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Working in physics: Generating job options
There are numerous opportunities for physics graduates within the nuclear-power industry, and British Energy's graduate training scheme provides a way of sampling them all, as James Eberlein explains.
When I left the University of Reading in 2005 with a BSc in physics and meteorology, it was an easy decision to join the energy industry. I had studied climate science during my degree and I wanted to do something that would help curb the impact of electricity production and confront the challenge of climate change. With my physics background, the nuclear industry seemed a logical place to invest my skills and a few months later I joined British Energy as a graduate trainee.
The firm is the largest producer of electricity and the lowest carbon emitter of the major UK electricity generators. I had never heard of the company before I started looking for jobs, but I soon found out that it has a workforce of 6000 people spread over nine power stations, which include seven advanced gas-cooled reactors and the UK's only pressurized water reactor at Sizewell B in Suffolk. The company also operates a coal-fired power station, and has several engineering and corporate offices across the UK.
British Energy's graduate training scheme is a two-year programme that gives graduates the chance to experience every facet of the nuclear-energy business by undertaking a series of "attachments". These attachments are tailored to each graduate's academic background and personal interests, and they enable trainees to experience every department within the company — from reactor systems to environmental safety. The programme is also interspersed with technical training and soft-skills courses during which trainees learn about the company's overall aims. During the scheme I moved between four different nuclear power stations as well as the central engineering support office in Gloucester, which provides specialist technical expertise and support for the power-plant fleet.
My bespoke training plan began within the nuclear-safety group at Dungeness B nuclear power station in Kent. My role was to help ensure that the site complied with safety regulations, which involved analysing and interpreting daily reactor-performance data and writing guidance material on control rod position indications for the engineers who operate the reactor. I joined just as one of the reactors was returning from its triennial maintenance shutdown. To support this operation I had to identify all the coolant gas temperatures and pressures encountered during a start-up, to ensure that the reactor would remain within new operating specifications. I was given responsibility from the beginning, and by the end of the five-week placement I had attained a good understanding of operational reactor physics.
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My next attachment was at Heysham 2 nuclear power station in Lancashire, where I spent six months. Part of my time there involved helping the technicians who operate the plant, i.e. turning valves and testing equipment. This work was physically challenging — especially having to test complex nitrogen equipment at 3 a.m. in a very warm area of the power station! I also worked in the supply-chain department at Heysham, which involved procuring spares and managing contracts, and did a stint with the work-management group during which I scheduled planned maintenance activities on safety-critical systems.
The skills that I picked up on this attachment enabled me to tackle my first major project, which involved planning a multimillion- pound programme for exchanging a 180 tonne generator stator (the stationary conductor-wrapped iron core) at Hinkley Point B nuclear power station in Somerset. This took three months of hard work at the central engineering-support office in Gloucester, after which I had to present my plan to the power station's management team. I was subjected to a barrage of questions, which was one of the toughest moments of my career so far.
Another highlight of my training was being involved in the periodic shutdown at the Sizewell B nuclear power station. This is a 24/7 operation during which the core fuel assemblies are removed from the reactor and transported underwater to the fuel storage ponds. In these ponds new fuel assemblies are mixed with the irradiated ones, tested extensively and then reloaded into the reactor. My role was to initiate and direct the movement of the fuel assemblies. This was an intricate task, based in the control room, which involved directing the operations team that was handling the fuel. It required maximum concentration at all times and proved to be quite stressful.
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The British Energy graduate training scheme has given me the broadest possible range of assignments at a very exciting time for the nuclear industry in the UK. Last year, for example, I spent one week attending a business and finance course in Scotland, while the next week I was learning technical drawing and welding at the Royal Navy's School of Nuclear Engineering in Gosport.
I now have an excellent understanding of the civil nuclear industry, while the technical training courses and hands-on experience have given me the confidence to represent British Energy at many local, national and international events, including the International Youth Nuclear Congress held in Sweden and Finland. This event also gave me the chance to work with fellow nuclear professionals from the British Nuclear Energy Society's Young Generation Network.
British Energy wants to play a key role in building the UK's next generation of nuclear power plants. Until then, the company is improving the long-term reliability and extending the life of its power stations while producing more electricity and optimizing its plants. The graduate scheme — which is accredited by the Institute of Physics — has given me a fantastic overview of British Energy and how it goes about the business of generating electricity safely. Since completing the scheme, I have accepted a post at Dungeness B power station in Kent within the safety-case and reactor-physics team. A worldwide nuclear renaissance is gathering pace, and my aim is to be a leader in the safe provision of this low-carbon technology.
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James Eberlein is in the nuclear-safety group at British Energy's Dungeness B power station on Romney Marsh, UK.
This article originally appeared in the January 2008 issue of Physics World
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Russian Man Turns Tables on Bank, Changes Small Print in Credit Card Agreement, Then Sues
The customer is hoping to win $727,000 in a court case, and he's already had one legal victory.
In Soviet Russia, banks pay customers' bills. Or, at least, one might.
Developing: Russian Bank Chairman Comments on the Fine Print Case: 'Nobody Will Win Anything From Us'An interesting case has surfaced in Voronezh, Russia, where a man is suing a bank for more than 24 million Russian rubles (about $727,000) in compensation over a handcrafted document that was signed and recognized by the bank.
Dmitry Agarkov said that in 2008 he received a letter from Tinkoff Credit Systems in his mailbox. It was a credit card application form with an agreement contract enclosed, much like the applications Americans receive daily from Visa (NYSE:V), Mastercard (NYSE:MA), American Express (NYSE:AXP), or Discover (NYSE:DFS). Agarkov filled in the form and returned the signed application, though what he sent back was not exactly the same document the bank had sent him.
A promotional image from Tinkoff Credit Systems' website.
Agarkov changed some parts for his own benefit -- most notably, the small print. He opted in for a 0% APR and no fees, and added that the customer "is not obliged to pay any fees and charges imposed by bank tariffs." He also changed the URL of the site where the terms and conditions were published from www.tcsbank.ru to tcsbank.at.ua. Additionally, he added a special clause that would protect him should the bank not honor the agreement. For each unilateral change in the terms provided in the agreement, the bank would be asked to pay the customer (Agarkov) 3 million rubles (about $91,000), or a cancellation fee of 6 million rubles ($182,000).
Agarkov then sent his updated agreement to the bank, and shortly thereafter received the bank's signed and certified copy, as well as a credit card.
However, in 2010, the bank decided to terminate Mr. Agarkov's credit card because he was late paying the minimum required payments. In 2012, the bank sued Agarkov for 45,000 roubles ($1,363) – an amount that included the remaining balance, fees, and late payment charges. The court decided that the agreement Agarkov crafted was valid, and required Agarkov to settle only his balance of 19,000 rubles ($575).
Dmitry Agarkov, the customer who rewrote the rules for his own credit card. Photo republished with permission from RIA Voronezh.
Despite the apparent victory, Agarkov fought back: On August 1, the Kominternovsky District Court of Voronezh launched hearings about Agarkov's countersuit against the bank. As Tinkoff Credit Systems had not honored eight clauses in the agreement, Agarkov now wants the bank to pay amends of 24 million rubles ($727,000) total. The law firm Konsultant, which is representing Agarkov, says that the bank's decision to terminate the agreement cannot be lawful because his client was not paid 6 million rubles, as per terms of the amended agreement.
The bank has so far said that the case was related to "a nonrecurrent technical issue," and it is willing to have its day in court. The next hearing will be held in September.
Author's note: This story has been updated to include the real surname of the customer involved in the dispute. His name was first reported as Alexeev by the first Russian outlet to publish this story.
For an update to this story, please read: Russian Bank Chairman Comments on the Fine Print Case: 'Nobody Will Win Anything From Us'
And to find out how this story ends, please see our final update here.
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Several years ago, I was in the mail room of the university at which I taught; I was looking for work for the new year, because the state budget dried had up money for instructors. I remarked within hearing distance of several faculty members, "I just want to get a job that puts a roof over my head and food on my table."
One of my colleagues looked up from papers she had been stapling, looked me straight in the eye and said, "If that is all you want, then that is all you will get."
I have never forgotten that. I think about that now when I am setting goals for my medical editing business. However, I am not a business woman in many ways: When I negotiate with clients, I usually err on the side of a) getting the project and b) keeping the client. I have been told by people close to me that perhaps I don't always do the best job negotiating on my own behalf. It's true. I am a much stronger advocate for other people.
However, I don't think I am the only woman who has trouble with negotiations—particularly salary negotiations. I was talking to my friend who writes the blog Cursing Mama about this piece, and she emailed me,
"Negotiating pay? I stink at that."
I wrote back, "I'm scratching you off the list."
But she returned with something very compelling: "It isn't that I don't know how to do it – it's that I lack the cajones to be down and dirty with it. In fact, I think there are a large number of women who undervalue their contributions to the companies they work for. That is one of the factors of the glass ceiling-- our unwillingness or inability to see what we're really worth.
"Still scratching me off your list?"
No, Cursing Mama, I am not. Especially in light of the fact that my friend Arwen, who writes the blog Anthropologists for Corporate America, wrote to me on the same day: "Women still make 67 cents on the dollar, not because corporate America tries to short change us, but because WE DON'T ASK."
My friend Amy is a photographer in business with her partner, Kim. I actually learned a lot about self-respect and how to negotiate fees when I hired them to take photographs for my medical editing marketing materials. She sent me an excerpt of an email she recently sent to some new, potential clients:
"The good news is that we don't cut corners -- and that results in images that thrill our clients.
The less-than-good-news: both our time-on-task and the fees we need to charge to make projects fiscally worth the time & resources required tend to reflect that no-corner-cutting approach."


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Another cool flowchart-style infographic by Jess Bachman for SEOBook.com. Google's Collateral Damage visualizes how Google's evolving search algorithm is impacting the Web.
Google's PageRank worked well until people realized what drove search & how to optimize for it. But the web moves much faster than the colleges do. A million spam pages are created every hour! Thus Google's relevancy algorithms have grown in complexity over the years.


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A Bryton Rider 20 can currently be had for £85 on Amazon. £7 more than the cheapest price I can find this listed at. So is this still good value?
A bike computer is an important tool for cyclists, for time-efficient training and also a tool to navigate ride and routes. The new VDO MC 2.0 Wireless Cycle Computer is a German-made wireless computer and from opening the box through to installation and using, the MC 2.0 is a well thought-out piece of kit.
A simple process of putting the speed sensor and mount on my bike saw the computer quickly installed. I did refer to the manual for the initial set up to make sure that the initial data input was correct. The manual is clear and this process, other than finding out the altitude of my house, was very quick.
Yes you read correctly; altitude. One of the key features of the MC 2.0 is that it comes with an altimeter working from air pressure. On the read-out of the computer you get a current altitude, total climbed, percentage of climb or descent, average percentage. These are all handy tools but should be used with caution.
I often found that the altitude reading was a few metres out of what the roads in the mountains were telling me. As with all computers it should be used as a reference tool only.
When comparing it with other computers with altimeters the readings will somewhat differ. Another thing to note with this pressure-based altimeter is that your base reading will change with weather pressure. This means an annoying process of re-calibrating your computer before each ride and also the risk that a change in weather will affect the accuracy of readings.
I found the same with the percentage gradient function on the computer. On one ride just outside Geneva, an out-and-back on the same climb, going up the percentage was reading 7% to 9%, whilst when descending it was reading 13% to 15%. A friend riding with me had a GPS which was reading somewhere in the middle, 10% to 12%. This was a little disappointing considering the high retail price of the computer, but when compared to the price of a GPS unit it can perhaps be overlooked.
The other, more standard functions of the computer were pleasing. Speed, time, distance were all quick to navigate between with the large button and clear to see on the large display.
The MC 2.0 also has a heart rate and cadence feature, with the heart rate monitor belt or cadence sensor purchased separately. The model tested came with the cadence sensor which was as simple to install as the rest of the computer. It was a great aid to training.
A limiting factor with the MC 2.0 is that you cannot view both your heart rate and cadence at the same time; it is one or the other. As add-on features it would then make sense to buy whichever one you thought was most suitable for your riding.
Overall the MC 2.0 is a well-built, well thought-out and easy to use computer.
Light, quick to install and set up, it is a great training tool. It was disappointing to see the lack of accuracy in the altimeter function, as well as the fact that you cannot download data. Only being able to see heart rate or cadence function is also limiting.
Coming in only a little cheaper than you can get a bottom of the line Garmin and the same price as you can get the recently reviewed Bryton Rider 20 some might want to spend a little bit more money for increased accuracy, downloadable function and the ability to train in the world of Strava.
Simple to use computer with a clear display, but some might find it lacking in features.
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Make and model: VDO MC 2.0 Wireless Cycle Computer
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Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
For those wanting more than a bog-standard computer, but not having the budget for a full blown GPS. Coming in a little cheaper than a low end GPS some might want to stretch their budget to join the world of Strava.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Large buttons. Clear display. Heart rate and cadence compatible. Altimeter.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
An easy to use computer with clear functions. Though the air pressure based altimeter is questionable in its accuracy.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Clear display. Simple to scroll between functions. A basic altimeter which gives you a rough idea on height for less than a GPS.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Unable to use heart rate and cadence functions at the same time.
Accuracy of altimeter and percentage grade given.
Not able to download training.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? No.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes.
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It is a bit pricey, but if it's German-made then hopefully it will be reliable and durable.
The review didn't mention a couple of things which might be of interest to some people.
1. Does it have a backlight? (Yes it does.)
2. How reliable is the radio transmission between the sensor and the computer? (When I turn on my high power LED lights my current wireless computer loses contact with the sensor, so I'm now looking for a new one. The MC 2.0 uses digital data transmission and VDO claim it is not susceptible to interference. It would be good to know if the radio really is robust. This is a major selling point for me.)


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Columbia City Ballet's mission is clear: to offer South Carolina and Southeastern audiences the highest quality ballet and to provide dancers with only the best professional dance training. We in South Carolina can proudly claim one of the strongest and most versatile ballet companies in the region and in the country.
William Starrett's influence as Executive & Artistic Director of Columbia City Ballet - only the second in the company's history - has transformed it into a professional company with 32 paid dancers and nearly 2,000 season members. Under the leadership of Mr. Starrett, the Ballet produces what critics have described as "some of the highest quality cultural entertainment in the Southeast." The Company attracts not only audiences from all over the region that are eager to attend performances, but also quality dancers from all over the country and the world eager to be a part of such an accomplished ballet company. Mr. Starrett offers dancers and audiences the opportunity to perform and watch classical ballets as well as his brilliant original, full-length productions such as Dracula, Beauty & the Beast and Don Juan.
Since the Columbia City Ballet's founding in 1961, it has integrated the world of dance within the lives of Columbians. In that era, the Company was a community dance group staging only two performances a year. Columbia City Ballet has increased its total number of major performances to more than 80 per year, reaching more than 51,000 people in a season. This year the Company will travel to 15 cities in three states and will present 22 full-length performances at the Koger Center.
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Bellecore is the beauty brand responsible for effectively smoothing the body and creating greater fitness for the skin. Much loved around the world for its popular Bodybuffers, the brands unique devices are one of a kind.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. Treasury said Tuesday more than 90%, or about $380 billion, of the $418 billion spent under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) during the financial crisis has been recovered through repayments and other income. The update came after the Treasury said it'll raise about $7.6 billion by selling its final batch of common stock in American International Group Inc. AIG, -2.34%. (See earlier Market Pulse article).
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COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M first-year coach Kevin Sumlin was, like the rest of the college football nation, saddened by the passing of Penn State coaching legend Joe Paterno on Sunday.
"Our deepest sympathies, as well as our thoughts and prayers, go out to coach Paterno's family and the entire Penn State community," Sumlin said. "I was coaching wide receivers at Minnesota (in 1993) and we were Penn State's first Big Ten Conference game, and out of respect for coach Paterno, our head coach Glen Mason wore a coat and tie coaching in that game. Coach Paterno will be missed."
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Carl Nordberg works in finance and is currently a principal with Katalyst LLC, a venture firm that integrates venture capital, operational execution and merchant banking in a single firm. He previously worked as an investment banking analyst with Legg Mason Wood Walker, and, as an undergraduate, interned for an international trading company in Hong Kong. After three years in the workplace, Nordberg is about to embark on his training for an MBA.
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When I was in college, my best friend and I used to get into a lot of spirited, friendly debates. He was a sociology-oriented person who always extolled the virtue of macro-scale studies with numbers and data, while I was a literary person who would rather read a work of fiction to learn about people. He would claim that my literary pursuits were too myopic, and I would warn about the violence and judgment that lie behind the numbers of many major studies. We were constantly stalemated.
Now, with both of us being recent, young, gay college graduates, we find ourselves part of a heavily-touted, new statistic: We are part of a CDC statistic that shows new HIV infections among young gay men rising by 22% in the past few years, which has many repeating the statistic that 1 in 2 college-aged gay men will be HIV positive by the time they are 50 years old.
I don't know how I feel about being part of that statistic. For one, I always practice safer sex. And while some of my HIV-negative friends claim to practice serosorting, I do not. Also, broken down, that statistic is a worse harbinger for men of color -- as I am -- than it is for our white counterparts. But what else factors into that statistic? What happens when you factor in socioeconomic class? What happens when you factor in college education? What happens when you factor in not having six-pack abs?
Truthfully, reading statistics, and coming to the realization that you are a walking statistic, and that every sexual encounter you have falls somewhere on the continuum of risk, are two different mindsets. Right now, at 24 years old, the many statistics out there about being a Latino man -- including my chances for heart disease or prostate cancer -- are all dwarfed by this looming feeling that I could become HIV positive at any moment, as if it's some light switch that can be turned on at any minute. But when I do worry about it, I remember that I have a sword and shield against HIV -- I have knowledge and I have prevention tools. Are those factors that are included in the statistic? Are people who know what PEP and PrEP are more or less likely to be infected? One's head can go full Linda Blair before one ever really comes around to some kind of peace.
The violence of numbers is real. They attempt to so concretely and definitively elide the humanity of the people they claim to represent.
So, how do we counter the violence of numbers? Well, with stories of course. Artist Pato Hebert, who is gay, talks about the art of queer storytelling, and how stories are the only ways to fight back against much of the violence -- physical, emotional, statistical -- that is done to gay men. At the end of the day, our stories are one of the few things that no one can ever take from us. The pen may be mightier than the sword, but the keyboard is mightier than the epidemiologist, and the tongue (the strongest muscle in the body) -- well, the tongue is stronger than the stigma of being a young gay man of color. The tongue is stronger than the icy heart. If you are queer and you have a story to tell, I urge you not to hold it in. I urge you to type it out, to write it out with a pen, to tell a friend, to tell a lover and to tell another person in your community.
My story is that I don't remember my first HIV test, because I was first tested at the time of my birth in April 1989, because my father was diagnosed with HIV while my mother was pregnant with me. My second test -- and first for which I volunteered -- was on Nov. 13, 2011, one month to the date after my father passed away from an opportunistic liver infection.
When I came out, one of the first things that was given to me -- besides unending support -- was a warning about staying HIV negative. Of course, for my mother, that warning came from a place of understanding of where my path might lead. For me, and for the hundreds of thousands of gay men of color like me, the moments of intimacy that we share with others are tainted. For many of us, sex is only a stone's throw away from death, and we can't think of one without thinking of the other. When I got tested in Nov. 2011, at 22 years old, I had been sexually active for seven years. And I had never been tested in those seven years. I had always been too scared.
The mere prospect of seroconversion stilted me, though I was working at an HIV testing facility at the time! I could've been taking much better care of my sexual health the whole time had I not allowed other people's words to influence me. My fear, and most people's fear, of seroconversion is not a fear of the virus -- it is the fear that we might one day be treated as "less than" for having HIV. Whenever I hear a man speak about not sleeping with someone because that person is HIV positive, I remember how much the social aspects of HIV can be just as damaging as the physical, mental and medical aspects. I don't fear the infection, I fear the reaction.
There are many ways to counter that reaction, and they don't only involve the efforts of HIV-negative or HIV-positive people. It involves realizing that HIV is a community disease, and that only by telling our respective stories can we, as a community, humanize the virus and drive away the stigma.
So, what do I hear when I hear the statistic. I'm comforted by my knowledge sword and my prevention shield; I'm spurred to fight for a more accepting community; and I'm humbled to work with, live with, and love people who are living with HIV. And not just living with it -- smiling with it, acting up with it, crying with it, fucking with it, and fighting with it.
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Bere Island Conservation Plan
The Heritage Council provided funding for the development of the Conservation Plan and for the 1st stage of its implementation. The Council continues to fund the Bere Island Projects Group Co-ordinator who has been in place on the Island since 2004.
Youghal, Co. Cork - Town Wall Conservation
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Waterford Museum of Treasures: Harp Conservation
This harp belonged to William Vincent Wallace, one of Ireland's best-known and best-loved operatic composers. The harp, made in Dublin in the 1820s has been conserved by Letterfrack Conservation to playing standard. It will go on display in Waterford Museum of Treasures in a 19th century room dedicated to music.
Butler Gallery: Framing Conservation
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Thatch Cottage, Co. Wexford
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Eco-Beo Learning Initiative
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Fota House Digital Learning Zone
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Rindoon, Co. Roscommon - Town Walls Conservation
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Athenry, Co. Galway - Town Wall Conservation
Athenry town walls are of national importance and are one of the town's major assets. The conservation and management plan provides a framework to guide all stakeholders involved with the Town Walls in developing a long term management strategy for the Walls.
Kilmallock Town Walls Festival 2011
The Walled-Towns Day held in Kilmallock, Co. Limerick in 2011 featured a children's medieval battle, crafts and food fair, tug of war competition, archery, and a cycle to Kilmallock from Buttevant, the towns nearest medieval neighbour!
Fethard Walled Town Medieval Festival 2008
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Archaeological Dig at the 'Robing Room', Heritage Council HQ
Kilkenny Archaeology Ltd carried out a Heritage Council grant-aided archaeological dig at the Bishop's Robing Room at Heritage Council HQ, Kilkenny during the Summer of 2012. Preliminary findings hint at a large comb-making workshop in the area pointing to support by a local population.
Annagh Marsh Fox Fence Project
The fox fence at Annagh Marsh, was supported by the Heritage Council in 2011, and is proving to be a great success. The marsh now has three pairs of Lapwings and a pair of Redshank breeding once again within the fenced-off area!
ISCOPE: Irish Scheme for Cetacean Observation & Public Education
Funded by the Heritage Council, ISCOPE ran between 2002 to 2006. Its aims were to increase awareness and knowledge of cetaceans in Irish coastal waters, and to encourage greater levels of public participation in cetacean recording.
Bird Atlas 2007-2011: Mapping Ireland's Birds
The Bird Atlas 2007-2011 mapped the occurrence of all of Ireland's and Britain's birds during the winter and breeding seasons. This information will be used to inform future policies and priorities for bird conservation and help to ensure their continued survival.
No. 14 Henrietta Street
Henrietta Street is considered to be one of the first and finest planned Georgian streets in Dublin. The Heritage Council grant-aided the Window & Door Conservation Programme at no. 14 Henrietta Street in 2011.
St. George's Church, Co. Longford
St. George's Church of Ireland Church is situated south of the picturesque village of Kenagh, Co. Longford. Completed in the Gothic Revival style, the church dates from 1832 and received grant-aid of €10,000 towards repair works to its roof in 2011.
Landscapes of Desire: Parks, Colonialism & Identity in Victorian & Edwardian Ireland
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Russborough House, Co. Wicklow
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Clipped! Lawn Boy Returns by Gary Paulsen
"You're saying we actually need someone to manage the people who are working for us to manage the business?" I said.
"Crazy, isn't it?" said Arnold. "But just think--you're stimulating the economy by giving all these people jobs."
"But who's going to manage the people we hire to manage the people who manage the business?"
"Oh. Well....wait. That would be just silly."
"Good," I said.
It's only been a month, a month since Lawn Boy inherited his grandfather's trusty old riding mower and decided to earn a few bucks to fix up his bike so he could ride around goofing with his friends. Then he met Arnold, a down-on-his-luck accountant/investment counselor who offers to "manage" LB's money for a free mowing job, and the rest is financial history. Lawn Boy finds he has the knack for mowing, and when he has more jobs than he can cover, Arnold offers his also unemployed buddy Pasqual to lend a hand. Before he knows it, LB has employees and a schedule, and Arnold is investing his surplus cash in risky ventures which just happen to turn over triple digit returns. Arnold talks him into taking over the management of the punchy but promising boxer Joey Pow and Pow turns a neat profit, too. From a broke twelve-year-old kid, Lawn Boy is suddenly a mini-magnet, with $400,000 (and change) in the bank, and his family's financial worries are history, too.
Well, the summer winds on, and in the sequel to his best-selling Lawn Boy (Yearling, 2009) our hard-mowing hero is back with Lawn Boy Returns (Random, 2010) just in time for the this summer's growing season.
Picking up where he left off, we see Lawn Boy beginning to yearn for the simplicity of the old days when all he did was mow a few lawns, ruefully ruminating on the fact that he never did get time to buy that inner tube and ride his bike. He's now the titular head of a going concern. Arnold has expanded the company's services to include pool maintenance, garage cleaning, and landscaping, necessitating some new hires--an attorney, a tax accountant, a business manager, an administrative assistant/webmeister, and an office manager, (pretty surprising since the "office" is still Arnold's dining room and kitchen tables, that is until his negotiations on a corporate headquarters building are consummated.)
Then things get complicated. Joey Pow sorta "forgets" to throw a fight that the local crooks had, er, invested in heavily, and LB's grandma is the hostage of choice until the, um, "discussions" are complete. Zed, Joey Pow's a self-proclaimed second cousin by multiple marriage turns up and parks his rusty rig in LB's yard, inviting his beer-bellied buddies for a beer-and-wienie bash, and leans on LB for a cushy job with the family business. Suddenly, Lawn Boy learns that the company is being audited by the IRS and his parents are being sued for violation of child labor law. His all-American rags-to-riches story has made him a media darling, and there's a covey of cute girls encamped on his curb with autograph books.
Another promising start-up is threatened by overexuberant expansion.
Nothing sucks like success. It's time for the chairman of Lawn Boy, Inc., to take charge.
Gary Paulsen's short and snappy second book is just as drop-dead funny as the first and should be read as soon as the first book is finished. Lawn Boy is a likable, intrinsically cool character who rides it all out on the well-worn seat of his grandpa's mower, and when things seem overwhelming, he finds a note, taped to the bottom of the seat and neatly printed from his late Gramps:
"A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not why ships are built."
Yep. Lawn Boy has truly tried the waters, and as the summer wanes, and after a much-needed layover in a quiet cove, he's ready to face school and is almost looking forward to the simplicity of trig. But of course, Arnold has big plans for adding winterizing and snow removal to the company's services and then ....
These two books, best-sellers in humorous tradition of Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid, are often touted as "reluctant reader" fodder. Newbery winner Paulsen is indeed the master of full-speed storytelling and straightforward but memorable prose, but for the middle school reader these two books have more than brevity going for them. His chapter titles--"The Origins of Economic Collapse," and "Crisis Management as a Form of Team Development"--point up his tongue-in-cheek but telling commentaries on the perils of entrepreneurship, with Lawn Boy's innate common sense in the mix to make sure it's smooth sailing ahead for Lawn Boy, Inc. It's a lot of laughs and a lesson in life in one fell swath of close-clipped lawn as Lawn Boy rides on.
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I would also point out that none of the humans is really shown to undergo a huge shift in character over that stretch of time (except Maria and Ange, who were still growing into having a character), and that despite his importance to Yasu, Battler tends to play a relatively small role in forgery narratives (that is, considering that the magic narrative grew pretty substantial after Legend).
I must admit that there is a mention of difference she makes between "the Battler I believed in" and "the Battler George and Jessica kept telling me about", but, I mean, I really wouldn't doubt Battler's presentation in the forgeries any more than I'd doubt Jessica's, or Krauss's, or Kumasawa's. :-/
Or maybe just to give Ryu an avenue to feel like basing Young!Kinzo on Battler wasn't cheating at all.
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But in terms of facial expression, she is described as being emotionless. Though I suppose she is meant to freak out in other scenes, I haven't gotten too far into the PS3 graphic games and so can't comment on if she ever changes facial expressions in them at all.
Also since only the first two were written conclusively by Yasu alone, the baby-switch could have appeared in Game 4 as Tohya may have remembered it. That certainly would give you a meta crisis, if the person you are supposed to be but don't remember being may have actually not been who they think they should be...
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It would work only in the case there was some kind of relation between Ikuko and Battler, but they are on respect to each other two completely random persons.
Sure Battler later became famous, but Ikuko is still a completely unrelated individual. and this story is still a story about Battler among all the rest.
It's as if you read a story about Michael Jordan and you claimed it's not realistic because a random individual meets Michael Jordan. Someone is bound to meet Michael Jordan unless he decides to become a hikikomori.
A coincidence requires that two particular factors coincide.
And if by any chance you are claiming that it is an unacceptable coincidence that amnesiac Battler met of all the people someone that crazy to take him home rather than to an hospital, then you'd need to admit that Stephen King's Misery is equally unacceptable.
But let's compare the two cases:
A) Ikuko=Yasu & Tohya=random person
B) Ikuko=random person & Tohya = Battler
There is absolutely no difference in the improbability of these ecounters. In both cases the particular person related to Rokkenjima encounters a random person. Except the random person of case A possess more convenient peculiarities than of case B.
What's more peculiar? An amesiac whose mind is completely moldable, that is casually looking enough like Battler, that casually remembers to be 18 years old and whose background is generally compatible to that of Battler or...
A weird and bored rich person with low morality?
So it's not a random place, it's a place that can be reached directly by boat traveling from the approximate position of Rokkenjima.
But exactly how my argument is a circular logic? I think you don't quite grasp the concept of "circular logic".
Of course I'm arguing against your Yasu=Ikuko theory, but I'm also arguing against your Battler=random amnesiac theory. And if we assume Yasu=Ikuko, Tohya=random amesiac is as much probable and grounded on facts than Tohya=Hired actor. I do not support either theory, I'm just pointing out that when a theory is so little grounded on facts it is as good as a plethora of others.
And it also looks very odd that Eva would write such diary. She spent her whole life trying to protect that secret, and then she just let a random stranger to find it?
I think it somehow could make sense if she made it so that truth would reach Ange when she was older, but then why she didn't ensure it would actually work?
The big question here is why Ikuko among all people would get that diary and how? What kind of relation is there among Eva and Ikuko? None that we know of.
And there's yet another problem. Eva died in 1998. Are you telling me that Itoikukuroreigonamu's forgeries never existed before 1998? that doesn't seem likely to me. In fact it wouldn't make sense, because it is implied that Ange already knew about those forgeries by that time. But then that would mean that Ikuko obtained the diary before Eva's death. How the hell did that happen?
You'd need to come out with some sort of explanation that has absolutely no basis whatsoever.
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|2012-08-30, 09:02
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I'm thinking about how Battler arrived to a little island that he couldn't escape unnoticed, and met Ikuko of all the hermits. But if Ikuko lived near Niijima as Jan-Poo says, she lived near all the other nearby islands where Battler could arrive and it's less of an otherwordly coincidence that she found Tohya and believed him to be Battler when he somehow gave him enough clues.
About the Eva Diary... it was just drama, I believe. I'd be pretty weird that a hikikomori woman can go and get a diary that should've gone to Ange by right (Ange is family, whether she likes it or not). So what? She somehow got her contacts in the hospital to steal personal property of an obscenely rich woman?
|2012-08-30, 09:46
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Keep in mind Ryukishi likes gangster-yakuza stuff, so perhaps the job was done 'under the table', if you get me.
No, wait, if me memory doesn't fail this captain, some witch-hunters were the ones who found it first, and then it doesn't specify how Ikuko got her hands on it, although considering her status on the witch-hunting community it would be much easier for her to do than steal it from the hospital.
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Now come on. Compare a 12 year old and an 18 year old. You're telling me there's NO personality differences there? At all? You're telling me someone doesn't change at all during puberty?
It sucks, huh?
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|2012-08-31, 05:06
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Normally we can take things as they are presented in a movie or novel at face value and treat them as something true outside of logic: In other words, we can treat what we are shown as "self-attesting" truth. In Umineko there is so much unresolved unreliable narration that we can't do that. We have no self-attesting truths, so the foundation of any argument made about Umineko must start with an assumption. It's basically the brain in a vat scenario.
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But I guess it's just me.
I've never come up with a theory without basis in the many years that I've been here. At best you can say that I based my theories on facts that I didn't know whether they were true or not, but that's still something.
This is more like "welcome to the Umineko community" rather than "welcome to Umineko".
And there is absolutely no justification whatsoever in using logical fallacies, no matter the situation. Even if hypothetically you were to be brought to a point where you need to use a logical fallacy (even if I can't even think about such a case) it would be better to just give up any attempt to reach an explanation, because a logical fallacy can only bring to a wrong reasoning by definition.
The hell... I don't even know why am I arguing against someone who claims to reason out of logic and making use of logical fallacies. In the end we can agree that your reasonings are devoid of any valid logic.
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Michael Jordan is indeed no more or less likely to be encountered by any random individual who happens to encounter any other random individual. If I were to say "I'm going to go outside and meet a completely random person today," then the odds that would happen are pretty close to 100% unless I just happen to live in such an isolated environment that there aren't any people to encounter. However, if I say "I'm going to go outside and meet Michael Jordan today," the odds that would happen are generally pretty low. That's true whether it's Michael Jordan or my friend Bob Smith.
If I have a preexisting relationship or circumstance that makes a situation more likely, however, it's more believable because it's more mathematically probable. If I were to say "I'm going to go outside and meet Bob Smith today," and Bob Smith is my neighbor who is often in his yard when I leave the house in the morning, the chance of meeting Bob is vastly higher.
What does this mean? I'll continue:
Still, the issue is not whether it's somewhat more probable when you add the Shimoda factor, but whether setting things up to allow for the Shimoda factor gives the whole thing a fakey, overly-convenient vibe. Which it does.
Also bear in mind that Tohya-not-Battler and Tohya-is-Battler are equally moldable in their amnesia, given what they originally remember. They are literally indistinguishable (you can't get around this by arguing) save that one is recovering genuine memories and the other is falsely remembering memories that appear to be genuine.
Do we know that Eva doesn't know Battler may be alive? It's at least as plausible as the diary not existing at all... which, by the way, isn't exactly implausible either absent red. I mean, if Ikuko never actually intended to reveal the contents, it might as well be blank and she's bluffing.
You seem unable to grasp the difference between a premise and an orphaned plot contrivance.
Except the people reading have no way of knowing whether this is true, and are so apparently unsophisticated that they cannot determine thematic veracity (which is a way you could declare the Hachijou forgeries more authentic even if you don't know the facts). If they actually were capable of doing what Alliance suggests they can do, they would never behave the way they do in Twilight.
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For example, if you go outside and say "I'm going to go outside and meet Bob Smith", of course the chances of meeting him are pretty low, like you said, but that doesn't mean that you will never come across Bob Smith when you go out. It's absurd to assume that just because of mathematic probabity.
And after all, it's not like Ikuko was any key player that her encounter with Battler was bound to bring some massive development or a deux ex machina for the story that would make it all too convenient. It may have turned out similarly if it were "Bob Smith" that discovered him. At any rate, since he had an accident and was lying in the middle of the street, someone would discover him at some point. Why is it a hell of a coincidence that it was Ikuko who did? They didn't even know each other. And there's the Shimoda factor, (as you said, for convenience), he had an accident close to where Ikuko lived. It's awfully strategic, but you put it like an astronomically small chance, one that's so damn unbelievable. I just can't understand that's coming from.
|2012-08-31, 13:33
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It wasn't ever established that she lived there until she came into the story at all, essentially. The reason she's conveniently there is because a convenient contrivance happens to exist. And she happens to also be wealthy, reclusive, and secretive by nature, all of which just happens to conceal the person she has rescued instead of being Bob Smith who would just take him to a hospital or whatever.
It's pretty implausible even given everything else.
|2012-08-31, 14:18
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It could have worked just the same if Battler was found let's say by "Bob Smith" and taken to a hospital normally. Well, I'm okay with it, but in all fairness it is far-fetched.
|2012-08-31, 14:26
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|2012-08-31, 15:06
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Hrrrrm, it all keeps piling up...
|2012-08-31, 17:40
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Ikuko: "I believe you suspected that I was the one who hit you for quite some time."
Touya: "Hey, I've already apologized for that......"
I wonder when Touya checked the bumper for damage?
|2012-08-31, 19:51
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About the Toya=Battler and Ikuko=Yasu...
Toya=Battler is strongly supported by Umineko. We could say it's part of the canon solution.
Yes, it's possible that actually this is just apparence and Toya is someone else, going from an actory hired to act Battler's role to a memoryless guy brainwashed into believing he's Battler or unconsciously deluding himself into believing he's Battler or something else I can't think about. Those are all interesting solutions but so far, as far as I'm involved, none of them looked like the intended solution.
Not that I like that much a solution involving the odds of Battler surviving yet reporting memory loss, reaching some place, being saved by a random rich person who keeps him as her secret pet, who incidentaly is a mystery writer and all the stuffs.
It's just it feels like ShKannon or the Italian submarine with the gold or other 'canon solutions'. I don't like them much as solutions but apparently they are the intended solutions.
Ikuko=Yasu isn't as strongly supported. It's not it's impossible Ikuko=Yasu. It's just there's no clear answer. It's entirely possible she's just who she says to be. It's also possible she's not... which doesn't necessary make her Yasu merely... 'not who she says to be'.
I fear that for Ikuko't identity both the 'she's who she says to be' and 'she's Yasu' theory can work in the Umineko setting and that a theory might seem more or less good merely according to preference.
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