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The elegies of Ted Hughes
Full text linkThe purpose of this study is to make the case that Ted Hughes (1930-1998) is one of the pre-eminent elegists writing in English in the latter half of the twentieth century. Whilst his poetry has been widely criticised for its apparent preoccupation with violence and death, it is puzzling that the links these topics have in common with elegy have never been clearly verified. This might be because Hughes's elegies do not appear to bear the characteristics frequently associated with traditional poetic laments; however, as this study shows, closer scrutiny reveals not only many similarities, but also acts of resistance within the broader scope of elegy. Drawing on both established and contemporary critical debates surrounding Hughes and elegy, this study undertakes a comprehensive reading of the poet's major works from The Hawk in the Rain to Birthday Letters, whilst also paying attention to limited editions of his verse, including Recklings, Capriccio and Howls & Whispers. Posthumous publications, including the Collected Poems. Selected Translations and Letters of Ted Hughes, are accounted for. so that (alongside the chronological reading of the poems) Hughes's development as an elegist is fully realised. One of the aims of the thesis is to demonstrate that the poet's elegies are unified in presenting what I term the ‘actual'; that is to say, that Hughes does not fabricate sensations or forge experiences that purport to be beyond the realm of recognisable human endeavour. This I term his 'unfalsifying dream’. This is striking because quite often traditional elegies appear to present the opposite: a language which is ๐mate and images which are close to beatifying the deceased, putting them at a remove from human experience and existence. 'The Hawk in the Rain' is used to illustrate Hughes's theoretical position, especially in the case of his earlier war elegies and the circumstances of Remains of Elmet and Moortown Diary. He is both the observational, seemingly dispassionate poet (the hawk), capable of a detaching himself from the experience he wishes to relay in his verse, and yet, he is also the wanderer 'in the rain, one who is immersed in the momentous instant of his own language and experience. Like his personas, Hughes is divided. He is complicit with many of elegy's practices and traditions, but he is also a reformer and renovator of elegy, writing invigorating verse which brings the realities of mortality closer to the reader. In doing so, he reaffirms the significance of life and how this life might be better lived in closer harmony to poetry and contemporary ecological urgencies. 'The Elegies of Ted Hughes' aims to prove that far from being just a 'poet of nature', Hughes has been an exemplary elegist in our own time
Letting in the Trojan mouse: Using an eportfolio system to re-think pedagogy.
Full text linkCopyright statement: Copyright 2008 Julie Hughes. The author assigns to ascilite and educational non-profit institutions a non-exclusive licence to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The author also grants a non-exclusive licence to ascilite to publish this document on the ascilite web site and in other formats for Proceedings ascilite Melbourne 2008. Any other use is prohibited without the express permission of the author.E-learning research, as an emergent field in the UK, is highly political in nature (Conole & Oliver, 2007, p.6) occupying a complex landscape which houses policy-makers, researchers and practitioners. Increasingly and more interestingly, the landscape is being shaped by the narratives and experiences of the learners themselves (Creanor et al., 2006, Conole et al., 2006) and the use of Web 2.0 technologies. However, as Laurillard (2007, p.xv) reminds us we still, ‘tend to use technology to support traditional modes of teaching’ and ‘we scarcely have the infrastructure, the training, the habits or the access to the new technology, to be optimising its use just yet’ (p.48). Web 2.0 spaces, literacies and practices offer the possibility for new models of education (Mayes & de Freitas, 2007, p.13) which support iterative and integrative learning but as educators and higher educational establishments are we prepared and ready to re-think our pedagogies and re-do (Beetham & Sharpe 2007, p.3) our practices? This concise paper will reflect upon how the use of new learning landscapes such as eportfolios might offer us the opportunity to reflect upon the implications of letting in the e-learning eportfolio Trojan mouse (Sharpe & Oliver, 2007, p.49)
Xenos hamiltoni Kathirithamby and Hughes, new species
No full text<i>Xenos hamiltoni</i> Kathirithamby and Hughes, new species (Figs. 1–3) <p> <i>Type.</i> Holotype ɗ: MEXICO, Estación de Biología “Los Tuxtlas” UNAM, 8 May 2002, (D. Hughes) (Colección Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City).</p> <p>Paratypes. ɗ: MEXICO, Estación de Biologia “Los Tuxtlas” UNAM, 8 May 2002, (D. P. Hughes) (Colección Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City). ɗ: (same data as above), (D. P. Hughes) (Colección Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, as long as pro­ and mesothorax (scutum length, 0.32–0.35mm). Scutellum length: 0.42–0.45 mm. Postlumbium half the length of scutellum (length, 0.25–0.27 mm). Postnotum: twice as long as scutellum (length, 0.80–0.81 mm) (Fig 3 A).</p> <p>Wing: R1 is infuscated and interrupted in the middle; R2 arises a little after this and is as long as R3, R4 not reaching margin, R5 is short and arises below R4, MA, CuA1, CuA2 and CuP present and uninterrupted. Length of wing (along its longest length) = 2.77–2.83 mm (Fig 3 C).</p> <p>Length of IX th abdominal segment, 0.25–0.26 mm (Fig 1D).</p> <p>Length of adeagus, 0.24–0.27 mm (Fig 3 B).</p> <p>Male cephalotheca. Length, 0.86–0.88 mm; width, 1.11–1.3 mm. The male cephalothecae extruded both between abdominal tergites and sternites (II–III, or III–IV or IV–V) (Table 1).</p> <p> <i>Diagnosis</i>. This is the nineteenth species of <i>Xenos</i> to be described from Mesoamerica and the first from Mexico. The new species is distinguished by short, pointed maxillary palpi which fits in a socket of the basal segment. The aedeagus, with pointed anterior and posterior heads and a hump on the dorsal posterior region, and the lengths of the pro­and mesothorax, are more than a third of the length of the metathorax.</p> <p> The new species can be distinguished from <i>X. zikani</i> which has no basal maxilla segment, a long palpus which is 1/8 shorter than mandibles (<i>X. hamiltoni</i> has a long basal segment and very short palpus), R3 arising close to R4 and R5 is absent in the wing (R3 not arising close to R4 and R5 present in <i>X. hamiltoni</i>) and hump on dorsal posterior of aedeagus absent.</p> <p> <i>Etymology.</i> The new species is named after the late Bill Hamilton FRS, who inspired us to study the behavioural ecology of the Strepsiptera family Stylopidae.</p>Published as part of <i>Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney & Hughes, David P., 2006, Description and biological notes of the first species of Xenos (Strepsiptera: Stylopidae) parasitic in Polistes carnifex F. (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Mexico, pp. 35-45 in Zootaxa 1104</i> on pages 38-41, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/171410">10.5281/zenodo.171410</a>
The Pyramids of Mars [W I L D S C A P E S]
No full textThe Pyramids of Mars is a single channel video work with sound that explores ideas of mythic narrative in relation to landscape.
The work uses the site of the former RAF Greenham Common as a starting point to realise ideas of the Martian landscape as a site of mythological potential and an impending terraforming project.
Mars is a landscape in waiting; it is not just its dead, red soil that will become transformed but its place in the pantheon, its potential aura as both a harbinger of agricultural viriditas, patron of iron and god of war. It is not without it’s own inbuilt conflict as ethical debate polarises itself across ‘red’ and ‘green’ arguments; for respectively biocentric and anthropocentric positions on what is to be made of Mars. It should remain as it is, untouched, it’s dead life is it’s own unique biology; it should be transformed into a habitat suitable for human life. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy is a touchstone text in this dialogue, articulating the political anxieties and intents over such a project.
“Both sides say they are in favor of nature, of course. One has to say this. The reds say that the Mars that is already here is nature. But it is not nature, because it is dead. It is only rock. The greens tell this, and say they will bring nature to Mars with their terraforming. But that is not nature either, that is only culture. A garden ... an artwork.” Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars, 1993
Transformation is viewed in both material and psychic terms as a disturbance of contested ground. In this work the screen functions as an unstable ground, in which visualisation becomes problematic and video a means of negotiation rather than image production; to uncover in its interpolated forms the traces of this instability.
The Pyramids of Mars was first exhibited in WILDSCAPES in Catalyst Arts, Belfast in 2014. It has been exhibited subsequently in Seachange: Tulca 2015 and Borderlands at Gallery North, Newcastle
A 2 h periodic variation in the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1
No full textSpectroscopy of the low-mass X-ray binary Ser X-1 using the Gran Telescopio Canarias have revealed a ?2 h periodic variability that is present in the three strongest emission lines. We tentatively interpret this variability as due to orbital motion, making it the first indication of the orbital period of Ser X-1. Together with the fact that the emission lines are remarkably narrow, but still resolved, we show that a main-sequence K dwarf together with a canonical 1.4 M? neutron star gives a good description of the system. In this scenario, the most likely place for the emission lines to arise is the accretion disc, instead of a localized region in the binary (such as the irradiated surface or the stream-impact point), and their narrowness is due instead to the low inclination (?10°) of Ser X-1
Hughes Commission
No full textThe Royal Commission of Inquiry Into The Response of The Newfoundland Criminal Justice System to Complaints vol. IIAppendix A. 1975 organization charts -- Department of Social Services -- Newfoundland constabulary -- St. John's Roman Catholic School Board -- Roman Catholic education committee -- Department of Education -- Department of Justice -- Appendix B. Commissioner's ruling delivered on October 17, 1989 -- Appendix C. Police report dated December 18, 1975 (edited version) -- Appendix D. Police report dated March 3, 1976 (edited version) -- Appendix E. Commissioner's ruling delivered on November 8, 1989 -- Appendix F. Chart entitled "Completing the 1975 Mount Cashel Investigation: efforts by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary" -- Appendix G. Table of young persons who resided at Mount Cashel Boys' Home and Training School for part or all of December 1975 -- Appendix H. Commissioner's ruling delivered on June 1, 1990 -- Appendix J. Summary of child welfare profiles prepared by David C. Day, Q.C. -- Appendix K. Recommendation received from participants and others, 1990. Provincial Advisory Council on the Status of Women -- Working Group on Child Sexual Abuse -- The Interagency Committee on Violence against Women -- Gwen Mercer -- John W. McGrath -- Wayne Dymond -- Canadian Mental Health Association -- The St. John's Status of Women Council -- Newfoundland Association of Social Workers -- Memorial University School of Social Work -- Women's Legal Education and Action Fund -- Children in Care Alumni Inc. -- Canadian Civil Liberties Association -- The Brother T.I. Murphy Centre -- Appendix L. Note by the Commissioner on "reasonable (and probable) grounds" March 15, 1991 -- Appendix M. Uncited rulings by the Commissioner -- Appendix N. Reasons for judgment of the Honourable Mr. Justice Noel dated September 27, 1989 -- Reasons for judgment of the Court of Appeal -- Appendix O. Participants granted standing with counsel (or as otherwise represented) before the Royal Commission -- Appendix P. Persons who appeared as witnesses before the Royal Commission -- Appendix Q. Persons participating in panels before the Royal Commission -- Appendix R. List of exhibits -- Appendix S. Persons who provided depositions to the Royal CommissionS.H.S. Hughes, Commissioner; Commonly known as Hughes Commissio
Nilotinib does not significantly reduce imatinib OCT-1 activity in either cell lines or primary CML cells
No full textL. Eadie, T. P. Hughes and D. L. Whit
The changing UK careers landscape : tidal waves, turbulence and transformation
Full text linkThis article explores how the UK careers landscape in each of the four home nations is changing in response to neo-liberal policies. In this context, careers services are increasingly under pressure to demonstrate their added value, impact and returns on investment. As fiscal arrangements tighten and governments state their preferences and priorities for national careers services, differing strategic responses are beginning to emerge. A quasi-market, experimental approach is now the dominant discourse in England, in contrast to differing and complementary arrangements in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The article suggests that insofar as these developments are transforming national careers services, they are also creating significant challenges which require new forms of policy imagery and imagination for high-impact, all-age careers services
Climate change and slope stability forecasting in the UK - an overview of research needs
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