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Milking Cows Less Often Might Benefit Farmers (And Possibly Cheese)
Get PDFMost dairy farms milk cows twice-a-day, but interest in once-a-day milking systems is increasing. This article discusses the background and benefits that are leading some farms to consider a change to a reduced milking frequency. Also, until recently, only limited work had been done to explore how dairy products are impacted by milking frequency. Some recent investigations completed at UCC and Teagasc on cheese now provides some reassuring evidence. Going further still, this research also suggests that reducing milking frequency might offer some unique opportunities for cheese production in the future
Essere accesi per cambiare il mondo: L’educazione poetica come via per intensificare la presenza nel tempo della grande distrazione
Get PDFThe ‘great distraction’, which we propose as a pedagogical and existential category, seems to represent a dangerous new paradigm of our times: it is the assiduousness of diversion from the self, the continuous being moved elsewhere, the pervasive inducement to evade the here and now, the retreat of the finest human energies towards stasis. It is then necessary and urgent to ask: how can full presence be fostered, in everyday life and particularly in educational contexts? In the present study, through the reflections of classical authors and Edgar Morin\u27s Complex Thought, we highlight how a poetic education (i.e. one that cultivates and enhances the mimetic faculty and aesthetic participation to reality) enables an intensification of the quality of being there and being together, and thus of presence. An example of poetic education is given at the end of the study by recounting the experience of the educational project ‘The Stone in the Pond. In movement between words and stories’, an experiment carried out in a number of Italian high schools in which expressive reading was the main way of encouraging students’ full presence and helping them to manifest it.La “grande distrazione”, che proponiamo come categoria pedagogica ed esistenziale, ci sembra rappresentare un rischioso nuovo paradigma dell’oggi: è l’assiduità del distoglimento da sé, il continuo essere spostati altrove, la pervasiva induzione a eludere il qui e ora, il ripiegamento delle più belle energie umane verso la stasi. È allora necessario e urgente chiederci: come si può favorire la presenza piena, nella vita quotidiana e in particolare nei contesti educativi? Nel presente studio, attraverso le riflessioni di autori classici e il pensiero complesso di Edgar Morin, mettiamo in luce come un’educazione poetica (ossia che coltivi e valorizzi la capacità mimesica e la partecipazione estetica alla realtà) consenta un’intensificazione della qualità dell’esserci e dell’essere insieme, e quindi della presenza. Riportiamo infine un esempio di educazione poetica raccontando l’esperienza del progetto educativo “Il sasso nello stagno. In movimento tra parole e storie”, una sperimentazione svolta in alcuni licei italiani in cui la lettura espressiva ha costituito la via privilegiata per accendere e aiutare a manifestare la presenza piena degli studenti
Asthetically designing unstoppable change: A report on the panel discussion ‘The importance of aesthetic learning in foreign language didactics’
No full textDieser Bericht präsentiert die Schlüsselideen, die während der Online-Podiumsdiskussion über das Thema „Zum Stellenwert des ästhetischen Lernens in der Fremdsprachendidaktik“ erörtert wurden. Die Diskussion fand im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe „Zehn Jahre ästhetisches Lernen - ein Blick zurück, zwei Blicke nach vorne“ (18. bis 26.01.2024) statt, die sowohl in Präsenz als auch digital durchgeführt wurde. Unter der Moderation von Dr. Nils Bernstein und Charlotte Lerchner wurde ein Konsens unter allen Teilnehmenden erzielt: Die Integration von emotionalem Erleben durch die Künste führt zu einem nachhaltigen Lernerfolg in einem ganzheitlich ausgerichteten Fremdsprachenunterricht. Als Studierende der Sprachwissenschaften und Mitarbeiterin des Sprachenzentrums der Universität Hamburg wurde mir die Gelegenheit geboten, an dieser Podiumsdiskussion als Zuschauerin teilzunehmen und aus dieser Perspektive diesen Bericht zu verfassen.This report presents the key ideas discussed during the online panel discussion on the topic of ‘The importance of aesthetic learning in foreign language didactics’. The discussion took place as part of the event series ‘Ten years of aesthetic learning - one look back, two ahead’ (18 to 26 January 2024), which was held both in person and online. Under the moderation of Dr Nils Bernstein and Charlotte Lerchner, a consensus was reached among all participants: The integration of emotional experience through the arts leads to sustainable learning success in holistic foreign language teaching. As a student of linguistics and an employee of the Language Centre at the University of Hamburg, I was given the opportunity to take part in this panel discussion as an audience member and to write this report from this perspective
Parish Registers, Demography and Historical Geography: A Case Study of the Parish of Macroom (1837-1896)
No full textDespite the considerable amount of research carried out on population trends in nineteenth centuryIreland (Connell, 1951, 1962, 1965; Cousens, 1961, 1964; Kennedy, 1973; Lee, 1968; McKenna, 1974; Walsh, 1969, 1970), parish registers. have not been used to any great extent as a source material. With a view to examining the utilisation of, and the results that can be obtained from, this particular source, some register-based research undertaken by the author will be discussed (Flynn, 1984). It is hoped in so doing to highlight the merits and defects of parish registers as a source for social. historical, and geographical research
A Geography of Famine: Reflections on the Starvation of Truth
Get PDFThis essay takes us on a voyage. The journey is long and the seas turbulent, yet we travel no further than the self. To satisfy the intellectual need, however, our thoughts are woven through a format comprising an introduction, middle and conclusion. Despite the inbuilt requirements of this structure, it should not be conceived as an enclosing prison. Rather it must be considered as a cantilever, both open-ended and infinite. Thus this enquiry seeks not to limit us, because inevitably we are limited only by our own self-imposed constraints. Once aware of these limitations, we can learn a little by reflecting on the content that fills this framework. We move beyond it, however, only by seeking to bend the walls of our knowledge and through a fulfilment found in our understanding of others. For true knowledge should reveal to us the infinity of our ignorance relative to the self, and to others
1986 Department of Geography, U.C.C. Postgraduate Research in Progress
Get PDF1986 Department of Geography, U.C.C. Postgraduate Research in Progres
Of Maps and Hobbits: A Brief Survey of Maps in Fantasy Literature
Get PDFSince pre-history human beings have as a pre-requisite of survival been compelled to explore the world around them. Consequently the parameters of the physical dimension of the world were constantly being expanded through history. This can be seen in the land based explorations of people like Marco Polo in the 14th century and the great sea voyages of exploration by people like Columbus, Cook, De Gama, Vespucci in the 15th and 16th centuries. Cousteau in the early part of this century opened up the undersea world to exploration with his invention of the aqualung. By the 1960\u27s, a new era of exploration had begun; the exploration of space, perhaps the Final Frontier, led by both the American and Soviet space agencies. This is a continuing quest; to reach out beyond what is known; to break down the barriers of our current knowledge; but always to push onwards. One vital aspect of this reaching out and exploration has been the recording of the new knowledge gained. In terms of the exploration of new lands and uncharted vistas, this has meant some element of mapping being involved. It is not too surprising then that fantasy literature, concerned with exploring life and landscape and their interaction on imaginary worlds, has included this element of recording through maps. The inclusion of at least one map with the text in fantasy novels seems to be standard for the genre
Ireland: 1992 and the \u27New\u27 Europe: Some Reflections
No full textIntegration has been central to the post-war European experience. For almost 50 years Europeans have been trying to remodel their anarchic State system and dilute the nationalism that has sustained it. From the ashes of World War II to the present day Jean Monet\u27 s dream of an integrated Europe has emerged quietly intact. At times the ideal of an integrated Europe has proved mere fantasy and illusion. The persistence of the nation-State and the concepts of sovereignty, national identity and economic independence have not looked kindly upon European Union. Inflation, recession and growing social and economic inequalities have helped compound the wounds of disenchantment. Since the Signing of the Treaty in 1957, the Community has evolved along a path punctuated by varying degrees of success and failure. 
A Place for Jokes in the Politics of Place
No full textHeinrich Baell has remarked that it seems natural in Ireland that we joke about serious things since not to do otherwise would drive us to despair. One wonders has much changed in the thirty years since the publication of his Irish Journal? Certainly, I am too young to speak about the days when the sight of a Morris Minor trundling down the boreen was something to run home and tell your mother about. Still, today, I do not regard it unusual when someone beside me folds over into spontaneous reels of laughter the moment they encounter disaster. The tears come afterwards of course, but as a society it is perhaps safe to say that our sense of humour is one of our worst and greatest assets. The Americans love it and the Germans literally fall out of the ferries to get more. Sometimes however our sense of. humour darkens and takes on a political flavour. This will form the focus of this paper. 
"I Live here. Who are you?"
No full textThe emergence in 1990 of the controversy over the proposed Grattan Street Car Park in the Middle Parish area (see O Tuama, this volume) has once, again highlighted the tension between the Resident and the Planner. The Planner attempts to mould a city into the most efficient or beneficial shape for city users or city inhabitants as a whole, the Resident declares: \u27I live here, my neighbours and my children live here. How dare you ruin our home!\u27 The arguments are as old as the marsh area itself; the insider versus the outsider; the layperson affected by the expert\u27s proposal; the individual against rationalizing bureaucracy. The poles have been expressed on one side by Henrik Ibsen’s character Dr. Stockman in A Public Enemy.