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Proposals for Global Asias as an emerging field that “bridges” Asian studies and Asian American studies should attend to the residual debris of older understandings of global bridging work. This response explores two motifs for speculating about what bridging work in Global Asias could be: stars, as understood in terms of interimperial constellations, and sandbars, as a metaphor for more local, coalitional, and temporary aggregations.

Creative web design requires knowledge from across the design and technical realms, and it can seem like a daunting task working out where to get started. In this book the authors take you through all you need to know about designing for the web and digital, from initial concepts and client needs, through layout and typography to basic coding, e-commerce and working with different platforms. The companion website provides step-by-step tutorial videos, HTML/CSS styling tips and links to useful resources to really help you get to grips with all the aspects of web design. Working alongside the text are interviews with international designers and critical commentaries looking at best practice and theoretical considerations. Written for graphic designers, this book delivers more than just an instruction manual – it provides a complete overview of designing for the web.

The Cape of Storms is an aptly named place. A cut off low known as a Black South Easter caused winds that ripped through much of the Western Cape in April this year. The wind and subsequent fires and floods caused widespread damage.

The article presents an analysis of Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller's Thinking Literature across Continents (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016).

Background We designed an assessment and education program which was delivered to patients prior to first outpatient appointment for bariatric surgery. We hypothesised that this program would streamline care and would lead to improved weight loss following bariatric surgery. Methods The program incorporates a structured general practitioners (GP) review, a patient information evening and an on-line learning package. It was introduced in September 2012. Patient flow through the program was recorded. Outcomes of the new program were compared with contemporaneously treated patients who did not undertake the pre-hospital program. Results All 636 patients on the waiting list for first appointment at the Alfred Health bariatric surgery clinic were invited to participate. There were 400 patients ultimately removed from the waiting list for first appointment. Of the remaining 236 patients, 229 consented to participate in the new program. The mean BMI was 47.8 ± 9.2. The fail to attend first appointment rate dropped from 12 to 2.1 %. At 12 months post-bariatric surgery, patients who undertook the new program ( n  = 82) had a mean excess weight loss (EWL) of 41.1 ± 20.3 % where as those treated on the standard pathway ( n  = 61) had a mean EWL 32 ± 18.0 % ( p  = 0.012). Conclusions The introduction of a pre-hospital education program has led to an improvement in attendance rates and early weight loss post-bariatric surgery.

The national Q fever vaccination program in Australia was a short-term intervention and public health history clearly demonstrates that intensive time-limited interventions that are not accompanied by system change are unlikely to be sustainable [5].

Way shares an overview of his duties and responsibilities as a reconnaissance sergeant to the 10th Mountain Division. Accounts detailing the lessons he learned while assigned to this position are also presented.

This dissertation examines writings by and about Japanese men—students, gentlemen, vagrants, and servants—who lived and worked in the United States prior to 1938. The goal of this dissertation is to outline what \"Japanese American literature\" might look like if its basis was not a subject position but a series of diplomatic relations. The central argument of this dissertation is that during a time when the \"Japanese American\" was an \"impossible subject\" from the vantage of the laws of the United States, Japanese men who lived and worked in the United States staged—through literature—an \"impossible diplomacy.\" The writers I consider in this dissertation—Sadakichi Hartmann (1867–1944), Arishima Takeo (1878–1923), Nagahara Shoson (1901–??), and Katō Saburō (??–??)—were not official cultural brokers, but subjects estranged both from their country of origin (Japan), and the nation where they lived and worked (the United States). As aliens ineligible to citizenship in the United States as a \"republic\" of letters, these writers turned to literature as a means to mediate their estrangement from both Japan and the United States. The four chapters trace a historical arc through key shifts in the diplomatic and legal paradigms which governed the status of Japanese residents in the Untied States: the Treaty of Amity and Commerce (1858), the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907-1908, the Asian Exclusion Act of 1924, and the Neutrality Act of 1935. In Chapter One, I read Sadakichi Hartmann's Conversations with Walt Whitman (1895) in concert with Whitman's Calamus sequence, tracing how the logic of \"engrafting\" in the texts parallels structures of equality and inequality in the Treaty of Amity and Commerce. In Chapter Two, I read Arishima Takeo's Labyrinth (1918) arguing that the novel describes an economy of tears shared by men which reveals underlying contradictions of the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907–1908. In Chapter Three, I recover Lament in the Night (1925), a novel written by Nagahara Shoson (1901–), a young immigrant who entered the United States ten years after the institution of the Gentlemen's Agreement. I construct an \"epistemology of the pocket\" to address the intimacies and exposures of the Japanese American urban vagrant. In Chapter Four, I read a short story by Kato Saburo (??–??) titled, \"Mr. Yama and the China Incident\" (1938). I argue that the story stages a form of \"vernacular diplomacy\" which counters, through script and gesture, the discourse of \"national people's diplomacy\" formed during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In turn, Kato's introduction of a third party—a speaking Chinese subject—opens the field of impossible diplomacy from the bilateral scheme of the Japanese American to the multilateral question of Asian American literature.