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This chapter covers A Hero Never Dies, Running out of Time, The Mission, PTU (an acronym for Police Tactical Unit) and Breaking News which carry Johnnie To's name as the solo director. A Hero Never Dies marks the phase in the Milkyway company where the credit “Directed by Johnnie To” re-appears after a brief period in which To functioned as the chief executive overseeing the production of Milkyway's films rather than merely directing the films. Running out of Time and The Mission were both released in 1999 in the wake of the HKIFF tribute, and both films had the effect of confirming To's newly found status as a stand-alone auteur. PTU and Breaking News, released in 2003 and 2004 respectively, are mature examples of To's work in the genre and they show a tendency towards formalism — a sign that To was taking his status as auteur more seriously. To is considered a craftsman auteur, one able to craft superb sequences and integrate them seamlessly into the narratives.

This chapter discusses the reasons for forgetting. Mourning is necessary but impossible, necessary and impossible. For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a successful work of mourning is not an act of infidelity. The book with Roudinesco is rich and strange not least for its elisions, crossed wires and missed connections. It also considers the nature of reason and forgetting. In Shakespeare's ‘The Time Is Out of Joint’, it is argued that the question not just of mourning but of ‘the time of mourning’ is ‘finally the true subject of the play’. It is a provocatively political reading of Shakespeare's play. Forgetting is the very mise en scène of Shakespeare's play. Hamlet's suffering memory indicates a dismantling of the priority of the logos or ‘discourse of reason’. The memory of Jacques Derrida will be placed in the heart.

For many listeners today, the original sequencing of songs on LP albums, and the impact of that sequencing on the experience of albums as integrated totalities, are no longer relevant considerations. This chapter argues, however, that those considerations were important for Bob Dylan when he fashioned his LP albums, and that their importance for him has continued into the CD era. Examinations of the LP albums The Times They Are a-Changin’ and Blood on the Tracks, and of the CDs Time Out of Mind and Rough and Rowdy Ways, are presented to validate this viewpoint and to offer encouragement to listeners who wish to go beyond experiencing Dylan’s work in terms of individual songs only.

This chapter describes the Youth Program Quality Intervention (YPQI), a setting-level intervention model designed to raise quality in out-of-school time programs. The YPQI takes managers and staff from a network of youth programs through a process of identifying and addressing strengths and areas for improvement, using a standardized assessment tool. This tool operationalizes a definition of program quality based on providing youth access to key developmental experiences. Descriptive findings about the quality of youth programs are presented. A three-level model of settings also addresses system accountability, management, and the point of service in youth programs. The chapter discusses accountability structures ranging from low stakes to higher stakes, and presents a generic model for setting change.

Youth-focused community organizing — a process of developing leadership and building power for young people with the goal of creating change — provides a valuable context for understanding setting-level interventions. Collective activity, a focus on issues directly impacting youth, research and analysis of the cause of problems faced, and efforts to exert power to change conditions creating the identified problem, characterize youth organizing. Drawing on the model of a national organizing network, this chapter describes an approach to altering the pattern of relationships among youth within a setting. By altering the specific pattern of connections among youth in various settings, important outcomes are expected to emerge regarding both youth participation and their capacity to affect external environments. Through the use of network analysis, the magnitude and type of setting change can be measured. Examples of youth organizing outcomes and implications for conceptualizing setting-level interventions are provided.

This chapter concentrates on Bob Dylan's last record and how it will carry his whole career. By consistently living and writing and playing, Dylan burdens himself with the obligation not just to meet but to elevate the standard of his greatness. If it is ever really concluded that Dylan is done being Dylan, as was thought during the time of the Christian records, and the seemingly unremarkable stretches between Infidels (1983) and Oh Mercy, and Time Out of Mind, a devaluation of the entire career will occur. Every new record will be the measure of existing potency. And now, six decades into this career, the new record might really be the last record—so the pressure becomes more intense.

This chapter first picks up and develops three strands in Dave Brubeck’s biography, which were introduced in the opening chapters of the book: the Quartet’s work with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, Brubeck’s involvement in issues of civil rights, and Dave and Iola Brubeck’s efforts to bring The Real Ambassadors to fruition. The balance of the chapter considers the early critical reception of Time Out, sketches the outlines of its four sequels (Time Further Out, Countdown: Time in Outer Space, Time Changes, and Time In), and examines the circumstances surrounding the dissolution of the Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1967.

The chapter examines the dynamics between judicial and legislative politics in the EU regulation of working time. The case study unfolds the process through which the Working Time Directive was initially adopted, and how subsequently the definition of working time as laid down in the directive was seriously disrupted by legal interpretations. The political responses to legal integration are then investigated by tracing why judicial influence on the policy output was ultimately rejected, despite intense and prolonged interaction between political actors and social partners.

Chapter 7 explores the ethical potential of dialogic storytelling, in dialogue with David Grossman’s To the End of the Land (2008) and Falling Out of Time (2011). It analyzes how storytelling animated by an ethos of dialogue—involving receptivity, responsivity, and openness—functions as a mode of non-subsumptive understanding, whereas subsumptive narratives, examined here against the backdrop of the Israel-Palestine conflict, tend to reinforce harmful cultural stereotyping. In relation to theories of the dialogical self and Bracha Ettinger’s and Judith Butler’s work on trans-subjectivity and vulnerability, the chapter contributes to an ethics of relationality that articulates the primacy of the dialogic space with respect to individual subjects, our implicatedness in violent histories, our fundamental dependency on one another, as beings capable of and vulnerable to violence, and the potential of dialogic storytelling to create trans-subjective narrative in-betweens that make possible new modes of experience and transformative, agency-enhancing encounter-events.

Corporal punishment is illegal in many countries yet remains a core disciplinary practice in countless American families. The current debate often finds itself drawn along political lines, despite a fairly vast literature that finds little to support spanking. A lack of short-term effectiveness coupled with evidence that corporeal punishment leads to worse child behavior has led most child experts to discourage parents from using it. Indeed, some have even moved to condemn what were considered less harsh techniques like time-outs, although here the evidence is weaker. Lacking in many of these arguments is the consideration of several “it depends” factors that may be playing an important role in the degree that corporeal punishment results in resentment and feelings of rejection on the part of the child.

When your child has ADHD, the first step in a behaviour modification programme is to observe your child’s behaviour and identify the behaviour you want to change. One of the advantages of medication is that it allows children to be more successful in a behaviour modification programme. Should you need help when working on a behaviour modification programme, do not hesitate to consult your doctor and ask for a referral to a psychologist. This chapter describes behaviour modification in the management of ADHD, including encouraging good behaviour so it can be rewarded, how to reward good behaviour, how to discourage undesirable behaviour, and important considerations in a behaviour modification plan.

This chapter offers a reading of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick’s 1959 novel Time out of Joint, which turns on the defensive functioning of a psychotic delusional system in its encapsulated form. Dick borrows this form of the encapsulation of his system from Daniel P. Schreber. Time out of Joint is the first Dick novel to include explicitly identified psychotic states in the mix of future worlds with words that raise metaphysical questions against the void, like ghosts. Dick includes Christianity among all the frames of reference he traverses, sunken ruins mired in the so-called tomb world. It is fundamental to Dick’s narratives that all the frames of reference can be maintained as throwbacks that survive in the present tense of an indefinite number of parallel settings.