Where It Began

After she is in a horrific car crash when drunk, Los Angeles high school student Gabriella Gardiner assumes she stole her rich boyfriend's car and smashed it into a tree, but she cannot remember anything about the events of the evening.

As a nine-year-old child and a new Christian not knowing what Christianity was all about the author knew her life would be different now but How? What’s this Christianity all about? In this book, she attempts to fill in the blanks for the things a “New Christian” needs to know besides the fact that “now I’m a Christian.” Questions Like: Now what? Where do I start? What’s the next step? Where do I go from here? She takes you along from her first experience of becoming a Christian, to growing up, to her adulthood, sharing her experiences with you as she tries to find her way. She experiences hard times, good and bad times but as she grows and finds her way the blanks begin to fill in one by one. Her methodology is discussed in a way that if one knows nothing at all about what to do or what’s next, she will lead you down the path that led her to finding her answers. Walk with her and see “Where It Began.”

"Daniel Del Rio never could say no to Maria Santiago. So although their relationship is over, when she asks him to sail her to the Bahamas, he reluctantly agrees. She's convinced that revisiting the scene of her accident will restore her memory. If it does, then maybe he can finally let go and move on with his life. ... As he falls for Maria, Daniel realizes he has to confess his role in the accident--even if that confession could cost him a second chance with her"--P. [4] of cover.

Two people, two high school crushes, who never knew how the other felt and yet somehow fate had put them together years after graduation. Sylvia Taylor had fallen madly in love with her old high school classmate. What had started as a high school crush turned into just two old friends hanging out with getting to know each other better and catching up, turned into months of seeing each other regularly. She never anticipated she would fall in love with him. Not after her last relationship had left her with walls up and heart guarded. It felt like as soon as she let the walls come down, it would all shatter around her. It was a Saturday morning in February when the dream romance came to a crashing end. Wes Hamilton had the biggest crush on Sylvia Taylor in high school. So, when she reached out to him about his motorcycle, he jumped at the chance to get to know her now and spend time with her. He never imagined that he would fall in love with her. His past marriage had put such a bad taste in his mouth that he swore off relationships. In the end, it would be that bad taste and fear of it failing, which caused him to never tell her how he felt. So, he ended up doing the one thing he said he never wanted to do, hurt her. Five months after their breakup that had left her devastated, she had no choice but to make that phone call that would change their lives forever. She never expected what happened next.

Soldiers when committed, can’t compromise. They do not let the task go until it’s been done which depicts their absolute loyalty towards the nation and the people. That was the spirit of the Colonel and his men who shattered the Chinese hegemonic ambition and desire to dictate dominance at fourteen thousand feet above sea level on 15 June 2020. The soldiers were engaged in a primitive fight on the world’s most treacherous battle ground where oxygen is sparse and lungs gasp for breath. History resonates itself; 58 years ago China played a similar game. The 1962 defeat was not easy for the young and proud nation. But this time, India is wary of the Chinese belligerence. The root of the clash can be found in the past. From there, the path is set to shape the future. How we communicated, what was said, did they fail to comprehend or did two fists close too early? All that is required is to go back into pages of history. Road to Galwan takes you through the gripping journey of putting the border dispute between India and China in the correct perspective. It recounts the events of the past and weaves through the current situation for a holistic viewpoint.

Georgina was a dynamic and beautiful woman living a tortured life riddled with depression, insecurity and anxiety. By the late 1970's, her emotional instability peaked costing Georgina more than she could bear. Georgina's inner struggle would have been sufficient to sideline anyone. However, there was an even darker shadow lurking in the background. Georgina's maternal grandmother held a compelling secret. Granny Dorothy was a direct descendent to a Native American Cherokee tribe. When Dorothy left Southern Kentucky in the 1920's, she took along some family relics without permission. These artifacts originally belonged to a powerful Indian witch. Before passing into the next life, Dorothy confessed to Georgina that she had not only stolen these artifacts but had dabbled in black magic for many years. Georgina found herself with the challenging task of not only fixing the mess she made of her own life. She also had to find resolution for the sins of her grandmother. The stability of her entire bloodline depended on this.

As a field, computer science occupies a unique scientific space, in that its subject matter can exist in both physical and abstract realms. An artifact such as software is both tangible and not, and must be classified as something in between, or "liminal." The study and production of liminal artifacts allows for creative possibilities that are, and have been, possible only in computer science. In It Began with Babbage, computer scientist and writer Subrata Dasgupta examines the distinct history of computer science in terms of its creative innovations, reaching back to Charles Babbage in 1819. Since all artifacts of computer science are conceived with a use in mind, the computer scientist is not concerned with the natural laws that govern disciplines like physics or chemistry; instead, the field is more concerned with the concept of purpose. This requirement lends itself to a type of creative thinking that, as Dasgupta shows us, has exhibited itself throughout the history of computer science. More than any other, computer science is the science of the artificial, and has a unique history to accompany its unique focus. The book traces a path from Babbage's Difference Engine in the early 19th century to the end of the 1960s by when a new academic discipline named "computer science" had come into being. Along the way we meet characters like Babbage and Ada Lovelace, Turing and von Neumann, Shannon and Chomsky, and a host of other people from a variety of backgrounds who collectively created this new science of the artificial. And in the end, we see how and why computer science acquired a nature and history all of its own.