National cinema or creative industries? Film policy in transition

In 2002, ‘film’ consolidated a position within municipal governance as part of the Brisbane City Council’s economic development program based on the ‘new economy’ understanding of the role of the city as the physical location of commercial and cultural activity. This positioning of film within the notion of industry clustering, and the acknowledgment that production technologies of film and television share a common ground with games development, and other forms of leisure software, represent a fundamental departure from the precepts of the traditional national cinema model. Are creative industries discourse and cluster logic opening up a new field of governance for film policy? How does this translate to the state and federal levels if policy is to become more accommodating to the structures and dynamics of specific regional locations? This paper examines two Queensland approaches to creative industries discourse and cluster logic as a way of understanding the impact this move to a ‘global knowledge-based economy’ will have on the traditional policy framework

Qualified Common Law Privilege for News Reporters in Criminal Cases—State v. Rinaldo, 102 Wn. 2d 749, 689 P.2d 392 (1984)

In State v. Rinaldo, the Washington Supreme Court extended the news reporter\u27s qualified common law privilege to criminal cases. This extension will adequately protect most confidential information held by reporters. In some cases, however, defendants will be able to defeat the qualified privilege announced in Rinaldo. The Washington courts should then construe article 1, section 5 of the Washington State Constitution to require in camera inspection of the information sought. The trial judge should order disclosure only upon concluding that the defendant\u27s interest in obtaining the information outweighs the news reporter\u27s interest in confidentiality

Three New Exceptions to the Employment at Will Doctrine—Thompson v. St. Regis Paper Co., 102 Wn. 2d 219, 685 P.2d 1081 (1984)

In Thompson v. St. Regis Paper Company, the Washington Supreme Court limited the employer\u27s right to discharge at will employees by carving out three specific exceptions to the at will rule. This approach is a tentative step toward protection of the interests of employees in Washington. However, because many unjustly discharged employees will be unable to frame a complaint that falls within one of these narrow exceptions, the Thompson decision falls short of a comprehensive solution to the problem of unfair discharge

Corporate Negligence Actions Against Hospitals—Can the Plaintiff Prove the Case?

This Comment first explains the theory of corporate negligence as adopted in Washington and describes the role of a hospital\u27s quality review committees in fulfilling the hospital\u27s corporate duty. It then reviews present law on the use of committee records in litigation. Next, this Comment considers the conflict between the goals of protecting medical staff committee records and permitting recovery in corporate negligence actions. It concludes that medical staff committee records should be protected from discovery in hospital corporate negligence actions and that the evidentiary use of hospital quality review committee records should be prohibited as well. Because this extended protection will create proof problems for hospital corporate negligence plaintiffs, this Comment proposes that the court adopt an in camera review proceeding to permit such plaintiffs access to hospital records of former patients of the physician whose alleged negligence caused the plaintiff\u27s injury

Functional behavioral assessment: an evaluation of continuing education variables related to support staff use in school settings

There is an increasing need to address behavioral issues in the public schools. School psychologists and other support staff frequently consult with teachers and parents when students exhibit a variety of academic or behavioral problems, yet children with severe emotional disturbance (SED) or behavior disorders (BD) are often considered to present some of the most difficult cases (Shapiro, 1991). School districts are facing growing expectations to include all students; however many support staff do not have the training or resources to implement interventions that are effective for students with histories of aggression, self injury and property destruction (O\u27Neill, William, Sprague, Homer, & Albin, 1993);The use of functional behavioral assessment to reduce the challenging behaviors of individuals with developmental disabilities is well documented in the research literature. The majority of the studies that rely on functional behavioral assessment have focused on challenging behavior with relatively few reported on students of average intelligence with emotional/behavioral disorders (Gable, 1996). The research base is promising in indicating that functional behavioral assessments can occur in the school setting, but the research has not addressed training relative to support staff developing skills in functional behavioral assessment and subsequent intervention development;This study is designed to extend the application of functional behavioral assessment procedures to school settings using the schools\u27 assigned support staff. The purpose of the study was to evaluate and compare continuing education variables related to staff development model. A pretest-posttest design with quasi-random assignment was utilized to compare a one day inservice model, with an on-going inservice model of four sessions with homework practice and feedback. A wait control group was also included;Results indicated that on measures of acceptance, attitude, and knowledge all groups improved from pretest to posttest as a result of training. There were no significant differences found due to model of training. Incentives were a key factor in completion of case studies

Kinematic Analysis of Peak Velocities in the Breaststroke as a Function of the Timing of the Kick.

M.S. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2018

Using Student Voice to Identify Promising Practices in Social Emotional Learning

This qualitative study used responses to a large-scale survey on school experiences to identify schools where the students themselves reported above average scores on constructs of social emotional learning. The study looked at schools where the students reported above average results for several years in an attempt to answer the following questions: 1.What are the policies and practices of these schools specifically related to providing social emotional supports to students? 2.How do leaders in these schools describe their approach to providing social emotional support for their students? How do leaders assess their own perspectives, attitudes, decision-making and actions toward diverse student populations? To what do they attribute their schools\u27 higher than average SEL scores? 3.What does an analysis of student responses in these schools show in terms of social emotional support provided by their schools? What do students report of their experience? The study looked at schools where students reported above average positive responses to survey questions on four social emotional learning (SEL) constructs for 4 years. Of the 10 schools that qualified, four agreed to participate. In order to examine the policies and practices of these schools, the researcher analyzed public documents from each school and conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with teachers and school leaders. The findings show that the administrators and teachers at the schools supported students\u27 social emotional development by leveraging resources and acknowledging the need to promote equity. They incorporated SEL into the school culture through ongoing professional development, school wide practices, and intentional instruction in the competencies

The Written Word

Exhibition Notes, Number 20, Fall 2002. The Written Word brings together pages from medieval manuscripts and early printed works, giving a sample of the various types of books created between 1100 and 1550. Individual pages were a popular way, especially in the earlier part of the 20th century, for museums and libraries to acquire representative collections, and many of The RISD Museum’s manuscript leaves were acquired as such a group in 1943.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/risdmuseum_journals/1026/thumbnail.jp