![]() I played Darkseid in Zack Snyder's "Justice League". "That said, and because I've been given permission. ![]() Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers Gilbert / Martin Tenbones / Wesley Dodds / Hector Hall / Beelzebub / Security Guard / Richard Burbage / Griffin / Mark / MulliganĪwards and nominations Audiobook Narration YearĪudie Award for Business and Personal DevelopmentĪudie Award for Short Stories or Collections Monk Is on the Run: Part 2"Įpisode: "The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis"Įpisode: "DJ George/Curious George Paints the Town"Įpisodes: "Like Father, Like Daughter" and "Hope Springs Paternal" Īnd the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks Filmography Film Yearĭirector's cut of Justice League, motion captureĮpisode: "Mr. Porter played Darkseid through the use of motion capture and "went through a few different vocal gymnastics trying to figure out the voice". However, Darkseid did not appear in the theatrical cut, meaning Zack Snyder's Justice League marked the character's first appearance in a live-action film. Raymond Porter is an American actor and audiobook narrator who is most widely known for portraying the DC Comics villain Darkseid in Zack Snyder's Justice League.Īfter appearing in many television shows, he gained attention when he was cast as Darkseid in the 2017 film Justice League, becoming the first actor to have been cast as the character in a live action feature film. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When her mother moves in with relatives and leases out their family farm, Lyddie and her brother Charlie are separated and sent into servitude while their mother collects the profits of their labors. Struggling against poverty since her father left the family four years ago, ostensibly to find work that would benefit his wife and four children, Lyddie has worked tirelessly to ensure the family’s survival. In rural Vermont in 1843, Lyddie Worthen’s life is irrevocably changed when she is ousted from her family home by her emotionally unstable mother. It is an account of child labor that includes themes of corporate exploitation of underage workers, as well as discussions of the enslavement of human beings, a teenage pregnancy, a character’s confinement in a psychiatric hospital, and continued attempts by a factory supervisor to sexually assault the underage female employees he oversees. This guide is based upon the Puffin Books Trade Paperback Edition published in 2015.Ĭontent Warning: This novel contains depictions of children experiencing hunger, poverty, neglect, and financial abuse at the hands of their family. ![]() ![]() The semantic link between patrimony and possession/ownership – which goes to extremes with the securitization of public real estate – is challenged by the tortuous but constant advance of the movement of common goods which also affirms the theory of commons in Italy, shifting attention from belonging to use. This vision of patrimony as a Italy’s greatest wealth – the beautiful country made up of regions that compete for territorial primacy based on the highest number of “assets” – has nourished institutional policies, has created generations of graduates in the preservation of the cultural heritage and yet it has given very little to future generations which, when talking about inheritance, should be at the center of the debate. Thus “patrimonio”, the word that in Italian is most frequently used to name natural and cultural heritage, finds its roots in a patriarchal culture in which inheritance was essentially measured in economic terms. The native land is the land of the fathers, hereditary assets pass from father to son, in Italian “patrimonial” is the name given to tax on movable and immovable property that one owns. The words country, patrimony, property all share the root “pater”, father. ![]() How miserable life is in the abuse of power ![]() ![]() ![]() SPOILER-ISH! Basically the story revolves around Lucy (aka the girl who cried wolf), who tells her family about the wolves lurking behind the wallpapers. Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls” and the classic wolf-riddled admonitory bedtime stories like “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”? The Wolves in the Walls, a collab work by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, is yet another landmark tale that speaks directly to young readers while teaching a few lessons like open communication in the family. Am I the only one who thought this is a mishmash of H.P. ![]() ![]() Now, 20 years on and closing in on citizenship, Bryson decides to explore his adopted homeland again. 'The Road to Little Dribbling' is a sequel to 'Notes from a Small Island,' which came out in 1995 and recounted with wry curiosity the Iowan's first encounters with a country that would soon give him both a wife and a career in journalism. It diminishes the book - the first of his career, for me, which is only an equivocal pleasure. 'We live in a world that has practically no appreciation for quality, tradition, or classiness,' he writes early on, and virtually every page thereafter offers some variation on that glum assessment. Alas, 'The Road to Little Dribbling,' his new account of travels around England (often by rail, in fact), has crossed it, the author's tone for the first time no longer so much curmudgeonly as incurably sour. Until now, the wonderful American writer Bill Bryson has always stayed on the right side of that line, consistently a nostalgist, never a pessimist. You have to be careful when you look backward. The rails were what made it easier to cast light onto all the injustices of dim and distant places. Of course, it was also a time when 5-year-olds worked in factories. A simpler era, the feeling went, beer and accents stronger, and people moving only at the pace a horse could take them. ![]() In the 1880s, the English experienced an intense collective wistfulness for the period before 1850, which was the year that railroads had finally connected the country. The world is always in decline if you want it to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when a terrorist tries to shatter that unity, a hero named Efi Oladele rises!Įfi has been making robots since she was little - machines to better her community and improve people's lives. In the technologically advanced African city of Numbani, in the not-so-distant future, humans live in harmony with humanoid robots known as omnics. ![]() Read on for a summary of this captivating original novel followed by an sneak peek into Efi and Orisa’s adventure. This action-packed tale is available to purchase from Scholastic now. The first official Overwatch novel from critically acclaimed author Nicky Drayden is coming June 2! The Hero of Numbani tells the full story behind Efi and Orisa’s heroic origins, offers a glimpse into Talon’s machinations in Numbani, and provides some must-know hints at things to come. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() Kitty Pryde entered the X-Mansion in 1980’s UNCANNY X-MEN #129 and almost immediately shook up the status quo as she trained for a role on the team. ![]() Likewise, Betsy Braddock, who debuted in 1976’s CAPTAIN BRITAIN #8, began as the younger sister of England’s hero Brian Braddock, but years later transformed into the mutant hero Psylocke to become a Claremont fan-favorite female.Īfter the villainous Mystique’s introduction in 1978, the writer hit the ground running in the 1980s with a string of new female characters who proved their worth alongside their male teammates. One of the earliest of his creations, Lilandra of the alien Shi’ar race, grew from Claremont’s plan for a love interest for Charles Xavier into a force for change. Ask any X-fan to tell you one of Chris Claremont’s greatest impacts on the mutant team and the probability’s high that they’ll cite his creation of and focus on female characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() For a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a passion for rom-coms. I want to be best friends with Saoirse Clarke."īut after a chance encounter at an end-of-term house party, Saoirse is about to break her own rules. "A book that manages to be both tenderly gutting and absolutely hilarious. She doesn’t see the point in igniting any romantic sparks if she’s bound to burn out. A condition that Saoirse may one day turn out to have inherited. If they were real, her mother would still be able to remember her name and not in a care home with early onset dementia. Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings. ![]() ![]() They may advise you on the best strategies to removing yourself from such a stressful situation with tools that are available to you, such as life settlements. to help people get back on their feet if they have had to take a financial blow. Luckily there is help out there, such as advice from Debt Consolidation USA, reading books like Debt, etc. The number of people that get into debt today because of money issues and not being able to earn enough to live, is astounding. The problem of economic insecurity that makes Basic Income so urgent today is not a unique feature of modernity or capitalism (though modern technological advances make possible for the first time a universal Basic Income as a solution), but has been with us since the development of money per se-that is, financial credit, or debt-at the dawn of civilization. With its wide scope, Debt offers valuable perspective on contemporary issues. It takes an anthropologist to write a truly universal economic history, and that is what David Graeber has accomplished with Debt: The First 5,000 Years. ![]() Money has much deeper roots in the forms of obligation that bind together even the simplest societies. Most histories of money are histories of coins, tokens. ![]() Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber (New York: Melville House, 2011). ![]() |