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7 Places Not to Miss in Indochina
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Two hundred years ago, Europeans started referring to the region between India and China as Indochina.
Already, it was recognized as one of the most beautiful, exotic, culturally unique destinations on the planet. With its very strategic position, Indochina was also center-stage in some of the defining conflicts of the 20th century including the Pacific theater of WW2 and the Vietnam War.
Fast-forward to today, and the legendary countries of South-East Asia - SEA for short - are magnets for travelers by land and sea. Dense tropical jungles and one-of-a-kind plants and wildlife, fabled rivers and waterways, beloved cuisine, some of the world's most beautiful beaches, mountains tiered with rice terraces, gilded temples and Buddhist monks, dizzying markets and spectacular sunsets are hallmarks of these nations.
The term Indochina, or the French Indochine, is still used particularly to refer to traditional or colonial culture in the region, which you'll still find preserved in these rapidly-growing economies and modernizing nations.
Lynn Elmhirst, producer/host of BestTrip.TV shares the must-see sites in the 7 SEA countries:
This nation tops nearly everyone's SEA travel bucket list, from backpackers to those in search of 6-star luxury exotic escapes. The Land of Smiles is a smorgasbord of South-East-Asian culture. You won't want to miss Thai cuisine at the source in fabulous restaurants or from street vendors or markets. There are 40,000 temples in this kingdom, including one containing the world's largest solid gold Buddha in Bangkok.
The capital is firmly in the world's top-three global travel destinations every year, and also home to floating markets, tuk tuk taxis, royal palaces and massive shopping malls. Thailand's rural attractions include jungles and elephant sanctuaries, legendary beaches and island destinations like Phuket, Koh Samui, the famous Sunset Beach on Koh Kradan and the Golden Swan Temple (pictured top).
Watch Video: The Real Name of the Capital of Thailand… is Not Bangkok
The tragedy of the Vietnam War is in the past for modern Vietnamese who are among the warmest people in Asia, if not the world. The still-communist country welcomes growing numbers of American and Western visitors. Many travelers – especially Americans - find it hard to believe the country permits and even promotes interest in Vietnam War-era sites like tours to the Viet Cong's legendary Cu Chi tunnels near Ho Chi Minh City and the famous American R&R China Beach near Danang. Everyone visits Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City and its ornate, French colonial public buildings, famous historic hotels and the top-ranked Saigon market. But don't miss other cities in Vietnam like historic imperial Hue and the ancient canal town of Hoi An – stay in town long enough to have some custom-tailored clothing made!
An day trip or even a journey on the mighty Mekong river, with its floating markets, and entire communities is unforgettable. And UNESCO World Heritage site Halong Bay's emerald waters and mystical islands are a traveler's dream.
Watch Video: Kayaking in Mystical Halong Bay
This is the only land-locked nation in Indochina, and perhaps that's why it's later to the tourism party than other SEA countries. For many travelers, the path least traveled is exactly where you'll want to go next.
The highlight of any trip to Laos is Luang Prabang. This UNESCO World Heritage Site has been inhabited for thousands of years, nestled in a valley where the mythical Mekong and Nam Khan rivers meet. Luang Prabang is a cultural and religious center with historic temples, serene Mekong river scenery, the magical Kuang Si waterfalls with its series of swimming holes, falls and ideal picnic sites, and even an Asian black bear rescue center.
For travelers, Cambodia's has two claims to fame: one joyful, the other very dark. Travelers to neighboring SEA countries take trips into Cambodia solely to visit iconic UNESCO World Heritage Site Angkor Wat. This 12th century temple is part of the largest religious monument in the world – a 400-acre complex isolated by a dramatic moat that is a top global bucket list destination.
Equally compelling but difficult to experience are the museum and sites associated with the Khmer Rouge genocide known as The Killing Fields. But there's more to experience in the capital Phnom Penh: Cambodia's position where Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers meet made it the natural center for both Khmer and French colonial regimes. Today, its busy riverfront, art deco market, Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda make it worth an extended stay to explore.
The country formerly known as Burma is fast becoming a country that adventurous travelers want to see before the tourist scene gets very busy. The capital city Yangon is home to ancient Buddhist sites, including the oldest pagoda in the world. The Shwedagon pagoda dates back 2500 years, and is the national symbol and holy site of the nation.
Outside the capital you'll find one of the world's greatest archaeological wonders: the 2300 pagodas and temples on the plains of Bagan. You can even get an overview of the entire complex on a hot air balloon ride. Inle Lake, surrounded by misty mountains, is a time capsule of local people who still live with the land in stilt houses, with floating gardens and a famous fishing technique. Rudyard Kipling coined the phrase 'Road to Mandalay' to refer to the majestic Irawaddy River. Some major cruise companies offer river cruise tours on this exotic waterway.
Mainland Malaysia occupies the southern end of the SEA peninsula, as well as parts of the nearby island of Borneo. The wilderness is famous for wildlife reserves protecting endangered orangutans, tigers, rhinos and elephants, the beaches of Langkawi, and storied tribes of head-hunters whose villages on stilts over rivers in Borneo you can still visit. Cooler Cameron Highlands are home to tea plantations where you can do a tasting tour. Colonial European heritage landmarks include the sites in colorful Malacca, and Penang's landmark Eastern & Oriental hotel – a sea front sister hotel that pre-dated the famous Raffles in Singapore.
Don't skip Malaysia's ultra-modern capital Kuala Lumpur. KL is a fascinating vision of the future of SEA, not to mention the record-breaking Petronas Twin Towers connected by a sky-high bridge that's featured in action films and many an Instagram post.
This city-state and global financial center at the end of the Malaysian mainland is the only island nation of SEA. Singapore has preserved a core of its colonial past, with high rises surrounding the historic cricket field and colonial buildings, including nearby, one of the world's most famous historic hotels. Legends are still told of the early days of the Raffles Hotel and the Long Bar, where the Singapore Sling was invented. Take time to wet your lips with one of the world's most famous cocktails and soak up the bygone atmosphere.
But Singapore is more famous now for its almost surreal ultramodern vision and skyline. The symbol of modern Singapore is the already-iconic Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Casino's three-pillar towers topped by a surfboard-like top floor with the world's largest infinity pool overlooking the city. The 250-acre Gardens by the Bay, with the grove of futuristic super trees takes Singapore's love of green space to a space-age level. Singapore is a popular SEA cruise port of embarkation/ debarkation, and well worth extending your trip pre- or post- cruise to explore.
Indochina is no longer a place on a map – but it's still one of the world's top travel destinations.
5 Top Ways to Celebrate Chinese New Years
Kung Hei Fat Choy!
The Lunar New Year celebrations may be the largest global festival. A billion Chinese, plus people of Chinese descent as well as other Asian countries and communities around the world follow age-old practices to ensure another year of good fortune and prosperity. Lunar calendars have the New Year falling on different dates in February or March and celebrations take over small communities and Asia's largest urban centers.
BestTrip.TV was lucky enough to be filming in Hong Kong during Chinese New Year. Here's how we - and you – can get into the spirit of the Lunar New Year.
By Lynn Elmhirst, Producer/ Host, BestTrip.TV
Colors have strong associations in Chinese lore, and red is one of the best. Red is the color of good fortune. The more of this hue in your life as you welcome another year, the luckier you'll be – or so they say. That's why you see so much red associated with Chinese culture, and especially at Chinese New Year. Seasonal markets are laden with items in red and other auspicious colors and significance.
Do as we did: pack your red dress, or tie or pocket square (we even heard there's special red CNY lingerie) to wear to celebrations to draw that good fortune towards you for the coming year.
Gold/yellow is associated with royalty and status, so it's no surprise it's often paired with red as the most auspicious color combination. Don't hold back on gold jewelry!
I admire the practical aspect of conscientious housekeeping in one CNY tradition: sweeping away bad spirits and luring good spirits into your home with a good scrubbing. Then double down on your good fortune in the coming year by decorating. You'll see endless red banners and lanterns of course, bouquets of red flowers. But keep your eyes open for one other charming practice: bringing orange, tangerine, or their miniature version, kumquat trees into the home.
This tradition is said to have evolved from a play on the words for orange and tangerine sounding like the words for luck/prosperity. Exactly what you're looking for on CNY. In addition, their yellow/orange color also resembles gold. In compact homes and apartments, a potted, table-top kumquat fits the bill. In larger public spaces, restaurants and grand hotels, pairs of elegantly potted, sculpted orange or tangerine trees flank entryways during Chinese New Year.
Give and Receive
Sometimes, you'll see red envelopes with gold letters and trim tied to the branches of those orange trees. Enclosing gift money in red paper is intended to bestow extra wishes for good fortune on the recipient, so the cultural significance of the red envelopes is the red paper, which amplifies the value and blessings of any money inside.
For that reason, if you are fortunate enough to receive a red envelope, you accept it ceremoniously with both hands and do not open until later. Red envelopes are exchanged among family members, but employers often use the last day before CNY holidays as an occasion to thank and share best wishes with employees.
When we were lucky enough to be visiting Hong Kong during Chinese New Year, and our hosts kindly offered us lai see, we felt very touched to be included almost like family.
Set off Fireworks
While many Lunar New Year practices attract good spirits, it's equally important to keep the evil ones away. According to folklore, loud noises are ideal to scare away evil spirits. That's become a tradition of setting off fireworks. People go to markets and buy vast quantities of individual fireworks, and CNY community fireworks extravaganzas have become legendary.
Hong Kong's CNY fireworks take place over Victoria Harbour with its spectacular skyline backdrop. Take a look at the video at the top, you'll be breathless too!
Take in a Lion Dance
Any day is a good day when you get to experience a playful, whimsical lion dance. They wink and flirt shamelessly with the crowd… and naturally bring good luck and fortune at Chinese New Years. The lion's movements are performed by a two person team head and tail and have their roots in martial arts. Some include a sequence to 'pluck the greens': performing amazing feats of performance and athleticism to reach an auspicious bunch of lettuce tied with a red envelope that's dangled in front of the lion like a lure.
These were our experiences in Hong Kong, and there are many other Lunar New Year celebrations to explore in China, other South-East Asian countries, and their communities around the world.
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Altoida's Digital Neuro Signature and the future of population-level brain health management
The approval of Aducanumab was the beginning of an inflection point in global brain health and dementia management. Altoida has developed a platform that could set the new gold standard in cognitive function measurement at the population level, and help pioneer predictive dementia diagnosis.
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npj Digital Medicine - Using a Digital Neuro Signature to measure longitudinal individual-level change in Alzheimer's disease: the Altoida large cohort study
Dementia as a Population Health Issue
The World Health Organization estimates that approximately 50 million people worldwide have dementia. With nearly 10 million new cases each year1, it's projected that the global dementia case total will eclipse 80 million by 2030 and 150 million by 2050.
A key accelerant to the increasing global burden of dementia is the rising number of dementia cases in low- and middle-income countries. These countries are more likely to lack sufficient public health resources to control the risk factors of the disease and assess, diagnose, and treat the disease in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Solutions in Dementia Detection and Treatment
Assessing dementia: traditional neuropsychological tests and brain scans
Limitations in traditional neuropsychological tests, such as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE), as the "gold standard" for testing have hindered our ability to effectively assess and treat dementia at the population level.
One such limitation is how significantly an individual's performance can be affected by their "good days" and "bad days." This day-to-day variability can lead to an inaccurate understanding of one's true cognitive function, both in cross-sectional and longitudinal assessment. Traditional neuropsychological tests are also not as highly ecologically valid as future state testing could be. Because many of these tests solely assess speed- and accuracy-based metrics, they don't necessarily test the brain under a cognitive load representative of complex daily tasks, nor can they capture the wealth of data that digital tools can. Therefore, they may not be ideal tools to collect data that is generalizable to real-world brain function. Furthermore, traditional neuropsychological tests are time-consuming and complex to administer. These limitations contribute to lower testing rates and poor data on cognitive function, which are two rate-limiting factors in diagnosing and treating dementia.
Fig 1. Day-to-day variability in testing can overshadow true performance due to external factors (environment) and internal factors (anxiety, motivation, etc.). Reprint courtesy of Martin Sliwinsk, permission granted2.
Beyond neuropsychological tests, brain scans (CT, MRI, or PET) are a hallmark in today's standard of care for dementia diagnosis. However, these procedures are expensive, invasive, and limited in their ability to predict disease onset.
At large, there is a clear opportunity and the right level of technological maturity for innovation to drive more scalable assessment and management of cognitive health at the population level.
Treating dementia: pharmacological and behavioral therapies
Preventative care is a promising opportunity to combat dementia onset and progression. The Lancet Commission estimates 40% of all dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by targeting 12 risk factors throughout life3.
With the United States Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) recent approval of Aduhelm (aducanumab), there is revived hope for a therapy that can address a defining pathology of Alzheimer's disease dementia by reducing amyloid-beta plaques in the brain. However, the drug's exciting and broad approval has been met with questions around the clinical trial evidence and critique that the drug may not meaningfully improve cognitive function or slow the rate of cognitive decline.
How Altoida can address today's challenges with an innovative and scalable solution
Altoida is creating an emerging gold standard in cognitive assessment. Rather than assess cognitive function with a traditional memory test, Altoida's platform uses ecologically valid digital and augmented reality (AR) activities to immerse the user and assess the brain under a cognitive load representative of complex tasks of daily living. From these activities, Altoida collects data from the electronics sensors in the users' device to analyze 748 proprietary digital biomarkers and provide both an objective measurement of brain function across 11 neurocognitive domains and subdomains (backed by DSM-5 criteria4) and a novel Digital Neuro Signature score.
Altoida's platform and Digital Neuro Signature (DNS) score provide a more efficient, accurate, and sensitive assessment of cognitive function than traditional neuropsychological tests, both in cross-sectional and longitudinal evaluations.
Compared to traditional neuropsychological tests, Altoida's platform and DNS score result in remarkably faster evaluations and reporting (10-12 min vs 45–120 min). As shown in our recently published NPJ Digital Medicine manuscript5, Altoida's DNS score outperformed traditional neuropsychological test metrics in accurately and reliably capturing intraindividual cognitive function in two semi-naturalistic observational experiments in laboratory and clinical settings (n=525). Results show that the DNS score, relative to traditional neuropsychological test metrics, was consistently more sensitive at capturing longitudinal individual-level changes across multiple neurocognitive domains for three groups of participants (healthy controls, patients with mild cognitive impairment, and patients with Alzheimer's disease).
In addition to measuring and monitoring cognitive function, data demonstrated that the DNS score could be used as a predictor of conversion from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the study, the DNS score was used to predict conversion events 6–8 months prior to annual follow-ups for a mixed pool of MCI amnestic individuals. Conversion events were predicted consistently and successfully for 36 months of follow-ups to enable a timely diagnosis of AD, whereas the traditional neuropsychological tests did not detect intra-individual change and subsequent conversion nearly as quickly.
Opportunity and Use Cases
Altoida's platform and DNS score provide both a precise and pragmatic solution to population-level dementia management. With Altoida's platform and DNS score, it is possible to enable higher rates of brain health assessment and to develop risk phenotypes. As such, the DNS score could be an instrumental metric to determine who should receive therapies in a population (including pharmacotherapy), when they should receive them, and at what dose.
This approach aligns with the Precision and Personalized Population Health (P3H) framework6,7 put forth by Dr. Azizi Seixas and their team. P3H attempts to understand, manage, and treat health and wellness along the continuum from discovery (the process of finding common and unique causes of disease) to treatment optimization and adherence (the process of finding the right treatment, for the right person, at the right time, with the optimal dosage). The P3H continuum can be summarized using the "D6AEs'' framework: Discovery, Awareness, Avoidance, Access, Assessment, Acceptance, Adherence, and Efficacy/Effectiveness of solutions. Alotida's platform and DNS score are well-positioned to offer value across all 8 domains of the P3H continuum.
Altoida's platform and DNS score can sharpen our understanding of the etiology of dementia. They are built on a test activity battery that enables highly personalized cognitive function assessment using novel data inputs, including functional performance, visuospatial performance, voice, gait, and eye-tracking, among others. Relative to traditional neuropsychological tests, the field of data collected with Altoida's platform is drastically expanded, which has the potential to also expand, democratize, and revolutionize the field of data available to clinicians and researchers seeking to understand personalized causes and trajectories of dementia. Furthermore, the DNS score takes in these expanded data inputs to detect unique biological signatures (mapped over multiple neurocognitive domains), and highlight changes from normal cognitive function to MCI, and from MCI to dementia-related disease. From an etiological perspective, the DNS score provides clinicians and researchers a natural experimental framework to establish causal links between changes in cognitive function and endogenous and exogenous factors.
Awareness and Avoidance (prevention)
Altoida's DNS score provides a unique opportunity to increase awareness of the risk of developing MCI and dementia and to engage populations in preventive and corrective strategies to both arrest cognitive decline and improve cognitive function. Metrics reported within Altoida's platform, like the DNS score and granular neurocognitive domain scores, are needed to improve the selection of candidates who can benefit the most from preventative therapies, intervention strategies, and existing or novel drugs.
Access and Assessment
Altoida's platform opens the door for economical, user-friendly, and highly accurate cognitive assessment at scale. In addition to high ecological validity, the 10-minute test activity battery feels like a set of smartphone games rather than a cumbersome memory test and is designed to be completed in any environment. With this approach, cognitive assessment can be conducted at scale in diverse settings such as health clinics, research laboratories, large health systems, and rural settings. Patients using Altoida's platform can also easily be monitored remotely ㇐ a trend that is poised to see continued expansion in the wake of COVID-19.
Acceptance and Adherence
Altoida's platform and DNS score address several of the acceptance and adherence challenges that are characteristic of traditional neuropsychological tests. Internal factors that can heavily affect performance on traditional cognitive tests, such as motivation, concentration, attention, and available time, are generally limited in their impact on performance when using Altoida's platform. By providing highly ecologically valid test activities and an immersive and engaging user experience, Altoida's platform mitigates the effects of day-to-day variability in these and other factors on performance and provides a truer understanding of cognitive function.
Efficacy/Effectiveness of dementia treatments
Altoida's DNS score is constructed to be an ideal companion tool for pharmacological, behavioral, and cognitive therapies. Because of the hyper-sensitivity of the DNS score to intra-individual change, it can be used to assess the effectiveness of therapy at improving or slowing the decline of cognitive function over time. Altoida's DNS score can be used as a sensitive monitoring biomarker that detects granular changes in real-world function. These changes could be extremely meaningful in understanding clinical improvement or progression but ultimately would have been missed by traditional neuropsychological tests.
This post was created by Azizi Seixas, Ph.D., Ioannis Tarnanas, Ph.D., Irene Meier, Ph.D., Arzu Çöltekin, Ph.D., Max Bügler, Ph.D., Robbert Harms, Ph.D., and Henry Peck.
1. "Dementia." WHO, 21 Sept. 2020, www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dementia.
2. ALZFORUM. Cognitive testing is getting faster and better. https://www.alzforum. org/news/conference-coverage/cognitive-testing-getting-faster-and-better (2017).
3. "Differences in the Potential for Dementia Prevention Between Major Ethnic Groups Within One Country: A Cross Sectional Analysis of Population Attributable Fraction of Potentially Modifiable Risk Factors in New Zealand." The Lancet Regional Health, Western Pacific, 5 Aug. 2021, secure.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/action/cookieAbsent.
4. Sachdev, Perminder, et al. "Classifying Neurocognitive Disorders: The DSM-5 Approach." ResearchGate, 3 Dec. 2020, www.researchgate.net/figure/Neurocognitive-domains-The-DSM-5-defines-six-key-domains-of-cognitive-function-and-each_fig1_266325299.
5. Meier IB, Buegler M, Harms R, Seixas AA, Çöltekin A, Tarnanas I. Using a Digital Neuro Signature to measure longitudinal individual-level change in Alzheimer's disease: the Altoida large cohort study. npj Digital Medicine (2021)4:101 ; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-021-00470-z.
6. Seixas AA, Moore J, Chung A, Robbins R, Grandner M, Rogers A, Williams NJ, Jean-Louis G. Benefits of Community-Based Approaches in Assessing and Addressing Sleep Health and Sleep-Related Cardiovascular Disease Risk: a Precision and Personalized Population Health Approach. Curr Hypertens Rep. 2020 Jul 15;22(8):52. doi: 10.1007/s11906-020-01051-3. PMID: 32671477.
7. Seixas A, Conners C, Chung A, Donley T, Jean-Louis G. A Pantheoretical Framework to Optimize Adherence to Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors and Medication Adherence: The Use of Personalized Approaches to Overcome Barriers and Optimize Facilitators to Achieve Adherence. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2020;8(6):e16429 doi: 10.2196/16429 PMID: 32579121 PMCID: 7381082.
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Jerusalem Post Health & Wellness
Flu vaccine with 24% more efficacy coming to Israel this winter
Between 70% and 80% of seasonal flu-related deaths have occurred in people 65 years and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions.
By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Published: SEPTEMBER 10, 2020 13:45
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The elderly population will be more at risk this winter of deadly infections as both coronavirus and the seasonal flu hit the country. However, for the first time, individuals over the age of 65 will have access to a flu vaccine with four times the effectiveness of a standard vaccine.
"I absolutely recommend everyone to get a flu vaccine," said Prof. Eyal Leshem, director of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer. "With coronavirus, you will want something to protect yourself against hospitalization and needing to visit the emergency room. A flu vaccine is very effective in those terms."
Between 70% and 80% of seasonal flu-related deaths have occurred in people 65 years and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions. Also, 50% to 70% of seasonal flu-related hospitalizations have occurred among people in this age group.
Sanofi Pasteur Inc. Fluzone HD should arrive in the country in late September and early October. It is a high-dose vaccine that can reduce the incidence of flu by more than 24% compared to the regular vaccine, Leshem confirmed. However, despite the high dose, it is considered safe to use.
According to a release, the only potential side effects are redness or swelling at the site of the injection.
The vaccine will be free to people over the age of 65 through their health funds.
The way it works: The vaccine contains more than four times the hemagglutinin of the regular vaccine given in Israel. Hemagglutinin is an antigenic glycoprotein found on the surface of influenza viruses. It is responsible for binding the virus to the cell that is being infected.
Fluzone HD works against four types of flu strains. It was registered in the US last November and in Europe this past April, specifically for use in the elderly population, who are at greater risk of suffering from flu complications. It has been widely distributed in Canada, Australia, Brazil and the US. Some 115 million US adults were vaccinated with a high-dose vaccine last winter, the CDC reported – about 70% of the 65+ population in the US.
Most years, around 60% of Israel's elderly population is vaccinated. Leshem said it is expected that there will be higher demand for flu vaccines, and there might be a shortage in the country.
"In previous years, we had a coverage rate that allowed for vaccination for anyone who wanted it," Leshem said. "This year, if the demand is higher than the supply, we won't have enough flu shots for everyone."
He said flu vaccines will be administered on a first-come, first-serve basis and "you really want to get a flu vaccine this year as soon as possible."
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April A to Z round up!
Goodness me! April is over already!
Anya's favourite was honey cake.
It isn't really possible to gauge an answer from Zach but he ate all of them!
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La diocesi di Sitipa () è una sede soppressa e sede titolare della Chiesa cattolica.

Storia
Sitipa è un'antica sede episcopale dell'Africa settentrionale, la cui localizzazione non è conosciuta.

Unico vescovo noto di questa diocesi è Argirio, indicato tra i presuli che aderirono alla formula di fede cattolica approvata al concilio di Cartagine del 411, che vide la partecipazione dei vescovi cattolici e donatisti delle province romane dell'Africa. Il nome è contenuto in una lista aggiuntiva di vescovi che non avevano firmato la dichiarazione, ma solo appoggiata verbalmente, perché malati o arrivati in ritardo all'assise. All'epoca a Sitipa non c'era una controparte donatista.

Dal 1989 Sitipa è annoverata tra le sedi vescovili titolari della Chiesa cattolica; dal 13 dicembre 2002 vescovo titolare è Ignatius Chung Wang, già vescovo ausiliare di San Francisco.

Cronotassi

Vescovi residenti
 Argirio † (menzionato nel 411)

Vescovi titolari
 Tulio Duque Gutiérrez, S.D.S. (7 ottobre 1993 - 18 marzo 1997 nominato vescovo di Apartadó)
 Marie-Daniel Dadiet (22 maggio 1998 - 10 ottobre 2002 nominato vescovo di Katiola)
 Ignatius Chung Wang, dal 13 dicembre 2002

Bibliografia
 Anadré Mandouze, Prosopographie chrétienne du Bas-Empire, 1. Prosopographie de l'Afrique chrétienne (303-533), Paris, Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1982, pp. 93 e 1283
 Joseph Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris, 1912, p. 223

Collegamenti esterni
 La sede titolare nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org
 La sede titolare nel sito di www.gcatholic.org

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Noise complaints slow down Brisbane's KittyCat ferries
By Lucy Stone
Brisbane City Council's fleet of replacement cross-river ferries, nicknamed KittyCats, has generated so many noise complaints the council has been forced to slow them down.
The KittyCats were touted as being 44 per cent faster than the cross-river wooden ferries they replaced late last year, after eight wooden ferries were taken off the river over safety concerns in June.
The new KittyCat fleet (front) operates on cross-river and CityHopper services alongside the CityCats (rear). Credit:Lucy Stone
Speaking in November, public and active transport committee chairman Ryan Murphy said the KittyCats had a top speed of 23 knots, allowing services to be 44 per cent faster than the wooden ferries.
This meant the reinstated cross-river and CityHopper ferry timetables would run at 25-minute intervals, stopping at six ferry terminals, he said, rather than the 36-minute wooden monohull ferry services.
But in the two weeks since the KittyCats began operating on November 15, the council had received 70 complaints about excess ferry noise from the faster, more agile vessels.
"Council acknowledged these concerns were legitimate and began working with the operator to investigate what could be done to reduce the noise and, in the interim, applied a speed reduction to the vessels," Cr Murphy said.
"Since this has been done, complaints drastically dropped with just 16 complaints received between November 30 and December 27, with no complaints received in 2021."
Cr Murphy said of the complaints received, eight were residents who complained multiple times and one resident contacted the council five times.
"Council is continuing to work with the operator to develop a technical solution using fibreglass inline mufflers, which have been used on similar vessels successfully, and hopes to trial this solution in the coming weeks," he said.
Cr Murphy said the council was still developing a business case for the individual repair needs for each of the eight wooden ferries now left waiting at the Rivergate Marina in Murarrie.
The 30-year-old vessels were abruptly pulled from the river in June last year after lord mayor Adrian Schrinner announced a safety review had found serious issues with hull integrity and maintenance on several of the boats.
Cr Schrinner later revealed then-operator Transdev had paid a $4 million bond to the council over the ferries' condition.
The wooden ferries were eventually replaced by the five KittyCat ferries, brought up from Sydney by operator SeaLink, when a new operating contract began in November between SeaLink and the council.
"It is simply too soon to speculate on the timeline of the return of the timber ferries as the extent of repairs will be dependent on the recommendations and outcomes of the business case," Cr Murphy said on Thursday.
"We have always said timber ferries will return, and this commitment stands."
But opposition leader Jared Cassidy said the council had had "months and months and months" to establish what repairs were needed on the wooden ferries.
"Instead, all Adrian Schrinner has done is cut entire ferry services and introduce noisier vessels," Cr Cassidy said.
"Brisbane residents have a right to be frustrated and angry with this LNP lord mayor and his complete mishandling of the ferry situation.
"It's not hard to see that this is all part of Adrian Schrinner's secret plan to scrap the wooden ferries altogether and put public transport into the hands of private companies."
Lucy Stone
Lucy is the urban affairs reporter for the Brisbane Times, with a special interest in Brisbane City Council.


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Q: write .xlsx file in java using poi with chinese characters I am trying to create .xlsx file using apache poi . It is Working fine with arbaric and hindi etc characters . But i in my application we are using chinese characters also. When i am creating .xlsx file using my code only chinese character are not show . I am using this code for creating .xlsx file.
Workbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook();
        Sheet sheet = wb.createSheet("new sheet");
        // Create a row and put some cells in it. Rows are 0 based.
        Row row = sheet.createRow(1);
        // Create a cell and put a value in it.
        Cell cell = row.createCell(1);
        //arbaric char set in cell and show successfully in .xlsx
        cell.setCellValue("سلام");
        Cell cell2 =    row.createCell(2);
        **//chinese char set in cell and not show in .xlsx**
        cell2.setCellValue(" 邓敏 ");
        Cell cell3 = row.createCell(3);
        //hindi char set in cell here and show successfully in .xlsx
        cell3.setCellValue("हिन्दी");
        // Write the output to a file
        FileOutputStream fileOut = new FileOutputStream("workbook5.xlsx");
        wb.write(fileOut);
        fileOut.close();

Can anyone help me how can i write chinese character in .xlsx file using apache poi library . Below i attach .xlsx file output.Thanks in advance

A: There are some known bugs in Apache POI related to so called "surrogate pairs" in Unicode, see https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58247 and https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54084.
Unfortunately it is not easy to fix as it happens deep inside another library. You can try with some other Chinese characters, if some of them work and only some don't, then it is likely the same issue.
There was some work on fixing the third party lib, see https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59268, you can try to replace your XMLBeans-jar with the one from http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.github.pjfanning/xmlbeans and see if that fixes the problem. If you try then please comment on the bug so we know that it works!

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Home » Building Automation: Up To Date With RFP
Building Automation: Up To Date With RFP
BNP Media Staff
If you follow my ramblings in AutomatedBuildings.com andEngineered Systems, you will understand that the concepts and approaches to applying the new open networked building controls with connection to the enterprise are extremely varied. For example, comparing a wireless system to a wired system or a purchased solution that includes a Web services approach can radically change the total design concept, its cost, and the necessary support infrastructure. With all of these dynamics, how do we ensure procurement of the latest and greatest in building automation features that provide our client with the greatest value?
We solved this problem over 20 years ago, when direct digital systems started to replace pneumatic controls. The problem then was that the old ways were hard to change, and to reap the benefit of these new technologies, the traditional design needed to be retrofitted as soon as the system was installed. A new approach was needed to really capture the power of DDC. The control part of a building represented a small fraction of the total cost, and assembly was left to a fragmented group with no concept or concern as to how the building owner may wish to use the system. The solution was to follow the IT industry procurement model and to buy the building controls much the same as an owner would buy his IT enterprise system. When purchasing IT systems, the fact that it all fit together and worked was more important than the lowest cost. Feature, functionality, and fit ruled the procurement process.
To follow this model, the conventional controls contract was removed from the various fragmented building contracts. An RFP document that included the owner's mandatory requirements and the mandatory control points as defined by the building design team, was prepared by the owner/user and her specialized automation consultant. Removing this work from the plan and spec world had many advantages. One of the biggest was the purchase of current capabilities. The design time for a large project from inception to completion is often several years, allowing mammoth changes in automation capabilities and reach as well as the building owner's requirements. Just in time, automation procurement ensured the latest and greatest at the lowest cost.
Keeping It Clear
This approach worked extremely well for our consulting firm in providing fresh systems that were well suited to our clients' requirements. Total automation costs dropped substantially as a result of the clearly stated mandatory requirements that included a detailed list of mandatory connected points. This approach added clarity to this complex equation. Another advantage was that vendors were encouraged to provide innovation as part of their proposals. This allowed us to provide leapfrog-type technological advancements as we harnessed the complete capabilities of all the proposal teams. If a great concept was accepted and proven in one project, it became a mandatory requirement in the next. This provided a constant update of our documents. The time from start to finish of the automation application was amazingly quick as the building was completed and previous unknowns (e.g., manufacturer of chillers, adjustable-speed drives) plus actual client interface and interaction requirements were now known.
The great progress made in open standards in the last few years will allow the task of separating the hard building stuff (chillers, fans, lights, etc.) from the soft stuff (interfaces and integration) easier. A tight spec using one of the major protocols that will become part of an integration RFP will allow equipment to be purchased with controls including well-documented global strategies.
I believe that using the approach of separating the hard stuff in buildings from the soft stuff will lead to ensuring the procurement of the latest and greatest "just in time" technologies. Innovation will flow, and the industry will feed on each new idea and application. Imagine being able to accurately compare a wireless approach with a wired one. Imagine an approach where the complete global integration control of the building is provided by a vendor as a Web service for a monthly charge. The RFP approach allows active solicitation of the innovative approach.
Removing the scope of the final building automation interface from the traditional plan spec approach allows multi-discipline coordination problems to be addressed. The economics of sharing computers, servers, networks, and existing IT infrastructures are clearly seen and well-managed while coordination is inherent and occurs at a new level.
Use the RFP approach to ensure procurement of the latest and greatest at the lowest cost. ES
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COMMENTARY: The Delaware City Refinery and a bad governor
Jan 31st, 2016 · by Alan Muller · Comments:
I've written about the Delaware City Refinery so many times, over so many years, that it's hard to believe more is needed. It's tiresome to think about. It never ends. Yet here we go yet again.
The refinery has operated under a number of owners beginning with Tidewater Oil. It started up in 1956 or 57, before the time of meaningful environmental regulation and took out a national ad in Reader's Digest promising "Country sweet air for our neighbors.
I don't have the details, but old timers have spoken of lots of (chicanery) involving elected officials of the time.
The refinery was designed especially to process high-sulfur "sour" crude from overseas. The sulfur would be gotten rid of by belching it up smokestacks into the air of Delaware and South Jersey, along with many other harmful pollutants to the tune of millions of pounds per year. Within a year, metal roofs of building in the area were dissolving.
Residents began coughing and choking, asthma increased, strokes and heart attacks increased. How many residents have been sickened, or worse, from the refinery emissions? We will probably never know as the Delaware Division of Public Health has never shown interest in finding out. Beyond a doubt, many, many people have suffered and died from refinery pollution over the past 70 years.
Workers died from poison gases, fires, accidents and explosions. Nobody seems to have kept track of the total numbers.
In addition to pollution of the air, massive amounts of all sorts of pollutants were and are dumped into the Delaware River. John Nickle of Delaware City once calculated that the water permit of the refinery, due to defective drafting, would allow the dumping of more "oil and grease" into the river every year than the Exxon Valdez spilled on the coast of Alaska. Green Delaware complained about this for years but the permits weren't fixed.
Millions of fish and larvae were killed every year by the refinery cooling water systems, which look as if they were intentionally designed as fish traps. The combination of impingement (caught on intake screens), entrainment (pumped through the system and cooked), and toxic pollutants has greatly reduced marine populations in the Delaware Estuary and likely caused many illnesses when some of the remaining were unwisely eaten.
Decades of spills and leaks contaminated the groundwater underneath and around the refinery.
Over the decades, citizens called for cleaning up the refinery. Unions supported keeping it dirty. Members of the General Assembly pocketed campaign contributions, played golf with refinery lobbyists, and betrayed the people of Delaware over and over again. For-sale academics at the University of Delaware ginned up one-sided reports on the wonderful economic benefits of the facility. No one tallied up the costs.
From time to time, technical improvements were made, but the refinery also expanded to process more oil. Since restarting, the refinery has started to bring in large amounts of crude by rail, adding a whole new set of "bomb train" hazards.
Consider the scale of things: The refinery has a present throughput capacity on the order of 210,000 thousand barrels (8.9 million gallons) per day. (Numbers from different sources vary.) The price of crude oil fluctuates, but supposing it to be $50/barrel, and the refinery running full blast, then the daily bill for crude oil would be about $10.5 million. Annually, close to $4 billion.
Now, purely hypothetically of course, lets suppose that the refinery allocated an average of $10,000 for an annual lease on each of the 62 members of the Delaware legislature, $5,000 for an annual lease on each of the 13 New Castle Council members, and $100,000 for an annual, renewable lease on the governor, whomever it happened to be. That would add up to a $785,000 annual investment, less than 10 percent of one day's crude oil bill. In fact, without breaching 10 percent of one day's crude oil bill, the refinery would have over $265,000 left over, to invest in the Girl Scouts, "public" broadcasting, civic associations, fireworks for Delaware City, "Newspapers in Education" (industrial propaganda tabloids distributed in the schools), corrupt "environmental organizations," etc.
Feeble as was and is the enforcement of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, etc, the refinery consumed a large proportion of the total enforcement resources of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. (Of course, industrial interests make sure enforcement is kept weak.)
At one time, citizens could come to a "public hearing" on permits for the refinery. They could complain, and ask questions of DNREC and refinery officials. DNREC Hearing Officer Rod Thompson tried to maintain an appearance of propriety. But, when citizens made effective use of these hearings they were eliminated in favor of meaningless dog and pony shows.
A key figure in the elimination of meaningful hearings was Dave Small. Likely, in the eyes of Governor Jack Markell, that was a key reason for making him the head of the DNREC. The confirmation of Small as DNREC secretary was one of the more dishonorable votes in the history of the Delaware Senate.
Small has another special connection to the refinery: For many years, after a gross accident or release, Small, DNREC's chief flack (he has no technical knowledge or interests or qualifications we know of) would be rolled out like an organic tape player to say something like "There was no damage to human health or the environment," a statement that would be obediently regurgitated in Delaware's media.
In this decades-long take of error and dishonor, there are a couple of bright spots.
(1) In the 1960s Shell Oil was planning another refinery in Delaware. Pols were on the payroll, survey monuments were in the ground. By great good fortune Delaware at that moment–not before or since that I know of–Delaware had a governor, Russ Peterson, with both technical grasp and integrity. Peterson was smart enough to see that with the damage done by one refinery, another near by would create truly intolerable conditions.
Peterson spearheaded the enactment of the Delaware Coastal Zone Act, specifically aimed at keeping out another refinery. Delaware had a narrow escape–although Shell would reappear decades later as operator and part owner of the existing refinery. (I've written in detail about Peterson and the Coastal Zone Act:)
(2) On Nov. 20, 2009, the Delaware City Refinery shut down, supposedly never to reopen.
Delaware had a shot at real improvement in health and quality of life.
But it was not to be, due to what I want to call The Malice of Markell.
Markell and his people put together a secret scam to reopen the refinery. Environmental requirements would be relaxed, millions of dollars of state money would be handed to the new owners. The scheme was put together in secret, at least in secrecy from the public. Nobody clued Green Delaware in. Many legislators certainly knew.
Nobody from the DNREC leaked it to us, but it's unlikely that the environmental regulators would have been the first to know. Some DNREC staff saw an operating refinery as employment security.
So the refinery started back up in October, 2011. So did the stinks, the leaks, the releases, the explosions, the injuries, the asthma attacks, the mega-insulting "public hearings." The whole filthy business back again. Yes, a few hundred jobs, relatively good paying if dangerous, also came back. But these jobs are a tiny proportion of the jobs in Delaware. How much are they worth?
One difference: it's 2016, not 1956, We know the hydrocarbons need to be left in the ground lest the planet fry. We know that Delaware is the lowest lying coastal state, the first to be under water as global warming raises the sea level. The extensive coastal flooding a few days ago is just a minor head-up on what is coming.
On Nov. 20, 2015, Gov. Jack Markell issued a statement:
"Today, the Delaware City Refinery is up and running more efficiently, cleanly, and safely than ever, and we should pause and take note of what that says about the spirit and fortitude of our people," said Gov. Markell. "Our work is far from done, but six years after the refinery shuttered, it represents the ability of our people to keep Delaware moving forward."
This statement came weeks after a major fire and flaring episode at the Refinery on Aug 21 and hospitalization of three injured workers on Aug 28th. Subsequent to Markell's statement, the Refinery has self-reported releases of sulfur dioxide, benzene, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen cyanide, and ammonia. (A "release' means more than is released under normal operations and allowed by permit.)
Is that what you meant, Governor, by "more efficiently, cleanly, and safely than ever …" Fires, accidents, injuries, thousands and thousand of pounds of toxic, poisonous, carcinogenic crap belched into the air we all breathe?
It took me a while to realize that Markell's statement was much like Donald Trump's: An artful combination of emotional appeals and counterfactual BS. Trump; "Make our country great again!" Markell: "Keep Delaware moving forward."
The finishing episode for the moment: During the recent blizzard, the Refinery reportedly experienced a power failure, leading to major "flaring" and releases of nasty chemicals.
Let's think about an industrial facility so dangerous, so poorly designed and operated, that it cannot be shut down safely. A facility that can't manage a power failure without major chemical releases. A facility with a 70 year history of causing major problems and failing to find solutions. Does this sound like the sort of facility that should have been (re)imposed on the people of Delaware without their knowledge or consent? That should have been restarted in the protected Coastal Zone.
Why weren't the people of Delaware given a say in whether the Refinery should be restarted? Perhaps because the would have been obvious?
For this alone, the governor and legislature of Delaware have shown themselves unworthy. But, perhaps, well-deserving of impeachment. I class them with the officials responsible for the lead poisoning of the residents of Flint, Michegan. They have evil designs on the Coastal Zone Act itself, likely coming up in the current session. They are a disgrace.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Alan Muller is executive director of Green Delaware a community-based organization working on environment and public health issues.
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These instructions will demonstrate how to create Menu Photo Place Cards for each guest using a photo of the guest of honor. Begin by clicking this link to retrieve a Word template from the How-To section on the YouCanPlanAParty.com website, or make your own by following the simple directions below. Remember to use paper and ink colors that are complimentary to your chosen theme.
You'll need a photo of the guest of honor, or one that is fitting for the occasion, that is approximately 3×5 inches for best results. Using your word processing program, center the photo at the top of the page then drop it down about two to three inches. Centered just below the photo, type in the event name. Under the event name, type in the date. For an added touch, skip a line and then list the menu, centering one item per line. Skip another line and type in a guest's name. Print the card out on glossy card stock for a high-end look. Remember to make one for each guest by name.
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Cell Shocked
When kids do time, nobody wins. With justice for girls as her cause and educating BC Law students as her mission, Professor Francine Sherman '80 becomes a key player in reforming the nation's juvenile detention system.
Photographs By Richard Ross
At thirty-one, a woman whom we'll call Dawn Monteiro works as a hotel manager in a seaside resort town in southern New England. A single mother of two, she has completed one year of college with a 4.0 average, has entertained dreams of becoming a lawyer, and hopes to resume her education soon.
Monteiro is living a productive life, but go back fifteen years or so, and the picture is altogether different. In fact, from ages fourteen to seventeen, she was spending most of her time locked up. Her offense was a minor, even trivial one, but it has landed many girls in secure detention, often in a misdirected attempt to protect them from themselves or their surroundings. Having grown up in her state's child welfare system, Dawn Monteiro had run away, time and again: from foster care, from residential programs, even from secure facilities.
For these infractions, Monteiro was thrown in "with girls who were in for attempted murder, for mayhem, for assault and battery," she says. "It was scary. These girls would flip out and come after you. I was attacked a couple of times. Most girls in lockup are attacked."
Professor Francine Sherman '80
Monteiro, who admits having made poor decisions as a teen and young adult, likely would have spent an extra year in detention if not for the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project (JRAP), a legal clinic at Boston College Law School, which took her on as a client at age fourteen. Over three years and many court hearings, student lawyers from JRAP, along with the clinic's director and founder, Professor Francine Sherman '80, argued that their client was a bright young woman whose potential was stifled in detention. Finally, a judge agreed and released her. (As with some other clients, Sherman has remained in Monteiro's life, helping her find a place to live when she was homeless, advising her on her education, attending medical appointments during a high-risk pregnancy. "She's been with me through all the good and the bad," Monteiro says.)
Getting Monteiro freed from detention was a hard-earned win for the JRAP lawyers and a blessing for their client, but in Sherman's view Monteiro should have never been locked up to start with—and might never have been if her name were Don instead of Dawn. The existence of large disparities in the charging and sentencing of boys and girls is one of many hard facts and critical insights that Sherman has collected during years of practice and added to the national conversation on how to fix the juvenile justice system. Her prescriptions for change, based on nearly three decades of work in the system, have not only influenced legal scholars and social science researchers, they have also helped improve the lives of hundreds of girls.
Sherman's work as a lawyer, researcher, and change advocate puts her at the center of a large and growing movement of groups and individuals working for juvenile justice reform. Groups include big funders, academic centers, government agencies, legal and social service providers, and research and advocacy organizations; they range from the US Department of Justice and big national brand names like the MacArthur and Annie E. Casey foundations to statewide outfits like the Florida Juvenile Justice Association and Massachusetts-based Citizens for Juvenile Justice, which Sherman helped found. A few other players include the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, the Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center, the Justice Policy Institute, the Center on Youth Justice, and the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University. Even police groups are getting involved, with the International Association of Chiefs of Police sponsoring a "leadership institute" this coming September that promises to give law enforcement executives "tools to…engage in effective collaboration on juvenile justice reform in their communities."
When Sherman founded JRAP, in 1996, this big reform movement was still years away. Few academics or activists were devoting much thought to girls in juvenile justice back in the nineties, a fact that helped draw Sherman to the field. "I went to law school with the idea of making a difference," she recalls, "and I thought that the time was right for the issue [of girls in the juvenile justice system]. Girls' numbers in the juvenile justice system were increasing…and not a lot of people were focusing on it. Part of what helps girls develop in a healthy way is good relationships, and I thought a good relationship with a lawyer could be part of that."
Sherman also saw JRAP as a way to channel help to kids who needed a break, having been born into poverty. In the clinic's early days, when she'd just started working with court-involved girls, she and her husband were also raising two daughters. "The difference in the opportunities and life course of these young women was profound," she says. "Here were my girls with every opportunity in the world, and they were no different from the girls I was representing."
While emphasizing girls, JRAP accepts a broad range of cases on behalf of young people of both sexes, not just reducing their time in detention but also helping them access educational and mental health services, and anything else that allows them to get their lives on track: family therapy, a healthcare provider, a part-time job, a mentor. The model owes as much to social work as it does to law.
The existence of large disparities in the charging and sentencing of girls is one of many hard facts and critical insights that Sherman has collected and added to the national conversation on how to fix the juvenile justice system.
Sherman likes to remind the student lawyers at JRAP that for children in the justice and child welfare systems, small successes can make an enormous difference. She recounts the case of one teen, on the brink of dropping out of school, whose life was turned around when his JRAP lawyer had him moved to a specialized classroom for kids with his particular learning disability. Another JRAP lawyer arranged to place a client with his grandmother, and got the court to appoint her as his guardian. "He now calls his lawyer whenever problems come up. That's the real success: the relationship," says Sherman.
By the late 1990s Sherman knew enough about juvenile justice to start sharing her knowledge in articles and book chapters, guidebooks and reports, written and oral testimony to legislative bodies, appearances in media and on panels at professional conferences. Her guidebooks Detention Reform and Girls (2005) and Making Juvenile Justice Work for Girls (2013; coauthored with Richard Mendel and Angela Irvine), were published by the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which has disseminated copies to personnel at some 200 state and county juvenile justice systems as well as to scholars and advocates. "For a while [the 2005 guidebook] was the only research we had on the lives of detained girls as well as opportunities for reform. We carried it around as if it was the Bible," says Malika Saada Saar, executive director of the advocacy group Rights4Kids, who praises the 2013 guidebook as another vital tool for advocates.
Sherman has affected change more directly through her consultancies, mostly under JDAI auspices, with managers of juvenile justice systems around the country. Her work for JDAI starts from the principle that, considering its high cost, its emotional toll, and the non-punitive mission of juvenile justice, detention, especially of girls, should always be a last resort, used only when the presence of a child in the community threatens public safety. For one thing, three quarters or more of court-involved girls are suffering from trauma, the result of life experiences like being trafficked for sex or assaulted by a boyfriend or family member. And trauma, says Sherman, means "you have no power, that someone has reframed reality for you.…A lot of the running away you see, the misbehavior, the violations of rules are efforts to reassert control."
Detention, of course, takes control away from the detainee, and thus it only adds to trauma. What is more, it disrupts girls' relationships—with families, friends, physicians, schools. Girls do not respond well to rules, competition, and hierarchy, building blocks of the traditional detention regime; instead, they tend to thrive on relationships and trust. The alternatives proposed by JDAI, things like supervised release and night reporting programs, allow girls to maintain their relationships while receiving services in the community for themselves and their families. This model is being adopted in systems nationwide, including systems, from New England to the Midwest to California, with which Sherman has consulted.
In 2006, Sherman traveled to Nevada to work with top juvenile justice officials in Washoe County, including Reno and vicinity. Working from the JDAI model, she was "very data driven," says Elizabeth Florez, a division director in the county system. "Instead of letting us give anecdotal responses, she challenged us to look at data." What the data revealed—to the surprise of Florez and colleagues—is that the county was locking up a higher percentage of court-involved girls than the typical juvenile justice system, mainly for minor misdemeanors and small violations of probation conditions where the original charge was a status offense like running away or truancy. The data also showed that girls were often being held not for what they'd done but out of a desire to protect them, with large numbers detained even when the system's own risk assessments showed they could be safely released to the community. And once in detention, many girls languished while awaiting psychological and substance abuse evaluations, typically delaying their discharge by weeks.
Sherman's work in Washoe County led to small changes in policies and practices—small changes that brought dramatic results. For example, system managers rewrote their risk assessment policy to make it harder to override the assessments, and they reorganized clinicians' schedules to shorten, from weeks to a day or two, the waiting time for mental health evaluations. They also ended probation for status offenses, thereby slashing the number of girls detained for minor probation violations. In addition, using data and analysis from Sherman, they successfully lobbied the state legislature to change Nevada's domestic violence law so that girls arrested in domestic disputes were less likely to be held if they could safely return home or to a cooling-off site like a grandparent's house. Before the change, detention had been mandatory.
Between 2006, when Sherman arrived, and 2010, the county's daily census of girls in detention dropped by an astonishing 50 percent. During the same period, the county saw no increase in crimes by girls; indeed, it saw significant reductions in arrests of girls for felonies, gross misdemeanors, and status offenses. Ninety percent of girls in alternative supervision programs "don't recidivate," Florez says, "and almost all of them show up for their court dates."
Sherman started working with Rhode Island's juvenile justice system a few years after her trip to Reno. On her first visit, she and a handful of JRAP student lawyers were taken on a tour of the state's shiny new detention center, says Kevin Aucoin, deputy director of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth, and Families. Sherman "thought the new facility was great," he recalls, "but she asked, 'Where are the girls?'"
She must have found the answer disheartening. While the boys were getting the benefit of the new facility, the girls were being warehoused a five minute walk away, in a dilapidated and ancient building once used as a mental hospital. Most services for the girls—healthcare, education, mental health—were run out of the new building, says Aucoin. "Even to go to the gym," he says, "you had to line [the girls] up, get security, put them in handcuffs, load them into a van" and then undo the process at the other end.
After interviewing staff and detainees, Sherman and her students put together a report that helped persuade Rhode Island to change all that, arguing that, as the JDAI process advanced, the state would be detaining fewer boys, freeing up ample space for girls in the new facility. As a result, and with the blessing of budget-minded legislators, the old building closed, and the girls moved to a unit in the new one.
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At the same time, as she had done in Reno, Sherman worked with Rhode Island officials to analyze their data on detained girls. As in Reno, they concluded "that a number of females were being locked up not because of their offenses or their risk of reoffending but for their safety," says Aucoin. While the number of boys detained in Rhode Island has dropped by more than 40 percent since JDAI first went to work there, the number of girls has dropped by 80 percent, from twenty down to four. Meanwhile, state spending on juvenile detention has dropped by $3 million annually, a 19 percent saving when you adjust for inflation. And all this, says Aucoin, has happened "without increased safety risks for youth in the community."
Massachusetts, like Rhode Island, has worked with JDAI to lower its numbers of youth in detention. In the last five years—a period when the age of adult jurisdiction in the commonwealth was raised by a year, diverting thousands of court-involved kids into the juvenile justice system—the state has nonetheless reduced its census of detained youth by one third, allowing it to close secure facilities, says Peter Forbes, director of the state's Department of Youth Services. Forbes adds that he expects more big reductions in coming years. Five years ago, he says, "every kid in detention [in Massachusetts] was in secure detention, but now we have shelter care and foster care alternatives, and Fran was part of that conversation early on."
Many of his recent conversations with Sherman have to do not with the system but with individual clients, though. "She's really tenacious," Forbes observes. "She has gone to the wall for individual girls, and it's interesting to have a nationally known expert calling you to advocate for an individual girl."
Interesting, certainly, but also telling, because it's Sherman's one-on-one relationships with girls that have made her so unusual and so valuable as a researcher. Having worked in the trenches with detained young people like Dawn Monteiro, Sherman "knows the girls," says Jeannette Pai-Espinosa, president of the National Crittenden Foundation, a family of agencies supporting girls and young women. "They're not just data to her. She sees them as part of the solution, not the problem, and she really understands the context of their lives."
That understanding is responsible in large part for what colleagues see as Sherman's biggest achievement: simply drawing the attention of people with power—not only scholars and advocates, but also prosecutors, judges, police, politicians, and probation and juvenile justice officials—to girls, and girls' distinctive needs.
"To get girls to be a focus has required real effort because they're a small part, around 15 percent, of [system-involved youth] and also because of simple inertia, because lots of juvenile justice systems don't want to change," says Mark Soler, executive director of the Center for Children's Law and Policy, a juvenile justice reform organization. "Because of Fran's work, lots of systems are thinking, 'What kind of programs can we have for girls?'"
During thirty years as a feature writer for magazines and newspapers, David Reich has published profiles of nationally known political figures as well as articles on politics, business, science and technology, the arts, the law, and law enforcement. His novel The Antiracism Trainings was published in 2010, and he's currently working on a memoir about serving as a late friend's executor.
What the Eye Beholds
Richard Ross' haunting images speak volumes about juvenile injustices.
Richard Ross, whose stark photos of incarcerated youth accompany this article, spoke at BC Law School on March 24. Introducing him at the event, Professor Francine Sherman told the audience that Ross' work, which has appeared in Harper's, the Guardian, the New York Times, and Mother Jones, "puts a face on a real problem that otherwise could be pretty abstract for people." Ross, who teaches in the art department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, published Juvenile in Justice, a book of his photos of detained youth, in 2012. His upcoming book, Girls in Justice, is due out in January 2015. Images from both volumes are published with this article. To learn more about Ross' new work, visit his website.
To view Richard Ross' lecture, go to bc.edu/lawmagvideos.


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Re-reading some Beatles literature recently, I was struck by the ossified hyperbole with which the group has come to be described: superlatives like "legendary," "immortal," and "genius" recur over and over, while biographers pronounce that the foursome "changed the course of popular music history" (June Skinner Sawyers, Read the Beatles) and even "put the rest of us in touch with the divine" (Mark Hertsgaard, A Day In the Life). The Beatles are indeed great, and I'm a dedicated listener, but extolling their virtues beyond rational dispute has become both safe and unimaginative – like naming Shakespeare as the greatest writer of all time, or Da Vinci as the greatest artist. And as the era in which the Beatles lived recedes, their reputation as the best-ever rock group becomes an increasingly abstract position, akin to the Spitfire's status as the best fighter plane of World War II or Clark Gable's as the onetime King of Hollywood. For a quick refresher, here are the key elements of the Fabs' fabulousness that should hold up for future decades.
1. Numbers Nowhere does the adage that nothing succeeds like success apply more than to the fame and fortune heaped upon John, Paul, George, and Ringo. The Beatles were simply the most successful show business phenomenon of the Twentieth Century, certainly within their own industry, and by considerable measure in the fields of film, broadcasting, fashion, design, and publishing as well. Other works and performers generated comparable or more revenue – Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, the Peanuts, Star Wars, and Disney franchises – but relative to the initial investment represented by an obscure English rock 'n' roll act, no single source of commercial entertainment enjoyed the payoff earned by the Beatles brand. Though the quartet's popularity was gained inside a Eurocentric, pre-Internet "monoculture" which no longer exists, during the 1960s and for years after, the Beatles dominated the global media market in a manner unlikely to be achieved by anyone again.
2. Influence It's now a commonplace to say that "the Beatles changed the world," despite their manifest failure to secure international peace or cure cancer. In fact the Beatles were credited with developments which now seem either ephemeral (long hair for men, albums over singles), or of at best arguable benefit (drug use, radical politics), and which they in any case were more identified with than directly promoted. In his landmark study Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties, Ian MacDonald suggested the group's deepest legacy was to definitively confirm individualist, technologically-abetted gratification as the prime impetus of modern civilization: "The truth is that…neither Jesus nor Marx is of interest to a society now functioning mostly below the level of the rational mind in an emotional / physical dimension of personal appetite and private insecurity," he concluded. Whatever else they were about, the Beatles were revered by millions and at least liked by billions more, such that their romantic, generally optimistic outlook is today reflected in the instinctive desires of most of the planet's inhabitants.
3. Music Among the many classic songs the Beatles did not create are "What a Wonderful World," "La Vie en Rose," "Take the 'A' Train," "Johnny B. Goode," "Radar Love," "He Stopped Loving Her Today," or "Rolling in the Deep." Nor can they much claim the sophistication of Cole Porter or George Gershwin, the instrumental prowess of Charlie Parker or Jimi Hendrix, nor the indelible vocal timbres of Presley, Sinatra, Aretha Franklin or Marvin Gaye. There is a lot of other good music beside the Beatles'. Yet it is still remarkable that so many memorable pieces were generated by this single ensemble, in formats ranging from jangly rock ("She Loves You," "Nowhere Man") to winsome acoustic ("And I Love Her," "Across the Universe") to avant-garde ("Tomorrow Never Knows," "I Am the Walrus") to anthemic hymn ("All You Need Is Love," "Let It Be") to love ballad ("If I Fell," "Something") to idiosyncratic protest ("Help!," "Come Together") to communal exultation ("A Hard Day's Night," "With a Little Help From My Friends"). That the four members of the Beatles – and only they – wrote, sang and played these is an artistic fluke of historic scale. Even allowing for overrated work and indiscriminate adulation, the Beatles built a formidable catalog of well-crafted, catchy tunes. "You look at Revolver or Rubber Soul," Paul McCartney commented in 2004, "they are decent efforts by any standards. If they're not good, then has anyone ever been any good?" By 2100, when the original Beatles and their contemporary boosters are long gone, it will be this material, together with their epochal celebrity and their fable-like biography, that will be cited as the reasons for their enduring, extraordinary appeal.
Posted on August 25, 2017 by George Case. This entry was posted in Music and tagged Beatles, George Harrison, Ian MacDonald, influence, John Lennon, Mark Hertsgaard, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr. Bookmark the permalink.
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