Slon iz Bjelovara

The authors analyze yet another fragment of probably medieval sculpture, a relief of an elephant from Daruvar in the Museum of the City of Bjelovar. The study concludes that the piece has a similar original date (12th ct.) and provenance (Venice area), as the font and the compound column discussed in the previous issue of the the Peristil, and that its discovery increases the chances that the entire "hoard" is genuine. A Pannonian 12th century origin remains dubious, but it should not be at this stage completely ruled out.U Muzeju grada Bjelovara nalaze se dva kamena predmeta koji su onamo stigli iz Daruvara prije više od pola stoljeća, a o kojima smo pisali u prošlom broju Peristila. Još jedan lijepi fragment vjerojatno istog porijekla nedavno je pronađen u spremištu Muzeja u Bjelovaru. Posudi, vjerojatno krsnom zdencu i snopastom stupiću, sada se pridružio slon. Minucioznim studijem ikonografskog sadržaja i liturgijske namjene zaključeno je da bi najvjerojatniji vremenski okvir bilo 12. stoljeće, a mjesto izrade Venecija ili okolica. Posebna je pažnja posvećena ikonografskom obrascu "paloga (u zamku uhvaćenog) slona", koja sadržajno simbolizira djelovanje Krista Spasitelja, jer poza našeg slona upućuje da bi moglo biti riješi o takvom prikazu. Inače, slon je dio niza životinjskih figura prikazanih unutar vitice i listova akanta, a uz slona sačuvan je tek mali fragment još jednog životinjskog lika (neki kopitar?). Rad je izveden s istančanim smislom za kompoziciju i kvalitetnom tehnikom klesanja, a realizam detalja upućuje na slikani uzorak. Sva tri predmeta vjerojatno su pristigla kao "trofeji" s braćnih putovanja u Veneciju, vrlo omiljenih panonskom plemstvu kasnijih godina 18. i tijekom 19. stoljeća. Ne treba zaboraviti da je Daruvar bio središte posjeda velike slavonske plemenitaške porodice Jankovića. Nalaz slona koji teško da može biti otočentist ička kopija, povećava mogućnost da su svi predmeti originalni. Tome pridonosi i prepoznavnaje vrlo sličnog zdenca u zbirci Guggenheim u Veneciji na koji nas je naputila kolegica Anna Tuskes. Otvoreno ostaje i pitanje da li su daruvarski fragmenti ipak mogli nastati u srednjovjekovnoj Panoniji, no izgledi se ne čine velikima

Defining the Biological Identity of the Unborn: A Scientific Approach to The Human Zygote

The humanity (or lack thereof) of the zygote is one of the most prevalent and fundamental questions in science now. Past the philosophical, moral, ethical and legal objections and implications behind this issue, the question of the humanity of the unborn is at its most fundamental level a scientific one. After all, human beings are simply rational animals, whose reproductive processes we understand now better than ever. This paper will serve as an insight into dealing with the often controversial and politically-charged topic of the unborn from a purely scientific perspective

On-line brokerages : marketing strategies and effectiveness, Ameritrade vs E*Trade

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/96940/1/MBA_SlonW_1999Final.pd

Culture As Resistance: The Case Of The Solovki Prison Camp And Of Its Inmates

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The 'cultural village' of the Solovki Prison Camp: a case of alternative culture?

revious research concerning Gulag literature has frequently focused on single authors, who published their books after being incarcerated in concentration camps. However, there were also poets, novelists, and writers who had the chance to write from inside the iron curtain of the camps, publishing in journals and magazines controlled by the Chekists.1 Most times, authors wrote hymns and praise for Soviet power. But, in the very early years of the forced labour camp system, exceptions were possible. One of these exceptions occurred in the first Gulag that was situated and run on the Solovki archipelago. There, thanks to some extraordinary conditions, many intellectuals were often able to express themselves freely, and were able to use their wit and culture to oppose the brutal violence of the guards. They were part of a “cultural village,” where poets published poems, actors performed plays, and professors held seminars, while many of their friends and fellow prisoners perished, killed by the tortures of the overseers. Their cultural fight was even more important: the culture they produced was pre-revolutionary, and they produced it at a moment when this culture was eliminated by the newly born Soviet state. Somehow, they managed to create an alternative cultural system inside the camp. But can we really speak of alternative culture in this context, given the particular cultural situation of that period

Medvedkine

Chris Marker’s portrait of Alexandre Medvedkine in the 1993 film Le tombeau d’Alexandre/The Last Bolshevik is highly instructive of his own relationship to Soviet cinema. Most especially, this difficult or troubled rapport with the antecedents to cinéma vérité in the West (and its protean formal properties, in terms of structure and often satirical-critical commentary) comes forth in the figures he assembles to comment upon Medvedkine’s life work. When Medvedkine’s Scast’e (Le Bonheur/Happiness) (1934) leaked to the West (c.1967), sent like an “SOS” in multiple bottles to various film archives (one by one from deep within the Soviet film world), Marker and SLON received a copy by way of Jacques Ledoux (curator of the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, in Belgium). The film opened the floodgates of a retrospective survey of Soviet filmmaking repressed and forgotten other than by remote and distant figures (partisans) who somehow survived the Stalinist purges of the 1930s

From Sochi - 2014 to FIFA - 2018: a Fading Sovereignty?

In this article, we uncover the dynamics and the evolution of Russian discourses of sovereignty before and after the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games using some elements of Foucauldian methodology and constructivist reading of sovereignty as an institution. We argue that there is a discrepancy between the rhetoric of sovereign power and the institutional practices in which it is embedded. It leads us to theorize that sovereignty discourses are contextual, unstable and constitutively shaped by commitments taken as key elements of international socialization. In the case of Russia, these discourses can be divided into three groups: pre-Sochi, post-Sochi and pre-World 2018 Cup discursive formations. As we venture to demonstrate, Putin's model of sovereignty is in crisis, yet it has support, both domestic and international. In the near future, sport is likely to remain one of those spheres of high visibility where the ideology of surviving under sanctions and counter-attacking the West will be reified

Superconductivity in a Two-Orbital Hubbard Model with Electron and Hole Fermi Pockets: Application in Iron Oxypnictide Superconductors

We investigate the electronic states of a one-dimensional two-orbital Hubbard model with band splitting by the exact diagonalization method. The Luttinger liquid parameter $K_{\rho}$ is calculated to obtain superconducting (SC) phase diagram as a function of on-site interactions: the intra- and inter-orbital Coulomb $U$ and $U'$, the Hund coupling $J$, and the pair transfer $J'$. In this model, electron and hole Fermi pockets are produced when the Fermi level crosses both the upper and lower orbital bands. We find that the system shows two types of SC phases, the SC \Roman{u'-large} for $U>U'$ and the SC \Roman{u-large} for $U<U'$, in the wide parameter region including both weak and strong correlation regimes. Pairing correlation functions indicate that the most dominant pairing for the SC \Roman{u'-large} (SC \Roman{u-large}) is the intersite (on-site) intraorbital spin-singlet with (without) sign reversal of the order parameters between two Fermi pockets. The result of the SC \Roman{u'-large} is consistent with the sign-reversing s-wave pairing that has recently been proposed for iron oxypnictide superconductors.Comment: 5 pages, 8 figures, to appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., Vol.78, No.12, p.12470