Head Water: An Interview with Gerald Vizenor

As Gerald Vizenor explains in the following interview, the act of going away has allowed him to return home richer as an individual and as a writer. Asia has been especially important in this regard: it was in Japan just after the Korean War that Vizenor experienced his first major literary discovery--haiku. Then, over twenty years later, after having published numerous books of poetry (including several books of haiku) and journalism, a year teaching in Tianjin, China resulted in Vizenor \u27s second novel, Griever: An American Monkey King in China. We talked with Gerald Vizenor in his office at UC-Berkeley in early January 1992, just a few months after the publication of The Heirs of Columbus, a work which, appearing as it did in the face of the quincentennial, announced in no uncertain terms, I\u27m not a victim of Columbus. For a mixed-blood Native American, that was quite an assertion. Looking at his own life and that around him, Vizenor continues re-shaping it, joined by the trickster who assists him in remembering how to turn pain and horror into humor

Everything on the Verge of Becoming Something Else: An Interview with Ted Mooney

Entrevista a Ted MooneyInterview with Ted Moone

Impact of the diagnostic label for a low-risk prostate lesion: protocol for two online factorial randomised experiments

INTRODUCTION: Many types of prostate cancer present minimal risk to a man's lifespan or well-being, but existing terminology makes it difficult for men to distinguish these from high-risk prostate cancers. This study aims to explore whether using an alternative label for low-risk prostate cancer influences management choice and anxiety levels among Australian men and their partners.METHODS AND ANALYSIS: We will run two separate studies for Australian men and Australian women with a male partner. Both studies are between-subjects factorial (3×2) randomised online hypothetical experiments. Following consent, eligible participants will be randomised 1:1:1 to three labels: 'low-risk prostate cancer, Gleason Group 1', 'low-risk prostate neoplasm' or 'low-risk prostate lesion'. Participants will then undergo a second randomisation step with 1:1 allocation to the provision of detailed information on the benefits and harms of different management choices versus the provision of less detailed information about management choices. The required sample sizes are 1290 men and 1410 women. The primary outcome is the participant choice of their preferred management strategy: no immediate treatment (prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based monitoring or active surveillance using PSA, MRI, biopsy with delayed treatment for disease progression) versus immediate treatment (prostatectomy or radiation therapy). Secondary outcomes include preferred management choice (from the four options listed above), diagnosis anxiety, management choice anxiety and management choice at a later time point (for participants who initially choose a monitoring strategy).ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Ethics approval has been received from The University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee (2023/572). The results of the study will be published in a peer-reviewed medical journal and a plain language summary of the findings will be shared on the Wiser Healthcare publications page http://www.wiserhealthcare.org.au/category/publications/ TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBERS: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ID 386701 and 386889).</p

Reform of Budgeting for Acquisition: Lessons from Private Sector Capital Budgeting for the Department of Defense

Proceedings Paper (for Acquisition Research Program)The ongoing replacement of Department of Defense (DoD) capital assets, as well as other much needed capital investments, will likely take place during a time of decreasing, or at least slowly growing financial resources over the long term. Some of this is due to the growth of entitlements, some to the size of the predicted deficit. Still another pressure is the long-term cost of military activity in Afghanistan and Iraq, predicted by CBO to be $450 billion over the next ten years. In addition, the Department of Defense is in the midst of an era of ''transformation'' under Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) Donald Rumsfeld that calls for the modernization of DoD warfighting doctrine, capital goods and business systems. The budgeting system has already been modified during Rumsfeld''s tenure (McCaffery & Jones, 2004, p. 403-435). Occasionally, it has been argued that the federal government and other public agencies should adopt ''corporate'' methods of budgeting to include the use of separate capital and operating budgets that are prevalent in the private sector. In the past, this argument has not made much progress, but the current trends enumerated above move us to consider that this argument should be revisited. It is clear that significant changes would have to occur in the present system if private budgeting methods were adopted by the DoD and other public organizations, but there are examples of public organizations that have made this leap, as the governments of New Zealand and Australia, as well as most of the states in the US have at least adopted some private budgeting methods with varying degrees of success.Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research ProgramApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

And Still They Smooch : Erotic Visions and Re-visions in Postmodern American Fiction

The softening of censorship in the United States during the 50's and 60's has given virtually unlimited freedom to the novelists as concerns sex. This freedom has had two different results : it has allowed a more realistic representation of sex on the one hand, and it thas encouraged some writers, specifically the « postmodernists », to use sex as a metaphor for something else, for example the relationship between the writer and his text, or between reader and writer, etc... This essay examines this process of « metaphorization » through the following works of fiction : William Gass's Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife, Robert Coover's Spanking the Maid, Steve Katz's « Female Skin, » Ted Mooney' s Easy Travel to Other Planets, and Alexander Theroux's Darconville's Cat.And Still They Smooch : Visions et ré-visions erotiques dans la fiction postmoderne américaine. L'assouplissement de la censure aux Etats-Unis dans les années 50 et 60 a donné aux romanciers une liberté quasi infinie en matière de sexe. Cette liberté a eu deux effets différents : d'une part elle a permis une représentation plus réaliste du sexe, d'autre part elle a encouragé certains écrivains, les « postmodernes » notamment, à utiliser le sexe comme métaphore d'autre chose, par exemple de la relation entre l'écrivain et son texte, le lecteur et l'écrivain, etc.. Cet essai examine ce processus de métaphorisation à travers les œuvres de fiction suivantes : Willie Master's Lonesome Wife de William Gass, Spanking the Maid de Robert Coover, « Female Skin » de Steve Katz, Easy Travel to Other Planets de Ted Mooney, et Darconville's Cat d'Alexander Theroux.McCaffery Larry. And Still They Smooch : Erotic Visions and Re-visions in Postmodern American Fiction. In: Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, N°20, mai 1984. Sexualité, érotisme dans la littérature américaine. pp. 275-287

Anything can happen : interviews with contemporary American novelists /

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