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The Philippines in 1925, and China in 1936 as we established that being a good global citizen was good for the world – as well as for business. Today's IBM is a globally integrated enterprise with clients and employees from every part of the world. Our diversity – and the diversity of the markets in which we operate – necessitates the adoption of a truly global perspective on our operations, on leadership development, and on delivering results for our clients.
We launched the IBM Corporate Service Corps (CSC) – inspired by the Peace Corps –
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Our work would not be possible without the strong partners who help us to implement our programs. Trusted organizations such as PYXERA Global and Global Ties U.S. understand our strengths, strategic priorities and how and where we can make the most impact. That trust and understanding help us plan and execute engagements that will deliver the greatest benefits. In addition, CSC has been strengthened by the inclusion of employees from some of IBM's clients such as John Deere, FedEx and JPMorgan Chase. Uniting with our clients in service allows our respective employees to learn from each other while allowing us to build an even richer portfolio of innovation and expertise for the communities we serve.
I spoke at the recent Global Ties U.S. annual meeting, which included ambassadors, public and private sector leaders, and CSC alumni. Our subsequent discussions centered on the importance of civic engagement by the business community – a community that can provide badly needed innovation and expertise to help make the world a better place. When working together, true innovation can be applied to the world's greatest problems while still serving the strategic needs of our respective organizations. Ultimately, global skills-based corporate community service programs such as the CSC are about people and establishing trust within the project teams, amongst our partners and with the communities we all serve.
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Director. Taika Waititi
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Rating. 4/5
Taika Waititi (Eagle vs Shark) stars and directs this 1980's-set coming-of-age New Zealand comedy about a young Michael Jackson-obsessed Maori whose life flips after his delinquent dad shows up tracking buried treasure. While the film is quite comedic (including reenacted fantasy scenes of some of Jacko's hit videos) Waititi anchors the charmer with a compelling bit of emotional potency.
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Director. Martin Donovan
Stars. Martin Donovan, David Morse
Rating. 3/5
A witty and well-paced thriller starring Martin Donovan as a playwright who gets haplessly holed up with a gun-toting neighbour (the excellent David Morse). Besides being a witty deconstruction of hostage-film clichés, Collaborator offers some interesting observations about the writing process itself — in the end it's a film about how art imitates life rather than the other way around.
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Stars. Quevenzhane Wallis, Dwight Henry
Rating. 2/5
This critically praised indie is shot with a poet's eye but it's not poetry. Director Benh Zeitlin's debut slams together artful mysticism and calculated naturalism to create a dubious sort of hybrid. Six-year-old Quevenzhane Wallis holds the fort as a motherless sprite endangered by a storm but the other characters are blurry and the relentless reaching for "powerful" effects grows tiring by the end.
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Director. Jonathan Demme
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For their third collaboration, Neil Young and director Jonathan Demme (who made Stop Making Sense, one of the greatest concert films of all time with Talking Heads) find themselves in Young's hometown, Omemee, Ont., before heading out on a trip down memory lane (and the trans-Canada) on their way to Young's gig at Massey Hall last May. Interspersing shots from the road with selections from Young's two-night stand, Demme uses his intimate access to literally get up close and personal, using incredibly tight shots. As with so many things Neil Young related, it's unclear what the artist's intentions are. But with performances this stunning, it's worth the effort.
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Fat Kid Rules the World
Director. Matthew Lillard
Stars. Matt O'Leary, Jacob Wysocki
Based on a young adult novel, actor Matthew Lillard's directorial debut is a small film about a big kid. Troy, an overweight high-school student fraught with social problems, tries to step in front of a bus, only to be saved by an enigmatic drug addled punk rocker named Marcus. Much to Troy's surprise Marcus insists they start a band together as well as providing the homeless teen with the occasional meal or floor to sleep on.
Lillard expertly captures typically-awkward teenage life, without succumbing to base stereotypes.
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Director. Nancy Savoca
Stars. Tammy Blanchard, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rispoli
Rating. 2/5
Union Square is a kitchen-sink drama that explores the dysfunctional relationship between two sisters. Lucy (Mira Sorvino) is a train wreck. Bipolar and recently dumped by her married boyfriend, she lands on her estranged sister's (Tammy Blanchard) doorstep. Set primarily in the sister's NYC apartment, the movie is a raw exploration of their relationship, as these two thin-skinned characters struggle to accept themselves and one another.
The improvised, confessional feel of the movie veers into John Cassavetes territory, but the story, despite fine performances from all involved, ultimately doesn't connect.
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This month's EBEW is colored pants. Before I started style blogging I didn't own any colored pants, but you can bet now that I'm feenin' for some in green, red, and cobalt blue. Still not sure if I'm going to get any of them, but I do debate with myself about it a lot. Skinny green pants sound delicious (that's right, I called pants delicious), but there are other items fighting for what's left in my clothing budget for the year. I doubt I'm gonna get any, but maybe you can convince me otherwise. :D
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I am new colored-pants enthusiast! I purchase teal skinnies from forever 21 and they work great with so many neutral items in my closet and make them look brand new. I would love to have a raspberry or pink pair- but I promised not to shop for the rest of September- man oh man 17 days left.
ReplyDelete I think skinny green pants are delicious and totally worth a little splurge. Get them!! :) haha! Did I convince you? But really, this whole outfit is my fave. I've been in a pants kinda mood lately and need to add some color to my closet. I think I might spring for some next time I'm out.
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged the United States would defend South Korea after what the White House branded a provocative, outrageous attack by North Korea on its neighbor. Its options limited, the U.S. sought a diplomatic rather a military response to one of those most ominous clashes between the Koreas in decades.
"South Korea is our ally. It has been since the Korean war," Obama said in his first comments about the North Korean shelling of a South Korean island. "And we strongly affirm our commitment to defend South Korea as part of that alliance."
Working to head off any escalation, the U.S. did not reposition any of its 29,000 troops in the South or make other military moves after North Korea fired salvos of shells into the island, setting off an artillery duel between the two sides.
The president, speaking to ABC News, would not speculate when asked about military options. He was expected to telephone South Korean President Lee Myung-bak late Tuesday night. He met earlier with his top national security advisers to discuss next steps.
Washington has relatively few options when dealing with Pyongyang. Military action is particularly unappealing, since the unpredictable North possesses crude nuclear weapons as well as a huge standing army. North Korea exists largely outside the system of international financial and diplomatic institutions that the U.S. has used as leverage in dealing with other hostile countries, including Iran.
North Korea has also resisted pressure from its major ally, China, which appears to be nervous about the signs of instability in its neighbor.
"We strongly condemn the attack and we are rallying the international community to put pressure on North Korea," Obama said in the ABC interview, specifically citing the need for China's help. Obama said every nation in the region must know "this is a serious and ongoing threat."
An administration official said Tuesday evening that U.S. officials in Washington and in Beijing were appealing strongly to China to condemn the attack by arguing that it was an act that threatened the stability of the entire region, not just the Korean peninsula. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates phoned South Korea's defense minister to express sympathy for the deaths of two of the South's marines in the artillery shelling of a small South Korean island and to express appreciation "for the restraint shown to date" by the South's government, a Pentagon spokesman said.
Obama called North Korea's action "just one more provocative incident" and said he would consult with Lee on an appropriate response.
In his phone call to South Korea's defense minister, Gates said the U.S. viewed recent attacks as a violation of the armistice agreement that ended the Korea War in 1953, and he reiterated the U.S. commitment to South Korea's defense, said Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell.
Obama was awakened at 4 a.m. Tuesday with the news. He went ahead with an Indiana trip focused on the economy before returning to the White House after dark.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the U.S. would take a "deliberate approach" in response to what he also called provocative North Korean behavior. At the same time, other administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe the emerging strategy, said the White House was determined to end a diplomatic cycle that officials said rewards North Korean brinksmanship.
In the past, the U.S. and other nations have sweetened offers to North Korea as it has developed new missiles and prototype nuclear weapons. North Korea is now demanding new one-on-one talks with the United States, which rejects that model in favor of group diplomacy that includes North Korea's protector, China.
"We're not going to respond willy-nilly," Toner said. "We believe that it's important that we keep a unified and measured approach going forward."
Both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill accused North Korea of starting the skirmish.
The violence comes as the North prepares for a dynastic change in leadership and faces a winter of food and electricity shortages. It is the latest of a series of confrontations that have aggravated tensions on the divided peninsula.
The incident also follows the North's decision last week to give visiting Western scientists a tour of a secret uranium enrichment facility, which may signal an expansion of the North's nuclear weapons program. Six weeks ago, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il anointed his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, as his heir apparent.
The administration official said the U.S. did not interpret North Korea's aggression as a desire to go to war, but as yet another effort to extract concessions from the international community.
Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said no new equipment or personnel have been relocated to South Korea, while Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz seemed to shrug off the latest incident as something that Seoul can handle on its own.
"The North Koreas have undertaken over time a number of provocations that have manifested themselves in different ways," Schwartz said.
The artillery exchange was only the latest serious incident between the two nations. In March, a South Korean naval ship, the Cheonan, exploded and sank in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 sailors. South Korea accused the North of torpedoing the vessel; the North denied the allegation.
In August, the South Korean military reported that the North had fired 110 artillery rounds into the Yellow Sea near the disputed sea border but said the shells fell harmlessly into North Korean waters.
South Korean officials said Tuesday's clash came after Pyongyang warned the South to halt military drills near the small South Korean island of Yeonpyeong.
When Seoul refused and began firing artillery into the water near the disputed sea border, the North bombarded Yeonpyeong, which houses South Korean military installations and a small civilian population.
Recent joint U.S.-Korean naval exercises and strenuous denunciations of the North may only have provoked the regime in Pyongyang. Some experts say the secretive regime may be trying to promote Kim Jong Un as a worthy successor who, like his father, is capable of standing up to the U.S.
"I think it may be all wrapped in this succession planning, in the way the North is looking at it," said Robert RisCassi, a retired Army general who commanded U.S. forces in Korea from 1990-93.
The U.S.-South Korea exercises also angered China. Beijing is regarded as the key to any long-term diplomatic bargain to end North Korea's nuclear program and reduce tensions on the peninsula.
But U.S. officials say the North's motives and internal politics are opaque and sometimes appear inconsistent.
"I don't know the answer to any question about North Korea that begins with the word 'why,'" Gates told reporters Monday.
Associated Press writers Julie Pace, Anne Flaherty, Ben Feller, Jim Kuhnhenn, Pauline Jelinek and Matthew Lee contributed to this report.
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Anyone else not finding this one exactly on par with man's previous collections? I guess that one positive, in comparison with the "Flowers of the Sea", is that it lacks that collections uniformly negative treatment of gay characters (one of the stories, "Perfect Author", seems like a conscious joke on Oliver's own expense in that aspect). But, I can't say that any of the stories gripped me so far, and I was also reminded why I thought that his entry in "Soliloquy for Pan" was one of the very weakest (not to mention that "Pan" of that story felt like it was a clone of a certain character from one of his earlier stories, which lessened the humor for me). Anyone else feeling the same way? I finished maybe half of the collection so far, here's hoping that there are some gems later on.
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I'm glad I'm not the only person who has noted the negative depiction of homosexuality in Flowers of the Sea. From my Goodreads review of the book (in 2015):
"One thing I've noticed with this book is that the homosexual characters are almost uniformly horrible and unpleasant people, be they pedophiliac Peter Kurten-style serial killers (see "Singing Blood"), sadistic gangsters who #### other men to death (as in "Charm"), or alcoholic/nihilistic cowards ("Lightning," the penultimate story). One could point out that some of the other stories (such as "A Child's Problem" and "Lord of the Fleas") deal with equally unpleasant heterosexual antagonists, but I think this is balanced by the fact that there are at least a few narrators/main characters who we're meant to see as somewhat sympathetic: by contrast I think the only gay character who comes off well in this book is Alex in "Lightning," though he only appears on one page and even then one must make the assumption that he's gay. Ah well, not all gay people are good (obviously), and I suppose I shouldn't complain too much as the antagonistic characters noted above are still more interesting to read about than many of the (it must be said) stuffy and overly well-mannered/respectable narrators." |
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What is ideally the best Reggie Oliver collection to start with? What are his best stories? I have his Tartarus press ebooks, and The Sea of Blood. I've read stories from them here and there.
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I don't have much time for reading these days - but I did manage to read a story from Oliver's newest collection Holidays from Hell, a story called "The Book and the Ring". Browsing the table of contents, that title sounded sufficiently symbolic and enigmatic to spark my imagination.
The tale itself is just to my tastes - a Faustian/Shakespearean period piece of ghosts, witchcraft and devilry. Impressive was Oliver's use of prose mimicking the diary of a 16th century composer - it feels authentic, reads beautifully, and is at times wickedly hilarious. This is one of my favorite stories by Oliver that I've read so far. Also, it appears to set the stage perhaps for Reggie Oliver's upcoming novel "The Boke of the Divill". Great stuff! | |||||||||||
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Anyone got publishing news on "The Boke of the Divill" ??? Dark Renaissance's website still gives me a white page and I can't find anything anywhere on an update. Any news???
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Performance and Reliability to Support Small Business Networks
● 48 high-speed ports optimized for the network core or to support bandwidth-intensive applications
● Power over Ethernet easily and cost-effectively powers wireless access points, video cameras, and other network-connected endpoints
● Resilient clustering provides the ability to manage several switches as a single switch to support growing businesses
● Strong security protects network traffic to keep unauthorized users off the network
● Simplified, web-based management for easy installation and configuration
● Limited lifetime warranty
Product Overview
The Cisco® SGE2010P 48-Port Gigabit Switch (Figure 1) allows you to expand your network securely. Web-based configuration of the switch is secured using SSL. The Cisco SGE2010P is optimized for maximum system availability, with fully redundant stacking, redundant power options, and dual images for resilient firmware upgrades. The switch helps secure the network through IEEE 802.1Q VLANs, IEEE 802.1X port authentication, access control lists (ACLs), denial-of-service (DoS) prevention, and MAC-based filtering. The enhanced quality of service (QoS) and traffic-management features help ensure clear and reliable voice and video communications.
For wireless or voice over IP (VoIP) deployments, the Cisco SGE2010P supports the IEEE 802.3af standard for Power over Ethernet (PoE). Automatic load sensing enables the circuitry to detect PoE on the end device before providing power. For safety, each port has independent overload and short-circuit protection, along with LED indicators to show power status. It provides 15W of available PoE power on up to 24 of the Gigabit Ethernet ports for powering PoE-enabled wireless access points or VoIP handsets. The maximum PoE available per device for all ports is 360W.
The Cisco SGE2010P provides resilient stacking for up to four units, or 192 ports. A stack of units is managed as a single switch with one web management interface. The Cisco SGE2010P can coexist in a stack with the Cisco SGE2000 and SGE2000P 24-Port Gigabit Switches, and the Cisco SGE2010 48-Port Gigabit Switch, for a maximum of 192 ports in a stack. The stacking capability includes master/backup unit behavior, ring and chain architecture, and hot insertion and removal of units.
Software running on the Cisco SGE2010P interacts with provisioning, management, and security software on both the site's services router and the service provider's equipment. This interaction provides a simple, one-step installation and access to web-administered features for the administrator and users. Simple, affordable network operations throughout the network's lifetime are the result.
● Forty-eight 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports
● 4 mini Gigabit Interface Converter (mini-GBIC) slots (shared with 4 Ethernet ports) for fiber Gigabit Ethernet expansion
● IEEE 802.3af PoE delivered over any of the forty-eight 10/100/1000 ports
● 15.4W available power to a Gigabit Ethernet port for PoE-enabled wireless access point or VoIP handsets (maximum per-device PoE delivery of 360W available for all ports)
● Dual images for resilient firmware upgrades
● 96 Gbps nonblocking, store-and-forward switching capacity
● Simplified QoS management using 802.1p, differentiated services (DiffServ) or type of service (ToS) traffic prioritization
● Power redundancy when used with the Cisco RPS1000 380W Redundant Power Supply Unit
● Fully resilient stacking provides optimized growth with simplified management
● ACLs for granular security and QoS implementation
● Configuration and monitoring from a standard web browser
● Secure remote management of the switch via Secure Shell (SSH) and SSL encryption
● 802.1Q-based VLANs enable segmentation of networks for improved performance
Table 1 contains the specifications, package contents, and minimum requirements for the Cisco SGE2010P 48-Port Gigabit Switch.
Table 1. Specifications for the Cisco SGE2010P 48-Port Gigabit Switch: PoE
Feature |
Description |
Specifications |
Ports |
48 RJ-45 connectors for 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T with 4 Gigabit combo ports shared between mini-GBIC ports; console port; auto medium dependent interface (MDI) and MDI crossover (MDI-X); auto negotiate/manual setting; RPS port for connecting to redundant power supply unit |
Buttons |
Reset button |
Cabling type |
Unshielded twisted pair (UTP) Category 5 or better for 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX; UTP Category 5e or better for 1000BASE-T |
LEDs |
PWR, Fan, Link/Act, PoE, Speed, RPS, Master, Stack ID 1 through 8 |
PoE |
● IEEE 802.3af PoE on delivered over any of the 48 10/100/1000 ports
● Maximum power of 15.4W to an Ethernet port – 360W total available to all ports with regular AC power, 280W total available with RPS
Performance |
Switching capacity |
96 Gbps nonblocking |
Forwarding capacity |
71.4 mpps (64-byte packets) |
Stacking |
Stack operation |
● Up to 192 ports in a stack
● Hot insertion and removal
● Ring and chain stacking options
● Master and backup master for resilient stack control
● Auto-numbering or manual configuration of units in stack
Layer 2 |
MAC table size |
8000 |
Number of VLANs |
256 active VLANs (4096 range) |
Port-based and 802.1Q tag-based VLANs; protocol-based VLAN; management VLAN; multicast TV VLAN; Private VLAN Edge (PVE); Generic VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP) |
Head-of-line (HOL) blocking |
HOL blocking prevention |
Layer 3 |
Layer 3 options |
Static routing; classless interdomain routing (CIDR); 60 static routes; IPv4; forwarding in silicon – wire-speed forwarding of Layer 3 traffic |
IPv6 |
IPv6 options |
IPv6 over Ethernet, dual stack, IPv6 over IPv4 network with Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) tunnel, IPv6 neighbor discovery, stateless address configuration, maximum transmission unit (MTU) discovery, WEB, SSL, Telnet, Ping, Traceroute, Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP), Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), RADIUS, access control lists (ACLs), QoS, protocol based VLANs |
Management |
Web user interface |
Built-in web user interface for easy browser-based configuration (HTTP/HTTPS) |
SNMP versions 1, 2c, and 3 with support for trap |
SNMP MIBs |
RFC1213 MIB-2, RFC2863 interface MIB, RFC2665 Ether-like MIB, RFC1493 bridge MIB, RFC2674 extended bridge MIB (P-bridge, Q-bridge), RFC2819 RMON MIB (groups 1, 2, 3, and 9 only), RFC2737 entity MIB, RFC 2618 RADIUS client MIB, RFC 1215 traps |
Remote Monitoring (RMON) |
Embedded RMON software agent supports 4 RMON groups (history, statistics, alarms, and events) for enhanced traffic management, monitoring, and analysis) |
Firmware upgrade |
● Web browser upgrade (HTTP/HTTPS) and TFTP
● Dual images for resilient firmware upgrades
Port mirroring |
Traffic on a port can be mirrored to another port for analysis with a network analyzer or RMON probe. |
Other management |
Traceroute; single IP management; SSL security for web user interface; SSH; RADIUS; port mirroring; TFTP upgrade; Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client; BOOTP; SNTP; Xmodem upgrade; cable diagnostics; Ping; syslog; Telnet client (SSH secure support) |
Security |
802.1X—RADIUS authentication, MD5 hash; guest VLAN; single/multiple host mode |
ACLs |
● Drop or rate limit based on source and destination MAC or IP address, protocol, port, VLAN, differentiated services code point (DSCP)/IP precedence, TCP/ User Datagram Protocol (UDP) source and destination ports, 802.1p priority, Ethernet type, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets, Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) packets, DHCP snooping, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) inspection, and IP source address guard
● Up to 1018 rules
Advanced Security |
● IP Source Guard
● STP Root Guard
● Dynamic ARP Inspection
● DHCP Snooping
Availability |
Link aggregation |
Using IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP), up to 8 ports in up to 8 groups |
Storm control |
Broadcast, multicast, and unknown unicast |
Spanning Tree |
IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree, IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree, IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree, and Fast Linkover |
DoS prevention |
DoS attack prevention |
IGMP (version 1 and 2) snooping |
Limits bandwidth-intensive multicast traffic to only the requestors; supports 256 multicast groups |
Power redundancy |
Connection to RPS unit for power redundancy |
Quality of service |
Priority levels |
4 hardware queues |
Scheduling |
Priority queuing and weighted round-robin (WRR) |
Class of service |
Port-based; 802.1p VLAN priority-based; IPv4/v6 IP precedence/ToS/DSCP based; DiffServ; classification and re-marking ACLs |
Rate limiting |
Ingress policer; egress rate control; per VLAN |
Statistics |
16 meters |
Standards |
802.3 10BASE-T Ethernet, 802.3u 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet, 802.3ab 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3x flow control, 802.3ad LACP, 802.3af PoE, 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), 802.1Q/p VLAN, 802.1w Rapid STP, 802.1s Multiple STP, 802.1x port access authentication |
Environmental |
Dimensions |
17.32 x 14.70 x 1.73 in. |
Unit weight |
10.89 lb (4.94 kg) |
Power |
100–240V 47–63 Hz, internal, universal; also equipped with external redundant power supply connector for external power supply, –48VDC |
Certification |
UL (UL 60950), CSA (CSA 22.2), CE mark, FCC Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A |
Operating temperature |
32° to 104°F (0° to 40°C) |
Storage temperature |
–4° to 158°F (–20° to 70°C) |
Operating humidity |
10% to 90%, relative, noncondensing |
Storage humidity |
10% to 95%, relative, noncondensing |
Package Contents |
● Cisco SGE2010P 48-Port Gigabit Switch
● AC power adapter with power cord
● Two rack-mounting kits with eight screws
● CD-ROM with user documentation (PDF) included
● Registration card
● Console cable
Minimum Requirements |
● Web browser: Mozilla Firefox version 1.5 or later, Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.5 or later
● Category 5 Ethernet network cable
● TCP/IP, network adapter, and network operating system (such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X) installed on each computer in the network
Product Warranty |
Limited lifetime warranty with return to factory replacement, one year telephone support and software fixes for the warranty term. |
Service & Support
Cisco Small Business switches are backed by the Cisco Small Business Support Service, which provides affordable peace-of-mind coverage. This subscription-based service helps you protect your investment and derive maximum value from Cisco Small Business products. Delivered by Cisco and backed by your trusted partner, this comprehensive service includes software updates, access to the Cisco Small Business Support Center, and expedited hardware replacement.
Cisco Small Business products are supported by professionals in Cisco Small Business Support Center locations worldwide who are specifically trained to understand your needs. The Cisco Small Business Support Community, an online forum, enables you to collaborate with your peers and reach Cisco technical experts for support information.
Cisco Limited Lifetime Hardware Warranty
This Cisco Small Business product offers a limited lifetime hardware warranty with return to factory replacement and a 1-year limited warranty for fans and power supplies. In addition, Cisco offers telephone technical support at no charge for the first 12 months following the date of purchase and software bug fixes for the warranty term. To download software updates, go to: http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/download/index.html.
Product warranty terms and other information applicable to Cisco products are available at http://www.cisco.com/go/warranty.
For More Information
For more information on Cisco Small Business products and solutions, visit: http://www.cisco.com/smallbusiness.


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Friday, July 23, 2010
KimmyShop.com Review and Giveaway
Does your toddler or child have a favorite TV show or movie and you have a hard time finding products that have the same theme? I am constantly looking for cool new toys and such for "Bug's favorite movies and TV shows, but lets face it, its not always easy to find the perfect toy that goes along with the "in" movie or TV show! I've ran into this quite a bit while buying for not just "Bug" but for birthday parties and Christmas but I recently found an online shop that makes it super easy to find just the right gift, Kimmyshop.com!
About Kimmyshop.com (Taken From Website):
KimmyShop.com has been a specialized children's' character merchandise e-tailer since 2001. Started by a husband and wife team, KimmyShop.com has been recognized over the years as a premier destination for hard-to-find character merchandise featuring properties such as The Backyardigans, Caillou, Dora the Explorer, Disney Princess, Go Diego Go!, Toy Story, and many more.
Our mission at KimmyShop.com is to provide our customers with a kid-friendly, one-stop-shop for popular childrens character merchandise backed by unparalleled customer service. In delivering a top-quality buying experience, we stock everything that is shown on our site. Orders are processed and shipped within 1-2 days of receipt. Once complete, order-tracking information is emailed within 1 business day.
Since the founding of KimmyShop.com, we have shipped tens of thousands of orders to satisfied customers throughout the world. A truly international company, orders are shipped from our Montreal, Quebec and Champlain, NY facilities.
We stand behind your purchase 100%. If you are not completely satisfied with your order within 30 days from the date of receipt, simply email returns[at]kimmyshop.com and we will issue a credit or refund.
My Thoughts:
I have spent a lot of time surfing around on Kimmyshop.com and I have to admit they have everything! I will now know where to go to find the coolest toys for any gift giving occasion! Not only do they have everything they have something for all ages, which make it even easier to find the perfect gift! Here are a few of my favorites that I've got put on my list for birthdays and Christmas:
My 4year old nephew loves Thomas the Tank Engine so I'm thinking of getting him the Thomas & Friends Toddler Backpack so that he can take it to Pre-School with him or when his visits Nana and Papa's house on the weekend!
My 6year old nephew is really into everything Transformers and I know he would absolutely love the Transformers Animated Roll Out Command Optimus Prime!
Now "Bug" is relatively easy to shop for because he is not all the pre-school cartoons and the movie Cars so there really is endless possibilities for gifts at Kimmyshop.com but we are currently looking at getting him a few of their products for Christmas and his upcoming 3rd birthday! I really want to get him this:
The Little People, Amazing Animals Circus with Touch and Feel Animals, as much as he likes animals I think he would love it!
Now one show that he really enjoys watching everyday on Nick Jr. is Max and Ruby, now don't ask me why he likes it so much, but he does and I noticed on Kimmyshop.com they have a really nice selection of products featuring Max and Ruby and up until now I didn't even know they had products available for the show!
They have several DVD's of the show and I would love to get "Bug" a few of them so that he could watch his two favorite bunnies anytime he wanted!
Buy It:
To purchase any of the above products or to find something for that special kiddo(s) visit their website!
Win It:
Kimmyshop.com has offered one of my readers a Max and Ruby Tote Bag, which is only available at Kimmyshop.com!
Mandatory Entry: Visit Kimmyshop.com and tell me another item you think a kiddo in your life would love to have! Please remember to leave your e-mail address if it's not visible in your profile.
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Giveaway ends Aug 05, 2010 @ midnight CST. Winner will be chosen at random, using random.org and contacted by e-mail and has 48 hrs to respond before a new winner is chosen.
This review is based strictly my opinion. Others may have a different opinion with the product listed above. No type of compensation was received.
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I also like the Disney Princess Surf Rider. Thanks.
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MAX and RUBY ANYTHING! Especially the backpack coming in August!
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Fragment of what is believed to be a Raduga Kh-58 anti-radar tactically guided missile. MoD photo. |
Georgia claims a Russian attack aircraft, an SU-24 Fencer, violated Georgian airspace and dropped a Raduga Kh-58 anti-radar tactically guided missile. The rocket, which did not explode, hit an area near the villages of Shavshvebi and Tsiteliubani in the Shida Kartli region, which is near breakaway South Ossetia. The area is about 80 kilometers from the Russian border and about 65 kilometers from Tbilisi.
A spot report by the OSCE Mission in Georgia, obtained by Civil.Ge from the Georgian State Ministry for Conflict Resolution Issues, summarizes the findings of the joint monitoring team of Joint Peacekeeping Forces (JPKF) and OSCE observers on the ground. The report, one of a series of routine reports done by the joint monitoring team on the ground, is considered to be less than conclusive. It is based on information gathered at the scene of the incident, as well as from eyewitness testimonies, involving local villagers and peacekeepers from nearby observation posts.
The report says that the joint JPKF/OSCE monitoring team was shown a radar print-out by the Georgian authorities on August 7. It apparently shows that an aircraft entered Georgian airspace at 14:31 GMT (local time GMT+4) over an area close to the town of Stepantsminda (formerly Kazbegi) and exited Georgian airspace ten minutes later through the same route. Stepantsminda is to the north-east of Tsitelubani village, where the unexploded rocket was found.
According to the print-out, the report says, only one aircraft was involved.
After inspecting the incident site the joint monitoring team visited two nearby JPKF observation posts one in Didi Gromi and another in Tsinagari both manned by personnel from the North Ossetian peacekeeping battalion. The JPKF also consists of Georgian and Russian battalions.
Personnel at the Tsinagari observation post told the joint monitoring team that they had seen an aircraft flying from the north-east in a southwesterly direction at about three kilometers altitude. Before the aircraft reached the observation post, it reportedly launched a rocket. It then turned and flew back to the north east.
Peacekeepers at the Didi Gromi observation post said the same thing as their colleagues in Tsinagari, but also reported an additional rocket launch. The only difference was that the JPKF personnel there reportedly heard and saw the launch of a rocket right above their observation post, the report said.
Residents from the nearby South Ossetian-administered village of Kvemo-Zakhori confirmed the rocket launch to the south of the village.
The report does not contain further information on this mysterious rocket launch which seems to be separate from the one involving the rocket dropped by the aircraft. It does, however, directly echo an earlier statement by the Russian commander of the JPKF, Marat Kulakhmetov. He told RIA Novosti news agency on August 7 that the unidentified aircraft came under fire from South Ossetian militiamen. The allegation was further backed by an information leak from the Georgian investigation, claiming that the aircraft which violated Georgian airspace jettisoned, rather than fired, a missile, after it had come under fire from the South Ossetian side.
Reports suggest that the South Ossetians fired a Strela shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missile. Authorities in breakaway South Ossetia, however, have strongly denied this, saying that their forces in the area are only armed with light weapons.
Speaking at a news conference on August 8, Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili said the report by the joint monitoring team had corroborated Tbilisi's claim of Russian involvement. It actually confirmed the fact that the jet really came from the north, he said.
He, however, said a comprehensive investigation into the incident was required and announced the establishment of an international group of experts to carry out a probe.
We invite all our partner countries to send experts military, aviation or experts in other fields to this group in order to properly study all the evidence gathered by the Georgian side, the foreign minister said. The establishment of this group means that we are open for a dialogue with everyone who wants to find out the truth.
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, also said in a statement on August 8 that a thorough investigation should be conducted. The U.S. Department of State called on August 8 on all parties to cooperate fully with the Georgian Government's and the OSCE's investigation.
Russia, which said the incident was a provocation aimed at undermining Russo-Georgian relations, also stressed the necessity of carrying out a detailed and comprehensive investigation.
To ensure the investigation has more legitimacy and international backing, Tbilisi wants it to be under the aegis of the United Nations. In the meantime, Tbilisi is seeking to have an urgent UN Security Council session to debate the matter.
Speaking with journalists in New York, Irakli Chikovani, the deputy representative of Georgia to the UN, said the Security Council should be resolute in condemning the attack on the territory of a sovereign country. We call upon the Council to conduct a high-level investigation mandated by the UN Security Council, he said.


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Related: | Animals in Fanworks, Animal Transformation |
See Also: | Kemonomimi/Catboys & Catgirls, Lolcat in Fandom, Maru, Furry Fandom |
Tropes · Slash Tropes · Tropes by Fandom | |
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Cats, small and large, have appeared regularly in fanworks.
When canon human characters are portrayed as cats, it is Animal Transformation or AUs in which the characters are not transformed into but have always been cats.
Catboys & Catgirls are human with cat-like characteristics such as ears and tails. They may purr, hiss or meow, be territorial, and love fish, stroking, and naps in the sun.
Some fandoms have canonical cats, such as Data's cat Spot, Jim Ellison's panther spirit guide and Argus Filch's Mrs Norris, which will then appear in some fanworks. Sydney, the pet cat of one of the characters in Forever Knight, even had his own Forever Knight Faction, called FoSiLs. Rodney McKay's (unnamed in canon?) cat left behind on Earth shows up regularly in Stargate Atlantis fanworks.
Some fanfic is told from the point of view of cats, usually with the cat anthropomorphized to some degree internally, while it remains a cat from the viewpoint of the characters. For example, the ST:XI story The Enterprising Cat by Mockingbird Quester, in which a stray cat gets onto the Enterprise.
- See the Cats tag at the Archive of Our Own
- See Sydney (Forever Knight) for Forever Knight fan fiction featuring Natalie Lambert's cat
Fanfiction Featuring Cats
- The Feline Specialist by Supertights. Alien from the point of view of Ripley's canonical cat Jones. Written for Yuletide 2013
- I succeeded in crawling into the breast of my big boss! by miss_pryss, a story about Maru the cat. (2009)
- Of kittens and teacups and love by Ren. XMFC story in which Erik is Charles' roommate, and Charles adopts more and more kittens. The story also inspired cat-related fanart. Although XMFC fandom has its fair share of cat fanworks, no cats appear in the film. (2011)
- Time in a Bottle by astolat, a Stargate Atlantis story that includes an original cat character named Fermi. Fermi is presented as a virtual copy of Rodney McKay's first cat and is presumably inspired by the fact that Rodney is canonically a cat person; he is briefly shown giving away an unnamed cat in the pilot episode. (2005)
- The Flynt Coal the Cat Series by Vertiga. Rooster Teeth Fake AH Crew series in which a mysterious kitten changes the very nature of the humans who care for it.
Cats as Romance-starters
- These Precious Things by Mistiel, Supernatural. A Dean/Castiel story in which "Cas is in need of Dean's assistance and Dean is not happy. But a cat? Really?". (2011)
Human Characters Transformed into Cats
- The Professionals zine Cat Tales by Fanny Adams featured characters as cats. (pub. 1986)
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Night by Suzan Lovett, Starsky & Hutch story, featured Starsky & Hutch transformed into cats, inspired by the Cat Tales zine. Originally published in Code 7 v.4 (1987)
- Gods and Monsters by silverkit, Supernatural fic written from outside POV in which Sam and Dean are transformed into cats who temporarily seek shelter with some humans (but Sam still has visions and they're still on the case). (2007)
- Allotropy by SkoosiePants. Bandom/SGA fusion story in which alien technology transforms Alex DeLeon into a cat. (2008)
- Momentary Paws (or, DO NOT WANT) by velithya. Avengers story in which Tony Stark gets transformed into a kitten. (2008)
- Checkmate 'Verse by beadattitude. SGA McShep canon-setting story in which John Sheppard is transformed into a cat for a month. (2009-2011)
- The first eight don't count by storm petrel. The Losers fic in which Jensen's got a secret (spoiler: he turns into a cat!!) (2010)
- Humane Society by smilebackwards. XMFC story in which Erik is temporarily transformed into a kitten. "Once Erik finally allows himself to decide that Charles is pretty much the best thing since sliced bread, he spends the next week being incredibly bitter that he's Charles' cat and not his boyfriend." Example fanart based on the story. (2011)
"Always Been a Cat" AUs
- When John Met Rodney by bethynyc, an SGA Earth-based AU fic in which Rodney is a Scottish Fold and John a rescued alley cat. (2007)
Gallery of Cat-Related Fanart and Fanzines
inside art from Avon Calling #2 (Blake's 7)
cover of Powerplay #3 (Blake's 7)
back cover of Powerplay #6 (Blake's 7)
interior art from Code 7 #4, Starsky & Hutch as cats, artist is Jean C.
cover of Rebel Desires (Blake's 7)
cover of Loose Notes #2, a filk zine
cover of Forever Knight Cat Stories (Forever Knight)
back cover of Speak No Evil (Kung Fu: The Legend Continues zine) (KFTLC)
front cover of Perestroika (MUNCLE)
inside Galactic Discourse #1, John Holliday
front cover of U.N.C.L.E. Affairs (MUNCLE)
front cover of We Have Each Other (MUNCLE)
cover of Wham, Bam, Thank You, Sam! #3 (Quantum Leap)
cover of Blended Spirits #1 (Sentinel)
cover of The Burnaby Chronicles (Sentinel)
cover of Concrete Jungle (Sentinel zine) (Sentinel)
cover of Primal Instincts (Sentinel)
cover of Timeless #2 (Starsky and Hutch)
cover of Consort #2 (Star Trek TOS)
cover of Enterprise Log Entries #75 (Star Trek TOS)
back cover of First Time #6 (Star Trek TOS)
back cover of Matter/Antimatter #7 (Star Trek TOS)
cover of Of Dreams and Schemes 14 (multifandom)
cover of the zine, Kaleidoscope #4
cover of Interstat #148, Nan Lewis


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Professor Miles Ogborn
Professor of Geography
email: email@example.com
Tel: 020 7882 8926
Location: Geography Building, Room 211
Twitter: @MilesOgborn
I am an historical geographer concerned with understanding the relationships between power, space and knowledge (or communication) in a range of mainly eighteenth-century contexts. My work has dealt with the new geographies of eighteenth-century London, and trying to understand them as Spaces of Modernity (1998). It has also investigated the ways in which the English East India Company used a variety of forms of writing (Indian Ink, 2007) to construct a global trading network and territorial empire in India from 1600 to 1800. This was the same broad timespan for my attempt to write an introduction to global history through biography in Global Lives (2008). I am currently undertaking a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2015-2017) on the relationship between speech and slavery in the Caribbean. This work investigates how different forms of talk – such as evidence giving in court, discussions of the plants that grew on the islands, and communications with the world of gods and spirits – demonstrate the complexities of the power relations of slavery and empire.
One element of this work was presented in the session on Historical and Cultural Geographies of Story and Storytelling at the RGS-IBG conference in Exeter in September 2015. It is a paper called 'We cannot but speak the thing, which we have seen and heard: believing stories in Caribbean slave societies'. Hear it here.
You can hear me talking about some of the broader themes here: VODCAST "What is Intellectual Geography?" Miles Ogborn's keynote address to the Intellectual Geography Conference, Oxford, September 2011.
Key publications
- M. Ogborn (2013) 'Talking plants: botany and speech in eighteenth-century Jamaica,' History of Science, 51 pp. 1-32.
- M. Ogborn (2011) 'The power of speech: orality, oaths and evidence in the British Atlantic world, 1650-1800,' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 36:1 pp. 109-125.
- M. Ogborn (2011) 'A war of words: speech, script and print in the Maroon War of 1795-6,' Journal of Historical Geography, 37:2, pp. 203-215.
- M. Ogborn (2008) Global Lives: Britain and the World, 1550-1800 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) xx + pp. 343
- M. Ogborn (2007) Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company (Chicago University Press, Chicago) xxiv + pp. 318.
- M. Ogborn (1998) Spaces of Modernity: London's Geographies 1680-1780 (Guilford Press, New York) xii + pp. 340.
2012 Elected a Fellow of the British Academy
2009 Distinguished Historical Geographer. Awarded by the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.
2001 Philip Leverhulme Prize from the Leverhulme Trust
I teach modules in human geography at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. In all of my teaching I aim to introduce students to key concepts through using a wide range of examples (often from my own research), and getting students to analyse and understand original materials for themselves. I have also written the textbooks for my own courses, so that students have clear guidance on what I am looking for and a range of resources to bring to the classroom.
I teach parts of human geography that are often new to students arriving at university, so it is important to make them accessible. In the second year I teach the cultural geography part of GEG5110 Society, Culture and Space. Here students learn about the meanings of spaces, places and landscapes and, for their coursework, are asked to choose a picture of a landscape to interpret for themselves. In the third year I teach a module (GEG6105 Global Historical Geographies) based on my book Global Lives –and also on visits to London museums. Here students are taught how to use historical sources, and how to write their own historical accounts of subjects such as slavery, piracy and oceanic voyaging. I am currently part of the team that has devised a new fieldcourse to Boston, USA for second and third years – GEG5125/GEG6125 Boston Reworked – which will involve students learning on the ground how we can understand the city's past and present through a combination of historical documents, surviving objects and examining the landscape of the city itself.
For the Masters, I teach on GEG7123 Cities, Space and Power, which examines how public spaces in a range of cities, past and present, have emerged, changed and come under threat.
- GEG5110 Society, Culture and Space (with Professor Jon May)
- GEG5125/6125 Boston Reworked
- GEG6105 Global Historical Geographies
- GEG7123 Cities, Space and Power
Research interests:
The Freedom of Speech: Speech and Slavery in the CaribbeanThis on-going research project considers the relationships between talk, text and (un)freedom in the slave societies of the Caribbean. Focusing on law, natural history, religion and politics, as well as the movements for abolition and emancipation, this project attends not to what was said in the past but to the cultural practices of talk themselves. These are particular, more or less rule-bound, ways of speaking such as the sermon, the botanical conversation, the giving of evidence, gossip or debating. In each case I examine the social and spatial relationships that were involved in and produced through these practices from the small scale geographies of the spaces where talk went on (in courtrooms, plantations gardens and streets) to the trans-Atlantic networks that these modes of speech were part of. Studying speech provides an empirical and theoretical basis for moving away from the dominant textual model of representation of people and places towards one based on the idea of an on-going, situated, power-laden and agonistic 'conversation' with many participants using text and talk in different ways.
The Child in the World
AHRC Extended Collaborative Doctoral Award programme
This five-year collaboration between Queen Mary and the V&A Museum of Childhood (2010-15) focuses on researching the lived experiences of London children between 1870 and the present day. The research is being undertaken by three PhD students working on distinct Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDAs) on children, home and empire (Mary Guyatt); children, migration and diaspora (Eithne Nightingale); and children and global citizenship (Lamees al Mubarak). The supervisory team consists of Alison Blunt, Alastair Owens and myself in the School of Geography, Kiera Vaclavik in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, and by colleagues at the V&A Museum of Childhood. The research will inform the redisplay of the museum and produce a range of learning resources. Website.
Reconnecting Sloane: Texts, Images, Objects
AHRC Extended Collaborative Doctoral Award programme
Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), doctor, traveller, natural philosopher and man of letters, was responsible for gathering together one of the greatest collections of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which went on to form the basis of the British Museum. This project of three interlinked PhD studentships investigates his collection of thousands of manuscripts and printed books, multiple albums full of pictures and numerous objects (including a vast range of botanical and zoological specimens) to understand how it was part of the great transformation of knowledge about the world and about nature in the early Enlightenment. In collaboration with the Natural History Museum, my part in the project is to supervise Victoria Pickering's research on Sloane's "Vegetable Substances", a collection of over 8000 catalogued specimens in individual hand-made boxes. You can hear something about this in this short talk I gave at the Natural History Museum.
Hans Sloane's Vegetable Substances, Miles Ogborn's contribution to the AHRC Sloane Treasures Workshop, Natural History Museum, London, April 2012
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- M. Ogborn and C.W.J. Withers (eds) (2010) Geographies of the Book (Ashgate, Farnham) xiv + pp. 302.
- M. Ogborn (2008) Global Lives: Britain and the World, 1550-1800 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) xx + pp. 343
- B. Longhurst, G. Smith, G. Bagnall, G. Crawford and M. Ogborn with E. Baldwin and S. McCracken (2008) Introducing Cultural Studies. Second edition (Pearson Education, Harlow) xvi + pp. 347. South Asian Edition (Dorling Kindersley India, forthcoming 2011)
- M. Ogborn (2007) Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company (Chicago University Press, Chicago) xxiv + pp. 318.
- M. Ogborn and C. W. J. Withers (eds) (2004) Georgian Geographies: Essays on Space, Place and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century (Manchester University Press, Manchester) xii + pp. 203.
- A. Blunt, P. Gruffudd, J. May, M. Ogborn and D. Pinder (eds) (2003) Cultural Geography in Practice (Arnold, London) xiv + pp. 330. Korean language edition, Hanul Publishing, Seoul, 2007.
- E. Baldwin, B. Longhurst, M. Ogborn, S. McCracken and G. Smith (1999, Revised first edition 2003) Introducing Cultural Studies (Prentice Hall, Hemel Hempstead) xxii + pp. 467. Also published by University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2000; Chapter 4 'Topographies of Culture' (by M. Ogborn) reprinted in a Custom Book by University of Southern Australia; Chinese language edition, 2004, Higher Education Press, Beijing, xxii + pp. 500); Polish language edition 2007, Zysk i S-ka Wydawnictwo, Poznan; Korean language edition, forthcoming, Hanul Publishing, Seoul.
- M. Ogborn (1998) Spaces of Modernity: London's Geographies 1680-1780 (Guilford Press, New York) xii + pp. 340.
Papers and Chapters
M. Ogborn (2014) 'Discriminating evidence: closeness and distance in natural and civil histories of the Caribbean,' Modern Intellectual History 11:3 pp. 629-51. Special issue on evidence and distance.
- M. Ogborn (2013) 'Talking plants: botany and speech in eighteenth-century Jamaica,' History of Science, 51 pp. 251-282.
- M. Ogborn (2013) "It's not what you know…" : encounters, go-betweens and the geography of knowledge,' [5300 word review essay] Modern Intellectual History 10:1 pp. 163-175.
- M. Ogborn (2012) 'Making connections: port geography and global history', in Lourdes de Ita Rubio (ed.) Organización del Espacio en el México Colonial: Puertos, Ciudades y Caminos (CONACyT, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UMSNH, Morelia, México) pp. 97-120.
- M. Ogborn (2011) 'A war of words: speech, script and print in the Maroon War of 1795-6,' Journal of Historical Geography 37 pp. 203-215
- M. Ogborn (2011) 'The power of speech: orality, oaths and evidence in the British Atlantic world, 1650-1800,' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 36:1 pp. 109-125.
- M. Ogborn (2011) 'Epistolary history,' History Workshop Journal 71 pp. 253-259
- M. Ogborn (2011) 'Archive', in J. Agnew and D.N. Livingstone (eds) The Sage Handbook of Geographical Knowledge (Sage, London) pp. 88-98.
- M. Ogborn and C.W.J. Withers (2010) 'Introduction: book geography, book history,' in M. Ogborn and C.W.J. Withers (eds) Geographies of the Book (Ashgate, Farnham) pp. 1-25.
- M. Ogborn (2010) 'The amusements of posterity: print against empire in late eighteenth-century Bengal,' in M. Ogborn and C.W.J. Withers (eds) Geographies of the Book (Ashgate, Farnham) pp. 29-49.
- M. Ogborn (2010) 'Finding historical sources,' in N.J. Clifford, S. French and G. Valentine (eds) Key Methods in Geography Second Edition (Sage, London) pp. 89-102.
- M. Ogborn (2009) Contribution [2,500 words] to a book review symposium along with David Arnold on James S. Duncan (2007) In the Shadows of the Tropics, in Progress in Human Geography 33 pp. 714-721.
- M. Ogborn (2009) 'Francis Williams's bad language: historical geography in a world of practice,' Historical Geography 37 pp. 5-25.
- M. Ogborn (2006) 'Streynsham Master's office: accounting for collectivity, order and authority in seventeenth-century India,' Cultural Geographies 13 pp. 127-155
- D. Lambert, L. Martins and M. Ogborn (2006) 'Currents, visions and voyages: historical geographies of the sea,' for special issue on 'Historical Geographies of the Sea', Journal of Historical Geography 32:2 pp. 479-493.
- M. Ogborn (2005/2006) 'Mapping words,' New Formations special issue on 'The Spatial Imaginary,' 57 pp. 145-149
- M. Ogborn (2005) 'Modernity and modernization,' in P. Cloke, P. Crang and M. Goodwin (eds) Introducing Human Geographies Second Edition (Arnold, London) pp. 339-349.
- M. Ogborn (2005) 'Atlantic geographies', guest editorial for special issue of Social and Cultural Geography 6 pp. 379-385.
- M. Ogborn and C. W. J. Withers (2004) 'Knowing other places: travel, trade and empire, 1660-1800,' in C. Wall (ed.) A Concise Companion to Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (Blackwell, Oxford) pp. 14-36.
- M. Ogborn (2004) 'Geographia's pen: writing, geography and the arts of commerce, 1660-1760,' Journal of Historical Geography 30 pp. 294-315
- M. Ogborn and C. W. J. Withers (2004) 'Introduction: Georgian geographies?' in M. Ogborn and C. W. J. Withers (eds) Georgian Geographies: Essays on Space, Place and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century (Manchester University Press, Manchester) pp. 1-23.
- F. Mort and M. Ogborn (2004) 'Transforming metropolitan London, 1750-1960,' Journal of British Studies special issue 43:1 pp. 1-14.
- M. Ogborn (2004) 'Designs on the city: John Gwynn's plans for Georgian London,' Journal of British Studies special issue 43: 1 pp. 15-39.
- M. Ogborn (2004) 'Archives,' in S. Pile and N. Thrift (eds) Patterned Ground (Reaktion, London) pp. 240-42
- C. Nash and M. Ogborn (2003) 'Historical geography: making the modern world,' in A. Rogers and H. A. Viles (eds) The Student's Companion to Geography (Blackwell, Oxford) pp. 108-112.
- M. Ogborn (2003) 'Mapping the metropolis,' Journal of British Studies 42:1 pp. 119-126.
- M. Ogborn (2003) 'Knowledge is power: using archival research to interpret state formation,' in A. Blunt, P. Gruffudd, J. May, M. Ogborn and D. Pinder (eds) Cultural Geography in Practice (Arnold, London) pp. 9-20.
- M. Ogborn (2003) 'Gotcha!', History Workshop Journal 56 pp. 231-238.
- M. Ogborn (2003) 'Finding historical data,' in N. Clifford and G. Valentine (eds) Research Methods in Human and Physical Geography (Sage, London) pp. 101-115.
- M. Ogborn (2002) 'Writing travels: power, knowledge and ritual on the English East India Company's early voyages,' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers New Series 27:2 pp. 155-171.
- M. Ogborn (2002) 'Wherein lay the late seventeenth-century state? Charles Davenant meets Streynsham Master,' Journal of Historical Sociology 15:1 pp. 96-101.
- M. Ogborn (2001) 'This is London! How d'ye like it?' Journal of Urban History 27:2 pp. 206-216.
- M. Ogborn (2001) 'Identity parade,' Tate: The Art Magazine special issue on 'Retracing Britain' 37 pp. 52-55.
- M. Ogborn (2000) 'Pavements' and 'Traffic Lights' in S. Pile and N. Thrift (eds) City A-Z (Routledge, London) pp. 176-177 and 262-264.
- M. Ogborn (2000) 'Historical geographies of globalisation, c. 1500-1800,' in B. J. Graham and C. Nash (eds) Modern Historical Geographies (Prentice Hall, London) pp. 43-69 [Japanese translation, Kokon Shoin, Tokyo 2005]
- M. Ogborn (1999) 'This most lawless space: the geography of the Fleet and the making of Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753,' New Formations 37 pp. 11-32.
- M. Ogborn (1999) 'The relations between geography and history: work in historical geography in 1997,' Progress in Human Geography 23:1 pp. 97-108.
- M. Ogborn (1999) 'Modernity and modernization,' in P. Cloke, P. Crang and M. Goodwin (eds) Introducing Human Geographies (Arnold, London) pp. 153-161 [second edition, 2005 pp. 339-349].
- M. Ogborn (1998) 'The capacities of the state: Charles Davenant and the management of the excise, 1683-1698,' Journal Of Historical Geography 24:3 pp. 289-312.
- M. Ogborn (1998) 'Georgian geographies?' Journal of Historical Geography 24:2 pp. 218-223.
- M. Ogborn (1997) 'Locating the Macaroni: luxury, sexuality and vision in Vauxhall Gardens,' Textual Practice 11:3 445-461.
- M. Ogborn (1997) '(Clock)work in historical geography: autumn 1995 to winter 1996,' Progress in Human Geography 21:3 pp. 414-423.
- M. Ogborn (1996) 'History, memory and the politics of landscape and space: work in historical geography from autumn 1994 to autumn 1995,' Progress in Human Geography 20:2 pp. 222-229.
- M. Ogborn (1995) 'Knowing the individual: Michel Foucault and Norbert Elias on Las Meninas and the modern subject,' in N. Thrift and S. Pile (eds) Mapping the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation (Routledge, London) pp. 57-76.
- M. Ogborn (1995) 'Discipline, government and law: separate confinement in the prisons of England and Wales, 1830-1877,' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers New Series 20:3 pp. 295-311.
- M. Ogborn and C. Philo (1994) 'Soldiers, sailors and moral locations in nineteenth-century Portsmouth,' Area 26:3 pp. 221-231.
- M. Ogborn (1993) 'Ordering the city: surveillance, public space and the reform of urban policing in England, 1835-1856,' Political Geography 12:6 pp. 505-521.
- M. Ogborn (1993) 'Law and discipline in nineteenth-century English state formation: the Contagious Diseases Acts 1864, 1866 and 1869,' The Journal of Historical Sociology 6:1 pp. 28-54.
- M. Ogborn (1992) 'Teaching qualitative historical geography,' Journal of Geography in Higher Education 16:2 pp. 145-150.
- M. Ogborn (1992) 'Love-State-Ego: "centres" and "margins" in nineteenth-century Britain,' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 10:3 pp. 287-305.
- M. Ogborn (1992) 'Local power and state regulation in nineteenth-century Britain,' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers New Series 17:2 pp. 215-226.
- M. Ogborn (1991) 'Can you figure it out?: Norbert Elias's theory of the self,' in C. Philo (ed.) New Words, New Worlds: Reconceptualising Social and Cultural Geography (Cambrian Printers, Aberystwyth) pp. 78-87.
- G. Rose and M. Ogborn (1988) 'Feminism and historical geography,' Journal of Historical Geography 14:4 pp. 405-409.
PhD Supervision
- Darrin Bayliss (ESRC studentship, QMUL) The Emergence of "Community" on Inter-War Council Housing Estates in London (completed 1998)
- Kim Pang (ESRC studentship, QMUL) Towards British-Chinese Futures: A Social Geography of Second Generation Young Chinese People in London (completed 1999)
- Alastair Owens (QMUL College studentship) Small Fortunes: Property, Inheritance and the Middling Sort in Stockport, 1800-1857 (completed 2000)
- Janet Hill (Self-funded, part-time, QMUL) Local Government Change and the Production and Consumption of Leisure Space in the Surrey Docks Peninsula 1979-1997 (completed 2000)
- Glenn Smith (Health Authority funded, QMUL) Windows in Time: The Spatial Experience of Men with Chronic Illness/Disability From Childhood to Adulthood (completed 2001)
- Robert Higham (QMUL College studentship) Social Justice and Higher Education in South Africa (completed 2003)
- Dr Lydia Bruce-Burgess (ESRC/NERC studentship, QMUL) Evaluating River Restoration Appraisal Procedures: The Case of the UK (completed 2004)
- Dr Fiona McConnell (ESRC 1+3 studentship, QMUL) Sovereignty Without Territory? The Political Geographies of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile (completed 2009)
- Anna Kretschmer (QMUL College studentship, 2010) Theatre and the Body in Eighteenth-Century London
- Gabriel Wick (self funding, part-time, QMUL, 2010) Landscape and the Aristocracy in late Eighteenth-Century France
- Lamees Al-Mubarak (AHRC CDA studentship with Museum of Childhood, 2012– ) The Child in the World: Children and Global Citizenship.
- Elin Jones (AHRC CDA studentship with National Maritime Museum, 2012– ) Masculinity and Material Culture in the Royal Navy, 1750–1815
- Victoria Pickering (AHRC CDA studenship with Natural History Museum, 2012– ) Putting Nature in a Box: Hans Sloane's Vegetable Substances.
- Hannah Stockton (AHRC CDA studentship with the National Maritime Museum, 2013– ). Imperial Thames: London, River and Empire, 1660-1830.
- Tim Riding (QMUL College studentship, 2014– ) Power, Territory and Space in the English East India
I welcome applicants for PhD research on any aspect of the historical geography of the long eighteenth century, particularly in relation to questions of knowledge and questions of global trade, maritime history and empire. I also welcome applicants interested in questions of space, power, knowledge and communication in other periods and places, or those who are interested in collaborative research projects with museums.
Public engagement
My research (and some teaching) increasingly involves working with museums. As well as being a past and present member of advisory committees for the National Maritime Museum and the Museum of London. I am the supervisor of AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Awards with the National Maritime Museum (on masculinity and material culture in the eighteenth-century Royal Navy, and on representations of the Thames as the river of empire in the eighteenth century), the Natural History Museum (Reconnecting Sloane) and the Museum of Childhood (The Child in the World). Each of these projects will lead to changes in the way that these museums and their many visitors experience and engage with their collections. As a small example, I am proud to say that the interactive pleasure gardens exhibit in the Capital City galleries of the Museum of London was inspired by my work in Spaces of Modernity (1998) to bring together multimedia versions of past and present artefacts to reimagine the sensory experience of the garden.


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An electrode for introduction through the abdominal wall of a pregnant woman or animal for monitoring the fetal heart is described which includes an elongated rod having at one end a handle for rotating the rod about its longitudinal axis, and a helical electrode tip portion at the other end of the rod which is pointed to penetrate through the abdominal wall as the rod is rotated. The rod is designed with a length sufficient to extend through the abdominal section and uterine wall as the rod is rotated such that the electrode tip portion will hook onto the fetus skin and thereby pick up the fetus cardiogram. A flexible plastic shroud is attached near the electrode handle and encircles the electrode rod with adhesive means on one end of the shroud for securing to the abdominal skin around the area where the electrode enters the abdomen. The plastic shroud prevents foreign particles and germs from entering the opening while the electrode is in place, thereby maintaining a sterile environment. After fetal monitoring, an electrode jack connector is unplugged from the back of the electrode handle, the rod and electrode tip portion backed off from the fetus by reverse rotation, and the shroud removed.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Walk nets $60,000 to fight disease
More than $60,000 was raised by Saturday's Neuse Regional Alzheimer's Walk, with funds still coming in, says organizer Anne Paugh, outreach and community development director of Alzheimer's North Carolina Inc. There was also a great turnout at this year's...Published: Oct 20, 2010 1:46 PM Full Story
Four seniors die of hepatitis B
MOUNT OLIVE -- The deaths of four residents, all senior citizens, at GlenCare assisted living facility in Mount Olive have prompted an investigation into patient safety practices by the Wayne County Health Department and the state's Division of Public Health....Published: Oct 20, 2010 1:46 PM Full Story
Schedules of values ready for view now
Whether it is a chicken house or a mansion, the county's proposed new schedules of values will provide a means of measuring and assessing the value all property in the county. The schedules are, in essence, an "appraiser's manual" that...Published: Oct 20, 2010 1:46 PM Full Story
Bypass to be up, running by 2016
The U.S. 70 Goldsboro Bypass that local leaders had feared would be several decades in the making could instead be completed and carrying traffic by 2016. And that means that the county and city do not have as much time...Published: Oct 20, 2010 1:46 PM Full Story
Cliffs to hold annual hayride, trunk-or-treat
Ghosts and other goblins will roam the woods under cover of darkness at Cliffs of the Neuse State Park on Oct. 29 as the park hosts its annual Trunk or Treat event. The highlight of the Halloween event, which...Published: Oct 20, 2010 1:46 PM Full Story
Duplin commission rejects idea of merit pay
FAISON -- Duplin County won't consider merit pay for county employees at this time, but will consider the salary schedule for future budget discussions. Several of the commissioners spoke out on the issue at their meeting Monday at the...Published: Oct 20, 2010 1:46 PM Full Story
Coach's message
Tonya Williams kept control of her emotions when a combat veteran escorted her to the middle of the Rosewood High School football field Tuesday evening. She wore a smile as her 12-year-old son, Christian, handed her flowers and a balloon...Published: Oct 20, 2010 1:46 PM Full Story
WEMCHS recognized for 100 percent graduation
Wayne Early/Middle College High School has gained state acclaim for having a 100 percent graduation rate. The school was one of 11 in the state recognized recently during a Graduation Achievement Awards Recognition, when the N.C. Department of Public Instruction...Published: Oct 20, 2010 1:46 PM Full Story
Braxton, LaRoque draw out clear differences
Voters in the southeastern quadrant of Wayne County will help decide whether Democrat Van Braxton will return to the state House District 10 seat for a third term, or if Republican challenger Stephen LaRoque will take back the seat...Published: Oct 20, 2010 1:46 PM Full Story