Valued tradition? Armed policing in the UK

The traditional social “contract” in the UK mainland between the public and the police involves the ideal of an unarmed police service. In recent years while the public have accepted the more visible role of specialist armed officers on security duties in airports and strategic positions, the majority of officers remain unarmed. Following 7/7 in London and the Derrick Bird case in Cumbria there have been media calls for more police officers to be armed on a routine basis .This would fundamentally change the social contract and the relationship with the British public. The principle of policing by consent and the idea of the citizen in uniform are the fundamental tenets of British policing .Historically the only forces in the UK which are routinely armed are the Police Service of Northern Ireland in Northern Ireland, the Ministry of Defence Police and the Civil Nuclear Constabulary. In contrast all major police forces in Europe, as well as the US, Canada and Australia routinely carry firearms, the exceptions apart from Britain, are the Irish Republic, and New Zealand. In Norway officers carry arms in their cars but not on their person. Every time unarmed police officers are killed, as with the tragic case of Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone killed in the line of duty in Manchester in 2013, the question of arming the British Police is raised.So does the current balance protect the public and safeguard officers or does it fail to satisfy either. Is the current balance between unarmed and armed police in the UK suitable for the 21st Century? There appears to be competing agendas for the Police to contend with. These have been illustrated by recent controversy in Scotland about a standing authority which allowed a small number of officers to carry guns while on routine patrol .Politicians and community leaders attacked the nationwide roll-out of officers with a standing authority to carry guns on routine patrols since the formation of Scotland’s single police force. The Forces armed police monitoring group recommended keeping the standing authority in place after it was given intelligence on serious organised crime groups in 2014.The Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) in its review of the authority (2014) said the operational need for the authority is justified by national intelligence and threat levels.

Die Stadtbäder der Goldenen Zwanziger. Kommunale Prestigearchitektur zwischen Tradition und Moderne

Die Dissertation behandelt eine für das Badewesen bedeutende Epoche, die sich durch den Beginn des sportorientierten Bäderbaus auszeichnet. Es entsteht ein neuer architektonischer Hallenschwimmbadtypus und es etabliert sich eine gemeinsame Badekultur von Mann und Frau - zwei Errungenschaften, die den Bäderbau bis in die Gegenwart prägen. Viele Bauprojekte und Ideen kamen allerdings durch die Wirtschaftskrisen jener Zeit frühzeitig zum Erliegen, sodass die baulichen Leistungen der Kommunen nicht nur an den Ausführungen, sondern auch an den Entwürfen abgelesen werden müssen. Die kommunale Hallenbäderarchitektur veranschaulicht paradigmatisch die Sozialgeschichte, die Sport- und Hygienebewegung sowie die Genderentwicklung der Zwanziger Jahre. Mangels an Würdigung einerseits sowie einer seit den letzten Jahrzehnten zunehmenden Freizeitorientierung im Bäderbau andererseits wird der Erhalt der schwimmsportorientierten Bäderarchitektur durch Leerstände, Umnutzungen und Abbrüche gefährdet. Durch die Aufarbeitung der Historie und zeitgenössischen Diskurse, die Vermittlung der planerischen Grundlagen sowie durch die Analyse, Auswertung und Typologie des historischen Bäderbestandes der Zwanziger Jahre wird eine fundierte Basis geschaffen, um die Hallenbäderarchitektur als Bedeutungsträger ihrer Zeit angemessen zu würdigen.

Crenças e quebranças de um corpo que dança: poéticas do benzimento na criação cênica

This work is a discussion of the artistic process of an artist-researcher made from field research with benzedeiras and benzedores the state of Rio Grande do Norte. This is an investigation on the cultural universe of the popular benzeção as poetic element to the artistic dance. To discuss the different stages of the research and the relationships between the artist-researcher, the benzedeiras/benzedores and the creation/composition scenic, the work takes as reference the triangular relationship created by anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, in his discussion on the effectiveness of symbols of healing, adapted to the context of benzeção . For dialogue between tradition, popular knowledge, scientific and artistic knowledge this work approaches as analytical reference the epistemological model of the type rhizome proposed by Deleuze and Guattari, understanding it as a model that seeks to form a network of relations in different paths of research, to establish connections between elements without target them or subordinating them. In the universe of benzeção , benzedeiras and benzedores carry a symbolic power that issued in whispered prayers, in peculiar gestures that form crosses in space, heal those who seek your prayers and blessing. In this research, the mixture of popular knowledge, artistic and academic knowledge, born an artistic work in the context of Performing Arts, more specifically dance, and between branches, saints, candles and conversations the work allowed other looks poetic for our popular culture, (re)asserting their cultural and human values through the art

Cura mágica

Em se tratando do estudo comparativo entre o Almanaque Brasileiro Garnier, produzido por uma das últimas filiais francesas no Rio de Janeiro, e o Almanach Hachette, editado pela Librarie Hachette em Paris, propomos a aferição das cidades excelentes, Paris e Rio de Janeiro, por meio da análise de duas propagandas ou almanaquias concernentes a tratamentos terapêuticos, Nutrigène e Pilules Pink, para cura - em um microcosmo popular inscrito no mítico-poético - dos males da modernidade. Ora, a construção, de tais sítios oníricos enraizados no popular, permite que façamos a inferência segundo a qual os antigos tratamentos naturais, como as garrafadas, os chás e as ervas, agora recebam uma roupagem moderna, em que os antigos pacotes ou sacos, são, doravante, encapsulados e enfrascados, como as Pilules Pink e o Nutrigène, uma espécie de ‘’modernização’’ dos princípios terapêuticos e místicos advindos dos bálsamos populares de outrora.

Creative industries in Macau innovation and tradition at USJ

International Conference Of Silk, Sugar and Spices: new directions in East-West CooperationISCAP 11-12-13 November 2015

Burkhard Poste: Schulreform in Sachsen 1918-1923. Eine vergessene Tradition deutscher Schulgeschichte. (Studien zur Bildungsreform. Bd. 20.) Frankfurt a.M./Bern: Lang 1993 [Rezension]

Rezension von: Burkhard Poste: Schulreform in Sachsen 1918-1923. Eine vergessene Tradition deutscher Schulgeschichte. (Studien zur Bildungsreform. Bd. 20.) Frankfurt a.M./Bern: Lang 1993, 654 S.

POSTDATA – Towards publishing European poetry as linked open data

POSTDATA is a 5 year's European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Project that started in May 2016 and is hosted by the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain. The context of the project is the corpora of European Poetry (EP), with a special focus on poetic materials from different languages and literary traditions. POSTDATA aims to offer a standardized model in the philological field and a metadata application profile (MAP) for EP in order to build a common classification of all these poetic materials. The information of Spanish, Italian and French repertoires will be published in the Linked Open Data (LOD) ecosystem. Later we expect to extend the model to include additional corpora. There are a number of Web Based Information Systems in Europe with repertoires of poems available to human consumption but not in an appropriate condition to be accessible and reusable by the Semantic Web. These systems are not interoperable; they are in fact locked in their databases and proprietary software, not suitable to be linked in the Semantic Web. A way to make this data interoperable is to develop a MAP in order to be able to publish this data available in the LOD ecosystem, and also to publish new data that will be created and modeled based on this MAP. To create a common data model for EP is not simple since the existent data models are based on conceptualizations and terminology belonging to their own poetical traditions and each tradition has developed an idiosyncratic analytical terminology in a different and independent way for years. The result of this uncoordinated evolution is a set of varied terminologies to explain analogous metrical phenomena through the different poetic systems whose correspondences have been hardly studied – see examples in González-Blanco & Rodríguez (2014a and b). This work has to be done by domain experts before the modeling actually starts. On the other hand, the development of a MAP is a complex task though it is imperative to follow a method for this development. The last years Curado Malta & Baptista (2012, 2013a, 2013b) have been studying the development of MAP's in a Design Science Research (DSR) methodological process in order to define a method for the development of MAPs (see Curado Malta (2014)). The output of this DSR process was a first version of a method for the development of Metadata Application Profiles (Me4MAP) (paper to be published). The DSR process is now in the validation phase of the Relevance Cycle to validate Me4MAP. The development of this MAP for poetry will follow the guidelines of Me4MAP and this development will be used to do the validation of Me4MAP. The final goal of the POSTDATA project is: i) to be able to publish all the data locked in the WIS, in LOD, where any agent interested will be able to build applications over the data in order to serve final users; ii) to build a Web platform where: a) researchers, students and other final users interested in EP will be able to access poems (and their analyses) of all databases; b) researchers, students and other final users will be able to upload poems, the digitalized images of manuscripts, and fill in the information concerning the analysis of the poem, collaboratively contributing to a LOD dataset of poetry.

Slobodan Jovanović et la tradition du libéralisme doctrinaire serbe : pour un changement du paradigme

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Corporeidades negras em cena : um processo cênico : pedagógico em diálogos com a tradição e a contemporaneidade

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Artes, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes, 2015.

Entre a imagem e o signo : notas sobre Nietzsche, a linguagem e a tradição dialética

Persigo aqui o objetivo de contribuir à recuperação da interlocução entre Nietzsche e a tradição dialética. A despeito da ideia de registros teóricos incompatíveis, procuro sublinhar as preocupações comuns e o possível benefício recíproco nessa interlocução. A diretriz fundamental consiste na visualização da capacidade de a linguagem se tensionar entre a mediação simbólica das formas de vida e a expressividade das vivências singularizadas. Primeiramente, proponho uma interpretação das reflexões de Nietzsche sobre a linguagem no sentido de detectar aí uma instigante polarização entre conceito e intuição (1). Em seguida, mostro como Adorno desenvolve esse tema no sentido de uma concepção dialética de linguagem (2). Finalmente, apoiando-me em Hegel e Gadamer, gostaria de indicar como a tradição dialética logra responder ao desafio nietzschiano do inacabamento do sentido poético (3). ______________________________________________________________________________ RESUMEM

Crenças e quebranças de um corpo que dança: poéticas do benzimento na criação cênica

This work is a discussion of the artistic process of an artist-researcher made from field research with benzedeiras and benzedores the state of Rio Grande do Norte. This is an investigation on the cultural universe of the popular benzeção as poetic element to the artistic dance. To discuss the different stages of the research and the relationships between the artist-researcher, the benzedeiras/benzedores and the creation/composition scenic, the work takes as reference the triangular relationship created by anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, in his discussion on the effectiveness of symbols of healing, adapted to the context of benzeção . For dialogue between tradition, popular knowledge, scientific and artistic knowledge this work approaches as analytical reference the epistemological model of the type rhizome proposed by Deleuze and Guattari, understanding it as a model that seeks to form a network of relations in different paths of research, to establish connections between elements without target them or subordinating them. In the universe of benzeção , benzedeiras and benzedores carry a symbolic power that issued in whispered prayers, in peculiar gestures that form crosses in space, heal those who seek your prayers and blessing. In this research, the mixture of popular knowledge, artistic and academic knowledge, born an artistic work in the context of Performing Arts, more specifically dance, and between branches, saints, candles and conversations the work allowed other looks poetic for our popular culture, (re)asserting their cultural and human values through the art