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    The other Saint Bernard: The 'troubled and varied career' of Bernard of Abbeville, Abbot of Tiron

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    Geoffrey Grossus' lengthy life of Bernard of Abbeville leaves unanswered many questions. Comparison with contemporary sources suggests that Bernard Was a career churchman with ail interest in ascetism and tire apostolic life, who left his original house in Poitiers because, of resistance to reforms that he had introduced as abbot. A successful search, for a patron enabled him to establish all entirely new community at Tiron in the Perche, where he was able to implement his ideas, although the community did not remain at the forefront of monastic thinking after the death of its charismatic founder is 1116

    Picturing Argentina: Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision

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    No individual has had greater impact on Argentine history than Juan Domingo PerĆ³n. The years 1943ā€“1945, when he was an influential member in his nationā€™s governing junta, and 1946ā€“1955, when he was its president, were tumultuous ones that transformed Argentina. PerĆ³n was a highly controversial figure, and his memory continues to provoke intense and often acrimonious debate. Moreover, the nature of his legacy resists neat classification. Many of his achievements were positive. He oversaw the passage of progressive social legislation, including womenā€™s suffrage and prison reform, and he implemented programs that aided the nationā€™s poor and working classes. On the other hand, he tolerated no opposition and, as president, incarcerated even former supporters who questioned his actions, and he ordered the closure of newspapers that he judged inappropriately critical. His regimeā€™s impact on the nationā€™s cinema is similarly difficult to classify. When PerĆ³n came to prominence, Argentina had developed one of the two major film industries in Latin America. His government intervened in this sphere to an unprecedented degree and in contradictory ways. It encouraged production by providing financial credits for filmmakers, and in 1948 PerĆ³n and his wife, Evita, a former actress, presided over the inauguration of the nationā€™s international film festival in Mar del Plata. Conversely, his administration blacklisted a remarkable number of directors and performers, censored and prohibited movies, and required all films made in Argentina to portray his regimeā€™s accomplishments in a favorable manner. Although PerĆ³nā€™s central role in Argentine history and the need for an unbiased assessment of his impact on his nationā€™s cinema are beyond dispute, the existing scholarship on the subject is limited. In recent decades Argentina has witnessed a revival of serious film study, some of which has focused on the nationā€™s classical movies and, in one case, on Peronism. None of this work has been translated into English, however. The only recent book in English to study this topic divides its attention between Argentine cinema and radio and dedicates only one chapter to film during the PerĆ³n years. Picturing Argentina: Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision is the first English-language book that offers an extensive assessment of Argentine cinema during first Peronism. It is also the first study in any language that concentrates systematically on the evolution of social attitudes reflected in Argentine movies throughout those years and that assesses the periodā€™s impact on subsequent filmmaking activity. By analyzing popular Argentine movies from this time through the prism of mythā€”second-order communication systems that present historically developed customs and attitudes as naturalā€”the book traces the filmic construction of gender, criminality, race, the family, sports, and the military. It identifies in movies the development and evolution of mindsets and attitudes that may be construed as ā€œPeronist.ā€ By framing its consideration of films from the PerĆ³n years in the context of earlier and later ones, it demonstrates that this period acceleratesā€”and sometimes registers backward-looking responses toā€”earlier progressive mythic shifts, and it traces the development in the 1950s of a critical mindset that comes to fruition in the ā€œnew cinemaā€ of the 1960s. [From the Publisher]https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1053/thumbnail.jp

    Visible and Invisible Diasporas: Ethiopian Somalis in the Diaspora Scene

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    Introducing IPv6 Tokenised Interface Identifiers into the Linux Kernel

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    IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) enables network administrators to deploy devices in a network and have those devices automatically generate global addresses without any administrative intervention, and without the need for any stateful configuration service such as DHCPv6. However, certain services --- such as HTTP, SMTP and IMAP --- may better benefit from having "well known" identifiers that do not depend on the physical hardware address of the server's network interface card. Tokenised addresses offer facility for administrators to specify the bottom 64 bits of an IPv6 address for a node whilst allowing the top 64 bits (the network prefix) to be automatically configured from router advertisements. This report documents the approach taken and experience gained from introducing tokenised interface identifiers into the Linux 2.6.11 kernel, as shipped with Redhat Fedora Core 4. This proof of concept work demonstrates the relative ease of introducing this useful utility for network node deployment, and further motivates wider deployment of the semi-automatic configuration approach

    Control of bacterial disease in small scale fresh-water aquaculture: Project R0754. Project completion report December 1998 - May 1999

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    The work presented here represents an 18-month study to examine the relationship between environmental conditions, bacterial load in the water and bacteria levels in tissue macrophages of a range of clinically healthy freshwater fish species, farmed in a range of culture systems in Thailand and Vietnam. Preliminary assessment was made of the clinical significance of the macrophage bacterial load. The aim of this work was to improve production in fresh-water aquaculture through the control of clinical bacterial disease and subclinical infection, and to identify management practices most effective in promoting fish health. [PDF contains 37 pages

    BURNS V CORBETT: WHAT IF THE HIGH COURT HAD DECIDED THE IMPLIED FREEDOM OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION ISSUE?

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    Because the Commonwealth has never fulfilled its promise to domesticate the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966 (ICCPR), human rights in Australia remain an uncertain blend of federal and state anti-discrimination statutes, common law rights and constitutional implications. The litigation surrounding Tess Corbettā€™s media interview in Hamilton, Victoria when she was campaigning as a candidate in the 2013 federal election, highlights that uncertainty. Should her statements have been protected because the voters in Wannon, Victoria needed to know her views so as to vote in an informed way, or did New South Walesā€™ interest in stamping out the vilification of gay people justify a law in that state that burdened Ms Corbettā€™s expression? While the New South Wales Court of Appeal and the High Court eventually agreed that the New South Walesā€™ tribunals involved had no jurisdiction to hear the case in the first place, the underlying anti-discrimination v freedom of political communication issue was not resolved despite many hearings. This article considers how that question might have been resolved since the New South Wales Court of Appeal in the Sunol case in 2012 seem to have preferred the views of the minority in the High Court in Coleman v Powerin 2004
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