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"I'm certainly not rejoicing at your continued existence, no." Giles didn't back down. In fact, he pulled himself completely erect, making certain that he was looking down at the shorter vampire.
Spike moved forward, raised eyes hot with anger. "Expected better of you, Rupert."
Giles shrugged, hoping it angered Spike even more. "I merely removed Buffy from the equation." He made his eyes hard, determined to brook no nonsense. "Although I'll finish the job myself if any harm comes to any of these girls at your hand."
Spike chuckled. Giles' hackles rose at the dryness of it. "Not much chance of that.   I'm my own man now. Not the First's or anyone else's."
"Except Buffy's, of course," Giles said cuttingly.
Giles took great satisfaction at the pole-axed look on Spike's face.
After a moment, the vampire stepped back, looking him up and down appraisingly. "So that's what this is about, then? Eliminating the competition?"
Giles eyes widened in surprise. Spike slowly smiled, as Giles sputtered slightly, unable to string words into a comprehensible retort. Finally, he choked out a word. "Competition?"
"Maybe I'm not good enough, but she believes that I'm tryin'. To do good. Be good. You're bound up so tight with tradition and your Watcher conventions that you don't see anything at all. And yeah, competition. Like I'm tryin' to take your little girl away from you." He laughed ruefully. "At least I hope that's all it is."
Giles schooled his features into impassivity, but it was too late. "That's ridiculous."
"You know, you've really made my night." Spike's eyes glinted in amusement under arched brows. "You feelin' all threatened and such. All parental distress to my..." He laughed and shrugged, unable to find the proper comparison. "Whatever." The grim smile disappeared and Spike's face became cold. "Appreciate your concern. But you're not her father. And I think you gave up Watcher's rights when you ran off." The vampire rocked back on his heels a moment, then turned with a curt nod to open the door. In his overwhelming self-confidence, he left it ajar. "Night, Rupert."
As he watched Spike saunter jauntily down the hallway toward the basement, Giles wished for a stake. There was one in the valise, of course, along with several other small weapons, but by the time he thought of them, the impulse had passed.
What Spike had said was untrue. Completely untrue. Buffy had been in his charge. Naturally, he would have concerns for her, but that had nothing to do with what was going on now.
Twisting the flask open, he quietly closed the door and sat down on the step. He let the liquid sear Spike's words out of his mind.
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... and this time will not indulge in stealth cycling. Will see if I can make the Java Shack coffee club tomorrow - Friday - any easy rides on Saturday planned for a lazy wannabe rider?
Yours in slagging Boomer, because he fakes his rides and drinks capirinhas.
Has Powerful Pete always talked about himself in the third person?
I have only heard of this person. Wonder if he/she really exists!
Steve O recommends that Powerful Pete check the coffee club calendar for other coffee club opportunities.
How can I add my rides to *this* calendar?
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Keep in mind that the "Powerful" is used satirically, like Little John, Curly, etc.
Yeah, yeah. He/she is fictional!
PP!!!!! Glad to have you back for a visit. We should have an Unholy Alliance Happy Hour in your honor before you leave.Communities (towns, cities, regions and departments) often provide grants to students going abroad. Do not hesitate to enquire about a mobility grant.Mobility grants provided by communities are especially useful as they are open to all students and not just the most "needy". You can therefore apply for a grant regardless of your income and circumstances. These mobility grants help cover travel and accommodation costs. The level of the grant varies depending on your region and department.To apply for a grant, contact the International Office of your university, or enquire directly with regional and general councils.
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Egide manages student mobility. Egide grants are provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.The screeching is what people call "vibrations", it's a rush of energy and sound and heart beating that seems to go up and up and it feels like a train is going right past you - those are the symptoms of separation. If you can reproduce that state through meditation or any other technique and stay calm through it, you either get thrown out of your body or get to a point where you can just roll over of float up. That's why people try to "force" sleep paralysis.

Edit: with time (and experience, maybe?), those vibrations get softer and softer to the point where they're like a soft breeze. Like the terrifying sleep paralysis phase, it's something that goes away with practice and is only overwhelming the first dozen or so times.Working with the communications department. About 5 years ago we were working on a Facebook project with them as the club was first exploring the platform. There was one contact responsible for all social media operations. It's since increased, but there's not this dedicated team of 8 operatives that people suspect are behind all of these initiatives.

Again, comes down to the perception vs reality. People see the club as a massive brand with tendrils everywhere and therefore, a large institution must be powering it. In reality, and for almost all similar clubs, the opposite is true.Don't allow your current environment to restrain you from where you should be. ArcherGrey's Capability Maturity Assessment establishes a baseline that determines your current level of functionality against leading product development capabilities.
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As a result of our Capability Maturity Assessment, your business will learn where software could be utilized more efficiently and see target improvement opportunities.
Capability Maturity Assessment offers incrementally new and/or improved features to build upon the maturity of your team and tools as they advance.Can you make android games with this?
Did you ever get an answer to this question?
Nah, it's not designed for mobile.
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İ got so interested. Because im using pc in android? Help me
Not designed for android.
Unfortunately not yet
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Reduced-charge samples were prepared from Li+- and Ni2+-saturated SAz-1 montmorillonite by heating at 150 and 300°C for 24 h. X-ray diffraction analysis showed interstratification of non-swelling and swelling interlayers in LiS150, while fully expandable interlayers were found in NiS150. Heating at 300°C caused collapse of the interlayers in LiS300 in contrast to NiS300, for which some expandable layers were interstratified in the pseudo-pyrophyllite structure. The infrared (IR) spectra of heated Li-SAz showed new OH-stretching and overtone bands near 3670 cm−1 and 7170 cm−1 (1395 nm), respectively, indicating creation of local trioctahedral domains containing Li(I) in the previously vacant octahedra. No evidence of OH groups in trioctahedral coordination was found in the spectra of heated Ni-SAz. Nickel is supposed to be trapped in the hexagonal holes of the tetrahedral sheets. Reduction of the layer charge substantially affected the extent of the dissolution of SAz-1 montmorillonite in HCl. The MIR and NIR spectra of unheated Li- and Ni-SAz showed a substantial degradation of their structure after acid dissolution. New bands observed at 3744 cm−1 and 7314 cm−1 (1367 nm) were assigned to the vibrations of Si-OH groups formed upon acid treatment. These bands are a means of checking the extent of acid attack on smectites, even in cases when no differences are observed in the 1300−400 cm−1 spectral region (traditionally used to monitor this process). Both the IR spectra and solution analysis revealed that development of non-swelling interlayers in heated montmorillonites substantially reduced dissolution of these samples. The results obtained confirmed that acid attack of the smectite structure occurred at both interlayer surfaces and edges. If the accessibility of the layers for protons is low due to non-swelling interlayers, the dissolution was slower and took place mainly from the particle edges.Map of 533 Carla Ct., Salem...
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