Bristol University

Bristol is a unitary authority with city and ceremonial county status in South West England. Bristol is England's eighth, and the United Kingdom's eleventh, most populous city. As such, it is one of England's core cities. For half a millennium Bristol was the second largest English city after London, until the rapid rise of Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, in the 1780s. From its earliest days, its prosper ...

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Danny Wallace (born 16 November 1976; also referred to as Leader and King Danny I of Lovely) is a British writer, living in London, best known for his work with the comedian Dave Gorman and for starting both the collective, Join Me and the micronation Lovely. Walllace was born in Dundee in Scotland and began writing at 13, writing reviews for videogames magazines like Sega Power and Super Play. At 18 he then began writing about entertainment and comedy, mainly through the magazine Comedy ReviewIncluding:

• Danny Wallace writer - Join Me
• Danny Wallace writer - Yes Man
• Danny Wallace writer - How to Start Your Own Country
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Anthony Blake (A.G.E) (1939 – ) is a philosophical thinker and author, dealing primarily in the fields of Intelligence, LogoVisual thinking (LVT), the Philosophy of Thought and the works of G. I. Gurdjieff. He is also a founding member of, and the Director of Studies at the DuVersity. A.G.E. Blake - Biography. Anthony Blake was born in the UK in the city of Bristol in 1939. With interests in physics, mathematics, philosophy and the arts he went on to study for an Honours Degree in Physics at Brist ...

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He was born in Gulu, in the North Uganda grasslands. His father was a schoolteacher, his mother Lacwaa Cerina was a traditional singer. His background was Acholi, and he wrote first in Luo, one of the Western Nilotic languages. He was educated at Gulu High School, then King's College in Budo, and later at universities in the United Kingdom. At school he was noted as a singer, dancer, drummer and athlete; he composed an ...

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Langham read English and Drama at Bristol University before moving into a career in comedy. One of his earliest breaks was as the sole British writer for The Muppet Show. He also appeared as the "special guest star" in the thirteenth episode of the final season (1980-81), when scheduled guest Richard Pryor was unable to make it to the recording; a script was hastily written in which "Chris the Delivery Boy" stood in for an absent celebrity. The Writer's Guild of America twice awarded him ...

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Pinter has been a champion of freedom of expression for many years through his association with International PEN. In 1985, he joined the American playwright Arthur Miller on an International PEN-Helsinki Watch Committee mission to Turkey to investigate and protest the torture of imprisoned writers. There he met many victims of political oppression. At an American embassy function honouring Miller, instead of exchanging pleasantries, Pinter spoke of people having an electric current applied to their genitals—which got him thrown out. (Mill ...

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A robot may include a feedback-driven connection between sense and action, not under direct human control, although it may have a human override function. The action may take the form of electro-magnetic motors or actuators (also called effectors) that move an arm, open and close grips, or propel the robot. The control and feedback system is provided by a computer program run on either an external or embedded computer or a microcontroller. By this definition, a robot may inc ...

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On graduating, Morris took up a traineeship with BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, where he took advantage of the free access to editing and recording equipment to create elaborate spoofs and parodies. On leaving Radio Cambridgeshire he worked at BBC Radio Bristol and Greater London Radio (GLR). He was fired by Radio Bristol, with varying accounts claiming that he had either been excessively abusive to a caller or had talked (and possibly eaten) over a news broadcast. However, the legendary incident in which he supposedly released helium into a news ...

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Winterbottom's television career included such diverse projects as the mystery series Cracker, the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman, numerous television movies and an episode of the series "Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood," focusing on Scandinavian silent cinema. He also directed the mini-series "Family," written by Roddy Doyle, with each of four episodes focusing on one member of a working-class Dublin family. It was this series that first brought Winterbottom to the attention of movi ...

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The NUS was formed in 1922 from the merging at a meeting held at the University of London of the Inter-Varsity Association (established by the Presidents of Liverpool and Birmingham Guilds) and the International Students Bureau (which organised student travel and had been lobbying for a national body). Founding members included the unions of University of Birmingham, Imperial College London (who first left in 1923 and have subsequently rejoined and left again twice - the last time being in the 1970s), King's College London who supplied the f ...

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In 2003, he wrote the book Join Me, about how he started the 'cult' of that name. The popular quote is that "it's not a cult, it's a collective", because Danny did not want to encourage the wrong ideas. However, he has begrudgingly admitted that it is, hence the book's cover blurb: "The true story of a man who started a cult by accident." Qwerty Films are currently developing a film version with writer Frank Cottrell Boyce. Danny wrote a small book called '365 Ways To Make the World A Better Place', this includes many humorous RAoK ideas, such as 'Hide a surprise under someone's pillow. (Horses' heads are discouraged.) ...

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Danny Wallace writer, Danny Wallace writer - Join Me, Danny Wallace writer - Yes Man, Danny Wallace writer - How to Start Your Own Country, Danny Wallace writer - Upcoming Projects, Danny Wallace writer - Trivia

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Place cells show increased frequency of firing (up to 100Hz at times, for CA1 cells) when an animal is in a specific area, which is referred to as the cell's place field. On initial exposure to a new environment, place fields become established rather quickly. The place fields of cells located close to each other in the brain will tend to be evenly distributed over the environment and tend to be stable over repeated exposures to the same environment. In a different environment, however, a cell may have a completely different place field or no place field at all. In any particular environment, roughly 40-50% of ...

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Place cell, Place cell - Place fields, Place cell - Phase Precession, Place cell - External link

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The Avon traditionally marks the border between Gloucestershire and Somerset. In 1373 Edward III of England proclaimed "that the said town of Bristol withall be a County by itself and called the county of Bristol for ever", but maps usually show it as part of Gloucestershire, and as the city spilled south of the river, it took the county with it. In 1974 Bristol became a non-metropolitan district of the newly formed non-metropolitan county of Avon. When that county was abolished on the 1st April 1996, Bristol returned to its former st ...

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The University has 17 departments spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, and Engineering. Its departments of economics, government (political science), and sociology are particularly well-known and belong to the best in all of Europe. Essex is the only university which received the top rating (5*) in the UK government's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) for these core social science disciplines (5* in economics: Essex, LSE, UCL, Warwick; 5* in politics: Essex, Oxford, Sheffield, Wales-Aberystwyth; 5* in soc ...

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University of Essex, University of Essex - Departments and research centres, University of Essex - Ethnicity, University of Essex - Reputation, University of Essex - Performance in Ranking Exercises, University of Essex - The Colchester campus, University of Essex - Student Organisations, University of Essex - 40th anniversary in 2004 and future, University of Essex - Famous alumni

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Anthony Blake was born in the UK in the city of Bristol in 1939. With interests in physics, mathematics, philosophy and the arts he went on to study for an Honours Degree in Physics at Bristol University, followed by History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. Later he encountered the works of Gurdjieff's student John G. Bennett who he went on to work with for the next fifteen years until Bennett's death in 1974. He ...

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The city has two significant football clubs: Bristol City F.C. who play in Football League One and Bristol Rovers F.C. who play in Football League Two. The city is also home to a Rugby Union club known as Bristol Rugby, who have won promotion to the Guinness Premiership, and a first-class cricket side, Gloucestershire C.C.C. In summer the grounds of Ashton Court to the west of the city play host to the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, a major event for hot-air ballooning in Britain. The Fiesta draws a substantial crowd even for t ...

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A significant feature of Morris's output is his music. He often co-writes and performs incidental music for his television shows, notably with Jam and the 'extended remix' version, Jaaaaam. His parodies of musical performances (such as the Pulp spoof mentioned above and an Eminem parody in the paedophilia special) are very accurate. This is due not only to his musical ability, but also to his understanding o ...

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Morris has also covered other controversial subjects. He once falsely suggested on the radio that Jimmy Savile and Conservative MP Michael Heseltine had died; had a show faded mid-broadcast when he played a scurrilous cut-up of the Archbishop of Canterbury's funeral oration for Diana, Princess of Wales, although Radio 1 had previously cleared this for broadcast and this was an error on their part as they mistook it for another censored sketch on a similar theme; and performed a song in the style of Pulp lead singer Jarvis Cocker about notori ...

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In 1994 a television series based on On the Hour was broadcast under the name The Day Today. The Day Today made a star of Morris, and also helped to launch the careers of Patrick Marber and Steve Coogan. 1994 proved to be Morris's most critically successful year, as he presented a BBC Radio 1 series similar in content to, but sharper than, the Greater London Radio broadcasts, and teamed up with comedy legend Peter Cook, as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling, in a series of improvised conversations for Radio Three, entitled W ...

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