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Sergei Stadnikov (* 20. Juli 1956 in Pärnu; † 26. Juni 2015 in Tallinn) war ein estnischer Ägyptologe, Historiker, Publizist und Übersetzer.

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Sergei Stadnikov schloss die Schule im Tallinner Stadtteil Pirita ab. Er studierte von 1977 bis 1982 an der Staatlichen Universität Tartu Geschichte. Gleichzeitig begann er ein Studium der ägyptischen Sprache bei dem estnischen Sprachwissenschaftler und Orientalisten Pent Nurmekund (1906–1996). Später setzte er seine ägyptologischen Studien an der Staatlichen Universität von Leningrad bei Igor Winogradow fort.

Sergei Stadnikov lehrte zuletzt am Historischen Institut der Universität Tallinn. Stadnikov legte zahlreiche Publikationen vor. 1998 erschien sein Standardwerk Vana-Egiptuse kultuurilugu ("Alt-Ägyptische Kulturgeschichte"). In der Literaturzeitschrift Looming veröffentlichte er die erste kommentierte estnischsprachige Übersetzung der Erzählung Die Geschichte von Sinuhe. Er war Mitglied der International Association of Egyptologists (IAE) und der Akademischen Gesellschaft für deutsch-baltische Kultur in Dorpat / Tartu. Stadnikov publizierte auch zahlreiche Fachartikel in deutscher Sprache.

Neben seinen Studien zur Ägyptologie schrieb er zu allgemeinen historischen und aktuellen politischen Themen, unter anderem zu Minderheitenfragen in Estland sowie zur Krise im Nahen Osten. Politisch stand er der Zentrumspartei nahe.

Auswahl der deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen
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 Otto Friedrich von Richter und Ägypten. In: Altorientalische Forschungen. Band 18, Nr. 2 1991, S. 195–203, .
 Die universalistischen Ausdrücke der Könige des Alten Reiches. In: Silvio Curto (Hrsg.): Sesto Congresso Internazionale di Egittologia. Turin, 1st – 8th September 1991. Abstracts of Papers. Istituto Italiano per la Civiltà Egizia, Turin 1991, S. 372–373.
 Johannes Burchart – deutsch-baltischer Arzt, Apotheker und Antikensammler. In: Göttinger Miszellen. Band 135, 1993, S. 97–100.
 Über die Willens- und Handlungsfreiheit in der Lebensgeschichte des Sinuhe. In: Mitteilungen für Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte. Band 8, 1993, , S, 99–111.
 Die verallgemeinernden Ausdrücke der Könige des Alten Reiches in den Sinai-Inschriften. In: Sesto Congresso Internazionale di Egittologia. (Torino, 1–8 settembre 1991). Atti. Band 2. Istituto Italiano per la Civiltà Egizia, Turin 1993, S. 515–523.
 Gottkönig und Fremdländer. Universalistische Ausdrücke der Könige des Alten Reiches nach Offiziellen Texten. In: Manfried L. G. Dietrich (Hrsg.): In memoriam Alfred Rupp. (1930–1993) (= Mitteilungen für Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte. Band 9). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 1994, ISBN 3-927120-23-5, S. 291–310.
 Die Wanderungen des deutsch-baltischen Orientreisenden Alexander von Üxküll in Ägypten und Nubien 1822–1823. In: Göttinger Miszellen. Band 146, 1995, S. 71–92.
 Gottkönig und ausserägyptische Bereiche. Universalistische Ausdrücke der Könige des Alten Reiches in Ägypten nach den Pyramidentexten. In: Mitteilungen für Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte. Band 10, 1995, S. 143–169.
 Himmelsrichtungen und "Bogenvölker" in den Pyramidentexten. In: Christopher Eyre (Hrsg.): Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge, 3–9 September 1995. Abstracts of Papers. Oxbow Books for International Association of Egyptologists, Oxford 1995, ISBN 0-946897-92-1, S. 177–178.
 Architektur, Landschaft und Natur in der "Lebensgeschichte des Sinuhe". In: Mitteilungen für Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte. Band 11, 1996 (1997), S. 93–103.
 Jenseitsvorstellungen der Alten Ägypter: Der Begriff des Todes in der "Lebensgeschichte des Sinuhe". In: Loccumer Protokolle. Band 16, 1998, , S. 87–92.
 Himmelsrichtungen und Bogenvölker als Herrschaftsbereiche des ägyptischen Königs in den Pyramidentexten. In: Christopher Eyre (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge, 3–9 September 1995 (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta.Band  82). Peeters, Löwen 1998, ISBN 90-429-0014-8, S. 1095–1102.
 Zeit, Ewigkeit und Raum im Alten Ägypten als Forschungsfeld der gegenwärtigen Ägyptologie. Analyse des Forschungsstandes. In: Mitteilungen für Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte. Band 12, 1997 (1999), S. 161–177.
 Skizzen des Lebenslaufes und wissenschaftlicher Tätigkeit des russisch-deutschbaltischen Ägyptologen und Koptologen Oscar von Lemm. In: Manfried Dietrich (Hrsg.): Religionen in einer sich ändernden Welt. Akten des dritten gemeinsamen Symposiums der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Tartu und der Deutschen Religionsgeschichtlichen Studiengesellschaft am 14. und 15. November 1997 zu Tartu/Estland (= Forschungen zur Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte. Band 33). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-927120-69-3, S. 113–135.
 "d.t - Unendlichkeit" und "nhh-Ewigkeit" in den Pyramidentexten der Könige des Alten Reiches. In: Mitteilungen für Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte. Band 14, 1999 (2001), S. 275–310.
 Otto Friedrich von Richters Forschungsreise in Unternubien im Jahre 1815. Auszüge aus dem Tagebuch. In: Gregor Ahn, Manfried L. G. Dietrich, Ansgar Häussling (Hrsg.): Religiöses Reisen. (Vorträge der 29. Studientagung der Deutschen Religiongeschichtlichen Studiengesellschaft am 19. und 20. Juni 1999 in Münster) (= Mitteilungen für Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte. Band 15). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-927120-98-7, S. 125–161.
 Heilige Geschichte als Paradigma am Beispiel von Jerusalem. In: Manfried L. G. Dietrich, Tarmo Kulmar (Hrsg.): Die Bedeutung der Religion für Gesellschaften in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Akten des fünften gemeinsamen Symposiums der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Tartu, der Estnischen Studiengesellschaft für Morgenlandkunde und der Deutschen Religionsgeschichtlichen Studiengesellschaft am 2. und 3. November 2001 zu Tartu/Estland (= Forschungen zur Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte. Band 36). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-934628-15-X, S. 205–214.
 Otto Friedrich von Richters Expedition in Unternubien im Jahre 1815. In: Aayko K. Eyma, Chris J. Bennett (Hrsg.): A Delta-Man in Yebu (= Occasional volume of the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum. Band 1). Universal Publishers, Parkland (FL) 2003, ISBN 1-58112-564-X, S. 190–202.
 Die Bedeutung des Alten Orients für deutsches Denken: Skizzen aus dem Zeitraum 1871–1945. Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg 2007, .
 mit Indrek Jürjo: Briefe aus Ägypten. Otto Friedrich von Richters wissenschaftliche Reise in Ägypten und Unternubien im Jahre 1815. Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg 2007, .
 als Herausgeber mit Indrek Jürjo: Briefe aus dem Morgenland. Otto Friedrich von Richters Forschungsreise in den Jahren 1814–1816 (= Schriftenreihe Hamburger Beiträge zur Geschichte des östlichen Europa. Band 20). Kovač, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8300-7289-8.
 Die Gestaltung der Weltherrschaftsterminologie der Könige des Alten Reiches. (16th International Conference for Ancient East-Mediterranean Studies in Tartu; 10th of May 2014).
 Von der göttlichen Vorherbestimmung und der menschlichen Willensfreiheit in der "Lehre des Ptahhotep". In: Thomas Kaemmerer, Mait Koiv (Hrsg.): Cultures in Comparison. Religion and Politics in Ancient Mediterranean Regions (= Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Band 390, Nr.  3 = Acta antiqua Mediterranea et Orientalia. Band 3). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-86835-122-4, S. 177–186.

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Tag: Elizabeth Ezra
Schools Day Success
As regular blog readers will know, this week the time had finally come for our Languages event for S5 and S6 pupils from schools from all across Scotland. On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, we welcomed a total of around 300 pupils to the Pathfoot Building and colleagues from French & Francophone Studies and Spanish & Latin American Studies led them through a day of mini lectures, culture and language classes, CPD sessions for the teachers and a series of presentations by current and former students, as well as our Faculty Employability Officer, on the benefits of time abroad as part of a degree (whether within Europe with Erasmus+ or well beyond), English Language Assistantships and the many, many doors that languages open up in the wider world beyond University.
After a brief welcome from the Faculty Dean Richard Oram, and the event organisers, Pete Baker and Cristina Johnston, the pupils were split between French and Spanish activities for a short opening lecture and then for the classroom activities. Those doing French enjoyed a lecture on 'Race, Religion and the Republic' by Aedín ní Loingsigh before heading off into smaller groups for culture classes examining extracts from Autour il y a les arbres et le ciel magnifique led by Cristina Johnston, Emeline Morin, Aedín ní Loingsigh, Elizabeth Ezra, Hannah Grayson and Beatrice Ivey. At the same time, those doing Spanish enjoyed Pete Baker's lecture on Frida Kahlo and further discussion of Kahlo's work in culture classes led by Pete and his colleagues Inés Ordiz and Ann Davies.
After lunch, it was back into the classrooms for some written language and listening work, led by Jean-Michel DesJacques, Mathilde Mazau, Fraser McQueen and Cristina, Emeline and Aedín for French, and Jose Ferreira-Cayuela, along with Pete and Inés for Spanish. And while the pupils were hard at work in their culture and language classes, their teachers were being led through CPD activities focusing on feedback and assessment, as well as the challenges that arise in the transition from secondary to HE, by Emeline and Aedín. The CPD sessions also included an opportunity for the teachers to benefit from a guided tour of the AHRC-funded Experiences of Exile exhibition by Beatrice Ivey.
All the pupils and teachers were brought together for the final session which included presentations by a group of Languages graduates, as well as current students at different stages in their degrees, and our Employability Officer, Elaine Watson. They all spoke passionately about their experiences of Study Abroad, teaching English as a Language Assistant, travelling during time abroad, career paths they have embarked on or are considering as a result of having studied a language and, in the words of Meg, one of the speakers, the confidence that comes from knowing that 'if you can navigate France through train, plane and University strikes, you can do anything!'
All in all, a great chance for us to get to talk to a fantastic group of pupils and teachers, and an opportunity for those pupils, in particular, to get a real taste of what University and Languages at University is like and where it can lead you. Many thanks to all those who came along, to all the colleagues who led sessions over the course of the two days, to the students and graduates who gave up their time (and sent photos!) to come and speak to our visitors, and to the Division of Literature and Languages and the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France for their support.
Aedin ni Loingsigh
Ann Davies
ASMCF
Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France
Cristina Johnston
Elaine Watson
Elizabeth Ezra
English Language Assistantships
Experiences of Exile
Fraser McQueen
Hannah Grayson
Ines Ordiz
Jean-Michel DesJacques
Jose-Maria Ferreira-Cayuela
Mathilde Mazau
Pete Baker
Why study Languages?
I'm sure many of you will have seen or heard coverage this week of a BBC survey looking at the drop in the uptake of languages at secondary school level across the UK. If you didn't, there's plenty to read about it here and elsewhere.
This is, of course, a source of great concern for all of us working in Languages at whatever level within the education system and the reporting prompted us at Stirling to ask some questions, of ourselves and of our students, about our own experiences of language learning and what motivated us (or didn't) to keep going with a particular language. Emails went out to all our students and to all colleagues, and the responses have been fascinating, as well as being funny, impassioned, thoughtful, concerned… and many other things besides. So, what better reason for a blog post? Or several!
What I'd like to do here, to start with, is to gather together the responses that have come in from colleagues, ie from those of us who teach French at Stirling, and there'll then be a few blog posts from our students. The questions, though, are the same for all of us, as for the students namely: at what age did you start learning a language that wasn't your native language? What language was it? What made you continue learning it (if you did)? And if that language wasn't French, at what age did you start learning that and why and why did you decide to study it at University? And, finally, are there other languages you have previously studied but stopped studying and, if so, which ones and why?
And this time, if you'll forgive the indulgence, I'll start with my own experience… So, I'm Cristina Johnston and I'm currently Programme Director for French at Stirling and I started studying French at secondary school, in first year. However, before I started learning French, I was very lucky because I had already been exposed to Italian as my mother (and half my family) come from Ticino, the Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland. I spent school holidays in Switzerland, with my grandmother and family there, and many of them (most of them, at the time) didn't speak any English but spoke either Italian or the dialect of Ticino, so if I wanted to communicate with them, I just had to speak Italian.
So, when I got to first year of secondary school and French classes started (there was no alternative to French for pupils in first year in my school), although it was a new language and a new accent and new words and new ideas, it somehow already felt familiar to me. I could understand bits and pieces from the first lesson when – as I still vividly recall – our fantastic teacher, Mr Prosser (with whom I'm still in touch every now and then so many years on), appeared and insisted on speaking French and on us speaking French, from the outset, for everything. Others who've been in touch about this have spoken about feeling that kind of familiarity and comfort within the new language and that was certainly my experience.
From second year, I also did German and continued with both to the end of secondary school, with French remaining very much my favoured language but German really growing on me, particularly as we got the chance to read more in German (Kafka and Frisch and Dürrenmatt). I spent a year living in France between school and Uni (taking 'French for foreigners' classes at Lille III University which was brilliant) and then it was just obvious that French would be part of what I'd do at University, too, so I did. I also took up Czech in first and second year of University which was challenging, to put it mildly, but which I thoroughly enjoyed, not least because, if you wanted to take second year Czech, you had to spend a month at a Summer School in the Czech Republic during the Summer which seemed like an excellent way to spend my time.
In other words, for me, languages have always been there, in different contexts, at different levels, with different levels of enthusiasm, and if I think about what has motivated me to continue studying languages, it's very often people – Mr Prosser at secondary school, excellent Czech tutors at University in the shape of Josef Fronek and Igor Hajek, but also friends from countries where the languages are spoken and from other countries where other languages are spoken, and, since starting work as a Lecturer in French, students, too. It's about the books and the films and the plays and the museums and the travel and the food, too, of course, but it's the people who are the primary motivation, from my perspective.
Our Language Coordinator, Jean-Michel DesJacques, studied languages in secondary school because the system left him no choice in the matter. You simply had to do at least two languages, one in S1 (in his case, English) and another from S3 (German, for him) with the possibility of picking up a 3rd language in lycée. For him, that structure is relevant when we consider the practical timetabling issues in Scottish schools nowadays and the impact that has on language uptake. There were also special, geographical circumstances that came into play (Jean-Michel comes from the region on the border between France and Switzerland), meaning that tv was readily available in French, German and Italian. He had an older brother who lived in England, American relatives, American pupils visiting his college every year and, he assures us, 'parents who grew up during the war who were convinced we needed to build a new Europe…'
Hannah Grayson spoke French for the first time in her first week of secondary school: 'I was 11 years old and very shy, but I was quite pleased we all had to take French as a compulsory subject. It was like an immediate *click*, where I just loved it. I liked the sound of the words, the challenge of learning the names of things in another language, and the fun activities we got to do in class. After that, I chose to carry on with French because I found it really exciting to be able to express myself in another language. I met people from France and loved being able to understand them in their native language. As somebody who likes learning, I like French because there's always more to learn – there's always something else I could read, or words I haven't yet come across.'
Elizabeth Ezra only really started learning French at University but says she wishes she'd been able to start it earlier and 'learn it at a more relaxed pace!' In her case, growing up in the States, 'apart from a few Spanish words that everyone growing up in Southern California learns, that was my first exposure to a language other than English.
French wasn¹t initially my main subject – I just kind of took it on a whim – but I was given the chance in my first year of uni to spend ten weeks in France. I¹d never been out of California (let alone on an airplane) and thought I might never have another chance to go abroad, so I jumped at it.
Even though I was always good at grammar, I couldn¹t really understand a word people in France were saying for a *very* long time. I was actually convinced that this French thing was an elaborate practical joke, and that at some point people would burst out laughing and speak in perfect English about how gullible I was. I loved the south of France, where I was living and studying, but I hated feeling that people thought I was stupid because I could hardly speak. Of course I know now that's not how it works, and that's not how people think, but at 17, I didn't realise that.
In my second year, I took more French because, frankly, I didn't want all the (very) hard work I'd put in to learning the language in my first year to go to waste (which isn't a very good reason to pursue something, but there you go). Fortunately, I soon fell in love with French literature. In my third year, I did my study abroad in Paris, which introduced me to the world of French literary theory and philosophy, which I also fell in love with. Once again, while I continued to be good at grammar, I was very bad at understanding spoken French, and they almost didn't let me take classes at l'Université de Paris III. To remedy my weakness, I obviously read a lot in French, but I also bought a transistor radio (if only there had been podcasts back then) and forced myself to listen to French radio a
couple of hours each day. Eventually, I was able to pick out more and more words, until my comprehension was up to speed.
I came back from Paris with all guns blazing, keen to pursue the study of French literature and culture. After finishing my undergraduate studies, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.'
And finally, for the moment, Mathilde Mazau, started learning English at 11 (en 6e au college, en Martinique). It was her 'langue vivante 1' – she also did Latin, German and Spanish, but later. She says: 'I fell in love with English through music when I was a little child and I think being able to understand and sing the songs I loved (rather than "chanter de la bouillie anglaise") was my main motivation. I then continued English at uni and taught the language for many years in France before coming to Scotland.'
As other responses come in from colleagues, I'll add them to the blog but this gives a pretty good starting point, at least from our perspective! Next, it's the turn of our students to have their say (and maybe try to find some pictures to illustrate all of this!)…
Josef Fronek
Staff news: conferences and new colleagues
Many of our recent blog posts have centred on the fantastic achievements and activities of our students (past and present) but it occurs to us that it's a while since we've posted an update on what French at Stirling staff are up to so here goes…
Firstly, as regular blog followers will know, we've made some new appointments in French at Stirling over the past few months. That has meant saying goodbye to valued colleagues (Bill Marshall at the end of August last year, David Murphy at the end of December) but it has also meant welcoming and getting to know new colleagues. Beatrice Ivey has settled well into her Research Assistantship, working with Fiona Barclay on the AHRC-funded project 'Narratives and Representations of the French Settlers of Algeria' (if you haven't seen it yet, their exhibition is still on in Pathfoot); Emeline Morin is already a semester into her 2-year post with us and doing a brilliant job; Aedín ní Loingsigh joined us halfway through the Autumn semester on a permanent lectureship across French and Translation and is also doing brilliantly; and Hannah Grayson has now also joined us – as of 1 January – on a permanent lectureship and is, of course, settling in really well. Lots of changes – all for the good!
Secondly, many of us will be popping up at a range of conferences and invited talks over the months ahead, starting with Hannah Grayson who will be co-convening a seminar stream on responding to violence in postcolonial African literature at the American Comparative Literature Association at Georgetown University in March. Hannah will then be presenting on Véronique Tadjo (an author whose work she teaches on as part of our Cultures of Travel modules this semester) at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium in Oklahoma City. And, when she's back in the UK, on 3 April, Hannah will be speaking at an evening of remembrance in St Andrews, to commemorate 25 years since the genocide in Rwanda.
Cristina Johnston will be giving a paper on the 20th anniversary of the PaCS legislation at the annual Society for French Studies conference at Royal Holloway in early July, and then a paper on the representation (or lack thereof) of lesbian characters in contemporary French cinema at the MLA International Symposium in Lisbon at the end of July.
Elizabeth Ezra will be giving an invited talk at the University of Tours at the start of April at a conference called 'On the Ruins and Margins of European Identity in Cinema.' Her talk is titled 'Out of Bounds: The Spatial Politics of Civility in The Square (Östlund, 2017) and Happy End (Haneke, 2017).' Elizabeth also has an article on ethics and social relations coming out in May in the journal Children's Literature called 'Becoming Familiar: Witches and Companion Animals in Harry Potter and His Dark Materials.'
Elizabeth also travelled to France in December to examine the PhD thesis of Literature and Language's PhD student Fanny Lacôte, who has taught on various modules in French at Stirling. The viva was a public event, which attracted a significant audience composed of friends, family, and members of the public and Fanny passed with flying colours so many congratulations to her!
And, finally for the moment, following on from Aedín ní Loingsigh's successful Erasmus+ teaching exchange at Limoges late last year, we're currently finalising arrangements to welcome our colleague Joëlle Popineau from our partners at the University of Tours who will spend a week on an Erasmus+ staff mobility with us in early March. We're very much looking forward to welcoming Joëlle to Stirling in a few weeks.
More to follow shortly, I've no doubt!
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New Semester
It's already the end of our first week of the new semester here at Stirling so time for a quick round-up of our news. It's been a busy little run up to the start of teaching here: new colleagues, great First Year numbers and those starting in our Advanced stream have been benefiting from our Bridging Materials, French at Stirling has been rated No.3 in Scotland and in the top 20 in the UK by the 2019 Complete University Guide… A period of great change and excitement!
Where to start? 'New colleagues' seems a good place. Beatrice Ivey, Research Assistant on Fiona Barclay's AHRC Leadership project, is now in Stirling and settling into Divisional life. She and Fiona are working on the organisation of the exhibition that forms part of the project, more on which soon. We've also welcomed Emeline Morin who has joined us as a Lecturer in French for the next two years. Emeline's research interests lie in comparative literature and fairytales and she's teaching with us across a wide range of courses.
Alongside Emeline, two other new lecturers will be joining us over the months ahead. Aedín ní Loingsigh will be starting in October, with Hannah Grayson taking up her post in January. Hannah's recent work has been on the Rwandan Stories of Change project at St Andrews. Much as we were sad to see Bill Marshall retire, it's great to get a chance to welcome a fantastic group of new colleagues and we're looking forward to working with them. We've also got some new faces among the Teaching Assistants who work as part of our Language team (with Language Coordinator, Jean-Michel DesJacques, Mathilde Mazau and Brigitte Depret): Fanny Lacôte and Fraser McQueen who have taught with us before are joined by Aurélie Noël who has previously taught at the University of Glasgow.
As ever, the start of the new semester also means welcoming back our students. Our finalists are back from their Semester Abroad (in France, Quebec, Morocco, Switzerland… or Hispanophone destinations for those doing French and Spanish) and our Year 3 students are about to start the process to select their destination for their Semester Abroad. With that in mind, Jean-Michel DesJacques, Jose Ferreira-Cayuela and Cristina Johnston are organising their annual get-together at the end of September that gives all those students a chance to meet over wine and nibbles to talk about Study Abroad and to exchange questions and tips. All the University's incoming exchange students from French or Spanish-speaking partner institutions are also invited and it's a great chance for the different groups of students to get to know each other.
Some of those incoming French-language exchange students are also currently being recruited to lead informal conversation sessions for students in a range of year groups, to offer a further opportunity for spoken language practice beyond the weekly tuition offered by our Language team.
And, of course, we have a great cohort of Year 2 students, many of whom will be applying for English Language Assistantships over the course of this year (welcome back to those who were ELAs last year!). For the first half of our second year, we run an Intermediate class for those who started as complete beginners with us in Year 1 and it's great to see that numbers on that module are even higher than last year.
Finalists back from Semester Abroad, Year 3 students planning time abroad, students settling into Year 2 and good numbers of Year 1 students which is fantastic to see. Those on the Advanced stream – taking French with a wide range of other subjects – have been working their way through the Bridging Materials that we put together for incoming students each year, to help smooth the transition from secondary school language study to University-level language learning. And those on our Beginners' stream are about to plunge into the intensive programme of language learning that will introduce them to French and build their confidence and ability as the weeks progress.
A great group of undergraduates and an enthusiastic intake of students on the French stream of our Translation and Translation with TESOL programmes who will work under the guidance of French at Stirling staff on their translation portfolios and, ultimately, on their dissertation projects. It's been particularly nice to see some familiar faces on those programmes with recent graduates returning to undertake postgrad work with us (as well as across other TPG programmes at Stirling, of course).
As in previous years, we'll be posting profiles of our students regularly, partly to catch up with those who've written for us before and to get a sense of how their studies are progressing, and partly to introduce you to some of our new Year 1 intake, so keep an eye on these pages!
As for French at Stirling colleagues, lots of news to report there, too. Fiona Barclay, Beatrice Ivey and Cristina Johnston are in discussions with the MacRobert's film programmer, Grahame Reid, to finalise a programme of French Film Festival screenings that will take place at the MacRobert later in the semester. Details to follow but expect some great new French-language films! (It's not directly French-related but do also check out Grahame's Central Scotland Documentary Festival at the MacRobert from 4-8 October – a fantastic programme of documentaries lies ahead!) And on another film-related note, David Murphy will be involved with the Africa in Motion festival in November – more on which soon…
Aedín ní Loingsigh will be participating in a workpshop on Interdisciplinarity at the Université de Limoges in December and Elizabeth Ezra gave a paper in June at the Contemporary Childhood Conference at the University of Strathclyde examining the witch-familiar relationships in Harry Potter and His Dark Materials. Elizabeth has also just signed a contract for a book, co-edited with Catherine Wheatley of KCL entitled Shoe Reels: The History and Philosophy of Footwear in Film, which will be published by EUP in 2020. And with her non-academic hat on, Elizabeth will be talking about her children's book Ruby McCracken at the Wigtown Book Festival later this month.
This weekend, while staff and students from French and Spanish are talking to prospective students at Stirling University's Open Day (15 September – come and see us!), Jean-Michel DesJacques is off to Dundee where he'll be taking part in the 25th Anniversary Conference UCML Scotland: Looking inward and outward. Jean-Michel will be meeting actors from all education sectors from Primary to higher education. The 1+2 language initiative will be high on the agenda but not exclusively since challenges and issues in languages are multiple and complex.
And our Phd student Fraser McQueen has been presenting his work across a range of conferences since the Spring, including the ASMCF Postgraduate Study Day at the IMLR (where he spoke about Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in France), the Society for French Studies Postgraduate Study day at UCL (with a paper on female radicalisation fiction), Stirling's own annual Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Research Conference and the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate Study Day at Birmingham. Fraser also co-organised the SGSAH Second Year PG Symposium in Glasgow in June and presented his own work there, too.
There is much, much more that we could include here but that seems a good taste of what's going on to start things off this semester. More to follow over the weeks ahead! In the meantime, many thanks to the students whose photos from last semester abroad have made their way into this post and bon weekend!
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Gender, Film, Postcolonialism: Conference Time
If I'm quick, this might even go up on the blog before Bill Marshall's Cinéma-Monde conference on 'Film, Borders, Translation' that starts this evening with a screening at the MacRobert of Chloé Leriche's 2016 film Avant les rues. The conference continues over the next couple of days, with participants from across the UK, North America and Australia, and papers from three French at Stirling colleagues. David Murphy will be talking about 'Filming the First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966', Elizabeth Ezra will give a paper entitled 'TransFormations: Cinema's Uncanny Origins' and, as for me (Cristina Johnston), I'll be talking about the 'ruptures, cooperation and paradoxes' of Franco-Iranian cinema.
It's a busy time for conference over the next week or so, as Stirling is also running its annual Arts and Humanities postgraduate conference tomorrow on 'Arts and Humanities Research Through a Gender Lens' and our own French at Stirling PhD student, Fraser McQueen, will be there, talking about 'Islamophobia as a gendered phenomenon in French radicalisation cinema.' And then, next week, Fraser is off to the University of Birmingham for the SFPS Postgraduate Study Day where he'll deliver a paper entitled 'Borders between us and them in female radicalisation fiction.'
More research news to follow soon…
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Exhibitions, Grants, Talks… French at Stirling Staff Updates
The past couple of blog posts have focused on French at Stirling students' achievements and activities – now it's time for an update on what staff have been up to and what's coming up for us over the weeks and months ahead…
Congratulations, firstly, to Fiona Barclay who has just learned that she has been awarded a prestigious AHRC Early Career Researcher Leadership Fellow award which she will hold for 23 months from July 2018 onwards. The award will enable Fiona to work on a major project entitled 'From colonisers to refugees: narratives and representations of the French settlers of Algeria.'
Back in December, David Murphy was invited to serve on the fiction jury at the 8th Algiers International Film Festival: 'an intense but fascinating week, watching lots of films and meeting filmmakers, actors and other creative artists from all over the world. There was even time for a visit to the famous Casbah, which will be familiar to students from La Bataille d'Alger. Our special jury prize went to a wonderful Algerian film En attendant les hirondelles by a young Algerian director, Karim Moussaoui. You should be able to catch it in Scotland later this year.'
David is also the main organiser for the Scottish tour of the exhibition 'Putting People on Display', a pared-down version of a major exhibition ('Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage') organised by the French colonial history research group, ACHAC, which was held at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris in 2011/12. Three additional posters focusing on the Scottish context have been specially commissioned for this Scottish tour and a longer blog post will follow…
At the end of last year, Cristina Johnston was involved in organising the Stirling-based component of ATLAS's week-long translation workshops. The workshop brought together a group of translators working between French and English, giving them an opportunity to focus on the translation of a range of articles and chapters under the 'Translating History' umbrella and under the expert guidance of Stirling's Emerita Professor Siân Reynolds (translator, among many other things, of the crime fiction of Fred Vargas) and experienced translator Diane Meur. Workshop participants were also given the opportunity to talk to students on our postgraduate Translation Studies programmes and to visit Stirling's own Pathfoot Press, courtesy of Kelsey Jackson Williams.
The dossier on 'Cinema and Childhood' Cristina coordinated with contributions from a group of Stirling undergraduates (past and present) was also published towards the end of last year in Intellect's journal of undergraduate film scholarship Film Matters. The dossier contains articles on representations of 'Orphan Annie' by Hayley J. Burrell, a comparison of La Vita è bella and The Boy in the Stripded Pyjamas by Floriana Guerra, an examination of children and the destruction of innocence in WWII films by Laura Jones, analysis of 'children as the uncanny' in The White Ribbon from Regina Mosch, Ralitsa Shentova's exploration of girlhood, fairytales and reality through Atonement and Crows, Lewis Urquhart's essay on 'concealed childhoods' in Caché and Conor Syme's reflections on childhood faith in science fiction. A fantastic set of articles by some impressive future film scholars!
Elizabeth Ezra's book The Cinema of Things was published by Bloomsbury in early November last year, and her updated chapter on 'The Cinemising Process: Film-Going in the Silent Era' is in the 2nd edition of The French Cinema Book just out from the BFI. And, as Elizabeth launches her new option module on Children's Literature, we're particularly pleased to be able to sing the praises of her children's novel Ruby McCracken: Tragic without Magic which was named by The Herald as 'One of the Nine Best Books for Children and Teenagers' in its Christmas 2017 round-up. The novel also won the 2016 Kelpies Award for New Scottish Writing for Children.
Bill Marshall – whose 'Cinéma-Monde' conference will take place in Stirling at the end of May – was recently invited to the University of Vienna where he gave a talk entitled 'Quebec Cinema as Global Cinema?' and, later this month, he will be at UNISA (South Africa) where he will deliver a keynote on 'Deleuze, Guattari, Hocquenghem: Anti-Oedipal Texts and Minor Cinemas' as part of their February Lectures on 'Queer Life in the Global South.'
And our Language Team (Jean-Michel DesJacques, Mathilde Mazau and Brigitte Depret) continue their hard work updating our language programmes, including our new format of oral and aural teaching for final year students which enables them to benefit from weekly 15-minute paired sessions, as well as more standard classroom-based conversation practice.
More to follow on much of the above as the blog continues its revival!
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French at Stirling's March Events
Just to round up this series of updates to the blog for just now, a quick overview of events French at Stirling staff have been involved in over the course of this past month.
On 18 March, Elizabeth Ezra gave a public talk on 'Androids and Humans, or How Globalisation Makes Us Human' as part of a series of talks chaired by Cristina Johnston on the University's 50th anniversary Community Open Doors Day. This past week, Cristina was invited to introduce a public screening of Claude Chabrol's Une Affaire de femmes at the Cameo cinema in Edinburgh, alongside Edinburgh postdoc Hugh Mcdonnell. The screening is part of Mihaela Mihai's ERC-funded project on Greyzones.
And, winning the battle for the most far-flung location this month, Bill Marshall gave a paper on ''Lionel Soukaz: Historicity and Time' as part of a panel on 'Cruising the Seventies: Glancing Backwards at Queer Cinema' at the SCMS conference in Chicago.

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Dalton Mauldin Drops NEW Single "Blinded"
Dalton Mauldin's next hit is around the corner with his anticipated new single, "Blinded," out today, Friday (Aug 2.) If you loved his first single, "Nights Without You," you won't be disappointed with the sound of his next chapter.
The idea behind "Blinded" started a couple of months ago while Dalton was thinking about a past relationship of his. He was struggling with handling the breakup, but explained, "The idea is best described being blinded to the thought that a person you truly love or care about is going to change, but they never do." The song comes from a hopeless romantic reminiscence that you're hoping your partner will change to make the relationship work. That person comes back into your life again and you think things will turn out differently, however, you realize that it wasn't meant to be.
"I guess I'm just blinded / Can't find my way out the door / I'm still reminded that you don't love me no more / Slowly as time goes, I'll make my way back to you / Cause we'll think it's different, but really it's nothin' new."
– Chorus of "Blinded"
The idea for "Blinded" came to Mauldin while he was writing and playing guitar in his free time. As he pondered through some old notes with the hope of launching something new, a couple of words stood out. "I came across a note that said "Blinded" and "Nothing New." It immediately sparked an idea in my head that led me to write "Blinded," Mauldin said. "I really liked the idea, and I wanted it to be perfect so that people understand it completely – and especially relate to it."
As he was nearly finished writing the song, he sent it to his manager who motivated him to finish it. "What's cool about the song is the way I recorded it on my phone after I finished it – it is a little different from the actual version I'm releasing," Mauldin said. "We kept the same chords I originally wrote the song for but switched up some melodies." After the production process, he found a love for the new version.
"It's always a good idea to hear other options or opinions from people you trust to interpret the sound."
– Dalton Mauldin
Even though "Blinded" sounds different from his first single, "Nights Without You," he loves the way it turned out. "I've been focusing on making music the way I want to and also the vibe I'm feeling," Mauldin said. "I feel as that you tend to limit yourself and you begin to believe you have to conform your sound to a certain genre." Mauldin plans on being himself and having fun with his music. He feels that if he's open-minded and stays creative, he'll be happy.
Mauldin recently played his first live concert in St. Louis back in June. His friends at Apogee Promotions arranged for him to open for American Idol's Season 14 runner up, Clark Beckham. "It was so cool to hang out with fans and take pictures for the first time ever," Mauldin said. "After all this time I've spent practicing in my room, I actually got to play in front of a sold-out crowd. It was a dream come true."
"Blinded" is available now to buy or stream on all digital platforms. Make sure to check Mauldin's social media for his NEXT release, "Lost In The Blue," coming soon.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 26 2012 (IPS) - The U.S. government is suggesting that pending aid worth billions of dollars for Egypt may be withheld unless President Mohamed Morsi dials back on recent moves, announced Thursday, that would consolidate his power and put his legislative decisions above judicial review.
Nuland also intimated that the United States could still oppose a pending 4.8-billion-dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), agreed upon last week following two years of negotiations. Although opposed by many in Cairo's intelligentsia over worries of enforced austerity measures, the loan has been heralded as needed to jumpstart Egypt's stuttering economy, which has never picked back up following the roiling of the Arab Spring and is nearing insolvency.
While President Barack Obama has yet to weigh in on Morsi's surprise move, two of the United States' top legislators on foreign policy on Sunday called on the White House to send a strong or even punitive signal to Morsi.
"This is not what the United States and American taxpayers expect … our dollars will be directly related to the progress towards democracy," John McCain, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, stated, referring to President Obama.
"Our leverage … is not only the substantial billions in aid we provide, plus debt forgiveness, plus an (International Monetary Fund) deal, but also the marshalling (of) world public opinion" against Morsi's move.
The recent incidents in Egypt have also gained particular scrutiny among the United States' conservative media. Conservative pundits have long expressed scepticism of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood party (which won a majority in June) and, by extension, of President Obama's tacit support of the Egyptian president's rise to power.
Morsi's so-called constitutional declaration is ostensibly aimed at breaking a grinding deadlock that has set upon Egypt's attempts to write a new constitution and move through a political transition following the downfall of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak, one of the key events of the Arab Spring two years ago. Morsi and his new government have been at particular loggerheads with the judiciary, which remains highly politicised.
Among other things, the constitutional declaration would put any legislation or decree passed by Morsi above judicial review until a new constitution is written, perhaps as late as mid-2013. In addition to anxieties that this period could be extended indefinitely, this would include laws that violate human rights, civil society organisations have noted.
Morsi's office released a statement on Sunday attempting to quell the mounting criticism. In it, the president noted the "temporary nature" of the measures, "which are not meant to concentrate powers, but … to devolve it to democratically elected parliament and to avoid any attempt to undermine or abort two democratically elected bodies … as well as preserving the impartiality of the judiciary".
And while ICG's analysts suggest that much of Morsi's declaration "arguably enjoys broad support from a citizenry yearning for stability", the issue has been seized upon by a massive cross-section of the opposition. At least one has died and dozens have been injured in increasingly violent public demonstrations, with particularly large opposition protests expected to take place on Tuesday.
"I am waiting to see, I hope soon, a very strong statement of condemnation by the U.S., by Europe and by everybody who really cares about human dignity," Mohamed ElBaradei, a leading opposition figure and former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told journalists on Saturday.
Officially, however, the United States, long Egypt's most powerful ally, has remained relatively quiet in the aftermath of Thursday's declaration. On Monday, a White House spokesperson confirmed that President Obama had yet to speak with Morsi about the constitutional declaration.
Still, warnings over foreign aid and IMF allotments could quickly gain traction. In addition to the 1.3 billion dollars in annual bilateral aid that the United States has traditionally given Egypt, President Obama recently proposed up to a billion dollars in additional debt relief, aimed at mitigating some of the three billion dollars Cairo owes Washington.
That package has been stalled in the U.S. Congress since mid-September, however, following the outbreak of anti-U.S. protests around the U.S. embassy in Cairo at that time. While most observers have since assumed that the plan would still go forward following the U.S. presidential elections in early November, there has yet to be any additional progress on the issue.
On Sunday, the Egyptian stock market fell another 10 percent amidst uncertainty. By late Monday, however, initial signs suggested a slight easing of tensions, with the Muslim Brotherhood calling off a counter-rally planned for Tuesday, and some suggesting optimism following a meeting between Morsi and the top judiciary.


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A way to recover rare earths from electric motors' magnets
Future News Team May 12, 2021 2 min read
THE MOTORS driving today's electric cars use powerful magnets made from rare-earth metals. Not all rare earths are actually that rare. Neodymium, for instance, is about as abundant as tin. But good, workable deposits are scarce, and many are in China, which has, in the past, imposed export quotas. This, combined with an absence of substitutes, make rare earths pricey enough to constitute more than half of such a motor's cost. Yet virtually none is recycled—a deficiency that extends also to the motors in computer hard drives, cordless tools and domestic appliances, and to the generators (essentially, electric motors in reverse) in wind turbines.
The problem, says Allan Walton, who leads the Magnetic Materials Group at the University of Birmingham, in Britain, is that the process of shredding and separating usually applied to electronic waste makes the recovery of rare earths hard. Rare-earth magnets are brittle, and break into particles which oxidise readily in air. The result is a residue which is of little, if any, commercial value.
Dr Walton and his colleagues hope to change this, using a process developed by Rex Harris, now an emeritus professor at Birmingham, to recycle neodymium, the rare earth most widely employed in electric motors. In Dr Harris's process, components containing neodymium-based magnets destined for recycling are tipped into a vessel that is then pumped full of hydrogen. A reaction between the hydrogen and the neodymium causes the material of the magnets to expand until it shatters. The result is a demagnetised powder. Once the vessel's contents have been tumbled and sieved, and the hydrogen removed, the extracted powder is of a quality good enough for it to be processed straight back into magnets.
To recycle neodymium in this way, Dr Walton and his team have set up a firm called Hypromag. They say the resulting magnets need 88% less energy to make than equivalents produced from scratch. To help commercialise the process, Hypromag has teamed up with Bentley, a British subsidiary of Volkswagen well known for its luxury cars, which is now developing a range of electric models. Even petrol-driven Bentleys, however, contain lots of electric motors. Some operate features found routinely in other vehicles—power steering, self-winding windows and the multiple loudspeakers in the audio system. Less common in other marques are the motors that pamper the occupants by massaging their backs through the seat covers. All of these, though, will eventually be grist to Dr Walton's mill.
Correction (May 12th 2021): The original version of this article suggested wrongly that Hypromag's magnets needed 15% less energy to make than equivalents produced from scratch
A version of this article was published online on May 11th, 2021
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline "Hydrogen de-bonding"
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Second Continental Congress: September 26, 1775
Virginia and Pennsylvania fail to meet their quorum requirement, but the Congress, nevertheless, is able to proceed with the presentation of two Reports. E. Rutledge opposes the recruitment of Blacks into the Army, but his motion was defeated. John Adams is eager to return home and Richard Henry Lee has just arrived in Philadelphia with renewed energy and hope.
Since the delegates for Virginia and Pennsylvania were not present, the consideration of the letters and papers from Messrs. Morris and Wilson deferred until tomorrow.
The Committee appointed to prepare an answer to General Washington's letters, delivered their report which was read and agreed to.
The Committee appointed to examine the journal of the Congress during the last sessions, in order for the press, delivered their report.
Adjourned to nine o'clock tomorrow.
Richard Smith's Diary
The Committee brought in a Letter to General Washington, in the Course of it E Rutledge moved that the General shall discharge all the Negroes as well Slaves as Freemen in his Army. He was strongly supported by many of the Southern Delegates but so powerfully opposed that he lost the Point. [Editor's Note. But see Congressional Resolution of January 16, 1776] The Question of the Lines between Pennsylvania & Virginia agitated but Nothing determined. The Letters between Washington & Gage ordered to be published, then the Journal was read in Order for Publication and some Parts of it ordered not to be printed as improper for Public Inspection particularly all that was there about fortifying the Passes on Hudson's River & the Directions to the New Yorkers to arm themselves &c.
John Adams to Abigail Adams
I have enjoyed better Health, this session than the last, and have suffered less from certain Fidgets, Pidlings, and Irritabilities which have become so famous. A more serious Spirit prevails than heretofore. We shall soon be in Earnest. I begin to think We are so. Our Injunctions of Secrecy are so much insisted on, that I must be excused from disclosing one Iota of any Thing that comes to my Knowledge as a Member of the Congress. Our Journal of the last session however, I conjecture will be speedily printed and then I will enclose it to you….
I hope to be excused from attending at Philadelphia, after the Expiration of the Year. I hope that Dr. Winthrop, Mr. Sever, Mr. Greenleaf, Colonel Warren, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Gerry, some or all of them will take their Turns, in the States and suffer me, at least to share with my Family, a little more than I have done, the Pleasures and Pains of this Life, and that I may attend a little more to my private Affairs that I may not be involved in total Ruin, unless my Country should be so and then I should choose to share its Fate.
Richard Henry Lee to George Washington
Two days ago I arrived here from Virginia, which the late short adjournment just allowed me time to visit and return…. Your labors are no doubt great both of mind and body, but if the praise of the present and future times can be any compensation you will have a plentiful portion of that. Of one thing you may certainly rest assured that the Congress will do everything in their power to make your most weighty business easy to you. I think you could not possibly have appointed a better Man to his present Office than Mr. Mifflin. He is a singular Man ….
We have no late accounts from England, but from what we have had that can be relied on, it seems almost certain, that our Enemies there must shortly meet with a total over throw. The entire failure of all their schemes, and the rising spirit of the people strongly expressed by the remonstrance of the Livery of London to the King, clearly denote this. The Ministry had their sole reliance on the impossibility of the Americans finding money to support an army, on the great aid their cause would receive from Canada, and consequent triumph of their forces over the liberties and rights of America. The reverse of all this has happened, and very soon now, our Commercial resistance will begin sorely to distress the people at large. The Ministerial recruiting business in England has entirely failed them, the Ship builders in the royal yards have mutinied, and now they are driven as to their last resort to seek for Soldiers in the Highlands of Scotland. But it seems the greatest Willingness of the people there cannot supply more than one or two Thousand men, A number rather calculated to increase their disgrace, than to give success to their cause.


Death Stranding isn't releasing anytime soon as "it'll take a while" according to Hideo Kojima. This puts an end to all of the rumors regarding the game's release in 2019. Death Stranding being a PlayStation 4 exclusive, no one, except Sony and Kojima, know the actual release date.
Hideo Kojima recently took it to Twitter to promote Mads Mikkelsen (who plays a big role in the game) and his new upcoming movie, Arctic. In between doing all that, the director of Arctic movie, Joe Penna, took advantage of the moment by asking Metal Gear Solid series creator that "does it mean that I get to play Death Stranding now?.
In reply, Kojima denied all of the Death Stranding release date rumors as he said: "It'll take a while, but meanwhile I hope everyone enjoys the film".
Now, this looks like Kojima is trying to diverge attention from the recent rumors in order to surprise everyone. This will also help Kojima Productions to finish and refine the game further without getting everyone's hopes high any further. Another possibility is that Kojima is secretly hinting at the possible release of Death Stranding in 2020.
The Tweet assures us that the game is not coming out anytime soon. If it really did, we would at least know what is Death Stranding about.
In case you don't know, Kojima is a master at building pre-release hype by doing a lot of teasing, dropping random information about his projects and through cryptic messages. There are only a few people that have seen the actual Death Stranding gameplay.
Kojima Productions likes to do things in a different way. Recently we saw the team going to Cory Barlog and Guerilla Games to show some exclusive footage instead of showing it to the fans who will actually play it. However, after all of the reactions from Guerilla Games, it's safe to say that it's absolutely amazing.


The share price for Galan Lithium Limited [ASX:GLN] has fluctuated this morning after the company announced the successful completion of the third round of drilling at the Candelas project in Argentina.
At time of writing, Galan Lithium's share price is valued at 37 cents per share, down 1.33%.
This follows an exciting week for the Lithium brine explorer, with the included notice that the company has effectively raised $4 million in proceeds through their latest share placement.
Related: Don't buy a single lithium stock until you've read this free report.
And, all things considered, GLN will need it. Through their latest drilling measures, GLN have again discovered high conductive brines over 154 metres in hole C-03-19, the third drilling hole of out five.
The results so far seem to replicate the initial geological forecast from the maiden drill, with the field tests showing brines were encountered 'over ~154m from ~276m to end of hole', but further sampling is needed before the fourth drill is approved and set to go.
Testing from the second hole revealed a lower grade lithium-bearing aquifer than expected, possibly due to dilution with hydrothermal (heated) water sources.
Related: Don't buy a single lithium stock until you've read this free report by Sam Volkering. Download our free guide to learn more.
One step closer to topping the Lithium Triangle?
The confidence shown in the capital raising is a good indication of the belief many investors have in the entire Hombre Muerto project, and today's results will likely be less of a surprise and more of a continuation of what investors expect from the Lithium Triangle.
The Candelas region in Argentina is one of the richest sources of high-grade (and low impurity) brine materials, and is home to big name mineral explorers like Galaxy Resources Limited and Korean steelmaker POSCO.
The company has managed a rise in their share price over the last six months and were up 30% this time last week. Good results or not, investors know GLN has a lot of competition in what is an already over-saturated lithium market.
PS: Are you interested in lithium stocks like Galan Lithium but don't know where to start? Our free investor report can help. Don't buy a single lithium stock until you've read it. Download our free guide to learn more.


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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class Helper {

	public String getInput(String prompt) {
		BufferedReader stdin = new BufferedReader(
				new InputStreamReader(System.in));

		System.out.print(prompt);
		System.out.flush();

		try {
			return stdin.readLine();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			return "Error: " + e.getMessage();
		}
	}

}

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HTF MI recently introduced Global Enterprise Video Market study with in-depth overview, describing about the Product / Industry Scope and elaborates market outlook and status to 2023. At present, the market is developing its presence and some of the key players from the complete study are Adobe Systems Incorporated, Brightcove Inc., Avaya,Inc., Vidyo,Inc., MediaPlatform,Inc., VBrick Systems Inc., IBM Corporation, Cisco Systems,Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Ooyala,Inc., Polycom,Inc. & Kaltura etc. The market Study is segmented by key regions which is accelerating the marketization.
• Enterprise Video (Volume, Value and Sales Price) table defined for each geographic region defined.


In June, the vessel was at the centre of standoff between Italy and Malta and remained stranded at sea for days, with more than 600 migrants on board.
In a statement, the Armed Forces of Malta said the rubber dinghy was spotted during a routine border patrol.
The director of the French port of Sete on the Mediterranean coast said meanwhile yesterday that he would be prepared to let the boat, carrying migrants mostly from Somalia and Eritrea to dock if the government gave the all clear. "We're asking them to be responsible and find a safe port in the Mediterranean", she said, accusing Italy and Malta of flouting worldwide maritime law.
She added that Libya's maritime authorities, who coordinated the rescue, said: "They could not offer us a safe port and that we had to contact other rescue coordination centers".
The Maltese authorities said they were monitoring the situation and in touch with overseas counterparts.
Migrants are seen resting on board the MV Aquarius rescue ship run by SOS Mediterranee organisation and Doctors Without Borders during a search and rescue (SAR) operation in the Mediterranean Sea, off the Libyan Coast, August 12, 2018. The migrants will be brought to Malta in the afternoon, sources said.


We will soon see IBM and CVS, a company rebranded recently, joining hands to allow people use the Watson supercomputer for managing health problems such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. The two companies have decided to enter a new partnership for developing customer healthcare management services for all CVS customers suffering from chronic illnesses. They also have plans of licensing the new technology to insurance companies.
Although none of the companies have provided any details about the product, it has been said that the supercomputer will be able to predict whether an individual is at risk of experiencing a decline in health. The companies are saying such predictions will allow early intervention. Knowing an individual's chances of getting a disease will allow medical practitioners to prepare proper healthcare guidelines for him or her and recommend appropriate, yet cost-effective primary care.
Troyen A. Brennan, the chief health officer of CVS, in one of his recent statements said that the partnership will allow the two companies to use key health data and advanced technologies for developing a device that can be used by nurses at MinuteClinics, pharmacists, and all connected healthcare providers. Brennan added that this ability of the device could help his pharmacy to improve its members' health while managing healthcare costs.
The decision of joining hands with CVS is regarded as the biggest move by IBM into the mass market healthcare for Watson. All the initiatives were taken by the company so far were either related to clinical trials or were oncology centric.
For those who don't know: CVS currently has as many as 7,600 retail stores and around thousand walk-in clinics. That's not all; the company also runs a widely participated pharmacy program. According to recently obtained statistics, the program has over 70 million participants, which is almost 22% of the current US population.
Experts believe that the partnership between CVS and IBM might completely transform the role of pharmacists, specialists, primary-care physicians, and retail clinic practitioners. It might mean that an individual would need to consult with Watson, the supercomputer, during his or her routine visit to a nearby drugstore. Such consultations might inform people about an impending health issue or might warn them that the medicines they are taking are not working properly.


On August 28, 2018, around 30 people came to the Chinese Embassy in Berlin to ask for the release of 14 arrested workers of Jasic factory in Shenzhen and their supporters who are still in detention.
Solidarity messages from workers of Daimler factory in Sindelfingen, and VW in Hannover, both Germany, were read out.
See the Call for Solidarity for Jasic workers and their supporters.


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Sony India today launched its latest A-series home theater systems, including the HT-A5000 and HT-A3000 soundbars. These provide a multi-dimensional sound experience with Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. The soundbar works well with devices that support Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa. It comes with 360-degree surround sound mapping and sound field optimization technology.
The new HT-A5000 and HT-A3000 home theater systems will be available on Amazon.in on December 12, 2022 and at all Sony Centres, www.shopatsc.com and major electronics retailers across India on December 14.
In terms of design, the minimalistic Omnidirectional Block design of the Sony HT-A5000 features beautiful rounded edges. The Omnidirectional Block concept is also used in the design of the HT-A3000 and optional speakers. HDMI eARC, optical input and USB ports make installing soundbars a breeze.
Both soundbars include Sound Field Optimization, which smartly measures the relative height and position of the soundbar and rear speakers to deliver an even more personalized and immersive sound experience. It then synthesizes the sound waves and creates several phantom speakers based on the location information.
The HT-A5000 also features S-Force PRO Front Surround, which creates a wider horizontal sound field. When paired with the Sony SA-RS5 and SA-RS3S wireless rear speakers, the HT-A5000 and HT-A3000 provide access to Sony's groundbreaking 360 Spatial Sound Mapping technology.
The 5.1.2-channel soundbar HT-A5000 has a built-in dual subwoofer for deep bass and two upward-facing speakers that bounce sound off the ceiling for immersive overhead music. The HT-A3000 has 3.1 channels, three front speakers, one of which is designed for clear conversation, and a built-in dual subwoofer for deep bass. It also has two side-beam tweeters that bounce sound off the side walls and expand the surround sound for an immersive experience.
Sony's X-Balanced Speaker unit is used in the upward facing speakers, built-in dual subwoofer and front speakers. The HT-A5000 and HT-A3000 are equipped with Sony's Vertical Surround Sound Engine technology, which enables viewers to enjoy a cinema-like experience at home by supporting sound formats such as Dolby Atmos and DTS:X.
The front and upward-facing speakers, along with Sony's proprietary signal processing, generate "vertical" music, allowing the soundbar to project sound vertically. Now you can enjoy realistic, multi-dimensional sound without the need for in-ceiling speakers.
360 Reality Audio is available on Amazon Music HD, Deezer, nugs.net and TIDAL. DSEE Extreme uses Edge-AI to upscale compressed digital files in real-time, restoring lost high-frequency audio for a richer, more immersive listening experience. When used in conjunction with compatible BRAVIA TVs, it enhances the immersive audiovisual experience. Soundbar and TV become one thanks to BRAVIA Acoustic Center synchronization. The TV becomes the central speaker in the home theater system, ensuring that action and sound are perfectly matched for total immersion. In addition, BRAVIA Acoustic Center Sync works with the 360 Spatial Sound Mapping setup to provide an immersive viewing experience and clearer speech.
The HT-A5000 supports Spotify Connect, Chromecast built-in, Apple Airplay 2, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, making it easy to listen to music. You get all the connections you need to enjoy a breathtaking surround sound experience, with USB, optical input, HDMI output (eARC) and S-CENTER OUT for compatible BRAVIA TVs. The soundbar is compatible with voice assistants such as Google Assistant with Chromecast built-in or Amazon Alexa-enabled devices. Simply connect the soundbar to a group of speakers using the Google Home app and start playing music, change the volume, or perform a variety of other tasks using your voice.
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Q: Malfunctioning view inflater Building a custom view that inflate an xml.
everything works fine except that when a the custom view is selected, all other views inflating the custom view is also selected. Don't really know what the problem is. Snippet is below.
public class DJV_DropDown extends LinearLayout {
private UI_Model ui_models;
private String[] items;
private ArrayAdapter itemAdapter;
private UI_Object ui_object;

public void setUi_object(UI_Object ui_object) {
    this.ui_object = ui_object;
}

public UI_Object getUi_object() {
    return ui_object;
}

public final void setViewAttribute(UI_Object ui_object) {
    ui_models = new AttributeDefiner().AttributeReader(ui_object.getUi_spec(), ui_object.getStepData(), ui_object.getName());
    setUi_object(ui_object);

}

public final void setDefaultAttribute() {
    if (getUi_object().getUi_spec().getParameterMode().equalsIgnoreCase("entity")) {
        getUi_object().setParameterMode(true);
        String entityString = getUi_object().getUi_singleField().getEntitySource();

        UI_Entity entity = new UI_Entity(entityString);
        ArrayList<Entity> entityArrayList = Entity.getAllEntityByName(getUi_object().getContext(), entity.getName());
        getUi_object().setEntityObject(entityArrayList);
        String keep = "";
        for (int entityIndex = 0; entityIndex < entityArrayList.size(); entityIndex++) {
            try {
                JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(entityArrayList.get(entityIndex).getValue());
                keep = jsonObject.optString("::DisplayName::") + ",";
            } catch (JSONException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        if (!keep.trim().isEmpty()) {
            items = keep.substring(0, keep.length() - 1).split(",");
            textView.setText(items[0]);
        } else {
            items = new String[0];
        }
    } else {
        items = getUi_object().getUi_singleField().getSourceContent().split(",");
        textView.setText(items[0]);
    }
}

public final UI_Model getCustomViewAttribute() {
    return ui_models;
}

public DJV_DropDown(Context context) {
    super(context);
}

public DJV_DropDown(Context context, UI_Object ui_object) {
    super(context);
    initialise();
    setViewAttribute(ui_object);
    setDefaultAttribute();

}

TextView textView;
LinearLayout rootLinearLayout;
static int id = 0;
private void initialise() {
    LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    inflater.inflate(R.layout.djv_dropdown, this);
    textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text);
    rootLinearLayout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.root);
    rootLinearLayout.setId(id);
    id++; //changed the id because i initially thought the problem was a a result of more than one custom view sharing the same id

}

}
xml that is been inflated:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/root"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/drop_down"
    android:padding="12dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <TextView
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_margin="5dp"
        android:gravity="center_vertical"
        android:textSize="16dp"
        android:text="uyyu"
        android:id="@+id/text"
        android:textColor="#000"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    </TextView>
    <ImageView
        android:src="@drawable/spinner_down"
        android:background="@android:color/transparent"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />
</LinearLayout>