Jim Allen : radical drama beyond 'days of hope'

Due to a desire to establish television as a serious medium, television drama has often been seen as a forum for writers, with names such as David Mercer, Dennis Potter and Trevor Griffiths identified by critics as the driving force, or auteur, behind the works that bear their names rather than, as in much writing about film, the director. However, while this has been so, there are also many examples of writers whose contribution to television writing has been much less celebrated, often due to their close collaboration with a high-profile director who in many critics’ view remains the most influential contributor to the final piece of work. One practitioner who arguably has failed to get the critical credit he is due is Jim Allen, a writer still perhaps best known for his work with one such high-profile director, Ken Loach

Personal Power and Agency When Dealing with Interactive Voice Response Systems and Alternative Modalities

In summer 2015, we conducted an exploratory study of how people in the U.S. use and respond to robot-like systems in order to achieve their needs through mediated customer service interfaces. To understand this process, we carried out three focus groups sessions along with 50 in-depth interviews. Strikingly we found that people perceive (correctly or not) that interactive voice response customer service technology is set up to deter them from pursuing further contact. And yet, for the most part, people were unwilling to simply give up on the goals that motivated their initial contact. Consequently, they had to innovate ways to communicate with the automated systems that essentially serve as gatekeepers to their desired ends. These results have implications for communication theory and system design, especially since these systems will be increasingly presented to consumers as social media affordances evolve

State of the World's Volunteerism Report: Universal Values for Global Well-being

The focus of this report is on the universal values that motivate people the world over to volunteer for the common good and on the impact of volunteer action on societies and individuals. The authors advocate the power of volunteering to promote cooperation, encourage participation and contribute to the well-being of individuals and of society as a whole

Terminal Pleistocene through Holocene Evolution of Whiteoak Bottoms, a Southern Blue Ridge Mountains Peatland

Abstract Our primary objective was to develop an understanding of the geomorphic evolution of Whiteoak Bottoms (WOB), a peatland along the Nantahala River in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains (SBRM) of western North Carolina. Radiocarbon dates directly above basal fluvial sediments returned ages of 14,000 to 15,000 cal yr BP. These ages indicate WOB is the oldest dated peatland in the SBRM and that such wetlands have persisted throughout the Holocene. Below the relatively flat surface of the wetland, paleochannels, similar to those of the modern channel, were found; suggesting a persistence of similar channel morphology since the terminal Pleistocene. The wetland's stratigraphy reveals a consistent pattern with basal fluvial cobbles being overlain by sandy channel-fill grading up into peat. Two different distinct inorganic deposits separate the lower organic deposits from the sapric peat deposits at the surface. Interestingly, we estimate more than 56% of the organic matter preserved by the wetland accumulated during the first 6,000 years of development. Overall, WOB has accumulated approximately 424 Mg/ha of carbon during the past 15,000 years. Maintenance of this wetland initially depended on the Nantahala River; however, today it is ground water and beavers that allows for the persistence of this rare landscape

Language Works 5(2)

Welcome to this edition of Language Works and merry Christmas and happy New Year from the editorial team. This time in Santa’s linguistic gift sack, we have six articles that represent a wide selection of linguistic areas and that show that linguistic analysis can shed light on many very different issues. In this issue, we travel far and wide. For example, we dive into the Danish Health Authority’s corona communication, we enter into the mind itself in an article on mentalization, and in one article, we go all the way to South America. In short, there’s an article for everyone.Welcome to this edition of Language Works and merry Christmas and happy New Year from the editorial team. This time in Santa’s linguistic gift sack, we have six articles that represent a wide selection of linguistic areas and that show that linguistic analysis can shed light on many very different issues. In this issue, we travel far and wide. For example, we dive into the Danish Health Authority’s corona communication, we enter into the mind itself in an article on mentalization, and in one article, we go all the way to South America. In short, there’s an article for everyone

Language Works 6(1)

Velkommen til denne udgave af Language Works og glædelig sommer til alle fra redaktionen. Mens vi skriver dette, er solen kommet frem, EM ruller over tv-skærmene, og det begynder at føles som om der faktisk er et liv efter Corona-pandemien. Selvom det sidste år har handlet mest om forsamlingsrestriktioner, Zoom-undervisning og meget forsigtig genoplukning, og selvom det nogle gange har føltes som om at verden var sat helt på pause, så er vi stolte af at Language Works har holdt fanen højt og her kan præsentere artikler fra forfattere der i hvert fald ikke har stået på pause.Welcome to this issue of Language Works and a happy summer so all from the editors. While we write this, the sun is out, the European Football Championship is being played, and it is beginning to feel like there may actually be a life after the Corona pandemic. Even though the last year has been most concerned with social gathering limitations, Zoom education and very slow returns to normal, and even though it has at times felt like the entire world had been put on pause, we are proud to say that Language Works is still going strong. And here we can present articles from authors who certainly have not been put on pause

Language Works 5(2)

Welcome to this edition of Language Works and merry Christmas and happy New Year from the editorial team. This time in Santa’s linguistic gift sack, we have six articles that represent a wide selection of linguistic areas and that show that linguistic analysis can shed light on many very different issues. In this issue, we travel far and wide. For example, we dive into the Danish Health Authority’s corona communication, we enter into the mind itself in an article on mentalization, and in one article, we go all the way to South America. In short, there’s an article for everyone.Welcome to this edition of Language Works and merry Christmas and happy New Year from the editorial team. This time in Santa’s linguistic gift sack, we have six articles that represent a wide selection of linguistic areas and that show that linguistic analysis can shed light on many very different issues. In this issue, we travel far and wide. For example, we dive into the Danish Health Authority’s corona communication, we enter into the mind itself in an article on mentalization, and in one article, we go all the way to South America. In short, there’s an article for everyone

John H. Magee Correspondence

Entries include a printed biography and typed letters on Federal Housing Administration and Business Publications, Inc., stationery

Field Theory Questions for String Theory Answers

We discuss the field theory of 3-brane probes in F-theory compactifications in two configurations, generalizing the work of Sen and of Banks, Douglas and Seiberg. One configuration involves several parallel 3-brane probes in F-theory compactified on $T^4/Z_2$, while the other involves a compactification of F-theory on $T^6/Z_2 x Z_2$ (which includes intersecting $D_4$ singularities). In both cases string theory provides simple pictures of the spacetime theory, whose implications for the three-brane world-volume theories are discussed. In the second case the field theory on the probe is an unusual N=1 superconformal theory, with exact electric-magnetic duality. Several open questions remain concerning the description of this theory.Comment: havmac, 24 pages, no figures; revised version; we have corrected the discussion concerning the relationship between the orientifolds and the F-theory compactification. Version to be published in Nucl. Phys.