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THE PLOT WAS PUT TOGETHER WHEN MY BROTHER FAIL TO KEEP THE BOND AGREEMENT. THE OPPORTUNITY WAS SIEZED TO CONVINCE HIM THAT IT WAS ME WHO WANTED TO SURRENDER HIS BOND. THIS WOULD MAKE HIM ANGRY AND HE AND HIS WIFE WOULD HELP GET ME OUT OF THE BONDING BUSINESS. FIRST THE BOUNTY HUNTER WOULD MAKE SURE I HAD MY WEAPON THE WIFE WOULD PUSH ME AT THE JAIL, I WAS SUPPOSE TO PULL MY WEAPON AND BE ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION OF A WEAPON BY A CONVICTED FELONY. IF THAT FAILED MY BROTHER WOULD THEN WRITE A LETTER TO THE INSURANCE DEPT. OF THE FELONY CHARGE AND THAT I WAS ALSO CARRYING A FIREARM. THE BOUNTY HUNTER HAD ALREADY RESEARCHED AND FOUND THE COURT DOCUMENT AND TO SUPPORT MY BROTHER'S ALLEGATION HE WOULD CONVENIENTLY DROP A COPY OFF TO THE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT A COPY OF A TWENTY EIGHT YEAR OLD FELONY CHARGE THE OWNER OF THE COMPANY I WORKED FOR KNEW ABOUT BEFORE HE HIRED ME AND GAVE ME A LICENSE. HE KNEW THE LAW CHANGED SIX MONTHS BEFORE HE GOT ME A LICENSE AND TOOK OUT TEN YEAR PRIOR AND PUT IN IF EVER HAD A FELONY. THIS WOULD BE INFORMATION HE WOULD HOLD ON TO JUST IN CASE HE NEEDED TO USE IT LATER AND HE DID. AND ALSO USED MY BROTHER AS A PASTY TO SET IT IN MOTION. HE WOULD THEN AVOID THE COURT HEARING AND TURN HIS BUSINESS OVER TO SOMEONE ELSE. IT DIDN'T BECOME MANDATORY FOR ME TO STUDY LAW TWO AND A HALF YEARS LATER WHEN I RAN ACROSS THE LAW CHANGE I BROUGHT IT TO HIS ATTENTION, HE IN RETURN HAD ME TO READ THE PARAGRAPH UNDERNEATH IN PARENTHESIS THAT STATED ; UNLESS PRESENTLY LICENSE AS A BAIL AGENT. HE THEN REMINDED ME THAT I HAD HELD A LICENSE FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS, THEREFORE THIS LAW DID NOT APPLY TO ME. THE CONSPIRACY WAS EVERYONE KNEW THAT THIS FELONY CHARGE WAS A PROBLEM BUT ME AND EVERYONE HAD A PART TO PLAY TO ENFORCE THE LAW AND MAKE SURE I NEVER BOND AGAIN. WHAT THEY DIDN'T KNOW WAS THIS WAS MORE OF A PERSONAL ISSUE THAN LEGAL. THAT I HAD AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH MY BOSS FOR SOME YEARS UNTIL HE BECAME TO ILL TO TRAVEL WHEN HE BECAME ANGRY WITH ME HE USED THE INFORMATION HE LEAD ME TO BELIEVE DID NOT APPLY TO ME AGAINST ME. HE USED EVERYONE AROUND HIM SO IT WOULD NOT APPEAR THAT HE HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS. HE USED THE BOUNTY HUNTER TO OBTAIN A COPY OF THE COURT DOCUMENT BECAUSE HE KNEW ABOUT THE CHARGE. HE USED MY BROTHER TO WRITE THE LETTER BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT ME TO KNOW HOW DIRTY HE WAS. HE HIDE BEHIND THESE PEOPLE AND THE WOMEN AT HOME OFFICE COVERED FOR HIM I WANT HIM TO KNOW THAT I KNOW AND NOW THE WHOLE WORLD WILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID TO ME.
This story takes us back to that disobedient mindset that caused so much destruction in my life. The displacement of my purpose as a man of God is compromised by my lust and greed for money. The streets take charge again, while insanity rears up its ugly presence, seeking to steal that peace I’d fought so hard to hang on to. Once again my life takes another unpleasant ride through darkness, meeting up with wolves in sheep’s clothing. As I struggle to eliminate the betrayal hidden behind smiling faces, my eyes are opened, and the vision is clear.
On February 16, 2014 I was hospitalized after I was diagnosed with Leukemia. I was induced with four dosages of chemotherapy over a seven months period. One night while I was very weak, I fell and busted my left carotid artery at the nape of my neck. Subsequently I received surgery and recovered. After the induction of chemotherapy, I achieved remission and was transferred to a new hospital where I received Stem cell Transplant. My donor was my 72 years old brother who happened to be one of the oldest persons to dispense stem cell in history. He spent six hours on his back while his cells were harvested. Hence, he paved the way to give me a new immune system. In biblical terms I can relate this to Jesus Christ who spent six hours on the cross, suspended between heaven and earth. His mission was to give up his blood to transform the life of mankind.
Splendors to remember is a collection of one hundred inspirational poems. They encompass a wide variety of topics, depicting spiritual, political, environmental, personal issues and concepts of love marriage and divorce Sone are ballads and tell stories. Some describe emotional and life experiences, compassion, kindness, forgiveness and remorse; some are metaphor and instructions. The poems supposedly represent the life of the author who discovered his gifts to write late in life after he had spurned opportunities to record his thoughts earlier. He was forced to garner nuggets of truths, which he wrote, polished and preserved as shining splendors to remember.
A decade ago, computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter coined the term innumeracy, which aptly described the widespread ailment of poor quantitative thinking in American society. So, in What the Numbers Say, Derrick Niederman and David Boyum present clear and comprehensible methods to help us process and calculate our way through the world of “data smog” that we live in. Avoiding abstruse formulations and equations, Niederman and Boyum anchor their presentations in the real world by covering a particular quantitative idea in relation to a context–like probability in the stock market or interest-rate percentages. And while this information is useful toward helping us to be more financially adept, What the Numbers Say is not merely about money. We learn why there were such dramatic polling swings in the 2000 U.S. presidential election and why the system of scoring for women’s figure skating was so controversial in the 2002 Winter Olympics, showing us that good quantitative thinking skills are not only practical but fun.
The Night of Changing Souls occurs the first of September every year. As the date looms on the horizon once again, all the twenty-one-year-olds from around the world nervously wait in anticipation. They have no idea if their soul mate is someone they already know or a stranger living far away. When the night finally arrives, thousands of young people experience a premonition that allows them to view the world through their soul mate’s eyes. The event can either go really right or really wrong. Aoi Koibito is an artist and popular social media influencer living in Arizona who attains millions of views every time she posts a video online. Miles Frost is an army soldier from Canada who has just looked death in the face and somehow survived. As their two worlds collide in a dream on The Night of Changing Souls, now only time will tell if they can find each other and, if they do, can overcome their obstacles to live happily-ever-after. In this romantic story, two young people intertwined on a special night during their twenty-first years of life attempt to discover if they truly are soul mates.
Son-son Hamilton didn't acquire the habits of good discipline as a child. His mother Tiny, cast a strain on the family, by rejecting the authority of Roland her husband. So, when he and his son migrated to the land of promise and lander in Miami Florida, the youngster failed as a teen and young adult. To the disappointment of his Dad, uncle Harry and uncle George. He made the infamous list of dropouts from college, the Marine Core and the Police Force. However, he had three very outstanding qualities. He was tall, handsome and super smart. These he exploited to the fullest. Having failed to make cash from a steady income, he used his becoming qualities to head gangs, that not only sold, but used drugs and swindle retiree and shut-ins, all senior citizens. Hard life chased him every turn he made, caught up with him, slapped him on the back and said, "We go hand in hand Buddy," but for a simple prayer his Dad prayed over him changed the trajectory of his life. Therefore, he was gagged gently by a chokecherry black knot, rendered powerless and sent to jail on a reduced sentence. This gave him opportunity to exploit the privileges of the Cardigan gang under the eyes of the Prison Wordings. The FBI was closing in on them, so he master-minded a jail break and didn't go with the group. He was transferred from a Texas jail to one in California where he got converted to Christianity. He reinvented his life, through education, the Gospel and became a successful Pastor.
Derrick (archivist, Bronx County Historical Society) tells the story of what was, at the time, the largest and most expensive single municipal project ever attempted--the 1913 expansion of the New York City Dual System of Rapid Transit. He considers the factors motivating the expansion, the process of its design, the controversies surrounding financing it, and its impact on New York then and today. Appendixes summarize the contracts and related certificates and list the opening dates of Dual System lines. Twenty-four pages of photographs are also included. c. Book News Inc.
Lilly Abbigail Smith was the proud daughter of Zelda and Jeremiah Parks. She was conceived out of desperation and birthed from tragedy. After ten years of experimenting with aphrodisiac drug and supplements and four miscarriages by her mother, she survived a horrific automobile accident that claimed her mother's life and left her Jerry to grapple over the reality of mothering and fathering her. Both parents had their share of misfortune. Zell overcame a rape and Jerry stood up on the verge of getting married. They met on an unusual circumstance and she later got married to the one man who became her confidant, father figure and friend. They then set sail on a world-wind journey to have a child which defied them until Abby was born. Unfortunate Zell did not survive to enjoy the fruit of their toil. Yet Jerry from a very shaky start became an outstanding father. Abby grew up being supported by "My Daddy." She has struggled against factions, defied many odds and rose to stardom to fulfil her mother's dreams. She was invited to her Al-Mamata to deliver the commencement address when she came face to face with the only man whom she ever loved but played hard to get only to have the tide turned as she was swept off her feet.
Starting with a thorough introduction of the island, this guidebook follows with a section on planning the ideal Kauai trip including details on weather, when to visit, accommodation rental tips, and itineraries, the Top 5 Spots to visit, and mile-by-mile maps with each spot described in the book clearly marked on the map.
“This disturbing but very important book makes clear we must dig deeper than the normal solutions we are offered.”—Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia Works "Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but instead indulge in a mendacious and self-serving delusion that provides comfort at the expense of reality. They fail to state the obvious: We cannot continue to wallow in hedonistic consumption and industrial expansion and survive as a species. The environmental debate, Derrick Jensen and his coauthors argue, has been distorted by hubris and the childish desire by those in industrialized nations to sustain the unsustainable. All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the desires of the human species, but with the sanctity of the Earth itself. We refuse to ask the right questions because these questions expose a stark truth—we cannot continue to live as we are living. To do so is suicidal folly. ‘Tell me how you seek, and I will tell you what you are seeking,’ the German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said. This is the power of Bright Green Lies: It asks the questions most refuse to ask, and in that questioning, that seeking, uncovers profound truths we ignore at our peril.”—Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of America: The Farewell Tour
Derrick Jensen takes no prisoners in The Culture of Make Believe, his brilliant and eagerly awaited follow-up to his powerful and lyrical A Language Older Than Words. What begins as an exploration of the lines of thought and experience that run between the massive lynchings in early twentieth-century America to today's death squads in South America soon explodes into an examination of the very heart of our civilization. The Culture of Make Believe is a book that is as impeccably researched as it is moving, with conclusions as far-reaching as they are shocking.
The American 'island-hopping' campaign in the Pacific during the Second World War was a crucial factor in the eventual defeat of Japan in 1945. The assault and capture of these islands meant US bombers and their fighter escorts could now reach mainland Japan, disrupting and eventually crippling its war economy. The battles on Tarawa, the Marshall Islands, the Marianas group, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa were all characterised by savage fighting and heavy casulaties on both sides. Japanese garrisons often fought to the death and kamikaze air attacks posed a grave threat to the opposing US forces. Employing archive colour and black and white photographs, maps and first-hand accounts, the author relates these pivotal battles to the wider struggle against the Japanese in the Pacific.
Is the sprawling American countryside calling your name? Does nothing excite you more than the sun on the horizon? Do you crave the open road and have a sense of wonder about the world you have yet to explore? Do hours of radio and catered playlists sound like the remedy to your daily routine? North American Road Trips appeals to those with a taste for adventure. Covered within these pages are some of the most scenic routes in America. Fantastic photography bring the road to life and adds images to some of the most fantasized getaways. Features routes across the United States and up through Canada for the travelers that can't get enough of the North America. This is the essential guide for or for those who are just enthused about the fabric of the American landscape. It comes complete with must-see sights for each area. Gives the best times to go, estimated driving time, and the best roads to use. An invaluable resource for planning your next vacation. Features classic trips, like the infamous Route 66 and smaller niche trips for locals. From the sun-drenched roads of the Florida Keys to routes through the great white north and Alaska. Whether you have a couple hours to kill or a couple of weeks, routes have a broad span of times to get out. For the solo drivers or the packed vans, North American Road Trips packs several lifetimes of trips between its pages.
Although Vince Guaraldi's playful jazz piano themes for the early Peanuts animated television specials are well known, the composer himself remains largely unheralded. More than merely "the Peanuts guy," Guaraldi cut his jazz teeth as a member of combos fronted by Cal Tjader and Woody Herman, and garnered Top 40 fame with his Grammy Award-winning hit "Cast Your Fate to the Wind." This career study, extensively updated, gives Guaraldi long-overdue recognition, chronicling his years as a sideman; his attraction to the emerging bossa nova sound of the late 1950s; his collaboration with Brazilian guitarist Bola Sete; his development of the Grace Cathedral Jazz Mass; his selection as the fellow to put the jazz swing in Charlie Brown's step; and his emergence as a respected veteran in the declining Northern California jazz club scene of the 1970s. Ironically, his place in the jazz universe has grown exponentially since this book's initial 2012 publication, and this second edition acknowledges such honors and features a wealth of new material.
Over 100 archaeological sites lying within the desert area of Rome's eastern frontier are examined with accompanying maps, plans and air photographs. Designed to provide an overview of Roman military works in the Middle East, this work is intended to appeal to archaeologists and military historians.
For the Christian, no magic wand exists for effective soul winning. We have been given the Person of the Holy Spirit as our helper, along with tools such as using the law, wisdom, prayer etc., to guide us in our efforts to obey the Great Commission. However, all of our feeble efforts must rest upon the foundation of Gods nature. Just like the foundation of a building must be strong to allow and sustain its erection, so too must Christ-followers draw the lost to the cross from the bedrock of Gods nature of kindness. The kindness of God is not simply a politically correct clich, but the very key to unlocking the heart of the unbeliever.
Iwo Jima was the United States Marine Corps' toughest ever battle and a turning point in the Pacific War. In February 1945, three Marine Divisions stormed the island's shores in what was supposed to be a ten-day battle, but they had reckoned without General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the enemy commander.
Comprehensive Prep for GMAT Data Sufficiency. Every year, students pay $1,000 and more to test prep companies to prepare for the math section of the GMAT. Now you can get the same preparation in a book. Although data sufficiency problems are difficult, they are very learnable. GMAT Data Sufficiency Prep Course presents a thorough analysis of GMAT math and introduces numerous analytic techniques that will help you immensely, not only on the GMAT but in business school as well. Features: * Comprehensive Review: Twenty-four chapters provide the most thorough review of data sufficiency math available. * Practice: Includes 196 examples and more than 205 exercises! * Performance: If your target is a 700+ score, this is the book!
Told in alternating voices, teen actress Arden James heads home for the holidays to improve her reckless reputation, surprising her ex-best friend and aspiring journalist Caroline with a fake dating proposition.
This pocket-size guide is fully illustrated with over 150 photographs. Featuring more than 70 stops, it is one of the most condensed, yet thorough, guides of its kind.
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