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Air Force Research Institute Papers 2011-1 : General McChrystal’s Strategic AssessmentEvaluating the Operating Environment in Afghanistan in the Summer of 2009

By: Colonel Matthew Brand, USAF

GENERAL MCCHRYSTAL’S STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT: EVALUATING THE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT IN AFGHANISTAN IN THE SUMMER OF 2009 Introduction . . . .1 The Tasking . . . .2 The Team . . . . 3 The Assessment Begins . . . .7 Early Organizational Difficulties and Cultural Clashes . . . .10 The Team Comes Together and Moves Forward . . .15 Initial Assessment Working Group . . . . 17 General McChrystal Takes Ownership . . . .25 General McChrystal Takes Specific Troop Numbers out of the Assessment . . . . 27 Strategic Assessment Annexes . . . .27 Conclusion . . . . . 48 NOTES . . . . . .49 ABBREVIATIONS . . . .53 APPENDIX: “COMISAF’s Initial Assessment,” 30 August 2009 . . . .55...

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Bad Hare Days

By: John Fitzgerald

In Ireland the humble hare has been the subject of great controversy. After years of an abusive sport, which resulted in its child-like death screams being heard regularly throughout Ireland, a result was achieved. For those few dedicated people trying desperately to save the gentle creature from the horrors of the cruel sport of hare coursing, the struggle was painful and fought against great odds. The author writes about his experience of a campaign against this barbaric blood sport, focusing mainly on a controversial phase in the 1980s when the State deployed a police heavy gang to suppress anti-coursing activism. The author’s own peaceful and non-violent action and that of, initially, a few others' did arouse the public and achieve what at first appeared to be a hard-won benefit to the hare. But the hare's troubles were - and are -far from over. Though it can no longer be torn apart by greyhounds, now muzzled, it can still be mauled, injured, and tossed about like a rag doll on the coursing field. In addition to highlighting the hare's sad plight, this is also a campaigner's story. The author recounts vividly the ups a...

Every cause carries a price tag. It makes demands on your time…on your family and social life. It can bring discomfort, enmity, misunderstanding, and social isolation, though these downsides can to some degree be offset by the sense of camaraderie that comes with being part of a group or campaign involving people from all walks of life. I paid a high price for my campaigning. The loss of my job with a Farmers Co-operative at a time when jobs were scarce in Ireland; followed by arrests, lengthy interrogations, false accusations of guilt, and five tension-racked, emotionally shattering court cases. All for my efforts on behalf of the humble hare, a creature hailed in Irish legend and folklore, a proud part of my country’s wildlife heritage, but that Irish law permits to be abused in a cruel game of chance called hare coursing…one of the world’s most barbaric blood sports ...

1. View to a Blooding -- 8 -- 2. A Living Link -- 13 -- 3. Supper with the Hare Catchers -- 16 -- 4. Crusading Zeal -- 20 -- 5. A Tin-Pot Coliseum -- 22 -- 6. My First Sight of the "Antis" -- 26 -- 7. How to Resist? -- 29 -- 8. Michael D Bids to End Hare Coursing -- 31 -- 9. I Join the Campaign -- 35 -- 10. Coping with Bullies -- 38 -- 11. Tensions Mount -- 40 -- 12. Threats and "Friendly Advice" -- . 43 -- 13. Punch-bag Day at the Co-op -- 49 -- 14. "Get Rid of the Thundering Eejit!" -- 54 -- 15. The Fixer and the Foreman -- 56 -- 16. "A Catch 22 Situation" -- 60 -- 17. Limbo -- 64 -- 18. Constructive Dismissal -- 67 -- 19. "Inflammatory letters" -- . 70 -- 20. "A Co-op is Like a Church" -- 73 -- 21. A Curious Sense of Elation -- 78 -- 22. "Ye're Not Wanted in These Parts" -- 81 -- 23. Showdown in Tipperary -- 83 -- 24. Sabotage -- 88 -- 25. Don't Wake the Cat -- 90 -- 26. Duress -- 94 -- 27. Capitulation -- 101 -- 28. Learning About Section 30 -- 106 -- 29. The Bigger Picture -- 111 -- 30. Freed Hares, Glassed Fields, and Burning Haybarns -- 115 -- 31. Second Visit -- 118 32. The Tipsy Branchman -- 123 -- 33. Another "Little State...

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Hawaii Place Names

By: Esther Mookini

In this latest book, John Clark, author of the highly regarded "Beaches of Hawaii" series, gives us the many captivating stories behind the hundreds of Hawaii place names associated with the ocean—the names of shores, beaches, and other sites where people fish, swim, dive, surf, and paddle. Significant features and landmarks on or near shores, such as fishponds, monuments, shrines, reefs, and small islands, are also included. The names of surfing sites are the most numerous and among the most colorful: from the purely descriptive (Black Rock, Blue Hole) to the humorous (No Can Tell, Pray for Sex). Clark began gathering information for the "Beaches" series in 1972, and during the years that followed interviewed hundreds of informants, many of them native Hawaiians, and consulted dozens of Hawaiian reference books, newspapers, and maps. A significant amount of the oral history he collected was unrecorded and remained only in his notebooks and memory. Hawaii Place Names: Shores, Beaches, and Surf Sites is the final product of those years of research, and like its popular predecessors, it benefits substantially from Clark's ...

In 1966 the University of Hawaii Press published the first edition of Place Names of Hawaii. Written by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert, it contained 1,125 entries, all of which were place names in the Hawaiian language. In 1974 the press published the second edition by Pukui, Elbert, and Esther T. Mookini. It contained some four thousand entries, and this time it included place names in English and other languages. This edition, in the words of the authors, provided "a glossary of important place names in the State, including names of valleys, streams, mountains, land sections, surfing areas, towns, villages, and Honolulu streets and buildings." During the years that have followed its publication, the second edition of Place Names of Hawaii has become a standard reference in the literature of Hawaii....

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The Early Mapping of Hawai'I

By: Gary L. Fitzpatrick

The cartographic history of Hawaii began with the arrival of Captain James Cook, the famous explorer and chartmaker, in 1778. Between then and the mid-19th century, visitors to HawaiI produced a rich assortment of charts and maps depicting the shores, harbors, towns, and volcanoes of the various islands. This volume traces the story of the mapping of HawaiI during the pivotal years in which the indigenous society was radically transformed by the peoples and ideas imported from the West. Foreigners introduced the concept of mapmaking to HawaiI, and they made maps of the islands to satisfy the needs of maritime commerce, missionary endeavors, and scientific investigations. Nearly seventy maps, complemented by more than twenty views, portraits, and illustrations, are reproduced here. Included are many charts and harbor plans produced by such famous figures of naval history as James Cook, William Bligh, George Vancouver, Otto von Kotzebue, Urey Lisiansky, Jean Francois de la Pérouse, Louis Duperrey, and Charles Wilkes. These richly reproduced charts document the early geography of Honolulu, Lahaina, Hilo, and Kailua—the most...

The Early Mapping of Hawaii is an overview of the history of the mapping of Hawaii from the time of European discovery in 1778 through the mid-19th century. Mapmaking was not an art indigenous to Hawaii; foreigners were responsible for the introduction of mapmaking in the islands. For well over seventy years, mapping in Hawaii was largely carried out by Europeans or Americans, and the early maps of Hawaii were mostly made to serve the needs of those foreigners....

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He Wahi Mo'Olelo No Kaluanui Ma Ko'Olauloa, Mokupuni 'O O'Ahu

By: Kepa Maly

A Collection Of Traditions, Historical Accounts And Kama'aina Recollections Of Kaluanui And Vicinity, Ko'olauloa, Island Of O'ahu.

At the request of Jeffery Merz, Senior Planner with Oceanit, on behalf of the Department of Land and Natural Resources-Division of State Parks, Kumu Pono Associates, conducted detailed archival-historical research and a limited oral historical interview program with kupuna and several kamaaina oral history interviews to document various aspects of the history of the land of Kaluanui, including the area known as Kaliuwaa, situated in the Koolauloa District on the Island of Oahu (Figure 1). The documentation cited in this study is divided into two primary categories, and focuses on accounts which have had little or no exposure over the last 80 to 150 years or more....

-- Introduction -- 1 -- Background 1 -- Approach To Conducting The Study -- 1 -- Historical Documentary Resources -- 3 -- Oral History Interviews -- 3 -- A Historical Overview Of Kaluanui And Neighboring Lands Of Koolauloa -- 4 -- Kaluanui Ma Koolauloa 4 -- Residency And Land Use In Kaluanui And Vicinity -- 4 -- Hana Pono A Me Ka Maopopo Aina–Protocols And Knowing The Land: Kamaaina Families Continue Travel And Attachment To Kaliuwaa -- 7 -- Na Moolelo Native Traditions And Historical Narratives Of Kaluanui And Vicinity -- 9 -- Section I. Moolelo Maoli (Native Traditions And History) --9 -- “He Moolelo No Kamapuaa” – A Tradition Of Kamapuaa (1861) --9 -- “Na Wahi Pana O Kaliuwaa” – Storied Places Of Kaliuwaa (1861) --18 -- He Kanikau–Kaluanui Referenced In A Chant Of Lamentation (1862) --21 -- Kamapuaa, The Lono Class Of Priests, And Lands Associated With Them (1868 - 1870) -- 22 -- “Kumumanao” – A Subject Of Thought (1874) --23 -- He Moolelo Kaao O Kamapuaa – -- Legendary Tradition Of Kamapuaa” (1891) -- 25 -- “Na Anoai O Oahu Nei” – The News Of Oahu (1930) --26 -- Section II. Traditions And Historical Descriptions Of The L...

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The Rosetta Stone, In Hieroglyphics and Greek : With Translations, and an Explanation of the Hieroglyphical Characters, And Follwed by an Appendix of Kings' Names

By: Samuel Sharpe

The Rosetta Stone, in Hieroglyphics and Greek; with Translations, and an explanation of the hieroglyphical character; and followed by an appendix of kings names....

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and special notes. In the Government section, a new entry on dependent areas has also been added....

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The Cosmo-Art Theorems and Axioms

By: Antonio Mercurio

Cosmo-Art is an artistic movement that is accessible to anyone who has the strength and courage necessary to detach from their Fetal I that they still carry within, and elevate themselves to the cosmic artistic dimension of the Adult I, which embraces the whole life of a human being […] A. Mercurio This book represents the culmination of the Author’s anthropological and cosmological thought. It is a synthesis expressed through poetic language, but it also offers guidelines for the Cosmo-Art Movement. This volume sets out the seven Theorems and the seven Axioms of Cosmo-Art that together represent the Author’s new cosmological viewpoint, and it offers many answers to the fundamental questions that Human Beings have regarding the meaning of Life. The book also offers an important chapter on the Principles of Prenatal Anthropology as well as one on the Rules for Nocturnal Navigation, which is a splendid guide for sailing on the seas of existence and journeying towards ‘Secondary Beauty...

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The Astro-Archaeology of Stonehenge

By: George Curtis

Describing a novel way of drawing the ground plan of Stonehenge with the peg and string method, revealing previously unknown relationships.

Stonehenge is a supposedly Neolithic monument located on Salisbury plain in Southern England. A study of the monument ground-plan raises a number of questions that are not answered by existing science. Questions such as: - ‘How could primitive men subdivide a circle into 56 equal parts?’ The questions are not answered with the keys provided by science. We need a ‘dumb-key’ to resolve the problems and answer the questions. The dumb-key is found by asking ourselves what geometric drawing implements did the builders have? They must have marked the ground with some kind of plan or they would not have known where to dig the holes to place the stones. The only geometric implements they would have had access to would be the basic ones that men living in the wild might find in the environment. They would no doubt have a long straight pole or stick to use as a measure, and sharpened pegs to scratch lines in the turf, or to drive into the ground to mark places. They would have rope, or the ancient equivalent, made out of twisted fibres or knotted hide thongs. Pulled tight these would provide a straight line, which could be marked on the...

Acknowledgements………………………………………..…..4 Introduction………………………………………………..……..5 Drawing the Ground-Plan………………………….…………6 Outer Monument…………………………………………………7 Inner Monument……………………………………………….19 Astro-Archaeology…………………………………………….26 Summary of Astronomy…………………….………………29 Graphs ………………………..……………….27 & 28, 31& 34 Tables 1,2,3…………………………………………….37,38,39 Exercise with Px……………………………………….………40 Printable Graphs………………………………………..42 & 43 ...

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Wright Flyer Paper : Ethnic Conflict and US Central Command Policy for the Central Asian Republics, Vol. 16

By: Major William M. Tart, USAF

This paper identifies a possible shortfall in United States (US) military planning, the experience of US Central Command (CENTCOM) planners in dealing with the Central Asian States. The problem is that military planners have little experience with engagement activities in the Newly Independent States (NIS), particularly in the Central Asian States. In this paper, I took a three-step approach to solving this problem. First, I familiarized the reader with ethnic conflict and its proximate and underlying causes. Second, I described what is at stake in Central Asia in terms of US interests. Third, I evaluated current US Central Command (CENTCOM) activities in the CAS and recommended some improvements....

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

A One man's quest for truth, freedom and pure spirituality in a world without.

Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connection that exists between all living things on Earth; the sacred balance of life. Upon the next day's passing, Seattle signs the Port Eliot treaty relinquishing ownership of Suquamish ancestral lands to the United States government in favor of a small reservation to the North. He sees that a war would ultimately prove futile and wishes instead to preserve his people's lifeblood through appeasement. In a final speech, Seattle explains that man comes from the land and that all men share equally the responsibility to protect the Web of Life on Earth. 150 years later, Dr. Richard Hawk, a lowly archaeology professor, explores the forests of his ancestors. Here he discovers an intriguing artifact he believes has spiritual significance. He takes his disovery to the one person he knows who might identify it: a beautiful shamness names Ri...

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A Gazetteer of the Territory of Hawaii 1935

By: John Wesley Coulter, Ph. D.

In the following index of the islands of the Territory of Hawaii and vicinity and the geographical features of those islands, the aríchipelago is divided into three groups, namely: (1) the Main Group, comprising all islands from Hawaii to Niihau, including islets lying offshore from the main islands; (2) the Leeward Islands from Ni-lioa. to kure, consisting of a chain of islands, atolls, and shoals, exítending from beyond Kauai west-north-west for 1,100 miles; and (8) Other Islands, being certain islands scattered in the North Paícific Ocean and generally acknowledged to have been under Haíwaiian sovereignty, or to which Hawaii had some claim and to which claim the United States has succeeded....

In collecting the names from the primary source, the thirty-three maps and quadrangles of the islands, except those of the re-survey of Oahu, were marked in rectangles, the sides of which were one minute long, and the named geographic features located to the nearíest minute of latitude and longitude. The names are'listed exactly as they are spelled on the quadrangles and maps. No decisions have been made as to whether the names are correct. However, the Haíwaiian place names which appear in the Sixth Report of the United States Geographic Board have been compared with the same names in the gazetteer, and where the spelling is different, the nomenclaíture of that Board is given in parentheses with the letters U.S.G.B. Names which appear in that report of the United States Geographic Board and which do not appear on maps are also included....

Introduction -- 7 -- Areas of main Hawaiian islands and highest point on each island -- 10 -- Abbreviations -- 11 -- The Gazetteer: -- Main Islands -- Hawaii -- 13 -- Kahoolawe -- 75 -- Kauai -- 79 -- Lanai -- 103 -- Maui -- 111 -- Molokai -- 143 -- Niihau -- 159 -- Oahu -- 163 -- Leeward Islands -- 197 -- Other Islands -- 199 -- Sources of Place-Names in the Gazetteer: - Maps of the United States Geological Survey -- 200 -- Maps and Charts of the Territorial, the Royal Hawaiian, and the United States Governments -- 202 -- Miscellaneous maps - Key to Identification Symbols -- 205 -- Hawaiian Words Used in Naming Lands and Features, by Robert D King -- 206 -- Hawaiian Topographic Survey and Associated Matters, by Walter F Frear -- -- 209 -- Districts in the Hawaiian Islands, by Robert D King -- 214 -- Hawaiian Toponymy, by John Wesley Coulter -- 231 -- References on Hawaiian Place-Names -- 238 -- Advisory Committee on Hawaiian Geographic Names, by John Wesley Coulter – 240 -- MAPS-Maps For Use with the Gazetteer: -- Hawaii, Territory of, Fig 1 -- 6 -- Hawaii (island) Fig 2 -- 12 -- Kahoolawe, Fig 4 -- 102 -- Kauai, Fig 3 -- 78 -- L...

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Ka Mooolelo Hawaii

By: Lahainaluna

The primary purpose of the Hawaiian Language Reprint Series, as noted in connection with the publication of the rst two buke in this series, is to make available signicant works originally printed in the Hawaiian language in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but now long out of print and difcult to access. Ka Mooolelo Hawaii, the third in the series, is especially signicant for the place it holds among the large body of works produced by Native Hawaiian writers. As M. Puakea Nogelmeier explains in the Introduction that follows, Ka Mooolelo Hawaii, printed in 1838, is the rst book credited to Native Hawaiian writers, the rst history of the islands published in the Hawaiian language, and the rst concentrated effort to commit Hawaiian oral traditions to paper. The student of Hawaiian history may wonder, what is the connection between the present Ka Mooolelo Hawaii and another well known volume of the same title authored by David Malo As explained in the Introduction, the former is an amalgam that grew out of an 1836 seminar organized by Reverend Sheldon Dibble at Lahainaluna and attended by ten advanced students, one of whom...

Ua ho‘omaka ‘o Dibble i ka hana me ka ho‘ili‘ili ‘ana mai i mau huna ‘ike ‘ano nui a laha e pili ana i ka mo‘olelo Hawai‘i. Maopopo le‘a ke kulana pohihihi o ia ‘ike i ia wa, ‘oiai kaka‘ikahi na palapala ho‘oia a pa‘a ka nui o ua ‘ano ‘ike la ma na ku‘ono waihona ho‘omana‘o o ka po‘e ola. Ho‘oholo like ‘ia paha, ina e malama ‘ia ana, ‘o ia no ka manawa e hana ai. Na Dibble no i ho‘oulu i mau ninau ma ke ‘ano i hiki ai a ho‘o- nohonoho iho ma ke ka‘ina manawa. A laila, wae ‘o ia i na haumana ‘oi loa o ke kulanui, he ‘umi ka huina. Ho‘onoho ‘ia lakou ma ke ‘ano he papa noi‘i a ‘o ka ha‘awina mua ka hele pakahi ‘ana aku i na kanaka kahiko o ia au, na ali‘i a me ka lehulehu, e ho‘ili‘ili mai i ka ‘ike maia lakou mai ma ia ninau. Ma ia ‘ano i loa‘a mai ai na mo‘o- lelo ha‘i waha a na kupuna a ua ho‘ohui ‘ia me na mea a na haumana i ‘ike maka ai, ‘oiai he kanaka makua kekahi o lakou. Kakau ‘ia iho ia mau mo‘olelo a pa‘a ma ka pepa, a heluhelu ‘ia na pepa ma ka papa, kahi i ho‘oponopono pualu ‘ia ai. A pau ia ninau aku a ia ninau aku me ka ho‘oponopono pualu ‘ia o na pepa a pau, ‘o ia ka ke kumu a‘o i ho‘oponopono a ho‘opaku‘iku‘i aku ai n...

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He Moolelo Aina No Kaeo Me Kahi Aina E Ae Ma Honuaula O Maui : A Cultural-Historical Study of Kaeo and Other Lands in Honuaula, Island of Maui

By: Kepa Maly

The following collection of archival and oral historical records was compiled by Kumu Pono Associates LLC, at the request of Sam Garcia, Jr., and Jon Garcia, owners of a 5.497 acre parcel of land, situated in the ahupuaa (native land division) of Kaeo, in the Honuaula region of Maui (TMK 2- 1-007:067). The Garcia parcel extends from near sea level at the shore to about fifty feet in elevation above sea level, and the family proposes to develop their five-plus acre parcel into a small subdivision, containing eleven single family residences. As a part of the planning process, a preservation plan is needed for a site identified as a heiau (temple), that is situated on the property. In addition to the heiau, stone walls, habitation features, agricultural mounds, terraces, enclosures, and modified outcrops were also identified, as a part of an archaeological survey conducted by Haun and Associates (Haun et al., 2000 & 2004). The cultural resources are interpreted as dating from the period of pre-history to historic ranching and later residency activities (Haun, 2000 & 2004; and Frampton, 2002, revised, 2004). The research conducted as a...

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History of Rapidan : Rapidan Communities

By: Dr. Alan James Shotwell

The history of a small town in central Virginia (1700s to 1900s) with bibliography and photographs

My grandmother used to tell me stories of the very small community I grew up in. My memory isn't as good as it shouold be so I wrote it all down. When I wanted to find our more about my home town, there was nothing written. so I set out to see if what she told me was true. The 50 year investigation (part time of course) and interviews with residents was intriguing. My family loves to tell stories. The stories I heard growing up brought to life several generations of residents of the community of Rapidan going all the way back to my great grandfather’s time. There were tales of the Civil War, the railroad, milling, flooding of the Rapidan River at twenty year intervals, and other Rapidan themes. In organizing this diversity of information, I have primarily attempted to give a history of the “community” of Rapidan, Virginia over time. I’ve also included information about another community by the same name, Rapidan, in Minnesota and stories told me by the crew of the USS Rapidan, a Navy oiler that served in World War II. Bear with me as I attempt to describe a kaleidoscope of folklore and stories presented as a narrative ove...

Chapter I. The Native Americans. The Native American communities near Rapidan were made of "long houses", woven stick huts covered with grass mats or tree bark. Native American women raised corn, squash and pumpkins and gathered several hundred varieties of nuts, berries and roots. The men hunted deer, wild turkeys, birds and woodland buffalo and got fish using trap lines and plant poisons. Local folklore says that the nearby community of Buena had a population of Native Americans who may have come from Wolftown. [Emma (Beeler) Strother by Pat Hurst 11,60] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5. Chapter II. The Settlers. In 1772 at the area known as Alexander Waugh's Ford, wagons camped along the river carrying goods between the Shenandoah valley and Fredericksburg. A miller, and land grantee, "Gentleman Billy" Willis, petitioned the English King, George III, to grant a tract of land on which to build a grist mill to grind feed for oxen and horses and to grind flour for the settlers. [The Orange Review centennial Edition, 1936 88] . . page 8. Chapter III. The Civ...

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All the Gangways Are Up : An Expatriate in the Ceylon Kaleidoscope 1916 - 1945

By: Ms. Valesca Reimann; Peter Reimann, Editor

Between 1916 and 1945 Valesca Reimann, from South Australia, taught Western classics, Latin and mathematics at Trinity College, Kandy, in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Trinity College was founded on Christianity in a largely Buddhist, Hindu and Moslem country. Sinhalese and Tamil cultures added to the mix. The boys at the school were mostly from these cultures and also came from nearby countries. The school was run along the lines of an English public school. In this book, Valesca Reimann tells how she navigated through this, fell in love with the people and the country and added jungle adventures and visits to historical places along the way - ever curious and mostly undaunted. At the College, she is still remembered as a "legend". ...

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Advances in Neurotherapeutic Delivery Technologies

By: Vinees Pillay and Yahya E Choonara

This eBook describes the forward-thinking approach, applying nanotechnology to achieve neuropharmaceutical innovations and aptly discusses the latest research and development trends in innovating Neurotherapeutic Delivery Technologies by leading research groups. The eBook lays down the foundation for breaking barriers in neuro-nanopharmaceutics and the unnerving thought of “Matter over Mind”. The era has arrived where we could well see pharmaceutical products that are truly ‘alive’, superseded with super-robotic feedback devices combined with nanocyborgs that can deliver to the body not only drugs but also a host of materials such as cells, genes, DNA, nerve signals, diagnostic probes, hormones, proteins and peptides in a much more easier manner as we have today with simply swallowing a pill. These revolutionary technologies are described within the later Chapters of this eBook based on a world where neuro-devices implanted into our brains would be fashionable to control our overall moods and performance....

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The Kumulipo

By: Will Kyselka

The Kumulipo (“Beginning-in-deep-darkness”) is the sacred creation chant of a family of Hawaiian alii, or ruling chiefs. Composed and transmitted entirely in the oral tradition, its two thousand lines provide an extended genealogy proving the family’s divine origin and tracing the family history from the begging of the world. This chant remains as an authentic work or primitive literature. Moreover, it is one of the principal sources of information on Hawaiian mythology, early culture, political structure, and way of life. The original text of the Kumulipo was first printed in Honolulu in 1889 from a manuscript copy in the possession of King Kalakaua. Several translations were made later, including one by Queen Liliuokalani, published in 1897. However, none was available in English when Martha Beckwith completed her own translation and detailed study, first published in 1951 by the University of Chicago Press. “Not only does Beckwith’s book provide students of pre-European Hawaii with the most authoritative text and translation of the Kumulipo, it also brings to anyone interested in Polynesia a profound glimpse into the creative dep...

Twenty years have passed since the publication of Martha Warren Beckwith?s translation and extended annotation of the Kumulipo, a Hawaiian cosmogonic and genealogical chant. When it appeared in 1951 she was celebrating her eightieth birthday. Except for one or two brief notes published during the remaining eight years of her life, the book about the Kumulipo was her last publication. It was the crown of over forty-five years of intensive research in the folklore of many parts of the world, but particularly of the Hawaiian Islands where she had grown up. The preparation of the book occupied most of her time after her retirement from Vassar College in 1938. There she had spent eighteen years as research professor in the Folklore Foundation established for her by her childhood friend, Annie M. Alexander, to whom the translation of the Kumulipo is dedicated. However, she had begun research on the chant before 1938. She was perhaps already studying it twenty years earlier when she began planning another major work, Hawaiian Mythology, which was published in 1940 (reissued in 1970 by the University of Hawaii Press). In that book she r...

I.The Prose Note. 7 --Ii. Rank In Hawaii. 11 -- Iii. The First-Born Son And The Taboo. 15 -- Iv. Lono Of The Makahiki. 18 --V. Captain Cook As Lono. 22 --Vi. Two Dynasties. 25vii. The Master Of Song. 35 -- Viii. Prologue To The Night World. 42 -- Ix. The Refrain Of Generation. 50 --X. Birth Of Sea And Land Life. 55 -- Xi. The World Of Infancy. 61 --Xii. Winged Life. 68 --. Xiii. The Crawlers. 75 --. Xiv. The Night-Digger. 80 --Xv. The Nibblers. . 85 --. Xvi. The Dog Child 89 -- Xvii. The Dawn Of Day. . 94 --Xviii. The Woman Who Sat Sideways99 --Xix. The Flood . 107 -- Xx. The Woman Who Bore Children Through The Brain. 110 --Xxi. Papa And Wakea. 117 --Xxii. Maui The Usurper128 -- Xxiii. The Dedication. 137 -- Xxiv. The Genealogies 140 Xxv. Hawaiian Accounts Of Creation. 153 --Xxvi. Other Polynesian Accounts Of Creation. 160 -- Xxvii. Ceremonial Birth Chants In Polynesia. 175 -- Conclusion. 181 --...

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The Fireman : A Sociological Profile

By: Henry Joseph Deakin

The University of Salford have told me that I own the copyright as I submitted in 1977. It is only more recently , about 2 years ago , that the University started claiming the copyright of students' submitted theses...

"The "fiddle" was not otherwise very important to the men; they stressed that they did not like to be tied down by it . They chose work in which they could be free and autonomous"...

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION A) The historical Development of Fire Fighting B) The Development of the Modern British Fire Service C) The British Fire Service in the Early 1970's D) Fire Brigades Around the World Chapter 2 FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS AND METHODOLOGY A) Introduction B) Making Contact with the Fire Brigade and setting up the Interviews C) The Interviews D) After the Interviewing Chapter 3 REWARDS FROM WORK : JOB SATISFACTION AND INCOME A) Job Satisfaction B) Earnings Chapter 4 INFORMAL ORGANIZATION AND EMERGENCY ORIENTATION Chapter 5 SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND THE COMPROMISE ORIENTATION TO WORK OF CITY FIREMEN A) Introduction B) Education C) National Data on the Fire Service D) The City Firemen E) The City Firemen :Instrumental Factors F) The City Firemen :Expressive Factors G) The Compromise Orientation Chapter 6 THE CITY FIREMEN : PATTERNS OF SOCIABILITY AND LEISURE ...

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Surveying the Mahele

By: Riley M. Moffat

MANY THEMES of modern Hawaiian history have their antecedents in a single historic episode—the mahele. In the 1840s, Kauikeaouli, or Kamehameha III, abandoned traditional Hawaiian land tenure in favor of the Western concept of private owner-ship of property, an event second only to the arrival of the Europeans in its impact on Hawai‘i. In the matter of a few years, Hawai‘i changed from a society in which the ali‘i ai?moku, or king, served as stew-ard of the land that belonged to the gods, to one in which he, the ali‘i, or nobility, and the maka?ainana, or com-moners, acquired outright ownership of land. Surveying the Mahele is the second volume in the series Palapala‘aina, the first of which, The Early Mapping of Hawai‘i, was recognized as the outstanding book of 1985–1993 by Ka Palapala Po‘okela, the association of Hawaiian publishers, who honored it with the first Samuel Kamakau Award. Surveying the Mahele examines the work of many im-portant figures, including the few professional surveryors, such as William Webster, whose work in Hawai‘i was as fine as any in the world. It describes the efforts of many missionaries, including...

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