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Todor Kuljić
Post – Yugoslav Memory Culture
– Fascism, Socialism and Revisionism in the new Memory of West Balcan -
C o n t e n t
P r e f a c e
1. Fascism and defascification in Yugoslavia
2. New Remembrance of Fascism: Between Decretory Antifascism and Anti-antifascism
1. Was Tito the Last Habsburg?
Reflections on Tito's Role in the History of the Balkans
2. Yugoslavian self-management system
3. The conditions of the historical processing of the Yugoslav socialism
- in Post-Socialist Regimes
1. The New (Changed) Past as Value Factor of Development
2. The celebrations and the symbolic geography of the West Balkans
3. Remembering Crimes – Proposal and Reactions
4. Reflections on the principles of the critical culture of memory
P r e f a c e
The main content of this book is published in the last 15 years in the domestic and foreign journals and books: Fascism and defascification in Yugoslavia 1998, in S.U.Larsen ed. Modern Europe after Fascism 1943-1980s., Columbia Univ. Press, New York 1998, Vol. I: 828-849; On the Conversion and Self -Consciousness of the Yugoslav Social Science Intelligentsia 2001, in I.Spasić, M.Subotić ed. Revolution and Order, IFDT , Beograd: 369-385; Historiographic Revisionism in Post-Socialist Regimes 2002, in The Balcans Rachomon, Helsinki files 11, Beograd: 7-47; The New (changed) Past as value Factor of Development 2006. Sociologija Vol.XLVIII, No.3: 219-230; Yugoslavia's Workers Self-Management, in A.Szylak,O.Ressler ed.,Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies, Gdansk, Wyspa Institute of Art 2007: 192-198; Was Tito the Last Habsburg ? Balkanistica (University of Mississippi) Vol 20 (2007): 85-100. Remembering Crimes – Proposal and Reactions 2009, in D.Vujadinović, V.Goati ed. Serbia at the Political Crossroads, FES, Belgrade: 197-213. The celebrations and the symbolic geography of the West Balkans 2009. Политичка мисла (Скопје), год.7, бр.27: 97-109.
In Belgrade Oktober 2013. T.K.
1. Fascism and defastification in Yugoslavia
The Main Characteristics of Fascism in the Balkans
In terms of socio-economic development, pre-war Europe can be divided into three regions. First, the most developed capitalist countries with an influential liberal-bourgeois heritage which managed to overcome the inter-war crisis without major difficulties. The second group also consisted of developed countries, but there fascism came to power. Those were imperialist powers under acute threat of a proletarian revolution between the world wars. The third group comprised backward, underdeveloped countries like the Balkans. These were small peasant nations which took their first steps towards industrialisation between the two world wars. The bourgeoisie of these countries consisted of mostly unproductive classes connected with the monarchy, dependent on foreign capital. The working class was not developed, and there were almost no middle classes. Nevertheless, fascism also appeared in those countries, It appeared, partly as monarcho-military dictatorships which used fascist ruling methods between the late 1920s and the early 1930s, but, fascist tendencies were also present in the movements of nationalistic-military and intellectual opposition. In different forms these two patterns of fascism would occur later in the 1940s, when under conditions of German occupation, they were able to merge without conflict and strengthen each other.
Fascism in the Balkans was characterized by its prominent homogenous agrarian origins. Capitalist classes (versus bourgeois classes and the proletariat) were not only weak in numbers, but also had a different status when compared with similar groups in the developed industrial countries of the West. They were far more strongly influenced by the old, semi-feudal ways of rule and behaviour. Class consciousness was blurred by a conservative, patriarchal form of the master-servant relationship. They wcre not only anti-socialist, but also prominently anti-democratic, known for sentiments of reactionary anti-capitalism, patriarcho-conservative criticism of culture and other forms of peasant, romantic and religious ideologies which opposed the rationalism of the West. Occasional threats of a revolutionary, plebeian-proletarian solution of all national and social problems were magnified by the fear of the influence of the October revolution in Russia. The mere vicinity of the Soviet Union gave rise to an extremely reactionary policy and accelerated the emergence of strong, anti-revolutionary movements. Thus, communist parties that were originally legal were banned very early in the Balkans (in Yugoslavia and Romania in 1921; in Bulgaria in 1925 and in Greece in 1936), leaving the illiterate peasantry to the manipulations of the conservative peasant parties. Not only was legal social opposition lacking in the timid Balkan parliaments, but these countries, consisting as they did mainly of rural areas without influential urban centres, did not oppose dictators, being unaware of how to protect their interests in a parliamentary system. Uneducated peasantry was readily attached to a strong leader who, they assumed, combined the characteristics of a father and protector of a nation in a godlike way, and who was an absolute ruler, not an official with limited authority.
In the Balkan states nationalism was the ideological basis not only for fascism, but for nearly all political movements. Thus, in Yugoslavia, the national question was especially acute after the First World War. A majority union of southern Slavs in the Balkans in 1918 was made up of five different although closely related nations, with three religions (Orthodox, Catholic and Moslem), three similar but not identical languages (serbo-Croat, Slovene and Macedonian) and two alphabets (Cyrillic and Latin) in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. These five nations had never been united before and they had different political, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Although the Yugoslav state developed as an axis of resistance against the Habsburg Empire which threatened with magyarisation and germanisation, it was still unable to neutralize nationalistic and separatistic tendencies in the country. Aggressive nationalism took the form of revisionism, separatism and defence of the status quo. Since the Balkan countries were in a state of subjugation in relation to developed imperialist countries, the scope of their nationalisms was restricted, i.e. there was no possibility of solving interior problems by expansion. Therefore, in the country itself, nationalism was extremely active against the peoples on the same soil. There was also another factor which gave strength to nationalism in these countries. The new capitalist classes, the bourgeoisie, the
intelligentsia, the new middle classes and a part of the urban working class, originated from ethnically foreign elements: in Yugoslavia from the Jewish and Cincar "kaishari", in Hungary from Germano-Austrian, Czech or Slovak groups, and in Romania from Hungarian and Saxon groups. Fascism, therefore, played a conclusive role in the formation of nations in an extremely reactionary way; to the bourgeoisie, intelligentsia and middle classes it offered the destruction of parasitism and a new "national" division of privileges, while, with the help of racist propaganda, offering the lower classes a place in national society and with it, the abolition of the anachronistic master-servant relationship. (Lackó 1986:40) In these countries fascism existed without being conspicious, as nationalism was a cover for many different movements. In the ideologies of fascist-type movements, scmi-contemporary and traditional elements of their own historical heritage were interwoven with more modern features of German and Italian fascism, whose principles were often uncritically adopted.
A major difference between fascism in the Balkans and in other European countries was the degree of collaboration from the clergy. Fearing that the workers' movements would lead to revolution, the church collaborated with all anti-communist movements to protect its status and interests. The ideologies of fascist movements collaborating with clerical groups in southeast countries like the Iron Guard in Romania, the Arrow Cross in Hungary, the Ustasha in Croatia, and Zbor in Serbia, developed a religiously mystical character almost resembling that of Christian sects. The prominent religious character of these ideologies made them different from developed fascism which, owing to its broader basis, was able to establish a more independent relationship with the church. However, Balkan fascism encompassed all the typical fascist characteristics like the struggle against bourgeois democracy, Judaism, masonry and communism as well as the glorification of a charismatic leader. A heterogenous combination of religious and fascist contents in the ideologies of these movements received a national, religious or political character, depending on which was the most suitable for gathering the masses under the circumstances, while fascist strategy in these parts was also characterized by both conservative and pseudorevolutionary elements. The underdeveloped countries now had their own middle class fascist followers, though the broader fascist basis still consisted of peasants and members of the working class.
In spite of the fact that some of the regimes in the southeastern European countries were, to a great extent, fascistoid, the fascist movements themselves, though their influence was by no means negligible, were indisputably in opposition to these regimes. In the eyes of bourgeois circles
in power, fascist movements were not reliable keepers of order but breakers of the heavily maintained peace and mobilizers of nearly immovable poor classes. That was the reason why, in these countries, the bourgeoisie in power and the fascist movements did not make alliances until the war. This alliance was the condition needed to establish a fascist state. In fact, in both Italy and Germany, the removal of the "radical" wing within the fascist movement was a requisite for a similar alliance between the more plebeian fascist forces and traditional conservation. In underdeveloped countries there were even greater obstacles. This was probably due to the fact that the revolutionary threat from the working class was weaker here, making authoritarian regimes or military dictatorships efficient enough on their own in their struggle with the left. Even under German occupation, when quislings came to power, the Germans never relied on local fascists anywhere. As a rule, pro-German circles within the bourgeoisie and the anny which exhibited far less radical views in internal affairs were more reliable. Thus, in Romania, the occupying forces relied on general Antoanescu, not on the fascist Iron Guard. In Hungary they relied on admiral Horthy nearly all the time, not on Szalaszi, and in Serbia on general Nedić, not on D. Ljotić. The fascistification of regimes was achieved by other means. Powerful groups from the bourgeoisie and the army made direct or indirect alliances with great fascist powers and oriented their domestic and foreign policy towards fascism. The effects of fascism, however, did not differ much from those in the developed fascist states.2
The Development of the Main Fascist Movements in
Yugoslavia: The "Zbor" and Ustasha Movements
The Yugoslav national movement, the "Zbor" (company), was formed from several profascist organizations and groups at the beginning of 1935. (For the development of "Zbor", see M. Stefanović 1984; B. Gligorijević 1963 and 1965; and for the ideology of "Zbor", T. Kuljić 1974.) Through the unification these fascist movements, which until then had been scattered and acting more or less spontaneously, they obtained a somewhat stronger institutional basis and became more active. The role of these organizations
was primarily to form the core of the cadre preparing to take command after the occupation, while they were of no consequence in the political life of the country until 1941. The German Nazis took great interest in the activities of the "Zbor", and called it the "regenerator of Yugoslavia". The movement had the financial support of some local industrials but drew Genuan subsidy as well. "Zbor" agitated in the country and tried to mobilize as many followers as possible. The emblem of "Zbor" was a shield with a spike and a sword; its followers greeted each other by holding up the right hand to imitate the Nazi salute, and had crosses similar to swastikas on their posters. They emphasized that they wanted to create a 'New order" and promised to take over Nazi ideas and enrich them with religious and local characteristics". Nevertheless, during the existence of "Zbor" in pre-war Yugoslavia D. Ljotic failed to build up a movement with which he could participate in the struggle for parliamentary influence and introduce a fascist programme. "Zbor's" efforts were even unsuccessful after the occupation when its status was reduced to that of subsidiary troops of the quisling pro-German bourgeoisie.
Of all nationalist movements in inter-war Yugoslavia, the Croat Ustasha movement was by far the most fascist. (About the Ustasha movement and state, see the books of B. Krizman 1978, 1983 and 1986; F. Jelic-Butić 1977; L. Hory and M. Broszat 1965.) The Ustasha movement came into existence in an atmosphere of national and social crisis of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia at the end of the 1920s. In opposition to the Yugoslav idea the separatist Ustasha idea of a Greater Croat State was modelled on the ideology of the Croat Party of Law (frankovci) of the 19th century. After the proclamation of the monarcho-dictatorship in 1929, the lawyer Ante Pavelic fled to Austria and became one of the leaders of the Croat antiyugoslav opposition. He came into contact with members of the Frankovci, who had fled from Yugoslavia as early as 1918 and with members of the Macedonian separatistic movement VMRO (The Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation). With Italian fiancial support they established camps for the military training of exiles and members of the Croat Ustasha movement in 1932. Their idea of a Greater Croatia was chiefly based on the territorial importance of the Drina river as "a boundary between the two worlds, East and West", while their ideas for the organization of the state were very unclear at the time of the formation of the movements which took the form of a semimilitary organization with the "Poglavnik" as its leader. In October 1934 the Ustasha assisinated the Yugoslav King Alexander Karadjordjević in Marseille. After this event, under pressure from Yugoslavia, Italy interned Ustasha on the Lipar islands while Pavelić was arrested. At that time a more intensive fascistification of the movement began and the plan for the solution of the Croat question was adopted. Pavelic finished his long report under the title "The Croat Question" in October 1936 and submitted it to the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The main ideas reported there are as follows:
1. Croats are not of Slav but of Gothic origin.
2. Yugoslavia was founded aginst the will of the Croat people and the Versailles Treaty should be abolished.
3. The main enemies of the Croat liberation movement are Serbs, Jews, masons and communists.
4. That is why a nationally strong Croatia should be established, the unity of which is guaranteed by the peasantry and a strong central European cultural tradition.
The day after the coup d'etat in Belgrade, instigated by a pro-British group of army officers who were against the pact signed between Yugoslavia and Germany on March 27th 1941, the Duce received Pavelić which meant, for the Ustasha, that the hour had struck. It seems, however, that the Germans had intended to rely on the old politician Maček, not on Pavelic, after the dismemberment of Yugoslavia. As no agreement had been reached with Maček, Pavelic took office on April 15th 1941. In agreement with the German plan for the partition of Yugoslavia, Italy guaranteed Croat independence. Germany had the key role in the arrangement of political forces in the Balkans and, as the war developed, Mussolini became more and more dependent on Hitler. The Pavelić movement tried to strengthen its leading role by introducing the Ustasha movement into the main state institutions, particularly the army and the public service. It was necessary to infiltrate the administration in accordance on the German and Italian model. This fascistification of Yugoslavia was obviously a direct imitation of the fascist organization of the state, of the party and of the economy in the fascist core countries. The corporative ideas, and the Nazi and anti-semitic laws of a fascists state were introduced, as well as
concentration camps. Poglavnik was the head of state and government, the leader of the movement and the highest military commander. Their aim was "clean Croat living space" and the extermination of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. While the model for the "solution" of the Jewish problem could be found in the racist policy of the Third Reich, the Serb question was more difficult. Serbs accounted for nearly one third of the new "Independent State of Croatia", so they could not simply be exterminated or interned. With the willing help of the Ustasha Catholic clergy, a programme of compulsory mass conversion to Catholicism was carried out in order to achieve a confessionally homogenous population. Catholic clergy were employed as missionaries in the Catholic expansion to the East. This expansion was followed by mass slaughter of Serbs. At the same time in the propaganda it was maintained that Bosnian Moslems were "racially genuine Croats". It was a more primitive and more reactionary way of fascistification than that employed in Germany or Italy. Although the social impact of Balkan and of German fascistification was similar, the difference between them was approximately of the same order as that between a dagger and a gas chamber. In their utopian-reactionary racist ideology and firm intention to develop a pure Croat state, the Ustasha were very similar to the Nazis. It seems that the sources of the differences between them lay mostly in their different levels of development. In the Ustasha movement petty-bourgeois anti-monopolism and anti-communism were less noticeable due to underdeveloped capitalism and the weakness of the local working class. Their possibilities of extending their nationalism to other countries by expansion were small, making the nationalism in the country itself stronger than in the developed, nationally homogeneous fascist countries. That is why the ideology and practice of the Ustasha movement were determined more by national goals than class-war. Thus, the Ustasha model differed from Italian, Hungarian or Austrian fascism, while the unity of national and religious objectives described here shows many similarities with the Romanian Iron Guard.
Because of national antagonism, mainly between the Serbs and the Croats, fascism was able to take root exceptionally easily in Yugoslavia. The ideological transformation of nationalist antagonism into passionate — and even religious — feelings could take place because of the romantic light in which the Serbs and Croats were seen as two absolutely distinct nations, although they did not differ in their language but only in their religion. Antagonism between Orthodox Chritianity and Catholicism became the driving force behind the fascistification in Croatia, while anti-Catholicism in Serbia was of no importance in the same process.
Of all the nationalist forces in pre-war Yugoslavia, the Croat Ustasha movement was the most fascistically inclined. While victorious Serbian nationalism, in the inter-war period, was politically and ideologically oriented towards Western bourgeois democracy, Croat nationalism from the very beginning belonged to the bloc of "late nations" of 1919, so that its natural tendency was towards the leading powers in central Europe (Italy and Germany), which wanted a revision of the Versailles peace treaty. Naturally enough, these plans for revision were not supported by Serb fascists. Both fascist movements were based upon national conservative tradition. Though ideologically similar, the two fascist movements had different concepts of state organization. The Ustasha fervently criticized "unnatural Yugoslav unity" aiming at a reactionary and chaotic re-Balkanization, while the Ljotic followers, on the basis of the tradition of Greater-Serbia, stood for the Yugoslav solution. Even after his defeat in April 1941 Ljotić did not give up this idea, thus differing from general M. Nedić (the chief of the quisling regime in Serbia), who supported the orthodox separatistic ideal of Greater Serbia.
It is noteworthy that both Ljotić's and the Ustasha fascist movements were supported by some active clergy. In Croatia the Ustasha was clearly pro-Catholic and actively reinforced by the church, while in Serbia the bogomils (an order of the Orthodox church) supported Zbor. In both movements the fascistification of religious nationalism was expressed in a romantic glorification of the roots, a return to the rural and pre-capitalist past and in a huge increase in the number of conversions to the Catholic and Orthodox religions. Intolerance was more prominent in the Ustasha movement, based on the thesis that Croats differed deeply from other Slays. A logical consequence was their geopolitical demand for a Croat state as an exclusive living space. In the ideology of both movements it is obvious that their intention was to reconcile a religious outlook of life with characteristic fascist contents most of which were borrowed from Nazism. This was also true of the organization of the party and later of the occupational quisling state administration for which the German, rather than the Italian example, was followed. In general, there was more fascistification in Croatia than in the "Serbian peasant community country"; the fascist movement was stronger there and fascism penetrated more state institutions. (For more details see F. Jelic-Butić 1977.) It seems that the role played by the followers of Ljotic was less important in Serbia due to the ethnically more homogenous population. Revanchism, which was an excuse for genocide, was also stronger in the Ustasha movement. Pavelić intended to create an ethnically and racially pure Croatia, which meant the exter-


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DMichigan Speedy Appliance RepairArrived 1.5 hours after the appointment time. The tech didn't really seem to know how to fix the machine, tried a few different things & we finally decided to order a new motor. When he left, he said the machine was fixed enough to use. It was not. We really made more progress googling the problem. Tech came back to install the motor a week later with a bad attitude. Installed the motor, played with the machine a bit, said it was fixed. Not 10 minutes later, I tried to run a load of laundry through. The machine stopped mid-cycle & would not restart. Needless to say, it was not fixed. Called the company - you rarely get a live person. Usually have to leave a voice mail & hope for a return call. Because the machine was clearly not fixed, we asked for a refund. We were told a month ago that it would be process and we would receive an email confirming the refund & details. Nothing. A couple weeks ago, we were told the refund would be processed, check in the mail on Monday. Nothing. Do not hire this company. Stay far, far away.- Lori P.
AAppliance Doctor ServiceOur dishwasher would not run and the control panel did not light up. We called on November 8 and got an appointment for the following day. Mark came out during the window given and quickly diagnosed that there was a blown fuse. As we had an older model, the part did have to be ordered and came in over the weekend. On the 12th, Mark was back inside of the promised service window to replace the fuse and we now have a working appliance again.- Otis V.
AEast Coast MechanicalFirst service call found the problem. Parts got ordered and came in a timely matter. Second call finished the job. The work was done well and within the stated time frame The work area was left clean and in good order. All is working fine again. Thank you.- James M.
CFamily Heating Cooling & Electrical IncWhen I made the appointment I explained in detail the problem (gas leak) and requested the dispatcher to make sure the repair include new flexible gas line hose. The dispatcher said that the service trucks always have those parts . When repairman came he did not have the hose and said he normally does not carry that part in his truck. He said he would have to reschedule. I needed the gas leak fixed asap so I had him do repair without the new hose I had requested. This issue could have been avoided if the dispatcher had noted on the work order that I wanted a replacement flex hose. I have been using Family Heating for 25 years and this is the first time I have been less than happy with their service.- Paul C.
ADETROIT EDISON COI have a contract with them, some type of insurance policy. If it's something to do with my heating and AC, I have something set up where they come out and fix it for free. The price is included in my monthly payments.- Marchelle S.
AHOMELINE APPLIANCEExcellent. I was in a bind because we had sold our house and the washer was included in the sale so it needed to be fixed before we moved in 4 days. They were extremely understanding and made it over the same day. Even though the service was great the technician was a good person too. He allowed my 4 year old to stand there and ask questions, help with holding tools and look at the repairs as he worked. So awesome when you find people like this that take pride in what they do and how they do it.- Jason P.
CBill & Rod's Appliance Incthis is an addendum to my previous post--all of which is still true, but I just received a written apology from a manager of Bill and Rods and a check for $10. Because of this I have upcoded my ratings. Having management acknowledge the problem and apologize for the issues goes far in my book. Still not sure if I'd use their services again, but this gesture does show me that someone over there is a professional and cares about customer satisfaction.- Mary Anne B.
DBill & Rod's Appliance IncOk, I know my garbage disposal probably needed to be replaced, and I also had the guy look at my washing machine that was shaking. And I also know service calls aren't cheap, that's not the issue. The problem first started when I call for appt.and they couldn't give me a definite one on the day I first ask for so I had to cancel. I rescheduled and specifically asked for an afternoon appt, and then called a second time with make and model of washing machine and again repeated that I needed an afternoon appt--the the guy said that should be no problem. Well, on the morning of the appt.they called in the morning (as they said they would) and told me the guy would be out between 9 am and 12--I don't know where they are from (Australia maybe?), but here in Michigan 9 am is not and never has been considered "afternoon". I explained that to person on the phone they just restated that that was the schedule. I said ok, but I was in Ann Arbor at the moment and it would take me at least 30 mins. to drive home from there. She offered to have repair guy call me 30 mins.before he was to arrive. So, you guessed it, he called at almost exactly 9 am (if I was waiting at home for him he probably wouldn't have gotten there until 12--lol). I then booked it from AA and got there within 30 mins and he was waiting there (he said he just got there). Hi looked at disposal for about 5 mins and said because it was leaking at reset button it couldn't be fixed and had to be replaced. He then went downstairs and luckily all the washing machine needed was to have the legs adjusted--which took another 10 mins or so. He gave me the bill and I wrote a check for $70 apprx. and he said he'd order the disposal and I asked how much it would be and he said around $100 --I priced disposals and the ones I looked at were around $80. To be fair, I did tell him to order it but after he left I was thinking--he was at my house for 15 mins for freakin sake. He could have gone to Home Depot or Lowes or Menards and gotten a disposal (it's not like they are custom built machines for heaven's sake) come back, installed it and still have only taken maybe 1.5 hrs. So, I decided to order one from Amazon (was only $75) and have a friend install it. The topper is I got a call this morning from Bill and Rods saying part was in--I told them I didn't need it as I order on myself and hung up. Then I got a call back saying they would have to charge me $20 for ordering the part that I wasn't going to use. I didn't argue, I just told then "fine, but I would never every use their service again" $20 really? Again, it's not like I ordered a custom made purple with green stripe sofa that no one else in their right mind would want and then told them "nevermind". I'm sure someone in the tri-county area will need a garbage disposal of that make sometime in the next month or so. So, I'd advise everyone to avoid this company inless you enjoy getting fleeced.
- Mary Anne B.
ABill & Rod's Appliance IncI was impressed with the person who answered the phone- he had me scheduled for Saturday but said he would keep my number with him and call if there were any cancellations for Friday. On Friday, I was called and they could get me in. They came within the hour and the serviceman knew what was wrong with my fridge right away. It was short and easy. I also appreciated he was friendly with my nosy cat.
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After looking at the stove he concluded it needed a new ignitor. After asking the year of the stove and if it was worth spending the money, he was very honest with me and suggested I put the money towards a new stove. The stove is about 15 years old and the ignitor was about half the price of what a new stove would cost. He did not try and push me to spend more money to try and repair an already old stove that may not last too much longer anyway.
As far as the washer, I asked if he could put a longer hose on it where the water drains out since it was shooting water all around my utility sink and washing machine. He was able to find something in his van that could be used as an extension and at no charge.
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Thursday, 03 December 2015 12:01 PM
San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan identified the suspects as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27. Both fled the scene of the shooting, a social services center, and were later killed by police in a daytime gun battle in a nearby residential neighborhood.
"At this stage we do not yet know why this terrible event occurred," Obama told reporters in the Oval Office. "It is possible that this was terrorist-related but we don't know. It is also possible that this was workplace-related."
Farook had been employed by San Bernardino County for five years, most recently as an environmental specialist, and had worked with some of the victims, who were attending a holiday party at the center.
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Farhan Khan, Farook's brother-in-law, told reporters he didn't know what may have driven the couple to attack, at a news conference after the shooting organized by the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California.
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"We devote enormous resources -- and properly so -- to rooting out networks and debilitating organizations like ISIL, and maintaining the intelligence and improving the information- sharing that can identify those who would try to kill innocent people," he said in Paris. "And yet, in the United States, we have the power to do more to prevent what is just a regular process of gun homicides."
In July, a gunman named Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez killed four Marines and a Navy petty officer at a Chattanooga, Tenn. recruiting facility. That incident was the last time Obama addressed a mass shooting from the Oval Office.
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A custom in China, Ang Pao is a red envelope containing a monetary gift given during holidays or special occasions that have become a recognisable Filipino symbol during Christmas and New Year.


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Internship studies at Yeditepe University Civil Engineering Department consists of two stages: Construction Site Internship (CE 300) to be done at the end of the Sophomore Year and Office Internship (CE 400) to be done at the end of the Junior Year.
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Students cannot do internship in the institutions / companies belonging to first degree relatives.
Students cannot do internship in any institution under the supervision of their first degree relatives.
The insurance of the student during the internship will be undertaken by the University in accordance with the relevant regulation. Voluntary internship activities that are carried by the student's own initiative and that are not being insured by the university, cannot be considered as compulsory internship.
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Residence (available from e-devlet)
Health provision information sheet (available at https://esgm.sgk.gov.tr/Esgm/ by following the inquiry-health provision steps)
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Notes to be considered while filling the internship diary;
- The extent of information required in the diary will be based on the internship activities you carry out.
- In general, based on your observations (you do not have to do the job yourself), you can talk about processes, job descriptions.
- Internship diary will be written using MSWord or word processor software and will be delivered as a report in a spiral bound. Hand-written internship diaries or internship diaries that are otherwise bound cd /or delivered in folder-file will not be accepted.
- Internship diary will be written in English. However, you can express some of the terms in Turkish with the English explanation, if it is difficult to find an equivalent term. Printouts from the computer can be attached/glued where necessary.
- An Internship Evaluation Form, which can be downloaded from the link below, will also be filled out by the internship institution/company, signed and stamped and will be delivered to the student by the intitution/company in sealed envelope. Internship diaries of the students whose Internship Evaluation Form is missing are not accepted.
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by Tobias Wolff ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 28, 2008
An impressive range of contemporary experience is distilled into crisp, urgent little dramas in this story collection from Wolff (Old School, 2003, etc.).
The book features 21 previously published stories and ten new stories. A number of the entries, Wolff notes, have been slightly revised for the purposes of the collection. Troubled families are a recurring subject: "The Liar," for example, concerns a teenaged boy whose compulsive prevarications are both defense mechanisms and strategies for achieving a necessary maturity, and the beautifully paced, Cheever-like "The Rich Brother" depicts the frustrating bond between two contrasting adult siblings. Wolff reaches convincingly beyond the quotidian in a sinuously plotted tale about three men ("Hunters in the Snow") whose taunting horseplay whiplashes into an explosion of rage and violence, and an equally tense account of an underachieving career soldier whose screw-ups are echoed in varied relationships with his buddies, superior officers and married girlfriend ("Soldier's Joy"). Even when comic detail predominates, these are dark visions, animated and accelerated by a sense of ever-present danger and general unconcern (e.g., a hitchhiker passed by cars bearing numerous different state license plates "felt like the whole country had turned its back on him"). Both the new and old stories display Wolff's versatility: his mastery of oddly angled viewpoints ("Her Dog"); an incisive understanding of how inchoate teenage emotion can distract and alienate ("Deep Kiss"—which compares quite interestingly with "The Liar"); and a potent grasp of how lives replete with event and adventure may expand generously when touched by others' lives ("A Mature Student").Richard Yates, Raymond Carver and Robert Stone are the modern masters whom Wolff most resembles. Like their best work, his own exhibits classic richness and depth, and it's built to last.
Pub Date: March 28, 2008
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Knopf
Review Posted Online: May 20, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2008
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by Emily St. John Mandel ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2020
A financier's Ponzi scheme unravels to disastrous effect, revealing the unexpected connections among a cast of disparate characters.
How did Vincent Smith fall overboard from a container ship near the coast of Mauritania, fathoms away from her former life as Jonathan Alkaitis' pretend trophy wife? In this long-anticipated follow-up to Station Eleven (2014), Mandel uses Vincent's disappearance to pick through the wreckage of Alkaitis' fraudulent investment scheme, which ripples through hundreds of lives. There's Paul, Vincent's half brother, a composer and addict in recovery; Olivia, an octogenarian painter who invested her retirement savings in Alkaitis' funds; Leon, a former consultant for a shipping company; and a chorus of office workers who enabled Alkaitis and are terrified of facing the consequences. Slowly, Mandel reveals how her characters struggle to align their stations in life with their visions for what they could be. For Vincent, the promise of transformation comes when she's offered a stint with Alkaitis in "the kingdom of money." Here, the rules of reality are different and time expands, allowing her to pursue video art others find pointless. For Alkaitis, reality itself is too much to bear. In his jail cell, he is confronted by the ghosts of his victims and escapes into "the counterlife," a soothing alternate reality in which he avoided punishment. It's in these dreamy sections that Mandel's ideas about guilt and responsibility, wealth and comfort, the real and the imagined, begin to cohere. At its heart, this is a ghost story in which every boundary is blurred, from the moral to the physical. How far will Alkaitis go to deny responsibility for his actions? And how quickly will his wealth corrupt the ambitions of those in proximity to it? In luminous prose, Mandel shows how easy it is to become caught in a web of unintended consequences and how disastrous it can be when such fragile bonds shatter under pressure.A strange, subtle, and haunting novel.
Pub Date: March 24, 2020
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Knopf
Review Posted Online: Nov. 25, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 15, 2019
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by N.K. Jemisin ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 24, 2020
This extremely urban fantasy, a love/hate song to and rallying cry for the author's home of New York, expands her story "The City, Born Great" (from How Long 'Til Black Future Month, 2018).
When a great city reaches the point when it's ready to come to life, it chooses a human avatar, who guides the city through its birthing and contends with an extradimensional Enemy who seeks to strike at this vulnerable moment. Now, it is New York City's time to be born, but its avatar is too weakened by the battle to complete the process. So each of the individual boroughs instantiates its own avatar to continue the fight. Manhattan is a multiracial grad student new to the city with a secret violent past that he can no longer quite remember; Brooklyn is an African American rap star–turned–lawyer and city councilwoman; Queens is an Indian math whiz here on a visa; the Bronx is a tough Lenape woman who runs a nonprofit art center; and Staten Island is a frightened and insular Irish American woman who wants nothing to do with the other four. Can these boroughs successfully awaken and heal their primary avatar and repel the invading white tentacles of the Enemy? The novel is a bold calling out of the racial tensions dividing not only New York City, but the U.S. as a whole; it underscores that people of color are an integral part of the city's tapestry even if some white people prefer to treat them as interlopers. It's no accident that the only white avatar is the racist woman representing Staten Island, nor that the Enemy appears as a Woman in White who employs the forces of racism and gentrification in her invasion; her true self is openly inspired by the tropes of the xenophobic author H.P. Lovecraft. Although the story is a fantasy, many aspects of the plot draw on contemporary incidents. In the real world, white people don't need a nudge from an eldritch abomination to call down a violent police reaction on people of color innocently conducting their daily lives, and just as in the book, third parties are fraudulently transferring property deeds from African American homeowners in Brooklyn, and gentrification forces out the people who made the neighborhood attractive in the first place. In the face of these behaviors, whataboutism, #BothSides, and #NotAllWhitePeople are feeble arguments.Fierce, poetic, uncompromising.
Pub Date: March 24, 2020
Page Count: 448
Publisher: Orbit
Review Posted Online: Nov. 25, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 15, 2019
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Nonprofits are engaging the next generation of donors with a mix of updated fund-raising methods.
Nonprofits are targeting the next generation of donors by hosting more and more events that appeal to a younger crowd. From keeping tickets reasonably priced to hosting happy hours, here are some strategies for wooing young patrons and forming lasting relationships with them.
Offer attainable—but strategic—sponsorship levels.
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In New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art's annual gala has an after-hours event known as the Studio Party. The event draws a core audience of donors in the 25- to 40-year-old age range. For general admission tickets, "it seems as though $250 per ticket is the outer limit," says Gina Rogak, the museum's director of special events.
Some events for young professionals come with even lower ticket costs. In San Francisco, the Glide Legacy Gala, held in support of the nonprofit Glide, charges $85 for general admission tickets and $150 for V.I.P tickets. And in Chicago, the Shedd Aquarium's annual auxiliary board event, dubbed Blu, offers tickets for $125 to $150.
But planners caution against selling new patrons short. For the Studio Party, donors can opt to purchase $500 tickets, which come with premiums such as sponsor gifts or rare experiences (think a private photo shoot with an artist at the event). "You should always have a higher-priced ticket," Rogak advises. "Believe it or not, some people just want to give more."
Katie Law, senior director of donor relations for special events at the Shedd Aquarium, says that the price of admission to Blu vacillated for a few years. "Our ticket costs have ranged from $100 to $175 for regular admission over the last five years," she says. "We saw higher guest counts when we dropped to $100 per ticket, but made a strategic decision to offer $125 early bird tickets and $150 regular tickets to appeal to audiences that might become, and remain, long-term supporters of the aquarium versus those looking for an inexpensive event ticket. It's a delicate balance."
Explain why their involvement matters.
For a better chance of turning first-time party guests into long-term supporters, planners need to make sure to educate guests—even as they eat, drink, dance, and socialize—about the event's cause.
The education oftentimes starts with messaging leading up to the event. On the invitation for the Whitney Museum's Studio Party and in social media prompts promoting the benefit, "we always message where guests' money is going," Rogak says. But once patrons are at the museum, "the expectation is that guests will have a visceral reaction to the art itself, and especially to the younger artists," Rogak says. "We hope this is something they will want to support and be a part of [for the long term]."
At the Glide Legacy Gala, perks for V.I.P. ticket holders this year included typical sponsor amenities—such as access to reserved areas and specialty cocktails—as well as a private meeting with the organization's founders. That way guests could learn more about Glide's efforts to assist the San Francisco community in a one-on-one setting.
Reach out with an advisory board.
Not all potential donors will be able to meet privately with an organization's figurehead, however. Many nonprofit planners stress the importance of forming a strong advisory board to help educate young professionals about an organization's cause.
"We rely on our auxiliary board members to be ambassadors of our mission," Law says. "When they're encouraging their networks to purchase tickets to Blu, they explain what these important funds support, [such as] Shedd's animal care, learning programs, and conservation efforts." This year's event drew approximately 1,050 guests.
Host casual events.
It doesn't necessarily take a lavish gala to engage new donors. Some nonprofits, including museums and other cultural institutions, opt to showcase their venues at casual events that lure the after-work crowd.
The Lyric Opera of Chicago hosted a new event series in July known as "Lyric After Hours." The free events invited guests to stop by the Lyric's Civic Opera House after work on Wednesday evenings for live music, specialty cocktails, and small plates available for purchase. "We were hoping to attract a business crowd from the surrounding area," says Lisa Middleton, the opera's director of marketing. Some 600 guests attended the first event and represented a mix of summer associates, young professionals, and executives from nearby companies.
Once at the opera house, guests could engage with the organization by chatting with staffers about upcoming events, touring the opera house, and signing up for mailing and email lists to keep abreast of future events. "There were also season brochures for individuals to pick up, and we had a video loop running, promoting all of the upcoming productions," Middleton says.
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