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...Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ...wings. http://www.geocities.com/illonaz/ArtHistory.htm Atlantis Atlantis (or Atlantica) was described in antiquity as a large island in the s... ...tional/ Chauvinism Chauvinism - excessive and self-aggrandizing promotion of one's group - is named after the hapless Nicolas Chauvin. He served as... ...rettes - 1-2 milligrams per cigarette. They also absorb the same amounts of tar (a group of compounds), regardless of the type of cigarette. "Li... ... The Plainfield Ghoul. A serial killer who served as the inspiration to numerous films, among them Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, Maniac, Thre... ...rgh, Charles Augustus Charles Augustus Lindbergh was the first person to cross the Atlantic in a nonstop flight. This made him an instant celebrity... ...iki?EtymologyOfOk Oil Spills The largest oil spill in history was in Tobago. The Atlantic Empress spilled 287,000 tons in 1979. Then comes the A... ...venting". "Paratroopers" means parachute troopers. The Chinese used parachutes for entertainment purposes or attached them in the 11th and 12th cen...

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...TIVE 67 Theories of Communication 68 Idea Marketing: A Special Case 69 IDEAS AND GROUPS: THE NEED FOR GROUPS TO ACT 69 A Case in Point: The WCTU 7... ... 104 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 106 Perception 106 Attitudes 107 Cultural Values 107 Group Influence 109 Personality 110 CONTRASTING PRODUCT BUYERS W... ... A case in point is that of a shoe producer sponsoring the idea of nature hikes or group walks through historic places. The adoption of the idea of... ...when a person decides to watch a television program; he is exchanging his time for entertainment. A transaction takes place when a person votes for ... ....159). He goes on to relate three varieties of gossip -information, influence and entertainment -with the three patterns of trade identified by Pola... ...nfluence * Entertainment ... ...larly, Resorts International, Inc. could promote either its casino (a service) in Atlantic City or the idea of legalized gambling. Oil companies, ... ... crime and violence. There is 80 some evidence negating the effectiveness of films as idea channels (Brembeck and Howell 1976, p. 39). On the...

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... – Central and East Europe I. EU and NATO – The Competing Alliances II. The Euro-Atlantic Divide III. Russia Straddles the Divide IV. Russia’s S... ...'s external ethos. Some Americans are isolationists, others interventionists. Both groups are hypervigilant, paranoid, and self-righteous - but iso... ...cy and New Colonialism The American Hostel Add Me to the List, Mr. Blair Narcissism, Group Behavior, and Terrorism The Iraqi and the Madman Islam and ... ... that any Western government would care to admit. History shows that all terrorist groupings ultimately join the mainstream. Many countries - from ... ...ion in Gaul. To secure popular support, Roman politicians doled out tax cuts, free entertainment, and free food. Ambitious Romans - such as Julius ... ...d down. But it was a close call and it cast in sharp relief the tensions inside the Atlantic partnership. As far as the sole superpower is concerned... ...ament, some countries may even reconsider. Back to the Table of Contents! The Euro-Atlantic Divide By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also published by United Pr... ...ck market facilitates the smuggling of cigarettes, software, home appliances, video films, weaponry, food, carpets - and virtually every other nece...

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...d crying for ourselves. 6 ―Wanda told me about your diverse group ... ...c system in the brain often takes priority over the logical section of the brain. This has an effect on our buying habits, our preferences for films ... ...ower for the older members. They may see it as good clean fun to humiliate the initiates, but it is clear that it is the inferiority of the in-group ... ...ut many of these ‗social cognitive‘ decisions may be made based on the need for power or the need to overcome ‗aloneness‘ within one's social group.... ...ction or blame others. A few years ago an attorney, whose practice earned a half million dollars a year, lost over a million at the tables in Atlant... ... And in spite of the strength with which they are held, both are rooted in non-provable assumptions!‖ -- ―And violence sure sells in films,... ...ke other harassing behavior, is one of the common behaviors of people with inferiority feelings.‖ —―You have to admit that violence in films,... ...icensing process. Physical violence is frowned on throughout our society. And we keep out of our media the Hollywood emphasis on violence for entert... ...cerned with their time away from work. We think there is a happy medium between vocation and avocation. And we think that on both sides of the Atlant...

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...d customs but usually they include ethical or moral attitudes. But within groups in the same society these customs may differ somewhat, for example ... ...g or a family?‖ 39 ---―That‘s true, Lee. When you have a small group of like-minded people they might be seen as a ‗self‘ or as a ‗societ... ... is more important. A few years ago Lincoln Hall, an Australian, was in a group climbing Mount Everest. He was injured. His party abandoned him near... ...e or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teac... ... supernatural. This idea spread to Europe, to North Africa and across the Atlantic, Most people in those areas believe in a single separate being, a... ...omment on the fact that non-believers are increasing on both sides of the Atlantic in the developed countries where the education should be the most ... ...e not turned their guns into plowshares! ―On the other side of the Atlantic Europeans took North America from its natives starting in the 16 ... ...phy is that "animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment. It is against animal research, animals for work, fur farmin... ...above it?‖ --―What about cruelty or captivity. Is using animals for entertainment at Sea World cruel? What about trained dog acts? Should we l...

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...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...m" still reign supreme. In extreme - though surprisingly frequent - cases, whole groups (typically minorities) are excluded from the nation's mor... ...f authority. They are against the usurpation of power by individuals or by classes (groups) of individuals for personal gain through the subjugation... ...e turned to arson and explosives are the nation's top domestic terrorism threat ... Groups such as the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation... ...ved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal (Lect... ...inned and blurred and, sometimes, vanished. Evil nowadays is merely another form of entertainment, a species of pornography, a sanguineous art. Evil... ... walls as a probable response to over-crowding. Home systems will cater to all the entertainment and media needs of the inhabitants further insulat... ...ducation was taken over by schools, health – by (national or private) health plans, entertainment by television, interpersonal communication by tele... ...the path to perdition. Cracks in the common front of the Western allies - the Euro-Atlantic structures - widened into a full-fledged and unbridgeab...

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...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...m" still reign supreme. In extreme - though surprisingly frequent - cases, whole groups (typically minorities) are excluded from the nation's mor... ...f authority. They are against the usurpation of power by individuals or by classes (groups) of individuals for personal gain through the subjugation... ...e turned to arson and explosives are the nation's top domestic terrorism threat ... Groups such as the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation... ...ved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal (Lect... ...inned and blurred and, sometimes, vanished. Evil nowadays is merely another form of entertainment, a species of pornography, a sanguineous art. Evil... ... walls as a probable response to over-crowding. Home systems will cater to all the entertainment and media needs of the inhabitants further insulat... ...ducation was taken over by schools, health – by (national or private) health plans, entertainment by television, interpersonal communication by tele... ...the path to perdition. Cracks in the common front of the Western allies - the Euro-Atlantic structures - widened into a full-fledged and unbridgeab...

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... nimble, ad- hoc networks of entrepreneurship superimposed on ever- shifting product groups and profit and loss centers. Competition used to be ext... ...ot always foster competition. And many products have umpteen substitutes. Consider films - cable TV, satellite, the Internet, cinemas, video rental... ...hose customized insurance needs the captive caters, multiple parent - also known as group, homogeneous, or joint venture, heterogeneous captive - o... ...if they did not participate in the market. If differential pricing is not allowed, groups with small willingness to pay may not be served at all. ... ...ate on intangibles: advertising, packaging, marketing, sales promotion, education, entertainment, servicing, dissemination of information, knowledg... .... It was followed by the longest expansion on record. It affected both sides of the Atlantic. This, despite the fact that the economy was in bad sha... ... still in the throes of a meltdown of capital and real markets on both sides of the Atlantic, the voguish belief in the demise of pre-1990s economic... ...d Eastern Europe:‘Supply-Based’or ‘Market Driven’? - W Altzinger - thInternational Atlantic Economic Conference, Vienna, 1999 Blessing Or Curse?... ...nd from Seattle(TM) and invented the grunge. He was now the director of a EFE(TM) (Entertainment For Ever), the megacorp of communications, and wor...

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...often at the cost of the scarcest of all resources: time. Amidst a brilliant group of re- search assistants, Jordi Weinstock and David Silverstein sto... ...s— something that goes far beyond the boundaries of one institution. A large group of intellectual property scholars have influenced my ideas. Most imp... ...lectual property bar is a fascinating, brilliant, and engagingly ec- centric group of lawyers. I owe debts to many of its members. Whitney Brous- sard... ... sometimes with amusement and sometimes with agreement, on both sides of the Atlantic. See Ezra S. Carr, “Aids and Obstacles to Agriculture on the Pac... ...ers and the Dilemma of Infringement-Based Business Models,” Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 22 (2005): 725–766; Douglas Lichtman and Willia... ...84; and William Fisher, Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004). Fishe... ... 271 ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 271 6. “As the entertainment and information markets have gotten more complicated, the c... ...arles] alone as the songwriter. Richard, however, straightened that out with Atlantic, and he has for many years earned a sub- stantial income from hi... ...ture also repeats the same story: In 1954 an historic recording session with Atlantic records fused gospel with rhythm- and-blues and established Char...

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... infinitely small-split particles, and then began coming together into larger groups of infinitely small energy particles... to eventually merge tog... ...es: six quarks and six leptons: a Balanced Duality. This is why the smallest groupings of subatomic particles exist in units of three and two: like... ...to be 360 days instead of 365. Why? Because they divided their numbers into groups of 20 called ‘toons’… not 10, and because they regarded the num... ...me, the greater ones state of boredom, the greater ones need for distraction, entertainment, artificial excitement, vicarious thrills. These are all... ... pyroclastic death which volcanoes spewed for hundreds of mile. The Westerly Atlantic Winds blew that coast clean of the poison fumes and ashes, bl... ...rth America matches the migration of tectonic plates that traveled across the Atlantic to end up on the shores of North America so exactly it is amaz... ...s and customs. It forces us into unnecessary stress and conflict. Even for entertainment, the inverted pyramidal arena becomes the basic form of i... ...lly the selling of meaningless self-gratification, or the selling of mindless entertainment and distraction. The most popular television shows; are... ...ismal failure? The first ships of Jamestown took five months to cross the Atlantic, because even the Atlantic Trade Winds were against them and ...

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...ors. Billboards with crimson god- desses nine feet tall advertising cinema films, pipe to- bacco, and talcum powder. The old “mansions” along Ninth St... ...e shopping and hadn’t much time for it. Thus did Babbitt enter, and to the group standing by the cigar-counter he whooped, “How’s the boys? How’s the ... ...twenty or thirty men. Babbitt usually sat at the one near the door, with a group including Gunch, Finkelstein, Pro- fessor Pumphrey, Howard Littlefiel... ...f course Zilla keeps rooting for a nice expensive vacation in New York and Atlantic City, with the bright lights and the bootlegged cocktails and a bu... ...ow very, very much earth and rock there was in it. He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an ind... ...y.” The real convention consisted of men muttering in hotel bedrooms or in groups amid the badge-spotted crowd in the hotel-lobby, but there was a sho... ... wired me they’ve set aside eight thousand dollars, in real money, for the entertainment of the con- vention!” A clerical-looking man rose to clamor, ... ... a natural-born orator and a good mixer and—Zowie!” IX There was no formal entertainment provided for the last evening. Babbitt had planned to go home... ...lankly beautiful, suspiciously beautiful young men; outlining the plots of films about pure prostitutes and kind-hearted train-robbers; and giving dir...

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...uve, and for the damsel. Chatter on that subject ran pleasantly with their entertainment. Mr. Radnor meanwhile scribbled, and despatched a strip of hi... ...f the house, questioning a tumbled mind as to what description of suitable entertainment, which would be dancing and flirting and fal-lallery in the s... ...ral di- vergencies and occasional clashes added a salient tastiness to the group of whom Nesta could say: ‘Mama, was there ever such a collection of d... ...ed. She said it was the saving of poor Dudley. It distinguished him in the group of the noble Evangelical Cantor Family; and it gave him a subject of ... ...mby for pro- claiming, that he had seen ‘Chapters of Hebrew History in the grouping of clouds.’ His gaze was any one of the Chapters upon Nesta. The c... ...e presence of Dr. Themison, whom their host had pricked to anticipate high entertainment from him. He did nothing to bridge the crevasse and warm the ... ...c; though it is to be feared, that our part in it will not encourage a Cis-Atlantic bard. T o America the honours from beginning to end belong. So, th... ...e to work in the direction of the casuistries and the sensational webs and films. Facing Victor, it was a block. But the thought came: how could she m... ...have come.’ The voice was articu- late, thinner than the telephonic, trans-Atlantic by deep-sea cable. Victor answered: ‘We have.’ Another minute must...

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... of the flat, and exploded into the green- plush living-room. The familiar group were trying to be conversational. She saw Mr. Marbury, a woman teache... ... may be prejudiced, but I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent p... ...dy to love them. But she was embarrassed by the heartiness of the cheering group. From the vestibule she waved to them, but she clung a second to the ... ...rints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small woman sitting in a pa... ...e? Used to be great gambling game, wasn’t it?” While others drifted to her group, Carol snatched up the conversation. She laughed and was frivolous an... ...y for her expenses in a lawsuit, who laughed at Vida’s reading at a school-entertainment, and went off owing a hotel- bill and the three hundred dolla...

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... grew as he saw madrepores redolent of the sea-weeds and the storms of the Atlantic. The sea was forgotten again at a distant view of exquisite miniat... ...street lamp, flickering in the wind, fell upon the astonished faces of the group. “My dear fellow, you must come with us!” said the young man that Rap... ...ts in a golden chandelier, round about a table inlaid with gilded metal, a group of women, whose eyes shone like diamonds, suddenly met the stupefied ... ...disconcerted and confused about the table, huddled together in a murmuring group like bees in a hive. The combination of timid embarrassment with coqu... ...t to be gulled by any smile or vow, and I have set myself to make one long entertainment of my life.” “But does not happiness come from the soul withi... ...Skin niture; were expressed by the surrounding disorder, and brought light films over the vision of those assembled, so that the air seemed full of in...