A brilliant young college student named Griffin goes to his psychologist, Dr. Kemp, with a strange and frightening tale. A few days earlier, at the local university, he made an incredible breakthrough with his experiments involving invisibility. Not content to experiment on inanimate objects, he injected his invisibility serum into himself. At first, he reveled in achieving his life-long dream of becoming invisible ... but once he realized that the effects were permanent, his harmless excursions into eavesdropping and voyeurism turned murderous. Now, his enemies will suffer and even his friends are no longer safe as he hunts them down, one by one, within the confines of the deserted university campus.
The Invisible Chronicles 2009
Dreamaniac (1986) Nightmare Sisters (1987) Creepozoids (1987) Nightmare Sisters (1987) Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988) Lady Avenger (1988) Nightmare Sisters (1988) Lady Avenger (1988) Murder Weapon (1989) Deadly Embrace (1989) American Rampage (1989) Nightmare Sisters (1987) Dr. Alien (1989) Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1990) Naked Instinct (1993) Beach Babes from Beyond (1993) Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 (1994) Petticoat Planet (1996) Prey of the Jaguar (1996) The Journey: Absolution (1997) Skeletons (1997) Leather Jacket Love Story (1997) Shrieker (1998) Curse of the Puppet Master (1998) Talisman (1998) Frankenstein Reborn! (1998) The Killer Eye (1999) Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy (1999) Witchouse (1999) Totem (1999) Retro Puppet Master (1999) Voodoo Academy (2000) Prison of the Dead (2000) The Brotherhood (2001) Final Stab (2001) The Brotherhood II: Young Warlocks (2001) The Frightening (2002) The Brotherhood III: Young Demons (2002) Wolves of Wall Street (2002) Leeches! (2003) Speed Demon (2003) Ring of Darkness (2004) The Sisterhood (2004) Killer Bash (2005) Witches of the Caribbean (2005) Beastly Boyz (2006) Grizzly Rage (2007) The Raven (2007) House of Usher (2008) The Invisible Chronicles (2009) Son of a Witch (2009) Stem Cell (2009) The Pit and the Pendulum (2009) Nightfall (2009) Puppet Master: Axis of Evil (2010) Body Blow (2010) The Food of the Gods (2010) Edgar Allan Poe's A Dream within a Dream (2011) The Haunted Palace (2011)
The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's fantasy books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into the Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of fairies that they never knew existed. The first book, The Field Guide, was published in 2003 and then followed by The Seeing Stone (2003), Lucinda's Secret (2003), The Ironwood Tree (2004), and The Wrath of Mulgarath (2004). Several companion books have been published including Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You (2005), Notebook for Fantastical Observations (2005), and Care and Feeding of Sprites (2006). A second series, entitled Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, includes The Nixie's Song (2007), A Giant Problem (2008), and The Wyrm King (2009).
In the Spiderwick universe, faeries usually remain invisible or disguised to human eyes, who are generally not aware of their presence. However, a small percentage of humans have the ability to see faeries, commonly called the 'Sight', acquired naturally (for example, by being the seventh son of a seventh son or having red hair) or artificially (by looking through a holed stone or possessing a four-leafed clover). In the series, the Grace children receive the Sight when the hobgoblin Hogsqueal spits in their eyes, and the Vargas kids receive it when they are held under the water that a nixie had been soaking in.
Somewhat the way Harry Potter can cover himself with a cloak and become invisible, Cornell researchers have developed a device that can make it seem that a bump in a carpet -- or, indeed, any flat surface -- isn't there.
Sherpas have long standing traditions in their way of life that have the potential to be dismantled by climate change. First and foremost, the traditional jobs of herding and cultivating food is in peril. Droughts and flood conditions have resulted in many livestock and other crops dying off leaving the herders and farmers unable to continue these traditional practices (Nepal, 2010). In addition, those who practice making traditional goods typically make a living catering to tourists. However, with climate change there is a significant decrease in tourist activity in the region, thus rendering them unable to make a living making traditional goods and losing an important part of their heritage (Yangjee, 2014). More severely, increases in climate related events, including floods and mudslides, can potentially displace entire Sherpa villages. Villages that have been in place for many years are being threatened by these events (Nuttall, 2009). The residents of these villages have a strong attachment to the areas in which they were born and raised. Having to move entire villages will result in an immense loss of culture, history, and livelihood for those who have called the area home for many generations (Sherry, 2018). Loss of culture is one of many concerns for Sherpas over climate change, as it drastically influences the way they have been living for many generations.
As work in the high Himalayas becomes more and more dangerous Sherpas need to turn more towards other options to support their families. Many Sherpas who work as mountain guides are turning towards other ranges that have been less impacted by climate change. This enables them to still work in a job they enjoy while making money in a safer range. However, this does require them to be away from family for longer stints of time (Climbing, 2012). Consequently, many are moving into the more populated areas of Nepal and getting more westernized jobs. This allows them to send their children to school while living a higher quality of life. However, this process does facilitate a loss of culture for the Sherpa people (Nyaupane, 2009).
January 6, 2008 ::In 2009 we celebrate the International Year of Astronomy (IYA), a worldwide education and public outreach effort to honor the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo. A primary goal of IYA is to "expose as many people as possible to the wonders of astronomy."
Meanwhile, there has been another revolutionary discovery - that optical telescopes can reveal only a portion of the universe. New types of telescopes and detectors built especially for invisible wavelengths of light have detected microwave radiation from the Big Bang, infrared radiation from proto-planetary disks around stars, X-rays from superheated matter in the warped space near the event horizons of black holes, and intense gamma-ray bursts in galaxies billions of light years away.
The year 2009 is also a special anniversary for one of the most productive of these non-optical telescopes, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Ten years ago this July, Chandra began its exploration of the universe with a launch aboard the space shuttle Columbia. 2ff7e9595c
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