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Sparrows can't sing : East End kith and kinship in the 1960s
No full textSparrows Can’t Sing (1963) was the only feature film directed by
the late and much lamented Joan Littlewood. Set and filmed in
the East End, where she worked for many years, the film deserves
more attention than it has hitherto received. Littlewood’s career
spanned documentary (radio recordings made with Ewan MacColl
in the North of England in the 1930s) to directing for the stage
and the running of the Theatre Royal in London’s Stratford East,
often selecting material which aroused memories in local audiences
(Leach 2006: 142). Many of the actors trained in her Theatre
Workshop subsequently became better known for their appearances
on film and television. Littlewood herself directed hardly any material
for the screen: Sparrows Can’t Sing and a 1964 series of television
commercials for the British Egg Marketing Board, starring Theatre
Workshop’s Avis Bunnage, were rare excursions into an area of practice
which she found constraining and unamenable (Gable 1980: 32).
The hybridity and singularity of Littlewood’s feature may answer,
in some degree, for its subsequent neglect. However, Sparrows Can’t
Sing makes a significant contribution to a group of films made in
Britain in the 1960s which comment generally on changes in the
urban and social fabric. It is especially worthy of consideration,
I shall argue, for the use which Littlewood made of a particular
community’s attitudes – sentimental and critical – to such changes and
for its amalgamation of an attachment to documentary techniques
(recording an aural landscape on location) with a preference for nonnaturalistic
delivery in performance
Amy Dacyczyn of Leeds, author of The Tightwad Gazette and publisher of the newsl
No full textAmy Dacyczyn of Leeds, author of The Tightwad Gazette and publisher of the newsletter of the same name, is nationally known for her penny-pinching ways
JSC President Houston Cole and Special Guest Speaker Amy Vanderbilt on Campus
No full textNoted author and columnist Amy Vanderbilt visited Jacksonville State College on October 27, 1959 to speak before an audience in the Leone Cole Auditorium. Shown President Houston Cole stands with Amy Vanderbilt. (circa October 27, 1959)https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/47089/thumbnail.jp
The air microwave yield (AMY) experiment - A laboratory measurement of the microwave emission from extensive air showers
No full textThe AMY experiment aims to measure the microwave bremsstrahlung radiation (MBR) emitted by air-showers secondary electrons accelerating in collisions with neutral molecules of the atmosphere. The measurements are performed using a beam of 510 MeV electrons at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) of Frascati INFN National Laboratories. The goal of the AMY experiment is to measure in laboratory conditions the yield and the spectrum of the GHz emission in the frequency range between 1 and 20 GHz. The final purpose is to characterise the process to be used in a next generation detectors of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. A description of the experimental setup and the first results are presented. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence
The European Union, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Denial
No full textCopublished with the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, this study asks if the European Union (EU) has the capacity or the will to counter antisemitism. The desire to counter antisemitism was a significant impetus toward the formation of the EU in the twentieth century and now prejudice against Jews threatens to subvert that goal in the twenty-first. The European Union, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Denial offers an overview of the circumstances that obliged European political institutions to take action against antisemitism and considers the effectiveness of these interventions by considering two seemingly dissimilar EU states, Austria and Sweden.
This examination of the European Union’s strategy for countering antisemitism discloses escalating prejudice within the EU in the aftermath of 9/11. R. Amy Elman contends that Europe’s political actors have responded to the challenge and provocation of antisemitism with only sporadic rhetoric and inconsistent commitment; this halfhearted strategy for countering anti-Semitism exacerbates skepticism toward EU institutions and their commitment to equality and justice. This exposition of the insipid character of the EU’s response simultaneously suggests alternatives that might mitigate the subtle and potentially devastating creep of antisemitism in Europe.
The author offers a new approach insofar as scholarly considerations of the EU’s attempts to combat racism rarely focus on antisemitism, while scholarship on antisemitism rarely considers the political context of the European Union
Feminist Comedy\u27s Blond Badass: Amy Schumer and the Limits of White Feminism
No full textAmy Schumer is a well-known feminist comedian.1 She wrote and starred in the 2015 movie Trainwreck (which grossed $110 million), secured a record-breaking multi-million dollar advance for her 2016 book The Girl with The Lower Back Tattoo,2 and continues to write and star in the Comedy Central television series Inside Amy Schumer. She filmed an HBO stand-up comedy special, Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, and she smiles on magazine covers ranging from fashion cornerstones like Vogue, Marie Claire, and Elle, to lifestyle publications such as Vanity Fair, People, and GQ, to entertainment industry publications Variety and Entertainment Weekly.3 She has also appeared in mainstream feminist publications Ms. and Bust where she proudly proclaims herself to be a feminist. As one of only a few women in recent memory to command such consistent media attention, Schumer’s feminist identity is notable. As a comedian, actress, author, and public figure, she uses her popularity to reveal and ridicule a wide range of gender inequalities, cultural absurdities, and double standards
Food safety and licensure
No full textAmy Gilroy, John Burr & Susan Kendrick (Oregon Department of Agriculture), Laura Raymond & Karen Ullman (Washington State Department of Agriculture), Dr. Jovana Kovacevic & Stephanie Brown (Oregon State University Food Innovation Center).Title from PDF caption (viewed on June 14, 2022).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 8).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Review: Joseph Urban: Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom
No full textReview of Joseph Urban: Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom by Amy Miller Dehan. Cincinnati Art Museum in association with D Giles Limited, February 2022. 128 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-911282-56-3 (h/c), $49.95. Reviewed July 2022 by Sara Mautino, Librarian, Oklahoma State University School of Architecture - Cunningham Architecture Library, Oklahoma State University Libraries, [email protected]
Ectomycorrhizal communities and ecological restoration: status and performance in urban conditions
No full textEcological restoration plans rarely take into consideration the soil community of microbial mutualists. One particular group of soil microbes, mycorrhizal fungi, is known to confer benefits to associating host plants and can even influence plant community structure. The primary objectives of this dissertation are to: 1) Determine whether ectomycorrhizal fungal (EMF) communities differ among disturbed candidate restoration sites and old-growth woodland reference sites; 2) Test whether common urban soil stressors alter EMF communities; and 3) Test the efficacy of commercial and field mycorrhizal inoculants for use in restoration projects. In each experiment, colonization by EMF of Quercus rubra (northern red oak) seedlings was used along with morphological and molecular sampling methods to measure EMF community characteristics. EMF abundance and species richness was significantly lower in disturbed site soils and community composition was significantly different from that of reference sites. A suite of urban fungal species was identified that occurred across several study sites. Several common urban soil stressors were found to lower EMF abundance or species richness, indicating that edaphic factors could be partially responsible for depauperate EMF communities of disturbed sites. Inoculation of oak seedlings planted at two disturbed sites failed to result in significant EMF colonization of the seedlings’ root systems, showing that both commercial and field-collected inoculum might not be effective in restoring EMF communities to degraded sites. This research suggests that the soil EMF community should be addressed in woodland restoration projects and more work is necessary to determine how best to restore EMF communities.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Amy Suzanne Karpat
Risk - adjusted rates of return for project appraisal
No full textIncorporating risk assessment into public project appraisal makes sense when project risk is significantly correlated with uncertainty about national income. It is especially important in countries that specialize in particular agricultural or resource sectors. This report presents the following conclusions: (a) risk corrections can be substantial; (b) the intuition that risk is great for further investment in a crop or sector that constitutes a large part of a country's GNP is not invalid, but the effect may be offset by other forces in operation; (c) risk corrections can be negative because of a negative correlation between project return and GNP; (d) risk premia vary greatly across countries and sectors - so recognizing the risk correction needed for each project on its own merits makes more sense than including a common general risk premium in the rate of return required for all lending; (e) risk corrections are small for many sectors and countries - so efforts can be concentrated on the other categories, where the proposed treatment of risk makes a big difference; (f) risk affects investment projects in many different, subtle ways; and (g) resource requirements for this are not great.Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Economics&Finance,Banks&Banking Reform,Statistical&Mathematical Sciences,Crops&Crop Management Systems
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