Distance and Proximity in Service to the Empire: Ulster and New Zealand between the Wars

This essay uses the concepts of ‘distance’ and ‘proximity’ to investigate and assess perceptions of community, nation and empire in inter-war New Zealand and Ulster (as well as Ireland and Northern Ireland) within a British imperial context, and explores the extent to which service of the empire (for example in the First World War) promoted both notions of imperial unity and local autonomy. It focuses on how these perceptions were articulated in the inter-war years during visits to Northern Ireland by three New Zealand premiers – Massey, Forbes and Coates – and to New Zealand by the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Lord Craigavon. It discusses the significant ways in which distance from their ‘home base’ and proximity to expatriate communities (in Craigavon's case) and Irish unionists and nationalists (in the case of the New Zealand premiers) inflected public statements during their visits. By examining these inter-war visits and investigating the rhetoric used and the cultural demonstrations associated with them, the factors of both distance and proximity can be used to evaluate similarities and difference across two parts of the empire. Thus, we can throw some light on the nature and dynamics of British imperial identity in the early twentieth century.

The History of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts : sixty years of service to the federal judiciary /

"January 2000."

A half century of cable service to the three Americas.

"Waldseemuller world map of 1507" on lining-papers.

Johns-Manville service to the oil industry.

Mode of access: Internet.

From Packard to Perry : a quarter century of service to the defense acquisition community /

"June 1996."

"Black Hawks", three decades of service to the nation : a brief history of the 86th United States Army Reserve Command.

Mode of access: Internet.

Johns-Manville service to the iron and steel industry.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Auditor's Office : its service to the people of Illinois /

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Free masonry : its pretensions exposed in faithful extracts of its standard authors : with a review of Town's speculative masonry : its liability to pervert the doctrines of revealed religion : discovered in the spirit of its doctrines and in the application of its emblems : its dangerous tendency exhibited in extracts from the Abbé Barruel and Professor Robison : and further illustrated in its base service to the illuminati /

"A list of masonic authors quoted in this work, to illustrate the character of free masonry"--P. [v].

Social security : need to improve postentitlement service to the public : report to the Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives /

"B-249655"--P. 1.

NOAA, a young agency with an historic tradition of service to the nation

Mode of access: Internet.

Recreational transit service to the California Santa Monica Mountains : final report /

Performed by Crain and Associates, Inc. under contract to the Transportation Systems Center.

Australian Property Institute Inc, Submission to the Productivity Commission on Intellectual Property Arrangements – Issues Paper

This submission responds to the document Intellectual Property Arrangements Issues Paper (Issues Paper) released by the Productivity Commission in October 2015 for public consultation and input by 30 November 2015. The API is grateful for the extension of time granted by the Commission to complete and lodge this submission. The overall need for an inquiry into intellectual property is supported by API. In particular it is noted with approval that the Commission states in its Issues Paper that it is to consider the appropriate balance between “incentives for innovation and investments, and the interests of both individuals and businesses in assessing products”.1 However, API is of the view that intellectual property in the area of real property presents a number of issues which are not fully canvassed in the abovementioned Issues Paper. Intellectual property embedded in valuation and other property-related reports of API members involves the acquisition of information which may possibly be confidential. Yet, when engaged in banks and financial institutions the intellectual property in such valuations and/ or reports is commonly required to be passed to the client bank or financial institution. In the Issues Paper it is proposed that there are seven different forms of intellectual property rights.2 It is the view of API that an eight form exists, namely private agreements. The Issues Paper, however, regards private agreements between firms as alternatives to intellectual property rights. The API considers that “secrecy or confidentiality arrangements”3 as identified in the Issues Paper form a much larger part of the manner in which intellectual property is maintained in Australia for the purposes of trade secrecy or more often, financial confidentiality...

Business to employee (B2E) e-business model : service to employees or organisational management?

This paper is a discussion of the B2E e-business model from the perspectives of employee services and organisational management. It includes literature to support B2E as employee services and organisational management with benefits to both. Intranets and portals are technologies supporting the implementation of the B2E e-business model which are also discussed. A case study is included to understand the application of the B2E model in a large organisation. Case study analysis indicates that the B2E e-business model is a service to the employees, however, these services are to support organisational efficiencies.

Captured by the game : might a focus on the ‘therapeutic relationship’ diminish the attention we give to the client’s intimate network?

A recent project sought to clarify how psychotherapists and mental health workers understand psychosocial health and pathology. In this enquiry, I paid particular attention to the client’s interpersonal networks: did the professionals actively consider, and if so to what extent, ‘intimate social and family relationships’ in constructing their understanding of the presenting problem and in the process they used for goal setting. Twenty-two semi-structured interviews were undertaken, eleven with psychotherapists and eleven with mental health workers. Across both groups, interviewees tended not to see their clients as embedded, relational entities, but primarily, often quite exclusively, as autonomous beings. Second, interviewees accorded a high value to the importance of ‘the therapeutic relationship’. Is it possible that the emphasis practitioners place on ‘the therapeutic relationship’ has the effect of marginalising the attention that is given to the client’s significant-other network