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Paul's blog: Universal and equal rights to rehabilitation
Paul Okroj of Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland spoke at VHS's EGM on 28th February 2018, on the topic of 'universal and equal rights to rehabilitation'. Here we publish a transcript of his presentation.
Thanks for the invitation – when thinking about the approach to the presentation I knew that I would be:
Talking to an audience who knows how important the right to rehab is
We know the need for all of the services those round the table provide
We have the stories!
We have all gathered the facts the outputs the measurements!
What the NHS does is marvellous…
It's supporting the next stage – after people leave hospital – it is:
The emotional support
The well-being
The psycho social well-being journey
The support after the event
The things that matter to that individual
The one to one need
The things that make day to day life
The "what matters to you"
It's not the extra – it's the necessity, the right
Our new Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland strategy No Life Half Lived was launched in May 2018, setting out our vision of a Scotland where people living with our conditions can live the life they want to lead. We estimate that at least one in five people are affected by one or more chest, heart or stroke conditions – and when you factor in the impact on their families the reality is many more are affected.
Our focus as a service-driven charity is on supporting people post-diagnosis or after a stroke, and we provide services across health boards and local authorities. These include stroke nurses in 6 health boards, volunteer-led support, peer support groups, our Advice Line, and online advice and information. Our new strategy sets out our ambition to double the number of people that we reach through our support and services. Also, among the goals it highlights are that we will be led by people living with chest, heart and stroke conditions, their families, carers and friends. We want to give them a voice in the decisions that affect them. We will develop an approach to advocacy that is human-rights based and enables people with chest, heart and stroke conditions to campaign and influence on the issues that matter to them. There are challenges around that. We represent a very broad group of health conditions, and the people living with them may not necessarily self-identify as a community – as for example a disease-specific charity might represent – but are instead are many different communities, with people at all stages of life and of living with their illnesses. But we know that there many issues which are common across conditions.
Our first major step in taking that commitment forward began immediately, and during the summer 2018 we carried out a national survey of people's experience of living with chest, heart and stroke conditions. Almost twelve-hundred people responded to questions about how their lives had changed, the support that made the most difference, and what they need more of. The result is our One in Five report which we launched in October, and highlights that opportunities are often being missed to help people live life to the full, with many missing out on the emotional, social and rehabilitation support that could provide them with the best possible quality of life.
Our key findings include:
People are at risk of losing their social connections and self-confidence
Sometimes they feel that once they receive a diagnosis or their treatment ends, they are left to 'get on with it'
They are more likely to experience isolation, stress and anxiety, often finding it hard to rebuild their lives at home and in their communities
They are at greater risk of experiencing poor mental health – yet the care they receive remains focused on physical symptoms
People want and need more than something more than medical treatment – they need help not just to treat their condition but to rebuild their lives. This in turn maximises the outcomes from medical treatment.
People sometimes struggle to access support services – many don't know how to find what they need, or what is available locally.
And these issues are all compounded for people who are living in our poorest communities.
In the One in Five report we made a number of recommendations for the Scottish Government, the NHS and integrated joint boards. But the overarching recommendation is that government should commit to, and invest in, a universal and equal Right to Rehab. Rehabilitation means different things to different people. For some health professionals, it means the treatment and formal programmes delivered by allied health professionals such as physiotherapists. But to us, and the people we support and represent, it spans the entire journey which a person experiences after diagnosis, from NHS treatment onwards to community based support. Community support that can range from a local exercise group for people with similar conditions to a singing group. Essentially, rehab is centred around someone's particular needs and goals. Everyone's rehabilitation journey will – and should – be different, supporting them in whatever way they need. Some people want to be able to return to work, or to look after their children. Others might aim to get back to a hobby or sport, or simply be able to independently leave their home. So rehab isn't just about medical intervention. Access to rehabilitation is a human right, enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Traditionally, our healthcare system is focused on treating illness, keeping people alive. The 'what next' has been long neglected – but is being tackled through measures such as integrating health and social care, and the Chief Medical Officer's focus on Realistic Medicine, which aims to put people and what they want at the centre of their care. Establishing a Right to Rehab would help continue to shift that focus. As an organisation, we'll be increasingly looking at how we can give people a voice on the issues that matter to them. We want them to become campaigners with us, on local or national issues. Essentially it's their experiences and their stories which give meaning to a Right to Rehab, and which bring it to life with decision makers.
The spectrum of areas that Rehab covers is broad, and so this is a complex issue to tackle. But there are a number of areas where action is needed across health conditions to help deliver a Right to Rehab. These include:
Being able to access specialist care and treatment when it's needed, whether that's provided by nurses or allied health professionals such as physios.
Providing access to the right psychological support, and advice and information mental wellbeing
Improving health and social care professionals' awareness of the importance of rehab – and being able to signpost and support people to attend the support needed
Partnership working that cuts across sectors
Of course, as Chair of the Scottish Volunteering Forum and Secretariat for the Cross Party Group on Volunteering, I also have to remind you of the impact that volunteers can make to the right for health for all make. We all know that in the wider sense that volunteering is a 'good thing' and that this confers benefits to both the beneficiaries and to the volunteers themselves. It is a "win-win". Latest research from Volunteer Scotland published as Volunteering, Health and Wellbeing provides great data:
Improved mental health – the strongest evidence related to the contribution of volunteering to enhanced mental health, including the alleviation of depression, reduced anxiety and stress and other more serious mental health conditions.
Reduced social isolation and loneliness– volunteering is particularly important for those who are retired, are marginalised in society such as asylum seekers and those who have low wellbeing and mental health.
Enhanced physical health – volunteering can improve individual's self-rated health through the adoption of healthy behaviours such as exercise; and helping people cope with personal illness and dependency in older age.
Paul Okroj OBE is Assistant Director, People Driven Development, Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland
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The Petruzzelli Theatre
To the end of the last century for the requirement of the inhabitants of Bari of new spaces dedicated to the exhibitions, in 1877 was proclaimed a competitive examination for the design of the new Politeama for a premium of 12.000 lire and the grant of the required field. In april 1985 was approved the project presented by 2 brothers building businessmans of Bari, Onofrio and Antonio Petruzzelli. The construction of the building started the 23th of may 1898 ant the Theatrewas opened the 14th of february 1903 with the opera "Gli Ugonotti" of G. Meyerbeer.
Thanks to the prestige and to the importance of his activity, it was declared as theatre particularly important in 1954. In more recent seasons the role of Petruzzelli Theatre has stand out as:
"Multifunctional Center of culture" realized with exhibitions oriented to the diffusion of new artists and new shows more than follow the enjoyments and the guidance of the public, in the firm belief that the interests where not sectorial, but going to extend more than possible.
"Center of production of Lyrics" in 1985 the "Ente Artistico Teatro Petruzzelli" founded a proper lyric orchestra constituted quite exclusively by young musicians and teachers cobing by conservatori of the region and making in 1991 the "Associazione Filarmonica Orchestra Teatro Petruzzelli"
Ath the end, the Petruzzelli was considered a space for the "Activities of other cultural operators": the growth in quantity and quality and the growing offers of the Petruzzelli theatre in the '80, determined an improvement also in the initiatives of the cultural operators that used the Theatre, pursuing in a clear benefit for the public.
The inside of the Theatre wal also used for the scenography and the set of some films of big directors like H. Ross and F. Zeffirelli.
In the hundred-year-old activity the theatre has viewed lots of deep transformations in politics, great evolutions in the way of life, of culture and of arts. This hasn't prevented even in the darkest years that the Petruzzelli would represent a place for the encounter of the public of Bari ant the many tendency of the italian culture.
In the night of 27th october 1991, a big fire destroyed the Petruzzelli theatre, after that on the stage was represented the tragedy of the pyre of Norma and Pollione.

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Pants and shirts. It is advised that you just wear the clothes on your back because you will be issued uniforms on your first day upon arrival. Most likely you will arrive late and have less than a few hours to rest before they start in processing sessions into reception.
Footwear. Again, just wear the same casual tennis shoes with you and bring one pair of shower flip-flops.
A picture id. You will only need one of these items: A valid driver's license or a current state identification card and / or green card.
A direct deposit form. You will need your bank checking account and routing number. It is highly recommended that you have this information readily available and is in good standing.
Legal documents such as birth certificate, marriage license, high school diploma, college transcripts, GED, divorce decree and copies of your children birth certificate if under 18.
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You will smell bad in the first couple of hours after arriving to basic training and you will need to bring your own personal hygiene products. It is advisable that you bring a small travel-sized kit that is acceptable with airline policy.
A Cell Phone. You can bring your phone with you but it will be taken and safely stored by the drill sergeants until you earn the privilege to use them again.
You will need to bring $ 10, but not more than $ 50 dollars in cash.
Debit Card. Nothing is free so you have to use plastic to pay for personal hygiene and also to withdraw funds out of the ATM machines.
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Traditionally, global organizations have had a difficult time tying talent management processes together, making information sharing and data collection complicated at best. Missed deliverable dates and inaccuracies that are inherent to manual collating have been stress points for many business leaders who use data to make decisions. It doesn't have to be like this.
With advances in connectivity the world is, in many ways, getting smaller. Organizations whose leaders understand the importance of having cohesive global teams get it: The team needs to be connected. And as technology advances, the ability to link talent management processes on Internet based integrated platforms advances too. This can enable real-time access to information and data collection that supports performance measurement and analytics on a global scale with relative ease.
Using global talent management platforms can help the organization provide easy access to information. It can reduce processing costs, and it can make employees realize they are part of something larger…but putting those global platforms in place is no small task.
The truth is; companies have dealt with the basic issues of global implementation for decades. They are fundamental challenges related to people, process and planning. While they are not news unto themselves, frequently the problems emerge as lessons unlearned or forgotten from previous experience.
With that in mind, it's good to look at the basics and with the right perspective, recognize and address the challenges of the past before they turn into new lessons learned.
Global implementation projects, like most projects, require commitment from the organization's leadership, a team of people committed to the same goals, careful planning and dedicated team members. To be successful with global integrations you must also consider cultural differences, variations in legal requirements and, of course, meeting virtually and across time zones.
When it comes to managing people, success begins with participation.
There must be global participation in development of the project charter and in every element of the work, from charter development to the party after successful go-live. You can look at the cultural differences as an issue or consider it an opportunity to take advantage of your organization's own rich culture. Respect of all cultures is essential and it's important that everyone's point of view be considered – someone else just might have a better idea.
Clear direction is also essential. You need to start with clear direction from the project sponsors regarding resources and expectations. Without documented objectives it's not likely the transition will move along crisply.
It also takes strong project leadership to handle the dynamics of a multi-cultural team. While many cultures in the global community are willing to contribute and have "spirited" discussions about what they think, other cultures consider such open dialog inappropriate. The work environment needs to be a safe place in which members are allowed to contribute in a style with which they are comfortable.
Team members need to be willing to represent their regions or areas of expertise while accepting that they might have to consider new ideas and change.
Discussions about team goals and member roles and responsibilities before project start will reduce the chances of misunderstanding and increase performance.
When implementing a global system, consider that process elements regarded basic in some business cultures are new ideas in others, and they might even be inappropriate. The good news is that although there will surely be some differences; most talent management processes have much more in common.
No system or group of systems can manage what I will call a "non-process." At the outset you may expect to find vast differences in talent management processes across cultures.
The fact is, in most organizations the people management processes-from talent acquisition to onboarding, performance management or succession planning-are often very much the same. Typically, slight variations are necessary to support cultural and legal requirements.
While the variations may be slight, it's important to stay ahead of them. This can be accomplished by establishing a detailed process map agreed to by the team. This map needs to be in place before any configuration decision-making begins. Most solutions can facilitate variations in process but the team needs to be mindful of reporting goals when opening the door to options. Spending time working toward consensus in the front end to the project is well worth the effort.
You've got the right people on the team. The process has been hammered out and documented. Now it's time to do some detailed planning. The project plan should provide a comprehensive task list that documents task owners and due dates. While the team may break out into regional or subject matter task teams, the entire team should participate in regular status meetings to be sure everyone in on the road to success. The tracking of actions and deliverables should be centralized and communicated regularly.
Understanding work schedule differences and holiday schedules in all participating regions is essential. Finding out that a region's offices are required by law to work reduced schedules in summer or shut down for extended periods at the year end late in the project can obviously create huge schedule issues that could have been avoided.
While a global talent technology implementation requires focus, communication and commitment from across the organization, companies are achieving success on an enterprise scale. They are connecting processes and people, doing a better job of competing for talent, and improving their ability to retain the talent they have. It's a process that requires attention to the people, the processes and the implementation plan itself, but the fundamental challenges have not changed. The good news is, while implementation of a global system is no small journey, the rewards are well worth the effort.
The origin of low financial jurisdictions can be found during the middle ages when trade wars areose between different countries and regions competed among them for economic dominance. A clear example can be seen in the story of the Channel Islands initial development as an offshore tax haven. Indeed we can spot some common undering themes in its development, which are shared with other low tax financial centers.
The firstly it is common that direct central control, in this case the Crown of England, remains loose and weaker in ties of geography and historic allegiance than the mainland. The Channel Islands whilst traditionally part of Duchy of Normandy since 1204, in actual fact following the loss of the rest of the monarch's lands in mainland Normandy – were governed as separate possessions of the English crown. The separate jurisprudence of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney and Sark are still all subordinate fiefs of the Duchy, and were never consolidated after the loss of the majority of Normandy in 1204 by King John. Control by Britain whilst solid today was often in the intervening years far from certain. Today the historical differences and separate legal status allows them to function as an offshore finance. Until recently it could have argues Jersey and Guernsey were arguably tax havens.
Likewise the Isle of Man with its turbulent history of passing between Viking, Welsh, English and Scottish dominance has evolved a separate legal status. Indeed to one amount or the other the island has always provided an offshore tax haven location for the more wealthy. This was firmly fixed after 1866, when the Isle of Man obtained a measure of at least nominal home rule. At the present day the benefits can be seen in the Isle of Mans rise as a prosperous community, with its evolving offshore finance center and low tax jurisdiction status.
In both the case of Gibraltar and Malta a complex, shifting history of allegiance and various form s of legal independence has allowed them to develop offshore finance centers and low tax regimes.
Into the modern period it is commonly accepted that the definition of a tax haven and / or low tax jurisprudence was first formed around the time of just after World War I. For example Lichtenstein was hands-on in the mid 1920's in trying to attract foreign investments and established its offshore trust law. Further a field Bermuda created Offshore Company Laws about ten years later and began some of first moves in endeavouring to be a Corporate Tax Haven. Most tax havens were associated with individual avoidance of tax, or at least the reduction of tax liabilities. However, in the post war years, companies became over-burdened by taxation. This is when Corporate Tax Havens and the offshore tax industry were born. Companies could take advantage of tax treaties between their home nation and the offshore tax jurisdiction to reduce their liabilities. This worked for a while, but the technicalities that allowed these were eliminated as the home jurisdictions once they realized the amount of revenue they were potentially losing.
During the 1980's, the IBC – International Business Corporation – was created in some Corporate Tax Havens. A key driving force were the financial jurisdictions that wanted to entice foreign companies, established offshore company legislation and vehicles that were not subject to local taxation. These were of course very attractive to overseas companies and corporations. The first offshore financial centers to establish the IBC were Gibraltar and certain offshore finance centers in the Caribbean such as the Bahamas and the British Virgin Islands. Recently in well published moves these have been amended when the OECD – the Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development – took tax matters into hand and exerted pressure upon the offshore financial centers to change they way of working with these overseas companies.
Quite what the future holds for low tax offshore finance jurisdictions remains obscure, however it is fair to say the days of the tax has as a vehicle to avoid tax are over. For more articles in a similar view please visit: Our Blog section.
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Vietnam's textile industry has increased significantly since normalizing relations with the United States in the 1990's. Vietnam was granted most favored nation status (MFN) in December 2001, which led to a dramatic reduction in import tariffs in the US market. Vietnam's induction to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2007 and the Vietnamese government's strong support of the textile and garment sector, have provided strong incentives to attract foreign investors. The textile industry is now the second largest exporter in Vietnam and is expected to become the largest in 2009. However, the financial crisis has had a severe impact on Vietnam's textile industry, which has suffered from a slump in demand from key export markets in the US , Europe and Japan.
In the textile industry, companies are increasingly looking for lower cost countries that can provide outsourcing opportunities. The rising cost of land and labor are diminishing China's labor cost advantage and Vietnam is increasing dramatically seen as a low cost sourcing alternative to China. Estimates are that wage levels in Vietnam are about one third of those in China's coastal region. Companies that are chasing lower labor costs are increasingly moving production to Vietnam. In a 2008 Booz Allen Hamilton survey 88 percent of companies originally chose China for its lower labor costs. Of the companies surveyed, 55 percent believe China is losing its competitive edge to countries such as Vietnam. The survey also indicated that 63 percent named Vietnam as their top low cost sourcing alternative to China. However, costs may be rising. The Navigos Group, a leading recruitment solutions provider in Vietnam, announced early in the year that there had been a 16.47 percentage increase in Vietnamese workers' average gross salaries between April 2008 and March 2009.
However, low cost labor is hardly a competitive advantage in the long term. Labor cost keeps changing and today's low cost location is not necessarily tomorrow's viable outsourcing location. If it is not China or Vietnam, it could be Bangladesh or Cambodia. Ig Hortsmann, a professor of business economics at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management notes that Nike originally off shored manufacturing to Japan. As labor costs increased, manufacturing was later moved to South Korea and Taiwan. When labor cost increased in South Korea and Taiwan, it was moved to China and later also to Vietnam. Justin Wood, a Director of the Economist Intelligence Unit Corporate Network in Singapore makes the point that in the last 15 years Vietnam has moved from a low to a middle income country. The move towards a middle income will likely put additional pressure on Vietnam's low cost labor status.
Elisabeth Rolskov, founder of ER-Couture in Vietnam, notes that manufacturing advantages in Vietnam go beyond labor cost and the country has some competitive advantages compared to China. "Vietnam has very good embroidery skills and needle work", says Rolskov. "A lot of designers and manufacturers need embroidery skills and Vietnam has kept in touch with its traditional roots," she adds.
However, for local designers, Vietnam has limitations as a souring location. "Sourcing material, buttons and zippers from Guangzhou is much better," says Rolskov. In Guangzhou you can find everything in air-conditioned shopping areas and the shopping experience is less hectic. "This can have a negative impact on a designer's creativity as the designer is restricted by what is on offer in the local market.
Rolskov thinks Vietnam is currently a great location for smaller manufacturers as the market is more flexible. "China is more volume focused", adds Rolskov, a view supported by Rebecca Lebold, director of apparel product and technical development at Lilly Pulitzer. "Vietnam has higher production minimums than many other countries. Lower minimums would allow smaller companies to source their product in Vietnam", Lebold notes.
For many companies outsourcing to Vietnam, intellectual property (IP) remains a concern. Within the fashion industry, IP is not as enforced as it is within the film and music industries. Designers can "take inspiration" and it is seen as a major driver for setting trends in the industry. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has called for stricter intellectual property enforcement within the fashion industry to better protect companies and promote competitiveness within the textile and clothing industries. "It is a hard thing to take care of and you just have to be faster than everyone else", says Roleskov. For smaller designers and labels it is much easier to switch manufacturing. However to prevent the copying of designs is a challenging undertaking.
For Vietnam to advance as an outsourcing location, the textile industry supply chain needs to be considered. Local logistics are affected by direct and indirect cost. In Vietnam's textile industry raw materials are often imported, which increases cost compared with those countries able to source locally. Managing reverse logistics can also be a challenging undercover in Vietnam. Procedures, processes and infrastructure are sometimes not in place to manage repairs, returns and warranties.
According to a new market research report from Transport Intelligence (Ti) entitled Vietnam Logistics 2009, the high cost of logistics remains one of the largest stumbling blocks in Vietnam. According to TI analyst John Manners Bell, logistics costs are estimated at 25 percent of Vietnam's GDP. Even with cheap labor cost, poor infrastructure remains a major barrier for entry. This is large due to Vietnam being in the early stages of infrastructure development.
Many experts believe that China's advanced infrastructure gives it a major competitive advantage. Electricity and transportation costs will likely come down even further and and this will have a significant impact on the total cost, even if their labor is more costly. The Vietnamese government is aware of this dynamic and has invested billions of dollars in the country's infrastructure. The government is actively encouraging foreign direct investment in the country's infrastructure. This is visible with projects such as the Cai Mep Container Port in the Mekong River Delta and the new Long Thanh airport that's planned to be completed by 2015.
Through assessing the overall supply chain, rather than a single focus on labor costs, it is easier to identify where Vietnam's opportunities and challenges lie in the textile industry. While small scale designers and manufacturers take advantage of a flexible environment, infrastructure and logistics processes will need further investment to make Vietnam an outsourcing destination and source for tomorrow's fashionista wardrobes.
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Camille Grammer is owning her bad behavior!
Camille found herself in hot water after making some unsavory comments about Lisa Vanderpump during this week's episode of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Now, the RHOBH star Camille is publicly apologizing to her friend LVP.
"I am very disappointed in my distasteful comments about Lisa. It was a joke but it was in very poor taste. I'm so sorry @LisaVanderpump," Camille said on Twitter.
Camille didn't stop there and penned another apology on Twitter.
Camille didn't acknowledge if she did or didn't say more about LVP. Instead, Camille said she didn't believe that Teddi wrote that.
"And I don't believe Teddi said, I said "more things about Lisa," Camille tweeted.
However, it looks like Teddi Mellencamp did write just that in her most recent Bravo blog.
"Once the rest of the women arrive at Beauty & Essex, it's not long before Camille is on a roll. Half a cocktail and out of nowhere she goes too far about LVP (you don't even see the worst of it). As I say in my talking head, it was next level. I don't know how you can go back from that," Teddi explained.
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April 14, 2020Minutes 2019-2020by Georgia Mashayekh
LOCATION: Online Meeting
PRESENT: Barry DePaoli, Jeff Fehr, Lynda Foster, Ken Brunner, Agustin Benegas-Garcia, Kim Thorpe, and Georgia Mashayekh
Jeff Fehr called the meeting to order at 6:00pm.
There were no changes to the agenda.
Approval of Minutes – March 24, 2020
Lynda moved and Kim seconded a motion to approve the minutes as presented; motion carried.
Barry provided an update summarizing our Food Service Distribution system during mandated school closure. It has been downsized to the MOE kitchen for preparation and distribution to promote efficiency. Paraeducators have been deployed to help with the distribution of food. The department worked through Spring Break, serving 500-700 meals daily! Monday 4/13 had over 900 meals served.
The Afters team, led by Rosey Burkhard, is helping the administrators at MOE to get packets out to the elementary students. Many of these are being dispersed during meal pickup.
Barry gave a presentation about curriculum and engagement with students. He spoke about the devices, internet, login, and access challenges for both staff and students. Some of the challenges for older students are they are working full time, or they are responsible for watching their younger siblings while their parents are working.
He spoke about the levels of engagement with students. The state will be collecting data on this as districts close out the school year at home. There was some discussion about what the district is doing to encourage more engagement. Administrators, counselors, liaisons, and teachers are reaching out via phone and home visits to contact all students and families to encourage engagement and overcoming concerns and issues.
OSPI will be giving state districts grading guidance by the end of the week. Barry has reached out to request credit waivers for the seniors.
There will be Professional Development on 4/15 with Jeff Utecht about Continuous Learning covering times for study engagement and Remote Learning Schedules. Online learning is a different type of learning for both students and staff. A link to the webinar will be available to board and staff after the training. Jeff Utecht is doing trainings across the state.
Barry shared some assumptions and information from the NCESD (North Central Educational Service District) about navigating possible State reductions in budgeting. This information is fluid at this time, so Barry shared what is known, considerations for planning ahead, and potential concerns. The district will continue working directly with the NCESD in planning the 2020-2021 budget. The Lake Chelan School District is fortunate in that we are not carrying any debt at this time. Due to current economic challenges there may need to be cuts due to reduced federal and state funding.
The school year has officially been extended a few days in June to balance emergency days off in March. Barry explained what other districts are doing around the valley and will be working with the LCEA to come to reach an agreement before the end of the school year.
Barry feels that there has been good communication between the administrators and staff over the past few weeks.
Holden Village is in a unique situation where the village plans to close down in this summer which may mean no new residents in the Fall. The village is in a transition mode with new leaders and Summer shut down, which means that the number of students and teachers needed at the school in the Fall are unknown. The district wants to continue conversation with Holden Village as everyone works through the COVID-19 closures. There will be no bus training for drivers in Holden Village due to the closure of the village. The board expressed that they would like to be part of these conversations with the village administrators.
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Agustin moved and Ken seconded a motion to approve the Payables as presented; motion carried.
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LONDON — Women will feature on both the £5 and the £10 notes from a Scottish bank for the first time when new designs come into circulation.
Author Nan Shepherd was revealed as the Royal Bank of Scotland's choice for the £5 note Monday, and she'll be joining scientist Mary Somerville who was recently voted by the public as the new face of the £10 note.
It's the first time women have featured on any note from the bank.
Shepherd published several novels based in north east Scotland in the 1920s and 1930s. However, she's best known for her nonfiction book, The Living Mountain, which was written in the 1940s and inspired by her time walking in the Cairngorm Mountains but not published until 1977. She died in 1981.
Robert Macfarlane, writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge said that Shepherd "was a blazingly brilliant writer, a true original whose novels, poems and non-fiction broke new ground in Scottish literature."
She'll be on notes later this year, while Somerville, who was a prolific science writer in the 19th century and was chosen for the new £10 note, will appear in 2017.
Mary Somerville will grace the £10 note.
The back of the £5 note will feature two mackerel to represent Scotland's fishing industry and an excerpt from a Sorley MacLean poem, "The Choice."
The £10 reverse, meanwhile, while depict two otters and an excerpt from Norman MacCaig's "Moorings."
Three institutions can issue their own notes in Scotland: Clydesdale, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Bank of Scotland. In England, the Bank of England is the only one allowed to produce the paper.
Clydesdale featured a woman, missionary Mary Slessor, on their £10 note in 1997.
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David Weissman documentary about early days of AIDS epidemic will receive theatrical, DVD, VOD, digital and television release
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"We Were Here," David Weissman's wrenching chronicle of the early days of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco's gay community, has been acquired for distribution by Red Flag Releasing.
The documentary, which had its world premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival, will receive a comprehensive multi-platform release beginning with a North American theatrical release in September 2011. In partnership between Red Flag, the filmmakers, the Film Collaborative, New Video and PBS's Independent Lens, the film will also be released OnDemand, on DVD, in digital download channels, and on television in the spring of 2012. The film will have a non-theatrical, educational outreach component through New Yorker Films.
The deals were orchestrated by the film's worldwide producer's rep, Jonathan Dana, and by TFC's Orly Ravid. "'We Were Here' richly deserves the first class treatment it will receive across all windows and platforms – a real 'Distribution 2.0' strategy in action," said Dana in announcing the release.
Added Paul Federbush, who formed Red Flag with Laura Kim and Ron Stein, "We are proud to be releasing this powerful film. It is an affirmation of the community's great strides over the last 30 years, and honors the many friends we've lost along the way."
Directed and produced by David Weissman and co-directed and edited by Bill Weber, "We Were Here" follows a handful of people who were living in San Francisco when the then-unknown disease began to take its toll 30 years ago.
"I knew I wanted to do it with simplicity and dignity and without a lot of emotional manipulation," said Weissman, who moved to San Francisco in 1976. "I knew during the epidemic … that there would come a point with this epidemic that if any of us survived, we would need … to tell stories."
The film, wrote Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle, "has the force of a great war documentary. There is no turning away from the screen. You could watch this film from the other side of the world and at some completely different period of history and yet still receive it as something personal, with a mix of fear, outrage and awe at the suffering that is so often the lot of human beings – but also with a feeling of transcendence, at how often people can stay human and even come into their deepest humanity when facing the absolute worst."
Weissman and Weber previously collaborated on the 2002 documentary "The Cockettes," about a San Francisco drag troupe from the early 1970s.
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EPA officials are hoping that the agency's upcoming action plan for addressing the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone" of oxygen-depleted waters could drive a new agency effort to launch a watershed-wide nutrient trading program in the Mississippi River watershed after struggling to develop such a program in the Chesapeake Bay area.
A state-federal Mississippi River-Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force, which is chaired by EPA water chief Benjamin Grumbles, is scheduled to unveil June 16 in New Orleans a long-awaited action plan for addressing excess nutrient runoff in the Mississippi River watershed.
Excessive levels of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous result in diminished oxygen levels in waters because they increase algal growth — a process known as eutrophication — which eventually lowers oxygen levels. The excess nutrients come from both point sources like wastewater treatment plants and nonpoint sources like stormwater runoff from agricultural land where nutrient-rich fertilizers are used.
EPA and other trading supporters hope that nutrient trading programs can help the Mississippi River Basin states deal with the Gulf of Mexico dead zone by creating incentives for unregulated nonpoint sources, such as agriculture, which discharge the bulk of the watershed's nitrogen and phosphorus, to reduce the amount of nutrients entering the basin.
EPA officials and other supporters of water quality trading have been struggling to create a water quality trading program for the Chesapeake Bay watershed as a way to limit nutrient runoff in that region. Sources have said, for example, that Pennsylvania's nutrient credit trading program has been struggling to attract buyers for credits because municipal sewage treatment plants are wary to purchase credits from agricultural sources because of uncertainty over how long the credits will be available.
And last year, Chesapeake Bay states asked EPA to defer discussions of regional interstate trading over concerns that the complexity of allowing trades between state programs that have widely varying rules will hamper the individual state programs, which are just getting under way.
Supporters of water quality trading say a watershed-wide trading approach in the Mississippi River Basin has the potential to be more successful there than in other parts of the country, in part because none of the states in the region have a water quality trading program.
"We believe that the Mississippi River Basin is an ideal candidate" because a regional trading program could be created from scratch, Mark Kieser, senior scientist and principal at Kieser & Associates, a water quality consulting firm, told a June 10 meeting on environmental markets hosted by the Katoomba Group.
Even before the action plan is unveiled, Grumbles has unveiled several new agency measures intended to encourage water quality trading in the Mississippi watershed.
Speaking at the June 10 meeting, Grumbles reiterated that one of his top priorities for the last six months of the Bush administration is to "help move states more and more to the numeric water quality standards for nitrogen and phosphorus," which he hopes "will boost trading," as the agency seeks to get nutrient trading markets off the ground in the Mississippi River Basin.
The agency's focus on water quality trading falls in line, Kieser said, with EPA's continued push in the Mississippi River region to require tighter nutrient water quality standards in permits, while deciding in previous meetings of the task force to forgo options to create a region-wide total maximum daily load (TMDL). A TMDL is a measure of how much of a contaminant a water body can take before becoming impaired.
"From what we've seen . . . water quality standards will create more robust trading than a TMDL," because numeric standards are likely to result in more stringent effluent limits from wastewater treatment plants than would occur with a TMDL, Kieser said.
States, however, have been generally reluctant to adopt numeric nutrient standards. Last year, after Grumbles made another push for numeric, rather than narrative, criteria, the Association of State & Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators told the EPA water chief that the agency's emphasis on numeric criteria fails to address implementation challenges, including states' position that nutrients differ from other types of pollutants are less amenable to numeric criteria.
Grumbles also announced June 10 that the agency will devote $4.2 million in fiscal year 2009 to grant proposals that will use water quality trading programs to reduce nutrient loads in three Mississippi River watersheds, including the Ohio River, the Upper Mississippi River, or the Lower Mississippi River. EPA says these three watersheds provide the most nutrients to the Gulf.
"This is seed money to grow an innovative solution to nutrient pollution and cut the size of the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone," Grumbles said in an announcement.
Kieser, during the June 10 meeting, highlighted challenges to regional trading in the Chesapeake Bay, where an attempt to combine different trading approaches tends to result in "parochialism and institutional push back." Additionally, state administration changes and reinterpretation of state-level rules "can wreak havoc" on trading markets, he said.
His comments echoed concerns raised by EPA's inspector general (IG) earlier this year, which urged the agency to adopt a slew of measures to assist Chesapeake Bay states in meeting 2010 water quality goals, including assisting states in developing trading programs. The IG said EPA "needs to develop a formal plan to capture and disseminate lessons learned" from the Bay states' trading program, especially because the states are using different approaches. And the IG recommended EPA and states develop equivalent and clearly defined units of trades to facilitate future interstate trades.
But Will Baker, president of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, disagreed with Kieser's contention that already-formed state programs can act as a barrier to regional cooperation, saying the six-state Bay region is an ideal place for watershed-wide trading. Currently, Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania have nutrient trading programs.
Baker also cited plans in the Chesapeake Bay states for a watershed-wide TMDL for nutrients by 2011, as mandated by a previous court ruling. The TMDL could act as an incentive for a multi-state trading market, Baker says. — Erica Martinson
Leslie Smith2017-01-17T09:22:24+00:00June 14th, 2008|News|Comments Off on Gulf Plan May Drive EPA Bid For Water Trading In Mississippi Basin


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Wednesday, Oct 23 2002
New York Times Looks at Factors Behind Health Care Cost Increases
The health care industry is "thriving" as health care costs "spira[l] into another year of double-digit increases," the New York Times reports. The "big winners" at this time are the largest managed care companies; hospitals, especially those with "networks that dominate local markets"; medical device manufacturers; and nurses, whose services are in great demand in the face of a national shortage, according to the Times . Insurers are generating profits by passing on costs to employers and "dropping money-losing customers," the Times reports. Although employers say they are "fed up" with the cost increases, the Times notes their response to date has been to pass off more of the costs to their employees through higher deductibles and copayments rather than to demand lower prices. The Times also notes that more than half of health care cost increases are attributable to hospital services, with outpatient costs as the "fastest-growing health care category," according to a Health Affairs study published last month. But although the outlook for big hospital groups is positive in the near term, the Times reports that "[h]ospitals may be the next target for protests by patient advocates" as their prices continue to rise. Meanwhile, pharmaceuticals are "no longer a growth industry" as consumers seek out less-expensive generic forms of popular drugs, according to Richard Evans, a Bernstein Research analyst. Evans said that pharmaceutical companies appear unable to increase prices and reduce production and sales costs "enough to keep profits rising during fallow periods when important new drugs are scarce," according to the Times .
Another "big engine of rising costs" is technology, as health care consumers "rarely say no to a hot new product ... that can extend or improve the quality of patients' lives," the Times reports. But technological advances can carry a large price tag (Freudenheim, New York Times , 10/23). A Blue Cross Blue Shield Association study released today finds that new technologies have been a major factor behind cost increases in recent years, USA Today reports. Researchers found that inpatient hospital care expenditures increased 11.8% from 1998 to 2000, according to data based on actual claims filed by one insurer with three million enrollees throughout the United States. Of that increase, 19% was linked to the use of new technology, while 18% was attributed to hospital mergers and "industry consolidation that reduced competition." Carmela Coyle of the American Hospital Association said, "We certainly know that health care is using more technology. It allows us to do more for people." She added, "The important question to ask: Is more spending [on technology] good or bad?" (Appleby, USA Today , 10/23).


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require 'active_record'
require 'active_record/version'
require 'active_support'
require 'active_support/core_ext'
require 'rspec'
require 'mocha/api'

begin
  require 'pry'
rescue LoadError
  # Pry is not available, just ignore.
end

require 'paperclip/railtie'
Paperclip::Railtie.insert

require 'delayed_paperclip/railtie'
DelayedPaperclip::Railtie.insert

# Connect to sqlite
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  "adapter" => "sqlite3",
  "database" => ":memory:"
)

# Path for filesystem writing
ROOT = Pathname(File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..')))

FIXTURES_DIR = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "fixtures")
ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/debug.log")
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RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.mock_with :mocha

  config.filter_run focus: true
  config.run_all_when_everything_filtered = true
end

Dir["./spec/integration/examples/*.rb"].sort.each {|f| require f}

# Reset table and class with image_processing column or not
def reset_dummy(options = {})
  options[:with_processed] = true unless options.key?(:with_processed)
  options[:processed_column] = options[:with_processed] unless options.has_key?(:processed_column)

  build_dummy_table(options.delete(:processed_column))
  reset_class("Dummy", options)
end

# Dummy Table for images
# with or without image_processing column
def build_dummy_table(with_column)
  ActiveRecord::Base.connection.create_table :dummies, :force => true do |t|
    t.string   :name
    t.string   :image_file_name
    t.string   :image_content_type
    t.integer  :image_file_size
    t.datetime :image_updated_at
    t.boolean(:image_processing, :default => false) if with_column
  end
end

def reset_class(class_name, options)
  # setup class and include paperclip
  options[:paperclip] = {} if options[:paperclip].nil?
  ActiveRecord::Base.send(:include, Paperclip::Glue)
  Object.send(:remove_const, class_name) rescue nil

  # Set class as a constant
  klass = Object.const_set(class_name, Class.new(ActiveRecord::Base))

  # Setup class with paperclip and delayed paperclip
  klass.class_eval do
    include Paperclip::Glue

    has_attached_file :image, options.delete(:paperclip)

    validates_attachment :image, :content_type => { :content_type => "image/png" }

    process_in_background :image, options if options[:with_processed]

    after_update :reprocess if options[:with_after_update_callback]

    def reprocess
      image.reprocess!
    end

  end

  Rails.stubs(:root).returns(Pathname.new(ROOT).join('spec', 'tmp'))
  klass.reset_column_information
  klass
end


The multinationals have all the power. Why?
Land of Corn is a documentary by Peace Brigades International about four environmental and land rights activists fighting to protect the commons in Oaxca Mexico, Santa Helena Honduras, Choco Columbia and La Primavera Guatemala. In each case, activists are fighting collusion between US-backed corrupt governments and international corporations to end their communal land rights and destroy their livelihood.
In Oaxca, a multinational corporation seeks to illegally evict residents to construct a giant wind farm.
In Santa Helena Honduras, a US-backed corporate giant seeks to displace local farmers for a giant dam and hydroelectric project. This illegal eviction stems directly from the 2009 US-backed coup, in which Obama and Hillary Clinton supported the overthrow of the democratically elected Honduran president.
In Primavera Guatemala, a multinational seeks to clear cut a rain forest residents' ancestors have fought for generations to preserve.
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Tony Sheridan (født Andrew Esmond Sheridan McGinnity den 21. maj 1940 i Norwich, Norfolk, død 16. februar 2013 i Hamborg, Tyskland) var en britisk sanger og rockmusiker.

Han spillede i en ung alder backing for de amerikanske rock 'n' roll-ikoner Gene Vincent og Eddie Cochran i England og tog kort efter til Hamborg, hvor han optrådte i klubber. I Hamborg mødte han i 1960 en tidlig udgave af The Beatles.

Sheridan er mest kendt for de indspilninger har foretog med The Beatles som backinggruppe i 1961. Indspilingnerne er udgivet på en lang række albummer i forskellige varianter.

Biografi
Sheridan blev født i Norwich i Norfolk i det østlige England, hvor han voksede op i en musikalsk interesseret familie. Han lærte at spille violin og guitar og allerede som 16 årig dannede han sit første band. Han fik hurtigt et seks måneders engagement i London's "Two I's" club. Som 18-årig begyndte han at optræde i tv-programmet Oh Boy! produceret af ITV, hvor han spillede el-guitar til tidligere rockklassikere som "Blue Suede Shoes", "Glad All Over", "Mighty Mighty Man" og "Oh Boy!". Han er angiveligt den første, der spillede el-guitar på britisk tv.

Han fik hurtigt jobs i backingbands, herunder for Gene Vincent og Conway Twitty, da disse spille i England. I begyndelsen af 1960 var han på turne med Gene Vincent og Eddie Cochran. Den 16. april afslog Vincent og Cochran Sheridans ønske om at køre med dem til det næste koncetsted, hvorved Sheridan undgik at være en den bil, der kørte galt og dræbte Cochran og påførte Vincent alvorlige skader.

Sheridans band fik senere i 1960 et job i Bruno Koschmiders "Kaiserkeller" klub i Hamburg i Vesttyskland og bandet tog afsted uden Sheridan. Sheridan tog dog senere selv til Hamborg og spillede der melle m 1960 og 63. Da Sheridan spillede i Hamborg havde han flere backingbands, de fleste blot tilfældigt samlede musikere. Sheridan mødte imidlertid i 1960 The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stu Sutcliffe og Pete Best) i Hamborg under Beatles' første besøg i byen. Da The Beatles vendte tilbage til Hamborg i 1961 begyndt bandet at arbejde sammen med Sheridan. Bandet, og særlig George Harrison, så op til den lidt ældre og mere erfarne Sheridan. The Beatles optrådte fra tid til anden som backingband for Sheridan og Sheridan medvirkede også flere gange ved The Beatles' shows.

På et tidspunkt så den tyske pladeproducer Bert Kaempfert Sheridan med The Beatles, og han foreslog, at Sheridan foretog indspilninger med sit backingband på Polydor. Kaempfert så Sheridan som "stjernen" og selv om Polydor også signede The Beatles som backingband, blev det indføjet i kontrakten med de fire medlemmer af Beatles (Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Best), at de kun behøvede spille på to numre. Sheridan og backingbandet The Beatles indspillede over to dage i juni 1961 en række sange, herunder Sheridans "My Bonnie" og "The Saints" og Beatles' "Ain't She Sweet" og "Cry for a Shadow" samt tre yderligere numre. Polydor havde store forventninger til Sheridans fremtid og anvendte ikke de to Beatles numre i første omgang. Både Sherian og Lennon har siden hævdet, at der blev indspillet flere numre under optagelserne, men disse er aldrig siden kommet frem.

En single fra optagelserne, "My Bonnie"/"The Saints", nåede en 5. plads på de tyske hitlister). Polydor udsendte i 1962 et album My Bonnie i Vesttyskland. Navnet Beatles blev anset for at ligge for tæt på det tyske ord Pidels, der er nordtysk slang for penis (i flertal), hvorfor albummet blev krediteret Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers. Efter The Beatles var blevet berømte blev albummet genudsendt i Storbritannien, hvor det blev krediteret "Tony Sheridan and The Beatles". Navnet "The Beat Brothers" blev senere anvendt af flere af de grupper, der akkompangerede Sheridan.

Sheridan spillede også kortvarigt med Ringo Starr i sit band i begyndelsen af 1962, indtil Ringo Star gik tilbage til Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. Starr var utilfreds med, at Sheridan optrådte med sange, som han ikke havde øvet med sit band.

I midten af 1960'erne skiftede Sheridan musikalsk stil og bevægede sig mod en mere blues- og jazz-orienteret lyd. Han blev disillusioneret over berømmelsen, som samarbejdet med The Beatles havde ført med sig og han begyndte at optræde for tropperne i Vietnam under Vietnamkrigen. Under en optræden blev der åbnet ild, og et medlem af Sheridans band blev dræbt. Sheridan blev udnævnt til kaptajn i US Army hæren som belønning for sit arbejde i hæren.

I begyndelsen af 1970'erne var Sheridan vært på et tysk radioprogram med bluesmusik og gav løbende koncerter, herunder med Elvis Presleys TCB Band.

Den 13. august 2002 udgav Sheridan albummet Vagabond med primært eget materiale, men også en ny, mere blues-baseret, version af "Skinny Minnie" fra sit første album.

Diskografi (udvalg)
Album
 1962 - My Bonnie (som Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers)
 1964 - The Beatles' First (som The Beatles featuring Tony Sheridan)
 1978 - Worlds Apart (som Tony Sheridan & the Elvis Presley Band)
 1984 - Novus
 1987 - Dawn Colours
 1996 - Live and Dangerous
 2002 - Vagabond
 2010 - Here & Now

Singlar/EPs
 1962 - Mister Twist (EP)
 1962 - Ya Ya (EP)
 1964 - Jambalaya / Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
 1965 - Shake It Some More / La Bamba (som Tony Sheridan & The Big Six)
 1965 - Vive L'Amour / Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop (Tony Sheridan & The Big Six)
 1966 - Jailhouse Rock / Skinny Minny (Tony Sheridan & The Big Six)
 1966 - The Creep / Just You And Me
 1967 - Ich Will Bei Dir Bleiben / Ich Lass Dich Nie Wieder Geh'n
 1972 - I Believe In Love / Monday Morning (som Carole & Tony)
 1975 - If She'd Have Stayed / Lonely

Noter

Eksterne links

 Officielt website
 Tony Sheridan på allmusic.com
 Diskografi på Discogs
 Are You Tony Sheridan? Dokumentar på RTE Radio 1

Sangere fra England
Guitarister fra Storbritannien
The Beatles

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HomeUK News
Guardian launches secure system for whistleblowers
Published time: 5 Jun, 2014 21:09 Edited time: 27 Jun, 2014 07:56
Reuters / Toru Hanai © Reuters
The Guardian newspaper has launched a secure server for whistleblowers so they can safely submit confidential documents. It makes use of well-known anonymizing technology, which was used by journalists working on the Snowden files.
The SecureDrop open source whistleblowing platform provides a way for sources to remain anonymous and submit data and documents, while avoiding the most common forms of online tracking, the London based newspaper reports.
'Don't ask for privacy, Take it back': Anti-NSA #ResetTheNet campaign kicks off
The system will make use of technology used by the journalists who reported on Edward Snowden's leaked NSA documents such as the Tor network and the Talis operating system. A number of US based not for profit investigative newsrooms already make use of the technology, such as the New Yorker ProPublica and the Intercept.
The SecureDrop platform was developed by the US activist and computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide in 2013 after facing criminal persecution on charges of the mass download of academic documents and articles. The platform is now operated and maintained by the not-for profit Freedom of the Press Foundation.
The SecureDrop page is hosted on a separate server from the main Guardian website and does not use tracking cookies or logs. The server is installed outside the UK as last year the Guardian was put under intense pressure from the UK government over the publication of articles on the NSA documents leaked by Snowden.
This resulted in the newspaper relocating all its reporting on the mass surveillance issue and associated files to the USA, after it was forced by the British government and intelligence officials to destroy all copies kept at its UK headquarters.
The editor of the Guardian Alan Rusbridger said that the new system would help protect his reporters' sources.
"Protecting sources is at the core of journalism, and as the Guardian's revelations from the Edward Snowden documents over the last year have shown, it's getting ever more difficult," he said.
The Director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation said that the development of SecureDrop was part of a wider campaign to protect journalists and whistleblowers.
"In an age where governments are increasingly using surveillance to uncover sources and chill investigative journalism, technology can help whistleblowers and reporters safely get important stories to the public," he said.
But Freedom of the Press Foundation warned that even SecureDrop does not offer 100 percent protection.
"Any organization or product that promises 100% security is not telling the truth. SecureDrop attempts to create [a] significantly more secure environment for sources to get information than exists through normal digital channels, but there are always risks," Freedom of the Press Foundation said.
Freedom of the Press Foundation takes over Aaron Swartz's whistleblower project
From 'Truth is coming' to 'Merkel Effect': Top 13 Snowden quotes on NSA
Year of the whistleblower: 10 things we didn't know before Snowden
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