Business on television: continuity, change and risk in the development of television’s ‘business entertainment format’

This article traces the evolution of what has become known as the business entertainment format on British television. Drawing on interviews with channel controllers, commissioners and producers from across the BBC, Channel 4 and the independent sector this research highlights a number of key individuals who have shaped the development of the business entertainment format and investigates some of the tensions that arise from combining entertainment values with more journalistic or educational approaches to factual television. While much work has looked at docusoaps and reality programming, this area of television output has remained largely unexamined by television scholars. The research argues that as the television industry has itself developed into a business, programme-makers have come to view themselves as [creative] entrepreneurs thus raising the issue of whether the development off-screen of a more commercial, competitive and entrepreneurial TV marketplace has impacted on the way the medium frames its onscreen engagement with business, entrepreneurship, risk and wealth creation

Dialoging A Successful Pedagogy for Embedded Tutors

Over the past three years, Rider University’s Student Success Center Writing Lab has implemented an embedded tutor program for composition courses. Tutors attend class, participate in class discussions, facilitate writing workshops in class, and hold drop-in hours for students (in addition to tutors’ Writing Lab hours). The Embedded Tutor (ET) program, facilitated by Jenny Scudder (who is also the Writing Lab Director), has been successful in helping students complete skills-based courses and connect to academic support services. Initial assessment of the ET program supports the inclusion of the tutor in a skills-based course. While an ET’s training is similar to a tutor who works solely in the Writing Lab, there are key additions that are vital to the tutors’—and the program’s—succesUniversity Writing Cente

An Investigation of the Metallic Derivatives of Ortho-Substituted Azo Compounds

The investigation of the mono-o-hydroxyazo compounds showed that these compounds formed metallic derivatives with comparative ease. This seems to be in accord with the concensus of published work on the subject, though disputed by some of the foremost investigators. An interesting point that arose, was that copper seems unable to form a complex with mono-o-hydroxyazo sulphonic acids, unless the sulphonic acid group has been neutralised. In this respect, this class is inferior in lake forming properties to the di-o-hydroxyazo compounds. It appears that, in general, with o:o'-dihydroxyazo compounds metallisation results in the formation of typical inner complex compounds, both hydroxyl groups acting as acidic groups and either one or both of the azo nitrogen atoms co-ordinating with the metal. However, the experiments have led also to the conclusion that, several different derivatives of the same metal can be prepared from the one dyestuff; the differences being in the proportion of metal combined with the dyestuff and being accounted for by one of the following reasons; free sulphonic acid group; metal retaining within the complex some residual basicity; some of the hydroxyl groups may not have combined with the metal through hydrogen replacement, but merely by co-ordination. The experiments with primary and secondary complexes leads to the following suggested mechanism for the conversion of one to the other. Primary complexes contain monobasic chromium. The first reaction in the passage of a primary into a secondary complex is the formation of the free sulphonic acid of the former and this combines with the monobasic chromium already in the complex to give an even more internally bound inner complex salt. The above represents the suggested course of the change. When taking into account the co-ordinate links between the metal and the azo nitrogen atoms, it is apparent that a compound represented as the secondary one is, would be linked to the dyestuff molecule at five points. Such quinquidentate chelate compounds do not seem to have been recorded in the literature hitherto. The claims in the patent literature were confirmed that an o-alkyloxy group can give rise to metallic derivatives, if the conditions of the reaction are such as first to hydrolyse the alkyloxy group. This can be done by metallising under pressure - a method which was found to facilitate complex formation and to encourage the maximum combination between dyestuff and metal. In the o-carboxyl-o-hydroxyazo compounds, it was found that an o-carboxyl group, though it resembles an o-hydroxyl, results in the formation of a slightly less stable link between the azo compound and the metal. The experiments with toluylene Brown G indicated that an amino group o-to the azo link acts similarly to an hydroxyl group, i.e. by hydrogen displacement displacement it can combine with copper or chromium forming part of a chelate group and there were no signs of triazol formation. The reactions of Chrome Brown T.V. (in which there is both an o-amino and an o-hydroxyl group) supported this conclusion. The test with the Grignard Reagent showed that chromium lakes sometimes contain the metal in a monobasic state

“Cyberanarchy” in the Digital Age: Developing a System of Human (Copy)Rights, 12 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 424 (2013)

“Cyberanarchy,” broadly refers to the idea that legal regulation of the Internet is an infeasible objective. One prime example is current online enforcement mechanisms’ inability to quell copyright infringement. These mechanisms do little more than perpetuate a technological arms race between copyright holders and infringers. Moreover, with notable public relations failures, such as the RIAA lawsuits and digital rights management schemes, society has taken on a nonchalant attitude towards online infringement. Examining traditional justifications behind obedience to the law, this blasé attitude takes root in societal feelings of inadequacy both in “normative” and “instrumental” perspectives of justice. Normatively, there lacks a cohesive societal idea of justice and obligation. Instrumentally, there lacks proper infrastructure and administrative ability to enforce online copyright laws. This leads to unfettered digital copyright infringement. Focusing on copyrights as human rights strikes a balance between instrumental and normative considerations of copyright enforcement. Ostensibly, this would obligate lawmakers to bring end-users into the legislative discussion, while furthering the creation of a legal framework that resonates with societal perspectives of justice. When these perspectives serve as the cornerstone to the existing legal framework, legitimacy of and obedience to digital copyright law becomes attainable

A preliminary analysis: children aged birth to two with ASD and the early intervention methodologies of ABA, PECS, and floor-time

The archival data regarding 20 children who received early intervention services from a child development center in southern New Jersey were reviewed. Each child in the study was aged 0 to 2 years, had a disorder of the autistic spectrum, and was provided treatment in the form of ABA, PECS, floor-time, or a combination of interventions. Because research on ASD and its treatment has not yet focused on children under the age of 3, the purpose of this study was to investigate which methodology of intervention is most feasible for such young children. Additional aims of the study were to examine how intensity of service delivery and severity of disorder related to treatment outcome. Statistical analyses revealed that, regardless of treatment methodology, early intervention on the whole produced significant developmental gains in the domains of cognition, gross motor, fine motor, communication, social emotion, and self-help. Additionally, the number of hours of treatment services provided per week had a significant effect on treatment outcome. Lastly, severity of disorder was found to be negatively correlated with the developmental progress made in the domain of communication

Gestural Temporality in Sciarrino’s Recitativo

Sciarrino’s writings describe a compositional philosophy that prizes multidimensionality and spatiotemporal discontinuity (1998, 2004). Yet his simultaneous allegiance to teleology, holism, and fractal hierarchies reveals an underlying unifying organicism with which these qualities may initially seem to conflict. I take Sciarrino’s 1999 piano concerto Recitativo oscuro as a case study for examining the composer’s gestural organicism and its various contradictions and double meanings. First, close analysis of the opening piano solo demonstrates how seemingly contradictory aesthetic priorities—organic unity and temporal multiplicity—co-exist within a single passage. Drawing from Kramer’s (1988) concept of “gestural time,” Hatten’s (2004) theory of gesture, segmentation theories, and scholarship on intensity and temporal function, I show how temporal multiplicity in the piano solo arises through conflict between gestural energetics and contextual segmentation. I then expand my analysis to the full concerto, arguing that the orchestra’s cyclic and naturalistic sonic ecosystem causes the piano gestures to take on representative functions in addition to their energetic syntax, creating what Sciarrino (2001) calls “dimensional intermittence” as they reference distant temporal realms both within and beyond the concerto. I conclude by arguing that while the intensity profile of the earliest gestures and phrases is eventually reproduced across the form of the entire work, the concerto’s form nevertheless resists reductive understanding. Instead, listeners are invited to hear form through the complex mechanics and idiosyncrasies of “gestural behavior” (Sciarrino 1998)

A Model Administrative Handbook for Secondary School Instrumental Music

The purpose of this study was to design and develop a model handbook of administrative and management procedures to guide secondary school instrumental music teachers and directors in the Prosser, Washington, School District. To accomplish this purpose, current research and literature on secondary instrumental music, and the administration and management of music programs was reviewed. Additionally, selected materials were obtained from secondary music programs of similar size in eastern Washington