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There was an old man who lived in the east
No full textAn amusing lilt in which a lazy young man, forced by his father, to sell brooms door-to-door, winds up marrying an attractive woman through no effort of his own.Mercer, 128; Karpeles, 1971: 230
Facing the Future: the Changing Shape of Academic Skills Support at Bournemouth University
No full textThis paper explores the potential impact of changes to higher education in England on student expectations, engagement, lifestyles and diversity, and outlines implications for the development of digital literacy within academic skills support at Bournemouth University (BU). We will investigate how tackling resource constraints with organisational change can also enable efficient, centralised provision of support materials that utilise networks to overcome the risk of fragmented support for digital literacy. We will also look at how changing delivery modes for support can accommodate changing student lifestyles whilst tackling a weakness of centralised support for digital literacy: that it can become detached from the student’s subject-focused academic practice. Finally we will explore how involving students in developing support can help us to face changes to student expectations and engagement whilst ensuring that materials are authentic and speak to learners in their own voice
Dear Marystown, who has betrayed you?
No full textDescribes Marystown itself and the fire which destroyed Fr. Wilson's home in November 1922. The fire's cause was rumoured to have been arson. Mentions names of Fr. Wilson and Rev. Postor (Rev. Pastor?) as well as Marystown and the Presbytery.Typescript p. 22 indicates this song was written by a former resident of Marystown, Steve Stapleton, who is "now" (1974) living in the U.S. This typescript also states that while the cause of the fire, an actual event of 1922, has never been determined, it was rumoured to have been caused by arson, "a deliberate act"
Human-powered inertial energy harvesters: the effect of orientation, location and activity on obtainable power
No full textInertial energy harvesting is an emerging technology that can power electronic devices using energy scavenged from the motion of the human body. Owing to the relatively low frequencies associated with body motion (<3 Hz), the generated electrical power is typically in the range of a few µW; hence transduction must be optimized. Previous studies have investigated the effect of activity and harvester location on the obtained power; this work evaluates how power is also affected by the harvester’s orientation. Ten participants performed walking and running exercises, while tri-axial acceleration data were sampled at five locations on the body. The results show consistency in the optimal orientation of the harvester between people, but this orientation is not aligned with the axes of the body and limbs. During walking, the power harvested from the upper and lower body differs by an order of magnitude; however, this difference is less significant when running
Down in the corn field close by the mill
No full textApparently a 19th century song from the southern United States. May be a dance song or a minstrel number. Lover serenades "Nancy Till" beneath her window and attempts to convince her to return to Tennessee with him on his next trip down the Ohio River.Informant (tape) learned this song on a stage in Burin when he was 12 years old. He was born in 1888 (?) or was 86 (88) at the time the collection was made. Sounds like Southern U.S. minstrel or play-party song
As I rode out one morning in May
No full textA spelling song (in which certain key words are spelled rather than pronounced). Describes a young couple's marriage over her father's objections and the father's subsequent capitulation of welcome of the newlyweds. The moral is not to be S-H-Y.One of a widespread genre. Most famous "S-A-V-E-D". Usually innocuous, occasionally mildy obscene (suggestive). Indications in taped interview that informant may claim authorship of this example
Rise up Newfoundlanders and listen to me
No full textSatirical song about political corruption, denigrates the Wm. Whiteway government. Presented as a speech received from a pen gifted with oratory.Informant attributes authorship to his uncle, John Dover, ca [18]69 (?). He says William Whiteway was premier of Newfoundland. Song mentions "the year '97" and gives several names, presumably both those of the politically corrupt and their victims
Come all kind friends and listen to me
No full textA somewhat humourous song about trickery. A man treats a girl to liquor at a public house. She tells him her name and invites him to her home. When he calls the following day, he is attacked and beaten by "a big black nigger". The implications of the song are unclear.Song has some similarities to others in which a sailor ashore is tricked and robbed by a prostitute. Apart from the obvious negligent racism of "a big black nigger", however, nothing is explicit and there are no immediately recognizable analogues
A sailor boy stood on the deck, and as he gazed around.
No full textA boy aboard a sinking vessel seals a last message to his mother in a bottle, in hopes it will reach her. She goes nearly mad with grief. Story line appears incomplete.Song is probably 77-78 years old. Inf't learned it at age of 18, coming home from the Straits. May be related to "The Loss of the Jubal Cain" (Peacock, 1965, 952
Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional and National Open-Access Self-Archiving Mandates
No full textNo research institution can afford all the journals its researchers may need, so all articles are losing research impact (usage and citations). Articles made “Open Access,” (OA) by self-archiving them on the web are cited twice as much, but only 15% of articles are being spontaneously self-archived. The only institutions approaching 100% self-archiving are those that mandate it. Surveys show that 95% of authors will comply with a self-archiving mandate; the actual expe-rience of institutions with mandates has confirmed this. What institutions and funders need to mandate is that (1) immediately upon acceptance for publication, (2) the author’s final draft must be (3) deposited into the Institutional Repository. Only the depositing needs to be mandated; set-ting access privileges to the full-text as either OA or Restricted Access (RA) can be left up to the author. For articles published in the 93% of journals that have already endorsed self-archiving, access can be set as OA immediately; for the remaining 7%, authors can email the eprint in re-sponse to individual email requests automatically forwarded by the Repository
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