In Love\u27s Garden, Just You And I

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Understanding the Changing Cultural Value of the BBC World Service and the British Council

This project investigated the changing cultural value of the BBC World Service (WS) and the British Council (BC) and how their cultural value can be assessed and measured. For eight decades, these organisations have been the face and voice of Britain overseas. Our research found that their attraction and influence abroad remains strong, but is on the wane, reflecting the UK’s declining economic and political significance on the world stage. Among the key findings of our historical and contemporary research: Cultural value is the catalyst of all aspects of value at WS and BC, founded on their capacity to act as transcultural intermediaries, fostering international understanding, and setting benchmarks in global standards for journalism and cultural relations work. Cultural value is relational, never independent of political and economic value. It is perspectival: audiences trust the quality and credibility of outputs; high professional standards and prestige benefit staff; funders appreciate the diplomatic and soft power assets. Cultural value accrues slowly over time but can be quickly lost. Social media afford new ways of connecting, informing and engaging citizens at home and abroad. Our case studies analysing the uses of Twitter and Facebook by BC and WS around global media events underscore the so far limited role of social media in democratising participation and promoting intercultural dialogue. We developed an innovative, theoretically grounded and empirically informed Cultural Value Model (CVM). This is an innovative device for conceptualising, analysing and assessing value in a multidimensional, composite, visual way. The CVM is designed for planning, monitoring and evaluating projects and organisations over time, alongside existing performance indicators and impact measures. It is currently being tested and developed on further projects at WS and BC as well as at the Swedish Institute

Concurrent Sessions A: Co-Benefits of Barrier Removal: Fish Passage and Public Safety - Economic and Social Costs of Culvert Failures: Examining Tropical Storm Irene Impacts in Vermont

During Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011, valley towns in Vermont’s upper White River watershed experienced extensive flood damage, a portion of which was related to road failures caused by undersized or poorly designed road-stream crossings. The USDA Forest Service and its partners conducted a retrospective case study in the watershed to compare the resilience of road-stream crossings designed using traditional hydraulic methods with those designed using the stream simulation method. Undersized culverts may fail catastrophically during large storm events, threatening human safety and destroying public and private property. This presentation will review the costs that Vermont communities incurred from specific culvert failures and demonstrate how stream-simulation can be a cost-effective option, particularly as climate change increases the frequency and intensity of large storms. The survival of two recently constructed stream simulation design crossings and an additional ecologically-beneficial crossing on the Green Mountain National Forest (GMNF) highlighted the broader benefits of ecologically-beneficial designs, including reduced rates of crossing failure and storm damage to roads and property, reduced costs of road maintenance, and reduced likelihood of adverse impact to communities and businesses caused by flood damage

In love's garden, just you and I.

Gift of Dr. Mary Jane Esplen.Piano vocal [instrumentation]F major [key]Tempo di Valse [tempo]Popular song [form/genre]Stairs, roses [illustration]E. F. Pfeiffer, N.Y. [engraver]Publisher's advertisement on back cover [note

Concurrent Sessions A: Co-Benefits of Barrier Removal: Fish Passage and Public Safety - Flood Resiliency, Aquatic Organism Passage, Critical Infrastructure, and Economics

A retrospective case study was conducted in the Upper White River subbasin in Vermont (Unthank et al 2012) that examined persistence of traditional hydraulic and stream simulation designs following the record flood flows from Tropical Storm Irene that occurred in August 2011. Analysis indicated that extensive damage to road infrastructure in this study area was largely avoided in areas where the stream simulation design approach was implemented, as did several other localized case studies from across New England. Benefit/cost analyses suggest that a relatively modest increase in initial investment to implement stream simulation designs to provide aquatic organism passage yield substantial societal benefits. When considering the overall comparative economic, social and natural resource costs to communities caused by crossing and/or road failure due to undersized road-stream crossings, adoption of stream simulation design is comparatively inexpensive when examined over a multi-year time frame. Hydraulic analysis results of stream simulation designed structures surviving Tropical Storm Irene will be presented along with a series of regulatory, policy and funding recommendations to help agencies, municipalities and communities make smart infrastructure and aquatic resource investments that reduce future road and stream crossing failures and associated impacts, and to help provide biological resilience and infrastructural persistence in the face of increased frequency and severity of flood events modeled under climate change

There\u27s a face ever fair, I can see in the heart of love\u27s [first line of chorus]

Performance Medium: Piano, Voice and Chord