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Reports on the Annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union held in December 2003 in San Francisco. Outlines some of the topics covered, including an update on Total Mapping Ozone Spectrometer technology which investigates destruction of the ozone layer and a poster session on alternative careers for geoscientists.

Reports on the 227th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) which took place at the end of March 2004 in Anaheim, California. Notes that the national meeting of the society is held twice a year, and is a working meeting of the membership, most of whom are involved in chemical research in the industrial and academic sectors; notes also that the range of topics at this meeting varied widely. Outlines several of the papers presented, including one which the author delivered. The highlight of the whole conference for the author was a presentation in the General Papers session “New ways to integrate data and information”, which discussed the organization of information and how to improve access performance by using federated data sources, linking using data wrappers, application software and user defined libraries, and database extenders.

Outlines the topics covered at the 2003 National Meeting of the GeoScience Information Society (GSIS) in Seattle, November 2003, which also included the announcement of the launch of GeoScience World, an aggregator resource for research and communications in geological and earth sciences on the Internet.

Man has been seeking an ideal existence for a very long time. In this existence, justice, love, and peace are no longer words, but actual experiences. How ever, with the American preemptive invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq and the subsequent prisoner abuse, such an existence seems to be farther and farther away from reality. The purpose of this work is to stop this dangerous trend by promoting justice, love, and peace through a change of the paradigm that is inconsistent with justice, love, and peace. The strong paradigm that created the strong nation like the U.S. and the strong man like George W. Bush have been the culprit, rather than the contributor, of the above three universal ideals. Thus, rather than justice, love, and peace, the strong paradigm resulted in in justice, hatred, and violence. In order to remove these three and related evils, what the world needs in the beginning of the third millenium is the weak paradigm. Through the acceptance of the latter paradigm, the golden mean or middle paradigm can be formulated, which is a synergy of the weak and the strong paradigm. In order to understand properly the meaning of these paradigms, however, some digression appears necessary.

In the current chapter, we examine the nature, distribution and experiences of probation in Canada. More specifically, drawing upon in-depth interviews with probationer loved ones, we examine the experiences of what we refer to as secondary supervision. The concept captures how individuals with a loved one (i.e. family member or partner) on probation understand, make sense of and feel affected by their loved one’s probation order. Complementing existing literature on the collateral consequences of incarceration or ‘secondary prisonization’, we show how secondary supervision burdens probationer loved ones mentally and emotionally as they must navigate the uncertainties of their loved one’s legally precarious status. We highlight the necessity of expanding probation research and of our thinking about ‘mass supervision’ to consider the collateral and unintended consequences of community-based supervision.

This paper reflects on the divorce between The Archer’s Shula and Alistair Hebden Lloyd. It considers in particular Shula’s main reason for the separation (‘I just don’t love you anymore’) and her inability to explain any further (‘It’s just how I feel’). It does so by bringing Shula in conversation with the British philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, who was an avid listener to The Archers. Love is for Murdoch a moral virtue, though she is also aware of its trappings. I shall use the recent scholarly debate on the love in Murdoch’s work to help Shula reflect on her claim.