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Joy and frustration of change

My experience with new Asus PA249G LCD Monitor As was pointed out by reviewers, the main advantages of this semi-professional monitor are qualities of its precalibrated for Adobe RGB and sRGB colour spaces screen. The possibility to rotate the screen and change the length of monitor’s...

The value of flexibility

Normality versus Pathology Normality and abnormality cannot be differentiated objectively. All such distinctions, including the diagnostic categories, are in part social constructions and cultural artifacts. Although persons may be segregated into groups according to explicit criteria, ostensibly lending such classifications the respectability of science, the desire...

The Neurotic Needs

Neurotic needs are compulsive attachments. “The various strategies the child adopts to cope with anxiety can eventually become persistent and irrational needs that cause both neurosis and personality disorder” “Basic anxiety is the foundation of the neurotic personality. Horney identifies ten strategies and corresponding needs that...

The Pride System and False Identification

Neurotic Pride The most important aspect of an idealized image is neurotic pride, a false pride based, not on a realistic view of the true self, but on a spurious image of the idealized self. Neurotic pride is qualitatively different from healthy pride or realistic self-esteem....

Wien, Neubaugürtel

Idolatry and personality disorder

If we are in the habit of making false value-judgments of particular externals, as with those listed by type, we should learn to bear the things falsely valued as bad, and forbear the things falsely valued as good. “Bear and Forbear” – Epictetus Idols Personality Type...

Health impacts of Soviet nuclear tests

U.S. Russia and Kazakhstan secured plutonium before terrorists got it The Post reported Sunday that hundreds of pounds of plutonium, enough for dozens of nuclear weapons, lay buried for years in Kazakhstan at the Semipalatinsk test site after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the...

Russia in Hollywood movies

RIA Novosti – Hollywood has long raised Russians’ hackles over what many see as crude national stereotypes propagated on the screen, including the drunken cosmonaut in the 1998 blockbuster “Armageddon,” which sparked outrage in the Russian parliament. Cyrillic gibberish, anachronisms and Russian phrases that appear to...

Caritas

Caritas is a confederation of 164 Roman Catholic organisations in over 200 countries worldwide (including Austria and Russia). Collectively their mission, according to their statement, is to work to build a better world, especially for the poor. The first Caritas organization was started in Germany in...

Scenario for feature film

Red Poppies of Chu Valley This is the story of Kyrgyz girl who in turbulent time left her impoverished country for West Europe and came through disastrous experiences of emigration escaping grip of sex trade emissaries – to become eventually professional photographer and American world agency...

Women Undressed

One of EU countries – France may soon ban the public wearing of traditional garments of Muslim women – hijab headscarves, niqab veils and paranja robes. The announcement came from the report prepared by the committee of the national parliament. Thirty-two deputies of the committee studied...

Online journalism

In 2009 audiences for online journalism continued to grow. In 2008, for the first time, more people reported getting their national and international news from the internet, rather than newspapers, and audiences to news sites continued to grow due to the launch of new sites, and...

Gender War in Vienna Town Hall

Goldene Wien-Plakette für Johannes Heesters Wien (APA) – Der Erste Präsident des Wiener Landtags, Prof. Harry Kopietz, übergab am Freitag Nachmittag im Wiener Rathaus in Anwesenheit der Wiener Umweltstadträtin Ulli Sima und zahlreichen hochrangigen Gästen aus dem Kulturleben dem beliebten Schauspieler, Sänger und Wien-Liebhaber Johannes Heesters...

Studentenproteste

WIEN-Rund 8.000 Demonstranten beim Urban-Loritz-Platz am Gürtel Tausende Studenten haben am Donnerstag in ganz Österreich für die Verbesserung der Studienbedingungen protestiert. In Wien versammelten sich rund 8.000 Demonstranten am Urban-Loritz-Platz bei der Stadthalle. Auch an anderen Uni-Standorten gingen Hunderte auf die Straße. Das in Wien befürchtete...

Migrants helped Vienna

The migrant businesses helped to prevent many markets from bankruptcy VIENNA-Migrants have helped Vienna to cope with the economic decline, top business experts declared. Hans Arsenovic from Vienna Green Business said at event called “Media.Trade Show.Migration” that migrants’ businesses had helped Vienna to cope with recession...