Whose Beer? Whose City?

Vegas Brews ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 241-258
Author(s):  
Michael Ian Borer

The concluding chapter moves from tragedy to triumph. During the time of writing, the worst mass shooting in US history happened in Las Vegas. It was an event the riveted the nation and shocked the city. It didn’t change the author’s analysis; instead, the way the local craft beer scene responded reinforced what he had found during his time empathetically engaged with the people, places, and things that define the scene. The last chapter ties the strings together and makes a final argument about the socially significant roles of scenes in cities as expressive, voluntary, and public entities.

Author(s):  
Clara Rübner Jørgensen

On the basis of data collected during fieldwork in the city of León, Nicaragua, this article discusses the paradox of many Nicaraguan parents describing their children’s school as being free of charge despite the fact that they are frequently asked to pay for it. The article shows that, in spite of the constitutional definition of education as free and equal for all Nicaraguans, parents are often asked for economic contributions. By analysing the values surrounding the school I suggest that values of responsibility and solidarity influence the way that parents conceptualize their school expenditures and, in relation to this, confirm the status of the school as free. Furthermore, the article describes how Nicaraguan parents often compare the school to their home and describe the relation between teacher and students by using family terms. Inspired by the theory of the American sociologist James Carrier, I argue that this comparison, in addition to the values of responsibility and solidarity, further influences the way Nicaraguan parents and children experience their economic contributions. Finally, I argue that even though the users of the school describe it as free of charge, it remains necessary to recognize its economic aspects, since a lack of recognition can turn out to have important individual and social consequences for the people involved, especially, for the most economically marginalized families.  


Vegas Brews ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 37-66
Author(s):  
Michael Ian Borer

Chapter 1 shows how the specific context of Las Vegas has stunted the growth of the local craft beer scene. The way that context is understood in this case is primarily through the city’s reputation and dominant imagery. The way that people outside of Las Vegas think about Las Vegas affects how people live inside of it. The city’s reputational constraints are exposed through a diagnosis of a condition that affects the way Las Vegas is often (mis)interpreted. I call this the Las Vegas Syndrome. Yet while this dis-ease is most evident on and emanating from the Strip, the Strip plays dual roles as foe and friend to craft beer drinkers.


evacuation of blood occurred at a time when I was in great pain and already despaired of, I might even have died from suppuration. As it was, it was this that saved me, the evacuation of blood. To prove that in this too I am telling the truth, and that I was subjected to illness such as to reduce me to a desperate condition, as a result of the blows I received from these men, read the doctor’s deposition and that of the people who visited me. Depositions [13] So the fact that the blows I received were not slight or insignificant but that I found myself in extreme danger because of the outrageous behaviour and the violence of these people, and so the action I have brought is far less serious than they deserve, this has I think been made clear to you on many counts. And I imagine that some of you are wondering what on earth Konon will dare to say in reply to this. Now I want to warn you about the argument I am informed he has contrived; he will attempt to divert the issue away from the outrage of what was done and reduce it to laughter and ridicule. [14] And he will say that there are many individuals in the city, the sons of decent men, who in the playful manner of young people have given themselves titles, and they call some ‘Ithyphallics’, others ‘Down-and-outs’; that some of them love courtesans and have often suffered and inflicted blows over a courtesan, and that this is the way of young people. As for my brothers and myself, he will misrepresent all of us as drunken and violent but also as unreasonable and vindictive. [15] Personally, judges, though I have been angered by the treatment I have received, my indignation and feeling of having been outraged would be no less, if I may say so, if these statements about us by Konon here are regarded as the truth and your ignorance is such that each man is taken for whatever he claims or his neighbour alleges him to be, and decent men get no benefit at all from their normal life and habits. [16] We have not been seen either drunk or behaving violently by anyone in the world, nor do we think we are behaving unreasonably if we demand to receive satisfaction under the laws for the wrongs done to us. We agree that his sons are ‘Ithyphallics’ and ‘Down-and-outs’, and I for my part pray to the gods that this and all else of the sort may recoil upon Konon and his sons. [17] For these are the men who initiate each other into the rites of Ithyphallos and commit the sort of acts which decent people find it deeply shameful even to speak of, let alone do.

2002 ◽  
pp. 96-96

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-127
Author(s):  
Samira Bashiri

In the present article, an attempt has been made to present a picture of the city of Dezful and to describe the details of the city and the way of life of the people using first-hand sources, and this description, geographical and historical conditions and type of economy And it encompasses the livelihood of the people and provides an overview of the city of Dezful.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Yan Hon Michael Chung

Abstract While the importance of European-style artillery, also called “red-barbarian cannon” by the people of the time, to the Ming-Qing transition (1618-1683) is generally recognized, much less is known about the actual performance of the weapon on the battlefield. Such a dearth of knowledge hinders historians from evaluating the extent of its impact on the Manchu conquest of China. Hoping to fill this gap, this article examines the actual performance of red-barbarian cannon through reconstructing the siege of Jiangyin (1645). Close examination of this episode reveals that, although the Qing army possessed abundant European-style artillery, the absence of appropriate and effective artillery siege tactics greatly constrained the effectiveness of these weapons in siege warfare. Hence, the importance of artillery in the early stage of the Ming-Qing transition (1618-1645) is likely to have been minimal. However, the siege of Jiangyin witnessed a reform of siege tactics in the Qing artillery corps. These newly devised siege tactics enabled the Qing army to capture the city with efficiency by fully utilizing the red-barbarian cannon. The reform greatly enhanced the siege ability of the Qing forces and paved the way for the Qing conquest of China.


2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
Keesin Jeong

The number of medical welfare facilities caring for the elderly with paralysis and dementia has been increasing rapidly because of the change in the way of supporting the elderly, stemming from an increase in the number of the elderly and working couples. These medical welfare facilities are usually installed all over the city and are gradually becoming high-rise. Few inmates are capable of making their own decisions in case of fire at night and when there are no escape routes such as ramps for evacuation, leading to massive casualties. This study aimed to identify problems in evacuation in the medical welfare facilities for the elderly in Goyang city. This city has the largest number of medical welfare facilities for the elderly per unit area. The following strategies could aid in better evacuation: secure ramps or bed escape elevators; the bedrooms of the inmates should have one-hour fire resistance; the stairs should have the structure of an enclosed stairway; the necessary apparatus for evacuation, such as an escape chute, should be installed; and, to conclude, a business agreement with neighboring agencies to help inmates escape during the fire. The state should implement necessary measures to protect the lives and property of the people. Rapid implementation of this proposal is necessary for the evacuation safety of an increasing number of medical welfare facilities for the elderly.


Vegas Brews ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 67-108
Author(s):  
Michael Ian Borer

Chapter 2 emphasizes the importance of both ongoing gatherings and the places that host and play a part in them. The chapter traverses the “aesthetic ecology” of the local Las Vegas craft beer scene, highlighting the key nodes that provide the stages the scene needs to express itself. These nodes are sprawled across the Las Vegas Valley, whereby each place needs to compete to draw people to it outside their respective immediate and nearby neighborhoods. As such, some places, even breweries themselves, have continued to follow the dominant logic of Las Vegas by including video poker atop the bars where they serve their locally and translocally brewed craft beers. This common practice, however, is changing, and some have banded together to help create—through the elevation of taste as an act of resistance—a new cultural logic and aesthetic demeanor for the city


indictment with the Thesmothetai and come into your court. [3] So intolerable did they find the prospect of people striking each other that they even passed the law on slander, which orders those who use any of the prohibited insults to pay a penalty of five hundred drachmas. How severe then should the penalties be on behalf of people who have suffered physical mistreatment, when your anger for the sake of those who have merely experienced verbal insult is evidently so great? [4] It will be amazing if you consider the people who were guilty of outrages under the oligarchy deserving of death but let off people who commit the same offences as they did under democracy. Rather the latter should in justice suffer a more severe punishment. For they are displaying their criminality more blatantly. If someone has the audacity to offend now, when it is not allowed, whatever would he have done when the people in control of the city were actually grateful to people who committed crimes of this sort? [5] Perhaps Lochites will try to make light of the issue, ridiculing the charge and claiming that I suffered no injury from the blows and my arguments are more serious than the events merit. However, for my part, if his actions contained no element of outrage, I should never have come to court. As it is, I have come here to obtain satisfaction not for the general injury sustained from the blows but for the insult and the dishonour. [6] These are the things which should stir the greatest anger in free men and should receive the heaviest punishment. And I see that you, when you convict anyone for sacrilege or theft, do not base your assessment on the magnitude of the theft but condemn all to death alike and believe that people who attempt such crimes should receive the same punishment. [7] You should adopt the same attitude toward people guilty of outrage and consider not whether the injury they inflicted was not severe but whether they broke the law, and punish them not merely for what actually happened but for their character as a whole. [8] You should bear in mind that often before now trivial causes have been the cause of great misfortunes, and in the past some individuals have been driven to such anger by people who dared to strike them that wounds, deaths, exiles and the gravest disasters have resulted. The fact that none of this has happened is not due to the defendant; no, as far as his actions are concerned it has all come about, and it is due to chance and my character that no irreparable calamity has occurred. [9] I think that the way for you to experience the anger which the issue

2002 ◽  
pp. 106-106

Author(s):  
Gerry Flores Arambala

Years after the city of Ozamiz was freed from its previous political power predators, which paved the way for a radicalization of democracy in the city, the advent of COVID-19 pandemic again tested the city's politics. As the disease progressed in the Philippines over the past months, the local government of Ozamiz placed the entire city under strict community quarantine. The strict implementation of the lockdown measure did not meet any contestation from the local population. Despite some people fearing about their welfare, the city's local government ensured everybody of their subsistence and wellbeing. 'Radical means' was the city's attempt to stop the possibility of contagion in the whole vicinity. The radicalization of the city's politics has created a deeper sense of solidarity among the people pushing everyone to help achieve the goals set by its mayor in the fight against COVID-19. This chapter intends to elucidate how the radicalization of Ozamiz city's politics paved the way for a deep sense of solidarity among its population.


Author(s):  
Ya.M. MATROSOV

Formulation of the problem. The hitherto little-known parts of the way of life, teaching andarchitectural and construction activities in the CPC (Ekaterinoslav Technical Courses) are covered. Korobochkin(famous Ukrainian public figure I.M.Truba) (1878−1950); the history of creation of these COURSES, their purpose,personnel of courses, the program of training, its change during the first two years with aspiration to approach toprograms of similar higher Western European countries, surnames of teachers on subjects is added. Brief service andcreative characteristics of teachers for the entire period of the COURSES. By the way, a unique photo of the newbuilding of V.K. Korobochkin's Ekaterinoslav Technical Courses was added to the article, preserved in the author'sarchive, but it was built under the direction of I.M. Truba, according to his project and estimate. Its facade is described.The significance of V.K. Korobochkin’s Ekaterinoslav Technical Courses for the whole of the Dnieper, as the embryoof all technical universities, and later the National University, is given, the advantage of the Courses in this sense isproved. This is documented. In exile, I. M. Truba continues educational and pedagogical activities for the benefit of theMotherland − translates into Ukrainian, highly moral, in the educational sense, fairy tales by European authors,publishes them and sends them to Ukrainian schools. Corresponds with his children to Dnіpropetrovsk, givesinstructions. As an example of his drawing skills, he cites drawings, in 3D-style pencil, of the corners of his homes inexile. Mention is made of his entrance examinations at the Higher School in St. Petersburg, including the Academy ofArts. He also works at Florinsdorfen Lokomotivfabrik and at the architectural and construction company Hestia. Since1924, when he was invited to Czechoslovakia, he has been working as a lecturer at the Ukrainian Academy ofEconomics at the Faculty of Agriculture in Podebrady , reads courses on machine parts, and Resistance materialsaccording to his own textbook, which he compiled in Ukrainian and published at the Academy. On the recommendationof an engineer, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Rector of the Higher Technical University in Prague, Professor ZdenekBazant [20], in 1929 Ivan Mikhailovich Truba was hired as a design engineer and general consultant in the bridge andiron production department of the Skoda Plant. In the city Pilsen. Documents testify to his highly skilled engineeringand creative activity. The list of types of constructive projects executed by I.M. Truba at the enterprise and implementedis given. The chronology in the field of creativity, the era of the Central Council and emigration has been clarified, hisscientific publications and pedagogical and creative activity as a scientist have been added The purpose of the article isto supplement the monograph on the life and work of I.M. Truba and its surroundings. Conclusions. It is known thatduring the Bolshevik rule, in his homeland, Ivan Mikhailovich was considered an enemy of the people (which was notspecified) "as a Ukrainian bourgeois nationalist". Therefore, all his activities were subjected to political anathema.Researched and analyzed archival materials, on the basis of which the conclusion is given − the significance ofI.M. Truba is covered as a person, a citizen − a patriot, namely: the UKRAINIAN PEOPLE. Ivan Mikhailovich'sactivity during his lifetime was distinguished by its versatility, namely: pedagogy, education, political, cultural andsocial activities, national patriotism, writing, architectural construction and scientific creativity.


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