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G-Dimensional Theory & the Smarandache Quantum Paradoxes : Comparative Logic and Modern Quantum Theory

By: L. Stephen Young

... sec (θ θ θ θ) [1 - v cos (Φ Φ Φ Φ)] (9.5) American Research Press Rehoboth 2001 2 L. Stephen Young G... ...41 Bibliography 4 2 - 4 3 American Research Press Rehoboth 2001 3 This book can be ordered ... ...800-521-0600 http://www.umi.com/ (Books on Demand) Copyright 2001 by American Research Press Rehoboth, Box 141 NM 87322, USA E-mail: M_L_Pe... ...s, together with the Smarandache (FTL) Hypothesis, [38] as a physical logic test, the "SQP Set". The set members are restated here with the intentio... ...a, (1687), as a given principle and treat it instead as an hypothesis to be tested within these parameters. In isolated system S’, the mass m, has a... ...absolute, i.e., the Swartzchilde radius of the nucleus is by definition the nuclear surface, (s η ), s η : | r ≡ 1, (θ ≡ π/2), (g ≡ c) |. While S... ...ion to the gravity equation. Letting gravity act upon two otherwise isolated nuclear bodies in accordance with the inverse square law and equation (1... ... + r 2 ) / R] 2 (25) Where: r 1 and r 2 are the respective nuclear radii ; c is the speed of light ; and R is the invariant length ... ...ught-experiment with unrealistically ideal conditions: (requirement that at test-instant, the arriving light-signal is from only one time-instant of ...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...gy of Environmentalism XI. The Invention of Lying: Fact and Truth XII. Hostel: The American Hostel XIII. Inceptions and Its Errors XIV. Aliens „R ... ...dopting whatever means he deems necessary in pursuing this goal. Ripley's reality test is maintained throughout the film. In other words - while h... ... cultivates a False Self of a jazz giant in the making and the author of the Great American Novel but he is neither and he bitterly knows it. Even ... ...most heart rending smile when embarrassed or endangered. He is a caricature of the American dream: ambitious, driven, winsome, well versed in the m... ...aintains the requirement of the first type of flow of data. But it fails the second test: people do not know that it exists or any of its attributes... ...TY because they KNOW it and they irreversibly CHANGE it. Applying this dual-track test, "virtual" reality IS a reality, albeit, at this stage, of ... ...t major source of energy") reveals itself, we are likely to increase the shares of nuclear and wind sources in our energy consumption pie. Our indu... ...ious forums in Macedonia. Web and Journalistic Activities Author of extensive Web sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") - An Open Direct... ...es, and concerning economic matters. Contact Details: palma@unet.com.mk My Web Sites: Economy / Politics: http://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psy...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...d out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first American liaison. He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, ... ...he goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the ... ...ace.com/speeches/berliner.htm Bible The Jews do not include the 27 books of New Testament in their Bible. The factoids below relate to the versi... ... to the version of the Bible used by Christians everywhere: Old (39 books) and New Testament. Altogether 1189 chapters (929 of which are in the Old... ...ether 1189 chapters (929 of which are in the Old Testament), 31173 verses. The Old Testament contains 592439 words (2728100 letters), the New Testa... ...ser/gr/public/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary free... ...g of water reservoirs behind dams, injecting water into deep wells, and underground nuclear tests). More than 600 tremors were recorded in the decad... ...earchers analyzed more than 12,500 skeletons - half of them pre-Columbian - from 65 sites in North and South America for evidence of infections, mal... ... continues in the spawning grounds - males fight over females, females over nesting sites. Why do the Salmon die after spawning? Probably be...

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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

... cars, until he reached Barton. “I’m Daniel Jacobs, General Manager of WNN,” he announced testily. “This isn’t a crime scene! It was a suicide!” “I... ...o camera Three,” Brand ordered. Greene pushed a button, the video screen snapped on to a test pattern. “This is the main camera, the pattern is for... ...do have a few questions, if you don’t mind?” “I’m not a simpleton, Mr. Brand,” she said testily. “I didn’t mean to infer that. It’s just that, be... ...le of contents of both books. Only two things potentially stood out. The one on physics, “Nuclear Power, The Salvation For The Ages; the other on ps... ...uip the space station with six special weapons directed so that they cover the planet.” “Nuclear?” - J.Cross/Stone 115 “No. I’m not sure what t... ...ths with the Russians and Chinese full cooperation.” “Why do you assume that they’re not nuclear weapons?” “If they were nuclear it would have to b... ...e contrary. Before he expired he divulged the time and place of the Russian, Chinese, and American meeting. Anna handed him a note. Brand looked at... ... open. I know that it’s no consolation, but your husband deserves a medal, he was a great American.” “And is that what they’ll say when you turn up ... ... into an office with military mementos, plagues, and medals hanging on the walls, plus an American flag standing behind his desk. The General offe...

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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

...d about various ways that the world would end - plague, foods, sunbursts, nuclear war, the Wrath of God, amongst others. The truth is, the world did... ...ay of the fall, Zodiac declared himself the Lord and Master of the North American continent. The remnants of the government and military had fallen... ...vivors. Conficts broke out. The Middle East was annihilated with the very nuclear arsenals that were meant as a deterrent. It truly seemed that the... .... “IDIOT! Always check all angles, especially when it comes to the former American government. Those fools were the greatest liars and hypocrites ev... ...ithin the alloted time frame. In the meantime, have we accounted for all nuclear weapons?” asked Zodiac. “Yes sir. The commanders have been diligent... ...cords, and other stuf. Looks like they were com- piling information on all Americans…Oh, sorry Vincent, didn’t mean to steal your thunder.” Vincent h... ...me anyway.” Everyone went silent. “ Alright, let’s put some of this to the test. Is there any way to get power fowing through this chip again?” Vince... ...ed back at the compound in New York that they were to retrieve the latest test subject. This one was not like the others. This one was one of the mo... ...y enjoying his conversation with Lexi. “They were designs that were being tested by the United States government. Lord Zodiac had them produced in s...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...rds for sterilization. First they developed a highly refined intelligence test. Everyone took a version of the test every year in school. We can com... ... every year in school. We can compare it to our Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests. While their tests and scales were different from ours, perhaps it... ...rs, perhaps it can be better understood in our terms. The results of the tests were put on a scale like the bell shaped curve which we use for sampl... ...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ... with no global warming, no terrorism, no famines, no water shortages, no nuclear threats. That „once upon a time‟ era may not have been utopian, but... ...st women, but rather some of its reactionary interpreters. In Pakistan, a nuclear power, we still have two honor killings a day, rape happens hourly ... ...ed physically or mentally. For that reason we delete from the internet the sites that show bomb making, pornography, and other violence producing and...

...isposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver 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 inv...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ...would see that as a noble intention. What if a governmental ruler sets off nuclear bombs or sprayed the world with toxic gas that killed 90% of the w... ...f our society believes. If it is a Christian society we believe in the New Testament. If it is a Muslim society we believe in the Qur‘an. If it is a ... ... scientific theory may start as an idea, but unless it undergoes rigorous testing it is worthless as science. Which is easier to believe—that a Being... ... to go to a party with my friends now, but I have an important engineering test tomorrow? Which do I choose, the present desire or the future desire?... ...s rule most of the world, when will the meek inherit the earth? Certainly nuclear, biological or chemical warfare are all in God‘s plan. If not, Go... ...t predict which way we will actually evolve, or whether global warming or nuclear warfare will bring our evolution to an abrupt end. But we can look...

...isposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver 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 inv...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...Paradise." While Ghiberti's masterpieces depicted the scenes from the Old Testament, these bronze doors of Kino depicted the age of civilization in... ...or strawberries. 9 ―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because... ... While the warriors of ancient Sparta may have challenged their newborns to test the elements on the barren hillside, thereby allowing for only the s... ...fe by the Chinese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The... ... price of their exports up. The Chinese yuppies are following the American way of pursuing money and the things it can bring—less free time... ...not have the inclination to experiment. ―We also have mandatory blood tests throughout the year in schools and work places. We test primarily f... ... business a potential source of revenue. ―Ten years ago China tested a nuclear fusion device. They are also working on solar and wind energy and... ...s, we see selfishness collectivized and violence applauded until the final nuclear curtain may undo it all. ―Which lands conquered still rem...

...isposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver 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 inv...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...t isn’t fair. But then as my grand dad said, ‘things are never fair.’ Our American bodies are well fed, some of our minds are well read, we hold the ... ...ople in the world have access to only a total of a gallon of water a day. Americans use three gallons just to flush a toilet. Add in drinking and coo... ... global IT network for decades and are rated at least as effective as the American and European hardware and software developers. The per capita inc... ... industry. But their mutual distrust and their mutual fears pushed mutual nuclear development and the mutual amassing of armies.‖ 27 —―A... ...―In New Zealsea they have a voluntary license program. Passing the license test gives you some governmental benefits that are denied those who didn‘t... ...hours. Adults can work 40 or more. Those in school who pass the academic tests every three months are paid bonuses depending on how well they have ... ...ths are paid bonuses depending on how well they have done on the national tests. ―We have been successful in getting donations of free books f...

...isposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver 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 inv...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... Poland or Venezuela but would have been considerably less than the poorest American state, Mississippi, with an average per capita income of $18,00... ...tion of children. While over 150,000 orphans of AIDS afflicted parents will test positive for the disease, another 100,000 AIDS orphaned children wi... ...t positive for the disease, another 100,000 AIDS orphaned children will not test positive. What kind of a life is it when the parents have died and ... ... countries expand their atomic power generating capabilities they build the nuclear targets for suicidal terrorist fanatics to attack. Rather than b... ...ack. Rather than blowing up a 12 passenger bus or a high rise building, the nuclear fallout of a blown reactor can kill or maim millions—millions of ... ...ough to go around and give everyone the equivalent income of today’s average American or Brit. The other day I mentioned the wealth of the world when... ...urg would have to give up about $55,000 per year. The average Norwegian and American would have to give up about $35,000 a year. Would they stand st... ...hing about the mess that we have created for ourselves on our planet? Is He testing our intelligence and resolve to see if we can find a way out of ... ...e the lingering negative effects of the technology, such as the disposal of nuclear and non-nuclear waste, the production of carbon dioxide and metha...

...isposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver 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 inv...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

..., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprint... ..., New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Asco... ...ological Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176 Orenda Deity And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction... ...ter night, those who think themselves capable of victoriously enduring the test are led to the shore of a river or a lake. If all the streams are froz... ...s their own. The Christian sacred scriptures, which now constitute the New Testament in the Bible, were not compiled into a single book for several ce... ...oundation of Christianity. The Bible is divided into two sections, the Old Testament which deals with Jewish history and beliefs up until the period o... ...ling of terror and despair as the world moves more and more into an age of nuclear threat and scientific manipulation of life, can be personified as t... ...ly chaotic nature of human relationships on earth and the breakdown of the nuclear family are compensated by the Holy Family, whose intervention can g... ...and Australian Aborigines. Regardless of how we may choose to imagine this nuclear self within us and its origins, mystics as a whole assume that ther...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...esented. Her employer had done it to her as conclusively as a feeling could testify. Then and now there was plenty of indication that she had been pr... ...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ...ugh really he had his misgivings about it. He told himself that he needed to test the musical aspects of it on his cello later that day when he return... ...a (who thought of herself as Lily), with blonde hair and glasses, and that a nuclear bomb had gone off somewhere nearby Ithaca--maybe Salem for the st... ...lly turned into a farm road, but back then she decided to let her experience testify otherwise by choosing to not go that far. She drove on and on and... ...bases for another confrontation with Iraq. Pyongyang had recently dismissed nuclear monitors. The troops at the Itaewon base and at the DMZ were on ... ...nto the dirt with a stick. There was talk of getting access to North Korean nuclear fuel rods, a strange epidemic that they had manufactured and prol...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

... II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Lib... ...pire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghan... ...sons XIV. The Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the... ...arded the conduct of the USA in Iraq as a greater threat to world peace that Iran's nuclear ambitions. The distinction formerly made between the Am... ... sanctions of the (anti) land mines treaty and the provisions of the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty, and its industry to the environmental constrain... ...nd navel-gaze. Semi-failed states typically disintegrate. A bloodied (perhaps even nuclear) second civil war is in the cards. Should the United Sta... ...ced on civil and human rights in Patriot Acts III and IV (2008), and, finally, the nuclear terrorist attack on Houston in the closing days of this ... ...later, US sanctions imposed on Pakistan since 1990 and 1998 (following its nuclear tests) were waived by President Bush and he rescheduled $400 mil... ... cabals of power. Hitherto he kept everyone satisfied. But Iraq is his first real test. Everyone demands commitments backed by actions. Both the E...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

...thers. Again, what differentiates the healthy from the pathological is the reality test. Imputing positive characteristics to self or others is goo... ...ely, the baby relates to the idealized "Good Mother" and whenever mother fails the test, the baby devalues her by interacting, in its mind, with "B... ...ed the process of death to that of being born. He was commenting upon the numerous testimonies of people brought back to life following their confi... ...tions. The social roles of parents have similarly been recast by the decline of the nuclear family and the surge of alternative household formats. ... ...ne half of all children are born in single parent or in other non-traditional, non-nuclear - typically poor and under-educated - households. In suc... ...r desirous exploits – the more they are likely to end up with a bundle of joy (the American saccharine expression for a newborn). Many children are... ...y who establish the relevance of Fairbairn and Guntrip … by pointing out that what American analysts label 'narcissism', British analysts tend to c... .... Lasch described the narcissistic landscape thus (in "The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an age of Diminishing Expectations", 1979): "T... ...ctonic shifts in the definition and functioning of basic social units, such as the nuclear family and the workplace. The cross- fertilization of gen...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...ble lives? The good part of life (and, therefore, the differential and meaningful test) is in the experience itself – not in the desire to experie... ... where we have no direct observational access to the events and we have to rely on testimonials. If they do not occur (or are not reported to have ... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...ate people. Every social arrangement and institution should be put to the dual acid tests of personal autonomy and freedom and moral law. If it fail... ...e many degenerative and auto-immune diseases. The other kind of cloning, known as "nuclear transfer", is much decried in popular culture - and else... ... be either a wonderful educational tool - or an addictive and mind numbing pastime. Nuclear fission is a process that yields both nuclear weapons an... ..." form of technological abuse and no hierarchy of potentially abusive technologies. Nuclear fission tackles natural processes as fundamental as life...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ble lives? The good part of life (and, therefore, the differential and meaningful test) is in the experience itself – not in the desire to experie... ... where we have no direct observational access to the events and we have to rely on testimonials. If they do not occur (or are not reported to have ... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...ate people. Every social arrangement and institution should be put to the dual acid tests of personal autonomy and freedom and moral law. If it fail... ...e many degenerative and auto-immune diseases. The other kind of cloning, known as "nuclear transfer", is much decried in popular culture - and else... ... be either a wonderful educational tool - or an addictive and mind numbing pastime. Nuclear fission is a process that yields both nuclear weapons an... ..." form of technological abuse and no hierarchy of potentially abusive technologies. Nuclear fission tackles natural processes as fundamental as life...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

... Foundation Hawaiian Electric Industries Hawaiian Electric Company and American Savings Bank Palapalai Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. First Hawaiian Ba... ...r Cable University of Hawai‘i System Hāpu‘u Kupukupu aio Ala Moana Center American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Ha... ... FOR CLEAN ENERGY Hawai‘i is one of the world’s best places to develop, test and improve sustainable technology to power the future awai‘i’s su... ...innovation. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has called Hawai‘i “a unique test-bed for clean, renewable energy.” It’s no wonder that energy compan... ...ns, with intermittent sunny days, there’s heat.” Seeking alternatives to nuclear energy In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear-plant disaster, J... ...ions have increasingly explored the potential of clean energy to replace nuclear power. The shift away from nuclear, plus the rising demand for el... ...nd its engineering, design and system integration oferings. Investing in American solar projects is a smart move for Asian capital, says Schreck, ... ... 36 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS KAUA‘I 1 Līhu‘e 2 Pacifc Missile Range (test site for U.S. anti- missile defenses and other advanced systems) O‘AH... ... the faults that cause violent, large-scale earthquakes. North Pole in a nuclear submarine, is using sonar images to study changes to the Arctic O...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

... Uni­ versity. He was also required to maintain a rigorous teaching schedule in American Indian Culture and Artifacts. In addition, he had contracte... ...est. He of­ ten felt dumb in her presence when she started talking about Native American history. But right now all he could feel was how much he mi... ...m of a necklace draped smoothly just above her breast. A row of square, silver American Indian amulets diagonally circled her waist from the top of... ...eaning of the pattern. Have you ever seen anything like it before?" "Don't get testy. I've only looked at it for a few minutes. But I can tell you ... ...had been trying for months to get that damn money out of Washington," she said, testily. "I tried for the next several days to phone and thank her, ... ...uranium contractor to the military, as well as more than half of the commercial nuclear power plants in this country and the rest of the world. Your... ... plu- The Soul Bearer toni urn, and so called, low level waste from commercial nuclear power plants. Your dumpsites are so numerous, and secret, th... ...obs started to light up a cigar. "Don't light that thing around me," Emily said testily. Jacobs scowled and put it away. Ignoring the exchange, Bre... ...eing." "Events," the young intern repeated. "It's the same word they use for a nuclear melt down." "There hasn't been a nuclear melt down," Shipley...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ...hould content be considered original and when - plagiarized?". Should the test for plagiarism be more stringent than the one applied by the Copyrigh... ...n this context? If a surfer visits sites which deal with aberrant sex and nuclear physics in the same session - what to make of it? Moreover, the ... ... The result was a globe encompassing network of academic institutions. The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET. Ot... ...lterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and of catering to the tastes and in... .... Newspaper archives, dating back to the 1700's are now being digitized - testifying to the endurance, resilience, and longevity of paper. Enter th... ...ord of both content creator and vendor are crucial factors. This is where testimonials and reviews come in. But their effect is particularly strong ... ...sive databases such as the human genome, weather patterns, simulations of nuclear explosions, thematic, multi-featured databases, intelligent agents... ... this context? If a surfer visits sites which deal with aberrant sex and nuclear physics in the same session - what to make of it? The public and...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...andsome world media coverage) and kidnapping for ransom (like the kidnapping of the American Protestant Missionary Ellen Stone - quite a mysterious ... ...as bound to boil over. The Black Hand was there to provoke the parties into a final test of strengths and willpower. Dame Rebecca West voices her d... ...n the events that followed. Based on all manner of circumstantial evidence and the testimonies of mysterious friends of furtive conspirators she re... ...ic (Tankosich). The latter - a self proclaimed sharpshooter - immediately set about testing the sniping skills of his co-schemers in a secluded wood... ...d with its self-important figurehead (for instance, in September 1992). Successive American administrations funnelled money into the province and w... ... was all but ignored in these events. Rugova was not. He was often consulted by the American negotiators and treated like a head of state. The messa... ...), real or (more often) invented. One could sometimes find members of the same nuclear family - but of different religious affiliation. Secular... ...ntor invited me to come along to the meeting of the local branch of PND (People for Nuclear Disarmament) and was very surprised that I declined. As ... ... surprised that I declined. As a matter of fact he was shocked: "Are you supporting nuclear war?". I could've told him that I came from a country wh...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...after another comes and goes, having nothing to do with hard physics which is testable and can be verified. The trouble with this is that it is des... ... result of this obsolete insanity is the atomic bomb and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. If the human species is to stop its suicidal slide i... ...ists. Bringing up new fads and theories which have no proof and are not even testable. Wild conjectures without any scientific proof is not Scienc... ...s itself is false logic. Fad theories that contradict each other and are not testable is not Science. Science fantasy and science fiction mixed to... ...estructive: the only destructive power we can compare it to today is an atomic nuclear bomb going off. For 25 million years: volcanoes ruled the hea... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... .... That is as rational as saying that we have the right to explode all of our nuclear bombs: simply because we can do it. This does not mean that ...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...aid independently of each other. Unemployment benefits should be means tested. There is no reason to pay unemployment benefits to the children of... ...ployment bureau, who are actively seeking employment and who pass a means test. Benefits should be withheld from people who resigned voluntarily or ... ... New Zealand, both sickness benefits and unemployment benefits are means tested. It is recommended to reduce the replacement rate of unemployment b... ...fits through the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. I recommend linking ... ...re is 10% and in Ireland – 3%. In each 5-year period only 25% of low paid Americans are in a poor family at some point (the figure is 10% in the UK)... ...fits through the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. We will link the siz... ...orm as well. In Britain, trade unions put technology to good use. The Web sites of the TUC's member unions provide online membership application for... ...cing their members, whether they be teachers or postal workers." But Web sites are insufficient weapons against the twin tsunamis of technological ... ... increasing absence has probably contributed to the disintegration of the nuclear family, the emergence of alternative family systems, and the loose...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...npredictable. Either one cannot design an experiment to rigorously and validly test theorems and conjectures in economics - or something is ver... ...recisely constitutes their subject matter. Is economics about the construction and testing of models in accordance with certain basic assumptions? ... ...conditions is not enough. Scientific theories must also pass the crucial hurdles of testability, verifiability, refutability, falsifiability, and re... ...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...d a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. The Americans later extended the coverage until mid-May. The Europea... ...nnovation generates the very tools that facilitate further innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - desc... ...y's world: the disintegration of previously cohesive social structures, such as the nuclear (not to mention the extended) family. This was all neatl... ...powder are great examples) induces new rules of war (where is the Clausewitz of the nuclear chessboard?!:-))). Indeed, your comparison takes us to... ...an muscles. The contemporary automaton opens doors with photoelectric cells, points nuclear weapons or solves differential equations." This "wave ...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...e same is true for the drug company that invests millions in screen- ing and testing various drug candidates and ends up with a new antibiotic that is... ...y of the information you need by wandering off into a strange click-trail of sites, amateur and professional, commercial and not, hobbyist and entrepr... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...t more likely that a court will find it to be legal—to be a fair use. The old test focused mainly on whether the motive for the copying was to make mon... ...hether there was harm to the copyright holder’s market.) The Napster court’s test concentrates on whether the person consuming the copy got something ... ...t scrutiny. After all, the government makes the description of how to make a nuclear weapon classified information. That is clearly “speech,” but its r... ...r competitors could laboriously copy their old listings without penalty. The nuclear option was no longer available. Maybe the price demanded would be...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...ings’s work. 21 Of course, FIDOnet was the ultimate kludge, simultaneously a testament to the distributed ingenuity of those who tinker with generativ... ...ne of the new network, helping to make the protocols they developed on paper testable in a real-world environment. The money supporting this was relat... ...mpuServe sub- scribers, 44 disappeared under the avalanche of individual Web sites selling goods to anyone with Internet access. The resulting Interne... ...vious enough to be found on a list of 432 common passwords that the software tested at each com- puter. 9 When asked why he unleashed the worm, Morris... ...cause they foster the production of useful things like Web browsers, auction sites, and free encyclopedias, but also because they can allow an extraor... ... accounted for an estimated 80 percent of the world’s total e-mail. 59 North American PCs led the world in De- cember 2006, producing approximately 46... ...demics, social analysts, and industry leaders surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in 2004 predicted serious attacks on network infras... ...o tinkering PC owners in their homes, had grown to include 20 percent of all Americans. Id. at 9. Among adult Internet users, meanwhile, 65 percent co... ...’ M., Nov. 1998, at 59 (recounting the story of a child who created a nuclear reactor in his backyard shed). 92. See Ultramares Corp. v. T ouch...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...passive-aggressive, and psychoneurotic personality disorders and types. The American Psychiatric Association, based in Washington D.C., USA, publish... ...mendments do not constitute a part of the text of the DSM-IV-TR, nor is the American Psychiatric Association (APA) associated with them in any way.]... ...rder By Robert C. Schwartz, Ph.D., DAPA and Shannon D. Smith, Ph.D., DAPA (American Psychotherapy Association, Article #3004 Annals July/August 200... ... hurt and to nurture the narcissist's grandiosity. He fails in his "reality test" – the ability to distinguish the actual from the imagined. The nar... ... derives his sense of self-worth from body building, athletic achievements, tests of resilience or endurance, and sexual conquests. The narcissistic... ...s from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and this, following lengthy tests and personal interviews. But, in the absence of access to Barack O... ...sin. The same deranged logic extends to the construction and maintenance of nuclear weapons by countries like the USA, the UK, France, and Israel: t... ... healthcare reforms Web and Journalistic Activities Author of extensive Web sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") - An Open Directory Cool ... ...rite to Me: palma@unet.com.mk narcissisticabuse-owner@yahoogroups.com My Web Sites: Economy/Politics: http://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psychology: http...

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Neutrosophic Dialogues

By: Florentin Smarandache

...ery fortunately, many wise men did succeed in cultivating their hearts to testify to the profound truth. So our Eastern classics focus on our inner c... ...al view, the relationship between the fundamental and the incidental: Are Americans universally unselfish, living on highly advanced science and tec... ...k series, Vol. 13), edited by Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Constantinescu, American Research Press 2002, pp.200-203) The point is: absolute truth do... ... series, Vol. 13), edited by Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Constantinescu, American Research Press 2002, pp.200-203 Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Cons... ...een to Hiroshima or Nagasaki would realize that the Buddha was describing nuclear warfare. In Nagasaki, after the atomic explosion, many people survi... ...tial destruction of the world that the Buddha predicted is indeed that of nuclear warfare. Could it really happen? Many believe it is very likely. Ac... ...warfare. Could it really happen? Many believe it is very likely. Access to nuclear weapons is becoming more widespread and more difficult to control.... ...to my home and told my mother about him. She said to treat him well. As we tested Mr. Kong's ability to make predictions, we found that he was always... ...rest of my life. Mr. Kong’s calculations showed that I would pass various tests in various years: the year that I would become a civil scholar, and t...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...ng is a solution for the economic recession. I've been working on building sites in many surrounding villages. From now on, I daren't take any more bu... ...eing the so-called 'wonder rice' varieties. In the 1950s, an international testing station was established in the Philippines, financed principally by... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ...any more. I was in hospital for five days for an operation. They took some tests for it and so they diagnosed Aids. I was told to go back to the hospi... ...helped it. No. I go to the Aids Centre every three months. They take blood tests. The disease is only in the early stages and that has encouraged me. ... ...unds have been divided and fenced off into smaller sections, as privatized nuclear families want to live in their own private yard. In the era of vill... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth... ...ate village cultivation community within community Production isolated nuclear machines own commercial cultivation houses family technology cons...

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Progress in Physics : The Journal on Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Including Related Themes from Mathematics

By: Florentin Smarandache

..., based on the prin- ciple that geodesic lines of two infnitesimally close test- particles will deviate in a feld of waves of the metric. A system of ... ...uk, 1978, v. 126 (3), 361–401. 4. Borissova L. B. Relative oscillations of test-particles in accompanying reference frames. Doklady Acad. Nauk USSR, 1... ... Invisible paradox. Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Probability, Set, and Logic, American Research Press, Reho- both, 1998 (see the third e-print edition of... ...: antielectrons, antiprotons, and neutrons. At CERN it will be possible to test the production of unmatter. The existence of unmatter in the universe ... ... The isotopes of an element X differ in the number of neutrons, thus their nuclear mass is different, but their nuclear charges are the same. For all ... ...neutrosophic logic. Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Probability, Set, and Logic. American Research Press, Rehoboth, 2002, 144 p. (see it in e-print: http://... ...Conference, Li` ege, Belgique, 11–16 August 2003, Ed. by Daniel M. Dubois, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, v. 718, 2004, p. 68. ... ... J 2 with eigenvalues j(j+1), where the sum is taken over the spin network sites [111] and the minimal Planck scale emerges from a regularization proc... ...Moscow Region, 142290, Russia E-mail: shnoll@iteb.ru † Skobeltsyn Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State Univ., Moscow, 119992, Russia ‡ Institute of ...

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The Snakelex Report

By: Christine Jones

... After all that, he is ordered to sing Hell’s National Anthem, which is a test of intelligence, as demons are not encouraged to sing and there is no... ...ouraged to sing and there is no National Anthem. The demon had passed the tests. Now although Snakelex’s name appeared in the boss’s directory of ex... ...tan was determined to demonstrate to his enemy above that the old and new testaments were merely a practice run for the twentieth century. The boss ... ...ee if it was on. “Good morning sisters and brothers!” John Carter’s strong American accent shook the foundation, rocked the pews and set a new trend ... ...n Carter went on and on and on about his hometown and how charismatic the American churches had become. He gave a run down on Christian activities, ... ... a buzz of new gossip, lent itself as a venue for Christian ridicule. The American couple became the flavour of Morris’s bad taste in humour. He amu... ...Sully’s request, the Browns drove the couple around the town pointing out sites of interest; however, Karen was more interested in the addresses of ... ...vide and ruin a group project. He gave a few examples, using politicians, nuclear testing and green peace. “It only takes one to start the domino ef...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ... American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony from 160 witnesses. PREFACE xv Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:26 PM Pa... ... stronger, and wiser. That September day, we came together as a nation.The test before us is to sustain that unity of purpose and meet the challenges ... ...S: Is this real-world or exercise? FAA: No, this is not an exercise, not a test. 116 NEADS ordered to battle stations the two F-15 alert aircraft at O... ...the expertise of the national laboratory system, has special competence in nuclear weapons; the Office of Intelligence of the Coast Guard; and, today,... ...remiah, that critiqued the intelligence community’s failure to foresee the nuclear weapons tests by India and Pakistan in 1998, as well as by a 1999 p... ... to detect and respond to terrorism that involved chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. 101 During 1995 and 1996, President Clinton devoted consid...

...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

...mach drops and my eyes uncontrollably flood with tears as a round African- American nurse pronounces her time of death, “4:32 a.m.,” and it is over; s... ...reen bottle. Further along this sidewalk, I watch curiously as an African- American woman nurses her infant, pacing circles in front of her doorway. A... ...artles us just as much as had the unexpected noise. He is an older African-American man. His grayish-white, prickly beard adds a sharp contrast to the... ...h 14 – Mont Alto campus THE POWER PLANT NEXT DOOR THERE ARE MANY different nuclear power plants in the United States. Out of all of the power plants i... ...ere to have some sort of catastrophic meltdown at their current location (“Nuclear Power” 1). A meltdown is not the only problem that could occur at a... ... problem that could occur at a power plant; there are also issues with the nuclear waste and the gen- eral security involving terrorism. Indian Point ... ... land failed to assess the degree of a problem that was simulated during a test (“TMI Fails” 1). It turns out that, if the problem that was simulated ... ...assed the standards set by the NCR. Indian Point power plant has also been tested by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). These tests in- cluded m... ... Indian Point power Best of Freshman Writing 26 plant passed all of these tests (Kolbert 38). Since the power plant passed these tests, Indian Point ...

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