Human services: Australian explorations

Human services is an emergent field of study and work in Australia. Its definition is difficult, needing ongoing theoretical and empirical clarification. Despite the contemporary decline of the Australian welfare state; human services has emerged in cultural congruence with historic Australian notions of a \u27fair go\u27, of social equity, and of social egalitarianism. Human services constitutes a nascent profession, which - in the main - helps people with problems including mostly members of the social \u27underclass\u27. Human services draws upon a variety of models, but the generic \u27problem-solving\u27 methodology applies across all of its fields of service. Thus human service interventions seek to alleviate immediate problems, such as locating resources or addressing crises, through mainly short-term therapy. However, human services also includes long-term case management, along with sweeping social engineering in its professional agendas. In many ways the future of Australian human services remains open to speculation

Tolstoy and Clio: An exploration in historiography through literature

This paper explores issues in historiography and history as reflected in some of the literary and didactic works of Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). An artist of eternal merit, Tolstoy\u27s creativity manifests his intense personal, artistic, and philosophical conflicts. In addressing the \u27accursed questions\u27 afflicting his times and society, Tolstoy became the muse of nineteenth-century Russia, but his works embody essential themes in historiography, literature, and history. Attempting to impose a unitary vision upon the rich diversity of reality, yet failing, in his literary works Tolstoy explores the inaccessibility and multiplicity of historical causation, and the dilemmas of freedom and necessity, along with their inherent interpretive difficulties. The role of the \u27actor\u27 in Tolstoy\u27s view of history is delineated, along with an examination of historical progress as the embodiment of the collective will of the masses. Tolstoy\u27s philosophies are depicted including his preferences for anarchism, pacifism, Christianity, and his anticipation of existentialism. The treatment of various historical problems of nineteenth-century Russian society in the works of the novelist is explored, including issues of gender, class, bureaucracy, and social revolution. Tolstoy\u27s essential creative tension, in which detailed diversity prevents the imposition of a single vision, constitutes the genius of his art, and illustrates the moral and cognitive relativity of humankind. Tolstoy\u27s novels refract, rather than reflect, the Russian history of his day. Tolstoy\u27s artistry illustrates the folly of all attempts - historical, sociological, theological, and philosophical - to impose \u27grand theory\u27 upon reality. Tolstoy\u27s philosophy of history, then, is not compelling, yet his artistic expression of eternal themes in the nature of human knowing and being remains sublime

Human services: a discussion paper

Human services is an emergent field of study and work in Australia. Its definition is complex, needing continuing theoretical and empirical clarification. Despite the contemporary decline of the Australian welfare state, human services has emerged in cultural congruence with historic Australian notions of a \u27fair go\u27, of social equity, and of social egalitarianism. Human services constitutes a nascent profession, which - in the main - helps people with problems, particularly including members of the social \u27underclass\u27. With much of its origins in volunteerism and the voluntary sector, human service organisational theory is now developing, and is helping workers and students to understand agency environments. Human services draws upon a variety of practice models, but the generic \u27problem-solving\u27 methodology applies across all its fields of service. Thus human service interventions seek to alleviate immediate problems, such as locating resources or addressing crises, mainly through counselling and short-term therapy. However, human services also includes longer term case management, along with sweeping social development in its professional agendas. Arising out of present issues and challenges, in many ways the future of Australian human services remains open to speculation

Introductory notes on Australian social gerontology : edited transcript of a guest lecture for the unit Human development , delivered at Claremont Campus on Tuesday, 29 May 1990

In a \u27greying\u27 Australia demographic realities should be articulated clearly so as to meet the challenges of the future. The aged population will \u27peak\u27 in 2021 A.D., and there is an increasing social awareness of this population trend. While the causes of longevity remain to be established, the improvement of individual life expectancy means that many seniors will spend decades in \u27retirement\u27. Women, those of non- English speaking backgrounds, and aboriginals are sections of the aged population having special prob+ems. Comparative social policy, however, suggests that the future funding of aged care is not problematical, though national commitment is required. These demographic changes are likely to suggest a range of investigations for \u27theoretical\u27 gerontology, along with improving career opportunities for the range of aged care professionals. As a discipline, gerontology has shifted over time from mostly medical orientations to include more of a societal approach. Gerontology, concerned with the ageing of individuals and populations within their historical, cultural and societal contexts, exhibits a pluralist diversity with regard to its disciplinary origins and paradigmatic orientations. Applied gerontological research, particularly at the local level, often concentrates on seniors\u27 perceptions and upon aged services. While the social custom of retirement remains as the main definitional determinant of \u27old age\u27, ongoing social change renders prediction about this institution difficult. While the typical Australian can now expect to enjoy a \u27third age\u27 of active retirement, contending social forces seem to be pushing for both \u27early\u27 and \u27postponed\u27 retirement. Hence maximum feasible personal choice should exist with regard to the timing and extent of retirement, with options such as partial and phased retirement being given greater social acceptance. The greying Australian population is gaining attention at all levels of government, which should enhance future social planning and program provisions, so with the vigorous development of gerontology and the diminution of ageist prejudice within the general society, seniors of the future should enjoy greater opportunities for a \u27successful\u27 ageing process in terms of biographical adjustment and continuing intergenerational contribution to the community

Canary: An Automated Approach to Security Scanning and Remediation

Modern software has a smaller attack surface today than in the past. Memory-safe languages, container runtimes, virtual machines, and a mature web stack all contribute to the relative safety of the web and software in general compared to years ago. Despite this, we still see high-profile bugs, hacks, and outages which affect major companies and widely-used technologies. The extensive work that has gone into hardening virtualization, containerization, and commonly used applications such as Nginx still depends on the end-user to configure correctly to prevent a compromised machine. In this paper, I introduce a tool, which I call Canary, which can detect configuration errors as well as fix them or at least alert the user of their presence. Canary could be used when setting up a new machine or application as well as in a regular security audit on an existing system. This program could be used to evaluate whether a system is following security best practices and help the administrator resolve simple issues without spending time investigating them. It could also be used in conjunction with new automation tools to create a security step when provisioning cloud infrastructure

Rhetoric, mimesis and Elizabethan acting: lessons from Hamlet

This paper provides an introduction to my monograph The Players’ Advice to Hamlet, the publication of which followed a few weeks after the 2020 SFS conference, and it illustrates the argument of my book by focusing on Hamlet’s “To be or not to be”. I propose that the debate about Elizabethan acting within the domain of “original practices” or “OP” needs to escape from its present cul-de-sac by focusing upon rhetoric as accessed through the Latin sources, for these give more serious attention to questions of performance than English recensions. Ciceronian rhetoric was an approach to reading and performance in which the whole body was invested. Modern practitioners have been reluctant to move beyond the literary concept of rhetoric as a tool for constructing figures of speech, and to think how it relates to questions of character and identity. I demonstrate how the soliloquy in the Second Quarto, derived from Shakespeare’s autograph, is strategically punctuated (probably building on indications in the manuscript) in order to divide up the text with an astonishing symmetry on the basis of the breath, the prevailing emotions and the argument. This symmetry and logic are entirely obscured by punctuation for syntax. Cet article fournit l’introduction de ma monographie intitulée The Players’ Advice to Hamlet, dont la publication a suivi de quelques semaines le congrès de la SFS de 2020, et illustre la thèse développée dans mon livre en se concentrant sur le monologue d’Hamlet, « To be or not to be ». Mon idée est que le débat sur le jeu d’acteur à l’époque élisabéthaine dans le cadre des « pratiques originelles » (ou « PO ») doit échapper à l’impasse dans laquelle il se trouve à présent en se focalisant sur la rhétorique telle qu’on la trouve dans les sources latines, dans la mesure où elles accordent une attention plus soutenue aux questions de représentations théâtrales que les textes anglais. La rhétorique cicéronienne constituait une approche de la lecture et de la représentation dans laquelle tout le corps était investi. Les praticiens modernes ont rechigné à dépasser le concept littéraire d’une rhétorique considérée comme un outil permettant de construire des figures de styles et à l’envisager en lien avec les questions d’identité et de personnage. Je démontre que le monologue du second Quarto, tiré du manuscrit de Shakespeare, est ponctué de manière stratégique (probablement à partir d’indications du manuscrit) afin de diviser le texte d’une manière incroyablement symétrique, en se fondant sur les respirations, les émotions dominantes et le sens. Cette symétrie et cette logique sont entièrement masquées par une ponctuation purement grammaticale

Poetic Language and Corporeality in Translations of Greek Tragedy

The translation of ancient tragedy is often considered at a linguistic level, as if the drama consisted simply of words being written, spoken and heard. This article contends that translation for the stage is a process in which literary decisions have physical, as well as verbal, outcomes. It traces existing formulations concerning the links between vocal and bodily expression, and explores the ways in which printed texts might be capable of suggesting modes of corporeality or systems of movement to the embodied performer. It sketches some of the ways in which the range of possible relationships between language and physicality might be explored and understood, drawing upon recent practice-based research into the work of three modern poetic translators of Greek tragedy

Exploring seniors perceptions of crime: a report of a social survey conducted in the city of Nedlands

In this exploratory survey we investigated the perceptions of, and fear of crime in elderly persons. Interviews were conducted with eighteen elderly residents of the City of Nedlands, an age-heterogeneous community which enjoys a high socio-economic status. Due to the small number of people interviewed the survey is qualitative in character but reflects the perceptions of a particular segment of metropolitan elderly persons. It was shown that the participants consider that there is mere crime, of a more serious and threatening nature, in present times than there was fifty years age. There was no indication of fear of becoming victims of crime, however those who had been victims showed a greater concern. Most indicated that they felt secure in their present accommodation. None felt insecure enough to want to shift. Their lack of fear was demonstrated by the adoption of only basic security measures. Activities were not curtailed to any great degree, other than those that could also be attributed to age related activity decreases. Their concern regarding the increase in crime was net a personal concern but more a societal concern

Optimizing MACD Parameters via Genetic Algorithms for Soybean Futures

To create profits, traders must time the market correctly and enter and exit positions at ideal times. Finding the optimal time to enter the market can be quite daunting. The soybean market can be volatile and complex. Weather, sentiment, supply, and demand can all affect the price of soybeans. Traders typically use either fundamental analysis or technical analysis to predict the market for soybean futures\u27 contracts. Every agricultural future\u27s contract or security contract is different in its nature, volatility, and structure. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to optimize the moving average convergence divergence parameter values from traditionally used integers, to values that optimize the profit of the soybean market