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...roduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vakn... ...Even as she was being wooed by her regal paramour - and while still being married to Ernest Aldrich Simpson, who knew of the Prince's attentions a... ...nglish history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the beginning of the Civil War on 22 August 1642." Edward abdicated from the throne on ... ...Armenian lives. In 1909, in Adana, more than 23,000 Armenians were massacred as the warships of the Great Powers stood idly by. In 1912-3 the Great ... ...menian calls for autonomy were deemed a danger to the disintegrating realm, now at war with Russia. When the first world war broke, Turkey allied ... ...emed a danger to the disintegrating realm, now at war with Russia. When the first world war broke, Turkey allied itself with the Germans. All Arme... ...a) was described in antiquity as a large island in the sea to the west of the known world (the Western Ocean), near the Pillars of Hercules (the Gi... ...e states. http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Region/North_America/United_ States/Wars/Civil_War/ http://dmoz.org/Society/Military/People/Person... ...s hereby prohibited. Section 2--The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislat...

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...roduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophi... ...VII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories tha... ...ction. But whether an event or action is an achievement or not also depends on the world itself, the substrate of the actions. An achievement must ... ...rred) – there would be no meaning to the word achievement. In an entropic, stagnant world – no achievement is ever possible. Moreover: the mere occ... ...em unfavorably. The idea of the nation-state culminated in the Yugoslav succession wars. It is time to seriously consider a much-derided and decrie... ... The state has acquired monstrous proportions in the decades since the Second world War. It is about to grow further and to digest the few sectors h... ...e and intertwined mechanisms: The Malthusian Mechanism – Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, t... ... the Ego. It surveys the activities in the field which, by definition, take place "concurrently". The Ego feels "simultaneous", "concurrent" and cu... ... Nature is not a mere quantitative issue - it is also a qualitative one. Having two concurrent speeds or "clocks" of evolution can lead to biologica...

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...roduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophi... ...VII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories tha... ...ction. But whether an event or action is an achievement or not also depends on the world itself, the substrate of the actions. An achievement must ... ...rred) – there would be no meaning to the word achievement. In an entropic, stagnant world – no achievement is ever possible. Moreover: the mere occ... ...em unfavorably. The idea of the nation-state culminated in the Yugoslav succession wars. It is time to seriously consider a much-derided and decrie... ... The state has acquired monstrous proportions in the decades since the Second world War. It is about to grow further and to digest the few sectors h... ...e and intertwined mechanisms: The Malthusian Mechanism – Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, t... ... the Ego. It surveys the activities in the field which, by definition, take place "concurrently". The Ego feels "simultaneous", "concurrent" and cu... ... Nature is not a mere quantitative issue - it is also a qualitative one. Having two concurrent speeds or "clocks" of evolution can lead to biologica...

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...produced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska write to: palma@unet.com.mk Philosophical essays and Musings h... ...hilosophical essays and Musings http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/culture.html World in Conflict and T ransition http://samvak.tripod.com/gui... ... REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S PH YSI CS I. Time Asymmetry Re-Visited II. Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy III. The Comp... ...ics and Superstring Theories SPE C U L A T I O NS I. Psychophysics II. Parapsychology and the Paranormal III. Turing Machines and U... ... G O D Introduction: Science, God, and Religion I. Is God Necessary? II. Is the World Necessary? III. Theodicy: The Problem of Evil IV. Miracle... ...r for dominance. In other words, in localized, open systems, order sometimes tends to increase and, by definition, statistical entropy tends to dec... ...te and intertwined mechanisms: The Malthusian Mechanism Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, t... ... the Ego. It surveys the activities in the field which, by definition, take place "concurrently". The Ego feels "simultaneous", "concurrent" and cu... ...e such a connection (for instance, if A and B are parts of C or are separately, but concurrently somehow influenced by it). Each of these two categ...

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...By virtue of the principle of the full liberty to set forth any philosophical thesis, no justification would probably be necessary, yet it should be mentioned that Descartes – the founder of modern rationalism – issued the thesis of ?the right of rationality to re-examine...

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...7-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Dedication to a nation with so much religious consistency as could be comprised in an ... ...prised in an endless column, with so much love and spirit of tolerance as to cover the gate of the kiss, and with so much silence and wisdom as coul... .... 7 6. We associate, as a representation of the rational entity, two concurrent straight lines (intersecting at point P), called code branches,... ...it – a conception agreeing with the paradigm of unity in diversity of the world. In the presented schematical model, reality (spatio-temporality) is... ...here we cannot chose but awake it through the contact with the (material) world, seems to be found also in Socrates>. The foregoing quotation confi... ... working out a change of the oscillation phase of all material particles, concurrently accompanied by the latter transformation in anti-matter parti... ...ylactically, by eliminating from social life the crimes, death penalties, wars and any other form of violent discontinuation of existence (Being). ... ...ing feelings of those populations and implicitly of their leaders were the war-like spirit and sadism, accompanied by the practice of mystic sacrific... ...e scientific circles are interested to foster the war-like illusions (Star Wars program) of certain military circles. How could one recognise the exi...

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...This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating...

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... The Future of the Internet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Inter... ...It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & London A ... ...ntroduced the first killer application for the Apple II in 1979—VisiCalc, the world’s first spreadsheet program—sales of the ungainly but very cool mach... ... off dramatically. 3 An Apple running VisiCalc helped to convince a skeptical world that there was a place for the PC at every- one’s desk and hence a ... ...n time to de- velop effective countermeasures and best practices. Rather, the war is being lost across the board. Operating system developers struggle ... ...ped tools that greatly ease collaboration over a distance, such as CVS, the “concurrent ver- sions system.” 74 CVS automates many of the difficult tasks... ..._rule (as of June 1, 2007, 08:15 GMT). 31. Wikipedia policy prohibits “wheel wars”—cases in which a Wikipedia administrator re- peatedly undoes the ac... ...istrator re- peatedly undoes the action of another—just as it prohibits edit wars. See Wikipedia, Wheel W ar , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:... ...me policies. The German Wikipedia recently instituted a test project to have concurrent versions of pages—stable and unstable—so that the edits would ...

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...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

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... any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the TrendSiter... ...rnet – A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ...on the Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation... ...management. It offers only some minor synergies with non-cyberspace, real world, franchises and media properties. The likes of Disney and Bertelsmann... ...and, lately, through Selective Dissemination of Information, or SDI). The war is by no means decided. "Progress" may yet consist of the assimilation ... ...pid simultaneous advance on all technological fronts. Miniaturization and concurrent empowerment by software tools have made it possible for individ... ... scatternetworking capabilities The technology is still not fully there. Wars rage in both the wireless and the ebook realms. Platforms compete. St... ...hers. It will become a new arena of warfare and an integral part of actual wars. Different peer groups, educational and income social-economic strat... ...cated to the workers and management of the company at favourable prices. Concurrently the industry is deregulated and licensing requirements are gr...

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...roduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Au... ... Crises, Global Capital Flows and the International Financial Architecture XXIV. War and the Business Cycle XXV. America’s Current Account Defici... ...Dr. Sam Vaknin Also published by United Press International (UPI) It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meanin... ...ate the laws of its internal logic and the rules of logic "out there", in the real world. e. Insightfulness – It must cast the familiar in a new l... ... blueprints, rules of thumb, and mechanisms with the power to change the " economic world". k. Imposing – It must be regarded by society as the pr... ...e contributed to the froth. Greenspan and his ilk seem to be fighting yesteryear's war against a long-slain monster. The obsession with price stab... ...mpetition, globalization, privatization, and deregulation - led to ferocious price wars and to consistently declining prices. Quoted by "The Econo... ...ket? Apparently, conventional wisdom is wrong. Market concentration leads to price wars, to the great benefit of the consumer. This is why firms fi... ...art as Germany, the United states, Argentina and Singapore - all in the throes of a concurrent recession. Still, expansions continue to be restrict...

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...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 parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...s probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imitate any object, and shoul... ...able to assume any character and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shal... ...e aged man gave Sang Huin a look as if he had wasted his time talking to the world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem... ...e on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world. Even though he cared about family (what was left of it with both h... ...red an article he had forgotten to bring to them: the Taliban's restraint of war ravaged widows from work. The doctors liked such things. As Dr. Lee ... .... The hail seemed to her like the bullets that she imagined from the distant war that America wedged against Iraq. Then he saw the antithesis of this:... ...r from the backseat of the car where he sat with Tamil Tiger. It is full of wars, said Tamil Tiger. What are wars, asked Thai Tiger. Let's change t... ... you pleased." The Africans once said that the military cost of their civil wars were the result of Western colonial boundaries fusing incompatible t... ...passing through layers of clouds with the specious illusion of nets, falling concurrent with the rain, each human being hopefully experiencing a heart...

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...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

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...            Celebrity Narcissists The Narcissist's Addiction to Fame and Celebrity Mistreating Celebrities – An Interview Grante... ...me and Celebrity Mistreating Celebrities – An Interview Granted to Superinteressante Magazine in Brazil Acquired Situational Narcissism... ... The ICD-10, the International Classification of Diseases, published by the World Health Organisation in Geneva [1992] regards the Narcissistic Pers... ...re facts end and wishful thinking takes over. Father acknowledges he was no war hero, though he did his share of fighting. Mother understands she w... ...ork, NY University Press, 1998 13. Jacobson, Edith. The Self and the Object World. New York, International Universities Press, 1964 14. Jung, C.G. C... ...Such charades are devoid of essence and proper function and are replete and concurrent with a personality cult or the adoration of the party in powe... ...opardizing "acceptable (modes of) existence". Except in rare cases (famine, war, plague), survival is rarely at risk. On the contrary, people are m... ...pe - rather than at Africa or Asia or Latin and Central America. Both World Wars were colonial wars fought on European soil. Moreover, Nazi Germany... ...s well). Reinvigorated armies (and industrialists) often force expansionary wars upon their reluctant ostensible political masters. Should Putin fai...

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...Excerpt: I. Introduction to a legend of Montrose. The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumsta...

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... point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some things have sufficiently accomplished their purpose when they have met the call of that...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ......................................................

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................................. 24 CHAPTER I THAT MEN BY VARIOUS WAYS ARRIVE AT THE SAME END............................................... 57 CHAPTER II OF SORROW .................................................................................................................................... 62 CHAPTER III THAT OUR AFFECTIONS CARRY THEMSELVES BEYOND US ....................

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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; and in several instances these versions have been incorp...

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...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A ... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylv... ...e Thirty Years’ War in Germany Book I F ROM THE BEGINNING of the religious wars in Germany, to the peace of Munster, scarcely any thing great or remar... ... Munster, scarcely any thing great or remarkable occurred in the political world of Europe in which the Reformation had not an important share. All th... ...he Turks, and to put down intestine rebellion. In this quarter destructive wars were succeeded but by brief truces, which were scarcely less hurt- ful... ...e credit. Far more honourable was his second appear- ance in the political world. Perceiving that his repeated remonstrances with the Emperor were una... ..., resembled a friendly salutation, more than a hostile reception. From the concurrent reports of these people, the Saxons learned that the town had be...

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...Excerpt: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired...

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...n-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

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...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that, in spite of its outlandish subject, the sketch may...

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... Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...l its actuality and the part played in it by mails and telegraphs and iron warships, the ideas and the manners of the native actors date back before t... ..., to an alternate monarchy, T amasese taking the first trick of two years. War was imminent, when the consuls interfered, and any war were preferable ... ...’s labour, may be imagined without words. It is more important to note the concurrent relax- ation of all sense of property. From applying for help to... ...e beach, the surf breaks with a continuous uproar. In wild weather, as the world knows, the roads are untenable. Along the whole shore, which is every... ..., than has yet been collected in the blue-books or the white- books of the world. Mulinuu (where the walk is to begin) is a flat, wind-swept promontor... ...ont of him without. He was an alien, he was supported by the guns of alien warships, and he had come to do an alien’s work, highly needful for Samoa, ... ...he principles of the new cul- ture, and actual gardens of cacao, should be concurrently spread over the face of the islands. T amasese received, inclu...

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...EE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 54 SCHLOSSER?S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE ....................................................................................

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...hat Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, nor dominion over the world, as is pretended. Secondly, that if he had, his heirs yet had no right to it. Thirdly, that if his heirs had, there being no law of Nature nor positive law of God that determines which is the right heir in all cases tha...

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...Contents CHAPTER I OF POLITICAL POWER............................................3 CHAPTER II OF THE STATE OF NATURE.....................................5 CHAPTER III OF THE STATE OF WAR......................................12 CHAPTER IV OF SLAVERY.......................................................14 CHAPTER V ...

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...Contents CANTO I. Proem.?Invocation.?Beatrice and Dante ascend to the Sphere of Fire.?Beatrice explains the cause of their ascent.......................................................................................................................................................... 6 CA...

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..................... 264 TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT ................................................................................................... 292 ON WAR ........................................................................................................................................ 312 THE LAST DAYS OF IMMANUEL KANT ....................................................

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal w...

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