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Previous College: Indiana, '18
Trevor Swartz joined the Sacramento State men's soccer program in July of 2019, prior to the start of the 2019 soccer season. Swartz comes to the Hornets after an excellent career with Indiana. He has also played with both Toronto FC (USL) and Saint Louis FC U23 (PDL).
In four seasons with Indiana, Swartz appeared in 82 total matches while making 58 starts, including a career-best 25 starts in 2017. During his senior season (2018), Swartz played in 24 matches while starting 18. During that year, he led all of the NCAA with 16 total assists, four more than any other player in Div. I men's soccer. He was named to the Second Team all-Big 10 and finished second on the Hoosiers in total points with 18.
Swartz helped lead his team to the NCAA Div. I men's soccer national title game in 2017 and to the semifinals in 2018. He was a three-time all-academic, a three-time Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week selection, a three-time College Soccer News National Team of the Week selection, and a one-time Big 10 Offensive Player of the Week.
Following his career with Indiana, Swartz played for Toronto FC of the United Soccer League. He appeared in six matches for Toronto, making four starts, and totaling 361 minutes. Swartz also played for the Saint Louis FC U23 in the Player Development League in 2017. He appeared in three matches for Saint Louis (269 minutes).
A native of Camerona Park, Calif., Swartz has two older brothers, who both also played and coach collegiate soccer. Austin, who played at Humboldt, was the Hornets' previous Volunteer Assistant before taking an assistant position at Chico State. Connor played at Virginia Tech and served as an assistant coach at Humboldt University in 2017.


Seven years including a two year extension.
The main activities carried out under the project were promotion of privately-run warehousing systems; development of a cocoa marketing information system (MIS); development of a quality assurance and certification system; and development of a system of commodity trade finances.
The overall objective of the project was to improve the functioning of the supply chain in cocoa-producing countries engaged in the process of liberalization of their cocoa sectors, and to ensure full participation of local operators in the physical trading of cocoa, while reducing trade and price risks.
The project established and improved market information systems, warehousing up-country, quality assurance and quality enhancement, and a system of structured trade financing as indispensable components of a viable, efficient and transparent cocoa trade and marketing chain.


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Audible.com has added another benefit for subscribers that I find entertaining. Added at no additional cost, I get two free downloads from a selection of "Audible Originals." These are not free if you click in the general selection of Originals; they have varied prices. Audible presents a curated list, usually six, and I can choose two from the list that has different selections each month. One of my selections this month, February 2019 is Folsom Untold: The Strange True Story of Johnny Cash's Greatest Album by Danny Robbins, narrated by Danny Robbins. It runs two hours and twenty-one minutes over five chapters and has a "Mature Listener's" advisory.
This story revolves around the revival of Johnny Cash's career that was jumpstarted by his appearance in 1968 at Folsom Prison in California. Cash had hits from as early as 1957 but his career was not advancing until his 1968 prison concert. At that concert, he played original music written by a Folsom prison inmate, Glen Sherley. Cash was so impressed by Sherley that he promised Sherley he would not forget the prisoner and would do everything he could to help a person Cash decided was a unique talent.
Cash worked for Sherley's early release and was successful to the point that Sherley was paroled on condition that he would live in the home with Cash and wife June Carter. This audiobook focuses on the similarities of backgrounds between Johnny Cash and Glen Sherley. Both at different periods of their lives were drug addicts. Sherley spent a substantial period of his life in various prisons while this was not true of Johnny Cash. The only time Cash was in prison was when he was giving concerts. Cash did, however, spend several short periods of time in jails and county facilities for offenses usually related to drug and alcohol use.
Once Sherley was released and was living and performing with Johnny Cash and his band, the darker side of Sherley emerged. He was a "career criminal." He had become institutionalized so in addition to a proven proclivity over several years for crime, his behavior included actions necessary for survival in prison. At times he seemed private and taciturn. When responding to any perceived threat, his response could be labeled "over the top." This eventually led Cash to fire Sherley from Cash's band.
Once fired, Sherley spiraled ever downward and sometimes disappeared from the life of his family, on one occasion for three years. Eventually, he would commit suicide. Johnny Cash's life also was a story of fast living and drug addiction but in his case, there was the help of wife June Carter as she tried, with the help of religion, to bring Johnny Cash back to a more "normal" lifestyle.
This is an interesting piece of investigative reporting in which the author sought out living witnesses to comment on myths and urban legends surrounding the life and career of Johnny Cash. I gave the story four stars because I do not believe it achieved what it started out to do. I gave the performance five stars for overcoming so many of the impediments that come with interviewing live sources
And the production was free. Audible.com is worth checking for the many features it currently offers. The first month is free.
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Editor's note: In 2014, Ron Coen of Grimshaw picked up a hitchhiker, an older man who was headed for the NWT to look for work. As he was poorly dressed for the climate there, the Coen family took him and helped him find some better clothing and looked for help for him from government agencies. They managed to find space for him in the Fort St. John Salvation Army Shelter for thirty days. They chronicled their efforts to help him in a letter to the Fairview Post.
Now a family in Ontario has encountered the same man and also helped him out.
Dear Editor, I would like to give a huge, heartfelt "thank you" to Randy and Kellie Coen for having the compassion and courage to take Ron in and get to know him. I'd also like to thank them for taking the time to write this letter to your paper.
Fast forward 3.5 years and there is a new guy at our church picnic in quiet, little Chesterville, Ontario (we don't get many new people). His name's Ron. At the end, he walks away with a sleeping bag. One of the parishoners says he just showed up in town and he doesn't have anywhere to say. What?!?! I go home feeling helpless and ashamed. I should be able to do something! And why am I afraid to get involved?
I see Ron again next weekend. It's hot…stinkin' hot. 35 feels like 45 hot. Ron's been outside for the week. Lost the sleeping bag when he went to Winchester to talk to government services. We whip him up a care package and get him some blankets. One of the local churches is going to put him up in the town hotel for the week.
A couple of camping trips and a couple of weeks later, I see Ron in church. When I talk to him after mass, I find out his hotel stay fell through. He's been outside for the last three weeks! We bring him over for dinner and Ron tells us about some of his past; his time in the Yukon; a bit of his family history; he golfs and used to caddy at a country club back when golf was for the rich.
He's setup in the hotel now for a month. His old age security is supposed to come in this month. His Ontario disability pension ended last month. He came to Chesterville because he had some family in the area. Didn't quite work out the way he hoped. Hopefully he'll be able to get settled here now. He's looking for work and the hotel manager might have some things for him to do.
I did a Google search for Ronald Dowell to see if I could find anything. Got this letter! So now we're not starting from scratch.
The Great Spirit does work in mysterious ways! Ron has now connected some people and two small Canadian communities 4000 km a part.
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Water-quality data for aquifers in east-central New Jersey, 1981-82; 1984; OFR; 84-821; Harriman, D. A.; Voronin, L. M.
Data are presented in tables for 238 wells representing nine aquifers underlying the New Jersey Coastal Plain. Approximately two-thirds of these wells are screened in the unconfined Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system, the principal source of groundwater in the study area. In addition, seven local streams were sampled in their headwaters under base flow conditions. Field measurements include water temperature, specific conductance, pH, and alkalinity; laboratory determinations include common inorganic ions, nutrients, trace metals, dissolved organic carbon, and volatile organic compounds. Other tables include lithology and hydrologic characteristics of geologic units, well-construction data, and median and extreme values of constituents [...]
Data are presented in tables for 238 wells representing nine aquifers underlying the New Jersey Coastal Plain. Approximately two-thirds of these wells are screened in the unconfined Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system, the principal source of groundwater in the study area. In addition, seven local streams were sampled in their headwaters under base flow conditions. Field measurements include water temperature, specific conductance, pH, and alkalinity; laboratory determinations include common inorganic ions, nutrients, trace metals, dissolved organic carbon, and volatile organic compounds. Other tables include lithology and hydrologic characteristics of geologic units, well-construction data, and median and extreme values of constituents in water of the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system. A plate shows all sampling sites and presents three hydrogeologic sections delineating subsurface relationships. (USGS)
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More investment for cyclists and walkers is the rallying call
Pedal for Parliament saw thousands of cyclist and walkers converge on The Meadows in Edinburgh
Campaigners are set to mass march and bike ride on Scotland's Parliament to call for greater investment in walking and cycling and safer conditions on Scotland's roads.
Saturday, April 23 will once more see thousands of people gather in Edinburgh to ride and march through the heart of Edinburgh to Holyrood.
In the run-up to the Scottish Government elections, the demonstration is part of a wider umbrella campaign to keep walking and cycling high on the political agenda for May 5.
Pedal on Parliament has joined forces with umbrella campaign 'We Walk, We Cycle, We Vote' to press for 10 per cent of the transport budget to be invested in active travel, in line with the recommendations by public health experts across the UK.
Transport Minister Derek McKay announced increased spending for walking and cycling at last year's Pedal on
Parliament, but it still only amounts to 1.8 per cent of the transport budget - and the latest draft budget has actually cut money for active travel.
Organiser Sally Hinchcliffe said: "This election is about the sort of Scotland we want to live in. With obesity rising, pollution choking our cities and increasingly destructive storms battering our shores, it's clear that we cannot continue simply building more roads and increasing our car dependency.
Our politicians need to choose a different path and follow countries like Denmark and the Netherlands in creating people-friendly towns and cities where everyone can walk or cycle if they want to, something that will benefit us all."
Pedal for Scotland has an eight-point manifesto it is calling for: Proper funding for cycling (5% of the transport budget and 10% for active travel overall); Design cycling into Scotland's roads; Slower speeds where people live, work and play; Integrate cycling into local transport strategies; Improved road traffic law and enforcement; Reduce the risk of HGVs to cyclists and pedestrians; A strategic and joined-up programme of road user training; And improved statistics supporting decision-
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'To Preserve and to Protect: Policing Colonial Brisbane' - Book Review
Anastasia Dukova's To Preserve and Protect: Policing Colonial Brisbane is a very readable look at law and order in 19th-century Queensland.
This is no straightforward 'history of the police' reference book because the story is told from several different perspectives, an approach which gives the reader a much broader view of colonial life.
Outside the Indigenous presence, colonial Queensland was a migrant society, and Dukova's background (she holds a PhD in crime and policing history from the University of Dublin, Trinity College) means she is tuned into the direct personal and cultural connections between the streets of Dublin, London, and early Brisbane.
This opening chapter is about Peter 'Duff' Murphy, an Irish ex-convict who in 1846 became the first district policeman for Kangaroo Point, and in the 1860s presided over the local police court in Ipswich. The story neatly covers convict life and the struggles of early policing, and the frequent overlap between the two. It is also a tidy example of one of those personal colonial journeys from criminality to social respectability.
Then we get to see policing develop further in the township with Englishman Samuel Sneyd, who had a much more orthodox career in the ranks of the military, police, and prison service. The Sneyd family ended up having a long association with the prison service and I'm pretty familiar with that side of their lives, so I particularly appreciated seeing their earlier story fleshed out more here.
There are chapters on the life of Queensland's first detective (Samuel Lloyd), and the career of an ordinary beat policeman (Thomas Tyrell) during the 1860s-'80s, highlighting the different paths to be taken within the police service itself.
19th-century female criminality (a subject I have researched and written about in the past) is viewed through the life of Susan McGowan, an all-too-typical tale of a life filled with petty crime and alcohol that was the lot of the vast majority of female prisoners of the late 19th century. The we jump to the birth of the Criminal Investigation Branch in the 1890s is with the story of detective and police prosecutor James Nethercote.
Finally there is the story of Charles Durant, an habitual criminal who spent a big part of his life in places such as the St Helena Island penal establishment and the prisons at Petrie Terrace and Boggo Road.
These perspectives work well together, allowing the author to humanise the people involved while also touching on the subjects of police and political corruption and mismanagement, and issues of gender, class, and - to a lesser extent - race. To Preserve and Protect was released during the height of the Black Lives Matter protests, when the public mind was more attuned to such history, which left me thinking that a full chapter on colonial police interactions with Aboriginal people would perhaps have been welcome. But that's hindsight.
This mix of very different 'characters' paints a vivid panorama of law and order in 19th-century Queensland. The shifting perspectives keeps the book readable and interesting, and the thorough academic research and deep dives into primary documents gives the information an important sense of reliability.
To Preserve and Protect: Policing Colonial Brisbane has been published by the University of Queensland Press. Thanks to UQP for providing the review copy.
A Flood of Lies
A 'Ghost Tour' is not a 'History Tour'. No matter what the marketing spin and branding, they are not History. At least, the ones we have in Brisbane aren't.
I get that ghost tours have a historical 'feel' and can potentially be used to successfully convey an understanding of historical events to the customers, but what happens if the events described in the tour are embellished with fabricated details, or - even worse - they never happened at all? Then it's not History... it's fiction.
I will use one example of fake history to make my point. This is told on a ghost tour at the South Brisbane Cemetery. The rest of the tour is full of serious problems regarding accuracy (to put it politely), but this one is perhaps the most egregious and harmful.
The tour story in question involves the Brisbane River floods of 1893. Paying customers are told that that those floods ripped through the cemetery and washed out graves, including coffins and bodies. Multiple body parts were later found scattered, but it was too hard to identify which grave (or body) each belonged to and so they were placed together in coffins and reburied.
Sketch of the flooding at South Brisbane Cemetery, 1893.
The real history is rather different. The primary records show that the steamer Midge passed the cemetery on 7 February 1893 and a passenger reported that 'in the lower part of the South Brisbane cemetery many tombstones had fallen altogether or out of plumb.' This was to be expected as debris in the swiftly-moving waters knocked into monuments. On another trip shortly afterwards it was claimed that, 'On the South Brisbane side a landslip has occurred, and undoubtedly some graves have disappeared, and gravestones are strewn all about.'(1) The part about the graves 'disappearing' was just speculation, but it prompted cemetery trustee Joseph Baynes to visit the cemetery the very next day to assess the damage for himself.
He noted that, 'On examination I find that no graves have disappeared, but many headstones and other fixings are very much damaged, and persons interested would do well to look after them.'(2)
It is important to remember that the cemetery had only been open for 23 years at this time. It was still new and most of the relatives of those interred in there were still alive. Not only would they have noticed if something was askew (such as grandma not being in her grave any more), it would have been a big story in the newspapers of the day. Baynes would have been immediately found out if what he said was not true.
The floods story also has a typical ghost tours addition, this one involving the body of executed murderer Francis Horrocks, was buried in section 6B (used exclusively for such criminals) in 1892. According to the ghost-tour guide, his body was secretly moved by his (respectable) family to their grave plot in section 11B. There is absolutely no evidence that this move occurred, and the records show Francis' remains are still in 6B. What actually took place was that the prison authorities handed his body over to his parents after his hanging, so they could oversee the funeral themselves, but he was nevertheless still interred inside section 6B. The tour guide then claims that his body was washed out of the ground in the flood of 1893, with allusions of divine retribution (again, never happened).
But there's more distasteful nonsense here. Customers are informed that the fishing is good in the river because substance from the human remains in the ground leaks into the river (somehow) and the fish feed on it. Again, there is no historical or scientific evidence to back this up.
So the tour story is, in the absence of actual evidence, basically fictional, like one of those (very loosely) 'based on a true story' movies. Yet it has real-world ramifications because unsuspecting people believe it. My colleague Tracey Olivieri has met people who have found their ancestor's graves near the river and, because it was unmarked, thought this might have happened to them. They were in tears over it. Until they were told the truth. We also see - far too many times - people writing online that 'graves were washed away in the flood'.
As the current political climate shows, facts matter. We might disagree on interpretations of meaning in history, but it is important that we have a shared reality. The flood of 1893 did happen, but there is zero evidence to suggest that it washed bodies out of the South Brisbane Cemetery. And evidence is a cornerstone of the practice of history. As we skeptics say, 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence'. As a professional historian, I could never make claims such as these without proof. 'Old timers say' just doesn't cut it.
This is not History, and if there is any place that should have its history treated with some respect, it is a cemetery. Its primary significance lies in its important spiritual and familial values, a keeping-place of love and memory. These stories make a mockery of that.
Personally, I'd argue that the Brisbane City Council's 'duty of care' for a place that they still market as a place of interment should extend to ensuring that tour operators can't just make stuff up to sell as History there.
Of course, if the scriptwriter can provide any hard evidence to show I'm mistaken, I'd be happy to acknowledge that. And if the tour operator cannot do so, then in my opinion they should not be allowed anywhere near a cemetery.
(1) Brisbane Courier, 8 February 1893; Brisbane Courier, 23 February 1893.
(2) Brisbane Courier, 24 February 1893.
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Chris McNeil: How do you advise clients, when they face hurdles in getting engaged in social media?
Evan Kirstel: Frankly it's loosening up a little bit. I mean, you know, there's so many big brands, particularly tech brands, who are so narrow in their thinking that they put such limitations and policies and practices and legal handcuffs on themselves about what they can or can't do -or what's "on brand" versus what's "off brand" - that they come off as completely constricted and artificial. And, their employees aren't comfortable engaging and their executives sort of hide behind the curtain. And the result is they don't get that reach and engagement and goodness that comes from putting themselves out as an organization on social media. So it's a real loss. I mean, I just had a client recently who said, oh, our new policy is "We can only do recorded, approved videos. We can't do anything live. "
And it's a shame because live gets 10, 20, 50 X more reach than prerecorded, highly polished, edited, videos that you see out there from corporations. And so, you know, it's a real challenge, not just for marketing, but for companies in general, right? How do you embrace these younger generations of workers? How do you allow them to be their authentic selves while adhering to corporate practices and policies and programs and, part of that whole return to work return to the office phenomenon. So, you know, it's all part of the same theme, I think.
Chris McNeil: Do you think it's a generation gap issue where above a certain age, people didn't grow up with the internet?
Evan Kirstel: There is a generational shift, but I think it might be even more nuanced than that. Like, you know, my son's 17, there's this gen Z who actually don't put themselves out there as much. It's interesting - I mean, my son and his friends, they're all private on Instagram, they're all using messenger and, you know, you know, Snapchat and they're not putting out their personal lives.
So I don't know, I don't know what to make of it. And a lot of older, middle age and above are actually being more social now than we've ever seen before. So I think the pandemic has really rewritten a lot of the "rules of normal societies" and how we're all engaging and interactive. I think we have to kind of rediscover ourselves to some degree in this new age. And I don't think the traditional stereotypes really apply much anymore.
Chris McNeil: So what do you do when you run into an organization that's very top-down and they want to be successful on social, but fit that archetype of centralized decision making behind closed doors? Maybe with an attitude of "I want to delegate all this and just have someone make it happen." I guess you'd see that as a barrier to the authenticity?
Evan Kirstel: It's, a barrier ... a potential barrier. I mean, you know, in tech it's particularly a barrier because we live and breathe these platforms now and you only have to say, "Look at what your peers, your competitors, your, your colleagues and other verticals are doing."
Look at Mark Benioff from Salesforce. I mean, he's right out there on the bleeding, the cutting edge of social and digital and societal good ... or Michael Dell, who's a founder, the CEO of course, of Dell, is out there with his own Twitter account. So if you're not doing it, you know, your competition or your peers are.
And you know, they're not doing it for kicks and giggles, they're, they're gaining business or competitive edge or mind share or thought leadership. I mean, just look at Tesla with what Musk is doing. I mean, the guy has a hundred million followers,
Chris McNeil: And Tesla has a zero ad budget.
Evan Kirstel: Tesla has like 10 million (followers). Yeah. Right. So shenanigans and anti-society, you know, it's a tremendous marketing advantage.
Social Media For Gaining Audience Insight.
Chris McNeil: How much emphasis do you put on using social media as a way to gain insight into how your audience thinks?
Evan Kirstel: Wow, that, that's a really good question. I never thought of that. I mean, there is this great feedback loop in terms of comments and replies and likes and shares, and you can see what works and doesn't work and, uh, yeah, it exposes a lot. And there even ways to solicit feedback from your audience now. With things like polls on Twitter, you can ask questions and get, you know, feedback at scale. And LinkedIn has a polling feature. There are ways to look at analytics and keywords and hashtags to see what your audience is interested in and who they are. So yeah, constantly, querying your, your audience for feedback and direction is, is a good thing. And it helps you really attract those fans, not just followers, sure, of your content and your work and what you're doing. It's a virtuous circle when you really put through favorite your content and they like it and share it, it just builds, uh, you know, that, that audience, that intensity even more.
I would say it's catering, but definitely know your audience. My audience are techies and geeks and CTOs and sure. Analysts and median journalists. And so I, you know, I make sure I'm somewhat on topic. You know, I don't go off on tangents and rants on stuff, uh, on a day to day basis, but try to serve up content that I think is interesting to me, but aligned with kind of the audience I build.
On Balancing Content Creation and Content Curation.
Chris McNeil: What do you think is a good balance of content creation versus curation?
Evan Kirstel: That's a great question, man. You're, up on the questions. I'd say, um, for me it's about 50-50. You know, when I started my Twitter account, I was mainly curating and sharing and attaching myself to stories and adding color commentary. And that's great. But if you really want to build your own brand, your personal brand and your own thought leadership, you need to put out your content, whether it's written word blogging and or spoken word with podcasting or podcasts or video work with live or recorded video. You need to put out your own own point of view. And I think that becomes even more important over time.
Are Webinars Still Relevant for Thought Leadership Marketing?
Chris McNeil: What do you think about webinars as a way to build an audience and sales for, for example, a tech company that has an innovative app that they want to introduce to the market and that has an audience of tech people?
Evan Kirstel: Yeah, no one wants to attend another webinar, to be honest.
Chris McNeil: Yeah, sure...I'm curious. Is this (webinars) still a thing? Or what do you think their place is?
Evan Kirstel: But I think doing a webinar plus livestream plus live tweeting or live blogging the content is a great strategy. So people don't necessarily have to sign up and give you that email address, but they can. And, alternatively, people can watch and view it on the open web, through a live interface with no signups and no strings attached. So I think there are smarter ways to do webinars than just like the traditional "go to webinar" format that gets 25 people to sign up and marketing ticks the box saying, "okay, I got, got 25 leads". That's really kind of, I think pretty old fashioned way of looking at your, your audience.
Chris McNeil: So you would stack techniques on top of each other that way?
Evan Kirstel: Yeah. Do the webinar, every slide goes out as a live tweet. You live stream the webinar in addition to recording it and, you know, you put the content on everywhere. Don't, don't make it behind a gate where I have to give you all my contact info, you know. If someone volunteers that, great. And I think email marketing is really part of that, but, you know, get your content out there in all the platforms, not just on some gated community.
Chris McNeil: So as a part, as a piece of the strategy, certainly not by itself...
Evan Kirstel: Yeah, and I think some of the old school platforms just aren't very good. Like some of these webinar platforms need updating, they're not very fresh and innovative. And you know, it's, people are watching, it's putting up PowerPoints, and there's really no two way engagement. So some of the Zoom webinars have been more interesting and more participative. Some of the newer tools allow more interaction and that sort of thing, but, you know, B2B is, is still a pretty quiet, old way as a way of doing things... it's pretty old fashioned. So it's not going away.
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Issue 192 15 August 2012
OIG Releases Reports on Three Audits and Four Diagnostic Reviews
In the first week of August, the Office of the Inspector General released seven new reports covering audits conducted in Burundi, Malawi and Ukraine; and diagnostic reviews undertaken in Eritrea, Gambia, Georgia and Peru. The OIG found no evidence of grant funds having been misappropriated. In the audit of grants to Malawi, the OIG identified expenditures of $4 million that it deemed ineligible or unsupported. Malawi has already agreed to pay back at least $3.3 million.
Reports Document Adverse Impacts of Cancelling Round 11
According to two reports recently released, the cancellation of Round 11 has had a significant impact on programmes, particularly those being implemented by civil society organisations. The reports were based on surveys conducted by (a) the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and the Open Society Foundations; and (b) UNAIDS. Programme scale-up and even some essential life-saving interventions that were planned by countries were halted.
Reaction to Spain's Contribution to the Global Fund Is Mixed
Salud por Derecho, a Spanish right to health foundation, and Médecins Sans Frontières have described the contribution to the Global Fund recently announced by Spain as "unreasonably low." An article in GFO 190 had reported that Spain will contribute €10 million for 2012, and that activists and other observers considered it to be a positive development given Spain's current economic situation.
Sub-Saharan African Delegations to the Global Fund Board Introduce Major Reforms
At a consultation meeting convened by Dr Mphu Ramatlapeng, Vice-Chair of the Global Fund Board, the two sub-Saharan African constituencies on the Board made significant changes to the way their representatives are selected and how the constituencies operate. The current rotation-based selection system will be discarded.
OIG Releases Report on Its Investigation of an SR in Bangladesh
In a report released in early July, the Office of the Inspector General said that a sub-recipient in Bangladesh misappropriated $1.9 million of Global Fund money. The SR disagreed with the OIG's findings.
Alleges that $1.9 million was misappropriated
SR disagrees with the findings
In early July, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released its final report on an investigation into Padakhep Manabik Unnayan Kendra (PMUK), a sub-recipient (SR) and a sub-SR for several HIV grants in Bangladesh. The investigation was conducted between May 2011 and March 2012.
PMUK has been working in the fields of micro-credit, education, health, agriculture and environment for 25 years with funds from various international donors. According to the PMUK website, it has more than 20 projects currently underway.
The OIG found that substantial funds were misappropriated during the period from 2004 to 30 November 2009. During this period, PMUK received disbursements of $3,625,428 as an SR for two grants, one from Round 2 and one from Round 6, for which the PR was the Government of Bangladesh. During this period, Save the Children USA (SC) served as a management agent (MA), providing support to the PR in the implementation of the grants. In December 2009, SC became the PR for both grants.
The OIG said that it identified a fraud scheme that was executed by PMUK that resulted in the misappropriation of grant funds totalling at least $1.9 million (52% of the amount disbursed to PMUK). The OIG said that the nature, extent and longevity of the fraud, coupled with what the OIG said were continuous efforts on the part of PMUK to interfere with efforts to investigate the fraud, means that there is a significant risk that the full amount disbursed to PMUK was misappropriated.
Although the OIG said that this is the final report on PMUK, the investigation continues. The OIG is still reviewing expenditures involving other implementers and entities in Bangladesh.
Funds diverted
According to the OIG, the funds were diverted "from program purposes." The OIG said that to conceal its diversion of grant funds, PMUK fabricated accounting books, bank statements, bids, invoices and cheques. The OIG said that PMUK concealed the genuine bank statements and replaced them with fictitious versions of these statements that it created. PMUK then provided the fictitious statements to SC as part of its regular reporting. The OIG said that the bank has attested to the fact that the statements PMUK provided SC were falsified. The OIG said that it identified numerous instances where payments for goods and services appeared on the falsified bank statements, but not on the genuine statements.
The OIG said that PMUK also created fictitious supporting documentation in order to give the appearance of consistency between the (false) bank statements and the supporting documentation.
The OIG said that when it presented samples of falsified procurement documents to the vendors involved, on several occasions the vendors were unable to verify their authenticity. For example, with respect to printing invoices totalling $76,413, "a representative of the vendor said that all of the documents bearing the company's name were not authentic, that no such printing services were rendered, and that the vendor had never received payment."
The OIG said that PMUK made withdrawals from the programme's bank account that did not appear on the falsified bank statements. Because none of the documentation provided by PMUK related to these withdrawals, the OIG concluded (in Paragraph 74 of its report) that "the withdrawals were effectively made for unauthorized purposes, [which] are yet unknown." In Paragraph 76, the OIG said that "it is highly likely that the funds were not used for program purposes." In Paragraph 82, the OIG said that "no evidence has been identified that the funds were used for program purposes."
Although the OIG maintained that the funds were diverted from programme purposes, it was not able to say where the funds were diverted to. Editor's Note: As far as we know, the Global Fund has never indicated any substantive concerns about the programmatic performance of SC or its SRs.
The OIG recommended that all losses (i.e. $1.9 million and possibly more) be recovered from PMUK; that PMUK be banned from receiving any more Global Fund financing; and that the case be transferred to national authorities in Bangladesh for further criminal and civil action "as appropriate."
The OIG noted that it has twice offered PMUK the opportunity to comment on its draft report, but PMUK declined to do so.
Alleged obstruction
The OIG devoted a section of its report to describing efforts by PMUK to obstruct the OIG investigation. The OIG said that it had witnessed systematic efforts by PMUK to prevent the OIG from obtaining the genuine bank statements. The OIG described a meeting on 4 June 2011 with senior PMUK officials at PMUK's offices to obtain Global Fund records maintained on electronic media, as follows:
"Upon requesting and receiving the permission of a senior PMUK official to obtain the records, the investigators began to seek out the relevant staff, only to be told that they had gone to lunch and were not available in the building. A visit, however, to the administration office uncovered that the staff were in fact present, and appeared flustered and otherwise occupied. The OIG was initially denied access to this office, but upon insisting upon the right of entry, the OIG witnessed a relevant staff member running and locking himself in another room. Again, PMUK staff requested the OIG to leave the area, but the OIG refused."
Response to the OIG findings
The OIG said that upon learning of the fraud, SC terminated its contract with PMUK (on 25 September 2011) and advised the Bangladesh Women's Housing Cooperative (BWHC), an SC SR under which PMUK functioned as a sub-SR, to do likewise (on 9 October 2011).
According to the OIG, the Secretariat asked the CCM on two separate occasions to endorse SC's decision to terminate its contract with PMUK. On 2 February 2012, the CCM passed a motion endorsing the termination.
The OIG said that PMUK aggressively opposed the termination. It said that on 27 October, 2011, PMUK management sent a letter to the Ministry of Health and Family Planning alleging that "Save the Children USA, most illegally, unprofessionally and in-transparently terminated subgrants… of PMUK without issuance of any reasons and not following due process."
The OIG added that PMUK ultimately invoked an arbitration clause in its contract with SC. In its statement to the arbitration panel, PMUK alleged wrongful termination and made claims of the equivalent of US$14 million in damages. SC has made a counter claim for damages.
In an article on 29 July 2012 in The Daily Star, a Bangladeshi newspaper, PMUK Executive Director Iqbal Ahammed called the OIG report "one-sided," and said that it contained many errors. Mr Ahammed also said that the OIG had failed to include comments from PMUK in its report.
Mr Ahammed said that if anything was amiss, the PR, SC, was equally responsible since it supervised, monitored and audited the project activities. "Padakhep (PMUK) is going to challenge the report. We have serious comments on the report, but will not give that since the matter is now before a tribunal," he told The Daily Star.
In that same article, Michael McGrath, the Country Director of SC, was quoted as saying that "the evidence is overwhelming" that PMUK has misappropriated not less than $1.89 million of donor funds. "Padakhep has been provided with an opportunity to comment on the draft report. If the OIG did not incorporate the changes requested by Padakhep, I can only assume that it was because they were not convinced as to the accuracy or truthfulness of the information provided by Padakhep," Mr McGrath said.
Mr McGrath termed Padakhep's claim that the PR shared equal culpability for the fraud as "outrageous."
We first reported on this investigation, briefly, iin an article in GFO 189. When we prepared the article in this issue, we invited PMUK to comment, but we did not receive any reply.
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The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann (translated by Jen Calleja)
I've always found something tragically endearing about men who abandon their lives to go in search of themselves. For instance, I'm fascinated by the painter Paul Gauguin who virtually abandoned his middle class family to live and work on his art in self-imposed exile in French Polynesia. You could say there's a philosophical tension here between a man's expression of his free will and his obligations to his family, but it stinks all over of masculine arrogance and pride. It's understandable that an individual wants to be fulfilled, but rather than take constructive steps towards achieving a more satisfactory existence so many men violently tear themselves out of their self-created environments to "find themselves" and start anew. Often women are left with the fallout of their rapid exit: paying their debts or caring for their children. Such is the case in Marion Poschmann's "The Pine Islands" which begins with husband Gilbert Silvester waking from a nightmare that his wife has cheated on him. He viciously confronts her though there is no evidence of an indiscretion. Consumed by his paranoid fantasy he abruptly flies to Japan to follow a the classic poet Bashō's pilgrimage through the rural north of the country. Poschmann hilariously skewers the manly vanity of his chaotic journey while taking seriously his ontological quest for meaning.
There's an atmosphere of humour running throughout the novel as Gilbert pigheadedly marches on his desperate way through the carefully ordered society of Japan. He's running away from Mathilda ignoring her numerous calls or only engaging in brief cryptic phone conversations. But, at the same time, he frequently writes her letters reflecting on the artistic quests of past poets in a way that betrays his intense need for a tender connection and desire for his intellectual ideas to be respected. Gilbert's never achieved the success he longed for as a scholar of the representation of beards in art and film. His failure isn't surprising given his pretentious and crackpot theories on the way beards are perceived and culturally fashioned by homosexuals through the centuries. So his sojourn to Matsuishima (the bay of pine islands) to escape the entrapments of life and compose the most delicately distilled poetry feels more like a way of evading his own feelings of failure rather than progressing to a higher state of being.
Along the way, Gilbert also encounters another man in crisis named Yosa. When Gilbert interrupts Yosa's plan to commit suicide he takes him on as a companion and guide by convincing Yosa he should at least defer his self-annihilation until he's in a suitably beautiful location. Their connection is quite touching as they are in a way both cases of men who've failed society's expectations for achieving success and a certain kind of masculinity. Yosa even goes so far to mask his failure by wearing fake beards. This is also a means of consciously alienating himself from the thriving professional men around him who don't maintain any facial hair if they want to be taken seriously. The trajectory of Gilbert and Yosa's friendship is touching because it shows how they should really find a bond in their different feelings of alienation, but instead fail to connect because of their masculine pride.
It's interesting how Poschmann's writing starts to emulate the poetic striving for profundity of its protagonist as the story progresses. It's difficult to know if this is the author's voice or Gilbert's consciousness seeping through: "They sat on the train as the landscape slid easily by, leaving station after station in their wake. Stationary travelling, action without action. Or a dull, unconscious drifting, like tattered leaves on the wind." Gilbert becomes so intent on fashioning haiku poems in the atmospheric settings he visits along Bashō's trail that it makes sense the story takes on this tone – equally the narrative becomes more hallucinatory as Gilbert increasingly loses the plot. But it does pose a challenging dilemma for the reader to know whether to take these reflective observations seriously or not. I felt it was a shame the novel never fully expresses a justified anger at Gilbert's monstrously self-centred and casually abusive behaviour but instead opts to take him seriously. But overall, I interpreted this novel as a cunning form of satire and immensely enjoyed this aspect of it.
CategoriesMarion Poschmann
TagsThe Pine Islands, Serpent's Tail, book review
Melmoth by Sarah Perry
There's something so invitingly intoxicating about the way Sarah Perry blends the tone of classic Victorian literature with a modern sensibility. Her previous novel "The Essex Serpent" was actually set in the Victorian era and new novel "Melmoth" is set roughly in present-day Prague. But they both employ a self-conscious authorial control over the narrative that contemplates many moral questions while (most importantly) telling a riveting gothic-inflected story at the same time.
"Melmoth" centres around the story of Helen Franklin, an English woman with a guilty secret working as a translator of mundane manuals in the Czech Rep. But the novel also includes many fictional documents from the past detailing Nazi occupations and the forced migration of different ethnicities. All these accounts are tied together with occasional sightings of a figure called Melmoth, a dark-clad woman with bleeding feet who legend claims roams the Earth for eternity seeking to assuage her piteous loneliness. As Helen surveys these documents from different cultures about individuals who make dubious choices in times of political unrest, she gradually confronts her own past and the possibility that Melmoth is now pursuing her.
Helen goes to a dramatic production of the opera Rusalka about a water sprite from Slavic mythology
Perry creates a menacing sense of atmosphere filled with unsettling natural phenomena and things which seem to be lurking in the shadows just out of sight. The question of whether Melmoth is real or not is teased out in quite a unique way where her presence is both feared and invited. At one point Helen contemplates how "I wasn't only scared. I wanted something to be there – I wanted to see something waiting for me – do you think you can long for something that scares you half to death." There's the dark desire to be titillated by what scares us the most and there's the conscience-stricken belief we deserve to be punished. Helen is challenged over the course of this tale to radically confront and judge herself. This is a richly evocative novel that provokes unsettling questions about our obligations to people in need and what we do with our guilt when we're all on our own.
CategoriesSarah Perry
TagsMelmoth, Serpent's Tail
When considering the immeasurable evil of slavery it's difficult to fully fathom the ramifications it had amongst so many individuals' lives. Not only were people's freedom and lives brutally curtailed, controlled and cut short, but their talent and potential was also squandered. Esi Edugyan evocatively portrays the life of George Washington Black or "Wash", a character with the aptitude to be a great artist and scientist were he not born into slavery on a Barbados plantation in 1818. But she grants him the potential to partially foster his talents when he comes under the apprenticeship of an eccentric scientist who is the brother of the plantation owner/overseer. What follows is a fantastically imaginative, heartrending and compulsively readable tale of his journey and growth into early adulthood. It's a richly immersive story that also powerfully shows the perspective of slaves who feel "We had been estranged from the potential of our own bodies, from the revelation of everything our bodies and minds could accomplish." This psychological state is complexly rendered as are the way characters surrounding Wash fail to fully empathize with him and understand the ramifications of slavery. "Washington Black" is an astounding novel.
Edugyan perceptively shows the way that the development of children are so atrociously twisted growing up in slavery, how relationships become perverted and emotionally disrupted. Not only does she portray this in her protagonist but it's also poignantly rendered in the character of a slave girl who is seen only fleetingly, but Wash observes at one point that she has become pregnant and we're left to horrifically wonder how this eleven year old's pregnancy came about. The author also sympathetically shows the challenging emotional state of a boy going through adolescence where new feelings of stimulation are so often mixed with a sense of shame: "I would wake aroused against the sheets, feeling all at once thrillingly alive in my skin, and ashamed." Wash encounters many challenges that prevent him from feeling pride in either his body or mind. His journey is both an inner struggle to fully foster and own his natural gifts as well as a physical quest to survive the confines of his restricted circumstances. Amidst the immediate action of Wash's trials, there are intriguing mysteries in the background which gradually unfold over the course of the book.
Detail from a 1657 map of Barbados, showing plantations and escaped slaves.
I also really appreciated the beautiful writing in this novel, particularly when Edugyan is portraying the natural world and Wash's scientific study of it. Maybe I just have an affinity for scenes in stories that take place under water, but just like Egan's "Manhattan Beach" there's a stunning scene in this book when Wash dives underwater and discovers a liberating space. Edugyan writes "How luminous the world was, in the shallows. I could see all the golden light of the dying morning, I could see the debris in it stirring, coming alive. Blue, purple, gold cilia turned in the watery shafts of light slicing down. In the gilded blur I caught the flashing eyes of shrimp, alien and sinewy… all this I let drop away, so that I hung with my arms suspended at my sides, the soft current tugging at me. The cold sucked at me and the light weakened, and I was finally, mercifully, nothing." It's as if the only place Wash can be liberated from the constrictions of his identity is in this alien underwater world where he can never truly belong.
In its very title this book asks a powerful open-ended question about all the people in history who possessed innate talent and intelligence, but whose skin colour and status dictated whether they realized their potential or were forced to squander it. Even though it's a historical novel it makes a powerful political statement naming its slave hero after the first US president. In this era after Obama's presidency it seems horrifically regressive that the current president is someone who only achieved his position through money and an old-world sense of superiority. It feels like Edugyan is challenging us to consider under what terms we want to found our future: superficial details or real capability? There are so many impactful themes and ideas in "Washington Black", but what makes the novel so gripping are the surprising twists the story takes that left me desperate to discover what will happen next.
CategoriesEsi Edugyan
TagsWashington Black, book review, Serpent's Tail
The Word for Woman is Wilderness by Abi Andrews
Sometimes it can be so difficult to separate my emotional response to a book compared to my critical response. I don't think I necessarily have to which is one of the great things about a book blog! But reading Abi Andrews' debut novel "The Word for Woman is Wilderness" I was even more aware of this dilemma because it's inspired by and about subjects I'm really interested in and sympathetic towards. It's narrated from the perspective of nineteen year old Erin who has a passionate interest in the writing of Thoreau and the life of Christopher McCandless whose tragic journey led to his accidental death in the Alaskan wilderness. This was chronicled in Jon Krakauer's nonfiction book "Into the Wild" and a film with the same name directed by Sean Penn. Erin observes how the famous instances of individuals pioneering into the wilderness to establish a distance from the society whose values they question have all been directed through a men's perspectives. Certainly the experience and perspective of a woman who sets out on such a journey would be very different. So (against her parents' wishes) she ventures out from her home in England to the Alaskan wilderness and chronicles her journey on video with the plan to edit it into a documentary. She states: "if running into the wild is so often a wounded retreat from societal constraints and oppressions, then shouldn't anyone but straight white men be doing it more?" Erin charts the mental and physical struggles she faces on her way while also contemplating both the dynamic distinctions and commonalities between the journey of mankind vs womankind.
The novel is evenly broken up into two sections: Erin's journey through the Arctic circle and hitchhiking across Canada to arrive in Alaska and her time inhabiting a remote cabin in the unpopulated wilderness. But throughout she makes references and draws in concepts from an enormous amount of sources: everything from quantum mechanics to Cartesian philosophy to the history of the Cold War space race to David Attenborough documentaries to the novels of Jack London. Such a dizzying array of topics is impressive and fascinating. It leads her to propose enticing new connections and pose deeply-thoughtful questions. But it has the effect of feeling like you've sat up all night with a fellow university student who is excitedly talking through everything they've been reading about. It can get a bit overwhelming at points and detract from the through line of the narrator's journey. Along the way Erin encounters several fascinating characters from an Icelandic woman she meets on a ship to a Native American who aides her after meeting a nasty trucker to a misogynistic interloper in Alaska. It felt like if Andrews had spent longer developing scenes with these characters and rounding out their personalities the novel would have felt more like a story than a collection of interesting concepts.
Frequent references are made to author and conservationist Rachel Carson
Erin's determined will to enter the wilderness leads the story. There are some beautifully poetic observations about our subjective experience of landscapes and the environment. When viewing the barren icy terrain of Greenland she states "It feels like trespassing to be alive in a place that is not dead but is inexistence, negation of potentiality. Anything alive is only ever passing through." Then, at another point she remarks how "The tundra is always in soliloquy. Mostly it whistles and sings, but now and then the wind will die down suddenly and in the utter silence and still it feels like you are on stage. As though you did not know there were curtains until they just suddenly opened. Then the cacophony of noise again like applause." There are also some great comic moments where she makes wry observations about the nature of travel like trying to understand the native language of a country you've entered through travel books: "I enjoy the narratives of phrase books. They always seem to follow a haphazard protagonist who is forever getting lost and bothering the emergency services."
Of course, it's Erin's inner journey which is the real focus on this novel. She comments how "An esoteric landscape does not help a person to find their way if they are lost; you could walk from the centre of here and never find your way again." It's necessary for her to physically travel in order to arrive at a new place of understanding and radically reform her sense of self. It's also necessary that it's a journey she makes alone: "It is not a casting out with purpose but a getting lost. It is the difference between solitude and loneliness." It's touching how her time in Alaska leads her to reflect much more strongly about her own upbringing and the machinations of her psychology. She's aware of how much she's internalized stories of explorers as being strictly male enterprises because almost all the literature about it is written by men. She catches herself "Positioning myself as male again; my masculine counterpart who lives in my brain, appending a fraud penis so I can traverse Scott's Antarctica in my imagination." The fact of her journey makes a powerful statement that women also enter (both the spatial and inner) Wilderness. So, while I think it's sometimes too erratic, this novel was a great pleasure for me to read and it's also a flag that needed to be planted because Abi Andrews is marking new terrain.
CategoriesAbi Andrews
TagsThe Word for Woman is Wilderness, Debut novel, Serpent's Tail
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
What an immensely pleasurable joy it is reading "The Essex Serpent" by Sarah Perry! I've been eagerly anticipating this novel since it was first published last year. I heard such high praise from friends and reviewers I trust and it was Waterstone's book of the year. I'm greatly relieved that it lives up to the hype. This richly detailed Victorian-set novel with gothic inflections and distinctly vibrant characters gives the feeling of a modern-day book by Charlotte Brontë or George Eliot. Set over a year it follows the widow Cora Seaborne's excursion to the rural Essex village of Aldwinter which buffets the edge of the gloomy Blackwater marshes. Cora has amateur archaeological inclinations and becomes excited by the secrets this location might hold after rumours and paranoia spread among the inhabitants that a prehistoric beast roams the waters. Strange sightings are reported, bodies are found, children turn hysterical and people go missing. It's full of suspense as the mystery gradually unfolds, but also skilfully presents competing ideologies of science vs religion and reason vs faith through the actions and sensibilities of the characters. More importantly it shows how these perspectives aren't necessarily dogmatic and that "far from there being one truth alone, there may be several truths, none of which it would be possible to prove or disprove." This is a novel which delivers highly on adventure and romance to form an intelligent, moving story.
Cora experiences a sense of independence and freedom now that she's released from her marriage. She no longer makes much effort with her appearance and can pursue what solely interests her. In particular, she feels liberated from gender constrictions stating "The wonderful thing about being a widow is that, really, you're not obliged to be much of a woman anymore." This allows her to express her intelligence and also begin to understand what she desires for the first time (rather than always projecting what her late husband desired.) She's accompanied by her longtime companion Martha, an ardent socialist who harbours a secret attraction to Cora. At Aldwinter Cora is introduced to the local reverend William Ransome and his luminous wife Stella. The burgeoning romantic relationship that develops between Cora and William is especially interesting because it's based primarily on their different ideas and competing perspectives as well as physical attraction. Perry is especially good at portraying the complexity of relationships where the boundaries of gender and friendship are blurred.
Although the novel is framed around the notorious gigantic serpent which may or may not be terrorizing the villagers, it's more about what reality people choose to believe. Some ascribe to values based around superstition, others live by principles from religious texts and others aspire to forge a new understanding of the world based upon scientific findings. What Perry does so magnificently is imbue how the characters perceive their environment based on these perspectives of the world. To Martha who is cognizant of social and economic imbalances "It seemed… that the city's bricks were red with the blood of its citizens, its mortar pale with the dust of their bones; that deep in its foundations women and children lay head-to-toe in buried ranks, bearing up the city on their backs." But wealthy George Spencer who dabbles in the medical field expresses that "sometimes I think we must be walking on shoals of bodies without realising it and all the earth's a graveyard." While Cora, with her faith in archaeological discovery, feels that "all the earth was a graveyard with gods and monsters under their feet, waiting for weather or a hammer and brush to bring them up to a new kind of life." These views of the world around them overlap and form a complex picture of not only the changing landscape, but the evolution of the people and wildlife that inhabited it.
Based on the legend of the Essex Serpent which first appeared in a local pamphlet in 1669
Alongside the compelling story and complex characters, the novel is especially enjoyable for the deeply emotive language Perry uses in her descriptions. At some times she expresses a Virginia Woolf-like sensibility where a room literally comes alive when the characters enter it: "Light picked out channels cut in crystal glasses and glossed the polished wood of the table, and Stella's forget-me-nots bloomed on their napkins." The descriptions show a playful use of language and convey a very definite sense of mood. I don't think I've read about such a powerfully expressive sense of atmosphere since Andrew Michael Hurley's eerie and suspenseful "The Loney". It's also impressive how this keen sense of detail brings to life the natural environment of Essex which is a county that is somewhat forgotten or maligned these days.
It would be easy to write a lot about many of the other fascinating characters that populate this novel. It feels like Cora's son Francis may have some form of autism as he has a regimentally ordered mind and emotionally detached personality. Cora's friend Luke Garrett is a surgeon who pioneers controversial new practices. The ginger-haired girl Naomi Banks possesses unruly powers and passions. Stella and William's precocious daughter Joanna understands how exerting authority with confidence can get people to follow you. Their lives intersect in fascinatingly dramatic ways, but I don't want to go into too much detail to avoid giving the plot away. Suffice it to say, the fact that they are so memorable is a testament to how distinctly original Perry makes her characters. Many surprises and delights are to be found in this book. "The Essex Serpent" is as intricate and beautiful as its cover.
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The NHS in England: The operating framework for 2006/7
This briefing describes the main points contained in the 2006/7 Operating Framework and provides some commentary about what the document implies for the competing strands of NHS reform.
Assessing the New NHS Consultant Contract: A something for something deal?
Drawing on evidence from five acute NHS trusts, this paper assesses the impact of the new consultant contract in England and asks whether reforms will translate into benefits for patients.
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Securing Good Care for Older People: Taking a long-term view
How much should be spent on social care for older people over the next 20 years, and what funding arrangements are needed? Our report sets out the findings of the Wanless Social Care Review.
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Let's face the future
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Иллюзия наклонной башни — это оптическая иллюзия, которая возникает при рассмотрении двух идентичных картинок, находящихся рядом, когда кажется, что объекты на этих картинках изображены под разными углами. Например, на иллюстрации справа даны две идентичные фотографии Пизанской башни. Несмотря на то что слева и справа фотографии совершенно одинаковые, создаётся впечатление, что башня справа наклонена больше, как если бы её сфотографировали с другого ракурса. Иллюзия была обнаружена в 2007 году Фридрихом Кингдомом, Али Юнесси и Еленой Георгиу из университета Макгилла. Она получила первое место в конкурсе «» в 2007 году.

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Иллюзия, по словам авторов, объясняется просто: наша зрительная система принимает во внимание перспективу. Когда мы смотрим снизу на две башни, стоящие параллельно, то соответствующие линии их очертания на изображении на сетчатке будут сходиться в одну точку из-за перспективы. Зрительная система корректирует искажение, вносимое перспективой, и мы воспринимаем расположение башен правильно, как параллельное. См., например, изображение башен-близнецов Петронас:

Однако в случае двух одинаковых изображений башни, несмотря на то что соответствующие линии параллельны, зрительная система трактует два изображения рядом как часть одной сцены и вносит поправку на проекцию. В результате после поправки башни перестают казаться параллельными.

Психолог Лидия Маниатис из Американского университета предложила другое объяснение иллюзии: она считала, что иллюзия не вызвана восприятием перспективы, а является вариантом иллюзии Ястрова. Однако дальнейшее изучение параметров, которые влияют на иллюзию, показало, что она всё-таки связана с восприятием перспективы: иллюзия возрастает при увеличении искажения перспективой. Для иллюзии наклонной башни важно, чтобы фотография башни была снята вблизи башни и снизу. Кроме того, для эффекта важно, что зритель воспринимает две фотографии башни как часть одной сцены: при небольшом увеличении расстояния между фотографиями иллюзия увеличивается, но начиная с какого-то момента пропадает.

Варианты
Как отметили авторы иллюзии, ее можно наблюдать не только для башен, снятых снизу, но и для других объектов.
Например, кажется, что следующие фотографии узкой улицы сняты под разными углами, а рельсы расположены не параллельно.
На самом деле в обоих этих случаях фотографии в каждой паре идентичны.

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DEA Head Michele Leonhart: A Thousand Dead Children Means We're Winning War On Drugs
June 24, 2011 June 24, 2011 by Infinite
– DEA head: A thousand dead children means we're winning war on drugs (Salon, Apr 15, 2011):
Producing and distributing illegal drugs is a profitable business, because there will always be a lot of demand and because illegality allows you to charge a great deal of money. That illegality also means that the people who produce and distribute the drugs are generally not responsible corporate citizens. So thanks to our expensive, terribly ineffective and endless war on drugs, lots of people are dying.
The Washington Post recently reported that the victims of Mexican drug cartel violence increasingly include children, who are being specifically targeted in order to terrorize people and intimidate potential business rivals:
The children's rights group estimates that 994 people younger than 18 were killed in drug-related violence between late 2006 and late 2010, based on media accounts, which are incomplete because newspapers are often too intimidated to report drug-related crimes.
Government figures include all homicides of people younger than 17, capturing victims whose murders might not have been related to drugs or organized crime. In 2009, the last year for which there is data, 1,180 children were killed, half in shootings.
This article is actually almost a week old, but I did not notice, until it was highlighted by Jonathan Blanks, this astounding quote from America's top drug warrior:
U.S. and Mexican officials say the grotesque violence is a symptom the cartels have been wounded by police and soldiers. "It may seem contradictory, but the unfortunate level of violence is a sign of success in the fight against drugs," said Michele Leonhart, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration. The cartels "are like caged animals, attacking one another," she added.
It seems "contradictory" because that is absolutely appalling spin. For one thing, these "caged animals" are actually attacking civilians and children. And they are doing so because the drug war has made their chosen industry both profitable and dangerous enough to make murder and brutality effective means of winning competitive advantages. If this is a sign of success, maybe we should reconsider waging this war.
Leonhart, a DEA lifer, is actually a Bush appointee, reappointed by President Obama. She is, obviously, an inflexible zealot when it comes to drug prohibition. This is easily the worst and most offensive thing she's said that I've read, but she does have a history of asinine remarks. This is the sort of quote — dead children are a sign that we're winning! — that should lead to a resignation. But it probably won't.
Categories Global News, Politics Tags Children, DEA, Drugs, Global News, Government, Michele Leonhart, Politics Post navigation
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What Michele Leonhart represents….quote from Wikipedia… "Leonhart has consistently turned down research into the therapeutic and medicinal benefits of marijuana, and has a track record of undermining state law with regard to legal medical marijuana. She has also spoken in
favor of the Eighteenth Amendment and suggested a federal ban on production, possession, transportation, sale, and consumption of alcohol." Michelle Leonhart would put this country through another round of alcohol prohibition given her druthers….PLEASE, if you are unfamiliar with the damage that alcohol prohibition did to this country ….educate yourselves. Michele Leonhart represents and advances social policy which has a proven, documented track record of TOTAL FAILURE…policy which was tried and discarded EIGHTY YEARS AGO. Michele Leonhart is no friend of America or it's people. The sooner she is removed from her post as head of the DEA, the better. The War on Drugs is inarguably a dismal, costly (in terms of YOUR tax dollars and HUMAN LIVES) FORTY YEAR continuing failure….40,000 dead Mexicans, the guilty AND the innocent, all killed in the last three and a half years, can attest to that….from their graves….all of them dead as a DIRECT result of U.S. drug policy. In contrast, 50,000 American soldiers died during the entire duration of the Viet Nam war. Get a clue America. Neither the relative cost (adjusted for inflation and quality with respect to MJ) NOR the availability of illegal drugs has been affected by the FORTY YEAR War on Drugs….and some drugs, such as crack have DECLINED in street price. The DEA exists to appease the irrational and unworkable moral ideals of right-wing , so-called conservative Americans whose fears are grounded in the constant drone of DEA propaganda and DEA paid-for 'scientific' conclusions… and because it is political suicide to NOT support the War on Drugs.. and last, but not least, to ensure the perpetuation of the DEA (it's number one priority)…jobs, salaries, budgets….the War on Drugs is a growth industry for the DEA, your local cop shops, the ONDCP and the growing for-profit private prison INDUSTRY ( just as much as it is for the Mexican Cartels)..said private prison corporations trade on the NYSE . ..the mission of private prison corporations is, as is any corporation's….to increase profits year after year…and the ONLY way they can do that and satisfy their INVESTORS, is to imprison more and more Americans….get another clue….imprisoning human beings for profit used to be called SLAVERY. Without current drug laws, thousands of law enforcement jobs disappear overnight…..along with their budgets and the millions/billions of dollars in revenue they procure through seizures of cash money and property…both 'legally' and illegally. The War on Drugs has been, effectively, 40 years of the Eighteenth Amendment applied to illicit drugs rather than alcohol….same failure, same costs, same violence, same waste of time, resources and human beings. I honestly cannot fathom how Michele Leonhart can sleep at night. The blood of tens of thousands is as much on Michele Leonhart's hands as it is on those of the cartel's. They both do the devil's work for him. BTW…in 2009, Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico LEGALIZED ALL illicit drugs in defined amounts for personal use for Mexican citizens….instead, discouraging their use through public campaigns and offering taxpayer funded rehab for any user who requests it. Apparently Mexico recognizes the utter futility of a 'War on Drugs'….after all, it is the citizens of Mexico who are bearing the brunt of it.
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Education Challenges
Ranking Of Higher Education 2017: The Times Higher Education Ranking
Nueva Alejandria /
Nueva Alejandria Rankings
"Higher Education Ranking"
In the current ranking of The Times Higher Education Ranking, Brazil's State University of Campinas stands on the top while the University of São Paulo is placed at the second rank the region. However, Brazil dominates the rank list and claims two-fifths of ranks (32 out of 81) only 18of these managed to secure position under 50 for the last 23 years. The Concerned University officials reported that the ranking results reflect long-term and continuous efforts in order to improve educational institutions had made them work on research strategy and knowledge transfers over the past years.
Ranking Of The Latin American Universities
Latin America Rank 2017
1 2 401-500 State University of Campinas Brazil
2 1 251-300 University of São Paulo Brazil
3 3 401-500 Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Chile
4 4 501-600 University of Chile Chile
5 10 501-600 University of the Andes Colombia
6 8 501-600 Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Mexico
7 Not Ranked 601-800 Federal University of São Paulo(UNIFESP) Brazil
8 5 601-800 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil
9 6 601-800 Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) Brazil
10 9 501-600 National Autonomous University of Mexico Mexico
Facts And Findings
"Facts And Findings"
It has been said that The States University of Campinas has a selective process of faculty recruitment and it has collaborated with businesses for research. The business professionals are hired for training students so that they can make maximum use of the practical application and learn like trainees rather than students. In addition, the University is facing struggles related to budget issues because of the economic crisis in Brazil. Since 2008 the budget has not been expanded but the university grew up to 30%. The University is not investing in new buildings, which also affects its research and functioning. According to the latest analysis by a scientific research organization, it was found that because of low salaries, under-financing and interference of bureaucracy a massive brain drain has been reported in the region. On contrary Chile has improved its ranking and has managed to acquire 15 positions for its universities in top 50.
Recommendations To Governments And Stakeholders
"Governments And Stakeholders"
Experts say that Brazil will continue to hold the leading position. Governments in this region need to provide adequate funds for research and development programmes conducted by the universities especially in the fields of Humanities and Social Science along with other sciences because it will contribute to the social awareness towards the significance of education and ultimately add on to the economies of the respective countries. It will be difficult for The Latin American Universities to compete with the other developed countries unless they work tirelessly on scientific research, skill training, knowledge transfer and high-end learning curriculum with a smart and practical approach which is only possible with high scale education funding. There should be collaborative programmes initiated by the governments based on Public-Private Partnership model to refuel the educational objectives and agencies concerned with community awareness must also contribute to the same unconditionally.
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When you start a new prescription drug, the last thing you'd expect is to find yourself looking for your next high. Unfortunately, many prescription drugs are highly addictive, and that can result in patients who end up with real problems stopping. Severe withdrawal, side effects and symptoms increase the likelihood of a patient being unable to stop.
When the patient can no longer get the drugs he or she needs, that paves the way for drug abuse, either by purchasing the prescription drug illegally or by turning to other drugs to avoid withdrawal symptoms. Whether or not the drug use is legal, you can be accused of illegal actions and arrested in some cases. Here are a couple reasons you could be arrested while taking prescription drugs.
Even with legal prescription drug use, you can be arrested if you drive dangerously or participate in other illegal acts. While you can defend yourself by showing you're taking a medication, the authorities expect you to know whether or not you are safe to drive.
You should be able to see if your medications will affect you by looking at the bottle. If it says that you could become drowsy, make sure you wait to see how you feel before getting behind the wheel.
Prescription drugs can also lead to an arrest if you doctor shop to get another prescription. Doctor shopping is when you go to multiple doctors to get more of a controlled medication than you're allotted. For instance, if your primary physician gives you a 30-day supply and you run out early, going to another doctor to get another prescription (to have two prescriptions on hand) is against the law.
These are just a few instances where even taking your medications normally and legally could result in an arrest. Remember that you need to drive safely and may not have multiple prescriptions for certain drugs from multiple doctors at one time, or you could face penalties for drug abuse or other charges.


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The first meeting of the new session took place on September 2, at Oulton Community Centre. Commencing with the annual meeting which was opened by Irene Markievicz who has been the chairman for the past year.
The first meeting of the new session took place on September 2, at Oulton Community Centre. Commencing with the annual meeting which was opened by Irene Markievicz who has been the chairman for the past year. She now retires and the current vice chairman Nicola Drake will serve as chairman for the current year programme. The forthcoming programme was given by the secretary Joyce Aguss and the financial report by the treasurer Myra Swan.
The vice chairman is Jenni Dove and the two members elected to the committee were Diane Brown and Holly Pointon to replace Ingrid Neate and Patricia Shreeve who had served their term of office on the committee. A general knowledge quiz was followed by members enjoying apple pies and soft drinks to complete the evening.
The next meeting will be on October 7, when Barbara Emons from the Dogs Trust Re-Homing Centre in Snetterton, Norfolk will gave an illustrated talk. Meeting commences at 7.30pm. New members are welcome to join at the Oulton Community Centre, a varied programme of talks and slide shows have been arranged for the new session.


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