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Reference exchange rate on Jan 30: 23,611 VND/USD, rising 6 VND after Tet; Euro and Pound up but Yen down Support activities for Vietnamese workers in the RoK implemented Vietnam attends fifth International Conference For World Balance in Cuba Da Lat honoured with ASEAN Clean Tourist City Award 2022 Gasoline stations normally operated to serve the travel needs of people during Tet
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Nam Định 28°C
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Review on external from Nov. 7-13: German Chancellor's visit to Vietnam, Prime Minister's busy week in Cambodia
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WVR - Review on a number of news headlines on external affairs from November 7-13 by The World and Vietnam Report.
Reference exchange rate on Jan 30: 23,611 VND/USD, rising 6 VND after Tet; Euro and Pound up but Yen down
Support activities for Vietnamese workers in the RoK implemented
Vietnam attends fifth International Conference For World Balance in Cuba
40th, 41st ASEAN Summits officially opened in Phnom Penh. (Photo: VNA)
Leaders' activities
On November 10, at the Presidential Palace, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Organization Committee of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Sisay Leudetmounsone. President Phuc suggested Vietnamese and Lao Parties' Organisation Commissions deepen their political ties toward effectiveness and substantive outcomes, support each other, and exchange experience in Party building. On the same day, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue received Politburo member Sisay Ludetmounsone.
On November 9, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Governor of South Australia State Frances Adamson in Hanoi. President Phuc affirmed that Vietnam always attaches great importance to promoting the strategic partnership with Australia, an important development partner of Vietnam in the South Pacific and also a comprehensive strategic partner of ASEAN.
On November 13, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a welcome ceremony for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz who is paying an official visit to Vietnam. This is Mr. Olaf Scholz's first visit to Vietnam as Chancellor of Germany.
On November 13, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a welcome ceremony for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for an official visit to Vietnam. (Photo: Nguyen Hong)
During the week, at the invitation of the Prime Minister of Cambodia, ASEAN Chair 2022, Samdech Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Vietnamese delegation have an official visit to Cambodia from November 8-9, attending the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits and related Summits from November 10-13.
On November 8, after the official welcome ceremony, Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held talks and witnessed the signing of cooperation documents, attending Vietnam-Cambodia Trade and Investment Promotion Forum.
During the visit, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called on King Norodom Sihmoni of Cambodia; had meetings with President of the Senate of Cambodia Samdech Say Chhum, President of the National Assembly of Cambodia Samdech Heng Samrin; received Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An; visited Cho Ray Hospital-Phnom Penh and Vietnam-Cambodia Telecommunications Company (Metfone); met with Embassy staff, business representatives and the Vietnamese community in Cambodia.
On November 9, 2022, Vietnam and Cambodia issued Joint Statement on the occasion of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's two-day official visit to Cambodia, affirming the resolve to further consolidate and develop their friendship and cooperation in an increasingly substantive and effective manner.
From November 10-13, along with attending the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits and nearly 20 related Summits; including ASEAN Summits with partners as China, the United States, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, the United Nations, etc, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had 16 bilateral meetings with leaders of ASEAN countries and ASEAN partners such as Prime Minister of Laos Phankham Viphavanh, Premier of China Li Keqiang, Prime Minister of Japan Kishida Fumio, President of Republic of Korea Yoon Suk Yeol, President of the United States Joe Biden, Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Thailand Prayut Chan-o-Cha, Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, President of the Philippines Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, President of Indonesia Joko Widodo, Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar, Speaker of the House of Representatives of Malaysia Tan Sri Azhar Azizan Harun and Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, President of the World Economic Forum.
On November 8, President of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue received comrade Homero Acosta Álvarez, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary General of the National Assembly and Cuban State Council who is on a working visit to Vietnam.
Activities of the Foreign Minister
During the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son had seperate meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (November 12), Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba (November 11), Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo (November 9).
Vietnam-Philippines strategic partnership sound progress: Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son and Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Enrique Manalo at their meeting in Cambodia on November 9, 2022, within the framework of the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits and related Summits.( Photo: WVR)
Earlier, on November 10, Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son attended preparatory meetings of ASEAN Foreign Ministers in Phnom Penh to review the preparations for the 40th, 41st and 41st ASEAN Summits and related Summits.
Bilateral activities
From November 8-9, on the occasion of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's official visit to Cambodia, attending the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits and related summits from November 10-13, Standing Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Minh Vu gave an interview on the significance of the visit to Vietnam-Cambodia relations and the importance of the ASEAN Summits.
On the same occasion, Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Nguyen Huy Tang shared about Vietnam's contributions to the regional organization in the year of Cambodian ASEAN Chair 2022, as well as the host country's organizational work.
On November 11, in an interview on the threshold of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's official visit to Vietnam (November 13-14), Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Vu Quang Minh stressed that the visit is of great significance, as Vietnam and Germany are successfully implementing Strategic Partnership Agreement over the past decade as well as gaining great achievements in economic and trade cooperation after more than two years enforcing the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA). The Ambassador believed that the visit will open up a new chapter in the two countries' friendship and cooperation, with the joint commitment and determination to lift the ties to a new height.
On November 11, the event "Meet Korea 2022" took place in Thu Dau Mot city, Binh Duong province. The event is part of series of activities to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Korea organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with Binh Duong province.
On November 8, speaking at the 5th Anniversary of the Vietnam-Canada Comprehensive Partnership, Canadian Ambassador to Vietnam Shawn Perry Steil affirmed that Canada is committed to and continues to promote greater cooperation within Vietnam in the field of defense and security with priority given to training for Vietnamese armed forces, especially in peacekeeping, as Vietnam is to play an increasingly active role in the world.
On November 8, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Pakistan-Vietnam relations, talking with the World & Vietnam Newspaper, Pakistani Ambassador to Vietnam Samina Mehtab expressed her belief that after half a decade journey with various milestones, Pakistan-Vietnam relations will continue to move forward with new with new initiatives to fully explore the abundant potentials between the two countries.
Conference reviews 50 years of Vietnam-Pakistan diplomatic ties: Participants at the conference posed for photo. (Photo: Minh Quan)
On the same day, the Embassy of Pakistan in collaboration with the Institute for Indian and Southwest Asian Studies (VIISAS) under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) organized an international conference reviewed 50 years of Vietnam-Pakistan relations in the hybrid format. The event was attended by Assistant Foreign Minister Le Thi Thu Hang, Pakistani Ambassador to Vietnam Samina Mehtab, Vice Director in charge of the Institute for Indian and Southwest Asian Studies, Dr. Pham Cao Cuong, and many foreign representatives, representatives of Vietnamese related ministries, scholars and media.
Multilateral activities
On November 10, in Hanoi, the Ministry of National Defense of Vietnam held the 23rd Conference of Army Commanders of ASEAN countries (ACAMM-23) with the theme "ASEAN Army Cooperation for Peace".
On November 9, in Hanoi, the 10th Conference of ASEAN Senior Non-Commissioned Officers (ASMAM-10) took place under the chair of Colonel Nguyen Le Phuong, Deputy Director of the Institute for Defence International Relations under the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence.
On November 9, Ambassador Vu Ho, Head of the ASEAN SOM of Vietnam, led the Vietnamese delegation to attend the meeting of ASEAN Senior Officials in preparation for the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits and the ASEAN Summits.
On November 7, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Session 77 discussed the topic of improving the operational efficiency of the UN General Assembly. At the session, Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), emphasized the need to improve the performance of the UNGA, a deliberative, decision-making and widely representative body of the United Nations, and to ensure the transparency in the making of decisions and resolutions.
On the same day, at the meeting of the UN Special Political and Decolonisation Committee (Fourth Committee), the 77th UN General Assembly, Vietnam called on countries and donors to maintain and increase their financial support to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Counselor Do Ngoc Thuy, a representative of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the UN, stressed the need to ensure funding for Palestine refugees and to contribute to stabilising the situation in the area. However, the support should not be considered a replacement of a long-term solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
On November 9, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson of Le Thi Thu Hang updated information concerning Myanmar-flagged fishing vessel LADY R3, which was carrying the 305 Sri Lankans to Canada, broke down and drifted at sea about 258 nautical miles to the southeast of southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province's Vung Tau cape.
According to the Spokesperson, more than 300 Sri Lankans are in stable conditions and have been provided with temporary accommodations. The Foreign Ministry informed the Sri Lanka Embassy in Hanoi and it was closely coordinating with certain international organisations, relevant agencies and Ba Ria-Vung Tau province to provide with humanitarian aid in line with Vietnamese law and international practice.
Review on external affairs from Oct.31-Nov.6: Party leader's successful visit to China; Vietnam- Denmark strengthen green growth cooperation
Review on external affairs from Oct.24-30: General Secretary to visit China; Deepening Vietnam-Cambodia cooperation
Review on external affairs from Oct.17-23: UN Secretary-General's visit to Vietnam; promoting ties with Singapore, Korea
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FASAP now plans to request the court order PAL to rehire any cabin crew already affected by the order and provide them with due compensation. Furthermore, PAL management expressed its desire to move discussions on the retirement age issue for the CBA. The carrier has requested the government give the airline time to find replacement pilots, as it cannot stop pilots from leaving PAL.
It said the priority is to put a closure to the previous CBA which has been under discussion for the past three years.
However, PAL now expects lower passenger numbers during its "lean season", typically between August and November. Cost cutting plans lead to labour issues Under its plans to improve its financial standing, the carrier announced plans to spin off three non-core businesses - in-flight catering services, airport services and call centre reservations operations — to reduce its workforce from 7, to 3, Mr Baustista commented that as those to be affected by retirement ages of less than 60 are still a number of years away from being effected by the issue, negotiations could be postponed.
The carrier stated the resignations were a violation of their contracts with the carrier, as well as pertinent government regulations that require resigning pilots to give PAL six months prior notice to be able to train their replacements.
Mr Bautista stated it is still complying with its rehabilitation plan, despite its failure to meet profit targets.
As he welcomed calls for more relaxed access to the Philippines, he said all airlines with existing capacity rights to Clark, Cebu, Davao and other areas should be encouraged to mount more flights to these areas to decongest Manila and promote nationwide tourism.
He added that if the carrier goes ahead with the restructure, PAL will be close to the ideal employee-per-aircraft ratio which is less than to one widebody.
It added that passenger can be transferred to any of its interline partners if strike action is launched. PAL denied the claims. Mr Bautista stated the shareholders approved plans to implement a quasi-reorganisation of the carrier last year, but PAL was unable to implement the plans as it was unable to attract new investors.
PAL warned the government that if its pilots issues continue, the local airline industry may soon collapse. The carrier attributed the loss to weak demand, particularly in the international market.
A number of tourism industry members have called on the government to help PAL resolve its labour issues. The Philippines plans to temporarily implement an open skies policy, and is in talks with foreign carriers to operate additional services to the country. PAL now plans to file appropriate charges against the pilots.
Those hired after Nov, on the other hand, will be retired by the age of 40 for both males and females. The move will allow outside investors to more easily acquire a larger voting block in the carrier.
However, the plans led to commencement of a number of labour issues for the carrier. Mr Tan meanwhile stated Philippine Airlines would not be sold by the company, despite ongoing losses. DoLE stated it is willing to immediately resolve the labour dispute between Philippine Airlines and its cabin crew, once the case is filed before the agency.
It also plans to downsize its medical, information technology and human resource units.
Under the existing CBA, male and female flight attendants who were hired before Nov would be retired once they reach 60 and 55 years old, respectively, and those hired from and beyond would be retired at age 45 for both males and females.
FY to FY Source: Pilots jump ship, flight attendants want more money The issue has sparked a number of other labour issues, including the recent resignation of a number of pilots and plans by cabin crew to launch strike action due to a lack of pay.
PAL has 19 widebody aircraft. FASAP also said a number of cabin crew have also transferred to foreign airlines, due to a lack of tenure security and labour issues.
Mr Bautista responded stating the carrier is in the process of using international standards to improve operations, including a reduction in in-flight crew numbers on trans-Pacific services. The union stated the carrier does not have sufficient bases for retrenching workers as this should only be done in the case of serious and imminent losses.Cebu Pacific implements additional security measures for flights to Guam.
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A campanha presidencial de Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo começou com o seu anúncio no dia 27 de julho de 1985. Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, ex-Primeira-Ministra de Portugal entre agosto de 1979 e janeiro de 1980, havia sido alvo de especulações generalizadas como potencial candidata em 1986, com várias sondagens desde 1983 a darem a vitória.

Sondagens

Primeira volta

Segunda volta

Maria de Lurdes Pintassilgo contra Diogo Freitas do Amaral

Maria de Lurdes Pintassilgo contra Mário Soares

Candidatura
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo anunciou a sua candidatura a 27 de julho de 1985, em
Lisboa e perante mais de mil pessoas e formalizou-a junto do Tribunal Constitucional a 10 de dezembro de 1985, com cerca de 15 000 assinaturas.

Organização da candidatura
O diretor da campanha foi Rodrigo de Sousa e Castro, major do Exército e militar da Revolução dos Cravos

Membros da Comissão Política
A Comissão Política da candidatura de Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo era constituída por 300 elementos, entre os quais:
 Alberto Amaral
 António Fonseca Ferreira
 Augusto Mateus
 Cesário Borga
 Emídio Rangel
 João Vieira
 José Cardoso Pires
 Manuel Gomes Guerreiro
 Maria Velho da Costa
 Nikias Papanikailis
 Nuno Grande (mandatário nacional)
 Rodrigo de Sousa e Castro (coordenador e director de campanha)

Mandatários distritais
 Coimbra: Luís Melo Biscaia
 Lisboa: Fisher Lopes Pires
 Porto: Virgílio Moreira
 Setúbal: Mário Moura

Resultados da eleição
Sem o apoio de qualquer máquina partidária e gozando do prestígio que recolhera enquanto primeira-ministra, formalizou a sua candidatura em 9 de dezembro de 1985 com cerca de 15 000 assinaturas e surgia como a candidata mais bem posicionada nas sondagens, recolhendo elevadas percentagens das intenções de voto. Todavia, na primeira volta foi preterida em face dos candidatos de esquerda dotados de apoios dos partidos políticos. Os resultados eleitorais traduziam o triunfo dos aparelhos partidários sobre as apostas singularizadas, penalizando fortemente aquela que havia sido a candidatura mais personalizada, a sua, com 7,4% dos votos.

Notas: Nenhum: 23,1%; Não responde: 6,5%.

 Alberto João Jardim: 13%; Mário Firmino Miguel: 9,2%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 38,7%.

 Francisco Lucas Pires: 10,6%; Mário Firmino Miguel: 10,5%; Adelino da Palma Carlos: 3,6%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 36,1%.

 Francisco Lucas Pires: 13,9%; Francisco Pinto Balsemão: 3,3%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 45,1%.

 Alberto João Jardim: 13,2%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 46,8%.

 Álvaro Cunhal: 7,7%; Francisco Lucas Pires: 7,2%; Francisco Pinto Balsemão: 4,2%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 39,2%.

 Alberto João Jardim: 15,2%; Álvaro Cunhal: 7,4%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 42,5%.

 Alberto João Jardim: 13,2%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 40,1%.

 Francisco Pinto Balsemão: 7,1%; Francisco Lucas Pires: 5,4%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 40,6%.

 Alberto João Jardim: 15,2%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 42,5%.

 Francisco Lucas Pires: 7,2%; Francisco Pinto Balsemão: 4,2%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 39,2%.

 Francisco Lucas Pires: 9,8%; Carlos Mota Pinto: 6,7%; Mário Firmino Miguel: 4,6%; Alberto Franco Nogueira: 2,2%; Manuel da Costa Braz: 1,5%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 45,7%.

 João Bosco Mota Amaral; 9%; Mário Firmino Miguel: 7%; Carlos Mota Pinto: 1%; Amadeu Garcia dos Santos: 1%; Almeida e Costa: 0%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 33%.

 Alberto João Jardim: 6,8%; Francisco Lucas Pires: 6,6%; Carlos Mota Pinto: 6%; Francisco Pinto Balsemão: 4,2%; Carlos Brito: 2,9%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 25,4%.

 João Bosco Mota Amaral; 9%; Mário Firmino Miguel: 5%; Carlos Mota Pinto: 3%; Amadeu Garcia dos Santos: 1%; Almeida e Costa: 0%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 39%.

 Francisco Lucas Pires: 6,2%; Carlos Mota Pinto: 5,4%; Mário Firmino Miguel: 5,1%; Manuel da Costa Braz: 0,7%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 56,3%.

 João Bosco Mota Amaral; 10%; Mário Firmino Miguel: 4%; Carlos Mota Pinto: 2%; Amadeu Garcia dos Santos: 1%; Almeida e Costa: 0%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 38%.

 João Bosco Mota Amaral; 10%; Mário Firmino Miguel: 4%; Carlos Mota Pinto: 1%; Amadeu Garcia dos Santos: 1%; Almeida e Costa: 0%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 32%.

 Mário Firmino Miguel: 4,4%; Carlos Mota Pinto: 3,4%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 49,7%.

 João Bosco Mota Amaral; 11%; Mário Firmino Miguel: 4%; Carlos Mota Pinto: 2%; Amadeu Garcia dos Santos: 1%; Almeida e Costa: 0%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 33%.

 Carlos Mota Pinto: 8,7%; Mário Firmino Miguel: 5,8%; Manuel da Costa Braz: 1%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 36%.

 Carlos Mota Pinto: 8,2%; Mário Firmino Miguel: 1,3%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 35%.

 Francisco Lucas Pires: 10,6%; Mário Firmino Miguel: 10,5%; Adelino da Palma Carlos: 3,6%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 36,1%.

 Alberto João Jardim: 13%; Mário Firmino Miguel: 9,2%; Abstenções, nulos e brancos: 38,7%.

Ligações externas
 Documentos da candidatura de Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo no site do Ephemera
 [https://arquivos.rtp.pt/conteudos/reuniao-de-apoio-a-maria-de-lurdes-pintasilgo/
Reunião de apoio a Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo no site da RTP Arquivos]
 [https://arquivos.rtp.pt/conteudos/comissao-politica-de-maria-de-lourdes-pintasilgo/
Comissão Política de Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo no site da RTP Arquivos]

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Eleanor Roosevelt Letter Signed Re: The Meaning Of Civil Rights
Eleanor Roosevelt Letter Signed Re: The Meaning Of Civil Rights:
Eleanor Roosevelt on the Meaning of Civil Rights
"Something has to happen to people's souls before they are going to give the rights of citizenship to all the people of our country, regardless of color or creed. That does not mean you have to ask them to dinner. It only means giving them the rights that go with citizenship."
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. Typed Letter Signed, to "Harry," Washington, D.C., February 19, 1944. 2 pp., 6¼ x 9¼ in. On White House stationery.
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I have never been, as you know, opposed to a year of universal service for all young people, boys and girls, nor do I object to a certain amount of military training in that year. I do not want it to be only military training because I consider that wasteful.
I quite agree with you that a year of this type of contact would be good for your young people, but it would not solve the colored question because you would find them setting up separate projects just as they are doing in the Army today for colored and white.
The right to an equal opportunity for an education.
The right to equal justice before the law.
The right to obtain a job according to their ability to hold it.
The right to participate in the government through the ballot.
To change the subject—I have a plea from Margot Haas to help them think up ways of collecting money. I think Mrs. David Levy will help them and Mr. Baruch told Trude yesterday that he was waiting for you to see him again, so I am sure he will give something if you will go to see him again. I would try to get $5000. Evidently they have not been able to pay salaries and I imagine none of them have so much laid aside that this can go on long.
[signed] Eleanor Roosevelt
[handwritten]: Mrs. Levy practically agreed she would give them a monthly subscription as I do.
Eleanor Roosevelt was a staunch advocate for equal rights, whether women's rights, international human rights, or civil rights for African Americans. She began her social activism in the early twentieth century by working at the College Settlement in Manhattan's Lower East Side. There, Roosevelt taught physical education to the children of immigrants. It exposed her, and her future husband, to the plight of impoverished industrial workers, and helped open FDR to the possibilities of helping alleviate poverty and social problems.
After FDR became President, Eleanor toured the nation, witnessing the effects of the Great Depression on rural areas, especially in African American communities. She then pressured the Subsistence Homestead Administration to allow African Americans into Arthurdale, a planned community designed to create economic self-sufficiency. Her efforts failed, but it highlighted the depths of institutional racism in the United States. Roosevelt lobbied for civil rights inside her husband's administration and to the general public via radio and print media. She fought against lynching and segregation, even resigning her membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution when they barred black opera singer Marian Andersen from performing in Constitution Hall. Instead, Roosevelt arranged for Andersen to sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and urged media outlets to promote the concert on television and radio.
Here, she is addressing the lynchpin of civil rights: equal protection of the laws and equal opportunity in education and the marketplace. These things, she believes, are the responsibility of government, while changing peoples' minds would take a more significant effort. Her tone suggests some familiarity with "Harry," as she addresses him by first name and signs "Affectionately" instead of her usual, more formal letters to "Mr." or "Miss," and more serious closings such as "Very Sincerely Yours."
Despite her efforts, segregation was the norm in many early New Deal programs, as well as the armed services during the war. Here, Roosevelt feared the same thing occurring in a proposed postwar national service initiative. "As World War II was coming to an end, the House...established the Select Committee on Post-War Military Policy," according the National Archives and Records Administration...."The select committee was directed to study postwar military requirements." In typical fashion, Roosevelt recommended that the universal service include more than just military training.
Adele Rosenwald Levy (1892-1960) was the daughter of wealthy Chicago businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald. She married David Levy, her second husband, in 1927. When the couple moved to New York City, she began her own philanthropic work. Over the course of her life, she served for many charitable and artistic foundations: the Citizens Committee on Children of New York City, Play Schools Association, Stadium Concerts, Inc. and she sat on the board of trustees of Brandeis University and on the executive committees of the Museum of Modern Art, New York State Youth Commission, New York City Youth Board, and the Wiltwyck School for Boys, where she also served as first vice president. Levy collected many awards for her service. During World War II, Levy became the first chair of the National Women's Division of the United Jewish Appeal and served as vice chair of the Committee of Displaced Persons. In the immediate aftermath of the war, Levy was an instrumental fundraiser in helping settle Holocaust survivors.
Margot Haas was a civil rights activist who was apparently in search of funding. In 1951, Haas published a book entitled How to Conduct a Community Self-Survey of Civil Rights, which was the culmination of an American Jewish Congress project that began in 1944. Considering the other names mentioned, including financier and statesman [Bernard] Baruch and Levy, it is likely that the "subscription" mentioned went towards supporting UJA or another similar Jewish philanthropic organization.
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State Government extends free meningococcal vaccine for young children
Sarah BrookesHills Avon Valley Gazette
THE State Government has announced it will extend the state-funded meningococcal ACWY vaccine program with new figures showing just 55 per cent of children aged one to four years are vaccinated against the deadly disease.
Meningococcal disease is an uncommon, life-threatening illness caused by a bacterial infection of the blood and/or the membranes that line the spinal cord and brain.
In Western Australia, 76,000 children aged one to four have received a meningococcal ACWY vaccine – this represents 55 per cent of children in this age group. More than 61,000 children remain unprotected.
Of the 36 cases of invasive meningococcal disease reported in this year, 17 of these cases have been in children aged four and under who had not received the ACWY vaccine.
The State-funded program will also be extended to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged six weeks. Aboriginal children represent more than 90 per cent of meningococcal disease cases in under five-year-olds that could have been prevented by the meningococcal ACWY vaccine.
Health Minister Roger Cook said parents should not put off vaccinating their child.
"Meningococcal disease is deadly, and I ask parents to take advantage of this extended program and ensure their children are protected against this disease," he said.
"We know that children under five have the highest attack rate of this disease, and now is the time to act.
"Get your child vaccinated – all it takes is a simple trip to an immunisation clinic or GP and it could save their life."
Symptoms of meningococcal disease include fever, headache, neck stiffness, muscle or joint pains, nausea and a rash of red-purple spots or bruises. In babies, symptoms can include fever, rapid breathing, rash, vomiting, irritability or drowsiness. Medical assistance should be sought immediately for anyone experiencing such symptoms.
The Department of Health will be sending out reminders to parents whose children have not yet been vaccinated to ensure they do not miss out.
Meningococcal disease case numbers 2013 to 2018:
Year No. of cases
2018 36*
* 2018 is year-to-date data. Of these 36 cases, 17 have been in children under five years of age.
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Appeal filed in bloggers-aren't-journalists case
On January 6, 2012 By Dan KennedyIn First Amendment, Free speech, Media
Lawyer-blogger Eugene Volokh has filed an appeal in the matter of the Montana blogger who lost a $2.5 million libel case after a federal judge ruled she was not entitled to the legal protections enjoyed by journalists.
"The motion for new trial," Volokh writes, "argues that the First Amendment applies equally to all who speak to the public, whether or not they belong to the institutional media."
I wrote about the case last month for the Huffington Post. In a nutshell, U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez ruled that Crystal Cox, a self-described "investigative blogger," could not be considered a journalist under Oregon law, where she was sued. Hernandez wrote that he reached that conclusion because Cox did not work for a newspaper or broadcast outlet, and because she lacked training and failed to demonstrate professional standards.
Hernandez's ruling had two effects. First, Cox could not invoke Oregon's shield law to protect her source or sources, whose identity was sought by the plaintiffs, a financial-services company and one of its executives. That ruling was actually of little account, since even established media organizations can't invoke shield laws to defend themselves against libel suits.
Of far more importance was Hernandez's ruling that the plaintiffs would not have to prove Cox had acted negligently — only that what she had published was false and defamatory. In the 1974 case of Gertz v. Robert Welch, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that libel plaintiffs must prove the defendant acted with some degree of fault, with negligence as the lowest standard the states could require. But, seizing on an ambiguity in the wording, Hernandez claimed the Gertz protection only applies to professional journalists.
Volokh, by contrast, argues that the U.S. Supreme Court has made it clear for many decades that journalists do not enjoy any special protections under the First Amendment — meaning that any rulings the court has made about the press apply to everyone, not just to those carrying a press pass from a newspaper or television station. (Which was the main thrust of my Huffington Post commentary.) According to the brief, filed by Volokh and Benjamin Souede:
[W]hile the Oregon Supreme Court's decision establishes what Oregon state libel law is, it is the judgments of the United States Supreme Court that are controlling on the First Amendment question. The United States Supreme Court has never held that the institutional press enjoys such extra rights. All the federal courts of appeals that have considered this question have specifically held that the institutional press lacks any such extra rights.
As several people who've looked at this case have reported, most notably David Carr of the New York Times, there is ample evidence that Crystal Cox's conduct was reprehensible, and that the plaintiffs — Obsidian Financial Group and one of its executives, Kevin Padrick — might easily have won their libel case even if they had been required to meet the Gertz negligence standard.
What makes this case important is not Cox, but rather the principle that all of us — not just professional journalists — should be able to speak and write freely without inadvertently running afoul of libel laws.
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Nice post, thanks for staying on top of the case. Is the appeal staying within Oregon's court system? Do you think it would head to the US Supreme Court, if it comes to that?
Do you think that because "Cox's conduct was reprehensible," that it hurts the core argument of free speech freedoms? That is, if her acts were more professional, could she have enjoyed greater protection under the law?
@David: Thank you. It's been in the federal courts all along because it's a diversity case — the defendant is in one state and the plaintiffs are in another. But the federal judge does have to show deference to Oregon's libel laws. I expect what will happen is that the federal appeals court will throw out Hernandez's ruling, and the case will go to trial again, this time with the negligence standard in effect. And Cox will lose again. Which is fine. At least the principle will be upheld.
Thanks Dan, I just re-read it and noticed you said "US District Judge…" but thanks for clarifying. Is there any chance Hernandez's ruling would be upheld? I haven't been following this case closely, but it obviously has far-reaching implications. Would this decision serve as precedent for future cases about free speech being universal and not only provided to institutional media?
@David: I think it's extremely unlikely that Hernandez will be upheld, but who knows? And then that would be the controlling opinion in that circuit, though not nationally. Perhaps the Supreme Court would have to clear it up. I think that would be good news, since this court seems unlikely to issue an opinion that would carve out special privileges for professional journalists.
Tish Grier
While I agree with you on principle on all of us being able to speak and write freely, what Cox did was irresponsible and harmful. I looked at her blogs, and they were most certainly set up with no standards at all–not even good blogging standards. The intention of the blogs, to my eyes, is clearly to defame Padrick and Obsidian, without offering proof, and to generate income from these statements. How do I know the latter? Well, knowing a tad about SEO, and the way her linking system works, and the kinds of ads she's running, even the slightest mouse-over could generate income for her. To use a cliche: this is no way to run a railroad! As a blogger, I'm ashamed of people like Cox and believe that they continue to take advantage of a great technology that is there in part to bring out voices that can change things for the better–not defame others to create income for ourselves.
@Tish: Agreed. If this case is retried with the Gertz negligence standard in effect, as it should have been the first time, I'm confident Cox will lose again.
L.K. Collins
Oregon is in the Ninth Circuit, one of the most liberal and oft-overturned circuit courts in the nation.
Their decision will be an interesting read.
Crystal L. Cox
So odd so many talking about me and clueless to the facts of the case and my "actions" "reprehensible" really? That is NOT true, you have not researched the facts and are only going by what the yammerings of others are. Read documents, and facts and find out the truth.
Also it was NOT a filing for an appeal, it is a filing for a new trial and with the same arguments I made, made again and in depth more. Why do you say I will lose again? You dont even know the facts, I had NO actual Malice, I gave over 500 documents of source information. I have investigated this story for over 3 years, read thousands of pages, watched videos of meetings and depositions, read court cases and tax filings, LLC documents, bankruptcy code and Kevin Padrick is not in the White Light, Do your Homework.
You ashamed of Me Trish, Really? And no proof, really? I link to videos, documents, bankruptcy codes, depositions and more and gave the judge all of this source information. My blogs are to expose corruption, have been for over 6 years and not to defame, to EXPOSE.
David Carr did not have "ample" evidence. Forbes and the New York Times defamed me, that email was a Settlement Communication, it was in response to a cease and desist to offer a settlement. And that email was taken out of context, it was back and forth emails between two attorneys as I was pro se and the email was sent after the lawsuit was filed. Find your facts before you shoot the messenger, meanwhile ignoring the message of rampant corruption in the Bankruptcy Courts.
Christopher King, J.D.
Crystal I have supported you and will continue to do so at least on the classification as journalist.
http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2011/12/kingcast-open-letter-to-lucy-dalglish.html
KingCast open letter to Lucy Dalglish regarding online journo Crystal Cox: Federal Judge Marco Hernandez is wrong, she is a Journalist.
Hey Crystal,
File a Motion to Set Aside the Judgment or Verdict and file an appeal.
First read the definition of journo with respect to the FOIA. I have a pending appeal on that. Read the links carefully including the fact that NH clearly sees bloggers as journos when you have a track record in the implode explode case, also stemming from the mortgage industry.
http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2011/10/kingcast-catching-up-with-martha.html
Also a Federal Court Judge ruled that I am "an african american journalist" even though I have not worked for a mainstream press in 20 years…..
Meanwhile when it comes to who is or who is not a journo, look no further than the subject of substantial coverage by Dan himself…. one Mike Barnicle. How did the NYTimes scribes miss his seedy past when my GF and I found it in 5 minutes, sitting on the couch on a lazy Sunday afternoon……
http://mortgagemovies.blogspot.com/2012/01/kingcastmortgage-movies-blast-bank-of.html
KingCast/Mortgage Movies blast Bank of America's Anne M. Finucane for being a complete liar and full of s***, just like Senator Kelly Ayotte and just like her husband, failed Boston Globe plagiarist Mike Barnicle.
I actually dedicated an entire post to related issues for a global perspective:
http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2012/01/crystal-cox-dan-kennedy-boston-globe_3441.html
Crystal Cox, Dan Kennedy, Boston Globe, Anne M. Finucane, Mike , Boston Herald, Elizabeth Ritvo Esq., Jessica Van Sack, Joanna Marinova and KingCast cross paths at the modern journalism summit.
….The 1 Feb. 2012 Motions hearing will be the first KingCast courtroom coverage (read the particulars in the comments section), with Mintz Levin stepping in after it became painfully evident that Attorney Ritvo was involved in the Defamation (IMO) in the first place, just look at the questions that she refused to answer in the Interrogatories, such as "Why was [the Herald's pre-publication review by counsel] done?….. [snip]
….when I wrote to her today I mentioned the fact that journos like us are always targets because we are truly independent and will say whatever we feel, as long as it is backed up by some facts. Not one person has ever found one thing I have written in 6 years to be materially incorrect, and I aim to keep it that way, thank you…..[snip]….


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Robots help some sick children 'attend' school. Kids are working with scientists to make them better | Science
A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 375, Issue 6581.
In a sunny room at the Boys & Girls Club in Calistoga, a tiny city in California's Napa Valley, Veronica Ahumada is setting up her robot when a bespectacled little boy wanders in to ask what she's doing. Ahumada points to the device—basically a tricked-out tablet on a meter-tall post, mounted onto gyroscopic roller wheels—and he yelps like he's seen a ghost. "She has a robot!" he hollers, bolting out the door.
Soon, about 40 tweens fill the room. Many are Latino like Ahumada, and they are here for after-school child care while their parents work. When she invites them to guess what the robot is for, their ideas bubble over: to play video games! To go to the supermarket! To help people get around! To take orders at a restaurant! To take over the world!
Ahumada, who studies health informatics and human-robot interactions at the University of California (UC), Davis, acknowledges each child's suggestion, then explains: "I use these robots for children just like you," but who can't go to school because they have serious illnesses such as cancer or heart problems. Those children can send the robot instead, she says, and join their classmates virtually, from home. The group falls silent. "Whaaaaat?" they croon in a collective tune of disbelief.
In fact, rolling robot avatars allow ill children to attend school remotely in a few hundred classrooms across the United States and a smattering of other countries. The gadgets, called telepresence robots, were designed to allow doctors to conduct rounds from a distance and corporate executives to visit remote facilities. They show a remote user's face and let the user see, listen, and speak as if they were present. Ahumada and a few other researchers think the devices could provide classroom access to a long-overlooked group of children. "We've never in the history of the world had the opportunity for children with these serious medical conditions to go to school with their peers," Ahumada says.
Veronica Ahumada (left) asks children about their experiences with telepresence robots.Xavier Mascareñas
Children who use the technology have called it life-changing because of the social connections it allows. "It's like I'm actually there—that's why I like it so much," an 8-year-old told Ahumada. In addition to taking part in lessons as if they were in the classroom, children can zip around to chat with friends and join their peers for lunch, chorus, or recess.
"There's probably a specific band of kids [for whom] this could be transformational," says Gary Maslow, a pediatric psychiatrist at Duke University who studies how children adapt to chronic illness. But researchers haven't yet proved these tools help academically, socially, or emotionally, he says. And the technology itself has limitations: The robots weren't designed for children and don't work well in schools with spotty Wi-Fi.
Ahumada is "trying to figure out how to overcome those obstacles," says Justin Reich, an expert in educational technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Aiming to flesh out how best to integrate telepresence robots into classrooms, she and her colleagues have been probing how dozens of children with different illnesses, along with their families, classmates, and teachers, engage with the devices. In 2020, she teamed up with health care roboticist Laurel Riek at UC San Diego to design a machine with features tailored for children, including speakers that can carry sound over a classroom's din, an "arm" for reaching and grasping, and a user interface operable by children with a range of ages and abilities.
She is also planning to join forces with clinicians to pin down whether the benefits that children report in her studies translate into gains in mental health, grades, or other measurable areas. If they do, she says, schools may eventually be required to provide robots, creating a market as well as a vision for the technology. "It's much bigger than I originally imagined," she says.
Over the past 2 years, as the pandemic turned the world inside out, children and families accustomed to attending school, sports, and scouts got a taste of isolation and homebound life. But by Ahumada's count, about 2.5 million U.S. children with serious medical issues already experienced significant stretches of isolation before the pandemic. Teachers tell them not to worry about school and just to focus on getting better—a supportive sentiment, but one that underscores their exile from normalcy. Classmates often don't know why they disappear from school or what their daily life is like.
Ahumada knows the experience well. Congenital heart defects that went undiagnosed until adulthood kept her home for weeks at a time during elementary school. She was too weak to do more than read or doze on the couch in her family's one-bedroom home, waiting for her two brothers to come home with worksheets from her teacher. The days were lonely and achingly boring.
Children whose medical conditions keep them out of school are an amorphous group. Some get better and go back to school; others, sadly, succumb to their illness. Still others cycle in and out, as Ahumada did. U.S. public school districts generally provide such children several hours per week of instruction by a visiting teacher. But the system is spotty, and students often fall behind. According to research by Maslow and others, having a chronic illness in childhood puts people at a serious disadvantage. "They are less likely to attend college, half as likely to graduate college, less likely to be employed, and have lower income," he says.
Children stuck at home also miss out on another aspect of school. "Humans have evolved to be social creatures," says Maja Matarić, a roboticist and computer scientist at the University of Southern California. Social development goes hand in hand with cognitive learning, she says, and it benefits from a physical presence in school.
Ahumada was lucky: Her own illness subsided by middle school and her childhood normalized. She went to college and eventually landed a job at Montana's Department of Public Health and Human Services. She soon found herself musing about technology and her solitary childhood. The department was expanding health care access by placing video consoles in clinics it was struggling to staff. Her colleagues expected patients would prefer in-person appointments, but later, when the state reverted to them, some people grumbled about losing the relationship with their distant doctor.
If patients can use video to bond with remote doctors, Ahumada thought, perhaps children at home could forge relationships with classmates and teachers the same way. "I wanted to know," she says, "if it was good enough for physicians, was it good enough for kids? Do we have the technology to completely transform the daily experience of these children?"
Making a robot friend
For a robot to stand in effectively for a child in a classroom, it needs to be more than an iPad on wheels. Here are some key features of a child-friendly version of today's telepresence robots.
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Ahumada wanted to study the idea in graduate school, but she struggled to find an adviser. Eventually, she connected with Mark Warschauer at UC Irvine, who investigates how digital technologies can enable learning and social inclusion. His team wasn't studying remote access for children, he told her—no one he knew of was—but he offered her a spot in his lab.
Colleagues were skeptical, though. One likened research on telepresence robots to "studying TV carts." Another told her the work would have no impact because "so few" students have illnesses that require them to stay home. Even Warschauer didn't seem fully convinced, she says, until he saw a Verizon ad from the 2013 Super Bowl, which featured a child maneuvering a robot through school from a hospital bed. "Mark had never seen my idea conceptualized before," Ahumada says. "We were so excited—we were like, 'It's a thing!'"
The device in the ad was manufactured by VGo, a small company that had already begun to sell robots to schools for ill students but hadn't done research to discover how well the devices met their aims. (The company has since been acquired by Vecna Technologies.) Ahumada contacted VGo, which connected her with a school district in Texas that had just purchased several robots. The program had started with a girl in elementary school who was using a robot while undergoing cancer treatment. Her classmates were so grateful their friend could remain among them during her illness that they raised more than $1000 to help buy another robot for other ill children to use.
Ahumada decided to base her first case study there, using interviews to probe how ill children and their community used the devices. The logistics were complicated. Because the robot captures the classroom on video, families of every student had to consent to its presence. Recruiting robot users was another challenge. Like most families with a seriously ill child, the ones in this district "were just trying to survive," Warschauer says. "They weren't thinking about participating in research projects." But by the end of 2013, Ahumada had completed the study, interviewing five sick students from second to ninth grade about their experiences with the VGo robots, as well as five parents, 10 teachers, 35 classmates, and six school administrators.
Veronica Ahumada hopes her telepresence research will help children avoid the isolation she felt as a girl, when illness kept her home from school. Xavier Mascareñas
The ill students all told Ahumada about relief the robot brought from social isolation. One child's mother said she didn't realize her son was depressed until she saw him blossom with the robot, spending much more time alert and engaged with school. The study also revealed classmates and teachers quickly came to treat the robot not as a moving hunk of plastic and metal, but as the student it represented. Children and adults referred to it by the student's name, and many classmates went out of their way to help when the robot got stuck. "My research kind of gives me hope for humanity," Ahumada says. "The majority of kids are so thoughtful."
Not every experience was positive. A ninth grade girl decided to return the robot because of the unwanted attention it brought—classmates teasingly called her a "vacuum cleaner," for example. And a fifth grade boy was bullied by a classmate who kept smearing the robot's lens with ketchup.
Matarić, too, has explored how the technology works in schools, using robots made by a company called Ohmnilabs. She and her colleagues first had design experts operate a classroom robot remotely, as a child would, to identify technical features that would help children and teachers use them more effectively. These included a signal like raising one's hand to get a teacher's attention and a camera that swivels to look at a classmate. A study that gave robots to four children to use in their classrooms over 2 to 8 weeks also identified the need for a speaker that can regulate the volume of its voice according to whether a child is whispering questions about English homework or being chased on the playground.
All four children found the experience very positive, the researchers saw, but deploying the robots involved extensive coordinating and troubleshooting, as well as navigating school district politics. They weren't ready to use out of the box, Matarić says.
Ahumada's work similarly finds a mix of promise and complexity, as have the few other studies that have looked at telepresence robots used in schools. Since her pilot study in Texas, she has gathered perspectives from 91 children with illnesses across the United States who have used telepresence robots, along with their families, classmates, teachers, and school administrators. The important design needs those interviews revealed identify some of the same features that Matarić pinpointed. But the children's most common demand was for a robotic arm that would allow them to engage with the world—reaching, grabbing, tagging. Children want something that enables "not just seeing and hearing and moving around on your own, but also being able to touch the world and to receive sensations," Riek says.
Little kids hug the robot because they're so happy to see their friend.
Veronica Ahumada
Xavier Mascareñas
The children also voiced values that might appear frivolous but could help them maintain social connections. One child requested a robot feature that's sure to be a design challenge—the ability to do a bunny hop. And 53 of a subset of 82 children Ahumada interviewed described using the robot to play, either with classmates or alone, she and Riek report in a paper under review. One child told Ahumada that using the robot showed their friends they remained the same person they were before they got sick. Peers, too, seek that connection. "Little kids hug the robot because they're so happy to see their friend," Ahumada says.
As the world enters the third year of the pandemic, remote attendance through video conferencing platforms has become routine. That change may actually harm the prospects for telepresence robotics in schools, Ahumada says. Video conferencing is cheaper than robots, and teachers now have experience using it. When several schools she works with reopened, they chose to leave students who were remote for medical reasons on video rather than bring back the robots.
The pandemic has also revealed an important limitation of virtual learning, Reich notes. "Teachers have a very hard time managing classes when some people are in person and some people are at a distance," he says. The difficulty may persist even with a single remote student on a robot.
But better telepresence technology could help, Reich adds. "I could imagine some future where these things are way better than Zoom." What if, he wonders, "holding a virtual reality controller, you point your finger at something, and the robot takes its finger and points at it?"
In September 2020, Ahumada and Riek received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a telepresence robot with features specifically designed for remote learning for children. They are starting with a prototype called Stretch, made by Hello Robot, that was designed for older adults and people with disabilities to use around their home. For now, Stretch lacks a display screen, but it has a retractable arm that moves smoothly up and down a sturdy metal spine. At the end of the arm sits a gripper consisting of two small rubber cups on bendy strips of metal.
In Ahumada's office, a graduate research assistant, Jingjing Xie, explores Stretch's capabilities. Sitting on a chair with the classic board game Trouble at her feet, she uses the robot's controller to bring the arm down to the board and move a yellow peg. It's clumsy, like a claw machine at an arcade, and the gripper's rubber cups can't press the popper that rolls the dice.
Stretch is a work in progress. Over the next year, based on Ahumada's studies to date, she and Riek will settle on features that a child needs to feel present and engaged in learning, and they will modify Stretch to include them. Remote students will test their prototypes and weigh in. "These kids are the pros," Ahumada says. Long before the pandemic, before many families gave virtual school a thought, "they were already the pioneers."
Some alterations should be straightforward, such as adding a screen to show the face of the child at home. Other specs will surely require inventing technology. And the researchers want to make the robot's physical presence cool and fun for children, something they can feel proud of as an extension of themselves among their peers. "We want the child to feel like they're not this weird thing inside a robot, but they are part of the class," Riek says.
Still, despite Ahumada's investment in telepresence robots, she would happily abandon them if something more nimble came along. "Today it's robots," she likes to say, "but tomorrow it could be holograms." It's all in support of a bigger goal. When she visits classrooms with a robot in play, she sees sick children mentioning their nausea or showing classmates a port for delivering medicine or a scar from a recent surgery. Classmates breezily ask their robot-embodied friends how they are doing. Healthy and sick children form a single community. "If we don't scoot illness away," she says, "will we be more compassionate?"
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For executive officers, members of the board of directors or the supervisory board it could be a further "thrill" that a person who could have prevented the commitment of a crime - in the course of fulfilling his obligation to control or supervise - can actually also become the perpetrator.
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Your Apps are the most important parts of your device. After all, apps make the device functional. But sometimes, you might turn on the device only to find some apps are missing and you don't remember that you have deleted them. If you didn't delete or move the apps, there are several reasons why you may not be able to see or use them.
One of them is that they may be hidden using the content restrictions feature of your device. Content restrictions can hide several apps including Siri, Safari, Camera, FaceTime and more. It is a useful feature that can be used to restrict the use of certain apps and settings. Like for instance, a parent can use Content Restrictions to keep their children from accessing certain apps and settings.
Whether or not your apps are missing for content restrictions, this article will help you get them back.
Spotlight Search can help you locate any missing apps on your iPhone. This way, you can tell if the app is still on your device or if it has been deleted. Here's how to use Spotlight to locate them.
Step 1: Swipe down from the center of the Home screen to activate Spotlight Search.
Step 2: Type in the app's name in the Search filed and spotlight will display a list of search results. Tap to open it.
Step 3: If the app appears under "App Store", it is no longer on the device. You can tap on "View" to go to "App Store" to download it.
If you are unable to find the app, you might want to check if it's been restricted using Restrictions feature we have talked about before. It is likely that you or someone else with access to the device activated restrictions on that app.
Step 1: Go to Settings > General > Restrictions on your iPhone.
Step 2: You may be required to enter a password to see the apps that have been restricted. Once you enter the password, you can simply turn off restrictions on the particular app and it will appear on your Home Screen.
Most people use iTunes to backup and restore their devices but while it is a reliable method, there are those who have reported that after restoring via iTunes, their apps began to behave weirdly. If you've already restored the device via iTunes and the apps are still missing, reset everything on the device and restore via iCloud.
If the missing apps fail to appear even in iTunes or they don't appear on your device when you sync with iTunes, head on over to the "Purchases" section in the iTunes store (it is located under "Quick Links"). Here, you'll find the apps you've already downloaded and you can then just re-download them and sync them with the device.
Alternatively, you can simply re-download the apps manually. Apple will display the apps that you've already installed to make the process easier. Here's how to do it.
Step 1: Go to the App Store on your device and then tap on "Updates".
Step 2: Tap on "Purchased" and then tap on "Not on this Phone".
Step 3: Here, install the apps you need back on the device one by one.
The most distressing part of losing some of your apps is losing the app data that goes with them. Re-downloading the app might get it back, but you may not be able to recover the missing app data as easily.
Is It Possible to Find Missing App Data from iPhone?
Yet, the way your iPhone stores data might be helpful to you. The iPhone organizes data on a database called SQLite. When data is deleted, the database changes the deleted data from "Allocated" to "Unallocated" but doesn't completely erase the data. However, when new data is added to the iPhone, it automatically occupies the "Unallocated" slot, thereby overwriting the data on it. It is hard to get back the overwritten data, so do not use or turn off your device after losing data to prevent overwriting.
A third-party data recovery tool like iMyFone D-Back might be able to recover the data as long as it is not overwritten. iTunes and iCloud can backup both deleted and existing data but users cannot access the data even if they restore the device. A program like iMyFone D-Back allows you to view the existing and deleted data and thereby recover it easily.
We will share with you how to use D-Back to recover your deleted App data simply. Here the following are just some of its features.
It can be used to recover more than 18 different types of data including many third-party data like WhatsApp, Viber, Kik, WeChat, Line , Notes, Camera Roll and etc.
It is fast and effective. You'll have your recovered data on computer in just a few minutes.
It can also be used to extract data from iTunes or iCloud backup file which is ideal when you have a backup but don't want to restore the whole backup file.
Download and install iMyFone D-Back to your computer and then follow these simple steps to recover your missing app data.
Step 1: From the main window on the program, select "Recover from iOS Device" and then click "Start". In the next window, select the type of data you would like to recover. Click "Next" to continue.
Step 2: Next, connect the iPhone to the computer using USB cables and wait for the program to recognize the device. Click "Scan".
Step 3: Once the scanning completes, select the files you want from the results and click "Recover" to save them to your computer.
If the data you lost is in an iTunes backup file, follow these simple steps to recover them.
Step 1: Select "Recover from iTunes Backup" in the main window and then click "Start". Proceed to choose the type of data you would like to recover and then click "Next".
Step 2: Select the most relevant backup file from the list of backups in the next window and click "Scan".
Step 3: Finally, choose the files you want to recover from the results page and then click "Recover" to save them to your computer.
If the lost data is in an iCloud backup file instead, follow these simple steps to get it back.
Step 1: From the main window, choose "Recover from iCloud Backup" and click "Start". Then, in the next window, choose the type of data you want to recover and click "Next" to continue.
Step 2: Sign in to iCloud with your Apple ID and password. Once signed in, select a backup file from the list and then click "Next" to allow the program to download and scan the file.
Step 3: You should then see all the files in that backup file in the next window. Select the ones you would like to recover and then click "Recover." Choose a location on your computer to save the recovered data.
Do not hesitate to try these useful methods to get missing apps back on your iPhone. If you have any other doubts or great ideas, feel free to leave a comment below.


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Residents' first interaction with the American justice system is most likely to involve municipal court. This piece examines the importance of this interaction.
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Most irritating thing so far was setting up a Microsoft account and then being unable to change the PC from referring to me with my full name. It's my bloody computer, I should be able to set it up however I bloody want!
First world problem but at least it's up and running.
Ah yes, like when I wanted to set up Outlook Express again after a re-installation.
How the feck do I do that, since I can't use my email account !
I feel for you Strap. My 8 year old HP desktop was totally overwhelmed by the latest programmes so I went to look for a replacement. I bought a cool if overpriced Asus laptop. Installed WoT and it's fantastic. Naturally Microsoft didn't want me to transfer Office et al., so I uninstalled WoT and all my other games from the old desktop and lo and behold the old bugger started working again. Agony saved.
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The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation. To pursue this goal, the fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in stocks (or derivatives) of U.S. companies that demonstrate attractive investment attributes and sustainable business practices and have no material unresolvable environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. The fund focuses on companies with market caps of $5 billion or more. The fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in foreign securities, including up to 10% in emerging markets securities.
$1,665,057 As of 01/15/21
Large Blend
S&P 500(r) Index
36 As of 12/31/20
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Gym at trucking company about more than physical fitness
CBC October 4, 2019
A Charlottetown transportation company has included a gym in its new building for its truckers, and is finding the benefits go beyond keeping its employees healthy.
Seafood Express vice president Andy Keith said the gym is creating a stronger sense of community in the company.
"All our drivers are a lot happier," said Keith.
"They're getting engaged with the staff more and getting their own groups of friends within the truckers, and it's proven to be really great."
The company also helps truck drivers make healthy meal plans and offers tips on how to eat well on the road.
It drives interest in these programs by offering competitions that challenge drivers to make healthy choices.
'You don't do much activity'
Driver Kevan Findley appreciates the gym at the company and uses it often.
"It's wonderful," said Kevan.
"Being on the road 24/7, it's hard to do that when you come home. At least you can do 45 minutes or so before you come home, so it's a good thing."
He said the trucking lifestyle is not conducive to healthy eating and exercise, and he makes a big effort on both.
"Doing this job, you don't do much activity, physically," he said.
Al MacCormick/CBC
"You barely get enough time to move around," he said.
"As a truck driver you're always rushing so it doesn't give you that breathing space to do much exercise."
Findley doesn't tuck into big truck-stop meals on the road, either. He makes meals at home and stores them in a small fridge provided by the company in its trucks.
"You definitely have to watch what you eat," he said.
The P.E.I. Trucking Sector Council said Seafood Express is not alone in this initiative. It says some larger fleets on P.E.I. are doing similar things to help keep drivers healthy, and that it's become more common over the last few years.
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