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	Daemon : Cacodaemons
		In the His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman describes a fictional world where everyone has a daemon, although he spells it 'Dæmon'.
		This spelling is used purposely today to distinguish the daemon of Greek mythology, "supernatural beings between mortals and gods, such as inferior divinities and ghosts of dead heroes", from the Judeo-Christian usage demon, "a malignant spirit that can possess humans".
		Daemons are often launched at system start-up time, and often serve the function of responding to network requests, hardware activity, or other programs by performing some task.
	www.fastload.org /ca/Cacodaemons.html

	Encyclopedia: Daemon (His Dark Materials)
		The term Daemon has several meanings: Daemon (computer software) Daemon (His Dark Materials) in the Philip Pullman trilogy of novels His Dark Materials Daemon (mythology) Daemon (Warhammer) Daemon Sadi (SaDiablo) is a character in the Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop.
		A Dæmon in the Philip Pullman trilogy His Dark Materials, is a physical manifestation of the soul of a conscious human.
		Philip Pullman Philip Pullman, (born October 19, 1946) is an English writer, educated at Exeter College, Oxford, who is the bestselling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels and a number of other books, purportedly for children, but attracting increasing attention by adult readers.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Daemon-(His-Dark-Materials)

	Daemon (His Dark Materials) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His Dark Materials, is a physical manifestation of the soul of a conscious human.
		Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daemon_(His_Dark_Materials)

	Scholastic Children's Books Book Zone: Philip Pullman
		Indeed, like that great English classic, His Dark Materials is a reworking (not a retelling) of the story of the Garden of Eden and the Fall of Man. It shares all the scope and grandeur of that story yet takes us far beyond.
		His Dark Materials III: The Amber Spyglass (ISBN: 0590-54244-3) is published by David Fickling Books, an imprint of Scholastic, in hardback, at 548 pages and priced £14.99.
		The Amber Spyglass forms the third and concluding volume of Philip Pullman’s masterpiece, the His Dark Materials trilogy, which was begun by Northern Lights and continued in The Subtle Knife.
	www.scholastic.co.uk /zone/book_philip-pullman.htm

	Annotations for Pullman's 'Dark Materials'
		PP relates 'dark materials' to the astrophysicists' idea of dark matter: [cite] [essay]
		daemon was the same sex: "it was clear to me from the beginning that occasionally someone might acquire a daemon of the same sex" [cite] "...that might indicate homosexuality, or it might indicate some other sort of gift or quality, such as second sight.
		daemon: "[How did you come up with the idea of daemons?] When I first saw Lyra in my mind's eye, there was someone or something close by, which I realised was an important part of her.
	www.robotwisdom.com /jorn/darkmaterials.html

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		As solid materials, cyanurated chlorine is simpler and less hazardous to move and store, both for the merchant and the user, compared to liquid chlorinating solution.
		Materials for handling chemicals must be carefully chosen, and proper precautions taken to avoid bodily contact.
		Second, while the solid material is more convenient and less dangerous to transport and store than the liquid, it requires tedious mixing with water at the delivery point.
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	His Dark Materials, a CurtainUp London review
		Lyra's daemon, Pantalaimon is cutesy cross between a fox and a cat and in the hands of his puppet master, Samuel Barnett is convincing and touching as her animal alter ego.
		All of the humans in Lyra's world are accompanied by "daemons", a creature which represents the soul and played by a puppet with skilled black clad puppeteers in attendance.
		Other people have daemons ranging from small birds through lizards to large dog like creatures; the Gobblers' daemons are wolves with their teeth bared.
	www.curtainup.com /hisdarkmaterials.html

	[His Dark Materials] - [Forum]
		"Scholars might know what was-- wrong-- with that man's daemon." Her voice broke as she involuntarily pictured the hunched form of the man and the last gasping breaths of his daemon.
		She wondered if her friends had noticed her absence; pug-nosed Wallace, with his shy little daemon Kalii, usually a mouse tucked into his breast pocket; tough-talking Conroy, with his wildcat daemon Sheena, the only one of her friends whose daemon had set.
		Lune shook her head no, and her daemon leaped gracefully to the floor, changing into a sleek black jaguar, one of his favorite shapes.
	hdm.avidgamers.com /forum.o4145372.html

	Demon
		In Philip Pullman 's His Dark Materials trilogy, dæmons are the physical incarnation of a person's soul.
		Whether such a daemon was benevolent or malevolent, the Greek word most meant something different from the later medieval notions of 'demon', and scholars debate the time in which first century usage by Jews and Christians in its original Greek sense became transformed to the later medieval sense.
		Building upon the few references to daemons in the New Testement, especially the visionary poetry of the Apocalypse of John, Christian writers of apocrypha from the 2nd century onwards creates a complication tissue of beliefs about "demons" that was independent of Christian scripture.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/demon

	His Dark Materials
		People's daemons can be "eaten" by Specters, and when this happens the person stays alive but they do not have any life to them.
		As Serafina Pekkala says, "An insult to a bear is a deadly thing." The armored bears have no daemons, though they consider their armor to be like their souls, which is what the daemons are to humans and witches.
		In Dr. Malone's case, her daemon was never separated from her but she could see it by looking a certain way.
	www.geocities.com /rwandc/compasses/hdm/abcde.html

	SparkNotes: His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
		Serafina Pekkalaâs daemon, Kaisa, rescues the severed daemons and tells Lyra that the Gyptians are on their way.
		Daemons donât take their final shape when their owners are still children.
		Coulter is all charm and grace, her daemon, a nasty little golden monkey, reveals that there is something sinister about her.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/hisdarkmaterials/section1.html

	Dark Materials Daemon Quiz - Pullman, Philip
		One of the most interesting aspects of Phillip Pullman's "Dark Materials" books were the daemons (I'm going to use the snooty British spelling).
	www.funtrivia.com /quizdetails.cfm?quiz=189631

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	Journeyman: Review of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
		His Dark Materials is a trilogy: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.
		Journeyman: Review of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
		Until a child is grown, the daemon can change shape at will — a mouse one moment, a tiger the next — but it takes a definite form somewhere around adolescence, and the fixed form of the daemon is some kind of reflection of the inner self of the...
	www.crowhill.net /journeyman/Vol1No1/Darkmaterials.html

	Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials
		She discovers that she can operate the Golden Compass of the title, an oracular device used by trained theologians, and she discovers a dark plot involving Dust (a substance that holds all of the power in the Universe, and can be used for good or evil, much like The Force).
		These souls, or "daemons", take the form of small animals such as cats, snakes, rats, and monkeys.
		And then, when he cruelly betrayed me with the darkness and despair of The Amber Spyglass, I was forced to turn away and search for a new love...
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_pullman_darkmaterialsomni.html

	Daemon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Daemon (His Dark Materials) in the Philip Pullman trilogy of novels
		Daemon Sadi (SaDiablo) is a character in the Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daemon

	His Dark Materials Book Reviews - Pazsaz Entertainment Network
		His Dark Materials Book Reviews - Pazsaz Entertainment Network
		Her own personal daemon, Pantalaimon, turns out to be very helpful when the two of them have to keep her uncle, who is Lord Asriel, from being killed.
		She begins to realize that the people there each have animal daemons, which are representations of the humans' souls.
	www.pazsaz.com /drkmatod.html

	Book Addict Central - His Dark Materials - Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
		One of the best things about this book is that it isn't about the daemons or the different world that the story takes place in, per se, despite being integral to the plot.They are part of the story without the story being there to showcase them.
		The daemons, which are basically parts of people's souls in the form of an animal, who can't be seperated from their person, and who know their thoughts and talk with them, are an inventive idea.
		This book was published under the title The Golden Compass in America.
	bookaddict.freeservers.com /nlights.htm

	Teenreads.com -- THE GOLDEN COMPASS by Philip Pullman
		Set in nineteenth century England and the arctic wastes of the North, THE GOLDEN COMPASS, the first installment in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, is set in a world much like our own, but different in many ways.
		In Pullman's world, no human is ever without his or her daemon, for their lives and destinies are inextricably entwined.
		Here, humans are paired with daemons or animal familiars, which are extensions of the soul, if you will, with personalities of their own.
	www.teenreads.com /reviews/0679893105.asp

	His Dark Materials
		For kids and adults who like to read children's books, Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy of fantasy novels are second in popularity only to the "Harry Potter" stories.
		And daemons are not evil, far from it, though they are the target of the church, which in Pullman's world is the chief villain.
		Most of the daemons are seen as animal heads with flowing cloth bodies manipulated by actors onstage dressed and masked in black.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2087101

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		In the general sense, daemon is an older form of the word demon.
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	Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials fantasy books
		He's is best known for the "His Dark Materials trilogy: The Golden Compass (1995, original UK title Northern Lights), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000).
		The His Dark Materials trilogy is intended to reflect elements of John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667).
		Pullman brings his readers to believe in daemons as an integral part of his characters’ lives, to the point that we are actually shocked when we learn that the villains have been separating children from their daemons.
	members.aol.com /misuly/pullman.htm

	Print a review
		For those of you who know nothing about Lyra (then I suggest you read His Dark Materials before reading this book or you will be utterly LOST), she is girl, of around 13, who lives in a college in Oxford in a parallel universe to ours.
		It is very short compared to Pullman's other books, but along with the story comes a map and various other documents the give more depth to the His Dark Materials saga and I've heard that Pullman has left clues hinting at the plot of his next book, The Book of Dust.
		Some time after the epic events of His Dark Materials, Lyra and Pantalaimon are back at Jordan college.
	www.cool-reads.co.uk /print.asp?ID=2579

	TheOneRing.net™ Features Tehanu's Notes His Dark Materials
		I had to wait three years for Philip Pullman& His Dark Materials trilogy to be finished but now with the publication of The Amber Spyglass, I am certain at last: This is what I’ve been waiting for since the year I discovered The Lord of the Rings and The Wizard of Earthsea.
		Reading List: The trilogy His Dark Materials starts with The Golden Compass or as it is known in Commonwealth countries, Northern Lights.
		Copyrights and trademarks for the books, films, articles, and other promotional materials are held by their respective owners and their use is allowed under the fair use clause of the Copyright Law.
	www.theonering.net /features/notes/note17.html

	Gaming Forums - His Dark Materials
		As for His Dark Materials, I first read them when I was 12 when all three were out already so I had no time to wait for the next.
		September 3rd, 2004, 07:02 AM I prefer His Dark Materials over Lord of the Rings because Lord of the Rings was too detailed.
		While personally I like the immense detail attached to Tolkien's world, Lord Of The Rings can never be in the same league as His Dark Materials because the storytelling isn't very well done.
	forums.filefront.com /archive/index2.php?t-144921.html

	BBC News ARTS Prize-winning novels 'set for stage'
		Author Philip Pullman's trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, could be turned into a stage play in London.
		The stories are set in strange, mythical worlds where every character is accompanied by a "daemon", an animal that is its guardian angel and epitomises its soul.
		The director of London's National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner, is in "advanced negotiations" to buy the stage rights to the books, which have been widely acclaimed and sold millions of copies around the world.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1782000/1782187.stm

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: His Dark Materials Trilogy: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" (His Dark Materials S.)
		Philip Pullman began the spellbinding His Dark Materials sequence with The Northern Lights, which dazzled everyone who read it, children and adults alike.
		A luxury edition of all three books in the His Dark Materials trilogy in one volume.
		Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon, are now lost in an alternate universe where they meet Will Parry, a fugitive from a third universe.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0439994349

	Salon.com Books More dark materials
		But while Pullman may have become caught up in adult theology -- and while he has won more grown-up readers with each "Dark Materials" book -- he keeps the swooping plots and passionate characters that make his earlier books so appealing to young readers.
		"The Amber Spyglass" is the final book in the most ambitious allegory being published today, Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy.
		Given the delicious promise of the first two "Dark Materials" books, some disappointment was almost inevitable.
	archive.salon.com /books/feature/2000/10/18/pullman

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		http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/domainhome.htm The AlterNIC's home page is http://www.alternic.org/ This site carries RFCs, internet drafts, and materials relating to freedom of speech, encryption, and more.
		http://www.techfest.com/networking/ A large collection of communication tutorials may be found at IOL's training page, which has links to materials on TCP/IP, LAN technologies, programming and administrations manuals, and more.
		A companion book has been published, containing a complete implementation of an OSPF daemon in C++ on CD-ROM and the text of the book documents the implementation.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/internet/tcp-ip/resource-list/index.html

	Philip Pullman's Dark Materials
		In his "worlds," there are computers that talk to elementary particles fashioned of the dark materials, flesh-eating "Cliff-Ghasts," flights of beautiful witches many thousands of years old, myriads of angels, talking ten-foot-tall armored bears, wheeled creatures-"mulefas"-with elephant-like trunks, "gyptians," "Specters," Africans, and Tartars.
		evidence that His Dark Materials may not really be the sort of thing that you would want to put into the hands of "young adults," if by that you mean impressionable children between the ages of seven and twelve.
		Indeed, Pullman has taken the trilogy!e s overall title, His Dark Materials, from another account of the fall, Milton's Paradise Lost.
	www.crisismagazine.com /october2001/feature4.htm

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