In A Lucky Survivor from a Lost Land, Becker recounts his life story--his birth in Germany in a town just forty-five miles from the Polish border, his experience of the affects of World War II, and his membership in the Junior Hitler Youth. He recalls scrounging for work in the mines, escaping through the Iron Curtain from Soviet-controlled East Germany to West Germany when he was nearly fifteen, finding his dream job at sea, immigrating to the United States in 1956, and working in a career in the shipping industry.
Creating Reality in Factual Television analyzes the uneasy interaction between economics, culture, and professional ethics in reality and documentary television storytelling. Through the "frankenbite," an editorial tool that extracts and re-orders the salient elements or single words of a statement, interview, or exchange into a revealing confession or argument, the book explores how and why editors manipulate truth in factual television. The author considers how the editing of documentary television is increasingly following reality television’s dictate to entertain instead of inform, how the "real" and the "truth" fall victim to the demand to "tell entertaining stories," and how editors must compromise their professional ethics as a result. Drawing on interviews with 75 North American and European editors that explore their experiences and opinions of reality and documentary television practices, and their views on their responsibilities and loyalties in the field, Creating Reality in Factual Television illuminates the real and potential ethical dilemmas of editorial decision making, the context in which decisions are made, and how editors themselves validate the editing choices to themselves and others. Addressing a dramatic development in contemporary media ecology – the age of "alternative facts" – this book is a useful research tool for scholars and students of documentary film, media literacy, genre studies, media ethics, affect theory, and audience perception.
The work described in this publication was initiated at the General Electric Company's Electronics Laboratory, Syracuse, N.Y., U.S.A. The author would like to take this opportunity to express his gratitude to the Electronics Laboratory for its support and encouragement in this work. Thanks are in particular due to Mr. J.J. Suran for his continued interest and help. It is impossible to acknowledge all the help the author has re ceived from members of the Laboratory staff. However, the author is par ticularly indebted to Mr. T.C. Robbins for managing the building of the word recognizer (described in Section 7.4) and for many helpful discussions. Thanks are also due to Mr. W.E. Sollecito for valued support and direction, and to S.M. Korzekwa, S.B. Akers, Jr., and B.L. Crew for many discussions on implementation and design of pattern recognizers. Part of the work has been sponsored by two departments of the General Electric Company, the Large Jet Engine Department and the Apollo Support Department. The author is grateful for the permission from the two departments to publish results of theoretical interest in this dissertation. The work was later continued in Denmark, supported by two grants: no.
The Four Aces of Hearts In 1860, Ellen has to give her 4 son's away after her husband was murdered and a mysterious bill of sale showed up, she and her son's were evicted. On a cold rain filled day laying in the muddy street, Short, fat bald headed Charlie finds Ellen praying for God to take her life. They become partners in the Bull saloon. Ellen knew who killed her husband for the gold that was discovered near their ranch. It was Fulton. After sixteen years, Fulton wants to transfer the gold he has taken out of Ellen's ranch. He has desires of building his own town. Ellen decides to find her four son's and bring them back to Hardin, Montana to steal that gold. She decides to run a poker tournament to find four men to go after her son's. Charlie has kept track of there where abouts. She finds two fast guns, a dynamite expert and a horse man stage driver. She gives each one A PIECE OF PAPER WITH A HEART DRAWN ON IT AND two bags of gold containing $100.00. One for the boy's and one for them, with the promise of a lot more. If the boy's want to know what the heart drawing is all about they will have to come with you to see me.
When a painting of Mount Ranier is purchased by young and attractive Erika Stevens, St. Louis police discover a coded message intended for a global gang of thieves and assassins. Police detective Marc Edwards finds himself enmeshed in the gangs illegal activities covering all of Europe and North America. Protecting Erika from certain murder, and attempting to question her at the same time, the two of them fall in love. Called to London and hired by Scotland Yard, the duo work with Interpol, British MI6 and the American FBI and CIA to bring together the largest group of global law enforcement officers ever assembled. Tracking down the gang and its mysterious leader Mr. Lambert, proves to be an almost impossible task, threatening the lives of law officers and the survival of both Marc and Erika.
When Army Bombardier Capt. Robert Marsden crashes his B-17 in France during World War II, he doubts hell survive. The Nazis have already occupied the country, but good fortune smiles on him: Lisa Jardin, an attractive nursing student, brings him back to health. At first, he wonders if shes real or if shes a figment of his imagination. Not only is she real the two fall in love. Marsden joins the French Resistance in the little village of St. Liseau, carrying out sabotage missions against German occupying forces and supplying critical information to allied Supreme Headquarters as it prepares to invade the beaches of Normandy. But even his brushes with death cannot prepare him for the chain of events that are set into motion when German troops retreat deeper into the French countryside. Fighting for their very lives, the lives of the villagers will be forever changed at The Road at St. Liseau.
Evil and Givenness: The Thanatonic Phenomenon provides a phenomenological study of evil in its conceptual integrity.Describing a phenomenological situation exclusive to evil in its distinct mode of givenness and manners of manifestation, the account of evil in this book centers on the thanatonic as that phenomenality proper to evil. Although situated within a phenomenology of givenness via Jean-Luc Marion, the thanatonic is distinguished from saturated phenomena by giving itself in a parasitic mode. Brian W. Becker identifies four figures as displaying characteristics of this parasitic givenness—trauma, evil eye, foreign-body, and abject—each expressing a dimension of the thanatonic and paralleling the four figures of the saturated phenomenon. Like the four horsemen who serve as heralds for the destruction of the world, these figures beckon the destruction of our lifeworld, diminishing the self who encounters them. Upon losing the will to bear the excess of saturated phenomena, the receding of horizons, and the loss of singularity, this impoverished self misrecognizes itself in a manner that begins to resemble the metaphysical ego and, in doing so, becomes a vector for retransmitting the thanatonic’s suffering unto others.
The N(h)-Working Party, a Group in Commission III of URS! (URS! Information Bulletin No. 112, p. 12) suggested these calculations of ordinary and extraordinary refractive indices n , vertical group refractive indices c/U , and virtual o,x o,x 1 heights h (f), for an Epstein, cosine and parabolic layer model. c ist the free 0 X 1 space velocity of light . U and U denote vertical ordinary and extraordinary 0 X group velocities. The data are intended to facilitate real height (h) computations from 1 1 observed, h (f)-traces. Especially the h (f)-data are intended also to allow o,x o,x for tests of existing reduction methods. For ionization minimum investigations an additional set of tables is presented. These tables represent the virtual paths 1 6 h (f) of sounding pulses which penetrate an ionospheric layer of parabolic o,x 1 shape; they can be used together with the abovementioned standard h (f)-curves o,x 1 to give ordinary and extraordinary h (f)-traces for any combination of a lower O, X parabolic layer and an upper Epstein, cosine or parabolic electron density distribution. Ordinary group refractive index tables have already been published by D. H. SHINN [ 1] 1 and by Vv. BECKER [ 2] • Their value s of cp , the angle of inclination of the earth s magnetic field, are slightly different from those used here. These tables may be used 1 as additional sets for interpolation purposes. D. H.
Lecture notes from a Summer School on Quantum Probability held at the University of Grenoble are collected in these two volumes of the QP-PQ series. The articles have been refereed and extensively revised for publication. It is hoped that both current and future students of quantum probability will be engaged, informed and inspired by the contents of these two volumes. An extensive bibliography containing the references from all the lectures is included in Volume 12.
Methods - Thorough description of the current imaging and functional investigation techniques in nuclear medicine and radiology - Detailed portrayal of indications and differential diagnoses Clinical Applications - Exhaustive description of the features of paediatric urological diseases relevant for diagnostic imaging - Embryologic and pathophysiologic background - Clear recommendations on application of diagnostic imaging techniques based on the latest findings and consensus guidelines Case Studies - Large number of case reports illustrating standard procedures in diagnostic imaging - Case descriptions highlighting common diagnostic problems - Presentation of unusual and rare cases
A small-town Louisiana physician is poised to win confirmation as the next Surgeon General of the United States. But on the eve of his greatest professional achievement, Daniel Wyatt finds himself accused of gross infidelity...and the murder of his unborn child. In the midst of a media frenzy -- as a trial looms that will cast the nation's explosive pro-choice/anti-abortion debate into a blinding new light -- the accused stands to lose more than his reputation, his career, and his freedom. Because an issue that has dangerously polarized America has inspired the bloody wrath of a faceless killer. And Dr. Daniel Wyatt is suddenly more than front-page news -- he's a target.
This enlightening guide shows how to identify and release the thoughts that limit us and reclaim the thoughts that affirm our deepest wisdom and power. Using powerful visualizations and experiential exercises, Becker reveals how we can direct the power of our thoughts to create the life we desire and deserve.
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