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...'s biography, personality, likes and hobbies. In a chillingly detailed process, he actually assumes Greenleaf's identity. Disembarking from a luxur... ...restrained adventurism. But Greenleaf Jr. is a garden variety narcissist. He cheats on his lovely and loving girlfriend, Marge. He refuses to lend m... ...e long suffering fiancee in waiting, Marge, they are a family. Hasn't Greenleaf Sr. actually adopted him? This identity disturbance, which is at th... ...boat. But Ripley is a different -and more ominous - beast altogether. He rambles on about the metaphorical dark chamber of his secrets, the key t... ...and are available to anyone with a computer. The last decade witnessed a spate of films, all concerned with the confusion between life and the imi... ...enious "Capitan Fracasse", "Capricorn One", "Sliver", "Wag the Dog" and many lesser films have all tried to tackle this (un)fortunate state of thing... ... to be his privacy. They are shown responding to various dramatic or anti-climactic events in Truman's life. That we are the moral equivalent of the... ...the product failed to meet the reasonable and justified expectations of consumers, based on such warrants and representations. The payment should b... ...on shoddy pseudo-science and a general sense of unease that artificial (non-carbon based) intelligent life forms seem to provoke in us. But it goes...
Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in thirteen modern films.
... info@kabbalah.info 1057 Steeles Avenue West, Suite 532, Toronto, oN, M2R 3X1, Canada 194 Quentin Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, ... ...nd make them the exciting and joyous journeys they can be. * This book is based on essays and lectures given by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD, which were... ...e them the exciting and joyous journeys they can be. * This book is based on essays and lectures given by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD, which were then ... ...rspectives. From the historical perspec- - tive, our past is a sequence of events that happened to us or to our ancestors, while from the Kabbalistic... ...te their egoism, they would not only retain their way of life, they would actually unite even more closely with the Creator. In other words, the ef... ...ese weapons to protect what they thought was their freedom, but which was actually their increased self-centeredness and alienation from the Creato... ...orks, the fruit of long years of labor, are The Study of the Ten Sefirot, based on the writings of the Ari, and The Book of Zohar with the Sulam (La... ...nvironment; I can reinforce the influence of that environment with books, films, and magazine articles. Any means that increases and supports my des... ...increase my desire for it, I need only have the right friends, books, and films around me. Human nature will do the rest. If a group of people de- -...
...ist Rabbi Laitman, who was the student and personal assistant to Rabbi Baruch Ashlag from 1979-1991, follows in the footsteps of his rabbi in passing on the wisdom of Kabbalah to the world. This book is based on sources that were passed down by Rabbi Baruch's father, Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, the author of the commentaries on The Book of Zohar, who continued the ways of many gr...
...A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independ... ...ght Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w ... ...he Copyright Office to undertake a review of this orphan works issue, and, based on that review, develop policy options and legislative recommendation... ...ed in Section V include whether the orphan works system should be limited based on the age of the work, on whether the work is unpublished, and on w... ...statutory fee, such as $100 per work used, and another suggestion was the actual damages caused by the use with a low statutory cap. Some participa... ...urface to claim the funds, which means the system would not in most cases actually facilitate payments between owners and users of orphan works. We... ...ters); 33 • audiovisual works (such as home videos and/or instructional films); 34 31 August 2... ...f an author or copyright owner can be identified from a copy of the work, events since the creation of that copy can affect the ability of a subseque... ... 34 See, e.g., Baker (253) (discussing films “produced by amateurs who did not include credits”); Kernochan (666)...
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...is dedicated to my wife and to everyone who participated in my seminars on Sophia-Art and the group laboratories on Existential Anthropology. Th... ...es you do not immediately understand the meaning of what I am saying, keep on reading and chew on these ideas slowly, as though they were morsels of... ...ocial and cultural works, especially those we call works of art, that are actual centers of condensed energy; energy that is then transmitted outwa... ...egata in 41 film” {Life as a work of art and life as a gift explained in 41 films}. 14 Human beings, with their sharpness and their intelligence, ... ...u want to hold on to. It is not the first time that courageous people who actually changed history were initially judged and rejected as being visi... ... the I Person can keep this from happening. It all depends on its decision, based on either love or hatred, to either follow the plans of the primary... ... reason why we do so. My whole thought regarding life as a work of art is based on the constant thread of death and on the search for the best way ... ... 44 So we have death, we have time ticking away and then we have unexpected events, we have traumatic events and all sorts of things that happen; we ... ...ate in 41 film”, {Life as a work of art and life as a gift explained in 41 films} Sophia University of Rome, 1995, and here slightly modified. 60 ...
...ook contains. The book opens with an “Invitation” and then proceeds with “The Myth of Sophia-Analysis: life as a work of art”, “Choral Group Research on life as a work of art”, “The Cosmological vision of Sophia-Art”, “The Cosmo-Art Theorem”, “The Cosmo-Art Myth”, “The Myth of Ulysses contains the Cosmo-Art Myth”, “Exploring the Myth of Ulysses”, “The Ulysseans: creators o...
...nfo info@kabbalah.info 1057 Steeles Avenue West, Suite 532, Toronto, ON, M2R 3X1, Canada 194 Quentin Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 112... ... MICHAEL LAITMAN, PHD Rav Michael Laitman, PhD, is an international authority on authentic Kabbalah. His background is highly unusual for one renown... ...en we study these modes, we realize that the new planetary conscious- ness is actually an old, perennial consciousness; only now it is being redisco... ...ecret that Kabbalah did not begin with today’s Hol- lywood trendy hype. It has actually been around for thou- sands of years. When it first appeared, ... ... And the only differ- ence between our world and the spiritual worlds is that events in the spiritual worlds reflect altruistic intentions, and even... ... environ- ment; I can reinforce the influence of that environment with books, films, and magazine articles. Any means that increases and supports my... ... to increase my desire for it, I need only have the right friends, books, and films around me. Human nature will do the rest. If a group of people d... ...d will disappoint its own members one way or another. Eventually, all egoism- based societies will exhaust themselves along with the egoism that cre... ...us Wisdom: This book presents the first steps, an initial course on Kabbalah, based solely on au- thentic teachings passed down from Kabbalist teache...
...arly-written, user-friendly guide to making sense of the surrounding world while achieving inner peace. Each of the six chapters in this book focuses on a different aspect of the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah, shedding new light on a teaching that has too often been shrouded in mystery and misconceptions. A subtle, yet profound idea weaves the book’s chapters into a coherent ...
... by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 1057 Steeles Avenue West, Suite 532, Toronto, ON, M2R 3X1, Canada. Printed in Canada. No part of this book may be use... ...s our reactions, our feelings, and ultimately our reality. What, then, is the actual reality around us? Today, Kabbalists can state a principle that ... ...ld.” We are all able to see and feel varying images and sensations de- pending on our sensory organs and inner properties. All our sensations are sub... ...roperties of the Upper Force, the closer the image of “my world” comes to the actual reality, and the less distorted it is by one’s egoistic attribu... ...He gives serve as a condition upon which the relationship with the Creator is based. Man agrees to re- ceive from the Creator only if he is certain t... ...ee will change, as well. It is not like a movie theatre playing 125 different films, one for each degree, because there is only the Simple Upper Lig... ...nd human history. But this is only because the construc- tion of the worlds is based on the same principle: everything that hap- pens in one spiritual... ...e, and are therefore aware of all the reasons for and the consequences of the events in our world. With the wisdom of Kabbalah and their additional ... ...and inter- est in certain mystical sciences. Bookstores are loaded with books, films and magazines about extraterrestrials and other such phenomena. ...
... Read on, and choose to believe if you will. The Codex is intended to share the c... ...wn life however you see fit; you can merely dismiss it... or you can read on, and if you feel moved to become a direct part of spreading this messag... ...augh at his expense and not caring what it was doing to him. Hell, it was actually encouraging them. It wasn't until later on that I realized why. O... ...es, if their comfortable worldview is threatened, then they might have to actually rethink the way they see the world. Like a caged animal that sim... ...ear me say that so desperately, before they go forward and judge my words based on the PC[films]... even Morpheus was wrong... God forgive me for sa... ...so desperately, before they go forward and judge my words based on the PC[films]... even Morpheus was wrong... God forgive me for saying so again. "... ...ma", for lack of a single defining term - is an emergent belief structure based around the concepts of Multiverse theory[more specifically, it leans... ...ways use suggestions about ways to spread the word; promotional projects, events that people in the group know about that may provide an in. But if y... ...s the Matrix[something most people, familiar only with the popular culture films, miss entirely] - but to the fact that they themselves can CHOOSE th...
...than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. All characters in this publication are... ...w.elucidox.com Cover design Andrew Clarke www.clarke-design.co.uk For more news on the Class Heroes series, see www.classheroes.com Table o... ...een updated only five minutes ago. It was chilling and surreal to read about the events that she was experiencing – as they were actually happening.... ...ng and surreal to read about the events that she was experiencing – as they were actually happening. The text flowed across the screen of her phone.... ...mory of this, but it sounded gross. Because of their burns, part of his skin had actually been stuck to Philip’s and the doctors had had to separate... ...such is the frenzy that has developed over this story. The shock of the dramatic events that took place on Tuesday evening on Hangar Lane has given ... ...ease stop,” said Sam, trying not to cry. James had made her watch several horror films with him, and each time it had given her nightmares. Now it f... ...at could happen to harm her if she approached Emma, 98 but a million horror films were conjured up in her head which told her to wait for Harde... ...leter, for his wonderful artwork on the Class Heroes website. This is the image based on my cousins, Darren and Laura, and really helps to make the...
...Teenage twins James and Samantha Blake are caught up in a seemingly random terrorist bombing while on a school trip. Many of their friends are killed. When the twins wake up in hospital, their lives have changed forever.The doctors are amazed at the speed with which James and Sam recover from their injuries and, when the t...
... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/gr... ... address). Simpson's first husband was Earl Winfield Spencer. The King met her on January 10, 1931 but was not impressed. Even in the months af... ...(today's Israel and Palestine). Why such a diversion? Scholars suggest that Ur is actually Urfa in Turkey - about 30 kilometers away from Harran. ... ...(musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in March 2003. It is based on the true story of Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan, two ... ...tedt, a co-worker. They had a fight and he was killed. In her latest version of the events - she proferred a few - Annan insisted that Harry tried t... ...ompetition. Less than one quarter of southern families owned slaves in 1861. Slave-based, mainly cotton raising, enterprises, were so profitable th... ...hey had to change their name to the Union Party. Lincoln's vice-president, Johnson, actually was a Democrat and hailed from Tennessee, a seceding st... ...hed, in September 1862, forty four Union supporters in Gainesville, Texas. Similar events took place in Shelton Laurel, North Carolina. The Ku Klux... ... The Plainfield Ghoul. A serial killer who served as the inspiration to numerous films, among them Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, Maniac, Thre...
...alah.info info@kabbalah.info 1057 Steeles Avenue West, Suite 532, Toronto, ON, M2R 3X1, Canada Bnei Baruch USA, 2009 85th street, #51, Brooklyn, NY 11... ...1 Love of Friends (Rav Yehuda Ashlag) 282 The Influence of the Environment on a Person (Rav Baruch Ashlag) 283 Purpose of Society (Rav Baruch Ashlag) ... ...the essence of Judaism in a glance, like that angel, and draw conclusions based on their own mood. These are the reasons that have prompted me to go ... ... this reason, they refrained from writing commentaries that relate to the actual wisdom, but settled for brief intimations that were not in any way ... ...rstood, comprehended, and so on. ThE A CTUAliT y of ThE WiSdom of KAbbAlAh Actual things are found even in the corporeal reality set before our eyes, ... ... Kabbalah 1 Rav Laitman explains that by “electric,” Baal HaSulam means based on atoms. 47 Th e Te a C h i n g o f T h e Ka b b a l a h a n d i T ... ...rces of pleasure. Thus, they clarify all of man’s conclusions from life’s events. Also, what we feel as concepts and rationalities within our minds a... ...ike. Kabbalah Television Bnei Baruch established a production company, ARI Films (www.arifilms.tv) specializing in production of educational TV progr... ...ll levels, from complete beginners to the most advanced. Additionally, ARI Films produces educational series and documentaries. Internet Website Bnei ...
...eaning of my life? Their interpretations of The Book of Zohar and The Tree of Life explain how we can benefit by using the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah on a day-to-day basis. Additionally, clear illustrations accurately depict the evolution of the Upper Worlds as Kabbalists experience them....
... 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Micro... ...yans entered India, for their comfortable living they introduced and enforced on the natives the Manusmriti- based culture that is chiefly responsibl... ...omfortable living they introduced and enforced on the natives the Manusmriti- based culture that is chiefly responsible for ill treatment of the wom... ...y Associative Memories. NAMs are applied to this problem and conclusions are based on this analysis. The sixth chapter gives the translated versio... ...ay often lack the power to translate their knowledge of HIV transmission into actual self-protective behaviors. Groups such as WORLD (Women Organiz... ...A FRM is a directed graph or a map from D to R with concepts like policies or events etc, as nodes and causalities as edges. It represents causal r... ... or associations in India and Tamil Nadu in particular seek for a ban on some films or some obscene posters simply because such activities would gua... ...eak out its fear and inhibited feelings? Now she suffers from the disease. I actually wept on seeing her. I feel in the 21st century such barbaric ... ... 123. What do you think about yellow journalism and pornographic/blue films? : 124. Different views prevail in different countries on t...
... info@kabbalah.info 1057 Steeles Avenue West, Suite 532, Toronto, ON, M2R 3X1, Canada 194 Quentin Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, U... ..........................................................347 He Who Rejoices on Holidays .................................................................. ...hat although The Book of Zohar was written eighteen centuries ago, it was actually written for our time. Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) opened it... ...is mentioned neither in the Talmud nor in The Zohar, then the decision is based on the source that best elucidates this matter. If the disputed matt... ...isputed matter is between the Talmud and the legislators, the decision is based on the assertion from The Book of Zohar. If the legislators themselv... ... (T), Netzah (N), Hod (H), Yesod (Y), and Malchut (M). However, there are actually only five of them: Keter (K), Hochma (H), Bina (B), Tifferet (T),... ...o have ascended to the spiritual worlds and see both the roots, i.e., the events that transpire in the spiritual worlds, as well as their corporeal ... ...oad. Kabbalah Television Bnei Baruch established a production company, ARI Films (www.arifilms.tv) specializing in production of educational TV progr... ...licly known figures in Israel and throughout the world. Additionally, ARI Films produces educational series and documentaries on DVDs, as well as ot...
............................................................................................................. 23 MASLOW'S CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF ACTUAL... ...was in philosophy but we knew each other socially. Then I got a ‗post doc‘ at Stanford and she got one at Berkeley. Nowadays we are often put on the... ...afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a psychological need for power, then rationalize their actions based ... ... we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a psychological need for power, then rationalize their actions based on the... ...e who is less powerful than I am. I feel good. My rationalization for why I did it may be societal, ‗he is in a different gang.‘ It may be God based,... ...c system in the brain often takes priority over the logical section of the brain. This has an effect on our buying habits, our preferences for films ... ... 10 ―I think that many who have become atheists or agnostics have actual... ... And in spite of the strength with which they are held, both are rooted in non-provable assumptions!‖ -- ―And violence sure sells in films,... ...h. The Art of Loving N. Y. Harper & Brothers, 1956. 15. Berkowitz, L. ―Some effects of thoughts on anti- and pro-social influences of media events...
...FARE STATE 207 The Welfare State is Moral from a self-centered point of view 208 From a self centered point of view it is immoral. 209 Moral from God based assumptions 210 Immoral from God based assumptions 211 Moral for society based assumptions 211 Immoral from a societal point of view.212 HUMAN RIGHTS 213 Moral from a self-centered point of view. 217 Immoral from a self...
..................................................................... 37 GOD BASED ASSUMPTIONS ............................................................ ......................................................... 233 Moral from God based assumptions ............................................................ ................................................................. 330 Spying on the citizens has value from a self centered point of view ................. ... sleep anywhere and you don‘t have to worry about the weight of your body on a mattress. I had trouble sleeping on my bed in California, but these ai... ... in logic. ―There is some historical evidence that verifies some events in the Bible. There are the foundations said to be of Solomon‘s Tem... ...ed the oral traditions. ―So Homer‘s tale of Troy, which would have actually occurred in about the 12 th Century BCE, was not made into a poe... ...nts in Troy. Add to this the fact that scholars aren‘t certain that Homer actually existed or that the war in the Iliad actually took place. Was it ... ...e or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teac... ...re or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly tea...
...XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....
...sold dried fish. With my wife and two small sons, I had arrived in Lampang on the night train from Bangkok, and stood there after an ill-slept night, ... ... I have made five trips in all to Northern Thailand and collected material on people's lives in three villages in the province and in its centre, the ... ...ions. The original academic working title of my research project was , and based on the 1972-73 material, I wrote a book of the same title ( ), publis... ...ter the Second World War. It marked the beginning of the era of technology based on oil, and today's modern development culture was created. Now the f... ...ional cultural industry - occupational culture - media culture (TV) - mass events (festivals) - cultural services Meritocracy - organizational integra... ...ionnaire respondents to present them as mementoes. Of the photographs, the actual documented collection comprises 13,900 colour slides for which I hav... ...e-Kamolmatayakul Annira Silver local culture. The collection contains few films and videos, although in 1999 I recorded 12 hours of video in all, usi... ...age. I said, lots, and many policemen, and at least six or seven teachers. Actually, there were no soldiers, nor policemen or teachers. When the chief... ...used to walk. Today, everything must be so easy. Today, people go to watch films in the evenings. People are working all the time, they have no time f...
...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the world...
... by Laitman Kabbalah Publishers 1057 Steeles Avenue West, Suite 532, Toronto, ON, M2R 3X1, Canada Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used ... ... the ob- served event. Hence, the key question is, “What do the measure- ments actually measure?” This principle implies that the concept of an “obje... ...in boundary of probabilities. Contemporary science differentiates between the “actual re- ality” that exists independent of the observer, and the real... ...alistic perception of the world includes premises that other religions accept on faith, coupled with a scientific ap- proach. Kabbalah develops tools... ... of Kabbalah grants all the above to anyone who truly seeks it. This book is based on talks given by the author and com- piled by his students. 14 ... ...ching implications. The explanations of Kabbalah in this part of the book are based on these meetings. The Editor 17 AT T E N D E E S O F T H E S ... ...nguages, and the most extensive media and text archive of lessons, books, and films on the Internet. All the material is offered free through the si... ...rough the site (www.kabbalah.info). Bnei Baruch recently established the Ari Films production company, producing documentaries and edu- cational fil... ...first learn how we come to sense reality around us, and how to cope with the events that befall us. The wisdom of Kabbalah provides us with all the...
...ally comparing things to each other, continually gaining a better perspective on the larger context, continually understanding things better. It is... ...ings of Civilization Pgs 704-1469 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1470-1868 Chapter 7: Entities an... .............................................................................. 1 Actual Causality………………………………………………………………………………………..1 Actual Infinity..... ...................................................... 99 The Difference between Actuality and Abstraction ................................................ ...Actual Causality The Dynamic of Actual Causality is a connected sequence of events. Every cause is an effect, and every effect is a cause. It is... ...o admit that Einstein’s famous prediction of the lunar eclipse of the sun was based upon a completely false premise. Here is a crude representation... ... for Everythingness to exist at all. Our Trialistic Universe came into being based upon pre-existing Dualistic Conditions which had to exist before... ...ticles: a living organic cell. This is why galaxies exist as faint, cellular films of energy on the outer perimeters of huge, empty inter-galactic ... ...h. Science supports this unspoken assumption. It portrays animals in Nature films as savage-violent killing-murdering things… acting in insane fren...
...man Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization. 6: The effect of civilization upon humans. 7: Death, the existence of evil and its effect on humans. Offered as a free E-book at: http://thepathofsplitness.com/ ...
...rers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 705-1474 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1475-1868 Chapter 7: Entities and the Alternative ...
...ELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated ... ...pod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, ... ...free substitutes to every information product, no matter how superior. Web based media companies (such as Salon and Britannica.com) have been experim... ...ie with its ostensible adversary: the library. Unbelievably, e-publishers actually tried to limit the access of library patrons to e-books (i.e., th... ...ly given a bad name to whole segments of the industry (e.g., small, or web-based publishers). Consumers - inundated, disappointed and exhausted - wil... ...nd for a total stranger to find. Henceforth, fate determines the chain of events. Eventual successive owners of the volume are supposed to report to ... ...o a marketing message (even from peers within a consumer network) - to an actual sale is a convoluted, multi-layered, highly complex process. It is ... ...("safety in redundancy"). They contain Web pages, television programming, films, e-books, archives of discussion lists, etc. Such materials can help... ...processes, books, newspapers, any printed matter, works of art and music, films (which, at their beginning were not considered art), software, softwa...
...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....
...opia. Kino has had the opportunity to experiment in a modern “society based” society. That is, the rights of the society as a whole, rather tha... ...ts.‟ It makes me wonder if these individual „rights‟, that are generally based on individual selfishness rather than the social good, are at least... ...It makes me wonder if these individual „rights‟, that are generally based on individual selfishness rather than the social good, are at least in pa... ...nia last week did nothing to rinse the memories of the graffiti, the trash on the streets, and even the fear for one's life-- at home, in places of b... ...e the federal government‘s definition of farming does not require that one actually farms. Sounds like Humpty Dumpty‘s view that a word means what I ... ...e late 90s in China the entrepreneurial types often pirated clothes, music, films. They had decided to beat free enterprise at its own game. The gove... ...e legal system is based on the simpler Napoleonic law which is based on the actual statutes rather than on the Common Law that has given Englishmen a... ...her cut or re-do the scenes with tobacco in them. We are a large market for films so we command respect and compliance by the film producers. ... ...also keep them informed of museum exhibits, theater performances, athletic events, youth athletic leagues, special interest groups for children and ...
...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...d has against his parents: food, shelter, emotional nourishment, education, and so on. It is debatable whether such rights of the fetus and, later,... ...e the mother's womb, if possible. But it is not clear whether it has a right to go on using the mother's body, or resources, or to burden her in an... ...nd free will. Philosophically, no identity can be established between potential and actuality. The destruction of paints and cloth is not tantamount... ...his stumbling across a fortune will not qualify as an achievement. A lucky turn of events does not an achievement make. A person must be intent on ... ...alone is not sufficient. One must carry out one's plan of action (from mere plan to actual action). An effort has to be seen to be invested (which m... ...ps such as the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front and the Britain-based SHAC, or Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, are 'way out in f... ...ou are invested, the less likely you are to reap the dividenda of survival. Indeed, based on actuary tables, it becomes increasingly less rational t... ...ved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal (Lect...
...glected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV. The Friendly Trend V. The Merits of Inflatio... ...e Fabric of Economic Trust XIX. Scavenger Economies, Predator Economies XX. Notes on the Economics of Game Theory XXI. Knowledge and Power XXII.... ...ining of data for emerging patterns, rules, and "laws"? On the one hand, patterns based on limited - or, worse, non-recurrent - sets of data form ... ...orm a questionable foundation for any kind of "science". On the other hand, models based on assumptions are also in doubt because they are bound to... ...t must explain the behaviour of economic actors, their decisions, and why economic events develop the way they do. i. Predictive (prognostic) Powe... ...al rubbishing and dogmatic thinking. The few that wander out of the ivory tower and actually bother to ask economic players what they think and do -... ...nalysis of Stock Trends": "The science of recording, usually in graphic form, the actual history of trading (price changes, volume of transactions... ...ot always foster competition. And many products have umpteen substitutes. Consider films - cable TV, satellite, the Internet, cinemas, video rental... ... to scholarly publishing and other form of intellectual property such as software, films, music, and e-books. Consumers are divided on the issue o...
...e public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study o... ...fluenced every chapter in this book. David Lange brought me to Duke. His work on the public domain has always been an inspi- ration to mine. Arti Rai’s... ...else besides. Activists, civil rights lawyers, bloggers, and librarians have actually done much of the hard work of building the movement I describe a... ...a result, the structure of the book is designed to facilitate self-selection based on inter- est. The first three chapters and the conclusion provide t... ...otes or surgical stents or specialized rice planters until those things were actually developed? How do you make prior- ities when the priorities incl... ...nited States, does not see intellectual property as a claim of natural right based on expended labor. Instead it is a temporary state-created monopoly... ...lot, your photograph, your music—not your facts, your ideas, your genre, the events you describe. That is not always enough, of course. Sometimes the ... ...x the law in this area. When the case of Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films came up, they thought they had what they wanted. The band NWA had u... ... at http:// www.law.duke.edu/cspd/pdf/cspdproposal.pdf, and Access to Orphan Films: Submission to the Copyright Office—March 2005, available at http://...
...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James...
...ing, antismoking, or better environment. Fine is the first person to write a book on the general principles of social marketing and he is to be con... ... promotion) in this endeavor. While it is hard to evaluate the first book written on any new subject, I am sure that Fine's work will gain recogniti... ... decision to proceed as though nothing had ever been written on the subject-a zero-based approach. The work takes as given the rich fundamental con... ...sed disparagingly to connote deception or distortion " (2nd ed., p. 1138). A zero-based approach assumes innocent-till-proved-guilty status for both... ...a of shoe comfort is a product attribute and is ordinarily included as part of the actual promotion of shoes. In this example, the idea of nature hi... ...schematized below: Scope of the book: Ideas per se, that is, ideas unrelated to actual products Social issues and causes (concepts) 8 Outsi... ... sacrifices Promotion Advertising Personal selling Promotional special events Public relations, image creation Place Channels o... ... brightly painted a young-adult room where they hold guitar "jams." In the current-events room of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library, a United Press Inte... ... crime and violence. There is 80 some evidence negating the effectiveness of films as idea channels (Brembeck and Howell 1976, p. 39). On the...
...hanistan I. Afghan Myths II. Pakistan’s Nice Little War III. The Afghan Trip On the Road to Iraq – Central and East Europe I. EU and NATO –... ... surveys published last year - by the German Marshall Fund and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations - largely supported Pew's findings. The mo... ...RE. This pathology can be traced back and attributed to a confluence of historical events and processes, the equivalents of trauma and abuse in an ... ..., a trampling, "no holds barred" ambitiousness, competitiveness, frontier violence-based morality, and proud simple-mindedness - and an ominous por... ...ry and a "main line" running through its foreign policy. The contemporary USA is actually a land-based empire, comprising the territorial fruits ... ...line" running through its foreign policy. The contemporary USA is actually a land-based empire, comprising the territorial fruits of previous arme... ...the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actually, the author thinks aloud, isn't America's reign merely ... ...um-old war between Islam and other "world systems". Such interpretation of recent events enrages many. They demand to know (often in harsh tones):... ...ck market facilitates the smuggling of cigarettes, software, home appliances, video films, weaponry, food, carpets - and virtually every other nece...
...dus It was not far from Singaling to Indus. Just a five hour flight on Singapore Airlines, still in the Southeast Asian part of the world--but... ...t a universe of difference. From one of the three most advanced countries on the planet to a Third World nation just trying to get its overpopulated... ...ke I said, the inflation rate went up 100%. That‘s about 1 1/2% per year, actually it is quite a bit less when you think of compounded yearly increa... ...st parents hope that the economic potential of the children outweighs the actual cost of raising them. But a major factor is that children are the p... ...ve the same types of myths and gods that are the commonalities of all god-based religions. While the Brahman is the totality of the pantheistic unive... ...t deal from her—both what to do and what not to do.‖ —―Let me guess. Based on what we talked about with Dr. Chan in Singaling, using Maslow‘s h... ...igion and its practical applications. ―Every night we air current events so our people will realize more about the world. And every night we... ...f he or she passes tests on logic, political science, history, or current events. So a college graduate will have 8 votes. But an elementary school ... ..., full employment, and Norman Rockwell—a world without terrorism, X-rated films and lying politicians. ―In Afghanistan allied soldiers gave fo...
... through hundreds of reports and studies, and putting my findings to the test on real people in my natural healing clinic... I can say that the majo... ...ain. They never really went away. This means that you are almost perceptually on a cocktail of medications. Over time, you also find that you need ... ...ess. Statins have been used to fight atherosclerosis, with one (rosuvastatin) actually reducing the size of plaques. You could use drugs that reduce ... ...lerosis and improves circulation in arteries, veins. • Lowers cholesterol and actually shrinks existing deposits in arteries. • Reduces blood cell a... ...xtract with vitamin A as directed on the product label. 22. Choose an herbal-based toothpaste or tooth powder formulated without sugar. If this type... ...in your local drugstore, check a health-food store. Merfluan is a baking-soda-based tooth powder that is very popular in Europe. It comes in several ... ...his mix, the discs become subject to thinning, deterioration or rupture. These events can also gradually lead to arthritic changes. About 80% of adu... ...ncontinence is a factor, skin barriers like the new, polymer-based protective films should be used in addition to absorbent padding to protect the sk... ...dressings that you can opt for, like gauzes, gels foams, treated bandages and films. At times, you may be advised to use a combination of dressings ...
...ng 1,300's of natural cures and home remedies, spending months sifting through hundreds of reports and studies, and putting my findings to the test on real people in my natural healing clinic... I can say that the majority of natural "cures" are completely bogus. But the ones that are effective seem to work like magic! And many of them can give you almost instant reli...
... woman and would not let it go. After five minutes of waiting alone, sitting on those steps and letting a cigarette dangle limp in a frown, Sang Huin ... ...was God. It was definitely something that was not wanted. It stayed with him on the bus. On a ride from the Nambu Bus Terminal to Chongju, Sang Huin's... ...agination swelled with the thought of this individual just as it had when he actually encountered him in Soul. Sang Huin was always traveling--especia... ...ns of him? These impressions--these judgments-- could not be real. They were based on brief outward gestures and the judges had nothing but their own ... ...it becomes violent images running amuck. Unrepressed wishes, and rehearsing events before they actually take place to gain some sense of how to respo... ...images running amuck. Unrepressed wishes, and rehearsing events before they actually take place to gain some sense of how to respond before they occu... ...t often given for dreaming but the brain is a revelatory organ not of future events but of present realities; and so it was with him. He dreamt it was... ... nonstandard use of language but her own aversion toward children and adults based upon the sensitivities she had as a young child and the fact that t... ...rds, no hurt would ensue. The dirty movie theatre showed only normal R-rated films and sexual activity was restricted to bathroom stalls. Had it been...
...OCCURRED TO ME that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey through ... ...n the soft spring weather, but at the last moment we changed the program, for private reasons, and took the express-train. We made a short halt at Fra... ...d away drenched with crimson from head to foot. That was a good fight, but it could not count, partly because it did not last the lawful fifteen minut... ...Her gown was of a soft white silky stuff that clung to her round young figure like a fish’s skin, and it was rippled over with the gracefulest little ... ...ile, and an old woman made fun of his bugbear. I turned and crept away—for I was that boy—and never even cared to discover whether I had dreamed the f... ...ie, of plunging into the crystal water of the snow-fed lake. The next afternoon we started for a walk up the Unteraar glacier, with the intention of, ... ...réable, we pushed on for the Handeck, consoling ourselves with the re- flection that from the furious rushing of the river Aar at our side, we should ... ...eeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shre... ...s- tently each city repeated its same death-rate month after month. The tables might as well have been stereotyped, they varied so little. These table...
...ly countenance and a waistcoat to match it, crossing London Bridge at noon on a gusty April day, was almost magically detached from his con- flict wit... ...hastily brightly back, seeming with the contraction of his brows to frown, on the little band of observant Samaritans; in the centre of whom a man who... ...r for the purpose, it would seem; and they come in rattle- boxes, they are actually children’s toys, for what they con- tain, but not the less do they... ...ream and sharpen talons. ‘They crack the City bubbles and bladders, at all events,’ Mr. Fenellan said. ‘But if we let our journals go on making use of... ...ither of them liked to touch. Then he remembered that Dartrey Fenellan was actually a lucky fellow; and he would have mentioned the circumstance confi... ...h musical composer, who had not then made his money— now by the mystery of events knighted!—had been (he makes now fifteen thousand a year) black-ball... ...e to work in the direction of the casuistries and the sensational webs and films. Facing Victor, it was a block. But the thought came: how could she m... ...e, will be rolled downward and disintegrated, sooner than later. A Society based on the logical concrete of humane considerateness:—a Society pro- hib...
...- lating whether there may not be other faiths? 4 Main Street CHAPTER I I On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a ... ...so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistful- ness over her quality of suspended ... ...he slow line of disembarking passengers. She reminded herself that she was actually at the dramatic moment of the bride’s home- coming. She ought to f... ...rints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small woman sitting in a pa... ...k an interest in the refurnishing. The carpenters and painters who did not actually assist crossed the lawn to peer through the windows and ex- claim,... ...s strength. V From the Weekly Dauntless: One of the most delightful social events of recent months was held Wednesday evening in the housewarming of D... ...me to the Thanatopsis Club. They have some of the best papers, and current-events discussions—so interesting.” In Vida’s demands Carol felt a compulsi... ... hints as to how much she would suffer in la- bor, details of baby-hygiene based on long experience and total misunderstanding, superstitious cautions...
...of our readers have asked about our editorial guidelines, which we publish on our web site (www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/bof.htm). We only accept ess... ... year. The papers must be typed and double-spaced, with the student’s name on them. All documentation should be in MLA parenthetical style and verifie... ...whatever had preoccupied you before be- ing so rudely interrupted with the events of the world erupting into a giant torch. If you are still intereste... ... advanced and cost-effective. For the next sixteen years, even without new films, the Star W ars universe continued to expand, gaining more fans every... ...hose made for the first Star Wars trilogy so popular in a time when sci-fi films aren’t widely liked? The answer could be as simple as the flashy comp... ... we must protect from anyone or anything that stands in its way. Recently, events have united the nation in a way that has not been seen in several ye... ...ly because I knew that they would feel more pain than the criminal. In all actuality, that is who is being punished, the family. Once the criminal is ... ...ell, how much suffering are they doing if they are killed anyway? They are actually taking out of their misery of hav- ing to spend their lives behind... ...ects pre- viously unable to establish their innocence. A final argument is based on the fact that the United States is the only developed nation that ...
... and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan... ...isis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administrat... ...ual blame. Our aim has been to provide the fullest possible account of the events surrounding 9/11 and to identify lessons learned. We learned about a... ...done.We have endeavored to provide the most complete account we can of the events of September 11, what happened and why.This final report is only a s... ...nited 175 and United 93), and 8:10 (American 77). Three of the flights had actually taken off within 10 to 15 minutes of their planned departure times... ...the radio and the intercom.To our knowledge none of them had ever flown an actual airliner before. At least two callers from the flight reported that ... ...eapons. Exercises were conducted to counter this threat, but they were not based on actual intelligence. In most instances, the main concern was the u... ...re in NORAD’s Northeast Air Defense Sector (also known as NEADS), which is based in Rome, New York. That morning NEADS could call on two alert sites, ... ...ad,Apr. 5, 2004. KSM says that he permitted the trainees to view Hollywood films about hijackings only after he edited the films to cover the female c...
...r 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadap...
...no better idea of idleness than that it was useless indus try. Thomas Idle, on the other hand, was an idler of the unmixed Irish or Neapolitan type; ... ...hich is termed by the lower orders ‘a bellowser,’ and then, heaving Mr. Idle on his feet (who was not half so heavy as the sigh), urged him northward.... ...p mountain, and knew that the responsibility rested on his weak shoulders of actually getting to the top of it. The honest landlord went first, the be... ...the sight of it points— the said conclusion being that the mountain mist has actually gathered round them, as the landlord feared it would. It now bec... ...hat Mr. Holliday will not mention to any one—least of all to his father— the events that have occurred, and the words that have passed, in this room. ... ...le Apprentices – Dickens 47 took place a little more than a year after the events occurred which I have just been relating. The young couple came to... ...sation upon him of being forced to look at the old man along those two fiery films, from that moment.) ‘I must tell it to you, ’ said the old man, wit... ...efore him Two old men! Two. The eyes of each, connected with his eyes by two films of fire: each, exactly like the other: each, addressing him at prec... ...at opinion, let me add, is drawn from my own personal experience, and is not based on any fanciful theory whatever. You shall have two instances, two ...
...now the name of your hatter, or your own, if you happen to have written it on the lining inside? Or, after all, is the measurement of your skull requi... ...s to the cerebral capacity of gamblers? The executive is absolutely silent on this point. But be sure of this, that though you have scarcely taken a s... ...eside a sphinx dedicated to Sesostris. The beginnings of the world and the events of yesterday were mingled with grotesque cheerfulness. A kitchen jac... ...the ac- complishment of his wishes than by the natural manner in which the events had come about. He could not bring himself to believe in magic, but ... ...Skin niture; were expressed by the surrounding disorder, and brought light films over the vision of those assembled, so that the air seemed full of in... ...ot so thoroughly lost in my re- flections that I ended by doubts as to the actual value of words and ideas. But I loved her all the same; I loved this... ...he green sward, and understanding never a word of the rector’s sermon. The actual scene that lay before him, the gilded furniture, the courtesans, the... ...thing is move- ment, thought itself is a movement, upon movement nature is based. Death is a movement whose limitations are little known. If God is et... ...nor to have it discussed. In the first place, it is unbiased, concise, and based on an exact similarity that ex- ists between one of my own patients a...
...m—to the left as you look up—leaning a little over the house, and standing on the boundary between the garden and meadow. I quite love that tree alrea... ...s, apple-trees, and a vine. No silver birches, though. However, I must get on to my host and host- ess. I only wanted to show that it isn’t the least ... ... in the public gardens. They too, poor things, had been taken in—they were actually stop- ping at Speyer—and they rather liked Helen’s insist- ing tha... ... Mrs. Munt never ceased to rejoice, and to say, “I did manage that, at all events. When the smash comes poor Margaret will have a nest-egg to fall bac... ...s 21 EM Forster boots, to sit in the same room with her, and you dare—you actually dare— I decline to argue with such a person.” “All I know is, she’... ...rt the doors of 25 EM Forster heaven may be shaken open. To Helen, at all events, her life was to bring nothing more intense than the embrace of this... ...eless: the many-coloured efforts thereto spreading over the vast area like films and resulting in an universal grey. To do good to one, or, as in this... ... starve, be- cause it would be too painful for his relatives. Soci- ety is based on the family, and the clever wastrel can exploit this indefinitely. ...
...a wish ex- pressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scien- tific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own acc... ...of the ex- penses of publication. I have myself published separate volumes on the ‘Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs;’ on the ‘Volcanic Island... ...fore for- tunate in being present when one (Desmodus d’orbignyi, Wat.) was actually caught on a horse’s back. We were bivouacking late one evening nea... ...ly made their peculiar noise, which is a low abrupt grunt, not having much actual sound, but rather arising from the sudden expulsion of air: the only... ...a day, I do not imagine the distance is equal to 150 English miles. At all events, the thirty-one leagues was only 76 miles in a straight line, and in... ...rays of light; they were not, however, straight, but in undu- lations like films of silk blown by the wind. They were more than a yard in length, and ... ...of the black kind being different from the grey, and they said that at all events it ha not extended its range any further than the grey kind; tha the... ...re. The theory that has been most generally re- ceived is, that atolls are based on submarine craters; but when we consider the form and size of some,... ...on what have the reef-building corals, which cannot live at a great depth, based their massive structures? Numerous soundings were carefully taken by ...