Academic literature on the topic 'Toucan Press'

Cette enquête a pour objectif d’examiner l’usage des temps verbaux dans la presse française historique. Le travail se base sur un échantillon d’environ 1,000 instances de formes verbales finies extraites de la Gazette. L’échantillon couvre la période qui va de la parution de la Gazette en 1631 jusqu’à la Révolution en 1789. A travers une analyse quantitative de l’échantillon conjuguée à une analyse qualitative d’exemples particuliers, nous traçons l’évolution de la sélection des temps verbaux dans la presse d’actualité historique. Les résultats font état de changements touchant d’une part le genre journalistique et d’autre part la langue française pendant cette période.

À l’appel de la grande manifestation unitaire du 13 mai 1968, le syndicat du livre auquel sont affiliés la plupart des ouvriers des imprimeries et des industries du papier rejoint le mouvement général de grève qui touche alors directement la presse magazine d’actualité. Les rédactions des magazines français L’Express, Le Nouvel Observateur et Paris Match sont ainsi confrontées à des problèmes d’impression et de distribution qui ont des répercussions immédiates sur leurs parutions. Les hebdomadaires réagissent différemment à ces mouvements sociaux et politiques qui affectent leur économie et le photojournalisme dit d’information. Si L’Express et Le Nouvel Observateur montrent une volonté d’adaptation et partagent une partie des fondements politiques de ces mouvements, Paris Match cesse de paraître pendant quatre semaines consécutives.

RÉSUMÉCe livre est un guide analytique, intégré et détaillé du système légitime de notation numérique et d'interprétation du test de l'horloge. Le guide fait la distinction entre trois conditions distinctes de la tâche: le dessin libre, un dessin préparé à l'avance, et les conditions du vérificateur du test de l'horloge. De plus, les normes touchant l'ensemble de la population et les personnes âgées bien portantes sont présentées, ainsi que des comparaisons de cas de démence. Cette étude psychométrique empirique attribue un nouveau rôle à la tâche du test de l'horloge, soit celui d'outil neuropsychologique de sensibilité. Les auteurs discutent des applications possibles de ce test comme outil de diagnostic pour la démence d'Alzheimer, la maladie de Parkinson, les attaques d'apoplexie et les tumeurs cérébrales. Cet ouvrage vient consacrer le nouveau rôle tout à fait considérable de l'humble tâche du test de l'horloge.

RÉSUMÉCet ouvrage, rédigépar Binstock, Post et Whitehouse, découle d'une série de colloques tenus aux États-Unis ayant pour thème les questions éthiques, morales, biomédicales, personnelles etpolitiques fondamentales touchant les soins offerts aux personnes atteintes de démence. Les rédacteurs et les auteurs ayant contribué à la publication proviennent de nombreux domaines et professions, notamment des secteurs de l'éthique, du droit, de la médecine, des soins infirmiers, de la philosophie, de la théologie, des sciences politiques, de la psychiatrie et de la psychologie Outre les faits présentés par les divers auteurs de cet ouvrage, le lecteur découvrira d'importantes questions qui l'aideront à saisir davantage certains des principaux points ayant trait aux soins humains offerts aux personnes atteintes de démence.

Un an après l’arrêt Powley de la Cour suprême du Canada en 2003, l’Alberta négociait un accord intérimaire avec les Métis, leur donnant le droit de chasser sur les terres de la Couronne. Cette victoire sera de courte durée puisqu’à la suite des mécontentements exprimés par les Albertains dans la presse locale ainsi que par certaines associations de chas­seurs, le gouvernement albertain décidait de faire marche arrière en optant pour une politique unilatérale plutôt que pour une politique de négociation. En revenant sur certains points centraux de l’histoire des Métis et sur les événements marquants qui ont touché l’Alberta depuis 2004, le but de cet article est de tenter de mieux comprendre les processus coloniaux insidieux qui sont encore en jeu après l’arrêt Powley ainsi que les stratégies légales et illégales développées par les Métis pour faire avancer leurs droits. Dans la mesure où la réconciliation a laissé place à la résistance en Alberta, on est en droit de se demander si Powley représente réellement le renouvellement d’une relation historique entre les Métis, les différents niveaux de gouvernement au Canada et la population canadienne.

This article is a deep study of the technical possibilities of the modern piano and the use of this knowledge in the musical and pianistic development of the personality. The history of the modern piano begins in the XIX century. In 1823, Sebastien Erar in Paris invented the mechanism of double rehearsal. It was a double rehearsal that marked the beginning of a new history of the modern piano. Its main task is to achieve the sensation of closing a fingertip with a string. Similarly, as the ligaments of the vocalist close or the bow with the string of the violinist. Double rehearsal is a thin spring mechanism that allows you to repeatedly press a key from half or a quarter of a key's stroke without lifting your finger from the key.This mechanism drives the hammer, and the damper remains motionless. This creates a pedal sound effect. Possession of a double rehearsal allows the pianist to understand that any touch to the keyboard affects the quality and color of the sound. Touching the keyboard is called Touche - unfortunately a forgotten professional concept. Frederic Chopin owned an excellent touche, for which he was called the "Singer of the piano." Famous musician, conductor, pianist, composer, music theorist, philosopher, human rights activist, Honored Artist of Russia Mikhail Arkadyev is considered a modern researcher of double rehearsal. Mastering a double rehearsal is achieved by repeating a single sound or akorda of three, four sounds on a legato without using the right pedal. Therefore, it is necessary to learn from the very beginning and the first touch. There are many examples of the use of double rehearsal in music literature. It can be any repetition of the same sounds. She creates a variety of musical images. Possession of a double rehearsal contributes to the technical freedom of the pianist, aesthetic and physical support when playing the piano. The research of the ordered topic revealed that the sophisticated mechanism of the double rehearsal is the first and true "soul of the piano" (pedal - "friend") She (double rehearsal) contributes to the technical maintenance of the perfect performance of the musical work and requires a painstaking work as a music teacher, and his students. And this must be done from the beginning of education and education of music school students. As a conclusion of the study, it should be emphasized that today in education the personal-oriented pedagogy comes to the fore. Therefore, the upbringing, development, formation of individual and personal qualities in pupils with the means of music should occupy the current place in the work of musical schools. And this only confirms the relevance of the topic of research and requires its further development.

RÉSUMÉLe principal objectif de cet article est d’encourager une approche plus large, supraconfessionnelle, du mariage et de la famille à l’époque moderne. La conjugalité a été “désacralisée” par les réformateurs protestants du 16e siècle. Martin Luther, parmi d’autres, a refusé le statut de sacrement au mariage, tout en valorisant celui-ci comme une arme contre le péché. En réaction, le concile de Trente a réaffirmé avec force que le mariage est bien un des sept sacrements chrétiens. Mais, promouvant la supériorité du célibat, l’Église catholique n’a jamais beaucoup insisté sur les vertus de la vie et de la piété familiales avant le 19e siècle. En parallèle, les historiens décèlent des signes de “sacralisation” de la famille protestante à partir du 16e siècle. Leurs conclusions doivent être relativisées à la lumière de recherches plus récentes et plus critiques, centrées sur les rapports et les représentations de genre. Elles peuvent néanmoins inspirer une étude élargie et comparative, inexistante dans l’historiographie traditionnelle, des réalités et des perceptions de la famille chrétienne au-delà des frontières confessionnelles.MOTS-CLÉ: Époque Moderne, mariage, famille, protestantisme, Concile de TrenteABSTRACTThe main purpose of this paper is to encourage a broader supra-confessional approach to the history of marriage and the family in the Early Modern era. Wedlock was “desacralized” by the Protestant reformers of the 16th century. Martin Luther, among others, denied the sacramental status of marriage but valued it as a weapon against sin. In reaction, the Council of Trent reinforced marriage as one of the seven sacraments. But the Catholic Church, which promoted the superiority of celibacy, did little to defend the virtues of family life and piety before the 19th century. In parallel, historians have identified signs of a “sacralization” of the Protestant family since the 16th century. 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Essays in Honour of Steven Ozment, St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005.Forster, M. R., “Domestic Devotions and Family Piety in German Catholicism”, inForster, M. R., Kaplan, B. J., (coords.), Piety and Family in Early Modern Europe. Essays in Honour of Steven Ozment, St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005, pp. 97-114.François W., & Soen, V. (coords.), The Council of Trent: Reform and Controversy in Europe and Beyond, 1545-1700, Göttingen, Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2018.Gautier, S., “Mariages de pasteurs dans le Saint-Empire luthérien: de la question de l’union des corps à la formation d’un corps pastoral ‘exemplaire et plaisant à Dieu’”, dans Christin, O., & Krumenacker, Y., (coords.), Les protestants à l’époque moderne. Une approche anthropologique, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2017, pp. 505-517.Gautier, S., “Identité, éloge et image de soi dans les sermons funéraires des foyers pastoraux luthériens aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles”, Europa moderna. Revue d’histoire et d’iconologie, n. 3 (2012), pp. 54-71.Goody, J., The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe, Cambridge, 1983; L’évolution de la famille et du mariage en Europe, Paris, Armand Colin, 1985/2012.Hacker, P., Faith in Luther. Martin Luther and the Origin of Anthropocentric Religion, Emmaus Academic, 2017.Harrington, J. F., Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany, Cambridge, 1995.Hendrix, S. H., & Karant-Nunn, S. C., (coords.), Masculinity in the Reformation Era, Kirksville, Truman State University Press, 2008.Hendrix, S. H., “Christianizing Domestic Relations: Women and Marriage in Johann Freder’s Dialogus dem Ehestand zu ehren”, Sixteenth Century Journal, 23 (1992), pp. 251-266.Ingram, M., Church Courts. 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C., The Reformation of Feeling: Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010.Karant-Nunn, S. C., “The emergence of the pastoral family in the German Reformation: the parsonage as a site of socio-religious change”, in Dixon, C. S., & Schorn-Schütte, L., (coords.), The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe, Basingstoke, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003, pp. 79-99.Karant-Nunn, S. C., “Reformation Society, Women and the Family”, in Pettegree, A., (coord.), The Reformation World, London/New York, Routledge, 2000, pp. 433-460.Karant-Nunn, S. C., “Marriage, Defenses of”, in Hillerbrand, H. 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The presence of French in advertising communication within largely non-French speaking communities has been noted by a few linguists. Haarmann (1984, 1989) found that French is used in Japanese advertisements as ethno-cultural hieroglyphs which connote refinement, poshness, style and tastefulness – stereotypes of France and French culture. The unintelligibility of French to Japanese patrons is perceived as a non-issue, as social or symbolic meanings are deemed to be more vital to attract patrons than denotational meanings. A parallel case was found in British advertisements of food, fashion and beauty businesses where French symbolism or linguistic fetish is seen as attractive to largely non-French, English-speaking patrons (Kelly-Holmes, 2005). Notably, French symbolic meanings are sometimes accompanied by elaborative messages in English. Kelly-Holmes (2005) noted that English is used only where message comprehension is important for explicit communication. Curtin (2009) documented the fact that ‘vogue’ or ‘display’ French shop names favored by high-end restaurants and beauty salons in Taipei occurred concomitantly with vogue English. Vogue English is relatively more ubiquitous across the city's linguistic landscape due to its connotations being exploited in a wide span of applications vis-à-vis the chic prestige of French, which is tied to food, beauty and fashion businesses. The Taipei case shows that non-idiomatic French is employed as a socio-commercial accessory, similar to the case of decorative English used in Japan (Dougill, 1987) and in Milan, Italy (Ross, 1997). However, a more recent study on Tokyo shop signs gleaned linguistic patterns other than vogue English and vogue French (MacGregor, 2003), such as French + Japanese and English + French + Japanese. A recent study by Serwe et al. (in press) found that French and French-like shop names are increasingly in currency, with local shop owners keen to stand out and appeal to the increasingly cosmopolitan and sophisticated clientele in Singapore, who are nevertheless overwhelmingly non-French speaking. They further found that French and French-inspired shop signs of food businesses can be classified into four categories, namely, monolingual French, French + another language, French function words + another language, and coinages, noting that there are idiomatic usages and non-idiomatic usages in the first three categories. In this paper, we throw the spotlight on coinages, which we argue are mostly explicable as French-English code-switched blends. We focus on localized nominal concoctions used by shop owners across food and beauty commercial entities within Singapore. We borrowed the term ‘Frenglish’ from Martin's (2007) study to refer to the French-English blends. However, we noted that Martin's study focused on the use of English in advertising communication in France, where English is the minority language that is largely sidelined by the Toubon Law. Contrastively, English in Singapore is de facto the national language, while French is a foreign language with few speakers.

Robert Norman Brett was a significant cartoonist and illustrator in locally published journals and publications. His printing industry renown as a cartoonist is based on his contribution to the long defunct trade publication Inkling. As de facto resident illustrator at the Pegasus Press, he illustrated a substantial and varied body of publications, some dust wrappers and items for third parties. He was also a calligrapher and artist in several media. An appendix lists his known print-related works.

This thesis provides a history of the sense of touch in modern Britain. Seeking out fugitive intimacies and incidental brushes of lover and stranger alike, it argues that far from being a natural constant, what, how, and why people touched, and what they felt when they did, has a history. Through five case studies of different domains - the mind sciences, visual impairment, public transport, law, and commercialized leisure - it explores how these uses changed, and how they transformed Britons' understandings and experiences of their bodies. Both as a practice and a metaphor, from making space on the bus to keeping 'in touch', touch established the distinctions that Britons made between their bodies and the world and themselves and others. In doing so, touch crucially shaped histories of law, labour relations, scientific experiment, education, and love in the early twentieth century. But it also reformulated the very distinctions of selfhood - distinctions of inner self and outer body, person and thing - on which our accounts of modernity are based. By tracing a history of touch, then, this thesis turns touch into a means of critique. It challenges histories of modernity for which selfhood is a substance rather than produced only through particular social relationships. But it also proposes a new way of thinking about selfhood as an immanent relationship the self has with itself through use of the body. Through historically specific ways of touching, early twentieth-century Britons shaped not only their experience of themselves as bodies, but also the boundaries defining them as selves. Their selfhood was, in short, what they did with the body through touch. By exploring the history of touch between 1870 and 1960, this thesis therefore offers an alternative account of British modernity and a way of re-examining histories of selfhood within and beyond modern Britain.

Touch-tone interfaces are today widely used in help-centers and support services. Studies have shown that interfaces like these have many limitations and are therefore hard to design. MVAS is a voicemail interface using touch- tone input for navigation. Today, shortcomings in the interface limit the users’ ability to use the functionality in a satisfying way. This thesis describes a mainly qualitative study which evaluates and tests the interface of MVAS to come up with how the interface should be designed to be easier to use. The results show that the usability of MVAS is poor but the functionality of the same is both impressive and appreciated. The suggested redesign of the system, based on the identified usability problems, considers both the interaction model used in the interface as well as the conformity to the set of heuristics used in the evaluation. The proposed redesign keeps all the functionality in the system intact and also makes the functionality more explicit through improving the usability. A more explicit structure will facilitate usage of a larger portion of the functionality. However, the limitation of the key-pad affects the redesign so the most favorable design is unreachable. If the interaction model is changed or furthered developed to allow speech input the limitations experienced with the current redesign will diminish and a higher degree of usability can be reached.

La « politique culturelle » est une notion moderne qui traduit le volontarisme des pouvoirs publics pour le développement culturel de la collectivité, dans une perspective d'amélioration de la qualité de vie et d'émancipation du citoyen. Les républicains toulonnais affichent, dès 1870, leur souhait de s'affranchir de toute contrainte morale et intellectuelle. Leur objectif est de parvenir à une démocratisation des arts et des lettres après « l'étouffoir de l'Empire », mais aussi donner accès à l'ensemble de la population à toutes les formes de loisirs afin de créer une nouvelle légitimité politique. Entre 1870 et 1914, les municipalités républicaines prennent le pas sur les deux autres autorités qui se partageaient le pouvoir culturel jusqu'en 1870 : l'État et l'Église.

Looking at the decade between 1968 and 1978, this chapter examines how the shift in power from Gaullists to Giscard and his party affected the politics of the ex-colonials. The worker-student movement of May 1968 gave the ex-colonials an opportunity to press their grievances, but they won few concessions until the election of Giscard as president in 1974. Seeking their vote, Giscard lured the mayor of Toulon his party; the mayor extended new favors to the ex-colonials and in the 1978 parliamentary elections won election to the National Assembly. Rather than withering, the system of patron-client relations in Toulon had survived the end of the Gaullist era. The moderate right continued to divert the far-right potential of the ex-colonials.

This chapter discusses a number of audio-visual interactive devices in which the movement of the images plays a crucial role. In many contemporary museums, there are few press-buttons devices or objects to be touched or handled. Rather, visitors have to touch moving images themselves, whose surface acts as an interface between the spectator and the representation. The technological component is thus concealed in favour of a seemingly “natural” interaction. Interactive tables, which are widespread in museums today, are an emblematic example of this tendency: the chapter analyses relevant cases, such as the interactive table at the Churchill Museum (London, UK).

In 1979, the author taught a course on bilingualism for the first time. Since there was no adequate textbook on the topic, he contacted Harvard University Press and offered to write a book on the subject. They accepted and the book came out in 1982. It was original in many ways, among them the personal testimonies of bilinguals and the many examples of bilingual speech. During this time, the author met with the bilingualism specialist, Einar Haugen. He and his wife, Eva, encouraged the author and helped him accept his own bilingualism. He remained in touch with the couple until they passed away in the 1990s. The author honored them recently at the Einar Haugen lecture in Oslo.

This chapter explores Woolf’s relationships with two important French women composers: Germaine Tailleferre and Nadia Boulanger. The former is singled out by Woolf in A Room of One’s Own as emblematic of the professional bias facing women composers. Boulanger and Woolf met in 1936, at a lunch with Ethel Smyth and Winaretta Singer (Princesse Edmond de Polignac). As her correspondence confirms, Boulanger and Woolf stayed in touch for some years and Woolf repeatedly referred to Boulanger’s example when reflecting on the misogyny and obstacles facing contemporary women artists, whether composers, painters or writers. Consideration of Woolf’s relationships with these women is placed in the larger context of their reception in the French and British press, exploring the role that their gender played in the critical reception of their work and aesthetic innovations.

The chapter explores the double quality of the image via the work of the contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, notably through his notions of ‘exscription’ and touch. In Nancy’s thought, signification and presence, the readable and the visible are articulated in a relation of mutual touching and withdrawal that is lateral, metonymic, and works in both directions. And if this is what W. J. T. Mitchell might term an ambivalent account of ekphrasis, it is not a relation of indifference. Rather, the signifying surface and its non-signifying other are turned towards one another in a non-appropriating embrace. If ekphrasis is a writing out, it is only in so far as all writing exscribes. And if the image is written out in ekphrasis, the image in its turn exscribes something within it – that which is not reducible to signification. Each mode is inaccessible from within the other, but, in Nancy’s thinking of ekphrasis, they press up against each other at the surface where they meet.

This chapter is a study of the erotic content of Eloy de la Iglesia’s quinqui films. Informed by senses-receptor-based film theories, the author reflects on the importance of the visual erotics of touch and skin, using the body of de la Iglesia’s actor fetiche José Luis Manzano as a productive and very fitting case study. The chapter proposes that the aesthetic roughness, the post-synch sound, and the delinquent narratives characteristic of this type of film, make it ideal to illustrate the kind of visual immediacy that sensually engages the viewer with the image on the screen. Manzano’s skin is often shown in close-up, pierced and tattooed. Through his work in de la Iglesia’s quinqui films, the actor became iconic of a genre fascinated with ‘the fragile glamour of male youth’ as a memorable example of what the press at the time referred to as the ‘estética de calzoncillo’,

Religion acquired a bad press in philosophical modernity after a rivalry developed between philosophy and theology, originating in philosophy’s adopting the role of our culture’s superjudge in all of morality and knowledge, and in faith’s coming to be seen as belief, that is, as assent to propositional content. Religion, no longer trust in the face of mystery, became a belief system. Reason as judge of propositional belief set up religion’s decline. But spirituality is on the rise, and favors trust over reason. Philosophy could make space for the spiritual by acknowledging a difference between belief as propositional assent and religious faith as trust, a distinction lost with the mixing of Greek philosophy and Christian faith. Artistic or religious truth disappeared as authentic forms of knowing. But Michael Polanyi reintroduced knowledge as more than can be thought. Also postmodern and feminist thought urge us to abandon autonomous reason as sole limit to knowledge. We have space again for philosophy to look at openness to the spiritual. If spirituality confronts us with the mystery of the existential boundary conditions, religion may be a form of relating to the mystery that confronts us from beyond the bounds of reason. That mystery demands our attention if we are to be fully in touch with perennial issues of human meaning.

This anthology stems from a 2014 conference at the University of Maryland, which focused on how American Jews provided material aid to Holocaust refugees during and after the Holocaust, and also how they began to cope with the catastrophe. This coping involved both an imagining and a re-imagining of “the old country,” a reevaluation of the places American Jews had left behind in more or less normal circumstances before the First World War but in increasingly desperate circumstances after 1918 and, again, after 1939. American Jews who had come to the United States before the 1920s maintained ties with their former communities in Central and Eastern Europe, ties that were fostered by efforts to remain in touch with family and friends and, more generally, with the world’s most populous Jewish communities. Those efforts were aided by the ...