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![]() ![]() ![]() The ransomware operation behind the Dallas hack is called Royal, according to two security researchers familiar with the incident. ![]() A Dallas fire official referred questions to the city.ĭallas officials said the cause was ransomware - a form of malicious software that hackers use to scramble data and immobilize networks until an extortion payment is made, typically in digital currency. Although the statements said emergency services to residents were unaffected, the home pages of the police and fire service were unavailable as of Thursday and a police spokesperson said the city's computer-aided dispatch system was hit.ĭallas city officials did not answer Reuters' questions but said updates would be forthcoming. Hacker sabotage has disrupted several public services in Dallas, closing courts and knocking emergency services websites offline, officials said on Thursday.Ĭourts were closed Wednesday and will remain closed Thursday, the City of Dallas said in a series of statements posted to the web. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Utilizing his journalistic and legal training, Lee begins a quest to debunk the claims of Christianity in order to save his crumbling marriage. But things weren’t going nearly as well at home where his wife Leslie’s newfound faith in Christ went against everything Lee believed-or didn’t believe-as an avowed atheist. His award-winning investigative reporting recently earned him a promotion to legal editor at the ChicagoTribune. But things weren’t going nearly as well at home where his wife Leslie’s newfound faith in Christ went against everything Lee believed-or A hard-driving journalist, Lee Strobel was exactly where he expected to be at work: on top. Summary: A hard-driving journalist, Lee Strobel was exactly where he expected to be at work: on top. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over recent years, feminist activism and participation in India has been gaining mainstream coverage where news headlines celebrate the efforts of women from all walks of life in fighting sexual violence and inequities. ![]() Feminist humor, then, emerges as a form of feminist resistance and subversion that employs cutting humor and punchlines to reject existing societal codes, gender norms that dictate what people can or cannot do or how to behave based on their gender, and shows the possibilities of a politics that is hopeful and playful. The paper argues that though the shelf life of internet memes is short, and the participation of those doing feminism in the network is restricted to a certain section of the population, it is nevertheless important for such content to be produced, because it is the everyday words, norms, and taboos that are being reclaimed and re-negotiated with or rejected in the process of their generation and circulation. This paper explores one specific form of online feminist humor- memes, a fairly understudied phenomenon in India, in order to examine the cause, context in which such humor arises, and content. ![]() With online comics, satirical parody news sites, internet memes (Meme macros and video memes), web comics gaining popularity in recent years, Indian feminists are exploring multiple ways to engage in dialogue, and humor is one such. ![]() ![]() I want you, dear reader, to read the vague synopsis. But, I'm not going to do this for Speechless. Normally, this would be the part in my review where I'd write my own little synopsis explaining what the book is about. ![]() ![]() And let me just take a moment to say, that I'm so happy I took the chance and requested this on NetGalley. It wasn't until I saw glowing four and five star reviews for this book from trusted friends of mine that I decided to request this on NetGalley and see if I would end up liking it. ![]() However, based on the vague synopsis, I came to the conclusion that this book most likely wasn't for me, and decided to pass on it. The main reason I checked out Speechless was because of its cover: a cover without a pretty girl in a pretty dress on the it, a cover without a pretty girl about to kiss an equally as pretty boy on the it. **2/9/13 - raised rating from four stars to five, because this was perfect and I honestly couldn't care less about the few negatives mentioned below, because I still think about this book to this day, and if I were to ever reread a book soon, it'd undoubtedly be this one. ![]() ![]() ![]() White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers and The Curiosity House series, co-written with H.C. ![]() It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, garnering a wide release from Open Road Films that year. ![]() Before I Fall was adapted into a major motion picture starring Zoey Deutch. The film rights to both Replica and Lauren's bestselling first novel, Before I Fall, were acquired by Awesomeness Films. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the YA novels Replica, Vanishing Girls, Panic, and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. Lauren Oliver is the cofounder of media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, where she serves as the President of Production. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s that kind of kind mind bending.Įdit: thanks so much for all the comments and especially the experiences of how you came to read the book and it’s meaning to y’all personally. I’m currently at the event where the shipman accidentally cuts his leg almost off and there’s a long discussion about wether to get the shipping manifest to stop the Germans from getting it or if they should kill the wounded man because he might be a spy for wanting to get the shipping manifests…to protect the US. Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of. ![]() But also excellent military commentary and laugh out loud. 9780380788620 Our cheapest price for Cryptonomicon is 1.73. I’m only about half way through and my mind is blown every 10 minutes with this book. £23.60Expedited Deliveryto United States via eBays Global Shipping Programme. ![]() Well, what if I told you he wrote a book four times as long that has epic war scenes, the industrialized privatized fight to connect the Philippines to the internet, sex in hammocks IN A CASTLE TOWER - WITH A GERMAN SPY, Ronald Regan, a giant lizard, dismembered limbs and ALAN FUCKING TURING IMPLIED GAY SEX (also a description of how Alan Turing calculated an algorithm of when his chain would fall of his bike.) You’d want to read it, right? Of course you would. This item will be sent through eBays Global Shipping Programme. Stephenson is noted for his novel “Snow Crash” a book where a samurai pizza delivery guy lives in a storage unit and spends most of his time building a (the) metaverse and inadvertently discovers a nanshub that can scrub things from existence and the plot to destroy it. ![]() ![]() Sunny spends time hanging out with her best friend, and as time goes on, she also makes friends with a new neighbor. Sunny’s grandpa calls and visits, and he seems to be the only one she can really talk to, since he seems to empathize with feeling separated from others, living in Florida and apart from his family himself. Her parents are trying to make sense of what they need to do about Dale, all while trying to take care of Sunny and her little brother. While Sunny tries to keep her emotions in check and deal with them in her own way, everyone else in her life seems to be having issues, too. He doesn’t act like she remembers, and it seems that he desperately wants to be anywhere else but home. Most everything she does reminds her of him, and when he comes home to visit, she worries about him all the more. ![]() While Dale is away, Sunny finds it hard to be at home without him. Holm is a graphic novel about middle school student, Sunny, and her strained relationship with her older brother, Dale. ![]() ![]() In 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Madness of King George the 42nd greatest British film of all time. ![]() Helen Mirren also won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and Hytner was nominated for the Palme d'Or. The film won the Oscar for Best Art Direction and was also nominated for Oscars for Best Supporting Actress for Mirren and Best Adapted Screenplay. The Madness of King George won the BAFTA Awards in 1995 for Outstanding British Film and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Nigel Hawthorne, who was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Two text panels at the end of the film note that the colour of the King's urine suggests that he was suffering from porphyria, adding that the disease is "periodic, unpredictable and hereditary." ![]() ![]() It tells the true story of George III of Great Britain's deteriorating mental health, and his equally declining relationship with his eldest son, the Prince of Wales, particularly focusing on the period around the Regency Crisis of 1788–89. The Madness of King George is a 1994 British biographical historical comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own 1991 play The Madness of George III. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. The author: Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM ( – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolor, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator. He is recognized as one of the leading literary figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. The illustrator: Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. Houghton Typ 9 - Arthur Rackham, how to fly a kite. Most of the text originally appeared as chapters 13–18 of Barrie's 1902 novel The Little White Bird. Arthur Rackham Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens illustration.jpg 856 × 1,400 601 KB. Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and published by Hodder & Stoughton it is one of four major literary works by Barrie featuring the widely known literary character he created, Peter Pan. The book: Beautiful Edition illustrated by Rackham of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens - a novel by J. Illustrations: Complete with the wonderful 16 color plates with captioned tissue guards by Arthur Rackham. Publisher: London, New York, Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, no date (circa 1920).īinding: Attractive and near fine binding elegantly bound in red half morocco leather over matching marbled paper sides (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover.Ĭontent: Very good content (bright, tight, light foxing or staining - as shown, original endpaper map bound at rear - as shown). ![]() |