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How Long Is Forever?


How Long Is Forever?, also translated as How Far Is Forever? and How Long Will Eternity Last?, is a 1999 Chinese novella by Tie Ning. Set in Beijing, the novella follows a sincere and altruistic-to-a-fault girl named Bai Daxing who never changes: forever like a meek child, she always gives in to others' demands even as she gets used and dumped over and over again. Through the static Bai Daxing, Tie Ning also explores the changing values in Beijing from the 1970s
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The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet


The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet is a fantasy novella by American writer Stephen King, first published in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" in 1984 and collected in King's 1985 collection "Skeleton Crew". The title is in reference to the narrator's belief that insanity is a sort of "flexible bullet": it will eventually kill, but how long this process takes, and how much damage the bullet does before the victim finally dies, are impossible to predict. Since the publication of this story,
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Love in a Fallen City (novella)


's work and the Sino Japanese War. But there was a connection. Just like in "Love in a fallen city", where she didn't mention how the people in Hong Kong escaped from the gunfire, or what happened between the British and the Japanese forces on the battlefield. What she did mention was how people had lived their daily life under the war, such as life between the two lovers in this novella. It does affect the way we view that war or our society during the war. She had
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Sailing to Byzantium (novella)


with a different city; there are never more than five. They are populated with "temporaries", who live as they would have done in the era of the city. "Temporaries" seem to have been created to provide the impression of realism. Charles Phillips and his partner Gioia are in ancient Alexandria. They visit the lighthouse and the library; he wonders if the buildings are reproductions or authentic. Phillips is from New York of the year 1984, and does not know how or why he is in the 50th
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The Expanse (novel series)


which also featured a new story about Detective Miller. All of the novels and four of the novellas have been released as audiobooks, with Jefferson Mays as the narrator for all novels and the novellas "The Vital Abyss" and "Strange Dogs". Erik Davies is the narrator for the novellas "The Churn" and "Gods of Risk". "The Expanse" is set in a future in which humanity has colonized much of the Solar System, but does not have interstellar travel. In the asteroid belt and beyond
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Works based on A Song of Ice and Fire


in 2014. He wrote that because HBO owns the TV rights to the setting of Westeros (if not to the characters of the novellas), it would be preferable to have HBO adopt the novellas also. The first and second novellas were, in addition, adapted as graphic novels: Martin has written three additional novellas that are written as historical accounts of events that took place long before the events of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels or the "Dunk and Egg" novellas. "The Princess and
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Ur (novella)


finds that Low Men in Yellow Coats (as introduced in King's 1999 book "Hearts in Atlantis") are waiting for him, ready to punish him for using the forbidden function of the Kindle. He argues that perhaps this change was meant to happen—how could he have gotten the Kindle otherwise? His argument does not fully sway the Low Men, but they feel it best to simply keep it from happening again by confiscating the Kindle, leaving Wesley to ponder the vastness of a world he thought he understood.
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The Book of the Damned (Tanith Lee)


through impersonation, transformation or androgyny". While the novellas are connected by their themes of death, rebirth, identity, and the usage of color schemes that represent each novella, "love or the longing for it is the central motif of the book". Lee uses changes of sex, and spiritual changes throughout all three novellas. All of the novellas have a source of identity, and there are many character changes throughout the novellas. Each story has a precious jewel that describes its mood. "Stained with Crimson"
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New England Skeptical Society


in a newspaper analysis of how much truth lay beneath the events portrayed in the movie "The Conjuring": "They (The Warrens) claim to have scientific evidence which does indeed prove the existence of ghosts, which sounds like a testable claim into which we can sink our investigative teeth. What we found was a very nice couple, some genuinely sincere people, but absolutely no compelling evidence..." Novella and DeAngelis did manage to get one ghost hunting group to provide their best evidence of paranormal activity. They claimed that
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Alfred and Emily


Alfred and Emily is a book by Doris Lessing in a new hybrid form. Part fiction, part notebook, part memoir, it was first published in 2008. The book is based on the lives of Lessing's parents. Part one is a novella, a fictional portrait of how her parents' lives might have been without the interruption of the First World War. Part two is a retelling of how her parents' lives really developed. The novella begins in England in 1902, when Alfred and Emily meet at a cricket
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Anatoly Kuznetsov


: 'See, this is proof of how terrible life in the Soviet Union really is!' Experienced writers told me that the novella could be saved, that at least a part of it must be brought to the readers' attention, that they would know what came from the heart and what I had to write for form's sake, and that I should add some optimistic episodes. For a long time my novella gathered dust without any hope of being published, but eventually I forced myself to add some optimistic episodes
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe


between and . There have been no episodes released since . "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake" is a 2018 book written by Steven Novella and co-authored by the other current co-hosts of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast—Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein. It also contains posthumous material from former co-host Perry DeAngelis. The book is meant to be an all-
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Matteo Bandello


Matteo Bandello (; 1480 – 1562) was an Italian writer, soldier, monk, and later, a Bishop mostly known for his novellas. Matteo Bandello was born at Castelnuovo Scrivia, near Tortona (current Piedmont), 1480. He received a good education, and entered the church, but does not seem to have been very interested in theology. For many years he lived at Mantua and Castel Goffredo, and superintended the education of the celebrated Lucrezia Gonzaga, in whose honour he composed a long poem. The decisive Battle
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Have You in My Wilderness


was influenced by Colette's novella, "Chance Acquaintances", while novelist Christopher Isherwood's recurring fictional character, Sally Bowles, was an influence in writing "How Long?". Holter cites Scott Walker's song, "Duchess", as a key influence on the album, noting: "Somehow that song captures what I was trying to do on a larger level: this warm, golden group of love songs. That was what I had in mind, [but] in the end I don't think it
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Long Lake (Maine)


does not cause a flood in the spring. The lake is the site of many summer camps, including Camp Newfound, Camp Owatonna, Camp Takajo, and Camp Wildwood (actually located on nearby Wood's Pond). The famous author, E.B. White, owned a vacation house on Long Lake in the North Bridgton section. Long Lake is the home of fictional character David Drayton in Stephen King's 1980 novella, "The Mist", which was made into a 2007 movie, "The Mist". Long Lake is
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Novella


"Different Seasons", a collection of four novellas, has called the novella "an ill-defined and disreputable literary banana republic"; King notes the difficulties of selling a novella in the commercial publishing world, since it does not fit the typical length requirements of either magazine or book publishers. Despite these problems, however, the novella's length provides unique advantages; in the introduction to a novella anthology titled "Sailing to Byzantium", Robert Silverberg writes: In his essay, "Briefly, the case for the
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The House of Sleeping Beauties


The House of Sleeping Beauties is a 1983 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. Hwang's fourth play, it is an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's novella "House of the Sleeping Beauties". The play depicts Kawabata and how he might have come to have written the novella. The play was first produced as part of the production "Sound and Beauty" on November 6, 1983 Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. It was directed by John Lone, with Victor Wong in the cast. It is
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Eyes Wide Shut


which she declares that in her youth she could have easily married someone else, which is what precipitates their sense of estrangement. In the novella, the husband long suspected that his patient (Marion) was infatuated with him, while in the film it is a complete surprise and he seems shocked. He is also more overwhelmed by the orgy in the film than in the novella. Fridolin is socially bolder but less sexual with the prostitute (Mizzi in the novella, Domino in the film). Fridolin is also conscious of
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Prayers to Broken Stones


remorse over bowing to his co-workers' blithe dismissal of technical glitches and thereby contributing to a thinly-fictionalized Challenger Incident, places explosives on the plane carrying himself and the culpable co-workers, thus killing them and committing suicide. The title is a reference to how long it would take the plane to fall to the ocean far below and to how much time's worth of oxygen was expended of the breath-packs found in the wreckage of the "Challenger". "Carrion Comfort" is a novella serialized
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New England Skeptical Society


reputation and not scientific advancement. When confronted about their lack of scientific rigor, the Warrens typically balked, Ed Warren stated '“you can’t have scientific evidence for a spiritual phenomenon.”' At the conclusion of the NESS investigation of the Warrens, Steven Novella writes, "What they are really hunting for are anomalies – anything even slightly strange. In the ghost-hunting world, anomaly = ghost. Scientific investigation does not enter into the equation." One of DeAngelis' and Steve Novella's investigations was used
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List of LGBT conferences in Singapore


in every relationship? How does one negotiate one's relationship commitments? What sacrifices does one have to make to maintain a relationship? How does one's biological families fit in, if at all? A panel of gay and lesbian persons shared the ups & downs and joys & sorrows of their relationships. Speaker Kim shared the twists and turns of his 20-year partnership with Leong. Jo and Jorg talked about their long distance stint and why they decided to get married after a 10-year partnership. The panelists shared the lessons they learned
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Amit Ray


life. Ray says that "Yoga is not a religion, it is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul." He advocates for creating peace and positive vibration on earth. He emphasizes that it does not matter how long we are spending on earth, or how much money we have gathered or how much attention we have received. According to him it is the amount of positive vibration we have radiated in life that matters. He emphasizes the value
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Morihiro Saito


dojos joined Hitohiro while others including some of Saito's longest students chose to remain affiliated with the Aikikai. Hitohiro had already been the main instructor at Iwama dojo. Like the Aikikai Doshu, he does not claim a dan rank. This short list was chosen based on several criteria including: The rank of the instructor, how long they studied with Saito (total time in Iwama), how long they have been a student of Saito (time since becoming his student) and how senior they are in their given region.
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The Wedding of Zein


respectively, which is how the two religious figures have often been represented by commentators on the novella." He supports his point by highlighting the fact that the Imam is reading a particularly blessed verse from the Quran at the same time that Haneen is blessing the village, implying that they are working in concert with one another. The supernatural versus the secular Salih says that he "accept[s] the world of magic" and that the world depicted in this novella is deliberately "not secular and things do not go according to scientific
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A Taste of Honey (novella)


Despite the fact that Lucretia does not exist, he and Lucrio have made their own family in Daluz. Aqib realizes that he can now understand the language of animals, just as he did in his vision of another life. "A Taste of Honey" has received positive reviews from fantasy authors such as N.K. Jemisin, as well as positive reviews in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and Booklist. The story received praise for its unconventional plot structure. It was nominated for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novella,
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Perry DeAngelis


based. "Perry thought they were cranks", said Novella, "He always loved extreme personalities, and they were very extreme." In an article for the Sydney Morning Herald that examined whether supernatural films are really based on true events, that investigation was used as evidence to the contrary. As Novella is quoted, "They (The Warrens) claim to have scientific evidence which does indeed prove the existence of ghosts, which sounds like a testable claim into which we can sink our investigative teeth. What we found
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The Mound (novella)


(100 km) southwest of Oklahoma City. He places the mound about a third of a mile west of Binger, an area where there are no mounds, which seems to make this geographic detail the only fictional part of its location. There are several mounds in the area, but not as described in the story. One of them is called the Ghost Mound and according to a local legend is haunted by ghosts. It is located closer to Hydro, rather than Binger. It does not look like how Lovecraft described
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Jason Pinter


award for Best Paperback Original. The Fury In the fourth Henry Parker novel, Henry must track down his brother's killer, who may or may not have ties to a long-dormant drug kingpin. "The Fury" (2009, October) was named one of the best mysteries of 2009 by "Strand Magazine". The Hunters: A Novella In November 2009 Pinter released a Henry Parker novella, "The Hunters" as a free e-book. Henry Parker, having closed a harrowing week, and Jack
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4-1-1


will determine how to handle 411, the chosen local toll (intra-LATA) carrier will determine how to handle 555-1212 calls for area codes within the LATA, and the chosen long distance carrier for inter-LATA) calls will determine how to handle other area code-555-1212 calls. For service provided by cellular and VoIP carriers where the customer does not have a choice of local toll or long distance carriers, all calls may be handled the same way. In North America, all areas formerly using 1-
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All Seated on the Ground


All Seated on the Ground is a science fiction novella by American writer Connie Willis, originally published in the December 2007 issue of American magazine "Asimov's Science Fiction "and as a standalone volume from Subterranean Press. It won the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novella. The story follows Meg, a newspaper columnist who has joined a commission studying aliens that have landed on the University of Denver campus. The aliens glare at everyone, and allow themselves to be led to various locations, but the commission has no idea how to
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Parents Action League


the list. Parents Action League president Laurie Thompson, in email, did not respond directly to the SPLC accusations but did pose "pointed questions": "How does being pro family/pro parental rights constitute a group as a hate group?" and, "How does being an advocate for parental rights to raise their children come off as being hatred?" Thompson also said: "It is a privilege to be added to the long list of pro-family organizations that have been labeled as 'hate groups.
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Viola Tricolor (novella)


Viola Tricolor is an 1874 novella by the German writer Theodor Storm. It tells the story of a man who remarries after his wife has died, and how the new woman feels insufficient in her role as wife and mother to her step-daughter. The novella was first serialised in the journal "Westermanns Monatshefte". An English translation by Bayard Quincy Morgan was published in 1956. The novella has been adapted for film twice. Willi Forst's "Serenade" was released in 1938. Veit Harlan's "I'll Carry
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Manda Collins


Manda Collins is an author of romance novels. Most of her books are regency romances, but she has also written a contemporary romance novels novella, "Legally Yours." Her Wicked Widows series are Regency romance novels with an element of mystery, about women with unhappy first marriages who fall in love with better men after their first husbands have died. Collins' first book, "How to Dance with a Duke", was nominated for an RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award for First Historical Romance. Her novella "
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The Turn (novel)


"For the film based on the novel, see "Il turno"" The Turn ( ) is the name of Luigi Pirandello's second novel. Originally published in Catania in 1902 by the editor Niccolò Giannotta, it was republished by the "Fratelli Treves" publishing house, along with the novella "Lontano", with the subtitle "Novellas of Luigi Pirandello" in 1915. The author seems to have considered it to be a long short story rather than a true novel, and, in the introduction to the 1915
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Riding the Bullet


Riding the Bullet is a horror novella by American writer Stephen King. This work marked King's debut on the Internet. Simon & Schuster, with technology by SoftLock, first published "Riding the Bullet" in 2000 as the world's first mass-market e-book, available for download at $2.50. That year, the novella was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction and the International Horror Guild Award for Best Long Form. In 2002, the novella was included in King's collection
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7


1978 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella. "The House of Compassionate Sharers" was nominated for the 1978 Ditmar Award for Best International Long Fiction and placed twelfth in the 1978 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Fiction. "Aztecs" was nominated for the 1977 Nebula Award for Best Novella and the 1978 Hugo Award for Best Novella, and placed third in the 1978 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella. "The Family Monkey" placed seventh in the 1978 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella. "A Rite of Spring" was
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Oceanic (novella)


1999, "Oceanic" won the Hugo Award for Best Novella, Locus Award best novella, and Asimov's Reader Poll for best novella. It also won two foreign short story awards: the 2000 Hayakawa's SF Magazine Reader's Award and the 2001 Seiun Award. "Oceanic" was also a finalist in the 1998 Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story, a long list nominee for the 1999 James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award, and a short-list nominee for the 1999 HOMer Award for best novella. The story
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The Ballad of Black Tom


finalist for the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction, the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novella, the 2017 British Fantasy Award for best novella, the 2017 Theodore Sturgeon Award, the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novella, and the 2017 World Fantasy Award—Long Fiction. "Slate" called it "riveting", "clever", and "compelling", and noted LaValle's comparison of "cosmic indifference" to targeted racist malice and brutality. "Vice" described it as "tightly written, beautifully creepy
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Art and morality


links with morality have been long been questioned. Some have found no link between the aesthetic and the moral (i.e. being morally reprehensible does not deny an artwork its art status; it does not cease having aesthetic value no matter how depraved some might see it being), whereas others, who have not gone down the explicitly Platonist route, have argued that the relationship is one akin to supervenience. Here, it is argued that an essential component of the production of art, the human factor, can only be made sensible
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Telos Doctor Who novellas


The Telos "Doctor Who" novellas were a series of tie-in novellas based on the long-running BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who", officially licensed by the BBC and published by Telos Publishing. Each novella was published in two formats: standard hardback and deluxe hardback. The BBC's license was specifically only to do hardback fiction (since its BBC Books imprint was concurrently publishing its own line of paperback "Doctor Who" novels), although following further negotiations two of the novellas were subsequently re-
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The Malahat Review


Malahat Review" Novella Prize winner "The Deep", by Mary Swan, won the O. Henry Awards. "The Malahat Review" holds a variety of contests of each year: Open Season Awards: submissions accepted for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction - entries are due the first of November each year. Winners are published in the Spring edition. Novella Prize/Long Poem Prize: The Novella Prize and Long Poem Prize alternate in even and odd years respectively. Regardless of genre, the winning entry or entries appear
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How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension


"How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension" is a paper by mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, first published in "Science" in 5 May 1967. In this paper, Mandelbrot discusses self-similar curves that have Hausdorff dimension between 1 and 2. These curves are examples of "fractals", although Mandelbrot does not use this term in the paper, as he did not coin it until 1975. The paper is one of Mandelbrot's first publications on the topic of fractals. The
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Novel


A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book. The entire genre has been seen as having "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in classical Greece and Rome, in medieval and early modern romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella. (Since the 18th century, the term "novella", or "novelle" in German, has been used in English and other European
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The Liar (novella)


The Liar is a fantasy novella by American writer John P. Murphy. It was first published in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" in March 2016. Greg is a "Liar", who has the power to "convince" reality that what he says is true — which does not make it easier for him to investigate a string of mysterious deaths going back decades. "The Liar" was shortlisted for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novella. "Tangent Online" commended Murphy for creating "interesting characters steeped
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Steven Novella


or EVP. In May 2005, Novella started "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe" (SGU) podcast with his friends Perry DeAngelis and Evan Bernstein, and his brothers Bob and Jay. DeAngelis remained with the show until his death in August, 2007. In July 2006, Rebecca Watson joined the podcast as a regular, staying through December, 2014. Cara Santa Maria joined the cast in July, 2015. Novella both hosts the show and does the editing and post-production. In an interview for the
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The Grasshopper (short story)


been and how everything could be different from now on... But Dymov is quiet now and his hands and forehead are very cold. "The Grasshopper" was well received by both the critics and the readership. Sergey Andreevsky, reviewing "Novellas and Stories" collection called it 'a gem of a novella'. Lev Tolstoy called it 'brilliant'. "...First humorous, then more and more somber... and how deeply one feels in the end, that his death would not alter her at all", he
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Novella


white space is often used to divide the sections, and therefore, the novella maintains a single effect. Warren Cariou wrote: The novella is generally not as formally experimental as the long story and the novel can be, and it usually lacks the subplots, the multiple points of view, and the generic adaptability that are common in the novel. It is most often concerned with personal and emotional development rather than with the larger social sphere. The novella generally retains something of the unity of impression that is a hallmark of the
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Insomnia


sleep loss, they do not feel like they have slept very much, if at all. Because their perception of their sleep is incomplete, they incorrectly believe it takes them an abnormally long time to fall asleep, and they underestimate how long they remain asleep. Symptoms of insomnia can be caused by or be associated with: Sleep studies using polysomnography have suggested that people who have sleep disruption have elevated nighttime levels of circulating cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone. They also have an elevated metabolic rate, which does not occur in people who
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Unfair dismissal in the United Kingdom


employers claiming to have experienced contractual frustration in preference to making reasonable adjustments required by law and addressing the issues within the framework of existing sickness policies in that organisation. In the case of long term ill health, the employer should try to get medical reports and consult the employee and then is entitled to decide how long to wait for recovery and whether it can give an alternative job. If the employee does not give access to medical reports and does not accept alternative work the employer must still give a right of appeal against dismissal
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Alternate history


have been made were not made? He can certainly destroy all things that have been made, so that they do not exist now. But it cannot be seen how he can bring it about that things that have been made were not made. To be sure, it can come about that from now on and hereafter Rome does not exist; for it can be destroyed. But no opinion can grasp how it can come about that it was not founded long ago...One early work of fiction detailing an alternate history
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The Wedding of Zein


the novella "expressed the boundless optimism generally characteristic of the early years of independence." However, he also does not believe that the novella's utopia is stable, because the climax of the story is Zein's wedding, and people traditionally come together at weddings and funerals and then return to their divisions afterwards. Therefore, even though the coming together is more dramatic at Zein's wedding than at other weddings, Hassan believes that the novella implies it will fall apart afterwards, just like any other temporary unity. Popular Islam
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Mark Z. Danielewski


the years following the publication of "House of Leaves" (2000), Danielewski worked on two projects in tandem: his second novel "Only Revolutions" and his novella "The Fifty Year Sword". The novella is an "adult ghost story" written by Danielewski before he created the physical book itself with the Dutch artist Peter van Sambeek. The novella does not feature any writing on the recto pages of the book. The only recto pages with anything on them, other than the page numbers lying lonely and flush
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Old New York (novellas)


as valuable. This novella takes up a full third of the set and has arguably the most richly developed characters and storyline. Delia Ralston, née Lovell, receives her cousin Charlotte ("Chatty") Lovell, who is about to be married. Charlotte confesses that she is the mother of an infamous foundling child. Her intended, Joe Ralston, who does not know of her child, wishes her to abandon her work at the orphanage where the child lives. Charlotte does not want to give up seeing her daughter,
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Isaac Babel


new stories and the novella "Kolya Topuz." He told me, "I'm writing a novella in which the main character is a former Odessa gangster like Benia Krik. His name is Kolya Topuz and so far, at least, that's also the name of the novella. I want to show how this sort of man adapts to Soviet reality. Kolya Topuz works on a collective farm during collectivization, and then he goes to work in a Donbass coal mine. But since he has the mentality of a gangster
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Souls (story)


, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree, Jr.). In 12th-century Germany, Radulphus tells the story of Radegunde, abbess of the abbey where he spent his childhood, and of what she did "when the Norsemen came" — and of how he discovered her true nature. "Souls" won the 1983 Hugo Award for Best Novella and the Locus Award for Best Novella, and was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novella. Stephen Burt has described the story as "perfectly wrought
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Historiens 100 viktigaste svenskar


the last century and 16 are still alive today. The selection criteria were:"How much, how long, and how many people has the person influenced - primarily domestically but also internationally - with his thoughts, his reign, his deeds or his example? And how much does this person mean to us living here today, in 2009?" Criticism has been voiced over the list, both in terms of selection and ranking. It has been argued that the following people should have made it to the list: The ranking has been
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Six-Gun Snow White


Six-Gun Snow White is a 2013 fantasy novella by Catherynne M. Valente, retelling the story of Snow White in a mythical version of the Old West. It was published by Subterranean Press. "Six-Gun Snow White" won the 2014 Locus Award for Best Novella, and was nominated for the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Novella, the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Novella, and the 2014 World Fantasy Award—Long Fiction. "Publishers Weekly" considered it to be "witty" with "complex reverberations",
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La Grande Vie (novella)


Carlo after such a long journey (it never seemed to end ) they treat themselves to a luxury holiday. They made the stop-over to Italy when their finances were nearly fully depleted and there they stole things, principally food, and there they slept on the beach. In a cool night, always in the same summer, the feeling of distress evolved in the heart of Poucy, it does more emotions and decided it was time to leave home .While Thumb was sick, she met a young man who comforted and
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Love in a Fallen City (novella)


. Instead of writing about how routines of life are disrupted by the aggression of war, she chooses to focus on how the experience of urban life is actually intensified despite the fact that the outside world is gradually being shattered." When the novella was first published in 1943, it was still during the Sino-Japanese war, and both Shanghai and Hong Kong were under the Japanese occupation. The Chinese-controlled parts of Shanghai was first fallen to the Japanese in 1937, and the foreign concessions had also been taken down
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Shell Shock (novella)


Shell Shock is an original novella written by Simon A. Forward and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Sixth Doctor and Peri. It was released both as a standard edition hardback and a deluxe edition () featuring a frontispiece by Bob Covington. Both editions have a foreword by Guy N. Smith. The Sixth Doctor and Peri find themselves stranded on an alien world that is mostly covered by water. The Doctor manages to make it to shore, where he has to
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Ecological stoichiometry


Ecological stoichiometry (more broadly referred to as Biological stoichiometry) considers how the balance of energy and elements influences living systems. Similar to chemical stoichiometry, ecological stoichiometry is founded on constraints of mass balance as they apply to organisms and their interactions in ecosystems. Specifically, how does the balance of energy and elements affect and how is this balance affected by organisms and their interactions. Concepts of ecological stoichiometry have a long history in ecology with early references to the constraints of mass balance made by Liebig, Lotka, and Redfield. These
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Non zero one


Fringe 2011, before touring to Tate Britain in October 2011, The Junction in November 2011. In an interview with The Junction Theatre, the collective are quoted as saying that ""the time out" is about teamwork. When we first started work on the piece about a year ago, we were enthralled by questions like: what is it that makes a team? How long do you have to be with a group of people to feel they are your team? What is it you have to experience? How does
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The Lives of Animals


radical egalitarianism, you won't have any trouble showing how weak it is," Naomi concludes. She goes on to suggest that Peter use the same fictional narrative device to respond to the Costello lecture. ""Me?" When have I ever written fiction?" Peter asks, concluding the reflection. Marjorie Garber reflects on how Coetzee's novella relates to her study of academic disciplines. Wendy Doniger takes as her starting point O'Hearne's contention that compassion for animals is a Western invention originating in the nineteenth century. She
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The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh


nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novella and "Gwydion and the Dragon" was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. While novels are still her preferred medium, she does enjoy the chance to write short stories, doing so mostly when requested or between other works when a given idea does not lend itself to a novel. The collection contains almost all the short stories she had published through 2004, with the exception of those published in the various shared world anthologies to which she has contributed. This collection is
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (book)


The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake is a 2018 book written by Steven Novella and co-authored by the other current co-hosts of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast—Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein. It also contains material from former co-host Perry DeAngelis. The book is meant to be an all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking. In an interview with The European Skeptics Podcast
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Steven Novella


As a proponent of scientific skepticism, his writings generally address supporting evidence and scientific consensus. Topics addressed in his writings include: A book written by Steve Novella and his "Skeptics' Guide" co-hosts about scientific skepticism was published in October 2018. "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake" was reviewed by Publishers Weekly, which said: "In plain English and cogent prose, Novella makes skepticism seem mighty, necessary, and accessible
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Telos Publishing


they won the PS Publishing Award for Best Small Press in 2010 and 2011. One of their publications, the "Doctor Who" novella "Small Gods" by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman, won an Aurealis Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel, the first television tie-in to receive a major science-fiction award. Christopher Fowler's novella "Breathe" won the British Fantasy Society Award for best novella in 2005. In 2006, Telos' founders Howe and Walker won the World Fantasy Award for Best Non-
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The 1987 Annual World's Best SF


Locus Poll Award for Best Novella, and was nominated for the 1987 Asimov's Readers' Poll Award for Best Novella and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novella. "Lo, How an Oak E'er Blooming" placed seventeenth in the 1987 Locus Poll Award for Best Short Story. "Into Gold" placed seventeenth in the 1987 Locus Poll Award for Best Novelette. "The Lions Are Asleep This Night" was nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and the 1987 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and placed thirteenth in
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Sociology of culture


have a beginning. This, then, makes the question of the origins of culture moot – it has existed as long as we have, and will likely exist as long as we do. Cultural change, on the other hand, is a matter that can be questioned and researched, as Griswold does. Culture theory, developed in the 1980s and 1990s, sees audiences as playing an active rather than passive role in relation to mass media. One strand of research focuses on the audiences and how they interact with media;
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The Lost Boy (novella)


her narrative, the mother exemplifies life's irreparable wounding. In Part 3, also 30 years later, the older sister tells of an adventure at the Fair when she and the boy, youngsters in a strange place, sneak into downtown St. Louis and eat in a cheap restaurant. Upon their return home, the boy becomes ill with the onset of typhoid fever. In the sister's story we confront not only her long-sustained grief and guilt, but her vision of the incomprehensibility of life: "How is it
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Survivors (novel series)


Fuzz, Squirm and Nose. A novella telling of Moon's past, and how she came to join the wolfdog's Wild Pack, set between "Alpha's Tale" and "The Empty City"/"Sweet's Journey", released on 5 May 2015. Long before the Big Growl struck, Moon (named in honor of the Moon-Dog) belonged to a different Pack, a Wild Pack of 12 including herself. She and her sister Star were the daughters of the Pack's male Alpha and female Beta. The Pack
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Roskilde Cathedral


, Eric VII, in 1423. In his "Chronica novella", German chronicler describes the vast, three-day-long burial ceremony involving King Eric VII, several noblemen, the Archbishop of Lund, and all of the Danish bishops. There is an account of how the procession granted substantial gifts to each of the 50 altars in the cathedral. On the first day, the royal couple would give each altar a golden ornament, a golden antependium and a silver chalice; the noblemen would each bestow a florin on
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Diatessaron


, and nor does he always quote commentated passages in full; but for those phrases that he does quote, the commentary provides for the first time a dependable witness to Tatian's original; and also confirms its content and their sequence. . How the Gospel text that was a standard in Syriac Christianity for possibly as long as two centuries should have utterly disappeared requires explaining. Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus on the Euphrates in upper Syria in 423, suspecting Tatian of having been a heretic, sought out and found more than two
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Unemployment benefits


she does do not own a home). The rate of Newstart allowance as at 12 January 2010 for single people without children is A$228 per week, paid fortnightly. (This does not include supplemental payments such as Rent Assistance.) Different rates apply to people with partners and/or children. Effectively, people have had to survive on $39 a day from Newstart since 1994, and there have been calls to raise this by politicians and NGO groups. The system in Australia is designed to support recipients no matter how long
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Black Orchids (novella)


"Black Orchids" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, first published in abridged form as "Death Wears an Orchid" in the August 1941 issue of "The American Magazine". It first appeared in book form in the short-story collection "Black Orchids", published by Farrar & Rinehart in 1942. Millionaire orchid fancier Lewis Hewitt has hybridized three black orchid plants in his Long Island greenhouse. Nero Wolfe is wild to have one, so he and Archie Goodwin visit New York's annual flower show
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Elisabeth of the Palatinate


Descartes that our senses are evidence that the soul does move the body and the body moves the soul, but that this interaction does not teach us anything about how this happens. In Elisabeth's correspondence with Descartes, we can see that Elisabeth assumes that Descartes does have an account of how the soul and body interact and asks for clarification on how the soul does this. In fact, Descartes did not have an exact account of how this happens, but merely assumed the soul had this capability. This particular correspondence between Descartes
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Order of battle of the Battle of Long Island


of individual unit sizes. Although a more detailed return for August 27 appears to have once existed, none of the listed sources reproduces it. According to a summary of that return, the strength of the British land forces under Howe's command was 24,464 fit for duty. This number does not include a brigade of Loyalists raised by Oliver De Lancey, Sr., or the marines, who were not under Howe's command. Howe's headcount, including officers and those unfit for duty, came to 31,625. The casualty
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Letter from an Unknown Woman


Letter from an Unknown Woman () is a novella by Stefan Zweig. Published in 1922, it tells the story of an author who, while reading a letter written by a woman he does not remember, gets glimpses into her life story. A rich and well-known writer, returning home to Vienna from one of many holidays, finds a long letter from an unknown woman. As a teenager the woman had lived with her poor widowed mother in the same building and had fallen totally in love with both the opulent
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The Golden Egg


. The book follows his meticulous preparations, and his long months of trying to find a suitable victim. This section of the novella ends with him abducting Saskia, but we are still not told what happens to her, though the book does provide clues. At this point, the narrative switches back to Rex. His obsession with discovering what happened to Saskia has grown to such an extreme that he has taken out a large loan to post advertisements in papers throughout France, hoping that someone might be able to provide him with
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Assured clear distance ahead


, one does not have to mathematically calculate a trajectory or firing solution in order to hit a target with repeated accuracy. During the earliest stages of learning how to drive, one develops a memory of when to start braking (how long it takes) from various speeds in order to stop at the limit line. While there may be a degree of variance of such skill in seasoned drivers, they generally do not have the discretion in engaging in a behavior such as driving a speed above which no reasonable minds might differ as
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Bạch Long Vĩ Island


it qualifies as an island according to the provisions of the 1982 United Nations Law of the Sea Convention (1982 UNCLOS). If it does impact on the tracing of a line of equidistance if this principle is applied in the Gulf of Tonkin. Logically, Vietnam would take the position that Bach Long Vi Island should have its full impact in any agreement on how to divide the Gulf. On the other hand, China has an interest in minimising the impact that the Island would have on any agreed delimitation. This could be
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Best of all possible worlds


statement that "we live in the best of all possible worlds" drew scorn, most notably from Voltaire, who lampooned it in his comic novella "Candide" by having the character Dr. Pangloss (a parody of Leibniz and Maupertuis) repeat it like a mantra. From this, the adjective "Panglossian" describes a person who believes that the world about us is the best possible one. While Leibniz does state this universe is the best possible version of itself, the standard for goodness does not seem clear to many of
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Dayar-e-Dil (novella)


and started crying for her misbehavior and all the problems that she has created. Faarah decided to make amends and reunite with her whole heart, she patch up with Zermeen and develop a strong love for Wali, meanwhile she destroys the contract. Faarah calls her mother for one last time, she told her how they were wrong about their family, how her father died, how things could have been and makes her realize that they both did mistake in understanding Agha Jaan and Wali. Few days later, Moeez came to Peshawar
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Rooster (application)


Rooster is a mobile reading service for iOS7. For a $4.99 monthly fee, Rooster releases fiction installments to users' phones. Each set of selections comprises one classic and one contemporary novel or novella. Each installment is also optimized towards the average, fifteen-minute commute. The works can be as long as 500 pages, though the app is also intended as a possible "gateway drug" to works that might require more time than a month of commutes. Users can customize how often and at what time their installment
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Where Three Roads Meet


Where Three Roads Meet is a book of three metafictional novellas by American writer John Barth, published in 2005. "Tell Me" tells of a love triangle between three "Freds": undergraduates Wilfred, Alfred, and Winifred. "I've Been Told: A Story's Story" is a highly metatextual story of a story telling itself. "As I Was Saying ..." is told from the point of view of three elderly sisters remembering how they had long ago inspired a novelist to produce a "once-notorious
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List of Fear the Walking Dead characters


his gated coast-side estate, Aston Martin and luxury yacht, the Abigail. He appears to already have some knowledge of the outbreak and how it manifests itself in humans. It is unknown how long he was imprisoned at the temporary hospital set up in Raynard Community College before Nick arrived. He is calm and does not panic when confronting the walkers, even when he was trapped at the end of a locked corridor as a herd approached. He appears to have adapted quickly to the new world, telling Nicholas Clark that
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Christmas (Francesca Battistelli album)


calendar with our son and see how he does with it. I loved ours as a kid, and I think it will be a great way to talk about the meaning of Christmas all month long." Lastly, Battistelli touched on Mary the mother of Jesus, when she said "It's really impossible for any of us to fully understand Mary's part in the Christmas story from her perspective, but as a mom, I have such deeper insight into how she must have felt than I did before. Did she
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The Adventure of the Crooked Man


enemy, driven by one motive - to get rid of Henry so he could have Nancy for himself. Henry was tortured repeatedly, which is how he became deformed, spent years as a slave or wandering, learnt how to be a conjurer, and when he was getting old, he longed to come back to England. He sought out soldiers because he was familiar with the milieu; likewise Doyle's account hints that another reason that Wood came back is that he does not have many years left to live - his yellow
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Patient check-in


pay, print a receipt. sign a waiver and then ask what symptoms they are having. All before they get to see anyone in the office. While these are great ideas consider the downsides of a complicated kiosk. Integration with other systems means cost and tech staff. How long will it take for a patient who has never seen the system? Since it takes longer, how many kiosks will you need? Does every patient have to go through the same process? What happens when the patient doesn't care about accuracy
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List of novellas


This is a list of novellas that have been recognised as the best examples of the genre. A novella is a fiction work longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. It is generally thought to be between around 20,000 and 40,000 words in length. This list contains novellas that have been recognized as the best examples of the genre. The first table contains those books that are widely considered to be the best, through their appearance on multiple best-of lists. The second table contains other notable novellas, that
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Integrationism


him/her, “I’ll be back in 20 minutes”, the traveler may check the watch and calculate when to come back for the check-in, so he/she does not have to stand at the front desk for 20 minutes. However, if the traveler sees a note on the front desk saying, “I’ll be back in 20 minutes”, he/she may be baffled due to no point of reference, so he/she does not know how long is needed. This example
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The Tumor


Grisham explains the details of focused ultrasound therapy, including how it works, how far along the research and testing is for its application in various medical diagnoses, and what obstacles remain for its widespread adoption. The book concludes with an introduction to the Focused Ultrasound Foundation and an appeal for support from the reader. Because "The Tumor" was not released through a traditional publisher, nor a typical novella or short story, few literary reviews of the story are available. However, several reviews from the medical community have been received
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Rule of marteloio


") for some 70 miles. How does it return to its original route? Re-setting its bearing to northeast ("Greco") seems sensible enough, but how long should it sail on that bearing? How would a navigator know when the ship had reached its old route and should turn north again? How to avoid overshooting or undershooting the old course? This is a mathematical problem of solving a triangle. If a navigator knows how long the ship has sailed on the erroneous course, he can calculate its
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Seahorse


form pair bonds that last through at least the breeding season. Some species show a higher level of mate fidelity than others. However, many species readily switch mates when the opportunity arises. "H. abdominalis" and "H. breviceps" have been shown to breed in groups, showing no continuous mate preference. Many more species' mating habits have not been studied, so it is unknown how many species are actually monogamous, or how long those bonds actually last. Although monogamy within fish is not common, it does appear
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Abortion in Canada


human life begins, but was defeated 203–91. On October 19, 2012, anti-abortion protester Patricia Maloney expressed concern over 491 cases of live-birth abortions between 2000 and 2009. The finding reported to Statistics Canada did not include detailed information on how long each fetus survived after removal or how many would have been possible to save. Further complicating the issue is the fact that Canada, unlike the United States, does not have a law confirming or denying the legal rights of a baby who survives abortion. On January
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Capital gains tax in the United States


gain. Under this treatment, the tax on a long-term gain does not depend on how investors and managers divide the gain. This tax treatment is often called the "hedge-fund loophole", even though it is private equity funds that benefit from the treatment; hedge funds usually do not have long-term gains. It has been criticized as "indefensible" and a "gross unfairness", because it taxes management services at a preferential rate intended for long-term gains. Warren Buffett has used the
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Oroonoko


attract Oroonoko, the King, and even the reader. Oroonoko and Imoinda were constantly being separated once Imoinda gets sold into slavery. Regardless of how long they were apart, their love remained strong and eventually they are reunited. This never ending love between Oroonoko and Imoinda is evident throughout the novella. Both characters are willing to announce their love, make brutal sacrifices, and remain passionate for one another—helping solidify the strength of their unconditional love. Kingship: Aphra Behn herself held incredibly strong pro-monarchy views that carried
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Telos Publishing


Telos Publishing Ltd. is a publishing company, originally established by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker, with their first publication being a horror anthology based on the television series "Urban Gothic" in 2001. The name comes from that of the fictional planet Telos from the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". Since being formed, Telos Publishing Ltd. has published a wide variety of works, from original novellas based on "Doctor Who" to original horror and fantasy novels. They also produce a variety
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Mathilda (novella)


on her deathbed and this is the only reason she is exposing what seems to be a dark secret. Mathilda's narrative first explores the relationship between her mother and father, and how they knew each other growing up. Mathilda's mother, Diana, and her father were childhood friends; Mathilda's father found solace in Diana after the death of his own mother and the two married not long after. Mathilda, as narrator, notes that Diana changed Mathilda's father making him more tender and less fickle. However, Mathilda
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Fractal dimension


In mathematics, more specifically in fractal geometry, a fractal dimension is a ratio providing a statistical index of complexity comparing how detail in a pattern (strictly speaking, a fractal pattern) changes with the scale at which it is measured. It has also been characterized as a measure of the space-filling capacity of a pattern that tells how a fractal scales differently from the space it is embedded in; a fractal dimension does not have to be an integer. The essential idea of "fractured" dimensions has a long history
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