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Enjoying initial attention as a poet, for a time he edited the magazine Oxford Poetry; in time, his work was published as short stories, travel writing, film stories and scripts. However, Huxley became best known for full-length books—many novels (including Brave New World, set in a dystopian London), and non-fiction (including The Doors of Perception)—and a wide-ranging output of essays.
He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. Layer 8: Raytheon gets $10.5M to develop "serious games" These aren't your basic video gaming systems here.
The US government gave Raytheon BBN Technologies a $10.5 million today to develop what it called "serious games" that result in better decision-making by teaching players to recognize and diminish the effects of their own biases when analyzing information used to make decisions. Under a contract from the government's cutting edge research group, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Raytheon BBN will develop game-based training programs featuring an international detective theme developed by game designers, cognitive psychologists and experts in intelligence analysis and in measuring game-player engagement.
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It is produced by a type of Actinobacteria. In chemical terms, it is a bicyclic alcohol with formula C12H22O, a derivative of decalin. Its name is derived from the Greek γεω- "earth" and ὀσμή "smell". Production[edit] Listomania-1-1.jpg (1600×1045) Has Occupy Wall Street Outworn Its Welcome? "Cookie Monster" Offers Best Explanation Yet for Occupy Wall Street. A guy calling himself Cookie Monster has written what looks to us like the most clear and persuasive explanation for the Occupy movement we've seen anywhere, a copy-and-pastable screed that everyone should send to their crazy aunts and skeptical grandfolks.
Admittedly, we don't know for sure that the following bit of Cookie Monster/#OWS brilliance was penned by a guy. But it turned up in an Onion AV Club comment thread on an article about how some "Muppet insiders" are feeling squeamish about that upcoming new Muppet movie, and to argue the fundamentals of the American economy in such a forum seems awfully boyish, so the evidence is good enough for us. (The Av Club, remember, is the not made-up Onion site that lavishes serious attention on everything that matters in pop culture, especially Community. And Cookie Monster, remember, is these days a reformed glutton, so who better to school the world on the ways of the 1 percent?) Seven Awful Things Ann Coulter Just Said About Occupy Wall Street - San Francisco Art. Ann Coulter's job is to say as many awful things as she can in the increasingly tiny slices of media time that she is afforded.
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The Florida Family Policy Council, an Orlando-based conservative Christian organization, has sided with gambling opponents. In a post on its blog, the council poses the question Is Gambling Morally Wrong? The blog post from Oct. 20, 2011, uses partial quotes from Wayne Grudem, a theology professor at Phoenix Seminary in Arizona and author of the book Politics According to the Bible: Barack Obama. 25 Worst Passwords of 2011. Pro tip: choosing "password" as your online password is not a good idea.
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Praxis (process) Leninism. The Russian revolutionary Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) c. 1920. Functionally, the Leninist vanguard party provided to the working class the political consciousness (education and organisation), and the revolutionary leadership necessary to depose capitalism in Imperial Russia. After the October Revolution of 1917, Leninism was the dominant version of Marxism in Russia, and then the official state ideology of Soviet democracy (by workers’ council) in the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (RSFSR), before its unitary amalgamation into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922.[1] In 1925–29 post-Lenin Russia, Joseph Stalin integrated Leninism to Marxist economics, and developed Marxism–Leninism, which then became the state ideology of the Soviet Union. Historical background[edit] Imperialism[edit] Vanguard party.
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