...n humans and sentient Machines, or humans killing each other on a massive global scale because they cannot risk change, because they cannot change t... ...r humans killing each other on a massive global scale because they cannot risk change, because they cannot change the mindset of blindness, hate, an... ...ple can discover this for themselves. Like what Morpheus did... only on a global scale, and with their eyes open. Not just "follow the white rabbit";... ...were locked to them, what did they have left? Nothing. Oblivion. And on a global scale, it's the locking of these doors - the ignorance of the power... ...em. I won't force them. But what they don't see, maybe, is that even if a catastrophic system failure might not wipe out their "personal" machines -...

..., that can give rise to disasters is increasing. The view is understandable, both population and their built environment are increasing so more is at risk and this trend of increased risk will continue while populations continue to rise. As the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) enumerates this: ‘Natural disasters are becoming more costly: in constant dollar...

...out 1 Chapter 1 - Key Concepts 7 Disaster Risk Reduction 7 Risk 10 Fast and Slow Onset Disasters 11 Resilience ...

...hy should I believe that disease is caused by germs and not by the devil? Global warming is an alarmist misreading of a natural blip in the history ... ...e W. Bush, as an evangelical Christian, didn‘t believe in evolution or in global warming? Was it a lack of intelligence, a lack of knowledge, or jus... ... unbelievable—but do comets that crash into planets show such order? Does global warming show an intelligent design that allows man-made pollutants t... ...articularly for the needs of illness and old age, then they added care for catastrophic accidents then they added unemployment compensation. In Brita... ...thy way, or through indulging in sex practices that he knew were extremely risky? What if it was picked up innocently from an infected mate or an inf... ... to accept beliefs with a higher probability than what we had believed, we risk being called heretics. And only the brave can accept the social disap... ...ion in the capitol city of 275 Lome. AIDS orphans are particularly at risk for such abuse and trafficking because there is no one to take care o...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 202...

...arnings Yield VI. Technical vs. Fundamental Analysis of Stocks VII. Volatility and Risk VIII. The Bursting Asset Bubbles IX. The Future of the SEC... ...stributions to Partners and Shareholders XX. Moral Hazard and the Survival Value of Risk XXI. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XXII. Trading in Sovere... ...these three cash streams translates into what we call "volatility" and reflects the risks inherent in the security itself (the firm's idiosyncratic ... ...no, Michael S. McCorry, and Peter L. Swan of the University of Sydney and Barclays Global Investors, investigated "the market reaction to short sal... ...the most profit on it. And every seller finds a buyer and vice versa. The current global crisis is not only about the failure of a few investment ... ...iew Also published by United Press International (UPI) The recent implosion of the global equity markets - from Hong Kong to New York - engendered ... ...summer: "While bubbles that burst are scarcely benign, the consequences need not be catastrophic for the economy ... (The Depression was brought on ... ...sm and bottom line mentality rule. The outcomes of a crisis of trust are, usually, catastrophic: Economic activity is much reduced, human capital i...

...lation VI. The Benefits of Oligopolies VII. Moral Hazard and the Survival Value of Risk VIII. The Business of Risk IX. Global Differential Prici... ... VII. Moral Hazard and the Survival Value of Risk VIII. The Business of Risk IX. Global Differential Pricing X. The Disruptive Engine - Innovati... ...nd Power XXII. Market Impeders and Market Inefficiencies XXIII. Financial Crises, Global Capital Flows and the International Financial Architectu... ...s". This is a problem because many current investments, such as the fight against global warming, are likely to yield results only decades hence. ... ...ll do it for us, mercilessly. Return The Roller Coaster Market On Volatility and Risk By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also published by United Press Intern... ...ited Press International (UPI) Volatility is considered the most accurate measure of risk and, by extension, of return, its flip side. The higher the... ...ssue involves "risk smoothing". Risks, by nature, are "punctuated" - stochastic and catastrophic. Finite insurance involves long term, fixed premium... ...sm and bottom line mentality rule. The outcomes of a crisis of trust are, usually, catastrophic: Economic activity is much reduced, human capital i... ...account for the measurement and the resulting collapse. Perhaps a "boundary" or a "catastrophic" automaton will do the trick. The view that the q...

...en developed by F. Smarandache to unify all these existing theories in a common global framework. This paper is focused on the development of a new th... ...ame frame of discernment and and their correspond ing bpa masses. The combined global belief function Bel Bel Bel is obtained from the combination ... ...l 2 (.) associated with information granules m 1 (.) and m 2 (.). The combined global belief function Bel(.) =Bel 1 (.) ⊕ Bel 2 (.) is obtained thro... ...he common sense actually. Then, no therapy for brain tumor (like heavy and ever risky brain surgical intervention) will be chosen in such case. This r... ...rosophic controllers, which would be of great use in financial engineering and risk optimizations and analyzing stock price behavior. Ref Ref Ref... ...ating and forecasting volatility and correlation: methods and applications, in risk management and financial derivatives: Aguide to mathematics (S.D... ...bsolute justice, so things will be just for the people with power... The less- catastrophic panorama (and most naive...) would be that the people in ... ... absolute justice, so things will be just for the people with power... The less-catastrophic panorama (and most naive...) would be that the people in ...

...e derived from the mother's behaviour. Getting willingly pregnant (or assuming the risk of getting pregnant by not using contraceptives reasonably)... ...e forms of proto-Communism). Primitivist and green anarchists reject technology, globalization, and capitalism as well as the state. Yet, globali... ...ization, deregulation, and self-regulation became faddish buzzwords and part of a global consensus propagated by both commercial banks and multila... ...alysis of future values of the relief-gratification versus repercussions (reward to risk) ratio – can be obtained only through cognitive tools. Ang... ...impairment of judgement (=impairment of the proper functioning of the mechanism of risk assessment) appears in both acute anger and in many persona... ...icians, diplomats, managers of higher education institutions, and senior bankers). Globally, Jews are severely under-represented or not- existent in... ...ven to be distributed among discrete values (called attractors). Functions behave "catastrophically" in that minute changes in the values of the pa... ...sm and bottom line mentality rule. The outcomes of a crisis of trust are, usually, catastrophic: Economic activity is much reduced, human capital i... ...account for the measurement and the resulting collapse. Perhaps a "boundary" or a "catastrophic" automaton will do the trick. The view that the qu...

...e derived from the mother's behaviour. Getting willingly pregnant (or assuming the risk of getting pregnant by not using contraceptives reasonably)... ...e forms of proto-Communism). Primitivist and green anarchists reject technology, globalization, and capitalism as well as the state. Yet, globali... ...ization, deregulation, and self-regulation became faddish buzzwords and part of a global consensus propagated by both commercial banks and multila... ...alysis of future values of the relief-gratification versus repercussions (reward to risk) ratio – can be obtained only through cognitive tools. Ang... ...impairment of judgement (=impairment of the proper functioning of the mechanism of risk assessment) appears in both acute anger and in many persona... ...icians, diplomats, managers of higher education institutions, and senior bankers). Globally, Jews are severely under-represented or not- existent in... ...ven to be distributed among discrete values (called attractors). Functions behave "catastrophically" in that minute changes in the values of the pa... ...sm and bottom line mentality rule. The outcomes of a crisis of trust are, usually, catastrophic: Economic activity is much reduced, human capital i... ...account for the measurement and the resulting collapse. Perhaps a "boundary" or a "catastrophic" automaton will do the trick. The view that the qu...

...he railways, the radio and the telephone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. Every medium of communications goes through the... ...this digital age, the custodians of published works are at the center of a global copyright controversy that casts them as villains simply for doing ... ...ry) and are still the main promoters of e-publishing. But now they are at risk of becoming piracy portals. Solutions are, appropriately, being bor... ...efined and enforced, commercial entrepreneurs would not have taken on the risks associated with publishing books, recording records, and preparing m... ... Hong Kong and in Bulgaria). But this defies logic : the market today is global, the costs of production are lower (with the exception of the music... ..."eyeballs". In the absence of such third party accreditation, the Internet risks both irrelevance and disrepute. Does Free Content - Sell? By: Sam... ...or the measurement and the resulting collapse. Perhaps a "boundary" or a "catastrophic" automaton will do the trick. The view that the quantum proc... ...t it apart from a classical TM: it will be a probabilistic automaton with catastrophic behaviour or very strong boundary conditions (akin, perhaps, ... ...on) – QTMs could deal with half-effective, semi-recursive, probabilistic, catastrophic and other methods of calculations (other types of functions). ...

... a Generative Net—153 8 Strategies for a Generative Future—175 9 Meeting the Risks of Generativity: Privacy 2.0—200 Conclusion—235 Acknowledgments—247... ...red, and how fast it carries data. 2 These are important questions, but they risk obscuring the reality that people’s experiences with the Internet ar... ...ernet’s tradeoff of more flexibility for less security worked: most imaginable risks failed to materialize—for example, people did not routinely spy on ... ...ing the equivalent of a visit to the mechanic’s shop. 10 Some might remember global retailer Radio Shack’s “75-in-1 Electronic Project Kit,” which was... ...w releases, but as FIDOnet au- thors wrestled with the consequences of their catastrophic success, it was clear that the proprietary services were bet... ...nlighting corporate engineers who commanded no vast resources to implement a global network. 29 The early Internet was implemented at university compu... ... were the only concrete steps taken to prevent another worm incident— even a catastrophically destructive one—one must understand just how deeply comp... ...’s uses range from providing turn-by-turn driving directions with the aid of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, to monitoring tire pressure, ...

... recognition / validity of the new movement could seem redundant. Assuming the risk to be accused of didacticism in conception and method, we think t... ...ature in order to be able to express his protest, is plausible; with inherent risks and adventures, the literary creation could be published (even c... ...e of Chomsky = AMERICAN Axiom of separation = DIVORCE Close set = PRISONERS Catastrophic point = ATOM BOMB” 11) etc. 18 The assertion of Ci... ...or a chronological criterion for analyzing the smarandachian creation is both risky and useless: older works have been republished many years after t... ...rovement at the formal level of some stanzas or entire “pieces”, because at a global research of the smarandachian work, it is observed that this as... ...eature of the modern literature and art. However, it is not available for the global level of his work- but we will come again to this aspect... Th...

... and as it solves more aporias of the classical philosophy, even with the risk of triggering other ones. In fact, a successful conceptual modeling i... ...nowledge on antimatter, as well as the lack of guarantee for avoiding any risk, make any experiment for artificial turning of matter into antimatter,... ...ment of turning matter into antimatter had occurred.) To avoid going into risky details regarding the properties of antimatter, we accept as suffici... ...almightiness, even the more so as it wasn′t accompanied by the supposedly catastrophic consequences. If the news is true, it is even more interestin... ...ght politics) but also the fetish of the futile intervention to reverse a catastrophic future. Critical notes of the reader: 13. On Ghosts A... ...nct ″worlds″ on the strip would lead ever since the beginning to the same catastrophic annihilation. By virtue of the principle of the perfectness o... ...voidance of the divine judgment, its causes shoudn′t be attributed to the global phenomenon of reincarnation; not all ghosts are aware of being capab... ...t it reveals its guilty premeditation of putting forward a falsely-sacred globalization. Once, this myth was called christianization through fire and...

...ife support systems; we must dedicate ourselves beyond our personal causes to a global concern. Project Survival has been founded to bring together ... ...been assured by the EPA that all releases have been well within national health risk standards." Annie Williams said. "I've got a friend at Hanford.... ...of the shafts. He scrambled furiously up the ladder with the other miners. The risk of more cave-ins could be imminent. The seasoned miners had tol... ...oung man like you to take charge ... to take initia­ tive, as they say, and then risk your life to save dying men from the pit of hell, not to mentio... ..."I've got doctors all over the country who will testify that we have a national catastrophic cri­ sis on our hands." Brent was moving close to his ow... ... is the only hope that this planet has. Our efforts," Hawk emphasized, "must be global, united, and unselfish. I ask you all to join with me in a co... ...lf. "Senator, what I am about to tell you is shocking, and the implications are catastrophic. We have solid evidence that the Hanford Nuclear storag... ...g radioactive poisons into the environment, and are, at this moment, creating a catastrophic disaster to the resi­ dents living near these nuclear st... ... was a strange game, it seemed to flourish in times of National disasters, and global wars. He thought of Bush's approval ratings after the Gulf Wa...

...ecosystem on Earth for mammals. Mammals in the African Veldt experience more catastrophic population reductions, faster, more often, than anywhere e... ...ark of all Ancient Gods? Exploding into rage and laying waste to the land by catastrophic acts of uncontrolled anger. Our ancestors feared volcanoe... ...althy or imbalanced environment just as much as to something that is sudden or catastrophic. What is invisible; is the level of that trauma. Since... ...relative sparseness of food that existed during the last Ice Age, introduce a global warming, and the creation of new wetlands. Give them a situatio... ...f by trying to match the United States in its atomic nuclear capabilities for global destruction, it would not have destroyed itself. Furthermore… i... ...he human race into a frenzied attempt to slice up the entire planet like some global pie. In modern times: what has been the human cost in suffering... ... banks, and other financial institutions… simply because they consider it too risky and dangerous to let them fail. All in the holy name-cause of st... ...nt to steal. Then, only the truly poor and desperate would steal. Then, the risk of being caught would outweigh any possible advantage: even if the... ...ible adult parents, and adults, and corporations in consumer society: to ever risk being exposed to the threat of prison for being irresponsible for ...

...their environment. It was Bergson who posed the question: why did nature prefer the risk of unstable complexity over predictable and reliable and du... .... As every environmental scientist can attest, the thriving of some species puts at risk the existence of whole habitats and ecological niches and l... ...ven to be distributed among discrete values (called attractors). Functions behave "catastrophically" in that minute changes in the values of the pa... ...theorems, about the "measurement" of anything else, then you commit redundancy and risk inconsistency." J. S. Bell, Speakable and Unspeakable in ... ...account for the measurement and the resulting collapse. Perhaps a "boundary" or a "catastrophic" automaton will do the trick. The view that the qua... ...e will set it apart from a classical TM: it will be a probabilistic automaton with catastrophic behaviour or very strong boundary conditions (akin,... ...ess Correspondent for United Press International (UPI). 2007 - Associate Editor, Global Politician Founding Analyst, The Analyst Network Contrib... ...resence", United Press International (UPI), InternetContent, eBookWeb, PopMatters, Global Politician, The Analyst Network, Conservative Voice, The ...

...hilosophical norm on it? Wittgenstein's logical structure of language risks to get out of the main picture when passing from a language L 1 to ... ...ed to infinitdisciplinarity (or total-disciplinarity), in order to form a global discipline - emerged from every single discipline in order to form ... ...rmation is just the tension between contraries. It resorts to a kind of a catastrophic law, a fight (polemos) (Radu Enescu, <Eminescu, the Chimerica... ...ogramming with intuitionistic fuzzy objective, International Colloquy the Risk in Contemporary Economy, Galati, Romania, Nov. 10-11, 1995, 29-30. 13...

...Our campaign platform will be a single issue: End the illegal drug-trade on a global scale. Running for the Presidency will give me the perfect forum... ...tain he's all right. Letting an attempted suicide patient out early is always risky business. I'm sure you understand, Senator." "Right, Doctor. I'... ...able, and Antonio added to himself, evil business. The repercussions would be catastrophic. Why had the Pope decided to take on such a mission? He re... ...hing to lose; he will get his message out to the world. I, on the other hand, risk my entire reputation. In politics that’s tantamount to suicide. I ... ...ssed him on the cheek. "Is this something you have to do, and is it worth the risk, especially to Brand?" "It's Brand's choice, and yes, it's wort... ...as met with him, and they have formed an alliance to stop the drug trade on a global scale. I am asking you, against Alex's wishes." Radcliff hated ...

...licy 348 11.3 Capabilities 350 11.4 Management 353 12. WHAT TO DO? A GLOBAL STRATEGY 361 12.1 Reflecting on a Generational Challenge 361 12.... ...t they needed to alert other aircraft in the air that they too might be at risk. 66 United 175 was hijacked between 8:42 and 8:46, and awareness of th... ...nal would be a rare and alarming occurrence, and would normally indicate a catastrophic system failure or an aircraft crash. In all of these instances... ...ls to people disoriented by cyclonic change as they confront modernity and globalization. His rhetoric selectively draws from multiple sources—Islam, ... ... enterprises. In time, the former would encompass numerous companies and a global network of bank accounts and nongovernmental institutions. Fulfillin... ...ify passengers whose profile suggested they might pose more than a minimal risk to aircraft. Although the algorithm included hijacker profile data, at... ...ined allocations of resources. Because the conduct of espionage was a high-risk activity, decisions on the clandestine targeting, recruitment, handlin... ...rganize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.We believe such a list of requirements would have include... ...din operatives expected near-term attacks to have dramatic consequences of catastrophic pro- “THE SYSTEM WAS BLINKING RED” 257 Final 8-9.5pp 7/17/04 ...

...ants could cause well over 40,000 deaths if they were to have some sort of catastrophic meltdown at their current location (“Nuclear Power” 1). A melt... ...the power plant was moved to a point that is not surrounded by people, the risk of a problem would be greatly re- duced. Even though it would cost a g... ... nuclear waste and operator prob- lems. All of these problems pose a large risk to the general population of the United States. When the power plant i... ...power plant is near an urban area, the problem becomes even larger and the risk of danger becomes greater. Works Cited Alter, Jonathan. “At the Core ... ...y lead to life-threatening medical complications. In 1999, RMHC launched a global initiative called Changing the Face of the World (“McDonald’s World ...