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They strike fast and clean; no fear, no mercy. Peerless warriors, they own the night and the jungles of this steaming hell called Nam. In the sea, in the air, on the land, they are the U.S. Navys best; a lethal weapon honed to razors sharpness on the hard, rough whetstone of war. They are SEALs. Give a SEAL a target. . .then get out of his way. The snafus only happen when others get involved--like incompetent officers and gung-ho CIA spooks. First Platoon is being called upon to clean up the Companys mess, as preparations get underway for a daring rescue of four CIA field officers from a heavily guarded POW jungle facility. But this time the enemy knows the SEALs are coming, and theyre ready to repel the assault with everything theyve got. A top-secret op has been blown to smithereens, leaving Americas best warriors with only one recourse: to strike sooner, harder, and to even the long odds with devastating fury and fire.

Is it wrong to commit armed robbery in order to save the life of an endangered dolphin? Welcome to the world of William and Stanley, Down''s Syndrome teenagers with attitude. When the shattering news arrives from Florida that Amadeus, the performing dolphin, is to be taken away for scientific research, William and Stanley set about a scheme to raise money to go on a mercy mission to the U.S.A. When all their lawful schemes fail, they hatch a daring plan. . . .

(Music Sales America). This compendium delves deep into the heart of the sequencer, explaining in easy terms the theory behind rhythm and offering step-by-step tutorials to creating drum patterns. A CD-ROM packed with audio and MIDI files is also included.

Evelyn''s Lighthouse is a charming book set in 1924 that will help girls appreciate a different time in American life, what it was like to live at a lighthouse, and the value and importance of family. Evelyn is a fun and smart 12 year old girl who balances her love for Split Rock''s famous lighthouse, for her friends, and for her loyal dog, Jo, with schoolwork, chores, and helping her dad around the lighthouse ... all while trying to solve the mystery of who wants to burn down her lighthouseWhile Evelyn is a fictional character, the story is historical and is thoroughly well-researched and fact based. The operation of the lighthouse, where the station is and its role, the technologies of the time, and more are all set very carefully and historically in the year 1924. Real people are used throughout and the geographical details and places are accurate. The novel gives readers the opportunity to step back in time and see what life was like at a lighthouse in 1924 (and Split Rock is a fabulously beautiful and very famous light station), and to learn from Evelyn''s adventuresome spirit, love of reading, and her determination to help her family and her lighthouse.

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James Dickey Review publishes 1) scholarship that furthers the serious study of James Dickey''s poetry, fiction, screenplays, and non-fiction; 2) all forms of creative writing that align with Dickey''s enduring themes, style, and literary experimentation; 3) critical reflection essays by contemporary writers that analyze the influence of James Dickey on their own work or the work of other writers; 4) short reflections and meditations on James Dickey, the man and the myth; 5) book reviews.

It has long been an article of faith amongst regional economists that increasing returns to scale are necessary to explain the punctiform location of economic activity and population. However, there is no consensus in the empirical literature over whether returns to scale are constant or increasing. A notable example of this lack of agreement is provided by the static-dynamic Verdoorn law paradox. While the dynamic Verdoorn law (specified using growth rates) yields estimates of substantial increasing returns to scale, the static Verdoorn law (specified using log-levels) indicates only the presence of constant returns to scale. In this paper, we explain the static-dynamic Verdoorn law paradox by showing that estimates of returns to scale obtained using the static law are subject to a spatial aggregation bias, which biases the estimates towards constant returns to scale. We illustrate our arguments by means of simulation exercises. The results obtained hold general lessons for applied economic analysis using spatial data.

This work takes the premise that St. Paul taught a) principles, tenets, beliefs, practices and ''hidden wisdom'' which closely parallel the same professed by b) Proto-Christian Gnostics: and c) the Alexandrian Orthodoxy of early Christian doctrinal development; notably St. Clement and Origen. To do so it is intended to consider a) the record of written works attributed the Paul (Saul) of Tarsus (d.c.66 AD), and b) works using Pauline forms and principles from the same period (the disputed epsistles and synoptic gospels) together with later Gnostics and Alexandrian Patristic writers. What is also not discussed in Early Christian and Proto-Christian Gnostic materials, because it was then consensually acceded, may also be of significance - and will be addressed.Theology is considered here. This is the study God (or gods), and it''s ''result'' are limited by the ''wisdom'', idiom, language(s) and the ability to convey of the person doing the study. The actuality is, that in this discipline, God is mysterious, impenetrable, unknowable and unfathomable. We have only the filters of personal understanding with which to work. St. Augustine of Hippo remarked: " the judgements of God are inscrutable" - and this book calls for such judgement.This is a work is an introductive ''comparative theology'', reflecting on Paul''s Gospel and two Christian streams which succeeded his Gospel. Comparative theology is a relatively young discipline within theology (c.2000), which holds together "comparative" and "theology" in creative tension. It represents a particular type of practice committed to deep relationship learning ("comparative") while staying rooted in a particular framework tradition ("theology") practiced (praxis) by the writer. It is a dialectical effort, consisting of a discourse between two or more observers (or one arguing two positions) of different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments. Dialectic resembles debate, but shorn of subjective elements such as emotional appeal and the modern pejorative sense of rhetoric. It may be contrasted with the didactic method where one side of the conversation teaches the other. Herein every effort has been made to offer perspectives from each of the three elements reviewed dispassionately, without advocating or instructing from one to another.

Over the past decade, nighttime lights have become a widely used proxy for measuring economic activity. This paper examines the potential for high frequency nighttime lights data to provide "near real-time" tracking of the economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis in Morocco. At the national level, there exists a strong correlation between quarterly movements in Morocco''s overall nighttime light intensity and movements in its real GDP. This finding supports the use of lights data to track the economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis at higher temporal frequencies and at the subnational level, for which GDP data are unavailable. Consistent with large economic impacts of the crisis, Morocco experienced a large drop in the overall intensity of its lights in March 2020, from which it has subsequently struggled to recover, following the country''s first COVID-19 case and the introduction of strict lockdown measures. At the subnational level, while all regions shared in March''s national decline in nighttime light intensity, Rabat - Sale - Kenitra, Tanger - Tetouan - Al Hoceima, and Fes - Meknes suffered much larger declines than others. Since then, the relative effects of the COVID-19 shock across regions have largely persisted. Overall, the results suggest that, at least for Morocco, changes in nighttime lights can help to detect the timing of changes in the direction of real GDP, but caution is needed in using lights data to derive precise quantitative estimates of changes in real GDP.

This is the 3rd in the series of Abasi books.''Fear makes you run, faith makes you walk, love, makes you stay.''It has been twenty years since King Abasi reclaimed the throne from Darius. Tullius, the Roman Emperor, invades Persia and has his eye set on the palace.A faceless soldier holding a gold sword appears in the dreams of Tullius and Abasi. A recurrent dream that has been passed from person to person with a prediction made centuries ago. With the palace holding the key to the past and the present, will the prophecy come true?A dramatic story that reminds us to accept who we are and to fight for what we believe in.Other titles available: Abasi and the Palace; Abasi and the Journey Home.Coming soon: Abasi and the Dark Secret

This work presents quotations and biographies of their speakers drawn from the historical record covering the period of 2600 BC to current times. A rough chronological distribution of these has been maintained throughout. Of the 108 billion persons estimated to have lived to date throughout history, belief in an afterlife has been present for an overwhelming majority (and is reflected in the current estimated 87% adherence to religions which posit a continuation of life after death). This book is intended as a reminder of the strong sentiments of authors throughout the ages. Of the 7.2 billion persons currently living, belief in the afterlife (including those expressing re-incarnation leading to paradise).

This book centres on dependency; specifically, dependency on the smartphone in its current manifestation, with a view to what it will morph-into with advances in the sciences that underpin it. The work does not presuppose that this either a negative or positive influence on the development of mankind; but does accept the premise that the reliance on a device makes it an appendage of the man or woman who manages [relies upon] the device. The device is a machine which provides communication of information from the internet and offers alternative courses of action predicated upon that information, as well as providing a linkage with other persons [via texting and voice transmission-reception]. Its capacity to calendar and subsequently ''remind of obligations'' has come to control the behaviour of the individual operant. Smartphones are not currently attached to the body as envisaged in the definitions of cyborg, but the Apple-watch, which is no longer necessarily relinquished (un-handed) during the course of a day points to a time when attachment will be accepted. Size of device is no longer a barrier, voice is limited only by speaker capability and reading only limited by screen size [and shape]. The last may soon be overcome by a form of projection of the screen-image.The latest available (reliable) figures show 63% of all people in the world are using cellphones (2016). The American proliferation of cellphones has exploded by more than 100% in seven years according the Pew Research Group - with more than 98% of adults under 49 years old using them.Contributions from Artificial Intelligence development, Automation and Transhumanism are also addressed in the text.

This paper uses high-frequency nighttime time lights data to estimate the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on economic activity during the first year of the pandemic for a global sample of 2,800 cities, covering a total population of 2.5 billion people. Activity is found to be negatively affected by both the spread of the virus and the imposition of nonpharmaceutical interventions, but the negative impacts of the spread are large compared to those of nonpharmaceutical interventions. Large differences in city trajectories are also observed. Cities in low- and middle-income countries faced a significantly larger overall loss of economic activity compared to those in high-income countries. Additionally, cities with higher population densities are found to be more resilient in the face of the global shock as compared to less dense ones, but this difference is only observed in low- and middle-income countries. Taken together, the findings suggest that the Covid-19 crisis gave rise to divergence in urban economic trajectories, both across and within countries.