Five-year Contract Research Articles

The Journey of Indian Diaspora as Indian Indentured Labourers in Fiji

Indian diaspora is the largest diaspora in the world. As we know, the basic reasons for diaspora are unemployment, natural disaster, forced migration, etc. In this paper,I would like to depict Indian diaspora in Fiji as an indentured labourers. Indian labourers brought to Fiji as indenturedlabourers to work on a sugarcane plantation. They signed a contract from labourers which was called ‘girmit' and who came under this contract called ‘girmitiya'. It was a five-year contract that contained rules and regulations for workers. They had to face many obstacles during their journey from India to Fiji and also,they had to suffer hardship on Fiji island as indentured labourers. With the passage of time, Indian indentured labourers and their new generation have got the identity as Fiji-Indians.There are many notable Indo-Fijians like James Madhwan who was one of the longest-serving parliamentarians in Fiji, Mahendra Chaudhary was the fourth Prime Minister of Fiji, Sidiq Koya was politician, opposition leader and statesman and so on. Indians brought as indentured labourers to Fiji island but with their hard work and intelligence they have got their rights and made a distinct place in Fiji

Probationary citizenship in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in an Irish university: A disrupted patriarchal bargain?

The model for the creation of knowledge in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) involves the near total career dependence by probationary citizens on senior academics. In this article such probationary citizens include those at the early career stage, mainly but not exclusively post-doctoral researchers (postdocs). Traditionally, the implicit assumption was that senior academics would facilitate their access to a permanent position in return for a time limited period of exploitation as part of an organisational patriarchal bargain. This article is concerned with exploring how these probationary citizens came to access temporary positions, their experience of them and their perception of their future. Drawing on qualitative data from 13 probationary citizens, men and women, on two to five-year contracts in an Irish case study university, it shows that regardless of how they accessed probationary citizenship, their future was uncertain with no guarantee of a permanent academic position. The article raises questions about the valorisation of the highly dependent relationships between probationary citizens and permanent STEM academics as the main model for the creation of knowledge in STEM.

AE Aerospace signs five-year contract with MSC

AE Aerospace signs five-year contract with MSC

An Unpublished Page of Choreographer Filippo Taglioni’s Biography: Based on Materials from the Russian State Historical Archive

The distinguished master of romantic ballet, dancer-choreographer and pedagogue Filippo Taglioni travelled across almost all of Europe without stopping anywhere for long: he preferred short-term contracts to multi-year responsibilities. His longest, a five-year contract, was concluded with the Russian Directorate of Imperial theatres and lasted from 1837 through 1842. However, there exists the assumption that Filippo Taglioni may have arrived in Russia 20 years prior, in 1817, as unpublished documents found in the Russian State Historical Archive have revealed. In her article. The author of the article discusses the complex bureaucratic mechanism for inviting foreigners to Russia, describing the situation of the 1816–1817 season when, experience a deficit of soloists in the ballet troupe, the theatre’s directorship invited dancers from abroad to the St. Petersburg ballet company. The choice fell upon the premieres danseurs from the Paris Opera Ballet, Albert and Emilia Bigottini, but the artists, after having confirmed their consent, were thereafter unable to come to Russia. The search continued, and the Chief Director of the Imperial Theatres, Prince Naryshkin, noticed the dancer Taglioni, whom he recommended be invited to St. Petersburg. However, in the message, the director did not specify which Taglioni he was referring to: the 28-year-old Salvatore or the 40-year-old Filippo. The author of the article unravels the mystery and demonstrates that it was Filippo who was invited to Russia in 1817. However, this engagement did not take place. The author attempts to discover the reasons why Filippo Taglioni did not come to Russia during the reign of Alexander I.

PSNC denies claims the five-year contract could see a fifth of pharmacies close

PSNC denies claims the five-year contract could see a fifth of pharmacies close

Just Nina Mae: The Struggle of an Early African American Movie Star

Just Nina MaeThe Struggle of an Early African American Movie Star Kristine Somerville Click for larger view View full resolution Nina Mae McKinney, 1931, Courtesy George Eastman Museum [End Page 67] During Hollywood's early years, tantalizing stories of discovery flourished, luring young hopefuls to the fledgling industry out west. According to movie lore, The Hollywood Reporter founder Billy Wilkerson came across sixteen-year-old Lana Turner drinking a Coke at a soda fountain. Photographer David Conover spotted Marilyn Monroe while she was working on an airplane assembly line. And John Wayne was a prop man on John Ford's movie set when the director made him an extra in his film. Fame and fortune for these actors soon followed. Nina Mae McKinney's story of discovery was no less fantastic. She left high school at sixteen to join the chorus of impresario Lew Leslie's all-Black Broadway musical revue, Blackbirds of 1928. Hollywood directors and producers regularly raided Broadway productions for fresh, inexpensive talent to fill their stables at their California studios. After failing to sign jazz singer Ethel Waters, one of MGM's top directors, King Vidor, was on the lookout for an extraordinary Black actress to play the title role of Chick, a singer and dancer in Hallelujah. The movie was a serious look into the lives of African Americans in the South. When he saw Blackbirds, McKinney stood out. He later recalled, "She was third from the right in the chorus. She was beautiful and talented and glowing with personality." When they met after the show, he offered her the lead, skipping the usual preliminary screen tests, acting classes, and makeovers. There is no evidence that McKinney was seeking a movie career; she had fallen in love with theater as a young girl growing up in South Carolina and trained herself as a singer and dancer, borrowing songs and choreography from the movies she saw at the local theater. In many ways, films were still inferior to Broadway, which in 1925 staged over two hundred productions; nevertheless, she accepted Vidor's offer. McKinney portrays Chick, a seductive cabaret dancer who lures a cotton picker into a crooked game of dice. As an actor, McKinney had nuance and depth, and the camera loved her. Dressed in a fringed drop-waist dress, bangles on her arms, gold chains around her neck, she wisecracks, dances, and sings. Vidor praised McKinney's performance and her ability to take direction: "She just had it. Whatever you wanted, whatever you visualized, she could do it. Nina was full of life, full of expression, and just a joy to work with." Critics were also smitten. The Daily News of New York wrote that she was "an honest-to-goodness film star." In the 1930s, Black performers were promoted by identifying them with white movie stars. The press labeled McKinney the "Black Greta Garbo," even though the only things she had in common with [End Page 68] Click for larger view View full resolution Nina Mae McKinney, Safe in Hell, 1931, Courtesy George Eastman Museum [End Page 69] Click for larger view View full resolution Nina Mae McKinney, Safe in Hell, 1931, Courtesy George Eastman Museum the Swedish actress were youth, talent, and beauty. She evoked the era's "It" girl and was anointed the "dusky Clara Bow." Her offbeat, wacky sense of humor drew comparisons to Carole Lombard. African American newspapers simply referred to her as Nina Mae. MGM gave McKinney a five-year contract and rolled out the red carpet, lavishing limousines, hotel suites, and a smartly decorated dressing [End Page 70] Click for larger view View full resolution Nina Mae McKinney, Safe in Hell, 1931, Courtesy George Eastman Museum room on her. Yet her meteoric rise from chorus girl to star quickly stalled. After her successful film appearance in Hallelujah, starring roles did not follow. In 1930, during a fallow period, McKinney followed in the footsteps of minority performers such as Josephine Baker, Anna May Wong, and Paul Robeson and sailed to Europe for a three-month tour. The press covered the eighteen-year-old's departure and noted her fashionable appearance in black satin and a black velvet...

A Secondary Bibliography of A History of Western Philosophy Part I: Extracted Reviews in English

russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies n.s.  (summer ): – The Bertrand Russell Research Centre, McMaster U. issn –; online – Bibliographies, Archival Inventories, Indexes A SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF A HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY PART I: EXTRACTED REVIEWS IN ENGLISH Kenneth Blackwell blackwk@mcmaster.ca Giovanni D. de Carvalho giovanniduarte@gmail.com Harry Ruja introduction by john g. slater jgs@gmail.com was struck by the fact that none of the reviewers cited in the reception article seemed to know how Russell came to write this book. When war broke out he was stuck in the United States with no way of making a living. He had just been denied a position teaching logic and the philosophy of mathematics at the College of the City of New York by a bigoted judge who claimed his appointment would establish “a chair of indecency”. He had resigned from the University of California at Los Angeles to take the New York position, and now no college or university would have him. His situation was increasingly becoming desperate. A saviour appeared in the shape of Albert C. Barnes who had founded and continued to run an art appreciation school near Philadelphia. He offered Russell a five-year contract to deliver one lecture per week to his students on the history of philosophy beginning with the ancient Greeks and ending with Russell’s own philosophy. The pay was $, per year. The clear understanding was that Russell’s lectures were to provide background for the really important aim of the school, namely, the cultivation of the appreciation of art, especially painting. The intent from the start was to embed the views of a given philosopher in the cultural characteristics of his time. Russell was obliged to provide background lectures on historical periods for the students. He was, as a matter of fact, teaching an introduction to philosophy course using its history as its structure. I  blackwell, de carvalho and ruja With his wife Patricia’s help, Russell took a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania and got down to work. He faced the daunting task of deciding how much time to spend on each period and each prominent figure in that period. These decisions determined the time that would be available for research on each topic and each philosopher. Once a lecture, say on Plotinus, was written, typed, and delivered (or delivered and then typed), it was filed away, and it was on to the next one. He had, of course, a lifetime of study to draw upon and at ucla he had been teaching a course entitled “Philosophic Ideas in Practice” with a similar sweep.1 It is hardly surprising that Russell to fill the gaps in his knowledge found himself relying on secondary works. What would have happened to his completed lectures had Barnes not fired him we will never know. What we do know is that when he was fired, because the notoriously prickly Barnes who attended his lectures hated the sound of Patricia’s knitting needles, he faced the necessity of making money. Completing the history project seemed the quickest way. Because of his fame the book would probably sell well, and it did. The extraordinary number of reviews is testimony of its wide appeal. Had a leading university offered him a professorship in competition with Barnes I feel sure he would have taken it, and his History would never have been written. As we know from his discussion in his Leibniz book of how the history of philosophy should be approached, this book does not measure up, but his thousands of readers are thankful he departed from his preferred path and recorded some of his opinions on his philosophical ancestors for posterity. Extracts from the more academic reviews in English follow. They are representative of the totality rather than of individual reviews. Those in the popular press indicate Russell’s high reputation in the mid-s but little else. Excluded are blurbs from the Allen & Unwin dustjacket, and there were none on the Simon and Schuster jacket. Einstein wrote a blurb-like paragraph,2 but its early use has not been traced. Copies of all but one of these  reviews are in box . of...

Pago por servicios ambientales hidrológicos y dinámica de la cobertura arbórea en la región Iztaccíhuatl-Popocatépetl, Puebla, México

El pago por servicios ambientales hidrológicos es un instrumento de política ambiental aplicado en la mayoría de los países para promover la conservación de los ecosistemas, principalmente los forestales. En 2003, el gobierno de México, a través de la Comisión Nacional Forestal (CONAFOR), implementó el programa de Pago por Servicios Ambientales Hidrológicos (PSAH) para atender los problemas de agua y deforestación en el país. Un prerrequisito para que un área reciba el PSAH es que mantenga una cobertura vegetal mínima de 80%, o la aumente, durante los 5 años posteriores al inicio del contrato. Las evaluaciones de los impactos del Programa sobre la cobertura forestal consisten principalmente en estudios nacionales o regionales. En México no se tienen evaluaciones de los impactos a nivel comunitario, escala a la que el PSAH es ejecutado. En el presente estudio se evaluó el impacto del programa de PSAH en la dinámica de la cobertura arbórea en seis ejidos de la región Iztaccíhuatl-Popocatépetl, Puebla. Para realizar el estudio se utilizaron imágenes Quickbird y se realizó una clasificación supervisada. Los resultados indicaron que el Programa PSAH cumplió con su objetivo en cuatro de los seis núcleos agrarios analizados.

AandE could refer patients to community pharmacy under new five-year contract

AandE could refer patients to community pharmacy under new five-year contract

Taxing & Zapping Marijuana: Blockchain Compliance in the Trump Administration

This is the third of a five-part series dealing with the rescission by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions of the Obama-era policy that discouraged federal prosecutors from bringing charges in all but the most serious marijuana cases. This article focuses on cyber-attacks on the main commercial chain, and the use of a private blockchain using HyperLedger Fabric as a platform. This fraud is a direct, criminal attack; an attack designed to destroy/corrupt records of marijuana inventory and plant tags throughout the supply chain. The attack allows legalized marijuana to escape the system and be sold on the black market. A large-scale cyber-attack impacts every commercial enterprise, transporter, and testing laboratory. Control collapses. Hacking a major track and trace system is not merely a theoretical possibility. It happened to the largest (and oldest) system. Hackers took down MJ Freeway’s Leaf Data System nationwide. The seriousness of this hack was all too apparent to the government of Nevada which notified MJ Freeway on September 12, 2017 that, because of vulnerabilities in its system, the State was terminating its five-year contract (after less than two-years) effective November 1, 2017. Cyber-attacks aimed at destroying reliable data in a commercial chain have a lot in common with VAT frauds that rely on obscuring transaction data behind rows of false “buffer” entities. Both are defeated by systems that lay bare and preserve highly trustworthy, real-time data about the intra-entity transactions within the commercial chain. AI has become very good at risk-analyzing these data flows, and blockchain has become very good at preserving the data flows for AI analysis. It is axiomatic that wherever distributive ledgers are adopted, they will replace centralized ledgers. The MJ Freeway system is precisely this kind of multiple-redundant centralized ledger system that will be/should be disrupted (replaced) by a blockchain. A private, rather than a public blockchain is proposed to store the data that is transferred in the commercial production of legalized marijuana.

Essential Water Supply Resources through Payment for Environment Services Program in The Cidanau Watershed, Banten Province, Indonesia

Payment for Environmental Services (PES) is seen as an effort to preserve and used environmentally sustainable manner. The program is believed to bridge the two different interests, such as the people who inhabit in the upstream watershed in general are poor farmers with land holdings of less than one hectare with urban communities. The field data were processed using descriptive qualitative way. The results showed that the PES in Cidanau watershed started in 2003 and has entered into the second phase (the second 5 years), followed by 15 farmer groups to target land area of 520 hectares. Value of contracts was signed through a memorandum of agreement between the PT KTI acting as a buyer to a group of farmer-members (sellers) through Communication Forum of Cidanau Watershed (FKDC) as organizational managers IDR 4 billion until 2019. For farmer groups with an initial contract of five years was paid IDR 1.2 million per hectare per year and will increase to IDR 1.75 million per hectare per year for a second five-year contract. The program of PES in Cidanau Watershed relatively has been successful in maintaining the availability of Cidanau river flow which is used for domestic and industrial needs in Cilegon City.

Taxing & Zapping Marijuana: Blockchain Compliance in the Trump Administration Part 5

This is the third of a five-part series dealing with the rescission by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions of the Obama-era policy that discouraged federal prosecutors from bringing charges in all but the most serious marijuana cases. This article focuses on cyber-attacks on the main commercial chain, and the use of a private blockchain using HyperLedger Fabric as a platform. This fraud is a direct, criminal attack; an attack designed to destroy/corrupt records of marijuana inventory and plant tags throughout the supply chain. The attack allows legalized marijuana to escape the system and be sold on the black market. A large-scale cyber-attack impacts every commercial enterprise, transporter, and testing laboratory. Control collapses. Hacking a major track and trace system is not merely a theoretical possibility. It happened to the largest (and oldest) system. Hackers took down MJ Freeway’s Leaf Data System nationwide. The seriousness of this hack was all too apparent to the government of Nevada which notified MJ Freeway on September 12, 2017 that, because of vulnerabilities in its system, the State was terminating its five-year contract (after less than two-years) effective November 1, 2017. Cyber-attacks aimed at destroying reliable data in a commercial chain have a lot in common with VAT frauds that rely on obscuring transaction data behind rows of false “buffer” entities. Both are defeated by systems that lay bare and preserve highly trustworthy, real-time data about the intra-entity transactions within the commercial chain. AI has become very good at risk-analyzing these data flows, and blockchain has become very good at preserving the data flows for AI analysis. It is axiomatic that wherever distributive ledgers are adopted, they will replace centralized ledgers. The MJ Freeway system is precisely this kind of multiple-redundant centralized ledger system that will be/should be disrupted (replaced) by a blockchain. A private, rather than a public blockchain is proposed to store the data that is transferred in the commercial production of legalized marijuana.

PROTOCOL: Incentives for climate mitigation in the land use sector: a mixed-methods systematic review of the effectiveness of payment for environment services (PES) on environmental and socio-economic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.

PROTOCOL: Incentives for climate mitigation in the land use sector: a mixed-methods systematic review of the effectiveness of payment for environment services (PES) on environmental and socio-economic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.

CDK Digital Marketing: Addressing Channel Conflict with Data Analytics

Four years into a five-year contract with General Motors to be the exclusive website vendor to its U.S. network of more than 4,000 dealers, CDK Digital faced a crucial contract renewal at the end of 2012. The case follows Melissa McCann, director of strategic marketing, and Chris Reed, CMO, as they prepared for a critical meeting in July 2011: a presentation to the customer relationship management (CRM) subcommittee of the Chevrolet dealer council. Although GM dealers, like all auto dealers in the United States, were independent franchisees, GM saw the renewal of CDK Digital's exclusive contract as a collaborative decision between dealers and GM. According to Ed Vogt, GM's executive in charge of the renewal, if the dealer councils said no, the contract would not be renewed.This case challenges students to use CDK's big data and analytics capabilities to address the inherent conflict between dealers and manufacturers: when marketing to potential customers, manufacturers wanted consistency across dealer websites to maximize sales of their targeted brands, while dealers wanted flexibility to sell what they had in inventory.After analyzing the case, students will be able to: Demonstrate how big data and analytics can be used to solve channel conflict Explain how franchisors and franchisees have different perspectives on the value of data on retail operations Recognize benefits of big data and analytics beyond the obvious potential improvements to marketing and operational effectiveness Articulate the value of data analytics for channel management Appraise the benefits of real-time website customization

In the Service of His Korean Majesty: William Nelson Lovatt, the Pusan Customs, and Sino-Korean Relations, by Wayne Patterson

1 In the Service of His Korean Majesty: William Nelson Lovatt, the Pusan Customs, and SinoKorean Relations, 1876–1888, by Wayne Patterson. Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2011. 209 pages. $20.00 paperback. ISBN-10: 1-55729-100-4 ISBN-13: 978-155729-100-4 Daniel C. Kane University of British Columbia Pacific Affairs Vancouver, BC Canada With In the Service of His Korean Majesty, Wayne Patterson has given us a detailed and meticulously researched portrait of the Sino-Korean landscape of the early 1880s. At its heart a biography of the English-American William Nelson Lovatt (1838–1904)—at least during his service in Korea (1883–1886), it is in fact more than the story of one man. Using the bountiful Lovatt letters as his primary source, Patterson has succeeded admirably in the difficult task of weaving the thread of Lovatt’s life into the larger fabric of the historical period, testament to the author’s painstaking research and command of a patchwork of sources beyond just the letters themselves. It is divided into four parts that segregate in somewhat dramatic fashion the stages of what one might term Lovatt’s “Korean interlude,” with an epilogue detailing his dismissal from the Korean Customs and departure from Korea. In a helpful and concise concluding chapter, the 2 author brings the larger strands of the story together, drawing more substantial geopolitical conclusions from the microcosm of Lovatt’s own trials and experiences. William Nelson Lovatt began his career in the East as a young artillery soldier in India and then China. Discharged from the British Army, Lovatt next took service with the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service under the direction of the Irishman Robert Hart. Lovatt’s relationship with Korea—both its beginning and premature end—owed itself more than anything to his close, and at times troubled, friendship with Paul Georg von Möllendorff, also employed by the Chinese Customs. Thanks to Möllendorff, Lovatt arrived in Korea in late 1883 with a five-year contract to serve as Commissioner of Customs at Pusan, then a sleepy backwater with a large Japanese population but very few Westerners. But beyond Pusan, this is also a story about the early years of Korea’s modernization and the workings of its infant Customs Service during Korea’s “Chinese decade” (ca. 1884–1894). In writing this work, Patterson relies more than anything else on the Lovatt letters, which the author informs us fell serendipitously into his hands during a trip to China in the 1980s (the story of the trajectory of the letters themselves would have made interesting reading, but the author is rather silent on this point). They are indeed a trove of valuable information, for they have allowed Patterson to essentially, and successfully, recreate a decade-long story from their details. The author does not limit himself to Lovatt’s experiences, but takes as his overarching theme, “the transformation of China’s policy toward Korea from the ritualistic hands-off and largely benevolent policy . . . before 1880, to an increasingly interventionist policy in the first half of the 1880s . . . and finally [by the late 1880s] . . . to a policy that has been variously termed as ‘indirect,’ ‘informal,’ or ‘secondary’ imperialism” (p. vi). It is this theme that dominates the 3 background to Lovatt’s story. I could do no better than paraphrase the author as well regarding the insights the Lovatt letters can provide us. The first is their depictions of the general conditions of Korea, and specifically Pusan, in this period. Second, are the insights they provide into the workings (and failures) of the Korean Customs during its infancy. Third, are the windows they open to the lives of Western expats in Korea. And finally, there are the new details they provide on key figures, particularly regarding the motivations and personalities of Möllendorff and his eventual replacement, Henry Merrill. Patterson’s book succeeds admirably in all the ways enumerated above. The Lovatts’ experiences in Pusan, and interactions with local Korean officials and eyewitness accounts of the lives of average Koreans, provide us details on the poverty, corruption, and social divisions of the place and period. The challenges and experiences of...

West Hampshire Community Diabetes Service: re‐commissioning a sustainable model of care

West Hampshire Community Diabetes Service: re‐commissioning a sustainable model of care

A variation on forced migration: Wilhelm Peters (Prussia via Britain to Turkey) and Muzafer Sherif (Turkey to the United States)

ABSTRACTIn 1933 the Turkish Republic formally offered university positions to 30 German-speaking academics who were dismissed with the coming to power of the National Socialist Government. That initial number went up to 56 with the inclusion of the technical assistants. By 1948 the estimated total had increased to 199. Given renewable five-year contracts with salaries substantially higher than their Turkish counterparts, the foreign émigrés were to implement the westernization program of higher education. The ten year-old secular Turkish Republic’s extensive social reforms had encompassed the adoption of the Latin alphabet, and equal rights for women, removing gender bias in hiring. Such a high concentration of émigré academics in one institution, “the highest anywhere in the world,” provides a unique opportunity to study a subject which has been neglected. In this article two cases in psychology will be examined: Wilhelm Peters (1880–1963), who came, via Britain, to Istanbul in 1936 from the University of Jena in Germany, and Muzafer Sherif (1906–1988) who went to the United States from Ankara University in 1945. The purpose of the comparative analysis is to identify the features that are specific to the German experience, and those that are shared and underlie translocation in science within the multifaceted complexity of the process of forced migration.

Seamus Heaney:

In late 1979 and early 1980, the late Seamus Heaney was in a flurry of activity. Employed from 1976 to 1981 as head of the English Department at Carysfort, a teachers' training college in Dublin, in 1979 he spent a semester teaching a poetry workshop at Harvard University where in January 1982 he began a five-year contract teaching one semester a year. Field Work, published by Faber and Faber, was issued on 15 October 1979, and in November, Charlotte Press Publications, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, published Gravities: A Collection of Poems with drawings by Noel Connor. Also in a limited edition in December 1979, the Byron Press produced Heaney's A Family Album.On 5 February 1980, Heaney found time to visit, read his poems, and speak at St. Mary's Catholic teachers' training college, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex. He was interviewed after his reading by a student named Georginia Mills. This subsequently was published in the literary magazine Strawberry Fare produced by the English Department at St. Mary's College. During its short run the magazine published fascinating interviews with leading literary figures, apart from Heaney these included Peter Porter, David Lodge, Beryl Bainbridge, D. J. Enright, Michael Holroyd, Richard Ellmann, Tom Stoppard, and others. Today, copies of the journal are extremely scarce; it ran from the mid-1970s to Autumn 1989. An incomplete run is in the British Library, call mark ZK.9. a. 41. A complete run is held in the archives of the college, which generously sent most of its duplicate copies to the present writer.John Iddon, who lectured at St Mary's College from 1970 to 2000 and edited the Strawberry Fare issue of Autumn 1980 in which Heaney's interview appeared (pp. 14–18), has generously given permission for it to be reprinted as has Faber and Faber permissions department responsible for the publication of Seamus Heaney's writings. The interview is recorded in Rand Brandes and the late Michael J. Durkan's magnificent Seamus Heaney: A Bibliography 1959–2003 as item F 17 (p. 426). It is followed in Strawberry Fare by Heaney's: “Hercules and Antaeus” (Brandes and Durkan: C326). The interview contains some references that need brief explication. “Summer 1969” refers to a poem in the second part of Heaney's collection North, published by Faber and Faber in 1975. Other Heaney poems referred to are “A Constable Calls,” “The Ministry of Fear,” and “Fosterage” found in North, and “Kinship,” appearing in Bog poems, also published in 1975. Georgina Mills [GM] refers to Heaney's experiences at “St Columbus” echoing St Columb's College, in Derry City where Heaney was a boarder from 1951 to 1957. Heaney's close friend Seamus Deane (b. 1940) the novelist, poet, and critic also attended St Columb's at the same time as Seamus Heaney. Ian Crichton Smith (1928–1998) was a prolific Scottish author from a strict Presbyterian background who wrote in English and Scottish Gaelic. Michael McClaverty (1904–1992), “a short story writer” and Heaney's “first headmaster” when he taught in 1962–1963 at St Thomas' Secondary School along the Whiterock Road in the upper Falls Road area of West Belfast, wrote novels and short stories. In this interview there are also references to Joyce, to Tacitus, to W. B. Yeats's poetry, the significance of Antaeus, and Philip Larkin's “Toads.”

APA Offers Online Course Focusing on Recovery

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Association NewsFull AccessAPA Offers Online Course Focusing on RecoveryVabren WattsVabren WattsSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:15 Sep 2014https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2014.9b3AbstractThe new Recovery to Practice course is designed to help psychiatrists and mental health professionals foster a deeper relationship with patients, say the course developers.In August, APA launched the website of Recovery to Practice (RTP), an online continuing medical education course centered on recovery-oriented care.“There has been a push for transformation of our behavioral health care system to become a more person-centered kind of care,” commented Wesley Sowers, M.D., director of the Center for Public Service Psychiatry at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh and a member of the RTP curriculum advisory committee. “This new project,” he explained to Psychiatric News, “will allow patients to take control of their lives and have a directive roll in recovery.”The course was co-developed by APA and the American Association of Community Psychiatrists to equip psychiatrists and other mental health care providers with the “knowledge and tools to provide care in a manner that respects the person, engages them as an active participant in decision making, and engenders hope in achieving their goals,” according the course description.The RTP consists of nine modules, each ranging from 20 to 40 minutes, that address specific aspects of recovery-oriented practice via narrated slides, video clips from experts, and case vignettes. APA designates a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 credit per module. These are the module:Introduction to Recovery-Oriented Care Engagement and Welcoming Environment Person-Centered Planning and Shared Decision MakingPeer Supports in RecoveryThe Role of MedicationHealth- and Wellness-Focused CareDeveloping Living Skills and Natural SupportsCulturally Appropriate CareTrauma-Informed CareThough there has been much focus on the biological and technical aspects of treatment for mental disorders over the past decade, Sowers said that once implemented in practice, the principles learned from the RTP course will show that the “human” aspects of treatment are just as important in healing as treatments that may be considered more “advanced.”The course can help psychiatrists develop “better and deeper relationships” with patients, Sowers stressed. “By engaging with [patients] in a humanistic way, we will recognize their potential for growth and getting back to a satisfying and productive life.”Funding for the course was provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Recovery to Practice Initiative, which awarded five-year contracts, each valued at $350,000, to six national mental health organizations “to develop and implement training curricula that promote greater awareness, acceptance, and adoption of mental health recovery principles and practices among mental health providers.” ■The Recovery-Oriented Care in Psychiatry course can be accessed here. Enroll now in 9 part series to provide psychiatrists with a basic understanding of recovery from mental illness and substance use disorders. ISSUES NewArchived

Would You Like an Ankle Bracelet With That?: Winners and Losers in Electronic Monitoring

I spent a year on an ankle bracelet as a condition of my parole. For me and for most of the 150,000 to 200,000 people who go through each day with this technology strapped to their ankles, claims that electronic monitoring as a sort of panacea for the problems in our prison system—a low-cost, technologically smart way to ameliorate state budget crises, ensure public safety, and give “criminals” a chance to put their life back together. I’m at least in agreement with half of that win-win scenario. An increase in the use of EM will produce some winners. Let’s take, for example, BI Incorporated, the largest provider of ankle bracelets and monitoring programs in the United States. In 2009, BI signed a five-year contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for $372 million to provide ankle bracelets for 27,000 people awaiting immigration hearings. Clearly, a winner in this game. What I’m not so sure about is the other side of the equation, those who actually walk around with that black box on their leg, apart from the aforementioned stars. For Paris and Lindsay, GPS jewelry provides a get-out-of-jail-free ticket, not counting the lawyers’ fees, of course. But those are the rich and famous. They’re different from the rest of us—they have more money.