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package org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.LinkedList;

import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FsShellPermissions;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.find.Find;

import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.FS_DEFAULT_NAME_DEFAULT;
import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.FS_DEFAULT_NAME_KEY;
import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SHELL_MISSING_DEFAULT_FS_WARNING_DEFAULT;
import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SHELL_MISSING_DEFAULT_FS_WARNING_KEY;

/**
 * Base class for all "hadoop fs" commands.
 */

@InterfaceAudience.Private
@InterfaceStability.Evolving

// this class may not look useful now, but it's a placeholder for future
// functionality to act as a registry for fs commands.  currently it's being
// used to implement unnecessary abstract methods in the base class

abstract public class FsCommand extends Command {
  /**
   * Register the command classes used by the fs subcommand
   * @param factory where to register the class
   */
  public static void registerCommands(CommandFactory factory) {
    factory.registerCommands(AclCommands.class);
    factory.registerCommands(CopyCommands.class);
    factory.registerCommands(Count.class);
    factory.registerCommands(Delete.class);
    factory.registerCommands(Display.class);
    factory.registerCommands(Find.class);
    factory.registerCommands(FsShellPermissions.class);
    factory.registerCommands(FsUsage.class);
    factory.registerCommands(Ls.class);
    factory.registerCommands(Mkdir.class);
    factory.registerCommands(MoveCommands.class);
    factory.registerCommands(SetReplication.class);
    factory.registerCommands(Stat.class);
    factory.registerCommands(Tail.class);
    factory.registerCommands(Test.class);
    factory.registerCommands(Touch.class);
    factory.registerCommands(Truncate.class);
    factory.registerCommands(SnapshotCommands.class);
    factory.registerCommands(XAttrCommands.class);
  }

  protected FsCommand() {}

  protected FsCommand(Configuration conf) {
    super(conf);
  }

  // historical abstract method in Command
  @Override
  public String getCommandName() {
    return getName();
  }

  // abstract method that normally is invoked by runall() which is
  // overridden below
  @Override
  protected void run(Path path) throws IOException {
    throw new RuntimeException("not supposed to get here");
  }

  /** @deprecated use {@link Command#run(String...argv)} */
  @Deprecated
  @Override
  public int runAll() {
    return run(args);
  }

  @Override
  protected void processRawArguments(LinkedList<String> args)
      throws IOException {
    LinkedList<PathData> expendedArgs = expandArguments(args);
    // If "fs.defaultFs" is not set appropriately, it warns the user that the
    // command is not running against HDFS.
    final boolean displayWarnings = getConf().getBoolean(
        HADOOP_SHELL_MISSING_DEFAULT_FS_WARNING_KEY,
        HADOOP_SHELL_MISSING_DEFAULT_FS_WARNING_DEFAULT);
    if (displayWarnings) {
      final String defaultFs = getConf().get(FS_DEFAULT_NAME_KEY);
      final boolean missingDefaultFs =
          defaultFs == null || defaultFs.equals(FS_DEFAULT_NAME_DEFAULT);
      if (missingDefaultFs) {
        err.printf(
            "Warning: fs.defaultFs is not set when running \"%s\" command.%n",
            getCommandName());
      }
    }
    processArguments(expendedArgs);
  }
}

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Getting back into the workforce after an absence is a lot like going back to school after summer vacation. You have to get up early in the morning, follow other people's rules even if they don't make sense, and do lots (and lots!) of homework.
There are many reasons why you might have a gap in your resume. Perhaps you've been caring for children or elderly parents. Maybe you've experienced job loss and haven't been able to find employment. New grads, from baccalaureates to doctorates, often find themselves unable to land even an entry-level position in their field. In the bleak economic landscape, trying to find a job can feel like searching for an oasis in an endless desert.
If you've been out of the workforce for an extended period of time (six months or more), or if you're a recent graduate with no professional experience, there are steps you can take to give you a leg up on the job hunt.
You only get one chance to make a first impression, so make sure that your suit is free of holes, your Facebook page is free of embarrassing photos, and your resume is free of typos. A professional appearance is essential for interviewing and networking, so if you don't already own a suit, now would be the time to get one. If money is tight, check secondhand stores and discount retailers like TJ Maxx first.
Employers often search for prospective hires online, so if the top results for your name are pictures from wild weekends in college or angry rants against former employers, make sure to delete or untag as much content as possible. Set up a LinkedIn page with your resume and references, too.
Finally, do not send out your resume unless it's 100 percent error-free. Get a friend to read it over or try running it through Grammarly, a writing enhancement app, to find and correct any spelling, grammar, or punctuation errors. Don't forget to do the same thing for your cover letter!
Scouring job boards, such as Indeed.com or Simplyhired.com, may not be the best use of your time. Many positions never make it to the public postings; they're either filled internally or by someone the hiring manager already knows. Take advantage of the so-called "hidden job market" by publicizing your search. Tell friends, family, acquaintances—heck, even the clerk at the grocery store—that you're looking for a job. Be proactive by researching companies in your field and make first contact. Get inexpensive business cards printed up by a company like Vistaprint and hand them out like candy. The important thing is to get the word out.
It turns out the old advice is true: It's not what you know, it's who you know. Networking is the single best way to get a job. Join clubs and professional organizations, go to networking events, and don't be shy about sharing your story with strangers when appropriate. You never know who will be able to lend you a helping hand, so make sure to shake a lot of them.
The longer you remain unemployed, the easier it is to let your skills—and tolerance for a 9-5 schedule—slip. Keep yourself occupied (and give yourself a reason to get out of bed and put on pants) every day with constructive activities. Note that watching an entire season of TV doesn't count as "constructive." Instead, volunteer for a worthy cause, find an internship with someone in your network, or try your hand at freelancing. You might even consider starting your own business, but develop ideas with low overhead, such as web-based ventures. You'd be surprised at the many ways people earn income, from pet sitting to proofreading; who knows, after freelancing for a while, you may not even want to find a "real" job!


As the final season of Game of Thrones quickly approaches, it's only right that we celebrate.
Over the next few weeks, we will being taking a look back at some of the iconic woman on the show and their equally iconic costumes. We'll also be showing you how to channel their looks in your everyday outfits.
We continue on with our Game of Thrones countdown by looking at the style of everyone's favorite evil queen, Cersei Lannister.
Quite a stark difference from The Mother of Dragons, who we covered last week, Cersei Lannister is the mother of three of the heirs to the Iron Throne. Called the "mother of madness," she spends her time clinging to power however she can. This includes turning a blind eye to heinous acts her eldest son, King Joffrey, commits; torturing enemies; and making it known that she wants to rule the world, even if that means burning it to the ground.
Now it is time to take a look back at Cersei Lannister throughout the seasons of Game of Thrones, and how her wardrobe has evolved. We'll see how Cersei has changed from a lioness protecting her cubs, to a ruler destroying everything in her path.
It seems a lifetime ago that Cersei was simply the wife to King Robert and mother to the three heirs of the seven kingdoms of Westeros.
In the first season, Cersei plays two roles in her public life: dutiful wife to a husband she despises and proper lady of the court. Though she is a force to be reckoned with, she often has to hide her fierce Lannister pride by wearing clothes that make her appear weak and unthreatening. We often see Season 1 Cersei in flowing gowns, in shades of pink and muted purple.
She does get to show her pride through the little details of her garments, though. These include lion embroidery on her shawls and gold metal belts that wrap around her waist.
Season two and three follow the reign of the Lannisters. Following the death of Cersei's husband, her cruel son Joffrey takes on the role of King of the Seven Kingdoms. This places Cersei and her family in charge of much of what goes on within the kingdoms, including who lives and who dies.
In these seasons, it seems there is no stopping the Lannister family, and Cersei displays her family pride. We see her wear the red and gold colors of her house, and she often has her house's lion embroidered into her dresses or embossed into her jewelry.
Cersei also starts to incorporate metalwork into her garments, even adding armor to the torso of her dresses. This is her way of saying she is a warrior, even if she is a woman.
After season three, we start to see the downfall of house Lannister, and Queen Cersei's subsequent fall from grace. Cersei loses her children one by one, is starved and humiliated by the annoying religious group the Sparrows, and she has almost every drop of sanity and kindness ripped from her body.
In these seasons, we see her carry on in similar garments from what she wore in seasons two and three, but are now all in shades of black with details of gold. After all, Cersei is in constant mourning for her family members and the fall of her great house.
At the end of season six, we watch Cersei pull off the biggest power move, probably ever, on the show, by blowing up all her enemies with wildfire. From that moment on she becomes a true tyrant, ready to destroy anyone who crosses her path.
With her children and most of her family gone, there is no one holding Cersei back from what she wants, which allows her to crown herself the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.
With this change in Cersei's situation, there is a drastic change in her wardrobe. She abandons the garment style of the ladies of King's Landing and the gold and scarlet colors of her house, and begins to wear structured garments in black with silver detailing, that have the appearance of armor. These garments really drive home the fact that no one can touch her or bring her down anymore. Or, at least, that's how she wants to appear.
What do you think of these Cersei Lannister outfits?
Are you ready to see what terrible acts Cersei shall commit in the new season of Game of Thrones? Hopefully this post gave you a good look back at all of her memorable costumes throughout the years and gave you some inspiration on how to emulate those looks.


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Q: Breaking up dense subset in non-separable space Let $X$ be a not necessarily separable (infinite-dimensional) Banach space and $D\subseteq X$ be dense linearly independent subset.  Then does there exist a set of infinite-dimensional separable Banach subspaces $\{X_i\}_{i \in I}$ of $X$ with the property that:

*

*$D\cap X_i$ is dense in $X_i$,

*$\bigcup_{i \in I} X_i$ is dense in $X$?

A: For every countable subset $M\subseteq D$ set $X_M=\overline{\text{span}(M)}$ (with the norm of $X$). These spaces seem to satisfy your requirements. Am I missing something?

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(chapter M-9, s. 19, 1st par., subpar. b).
1. The purpose of this Regulation is to determine, among the professional activities that may be engaged in by physicians, those that may be engaged in by a pharmacist pursuant to the terms and conditions set out in the Regulation.
(2) the patient's condition has already been assessed by a specialized nurse practitioner who has prescribed medication for the patient.
A pharmacist must prescribe medication in accordance with the provisions of the Regulation respecting prescriptions by a pharmacist (chapter P-10, r. 18.1).
The prescribed medication must belong to a class of medications of equal or lesser strength than the medication prescribed by the physician or specialized nurse practitioner.
(4) the duration of the treatment and the quantity prescribed.
(e) record-keeping and communication to the attending physician or the specialized nurse practitioner.
The training may have been acquired as part of a program of studies leading to a diploma giving access to the permit of the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec or as part of refresher training determined by the Order for the purpose of obtaining the permit.
(6) more than 12 months have elapsed since the last treatment prescribed by the physician or specialized nurse practitioner for the minor condition provided for in paragraph 12 of Schedule I or the patient has received 3 treatments for the condition in the last 12 months.
The pharmacist must then refer the patient to a physician or specialized nurse practitioner and enter the reasons justifying the decision on a form to be given to the patient.
(3) to ensure follow-up on the effectiveness of medication therapy.
Before requesting an analysis, the pharmacist must ensure that no recent result of the analysis for the patient is otherwise available.
The pharmacist communicates to the attending physician or the specialized nurse practitioner responsible for the clinical follow-up the result of the requested laboratory analysis. The pharmacist must, where appropriate, refer the patient to the resource appropriate to the patient's condition, with the results of the analysis.
7. A pharmacist must prescribe the laboratory analyses in accordance with the provisions of the Regulation respecting prescriptions by a pharmacist (chapter P-10, r. 18.1).
8. A person referred to in section 1 of the Regulation respecting the professional activities that may be engaged in by persons other than pharmacists (chapter P-10, r. 3) may engage in the professional activities provided for in sections 2 and 6 of this Regulation if the person engages in the activities in the presence of a pharmacist and engaging in the activities is required for the purpose of completing a program of studies, a training period or training.
O.C. 606-2013, s. 9; S.Q. 2015, c. 8, s. 205.
(12) urinary infections in women.


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THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES
Commonwealth of The Bahamas
REPAIR & BINDERY
MICRO-PHOTOGRAPHY
BAHAMIAN EDUCATORS
INDEX TO WILLS
PROBATE PAPERS
ANNIVERSARY SUPPLEMENT
CONTACTS/LINKS
BAHAMIAN EDUCATORS - INTRODUCTION
A good educational system is the foundation of any country. More significantly it is an important factor in the development of World countries. However, this progress requires the cooperation of people with different abilities, different experiences and specialized training, working together to produce a dynamic system which could be improved upon over a period of time.
The history of formal education in The Bahamas dates back to early times. Education was spearheaded by the Church in the Bahamas. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (an Anglican missionary group) pioneered Bahamian education from 1722 but since 1746 the government assisted by paying teachers' salaries. The Baptists and Methodist were most instrumental in educating blacks from about 1800. Anglican, Methodist, Baptist and Catholic-run schools continue their tremendous contributions to Bahamian education even today but the government has also played a prominent role from the beginning.
Shortly after emancipation the Education Act of 1836, established a Board of Education to administer all schools in the colony. A later act, passed in 1878, made primary education compulsory. Secondary education was dominated by religious institutions until the establishment of the Government High School in 1925.
As the country developed further, the need for more institutions of higher learning grew. A teachers' college was opened in 1964 and the government's White Paper on Education published in 1972 outlined future plans for the new nation. These included the extension of public secondary education to the Family Islands; and the establishment of a College of the Bahamas by and Act of Parliament, 1974. The latest thrust in Bahamian education being the initiation of a public pre-school program in the late 1980s.
Although a number of people have written on the History of Bahamian education, very few if any at all, have focused on people who contributed to the development of the educational system. This web site is an attempt to highlight some of the "unsung heroes" who have done much to promote and establish education in The Bahamas.
Alfred Francis Adderley
Preston Hilton Albury
Robert Melville Bailey
Naomi Richardson Blatch
Livingston N. Coakley
Emma E. Cooper
Donald Webster Davis
Stephen Albert Dillet
Carlton Francis
Timothy Gibson
Percy Alexander Gibson
Theodore Grant Glover
William Gordon
Uriah McPhee
Samuel Conrad McPherson
Nelson Glanville MacFarlane Major
Harold Otis Nash
David Willard Patton
Cleveland Harrington Reeves
Enoch Pedro Roberts
Robert Sandilands
William Sayle
Charles Walpole Sawyer
James Carmichael Smyth
Charles Cecil Sweeting
Thomas Alvin Thompson
Claudius Roland Walker
Mabel Cordelia Walker
William John Woodcock
Leon Walton Young
LINKS TO EDUCATORS
UNESCO Archive
Department of Archives, P.O. Box SS-6341, Nassau, N.P., Bahamas. TEL: (242) 393-2175/393-2855. FAX: (242) 393-2855
Email archives@batelnet.bs Website: www.bahamasnationalarchives.bs.

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Q: How to loop through the sorted list of file names in two directories Please note, i have read entries like For loop for files in multiple folders - bash shell and they ask for a significantly different thing.
I want to loop through the file names in a sorted order that exist in either of two directories. Files can potentially have spaces in them.
Let's say i have:
1/
  a
  a c b
  b
  c
2/
  a
  d

I would want to loop through: 'a', 'a c b', 'b', 'c', 'd'.
I have tried to do the following:
for fname in $((ls -1 -f -A "${dir1}"; ls -1 -f -A "${dir2}")|sort --unique); do
  echo "testing ${fname}"
done

the result then is
testing .
testing ..
testing a
testing a
testing c
testing b
testing b
testing c
testing d

For whatever reason i am getting '.' and '..' entries, that i was trying to exclude with -A, and also the file 'a c b' gets broken down into three strings.
I have tried to resolve it by adding --zero to the sort command, that changed nothing; by quoting the whole $(ls...|sort) part, and has resulted into a single entry into the for loop that has received the entire string with multiple lines each of which contained filename.

A: Do not consciously ever parse output of ls command(See Why you shouldn't parse the output of ls(1) ), it has lots of potential pitfalls. Use the find command with its -print0 option to null delimit the files so that file name with spaces/newline or any meta-charactetrs are handled and subsequently use GNU sort with the same null delimit character, to sort them alphabetically & remove duplicate files. If dir1 and dir2 are shell variables containing the names of the folders to look up, you can do
while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
    printf '%s\n' "$file"
done< <(find "${dir1}" "${dir2}" -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%f\0" | sort -t / -u -z)

A: A much simpler approach might be to loop over everything and exclude duplicates by other means.
#!/bin/bash
# Keep an associative array of which names you have already processed
# Requires Bash 4
declare -A done
for file in 1/* 2/*; do
    base=${file#*/}  # trim directory prefix from value
    test "${done[$base]}" && continue
    : do things ...
    done["$base"]="$file"
done

A: Answer:

*

*Change the for delimiter from whitespace to \n using the following command:
IFS=$'\n'

*You used -l for ls which implies -a (and overrides -A); Use --color=never instead.
To summarize:
IFS=$'\n'
for fname in $((ls -1 --color=never -A "${dir1}"; ls -1 --color=never -A "${dir2}")|sort --unique); do
  echo "testing ${fname}"
done


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Home Learn and Explore A Diamond Is Forever The British royal coronation and crown jewels
The British coronation is a ceremony full of history and ritual, with pledges and promises from the sovereign to their people that are made to last a lifetime. Central to any coronation ceremony are the Crown Jewels. Made with skill and craftsmanship and full of history, each sacred item within the collection symbolises different aspects of the monarch's power, the promises that they make and the relationship between sovereign and their country. The Crown Jewels feature some of the world's most famous diamonds, which are the ultimate symbol of strength, power and commitment.
History of the British coronation
Over 1,000 years old, the first British coronation took place in the Anglo-Saxon period, following a medieval style ritual. This style of coronation is still used today, with Britain being the only country in Europe to still follow it.
In 1066 King Harold's coronation was the first to take place at Westminster Abbey, London, this tradition has continued since and the Abbey has now seen 39 coronations take place.
The crown jewels
Kept securely in the Tower of London, the Crown Jewels have been added to over time, but at the core of the collection remains the set of ornaments made for King Charles II in 1660.
Here we delve into the stories of just some of the beautiful pieces that are part of the crown jewels.
Until 1815 you used to be able to pay a small donation to the jewel house keeper to handle the Crown Jewels. Unfortunately, this opportunity ended when the Imperial State Crown of King George I got bent out of shape by an eager visitor.
Made of gold, the orb features 365 diamonds and is set with pearls, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and one large amethyst. During the ceremony, it's placed in the right hand of the monarch, before being placed on the altar. An expression of the monarch's authority, the tradition of a monarch receiving the orb dates back to Roman times.
The Armills
These two 22-carat-gold engraved bracelets with rose clasps are placed on the sovereign's wrists during the ceremony to symbolise 'sincerity and wisdom'.
Sovereign ring
Known by some as the wedding ring of England, this gold band contains an octagonal sapphire overlaid with square cut rubies and surrounded by diamonds. Placed on the fourth finger of the right hand of the sovereign by the Archbishop, the ring represents the sovereigns 'marriage' to the nation.
The Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross
Embodying power, during the ceremony the sceptre is held with a glove to remind the monarch to use their power wisely. The sceptre features the famous Cullinan I diamond, which is also known as the 'Star of Africa'. This teardrop diamond is the largest cut diamond in the world, weighing over 530 carats.
Jewelled Sword of Offering
Decorated with a thousand precious stones; diamonds, sapphires and rubies, the jewelled Sword of Offering is received with the injunction that it is to be used for the protection of good and the punishment of evil.
St Edward's crown
Used only at the moment of the crowning itself, St Edward's crown is named in recognition of the crown worn by medieval king, Edward the Confessor, who was later made a saint. Weighing almost 5lbs, the crown is set with 444 precious and semi-precious stones.
The Imperial State crown
Worn at the end of the coronation and during the procession, The Imperial State crown is the most elaborate and widely used crown, with only the Queen, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Crown Jeweller permitted to touch the crown.
The crown contains 2,868 diamonds, including the famous cushion cut, 317.4 carat Cullinan II diamond, also known as the Second Star of Africa, the second largest stone cut from the Cullinan Diamond. It also features a small blue sapphire at the very top, in the middle, that is said to have come from the medieval King Edward the Confessor's ring.
Consorts crown
Whenever a married king is crowned, his wife is crowned 'Queen Consort'. The Queen Consorts crown historically featured the Koh-i-Noor, one of the most famous diamonds in the world. It now sits in the crown of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Cushion shaped, and 105.6 carats, it's said that bad luck falls to any man who wears it, so the crown firmly belongs to the Queen Consort.
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Taking place on an unseasonably cold and wet English summer day on the 2nd June 1953, after 16 months of planning, Queen Elizabeth II was crowned, aged 27.
The ceremony itself had over 8,000 attendees including British nobility and international heads of state representing 129 different nations and territories. It also made history by being the first coronation to be televised and watched by 27 million Britons.
The Queen's dress was embroidered with floral emblems representing the countries of the British Commonwealth, with this symbolism also evident in her bouquet of flowers.
Similar to a traditional British wedding, the Queen had six maids of honour, all wearing hand-embroidered dresses featuring pearls and gold and silver thread.
After the ceremony the Queen rode in a gold state coach, travelling five miles around London, in a five-hour parade met by two million well-wishers. This procession is also part of a historical ritual that began in the 14th century.
The British coronation for some is a ceremony that is a vital part of British history. It is a ritual that is over 1,200 years old, and just like De Beers Forevermark's promise that A Diamond Is Forever, the sovereign too makes binding promises of Forever to their people.
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The East Stroudsburg University Student Newspaper
Men: A Guide for Women
February 5, 2016 Ronald Hanaki Opinion 0
A girl spoon spooning a boy spoon on their plate bed. Photo Credit / Amy Lukac
A girl spoon spooning a boy spoon on their plate bed.
Photo Credit / Amy Lukac
By Phuong Le
Ladies, do we confuse you? Are we just a bunch of gross dudes? Are you afraid of the average college "bro?" Do you want to know what makes a guy wear Vans, Sperry's, or Jordan's? Cargos or khakis? Why that kid liked you and you liked him, but you both never said anything?
You read Cosmo and a bunch of people are telling you different lipsticks you can wear to attract a man. Let me ask you this: if the advice in Cosmo worked, wouldn't there be less single women, who wouldn't have to buy the magazine?
Do you think that's what magazines like that want? Exactly. I did a random questionnaire and collected the answers from anonymous men on campus. Let me tell you, men and women are a LOT alike.
We hate spiders, too. Yes, we'll grab a Kleenex and grab it for you. We don't like it. An anonymous professor stated that he "Hates bugs! I hate them. The way they crawl around is gross. It makes me itchy just thinking about it." Eight legs are WAY too many.
We like chick flicks. When Landon goes down to the dock and thinks about Jamie, do you cry? Me? It's just something in my eye.
Sure, we like explosions and guns and Jason Statham. We also like poop jokes and Will Ferrell. It's not that we like action movies or comedies and nothing else. We just like movies. Ask a guy if he's ever seen Hardball. Then, ask him about "G Baby."
Two random male students, when asked about chick flicks, talked in-depth about The Notebook. "Ryan Gosling is awesome. He's super talented." The other added that "I'm not saying that when I see it on ABC Family I'll watch it. I mean, if someone says we're watching it, I'm not complaining."
We love a good compliment on what we're wearing. It's not that we go out of our way to get complimented on our outfits, for the most part. It's not even like we really care that much. Some of us just prefer certain shoes or pants or shirts. We don't even want a big compliment.
Tell a guy "Wow, those are cool." Point right at his shoes. The "thank you" you'll receive will be genuine.
A senior student agreed. He said, "I always wear sweatpants and a hoodie. When I had an interview, I got dressed up. This girl in my biology class said that I looked great. I felt really confident all day." Look at what that one compliment did.
Guys want to be the little spoon every once in a while. You know that feeling of having someone you love wrap their arms around you? You're feeling comfortable and peaceful? Well, we're cold and tired. Switch it up every once in a while.
One junior said that he wished he was shorter. "I'm 6'4" and I'm never the little spoon. My last girlfriend was 5'6″. I can't be anything but a big spoon. Hairs all in my face. That's the worst."
One last thing that women need to know is that men are excited to be dads. In most cases, the first hero a boy has is his dad. Dads are awesome. Look at the dadbod phase.
I'm not saying that we sit around thinking about being a dad all the time. We can definitely wait. But, we're excited for it. What's not to be excited about? You become someone else's role model. That's pretty cool.
A graduating senior showcased his excitement for fatherhood. "Dude, being a dad would be awesome. Not right now, because I have no money. But, when I'm ready, I'm going to be such a good dad. My boys are coming over with their kids and we're going to have the best time."
Let me conclude this by saying that not ALL men share these characteristics. Everyone's different. However, maybe just let the spider crawl away. Throw on a romantic comedy. Throw in a compliment. Be the big spoon.
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RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER
Biography and CV
Type --------- Biennial Corporate Festival Foundation Gallery Museum
Location --------- ArgentinaAustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaColombiaFranceGermanyIrelandItalyJapanMéxicoNetherlandsNew ZealandPolandRussiaSouth KoreaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomUnited States
13th Mercosul Biennial
Ministry of Citizenship and Santander, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
September 15th - November 20th, 2022
Curated by: Marcello Dantas
33 Questions per Minute
Spots Mediafaçade, Berlin, Germany
January, 2005 - January, 2006
Curated by: Andreas Broeckman
View details.
ARCO '95 - The Trace
Fundacion Arte y Tecnologia, Madrid, Spain
Opened/happened in 1995
Airport Cluster
Foto/Graphik Galerie Käethe Kollwitz, Berlin, Germany
Curated by: Pat Binder
Amodal Suspension
opening project of the Yamaguchi Center for Art and Media, Yamaguchi, Japan
Body Movies
Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
Duisburg Akzente, Duisburg, Germany
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Curated by: Eddie Berg and Lewis Biggs
Cultural Capital of Europe Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Curated by: Alex Adriaansens and Andreas Broeckmann
Border Tuner / Sintonizador Fronterizo
Bowie High School / Chamizal Park, Ciudad Juárez, México / El Paso, Texas, United States
November 13th - November 24th, 2019
Curated by: Kerry Doyle and León de la Rosa
An interactive public art installation across the US-Mexico border by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Three interactive stations on each side of the border will control powerful searchlight beams using a small dial wheel. When lights from any two stations are directed at each other, microphones and speakers automatically switch-on to allow participants to talk with one another, creating cross-border conversations. View details.
Displaced Emperors
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
Frequency and Volume
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, United States
November 3rd, 2012 - February 3rd, 2013
Curated by: Rudolf Frieling
The Curve, London, United Kingdom
October 9th, 2008 - January 18th, 2009
Curated by: Francesco Manacorda and Ariella Yedgar
Association for public art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
September 20th - October 14th, 2012
Curated by: Penny Balkin Bach
Pulse Park
Madison Square Park, New York City, New York, United States
Pulse Room
IZOLYATSIA, Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Donetsk, Ukraine
September 5th, 2013 - January 10th, 2014
Pulse Spiral
Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah, Georgia, United States
January 10th - February 25th, 2011
Haunch of Venison, London, United Kingdom
October 15th - November 29th, 2008
bitforms gallery, New York City, New York, United States
Galería OMR, Mexico City, México
November - December, 2004
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: A Draft of Shadows
Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
November 2nd, 2014 - April 26th, 2015
Curated by: Cecilia Andersson
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Abstracción Biométrica
Borusan Contemporary, Madrid, Spain
May 14th - October 12th, 2014
Curated by: Kathleen Forde
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Atmospheric Memory
Manchester International Festival, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
December 2nd - December 17th, 2021
Manchester International Festival, Manchester, United Kingdom
July 6th - July 21st, 2019
Curated by: Jose Luis de Vicente
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Caudales
Casa de México España, Madrid, Spain
February 26th - May 22nd, 2022
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Cercanía
Arsenal Art Contemporain, Montréal, Québec, Canada
July 30th - October 24th, 2020
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Common Measures
PACE Gallery New York, New York City, New York, United States
September 8th - October 22nd, 2022
Curated by: Kimberly Jones
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Confirmation Bias
September 5th - October 21st, 2018
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Decision Forest
Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
May 2nd - August 26th, 2018
Curated by: KyoungRan Kim
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: EXCUSE YOU!
Wilde Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
June 13th - August 20th, 2022
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Flujo Óptico
Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain
February 13th - April 27th, 2019
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Haciendo Agua
Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, United States
October 29th, 2021 - August 7th, 2022
Curated by: Drew Sawyer, Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: La Arena Fuera del Reloj
Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, México
November 7th, 2020 - November 7th, 2021
Curated by: Cuauhtémoc Medina
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Lapsus Lumen
September 13th - November 1st, 2015
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Latidos
Arte Abierto, Mexico City, México
February 6th - December 13th, 2020
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Listening Forest
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
August 23rd, 2022 - January 9th, 2023
Curated by: Alejo Benedetti
"Listening Forest" is an immersive art walk designed to transform Crystal Bridges' North Forest at night. Eight large-scale interactive artworks are carefully and harmoniously installed on the forest grounds to create an interactive pathway that uses technology which responds to unique physical characteristics of individuals, forming connections between strangers and the landscape itself.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Obra Sonora
Carroll / Fletcher Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Polynomials
Art Bärtschi & Cie, Genève, Switzerland
March 19th - May 23rd, 2015
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Polímeros
May 10th - September 7th, 2014
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Preabsence
Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel, Basel, Switzerland
June 8th - August 28th, 2016
Curated by: Sabine Himmelsbach
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pseudomatismos
Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, México
October 28th, 2015 - April 17th, 2016
Curated by: José Luis Barrios y Alejandra Labastida
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., United States
November 1st, 2018 - April 28th, 2019
Curated by: Stéphane Aquin
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse Spiral
Exploratorium, San Francisco, California, United States
May 15th - August 17th, 2014
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse Topology
The Bentway, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
October 2nd - October 31st, 2021
An array of 3,000 lights will create a landscape of upside-down mountains and valleys suspended from the interior of the space and, using touchless biometric technology, will react in real-time to the pulse of visitors' heartbeats. The artwork will change and evolve with every visit, offering a unique sensory experience.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
June 25th, 2021 - January 2nd, 2022
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Recent Works
November 16th, 2020 - May 1st, 2021
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Recorders
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
December 16th, 2011 - February 12th, 2012
A large-scale solo exhibition, presenting eight to thirteen interactive pieces that underline the performative character of the public as an integral part of the artwork. In "Recorders" artworks hear, see or feel the public; they exhibit awareness and record and replay memories entirely obtained during the show. The pieces either depend on participation to exist or predatorily gather information on the public through surveillance and biometric technologies. The exhibition is meant to oscillate between the seduction of participation, preservation and inclusion, and the violence of Orwellian and ubiquitous computerized detection. In all cases the artwork compiles a database of behaviours that then becomes the artwork itself.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Signos e Índices
NC-arte, Bogotá, Colombia
October 25th, 2014 - February 21st, 2015
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Solar Equation
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Québec, Canada
September 27th, 2018 - April 11th, 2019
Curated by: Bernard Lamarche
Lumiere Festival, Durham, United Kingdom
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: The Year's Midnight
Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
January 27th - September 30th, 2014
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Trackers
Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 18th - December 23rd, 2012
The exhibition is conceived as an environment mixing detection technologies and audiovisual explorations in real time. By using "live cameras" and tracking systems, we attempt to materialize computerized surveillance, transforming the technological observation into a tangible form.
La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Transition States
Gund Gallery, Gambier, Ohio, United States
October 10th, 2016 - January 2nd, 2017
Curated by: Natalie Marsh
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Unstable Presence
October 2nd, 2021 - March 16th, 2022
Curated by: Rudolf Frieling and Lesley Johnstone
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Presencia Inestable
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, México
August 23rd, 2019 - March 1st, 2020
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Présence instable
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
May 23rd - September 9th, 2018
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Vicious Circular Breathing
Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
September 14th, 2013 - February 16th, 2014
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Voice Array
Mexican Cultural Institute Washington D.C., Washington, D.C., United States
October 31st, 2018 - April 28th, 2019
September 6th - October 20th, 2012
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Voice Theatre
Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel - Augusta Raurica, Basel, Switzerland
June 9th - July 1st, 2018
Voice Theatre is a large scale interactive light installation initially designed for Augusta Raurica, a Roman archeological site in Switzerland. Participants' voices are converted into pulses of light, arranged in concentric rings across the theatre. The glimmering lights manifest voices in real time and vary in intensity according to the volume of each recording. The piece creates a memory theatre of live and recorded messages that can be both seen and heard.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Wavefunction, Subsculpture 9
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
April 22nd - July 31st, 2017
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: X no es la nueva Y
April 17th - September 1st, 2012
Re:Positioning Fear
3rd Internationale Biennale Film +Architektur, Graz, Austria
Curated by: Charlotte Pöchacker
Relational Architectures
Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, México
May - June, 2003
Curated by: Priamo Lozada
Solar Equation
Ulm Cathedral, Ulm, Germany
May 24th - August 23rd, 2015
Subsculptures
Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève, Switzerland
Subtitled Public
Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, México
Curated by: Itala Schmelz and Jennifer Teets
Two Origins
Printemps de Septembre Festival, Toulouse, France
Curated by: Marta Gili
Under Scan
East Midlands Development Agency, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Opened/happened in March, 2006
East Midlands Development Agency, Derby, United Kingdom
February - March, 2006
East Midlands Development Agency, Leicester, United Kingdom
East Midlands Development Agency, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Vectorial Elevation
celebrations of Europe expansion, Dublin, Ireland
Fête des Lumières, Lyon, France
Curated by: Claire Peillod
Opening project of Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Curated by: Juan Guardiola and Javier González de Durana
Zócalo Square, Mexico City, México
December 26th, 1999 - January 7th, 2000
Voice Array
Casa Daros Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
November 8th, 2013 - March 9th, 2014
Voice Array, performance by beatboxer Rahzel - The Godfather of Noyze
Opened/happened on September 6th, 2012
Voice Tunnel
DOT Summer Streets, New York City, New York, United States
August 3rd - August 17th, 2013
Wavefunction
Kulczyk Foundation, Poznan, Poland
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Dubai billionaire Alabbar plans messaging app for Middle East
Billionaire Mohamed Alabbar, one of Dubai's most prominent businessmen, plans a phone messaging service for the Middle East that aims to compete with services such as WhatsApp.
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Alabbar, who made his fortune as the chairman of Dubai's largest listed property developer, Emaar Properties, has been moving into other areas, in particular technology.
Asked on the sidelines of a conference in Dubai on Tuesday if he was considering launching a messaging app akin to WhatsApp, Alabbar replied:
"Yes, soon," adding "it's regional" when asked if the service would be designed for an Arabic-speaking audience.
He declined to give any further details.
Mobile phone penetration in the Gulf region is among the highest in the world, with Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in the top seven globally with rates near to the equivalent of two phones for every person.
The region is also home to a young and tech-savvy population - Saudi Arabia is one of the top consumers of YouTube videos - but there is comparatively-little Arabic-language online content.
Alabbar was behind the investment firms which in July bought out founder Fadi Ghandour's stake in logistics firm Aramex, with a source at the time saying this was part of a strategy to build an e-commerce platform for the Arab world.
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'ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE SHOWN IN DEED THAT THEY ARE IN FAVOR OF SOCIALIST SELFGOVERNANCE CAN ENGAGE IN WRITING AND TEACHING OF HISTORY' – THE RISE AND FALL OF 'VOJVODINIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY' (1968-1993)
Author(s): Mihael T. Antolović / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022
This study examines the phenomenon of the so-called 'Vojvodinian historiography' which flourished in the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina from the late 1960s until the early 1990s as a special kind of party historiography. The paper focuses on the 'Vojvodinian historiography's' institutional framework, theoretical and methodological features and general ideological profile as well as its outcomes. As a result of its close ties with the ruling Communist League of Vojvodina, the political collapse of the Vojvodinian communists marked the disappearance of this extremely ideological kind of historiography.
'Our Girl' Ideology and Start's 'Sexual Swashbucklers':
Women and War in the Only Yugoslav Men's Magazine (1969–1980)
Author(s): Iva Jelušić / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020
The Croatian magazine Start, "a misbehaved child of the sexual revolution of the sixties"2 was created in 1969. Its visual identity has been marked by nude women throughout its existence. The magazine's editorial board sometimes presented it as ideological opposition to socialist puritanism, especially exemplified in so-called 'our girl' ideology and, therefore, as contributed to women's emancipation. In order to explore how (some) Yugoslav men reacted to and repackaged the socialist gender agendas, this paper will examine the magazine's contents through a gendered lens. It will particularly focus on their approach to the imagery of the People's Liberation Struggle. It will examine a number of articles dealing with the Yugoslav theatre of the Second World War and women's participation in it. By taking into account textual contributions as well as their visual representations, this paper will study how Western influences participated in the portrayal of the women's emancipation project, as well as the Yugoslav gender order, during the 1970s. It will highlight how it validated the journalists' adherence to tradition-bound gender hierarchies, which they mapped onto their supposedly liberal discourse of sexual liberation.
'Scientific Atheism' as an Ideological Construct and Educational Project (1950s-1980s)
Author(s): Marianna Shakhnovich / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021
The main goal of this article is to identify the socio-historical context of the emergence of the ideologically loaded concept of 'scientific atheism', constructed in the USSR in the 1950s-1980s during the period of the announced transition from socialism to the construction of communism. The article uses the method of the historical sociology of concepts, which makes it possible to identify the connection between semantic contexts and institutional practices and to show how the conceptual category around which the corresponding discourse was formed became an instrument that produces socially significant meanings used in the practice of ideological production. The classics of Marxism did not consider atheism as a separate doctrine from materialism; despite this in the late 1970s, scientific atheism in the Soviet academic space turned into a separate science with its own subject of research. At the same time, scientific atheism was opposed to all other forms of atheism as the most consistent and the only true one.
'Soviet Spirituality': The Phenomenon and its Research Possibilities
Author(s): Solveiga Krūmiņa-Koņkova / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021
'Soviet spirituality' is one of the problematic concepts for which it is difficult to find an unambiguous definition. Authors of the articles published in this issue of the Reliģiski-filozofiski raksti (Religious-Philosophical Articles) attempt to understand this concept with the help of a seemingly better-explored concept – atheism. Soviet spirituality grew out of Soviet atheism, and they crossbred each other in their mutual relations. However, as our readers will see, just as there are different understandings of Soviet spirituality, there are also different understandings of atheism because both concepts have significant historical, regional, and cultural differences. [...]
'When Someone came and started to sing, the others sang too, Accompanying Him on the Violin' – Living and Working Conditions in the onetime Roma Colony in Oradea and its Liquidation in the 1970s
Author(s): Zsuzsa Plainer / Language(s): English
Roma in the Romanian state socialism are a rare subject in present-day Romany studies. Thus, to fill in the blank, this paper recalls and analyses an important moment in the recent past: living and working conditions in a one-time Roma colony in Oradea as well as its liquidation by the communist policies of urbanization in 1977 and 1978. In doing so, I try to investigate whether the widely shared scholarly belief on the relatively high living standards of the Roma during socialism does stay for this particular case. As empirical data show, winding up the Roma colony and forcing its inhabitants to move into blocks of flats did not significantly improve housing conditions of the group; nevertheless, it destroyed their previously existing socio-cultural environment and cut them off from a series of resources. In opposition to the official discourse of communism, living standards after the removal were not raised but lowered, which - in lack of coherent urbanization policies in the post-socialism - turned the place into an urban ghetto by the 2000s.
"Communism Didn't Touch My Kids Like Me." Images of Communism in a Family Perspective
Author(s): Petra Schindler-Wisten / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021
The target of this study is to introduce one particular life story and on the basis of its content analysis to focus on the narrator's connection with the period of so-called normalization era in Czechoslovakia. Based on oral history interviews with one narrator during the longitudinal oral history project, the author focuses on whether the memories of a given period change over time and how the narrator reflects on his memories. The author maps the narrator's family background, the extent to which it shaped him and how he evaluated it as a thirty year old man and now, when he is fifty years old. The core of our narrator's life story stays the same in principle; he did not change it after twenty years. The reason is that the narrator's experience and the memories have sunk in and are consistent. What changed in the narrator's story is the amount of self-reflection that was reflected during the last interview. It was confirmed that shifts in the reflection are a common phenomenon and that some variability may not be conscious. Interpretations and evaluations of life can change, but the experiences themselves do not change.
"Have We Not Lived In Darkness?": An Epistemological Dimension of 'Soviet Spirituality' in Latvia (1964–1991)
Author(s): Māra Kiope / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021
The title of the article uses a paraphrase of the lyrics of a popular Latvian song of the late Soviet-era. It tells that the life of the people during the Soviet era took place in spiritual darkness, but in spite of that, resistance was burning in Latvian culture. To a large extent, this has been determined by the European cultural heritage, which was characteristic of the pre-war Latvian state. During the Soviet regime, it allowed to escape identification with the Soviet civilization. Unlike many studies on Soviet reality in the fields of economics, politics, history, ideology and sociology, the project currently carried out by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Latvia (LZP-20202_0058) which includes this article focuses on the study of 'Soviet spirituality'. A serious research problem is the definition of the concept of 'Soviet spirituality', as Soviet science has never explained the concept of 'spirituality'. In the 1960s, in order to distance itself from the old Stalinist totalitarianism, the Communist Party began to pay special attention to spiritual values. However, 'Soviet spirituality' cannot be reduced to the everyday manifestations, to some research in psychology, or to ideology, because it is undoubtedly related to the realities that fall within the competence of theology, religious studies, and philosophy. Namely, the creation of a new Soviet man who would have abolished the constant human anthropological nature, the conversion of a priori religiosity into idolatry, the use of feelings and emotions to create a controlled mood in society, rituals and initiation practices to legitimize the existing power structures. The article proposes cognitive theory as the most appropriate methodological tool for describing the phenomenon of 'Soviet spirituality'. Thus, cognitive theory provides an approach to understanding spirituality, and allows explaining the resistance of Latvian culture to Soviet identification. Theoretical equipment is applicable to case studies, as they clearly reveal the nature and contradictions of 'Soviet spirituality' in Latvia.
"He Who Leads – Controls!"
Corporate Management and Rigours of "Socialist Control" in Czechoslovak Enterprises in the 1980s
Author(s): Tomáš Vilímek / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2018
The study deals with issues of corporate management and pitfalls of the "socialist supervision" in Czechoslovak enterprises in the period of late socialism. Using documents of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the State Security, period texts and specialized publications, it shows how party organs and state authorities were unsuccessfully trying to make supervisory mechanisms and audits a functional tool of the implementation of the ruling party´s economic policy. The author analyzes the supervisory and audit mechanisms that were used, and outlines basic reasons of the almost fatal failure of supervisory activities of the system which was, in a way, obsessed with supervision and control. He explains the systemic 216 Czech Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. VI conditionality of the supervisory system which socialist managers often and in many respects bent to suit the needs of the enterprises they were in charge of; such situation naturally did not match the needs of the society as a whole. Using many specifi c cases as an example, the study graphically shows that members of the Czechoslovak corporate management community in the 1980s were fully aware of systemic, political and social limitations of the supervisory system which they managed to modify, fairly successfully, to suit intra-corporate conditions. The result was a situation in which the party leadership was reacting to increasingly obvious symptoms of the "agony of the centrally planned economy" by adopting various directives and guidelines to make the supervisory process more effective and to consistently promote the "whoever manages – supervises" principle. However, the anticipated effect did not materialize and, at the end of the day, the non-functional supervisory mechanisms made a substantial contribution to the collapse of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
"HE WHO SINGS, THINKS EVIL!": CHANT "MARJANE, MARJANE" IN THE LAST DECADE OF COMMUNIST CROATIA
Author(s): Stjepan Bekavac,Ivica Miškulin / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021
In this paper authors analyze the prosecution of the widespread chant "Marjane, Marjane" during 1980's in Socialist Republic of Croatia. Widespread version of the chant regime has proscribed, declaring it a form of hostile or anti-state act. Individuals who would sing any of prohibited versions would be mostly subjugated to political felony procedure and sentenced to prison.
"I Knew about God, but I Didn't Know That I'm A Believer": Narratives about Coming to Belief in an Atheist Country
Author(s): Nadezhda Beliakova,Vera Kliueva / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021
The article describes the spiritual quest of evangelical Christians during the Soviet period. The published memoirs and biographical interviews of the believers, who had an experience of religious life during the Soviet period, are the sources for the analysis. Important factors, which enabled the spiritual quest, are emphasized: the extreme life conditions, inner crisis; familiarizing with believers; the problem of choice between denominations; conflict with the external environment; the feeling of Divine influence.
"It Is Necessary to Draw a Lesson". The Development of Political Structures of the Warsaw Treaty Organization between 1985 and 1989
Author(s): Matěj Bílý / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2020
The study analyzes the functioning of political structures of the Warsaw Treaty organization between the advent of Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of the state socialist dictatorships in Central and Eastern Europe in the end of the 1989, which has hitherto been examined only superficially. Using results of research in Czech, German, and Polish archives and drawing from studies of published documents, it describes in detail the substantial changes in the day-to-day operation of political structures of the organization, which took place at that time. It attempts to clarify and evaluate the essence of these shifts, to assess them in the context of previous developments, and to outline their significance for the fate of the Warsaw Treaty after 1989. It shows that Gorbachev initiated fairly significant changes in the organization, but he rarely promoted their implementation in an assertive enough manner. However, the greater openness toward and incentives presented to the allies, which characterized the approach of the Soviet Secretary General, were only partly successful. On the one hand, the political structures of the Warsaw Treaty started working in a routine manner for the first time in the history of the organization since 1985, becoming a venue where information was shared and foreign policy viewpoints and initiatives of member states were presented, the deepening crisis of the Eastern Bloc notwithstanding. On the other hand, however, day-to-day problems in the operation of the political structures of the Warsaw Treaty persisted, reflecting the impasse the Eastern Bloc as a whole and the system of relations between its member states, built in the previous four decades, found itself in. Before 1989, the Warsaw Treaty organization was unable to strengthen itself sufficiently enough, and the collapse of the then existing political regimes in Central and Eastern Europe doomed it to an early demise.
"The Charm of the PRL". Memory Culture, (Post)Socialist Nostalgia and Historical Tourism in Poland
Author(s): Agnieszka Balcerzak / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021
The article explores the mechanisms of memory culture and the commercialization of the socialist heritage from the period of the People's Republic of Poland (PRL) (from 1945 to 1989) as a tourist destination, societal practice and cultural resource in today's Warsaw. At the intersection of heritage studies, historical tourism and material culture, the ethnographic analysis focuses on three empirical case studies as examples of the commercial popularization of the history of the PRL. These are the communist heritage tours offered by WPT 1313 and the documentation of the socialist heritage at the Museum of Life in the PRL and the Neon Museum. These commodified products of Warsaw's tourism and entertainment culture fill a gap in the tourist market, based on the prototypical, nostalgic longing of tourists for a sensual and emotional experience of the "authentic past". This predominantly participant observation-based ethnographic study on the practices, spaces, images and agents filling this touristic niche, illustrates how they create sensual-emotive, aesthetic and performative fields of reifying, discovering and experiencing the socialist past. Finally, the paper focuses on how these polyvalent mechanisms shape the tourist infrastructure of Warsaw oscillating between critical distancing and entertaining appropriation of the socialist heritage.
"The Enemy Too Fights Heroically and With Dedication." The Border Battles in the Southern Sector of the Eastern Front, 22 June to 2 July 1941
Author(s): Roman Töppel / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2021
On 22 June 1941, the Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union. Although the most important strategic targets were situated in the south of the USSR, the Army High Command believed that the campaign would be decided by the conquest of Moscow. Therefore, the focal point of the German attack was in the central sector of the Eastern Front. In the southern sector, however, the Red Army had gathered its strongest forces and offered particularly tenacious resistance. Despite heavy losses, the Soviet soldiers were able to considerably delay the offensive of Army Group South already in the border battles and thus thwart the German operational plans already in the first days of the campaign. Therefore, the border battles in the southern sector of the Eastern Front contributed significantly to the failure of Operation 'Barbarossa' and ultimately to the German defeat on the Eastern Front.
"To Believe or not to Believe…" Religious Policy, Spiritual Life, Family, and Youth in Soviet Latvia
Author(s): Inese Runce / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021
The article deals with life and spirituality in Soviet Latvia. Youth and children, also families – in general – formed a fragile bond between their religious environment and family and the secular, hostile world in Soviet Latvia. Soviet schools were the place where these children of faith were least protected from the atheist propaganda and could possibly be identified, but children and youth of non–religious or atheist families learned the Soviet perspective about religion. Youth and families faced with this situation had their own responses and reactions to the reality of the double Soviet life.
"What Ghosts are Haunting us Today?" Slavoj Žižek's The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto in Post-Pandemic Capitalist Realism. The Revolutionary Subject and Work
Author(s): Vlad-Eugen Neagu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021
However controversial a topic, Marxist thought still remains the most complex tool for the critique of Capitalism. Derrida calls Marxism "hauntological", always reappearing as a spectre of the past, always quasi- present, but also as a potential lost future. After the dismantling of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, the relevance of The Communist Manifesto seemed to have slowly waned, in a world that adopted the tenets of Neoliberali sm partly as a defense against authoritarian regimes, and partly as a mean to converge toward the countries at the forefront of the global system, that had already accrued a massive lead in economic and social development. The Covid-19 virus has shocked the world to its core, but it remains to be seen whether it has brought about a paradigm shift or it has merely accentuated some of the past problems, while also triggering a kind of forced nostalgia for the apparent normality of a system that was already ridden with issues. Mark Fisher points out that "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism" (Fisher 1), thus indicating the need for criticism and measures against a neoliberal monopoly on thought itself. As for Žižek's The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto, it remains to be analyzed whether it can revive the interest in the original text, as to begin compounding a viable alternative for a post-pandemic global system that does not yet seem to fully grasp that it is running out of time.
"What Kind of Soviet Citizen Will You Grow into?": Ukrainian Adventure for Adolescents in the Stalinist Epoch
Author(s): Daria Semenova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019
This article analyzes a number of Soviet Ukrainian adventure narratives written during the 1930-40s, including the novels "Lakhtak" ("Lakhtak," 1934) and Shkhuna "Kolumb" (Schooner "Columbus," 1940) by Mykola Trublaini, Shkola nad morem (A School by the Sea, 1937) by Oles' Donchenko, Hospodari Okhots'kykh hir (The Owners of the Okhotsk Mountains, 1949) by Ivan Bahmut, and several short stories. This entertaining genre was used to educate its young readers about their place and aims in the world, as well as about the boundaries of the newly-forged Soviet identity and its meaning. This period witnessed a radical change in the criteria for defining group identity, as proposed to young readers: ethno-national markers were substituted by belonging to an ideological community and by class affiliation. As a result, although anyone originating from outside the Soviet borders was perceived as a menace, some foreigners of a "correct political orientation" could be recognized as potentially belonging to "our" community. At the same time, this change implied that there were hidden "enemies" among alleged "in-group" members, which justified the mobilized state of the group identity. The adventure stories analyzed here also shed light on the fostering of a sense of Union-wide unity through the parallels they drew between the experiences of young Ukrainian readers and those of their counterparts in faraway regions of the USSR.
Јагош Ћуретић: Социјалистичка Југоатлантида (Службени гласник, Београд, 2005)
Author(s): Jovo Cvjetković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2006
Југославија у часописима Life и Time, 1943-1950.
Author(s): Sanja Lukić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2022
From the moment it first appeared on the pages of the established American weeklies Life and TIME, the image of Josip Broz and his Yugoslavia underwent constant changes, which tended to always somehow return to the starting point; the starting point being an image of Yugoslavia as the Other, the one that is alien to the West and its culture. Although the authors and editors often insisted on the uniqueness of its position, they were inclined to characterize that peculiarity as negative. This was predetermined by frequent and radical changes in the relations between Yugoslavia and the United States, which did not allow the creation of a constant in the narrative of this small communist state. No matter how close Yugoslav policy came to the one of America, the fact that it was headed by a communist regime was a persistent source of problems. While after Tito's break with Stalin, American magazines tried to navigate a new discourse in representing Yugoslavia, their effort was still marked with biases and preconceptions.
Југословенски комунисти и норвешки лабуристи 1951–1956.
Author(s): Aleksandar V. Miletić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2022
The topic of this paper includes cooperation between the Yugoslav Communists and The Norwegian Labour Party in the first half of the 1950s, a period marked by turbulent events in Yugoslav foreign policy, from the crisis to the normalization of relations with the Eastern Bloc and the USSR. The research was mostly based on unpublished sources of Yugoslav provenance and relevant scholarly literature.
Чехословакия и Съветът за икономическа взаимопомощ
Author(s): Teodorichka Gotovska-Henze / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5-6/1998
The inclusion of Czechoslovakia in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) brought about drastic changes in the hitherto existing economic relations in the country. The industry built up in the Czech lands between the two World Wars lost access to the world markets and subjected to the new realities, gradually was losing the competitiveness of its goods. At the expense of the Czech industry, the newly built Slovak industry depended only on the import of Soviet raw materials. In the long run both industries, deprived of genuine competition, manufactured goods which did not meet the international standards, the productions lagged drastically in a technological respect. Besides that, CMEA functioned above all by the implementation of central decisions which were not of an economic but of a political character. The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance remained above all a political and not an economic alliance, owing to which after the end of the Soviet Bloc came also the end of CMEA.


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Ancient Realm Scrolls
The Ancient Realm Scrolls of Naestrirea.
WERA NIYOM
THE SECRETS OF TAROT
JOURNEY TO NAESTRIREA
HALL OF MEIHUI
DANCE OF THE DRAGONS
A CELESTIAL REQUIEM
THE SINS OF THE SERPENT
A CELESTIAL REDEMPTION
BROKEN BONDS
A CELESTIAL ATONEMENT
THE ECLIPSED DEITIES
HER DARKNESS AND HIS STAR
HESTIA'S WISH
ENGULFED BY ARIES
IMPRISONED BY SCORPIO
STANDALONE WORKS
MYTHIC KINGDOMS
ETERNAL PROMISE
MY LOVELY DEITY
BENEATH THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS
EGG KINGDOM
THE EGGSFOLK
THE EGGPORIUM
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KHAISITHA
Khaisitha History
Khaisitha was created by the Goddess of Light, Meihui, in 1 BC (Before Civilization). Meihui created Khaisitha to give Wuzhen faithful messengers, which led to the birth of a new race: the avians. It is believed that Meihui mated with a red-crowned crane, one of the most powerful avians in Khaisithan history, and that Khaisithans are descendants of the rooster of the Chinese Zodiac.
Starting with three, Khaisitha was ruled by an oligarchy: Cirasea (Green Bird), Zachariah (Hawk), Ivory (Crane). There are no written records about these three individuals because avians lived life in their bird form all the time and did not possess the ability to write.
With the help of Wuzhen, they obtained literacy and knowledge of the outside world and became more comfortable in their human forms. Seeing promise in the new species, Meihui created different avian subspecies. Each avian subspecies went on to form their own tribe.
To the northwest lies the region of Qinqiu. It is mainly mountainous terrain, the Hawk and Falcon Tribes live in this area. Zeru and Riyen were the first avians to lead the Hawk Tribe and Falcon Tribes.
Over the mountains, to the northeast rests Huafeng. The Crow and Zhen Tribes, led by Cati and Gatek, reside in this area because it is far removed from the rest of the country. No one cares to enter, out of disdain for these tribes.
The south is Jiangguan. The Sparrow and Green/Blue Bird Tribes live here. They are the ones who remain in Khaisitha because they have weaker bodies compared to the hawks or falcons.
In the center is Jiaoxing, the capital of Khaisitha. The Peng and Owl Tribes serve as the guards to the Yûmáo Palace. And because the Crane Tribe are considered the wisest, and therefore upper-class, they also live in the capital. The only luan lives in the capital as well.
Every time a member of the Council dies, membership rotates between the Tribes to ensure there is at least one member from the Zhen or Crow Tribes to represent them. Members of the Council are referred to as the Yûmáo (roughly translates to 'feather').
The first set of Yûmáo; Zhina the Hawk, Rien the Blue Bird, and Zraith the Crane; ruled from 1 AC (After Creation of Naestrirea) until 238 AC, when the final member perished. Similarly to Wuzhen, it was split into four regions.
In 788 AC, Khaisitha was engaged in battle by Aquitas (later renamed the Ceosal Kingdom) in what was to be called the Mer-Avian War. For several years, the avians of Khaisitha had been stealing food from Mer territory due to complications of the drought and unrest in their own land. While these battles occurred, the avians were dealing with uprisings among the Zhen and Crows. The Zhen had the potential to wipe out a nation with their poisonous feathers and the Crows were considered bottom feeders for their scavenging behavior.
An armistice was drawn so that each nation could focus on the troubles that they faced internally. Protests and riots persisted as flocks were attacked. Reports of injured avians began circulating describing how avians had every feather plucked from their bodies prior to death. An avian without feathers was considered shameful, so it created significant resentment and anger towards the merpeople.
It took nearly a century to adjust to the Zhen and the Crows as their people, but there are still some people who are hesitant to interact with members of these tribes. The process was completed in several installments. First, the people had to understand that both parties are capable of feeling the same emotions. Second, they had to rid themselves of the fear. The Council addressed this by introducing a small number of Zhen and Crows to show them that they weren't inherently horrible creatures. Needless to say, the pride of some of the older avians was hurt, but they learned to see things from a different perspective with time.
In 1866 AC, Khaisitha endured another drought which rendered their food sources inedible and scarce. Ten male avians entered Mer territory (see Broken Bonds, Book 2.5) and were executed on sight. Their deaths led to the demise of their mates, including former Yûmáo Sativa and Jing-Wei's parents (Wuzhen's current envoy).
Their government is currently controlled by four individuals and is structured as an oligarchy: Cerai (Crane Tribe), Cellisse (Sparrow Tribe), Ariella (Blue Bird Tribe), and Raith (Zhen Tribe).
Khaisitha's Current Tarot Card(s) | Major Arcana XX: Judgment, Major Arcana XXI: The World, and Minor Arcana: Swords.
Judgment is held by the crane of the government. It grants them the ability to look into the hearts of any living being to see if they're being deceptive or truthful. This card's secret use works similar to a truth serum. Side effects: disintegration of the mind.
The World is held by the government. It grants them the ability to watch what is happening in any part of the world. The World mustn't be used every day to avoid its negative effects. Side effects: auditory and visual hallucinations.
The Swords
The border patrol is typically equipped with the The Swords. This gives them the ability to manipulate the air around them. They cannot manipulate the air if it is contaminated with some sort of pollutant and these abilities can only be used for one hour. It requires the contractor's energy to be full.
Khaisitha's Laws
No. 1 ➺ An envoy mustn't betray the nation that they are serving. It will result in the stripping of their title and banishment from Khaisitha.
No. 2 ➺ An envoy that has left their post without permission will be banished from Khaisitha.
No. 3 ➺ An envoy mustn't let their personal feelings get in the way of completing their duties.
No. 4 ➺ Envoys are not allowed to be in a romantic relationship or fall in love. They are expected to serve for the full duration of their life, love is considered a distraction from those duties.
No. 5 ➺ Envoys are required to report their findings to the Yûmáo on a bimonthly basis.
No. 6 ➺ Distribution of Zhen feathers will result in imprisonment and additional punishment from the nation that they committed the crime in.
No. 7 ➺ Avians that wish to pass through Ceosal Kingdom territory must seek approval before doing so.
No. 8 ➺ Stealing is forbidden. If an individual is found stealing or using something that does not rightfully belong to them without the owner's permission, it will result in shaming penalties and possibly temporary imprisonment.
No. 9 ➺ Children under the age of sixteen are not permitted to work.
No. 10 ➺ All children are required to attend school starting at the age of four. They may choose to discontinue or continue schooling once they've reached the age of eighteen.
No. 11 ➺ Mistreatment or abuse of the ill, mentally or physically impaired, or children will result in corporal punishment and temporary imprisonment. Imprisonment length can change depending on the severity of mistreatment or abuse.
No. 12 ➺ The birdsong is a forbidden spell that cannot be used under any circumstances.
Khaisitha Trivia
➺ Khaisitha can be a dangerous place if you arrive unannounced and/or without permission. The birds that inhabit this island have sensitive hearing, which allows them to hear when someone enters their land.
➺ Their greatest tradition is called the Grand Flight, which occurs once every year. All avians are invited to participate. In this event, avians fly around Naestrirea. The avian(s) that accomplish this feat become the next envoys.
➺ All birds are capable of shifting into a human form whenever they are communicating with individuals of other nations.
➺ Khaisitha doesn't export particular items, but rather their services as messengers or representatives of other nations.
➺ The climate is primarily warm like spring, about 70° Fahrenheit as it is a suitable place for birds. The temperature never falls below 70°.
➺ Khaisitha has many trees and the land is mostly undeveloped for the most part as the birds reside in villages amongst the trees.
➺ Khaisitha is a nation inspired by the Chinese birds of myth.
➺ SPELLS | Birdsong: An ancient song that was used in the past to hypnotize any avian who hears it. Because it's a powerful spell, it has been outlawed and is now considered a forbidden spell.
Khaisitha Creatures
| Avian |
Avians are creatures who are able to shift between a human form and that of a bird (the type of bird depends on what tribe they belong to). They have great strength and can generate powerful gusts of wind. They are also capable of launching sharpened feathers like knives at their enemies.
Avians have enhanced hearing and speed, they are capable of hearing things up to 100 miles away. They are capable of communicating with other avians using their ancient language that consists of bird sounds. An avian typically appears like any other human in their human form. The shift may begin with feathers appearing from their nape and it is not painful to the shifter.
| Fledgling |
A young avian.
| Hatchling |
An avian egg that has not hatched yet.
The Secrets of Tarot: A Celestial Requiem
The Secrets of Tarot: Broken Bonds
THE SECRETS OF TAROT SERIES
DISCOVER NAESTRIREA
ECLIPSED DEITIES SERIES
DESIGN CREDITS
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