I also showed them the movie, Iron Jawed Angels, with Hilary Swank, to help them get a better feel for the time period and for the limitations on women at the time. The combination of the film and the primary sources brought the women to life. As the students read the words from letters and newspaper articles, they began to grasp the contrasts between their lives and those of women in 1918.
Using the information that they gained from the Library of Congress documents, they had to build their own campaign, one that had a signature slogan, a stump speech as well as a button or sash. They worked hard to craft their campaigns in ways that avoided slipping into modern ways of thinking and expressing themselves. They had to return to the original documents to verify that their ideas fit with the thinking of the suffragists. One main struggle was to keep the focus on the Right to Vote, rather than expanding it into all sorts of other areas and general complaints.
After building their individual campaigns, I put them into groups of 4 to collaborate on a group campaign, one that used the thinking of each girl. They could decide to use one girl's initial ideas, but they had to all work to develop them further to be even more effective. Or they could blend together the different ideas to generate a new single direction. Once they had a central theme and strategy, then they were ready to prepare for the parade, one that was going to go all through the school and then down the street and around the campus of the boys school next door.
Throughout the process, I kept sending them back to the sources. Was their thinking in line with the times? What could they wear or create that would present a sense of the late 1910's? How were they going to present their message? As they went back and forth between their own thinking and the documents, their thinking developed and they became eager to craft the most effective campaign possible. There was an amazing energy that was created by using the papers and photographs of history to capture their imaginations and minds.
The day of the parade was sparkling and bright! The girls dressed in their campaign outfits and hoisted their banners, ready to change the world. And off they marched, aware that they could walk right into a voting booth when they turned 18 because women before them had fought and sacrificed to give them the power to do it. As they carried their placards through the halls and down the sidewalks, my hope was that somewhere deep inside them, they were mkaing a memory, one that will lead to a commitment to be full citizens, remembering this march whenever they don't feel like making the effort to get out of the house and to the polling place. May the voices of women long gone call out to them to make their voices heard!
In truth, it isn't mine. It belongs to the school, and I have it for 3 days to play with. It has really impressed me in ways that I didn't expect. It is like my phone, which I love, only easier to use. The colors and sounds are fabulous. I am not an artist, but it is great fun to play around with the art program, ArtStudio. I can almost type on the touch screen, and with a little bit of practice, I am sure I could master it. I am already a fan of Mac's Pages as a word processing tool, so that is an added advantage. Plus, the internet connection is smooth and easy. It allows me to have all that I want from the Web, without any feeling of intensity or distraction.
For my classroom, I would love to have a set to use with the students. It totally dissolves the distance that occurs as soon as students all open their laptops and create a visual barrier between me and them. If I stand in the front of the room, then I am projecting over the 18 laptops to reach them, with no real control over what is on their screens. If I stand in the back of the room, with a full vision of their screens, I have lost the easier eye-to-eye contact that connects me to them and helps direct the conversation. If their tool was an iPad, I could see them and see what is going on on their screens.
There are advantages and disadvantages around its size. Because it is smaller than a laptop, it would be much easier for a student to have a textbook and an iPad on their desk, able to reference both during an assignment. With laptops, it is usually too tight a space for working with the textbook. The challenge with its size, however, is that it might well be dropped or banged up more easily. There may be some sort of device necessary to hold the iPad on a desk while it is being used in the classroom.
Touch screen creates a really different experience for me of using technology. It is so much less "separate." The tool feels like a simple extension of my hand and thinking. Because the students use this technology with ease, the iPad seems like it would be a great, new tool. How do they see them? Do touch screen have the potential to allow them to feel closer to their work and self-expression or is it not that big a deal for them? I need to work with it more myself to figure out how this technology is shifting the ways that students might express themselves and connect with each other.
My class started working this week on a research project. I set up a ning for them to access the documents that I wanted them to investigate. I love using nings for this kind of work. It is a tool that is easily accessible for middle school students. As an educator, I simply email to ning and they will remove the ads from the pages. It is a tool that I use for research and for online collaboration. It is a great first step in helping students to develop an online presence, while still giving them the protection of a closed site. I have to invite them to the site. I can make the site open to the public or simply by invitation.
One aspect that the students really like, and one that I think is important for them to experiment with, is that on Ning, each student has a "My Page." On that page, they can post a photo, update what they are doing and share aspects about themselves. It is very much like a Facebook page, but it is not open to the public. I encourage them to set up their Page in a school-appropriate way. They are so used to posting whatever pops into their heads on their Facebook status, often without thinking about who can see it and what it is telling the world about them. As they interact on a school site, they can begin to learn some of the ways to project positive messages about themselves, while protecting themselves and their reputations.
After each student has set up a basic "My Page," she turns to the research of the project. For the current project, their research involves primary source documents. After studying the document, they record their observations in the Discussion section. This way, each student can learn for herself and benefit from the ideas of her classmates. Or they can comment on the observations of others. This collaboration allows each one to stretch her own understanding, but to also see how others have learned. They each bring their own unique mastery to the sources and their reflections capture that.
This sharing holds their attention far more than when they are working independently. While some students can maintain their momentum throughout a long project, far more become distracted and lose interest. When they are sharing their ideas and commenting on each others, the energy for the project stays active. They want to learn something themselves, so that they can make a contribution. For reasons that I don't fully understand, they are much more willing to share new ideas and test out ones that they are not sure of in this format. There seems to be a sense of anonymity, that what they write there is less personal, than when they make a comment in a class discussion. That makes the ning a powerful tool for more hesitant students.
It is always an adventure when I try a new roleplay activity with my class. I am a great believer in the power of acting out to help students make connections. Roleplaying is a fabulous tool to communicate main ideas. I try to create a challenge for the students, one that usually involves a fair degree of whimsy. Through laughter and some invented obstacles to conquer, I try to build a path for understanding larger ideas that might otherwise be confusing for them. If I can create an emotional response, then I have got them. When they join the game, they forget that I am actually teaching them history.
Here is the one that I created for this week. It could easily be adapted to a lot of different lessons. The main idea has to do with power and how far one group will go to control another. We are studying the end of the Civil War, but as one of my students pointed out, it could be applied to Iraq today. When I am using a roleplay, the goal is not to have them hold onto all of the historical details. In this case, I want them to grasp why the North invested in the South after the War, during Reconstruction, and then why they stopped. I want them to experience the feelings and challenges that the North faced.
So here is where the whimsy comes in. For the initial set-up, each girl was told that she had a Home Planet, one that had been attacked by aliens. She also had control over a new planet, that was inhabited by Weegits. For the first 60 seconds, their task was, in silence, to name their new planet and draw a picture of the Weegits, the creatures who live on the planet. The purpose of this was simply to get them invested in what happened to their Home Planet and their new one. They fairly quietly drew what their Weegits looked like, adding antennae, large stomaches and budging eyes. Whatever their imagination came up with!
I then gave them a few seconds to share with the people around them what their Weegit looked like. This is a critical steop, one that it took me awhile to recognize. I often want to move right on, excited to get the actual game aspect started. I have found, however, that if I don't allow them to share their new creations as part of the lesson, they are going to do it anyway. And that just gets me frustrated that they aren't playing the game MY way. Ah, games! When I set up time for sharing, it connects them to their roles, and the room fills with laughter and excited chatter. Then I have exactly what I want as a foundation!
Each student had a worksheet to keep track of their finances: their income, expenses and total for each round. They started with 50 coins. For each round of the game, they had to spend 5 coins for the upkeep of their Home Planet. They also had to pay for any transportation to the new planet: 2 coins for a person and 3 coins for any goods. When they started, it seemed like a lot of coins to all of them, and they were sure that they could maintain their Home Planet and colonize the new one with no trouble.
Then came the four rounds. Each girl chose a card that told her about the expenses for that round. "Build a school for your Weegits. Pay for transportation of lumber and 2 coins." "Your great-grandmother leaves you 3 coins in her will." "The Weegits rebel. Send 4 police to the new planet. Pay transportation and 2 coins." I created the cards so that the majority of them had to do with expenses of settling a new planet. They had to build schools, hospitals, housing. There were cards where they made a profit: the mine strikes gold, you collect taxes, you win the lottery. Those cards were far fewer than the expenses.
For the first two rounds, each girl read her card aloud, so the whole class could share in the successes and expenses of the class. This led to lots of groans and some envy. For the last two rounds, I simply handed out the cards and reminded them of the expenses of maintaining the home planet and of transportation. After the four rounds, I had them raise their hands if they wanted to move back to their home planet and abandon the new one or if they wanted to continue to develop the new planet. All but two of the girls raised their hands for abandoning the new one! Success!
We then had a conversation about why. What was it about securing, maintaining, and upgrading a new planet that made them want to abandon it? This conversation had been the goal of the roleplay. As they talked about their Home Planet and their Weegits, I used the vocabulary of the history lesson. What did the North want in the South initially? Why would the North leave the South? What would happen when they did that? The girls hardly noticed the shift. Some of them talked about Weegits and some of them talked about Southerners, but they all understood the challenges of keeping control over a territory that is not close by.
Laughter and invention are wonderful tools for making kids leave behind their apathy and embrace the fun of learning!


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Emile Linus Alfred Wijntuin (Totness, 22 september 1924 – Paramaribo, 7 mei 2020) was een Surinaams politicus.

Hij was de enige zoon in een arm gezin met zes kinderen. Hij ging naar een 8-jarige ulo maar kon door familie-omstandigheden het laatste jaar niet afmaken. Vervolgens was hij werkzaam in de wegenbouw en in het district Coronie verdiende hij zijn loon met werken in de landbouw. Een onderwijzer die hem onder andere hielp met rekenen en taal had een bemiddelende rol om hem in Paramaribo geplaatst te krijgen. Wijntuin kreeg een baan bij een RK-pastorie in de hoofdstad en volgde daarnaast een studie om te kunnen gaan werken in het onderwijs. Eind 1947 slaagde hij voor voor het examen voor een hulpakte waarna hij als kweekeling en later als hulponderwijzer werd aangesteld. Wijntuin slaagde in 1952 voor het examen voor de onderwijzersakte en zes jaar later behaalde hij ook de hoofdakte. Naast zijn werk in het onderwijs was hij betrokken bij onderwijsbonden en de politiek. Bij de parlementsverkiezingen van 1955 was hij zonder succes voor de katholieke PSV kandidaat in het kiesdistrict Coronie. Drie jaar later lukte het hem wel om verkozen te worden tot lid van de Staten van Suriname. Hij zou tot 1967 Statenlid blijven. Bij de verkiezingen van 1969 werd hij herkozen en vier jaar later volgde hij Olton van Genderen op als parlementsvoorzitter. Vanaf de Surinaamse onafhankelijkheid in 1975 was Wijntuin lid en voorzitter van het Parlement van Suriname. Bovendien was hij PSV-voorzitter.

Na het overlijden in 1979 van het parlementslid Walther Zalmijn was de samenstelling van het parlement: 19 parlementsleden die de regering steunden en ook 19 van de oppositie. Omdat de oppositie geen quorum wilde verlenen (minstens 20 parlementsleden moesten aanwezig zijn bij aanvang van een vergadering) om Zalmijns opvolger Max Koorndijk toegelaten te krijgen tot het parlement was er sprake van een patstelling. Om uit die patstelling te komen besloot Wijntuin in mei 1979 als voorzitter van het parlement dat Koorndijk als toegelaten kon worden beschouwd bij de aanvang van dezelfde vergadering waarbij hij werd toegelaten. De oppositie boycotte daarop alle vergadering  van het parlement. Na bemiddeling van danwel ingrijpen door president Ferrier werd drie maanden later samen met de oppositie een akkoord bereikt. Besloten werd dat er voor eind maart 1980 vervroegde verkiezingen zouden komen en dat de oppositie quorum zou verlenen aan een nieuwe vergadering van het parlement waarin Koorndijk na onderzoek van de geloofsbrieven zou worden toegelaten. Koorndijk werd op 31 augustus 'opnieuw', maar dit keer volgens de grondwettelijke regels, toegelaten tot het parlement.

Met de Sergeantencoup van 25 februari 1980 onder leiding van Desi Bouterse kwamen de militairen aan de macht en de verkiezingen van 27 maart 1980 gingen niet door. Een half jaar later werd het parlement buiten werking gesteld en daarmee kwam een einde aan het voorzitterschap van Wijntuin. In april 1980 was hij al gearresteerd op basis van de valse beschuldiging van medewerking aan een contracoup. Vanwege kritiek op het regime kreeg hij aan het eind van dat jaar huisarrest. Nadat hij in Venezuela een conferentie had bezocht nam hij het besluit om niet naar zijn vaderland terug te keren. In plaats daarvan woonde hij eerst in Curaçao en later in Nederland.

In 1985 werd Ulrich Aron de voorzitter van een parlement met 31 leden waarvan er 14 waren aangewezen door de militairen, 11 door de vakbeweging en 6 door het bedrijfsleven.

Bij het herstel van de democratie met de verkiezingen van 1987 werd Jagernath Lachmon gekozen als de voorzitter van de opvolger van het Parlement van Suriname: De Nationale Assemblée. Pas in de jaren 90 keerde Wijntuin terug naar Suriname.

Hij schreef meerdere boeken, onder andere over Pater Weidmann (medeoprichter van de PSV) en Louis Doedel (een van de eerste Surinaamse vakbondsleiders). Verder was hij voorzitter van de Stichting Pater Weidmann en erevoorzitter van de PSV.

Wijntuin overleed in mei 2020 op 95-jarige leeftijd in Paramaribo.

Emile Wijntuin heeft op 17 oktober 2020 postuum op voordracht van het Bisdom Paramaribo de onderscheiding Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice ontvangen voor zijn bewezen diensten aan de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk in Suriname. De Pauselijke onderscheiding is tijdens een ceremoniële plechtigheid is de De Sint Petrus en Pauluskathedraal van Suriname door Monseigneur Karel Choennie overhandigd aan zijn weduwe Ninon Wijntuin- Alvares.

Bibliografie
 Reflekties uit een politiek verleden (1994)
 Suriname onafhankelijk : 25 november 1975 - 25 november 1995 (1995)
 Weidmann, grondlegger van het algemeen kiesrecht in Suriname (1996)
 Louis Doedel, martelaar voor het Surinaamse volk (1998)
 Doro Doro vertelt: Kri, kra, mi ben dape! (2010, kinderboek)

Voorzitter van De Nationale Assemblée
Voorzitter van de Staten van Suriname

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New Venture Initiation: Factors Influencing Success
Val Miskin Washington State University
Jerman Rose Washington State University
The authors recognize that the definition of "entrepreneur'' may still be subject to varying interpretation. For the purposes of this study, the tenn entrepreneur will be used to include a broad entrepreneurial behavior along the lines of Hisrich and Peters' definition that ''Entrepre neurship is the process of creating something different with value by devoting the necessary time and effort, assuming the accompanying financial, psychic and social risks and receiving the resulting rewards of monetary and personal satisfaction" (5).
Previous research on entrepreneurial success, has explored both the cognitive and behav ioral characteristics of the entrepreneur as well as the contextual variables surrounding the business venture. This study has been designed to explore specific variables relative to (a) the entrepreneur, (b) the context of the business venture and (c) the product or service itself. Itis the intent of this survey to identify and confinn the impact these variables have on the initiation and eventual success of new business ventures.
1.	Brockhaus, R.H. 'The psychology of the entrepreneur.'' In C. Kent, D.L. Sexton & K Vesper (eds.). Encyclvpedia of Entrepreneurship (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1982).
2.	Dandridge, T.C. & Ford, M.A. "Use of a self-assessment profile to differentiate among professional groups on entrepreneurial characteristics.'' In N .C.Churchill,J.A.Hornaday, B.A. Kirchhoff, O.J. Krasnes & K.H. Vesper (eds.). Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (Wellesley, MA: Babson College, 1987).
3.	Greenberger, D.B. & Sexton, D.L. "An interactive model of new venture initiation," Journal of Small Business Management, 26(3), (1988), pp. 1-7.
4.	Hisrich, R.D. & Brush, C.G. "Women and Minority Entrepreneurs: A Comparative Analysis." Frontier's of Entrepreneurial Research (Wellesley, MA: Babson College, 1985).
5.	Hisrich, R.D. & Peters, M.D. Entrepreneurship: Starting Developing and Managing a New Enterprise (Homewood, IL: B.P.l./lrwin, 1989), p. 10.
6.	MacMillan, J.C., Siegel, R. & Narasimha, S. "Criteria used by venture capi talists to evaluate new venture proposals,"Journal of Business Venturing,1(1), (1985), pp. 119-128.
7.	Martin,M.J.C. ManagingTechnologicallnnovationand Entrepreneurship (Reston,VA: Reston Publishing. 1984). -
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10.	Stephenson, H. & Sahlman, W .A. "Importance of entrepreneurship in economic development." Jn R. Hisrich (ed.). Entrepreneurshi p, Int rapreneurship and Venture Capital (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1986).
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MISKIN, Val; ROSE, Jerman. New Venture Initiation: Factors Influencing Success. Journal of Small Business Strategy, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 2, p. 1-9, june 1990. ISSN 2380-1751. Available at: <https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/jsbs/article/view/224>. Date accessed: 20 jan. 2020.

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During last Fall's UAS + Counter UAS Industry Day by ADS, I mentioned Lockheed Martin's Indago 2 UAV and payload. The Noctus Dual IR payload is now available.
Featuring Dual FLIR Boson IR cameras which provide 640×512 video and 32 deg to 2 degree Field of View zoom, with seamless transition between cameras. Additionally, it incorporates an IR laser pointer. Finally, the payload is paired with real-time Geo location and Geo pointing capability as well as object tracking.
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UNILEVER CEO: We Need To Do More To Fight Climate Change
Justin Catanoso
Unilever CEO Paul Polman
LIMA, Peru — The man behind the podium Sunday at the Global Landscapes Forum, an offshoot of the annual United Nations negotiations on climate change being held here, spoke in blunt terms:
"Commercial agriculture accounted for 71 percent of tropical deforestation in the last 12 years. That translates into the loss of 130 million hectares (321 million acres) of forests. In fact, that loss contributes about 15 percent to global greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire transport sector. These are the inconvenient facts."
In other words, the massive companies that grow our food are in part responsible for aiding and abetting practices that are slowly killing the earth by recklessly tearing down forests to grow crops.
The speaker was pointing a finger of blame at one of the most environmentally damaging industries on earth. In doing so, Paul Polman, the CEO of England-and-Netherlands-based Unilever, the world's second-largest consumer goods conglomerate, was in essence pointing a finger at himself. It was both disarming and, well, breathtaking.
"For those of us in the food sector, like my company, we know that climate change cannot be tackled without a fundamental change in the way that agriculture - the world's oldest and largest industry - is practiced," Polman told an audience of several hundred.
"In fact, most CEOs, I'm convinced of now, know that their companies cannot prosper in a world with runaway climate change. This is increasingly evident. They understand the need to work together with political leaders to address these challenges."
THAT'S A STUNNING statement, one that environmentalists would love to believe. That is, until they slam head-on into other inconvenient facts, like The New York Times investigation over the weekend. That in-depth story revealed that leaders of the U.S. energy industry have bankrolled the campaigns of an array of Republican state attorneys general in the express hope of seeing undermined the Obama administration's stringent environmental regulations to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
If there are any oil, coal or gas honchos in Lima for the UN negotiations, they were not among the speakers at the landscape forum. But Polman, who is gaining an international reputation as one of the world's greenest CEOs, was there. And for one morning, that was enough to reveal that some corporate leaders possess values that transcend quarterly returns and shareholder demands - both of which Polman insisted need to be de-emphasized for - he actually said this — the greater good of society.
When it comes to climate change, Polman is certainly out of synch with the oil baron Koch brothers in saying, "The cost of inaction is becoming greater than the cost of action."
By example, he added, "Natural disasters linked to changing climate already cost us (at Unilever) more than $300 million a year. We see increases in food costs, water scarcity, reduced productivity in many parts of the agricultural supply chain — all linked directly to climate change. Left unchecked, climate change has the potential to be a significant barrier to our gross, and that of nearly every other (business) sector."
For the record, Unilever - which owns Ben & Jerry's, Knorr, Lipton and Bertolli olive oil, not to mention Dove, Vasoline and VO5 - ranks No. 140 on the Fortune 500. It has revenue exceeding $66 billion and profits of $6.4 billion. For his part, this bleeding-heart CEO brought home $11 million in total compensation last year, with a healthy bonus for exceeding growth expectations.
But just because he's rich and successful doesn't mean he doesn't get it. Because Unilever sources raw materials from tropical regions around the world, it has come to understand that massive deforestation in Latin America, Africa and Asia is increasing carbon emissions, intensifying erratic weather and hurting his business - in both the short and long term.
"There is a strong business case for taking climate change out of the value chain," Polman said. "It's one of the reasons why we're committed to sourcing 100 percent of our agricultural raw materials sustainably by the year 2020.
"To Unilever, sustainable agriculture sourcing includes eliminating deforestation from the entire supply chain. Our priority is therefore to preserve high conservation-value forests, forests with high carbon stocks, and tropical forests on peat surfaces. We are also implementing a responsible sourcing policy that we're driving up the value chain for our suppliers."
THAT'S HOW the needle moves. When Walmart decides that energy-efficient lights are not a leftist plot to kill profits, but rather a long-term money saver, large-scale change comes. When Unilever decides that it will not source palm oil from Indonesian suppliers that are rapaciously deforesting, change comes there, too.
None of this is easy, Polman notes. The world is moving toward a population of 9 billion people. Food output will need to increase by 80 percent to meet future demands. But large and small farms can do far more to increase yields on the same amount of land, while restoring land back to forests that have been destroyed, he said.
To speed things along, food industry giants such as Minnesota-based Cargill and Singapore-based Wilmar are also getting on board. Both are among the 170 governments and companies that pledged at a UN climate summit in September to halve the rate of deforestation from the production of commodities like palm oil, soy, paper and beef products no later than 2020, and eliminating deforestation by 2030 as part of the New York Declaration on Forests.
"Deforestation is not just one of the great challenges in the fight against climate change," Polman said. "It is the most important, immediate and urgent challenge, in my opinion. We are not yet acting at either the speed or scale that the problem demands. But we can win this battle."
Justin Catanoso is a freelance journalist based in North Carolina and director of journalism at Wake Forest University. His reporting is sponsored in part by the Wake Forest Center on Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in Washington, D.C.
SEE ALSO: 17 Shocking Photos That Show How Global Warming Is Everywhere
More: Climate Change Climate Global Warming Unilever


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Q: Use select-box value in the remote property (parameter) of Typeahead.js I have put together an application that makes use of Typeahead.js and a select-box containing American states.
As the docs show, the library has remote property.
I want to add the value of the selected option of my select-box to remote:

var chooseState = function() {
  var jud = '',
    stateChoice = $('.cm-state').find('option:selected'),
    stateText = stateChoice.text(),
    jud = stateChoice.val();
  console.log(jud);

  if (jud == '') {
    $('#display').hide();
  } else {
    $('#display').fadeIn(150);
  }
  $('#choice span').text(stateText);
  $('#choiceVal span').text(jud);
}

$('.cm-state').on('change', chooseState);

$('input.typeahead').typeahead({
  name: 'typeahead',
  remote: 'search.php?key=%query&jud=' + jud,
  limit: 11,
  // My addition
  complete: chooseState
});

  <input class="typeahead" type="text" placeholder="Choose State">

  <select class="cm-state">
    <option value="">- Choose state -</option>
    <option value="AL">Alabama</option>
    <option value="AK">Alaska</option>
    <option value="CA">California</option>
  </select>

State name:

State code:

I get a jud is not defined error message instead.
Making the jud variable global with window.jud = stateChoice.val(); does not solve the problem either.
What am I missing?

A: First of all, you should fetch jQuery from cdn before fetching typeahead
Secondly, you are declaring jud variable inside the chooseState function, thus it can't be accessed from the typeahead init function on line 20 where you wrote the $('input.typeahead').typeahead({
Check the snippet below.

var jud = ''; // declare 'jud' variable here, so it's global in the first place;
var chooseState = function() {
  // don't declare 'jud' here as it will become local variable for chooseSate function only;
  var stateChoice = $('.cm-state').find('option:selected'),
    stateText = stateChoice.text();
  // seperate jud from var declaration now, just update the global one;
  jud = stateChoice.val();
  console.log(jud);

  if (jud == '') {
    $('#display').hide();
  } else {
    $('#display').fadeIn(150);
  }
  $('#choice span').text(stateText);
  $('#choiceVal span').text(jud);
}

$('.cm-state').on('change', chooseState);

$('input.typeahead').typeahead({
  name: 'typeahead',
  remote: 'search.php?key=%query&jud=' + jud,
  limit: 11,
  // My addition
  complete: chooseState
});

  <input class="typeahead" type="text" placeholder="Choose State">

  <select class="cm-state">
    <option value="">- Choose state -</option>
    <option value="AL">Alabama</option>
    <option value="AK">Alaska</option>
    <option value="CA">California</option>
  </select>

State name:

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The goal of the Scaling Innovation for Sustainability (SIS) Project is to study the scaling out and scaling up of innovations that re-localize the economy and strengthen the resilience and sustainability of communities and regions. Financing this transition to sustainability is a critical component that we want to investigate. The Finance Research Cluster will focus on examining what are the most important components of finance to scaling (out and up) innovations that have proven themselves in one or more contexts and that could have significant impact on sustainability through scaling.
An important starting point for the SIS project is the research of BALTA done under our earlier social economy research program, in particular in the book, The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady State Economy. Though not the only BALTA research relevant to the SIS project, it documents several of the innovations that motivated our interest in this project, in particular, in the food, shelter and energy sectors. Many of these had additional innovations embedded in them, land tenure (community land trusts) and innovations related to localizing and democratizing ownership being two cross-cutting themes. However, the single ingredient cutting across all the innovations is finance. The role of finance in proven innovations and in their scaling is thus a very key strategic area that holds prominence within the SIS project.
Distilling what kinds of finance (type, rate and term) are critical, whether there are distinct features in their structure and delivery, how the capital is mobilized and assembled and from whom; all are important to not only the basic needs innovations but also the issues of how to scale out and up the innovations in finance themselves.
Another issue is the financing of the intermediary infrastructure that the literature and practical experience suggest is critical to diffusing and scaling innovation. What do we know of the blend of financing tools supporting the varied functions intermediaries play and to what extent are they being successfully structured to be self-sustaining, or are they? And if not, what on-going sources of financing are being accessed?
The discussion of scaling financial innovations will also inevitably lead us to discussions of the macro issues in finance and investment that all too often thwart the scaling of proven innovations that could accelerate efforts to construct low carbon local and regional economies.
The Mutual Home Ownership Society is another innovation with promise for financial sustainability. Illustration by Don McNair from The Resilience Imperative: Co-operative Transitions to a Steady State Economy.


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Barthélemy Prieur, född omkring 1536 i Berzieux i Champagne, död 1611, var en fransk bildhuggare.

Prieur var lärjunge till Germain Pilon och utbildade sig vidare i Rom. Han blev hovskulptör 1594. Hans främsta verk finns i Louvren, nämligen en marmorbild av Anne de Montmorency, konnetabel av Frankrike (död 1567), förut befintlig i kyrkan i Montmorency, ädel i uttryck och enkel i hållning; vidare en bild av dennes gemål, likaledes med ett ädelt skildrat huvud, blott något sirlig i draperiet, samt tre figurer i brons, tagna från monumentet över samme Montmorency i Celestinkyrkan: Freden, Rättvisan och Överflödet, "ej alldeles fria i rörelsen, men icke affekterade, och med rikt draperi", som det heter i Nordisk familjebok.

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Franska skulptörer
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In the years after World War II, music was evolving from big-band jazz into the primordial elements of rock 'n' roll — and these louder styles demanded revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fender's tiny firm marketed the first solid-body electric guitar, the Esquire, musicians immediately saw its appeal. Not to be outmaneuvered, Gibson, the largest guitar manufacturer, raced to build a competitive product. The company designed an "axe" that would make Fender's Esquire look cheap and convinced Les Paul — whose endorsement Leo Fender had sought — to put his name on it. Thus was born the guitar world's most heated rivalry: Gibson versus Fender, Les versus Leo.
While Fender was a quiet, half-blind, self-taught radio repairman from rural Orange County, Paul was a brilliant but egomaniacal pop star and guitarist who spent years toying with new musical technologies. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s — including bluesman Muddy Waters, rocker Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton - adopted one maker's guitar or another. By the time Jimi Hendrix played "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock in 1969 on his Fender Stratocaster, it was clear that electric instruments — Fender or Gibson — had launched music into a radical new age, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume never before attainable.
LES PAUL AND LEO FENDER INADVERTENTLY PAVED THE WAY FOR ROCK 'N' ROLL. In "The Birth of Loud," Ian Port traces the invention and evolution of the electric guitar.


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Senator Talbot may refer to:

Isham Talbot (1773–1837), U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1815 to 1819; also served in the Kentucky State Senate
John C. Talbot (1784–1860), Maine State Senate
Matthew Talbot (1767–1827), Georgia State Senate
Ray Herbert Talbot (1896–1955), Colorado State Senate

See also
Albert G. Talbott (1808–1887), Kentucky State Senate


Over 40% of demos at this year's GDC Experimental Gameplay Workshop were about social gaming at live events. The hugely popular J.S.Joust recently won the Innovation award at the Choice Awards. Does this trend require different approaches to game design?
The 100-player co-operative crowd game Renga recently premiered at the SXSW film festival. While Rocket Bullet Storm has its debut projected onto 250 square metres of LED screen. This session discusses the unique game design challenges when creating such unorthodox games.


The Master Program provides students with IT knowledge and skills with a particular emphasis on management and research topics. The aim of the program is to combine technical and business topics wherever possible instead of providing separate courses. The program consists of a broad mandatory common body of knowledge that provides a basis of the electives, providing advanced contents in selective topics. The common body of knowledge covers the areas "IS and Organizations", "IS and Management", and "IS and Development". The curriculum of the master program was designed together with a board of leading Austrian stakeholders from industry and government to meet today's challenges and to give a solid basis for tomorrow's demands.
The course aims to show the relationships between the operational processing of information to provide goods and services and the derivation of management information from these operational data. To illustrate these relationships, Peter presents important types of Information Systems from a technical point of view and Manuela presents the adequate management control methods.
Typical functionalities are derived from business processes and their potential implementation in IT systems is shown. Methods to analyse the data generated in these systems are presented as well as their integration in the processes to manage a company.
The importance to establish a close connection between operational processes and the Information Systems to derive information for management decisions is stressed.
The course provides an introduction into data mining and decision support and provides an overview of basic concepts and methods in classification, regression, and unsupervised learning. Additionally, students will get some hands-on experience with widely used Python data mining libraries, such as Pandas, Scikit-Learn, and Statmodel.
an introduction to graph theory and graph algorithms.
The course focuses on generic concepts, techniques, methods, and open standards for distributed systems.
We do not (explicitly) discuss the implementation of distributed systems via a particular programming language or software platform.
This is one of the competence areas that can be done in the masters programme. It consist of 3 courses, which are described in the sections below.
The focus of this course is model-driven (software) development.
the application of software patterns.
In addition, we will give an overview for the process aspects of software development.
Other (equally important) topics, such as project management or configuration management are not part of this course.
This course aims to provide studentswith an insight into the factors that drive successful IT innovation. The first half of the course introduces to innovation management in general, corporate entrepreneurship and the new phenomenon of companies' successful leveraging of open innovation and user innovation. The second half of the course focuses on innovation diffusion. A detailed look is taken at concrete characteristics of successful digital products and services. What's important when engineering digital products for broader market acceptance? And what does one have to watchout for when judging on the quality of new IT product- and service proposals? How can false trust in hype-cycles be avoided? To answer these questions, human-centred technical design processes as well as economic factors need to beconsidered.
Human-centred and ethical technical design involves not only an understanding of adjusted and more user-centred system development life-cycles, but also insights into the long history of research in technology acceptance models. Here, usability issues are playing a role (i.e.affective, cognitive and physical engineering), but equally important are more general factors of system acceptability such as trust, social compatibility,culture and personality as well as the respect of human values in the design of systems (such as the desire for privacy, control or autonomy). The economic perspective, in contrast, covers a selected number of those market forces which are particularly relevant for IT acceptance and success regardless of product appeal: in particular pricing, standardization and network effects.
Driven by technologies like computers, wireless communications and the internet, the so called "information society" leads to a fast-growing field of law dealing with the legal aspects of these technologies.
This is one of the majors that can be done in the masters programme. It consist of 5 courses, which are described in the sections below.
This is one of the majors that can be done in the masters programme. It is a combination of the competence areas "IS Management and Accountability" and "Sustainable IS" which can also be found under the courses on this website and consists of 6 courses.
This is one of the competence arease that can be done in the masters programme. It consist of 3 courses, which are described in the sections below.
This course gives a short introduction into fundamental mathematical properties of computer hardware and software. In studying this subject we seek to determine what can be and what cannot be computed, how quickly, with how much memory, and of which type of computational model. Computational problems are strongly related to the recognition of particular languages, that is, sets of strings over same given alphabet. Thus we will study various types of automata and characterize the kind of languages that can be recognized by their spective type of machine.
have a finite number of states but no memory. They recognize regular languages which can be described by regular expressions.
are similar to deterministic automata except that they allow to run all possible branches of an algorithm in parallel. Interestingly, nondeterministic automata often are not more powerful than their deterministic counterpart.
are finite automata with a stack added. They recognize languages which are generated by some context free grammar.
are the most powerful machines. They have a finite number of states with an infinite tape added that can be both read and written at arbitrary positions. By the Church-Turing thesis our intuitive notion of algorithm is equivalent to Turing machine algorithms. An important difference to the above machines is, that Turing machines may loop forever. If a Turing machine never loops it is called a decider.
Surprisingly there are languages that are not Turing-recognizable, that is, there are computational problems that cannot be solved by any computer. There also are languages that are Turing-recognizable but not decidable, e.g., the halting problem.
At last we will look at the runtime of algorithms and discuss the P vs. NP problem which is one of the most prominent open problem in computer science.
This course will enable students to learn the theoretical underpinnings of User-Driven System Design. Students will be introduced to practical guidelines and principles for designing and evaluating systems with the user's needs as the primary focus. Topics covered include: Fundamental concepts and theories of Human-Computer Interaction, Methods for studying user interactions with systems, Techniques for evaluating usability of systems, and Approaches for implementing design ideas.The course will follow the principles of active learning. Students will be assigned reading material for analysis and presentation during class. Via various class activities, students will also experience the practical application of the concepts learned in the readings. Participation in class discussions and activities is an essential component of taking the course. At approximately the mid-point of the course, students will turn in a term paper report on an assigned, course-relevant topic. Additionally, students will work on an assigned course-relevant team project in groups of 2 or 3. At the end of the course, the teams will present their project to class and turn in a written report.


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California, USA: 55.405 locations
Woodland Hills, CA US
How much does it rain in Woodland Hills?
During the entire year, Woodland Hills aggregates up to 17.8" (451.3mm) of precipitation.
What is the wettest month in Woodland Hills?
February is the month with the most rainfall in Woodland Hills, California, with 4.6" (118.1mm) of accumulated precipitation.
What is the driest month in Woodland Hills?
July is the month with the least rainfall, with 0" (0.5mm) of accumulated precipitation.
What is the warmest month in Woodland Hills?
With an average high-temperature of 96.6°F (35.9°C) and an average low-temperature of 57°F (13.9°C), August is the warmest month in Woodland Hills, California.
What is the coldest month in Woodland Hills?
With an average high-temperature of 68.4°F (20.2°C) and an average low-temperature of 38.5°F (3.6°C), December is the coldest month.
The warmest month (with the highest average high temperature) is August (96.7°F).
The month with the lowest average high temperature is December (68.4°F).
Months with the highest average low temperature are July and August (57.1°F).
The coldest month (with the lowest average low temperature) is December (38.4°F).
The wettest month (with the highest rainfall) is February (4.7").
The driest month (with the lowest rainfall) is July (0").
Weather Atlas: Woodland Hills, CA - Detailed climate information and monthly weather forecast. Woodland Hills, California, USA - Average monthly weather - Detailed climate information with charts. Temperature, humidity, rainfall, snowfall, daylight, sunshine, UV index, and sea temperature. [2338734]


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The IRS received 100M calls last year. 1 in 4 got through
Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media
Alicia Keys And Yoruba Richen Bringing 'How It Feels To Be Free' Documentary To PBS Tonight
Texas man who stormed Capitol allegedly threatened to shoot kids if they turned him in
FBI releases photos of suspects wanted in alleged assault of officer during Capitol riot
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Because of coronavirus, some people aren't drinking Corona beer
February 28, 2020 admin 163 Views 0 Comment Aren't, because, beer, Corona, coronavirus, Drinking, people, Some
Amid the ongoing havoc being wrought on people and industries by the coronavirus, Corona beer stands out as one unlikely casualty.
As the toll from the fast-moving and deadly virus expands around the globe, the Mexican beer is drawing attention on social media — and not in a good way. According to reports and trends-data provider SEMrush, recent weeks have seen a spike in internet searches for "corona beer virus" and "beer coronavirus." That suggests at least some people are mistakenly linking the Corona brand with the coronavirus despite the alcoholic beverage having absolutely no connection to the virus.
Another case in point: 38% of American beer drinkers surveyed this week said they wouldn'y buy Corona "under any circumstances" at the moment. It's worth noting that, among regular Corona drinkers, only 4% said they would now refrain. Yet 14% of the Corona drinkers admitted they would not order the brand in a public place, found the survey, conducted by 5W Public Relations. Sixteen percent of the beer drinkers surveyed by 5W were confused about whether Corona beer is related to the coronavirus, according to the publicity agency.
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"While the brand has claimed that consumers understand there's no linkage between the virus and the beer company, this is a disaster for the Corona brand. After all, what brand wants to be linked to a virus which is killing people worldwide?" Ronn Torossian, CEO of 5WPR, stated in a news release.
The ad firm reached out to 737 U.S. beer drinkers this week, as concerns about the coronavirus spreading in the U.S. were intensifying.
Finance expert explains markets' coronavirus dip
Another sign the virus could be taking a toll on Corona's brand: A measure of how likely consumers are to buy the beer has fallen to a two-year low, according to figures from YouGov, a market research firm. Corona's "buzz score" — an online gauge of whether adults who know of the brand had heard positive or negative things about it — has skidded to 51 from 75 at the start of the year, YouGov found.
Corona is the third-most popular imported beer in the U.S., with Guinness the favorite and Heineken the second, according to YouGov's rankings.
Corona owner Constellation Brands told CBS MoneyWatch in late January that the company isn't overly concerned about people confusing its beer with the coronavirus. "We believe that consumers, by and large, understand there's no linkage between the virus and our beer/business," a spokesperson emailed CBS MoneyWatch at the time.
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Corona beer halts production during coronavirus pandemic
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Second young elephant dies from virus at New York zoo
A talented England team put the US under pressure but the defending champions won 2-1 to earn a spot in the World Cup final for the third consecutive time
As the debate over when to reopen the US brews, these nations are examples of what that process can look like
Explore a Wonderland Prequel With Down the Rabbit Hole's PSVR Release in March
Cortopia Studios plans to release its Alice in Wonderland prequel, Down the Rabbit Hole on March 26th. The virtual reality


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GHA Chairman: 35% of Workers Risk Losing Their Jobs In Gambia Tourism Industry
By The Chronicle Last updated Sep 26, 2019 835
Bunama Njie, Chairman of the Gambia Hotel Association (GHA)
Bunama Njie, Chairman of the Gambia Hotel Association (GHA) has disclosed that thirty-five (35) percent of workers in the tourism industry are on the brink of losing their jobs as a result of the cancellation of bookings by Thomas Cook.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority announced on Monday that Thomas Cook Group, the biggest tour operating company in the UK will cease trading with immediate effect, with all flights and holidays cancelled all over the globe, revealing that the government had asked Thomas Cook Group to launch a repatriation programme over the next two weeks.
Currently, over one hundred and fifty thousand (150, 000) customers are stranded at various destinations across the world that the company has started repatriating, while urging customers residing in the UK not to turn up to the airports as all bookings are cancelled.
The company is also the biggest tour operating company in The Gambia, supplying up to 40 percent of customers to Gambian hotels. This development has caused pandemonium across the hotel industry of the country, leaving hoteliers in great limbo barely three weeks before the start of winter tourist season.
"We received the cancellation of bookings by Thomas Cook with great shock because we haven't prepared for this situation, especially since it is less than four weeks before the start of the tourist season," said Bunama Njie, Chairman of GHA.
Njie, also the General Manager of Senegambia Beach Hotel, said the cancellation of bookings by Thomas Cook Group for the winter season will have a huge impact not only on hotels and restaurants, but on the government, banks and other service industries that rely on tourism business.
Gambia Tourism Officials To Embark On An Emergency Risk Assessment As Thomas Cook Collapses
According to him, Thomas Cook Group is the biggest tour operating company in the country bringing over 40 percent of tourists to The Gambia, adding that the company's cancellation of booking will affect 70 percent of hotels in the country.
"This is a very stressful time for Gambia's tourism industry because we are expecting more than 35 percent of tourism workers to be laid off from their jobs for this coming season. We can adequately say thousands of Gambian businesses and families will be equally affected by this development," Njie revealed.
He said major hotels such as Senegambia Beach Hotel, Kairaba Beach Hotel, Kombo Beach Hotel, Badala Park Hotel and Tamala Hotel will be affected, adding that tourists, taxi drivers, craft market vendors, fruit sellers among others will be affected too.
The Gambia Hotel Association Chair continued to reveal that his association has engaged some of the existing tour operators such as Gambia Experience, Tui Travel Tours as well as scheduled flight operators in the country in a bid to minimize the damage caused by the abrupt cancellation of Thomas Cook bookings.
Thomas Cook Airline
Njie advised government to look into issues such as reducing operational costs on hotels, municipal taxes including Gambia Revenue Authority taxes. He said this will go a long way in keeping hotels in business otherwise, he said, most hotels may virtually close down operation.
He said the government has to start learning lessons by creating emergency funding in the event that such developments arise, recalling that similar situations such as the "British Travel Advice" and the Ebola endemic should be a learning point for The Gambia Government.
APRC Rejects Gov't White Paper Report; Urges UN, the AU And ECOWAS to Prevail on Gambia Gov't
Major Wassa Camara Maintains Innocence in Bloody Students Demo, TRRC Vows to Probe His Testimony
It Was Gambia's National Day at Expo 2020 Dubai
Malta – Lamin Jaiteh to Court: 'I Crawled Onto the Pavement'
Gambian in Louisville in Adult Literacy for Community
Gambia – Tourism Season Re-opens, Government


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package Bio::EnsEMBL::Variation::Pipeline::EquivalentAlleles::EquivalentAlleles_conf;

use strict;
use warnings;

use base ('Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::PipeConfig::HiveGeneric_conf');

sub default_options {
  my ($self) = @_;

  my $login = `whoami`;
  chomp $login;

  return {

    # general pipeline options that you should change to suit your environment

    hive_force_init => 1,
    hive_use_param_stack => 0,
    hive_use_triggers => 0,
    hive_auto_rebalance_semaphores => 0,
    hive_no_init => 0,

    # the location of your checkout of the ensembl API (the hive looks for SQL files here)

    ensembl_cvs_root_dir    => $ENV{'HOME'} . '/bin/',
    hive_root_dir           => $ENV{'HOME'} . '/bin/ensembl-hive',

    pipeline_name           => 'equivalent_alleles',

    # a directory to keep hive output files and your registry file, you should
    # create this if it doesn't exist

    pipeline_dir            => '/gpfs/nobackup/ensembl/'. $login .'/'. $self->o('pipeline_name') . '/'.  $self->o('species'),

    # a directory where hive workers will dump STDOUT and STDERR for their jobs

    output_dir              => $self->o('pipeline_dir').'/hive_output',

    # a standard ensembl registry file containing connection parameters
    # for your target database(s)

    reg_file                => $self->o('pipeline_dir').'/ensembl.registry',

    # configuration for the various resource options used in the pipeline
    # EBI farm users should either change these here, or override them on the
    # command line to suit the EBI farm.

    default_lsf_options => '-R"select[mem>2000] rusage[mem=2000]" -M2000',
    medium_lsf_options  => '-R"select[mem>4000] rusage[mem=4000]" -M4000',

    # size of region to be checked in a single job
    region_size =>  100000000,

    # size of bin to be checked for equivalent alleles
    bin_size  =>  5000000,

    ## overlap between checking bins
    overlap   => 1000,

    # number of workers used for the parallelisable analysis
    capacity  => 30,

    # connection parameters for the hive database, you should supply the hive_db_password
    # option on the command line to init_pipeline.pl (parameters for the target database
    # should be set in the registry file defined above)

    # init_pipeline.pl will create the hive database on this machine, naming it
    # <username>_<pipeline_name>, and will drop any existing database with this
    # name

    hive_db_host    => 'mysql-ens-var-prod-1',
    hive_db_port    => 4449,
    hive_db_user    => 'ensadmin',

    pipeline_db => {
        -host   => $self->o('hive_db_host'),
        -port   => $self->o('hive_db_port'),
        -user   => $self->o('hive_db_user'),
        -pass   => $self->o('hive_db_password'),
        -dbname => $ENV{'USER'}.'_'.$self->o('pipeline_name') . '_' . $self->o('species'),
        -driver => 'mysql',
    },
  };
}

sub resource_classes {
  my ($self) = @_;
  return {
      'default' => { 'LSF' => $self->o('default_lsf_options') },
      'medium'  => { 'LSF' => $self->o('medium_lsf_options')  },
  };
}

sub pipeline_analyses {
  my ($self) = @_;

  my @common_params = (
      ensembl_registry    => $self->o('reg_file'),
      species             => $self->o('species'),
      pipeline_dir        => $self->o('pipeline_dir'),
  );

  my @analyses;

  push @analyses, (

    { -logic_name => 'init_equivalent_alleles',
      -module     => 'Bio::EnsEMBL::Variation::Pipeline::EquivalentAlleles::InitEquivalentAlleles',
      -parameters => {
          region_size       => $self->o('region_size'),
          overlap           => $self->o('overlap'),
          @common_params,
      },
      -input_ids  => [{}],
      -hive_capacity  => -1,
      -rc_name    => 'medium',
      -flow_into  => {
           2 => [ 'find_equivalent_alleles' ],
           3 => [ 'finish_equivalent_alleles' ]
      }
    },
    {  -logic_name     => 'find_equivalent_alleles',
       -module         => 'Bio::EnsEMBL::Variation::Pipeline::EquivalentAlleles::FindEquivalentAlleles',
       -parameters     => {
             overlap  => $self->o('overlap'),
             bin_size => $self->o('bin_size'),
             @common_params,
        },
       -input_ids        => [],
       -hive_capacity    => $self->o('capacity'),
       -max_retry_count  => 0,
       -rc_name          => 'default',
       -wait_for         => [ 'init_equivalent_alleles' ],
       -flow_into        => {},
    },

    {  -logic_name     => 'finish_equivalent_alleles',
       -module         => 'Bio::EnsEMBL::Variation::Pipeline::EquivalentAlleles::FinishEquivalentAlleles',
       -parameters     => {
           @common_params,
        },
        -input_ids      => [],
        -hive_capacity  => -1,
        -rc_name        => 'default',
        -wait_for       => [ 'init_equivalent_alleles','find_equivalent_alleles' ],
        -flow_into      => {},
    },

  );

    return \@analyses;
}

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Lost Where I Belong
byTRIANA,ANDREYA
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lost Where I Belong
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I'm really glad that I took a chance on Andreya's debut album - this is a beautiful collection of songs. I liken her voice to one of the greats, Roberta Flack - not that she sounds exactly like her but they both have what I call "honey ash" smooth vocals, not powerhouse vocalists but highly emotive vocalists who can make listeners feel their hearts on each verse.
The album gets off to a great start with DRAW THE STARS - a beautiful dreamily arranged track; next is the album's title track, LOST WHERE I BELONG - it's melodic and will have you nodding your head to the beat.
My other favorite tracks include: FAR CLOSER - starts off low key & moody then after the 1st chorus, the tempo picks up. I especially love the musical arrangement using the bass & drum to drive the beat; SOMETHING IN THE SILENCE - very cool bossa nova arrangement; UP IN FIRE - I enjoy the jazz like arrangement of this track & DAYDREAMERS - a stripped down track that allows Andreya's voice to shine.
Two other tracks notable for the lyrics are: DARKER THAN BLUE - a pensive stripped down track & X - sad lyrics about a break-up.
At 9 songs, this is a relatively short album but it's such a diverse collection to listen to that I'm sure it'll appeal to an equally diverse music fan base.
5.0 out of 5 stars Why is this Artist not Topping All the Charts!?
I bought this album after falling love with an unplugged version of "A Town Called Obsolete" amazon had for free. As much as that song impressed me, this album is absolutely masterful. Hauntingly sorrowful and impassioned, imbued by such a lamenting vocal, and an always cool, subtly grooving rhythim, this album may be short, but anything it may "lack" in length, it holds ten-fold in majesty. Another reviewer suggests this as being one of their better "finds" of the year. This is one for the decade in my opinion. Ms. Triana must produce more, artists like this simply can't be overlooked forever. FAVORITE TRACKS: X, Daydreamers, Darker than Blue, A Town Called Obsolete.
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely voice, great songs, a real find
I came to this album after hearing Andreya Triana singing on Black Sands, a Bonobo album that I also highly recommend. I wanted to hear more of her voice, so took a chance on Lost Where I Belong despite it having only a few (but enthusiastic) reviews. I have been listening to it often, as an album or in rotation, frequently ever since I got it. The music works as something to sink into, or as background music as I work at my computer. All of the tracks are good. I tend to enjoy female jazz or blues vocalists, such as Shirley Horn, Roberta Flack, Cassandra Wilson, Abbey Lincoln, and have also recently discovered and love india aries--and I find that Andreya playlists well with these artists. If you are into any of that genre you will love this, and of course if you are a Bonobo fan. Definitely one of my favorite recent purchases.
Celeste Thoms
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best albums I've heard in a long time
I stumbled across this artist while searching for a different artist. Man am I happy I did. Very few albums come out where you can listen to the whole thing and never skip tracks. This is one of those albums. I love every single track because it's got uptempo yet smooth beats, great singing and lyrics. The style is a combination of soul, r&b and jazz. I've been recommending Andreya Triana to every one of my friends and family and they have all loved it. So I am pretty sure if this is your kind of music this is well worth the purchase. She has two official music video out right now, so if you're not convinced, go watch those and then come back and buy it.
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I'm a writer and this album is pretty much the soundtrack to one of my books. This album blends into the background of a great party, but holds its own on full blast in the car. The lyrics tell stories with catchy hooks. This album's like the Mona Lisa--what you get out of it depends on your mood, but all the moods are in there.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Record.
This is a stunning record full of soul and beautiful music. Lyrics with meaning, songs with purpose. The talent that is exhibited on this record feels like something from a past life of music. Reminiscent of Sade, Me'Shell, Lauryn Hill, this record never stops, you can play it all the way through.
I truly think this is what R&B is supposed to be like. Home Run. Must Have.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful song and voice
I cannot tell you how many times I have played this song.
Thanks, Amazon.
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I heard the voice of Andreya Triana on the Bonobo album Black Sand. This is definitely one of the most beautiful voices, along with the voice of Natalia Clavier in Federico Aubele's Gran Hotel Buenos Aires.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful music, beautiful artist.
This album was more wonderful than I expected. I knew it had one favorite song, but was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed all the songs. This was a better-than-expected purchase at an unbeatable price. Thank you.
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Flavel, John. Of the nature and quality of Christ's death. (Acts 2:23) – pdf, 13 pp.
Bolton, Robert. Heart Surgery. (Acts 2:37) – pdf, 25 pp.
Cotton, John. Sin's Deadly Wound. (Acts 2:37) – pdf, 75 pp.
Udall, John. Amendment of Life. (three sermons on Acts 2:37-38) – pdf, 71 pp.
Boston, Thomas. Of Christ's Prophetical Office. (Acts 3:22) – pdf, 26 pp.
Flavel, John. The first branch of Christ's prophetical office, consisting in the revelation of the will of God. (Acts 3:22) – pdf, 13 pp.
Edwards, Jonathan. Unbelievers Condemn the Glory and Excellency of Christ (Acts 4:11) – pdf, 13 pp.
Howe, John. The Funeral Sermon of the Rev. Peter Vink. (Acts 5:20) – pdf, 26 pp.
Cotton, John. A Treatise on the Covenant of Grace. (Acts 7:8) – pdf, 207 pp.
Baxter, Richard. The Last Work of a Believer. (Acts 7:59) – pdf, 57 pp.
Calamy, Edmund. A Funeral Sermon for Christopher Love. (Acts 7:60) – pdf, 20 pp.
Whitefield, George. Saul's Conversion (Acts 9:22) – pdf, 18 pp.
Boston, Thomas. The Duty of Attending Ordinances Enforced. (Acts 10:33) – pdf, 10 pp.
Flavel, John. Christ's advent to judgment, being the fourth and last degree of his exaltation, illustrated and improved. (Acts 10:42) – pdf, 38 pp.
Boston, Thomas. Of Repentance Unto Life. (Acts 11:18) – pdf, 6 pp.
Watson, Thomas. Of Repentance. (Acts 11:18) – pdf, 7 pp.
Bunyan, John. Light for Them That Sit in Darkness. (Acts 13:23) – pdf, 58 pp.
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Henry, Matthew. The Right Management of Friendly Visits (Acts 15:36) – pdf, 12 pp.
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Sedgwick, Obadiah. The Humbled Sinner Resolved. (Acts 16:30-31) – pdf, 320 pp.
Bates, William. The Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell. (Hebrews 2:15; Acts 17:31;Psalm 16:11; Mark 9:48) – pdf, 277 pp.
Edwards, Jonathan. The Final Judgment. (Acts 17:31) – txt.
Whitefield, George. Marks of Having Received the Holy Ghost (Acts 19:2) – pdf, 13 pp.
Baxter, Richard. A sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Henry Stubbs. (Acts 20:24) – pdf, 27 pp.
Baxter, Richard. Gildas Salvianus: The Reformed Pastor. (Acts 20:28) – pdf, 400 pp.
Henry, Matthew. A Funeral Sermon for the Reverend James Owen (Acts 20:37-38) – pdf, 16 pp.
Flavel, John. Preparations for Sufferings (Acts 21:13) – pdf, 81 pp.
Bunyan, John. The Resurrection of the Dead, and Eternal Judgment. (Acts 24:14-15) – pdf, 58 pp.
Durham, James. Six sermons on Acts 24:16 – pdf, 129 pp.
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More on 'how disabled people travel'...
The Department of Transport published its latest 'Transport: disability and accessibility data tables' (DIS04) this week. This is a brief update of my observations on 'how disabled people travel', especially to compare changes with my comments from 2017 (see below).
Travel by private car continues to dominate, with 61% of disabled people's 'main mode' journeys being by car, as either driver or passenger. However, this is down from 66% in 2017. There appeared to be a small shift towards more trips being made as the driver (increasing from 39% to 42%) and markedly fewer trips as a passenger (down from 27% to 19%).
The other main mode to see a percentage fall appears to be by bus - accounting for only 5% of disabled people's trips, compared to 7% previously. Modal share by rail, bicycle and 'other' continued to be very small, while trips by taxi also declined a little (from 3% to 2%). The one mode seeing a significant increase in share was 'walk' (including use of a mobility aid, such as a wheelchair), rising from 18% of all trips to 28% of trips. The patterns here are clearly linked to the COVID 19 pandemic: journeys involving sharing a vehicle (eg as car passenger or by bus) fell significantly.
It is important to note that these are percentages - the actual number of trips made, by both disabled and non-disabled people, fell significantly during the pandemic. We know that disabled people make substantially fewer trips (at least 20%) than non-disabled people in any case. For 2021, the average number of trips by disabled people and non-disabled people were 594 and 821 respectively. For 2018, the respective figures were 743 and 1061.
The only modes which saw disabled people make more trips than non-disabled in 2021 were by car/van passenger (average 115 trips vs 95 trips), bus (32 vs 27), taxi (11 vs 6) and 'other private' (4 vs 3). Disabled people made fewer trips by all other modes.
A few pieces of context: this data is for England only. This means that public transport modes are probably over-represented (compared to Scotland at least) because of the high use of buses, and especially the tube, in London. Also, as with all main mode data, 'stage' journeys are excluded. This means that walking trips are especially under-recorded; none of the walks to and from the bus stop, station or car park are counted. And of course, there's a lot of variety and nuance among how disabled people travel: for example, older disabled people are more likely to use taxis than younger disabled people; who are much more likely to cycle or use the train than older disabled people...
2022: some highlights
With the New Year well underway, here's a short update on some of my work in the past year…
I've just completed a series of street access audits with the lovely folk at the Tweeddale Access Panel in the Scottish Borders, specifically for West Linton, Innerleithen, Walkerburn, Eddleston and Broughton. These built on a 2020 project in Peebles and the new reports should all be available here soon too. It's aways fascinating to visit new places with people who bring their diverse perspectives and insights on how public spaces work (or don't work!) for them. I hope that the reports help achieve some tangible improvements in partnership with Scottish Borders Council, which funded the project.
I'm always pleased to do street audits, especially with a focus on access and inclusion, so please get in touch if you have a project or idea you'd like to discuss!
TAP member Callum in Eddleston
TAP members Paul and Iain in Innerleithen
Another interesting project during the year, was advising Motability in setting up the new 'evidence centre' for accessible travel recently awarded to Coventry University. Interesting too to see a new research Centre for Transport and Mobility (CeTraM) established at Aberystwyth University with an inclusion focus. We already know (too well!) what many of the barriers are to disabled people's mobility are. But hopefully these centres can use research and academic insight, guided by 'lived experience', to influence practical action to make a real difference.
I've also continued to support HcL (Handicabs) as they develop their range of door-to-door and 'through the door' services. A fantastic organisation with decades of experience in delivering 'Demand Responsive Transport' long before it became trendy! smiley
Finally, this year will see completion of my two terms on the Mobility and Access Committee for Scotland (MACS). This will leave a big gap (not least, in my diary!) If you are passionate about making mobility for disabled people easier, you might like to consider applying? Look out for the adverts; I'm very happy to chat informally with anyone who may be interested.
'Floating Bus Stops': an interpretation of evidence
Floating bus stops were first introduced in Edinburgh on Leith Walk in 2016. They attached controversy, because of a perceived increased risk to bus passengers and pedestrians - especially the less mobile. Following publication of two evaluation studies (to a limited group of stakeholders), I have produced this short paper in an attempt to understand what this evidence says about that risk and to draw out some wider conclusions.
fbs_an_interpretation.pdf
An update, September 2020
It's a while since I've provided an update…so here are a few short highlights from this year so far……the Covid19 pandemic has of course changed so much. For me, my work with the Mobility and Access Committee for Scotland (MACS) https://www.transport.gov.scot/our-approach/accessible-transport/mobility-and-access-committee-for-scotland-macs/ has come to the fore, with so much re-thinking of travel and transport assumptions required during and after 'lockdown'.
While there are opportunities to break free from car-dominated conventions, we also need to make sure that changes don't further disadvantage disabled people; I've played a leading role with MACS in trying to make sure this doesn't happen. I've led MACS work on producing guidance for councils and transport operators on temporary street management and assisting disabled passengers respectively, assisted Sustrans prepare their guidance, featured in webinars with Disability Equality Scotland and Sustrans again and represented MACS on the national Transport Transition Planning Advisory Group. Active and accessible travel don't need to be mutually exclusive if we go about it the right way! (Of course, all this activity has been as a member of a public body, not as a consultant.)
Two interesting small projects with Berwickshire Association of Voluntary Service (BAVS) and with SEStran, both on 'demand responsive' transport. While the geographic scope of these were different they both raised similar questions - how can we get the best possible service and value from the network of community and third sector transport providers? Many of these serviceshave provided demand responsive, door-to-door transport for decades and with are sometimes taken a little for granted. The SEStran study https://sestran.gov.uk/news/sestran-strategic-studies/ concluded that the full potential value of these services is undermined by fragile and disjointed funding streams.
I've also continued to support HcL, the long standing Lothians 'dial-a-ride' service with their strategic planning https://www.hcltransport.org.uk This resulted in the agreement of a revised 5 year organisational strategy; inevitably, the pandemic seriously disrupts its implementation as with so many community transport services.
Finally, a couple of written pieces, both broadly on making streets inclusive places for disabled people - for Disability Scotland's Open Door magazine and contribution to an interesting 'special' on active travel in the Geographer from the Royal Society of Geographers in Scotland:
https://www.rsgs.org/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=969efc14-4ac3-410d-9ee1-446dcd3b2001
Of course, if you'd like to know any more about any of this, do get in touch..!
More on 'How disabled people travel…'
I have updated tables showing the number of trips made by people with mobility difficulties in England by mode of transport, taking account of statistics published by the DfT for 2016 and 2017. Disabled people continue to travel significantly less than people with no mobility difficulty. They make more trips as a car passenger and by taxi; and markedly fewer trips by rail and or by bike.
more_on_travel_patterns_of_disabled_people_in_england….pdf
Evidence to Transport Committee Active Travel Enquiry
Here is my evidence submitted to this Inquiry; I know that my principal point - that the balance between walking and cycling is all wrong - may not be universally popular but needs, I think, to be said!
active_travel_enquiry_dh.pdf
Less travel, more dependence?
I've published this new analysis of disabled people's travel using National Travel Survey data for England from 2007 to 2015. This shows the different pattern in the use of certain modes of travel between disabled and non-disabled people, and how travel has changed over time. The most striking finding is that travel by people with mobility difficulties fell by every mode of transport recorded except one. The single exception was travelling 'as a passenger in a car', which increased slightly over this period. This suggests that not only are disabled people travelling less often (as is the general population), but they are also becoming less independent. I would welcome further research aiming to understand the reasons for this, and would be interested to hear about similar longitudinal studies.
less_travel_more_dependence_.pdf
Community Transport licensing
The Department of Transport is currently consulting on community transport (CT) licensing. In short, it believes that CT providers including charities must now adopt PSV licences, if they are 'acting commercially'. Since the 1985 Transport Act, a less onerous licensing regime using 'Section 19' or 'Section22' permits has been the norm for CT groups. According to the DfT, a CT operator is now acting commercially if they charge anything more than a token amount for their services, even if they operate wholly on a not for profit basis. I think this is fundamentally wrong: many charities make some kind of charge for their services without acting commercially. My response to the DfT is here:
ct_nfpp.pdf
Some recent work updates...
… include a couple of interesting projects for Living Streets Scotland. One involved reviewing Kirkintilloch's new 'shared space' street design for access and inclusion aspects. Secondly, I've been preparing a case study called 'Streets for Everyone', based on recent collaboration between Living Streets Scotland, Perth and Kinross Council and the Centre for Inclusive Living P&K. I'm also preparing workshops on this theme in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth.
Finally, I am working with EVOC for a few months, looking at opportunities to redesign community transport support to a number of lunch clubs and day centres.
Seven simple steps to strategic planning (a guide for not for profit organisations)
I have produced this simple, short (2-page) guide on strategic planning for voluntary organisations and other not-for-profit bodies. I hope that this provides some useful tips and guidance especially for smaller organisations that may be daunted by some of the jargon and mystique that so often surrounds business planning. Feedback from anyone who uses this would be welcome!
seven_simple_steps.pdf
Concessionary Travel Review: an opportunity to focus on need, not age
Here is my article in this week's Local Transport Today arguing that a review of the scheme offers a real opportunity to spend more wisely, with a focus on need, not age...(see also blog)
concessionary_travel_ltt.pdf
Blairgowrie Community Street Audit
I was pleased to help Living Streets Scotland carry out a street audit in Blairgowrie and Rattray last month; part of a package of walking initiatives they are carrying out for Perth and Kinross Council. Although the context for a small town like Blairgowrie is different to major cities like Edinburgh or Glasgow, many of the issues are fundamentally the same: dominance of public space by traffic, inadequate pavements and difficulty crossing the road. Hopefully a few 'quick wins' will be delivered, as well as highlighting some of the tough long-term issues.
Rehabilitation International World Congress
I was pleased to be given the opportunity* to talk to the Rehabilitation International World Congress last week in Edinburgh about how involving disabled people in street audits can help make streets better for everyone (you can see the slides here ). These 'inclusive design' principles will also feature in the 'Walkable Communities' workshops I'm presenting for Living Streets Scotland later this month (see below).
* thanks to Edinburgh Napier University and Living Streets Scotland
"Making Communities Walkable"
I'm looking forward to leading three *free* workshops on "Making Communities Walkable" for Living Streets Scotland next month in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Perth. Anyone with an interest in making local streets good for people walking is welcome - e.g. from local authorities, public health, community groups - or just interested individuals. For details and booking please see: http://bit.ly/2duAzHL
Inquiry on Disability and the Built Environment
The UK Parliament's Women and Equalities Committee has launched an Inquiry on Disability and the Built Environment. My short submission (see below) says:
The poor state of British streets is a major obstacle to disabled peoples' mobility.
Significant problems exist with regard both to how streets are designed, and how they are managed.
Effective systems for design and management will benefit everybody (not just disabled people) and need not cost anything at all, if built in from the outset.
Official guidance on barrier-free street design ('Inclusive Mobility') is out of date and needs to be revised.
The 2010 Equality Act has not yet been influential in improving streets for disabled people. The EHRC should bring forward more cases against authorities which fail to take into account the needs of disabled people in street design and maintenance works.
nfpp_builtenvironment.pdf
Partner Update
A short update on some partners I've had the pleasure of working with recently:
SKSScotland, on 'Transforming Community Transport in Argyll and Bute'
http://www.sksscotland.co.uk
Meriel Young, on evaluating support to Gaelic Medium Education
http://www.merielyoung.info
Derek Halden, on 'Smarter Choices, Smarter Places' and Car Club guides
http://dhc1.co.uk/about
David Spaven, on 'Smarter Choices, Smarter Places' for Edinburgh Council and Living Streets Scotland
http://www.deltix.co.uk
Street Reviews and audits, Edinburgh
I've been doing some interesting work over the past few months devising - and implementing - methods for reviewing the walkability of streets in Edinburgh. This work (as an associate for Living Streets Scotland) is funded through Transport Scotland's Smarter Choices Smarter Places programme. The work involved a number of technical reviews, logging the extent to which streets conform to the standards set out in the Council's new Street Design Guidance along with a community street audit of the Cowgate. All streets reviewed are in the Council's capital maintenance programme over the next two years, so the findings can contribute not only to policy but also to the practical works on the ground.
Update September 2016: Report of the Cowgate street audit now available here: http://bit.ly/2covj3Q
Trends in the use of UK dial-a-rides
My new paper on the usage trends of UK dial-a-rides can be downloaded below. This research was carried out as part of my work with Edinburgh dial-a-ride HcL to produce a new organisational strategy (see below); their permission to publish this information is gratefully acknowledged. The study of ten UK services meets an important information gap, as data on the actual use of dial-a-ride is surprisingly hard to find.
The research found that passenger ridership fell in eight of the ten services, and the average annual change in use was a fall of 2.4%. My conclusions are firstly that detailed research is needed to understand the reasons for these usage trends. But I think we also need to take a fresh look at the dial-a-ride model itself, in a time of more accessible buses and taxis and the rise in the number of Motability cars. Having been involved with dial-a-ride services for some thirty years, I hope that the research will encourage new and more imaginative thinking on how dial-a-rides can develop to meet disabled peoples' mobility needs.
trends_in_the_use_of_uk_dial-a-rides.pdf
Street audit: Tollcross
I recently organised a street audit in Edinburgh's Tollcross district for Living Streets Edinburgh (on a voluntary basis). Many of the problems identified are simple things - street clutter, poor pavement surfaces, etc - which can be easily fixed if there's a will. The obstacle presented by the Tollcross junction itself to people on foot is a more fundamental problem. The report has now been published on the Living Streets Edinburgh website - please see a link to the full report below. This was an interesting exercise with excellent involvement of the local community including the Community Council and Access Panel. Discussions are underway with the Council staff and I'm looking forward to seeing improvements on the ground soon!
http://www.livingstreetsedinburgh.org.uk/2015/10/15/tollcross-edinburgh-street-audit-final-report/
Update November 2015 - pleased to report that the derelict phone box in the picture has been removed!
Pleased that HcL (Handicabs) have approved their interim strategy 'Opening Doors' following a major review of their services. The strategy focusses on the twin aims of continuing and improving dial-a-ride and Dial-a-Bus services, while also developing new innovations in meeting the needs of people with mobility challenges.
Client update
Pleased to be working for Bòrd na Gàidhlig, helping to review progress on a number of statutory Gaelic Language Plans, in association with Meriel Young Consulting. Equally pleased to be working again with HcL, the long established accessible transport service, helping to develop long term strategy and business plans.
6 December 2014.
Accessible Transport Strategy for Scotland launched
The Scottish Accessible Transport Alliance (SATA) launched a proposed strategy to make Scotland's transport accessible to disabled people today (9 October 2014). Accompanied by an Action Plan of some 87 specific measures, SATA seeks support and comments from all involved in transport as providers, planners or users, by 16 January 2015. See the SATA website for full details.
Update 5 November 2014: Pleased to see the Scotsman newspaper feature my article on the SATA strategy, written for CILT. The original text can be dowloaded below.
accessible_transport_strategy_scotsman.pdf
'Streets for All' report published
Living Streets Scotland and the Scottish Disability Equality Forum have jointly published a new report (5 August 2014) analysing what each of Scotland's 32 councils say in their published equality outcomes about making streets and public spaces accessible to disabled people. Susan Grasekamp, SDEF Chief Executive Officer, said "We urge Local Authorities to make that commitment towards adopting a more inclusive approach to public spaces". As in its sister report 'Transport for All' (see below), the evidence shows that most councils have yet to make a link between equality outcomes and accessible mobility.
David Hunter, who carried out the research and wrote the report, said "Every council in Scotland - rural or urban - should surely aspire to designing and maintaining streets that make our cities, towns and villages easy for everyone to get around. As councils review and revise their statutory equality outcomes, I hope that more local authorities will make formal commitment to really make 'Streets for All'. "
Download the Streets for All report report below. Or see the Living Streets Scotland website or SDEF website.
streets_for_all.pdf
Councils miss the bus in promoting equal transport for all
A new report - Transport for All? - analysing what Scottish Councils say about transport for disabled people has been published (15 May). It shows that fewer than half of Scottish councils say anything at all about disabled people's transport needs in their published Equality Outcomes. The analysis of the equality outcome statements of councils (a legal requirement under the 2010 Equality Act) shows that only 14 out of 32 local authorities make any reference to accessible transport.
Where councils did talk about transport transport for disabled people, typical aspirations included:
making bus services more accessible (Aberdeenshire, Edinburgh)
providing door-to-door services (Aberdeenshire, Dundee, Shetland)
aiming to improve infrastructure (Angus, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire)
improving information (Highland, Shetland)
assisting disabled motorists (Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire).
Report author David Hunter said: "Given that councils have a lot of influence on transport services - from taxis to buses to community transport - it is surprising and a little disappointing that more councils haven't committed to making transport more accessible for disabled people in their areas. The research does however highlight some examples of good practice and I hope that all councils can learn from these as they review the progress they have made on implementing Equality Outcomes next year."
accessible_transport_equalities.pdf