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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
Mechanics of very slow human walking
No full textReplication data for "Mechanics of very slow human walking
The Landscape of the Longmen Grottoes: Practices, Repentance, Jeweled Buddhas, and Burials under Emperor Wu Zhao (r. 690–705 CE)
No full textThis dissertation adopts a spatial-analysis and gender-studies approach to study the Buddhist visual culture of the Longmen Grottoes, where 2,345 cave-shrines were carved into the limestone cliffs on both sides of the River Yi (Yihe 伊河) from the fifth to the tenth centuries. Focusing on the seventh and eighth centuries, I examine the affective relationship between the constructed landscape of Longmen and people’s activities within the environment. Previous scholarship has engaged in discussions on the style, iconography, and patronage of Longmen sculptures. I make use of newly excavated archaeological material to investigate the site from the new and holistic perspective of landscape. I believe it is through interaction with the constructed landscape that medieval Buddhists experienced the power of the images and were motivated to participate by sponsoring a statue or a cave-shrine. To this end, I address two interconnected questions: how did the landscape take form? And how did the constructed sacred space answer the aspirations of its visitors? My goal is to reconstruct the landscape of Longmen as a matter of temporal, embodied experience. I argue that the lived experience of medieval Buddhists in Tang China (618–907) transformed the landscape of Longmen into the shape that we know of today. For the devoted Buddhists, the entire landscape was an affective space wherein one may attain the Huayan vision of enlightenment and release. At the same time, general visitors also understood the constructed landscape as a support for the claim of Wu Zhao (r. 690–705 CE), the only female monarch in Chinese history, as the sagely cakravartin, or universal ruler
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
A multi-stage genome-wide association study of bladder cancer identifies multiple susceptibility loci.
No full textWe conducted a multi-stage, genome-wide association study of bladder cancer with a primary scan of 591,637 SNPs in 3,532 affected individuals (cases) and 5,120 controls of European descent from five studies followed by a replication strategy, which included 8,382 cases and 48,275 controls from 16 studies. In a combined analysis, we identified three new regions associated with bladder cancer on chromosomes 22q13.1, 19q12 and 2q37.1: rs1014971, (P = 8 × 10⁻¹²) maps to a non-genic region of chromosome 22q13.1, rs8102137 (P = 2 × 10⁻¹¹) on 19q12 maps to CCNE1 and rs11892031 (P = 1 × 10⁻⁷) maps to the UGT1A cluster on 2q37.1. We confirmed four previously identified genome-wide associations on chromosomes 3q28, 4p16.3, 8q24.21 and 8q24.3, validated previous candidate associations for the GSTM1 deletion (P = 4 × 10⁻¹¹) and a tag SNP for NAT2 acetylation status (P = 4 × 10⁻¹¹), and found interactions with smoking in both regions. Our findings on common variants associated with bladder cancer risk should provide new insights into the mechanisms of carcinogenesis
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
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