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Fiske Guide to Colleges 1999: The: The Highest-Rated Guide to the Best and Most Interesting Colleges in America (15th ed) (英語) ペーパーバック – 1998/8/4
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For seventeen years, The Fiske Guide to Colleges has been the indispensable source of information for hundreds of thousands of students and their parents. Candid, lively, and reliable, it speaks with unique authority, covering everything from where a school's history department ranks academically to where its basketball team ranks nationally, from which dining halls should be avoided to which professors shouldn't be missed. The result is -- as USA Today wrote -- the "most readable and informative" of all the college guides published. Based on surveys of thousands of students and administrators and thoroughly revised and updated every year, The Fiske Guide to Colleges answers the questions on the minds of all guidance counselors, prospective students, and parents. Included are:
-- application information -- where to get one, which schools have the longest and most difficult applications, deadlines, etc.
-- quality-of-life, academic, and social-life ratings for each school -- "party school" or "monastery"?
-- listings of each college's strongest departments and majors
Plus there's Fiske's exclusive selection of the forty-two schools that constitute 1999's "Best Buys" -- schools that deliver the best education at the most reasonable cost.
Some college guides offer merely pages of statistics, others just student opinions, and still others only the opinions of education experts. But The Fiske Guide to Colleges combines all three, so you get the full picture. It's the one authoritative book that college-bound students and their parents shouldn't be without.
The only college guide to get a top rating from American Bookseller
Edward B. Fiske is one of America's leading education experts. The former education editor of The New York Times and the author of several bestselling books, he lives in East Alstead, New Hampshire.
The best short reference on each college is the Princeton Review of The Best (311) Colleges. It gives ratings of academic quality, difficulty of admission, percentage admitted, etc. There is also a brief summary of college life and what each place might be looking for.
Peterson Guide is comprehensive, and has long write-ups for each school. There is a front section for each school, listed alphabetically within each state, and a back section with detailed profiles of selected institutions.
Fiske's guide is interesting, but he basically has something good to say for each school, so careful reading between the lines and for "damning with faint praise" is called for.
The Yale Insider's Guide is extremely subjective, with different students writing various reviews. We did not find it too reliable, except in conjunction with other books.
Likewise for Barrron's Guide to the Most Competitive Colleges. Recent alumni write of their (invariably positive) experiences. Take it with a grain of salt, or read carefully between the lines.
Choosing the Right College by ISN was extremely helpful. Some readers criticized it for being allegedly right wing. We did not find it so. Rather, knowing the point of view of the authors helped us evaluate their observations. Other books do not make their biases explicit. A feature of the book we found particularly helpful was the naming of excellent professors and departments in each college.
Antonoff's College Finder was interesting only in conjunction with other books.
Three books written from the perspective of college admissions officers were very interesting and helpful. They are The College Admissions Mystique, by Mayher, Getting In, by Bill Paul, and most of all A is for Admission by Michelle Hernandez. We strongly recommend that parents and the kids who are the applicants read at least one of these.
Another very helpful book was You're Gonna Love This College Guide, by Marty Nemko. It takes the student through the decision process of big vs. small, urban vs. country, elite vs. the level just below, geography, and so forth. That really got our daughter unstuck in her thinking process.
Loren Pope is another helpful author for those who think that not getting into Harvard is the end of the world.
Three books we did not find to be particularly helpful are Getting Into Any College, by Jim Good and Lisa Lee, The National Review College Guide, by Charles Sykes and Brad Miner (too out of date), and The Real Freshman Handbook, by Jennifer Hanson.
One book we found to be unexpectedly useful was Getting Into Medical School Today, by Scott Plantz, et. al. Even if your child is not interested in medical school, this book puts college in perspective for any post-college program.
We hope readers find our review helpful.


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My friend was recently diagnosed with hepatitis C, a devastating disease that attacks the liver. The treatment isn't fun. Several times a week, she injects herself with interferon, a drug that causes nausea, irritability, and flu symptoms. She'll endure eight months of this in the hope of slowing and maybe curing the disease.
In about five years, though, microchips might replace injections as the preferred method of delivering the biological drugs (usually proteins) used to treat hepatitis C and many forms of cancer. They may also be used to deliver hormones, pain medications, and insulin.
Today, researchers are in the early stages of putting medicine on chipsand the implications are weighty. For example, MicroChips, a start-up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is building a chip with tiny channels etched on the back, each of which contains a minute amount of a drug. The channels are sealed with a fine layer of gold. When hit with a small electric charge, the gold dissolves, releasing the drug. The chip would be implanted under the skin or, for gastrointestinal ailments, swallowed.
"It's very much like a traditional chip," explains MicroChips president Dr. John T. Santini, Jr. "Our current devices are made out of silicon and have circuitry."
The challenge lies in controlling when the electric charge is delivered. To resolve this, Santini's group would implant another chip, a controller to deliver the electric charge. That chip might hold a preprogrammed schedule of drug delivery, or it might take orders from a remote for on-demand delivery of pain medication. MicroChips also hopes to build a sensor chip that, once implanted, would constantly test the bloodstream and tell the controller when medications are needed.
This advance has advantages over drug injection that go beyond the convenience of implanting a chip you can forget about for months. Medication chips also address the problems of drugs that are cumbersome to administer because they can't survive the digestive system in pill form and must be injected. Even when the drugs are injected, the body breaks them down too quickly. Therefore, they are injected in high doses so that they will reach the part of the body that needs them in reasonable amounts and remain at an effective level in the system. This can cause many rather unpleasant side effects. Medication microchips, however, can frequently release small amounts of drugs directly to the affected area, eliminating the overdosing.
Carl Grove, president of iMEDD in Columbus, Ohio, is leading his company to develop a similar microchip with a polymer coating that could treat heart disease, diabetes, and various forms of cancer. This could be especially helpful for people (perhaps transient or indigent) who may not be able to keep up a long-term treatment that involves regular injections.
The idea of a medical implant is not entirely new. In fact, Santini started his current research when he was working with Dr. Richard Langer at MIT in the early nineties. Langer invented a polymer wafer used to treat brain cancer, which is hard to combat with traditional chemotherapy, because the brain-blood barrier allows so little of the drug through. Now, surgeons remove a tumor and then implant Langer's polymer chemo wafer. As the polymer dissolves, it releases drugs directly to the site of the tumor, using the brain-blood barrier to keep the drug out of the rest of the body.
Both Santini and Grove say the more open-ended implications of medication chips lie in how they would affect the development of new drugs. The Human Genome Project has given us the potential to discover untold biological treatments. Most of them wouldn't be viable if they had to be injected or swallowed, though, so researchers and drug manufacturers wouldn't pursue them. The medication chip, by providing an efficient and economical way of delivering volatile drugs directly to parts of the body that need them, opens up new possibilities for biological drugs and could change the direction of drug research.
As researchers like Santini and Grove are still in the early stages of their work, however, you aren't likely to hear your doctor say anytime soon, "Take two microchips and call me in six months."

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text: Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing to fatigue of patients with chronic hepatitis B. Methods: The subjects were consisted of 140 patients with chronic hepatitis B who visited the K University Hospital in Daegu, Korea from May to June. Data were collected by selfadministered questionnaires of symptom distress, anxiety, self efficacy and fatigue with Likert scale. Collected Data were analyzed with SPSS 18.0 program. Results: The reported scores for symptom, anxiety, self-efficacy and fatigue were 1.55±0.58, 1.94±0.53, 3.60±0.64, 2.98±1.84, respectively. A positive correlation existed between fatigue and symptom (r=0.57, p=0.029), anxiety (r=0.64, p=0.000). In contrast, there was a negative correlation between fatigue and self-efficacy (r=-0.57, p=0.000). The influencing factors for fatigue were anxiety, symptom, the level of education and self-efficacy (R2=0.53, p<0.001). Conclusions: The results of this study provide comprehensive understanding of the influencing factors on fatigue in patients with chronic hepatitis B. These findings show that development for programs and strategies for reducing anxiety and symptom and enhancing self-efficacy are need to control fatigue in chronic hepatitis B patients.

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“I think that the context is that we very publicly say that we are about the private buyer and that we believe our product, our dealer experience, and our aftersales experience is very much tailored to a private buyer,” Mazda Australia public relations senior manager Karla Leach told CarAdvice.
Speaking to CarAdvice at a recent Mazda MX-5 generations drive event in Northern Victoria, Leach acknowledged that while a broader range of commercial vehicles could boost sales further, for now at least, the brand is focussed on its existing models.
“Our product range really strongly correlates with what private buyers are looking for, so at the moment, we think we have the best line-up that suits our target customer.
“Obviously, the market moves and consumer tastes change, and we’re always monitoring and gauging that, but at the moment, we feel that the line-up that we’ve got at the moment best reflects where our customer’s demand is, and where we feel we best meet the needs of the Australian market.”
Proudly responsible for the top-selling medium SUV in the country – the CX-5 – as well as the third-best-selling small car in Australia – the Mazda 3 – year-to-date, Mazda can also claim the best-selling small SUV with the CX-3, second-best-selling light car with the Mazda 2, and third-best-selling medium car with the Mazda 6.
Conscious of Mazda’s smaller “footprint”, research and development capability, and production capacity compared with other, larger, manufacturers, Leach said the marque simply isn’t big enough, at this stage, to expand its commercial range beyond the BT-50 – currently the country’s seventh-best-selling ute/pick-up.
“Even at full capacity, where we are now, we can’t be everything to everyone, just by pure nature of the size of the organisation,” Leach said.
“So I suppose… what we do, we do well, and we focus on that core. And I think that that’s probably part of the success of where Mazda sits at the moment, because we’re quite focussed on the resources that we do have.”
Ranging from $25,570 to $53,790 (before on-road costs), the BT-50 is offered in single-, freestyle-, and dual-cab configurations, with 4x2 and 4x4 drivetrains, and a choice of two diesel powerplants – a 110kW/375Nm 2.2-litre four-cylinder and a 147kW/470kW 3.2-litre five-cylinder.
For context, Mazda has no direct rival for the likes of the Citroen Berlingo, Fiat Doblo, Ducato, or Scudo, Ford Transit, Hyundai iLoad or iMax, LDV G10 or V80, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter or Vito, Renault Kangoo, Master, or Trafic, Suzuki APV, Toyota HiAce, or Volkswagen Caddy, Crafter, Multivan, or Transporter.
What do you think though? Would you consider buying a Mazda-badged commercial vehicle other than a ute/pick-up? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Future site of plannned 260-acre Highland Oaks park.
-The Oakland Press/TIM THOMPSON
If all goes according to plan, Oakland County Parks & Recreation will open its 12th park this summer.
County commission committees are in the process of approving purchase agreements for 260 acres in Highland Township. The full county commission is expected to approve the agreements also.
Parks land acquisitions require county commission approval.
The county commission's General Government Committee has already approved the purchase. County Property Management Specialist Mike Hughson said it will likely go to the full county commission for referral to the Planning & Building Committee before going back to the full commission for final approval. "We're hoping to have this all approved by the board by April 5," Hughson said. County commissioners are being asked to approve the purchase of two parcels - a 208-acre parcel for $2.46 million and a 52-acre piece for $820,000.
A grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Trust Fund is paying $1.44 million of the cost. The rest comes from the Parks & Recreation land acquisition fund, whose dollars come from a small county property tax levy. The land is on the northwest corner of Milford and White Lake roads and its conversion to a park will boost the county's total park system to more than 6,400 acres.
Hughson said the county still has to complete a survey and environmental assessments before the land can be opened as a park.
"We're anticipating that will be June or July," he said.
The opening of the new park will be good news, says Sharon Greene, of the Highland Equestrian Conservancy, a group that seeks to preserve open space in Highland.
Greene tried to buy part of the land herself two years ago and turned to the county when her offer was turned down. "I walked on the property next door which was also for sale and thought it would make an incredible park," Greene said.
She approached township Supervisor Patricia Pilchowski first, but the township lacked to funds.
"We did some presentations to the county," Greene said. "Equestrians had to build a case for why the land would be valuable to the community."
"It's something the whole community is backing," Pilchowski said. "It goes with the whole theme of Highland Township. We are so into open space and getting trails hooked up. I'm very grateful to Oakland County Parks & Recreation for pursuing this for us."
County parks spokeswoman Jan Pung said there could be a variety of uses at the new park. "Some of the things potentially offered at the park would be hiking, mountain biking, picnicking, and horseback riding," Pung said. "Potentially there could be some facilities for fishing.
"Normally it's a requirement of the state to make parks accessible to the public as soon as possible," she said. "We'll be working with the state to do that. We hope to make the park accessible as soon as possible."


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Protect your Marshall Emberton Bluetooth speaker against the elements with this SaharaCase travel carry case. The shock-resistant case construction resists scratches, drops and dust, while the slim, formfitting design removes unnecessary bulk without compromising protection. This black SaharaCase travel carry case is made of water-resistant materials to help safeguard your speaker.
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Spatio-Temporal Geometry Fusion for Multiple Hybrid Cameras using Moving Least Squares Surfaces
(The Eurographics Association and John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2014)
Multi-view reconstruction aims at computing the geometry of a scene observed by a set of cameras. Accurate 3D reconstruction of dynamic scenes is a key component for a large variety of applications, ranging from special ...
Scalable Music: Automatic Music Retargeting and Synthesis
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2013)
In this paper we propose a method for dynamic rescaling of music, inspired by recent works on image retargeting, video reshuffling and character animation in the computer graphics community. Given the desired target length ...


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Rosenblume’s self-titled album is a well-produced (with full backing band) collection of songs that glance with melodic memories at the American folk-rock sound of the 70’s.
‘Enough To Burn’ stakes a soulful gospel testimony with passionate vocals and a paintbrush of soft organ and harmonica. That is, until the tune explodes into a Stary Cats’ percussive primitive strut that dances with a religious devotion and a juke joint jive.
That’s not bad for a “Liverpudlian troubadour”.
There’s more fairly commercial folk-rock. ‘Knight In Shining Armour’ gives a nod to Jackson Browne, with strong melodic vocals, a “running down the road” pulse, and a really nice carefree piano sound. Then, ‘Arming Souls’ (nice title, that!), drives on America’s Ventura Highway, with a big irresistible chorus.
It’s odd to think this sort of clever folk rock (with catchy hooks galore!) once graced the everyday radio waves.
Oh my, ‘Turn Every Fire’ taps the beauty of a “heart of gold” and simplifies passion into a wide heart throttle-open melody, a warm organ sound, and an electric guitar that touches the many soulful descending falling stars. This tune, perhaps, is the moment when Rosenblume stops his “salute to his heroes”, and takes up the torch and leaves his own “name in the sand” (more about the phrase later!). It’s a wonderous tune.
Then, ‘Halfway There’, again, carves an individual notch into an age-old horn-infused R ‘n’ B funk (with a really nice harmonica solo!) vinyl groove.
Ah, ‘I’ll Be Alright’, in quiet juxtaposition, oozes with pure acoustic beauty. This song skips a stone across a thoughtful river. Glen Hansard, perhaps (again!) has found the melody of that very same river, too. And the tune has the slight echo of Dylan’s ‘Girl From The North Country’. The song is ruminative comfort personified. And the very folky tune ‘Darkness Before The Light’, again, evokes the acoustic heartfelt passion – with a jazzy vibe – of that long ago reflective 70’s introspection that just happened to have a big catchy chorus. This is lovely stuff.
‘The Long Run’ is the jewel: It floats with simple acoustic beauty – with a flugelhorn reverie. This is a welcome oasis.
But then the pulse quickens and joyful country-fused ‘Name In The Sand’, which, once again, proves that Rosenblume can take an existing 70’s radio-friendly template and find new and very fresh “good vibrations”, and yet another way to “take it easy”. That’s a big compliment.
The final song, ‘Paint Things Red’, is laid back folk rock; it’s a bit profound, and the tune is warm embrace of warm humanity—with confessions and some sort of melodic redemption.
In truth, this isn’t one for the folk purists. It confesses its love for the 70’s sound as radio welcomed folk rock pop clarity, when we were all thrilled to be with Jackson Browne as he was “running on empty”—and for all the fans of that sound who think it’s all been played, well, take the advice of big guitar wizard guy David Lindley (and making “a rare vocal appearance” as part of Jackson’s band) who sang into the falsetto chambers of the human rock ‘n’ roll soul and told us all, “Oh, won’t you stay just a little bit longer? Oh please, please, stay just a little bit more”.
This album echoes that lovely falsetto chambered plea for the patience to “stay” and enjoy a glance, once again, at those melodic memories of really nice American folk rock–from those long ago radio friendly days.
Artist’s website: https://www.facebook.com/RosenblumeMusic/
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All 8 entries tagged Maps
October 12, 2011
I've been using Google maps in preparing a paper for this weekend's Dickens Day conference, I've been playing around with the "my places" function - I only discovered the other day that you can save places to create different maps. It's been fun creating maps of the locations in a couple of novels I'm writing about (I've just been drawing on print-out maps until now); here are my maps of the places of Bleak House and David Copperfield.
(Click to enlarge. Yes, my graphics skills need a little work!)
Of course this is just a more hi-tech form of what Morretti does in Atlas of the European Novel, and a starting-point for ideas rather than an end in itself; but it's nonetheless a useful way for stimulating ideas about location and place in individual novels, and indeed for re-thinking, revising, or even complicating initial readings of place.
In Bleak House, for example, it's notable that the significant locations fall upon this linear North-South axis: from London, to Bleak House in Hertfordshire, and up again to Chesney Wold in Lincolnshire; and then directly(ish) down to Paris. A brief excursion to Deal breaks this, but predominantly it's this movement up and down the country that forms the basis of the novel. In David Copperfield, this visualises what I've written about before about the tight, restricted geography of the text.
And in Little Dorrit, this is even more noticeable:
London (and the "suburb" Twickenham) is the only English location in the text; this is accompanied by a European narrative, but limiting the text to London locations opens up more questions about the relationship between those two parts of the narrative and how "Englishness" is represented in the text.
I'm not sure yet if I'll be using these maps in the talk itself as my focus is on the movements between these locations; but as I'm looking at how mobility reshapes the space of the nation, these maps provide a useful and concise visualisations of some of the key ideas I'm presenting. This might also feed in nicely to my teaching on the English C19th novel, where we're thinking a lot about place and nation, and (as Moretti's work shows), mapping the places of texts such as Austen's works provides a useful way into thinking about these ideas for the first time.
March 04, 2011
Writing about web page http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/feb/24/sohei-nishino-diorama-maps#
Just a quick post after this caught my eye in the Guardian last week - the "maps" of photographer Sohei Nishino, who collates thousands of photos of cities into a diorama. The effect is a fascinatingly detailed and intricate vision of the city, and I particularly love how the final image seems to play with its own un/reality; both suggesting "reality" in using close-up photographs that attempt to capture every miniature truth of the city, yet constantly revealing its own artifice in the patch-work effect that results from collaging each individual photo, creating a jarring from the joins between multiple fragments. The visual appeal, I think, is one of fascination from the continual visual readjustment that the image demands; from a distance, the strangely familiar yet oddly fragmented image draws one in for a closer look at the individual pieces, yet in looking closer I almost immediately want to move back out again, realising that the detail is made meaningful only in contemplation of the whole. And so on.
All this, however, is only from the computer screen - I'll hopefully visit the Museum of London's exhibition of London Street Photography to view this, and what sounds like a wonderful collection of other street photographs on display there.
(and as an afterthought, which was going to be my starting-point before I realised I didn't have a response, yet: how, and in what ways, is this a "map"?)
September 06, 2010
Writing about web page http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/magnificentmaps/index.html
Just a quick entry on the exhibition currently on at the British Library, Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art. This fascinating exhibition draws together a range of maps from c.1400s through to the present day; many of these were featured on the recent BBC series Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession which I noted back in April, so it was great to be able to see many of these maps up close.
The arrangement of the exhibition was such that the maps organised according to the contexts in which they were originally displayed: from palace galleries to the streets, schoolroom, bedchamber, reception hall, curiosity cabinet, merchant's house, and government office. In theory, I thought this was a good idea in opening up questions about how spatial context impacts upon interpretation, meaning and function of an object, and it was particularly appropriate for certain contexts: the street section, for example, grouped together maps used for propaganda purposes which gained from being placed next to other similar maps. Meanwhile, the gallery area displayed elaborate maps that leaned more on the side of art than of global knowledge, whilst the bedchamber opened up interesting questions about public/private spaces, the intimacy of the most private of spaces infiltrated with depictions of expansive other spaces.
Ultimately, though, I think the organisation of the maps in this way didn't add much to the display and, in some cases, detrated from it; whilst some of the maps were quite obviously suited to the room they were in, or the context might open up meaningful interpretations of certain maps, many of the types of maps displayed in each room were in fact quite similar. By going back to the "original context" you're dependent on what individuals decided looked best in their gallery vs. the entrance hall, the cabinet of curiosities vs the merchants house, and in many cases the maps displayed in differernt rooms didn't bear any special relationship to that room, only supported a general theme that maps work in different contexts to convey different degrees of power, wealth, and possession- which ultimately are often so entangled that it wouldn't have made much difference to swap many of the maps around. Whilst this wasn't a problem as such, it did mean the exhibits become a little repetetive between rooms and in some instances it would've worked much better to be able to see similar maps from different rooms placed next to one or near one another so that they could gain from comparative viewing, or that one could think about the similar themes or representational differences, and so on. In many instances I could also think of far more pertinent examples that related to the relevant room, such as the maps used in the school room, and a little more variety in the types of maps might have made for more interesting discussion (it was great to see Stephen Walter's The Islandbut some more contemporary examples would've been good); but I'm sure much of this was determined by what was in the collection and therefore perhaps an unreasonable complaint.
These are, however, small quibbles with what was nonetheless an enjoyable stroll around some fascinating exhibits, and some highlights included the fabulous Sheldon tapestry of the south east, the digitally enhanced version of the Hereford mappa mundi, wonderful globes, a tiny atlas made for Queen Mary's doll house, and many other beautiful maps. Well worth a look in if you're around that part of London or working in the British Library in the next couple of weeks (on until 19th September, and it's free).
July 23, 2010
After my previous post, I was starting to question the assumptions I'd made about gender and maps- are maps a masculine form of knowledge in the novel? It occurred to me that whilst maps are easily regarded as such, being produced by and for various masculine projects of Imperialism/ land ownership/ property control/ etc., all the instances I've come across of maps being used for educational purposes were in relation to female characters. It got me wondering whether maps were in fact perhaps more associated with female education - which tends to be undertaken at home under the direction of a governess/tutor or through private study, and therefore maps offer an easily accessible form through which to learn, imparting knowledge without the need of a tutor, often owned by families - rather than the more formal education that boys received. But then in re-reading The Mill on the Floss, I came across a reference in relation to Tom Tulliver's education: his father is speculating on whether the teaching of Mr Stelling is adequate observes "that there were no maps, and not enough 'summing,' but he made no formal complaint to Mr Stelling" (p. 196). Maps are also an intended outcome of Tom's schooling: Mr Tulliver has "a vague intention that Tom should be put to some business which included the drawing out of plans and maps" (p. 176). Nothing conclusive to be drawn from this (or, indeed, any of the other examples I've been thinking about), but an interesting addition to the theme nonetheless.
June 15, 2010
This blog has seen a few map-related entries at one point or another; it's one of the themes of my research that I find really interesting and have incorporated some reading into my research, but which ultimatly hasn't been able to feature all that heavily in the final thesis- a snippet in the chapter on Victorian spatiality, another bit later on in relation to British-European spatiality. So this blog is by way of pulling together all of the map quotes I've collected into one place, drawing out some of the connecting themes as I go.
The first occurrence of maps in the thesis is in reference to Victorian spatial awareness, noting how maps appear as indicators of global spatial knowledge: maps are often used to demostrate knowledge about the world's spaces, indicative of the "opening-up" of global spatiality that's occuring in the period and ensuing wider cultural knowledge about global space that this effected. So maps are often associated with education and learning: in M.E. Braddon's John Marchmont's Legacy, we see Mary “consulting her terrestrial globe, and informing herself as to the latitude and longitude of the Fiji Islands” (p. 105); “she could", we are told "have named the exact latitude and longitude of the remotest islands in the least navigable ocean, and might have given an accurate account of the manners and customs of its inhabitants” (p. 131). Likewise, Dorothea in Middlemarch is shown educating herself in “the geography of Asia Minor, in which her slackness had often been rebuked by Mr. Casaubon” and, unrolling a map, decides that “this morning she might make herself finally sure that Paphlagonia was not on the Leventine coast” (p. 806).
Maps are a source of knowledge (the main source) about global space; and the flip-side of this is when maps are used to convey the ignorance of a character:in Gaskell's Cranford, the narrator tells us that “as for the use of the globes, I had never been able to find it out myself, so perhaps I was not a good judge of Miss Matty’s capability of instructing in this branch of education; but it struck me that equators and tropics, and such mystical circles, were very imaginary lines to her, and that she looked upon the signs of the Zodiac as so many remnants of the Black Art” (p. 185). It's not unusual that this is a female character; maps, gender and knowledge are interlinked and characters that are shown to lack knowledge about maps or globes are typically female; in Mary Barton Gaskell makes a similar comment, for when Alice knows only of South America, where her son is gone, that it’s “‘at t’other side of the sun, they tell me’” (p. 34), Mary’s small amount of geographical knowledge – “she had seen a terrestrial globe, and knew where to find France and the continents on a map” – gives her a sense of smug satisfaction over Alice and Margaret who, at “Alice’s geography” is “so quiet and demure, that Mary was in doubt if she were not really ignorant” too (p. 34).
So maps are part of access to education, but for the female characters who do have access to this knowledge it highlights a stark contrast between the containment of their lives within a narrow spatial radius, and the expansive global space about which they're learning. There's a telling comment in reference to Dorothea about how this form of knowledge shouldn't bear any relation to a woman's sphere of daily life: looking upon the spoils of her uncle's travels which includes maps, Dorothea feels no affiliation with these objects because “she had never been taught how she could bring them into any sort of relevance with her own life” (p. 74). This is a particularly masculine form of knowledge, and must be interpreted, understood, given the correct tools. And this knowledge is a tempting awareness of a world that will never be experienced by many of these women: in John Marchmont's Legacy, although Mary's geographical knowledge is astute, she is expected to never venture further than the confines of various houses which she is moved between by those around her: "where was she likely to go in her experience of the wider world?"
Just as there are ways of reading maps, maps encourage a certain type of reading spaces. In Jane Eyre, Jane stands and “surveys the grounds laid out like a map” (p. 106); map-reading encourages that survey/ prospect view. There's a sense of distance played with too- the grounds as not belonging in any sense toJane, being a space that she occupies with no sense of interrelation with the landscape; she stands back and looks down, rather than experiencing it (a nice contrast to the highy sensory and embodied experience that comes later in her traversal across the heaths). Survey also comes up in Cranford: “Miss Jenkyns had learnt some piece of poetry off by heart, and used to say, at all the Cranford parties, how Peter was ‘surveying mankind from China to Peru,’ which everybody had thought very grand, and rather appropriate, because India was between China and Peru, if you took care to turn the globe to the left instead of the right” (p. 164). The imperial connotations of mapping and the surveying gaze are clear here- Peter as the monarch-of-all-I-survey in colonialised India, casting a British eye over "mankind". And there's a lovely bit of humour in that last line, casting an eye to how map-reading is all a matter of perspective and the way in which you look at the globe or map.
Not only gender, but class too impacts upon the use of maps. Characters of the lowest classes demonstrate but a vague awareness of what "foreign parts" might look like: Jo, the street-sweeper in Bleak House, “has no idea, poor wretch, of the spiritual destitution of a coral reef in the Pacific, or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the cocoa-nuts and breadfruit” (p. 258). But in Dickens we see more rudimentary forms of maps circulating amongst lower classes: in David Copperfield Peggotty meets “some foreign dealers who knew that country, and they had drawn him a rude map on paper, which he could very well understand” (p.573) to help him traverse the continental landscape, the type of map drawn pertaining very well to the type of journey he is undertaking as he wanders with almost nothing in search of Em'ly, the map one of his only possessions. There's also the scene at the beginning of Little Dorrit, in the prison at Marseilles, with Cavalletto “on his knees on the pavement, mapping it all out with a swarthy forefinger; ‘Toulon (where the galleys are), Spain over there, Algiers over there. Creeping away to the left here, Nice […] So away to – hey! there’s no room for Naples;’ he had got to the wall by this time; ‘but it’s all one; it’s in there!’” (p.3). The selectivity of a map is apparent here, the artificial framing that a map demands, the choices of representation that it requires, the subjectivity of the map-creator.
These are just some of the preliminary ideas I've been coming across- I'll hopefully keep adding to this collection of references and expand the scope of this bit of research further (I'm sure I have a few more references tucked away in the depths of my notes, too), and having drafted out some of the key themes I hope to develop some of these ideas in greater detail in future work.
April 19, 2010
BBC 4 seems to be having something of a map-week - last night, "Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession", the first of a 3-part series, focused on tracing the development of mapping techniques over the last 3000 years. Whilst the framing analysis tended towards the simplistic (although it's encouraging that the programme did at least raise questions and prompt thinking about representation and so on), I was interested to learn more about the more technical side of mapping and how the processes and techniques have evolved over the centuries. A variety of fascinating maps were on display from a range of historical periods and places, opening up fascinating insights into the ways in which different cultures understand and conceptualise space, location and movement. Throughout, I found myself coming back to the centrality of movement to mapping, and the role it plays in spatial experience, understanding, and representation- from the Roman map which privileged distance as the organising principle between places, to the Polynesian map drawn from the memory - the memory of travelling through and experiencing the spaces it portrayed. Movement is the precondition of mapping, one of the primary reasons for needing a map. And thinking about maps and movement draws out the underlying tension that all maps display: the attempt at (and pretence of) an accurate representation of space, and the unrepresentability of spaces which always resist containment in representable form. To travel through space which has been mapped is to experience the disjuncture between representation and reality- I'm reminded here of Hetty in Adam Bede, who sets out on her journey from the midlands to Windsor and finds that a distance that “that seems but a slight journey as you look at the map" is in fact "wearily long" to the traveller.
1675 map of a journey - from Mapping the Imagination exhibition
And yet despite their inherent problems and contradictions, maps have that continuing, irresistable appeal; as George Eliot notes later in Middlemarch, “a map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would turn into a chime if you went back upon them”. The series starting tonight on BBC Four suggests the promise of the delights that maps hold, titled as it is The Beauty of Maps. The website contains some interesting info and links (Maptube looks intriguing), and there's also an exhibition at the British Library running until September, which I'll be sure to get along to.
January 07, 2008
"General, you make use of maps during a campaign, I believe. But why should you do so, when the country they represent is right there?"
"Mapping the imagination", the second exhibition I visited at the V&A over Christmas, brought together a wide variety of maps that aimed to challenge our notions about what a map is, with emphasis on the subjective processes of imagination and interpretation that are involved in mapping. These maps did not purport objective truths or claim a totalizing perspective on the land they represented; they were pieces of art with which to engage, provoking discussion and refusing absolute definition.
There were many wonderful maps in the two exhibition rooms, far too many to photograph and discuss, so below are just a few of the ones that particularly interested me (apologies for the poor quality of photographs- I have tried to find links to better pictures on the internet where possible).
'Pattern of the World' by Susan Stockwell is a world map composed of dress-making patterns stained with tea and coffee (a close-up of Africa here). The design aims to map the effects of Britain's colonial rule, the choice of materials representing the tea, coffee and cotton trades that played a significant part in the development of the British Empire, whilst also having relevance to issues today such as fair trade and the rights of workers in clothes factories overseas. Although the map clearly conveys these ideas, it's arguably slightly problematic in depicting the entire world, of which large parts were not involved in the trades represented here or in British colonial rule in general; however, in this respect the map is arguably suggestive of the British colonial conception of the rest of the world, imaginatively, if not actually, incorporating the entire world as its own.
This 1675 map by John Ogilby maps a journey from London to Dover: rather than supplementing a complete map of the area with text detailing the journey, the map is a linear representation of that journey. Starting at the top left-hand corner, the reader/ traveller progresses down the first column, then up to the top of the second column, and so on across the page, ending up at the bottom right-hand corner and presumably continuing the journey at the top of the next page. The map of the journey becomes a narrative, asking to be read like a book, just as a map is a reading of the land it depicts. This rendering of the journey seems to be attempting to capture the actual, lived experience of a journey, in which it is the encounter with a single road that takes precedence, rather than the spatial positioning within a larger geography that is emphasised in traditional maps. Although the map does retain the birds-eye-view of the land, the particularities of the journey are drawn from different perspectives, therefore displacing the single, objective vision that maps ordinarily assume.
This is an unfinished design for a lady's travelling fan from 1788, decorated with a map of Southern England and Wales. Placing a map for decorative purposes on an item that is going to be used whilst travelling nicely interplays the competing notions of a map as a functional tool and as an artistic work.
The literary use of maps was incorporated with the following:
This is, of course, is the map from Winnie the Pooh depicting the fictional locations of the stories. In a literary context, maps act to help the reader to imaginatively construct textual spaces, grounding textually represented spaces in a "real", material form.
The final map that particularly interested me was "London's Kerning", a piece commissioned by the International Society of Typographers in 2006. This map raised questions about the boundaries that maps construct by removing the lines that demarcate roads, parks, and other spaces and instead using only words to map the city (in typography, 'kerning' or 'mortising' is the process of adjusting letter spacing so that the blank spaces between each pair of letters all have a similar area). The picture shows only a small detail of the map; from a distance, the larger imagerecreates the familiar pattern of a map of London. This can be read as a mapping of spatial experience, capturing how we move across and through the open areas of a city without a sense of boundaries between different areas that the lines of a map imply. The map emphasises the road and place-names by which we orientate ourselves as we make our way around the city; the importance of names is ultimately over-emphasised in this case, and place-names are no more "real" to our sense of space than the lines of a map, but as the piece was designed for an exhibition entitled "My London/My City" it suggests that this is one way of "knowing" or making sense of the city on both private and public levels. At the same time, there seems to be a tension in the map as the proliferation of words underscores their meaning; the mass of words become commodities, producing an information over-load of which the reader is unable to make sense. It's also important to note that whilst the removal of lines initially suggests that the map is free from boundaries, scales of power operate through the typography of the words- choices of the size and width of the letters mean that some places are more visible than others, drawing attention to the power imbalances that are involved in the representation of mapping.
There were many more fascinating discoveries in the collection, several of which focused more on interior consciousness: an 1857 "map" by Richard Dadd mapped the human mind as a collection of place names, family names, states of emotion, whilst "The Birth of a Thought" mapped the workings of the human brain after the artist had spent several months as artist-in-residence at a hospital studying brain scans and operations. These pieces came closer to what would more readily be considered as art rather than maps but they contributed to the collection as a whole by highlighting the interaction between subjective consciousness and the reality of landscape that is involved in making a map. Whilst extreme in their interiority, these maps of the consciousness stressed the imaginative, interpretative, and subjective processes that are involved in the creation of any map.
The exhibition runs until 27th April and I'd highly recommend visiting if you can.
December 08, 2007
Writing about web page http://www.oldlondonmaps.com/
Descending, I went wandering whither chance might lead, in a still ecstasy of freedom and enjoyment; and I got - I know not how - I got into the heart of city life. I saw and felt London at last: I got into the Strand; I went up Cornhill; I mixed with the life passing along; I dared the perils of crossings. To do this, and to do it utterly alone, gave me, perhaps an irrational, but a real pleasure.Charlotte Bronte, Villette, Chapter VI (1853).
In the people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, p. 2 (1925).
Whilst maps can't quite convey the vibrancy and particularity of city life that is captured in literature throughout the ages, the collection of maps from the 13th to 19th century provided on this website offer a fascinating insight into the changes the city has undergone. Some of the maps depict the entire city in intricate detail, and thanks to the wonders of technology can be viewed in enlarged close-ups (I particularly like Greenwood's 1827 map). Others show smaller sections or map the changing nature of the city, such as the 1756 map of a proposed new road from Paddinton to Islington. There's also an extensive database of articles and views of London.

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Merkel’s looking over her shoulder, but markets look towards US Rate Decision.
The dovish tone of Thursday’s Bank of England monetary policy decision weighed Sterling down on Friday. The Pound dropped to test the 1.3000 level against the dollar for the first time in four weeks and slumped to three-week lows of 1.1655 against the Euro by close of play. Chancellor Hammond has stated that the UK might have to leave the EU single market as it seeks to gain total control over its own borders and immigration criteria. Visegrad countries could block any exit deal unless rights to work in the UK were protected causing concerns over longer-term damage to the economic outlook.
The US Consumer Price Index for August printed at 1.1%, beating expectations of 0.8% and last month’s figure of 1.0%. Further gains were seen as the Consumer Price Index excluding food and energy also consensus by 0.1%, printing at 2.3%. With the US inflation increasing there was fresh speculation that the Federal Reserve would be pushed towards a near-term tightening, which boosted the dollar.The only mediocre data was the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment failing to meet expectations of 90.8, matching last month’s result of 89.8. The Dollar opened up this morning trading just over the 1.3000 area versus Sterling.
The Euro strengthened by 0.9% versus the Pound from Friday’s European trading session. The single currency made advanced despite the Q2 Labor Cost missing targets of 1.6%, printing at 1%. In Germany, the state election result disappointed for Chancellor Merkel’s CDU party as its share of the Berlin vote declined to the lowest level since 1990 with the AfD party gaining close to 13%. With the second poor result in as many weeks, some suggest the German populace are voicing displeasure at Merkel’s immigration policies. The Euro opened this morning trading around the 1.1662 levels.
This start of this week will be light in data until Wednesday evening’s US Fed Interest Rate Decision. Currency moves in advance of this are likely to be linked to the decision.
Data to watch :3pm USD NAHD Housing Market Index

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Prevalence of Cataract changes in a Guatemala population evaluated by direct ophthalmoscopy
Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Purpose: To grade cataract changes in a Guatemala population with direct ophthalmoscopy and a grading system based on the grading system used by V. Mehra and D. C. Minassian in 1988.
Methods: A population from Guatemala who attended field clinics conducted by Vision For All were included in this study. The sample consisted of 352 participants, 219 women and 133 men, from 9-90 years old. Mean age of the participants was 47.9 ± 17.8 years old. Binocular VA and subjective refraction was obtained with trial lenses and a Snellen E-chart at 5 meters. A 2 mm pinhole was used monocularly with the subjective refraction and whether participants felt any improvement in VA was documented. The opacities in the red reflex in the crystalline lens were graded using a handheld direct ophthalmoscope. The grading was made in an angle of 25o nasal and at approximately 33 cm from the participant’s undilated eye.
Results: The prevalence of cataract was 28.6% and 68% had some form of opacity in the red reflex. There was no statistically significant difference (p > 0.05) between the grade of lens opacities in right and left eye. Mean grade of lens opacities in right eye was 1.64 ± 1.46 and 1.63 ± 1.43 in left eye. The analysis showed a highly significant correlation between age and grade of lens opacities in right eye (y = 0.0657x -1.5106; r = 0.8; p < 0.001) and left eye (r = 0.78; p < 0.001). Lens opacities start to develop at an average age of 38.5 years in this population. There was a significant correlation between aided VA and grade of lens opacities for right eye (r = 0.52; p < 0.05) and left eye (r = 0.49; p < 0.05). 72 participants (20.5%) who had grading 3-5 in one or both eyes felt an improvement in their vision with the pinhole.
Conclusions: The prevalence of cataract was 28.6% and this population had an earlier development of cataract compared to previous studies. This could be due to the UV-radiation, the temperature and nutrition and antioxidant insufficiency. Also this study showed a highly significant correlation between age and grade of lens opacities and a low, but significant, correlation between aided VA and grade of lens opacities.
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2013. , 32 p.
cataract, Guatemala, direct ophthalmoscopy
Medical and Health Sciences
IdentifiersURN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-26786OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-26786DiVA: diva2:630490
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Optometry Programme, 180 credits
Theagarayan, Baskar, PhD, Lecturer in Optometry
Baskaran, Karthikeyan, PhD, Lecturer

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King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun said in a statement released by the government that the operation could not have been achieved without the unity, dedication and effort of all involved.
More than 1,000 Thai troops have been joined by rescue workers from all over the world at the Tham Luang cave system in Chiang Rai as authorities consider how best to free the team. This way the boys wouldn’t need to learn to swim or dive, and would be able to have their head above water as they exit, nearly allowing them to walk out.
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Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. In commemoration of this historic milestone, this year’s contest asks students to reflect on what having the right to vote means to them, while encouraging their peers to vote.
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In Whose Best Interests?, By RUTH BETTELHEIM, The New York Times

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The false traffic stop happened at about 5:30 p.m. on Jack Road in the area of Snyder Road, according to Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg.
The victim said the black, older police vehicle had red and blue revolving lights on the top and a red and blue light on the lower area of the windshield on the driver's side.
The suspect identified himself as a state police trooper. He asked the victim to exit her vehicle, then searched her and asked her to "prone out" on the ground.
The suspect attempted to take a ring off the victim's left hand. He then ordered her to stand up and pulled her up by her hair.
He then fled south on Jack Road.
Police described the suspect as a black man with black hair styled in a buzz cut and a deep tone a voice, last seen wearing a black shirt and blue jeans and white sneakers.
Anyone with information on the suspect or the incident should call state police at 717-264-5161.
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