<p>I t was in Copenhagen, in one of the houses on East Street, not far from King's Newmarket, that someone was giving a large party. For one must give a party once in a while, if one expects to be invited in return. Half of the guests were already at the card tables, and the rest were waiting to see what would come of their hostess's query:</p> <br> <p>"What can we think up now?"</p> <br> <p>Up to this point, their conversation had gotten along as best it might. Among other things, they had spoken of the Middle Ages. Some held that it was a time far better than our own. Indeed Councilor of Justice Knap defended this opinion with such spirit that his hostess sided with him at once, and both of them loudly took exception to Oersted's article in the Almanac, which contrasted old times and new, and which favored our own period. The Councilor of Justice, however, held that the time of King Hans, about 1500 A.D., was the noblest and happiest age.</p> <br> <p>While the conversation ran pro and con, interrupted only for a moment by the arrival of a newspaper, in which there was nothing worth reading, let us adjourn to the cloak room, where all the wraps, canes, umbrellas, and galoshes were collected together. Here sat two maids, a young one and an old one. You might have thought they had come in attendance upon some spinster or widow, and were waiting to see their mistress home. However, a closer inspection would reveal that these were no ordinary serving women. Their hands were too well kept for that, their bearing and movements too graceful, and their clothes had a certain daring cut.</p> <br> <p>They were two fairies. The younger one, though not Dame Fortune herself, was an assistant to one of her ladies in waiting, and was used to deliver the more trifling gifts of Fortune. The older one looked quite grave. She was Dame Care, who always goes in her own sublime person to see to her errands herself, for then she knows that they are well done.</p> <br> <p>They were telling each other about where they had been that day. The assistant of Fortune had only attended to a few minor affairs, she said, such as saving a new bonnet from the rain, getting a civil greeting for an honest man from an exalted nincompoop, and such like matters. But her remaining errand was an extraordinary one.</p>
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<p>Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. </p> <br> <p>Like a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of course there warn’t any of them going my way, as a steady thing, you know, because they travel in a long circle like the loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed as straight as a dart for the Hereafter; but I happened on one every now and then that was going my way for an hour or so, and then we had a bit of a brush together. <br> <br>But it was generally pretty one-sided, because I sailed by them the same as if they were standing still. An ordinary comet don’t make more than about 200,000 miles a minute. Of course when I came across one of that sort—like Encke’s and Halley’s comets, for instance—it warn’t anything but just a flash and a vanish, you see. <br> <br>You couldn’t rightly call it a race. It was as if the comet was a gravel-train and I was a telegraph despatch. But after I got outside of our astronomical system, I used to flush a comet occa-sionally that was something like. We haven’t got any such comets—ours don’t begin. One night I was swinging along at a good round gait, everything taut and trim, and the wind in my favor—I judged I was going about a million miles a minute—it might have been more, it couldn’t have been less—when I flushed a most uncom-monly big one about three points off my starboard bow. <br> <br>By his stern lights I judged he was bearing about northeast-and-by-north-half-east. Well, it was so near my course that I wouldn’t throw away the chance; so I fell off a point, steadied my helm, and went for him. You should have heard me whiz, and seen the electric fur fly! <br> <br>In about a minute and a half I was fringed out with an electrical nimbus that flamed around for miles and miles and lit up all space like broad day. The comet was burning blue in the distance, like a sickly torch, when I first sighted him, but he begun to grow bigger and bigger as I crept up on him. I slipped up on him so fast that when I had gone about 150,000,000 miles I was close enough to be swallowed up in the phosphorescent glory of his wake, and I couldn’t see anything for the glare. Thinks I, it won’t do to run into him, so I shunted to one side and tore along. By and by I closed up abreast of his tail. Do you know what it was like? It was like a gnat closing up on the continent of America. I forged along. <br> <br>By and by I had sailed along his coast for a little upwards of a hundred and fifty million miles, and then I could see by the shape of him that I hadn’t even got up to his waistband yet. Why, Peters, we don’t know anything about comets, down here. If you want to see comets that are comets, you’ve got to go outside of our solar system—where there’s room for them, you understand. My friend, I’ve seen comets out there that couldn’t even l...
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<p>Once, there was a Prince who wanted to marry a Princess.</p> <br> <p>Only a real one would do.</p> <br> <p>So he traveled through all the world to find her, and everywhere things went wrong.</p> <br> <p>There were Princesses aplenty, but how was he to know whether they were real Princesses?</p> <br> <p>There was something not quite right about them all.</p> <br> <p>So he came home again and was unhappy, because he did so want to have a real Princess.</p>
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Książka o charakterze podręcznika, która opisuje metody pozwalające na realizację własnych pragnień. <br> Ukryłeś swoje pragnienia głęboko na dnie serca? Chciałbyś je spełnić? Jesteś ciekawy jak udało mi się zrealizować moje? Jeśli nie masz żadnych pragnień, ta książka nie jest dla Ciebie. Wyobraź sobie, że istnieje sposób na realizację Twoich najskrytszych marzeń i jak może on odmienić Twoje życie. Jeśli podobnie jak ja masz ukryte pragnienia których nigdy wcześniej nie udało Ci się zrealizować, jeśli również jesteś zmęczony swoim życiem pozbawionym niespodzianek i radości, w tym niezwykle praktycznym poradniku znajdziesz kilka prostych sposobów za pomocą których urzeczywistnisz swoje pragnienia. Bez względu na to czy nie udaje Ci się w życiu, czy odniosłeś sukces ale ciągle czujesz w środku nieokreśloną pustkę, ta książka uzbroi Cię w potężne środki do realizacji Twoich pragnień i rozpoczęcia życia o jakim zawsze marzyłeś. <br> <br> PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
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<p>This volume examines the role of oxidative stress in the pathology of numerous pediatric disorders. It covers a wide range of topics including the chemistry and biology of reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide, molecular biology of the enzymes generating these species, clinically useful biomarkers for evaluating oxidative stress status in humans, and the pathophysiology, clinical course and management of a variety of pediatric disorders, among others. The book also describes current diagnostic tools, laboratory methods and technology for treatment and prevention of pediatric disorders.  It explores emerging technology and medical applications including discussions of biomarkers and antioxidants as therapeutic agents. </p> <p>Written by an international team of experts in both pediatrics and  free radical and antioxidant research, <i>Studies on Pediatric Disorders</i> is an invaluable addition to the <i>Oxidative Stress in Applied Basic Research and Clinical Practice</i> series.</p>
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<p>A new take on therapeutic mindfulness with specific applications to troubled and delinquent youth is the focus of this innovative text. It introduces Family Mode Deactivation Therapy (FMDT) and its core concepts and methodologies, differentiating it from other cognitive and mindfulness therapies for adolescents with problem behaviors and comorbid conditions. Step by step applications of FMDT from case conceptualization to assessment and treatment are featured, with detailed case studies demonstrating its effectiveness in treating mood disorders, aggressive behavior and trauma and guidelines for its use with abusive families and other complex cases. The book's depth of clinical detail and appendix of therapist tools make it especially practical. </p> <p>Included in the coverage: </p> <ul> <li>A comparison of MDT with other cognitive approaches.</li> <li>The empirical status of MDT.</li> <li>Mindfulness in MDT process, and in the treatment room.</li> <li>FMDT and sexual offender youth.</li> <li>MDT and mindfulness in the context of trauma.</li> <li>Treating the "untreatable": FMDT and challenging populations.</li> </ul> <p>While <i>Treating Adolescents with Family-Based Mindfulness</i> is immediately useful to practicing psychotherapists, it should also be of interest to other professionals with a role in adolescent health care, such as policymakers, social workers, supervisors, juvenile corrections and youth center personnel and students and researchers.</p>
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<p>Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among the female population. With advances in systemic therapies and modern radiotherapy techniques, breast cancer patients can have a long life-expectancy. However, it is crucial that radiation therapy is carried out with minimum complications and with the utmost efficiency.</p> <p></p> <p><i>Principles and Practice of Modern Radiotherapy Techniques in Breast Cancer</i> provides practical and current theoretical knowledge to the planning and implementation of breast cancer radiation therapy. All aspects of breast cancer are covered, including epidemiology, molecular and biological basis and integrating systemic therapies during all steps of treatment. </p> <p></p> <p>The illustrated section of this book identifies anatomical structures in daily practice by presenting target and critical structures in actual treatment positions. These images show and mark the anatomical points of the patient lying in the position that breast radiation therapy would be performed. </p> <p></p> <p>This text serves as a valuable resource for clinicians, residents and fellows practicing and learning breast cancer radiotherapy.</p>
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<p>This practical and concise guide offers an overview of muscular dystrophy's complicated features, treatment options and general resources. New treatments and a greater understanding of proteins and structures associated with MD are discussed along with long term patient care. Also included are clinical and developmental challenges within the current regulatory landscape and recent scientific and clinical advances. <i>Muscular Dystrophy</i> offers clinicians, researchers, pharmaceutical executives and patient advocacy groups an easy-to-read reference that provides the necessary perspectives of the care giver and patient.</p>
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