The Cult of Honor

The cult of honor is second of four stages in the fullest possible development of society credit where due to Spencer s Social Statics It often devolves into its antithesis the cult of dignity Herrman 2017 thereby diminishing what the cult of honor otherwise provides namely the quality of our militaries religious structures professions and bureaucracies because of the cult we are prepared to enter ad hoc offices on cause the good Samaritan e g The cult of honor is first of all a ritualized expression of a social ideal specifically of traits that can be termed honorable It very oftenarises either because persons or groups wish to experience pride in their cultural heritage or because they feel a calling to excel at culturally relevant activities This paper also advances the view that the concept of sportsmanship mirrors what the cult stands for and what public expectationboth requires and demands Characteristics of some thirty cults throughout three primary types of office are shown to reflect the concep

Exploring Deeper Wisdoms of Mediation: Notes from the Edge

Excerpt Mediation draws many people into the field of conflict resolution with a promise of rewards like an income stream added to an existing professional practice or agreements pulled from the fires of bitterness and frustration. But for Jim Laue there was more. As a consummate mediator, Jim was equally comfortable mediating technically complex regional disputes, potentially explosive community disputes, and emotionally charged interpersonal disputes. His career began years before a well defined field existed. He came to this work as did others of his and the next generation, determined to address issues of social justice. His mediations during the civil rights era explicitly leveled playing fields and reshaped political tables in every community he touched. Later work with President Carter, in Texas, Indiana, and the Washington, D.C. area continued intervention models established decades earlier

Common Denominators in White Collar Crime: I'm Special, You're Special, Let's Fleece them in Style

Culture, cults and character are shown to be the “Three C’s” of graft and corruption. The notion of “conversation” is briefly allowed to link the perpetrator to his alter ego, victim or partner-in-crime, wherein are forged the origins of means, motive and opportunity—as also the ballast of the paper. The argument is made that a trained eye should expect the close interplay of culture and pathology, especially in matters of white collar crime, which is used throughout as the focus. By way of summary, these crimes are perpetrated by those with bipolar traits operating in a context of cultural permissiveness, and with selected tools (attitudes, e.g.) of cultural provenance

Common Denominators in White Collar Crime: I'm Special, You're Special, Let's Fleece them in Style

Culture, cults and character are shown to be the “Three C’s” of graft and corruption. The notion of “conversation” is briefly allowed to link the perpetrator to his alter ego, victim or partner-in-crime, wherein are forged the origins of means, motive and opportunity—as also the ballast of the paper. The argument is made that a trained eye should expect the close interplay of culture and pathology, especially in matters of white collar crime, which is used throughout as the focus. By way of summary, these crimes are perpetrated by those with bipolar traits operating in a context of cultural permissiveness, and with selected tools (attitudes, e.g.) of cultural provenance

Fizickokemijske zakonitosti i odnosi minerala u crvenim jugoslavenskim boksitima

Bemit i hidrargilit, koji se nalaze u jugoslavenskim boksitima, pokazuju vrloo razlicita fizickokemijska svojstva. Na temelju podataka iz literature i nekih eksperimentalnih nalaza prouceni su uzroci takvih razlika kod boksita razlicita podrijetla, pa je istaknuta vaznost uzajamnih odnosa sistema Al2O3 /H2O i Fe2O3/H2O. Boksit nije dovoljno karakteriziran, ako smo naveli samo njegov mineralni sastav; da ga potpuno upoznamo, potrebno je da znamo i svojstva, koja su posljedica sekundarne strukture. Ta cemo svojstva upoznati, ako ustanovimo topljivost aluminijske komponente pri razlicnim uvjetima

Flat-band ferromagnetism induced by off-site repulsions

Density matrix renormalization group method is used to analyze how the nearest-neighbor repulsion V added to the Hubbard model on 1D triangular lattice and a railway trestle (t-t') model will affect the electron-correlation dominated ferromagnetism arising from the interference (frustration). Obtained phase diagram shows that there is a region in smaller-t' side where the critical on-site repulsion above which the system becomes ferromagnetic is reduced when the off-site repulsion is introduced.Comment: 4 pages, RevTex, 6 figures in Postscript, to be published in Phys. Rev.

Tight-binding study of high-pressure phase transitions in titanium: alpha to omega and beyond

We use a tight-binding total energy method, with parameters determined from a fit to first-principles calculations, to examine the newly discovered gamma phase of titanium. Our parameters were adjusted to accurately describe the alpha Ti-omega Ti phase transition, which is misplaced by density functional calculations. We find a transition from omega Ti to gamma Ti at 102 GPa, in good agreement with the experimental value of 116 GPa. Our results suggest that current density functional calculations will not reproduce the omega Ti-gamma Ti phase transition, but will instead predict a transition from omega Ti to the bcc beta Ti phase.Comment: 3 encapsulated Postscript figures, submitted to Phyical Review Letter

Instability of scale-free networks under node-breaking avalanches

The instability introduced in a large scale-free network by the triggering of node-breaking avalanches is analyzed using the fiber-bundle model as conceptual framework. We found, by measuring the size of the giant component, the avalanche size distribution and other quantities, the existence of an abrupt transition. This test of strength for complex networks like Internet is more stringent than others recently considered like the random removal of nodes, analyzed within the framework of percolation theory. Finally, we discuss the possible implications of our results and their relevance in forecasting cascading failures in scale-free networks.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, final version to be published in Europhys. Let