Insane Insomnia: A Crazy Ink AnthologyIt takes all kinds of crazy to keep a person awake at night. Sometimes, it's the monsters under the bed. Other times, it's night terrors. It doesn't matter what keeps a person up. What matters is the dread one feels alone in darkness. Multiple stories with varying degrees of crazy insomnia and one common theme - the nightmare that comes with insomnia. What makes your pulse quicken? Do you believe in the power of dreams? What about nightmares? And, what would you be willing to sacrifice it all for one night's sleep? With something for everyone, Insane Insomnia is sure to keep you up late reading as we venture together reaching for that crazy thing called sleep...or nightmares...or dreams.

Famous French impressionist Edgar Degas said, "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." With that sentiment in mind, Crazy Ink accepted submissions from numerous authors who choose from two dozen paintings in the public domain. From the painting each one picked, the writer was to develop a short story for this collection. They could use the painting as inspiration for their story in any fashion they wished. Authors could take a scene set in medieval times and create a story set in the twenty-first century; writers could have the painting stolen or destroyed and write a mystery; or they could simply reflect on the colors, shapes, or mood of the painting to decide which direction their stories would take.Writers take inspiration from their experiences and those of others. They also harvest the colors, tastes, smells, tactile stimulus, and sounds around them, and the world in which they reside or wish they could to write their tales. Henry David Thoreau wrote, "This world is but a canvas to our imagination."For this two-book anthology, Art Inspires Words, we literally gave the writers a painted canvas to spark their creativity. The only limitation set on each author was that the famous painting he/she selected must be the muse for the story. That's how the stories you are about to read were created. Art inspired more art, this time in the form of words. Relax in your most comfortable space and enjoy.

When five lifelong friends with an incredible birthright, and their old town, already harboring secrets of its own, becomes overrun by new wealth after the ancient asylum closes for good, a chain of events are set in motion and no one is safe from what's to come. On the outside, Michelle and Jen appear to have everything going for them, including their three best friends; however, appearances aren't everything. When Brody and his spoiled friends play a cruel joke on one of the towns less fortunate the five friends devise a plan to get revenge. Once everything is almost set, a greater evil emerges, one that cannot be ignored. Are Michelle and Jen manipulating the others, herding them like sheep to the slaughter? Or is this a twisted game where something much more sinister is taking place? With tension rising and madness taking hold, can these friends keep it together, or will one crack under the pressure? After all blood, death and secrets always have repercussions. Find these answers and many more in Delusional Conduct part one.

The paper reports on the development of cost-effective active regeneration aids as a "worst case solution" for implementation in diesel particulate traps, particularly with respect to long time vehicle operation in the inner- city at very low exhaust gas temperature level. Two different principles of active measures were investigated: heating the entire exhaust gas by fuel burner to initiate the soot burning or applying so-called "hot spot" heating by electrical heaters to start the regeneration of the loaded trap. Both methods may be combined with engine management measures to lower the necessary energy input. Based on this investigation, several systems have been developed and tested on modern diesel engines for passenger cars at steady state and dynamic operation at difficult conditions such as low speed and very low load close to idle. Advantages and disadvantages of the systems are reported.