Download or read book Stabs at Happiness written by Todd Grimson and published by Schaffner Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the first original publication by Todd Grimson in almost 20 years, the 13 stories compiled in this volume showcase the author’s fascinating fictional canvases, peopled by authentic and sympathetic characters with settings ranging from the Amazon to the Sahara and stops in between to 1970s East Village and pre-Castro Cuba. Whether it’s a Hollywood starlet who goes AWOL from her movie set in the wake of her husband's suicide and in disguise embarks anonymously on a hedonistic bender or an African American man seeking the answer behind the mysterious disappearance of his friend in the heart of Muslim North Africa, each individual within these stories is striving to break free, to make new meaning of their world, to find recognition or self-definition in an otherwise bleak and unsympathetic world. Fresh and bold and original in his voice and depiction of character, places, and events, Grimson’s range is extraordinary, his imagination is unsurpassable, and his empathy for his characters—whether killers, transvestites, prostitutes—are all deeply heartfelt.

Download or read book Stab 7 written by Joshua Patrick Dudley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years have passed since the events of Stab 6: Ghostface Returns. Rachel and Kylie have successfully gotten away with plotting the deaths of their reality television show cast and are planning another string of murders. A Stab TV series is also about to hit the air, after Rachel lost the rights to the franchise, and another killer is targeting the same people as Rachel's Ghostface... the cast of the Stab TV series that revolves around Sarah Campbell's daughter, expanding upon the story of Stab 4: Fresh Blood. Are the TV show murders connected to the original cast of Stab 4? Only one thing's for sure: in the finale all the rules get broken.

Download or read book Stab 5 written by Joshua Patrick Dudley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stab 5 finds the cast of the amateur fan film Stab 4: Fresh Blood under attack, again playing on the reality-within-a-reality of the Stab films and taking it to the next level. After two cast members of Stab 4 are brutally murdered, the town of Manchester, New Hampshire is on edge as rumors of a Ghostface mask wearing psycho quickly make their way around town. Joshua Dudley, writer and director of Stab 4, and his producer, Rachel Arnold, are busily working on their production of Stab 5 when they receive the news. Deciding the film's production is worth more to them than the safety of their cast, production rolls on. Who would want to kill the cast of Stab 4? Is the killer following the same rules we all know and love? But the most important question on everyone's mind: who's next?

Download or read book Machine Learning Optimization and Data Science written by Giuseppe Nicosia and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set, LNCS 13163-13164, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, LOD 2021, together with the first edition of the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, ACAIN 2021. The total of 86 full papers presented in this two-volume post-conference proceedings set was carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions. These research articles were written by leading scientists in the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, computational optimization, neuroscience, and data science presenting a substantial array of ideas, technologies, algorithms, methods, and applications.

Download or read book Stab 4 Fresh Blood written by Joshua Patrick Dudley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being accused of her family's murder, Sarah Campbell has moved from her home in Odessa, Texas to the smaller, peaceful town of Manchester, New Hampshire. Stuck in an unfamiliar place, Sarah rediscovers joy in her oldest hobby: dance. Sarah joins a local dance-team run by dance legend Jay McConnell and befriends her teammates Haley Graham, Shannon Lewis, Mandy Meyers and Nikki Summers. Sarah is also introduced to the girls' boyfriends, including Cj Walker, Roy Brown and Lucas Depp. Trouble soon finds Sarah, again, when a local news reporter, Heather Gale, from Texas, follows her to New Hampshire, revealing the dark secrets of her past and accusing her of a new string of local murders. One by one, her friends begin to drop like flies in a very familiar pattern. Could Sarah and the murders be connected? Or has someone else taken their love of the STAB movies one step too far?

Download or read book Stab 6 Ghostface Returns written by Joshua Patrick Dudley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-27 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more of the Stab 4 cast is brutally murdered, reporter Kylie Scott, now the author of a book entitled ""Manchester Massacre,""convinces the Rachel Arnold and the StabMovies team to begin production on a new Stab 5, based on the ""real life"" murders of the cast of Stab 4: Fresh Blood. To cast this new ""inspired-by-another-true-story"" film, production also begins on a Stab Reality/Competition television show, where contestants compete for four roles in the new Stab 5. The only problem is: once you become a cast member of a Stab movie... someone... somewhere... wants you dead.

Download or read book The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen written by Erick Vaughn Wolfe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen: An Actor’s and Director’s Guide to Staged Violence provides detailed information for the safe use of knives and daggers in a theatrical setting and an in-depth understanding of safe theatrical weapons. The book starts with an extensive safety review, then moves on to the basic techniques of dagger fighting, starting with grip and body postures. Readers will then learn about the basic actions of cuts, parries, blocks, and disarms. During this process, they will explore the connection between body and weapon and start learning the elements of storytelling through choreography. Special attention is given to suicides, threats, and murder and how directors, choreographers, performers, teachers, and students can approach these techniques in a way that is physically and mentally safe. The book also covers the use of throwing knives, knife flips, and other tricks to help add a little flair to your fight. The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen teaches the safe theatrical use of the knife for directors, performers, educators, and students of stage combat.

Download or read book A Stab in the Dark written by Lawrence Block and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book description to come.

Download or read book Demons of Urban Reform written by Laura Patricia Stokes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative analysis of early witch trials in Lucerne, Nuremberg and Basel, within the context of criminal justice and social control. The case of Lucerne presents a fascinating interplay between witch trials and a transformation in the city's criminal procedure on one hand, and between witchcraft fears and social control on the other.

Download or read book Stab Proof Scarecrows written by Lance Manley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years and three months in the English Police. Twenty months as a volunteer Special Constable in the City of London, patrolling the Square Mile. On duty on July 7th and July 21st 2005 in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. Then nineteen months with Kent Police as a paid Regular officer. If you want a poodle, then buy one. But don't buy a Rottweiler, pull all its teeth out and have it neutered and then complain that it's lost its aggressive edge. The English Police is currently the most emasculating job anyone can ever do if they join up with ideals and a belief that Justice should be served. Stab Proof Scarecrows looks at policing in the UK from a trainee's perspective. Someone who joined with high aspirations of helping to protect people and serve the public trust, only to resign while still in probation after becoming thoroughly disillusioned with the modern world of coppering. Revised and updated from the 2010 edition.

Download or read book The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism written by International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism is one of the first publications to include scholarship on both the mainstream Tibetan canons of translated Buddhist classics, and the alternative canons of literature of the Nyingma sectarian traditions.

Download or read book New Essays on the Nature of Propositions written by David Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new approaches and the emergence of new theorists. Propositions have been invoked to explain thought and cognition, the nature and attribution of mental states, language and communication, and in philosophical treatments of truth, necessity and possibility. According to Frege and Russell, and their followers, propositions are structured mind- and language-independent abstract objects which have essential and intrinsic truth-conditions. Some recent theorizing doubts whether propositions really exist and, if they do, asks how we can grasp, entertain and know them? But most of the doubt concerns whether the abstract approach to propositions can really explain them. Are propositions really structured, and if so where does their structure come from? How does this structure form a unity, and does it need to? Are the representational and structural properties of propositions really independent of those of thinking and language? What does it mean to say that an object occurs in or is a constituent of a proposition? The volume takes up these and other questions, both as they apply to the abstract object approach and also to the more recently developed approaches. While the volume as a whole does not definitively and unequivocally reject the abstract objection approach, for the most part, the papers explore new critical and constructive directions. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Download or read book Handbook of Information and Communication Security written by Peter Stavroulakis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its core, information security deals with the secure and accurate transfer of information. While information security has long been important, it was, perhaps, brought more clearly into mainstream focus with the so-called “Y2K” issue. Te Y2K scare was the fear that c- puter networks and the systems that are controlled or operated by sofware would fail with the turn of the millennium, since their clocks could lose synchronization by not recognizing a number (instruction) with three zeros. A positive outcome of this scare was the creation of several Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) around the world that now work - operatively to exchange expertise and information, and to coordinate in case major problems should arise in the modern IT environment. Te terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 raised security concerns to a new level. Te - ternational community responded on at least two fronts; one front being the transfer of reliable information via secure networks and the other being the collection of information about - tential terrorists. As a sign of this new emphasis on security, since 2001, all major academic publishers have started technical journals focused on security, and every major communi- tions conference (for example, Globecom and ICC) has organized workshops and sessions on security issues. In addition, the IEEE has created a technical committee on Communication and Information Security. Te ?rst editor was intimately involved with security for the Athens Olympic Games of 2004.

Download or read book Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism written by Mischa Suter and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on perspectives from anthropology and social theory, this book explores the quotidian routines of debt collection in nineteenth-century capitalism. It focuses on Switzerland, an exemplary case of liberal rule. Debt collection and bankruptcy relied on received practices until they were standardized in a Swiss federal law in 1889. The vast array of these practices was summarized by the idiomatic Swiss legal term “Rechtstrieb” (literally, “law drive”). Analyzing these forms of summary justice opens a window to the makeshift economies and the contested political imaginaries of nineteenth-century everyday life. Ultimately, the book advances an empirically grounded and theoretically informed history of quotidian legal practices in the everyday economy; it is an argument for studying capitalism from the bottom up.

Download or read book Discrete and Computational Geometry written by Jin Akiyama and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Japanese Conference on Discrete Computational Geometry, JCDCG 2004, held in Tokyo, Japan in October 2004, to honor János Pach on his fiftieth year. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from over 60 talks at the conference. All current issues in discrete algorithmic geometry are addressed.

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Download or read book Algorithms ESA 2002 written by Rolf H. Möhring and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-09-02 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2002, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2002. The 74 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 201 submissions. The papers address all current issues in Algorithmics, in particular computational biology, computational finance, computational geometry, databases and information retrieval, external memory algorithms, graph and network algorithms, graph drawing, algorithmic learning, network design, online algorithms, parallel and distributed computing, pattern matching, data compression, quantum computing, randomized algorithms, and symbolic computation.