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Shutter Island
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.
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Discretionary Justice
Juvenile drug courts are on the rise in the United States, as a result of a favorable political climate and justice officials' endorsement of the therapeutic jurisprudence movement--the concept of combining therapeutic care with correctional discipline. The goal is to divert nonviolent youth drug offenders into addiction treatment instead of long-term incarceration. Discretionary Justice overviews the system, taking readers behind the scenes of the juvenile drug court. Based on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews at a California court, Leslie Paik explores the staff's decision-making practices in assessing the youths' cases, concentrating on the way accountability and noncompliance are assessed. Using the concept of \"workability,\" Paik demonstrates how compliance, and what is seen by staff as \"noncompliance,\" are the constructed results of staff decisions, fluctuating budgets, and sometimes questionable drug test results.
While these courts largely focus on holding youths responsible for their actions, this book underscores the social factors that shape how staff members view progress in the court. Paik also emphasizes the perspectives of children and parents. Given the growing emphasis on individual responsibility in other settings, such as schools and public welfare agencies, Paik's findings are relevant outside the juvenile justice system.
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Testing for Athlete Citizenship
Incidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines, despite regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? What does a doping violation actually entail? Who gets punished for breaking the rules of fair play? InTesting for Athlete Citizenship, Kathryn E. Henne, a former competitive athlete and an expert in the law and science of anti-doping regulations, examines the development of rules aimed at controlling performance enhancement in international sports.
As international and celebrated figures, athletes are powerful symbols, yet few spectators realize that a global regulatory network is in place in an attempt to ensure ideals of fair play. The athletes caught and punished for doping are not always the ones using performance-enhancing drugs to cheat. In the case of female athletes, violations of fair play can stem from their inherent biological traits. Combining historical and ethnographic approaches,Testing for Athlete Citizenshipoffers a compelling account of the origins and expansion of anti-doping regulation and gender-verification rules.
Drawing on research conducted in Australasia, Europe, and North America, Henne provides a detailed account of how race, gender, class, and postcolonial formations of power shape these ideas and regulatory practices.Testing for Athlete Citizenshipmakes a convincing case to rethink the power of regulation in sports and how it separates athletes as a distinct class of citizens subject to a unique set of rules because of their physical attributes and abilities.
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Social franchising of community-based HIV counselling and testing services to increase HIV testing and linkage to care in Tshwane, South Africa: study protocol for a non-randomised implementation trial
Background
Meeting the ambitious UN 90–90-90 HIV testing, treatment and viral load suppression targets requires innovative strategies and approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa. To date no known interventions have been tested with community health workers (counsellors) as social franchisees or owner-managed businesses in Community-based HIV counselling and testing (CBCT) work. The aim of this methods paper is to describe a Social franchise (SF) CBCT implementation trial to increase HIV testing and linkage to care for individuals at community levels in comparison with an existing CBCT programme methods.
Methods/design
This is a two arm non-randomised community implementation trial with a once off round of post-test follow-up per HIV positive participant to assess linkage to care in low income communities. The intervention arm is a social franchise CBCT in which unemployed, self-employed or employed community members are recruited, contracted and incentivised to test at least 100 people per month, identifying at least 5 HIV positive tests and linking to care at least 4 of them. Social franchisees receive approximately $3.20 per HIV test and $8 per client linked to care. In the control arm, full-time employed HIV counsellors conduct CBCT on a fixed monthly salary. Primary study outcomes are HIV testing uptake rate, HIV positivity, Linkage to care and treatment rate and average counsellors’ remuneration cost. Data collection will be conducted using both paper-based and electronic data applications by CBCT or SF counsellors. Data analysis will compare proportions of HIV testing, positivity, linkage to HIV care and treatment rates and counsellors’ cost in the two study arms.
Discussion
The study will provide important insight into whether the SF-delivered CBCT programme increases testing coverage and linkage to care as well as reducing CBCT cost per HIV test and per HIV positive person linked to care.
Trial registration
Pan African Clinical Trial Registry
PACTR201809873079121
. The trial was retrospectively registered on 11 September 2018.
Journal Article
Orlando Sentinel Mike Bianchi column
Oct. 07--A few words of advice for administrators at the University of Florida as they try to maneuver their way through the volatile PR landmine that exploded Monday when freshman quarterback Treon Harris was suspended from the team amid a sexual-assault investigation: A couple of weeks ago, after TMZ released the video of Rice cold-cocking his fiancee in that casino elevator, athletic director Jeremy Foley told me abuse against women absolutely will not be tolerated at UF.
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Lucas' extensive personal collection includes 40-thousand paintings, illustrations and film-related items including storyboards and costumes from \"The Wizard of Oz,\" \"Casablanca\" and of course \"Star Wars.\"
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The Philadelphia Inquirer On Movies column
[...]it might have been more fun. Thanks to a circus parade of Marvel and DC Comics screen adaptations, we've grown accustomed to the sight of plummeting I-beams and crashing subway cars, the police firing futile fusillades against hulking baddies, a screaming populace making a run for it over bridges bent in half like playroom toys.
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