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			<title>Kirlian Cycle: Essence of Fire, Chapter 2</title>
			<description>Helga and her family head down from the ancestral home to the flatlands for the spring moot. </description>
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			<title>Kirlian Cycle: Essence of Fire, Chapter 1</title>
			<description>Helga is a young dwerger girl about to experience her first trip from the family home high in the mountains down into the flatlands of humanity.</description>
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			<title>Kirlian Cycle: Essence of Fire</title>
			<description>In a fantasy world dominated by more than humans, a young non-human girl discovers her family birthed  history's greatest monster</description>
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			<title>Sound and Education</title>
			<description>Promotional Web Copy</description>
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			<title>Vision</title>
			<description>MarvelOptioncs promotional web copy</description>
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			<title>Technological changes</title>
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			<title>Software Impact</title>
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			<title>Is Technology Our Friend</title>
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			<title>How Internet Has Changed Our Lives</title>
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			<title>Home Improvement</title>
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			<title>The 'Fun' of QA </title>
			<description>Old Article from May 2001</description>
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			<title>Dynamic Group Interaction</title>
			<description>Understanding the concept of dynamic group interaction and its proper implementation is one of the core concepts of any good MMORPG. It provides a solid foundation of game design and shapes the development of classes or archetypes available to players. Unlike stand-alone games, massive multiplayer g..</description>
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			<title>Group Versus Solo Play</title>
			<description>While on the subject of grouping, game designers in MMORPGs are faced with a difficult dilemma when it comes to solo versus group play options. Back in the day when Everquest was the only game in town (MMORPG speaking), its designers had free reign over the amount of options available for solo play...</description>
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			<title>Developer Arrogance</title>
			<description>There is no other profession that offers the same exhilaration as game designer, especially MMORPG designer. Your thoughts and dreams become seen and experienced by thousands if not millions of players. In some ways, it is similar to the script/screen writer or even the director of a movie, but wher..</description>
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			<title>Game Balance</title>
			<description>There is already a great deal written about game balance, such as how to achieve it, its importance, and even the pitfalls in dealing with it. Game balance is one of the most difficult areas of game design. Both paper &amp;amp; pencil and on-line multiplayer games need to ensure that each class or profe..</description>
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			<title>Core Combat Attributes</title>
			<description>Buried deep within every game system, whether paper &amp;amp; pencil, console, or MMORPG is the engine that drives combat. Hardcore mathematicians spend countless hours discussion these core mechanics. Testers spend even more time helping to perfect the exact details and values of the base line numbers...</description>
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			<title>What is Role Playing?</title>
			<description>Every culture on the face of the earth has games and every generation of humanity its unique forms of entertainment. Our civilization is no different. We have sports games, board games galore, card games, and centuries of gambling games that are still with us. One of the more creative types of games..</description>
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			<title>Our Indian Heritage</title>
			<description>The statement that North America was an empty continent awaiting its European inhabitants was perhaps made by someone dropped by miraculous means in to the Mojave desert of California, bypassing the rich coastal timberlands teaming with wildlife. So struck by the natural wealth confronting those who..</description>
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			<title>The New Model Army</title>
			<description>The New Model Army has the unique distinction of being one of the first professional armies. Unlike previous fighting bands, it was not tied to any community, but had a national spirit--as befits the near religious aspect of the growth of nationalism taking place in England. It was not an army of re..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Corith/1366630/</link>
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			<title>Noble Women</title>
			<description>While life for women during the late middle-ages was oppressive, by our standards, there was opportunity for women to enhance their position and move up the social ladder. Marriage was but the first step to offer women the possibility of authority. Marriage was the major means for women to enjoy upw..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Corith/1366628/</link>
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			<title>A Moment in the Sun</title>
			<description>Even after more than fifty years the question of who is to blame for the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, at 7:55 A.M. still lingers. Over half a century after the Japanese launched a successful surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, documents, journals, and official report..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Corith/1366626/</link>
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			<title>Puritan Values</title>
			<description>Puritan beliefs were filled with paradoxes. The puritans rebelled against others in order to create the perfect World, a utopia that did not allow for rebellion. The puritan beliefs and goals created a tension filled paradoxical dilemma. Man was not to sin, but he would sin anyway. Man was required ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Corith/1366625/</link>
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			<title>Virtual Revolution</title>
			<description>During man's long history, some event happens to disturb the status quo. The disturbance is such that the world is forever transformed after its passing. The Agricultural Revolution brought mankind out of the caves and placed him toiling in the fields. The last technological transformation, the Indu..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Corith/1366622/</link>
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			<title>Flag Day</title>
			<description>A little script for flag day</description>
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			<title>Stepping Stone to Liberty</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Each one of us who steps into a voting both owes a debt of gratitude to the events of British New Model Army in 1645, one the major battles for liberty. Unlike previous fighting bands, this band of professional soldiers was not tied to any community. It had a national spiri..</description>
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