They say ‘kids with asthma don’t play sports’: geographies of asthma

ABSTRACT

Asthma is common among children worldwide. Although complex, physical activity participation is important in asthma management, to decrease chronic disease risk, and to facilitate healthy lifestyles for children. Team sport participation is a common way for children to engage in physical activity, but the spaces in which team sport is experienced can present social, physical and emotional challenges for children with asthma. This research aims to understand elements of the environment, broadly defined, that impact experiences of asthma in sport. In-depth interviews were conducted with youth team sport athletes (n?=?11) diagnosed with asthma, and youth team sport coaches (n?=?18) in Ontario, Canada. Results suggest that understanding the physical and social needs of child and youth athletes, and ensuring well-controlled asthma, are critical to maximizing performance and improving quality of life for asthmatic athletes.     

黄庭坚谪巴蜀年谱诗文尺牍文物考证

绍圣二年(乙亥,1095)五十一岁,在陈留,经许昌、江陵,进峡,经巫山、施州至黔州 《书自作草后》(《山谷集》):"绍圣甲戌在黄龙山中,忽得草书三味."黄龙山,在安徽贵池县北五里.绍圣元年九月,山谷过池州.池州,今贵池县."得草书三味",指得石扬休曾藏唐人怀素《自叙帖》.     

Big Philosophical Questions: Why They Matter and Why They Are Still Around

Big philosophical questions—about the mind, the idea of the good, justice, beauty, knowledge—have been the prime interest of philosophers ever since Plato first raised them in his dialogues. However, regardless of how hard philosophers have been trying to find answers to them, it seems that all they have ever managed to do was to find reasons for disagreements, and, on the whole, to have failed to reach a consensus on pretty much anything. Some philosophers now claim that there hasn’t been much progress in philosophy, especially when compared to the sciences. I take up this verdict and try to refute it, first by offering an alternative view on what counts as progress, and then by analyzing big philosophical questions and their relevance for our intellectual and practical pursuits. I argue that, due to the distinctive nature of philosophical curiosity, coming up with answers to the big philosophical questions is an ideal that can hardly be met, but that philosophy nevertheless delivers various benefits, intellectual and practical, which the proponents of the No-Progress View tend to ignore.     

The right to say everything

Can one say everything? Does one have the right to say everything? This essay distinguishes these two questions, and seeks to clarify them with reference to two French writers for whom the questions are central: Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida. Blanchot considers the questions with respect to the Marquis de Sade and Louis‐René des Fore?ts. For Blanchot, the right to say everything is not supported by an appeal to the integrity of the self; rather, it is linked to a kenosis of the “I.” His account leaves important questions unaddressed. For Derrida, however, the right to say everything is enshrined in modern democracy and sustained by reference to a “democracy to come.” Brief as it is, Derrida's response to the questions is the most satisfactory that we have to date.     

夏同龢《行政法》简论

清光绪朝戊戌科状元夏同龢,是中国历史上第一个以状元身份留学日本的留学生,是中国行政法历史上最早编写《行政法》的法学家之一;他同时也是出色的法学教育家,广东法政学堂的创办者;还是中华民国国会众议院议员,宪法起草委员会理事,参与了《天坛宪法》的起草;既任过多个行政职务,还是很有才能的社会活动家。但他留给后世最有意义的是他编写的《行政法》,该《行政法》无论从编写水平、出版的时间还是其内容的丰富详实方面,都无庸置疑地确立了他作为中国行政法历史上的先驱者的地位。     

Rattling on Exactly as They Talk: Romantic Conversations

ABSTRACT

The essay begins by identifying the conversation as a hitherto neglected Romantic genre, and by distinguishing the conversation from the dialogue. It goes on to characterise the conversation as a generic hybrid, ambiguously placed between writing and speech, between the studied and the impromptu, between the ephemeral and the permanent, and between fact and fiction. It points out how closely the conversation is connected with the rise in the second decade of the nineteenth century of the literary magazine, and with the publication in the same period of Byron’s Don Juan, and discusses why this should have been so. It argues that the conversation is a paradoxical literary genre in that it is best defined by its refusal of all conventional generic constraints.     

孟善不是华容人——明万历《华容县志》勘误一则

本文通过《明史》、《皇明人物考要》以及档案资料相关明代保定侯孟善的记载,考证孟善不是华容籍人士,从而更正了明万历《华容县志》中的错误。     

Some Personal Reminiscences and What They Meant for Me

There are those who have said I should write a book, and there are those—about the same in number—who have said I should not write a book. Those in the negative assert that my “book” already is written in the several hundred opinions (majorities, concurrences, dissents) I have filed over the years, and in my public utterances. There are valid arguments, I suppose, on both sides. I certainly do not wish to write anything that merely seeks to explain further my vote in decided cases, or to comment—supportively or adversely—on colleagues' votes, or to express little more than after‐the‐fact criticism. In that context, what might be said belonged in the decisional process itself. But there are other things in Supreme Court experience. Law students are inclined to ask questions. Example: “Tell me, how does one come to be a federal judge?” Justice Tom Clark had a direct response: “One has to be on the corner when the bus comes by.” One federal appellate judge plaintively said to me: “The only reason I am on the federal bench is because I was a close friend of a United States Senator.” (He had served for a time as the Senator's administrative assistant.) It may perhaps be said that every federal judge comes by his status in his own way. Of course, there are things one must not do, but I doubt that there is a specific path one must follow to be eligible and seriously regarded as a candidate for federal judicial service.     

论良渚文化中心聚落的特殊性

良渚化的中心聚落一直没有发展成带有城垣建筑的城址。表现出了自身的特殊性。由于宗教巫术的盛行以及宗教权力与世俗权力的紧密结合,使良渚化大量的人力、物力都消耗到与宗教有关的大型建筑工程之中。另外龙山对代长江下游地区比较安宁,没有大规模战争的威胁也是造成这一特殊性的重要原因。     

Things Are How They Are Because of How They Got That Way: Thoughts from the Beach,on 50 Years of Geographical Analysis

The subtitle of Geographical Analysis is “An International Journal of Theoretical Geography”, yet in fifty years of publication little has been published in the journal that fits that remit. In this short commentary I reflect on the nature of theory and explanation in geography and call for more sustained engagement with these themes in the pages of the journal in the years to come.     

土地改革是一场伟大的历史性变革——纪念《中华人民共和国土地改革法》颁布50周年

本文对新中国土地改革所实行的农民的土地所有制及其法律依据《中华人民共和国土地改革法》进行再思考 ,并分析这次土地改革成功的原因、经验及历史地位 ,以纪念《中华人民共和国土地改革法》颁布 50周年。     

＂和＂文化视角下的苏轼旷达

对于苏轼的旷达及形成原因,古今学者研究颇丰。本文从探究苏轼旷达的“旷不离世、旷而有为、旷而智慧”特色着手,选择一个较新的角度,即“和”文化的角度去解读苏轼旷达的形成及特色,并发掘其旷达对于当代和谐社会建设和知识分子人格修养的启示意义。     

1973: the Metapolitefsi that never was

Abstract

Despite the abundant literature on the Greek democratic transition of 1974, the dictatorial regime's failed self-transformation attempt of 1973 (the so-called ‘Markezinis experiment’) has attracted very little attention. Based on the account of the nature and structure of the regime, and of the tactics of the actors (regime elites and counter-elites) during the transition period, this article tries to account for this short-lived and ill-fated attempt, the outcome of which has condemned it to oblivion.