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As is well-known, when the moon hours lengthen, human beings come adrift from the regularity of their mechanical clocks. They nod at noon, dream in waking hours, open their eyes wide to the pitch-black night. It is a time of magic. And as the borders between night and day stretch to their thinnest, so too do the borders between worlds. Dreams and stories merge with lived experience, the dead and the living brush against each other in their comings and goings, and the past and the present touch and overlap. Unexpected things can happen.
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Diane Setterfield (Once Upon a River)
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He knew the sound of an AK-47. It made a high-pitched, more mechanical crack than the American rifle, the M16, which made a deeper, rounder sort of pop.
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Mark Bowden (Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam)
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The clockwork octopus came out. It extended a tentacle with a clicking of metal joints. Around it was looped the chain of his watch. He hesitated, but took it. The chain skittered over the metal tentacle with a high, thin pitch like incoming sea. It was quite a coincidence for a mechanical sea creature and he was speculating whether it could possibly have been done on purpose when Katsu stole his other sock and flopped on to the floor with an unbiological bang, whereupon it octopused out of the open door and slid down the banister. He exclaimed at it, was ignored, and then went after it just in time to see it disappear into the parlour. It was climbing up the leg of the piano stool when he caught up. The watchmaker confiscated the sock and threw it over his shoulder to Thaniel, who caught it with the tips of his fingers. The octopus settled in his lap. ‘Thank you for finding him,’ he said. Against the piano keys, his hands were too warmly coloured for the watery morning. ‘I was looking for him earlier. He plays hide and seek.
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Natasha Pulley (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #1))
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As is well known, when the moon hours lengthen, human beings come adrift from the regularity of their mechanical clocks. They nod at noon, dream in waking hours, open their eyes wide to the pitch-black night. It is a time of magic. And as the borders between night and day stretch to their thinnest, so too do the borders between worlds. Dreams and stories merge with lived experience, the dead and the living brush against each other in their comings and goings, the past and the present touch and overlap. Unexpected things can happen.
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Diane Setterfield (Once Upon a River)
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Nathaniel first stared at the vampiric Moses and then at the bizarre door. Numerous symbols had been carved deep in the surface and instead of square edges, they were rounded. Daniel then drew a dagger from his coat and proceeded to stand directly in front of the door. As he neared it, one could swear that the surface rippled like oil in a vat while he grazed it with the dagger. Quite suddenly, he jammed the blade in the very center of the door up to the very hilt. A high-pitched grunt followed and then a series of mechanical noises and clangs chimed and clicked until the door skid back two inches and descended into the ground.
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J.D. Estrada (Only Human)
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Writers have come to master nearly every trade. They are inventors and entrepreneurs of character, plot, and dialogue. They are the eager scientists that can’t wait to try out their new experiment. They are the maestros of the symphony that plays in their head, conducting what happens, where, and at what precise moment. They are engineers and architects that design the structure of their piece so it stands the test of time and continues to fire on all cylinders. They play mechanics and doctors in their revisions, hoping they prescribe the correct diagnosis to fix the piece’s 'boo boos'. They are salesmen who pitch not an idea or a product, but themselves, to editors, publishers, and more importantly, their readers. They are teachers who through their craft, preach to pupils about what works and what doesn’t work and why. Writers can make you feel, can make you think, can make you wonder, but they can also grab your hand and guide you through their maze. Similar to what Emerson stated in 'The Poet,' writers possess a unique view on life, and with their revolving eye, they attempt to encompass all. I am a writer.
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Garrett Dennert
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It was solstice night, the longest night of the year. For weeks the days had been shrinking, first gradually, then precipitously, so that it was now dark by mid-afternoon. As is well-known, when the moon hours lengthen, human beings come adrift from the regularity of their mechanical clocks. They nod at noon, dream in waking hours, open their eyes wide to the pitch-black night. It is a time of magic. And as the borders between night and day stretch to their thinnest, so too do the borders between worlds. Dreams and stories merge with lived experience, the dead and the living brush against each other in their comings
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Diane Setterfield (Once Upon a River)
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The marketing department had cheaped out. Sure, they looked okay on the outside, and they mostly did the job you’d expect. But each pen had between thirty-five and forty-two clicks in it before the spring mechanism exploded. One of their more nervous sales reps had nearly lost an eye in the middle of a big pitch.
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Lucy Score (Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door (Riley Thorn, #1))
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I shut my eyes and concentrated on the sun, and on feeling it warm my skin. On pleasure. Hedon. The Greek god. Or idol, as he should probably be called seeing as I was on hallowed ground. It's pretty arrogant, calling all other gods, apart from the one you've come up with, idols. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Every dictator's command to his subjects, of course. The funny thing was that Christians couldn't see it themselves. They didn't see the mechanism, the regenerative, self-fulfilling, self-aggrandising aspect which meant that a superstition like this could survive for two thousand years, and in which the key--salvation--was restricted to those who were fortunate enough to have been born in a space of time which was a merest blink of the eye in human history, and who also happened to live on the only little bit of the planet that ever got to hear the commandment and were able to formulate an opinion about the concise sales pitch ("Paradise?").
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Jo Nesbø (Midnight Sun (Blood on Snow, #2))
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As is well known, when the moon hours lenghten, human beings come adrift from the regularity of their mechanical clocks. They nod at noon, dream in waking hours, open their eyes wide to the pitch-black night. It is a time of magic. And as the borders between night and day stretch to their thinnest, so too do the borders between worlds.
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Diane Setterfield (Once Upon a River)
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Art is about the individual, the individual commitment not tethered to reward. For the maker, and later the reader or the viewer or the listener, there is no obvious reward. There is only the thing-in-itself, because you want it, because you're drawn to it. It speaks to the part of us that is fully human, the part that belongs only to ourselves, not mechanized, socialized, pacified, integrated, but voice-to-voice, across time, singing a song pitched to the human ear, singing of destiny, of fear, of loss, of hope, of renewal, of change, of connection, of all the subtle and fragile relationships between men and women, their children, their country, and all the things not measured or understood by the census figures and the gross national product.
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Jeanette Winterson (The World Split Open)
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when the moon hours lengthen, human beings come adrift from the regularity of their mechanical clocks. They nod at noon, dream in waking hours, open their eyes wide to the pitch-black night. It is a time of magic. And as the borders between night and day stretch to their thinnest, so too do the borders between worlds. Dreams and stories merge with lived experience, the dead and the living brush against each other in their comings and goings, the past and the present touch and overlap.
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Diane Setterfield (Once Upon a River)
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Hyperbolic Suggestion is—as one might infer from the term’s literal interpretation—a method of suggestion induced upon the subject (or subjects), in question, through the blatant and immoderate invocation of hyperbole. Simply stated, excessive exaggeration induces a trance upon the recipient, rendering him or her remarkably susceptible to suggestion. Thus, through the use of a multitude of descriptive adjectives and superlatives, neural mechanisms and pathways are overloaded, as canals and bypasses are burrowed into the thick of the gray matter. The dendrites are, through this process, tuned to a predetermined frequency by which the seeds of suggestion can be sown. When this occurs, the subject becomes incredibly compliant to any orders given at a certain tone of voice. In some cases, orders need not be given. The subject’s attitudes might well be so affected by the hyperbole as to affect his natural tendencies...Emmanuel silently wondered if there existed a perfect combination of words or phrases that could somehow—as in the case of Hyperbolic Suggestion—subvert even the most stubborn of wills. Then again, maybe it wasn’t so much the words as it was how they were spoken: if he achieved exactly the most desirable intonation, rhythm, timing, pitch and pronunciation in his speaking, would his verbal appeals somehow make greater inroads in garnering their consent? There had to be some optimal combination of aspirated consonants, diphthongs, facial expressions and inflection he could somehow affect in order to persuade them effectively. But it seemed that to search for this elusive mixture of ingredients would only prove an onerous task, conceivably of little benefit. In view of this sobering reality, he decided instead to try out a completely different approach from those previous: it occurred to him that his attempts at persuasion might be slightly more effective if he carried them out as dialogues, rather than as monologues.
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Ashim Shanker (Only the Deplorable (Migrations, Volume II))
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Things reached such a pitch that at one conference Bohr remarked of a new theory that the question was not whether it was crazy, but whether it was crazy enough. To illustrate the non-intuitive nature of the quantum world, Schrödinger offered a famous thought experiment in which a hypothetical cat was placed in a box with one atom of a radioactive substance attached to a vial of hydrocyanic acid. If the particle degraded within an hour, it would trigger a mechanism that would break the vial and poison the cat. If not, the cat would live. But we could not know which was the case, so there was no choice, scientifically, but to regard the cat as 100 per cent alive and 100 per cent dead at the same time.
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Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything)
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It was solstice night, the longest night of the year. For weeks the days had been shrinking, first gradually, then precipitously, so that it was now dark by mid-afternoon. As is well-known, when the moon hours lengthen, human beings come adrift from the regularity of their mechanical clocks. They nod at noon, dream in waking hours, open their eyes wide to the pitch-black night. It is a time of magic. And as the borders between night and day stretch to their thinnest, so too do the borders between worlds. Dreams and stories merge with lived experience, the dead and the living brush against each other in their comings and goings, and the past and the present touch and overlap. Unexpected things can happen.
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Diane Setterfield (Once Upon a River)
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It was solstice night, the longest night of the year. For weeks the days had been shrinking, first gradually, then precipitously, so that it was now dark by mid-afternoon. As is well known, when the moon hours lengthen, human beings come adrift from the regularity of their mechanical clocks. They nod at noon, Dream in the waking hours, open their eyes wide to the pitch-black night. It is a time of magic. And as the borders between night and day stretch to their thinnest, so too do the borders between worlds. Dreams and stories merge with lived experience, the dead and the living brush against each other in their comings and goings, the past and the present touch and overlap. Unexpected things can happen.
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Diane Setterfield (Once Upon a River)
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Lovelace defined as an ‘operation’ the control of material and symbolic entities beyond the second-order language of mathematics (like the idea, discussed in chapter 1, of an algorithmic thinking beyond the boundary of computer science). In a visionary way, Lovelace seemed to suggest that mathematics is not the universal theory par excellence but a particular case of the science of operations. Following this insight, she envisioned the capacity of numerical computers qua universal machines to represent and manipulate numerical relations in the most diverse disciplines and generate, among other things, complex musical artefacts: [The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine … Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.
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Matteo Pasquinelli (The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence)
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One-sidedness in the exercise of powers, it is true, inevitably leads the individual into error, but the race to truth,”6 says Schiller. The privileged position of the superior function is as detrimental to the individual as it is valuable to society. This detrimental effect has reached such a pitch that the mass organizations of our present-day culture actually strive for the complete extinction of the individual, since their very existence depends on a mechanized application of the privileged functions of individual human beings. It is not man who counts, but his one differentiated function. Man no longer appears as man in our collective culture: he is merely represented by a function, what is more he identifies himself completely with this function and denies the relevance of the other inferior functions. Thus modern man is debased to a mere function, because it is this that represents a collective value and alone guarantees a possible livelihood. But, as Schiller clearly sees, a differentiation of function could have come in no other way: There was no other way of developing the manifold capacities of man than by placing them in opposition to each other. This antagonism of powers is the great instrument of culture, but it is only the instrument; for as long as it persists, we are only on the way towards culture.7
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C.G. Jung (Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 6: Psychological Types (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung))
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Linguistic and musical sound systems illustrate a common theme in the study of music-language relations. On the surface, the two domains are dramatically different. Music uses pitch in ways that speech does not, and speech organizes timbre to a degree seldom seen in music. Yet beneath these differences lie deep connections in terms of cognitive and neural processing. Most notably, in both domains the mind interacts with one particular aspect of sound (pitch in music, and timbre in speech) to create a perceptually discretized system. Importantly, this perceptual discretization is not an automatic byproduct of human auditory perception. For example, linguistic and musical sequences present the ear with continuous variations in amplitude, yet loudness is not perceived in terms of discrete categories. Instead, the perceptual discretization of musical pitch and linguistic timbre reflects the activity of a powerful cognitive system, built to separate within-category sonic variation from differences that indicate a change in sound category. Although music and speech differ in the primary acoustic feature used for sound category formation, it appears that the mechanisms that create and maintain learned sound categories in the two domains may have a substantial degree of overlap. Such overlap has implications for both practical and theoretical issues surrounding human communicative development.
In the 20th century, relations between spoken and musical sound systems were largely explored by artists. For example, the boundary between the domains played an important role in innovative works such as Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Reich's Different Trains (cf. Risset, 1991). In the 21st century, science is finally beginning to catch up, as relations between spoken and musical sound systems prove themselves to be a fruitful domain for research in cognitive neuroscience. Such work has already begun to yield new insights into our species' uniquely powerful communicative abilities.
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Aniruddh D. Patel (Music, Language, and the Brain)
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So,” Marlboro Man began over dinner one night. “How many kids do you want to have?” I almost choked on my medium-rare T-bone, the one he’d grilled for me so expertly with his own two hands.
“Oh my word,” I replied, swallowing hard. I didn’t feel so hungry anymore. “I don’t know…how many kids do you want to have?”
“Oh, I don’t know,” he said with a mischievous grin. “Six or so. Maybe seven.”
I felt downright nauseated. Maybe it was a defense mechanism, my body preparing me for the dreaded morning sickness that, I didn’t know at the time, awaited me. Six or seven kids? Righty-oh, Marlboro Man.
Righty…no.
“Ha-ha ha-ha ha. Ha.” I laughed, tossing my long hair over my shoulder and acting like he’d made a big joke. “Yeah, right! Ha-ha. Six kids…can you imagine?” Ha-ha. Ha. Ha.” The laughter was part humor, part nervousness, part terror. We’d never had a serious discussion about children before.
“Why?” He looked a little more serious this time. “How many kids do you think we should have?”
I smeared my mashed potatoes around on my plate and felt my ovaries leap inside my body. This was not a positive development. Stop that! I ordered, silently. Settle down! Go back to sleep!
I blinked and took a swig of the wine Marlboro Man had bought me earlier in the day. “Let’s see…,” I answered, drumming my fingernails on the table. “How ’bout one? Or maybe…one and a half?” I sucked in my stomach--another defensive move in an attempt to deny what I didn’t realize at the time was an inevitable, and jiggly, future.
“One?” he replied. “Aw, that’s not nearly enough of a work crew for me. I’ll need a lot more help than that!” Then he chuckled, standing up to clear our plates as I sat there in a daze, having no idea whether or not he was kidding.
It was the strangest conversation I’d ever had. I felt like the roller coaster had just pulled away from the gate, and the entire amusement park was pitch-black. I had no idea what was in front of me; I was entering a foreign land. My ovaries, on the other hand, were doing backflips, as if they’d been wandering, parched, in a barren wasteland and finally, miraculously, happened upon a roaring waterfall. And that waterfall was about six feet tall, with gray hair and bulging biceps. They never knew they could experience such hope.
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Ree Drummond (The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels)
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The contrivance was quite fantastic, and presented the appearance of some new, highly complicated musical instrument. I remember that there were many wires of varying thickness, stretched on a series of concave sounding-boards of some dark, unlustrous metal; and above these, there depended from three horizontal bars a number of square, circular and triangular gongs. Each of these appeared to be made of a different material; some were bright as gold, or translucent as jade; others were black and opaque as jet. A small hammer-like instrument hung opposite each gong, at the end of a silver wire. Averaud proceeded to expound the scientific basis of his mechanism. The vibrational properties of the gongs, he said, were designed to neutralize with their sound-pitch all other cosmic vibrations than those of evil. He dwelt at much length on this extravagant theorem, developing it in a fashion oddly lucid. He ended his peroration: “I need one more gong to complete the instrument; and this I hope to invent very soon. The triangular room, draped in black, and without windows, forms the ideal setting for my experiment. Apart from this room, I have not ventured to make any change in the house or its grounds, for fear of deranging some propitious element or collocation of elements.” More than ever, I thought that he was mad. And, though he had professed on many occasions to abhor the evil which he planned
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Lawrence Watt-Evans (The Mad Scientist Megapack: 23 Tales of Scientists, Creatures, & Diabolical Experiments!)
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Something happened between us that last day. I felt it, too. And I thought it was just some screwed up defense mechanism that I’d leave behind in that basement… but dammit, Dean, it followed me. I still feel it.” She looks up, boldly finding my eyes. “It’s destroying everything, and I hate you for it.” My hand cups her face as my heart constricts inside my chest. “Corabelle…” She slaps my arm away. “Don’t call me that. Don’t touch me. Just leave me alone.” “You don’t hate me.” “Yes, I do!” Cora’s pitch rises as new tears break through, then she shoves me backwards. “I hate you. I always have.” “No.
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Jennifer Hartmann (Still Beating)
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I think it was because he sasuk.
Cheongpung waist approached by a mechanical watch is
Sukyimyeo was 010v9469v7009 trying to say. But before it
Cheongpung groups pitches are talking to watch the first
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삼성동출장안마 010v9469v7009 삼성동출장마사지
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The tunnel was massive. Its grey concrete walls were illuminated by orange
bursts of light that flashed overhead. The roar of the GTR and the high-pitched
whine of the turbo-charged Acura merged in an unholy mechanical scream. As they
shot past the traffic at the entrance, the cars behind them slowed to a crawl. For a
brief second, they were alone in the tunnel, like two shiny bullets racing down the
barrel of a gun.
Here on the smooth straightaway of the tunnel, Caine’s powerful GTR had the
advantage. He closed the gap, pulling up next to the Acura. He saw the driver
glance over at him, his brow furrowed in determination. Caine turned his eyes back
to the road. A sea of blinking red tail lights filled his view: they had caught up with
the tunnel traffic.
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Andrew Warren (Tokyo Black (Thomas Caine #1))
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In talking to directors and writers, I’m constantly inspired by the models they keep in their heads—each a unique mechanism they use to keep moving forward, through adversity, in pursuit of their goals. Pete Docter compares directing to running through a long tunnel having no idea how long it will last but trusting that he will eventually come out, intact, at the other end. “There’s a really scary point in the middle where it’s just dark,” he says. “There’s no light from where you came in and there’s no light at the other end; all you can do is keep going. And then you start to see a little light and then a little more light and then, suddenly, you’re out in the bright sun.” For Pete, this metaphor is a way of making that moment—the one in which you can’t see your own hand in front of your face and you aren’t sure you’ll ever find your way out—a bit less frightening. Because your rational mind knows that tunnels have two ends, your emotional mind can be kept in check when pitch blackness descends in the confusing middle.
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Ed Catmull (Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition): Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration)
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This is called creating local star power. This is critically important. With local star power, you’ll be able to succeed in pitching audiences who don’t know you; the ability to create and sustain local star power literally is going to mean the difference between success and failure. The first impression we make on another person is based on that person’s automatic calculation of our social value. As a survival mechanism, the other person’s brain is making it a priority to understand where you fit in the social structure. The person makes a hasty judgment using three measurable criteria: your wealth, your power, and your popularity. Based on some quick mental shorthand, the person is going to assign you a social status level, and from that calculation, a frame will be fixed. The person will not necessarily even consciously think about this. The people jaywalking behind the man in the nice suit did not deliberately pause to consider his status or think about whether it meant he was likely to cross streets safely. They just automatically calculated his likely status and behaved accordingly.
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Oren Klaff (Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal)
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The Very Difference Between Game Design & 3D Game Development You Always Want to Know
Getting into the gaming industry is a dream for many people. In addition to the fact that this area is always relevant, dynamic, alive and impenetrable for problems inherent in other areas, it will become a real paradise for those who love games. Turning your hobby into work is probably the best thing that can happen in your career.
What is Game Designing?
A 3D Game Designer is a creative person who dreams up the overall design of a video game. Game design is a large field, drawing from the fields of computer science/programming, creative writing, and graphic design. Game designers take the creative lead in imagining and bringing to life video game worlds. Game designers discuss the following issues:
• the target audience;
• genre;
• main plot;
• alternative scenarios;
• maps;
• levels;
• characters;
• game process;
• user interface;
• rules and restrictions;
• the primary and secondary goals, etc
Without this information, further work on the game is impossible. Once the concept has been chosen, the game designers work closely with the artists and developers to ensure that the overall picture of the game is harmonized and that the implementation is in line with the original ideas. As such, the skills of a game designer are drawn from the fields of computer science and programming, creative writing and graphic design. Game designers take the creative lead in imagining and bringing to life video game stories, characters, gameplay, rules, interfaces, dialogue and environments.
A game designer's role on a game development outsourcing team differs from the specialized roles of graphic designers and programmers. Graphic designers and game programmers have specific tasks to accomplish in the division of labor that goes into creating a video game, international students can major in those specific disciplines if desired.
The game designer generates ideas and concepts for games. They define the layout and overall functionality of the Game Animation Studio. In short, they are responsible for creating the vision for the game. These geniuses produce innovative ideas for games. Game designers should have a knack for extraordinary and creative vision so that their game may survive in the competitive market. The field of game design is always in need of artists of all types who may be drawn to multiple art forms, original game design and computer animation. The game designer is the artist who uses his/her talents to bring the characters and plot to life.
Who is a Game Development?
Games developers use their creative talent and skills to create the games that keep us glued to the screen for hours and even days or make us play them by erasing every other thought from our minds. They are responsible for turning the vision into a reality, i.e., they convert the ideas or design into the actual game. Thus, they convert all the layouts and sketches into the actual product. It may involve concept generation, design, build, test and release. While you create a game, it is important to think about the game mechanics, rewards, player engagement and level design.
3D Game development involves bringing these ideas to life. Developers take games from the conceptual phase, through *development*, and into reality. The Game Development Services side of games typically involves the programming, coding, rendering, engineering, and testing of the game (and all of its elements: sound, levels, characters, and other assets, etc.).
Here are the following stages of 3D Game Development Service, and the best ways of learning game development (step by step).
• High Concept
• Pitch
• Concept
• Game Design Document
• Prototype
• Production
• Design
• Level Creation
• Programming
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GameYan
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Faith must always thrive in the absence of any physical evidence. Let’s say you are negotiating a dark tunnel with a torch in your hand. As long as the torch is lit and you can see, you imagine you are in control, that you will soon figure your way out. But what if the battery drains and the torch dies? And it is pitch dark, scary; you are clueless and don’t know what to do? Faith, then, is your only resort. If you deploy your Faith – in the absence of even a shred of evidence that you will survive – and believe that you will come out of the tunnel unscathed, you surely will! That is why Faith is not just a coping mechanism, it is a game-changer! Harness the power of your Faith, understand the futility of fear, and see doors open miraculously where there once stood impregnable walls!
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AVIS Viswanathan
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And so Titus laughed, and as he laughed, high-pitched and uncontrolled (for at the back of it all he was scared and little relished the idea of being singled out, pin-pointed, and examined by a mechanical brain), while he laughed, he began at the same time to run, for there was something ominous in the air, ominous and ludicrous – something that told him that to stay any longer on this marble tract was to court trouble, to be held a vagrant, a spy, or a madman.
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Mervyn Peake (The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy)
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I wrote a book once.” Holden hesitated. He didn’t want to get suckered into reading something amateur and then having to lie about how much he liked it. “What was it about?” “Lots of things. A collection of stories.” Livira made no attempt at a sales pitch. “But she was saying…” Holden struggled to remember. “You wrote yourself into your own story? No wait – she told me ‘You’re not the author of your own story.’” “Very few people are the author of their own story. Perhaps we’re all characters someone else is writing. Maybe in this world there are characters in books who exist in their own world and consider themselves as real as the people who wrote them. And maybe they’re writing books that have us in. It could be that if you had a mechanism that could leaf through the pages of the multiverse, it would be able to take you to a world and a time and a location that matched the contents of any book you put into it.
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Mark Lawrence (Missing Pages (The Library Trilogy, #1.4-1.5-1.6))
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The siren call of instant verification
The internet breeds a thousand shortcuts. For merchants, freelancers, and small enterprises, the promise of instant transactional credibility is intoxicating: higher limits, fewer holds, quicker payouts. Somewhere in a forum or a private message, someone will advertise a “verified” PayPal account for immediate use. The pitch is seductive because the pain is real — onboarding delays, bank confirmations, and international friction can throttle cash flow just when momentum builds.
That is precisely why the marketplace for bought accounts exists. But this is also why buying a verified account is a perilous contrivance. It substitutes surface-level convenience for the structural element that makes digital payments work in the first place: traceable, accountable identity. What follows is an investigative account of that economy, the scams that dominate it, and a robust, lawful playbook for gaining verified status without gambling your money, your reputation, or your freedom.
Why verification matters — not just for platforms, but for you
Verification is not arbitrary red tape. It’s a risk-management architecture that helps payment platforms, banks, card networks, and regulators to:
Link funds to a verifiable legal subject (person or company).
Detect and deter money-laundering, fraud, and identity theft.
Provide consumer protection mechanisms like buyer-seller dispute resolution.
Maintain trust in a system where value flows instantaneously across borders.
When an account is legitimately verified, platforms can operate with reduced friction because they can reasonably trace transactions back to responsible parties. Remove that traceability and the system must impose severe, immediate scrutiny — holds, freezes, or reclamations — that harm the very actors who sought a shortcut.
The illicit aftermarket: structure and hazards
The aftermarket that advertises “verified” credentials tends to be opaque and fragile. Its suppliers often fall into a few categories: compromised identities, collaborators who relinquish control under duress or for payment, and opportunistic sellers who resell accounts they previously owned. Distribution happens through encrypted apps, invite-only forums, or criminal marketplaces. Payment demands are commonly irreversible — cryptocurrency, gift cards, or wire transfers into opaque chains.
This structure generates cascading hazards for the buyer:
Account reclamation: Original owners, banks, or the platform can reclaim accounts.
Frozen funds: Investigations can freeze balances for weeks or months.
Legal exposure: Using mis-owned accounts can trigger AML investigations or worse.
Reputational damage: Clients and partners may lose trust after a dispute or freeze.
Complicity in identity crime: Buyers may unknowingly participate in schemes that use stolen identities.
These are not abstract risks; they are recurring, observable outcomes for participants in that market.
Scam archetypes to recognize (and avoid)
If you encounter an offer that promises a pre-verified PayPal account, several red flags indicate a scam or a legal hazard:
Irreversible payment requirement. Sellers demanding cryptocurrency, gift cards, or untraceable transfers are exiting the realm of legitimate commerce.
Instant, guaranteed verification promises. Real verification depends on matching identity with banking instruments — it cannot be legitimately guaranteed on demand.
Leasing schemes. “Lease the account for a fee” often means temporary access that evaporates when disputes and recovery claims arise.
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Where & How to Get Verified PayPal Accounts Online
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Where & How to Buy Verified PayPal Accounts Online — Risks & Safe Alternatives
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Introduction
There’s a shadowy corner of the internet where quick solutions promise instant transactional credibility. The offer is simple: pay a vendor and obtain a “verified” PayPal account ready to send and receive funds. Tempting. Dangerous. Illegal in many jurisdictions. This investigation unpacks why the marketplace for purchased accounts exists, the hazards it conceals, and, crucially, what ethical — and lawful — alternatives exist for people and businesses that genuinely need reliable payment channels.
The proposition and why it proliferates
The pitch is less complicated than it sounds. Some individuals and small businesses seek a verified PayPal account without the time, documents, or history required by legitimate verification processes. Demand creates supply. Opportunists and criminals step in.
Economic friction fuels the trade: onboarding processes, bank access limitations, and regional restrictions. For some, ease-of-access matters more than legality or reputation. For others, it’s ignorance. But the commerce of third-party verified accounts is not a benign gray market; it is a vector for scams, fraud, and regulatory breaches.
What “verified” actually means
In PayPal’s ecosystem, verification is a set of checks designed to bind an account to a real identity or a legitimate business. Typical verification mechanisms include linking and confirming a bank account or card, submitting identity documents, and sometimes completing business registration. Verification reduces fraud risk and unlocks higher transaction volumes and fewer temporary holds.
Be wary of any service that offers to transfer or sell a pre-verified identity. A verified account represents a legal relationship between a person or entity and PayPal. When that relationship is sold or misappropriated, both the buyer and seller assume substantial legal and reputational risk.
The immediate dangers of buying accounts
Fraud and scams
Many “sellers” are themselves fraudulent. They may take payment and never deliver, or deliver accounts that are quickly reclaimed by the original owners through recovery processes. Upfront payments are swiftly lost.
Account takeover and chargebacks
A purchased account is frequently linked to documentation or payment methods that can be contested. The original owner — or PayPal’s security team — can reclaim control, freeze funds, or reverse transactions. This creates financial instability and potential liability for the buyer.
Money-laundering exposure
Using someone else’s verified account can unintentionally mix lawful funds with proceeds from illicit activity. This raises money-laundering red flags. Banks and payment processors are required to report suspicious activity. That exposure can trigger investigations, asset freezes, and criminal charges.
Legal consequences
Facilitating or participating in the sale of verified accounts may violate a provider’s Terms of Service and local laws. Depending on jurisdiction and case specifics, consequences can include civil claims, monetary penalties, or criminal prosecution.
Reputational damage
For businesses, a sudden association with dubious payment practices can destroy customer trust and invite scrutiny from partners, insurers, and regulators.
Loss of buyer protections
Transactions through illicitly obtained accounts often fall outside the protections that platforms provide to consumers. A buyer facing a dispute may find no recourse.
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Where & How to Buy Verified PayPal Accounts Online — Risks & Safe Alternatives
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The Evolution of Digital Wallets: How PayPal Changed Transactions
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The world of finance has undergone a seismic shift in the past two decades. Paper money and coins, once the undisputed instruments of trade, have ceded their dominance to a new frontier—digital wallets. At the center of this transformation stands PayPal, a platform that pioneered trust in virtual currency management and altered the way individuals and businesses perceive money itself. The story of The Evolution of Digital Wallets: How PayPal Changed Transactions is not just about technology; it is about cultural adoption, consumer psychology, and the architecture of modern commerce.
From Barter to Bytes: The Precursor to Digital Wallets
Humanity has always pursued efficiency in trade. From bartering livestock to minting coins, from issuing paper notes to swiping credit cards—the march toward convenience has never ceased. Yet each innovation brought its own friction. Carrying cash posed risks. Credit cards, while revolutionary, created vulnerabilities to fraud and debt.
The arrival of digital wallets addressed both convenience and security. A digital wallet is more than a virtual purse; it is a gateway, a consolidated hub that allows individuals to send, receive, and store money without physical exchange. The emergence of PayPal in the late 1990s crystallized this concept, setting the stage for The Evolution of Digital Wallets: How PayPal Changed Transactions.
The Birth of PayPal and the Dawn of Digital Confidence
PayPal’s origins trace back to 1998, when the idea of moving money through the internet seemed radical, even precarious. At a time when consumers hesitated to type credit card numbers into websites, PayPal positioned itself as an intermediary of trust. Its pitch was simple but powerful: a secure platform that protected both buyers and sellers while making transactions instantaneous.
By integrating with eBay in its early years, PayPal found fertile ground. Sellers could receive money instantly, while buyers no longer worried about mailing checks. This simple innovation catalyzed adoption and showcased the immense potential of digital wallets. Without exaggeration, the foundation of The Evolution of Digital Wallets: How PayPal Changed Transactions was laid in those years when trust and technology fused.
Changing Consumer Psychology
One of PayPal’s greatest achievements lies in reshaping consumer behavior. Before its rise, online commerce was plagued by hesitation. People feared fraud, identity theft, or the possibility that a product might never arrive. PayPal countered this anxiety with its buyer protection policy, refund guarantees, and dispute resolution system.
This shifted psychology profoundly. Suddenly, online shopping was not a gamble but a safe experiment. Merchants saw increased sales because customers trusted the payment mechanism. Buyers felt empowered, knowing there was recourse in case of deception.
The psychology of digital trust—established by PayPal—became central to The Evolution of Digital Wallets: How PayPal Changed Transactions.
The Ripple Effect: Competitors and Innovations
Once PayPal proved the model, competitors emerged. Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Venmo, and later, decentralized solutions like cryptocurrency wallets all joined the financial ecosystem. Each iteration borrowed elements of PayPal’s blueprint—security, speed, and consumer reassurance.
However, PayPal maintained a critical edge: ubiquity. Its global reach, operating across more than 200 markets and supporting dozens of currencies, positioned it not just as a wallet but as a universal payment passport. This ubiquity underscores why The Evolution of Digital Wallets: How PayPal Changed Transactions is inseparable from the company’s influence.
Integration with Business Ecosystems
Digital wallets are not merely personal tools—they are lifelines for businesses. PayPal’s
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Comparing Different Providers When You Buy Telegram Accounts
Types of Providers & What They Claim to Offer
When you look for Telegram accounts for sale, sellers commonly promise different kinds of “ready-to-use” accounts:
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Aged or “old” accounts — claimed to have been registered long ago (months/years), supposedly giving them higher trust and lower suspicion.
Bulk‑sale sellers — offering many accounts at once (10, 50, 100+), often for marketing, automation, or outreach campaigns.
Accounts with followers or channels/chats attached — sometimes sellers say the account already has a channel, group, or some “followers,” which they pitch as attractive for marketing or instant presence.
Regional / country‑specific accounts — accounts registered using phone numbers from certain countries or regions, offered for “local” outreach or targeting.
Depending on what you’re trying to achieve (many accounts, “old” history, location targeting, preexisting followers), different providers might seem more attractive.
⚠️ What You Risk — and Why “Provider Quality” Matters
Regardless of providers’ promises, there are serious risks:
Policy violation: Telegram prohibits sale/transfer of accounts. If the platform detects suspicious activity — like a change in phone number, unusual login patterns, or reused credentials — your account may be suspended or permanently banned.
Loss of true control: Even if you receive login credentials, the original owner (or seller) may retain recovery access (e.g. old phone number, backup codes, other devices). That means they can reclaim the account — leaving you locked out.
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Security & privacy hazards: Some accounts may be compromised already (used in scams, hacked, containing malware or backdoors), or tied to phone numbers in illicit use. By buying, you might inherit those risks.
Fake / inactive / bot followers or contacts: If the account comes with “followers,” they’re often fake, inactive, or bot accounts. That means even if your channel looks popular, real engagement will likely be negligible.
Reputation & ethical issues: Using bought accounts — especially with fake followers or bot‑driven activity — harms credibility. For brand, business, or community uses, this undermines trust and long‑term value.
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Audifort Hearing Support Review — My Honest Experience After 60 Days of Use (2025 Update) (874)
# Audifort Hearing Support Review: A Doctor's 60-Day Experience
## My Personal Journey with Tinnitus
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As a physician, I rely on data and evidence. Yet, for three years, I've dealt with a frustrating secret: tinnitus, a constant, high-pitched ringing in my ears. It wasn't debilitating, but it was maddening, affecting my focus and sleep. Like many, I saw the ads for Audifort and was skeptical.
However, as a doctor and public health specialist, I knew my patients were curious. So, I decided to try Audifort myself. This is my honest, 60-day review. Did it work? Were there side effects? Would I recommend it?
## Audifort: Quick Facts
* **Product Name:** Audifort
* **Category:** Hearing & Tinnitus Support Supplement
* **Target Audience:** Adults with tinnitus, ringing ears, or mild hearing loss
* **Core Mechanism:** Supports ear blood flow & nerve communication
* **Key Ingredients:** Ginkgo Biloba, Zinc, Vitamin B6, Magnesium, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Green Tea Extract
* **Usage:** 2 capsules daily with water
* **My Duration of Use:** 60 days (2 bottles)
* **Refund Policy:** 60-day, 100% money-back guarantee
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## Why I Decided to Try Audifort
My tinnitus began after an ear infection. Standard treatments like sound machines and habituation therapy offered limited relief. Patients started asking me about Audifort, piquing my interest despite my skepticism.
The ingredient list intrigued me. These weren't random herbs, but compounds with some evidence behind them. I decided to conduct my own 60-day experiment, applying the same rigor as a clinical trial.
## What is Audifort and How Does it Work?
Audifort is a dietary supplement designed to provide nutritional support for the auditory system. It's not a drug or a cure, but rather a source of raw materials needed for optimal ear function and protection.
### How Audifort Claims to Work:
* **Support Microcirculation:** Ingredients like Ginkgo Biloba aim to improve blood flow to the inner ear, delivering essential oxygen and nutrients.
* **Fight Oxidative Stress:** Antioxidants combat free radicals, protecting delicate ear cells from damage linked to tinnitus.
* **Support Nerve Health:** Key minerals and compounds (Magnesium and B6) support healthy nerve function, potentially reducing the neural "static" that causes ringing.
Audifort is manufactured in an FDA-registered, GMP-certified facility, ensuring quality and purity. I expected a gradual process, as this is nutrition, not a quick fix.
## Audifort Ingredients: An MD's Analysis
Here's my breakdown of Audifort's key ingredients:
* **Ginkgo Biloba:** Improves ear circulation, enhancing oxygen and nutrient delivery.
* **Zinc:** Strengthens nerve signaling; deficiencies are linked to tinnitus and hearing loss.
* **Vitamin B6:** Supports neurotransmitter balance, vital for nerve communication.
* **Magnesium:** Anti-inflammatory; protects inner ear hair cells from noise-induced damage.
* **Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA):** A powerful antioxidant fighting oxidative stress.
* **Green Tea Extract:** Combats oxidative stress with potent antioxidants.
My verdict on the formula: It's a logical support blend addressing key theories behind tinnitus (oxidative stress, poor circulation, and neural inflammati
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