Groundhog Day Research Articles

The more things change, the more they stay the same: the Queensland Police Service as a model for sustainable policing reform

ABSTRACT Police departments are consistently challenged to serve their communities by reducing misconduct and being held accountable. In the United States, policing reform is best described as déjà vu or Groundhog Day, with high-profile groups organising every few years to list the same recommendations for improving the police. Additionally, reform suggestions are too often countered by the comment, “we have always done it this way.” By stark contrast, through the Fitzgerald Inquiry and the work of scholars such as David Bayley, the Queensland Police Service stands as a model for creating sustainable change in policing. In this paper, we compare the experiences of the Queensland Police Service with attempts at reform in the United States to suggest a path forward for reforming policing in the US.

What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson

Reviewed by: What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson Elizabeth Bush Anderson, Cory What Beauty There Is. Roaring Brook, 2021 [368p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781250268099 $17.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9781250268105 $10.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 9–12 Jack Dahl and Ava Bardem, high school classmates, have no illusions about their fathers, who colluded years ago in a pawnshop robbery, for which Jack’s father was imprisoned while Ava’s dad escaped. Dahl Senior stashed the stolen money somewhere, and Jack is desperate for money; his drug-addicted mother has just committed suicide, and if he can’t lay his hands on cash, social services will send him and his younger brother, Matty, into foster care. Dahl won’t reveal where the money is hidden, but when Bardem Senior discovers that Jack is looking for it, he pursues Jack, intent on retrieving the money and silencing any remaining witnesses, including Jack, Matty, and his own daughter, who is helping the boys. This is a classic noir set-up, executed by Anderson with gut-wrenching pacing as Ava narrates what she witnessed and what she knows. Her knowledge about her psychopathic father is extensive, including his murder of her mother; but her unsettling omni-science proves to have come at a high price. A final chapter that suggests a sort of Groundhog Day circularity unnecessarily muddies the thriller’s waters, but readers who like their novels pitch dark and bone chilling will revel in the horrifying villain and the trio of kids locked into a dilemma they cannot possibly resolve. Copyright © 2021 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Anticipatory Care

Anticipatory Care

Hanging in the Air

Previous articleNext article FreeHanging in the AirAndrea BradyAndrea Brady Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore1 April 2020Being less than an activitywe empty out the life that hangslike code in the air, but for how longdoes it survive there if the air is white and lush,more benevolent to the city than ever, whose leaves are outof a season we are missing. It hangson the window like a recrimination,a rainbow trail, the wolf’s chalky inviteto the last kid hiding in the clock.And like a call; and is filled with callsof the chattering specieswhose voices are carried from house to houseparties and face times, many heard, the more silent.And like nothing but indifferencegrowing warmer in the tangled biome to its humancarriers. We pick our way prudently down the street.The person who passes is like us:a matrix of infection. We turn around at the headof the aisle that has someone in it, and wash our handsand shrink. Our hands are very dry now. Our mean gestures have all changed.When in this poem I say we I mean a nuclear family in Londonwho are lucky. Having outside space.The ball keeps getting kicked over the fence, and there is someonethere to return it.A friend, who is Chinese, has been repeatedly abused in the street.Mean gestures, filthy speech. The street is also the spacewhere our neighbours are clapping. Where we perform distanceto contain the bad humours that may be hiddenin another body. Hidden inside a room that can’t be leftbecause of the news, the violent man, the guard, the border. It is nowvery easy to get sectioned. We consider ourselves indefinitelyseparated from our friends and lovers and nothing will be the sameuntil it is, and the amazonificationof the planet will be complete, and we’ll be releasedfrom our incommensurate lockdown to party and write poemsupon poems about the virus and the discourse of war.And some will still not be able to go out intothe streets still full of the performance of abuse.For now we pick apart the hem looking for silver liningsinside the garment of bad surprises.My kids have been teaching me about black holes, clock time,and dentistry in ancient Egypt.I thought the singularity was a site of infinitely dense matterbut it’s the profound energy that distorts space and time.They’re overjoyed to learn that if they tried to passthrough its horizon they’d be spaghettified,their whole body a stream of plasmaone atom wide. If your being was not then emptyit would be still, watching the universe shiftand quicken before it.Right now I’m writing this standing up because I’m teachingand working and printing and feeding and rememberingand in pain. When you’re sick or in pain it’s hard to rememberwhat it was like not to be, the self that streamedpainlessly through another world is not yourself, the lightstuttering on her face was not your light or your face.How could I have been so stupid not to noticehow easy it has always been for me to move down the street?Right now I am trying to read and not read the accountsof the anaesthetists. I misread the inhalationof toxic gas as toxic glass. I don’t want to think of all the people aloneI tell the kids to write about their experiencesof this big historical singularityand hide its data from them. I could say it’s like the waythe black hole can’t be seen but shifts everything around itbut that’s a comparison in a poem and the kids just laugh.They know that the collapse of everything clearsthe air at least. How cool the sky would always bewithout the scratching of motors. We could lag together,smooth in our suspension.We stay in the yard.In its green and yellow is an imageof the lungs we will be givenif we cross the horizon and abandonthe nuclear family, private property, obedient domains.NotesAndrea Brady’s books of poetry include The Strong Room (2016), Dompteuse (2014), Cut from the Rushes (2013), Mutability: Scripts for Infancy (2012), and Wildfire: A Verse Essay on Obscurity and Illumination (2010). She is a professor of poetry at Queen Mary University of London, where she founded the Centre for Poetry and the Archive of the Now. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Inquiry Volume 47, Number S2Winter 2021Posts from the PandemicEdited by Hank Scotch Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/711431 Views: 764 Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref © 2021 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:W. J. T. Mitchell Groundhog Day and the Epoché, Critical Inquiry 47, no.S2S2 (Dec 2020): S95–S99.https://doi.org/10.1086/711447

Covidity

Previous articleNext article FreeCovidityCharles BernsteinCharles Bernstein Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore24 April 2020The covid gonna get meIf not now, it willThe covid gonna kill meFind me where I liveBuried under coversSheltered in the hallTrading goodbyes to all my friendsThrough goddamn 15-foot wallsThe covid’ll get meGet me badMy lungs are weakAnd I am much misunderstoodI practice social distanceEven got an oversize maskFeel like the Lone RangerJust before he got the clapThe covid going to find meIf not today, in timeThe covid after meFind exactly where I amCall it social distanceI call it pain in the soulYou say I can handle itBut it’s too heavy a loadThe covid ’round the corner’ll thrash me till I blueBut that’s not my worryTerrified for youYou’ve always been distantBut not from meNow I feel you driftingLike you’re far out at seaThe covid gonna get meIf not now, any dayThe covid got my numberKnows just where I stayYou say I’ll manage social distanceThat I can make it workBut if I’m distant from youI’m sunk before I swumThe covid gonna get meIf not now, soonThe covid has me up all nightFighting ’gainst all this gloomToo much death surroundingI darn near given upKeep calling on the telephoneBut you’re hung up on SkypeThe covid comingSure to get us goodOur lungs are weakAnd we are much misunderstoodNotesCharles Bernstein is the Donald T. Regan Professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Inquiry Volume 47, Number S2Winter 2021Posts from the PandemicEdited by Hank Scotch Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/711443 Views: 1008 Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref © 2021 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:W. J. T. Mitchell Groundhog Day and the Epoché, Critical Inquiry 47, no.S2S2 (Dec 2020): S95–S99.https://doi.org/10.1086/711447

COVID-19 Metaphors

COVID-19 Metaphors

Is This a Dress Rehearsal?

The author focuses on republican Ramadan that can be chance for people to reflect importance of derisory and mentions noise surrounding state of war against coronavirus pandemic Topics discussed include archaism of return to the European borders, general mobilization against coronavirus that does not prove people to be ready for next and relearning efforts of washing hand

The Incalculable: Thoughts on the Collapse of the Biosecurity Regime

Liu offers insights about the collapse of the biosecurity regime It makes a world of difference where the novel coronavirus travels Sirens wail day and night on the streets as doctors and nurses struggle to keep critically ill patients alive while exposing themselves to the deadly pathogen To the astonishment of the world, American society has not prepared itself for a disaster of this magnitude;and worse, many in Europe and America had initially been led to believe that the novel coronavirus might be one of those isolated, regional affairs Recent genomic analyses suggest that the vast majority of coronavirus cases in New York came from Europe, not from Asia Blindsided by its own racism, the political calculus of the US biosecurity regime has misfired

The Universal Right to Breathe

Mbembe focuses on the aspects of the aspects of the universal right to breath Already some people are talking about post-COVID-19 Even if, for most of us, especially those in parts of the world where health care systems have been devastated by years of organized neglect, the worst is yet to come With no hospital beds, no respirators, no mass testing, no masks nor disinfectants nor arrangements for placing those who are infected in quarantine, unfortunately, many will not pass through the eye of the needle

Biopolitics in the Time of Coronavirus

The article focuses on emergence of panoply of genres of quarantine noticed by author Joshua Clover in a blog post and mentions notion of biopolitics mentioned by philosopher Michael Foucault Topics discussed include concept of biopolitics to address the coronavirus pandemic, issue for political decision-making to be addressed by the government and city disciplinarization with inhabitants during plague pandemic

Evolution: Groundhog Day for a Lab Bacterium

A new study that regularly resets the background community to time zero shows how eco-evolutionary dynamics affect bacteria living in a diverse community.

Spiral, Slasher, and Sequel: Case of "Happy Death Day" (2017) and "Happy Death Day 2U" (2019)

This article focuses on the films Happy Death Day (2017) and Happy Death Day 2U (2019). Both handle the spiral narrative, which is recognised by the article as a specific storytelling pattern with a protagonist stuck in an iterative segment of space, time and causality – and this protagonist is not only fully aware of this situation but also tries to deal with it. What for other unaware characters is a closed loop is for the protagonist an open experience with an odd number of turns of time spiral. The spiral narrative is known mostly from high-budget films such as Groundhog Day (1993) or Edge Of Tomorrow (2014). Nevertheless, as the article explains, it occurs in dozens of other theatrical films, VOD films, television films or television shows. However, what are the reasons why, when there is an extensive set of works to choose from, does the article take just the doublet of Happy Death Day films? (1) On their example, the article discusses the author’s general hypothesis about spiral narrative works as a series of applications of the innovative narrative schema as an aesthetic tool. Such a hypothesis consists of three broader dimensions: (a) the aesthetic dimension, i.e. the spiral schema as a part of the art work; (b) the creative dimension, i.e. the spiral schema as part of the problem-solution process of filmmaking; (c) the production dimension, i.e. the spiral schema as a part of the competition of audiovisual production. (2) An even more important reason, though, for selecting just these two films has been the fact that Happy Death Day 2U is a sequel of Happy Death Day. In the „post-classical era” of global franchises, sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots and transmedia storytellings, this does not seem to be exceptional. However, in the context of the spiral narrative, this is an unprecedented step that raises several questions the article asks.

Mitigating “Educational Groundhog Day” – The Role of Learner Handoffs Within Clinical Rotations: A Survey of Pediatric Educational Leaders

BackgroundMedical students decry frequent changes in faculty supervision, leading to the experience of “educational groundhog day.” The discontinuity in supervision, cursory relationships, and uncoordinated feedback impede students’ skill acquisition and delay entrustment decisions. Whereas patient handoff bundles are common, little is known about similarly structured approaches to learner handoffs (LHs). ObjectiveTo describe current LH procedures and practices within pediatric clerkships and subinternships and to gauge interest in a future LH bundle. MethodsNine items included in the 2016 Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics annual member survey were analyzed using mixed-methods. ResultsThe response rates were 66% (101 of 152) and 40% (165 of 411) for institutions and individuals, respectively. After limiting data to complete responses to programs with traditional block rotations, 54% of individual respondents (76 of 141) identified as inpatient faculty and about a quarter endorsed providing LHs. Inpatient faculty most commonly supervise medical students for 5 to 7 days. Most endorsed needing 1 to 3 days to determine a student's baseline performance and 5 days or more to make entrustment decisions. Three-quarters of inpatient faculty endorsed interest in LHs, while fewer than 16% of course directors currently provide LH expectations. Four themes emerged: instrument features, stakeholder buy-in, impact, and utility. ConclusionsTypical inpatient faculty service days approximate the time required for making entrustment decisions about clinical students. While most inpatient faculty desire a LH bundle for use within a clinical rotation, few institutions and faculty currently use LHs. LHs could accelerate entrustment decisions by allowing coordinated feedback that might hasten learner clinical-skill development.

Groundhog Day: the great floods of 2015

Groundhog Day: the great floods of 2015

Economics and Incentives Driving IoT Privacy and Security, Pt. 2

In summary, just as sensors and actuators effectuate data in the loT, risk economics effectuate privacy and security risk controls in the loT. Privacy and security in the loT depend on sensors (awareness and control of data collection, use and disclosure) and actuators (law and market enforcement functions) to precipitate underlying rights and interests. Key economic challenges to sensing and actuating privacy and security in the loT include: information asymmetries, incentives, uncertain costs and benefits, and enforcement We still have an opportunity to avert Groundhog Day relative to how security and privacy has played out on the Internet stage by tackling these issues head on in the development and deployment of loT.

New development: Reviews of public sector performance—groundhog day?

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this article is to canvass, and comment on, the main features of the recently completed Review of Governance, Performance and Accountability legislation/framework at the national level of government in Australia. Most of the Report’s 52 recommendations are procedural and will only be discussed when they may be of particular relevance in a broader context. The review reported on 4 September 2018. It continues the long line of reform reports conducted over the last 30 to 40 years. However, before the review was even completed, the Australian government announced (on 4 May 2018) another wide-ranging Independent Review of the Australian Public Service (APS), with a reference group of national and international experts having ‘diverse public and private sector experience’. Some suggested that the latter review should encompass the findings and recommendations of the former and be considered together, particularly as the announced chair was also a member of the earlier two-person review team. While no one would question the need for continuous learning, the main issue is about effective implementation of agreed recommendations that would improve performance and promote greater public confidence and trust in government.

Groundhog Day at 25: Conflict and Inspiration at the Tipping Point of Seasonal Genres

Groundhog Day at 25: Conflict and Inspiration at the Tipping Point of Seasonal Genres

Washington Hotline

New year, new action on net neutralityIt is not surprising that some reporters covering the February 1 oral arguments for Mozilla v. Federal Communications Commission before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit referenced Groundhog Day. Not only was the large rodent scheduled for his spring forecast the following day, but the same court has ruled multiple times on this issue over the past decade—bringing to mind the endless loop Bill Murray finds himself in the movie Groundhog Day.

From Fellegi to Fonberg: Canada’s Policy Capacity Groundhog Day?

From Fellegi to Fonberg: Canada’s Policy Capacity Groundhog Day?

Practice, Practice, Practice

In the 1993 film Groundhog Day, misanthropic meteorologist Phil Connors relives the same 24 hours, over and over and over again…for years on end. Given nearly infinite “do-overs,” Phil learns to speak French, play jazz piano, and flip cards into an upturned hat. Most important: he discovers the good in other people, and he learns to care about them. In return, they love him back. There's a lesson in Groundhog Day for all of us: Trying to do something over and over again, with intention and focus and feedback on what we could do better next time, is how you improve—at anything.