The Wealth and Poverty theme at Ohio University presents Dr. Katharine Broton on "Poverty in American Higher Education," on Friday, Sept. 21, from 3 to 4 p.m. in Alden 319.
Broton is one of six speakers during "Action on Inequality Week" from Sept. 21-28. Her talk is co-sponsored with the Teacher Education Department.
Dr. Katharine Broton. Photo courtesy of the University of Iowa.
Over the past two decades, the price of college has risen, the purchasing power of need-based financial aid has declined, and most family incomes have stagnated. There is growing evidence that as many as half of the nation's undergraduates are basic needs insecure, meaning they lack consistent access to essential material goods like adequate food and shelter. In this talk, Broton will share her latest research on the scope and depth of food and housing insecurity among U.S. undergraduates, implications for student success, and multi-faceted responses designed to support students who are struggling to make ends meet.
Katharine Broton is an assistant professor of higher education and sociology (courtesy) at the University of Iowa. She is a faculty affiliate of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice and Center for Research of Undergraduate Education. She uses multiple methods to examine the role of poverty and inequality in higher education as well as policies and programs designed to minimize related disparities and promote college success. Her work has appeared in Educational Researcher, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, The New York Times, and Wisconsin Public Television, among others. The National Science Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Lumina Foundation, and others have supported her research. She teaches graduate courses on research methods, finance in higher education, and higher education policy.
"My research interests include sociology of education, social stratification and education policy. I use multiple methods to examine the role of poverty and inequality in higher education as well as policies and programs designed to minimize related disparities and promote college success. My work has appeared in Educational Researcher, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, The New York Times, and Wisconsin Public Television, among others. In 2017, I received the Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award for outstanding article in any AERA-sponsored publication for our work on the relationship between need-based grant aid and undergraduates' work behaviors. The National Science Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Lumina Foundation, and others have supported my research. I teach graduate courses on research methods, finance in higher education, and higher education policy," Broton says on her website.
Any questions, please email Yeong Kim at kimy1@ohio.edu.


Parent Consultant Vivian Spears wants to ensure all kids have a warm coat this winter.
As part of a community outreach, Jackson CRS will be offering free coats to the children and families they serve, and all ADRS staff are invited to donate.
The Coats for Kids campaign will begin Oct. 1 and continue through January. Spears is accepting clean coats, jackets, sweaters, and hoodies in children's and adult sizes. Donated items should have sizes clearly marked and should indicate if the item is intended for a male or female or is unisex.
Spears said that even though the drive does not officially begin until October, she has already asked several families and friends for jacket donations. Spears has also approached local retailers including J.C. Penney for other needed supplies, such as racks and hangers.
If you'd like to donate a coat and need to find a way to get the clothing item to Jackson, contact Vivian Spears at (251) 246-4025 or vivian.spears@rehab.alabama.gov. Parent Consultant Ree Clark also said she will have a small space available in Montgomery for coats in transit to Jackson.
Click here to view the Jackson CRS coat drive flier.


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Jewish World Review May 29, 2012/ 8 Sivan, 5772
Americans aren't in a new burst of patriotism but they are in a new burst of appreciation for the military
JewishWorldReview.com | In his now-forgotten statement proclaiming Memorial Day, the now-forgotten John A. Logan, the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, urged Americans not to forget those who had died in the Civil War. It was only three years since the guns were silenced. The country was stitched together but still torn asunder. Much grief and hurt remained.
So Logan, who in time would become a senator and an unsuccessful Republican candidate for vice president, saluted his fallen comrades as "the reveille of freedom to a race in chains" and described their deaths as "the tattoo of rebellious tyranny in arms." He issued another call to arms, rallying veterans and civilians alike to visit the tombs of the fallen. His remarks began a great American tradition that became a great American holiday:
"Let us, then, at the time appointed, gather around their sacred remains, and garland the passionless mounds above them with choicest flowers of springtime; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledge to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon the Nation's gratitude -- the soldier's and sailor's widow and orphan."
In this statement, itself an artifact from a time long past, there are echoes of perhaps the greatest speech ever delivered on these shores, the Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln, who vowed that the nation would "care for him who shall have born the battle and for his widow and his orphan."
That phrase now is on a metal plaque at the entrance of the Department of Veterans Affairs and is enshrined in the American social compact, one of the few elements of our heritage beyond debate and insulated from partisan pressures.
For those of a certain age, which is to say younger than about 60, this day's early popular name also is all but unknown. But for generations it was known as Decoration Day, and the meaning of that name is clear in Logan's remarks. When he said, "The consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security," he was speaking of decorating soldiers' graves.
Today we garland the graves symbolically as well as literally, for there is a new burst of respect not only for the fallen but also for all those who have risen to the military needs of the country.
Last week's Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll attracted much attention for its finding that support for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were within the poll's margin of error. But I was drawn not to the political horse race but to another finding deep in the poll data -- that 76 percent of Americans say they have "a great deal" or "quite a bit" of confidence about the American military.
That's a very high rate of confidence, especially when you consider that in the same poll only 42 percent said the same thing about the presidency.
Americans aren't in a new burst of patriotism but they are in a new burst of appreciation for the military. You see it everywhere.
I've been to baseball games in Pittsburgh, Washington and Boston in the past few weeks and at each park, returning veterans were introduced and honored. It was perhaps a public-relations decision on the part of the home teams to present them, but it was the individual choices of tens of thousands of people to stand in respect and appreciation for them, to cheer them in thanks and perhaps to feel the telltale moisture of emotion in their eyes as they did so.
No one commanded those tens of thousands to feel that way. They just did.
If you comb through the data from the WSJ/NBC and other polls, you will see that this appreciation has been on a general upswing for more than a third of a century. The level of confidence in the military stood at 58 percent in June 1975. That was a few weeks after the North Vietnamese captured Saigon, ending a sorrowful chapter in American history in a sorrowful way. Today, confidence is 30 percent higher than it was then.
The data have other intriguing findings. In December 1988, just before the collapse of communism, the level of confidence in the military was at only 46 percent. Three years later, after the fall of the Berlin Wall but, almost certainly more relevant, after the first Gulf War, the confidence level was at 78 percent. It reached 85 percent in January 2002, just after the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks and the beginning of the Afghanistan offensive.
The military has had many failures in recent years, some because of poor strategic thinking in Washington, some because of poor behavior in Iraq and Afghanistan. Neither the war in Iraq nor in Afghanistan went even remotely according to plan, though students of the military know that while the first casualty of war is truth -- Sen. Hiram W. Johnson's great insight from 1918 and a sober reminder to all of us in the journalism trade -- the second almost always is the carefully scripted plan for the conflict. In that regard, American military planners of the 21st century are part of a great tradition leading back to Andre Maginot and beyond.
What is different now is public approbation for the combatants themselves. Some of it is shallow, or even phony, for the phrase "thank you for your service" sometimes bears the moral weight of "have a nice day." Some of it is compensation for one of the worst sins of the Vietnam War, the distaste for the veteran who returned from an unpopular cause. Some of it is fashion.
Ordinarily I abhor or ignore fashion; I'm one of the few in my town or yours who needn't change his wardrobe to attend a 1950s party. But let me say that this is a refreshing fashion. My family and likely yours has in its past the sadness of wartime loss. It's our job, this weekend and all others of the year, to spend a moment in reflection and gratitude, and in hope that others will be spared the pain that takes no holiday, even this weekend.
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Celebrating Harry Potter culture on campus
The final Harry Potter film passed through theaters this summer, and fans are still trying to figure out how exactly they are to negotiate their post-Potter lives. Though J.K. Rowling's Deathly Hallows inflicted its wonderful damage back in 2007, for some, the movie could have opened up fresh wounds.
For others, it could have been a release, a stamp of finality that finally relieved them of the film franchise's belatedness and banality. Perhaps for both these reasons — nostalgia, as well as an acute awareness of the lack of nostalgia — LUMOS has come at this time.
The Lawrence University Magical Organization of Students created a mild fervor on campus last week, as at least 475 Lawrentians — roughly a third of the student population — opened their ears to the sorting hat's squeaky little voice — or rather, Will Doreza's stressed one — outside Andrew Commons for an entry into one of Hogwarts' four Houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin.
Harry Potter fans have loved discussing the polarities of these four houses and speculating on which one they themselves would probably belong to. To join LUMOS during this period, a Lawrentian was to give his or her name and e-mail address, and fill out a couple checkboxes, à la Myers-Briggs.
Doreza, a LUMOS founder who helped design the quick personality quiz, had in mind several outstanding characteristics of each house that would determine a sortee's inner Hogswartian. Broadly, a typical Gryffindor is "thrill-seeking, self-giving, and loyal to friends"; a Hufflepuff, "group-oriented and reliable"; a Ravenclaw, "serious about his or her studies and/or practicing" and a Slytherin, "ambitious and concerned about pride and honor."
Currently, Ravenclaw house has gathered the most Lawrentians under its talons, with a one-person plus over Slytherin, followed by Gryffindor, and finally by the "very low amount of Hufflepuffs" — approximately half that of Ravenclaw and Slytherin.
Harry Potter theorists will always argue over what exemplifies each House, but for the purposes of LUMOS, these placements are conducted primarily to "increase interest by competition — people can earn points for their house by planning and attending events, answering trivia questions on the LUMOS Facebook page, and the like."
The group also seeks to collaborate with its slightly older sister LU Quidditch, an intramural sporting group that meets on the quad every Sunday afternoon to partake in "Muggle Quidditch." Though confined within the physical laws of the more mundane world, the sport is what spokesperson Erik Morrison calls a "combination of soccer, dodgeball and hide-and-seek," through which "LUMOS members will be awarded points for attending Quidditch practices and extra points for winning a match."
The organization does not end there, however. If it did, LUMOS would be little more than a cup-ramen version of Pottermore, J.K. Rowling's custom site where users get sorted into Houses and live it up at a virtual Hogwarts.
According to Doreza, it is not enough for LUMOS members to simply attend house meetings and ponder ways to win the House Cup. "We don't want [the organization's] success to be based on house meetings, but on large-scale events. This way, it's not as much of a time commitment for people, and it's just more flexible," he says.
Most importantly, these events are aiming at something beyond the castle walls. Doreza, along with co-founders Sara Brannon and Emily Hamm, originally conceived LUMOS during a choir trip to Björklunden as a simple "Harry Potter club," but they have expanded this conception to include a more general philanthropic mission.
They see themselves as an aspiring student chapter to the Harry Potter Alliance, a worldwide non-profit organization that uses Harry Potter as a springboard with which to "fight the Dark Arts in the real world." Their principal issues are literacy, equality and human rights. Oppressed house elves may not actually exist, but oppressed human beings do. To call someone a "Mudblood" may be foul play, but people call each other worse names based on race, gender or sexual orientation. To Doreza, LUMOS events can be a very palatable way to address such issues.
The Lawrence University Yule Ball is vaunted as the big winter term event. A glamorous formal gala with catered services, it will cost a mere meal swipe, with additional proceeds donated to such organizations as the Harry Potter Alliance.
LUMOS also aims to send out its sparks into the community, envisioning a "Harry Potter Day" to not only indulge local school children in their own Hogwartian fantasies — like choosing their own wand or getting sorted — but also, and more importantly, to encourage book-reading.
And, of course, no Harry Potter fandom of any kind is complete without a movie marathon, during which hardy souls will compete with each other to see who can sit through the film sequence the longest and accumulate money for their respective chosen charities. More tentative events are being brewed in addition to these, and each house will take turns planning and organizing smaller events.
People interested in getting sorted/joining LUMOS can email lumos@lawrence.edu or consult its Facebook page for more information.
People interested in playing Muggle Quidditch are welcome to join the scrimmage on Sundays at 1 p.m. Practices are usually held at the quad, or in the case of inclement weather, at the Recreation Center.
People who have gotten sorted and are interested in becoming prefects can contact the head of his or her respective house: Gryffindor — Brooke Blowedorn, Hufflepuff — Provie Duggan, Ravenclaw — Heather Gandre, Slytherin — Abi Leveille.
Andrew Kim The final Harry Potter film passed through theaters this summer, and fans are still trying to figure out how exactly they are to negotiate their post-Potter lives. Though J.K. Rowling's Deathly Hallows inflicted its wonderful damage back in 2007, for some, the movie could have opened up fresh wounds. For others, it could…


Typified by the saccharine songs of AKB48, the Japanese idol world is largely the province of the young. One rarely expects to see a singer over the age of 25 among the mini-skirt-clad ranks of the ultra-kawaii groups.
A group from Osaka—called Obachaaan—are ready to change that up.
For this to make sense, there are a few things you have to know about the public perception of Osaka obachan. The stereotype is that they are loud, aggressive, funny, very friendly, love animal-print clothes, and always, always, always have candy to give out, even to complete strangers on the train. With total self-awareness, the group trades on these images in performances and songs with the goal of making people laugh. In this way, they're almost more a giant manzai group than idols.
In their first music video (available for your viewing pleasure below), the "Seven Goddesses," the central members of the group deliver a surprisingly competent rap, with a brief verse in the more traditional enka style. Lyrical topics range from Osaka obachan fashion and hair styling to searching for bargain prices to whether or not there's anything cute about Osaka obachan (the conclusion is yes, but that they talk too much).
The group is actually the brainchild of four "creators" in the Osaka advertising industry. The idea came from an entry for a contest looking for commercials to increase Osaka's appeal.
Whether or not they'll be able to topple any of the reigning idol queens remains to be seen, but they've grown quite busy since their inception in 2011. Some of the members have even had to cut back their hours at their part-time jobs to attend performances!
Here's hoping we'll get to see Obachaaan storming into Akihabara soon! We might need some enlivening with this humidity.
▼In addition to singing and dancing, the group offers "counseling services and advice" at events, happy to share their collective wisdom.
▼And here's the commercial that started it all.
Even today, they're out enlivening Osaka!


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COLLISION AT LEWES
INVOLVING BRIGHTON DRIVER BOB KETTLE
Extracted and adapted from the report by the Health and Safety Executive
At about 19.15 on 18 October 1999, at Lewes in East Sussex, the 17.52 passenger train from Victoria to Hastings collided with a
train of empty coaches at a combined speed of about 30 mph. There were four members of staff and about twelve passengers on
the trains. No-one was hurt, although one person was treated for shock at the scene.
The collision took place at a crossover near the junction where the lines from Haywards Heath and Brighton to Lewes meet.
There is no record of any previous train accident in this area.
Both trains were electric multiple-units. The passenger train consisted of twelve carriages, and the empty train of eight
carriages, of class 421 'Mark 1' slam-door rolling stock.
H.S.E. investigations have concluded that the collision and subsequent derailment of the passenger train was caused by the
driver of the passenger train starting his train away from Lewes station and passing a signal at danger. This was a result of
human error. Both the signalling and braking systems have been tested and no evidence of any malfunction has been found. The
signal involved had not previously been passed at danger.
Both trains sustained some damage in the collision. The crashworthiness of the trains has been reviewed by the Health & Safety
Laboratory.
Consideration has been given to the prosecution of individuals and companies involved in the accident. However, it is the view
of the Inspectorate that there is insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of a conviction.
The Train Protection and Warning System (T.P.W.S.) is due to be fitted across the network and to all trains by the end of 2003.
TPWS consists of equipment on the track and the trains which will apply the brakes automatically: if a train is travelling above
a predetermined speed on the approach to a red signal; if a train passes a red signal; and at some other key locations where
passing a signal results in a high risk of collision. The signal involved in this accident is one that is due to be fitted with TPWS
and the accident would have been prevented if it had been.
H.S.E. is satisfied with the recommendations made by the railway industry's Formal Inquiry into the accident, and by action
taken by Connex Rail to address some staff management issues. Implementation of these actions will be monitored by HSE. Accordingly, we have no additional recommendations to make.
Work to reduce the number of trains passing signals at danger (SPADs) is continuing, following the report produced by HSE in
September 1999 on the railway industry's management of SPADs. This work is the subject of separate reports which are being
made available to the public.
The incident
At approximately 19.15 on Monday 18 October 1999, a short distance east of Lewes station in East Sussex, a collision took
place between the 17.52 passenger train from Victoria to Hastings (train 1F34) (referred to as the passenger train in the rest of
this report) and a train of empty coaches which should have formed the 17.16 Victoria to Eastbourne and Seaford train (5F30)
(hereafter referred to as the empty train).
Both trains were operated by Connex South Central. Each train had a driver and a guard, and there were about twelve
passengers on the Hastings train. There were no injuries in the collision, although one person was treated for shock at the scene.
The signalman at Lewes, whose box is directly opposite the site of the collision, called the emergency services who arrived
within ten minutes.
Evacuation of people from the passenger train took place immediately via the two rear carriages which were still in the
platform. Two other trains were trapped in open country at signals outside Lewes station. Passengers on one of them were
detrained by the driver and walked to the station, and those on the other train were walked to a nearby level crossing and
collected by a bus. These operations were completed by 22.00.
The Sussex Police declared the accident site a "scene of crime", allowing them to restrict access to it pending an investigation.
After evacuation was completed, the scene was taken over by the British Transport Police (BTP). Initial investigations were
conducted by the BTP and HSE, following which the area was handed back to the railway authorities at 02.45 on Tuesday 19
October. Recovery operations began immediately and following repairs to the track and conductor rails and testing of the
signalling, normal working was resumed at 14.10 on the same day.
The weather at the time of the accident was dry and clear.
Both the trains were electric multiple-units, formed of 4-car class 421 (4- CIG) units of "mark 1" rolling stock. The passenger
train consisted of twelve carriages (units 1850, 1805 and 1739), and the empty train 8 carriages (units 1845 and 1738). These
trains were built between 1964 and 1972 at British Rail's York works. They have slam doors and are not fitted with central door
locking. All the units were fitted with the BR Automatic Warning System (AWS) and the Driver's Reminder Appliance (DRA).
AWS is a device which alerts drivers to the indications shown by signals, and which will apply the train brakes automatically if
the driver does not respond to it on the approach to a signal at "caution" or "danger".
The DRA consists of a button and warning light on the driver's console which the driver should use to isolate the traction power
when the train is stopped at a red signal.
Following the accident, all the carriages of both trains were removed to the Connex depot at Brighton, where full testing of their
AWS, DRA, and braking systems was carried out. No faults were found.
The site and signalling
Lewes station, which is roughly triangular in shape, stands immediately west of the junction where the double track lines from
Haywards Heath and Brighton converge. East of Lewes a double track runs towards Newhaven, Seaford, Eastbourne and
Hastings. Trains travelling from and to Haywards Heath and London use platforms 1 and 2, while platforms 3, 4 and 5 serve the
line to Brighton. A crossover east of the junction enables trains from both directions to reverse.
The lines from London, via Haywards Heath, curve sharply to the left on a radius of 200 yards as they pass through platform 1.
The track is then straight from the junction, opposite the signal box, for some 22 yards before curving to the right at a radius of
460 yards. The crossover where the collision occurred is 110 yards east of the junction.
Signalling in the area is controlled from Lewes signal box, located on the south side of the line a short distance from the point of
collision. It is an old building, but contains an entrance-exit panel controlling two and three aspect main colour light signals and
position light shunting signals, which dates from 1976. Track Circuit Block regulations apply throughout the area. Extensive
testing after the accident failed to reveal any faults in the signalling installation and HSE is satisfied that it was in good working
The signal involved in the accident, LW3, is a three aspect colour light mounted on a short post at the top of the ramp at the east
end of platform 1. It comes into view as a train rounds the curve through the platform (where speed is restricted to 20 mph) at a
distance of about 80 yards. It has not previously been passed at danger. The overlap beyond the signal, intended to provide a
safety margin in cases where a train driver misjudges braking, is 110 yards, which is better than the standard for the line speed.
This overlap extends over the junction between the Brighton and Haywards Heath lines. Accordingly, signal LW1 (the
preceding signal to LW3 for trains approaching from Haywards Heath) cannot be cleared to allow a train to enter the station
unless the junction itself is clear.
All running lines in the area are electrified at 750 volts DC on the conductor rail system. The supply is controlled from
Railtrack's electrical control room at Brighton.
The course of events
Earlier in the day there had been severe disruption to train services caused by an incident when a car drove onto the line at a
level crossing near Arundel, and caught fire. Consequently, trains were being turned short of their destinations in an attempt to
restore the booked service. The 17.16 had run empty from Victoria to Lewes because no guard was available. While it was en
route a decision was taken to reverse it at Lewes and send it empty to the depot at Brighton.
The passenger train had started from Gatwick Airport instead of Victoria because of this disruption, and was running about
fifteen minutes late as it approached Lewes. Signal LW1 was at caution (yellow) on the approach to the station and as the train
entered platform 1 the driver noted that the signal at the end of the platform, LW3, was at danger (red). He received and
acknowledged a correct AWS indication for this signal. The train stopped with the front of the cab at the '12 car' stop marker,
which is fixed to the signal post at the top of the ramp at the end of the platform.
The empty train had passed through Lewes about five minutes before. It ran slowly through platform 1 and, as it passed through,
the platform staff confirmed with the driver that the train was to be reversed at Lewes. After passing through the station, the
train came to a stop at a position clear of the crossover points, no. 77. The driver changed ends by walking through the train
then, driving from the west end cab, began the journey back through the crossover onto the up line. For this manoeuvre, which
is regularly done at Lewes during disruptions to the service and engineering works, position light signal 58 was cleared by the
signalman, who routed the empty train through platform 4 towards Brighton.
The passenger train stopped at platform 1 and about 30 passengers left the train. Since the train had started from Gatwick
Airport rather than Victoria, it had many fewer passengers than usual, and only about a dozen people were still on board when it
left Lewes. The train started, passing signal LW3 at red, and accelerated until it reached about 20 mph.
The signalman on duty in Lewes signal box, which is located almost opposite the junction between the Haywards Heath and
Brighton lines, was alerted by the sound of the passenger train moving off. Realising that a collision was imminent, he
immediately transmitted a "General Stop" message on the Cab Secure Radio (CSR) system. Evidence from the data logging
equipment which is part of the CSR indicates that this message was transmitted only seven seconds after the train occupied
track circuit AH, thus fouling the junction. This very rapid response is much to the signalman's credit.
The driver of the passenger train, travelling on the down line, saw the empty train approaching from the opposite direction but
because of the curvature of the line he thought it was on the up line. It was only when his train got very close to it that he
realised that the empty train was coming through the crossover. At the same time he received the "General Stop" message on the
radio display in his cab, together with an audible warning, and immediately applied the emergency brake. However, his train
was still travelling at about 15 mph when it collided sidelong with the rear of the first carriage of the empty train, which was
probably moving at about 15mph in the opposite direction. Neither train was fitted with a data recorder.
The leading bogie of the first carriage of the passenger train was derailed to the left and the right front corner of this carriage
was badly damaged.
The empty train was not derailed. However, the first carriage suffered superficial damage to its rear end, while the second
carriage was more severely damaged. The damage to the carriages and the crashworthiness of them is discussed in more detail
The passenger train left Lewes, passing signal LW3 at danger. This was admitted by the driver when he went to the signal box
immediately after the accident. Evidence from the guard of the train and the station staff indicates that errors by the driver, the
guard and one of the dispatchers on the platform combined to cause the accident.
The procedure for despatching down trains from platform 1 at Lewes involves two platform staff (for a twelve car train), the
train's guard, and the driver. Platform staff should give a hand signal to the train guard when station duties are complete, that all
doors are closed and that the part of the train that they can see is safe to start. Where practicable, they are required to check that
the platform starting signal is clear before giving this hand signal.
When the guard has received a hand signal from all the staff on the platform, has checked that the platform starting signal is
clear, and that all the parts of the train that he can see are safe, the guard should give the "ready to start" (two rings on the bell)
signal to the driver. On receiving this signal, the driver should first check that the platform starting signal is clear, and only then
start the train, looking out as he does so to ensure that all is well with his train.
At Lewes (platform 1), the guard cannot see the platform starting signal from his position towards the centre of the train. To
assist with despatch, an indicator is provided 125 yards back from the signal (about half way along the platform). The indicator
consists of a double-sided sign which is blank when the signal is at danger and shows "OFF" when the signal shows a proceed
(yellow or green) aspect. This indicator is about 11⁄2 carriage lengths (30 yards) ahead of the guard's position in a twelve car
train if the train is drawn right up to the platform starting signal.
During 1999, Lewes station was being extensively refurbished as part of Railtrack's Station Regeneration Programme. Amongst
other things, this work involved demolition of a redundant building on platform 1 and subsequent rebuilding of the platform
canopy. In the course of planning this work, the possibility of interference with the sighting of signals was identified. A signal
sighting committee was convened in April 1999 and recommended that a surround be fitted to the "OFF" indicator for signal
LW3 to make it stand out more in daylight. This was done. At the time of the accident, the old canopy and building had been
demolished and there was temporary fencing and lighting on the platform. HSE is satisfied that this did not interfere with the
sighting of signal LW3 or the "OFF" indicator.
There were two platform staff on duty at the time of arrival of the passenger train. One went to the back of the train to a position
where he could not see the platform starting signal or the "OFF" indicator. Once station duties were complete, he held a white
light above his head and kept it there until the train moved off, in accordance with the Rules. The dispatcher who was at the
front of the train went right down to the platform starting signal by the train cab. Once the passengers had alighted, he began
walking back along the train closing doors and blowing his whistle. He claims then to have been distracted by passengers asking
for information about the disrupted train services, and says he did not give a signal to the guard, although he admits that he
would not have blown his whistle if he had realised the starting signal was at danger.
The guard of the passenger train was travelling in the brake compartment in the sixth carriage. He evidently did not notice that
the "OFF" indicator was blank. He saw the white light from the rear, and claims to have received a hand signal from the
dispatcher at the front. He gave the driver two rings on the bell, and the train started. After the collision he contacted the signal
box and checked that the trains were protected, before escorting the passengers off his train. He has been a guard since 1978,
working through Lewes for the whole of this time.
The driver of the passenger train saw signal LW3 at danger as the train ran in to the platform. He pulled the train right up to the
"12 car stop" marker. In this position he was unable to see the signal itself without leaning to his left, because the left hand
corner pillar of the train cab obstructed his view. The train was fitted with the Driver's Reminder Appliance (DRA), which is a
device which, when activated by the driver pressing a red button in front of him, prevents power being applied to start the train
until the button is reset. The button is illuminated while the DRA is active. Drivers are supposed to use the DRA as a reminder
that their train is standing at a red signal. On this occasion, the driver did not use the DRA. Instead, he put the master switch
into the neutral position, which was what he had been taught to do at a red signal in the days before the DRA was introduced.
On receiving two rings on the bell from the guard, he allowed himself to fall into the habitual routine of putting the master
switch into forward, putting the controller into notch 1, and looking out and back along his train to check on its safe departure.
By the time he looked forward again his cab had passed the signal. The collision occurred a few seconds later.
The driver is 40 years old and has been qualified as a train driver for three years, and has been employed on the railway for six
years. He had not previously been involved in a Signal Passed at Danger (SPAD) incident.
The pattern of train services through Lewes is such that trains using platform 1 hardly ever encounter signal LW3 at danger. It is
clear that the possibility of this did not occur to the guard or the dispatcher, even though the dispatcher had dealt with the empty
train only a few minutes before and should have realised, had he thought about it, that it was most unlikely to have shunted out
of the way in that time.
Damage and Crash worthiness
After the accident, a team from the Health & Safety Laboratory (HSL) examined both trains. The most significant damage
occurred to the second vehicle of the empty train, where the underframe of the leading vehicle of the passenger train overrode
and made a significant penetrating gash in the body side as well as causing crush damage to the end of the vehicle, displacing a
partition and one set of seats. There was also one broken window. If passengers had been seated in this vehicle, or standing in
the leading end vestibule, then serious injuries or worse may have occurred.
However, little detachment of internal fittings occurred.
In the passenger train, only the leading cab was damaged. Seated and standing passengers would have been subjected to
significant deceleration at impact and may have struck internal fixtures and fittings, but they would not have been at risk from
structural deformation. The results of this study will be further used to inform HSE's continuing research into the
crash worthiness of rolling stock.
The electrical wiring and switchgear in the leading cab of the passenger train was damaged in the collision. This caused the
circuit breaker for the emergency lighting to trip, so that the train had to be evacuated in darkness. The emergency lighting is
battery operated and designed to provide lighting for at least one hour after the loss of the traction supply. Systems in more
modern trains have been designed to be more robust and resistant to collision damage.
HSE's investigation has concluded that the accident occurred because the driver of the passenger train passed a signal which
was at danger. In doing this he was influenced by a "ready to start" signal which was given by the guard, who in turn was misled
by a dispatcher on the platform.
Each of these individuals contributed to the causes of the accident by failing to carry out his duties properly. Following a
number of similar incidents, the railway operating Rules were changed some years ago to make platform staff and guards
responsible for checking that signals are clear before indicating that the train may proceed.
The management of the staff involved has been considered as part of the investigation. Neither the driver nor the guard had
previously been involved in any SPAD incidents, and HSE is satisfied with the arrangements in place for the regular monitoring
and assessment of their performance. In particular, the failure to use the DRA has been made a mandatory disciplinary matter by
Connex and Driver Standards Managers have for some time been actively enforcing this.
The platform dispatch staff at Lewes carry out duties which are regarded as being "safety critical". Responsibility for
monitoring their performance, and for reviewing the adequacy of the platform despatch arrangements, rests with the local
Connex management. During the Railway Industry's investigation, it became apparent that some aspects of these
responsibilities were not clear, and that the platform despatch arrangements at Lewes had not been reviewed for some years.
There was also evidence of deficiencies in the monitoring of staff performance. Following this investigation, two members of
the local management team resigned their posts.
Connex are reviewing the dispatch plans for all the stations in the South Central area, and have revised their Safety Manual to
clarify the respective roles of operations inspectors, who assess the competence of platform staff, and station managers who
have line management responsibility for these staff.
The accident is one which would have been prevented by the Train Protection and Warning System (TPWS). If signal LW3 had
been equipped with TPWS, the brakes of the passenger train would have been applied immediately after passing the signal, and
the train would have been stopped before passing beyond the safety overlap provided, which in this case is 110 yards. The
fitting of TPWS at signals protecting junctions, such as LW3, was made compulsory by the Railway Safety Regulations 1999,
introduced in August 1999. Following the disaster at Ladbroke Grove on 5 October 1999, Railtrack is committed to introducing
TPWS at 12,000 sites on the national network by the end of 2002, beginning with the highest risk locations. All trains will be
fitted with the necessary equipment by the end of 2003.
The possibility of legal proceedings against the individuals and companies involved has been considered as part of HSE's
investigation. There is insufficient evidence to provide a realistic possibility of a conviction of any individual, although the
driver, guard and dispatcher have been being given formal warnings by HSE as to their future conduct, in addition to
disciplinary action taken by their employer. There is no evidence of any significant corporate failings that may have contributed
to the accident.
HSE has reviewed the railway industry's Formal Inquiry into the accident. We are satisfied that this investigation identified the
immediate and underlying root causes. Recommendations made by the Formal Inquiry include:
The "12 car stop" marker on platform 1 at Lewes to be moved back 7m, to ensure that the signal is visible to drivers
when stopped.
This should be accompanied by extension of platform 1 at its north end to fully accommodate 12 car trains.
A review of the present practice of positioning car stop markers on or near the posts supporting platform starting
signals.
A review of the Rule Book requirements to ensure that there is no ambiguity in situations where there is more than
one member of staff on the platform in defining which person has ultimate responsiblity to give the "station duties
complete" signal to the train crew.
Rebriefing to all drivers nationally of the importance of using the Driver's Reminder Appliance when stopped at a
platform starting signal at Red.
HSE will monitor the implementation of these recommendations. Together with the action already taken by Connex to improve
standards of train dispatch and the management arrangements for station staff, they fully address the issues arising from the
accident. Accordingly, we have no further recommendations to make.
A reduction in the number of instances of signals passed at danger (SPADs) continues to be a high priority for HSE. Work is
continuing with all sides of the railway industry to improve our understanding of why these events occur and to devise ways of
preventing them. Details of SPADs nationally and the action being taken are being published monthly.


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    --location="global" \
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    --location="global" \
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    --account-id=$aws_account_id \
    --location="global"

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gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding $service_account_email \
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Let's Play Ball gives players with disabilities the chance to play baseball. The field has the look and feel of a professional stadium with bleachers that are covered for sun protection. During each game, everyone is given an opportunity to hit and score a run. Team members' coaches assist players in hitting, running and catching the ball. Restricted balls are used to keep everyone safe. Spring games are coming soon!


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Lost in Translation: Movie Titles in Other Languages
Culture Curation
Have you ever wondered how they come up with movie titles in other languages? Surprisingly, movie titles are not that easy to translate into different languages and they can get lost in translation. Often the titles need more than just simple translation or transliteration; they need localization and even in some cases, transcreation.
This reminds me of my own "lost in translation" experience. As a student in Paris, I had attempted several times to watch French movies, but seemed to have difficulty staying awake during them. French-speaking friends laughed at me when they heard that I had fallen asleep in the Sophie Marceau French comedy, Un Bonheur N'arrive Jamais Seul (Happiness Never Comes Alone). As eager as I was to get exposed to the French language, my brain desperately needed to be refreshed by watching something that I could actually comprehend and enjoy, an English movie. One day, I encountered this huge poster of the Hollywood film, The Perks of being a Wall-flower, starring Emma Watson. It was hanging in the front of UGC Montparnasse cinema and I asked my French friends to go see it with me. However, none of them had any idea of the film I was talking about. I attempted to translate the title in French literally as the benefits of being an unpopular person. Only after I started describing the poster with the Harry Potter character Hermione from Hogwarts in it, did one of them shout, Le Monde de Charlie! (The World of Charlie). And of course, I calmly replied, Non, ce n'est pas la.
It was surprising when I later found out that The Perks of being a Wall-flower and Le Monde de Charlie were exactly the same movies. Words like "perks" or "wallflower" must have been difficult to translate in order to give off the identical meaning in French, not to mention that transliteration is almost a taboo in the French market unless the title itself is a signature of a film, like Hobbit or Spiderman. But it went further. Not only did the movie use an unfamiliar title, but it was also dubbed in French. When it comes to animated movies such as Wreck it Ralph, released as Le monde de Ralph (The World of Ralph) with the flawless French dubbing, one would think that they were made originally in France. Everything considered, complete localization works perfectly in the French market since French consumers prefer their language and culture over those of their counterparts.
Of course, different strategies should be implemented in different target markets. For instance, the Korean market would never release a Hollywood movie dubbed in Korean and most of the time, go with transliteration of an original title. This is done partially because the dominating segment of Korean movie-goers are in their 20s to 30s, and are believed to be English speakers with a passion for improving their foreign language skills.
Recently my lost in translation experience was shared with international fans of the Hollywood film American Hustle when it was nominated in the major OSCAR categories. Overseas viewers may not have recognized immediately the film's English title because of the variations of its name across the globe. It was translated as "American Dream" in Israel, "American Bluff" in France, "American Scandal" in Argentina, "American Sting" in Portugal, "Trickster" in Turkey, etc. The essence of the word "Hustle" was difficult to convey in other languages so other words were used to be more eye-catching or appropriate in different markets.
According to Arie Barak, whose public relations company represents the studios of Fox, Disney and Sony in Israel, the current trend in the film industry is to keep the original title or a literal translation, but Hollywood Studios are more than happy to adapt it if there's a better name to attract more viewers ( Hollywood movie titles lost in translation). And they would go further and localize their products fully for certain markets, by leveraging voice-over in a local language instead of subtitles, which in turn, helps gain more viewers. The perks of localization, however, are not just limited to the film industry. Localization is considered "a must" before releasing a product in overseas markets across all industries, as it's closely linked to increased overseas profit.
A hit product in one market may go bust in another if it is not ideally adapted based on differences in cultural characteristics and consumer propensity. In addition, regardless of how amazing a product itself is, if its launch is wrong, it takes longer to build up a customer base. Localization is a key element to a successful marketing plan. At the end of the day, all of its perks will show in the bottom line.
Further GPI Resources on Culture Curation Topics
Pizza Toppings Around the World
The Evolution of eLearning and Localization
The Key to eLearning Localization Success: Customer Acceptance
Written By: Shigeru Tsutsumi
Shigeru Tsutsumi
Director: Global Business Development (APAC)
Shigeru Tsutsumi is a native Japanese speaker with 20+ year's extensive experience in the translation & localization industry. He has held a variety of language, technology and management positions including managing director Japan, business development manager, translator, software localization specialist, QA lead, and senior localization project manager with firms including Cisco, Intel, Linguistic Systems, The Big Word and Welocalize. SEPARATOR He is a Washington State University alumni and graduated with a degree in Business Administration. He has spent many years in the Pacific Northwest (USA) and has traveled and worked throughout Europe and Japan. He has a comprehensive awareness, understanding and respect for global business practices between US and Japan, as well as many other countries. SEPARATOR He enjoys spending time with his family both in the USA and Japan as well as reading, cooking, traveling, running, working out, snow skiing and playing rugby.
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Japan, Korea events mark Feb. 8 declaration
A Tokyo Korean School choir performs a commemorative song during a centennial ceremony for the February 8 Independence Declaration at the Tokyo Korean YMCA in the Japanese capital on Friday. [YONHAP]
Korean residents in Japan held a ceremony in Tokyo on Friday to mark the centennial of the February 8 Independence Declaration, organizers said.
The ceremony was held at the Tokyo Korean YMCA building in the city's Chiyoda ward in the morning under the sponsorship of the Korean YMCA in Japan and the South Korean commemoration committee for the Feb. 8 declaration's centennial anniversary, they said.
The ceremony included the performance of a commemorative song for the Feb. 8 declaration, commemorative addresses and three cheers for Korea.
Historians say the February 8 Independence Declaration was a significant part of Korea's fight a century ago to gain independence from Japan's colonial rule.
On Feb. 8, 1919, some 600 Korean students issued a declaration of Korean independence from colonial Japan at a rally held in the heart of Tokyo.
They also adopted a series of resolutions demanding independence for their country.
The Tokyo rally is credited with paving the way for the March 1 Independence Movement across Korea and the establishment of Korea's provisional government in Shanghai.
The centennial ceremony was attended by a number of officials and former independence fighters from Seoul, including Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs Pi Woo-jin; Han Wan-sang, co-chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Centennial Anniversary of the March 1st Independence Movement and the Korea Provisional Government; Lee Jong-geol, head of the commemoration committee for the Feb. 8 declaration's centennial anniversary; and South Korean Ambassador to Japan Lee Su-hoon.
Pi gave an address to reflect on the historical meaning of the Tokyo independence declaration.
"South Korea and Japan should correctly remember their shared history and cooperate to heal the pain of the victims in order to move towards a future-oriented relationship," Pi said.
Lee Jong-geol, a lawmaker from the ruling Democratic Party, also called for closer relations between Seoul and Tokyo in his address, while Ambassador Lee proposed the two countries continue to strive for a future-oriented relationship and pool their wisdom to resolve pending issues and mutual conflicts.
On Thursday evening, Korean residents and students in Japan held a ceremony in Tokyo to celebrate the eve of the centennial of the historic independence movement.
In Seoul, the South Korean commemoration committee for the Feb. 8 declaration's centennial anniversary and organizations of former independence fighters held a separate ceremony and a special lecture at the Seoul YMCA building on the day to remember the historic event.
Vice Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs Lee Byeong-goo gave an address at the ceremony, saying the Feb. 8 declaration in Tokyo was an immense encouragement to those in Korea who had been seeking means to launch a nationwide independence movement.
Following the ceremony, Lee Deok-joo, a senior member of the Seoul YMCA, gave a special lecture on the past, present and future of the spirit of the Feb. 8 declaration.
Meanwhile, President Moon Jae-in issued a special social media message on the occasion of the Feb. 8 declaration's centennial anniversary, saying the declaration of independence by Korean students in Tokyo had a direct impact on the March 1, 1919, independence movement throughout Korea.
"Young Korean students condemned the Japanese militarism and clamored for their country's independence for the sake of peace in the world as well as in Asia. Today, the centennial ceremonies are held in Tokyo and Seoul at the same time," Moon said, adding that he will remember all the young Korean independence fighters.


It took me a while but here's a new toy. Today I publish my own PHP fork based on the PHP 5.3.6 code base with a few changes that make the everydays developer life more bearable. It includes some of the patches I've already published about 3 years ago, my defcon extension and also my infusion extension plus a good bunch of extra gimmickries.
In the MySQL-landscape, you can see that the server is forked again and again which result in a seperate project every time; such as Drizzle, MariaDB, OurDelta or the Percona server. I don't want to maintain my own PHP version, but it's fun to improve PHP's behaviour under the view of faster development and also faster execution.
strlen() is both, often used and very slow at the same time. In various PHP performance instructions, you can read that isset() is much faster to determine if a string has at least a certain size. If you want to check the exact length, you end up with something like this: strlen($str) == 32 -> isset($str) && !isset($str). This is very ugly and hard to read. I added a new opcode for count() and strlen(), which results in up to 10 times faster function execution. A strlen() with a constant string like strlen("foo") is optimized away to a constant "3" at compile time; which is cool because this way more verbose code is not a problem anymore.
The constants true, false and null are used also very often. Unfortunately, every usage of either of these constants invokes a constant lookup. There is no problem with this, constant lookups are fast, but I nevertheless implemented these constants directly in the parser to avoid these lookups.
PHP makes use of the smart string library - an internal dynamic growing string library. I optimized the smart_str_append_long() function to add integer numbers much faster. I've also added a new function smart_str_append_const() to concatenate a smart string buffer with a constant string.
For every time() call in PHP, there is also a time(NULL) call to the kernel - and a few more for internal handlers. I thought, that this is optimized away by using the SAPI layer. But the SAPI method to use a cached time(0) is implemented very spartan. So I removed all time(NULL) and time(0) calls with the internal SAPI handler and also implemented a SAPI hook for CGI/FCGI. You may know, that there is no chance of getting the time via CGI/FCGI. But I patched also lighttpd and nginx to send the time as RAW_TIME. There is a risk that this optimization breaks your script because you get an old cached time value if the script runs more than one second - for example inside of a daemon written in PHP. Thus, I've added a new ini variable called use_sapi_time to turn this optional optimization on.
strtr() creates an internal lookup table to speed-up the character replacement. Unfortunately, gcc can not optimize this table generation away. So I hardcoded this table instead of beeing generated anew for each call.
Registering PHP's super globals consumes superfluous time. The $_REQUEST variable contains all request relevant parameters, but I never use it and use $_POST, $_COOKIE, $_GET directly under an OOP fashion instead. Anyway, I added "r" to the ini variable variables_order to make the filling ofthe $_REQUEST array optional.
exists() is isset()'s little brother not taking null values into account. It just tests for the existence of variables and attributes. My old patch removed the null check of isset() but I wanted to keep backwards compatibility and added a new function language construct exists().
Generates a random string very quickly using the underlaying operating system.
Writes the ob buffer to an opened file handle.
The time value switches to the delta of the current time and the passed value if the value is too big and looks like a unix timestamp.
Round to the next power of 10. This breaks down 10log(n) / log(10) by using a fast binary search.
Calculates the significant figures of a number.
Cuts a string if it's longer then a max value and appends a given string. This function doesn't chop words.
String calibration to check, if the string is in a given format with a simple regexp format.
String calibration without care about upper and lower case.
Brings a simple template parser to PHP. The idea comes from the C# printf() functionalitys.
Round to the next multiple of a certain base.
Writing parsers in PHP mostly result in for() + strlen() + substr() constructs. I modified foreach() to be able to loop through strings in order to get the characters and their index. This is prettier and also much faster then the previous method.
Deleting several characters from a string can cause multiple str_replace() calls. It's now possible to delete all characters at once using strtr().
What happens if you write $str[-5]? Right, you get a warning and the expression returns null. But why should we give it away? We could use negative string offsets in the same way as positive string offsets with the difference, that we start at the end of the string. So  is the first character of the string,  the second and [-1] is the last, [-2] the second last and so on. This is really intuitive, makes the code cleaner and avoid nasty strlen() baubles.
In C# you can define binary numbers in a similar way you write hexadecimal numbers: 0x90. With this change you can define binary numbers with a 0b prefix like this: 0b01001. I don't know, if this feature is good for a common use, because, as you may know, there are after all only 10 persons who understand binary. But I use bit sets very often and this is a good and fast way to do this.
Programmers are such a lazy folks and writing array() is really annoying. Here is an attempt to make this more handy.
A very useless default parameter is the one of microtime(). I can remember, with PHP 4 everyone used a explode() + subtractaction to work around microtime()'s return value. With PHP 5 it became possible to return the time as double, but this is not the default. I broke the API compatibility here and return the µ-time as a double by default.
As most web applications should work with UTF-8 to make i18n more easy, it is a good idea to bring UTF-8 as default into the game. The same is true of ENT_QUOTES. Okay, I must admit, this change is also a little product of laziness because I hate writing ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8" - thus this was the last time.
A really annoying problem is when include-warnings spam the logfile, if you put aside file_exists() checks. You could add a @-sign in front of the include command, but this forces PHP to be silence for the entire file. PHP now has a new ini directive ignore_include_warning to be able to disable include warnings with ini_set() or globally.
Quoting is necessary to satisfy the json protocol. As an extension, it is sometimes nice to define callbacks in a json string. I added a new bit-mask constant namely JSON_CALLBACK_CHECK in addition to the undocumented JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK. If the callback-check flag is set, the prefix __cb of a string value indicates a not quoted callback string.
I think it's a good idea to turn on native type casting by default. This reduces cache sizes of installations where people don't care about something like that and increases also the execution performance if numbers from databases are heavily involved in calculations.
The MySQLi function mysqli_fetch_all() returns an indexed array by default. The performance benefit doing so is very low; using associative arrays should be better with regard of easy and readable code.
The MySQLi attribute matched_rows and the attendant procedural mysqli_matched_rows() function return the number of matched rows of the last SQL operation. If you updadate a table and the affected_rows number is e.g. 5, this doesn't mean that 5 is also the number of elements that have matched the WHERE clause. If you want to retrieve the number, you need to run another SELECT COUNT(1) query with the same condition or parse the mysqli_info() output for yourself instead.
The function mysqli_return() is the equivalent to mysql_result(). The difference of mysqli_return() to it's older pendant is, that the MySQLi version free's it's ressource after returning the value by default. You can turn off this behaviour, but I wanted a function which can be used to return and free a single value instantly.
The PHP fork is rid of the followin old and depricated functionalities in order to make the code base smaller and to improve the execution time. This may limit the usage of PHP under some scenarios but first read on at the next section.
I wrote my own mysqli_real_escape() function based on the code of libmysqlclient. This function is strongly optimized and therefore faster. Additionally, it does not need a connection handle. I would be glad to see an escaping function, which can get the encoding from the local configuration instead of using a database handle.
I did not investigated time finding out if APC optimizes $i++ to ++$i if the value is read-only. If not, it would be cool having such a feature directly in the core to save some time. But maybe this is a better job for an opcode optimizer, which also reduces the number of redundant jumps and so on.
If you like the features of the modified PHP 5.3.6, you can get it from github. I would be glad to hear further improvements that should get implemented and also hear what you think about the changes I made.


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Hospitals & Healthcare News
Philips and Vietnamese Hong Duc General Hospital sign multi-year strategic partnership agreement
Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, and Hong Duc General Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam today announced a seven-year partnership agreement covering a comprehensive turnkey solution for high quality general healthcare services. Philips will provide the newly-built Hong Duc General Hospital II with the latest medical imaging, patient monitoring and healthcare IT solutions. In addition, Philips will deliver comprehensive training programs to strengthen the hospital's clinical capabilities and design services to optimize workflows and enhance the patient/staff experience, with the aim of delivering better clinical outcomes.
Hong Duc General Hospital is one of the most trusted healthcare providers in Ho Chi Minh City, with hundreds of thousands of admissions annually. Scheduled to open in early 2020 to cope with increasing patient demands, the newly-built Hong Duc General Hospital II will provide high quality general healthcare services, especially focused on cardiology, oncology, orthopedics and pediatrics.
Minimally-invasive heart valve replacement
The hospital's hybrid operating room will be equipped with Philips' advanced Azurion image-guided therapy platform for both routine and complex interventional procedures such as transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and spine surgery. The hospital will also be provided with connected patient monitoring and integrated analytics solutions from Philips, enabling the continuous monitoring of patients wherever they are in the system – from the ambulance and functional examination departments to the ICU and general wards – providing a comprehensive solution during the entire treatment and recovery process.
"As a leading health technology company, Philips provides meaningful innovations in collaboration with medical partners to deliver value-based healthcare," said Hugo Luik, General Manager, Philips Vietnam. "By providing advanced, well-maintained medical technology and solutions, Philips aims to improve health outcomes for people in Vietnam, enhancing the patient experience, improving staff satisfaction, reducing stress among care providers, and lowering the cost of care."
"Hong Duc General Hospital's objective has always been to provide patients with the best quality of healthcare, with the support of the most advanced medical technology," said Huynh Thi Kim Loan, President of Hong Duc General Hospital. "Our partnership with Philips is aimed at building Hong Duc General Hospital II as a 'smart hospital', where our experts and doctors are more confident to make clinical decisions supported by Philips' latest health technologies. Patients can be assured that the most advanced quality of healthcare is delivered at Hong Duc General Hospital."
Other solutions provided to the hospital by Philips include Philips' Digital Ingenia 3.0T MRI with High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MR-HIFU), and advanced CT technology with high resolution and low-dose scanning. The MR-HIFU solution at Hong Duc General Hospital II will provide a non-invasive alternative to the traditional surgical treatment of uterine fibroids and enable non-invasive palliative pain treatment for bone metastases.


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Гіпокрея (Hypocrea) — рід грибів родини Hypocreaceae. Назва вперше опублікована 1825 року.

Поширений рід, який росте на гнилій деревині. В Україні зростають Гіпокрея желатинозна (Hypocrea gelatinosa), Гіпокрея білонога (Hypocrea leucopus).

Галерея

Примітки

Джерела
 Fries, E.M. 1825. Systema Orbis Vegetabilis. 1:1-374 - P.104

Роди грибів
Гіпокрейні

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Die Ausstellung Junge Kunst im Deutschen Reich wurde im Auftrag des Reichsstatthalters und Reichsleiters Baldur von Schirach 1943 im Wiener Künstlerhaus durchgeführt. Schirachs Generalkulturreferent, Walter Thomas in Wien, beauftragte Wilhelm Rüdiger aus München, die Ausstellung zusammenzustellen. Gezeigt wurden 582 Werke von 175 Künstlern.

Geschichte

Wilhelm Rüdiger organisierte bereits im Sommer 1942 in Weimar anlässlich eines deutsch-italienischen Jugendtreffens eine Ausstellung zeitgenössischer Kunst unter dem Titel "Junges Schaffen". Schirach war von dieser Ausstellung begeistert und verfügte die Übergabe der Ausstellung nach Wien. In Wien wurde die Ausstellung um einige österreichische Künstler ergänzt.

Obwohl es im Titel hieß, es gehe um "Junge Kunst", waren viele Künstler bereits recht betagt. Karl Albiker war zum Beispiel bereits 65 Jahre alt. Im Völkischen Beobachter schrieb Heinrich Neumayer dazu: "Wenn hier von junger deutscher Kunst die Rede ist, so ist durchaus schon von geläutertem Wein die Rede, nicht Gärungsprozesse, Sturm oder Most erleben wir in der hier gezeigten Kunst". "Jung" sollte im Kontext der "alten" Kunst im Haus der Deutschen Kunst gedeutet werden. Mit der Ausstellung Junge Kunst im Deutschen Reich unternahm Schirach einen vorsichtigen Versuch, die Bedeutung Wiens als Kulturzentrum wieder zu etablieren.

Gleichzeitig mit der Ausstellung Junge Kunst im Deutschen Reich fand im Ausstellungshaus an der Friedrichsstraße, ebenfalls auf Anregung Schirachs, eine Klimtausstellung statt. Diese Ausstellung zog die Besucher an: sie zählte 24.096 Eintritte, und die Ausstellungsdauer wurde um eine Woche verlängert, während die Ausstellung Junge Kunst im Deutschen Reich lediglich 9.084 Besucher erreichte.

Ebenfalls zur selben Zeit waren in der Albertina Werke von Käthe Kollwitz und Egon Schiele zu sehen. Alle diese Ausstellungen zusammen kamen einem Protest gegen die offizielle Politik der Berliner Reichskulturkammer und des Münchner Hauses der Deutschen Kunst gleich. Außerdem wurden in der Ausstellung Junge Kunst im Deutschen Reich auch Künstler präsentiert, deren Werke zuvor in deutschen Museen beschlagnahmt wurden, darunter Josef Hegenbarth, Josef Henselmann, Hanna Nagel, Carl Moritz Schreiner, Milly Steger und Friedrich Vordemberge.

Adolf Ziegler bezeichnete die Ausstellung in einem Bericht als eine Darstellung von "gemäßigter Form der Verfallskunst". Joseph Goebbels entsandte Karl Kolb, Direktor des Deutschen Haus der Kunst, und Benno von Arent, Reichsbühnenbildner, zu einer Inspektion nach Wien. Deren Urteil lautete: Eine einzige "liberalistische Schweinerei". Die Ausstellung, geplant vom 7. Februar bis 28. März, erregte das Missfallen von Joseph Goebbels und Adolf Hitler. Baldur von Schirach wurde, gemäß Schirachs Memoiren, als Verantwortlicher vor Adolf Hitler zitiert: Dieser habe im Katalog der Ausstellung auf eine Abbildung gezeigt und gesagt "Schauen Sie sich dieses Bild an – ein grüner Hund!" (Werk von Josef Hegenbarth). Die Ausstellung wurde vorzeitig am 7. März 1943 geschlossen, angeblich wegen Überlastung der Reichsbahn, wie die Wiener Presse vermeldete.

Sie war neben der 1933 vom Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Studentenbund in Berlin organisierten Ausstellung "30 Deutsche Künstler" eine der wenigen offiziellen NS-Ausstellungen, die wegen des "angeblichen Verdachts der Kunst-Entartung" geschlossen wurde. Die Ausstellung war eine, nicht als Widerstand gegen das NS-Regime an sich, beabsichtigte Provokation. Schirach wollte einen Ausbruch aus der "Sterilität der offiziellen Ausstellungen" versuchen, um die 1933/34 in Deutschland heftig geführte Expressionismusdebatte wieder zu eröffnen. Es war auch eine Aktion gegen seine innerparteilichen Feinde, Goebbels und Alfred Rosenberg.

Manchen teilnehmenden Künstlern hat diese Ausstellung geschadet. Nur zwei Jahre später sah man diese Künstler als sogenannte Mitläufer und Günstlinge an.

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Ausgestellte Werke

Das Zeichen ° bedeutet, dass der Ausstellungskatalog eine Abbildung des Werkes enthält. Das Zeichen * bedeutet, dass das Werk unverkäuflich war.

Literatur

 Susanne Panholzer-Hehenberger: Das Menschenbild in der Skulptur in Österreich zwischen 1938 und 1945. Diplomarbeit. Universität Wien, 2008, S. 25–27. (Digitalisat)

 Wilhelm Rüdiger (Hrsg.): Junge Kunst im Deutschen Reich. i. A. des Reichsstatthalters & Reichsleiters Baldur von Schirach. Ausstellung Februar – März 1943 im Künstlerhaus Wien. Ehrlich & Schmidt, Wien 1943. ()
 Henri Nannen: Junge Kunst im Deutschen Reich: zu einer vom Reichsstatthalter in Wien, Reichsleiter Baldur von Schirach veranstalteten Ausstellung im Künstlerhaus zu Wien. In: Die Kunst für alle. H. 7, April 1943, S. 137–150. (Digitalisat)

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 Wladimir Aichelburg: Das Künstlerhaus - Ausstellungen: zum Verzeichnis der Ausstellungen 1868 bis 2010, abgerufen am 22. Februar 2014

Kunstausstellung in Deutschland
Kunst (Wien)
Veranstaltung 1943
Kunst im Nationalsozialismus
NS-Ausstellung


And Let the Upgrade of the Eurozone Begin Now!
By the last for this year EU summit in December the technical details on the establishment of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), considered the basis for the future banking union, have to be ready and the Eurogroup (the eurozone finance ministers) have to define the criteria for the direct recapitalisation of banks through the eurozone rescue fund. This is what the EU leaders agreed at their autumn summit in Brussels, which lasted, as the tradition commands, until the early hours of the day. As much as this is a good news because it creates the feeling (also stated officially as the main goal), that the EU delivers on its commitments, as many questions remain, the answers to which is not very certain if they will be ready by the end of the year to help complete the main objective - the mechanism to be ready as of 1st of January 2013.
The date 1st of January 2013 is pointed out as a beginning of the work of the banking supervision in the proposal of the European Commission. Because the EU leaders decided in June that they will bind the establishment of this mechanism with allowing the permanent rescue fund of the euro area to start lending directly to banks for recapitalisation, this date is considered as key, as one of the most urgent beneficiaries of aid is Spain, but queueing up are also Ireland, which hopes this mechanism would help it relieve its public debt, thus reducing the interest rates for servicing it, but Cyprus as well. The queue, however, is constantly growing because Slovenia is having problems too with the banking sector.
In Herman Van Rompuy's interim report, aka the report of the four presidents because there are contributions by the leaders of the Commission, the central bank and the Eurogroup, it is written that the establishment of the supervisory mechanism is a matter of priority - a formulation which the European Council agrees with, as in the summit conclusions it is said "with the objective of agreeing on the legislative framework by 1 January 2013". The main question, however, which journalists asked early in the morning in the Consilium press centre, is whether this means a definite commitment the mechanism to be ready by then or is it just a wishful thinking - a question to which Herman Van Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso responded by quoting the relevant text in the conclusions. This gave grounds to suggest that there is a certain, albeit thin, difference between the objective and the commitment.
According to Mr Van Rompuy, in June the leaders did not commit to a specific time line, while now there is a clear commitment. Nothing can happen in one night, he explained. Mr Barroso, for his part, emphasised that January 1st was the objective. But will it really be reached is a question that still remains open.
What does the mechanism do?
The European Commission proposes the European Central Bank (ECB) to receive the powers to supervise all the banks in the eurozone from January 1st 2013, starting first with those that had received financial assistance with public money, then covering all the systemic banks and as of the 1st of January 2014 to cover all the banks in the euro area, estimated to be around 6,000. This proposal caused some serious disputes, however, and the firm insistence by a group of countries, led by Germany, Finland and the Netherlands, a clear distinction to be made between the supervisory functions of the bank and its monetary policy. Therefore, the leaders have written in their conclusions precisely this - that the adoption of the SSM will depend on three important elements: a clear separation between ECB monetary policy and supervisory functions, a balance between rights and obligations for all Member States participating in the new supervisory arrangements and appropriate accountability of the new single supervisor, including to the European Parliament.
In the report of the four presidents it is written that in order to keep the single market intact and to avoid a split between the eurozone and all the others in the EU, the existing European Banking Authority, established two years ago mainly with monitoring functions, should keep its role and focus on the creation and implementation of a single rulebook to ensure equality throughout the EU. Besides, the EBA will play the role of a mediator between the national supervisors and the ECB. This is precisely what has been taken into account in the conclusions from the summit last night, but it is added that "an acceptable and balanced solution is needed regarding changes to voting modalities and decisions under the European Banking Authority".
This morning, on his way in for the second day of the summit, Jyrki Katainen, the prime minister of Finland, said he was satisfied. "Now we have a clear intention to try to solve all the details in the banking union". He said that some technical issues remained open. Mr Katainen did not specify which these technical issues were but said that the biggest issue "is that we want to separate the banking crisis from the sovereign responsibility and this is the biggest issue for the ordinary citizens and the ordinary tax payers". He hinted, though, that there is still no solution to the question how to ensure the membership of non-eurozone countries in the banking inion. French President Francois Hollande also seemed happy but he only said to the journalists that "we have a good agreement".
The problem with the participation of the non-euro countries was raised very seriously by European Parliament President Martin Schulz. In the beginning of the summit yesterday, he told the leaders that the most important thing at the moment was to avoid creation of parallel unions with new parallel institutions. He regretted that the European Parliament was ignored from the drafting of the banking union and warned that the Parliament did not find the division to euro- and non-euro countries to be a working solution. "Given the very close nature of the economic links between all the EU countries, we regard a single banking supervisory authority as essential. For this reason, the European Parliament is insisting on the involvement of all the EU Member States which have not yet joined the eurozone, but which are bound by the Treaty to introduce the common currency".
The establishment of the banking union is a serious riddle for the legal experts of the European Union. As The Financial Times wrote, the legal service of the Council had prepared a secret opinion, saying that the creation of the SSM is illegal, given the existing legislation of the Union. In their conclusions, the leaders write that the process towards deeper economic and monetary union should build on the EU's institutional and legal framework. As the objective is 1st of January 2013, until when there are less than 3 months, treaty changes are excluded because their approval would take too much time.
But the novelties already caused concern among the member states. Before the beginning of the summit, Croatia's PM Zoran Milanovic, whose country is planned to join the Union on the 1st of July 2013, said that the considered ideas were a change to what Croatia signed on December 9th last year and which Croatian citizens approved at a referendum in the beginning of the year. He said that the new ideas, when they are enforced, will be subjected to a referendum again, if possible even before the country's accession, Mr Milanovic added.
Will the eurozone have a budget?
This is another of the elements in the Herman Van Rompuy's proposal for upgrade of the Economic and Monetary Union. The budget is enshrined in the draft documents in a quite complex and mystic way under the name of "fiscal capacity", which reveals the uncertainty what it should actually be. The fiscal capacity is mentioned in chapter II of the proposal of the four presidents - "Integrated Budgetary Framework". The budget is a supplement to the enhancement of the budgetary discipline of the member states, as for the purpose they have to implement everything agreed so far - the Six-Pack, the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance (aka Fiscal Compact) and the Two-Pack which, however, is still in a legislative process and is not adopted but it mainly deals with the eurozone.
Second comes the fiscal capacity. It is still not clear what will it look like, but it is clear what it should not be. In the presidents' proposal it is written that whatever it may look like it should not have anything to do with the EU's common budget. Something that was repeated a number of times this morning. One of its possible functions being discussed is this "capacity" to facilitate the efforts of a member state suffering from country-specific shocks. The purpose, however, is any country-specific problems to be addressed by monetary policy first, while the fiscal capacity is considered a supplementary tool.
Here there is a risk of overlapping the functions of the permanent rescue mechanism of the euro area but this is precisely why in the report it is said that the European Stabilisation Mechanism is created as a crisis management tool which cannot absorb shocks. This means that the future fiscal capacity will have more longer-term functions, related directly to facilitating structural reforms, aimed at improving competitiveness and potential growth. As the report notes, an important aspect of the new tool will be whether it should be allowed to borrow.
It seems the issue with a eurozone budget was left for later judging by the leaders' conclusions where it is said that the fiscal capacity "will be explored for the eurozone". It is explicitly underlined that this process of "exploration" will not be related with the preparation of the next multiannual budget of the Union for the period 2014-2020. According to Jose Manuel Barroso, however, the member states' positions are already clear. He said that a stronger and more binding framework was needed for the implementation of the main economic policies, mainly in the euro area to prevent imbalances. Besides, he added, it is necessary to solve the problem with conditionality when financial assistance is provided.
The discussions of the eurozone budget are in the context of another "interesting" element, as the European Commission chief called it. These are the contractual agreements between the member states and the EU. This issue is indeed interesting because behind these terms hide attempts to create a flexible mechanism to provide assistance under certain conditions. At the moment, the countries that receive help from the EU (rescue funds, relief to absorb EU funds, and IMF assistance) agree to implement adjustment programmes with measures to apply nationally. Now it is proposed these programmes to be changed and to be defined on the basis of the country-specific needs, which however have direct impact on the eurozone. At this stage, it is the country-specific programmes that fit into these conditions, introduced by the Six-Pack (the macro economic imbalances procedure).
Mr Barroso again underscored that, given everything mentioned above, the budget of the eurozone cannot in any way be bound to the EU budget, which is at the moment subject to vehement debates. For his part, the president of the European Parliament said that if indeed the idea for a fiscal capacity was to be an instrument to stabilise the euro area by in the same time playing the role of debt redemption fund, eurobonds or a banking license for the permanent fund of the eurozone (all of these things the EP has been insisting for a long time), then "it would indeed be a welcome step". In the spirit of his fears that the currently discussed changes could lead to parallel worlds, Martin Schulz warned that the idea for a fiscal capacity should not lead to the creation of a parallel budget of the EU.
In several weeks the European Commission will present a plan for the economic and monetary union. On the basis of the expressed opinion last night, the European Council chief, Herman Van Rompuy, will prepare a final report to present it at the leaders' summit in December. The Eurogroup will draw the technical criteria for direct bank recapitalisation by the permanent rescue fund, again by the December summit. Judging from the few but of important countries reactions so far, there are chances all this to be realised in time. But nonetheless, we should not forget what happened after the June summit when everything was agreed by and literally a day later the premiers of some countries said before their national public that they disagreed with part of the agreements. Among them, by the way, was Jyrki Katainen.


Prescribe Nutrition is having a little love affair this summer. Our crush? The Pop Nation (www.thepopnation.com). Sarah Stewart, owner and co-founder remembers her time in the kitchen as a kid. Lucky us – The Pop Nation is contributing some of their tasty recipes for our upcoming Kids Rule program…and we're sharing with all of YOU as well.
If I look back on my 30+ years, food has always been at the forefront. I have fond memories of baking cookies with my favorite babysitters as a kid. Rainy weekend days I can remember my mom saying, "should we make something?" in that tone of voice that makes it sound like she's suggesting the most spectacular, original and exciting activity. We would take out my kid's cookbook and leaf through the five or so recipes in there. I'd usually settle on the doughy pretzels that I liked to shape into the letters of my family members' names. My mom taught me that peeling carrots while standing on a backward-facing chair in front of the sink could be equally as fun as any Legos or My Little Ponies, orr that mushing up cold egg yolks, bright green parsley, torn bread and ground beef with your bare (always clean!) hands is way better than digging in any sandbox. Who needs Playdough when you can crank fresh pasta through a pasta maker, or shape the trimmings from a piecrust into a snake, bake it and top it with jam to make Great Grandma Mimi's Cookies? I can still picture tearing a waxy Dixie cup off of a multi-color popsicle that I had carefully layered with OJ, lemonade, and whole raspberries from the garden. No matter what it was, I always felt such pride and satisfaction in my creations as a kid.
As an adult, cooking is my meditation. After a long day nothing relaxes me more than grabbing an apron, slinging a fresh dishtowel over my shoulder, turning on the radio in our teeny tiny kitchen and making dinner. In the winter, our drafty windows are sealed up (usually caulked and cellophaned) and the heat from our 1920 Wedgwood stove warms the kitchen to a toasty temp while stovetop pots steam up the windows. In the summer, I open every window and door, and crank the fans, but I hardly notice the sometimes 90+ temperatures in the kitchen when I'm in the zone. These days, the order of operations when my family plans a visit to any of our homes or favorite vacation spots is: 1) pick the date, 2) buy the plane tickets, 3) start the menu and grocery list in a shared Google doc. It's all about the food.
Is there anything finer than picking your own food?
About two years ago I finally turned my professional life in the direction of food. I now work with my younger brother, Tim, and two good friends, husband/wife pair, Mark and Anne McGinty, making gourmet, vegan and gluten-free Pop Nation popsicles (www.thepopnation.com). Our start was what some might call "organic" (fitting!). Our first business meetings took place in a living room with a crying baby and some beers. All four of us work non-stop on everything from recipe testing to pushing our Paletas carts on the streets of SF to bookkeeping and sales. We've raised funds using the site kickstarter.com. We're learning as we go, and none of us has ever felt so good about what we're doing. Bringing healthy, delicious, frozen treats to market using ingredients from our local farms brings me more joy than I ever thought a job could.
My husband and I are expecting our first baby this November. While I know it will be year(s?) before I can suggest "should we make something?" to a bored little kid on a Saturday afternoon, I'm already looking forward to it. I can only hope that my passion for cooking has half the impact that my mom's did on me. I'm sharing a few Pop Nation recipes with you here… maybe a good way to get your own kids into the kitchen this summer. Or, a little meditation time for yourself!
Good food makes for good pops.
Look tasty? They are! Check out these amazing recipes below, and for more info on how to find them and to keep up with The Pop Nation, like them on Facebook!
Blend strawberries and 1 tsp honey until smooth. In separate dish, combine coconut milk, vanilla and 1.5 Tbsp honey. Alternately pour the coconut and strawberry mixture into your molds (to create the cow's spots!). Freeze and enjoy.
Note: Swap out the strawberries for any of your favorite in season fruits – blueberries, peaches, blackberries, cherries… yum! For single color pops, blend all ingredients together and freeze.
Cut the ginger into medallions. Combine water, ginger, sugar in a pot. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat, steep for 10 mins. Discard ginger medallions, reserve the liquid.
Combine peaches, tea, lemon juice and ginger water mixture. Blend until smooth.
Pour into molds, freeze and enjoy!
Note: I use peaches with their skin on, but to easily remove the skin, cut a small x in the bottom of the peach. Drop into boiling water for 1 minute or until skin loosens. Run peach under cold water and the skin should slip right off.
Combine all ingredients and blend until smooth. Pour into molds and freeze.
Note: This recipe can be made without the olive oil. The reason we add it is because healthy fats can give pops a smooth and soft texture.