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Honolulu Star Advertiser : Special Sunday Tabloid

By: Honolulu Star Advertiser

... work or in my neighborhood, should I observe any special etiquette? A: Many cultures are averse to being touched, even casually, by strangers. Defere... ...hat people in Hawai‘i stop to think about how valuable the uniqueness of our culture is — whether it’s our diversity, whether it’s the fact that we ha... ...eers. “The bottom line is that inclusion, respect and diversity of opinion, culture and ethnicity are all important buzzwords in the 21st century,” c... ...vacation spot for those yearning for a bit of paradise, at her heart beats a hub of industry unlike no other. The state has long served as a melting p... ...no other. The state has long served as a melting pot of people, language and culture, and it’s no surprise this strength of diversity extends to its c... ...Ko Olina resort, APEC attendees will be immersed in many aspects of Hawaiian culture, thanks to efforts by the APEC Hawai‘i Host Committee. Under the ...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...about. We are mak- ing bad decisions that will have a negative effect on our culture, our kids’ schools, and our communications networks; on free spee... ...28/08 11:04 AM Page xii there are powerful counterweights in both law and culture to the negative trends I describe here. There are lots of reasons... ...ary communication to others, free as the air to common use.” 12 Our art, our culture, our science depend on this public domain every bit as much as th... ...en intellectual property and the public domain is important in every area of culture, science, and technology. As a result, it ranges widely in subjec... ...work. You have a preference for democracy and liberty and you want a vibrant culture: a culture with a little chunk of everything, one that offers hun... ... business methods involved a patent on the process of keeping accounts in a “hub-and- spoke” mutual fund—which included multiplying all of the stock h...

...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclo...

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Hinduism Today : Indian Masterpiece, Hawaiian Home, Volume July/August/September 2009: Indian Masterpiece, Hawaiian Home

By: Various

...Kinds of Temples" Publisher Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami explores three primary ways that the temple defines our faith. The community temple is the hub of culture, worship, rites and festivals. The home shrine is the home's temple where devout Hindus worship daily and perform puja, read scripture, do sadhana, bajana and japa. Third, there is the interior temple of the so...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...ully. II. Issues in the Calculus of Rights IIA. The Hierarchy of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies reflect c... ...es, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. The primary asymmetry seems t... ...with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of commerce was thoroughly permeated and transformed. It... ...dependent. In some cases, pain is perceived as positive and is sought. In the Aztec cultures, being chosen to be sacrificed to the Gods was a high h... ...ocaust. Nazism posed as a rebellion against the "old ways" - against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established religions, the super... ...erational interactions, the nuclear family was reduced to a dysfunctional shell, a hub of rudimentary communication between its remaining members, ...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ully. II. Issues in the Calculus of Rights IIA. The Hierarchy of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies reflect c... ...es, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. The primary asymmetry seems t... ...with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of commerce was thoroughly permeated and transformed. It... ...dependent. In some cases, pain is perceived as positive and is sought. In the Aztec cultures, being chosen to be sacrificed to the Gods was a high h... ...ocaust. Nazism posed as a rebellion against the "old ways" - against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established religions, the super... ...erational interactions, the nuclear family was reduced to a dysfunctional shell, a hub of rudimentary communication between its remaining members, ...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...services whose importance is only enhanced by the "free for all" Internet culture. Content intermediaries grade content and separate the qualitat... ...ers, movers and shapers. These two neglected aspects of Internet hype and culture led to the trouncing of erstwhile promising web media companies wh... ...ny and in Subiaco, Italy) shunned it and regarded it as a major threat to culture and civilization. Their attacks on printing read like the litanies... ...ny other factors which determine the interaction of free and paid content. Culture plays an important role as do the law and technology. But as long ... ...sist that others don't. Q. Technology is often considered the antonym of "culture". TV, for instance, is berated for its vulgar, low-brow, programmi...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...l Program" demanded a recognition of a Macedonian nation with its own language and culture. They stopped short of insisting on an independent state... ...nded mind games Macedonia was subjected to by the Big Powers. Misirkov believed in culture as an identity preserving force. And the purveyors and c... ...ved in culture as an identity preserving force. And the purveyors and conveyors of culture were the teachers. "So the teacher in Yugoslavia is oft... ...Some wished to be incorporated in Bulgaria, the civilized and advanced society and culture. Others wanted an independent state - though they, too, ... ...so. Often, politicians are nothing but a loyal reflection of their milieu, their culture, their society and their times (zeitgeist and leitkultur...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...l backdrop for the glass, wood, brick, and steel buildings which were the hub of the world's most prosperous nation. But what impressed me most was... ...f losing their man. 35 “Arranged marriages are still common in cultures like the Muslim and Hindu. And even worse, suspected indiscretion... ...ipping boys‟, or should we say „whipping girls.‟ 36 “The Western culture and media are huge threats to the impoverished or unsuccessful male... ... and 19% in the U.S.” —“So the obstacles for women seem to vary from culture to culture. The glass ceiling seems to change only in its height f... ...er jobs the floods of immigrants from different places, faiths, races and cultures will be left to turn their anger on each other and, very likely, ... ...1 “Social mobility occurs because superior people emerge within the culture and rise to the top. Edison, Einstein, Lincoln and Obama are such ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...lty. Yes Commander.‖ ---―As we move from religion to religion and culture to culture throughout history, monotheists and polytheists think a... ... panentheistic. Yet the Cherokees were monotheistic. The Central American cultures of the Aztecs and Mayans seemed to be polytheistic. Obviously if ... ...r them. We find that evidence in the scriptures of the Indian and Persian cultures. A Jew, a Christian or a Muslim would immediately dismiss their r... ...ious country is a more moral country. The idea that materialism leads to ―cultures of death‖ is the official opinion of your church, father. Pope Jo... ...nion of your church, father. Pope John Paul II said that ―the pro-abortion culture is especially strong precisely where the Church‘s teaching on cont... ...me Moslems will also flagellate themselves. I saw one carrying a penitent hub of a heavy half wheel supported by spokes of spikes piercing deeply in...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of commerce was thoroughly permeated and transformed. It... ...e, up bringing, wealth, and social responsibilities. A succession of societies and cultures discriminated against the ignorant, criminals, atheists... ... Prague and Skopje, 2000 Winner of numerous awards, among them Israel's Council of Culture and Art Prize for Maiden Prose (1997), The Rotary Club A...

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Begin the Adventure : How to Break the Light Barrier

By: Florentin Smarandache

...he light barrier. Einstein's conclusion is so firmly embedded in today's culture that books are written for the general reader which treat it as go... ...an impenetrable light barrier. If an emissary from Megalopolis at the hub of Galactic civilization had arrived at Earth 100 years ago to clandes...

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Deviation : Covenant

By: Elissa Malcohn

...only ones who carried stories directly from Yata survivors back into Masari culture. To be a hunter was to be a hero. A master hunter, renowned for ... ...erations, knew the names. Ulik. Zai. Ila. Abri. Evit. Each name became the hub of a wheel with untold spokes, each spoke the hub of another wheel. ... ...r divinity is a conceit of the Covenant. Without the Covenant what does our culture, the culture of the Dirt People, have the potential to become? I... ...This, too, NightShout had destroyed. That rare record of Masari history and culture had survived the Covenant but fell to a single man driven by his... ... settlement of Yata who lived freely. Who had their own language, their own culture. Her own people. Perhaps, if she could meet them, she would rem...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...training for we have missed those most broadening influences and forces of culture common to the Oxford and Cambridge man. There is in our college atm... ...lore and legends. The next most important addi- tion is the gift of Samuel Hub- bard Scudder '57, the noted na- turalist, who presented the Bio- logic... ...n the Hebrew de- partment. L. S. Hadley '05. R. (i. Higinbotham '03, H. H. Hub- bell '98, and L. B. Bloom '02 acted as pallbearers at the funeral. Ex'... ...stem, if system one may call it. As an author, his bestproduction is "Self-Culture.'' Last Boston Alumni Smoker The Williams college alumni associatio... ..., M. A., L. H. D., for many years editor of Har- per's Magazine and Samuel Hub- bard Scudder, M. A. , So. D., S. B., LL. D., a member of tbe lead- ing... ...rdA; 3d Mayhew B; 4th Horrax W. Time, 15 2-5 sec- 220-yard hurdles: Won by Hub. bardA; 2dShawD;3dMayhewB; 4th Brown D. Time, 25 sec. High jump: Won by... ...cutive cororait- tea, Solomon B. Griffin '72 of Springfield, Dr. J. Clarke Hub- bard "77 of Holyoke and Henif' K. Hyde '87 of Ware. Professor Russell,... ... the Walter Danirosch Sohool of Music in New York city. He is in the vocal culture department. Ex-'09—Westbrook is in the era- ploy of Shillings, Whit... ...tion rather than at another will be that of of- fering him the place where culture is the goal of ambition, will meet with little sympathy and less sa...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

...night I was shrill and eloquent beyond measure. Rawdon was, of course, the hub upon which I went round— Rawdon and the Rawdonesque employer and the in... ... said I, standing in the darkness, outside even his faint glow of traveled culture… My mother let me in. She looked at me, mutely, because she knew th... ... sort of innocent zest. “I’m glad they mean fighting.” There was an air of culture about his room that always cowed me, and that made me constrained e... ... to have pigeon-holes when it was open, and which made him seem not merely cultured but literary. At that he wrote sermons, composing them himself! “Y...

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The Two Sides of the Shield

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...e across me is not over-knowledge, but want of knowledge—want of gen- eral culture. This Dolores, for instance, can do what she has been taught better... ... of shutting us up in a schoolroom with some one, with only knowledge, not culture. Those very late dinners have quite upset all the intelligent inter... ...g of one’s troubles. As she went downstairs she was aware of an increasing hub- bub, and frequently looking over the balusters, perceived the top of P...

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Women in Love

By: D. H. Lawrence

... likely to meet in Willey Green. She knew she was accepted in the world of culture and of intellect. She was a kulturtrager, a medium for the culture ... ...sive, tortured woman piled up her own defences of aesthetic knowledge, and culture, and world-visions, and disinterestedness. Yet she could never stop... ...velopment in a straight line, behind that carving; it is an awful pitch of culture, of a definite sort.’ ‘What culture?’ Gerald asked, in opposition. ... ...’ Gerald asked, in opposition. He hated the 75 sheer African thing. ‘Pure culture in sensation, culture in the physical conscious- ness, really ultim... ...led. This was merely as it happened. As well get excited because a central hub drives a hundred outer wheels or because the whole universe wheels roun... ..., like a column of quoits, on her neck. He remembered her: her astonishing cultured elegance, her diminished, beetle face, the astounding long elegant...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...arkable, as it were, by the different spokes of a wheel extending from the hub toward the rim, and this whether you move directly by the chord or on t... ...- ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and south by the line along which the culture of corn and cotton meets, and which in- cludes part of Virginia, pa...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Third

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...ed the good seeds that nature had there produced; mixing not only with the culture of land and the ornament of cities, the arts of this part of the wo... ..., and Seneca almost says the same of himself, he made an advantage of this hub- bub; that, beaten with this noise, he so much the more col- lected and... ...he earth, hate this inhuman wisdom, that will have us despise and hate all culture of the body; I look upon it as an equal injustice to loath natural ...

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The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

... younger women was easily to be found—not the refinement of education, nor culture, but the natural, intuitive refinement of the woman, not as yet def... ...exploited by clubs of women, by literary soci- eties, reading circles, and culture organisations. The at- tention the Fake received, the time devoted ... ...ed, was to them a veritable rapture. Promptly they invested the apostle of culture with the glamour of a martyr. The fakirs worked the community as sh... ...e of the higher needs of life. This was Art, this was Literature, this was Culture and Refinement. The Renais- sance had appeared in the West. She was... ...d to ruin, and he him- self, with all his refinement, with all his poetry, culture, and education, stood, a bungler at the world’s workbench. 367 Fra... ...ass, and, as he rode by the buggy, his horse scraped his flank against the hub of the wheel. The animal recoiled sharply, and, striking against Garnet...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... of followers and some degree of approval from millions more? The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and spread his... ...onvert to Islam, and end the immorality and godlessness of its society and culture:“It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civ- ilization ... ...ls led most independence movements, and clerical influence and traditional culture were seen as obstacles to national progress. After gaining independ... ...d little if any attention to the rest of the world’s thought, history, and culture.The secular education reflected a strong cultural preference for te... ...abroad, lacked the perspective and skills needed to understand a different culture. Frustrated in their search for a decent living, unable to benefit ... ...idual agencies. • The current system is structured on an old mainframe, or hub-and- spoke, concept. In this older approach, each agency has its own da... ...ief Executive Officer,American Airlines Timothy J.Ahern,Vice President–DFW Hub, and former Vice President of Safety, Security, and Environmental,Amer...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...t, American; which was to be brave and cheerful as per con- tract; to give culture in a popular and poetical presentment; and, in so doing, catch and ... ...vils dance on all our literary wires. It would be a poor service to spread culture, if this be its result, among the comparatively innocent and cheerf... ...him whining. It is better that he should go without the cheerful lights of culture, if cheerless doubt and paralys- ing sentimentalism are to be the c... ...e- where in his big, plain way, “there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel’d universe.” Rightly understood, it is on the softest of ... ...nd then exclaims, “How admirably the artist is made to accomplish his self-culture by devotion to his art!” We may escape uncongenial toil, only to de... ...nderful to the Japanese how far he contrived to push these explorations; a cultured gentleman of that land and period would leave a complimentary poem...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...f Russia, or the balance of power in Europe, or a certain kind of European culture called “progress” appear to me to be good or bad, I must admit that... ...glance from under his brows. “Prince Theodore and all those. T o encourage culture and philanthropy is all very well of course. The aim is excellent b... ... states to the writers of general histories and the new his- tories of the culture of that period. The strangeness and absurdity of these replies aris... ...r produces events. A third class of historians—the so-called historians of culture-following the path laid down by the universal his- torians who some... ...y see it in what is called cul- ture—in mental activity. The historians of culture are quite consistent in regard to their progenitors, the writers of...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

....) the sons of the Saxon Puritans, with their Old-Saxon temper, Old-Hebrew culture, sleek Silas, sleek Benjamin, here on such errand, among the light ... ...creatures, how shall he, in all Philosophe-soirees, and saloons of elegant culture, become notable as a Friend of Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes... ...ords; founded on the wavering bottomless of the Abyss; and keeps continual hub- bub. Time is around it, and Eternity, and the Inane; and it does what ... ... comes from the armed Nationals in the Court; far and wide is the infinite hub- bub of tongues. What counsel? And the tide is now nigh! Mes- sengers, ... ...out a sigh from most Historians. The men were men of parts, of Philosophic culture, decent behaviour; not condemnable in that they were Pedants and ha...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...ollowing it may become a hero, And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel’d universe, And I say to any man or woman, Let your sou... ...Grass –Whitman 555 (Wrapt in these little potencies of progress, politics, culture, wealth, inventions, civilization,) Have lost my recognition of y...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...ain, without any special object, save the vague pur pose of what he calls culture, preparation for he knows not what. He declines to choose a profess... ...f me dial evidence—any glimmering of these can only come from a scientific culture of which country practitioners have usually no more notion than the... ...aving off because they were “no good,” and observing that, after all, self culture was the principal point; while in politics he would have been sympa... ...mong the crowd; whistles, yells, bellowings, and fifes made all the greater hub bub because there was shouting and struggling to put them down. No voi...

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