The New Testament and the future of the cosmos

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Samuel Pandolfo and the Mail Fraud Statute

Talents of flaws in a man\u27s character may go unnoticed until forced into the public\u27s eye by unforeseen circumstances. Samel Pandolfo, a southern-born promoter, influenced many people\u27s lives by his charismatic personality and his business ventures. Pandolfo had a zest for life, and moved frequently through his adult career, touching many communities. His range of interests included teaching, selling insurance, building an automobile manufacturing plant, developing a health food business, and promoting a loan company. While he invested much energy and money into these ventures, they all eventually failed

Study abroad: Products, practices, and perspectives of a new culture

How does one adapt him/herself to an environment that is so different in almost every way? Noticing exactly how one is forming their gestures and body movements so as not to offend anyone, modifying one’s point-of-view on issues that seem so straightforward like cutting in line, and realizing that even facial expressions are partially culturally determined are among countless other topics within the situations that sojourners voluntarily place themselves for months at a time. How do they adapt to these strange new situations? What are some of the difficulties in adapting? What aspects of their home culture do they maintain? This paper examines the products, practices, and perspectives altered by sojourners (namely study abroad students) in order to adapt to a new culture allowing them to gain an overall increase in their intercultural competence as a result

Emmer wheat using and growing in the Czech Republic

Emmer wheat [(Triticum dicoccum Schrank (Schuebl)] is after bread, durum and spelt wheat further species of wheat used for economic purposes. Organic farmers and producers have become more and more interested in marginal crops such as the tetraploid emmer wheat because of its suitability for organic farming. In spite of its historical role, present distribution of emmer is very limited. The work analyzes the problem of growing possibilities of emmer and its suitability for cultivation in organic farming. In the Czech Republic it is grown only a few farms, but in Austria is more popular now. Possible candidates for the cultivation of emmer has several options about where to obtain a suitable variety. The best option appears to be the choice of legally protected variety Rudico. Another option would be to obtain seed from abroad or multiplication of seed of its own genetic resources. Among important properties of emmer belongs e.g. considerably high resistance to some fungal diseases, which make it advantageous in organic system of growing. Hulled grain requires procedure of peeling. High grain quality, first of all high protein content, predetermines emmer wheat for preparation of healthy dishes in bio quality. The grains are suitable for the production of unyeasted products because of their specific quality. As the emmer wheat is grown especially in the organic farming system, the processing of grains has to respect the individuality of this obsolete cereal species. It may be used for the production of healthy regional food products

ASSESSING THE REALISM OF OCEAN SIMULATIONS AGAINST HYDROGRAPHY AND ALTIMETRY

Future climate prediction systems will include ocean models at eddy-admitting to eddy-resolving resolution, i.e. ° on the horizontal or finer. The development and calibration of such models requires the us

The Slovak Republic’s view of energy security as a theoretical problem

Nowadays the importance of energy security in practice is constantly increasing due to the necessity to follow this issue from both - theoretical and practical points of view. The article analyzes relation between energy security and a possible war, which would concern energy resources of a particular country. The article contains specific analysis of the possibility to maintain energy security of the Slovak Republic, activities of the European Union and the position of the Russian Federation in the field of energetics as well as the prospects for development of mutual energy affairs and ratio of their energy interdependence in the future

Internet as the new mass medium : opportunities, threats, perspectives

W artykule poruszono kwestię różnic i podobieństw między Internetem a tradycyjnymi mediami masowymi, takimi jak prasa, radio czy telewizja. Internet bywa często przeciwstawiany tym mediom ze względu na swoje szczególne właściwości, takie jak: aktywność odbiorcy, interaktywność, łatwość wejścia w rolę masowego nadawcy, zindywidualizowanie grona użytkowników, różnorodność konfiguracji komunikacyjnych, zamiast jednostronnego i bezosobowego modelu komunikowania masowego. Jednakże Internet może być również postrzegany jako medium masowe ze względu na: instytucjonalizowanie się roli nadawców, upodabnianie się grona użytkowników do masowego audytorium, wystandaryzowany charakter przekazów, zawieranie się wielu indywidualnych działań komunikacyjnych w modelu komunikowania masowego, budowanie wspólnego systemu znaczeń społecznych. Rozpatrując Internet jako medium masowe, należy jednak pamiętać o tym, że nic można całości internetowej komunikacji sprowadzić do modelu komunikowania masowego. Można postawić również pytanie o to, czy ze względu na swój specyficzny charakter Internet ma szanse stać się zalążkiem sfery publicznej.The article concerns the mailer of similarities and differences between Internet and traditional mass media, like newspapers, radio and TV. Internet is often perceived opposite to these media, mostly because of its specific character of a medium involving active participation on the part of receivers, because of its interactivity, ease with which it may take on a role of a mass broadcaster, individualised user circles, diversity of configurations of communication instead of just one, and an impersonal pattern of mass communication. However, the Internet may be considered also as a mass medium because of the institutionalisation of Internet broadcasters, user circles becoming similar to mass audience, the messages becoming standardized, the creation of many individual acts of communication in the mass communication model, and the building of a common system of meanings. When the Internet is conceptualized as mass medium it is still important to remember that not all Internet-based communication replicates traditional pattern of mass communication. The question about the role of the Internet in the process of building the public sphere may also be considered