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The Soviet Empire of Signs: A History of the Tartu School of Semiotics. Saarbrüchen: VDM Verlag. Winner, Thomas 1968. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartu–Moscow_Semiotic_School |
Introduction. In: I. M. Lotman, Lektsii po struktural'noi poetike. Vvedenie, teoriia stikha. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartu–Moscow_Semiotic_School |
Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press, vii-xii. Żyłko, Bogusław 2001. Culture and Semiotics: Notes on Lotman's Conception of Culture. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartu–Moscow_Semiotic_School |
New Literary History 32(2): 391–408. Żyłko, Bogusław 2014. Notes on Yuri Lotman's structuralism. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartu–Moscow_Semiotic_School |
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Actualité. Vol. 40 (Slavica Occitania ed.). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartu–Moscow_Semiotic_School |
Toulouse: Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail. Ekaterina Velmezova. 2015. ISBN 978-2-9538558-9-0. Archived from the original on 2015-10-05. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartu–Moscow_Semiotic_School |
The road master (Latin: viarius; Italian: Maestro delle Strade) was a middle- to high-ranking urban official common across the central and northern regions of Italy between c. 1250-1550, that is the communal and despotic era. Often part of the podestà’s or capitano del popolo’s entourage, the road master worked in smal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_master |
For instance, they could punish artisans polluting a public street or neighborhood, enforcing a distinct form of urban zoning. Road masters also fought against domestic practices that were seen as causing harm to the population at large, including unlawful refuse disposal and neglecting to restrain pigs. Roads official... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_master |
Beyond the upkeep of roads and canals allowing produce to reach and leave markets, these officials often examined the accuracy of weights and measures used by retailers. They also pursued people who tried to sell produce outside the allowed time and place or wares of inferior quality, such as rotten meat or fish. In do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_master |
Lastly, roads officials also policed inns and taverns, places where food and drink were sold, to ensure these were of good quality and served at the correct amounts and for the right price. The presence in taverns of alcohol and abundance of foreigners, including sex workers, sometimes meant that roads masters also ope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_master |
Hot Form Quench (HFQ®) is an industrial forming process for the production of deep drawn, precise and complex geometry ultra-high strength aluminium sheet components. It is a hot stamping process for certain grades of aluminium and has similarities to the press hardening of ultra-high strength steels. HFQ exploits visc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_form_quench |
Impression Technologies Limited (ITL), a materials technology company based in Coventry, UK, has exclusive commercialisation rights for HFQ, and has since developed its own additional know-how and rights in this domain. At the same time as the first HFQ applications were adopted in automotive applications (the Aston Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_form_quench |
Hot forming of aluminium alloys consists of four main steps performed on a custom-shaped sheet blank: solutionising, blank transfer, quenching and forming, and artificial aging. In the solutionising step, the blank is heated in a furnace to a temperature where the precipitates in the material dissolve. The solutionisin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_form_quench |
Customised proprietary ageing processes have been developed to optimise corrosion performance and/or downstream joining propertiesFollowing the HFQ process, parts can be in-die trimmed or laser trimmed as is typical for press hardened steel parts, dependant on production volume. It is usual for volumes below 10,000 par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_form_quench |
HFQ is used where light-weighting and high levels of part integration are required where aluminium sheet is considered a suitable technical and economic proposition. HFQ can be a solution for applications ranging from several hundred to millions of parts per annum. Aluminium sheet thickness ideal for HFQ range from 0.8... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_form_quench |
Recently there has been significant interest in the use of HFQ for battery lids and casings for electric vehicles. Alloys used for these applications include the 6x and 7x series such as 6111, 6082, 6016 and 7075. Aerospace applications are being developed that include lip skins, nacelles, fairings, wing ribs and seats... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_form_quench |
Other transportation sector applications include electric bicycles, motorcycles, and rail structures. In other sectors, HFQ has been considered to replace heavy castings and machined components, currently made from aluminium where light-weighting or material utilisation are critical factors. A critical consideration in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_form_quench |
HFQ’s main advantage is superior formability for ultra-high strength aluminium alloys, that would otherwise split during conventional cold forming. This leads to extremely deep drawn parts (can be >300mm), sharp radii (r/t of 0.8 of has been demonstrated) and high levels of part integration versus cold formed pressings... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_form_quench |
When compared to superplastic forming, which is well-established, HFQ can offer significantly higher production speeds (of up to 4 parts per minute) and a wider range of aluminium grades. Secondary benefits of HFQ include the ability to use lower cost and more widely available F Temper alloy feedstocks and even use hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_form_quench |
Technology transfer (TT), also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the person or organization that owns or holds it to another person or organization, in an attempt to transform inventions and scientific outcomes into new products and services that benefit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
Knowledge and technology transfer plays a crucial role in connecting innovation stakeholders and moving inventions from creators to public and private users.Intellectual property (IP) is an important instrument of technology transfer, as it establishes an environment conducive to sharing research results and technologi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
Technology transfers may occur between universities, businesses (of any size, ranging from small, medium, to large), governments, across geopolitical borders, both formally and informally, and both openly and secretly. Often it occurs by concerted effort to share skills, knowledge, technologies, manufacturing methods, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
It is closely related to (and may arguably be considered a subset of) knowledge transfer. Horizontal transfer is the movement of technologies from one area to another. Transfer of technology is primarily horizontal. Vertical transfer occurs when technologies are moved from applied research centers to research and devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
Spin-outs are used where the host organization does not have the necessary will, resources, or skills to develop new technology. Often these approaches are associated with raising of venture capital (VC) as a means of funding the development process, a practice common in the United States and the European Union. Resear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
Technology brokers are people who discovered how to bridge the emergent worlds and apply scientific concepts or processes to new situations or circumstances. A related term, used almost synonymously, especially in Europe, is "technology valorisation". While conceptually the practice has been utilized for many years (in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
Technology transfer is also promoted through informal means, such as at conferences organized by various groups, including the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), and at "challenge" competitions by organizations such as the Center for Advancing Innovation in Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
There are numerous professional associations and TTO Networks enhancing different forms of collaboration among technology managers in order to facilitate this "informal" transfer of best practices and experiences. In addition to AUTM, other regional and international associations include the Association of European Sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
Universities and research institutions seeking to partner with industry or other organizations can adopt an institutional intellectual property policy for effective intellectual property management and technology transfer. Such policies provide structure, predictability, and a n environment, in which commercialization ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
A research result may be of scientific and commercial interest, but patents are normally only issued for practical processes, and so someone—not necessarily the researchers—must come up with a specific practical process. Another consideration is commercial value; for example, while there are many ways to accomplish nuc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
It can involve licensing agreements or setting up joint ventures and partnerships to share both the risks and rewards of bringing new technologies to market. Other corporate vehicles, e.g. spin-outs, are used where the host organization does not have the necessary will, resources, or skills to develop new technology. O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
Many universities and research institutions, and governmental organizations now have an Office of Technology Transfer (TTO, also known as "Tech Transfer" or "TechXfer") dedicated to identifying research that has potential commercial interest and strategies for how to exploit it. Technology Transfer Offices are usually ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
Some examples include Technology Licensing Office (TLO), Technology Management Office, Research Contracts and IP Services Office, Technology Transfer Interface, Industry Liaisons Office, IP and Technology Management Office, and Nucleus of Technological Innovation.Technology transfer offices may work on behalf of resear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
Technology and Innovation Support Centers (TISCs) help innovators access patent information, scientific and technical literature and search tools and databases and make more effective use of these resources to promote innovation, technology transfer, commercialization and utilization of technologies. The WIPO TISCs pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
Science and technology parks (STP) are territories usually affiliated with a university or a research institution, which accommodate and foster the growth of companies based therein through technology transfer and open innovation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
Technology business incubators (TBIs) are organizations that help startup companies and individual entrepreneurs develop their businesses by providing a range of services, including training, brokering and financing. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
Intellectual Property marketplaces are Internet-based platforms that allow innovators to connect with potential partners and/or clients. For example, online platform WIPO GREEN enable collaborations in specific areas of knowledge transfer and facilitate matchmaking between technology providers and technology seekers. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
There has been a marked increase in technology transfer intermediaries specialized in their field since 1980, stimulated in large part by the Bayh–Dole Act and equivalent legislation in other countries, which provided additional incentives for research exploitation. Due to the increasing focus on technology transfer th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
The U.S. government's annual budget funds over $100 billion in research and development activity, which leads to a continuous pipeline of new inventions and technologies from within government laboratories. Through legislation including the Bayh–Dole Act, Congress encourages the private sector to use those technologies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
Technology transfer had a direct impact on contributing to global public health issues, by enabling global access to COVID-19 vaccines. During 2021, vaccine developers concluded over 200 technology transfer agreements. One example was AstraZeneca concluding the licensing and technology transfer agreements on AstraZenec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
Despite incentives to move research into production, the practical aspects are sometimes difficult to perform in practice. Using DoD technology readiness levels as a criterion (for example), research tends to focus on TRL (technology readiness level) 1–3 while readiness for production tends to focus on TRL 6–7 or highe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer |
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the entire Russo-Ukrainian War, Russia has forcibly transferred thousands of Ukrainian children to areas under its control, assigned them Russian citizenship, forcibly adopted them into Russian families, and created obstacles for their reunification with their parents and home... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Children have also been abducted from Ukrainian state institutions in occupied areas, and through children's "summer camps" on Russian territory. The abducted children have been subject to Russification; raising children of war in a foreign nation and culture may constitute an act of genocide if intended to erase their... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
The vast majority of the abducted children have been abducted from southern and eastern Ukraine (Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk and Mykolaiv regions). According to Ukraine's ombudsman on children's rights, Russia is carrying out the abductions with the goal of supplementing its own population, and tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Some children have been abducted after becoming separated from their parents while fleeing active war zones, and some have been abducted after their parents were detained in filtration camps. Some children have been abducted and taken to Russia by family friends or relatives seeking financial and material gain from inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Children have been abducted from Ukrainian state-run institutions such as orphanages, group homes, care homes, hospitals, and boarding schools; many of the forcibly transferred children were taken from orphanages and group homes. State institutions furthermore lost track of thousands of children in their care amid the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Parents in Russian-occupied areas have been encouraged by Russian occupation authorities, Russian forces, and teachers to send their children to so-called "summer camps" (in fact re-education camps for Ukrainian children) for a respite from the Russo-Ukrainian War. Some parents were pressured to allow their children to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Some children said they were told they would be given up for adoption or placed into foster homes if their parents did not come to collect them soon. Some children were retrieved through intervention by the Ukrainian government. Parents' ability to communicate with their children during their stay in the camps has been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
According to witness testimonies obtained by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, some of the children have experienced poor living conditions, inadequate care, and verbal abuse while living under the custody of the Russian state. Some returned children have attested to harsh punishments and restrictive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Russian law prohibits adoptions of children who are citizens of other countries by Russian citizens without the consent of the child's home country. In May 2022, Vladimir Putin signed a decree facilitating the granting of Russian citizenship to Ukrainian children to enable their permanent adoption into Russian families... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
According to The New York Times, "Russian officials have made clear that their goal is to replace any childhood attachment to home with a love for Russia". Upon arriving in Russia, the children are placed in homes and subjected to re-education. During the occupation of Novopskov, occupation authorities threatened to de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Children in such camps have been subjected to Russification, Russian state propaganda, and military education (including firearm training). Children have also been provided with formal education in accordance with Russia's educational standards (either at the camps or at local schools) in an effort to steer them toward... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
The Russian state begun using abducted Ukrainian children for propaganda purposes during the War in Donbas. The domestic narrative of the Russian state is that abandoned children are rescued from the ravages of war by the magnanimous Russian state. The forced transfer of Ukrainian children forms part of a broader propa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Abducted children were paraded at a government pro-war rally marking the first anniversary of the invasion, where they were shown thanking Russian soldiers for "saving them". The Russian state has carefully crafted the portrayal of the forced transfers of children to the Russian public. Russian state television has bro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Many parents wish to reunite with their children (some do not, either due to financial reasons or previous estrangement). Russian authorities do not make any attempt to contact parents to notify them that their children are in the custody of the Russian state and have refused to cooperate with the Ukrainian government ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Ukraine's ombudsman on children's rights has said the process of tracking down abducted children is especially difficult with young children that may not remember where they are from. Even in cases where parents have successfully tracked down their children and formally applied to the Russian authorities to be reunited... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
The Belarusian state and state-affiliated organisations have actively participated in the forced transfers of Ukrainian children. Ukrainian children have been deported to Belarus where they are held in recreational camps. The National Anti-Crisis Management Group, a Belrussian organisation headed by Pavel Latushka, a B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
According to state documents uncovered by Latushka, the transfers are being conducted under the authority of the Union State. The transfers of Ukrainian children have been shown on Belarusian state television. There are indications of re-education efforts by the Belarusian state. Much of the information about the child... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Russia started transferring children from Ukrainian territories as early as 2014, the first year of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The first such large-scale program was initiated by Russian charity celebrity Elizaveta Glinka. In early February 2022, Russia "evacuated" 500 supposed orphans from Donetsk Oblast to Russian terr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
authorities claimed more than 2,300 children had been kidnapped by Russian forces from the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.On 30 May 2022, Vladimir Putin signed a decree that streamlined the process of adopting Ukrainian orphans or those without parental care and giving them Russian citizenship.According to a May 2022 repo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
By 26 May, more than 238,000 Ukrainian children were reported to have been deported to Russian territory.Ukraine raised the issue at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in early June, where the head of Ukraine's mission, Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk, quoted a message from a Ukrainian chi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
They say they want to leave us in Russia. And I don't want to stay in Russia! "According to Ukrainska Pravda, Russia has taken 267 orphans from Mariupol to Rostov to be made Russian citizens, supervised by Maria Lvova-Belova. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
It also reported that Russian authorities had looked for and collected orphaned children, to be taken to an unknown destination.Sky News released CCTV footage dated June 2022 of Russian FSB officials entering an orphanage Kherson to search for orphans. Aware of the risk of child abductions, the staff hid the children p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Russian authorities subsequently sent abducted 15 children to be housed in the orphanage, only to be taken away by the Russian occupiers as they retreated from Kherson. Russian forces also successfully abducted children from a different Kherson orphanage, an eyewitness told Sky News.In June 2022, Mikhail Mizintsev, hea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
She was being questioned... They told me I was going to be taken away from my mom... I was shocked... They didn’t say anything about where my mom was going. A lady from Novoazovsk service said maybe my mom would be let go... I didn’t get to see my mom... I have not heard from her since. In December 2022, a report publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Lvova-Belova has claimed that the Russian state is entirely willing to reunite the children with their parents if they come forward. On 17 June 2023, Vladimir Putin rejected the request of a peace delegation from Africa to return the children back home, saying that "We moved them out of the conflict zone, saving their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Ukrainian authorities have claimed Putin's decree to be a way to "legalize the abduction of children from the territory of Ukraine". They have maintained this "grossly violate" the 1949 Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, and the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Russia will not be able to avoid the strictest accountability. "By 31 May 2023, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Ukrainian Service reported that Zelenskiy said 371 deported Ukraine children have been returned by Russia. More than 19,000 children have been deported to Russia. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
UNICEF Emergency Programs Director Manuel Fontaine told CBS News that UNICEF was "looking into how we can track or help on that", though stating they did not have ability to investigate at the moment.Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, announced on 15 June 2022 that her agency had ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
In none of the situations which the Commission has examined, transfers of children appear to have satisfied the requirements set forth by international humanitarian law. The transfers were not justified by safety or medical reasons. There seems to be no indication that it was impossible to allow the children to relocat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
On 21 December 2022, a French NGO, "For Ukraine, for their Freedom and Ours! ", submitted via the law firm Vigo a communication to Karim Khan, Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, to contribute to "the investigation opened on 2 March 2022 by the Office of the Prosecutor, upon referral of the situation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
In April 2023, the Council of Europe deemed the forced transfers of children as constituting an act of genocide in with an overwhelming majority of 87 in favour of the resolution to 1 against and 1 abstaining. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Russian children's rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova has been sanctioned by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
On 17 March 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Putin and Lvova-Belova, alleging criminal responsibility for the unlawful deportation and transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia. It decided that they are covered by articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and article 8(2)(b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
It is the first time the court has issued an arrest warrant against the leader of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan said, "We must ensure that those responsible for alleged crimes are held accountable and that children are returned to their families and communities. We... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine |
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering dental public health and the application of epidemiology to dentistry. It was established in 1973 and is published by John Wiley & Sons. The editor-in-chief is Professor Sarah R Baker (University of Sheffield, UK). According... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Dentistry_and_Oral_Epidemiology |
The Flying Grass Carpet is a huge rug entirely made of artificial grass. It travels around the world, as a temporary landscape. It's intended as space to play on and enjoy, but can also be used for picnics, open-air festivals and sports .The Flying Grass Carpet has been to the following cities: 2008: Amsterdam - Aachen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Grass_Carpet |
The designers of The Flying Grass Carpet live in Rotterdam, a city known for its designers and architects. The designers of the Flying Grass Carpet are fond of cities and city-life but are concerned about the loss of quality of the public space in a lot of cities. To make a positive gesture they created The Flying Gras... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Grass_Carpet |
The Flying Grass Carpet travels to different places around the world, and stays in the different locations for a short period of time. It's intended to function as an actual park, allowing people to enjoy all the activities they can normally only enjoy in the park, in the middle of the city. The Flying Grass Carpet is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Grass_Carpet |
The carpet contains several types and colors of grass. It weighs 6375 kilograms (6.5 kg per square meter). The size of the carpet is adjustable, and can be up to 25 by 36 meters. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Grass_Carpet |
The Flying Grass Carpet won a 'Dutch Design Award' in 2009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Grass_Carpet |
The loony left is a pejorative term used to describe those considered to be politically hard left. First recorded as used in 1977, the term was widely used in the United Kingdom in the campaign for the 1987 general election and subsequently both by the Conservative Party and by British newspapers that supported the par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
The term "loony left" as used to describe certain aspects of Labour politics was created by the British popular press a few years before the 1987 general election. Throughout the run-up to the election, it became a staple feature of press coverage of the election, with many stories running detailing the "antics" of Lab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
Petley observes that the British press had long since "perfected a way of representing the ideas and personalities associated with socialism as so deranged and psychotic that they represented a danger to society", thus rendering them fair game for editorial vilification. After his party's defeat in the 1983 general ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
These labels were increasingly also applied to local councils within London: The 13 March 1983 Sunday People labelled Islington local council the "Bananas republic"; and the 13 February 1983 Mail on Sunday labelled it "The mad mad mad mad world of Islington". In some ways, the "Loony Left" campaign was a generalisation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
"Loony left" was also used to describe specific individuals. Neil Kinnock, who had been subject to press vituperation since his election as party leader, was associated with the "loony left" when, in March 1987, he endorsed a rise of 60% in local council rates in Ealing, where he was a rate-payer. The Sun gave this the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
A later story in the Daily Express about how Ken Livingstone purportedly had a left-wing takeover of the party arranged was denied by the Labour leadership; this was subsequently reported as "Neil Denies Truth About Left Plot".Likewise, Deirdrie Wood, Labour candidate in the 1987 Greenwich by-election, came to be known... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
Labour presented her as "a hard-working local woman with sensible policies", but the press portrayed her as a radical extremist by association, as an Irish Republican Army sympathiser living with a militant shop steward who was not the father of her children. She was also depicted personally as a "hard left feminist, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
Partly because of structural changes to local authorities enacted in 1974, including the end of local aldermanic dignities and partly simply as a result of an influx of new people whose background had been in the radical youth movements of the 1960s, local government authorities became highly partisan political battleg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
The label still occurs in British political discourse, even in the 21st century and has become a firmly embedded feature of British journalism. However, changes made by the Labour Party after the 1987 general election to ensure that it was no longer associated in the public mind with the images of the "Loony Left" from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
While Labour did not ignore the press, senior Labour figures became reluctant to talk to reporters. Kinnock refused to talk to the press on the flight back from his visit to the U.S. President Ronald Reagan after British journalists had continually sought a story that would represent the trip in a negative light. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
Similarly, Patricia Hewitt, then party press secretary, considered abandoning holding daily press conferences in the run-up to the 1987 general election because "they allow the newspaper journalists to set the agenda … and we know where they stand".In a widely leaked letter written to Frank Dobson after the Greenwich b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
In general, the "soft left" portion of the Labour Party blamed the "Loony Left" perception for this third general election defeat, despite the election campaign having been, in Larry Whitty's words, "the most effective campaign the party has ever waged". According to the "soft left", the Labour-controlled local governm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
I want to eliminate it." Similarly, a question-and-answer pamphlet for voters prepared by staff at Labour headquarters had the question: "But if I vote Labour won't I get a loony left council like those in London? | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
", to which the answer given was: "Left councils are exceptions, Neil Kinnock has told them to mend their ways and he is in full charge of the Labour Party. "On several occasions, the Labour Party leadership and others attempted to take a hard line on the "Loony Left" to gain a more favourable impression in the media. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
Similarly, after the Greenwich by-election defeat five London Labour Party members — Brian Nicholson, Roger Godsiff, John Spellar, Roy Shaw and Dianne Hayter — formed the "Londoners for Labour" association, according to their press releases aimed at reclaiming the London Labour Party from "the loonies".The 1980s UK pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
As Jenkins noted, the truth of the stories mattered less than their resonance with voter fears. Three of the most famously recorded instances of "Loony Left" activities—the renaming of the nursery rhyme "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep," of "manhole covers" and of "black bin-liner bags"—were myths, outright fabrications by the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
In 1986, a parent-run nursery school banned the song "Baa Baa Black Sheep" over concerns the song might have racial undertones. Over time, media reports came to misreport the story, eventually incorrectly claiming the Birmingham City Council had ordered the lyrics be changed to "Baa Baa green sheep". Variants of this s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
It was originally reported by Bill Akass, then a journalist at the Daily Star in the 15 February 1986 edition under the headline "Now it's Baa Baa Blank Sheep". Akass had heard of a ban issued, by nursery school staff, on the singing of "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" on the grounds that it was racist. In his story, he wrote: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left |
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