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Serious literary artists such as T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf loom large in most accounts of the literary art of the first half of the 20th century. And yet, working in the shadows cast by these modernists were science fiction, horror and fantasy writers like \"the Weird Tales Three\": H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. These three writers did not publish in artistically ambitious magazines like The Dial, The Smart Set and The Little Review but instead in commercial pulp magazines like Weird Tales. Contrary to stereotypes about pulp fiction and those who wrote it, the Weird Tales Three were serious literary artists who used their fiction to speculate about philosophical questions, the function of art and the brevity of life.

For over two decades, practitioners, advocates, and scholars involved with the U.S. child welfare system have engaged in coordinated efforts to increase the number of foster youth who find stable, permanent homes through adoption or guardianship, and these efforts have been shaped and guided by federal policies and directives. As a result, the number of children adopted or placed into guardianship out of foster care has increased significantly. This trend has significant implications for child welfare research, policy, and practice. However, the risk and protective factors for post-permanency discontinuity, or placement changes that occur after legal finalization of an adoption or guardianship, have received little attention in the literature. Also, many previous studies that investigated post-permanency adjustment for former foster youth have been limited by serious design and/or conceptual flaws. The purpose of this study is to investigate the peer-reviewed literature that examines risk or protective factors for discontinuity, or outcomes proximal to discontinuity, for older foster youth. A systematic search located 18 quantitative, quasi-experimental studies published in peer-reviewed journals that implemented multivariable methods. This review finds that the quality of the research evidence is generally weak, but previous studies do suggest several risk and protective factors for post-permanency discontinuity, including child, family, and service characteristics.

Adoptive families often encounter numerous challenges once the adoption is complete, particularly when adopting children from the child welfare system. Existing studies suggest that adoptive families would benefit from the availability of post-adoption support services, however, there is a lack of research in this area. This exploratory study focused on experiences with adoption support services among caregivers who adopted or were in the process of adoption a child from the child welfare system. The adoption support services described in this study were delivered by an adoption peer supporter and two clinicians. Qualitative analyses of focus group and interview data revealed a number of beneficial supports, driven by a peer-to-peer ideology and relevant skill-based learning. Participants described the support they received as multidimensional, including social, emotional, informational, and clinical. The study delineated characteristics of a successful adoption peer supporter as well as provided suggestions for strengthening adoption support services. Implications for social work practice around adoptions within the child welfare system and beyond are discussed.

One day, while perusing the photograph collection of Penn States Agricultural Extension Service, McMurry came across seven small black-and-white prints filed loose in the Lancaster County box. Each image showed a farm landscape. On the reverse in pencil was written, \"Public Image of Dairying in PA. Lancaster & Perry Co. August 1964.\" Here was new evidence that the public image of dairying was an explicit concern for somebody in the Pennsylvania extension system in the 1960s. There was reform in dairy landscapes up to 1950, but these photos prompted McMurry to wonder, why over a decade later did somebody in extension care enough to photograph a number of farms as examples (good or bad) for the \"public image of dairying in PA\"?

Premier Colin Barnett has announced the first tranche of the Government's much-anticipated asset sales, with Port Hedland's Utah Point Bulk Handling facility, the Kwinana Bulk Terminal and the Perth Market Authority up for sale. \"It certainly makes sense for us to move so that it's actually in our hands rather than in the hands of a shopping centre operator, for instance.\" \"Of course, this is an area that if you look at the east coast, when there's been ports or port facilities or both, the infrastructure companies are also very interested,\" Mr [Howard-Smith] said.

Sixty years ago political divisions in the United States ran even deeper than today's name-calling showdowns between the left and right. Back then, to call someone a communist was to threaten that person's career, family, freedom, and, sometimes, life itself. Hysteria about the \"red menace\" mushroomed as the Soviet Union tightened its grip on Eastern Europe, Mao Zedong rose to power in China, and the atomic arms race accelerated. Spy scandals fanned the flames, and headlines warned of sleeper cells in the nation's midst--just as it does today with the \"War on Terror.\" In his new book,The Fear Within, Scott Martelle takes dramatic aim at one pivotal moment of that era. On the afternoon of July 20, 1948, FBI agents began rounding up twelve men in New York City, Chicago, and Detroit whom the U.S. government believed posed a grave threat to the nation--the leadership of the Communist Party-USA. After a series of delays, eleven of the twelve \"top Reds\" went on trial in Manhattan's Foley Square in January 1949. The proceedings captivated the nation, but the trial quickly dissolved into farce. The eleven defendants were charged under the 1940 Smith Act with conspiring to teach the necessity of overthrowing the U.S. government based on their roles as party leaders and their distribution of books and pamphlets. In essence, they were on trial for their libraries and political beliefs, not for overt acts threatening national security. Despite the clear conflict with the First Amendment, the men were convicted and their appeals denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in a decision that gave the green light to federal persecution of Communist Party leaders--a decision the court effectively reversed six years later. But by then, the damage was done. So rancorous was the trial the presiding judge sentenced the defense attorneys to prison terms, too, chilling future defendants' access to qualified counsel. Martelle's story is a compelling look at how American society, both general and political, reacts to stress and, incongruously, clamps down in times of crisis on the very beliefs it holds dear: the freedoms of speech and political belief. At different points in our history, the executive branch, Congress, and the courts have subtly or more drastically eroded a pillar of American society for the politics of the moment. It is not surprising, then, thatThe Fear Withintakes on added resonance in today's environment of suspicion and the decline of civil rights under the U.S. Patriot Act.

\"This is an important step for the Gumatj, to own and operate a bauxite mine on their country,\" Mr [Ryan Cavanagh] said. \"Here, mining only started around 1970, so it's 40 years later and technically it's 40 years late,\" he told AAP. \"If you have a mine or some decent-sized income, production of oil or gas, there's nothing to stop the communities having their own private school or private health clinic as long as the money's there - but the money has to come from somewhere.\"