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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

...ON, D.C. The studios of WNN (Worldwide News Network) were as hectic as usual. Producers, assistant producers, directors, assistant direc... ...eing the head producer of ‘The Stone Nightly News’ was her entrée into an elite circle of Producers. “Johnson,” she yelled, “where’s the damn telepro... ...ber while waiting for a bus in Jerusalem. He had set himself apart from the rest of the television journalist, not just because of his imposing pr... ... the question. “I assume you’ve seen or heard about Jamieson Stone’s suicide on worldwide television.” “I’ve seen a dozen replays. The networks have... ...ant you allay Mrs. Stone’s mind that her husband committed suicide just as we all saw on television.” Brand’s eyes steeled and glared at Kensey. “... ...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...

...ional intrigue with a high-level murder case, The Mystery of Jamieson Stone will leave you on the edge of your seat. When the world’s most famous television news anchor, Jamieson Stone, apparently commits suicide on live international television, Stone’s widow hires detective Michael Brand to find the truth. The detective discovers that Stone was murdered, but the reas...

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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 ... ... 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... ...Philadelphia Experiment") a defrosted Rip Van Winkle exclaims upon seeing Reagan on television (40 years after his forced hibernation started): "I k... ...ps shouting: "Be careful, I am spontaneous". The Director and fat-cat capitalistic producers want him to be spontaneous, they want him to make deci... ... a long time. Greedy, thoughtless money machines in the form of billionaire tycoon-producers exploit Truman's life shamelessly and remorselessly in... ...t display of human vices possible. The Director indulges in his control-mania. The producers indulge in their monetary obsession. The viewers (on b... ...stance? We don‟t travel to our bank – we use online banking. We remote control our televisions, power stations, cranes, and numerous other machines... ...st radio signals have traversed no more than 130 light years omnidirectionally. Out television emissions are even closer to home. What other source ...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

..., Register of Copyrights); see also Letter from Larry Urbanski, Chairman, American Film Heritage Association, to Senator Strom Thurmond Opposing S. 5... ...lowing groups and organizations: • book publishers (e.g., Association of American Publishers); • authors (e.g., The Authors Guild, Science Fiction... ...liance, Library of Congress, University of Michigan Libraries, Society of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Televisi... ...iety of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Television Archive); • museums (e.g., The J. Paul Getty Trust, The Metropo... ...s (e.g., American Federation of Musicians (“AFM”), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ...Trust); • recording artists and musicians (e.g., American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ...limitations or exceptions with regard to the protection of performers and producers or phonograms as they provide for … in connection with the prote...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

..., Register of Copyrights); see also Letter from Larry Urbanski, Chairman, American Film Heritage Association, to Senator Strom Thurmond Opposing S. 5... ...lowing groups and organizations: • book publishers (e.g., Association of American Publishers); • authors (e.g., The Authors Guild, Science Fiction... ...liance, Library of Congress, University of Michigan Libraries, Society of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Televisi... ...iety of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Television Archive); • museums (e.g., The J. Paul Getty Trust, The Metropo... ...s (e.g., American Federation of Musicians (“AFM”), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ...Trust); • recording artists and musicians (e.g., American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ...limitations or exceptions with regard to the protection of performers and producers or phonograms as they provide for … in connection with the prote...

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Man with No Name

By: Wally Amos

...olate Chip Cookie Company changed my life-and it also changed the face of American business. I opened the first gourmet chocolate chip cookie store ... ... to partake of because Friday was also the day "the eagle flew"-the black American colloquialism for payday. And when Ruby got to work frying up fis... ... cards, and occasionally pick up my date in a limousine. I took ladies to television shows or night­ clubs, and often took them backstage to meet the... ...e who ate them. I also used my cookies as a calling card in meetings with producers and Hollywood executives. My chocolate chip treats were a sure w... ...with Hollywood I also used my cookies as a calling card in meetings with producers and Hollywood executives. My chocolate chip treats were a sure w... ...ed shirt and Panama hat now reside in the Smith­ sonian National Museum of American History in the Business Americana Collection. That hat and shirt,... ...d, and then the next three or four songs sound like the last one. On~e a television show becomes a hit, three or four clones appear with­ in a seaso... ... in my immediate area, but the chaos in other places was devastating. The television station now had more im­ mediate items to broadcast than me shav...

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The Power in You

By: Wally Amos

... had the pleasure and benefit of Buckminster Fuller's genius by taping my television show, The Wally Amos Happiness Show, in that same dome. Fuller... ... THE POWER IN YOU 120 there were twenty, three million native,bom, adult Americans who could neither read nor write. These millions were called "fu... ... your mind. For instance, when I was a personal manager I wanted to alert producers, directors and casting agents to a client appearing on a TV sho... ...g my first years in business.) The Gerbers also were the first baby food producers to advertise on TV. There's an old axiom: "Find a need and fill ... ...e happiness is never attainable. I once heard a talkshow host on national television com, ment to millions of people that he couldn't believe someo... ...ore Show from time to time. Whenever I went to a filming of the show, the producers would make sure I sat directly beneath one of the mikes that hu... ...dia's independence. It was faith that helped Martin Luther King, Jr. open American so' ciety to people of all races, creed, and color. It was faith...

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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... ...ltant position with a firm you formerly oversaw or regulated, your own talk show on television, a cushy job in the administration? The truth is tha... ...ident Vladimir Putin warned on Tuesday, in an interview he granted to TF1, a French television channel, that unilateral American-British military ac... ... typical daily occurrence, bucking a global trend, Matsushita intends to expand its television factory in Plzen. Its investment of $8 million will e... ...rough spastic reforms only to submerge once more in backwardness and venality. Oil-producers attempted some structural economic adjustments in the ...

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Modelling of Rationality...and Beyond the Physics

By: Gh. C. Dinulescu

...(F) [ 3 + sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) [ 3 + sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) [ 3 + American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPIN... ...THE PHYSICS American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ... ...wwwlib.umi.com/bod/search/basic (Books on Demand) Copyright 2002 by American Research Press Rehoboth, Box 141 NM 87322, USA E-mail: M_L_Pere... ...persensitive subconscious. (During a scientific broadcast of the Romanian television, a doctor whose credibility is indisputable and easy to verify,... .... (In connection with the hypothesis of actual existence of the angels, a television documentary relates a story on an American locality whose stree... ... the above mentioned accident, nobody was ever struck by the train. The producers of the documentary made a video record of a simulated incident, a... ... to remain anonymous. (If on November the 30 th 1999, when I recorded a television broadcast, I had known that the program of the Mars Orbiter Am...

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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... ...rograms in the USA than in India. We have to be human, not merely robotic producers of wealth. We have to ask ‗why‘ as they have done in America. Me... ... better karma usually takes a back seat to getting a better car. Having a television and a flushable toilet is enough Nirvana for most people. Salva... ...s and in-laws a strong say in how many children a couple should have. Our television programming continually shows the joys and advantages of the on... ...ied couple brag about if they do not yet have the pride of ownership of a television. Let‘s face it, you can get your esteem from owning an idiot bo...

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Surviving the Economic Crisis : Current and Future Trends

By: Mark W. Medley

...ged with these improvements. Poverty means in many Countries you only own one Television, rent a house, and have a low income job. In 1929, this wou... ...were manual, and semi-skilled jobs, the jobs two generations of Europeans and Americans have shunned. President Obamas New Deal, is big Government,... ...eem demeaning, because they go against the conventional belief system of the American dream. These changes mean we own less, recycle more, travel mo... ...ack locally. To do this, these industries have to be protected, because no American or European Industry can compete in price, or quality with th... ... their possessions longer, and eventually fridges, washing machines, cars and Televisions do break down. Other workshops that could appear are... ...er food. Economically speaking the resurgence of home farming could affect producers of food, that traditionally supplied more wealthier househol...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...or make fondue? The European Union often pays a half billion euros to wine producers during poor growing years which seems to be about every other y... ...w the cost of production. Obviously this means unfair competition for poor producers. So the taxpayers may get back part of their taxes in cheaper st... ...or strawberries. 9 ―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because... ...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... ...ulfed your "huddled masses" while you taxed your workers to pay for the non-producers. Kino has blended the ethical concerns and the industriousness... ...nd other drug education programs in the first year of school. We also have television ads against smoking and we do not allow actors to smoke on scre... ...pros and cons, register their preferences on a phone line connected to the television. They don‘t just vote ‗yes‘ or ‗no‘, they can submit new idea... ...e who must waste their hours playing poker or video games or glued to their televisions. It isn‘t that we don‘t understand that there are times for t...

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

By: Matti Sarmela

...es and they are like summer cottages, holiday homes of the rich. We have a television set and the young people watch it, but I don't care to watch. So... ...do you like most? watch it. I stopped watching TV many years ago. I think television is a good thing. You can see the news from our home country and ... ...s a good thing to buy and you have something to boast about when you own a television. I think that TV programmes are mostly good. It's our human natu... ...ame artisans and business people, e.g. acting as middlemen between village producers and the markets. As if surreptitiously, the Chinese were the firs... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ... 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...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

... $99 Timex/Sinclair Z-1000 or a $199 Texas Instruments TI-99/4A could use a television set as a display, and a standard audio cassette recorder to st... ... 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... ...to a limited range of applications. For example, TiV o is greatly leveraging—television viewers describe its impact on their lives as rev- olutionary—... ... taxes, regulations associated with its adoption or use, and the secrecy its producers adopt to maintain scarcity or control. Measured by accessibilit... ...al redistri- bution of power and money from the twentieth-century industrial producers of in- formation, culture, and communications—like Hollywood, t... ...ted variations in performance have long been smoothed out in refrigerators, televisions, mobile phones, and automobiles. As for PCs, telling users th... ...pelled to do so. Consider EchoStar’s los- ing verdict in Marshall, Texas. If producers can alter their products long after the products have been boug... ...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...

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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... ...irect your intellectual efforts in other directions—like into video games, television, or murder mystery books. Why learn the multiplication tables o... ...s. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teach violenc... ...s. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teach violence... ...tentials. The less intellectually endowed soon left school and became the producers of wealth—the farmers and artisans necessary for the economy of ... ...onsumers. And with free trade, the consumers are kings. If the countries‘ producers can‘t meet or beat the low wage foreign workers, they will have ... ...ent benefits? Should the employers or employees pay for these? Should the producers of the waste pay for waste management? Should homeowners pay for ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...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... ...re economic pain than pleasure. To combat this, some legislators proposed television dramas showing the joys of parenting. Clearly they wanted to us... ...pe and violence in the society.” —“When you are trying to fill 200 television channels with 24/7 programs, open several new films a week, and... ...r people will watch anything and making money is the concern of the video producers, you get what the laws will allow, not what is good for society.... ...a more peaceful society in the meantime. “We wonder why your film producers insist on producing violent films when the research indicates th... ...eaceful and productive society possible. “It is strange that some television executives say that their programming doesn‟t change behavior, ... ...e answers. Borrow more money to give everyone a tax break. Talk to the oil producers about producing more oil and selling it for less. That‟s a great...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...ing 33 Advocacy 33 Fundraising 33 Nonmarketing Exchanges 34 SUMMARY 35 3 IDEA PRODUCERS 36 THE EMERGING CONCEPT SECTOR 36 Government, a Specia... ...to The New State of the Economy (Allvine and Tarpley 1977), Philip Kotler wrote: Americans will have to pay more attention to resource conservation... ...lives. (p. xiii) In the book the authors succinctly speak of reformulation of the American Dream such that our society will have “to expect less in... ...intended to be fruitful and multiply ("Save the Whales" 1979): The materialistic American dream, while dominant, is not universal. Young adults sh... ...profit inspired, they have a place in cell (7). When adoption becomes widespread, producers of fashion apparel quickly capitalize on the populariza... ... so on. A transaction takes place, for example, when a person decides to watch a television program; he is exchanging his time for entertainment. ... ...s as applied to ideas are taken up in the next part of this book. 36 3 IDEA PRODUCERS THE EMERGING CONCEPT SECTOR This chapter explores a s... ...tamate in baby food, fatty hot dogs, unclean fish, tractors, medical X-rays, color television radiation and many Federal agencies. Another change a... ...tion. Bagozzi (1975) points out that "an exchange can occur between a person and a television program.” The "person gives his attention, support, p...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

... is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that the American Bishops were trying to rewrite Church Doctrine again.” Ignor... ...edo momentarily, but then he quickly reminded himself that this was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish... ...Not only because he had been newly appointed, but primarily because he was an American Cardinal, and the mood in the Vatican was to return the Papac... ...x waved off the rest of the reporters clamoring to get their face on national television. "You'll have many more opportunities for your questions i... ...orldwide, black-market network. The Asians and the Colombian Cartels are both producers as well as distributors. But, for their businesses to flouris... ...atment. This is a national emergency. Drugs are being portrayed in movies and television as recreational, a way to have a good time and forget their... ...weet scent of cognac from a snifter. The only light in the room came from the television, which was on the BBC channel. The words, 'A Live Report' f...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...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... ...IMF with its austerity measures is universally unpopular. Employers and employees, producers and consumers - these are all instances of the Princip... ...h an independent copy of a book of instructions). The receiver can be passive (as television is). In such a case we will not be justified in sayin... ...n vitro fertilization to space travel. Every technology can be potentially abused. Television can be either a wonderful educational tool - or an a... ...man species be any different? Effects on Society Cloning - like the Internet, the television, the car, electricity, the telegraph, and the wheel b... ... deflationary effect by reducing the general price level. It pits consumers against producers, producers against other producers (in the battle to w... ...at the firm level and, as a result, throughout the national economy. More simply: producers do not waste resources (capital), consumers and busine...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...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... ...IMF with its austerity measures is universally unpopular. Employers and employees, producers and consumers - these are all instances of the Princip... ...h an independent copy of a book of instructions). The receiver can be passive (as television is). In such a case we will not be justified in sayin... ...n vitro fertilization to space travel. Every technology can be potentially abused. Television can be either a wonderful educational tool - or an a... ...man species be any different? Effects on Society Cloning - like the Internet, the television, the car, electricity, the telegraph, and the wheel b... ... deflationary effect by reducing the general price level. It pits consumers against producers, producers against other producers (in the battle to w... ...at the firm level and, as a result, throughout the national economy. More simply: producers do not waste resources (capital), consumers and busine...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...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)... ... did, the excess demand for products would be effectively communicated to producers. The worker must have cash in order to exercise effective demand... ...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... ...ary effect by reducing the general price level. It pits consumers against producers, producers against other producers (in the battle to win the hea... ...irm level and, as a result, throughout the national economy. More simply: producers do not waste resources (capital), consumers and businesses pay l... ...riodicals, and in the economic programs on various channels of Macedonian Television. Chief Lecturer in Macedonia in courses organized by the Agency...

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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... ... 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... ...y commercial software can still be downloaded for free. In many countries television viewers still pay for television broadcasts - but in the USA an... ... but in the USA and many other countries in the West, the basic package of television channels comes free of charge. As users / consumers form a ha... ...egins to carry a price tag. This is what happened with the advent of cable television : contents are sold for subscription or per usage (Pay Per View... ... What does PG intend to do about the legislative asymmetry between content producers and creators - and content consumers? Lobby Congress? Testify? P... ...ly available, from anyone at any price. The only benefit accrues to media producers, who restrict the quantity of available prior materials so that ... ... outcome of disrespect towards content intermediaries such as publishers, producers, and retail outlets. I don't know for sure because there is no r...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...ll Street Journal has recently published an elegiac list: "Twenty years ago, cable television was dominated by a patchwork of thousands of tiny, fa... ...uitively, that cartels are more likely to form in industries and sectors with many producers. The more concentrated the industry - i.e., the more o... ...d sell them as inputs to other firms. Thus, many firms are concomitantly consumers, producers, and suppliers. In a paper published last year and tit... ...mes deter competition and new entrants. A multiplicity of vendors, retail outlets, producers, or suppliers does not always foster competition. And ... ...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... ...tes or stands for. Actors are often mistaken for their roles, wars are fought on television, fictitious TV celebrities become real. That which ha... ...ted and disseminated virtually cost-free to the next consumer through the Internet, television, radio, and on magnetic media. MIT has recently place...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...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... ...heir children at day-care centers, after-school programs, comes home to watch television, and calls itself a family. Now the culture of ‘day care’ h... ...slaved people on Earth. Enslaved by ease and wealth and corruption. Every television commercial, every cultural dance, every cultural song, every... ...ant as the smog produced from our cars, or the constant bombardment of radio, television, and other frequencies that fill the air. Any knowledge a ... ...ll be dumped squarely back into the laps of the assholes who created it. Then producers and consumers will be forced to become more responsible. Th... ...ber Baron underdog, or any underdog. Then Hoover blackmailed three Hollywood producers to make movies glorifying the government scum that shot down... ... productivity supplanting human concerns has become the ethical norm for both producers and consumers. Only when public awareness is raised eno...

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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... ... if the market likes it, you will be rewarded. (At the very least, the giant producers of culture will be able to assemble vast teams of animators and... ...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... ...ness plans relied upon showing movies in theaters and then licensing them to television stations. VCRs and Betamaxes fit nowhere in this plan; they wer... ...nt that it was a “fair use” under U.S. copyright law for consumers to record television programs for time-shifting purposes. Since fair The Internet T... ...s clearly disapproving, others would point out that book- stores, movies and television channels are filled with material on how to commit mur der...an... ...dividual members. What’s true for the users of networks is doubly so for the producers of the goods that create them. From the perspective of a produc...

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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

..., Register of Copyrights); see also Letter from Larry Urbanski, Chairman, American Film Heritage Association, to Senator Strom Thurmond Opposing S. 5... ...lowing groups and organizations: • book publishers (e.g., Association of American Publishers); • authors (e.g., The Authors Guild, Science Fiction... ...liance, Library of Congress, University of Michigan Libraries, Society of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Televisi... ...iety of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Television Archive); • museums (e.g., The J. Paul Getty Trust, The Metropo... ...s (e.g., American Federation of Musicians (“AFM”), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ...Trust); • recording artists and musicians (e.g., American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ...limitations or exceptions with regard to the protection of performers and producers or phonograms as they provide for … in connection with the prote...

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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... ...c relations. You're still using that one site you restored in everyone of your television commercials running on those Sunday morning news shows, a... ...sed. Cathy Knowles had been bouncing around from newspapers, to radio, and now television where she held the spot as special events reporter. She w... ... come." "He called you personally?" Edwards asked. "I'm here. I'm not watching television," Brent replied. "I was told by head of News, be here or ... ...ectly suited for Nicky's. It was a place for celebri­ ties, actors and Hollywood producers, deal makers, and men on the hunt for young, nubile would-...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...urs fail - in knowing when to let go. Return The Myth of the Earnings Yield In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists us... ...all but impossible. There is no telling what were the contributions of drug barons, American off-shore corporations, or European and Japanese tax-ev... ...ten end up fostering a bubble. South Korean chaebols, Japanese keiretsu, as well as American conglomerates frequently used these cheap funds to prop... ...IMF with its austerity measures is universally unpopular. Employers and employees, producers and consumers - these are all instances of the Princip... ... other periodicals, and in the economic programs on various channels of Macedonian Television. Chief Lecturer in courses in Macedonia organised by ...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...lecommunications: limited telephone, telegraph, and radiobroadcast services; television introduced in 1980; 31,200 telephones (0.2 per 100 popl.); 5 A... ...ces Member of: FAO, G-77, GATT, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, IDA, IDE Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTER... ... Europe, DAC, ECE, EFTA, EMA, ESRO (ob- server), FAO, GATT, IAEA, IDE Inter- American Development Bank, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, In... ...ICOM, CDB, Common- wealth, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), IBRD, ICAO, IDE Inter-American De- velopment Bank, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTERPOL, ITU, NAM, OAS, PAHO... ...n of Journalists, International Medical Association, International Radio and Television Organization Economy GNP: $57.8 billion, $6,460 per capita; re... ...million, imports $589 million (1984) Major industries: among world's largest producers of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery, ships, vehi... ...nting iron and steel industry, Centrale Paysanne repre- senting agricultural producers; Christian and Socialist labor unions; Federation of Industrial... ...y by microwave relay; international service good; good coverage by radio and television broadcasts; 849,129 telephones nationwide in 1984 (5.3 per 100...

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Bozo and the Storyteller

By: Matt Jones

...f the major newspapers in the land, and his story had touched the nation. Television celebrities and politicians had arrived to help publicise the s... ...errogation quickly showed them to be imposters. They just wanted to be on television: for, odly enough, Theo had become a minor celebrity. Letters a... ...yes met those of the other children sitting up in bed reading or watching television. Some of them looked away nervously but others tried a nervous ... ...emen, this is your captain speaking once more. We have a request from the American authorities for Mr Amir and Prakash Vishal to come to the front o... ...ou backstage.’ Bun- sen turned his hateful smirk on Theo. ‘That was the TV producers. We’re appearing in a televised show tonight at Carnegie Hall so... ... been recovered in New York, the showcase for Freedom, De- mocracy and the American Way. He hoped that voters would remember that when it came to his...

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