And even better psychological insight into Dr. JOSEPH O’LOUGHLIN diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
A beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. …
When an unknown young woman is found dead with multiple stab wounds – all of them self-inflicted – the police ask Joe to help them understand the crime. Are they dealing with a murder or a suicide?
Reluctantly, he agrees to help and the brutalised body he views at the mortuary turns out to be someone he knows: Catherine Mary McBride, a nurse and former colleague.
At the same time, Joe is grappling with a troubled young patient, Bobby Moran, whose violent dreams are becoming more real.
As Bobby’s behaviour grows increasingly erratic, Joe begins to ponder what he’s done in the past and what he might do next. Is there a link between his terrible dreams and Catherine McBride?
Hanoi has already started implementing a motorbike ban, beginning with petrol-powered motorbikes inside Ring Road 1 on July 1, 2026. These restrictions aim to combat the city’s severe air pollution, progressively phasing out fossil-fuel vehicles
I’ll believe that when I see it. 😀
I did see tourist areas blocked off for the evening in some other cities. Restaurants and bars could spill on to the street as they do in Europe.
He was worldly having worked on ships from 1911 to 1917. This included stops in the USA.
He lived in France for years. Then moved to Moscow in 1923. And to China in November 1924. In Canton, Hồ organized the Association of Vietnamese Youth.
It wasn’t until 1941 that Ho Chi Minh returned to Vietnam to lead the Việt Minh independence movement.
Cát Bà Island is the latest, greatest tourist jumping off point for boat tours of Hạ Long Bay (or Halong Bay) and Lan Ha Bay. Everyone has seen and heard about this famed UNESCOWorld Heritage Site.
Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
Most of this trip is scenic relaxation. 😀
I spent 2 nights in Cát Bà town andreally enjoyed the tourist trap.
Massive resorts are under construction here. Beautiful tourist attractions, as well.
Here’s the view from my hostel in 2025. Gorgeous sunset blocked by giant crane.
I’m not sure I want to come back when this is all finished.
The collapse of civilization around the world has resulted from massive environmental changes and global disease, which were attributed to large-scale pollution.
… one large family founds an isolated community in an attempt to survive the still-developing global disasters.
As the death toll rises, mainly to disease and nuclear warfare, they discover that the human population left on earth is almost universally infertile.
From cloning experiments … the scientists in the small community theorize that the infertility might be reversed after multiple generations of cloning, and the family begins cloning themselves in an effort to survive.
The assumption is that after a few generations of cloning, the people will be able to revert to traditional biological reproduction. …
What could go wrong?
… only “naturally” produced human in the community, Mark, seeks his own solution to the problem, and by force he leads a group of fertile women and children to abandon the community and start over …
She’s edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, and both times she’s come close to being killed. Now she’s back in England and she’s been persuaded to work on a third.
The new ‘continuation’ novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children’s author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago.
Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam’s killer inside his book, Susan knows she’s in trouble once again.
As Susan works on Pünd’s Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she uncovers more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world – until suddenly she finds that she has become a target herself.
It seems that someone in Eliot’s family doesn’t want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it.
Since the designation of Dong Van Karst Plateau Geopark in 2010, the tourism industry has been growing. Astonishingly popular in 2025 is a loop of some of the scenic roads by jeep or motorbike.
We traveled by sleeper bus from Hanoi to Ha Giang city. Then slept a few more hours in a hostel.
Each tourist has a personal guide / driver.
I called my guide BOSS as he was the leader of the pack.
It’s possible to do the loop on your own, renting a bike. But I understand you’ll be stopped by the police often — and asked to pay a fine / bribe.
The other 2 nights were in a good hotel. And a charming traditional homestay.
Food was excellent. We all gained weight over 3 days. 😀
Everyone in my group left super happy with the experience. No accidents — if you don’t count me running off the bike when my driver hit a hidden pothole at very low speed.
We did about 300km — all good. Dozens of scenic stops.
Drivers know all the best photo stop angles.
Dogs are sometimes dinner in this part of the world. But not this pretty boy. 😀
I DO admire Apple for making the attempt to adapt Asimov’s books to screen.
On the upside, the Mule has finally arrived. We have an interesting bad guy.
Foundation Season 3 centers on the emergence of the Mule, a powerful telepath who throws Hari Seldon’s carefully planned psychohistory into chaos.
A major 152-year time jump sees the Foundation reset, the Galactic Empire’s Cleonic dynasty fracturing, and Gaal Dornick confronting a new reality with the Second Foundation.
The season ultimately concludes with a game-changing finale featuring the Mule’s shocking true identity, the death of major characters, and the revelation of Earth.
Rick McCharles 