Not Easily Washed Away is the true story of a young girl who was born to a Muslim family in Pakistan. She suffered through sexual, mental and physical abuse for fifteen years, which was perpetrated by her father Abdulla. Laila decides to take advantage of her father's incestuous addiction by having him acquire a visa for her to the United States, where she feels as if she can rid herself of a putrid past. The book is written from a psychological perspective in first person, as Laila shares her painful past with the reader, sparing no details of her ordeal as a child, teenager and young adult. After she realizes her father's diabolical plan is to keep her in Pakistan for himself, Laila decides to take fate into her own hands. Her new attitude helps her to turn the tables on her father, now living in America, and manipulate him into marrying an American woman to get Laila's visa to the United States. The United States is not the instantaneous answer to Laila's plight. She arrived in Seattle, Washington, in 2004 to start a new life away from her father, but ends up being unable to stop the incestuous relationship with him and later on, with her stepmother. Things get even worse for Laila, as she is now twenty years old, depressed, and worried that her family's fate back in Pakistan might be jeopardized if she leaves home. In the Spring of 2007 Laila's life changes when her younger sister arrived from Pakistan and when she meets an interesting, Christian, Jamaican man at school. The young man confronts Laila about the abuse, and when she realizes she has feelings for him, she tells him everything. The young man tries to convince Laila that she can become mentally stronger and free herself of her abusive father and stepmother by running away with him.

The flood waters have reached Nicholasa s street and he and his father prepare to evacuate their house in a dinghy. They pack their things and say goodbye to their cat, William. At the last minute, Nicholas cana t bear to leave William behind, and tries to put him in the dinghy. But William takes fright, and falls out of the boat and disappears. Nicholas and his father escape to the rescue centre, but Nicholas is worried. Will their house be flooded a and will William survive?

Inspection and Monitoring Technologies of Transmission Lines with Remote Sensing helps readers build a thorough understanding of new technologies and world-class practices developed by the State Grid Corporation of China—the organization responsible for the world's largest power distribution network. Monitoring the operational status of high-voltage transmission lines is critical in supply assurance and continuity. Given the physical size, geographical, and climate variances that transmission lines are subject to, remote sensing and inspection is a critical technology for power distribution organizations. This reference covers current and developing technologies, equipment, and methods for the safe and secure operation and maintenance of transmission lines, including satellite remote sensing technology, infrared and ultraviolet detection technology, helicopter inspection technology, and condition monitoring technology. - Covers operational and technical principles, and equipment used in transmission line inspection and monitoring, with a focus on remote sensing technologies and solutions - Covers power line fundamentals, remote sensing technologies, inspection technologies, fault detection technologies, and on-line monitoring - Focuses on practical equipment and systems parameters to ensure readers are able to meet operational needs - Covers control technologies that ensure safe and consistent transmission operation

Just Messing Around is a zany rollercoaster ride through a latchkey child’s world of antics and misadventures, laughter and fisticuffs, skirting problems, and hatching wacky schemes. The author, like so many of his generation, lived an unsupervised childhood that characterized many suburban Long Island communities of the early 60s. Absent parents, these kids ran wild in their rural, suburban world. They saw themselves as frontiersmen, daredevils, and self-confessed hellions. These children were also alone way too much, sometimes frightened, and in serious need of discipline and hugs. This heartwarming collection of stories, seen through the eyes of one kid, depicts their lives of roaming fields and woods, surviving their daily, madcap adventures, exploring haunted farmhouses, and, as we kids would say, just messing around.

This book is geared toward students at the undergraduate and graduate levels and focuses on the basics of plant physiology. This book discusses the distinct mechanisms of water and ion transport, as well as the various metabolic events that are essential for plant development and result from plants' ability to capture photons from sunlight, convert inorganic forms of nutrition into organic forms, and synthesize high energy molecules such as ATP. In addition, this book describes the various metabolic events that result from plants' ability to convert inorganic forms of nutrition into organic forms. The detection and transduction of light signals work in perfect coordination with a broad range of plant growth regulators to regulate numerous plant developmental processes, and this book investigates many facets of this relationship. In addition, this research studies the many structural and biochemical adaptation mechanisms that plants have developed to allow them to endure a broad range of abiotic stress con ditions (such as salt, temperature, floods, and drought), as well as biotic interactions (such as attacks by pathogens and herbivores). The huge number of secondary metabolites that plants generate and that are vital to human health as well as their uses in biotechnology and agriculture are discussed. Plant physiology is the study of how plants work to maintain their health and growth. Photosynthesis, respiration, and the breakdown of organic molecules are all examples of plant metabolism that provide plants with the energy they need to survive and thrive.

This work provides coverage of the content statements in the arrangements for Higher Chemistry, organized by the three units in the course: Energy Matters; the World of Carbon; and Chemical Reactions. At the start of each unit students are given guidance on what they need to know and understand.