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Mens disposible shoes
Susan K.
from San Jose, CA
on 7/14/2013
But only in the width. They are fine and I love em in the water!
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Great value!
Jill F.
from Indianapolis, IN
on 4/9/2013
Great shoes for a great price! Bought 4 pair for our family cruise. Definitely not disposable! These are nice quality and like the ones I see in stores for a lot more. Highly recommend!
good value
john b.
from tucson,az
on 4/7/2013
a little on the smaller size but still fits good, really worth the money, not a cheap throw away
Fantastic Water Shoe
from Virginia Beach,VA
on 4/6/2013
Great price, fit, and quality ! What else is there to say ? :)
Disposable water shoes
from New haven ct
on 4/4/2013
This is our second pair of disposable water shoes. Price is great I would recommend ordering a size up.fit is comfortable and can be worn many times,don't feel disposable
Nan V.
from New Jersey
on 4/4/2013
used for swim exercise class. Men's size 9 was perfect for my women's 10ww feet. I have major foot problems and these shoes are perfect and comfortable. I plan to order more but expect these to last several weeks
Nice Quality!
from Montana
on 3/28/2013
I ordered these shoes for my husband to keep on the boat this summer. I expected them to be REALLY generic for the price! I had read the previous reviews so I ordered! WOW was I surprised! Even my husband was impressed & he's a bit picky about his feet! Definately recommend these shoes! The only reason I did 4 stars is because we have not had a chance to use them as it is only March in Montana!
Great for price!
from Vt
on 3/26/2013
Have not tried them in the water yet, but can note this is a heavy shoe. Very comfortable, and if the black soles do not mark will be great on the boat. If you are a half size, go up. Plenty of width to the shoe. Fast delivery time too.
Run small, but great
from Alexandria
on 3/22/2013
I would order at least the next size up (my husband wears 10.5 and the 11s were too snug). These were perfect to take on a trip where we kayaked. They did the job, and we didn't feel bad leaving them behind. Great deal.
Good shoe but not true to size
from racine wi
on 3/19/2013
solid constucted shoe but not true to size. Ordered a 11 felt like a 9
Nice shoes!
from Colorado
on 3/18/2013
I ordered these for my husband. He usually wears a size 12 and I ordered a size 12. They are snug on him but will be great to swim in. The soles are a little thin but will work perfectly for swimming. Great bargain for the price. They are a nice shoe and I would order again.
Great shoes
from Portland maine
on 3/17/2013
Didn't use them yet, but they look and feel great!
Don't know why they are call disposable
from Independence, Ky
on 3/12/2013
We are going on a cruise for spring break these are going to be great for my husband....
these are awesome
Cindy K.
from Los Barriles...B.C.S....Mexico
on 3/8/2013
They say they are disposable, but I disagree...they are the best watershoes...just hope I can get more just like it and of course I love the price!
Great product!
from ocho rios, jamaica
on 3/7/2013
Definitely not disposable!
Not Disposable
from Vancouver, BC
on 3/6/2013
perfect for a beach vacation; durable enough for multiple uses; adjustable fit
Men's disposable water shoes
from Swansea, MA
on 3/6/2013
I can not believe these are disposable!! Very good quality! Excellent price.. I even bought more after seeing them for gifts!
Good quality and a great value
from Long Island, NY
on 3/4/2013
I purchased these disposable shoes for our trip to St.Thomas. Customer reviews for our resort mentioned that the beach was rocky and water shoes were a must. I found these shoes and, after reading the great reviews, I felt they were just what we needed and at such a great price. They do not seem like disposable shoes so the title is misleading. They are good quality and made going in to the water at the resort so much easier. You cannot select a color, but my husband ended up w/ black which was perfect. His shoe size is a 9 1/2 so I ordered him a 10. Fit great. Would highly recommend this product.
Great value for great product!
from Milwaukee, WI
on 3/3/2013
I ordered a size up based on reviews and fits perfect. I am amazed that this is considered a disposable shoe. Excellent price, we bought this for a trip so we won't feel bad about tossing them to lighten our suitcases.
Robert T.
from HILLSBORO, OH
on 3/2/2013
Ordered 5 pair of these for my whole family and our upcoming vacay. Received them in 2 days and was pleasantly astonished by how nice these are. Had low expectations since they were labeled disposable. Unless they dissolve in water, I don't see how they are disposable. The quality is much higher than you will find at walmart or target and they are soft and extremely comfortable. Width is fine, but order one size up because they tend to run short. I read other reviewers and did just that. My only concern with these are that they are being clearanced out which makes me want to order another round for the family before they are sold out. A five dollar bill well spent.


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I am a hopeful romantic. It is what drives me down to my core. There is nothing more important to me than developing that special long term relationship. I seek my passionate lover, my best friend and partner to share all the fun activities that we enjoy doing together. Beach walks, romantic dinners, watching sunsets, surises also count. I am a certified financial planner. I do work primarily with established clients and a CPA firm to help their clients reach their financial objectives. It is a most satisfying and rewarding profession. I am very high energy, very outgoing, extremely humorous, passionate, playful, affectionate, yes that includes public displays of affection,(Aren't all romantics into that?), intelligent, kind, considerate, compassionate, empathetic and a great communicator on most any topic. I enjoy most outdoor activities and living here in San Diego only adds to the flame of doing everything outdoors, walks along the harbor or beach, hikes in the mountains, mountain and road biking most anywhere as well as some coastal kayaking are all done regularly. I am a lover of live music, concerts are a must. Humphreys, Cricket Amphitheater, the Belly Up and many other venues are all fun spots for great music. Weekly summer concerts in the city parks as well as Summer Pops downtown in the Embarcadero are high on my list of things to enjoy as is theater, especially at the Civic Theater downtown. Being a sports lover I follow the Chargers and Pac 12 college football. Baseball is a summer natural. Petco is such a warm entertaining environment and being in the GasLamp gives us opportunities to plan an outing to include dinner, shows or Seaport Village browsing to complete a great night out. I am a news junkie who appreciates FOX Business News. My favorite commentator is Neil Cavuto. My political views are definitely slanted conservative especially fiscally. I am more moderate on social issues. I am more of a Libertarian. I am very tolerant to other points of view as long as they are presented with thought, not political blog. I don't fight. No one wins an argument or changes another's mind. I like in-depth conversations on most any topic that provides good mental stimulation. I generally go to church monthly. You do whatever works for you. I am not judgmental and want you to be happy within your own skin, Laughter...yes a great sense of humor and being able to laugh at ourselves is a must! My terrific sense of humor is totally out there and will keep you crying tears of laughter and until your sides hurt. I have a great ability to make you feel very comfortable quickly. My three children are grown and on their own. Mostly. Are they ever really on their own? There is a string attached so they always know they have a place to go. I am very active in all ways so let me know how to respond to you. I am seeking one great woman to share the wonders of this great city. Generating a little magic and creating wonderful memories is what it is all about! let's see how we relate to one another. I want a woman to challenge me mentally with great conversation. Brain exercise is equally as important as body exercise. I appreciate a strong woman who stands up for her beliefs and is not afraid of what others think. Let's enjoy some concerts, plays, sporting events, walks or hikes and any other activities we decide as well as some terrific conversations, traveling anywhere we choose, bbqs at home as well as dining out. A good sense of humor is first on the list. It will probably go a long way in determining if a second meeting is probable. While I still haven't found what I'm looking for, I know you're out there somewhere, but I am limited here. Remember, Nothing Ventured Is Nothing Gained. Take a chance. Feel the fear and do it anyway. We just may create our very own e-ticket ride. (Kudos if you know what that is.)
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I exercise 1-2 times per week.
I like Birds, Cats, Dogs, Fish, Horses
I have no pets at this itme.
Best spots, the Gas Lamp for great food and drink, La Jolla coast on Propect, Del Mar, and Carmel Valley. I do love the neighborhood.
California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
I enjoy most music, pop contemporary like KPRI and Sophie. Oldies and classic rock are also favorites as is jazz. No rap or hip hop, some country without twang. Favorite shows are guilty pleasure American Idol, Dancing with the Stars Hawaii 5-0,
Everthing here in America's finest city is terrific. Enjoying them with that "special someone" makes it awesome! I am a hopeful romantic. Finding that last great love of my life is of paramount importance.
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Out West: California to Utah and back
I thought I'd share some pictures and do a mini ride report for my 5 day trip to Utah and back. My brother lives in Tooele, a short hop west of Salt Lake City, off I-80. I try to make a motorcycle ride at least once a year to visit he and his family. This week happened to work for both of us. I set out at about 6PM on Monday from my home at Ft. Ord, California. Midway through July, and we are finally getting some decent summer weather.
As a brief warning, I recently got a new digital camera and tripod, so some of these shots will be a little artsy, as I'm still trying to get used to the settings (besides which I'm a complete novice at photography:D).
Rolling hills near the San Luis Reservoir, between Hollister and the San Joaquin Valley:
My bike is a 2011 BMW R1200R. I love it! :clap
I took the 5 north to Sacramento, and then headed east on I-80. As is common for the evening hours, the trip north on I-5 had super strong crosswinds. Two things I'll definitely be adding to my bike are a throttle lock and a slightly taller windshield. I rode as far as Lovelock, Nevada, the first evening, and got there at about 2AM. Distance for the evening ride was 407 miles.
In Lovelock I couldn't find an actual campground so I pulled into a large, empty gravel lot on the north side of town and pitched my tent next to a tree at the back of the lot. I woke up at shortly before 6AM because the sky was getting brighter and the trucks were passing. I was on the road by 6:30. My camp in Lovelock:
Between Lovelock and Winnemucca I saw a big dust cloud on the side of the highway. As I got closer I realized it was a herd of cattle. I saw a real life cowboy working the herd, but by the time I could pull over and grab the camera he was riding away:
Eastbound near Mill City, Nevada:
The same spot, looking west:
Filling up on the state line in Wendover, NV/ UT:
No matter how many times I ride on I-80 to Utah I just can't help but stop at Bonneville:
I arrived in Tooele at about 2 in the afternoon. The Great Salt Lake right outside Tooele:
Pictures from Day 3 are coming...
Day 3
Today my brother and I went on a short day ride up to Huntsville, which is east of Ogden. We took the 15 north, a short jaunt east on Hwy 84, and then rode north on Trappers Loop Rd. Near the summit of Trappers Loop Rd. we pulled off onto Snow Basin Road, towards the ski resort. Even in the middle of July, with 90* weather in Salt Lake City, there was still some snow on the mountains behind Ogden. Snow Basin Rd.:
Our bikes on Snow Basin Rd.:
Huntsville is a small town that sits on a peninsula of the Pineview Reservoir. In Huntsville we met up with my brother's brother-in-law (on the KLR). We ate lunch at Hunstville Barbecue Company:
I ate the beef brisket with sides of loaded mashed potatoes and pasta salad. They have about 6 different house barbecue sauces you can put on your food. Yum! :wink::
That's it for Day 3. Tomorrow we have another ride planned and then an evening shooting trip. More pics to come...
Huntsville/trappers/pineview are beautiful right now :nod
Great pictures! headed out there (central Ca.) in September to visit and ride with my son. Hope to stop in Utah along the way
Thanks :thumb
Man, there is just something about those dry grassy hills down there. love that late-afternoon light :thumb
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Hi Jedi5150 ,it's Dmitri,nice luggage set up.Did you get it from dealership?What size NRS duffel bags they are.Do you need a side frame at all?
The side bags are Ortlieb, and are the smallest of the three side-cases Ortlieb makes for motorcycles. They do not require any hard luggage racks to fit on most styles of bikes. I've really come to like the soft-bag style luggage. It is totally waterproof, lightweight, and can expand or compact depending on the size load you're carrying.
Thanks for the compliments Mechanoligist and Motojournalism! Glad you guys like the photos.
Signal, you're right that the Huntsville/ Trappers Loop area is beautiful. I've been there twice now on day rides but I'd love more time to explore that area.
More pictures are coming once I upload them for day 3 and 4...
Day 4 started with a trip to Stansbury Island, on the Great Salt Lake, for target shooting and clay pigeons.
My brother with his short barreled AR-15:
In this shot I'm blasting away at some clay pigeons (it had been a long time since I'd shot a shotgun and until I got back into the swing of it many clay pigeons flew away unharmed :lol3):
I'd never shot a Smith and Wesson M&P pistol before so I'm trying out my brother's:
Stansbury Island is accessed via a dirt road (causeway) from the south. On both sides of the causeway there are fields for harvesting salt:
A salt plant on I-80:
After lunch I started the long ride home. Instead of cruising I-80 yet again, I decided to only take it as far as Wendover. In Wendover I got on Hwy 93 south, to Ely, NV. At Ely I turned west on I-50, which I followed all the way to Fallon.
Southbound on Hwy 93 outside of Wendover:
Interstate 50; The Loneliest Road in America:
Sand Mountain, just east of Fallon, NV:
I got into Reno at about 9 PM Pacific time. My plan was to camp around Stampede Reservoir, near Truckee. Unfortunately when I got there all the campsites had "reserved" signs posted on them. I was also shocked that the National Forest camping fee was $24 dollars a night (steep compared to what I remembered). The temperature had also dropped as I climbed into the Sierras so a motel was pretty tempting. I decided to stay at an Inn in Donner Pass.
The morning of day 5, on I-80 in Donner Pass:
The ride home was uneventful. Nice weather (although windy as usual) and sunny. I stopped briefly in Roseville at the BMW dealership to see if the tall windshield brackets were in yet for the 2011 R1200R's. No luck, they won't even be at stores in Germany until the 18th of this month. Oh well.
All in all it was a fun trip. :clap
I'm glad you liked the photos. Thinking of ways to make them more interesting or looking for great subject matter while riding is a fun way to pass the time during those long miles.
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Nice! I am heading to SLC from So Cal the first week of Aug. Gonna be HHHHOOOOTTTTT!
Thanks for taking the time to post up the report. Nice pictures, I often camp in the same sorts of spots you did. I can;t stand paying a bunch of money in an organized campground just to listen to the people around me sqabble!
We ought to meet up for a ride sometime. I see you're in Monterey, and I'm on Ft. Ord.
Nice report. The wife and I rode up to Huntsville a couple weeks ago with some friends. Wish I had known about that BBQ place you ate at, settled for a mediocure burger. Guess I have an excuse to ride up there again, BBQ Brisket!! Love that stuff.
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Cadillac Ciel Concept comes to Frankfurt too [video]
Ciel comes to Germany bringing the best of American premium design
Another video from Frankfurt, this time of the Cadillac Ciel Concept.
The Ciel comes representing the best of American design in the backyard of German marques such as Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz.
Inspired by Highway 1 in California, the coastal highway that threads the Golden State from top to bottom, the Ciel features a twin-turbo 3.6 liter V6 with 425 bhp (317 kW / 431 PS) and 430 lb-ft (583 Nm) that is coupled to a hybrid transmission powering an all-wheel-drive system.
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Great proportions; visually pleasing to look at. Excellent design! However, that interior is not!
Sep 19, 2011 8:03 pm
This is how new american cars should look like, I think evry rapper would buy one
Sep 19, 2011 4:00 pm
@axual...lol exactly.
Sep 19, 2011 3:53 pm
I don't care what you guys are saying, I think it looks sick, a more aggressive Phantom.
Sep 19, 2011 2:40 pm
Cadillac is not building this it was a design exercise
Sep 19, 2011 1:14 pm
was this one only present during the press days? i was there on the 15th and no sign of the ciel. that was very disappointing.
Sep 19, 2011 12:01 pm
It looks old (not retro) In a new kind fo way. I dont really know who they are marketing this car to, as a mid 30's male I have no desire to but it.
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text: DSpace Community: http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/20 2015-06-28T08:23:36Z 2015-06-28T08:23:36Z Non-traditional security issues (Ntsi) in Mekong Region : a theoretical and methodological approach Paladini, Stefania (使美胜) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/7435 2014-12-03T09:52:12Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Non-traditional security issues (Ntsi) in Mekong Region : a theoretical and methodological approach Authors: Paladini, Stefania (使美胜) Abstract: Since more than 20 years after the end of Cold War, a new concept of security has been imposing itself to the attention not only of IR scholars but to policy makers, even included the ones traditionally attached to conservative and realist views of world politics. The emergence of transnational threats, the changing face of international terrorism and other issues related to aspects before not immediately linked with security (as health and food concerns) have been making evident to everybody that it was necessary to adopt a wider and broader concept of security. More than that, there are at present some issues of international relations that can be successfully addressed only with the help of this broader and more flexible approach. Said so, the aim of this research is to show how the NTSI not only can play an important role in understanding the international relations between China and the countries of Mekong Area, but also that it represents .the most useful approach – as this is especially the case where the main threats, both at intrastate and inter-state level, are exactly what is defined "no traditional security issues". Therefore, we can set define as following the hypothesis of the research: the NTS issues are the most useful tools to analyse the IR in some areas, because sometimes the main threats are exactly what is defined "no traditional security issues", as in the case of the Upper Mekong Area. As well, on these basis, it is possible to define a methodology, based on NTSI, that combines different theoretical approaches - the (neo)realist, the liberalist and the Constructivist one, as well as the recent Chinese strategic thinking - to successful investigate the regional relations and Chinese foreign policy in this area. This thesis has been articulated in two main parts. The first one consists of two chapters, which give the essential theoretical framework of reference (useful because analysis of international relations employing exclusively the NTSI-key is still rare) and a discussion on the adopted methodology. The second one is composed by the last three chapters, which are devoted to discuss the choice of the area, the hypothesis, the main (NT) security issues, and the case-study. The obvious starting point is the exam of the concept of security, because it is at the origin, both historically and logically, of the emerging of the NTSI in International Relation studies. Among the topic here covered will be: the extent and the relevance of the new concept of security, and how 15 years transformed both the theory and the practice of IR, in quite a revolutionary way; the most relevant theories for this research; the (relative) irrelevance of the liberal school in its traditional formulation for this kind of analysis; the centrality of realism in the present IR debates – and the likelihood of its comeback after 9/11; the issue of the governance and the evolution of the Westphalian state; the security dilemma – in both realist and constructivist view; the definition of NTSI and their emersion in IR literature; the notion in current IR; a general framework and some concept definition. A section of this part will take into exam some research and activities in the field of NTSI with specific relation to Asia that have been flourishing in the very last years. The most important and comprehensive one is the Ford-IDSS project, mainly based at Singapore, which is studying the NTSI in ASEAN Countries according to the methodology of the Copenhagen School. While of the utmost interest for the present research – in the sense that they are implementing the same methodology to the analysis of common issues – there are however two important differences with the approach here implemented: 1) The analysis of the NTSI is conducted essentially looking at the internal policy of the single states – and not as a matter of international relations. Here the effort is to show not only how NTSI could be relevant in the relations between countries but also that in some cases (the Mekong area) they can be the primary issue of these relations. 2) The methodology adopted is purely the one used by the Copenhagen school – while the approach here, as already noted, is more variegated, in the way it will be later clarified, even if the Copenhagen school still represents the main theoretical reference. Also, as above mentioned, in the last years even the academic circles in China have seen a surge of interest about NTSI, with a few studies on the topic; they will be considered briefly here, as useful to evaluate how much these conceptual elaborations can adapt well with the Chinese political thinking; also, the way in which this quite new topic for the general, realist-oriented, Chinese political thought is regarded has of course a lot of relevance for the target area. A possible and useful broadening of the research would be to investigate also which is the status of discussion about NTSI in the other countries of the Mekong area – as they national policies are of course affected by it. A lack of time and resources will keep it out from the frame of the present work – and can be the subject of further investigations. The next necessary step is to devise a methodology to adopt. As later clarified, in this research, however relying heavily on the Copenhagen school's approach, the methodology adopted could be considered a mixed one – both involving constructivist and realist procedures, as well as taking into account the critics moved to the Copenhagen school's securitisation logic by the new liberalist approach (Ikeberry). This is the key part of the work, as once clarified the theoretical framework and defined the methodology to adopt, everything will go on rather smoothly. The successive steps will consisted in efforts for successfully collecting sources and material and interpreting data on the basis of previous tool assessment. The main hypothesis is the choice of Mekong area as the clearest example of how not only NTSI issue approach are the most useful for analysing the IR of a target area, but also that in some is the only real effective to the scope. I will demonstrate as well the potential of the uses of NTSI for generalization in IR in the Asia-Pacific region, even for cases where concerns of traditional security are more pressing. It is quite evident, in fact, that this approach represent the trend of the future in IR, at least in the sense that even the traditional security issues now are presenting some new and atypical aspects. As in the tradition of the Copenhagen school, there will be 2 main directories for the investigation, geographic and sector-based - involving the first the 3 different levels of investigations – global, state and regional - and the second an array of different sectors. The choice done for the definition of sectors here is for a matrix of T/NT issues&agents, which are very useful to better identify their characteristics (also interesting in the case of already noted of terrorism). For the very topic of this research, there are some NTSI more useful than others, and that could be useful to analyse them at theoretical level, before look at them in the practice. The NTSI presented here will be the most relevant ones in the case of ir between China and its southern neighbours – also described by using some of the results & achievements of scholars that have successfully used these tools for analysing South-East Asian issues. The analysis will be conducted by looking at the way they are present in the Mekong Region, and by four distinct points of view: 1 –the international community, i.e, the IR debate – essentially the Western one – on the matter; the Chinese one; the Mekong countries one; and the one – often not at all unitary – of the NGO and civil society. The four levels could be different even in the primary evaluation – namely, if a topic is security-related or not – leave all the possible divergences of opinion. The evaluation of their level of securitisation, in the way that will be explained, will be undertaken as well. A peculiarity for this geographic area in comparison of others for the same level/sectors analysis is the relevance of NGOs and civil society on the level of securitisation; actually, NGOs and civil society are not well developed in China and in most Mekong countries – so their influence is considerably weaker than in other cases. A partial exception is represented by Thailand, as the study case of the Mekong River Dams will show. As a general classification, sectors in NTSI are divided in Environmental security, Human security, Economic security and Political & social security – and this classification will be here followed, even if some of them are in this case on the borderline. As well, the political&social security has been inserted as a part of the human security paragraph, as, for the area in object, it has not an autonomous importance to justify a separate discussion. Following on, an important part of the analysis will be devoted to identify and classify the tools of the trade for this specific case of international relation analysis - with a focus about atypical data collection, analysis and evaluation. The topics covered here is first a general review of somewhat atypical or less classical tools for IR studies – and in which way they can be useful to analyse new scenarios. Some of them are related to information technology or just unthinkable, for political opportunity or cultural reasons, just a decade ago – as the use of declassified intelligence. Internet, furthermore, represented for social science a revolution that nobody now can ignore. Here, more specifically, I made extensive use of web sources for (i) intertextual analysis and the search for hints of securitisation – covering the different kind of approach and different traditions (ii) the collection and the analysis of second hand sources and commentary texts –as press, publications of various types, newsgroup, unofficial websites, blogs (iii) the archives of intelligence sources – national and foreign governments, IIOO, military and private consultancy companies – and the kind of possible stuff that can come from declassification, open sources, covert action and finally espionage (iv) the references for the use of satellite imaginaries and GIS data and software (v) some data about the impact of technology on the data collection. A case study will be presented here, both as a way to show how methodology works in practice and to verify if the Mekong region could be positively identified as a Geographical Security complex in the Buzan's point of view. The case study chosen is the Mekong River Dams, for the reasons will be later explained. In order to understand correctly the background, as well, the account will be preceded by a brief outlook of the international relations between China and Mekong Area Countries, their historical summary and recent evolutions. Also the case study will show the possible role of international cooperation in dealing with NTSI issues played by ASEAN, ARF and the others multilateral institutions – as in solving and "securitising" these issues, especially at regional level. It is very well acknowledged that the states in the Asian-Pacific region are still extremely concerned with state sovereignty – a fact that is commonly referred to as the ASEAN way. Nevertheless, despite their concern for upholding state sovereignty, they showed to have realized that inevitably they have to make concessions – and the areas selected for that are essentially the ones identified as NTSI. As the SARS-emergency in 2003 has showed, in NTSI issues cooperation and joint-efforts are paramount for an effective management of threats. This could again enhance the role of international and regional organization and make instruments as CBMs and PD more useful and effective. However the results, anyway, the possibility to consider the Mekong region as a stand-alone RSC has to be rejected, for considerations that will be presented later. A brief, closing note on the sources employed on the present research, as a wide range of sources has required to be taken into account. I have explained, in the section devoted to the methodology, the special caution due in the choice of texts – of different type. Since textual analysis is widely used, it is very important the choice of the sources – namely on which texts relying primarily. In this section will be explained in which way the choices have been made and on which basis. It will be discussed other aspects regarding the typology often itself non-traditional of identification, search and collection. An extensive reference list will be attached, for future studies. Notes: CityU Call Number: UA832.8 .P34 2007; 372 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2007.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-372) 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Analytical and numerical studies on local and nonlocal elastic bars in tension and neutralizer-based iterative methods Zhu, Xiaowu (朱小武) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/7427 2014-10-30T07:36:23Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Analytical and numerical studies on local and nonlocal elastic bars in tension and neutralizer-based iterative methods Authors: Zhu, Xiaowu (朱小武) Abstract: In this thesis, we study some problems associated with both local and nonlocal elasticity and, present the so-called neutralizer-based iterative methods for integral equations of the second kind. The details are as follows. The local problem is on the strain softening of materials. Strain-softening, i.e., the decrease of stress with the increase of strain, which is a common post-peak phenomenon that has been recorded for a variety of materials. Snap-back due to strain softening may be one of the most interesting and the most common structural instability phenomena observed in experiments. There have been many efforts in the past decades to investigate strain-softening with localization experimentally, numerically, and analytically. However, there is not any analytical study with general nonlinear constitutive relations in the open literature which explores the role played by the convexity of the constitutive curve of the softening part and the coupling effect between this convexity and the size. Also, both snap-back and snap-through were observed in some experiments, but no analytical results are available for explaining the transition from snap-back to snap-through. Nonlocal elasticity is a growing direction of continuum mechanics nowadays. There are many works contributed to this area. Due to the essential difficulty of the integral equation, analytical approximate solutions are usually prohibited. Thus, many existing literature devote to apply the approximate differential models suggested by Eringen et al. However, one weak point of the approximations is that the possible boundary effects, which are present in the integral formulations, are neglected. Thus, it would be desirable to have proper differential formulations which take into account such effects. For this purpose, a first step is to know both qualitative and quantitative behavior near the ends (e.g., the influences of the parameters). Thus, some analytical solutions are needed to provide convincing results. In this thesis, firstly for the local problem, we modify an existing model and set up the stress-strain equations for the structure in the post-peak region, which are nonlinear as compared with the bilinear case in the literature. After some analysis, we derive the mathematical conditions for the occurrence of several important curves as frequently observed in experiments, including the snap-through (which cannot be captured by the bilinear assumptions). Two examples are also given to illustrate these cases, and the post-peak curves are consistent with our theoretical predictions. Secondly, for a static tension problem in nonlocal elasticity (the uniform case), we apply an existing iterative method that are efficient for a special kind of kernel to handle the resultant integral equation. By explicitly evaluating the integral in the second iterative solution, we are able to get a good approximate analytical solution for this problem. Some features of the nonlocal theory can then be closely examined, especially the boundary effects. It seems that the analytical results obtained here would give some insights into nonlocal theory, particularly for its applications in nanomaterials. Moreover, in view of the boundary effects, we also present a new model for nonuniform nonlocal bar-a varying volume fraction in the nonlocal phase. The numerical results of different shapes of materials show that, as compared with a uniform bar and that in local elasticity, the model herein shows more features, such as stress concentration. Thirdly, we present neutralizer-based iterative methods for integral equations of the second kind. As is known to all, there is an abundant of numerical techniques for solving integral equations, such as Neumann series, multi-grid method, GMRES and so on. Here, we introduce the concept of neutralizer, which is sometimes used in dealing with integrals (e.g., the asymptotic expansions of integrals), to obtain the neutralizer-based iterative method. Some features of such iterative method is numerically explored. Several meaningful examples are given, showing that the methods perform well as compared with some related methods. Notes: CityU Call Number: QA931 .Z45 2012; vi, 102 leaves : ill. 30 cm.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2012.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves [95]-102) 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Theoretical investigation and numerical computation on meshless collocation method for solving partial differential equations Zheng, Yanjun (鄭豔君) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/7426 2014-10-30T07:20:36Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Theoretical investigation and numerical computation on meshless collocation method for solving partial differential equations Authors: Zheng, Yanjun (鄭豔君) Abstract: In the last decades, the use of radial basis functions (RBFs) has proven to be efficient and robust in multivariate interpolation and solving partial differential equations (PDEs). In this thesis we focus on the stability analysis using meshless collocation method by RBFs for solving partial differential equations. The original umsymmetric meshless collocation method was firstly introduced by E. Kansa in 1986. Hon and his collaborators later extended the method to solve various nonlinear initial and boundary value problems. In the first part of the thesis, we investigate the stability and convergence of unsymmetric meshless collocation methods. Some theoretical results are obtained based on the work of R. Schaback who gave a general framework for obtaining error bounds and convergence of a large class of unsymmetric meshless numerical methods in solving well-posed linear operator equations. For simplicity, we consider in this thesis the standard Poisson boundary value problem (PBVP). Using the works of F. J. Ward, H. Wendland and R. Arcangeli et al., we give in this thesis a stability condition of meshless collocation methods in solving the PBVP. Based on the theoretical stability result, in the second part of the thesis, we devise a meshless computational algorithm for solving a real application problem arisen from financial option pricing model. This involves the numerical techniques for solving a partial integro-differential governing equation under some initial and boundary condition problem with unknown free boundary. Numerical examples are given to verify the effectiveness, accuracy, and robustness of the meshless collocation method. Notes: CityU Call Number: QA377 .Z4427 2010; iv, 93 leaves : ill. 30 cm.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2010.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-68) 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Mathematical modeling and numerical study of multi-phase and multi-component flows in complex porous media Zhang, Qian (张谦) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/7425 2014-10-30T07:22:46Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Mathematical modeling and numerical study of multi-phase and multi-component flows in complex porous media Authors: Zhang, Qian (张谦) Abstract: In this thesis, we study two multi-phase and multi-component fluid flows in clothing assemblies and concrete materials, respectively. The former arises from the design of functional clothing in textile industries and the latter can be found in construction industries and structure engineering. A typical clothing assembly consists of a thick fibrous batting sandwiched by two thin covering fabrics. The outside cover is exposed to a cold environment with a lower temperature and relative humidity while the inside cover is exposed to a gaseous mixture of air and vapor with a higher temperature and relative humidity. In this application, the heat and moisture transport is coupled in rather complicated mechanisms, the phase changes, condensation/evaporation and fiber absorption, play an important role. Firstly, we present some more precise formulations on condensation/evaporation, fiber absorption and heat capacity to maintain the physical conservation of mass and energy. Numerical results show that the proposed formulations are more realistic to describe the phase changes. A human sweating model is simulated with a normal sweating rate and a profuse sweating rate during exercise, respectively. Secondly, since the environment temperature is usually lower than the freezing point, there is an interface arising in the batting area of clothing assemblies. A Dirichlet to Neumann map type interface method (DNMIM) is proposed for this problem such that the moving interface can be captured implicitly and no extra iterations are needed. An uncoupled semi-implicit finite volume method is applied for the system of nonlinear parabolic equations. Two types of clothing assemblies are investigated numerically and an artificial example is also presented to show the accuracy of our algorithm. Thirdly, we propose an uncoupled leap-frog finite difference method for a single component model in porous textile materials. In this method, the leap-frog scheme is applied in the temporal direction and a central finite difference approximation is used in the spatial direction. We prove existence and uniqueness of the solution to the finite difference system with optimal error estimates in both L2 and H1 norms. Numerical results are presented to verify the theoretical accuracy. The numerical method presented here can be easily extended to multi-component models. Finally, we study a mathematical model of carbonation process in porous concrete materials. Based on the physio-chemical mechanisms, the whole process can be viewed as the multi-component flow coupled the carbon dioxide-moisture-calcium ion transport. Since dissolution of calcium hydroxide plays a crucial role, we present a modified formulation for the dissolution rate and more precise mathematical descriptions on physio-chemical conservation. An uncoupled finite volume method with a semi-implicit Euler scheme is proposed to solve the nonlinear parabolic equations. Numerical simulations under the normal carbonation condition and the accelerated carbonation condition are presented and analyzed, respectively. 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Shakespeare and the History of SoliloquiesMargaret Maurer, Shakespeare Quarterly(Washington) , Winter 2005, Vol. 56, Iss. 4, pg. 504
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Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies. By JAMES HIRSH. Madison and Teaneck, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2003. Pp. 470. $75.00 cloth.
Twenty-five years ago, the Modern Language Quarterly published James Hirsh's discussion of Hamlet 3.1, the "To be or not to be" scene, in which he put forward the argument that the famous speech is a feigned soliloquy. Intending what he says to be overheard by his enemies, Hamlet is using the speech to mislead Claudius:
If he had enough resolution to engage in enterprises of great pitch and moment, he would-so the speech suggests-commit suicide. Lacking the courage and resolution to commit suicide, therefore, he also lacks the courage and resolution to engage in enterprises of great pitch and moment, lacks the fortitude, if he ever came to suspect Claudius, to take revenge on a king.1
This interpretation of the scene is within the grasp of any thoughtful reader of the play, but Hirsh is right to feel that his 1981 essay staked a claim to the argument by carefully working out its elements.
Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies contextualizes this reading by defining the conventions of soliloquy in early modern drama, Hirsh argues that when persons on the Shakespearean stage speak to themselves they are characters in a fiction speaking in character; soliloquies are occasions of self-address. Hirsh stresses that they are speaking. That is, soliloquies and asides are audible in the fiction of the play, liable to be overheard by any other character in the scene unless elements of an episode make it clear that the speech is protected or "guarded" (23). Consequently/experienced Renaissance playgoers"-the phrase becomes formulaic-"who were familiar with the dramatic convention of their own time" (122) would have been alert to"To be or not to be" being overheard by the other characters in the scene and to Hamlet's expectation that it might be overheard.
To define the conventions of the soliloquy, Hirsh discusses situations in which characters speak to themselves in Homeric epic through the poetry of Virgil, Ovid, and Milton. He also surveys the drama of ancient Greece, Rome, medieval England, and the theater contemporary with Shakespeare, with two chapters devoted to a discussion of Shakespeare's use of soliloquy and aside. He notes examples of feigned soliloquies in Shakespeare (Iago in Othello, Edmund in King Lear, Helena in All's Well that Ends Well). A feigned soliloquy in George Chapman's The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron, is particularly relevant to Hirsh's point about "To be or not to be," seeming to allude to that moment in Hamlet.2
Saying what an early modern soliloquy is, Hirsh is equally emphatic about saying what it is not: it is not the externalized workings of a character's mind and heart. Hirsh supports his conviction on this point by excavating the language and rhetoric of poetic and dramatic texts. His argument is also theological."The Reformation emphasized the individual's private relationship with God" (115), so poets and playwrights would not create simulations of speech that impute to their readers or audiences anything like the godlike power of knowing a character's inward thought: "All of Shakespeare's plays in one way or another dramatize the consequences of the fact that human beings do not possess the divine power of reading minds" (189).
Hirsh's study of the device of the soliloquy has interpretive consequences for many of Shakespeare's plays. This aspect of his book is not always convincing. He is emphatic about the significance of his argument about soliloquized speech for a reading of Hamlet: "That the'To be, or not to be' speech is a feigned soliloquy is not merely a clever 'interpretation.' It is the only explanation of what happens in the episode that makes sense" (237). Though he concedes that this interpretation does not resolve all the questions that arise about Hamlet's behavior (254), the reading of the play he draws from it simplifies some of those questions. Claudius never comments on "To be or not to be." What effect the speech, feigned or not, might have on him is quickly overridden by Hamlet's encounter with Ophelia, on which Claudius does comment, concluding that love is not the cause of the prince's melancholy and that he is dangerous and must be sent away. Hirsh sees "To be or not to be" as Hamlets attempt to exert control and the encounter with Ophelia as the loss of it; but outrage can be as feigned as debilitating lassitude. Taken together, the two extremes of Hamlets conduct in the scene enact the polarities of the melancholic humor, out of which Shakespeare fabricates the complex character of his hero by having Hamlet both profess it to be his actual condition and adopt it as a pretense. Suggesting that "To be or not to be" might be a ruse is a valuable contribution to the reading of Hamlet; but it opens up rather than precludes the possibility that the subsequent manic behavior with Ophelia is likewise a ruse.
Hirsh is surely right to see the loss of suspicion that "To be or not to be" might be feigned as the beginning of the Romantic Hamlet. His book describes the process whereby Hamlet's most famous speech came to be understood as the representation of his thought by documenting the late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century contempt for self-addressed speeches. Misunderstanding the dynamics of 3.1, then, becomes the almost inevitable result of changing theatrical conventions. Hirsh's insight, however, into what he believes to be the original dynamic of the scene will not allow him to appreciate interpretations of the play that have lost track of the conventions of the early modern soliloquy; and he can seem preoccupied with how his point has been neglected or misunderstood:
No one in his right mind would suggest that the most eloquent, revered, and famous passage in world literature was originally staged as a deceptive ploy. (The present writer is clearly not in his right mind, if being in one's right mind entails accepting without question what everyone else accepts without question.)
Hirsh gives way to this tone more and more often as the book proceeds.
His argument about soliloquies in other Shakespeare plays is also sometimes reductively absolute. The speaker of a soliloquy, Hirsh believes, is not only in character; he is in character entirely within the fiction of the play. Asserting repeatedly that audience address was an outmoded convention by Shakespeare's day, Hirsh acknowledges few occasions when a Shakespearean speech might involve the audience in recognizing the simultaneous reality of the stage and the world the stage is representing. Outside of twenty-nine speeches delivered by designated choruses (prologues) or characters who revert to that condition as epilogues after the action of the play has concluded, Hirsh recognizes only three instances of audience address in Shakespeare's plays, "all in very early comedies, in which audience address is introduced specifically to ridicule the practice as antiquated and amateurish" (199).
Thus the experienced playgoers of Shakespeare's day would have registered Petruchio's address to them on how to tame a shrew (end of 4.1) as "an outrageous violation of the prevailing convention of the theater," marking him as "someone who outrageously violates conventions" (203). Experienced Renaissance playgoers would have also understood that in 5.3 of Richard III, Richmond and Richard do not hear one another "not merely because they are in different fictive locations but because each is asleep during the other's speech" (141). And the audience of King Lear
would have hoped and expected that Kent would awake at some point during Edgars soliloquy [in the editorially invented 2.3 of King Lear, a scene break rationalizing the imposition of Edgars speech on the episode of Kent in the stocks] and overhear Edgar describe his situation and that these two sympathetic characters would join forces. When Edgar leaves without interacting with Kent, Renaissance playgoers would have suffered disappointment in response to this lost opportunity.
At this point, if not before, those experienced Renaissance playgoers, as Hirsh imagines them, seem implausibly naïve.
Advance praise for Hirsh's book describes it as "a long overdue" study of the convention of soliloquy. A study of a dramatic device that has been employed so variously in the history of theater is indeed welcome. The value of Hirsh's execution of this project is, however, compromised by his defensiveness about his reading of Hamlet 3.1. Preoccupied with the significance of his argument about "To be or not to be," Hirsh will admit no nuance to the practice of soliloquy in Shakespeare that might undermine the premises he assembles in support of that argument.
1 James E. Hirsh, "The 'To be or not to be' Scene and the Conventions of Shakespearean Drama," MLQ, 42 (1981): 115-36, esp. 127.
2 Hirsh credits Stephen Booth with having alerted him to this connection (439n).
MARGARET MAURER, Professor of English at Colgate University, has published essays on Shakespeare's comedies.
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