2,852 research outputs found
Steam Engine Prince Andrew at Skegness
No full textGeorge Dawson's Marshall steam traction engine No.66182 'Prince Andrew', registration 'CT3926' (built 1914). Photographed at Skegness, 1960. Photographs from the Cliff Marston and Cedric H. Conway collections
Minding the Gaps: A novel, Cagnaccio and critical commentary exploring the potential spaces of fiction and their influence on reader experience.
No full textThis thesis is divided into two elements: a novel, Cagnaccio, and a critical commentary that investigates the potential spaces in the reader’s relationship to a text that a novelist may utilise to influence the reader experience. Cagnaccio is a novel set in the late seventeenth century Italian Papal State that follows a troupe of Commedia dell’arte players and explores the nature and roles of the spectator and participant. An experimental novel, its structure mediates between playscript and novel conventions, demonstrating the nature of the reader relationship, by using a layered, metaleptic approach to the levels of narrative experience.The critical commentary seeks to briefly discuss the critical context that influenced the decisions that resulted in the adoption of the novel’s innovative structure and layout. It considers the implications of the reader relationship to the act of reading, including the dynamics of immersion and reflection, the role and behaviour of the reader, the proximity of space and temporal setting, and the transferability of a novel’s themes into the reader’s actual world, drawing on Winnicott’s theories of potential space and the importance of playing as a catalyst not only for personal change but as a locus of cultural experience. The commentary compares and contrasts the reader perspective with that of a theatrical spectator, drawing inferences from the spectator-to-participant continuum not just in the theatre but also in their correspondences to the reading act. By considering the nature of performance and identity, on- and offstage, it investigates commonalities between the doubleness of the actor, the reader, and the spectator. The commentary highlights the theatrical devices that helped shape the novel’s final form and goes on to reflect on the novel’s implications for future participatory fiction.<br/
Cliff, Anna Julia
No full textAndrew Cliff - husbandhttps://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-memoranda-1930/1435/thumbnail.jp
hpDJ: An automated DJ with floorshow feedback
No full textMany radio stations and nightclubs employ Disk-Jockeys (DJs) to provide a continuous uninterrupted stream or “mix” of dance music, built from a sequence of individual song-tracks. In the last decade, commercial pre-recorded compilation CDs of DJ mixes have become a growth market. DJs exercise skill in deciding an appropriate sequence of tracks and in mixing 'seamlessly' from one track to the next. Online access to large-scale archives of digitized music via automated music information retrieval systems offers users the possibility of discovering many songs they like, but the majority of consumers are unlikely to want to learn the DJ skills of sequencing and mixing. This paper describes hpDJ, an automatic method by which compilations of dance-music can be sequenced and seamlessly mixed by computer, with minimal user involvement. The user may specify a selection of tracks, and may give a qualitative indication of the type of mix required. The resultant mix can be presented as a continuous single digital audio file, whether for burning to CD, or for play-out from a personal playback device such as an iPod, or for play-out to rooms full of dancers in a nightclub. Results from an early version of this system have been tested on an audience of patrons in a London nightclub, with very favourable results. Subsequent to that experiment, we designed technologies which allow the hpDJ system to monitor the responses of crowds of dancers/listeners, so that hpDJ can dynamically react to those responses from the crowd. The initial intention was that hpDJ would monitor the crowd’s reaction to the song-track currently being played, and use that response to guide its selection of subsequent song-tracks tracks in the mix. In that version, it’s assumed that all the song-tracks existed in some archive or library of pre-recorded files. However, once reliable crowd-monitoring technology is available, it becomes possible to use the crowd-response data to dynamically “remix” existing song-tracks (i.e, alter the track in some way, tailoring it to the response of the crowd) and even to dynamically “compose” new song-tracks suited to that crowd. Thus, the music played by hpDJ to any particular crowd of listeners on any particular night becomes a direct function of that particular crowd’s particular responses on that particular night. On a different night, the same crowd of people might react in a different way, leading hpDJ to create different music. Thus, the music composed and played by hpDJ could be viewed as an “emergent” property of the dynamic interaction between the computer system and the crowd, and the crowd could then be viewed as having collectively collaborated on composing the music that was played on that night. This en masse collective composition raises some interesting legal issues regarding the ownership of the composition (i.e.: who, exactly, is the author of the work?), but revenue-generating businesses can nevertheless plausibly be built from such technologies
Programs and procedures (Swinburne CodeCasts - Introduction to Programming in Pascal 1.2)
No full textIn this video, Andrew and Cliff demonstrate the importance of procedures and how to implement them within your programs
Procedures with parameters (Swinburne CodeCasts - Introduction to Programming in Pascal 2.2)
No full textIn this video, Andrew and Cliff demonstrate how to pass data between procedures within your programs using parameters
The development of mission theology and praxis at Cliff College, with reference to its antecedents and history.
No full textA thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the department of Theology and Religion, Faculty of Arts, Durham University 2005.This thesis is an examination and evaluation of evangelistic ministry at Cliff College and its major themes, or Charisms. It charts the rise of the College and its antecedents in section one, introducing the main characters and events. Section two introduces themes that have shaped the tradition of the College; the most significant being holiness teaching which finds its origins in the works of John Wesley. Though they differed in emphasis, most Principals were proponents of this doctrine. There developed at the College a theology which was biblical and evangelical but not fundamentalist or sectarian. The College espoused 'faith principles' but ensured supporters were aware of its needs. The College is known primarily for training people in evangelism. Section three charts this innovative ministry beginning with the joyful News Mission and continuing through the years of Cook, Chadwick and Broadbelt. Between 1939 and the late 1950s there was a dearth of creative thinking about evangelism. Meadley and Beiben laid the foundations that, in the late 1970s, gave rise to a new strategy which was given impetus through the 1980s. The innovative thinking of the first period is illustrated by reference to the Joyful News female evangelists and the trekkers. Section four examines the particular academic stance taken by College Principals. This was specifically to offer training, focussed on evangelistic ministry, to those who may not otherwise have the opportunity. A policy of open access was retained throughout, with the College seeking proper recognition. This eventually came with the validation of the College programmes by the University of Sheffield. Chapter eleven charts the emergence of missiology as a discipline in the academy. The conclusion identifies the ambivalent attitude of Methodism to the College, and that its major charisms continue to have a significant influence though in need of constant restatement
Case statements (Swinburne CodeCasts - Introduction to Programming in C 3.3)
No full textIn this video, Andrew and Cliff demonstrate how you can implement case statements within you programs to control the execution of code based on many different possible branches
Recommended from our members
If Casals or Primrose Jumped Off a Cliff, Would You? Thoughts on Editions of J.S. Bach's Cello Suites and Their Use by Performers
No full textThis document contains the script for the presentation "If Casals or Primrose Jumped Off a Cliff, Would You? Thoughts on Editions of J.S. Bach's Cello Suites and Their Use by Performers.
Learning a new language (Swinburne CodeCasts - Introduction to Programming)
No full textIn this video, Andrew and Cliff start to look at what you need to do to learn a new programming language once you understand the concepts
- …
