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Cultural and entertainment facilities are an important mainstay for urban development and the well-being of urban residents. Studying their spatial distribution is thus of great significance for improving urban functions and shaping urban characteristics. This paper uses the Simpson index, grid method, kernel density, nearest neighbor analysis and hierarchical clustering analysis to present in detail the spatial pattern, hotspot distribution and clustering characteristics of urban cultural and entertainment facilities in Beijing. With the help of the spatial lag model, the main factors affecting the spatial distribution of the facilities are explored. The results are as follows: Different types of cultural and entertainment facilities have different spatial agglomeration effects, which are closely related to the historical background of Beijing, industrial distribution, and the living needs of residents; the facilities generally present a spatial distribution with prominent centrality, strong clustering and significant heterogeneity; and financial insurance institution density, building density, securities company density, housing rent and distance to nearest scenic spot are the main factors affecting the distribution of the facilities. Analyzing the distribution characteristics and influencing factors of urban cultural and entertainment facilities in Beijing will provide typical cases and decision-making references that can underpin the informed layout and planning of urban cultural and entertainment industries and facilities.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impacts of university facilities on student satisfaction at regional state universities in Sri Lanka. Design/methodology/approach In order to accomplish the proposed object quantitative research design was used. All undergraduates at four selected regional state universities, namely, Universities of Ruhuna, Rajarata, Wayamba, and Sabaragamuwa, were the population of the study, in which 650 undergraduates were selected as the sample using the stratified sampling technique. The researcher administrated close-ended questionnaire, which consisted of two parts and 31 items, was used for data collection. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS statistical software, and a confirmatory factor analysis was applied to ensure the discriminant and convergent validities of the model. Correlation and regression analyses were used to test the hypotheses. Findings The factors identified as the ones that most strongly influence student overall satisfaction were the lecture room facilities, library facilities, accommodation facilities, employment facilities and entertainment facilities at regional state universities. However, computer facilities did not significantly influence student satisfaction in Sri Lankan context. Originality/value This is the first study which comprehensively investigates the impact of university facilities on student satisfaction at regional level state universities in Sri Lanka.

When trying to grasp the complex relationships between dance and moving images, during the emergence of the cinematic medium, one can hardly avoid noticing the necessity of investigate, once again, the films dedicated to the famous number of \"serpentine\" dance developed and started in 1892 by music-hall performer Loïe Fuller. The phenomenal craze created by this original stage spectacle ended up imposing it as one of the motifs characterizing artistic expression at the turn of the twentieth century. Countless variations have attested to this, at least until the First World War, in areas as diverse as sculpture, painting, architecture, furniture, or even poetry and literature. Over the period, the serpentine dance continuously exerted its influence over the most innovative aesthetic currents, from the heirs of Symbolism through the Futurists to decorative trends typical of Art Nouveau. Seeking to explain this stunning success, several studies have shown how Fuller's performances were made possible by important epistemological changes following the emergence of a large ensemble of scientific and technical dispositives. 1 On the one hand, the serpentine dance, like other spectacles designed by Fuller, featured a stylized apprehension of a form of mobility constantly tending toward abstraction, on the model of new rationalized perceptions of the human body. On the other hand, the same Fullerian shows expressed a symbiosis, unknown until then, between artistic and technological dimensions of art and technology. Indeed, through their incorporation of projections of artificial light with multiple changing colors, of pyrotechnical effects, of complex mechanisms or even of the combinations of a mobile magic lantern, they tapped into the most spectacular signs of a modern expressivity firmly anchored in the new world of electricity, machines and industrialization. This is how the famous quotation from Stéphane Mallarmé should be understood: in a text he reprinted in his Divagations (1897), he writes of Fuller's show as the representation of an \"inebriation by art\" and \"simultaneously, an industrial accomplishment.\" 2

In order to understand the dynamics and inner workings of piracy, I conducted fieldwork in the summer of 2011 by becoming a participant-observer at three pirate DVD shops in Hanoi, Vietnam. Like many foreigners who rarely experience piracy in such an open and material environment, I was initially amazed and intrigued by these stores' massive accumulation of media texts. But as I began to normalize myself within the pirate shop, my focus expanded beyond just the media itself, but also started to include how the store and media incorporated themselves in the customers' lives. During my time at these stores, I met Vietnamese directors and actors trying to find films to study and librarians from local universities buying hundreds of discs for their library collections. I watched a crowd of 15 strangers gather around a television in a store to laugh over an episode of Mr. Bean. I overheard informal reviews of films that customers brought last week and debates over which film was the best in The Fast and the Furious franchise. I heard sounds of excitement as a film finally came to the store, as well as rants about the lack of films.

You leave the sanctuary of your dressing room and walk down a brightly lit corridor; then through a short dark tunnel into the arena. The worst part is the waiting. The waiting is over. For every fighter, no matter how confident he is, there’s a moment before a fight when he has to deal with fear. You should have dealt with it before now. You make your way through the crowd. The arena is packed to the rafters. The roar of the crowd is like no other sound. It can energize and inspire. Or it can terrify like the full-throated

I arrived at Cornell University in the fall of 1963 as a freshman in the School of Arts and Sciences. That was after graduating from Friends Academy near the bottom of my class. Unlike my older brother Dave, who graduated from Cornell cum laude, I was a family legacy. And I was a hell of a tennis player. Our grandfather Thomas Sprague was in the Cornell class of 1917 and had gone over to France as a lieutenant in the American Expeditionary Force under General Black Jack Pershing in World War I. He came home a committed pacifist. Later on,

As writers and researchers, we spend an inordinate amount of time following information related to sports business. One item that got our attention in August was about football taking off in India. It’s a story you might have even mentioned to your friends. “The Elite Football League of India,” you said with a hint of cynicism. “American investors trying to build an eight-team NFL-style football league in India starting in November 2012.” I’m sure that will happen. But you didn’t mean it. Even though former NFL stars Ron Jaworski and Michael Irvin and former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka were

As writers and researchers, we spend an inordinate amount of time following information related to sports business. One item that got our attention in August was about football taking off in India. It’s a story you might have even mentioned to your friends. “The Elite Football League of India,” you said with a hint of cynicism. “American investors trying to build an eight-team NFL-style football league in India starting in November 2012.” I’m sure that will happen. But you didn’t mean it. Even though former NFL stars Ron Jaworski and Michael Irvin and former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka were

Buenos Aires, too, now has its own Cineclub, which has just concluded its first series after having held fifteen very interesting sessions. The only strange thing is that in this city, overflowing with movie theaters and spectators—without a doubt, the largest consumer of films of any Spanish-speaking market—the formation of such a society had not taken place earlier. But multitudinous environments leave little space for the gathering of select groups. Thus the Cineclub of Buenos Aires emerged, perhaps a bit precipitously, without the support of any artistic entity to back it, without being able to count among its

Dwight Eisenhower read Louis L’Amour, hosted stag dinners at the White House, liked TV dinners in the personal quarters, and danced with Mamie to Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians. To many, the contrast with his successor seemed inspirational even more than generational. William Manchester termed John F. Kennedy’s children, Caroline and John, “friendly but reserved with strangers, alert, bright, possessed of immense curiosity and fired by awesome energy.” He was describing their father too. JFK had brown hair, a perpetual tan, and a twist to his bite. Emphatic and sensitive by nature, he was not a hater, seeking to