Books on the topic 'Chalan bil'

This chapter focuses on the Carla Bley Band, a ten-person big band Bley had spent several years establishing. The Carla Bley Band effectively became the instrument for which she composed, the vehicle through which she could let her sonic imagination run free. The establishment of her own large ensemble following the creation of her recording studio, record label, and distribution service was part of a logical chain of events, one indicating a further step in Bley's ongoing quest for total artistic control in the creation, administration, and dissemination of her music. This freedom allowed Bley to focus on an uninhibited exploration of musical ideas in her compositions. Over the next few years the Carla Bley Band toured both Europe and the United States, recorded six albums on Watt between 1977 and 1983, and contributed a soundtrack of preexisting pieces for a Claude Miller film called Mortelle Randonee.

This chapter examines the constitutional crisis of 1983, which focused on the King’s power to assent to legislation in relation to federal legislation and on the State Rulers’ equivalent power in relation to State legislation. The crisis should be viewed while considering that amendments to the Federal Constitution are common in Malaysia. However, intense national interest was generated by the refusal of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Ahmad Shah, to assent to the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 1983. What was the significance of the 1983 Amendment Bill? What were the motives of the government in mooting the amendments? The chapter reviews the chain of events and clarifies many of the constitutional issues that were clouded by the confrontation between the dissenting parties.

Why are big budget films typically made across an array of seemingly dissociated sites? Supply Chain Cinema shows how the production journeys of such films exemplify the principles of the supply chain, whose core imperative is to nimbly and opportunistically manufacturing wherever is most amenable and efficient. Through extensive on-site investigations and in-depth interviews with film professionals, Kay Dickinson delivers nuanced insight into working practices in the UK and the UAE. Among the sites she examines is Warner Bros’ permanent base at Leavesden Studios near London. From tax breaks designed to attract foreign projects to infrastructures, logistical support and expertise offered, she considers why Hollywood giants elect to make more of their films in Britain than in the USA. Dickinson goes on to show how the UK’s ambitions to enlarge its creative economies has opened up a host of competitive advantages with British higher education increasingly fashioned to conform to the needs of border-hopping enterprise, thus generating a workforce keenly adapted to the demands of blockbuster moviemaking. This book proposes that the ways in which big-budget films are made across an array of seemingly dissociated sites exemplify the principles of supply chain production. Chapter 1 examines how supply chain cinema routes through wherever is most amenable and economical in order to take advantage of government support, tax incentives, customized infrastructures, logistical efficiencies, transnational standardization and coordination in tandem with sectional, fragmented and project-by-project reconfigurations of precarious labour. Chapter 2 investigates why Hollywood giants elect to make more of their films in Britain than in the USA, availing themselves of the UK’s ambitions to enlarge its creative economies, which have rendered the workforce all the more keenly adapted to the structures and demands of blockbuster moviemaking. Chapter 3 explores how the film industry, in concert with the UK government, has massaged filmmaking education to fit its needs. Chapter 4 assesses how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has geared up its creative economy policy and education systems, largely through English-medium foreign franchise universities, to train a supply chain-ready workforce. Chapter 5 asks: what does the UAE furnish these incoming projects and at what cost to a precarious and largely migrant workforce? The Conclusion (like the end of each chapter) offers suggestions for how the injustices that the supply chain cinema exploits and expands might be challenged, diminished and eradicated.

Chapter 5 follows the investment chain from the ‘buy side’ of investment management into the ‘sell side’ of brokers and traders. It discusses the development of ‘dark pools’—private share-trading venues in which subscribers can bid to buy shares or offer to sell them without those bids or offers being visible to the market at large. Originally, access to dark pools was restricted to investment management firms, and the pools were intended to permit those firms to buy or sell large blocks of shares among themselves at low cost and without the ‘market impact’ of trading in the public markets. The history of dark pools, however, shows how hard it has been to cling to that vision in the face of investment chain entanglements. The entanglement on which the chapter focuses most relates to the ways of payments (colloquially known in the US as ‘soft dollars’) for sell-side research.

The annual VDI-Congress Drivetrain for Vehicles is the most important meeting-point for the automotive industry regarding transmissions and driveline-technology. Vehicle manufacturers, transmissions suppliers and the whole supply-chain are presenting and discussing latest technology and trends. The future of drivetrain for vehicles will become very exciting. The number of electrified drivetrains will be growing in future. Things will get more complex with a hybrid drive and packages will be much more challenging. Therefore we are keen to find intelligent solutions. Furthermore we will face significant changes. The following megatrends are going to have big impact on future drivelines and on the whole value chain: • more and more challenging regulations to reduce environmental pollution caused by traffic, • the need for electrification of drivetrain in terms of hybrids and electric vehicles, • the understanding of the drivetrain system as an overall approach, • high pressure fo...

This chapter demonstrates how Judson's management empire began to plateau in the 1940s. The Depression had rattled music's funding structures. Technology had spawned greater competition for live musical experiences. Jazz had supplanted classical music on the pages of many newspapers and trade magazines. But particularly relevant for Judson was an emerging concern about the connection between music and big business. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) first raised this issue in 1938, when it launched an investigation into the chain-broadcasting practices of the NBC, CBS, and mutual radio networks. The commission also became concerned about the possibility of monopolistic behavior, specifically in the practice of networks representing artists and also buying artists for their radio programs.

This chapter discusses the modernization of the sponsor system. It first considers how advertising sustained and deepened its role as a primary source of finance for digital services, even as it continued its voracious and uneven globalization. It then examines how advertisers accelerated their drive to revamp communications commodity chains, along with issues that arose from Google's entanglement in a larger set of commercial relationships and its impact on the political economy of the commodity chain within which search is embedded. The chapter also looks at the politics of privacy, with particular emphasis on the case of Edward Snowden, the internet as an engine of surveillance, and the debate over personal information that pitted big advertisers, network operators, internet intermediaries, and media conglomerates against popular will.

Just as the clothes we wear can communicate our personality and how we want to be perceived, so fashion can reflect the politics and preoccupations of the society that produced it. A Cultural History of Western Fashion guides you through the relationships between designer fashions, popular culture, big business and high-tech production, as well as traditional and social media. Exploring fashion’s interdisciplinary nature, English and Munroe also highlight the parallel evolution of clothing design and the other visual arts over the last 150 years. This new edition includes expanded coverage of the build up to the First World War and brings this classic text up to date. There’s also a new chapter on ‘Smart Textiles and Technology’, exploring the work of Hussein Chalayan and Iris Van Herpen among others. There is also expanded coverage of the role of sustainability in the contemporary fashion industry, including biosynthetic textile production and Stella McCartney’s use of vegan leather.

Humans spend more time in or on the water than ever before. We love the beach. But for many people, getting in the water provokes a moment’s hesitation. Shark attacks are big news events and although the risk of shark attack on humans is incredibly low, the fact remains that human lives are lost to sharks every year. Shark Attacks explores the tension between risk to humans and the need to conserve sharks and protect the important ecological roles they play in our marine environments. Marine biologist Blake Chapman presents scientific information about shark biology, movement patterns and feeding behaviour. She discusses the role of fear in the way we think about sharks and the influence of the media on public perceptions. Moving first-hand accounts describe the deep and polarising psychological impacts of shark attacks from a range of perspectives. This book is an education in thinking through these emotive events and will help readers to navigate the controversial issues around mitigating shark attacks while conserving the sharks themselves.

This chapter enriches the Expanded PHI perspective through the lens of complexity. Current technical health systems and institutional developments, including the increasing inter-connections between them, and the uncertainities associated with both context and goals are enhancing complexity exponentially. Simple linear approaches to design and develop systems can no longer work, as they imply trying to bring order into processes which by definition defy them. Cloud computing and big data are offered as examples to depict this rising complexity, providing rich opportunities to materialize them. Many organizations are adopting outsourcing models as a means to manage this complexity. However, outsourcing comes in multiple hues and shades, from a simple use of third party hardware to the externalization of the whole value chain of activities, including the analysis and use of data. Public health informatics in LMICs, which are population-based and taking place in largely resource-constrained and unstructured settings, are by definition problematic to outsource and should be approached with caution. An incremental approach where a ‘cultivation strategy’ addresses uncertainities, and ‘attractors’ draw in user-participants are more likely to succeed.

Rare earth elements (REE) have applications in various modern technologies, e.g., semiconductors, mobile phones, magnets. They are categorized as critical raw materials due to their strategic importance in economies and high risks associated with their supply chain. Therefore, more sustainable practices for efficient extraction and recovery of REE from secondary sources are being developed. This book, Environmental Technologies to Treat Rare Earth Elements Pollution: Principles and Engineering: presents the fundamentals of the (bio)geochemical cycles of rare earth elements and which imbalances in these cycles result in pollution.overviews physical, chemical and biological technologies for successful treatment of water, air, soils and sediments contaminated with different rare earth elements.explores the recovery of value-added products from waste streams laden with rare earth elements, including nanoparticles and quantum dots. This book is suited for teaching and research purposes as well as professional reference for those working on rare earth elements. In addition, the information provided in this book is helpful to scientists, researchers and practitioners in related fields, such as those working on metal/metalloid microbe interaction and sustainable green approaches for resource recovery from wastes. ISBN: 9781789062229 (Paperback) ISBN: 9781789062236 (eBook) ISBN: 9781789062243 (ePUB)

Taking Back the Boulevard tells the story of Northeast Los Angeles known popularly for historic Arts and Crafts architecture, bohemian cultural life, independent small businesses, immigrant diversity and quality of life on its boulevards. It chronicles the initial emergence of these prototypical LA streetcar suburbs and the Arroyo Culture bohemia, then disinvestment with growth of mid-20^th century freeway suburbs and white flight with residential succession by incoming Latin American and Asian immigrants. Neighborhood revitalization followed through a Latino/a arts renaissance and Arroyo Culture revival involving muralism, youth involvement and public arts events and festivals. Neighborhood activism was also a key force through campaigns to preserve natural and architectural landmarks and museums, oppose mini-malls, “big box” and chain store franchises, and to “Take Back the Boulevard” for bikers and pedestrians. Yet the creation of a more culturally vibrant and livable city along with entry of speculator developers fostered accelerated gentrification and white return after the Great Recession with increasing mass evictions of working-class and Latino/a households sparking new rounds of local protest. Changing conditions and generational divides confront the neighborhoods as established slow growth leaders share space with newer “right to the city” activists. The author offers lessons for urban planners and policymakers on addressing gentrification effects of public transit-oriented development and smart growth through strategies like participatory planning, Latino Urbanism, and community advisory boards.

Regional American food culture still exists and is strongest in more rural, homogenous areas of the country. Regional foods are a major component of regional identities, and Americans make a big to-do about their home-grown favorites. The current food cultures of the major American regions-northeast/New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, the West, the Midwest-and subregions are illuminated here like never before. Everyone knows something about the iconic fare of a region, such as Soul Food in the South and New England clam bakes, but with this resource readers are able to delve wider and deeper into how Americans from Alaska to Hawaii to the Amish country of the Midwest to the Eastern Seaboard sustain themselves and what their food lifestyles are today. The unique regional food cultures that have developed according to natural resources and population are increasingly affected by social and economic trends. Increasingly mobile Americans generally have access to the same fast food and supermarket chain offerings, read the same mass market food magazines and watch the cable food shows, and younger generations may have less time to continue family food traditions such as baking the ethnic breads and desserts that their mothers did. Regional American Food Culture discusses the various traditions within the context of a new millennium. Narrative chapters describe the background of the regional food culture, what the primary foods are, how the food is cooked and by whom, what the typical meals are, how food is used in special occasions, and diet and health issues in the regions. A chronology, resource guide, selected bibliography, and illustrations complement the text.

The poxviruses are a large family of complex viruses infecting many species of vertebrates as well as arthropods, and members of the three genera Orthopoxvirus, Yatapoxvirus and Parapoxvirus are the cause of sporadic zoonotic infections originating from both wildlife and domestic livestock. Infections of humans are generally associated with localized lesions, regarded as inconvenient rather than life-threatening, although severe illnesses have occurred, particularly in immunologically compromised individuals.The most celebrated of the orthopoxvirus infections is cowpox — a zoonotic infection which has been exploited to the enormous benefit of mankind as it had a pivotal role in the initiation of vaccination strategies that eventually led to the eradication of smallpox. Cowpox occurs only in Eurasia and in recent years it has become evident that infection of cattle is fortuitous and the reservoir of infection is in wild rodents. Monkeypox is another orthopoxvirus causing zoonotic infections in central and west Africa resembling smallpox and is the most serious disease in this category. While monkeypox does not readily spread between people, the potential of the virus to adapt to man is of concern and necessitates sustained surveillance in enzootic areas.The third orthopoxvirus zoonoses of importance is buffalopox in the Indian subcontinent, which is probably a strain of vaccinia that has been maintained in buffalo for at least 30 years following the cessation of vaccination of the human population. Likewise in Brazil, in recent years widespread outbreaks of vaccinia have occurred in milkers and their cattle.Orf virus, the most common of the parapoxviruses to cause zoonotic infection, is largely restricted to those in direct contact with domestic sheep and goats. Generally, infection is associated with a single localized macule affecting the hand which resolves without complications. Infection would appear to be prevalent in all sheep and goat populations and human orf is a relatively common occupational hazard. Sporadic parapoxvirus infections of man also occur following contact with cattle infected with pseudocowpoxvirus, and wildlife, in particular seals.A final serious consideration with the poxvirus zoonoses is the clinical similarity of such infections with smallpox. In view of the potential for smallpox virus to be employed by bio-terrorists there can be an urgency for laboratory confirmation of unexplained zoonotic poxvirus infections. Thus there is a requirement to maintain the capacity for rapid confirmation of poxvirus infections by molecular technique. As representatives of the known poxviruses have all been sequenced, generic and virus specific Polymerase Chain Reactions (PCR) can readily be performed to ensure rapid confirmation of any suspect infection.

Concepción Arenal Ponte (Ferrol, España, enero 31 de 1820-Vigo, España, 4 de febrero de 1893). Abogada, poeta, ensayista y periodista cuya obra se inscribe dentro del Realismo literario, es precursora del feminismo español con sus escritos y acciones sociales en defensa de los derechos y la dignidad de las mujeres. No es difícil imaginar las angustias de su tiempo. La literatura nos da la licencia, lo que siguen son los detalles de vida, los lugares, las personas. Primero una biblioteca y el contacto con los libros, luego el plan, las injusticias y carencias de muchas mujeres y el ritual de la limitación ya estaba servido. Doña Concepción “Concha” como talvez la llamaban sus seres queridos, ya se había organizado muchas veces un plan mental. Debía ingresar a las Aulas de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Central de Madrid. Con seguridad se había detenido en las proximidades del alma mater, había visto los rostros adustos de los juristas, sus cerrados trajes de levita y sombrero de copa alta. El siglo XIX seguía la férrea tradición y resistencia a que la mujer tuviera un espacio fuera de sus roles reproductivos. Tuvo que haber examinado con detalle propio de su alma sensible los gestos, los adornos, el brillo de las miradas, las inflexiones de la voz, los zapatos lustrosos, el espíritu de cofradía de los estudiantes en las llegadas y salidas masivas del claustro. Habría sabido el arte de camuflarse en la muchedumbre, en las jornadas más concurridas, el discreto arte de hacerse uno con la mayoría. Concepción también había estudiado su propia puesta en escena. Frente al espejo habría repetido algunos latinazgos, y un poema clásico propio de la retórica de la época. La oratoria en preparación para el examen de admisión mientras soñaba con ser como “uno más” en el aula de clases de derecho civil o la teoría del poder y del Estado. Aunque no tengamos los datos certeros de un biógrafo, con seguridad tuvo largas charlas preparatorias para el gran día, el resto de la puesta en escena. Con seguridad esa cómplice ayuda amiga que es-tuvo a su lado cuando fue descubierta. Siendo consciente de las limitaciones de su tiempo ella pensaba en ser parte del cambio. No es posible concebir su proyecto, como una mera apuesta por romper barreras sin conciencia de futuro. Sin duda aprender leyes era proporcional a su pasión por la justicia, la de los más desvalidos, entre quienes se contaba ella misma y su género. Su candidez o exceso de confianza sorprenden. Las jornadas de práctica teatral habían terminado por forjar en ella un camuflaje seguro, una performance donde la masculinidad se completa en el travestimiento, en un final de siglo donde los estereotipos de la masculinidad eran tan marcados que un poco de brusquedad, unas facciones duras, ante la ausencia de maquillaje o el cabello corto y engominado habían bastado para completar la expectativa de género. En el proceso todo valía la pena frente a un fin elevado: las leyes y con ella la justicia que debía estar al servicio de la causa social. Concepción Arenal no es la primera mujer que se viste de hombre para alcanzar su sueño, sí, la primera en hacerlo en una nación y en el marco de un cultura jurídica ítalo- germánico-canónica, en la que el lugar de la mujer en la sociedad estaba limitado por una visión patriarcal, una línea paterna de mando y organización de la vida en la que las mujeres no tienen derechos civi les, ni políticos, esencialmente porque no eran personas y mucho menos ciudadanas. Sería la primera mujer española en planear y ejecutar su acceso a la educación superior, hacerse abogada a pesar de todos los obstáculos que le sobrevendrían después de ser descubierta. Triunfo a medias? No fue expulsada, su valor se leyó como un signo excepcional. Podría asistir a las aulas cumpliendo el lastimero ritual de ser recibida por un lebrel, conducida de clase en clase por cada maestro y dejada nuevamente en un espacio seguro del contacto masculino. Una semana, un mes, un año, estuvo en las aulas de 1842 a 1845, para que al final no tuviera un título formal. Concepción no se dio por vencida, no se detuvo. La historia de su éxito posterior, es el testimonio de sus libros. Su lucidez y buen juicio se extenderían tanto como sus obras. Estuvo en las cárceles y hospicios, es-cuchó el clamor de los marginados. Ella pensó en superarse, en abierta lucha contra la injusticia y luego habló, interpeló a las mujeres y hombres de su tiempo, pero sobre todo y como se titula esta obra, escribió para “la mujer del porvenir”. Su voz sigue vigente, ahora como antes y su legado constituye un acto de memoria urgen-te para esta y las futuras generaciones. *** La obra de Concepción Arenal inaugura el proyecto BLA Biblioteca de Autoras libres, en el marco de la creación del “Observatorio Mujer, género y violencias” de la Univesidad Libre, mediante Res. 03 de 20 de agosto de 2020 y en cumplimiento de sus actividades de Investigación, formación académica y proyección social, en armonía con los proyectos de investigación “Género, derecho y memoria histórica”, del grupo Derecho, Sociedad y estudios internacionales, y el proyecto mul-ticampus “Identificación los roles y los estereotipos de género en la Universidad y Comunidades de Impacto: Herramientas para Igualdad y Eliminación de todas las formas de Violencia (2021-2022)”. La colección “Biblioteca de Autoras libres” se presenta como un espacio para la difusión del pensamiento y obras de mujeres quienes, a lo largo de la historia y la formación del pensamiento político, jurídico liberal que han sido piezas clave para la construcción de una sociedad más justa, tolerante, incluyente y en paz. Finalmente, es muy importante destacar cómo ejercicio de memoria para el futuro, el trabajo de transcripción y revisión de ediciones previas, realizado por de los integrantes del semillero “Género, derecho y memoria histórica”: Jorge Acevedo, María José Nieto, Lina Moreno, Julieth Guerrero, Laura Ocampo, Valen-tina Rodríguez, Vanessa Lesmes, María Fernanda Neira y Paula Cárdenas. Sin su paciente labor de copistas, al más tradicional estilo antiguo, la colección “Biblioteca de Autoras Libres BAL” no empezaría a dar sus frutos. El proyecto BAL es una realidad gracias a la confianza y apoyo de nuestras directivas Seccionales, Dr Fernando Salinas y Dra Elizabeth García, quienes valorando la filosofía y los principios fundacionales de nuestra alma mater, acompañan este acto de memoria de mujeres que han sido una pieza fundamental en la consolidación de tradición liberal y en la igualdad de género como una necesidad urgente para la construcción de una nueva nación.