Amici fragili: the alliance between the Lega Nord and the Popolo della Libertà as seen by their representatives and members

Modern Italy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Albertazzi
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Lega Nord ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

The alliance between the Lega Nord (LN) and Forza Italia (FI), later Popolo della Libertà (PDL), continued, uninterrupted, for over a decade, until November 2011. The problems that beset it under the fourth Berlusconi government are known; however, there is a lack of academic analysis of how such an alliance was seen and experienced by the people who made up the fabric of its constituent organisations. Based on interviews with institutional representatives and members from both parties, this article addresses the question of how people within them saw their ally and its leaders, and what they thought of the centre-right alliance under the fourth Berlusconi government. The analysis reveals that, although the LN's rhetoric, style and uncompromising stances on policy were the target of much criticism within the PDL, the latter nonetheless showed much respect for its ally, the way it was led, its ability to communicate effectively and its rootedness at the local level. However, LN members and representatives were, in turn, extremely critical of the PDL and its leader, and very much conceived of the alliance as a ‘marriage of convenience’. This notwithstanding, it is reasonable to expect that the PDL and the LN may find ways to rebuild their alliance in the future, if indeed the PDL continues to exist in its present form, due to their fundamental compatibility at the ideological level and their understanding of each other's priorities.

scholarly journals Una mirada al futuro próximo en la transformación de los cementerios desde la perspectiva de la Arquitectura Emocional

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Mónica Martínez Vicente
Keyword(s):  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Funerary Architecture ◽  
Sobre Todo ◽  
New Facilities ◽  
The Way

Los cambios que se están produciendo en la sociedad actual también manifiestan nuevas necesidades en la manera de despedirnos y recordarnos, lo que afecta directamente a la arquitectura funeraria de tanatorios y sobre todo de cementerios. A través de la «arquitectura emocional» se puede intervenir en los cementerios existentes para mejorar la percepción que transmiten a los usuarios y naturalizar los procesos de pérdida. En las futuras ampliaciones o construcción de nuevas instalaciones y/o cementerios deben tenerse en cuenta todas estas cuestiones de la arquitectura que conecta con las personas. The changes that are taking place in today's society also show new needs in the way we remind ourselves, which directly affects funerary architecture of funeral parloursand especially in cemeteries. Through the «emotional architecture» we can intervene in existing cemeteries to improve the perception which they transmit to users and thus naturalize loss processes. All these issues of the architecture that connects with the people must be taken into account in the future enlargements or construction of new facilities and/or cemeteries.

Undoing the Future: The Theology of the Book of Zechariah

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Robert Foster
Keyword(s):  
Historical Narratives ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Abstract Reading the book of Zechariah as a whole for its theology requires giving special attention to the way that the historical narratives in 1:1-6, 7-8, and 11:4-17 shape the discourse. The opening narrative, 1:1-6, delineates the movement of the book as YHWH returns to Zion and so calls for the returning exiles to return to their god. Chapters seven and eight clarify what it means for the people to return to YHWH, in line with the earlier prophets’ call to pursue justice. 11:4-17 narrates the failure of especially the leaders to enact justice and the consequences of this failure. Nevertheless, the book affirms the promise of YHWH to do good to Zion, even if modified and cast into the eschatological future.

scholarly journals Desktop Voice Assistant Using Natural Language Processing (NLP)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 332-335
Author(s):  
Lalit Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Home Automation ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Way

Voice assistants are the great innovation in the field of AI that can change the way of living of the people in a different manner. the voice assistant was first introduced on smartphones and after the popularity it got. It was widely accepted by all. Initially, the voice assistant was mostly being used in smartphones and laptops but now it is also coming as home automation and smart speakers. Many devices are becoming smarter in their own way to interact with human in an easy language. The Desktop based voice assistant are the programs that can recognize human voices and can respond via integrated voice system. This paper will define the working of a voice assistants, their main problems and limitations. In this paper it is described that the method of creating a voice assistant without using cloud services, which will allow the expansion of such devices in the future.

The Future of the Professions

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Susskind ◽  
Daniel Susskind
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The People ◽  
New Models ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Way

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. The Future of the Professions explains how 'increasingly capable systems' -- from telepresence to artificial intelligence -- will bring fundamental change in the way that the 'practical expertise' of specialists is made available in society. The authors challenge the 'grand bargain' -- the arrangement that grants various monopolies to today's professionals. They argue that our current professions are antiquated, opaque and no longer affordable, and that the expertise of their best is enjoyed only by a few. In their place, they propose six new models for producing and distributing expertise in society. The book raises important practical and moral questions. In an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks, what are the prospects for employment, who should own and control online expertise, and what tasks should be reserved exclusively for people? Based on the authors' in-depth research of more than ten professions, and illustrated by numerous examples from each, this is the first book to assess and question the relevance of the professions in the 21st century.

Remembering the Future, Anticipating the Past: History, Time, and Cosmology among the Maya of Yucatan

1987 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 566-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy M. Farriss
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Past History ◽  
The Other ◽  
General View ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

This essay is about concepts of time and the past among the Maya Indians of Yucatan in southeastern Mexico. It explores how these concepts fit into the Maya's general view of the way the world works and how they relate to certain dynamics of Maya history—as we define history—during their pre-Hispanic and colonial past. One inspiration has been the often baffling written records the Maya have left, from which we try to quarry historical facts without always enquiring what the records meant to the people who produced them. The other is the reminder, provided by recent historical work from anthropologists, that people do not record their past so much as construct it, with an eye to the present, and at the same time use that past in molding the present.

The 1916 Bongo ‘Riots’ and Their Background: Aspects of Colonial Administration and African Response in Eastern Upper Ghana

1983 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger G. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Military Recruitment ◽  
Land Dispute ◽  
The People ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Several recent studies have examined the impact of the First World War on the people, and rulers – alien and indigenous - of West Africa. Diverse societies responded in a variety of ways to a situation in which extraordinary demands from the colonial rulers - of which direct military recruitment was only one - were often accompanied by administrative and military contraction at the local level.This paper examines the way in which wartime conditions in the Zouaragu (Zuarungu) and Bawku districts of what is now upper Ghana exposed the weakness of the indigenous administrative structure recently constructed by the British. Here, in many instances, chiefs had been imposed, or at least had had their powers qualitatively changed and substantially increased, in societies that were traditionally organized on a kinship basis. The War seemed to provide an opportunity for an overthrow of this structure, which had enabled many of the chiefs to establish harshly exploitative relations with their subjects. An upsurge of disobedience to chiefly orders was followed in the Bongo area by a land dispute which flared into disturbances in which a constable was killed. These disturbances and an incident in the neighbouring Bawku District were taken as a sign of revolt and ruthlessly crushed by a local administration intent on teaching an unforgettable lesson.Governor Clifford in Accra anatomized the inadequacies of administrative control and condemned his officers' brutal response to the disturbances, but offered little in the way of suggestions for the reform of the chieftaincy system despite clear indications that local hostility was directed more against it than against colonial rule per se. Neither were reform proposals forthcoming from the Northern Territories administration. Thus the severity of the British response to popular opposition to chiefly power was a factor in enabling some chiefs to continue as ‘spoilers’ rather than ‘fathers’ of their people even after the introduction of formal Indirect Rule in the 1930s had nominally broadened popular participation in local administration.

scholarly journals Islam and Other Faiths

1999 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-128
Author(s):  
Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Comparative Religion ◽  
Straight Path ◽  
Complete Ignorance ◽  
The People ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

My first reaction to this eminent book of collected articles and lectures givenby Professor Ismail Raji al-Faruqi is one of frustration that I was not able tomeet the man. He died in 1986. I would have loved to have known him, for Ifound in reading this book that so many of his thoughts and ideas coincidedwith my own hopes concerning the future of Islam and its relationship with theother peoples of the Book, especially the Christians. I was a Christian theolegian and teacher until my conversion to Islam in 1986.Professor Ismail's book provides a good cross-section of his contribution tothe study of comparative religion and covers a wide spectrum of interreligiousissues, spanning more than two decades of his work. Essays which deal directlywith other faiths, Christianity and Judaism in particular, were specificallyselected but they should be seen against the background of his huge contributionto the study of religions through his many other eminent publications.Here, the volume concentrates on those aspects of Islam which the Ahl al-Kitab(the People of the Book) have in common rather than their differences.I have long felt that this was the correct way forward. As a former Christianwho initially came to Islam by studying the teachings of Jesus rather than theQur'an, I was always aware of the commonality of the faith and its development through the prophets of Judaism to Christianity, to its deviation throughTrinitarianism, and through the Prophet of Islam who was sent to bring newunderstanding of Tawhid and the way to find the Straight Path to God.Therefore, I was horrified and disturbed when I ran into the walls of hostilityand misunderstanding from all sides-particularly the hostility of Muslimstoward Christians and Jews, theological hostilities and racist ones, too. Muchof this was and is caused by the complete ignorance of the practicing membersof one faith for the others, a situation that will still take years to remedy.However, scholars such as Professor Ismail are trailblazers in this field, and Irepeat my disappointment that I missed knowing him personally.He was a Palestinian, born in 1921, and graduated from the AmericanUniversity of Beirut in 1941; he served as District Governor of Galilee inPalestine. He left Galilee as a refugee in 1948 when Palestine was partitioned; ...

scholarly journals Design logos and trademarks as an innovative element in the expression of the identity of Saudi society: تصميم الشعارات والعلامات التجارية كعنصر ابداعي في التعبير عن هوية المجتمع السعودي

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Majid Mahmoud Sabbagh
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Visual Concept ◽  
Complex Tasks ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Graphic Elements ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Doors

The success of the logos of the institutions depends to a great extent on the achievement of its functional and aesthetic goals, but to be a rich resource that emphasizes its nationality and identity to reach the summit. The commercial, cultural and social institutions in the Kingdom are a source of all directions in all spheres of life. All intellectual, scientific, And religious as it is in this course and is characterized by being an elite elite of the chosen elite of the people of the homeland, or rather this is assumed, as it is assumed to take the hand of the nation to the horizons of visions of the future and open the reins of what is closed from the doors of hope and promoted by the Renaissance in all M The mechanisms of life are both cognitive and practical. They open the way to the mind and pave the way for the workers to enlighten them and raise the level of the living, scientific, developmental and civilized nation. Through these overlapping and complex tasks, we realize the importance of the vision of these institutions. It is necessary to study the graphic elements used in the design of signs and logos that express the identity which is the visual concept of visual and invisible forms, which expresses the behavior of society from the economic, political and social aspects Yeh

Production and Distribution of Knowledge

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Susskind ◽  
Daniel Susskind
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Ownership Protection ◽  
The Way

We arrive now at the theoretical heart of the book. In Chapters 2 and 3 we describe how the professions are changing. In Chapter 4 we explain these changes by reference to the information substructure and developments in technology. In this chapter we draw these observations and arguments together. First we develop a model to show how professional work is evolving. Then, building on all we have said and done so far, we step away from the professions and describe the people and systems that will replace them in the future. In broad terms, our focus in this chapter is on the way that we handle a particular type of ‘knowledge’ in society. We are, of course, not alone in exploring this concept. All manner of scholars have applied their minds to ‘knowledge’ over the centuries. Philosophers, for example, who specialize in epistemology ask such fundamental questions as ‘what is knowledge?’ and ‘how can we know anything?’, or again, ‘of what knowledge can we be certain?’ Sociologists study the connections between knowledge and power, culture, and class. Lawyers handle questions about the ownership, protection, and sharing of knowledge. Information theorists consider the relationships between knowledge, information, and data. We are fascinated by each of these perspectives, but for the most part they fall beyond the scope of our work. Instead, the particular type of knowledge that is our preoccupation is what we introduce in Chapter 1 as ‘practical expertise’. Now we explore this concept in greater detail, looking at how we currently create and share it, and how we might handle it differently in the future. We seek to show, in economic terms, that knowledge has special characteristics that make its widespread and low-cost production and distribution both possible, and desirable, in a technology-based Internet society. Practical expertise, or our conception of it, is the knowledge that is required to solve the sort of problems for which the professions, traditionally, were the only solution—the knowledge that is used to sort out a health worry or resolve a tax problem, for example.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheshire Calhoun
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Actual Time ◽  
The Future ◽  
Time Expenditures ◽  
The Way

This brief conclusion reviews central themes of the book. One central theme is living meaningfully. The book defends the view that meaningful living consists in spending your life’s time on ends that you take yourself, in your best judgment, to have reason to value and thus to use yourself up on. Meaningful living depends not only on what characterizes one’s whole life, but also on one’s actual time expenditures. The book argues that locking in the future by making commitments is not essential to meaningful living; it also explores the connections between meaningful living and boredom. A second theme of the book concerns the difficulties in living life as a temporal evaluator: the vulnerabilities to demoralization, estrangement, boredom, loss of practical hope and basal hopefulness, discontentment, and meaninglessness at the temporally local level. A third theme is the way our lives as evaluators are shaped in important ways by the personal, the nonrational, and optional styles.

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