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This essay explores how John Banville’s The Book of Evidence presents its narrator, Freddie Montgomery, as a monstrous abstraction of projective drives that mechanized visual experience and altered...

This presentation will focus on the importance of addressing mental health in the overall response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Emphasis will be placed on evidence based, integrated mental and behavioral health services in primary care clinics as an essential component of physical and mental health care. Community surveillance data collected by LSUHSC Department of Psychiatry in the fall of 2010 and one year post spill revealed increased symptoms of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress compared to national norms. Symptoms were higher for individuals directly impacted by the spill. The Mental and Behavioral Health Capacity Project (MBHCP), part of the Gulf Region Health Outreach Program (GRHOP), was developed across the four impacted states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.In collaboration with the Primary Care Capacity Project (PCCP) and other GRHOP projects, it is designed to decrease disparities in care and develop an evidence-based system of integrated mental and behavioral health services within primary care clinics. In Louisiana, seven impacted parishes, culturally diverse and predominantly rural, were designated for services. Louisiana MBHCP (MBHCP-LA) is applying established principles of collaborative care combining on-site and telemedicine consultation, training, therapeutic services, and care management. It is working with PCCP to develop and utilize a technologically advanced telemedicine system to integrate mental and behavioral health into electronic health records to meet physical and mental health needs. Preliminary analysis of screening and follow-up data beginning in May 2013 from 303 clients who completed measures at intake into services indicates that integrating mental health services in primary care clinics resulted in significant decreases at follow-up in reported depression, generalized anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. The data showed that the greater the decrease in reported depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress symptoms at follow-up, the greater the decrease in physical health symptoms. While the MBHCP-LA integration of mental and behavioral health in primary care clinics in parishes heavily impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill has been in place for less than a year, the outcomes are promising in reducing both behavioral and physical health symptoms. The clinics are reporting greater comfort in addressing mental and behavioral health problems as well as more resilience by having mental and behavioral health partners. MBHCP-LA will continue to evaluate improvement in physical and mental health symptoms as well as resilience and quality of life by more fully addressing mental and behavioral health concerns.

In September 1995, the city manager of San Marino decided to take a new approach to upcoming negotiations between management and the firefighters association. In the past, relationships had been, at a minimum strained, and at times, strongly adversarial. The city manager felt that this year would be a good time to work on a new contract with the hope of rebuilding relationships for the long term. He contacted the author/consultant, who enlisted the help of a colleague with expertise in this area, and the decision was made to at least explore an interest-based negotiation approach between the city council and the fire association. The city manager met with the president of the firefighters association to determine his willingness to consider a new approach; he was willing. A proposal was then made to city council to bring in an outside consultant to work with the city to train representatives of both management and firefighters association representatives in the interest-based negotiation process, and for the consultants to facilitate at least four days of the negotiation - city council approved it. Introductory Meeting We first held a 1.5 hour meeting with the combined representatives from management and the firefighter association to introduce them to the basic premises of interest-based negotiation. This meeting was not only informational, but it also gave the trainers/facilitators the opportunity to build rapport with participants, and for everyone to be together. All participants were encouraged to voice any initial concerns and questions; after the informational part of the meeting, future interviews were scheduled, and the meeting was concluded with a group luncheon. Background Information Although we met individually with management representatives, the firefighter representatives preferred meeting as a group. We emphasized that interviews were confidential. Our goals were to understand the history of city/firefighter negotiations, and to learn any other concerns or reservations they had about the process. We collected valuable information that made us aware of areas where we might experience roadblocks or conflict during the training and negotiation. The Training Following the introductory meeting and interviews, the two-day training program was scheduled two-and-one-half weeks later to accommodate schedules. Two consecutive training days were scheduled to assist in transfer of training from the first day, which was primarily informational, to the second day, which included extended practice exercises in negotiation. The first day of training began with an introduction to the training objectives: to introduce participants to the premises of interest-based negotiation; to develop the skills of participants in using the interest-based negotiation process; and to improve relationships between management and the firefighter association, not just for the labor negotiation process, but over the long term. After a trust-building exercise, we reviewed the premises of interest-based negotiation, such as principles, assumptions of the approach, steps comprising the process (see Figure 1), and the techniques used during the negotiation. We also conducted skill building exercises in brainstorming, group memory, process checking, listening, and consensus-building. Exercises using the skills and techniques they had learned the first day comprised the entire second day. Both interpersonal and process skills were emphasized; for several exercises, the groups were mixed (participants from management and labor), and people were also asked to take the role of the "other side" in one exercise. Throughout the training, participants were reminded that our goal was to help them build better relationships over the long term in the overall organization, not just in the negotiation. As a final note, participants were asked to prepare for the first day of the negotiation by writing an opening statement, and identifying the issues and interests they wanted to address. …

The purpose of this paper is to familiarize readers with the work of the Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable and provide a summary of the proposed project agenda for the next two years. The Roundtable was established to engage federal, state, corporate, non-profit and academic entities in advancing understanding of the nation’s water resources and developing tools for sustainable water management. Some of the topics the Roundtable has been involved with include the United States Geological Survey’s national Water Census, the Alliance for Watershed Stewardship’s International Water Stewardship Standard, and the promotion and evaluation of linkages between energy and water. The Roundtable has promoted a framework of water sustainability indicators for understanding how well the nation and its communities are doing in meeting social, economic and ecological needs associated with water management. THE SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURES ROUNDTABLE

‘The pathway up Parnassus is strewn with the litter of abandoned drafts’, Anne Stevenson wrote in an essay in which she analysed the composition of her sonnet ‘Moonrise’ and transcribed a series of its worksheets. Her metaphor is hardly flattering to archivists, casting them in the necessary but unglamorous role of litter-pickers, and perhaps even less so to academic researchers, who become analogous to the grubby sort of criminal who tears open refuse sacks in the hunt for personal details. But even in writing her essay, Stevenson acknowledged the legitimacy of interest in the processes by which her literary works have been created, and recognised the value of the documentary record of their generation and fashioning. The present volume is the first book-length consideration of Stevenson's work, but it seems unlikely that it will be the last, and insofar as future research into her writings will rely on examination of the papers accumulated in the course of their making – on the original manuscript and typescript drafts of the poems and prose, and on the records of the life out of which those works arose – it will largely depend on the Stevenson archive kept in Cambridge University Library as MS Add. 9451. The Cambridge archive is not the only collection of Stevenson's papers in a publicly accessible repository, but it is by far the most important. Stevenson donated the first and largest tranche in August 1997, at the time of her move from a cottage in Grantchester, and since then she has made numerous supplementary gifts, ranging in size from several files to a single postcard.

This paper provides a critical analysis of the National Bilingual Programme in Colombia. It considers how and why it aims to extend the teaching of ‘a’ foreign language in Primary and Secondary school in 1994, to the teaching of English to an internationally recognized standard in all sectors of education by 2019, while at the same time attempting to promote the bilingual education of the Creole and Amerindian speaking sections of the population. It suggests that although some of the aims of the programme are being met, the contexts in which it is being implemented are too diverse and the aims too broad for the programme to be implemented successfully in its current state.

Progressive Enhancement is a modern approach for developing web documents that are accessible across any browser or device that has access to the Internet. Based on the idea of separating a document's content, presentation, and behaviour, progressive enhancement embraces accessibility, semantics, forward-compatibility and usability. This poster illustrates a real world implementation of the progressive enhancement technique by following the steps in building a restaurant food menu that elegantly scrolls within a fixed page design.

The task of reconciling full employment with relatively low inflation was achieved in most industrial countries with reasonable success during the immediate post-war decades. However, the emergence of ’ stagflation’ - simultaneous increases in unemployment and inflation - in the 1970s under the impact of oil price shocks ushered in ‘monetarist’ policies, which assigned inflation-reduction a higher priority than full employment. The ensuing monetary shocks resulted in unprecedented mass unemployment throughout the world. Whilst the United States has created near full employment conditions, in the EU, unemployment, albeit cyclical, has persisted at high levels and co-exists with often excessively long hours worked by those in employment. Solutions to European unemployment divide between a neo-liberal orthodoxy which advocates the introduction of more ‘flexible’ labour markets in an attempt to ape what is thought to explain the US success and a heterodoxy which advocates demand reflation as well as a redistribution of working time, involving hours-reduction and work-sharing. This paper analyses the causes of unemployment and its solutions, including a redistribution of work, from a Keynesian perspective.

Critics of post-1964 economic policy in Brazil have argued that the decline of at least 25% in the real value of the government-determined minimum wage between 1964 and 1974 was an important factor accounting for increasing inequality in the size distribution of personal income observed during this period. This paper reports the results of a new test of this proposition, using cross-section and time series wage rate statistics for the Brazilian construction industry. The results suggest that the official minimum wage plays an important signalling role in wage-determination, acting as a standard of reference for the setting of the wage-rates of the least skilled manual workers in the Brazilian construction industry. The results, therefore, confirm the view that minimum wage policy in Brazil is influential in determining the size distribution of earned income.

This is the first of two articles attempting to contribute to the debate on trends in absolute real incomes amongst propertyless groups in semi‐industrialized countries. The empirical evidence presented in both articles is addressed to evaluating the long‐term trend in the standard of living of industrial working‐class households in one of the principal industrial centres of the capitalist periphery (the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo) between the mid‐1930s and the mid‐1970s. This first article contains a more analytical discussion of the principal factors affecting the living standards of non‐property‐owning groups in poor capitalist countries, experiencing rapid transformations within both their agricultural and industrial sectors. Following this, some of the principal problems which arise in measuring the living standards of poor people in developing countries are briefly reviewed, as well as the solutions adopted and the data sources used in this study of households in the city of Sao Paulo. This first a...

Structural modes of thought about inflation, growth and balance of payments disequilibria consider these phenomena as interrelated problems in political economy, having to do with short- and long-term conflicts in national economic objectives. These could be meaningfully understood or analysed only in terms of historical perspective and in relation to changing world economic conditions.1

The main aim of this paper is to present detailed evidence for the case of Brazil about one aspect of changing patterns of consumption—the diffusion of durable consumer goods. Evidence of this kind for countries other than advanced industrial economies is comparatively rare, so that detailed information on this subject for a semi-industrialised economy like Brazil would seem to be of interest in its own right. In addition, the empirical evidence presented sheds light on certain aspects of Brazilian development experience, which is of direct relevance for some recent controversies about Brazilian development. The paper is arranged as follows. In the first part, evidence on ownership of and expendi ture on consumer durables is presented, and the extent of and explanation for market deepening in the case of certain durables is then investigated. In the second part an attempt is made to appraise the significance of the results in the first part for the follow ing issues in recent Brazilian economic development: first, certain of the under consumptionist interpretations, common in the Brazilian literature, for the origins of the industrial recession of 1963, following a period of rapid, fairly sustained industrial growth; second, the role played by a sharp increase in personal income inequality, during the subsequent period of industrial stagnation (1964-67), in triggering off industrial recovery in 1967 ; and third, the role played by continuing increases in income inequality in the achievement of 'miraculously' high rates of industrial growth between 1968 and 1974.