In 1996, he starred in the film version of Substance ; in 2002, he appeared in the Baitz play Ten Unknowns at Boston's Huntington Theatre ; in 2004, he starred in his play, The Paris Letter at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, a role he reprised the following year at the Laura Pels Theatre in New York City ; and at present, he is appearing in the ABC drama series Brothers & Sisters, which Baitz created, as a character named Saul, Rifkin's real-life name.

The French philosopher Bernard Stiegler is an admirer of Rifkin's work, referring in a recent essay on the future of Europe to The European Dream:

Collins also appeared as a potential love interest / boyfriend for Ron Rifkin's character Saul Holden, on ABC's Brothers & Sisters, in fall of 2010.

Rifkin's work explores the potential impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment.

It came from the corpse of prostitute and dancer Tiffany Bresciani, 22, the girlfriend of Dave Rubinstein ( a. k. a. Dave Insurgent, a member of the 1980s punk band Reagan Youth ), Rifkin's final victim.

Experts and victims ' rights advocates, however, believe that Rifkin's recent statements have no value.

Rifkin's extensive film credits include Silent Running, The Sunshine Boys, The Big Fix, JFK, Husbands and Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Wolf, L. A.

Rifkin's birth mother was a 20-year-old college student, birth father a 24-year old college student and army veteran.

The basic concept of link-state routing is that every node constructs a map of the connectivity to the network, in the form of a graph, showing which nodes are connected to which other nodes.

It introduced the concept of Internet Protocol " presence management " or being able to detect device connectivity to the Internet and contact recipient " availability " status to exchange real-time messages, as well as personalized " Buddy list " directories to allow only people you knew to find out your status and initiate a real-time text messaging exchange with you.

The PACX concept is not dead but has been re-adapted to take account of the needs for managed connectivity in a pervasively connected network.

Uniform data access is a computational concept describing an even-ness of connectivity and controllability across numerous target data sources.

The proposals in the concept plan that would enhance accessibility and connectivity within the park include the following:

: High level graphical and textual description of operational concept ( high level organizations, missions, geographic configuration, connectivity, etc.

In fact, the concept of an " Internet Exchange " is very important after the NSFNet Backbone faded away because IAPs had to be interconnected to maintain full connectivity to the entire Internet.

A concept of responsibility is in process of articulation and establishment.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

Whether a concept analogous to the principle of internal responsibility operates in a nation's external relations is less obvious and more difficult to establish.

) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;

A broader concept of imitation is needed, one which acknowledges that true invention is important, that the artist's creativity in part transcends the non-artistic causal factors out of which it arises.

Who will deny that in a vast portion of the South the Federal action is incompatible with the Jeffersonian concept of `` the consent of the governed ''??

For it is their catastrophic concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions rather than Kemble's gradualist approach which dominates the field.

But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

It is ironic that Washington is having to struggle so for a concept that for six years it bypassed as unreasonable.

The concept of labor as a special class is outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself to survive.

The most fundamental concept of the new approach to economic aid is the focusing of our attention, our resources, and our energies on the effort to promote the economic and social development of the less developed countries.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.

It is this sort of experience that makes the concept of high fidelity of real musical significance for the home music listener.

The concept of trans-illumination ( as shown by the photo on p. 92 ), as just one example, offers an entirely new approach to lighting problems -- no matter what industry is involved.

The British put this concept to use in their Rebecca / Eureka system, where battery-powered " Eureka " transponders were triggered by airborne " Rebecca " radios and then displayed on ASV Mk.

The Simca Fulgur was a concept car designed in 1958 by Robert Opron for Simca and first displayed at the 1959 Geneva Auto Show.

Many language teachers were already familiar with the concept of hypertext on stand-alone computers, which made it possible to set up non-sequential structured reading activities for language learners in which they could point to items of text or images on a page displayed on the computer screen and branch to any other pages, e. g. in a so-called " stack " as implemented in the HyperCard program on Apple Mac computers.

This ordering results in a graded system of sub-and superconcepts, a concept hierarchy, which can be displayed as a line diagram.

The castle visitor centre was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in June 1994, and amongst other exhibits housed a computer generated reconstruction of the castle as it was in 1550, displayed through hardware that demonstrated the first use of the virtual tour concept, prior to its widespread adoption as a Web-based browser utility.

GM also displayed five " global " concept cars for the first time in North America: Chevrolet T2X, Chevrolet WTCC, Holden Efijy, Opel Antara GTC, and Saab Aero-X.

The CLS-class was first displayed as the Vision CLS concept at the 2003 Frankfurt International Motor Show.

At the 1999 Tokyo Motor Show, Lexus displayed its Sport Coupe concept, a V8-powered convertible, signifying its plans for a replacement for the first generation SC 300 / 400.

It featured the announcer reading off that evening's main feature set to somewhat sophisticated graphics and the time it would be on while the information was displayed and music was played, this simple concept would be revised and rerevised many times over.

Beginning as only an announcer reading off that evening's block of shows and the times they would be on while the list was displayed and music was played, this simple concept would be revised and re-revised many times over.

In 1979 he led the project team on the light component project ( LCP ) that produced the LCP2000 concept cars displayed at motor shows around the world in 1983.

After its Paris debut, Bugatti again displayed the EB118 concept at the Geneva Auto Show and the Tokyo Motor Show in 1999.

McQuarrie retired and his Star Wars concept paintings were subsequently displayed in art exhibitions, including the 1999 Star Wars: The Magic of Myth.

The Mila EV was a plug-in electric vehicle concept based on a modular lightweight platform, displayed at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show.

Marvel Comics's Hulk is a prominent example inspired by the concept of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with the three most prominently displayed Hulk personalities representing stages of Bruce Banner's life ; the ' Savage Hulk ' is a childish but strong figure representing the child-Banner's desire to be strong enough to protect his mother, the Gray ' Joe Fixit ' Hulk represents the surly teenager Banner never was, and the ' Professor Hulk ' is the combination of the first two Hulks and Banner to reflect his adult experience.

It is a thermodynamic entropy concept often displayed by a second-order phase transition.

Lord Mustill criticised the doctrine as having no sound intellectual basis, saying that it was related to the original concept of malice, i. e. that a wrongful act displayed a malevolence which could be attached to any adverse consequence, and this had long been out of date.

# Benveniste's experiments were " statistically ill-controlled ", and the lab displayed unfamiliarity with the concept of sampling error.

A novel concept in the game is that rather than rolling dice to resolve combat, the attacking player conceals a dice beneath a cup and the defender must attempt to guess the number which is displayed.

At the 2007 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, the company displayed a Mitsubishi Evolander ( now known as Mitsubishi Outlander Ralliart ) concept, powered by a supercharged version of the vehicle's 6B31 V6 engine and equipped with suitably uprated suspension, brakes, wheels / tires, body kit and interior.

In January 2008, Lexus displayed a roadster version of the LF-A concept car designated LF-A Roadster or LF-AR at the North American International Auto Show.

Uniform information representation is an analytical concept, referring to a process which allows information from several realms or disciplines to be displayed and worked with as if it came from the same realm or discipline.

* Freedom of panorama, the concept in copyright law that permits taking pictures or video of publicly displayed art

It was displayed in its F 700 concept car at the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show.