West Pier Research Articles

B-M. Koltès’in Batı Rıhtımı oyununda zıt örgenler

Bernard-Marie Koltès, 20. yüzyılın son çeyreğine damgasını vuran, eski ile yeniyi harmanlayarak kendine özgü biçemiyle, kendi orijinal tiyatro dilini oluşturan, dünyada en çok gösterimi yapılan Fransız oyun yazarıdır. Eski ve yeni bileşiminde olduğu gibi zıt yapıları aynı bünyede taşıyan niteliğinden dolayı çağdaş bir klasik olarak kabul edilen Koltès’in tiyatrosunun en önemli özelliklerinden biri zıtlıkların sergilendiği diyalektik yapısıdır. En kolay yazdığı şeyin diyalektik tarz olduğunu kendi de dile getiren yazar, olguları somuttan soyuta, soyuttan somuta gelgitli biçimde oluştururken, sanatın görevinin cevap vermek değil, soru sordurmak olduğu düşünce ediminden hareketle zıt kutupların aynı anda konuşlandırılmasının ortaya çıkardığı açıklık/kapalılık kontrastının çift etkisinden yararlanarak bir tür farkındalık oluşturur. Böylece kendi değer yargılarını dayatmadan izleyicinin veya okuyucunun kendi çıkarımını kendinin yapmasına aracılık ettiği bir tiyatro evreni sunar. B-M. Koltès’in Batı Rıhtımı adlı oyununun da ortaya koyduğu bu karışık ve çelişik evrendeki zıtlıkları incelediğimiz bu çalışmada, karşıtların birliği olarak tanımlanan, bir şeyin hem kendisi hem de kendisinden başka bir şey olması durumuyla açıklanan, tez-antitez-sentez uğraklarından oluşan diyalektik yöntem kullanılmıştır. Öncelikle ilk çağdan günümüze kadar değişik anlam evrelerinden geçen diyalektik felsefe kuramından bahsedilmiş, sonra da oyunun örgüsünde ön plana çıkan düalist örgenler negatif ve pozitif yönsemeleriyle ele alınarak alımlama-yorumsama-çıkarsama bakış açısıyla değerlendirilmiştir.

Interplay between Asian Monsoon and Tides Affects the Plume Dispersal of the New Hu-Wei River off the Coast of Midwest Taiwan

In the coupled estuary–shelf system, plumes originating from the New Hu-Wei and Choshui rivers, consisting of many terrestrial materials, could contaminate the water of the Mailiao industrial harbor. To determine the contribution of the two rivers to pollution, the interaction between river-forced, tide-generating, and monsoon-driven water motions in and around the Mailiao industrial zone harbor was examined by performing a series of numerical model experiments. We used a three-dimensional general circulation model to examine the interplay between Asian monsoon-driven, river-forced, and tide-induced water motions, one of which could primarily affect the plume. The model-derived results for different river discharges revealed that almost all of the ammonium entering the harbor had a slope-positive trend, with oscillations in response to flood–ebb tidal cycles. The ammonium increased with time and flux, except for the 10 m3/s flux. Although the river discharge flux exceeded 200 m3/s, the ammonium entering the harbor was the same as that of the 200 m3/s flux; the ammonium concentration did not increase significantly with time after the flux exceeded 200 m3/s. In addition, irrespective of flood or ebb tidal currents being suppressed by strong Asian monsoons, this mechanism avoided contaminating the water quality of the harbor while northeasterly winds prevailed. By contrast, the southwesterly monsoon drove the geostrophic current northward along the coast; concurrently, the coastal sea level increased to form the surface isobar slope up toward the coast, producing a secondary flow to accelerate geostrophic alongshore currents. The northward geostrophic currents compressed the plumes shoreward, forming a relatively narrow-band plume; the coupling model demonstrated that the southwesterly monsoon-driven current pushed plumes favorably along the west pier into the harbor.

The Criminal Type in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain: Hamilton, Gorse and Heath

This article uses Patrick Hamilton’s fictionalisation of aspects of the case of Neville Heath, who was sentenced to death for murder and hanged in 1946, as the focal point for a discussion of how notions of criminality were shifting in Britain in the wake of the Second World War. Hamilton’s novel The West Pier (1951) and its sequels Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse (1953) and Unknown Assailant (1955) show the author engaging with contemporary media portrayals of criminality, and in reviews critics vacillate between considering Hamilton’s protagonist as either exemplary or exceptional. In Hamilton’s novels and reactions to them, and in the depiction of the Heath case, anxieties about criminality, masculinity and shifts in the social order, are seen to be to the fore.

Evaluation of Public Private Partnerships (PPP): Case Study: British Airways i360

The notion of PPP has been in existence for a long time. Governments and the private sector have utilized these partnerships to form mutually beneficial entities or to complete projects that would have been difficult if tackled by a single entity. Many governments, across the globe, have utilized the PPPs to reduce the pressure exerted on the public resources. One example of PPP, in recent times, is the construction of the British Airways i360, which is a 168-meter tall observation tower in Brighton Hove. The construction of the tower brought together four main stakeholders: Brighton Hove County Council, Coast to Capital, West Pier Trust, and the management team of the project (owners). The tower is not only meant to benefit its owners but the Brighton Hove County Council, which advanced a 25-year £36 million loan, also expects to benefit from the project by charging a higher interest rate from the loan. The West Pier Trust, who are the proprietors, also expect to benefit from the project by receiving part of the revenue generated by the tower and the Coast to Capital, who advanced a 7-year £4 million loan also expects to be paid with interest.

Scarborough seafront initiative showed a proactive approach.

Last summer nurses patrolled Scarborough seafront's west pier in North Yorkshire with lifeguards to treat people with minor injuries such as sprains and sunburn.

NORTH–SOUTH COORDINATION IN IRELAND'S INTERNATIONAL RIVER BASIN DISTRICTS

The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) aims to promote common approaches, standards and measures for water management on a systematic and comparable basis throughout the EU. All waters must be managed on the basis of natural geographical areas called river basin districts (RBDs). Within the EU many RBDs are shared by member states. These cross-border districts are called international RBDs (IRBDs), in accordance with Article 3.3 of the WFD. Member states are required to coordinate their efforts in these international districts, with the aim of produc ing a single river basin management plan covering each entire district (Article 13.2). There are three IRBDs on the island of Ireland, all straddling the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland?the North Western, Neagh Bann and Shannon districts. The compe tent authorities identified in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland with responsibility for implementation of the directive have taken significant steps to harmonise the approaches adopted in the two jurisdictions. So far, the competent authorities have maintained a high level of coordi nation and have successfully met all of the directive's milestones. Katie Murphy (corresponding author; email: Katie. Murphy@rpsgroup. com), RPS Consulting Engineers, West Pier Business Campus, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin; Grace Glasgow, RPS Consulting Engineers, Elmwood House, 74 Boucher Road, Belfast, BT12 6RZ.

Heavy Metals in Some River and Bay Sediments near Swansea

RELATIVELY high concentrations of trace metals in plants1 and in coastal waters2 around the Swansea area indicate the need for identifying their possible sources. We have analysed some sediments from the Rivers Neath and Tawe and from the shore of Swansea Bay (Fig. 1). Both rivers are tidal in the sampling localities and material was collected from muddy sediment exposed at approximately half tide levels. The Swansea Bay samples were also obtained from the half tide zone at three localities ranging from the West Pier by the mouth of the River Tawe (South Dock) westwards away from the industrial belt to the University College and Blackpill (Fig. 1). Two samples were taken from the River Neath, one about 1 inch and the other 6 inch beneath the surface. This was repeated at the River Tawe with an additional sample from the surface layer of sediment. The beach samples consisted of a surface layer sample and another 6 inch below from each of the three collecting stations (Fig. 1). Of the 11 samples 6 have more than 70% and 4 more than 43% by weight of material finer than BSS 120 mesh (0.124 mm) and, with one exception (R. Tawe sample 3) less than 12% larger than BSS 40 mesh (approx. 0.4 mm). The grain size distribution is therefore mainly in the silt-clay range (Fig. 2).

Our Astronomical Column

THE MELBOURNE OBSERVATORY.—Mr. Eilery has recently issued his Annual Report referring-to the year ending June 30, 1886. From it we learn that the new transit-circle has been in constant use during the year, and is in excellent order. There appears, however, to be a very gradual lowering of the west pier of the instrument since its erection in August 1884. There also appears a decided diurnal change in the level, the east pivot being higher in the morning and lower in the evening—probably due to the heating effects of the sun on the earth's crust, or on the building. The objects observed with the transit-circle during the year comprised fundamental clock stars, standard circumpolar stars, faint stars selected from the Melbourne zones, comet stars, refraction stars, and a list of stars proposed for insertion in the Connaissance des Temps. The great telescope was almost exclusively devoted to the revision of the southern nebulæ. During the year 214 of Sir J. Herschel's nebulæ were finally revised, 7 were searched for but not found, whilst 30 new nebulae were discovered. There now remain only 95 nebulæ, which were observed by former observers, requiring final revision before publication. The photoheliograph was not in working order for several months during the year, owing to difficulties arising from the change in the size of the sun pictures taken, from 4 to 8 inches diameter. The number of photographs of the sun obtained during the year was therefore only 92.

Brighton beaches after the storms of October 15 and December 8, 1886

Considerable damage was done by the storms of October 15 and of December 8, 1886, to the beach and sea-works at Brighton; and having been present on these occasions there, the following remarks include observations made upon the events and results affected. The whole sea-front of Brighton is now faced by sea-walls of various heights, style, and extension seawards, built, as they were, at various periods, as necessity or money induced; and these are all fronted by open shingle or gravel beaches of different inclinations, and interrupted or protected by numerous groynes projecting out to the sea. These storms carried away great quantities of this stony shore out into deep water, or further eastward beyond Brighton, and washed away garden terraces, seats, and small sea-works in front, and the piles and frames of the Electric Railway, so that the rails collapsed on to the denuded shore. It, however, did not appear that either the Chain Pier or West Pier had been damaged materially, except by a few smaller binding or girder beams having been carried away underneath the platforms; and there was no loss of ship, or boat, or life on the coast alongside. The damage was effected chiefly by the great ocean storm-swell, which came on in long lines of unbroken crests 3 or 4 per min., and on getting into shallower water curled over, and fell with cataract-like force, and pounded the beach like a steam hammer, and then shot up the slopes, carrying the debris up with

On a calcareous deposit at Starleyburn, Fifeshire

Most people passing along the footpath that skirts the shore between Aberdour and Burntisland must have observed the pretty little waterfall formed by the Starleyburn stream falling over the rocks into the harbour of that name; and any ordinary observer might notice the rocks and weeds, over which the water falls, incrusted with a grayish, slimy-looking substance, which, if he took the trouble to examine, he would find to be a deposit of carbonate of lime. The Starleyburn, the stream to which I allude, has been long known in the district for its petrifying properties, as fragments of wood and other substances which have lain for some time within the reach of its spray have been found to be incrusted with lime. On passing along the road on one or two occasions I have observed this deposit of lime on the rocks and weeds within reach of the stream, and also incrustations of considerable thickness on the rocks a long way out of the reach of the stream, but it was only lately, when passing along the shore on the west side of the little harbour of Starleyburn, that I was struck with the vast amount of limestone that has been deposited here from the burn and springs in the neighbourhood. Close on the west pier of the harbour the deposit has accumulated to a thickness of between 20 and 30 feet. Even within reach of the tide it stands up in an overhanging cliff, from which great masses have

VII.—On the Occureence of Albite in the Granite of Leinster

During the past summer, I had the good fortune to detect Albite (Soda-feldspar) in some blocks of granite in the wall of the west pier at Kingstown, Co. Dublin. As the pier is built of rock from the Dalkey quarries, the mineral can be referred, with tolerable certainty, to its original locality. I was induced to look closely at the above-mentioned blocks, through noticing that they contained a mineral of a purple colour; this proved to be fluor, which occurs sparingly throughout the Leinster granite. Associated with the fluor was a pretty considerable quantity of a white mineral, occurring in aggregations of minute crystals; this appeared to me to be so like Albite that I considered it deserving a careful examination.