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Toronto Perestroika in the ITI
Authors: Rubin Don
Published: June 2023

There are two ways to publicly complain about theatre issues – hassle the government or governments involved or complain to the United Nations. Hassling the government is easy. We’ve all done it in one way or another. Going through the U.N. is harder but infinitely more interesting. Not that I recommend it as a regular practice (unless you’re into frustration as a fetish) but now that the U.N. – in the guise of the International Theatre Institute of Canada – is getting active once again in national theatre matters, it does seem a particularly appropriate time to try to explain the procedure.
All the Bright Company: Radio Drama Produced by Andrew Allan, Image in the Mind: CBC Radio Drama 1944 to 1954
Authors: Fink Howard , Jackson John , Frick N. Alice , Goodwin Jill Tomasson
Published: June 2023

On 23 January 1944 at nine p.m. EST, audiences across the country tuned their radios to hear the first in a series of CBC radio dramas, dramas written by and produced for Canadians. Twenty-nine minutes and forty seconds later, the play (aptly titled 29:40) finished, surprising and delighting CBC listeners: Canadian radio finally sounded as slick and professional as any program broadcast from the United States. Over the next few months, mail poured into CBC offices across the country, making the new national radio drama series, Stage ‘44, a resounding success.
Non-Traditional Casting: Its Future in Toronto
Authors: Stolk Jini
Published: June 2023

Gelato fresco. Alfred Sung. Caribana. Toronto’s not the city it used to be. A flow of immigrants from every corner of the world has enlivened and enriched our lives. By the 1960s, Torontonians of British background were no longer in the majority, having been joined by large numbers of Portuguese, Italians, Greeks, Poles, and Ukrainians. Since then, newer immigrants from Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Philippines have literally changed the face of the city. Our society now reflects a potpourri of backgrounds and cultures, which have transformed Toronto into a vibrant and fascinatingly complex place to live. This enormous change is obvious almost everywhere – on the streets, in places of work, restaurants, shops and schools.
Playwriting and Production: Late Night Reflections on Another Morning: The Drama of Japanese Canadians
Authors: Miki Roy
Published: June 2023

For a number of years I have worked in the movement to redress the injustices suffered by Japanese Canadians interned during the 1940s. It has been a political struggle for justice, but many of us who grew up in the shadow of internment also view Redress (with a capital R) as a narrative journey: the effort to reclaim history coincides with the desire to tell that history through the perceptions of the victims. Often at a public forum or in a classroom, after speaking on Redress, someone Canadian-born will inevitably come up to me and confess ignorance of the abuse of Japanese Canadians. Usually these will be educated individuals who have passed through the Canadian school system without encountering this historic event of Canadians so grossly maligned by their own government. Some have even expressed anger with their educational system for withholding this part of Canadian history. On the other hand, others who have some knowledge of the internment will counter Redress with the conventional apologetic view – “Yes, the internment was a terrible event but given the hysteria of the times, given the security threat, it had to be done, etc. etc. etc. “ In my own despair, I have often felt as if some big propaganda machine in the sky was purposefully trying to erase from collective memory the dispossession of an entire group of individuals victimized by racism and political opportunism, and when this was not possible, at least implant a sugar-coated rationalization. Canadians do not like to think that they are capable of the same bigotry they like to condemn in other countries.
Neptune’s Shine Boy and Black Theatre in Nova Scotia
Authors: Brunner Astrid
Published: June 2023

Shine Boy was genuinely homegrown. It was the first play ever commissioned from a Black playwright for production by a predominantly Black cast in one of Atlantic Canada’s mainstream theatres. Playwright George Boyd was born and bred in Halifax. The hero of his play, triple world champion George Dixon, was from Halifax. Most of the cast, both Black and White, was initially trained in the Maritimes and many still live there. (For some of these actors this production marked their first professional challenge.) The only exceptions were lead Douglas Richardson, a Black ex-Canadian jazz musician from Los Angeles and New York, designers Bill Chesney and Stephen Ross, and director Lorne Kennedy.
No Place to Go … Black Theatre in Canada
Authors: Hood Sarah
Published: June 2023

“There is no Negro Ensemble in Canada. There is no Black Theatre in Canada, there is no Free Southern Theatre in Canada. There is no Black theatre that has the financing, a permanent place, and an audience in Canada.” This statement by Toronto actress Sandi Ross points to the fact that there is no fully professional theatre company dedicated to producing Black Theatre.
Coming to Our Senses: Notes from the Labrador Creative Arts Festival
Authors: Borlase Tim
Published: June 2023

On 28 November, 1987, the 12th Labrador Creative Arts Festival ended with a plea by the narrator of Basque Whaler in the Basement, the production from Red Bay, “to maintain and preserve fully our identity, our heritage, our local traditions, our customs and our cultures.” It was a fitting way to end the Festival involving 3,000 Labrador adults, students and teachers from 19 schools and 15 isolated communities across northeastern Labrador. The statement articulated the overriding principles of the Festival. This small community on Labrador’s south coast, found to contain archaeological evidence of Canada’s oldest whaler settlement — a Basque whaling site – wants to play a part in its being declared a national historic site.
Shine Boy
Authors: Boyd George Elroy
Published: June 2023

(The sound of wind comes up. There is smoke and “ghost” music.)
Guysborough, N.S. Mulgrave Road Ten Years After
Authors: Knowles Richard Paul
Published: June 2023

The Mulgrave Road Co-op celebrated it s tenth anniversary in 1987-88 through a series of workshops and a fall production, both entitled Ten Years After, and through a series of new initiatives introduced by incoming artistic director Chistopher Heide under the heading” Rural Delivery.” Heide has been associated with the Co-op as playwright and as a sort of eminence gris at Co-op meetings for most of its history, and his “Rural Delivery” program articulates a vision for the future that begins with a return to and celebration of the Co-op’s roots in the small towns and villages of Northeastern Nova Scotia. The program involves a detailed discussion and review of the structure, policies and artistic direction of the company, which is being undertaken at regular meetings involving as broad a base as possible of co-op and community members; but its basic philosophy is creatively articulated in Heide’s 1987-88 Artistic Director’s letter, selections from which are worth quoting from at length:
Budapest, Hungary Reflections of Leacock in Budapest
Authors: Kiiitosi Katalin
Published: June 2023

In 1987 the Theatre of the Moon (A Hold Szinháza) of Budapest revived its adaptation of Stephen Leacock’s Sorrows of a Super Soul, which it first staged in 1984. The show was part of the centenary celebrations of the birth of Frigyes Karinthy, the translator who introduced Leacock to Hungary in 1926.
Quebec Voices, Three Plays
Authors: Wallace Robert , Godin Jean Cleo
Published: June 2023

The cover design is probably the most astonishing I have ever seen. Colourful, to say the least: red and yellow, blue and green letters of various sizes and styles, plus a floating black rectangle and tiny pink dots on a grey background. The title is a bit confusing, and readers take a while to understand that the book presents three plays by Quebec writers in their English translations. The idea, perhaps, suggests visually what Québécois theatre is to Canadian audiences: sharp, colourful, modern and fanciful. But my feeling about the cover design is that, in French or in English, too much is too much!
Critical Questioning
Authors: Leonard Paul
Published: June 2023

I used to think that the problem with theatre criticism in Canada was a shortage of competent critics. Part of my reason for thinking this was the frequency with which I found myself disagreeing with the reviews and articles I read in the popular press. But in analyzing the situation of theatre criticism in this country, I have come to the conclusion that the problem is not one of personnel. Rather, the very activity of criticism – not just theatre criticism, but criticism of all the arts – is itself increasingly problematic. Whether individual reviewers are conscious of it or not, criticism has undergone a severe crisis over the past couple of decades, a crisis which is born out of the increasing fragmentation of the world. This fragmentation, inasmuch as it is both a cause and a symptom of the decay of established systems of legitimation, contributes to what has become the contemporary buzz-word: postmodernism. How is the theatre critic to write in a postmodern culture? While the question may seem trivial to some, for me it summarizes the very serious crisis facing criticism today.
Deadpan
Authors: Wilson Ann
Published: June 2023

“Deadpan” is the title of an episode of the American television series Murder, She Wrote, which was aired May I, 1988. Set at the premiere of a young playwright’s first play, the episode concerns two influential theatre critics whose intensely antagonistic relationship has overtaken theatre as the focus of their reviews, which have become mere occasions for personal sniping at each other. The Angela Lansbury character in the show, Mrs. Fletcher, becomes involved in their situation when, along with the two of them, she attends the premiere of the play which is based on one of her novels. As viewers of the series will know, her presence at an event usually signals the imminent murder of someone else in attendance. Sure enough, in this episode, the victim is one of the critics.
2/L’Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre
Authors: Vaïs Michel
Published: June 2023

On 28 September 1984, in Montreal, a dozen critics and reviewers from various media founded the Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre (aqct), defined its objectives (some of which were based on those of the Canadian Association of Theatre Critics), and decided on its activities for the short and medium term.
3/The Toronto Drama Bench
Authors: Breon Robin
Published: June 2023

The growth and development of dramatic criticism in Canada parallels the growth of the Canadian drama itself. On the surface this might appear to be an obvious and natural progression but that would belie the truth.
English-Canadian Theatre
Authors: Benson Eugene , Conolly L.W.
Published: June 2023

English-Canadian Theatre, part of a new Oxford University Press series which surveys various aspects of Canadian literary culture, offers a scholarly overview of its topic. Written by two professors at the University of Guelph who have an ongoing concern for Canadian theatre, the book claims to be the first comprehensive work to draw together a history of our nation’s anglophone theatre and an assessment of its drama. Though there’s little doubt that dramatic criticism and theatre history are interdependent, Benson and Conolly sometimes go on seeming tangents in their literary discussions, especially given the confines of a slim volume (114 pages of text, followed by a selected bibliography and index).
Canadian Drama and the Critics
Authors: Conolly L. W.
Published: June 2023

Professor Conolly bases his selection of the criticism of Canadian drama not on his own choice of plays but on three recently published anthologies: The Penguin Book of Modern Canadian Drama (edited by Richard Plant), Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-84 (edited by Richard Perkyns), and Modern Canadian Plays (edited by Jerry Wasserman). He adds only four plays of his own choosing: Sticks and Stones, Leaving Home, Waiting for the Parade and The Farm Show. However it may limit his own choices as editor, this is a very practical decision. Students in Canadian drama courses will use this collection, and given the price of individual playtexts, instructors will likely, in the near future at least, work from one or more of these anthologies. With one major exception, the anthologies taken together provide a good range of regions and styles, with representative work by the most important playwrights. The exception is French Canadian drama, which is represented only by Gélinas’ Bousille and the Just. This sharp and powerful play stands for one aspect of Quebec as it used to be (and to some extent still is); but if French Canadian drama has any place in this anthology Bousille should surely be joined by work from the period of ferment that followed the Quiet Revolution, and by the biggest name missing from the book, Michel Tremblay. The inclusion of Bousille alone also has an unfortunate and surely unintended side-effect: it looks like the token French Canadian play. (Not the token Quebec play; Balconville is also included.) It might have been better to omit Bousille altogether, and present this simply as an anthology dealing with English Canadian drama. On those terms the only weakness worth noting is that Voaden’s Hill-Land is the only pre-1950 play; there is no work by Merrill Denison.
Victoria Playhouse Petrolia: The Building Burden
Authors: Jolliffe Marlynn
Published: June 2023

Petrolia (population 3.800) is located in the farmlands of Larnbton County, about 17 miles southeast of Sarnia. In many respects it is a town built in the middle of nowhere. There is a doubtful water supply, no important navigable stream or nearby seaport. It is off all main lines of communication and when Petrolia did expand, it moved away from the main highway, across Bear Creek. Why build a town in such a spot? The reason, in its day, was unique. In 1858, James Miller Williams sunk North America’s first commercial oil well in nearby Oil Springs and by 1860, the flats of Bear Creek were populated by men from all walks of life who had turned to drilling for oil to find their fortune. These men originated equipment and methods here that they later used to open the oil fields of Borneo, Java, Persia and East Africa. In the 1870’s Petrolia could be described as arrogant, whimsical, bold, adventurous and contrary; thus, when the citizens began thinking in terms of permanent homes and stores, these attitudes were reflected in their architecture. Wooden structures were replaced by brick buildings in a vigorous, eclectic late 19th-century style. The decision to build Victoria Hall, a $35,000 town hall complete with opera house, in 1887 was the significant turning point in the way of life Petrolians were choosing for themselves.
The Year of Wyspianski
Authors: Szydlowski Roman
Published: June 2023

Nineteen seventy-four in Poland could easily be termed the Year of Wyspianski for it was during 1974 that this great 19th-century poet, painter, playwright and theatre reformer became not only the most frequently performed writer but also the writer whose works were most effectively presented. And because of the unique opportunity to see so much of Wyspianski’s avant garde epic dramaturgy in so short a period, it became obvious that without him, the Polish theatre might never have produced Witkiewicz or Gombrowicz nor, for that matter, Mrozek, Rozewicz or Bryll.
Born 1900 by Julius Hay
Authors: Watmough David
Published: June 2023

A great deal of current Canadian playwriting has a socio-political inspiration, much of it relating to Canadian nationalism, per se. Not being overly sympathetic to the former and possessing a lively awareness of the dangers of the latter, I find a reading of the Hungarian, Communist playwright, Julius Hay’s autobiography a useful corrective to my own positions and perhaps an equally effective correlative to those holding differing views.
Recollections of Achievement
Authors: Whittaker Herbert
Published: June 2023

It has been all too easy to forget the importance of the Crest Theatre in Canada’s dramatic history. It was born out of a summer operation by bright students, run by a committed acting family, lasted three years over a decade and went down to silence hand-in-hand with another child of the Stratford Festival, the Canadian Players. But single-handed the Crest had showed that continuous production of home-grown theatre was possible in a town which had traditionally stood as a road company stopover for outside attractions since the old stock companies vanished. This happened when the Depression gave the push to cheaper, canned film drama thirty years earlier.
The Davis View
Authors: Friedlander Mira
Published: June 2023

In 1953, Murray and Donald Davis set out to create a permanent repertory company in Toronto. Despite their relative youth — both were still in their twenties — they had already had much experience behind them through their years with the Straw Hat Players, a summer stock company operating in Muskoka, Ontario. Murray Davis is today living in Collingwood, Ontario, and spends all of his time farming. Donald Davis is still active in the theatre as an actor and as a director. This past year he agreed to serve as an associate director for the Stratford Festival. Donald Davis was interviewed in Toronto during May by Mira Friedlander.
Saskatoon Vision
Authors: Covert Chris
Published: June 2023

Theatre is a living thing, something which only occurs between human beings and which can never be embodied in material, however sophisticated or awesome. This may be fairly obvious but like much which is obvious, it is often overlooked or ignored. It is taken for granted and hence ceases to have any real, controlling power. And when it is taken for granted, one gets that lavish slickness which dazzles the mind and comforts the soul without ever challenging either. This is what I would call entertainment, which is not bad; but it is also not theatre, which must both entertain and engage the human being in an intellectual and emotional struggle to understand. This struggle, of course, is known broadly as art.
South Africa’s Serpent
Authors: Merin Jennifer
Published: June 2023

South Africa’s laws, protecting the government’s policy of apartheid and white supremacy, prohibit black people from obtaining employment as artists. So, the Serpent Players, a group of 25 to 30 black actors who work in collaboration with white playwright Athol Fugard in Port Elizabeth, work at other jobs. The group survives by wriggling through loopholes in the law — truly an underground theatre, without access to the press, performing before invited guests in private homes loaned to them for the occasion.
Impressions of Hungary
Authors: Beissel Henry
Published: June 2023

Hungarian is a forbidding but dramatic language. No amount of etymological ingenuity is going to help you identify a building that’s marked szinhaz as a theatre. And when I was invited to see Shakespeare’s “Darab”, I racked my brains in vain to guess which of the Bard’s plays might bear that title — it turned out all 38 do, because darab simply means “play”, or “piece”. Actually, the play on that occasion was Othello and the production I saw gave me insight into the sonar qualities of Hungarian whose many open vowels, rich and strong consonants and rather explosive rhythms deriving from the heavy stress that falls on the first syllable of every word — all seemed eminently suited to the elemental forces that erupt in that play and to dramatic speech generally.
The National Playlist
Authors: Newton Christopher
Published: June 2023

Some kind of digest of potentially-producible plays is becoming more and more necessary in our theatre. It takes time to read a play properly and time is something that most artistic directors have to ration very carefully. Very few theatres are able to employ a dramaturge (those that can are either very large organizations or smaller companies exclusively committ ed to the production of new works and as a result, scripts can very easily pile up, uncared for and unread - not out of malice but simply because there is no time. Among these scripts may be plays that are right for a particular company of actors and a particular audience. Every director in this country has at one time or another failed to recognize an actor’s talent in an audition; in the same way every director has missed a good play that has arrived unsolicited on his desk.
Yeats and the Theatre
Authors: Skene Reg
Published: June 2023

Although W.B. Yeats is obviously an important figure in the development of modern theatre, determining his precise significance gives commentators considerable trouble. His plays are praised but seldom produced. He founded an important theatre movement which took a direction quite contrary to his original intent. The words “poet in the theatre” have been spoken of him as often in mockery as in approbation. His real importance to today’s theatre may lie in the eloquence with which he articulated the problems which face the serious theatrical artist who wants to restore to theatre a sense of the grandeur that it once had.
Canada and the ITI
Authors: Rubin Don
Published: June 2023

The International Theatre Institute has always been an important source of communication for theatre people the world over. But, as was pointed out in this space in CTR 6, Canada’s link with the ITI — the Canadian Theatre Centre — has not existed for more than two years now. It was in May of 1973 that the CTC officially ceased operation and it was at that time that Canadian ties to the organization should have been broken.
The Audience as Critic
Authors: Watmough David
Published: June 2023

In the fall of 1969, after over a decade as a professional theatre critic in San Francisco, New York, and Vancouver, I stepped out from the wings of the Simon Fraser University theatre to encounter for the first time in my life, the audience as critic — of me. That it was a nervous-making experience is as one might expect. What to me was wholly novel and quite un-anticipated was the encounter with psychological palpability: the feeling of corporate and focussed attention brushing the face like warm flames.
Ann Arbor Experiment
Authors: Butt Grace
Published: June 2023

The finest work presented during the recently held University of Michigan Experimental Theatre Festival, was easily The Iowa Theatre Lab’s production of Moby Dick under the direction of Ric Zank. That is to say, in its form and content, it probed the richest levels of human existence and did so with superb imagination and strength of discipline. The result was poetry — not word poetry of course (the rendition of the longish passage from Melville momentarily spoiled the magic for me), but the visual, aural, physical poetry of theatre: semi-dark mystery of ritual; voice sounds emulating through the moans of the sea of our own moans; body relationships paralleling our own elations, loves and hates.
Odin in Italy
Authors: Merin Jennifer
Published: June 2023

Founded in 1964 by Eugenio Barba, after the model of Grotowski’s Polish Lab Theatre, the Odin Teatret is an inter-Scandinavian centre of theatrical research which tests hypotheses within the fields of actor training and performance theory. The Odin Ensemble works year round under the direction of Barba at Holstebro (population 30,000), Denmark, where the group is supported by the municipality with a permanent facility and annual subsidy. To date, the Ensemble has produced four outstanding productions (Otnitofilene, Kaspariana, Ferai, and My Father’s House,) which have toured extensively and attracted continual attention to the Odin Teatret.
The Biddulph Feud
Authors: Graham Hugh
Published: June 2023

Taken altogether, James Reaney’s Donnelly’s trilogy strikes a fascinating artistic balance between the hard facts known through newspapers and books and the more subjective, humanistic material gathered from the tales of descendants of the Biddulph families. Unfortunately, in its Tarragon incarnation the spirits of the dead settlers of Biddulph were unjustly compelled to compete with novelty, invention and theatrical innovation for possession of the stage and this is why I would have personally preferred a more spartan presentation of the Biddulph feud.
Citizen Comedy in the Age of Shakespeare
Authors: Stuart Ross
Published: June 2023

The outsider must surely feel that everything about Elizabethan drama has been said. Yet specialists will avow that numerous subjects remain unexplored and many more deserve fresh contemporary reassessment. This scholarly work can help theatre people by discovering obscure but produceable plays, solving interpretive problems, or presenting fresh insights into the standard classical repertoire. Although Jan Kott’s ideas have been disputed, he did stimulate many theatrical productions which, in turn, tested his theories and put them into perspective.
Two Views: Simons’ Short Plays
Authors: Sidnell Michael , Juliani John
Published: June 2023

Between The Elephant and the Jewish Question (produced in the Western Region DDF in 1968) and Crahdance (produced first in Seattle the following year) Beverley Simons made some discoveries. In Elephant her characters are still in cocoons, neatly enfolded in the situations and heard speech of their Jewishness; they are well-observed and feelingly represented hut still rather stickily emhedded in the form of a few hundred “Jewish plays”. In Crahdance occurred the splendid emergence of Sadie Golden, a new birth, sentiently female, perceiving Plath-like: “Mama’s gone a-hunting She’s taken off her own white skin… .” With her Sadie Golden. Beverley Simons also emerged: a playwright shaping the dramatic form from the inside out — to excellent effect in the treatment of Sadie’s salesmen, the observed and the felt existences delicately balanced. Sadie’s perceptions and Sadie’s world intricately related in the presentation. The end of the play is rather contrived (a recurrent feature). Simons relying on a coup de theatre to get Sadie safely coffined.
Leela Means To Play
Authors: Simons Beverley
Published: June 2023

CAUTION: Leela Means To Play is fully protected by copyright. All inquiries concerning production of the play including scenes from it should be directed to Beverley Simons, 5202 Marine Drive, West Vancouver, B.C.
The Nancy Festival
Authors: Merin Jennifer
Published: June 2023

The Festival Mondial du Theatre ranks high in the registry of international experimental theatre events. Held every two years, the Festival attracts an extraordinary concentration of theatre artists, administrators, organizers of other festivals, cultural journalists and students to the city of Nancy (population 30,000), France, which outside of festival-time has little or no native theatrical activity. At last Spring’s Tenth Festival, a total of 45 theatre groups from 26 countries performed for 2,000 invited guests and an unspecified number of local residents and tourists. Approximately 300,000 tickets were distributed (free to invited guests and for a small fee to others) to 242 performances, which took place in 21 theatres and other performing spaces throughout the city and its suburbs. In order to see all of the groups, a festivalier should have had to attend four performances daily, at 2:30, 5:00, 8:30 and 11:00 p.m.
Hungry Hills
Authors: Snider Edwin
Published: June 2023

As a playwright. George Ryga has been the subject of much critical debate, some justified, some not. But as a novelist. Ryga’s talents are indisputable and one can only look forward to his future work in this form with great enthusiasm. Without a doubt, Ryga’s two early novels — Ballad of a Stonepicker( 1966)and Hungry Hills (1963) — are minor masterpieces, works well worth the reading and. in terms of the general Ryga canon, well worth inclusion.
Agricultural management models
Authors:   Novosibirsk State Agrarian University, Novosibirsk, Russia, Essaulenko Dmitry V. , Shelkovnikov Sergey A. ,   Novosibirsk State Agrarian University, Novosibirsk, Russia
Published: June 2023

The article indicates that, depending on whose interests are put at the forefront, it is possible to talk about political-conjunctural, economic-centric, ecological-centric and homocentric models of agricultural management. In the absence of a comprehensive management model, it is necessary to state numerous and acute conflicts of interests - the state’s goal of increasing agricultural production may meet resistance from environmental organizations, the interest of agricultural workers in wage growth is not expected to find a response in terms of commercial goals of agricultural producers, because it leads to an increase in costs, etc. The target settings of each interested group should be considered not in isolation, but in a comprehensive manner, within the framework of the four-component management model proposed by the authors, implemented not only on the internal management circuit (micro-level, regional agrosystems), but also on the external management circuit (meso-level – agriculture of the country, macro-level – global agrosystems). The alignment and coordination of the interests of all parties is proposed to be achieved through the implementation of a program of public investment in the country’s agriculture.
Current status of pork exports and growth prospects
Authors:   VNIOPTUSKH is a branch of the Federal Scientific Center for Agrarian Economics and Social Development of Rural Territories – VNIIESH, Moscow, Russia, Mazloev Vitaly Z. , Khairullina Olga I. ,   Perm State Agrarian and Technological University named after Academician D.N. Pryanishnikov, Perm, Russia
Published: June 2023

The article analyzes the composition, structure and directions of pork export. The export profile of key exporting countries is presented. Key importers, market share, the structure of the commodity nomenclature for pork are established. Inter-regional production differentiation and business consolidation are revealed in this segment. The key problems hindering the growth of Russian pork exports on the international market have been identified. Recommendations for expanding the geography of deliveries for further diversification of risks are proposed. Perspective directions of export development are listed.
Food security in the sphere of potato consumption
Authors:   Michurinsk State Agrarian University, Michurinsk, Russia, Minakov Ivan A.
Published: June 2023

During the period of implementation of the State Program for the Development of Agriculture, indicators characterizing food security in the field of potato consumption have decreased and are at a level below the standard. The level of self–sufficiency of the population with potatoes decreased from 96.4% to 89.1% with a threshold value of 95%, economic accessibility - from 104.4% to 93.3% with a threshold value of 100%, and its consumption per capita per year - from 94 to 84 kg with a rational nutrition rate of 90 kg. This problem arose as a result of a decline in potato production from 24.0 to 18.3 million tons and an increase in its imports from 763 to 1016 thousand tons. The reduction in the gross potato harvest in Russia is due to a sharp decline in its production in households, although they still remain the main producers (63.9%). In order to reach the threshold values of food security indicators, it is necessary to increase potato production to 21.7 million tons, or increase by 18.6% compared to the achieved level. It is possible to increase its production only through the development of potato growing in agricultural organizations and farms with state support. This will be facilitated by the use of modern potato cultivation technologies, improving seed production and improving the quality of seed material, developing a potato storage base in the places of its production, creating consumer cooperatives, reducing import dependence as a result of the development of domestic breeding and agricultural engineering.
Key problems of the risk management system in agricultural companies
Authors:   Volgograd State Agricultural University, Volgograd, Russia, Morhachov Illia V. , Dosova Aijan G. ,   Volgograd State Agricultural University, Volgograd, Russia, Daeva Tatyana V. ,   Volgograd State Agricultural University, Volgograd, Russia
Published: June 2023

The article clarifies the list of key problems of the risk management system in agro-industrial companies, which are related to the practical quantitative assessment of the level of economic risk. Such objective problems include: the impossibility of an accurate assessment of the probability of an adverse event; narrow competence of risk managers, which does not allow to see all dangerous factors; the dynamics of the dangerousness of risk factors, which is manifested in the dynamic variable of the probability of the occurrence of adverse events. The presence of these objective problems makes the methods of quantitative assessment of risks in commercial organizations more academic than practical. These problems explain the rarity of the profession of risk managers and risk assessment systems in agro-industrial companies. Exceptions are considered, when the probabilities of the occurrence of adverse events are determined in practice, but this mainly applies to insurance organizations or does not apply to socio-economic systems. Expected losses are considered as an indicator that directly (and not indirectly) allows determining the level of economic risk. Their value is defined as the product of the probability of the occurrence of an adverse event by possible losses. Other indicators of quantitative assessment are indirect and do not allow to adequately determine the level of the corresponding risk. The use of indirect relevant indicators in business plans is considered rather as a formalism.
The Conference «Food security: new challenges and solutions in a changing world». Review of the presentations of the participants of the Conference
Authors:   VIAPI named after A.A. Nikonov is a branch of the Federal Scientific Center for Agrarian Economics and Social Development of Rural Territories – VNIIESH, Moscow, Russia, Frolova Elena Y. , Alekseeva Svetlana A. ,   Federal Scientific Center for Agrarian Economics and Social Development of Rural Territories – VNIIESH, Moscow, Russia
Published: June 2023

Review of the presentations of the participants of the Conference
The expansion of food exports of the Russian Federation depends on the use of abandoned land
Authors:   Institute of Retraining and Advanced Training of employees of the Agro-industrial complex of the Komi Republic, Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russia, Semyashkin Grigoriy M. , Semyashkin Efim G. ,   MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
Published: June 2023

The relevance of the subject of the study is due to the need to introduce abandoned agricultural land into economic circulation in Russia. The article provides a calculation of the possible terms of involvement in the turnover of land in the context of federal districts and the most problematic regions. Significant periods of development of abandoned agricultural lands indicate the need to change approaches to solving this problem. The article provides a theoretical justification for the expedient use of part of the rental income received from food exports to finance measures to involve unused land in agricultural turnover. Proposals are formulated for the possible allotment of land plots to distinguished participants of the SVO.
Ecology, weather conditions and food prices in 2022
Authors:   VIAPI named after A.A. Nikonov is a branch of the Federal Scientific Center for Agrarian Economics and Social Development of Rural Territories – VNIIESH, Moscow, Russia, Sobolev Oleg S.
Published: June 2023

The article provides a list of countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions affecting weather conditions. An algorithm for finding an estimate of the resulting function, depending on many factors, on the statistics of the grain market of the Russian Federation is presented. The algorithm is used to analyze the grain market of the Russian Federation. The statistics of producer prices and consumer prices for food in Russia, the EU and the USA in the 4th quarter of 2022 are compared.
TÜRKİYE VE İSRAİL’İN DOĞU AKDENİZ’DE MUHTEMEL UZLAŞMASININ KAZANIMLARI
Authors: ASLAN Tuba , KODAMAN Timuçin
Published: June 2023

Doğu Akdeniz'deki güncel gelişmeler ve Türkiye-İsrail ilişkilerinden yola çıkılarak Doğu Akdeniz’de İsrail’in Münhasır Ekonomik Bölge (MEB) sınırı konusunda Türkiye ile uzlaşması durumu zengin bir araştırma konusu teşkil etmektedir. Türkiye için İsrail bölgede istikrarlı, güçlü bir devlet ve Türkiye’nin çizdiği MEB alanları konusunda uzlaşmaya varabileceği önemli bir ülkedir. İki ülke ilişkilerinde siyasi konularda anlaşmazlıklar bulunmasına rağmen diğer bölge ülkelerine nazaran İsrail Türkiye ile ülke çıkarları için daha erken uzlaşmaya varılabilecek bir devlettir.

Bu çalışmada iki ülkenin uzlaşmasının önündeki en büyük engellerin ideolojik sebeplere dayandığı tezi araştırılmaya çalışılmıştır. Bölgede enerji kaynaklarının keşfinden itibaren kurulan dengeler ve iki ülkenin ilişkilerine yön veren gelişmeler incelenmiştir. Araştırılan bilgilerle iki ülkenin ekonomik ve politik çıkarlarının uzlaşmayı gerektirdiği bulgusuna varılmıştır. Uzlaşmanın sağlanmasıyla bölgede kurulacak enerji koridoru sayesinde İsrail güvenilir ve alt yapı olarak hazır bir enerji koridoruna ulaşmış, Türkiye ise enerjiyi ithal ettiği ülke sayısının arttırmakla beraber arz güvenliğini de yükseltebilecektir. Makalede tarama yöntemiyle elde edilen veriler ile Neo-Realist teori kullanılarak varılan kazanımlar üzerinden çıkarım yapılmaya çalışılmıştır.
YAPAY ZEKÂ İLE OLUŞTURULAN ESERLERİN TELİF HAKKI VE KİŞİSEL VERİLERİN KORUNMASI
Authors: ÖZDAL Mehmet Akif
Published: June 2023

Yapay zekâ teknolojilerinin hızla yaygınlaşması, eserlerin telif hakları ve kişisel verilerin korunması konularının önemini arttırmıştır. Bu makalede, yapay zekâ teknolojilerinin eserlerin telif hakları ve kişisel verilerin korunmasına etkisi incelenmiştir.

İlgili yasal mevzuat ve uygulamalar ele alınarak, yapay zekâ ile yapılan eserlerin yasal durumları değerlendirilmiştir. Bu değerlendirme sonucunda, yapay zekâ ile oluşan eserlerin hangi durumlarda yasal bir koruma altına girdiği ve hangi durumlarda girmemiş olduğu açıklanmıştır.

Ayrıca, yapay zekâ teknolojilerinin kullanımı sırasında ortaya çıkan sorunlar incelenmiş ve bu sorunların çözüm yolları araştırılmıştır. Bunlar arasında, yapay zekâ ile oluşan eserlerin kaynaklarının belirlenmesi, yapay zekâ tarafından oluşan eserlerin haklarının belirlenmesi ve kişisel verilerin güvenliğinin sağlanması gibi konular bulunmaktadır.

Bu çerçevede ilgili araştırma, yapay zekâ teknolojilerinin eserlerin telif hakları ve kişisel verilerin korunması konularındaki güncel durumun belirlenmesi ve bu konulara ilişkin yasal düzenlemelerin ve uygulamaların değerlendirilmesi amacıyla yapılmıştır. Sonuç olarak, yapay zekâ teknolojilerinin yaygınlaşmasıyla birlikte bu konuların daha da önem kazanması beklenmektedir ve bu konulardaki eksikliklerin giderilmesi için gerekli adımların atılması gerekmektedir.

Bu çerçevede Araştırma yöntemi olarak, Literatür taraması yapılarak Yapay zekâ teknolojilerinin eserlerin telif hakları ve kişisel verilerin korunması konularına ilişkin mevcut literatür incelenmiş ve güncel durum belirlenmiştir. Yasal mevzuat ve uygulamaların değerlendirilmesi ile İlgili yasal mevzuat ve uygulamalar ele alınarak, yapay zekâ ile yapılan eserlerin yasal durumları değerlendirilmiştir. Sorunların tespiti ile Yapay zekâ teknolojilerinin kullanımı sırasında ortaya çıkan sorunlar incelenmesiyle. Çözüm yollarının araştırılması çerçevesinde ise Ortaya çıkan sorunlar için çözüm yolları araştırılarak sonuçlandırılmıştır.
Estratégias para identificar e para superar incompreensões sobre a Análise do Comportamento: uma revisão de literatura
Authors: Bandeira Vitória Grídvia , Malerbi Fani Eta Korn
Published: June 2023

Trata-se de uma revisão de estudos a respeito das incompreensões da Análise do Comportamento e das estratégias adotadas para superá-las. Foram selecionados 15 estudos a partir das bases PsycInfo, PubMed e BVS, das coleções Sobre Comportamento e Cognição e Comportamento em Foco e adicionados dois estudos. Os estudos analisados mostraram a existência de conceitos imprecisos em materiais didáticos para formar psicólogos e pedagogos e na mídia popular nacional, o que impõe limites na divulgação da Análise do Comportamento. Foram também encontrados estudos que ensinaram de forma bem-sucedida os conceitos da Análise do Comportamento para pessoas de outras áreas que podem se beneficiar da tecnologia comportamental em sua prática profissional. Discute-se a necessidade de uma maior publicização de estratégias que têm se mostrado adequadas para uma compreensão apropriada dos pressupostos, princípios e conceitos da Análise do Comportamento.
PENINGKATAN KEMAMPUAN GURU DALAM PENGEMBANGAN AKTIVITAS MENGAJAR MELALUI IN HOUSE TRAINING (IHT) PEMBUATAN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN POWER POINT DI SDN BAGUS 2
Authors: Monalisa Monalisa
Published: June 2023

ABSTRAK       Kenyataan di lapangan diketahui bahwa kemampuan guru di SD Negeri Bagus 2 masih lemah dalam pembuatan media pembelajaran khususnya power point, sehingga pembelajaran masih kurang menyenangkan dan monoton. Guru sebaiknya harus memahami cara menyesuaikan tingkat kemampuan dan kompetensi siswa melalui pembuatan media pembelajaran khususnya power point yang baik untuk meningkatkan proses pembelajaran. Salah satu pengembangan kemampuan guru agar proses pembelajaran lebih aktip dan menyenangkan yaitu dengan melakukan IHT pembuatan media pembelajaran power point yang dalam pelaksanaanya lebih mudah dalam analisis hasil dan tindak lanjut yang akan dilaksanakan.     Penelitian Tindakan Sekolah (PTS) ini dilaksanakan dalam dua siklus. Subyek penelitian adalah semua guru di SDN Bagus 2 berjumlah 10 orang yang terdiri dari 6 guru kelas , 1 guru agama, dan 2 orang guru olahraga dan 1 guru Mata Pelajaran. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah hasil observasi kemampuan guru dalam membuat media pembelajaran power point .      Terjadi peningkatan pada setiap siklus. Hasil kemampuan guru membuat media pembelajaran power point pada siklus I memperoleh skor nilai 79% atau kategori “Baik”, sedang kemampuan  guru pada siklus II memperoleh skor 86% dengan kategori “ Sangat Baik”. Berdasarkan hasil tersebut, maka dapat disimpulkan  bahwa kemampuan guru membuat media pembelajaran power point pada siklus II sudah mencapai indikator keberhasilan yang ditetapkan yaitu kemampuan  guru membuat media power point  dianggap berhasil jika sudah mencapai ≤ 85% mencapai kriteria “Sangat Baik”.Berdasarkan hasil penelitian disimpulkan bahwa Pelaksanaan In House Training pembuatan media pembelajaran power point dapat meningkat kemampuan guru dalam pengembangan aktivitas mengajar di SDN bagus 2.
The Effect of Substance Abuse Associated with Nutritional Status and Blood Pressure in Santal Women
Authors: Roy Swastika , Ghoshal Roy Jayita , Ghosh Jyoti Ratan
Published: June 2023

Background: The global burden of diseases and associated risk factors in developing countries has altered radically over the past decades, with a clear shift from communicable to non - communicable diseases. Hypertension is a major and probably increasing blood pressure as well as HT is the important risk factors of cardiovascular disease. Objective: This study was undertaken to study the effects of substance abuse associated with nutritional status and blood pressure in Santhal women. Method: A cross-sectional study was carried out on 100 adult females aged above 18 years were incorporated. This study was undertaken in the Baganpara village of Bolpur, under the Birbhum District. Systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) were also taken. The t-test analysis was made to determine the comparison of blood pressure levels by nutritional status. Results: However, the result of the present study in adult Santhal females revealed that the mean age was 36.86(±15.6) yrs. However, the mean height, weight, MUAC, MWC, MHC, BMI, and WHR were 151.8 (± 4.63) cm, 43.2 (±6.07) kg, 23.6 (±2.14) cm, 70.7 (±7.46) cm, 84.34 (±7.39) cm, 18.7(±2.17) kg/m2 and 0.83 (±0.03) cm. Moreover the mean of SBP and DBP were 112(±13.0) mmHg and 76.2(±6.94) mmHg, respectively.. It was revealed higher mean SBP in alcohol consumption, as well as higher mean SBP and DBP in tobacco consumption among user. There was no significant (P>0.05) association of socio-economic variables with blood pressure. There was no significant difference (P>0.05) mean SBP & DBP, between thinness and normal where as revealed significant (p<0.05) difference in SBP and DBP between undernourished and normal individuals. Conclusion: The present study in Sathal women of Birbhum district revealed that the normal mean blood pressure of adult females was higher compared to thinness, and the mean SBP and DBP of undernourished women were lower than normal individuals.
An Analysis of Ideological Load In English Textbooks of Middle and Secondary Levels Published by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar
Authors: Mustafa Rashid , Khan Faridullah , Nisar Muhammad
Published: June 2023

This research examines the inclusion of ideological elements in English textbooks for 6th to 10th grades, developed by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Text Board Peshawar. The study focuses on assessing whether these ideological elements are suitable for students' linguistic needs. The research design combines quantitative and qualitative methods. Firstly, data on ideological elements in the targeted textbooks is collected. Secondly, the study determines the students' need for ideological content through a pre-tested questionnaire administered to English teachers in District Karak. The selected text from the books is analyzed using Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis Procedure, considering various dimensions required for the research. A significant majority of teachers, 69%, strongly advocate for the transfer of Pakistan Studies and Islamiat ideology information from English textbooks to appropriate curriculum courses. Linguistic analysis of the selected data reveals that the literary text in the courses demonstrates a higher degree of linguistic authenticity compared to the ideological lessons.
A Study on the Organizational Commitment of Teachers and their Classroom Performance
Authors: Ullah Shafqat , Wahab Abdul , Khan Farid Ullah
Published: June 2023

This study investigates the influence of the organizational commitment of male and female secondary school teachers on student outcomes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The objectives were to determine instructors' commitment levels towards their employers' organizations and their own professional development. The study to find the correlation between teachers' organizational commitment and students' learning outcomes, as well as the impact of demographic factors (age, gender, etc.) on commitment levels.The study population consisted of male and female educators from government secondary schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A total of 480 teachers, including 280 males and 280 females, were randomly selected from four all-male and all-female schools. The findings revealed significant differences in organizational commitment between male and female teachers.The study suggests that male and female principals should attend organizational behaviour courses, investigate the reasons for lower organizational commitment among male teachers, and hire more highly qualified teachers for secondary schools.