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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...lop a plan for mass production of YHL’s low- temperature, hybrid Stirling engines to generate utility-scale power for China’s national utility. In ... ...09; defense spending, TV/flm industry and universities: 2010 Hawai‘i State Data Book. $63.84 billion Gross Domestic Product (2008) TV and Film Industr... ...table air, virtually free of light pollution. After a fve-year, worldwide search, the board of directors of the Thirty Meter Telescope chose Mauna ... ... 8:02 PM 52 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS ocean areas based on satellite data. The National Science Foundation- funded Center for Microbial Oceanog... ...scientists from many APEC economies. IPRC also maintains the Asia- Pacifc Data-Research Center, which provides what Hamilton calls “one-stop shoppi... ... cost-efective healthcare delivery. “From our headquarters in Hawai‘i, we search the world for innovative ideas and technologies, and apply world-cl... ... • For Inquiries, contact bwilson@skaiventures.com At SKAI VENTURES, TM we search the world for ingenious ideas, and transform them into companies wit...

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Utility, Rationality and Beyond – from Behavioral Finance to Informational Finance

By: Sukanto Bhattacharya

...SA Tel.: 1-800-521-0600 (Customer Service) http://wwwlib.umi.com/bod/search/basic Peer Reviewers: 1) Liu Feng, School of Information,... ...nherent imprecision associated with the information gleaned out of market data such as price, volume, open interest etc. A neutrosophic model of risk... ...to as Computational Finance. In Appendix (iii) we have used actual market data to construct a capital-guaranteed financial structured product and mea... ...ximization for the option writer. We have used the following hypothetical data set for conducting our computational study with the haploid genetic a... ...f Personality 35, 1967: 91-108. Goldberg, D. E. Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization & Machine Learning. Singapore: Pearson Education,... ...pdf. Smith, E. Carnot’s theorem as Noether’s theorem for thermoacoustic engines. Physical Review E58, 1998: 2818-2832. Stein, J. Overreaction...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...pletely false assumptions, and has been led on a wild goose chase ever since: searching for non-existent things which don’t exist like gravitons, us... ...address this. Science avoids admitting what it doesn’t know. The Scientific search for any kind of absolute certainty has proven to be a futile que... ... out equally. The Dynamics of Love and Friendship and Happiness is the human search for Relative Equals and Relative Equality. When we find our ma... ...never advance humanity any further. In order to make sense out of scientific data and information: the specialized Fields of Science must be interc... ...s accumulation of specialized unconnected bits of knowledge called scientific data. Separating scientific geometric knowledge from scientific mathe... ...ut-of-context, and drawing mistaken conclusions from interpreting specialized data out-of-context. Which is exactly what Science does. Except to ... ...other. The Iron Age plows of India pulled by draft animals mingle with steam engines, internal combustion engines and jet engines. Modern architec... ...ir interests and activities become. For instance: most of the top 500 search engines used on the Internet were about either pornography, or Brittne... ...elf. Consumer culture is basically meaningless because the only motivational engines that drive this consumption are greed-profit and self-gratifica...

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Fixing Global Finance

By: Kavaljit Singh

...ed materials is sent to us. 4 Fixing Global Finance Contents Acronyms 6-7 Data Notes 8 1. The Unfolding of Global Financial Crisis 9 2. The Global Fi... ...lly Owned Subsidiary WTO World Trade Organization 8 Fixing Global Finance Data Notes Million is 1,000,000. Billion is 1,000 million. Trillion is 1,00... ...ion more people will fall into extreme poverty in 2010. Although real-time data is still not available, a recent World Bank Report estimated that the ... ...annual world trade and output, much of global finance capital is moving in search of quick profits from speculative activities rather than contributin... .... Every day, trillions of dollars move in the world’s financial markets in search of profit making opportunities from speculative investments. These f... ...an focusing on export led growth, domestic markets should act as the prime engines of growth. Besides, principle of equity must be on top of the agend...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...elfe, I finde not myselfe: and I finde myselfe more by chance, than by the search of mine owne judgement. I shall perhaps have cast foorth some suttl... ...ne, give themselves head-long, as it were to all maner of superstition, to search in heaven the causes and ancient threats of their ill-lucke; and in... ...ie Armies, to marshall men, and to deliver battles? And that which strict-searching Philosophie could never perswade the wisest, doth she not of her... ...ll, for the defence of his countrie reared sodainly certaine terror-moving engines, and shewed effects farre exceeding all mens conceit, himselfe not... ...dieworke, supposing he had thereby corrupted the dignitie of his art; his engines and manuall works being but the apprentiships, and trials of his sk... ...vid, Nudaque consistunt formam servantia testæ Vina, nec hausta meri sed data frusta bibunt. -- Ovid. Trist. iii. El. x. 23. Bare wines, still keep... ...d to lanch or hurle with the hand, and sometimes to shoot out of certaine engines, for to defend besieged places: the staffe whereof being wreath'd ... ...obitum, rursumque redegerit, ut sita nunc est, Atque iterum nobis fuerint data lumina vitæ, Pertineat quidquam tamen ad nos id quoque factum, Inter...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...soon as she got out of bed. The hustle and bustle of thousands of students search- ing for classrooms and lining up to buy books was both daunt- ing a... ...n her hand. He had known for weeks that he wanted to do this, and had been searching for the right moment. He wanted her to remember it fondly each ye... ... and changing the spark plugs.” “I’ve noticed you have quite a talent with engines,” Jake said. “I guess.” “It costs me quite a bit to look after the ... ... con- taining a queen sized bed and second shower and toilet. The powerful engines allowed them to zip across the lake and enter the canal in less tha... ...away from the wheel. Lacey took the controls and felt the power of the big engines throb under her hands. They were moving slowly in a speed zone chan... ...ormation about lung cancer, but soon gave that up; the news was all bad. A search of ‘assisted suicide’ turned up several sources of information, but ... ...ndreds of pages of informa- tion. There are reports based on many years of data collected in the Netherlands and Oregon that prove there is no such th... ...ed at this. “The point is, I do not have time to do anything with all this data. It’s ironic that in the pursuit of the right to die with dignity, tho... ...PPENDIX A compendium of factual information about end of life choices. Use data with caution; changes occur frequently. ADVANCE DIRECTIVES MANY PEOPLE...

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A Unifying Field in Logics : Neutrosophic Logic. Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability

By: Florentin Smarandache

...abilities. Besides Mathematics and Philosophy interrelationship, one searches Mathematics in connection with Psychology, Sociology, Economics, ... ...leading part in the world, slowing thus down their creative and vigilance engines. In a universe there are more (concentric or not) universes; ... ...s are ill posed. In practice there is ugly mathematics. Clean the awful data to see the beauty of the theorems. Non-mathematicians crinkle into th... ... to solving certain practical problems posed in the domain of research in Data/Information fusion. So far, almost all approaches are based on the B... ...atics, or functional language to a sequence of modifications to the input data structure. Temporal Logic is an extension of Predicate Calculus that ...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...tatistics Bureau must be instructed to make the gathering and analysis of data regarding the unemployed (through household surveys and census, if ne... ... I recommend to place computer terminals in all bureaus with the latest data regarding jobs offered and sought. Both employers and the unemployed ... ...is There are a few statistical methods used to gauge employment-related data. The easiest, most immediate but least reliable way is to count the n... ...eer pressure and social oversight are strong. Contrast this with the two engines of American economic growth: entrepreneurship and workaholism. Th... ...d anti-Europeanism - these are the hallmarks of these social movements in search of a cause. As more and more workers join the ranks of the middle ... ...and Eastern Europe categories in various Web directories (Open Directory, Search Europe, Mentalhelp.net). Editor of the Personality Disorders, Narc...

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Narcissism Book of Quotes

By: Sam Vaknin

...ut it, now. Cut the cord, and never look back." "Of course, as normal human beings, we search inside ourselves for answers. That is precisely what ... ...eeling because we know something is 'off' but can't put our fingers on it that we start searching around and find ourselves here. Then all the piece... ...hen, fool that I was, tried to become a crusading Pollyanna, armed with books, clinical data, case histories – I valiantly tried to cure him. Sam Va... ...in 3 million chance of becoming a human being." Return Random Quotes Search Sam's Web site: http://samvak.tripod.master.com/texis... ...o resources about psychological, verbal, and emotional abuse. Rick A. Ross Institute A database of information about cults, destructive cults, cont... ...nes for selecting online mental health care providers and counselours as well as online databases. Counselling Services on the Web Psychological cou... ...Personality Disorders The phrase "narcissistic personality disorders" on various search engines – news, multimedia, lists and off-Web. Open Site Nar...

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Modelling of Rationality...and Beyond the Physics

By: Gh. C. Dinulescu

... Tel.: 1-800-521-0600 (Customer Service) http://wwwlib.umi.com/bod/search/basic (Books on Demand) Copyright 2002 by American Research P... ... the Madian region, neighboring that mountain. - According to historical data, the eruption of the Santorin volcano did not occur at the same time ... ...eing is obsolete, and thus, the scientific effort must be directed toward searching for and producing proofs to confirm the veracity of the hypothes... ...century seem to be more evolved as compared to the preceding ones (rocket engines type) and supposedly they use mental energy for propulsion. If the... ...uch cases did occur, then that of Michel Nostradamus is one of them. (All data converge towards the idea that Nostradamus seems to be, with a very h... ...ially split, means for the latter: an experiment and a sense of awareness, search and discovery, participation in one′s own creation as well as purif... ...f nine months, that is on March 25, before December 25. According to real data, the Anunciation took place on December 25, year 3 B.C., the bodily b...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...and over them were eight huge boilers! This was unutterable pomp. The mighty engines—but enough of this. I had never felt so fine before. And when I f... ...oes!” Somebody else muttered— “Oh, it was done beautiful—BEAUTIFUL!” Now the engines were stopped altogether, and we drifted with the current. Not tha... ...eel! Quick! Ship up to back! Set her back!” The engine bells jingled and the engines answered promptly, shooting white columns of steam far aloft out ... ...s! poor boy, poor boy!” By this time the boat’s yawl was manned and away, to search for the missing. Now a faint call was heard, off to the left. The ... ...enched, while cheer on cheer went up. It was that devil To m . The yawl crew searched everywhere, but found no sign of the two men. They probably fail... ...d paid for them. When occasion demanded, it sent members down the river upon searches for the bodies of brethren lost by steamboat accidents; a search... ...what an opportunity is here! Geology never had such a chance, nor such exact data to argue from! Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 109 Nor “deve... ... send by skiff to Natchez to get it to you. It is impossible to get accurate data as to past crops, etc., as those who know much about the matter have...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...ness we had gained in our revolution and, by his devout love of France, to search out and subject to the test of reason the basic prin- ciples of free... ...it has not the sanction of public opinion. If M. De T ocqueville could now search for a law that would negative this provision in its effect upon soci... ...eways of a thousand palaces? 52 Democracy in America places, much more to search unknown coasts. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desol... ...he compact vigor of a man, and by the sole act of its will it puts immense engines in motion, and wields or collects the efforts of its authority. Ind... ...don, therefore, our numerical investigation, with the hope of meeting with data of another kind. In the ab- sence of positive documents, we may form a... ...s, unquestionably, have not resolved this problem, but they furnish useful data to those who un- dertake the task. Importance of What Precedes with Re... ...condescended to write any treatise on the manner of constructing all these engines of offence and defence. And as he held this science of in- venting ... ...d defence. And as he held this science of in- venting and putting together engines, and all arts generally speaking which tended to any usetul end in ...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Conan Doyle

...indeed a mystery,” I remarked. “What do you imagine that it means?” “I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Inse... ...y appearance saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean to wear... ... a woman’s dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We may take ... ...ithout delay.” We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: “Good nigh... ...ry point of view until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now prepar... ...venture of the Speckled Band 141 to Doctors’ Commons, where I hope to get some data which may help us in this matter.” It was nearly one o’clock when ... ...spouting fire at every chink and window, while in the garden in front three fire engines were vainly striving to keep the flames under. “That’s it!” crie...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...as Canteloup, and thence re- turned, having got some intelligence. I am in search of one Captain Rous, to whom . . . wrote, trying to draw him into hi... ...is to make us understand his inventions of building bridges and contriving engines of war,—[De Bello Gall., iv. 17.]—and how succinct and re- served i... ...culties wherein he had so long continued to evade the strict and incessant searches that were every day made for him, the little pleasure he could hop... ...fence of his country, that he suddenly set on foot dreadful and prodigious engines, that wrought effects beyond all hu- man expectation; himself, notw... ...ng to Pythagoras, “T o what purpose,” said he, “should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually... ...ue consistunt, formam servantia testae, Vina; nec hausta meri, sed data frusta, bibunt.” [“The wine when out of the cask retains the form of t... ...hey sometimes in the field darted by hand, sometimes from several sorts of engines for the defence of beleaguered places; the shaft being rolled round...

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The Sea Wolf

By: Jack London

...re felt, however, and Wolf Larsen patrolled the poop constantly, his eyes ever searching the sea to the northeastward, from which direction the great ... ...encer and myself know how hard I hammered. But I did get something out of his ‘Data of Ethics.’ There’s where I ran across ‘altruism,’ and I remember ... ...ck, by seeing Wolf Larsen reading the Bible, a copy of which, after the futile search for one at the beginning of the voyage, had been found in the de... ... phenomena of life, Hump,” he girded at me. “Stay and watch it. You may gather data on the immortality of the soul. Besides, you know, we can’t hurt J... ...an inch in the solid wood. A few minutes later the mate came fumbling about in search of it, but I returned it privily to Leach next day. He grinned w... ... primitive fighting beast, and I was as strongly impressed as if I had seen the engines of a great battleship or Atlantic liner. I was surprised, consi... ...ckled. “I’ll beat you out, and I hope you no worse than that you rack your old engines into scrap.” When we hove to, a hasty though orderly confusion ... ...right red light and a white light, and I could hear the pulsing of a steamer’s engines. Beyond a doubt it was the Macedonia. Wolf Larsen had returned ...

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

... at my disposal when in Lon don, I had visited the British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the library regarding Transylvania; it... ... I sat and pondered awhile, and then some thought occurred to me, and I made search of my portmanteau and in the wardrobe where I had placed my clothe... ...ey of the room or the key of the outer door, which was the main object of my search, I must make further examination, or all my efforts would be in va... ...said. “I can hazard no opinion. I do not know what to think, and I have no data on which to found a conjecture.” “Do you mean to tell me, friend J... ...e Professor went on. “And now we must settle what we do. We have here much data, and we must proceed to lay out our cam paign. We know from the inq... ...aid to think what may happen. If we could only go faster. But we cannot. The engines are throbbing and doing their ut most. I wonder how Dr. Seward a...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...of conjecture, and leave it to the reader’s judgment to decide whether the data justify the inference or not. The men whose names by common consent st... ...he thought fit to confer the title of Lady of his Thoughts; and after some search for a name which should not be out of harmony with her own, and shou... ...t your worship to such a pass.” They carried him to bed at once, and after searching for his wounds could find none, but he said they were all bruises... ... it that by daylight they held themselves safe from discovery, even should search be made for them. Sancho rode on his ass like a patriarch, with his ... ...t with the utmost assiduity he undermined the rock of her purity with such engines that had Camilla been of brass she must have fallen. He wept, he en... ... show. Happy the blest ages that knew not the dread fury of those devilish engines of artillery, whose inventor I am persuaded is in hell receiving th... ...arts of Africa, and in the train of all this great host such munitions and engines of war, and so many pioneers that with their hands they might have ...

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Mudfog & Other Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...able to a fire office; never was a man with such a natural taste for pumping engines, running up ladders, and throwing furniture out of two pair of s... ... swore solemnly of course as a mere matter of form. He argued from these DATA that it was wholly unnecessary for members of Parliament to possess ... ... Captain Blunderbore, of the Horse Marines, who as sisted the author in his search, that whenever he winked this eye he whisked his tail (possibly to...

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The First Men in the Moon

By: H. G. Wells

...a garment of knowledge to which I have no claim. The object of Mr. Cavor’s search was a substance that should be “opaque”—he used some other word I ha... ... moon world was still. But it was some time before we resumed our crawling search for the vanished sphere. When next we saw mooncalves they were some ... ...ng the rocks and vegetation of the crater. All the distress of our frantic search for the sphere returned to me. … Finally the opening of the great li... ... Then he seemed to decide for my reasons. “I think,” he said, “one can get data. It is clear that while the sun is on this side of the moon the air wi... ... the cave would probably get reinforced. Heaven alone knew what tremendous engines of warfare—guns, bombs, terrestrial torpedoes—this unknown world be...

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Doctor Grimshawe's Secret a Romance

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...nd yet again—he “tries back,” throwing the topic into fresh attitudes, and searching it to the marrow with a gaze so piercing as to be terrible;—all t... ...ning their parchment or black leather backs upon you, those ma chines and engines, that table, and at it the Doctor, in a very faded and shabby dress... ...ou have some papers?” “They existed once: perhaps are still recoverable by search,” 53 Hawthorne said the schoolmaster. “My father knew of them.” “A ... ...ked the Doctor, “and what marks, signs, directions, have you to guide your search? And moreover, how have you come to any knowledge whatever about the... ...nd then over his dress and figure, as if to gather from them some reliable data as to his station. “I am the Warden of this Hospital,” said he, with n...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

...unreasonable, that at times I find it bordering upon the in- credible. The data have gone, the buildings and places. I stopped dead the other afternoo... ...she thought that it would certainly exercise a favorable influence upon my search for a situation throughout the next week, and in addition Mr. Gabbit... ...in his eyes, I didn’t shine. Failing any other stimulus, he reverted to my search for a situation, but even that did not engage me. S S S S Section 5 ... ...s silver ring shone in the sky light. “Rum,” he said. “What is?” I asked. “Search-lights! Smoke! Ships going north! If it wasn’t for this blasted Milk... ...ed behind her funnels. I could hear the throb and clangor of her straining engines… . I became aware of the voices of people calling to one an- other ... ...ered on the bridge and fell, the stoker fell headlong among his coals, the engines throbbed upon their way untended, the fishing craft drove by withou... ... place must have still quivered and throbbed with the familiar roar of the engines. And this though no men ruled there at all any more! Here and there...

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...utting in the woof. How the Hofrath Heuschrecke is to furnish biographical data, in this case, may be a curious question; the answer of which, however... ...under the title of Satan’s Invisible World Displayed; which, how- ever, by search in all the Weissnichtwo Libraries, I have not yet succeeded in procu... ... my unknown Father’s name I must hesitate to believe. To no purpose have I searched through all the Herald’s Books, in and without the German Empire, ... ...ad other work cut out for him than whimpering.” Such, after utmost painful search and collation among these miscellaneous Paper-masses, is all the not... ... whole worlds, I shall forbear mention: but cannot the dullest hear Steam- engines clanking around him? Has he not seen the Scot- tish Brass-smith’s i... ...d ashes thereof (in these Judgment-Halls and Churchyards), and its bellows-engines (in these Churches), thou still seest; and its flame, looking out f...

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The Soul of a Bishop

By: H. G. Wells

... for the electric light that was possibly on the little bedside table. The searching hand touched something. A water-bottle. The hand resumed its expl... ... nei- ther antagonistic nor malicious. He had always felt there that if he searched his Londoner to the bottom, he would find the completest recogniti... ...m, he would find the completest recognition of the old rectory and all its data and implications. But Princhester was different. Princhester made one ... ...inct hints that he should “mind his own business,” he exerted himself in a search for methods of reconciliation. He sought out ev- ery one who seemed ... ...a garage, and a yard where chauffeurs were accus- tomed to “tune up” their engines. All these facts were persis- tently audible to any one sitting dow...

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When the Sleeper Wakes

By: H. G. Wells

... a breath of mo- mentous happening. His enquiries became more definite and searching. Howard retreated through protests and difficul- ties. The awaken... ...h the ribs of its body, Graham saw two little men, very minute and active, searching the snowy areas about him, as it seemed to him, with field glasse... ... Who am I?” The others came nearer to hear his words. “Who am I?” His eyes searched their faces. “They have told him nothing!” cried the girl. “Tell m... ...he hollow basin of the world below, but at first he could distin- guish no data now that the Thames valley was left behind. Soon, however, they were d... ...hed engi- neer crawling against the gale along a ladder way, of spout- ing engines beating together, of the whirling wind screw, and of a wide waste o... ... dexterity of counting and numbering machines, building machines, spinning engines, patent doorways, explosive motors, grain and water elevators, slau... ...and rose the great red painted masses, the cranes and levers and the still engines of the big building machine. He was at the top of the steps. He was...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...of conjecture, and leave it to the reader’s judgment to decide whether the data justify the inference or not. The men whose names by common consent st... ...he thought fit to confer the title of Lady of his Thoughts; and after some search for a name which should not be out of harmony with her own, and shou... ...t your worship to such a pass.” They carried him to bed at once, and after searching for his wounds could find none, but he said they were all bruises... ... it that by daylight they held themselves safe from discovery, even should search be made for them. Sancho rode on his ass like a patriarch, with his ... ...t with the utmost assiduity he undermined the rock of her purity with such engines that had Camilla been of brass she must have fallen. He wept, he en... ... show. Happy the blest ages that knew not the dread fury of those devilish engines of artillery, whose inventor I am persuaded is in hell receiving th... ...arts of Africa, and in the train of all this great host such munitions and engines of war, and so many pioneers that with their hands they might have ... ... thee the smocks she promised; and although that virtue of thine is gratis data—as it has cost thee no study whatever, any more than such study as thy...

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The Research Magnificent

By: H. G. Wells

...issing over- night, and this morning his brother who had been prowling and searching with some dogs had found him, or rather his head. It was on this ... ...veral or many in compatible and incommensurable gods; science, in the same search for unity, may follow divergent methods of inquiry into ultimately u... ...re in ‘em. As well sup- pose that the passengers on a liner understand the engines, or soldiers a war. Before men can think of to-morrow, they must th... ... the world, things that set the mind hunting among ineffectual images in a search for impossible expression, images of sunlight shining through blood-... ...and turned up maps and worried over strategic problems for which he had no data at all—as every one did at that time—before he was able to go on with ... ...over the whole place, and they had injured noth- ing. They had stopped the engines, but they had not even disabled them. Here too manifestly a majorit...

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The C‘Sars

By: Thomas de Quincey

...tor in the king of the Parthians. Possibly, had an opportunity offered for searching the Parthian chancery, some treaty would have been found bind- in... ...man nature; we might à priori pronounce them impossible; and in fact, upon searching history, we find other modes of solv- ing the difficulty. In real... ...in can- ing or cudgelling the inferior soldiers: “propterea vitis in manum data,” says Salmasius, “verberando scilicet militi qui deliquisset.” We are... ...ed law, suddenly himself becoming a capital offender, a glozing tempter in search of accomplices, and in that character at once standing before the me... ... And whose libraries might be written on these same colonies considered as engines of exquisite state policy. reign, sustained at no very distant inte...

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The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

...part from the bystand ers; and, beckoning his friend to approach, fixed a searching look upon him, and uttered in a low, but distinct and em phatic ... ...o,’ replied Mr. Bob Saw yer. Ben Allen coughed hopelessly, and directed a searching look between the two top bars of the stove. ‘It’ll be a deuced un... ...e house turned out of the window, and noise enough made to bring the fire engines here, at two o’clock in the morning?—Turn them wretches away.’ ‘You... ...up the stairs, and then along the passage, and then into the bar, as if in search of somebody to whom he bore a commission; whereupon the barmaid, con... ...d precise second at which they were visible: all of which were to form the data of a volumi nous treatise of great research and deep learning, which ... .... The din of hammers, the rushing of steam, and the dead heavy clanking of engines, was the harsh music which arose from every quarter. The postboy wa...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...e blue depths with my scru- tiny , sweeping them forever with my eyes, and searching them for one angelic face that might, perhaps, have permission to... ...ed to presume that he had made an assault upon somebody or other, I looked searchingly into his eyes, and observed that they seemed glazed, and as if ... ...ambush, waiting and lurking for him, and looking at him steadily as an eye searching the haunted places of his conscience. These cases are in prin- ci... ...closer study of the question, and a laborious collation of the differ- ent data, (for any single record, independently considered, can here establish ... ...h blossoms, not until our 249 Autobiographic Sketches trade and our steam engines began to stimulate the coal mines, which in their turn stimulated t...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...2 Crisis:August 1998 115 4.3 Diplomacy 121 4.4 Covert Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND... ...b. We thank the Congress and the President. Executive branch agencies have searched records and produced a multitude of documents for us.We thank offi... ...ned cruising altitude of 29,000 feet.All communications and flight profile data were normal.About this time the “Fasten Seatbelt” sign would usually h... ...t down keep remaining sitting.We have a bomb on board. So, sit.”The flight data recorder (also recovered) indicates that Jarrah then instructed the pl... ...t to turn the aircraft around and head east. 75 The cockpit voice recorder data indicate that a woman, most likely a flight attendant, was being held ... ...ary escort aircraft to follow the flight, report anything unusual, and aid search and rescue in the event of an emergency.The NMCC would then seek app... ...1, 2001, 09:10:02; FDNY inter- view 45, HQ (Mar. 8, 2004). 102. For the 23 engines and 13 ladders dispatched, see FDNY records, computer-aided dispatc...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...porary discus- sion, was pretty evidently in mind in the very striking re- searches of the Abbé Mendel to which Mr. Bateson—with a certain intemperanc... ... species and which I would gladly see exterminated.” Now every man who has searched his heart knows that this formulation of “criminality” as a specif... ...its by telling him the earth is round; amidst trees, animals, men, houses, engines, utensils, that are all capable of being good or naughty, all fond ... ...pon the truth, who is truthful, not merely technically but in a con- stant search for exact expression, whose own share of the school work is faultles... ...ance for a moment or so now, in the most tentative fashion, at some of the data for this inquiry, and then revert from this excursion into general the... ...r here more than anywhere lying is the poi- son of life. But between these data there are great interroga- tive blanks no generalization will fill—cas...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

... the great prosperities of men;—because there law was enacted, the sea was searched, the land was found, or the blow was struck, for us, as we ourselv... ... his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers, and in the search after truth finds, like them, new perils to virtue. He learns again ... ...everence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disapp... ... those who have these. It re- sembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars. The in- violate... ...find him out to-morrow. ’ ‘What has he done?’ is the divine question which searches men and transpierces every false reputation. A fop may sit in any ... ...where the English- man who made the good speeches, combined the accu- rate engines, and did the bold and nervous deeds. It is even worse in America, w...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

... birds wherever there were lakes of brine. I saw them here wading about in search of food— probably for the worms which burrow in the mud; and these l... ...assed the night in Punta Alta, and I employed 91 Charles Darwin myself in searching for fossil bones; this point being a perfect catacomb for monster... ...ng so little food. The larger quadrupeds no doubt roam over wide tracts in search of it; and their food chiefly consists of underwood, which probably ... ...ed that the comparison of the respective weights (if there were sufficient data) of an equal number of the largest herbivorous quadrupeds of each coun... ... as compared to those in England: here no smoke, furnaces, or great steam- engines, disturb the solitude of the surrounding mountains. The Chilian gov...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...hings. We seem to be doing feeble next-to-nothings in the endowment of re- search. Not one in twenty of the boys of the middle and upper classes learn... ...nd much swifter, and be improved in a dozen ways—we must get self-starting engines, for ex- ample, for both our aeroplanes and motor-cars—but it is av... ...f in the place of a good work- man, a young, capable miner, let us say, in search of an an- swer to that question. He is, we will suppose, temporarily... ...ople, is a greater supply of able educated men, versa- tile men capable of engines, of aviation, of invention, of lead- ing and initiative. We need mo... ...ons and exact measurements of a science, and to set up ideals and rules as data for such classi- fication and measurements. They develop an alleged se... ...f a proposed science rather than concrete beginnings and achievements. The search for an arrangement, a “method,” continues as though they were not. T... ...sentially fluid and moving, the tendency to consider as given fact or dead data that which creates itself and gives itself into the world of phenomena...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

... putting in the woof. How the Hofrath Heuschrecke is to furnish biographical data, in this case, may be a curious question; the answer of which, howev... ..., un der the title of Satan’s Invisible World Displayed; which, however, by search in all the Weissnichtwo Libraries, I have not yet succeeded in pro... ...as my unknown Father’s name I must hesitate to believe. To no purpose have I searched through all the Herald’s Books, in and without the German Empire... ... had other work cut out for him than whimpering.” Such, after utmost painful search and collation among these miscellaneous Paper masses, is all the n... ...kes whole worlds, I shall forbear mention: but cannot the dullest hear Steam engines clanking around him? Has he not seen the Scottish Brass smith’s I... ... CENTRE OF INDIFFERENCE 111 Judgment Halls and Churchyards), and its bellows engines (in these Churches), thou still seest; and its flame, looking out ...

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...t, an extra armful of wood to be chopped, the dishes to be washed and wiped, a search to be made through the outfit for some suddenly indispensable art... ...themselves into the forest to chop wood on their knees. Once, crawling thus in search of dry sticks, unknown to each other they entered a thicket from... ... bad sort of a chap, after all.” He smiled at their eulogies, and passed on in search of a Turkish bath. It was the same old crowd upon the streets. S... ...m more intimately to follow their mental processes, and thereby to gather much data for a projected chapter in some future book which he planned to en... ...Tactics and Strategy” remained unwritten for lack of a trifle more of essential data which he had neglected to gather. So Freddie Drummond went down fo... ...gather. So Freddie Drummond went down for the last time as Bill Totts, got his data, and, unfortunately, encountered Mary Condon. Once more installed ... ...down to the latest labor recruiters equipped with automatic rifles and gasolene engines, scores of white adventurers have been passed out by tomahawks ... ... design, not chance, and it contained the speech and wisdom of the stars. What engines and elements and mastered forces, what lore and mysteries and d...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...st words Joe said when they were again alone was “My tablets.” She went in search of them to his dressing- room, and not finding them there, was about... ...her’s table on her way to the consulting-room. She intended to prevent any search, by herself producing the will from among his papers, for she was in... ...cal papers, and pushing them aside from where she had pulled them forward, searched till he had found a long cartridge-paper envelope, which he laid o... ... be not to have to take drives when all the roads were beset with traction engines. She had so far helped Armine out of the difficulties his lavish as... ...ve offered freely to share all that I shall gain, if I may only obtain the data needful to perfect zie discovery of zie learned and ven- erated father...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...ld profit us little to study this second-hand religious life. We must make search rather for the original experiences which were the pat- tern-setters... ... empirical philoso- phy has always contended that we must be guided in our search for truth. Dogmatic philosophies have sought for tests for truth whi... ...is distinctness from the Father and the Son. It is a subject that requires searching into to find out, but, when realized, gives one so much more true... ...conomical relations. I think that the method which Mr. Spencer uses in his Data of Ethics will help to fix our opinion. Ideality in conduct is altoget... ...is mysticism made him assuredly one of the most powerfully practical human engines that ever lived. Saint John of the Cross, writing of the intuitions... ...mystical states merely add a supersensuous meaning to the ordinary outward data of consciousness. They are ex- citements like the emotions of love or ...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

..., in a little time, see established in every part of this country the same engines of despotism which have been the scourge of the Old World. This, at... ...ons had in their hands the superstition of the times, one of the principal engines by which government was then maintained; they had a declared author... ...ly occur to him, that he would be likely to find the precautions he was in search of in the primitive compact between the States. Here, at length, he ... ...per size; and being at the separate disposal of the members, they would be engines for the abridgment or demo- lition of the national authcrity. Reaso... ...may safely challenge those who make the assertion to bring for- ward their data, and may affirm that they would be found as vague and uncertain as any... ...itutions must be sacrificed. Perhaps, also, an answer may be found without searching beyond the prin- ciples of the compact itself. It has been hereto... ...hese causes, from the States whose elec- tions are different from both. In searching for the grounds of this doctrine, I can discover but one, and tha...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...ly were a great requisite, he entreated them to look to facts, and compare data, about which there could be no mistake. Bung was 35 years of age. Spru... ...people were standing, poring over large volumes. As we knew that they were searching for wills, they attracted our attention at once. It was curious t... ... contrast the lazy indifference of the attorneys’ clerks who were making a search for some legal purpose, with the air of earnestness and interest whi... ...as one little dirty-faced man in a blue apron, who after a whole morning’s search, extending some fifty years back, had just found the will to which h... ...e in any one of Mrs. Radcliffe’s castles; omnibus horses smoked like steam-engines; nobody thought of ‘standing up’ under doorways or arches; they wer...

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