investment. has recently raised its holdings in First Trust Cloud Computing ETF (NASDAQ:SKYY) by 3.9% during the fourth quarter of the year 2020, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
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Outlawed by Anna North6/30/2023 She discovers one of Shakespeare’s favourite scenes, care-free country folk, decked in flowers, dancing and singing in the presence of their leader, the Kid. Having been abandoned in the darkness Ada pushes through some major scrub before being rescued by the sound of a fiddle. And other people won’t be safe from you” (44). The Mother Superior extends herself in protecting eighteen-year-old women in her charge to caution, “If you go up to Hole in the Wall, you won’t be safe anymore. However, our heroine Ada wants to expand her knowledge of medicine as it applies to women and persuades the Mother Superior to allow her to travel (unsupervised) with a travelling bookseller into the wilds to join the Hole in the Wall Gang. In less serious cases, the usual cliché of banishing a socially isolated woman to a convent follows. Thus, Anna North paints a picture of a society dominated by men. (Historical accuracy is a casualty, a fatality, in this book). Rumour is sufficient for a charge of practising witchcraft, for which the penalty is death by hanging. Failure to produce a child in a reasonable time carries the consequence of divorce and social disfavour. Ada lives under a law that requires young women marry and have children. Outlawed is set in 1894 in an unidentified State of the USA. |