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Far-right group leader’s lawyer says he is accused of inciting hatred against Muslims via Facebook posts.
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The Czech capital hosts the 2016 European Rubik’s Cube Championship, as the cube, a Hungarian invention, comes home to Central Europe.
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This article aims to highlight the educational aspects of the implementation ofthe Rural Renewal basing on an example of a project implemented of Nowosolna community in łódzkie voivodeship (a creation of a community center in the villageByszewy) under the Sectorial Operational Programme Improving the Processing andMarketing of Agricultural Products 2004–2006 as well as showing the experience formopolskie voivodeship. According to the author there are two aspects of education inRural Renewal. Research conducted in Nowosolna, presented in the article allows todistinguish and identify those
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This article is about the spatial development of Kotlin community in theminds of its inhabitants. The main goal is an evaluation of the impact of the knowledgeand experience of the local community on the perception of spatial planning itsdevelopment status. In this study, using a survey and chi-square test to researchknowledge of planning studies among residents, feeling their space, their satisfactionwith the state of spatial policy in Kotlin community and the impact of society on thedevelopment.
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The purpose of this article is to present changes in ownership structure and functional assumptions of mansions and palaces located in the district of Sieradz. For the purpose of the work it was assumed that the study will be carried out in district of Sieradz with 35 villages in which are located mansions and palaces. Research in microscale allow more accurate analysis of the issues, permit in gathering detailed and complete data, both objective (inventory card) and subjective (evaluation of the technical condition). The task of this article is to draw attention to the value of mansions and palaces located within the district of Sieradz, because improper use of them resulted in huge losses for the cultural heritage of the region. Not only in the district of Sieradz but throughout Poland lacking awareness about value of the cultural landscape and the need to its maintenance. There is also no financial resources for their maintenance, the relevant legal provisions and respect for existing ones. In the face of occurring changes functional, let there be also a warning before the risks and appeal to take all possible protective measures until is what to protect.
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One man’s struggle to alleviate his symptoms helped change the country’s drug policy.
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In the latest move in a series of regulations on language and customs, Tajik authorities order journalists to use simpler language.
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Parents’ objections to photo of a mentally handicapped first-grader allegedly results in photo album recall.
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The aim of the article is to discuss the possibilities of applying social research methods in the analysis of seniors' tourism activity. It emphasises the fact that research related to the participation of seniors in tourism is of major significance in many countries with rapidly changing population. The author mentions the methodological determinants of conducting social research that derive from two basic paradigms: quantitative and qualitative. Based on examples from the literature, the article presents the benefits and limitations of their use in conducting research on seniors' tourism activity. In the final part of the article, the author lists the methodological postulates regarding the implementation of the research among seniors as a specific segment of tourism activity.
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After the annexation of Crimea in Russia, irrevocable changes occurred. The space for dialogue grew smaller, politics waded into our daily lives, leaving untouched neither culture nor scientific discourse, and sparing neither our small talk nor the idle stories we swap at bus stops, in cafes, and during breaks at work. It has become harder to avoid confrontation, and more difficult to keep our ears tuned to a reality that is becoming unbearably homogeneous and saturated with war propaganda. Can we therefore talk about a new symbolic conflict in Russia? About a split, about two societies, two kinds of people – as some would like? These questions have been asked repeatedly for months by those involved in Russian culture. Intellectuals trying to understand these dynamics talk about a crash or a turn, about the end of illusions, or about the beginning of a new world, a new Russia which “has risen from its knees”. The present text considers the attitudes of Russian intellectuals during the annexation of the Crimea and the war in Donbas in the autumn of 2014.
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Artistic responses to the Maidan can be seen as a new form of socially and politically engaged art, whose methods and language are adapted to today’s times. Artists used the internet, in particular, to launch several projects in support of the Maidan. The Facebook page “Strike-Poster” functioned as a database of anti-government political art (prints and posters) to be used by the protesters. A new form of social media was launched – “hromadske.tv”, an internet television channel that functioned as a source of uncensored news, including cultural news. Among other projects was the creation of an artistic enclave (Artistic Barbican) on the Maidan, where exhibitions of often non-professional political art were held. A number of individuals carried out a series of performances in the square with a clear political message, and various participatory projects were organized, such as Maidan Post, with postcards designed and printed by artists themselves. Well-known artists of the younger generation joined the demonstrations and either documented them (e.g. photos of barricades by Alevtina Kahidze) or produced portraits of the revolutionaries, including those who died (Lesia Khomenko, Serhij Radkievich). Recent developments in Kyiv have clearly shown once again that in a divided society, such as post-communist Ukraine, the gaps between social groups can be closed by turning to basic principles, such as personal freedom, dignity and civil liberties, as well as national myths. In order to succeed, these revolutionary impulses need to come from within society. In this process, art and artists play a crucial role in building a common platform for communication. The events in Ukraine led to a re-evaluation of the importance of art functioning outside of institutions and the art market, and which is capable of speaking about issues of crucial importance to today’s world and the fundamental values upon which civil society is based.
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Set amid stunning mountain scenery, ‘The Eagle Huntress’ follows a teenager’s dream of becoming a master of her craft.
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Two cases underscore the government’s hard line approach to dealing with those it believes subscribe to foreign versions of Islam.
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The city's first LGBTQIA march was held on Saturday, as police prevent an attack by nationalist youth.
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The paper briefly describes the idea of cohousing communities built and managed by their owners and residents. The Author introduces special features of cohousing, which distinguish it from other forms of housing, i.e. non-profit construction and management by owners-users, creation of the sense of a community and strong social ties. It has been emphasized that the concept of cohousing incorporates realization of sustainable and ecological houses as well as sustainable communities, and is part of contemporary economic and social trends of limiting consumption – degrowth. The paper includes an analysis of conditions facilitating more extensive realization of housing in this formula in Poland as well as barriers, especially legal and mental ones – lack of social capital required to create close and cooperating cohousing communities.
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The “new atheism” and the “new evangelization” have become the buzzwords of the age. Atheism is now the fastest growing “religious” group in the United States; the new evangelization decisively shaped the conclave that elected Jorge Bergoglio to the papacy. Twenty years ago, in Crossing the Threshold of Hope, John Paul II reflected pastorally on some of the philosophical, spiritual, and cultural roots of both. His insights, embodied in Christians who live them, offer the Church a key to our times. If evangelization today is to announce the Gospel in the languages of today, what script might it use? What images might it evoke? What might its cadence be like?
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According to the data of census in 2002, national and ethnic minorities form 0,26% of the society of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. They are among others: Belarusians, the Romani, Greeks, Karaims, Lithuanians, Lemkos, Macedonians, Germans, Armenians, Russians, Turks, Ukrainians, Jews and (since lately) Vietnamese. Their position underwent a positive change after 1989. In the past decades they experienced all sorts of restrictions. The activity of the particular minorities centers around matters such as: using and teaching the languages of the minority, keeping names and surnames written in the minority language, practising their religion and organizational activity. The basis for the national and ethnic minorities living on the Gdańsk Coast form largely the newcomers from the widely understood frontier lands. The Greeks and Macedonians who came to Poland in the years 1949‒1952 form an interesting exception. People coming to the so-called recovered lands, as a rule, hid their real origin. It was the result of the two facts: 1. the policy of the Polish government, the aim of which was to create a uniform state as regards nation and ethnics. 2. fear of being recognized as the citizens of the USSR due to the risk of deportation. The first decade of the post war period was especially unfavourable for the minorities. Since 1956 the situation has loosened – organizational and religious life start to develop. Up to the present time national and ethnic minorities have been the subject of scientific research.
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This article aims to describe how the humanities is “moving” to laboratories both metaphorically (the lab as a paradigm) and literally (produced by humanities labs). The combination of the humanities and the laboratory – theory and practice – is present in the digital humanities in particular. Discussion of the issue is focused on the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University in Vancouver, run by prof. Dene Grigar (Head of the Electronic Literature Organization). The Electronic Literature Lab shows how the digital humanities combines programming with creative writing (creating kinetic literary projects) and media archaeology with the history of electronic literature (the protection of and access to songs from the 1980s and 1990s).
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Video games – like other digital media (hypertext, interactive fiction), but much more fully and effectively – perform an extremely important function within the rhetoric of human corporality. They make us realise that the cultural and technological mediation of human experience is here to stay. The experience of corporality in games (i.e., the experience of game space and time) is an element of the gaming condition, determining the relationship between the human body and the game’s universe. These relations are bilateral: humans impact on the game world, the game impacts on the human body. This principle has extremely important implications for social life in today’s digital era.
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The article concerns emotions in video games. The author analyzes the latest creations from the AAA segment, in which the player has the chance to identify in depth with the characters. The games produced by the Quantic Dream studio, and "The Last of Us" made by The Naughty Dog are among the various proposals for tackling the problem of “humanising” game characters, who are much more than just electronic “actants”. Their complexity suggests a comparison with the heroes of films, but their ability to interactively direct their actions presents to games researcher with new challenges. Who is the character in the game? Is it just an electronic “costumed” player, or is it s being who demands we recognize its personal subjectivity?
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