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Here are my favorite National opinions elicited by this survey. Go to the survey Website for lots more data interactive tables and graphics and information, including breakdowns by religion and exact wording of survey questions which is very important to consider when interpreting survey results. This is a methodically researched, harrowing account of the events that occurred before, during, and after the great blizzard of January 12, which killed hundreds of people in the Mid-West prairies.

The book is filled with interesting meteorological explanations and even more fascinating accounts of pioneer life gleamed from journals, letters, and interviews with the descendants of those who lived and died during this unforgiving storm. In setting up the story, Laskin follows the paths of several Northern European families that immigrated to the American prairies lured by the promise of free land to homestead.

Once they got to the Dakota territory, Minnesota Nebraska, and Iowa the immigrants faced the brutal reality of making a life in the harsh treeless prairie. The truth was beginning to sink in: The sudden storms, the violent swings from one meteorological extreme to another, the droughts and torrents and killer blizzards were not freak occurrences but facts of life on the prairie.

This was not a garden. Rain did not follow the plow. Laying a perfect grid of mile-sided squares on the grassland did not suppress the chaos of the elements.

The settlers had to face the facts. Living here and making a living off this land was never going to be easy. Weather that takes lives and destroys hopes presents a moral quandary. Call it an act of God or a natural disaster, somebody or something made this storm happen.

But what? Or should one condemn an economic system that gave some families mansions on Summit Avenue and left others so poor that they would risk their children and their own lives for the sake of a single cow? Children were the unpaid workforce of the prairie, the hands that did the work no one else had time for or stomach for. The outpouring of grief after scores of children were found frozen to death among the cattle on Friday, January 13, was at least in part an expression of remorse … for the fact that most children had no childhood.

This was a society that could not afford to sentimentalize its living and working children. Only in death or on the verge of death were their young granted the heroine funds, the long columns of sobbing verse, the stately granite monuments. A safe and carefree childhood was a luxury the pioneer prairie could not afford.

These books will give you a much more interesting and humanized weather disaster account than Storm Stories , When Weather Changed History , or other such programs from The Weather Channel. I went to college in Minnesota and I am in awe of the fortitude of these pioneers who braved the freezing winters and scorching summers in sod houses. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit judges who made this ruling,.

It ordered the board to reconsider the cases. Among other disturbing misjudgments, the panel said, the board had wrongly assumed that the women were safe from future persecution because their genitals had already been cut.

In societies where genital cutting is endemic, beatings, rape, forced marriage and sex trafficking are commonplace, too.

It is performed without anesthesia, often with dirty instruments, and leads to disfigurement, severe complications and lifelong trauma. But it has zigzagged between compassion and confusion in its handling of women seeking refuge from genital cutting.

I wonder if the U. Board of Immigration Appeals would have applied the decision standard they used for these mutilated women if the issue had been whether or not to grant assylum to men who had been castrated afterall, that happens only once too, right? It does seem that Americans do take too many prescription medications. Kaiser Family Foundation… During roughly the same period, the average number of retail prescriptions per capita increased from 7. Nearly half of women ages are being treated for chronic conditions, in addition to one-third of men their age.

Van Dusem reported that there are many reasons for the high prescription drug consumption of Americans:. At this point in the story, a handful of immortals the oldest among them are tired of living in a world full of immortals and they want to find a new world to live in, where it is just them kind of selfish is you ask me. But to do that, they need the chaos crystal, which has been lost for centuries.

Eventually they find it, and they lure Cayal into being the one to open the portal between worlds because whoever holds the crystal dies when the portal closes. This could be, after all, the only way for him to die…but in doing so, everybody else in Amyrantha, the world where the story takes place, dies too. And this is what happens. Everybody that was left behind died.

It was infuriating. Worse part, there is no closure. The Tide Lords now live on Earth. And all the major catastrophes that have happened here, like the death of the dinosaurs, are because of them. The Crasii : The Crasii are a race of slaves that the Tide Lords created in a moment of boredom just to have someone to serve them.

They are a hybrid between humans and an animal—most commonly dogs and cats—that have an innate impulse to obey. In the series, there are 3 Crasii that have a role in the story: Warlock—later Cecil—, Boots—later Tabitha—, and Tiji.

Tiji, on the other hand, a lizard Crasii, started out as an interesting character but then lost most of her independence when she met her boyfriend. It was annoying. It was basically like reading about a Crasii Arkady. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Syrolee's eyes narrowed. Not you. And certainly not Engarhod. If I have to take this child to my bed to stake a claim on this wretched throne, I'm not giving it away.

I'll have earned the damn thing and you're not bringing Engarhod here and unseating me just because you like being empress. You both know what you have to do. I expect you to do it. Tiji held her breath, waiting for the others to follow, but it seemed the siblings weren't done squabbling yet.

She's too young to notice what a lousy lover you are. When Elyssa didn't seem to have an answer, he smiled. Maybe he'll finally come looking for you. I mean. Tides, it's been how long since you saw him last? He must have screwed everything else that walks on Amyrantha, by now. I'm sure he'll get around to you eventually. Such malice, such inhuman malevolence, was more than she'd bargained for.

Tryan the Devil, the Tarot called him. Tiji began to understand why. She felt her camouflage slipping, but forced it under control. With their attention fixed on each other, neither Tryan nor Elyssa seemed to notice. And this time, I'm not planning to share it with anyone. Let her find somewhere else to play Empress of the Five Realms, if it comes to it. I'm a Tide Lord. I'm fed up with being a minion. Tossing her head, Elyssa swept up her skirts and headed for the door.

Tiji closed her eyes in relief, expecting Tryan to follow, but the booted footsteps she heard didn't dwindle into the distance. They seemed to be getting closer. A strong hand closed around her throat before she had time to register what that meant.

Tiji's eyes flew open. Her camouflage vanished in her fright, leaving her naked and vulnerable, dressed in nothing but her silver-scaled skin. She couldn't breathe. Tryan's face was only inches away, his eyes boring into hers. Huge cannons and pointed bowsprits outfitted each hulking man-o-war. The people of the island were not prepared for this. Cannonballs ripped like thunder across the waves as they claimed the hull of yet another fishing boat.

Where there should have been soldiers, there were only common villagers, every one of them having dropped their normal routines. They were supposed to be setting their morning traps and nets in the low tide; now, instead, their corpses tumbled onto the sands, their clumped bodies looking like beached whales. The sight of one particular body stopped Jelani in his tracks. A boy lay crumpled on the beach, his lifeless eyes staring up at the heavens blankly.

Those eyes were the same ones that had glinted in the firelight mere hours ago when Jelani paid the child extra for the grilled fish that still sat on the table back at his shanty.

Ziggy was his nickname, the boy had told Jelani. Another corpse ripped his attention from the boy. This one was furred, however, an ash-brown and black pattern of a pakka —the cat-people who had come to call the island home in recent years.

His breath shot out in one long gasp. Staving off the latent fatigue threatening to claim him, he took off again toward the thick of the battle. It was the charge of the golden lord and his tide lords to protect the island, yet there was no aid, nor was there time to call for it. Jelani could only hope he could buy the survivors enough time.

A few paces from the first group of villagers along the beach, Jelani stopped, closed his eyes, and focused, his mind reaching into the sea. He could never quite explain it to a non-mystic—the sensation of melding with the spirit of a sea creature.

But it was like nothing else. A ripple lurched through his chest, and he found a large octopus racing to the depths of the ocean in an attempt to flee the chaos of the surface.

He banished its survival instincts and replaced them with rage. Reckless fury directed the octopus to halt then twist to the monstrous shapes above it. Jelani felt the creature speed toward a ship headed for the beach.

It launched itself out of the water and attacked the Vaaji helmsman, pulling the sailor under the waves. The helmsman clawed at the tentacles, desperately trying to free himself from the death grip.

Then the painful sensation of a blade piercing rubbery flesh seized Jelani and he was jerked back into his own body.

He frowned, a short prayer of grief already leaving his lips when—. A boom rocked his eardrums. Jelani spun. The foreign ship blasted a devastating hole into the cliffside above. The impact shook everything around him. Rocks larger than horses rushed straight for his head. A shadow flew at his side. It threw him bodily into the air and onto the sands. The pakka stuck out his hand for Jelani to grab, his feline snout turned in a scowl that might have appeared terrifying to some, but Jelani knew was actually teasing.

Jelani shook his head as he was lifted to his feet, amazed that the pakka could maintain his sense of humor even in dire straits like this. He lifted the spiral necklace resting against his collar bone. He hunched over to rest his hands on his knees to catch his breath. A huge bellow brought both of their attentions back to the beach. The small man appeared even smaller without his signature cloak—which must have been shed at some point in the conflict.

After loosing his latest wave, the elder turned to Jelani with a weary expression. While slight of build, the elder had never come across as a frail man. He had always shone bright with a vitality that even younger men seemed to envy. But that morning, Djimon looked drawn and haggard. It was as if the battle had aged him fifteen years in just a few moments. Maybe it had. Why do the Vaaji attack us?

Tafari dipped his head low. That first ship there was our answer to the interlopers. Her mass of curly hair swayed in the wind, and her words were sharp as they always were. Each of their efforts was more desperate than the last as they used their gifts to save their people, their island. But none of it was working. Kujala cried out as a cannonball slammed into the ground by her feet, sending rock and sharp debris flying around her body.

She fell to her knees in the sand. Her breaths came jagged and harsh as she lost the connection and the razorfish dove back into the break of white-capped waves.

Sorry, sorry. Elder Djimon leaned on his staff and shook his bald head slowly, the gray hairs peppering his beard twisting as he scowled beneath it. Were it a mystical staff, they might have been able to turn the tides in the fight. Djimon normally would not have tolerated such disrespect from his second, but now, under stiff breaths and a moist brow, he simply sighed.

This will be a very dangerous summoning. We may not even pull it off. Jelani shuddered. That was a power too great for any of them, even with their number. The fish leapt from the water and smashed a Vaaji soldier overboard. Yem will forgive us. By the time one of us snags it, the Vaaji will have destroyed us. He knew what was coming next. His friend pointed down the eastern shore, the wind blowing the brown and black fur on his arm back.

We can run there, break a shard from the walls, and be back before you even notice we were gone. Jelani shook his head. Jelani shielded his eyes from the blow. Shrapnel rattled down around them. He and Tafari exchanged a look, and they both knew what had to be done. Still, he hated when Tafari made suggestions.