Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, and Susan Sontag: Campaigners of Camp and the Carry On films.

If Camp was the twentieth century carminative for fear of "Being-as-Playing-a-Role," (Sontag 280) Queer, its efficacy as a laxative for such a depraving "social disease" in the twenty-first century, is quite ineffective. As Roger Lewis points out, "Everything has to be Camp now, from Eddie Izzard to Graham Norton" (68). To be Camp is not to be a la commodious. It has passed into the mainstream. It is a la mode. How has this happened? Homosexuality had to be douched by lavatorial comedy

Water production rates and activity of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov

We observed the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov using the Neil Gehrels-Swift Observatory's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope. We obtained images of the OH gas and dust surrounding the nucleus at six epochs spaced before and after perihelion (-2.56 AU to 2.54 AU). Water production rates increased steadily before perihelion from $(7.0\pm1.5)\times10^{26}$ molecules s$^{-1}$ on Nov. 1, 2019 to $(10.7\pm1.2)\times10^{26}$ molecules s$^{-1}$ on Dec. 1. This rate of increase in water production rate is quicker than that of most dynamically new comets and at the slower end of the wide range of Jupiter-family comets. After perihelion, the water production rate decreased to $(4.9\pm0.9)\times10^{26}$ molecules s$^{-1}$ on Dec. 21, which is much more rapidly than that of all previously observed comets. Our sublimation model constrains the minimum radius of the nucleus to 0.37 km, and indicates an active fraction of at least 55% of the surface. $A(0)f\rho$ calculations show a variation between 57.5 and 105.6 cm with a slight trend peaking before the perihelion, lower than previous and concurrent published values. The observations confirm that 2I/Borisov is carbon-chain depleted and enriched in NH$_2$ relative to water.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, submitted to ApJ

Carry On Joking: Freud, Laughter and the Hysterical Male in the Carry On films

The popularity of the Carry On films can be measured by the success of the series which ran for twenty years from 1958-1978. Twenty-nine films were made and at the height of their popularity in the 1960s two films a year were being produced to capitalise on the success of the series. Film after film utilised the same comedic formula often with the same actors playing the same character types telling the same jokes. The aim of this thesis is to explore a number of questions: How were audiences positioned to laugh at the same 'dirty' joke that was told over and over again? What was the relationship between the verbal joke and the visual gag? How significant were the hysterical male characters played by Kenneth Connor and Kenneth Williams in the creation of the comedy of castration, and how was a sense of humour shared between young male audiences and the producers who promoted the heterosexual ideology of a male patriarchal society? Whilst film theories of comedy have concentrated on the visual gag, and psychoanalytic film theories have concentrated on the male gaze as the source of pleasure for the voyeuristic male spectator, this thesis draws on Freud's Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious to analyse the Carry On films. Freud's comprehensive theory incorporates the verbal, the comic (visual) and the importance of sharing humour in jokes. He explains the psycho-social relationship between sexually inhibited male desire and patriarchal censorship that are necessary for the production of pleasure sought for and found in many sexual jokes. The Carry On films make a useful choice for investigating the relevance of Freud's theories of humour since the films exhibit a recurrent theoretical preoccupation with psychoanalysis. The hysterical males are a particularly useful source to investigate since the dirty jokes coalesce around them

A Glossary of Cornish Names

SC. 1800-1950.[ES] Glosario de nombres de Cornwall (Inglaterra). Incluye un artículo del mismo autor, John Bannister, leído el 3 de Febrero de 1870 ante los miembros de la Plymouth Institution y la Sociedad de Historia Natural de Devon y Cornwall. [EN] Glossary of Cornish Names. It includes a paper by the same author, John Bannister, read on 3rd February, 1870 before the members of the Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society

A new floating model level scheme for the assimilation of boundary layer top inversions: the univariate assimilation of temperature.

The assimilation of observations with a forecast is often heavily influenced by the description of the error covariances associated with the forecast. When a temperature inversion is present at the top of the boundary layer (BL), a significant part of the forecast error may be described as a vertical positional error (as opposed to amplitude error normally dealt with in data assimilation). In these cases, failing to account for positional error explicitly is shown t o r esult in an analysis for which the inversion structure is erroneously weakened and degraded. In this article, a new assimilation scheme is proposed to explicitly include the positional error associated with an inversion. This is done through the introduction of an extra control variable to allow position errors in the a priori to be treated simultaneously with the usual amplitude errors. This new scheme, referred to as the ‘floating BL scheme’, is applied to the one-dimensional (vertical) variational assimilation of temperature. The floating BL scheme is tested with a series of idealised experiments a nd with real data from radiosondes. For each idealised experiment, the floating BL scheme gives an analysis which has the inversion structure and position in agreement with the truth, and outperforms the a ssimilation which accounts only for forecast a mplitude error. When the floating BL scheme is used to assimilate a l arge sample of radiosonde data, its ability to give an analysis with an inversion height in better agreement with that observed is confirmed. However, it is found that the use of Gaussian statistics is an inappropriate description o f t he error statistics o f t he extra c ontrol variable. This problem is alleviated by incorporating a non-Gaussian description of the new control variable in the new scheme. Anticipated challenges in implementing the scheme operationally are discussed towards the end of the article

Instructors\u27 Perceptions of Connectivist Characteristics in Adult Undergraduate Courses

The enrollment of college students in the United States who are classified as adult learners will continue to grow, bringing new challenges to degree programs. Multiple studies have provided insight into how best to teach these learners. However, to maximize learning, institutions must now consider strategies that merge adult learning principles with the integration of technology and students\u27 personal and professional networks. Connectivism, based largely on the work of Siemens, and andragogy, based on Knowles, provided the conceptual framework that guided this basic qualitative interpretive study that examined how instructors experience and interpret the characteristics of connectivism (autonomy, openness, diversity, and connectedness) and their impact on students\u27 learning. Ten instructors teaching adult learners were recruited using the LinkedIn social media tool. Data were coded using categories based on the four characteristics of connectivism, and a thematic analysis of the data generated four themes: fostering self-direction and student decision to learn (autonomy); teacher disposition, sharing experience, and effective dialogue (openness); depth or variation of experience, outside resources, and learning from others (diversity); and encouraging engagement, collaboration, and learning for engagement (interactivity/connectedness). This work may be useful to faculty and administrators needing to develop strategies to incorporate andragogical strategies with new learning technologies to contribute to positive social change by better meeting the needs of adult learners

Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, and Susan Sontag: Campaigners of Camp and the Carry On films.

If Camp was the twentieth century carminative for fear of "Being-as-Playing-a-Role," (Sontag 280) Queer, its efficacy as a laxative for such a depraving "social disease" in the twenty-first century, is quite ineffective. As Roger Lewis points out, "Everything has to be Camp now, from Eddie Izzard to Graham Norton" (68). To be Camp is not to be a la commodious. It has passed into the mainstream. It is a la mode. How has this happened? Homosexuality had to be douched by lavatorial comedy