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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsi... ...LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... Part II. COMMUNITY CULTURE Part III. VILLAG... ...more development Villages and houses Place for a human community 51 Culture of the river valleys 51 * Lampang Province and City 52 Three vi... ...How much is enough? 121 Pictures 124-173 References 174 II. COMMUNITY CULTURE Being human (interviews) 6 How we were married * In the... ...s do not have the characteristic timbre of the old way of singing, and the musical scale is tending towards the Western. Pop stars sing in the same st... ...ion and Equality. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth. Yupho, Dhanit 1960. Thai Musical Instruments. Transl. from Thai by David Morton. Siva Phorn Ldt., Ba...

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...e Archive – Click HERE! Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited http:/... ...ion in 1834. http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in... ...rnardino de Sahagun (1499-1590), a Franciscan priest with deep interest in Mexican culture, described a ritual in honor of the Aztec gods of fisher... ...ions were trounced by Isaac Shoenberg and his team, set up in 1931 by Electric and Musical Industries (EMI). RCA refined its own system, as did the... ...owner. Like Puccini, Verdi lived, out of wedlock, with the common-law wife of a musical agent, the prima donna Giuseppina Strepponi. When she me... ..., 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... ...use.com/freebooks.html "After the Rain – How the West Lost the East" The history, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in ... ...cgi?vaksam_JOURNAL 10. "After the Rain – How the West Lost the East" The history, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in ...

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...ver. A populace distinguishes itself from another populace by the type of culture it has been able to create and for the type of soul it has manage... ...en able to create and for the type of soul it has managed to instill in its culture. Experts say that humanity is moving towards a terrible conflict... .... Experts say that humanity is moving towards a terrible conflict between cultures; cultures that have a soul and cultures that don’t have one at a... ...o tomorrow’s Western World; a soul that can handle the massive invasion of cultures that are different from ours or the barbarians that are advancing... ...e anonymity of the masses. 36 Otherwise, let’s take the example of a musical instrument: a violin, a standup bass or an entire orchestra. Some... ... a melody or a symphony. If we want to, we can imagine our lives like a musical instrument that has four strings: the body, the psyche, the I Per... ... or bronze and creates works of art. Or an artist can be someone who has a musical instrument, such as a violin, a trumpet or a guitar and is capabl... ... our personal lives? Is it possible to live as though our very life were a musical instrument and we were asked to produce music and harmony with it... ...by the anonymity of the masses. Otherwise, let’s take the example of a musical instrument: a violin, a standup bass or an entire orchestra. Some...

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...dated one of the largest and most singular treasury of Islamic history and culture around—costumes and traditional Saudi Arabian garb on display, alon... ...al Saudi Arabian garb on display, along with rugs, woven objects, jewelry, musical instruments and other artifacts. The library alone contained severa... ...t his experiences in Kuwait and her interests in Muslim belief and Islamic culture. Jury had shared his hopes and dreams—for him, for his single, work... ...n school, at work, months and years living and breathing Islam and Arabian culture. Being so near this genie-man turned her memory to mush. "I am sorr... ...eminded herself. Cuz after that crash course in Twentieth Century, Western culture she'd given him last night/this morning, he should have still been ... ...ance and appreciate the view unnoticed. On his knees, head bowed, voice so musical and soothing she wanted to join him. Or join with him. Where had th... .... "Morning, Genie-man." He was a hunk, plain and simple, in any century or culture. And I'm not dead. At least not yet, she thought, remembering her r... ...d caught Kane by an arm. "Are you all right? What is it?" "Sacrilege!" The musical lilt of Sahir's giggle echoing in the confines of the first floor w... ...'d be up any minute, filling the corridors and rooms of her house with his musical baritone raised in prayer. The prospect filled her chest with bliss...

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...: palma@unet.com.mk Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited http... ... He lacks real talents - he know how to play only six jazz tunes, can't make up his musical mind between his faithful sax and a newly alluring drum ... ... all gain visitation rights to the minds of great men and women of science, art and culture - as we do today gain access to their homes and to the p... ...ourselves, we cannot conceive of an indestructible entity. The artifacts of popular culture - thrillers, action and sci-fi films, video games, compu... ...be found in the more malignant forms of fundamentalist environmentalism and in pop-culture (the most recent example of which is the propaganda-lade... ... for attitudes and values are unpredictable, but would vary profoundly in different cultures and between groups within complex societies; a crucial ...

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...Film Arts Foundation, IFP-New York, National Alliance for Media, Arts and Culture, National Video Resources); • film studios (e.g., Motion Picture... ...izations contain extensive contact information for owners of copyright in musical works, and also have staff available to assist with inquiries); BM... ...ribution granted by section 108 do not apply to certain classes of works: musical, pictorial, graphic or sculptural works, or motion pictures or oth... ... take advantage of section 108(h) for more classes of works (for example, musical works), and those previously excluded classes of works will include... ...ry license permits any person to distribute phonorecords of a nondramatic musical work, including by means of digital phonorecord delivery, when pho... ...uding by means of digital phonorecord delivery, when phonorecords of that musical work have previously been distributed to the public in the United ... ... Film Arts Foundation, IFP-New York, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, and National Video Resources (“AIVF”) (663) In support, this com... ... 260 Public Knowledge (629); Free Culture (673); IDA (686); Duke #2 (597) (proposal allows piggybacking afte... ...tional Documentary Association; IFP; National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture; National Video Resource) Jack Lerner/Internet Archive Nancy E...

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...Film Arts Foundation, IFP-New York, National Alliance for Media, Arts and Culture, National Video Resources); • film studios (e.g., Motion Picture... ...izations contain extensive contact information for owners of copyright in musical works, and also have staff available to assist with inquiries); BM... ...ribution granted by section 108 do not apply to certain classes of works: musical, pictorial, graphic or sculptural works, or motion pictures or oth... ... take advantage of section 108(h) for more classes of works (for example, musical works), and those previously excluded classes of works will include... ...ry license permits any person to distribute phonorecords of a nondramatic musical work, including by means of digital phonorecord delivery, when pho... ...uding by means of digital phonorecord delivery, when phonorecords of that musical work have previously been distributed to the public in the United ... ... Film Arts Foundation, IFP-New York, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, and National Video Resources (“AIVF”) (663) In support, this com... ... 260 Public Knowledge (629); Free Culture (673); IDA (686); Duke #2 (597) (proposal allows piggybacking afte... ...tional Documentary Association; IFP; National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture; National Video Resource) Jack Lerner/Internet Archive Nancy E...

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... What a wonderful hope. What a creative commission. Many of the creative and musical arts had their start in religion. For eons, humanity has shown it... ...sionaries go through extensive training, including learning the language and cultures of the countries they’re traveling to. Writers need to learn eve...

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...ubjects. ‘We must not forget that Maria had Indian blood, Rosita, and eroticism is part of their culture. You must recall those engravings we saw in... ... too much time to dwell on her husband and his first wife: India kept intruding by its own varied culture. It was the festival of Bakr-Id which remi... ...en on a doonga, a pleasure boat, where musicians sang love songs to the accompaniment of Kashmiri musical instruments. The night was lit by soft moo... ...egated in our homes, our clubs and our cantonments, as if we are afraid to be corrupted by their culture and we may give them the impression of arr... ... ways were popular with the British, who admired them for their business acumen and philanthropic culture. Audrey Blankenhagen 270 People of anot... ...which was Indian, controlled by British officers and their innate sense of superiority, born of a culture as alien to the Indian as theirs was to th...

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... "Love," said the cartoon of the mosquito, "makes up the vernacular of pop culture. It is innate as a quest. It lances life's old festers granting a... ...he did not understand. What did she know beyond the kinetic rhythms of pop culture? It was in her blank stare. The word had not penetrated. He want... ...tity of these self-professed "Chosen people," and for having the dominant culture of individual freedoms that went contrary to their Islamic tyranny.... ...l training and boldness could persevere to be someone accomplished in this musical genre. He could run to Noppawan Piggy's home. He had the address... ...amburger buns on a barbeque, and microwaving meatless tofu hamburgers in a culture that was all his own. As the two women chatted on the balcony Porn... ... programming of a woman. This feeling of love, this motif of women and pop culture, vexed her. It was annulling her marital contract that had been en...

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...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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...a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing that dramati... ...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... ... create out of thin air. Perhaps he or she is deeply embedded in a literary, musical, cultural, or scientific tra- dition that would not flourish if tre... ...ghts about human nature, the periodic table, Ohm’s law, the sonnet form, the musical scale. Would you have paid to purchase access to each of these? I... ...y technology that would break the record companies and usher in a new era of musical cre- ativity. Whether one agrees or disagrees with them, it is ha... ...be read by human beings. T rue, it is an abstract form of communication—like musical notation and mathe- matical algorithms. But those are clearly pro...

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...n. 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 in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social struct...

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...r religious institution, or we absorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most ... ...rity of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been on... ...f the meaning and feeling-value of symbols in personal life, as well as in culture generally. Jung was, with Sigmund Freud, a cofounder of psychoanaly... ...ssible to have a truly unbiased view. By virtue of having grown up in some culture every student inevitably has bias and preconceptions. Never- theles... ...e other. On the relatively few occasions that studies of another religious culture such as Islam were made, it was largely for the purpose of finding ... ...atly. The same is to be said even more of music. The score of a particular musical piece indicates the notes to be played and to some degree the timin... ...ate emotion with music more than drama, by and large, we need to take this musical analogy quite seriously, for it is this analogy which in practice r... ...he broad outline of the life that is to be lived already exists, just as a musical score for a violin sonata already exists when the musician takes up... ... rhythmic movement. Clapping sticks, and in the north the didgeridoo, give musical accompaniment. Mime is much used in dance, expertly portraying the ...

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...be able to get a grasp on the great city that is China’s capital. On Sunday’s choral groups gather in the park to perform amateur Peking Operas, play musical instruments or to sing songs once beloved by the masses....

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... – compiled, edited, augmented by Ke Haiying & F. Smarandache…………18 Chapter 3. The City of Hengshui – by Li Zhanbing……………38 Chapter 4. Ningbo — A Culture‐flourishing Land on the Shore of East China Sea – by Lin Rongchen……………53 Chapter 5. Jingdezhen: Porcelain Capital of the World – by Li Xiaomin……………66 Chapter 6. Haimen : Charming City ‐ by Wang Ping & Jiang He…………...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and le...

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...en a month ago that Sung Ki had left him. Sung Ki: even now the name sounded musical. After the video pang girl's attempt at marital entrapment, this... ...wife and children unbearable, and even his hobby of playing a cello was as a musical dilettante. He looked out of the window and smoothed out his hair... ...g what he thought their lives might be like; and from there, feeling and the musical notes encroached from distant spaces within his imagination. Ther... ...no higher significance. He got a vision in his mind. It was a feeling with musical notes. He got his underwear and his book bag from the locker and ... ...es on a staff would tranform him from an amateur cello performer and general musical dilettante to a composer. it was a dream for dreams meant that h... ...reans or did they yearn for bigger and better things seduced by the American culture that came to them through the cinema and the music and through hi... ...sion toward the rock-a-by song by telling herself that it was the collective culture in the earliest of all primitive American, if not western minds, ... ... reasons for the specific elements of a myth (the cryptic reason why a given culture might have chosen a serpent god or the son of god over the sun go... ...asting within the brevity of a human's lifespan); and historians of recorded cultures thread together implication, meaning, and motive from a few tang...

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...r Medical Research -- 74 Perfect Place for Global Meetings -- 78 Checklist for Your Next Conference -- 82 Sustainability, Harmony Built Into Hawaiian Culture -- 86 What Aloha Really Means --...

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...nce HAWAIIAN TRADITIONS 82 Sustainability, Harmony Built Into Hawaiian Culture 86 What Aloha Really Means Use this QR code to connect to the APE... ...es immigrants, visitors, and locals and promotes the sharing of ideas and cultures. It is no surprise that a recent study ranked Hawai‘i the number... ...me all the delegates to APEC 2011. As a bank that serves Hawaii’s diverse cultures and businesses, we hope our Islands leave a lasting impression o... ...ld of electronic payment security. THE ALOHA SHIRT is part of the surfng culture that spread from Hawai‘i to the world. Local companies have contr... ...S. and other APEC member economies. “Populations defned by diferences of culture, ethnicity and geography have diferent outcomes for the same types... ...Since 1916, the Kamaka family has been fashioning and manufacturing the musical instruments out of Hawaiian koa, an acacia wood with fne grain hi...

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...by faculty in a Kamehameha reading program. The books were designed to increase students' reading skills and their knowledge of Hawaiian history and culture by focusing on topics such as the Hawaiian monarchy. Some of these books have been translated from their original English into Hawaiian through the efforts of the staff of the Kamehameha Schools Hawaiian Studies Inst...

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...3 -- Featherwork -- 138 -- The First Object Made -- 139 -- Olelo a me Moolelo: Language and Literature -- 145 -- Mele: Music -- 147 -- Hula -- 151 -- Musical Instruments -- 154 -- Na Pa ani: Games -- 163 -- Ka Makahiki -- 169 -- Conclusion -- 173 -- Bibliography...

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...g sights and fantastic attractions as London: the Big Ben, the Tower Bridge, St Paul’s Cathedral and Trafalgar Square to name a few. London’s vibrant culture keeps evolving: new trends start here and then spread themselves beyond the Channel in continental Europe...

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...of Life Energy Pg 192 The Definition of What is Human Pg 198 The Origin of Culture Pg 206 The Tool-Dynamic of Civilized Culture Pg 212 Wonder ... ... Pg 269 The Dynamics of the Transition Pg 279 The Creation of Robber Baron Culture Pg 280 The Basic Factors Pg 282 The Consequences of Accumul... ...ange Pg 508 Tools vs. Life Pg 508 The Dynamics of Distraction Pg 520 The Culture of Mass Media Pg 523 Hollywood and Perfection Pg 527 Tool P... ...-Hope Pg 1051 Slavery Pg 1052 The Slavery of Ownership Pg 1054 The Slave Culture of Civilization Pg 1055 Domestication and Slavery Pg 10... ...ines of mammals contain 24 vertebrae. This is why there are twelve notes on a musical scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the h... ...roperties of both waves and particles. This is why the main vibration of any musical note exists only as a whole, a half, and a third. This is why... ...e exists only as a whole, a half, and a third. This is why the totality of a musical octave contains twelve notes. This is why the Earth’s Crust ha... ... 1-l-1, (3)… 11-1-11, (5)….. or 111-1-111 (7)… etc, etc. Fractions inside a Musical note that are odd: 5ths, 7ths, 9ths, 11ths… clash with each oth... ..., and you notice that this so-called constant is missing. When you split a musical note in half on a stringed instrument: the harmonic note called...

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...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... ...ference between sound and text. In music, what matter are the song or the musical piece. The medium (or carrier, or packing) is marginal and interch... ...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... ...cts similar to his history. It will alert him to movies, TV shows and new musical releases - all within his cultural sphere. If convinced to purchas...

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...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... ...ists (like musicians) - often describe their interpretation of an artwork (e.g., a musical piece) in terms of this type of intuition. Many mathemat... ...nt individualism play an important socio-cultural role in this semipternal game of musical chairs. Many products have a limited shelf life or an ex... ...e or envy - not all stereotypes are negative. Blacks are supposed to have superior musical and athletic skills. Jews are thought to be brainier in ...