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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceStability;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.DoNotRetryIOException;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HConstants;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HRegionLocation;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.metrics.ScanMetrics;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.PayloadCarryingRpcController;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcControllerFactory;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;

/**
 * A reversed ScannerCallable which supports backward scanning.
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Public
@InterfaceStability.Evolving
public class ReversedScannerCallable extends ScannerCallable {
  /**
   * The start row for locating regions. In reversed scanner, may locate the
   * regions for a range of keys when doing
   * {@link ReversedClientScanner#nextScanner(int, boolean)}
   */
  protected final byte[] locateStartRow;

  @Deprecated
  public ReversedScannerCallable(HConnection connection, TableName tableName, Scan scan,
      ScanMetrics scanMetrics, byte[] locateStartRow) {
    this(connection, tableName, scan, scanMetrics, locateStartRow, RpcControllerFactory
        .instantiate(connection.getConfiguration()).newController());
  }

  /**
   * @param connection
   * @param tableName
   * @param scan
   * @param scanMetrics
   * @param locateStartRow The start row for locating regions
   * @param rpcFactory
   */
  public ReversedScannerCallable(HConnection connection, TableName tableName, Scan scan,
      ScanMetrics scanMetrics, byte[] locateStartRow, PayloadCarryingRpcController rpcFactory) {
    super(connection, tableName, scan, scanMetrics, rpcFactory);
    this.locateStartRow = locateStartRow;
  }

  /**
   * @param reload force reload of server location
   * @throws IOException
   */
  @Override
  public void prepare(boolean reload) throws IOException {
    if (!instantiated || reload) {
      if (locateStartRow == null) {
        // Just locate the region with the row
        this.location = connection.getRegionLocation(tableName, row, reload);
        if (this.location == null) {
          throw new IOException("Failed to find location, tableName="
              + tableName + ", row=" + Bytes.toStringBinary(row) + ", reload="
              + reload);
        }
      } else {
        // Need to locate the regions with the range, and the target location is
        // the last one which is the previous region of last region scanner
        List<HRegionLocation> locatedRegions = locateRegionsInRange(
            locateStartRow, row, reload);
        if (locatedRegions.isEmpty()) {
          throw new DoNotRetryIOException(
              "Does hbase:meta exist hole? Couldn't get regions for the range from "
                  + Bytes.toStringBinary(locateStartRow) + " to "
                  + Bytes.toStringBinary(row));
        }
        this.location = locatedRegions.get(locatedRegions.size() - 1);
      }
      setStub(getConnection().getClient(getLocation().getServerName()));
      checkIfRegionServerIsRemote();
      instantiated = true;
    }

    // check how often we retry.
    // HConnectionManager will call instantiateServer with reload==true
    // if and only if for retries.
    if (reload && this.scanMetrics != null) {
      this.scanMetrics.countOfRPCRetries.incrementAndGet();
      if (isRegionServerRemote) {
        this.scanMetrics.countOfRemoteRPCRetries.incrementAndGet();
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Get the corresponding regions for an arbitrary range of keys.
   * @param startKey Starting row in range, inclusive
   * @param endKey Ending row in range, exclusive
   * @param reload force reload of server location
   * @return A list of HRegionLocation corresponding to the regions that contain
   *         the specified range
   * @throws IOException
   */
  private List<HRegionLocation> locateRegionsInRange(byte[] startKey,
      byte[] endKey, boolean reload) throws IOException {
    final boolean endKeyIsEndOfTable = Bytes.equals(endKey,
        HConstants.EMPTY_END_ROW);
    if ((Bytes.compareTo(startKey, endKey) > 0) && !endKeyIsEndOfTable) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid range: "
          + Bytes.toStringBinary(startKey) + " > "
          + Bytes.toStringBinary(endKey));
    }
    List<HRegionLocation> regionList = new ArrayList<HRegionLocation>();
    byte[] currentKey = startKey;
    do {
      HRegionLocation regionLocation = connection.getRegionLocation(tableName,
          currentKey, reload);
      if (regionLocation.getRegionInfo().containsRow(currentKey)) {
        regionList.add(regionLocation);
      } else {
        throw new DoNotRetryIOException("Does hbase:meta exist hole? Locating row "
            + Bytes.toStringBinary(currentKey) + " returns incorrect region "
            + regionLocation.getRegionInfo());
      }
      currentKey = regionLocation.getRegionInfo().getEndKey();
    } while (!Bytes.equals(currentKey, HConstants.EMPTY_END_ROW)
        && (endKeyIsEndOfTable || Bytes.compareTo(currentKey, endKey) < 0));
    return regionList;
  }

}


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A question for those use the ipad in business runings window platfrom applications.
Discussion in 'iPad Help' started by henry2, May 5, 2010.
Our company has bought the Ipad 16.gb model to take to the field with us for work for the techs and installers personal to use instead the laptops we normaly use in our line of work ..it will design to hold the software program for our work which is at 6.gb of disc space and another 5.gb of up dated programs that we use also ..
Today i tried to load a program for work onto the ipad from my desk top and it would not work right with the ipad software.. when i loaded onto a regular desktop computer running windows it ran fine..
do i need to load a appliction that can use flash to make the program run right ..most of the time the program is kepted on a Ironkey 8.gb secured usb unit and plug into the laptop computer then it plug into there system that we work on do the upgrades and other things.. ..
it runs right on the windows platfrom but when it comes to a Mac softwar it does not run right on the unit ..
So, if I get you right, you want to use you iPad as an intelligent USB-stick?
Or do you have apps for your work, which you want to run on your iPad?
It is not a regular Mac nor a PC. That said, it will not run regular software. The apps have to be developed with the iPhone/iPad software development kit.
Even if you just want to store files on it, it won't work on a non-jailbreaked device, as you don't have access to the file system.
And even if you manage to get the files onto the device, how you want to get them down again, to a non-binded pc?
The alternative I see here is a thumbdrive like the mentioned Ironkey, or a cloud service, where you store files in a secure web-drive (i.e. RapidShare, AirShare, MobileMe...).
i was thinking the same thing about useing mobile me .. i sorry i been up all night trying to get something right and i need to get some sleep i deal with at a later time thank you .Kheldour for the info ..
The iPad only runs iPhone/iPad software. You cannot load windows or Mac software onto the iPad.
Now if you need "access" to a windows program and a computer or server that is always on at your work you can remote into that computer from the iPad.
I am a computer tech for a public school and use my iPad to remotely login and use the schools server right on my iPad instead of running back and forth from building to building. The iPad app I recommend you get is called WinAdmin. There is both an iPhone version and an iPad version of winadmin. Make sure you get the iPad version.
This will basicly give you access to and windows application that you have installed on that PC.
Also you said that there are many of you at the company. So instead of needing to have them all remote into a separate computer you could actualy set up a windows server and have multiple people logging into one mating with their own sessions and no one will know anyone else is connected to the machine at that same time.
You either need to develop the app specifically to run on the iPad written using the Apple SDK for the iPad, OR you need to remotely access the PS running the windows application and use the software remotely on a physical PC in an office somewhere.
Unless were missing something MAJOR.
we where trying to do somthing and it did not work ..we went back to the orignal idea of keeping the info on a usb stick unit along with a small netbook to do the install programs..we useing the ipads as basic remote control units for the installs that we do ..
it was a long and kicking things and beening on the edge of throwing the whole thing out the window at one point in the night ..i kept trying to tell the boss that we have to use a windows base machine along with the usb stick and then we could do he remote control running of the unit ..but he would not listen to us ..
the ipad was idea to cut down how much we have to carry with us when go and do the installs ..
we got it down to a small netbook along with the ipad and usb stick for the install personal to do the work all put into one hardshell travel case with it access in the case ..so we can do the remote control and it not a problem we where tryng to cut some things out of the loop and it was not going to work we where telling him..
[QUOTE=MikesTooLz;21717..The iPad app I recommend you get is called WinAdmin. There is both an iPhone version and an iPad version of winadmin. Make sure you get the iPad version. This will basicly give you access to and windows application that you have installed on that PC.
we set up one netbook with the usb unit as the main control unit .then we basic access the program through the ipad and run the software from there..we have the program that you are talking about on the ipads for one of the guys bought it up that would be the program to get .. ..
i sit at the computer and do the data input or run the file system to see if working right after the data input and do the things that the two other people tell me to do over the radio when we running checks on the install software program .. .
we do the install with three personal total in the group the software people who do the install and me in the group ..normaly we work nights when no one else is around to allow us to work faster with fewer problems of trying to deal with the people when they are saying that the program is shutting down there computer and they can not get work done .
it a lot easly with the smaller team set up to travel and haul around the gear and cloths for work ..most time all three of us will use a small van for travel for us and the gear we take ..
along with one of the personal from the place who works in the area with us to let us into places and keep people from asking to many question about what we are doing sometimes ..
I use winadmin and love it. It is just like sitting at my desk. All of my firms systems are windows based.
thanks for the info that night i was at my end of my rope along with dealing with a person who i do not get along with as it ..then trying to get new software installed and dealing with him calling me and the other guys alot of names like dumb---- along with beening to stupid to make the program work and we allmost threw him a beating that night ..
for this person is the one guy no one likes to work with and he a got a mouth on him that makes you want to beat him down everytime he opens his mouth..he knows he about to be fired as it is and he does not care so he beening just a total jerk to everyone ..
the only reason i have not put my hands on him is the fact that i do not want to spend the night in jail .so that has kept my temper in check when dealing with him.


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Ottorino Davoli (4 June, 1888-7 December 1945) was an Italian painter and scenic designer.

Biography
He was born in Reggio Emilia, and began his studies there. In 1903, he obtained a stipend from the istituto Ferrari Bonini to study at the Accademia di Brera. He had his first exhibit in Reggio in 1923, and an exhibit in Milan at the Galleria Vinciana in 1923. In 1924-1925 he became instructor of figure drawing and ornament at the Gaetano Chierici Design School in Reggio Emilia. In 1927-1928, he designed a controversial facade for the church of San Francesco in Reggio Emilia. In 1931, he painted a fresco at the Casa di Riposo per Mutilati di Reggio Emilia. In 1934, he became professor of ornamentation at the Liceo Artistico of Venice. He died in Venice.

Bibliography
 Comune di Reggio Emilia,  " Ottorino Davoli 1888-1945 ", a cura di G. Berti, E. Farioli, E. Prati, Reggio Emilia, Musei Civici, 2001
 Il Paggio di Ottorino Davoli torna a Reggio Emilia

References

20th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
1888 births
1945 deaths
20th-century Italian male artists

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TOGAF® Version 9: Pocket Guide (Simplified Chinese Edition) (PDF)
This Pocket Guide is based on TOGAF™ Version 9 Enterprise Edition. It gives a concise introduction to TOGAF 9. What's more, it's authoritative, with material derived from The Open Group's TOGAF 9 documentation and contributions from members of The Open Group Architecture Forum.
ArchiMate® 2.1: A Pocket Guide (PDF)
This is the Pocket Guide to the ArchiMate 2.1 Specification, an Open Group Standard. It is intended to help architects by providing a reference for the ArchiMate graphical modeling language and also assist managers in understanding the basics of the ArchiMate language.
IT4IT™ Management Guide (PDF)
This IT4IT Management Guide provides guidance on how the IT4IT Reference Architecture can be used within an IT organization to manage the business of IT.
A Pocket Guide to the ArchiMate® 3.0.1 Specification (PDF)
This is the Pocket Guide to the ArchiMate 3.0.1 Specification, an Open Group Standard. It gives a concise introduction to the ArchiMate language. What's more, it's authoritative with material derived from the official ArchiMate documentation.
O-TTPS for ICT Product Integrity and Supply Chain Security (PDF)
A Management Guide to the Certification Process for the Open Trusted Technology Provider™ Standard (O-TTPS) (ISO/IEC 20243:2015)
Le Standard TOGAF®, Version 9.2 Guide de Poche (PDF)
Ce Guide de Poche se base sur le standard TOGAF®, Version 9.2, de The Open Group.
A Pocket Guide to the ArchiMate® 3.1 Specification (PDF)
This is the Pocket Guide to the ArchiMate 3.1 Specification, a standard of The Open Group. It gives a concise introduction to the ArchiMate language. What's more, it's authoritative with material derived from the official ArchiMate documentation.
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This book investigates the consecutive shifts between three types of intermediary institutions in the European context: Corporatist, Neo-corporatist and Governance institutions. It does so by combining insights from European Political Economy; European Integration and governance studies; and, socio-legal studies in the European context.
EU Competition Regulation: A Case of Authoritarian Neo-liberalism?
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North-South LRT
Hamilton's LRT plan is in dire need of a change.
GO to the Airport
The Trees!
Inclined Rail
Rebuttal to Ryan McGreal
mrmayorhenry	Uncategorized	 October 9, 2018 October 13, 2018 3 Minutes
Short-sightedness preventing Hamilton from leaping forward
Ryan McGreal's article on page A19 of the October 6th edition of The Spectator, "A platform built on falsehoods", shows clearly his bias toward the current City Council/Metrolinx B-Line LRT plan. It also underlines the bias of the media in general to viewing the LRT into a simple Yes or No option. I read in the Spectator that Mr. Ford would give Hamilton council the choice of project funding[i]. Whatever you think of the new provincial government aside, we should celebrate the liberty from Metrolinx that it allows. "Presto", it's gone. Now we're rid of a whole level of bloated bureaucracy. Hello HSR operated LRT. Give up on the contentious East-West LRT plan that will cause traffic congestion, and look at really promoting GO Train commuting with a North-South LRT that delivers riders to the GO Train platform at James Street North.
McGreal correctly identifies the problem with Mr. Sgro's platform of redirecting the provincial funding. To spend it piecemeal on repairs to infrastructure, "leaking away" the money filling potholes, will have squandered the opportunity to build something with a future. Unfortunately, the B-Line LRT doesn't have that scope. The current plan solves a problem that doesn't exist. If more buses are required, then add more buses, but to reduce a major traffic artery into a glorified sidestreet, and suggest that this will benefit transit in Hamilton is ridiculous. The proposed B-Line LRT doesn't even stop at the GO station, which was the purpose of funding the project. Do you remember "The Big Move"? No, City Council's Metrolinx plan is going to cause business closures and established residents to become frustrated and move out of the corridor. Could that be the real purpose of this plan? If it is, then the mayor should come clean and tell us that he's pushing the old out for the new. I regularly meet people who still don't understand what the plan is actually going to do to King Street.
Arguing that improving the underground pipes and cables is the reason why we need to build this destructive project ignores the city's own Maintenance Department assessment of the condition of that underground "plant". I was in the chamber when it was made exceedingly clear that the plant in question was eighty percent good. That means mathematically, if you spend six hundred million dollars replacing it, you are wasting 480 million dollars. Are you ok with wasting one half of a billion dollars to build a railway down the middle of King Street? Let's conclude that the reason for building the LRT along the proposed route is not to replace old infrastructure.
Investment in Hamilton will continue from simple economic pressures, and there is no reason to assume that building a North-South LRT will not attract similar investment as that imagined along an East-West route. In fact, there are reasons to suggest that the corridors opened up by NSLRT would give all the same benefits touted by the B-Line proponents, but none of the drawbacks. For example there are no issues with tall buildings blocking the view of the escarpment along Upper James.
Ridership has long been spoken about as the reason to build the B-Line into the LRT, but that's a red herring. NSLRT guarantees ridership by design. It's not everyday that a city gets a billion dollars to build transit infrastructure, so splash some cold water on your face, and think a little outside of the box. Today, October 8, 2018, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change announced a "final warning". Whether you believe anything about climate change or not, when a lot of scientists are saying things like:
"The decisions we make today are critical in ensuring a safe and sustainable world for everyone…"
"Limiting warming to 1.5°C is possible within the laws of chemistry and physics but doing so would require unprecedented changes…"
"Every extra bit of warming matters, especially since warming of 1.5°C or higher increases the risk…"[ii]
then perhaps the prudent thing to do is heed their warnings. Now is the time to change the paradigm of public transit in Hamilton. Not only does NSLRT promote GO rail commuting, it does so in the greenest way possible using inclined rail technology. Instead of cutting down hundreds of air-purifying trees along King Street, we could stop driving all the buses up and down the hill, polluting the air and converging on the downtown core in that crazy zig-zagging carousal of redundancy! Why use radial routes when the city is laid out like a grid, for heaven's sake? Simplicity is beautiful in science and in traffic planning. Use the buses to run East-West to feed the LRT running North-South. The B-Line LRT is like a patch on an old garment, the North-South LRT can give us a whole new suit in one fell swoop.
Visit NorthSouthLRT.ca Henry Geissler, for mayor.
[i]Van Dongen, Matthew. "Metrolinx stops buying LRT land citing provincial spending freeze." The Hamilton Spectator, 30 August 2018, p. A6
[ii]United Nations IPCC Press Release. "Summary for Policymakers of IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C", 8 October 2018
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Injuries like those to Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin, III, or U.S. Olympic skiier Lindsey Vonn remind us that the knees can be vulnerable. The knee joint is not only the largest joint in the body, but also one of the most complex. Although you cannot prevent a knee injury from taking place, recovery time after an injury may be shortened if your knees are healthy.
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Jai Bhim Network
www.ambedkar.eu
www.dzsajbhim.hu
A Roma and Dalit joint project IN HUNGARY
2009.09.01. Categorized: Uncategorized
Dalit Buddhists meet Gypsies in Hugary
We are beginning the Dalit Buddhist volunteer program in East-European Roma communities in september 2009.
Get the Flash Player to see this player. Here you are the whole project as it was planned two years ago:
Brief outline of the proposal
1. Bringing 10 activists from Dalit communities in India to Hungary for one year to help train Roma/Gypsy activists
2. Running workshops and training camps for Roma/Gypsy activists.
General situation of Romas/Gypsies in Hungary:
Throughout Central Europe there are substantial numbers of Romas/Gypsies. This community is originated from India – first data about their arrival to Europe occur around 1300 AD. Members of this ethnic minority are almost all suffering badly from strong discrimination which has ensured that their economic and social situation is very backward. In effect they are living in third world conditions in the midst of new EU countries that are emerging from the communist system. By and large the end of that system has led to the rapid deterioration of their situation, already bad enough, since the communism at least guaranteed full employment of a sort.
In Hungary Romas/Gypsies make up some 5% of the population and are distributed in small numbers through most parts of the country. Although the conditions are slightly better than, for instance, in Slovakia and Romania, there is still widespread prejudice and the consequent poverty among the Roma/Gypsy population. For instance:
Secondary school leaving exams
Average for total young population: 70%
Average for Roma/Gypsy young population: 7%
15 years less for Romas/Gypsies than within the general population
(in some communities it is much less - in one we work in (Hidas) life expectancy for Romas/Gypsies is 40-41 years)
Employment between 15 and 74 years (excluding students and pensioners) (2003)
Roma/Gypsy population between 15 and 74 years: 15%
(In rural areas 70-90% of male working-age Romas are unemployed)
Proportion of children within the population
Total Hungarian population: 16% (around the average european data)
Roma/Gypsy villages: Alsószentmárton 35% (what a difference…)
Gilvánfa: 40% (around the average south asian data)
Csenyéte: 46% (above all african data)
Although the Hungarian constitution gives full rights to Romas/Gypsies, and even provides special political safeguards, in many areas there is still active resistance from the general population to Romas/Gypsies enjoying their rights. The political system is manipulated to continue the centuries-long exclusion and segregation, ensuring that most still live in what are effectively ghettos. Most Romas/Gypsies do not have the education and confidence to bring effective change. There is very little sympathy and help from wider Hungarian society.
The situation is nevertheless better in Hungary than in other East European societies: Gypsies are more integrated here than in Slovakia, Roumania or Bulgaria. A higher proportion of them makes compulsory eight classes in Hungary than in other countries, however there are not many who continue in higher education or at least in secondary schools. Hungarian Romas have even gained some political influence too: both Roma members of EU Parliament in Brussels (Mohácsi Viktória and Járóka Lívia) are from Hungary. Hungarian Romas' organizations can provide patterns and support to other east european Roma communities. Therefore Hungary is a good starting point for strategic work within Gypsy communities in East Europe.
Work of the Buddhists Hungary, Amrita Association, and Jai Bhim Religious Community:
After the fall of the communist system the possibility arose to set up religious organisations. About 11.000 Hungarian people offer 1% of their annual tax to the Buddhists, while around 440.000 people offer it to the catholic church, 220.000 people sponsore the protestants. These figures are due almost solely to a century of buddhist presence in the Hungarian upper middle class society, because there has not been any massive asian immigration yet in the east european countries.
The Buddhists have a social activity from the outset: they are amongst the founders of Gandhi Grammar School in Pécs, which was set out in 1992 mainly for Gypsy youngsters. The work of this secondary school is remarkable in the whole East-European social context because it has performed a successful pedagigical attempt which is tangible and acceptable for the regional pedagogical public opinion. The objective of giving secondary and higher education to hundreds of Roma youngsters has become a touchable reality: whoever wants, can try to do it following the example of Gandhi school. There are such initiatives in Slovakia and in Roumania - "Gandhi" label is used in both countries. It shows the attraction and strength of the symbols related to India within Roma strategies because of the strong awareness of indian origins of Gypsy people.
The Little Tiger High School organized by Buddhists in a Roma/Gypsy village (Alsószentmárton) in South Hungary has been working for four years. This school gives the opportunity for further study in villages where the population's educational level is extremely low. The main objective of the school is to help young people who live in highly segregated situation to find their way to social integration.Therefore the key word of the idea is GCE "A" level.
Amrita is a Roma youth organisation in Pécs. This is a self help group set out in 1994. Their community house is run by Gypsy students and young intellectuals influenced by the thoughts of Dr. Ambedkar. Amrita is a good network of poor Gypsy students and pupils without a strong background. EU programs or hungarian government officials sponsore it sometimes on a high financial level but never for long time. Amrita is presently seeking a larger international network in order to consolidate its work. The long lasting buddhist links provide the most attractive perspectives for the activists.
Five Dhammamitras, Janos Orsós, Tibor Derdák, Anikó Orsós, István Benő Lázi, László Kalányos all working in these above mentioned organisations, are leading figures in this work among the Romas/Gypsies. They set up a proper organisation directly for this work, entitled 'Jai Bhim' Relgious Network, linked to TBMSG and FWBO. J. Orsós and T. Derdák went twice to India and attended the Dhamma Revolution Retreat in Nagpur, which was partly sponsored by Karuna, and visited TBMSG and Bahujan Hitay projects in Maharashtra. A. Orsós and I. B. Lázi went to Birmingham in 2006. and spent some weeks in FWBO community.
They realised that the work in India provided an important source of example, inspiration and guidance for their work in Hungary, and potentially elsewhere in Central Europe. Dr. Ambedkar's emphasis on self-help and 'Educate, Agitate, and Organise' very much fitted in with their own approach, while his call for Buddhist conversion as a means of social, economic, and personal development showed how Buddhism could be relevant to the problems faced by Roma/Gypsies. East-european Romas/Gypsies are deeply conscious of their roots in India and many of them identify strongly with what happens in that country.
They set up in 2007. the Dr. Ambedkar High School in some very poor Gypsy communities in the North East of Hungary. The seat of the school is in the largest hungarian town where the majority is being Roma/Gypsy – Sajókaza. The president of Hungary Sólyom László visited the school in october. Mr and Mrs Singh from the Embassy of India greeted the students at the occasion of Dhammadiksha on the 14th October 2007. Dhammachari Subhuti came in January 2008. Dhammachari Paramashanti is spending the whole year of 2008 in the school.
Focuses of 'Jai Bhim' network:
Our principal aim is to break the ghetto structure that keeps Romas/Gypsies isolated and discriminated against. Where Romas/Gypsies are free from such isolation they begin to integrate into the general population and their fortunes are identical with it. We work mainly in the South-West and in the North-East of Hungary, where the Gypsy population is much higher than elswhere in the country. Our work is deeply inspired by Dr. Ambedkar's thoughts which have found a fertile reception in many communities and institutions. There are two main emphases of our work:
1. We play important roles in some above mentioned educational initiatives: encouraging young Romas/Gypsies to complete secondary and go on to tertiary education.
a. The Dr. Ambedkar Buddhist High School works in Borsod County, for rural Gypsy communities in North-East Hungary, where less than 1% of the Roma population have finished secondary education and none have first degrees. The new school created a stir in the community: we have at once 100 students in communities where secondary school was not known. It is worthy of remark that Buddhists have been the first to set out secondary school activity in the large segregated rural Roma communities of Hungary. Therefore the school has been taken as a model by the Hungarian educational ministry. We are actually helping to establish a number of new schools throughout Hungary on the same basis in a fruitful cooperation with christian churches. The pilot role of east european buddhist grammar schools in looking for solutions for such a hot local social problem can highlight the global importance of Dr. Babasaheb's conception. The principal of the school is a former MP, a new dhammamitra (Derdák Tibor). Activities managed by Dalit activists like karate teaching, english training, science shows, human right courses, non-violent communication, Dhammaduta, indian civilisation course are welcome in the school.
b. We have set up the Amrita Assocation in Pécs, which provides support and training for young Romas/Gypsies. Amrita is a well known, very good brand name among the hungarian Gypsy organisations, this is the largest Roma student network of the country, abundantly sponsored by EU. Its role in the hungarian roma youth context highlights also the value of Dr. Babasaheb's conception. The main activists are dhammamitras Orsós János and Orsós Anikó. Amrita organisation can be a natural framework for activities like karate teaching, english training, science shows, human right courses, non-violent communication, Dhammaduta, indian civilisation course – managed by indian dalit volunteers.
c. We have strong connections with communities in the North-East part of Hungary where local activists initiate the same kind of work.
Localities:
Sajókaza (a town of 3300 inhabitants (50% Romas), with an extremely miserable Roma settlement, where we have a young activist, a very committed dhammamitra Lázi István Benő),
Szendrőlád (a village of 1700 inhabitants – 70% Romas – where we cooperate with the BHIM RAO Association),
Hetefejércse, Jánd, Abaújkér (a methodist grammar school which has been set up following the same model).
Ózd (a former industrial city, actual rust belt of 40.000 inhabitants (10.000 are Roma) whith a student hostel for rural Roma high school students – the former leader of the student council was dhammamitra Lázi I. J. B.,The present leader is Glonczi László, also an active youngster in the buddhist movement),
2. Human Rights activism: taking up issues of discrimination, supporting, training
a. Litigation of municipalities which segregate Roma pupils in schools
Miskolc is the third largest city in Hungary. The local council was sued for segregation of Roma pupils. Chance for Children Foundation (CFCF) won the case with Dr. Lilla Farkas avocat, Mohácsi Erzsébet president, Újlaky András organiser. This is the first sentence in Hungary which has been condemned a municipality for segregation. Lázi I. J. B., Orsós János, Siroki László and Derdák Tibor were eminent activists of this historical verdict.
Hajdúhadház Another historical verdict won by CFCF obliges the local government to apologize the Roma community for segregating them, and to stop segregation.
Jászladány: the mayor has manipulated the system to ensure that Roma/Gypsy children are effectively segregated in a separate and inferior school. Our friend here (Kállai László) is a very famous Roma activist who has stood up to exploitation using non-violent protest on the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi. Last spring Orsós János and Kállai László went to the USA together at the invitation of the State Department to get some support and training in their human right struggle.
training of activists: the success of Dr. Ambedkar's movement has given a strong inspiration to some Roma activists. They express a keen interest to know more about it. Their eagerness is surely connected to the awerness of their own indian origins and to the similarities of Dalit lot with Gypies plights. The dark skin colour of Gypsies, as a basis of racial dicrimination in european societies, motivates also the interest of Roma people to know more about the World's largest democracy, where people are very similar to them. There are always questions about the Dhamma, because people want to uderstand what refuge Dalit communities have found. Members of Roma communities want to have authentic sources of information about the Third World and especially about the human right movement of the oppressed people in India.
Localities: (South-West Hungary): Alsószentmárton, Gilvánfa, Hidas Pettend, Komló, Pécs (North-East Hungary): Ózd, Miskolc, Sajókaza, Szendrőlád, Lak-Tomor-Szakácsi, Hetefejércse, Jászladány
Addressing a wider public. The human right work is not a segregated work within the communities, but aims first of all the whole Hungarian society. The Buddhist background is an excellent starting point for this, as it is a par excellence upper-middle class phenomenon.
Subhuti's repeated visits to Hungary could propose Dr. Babasaheb's conception for the public of the upper class intellectual press (Élet és Irodalom)
Our community work has arisen the interest of the three most important banks of Hungary (like Raiffeisen Bank). They support individual Roma pupils in the framework of a long term program proposed by us.
We could reach other religious (christian) denominations through the government program of spreading the High School model to other places. Such a fruitful cooperation is important to consolidate our own work in the hungarian social context.
Even this very project of calling indian Dalit community activists to help Gypsy communities seems to be also appealing to some social partners in Hungary.
En fin de compte 90% of the hungarian society is practically a western social structure. Our civil society, our NGOs have been crippled by a long history of various totalitarian dictatorships, but our suddenly began democratisation can be more effective than in a poor country. There is no tradition of private sponsoring of any NGO or religious projets in Hungary but democratic patterns are appearing quite quickly. We are finding step by step the hungarian patrons for the work with people in "Third world situation" within our country.
Maybe the Tsunami was the first occasion when middle class Hungarian public donated important sums to South Asia: the Baptist Church (which has about the same size in Hungary as the Buddhist one) builds a christian orphanage in Sri Lanka (Hungama – near Colombo). We appreciate highly the work of our baptist friends, but we would like to represent Dr. Babasaheb's movement as an authentic actor in social work within communities in "Third world situation" either in Roma or in Dalit communities.
The proposal:
We want to bring four activists from the Dalit community to Hungary for a period of one year. We have already seen from the visits of Indians such as Dhammacharis Manidhamma and Karunashur that the presence of Indians from Dalit communities has an inspiring and educating effect on Hungarian Romas/Gypsies. They feel an immediate affinity with people who share the same skin colour and features and probably ancestry. They are more willing to learn from such people, who will also have a similar social and cultural experience and at the same time the vision, tools and experience to transform it. What has happened in India is an important example of how social development can take place.
This will not however be a one-way process. For such Indian activists working in Hungary will be a source of new inspiration and confidence. For them to be effective and to be appreciated outside their own community and in the West will be a new and valuable experience. Once this is known about in India it will also be a very great encouragement to the wider Dalit community, who need a great deal of support and confidence to continue their struggle for development. We consider this to be as important a part of the project as the benefit to people in Hungary.
The four volunteers arrive to an organized hungarian host structure. They can get food and accommodation in our structures without paying. Nevertheless we provide them their own money, and some budget for their activities like karate teaching, english training, science shows, human right courses, non-violent communication, Dhammaduta, indian civilisation course.
Hungary has never been an english colony, therefore Hungarian people don't speak english. Hungarian life-style is very far from indian standards: rural people have never seen someone who does not eat meat, does not drink alcohol and does not smoke and even meditates regularly. Conditions for indian kitchen are not given at all, and the winter is very long and cold indeed. This means host and volunteer have to triumph over mutual cultural shocks and physical difficulties. In order to cope with these problems the volonteer needs helpers.
Please note that there is some sensitivity about nomenclature. Some Romas/Gypsies do not like the term 'Gypsy' at all, and consider it pejorative. Others identify themselves as 'Gypsies' (or rather as 'Cigány', the Hungarian equivalent) and do not like the term 'Roma'. In this and similar documents we have used both terms together, which is the nearest we can come to pleasing everyone.
Romas/Gypsies in Hungary are almost all Christians – taking their denomination from the surrounding Hungarian poor people. That means many are Catholics, while some are Uniates (Orthodox Rite Catholics), Reformed (Calvinists), or Evangelical (Lutheran). A rapidly growing number are Pentecostalists. Apart from the Pentecostalists, very little active religious work is done among the Romas/Gypsies, and there are no Roma/Gypsy priests or ministers. The Pentecostal movement is a purely Roma/Gypsy movement and this, perhaps, largely accounts for its present success.
Given the lack of active religious work in most of Roma communities, and the lack of any real religious knowledge and understanding, the space is open for Buddhism, especially linked to Dr Ambedkar's message of social uplift. This is likely to be the case for, say, the next ten years, while we are trying to involve other religious denominations also in this work (for exemple the methodists when setting out secondary schools).
The 'Jai Bhim' network what we have described above, relies on some Gypsy activists who get acquainted with Dr. Ambedkar's movement in the last three years. The buddhist background has been built on a century-old intellectual orientalist tradition within the Hungarian upper middle class with many books, but without much religious life. Our neo-buddhist work is well introduced in a social context and it is set out in a wide geographical space, but it does not have much link with the buddhist world. We believe that the time is ripe to make steps toward a more serious buddhist presence. The network needs to be organised directly by authentical, trained and experienced Dalit activists.
Sajókaza, 2008. January
Dhammachari Subhuti
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Orsós János
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Jai Bhim is a cheerful greeting. Ten million Indians greet each other in this manner. They're the Dalits who are a proud community. They inherited an extremely difficult life. Their parents and grandparents and untold generations before them were outcasts in society. Even today they still encounter prejudice and experience helplessness.
For more than a millenium their ancestors lived as outcasts. People had a horror of touching them. Others even avoided being in their proximity as their shadow was considered polluting. If they went to school they were seated separately, If they were able to obtain work they did the dirtiest and lowest paid jobs.
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With their greeting of Jai Bhim they remind each other of their own successful revolution in 1956 for their human rights. Their cause is sacred. It inspires us here in Hungary, as we also face segregation and prejudice today. We would like to know discrimination is a thing of the past.
The dalit's story is like a fairy tale.
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Once upon a time, a hundred years ago, there lived a seventeen year old untouchable boy in a big family, His name was Bhim. He was the youngest child among 14 siblings. He surpassed all of them because of his brilliant mind. A wealthy maharaj acknowledged his poverty and bestowed a scholarship on him. Bhim was aware that Indian schools were being discriminatory and practiced segregation. Therefore, he tried his fortune in London and New York where he achieved university degrees. He received the title Dr. Ambedkar when he returned home to serve his people as a barrister.
Our Inspiration 4th Part
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Nevertheless, he was considered as an untouchable in accordance with the holy books of the Hindu religion. Therefore, he convened with his friends and publicly burned Manu's Laws, the Hindu holy script which bids the Hindu to hold the Untouchable in disdain. He became a human right fighter and his authority was constantly growing throughout the whole country. When India gained independence in 1947 he was nominated as law minister. He was entrusted with drafting the Constitution for the country. He wrote in it that discrimination is forbidden.
In his old age the Dalit people addressed him with veneration as Dr. Babasaheb. He and his laws, however respected they were, he still stared frustratedly at the discrimination existing all over the country. He decided then to show the people a spiritual alternative. As our judgment is determined by our faith, he took an oath: "I was born a Hindu Untouchable. It was beyond my power to prevent that but I declare that it is within my power to refuse to live under ignoble and humiliating conditions. I solemnly assure you that I will not die a Hindu". He abjured hindu religion that had brought so much suffering and humiliation to the Untouchable people (today's Dalits).
He studied thoroughly all the faiths of the world. He was seeking a religion which fitted together with reason, with modern science, and which declared liberty, fraternity and equality amongst people. He decided to follow the path of the Indian prince who lived 2500 years ago: he would be a follower of the Buddha. This was a decision of profound importance for the Dalits because the Buddha is venerated thoughout the world, and India is entitled to take pride in her great son. Dr. Ambedkar showed his astuteness: all of us can choose the way to be respected, we can change our fate for the better. Hundreds of thousands followed Ambedkar to the magnificent ceremony in Nagpur in October 1956. This was the rebirth of Buddhism in India. Babasaheb died six weeks later.
Those who at that time embraced a new world view with him, they are today grandfathers and grandmothers. Their grandchildren are as numerous as the whole population of Hungary. They follow Ambedkar's example: they face even the biggest difficulties in all things - to study and to exercise their human rights.
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Violet Hart is a photographer who has always returned to cobble out a life for herself in the oddly womblike interiors of Detroit. Nearing forty, she's keenly aware that the time for artistic recognition is running out. When her lover, Bill, a Detroit mortician, needs a photograph of a body, she agrees to takes the picture. It's an artistic success and Violet is energized by the subject matter, persuading Bill to allow her to take pictures of some of his other "clients," eventually settling on photographing young, black men.
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As time runs out, how will Violet come up with enough subjects to photograph without losing her soul or her life in the process? A riveting novel of psychological suspense, Patricia Abbott continues to cement herself as one of our very best writers of the darkness that lies within the human heart.
Patricia Abbott is the author of more than 100 stories in print, online, and in various anthologies, including Needle Mag, The Thrilling Detective, Plots With Guns, Spinetingler, and ThugLit. In 2009 she won a Derringer Award for her story My Hero. She is the author of two ebooks of stories: Monkey Justice and Home Invasion (through Snubnose Press). Her debut novel, Concrete Angel, was released by Polis Books in summer 2015. She is the coeditor of Discount Noir (Unteed Reads). She makes her home in Detroit. Follow her on Twitter at @pattinaseabbott.
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ATHENS, GA – University of Georgia counseling professor Deryl Bailey has received another national award for his work as founder and director of Empowered Youth programs, a group of mentoring activities aimed at developing and nurturing academic and social skills, particularly in young African-American males.
Bailey, associate professor in the College of Education's department of counseling and human development services, was named the recipient of the 2011 Professional Advancement Award from the Association for Specialists in Group Work, a division of the American Counseling Association.
The annual award recognizes the outstanding activities of an individual who has helped advance the field of group work through research, development of a new technique or theory, public relations, legislative activities, or group work practice.
The EYP provides children and adolescents in grades K-12 with tutoring, guidance and social skills training, while offering a supportive structure for participants and their parents. The program conducts Saturday academies, Saturday workshops for parents, semester exam lock-ins and summer academies, while closely monitoring students' progress in school.
Concerned about what he saw as chronic low expectations for black teens around the country, Bailey started Empowered Youth as a counselor in a North Carolina high school in 1989 and brought it to Athens in 2000. After starting here with just 13 members, it now serves more than 100 students a year, and the group meets at UGA's Aderhold Hall every Saturday for the Saturday Academy.
The program has included students from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including African American, Mexican American, South Korean and Anglo Saxon students; however, students of all races and ethnicity are encouraged and invited to participate. Bailey said that the attendance list has included children of UGA professors to youngsters in public housing, and he added that taking at least some Advanced College Placement classes is a requirement for high school students in the program. During the past four years, 90 percent of the program's seniors have gone on to college.
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ANITA RACHVELISHVILI DEBUT ALBUM
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Toronto, Ontario — January 22, 2018 – It was the sort of debut operatic dreams are made of, a once-in-a-generation sensation that launched the career of one of the most scintillating young singers now performing on the international stage. On the opening night of La Scala's 2009 season, the 25-year-old Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili stole the headlines as Carmen opposite the superstar tenor Jonas Kaufmann. In doing so, she also became the youngest singer ever to make their debut in the role on an opening night in the legendary opera house's history. Daniel Barenboim was the conductor, and it was he who had recognised the young singer's extraordinary natural vocal talent and charismatic stage presence. After auditioning her initially for the minor part of Mercédès, he offered her the title role. 'It was a huge risk for me,' she recalls. 'If any small detail had gone wrong, my career would have ended on the very day it began.'
'She triumphed,' exclaimed the New York Times, drawing attention to her 'remarkably even voice' and adding: 'Whenever Ms Rachvelishvili tossed her long dark locks…smitten Spanish soldiers fell onstage like dominoes.' The remarkable mezzo-soprano, who now releases her debut album on Sony Classical, has since sung the role over 300 times. Her natural ease on stage and powerful, seductive voice quickly led to other major role debuts such as Amneris in Aida, Azucena in Il trovatore, Dalila in Samson et Dalila. The ever-growing list of venues where she has sung includes The Metropolitan Opera, the Deutsche Oper, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Arena di Verona and London's Royal Opera House.
For her highly anticipated first album on Sony Classical she joins forces with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI and the dynamic conductor Giacomo Sagripanti, winner of the Young Conductor prize at the 2016 International Opera Awards. The programme naturally includes two arias – the seductive 'Habanera' and 'Seguidilla' – from what has become her signature role. The selection goes on to reflect her broad dramatic and dramatic range, and personal history. It includes Lyubasha's haunting a cappella song from Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride, an opera in which she subsequently sang under Daniel Barenboim at Berlin's Staatsoper.
Arias from Samson et Dalila and Il trovatore showcase an artist who, as she did with Carmen, sets out with every role to return to the score and discover the three dimensional human beings behind the notes, using her natural charisma on stage and rich, powerful voice to flesh out her insights into the music. Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, which she sings for the first time in Rome's fabled Teatro dell'opera in early 2017, is represented by Santuzza's passionate 'Vo lo sapete'; two arias from Verdi's Don Carlo reflect the exciting mezzo-soprano's future plans. The album also includes Charlotte's Letter Aria from Werther and the hauntingly noble 'Ô ma lyre immortelle' from Gounod's Sapho: a favourite aria of the greatest mezzo-sopranos, which Rachvelishvili stamps with her own personality.
With a musical background deeply rooted in her native Georgia, Anita Rachvelishvili first learnt the piano from the age of six, as well as singing jazz and soul, and she still finds time, despite her top-flight international operatic career, to sing with her band. She discovered opera only aged 16 when she began singing lessons, and her extraordinary natural gift was recognised when she was accepted into the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan only a few years later. It was also important, however, for her to include a piece of Georgian operatic tradition, in the form the Cavatina of Queen Tamar from the 1919 opera The Legend of Shota Rustaveli,by Dimitri Arakishvili (1873-1953). Tamar, who ruled Georgia from 1184 is 1213, is a key figure in the country's history and 'an example for Georgian women today,' she explains. 'It's a good thing to include on my debut album, as I consider myself also a successful and strong woman – or at least I try!'


PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ The former executive director and board chairman of the Church of Scientology has testified that the church's organizations were ″totally indoctrinated to get every last dime″ out of prospective members.
William W. Franks, who once was designated to succeed Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as head of the church, was the second witness in the retrial of a civil lawsuit brought by former Scientology member Julie Christopherson Titchbourne.
Ms. Titchbourne, who lives in Portland, is seeking punitive damages from the church on grounds she was defrauded by the church during her nine-month involvement with the religion in 1975 and 1976. Defendants in the case are Hubbard, the Church of Scientology of California and the Church of Scientology Mission of Davis.
In 1979, an Oregon jury awarded her more than $2 million, but the judgment was reversed by the state Court of Appeals and a new trial ordered.
In addition to Franks, the new trial is expected to include several other church officials who have left Scientology since 1979.
Franks, who left the church in 1981, testified Tuesday that the Church of Scientology raised about $2 million per week from its international operations and that funds were transferred secretly to Hubbard through a Liberian corporation.
He said Hubbard supposedly had resigned from the church in 1966 and that members and prospective members were told that Hubbard no longer received church money.
In opening statements last week, defense attorney Ted Runstein said some former Scientology members who would testify at the trial had been driven out of the church after an unsuccessful attempt to take control of it. Franks did not testify Tuesday about his departure.
Franks attributed the financial success of Scientology to the devotion of its members to a ″big league sales″ program embraced by Hubbard after reading about it in a book written by a used car salesman.
Franks estimated the net worth of the Church of Scientology of California at $340 million.
Ms. Titchbourne testified in the first week of the trial that she signed up for $3,000 worth of Scientology books and classes in July 1975 with the understanding that she would be learning about science, not religion.
She said her mental abilities became ″severely impaired″ as a result of long drills and other procedures used in the church. She said she was deprogrammed by her parents in Montana in March 1976.
During questioning by defense attorneys, Ms. Titchbourne said she had never been physically assaulted by Scientologists and was never restrained from leaving whenever she wanted.


(*Thle/fassa), the wife of Agenor, and mother of Europa, Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix. She, with her sons, went out in search of Europa, who had been carried off by Zeus; but she died on the expedition, and was buried by Cadmus. (Apollod. 3.1.1.) Moschus (2.42) calls her the wife of Phoenix, the son of Agenor, and the Scholiast on Euripides (Ion, 5) calls her Telephe.


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211 Rises to the Challenge: A COVID-19 Success Story
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211 is a free and confidential information and referral service that helps people make sense of social, health, and government services information that is often buried on websites, social media channels, e-newsletters, and spread throughout the network of partners and community leaders. These services include food and shelter, mental health support, financial services, resources for seniors and students, and much more.
Kristin Nelson is Director for 211 Saskatchewan.
Dr. Lynn Gidluck leads the University of Regina's Community Engagement and Research Centre.
Brendan Anderson was a senior undergraduate student hired by Nelson and Gidluck to help with the first phases of a research project exploring the role provincial 211 systems can play during large scale emergencies.
Discussion: 211 and COVID-19
When members of the 211 Canada Leadership Table met in Edmonton on October 21, 2019 for their yearly in-person meeting, they had no idea their discussion with researchers funded by the Canadian Philanthropy Partnership Network (PhiLab) would foreshadow an intense period of growth, collaboration and recognition for the value they could play in emergency management.
"Our goal was to look at lessons learned from natural disasters like the 2013 floods in southern Alberta and the wildfires in northern Alberta in 2016 and British Columbia in 2018," said Nelson. "We knew that 211 operations played important roles during these regional emergencies and other more localized, but still significant events in other areas of the country."
Nelson said her small 211 Saskatchewan team knew it was not really a matter of "if" but "when" they might face similar challenges. "We thought there were a lot of lessons we could learn from our colleagues in other jurisdictions that might help us, and other teams like ours that were still in the start-up phase of operations with their planning. Why reinvent the wheel if we can put processes in place before disaster hits?"
The original intention was for this project to be completed by the spring of 2020. The discussion panel in Edmonton (attended by thirteen individuals) was followed up with 13 individual interviews, conducted by Anderson, with provincial 211 representatives between late October of 2019 and early March of 2020.
"Our plan was to present our findings during a local event we would convene in Regina as part of Emergency Preparedness Week (a national event that traditionally takes place during the first full week of May)," said Gidluck.
Those plans changed once it became clear that the COVID-19 pandemic had set the stage for 211 organizations across the country to prove how valuable they could be to the emergency management ecosystem during one of the greatest challenges in the country's history.
"In light of this new reality, our focus expanded to documenting the role of 211 during the pandemic and the lessons that can be learned about the collaborative efforts and collective response to the emergency," said Gidluck.
In March of 2020, as COVID-19 cases spread across Canada and the world shut down, staff working for 211 jumped into action. Demand for 211 services skyrocketed. Across the country Service Navigators found they were dealing with a high number of individuals who had never used 211 services before but suddenly found themselves in need of support due to the effects of the shutdown.
One of the immediate challenges was to make sure that 211's resource lists, containing information on available services was kept up-to-date.
"This was a real challenge when even simple information, like whether an organization was open or closed, was changing on a daily basis," said Nelson. "At the same time, new community initiatives appeared spontaneously in response to COVID-19. Thousands of records had to be updated and new entries added as the community came together to offer much needed support."
The 211 Canada Leadership Table began meeting bi-weekly to discuss ways to collaborate, to share what they were learning with each other, to strategize ways to develop new partnerships, and discuss ideas to seek new funding to deal with increased need.
At a system's level, 211 Teams participated in community response tables, helping to flag emerging needs and trends by sharing the stories their Service Navigators were hearing—all the while advocating for needed services and supports within their communities.
"The data that 211 collects from contacts—which include calls, texts, and website clicks—illuminate needs that are not being met on a community basis," said Nelson. "These insights allow decision makers to direct scarce resources to where they are needed most."
The value of 211 was recognized by federal and provincial governments with new funding to help expand it across all regions of Canada via the United Way Centraide Canada network. Funding was also provided to support surges in demand for existing 211 services.
Prior to this expansion, 211 was only available in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and most of Quebec, and was only online in Manitoba. With the new one-time emergency funding, 211 became available in Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Manitoba (phone), New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador. In Quebec, services were now available in the Greater Montreal area, and in the Capitale-Nationale and Chaudière-Appalaches areas, online and chat service available across the province rolled out the following month.
This meant that for the first time, anyone living in Canada could now pick up the phone and dial 211 to reach a Service Navigator for information on community-based health, social and government services in or near their community.
United Way Centraide Canada, its counterparts across the country and regional and provincial 211 organizations are working hard to make the case for sustainable funding to maintain the national expansion.
"We hope our research will help with advocacy efforts by documenting the critical role 211 played during the pandemic and can play in future crises," said Gidluck.
"Now that the worst part of the pandemic seems to be over, our goal is to convene the 211 Leadership Team in the fall for a round table discussion similar to the one we started our project with. This time it will probably happen over Zoom," said Nelson. "Over the summer we will ask members of the 211 team to reflect on the following questions: What do you think were the biggest accomplishments (provincial and national) during the pandemic? What were the greatest challenges or disappointments? And, what do you think should be done differently if another large scale emergency happens?"