"Thoughts" was written in only 51 days, during which the author sat down at his computer every morning, with just one idea in mind, to get the thought written down, edited and corrected. He also reaches far and wide, writing about China, the building activities taking place in Spain, a Ford Fiesta and the snow in Norway. We thus understand very well that he after 51 days felt that enough was enough and proudly declared that that was that, had a glass of red wine and went for a long walk through the magnificent landscape surrounding him.
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"Hello beautiful. I am Popeye." In 1998 I met Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez—alias "Popeye"—lieutenant to the Medellín Cartel's leader, Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Our first encounter was at the high security yard of the Modelo Prison in Bogotá, Colombia. I visited the prison frequently as a journalist for RCN TV. I was always conducting interviews and speaking to the inmates, uncovering news about what was really happening inside the prison. At that time, stories about confrontations between guerrilla and paramilitary factions were everyday news. You could often hear shots inside the prison as the different sides fought for control. I had always wanted to meet one of the members of the Medellín Cartel. I was curious to know who they were, what they looked like, and what these men, who belonged to the most powerful drug cartel that has ever existed in Colombia, were thinking. At the high security yard I was able to talk with two of them. The most notorious was Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez. "Hello beautiful. I am Popeye." The man who sat in front of me stared at me. His pale skin reflected the six years he had been in prison; in fact, it looked as if he had never once stepped outside. Popeye smiled at me with curiosity while his cold eyes examined me from head to toe. We were introduced by another inmate, Ángel Gaitán Mahecha, a man accused of paramilitarism and homicide. My first impression was surprise and curiosity; I also examined him from head to toe. He wasn't quite six feet tall. His slim body and the smile on his face almost put me at ease. I thought this man couldn't possibly frighten anyone, and yet I couldn't forget the number of homicides in which he had been involved. I wanted to see into the mind of the man who planned and participated in the most horrible homicides that the cartel had carried out in their war against the state.
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Super System Deluxe bringt die größten Pokerspieler und Theoretiker von heute zusammen. Dieses Buch soll nicht das ursprüngliche Super System ersetzen, sondern vielmehr eine Erweiterung dieses großartigen Werkes sein, mit mehr Spielen, neuen Autoren und vor allem mehr Profigeheimnissen von den besten Pokerspielern der Welt. Die Liste der Poker-Superstars wird von Doyle Brunson angeführt, dem zweimaligen Gewinner der World Series of Poker und einem der besten Pokerspieler aller Zeiten. Seine persönlich ausgewählten Experten, die in diesem Buch zu Wort kommen, sind: Daniel Negreanu, Pokerspieler des Jahres 2004; Lyle Berman, Begründer der World Poker Tour; Bobby Baldwin, World Poker Champion 1978 und Präsident des Bellagio; Johnny Chan, zweimaliger World Poker Champion; Mike Caro, einer der besten Poker-Forscher, Theoretiker und Lehrer; Jennifer Harman, gehört als beste weibliche Spielerin in der Geschichte des Pokers zu den besten zehn Spielern der Welt; Todd Brunson, Gewinner von mehr als 20 Turnieren und Crandell Addington, eine Legende des No-Limit Hold'em. Super System Deluxe beschäftigt sich mit Veränderungen in der aktuellen Pokerszene. Doyle Brunson hat ein neues Kapitel über Internetpoker geschrieben und andere Poker-Superstars gebeten, über Turnier-Strategien und Spiele wie Limit Hold'em, Pot-Limit Omaha, Seven-Card Stud High-Low Eight-or-better, Triple Draw und Omaha Eight-or-better zu schreiben. Und natürlich beinhaltet Super System Deluxe Doyle Brunsons Meisterwerk über No-Limit Hold'em, einen der besten Texte die je über das Thema verfasst wurden. Super System Deluxe ist unverzichtbar für alle Pokerspieler, die ihr Hobby ernst nehmen und die von den besten Pokerspielern der Welt lernen wollen!
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Could the fate of humanity be in the hands of one single person? So many different things could erase humans from the surface of this planet. In this novel, the threat that Homo sapiens face would annihilate them in such a sudden and surprising way that no one would see it coming. However... ---- Fifteen seconds before the Event Lucien walked into the ophthalmology clinic, clueless to the fact that within fifteen seconds he would be experiencing the first manifestation of the Event. « The Event » is the name that, for the time being, we will call the contingency that would both change the course of his life, and bring History to an end. And what we mean by « bring History to an end » is actually « decide the ultimate outcome of human existence ». Lucien was there for a routine check-up and was pleased to see that there were only two other people in the waiting room. A young woman and an older lady looked up at him. "Hello!" he greeted them. The elderly lady in the back of the room didn't respond. The young woman answered with a shy, barely murmured "Hello!" before turning back to her magazine. Thirteen seconds before the Event. Lucien sat down across from her...
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<p>Although they are believed to be unsolvable in general, tractability results suggest that some practical NP-hard problems can be efficiently solved. Combinatorial search algorithms are designed to efficiently explore the usually large solution space of these instances by reducing the search space to feasible regions and using heuristics to efficiently explore these regions. Various mathematical formalisms may be used to express and tackle combinatorial problems, among them the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) and the propositional satisfiability problem (SAT). These algorithms, or constraint solvers, apply search space reduction through inference techniques, use activity-based heuristics to guide exploration, diversify the searches through frequent restarts, and often learn from their mistakes.</p> <p></p> <p>In this book the author focuses on knowledge sharing in combinatorial search, the capacity to generate and exploit meaningful information, such as redundant constraints, heuristic hints, and performance measures, during search, which can dramatically improve the performance of a constraint solver. Information can be shared between multiple constraint solvers simultaneously working on the same instance, or information can help achieve good performance while solving a large set of related instances. In the first case, information sharing has to be performed at the expense of the underlying search effort, since a solver has to stop its main effort to prepare and commu</p>nicate the information to other solvers; on the other hand, not sharing information can incur a cost for the whole system, with solvers potentially exploring unfeasible spaces discovered by other solvers. In the second case, sharing performance measures can be done with little overhead, and the goal is to be able to tune a constraint solver in relation to the characteristics of a new instance – this corresponds to the selection of the most suitable algorithm for solving a given instance. <p></p> <p></p> <p>The book is suitable for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students working in the areas of optimization, search, constraints, and computational complexity.</p>
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Birthmark (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Excerpt: "One day, very soon after their marriage, Aylmer sat gazing at his wife with a trouble in his countenance that grew stronger until he spoke. "Georgiana," said he, "has it never occurred to you that the mark upon your cheek might be removed?" (The Birthmark) The Birthmark deals with the husband's deeply negative obsession of his wife's outer appearances and what does that entail for these two young couples. The birthmark represents various things throughout the story. Two of the main representations are imperfection and mortality. American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's (1804-1864) writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. Hawthorne has also written a few poems which many people are not aware of. His works are considered to be part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism. His themes often centre on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity.
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<p>"Eugene Witla, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour her, and keep her in sickness and in health; and forsaking all others, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?"<br>"I will."</p> <br> <p><br>This story has its beginnings in the town of Alexandria, Illinois, between 1884 and 1889, at the time when the place had a population of somewhere near ten thousand. There was about it just enough of the air of a city to relieve it of the sense of rural life. It had one street-car line, a theatre,—or rather, an opera house, so-called (why no one might say, for no opera was ever performed there)—two railroads, with their stations, and a business district, composed of four brisk sides to a public square. In the square were the county court-house and four newspapers. These two morning and two evening papers made the population fairly aware of the fact that life was full of issues, local and national, and that there were many interesting and varied things to do. On the edge of town, several lakes and a pretty stream—perhaps Alexandria's most pleasant feature—gave it an atmosphere not unakin to that of a moderate-priced summer resort. Architecturally the town was not new.</p> <br> <p>It was mostly built of wood, as all American towns were at this time, but laid out prettily in some sections, with houses that sat back in great yards, far from the streets, with flower beds, brick walks, and green trees as concomitants of a comfortable home life. Alexandria was a city of young Americans. Its spirit was young. Life was all before almost everybody. It was really good to be alive.<br>In one part of this city there lived a family which in its character and composition might well have been considered typically American and middle western. It was not by any means poor—or, at least, did not consider itself so; it was in no sense rich. Thomas Jefferson Witla, the father, was a sewing machine agent with the general agency in that county of one of the best known and best selling machines made. From each twenty, thirty-five or sixty-dollar machine which he sold, he took a profit of thirty-five per cent.</p> <br> <p>The sale of machines was not great, but it was enough to yield him nearly two thousand dollars a year; and on that he had managed to buy a house and lot, to furnish it comfortably, to send his children to school, and to maintain a local store on the public square where the latest styles of machines were displayed. He also took old machines of other makes in exchange, allowing ten to fifteen dollars on the purchase price of a new machine. He also repaired machines,—and with that peculiar energy of the American mind, he tried to do a little insurance business in addition.</p> <br> <p>His first idea was that his son, Eugene Tennyson Witla, might take charge of this latter work, once he became old enough and the in...
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<p>Stories: <br>HOW TOOTS WENT TO BED. <br>TOOTS AT THE KINDERGARTEN. <br>THE HAPPY HOUR. <br>ELFIE. <br>PAUL BROWN. <br>PAUL'S VIEWS AT EIGHT YEARS OF AGE. <br>MAX THE MEDDLER. <br>OUR MAY. <br>A BUBBLE PARTY. <br>SEWING A SEAM. <br>A FOUR-FOOTED FRIEND. <br>NAUGHTY SANDY <br>FLOSSIE'S HANDS. <br>JAMIE DOON. <br>FIVES. <br>OLIVER TWIST AT HOME. <br>MRS. WHITE'S FAMILY. <br>BUD AND BUNNIE. <br>DAISY DEAN. <br>THE COMMISSARY. <br>HARRY'S GUEST. <br>A TIRED VISITOR. <br>MR. SMITH'S FAMILY. <br>WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH BABY? <br>DADDY TOUGH. <br>BUTTON BLUE. <br>THE STORY OF THE CUCKOO. <br>MAJOR AND BENJAMINA. <br>THE COMMODORE'S GUESTS. <br>HARVEST FESTIVAL. <br> <br>TOOTS is our baby. He is a queer one too; up early, and always in dread of bed-time. One morning, not long ago, we heard him singing, and on looking for him, found the little rogue in the very middle of our best bed in the guest chamber, where he was playing hand-organ with a long hairpin put through the pretty pillow covers which had just come home from the laundry. There he sat singing a droll medley of "Uncle Ned," "Blessed Desus," and "Down in the Coal Mine." He had been watching two soldiers with a hand-organ, and Toots likes to do everything he sees done. While we were putting the guest-room in order, Toots marched out as a blind man, with his eyes shut and a cane in his hand. This brought him to grief, for he was picked up at the foot of the stairs with two large bumps on his pretty white brow. <br> <br>Toots was quiet then for a little while, a very little while, for as soon as we decided that his bones were all sound and a doctor need not be called, he "played sick," and asked for "shicken brof" and toast.</p>
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