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  www.myspace.com/de_basement
Debasement continues its hiatus, as Nick and Abe are unable to put aside their creative differences or allow for old wounds to heal.
1) Hosted by Abe Jellinek and Nick Henderson, Debasement is a New & FREE comedy/rock concert.
Each Monday we spotlight a newfangled lineup of established and deserving artists.
www.myspace.com /de_basement   (158 words)

  
  Debasement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Debasement is the practice of lowering the value of currency.
Debasement lowers the value of the coinage, causing inflation.
Debasement is the formal term for removal of a knighthood or other honour.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Debasement   (445 words)

  
 What Has Government Done to Our Money? Debasement
Debasement was the State's method of counterfeiting the very coins it had banned private firms from making in the name of vigorous protection of the monetary standard.
The profits of debasement were haughtily claimed as "seniorage" by the rulers.
Rapid and severe debasement was a hallmark of the Middle Ages, in almost every country in Europe.
www.mises.org /money/3s4.asp   (303 words)

  
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The critique of love as a certain debasement of being, as a veiling of the temporality and finitude of existence, is obviously at the heart of Encore.
The issues of the debasement of being and the possibility of ethical love are closely connected in Irigaray's revision of sexual difference and form her response to Lacan's repeated assertion that sexual relationship does not take place.
What such a "debasement" forecloses is precisely the futural vector of the "silent force of the possible," to recall Heidegger's remark from Being and Time.
www.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.999/10.1ziarek.txt   (8737 words)

  
 The Debasement of Compassion
In brief, the Debased Compassion Syndrome is the idea that a civilized society never requires people to do things that are difficult, painful, dangerous, outside one's comfort zone, tedious, boring, or unpleasant in any way.
Debased compassion was in full flower during the debate over bankruptcy reform in 2006.
Although Europe, in many ways, has gone farther down the path of debased compassion than even the United States, it is occasionally capable of moments of insight.
www.uwgb.edu /dutchs/PSEUDOSC/ASimSynd.HTM   (4043 words)

  
 The Classical World of Greece and Rome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The history of coinage debasement in all of the western European nations was nearly the same.
Things got so bad at times in medieval Germany, that the neocheaters resorted to the crudest methods to prevent detection of their debasement: Private ownership of scales was outlawed in an attempt to prevent individuals and merchants from detecting weight changes.
Monetary debasement often went on with such wild abandon over the centuries (particularly after the invention of paper money), that it was only limited by the destruction of the monetary standard itself.
www.neo-tech.com /businessmen/part4.html   (1839 words)

  
 Samuel Hazo: Debasement and other triumphs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
But then she is the same person who, after planes were crashed into buildings on Sept. 11, 2001, was reminded that she had ignored earlier reports that there were individuals in the United States who were preparing to hijack commercial jets and crash them into buildings.
The true debasement of language happens when words are used to distort or deny reality -- "rendition" instead of "torture," "quaint" instead of "legally binding," "stay the course" instead of "compound the tragedy" and so on.
Similarly, to see one's country debased and do nothing simply means that one is not worthy of one's country.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06049/657337.stm   (836 words)

  
 ON THE UNIVERSAL TENDENCY TO DEBASEMENT IN THE SPHERE OF LOVE: FREUD
They are efforts to bridge the gulf between the two currents in love, at any rate in phantasy, and by debasing the mother to acquire her as an object of sensuality.
This is the source of his need for a debased sexual object, a woman who is ethically inferior, to whom he need attribute no aesthetic scruples, who does not know him in his other social relations and cannot judge him in them.
It is naturally just as unfavourable for a woman if a man approaches her without his full potency as it is if his initial overvaluation of her when he is in love gives place to undervaluation after he has possessed her.
www.ncf.edu /hassold/FinDeSiecle/freud_debasement.htm   (3821 words)

  
 I scholarship the moral debasement of education? Education - Find Articles
Although modern public education may espouse the principle that all children should have high self esteem, the paradox is that in schools today such self esteem is impossible to achieve in an environment where moral worth is assigned on the basis of academic merit.
H.L. Menchen argued that hygiene was the moral debasement of medicine.
By this he meant, that through the embracing of hygiene as an index of advancement within a social system, medicine moved away from its fundamental scientific concern to a latter-day tendency toward implicit moralism.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3673/is_199910/ai_n8862171   (871 words)

  
 debasement - Synonyms from Thesaurus.com
corruption, crime, debasement, delinquency, desecration, exploitation, fault, injustice, misapplication, misconduct, misdeed, mishandling, mismanagement, misuse, offense, perversion, prostitution, sin, wrong, wrongdoing
atrophy, debasement, declination, decline, decrease, depravation, deterioration, devolution, downfall, downgrade
abasement, debasement, decadence, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, demotion, depravity, derogation, deterioration, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, downgrading, evil, humiliation, ignominy, mortification, perversion, reduction, shame
thesaurus.reference.com /browse/debasement   (413 words)

  
 Experiments in Ancient Roman Coin Minting: Introduction
In this study, I attempted to recreate the ancient Roman minting process for two different time periods: an era of debasement and era of stability in silver content.
  Debasement of silver coinage occurred during periods of crisis, but the silver content of coins did not improve to the previous purity even after situations stabilized (See graph 1).
  With debasement of currency, confidence was lost in the value of coinage.
www.archaeologystudent.com /coinarch/paper.htm   (559 words)

  
 The Federal Reserve Has Destroyed the Meaning of Saving
In turn, the debasement of our language has led to dangerous financial behavior on the part of the common man. What is at risk here is more than our savings and capital formation.
Heck, the meaning of saving has been so debased that some people even believe that paying down mortgage debt is a form of saving.
He opened this chapter with a chilling quote from Confucius: "When words lose their meaning people will lose their liberty." Debasing the very meaning of saving may prove to be a crippling blow to our free-market society and, thus, our liberty.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig/englund2.html   (1606 words)

  
 debasement - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Merchants throughout the empire and as far away as India used Roman coins, but the monetary system primarily served as a way for the emperors to pay...
In 1337 France embarked on the Hundred Years' War with England.
France : business and economy : debasement of coinage: John II (of France)
encarta.msn.com /debasement.html   (167 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/debasement
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Debasement has the facility to cater for any of your recording needs, from the fast demo to the full album.
Cheers for dropping by Debase crew - We are looking at a new album in the new year so we might have to drop ya'll a line.
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 Debasement Of World Currency
Monarchs of old, when hard-pressed for finance, would debase their precious metal currency by reducing its weight or by mixing in base metals to create an alloy.
These debased coins were, of course, the forerunners of our modern monies whose face value is established by government fiat or decree.
The face or nominal values of the notes and coins in circulation with the public greatly exceed their inherent or commodity values, and do not purport to have stable ratios with them.
www.gold-eagle.com /gold_digest_01/warburton041801.html   (2728 words)

  
 Auno.org - Item Database - Debasement of Resolve
Attempts to lessen the violent impulses of the target, which lowers the damage inflicted by the target by 247 points per hit.
The target needs to be level 155 or higher for the nanoformula to work.
The target also needs to be debuffed with Debasement of Will for the nano to be executed.
auno.org /ao/db.php?id=227132   (71 words)

  
 debasement - OneLook Dictionary Search
Debasement : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
Words similar to debasement: adulteration, debase, degradation, more...
This is a OneLook Word of the Day, which means it might be in the news.
www.onelook.com /?w=debasement&loc=wotd   (167 words)

  
 Colonialism, debasement, destruction - LLB July '98   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
At the heart of his superficial soul-searching is concealed a deep lie and a deeper selfishness.
Colonialism in The Congo is possession, debasement, exploitation and destruction.
The red blood of the murdered Congolese plumps the rivers and the soil, and the colonials, with their cocktails, tennis and desultory sexual affairs, chill the very air of Africa.
www.llb.labournet.org.uk /1998/july/rev3.html   (454 words)

  
 Jewish Times Australia - The debasement of law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In Acre this past weekend, what was supposed to be a joyous celebration of Simchat Torah degenerated into a near pogrom when for two nights an Arab mob physically attacked Jewish worshipers with crowbars, rocks and firecrackers, and verbally assaulted them with anti-Israel and anti-Semitic slurs.
Many who applaud the police's prejudicial enforcement of the law do so in the name of the liberal value of equality.
But what we see as the consequence of this prejudicial behavior is not the enhancement of equality, but the empowerment of illiberal, violent forces in the Arab Israeli community who far from advancing coexistence, have effectively debased the concepts of both equality and the rule of law to the detriment of Arabs and Jews alike.
www.jewishtimes.com.au /content/view/809/190   (1332 words)

  
 Desicritics.org: The Debasement of The Hunger Strike - Rakhi Sawant Kaun Hai?
Going on a hunger strike has a rich and hoary tradition in India with roots in religious practice and also as an act of penance.
That is a complete farce and debases of this once respected weapon, to say nothing of the cause.
The authors retain all rights to their work and articles found on this site may not be posted elsewhere without the express permission of the author.
desicritics.org /2006/08/25/045426.php   (982 words)

  
 Sterner (background) - Symbolic Demeaning (or Discursive Debasement) in Human-Computer Interactions
Sterner (background) - Symbolic Demeaning (or Discursive Debasement) in Human-Computer Interactions
Symbolic Demeaning (or Discursive Debasement) in Human-Computer Interactions
The following is greatly abstracted from a much longer paper "Anthropomorphism and Anthropocentrism in Human-Computer Communication: Desirable or Undesirable?" In the paper I first discover several pathologies in an extended interaction between J. Weizenbaum's ELIZA program as a mock therapist and transcripts of actual psychotherapeutic sessions from E. Gendlin's Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy.
www.focusing.org /apm_papers/sterner.html   (1687 words)

  
 Debasement - Home
Debasement is a relaxed and creative recording environment with plenty of space and in house instruments.
For a list of some of the bands and projects recorded here visit the Samples Page.
Check out the features page to see more of what we can do in the Debasement including session musicians and production.
www.debasement.com.au   (103 words)

  
 SSRN-The Debasement of Contracts and the Decline of Capital Markets by Michael Jensen
SSRN-The Debasement of Contracts and the Decline of Capital Markets by Michael Jensen
Jensen, Michael C., "The Debasement of Contracts and the Decline of Capital Markets".
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papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=442701   (239 words)

  
 Discriminations: Redistricting Double Standards And The Debasement Of Argument
Discriminations: Redistricting Double Standards And The Debasement Of Argument
Redistricting Double Standards And The Debasement Of Argument
Many of you have followed the travels (or should I say travails) of the fleeing Texas Democrats — first the lower house members who fled to Oklahoma and, more recently 11 state senators who holed up in New Mexico — who tried, but have now failed, to prevent the legislature from passing redistricting legislation.
www.discriminations.us /2003/09/redistricting_double_standards.html   (942 words)

  
 Israpundit » Blog Archive » The debasement of law
Israpundit » Blog Archive » The debasement of law
Many who applaud the police’s prejudicial enforcement of the law do so in the name of the liberal value of equality.
But what we see as the consequence of this prejudicial behavior is not the enhancement of equality, but the empowerment of illiberal, violent forces in the Arab Israeli community who far from advancing coexistence, have effectively debased the concepts of both equality and the rule of law to the detriment of Arabs and Jews alike.
www.israpundit.com /2006/?p=3016   (1164 words)

  
 EconPapers: A model of commodity money, with applications to Gresham's law and the debasement puzzle
And, what are the mechanics of a debasement (lowering the metallic content of coins)?
Following a debasement, the quantity of reminting depends on the incentives offered by the sovereign.
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
econpapers.repec.org /paper/fipfedmsr/215.htm   (314 words)

  
 GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC MALFEASANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In the light of the Swiss government increasing its money supply and suffering inflation as a result, the Mogambo Guru discusses Currency Debasement.
So either I get them, or their debasement of their currency gets them, but in any event the Swiss will get burned.
And if the illustrious Gnomes are getting burned, you know what's in store for us…and the Japanese and the Germans and the French and the Canadians and the Chinese and every other freaking country on the freaking planet as far as I can tell.
www.dailyreckoning.com /Issues/2003/081103.html   (2470 words)

  
 A Model of Commodity Money, with Applications to Gresham's Law and the Debasement Puzzle
Following a debasement, depending on the incentives offered, equilibria exist with positive seigniorage and a mixture of old and new coins in circulation.
If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first.
"A Model of Commodity Money, With Application to Gresham's Law and the Debasement Puzzle," CARESS Working Papres 97-7, University of Pennsylvania Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences.
ideas.repec.org /a/red/issued/v2y1999i1p291-323.html   (1139 words)

  
 AIER - Money: Its Origins, Development, Debasement, and Prospects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
AIER - Money: Its Origins, Development, Debasement, and Prospects
You have a vital interest in preserving the value of your savings and investments.
It is concise and readable, a must read for anyone interested in the history of money and with the declining state of our nation's monetary affairs.
www.aier.org /psums/mo.php?xmlload=econ_fundamentals   (324 words)

  
 The Debasement of the Flag and Man - @ TraditionInAction.org
A reader sent me the photo at left with the comment that it captures the present day trivialization of patriotism and the flag.
You are debasing all that it stands for, yourself, and our family by dressing like this in public and acting like a clown.”
Today it is plain to see that many men and women who should be responsible for maintaining the good sense and equilibrium of the family and society look and act like adolescents.
www.traditioninaction.org /Cultural/G004cpDebasementFlag.htm   (655 words)

  
 .45 Grave : Debasement Tape - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
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From out of nowhere -- or, more accurately, out of Grave drummer Don Bolles' massive collection of outtakes and live tapes -- Debasement Tapes saw the light in 1993, presenting the band in all their scuzzily creepy glory.
While the fidelity varies like crazy, even the murkier cuts often contain something special, and as a portrait of the band at their most experimental and most hilarious (often at the same time!), it can't be beat.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,199739,00.html   (384 words)

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