Plan zemelʻnogo uchastka Cholvaskogo kooperativnogo meliorativnogo tovarishchestva "Intensivn. N 2 Khersonskogo okruga Skadovskogo raĭona urochishch. "Kara-Bulat"

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Plan Aleshkovskogo meliorativnogo tovarishchestva

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Sketch map of settlements in the Skadovsʹkyĭ region

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Plan Golo-pristanskogo meliorativnogo tovarishchestva

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Karta Khersonskogo okruga Odesskoǐ gubernii

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AndroMedia - Towards a Context-aware Mobile Music Recommender

Portable music players have made it possible to listen to a personal collection of music in almost every situation, and they are often used during some activity to provide a stimulating audio environment. Studies have demonstrated the effects of music on the human body and mind, indicating that selecting music according to situation can, besides making the situation more enjoyable, also make humans perform better. For example, music can boost performance during physical exercises, alleviate stress and positively affect learning. We believe that people intuitively select different types of music for different situations. Based on this hypothesis, we propose a portable music player, AndroMedia, designed to provide personalised music recommendations using the user’s current context and listening habits together with other user’s situational listening patterns. We have developed a prototype that consists of a central server and a PDA client. The client uses Bluetooth sensors to acquire context information and logs user interaction to infer implicit user feedback. The user interface also allows the user to give explicit feedback. Large user interface elements facilitate touch-based usage in busy environments. The prototype provides the necessary framework for using the collected information together with other user’s listening history in a context- enhanced collaborative filtering algorithm to generate context-sensitive recommendations. The current implementation is limited to using traditional collaborative filtering algorithms. We outline the techniques required to create context-aware recommendations and present a survey on mobile context-aware music recommenders found in literature. As opposed to the explored systems, AndroMedia utilises other users’ listening habits when suggesting tunes, and does not require any laborious set up processes.

Karta chasti Khersonskogo okruga Odesskoĭ gubernii

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Map of the Staro-Shvet︠s︡ka colony

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Map of the Shvedsʻka- Poli︠a︡na colony

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Plan Mikolaivskoiï okrugi Poltavskogo raĭonu , v chastke kolfondu chº 351 pid nazvoi︠u︡ Abkinsʻkiĭ

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Plan Mikolaivskoiï okrugi Poltavskogo raĭonu , v chastke kolfondu chº 351 pid nazvoi︠u︡ Abkinsʻkiĭ

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MACHAL [Mitnadvei Hutz LaAretz] and Aliyah Bet Records, undated, 1930-2011

The MACHAL, the acronym for “Mitnadvei Hutz LaAretz” ("Volunteers from Abroad"), consisted of about 3500 men and women from over 40 countries from a variety of social and religious backgrounds who volunteered to fight for the establishment of Israel. This collection is unique in that it deals specifically with the experience of MACHAL and Aliyah Bet volunteers from Canada and the United States and others living in the United States. The collections consists of files on 500 volunteers, over 2000 original and reproduction photographs, numerous audio-visual material, books, manuscripts, and memoirs.

Letter of thanks to Joseph Rosen from the Ekaterinoslavskoe Evreĭskoe obshchevstvo po okazanii︠u︡ besplatnoĭ mediko-sanitornoĭ pomoshchi bedneĭshemu naselenii︠u︡ gorada Ekaterinoslava (EMSO)

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Letter of thanks to Joseph Rosen from the Ekaterinoslavskoe Evreĭskoe obshchevstvo po okazanii︠u︡ besplatnoĭ mediko-sanitornoĭ pomoshchi bedneĭshemu naselenii︠u︡ gorada Ekaterinoslava (EMSO)

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Appalling behaviour

'Appalling Behaviour' is a critically acclaimed contemporary Australian monologue, written by AWGIE Award winning playwright, Stephen House. This production, directed and creatively adapted by Shane Pike, was presented at the Brisbane Powerhouse in February 2016, as part of Queensland's LGBTIQ festival, Melt. This adaptation of the work experimented with notions of gender, taking the original script and manipulating character and scene to investigate expressions of identity beyond the traditional notions of binary gender-norms. To this end, the sole character (and actor) was (re)presented as a homeless bi-sexual queen with the aim of inferring that gender un/ab-normative characters can exist not only as disruptors/comments on/agitators of traditional expectations of performed gender (both onstage and off), but can also exist as accepted characters in and of themselves. Put simply: can a bi-sexual queen just be an actor/character in a play, or do all gender extra-normative characters inherently exist as political, social and cultural challengers? If so, why is this the case and should we be aiming for this kind of character to be an accepted part of the performative fabric, seamless and fitting within any onstage situation and play (why can't Willy Loman, King Lear or Nora be gender non-normative), or should such (re)presentations always exist as 'different'? Is it time for individual expressions of gender to just 'be' and be accepted as givens, or are we not quite there yet?