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Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

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... 24 Electric Vehicles -- 28 Firm But Renewable Energy -- 30 Building the Smart Grid -- 32 Air Conditioning from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Bus...

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...URE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER WELCOME APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 ... ...itton Prada Salvatore Ferragamo Tiffany & Co. Hawaii’s largest collection of luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance fr... ...rtual Business Marketplace OVERVIEW OF HAWAI‘I 36 America’s Most Diverse State 38 Local Economy 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies 42 A Histo... ...NIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I JOHN A. BURNS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, SOEST, FIRST WIND, STATE OF HAWAI‘I ENERGY OFFICE, ISTOCK, (NANOTECHNOLOGY) SKAI VENTURES, (U... ... the next business day has begun in Asia and Australia: HAWAI‘I NEW YORK WASHINGTON TORONTO LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO VANCOUVER CHICAGO HOUSTON Note... ...35 fights a week) NEW YORK/NEWARK 9 hours, 40 minutes (7 fights a week) WASHINGTON D.C. 9 hours, 33 minutes (7 fights a week) OTHER U.S. NONSTOP... ... the tropical inversion layer and one-third of Earth’s atmosphere, these mountain peaks ofer superb astronomy conditions: cloud-free, clear skies ... ...he dome housing the telescope will rise on a northern plateau within the mountain’s astronomy district. The isolated ledge below existing observat... ...factured material was lighter than glass and more durable in temperature ranges than beryllium, the military found airborne uses for Trex optical ...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...e over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis Th... ...arco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing... ...t well by the time you get to the other end. My own personal perspective ranges from the Gutenberg Press to eBooks. It nicely complements Mr. Bradf... ...their flight along the crowded, rough, and rugged road toward the eastern mountains, Chinese soldiers died by the thousands, but the Arabs singled ou... ...teau and release what little moisture they carry onto the northern Khenti Mountain Range. That leaves dry the huge terrain to the south known as the... ...ied only a wooden suitcase carved by peasant neighbors when he arrived in Washington, DC, to work in his step-cousin‘s precision machine shop. When ... ... share of the new shop‘s profits. In 1873, Mergenthaler helped several Washington court reporters in their attempt to mechanize typesetting. Thei...

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...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ... the beginnings of psychology to begin to focus seriously on our motivations. Just as the great religious leaders seem to be climbing the same mounta... ...that anti-social mental and physical violence is only a part of the power package.‖ --―Chuck, do you remember when our Secretary of State,... ...problems. The vitamin A in butter was not present in the margarine. So they began to add the vitamin to margarine. In the mid-1940s the United States... ...point out that Adler‘s idea of social interest acknowledged that we are not truly human people unless we are socially active. And that society ranges... ...lf that many men have been beaten by their wives. ―Domestic violence is uncommonly common, if not universal. In a woman‘s lifetime it ranges... ... caused most of the terror and war in recent years. I get confused. The Almighty tells Osama bin Ladin to attack the infidels in New York and Washin... ... for orgasm. Injecting heroin or getting drunk just mask the causes of psychological pain and our inabilities to move successfully up Maslow‘s mounta...

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...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...e over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis Th... ...arco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing... ...it well by the time you get to the other end. My own personal perspective ranges from the Gutenberg Press to eBooks. It nicely complements Mr. Bradf... ...their flight along the crowded, rough, and rugged road toward the eastern mountains, Chinese soldiers died by the thousands, but the Arabs singled ou... ...teau and release what little moisture they carry onto the northern Khenti Mountain Range. That leaves dry the huge terrain to the south known as the... ...ied only a wooden suitcase carved by peasant neighbors when he arrived in Washington, DC, to work in his step-cousin‘s precision machine shop. When ... ... a share of the new shop‘s profits. In 1873, Mergenthaler helped several Washington court reporters in their attempt to mechanize typesetting. Thei...

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...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ge. John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes, Lame Deer Seeker of Visions, Washington Square Press, New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Relig... ...holic, Episcopalian (the name given to the Church of England in the United States) left me with a sense of coldness, making me feel a total outsider w... ...ith medicine, ten with space, three with the wishing jewel, and five with a mountain peak. As the lotus is unstained by water, so is Nirvana unstained ... ...ewel, Nirvana grants all one can desire, brings joy, and sheds light.—As a mountain peak is lofty and exalted, so is Nirvana. As a mountain peak is 33... ... the temperate southern woodlands and grassy tablelands, forests, mountain ranges and coastal plains, and the vast sands of the central deserts which ... ... Jarapiri the snake/ man which begins at Winbaraku, a hill in the McDowell Ranges of central Australia, taken from the full account given by Charles M... ...981. Lame Deer, John (Fire): Lame Deer Seeker of Visions, R. Erdoes (ed.), Washington Square, New York, 1972. Locke, John: Two Treatises of Government...

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Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...ny economists go as far as to argue that no experiments can be designed to test the statements of economic theories. It is difficult - perhaps imp... ...he experiment is. c. The Psychological Uncertainty Principle – The current mental state of a human subject can be (theoretically) fully known. But... ... tax. The outcomes of inflation, ironically, resemble the economic recipe of the "Washington consensus" propagated by the likes of the rabidly ant... .... Sam Vaknin Also published by United Press International (UPI) Also Read: The Washington Consensus - I. The IMF It is a maxim of current eco... ...sed to reflect this "element of variability" and hint at a continuum of goods that ranges from wholly rival to wholly nonrival ones. In particular,... ...eople like Sese Seko, Hussein, and Marcos drooled over money. The ever-heightening mountains of greenbacks in their vaults soothed them, filled the... ...an instructions which embody a potential to injure said instruction-givers? Take a mountain climber – should a robot refuse to hand him his equipme...

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...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulli... ...ation. Its democracy, while cumbersome, was more efficient than was Mao‘s state planned socialism. ―The high caste people were capable of hig... ...ive in poverty, at a dollar or two a day. But the top end of the monetary mountain has its share of billionaires and highly paid professionals. It w... ...st look at your Constitutional requirement for a separation of church and state, then look as how many political candidates have to continually call ... ...l. It is family and religion centered. While India‘s economic environment ranges from slum dwellers to billionaires, with 70% of the population bein... ... fell at the same speed. ―I dare say that Thomas Jefferson or George Washington would be ardent physical scientists today and that their philos...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...tive on the larger context, continually understanding things better. It is a state of mind that is in a constant, continual unending state of Learn... ...ly large in size; it is infinitely small in size also. The Condition of size ranges from the infinitely small to the infinitely large. The P... ... of Splitness. David Dawson went hiking through China and climbed the Taoist mountain of Mt Qiyun. He visited the temple and shrines on that Mount... ...y night, no matter how cold or hot it is, and eat cooked food; when there are mountains of fresh vegetables and fruits and nuts available that do no... ...in his farewell speech. Americans ignored the corporate takeover of power in Washington and bought the crappy cars and crappy houses and thought th... ... and they are still rust free. Luxor was sabotaged by the robber barons and Washington, and shut down. Because civilization cannot abide anything... ... every winter… but no glaciers: except in the highest elevations of mountain ranges that are close to the poles. Africa has no high elevations, no...

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Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

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...Contents George Washington........................4 George Washington........................8 John Adams..................................9 Thomas Jefferson.........................16 Thomas Jefferson.........................21 James Madiso...

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Excerpt: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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Excerpt: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

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...TITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..........................................................

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...ench Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...tory (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...t, accepts what destiny will send. Thouret and Parlementary Duport produce mountains of Reformed Law; liberal, Anglomaniac, available and unavailable.... ...he Cevennes; whence Royalism, as is feared and hoped, may dash down like a mountain deluge, and submerge France! A singular thing this camp of Jales; ... ...t must be rammed down there, and shaped stair-wise into as many as ‘thirty ranges of conve- nient seats, ’ firm-trimmed with turf, covered with enduri... ...hem, Barbaroux says ‘with tears:’ they consider what Rivers, what Mountain ranges are in it: they will retire behind this Loire-stream, defend these A... ...tumults, triumphs and changes, thou wilt swing well, ‘fast-anchored to the Washington For- mula;’ and be the Hero and Perfect-character, were it only ...

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...e afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer. It was his habit to leave the p...

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... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 58 Br... ...ore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy piggledy whale statements, how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel ce... ...Islands. “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or State — (in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man.” Opening sentenc... ... into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill side blue. But though the picture lies thus ... ... A Bosom Friend one. It may seem ridiculous, but it reminded me of General Washington’s head, as seen in the popular busts of him. It had the same lon... ...ing, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top. Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed. Whilst I was thus closely scanning ... ...ce of firm, close grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness. Now, how...

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...ew hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implement...

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...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...you had only to come and see me.” “There? Where do you mean?” “In the United States: in New York and Albany and other American places.” “I’ve been the... ...Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with her it... ...horoughly launched in journalism, and her letters to the Inter viewer, from Washington, Newport, the White Mountains and other places, were universal... ...m, and her letters to the Inter viewer, from Washington, Newport, the White Mountains and other places, were universally quoted. Isabel pronounced th... ...ations. The sun had got low, the golden light took a deeper tone, and on the mountains and the plain that stretched beneath them the masses of purple ... ...he career appeared to stretch beneath it in the disposed vistas and with the ranges of steps and terraces and fountains of a formal Italian garden—all... ...ace; how much she should like to live somewhere else—in Paris, in London, in Washington; how impossible it was to get anything nice to wear in Italy e...

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...Table of Contents: Ktaadn, 1 -- Chesuncook, 51 -- The Allegash and East Branch, 96 -- Appendix, 184 -- I. TREES., 184 -- II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- ...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

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...THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A Hist... ...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...than Golconda and the treasures of the world! In the heart of the remotest mountains rises the little Kirk; the Dead all slumbering round it, under th... ...g, at the Baths of Mont d’Or: ‘The savages descending in torrents from the mountains; our people ordered not to go out. The Curate in surplice and sto... ...his Lafayette too made away with; yet not all for- mulas. He sticks by the Washington-formula; and by that he will stick;—and hang by it, as by sure b... ...unburnt. The Key of that Robber-Den shall cross the Atlantic; shall lie on Washington’s hall-table. The great Clock ticks now in a private patriotic C... ...t must be rammed down there, and shaped stair-wise into as many as ‘thirty ranges of convenient seats,’ firm-trimmed with turf, covered with enduring ... ...hem, Barbaroux says ‘with tears:’ they consider what Rivers, what Mountain ranges are in it: they will retire behind this Loire-stream, defend these A...

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............................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HA...

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