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In 1988 Bill Moyers ' THE POWER OF MYTH debuted on PBS. This six-part series of conversations with renowned scholar Joseph Campbell explored the enduring, universal themes expressed in mankind 's oldest stories and examined their relevance for the modern world. Far from being lifeless, timeworn tales, Campbell told viewers, the ancient myths remain "clues to the spiritual potentialities of human life." Eighteen years later, with FAITH & REASON, Moyers and his guests continue to mine those potentialities

The censorship of multimedia such as film, television, music, video games and the like has always been a very contentious point of controversy and speculation. Debates often walk the razor’s edge, asking what justifies censorship, what doesn’t, why should it be done if ever. This is especially a touchy issue when dealing with media that was produced before our time, when certain things were more accepted in culture than others. This raises the question of whether or not people should preserve these

Mark Grieg, the hospital’s manager of Clinical Engineering had to question the third parties’ quality of work because of the unsatisfactory results. After the try out test from the competitor’s service, the cost over the long term ended up costing VH more due to additional repair that had to be performed by OEM. After all these setbacks, Mr. Grieg and his teams continued to strategize ways to resolve this issue. The team where knowledgeable about VH’s in house repairs of certain hospital equipments

Book Reviews BENJAMIN LEV School of Management The University of Michigan-Dearborn 4901 Evergreen Road Dearborn, Michigan 48128-1491 % jr & I ^ X ^ X f.- M 0 The range of books reviewed is wide, covering theory and applications in operations research, statistics, econometrics, mathematics, computers, and information systems (no software is reviewed). In addition, we include books in other Helds that emphasize technical applications. Publishers who wish to have their books

The 1980s were a decade of affluence for the middle class, who had been accustomed to the economic depression and stagflation of the 1970s, which were racked by oil shortages and high inflation. The Middle Class was able to acquire and experience new forms of wealth that was impossible to attain in the previous decades due to technological and economic restrictions. Although wages did not experience significant growth for the average American, their purchasing power, and the items to which they

Cue the opening scene: A young girl sitting too close to the television set staring at a fuzzy VHS copy of Rear Window in a room full of vintage videos tapes and outdated floral wallpaper. The little girl is eight year old me, and the room is my grandparents’ home movie theater. I admit I was slightly romanticized by the grainy picture quality in a way that was indescribable; hypnotic would be the closest description of the unearthly feeling that submersed me. It might have started with the extensive

The official website of the Association of Moving Image Archivists features a statement made by the Committee for Film Preservation and Public Access before the National Film Preservation Board in 1993. “Preservation without access is pointless,” the quote says. Film is one area where preservation requires presentation after the fact. The mention of certain films being given a new restoration or a new print scan excites cinema lovers and researchers alike, due to the fact that film has not been as

Comparing HD-DVD and Blu-ray Since 1997, DVD has been the #1 top selling format for home entertainment, crushing VHS within a five year time frame. But technology is forever changing and it’s only a matter of time before DVD’s go the way of VHS. With two new formats (High Definition-DVD and Blu-ray) on the horizon, which one will win the race? Both formats use blue laser technology, which has a shorter wavelength than red (DVD), allowing it to read the smaller digital data "spots" packed

The 1980s where a time of great social and political change in the United States of America. These changes go hand in hand because the political change in the United States, as well as the rest of the world, shaped how society changed. When it comes to films, during this decade, the political change in the county that came with Ronald Reagan, film success of the 70s, and developing technology heavy influenced the movie industry. The movie industry began the practice of trying to make a movie that

There were several experimental procedures that were performed by Bayry et al that allowed for this experiment to be performed. One of these procedures included treatment of an IgE antibody that is produced specifically in mice, SPE7 with heme using the technique immunoblotting to determine the polyreactivity of heme and the resulting consequences of the reaction. Immunoblotting, also known as western blotting, is a type of an assay that is specifically used for the detection and characterization