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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...st advances in mass media, public transportation, telecommunications, and computer networks. The police - there are 16,000 law enforcement agencies... ...Televa and Luxor of Sweden and became a consumer electronics group - manufacturing televisions and such. Nokia continued with its acquisitions ... ...ary.com suggests that it is derived from a Monty Python skit in their Flying Circus television show in 1970. In it a group of Vikings harass two pat... ...s/ea/side/teapot.html http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-2851.html Television The transmission of images obsessed inventors as ea... ...iple of scanning a picture, line by line and frame by frame - still used in modern television sets - was proposed simultaneously in the USA (by W.E... ...in the USA (by W.E. Sawyer) and in France (by Maurice Leblanc). The first complete television system - using the newly discovered properties of sel...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data.‖ According to M-W,... ...ightbulb 1880  Electricity distribution 1906–1919  Radio 1920s  Television 1930s (or sooner)  Punch cards to input and externally store ... ...e Internet we know today that connects ground-based, radio, and satellite networks. In 1974, Vint Cerf (―father of the Internet‖ to some) and Bob K... ... Kahn wrote the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). That let the various networks connect in a true ―Internet.‖ By the 1980s, it connected the comp... ...of the twenty-first century:  Satellite TV gave people access on their television sets to real reporting of images and information on CNN, Al Jaz... ...people post information and opinions anonymously on a computer.  Social networks let people share information, opinions, and organizing ideas and ... ...h following TEXT<<<<< PERHAPS INCLUDE TIME LINE ON SAME PAGE? Social Networks and Digital Books Soar TIME magazine named Facebook founder Mark ...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...to ten languages. His daily lessons are broad- cast live and recorded on cable television in the US, in Israel, and on the Internet to tens of thousa... ...uction company, producing documentaries and edu- cational films aired on cable television networks in Israel, North America, and Europe. Additionally... ...any, producing documentaries and edu- cational films aired on cable television networks in Israel, North America, and Europe. Additionally, Bnei Baru...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...Cafe Mimoza". His government constructed makeshift schools and hospitals, parallel networks of services staffed by the Serb-dispossessed, capitaliz... ... Sam: In my view, this is simply wrong. Modern terrorism - multinational, amorphic networks, with access to technology - is at least 50 years old. ... ... other periodicals, and in the economic programs on various channels of Macedonian Television. Chief Lecturer in courses organised by the Agency o...

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

By: Matti Sarmela

...technology Continental states - universal technosystems - Internet, global networks - universal science - global databases ('World Brain') - global hi... ...Today we ask, what does a global person identify with, what are his safety networks? Will local morality be replaced by biological morality, and will ... ... cultural environment. In virtual reality, the Internet, cyber- and global networks, man of the future is able to live simultaneously in different par... ...es and they are like summer cottages, holiday homes of the rich. We have a television set and the young people watch it, but I don't care to watch. So... ...do you like most? watch it. I stopped watching TV many years ago. I think television is a good thing. You can see the news from our home country and ... ...s a good thing to buy and you have something to boast about when you own a television. I think that TV programmes are mostly good. It's our human natu... ...arn a lot of foreign affairs. I don't think there are any disadvantages to television. The only drawback is that it can't be left on in a What about u... ... of house. Which do you think is the best? In this next picture, there's a television set, telephone, radio, typewriter, and all kinds of goods. Which... ... rise and fall of the water; house building style, irrigation canals, the networks of dammed paddy fields were adapted to the nature of riversides, ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...s, now consume mere decades. Telecommunications, global transports and information networks, such as the Internet - pit the likes of the USA agains... ...ltant position with a firm you formerly oversaw or regulated, your own talk show on television, a cushy job in the administration? The truth is tha... ...f eminent Afghan leaders. This is how they secured their foothold in Afghan social networks - something neither the West nor Pakistan succeeded to ... ...ernment is largely supplanted in Pakistan by criminally-tainted regional political networks of patronage, venality, nepotism, and cronyism. More th... ...ident Vladimir Putin warned on Tuesday, in an interview he granted to TF1, a French television channel, that unilateral American-British military ac... ... typical daily occurrence, bucking a global trend, Matsushita intends to expand its television factory in Plzen. Its investment of $8 million will e... ...between Chinese and Russian companies that provide for the assembly in Russia color televisions and household air conditioners are being successfull... ...pplied by imported Indian and Moroccan craftsmen in two of the palaces. Iraqi state television reported in June that Saddam exhorted his ministers t... ...ruction - though Israel is hitherto the only regional nuclear power - and by global networks like al-Qaida. In his travelogue, "Eastward to Tartary...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...c relations. You're still using that one site you restored in everyone of your television commercials running on those Sunday morning news shows, a... ... around the room. C-SPAN would cover the event live from open to close, but the Networks would edit their coverage down to no more than four minutes... ...sed. Cathy Knowles had been bouncing around from newspapers, to radio, and now television where she held the spot as special events reporter. She w... ... come." "He called you personally?" Edwards asked. "I'm here. I'm not watching television," Brent replied. "I was told by head of News, be here or ... ...r case. When the richest man in the country donates ten million dollars on live television, you can bet something's up. You can both turn your notes... ... PRESIDENT'S NEWS conference started at six p.m. sharp. It was carried on every television station in the country, plus, broadcast to most countries...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data.‖ According to M-W... ...ightbulb 1880  Electricity distribution 1906–1919  Radio 1920s  Television 1930s (or sooner)  Punch cards to input and externally store ... ...e Internet we know today that connects ground-based, radio, and satellite networks. In 1974, Vint Cerf (―father of the Internet‖ to some) and Bob ... ... Kahn wrote the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). That let the various networks connect in a true ―Internet.‖ By the 1980s, it connected the comp... ...of the twenty-first century:  Satellite TV gave people access on their television sets to real reporting of images and information on CNN, Al Jaz... ...people post information and opinions anonymously on a computer.  Social networks let people share information, opinions, and organizing ideas and ... ...h Following TEXT<<<<< PERHAPS INCLUDE TIME LINE ON SAME PAGE? Social Networks and Digital Books Soar TIME magazine named Facebook founder Mar...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...n the brain often takes priority over the logical section of the brain. This has an effect on our buying habits, our preferences for films and televi... ... the street corner businessmen guarantee you happiness when you buy their mind altering wares. And the marketing of sex in books, movies, and televi... ...innocents were attacked with equal fury by their countrymen.‖ --―Millions of people in our country don't automatically reach for the televi... ... motivation, or trying to win over yourself by doing better every week. This would be a ‗power to‘ motivation. ―With game attendance, televi... ...g engagement the same relationship continues. But what happens after marriage? Do they go their separate ways? Does one watch a good deal more televi... ...person possesses. He listed other capitals as: economic, one‘s access to finances; social capital, friends and relationships in one‘s social networ...

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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

...he work to Argenbright Security. 13 The checkpoint featured closed-circuit television that recorded all passengers, including the hijackers, as they w... ...right Security. Like the check- points in Boston, it lacked closed-circuit television surveillance so there is no documentary evidence to indicate whe... ...Lee Hanson had heard a woman scream just before it cut off. He turned on a television, and in her home so did Louise Sweeney. Both then saw the second... ...elger, had not been told of a confirmed hijacking before they learned from television that a plane had crashed. 181 Others in the agency were aware of... ...had just sat down for a meeting when his assistant told him to turn on his television because a plane had struck the North T ower of the W orld Trade ... ...air traffic con- trol, financial services, telephone systems, and computer networks. . . . Third, we will undertake a concerted effort to prevent the ... ...against it and the Taliban. 125 Bin Ladin relied on the established hawala networks operating in Pakistan, in Dubai, and throughout the Middle East to... ...ing paper, entitled “Strategy for Eliminating the Threat from the Jihadist Networks of al Qida: Status and Prospects,” reviewed the threat and the rec... ...ary to terrorists, work with a coalition to eliminate terrorist groups and networks, and avoid malice toward any peo- ple, religion, or culture. 41 Pr...

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