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...r the direction of composer Ruth. It is my first public performance in 14 years. Three people away from me on the stage is a grey-haired man with a s... ...is. I am grateful that HIV/AIDS is no longer the death sentence it was 25+ years ago. We know so much more now. Yet, we are far from having a cure – ... ...mly believe that the “gay man’s disease” attitude is the reason. For many years now, I have felt helpless to do more than throw money at this devasta... ...hes today. However, I digress. The heroine of I Capture the Castle is a 17-year-old bluestocking, living with her impoverished family in an English c... ..., living with her impoverished family in an English castle during the war years. I am completely hooked by this book because of Smith's gorgeous pro... ... She thought about how easy it would be to lean further over the edge: to leap off. About how the pain would finally stop. About how no one would ...

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...id shores -- The Sagas of old Icelandic history -- Discovery of America in the year 889 -- Verdant shores and prolific woodlands -- Adventures in the ... ...ng -- Finding of a skeleton in armor -- Expedition returns to Greenland in the year 1005 -- The voyage of Thorstein -- Death of Thorstein -- Proofs of... ...0-79 CHAPTER VI. Story of the doomed Bishop. -- Condemned to pass thousands of years in the form of a fish -- The contrary Bishop of Malta whom Paul s... ...t -- Condemned to death -- A hair-breadth escape -- Striking down his guard he leaps into the sea - - Four days hunted with bloodhounds -- Escaped fro... ...y and treachery among his crew -- Astounding stories told by a voyager -- Five years among the cannibals -- Concerning the base treachery of Davis -- ... ...mooth, his companions heard him cry, "Yes, Jenny, I am coming," and beheld him leap overboard and distinctly saw the spirit of the deserted girl recei... ... the wounding of one in the arm. The others fled precipitately, those on board leaping into the water, where they were picked up by their companions. ... ... were killed outright, three were made prisoners, and two were drowned who had leaped into the sea in a vain effort to escape their pursuers. Cavendis... ...a multitude of the natives showed themselves, throwing dust upon their heads, "leaping and running like brute beasts, having vizors on their faces in ...

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...to become Persons, has been happening for at least the last three thousand years. Before we define the concept of the Person, let us try to underst... ...ort on the part of millions of human beings over the course of millions of years. Another example of an evolutionary step: a psyche in the animal w... ... of terrorism are the same. COMMENT: It seems to me that you have made a leap here. Before you spoke of absolute self-creation, which is something... ...eings have existed, and it’s another if we look at a period of one hundred years. In the first case, we can see a path, an evolution. In the second ... ...o be a fantasy. ANTONIO: But why? Let’s look at the facts. Forty million years ago, humanity as we know it today did not exist, and today it does.... ...tch of time? There was an evolution. And from now to another forty million years in the future? I certainly can’t predict what will happen, but I do... ... It just becomes destructive energy. COMMENT: Yes, but where is there a leap forward in the quality of life? 57 ANTONIO: The leap forward in... ... within humanity in a completely different way. They undergo a qualitative leap. Why is it that I affirm that the I exists from the very beginning... ...gs were similar to animals, but then there have been continual qualitative leaps in evolution, from one form of life to the next. But let’s go back...

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... legion of "insignificant" cells, cyanobacteria, millions and millions of years ago? Are we insignificant cells or are we silk worms and artists of... ...roperties of biological life, properties that have emerged over millions of years. Here a question arises: couldn't we discover one day that a form o... ...ological life? The universe we belong to has been evolving for billions of years. It took time before the galaxies appeared, which are an emergent p... ...and imperfect. God creates instantly. Life takes millions and billions of years to complete its creations. God is eternal and immortal. Life is et... ... of biological life, that has created itself over millions and millions of years. It was created because someone, at some point during planet Earth... ...ers determined opposition along its way when it proposes a new qualitative leap forward. Cosmo-Art is an emergent property of art and of the human... ...ble of becoming part of a cosmic purpose that goes forward in evolutionary leaps, during the course of millennia or of millions of years. With rega... ...happens during their reproduction and period of gestation. An evolutionary leap is taking place within the story of humanity, and it is not humanity ... ...ife and death, truth and freedom, and be capable of making the evolutionary leap that transforms it from a simple animal into an artist. Not the kin...

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... and stable growth rate, suitable for the treatment of Growth Models. But how many years of future income (from dividends) should we use in our cal... ... profitable now, is there any guarantee that it will continue to be so in the next year, or the next decade? If it does continue to be profitable -... ...ate of dividends will continue to be distributed? The number of periods (normally, years) selected for the calculation is called the "price to earn... ...= Total Current Assets - Total Current Liabilities Change in Working Capital = One Year's Working Capital MINUS Previous Year's Working Capital Th... ... including their potential influence on the firm. Financial Due Diligence Last 3 years income statements of the firm or of constituents of the fi... ...ofit - hitherto the outcome of painstaking labour. Privatization itself was such a leap of faith. State owned assets - including utilities and supp...

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...heelies in their mutual driveway. She had been watch- ing him now for four years. She knew it bugged him but she couldn’t stop. His energetic body fli... ...te her food. 6 SUSAN BRACKEN THE LONELY days turned into lonely weeks and years. Her teach- ers praised Lacey for her excellent work. Their appreciat... ...no one was watching. “Okay, I guess. Defend!” he challenged. Elated, Lacey leapt in front of the dribbling Roger and knocked the ball out of his hand,... ...ld be her only expense. She knew she would have enough money for her first year if she worked all summer, and was thrilled to get a job as a ‘gofer’ a... ...LE ROGER BROCK was almost home. After being up north at col- lege for five years, he was starting his first job as a high school gymnastics teacher in... ...on’t want her messing up my job. “All right, Lace. We’ll get married.” Joy leapt in her heart. “Really? We are getting married? Oh, Roger, thank you. ... ...ay with Barney.” They scampered into the living room, Barney jump- ing and leaping with joy to see them. Julian came in. He looked awkwardly at his mo... ...he pulled into her driveway and unlocked the house door. There was Barney, leaping and wagging as usual. Her mood lifted as she reached down to pick u... ... esteem, needs to have complete control so she feels safe. At four a.m. he leapt out of bed, dressed, and got his Jag- uar out of the garage. Racing t...

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... or a Message? II. The Internet in the Countries in Transition III. Leapfrogging Transition IV. The Selfish Net – The Semantic Web V. The... ...s in trouble in Europe, Tripod may well follow suit shortly. Earlier this year, Microsoft has shut down ListBot (a host of discussion lists). Suite1... ...rice of scholarly, peer- reviewed journals has skyrocketed in the last few years, often way out of the limited means of libraries, universities, indi... ...ages. The Internet was not exempt from this phase which ended only a few years ago. It started with a complete computer anarchy manifested in ad ho... ...computing processing power. And these N computers are more powerful every year, according to Moore's Law. The growth of computing powers in networks ... ...electronics, so the idea of combining the two was obviously not as great a leap as it would have been for someone else. I repaired my Dad's hi-fi the... ...e centuries ago. Many would say that they constitute a far larger quantum leap. As opposed to their print equivalents, e-books are public goods: cos... ..., desire and willingness to be an IT manager in a specific role before we leap to training and other development interventions. Also, many of the bo... ...ateral institutions (such as the World Bank) - or charities and donors. Leapfrogging Transition Technology and Development in Post-Communist Euro...

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... God in a long time, though he had been assured throughout his twenty-four years, by an assortment of well-meaning, holy sanctified aunts and grands t... ...sts that had seemed like a thousand pounds weighing down his skinny, seven-year-old limbs. One morning, he awoke and found himself, in his cast, stret... ...e honey? "Dagny, don't you realize you're making the same mistake you made years ago? There's no need for you to continue rebelling like this. There's... ... with a grain of salt. Dagny had been a stranger to him for the last three years. Nothing too shocking there. So he'd thought he'd been prepared. He h... ...ms) and finally went back to finish school and get his diploma. * * * * He leaps four years to the beginning of his destiny. Four years from the angst... ...Jordan by an arm, began leading her towards the front door. "Tyler!" Dagny leaped to her feet. "What're you doing?" "You wanna join her?" Her next wor... ...t ... could we just go downstairs now to eat before I ... before..." Tyler leaped to his feet. "Sure we can. I'm sorry." "It's okay. It's not you. It'... ... for a non-Witch. They both turned at the sound of Tyler's footsteps as he leaped down the stairs from the upper bedrooms. "We will talk more, Dagny,"... ...n't looking forward. Kelly now glared down at Tyler, outraged and ready to leap all over his crack before he saw the smile on Tyler's face and realize...

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...ission was to be mischievous and divert anything from the truth, which in years to come would supposedly be to their advantage. Several years after t... ...scorching heat, over clearing and bones scattered from ages past and last years drought. However, this place is neither. This rural setting would be... ...OD caught his attention. Several additional letters were obscured by many years of weathering and neglect by those responsible for the upkeep of pub... ...og – Rank - demon first class: Assignment - business and residential. Many years ago, the stately mansion was converted into a grocery store. This in... ...ide brow. “Enjoy your swim in the sludge pit.” He watched the imp cringe, leap 14 to its feet and franticly look for Satan. The imp soon realised h... ...ard more on the ball than any security devise known to man. It is able to leap mountains in a single bound, faster than any speedy demon or starving... ...gous, spirit sucking, goody two wings on my tail! We gotta move!” The imp leapt into Snakelex’s lap, grasped him by the scruff of the neck and shook... ...ked witch is really Snow white. Bummer.” The demon glanced with a brother leaping to his side and embraced his un-shapely leg. “Upstairs keeps knocki... ...nes trailing behind. “Here comes the heavy artillery!” Snakelex gleefully leapt to Karen’s side before glancing her over. The demon had read the wom...

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...t of departure if the star that generated it has been dead for billions of years? The second is when does a work of art’s voyage end? Does it e... ...remain imprisoned by it (e.g. Helen’s beauty, that causes an atrocious ten year war and innumerable deaths between the Achaeans and the Trojans; the ... ...nymph Calypso, whose beauty imprisons Ulysses on her island for seven long years; Penelope’s beauty which causes the death of her one hundred eight ... ...ing with his mother Clytemnestra. But Orestes cannot decide. About twenty years go by and finally Orestes leaves his place of exile to go and kill ... ...d his bones smashed, had blue-eyed Athena not whispered in his heart: and leaping he grabbed the rock with two hands, and he clung to it moaning, ... ...ay any of us can save ourselves from the kind of destructive behavior that leaps out of our unconscious when least we expect it, is to work constant... ...ay to get the hidden resources in human beings to jump to life and help us leap towards impossible and unknown goals. This is how hominids evolved... ...own goals. This is how hominids evolved into humans and this is how every leap forward in the evolutionary process has been achieved. 122 The... ...d his bones smashed, had blue-eyed Athena not whispered in his heart: and leaping he grabbed the rock with two hands, and he clung to it moaning, ...

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...—it became a diversified, multi- class society. The fourth stage signifies our yearning for learning, knowl- edge and wisdom. This expresses itself in... ...en from us; we cannot discover it by means of scien- tific research. In recent years, many scientists have become interested in various religions, ne... ...w perspective, a scientific worldview that Kabbalists discovered thousands of years ago. Our current desire to know all of reality shows that humani... ...e translated into several languages. Among his books are: Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics For NonScientists; The Yoga of Time Travel: How ... ...s- ciple and personal assistant to Rabbi Baruch Ashlag (1907-1991) for twelve years. During those years, Rav Laitman acquired The Sulam Method, teac... ...l, and on the Internet to tens of thousands of students worldwide. In recent years, Rav Laitman has become a frequent speaker at scientific confere... ...ogress or regress beyond the present state. People who can perform such “time leaps” are called “proph- ets.” They do not envision or imagine the fut...

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...e it there and bank our propulsion hopes on Bussard and others. An eight-year manned mission is planned to place a spacebuoy ¼-way to Alpha Centauri... ...e fastest the rocket can go, as measured in the fixed frame, is one light year per year. / The limiting velocity of material objects is the speed of ... ... Megalopolis at the hub of Galactic civilization had arrived at Earth 100 years ago to clandestinely and deliberately disuade Humanity from attempti... ...peed of light to be an electromagnetic property of space; (2) the light year is only a measure of distance And under the kinematical perspective v... ...mi: Edward, what do you think? How probable is it that within the next ten years we shall have clear evidence of a material object moving faster than... ...f of a physical barrier would mean bowing to the Venerable Force; quite a leap especially in view of the observer dependency of the contraction. J...

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...tchingly intimate in the illusion, the photographs in the magazine and the yearning engendered by them, like sex itself, were as pungent to his senses... ...g neurons once again became a cluster of pensive rumination. Had all these years of being a celebrated artist of dejected Patpong whores gone to his h... ...brated container of lust, and having to justify his infidelities all these years in the name of art, decided that she might as well utilize the natura... ... whose fetid brothers had called "Porn," --those brothers who in his early years had often made him terrified to move by swinging, striking, and bran... ...houghts were sullied in desperation. Ruminating, he thought about how each year for his birthday she had fixed her American born, but not raised, ange... ...Kimberly's possessiveness and that in her post partum depression she would leap off of her apartment balcony at Assumption University? Like every affa... ... Then he told himself that Kimberly's post-partum depression and her swift leap into the elements had not been his fault (fault not having yet been of... ...etid pool on a sunken area of sidewalk, and then made a second and broader leap to drier pavement. Straws in small bags of coca cola that each had in ... ...ilt-ridden memory of a girlfriend suffering from postpartum depression who leaped from a balcony to elude him, that nightmare of a mutilated corpse al...

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... ($) = Indian Rupees (Rs.) 45 (As on September 30, 2010). Indian Financial Year: April-March. 9 Fixing Global Finance 1 The Unfolding of Global Finan... ... Researchers have found that serious financial crises occur every 20 to 25 years. Such crises are followed by significant output losses, massive job l... ...ould not meet their increased mortgage payments and defaulted. Until a few years ago, the financial industry’s difficulties stemming from such default... ...09 with additional write-downs of $1.5 trillion expected over the next few years. Out of total $2.8 trillion write-downs, European banks are likely to... ... adversely world trade, which witnessed the largest decline in the past 80 years. The International Monetary Fund has reported that world trade contra... ...nomic activity. In the US, for instance, the financial sector has grown by leaps and bounds in the last three decades. As illustrated by Simon Johnson...

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...ad noticed him looking at them questioningly. He had seen a sad and innocent yearning in Yang Lin as if, after a long search, that creature had found ... ...as so beautiful. The way was straight, south and barren and made him almost yearn for the tortuous roads that appeared near Umsong to be rid of scene... ...sister's body in the park but obviously not thoroughly in the ravine. In one year they had only searched that park once and in the meantime her body h... ...e was plenty of indication that she had been pregnant with his child. Twenty years ago Sang Huin (Shawn then) had swung a golf club into her eye and t... ...weat, and then gently cradled the cat to her face. The cat scratched her and leaped away to where it once again hid itself behind the books. Gabriele'... ...ch the early morning sunrise over the bayou. Chapter Eleven Jiffypop popcorn leaping over the heat of the stove's burner, the expanding of the aluminu... ...e. "Yes, I did what you told me to do, Gabriele. I had a salad." Her voice leapt like a spark of electricity on a coil. "I followed your directions... ...ree limbs like a thick massive spider web and she saw that the fire that was leaping and the smoke that was hovering was her own life. She told herse... ...rom one branch to another although other experts say that it was a running, leaping, terrestrial animal which gradually increased the length of its l...

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...t it passed without any feeling except one of disillusion. For quite a few years I continued attending church each Sunday, still hoping to fill the hu... ...into the world around me, I had rather similar experiences. And many, many years later, on one occasion a dream left me with a -lasting afterglow of t... ...in organized religion, though I stayed with the Quakers for about eighteen years. Eventually I found myself teaching at the University of Melbourne in... ...o earlier, but knowing no Sanskrit and thus unable to hear his voice as it leapt from the page, I could feel him as only a rather distant cousin, comp... ...he analytical institute which Jung had established in Zürich for the multi-year training leading to a diploma in psychoanalysis. About this time I sev... ...Socrates had been in a de facto son and father relationship for many, many years. He seems to have wanted to keep his personal relationship with Socra... ... Jesus, that can speak to thy condition,” and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy. Then the Lord did let me see why there was none upon the eart... ...t they curve toward the ground and sometimes tumble me off onto the grass, leaping from the top of the steep sand bank with my three companions from n...

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...e from the theoretical and practical work I have been doing for the last ten years. None of that work has been done alone. As a result, the list of pe... ...nks for standing up for free public access to knowledge for over two hundred years. Librarians are my heroes. They should be yours, too. Some of the w... ... between Property Rights, the Public Domain, and the Commons.” 2 For several years now I have been a columnist for the Financial Times’s “New Economy ... ...copyright over the words you are now read- ing will not expire until seventy years after my death; the men die young in my family, but still you will ... ...ily, but still you will allow me to hope that this might put it close to the year 2100. Congress periodically considers legislative proposals that wou... ...ht undergraduates from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia— cheering and leaping onto MIT’s Kresge Auditorium stage in green team T-shirts— won th... ...arkable. How can this be? The West story shows us three ways in which we can leap too quickly from the abstract claim that some information goods are ...

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...-of-a-bitch.” ***** “Hai,” Laura Kate said, and smiled at Lucinda’s five-year-old blue eyes shine from inside the Little Ninja helmet. ... ...le Ninja helmet. “Now can I do a flash kick, Aunt Laura Kate?” My turn,” seven-year-old Claudia piped up, tightening the soft obi around her kei... ...eg back, pausing, she front-kicked hard, the motion propelling her into an airborne leap off her left leg. She twisted and landed ninety degrees to ... ...aid he hoped she’d come back to him and live at Sand Hill someday. After all these years, he still hoped? He said, “I hate to tell you this.”... ...evening just before dark. The crazy fool finally did what he’s been threatening for years.” Gerrie Ferris 8 “Did he say anything before he sta... ...knew what the hell it was. Suddenly the gun barrel disappeared and I sprung up and leaped for the front door. I just got out when the gun went off... ... A cell phone played a ditty in another part of the house and Hannah’s long legs leaped from the sofa. “’Scuse. I must answer.” She skipped fr... ...ib roast surrounded by new potatoes and carrot souffle. Brewster poured the Frog’s Leap Cabernet Sauvignon. As with the whites, Brewster he had a s... ...ween the man Hannah recently took up with and what’s happened, but I can’t make the leap until I know who he is. Hannah’s on the verge of telling me...

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...Web. This was not the first time Steve Jobs had launched a revolution. Thirty years earlier, at the First West Coast Computer Faire in nearly the same ... ... the First West Coast Computer Faire in nearly the same spot, the twenty-one-year-old Jobs, wearing his first suit, ex- hibited the Apple II personal c... ...bt, for a significant number of us, Jobs was exactly right. For in the thirty years between the first flashing cursor on the Apple II and the gorgeous ic... ...cal ingredient. The Internet was able to develop quietly and organically for years before it became widely known, re- 7 maining outside the notice of... ...one another’s communications, even though it was eminently possible, and for years there were no spam and no viruses. By observing at which point thes... ... was to build functioning net- works. But the network managed an astonishing leap as it continued to work when expanded into the general populace, one... ...mature technologies, perhaps generativity is not as important: the remaining leaps, such as that which allows transistors to be placed closer and clos... ..., 1 J. T.  H T. L. 37 (2002); Richard S. Whitt, A Hori- zontal Leap Forward: Formulating a New Public Policy Framework Based on the Netw...

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...proach to absolute zero and an infinitsimal surpassing of this value by a leap, therefore, without cancelling motion, but working out a change of th... ...of the oscillations phase should be the direct result of the infinitesimal leap beyond absolute zero ant it is certain that this supposes an enormous... .... To support this hypothesis, one can also invoke the period of around 40 years when the Jews wandered through the desert, that can be accounted for... ...rial proof related to extraterrestrial beings. Kept ″secret″ for about 10 years by the NASA, those photographs were analyzed by the astrophysicist R... ...al world that has reached a deadlock and has been trying for thousands of years to solve its problems with the needed help of the terrestrial world,... ...stray in the attempt to solve the crisis that has lasted several thousand years. By studying the multitude of paradoxical phenomena, one can realize... ...arth). The way of action of the extraterrestrial Being during the last 50 years and especially the ″autopsy″ of the above mentioned bodies found at ...