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The Royal Society of Edinburgh Prize Lecturess Session 2002-2003
The Royal Society of Edinburgh Prize Lecturess Session 2002-2003 Click lecture titles to read reports JAMES SCOTT PRIZE LECTURE MAKING LIGHT OF MATHEMATICS Sir Michael Berry, FRS 9 December 2002 BP PRIZE LECTURE RACE AND THE SCOTTISH NATION 1750 - 1900 Dr Colin Kidd FRSE 13 January 2003 NEILL MEDAL PRIZE LECTURE DRAGONFLIES: BEHAVIOUR AND ECOLOGY OF ODONATA Professor Philip Corbet FRSE 3 February 2003 CRF PRIZE LECTURE WAR OF WORDS: THE BRITISH ARMY AND THE WESTERN FRONT Professor Richard Holmes 26 & 28 May 2003 Edinburgh and Aberdeen PRIZE LECTURES 20th James Scott Prize Lecture Sir Michael Berry, FRS 9 December 2002 Making Light of Mathematics Sir Michael Berry, Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol, was elected to the Royal Society in 1982, knighted in 1996 and holds numerous national and international awards, including seven honorary degrees. He is known not only for his pioneering work on phase but also as a communicator to specialists and the layperson alike. In addition, he has been awarded for his work in uniting science and art. The James Scott Prize Lecture is the result of a bequest by James Scott, a farmer at East Pittendreich, near Brechin, and is held every four years on the subject of ‘fundamental concepts of natural philosophy’. It should be noted that Sir Michael’s talk was abundantly positioned close to the water surface, the individual illustrated with photographs and computer graphics so images can be seen. The mathematics describing this the following report cannot summarise it fully. phenomenon of natural focusing is “catastrophe Physics and mathematics have evolved together and theory”. -
GSC Films: S-Z
GSC Films: S-Z Saboteur 1942 Alfred Hitchcock 3.0 Robert Cummings, Patricia Lane as not so charismatic love interest, Otto Kruger as rather dull villain (although something of prefigure of James Mason’s very suave villain in ‘NNW’), Norman Lloyd who makes impression as rather melancholy saboteur, especially when he is hanging by his sleeve in Statue of Liberty sequence. One of lesser Hitchcock products, done on loan out from Selznick for Universal. Suffers from lackluster cast (Cummings does not have acting weight to make us care for his character or to make us believe that he is going to all that trouble to find the real saboteur), and an often inconsistent story line that provides opportunity for interesting set pieces – the circus freaks, the high society fund-raising dance; and of course the final famous Statue of Liberty sequence (vertigo impression with the two characters perched high on the finger of the statue, the suspense generated by the slow tearing of the sleeve seam, and the scary fall when the sleeve tears off – Lloyd rotating slowly and screaming as he recedes from Cummings’ view). Many scenes are obviously done on the cheap – anything with the trucks, the home of Kruger, riding a taxi through New York. Some of the scenes are very flat – the kindly blind hermit (riff on the hermit in ‘Frankenstein?’), Kruger’s affection for his grandchild around the swimming pool in his Highway 395 ranch home, the meeting with the bad guys in the Soda City scene next to Hoover Dam. The encounter with the circus freaks (Siamese twins who don’t get along, the bearded lady whose beard is in curlers, the militaristic midget who wants to turn the couple in, etc.) is amusing and piquant (perhaps the scene was written by Dorothy Parker?), but it doesn’t seem to relate to anything. -
Legislative Assembly
New South Wales Legislative Assembly PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Fifty-Seventh Parliament First Session Thursday, 11 February 2021 Authorised by the Parliament of New South Wales TABLE OF CONTENTS Notices .................................................................................................................................................... 5265 Presentation ......................................................................................................................................... 5265 Budget ..................................................................................................................................................... 5265 Budget Estimates and Related Papers 2020-2021 .............................................................................. 5265 Bills ......................................................................................................................................................... 5269 Government Information (Public Access) Amendment (Recklessly Destroying Government Records) Bill 2021 ......................................................................................................................................................... 5269 First Reading ................................................................................................................................... 5269 Second Reading Speech .................................................................................................................. 5269 Crimes (Domestic and Personal -
St Peter the Apostle, Edinburgh
St Peter the Apostle ST PETER THE APOSTLE INTRODUCTION I feel privileged to have been asked to write the history of St Peter’s, Falcon Avenue because I knew I was being offered a unique opportunity to look into the lives of the many people for whom St Peter’s has played such an important part, from the early part of last century to the present time. Not only is this a parish with an extraordinary beginning, but, looking through the records of the parish in the Scottish Catholic Archives (and in the mass of material handed to me by the parish priest Fr Francis Kerr and the chairman of his publishing committee, Eugene Mooney), it soon became clear that there was also a very vigorous community flourishing under the magnificent but sometimes cold edifice of St Peter’s. Mgr McNally (parish priest of St Peter’s 1980-85) draws attention to this communal aspect of parish life: ‘St Paul reminds us that “You are God’s building.” St Peter puts it differently: “Christ is the living stone. Set yourself close to Him so that you may be living stones making a spiritual house.” ‘ ‘I always felt that the parish was overawed by its beginnings,’ continues Mgr McNally, ‘and I couldn’t help thinking of the ‘living stones’, the thousands of the men, women, children, priests and sisters who made up the parish during those 100 years. There were two world wars and many other conflicts during that time which must have made life very difficult for many families in the parish, with all the problems of loneliness and hardship and yet in the midst of their troubles they clung to their faith.