“The devil is in the details”: S.M. Kirov’s emergent leadership and its elimination

On the basis of historiography, a comparative socio -psychological review of political biographies and personal characteristics of Stalin and Kirov is carried out. A number of new sources were used: the correspondence of the Bolsheviks, the stenotech of Trotsky’s counter-process, and journalistic investigations. The system of indirect various data presented in favor of the version of Stalin’s participation in the organization of the murder of Kirov and qualitatively and quantitatively clearly outweighs the set of indirect arguments from the opposite point of view. The removal of Kirov was the initial stage of the forced rotation of the first generation of the Bolshevik political elite. The crime was a stain of Stalin, which eventually killed him mentally.

Implementation of Tensorflow in the CCTV-Based People Counter Application at PT Matahari Department Store, Tbk

Counting the number of visitors (people counter) is an activity carried out in many retail stores. This information, although very simple and basic, can be used as one of the main bases for making decisions. In the past, PT Matahari Department Store, Tbk (MDS) has calculated the number of visitors manually with an accuracy of around 90%. The purpose of this research is to design an automated people counter system using the existing CCTV video networks in MDS stores. The research methodology used is data collection methods in the form of literature studies and interviews, and systems development methods in the form of prototyping. The system uses Tensorflow to recognize visitors who enter and leave the store. This system is a prototype and is used as a proof of concept for MDS to make decisions regarding the application of appropriate technology in carrying out the people counter process along with the things that need to be prepared if this system is to be implemented thoroughly in all MDS stores in Indonesia.

A NEW ASPECT OF CULTURAL DIFFUSION

The article analyzes the problem of the ratio of everyday and specialized culture. We consider the division of culture into two levels: specialized and ordinary, the variants of cultural diffusion, and indicate the directions of distribution of cultural flows, while noting the beginning of the counter process of penetration of ordinary ideas into specialized ones. It is assumed that specialized knowledge, in constant contact with the knowledge of representatives of ordinary culture, loses its integrity and begins to include elements of its representations, which stands out as a new aspect. The term "cultural paradox" is proposed to be used for naming the specific socio-cultural situation. Conclusions are drawn about the need to pay attention to the subject in question in order to influence the current socio-cultural situation in society.

Immigrant Tastemakers

Since the 1970s, Marcella Hazan, Lidia Bastianich, and other immigrant cookbook writers and cooking show hosts reconfigured the geographical and class imagination of Italian food in the United States. They created a new transnational discourse about food localism, memory, taste, pleasure, and the special knowledge and integrity of independent producers as a virtuous alternative to corporate food industry. During a transition to a new, post-Fordist, flexible regime of consumption, these immigrants were welcomed by a cultural industry eager to let them promote “real Italian food” among a growing cosmopolitan class of Americans who were avid consumers of “authentic” foreign and ethnic cuisines. They were protagonists in a counter-process of Europeanization of American culture and taste that challenges the established notion of the Americanization of postwar Europe.

Some remarks on a counter process

In 1968 Lampard determined some limit distributions for a counter process in which the input and output are independent Poisson processes. In 1974 Phatarfod dealt with the generalizations of Lampard's formulas for the case when the input and output form a bivariate Poisson process; however, his reasoning is erroneous. The object of this paper is to determine the correct limit distributions for the generalized process.

Some remarks on a counter process

In 1968 Lampard determined some limit distributions for a counter process in which the input and output are independent Poisson processes. In 1974 Phatarfod dealt with the generalizations of Lampard's formulas for the case when the input and output form a bivariate Poisson process; however, his reasoning is erroneous. The object of this paper is to determine the correct limit distributions for the generalized process.