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Return to the secret garden
No full textReturn to Frances Hodgson Burnett's timeless classic, The Secret Garden, in this magical sequel by bestselling author Holly Webb. It's 1939 and a group of children have been evacuated to Misselthwaite Hall. Emmie is far from happy to have been separated from her cat and sent to a huge old mansion. But soon she starts discovering the secrets of the house - a boy crying at night, a diary written by a girl named Mary, and a garden. A very secret garden .
Investigating the ‘empire of secrecy’ — three decades of reporting on the secret state
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University LondonIt has often been argued that journalism has been the most effective means of holding the intelligence services to account in western democracies. This thesis examines whether that proposition holds true in the United Kingdom and if so, whether such oversight has been consistent. Accountability by the news media is compared with the expanding range of UK official oversight mechanisms. The author utilises a body or work from over three decades of reporting on the intelligence services and further research on accountability to examine these questions. The author suggests this work is timely, given the controversy prompted by the former National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden, who leaked a substantial archive of secret intelligence documents. This thesis concludes that the news media were often effective, if not consistent, in bringing intelligence to account in the second half of the 20th century. Since the start of the 21st century monitoring the secret state has become more challenging as a result of a changing economic, global and national political environment. Government legislation and technology makes it increasingly difficult for journalists to obtain confidential sources and then undertake their Fourth Estate role. Finding new methodologies is an urgent task for journalists, as history reveals that if intelligence agencies operate without scrutiny from outside government, abuses take place. Never before has government and its intelligence services had such powers and techniques of invasive mass surveillance available, and thus the potential to control the population and particularly those who dissent
America\u27s Support for LGBT+ Marriage
No full textIn this project relying on a national public opinion survey, I will examine Americans’ support for LGBT+ marriage, assessing the key factors that explain variation in support
Review of Secret Language, by Portland author Monica Wood.
No full textReview of Secret Language, by Portland author Monica Wood
Unpeople : Britain's secret human rights abuses
No full textMillions of people have died as a result of Britain's foreign policy. Mark Curtis calls these victims Unpeople - those whose lives are seen as expendable in the pursuit of governments' economic and political goals. -In Unpeople, Mark Curtis shows the Blair government's continuing support for many of the world's most repressive regimes and, using unearthed evidence from formerly secret documents, reveals for the first time the hidden history of unethical British policies, including: support for the massacres in Iraq in 1963; Britain's extraordinary private backing of the US in its aggression against Vietnam; support for the rise of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin; the prosecution of a covert, 'dirty war' in Yemen in the 1960s; Britain's backing of apartheid regimes in South Africa; secret campaigns with the US to overthrow the governments of Indonesia and British Guiana; the welcoming of General Pinochet's brutal coup in Chile in 1973; and much more.-This explosive new book, from the author of Web of Deceit, shows the reality of the Blair government's policies since the invasion of Iraq, revealing that our military is poised for a new phase of global intervention in alliance with the US, while an extraordinary government propaganda campaign is being mounted to obscure the reality of this policy from the public
Verifiable hybrid secret sharing with few qubits
No full textWe consider the task of sharing a secret quantum state in a quantum network in a verifiable way. We propose a protocol that achieves this task, while reducing the number of required qubits, as compared to the existing protocols. To achieve this, we combine classical encryption of the quantum secret with an existing verifiable quantum secret sharing scheme based on Calderbank-Shor-Steane quantum error correcting codes. In this way we obtain a verifiable hybrid secret sharing scheme for sharing qubits, which combines the benefits of quantum and classical schemes. Our scheme does not reveal any information to any group of less than half of the n nodes participating in the protocol. Moreover, for sharing a one-qubit state each node needs a quantum memory to store n single-qubit shares, and requires a workspace of at most 3n qubits in total to verify the quantum secret. Importantly, in our scheme an individual share is encoded in a single qubit, as opposed to previous schemes requiring ω(logn) qubits per share. Furthermore, we define a ramp verifiable hybrid scheme. We give explicit examples of various verifiable hybrid schemes based on existing quantum error correcting codes.QID/Wehner GroupQuantum Internet DivisionQuantum Information and Softwar
The Secret Language of Elizabeth Tolbert
No full textThe Secret Language of Elizabeth Tolbert, 2015, is an installation composed of four scenographic spoken-word audio projections, four blood-stained embroidered handkerchiefs and a mass of dirt and hair spun across two domestic chairs.
The work visits the scenes and materials that the American ethnomusicologist Elizabeth Tolbert travelled to and used, in order to undertake research for her 1988 book The Musical Means of Sorrow: The Karelian Lament Tradition. The archives of the Finnish Literature Society in Helsinki and the University of Turku library became sites where the evocative act of ‘crying with words’, central to these Finnish folk songs was sought out in audio, photographic, textual and social form.
In order to generate audio recordings, some of the ritualistic structures of the Karelian Lament song performance were mobilised, such as telling a sad story in order to set the mood in the room. In other recordings, archival lament songs were edited in order to emphasise structural elements, such as crying, breathing, sobbing and gasping. The protagonist in another recordering whispers to microphone during a night shift of waged work in Goldsmiths library, University of London – his voice recounting the circumstances of finding Tolbert’s book.
Through correspondence with the author, recalling deaths over phone calls with family members and reconstructions of Tolbert’s graphic diagrams, the installation staged a meta-lament ritual based on the impossibility of access to Tolbert’s experience.
The Secret Language of Elizabeth Tolbert was performed, exhibited and aired in Heretics 12, Broken Diorama, 2017, Radio Quantica, Portugal; On Curating Histories, 2015, National College of Art and Design, Dublin; Something To Be Scared Of, 2015, AM London, London; Recording at the North Wall, Recording, 2015, North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford
Author Deborah Heffernan of Bridgton describes how secret plans to have a Queen
No full textAuthor Deborah Heffernan of Bridgton describes how secret plans to have a Queen Anne bonnet-top high boy built for her husband Jack Heffernan turned into a community affair, while yet remaining a secret. The actual design and construction of the high boy fell on Bob Dunning, with the help cabinetmaker Greg Marston. Others involved on the project included Mary and Don Johnson and their sons Tom and Eric. With descriptive details of elements included in the highboy
Preview of a lecture by Monica Wood of Portland, author of Secret Language and
No full textPreview of a lecture by Monica Wood of Portland, author of Secret Language and My Only Story, that is being presented at the University of New England\u27s Westbrook College Campus in Portland May 23
Telling realities : the story of Winnie Verloc in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent
No full textThis dissertation will investigate how Conrad's "purely artistic purpose" comes under ethical review as reader, character and author renegotiate the terms of the story's telling - specifically (to pursue the novel's haunting reference to Othello) with regard to "the pity of it"
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