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Romantic comedy in which a man whose girlfriend has recently left
him finds new love with the help of an injured duck. Doug (Rhys
Darby) is devastated when his girlfriend, Susan (Faye Smith),
announces that she has had enough of him and is dumping him. When
he stumbles upon an injured duck, his black mood is such that he
only just decides to help it. However, caring for the duck brings
out another side of Doug - one even he may not have been aware of -
and he gradually begins to develop a new perspective on life. Even
better, through the duck Doug meets Holly (Sally Hawkins), a vet,
and the pair hit it off. But, with the return of Susan to the
scene, will their fledgling relationship take off?
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This book addresses the narrative construction of Russian cultural
memory in the work of Julian Barnes. It investigates how Barnes's
texts tend to display a memory process as a transcultural mode of
the creation of English and Russian national identities. Examining
a need to revisit Russian canonical works, the detailed discursive
analysis of the selected English texts exposes an intertextual
remembering by duplication, thus contributing to the prevention of
forgetting through the recuperation of still misrecollected
cultural meanings. By creatively incorporating Russian intertextual
elements into his work as a novelist, the author seems to insist on
sweeping across and beyond national boundaries, revealing how frail
the invention of tradition is when leading to the illusion of a
solid collective memory and its political legitimation. The book
considers not only a constructive dialogue between Barnes's fiction
and Russian classical literature, but also this writer's
interpretative, mostly imaginative, integration of Russian
literature and culture into his work as a novelist. Exploring the
double meaning of a literary metaphor as a mnemonic image of memory
and a product of imagination, it offers a comprehensive analysis of
Barnes's texts which play with intertextuality as an efficient tool
of displacement of official memory, providing a deeper
understanding of historical and cultural processes related to the
constantly moving architecture of transcultural memory.
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY licence. Young
people transitioning out of care towards independence, work and
adulthood are on the edge of these phases of life. Considering
previously neglected groups of care leavers such as unaccompanied
migrants, street youth, those leaving residential care, young
parents and those with a disability, this book presents
cutting-edge research from emerging global scholars. The collection
addresses the precarity experienced by many care leavers, who often
lack the social capital and resources to transition into stable
education, employment and family life. Including the voices of care
leavers throughout, it makes research relevant to practitioners and
policymakers aiming to enable, rather than label, vulnerable
groups.
Jim Morrison, in all his sensitivity and bombast blast into stardom
in the late 1960s as the lead singer of The Doors. Were the beams
of his star manipulated and mastered by sinister forces while he
stood by rejecting authority? Did the turmoil inside the poet drive
him into the spotlight only to leave him questioning its validity
while secretly reaching for the hand of all he'd rejected? Michael
J Bollinger examines the singers rise and fall and delves into Jim
Morrison's search for what awaited him beyond deaths door.
Between 1932 and 1953, a fleet of ordinary cargo ships was pressed
into extraordinary service. The fleet's task was to relocate
approximately one-million forced laborers to the Soviet Gulag in
Kolyma, located along the Arctic Circle in far northeastern
Siberia. The Kolyma Gulag, the most infamous in the Soviet Union,
was accessible only by sea, and the fleet became the lifeblood of
the entire operation. As one of the largest seaborne movements of
people in history, this transport took a devastating toll on human
lives. Bollinger presents the often-horrific stories of the Gulag
fleet and its passengers and reveals the unwitting role of the
United States government in the operation. U.S. shipyards built
most of the Gulag fleet, and the U.S. government sold many of the
ships used in the transport directly to an agent of the Soviet
Union. The United States also overhauled and repaired many ships in
the Gulag fleet free of charge at the midpoint of their Gulag
careers. In some cases, free ships provided to the Soviet Union
under the Lend Lease military assistance program were diverted into
Gulag transport duties. How much did Washington know about the
deadly duty of these ships? How many prisoners made the voyage? How
many never made it out alive? Bollinger details this tragic tale
using firsthand testimony from those involved in the operation and
materials from both American and Russian archives.
This book addresses the narrative construction of Russian cultural
memory in the work of Julian Barnes. It investigates how Barnes's
texts tend to display a memory process as a transcultural mode of
the creation of English and Russian national identities. Examining
a need to revisit Russian canonical works, the detailed discursive
analysis of the selected English texts exposes an intertextual
remembering by duplication, thus contributing to the prevention of
forgetting through the recuperation of still misrecollected
cultural meanings. By creatively incorporating Russian intertextual
elements into his work as a novelist, the author seems to insist on
sweeping across and beyond national boundaries, revealing how frail
the invention of tradition is when leading to the illusion of a
solid collective memory and its political legitimation. The book
considers not only a constructive dialogue between Barnes's fiction
and Russian classical literature, but also this writer's
interpretative, mostly imaginative, integration of Russian
literature and culture into his work as a novelist. Exploring the
double meaning of a literary metaphor as a mnemonic image of memory
and a product of imagination, it offers a comprehensive analysis of
Barnes's texts which play with intertextuality as an efficient tool
of displacement of official memory, providing a deeper
understanding of historical and cultural processes related to the
constantly moving architecture of transcultural memory.
The United Nationsâ Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948
proclaimed a vision of freedom of expression exercised regardless
of frontiers. Nonetheless, laws and norms regarding the freedom or
limits of expression are typically established and understood at
the national level. In todayâs interconnected world, newfound
threats to free expression have suddenly arisen. How can this
fundamental right be secured at a global level? This volume brings
together leading experts from a variety of fields to critically
evaluate the extent to which global norms on freedom of expression
and information have been established and which actors and
institutions have contributed to their diffusion. The authors also
consider ongoing and new challenges to these norms, from conflicts
over hate speech and the rise of populism to authoritarian
governments, as well as the profound disruption introduced by the
internet. Together, the essays lay the groundwork for an
international legal doctrine on global freedom of expression that
considers issues such as access to government-held information,
media diversity, and political speech. As the world risks
renouncing previous commitments to the freedom of expression,
Regardless of Frontiers serves as a timely reminder of just how
much is at stake and what needs protecting.
A broad explanation of the various dimensions of the problem of
"bad" speech on the internet within the American context. One of
the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about
"bad" speech-hate speech, disinformation and propaganda campaigns,
and incitement of violence-on the internet, and in particular
speech on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. In
Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy,
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone have gathered an eminent
cast of contributors-including Hillary Clinton, Amy Klobuchar,
Sheldon Whitehouse, Newt Minow, Cass Sunstein, Jack Balkin, Emily
Bazelon, and others-to explore the various dimensions of this
problem in the American context. They stress how difficult it is to
develop remedies given that some of these forms of "bad" speech are
ordinarily protected by the First Amendment. Bollinger and Stone
argue that it is important to remember that the last time we
encountered major new communications technology-television and
radio-we established a federal agency to provide oversight and to
issue regulations to protect and promote "the public interest."
Featuring a variety of perspectives from some of America's leading
experts on this hotly contested issue, this volume offers new
insights for the future of free speech in the social media era.
Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First
Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate. In this
sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press
in America and looks toward the challenges ahead.
The first amendment guaranteed freedom of the press in seemingly
clear terms. However, over the course of American history,
Bollinger notes, the idea of press freedom has evolved, in response
to social, political, technological, and legal changes. It was not
until the twentieth century that freedom of the press came to be
understood as guaranteeing an "uninhibited, robust and wide-open"
public discourse. But even during the twentieth century, government
continually tried to erect barriers: the sedition laws of World War
One, the use of libel law, the Pentagon Papers case, and efforts to
limit press access to information.
Bollinger utilizes this history to explore the meaning of freedom
of the press in our globalized, internet-dominated era. As he
shows, we have now entered uncharted territory. What does press
freedom mean when our news outlets can instantaneously disseminate
information throughout the world? When foreign media have immediate
access to the American market? Bollinger stresses that even though
the law will surely evolve in the coming years, we must maintain
our commitment to a press that is "uninhibited, robust, and
wide-open," not only in America but everywhere. Given the new
ability of foreign media to reach the United States via the
Internet and vice versa, it is in America's national interest for
press freedoms to expand overseas. While protecting the freedom of
the press at home remains a crucial task, the next challenge is to
help create a global public forum suitable for an increasingly
interconnected world. Part of Oxford's landmark Inalienable Rights
series, this book will set the agenda for how we think about the
press in the twenty-first century.
John Bollinger is a giant in today’s trading community. His Bollinger Bands sharpen the sensitivity of fixed indicators, allowing them to more precisely reflect a market’s volatility. By more accurately indicating the existing market environment, they are seen by many as today’s standard—and most reliable—tool for plotting expected price action.
Now, in Bollinger on Bollinger Bands, Bollinger himself explains how to use this extraordinary technique to compare price and indicator action and make sound, sensible, and profitable trading decisions.
Concise, straightforward, and filled with instructive charts and graphs, this remarkable book will be essential reading for all serious traders, regardless of market. Bollinger includes his simple system for implementation, and techniques for combining bands and indicators.
The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs. the United States
is one of the most important free speech cases in American history.
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, it is most famous for saying that
'shouting fire in a crowded theater' is not protected by the First
Amendment. The case itself upheld an espionage conviction, but it
also created a much stricter standard for governmental suppression
of speech. Over time, the standard Holmes devised made freedom of
speech in America a reality rather than merely an ideal. In The
Free Speech Century, two of American's leading First Amendment
scholars, Geoffrey Stone and Lee Bollinger, have gathered a group
of the nation's leading legal scholars (Cass Sunstein, Lawrence
Lessig, Laurence Tribe, Kathleen Sullivan, Catherine McKinnon, and
others) to evaluate the development of free speech doctrine since
Schenk and assess where it might be headed in our post-Snowden era.
Since 1919, First Amendment jurisprudence in America has been a
signal development in the history of constitutional
democracies-remarkable for its level of doctrinal refinement,
remarkable for its lateness in coming (in relation to the adoption
of the First Amendment), and remarkable for the scope of protection
for free expression it has afforded since the 1960s. Since 1919,
the degree of judicial engagement with these fundamental rights has
grown exponentially. We now have an elaborate set of free speech
laws and norms, but as Stone and Bollinger stress, the context is
always shifting. New societal threats like terrorism, heightened
political sensitivities, and new technologies of communication
continually reshape our understanding of what sort of speech should
be allowed. Publishing on the one hundredth anniversary of the
decision that established free speech as we have come to understand
it today, The Free Speech Century will serve as essential overview
for anyone interested in how our understanding of the First
Amendment transformed over time and why it continues to change to
this day.
Any good attacker will tell you that expensive security monitoring
and prevention tools aren't enough to keep you secure. This
practical book demonstrates a data-centric approach to distilling
complex security monitoring, incident response, and threat analysis
ideas into their most basic elements. You'll learn how to develop
your own threat intelligence and incident detection strategy,
rather than depend on security tools alone. Written by members of
Cisco's Computer Security Incident Response Team, this book shows
IT and information security professionals how to create an InfoSec
playbook by developing strategy, technique, and architecture.Learn
incident response fundamentals-and the importance of getting back
to basics Understand threats you face and what you should be
protecting Collect, mine, organize, and analyze as many relevant
data sources as possible Build your own playbook of repeatable
methods for security monitoring and response Learn how to put your
plan into action and keep it running smoothly Select the right
monitoring and detection tools for your environment Develop queries
to help you sort through data and create valuable reports Know what
actions to take during the incident response phase
Ethics for Behavior Analysts: Ethics for Analysts guides readers on
how to prevent conflicts, develop comfort where there is
discomfort, and effectively (and ethically) advocate and
disseminate information. The book includes both student and
instructor resources, along with ten videos, making it the number
one resource for behavioral analysts. In day-to-day practice,
behavioral analysts face complex challenges that require both an
accurate interpretation of the guidelines and a fair amount of
independent judgment. This book provides a guide on how to navigate
potentially unethical situations using real-life scenarios.
Written by a group of the nation's leading constitutional scholars,
a deeply informed, thoughtful, and often surprising examination of
who has First Amendment rights to disclose, to obtain, or to
publish classified information relating to the national security of
the United States. One of the most vexing and perennial questions
facing any democracy is how to balance the government's legitimate
need to conduct its operations-especially those related to
protecting the national security-in secret, with the public's right
and responsibility to know what its government is doing. There is
no easy answer to this issue, and different nations embrace
different solutions. In the United States, at the constitutional
level, the answer begins exactly half a century ago with the
Supreme Court's landmark 1971 decision in the Pentagon Papers case.
The final decision, though, left many important questions
unresolved. Moreover, the issue of leaks and secrecy has cropped up
repeatedly since, most recently in the Edward Snowden and Chelsea
Manning cases. In National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press
, two of America's leading First Amendment scholars, Lee C.
Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, have gathered a group of the
nation's leading constitutional scholars-including John Brennan,
Eric Holder, Cass R. Sunstein, and Michael Morell, among many
others-to delve into important dimensions of the current system, to
explain how we should think about them, and to offer as many
solutions as possible.
Constant change is what marks the history of the European city.
Over centuries, architecture's reactions to social
disruptions-natural disaster, plague, or war-have fashioned the
city into an engine of civilization. And bound up with this has
been the promise of economic independence, social cohesion, and
individual freedom. Now fundamental challenges, such as climate
change, are bringing cities face to face with new transformations
that call into question the continuity and sustainability of the
ethical foundations underpinning urban ways of life. Bold and
decisive steps are needed. How far can urban planning, landscape
planning, and architecture foster the vital processes of change?
How can the city offset possible losses caused by altered
lifestyles, integrate new technologies, or rehearse new forms of
behaviour and ultimately sublimate them into a functioning culture?
In this volume, the members of the Architecture Section of the
Akademie der Kunste Berlin and their invited guests from all over
Europe introduce their positions by means of projects, visions, and
manifestos. Essays by selected authors with different viewpoints
supplement the practical discourse. Published by Tim Rieniets,
Matthias Sauerbruch, and Joern Walter on behalf of the Akademie der
Kunste, Berlin. With a photoessay by Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk.
A broad explanation of the various dimensions of the problem of
"bad" speech on the internet within the American context. One of
the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about
"bad" speech-hate speech, disinformation and propaganda campaigns,
and incitement of violence-on the internet, and in particular
speech on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. In
Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy,
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone have gathered an eminent
cast of contributors-including Hillary Clinton, Amy Klobuchar,
Sheldon Whitehouse, Newt Minow, Cass Sunstein, Jack Balkin, Emily
Bazelon, and others-to explore the various dimensions of this
problem in the American context. They stress how difficult it is to
develop remedies given that some of these forms of "bad" speech are
ordinarily protected by the First Amendment. Bollinger and Stone
argue that it is important to remember that the last time we
encountered major new communications technology-television and
radio-we established a federal agency to provide oversight and to
issue regulations to protect and promote "the public interest."
Featuring a variety of perspectives from some of America's leading
experts on this hotly contested issue, this volume offers new
insights for the future of free speech in the social media era.
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