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Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- FOREWORD TO THE FRENCH EDITION -- JEANNE DE SALZMANN -- THE AWAKENING OF THOUGHT -- FIRST INITIATION -- GURDJIEFF AND THE MODERN WORLD -- THE SACRED COSMOS: TEACHINGS OF G. I. GURDJIEFF -- THE SECRET DIMENSION -- GURDJIEFF'S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE -- GURDJIEFF, OR THE METAPHYSICS OF ENERGY -- ENCOUNTERS WITH THE GURDJIEFF TEACHING -- A KIND OF VOLCANO -- TIME AND INITIATIVE -- THE DYNAMICS OF WAKING SLEEP -- WHO ARE THE BEST PEOPLE? -- GURDJIEFF AND MODERN PSYCHOLOGY -- BEGINNING TO SEE -- AN INNER JOURNEY: THE ACTOR AS COMPANION -- LETTER TO A CONTEMPORARY GNOSTIC -- ON DETACHMENT -- TELL ME IN FIVE MINUTES -- LETTER TO A FRIEND -- BETWEEN FORM AND THE INDEFINABLE -- THE FIRST STEP -- THE LADDER OF EVOLUTION -- COMPARATIVE STUDIES -- AN UNFINISHED CREATION: A CHRISTIAN UNDERSTANDING OF GURDJIEFF'S TEACHING -- GURDJIEFF WORK AND THE TEACHING OF KRISHNA -- THE MEN OF BLAME AND THE FOURTH WAY -- HOMAGE TO GURDJIEFF -- AUTOMATISM AND CONSCIOUSNESS -- FROM CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE BODY TO "THE BODY OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- G. I. GURDJIEFF -- QUESTIONS AND RESPONSES -- PHOTOGRAPHS -- MUSIC AND MOVEMENTS -- THE ROLE OF THE MOVEMENTS -- SACRED DANCES -- GURDJIEFF AND MUSIC -- A SEARCH FOR AWAKENED LISTENING -- PERSPECTIVES FROM THE GURDJIEFF WORK -- GURDJIEFF OBSERVED -- NOTEBOOKS -- FACING MR. GURDJIEFF -- TO RECOGNIZE A MASTER -- THE QUEST FOR SINCERITY -- RECOLLECTIONS -- TRANSMISSION -- NO CONSCIOUS EFFORT IS EVER LOST -- THE DESSERT -- HOW I LEARNED WHO HE WAS -- AN EXACTING WAY -- A MAN OF MERCILESS COMPASSION -- THE PATRIARCH GOES WEST -- LET US NOT CONCLUDE -- GEORGE IVANOVITCH GURDJIEFF: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX OF PROPER NAMES -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

The United States (US) Department of Defense (DoD) Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) protection standard offers a solid basis for protecting commercial communication, data, and control facilities. Because of the standard's shielded barrier and test requirements, it is not surprising that there is a strong temptation within industry and government to dismiss the MIL-STD 188-125 approach in favor of less rigorous protection methods. It is important to understand that US DoD EMP protection standard for fixed facilities, MIL-STD-188-125, reflects an evolution by trial and error that spanned a period of decades beginning with the acquisition of the Minuteman Missile System in the 1960s. In fact, one of the main motivating factors for developing the standard was that system developers in the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Defense Communications Agency (now Defense Information Systems Agency) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency tried less technically-sound approaches that failed in their effectiveness, testability, and maintainability. This paper revisits the development of the US DoD standard and explains its provisions and underlying technical rationale. The paper's objective is to enable the public officials and engineers involved in planning and implementing EMP protection for critical infrastructure facilities to avoid the pitfalls encountered in the past and use the best practices available to achieve low risk protection designs that can be maintained over the entire lifecycle of critical infrastructure systems.

The presentation emphasizes the growing importance of electromagnetic survivability and compatibility. Operation Desert Storm demonstrated the clear military advantage provided by sophisticated electronic weapon and communication systems. In addition, the offensive tactic of taking out the enemy's eyes and ears during the air war paid off, giving our military decisive air superiority. The lessons for the future are clear. High-tech electronics now so dominates the battlefield that the outcome of future conflicts could well be decided by electronics attrition rather than human casualties. Our Desert Storm experience thus accentuates the importance of guaranteeing that our electronic systems will not be disabled either deliberately or accidentally by electromagnetic environmental effects. Factors which pose implementation challenges and problems are addressed. The increasing use of commercial equipment in military applications will require that commercial and military standards be integrated to some degree. While many technical questions will need to be resolved, the major challenges are associated with organization and process given the large number of technical disciplines and organizations involved in electromagnetic effects issues. The presentation concludes by proposing a top-level solution path. Recognizing the growing importance of electronics survivability, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (J6) has requested and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition has tasked the development of Combined Battlefield Environmental Effects (CBEE).

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Explaining patterns of asset ownership is a central goal of both organizational economics and industrial organization. We develop a model of asset ownership in trucking, which we test by examining how the adoption of different classes of on-board computers (OBCs) between 1987 and 1997 influenced whether shippers use their own trucks for hauls or contract with for-hire carriers. We find that OBCs' incentive-improving features pushed hauls toward private carriage, but their resource-allocation-improving features pushed them toward for-hire carriage. We conclude that ownership patterns in trucking reflect the importance of both incomplete contracts and of job design and measurement issues.