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Thomas J. Celi is a retired scientific software engineer with fifty years of professional experience. He earned a bachelor's and master's degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. His career led him to programming Advanced Math problems. He founded his own business, Digital Graphic Inc., and ran it for twenty-six years. He has been married to Loretta for sixty-three years and have five adult children, seventeen grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter.His hobbies includes building scale boat models and RC model planes.Frequently, thoughts flow into his head during the night. The College Boy was one of those thoughts. The first few chapters were purely figments of his imagination. But later, he recalled his worldwide business and pleasure travels and used The College Boy as the media to convey his memories to you, the reader. Tom's Italian background and travels through Italy influenced the boy and characters he met.Family is very important to Tom, so it is to The College Boy. Tom and the boy worked with their fathers in a family business from an early age. However, advanced education separated the boy and Tom from the businesses. Mathematics was key in the development of both Tom and the boy. Tom learned Advanced Math from on-the-job education.The boy had a natural talent for math.
The Covert Genocide is the first comprehensive account of the horrors that befell Ethiopia's Somali region during the reign of Abdi Mohamoud Omar-commonly known as Abdi iley-who ruled over the Somali inhabited parts of Ethiopia between 2010 and 2018. In this book Abdulkadir Ali 'Bureida' offers an incisive assessment of the Abdi iley years. His reign of terror claimed the lives of thousands of Somalis in Ethiopia. It lastingly damaged-physically, mentally and socially-a good part of the community. As the federal government's main pillar of the counter-insurgency against the reel Ogden National Liberation Front (ONLF) Abdi iley acted as a state within the state. On his and his officials' orders countless civilians, political competitors and suspected and real ONLF supporters were arrested, tortured and killed across the region. Drawing over 700 interviews with witnesses and survivors, The Covert Genocide provides the reader with an insider's account of the atrocities, arbitrary violence and terror that were the hallmark of the Abdi iley period. Making use of history, philosophy, psychology and his first-hand observations as a prisoner of conscience in the infamous Jail Ogaden, the author sheds light both on the systematic human rights abuses by Abdi iley's officials and paramilitary 'Liyu' or special police and the broad political context, which enabled it. Equal part historical account, political account, political analysis and human rights reporting, the book offers crucial testimony of the Abdi iley period. A powerful tribute to the victims of state sponsored violence, the Covert Genocide is a reminder that accountability for the many injustices committed continues to be wanting. Some readers will be tempted to discard or downplay the findings of this book as essentially a Somali problem. Nothing could be further from the truth. Ethiopia' former EPRDF government not only tolerated, but enabled the many atrocities against civilians that took place as part of the governments' counterinsurgency. The ongoing impunity of former and current officials and security forces-including parts of the ONLF-continues to be a major obstacle for reconciliation and healing not only in Somali region, but in Ethiopia altogether. Recent atrocities by warring parties in the Tigray conflict are a spark reminder that Ethiopia has so far failed to address or learn from its recent past. The Covert Genocide is a stark reminder that as long as political elites refuse to acknowledge these past injustices and their victims, they are likely to repeat themselves in the future.Tobias Hagmann, visiting professor, Roskilde University (Denmark) and Senior Programme Officer, Swisspeace (Switzerland).
The book embodies an aggregate industrial and academic experiences of the authors gathered over the years of developing a process for converting low-quality Nigerian ores into super concentrates and also successfully operating a commercial ball mill installation equipped with a pilot grinding test facility. It presents step-by-step process design calculations, pilot tests, scale-up, and validation methods for optimizing the mill design parameters and improving the operational efficiencies. The principles detailed in the book provide a roadmap for tuning the mill when processing materials of new origin to obtain optimal grinding efficiency. With the current trend toward the use of larger mills, there have been situations where those larger mills have not realized their design capacities due to some limitations in the application of conventional scale-up procedures to results from small-scale grinding equipment.The uniqueness of this book lies in the combination of the process design principles with the pilot test and scale-up methodologies that enable the efficient prediction of commercial mill parameters from small-scale results, thus avoiding the pitfall inherent in conventional scale-up procedures. The book features approaches to validate process parameters for optimality and also to establish grinding media losses necessary to establish an appropriate balance between the ore and the media. Mechanical design of the critical parts and their materials selection have been included in the text. The book promises to be an invaluable companion in the area of raw materials preparation and mineral dressing for students, practicing engineers, and scientists in the industry and the academia and research laboratories. Throughout the book, examples are provided, which illustrate the application of the relevant principles and methodologies to real-world situations.
Poop Is Not for Painting (and Other Toddler Tidbits) is a commiseration book for parents. Helping your toddler to navigate the world is usually messy. The way they explore their world can be downright disgusting. So many moments parents are presented with two choices: to laugh or to cry. Since we usually have no control over the sneaky disgusting things that they do, laughing is our only real option for day-to-day survival. Like all things in life, knowing you aren't alone is crucial. While we all love our children fiercely, Poop Is Not for Painting keeps it real and completely relatable for those of us in the trenches of parenting a toddler!
A uniquely honest and brave story of learning how to live through a difficult medical diagnosis.At just fifteen years old, author Lynnette M. Gonzalez Avila discovered that she would be faced with living life with type 1 diabetes. Unsure of how she would navigate through life, Lynnette details a touching story of how she overcame her fears and insecurities to take back her life from this terrible disease.The memoir opens by sharing powerful firsthand experiences on how diabetes made its debut in her life, followed by an emotional roller coaster of sharing how she had to learn how to manage and accept the diagnosis.Filled with vulnerable anecdotes, advice for surviving relationships, and courageous words, this memoir will empower other young women when faced with the uncertainty of a medical diagnosis and help guide them through their own journey to healing and happiness.
Oscar Reynolds rides into Cheyenne from Texas on a cattle drive. Only in town for a few days, he meets Mary and doesn't want to leave her behind. Deciding to stay, he finds himself working for the Black Hills Stage and Express Company. The gold rush is on, and Oscar is tasked with protecting the people and gold flowing in and out of the Black Hills. With the gold in the roots of plants, all walks of life are flocking to the area to become rich or die trying. Oscar becomes the law in a land where everyone is trying to make their fortune through any means necessary. Bandits continuously rob stagecoaches, and the law attempts to protect the lives and valuables they transport. Before he knows it, Oscar is thrust into a battle of good versus evil. Newly married and beginning his life in the Black Hills, Oscar wants to be good in a land of sin. New mining towns are developing throughout the mountain range, and he and his new wife decide to move to the middle of it all. While all the new citizens bring shame to the land, Oscar is dealing with his own shame and a proclivity for drinking. The lines become blurred between right and wrong for him. After personal tragedies along the trail, he feels the weight of avenging the death of a friend and suffers the shame of being unsuccessful. As Oscar begins to slip into a downward spiral of addiction, the ones he loves are pushed away by his selfish behavior. Hopeless and defeated, Oscar finds himself on the wrong side of the law, making choices that threaten to cost him everything.
Planet Xeon is located in the distant corner of the Alpha Centauri Star System, nearly six light-years away, and is comparable to planet Earth. Technology on Xeon is far beyond Earth's abilities, creating futuristic advancements, either unknown or out of reach from our reality. Xeon geoscientists have determined the planet core is unstable and may be uninhabitable in three hundred years unless it self-stabilizes, a rational probability. Superiors start a search for a habitable planet in order to save their people from becoming extinct, and they've selected planet Earth, specifically, the United States of America.Identifying what is necessary to send to planet Earth is of great concern due to the advanced technology that can produce weapons with godly powers, powers that can destroy the planet. Once Xeon technology is introduced, our lives will change dramatically and make the United States a dominating country with powers that are unimaginable, creating a force that the world will envy and fight to attain. The superiors of Xeon are concerned about sharing military technology to an unstable or corrupt government. They plan to be selective when transporting certain types of technology until such time the United States government can prove to be trustworthy, responsible with alien weapons, and have total control of other countries on the planet, preventing them from acquiring these powers.Titus and Xavia resign from their position at NASA to help the Xeon people rid the United States from corruption before announcing them to the world. In the process, they become good friends with Xeon citizens. The concerns about Xeon citizens migrating to the United States stem from the widespread corruption in the government. The Xeon government go through a comparable situation, ending in a civil war, where many people die. Term limits is discovered to be the key ingredient to a stable government that works for the people and by the people. "Lifetime politicians cultivate corruption."Adventure, space flight, romance, friendship, family, and chocolate cake.
This book is a sequence poem of 505 parts. It took me several years to write it. The poem is an old idea that I had sometime a long time ago. It was inspired by some music that I used to listen to called "Song of the Nightingale." The idea of the universe being so dark and so cold and always being in the darkness of the nighttime made me wonder a bit for the nightingale sings its songs mostly maybe only by night. So the universe could be a haunted place that nightingales wander throughout in the darkness and guarding and watching over everything where it can ultimately rule the stars and moons as it supposedly should do. There are also midnight nightmares that wander throughout the stars in these enormous gatherings of birds and horses singing for someday the universe will come to its conclusion; and it's all mixed in with basic modern-day science aspects and things to try to be something new; and it tries to explain the universe with songs of nightingales and nightmares, ravens and crows, and mockingbirds mixed in with the wonder of where the universe has really come from. From the darkness it all has come and to the darkness it all shall return. And from nowhere it has come, to nowhere it will return. As Einstein says, "I want to know how God made the universe.""I see my life in terms of music" --Albert Einstein
When Brett Lockwood receives a not-too-positive medical report, he gives up his New York law practice to return to his ancestral home in Maine. Unfortunately, the summer residence he used to frequent as a boy was also his evil grandfather's gothic-like mansion that was full of bad vibes and desperately in need of renovation. With encouragement from the local townspeople, he deals with his haunted past and the disappearance of his father that occurred years ago. When he encounters the beautiful, aloof Avery Keene, he feels drawn to her, and their relationship becomes a challenge. She owns a successful art gallery in the small town. It is filled with iconic works, including those created by her eccentric mother. She also has family secrets yet to be discovered. Dancing in the Snow is a tribute to recovering old wounds and the awesome power of forgiveness.
This book is a "drop-in" helpful guide for those new to leadership or moving to a different or more senior leadership role. This is a "for your eyes only" guide, providing ideas for managing the challenges of leadership and hopefully helping to avoid some of the pitfalls. It's a concise and no-nonsense go-to source of support with real-life examples to help guide the reader toward possible solutions. Leadership in an international setting is, without doubt, a different, demanding cultural and international intelligence. These different expectations demand different approaches, and there is certainly no right way to deal with every situation. We learn by taking risks, making mistakes, and caring for others particularly in challenging situations. Dip in and out. We hope you find it useful!
As the world takes a tough turn, Kat's reality is neither here nor there when she becomes incarcerated. After attacking two officers of the law, Kat has no way out. The only thing she could do to help herself was to look within and search for the things that were missing. Kat's journey is harsh and internally brutal. The things that happen while incarcerated become the toughest struggle that Kat must face herself.
Asuka's grandfather has been collecting crystals for as long as she can remember and even longer than that. Unfortunately, some of the crystals that he has collected have attracted the attention of a neighbor with a dark secret. Now it is up to Asuka and her grandfather to use these same crystals to save someone they love from the grip of a vicious old crone with powers to harm them.The pair end up on an adventure where they must stay ahead of the old woman while dealing with centaurs and other mythical creatures. They must keep the skull-shaped crystals away from the old woman at all costs. On their journey, Asuka learns that her grandfather is far more than what she thought he was. She also finds that she might have powers that she didn't know she had.
In 1849, Rose and James MacKenzie homesteaded their Double MK ranch and were founders of the town of Timberline, Arizona. Fifteen years and five children later, their eldest, Abby, goes missing. Before the year ends, James dies from grief. Yet Rose is no damsel in distress; the banker is not coming for her ranch--Rose owns the bank--and she dedicates her life to raising the boys, managing the ranch, and the search for Abby. Rose's twice broken nose and publicly stoic Scot demeanor have earned her a tough reputation and dark legends swirl around the knife she carries at her hip. Yet, as years go by, the winters grow deeper, winds blow colder, and hope of finding Abby has become a flickering ember. Cambridge educated "Lee's Army" veteran, KO Campbell, suffered serious burn injuries during the Civil War and hopes to speed his recovery by fulfilling a dream of traveling west to "complete" the botanical journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. His horse slips on an icy mountainside, and he literally falls into the Double MK ranch, so he decides to linger and seek work there. When he meets Mrs. MacKenzie, KO is startled to see a familiar face that he cannot quite place. As they work sometimes side-by-side on the ranch, a kindredship develops between Rose and KO, and they begin to question it from their different stations. She is the boss, he is the ranch hand. She is a wealthy landowner who would never leave her mountains and family. He has a dream, which can easily call him away, and a secret which can hurt both of them. Set in Arizona's dramatic, diverse landscapes of tall Saguaros, Ponderosa Pine, lush mountain meadows, and the secret caves and canyons of the Moggollon Rim, Autumn's On Its Way is not a bodice ripper, nor a shoot'em up, it's the story of a woman's realization of her physical, spiritual, and emotional capacities and reemergence into life after tragedy. It's a love of life story, brim full of legend, mystery, family relationships, adventure, near-death escapes, and an esteemed cast of supporting, real-west characters, including Mangus Colorado, Cochise, Lozen, Juh, pirates, privateers, and Italian royalty.
It was my seventh birthday when my parents went inside to get me ice cream and did not return.Join Rose as she goes on an adventure to find a family and ends up finding more than she ever dreamed possible. Just when she thinks everything is going great, the unexpected happens, and she has to make a life-changing decision that could change everything she has dreamed of. Watch her learn and grow as she meets new people who help her learn about who she is and who she can be.
I am Felisa Isom, a licensed massage therapist in the USA. The book Thera Bamboo Massage is to provide information about muscles and techniques of massage using bamboo and bamboo sticks to deliver a much deeper and firm pressure in our massage to help our client release pain, reduce tension, and alleviate muscle tightness while saving our hands, wrist, and fingers from possible pain and strain as the bamboo replaces our hand, wrist, and fingers when delivering deep-tissue massage and even Swedish massage. This book can be used to learn updated techniques using bamboo for a certain muscle that needs attention in its pain. This book was published strictly for informational purposes only.
A young woman discovers a sinister plot involving her parents who were part of a secret counterterrorist group. After trekking and finding the cabin of the father she never knew, she discovers a hidden object, the visor worn by her dad. She tries it on, with her DNA paired with her father's inside the visor. She is now imprinted with his ninja commando skills and memories. Unable to control these possessions, she must find her father's brother-turned-enemy to be trained in the way of the ninja to learn and be in control before it destroys others or herself. After she becomes part of the clan, she is now faced with an enemy her parents and others fought against three decades ago. They invade once again, but this time, they are joined by an outworld civilization that is hell-bent on enslaving and destroying her world. It is a race against time to combat this new enemy. Thought to be dead or out of commission, old members of the former elite terrorist unit must reunite and join this woman if they are to survive.
Return with us now, if you will, to a happier time, when skirts were high and gas prices were low.A time when women were women and men were men, well, most of them anyway.A time when you could take your girl to a movie and never get out of your car. And you could watch TV (if you had one) without having to put your hands over your child's ears.Follow five college students in a small Indiana college in the mid-1970s. Share their loves and dreams as well as their sudden disaster, which touches the lives of each of them--but all in different ways.Come and spend an hour or two in America's Heartland during the sensational seventies.Enjoy the ride.
Hunter Brown, a United States Marine, knows the Middle East like the back of his hand. For years, he has fought on the front lines, trying to eliminate evil and maintain liberty. In 2000, Hunter gets deployed to Iraq and is captured by an uprising extremist group. For five years, he is held hostage and tortured by the men who took him.Meanwhile at home, Hunter's wife, Colette, struggles to move on as she realizes her husband won't be returning. She is told that he is missing, although she can't help but think he's gone forever.As Hunter never stops fighting on the other side of the world to make it home, Colette and their children move on without him.Despite Hunter's will to survive, it's not an easy fight. Is he destined to return home, or will fate get in his way?
Mr. Radcliff was flung halfway through his window, caught by the broken glass and dragged about fifty feet along the pavement under his truck with who knows how many tons of pressure grinding his upper torso and head like he had been in a mechanical cheese grater. Shorty said, "This is pure holy hell, Aerol. It could be Radcliff's truck, but I am gonna have to go over and look inside to see if it looks like him. I am not sure that will help either, though. Uh, I-I don't know if there is an upper body left on the person..." "Anna, we aren't going to make it in. This baby is breaching right now. What the hell do we do?" "It feels like I'm being ripped in half and the burning is getting horrible from the infection!" "Awe, Dr. Kramer, our Vivi is about to have her baby in the ambulance..."
It was an ordinary afternoon. Stevie and Khloe stepped outside into the backyard only to hear a little sound like a baby crying. What was it, they wondered? To their surprise it was two tiny kittens. Several days later Stevie opened her front door and at her feet was a beautiful green stuffed toy cat with a note attached to it. What did the note say? Who sent the note and left the green cat? Join Stevie, Khloe and their good friend Suki on their quest to solve the mystery of the green cat.
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