text:
Creative Ecologies
Creative Ecologies is a collaborative investigation into what makes Australia's creative landscapes tick. The aim is to understand what it takes to build thriving creative communities and then develop tools to foster their growth.
The goal of the project is to develop a simple way of articulating the complex ways creative ecologies operate. Core to this will be highlighting connections to the wider society and demonstrating value beyond purely economic indicators. The long-term ambition of Creative Ecologies is to expand our understanding and appreciation of creative exertion – and have its central place in Australia's national character recognised. It will do this by developing and raising awareness of a framework and resource for policymakers, practitioners and advocates. This will be a live, interactive visual map of the nation's creative ecologies, combining data, case studies and avenues for connection across the sector.
The project began in late 2017 and the arising work and findings including a national survey, one-on-one consultations, interactive workshops were presented at the Engaging For Impact conference in February 2018. Creative Ecologies now has an expanded list of RMIT researchers on board
○Jan van Schaik, Senior Lecturer, School Architecture & Urban Design
○Marnie Badham, Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Art
○Bronwyn Coate, Senior Lecturer, Economics, Finance and Marketing
○Gretchen Coombs, Postdoctoral Fellow, DCP ECP
○Christine Phillips, Senior Lecturer, Architecture & Urban Design
○Professor Jason Potts, Economics, Finance and Marketing
○Noel Waite, Senior Lecturer, Communication Design
○ Professor Ellie Rennie, Digital Ethnography Research Centre
○Professor Mark Sanderson, Computer Science and Information Technology
You can find out more about CREATIVE ECOLOGIES here.
Artlands Victoria, Clear, Future Tense, Regional Arts Victoria
Jan van Schaik
Jan van Schaik is a practising architect at MvS Architects, a researcher and senior lecturer at RMIT Architecture & Urban Design, and a creative and cultural industries strategist at Future Tense. His is the leader of the 'Culture and Society' research stream, and a PhD superrvisor of established architects conducting post-professional reflective practice research. Jan is the founder of the WRITING & CONCEPTS lecture and publication series which reflects of the role that writing plays in visual arts practice. Jan is also one of the founders of Creative Ecologies" a collaborative investigation into what makes Australia's creative landscapes tick. The aim is to understand what it takes to build thriving creative communities and then develop tools to foster their growth.
Examining the effects of global warming on cold climate ecologies
This project explores the impact of extreme climate and weather events on rarefied wilderness environments through the process of sound mapping to reveal the transformations occurring on the margins of our planet, and yet central to the health and wellbeing of everyone. Art is a powerful agent and advocate in how these transformations are perceived and the actions required to mitigate destructive behaviours and their long-term consequences.
"I'm not a scientist but I'm using art to articulate some of these observations and concerns to a much broader audience."
— Lead researcher, Philip Samartzis in SWI swissinfo.ch, This is what the changing Alps sound like, 20 December 2019.
Australia Council for the Arts, Australian Antarctic Division, Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, Creative Victoria, High Altitude Research Station at Jungfraujoch, Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology at the Zurich University of the Arts, National Gallery of Victoria, RMIT School of Art, Swiss National Science Foundation
Sound Art, Acoustic Ecology, Soundscape Studies, Polar Studies, Environmental Art, Climate Change
Rainbow Ranges
Co-creating digital tools for vitalism with LGBTQI+ youth
This pilot study set out to disrupt the dominant understandings of queer youth centred on narratives of vulnerability and distress.
Working with LGBTQI+ youth based in regional Victoria, Rainbow Ranges investigated how these young people understood and experienced vitality and aliveness through a series of creative arts-based workshops. The project team and young people co-created a concept for digital intervention to promote a sense of belonging, foster social connections, and improve the wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ identifying individuals and communities.
Live4Life, RMIT Social Change ECP, RMIT DCP ECP
LGBTQI+, Mental Health, Wellbeing, Social Connections, Youth, Creative Workshops, Creative Methods, Participatory Methods, Visual Methods, Regional, Marginalised Groups, Digital, Walking Tour
School: Social and Global Studies
katherine.johnson2@rmit.edu.au
Professor Katherine Johnson is Director of the Social and Global Studies Centre at RMIT University.
Katherine has been a visiting professor in gender studies at the University of Sydney, Australia (2007), in social psychology and psychosocial interventions at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2009−2012), in participatory-action research and LGBT health inequalities at the Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2016) and the Universidad de Colima, Mexico (2016). She is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Brighton, UK where she previously established the Division of Applied Psychology & Psychotherapy and the Centre for Research Excellence, Transforming Sexuality and Gender.
Her research is in the field of gender, sexuality and mental health, with specialisms in critical community psychology and psychosocial studies, qualitative, participatory and visual research methods, and interdisciplinary research about LGBTQ lives. Her research collaborations and partnerships focus on improving the lives of LGBTQ+ people and have impacted on social policy and practice, particularly in the field of suicide prevention, mental health and end of life care.
Katherine is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Past Chair of the Psychology of Women and Equalities Section, and a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). She is on the Editorial Board of Feminism and Psychology and Feminist Encounters: A journal of critical studies in culture and politics. She is also series editor with Professor Kath Browne (Maynooth, Ireland) of the Routledge book series, Transforming LGBTQ Lives. Katherine has served as a panel member for the ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund on global mental health, UK and the Irish Research Council.
Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Aged Care & Disability Support Services in Individualised Settings
Building stakeholder capacity in Victoria
The growing community concern around violence in disability support and aged care services promoted RMIT researchers to consider ways to improve the lives of both service users and workers in home and community-based support and care. Through a series of workshops, this project provided an opportunity for Victorian advocacy groups, unions and researchers to identify common concerns and interests around gender-based violence in both individualised aged care and disability support services, and consider ways to tackle these issues.
This project led to a 2020 Scoping Study for Worksafe Victoria see report here.
Worksafe Victoria
Community-based Support, Gender-based Violence, Care, Well-being, Disability Support Services, Frontline Workers, Aged Care, Disability Care
Sara Charlesworth
School: Management
sara.charlesworth@rmit.edu.au
Sara Charlesworth is Professor of Work, Gender & Regulation and Deputy Head of School, (Research & Innovation) in the School of Management. She is an executive member of the Centre for People, Organisation & Work in the College of Business. Sara has published and presented widely in a wide range of academic, policy and community fora and has been involved in a number of key gender equality policy reviews and debates. She was a panel member on the 2012 ACTU Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work, and an advisor to the Australian Human Rights Commission on their 2014 Pregnancy and Return to Work National Review and 2018 National Sexual Harassment Prevalence Survey.
In 2017 Sara was appointed to the Equal Workplaces Advisory Council, a founding reform of the Victorian government's Gender Equality Strategy. She is currently a member of the Victoria Police VEOHRC Review Academic Governance Board, on the Steering Group of the Migrant Workers Rights Campaign and co-convenor of the Work+Family Policy Roundtable. Sara is a Fellow of the Future Social Services Institute and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Industrial Relations.
Sara's research interests centre on gender inequality in employment at the labour market, industry and organisational levels. She has undertaken a number of Australian Research Council-funded projects. Much of her recent research has focused on paid care work. Together with A/Prof Deb King (Flinders), she completed a large three year Department of Health-funded project, 'Quality Jobs and Quality Care: Improving work practices to deliver quality aged care jobs & aged care services for older Australians', in partnership with Brightwater Care, HammondCare, Helping Hand and United Voice.
Doubting Writing/Writing Doubt
Expanded writing program
This project brought together writers of diverse disciplinary and creative backgrounds to explore new methodologies for arts writing and criticism in response to the exhibition On Vulnerability and Doubt at ACCA. Following a public call-out, that attracted over 60 applicants, ten writers were selected to participate in a series of workshops, a public readings event and to co-design a digital publication.
Doubting Writing/Writing Doubt took the exhibition themes of doubt and vulnerability as provocations from which to write about art. It built on the success of 2018's Writing in the Expanded Field, which explores diversification in contemporary critical writing.
The project was a great success, attracting excellent applicants, high public interest, connections with the arts publishing industry, and firmly consolidating the partnership between non/fictionLab and ACCA.
Digital Publication
ACCA Program Page
Podcast of Public Readings Event
ACCA, non/fictionLab
Creative Methodologies, Creative Writing, Interdisciplinary Creative Practice, Arts Industries, Cultural Sector, Innovation
Lucinda Strahan
lucinda.strahan@rmit.edu.au
Lucinda Strahan is a writer and researcher of expanded nonfiction. Lucinda's own expanded writing practice spans journalism and arts criticism, auto-ethnographic and personal essaying, editing and publishing, and exploratory literary-visual methods. She is the currently Writer in Residence at Linden New Art, St Kilda and in 2017 was Writer in Residence Residence at Grey Projects, Singapore as part of her ongoing interest in interdisciplinary critical/creative writing practices. Lucinda is a Lecturer in the Professional Communication program in the School of Media and Communication.
Trades Hall GBV Training Package
Evaluate, Enhance & Embed
How might we co-design for cultural change for workplaces of the future? How can we co-design with inclusivity at the core? How can we co-create opportunities for social change in workplaces?
This collaboration built on the Victorian Trades Hall Council's (VTHC) gender-based violence in the workplace training package, designed to advance the rights of people working across Victoria through cultural change towards inclusion, equality, and diversity. The project aim was to have the package evaluated, enhanced and for measurements to be embedded to ensure the aim of the package to change workplace cultures is able to be rolled-out.
To address this aim, the project utilised a series of mixed methods deploying ethnography (interviews and role play scenario case studies), SWOC analysis, multi-sensorial mapping and cultural probes to evaluate, enhance and reflect upon measuring social change.
Victorian Trades Hall Council
Workplace, Co-design, Co-create, Gender-based Violence, Equality, Inclusion, Ethnography
Jenny Kennedy
jenny.kennedy@rmit.edu.au
Jenny Kennedy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her research interests cover media practices in everyday life, social discourses around technology use and material culture, especially in domestic contexts. She is a core member of the Technology, Communication and Policy Lab in DERC.
She is currently working on projects around digital inclusion, and AI and automation in home environments.
Social Practice Network
Collaborative methods to work with people and across inter-sectoral partnerships
Using human relations as method, social practice connects creative practitioners with communities, industries and institutions to address contemporary social issues. This conversation series, podcast, and symposium aims to develop a regional network across art and design to establish RMIT's identity as a leader in social practice pedagogy as well as to develop new industry collaborations across Australia. The series explores; collaboration in urban and regional communities, the potential for risk and harm in engagement, and new social economies in art and design.
School of Art, Field Theory, College of Design and Social Context
Social Practice, Art, Design, Social, Sustainable, Industry
The HASH Network
Interdisciplinary health research
The HASH (Health, Arts, Social sciences and Humanities) Network brings together collaborators from the social sciences, humanities, medicine, arts, and science and technology. It will draw on contributions from a wide range of academic researchers, health practitioners, health service users, and early career researchers. HASH aims to ignite creative connections and collaborations among members.
Visit the HASH Network website.
Digital Ethnography Research Centre
Digital Health, Mental Health And Illness, Neurodiversity, Ageing, Long Term Conditions And Life Limiting Illnesses
Renata Kokanovic
Convener, The HEALTH Network; Professor
School: Global, Urban & Social Studies
renata.kokanovic@rmit.edu.au
Professor Renata Kokanovic's works at the intersections of health, society and medicine, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary mental health research.She combines empirical research with interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological scholarship while collaborating with industry partners and health care users to facilitate greater understanding of lived experiences of health and illness.
She co-founded Healthtalk Australia, a digital repository of health and illness narrative accounts designed to support people experiencing ill health, and inform health and social care delivery and policy.
Understanding HDR Wellbeing in and post COVID-19
Over the past few years, studies internationally have identified the power of the arts to improve wellbeing and health. At RMIT, we specialise at arts-based, codesign and ethnographic approaches to address social, ecological and health challenges. The DCP HDR Working Group on Wellbeing and Belonging are developing short term and long term projects around understanding HDR wellbeing and developing human-centred approaches to digital innovation. It seeks to address issues around the 2020 crisis (bushfires, climate change and COVID-19) and how we can empower HDRs for sustaining futures.
Within the working group, there is expertise in terms of ethnographic, user-experience methods, co-design frameworks, digital media curriculum and evaluation. This working group is researching the role of social and digital innovation for addressing impact of social isolation and associated emotional distress on wellbeing of HDR students during the COVID-19 crisis. The findings of this study will be deployed for future strategies for HDR students wellbeing.
Wellbeing, Health, Human-centred Approaches, Digital Innovation, Digital Technology, Ethnography, Sustainable Futures, Social Isolation, Emotional Distress
Natalie Hendry
natalie.hendry@rmit.edu.au
Natalie Hendry is a Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Media and Communications. Her research explores everyday social media and digital technology practices in the context of critical approaches to education, mental health, media, wellbeing, youth studies and policy. This brings together her experience prior to academia, working in community education, secondary schools and hospital settings, and consulting for health organisations and industry. Using digital ethnography and creative workshop methods, her postdoctoral research explores emerging and potential online opportunities to enhance digital outreach and media-based support for young people whose parents or adult family members are experiencing mental ill-health.
Creative Care
Exploring creative practice and teaching in health and wellbeing
Creative Care researchers and students engage in creative research that intersects with health, wellbeing and the human lived experience. Creative Care projects are undertaken through diverse mediums; they are site specific social practices. The collaborative and interdisciplinary research is realised through exhibitions, performances, events, publications, or undertaken within health and social care settings, and with industry partners.
In August 2019, Creative Care presented Hand Festival at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. The team, along with Professor Rebecca Hilton (University Arts Stockholm), organised the social practice choreographed event designed with a focus on the hand for trust and intimate hand activities. Seventeen artists, colleagues, student nurses from RMIT, and Peter Mac staff and patients participated in hand drawing, origami, hand massages, wax modelling, mbira, knitting, cat's cradle and more. Later that month, the team ran Hands + Mouth: Boundaries of the Body, an experimental and participatory "world cafe" event which explored the boundaries of the body at the end of life (touch, embodiment, gestures and more) through roving conversations about end of life scenarios with a focus on death and dying, ageing and illness and how they intersect with culture, the senses and place.
You can find out more about the Creative Care project on the CAST Website.
Peter MacCallum Cancer Center
Creative Methodologies, Creative Practice, Teaching, Health, Wellbeing, Participatory, Workshops, End Of Life, Ageing, Illness, Trust, Intimacy
Keely Macarow
keely.macarow@rmit.edu.au
Keely Macarow is Coordinator of Postgraduate Research in the School of Art at RMIT. Keely's research is focused on socially engaged art and the nexus between creative arts, social justice, health and wellbeing, and social and natural science. Currently, Keely is a member of The Untitled (a collective of artists, urban and graphic designers, architects and housing researchers based in Melbourne and Stockholm) who produce creative works, publications and interventions in Australia and Sweden to advocate for Homefullness (rather than homelessness). Her film, video and exhibition projects have been presented in Australia, the UK, the US, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Hungary, France, Scotland and Denmark.
Cultural Value and Impact Network (CVIN)
Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Inventive Methods
The Cultural Value and Impact Network (CVIN) is building RMIT University's expertise in interdisciplinary collaboration and inventive methods for articulating, measuring, evaluating cultural value and social impact. With practitioners and academics from across the University, we are building strong creative teams that use new interdisciplinary methods attuned to cultural complexity and diverse communities to enable high impact research partnerships with the arts and cultural sectors, government and NGO community. We have been mapping the capabilities with our colleagues in Art, Economics, Education, Finance and Marketing, Global Urban Studies, Media and Communication, Design, Architecture, and affiliates of DCP ECP, Global Business and Innovation and Social Change. We have collated existing research methods and industry projects through a survey and interviews to identify existing approaches, drivers, current gaps, and future interdisciplinary methodological possibilities for student training and partnerships.
Find out more about the Cultural Value and Impact Network [CVIN.
School of Art, School of Economics, School of Education, Finance and Marketing, School of Global Urban Studies, School of Media and Communication, School of Design, School of Architecture, ACUADS
Cultural Value, Art, Marketing, Economics, Education, Finance, Global Urban Studies, Design, Architecture
Bronwyn Coate
School: Economics, Finance and Marketing
Dr Bronwyn Coate is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing who specialises in cultural economics. Bronwyn's research involves economic analysis of the arts and creative industries using a range of economic and experimental techniques including approaches from behavioural economics and behavioural science. Areas her research has focused upon include art markets, artists/cultural labour, and cultural/creative industries. Much of Bronwyn's research is undertaken within mult-idisciplinary teams and focused upon addressing issues with policy relevance for the arts and cultural sector. Bronwyn is a member of a number of a number of research groups including the Cultural Value Impact Network (CVIN), Kinomatics Research Group, Behavioural Business Lab (BBL) and Placemaking Economics Research Group. She is also the current Secretary/Treasurer of the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI).
Gretchen Coombs
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
School: Design and Creative Practice
gretchen.coombs@rmit.edu.au
Gretchen Coombs is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the Design & Creative Practice Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT. She researches socially engaged art practices in the US, the UK and Australia, with a particular focus on how they are practiced in urban contexts. She's a core member of the Cultural Value and Impact Network (CVIN) and contributes to Creative Care in the School of Art. Gretchen has a PhD in social and cultural anthropology and a MA in visual criticism: her writing uses a combination of ethnographic methods and visual analysis. She is a co-author of Creative Practice Ethnographies (Rowan & Littlefield 2019) and her monograph, The Lure of the Social: Encounters with Contemporary Artists (Intellect 2021 ) is an experimental ethnography about contemporary artists working at the intersection of art, aesthetics, and politics.
Kit Wise
kit.wise@rmit.edu.au
After graduating from Oxford University and the Royal College of Art with an MFA in Sculpture, Kit Wise received the Wingate Rome Scholarship in Fine Art in 1999, to study at the British School at Rome. He moved to Australia in 2002 and completed his PhD at Monash University in 2012.
Wise has held senior educational leadership and leadership and governance roles since 2008. He is a Board Member for Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA) and Deputy Chair of the Executive Council of the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS).
He is Professor of Fine Art and Dean of the School of Art at the RMIT University; and an Adjunct Professor at Monash University and the University of Tasmania. He is represented by Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne and continues to practice as an artist, art writer and curator.
Developing Game Regions
Exploring regional growth in game cultures and gaming industries in Vietnam
The Developing Games Regions project aims to establish games industry connections and research partners within SE Asia-Oceania. As a thriving sector in SE Asia, this project explores gaming industries in Vietnam. Over 33.9 million people play games in Vietnam, but little is known about these game cultures. RMIT is in a unique position to cultivate enduring relationships with Vietnamese gaming industries as research partners, and cross-institutional scholarship by connecting with leading games experts in SE Asia. Strengthening relationships between RMIT Melbourne/Vietnam, local industries and regional expertise enhances the potential to address the Vietnamese games industry as an emerging market for production and play.
Media and Communications, RMIT Vietnam, College of Design and Social Context
Games, Culture, Asia-Pacific, Vietnam, SE Asia-Oceania, Gaming Industry, Community
Emma Witkowski
Senior Lecturer, Digital Design Cluster
emma.witkowski@rmit.edu.au
Dr Emma Witkowski is the Director for Playable Media and a Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication. As the Program Manager for the Bachelor of Games Design degree, Witkowski teaches theoretical units on Game Cultures and Game Studies.
Witkowski received her PhD in Game Studies in 2012 from the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, taking a qualitative exploration of networked high performance play, considered through a lens of sociology and phenomenology, sports and game studies. She has been working in the field of computer game cultures since 2005, the same year she co-founded the Danish state and privately funded initiative Letzplay, a project aimed at increasing young women's access to ICT's and computer gaming knowledge.
Her current research looks at various aspects of computer game cultures, including high performance networked teamplay, esports, gender and games and serious leisure practices. She has written and presented on topics such as identity and play, livestreaming and spectatorship, Mega-LANs, running aesthetics, and the phenomenology of high-performance networked teams.
Reconnecting Communities and Culture
"Culture is the framework through which we connect to our Country, our Belonging. It defines and makes us who we are. Our language, stories, songs, dance, artefacts, cultural knowledge and practices demonstrate our continuing connections." — Vicki Couzens.
Possum skin cloaks were a vital part of Aboriginal peoples lives in pre-European times. To make a cloak was a very labour intensive and time-consuming process. Telling the story of the Possum Skin Cloak strengthens cultural identity, connection to country and health, and education and justice within an indigenous community context. The impact of the revival of possum skin cloaks as a community cultural practice has been significant and profound.
Gunditjmara Elders and community, Ngarara Willim Centre at RMIT, Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages Board, Koorie Heritage Trust
Indigenous Culture, Storytelling, Art, Culture, Community Building, Languages, Textiles
VC Indigenous Research Fellow
Social Games for Change
Japan Workshop
Game design involves a creative and iterative process guided by prototyping, playing and testing and then refining. Through our Social Games for Change Workshops we're making the game design process accessible and actionable for any topic and varying participants.
The Social Games For Change Workshop introduces and encourages STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Maths) skills and capabilities in the primary School classroom. This iteration of the workshop took place on Thursday the 7th June at Kyoto International Primary School, Japan. The workshop was conducted in English and delivered to a class of 18 students.
Kyoto International Primary School
Game, Design, Social, STEAM, Workshop
The Future of Museum Audiences I
Social Media, Digital Wayfaring and Museum Audiences
This project explored how museums can engage with social media platforms beyond the blunt instrumentalization of hashtags, likes and follows, to co-create and co-future inventive and responsive engagements with and for diverse and intergenerational museum audiences. Deploying the notion of digital wayfaring that acknowledges that digital, social and material worlds are interconnected, the project used ethnographic techniques in the context of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). Ethnography provides insight into practice and lived experience — dynamic processes that big data can't address.
PHASE 1 REPORT
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
Audience, Social Media, Digital Wayfaring, Digital, Smartphone, Museums, Cultural Sector, Arts, Digital Ethnography
The Future of Museum Audiences II
Museum Engagement, Data and Older Audiences
Building on Phase 1, this project specifically sought to identify and develop socially thick understandings of the (digital and non-digital) experiences and potential opportunities for older adults in the museum sector.
Using a series of postcards aimed at discursive elaboration, we invited audiences to share cups of tea and biscuits as they wrote and discussed their responses. We engaged these audiences to ethnographically and creatively reflect upon how they view the museum as an institution, as a place for belonging, and what they would like their digital (and non-digital) experiences with the museum to involve.
Older Audiences, Social Media, Digital Wayfaring, Digital, Smartphone, Museums, Cultural Sector, Arts, Ethnography
EFI Conference 2018
At Engaging for Impact 2018 Conference, RMIT's eight Enabling Capability Platforms will share their knowledge and demonstrate how their expertise can address the world's most critical issues. The Social Change ECP and Design and Creative Practice ECP, along with Biomed ECP, have curated The Future of Care stream. Read more
2nd MARC END OF LIFE CARE FORUM
The Melbourne Ageing Research Collaboration (MARC) is hosting the 2nd MARC End of Life Care Forum at RMIT University. Speakers will provide detailed examples of recent research to stimulate ideas. Read more
Centre for Innovative Justice Perpetrator Service Mapping – 2018 Good Design Award, Communication Design Print
RMIT's Centre of Innovative Justice worked with ThinkPlace to transform a complex dataset which maps the roles and responsibilities of all government and non-government agencies and service providers who have contact with perpetrators of family violence in Victoria into a stunning set of visualisations. Read more
Doing Digital Methods – Workshop Summary
In June 2018, the DCP ECP and Ritsumeikan University (RU) jointly hosted a workshop at Ritsumeikan University (Japan) on interdisciplinary and critical creative methods, within mixed reality contexts, when considering social innovative futures. Read more
HDR Opportunity: Dr Anne Galloway Workshop
Practicing More-than-human Design Ethnography Workshop
Dr Anne Galloway, School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Tuesday 20 August 2019, RMIT City Campus Read more
VC FELLOW HIGHLIGHT: DAVID CHESWORTH
Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow in the School of Art Read more
Michelle Aung Thin
Michelle Aung Thin is a writer, former advertising copywriter and scholar. She is a Lecturer at RMIT University and teaches across the disciplines of Creative Writing and Advertising. Her most recent novel, Hasina (Allen & Unwin 2019) is about Rohingya ethnic cleansing and is published as Crossing the River Farak (Annick 2020) in Canada and the USA. Her first novel, The Monsoon Bride, (Text 2011) is set in colonial Burma and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary awards as an unpublished manuscript. Her writing has been included on VCE reading lists and republished on the SBS website. In 2017, she was a National Library of Australia Creative Arts Fellow (supported by the Eva Kollsman and Ray Mathew Trust) and in 2014, the first Asialink writer in residence to Myanmar (funded by Arts Victoria).
Michelle was a co-director of the non/fictionLab in 2018 and 2019, is currently a co-director of WrICE, Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange and has served on the board of The Lifted Brow. Her research interests range from the cultural history of southeast Asian hybrid identities to contemporary creative practices in Myanmar and the ethics of writing about difference. Current research includes a project addressing diversity in publishing and a pilot study that aims to reduce sexist advertising by educating the next generation of advertising creatives about harmful stereotypes.
michelle.aungthin@rmit.edu.au
Cultural Impact Workshop Series
Nella Themelios
Nella Themelios is a curator, writer and producer. She currently holds the position of Creative Producer at Design Hub, RMIT and is also the Chair of the Board of Victorian artist run initiative, Bus Projects. Previous to this she was the Coordinating Curator at Craft Victoria, the peak body for craft and design in Melbourne. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Cultural Studies) and a Graduate Certificate (Art History) from the University of Melbourne and is currently completing a Masters degree in Curatorship at the same institution. She has written numerous catalogue essays and produced projects across a variety of disciplines. Recent curatorial projects include: Signature Style (2013) (a NETS touring exhibition); Dolci & Kabana: #thathautecouturefeeling (with Ricarda Bigolin) (2013); Bless: No 38 Windowgarden (2011); Play with your Food (with Drew Pettifer) (21010÷11), The Sound Playground (with Amelia Barikin) (2010); Chicks on Speed: Viva la Craft! (2009).
nella.themelios@rmit.edu.au
DCP HDR Working Group on Wellbeing and Belonging Creative Citizenship Creative Agency Rainbow Ranges
Economics, Finance and Marketing
Julienne Van Loon
Dr Julienne van Loon is a Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow with non/fictionLab, and a leading Australian novelist and essayist. Her first novel, Road Story, won The Australian/Vogel's award in 2005 and was shortlisted for the WA Premier's Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book Award (Asia and Pacific). She has held residencies at various international arts organisations and universities, including the University of Iowa, where she was sponsored by the Paul and Hauling Engle Fund to take part in the International Writing Program in 2017. van Loon co-edits the leading scholarly Creative Writing journal TEXT, and is a peer-assessor for the Australia Council for the Arts. Her forthcoming essay collection, The Thinking Woman, includes interviews with key women thinkers from the Australia, Europe and the United States. Her scholarly research interests include the role of play in research and creative practice.
julienne.vanloon@rmit.edu.au
cohealth@365 Canadian & Australian Book Industries Conversation
Helen Rayment
RMIT Collections & Venues
Helen Rayment is RMIT Gallery's Acting Director and Senior Exhibition Coordinator. She is an experienced arts administrator and curator with a demonstrated history of working across the art museum sector and in higher education. She has a Master of Arts in Visual Art from Monash University. In 2018 she was awarded a professional development grant by the Australia Council to further her significant work in Asia.
helen.rayment@rmit.edu.au
Kate Rhodes
Kate Rhodes was a curator at RMIT Design Hub, a new, purpose-built, 10-storey home for design exhibitions, programs and research in Melbourne. Kate has been creative director of the State of Design Festival, and curator of its Design for Everyone program. She has worked as adjunct curator at Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design, and as editor of Artichoke, an architecture and design magazine. She has also worked as a curator at the National Design Centre and at Craft Victoria, and was assistant curator of Photography and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria for five years. She completed a Masters of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne in 2002, and a Masters of Design Research in RMIT's Faculty of Architecture and Design in 2010. Kate is a founding member of the Office for Good Design, and is currently an editorial advisor at ARTAND Australia magazine.
kate.rhodes@rmit.edu.au
Leon De Bruin
Leon de Bruin, is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University. He is an educator, musician, composer and researcher. He has extensive research work and has authored over 20 peer reviewed articles and book chapters relating to meta-cognition, creativity, performing arts/artistic practices, STEM/STEAM, creativity in education and the arts. He has been the recipient of the Monash University Vice-Chancellors commendation for excellence (2017), and the ASME Callaway Award (2017) and the Monash University Postgraduate Publications Award (2016).
He works in the RMIT Creative Agency Research Lab, where he brings extensive qualitative and qualitative research experience, expertise in creativity in educational, environments, inderdisciplinarity, creativity and STEAM education, as well as vast educational experience, knowledge and connectivity to Australian Schools.
leon.debruin@rmit.edu.au
Smartphone use during a crisis Design and Social Innovation in Asia-Pacific Network
David Chesworth is a Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at RMIT, based in the School of Art and DCP Research Platform. He is a cross-disciplinary artist, composer and researcher with an experimental background, He has created investigative artworks in visual art, music, screen-based media, performance and installation, and across the wider cultural sector, including major museums and artist run initiatives and the public domain. Recent artworks created with collaborator Sonia Leber were exhibited in the main programs of the Venice and Sydney Biennale's and the satellite program of Moscow Biennale. His sound works have been presented internationally, including Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival and The Bang on a Can Marathon in New York, and Ars Electronica in Austria (Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention).
His recent award-winning PhD investigation into ontologies of listening within visual arts practice interrogated artworks at Dia:Beacon in upstate New York. This led to a practice-based research project as an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) where he investigated, with Earth scientists and Indigenous traditional owners, different understandings of the world.
His postdoctoral research will involve the creation of three artworks that investigate sound archives: a collection of early Indigenous recordings, an experimental music archive, and a collection of recently unearthed séance tapes, this will be supplemented with a range of written research outputs. David is also co-creating a large-scale research artwork called What Listening Knows for exhibition in the UK later in the year.
david.chesworth@rmit.edu.au
Janneke Blijlevens
Economics, Finance, and Marketing
Janneke Blijlevens is a Senior Lecturer in Design Thinking and Experimental Methods within the Marketing Discipline. With a Masters in Psychology, a PhD in consumer behaviour and design, and work experience in both design and business schools her research is truly interdisciplinary. Janneke uses her ability to understand different ways of thinking to design innovative solutions to complex societal and business problems. Her approach uses behavioural insights obtained in both qualitative and quantitative research to affect positive behaviour change in society. Her research covers areas such as product (design) perception and evaluation by consumers, the social roles that products can play to consumers, how to design products for social change, and psychological factors influencing the adoption of highly innovative products by consumers. She has published in top-tier academic journals such as Psychology & Marketing, International Journal of Design, Acta Psychologica, British Journal of Psychology, Journal of Psychology in Aesthetics, Creativity, and Arts, and Journal of Design, Business and Society. The project 'Sans Forgetica, a font to remember (sansforgetica.rmit)' gained world-wide acclaim.
Cultural Commonalities Memory Game
Shelley Marshall
Shelley is the Director of the Business and Human Rights Centre at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Shelley has undertaken empirical research on these topics in diverse countries, including Bulgaria, India, Indonesia, Australia and Cambodia, and has published widely based on her findings. Her high standing as a scholar has been recognised through the award a number of large multi-country grants, and she has undertaken collaborations with scholars from Cambridge University, Harvard University, Melbourne University and RMIT. Dr Marshall's long term partnerships with the technical arm of the International Labour Organisation, Oxfam Australia and CORE UK have enabled her to produce research of a highly applied nature, which has had a strong policy influence and provided meaningful lessons for business and other relevant organisations. Likewise, Shelley's leadership on the Steering Committee of the Australian Corporate Accountability Network has provided opportunities to influence Business and Human Rights policy in Australia.
Dr Marshall holds a Bachelors of Arts with a double major in Social Theory and Political Science and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Melbourne. She studied a Masters of Science in Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where the focus was on economic policy. In 2015, she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Regulation Justice and Diplomacy which she undertook at the RegNet School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University under the supervision of Peter Drahos, Valerie Braithwaite and John Braitwaite. Dr Marshall is a Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University and an Australian Research Council DECRA Research Fellow.
shelley.marshall@rmit.edu.au
Son Vivienne
Son Vivienne is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Creative Agency and the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT. Their principal expertise is digital self-representation, online activism, queer identity, and rhetorical strategies/feminist practices for speaking and listening across difference. Son is also involved in community development and arts as an activist, workshop facilitator and media-maker. Son is author of Digital Identity and Everyday Activism: Sharing Private Stories with Networked Publics (Palgrave Macmillan) and co-author/co-editor of Negotiating Digital Citizenship: Control, Contest, Culture (Rowman & Littlefield).
Son curates several collective storytelling websites for queer and gender-diverse communities and has over twenty years of multi-media production and distribution experience. As an award winning writer/director/producer of drama and documentaries, they tackled subjects as diverse as youth suicide; drug cultures in Vietnamese communities; and lesbian personal columns. Their film work includes multi-lingual (Vietnamese-English and Adnyamathanha-English) and multi-modal (animation, micro-docs, digital storytelling and interactive web-platforms) projects that reflect their comparative, cross-cultural and critical approaches to communication and storytelling.
son.vivienne@rmit.edu.au
cohealth@365


Anyone who has invested time, energy and effort into finding their own truth knows that ignorance is NOT bliss. Understanding the religious environment that we grew up in should be the natural first step towards defining our own belief system. All too often, we grow up getting bits and pieces of religion, but never take the time to look at the bigger picture.
Most religions have been around for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Common sense tells us that lots of people have made lots of changes in the teachings of any particular religion, for lots of reasons. Our job, as spiritual seekers, is to get back to the basics - the basic teachings of the 'master teacher' upon whom the religion was founded.
Our 'problem' with established religion is often that we can't find a religion that fits our modern-day lifestyle. We protest against some of the religious doctrine and practices, believing that they just aren't appropriate for living life in today's world. Without looking any further, we say, "That's not right for me," and move on in the hopes of finding a different religion that we can be more comfortable with.
In studying the history of the churches, we come to a clearer understanding of why they did things the way they did, when they did them, and - hopefully - the importance of separating truth from doctrine in our quest for spiritual truth becomes more and more obvious. It doesn't matter which religion we're looking at; in every case, there are the teachings of the Master Teacher, and the doctrine (which was established by followers, not by the Master himself) that guides us in learning how to express the Master's truth in our day-to-day lives.
That is NOT a bad thing; then and now, learning to express our spiritual truth on a day-by-day basis is what 'finding and following our own path in life' is all about. We turn to present-day spiritual teachers to guide us in expressing our spirituality, all the while resenting the spiritual teachers of yore who did the same for their life students. I have no doubt that generations from now, free-thinkers will criticize the teachers (and teachings) of our time as "old-fashioned' and 'inappropriate to their lifestyle.' That's the way it has always been, and that's the way it will always be: established religion gives each soul something to think about - a starting point in deciding what their personal truth will (or will not) be in that lifetime.
We run into problems when we want to express our beliefs differently than any particular sect of any particular religion tells us to. If we stop thinking of 'established religion' as a firm set of rules and regulations that we are expected to follow if we want to be a 'spiritual person,' and look at it instead as a historical recap of the ways generations of people have chosen to express the spiritual teachings of a specific Master Teacher, we can free ourselves of the emotional rebellion we sometimes experience at being told what we should think and what we should feel. Once we stop feeing defensive, we can begin to explore the 'truth' as the Master Teacher taught it, without getting lost in the doctrine established by those who came after him.
Once we separate the truth from the doctrine, we begin to realize that there really isn't much difference in 'truth' at all; the common thread that runs through every major religion in the world is what we, today, call "Universal Law." Every great spiritual Master (including the ones upon whose teachings the various religions were founded) taught the same basic principles. Our goal in spiritual seeking should be two-fold: to get back to the basic teachings, and then to decide whether those teachings, as presented by any religion, ring true for us, as individuals, in this lifetime. Too often, we lose our focus and put our emphasis on doctrine (which comes and goes with each change in the socio-economic environment) instead of on the basic truth which the doctrine is striving to express.


Guangdong Jin Wei Da Colour Printing Co., Ltd.
Forest Packging Group Stock Corporation is a professional company to manufacture all kinds of packaging products, including paper box, corrugated box, color box, cardboard, carton box, paper bag, etc. We also supply the whole service to our customers, like design-making, plates-printing together with the late machining process. Our customers all over the world spread in the different industry area.
-printing colors -quantity - your full address, zip code and your port of destination . -If it is possible, please also provide with pictures or design sketch for reference. If not, we will recommend relevant products with details for reference.
As a rule, we ask for a 30% down payment befor production, and the other 70% balance must be paid before shipment. 5 Are our design available9 Yes, in all of kinds of our products, your design is available. 7. Can the products be printed with our logo9 You definitely can put your logo on the products.
4. Q: May I have our own design9 Qunle: Yes, we print the label based on your artwork. 5. Q: Are the price on your website trade prices9 Qunle: No. We sell our boxes to business customers in customized designs, quantities and sizes.
( The Sample Charge according the quantity your or der and will retu r n a half or full by mass order ). Disclaimer: The intellectual property shown on the listed product belongs to third parties. These products are only offered as examples of our production capabilities and are not for sale.
Foshan Nanhai Xiangfei Paper Products Co., Ltd.
Alibaba.com offers 52,322 wine packaging box products. About 75% of these are packaging boxes, 1% are packaging tubes, and 1% are display racks.
A wide variety of wine packaging box options are available to you, such as wood, plastic, and paper. You can also choose from free samples, paid samples.
There are 52,152 wine packaging box suppliers, mainly located in Asia. The top supplying countries are China (Mainland), Hong Kong, and Vietnam, which supply 99%, 1%, and 1% of wine packaging box respectively.
Wine packaging box products are most popular in North America, Western Europe, and Domestic Market.
You can ensure product safety by selecting from certified suppliers, including 16,253 with ISO9001, 10,363 with Other, and 5,945 with FSC certification.


About Dr. Stancic — Saray Stancic, M.D.
Dr. Stancic is a board certified physician and the founder of Stancic Health and Wellness, LLC where she practices Lifestyle Medicine.
She received her M.D. degree from New Jersey Medical School in 1993. Dr. Stancic completed an Internal Medicine residency and served an additional year as Chief Medical resident at University Hospital in Newark, NJ. In response to witnessing the height of the catastrophic HIV epidemic while in medical school in Newark, she became very interested in the field of Infectious Diseases. She wanted to be part of the solution to the AIDS health care crisis, and went on to complete a fellowship in Infectious Diseases.
From 1999 to 2006, she served as Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Hudson Valley Veterans Administration Hospital in New York. During those years she treated hundreds of patients with viral hepatitis and HIV as well as other infectious diseases with a multidisciplinary approach to support her patients' overall well-being.
Beyond her responsibilities as an Infectious Disease physician, researcher, and Chief of Infection Control, she directed the MOVE program, a federal VA initiative to encourage healthy lifestyles in veterans.
She later joined the viral hepatology team at Roche and conducted clinical studies for new, more efficacious treatments for hepatitis infections. During these research years, she continued to see patients at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital in New York City. She has authored several research papers in peer-reviewed medical journals.
Continue here to learn more how she went from physician to patient, and how that experience was the impetus behind her current practice.


This information will be strickly based on Waec Result and it's grading system. The west African examination council have grading system for all subject and the acceptable grade for university, polytechnic and college of education is Credit pass ( Credit ) and anything less than that will give you issue.
The basic requirements into any institution is 5 credit passes.
Mathematics is a very important subject in the faculty of science and social science and if you fail mathematics you need to look elsewhere to gain Admission. The only faculty that does not pay too much attention to mathematics is the faculty of Art.
Please note that requirements varies from one school to the other and it also change every year.


text:
Die Liste der irischen Botschafter in Kanada bietet einen Überblick über die Leiter der irischen diplomatischen Vertretung in Kanada seit der Aufnahme diplomatischer Beziehungen.

Weblinks

Kanada
!
Irland

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Home » Canadian history • Does History Matter? • Environment • History and Policy • History in the News
Nature's Past Episode on the Closing of Federal Libraries
February 7, 2014 February 4, 2014 3 Comments on Nature's Past Episode on the Closing of Federal Libraries
Nature's Past is a regular audio podcast series produced by Sean Kheraj on the environmental history research community in Canada. It is published by the Network in Canadian History and Environment. The show features interviews, round table discussions, and lectures on a wide range of topics in environmental history, including climate change, urbanization, natural resource development, conservation, and food production. This is the latest episode, first published on the NiCHE website on February 3.
Episode 41: Closing Federal Libraries, 3 February 2014 [45:45]
A dumpster at the Fisheries and Oceans Canada library in Mont-Joli, Quebec in an image sent by a federal union official.
In 2012, the Canadian federal government began closing and consolidating many of its departmental libraries. More than a dozen research libraries have closed at Parks Canada, Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Foreign Affairs, Citizenship and Immigration, Human Resources and Skills Development, the National Capital Commission, Intergovernmental Affairs, Public Works and Government Services, Canada Revenue Agency, Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, and Canadian Heritage (click here for a timeline of closures).
In December, the government began to close all but four of its eleven Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries. News reports across the country showed startling images of books and other documents lying in dumpsters with rumors that others may have been burned. The culling of these libraries involved what has been described as a haphazard free-for-all with members of the public and industry scooping up abandoned books and valuable so-called "grey literature," unique internal government publications. The process of library consolidation and closure seems to have happened so quickly that books that were still out on loan were never recalled. And beyond the loss of material, we still do not know the extent of the personnel losses. As library staff get laid off, valuable human knowledge vanishes along with the books.
One thing that stands out in this troubling story is the degree to which the library closures have targeted scientific and environmental research branches of the government. These libraries housed historical research materials of great relevance to Canada's environmental history. As such, they are likely to have a detrimental impact on our ability to know about the past.
We decided then to find out more about this issue by speaking with Andrew Nikiforuk, a writer and journalist for thetyee.ca who has written extensively on this topic. I also sat down with a panel of environmental historians to get their take on the potential impact these closures might have on Canadian environmental history.
Please be sure to take a moment to review this podcast on our iTunes page and to fill out a short listener survey here.
Visit the main page at http://niche-canada.org/naturespast and subscribe to our YouTube page here.
Sean Kheraj, Canadian History & Environment
Evidence for Democracy
"Am120-GTR-Arps+Impro by Javolenus" by NiGiD
"Cinematic Sentimental Melancholic Emotional Grand Piano Movie Pictures Theme Soundtrack 017" by RoyaltyFreeMusic
"Cm124-FunkyGroove" by Javolenus
"Am120-GTR-Arps+Impro" by Javolenus
[View the story "Sources on Canadian Federal Library Closures" on Storify]
Kheraj, Sean. "Episode 41: Closing Federal Libraries" Nature's Past: Canadian Environmental History Podcast. 3 February 2014.
Canadian history, Does History Matter?, Environment, History and Policy, History in the News	Andrew Nikiforuk, Canada Revenue Agency, Canadian heritage, Citizenship and Immigration, Environment Canada, Foreign Affairs, Human Resources and Skills Development, Infrastructure and Communities, Intergovernmental Affairs, Natural Resources Canada, Network in Canadian History & Environment, NiCHE, Parks Canada, Public Works and Government Services, Sean Kheraj, the National Capital Commission, Transport
← Death or Deliverance: Canadian Courts Martial in the Great War Did the Steam Engine or Spinning Mule lead to the Industrial Revolution? →
3 thoughts on "Nature's Past Episode on the Closing of Federal Libraries"
John P.G. Savage, MLIS February 7, 2014 at 1:08 pm
Legally, these libraries were supposed to have contacted the Library and Archives Canada to have its approval for the disposition of unpublished research. If these documents were published, then copies would have already have been deposited at the Library and Archives according to law as well. Unfortunately, whether or not departments follow the law on these matters is not always the case and will have to be determined.
In my own work, helping to save the Industry Canada library from closure in the 1990s, I successfully proved to upper management that library closures cost a department more money than they saved in a study I titled The Cost of Library Cutbacks And The Downward Spiral of Information Access. It was evident that after library funding was cut, branches began to buy their own duplicate copies of expensive information. These document acquisitions were piling up in offices where people were unable to find what they were looking for (one guy had almost $60,000 in cd roms in the bottom drawer of his filing cabinet that others who needed it did not know about). Informal mini-libraries soon sprang up throughout the department as "resource centres" that were mostly just big storage areas for books, magazines, and electronic content without proper cataloguing, so that people could not find anything. One resource centre was established by the admin person, as she gave her director an ultimatum that due to her fear of tripping over books piled on the floors of everyone's office, either they establish a storage area like this or she was not going to enter their offices for safety reasons. Very quickly, the cost of developing these largely unmanaged resource centres was proven to be much more than the costs of the library cutbacks and so it was clear that to save money, the library's funding had to be restored immediately, at first with surplus funds then by institutional core funding within just 6 months.
In the following years, I advised the new manager who wasn't a trained librarian on how to reposition the library, to ensure its value was never again challenged while I was there. We did this by my convincing the department to allow the library to manage the intranet. I redesigned the intranet's taxonomy to ensure library resources were made available to the whole department in a public place. We promoted client research training and I promoted knowledge sharing throughout the department by developing my own subject experts database to link subject experts with one another. We hosted networking meetings, invited outside experts to speak to our patrons on topics of interest, and I introduced missionary marketing tactics that helped promote greater usage of the library's resources. The vision was that of the ancient Library of Alexandria where people in a forum of public discourse and learning, not just a repository of books. The end result was that we won awards for this work and the library, even 12 years after I left has been able to remain open and vital to their department. My client, the manager of the library, told me that she was told originally commanded to either fix the library or close it. Because of our work together, she said that we fixed and saved it, for which we should be proud.
Unfortunately, not all librarians or executives seem able to understand how to justify the value of a library or the true cost of closures. These cycles of closures and re-openings happen over and over, wasting funds and ruining careers. What is needed is a proper assessment of these cycles, the cost to an institution, and an establishment of a cost:benefit analysis of library closures to avoid the rash budget cuts by uninformed management. It is bad business practice not to understand how cost cuts cost more, almost immediately afterwards. And, any profession that cannot defend its value has to reassess its own leadership capabilities. This is a time to reflect and rebuild the librarian profession once again or go retrain for another career that can defend itself better.
Sean Kheraj February 10, 2014 at 8:55 am
Thanks for your feedback and for sharing your own experience at Industry Canada. It would be great to hear from librarians currently working in the system. Unfortunately, many fear reprisals for speaking out.
Pingback: The Canadian War on Science: A chronological account of chaos & consolidation at the Department of Fisheries & Oceans libraries – Confessions of a Science Librarian

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Advocates come together after reported rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans
Felicia Bolton
Posted: Mar 9, 2021 / 08:29 PM CST | Updated: Mar 10, 2021 / 05:12 AM CST
CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — From Oakland to San Francisco and all the way to New York, Asian Americans are reporting more hate crimes against them in the United States.
Dr. Russell Jeung, a professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, says his family has experienced recent attacks as well.
"My wife was running on a trail and some just actually blocked her way and coughed deliberately into her face," he said.
Jeung is a co-founder of STOP AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) Hate. His group tracks reports of hate crime in all 50 states. He says since March last year the group has logged more than 3,000 incidents reported.
He believes hate speech and derogatory terms like "China virus " and "Kung flu" have led to the hate attacks that many are seeing today.
Hate crimes in US reach highest level in more than a decade
"As that term became commonplace, people made the automatic assumption that the virus is Chinese and if we see Chinese people they're a threat as the disease carriers," said Jeung. "And when they feel threatened they go into fight or flight mode. They begin to attack us or they shun us, and that's what we saw time and time again."
John Yang is the Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice. He says, although we are seeing these attacks now, racism against Asians has been around for years.
"Lastly, with respect to prevention is making sure that people understand that Asian Americans are part of America … that we aren't seen as this perpetual foreigner."
The NYPD has reported 28 crimes against Asian Americans in 2020. That's up from just three in 2019.
Now, advocates are offering a response.
"Here our organization offers what's called bystander intervention training," said Yang. "So what that is, it allows people — if they see an act of hate — to respond to it. Now certainly we don't want people to be a superhero and jump in and start a fight or anything like that but there are certainly a lot of small techniques that people can take to deescalate the situation."
Both programs are offering training on standing against racism and resources to victims.
For more information on Stop AAPI Hate and Asian Americans Advancing Justice, follow the links.


text:
Cercle Brugge KSV
KAA Gent
KV Kortrijk
Racing Genk
Royal Charleroi SC
Sint-Truidense
Europa League Playoffs
Leyton Orient manager Edinburgh dies aged 49
English League Two Jun 8, 2019 Reuters
Tranmere secure League One promotion
English League Two May 25, 2019
Premier League referee Mike Dean wildly celebrates Tranmere Rovers reaching Wembley
The Toe Poke May 13, 2019 Gustav Elvin
Advantage Tranmere in League Two playoff
He starred for Arsenal. Now he's leading a tiny team to safety
ESPN FC United May 1, 2019 Andy Mitten
Scholes quits Oldham after 31 days in charge
English League Two Mar 14, 2019 ESPN
Carlisle score cheekiest goal of the season?
English League Two Mar 13, 2019
Newport revival gets them taste of FA Cup magic vs. City
English FA Cup Feb 15, 2019 Mark Ogden
Scholes appointed manager of Oldham
English League Two Feb 11, 2019 ESPN
Sources: Scholes set to be Oldham manager
English League Two Feb 8, 2019 Mark Ogden
Sources: Oldham want Scholes by weekend
Oldham Athletic Jan 28, 2019 Mark Ogden
Sources: Scholes in Oldham manager job talks
Sol Campbell appointed manager of Macclesfield
Macclesfield Town Nov 27, 2018 ESPN
EFL signs new five-year, £595m TV deal
English League Championship Nov 19, 2018 Reuters
Notts County sack Harry Kewell after 14 games
Notts County Nov 13, 2018 AAP
Kewell appointed manager of Notts County
Notts County Aug 31, 2018 ESPN
Nolan sacked as Notts County manager
League Two club world's first carbon neutral
The Toe Poke Jul 31, 2018 Associated Press
Regular Season Championship Playoffs Europa League Playoffs
2019 / 20202018 / 20192017 / 20182016 / 20172015 / 20162014 / 20152013 / 20142012 / 20132011 / 20122010 / 20112009 / 20102008 / 20092007 / 20082006 / 20072000 / 2001
English Premier League Spanish Primera División German Bundesliga Italian Serie A Malaysian Super League Singaporean Premier League Australian A-League Indian Super League Thai Premier League Indonesian Super League French Ligue 1 English League Championship Mexican Liga BBVA Bancomer Brazilian Serie A Argentine Superliga Dutch Eredivisie Portuguese Liga Turkish Super Lig Scottish Premiership Russian Premier League Greek Super League Major League Soccer Belgian First Division A Danish SAS-Ligaen Austrian Bundesliga Swedish Allsvenskanliga Swiss Super League Northern Irish Premiership Irish Premier Division Welsh Premier League Bolivian Liga Profesional Colombian Primera A Chilean Primera Division Bolivian Liga Profesional Ecuadoran Primera A Peruvian Primera Profesional Paraguayan Primera Division Uruguayan Primera Division Venezuelan Primera Profesional English League One English League Two English National League French Ligue 2 German 2. Bundesliga Italian Serie B Japanese J1 League
1 Cercle Brugge KSV 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Club Brugge 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 KAA Gent 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Eupen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Racing Genk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 KV Kortrijk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 KV Oostende 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 KV Mechelen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Anderlecht 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Antwerp 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Mouscron 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Zulte-Waregem 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Sint-Truidense 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Royal Charleroi SC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Standard Liege 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 Waasland-Beveren 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
P: Games Played
W: Wins
D: Draws
L: Losses
F: Goals For
A: Goals Against
GD: Goal Difference
PTS: Points


text:
COVID-19 outbreak: Stay informed, be safe! Check myth busters about Coronavirus
Coronavirus Scare: Can eating a bowl of garlic cure coronavirus? Or can holding the breath for 10 seconds at one go mean that a person is not infected with COVID-19? Time to bust some common myths that are doing the rounds!
The government, through its MyGovt Twitter handle, has busted some myths that are either spreading by word of mouth or WhatsApp messages.
Coronavirus Scare: Can eating a bowl of garlic cure coronavirus? Or can holding the breath for 10 seconds at one go mean that a person is not infected with COVID-19? Time to bust some common myths that are doing the rounds! At a time when the number of positive COVID-19 cases are on an increasing spree, a kind of fear has penetrated the minds of people that is resulting in them believing in many myths. The government, through its MyGovt Twitter handle, has busted some myths that are either spreading by word of mouth or WhatsApp messages. The initiative aims to inform people about the factual information regarding the novel Coronavirus and keep them safe. We have listed some myth busters as informed by the central government in India.
Coronavirus myths and facts
The MyGovt Twitter handle clearly conveys that it is not right to believe that antibiotics can prevent Coronavirus. It informed that antibiotics are used for bacterial infection and since Coronavirus in a viral infection, antibiotics do not work on it. However, people who are hospitalised are given antibiotics to prevent possible bacterial co-infection.
Another thing people believe is that incubation for COVID-19 virus is up to 5 days but the Twitter handle has clarified that the incubation period is up to 14 days.
There has been a statement going around that states a Chinese doctor has found a cure for Coronavirus is one bowl of garlic. However, the government debunked this and said that there is no evidence for this.
Some people believe that holding breath for 10 seconds without any discomfort means that the person does not have Coronavirus. This is a farce and does not prove if the person has an infection or not.
Here's a series of Myth Busters about COVID-19. Stay Informed, Stay Safe! #IndiaFightsCorona #StayAwareStaySafe pic.twitter.com/hFZnozCFS6
— MyGovIndia (@mygovindia) March 27, 2020
Meanwhile, as the number of fake messages and information has increased, it is difficult for people to check the authenticity of the information. Therefore, the World Health Organisation (WHO) in an initiative has been working with messaging application WhatsApp where it can provide the latest information and guidelines regarding the deadly Coronavirus. The information provided by WHO will be accurate and can be accessed on WhatsApp chatbot at the number +41-798931892.
COVID-19 outbreak Stay informed be safe! Check myth busters about&nbspCoronavirus


text:
Kako | Feautured In Ai-Ap Dispatches From Latin America
June 06, 2016 Kako
Thank you Latin American Ilustracion for featuring KAKO in your Dispatch this month
Latin American Ilustracion: Kako
By David Schonauer Wednesday June 1, 2016
The Porsche 917K is an icon of racing.
It's the car that gave Porsche its first overall win at the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans race, and the car that Steve McQueen drove in the 1971 movie Le Mans.
When São Paulo, Brazil-based illustrator Kako was invited to contribute posters to an exhibition about famous vehicles from the movies, he knew he wanted to illustrate the Porsche. "I believe it was a good option because not only I could pay homage to a great movie but also to the car that dominated the tracks in its time," he says.
The assignment came from Adam Smasher, owner of the Hero Complex Gallery in Los Angeles, for the exhibition "Righteous Rides and the Dudes Who Drive Them!"
"An invitation such as this can drive you crazy due to the numerous options you have available," notes Kako at his website. In order to keep his sanity, he decided to work quickly. "Once I knew what I wanted I shut down all other options and moved forward to designing it before any second thoughts or regrets take over," he adds.
His goal was to create an illustration that was sleek and fun. "I really wanted to make a clean design, focusing on the car and the famous colors of the Gulf-Porsche team livery," he says. His inspiration, he says, was the artwork that appears on Tamiya model car kits (see below).
"All I had in mind was, 'How would I approach the illustration if Tamiya asked me to work on one of their boxes?" he says.
The final poster was named a winner of the Latin American Ilustracion 3 competition. Another series of illustrations by Kako — intricate posters celebrating rock-and-roll legends — were also selected for LAF 3.
Growing up, Kako drifted toward art because, as he told DFLA in 2014, "I feared the continuous routine of doing the same things everyday forever and ever." He got his first job, at an advertising agency, at age 18. Later he studied art in college but decided he didn't "fit in" there and dropped out to teach drawing at a friend's comic-book art school and to work as a freelance graphic designer with his brother. Later, a tech company hired him to work as a web designer.
"Illustration was always part of my life but never the center of my attention," he said. "I occasionally did a job or two for magazines and newspapers, but I never thought to follow it as a career, because I didn't want to be stuck doing one thing forever. But soon I realized that by being an illustrator I could be right in the middle of it all."
He is currently working on another poster for Hero Complex Gallery and the cover for a young-adult book from Scholastic, as well as advertising assignments.


Multimeter in hands of electrician closeup. Service works in electrical box. Maintenance of electric panel.
Multimeter in hands of electrician closeup. Service works in electrical box. Maintenance of electric panel. Technician testing voltage fuse box. Worker with tester.


One of our instructors needs to mark the entire class with an excused absence for a couple of dates due to snow days. According to the Canvas Guide, "The unmarked attendance status also indicates an excused absence." However, since attendance is calculated based on the number of days attendance is taken, leaving all the students unmarked means the day is not counted towards the total. This skews the grades so that each absence is a greater penalty due to fewer class sessions being taken into account.
Has anyone found a workaround for this? As I understand it, badges do not affect the calculation of scores and don't seem to adequately address the issue.
At this point, if the entire class is excused and you don't wish to affect the overall attendance weight, you could just mark all the students as present those days.
Our concern with marking all students "present" is that points would be awarded for that class session, thus erroneously inflating the scores for students who are perhaps consistently missing class (correct me if I'm wrong!). This would also the instructor's reporting on attendance.
Ideally, the Roll Call Attendance tool would have a status that neither penalizes nor awards points for an excused absence, but still allows the instructor to include the missed session in the total number of classes.
Attendance is a funny thing, especially in this situation. All students can be left unmarked for that day, which makes absences have greater penalty, or all students could be marked present, which would show up on student records as being "Present." It depends on what the instructor wants to work with when the end of the term comes around.
That is about what I suspected. Thank you again for your response and your candor!


Critsit Technologies | Services like Microsoft Office 365, Web Sites, Tech Support, Microsoft Training, Microsoft Office 365 Training for IT Pros, Online Training Sessions.
We also provide services for Data Mining, Help Desk (Virtual Assistant & Remote IT Support) and Multimedia Animation to make your business look even more attractive.
Get a domain name for your company at lowest prices, along with world class services. We also assist you with Domain Security.
CRITSIT offers a wide range of attractive, user friendly and easy to manage web sites. We work on platforms like PHP, HTML, CSS and use "WordPress" for web site development.
If you already have a web site but need a fresh new look, our team of designers can help meet your requirement. We provide with quality web sites at affordable rates.
Assisting your administrators/Managing your domains DNS and Advanced DNS. We also provide with a variety of hosting options for your web site, from shared hosting to a virtual private hosting.
We provide with quality products with best services at affordable rates!
We help securing your websites and servers so that all the transactions are carried out securely. We assist with procuring and installing SSL certificates on in house web servers/Application servers or Exchange servers to help meet your organizations security requirements.
We help to further tighten up your security for web sites and on premise servers. We also assist with securing your email flow for your in house Exchange Server or Hosted Exchange in Office 365.
Updating and maintaining information on computer systems and in archives.
If you are looking to expand your business and are in a constant search for potential customers, we can take up the job of finding your customer base. We provide with millions of customer database, with high accuracy and accurate target customers that you require.
Microsoft Office 365 for your Business class emails and Office in Cloud!
Signing Up and setting up Office 365.
We have successfully assisted many clients in signing up and setting up Microsoft Office 365. Offering basic services during this phase such as purchasing licenses, adding custom domain, creating and managing users etc.
Migrating mailboxes/Users to Office 365.
Our services also involve high level support related to migrating over to cloud from different on premise environments. This also includes requirements like co-existing with on premise mail servers (simple email co-existence with Exchange 2003/2007) or complex scenarios like hybrid co-existence with on premise Exchange 2010/2013 servers.
Customizing email Filters/ E-mail routing options through Office 365.
We also provide assistance to meet requirements like configuring complex hybrid mail routing, optimizing Exchange Online Protection (EOP) mail filter in Office 365. Setting up on premise application servers that need to relay emails through Office 365.
Training sessions for administrators are focused to help them understand and manage Office 365 efficiently as well as to help them support their internal users with related issues. We also take sessions on the typical issues in Office 365 and related troubleshooting. Which helps administrators to dramatically reduce the turnaround time, and save the time they may have to spend waiting in the Microsoft Support queue.
Training sessions for end users are designed to help them understand the options they have to manage their own accounts. As well to help them get accustomed to the new look and features they get in Office 365. We also take sessions on Outlook to help your users understand how to manage their Outlook account in Office 365.
If you get lots of enquiry calls/ IT Support calls every day, and are unable to answer them all, or if you are falling short of human resources and need few days to manage the same, we are here to help you ease the load. Be it on temporary basis or long term.
We can setup the best team for you to assist remotely on IT issues like Desktop Support, Outlook Support, Tier 1 Server Support & Tier 2 Server Support.
We have been in the field of 2D Animation (Adobe Flash) for more than 8 Years. And our team of animators have worked with huge Animation Studios on many wonderful 2D Animation Projects. With our creativity and talent, we are ready to assist you with any Multimedia Presentations, E-Learning Jobs (Adobe Flash ActionScript), Animated Intro Videos and 2D animated videos if you need any of them to make your business look even more attractive!
Office 365 is the brand name used by Microsoft for a group of software and services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Such as "Exchange Online Mailbox and Calendar access, Office 2013 and Office Web Apps, Sharepoint Online, Lync Online (Instant Messaging) etc. Microsoft Office 365 is a Secure, Reliable and Affordable option for reducing IT expenditure and increasing productivity. Be assured as the Microsoft Servers are being managed by Microsoft, the masters of it.


text:
This Map Reveals How Incredibly Deep Moscow's Metro Runs
Alexey Goncharov
Moscow's metro system is unfathomably deep under the ground. In fact, the system's deepest station, Park Pobedy, is the third deepest station in the world, 84 meters (91.9 yards) under the surface. A map from Alexey Goncharov has revealed the staggering depths the famous network runs, lifting the lid on the mysterious train lines that run far below the city's surface.
First, a little background. Moscow's metro is breathtakingly gorgeous. The system was first opened with 13 stations on May 15, 1935. It was seen during the Soviet era as a triumph for socialism. Many of the early stations built during the Stalin era are in keeping with the socialist realism style, with grand sculptures dedicated to the workers.
The idea for a Moscow metro system had been around since the Russian Empire. To bring the project to life, the Soviet Union employed British engineers that worked on the London Underground. In fact, London's (Gants Hill) tube station still echoes the Moscow system's design today.
Moscow is built on a rather atypical geology, which presents some challenges for subway excavators. There's a mix of gravel, limestone, sand, clay, and loam beneath the city. The clay layer is ideal for construction, but its depth varies around the city, which makes tunnel building difficult and at times erratic. Sometimes this clay layer runs very deep.
This map reveals how the tunnels are built up through the system. The number next to each station point shows how far from the surface each station is in meters, and the darker the line color, the further from the surface the tunnel lies:
Moscow metro network by depth. Alexey Goncharov
Within these deep underground tunnels, there's some of the world's most beautiful architecture:
Novoslobodskaya Metro Station, Moscow Flickr / terbeck
Komsomolskaya station has chandeliers hanging from the ceiling:
Komsomolskaya Metro Station, Moscow, Russia. Flickr / BBM Explorer
Pyatnitskoye Shosse station, which opened in December 2012, has a more modern, but still beautiful marble theme on the platforms:
Pyatnitskoe Shosse metro station. Flickr / Sergey Yeliseev
It's an impressive feat of engineering, and it's set to grow. The city plans to open 76 new metro stations by the year 2020, with the ultimate goal of having 93 percent of city dwellers within walking distance of a metro station. One new station, Solntsevo, is being designed by Nefa Architects and looks to bring a futuristic twist to the network:
Solntsevo metro station by Nefa Architects. Nefa Architects/Facebook
Now, all Russia needs is to connect its deep, gorgeous system to a global network of hyperloop tubes. That may still be a long way off, but the future can't come soon enough.


text:
← Hunger Strikes in jails of the Moroccan reactionary State
Biplab's rupture from status quo, a dissection →
Naxal Hunt in Theni Dist Forests
MADURAI: Acting on an alert from their Kerala counterparts over the alleged infiltration of 15 unidentified persons into the state, the Tamil Nadu police involving teams from the Q Branch, Special Task Force and Armed Reserve teams were completely combing the forest areas in Theni bordering Kerala. Ten days back there was a exchange of fire between the police and suspected Maoists in the Waynad forests in Kerala and the Naxal group members, including three women, were suspected to have escaped.
Under these circumstances, the Kerala forest department suspected that a group of 15 people could have sneaked into Tamil Nadu and alerted the state police here. TN police said that around five teams with members drafted from the special units were conducting an intensive check in the forest regions, mainly in in Kambam Mettu forest, Egaloothu Road, Kalludaichan Paarai and Suranganaru Falls, in Theni district bordering Kerala. Sources said that the teams were also conducting enquiries in the hamlets along the Kerala border to find out if the residents spotted any strangers in their area.
The TN forest officials have also initiated a separate search operation. Police said that so far they have not found any suspicious persons in the forest limits.
Checks in D'puri
Meanwhile, a special team with personnel drawn from the police, Naxal Special Duty (NSD) and forest officials have started combing the Morappur forest range on Friday after reports over movement of strangers surfaced a few days ago. It is said that a few days back, a farmer spotted a group of eight persons, including two women, cooking food at H Agraharam village in the Morappur forest range in the H Agraharam village. On seeing the farmer, the group allegedly vanished from the spot.
Based on the information from the farmer, a police team rushed the spot and recovered vegetables and sarees, which were reportedly used by the group. Subsequently, the police launched a combing operation in the region. As the NSD is also involved in the combing operation, it is suspected that the group members could be part of a Naxal movement. Moreover, a villager said, "a few days ago there was a deafening sound from the Pennagarm forest range. Initially it was suspected that the sound could have been a chopper crash, but after a two days search, the police declared that no chopper had crashed in the forest.
However, they could not find out the exact reason for the sound. Meanwhile, some villagers saw a group cooking food in the forests range. So, locals suspect the movement of an armed group undergoing training in the forests in Dharmapuri." When enquired Intelligence sources said, "We doubt that the noise from the Pennagaram forest range might could have been due to testing of weapons."
http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/Naxal-Hunt-in-Theni-Dist-Forests/2014/12/20/article2580390.ece
Maoists kill villager in Odisha's Malkangiri district
In yet another incident of Maoist violence, the red rebels killed a villager in Chitrali village under Kalimela police station limits in Odisha's Malkangiri district late on Friday night. Family members of the deceased said about 4-5 armed Maoists arrived at the village late in the night, dragged Biswas out of the house and later killed him by slitting his throat open on the outskirts of the village.
The villagers found the body of Biswas this morning with a Maoist poster in which the ultras have stated that they killed him for being a police informer. Police have rushed to the spot for an on-the-spot investigation.
http://odishasuntimes.com/104141/maoist-kill-villager-odishas-malkangiri-district/
Security forces apprehend two key Maoist militia members in Odisha
Report by Kishore Dash, Malkangiri: Two active militia member of CPI (Maoist) have been arrested in a joint operation by the Border Security Forces and local police from Pithakonda forest area under Kalimela police limits, claimed Superintendent of Police Mitrabhanu Mahapatra in a press meet held at the District Police Office here today. The duos who have been identified as Budra Podiami alias Budra and Irma Kawasi alias Irma were nabbed in the wee hours today, the S.P told while producing them before the media.
They were joined the outlawed Maoist organization in 2003, Mahapatra told. Both the militia members were earlier apprehended by Kalimela police in 2009 on the charges of attempt to murder SPO Basudev Khillo.Even after their release from the jail, they were also involved in the killing of Bhima Kawasi of Pithakonda village in 2011. The arrest of the two wanted militia members will have a big impact on the prevailing LWE scenario in the region, claimed S.P Mitrabhanu Mahapatra adding their involvement in other offences are being investigated. IPS SDPO M.Sandeep Sampad was also present in the press meet.
http://www.orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=55807
This entry was posted in Maoists India, resistance, war and tagged armed struggle, counter insurgency, india, maoism, maoist, naxal, repression. Bookmark the permalink.


Remodeling is the ongoing replacement of old bone tissue by new bone tissue. In order to maintain homeostasis, bone must be replaced or renewed through the selective resorption of old bone and the simultaneous production of new bone. Approximately 5 to 10 percent of the skeleton is remodeled each year. Thus, every seven years the body grows the equivalent of an entirely new skeleton through remodeling.


text:
Group Visits Can Help Patients With Chronic Disease Help Each Other
Conference | AAFP
Like other complex chronic diseases, diabetes is difficult to manage effectively in one-to-one visits in the office setting, said Edward Shahady, MD.
Like other complex chronic diseases, diabetes is difficult to manage effectively in one-to-one visits in the office setting, said Edward Shahady, MD, Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Miami and Director of the Diabetes Master Clinician Program of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians. In the United States, only 7% of patients have reached the American Diabetes Association goals of a hemoglobin A1c value of 7% or less, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol level of 100 mg/dL or less, and a blood pressure of 130/80 mm Hg or less.
Group visits can empower patients to better self-manage their diabetes. Physicians are encouraged to invite their high-risk patients (those who are not at goal for hemoglobin A1c, LDL cholesterol, or blood pressure) to participate. Group visits are usually 2 hours long; the first hour is conducted by a medical assistant or nurse, and the second hour is led by the physician.
Each patient is given a "report card" that details information such as hemoglobin A1c, LDL cholesterol, and blood pressure levels. Patients have the option of sharing this information with the other group members, said Dr Shahady. "Most love to show each other their report cards."
The group visit is a safe environment that allows patients to share solutions to common problems. "Physicians have a false belief that telling changes behavior," said Dr Shahady. "Emotion fuels change, not lectures. The group visit allows patients to share their emotions about their disease."
Further details about group visits-including how to code and charge for the visits and sample patient privacy statements-are available on the Web site of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians.
More information about overcoming barriers to diabetes care can be found in Dr Shahady's article "Diabetes Management: An Approach That Improves Outcomes and Reduces Costs" (CONSULTANT, April 1, 2008).
AAFP | Cholesterol Disorders


text:
class InstructionsController < ApplicationController
  def action_allowed?
    true
  end

  def home; end
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Weather forecasters are predicting freezing weather causing havoc across the UK for a fortnight.
Sub zero temperatures and snow are due to take hold at least until February 7.
Today incredible footage of the sea freezing into slush on England's South coast emerged as the cold spell continues.
The video shows the 'surreal' scene as the sea near Whitstable, Kent, freeze as it lapped onto the beach, forming a slushy ice.
Barry Thompson, from Seasalter in Kent, was walking along the beach at about 9am on Monday when he stumbled across the spectacular sight.
The 49-year-old, who runs his own company 'Me Now', said: "It's quite a surreal thing to see because everything seems to be moving much slower.
"It was a very surreal experience, given the lack of wind and yet extreme cold, especially the sound of the ice cracking all along the beach.
"For the most part it's quite still – there are no major waves or anything.
"We walk the dogs along the beach at Seasalter every morning, and I've lived here nine years.
As flurries of snow hit much of the UK, weather forecasters warned snow will continue to hit Britain for the next fortnight.
Snow will spread tonight with temperatures dropping below zero in many parts of the UK.
And the snow will return with a vengeance next week too.
By Wednesday January 30, most of Scotland and the north of England could be covered by a blanket of 10cm of snow.
Wales and the South of England are set to follow on Thursday January 31, with most of the country covered in white, up to 21cm.


New Disney Channel television musical series The Lodge has secured the channel's highest ratings for a new show in four years.
The series, which follows determined musical ingenue Skye as she rebuilds her family lodge, attracted 261,000 individuals when it launched on September 30. This number included 204,000 kids aged between 4 and 15, and 139,000 tween girls aged between 8 and 12.
The catchy musical numbers have been a particular hit for the new series, and true to form, theme song "Starting Over, Starting Now" has racked up 208,000 views on YouTube. Meanwhile, the show's breakaway hit "Believe That" is a viral sensation, with 700,000 views on the DisneyMusicVevo and Disney Channel UK YouTube accounts.
That's far from all, however. The Lodge-fever has also hit online and – fitting to the show's embrace of the medium – social media. The programme information page for The Lodge on Disneychannel.co.uk currently has five times the number of visitors than all other shows. Meanwhile #TheLodge was the second most Tweeted about event during the series launch, and the show's Instagram page now has 28,000 likes and comments.
In September, we spoke to series stars Sophie Simnett (Skye), Thomas Doherty (Sean) and Luke Newton (Ben) about the exciting new series and it's on-point and clever depiction of social media on the show.
Newton added: "It shows the positives in [Skye's] storyline with Josh and how easily they can stay in contact. Friendship can continue even though they live miles and miles apart. It's nice to see the positives of social media and technology.
It seems that the focus on social media has certainly paid off for the series. Personally, we can't wait to see what The Lodge has in store next!
The Lodge continues on Disney Channel on Fridays at 5.30pm.


Capital Club 16 will feature traditional German food, a breakfast buffet and beer gear giveaways. World Cup games will be shown on a big screen inside. World Cup fans can count on Capital Club 16 to be a hub for the German team.
For the first two weeks of the World Cup, Mattie B's will have Mexican food specials, beer features and the games will be shown on a 120-foot projector. Mattie B's will open at 9:30 AM on Saturday and Sunday.
Doors opens at 9 a.m. on Thursday for the World Cup. The Irish pub has wall-to-wall televisions and full service menu is available until last call. At Bull McCabes, patrons can dine on soups, sandwiches and shareables. Sandwiches and entree menu includes burgers, chicken sandwiches and an open-faced BLT.
Clouds will feature normal daily specials, and will be showing the games starting at 11 AM on Thursday. Clouds has a "Downpour Wall," with more than 40 rotating taps with local and craft beers. Its menu features burgers, salads, nachos and wings.
There will be beer specials on game days only, and patrons can choose from multiple bars within the complex. On Thursday, the first day of World Cup, specials include .50 cent wings and $4 draft beers. Hibernian's menu features house made pub food, which includes soups, sandwiches and burgers.
On the first day of the World Cup, Growler USA will offer half-price burgers. The bar/restaurant has multiple TVs over the bar on the first floor. Menu items include pretzels, salads, burgers, sandwiches and chicken and waffles served with a fried egg. Variety of beers include local and regional craft beers. Growler also serves wines and hard ciders.
Woody's will feature specials on craft bottles and cans and daily lunch specials for $7.77. Woody's wings come in orders of 5, 10, 20, 40. Menu also includes burgers, wraps and 11 starters.
The Raleigh location at Glenwood South features bars inside and out, and TVs over both the bars, and a wide range of beers and mixed drinks. The menu includes wings, burgers, salads and tacos.
This restaurant in downtown Raleigh places a strong emphasis on wide array of drinks from cocktails to local craft beers, include local favorites such as Red Oak, Aviator and Big Boss. Jimmy V's also features wine and delicious Italian/American dishes as well as traditional comfort foods. Soccer fans can view the World Cup matches on select TVs inside the restaurant.
Taproom offers more than 200 global beers in a tavern-like environment. Enjoy the World Cup at the bar, or watch on the projector on the back wall. The menu includes starters such as pretzels, nachos and wings and soup, salads, sandwiches, pizza and desserts.
On its website, London Bridge Pub calls itself the '"best bar to watch soccer." The pub in downtown Raleigh offers a wide range of beer and mixed drinks, but does not serve food. Patrons will have to pay $1 for entry to the private club. It's beer selection includes locals and mainstream brews.
James Joyce, an Irish pub, will feature $4 Irish pints on Thursday, along with more than 10 different beers in bottles or a can and 19 different drafts. While watching the World Cup, try the bacon-wrapped hot dog, sweet potato burger or avocado BLT.
Doherty's will be showing the World Cup matches starting Thursday. Fans should try a flight - three 5oz samples - from the pub's extensive draft selection, which features IPA's and pale ale's. Starters include sliders, Irish egg rolls and wings and a Boxty, a traditional Irish Pancake with a choice of fillings.
The location in downtown Raleigh has a full bar to match its full menu of starters, soups and entrees. And if watching the game fires up the competitive juices, then head on over to the game room, which features NBA Hoops, Mortal Kombat, pool, skeeball, pinball and plenty more. World Cup matches will be shown at all three Triangle locations.
Watch the World Cup at the Raleigh Beer Garden, which has three floors of bars. Courtesy of Hibernian Co. Courtesy of Hibernian Co.
The Raleigh bar in Glenwood South offers more than 350 beers on tap and boast the world's largest beer selection. Watch the World Cup at the bar on each of the three floors of the split level establishment. Full menu also includes pizzas, burgers, sandwiches and wings.


text:
Connor Swift soloed to victory with Tom Moses in second as Madison Genesis dominated the opening round of the 2019 Tour Series in Redditch.
Swift, Moses, Jon Mould, George Pym and Tobyn Horton mastered the wet conditions to take the lead in the opening round of the series.
But it was Swift who stole the show, taking a solo lead at the halfway mark.
The peloton tried to mount a rapid response, with several small groups trying to get across but Swift weathered the storm well, holding on to his slender 10-second lead.
With 45-minutes of racing complete and the impetus going out of the pelton, Swift was free to increase his lead to a minute and his victory was assured.
Behind, a tactical game ensued, with teams competing for the lead in the series.
A group of four riders took advantage and Moses was alert to the danger. Not only did he make the move, he also won the sprint for second and with it, assured the team prize on the night.
The Tour Series resumes in Motherwell on Tuesday 14 May for the second of seven rounds of competition.