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An erotic novella with mixed themes including spanking, female submission and role play. Trish lives a quiet, happy life until she meets Josh, and he turns her world upside down. Worlds apart, they record erotic audio books, their voices merged in a studio far away, until one day they are brought together in a small recording booth. Their attraction immediate, the close proximity and titillating words, make it impossible to deny their lust for one another. Although distance and commitments keep them apart, they become writing partners and manage to find ways to come together for both business and pleasure. When Josh decides to cross the Pond and visit Trish on her home turf, she takes him to a secluded cabin in the woods where "making up for lost time" takes on a whole new meaning.

"The Cream of the Crop" is a lesson on comparing organic and conventional farming methods, intended for use with students in grades 6-12. Eric J. Miller and Javaid Khan created the lesson and include lesson objectives, procedures, and extension activities. The Learning Network, a service of the New York Times Co., provides the lesson online as part of the Daily Lesson Plan Teacher Connections resource.

An erotic collection of shorts stories by best-selling authors with a central theme of voyeurism in Las Vegas. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? Not anymore... High above the Las Vegas strip, at the top of Skylane Tower, the rooms come with one special amenity; a high powered telescope. When a group of erotica writers descend on Sin City for their annual conference, the voyeurs witness first hand, that some authors live by the adage, 'write what you know'. A woman's curiosity is piqued as she observes a beautiful stranger being bound in silky red rope. A man scouting for new sex slaves, watches as an elegant woman gets more than her hands dirty. A prostitute pulls a switch - sending her lover out on a call. A simple slip of the hand, causes a case of mistaken room identity and a linen closet at a nearby hotel, sees more action than all of them combined. And that is just the beginning... They say perception is reality. Is what the Voyeur sees through their spyglass just a fantasy; on which side of the lens would you like to be?

Amanda Wellington is a twenty-eight year old home renovator who is still waiting for Mr. Right. Every day, she's haunted by a ghostly image that resides in her antique mirror, and each night, her dream lover strokes her aching flesh, keeping her just on the edge of release. But men like him don't exist. Or so she thinks until she wakes to find her desires have pulled him from the mirror to her bed.Is Amanda willing to pay the ultimate price--her body and soul--to free the sexy stranger from decades of loneliness? Cameron Mackenzie--part Norse demigod and part immortal Celtic warrior--must spend eternity in the mirror unless he can find a virgin--not just any virgin--but a direct descendant of the goddess who cursed him. Women have always been a means to an end...until Amanda. This delicate mortal has the heart and the passion to set him free, but only if she can face her own demons and, quite literally, walk through the fires of hell to save him.

The authorized edition of Chunks: A Barfzarro Anthology, containing such deliciously indigestible horror/Bizarro stories as "Zita Anathema" by Karina Sims, "Rat Pudding" by James Ward Kirk, "Stalker" by Marie Victoria Robertson, "Pink Sock" by Bob Freville and many more. Designed for Mature Audiences 18+ only. These stories are disgusting, repulsive and extreme enough to produce the titular effect.

Biochars and wood ash could be used as valuable soil amendments in managed Canadian forests to counteract effects of full-tree harvesting and N deposition, such as soil acidification and nutrient depletion. However, large-scale application cannot be recommended without a thorough assessment of the impacts of these amendments on key aspects of the ecosystem. Characterizing microbial responses is crucial for predicting the overall forest response to biochar and wood ash additions, because soil microbial communities affect ecosystem health and functioning and aboveground plant communities. However, for biochars in particular, the long-term effects on the soil microbial community in temperate forested ecosystems are still unknown. Similarly, while there have been ongoing ash-addition experiments in northern European and South American forests, the variability in microbial responses makes it challenging to extrapolate to other forest types and few field-scale ash addition studies have been conducted in Canadian forests. This thesis examines the effects of adding biochars and wood ash to Great Lakes' St. Lawrence and Boreal forest soils, particularly focusing on changes to the structure of the soil microbial community and its biogeochemical functional ability. In a north-temperate, selection-harvested forest, biochar application had only minor effects on bacterial and fungal community composition, fungi:bacteria ratios, microbial biomass, and microbial C mineralization two years after addition. Ash addition to a clear-cut boreal forest and the same selection-harvested forest had similarly minor effects on microbial community composition and did not alter overall microbial biomass or microbial C mineralization. In a microcosm experiment, biochar and ash addition effects on P bioavailability depended on soil texture and tree species. A comparison of four-year-old biochar particles and adjacent soil showed that even when there were phylogenetic differences between biochar and bulk soil microbial communities, both groups had very similar functional abilities. Across all experiments, site-specific factors played a strong role in chemical and biological responses to biochar and ash addition. However, most observed effects were minor and transient, indicating that biochar and ash can likely be used as soil amendments in these systems without negatively disrupting the soil microbial community.

The familiar images of Word and Light break open with fresh insight in the imaginative and wise ruminations of Sister Genevieve Glen, OSB. From Nazareth to Emmaus, psalms to beatitudes, Advent to Pentecost, through characters, stories, and prayers, this nimble poet and lifelong student of Scripture takes us to new places in texts we thought we knew. At turns probing, humorous, and inspiring, these reflections ultimately help us to know more deeply the Word made Flesh, Jesus of Nazareth — crucified and risen, the Light of the World.