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The Kabbalah Experience

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...rect to resemble the Light as much as possible, while still maintaining one’s independence. O N A DA M A N D T H E WO R L D Q: How should the term Ad... ...to fight the craving to know the purpose of my life, and I couldn’t picture a day when I could get up in the morning without asking the T H E K A B... ...ing question over and over again. I couldn’t imagine a peace- ful, thoughtless day, where I could sit down quietly and enjoy my life… If there’s no cu... ...as he who draws water from the well in a punctured bucket. He draws water all day long and still has not a drop of water with which to soothe his th... ...y regular students. Every kind of learning is available today, like real-time video and audio lessons, etc. Build the group, and we’ll start studyi... ...exts. I will pre- pare and present them to you along with the drawings and the video and audio lessons. K A B B A L A H I N E N G L A N D Q: I’m writ... ...y are very deep, and there is no way to get used to the fact that it’s only a game sent from Above, just an exercise. Any advice? A: Practice and ex... ...ise above one’s current level. The still level is character- ized by a lack of independence, the vegetative is more independent, the animate, more in... ...ntemplate ...................................................... 128 Spiritual Games ....................................................................

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...to repudiating their aloneness. It was an early Bangkok morning with a new day tripping over the corpse of the earlier one the way dogs on the Bangkok... ...p some of her things that she had forgotten to bring with her the previous day and they had some breakfast, then Thailand would be a thing of the past... ...y passed a mall where he and Porn had gone shopping a month earlier. That day they had spent together there was the levity of the stroll and the shin... ... Children were her distraction but when they were older she resented their independence. As far as your father is concerned, he loved you even more: ... ...thoughts and sensations and self-contained. In late boyhood a boy mastered independence that in infancy and early boyhood he struggled to achieve. It... ...es, strangled in noodles. Suthep would be seeking an alternative being in video games, snookers, Thai boxing matches, and movement; and Kazem would s... ... or the abandonment of Kumpee. At first Suthep strutted around in his independence like a dominant rooster but as the months went by the independ... ... imagine something different. I hate people who read comic books and play video games all of the time or buy lots of things from the malls each day, ... ...ot extinguish himself or herself in strolls in a shopping mall, a movie, a video game, laughter, cellular telephones, beer, and comic books. Jatupon ...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... The bobtail squid lives in the shallow waters of the coast of Hawaii. During the day, it is buried deep in the sand. It emerges to hunt at nightf... ...ore the Japanese capitulated. Aung San raised a Burmese contingent - the "Burma Independence Army" - to assist the Japanese in their invasion of... ...orked closely with the British, whom he hitherto claimed to have been fighting for independence. When the war was over, he established a private... ...is commend - the People's Volunteer Organization. He proceeded to negotiate Burma's independence from Britain and its first elections. He was murder... ... To "reset" the calendar, Julius Caesar affixed the New Year on January 1 (the day the Senate traditionally convened) and added a day or two to... ... a day or two to a few months. He thus gave rise to the Julian Calendar, a latter day rendition of the Aristarchus calendar from 239 BC. After hi... ... http://opera.stanford.edu/Verdi/main.html http://www.r-ds.com/verdiana.htm Video Cassette Recorder A Californian company, Ampex Corporati... ... Video Cassette Recorder A Californian company, Ampex Corporation, invented the video cassette recorder in 1956. The Ampex VR1000 weighed 665 ki... ...ntroduced by Philips of the Netherlands. Sony introduced the first affordable home video recorder and player in 1969 but it was JVC (Matshushita) f...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

... Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works... ...ights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independence Avenue SE • Washington, DC 20559-6000 • (202) 707-8350 January... ...arybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights James Madison Memorial Building 101 Independence Avenue SE Room 403 Washington, DC 20540 Dear Ms. Peters. In El... ...submit written comments on the problem to the Office during an initial 60-day period, followed by a 45- day period for reply comments. The Office re... ... of America); • independent filmmakers (e.g., Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, Film Arts Foundation, IFP-New York, National Allian... ...on, IFP-New York, National Alliance for Media, Arts and Culture, National Video Resources); • film studios (e.g., Motion Picture Association of Am... ...oundtables in Washington, D.C. on July 26 and 27, 2005, and an additional day of roundtables in Berkeley, California, 21 on August 2, 2005. 22 In... ...PYRIGHT OFFICE • independent filmmakers (e.g., Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, Film Independent, National Video Resources, Film Ar... ...s in various ways (e.g., by title, by category of work) online 24 hours a day through the Office’s website. 46 ...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

... Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works... ...ights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independence Avenue SE • Washington, DC 20559-6000 • (202) 707-8350 January... ...arybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights James Madison Memorial Building 101 Independence Avenue SE Room 403 Washington, DC 20540 Dear Ms. Peters. In El... ...submit written comments on the problem to the Office during an initial 60-day period, followed by a 45- day period for reply comments. The Office re... ... of America); • independent filmmakers (e.g., Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, Film Arts Foundation, IFP-New York, National Allian... ...on, IFP-New York, National Alliance for Media, Arts and Culture, National Video Resources); • film studios (e.g., Motion Picture Association of Am... ...oundtables in Washington, D.C. on July 26 and 27, 2005, and an additional day of roundtables in Berkeley, California, 21 on August 2, 2005. 22 In... ...PYRIGHT OFFICE • independent filmmakers (e.g., Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, Film Independent, National Video Resources, Film Ar... ...s in various ways (e.g., by title, by category of work) online 24 hours a day through the Office’s website. 46 ...

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Unlocking the Zohar

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... it was really about, hence the false notions. Also, the thriving present-day industry chapter 1: Time to Act 19 that uses the name “Kabbalah” to ... ...lunteers at hospitals or elsewhere, do it only because, at the end of the day, it gives them pleasure. Baal HaSulam explains that within humanity, th... ...The Zohar, the Sulam [Ladder] commentary, and wrote as much as 20 hours a day. When he fell asleep on his desk, it was hard to pull the pen out of h... ...lities within which we exist, and within which we see a new reality. This game yields the impact of the light of correction upon us, and this new w... ...t of all—no guessing. The big revelation is that raising kids is all about games and play, relating to them as small grownups, and making all major ... ...usands of media items, downloadable books, and a vast reservoir of texts, video and audio files in many languages. Bnei Baruch’s online Kabbalah Educ... ...nization for teaching and sharing the wisdom of Kabbalah. To maintain its independence and purity of intentions, Bnei Baruch is not supported, funde...

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The Zohar: Annotations to the Ashlag Commentary

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...chai passed away in the presence of his friends on Lag BaOmer (the 33 rd day of the Omer count, which starts on the first day of Passover) of the y... ...ud (Sukkah, 45, 2): “I can redeem the entire world from judgment from the day of my birth to the present day. And if my son is with me, from the day... ...d if my son is with me, from the day the world was created to the present day. And if Yotam Ben Uziyahu is with us, from the day the world was creat... ... I can be beneath the Rosh of AA; however, since it does not affect their independence and perfection, it is as if they are in the Rosh of AA. 6 2 ... ...ed” suggests that the Creator’s interaction with the Creature is like His game with the leviathan (the legendary sea monster), with the property tha... ...y in order to bring it to the goal of creation. Herein lies the Creator’s “game” with each of the twenty-two letters, giving each the opportunity to ... ...han 5,000 media items, downloadable books, and a vast reservoir of texts, video and audio files in many languages. All of this material is available... ...nization for teaching and sharing the wisdom of Kabbalah. To maintain its independence and purity of intentions, Bnei Baruch is not supported, funde...

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From Chaos to Harmony

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... way into the heart of every young person, but dissi- pates in the rat race of day-by-day living. “When I concluded my studies, I took a job at the In... ... very differ- ent from that of a human toddler. Our sages put it this way: “A day-old calf is called an ox.” 10 It means that as soon as a calf is ... ...n- ing how we bring up our children. To help them grow, we create challenging games for them, and their desire to succeed in the game makes them con... ...s of coping, which facilitates their progress. From time to time we make the game more difficult to help them Chapter One: Desire is Everything 3... ...nued through the Industrial and Scientific Revolutions, and into the present day. The growth of the Enlightenment Movement and the secularism of so... ...ccept them. And the reason this is so is that Nature wants us to maintain our independence, our ability to choose wheth- er or not we want to strain ... ...n method, or encounter similar material presented on the Internet, or watch a video on that top- ic, it strengthens our internality. This will intens...

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The Path of Kabbalah

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...g that, by changing our perspective, we might be able to better cope with our day-to-day problems. This perspec- tive determines our reactions, our f... ...ttain our own unique “self.” The Creator wants a Creation that can retain its independence even when it feels the Creator, seemingly producing a “du... ...ill to receive does not vanish or becomes lost, and the creature retains its independence by using the desires that it wants to return to the Creato... ...ard her. We approach spirituality in much the same way, gaining more and more independence. There are things we can and cannot work with. I can’t say... ...ening from Above.” These are the holidays, the Shabbat (Saturday, the seventh day of the PA RT O N E : T H E B E G I N N I N G 31 week), and the be... ...tain a collective goal for their lives that becomes clearer and clearer every day. The only question that re- mains then is how to speed the attainme... ...rline between me and the pleasure and the giver of the pleasure. It is like a game—when a certain desire ap- —when a certain desire ap- — pears, I ha... ...kind of Providence on Him from Above. I have no other answer: books, audio and video files, our Internet site (www.kabbalah.info). We do everything t... ...em from taking dead-end roads. This can be done by circulating books, audios, video files, and cassettes. Those who are truly interested should be r...

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Shamati

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...he Work ............................................... 47 16. What Is the Day of the Lord and the Night of the Lord in the Work ........................ .................................................250 108. If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two ................... 251 109. Two Kinds of Meat ..... ...................................383 236. Mine Adversaries Taunt Me All the Day .................................383 237. For Man Shall Not See Me and ... ... He would feel it as a want. 54 Shamati Instead, we must perceive it as a game. That is, it is not that when He wants to give, it is something that ... ...n He wants to give, it is something that He needs; but this is all like a game. It is as our sages said regarding the mistress: She asked, “What doe... ...port; it is not a matter of a desire and a need. The difference between a game and a desire is that everything that comes in the desire is a necessi... ...4 Shamati media items, downloadable books, and a vast reservoir of texts, video and audio files in many languages. All of this material is available... ...nization for teaching and sharing the wisdom of Kabbalah. To maintain its independence and purity of intentions, Bnei Baruch is not supported, funde...

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The World's Library 2014

By: World Public Library

... the materials in the library. Even so, there are certain materials that simply cannot be handled. Thomas Jefferson’s version of the Declaration of Independence for example, or a rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, cannot be handled or read by patrons. They’re simply too precious as artifacts. Another problem libraries around the world encounter is a lack of space. There ...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...ago had been fashioned into a fishing pole. He had been sitting for most of the day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide str... ...nts of the river trying to entice the cun­ ning silver fish. But for most of the day the old man's thoughts were on tomorrow: a day he feared, but kn... ...them. And it was, then, that a special bond between them was created. From that day on his grandfather spent every spare moment with him. His grandf... ...e Circle; he was different, serious, exciting. "It depends." "Are you playing games with me, Dr. Hawk?" she chided coy­ ly. "I told you, I need a ... ... her uncle. He was dressed in his usual red satin smoking jacket; a half played game on a chess board separated them. "Who are you playing the game ... ...nto a hand held phone. He nodded once, and then looked up into the red eye of a video camera that was mounted on top of a ten foot wall. The huge or... ...h was, in reality, a sound stage with state-of-the-art and completely automated video equip­ ment hidden behind one-way mirrors, and microphones camo... ...re really grateful lobbyists. What Matthew didn't know was that it had all been videotaped, including the rape of a teen­ ager that had been staged, ... ...rdent supporter of the IRA, and an effective fund raiser for the cause of Irish Independence. Everyone knew he was murdered by an Ulster assassin, b...

... Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connection that exists between all living things on Earth; the sacred balance of life. Upon the next day's passing, Seattle signs the Port Eliot treaty relinquishing ownership of Suquamish ancestral lands to the United States government in favor of a small reservation to the North. He sees that a war would ultimately prove f...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...hat had been developed and marketed to per- form specific tasks from the first day of its sale to the last day of its use. The Apple II quickly became p... ...it is slipping toward the safer appliance. For example, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console is a powerful computer, but, unlike Microsoft’s Window... ...... ...cated paper-based filing systems to shame. 15 Entirely new applications like video games, beginning with text- based adventures, 16 pioneered addition... ...uld be used only to produce documents. For gaming, they would use dedicated video game consoles—just as many do today. A per- sonal checkbook might h... ...hoo! raised $35 million at its 1996 initial pub- lic offering. 27 On the first day it started trading, the offered chunk of the com- pany hit over $100 m... ...f being able to express oneself idio- syncratically: After the Stall 90 But independence of action, and disregard of custom, are not solely deserving... ...central to cyberspace regulation); John Perry Barlow, A Dec- laration of the Independence of Cyberspace (Feb. 8, 1996), http://homes.eff.org/ ~barlow/D... ...erwise their rights can be trampled. 14. John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace (Feb. 8, 1996), http:// homes.eff.org/~barlow/D...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...e transitions", the emergent results of a critical mass reached. A latter day thinker, Michael Gladwell, called it the "tipping point". Seth Godi... ...f old habits. E-books have yet to develop the user-friendliness, platform-independence, portability, browsability and many other attributes of this ... ...erely because of its content. If this were true e-books will have won the day. Print books are a packaged experience, the substance of life. People b... ...he Britannica switch to multimedia and added tables and graphs to the CD. Video and sound were to make their appearance even later. This error in tr... ...n saver and ticker in a "push technology"). Downloading of digital music, video and text (e-books) leads to the immediate gratification of consumers... ...invade each other's territories. Phone companies were allowed to transmit video and cable companies were allowed to transmit telephony, for instance.... ...being able to respond to the user's specific condition (location, time of day, etc.). No plug-in is required when a proxy server HTTP is used - but t... ...d through my backpack for something to eat, I found the US Declaration of Independence and had a light bulb moment. I thought for a while to see if... ...e computer that would be more important than typing in the Declaration of Independence, something that would still be there 100 years later, but cou...

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

By: Matti Sarmela

...ion 130 * The cremation 131 * Extinguishing the ashes 132 * Hundredth day memorial rites 132 Message of death 133 Final passage of human life ... ...ayakul Annira Silver local culture. The collection contains few films and videos, although in 1999 I recorded 12 hours of video in all, using a digit... ...r loved ones when they go to share a meal with their ancestors on memorial day, why similar white cord or twine is used in rites involving sorcerers, ... ...farm. Even if you had no money, you managed and had something to eat every day. You just went to the field to fetch vegetables and ate them, or you we... ...om this village. A big one. I'd invite the whole village to my wedding and video it. Maybe I'll meet a suitable girl through my friends or on my trave... ...chools have their own bands as they do in Western countries. In the 1980s, video rental and sales shops appeared in the city - at first, they were eve... ... country could be detached from the market economy and secure the economic independence of the nation. The people listen to the King of Thailand. His ... ...nns managed to hold their own against the Soviet Union and to retain their independence. In Thailand, nationalistic educational ideals are implemented... ...s and administrative organs. In spite of centrally led administration, the independence of local monasteries is respected, as in the villages monks ar...

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New Life Incognita

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...ctionwise.com New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 3 PROLOGUE Current Day—Spring Break Ends Reece University—New York Campus Kelly should have li... ...men striking women—he hadn't expected that she'd even give him the time of day, much less silently stand by while he'd pleaded his case. But she had. ... ...ly stand by while he'd pleaded his case. But she had. Kelly had talked his game and Amire had listened. He'd pleaded and she'd cried. He'd promised no... ...r way now." New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 12 CHAPTER 1 Current Day—Spring New York Downtown Hospital Something was sitting on his chest li... ... left home without. He felt naked. Naked and vulnerable and he wanted this game to end but knew he would keep playing along just to see where this all... ...ean-shaven with close-cropped hair, Edge sported the long-haired, MTV-rock-video look to a point of resembling Bon Jovi with black locks. Where Edge w... ... package, breathless as the wrapping floats to the floor. It's a Ninetendo video game cartridge. And since he doesn't already have a video game system... ...ard box into the hall, opened the flaps and found several photo albums and videos. He decided to start with the videos and get a quick overview rather... ...that aspect, was actually faulting his mother's persuasion for Dagny's new independence and purposeful obstinance, wondered how much of Dagny's wantin...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...g a golf club into her eye and the blood had splattered everywhere. On that day, as a boy, he had thought nothing could happen worse than that; but b... ...esthetic that one could wish to slip within them for an hour or a bit of the day; and surely after having done it one might instantaneously wish for t... ...nal confusion...mutilations. But had he not mutilated four months earlier? A video "pang" girl [the clerk at the video room where he had watched a mov... ...Sung Ki had left him. Sung Ki: even now the name sounded musical. After the video pang girl's attempt at marital entrapment, this neighbor boy had be... ...lfriend evidenced when no letters and photographs were forthcoming. Then one day he was gone and soon thereafter Sang Huin lost the address book and k... ...o plan out their time together. Sang Huin did what he requested: touring the Independence Museum; mountain climbing; free English lessons, and visits ... ...e it. When he studied Korean, read great literature, went to a museum, saw a video at the video pang, or went to a mokotang he was alone and often que... ...a child was born in this manner and grew up not with Mother or Father but in independence and its relationship with the Earth and the sun. She, the E... ...sus finding more purpose to life than reering one's young; attachment versus independence; and the containment of her son versus the release of him. ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...gination to think that we might be directed somewhat by heredity, somewhat by what has happened to us in the past and somewhat by our present day th... ...cestors of our progeny? Does that afterlife start immediately after death? After three days as in Zoroastrian belief? Not until Final Judgment Day? T... ... Have we really forgotten so many things or do our ten billion brain cells merely hide many of our experiences so they don‘t confuse us in our day- t... ...manizing technique. Certainly there are things that need to be learned by rote—spelling, writing, the multiplication tables, and so forth. But video ... ...tside themselves; they are concerned with basic issues and eternal questions. They like privacy and tend to be detached. They have a relative indepe... ...r, is one of the common behaviors of people with inferiority feelings.‖ —―You have to admit that violence in films, TV programming and video ... ...ople at Columbine High School in 1999 wrote journals about how they were going to kill and torture people. They mentioned a couple of violent video ... ...ve. The truly loving person would have seen to it that Marvin walked home by himself, for there comes a time in every young person's life when indepe... ... a time in every young person's life when independence must come. The truly loving person will see to it that children begin to exercise their indepe...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... the word “Olympic” and will not permit gay activists to hold a “Gay Olympic Games.” The Supreme Court sees no First Amendment problem with this. 3 Ma... ...work. 6 In some cases it effectively removes the privilege of fair use. Each day brings some new Internet horror story about the excesses of intel- le... ...uld be the people who watch, read, and listen to it, and who remake it every day. And even if you are dubious about the way pop- ular choice gets form... ...e pictures of puppies and put them on greeting cards—maybe you can quit your day job and actually make a living from your expressive powers. If the ma... ...s of animators and musicians and software gurus and meld their labors into a videotape that will successfully anesthetize your children for two hours;... ... on his father, my son had long since wandered off in search of a basketball game to watch. But I have to admit his question was something of an epiph... ...ected out of hand. “I can conceive no system more fatal to the integrity and independence of literary men than one under which they should be taught t... ...ntury to the world of the twenty-first, from elevators and grain hop- pers to video recorders, the Internet, and file-sharing services. I use the story ... ...toms. The downside dominates the field, the upside is invisible. The story of video recorders is the best-known example. When video recorders—another t...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... street sweeper did the work of thousands of little old ladies in a single day. Machines plucked and packed the fruits of our orchards eliminating th... ...nd of mine at the California State University joyfully goes to work every day at 85. He is an outstanding teacher and is still coaching an intercoll... ...xercising stroke and other paralysis victims. They work many more hours a day than the live therapists can. So the patients get 6 hours of therapy i... ...his at appropriate ages. Then the schools‟ curricula is geared to develop independence at the appropriate ages. Of course there is no standard age fo... ...he appropriate ages. Of course there is no standard age for each level of independence. For example, learning to cross the street by oneself might be... ...hildren less sure of themselves. This will then hinder the development of independence. Along these lines we emphasize that the child will tend to i... ...as your 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 so... ...what is good for society. “I am aware that occasionally you ban a video game, but it always seems to become available on the internet. I rem... ...y might be kidnapped. So they keep them indoors watching violent films and video games with no fear of their learning to be violent. Yet the chances ...

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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

... Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works... ...ights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independence Avenue SE • Washington, DC 20559-6000 • (202) 707-8350 January... ...arybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights James Madison Memorial Building 101 Independence Avenue SE Room 403 Washington, DC 20540 Dear Ms. Peters. In El... ...submit written comments on the problem to the Office during an initial 60-day period, followed by a 45- day period for reply comments. The Office re... ... of America); • independent filmmakers (e.g., Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, Film Arts Foundation, IFP-New York, National Allian... ...on, IFP-New York, National Alliance for Media, Arts and Culture, National Video Resources); • film studios (e.g., Motion Picture Association of Am... ...oundtables in Washington, D.C. on July 26 and 27, 2005, and an additional day of roundtables in Berkeley, California, 21 on August 2, 2005. 22 In... ...PYRIGHT OFFICE • independent filmmakers (e.g., Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, Film Independent, National Video Resources, Film Ar... ...s in various ways (e.g., by title, by category of work) online 24 hours a day through the Office’s website. 46 ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ends is no big secret. Optical fiber telephone cables wires bend light every day. However, what Science does not recognize is that light bends nat... ...t can bend is no big secret. Optical fiber telephone cables bend light every day. But light bending in Outer Space without needing an optical lens... ...he entire scientific community with this clever stunt is that Science to this day still does not recognize, and will not admit that light does not g... ...roaring in outrage; if their children even dare to try to establish their own independence. If a male lion ever lives long enough for its cubs to gr... ...mfort, luxury, beauty, fame, safety, insularity, security, prestige, freedom, independence, autonomy, material possessions, ego gratification, fame a... ...tems? Teaching you to never think for yourself. Teaching you never to learn independence, or responsibility. What do parents do? They teach their... ...and can’t listen to their fucking ipods and can’t play their fucking computer video games anymore: they will die on one week: dead from lack of arti... ...er-fun? How do you balance using tools with being human? By giving children videogames and computers, so they can be trained to become perfect litt... ...because they have nothing else to do except go to the mall, watch TV, or play video games… where the only activities available to them are vacuous, m...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...who has not sinned eat the hottest chili.‖ --―I pray for you every day Con, I pray that we won‘t end up in the same post- mortem place!‖ -... ...ng the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, the Sabbath, as their day of worship? Will all people who say ‗God damn you‘ go to hell for taki... ...en you can direct your intellectual efforts in other directions—like into video games, television, or murder mystery books. Why learn the multiplica... ...rage person doesn‘t care? Is it possible that spending their time playing video poker is more important than watching the evening news or reading a n... ... as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teach violence. Drug sellers vend a release from psyc... ...manitarian ethics could also answer the 47 challenges of these modern day ills, religions are a fundamental in most societies, so they are easil... ...een your most influential president. He not only wrote the Declaration of Independence but he made the Louisiana Purchase from France for 3 66 c... ...n of Jupiter.‘ This should clarify that his wording of the Declaration of Independence referred either to a deistic God or it was a purely political... ...er Stalin? ―What about the word ‗freedom‘? Freedom can be viewed as independence or as being exempted from certain proscriptions. But philosop...

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...spensable as being able to take a shower for a positive perspective of the day. No, he thought again, she sullied him or he sullied himself with her. ... ...e came out with her bag of goods she faced a gigantic television screen of video animated advertisements on the wall of a building across the street t... ...y have overcome servitude in the Japanese owned/Thai co-signed sweatshops. Independence, you know. They will be facing starvation in Laos shortly. Ear... ... I run out of beer later maybe I can ferment wine from some of the rotting day old rice I was trying to eat earlier and whatever you have stinking up ... ...hysterical deprecatory laughter, guffaws, and jeers on that one mortifying day in gym class when, at the age of eleven, his loose underwear fell throu... ...edestal, had inadvertently scrutinized her, and then filed the diminishing video footage into his mutating brain under the disparaging category of "S-... ...ed all women to be programmed with urges for whoreish involvements to gain independence from the parents within the union of a man, to rob a man of th... ...orld with thought. - I am not that kind of woman, she retorted to feign an independence of her lover that was not hers. He chuckled at that which coul... ...y would anyone want your paintings? That is what I'm trying to figure out. Video porn... DVD porn for those with computers, okay. They are closer to t...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

...gent daughter, while I walk in empty-handed like a forlorn beggar on a rainy day. We get inside, and I immediately notice a myriad of new MCAT prepar... ...story of human civilization? Last I checked, kings and queens of our current day and — — age, only have purely ceremonial roles and no governmental p... ...rely had an hour to eat dinner, because of all the homework accumulated that day. I b*tch and moan about how I have it bad, but I'm living in paradis... ...ection agent. Why is the airbag on my side so small? It's like the size of a Game “ Boy, Gabriel asks. He's the type of person that demands an answer... ... over to his house to play Nintendo. Back then, the Japanese had the newest games to hit the market. So Gabriel made a lot of new friends in no time... ...ter than any other person. Perhaps Asians forgot to read the Declaration of Independence, which states: all men are created equal. I guess they didn'... ... bothered. For those of you that are not cognizant of Street Fighter, it's a video game that started out in the late 80's to become the greatest figh... ...red. For those of you that are not cognizant of Street Fighter, it's a video game that started out in the late 80's to become the greatest fighting g... ...nner, we're both ultimately losers, because we ” live vicariously through a video game. Gabriel and I really need to get ourselves a life. As we make...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...ract, but there is nothing much that we can do about it. These are the rules of the game. Thus the two remaining questions: (a) can this specific c... ...ers. The Talmudic dictum establishes a privileged moral club (very similar to later day social contractarianism) comprised of oneself and one's fri... ...esh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed."... ... Africa, the Ache in Paraguay, the Tonkawa in today's Texas, the Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois confederacies of Indians in ... ...h ate it. He then proceeded to kill Brandes (with the latter's consent recorded on video), and snack on what remained of him. Sexual cannibalism i... ...sive collections. Erstwhile president of Sierra Leone, Momoh, amassed hundreds of video players and other consumer goods in vast rooms in his mans... ...ible entity. The artifacts of popular culture - thrillers, action and sci-fi films, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms, organ... ...ted while (partly) awake and under direct suggestion. This further demonstrates the independence of the Dream Mechanism. It almost does not react to... ...yearning for uniqueness and idiosyncrasy, for distinction and self sufficiency, for independence and self expression commences early, in one's forma...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ract, but there is nothing much that we can do about it. These are the rules of the game. Thus the two remaining questions: (a) can this specific c... ...ers. The Talmudic dictum establishes a privileged moral club (very similar to later day social contractarianism) comprised of oneself and one's fri... ...esh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed."... ... Africa, the Ache in Paraguay, the Tonkawa in today's Texas, the Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois confederacies of Indians in ... ...h ate it. He then proceeded to kill Brandes (with the latter's consent recorded on video), and snack on what remained of him. Sexual cannibalism i... ...sive collections. Erstwhile president of Sierra Leone, Momoh, amassed hundreds of video players and other consumer goods in vast rooms in his mans... ...ible entity. The artifacts of popular culture - thrillers, action and sci-fi films, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms, organ... ...ted while (partly) awake and under direct suggestion. This further demonstrates the independence of the Dream Mechanism. It almost does not react to... ...yearning for uniqueness and idiosyncrasy, for distinction and self sufficiency, for independence and self expression commences early, in one's forma...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...or them. TOUR OF THE AREA The next day I was privileged to be taken on a grand tour of the city and the surro... ... falling prices. America‘s twenty thousand cotton farmers average $5.000 a day each in subsidies. Because of the money in subsidies, more cotton is ... ... economic groups are no longer earning at a Third World rate of a dollar a day. They are out of the poverty levels and they are moving up the economi... ...clothes, music, films. They had decided to beat free enterprise at its own game. The government looked the other way as long as it didn‟t cost them ... ... is play football, borrow and crash your car, then move away—showing their independence! In my experience women show both more practical intelligenc... ...ising every year. KINO’S PENSION PLAN TODAY ―When Kino was given independence we immediately tackled the care of the elderly problem. We i... ...eel compassion for your people who must waste their hours playing poker or video games or glued to their televisions. It isn‘t that we don‘t underst... ...more enjoyable ways for our children and adults to learn. Cartoons, films, video productions, books discussion groups, lectures, and many more avenue... ...is now in Turkey. We don‘t have our children wasting their time on playing video games that someone else invented. We believe that developing scient...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...mpleted the first journey around the solar system. Today, May 17, 2025 is a day that will be forever engraved in the minds of humanity. ... ...ot on several planets gave me orgasmic thrills that will live with me every day of my life. And you ask was I lonely. Yes and no. I enjoy human compa... ...on October 12, 1999 it was not significant that my voyage began on Columbus Day. What was significant was that it was the day that the six billionth... ...ts. Yet there are many supposedly upright citizens who revel in this sickly game. Should any child be subjected to the cruelty of such sadistic ment... ...t I fall into that category. I’m thinking about seeing my grandson’s soccer game, painting the kitchen, taking my wife out to dinner and a show. I j... ...y grandparents than parents. Then look at the number being raised by TV and video games. Seems to me that there aren’t as many children who are reall... ...dparents than parents. Then look at the number being raised by TV and video games. Seems to me that there aren’t as many children who are really wan... ...to overcome guaranteed freedoms, such as religion. Since the Declaration of Independence is not a law you couldn’t use “the pursuit of happiness” as ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...d quarrelsome, solipsistically provincial, and fatuously ignorant - this nation of video clips and sound bites, the United States, is often perceiv... ...han substance. To religious fundamentalists, America is the Great Satan, a latter-day Sodom and Gomorrah, a cesspool of immorality and spiritual d... ...on, indentured servants, lapsed nobility, and other refugees. Their Declaration of Independence reads like a maudlin list of grievances coupled wit... ...rice up front. Yet the chaos and corruption in their own homes is broadcast live, day in and day out, into the cubicles inhabited by the very peop... ..., capital of the last remnant of Greek empire, which had maintained its precarious independence by paying court to Turks and Mongols alike, finally... ... first since the Civil War to dare to change the fundamental rules of the political game (for instance by seeking to abolish the filibuster in the ... ...GB provocateur by Massoud and many others, and was never of any help in the Afghan independence struggle. Instead of fighting the Soviet occupants,... ...ionalism and based on constitutional and national ideas similar to those of present day Turkey and France. During the military dictatorship of Zia u... ...ng black market facilitates the smuggling of cigarettes, software, home appliances, video films, weaponry, food, carpets - and virtually every other...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...e centers Waikiki’s largest capacity ballroom State-of-the-art audio and video services 22-acres of tropical gardens with 5 resort pools 2,860 gue... ...e centers Waikiki’s largest capacity ballroom State-of-the-art audio and video services 22-acres of tropical gardens with 5 resort pools 2,860 gue... ...tate of Hawai‘i’s most important economic enterprise is to pursue energy independence by reducing oil imports through a clean energy economy,” say... ...elp the U.S. military determine if it can grow its own biofuel with 100-day oil-seed crops. Above, Makai Ocean Engineering is working with Lockhe... ...vantage: Conduct Business in North America and Asia on the Same Business Day HAWAI‘I BEIJING SHANGHAI HONG KONG TOKYO SEOUL SYDNEY When it is 9 a.m.... ...UL SYDNEY When it is 9 a.m. in Hawai‘i, it is the afternoon of the same day in North America Later that same day, when it is 3 p.m. in Hawai‘i, th... ...1 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS HANK WUH “(These) technologies are really game- changers, completely transformational.” Orthopaedic surgeon and vis... ...h explains, “is these are highly disruptive technologies that are really game- changers, completely transformational and unlike any technologies th... ...INESS hawaiigas.com (808) 535-5933 The Gas Company is committed to energy independence for Hawaii. New biofuel and hydrogen production, among other i...

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Died and Moved In

By: Christine Jones

...battle-weary bones, but has little affect on my current mood. I curse the day I bought the farm from hell. It is times like this; I find myself thin... ... a lifestyle of the eighteen hundreds. Nevertheless, I had to find my own independence, so I keep telling myself. My family’s lifestyle revolves aro... ...r mother is a typical example of a well-bred woman, who has about as much independence as a man in a straight jacket with a wallet full of credit ca... ... kidnap and lose her somewhere, which I will never hear the end of. Every day, I get a telephone call from Ali and as the telephone is now ringing, ... ...enty-questions routine. I give the same answers and she’s content for the day. “Yep, it’s wet and windy. No darling, the cute woollies aren’t in the... ...dy thing comes at me at a zillion miles an hour. I was never good at ball games, so I had to walk to the other side of the terminal to pick the bag ... ... the area. For two hours, I’ve sat here watching the big screen displaying video clips to songs. It must be party time, as not only is the music cran... ...sment and gossip; yes! The things we do for love. Standing in front of the video stand, I have to keep putting back Steven’s selections, as I don’t l... ...worth watching on the box.” His eyes are on my hand reaching up towards a video. “Now that’s not too bad.” Brooky obviously though I was going to ta...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...ople compulsively. He strongly disapproves of others' personal autonomy and independence. Even innocuous activities, such as meeting a friend or vis... ...rcissists among subsistence farmers in Africa, nomads in the Sinai desert, day labourers in East Europe, and intellectuals and socialites in Manhat... ...oup/narcissisticabus e/message/5000 The Narcissist or Psychopath Hates your Independence and Personal Autonomy http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/n... ...ot so they may be met as in close relationships, but to weaken and confuse. Independence that is offered in return for 'betrayal' is a lie. Silence ... ...Sometimes the victim develops an almost fatal resolve that, inevitably, one day she will be murdered. Victims, unable to live a normal life, describ... ...ate because it is inconsistent and too perfect. The cracks are evident from day one but often ignored. Then there are those who KNOWINGLY and WILLI... ...ware of his "true" being, or someone who merely and innocently enjoys mind games and toying with people's lives, or an unwitting part of a dark con... ... of abuse as unwise missiles do. Course set. Explosive clouds that mark your video destination. Experts interpret, pricking with laser markers, inflat...

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Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability and Statistics

By: Florentin Smarandache

...rd: sickness of players, referee's mistakes, atmospheric conditions during the game). These parameters act on players' psychology. 4.4 Remarks: ... ...unny ainy about the true nature of the weather at a given location for the next day and let consider two independent bodies of evidence and providing ... ...the two sources of evidence reinforces the belief that tomorrow will be a sunny day at location (assuming that both bodies of evidence are equally rel... ... (chain rule) of the information theory, i.e. or more specially because of the independence of the two sources of information Note that must be eval... ... New economies have a solid impact on the growth of financial markets. In this day of age, one needs to be able to monitor these rapid dynamical cha... ...ere outside the “Pure Land” World which was founded by Amitabha. A recent VCD video from Taiwan shows that a young man really came to this world af... ... he is very easily interfered and distracted by things outside, e.g., friends, games, music, movie, TV, etc. So the problem is: there are two source... ...foam is assimilated), and you have another utopia! If you know the rules of the game, you can change them... 6.1. Neutrosophy and Incompleteness Neutr...

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Lord Ormont and His Aminta

By: George Meredith

...e because it relieved their heaviness; things were lumpish and gloomy that day of the week. The girls, who sped their peep of inquisition before the m... ...c discharge was jerked by chance at the usher and the governess—at the old game, it seemed; or why did they keep steering columns to meet? There was n... ...it would never be happening every other Sun- 4 Lord Ormont and His Aminta day, and oftener, by sheer toss-penny accident. They were moved like pieces... ...o nearly vexatious to boys al- most biliously oppressed by the tedium of a day merely al- lowing them to shove the legs along, ironically naming it an... ...nti- cally similar situation, that forced a resemblance. T ouching the old game, Cuper’s fold was a healthy school, owing to the good lead of the head... ... charge he can’t support; she punishes him by taking three years’ lease of independence and kicks up the grass all over the paddock, and then comes cu... ...erewith to strike at our Phari- sees. Women pushing out into the world for independence, bleed heavy payments all round. The earl’s double-edged defen... ...r carriage?’ ‘It brings me here. I find my way home.’ ‘Alone?’ ‘I like the independence.’ ‘At night, too!’ ‘Nothing harmed me. Now it is daylight. A l... ...e of the military profession, sir, I see. I am a soldier, fresh from Monte Video. Italian, it is evident, under an Ital- ian chief there. A clerk on a...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

... in my life, which left stings in my memory so as to be remembered at this day, were two, and both before I could have completed my second year; namel... ...cident was drawn off from her proper duties to attend my sister Jane for a day or two, had on one occasion treated her harshly, if not brutally; and a... ...red upon that event, ran after my steps far into life; and perhaps at this day I resemble little for good or for ill that which else I should have bee... ...allowed it to be supposed that I had none, there was an end forever to the independence of my people. Poor things! they would have been invaded and dr... ...(partly on that account, but much more through the sudden birth of perfect independence which so unex- pectedly it opened) the value of a revolutionar... ... and the general pursuit commenced, which brought all parties (hunters and game) sweeping so wildly past the quiet grounds of Greenhay. The sequel of ... ... thrown a ball beyond the prison bounds in playing at tennis, or some such game, Sir Sidney was surprised to observe that the ball thrown back was not... ...advanc- ing from all points; and a few moves were all that remained of the game, played with whatever skill. Colonel Vereker, with about 300 of the Li... ...ut books to consult,) he joined the storming party of the English at Monte Video. Here he happened fortu- nately to fall under the eye of Sir Home Pop...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...e read with eagerness the police examinations of Williams; and on the same day which announced the catastrophe of Williams, he also committed suicide ... ...great sepul- chral shadow rolled away from the face of Christendom as that day’s sun went down to his rest; for, had the success been less absolute, a... ...gh the confusions incident to the two French invasions of Spain in our own day [1st, that under Napoleon; 2dly, that under the Due d’Angoulême]. Among... ...t at with bows and arrows, not having pluck enough to make a rush—but were game men; all young, strong, rich, and in most cases techni- cally “noble;”... ...mmon vegetables. No fish, even as a regular part of the fare; no soups, no game; nor, except on some very rare festivity, did I ever see a variation f... ... that which caused the declension of the Oracles was the loss of political independence and autonomy. After Alexander, still more after the Roman conq... ...isdain of sedentary ease; none in a martial support of liberty or national independence has so gayly volunteered upon services the most desperate, or ... ... of Servia. In 1800, Czerni George came forward as the asserter of Servian independence, and drove the Ottomans out of that prov- ince. Personally he ... ...o singulaque curiosius contrectando, lente me promovi et testudineo gradu. Video enim ingenium humanum ita comparatum esse—ut facilius longe quid cons...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

...r, and more. Hence, the Mayans received the nickname “stargazers.” To this day, no scientists or mathematicians are able to explain how they read the ... ... by her. There will never be a moment in time that I would ever regret the day that I walked into the Humane Society and took home my first new puppy,... ...– English 4 The Lost T radition EVERY SUNDAY was understood to be a family day. No one even thought to make plans with friends or to schedule anything... ...le- vision, although none were overly successful. Even- tually, Star W ars video games hit the market, many of which were very successful. The big mom... ...sion, although none were overly successful. Even- tually, Star W ars video games hit the market, many of which were very successful. The big moment ca... ...uld hold whites over blacks. We con- tinue to fight for our Declaration of Independence, which states, “ “ “ “ “We hold these truths to be self-evi- d... ...ut money and TV contracts. T eams that have no right going to a major bowl game go because of who they are and, more importantly, who their fans are a... ... their long time hero, a man whom they watched win all 324 record breaking games. I saw the stu- dent section cheering on a man who was a worthy sport...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... unity of purpose because our nation demands it. September 11, 2001, was a day of unprecedented shock and suf- fering in the history of the United Sta... ...ing positive—an America that is safer, stronger, and wiser. That September day, we came together as a nation.The test before us is to sustain that uni... ...carry-on bag was swiped by an explosive trace detector and then passed.The video footage indicates that he was carrying an unidentified item in his ba... ...ey screened were CAPPS selectees.We asked a screening expert to review the videotape of the hand-wanding, and he found the qual- ity of the screener’s... ...he phrase,“We have some planes.” 65 No one at the FAA or the airlines that day had ever dealt with multiple hijackings. Such a plot had not been carri... ...ng that the military had not been on the call. 188 At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Sit- uation Room by Richard Cla... ...ances but played little role in the overwhelmingly sec- ular struggles for independence after World War I.Western-educated lawyers, soldiers, and offi... ...ter World War I.Western-educated lawyers, soldiers, and officials led most independence movements, and clerical influence and traditional culture were... ...itional culture were seen as obstacles to national progress. After gaining independence from Western powers following World War II, the Arab Middle Ea...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...ch is generally in the driest valley, there is also a wide difference. One day, two of the officers and myself rode to Ribeira Grande, a village a few... ...e then re- turned, as fast as the ponies would go, to Porto Praya. Another day we rode to the village of St. Domingo, situated near the centre of the ... ..., and could not be approached. They avoided us, like partridges on a rainy day in Sep- tember, running with their heads cocked up; and if pursued, the... ...mple and patriarchal style of living: it was such a perfect retirement and independence from the rest of the world. As soon as any stranger is seen ar... ..., vol. i. p. 213 46 The V oyage of the Beagle CHAPTER III MALDONADO Monte Video—Excursion to R. Polanco—Lazo and Bolas —Partridges — Absence of Trees... ...little eddies, with the adjoining fluid. July 26th. — We anchored at Monte Video. The Beagle was employed in surveying the extreme southern and easter... ...piece of news we heard was, that, the day be- fore, a traveller from Monte Video had been found dead on the road, with his throat cut. This happened c... ...ky, with the gear of the recado for my bed. There is high enjoyment in the independence of the Gaucho life — to be able at any moment to pull up your ... ...ss, but the greater number did not seem inclined to offer any salute. This independence of manners is prob- ably a consequence of their long wars, and...

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The Ethics of Aristotle

By: J. A. Smith

...what has lasted white ever so long, is no whiter than what lasts but for a day. No. The Pythagoreans do seem to give a more credible account of the ma... ... we must add, in a complete life; for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a ... ...ot so, for it will of neces- sity act, and act well. And as at the Olympic games it is not the finest and strongest men who are crowned, but they who ... ... to speak of them; or as in the case of that cata- pult accident the other day the man said he discharged it merely to display its operation. Or a per... ...ured by the surrounding circumstances: which happens also in the gymnastic games; to the boxers the End is pleasant with a view to which they act, I m... ...ch latter arises in the case of those who live in communion with a view to independence and who are free and equal either pro- portionately or numeric... ...d of resemblance (as when we add to a man’s name “conqueror in the Olympic games” the account of him as Man differs but little from the account of him... ...en the Machinery is out of or- der; as in the case of the [Greek: akrates]—video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor. P . 132, l. 9. See the note on [G...

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