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...t day, grey and defeated, my grandpa ploughed the pavement with his barrow, unfolded a worn deck chair, and sank in, awaiting my grandmother's reapp... ... is multiplying. What if we lose? Eli says he has this thing going for him tonight, a wild card, from nature, and he does not dream to stop even tho... ... inclination, his shaded eyes impale the imperturbable dealer, his twitchy hands engulf the cards doled out from the "shoe". It's "21" or Blackjack,... ...f its fingers pointing at the "shoe". The dealer acknowledges him discreetly and draws the cards. He lays them gingerly in front of Eli who, exult... ...al, Uzi was sent to a Kibbutz, never to return, leaving behind unfinished cowboy-and-Indian games on my grandmother's verandah. There were so many t... ... why did she send Uzi to the Kibbutz to start with and tell her how I missed his smile, our games, the bucket loads of water he would pour on me aft... ...ick-witted collaborators. I promise you, we don't throw people to the street after years of dedicated service without enough to buy a drink on such ... ... with anorectic eyes compared our invitation to a clammy list. We slumped into some wooden deck chairs, attired steamily in our discomfiture. Peopl... ...rt off wearily. This anticipatory tediousness causes separation and excites the energies of dedicated love that the fear of loss provokes. Where are...

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...s all so chunky and heavy. They feel like they weigh a ton! Why is she so decked out? Sand and heat scrape her face and Therese visors her eyes with ... ...e poles, chewing cud. An oasis or a mirage? As if in answer one of the men—decked out in full gulf Arab gear and looking so like a Bedouin warrior—tur... ... have been able to get this all off the ground without the help of my full dedicated staff." She flashed a smile just as insipid as his and watched as... ..., either give her the job or not. She hated ceremony and she hated playing games even more. And interviewing was definitely not her forte. Everything ... ... and give her a compassionate look. "You're quite a lucky woman to have so dedicated and concerned a co-worker." Not lucky enough. "What day is it? Ho... ..., and actually just made them up as he went along. Kind of like Riano with cards, when she thought about it. The minute she started beating this older... ...she thought about it. The minute she started beating this older brother at cards, especially games he'd taught her, Riano would flip the script and ch... ...him and peeked over his shoulder while he silently read the classification card, lips moving a mile a second. He finally turned to her and asked, "How... ...ent to carefully place her on the bed like the last playing card atop a 51-deck house. She licked her lips, watched him as he stalked across the mattr...

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... the United States of America Book Design: Rolando F. Santos This book is dedicated to my wife, my mother, Mike Wolter, Shawn McQuillan, and Milton ... ...er third trimester of pregnancy. “ And you are?” asked Vincent. “I’m John Decker. This is my wife Evelyn,” John introduced. “People just call me Eve ... ... then moved almost too fast for the human eye to see, rushing up to John Decker, grabbing him by the neck with one hand and grabbing his sidearm wi... ...your earlier statement about evacuation commander,” Talbot advised. “Look Decker, Zodiac has control of the satellites. Any above ground rebel build... ...for a favor. Since this is going to be a long ride, can we lay all of our cards out on the table so we know what we’re dealing with?” John asked. An... ...g no scarring. “That’s…unreal,” Lexi fnally commented. “There, I’ve put my cards on the table,” Vincent pointed out. John reached out to Vincent’s lef... ...raid.” “Yeah, you mentioned you can’t get scared. You’ll have to put your cards on the table afer we’re moving again,” Vincent requested. “C’mon the... ...gain one day but in the meantime, tyrants can only be overthrown by those dedicated to the cause of freedom, and that my friends, is the cause that ... ...ed to the cause of freedom, and that my friends, is the cause that we are dedicated to.” This time, there was no commotion. People had stopped and w...

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...e said. Dr Bunsen’s eyes rolled. ‘Now, Theo, this is not the time to play games. I have never seen a case of amnesia in anyone younger than 21, and ... ...ross the room in the breeze that came through the window and revealed one card that was written in f uorescent ink. It was the card that had awakene... ...o was the Storyteller? And why had he woken up as Sandra had read him the card? Theo didn’t have any answers yet but he had 15 Theo a strange feeli... ...promised me…’ ‘Oh yes. That one,’ Theo said, as he fumbled around for the card. He found the envelope and discovered that the stamp was also luminou... ...lt down on a thick carpet beside a glass coffee table and reached for the deck of Tarot cards that lay beside a small crystal altar. She spread out ... ...d to and fro, glancing at the Chains on their wrists as they went. Double-decker buses thundered past, their heavy wheels churning up the murky pudd... ...d an old sailing ship rocking across the ocean. The view zoomed in on the deck and then down to the hold, where hundreds of African men and women we... ...ed life in illusion. So he left the palace and spent the rest of his life dedicated to discovering the Truth.’ ‘What a mug!’ Bozo laughed. ‘I’d have...

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...am and by Baker & Taylor, and give the book’s Library of Congress Catalog Card Number, which is 2006025662. ABOUT AUTOGRAPH EDITIONS Au... ...tt First Edition ISBN 978-0-6151-5646-0 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006025662 Printed in the United States of America L... ... oars paced, a boat swung, another boat anchoring alongside, the armor on deck flashing, the waves gulping at the gulls. I turned away, moved back.... ...eir four-pronged flowers, remembering—remembering Alcaeus after his field games, his javelin and discus throwing, his flushed face, his eyes lit, hi... ...ants, an- chored forlornly in the bay, boys swimming around the hulls, the decks bone dry, hawsers trailing, a door off its hinges, the cordage so ro... ...poetry, dreamer, lovely singer. Plays lyre and flute equally well. Adores games, trees, flowers, swimming, archery. Wants to travel, be a priestess.... ...out Charaxos, his heavy drinking, then the darkness and torches, the wild games and dances higher up the mountain... “I shouldn’t have gone with hi... ...s and ankles. What of Phaon’s feet, the rigging they have climbed and the decks they have walked? Storms have crashed over him. He has held his shi... ...t when another brought me: Phaon re- membered it: and now, memories are re-dedicated and burned, their ashes under my sandals, under my fingers and h...

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...acific -- A long voyage and provisions scarce -- Starvation at last stalks the decks -- A barren island discovered -- Land ahead ! -- The starving men... ...ns, or noble women, of that time and place spent infinitely (fabulous sums) in decking themselves with precious stones, purples, pearls, gum, benzoin,... ... Upon landing on its shores he was surprised to find a monastery and a church, dedicated to St. Thomas, located near an active volcano, which he decla... ...tivated than any found in the north. "They reside in great cities, and temples dedicated to their idols, in which they sacrifice men and afterward eat... ...ws: Length, 420 feet; breadth, 57 feet; and from keel to highest point of poop-deck, 72 feet. This immense vessel was propelled by 4000 rowers, beside... ...ere was a gracefully carved temple beautifully inlaid with ivory and gold, and dedicated to Venus. The extraordinary size of this vessel, in the absen... ...onfirmation of such reports, until a belief in their existence became almost a cardinal principle of pious faith. If therefore we feel surprise that a... ... great man will have the same effect. He has known a storm to be brought on by card playing on board his vessel; he has known the storm to pass away b... ...ed in some unaccountable way to inspire both the Emperor Charles and the great Cardinal Ximenes with a high opinion of his ability and so to secure th...

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...am and by Baker & Taylor, and give the book’s Library of Congress Catalog Card Number, which is 2006030830. ABOUT AUTOGRAPH EDITIONS Au... ...tt First Edition ISBN 978-0-6151-4120-6 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Libra... ... oars paced, a boat swung, another boat anchoring alongside, the armor on deck flashing, the waves gulping at the gulls. I turned away, moved back.... ...ants, an- chored forlornly in the bay, boys swimming around the hulls, the decks bone dry, hawsers trailing, a door off its hinges, the cordage so ro... ...s and ankles. What of Phaon’s feet, the rigging they have climbed and the decks they have walked? Storms have crashed over him. He has held his shi... ...t when another brought me: Phaon re- membered it: and now, memories are re-dedicated and burned, their ashes under my sandals, under my fingers and h... ... Leonardo da Vinci also tried to fly, but, he, too, failed.” – Girolamo Cardano, 1555 For Elizabeth ... ...aroscuro like a master: he is best as portraitist. No woman-chaser, he is dedicated to Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French...and all of the arts. When he t... ...what were my best years, the best of my mature years, I ask myself? Those dedicated to my mural, my outcry against war, years that included many pai...

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...Greeke, and almost the Latinr, even translated their whole treatises? Why Cardan maintaineth, neither Homers verse can be well exprest in Latine, no... ...esse will asswage his griefe? who hath not seene some to chew and swallow cardes, aw wel-nigh choake themselves with bales of dice, only to be reven... ...the sea, defied the God Neptune, and in the celebration of the Circensian games, that so he might be avenged on him, he caused his image to be remov... ...a extreme contradiction, not to use any deceipt. I shuffle and handle the cards as earnestly for counters, and keepe as strict an accompt, as if the... ...oras) drawes neare unto the great and populous assemblies of the Olympike games wherein some, to get the glorie and to win the goale of the games, e... ... could never be handled, drest, or mounted but by Cæsar, who when he died dedicated his image to the Goddesse Venus. If I be once on horse-backe, I ... ...as was given him, who would gently suffer himself to be handled, touched, decked, and strowed with flowers, all over and over, many saying when they... ... Montaigne's Essays loose poet. All high and more than humane sciences are decked and enrobed with a poeticall style. Even as women, when their natur... ...rsity also, that as we honour our Kings and celebrate our Holy-daies with decking and trimming our selves with the best habilliments we have; in som...

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...someone’s desk. Instead of puzzling over bits of hardware or typing up punch cards to feed into someone else’s main- frame, Apple owners faced only th... ..., and over the next sev- eral years he spent his spare time devising a punch card system for sur- veyors to use. The U.S. government commissioned him ... ...tally the 1890 Census with his new system, which consisted of a set of punch cards and associated readers that used spring-mounted needles to pass thr... ... meant that it soon outpaced the functionality of appliancized machines like dedicated word processors, which were built to function the same way over... ...paper-based filing systems to shame. 15 Entirely new applications like video games, beginning with text- based adventures, 16 pioneered additional use... ...based adventures, 16 pioneered additional uses of leisure time, and existing games—such as chess and checkers—soon featured the computer itself as a w... ...rs that could be used only to produce documents. For gaming, they would use dedicated video game consoles—just as many do today. A per- sonal checkbo... ... small birdhouses using wood and a saw, most cannot build their own boats or decks, much less pass those creations on to others. Similarly, there are ... ...ility for uses out- side cooking. Stove Slot toaster Generally, toasters are dedicated to heating bread. An electric stove can be adapted for that tas...

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...ad, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. http://www.cjbooks.net 2 Dedicated to my eldest daughter Linia, who not only is a dedicated reader o... ...amming door. These foul creatures have no manners and leave their calling cards in the most inappropriate places. I’d kill for a caffeine fix and my... ...h independence as a man in a straight jacket with a wallet full of credit cards. I concluded some years ago that my younger brother Steven has chron... ...dy thing comes at me at a zillion miles an hour. I was never good at ball games, so I had to walk to the other side of the terminal to pick the bag ... ...tional debt through rubber sales.” “Steven and Ali,” John continues, “were dedicated to their careers and the growth of the family business. They had... ...f,” I said. “Dad’s secretary bulk ordered over the phone. So what did the card say, die for fuck sake?” “No.” Steven frowned. “Told you it wasn’t fro... ... buffet. It’s not one of those modern ten stack CD players with duel tape decks, like the one I have in the lounge. It’s one of those nice wood-grai... ... those nice wood-grain cabinet jobs, you know, the old three in one, tape deck, radio and record player. “Meet Bertram.” Steven is not beating around... ...lept, as I dreamt of a hospital operating theatre that has an observation deck to view procedures. A thousand and one doctors expressed horror while...

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...the classical probability. As, for example, tossing dice or coins, or drawing cards from a well-shuffled deck, or drawing balls from an urn. 4.5 ... ... As, for example, tossing dice or coins, or drawing cards from a well-shuffled deck, or drawing balls from an urn. 4.5 Generalizations: An inter... ...e frame of discernment of hypotheses or universe of discourse by G. Shafer. The cardinality (number of elementary elements) of is denoted . The power ... ...he power set of which is the set of all subsets of is usually noted because its cardinality is exactly . Any element of is then a composite event (dis... ...f the relationships within B° is a brain that can be understood as any machine dedicated to a given a∈B° that processes every a t onto a t+1 . ... ...as in the tossing of a fair coin or the drawing of a card from a well-shuffled deck. Coming back to our original problem of financial misrepresented... ...pleted with that part that could be called the ″theory of absolute relativity″ dedicated to the phenomena occurring in the ″mega-cosmos″, ″giga-cosmo... ... he is very easily interfered and distracted by things outside, e.g., friends, games, music, movie, TV, etc. So the problem is: there are two source...

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...hedule today. By the way,” his voice rising slightly, “I should warn you that Cardinal Berini is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and do... ...y, Your Holiness,” he responded. “We’re giving them a complete tour, and then Cardinal Berini has insisted on giving them a private mass.” Francis ... ...late nodded and moved away swiftly. Eight years before, when the College of Cardinals had elected him Pope, Cardinal, Joseph McCully, had taken th... ...le before the premiere Eminence of the Roman Catholic Church, to which he had dedicated his life The Pope addressed the young priest in Italian. “F... ...pped, and flashed back his own set of perfect teeth. "I do not wish to play games, Senor, but I know you are working on Senator Bingham's campaign... ...with it's own special flavor. One he noted in particular, the entire room was dedicated to Bull Fighting. Photos and art of both Matador and bull, m... ...followed Radcliff down a set of narrow steps that opened into a massive lower deck where Rawlings was waiting. "It's nice to see you again, Senator... ...EA,” Roberto, his second in command yelled. “Hands on your heads, and hit the deck. Faces down!" Madero dropped instantly, hitting the hard, wooden... ...ck us. But we shall attack them first. With our resources, your expertise and dedicated men, we will begin a reign of terror that the Americans have...

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...e, even dangerous. Dysfunctional anger is known to have pathogenic effects (mostly cardiovascular). Most personality disordered people are prone to... ...tes, to grasp what makes them click and tick, and to think and reason like them. I dedicated the last few months to ploughing through reams of anti... ...ntity. The artifacts of popular culture - thrillers, action and sci-fi films, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms, organizatio... ...t Class, High Society passengers were preferred over the Low- Life immigrants under deck. Why do we all feel that the owner should have stayed on a... ...These were treated to the lifeboats before the passengers of the lower classes and decks. Was this a morally right decision? For sure, it was not p... ...udes relative numerical importance measures (not only real numbers) – we call it a Cardinal Utility Function. Games, naturally, can consist of one... ...owever, techniques are available to transform the ordinal utility function – into a cardinal one. A Stable Strategy is similar to a Nash solution – ... ...between work and leisure. The distinction between these two types of time – the one dedicated to labour and the one spent in the pursuit of one's in... ...uld yield the application of the following principles: 1. Areas of specialization (dedicated to hearing, reading, smelling, etc.); 2. Redundancy ...

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...e, even dangerous. Dysfunctional anger is known to have pathogenic effects (mostly cardiovascular). Most personality disordered people are prone to... ...tes, to grasp what makes them click and tick, and to think and reason like them. I dedicated the last few months to ploughing through reams of anti... ...ntity. The artifacts of popular culture - thrillers, action and sci-fi films, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms, organizatio... ...t Class, High Society passengers were preferred over the Low- Life immigrants under deck. Why do we all feel that the owner should have stayed on a... ...These were treated to the lifeboats before the passengers of the lower classes and decks. Was this a morally right decision? For sure, it was not p... ...udes relative numerical importance measures (not only real numbers) – we call it a Cardinal Utility Function. Games, naturally, can consist of one... ...owever, techniques are available to transform the ordinal utility function – into a cardinal one. A Stable Strategy is similar to a Nash solution – ... ...between work and leisure. The distinction between these two types of time – the one dedicated to labour and the one spent in the pursuit of one's in... ...uld yield the application of the following principles: 1. Areas of specialization (dedicated to hearing, reading, smelling, etc.); 2. Redundancy ...

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...ng Pg 1209 Judgment and Measurement Pg 1210 Human Wisdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History ... ...or why our ancestors developed a huge; outer cerebral cortex: 90% of which is dedicated to sight and hand-eye coordination. This is the reason human... ...ence finds that this is not a Constant; then their entire pack of theoretical cards will come crashing down, and they will have to invent some new Co... ...somehow magically gets a job at Niemen Marcus. And cuts up all of her credit cards that her rich father is paying for. Huh? The serious offi... ...ts the outer layer of the human brain. The cerebral cortex. 99% of which is dedicated to processing everything you see visually. The outer layer ... ...Their flight is also their fear of fighting and struggling against the stacked deck and oppression and suffering that they see as being impossible to... ... equally wealthy. The root culture of civilization is tool dominant: it is dedicated to increasing the gross national product of every country on... ...rocess of competition does not reward those who deserve it most. The stacked deck of civilization does not allow billions of people any chance to i... ... states as possible to arrive at the magic number of 50… the same number in a deck of cards of 48 with two jokers; the 2 jokers being Hawaii and Ala...

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...you check out sooner, we'll adjust your daily charges." The clerk handed him a card, "Just fill this out and I'll take an imprint of your credit ca... ...ge should be there when you arrive." Richard handed him his rarely used credit card and wondered if it would cover the bill. He had never bothered ... ...e Circle; he was different, serious, exciting. "It depends." "Are you playing games with me, Dr. Hawk?" she chided coy­ ly. "I told you, I need a ... ...anding for a long moment, he sat down. "Good. Now, can we talk? You've put your cards on the table, now let me put mine. I can't change what I've do... ...ecided to help fund Project Survival, the brain-child of Dr. Hawk, who is a man dedicated to planetary survival and a man with a message." Matloch t... ...he master dealer in the game of power, and he knew how to shuffle and stack the deck to win. "Winning," as coach Lombardi once said, "was not everyt... ... an investigative reporter for the Washington The Soul Bearer III Post he had dedicated himself to exposing corruption wherever he found it. And h... ... stolen plutonium." "We have the General," Brent reminded him. "You're playing games." "No, sir, we are determined not to let the plutonium fall in... ...t agree?" "Mr. President, let's not play politics." "Mr. Brent, let's not play games," the President retorted sharply. "That's exactly what I'm tr...

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...ht. Having exhausted herself to assure his safety, he knew if she hit the deck, the Rider would again get the upper hand. With his fear written all ... ..." The thought made Atlas cringe in an amused manner. "Those two will play cards all night." "Just don't loose your shirt." The guard smirked. The Nom... ...s saw Brendan slap the guard on the back in friendship. "You bet I got me cards. If I got to be up all night, I might as well keep them two up aye."... ...at thing like yah hide yah femininity. Now yah know why yah drew the lucky card." Convinced that Alex had chosen wisely, he shared the Techtronic's ... ...ween the two disgruntled parties; evident was David's wrath. "I swear I'll deck her if she does it to me again!" "You'll deck no one." Alex exerted au... ...e up and tell you?" "Tell us what?" Shaun wasn't in the mood for guessing games. "The bastards were trying to get in on level five, but we fixed the... ...ile. He must be getting on in years." "Stephen's a good human being; he's dedicated his life to me and the complex." "No doubt, excellent technician... ...others, Defect sympathisers, such as Patricia Nelson and her daughter, had dedicated their skills and resources to the project. Until the holocaust, t...

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...ity. Before descending into the bowels of the ship, we had passed from the deck into a long narrow apartment, not unlike a gigantic hearse with window... ...lky, and almost boasted a bay window to view the sea from. So we went upon deck again in high spirits; and there, everything was in such a state of bu... ...r, the crisply curling water, the thin white crust of morning ice upon the decks which crackled with a sharp and cheerful sound beneath the lightest t... ...ore of glistening stars; the helms man at the wheel, with the illuminated card before him, shining, a speck of light amidst the darkness, like some ... ...troduction to me from a mutual friend in London. He sent it below with his card, on the morning of the head wind; and I was long troubled with the id... ...whose arrival we make a party at whist, and as it is a rough night and the cards will not lie on the cloth, we put the tricks in our pockets as we tak... ... from it on either hand. Here they work, read, play at skittles, and other games; and when the weather does not admit of their taking exercise out of ... ...day im proving. The saddest tomb I saw there was ‘The Strang ers’ Grave. Dedicated to the different hotels in this city. ’ There are three principal... ... In addition to these establishments, there is a Roman Catholic cathedral, dedicated to Saint Francis Xavier; and a hospital, founded by the munificen...

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