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The Alien Interviews: Conversations with people who experienced UFO Cont

The Alien Interviews: Conversations With People Who Experienced UFO Contacts - L.A. Marzulli I got held up in the briers and that's when I looked up and saw it. And it made no noise. The trees didn't move or the leaves blow away. Ricky Sorrell - Stephenville Lights I went into a sort of shock tailspin, as I realized that the abductions were real. I said to myself, Oh, my God, Oh my God, Oh my God, repeatedly for about six months. Dr. David Jacobs They had me on a cold steel table and used different tools to do a variety of different procedures to me. Corina Sables - Abductee "I was taking care of cattle out there on the desert, we were checking the water at the Harrison Well, and there was a cow laying up near the water that had been mutilated. Stan Mosser - Cattle Mutilation They always communicated to me telepathically, an idea would come into my mind to go out and take pictures or they would have me start drawing symbols, which was some type of language I had no knowledge of. They called it light language. Lynne Dickie - Contactee There were feathers. Two wings that came out to points. His eyes were sunk into his head. He had what looked like a robe that went down to his hips. Lawrence Gray on seeing the Mothman I would have to agree with the views of Jacque Vallee. The entities show the abilities of being interdimensional. They manifest into physical states and able to leave physical traces during an event. Joe Jordan - Alien Abduction Researcher I have spent almost 30 years researching the phenomena and have written four books on the subject. Three novels - The Nephilim Trilogy - and one treatise, Politics, Prophecy & the Supernatural. The purpose of this book is to bring under one roof people who have been directly involved in the UFO phenomenon. There are a wide variety of world views represented here, all are welcome and none of the interviews have been edited.

Electrical Contacts: Principles and Applications (Electrical Engineering

Covering the choice, attachment, and testing of contact materials, Electrical Contacts introduces a thorough discussion on making electric contact and contact interface conduction, presents a general outline of, and measurement techniques for, important corrosion mechanisms, discusses the results of contact wear when plug-in connections are made and broken, investigates the effect of thin noble metal plating on electronic connections, relates crucial considerations for making high- and low-power contact joints, details arcing effects on contacts including contact erosion, welding, and contamination, and contains nearly 2800 references, tables, equations, drawings, and photographs.

Spectrobes #1: First Contact

Beware the Light Eaters . . . .A long time ago in the Nanairo Galaxy, man roamed the planets in perfect harmony with a rare species known as the Spectrobes: mysterious beings that harness light energy to unleash amazing powers. But the harmony that was once there, would soon be lost. The Krawl—an evil force of the darkness—appeared in the Nanairo Galaxy and wrecked havoc on the planets. The Spectrobes jumped into action to defend their freinds. Great battles ensued and the Krawl were finally beaten, but the fight proved too great, even for the Spectrobes. For some unknown reason, they were fossilized and scattered to surrounding planets buried deep in the grounds. Hundreds of years went by and the people of this galaxy were safe, but not for long. Deep in the blackness of space, thousands of vortexes filled with Krawl were on their way back to the Nanairo Galaxy . . . Book 1: First ContactOn a routine mission, Rallen and Jeena, two officers from the Planetary Patrol respond to a bizarre distress signal. When they arrive they discover the wreckage of an escape capsule. Inside, an old man has been suspended in a cryogenic sleep for quite some time. When he awakes, he reveals that the light eaters known as the Krawl threaten to destroy everything in the universe. The only force that can stop the evil Krawl are a prehistoric group of creatures that have been scattered throughout surrounding worlds. They are known as The Spectrobes! But before the Spectrobes do battle, they must first be discovered and activated. Will Rallen and Jeena be able to find the Spectrobes and destroy the evil Krawl? Or will the Krawl find them first?

Interchange Third Edition Full Contact Intro A

Interchange Third edition is a four-level series for adult and young-adult learners of English from the beginning to the high-intermediate level. The Interchange Third Edition Full Contact Edition includes five key components of Interchange Intro all under one cover: the Student's Book; the Video Activity Book; the Workbook; the interactive CD-ROM; and the Self-Study Audio CD. Each Student's Book contains 16 teaching units, frequent progress checks that allow students to assess and monitor their own learning, and a self-study section. The Workbook has six-page units that follow the same sequence as the Student's Book, recycling and reviewing language from previous units. The full-color Video Activity Book is designed to accompany the videos and provides pre- and post-viewing tasks for the learner. The CD-ROM provides engaging and enjoyable interactive activities for users to do on a computer at home or at school and includes sequences from the Interchange videos. The Student's Self-Study Audio CD includes the Snapshots, Word Powers, conversations, pronunciation, and self-study sections from the Student's Book. Interchange Level 2 Full Contact A contains units 1-8 of Interchange Intro.

Reinventing English: Teaching in the Contact Zone

For John Gaughan, preparing his students for life is just as important as preparing them for college. He doesn't sacrifice one for the other; he just uses different content. Instead of ignoring the controversial issues that emerge from discussions of gender, race, and sexuality, he addresses these issues head on in the literature and writing he assigns. This is the kind of teaching Gaughan advocates in Reinventing English-teaching that occurs in the contact zone. Reinventing English is about creating opportunities in the English classroom for students to become thoughtful, committed citizens. It is about encouraging them to air their views honestly and forthrightly. The pedagogy that Gaughan uses is process based. In addition to strategies for writing about reading, creating learning centers, and writing in multiple genres, he discusses activities to promote discussion, stimulate debate, and rethink first thoughts. To help you get started, the book includes handouts for a number of these strategies, including ones for four-corner debates, writing poems for two voices, and working in literature circles. Such teaching can be risky business. It may offend the sensibilities of students, parents, administrators, and colleagues. Some teachers may not find these risks worth taking. It would be safer to remain in the comfort zone and avoid messy confrontations about class and culture, sex and sexuality. But would we be sparing our students similar confrontations later in life?

Huntington, West Virginia "On the Fly"

With an appreciation by Anthony Bourdain   HAVE ATTITUDE, WILL TRAVEL   Harvey Pekar changed the face of comics when his American Splendor series replaced traditional slam-bang superhero action with slice-of-life tales of his own very ordinary existence in Cleveland, Ohio, as a file clerk, jazz-record collector, and philosophical curmudgeon. Much as Seinfeld famously transcended sitcom conventions by being “a show about nothing,” Pekar’s deadpan chronicles of regular life—peppered with wry and caustic reflections—have transformed comics from escapist fantasy into social commentary with voice balloons. Huntington, West Virginia “On the Fly” is prime Pekar, recounting the irascible everyman’s on-the-road encounters with a cross section of characters—a career criminal turned limo-driving entrepreneur, a toy merchant obsessed with restoring a vintage diner, comic-book archivists, indie filmmakers, and children of the sixties—all of whom have stories to tell. By turns funny, poignant, and insightful, these portraits à la Pekar showcase a one-of-a-kind master at work, channeling the stuff of average life into genuine American art. 

The iConnected Parent: Staying Close to Your Kids in College (and Beyond

"Just let go!" That’s what parents have been told to do when their kids go to college. But in our speed-dial culture, with BlackBerries and even Skype, parents and kids are now more than ever in constant contact. Today’s iConnected parents say they are closer to their kids than their parents were to them—and this generation of families prefers it that way. Parents are their children’s mentors, confidants, and friends—but is this good for the kids? Are parents really letting go—and does that matter?Dr. Barbara Hofer, a Middlebury College professor of psychology, and Abigail Sullivan Moore, a journalist who has reported on college and high school trends for the New York Times, answer these questions and more in their groundbreaking, compelling account of both the good and the bad of close communication in the college years and beyond. An essential assessment of the state of parent-child relationships in an age of instant communication, The iConnected Parent goes beyond sounding the alarm about the ways many young adults are failing to develop independence to describe the healthy, mutually fulfilling relationships that can emerge when families grow closer in our wired world.Communicating an average of thirteen times a week, parents and their college-age kids are having a hard time letting go. Hofer’s research and Moore’s extensive reporting reveal how this trend is shaping families, schools, and workplaces, and the challenge it poses for students with mental health and learning issues. Until recently, students handled college on their own, learning life’s lessons and growing up in the process. Now, many students turn to their parents for instant answers to everyday questions. "My roommate’s boyfriend is here all the time and I have no privacy! What should I do?" "Can you edit my paper tonight? It’s due tomorrow." "What setting should I use to wash my jeans?" And Mom and Dad are not just the Google and Wikipedia for overcoming daily pitfalls; Hofer and Moore have discovered that some parents get involved in unprecedented ways, phoning professors and classmates, choosing their child’s courses, and even crossing the lines set by university honor codes with the academic help they provide. Hofer and Moore offer practical advice, from the years before college through the years after graduation, on how parents can stay connected to their kids while giving them the space they need to become independent adults.Cell phones and laptops don’t come with parenting instructions. The iConnected Parent is an invaluable guide for any parent with a child heading to or already on campus.

Computational Contact Mechanics

This is the second edition of the valuable reference source for numerical simulations of contact mechanics suitable for many fields. These include civil engineering, car design, aeronautics, metal forming, or biomechanics. For this second edition, illustrative simplified examples and new discretisation schemes and adaptive procedures for coupled problems are added. This book is at the cutting edge of an area of significant and growing interest in computational mechanics.

Vandal Squad: Inside the New York City Transit Police Department, 1984-2

Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: Graffiti writers have become a pop culture fixture, and their outlaw mystique has helped spark a cottage industry of books devoted to their work. But as Robert DeNiro said in Heat, "There is a flip side to that coin." In Vandal Squad, Bronx-born Joseph Rivera chronicles his cat-and-mouse police work putting away many of the perps on New York City's Top 40 Vandal List: "Just seeing their faces when they turned and realized they were about to get bagged was priceless." In Warriors-era '70s New York, subway trains became a playground for vandals, and in 1980 the New York City Transit Police Vandal Squad was formed to combat these attacks with creative undercover work. Rivera's voice is authentically gruff in a just-the-facts-please style, but many surprises pop up throughout (he enlisted a popular tagger to design the logo for the Vandal Squad softball team jerseys). Rivera's work, coupled with Rudy Guiliani's zero-tolerance "Quality of Life" regime in the '90s, cleaned up (or as some might argue, removed character from) the subways and city streets, but Vandal Squad takes you back to a much grittier Manhattan. --Brad Thomas Parsons

Tatham Mound and the Bioarchaeology of European Contact: Disease and Dep

  This is the first systematic analysis of Tatham Mound, one of the most important archaeological sites in Central Gulf Coast Florida. Because it documents the earliest years of contact between the resident Native Americans of the area and European colonists, Tatham Mound has provided archaeologists and bioarchaeologists with a wealth of direct and indirect evidence from the early contact period--a rare occurrence in American archaeology. Hutchinson examines the skeletal remains of more than 350 burials, a few skeletons bearing evidence of trauma from European weapons, as well as the European artifacts found within those burials. Comparing the bioarchaeological evidence and scientific data with the historic accounts of the early Spanish explorers, Hutchinson challenges the long-held theory that novel pathogens caused the immediate demographic collapse of native societies at the inception of the European colonial era. He argues that long-term political, social, economic, and biological changes--in addition to introduced epidemic disease--all contributed to the decline of Florida’s native populations. Incorporating numerous maps of the burials from Tatham Mound, a large number of photographs of the artifacts interred with them, and thorough documentation of the burials with regard to both biology and mortuary practice, Hutchinson interweaves archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence to present a complete picture of native and newcomer interaction in the region. Hutchinson also places this evidence within a broader historical and scientific context so that it represents a local case study applicable to a very wide geographical area. Relevant well beyond Central Gulf Coast Florida, this volume will be useful to scholars in the fields of bioarchaeology, physical anthropology, archaeology, history/ethnohistory, and Native American studies.