The Jubilee Calendar

I propose that the jubilee legislation intended to provide an alternative calendar system to replace the prevailing one, based on the year of the reigning monarch. In that alternative calendar, the Day of Atonement on which the jubilee was declared was to serve as the substitute for the date of the king’s accession to the throne. This proposal provides a new interpretation of Lev 25:20–22 and resolves multiple difficulties on the alignment of the sabbatical and jubilee year-counts. It implies that the jubilee cycle was intended to be forty-nine years long, with coincidence of the jubilee fallow and that of the seventh sabbatical year.

MEMETIC COMMEMORATIONS: REMIXING FAR-RIGHT VALUES IN DIGITAL SPHERES

Memes are efficient tools for far-right activism. They also offer a window into the reactionary values expressed by far-right constituents in digital spheres. In this paper, we conceptualize memes as a meeting place between the values of the far-right and the values characterizing memetic communication on social media. We examined this process through the lens of Schwartz’s theory of basic human values and a case study from Italy. Specifically, we focus on a photo-based meme genre that we named “alternative calendar commemorations.” These memes memorialize events or figures that are key to the imaginary of the far-right. As expected, we found strong appeals to collectivistic values such as patriotism and tradition. However, we also found a partial re-negotiation of the collectivistic values of the far-right through some of the individualistic values intrinsic to memes. In conclusion, we discuss the implications of this new amalgamation between context-specific far-right values and those embedded in the globalizing format of digital memes.

CONTINUOUS SCHEDULING IN CONDITIONS OF MASS WELL CONSTRUCTION. PART 2

In the first part of the work, a model of continuous scheduling of the construction of a group of wells using dedicated labor resources and technical means was described. A multi-stage combinatorial algorithm for finding an effective work schedule based on dynamic programming and aggregation methods is proposed. This part uses a simple numerical example to analyze the practical effectiveness of combinatorial search algorithms depending on the availability of information about the flow rate of new wells. It is characteristic that the calendar plans obtained with the help of software-implemented combinatorial search algorithms are consistent with the generally understood methods of drawing up "manual" schedules. This fact makes it possible to reduce the dimension of combinatorial analysis problems in a controlled way. A multiplicative formula for calculating the well construction time is proposed taking into account its complexity and the skills of the drilling crew. Quantitative performance indicators are formulated that allow the selection of alternative calendar plans. The screening procedure for “clone” solutions using the Hamming distance matrix is described.