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ABSTRACT

1.THE PROBLEM

1.1.Active Galactic Nuclei

1.2.Young Stellar Objects

1.3.X-ray Binaries

1.4.Cataclysmic Variables

2.NOZZLES, FUNNELS AND HOTPLATES

2.1.Nozzles

2.2.Funnels

2.3.Hotplates

3.MAGNETIZED ACCRETION DISKS

3.1.The Disk-Jet Connection

3.2.Magnetic jet collimation

3.3.Magnetic Accretion Disks

3.4.Magnetic Confinement of AGN Broad Emission Line Clouds

3.5.Flips and Flops

4.VARIATIONS ON THE THEME

4.1.Special Relativity

4.2.Black Hole MHD

4.3.Boundary Layers

4.4.Powers of Ten

4.5.Precession

5.THE FUTURE

5.1.What Theorists Would Like To Know From Observers

5.2.What Theorists Ought To Try To Understand

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