Objectivism is a system of philosophy created by philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand ( 1905 – 1982 ) that holds: reality exists independent of consciousness ; human beings gain knowledge rationally from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive and deductive logic ; the moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or rational self-interest.

Objectivism is a philosophy created by Russian-American philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand ( 1905 – 1982 ).

Originally created by Rand MacIvor ( under Art Director John C. Galt ), who was inspired by Terry Gilliam's " gilliamations ", the opening animation sequence was a sequence of surreal images set to Rossini's William Tell Overture, performed in a Dixieland jazz arrangement by The National Press Club and Allied Workers Jazz Band.

The first DNSBL was the Real-time Blackhole List ( RBL ), created in 1997, at first as a BGP feed by Paul Vixie, and then as a DNSBL by Eric Ziegast as part of Vixie's Mail Abuse Prevention System ( MAPS ); Dave Rand at Abovenet was its first subscriber.

After the publication of Rand ’ s most explicitly philosophical novel, Atlas Shrugged, and sensing an interest on the part of Rand ’ s readers in further philosophic education, Branden created in 1958 the Nathaniel Branden Institute ( NBI ) to disseminate Rand ’ s philosophy of Objectivism, by offering live and taped lecture courses by Rand, Branden, and a variety of other Objectivist intellectuals ( including Alan Greenspan, whom Branden had brought into Rand ’ s fold ).

This created a problem during the first contact between Vux and humans, in a starship commanded by Captain Rand.

) Folding map products are created as a derivative of the Thomas Guides, which carry the Rand McNally name, but mention that the content is from the Thomas Guides.

The very first Rand McNally map, created using a new cost-saving wax engraving method, appeared in the December 1872 edition of its Railroad Guide.

She and Aran ' gar were destroyed by balefire created by Rand al ' Thor, as explained in the novel Towers of Midnight.

She is killed by balefire created by Rand al ' Thor's use of the True Power.

Kaiju Big Battel is a performance by the Boston, Massachusetts based performance entertainment troupe Studio Kaiju created by Rand Borden and David Borden.

Cosmic Osmo was created by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller, who went on to form the company Cyan and develop the best-selling adventure game Myst.

It was created using the HyperTalk programming language by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller, who founded the company Cyan and would go on to produce the best-selling adventure game Myst.

During the surprise attack by Trollocs in Caemlyn he is hit by lightning created by Rahvin, killing him, but he is resurrected along with many of the others in the party when Rand uses balefire to kill Rahvin.

Ranks have been created like Tsorovan'm ' hael, " storm leader ", and the rank below it, Baijan'm ' hael, " attack leader "; these ranks have thus far only been confirmed to belong to Asha ' man who follow Taim, and have ended up trying to kill Rand.

Ayn Rand created the Randian hero in earnest in the character of Howard Roark in The Fountainhead.

In 1986, Jobs recruited the famous graphic designer Paul Rand to create a brand identity costing $ 100, 000.

The Remington brand of razor was originally produced by a division of Remington Rand, starting in 1937.

In contrast, Rand saw ethics as a necessity for human survival and well-being, and argued that the " social " implications of morality, including natural rights, were simply a subset of the wider field of ethics.

At the turn of the 21st century, well-established artists such as Sir Anthony Caro, Lucian Freud, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Agnes Martin, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, and younger artists including Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Sam Gilliam, Isaac Witkin, Sean Scully, Mahirwan Mamtani, Joseph Nechvatal, Elizabeth Murray, Larry Poons, Richard Serra, Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Ronald Davis, Dan Christensen, Joel Shapiro, Tom Otterness, Joan Snyder, Ross Bleckner, Archie Rand, Susan Crile, and dozens of others continued to produce vital and influential paintings and sculpture.

Any other approach Rand termed " the primacy of consciousness ", including any variant of metaphysical subjectivism or theism.

Several short-lived Comets reunions were attempted in the 1970s and 1980s, including one contingent ( organized by Baltimore-based piano player Joey Welz who played piano for the Comets during the summer of 1965 ) that appeared on The Tomorrow Show, and another run by an Elvis Presley impersonator named Joey Rand ( this group later lost a legal action over the right to use the Comets name ), but only one group was officially sent out to perform by Haley himself, and his management / production company, which were the official Comets who played with Haley throughout the 1960s and 1970s and continued to perform as the Comets between gigs and during Haley's retirement.

His work has also influenced modern designers, including Paul Rand and Lucienne Day, and influenced recent painters such as Julian Hatton.

For a variety of reasons ( including Mauchly's June 1941 examination of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, prototyped in 1939 by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry ), US patent 3, 120, 606 for ENIAC, granted in 1964, was voided by the 1973 decision of the landmark federal court case Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, putting the invention of the electronic digital computer in the public domain and providing legal recognition to Atanasoff as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer.

In 1978 Sperry Rand decided to concentrate on its computing interests, and sold a number of divisions including Remington Rand Systems, Remington Rand Machines, Ford Instrument Company and Sperry Vickers.

Brown completed his second term having appointed a total of five openly homosexual judges, including Rand Schrader and Jerold Krieger.

During the war, about 1. 9 million units were procured by the U. S. Government for all forces, production being undertaken by several manufacturers, including Remington Rand ( 900, 000 produced ), Colt ( 400, 000 ), Ithaca Gun Company ( 400, 000 ), Union Switch & Signal ( 50, 000 ), and Singer ( 500 ).

A 25th anniversary edition was issued by New American Library in 1971, including a new introduction by Rand.

His family moved to California where Perle attended Hollywood High School in Los Angeles – his classmates including actor Mike Farrell, singer Ricky Nelson, and Joan Wohlstetter ( the daughter of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter of the Rand Corporation ).

Paul Rand ( born Peretz Rosenbaum, August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996 ) was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Westinghouse, ABC, and Steve Jobs's NeXT.

" Heller elaborates on this meeting's impact, noting that, " from that moment on, Rand devoured books by the leading philosophers on art, including Roger Fry, Alfred North Whitehead, and John Dewey.

During World War II tractors and cargo trailers were made for the military in addition to V & O Press shell trimming machine, Remington Rand and Scintilla subcontract work including aircraft magneto pole shoes.

The college continued to grow throughout the 18th Century and did produce several distinguished scholars and clergymen including the so-called Benedictine Antiquaries, a dozen or so men all well known for antiquarian research including such figures as Richard Gough, Brock Rand and William Stukeley.

From then until the cleansing of saidin, Rand experiences great discomfort from drawing on the One Power, including feeling disgusted by the taint, and describing the One Power as sickening to hold, yet blissful to use.

In 1951 Quentin Road was realigned, removing the four right angle turns, and substituting a smooth curve north from Rand Road.

" Rand also rejected all forms of faith or mysticism, terms that she used synonymously.

Most recently, Piru Mansion was used as the home of Ellis Wyatt in the movie version of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

Remington Rand used the 1101's architecture as the basis for a series of machines into the 1960s.

Rand used her memory of the British democratic socialist Harold Laski to help her imagine what he would do in a given situation.

" As suggested in this paper on the customs and beliefs of the Micmacs, it would seem that megumaagee the name used by the Micmacs, or the Megumawaach, as they called themselves, for their land, is from the words megwaak, " red ", and magumegek, " on the earth ", or as Rand recorded, " red on the earth ," megakumegek, " red ground ," " red earth.

From 1942 to 1945, Remington Rand was one manufacturer of the M1911A1. 45 caliber semi-automatic pistol used by the United States Armed Forces during World War II.

The Robinson projection was devised by Arthur H. Robinson in 1963 in response to an appeal from the Rand McNally company, which has used the projection in general purpose world maps since that time.

The serial comma after Ayn Rand creates ambiguity about the writer's mother because it uses punctuation identical to that used for an appositive phrase, leaving it unclear whether this is a list of three entities ( 1, my mother ; 2, Ayn Rand ; and 3, God ) or of only two entities ( 1, my mother, who is Ayn Rand ; and 2, God ).

Other ways of eliminating the ambiguity are possible ; for instance, additional prepositions can be used: To my mother, to Ayn Rand, and to God.

Today the city is focused more on industry and services, rather than mining, and is used as a service hub for other East Rand towns such as Brakpan, Nigel and Springs.

Their plan was to lead Egwene al ' Vere and Nynaeve al ' Meara to Tear, where they were to be used as bait to draw Rand.

Unique individual items include ivory fans used by Sally Rand, gloves and a black velvet shoulder cape worn by Gypsy Rose Lee, a heart-shaped couch owned by Jayne Mansfield and the cremation ashes of Miss Sheri Champagne.

In Tear, just before Rand took the Stone, Perrin stopped for an unplanned night's work at a Tairen forge, and in payment ( and gratitude ) the blacksmith gave him the hammer he had used.

" The world leading think tank Rand Corporation used the ARWU ranking as evidence in their consultancy paper to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

It used a Remington Rand ( UNIVAC ) format punched card ( 45 columns, round holes ).

The CFDs were similar to that first used in the KW-26, accepting punched cards in Remington Rand format.

However, the. sa domain is used by Saudi Arabia and ZAR is the ISO 4217 currency code for the South African Rand.

When Rand and an unknown-to-him male channeller ( the forsaken Ishamael, later renamed Moridin ) used balefire at the same time and the beams crossed, both were nearly knocked unconscious by the backlash.

Rand used the term “ comprachicos ” to designate various forces in society which — either through well-meaning ignorance or outright malice — distort and deform children's souls and minds in an attempt to force them into social conformity.

Followup research Roomp and Rand, Vet Intern Med 2008, 22 ( 3 ): 791 shows that Levemir can be used with a similar protocol and that either insulin, on this protocol, leads in most uncomplicated feline cases to remission, with the most success being in cats who start on these protocols as soon as possible after diagnosis.

In Towers of Midnight it is revealed that Graendal survived the balefire that Rand used to kill her in her hiding place.

It is quite possible that he also used it as Ba ' alzamon, since he performed numerous feats of altering reality that Rand could not see weaves for.