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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

...y that began like any other day. People around the world went about their typical routines. Soon they found out that this day was diferent, and it s... ...sidents got together to rebel against Zodiac’s forces and a group of them set up shop in the ruins of the former capital. Somehow, some way, the See... ...wered as he found the rope, grabbed it, then shut the trunk. Vincent had set the Seeker down on the road a few feet away at this point and Josh bro... ...incent asked seeming agi- tated. “That’s what I heard. Not a bad idea huh? Set up those dorms as barracks,” Josh said with a smile on his face. “Stup... ... the Seekers, but actually cause damage. The various recordings that were set on looping playback in front of him were not very revealing. Not a si... ...m. “Seekers, how ft is this man?” asked Jade. One Seeker replied in their typical monotone voice, “He is not ft to be a Seeker. He shall become a sl... ...measured by this vibration. The frequency might not be one that you would typically look for, but this may project fear and when a person hits the r... ... him. Despite his obvious enhancements, his hearing was no greater than a typical healthy human. They were utering some type of code, probably their... ...pt a secret, this one was mostly underground. The surface buildings were typically hangers and other structures that looked shabby from the outside...

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Class Heroes: A Class Apart

By: Stephen Henning

...i sitting next to her. Anika was tearing out sheets of paper from another girl’s set of Imperial War Museum worksheets, screwing them up, and handi... ...cked her moment as James Blake came grimly and steadfastly towards her, his face set and his eyes strangely cold, like the Terminator. She would cut... ...r hair back and then was gone. Or maybe she had dreamed that bit? The coach had set off at 07:03 from South Ealing Comprehensive School, with 30 ch... ... 22 The footsteps receded. Lolly relaxed slightly. There was a small window set into the wall to her left. An escape route if she needed it, bu... ...ackdrop. Harden used the mobile incident unit as his office when he was on site. Typically, there were at least two or three other uniformed officer... ...patience with his boss, as he raised his voice. “With respect, Sir, this was no typical car bombing. We know beyond all doubt that there were no ac... ...ip, you and Samantha would all be in a ward together.” “Ladies and gentlemen are typically kept on separate wards, Mrs Randerson,” came the smooth, ... ...another jump? James took another step. Nurse Winter started moving towards him. Typical, thought James wearily. “I’m sorry young man, but no visito... ...een seven days ago. She didn’t like it. She wished she was at home and it was a typical Sunday night. She wanted to be curled up on the sofa watchi...

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Train of Thought

By: Elisabetta Benedetti

...f looking at others, with that mixture of astonishment and disarming willingness typical of those who are not yet familiar with the black holes into... ... When I saw you, I thought you might have a similar desire. Am I wrong?” When I set off on this journey I sought complete solitude. I thought it wa...

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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ...o his strange behest. ‘I understand from your Uncle, Helen, that Sir William, before his death, set up a Trust for the family and heirs of Chandra ... ... obvious, however, that something weighed heavily on the conscience of Gavin’s ancestor, who had set up this strange bequest and, furthermore, stipu... ... 18 hand-held loudhailer the imminent departure of the ship. ‘All visitors disembark, please. We set sail in ten minutes!’ It was now time to say g... ...iking war lord. It must be his giant frame, that blond hair and beard and those intense blue eyes set in the high-cheekboned face of a Norse ancesto... ...al and the famous mosque in which is housed a hair of the Prophet Mohammed. That evening after a typical Kashmiri meal of several courses, Gavin to...

...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; th...

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The Hitler File : A Novel of Fact

By: Sam Vaknin

...et in his past? • Why was the Holocaust, the mass extermination of Europe’s Jews, set in motion only so late in World War II? • Why did the Naz... ...ntine men and you can see why I wasn’t too impressed. And the decibels! Israel’s typical noise level must be illegal in most civilized locales. P... ...he much-feared “Gestapo” Mueller. I imagined him taller. His eyes are still deep set and cunning, his chin still squarely firm despite his years,... ...French. As he took off his glasses, I noticed the abnormal proximity of his eyes, set in cavernous and penumbral sockets. I may have misheard: ... ...What if we are both bumped?” Poor joke. Dan took it seriously. “I am going to set up a task and schedule it. If none of us reschedules the tas... ...nderstand much. But maybe that’s precisely the idea.” Before I could protest his typical opaqueness, Dan gestured retreat: “Sorry, sorry, OK? T... ... you can safely toy around with thousands of bits and go undetected. Actually, in a typical 24-bit bitmap, bits borrowed from three pixels only can ... ... the apartment is yours: kitchen, bathroom. Feel at home. Do you need a laptop?” Typical of Dan to think that a man who was just saved from mutila... ...ship the Jews somewhere and dump them there?” Josh laughed: “You sound like a typical Nazi memo. As late as February 1942, when the Holocaust ...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...y Cured on 1 March." The mother was sedated with laudanum and placed on two planks set across two barrels. While at it, the good doctor removed his... ...utely normal! Cerebral blood flow is evident in the brains of some PVS patients. A typical MRI of a PVS patient shows widespread lesions and wastin... ...or ocean trenches. The five seismograph stations of the Passive Seismic Experiment set up between 1969 and 1977 as part of the United States Apollo... ...who were neither aristocrats, nor clergy). The revolution itself may have been set off by a misunderstanding. The representatives of the ... ... low density (i.e., large interstitial spaces between its atoms). Such "holes" are typical of liquids. Why is glass transparent if it is, indeed... ...l Honey Bees visit 4 million flowers to make one kilo (2 pounds) of honey. The typical bee visits 50-100 flowers in every single trip. Thus, to... ...grams of chemicals and 32 kilograms of water are consumed in the manufacturing of a typical two-gram chip. A 32-MB RAM microchip requires 630 time... ... bitterly competed in the same markets. The Soccer War merely epitomized this deep-set rivalry. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/8350/war.ht... ...m (Moriscos). On 1 November, 1478, Sixtus IV empowered the Catholic sovereigns to set up the Inquisition." The Inquisition persecuted, tortured, i...

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How You Touched Me, You Will Never Know

By: M'Tisunge Michael Phoya

... any of her apologies. She was capable of taking care of herself. And it’s been a week. So much can happen in a week. She was a typical example. She... ...y and its rat racism, decided to take a breather and experience some jungle-ism. For some unknown reason, they had their sights set on Nkhota-kota W... ...to see things. The way we experience each other as people. The way we see and judge each other.” “Keep going.” “The way we set these standards ...

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Werelove Dusk Conspiracy

By: Lakisha Spletzer

...ing for Laylah. Henry had taken that it to consideration and now he would set his plan fully in motion. "There will be no more shifting from any of t... ...ught Naiya running to the kitchen. She looked at the remains of the china set and sighed. She stared at Jacques' back. “Problem?” “He may be my frien... ...is shoulders to the end of the pier and together they had watched the sun set. Eight years old and, to her, Father had been her whole world. After th... ...auffeur Boris drove, Henry read the latest reports and smiled. If the next set of trials yielded the same results, he would begin testing on voluntee... ...minutes to go. She was almost giddy with relief, but disappointed too. So typical of her father. Jacques drummed his fingers on the table and glanced... ...ome. “Laylah, wait!” She ignored Jacques. This was his fault! If he hadn't set this up, she wouldn't be getting humiliated in front of everybody. She... ...“Now, I have places to be. Send my regards to your Alpha.” "Running away? Typical. You are a scaredy cat. Well, good luck,” Gerard growled, annoyed a... ...e the fascination.” The prey was not a classic beauty either. Maybe it was typical male lust that explained the young female’s devoted male protector...

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From Chaos to Harmony

By: Rav Michael Laitman

.... Our egos have now grown to a point where nothing familiar satisfies them. A typical demonstration of the hopelessness we feel is youth’s attitude ... ...able, and they are the ones we think about.” Or, more concisely, “How we can set this wheel of thought-desire-thought in motion?” Here is where the ...

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Steel Dust Dawn

By: John Richman

...an Ritter sir, but most folks just call me Montana.” “Okay Montana. You just set yourself down in this chair and let me take a good look in your m... ...ave right now before it gets too uncomfortable out on the trail.” “I’m all set, Doc,” I replied. “How long a ride did you say it was?” “Taking i... ...n hour sooner, but I’d just as soon take it easy on the horses. If you’re all set, let’s go.” I was so glad to have that pain in my jaw gone that ... ...gh, you better get ready. Aunt Katie serves dinner at exactly seven. You can set your watch by it.” John E. Richman 28 “Thanks for the informat... ...e and he’s the Sheriff now. Anyway, my friend suspected that the fire’d been set and Sheriff Masterson asked me to stay on a while and help him wit... ...spect he’s from a little different blood line, but he stands taller than the typical mustang and he’s better muscled. You say he’s fast and I’ll be... ...r sister back with you if need be.” It was more like being scolded than your typical goodbye, but I knew that was just her way of saying it. Stee...

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The Power in You

By: Wally Amos

...be and get bogged down with expectations it may be counterproductive. You set yourself up for a let down. You need flexibility. Visualizing your dr... ...ces have shown me that a positive mental attitude says, My goal is not to set things right, but to see them rightly. That's what I did with Ruby an... ... learned a very important lesson by learning to swim: I can do anything I set my mind to. I need only make the effort and trust the creative force ... ..., and educational institutions, the institutions that more often than not set the trends and direc~ tions that our nation follows. Let's examine thi... ... campuses and many times I find that the students are led to believe one set of ethics and integrity exist for business and another set for persona... ...ot honest in my relationships with my first two wives. I used all of the typical excuses; hard work for my family and their security was the justif...

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The Kabbalah Experience

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ld no longer an- swer them by ordinary correspondence. Therefore, I decided to set up an Internet site and supply the answers to those requesting the... ...st thought to the final act. Everything is planned ahead. Your entire path is set in advance. You are already in your final state; you just cannot f... ...f the Ten Sefirot.” Here, he explains why he wrote that book. “Indeed, if we set our hearts to answer just one famous question, I am sure that all ... ...lah by myself? A: Studying without a teacher is impossible. The teacher should set a spiritual example, explain about the spiritual structure, how it... ...L A H 97 land of Israel. That is why the prohibition of the study of Kabbalah, set up by the Kabbalists themselves, has been completely lifted in our... ...t. The articles you’ll read will show you that your feelings and thoughts are typical of one who is making progress. RU N BY YO U R S E L F Q: You t... ...confu- sion regarding the Creator. Those feelings are very unpleasant and are typically accompanied by severe descents. T H E K A B B A L A H E X P...

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Kabbalah Revealed

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...time that planetary consciousness was rediscovered. We used to think that the typical, “nor- mal” human consciousness is what we capture with our fi... ...rot: Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, and Yesod. Therefore, the complete set of Sefirot is Keter, Hochma, Bina, Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah,... ...he names.  The Origin of Creation 65 The next thing that Malchut does is to set up a mechanism that examines the Light (pleasure) and decides if ... ... ego does not see a preferable choice, we can choose according to a different set of values. For exam- ple, we could ask ourselves not what would be ...

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Bozo and the Storyteller

By: Matt Jones

...ere early converts and Amiram reminded me not to rush the plot. Mark gave typically wise comments and even managed to slip in the odd extra joke. Va... ...ound coffee up his nostrils. It was only when the shaman’s incense sticks set f re to the sheets that the doctors f nally had the excuse to throw ou... ...g grin. ‘This one, of course.’ By a candle f ame that danced to the rhythm set by the falling rain, Bozo explained the whole thing from the beginning... ...en, as a doctor I may assure you that a temporary loss of memory is quite typical in these types of cases.’ Having gained the attention of the papar... ...aid to Bozo, who looked on with an impressed gaze. ‘Run down the hall and set off the alarms!’ Bozo gave another whoop and was gone in a f ash. Mome... ...eems that you’ve answered your own question.’ He smiled. ‘The Storyteller set the conditions for the Story in his own mind. After that it went along... ...her telling anyone about it these days. Usually, I have to choose another set of names so that it makes sense to them. But if you thought it was a t... ...andomness of a falling star and Buntee accepted this with the fatalism so typical of his countrymen. If he and Theo were to travel through India tog...

...r around him to listen to the latest crazy antics of Hoomanity. But it seems as though the Story itself has gotten out of control. The Hoomans appear set on a course of self-destruction and the Storyteller's health is failing as a result. A Bloon by the name of Bozo volunteers to enter the Story and the Storyteller writes in a boy called Theo to accompany him. Traveling th...

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Noi Functii in Teoria Numerelor

By: Florentin Smarandache

...veral new neutrosophic concepts starting from the notion of neutrosophic fuzzy set, neutrosophic fuzzy matrix, neutrosophic lattices, neutrosophic ... ...f neural networks and genetic algorithm is used in solving problems. A complete set of references is given in the end of the book citing the names o... ...binary relations as well. Given a fuzzy relation R(X, Y), its domain is a fuzzy set on X, dom R, whose membership function is defined by dom (R(x... ...y dom (R(x)) = Y y∈ max R (x, y) for each x ∈ X. That is, each element of set X belongs to the domain of R to the degree equal to the strength... ... n x k are the matrix representations of A, R, B, respectively. Eq. (2) is the typical form of a fuzzy relation equation (FRE) for which the follow... .... . . b 1 b 2 b m a 1 a 2 a n F 1 F 2 W output layer input layer 88 A typical network architecture is shown in Figure 1.15.1, which contai... ...e fuzzy relation equations using fuzzy neural networks [7, 33] is emerging. A typical network architecture, as shown in Figure 1.17.1, contains an... ...on e.g. (∨, ∧) and confine all data to [0, 1], then Eq. (3) which will become a typical FRE like equation (1). Actually, we have discussed the cases... ...guistic variables into 109 numeric values required in most applications. A typical closed- loop system with FLC is shown in Figure 1.18.1. ...

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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

...ucted a reasonably diligent search. The details of the recommendation are set out in Section VI, followed by a discussion of some other proposals th... ...ct to limitations and exemptions, the exploitation of their work. In the typical situation, a person who wishes to exercise one or more of the righ... ...ial comments, and 146 reply comments. 19 Virtually every interest group typically involved in copyright policy debates was represented in the comm... ...d as examples of what they believed to be the orphan works problem; (iii) set out the legal backdrop for the orphan works issue; (iv) summarize the ... ...v) present our findings and conclusions about the orphan works issue, and set forth our recommendations for addressing the problem. ... ...d in the comments in a meaningful and understandable way. First, it will set out the most common obstacles to successfully identifying and locating... ...ok the picture. 30 The most common recurring situation with photographs typically involves the reprinting of old family photographs for preservati... ...any indication that the work may be protected by copyright. Thus, in the typical scenario described in the comments, a clerk or other employee decl... ...ographs, very few of which have any indication of who the author was. 32 Typically these institutions acquire these works by donation, such as wher...

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Narcissism Book of Quotes

By: Sam Vaknin

...ad that day." "In my case N, husband of 12 years, is not exactly malicious. He doesn't set out to hurt me just for kicks, in my opinion. He hurts ... ...nt is, I was getting sick and mad, was losing weight and concentration at work… I'm the typical co-dependent, I know … and I really thought the powe... ...and with a chuckle 'I don't want to hear anything about N'." "Please do help yourself set some firm boundaries. One thing that helps me is to ask ... ...is only too natural in the mayhem that is the relationship with the narcissist. But the typical partner also does not know what she wants and, to a ... ... of both? It is a common occurrence, after all, that, in the same family, with the same set of parents and an identical emotional environment – some... ...n) followed by devaluation characterise many personality disorders (they are even more typical of Borderline PD than of NPD, for example). They ref... ... it is very difficult because the relationship with the narcissist caters to very deep- set, imprinted, emotional needs and landscape of the partner.... ... And does he want to? Vaknin: Yes, I did that with my ex-wife. Actually, there are two typical reactions: One is, to totally erase and delete every... ... Make a list: What does it mean to be a narcissist in your specific case? What are your typical behaviour patterns? Which types of behaviour are cou...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

... relationships of patients with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) are typically impaired due to their lack of empathy, disregard for others, ... ...ist's fantastic grandiosity, frequently coupled with a hypomanic mood, is typically incommensurate with his or her real accomplishments (the "Gran... ...he DSM), or they are "compensatory" (their narcissism compensates for deep- set feelings of inferiority and lack of self-worth). Some narcissists are... ...he narcissist's arrogance and belief that he is superior to others, whom he typically holds in contempt - in other words: the narcissist's grandiose... ...twhile alleged brilliance, and past purported sexual irresistibility – are typical examples of white, fuzzy, heart-warming lies wrapped around a sh... ... False Self – a concocted, grandiose, and demanding psychological construct typical of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The False Self is pro... ...initiated and directed his own abandonment, if it is perceived as a goal he set to himself – he can and does avoid all these untoward consequences.... ...or in catering to the well- being of his "suppliers". To rid himself of deep-set feelings of (rather justified) guilt and shame – he pathologizes th... ...empted DSM Style List of Criteria It is possible to compose a DSM-IV-TR-like set of criteria for the Inverted Narcissist, using the classic narcissi...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...countries like Bangladesh to do the lowest level work. Major corporations set up shop and dropped wages to maximize profits. Low paid Singaporeans to... ...ss system for choosing a leader. I wonder if we should just let Las Vegas set the odds on who would be the best leader, then go with that! It ... ...dership that is essential for a modern society. Plato’s philosopher kings set a standard, but few leaders want to follow the thinking of an oligarchy... ...ves. As in other more advanced countries, the drop in death rates and the typical high birth rates showed a national growth rate of 3.4% with an add... ... from Malaysia in 1965 it became more aggressive in population control. It set up the Family Planning and Population Board which was responsible for ... ...male university graduates was more likely to be with less educated women. Typically men, because of their typical gross insecurity, marry below their... ...ful in some endeavor that is socially useful. We think that the criterion set out by both Sigmund Freud and Ashley Montagu is essential—people shoul...

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Battle at Bighorn

By: John Richman

...gon train in Omaha to seek their fortune out west. Now, Bighorn Lake isn’t a typical wagon train stop and I’ve heard a few stories about how it got... ...s maintained it wasn’t his fault, but they decided to part ways and my folks set up a small farm in the bottom-land. That’s where Mary and I were b... ...itude of the lake, but didn’t seem to be. The Bighorn Lake winter had surely set in. By the time I found the ranch, there wasn’t even star ligh... ...whiskers! Mary, it’s your brother and…and he’s finally come home.” The next set of arms around me were Mary’s. “Oh I’m glad you finally made it. I... ...have enough trouble with those farmers. If the kid got shot in custody, it’d set ‘em against us even more than they already are. Keep him in the co... ... a chance,” he replied and carefully made it over to a bench, where he gently set himself down. “I thank you for comin’ over to tell us, but I’ve go...

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