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At Reedley (CA) High School, Suspensions Drop 40%, Expulsions 80% In Two Years
Jane Ellen Stevens March 31, 2014
In 2009, when the Kings Canyon Unified School District in California's rural Central Valley offered its 19 schools the opportunity to adopt a system that would reduce school suspensions and expulsions, Reedley High School jumped at the chance.
Today, Reedley is in its fourth year of changing a zero-tolerance policy that has failed this school and community miserably, just as every zero-tolerance policy across the country has. The school, which has 1,900 students, is feeling its way out of those draconian days by integrating PBIS — Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support — and entering into a unique partnership with the West Coast Mennonite Central Committee and the local police department to implement a successful restorative justice program.
This approach is already having remarkable effect. The school saw a 40% drop in suspensions from the 2010-2011 to the 2012-2013 school year — from 401 to 249 suspensions involving 198 and 80 students, respectively. Expulsions went from 94 in 2010-2011 to 20 last year. But this year's trends indicate that impressive decline may have stalled out.
Although everyone interviewed for this story – including the principal, learning director, and a teacher — says that suspensions don't work, Reedley is still stuck with a harsh suspension policy that the district and the school board have barely loosened. Although the district was forward-thinking enough to support program changes and the school is beginning to deliver, like any entrenched system, the old ways of discipline pull hard against change, even if the data and the science that show the old ways damage kids are indisputable.
"It's been a journey," says Mary Ann Carousso head of student services. "We're taking it in pieces."
The sprawling Reedley High School campus includes an auditorium, library, and five hexagonal and several rectangular rows of classrooms around a large two-story building. On a clear winter day, the snow-capped Sierra Mountains form a stunning backdrop. As in most large high schools, adults barely corral the high-octane teen energy that erupts across the plaza between classes, and struggle to ignite and channel it during classes. The school draws as many students from the city of 25,000 as it does from the agricultural farming country it serves – nearly 80% are Latino, 16% are white, 1.5% are Asian, 1% are Filipino, and 0.7% are African-American. About 65% come from families that live just above, at, or below poverty level. The nearest city, Fresno, is 25 miles distant and worlds away.
Like most school districts in California, Kings Canyon adopted a zero-tolerance policy in the late 1990s. Just one year after the U.S. Congress passed the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994, the adoption of broad zero-tolerance policies spread like a virus across the United States. Once zero tolerance was locked in, school boards, districts, teachers and principals warped it, some say, by the pressure to perform well on tests. Kick the troublemakers out, and there's less disruption and interruption in class.
But in the mid-2000s, data began showing that zero tolerance wasn't working. In fact, it was shunting kids into a school-to-prison pipeline that disproportionately targets minorities. The research, the U.S. Office of Civil Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union convinced people at the Fresno County Office of Education to look for alternatives for its 32 districts, which include Kings County.
"The research was constantly telling us that even one suspension could put a kid down a path we don't want them on," says Carousso. Providing reports to the U.S. Office of Civil Rights and being watched by the ACLU also put Fresno County on notice. "Even though I'm not always glad of it," Carousso says of the ACLU, "they point out things we should be aware of."
The program that Fresno County settled on was PBIS, which is used in more than 20,011 schools nationwide; more than 700 of those are in California. In essence, says Carousso, PBIS helps the entire school system — teachers, administrators, janitors, bus drivers, cafeteria workers — "set up kids for success first, instead of 'gotcha'. It sounds hokey. It sounds corny." But it works…to a point.
Kings County Unified implemented the PBIS system a few schools at a time; the last group started the three-year transition this year. "We decided to start slow and roll it out in groups of schools, and let other schools watch the success," says Carousso. "Reedley High stepped out first. The need is big at this school."
When Reedley High School Principal Rodney Cisneros first arrived at Reedley in 2002, "kids were out of this place left and right," he recalls. "We're supposed to help kids stay in school. Before, we made a lot of assumptions about kids — that they know what to do. But they don't always know. They've got to be taught."
Reedley High School Principal Rodney Cisneros visits a math class.
At the essence of PBIS is the understanding that to change students' behavior, you have to start with the teachers, staff and administrators. "We're changing the behavior of the adults on campuses," says Carousso, "and teaching them how to respond to poor behavior on the part of kids. It's all so simple and logical. But it's a lot of work, and it's a huge commitment."
PBIS isn't a program that's an add-on, says Rob Horner, co-director of the U.S. Department of Education Technical Assistance Center on PBIS. It's a framework that's integrated into every aspect of the school: in the classroom, in the hallways, in the lunchroom, on the playground. Kids are told what behavior is expected from them, they're praised and rewarded for it, there's a game aspect to it to make it fun, and the rules are the same in every classroom. Or at least that's the theory.
Reedley High School Learning Director Joseph Arruda.
Before the start of the 2009-2010 school year, Learning Director Joseph Arruda took a team of 17 people through four workshops with trainers from Orange County. These 17 people met monthly to hammer out how PBIS would be implemented at Reedley and then educated the other staff about the system.
The first year, says Cisneros, was focused on "just getting a lot of staff on board, and laying the foundation and a vision."
They used the initials of Reedley High School to come up with a vision: Respect for self, others and surroundings. Honorable to self and others. Success to all.
Students line up to buy lunch in Reedley High School plaza.
During the second year, the entire complement of 76 teachers learned how to teach the students what the expectations were for their behavior in the classroom, in the cafeteria, outside classrooms, and at sporting events. Arruda set up the system to collect data on referrals, and established baseline numbers.
During the third year, the 2012-2013 school year, the recognition piece — for students and teachers — was implemented. "If kids are displaying characteristics we're looking for, we recognize and honor those kids and teachers," says Cisneros. Teachers can reward students with pirate bucks (the Reedley mascot is a pirate), which enters them in drawings for gift cards for Jamba Juice, McDonald's Starbucks, and a local pizzeria. Kids can nominate teachers to be "captain of the ship" for a month.
The school began using the PBIS data system in 2011-2012. You could say data are the PBIS sweet spot. "The data speak volumes," says Arruda.
Because each student referral is noted with the type of infraction, the time it occurred and its location, the data opens a brand new window onto student and teacher behavior. Students who have the most referrals are provided additional help, including regularly touching base with a teacher or counselor. Their progress can be tracked to determine if more services are necessary. Arruda can identify places and times on campus where an adult presence would keep kids from acting out. And, administrators can see that kids are being referred more often from one teacher than another.
"We show the staff the data," says Cisneros. "We can help the teachers who have the highest referrals with strategies they can use in their classrooms."
The PBIS data is put on display for everyone to see.
Referrals are usually the first step in the process of being suspended or expelled. They've dropped nearly 50%, from 2,045 in 2011-2012 — when skipping class and dress code violation were at the top of the list of infractions — to 1,174 referrals last year. Over the last two years, three categories of defiance and disruption comprised 64% of all referrals. This year, the number and types are trending to be about the same as last.
Most of the referrals – a good 75 percent – come from classrooms, so it's no surprise that the biggest challenge in this transition to a more positive school environment has been some of the teachers.
It took some time for the 76 teachers at the school to embrace the change. During the 2012-2013 school year, about 80 percent were on board. That's increased to 98 percent this year, says Arruda. The teachers who are most skeptical are some 20-year veterans who don't believe that disciplining kids is their responsibility. If students misbehave, these teachers want to eject them from class immediately and send them to Arruda.
"In the past, their way is to just get rid of the problem," he says. "But the amount of time it takes for a learning director to see a student equals time away from the classroom, and that student is missing out on instruction."
This year, Arruda was hoping to see the school continue its success in reducing suspensions and expulsions. But the first semester's numbers haven't changed much since last year's. So, he's ramping up the PBIS support systems for students who are still struggling with their behavior in class. This includes counselors who work with students to develop a behavior plan, and requiring students to participate in a check-in/check-out program in which each student meets with a staff member in the morning and at the end of the day to talk over the day and to review their behavior scorecard.
English teacher Arnulfo Sanchez was an early supporter of PBIS. In this class, he's teaching students how to write about their goals.
But, to make the numbers continue their slide, it's the teachers who may need more tools than PBIS has to offer. (Also, the school district has to loosen its grip on school discipline — more about this later).
Many educators still think kids' "bad" behavior is deliberate, and that the kids can control it. But it's often not, and they can't – not without help, says Dr. Joyce Dorado, director of HEARTS — Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma in Schools, and associate clinical professor in the University of California San Francisco Department of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Services. Their behavior is a normal response to stresses they're not equipped to deal with, she explains. Their behaviors make sense if they're jumping in to defend their mother from an alcoholic raging father, or are responding defensively to a parent who continuously screams at them. But when the raised voice of a teacher or a counselor who's criticizing inadvertently triggers the same response, these behaviors look "abnormal, rude, or inappropriate," says Dorado. "So, they're getting kicked out of class and disengage from school. That puts our kids at incredible risk for later problems, including imprisonment."
In fact, serious, chronic childhood trauma is so common that two-thirds of U.S. adults have experienced at least one type out of ten measured by the CDC's Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study). These adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) include physical, sexual or verbal abuse; physical or emotional neglect; and five types of family dysfunction — family violence, living with alcoholic (or other drug-addicted) or mentally ill parents, losing a parent to divorce or abandonment, or a family member who's in prison.
And almost half the nation's children under the age of 18 have experienced at least one or more types of serious childhood traumas, as measured by a recent survey on adverse childhood experiences by the National Survey of Children's Health (NHCS). This translates into an estimated 35 million children nationwide. (Since parents responded to the survey, questions about physical, sexual and verbal abuse were excluded, since it was unlikely those would be answered accurately. Hence, 35 million children suffering childhood trauma is on the low side.)
Dorado says it's important for teachers to become "trauma-informed" – that is, to learn about the effects of ACEs and to receive training in how to work with children who've experienced or are experiencing trauma. That's because the toxic stress caused by trauma can damage children's brains, including the brains of teens, explains Dorado, making them susceptible to being triggered into "fight, flight or freeze" mode, even when they aren't actually being threatened. As a result, they can have trouble concentrating, learning, or sitting still. At the slightest trigger – a teacher yelling at them or another student accidentally knocking into them — they can erupt into rages, lash out at others or hurt themselves. Or they can withdraw in fear and not participate in anything that's going on around them. None of this behavior is intentional, says Dorado.
Trauma-informed practices are the foundation for, but are not meant to replace other frameworks such as PBIS, Safe & Civil Schools, or restorative justice, says Dr. Christopher Blodgett, director of the Washington State University Area Health Education Center, whose research shows a direct link between ACEs and academic failure. Becoming trauma-informed not only supports those approaches, it's the bedrock for all of them, he says. And, in fact, schools in Spokane, WA, and Brockton, MA, that use PBIS have integrated trauma-informed practices.
There's another reason trauma-informed practices work especially well with other positive behavioral approaches such as PBIS or restorative justice. The neurobiological effects of toxic stress have shown that school discipline is a health issue, not just a behavior issue. While one teen suffering toxic stress may scream and throw chairs in a "fight" response to a trigger, another will curl up and withdraw in "flight" or "fright". These kids are often labeled as "lazy", "slow learners", or "unmotivated". They slip through the PBIS or restorative justice net because they never act out: They just sit quietly at their desks and never speak. But they disconnect and fall behind, just as those who are suspended and expelled do, and are likely to drop out of school.
Last year, Reedley High School added a restorative justice program to its efforts to reduce suspensions and expulsions. Essentially, it's a campus branch of the Reedley Peace Building Initiative. The West Coast Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and the Reedley Police Department launched the program in Reedley in September 2011. Led by Lt. Marc Ediger, the program gives youth arrested on misdemeanor charges (vandalism, graffiti, minor fights and possession of drugs) the option of participating in a restorative justice program instead of entering the juvenile justice system.
"We modeled our program on the Fresno Pacific University Victim Offender Reconciliation Program," says Swenning. Fresno Pacific, founded by the Mennonites, is where Ron and Roxanne Claassen, leaders in restorative practices for education, do their work.
"The youth have to admit to what they have done, show some remorse, and show initiative to take responsibility," says John Swenning, the MCC restorative justice program coordinator and a 15-year veteran of law enforcement. "Then we allow them to go through the program."
The victim and the offender enter mediation with one of the community's 40 volunteer mediators. An agreement is worked out, and victim and offender agree to do whatever both sides feel is just for their crime, says Swenning.
"It can be something as simple as an apology letter. If there's damage — graffiti or a stolen cell phone — then the offender may pay restitution for losses. A big part of this is community service — not just raking leaves, but getting involved with community. Several businesses, churches, and city departments provide opportunities for offenders to work with folks in the community."
During the first year, 50 juveniles went through the program, says Swenning. That's 50 who did not enter the juvenile justice system, he points out. "We'd like to handle 100 percent of the juvenile crimes," he says. "We're pretty close to that now."
"Success in the school program is even greater," says Swenning. In the two semesters – spring and fall — of 2013, 50 students went through the program. "We could've done more than that. We had more incidents. But with our resources, that's all that we could handle," he says.
Most of the cases involved students who were caught with marijuana or were fighting. Unlike the city program, which offers restorative justice as an alternative to punishment, all of the students are suspended or expelled prior to participating in the school restorative justice program.
Reedley High School students are automatically suspended for five days if:
they get in a physical fight with another student;
they smoke marijuana, drink alcohol or do other drugs on campus;
come to school under the influence of marijuana, alcohol or other drugs;
if they use profanity with an adult (depending on the severity);
vandalize school property;
if willful defiance escalates into abusive language or threatening behavior, as defined by a teacher;
are caught stealing.
Students gather to watch two girls get in a fight. They were marched to the principal's office and then escorted off campus.
For other offenses, punishment varies. The first time kids get in a verbal tussle, instead of receiving an automatic three-day suspension, they now have the option of taking part in a mediation in which they agree to resolve their dispute and sign a contract to promise to refrain from yelling at another student. However, they are automatically suspended for three days if they break a conflict resolution contract by engaging in a verbal fight.
Behaviors such as "ordinary" defiance, disruption, disrespect, inappropriate language, and harassment, fall into the referral category. Five referrals, and they're suspended.
Students are expelled if they bring a weapon (a knife or gun) to campus or sell drugs, or if they've been previously suspended and this is their second suspension.
Students who are repeatedly expelled can be sent to a county Community Day School operated by the Fresno County Office of Education, says Carousso. Others may be sent to an alternative school on a probation basis, or required to do home study. Some may enter a limbo called suspended expulsion, which requires them to be out of school for a semester or a year while they engage in a restorative justice contract. A parent must apply to the district to have the student readmitted.
Reedley High School Principal Rodney Cisneros (l) and Learning Director Joseph Arruda (r) take a walk through the high school's commons during lunch.
Over the last three years, the district has relaxed – slightly — its school discipline policy. Besides eliminating automatic suspensions for kids having verbal fights with each other, they've also stopped expelling kids for substance abuse. Instead, teens receive an automatic five-day suspension and, after they return to school, have the option of entering a substance treatment program the school provides for free. Arruda says 33 students are enrolled in the program.
But the district hasn't gone as far as some other districts and schools, where trauma-informed systems have been put in place to train teachers to recognize signs of toxic stress and intervene early. In some of these schools, suspensions have been eliminated altogether, and expulsions have dwindled down to a handful. Nor has the district decided to ban suspensions for "willful defiance", as Los Angeles Unified School District did in May 2013.
"I'd love to get rid of suspensions," says Swenning. "But I don't see that happening. However, I do see giving the kids a choice – participate in restorative justice or be suspended. But I don't know if the district is there yet. Some day. We've got to do something different. What we've been doing is destroying us.
"During this time of life for these kids," he continues, "their brains are all over the place. They do stupid things. It doesn't mean that they're bad kids. Ninety-nine percent of the kids want to make things right. They want to make a better life for themselves. We just need to help them through that whole process of growing up."
Arruda agrees. "I believe that there's no such thing as a bad kid – just bad choices," he says.
This is part of an investigative series into "right doing" – how some schools, mostly in California, are moving from a punitive to a trauma-informed approach to school discipline. The series includes profiles of schools in Le Grand, Fresno, Concord, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vallejo, and San Diego, CA; and Spokane, WA, and Brockton, MA. The series is funded by the California Endowment.
Written By Jane Ellen Stevens
At Reedley (CA) High School, suspensions drop 40%, expulsions 80% in two years with PBIS, restorative justice; but going the distance might require… was originally published @ ACEs Too High » Jane Ellen Stevens and has been syndicated with permission.
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Monty J. Thornburg, PhD April 1, 2014
I have always been impressed with the Social Justice work done at Fresno Pacific University and have participated in some of their seminars on Restorative Justice and Conflict Resolution. Around the time that the Reedley High school project was beginning I was in the middle of conducting research on "Searching for Social Justice in the San Joaquin Valley of CA" … And, this article demonstrates that it can be found … something I was unable to do further North of Fresno, CA See: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-94-007-6555-9_38.pdf
I have always been impressed with the Social Justice work done at Fresno Pacific University and have participated in some of their seminars on Restorative Justice and Conflict Resolution. Around the time that the Reedley High school project was beginning I was in the middle of conducting research on "Searching for Social Justice in the San Joaquin Valley of CA" ... And, this article demonstrates that it can be found ... something I was unable to do further North of Fresno, CA See: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-94-007-6555-9_38.pdf

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Rising sea levels and river dynamics such as strong tidal surges put together are causing the breach of embankments, which leads to coastal flooding and destruction of lives and livelihood of the community.
Flooding of about 40% of the island area occurs during April to September each year, creating a hapless condition for the islander dwellers. The river embankments in these islands were constructed pre-independence during the colonial rule using mud. These embankments were supposed to protect these islands from getting inundated during high tide condition, since the average height of these islands in most of the places is below the mean sea level. With time, these embankments are in a dilapidated condition and are no longer suitable with the changing river dynamics.
Temporary repairing of the embankments is causing breaching and flooding every year in several parts of these islands. About 7 kilometers of embankment guarding the island was completely breached in floods of 2014. Although it was assured that the breached portion of embankments would be repaired by the Government, recent field survey indicated that no effective measure to repair the breached portion was initiated from the State Government. An effective embankment planning and implementation after research on new embankment technology and design is must to protect the coastal resources and communities.


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UK: Construction workers' minutes silence at the 'Building Worker' statue [Video]
Video April 29, 2020 Cath Ager
Construction workers minutes silence at the 'Building Worker' statue in London to mark International Workers Memorial Day.
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UK: Coronavirus protest to mourn preventable construction deaths
11am Sunday morning, 12 April, flowers are laid to mourn construction workers who will lose their lives unnecessarily during the coronavirus pandemic.
The respectful ceremony took place at the 'Building Worker' bronze statue at Tower Hill, which was commissioned as a memorial for all those who have died on building sites by the construction union UCATT (now a part of UNITE). The symbolic event was to mourn the dead, but also the fight for the living, and was carried out as part of the mass #ShutTheSites movement that has been trending on social media for the past 2 weeks, calling for non-essential building sites to be closed.
Video link: https://youtu.be/5zuNNCEijFo
A new Shut The Sites FaceBook page was launched on Saturday: https://www.facebook.com/ShutTheSites/
Shut The Sites issued the following statement:
"The Bronze Building Worker statue has for many years been a memorial for workers who have died on construction sites. Flowers have been respectfully laid today to mourn the dead. But in this time of crisis we should also fight to protect the living. None of us want to be here in 6 months time laying a bigger wreath to thousands of construction workers and their family members who may lose their lives unnecessarily.
If construction workers are building a Nightingale Hospital or carrying out emergency maintenance on vital infrastructure, that's clearly crucial to fight this pandemic. But hundreds of thousands of building workers are being forced to continue working on building sites by greedy developers and employers in order to build luxury flats, hotels and powers stations that will not be completed for at least another 5 years. None of these are essential.
Construction workers often travel on packed public transport or in shared minibuses, eat together in site canteens, live in huge site accommodation blocks and generally work in close proximity. No building worker in the country believes that construction can continue in any meaningful manner while complying with the 2m social distancing rules. Major contractors also have an appalling track record on health and safety; over decades they have sacked and blacklisted those prepared to stand up for the safety of their fellow workers. By keeping non-essential building sites open, the government and businesses are prioritizing profit above public health.
No construction worker wants to put their families lives at risk or add more burden to the NHS. The UK government should immediately close all non-essential building sites. But they also need to ensure that every single worker, whether an employee, self-employed or an agency worker, is paid straight away. We need to protect our families, but we also need to put food on the table.
Rather than forcing construction workers to choose whether to protect their families or pay their bills, the government should suspend all mortgage, rent, interest payments and penalty clauses for the next 3 months (as has already been done in Italy) and pay everyone a universal basic income (as has occurred in Hong Kong and is being proposed by the Spanish government)".
#ShutTheSites
#PAYEveryworker
#StayHomeSaveLives
The memorial protest comes at the same time as the government issued new advice that 2m social distancing will no longer need to be strictly applied in the construction industry, but instead recommends that workers are kept two metres apart "as much as possible". This is in stark contrast to guidance from the Scottish Government, which has ordered the closure of all non-essential construction.
Construction workers have been voicing their opposition to keeping non-essential building sites open on social media and a number of videos from across the UK have been collated and now appear on the attached .
For press interviews contact: ShutTheSites@gmail.com
A full risk assessment was carried out before the protest which identified potential hazards and control measures were implemented to remove the risk
Only 2 workers involved to comply with government guidelines (many more wanted to attend)
Event coincided with a trip to buy food
2m social distancing at all times
Participants arrived by private transport rather than the packed tube
PPE worn
The protest with two construction workers could be deemed unlawful. The irony being that thousands of construction workers, often lacking PPE, packed onto building sites across the UK is being actively encouraged by the government.
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Finland: Construction sites nationwide observe 28 April moment of silence
April 30, 2015 Jawad	1 Comment
Finland: Members of BWI affiliate Rakennusliitto observed a moment of silence on sites nationwide. #iwmd15 pic.twitter.com/tn6wsUcpz7
— Rory O'Neill (@hazardseditor) April 30, 2015
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Updates on 28 April activities in Africa
April 16, 2015 Jawad	2 Comments
In Burkina Faso FTBBF union activists will engage in dialogue and health and safety management and participation training with companies on 27 and 28 April.
In Côte d'Ivoire SYNASODEFOR union health and safety meetings and training will be held at the SinoHydro construction project between 27 and 29 April.
In Gabon UTBTPBSP union activists will engage in dialogue and health and safety management and participation training with companies on 27 and 28 April.
In Ghana Timber and Woodworkers' Union (TWU) activists will engage in dialogue and health and safety management and participation training with companies on 27 and 28 April.
In Kenya KUPRIPUPA union activists will engage in dialogue and health and safety management and participation training with companies on 27 and 28 April.
Mauritius To mark 28 April the Mauritius Trade Union Congress (MTUC) is holding a one day reflection on 'Awareness of occupational safety and health issues in the workplace and the contribution of trade unions in the prevention of accidents and ill health at work' at the Emmanuel Anquetil Labour Centre, MTUC Office, GRNW, Port Louis, Mauritius on Monday 27th April 2015. Delegates from affiliates of MTUC and from other Confederations including that of Council of Trade Unions (CDS) will participate. Opening ceremony at 9.30 a.m will be attended by the Minister of Labour Industrial relations and Employment.
Also: CMWEU plans to create awareness on occupational safety and health issues at sixty workplaces through a campaign against psychosocial hazards.
In Namibia MANWU plans to raise awareness of occupational safety and health issues in the workplace highlighting the important contribution unions make to the prevention of accidents and ill health at work.
In Mozambique SINTAF and SINTICIM plan to raise awareness of occupational safety and health issues in the workplace highlighting the important contribution unions make to the prevention of accidents and ill health at work.
In Zambia NUBEGW plans to raise awareness of occupational safety and health issues in the workplace highlighting the important contribution unions make to the prevention of accidents and ill health at work.
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Unions to shed light on the cost of unsafe growth in the Philippines
For this 28th April, the IOHSAD, KMU and ILPS Philippines will be organising a union event in Plaza Miranda, Manila, in commemoration of Filipino construction workers who lost their lives as a consequence of unsafe working conditions, raising the inconvenient correlation between GDP growth, raising construction investments and workplace deaths.
For more information on this event, please contact Elmer Labog kmu.intl@gmail.com
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Little scientists help Captain Curiosity and Zelda the Zookeeper solve mysteries at the zoo as they explore reptiles, webs, bees, pollination, feathers, airplanes, penguins, blubber, caves, bats, echolocation, shadows, pandas, big cats, balance, veterinary medicine and more.
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When people talk about nutrition, it often conjures images of bland salads with iceberg lettuce and grainy tomatoes. Eating well doesn't have to be miserable. Nutrition can take you on a journey of new foods and tastes. Use these tips to boost your nutritional efforts and to learn to appreciate and enjoy food.
A functioning body needs the right nutrition. Take a multivitamin every day. These can be found at department stores and vitamin and supplement shops. There are supplements that are made for each age group and gender. Make sure you take your supplement according to the directions on the bottle.
Many people have bought into the idea that processed foods taste better than whole grains. There is some truth the idea that some flours, particularly white ones, are better for baked goods. However, whole grains usually taste better than grains that are over-milled. They also have digestive-aiding fibers.
Putting together a delicious smoothie can be enjoyable and fulfilling. The following tip will help you make an even more nutritious smoothie. Add a little dash of omega-3 flax-seed oil to the smoothie or the antioxidant-rich cocoa power. Adding these two items can make smoothies tastier and give them extra nutrients for better immunity.
Even if you eat meat, you can improve your diet by eating a meatless meal for two to three times every week. It will lower your consumption of unhealthy animal fats, will cost less, and will taste just as delicious as one of your meat-based meals and it's good for the planet.
When you go on a diet you should maintain nutrition, no matter how hard it seems. People often find themselves opting for unhealthy comfort foods over healthier options. Once you begin to eat healthier, it becomes easier to choose foods that will not sabotage your diet. It will become perfectly natural for you to choose nutritious choices.
Anything that can be microwaved should be avoided. Any food that is packaged for microwave use has tons of preservatives in it which can cause you to gain weight.
Trying new recipes is a great way to improve nutrition. For example, did you know that you can combine things like milk, peanut butter and powdered protein to make a satisfying protein bar? If you are looking to spice up your breakfast, try making healthy oatmeal pancakes.
Diabetics face a very complex and unique challenge in fulfilling the body's needs. Eating well and regularly can keep blood sucrose levels within comfort. Plenty of fresh produce, whole grains and low-fat dairy products are ideal for this purpose. Consistency is key, so they must maintain a regular eating schedule.
A simple and low calorie food choice is vegetables and fruits, either frozen or fresh. Veggies have vitamins and minerals that have you healthy and feeling satisfied longer. It is important to have more then one serving per day. An easy way to do this is to make a healthy soup or salad.
A lot of nutritionists recommend fish in place of pork, beef or poultry. Fiber, which contains a lot omega 3 acids, is great for your cardiovascular and circulatory systems. You can eat all different kinds of fish, and they all have a different taste as well as texture.
Don't assume that taking a lot of vitamin supplements can make your diet healthier all by itself. Supplements are there to add some extra vitamins you might have missed, not to replace healthy eating. It is best to stick to one multivitamin every day and concentrate on making your diet better instead of counting on a pill.
Try making a veggie pizza that your whole family will love. You can still add the pepperoni and cheese, but add lots of healthy veggies that make a pizza great. Do not allow them to pick them off.
Natural foods are ideal if you want better nutrition. Processed foods can be very bad for you. Instead eat fresh, raw produce and lean proteins. If you can't refrain from buying processed foods at the supermarket, have someone else shop for you.
Follow healthier habits by determining which foods you eat have empty calories and are unhealthy. Do you eat healthy foods but add salad dressings and sauces? You need to cut down on these types of products and look for healthy options.


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Enzo Alfatahi (born 9 July 2003) is a French professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Troyes II.

Career
Alfatahi made his professional debut with Troyes in a 1–0 Coupe de France loss to AJ Auxerre on 19 January 2021.

Personal life
Born in France, Alfatahi is of Moroccan descent.

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French sportspeople of Moroccan descent
Living people
French footballers
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See today's Elkhorn Green homes & Georgetown real estate property listings below. For information about Elkhorn Green properties for sale in Georgetown, Kentucky or to schedule a guided home tour, contact your local Elkhorn Green Georgetown real estate agents today.
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Kent is riding the wave of national economic recovery thanks to growth in high value sectors and the availability of financial support packages, according to the partners behind the 2014 Kent Property Market Report.
The announcement of significant infrastructure projects such as the UK's first modern garden city of 15,000 homes at Ebbsfleet, Government commitment to a third Thames Crossing and further development of High Speed rail services, have added to the sense the county is at the forefront of growth in Britain, the report finds.
The launch of the report on Wednesday, 15 October, at Northfleet, included a keynote speech by Michael Cassidy CBE, chairman-designate of the Ebbsfleet Garden City Urban Development Corporation.
Compiled jointly by Kent County Council, Locate in Kent and Caxtons Chartered Surveyors, the report found that for the first time since 2006, office yields are coming in, although rental growth is still just negative at -0.01%. Average high street rents dropped for the first time in two years, but yields kept pace with the UK average.
Warehouse rents continued to fall at a faster rate than the South East and UK averages, but yields continued to harden, reflecting increasing investor appetite in UK property.
Industrial space continues to be one of Kent's strongest offerings, with continuing positive growth and outperforming the rest of the South East and UK.
The success of Expansion East Kent funding helping new and existing companies to grow and create jobs, notably at Discovery Park, Sandwich.
The report finds house prices across the county rose by 3.5% year-on-year to November 2013, slightly below the national average of 3.8%. Average prices across the county range from £406,442 in Sevenoaks to £181,332 in Thanet.
Leisure and tourism also continue to play a vital role in the county's economy, with three anniversaries – 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War, 75 years since the outbreak of the Second World War and 70 years since the D-Day landings – prompting significant investment.
The Kent Property Market Report is also supported by Maidstone-based DHA Planning, Lloyds, RICS South East, and Kent law firm Cripps.


This design for a pair of foldable glasses may look a little bulky, but it more than makes up for that in convenience. After you take off the glasses, the lenses fold neatly into the sides, which contract to form a hard case that you can place into your pocket. No more putting your glasses into your shirt pocket only to have them get smashed when some jerkface bumps into you on the street.
These glasses are called "Optigami", combining "optical" and "origami". Since this is just a design, there's no telling whether it'll get turned into an actual product or not. But enterprising DIY'ers could try making their own out of duct tape and chicken wire.


In this mini-book, students identify, create, and count the following shapes: circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles. Students will encounter numbers, color words, and basic sight words. Students need pencils, crayons, markers, or colored pencils to complete this activity.


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Future work plan
DFID's efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls
UK aid has made a significant contribution to tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG). Download the review and approach paper.
Lead commissioner
Tina Fahm
Approach paper
In this review, we explored how well DFID has translated ambitious policy commitments into effective programmes with the potential to make a real difference. We also examined DFID's efforts to encourage others – both nationally and internationally – to tackle VAWG.
The review gives DFID's current performance a 'green' rating, recognising UK aid's significant contribution to tackling violence against women and girls. It finds that DFID has demonstrated strong global policy leadership, through initiatives such as the 2014 Girl Summit, and has made a significant contribution to knowledge and evidence on preventing abuse, including on global challenges such as child marriage and FGM.
The report also raises concerns that DFID's programming, although high quality and innovative, is small compared to the scale of the challenge. While this is a promising start, DFID will need to scale up its work and integrate VAWG into other programming areas if it is to achieve transformative impact.
DFID has rapidly expanded its VAWG programming over the past five years. It now has 23 programmes dedicated to addressing VAWG with a total budget of £184 million, and more than 100 other programmes addressing VAWG.
This learning review examines a relatively new area of the aid programme where the evidence on what works is limited. It focuses on how DFID goes about building knowledge, testing new approaches and moving towards programming at scale.
The government publishes a response to all ICAI reviews. You can read the government response to ICAI's VAWG review online.
International Development Committee
Parliament's International Development Committee (IDC), or its ICAI sub-committee, hold hearings on all ICAI reviews. The IDC hearing on VAWG is available to watch online.
ICAI's follow-up
ICAI follows up on all of its reviews to check what progress has been made since publication. ICAI's VAWG follow-up is available to read online.


navigatour® allows visitors to access information and directions to all the main attractions around Ireland – as well as some of its hidden gems – at the touch of a button, whilst they are on the move.
It is an easy-to-use GPS pocket sized database that can be used on mobile phone or sat nav devices, either in-car or hand-held with the potential to be developed successfully in other countries.
navigatour® locates where the visitor is, and then offers them a database of text and audio information on what the visitor is looking for, as well as visual imagery of the place. From beaches and castles to hotels and mythologial sites – navigatour® then supplies details of everything from opening hours and wheelchair access to children's facilities and entry costs, in seconds.


This year, The Soa Brand has gone through some amazing experiences and inspirational learning lessons. This year, we've mentored some amazing interns who have and will go on to do some life changing things. We completed our name change and rebrand, going from SOA Event Concepts to The Soa Brand and adding a list of new services that will allow us to do so much more with our current and future clients. We've added branding services for entrepreneurs looking to gain strategies and insight on growing and starting their businesses. We are gearing up to introduce Wedding Stories by Soa in early 2015. And of course, we have continued to perfect our existing practices for our event stories. With so many great things that have happened in 2014, naturally, we look forward to even more prosperous opportunities in 2015 and beyond.
In the new year, we wish you prosperity, inspiring experiences, continued growth, success, love, and most importantly great stories.


Street art unlike traditional Art is displayed in public urban locations with an attempt to capture larger audience. Mostly the artist's motive is to either convey a strong socio-political message or to beautify a public space with their own trademark style. The law considers it an illicit activity which makes it even more thrilling and intriguing for the public. It's a personal expression of an anonymous artist who has taken risk in making his rebellion artwork on a prohibited public space. It's an open gallery with an invitation for everyone to speculate, discuss and admire.
Street artist Banksy depicts- Child Labour in UK.
There is a difference between street art and vandalism. Street art has a character, it is an artist's statement with no intention of disfiguring or ruining the area. The art is created with sincerity and conviction which sets it apart from irrational scribbling and meaningless drawings done by vandals.
Street artist Shepard Fairey illustrates women as mere observers of Israeli-Palestine conflict.
Some of the street artists have gained immense international popularity with major fan following. Banksy (real name and identity is unknown) being one of the most popular amongst them, his artworks have been sold in many auction house's and some are even part of museum collection. Banksy's art is clever, thought provoking, satirical and often controversial in nature. His identity still remains unknown for ongoing legal issues, since graffiti is illegal.
A depressed worker has his dreams stamped Cancelled.
'Sweep it under the carpet' depicts reluctance of the western world to deal with global issues such as the AIDS epidemic.
'A woman washing zebra stripes' was painted in Mali by Banksy. The Irony being, it has been painted in a drought-ridden country highlighting the careless usage of water by the western world.
Shepard Fairey best known for the iconic 'Hope' poster of Barak Obama has a exceptional style which is quite similar to pop art and commercial illustrations. The 'Hope' poster was extensively used for U.S. presidential election campaign in 2008, Obama himself had sent a personal thank you note to Fairey for his contribution to the campaign. Shepard's being a graphic designer extensively uses flat colors mainly black, white, and red. His work is now seen in some of the most prominent contemporary art galleries, as well as in signature apparel.
Invader is another well-known street artist who uses a ghost name to hide his identity. His mosaic art is made in pixilated form, replicating the video games made in 1970's. Invaders tiled mosaic's so far have been installed in more than 60 cities in 30 countries and the 'invasion' continues. He has been showcased in many renowned galleries around the world. Other than tiles he has also used Rubik's Cubes for his artwork which has earned him much appreciation in the art world.
Illegality was once an obstacle that hindered street artists from entering the arena of formal art. Strangely enough, contemporary art collectors and art galleries have started to appreciate them. Many more street artists are fast collaborating with art auctioneers and monetizing their artworks.


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RIGHT: YFCU members taking part in the 'Build It' final which was held at Castlewellan Show.
THE final of the 2018 Young Farmers' Clubs of Ulster 'Build It' competition, supported by Grassroots Challenge, took place at Castlewellan Show on Saturday, July 14.
For the final, teams were challenged to build an owl box with City of Derry YFC emerging triumphant for the second consecutive year.
WELL DONE: Pictured with judge, Richard Harrison (left) are members of City of Derry YFC who took home 1st place in the 2018 'Build It' competition. Also pictured is YFCU President, James Speers (centre), Andrew Gracey, Grassroots Challenge, (fourth from right) Linzi Stewart, County Down Chair (third from right) and Kristina McKeag, County Down Secretary (second from right).
The club was awarded 1st place in the competition, 2nd place was awarded to Trillick and District YFC and Rathfriland YFC was awarded 3rd place.
Richard Harrison was judge of the final and the YFCU would like to thank him for his time.
The finalists were judged on the structural strength of the owl box, their craftsmanship/team work, the ability of the owl box to fit the purpose and the ability to use all the materials provided. Finally the owl boxes were judged on their uniqueness and imaginative design.
Andrew Gracey from Grassroots Challenge said: "Big congratulations to City of Derry YFC on winning this year's 'Build It' competition. Grassroots Challenge is delighted to have provided the materials for this competition.
"There was lots of fun had while teams were creating their barn owl boxes at Castlewellan Show. It was great to see each of the teams getting so involved in the task which brought their creativity to life.
The association wishes to thank Castlewellan Show for hosting the final of the 'Build It' competition.


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Contents: Volume 9, Issue 1 (1990)
What's Ahead for Philanthropy
John Kettle January 1, 1990
The charitable sector covers all aspects of society and is, accordingly, affected by a broad range of social phenomena. I want to point out several such phenomena that some of us futurists think will have a notable impact on the sector in the years to come. I should mention at the outset that, in the…
Making Corporate Donations Decisions
Victor Murray and Phelps Bell January 1, 1990
Introduction This paper has three objectives: (1) to review what we know about the nature and extent of corporate charitable giving in Canada today, and (2) to discuss the adequacy of existing explanations for these patterns of giving, in order (3) to develop an agenda for future research. This review will deal primarily with publicly…
Case Comment: Re Centenary Hospital Association
Donovan Waters January 1, 1990
Introduction Those from other provinces who have no reason to follow particularly closely the decisions of the Ontario courts might conclude from a first and once-only impression of Re Centenary Hospital Association 1 that this case involved merely the interpretation and reconciliation of Ontario legislation and that nothing of general interest on the subject of…
Case Comment: Remuneration of Directors
Dona L. Campbell January 1, 1990
Should directors of charitable organizations be permitted to pay themselves for services rendered to the organization which are not related to their duties as directors? The propriety of such actions as well as the necessary procedures to guard against any abuse of authority relating to such payments have been carefully considered by Ontario courts on…
John D. Gregory January 1, 1990
This new Volume takes up where the old one left off, with questions of money. Two case comments deal with the finances of charities, Dona Campbell's more specifically with the remuneration of directors, and Donovan Waters' with the ability of a charity to carry on a business to earn money. Professor Waters situates that question…
William Gleberzon January 1, 1990
Profit Making for Nonprofit Agencies By G. Newton and C Buda Published by Centre for Community Ventures, Berkeley, CA. 1986 The Complete Guide to Money-Making Ventures for Nonprofit Organizations By Peter C Brown Published by The Taft Group, Washington, DC. 1986 Nonprofit Entrepreneur: Creating Ventures to Earn Income Edited by Edward Skloot Published by The…
Viewpoint: The Accountability of Foundations
Alan Broadbent January 1, 1990
Readers are invited to respond to opinons expressed in this section. If appropriate, their views will be published. Sorting through the issues in philanthropy is somewhat like eating an artichoke. At the end of it all, you have more on your plate than when you started. But, like the artichoke, the heart of philanthropy remains…


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Being able to get in touch with someone who can deal with issues rapidly and deciding is necessary. The ideal property management company need to be able to supply you with numerous methods of contact. Look for business that have purchased property management software application, which enables direct communication with the management group, and can be quicker and more effective than more antiquated forms of communication.
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A full-service property management agreement is typically anywhere from one to 2 years long– and your residential management company may have penalties or costs related to ending your agreement early. If this holds true, you'll wish to learn more about it right away. On the flip side, there may be included benefits to renewing an agreement every year.
A company might call itself a full-service property management company. However, this can suggest really various things within the market. Will the company aid with tactical planning, organizing preventative maintenance and fund collection? Obtain a list of what services are included before you sign an agreement. Likewise, ask if the cost you are priced estimate is complete, or if exist any extra fees. Understanding exactly what you will pay both in advance and on a recurring basis is very important and can assist you make the very best choice for your community. Finally, be certain to inquire about other resources offered to support your supervisor, including legal, human resources, training and engineering.
All HOAs whether condos, high-rise or big neighborhoods are various. In order to provide the best service, property management companies should have a detailed procedure to find the right supervisor to fit the requirements of your community. For example, if a number of your neighborhood's citizens speak a foreign language– the ideal property management company will be able to staff your neighborhood with a supervisor who is fluent in that language and can communicate with and understand the needs of your residents.
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Where is the polar bear?
When you visit the Nature Museum, you will definitely notice that something is missing on the first floor…our polar bear mount. It has been temporarily moved to the second floor of the museum to become part of our latest exhibit, Nature's Struggle: Survival and Extinction. Moving a mount this large, even from one floor to another, takes some planning and plenty of help.
Although the polar bear is mounted onto a base that has wheels, at just under 10 feet tall it was not a simple matter of pushing it onto our freight elevator. Before any of our specimens are moved, we plan out how we are going to get them safely moved to their desired location, particularly tall, heavy mounts like the polar bear. Impediments in this case were hanging light fixtures, an archway, watching out for museum visitors since we had to move the mount during museum hours, and the mount itself (those claws are still extremely sharp).
In this case we decided the safest way to move it was to place it on its back on large, wheeled platform that would provide support during the transition. The most delicate part of the procedure was in lowering the mount onto its back. It needed to be done smoothly so that we did not cause any torque, or twisting, to the mount that could result in damage to the internal armature, or structure.
Mounts like this one are typically attached to their bases by long bolts that extend through their legs and feet that are secured by nuts on the underside. If one of these bolts were twisted or broken the mount would no longer be able to support itself when put back into its upright position. Once the polar bear was successfully placed on the wheeled platform, it was taken to the freight elevator and then moved into the second floor gallery, where it was lifted back up into its standing position.
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Alex Ferguson rules out return to Man United as boss - and reveals he DID turn down Chelsea job
Fergie says "United are in good hands with David Moyes," and says he told Roman Abramovich "no chance"
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No going back: Fergie rules out a Manchester United return
Sir Alex Ferguson has given his beleaguered successor David Moyes a vote of confidence and ruled out a return to managing Manchester United.
The bookmakers have been shortening the odds on Ferguson stepping in to rescue United if Moyes' struggles continue.
But in an interview on American television early this morning, Ferguson said that would not happen.
"I'm not interested in managing again or getting myself worked up about Manchester United's results," Ferguson said.
"United are in good hands with David Moyes. He will be fine. He's a good manager.
"You would be throwing your money down the drain if you put any money on me coming back as a manager.
"I made my decision. The timing was perfect. There is no way back for me now. I've got a new life.
"I want to go the Kentucky Derby and the US Masters, the Melbourne Cup. I want to visit vineyards in Tuscany and France."
Talking to interviewer Charlie Rose on PBS, Ferguson revealed Roman Abramovich had asked him to manage Chelsea.
Approach: Roman Abramovich wanted Fergie to boss Chelsea (Image: Getty)
"They used an agent to approach me when Abramovich first took over the club," Ferguson said, "and I said no chance."
Ferguson repeated his assertion that Wayne Rooney had asked to leave United the day after the club won the title last season.
But he said he was impressed with the way the striker had turned his form around and was playing with his old verve and energy.


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09/20/2017 • by Bill Sheridan
New e-books offer steps toward future-readiness for CPAs, finance professionals
With new technologies poised to redefine the world of finance, one of the most important skills accounting and finance professionals can own today is future-readiness — the ability to be aware, predictive of, and adaptive to emerging trends and technological innovations. The Maryland Association of CPAs and its learning and innovation center, the Business Learning … Continued
With new technologies poised to redefine the world of finance, one of the most important skills accounting and finance professionals can own today is future-readiness — the ability to be aware, predictive of, and adaptive to emerging trends and technological innovations.
The Maryland Association of CPAs and its learning and innovation center, the Business Learning Institute, are bringing that skill to the masses.
The organizations have released a pair of e-books that will help accounting and finance professionals become more future-ready.
Get Ready for the Fast Future: Five Steps Toward Building a Future-Ready CPA Firm is aimed at CPAs who work in public practice.
Human Work in the Age of Machines: Five Steps for Building a Future-Ready Finance Team is aimed at accounting and finance professionals who work in business and industry.
The e-books describe "five strategic and practical steps that anyone can do to become a future-ready CPA or finance professional," said Tom Hood, CPA, CEO of the MACPA and the BLI. "The guidance applies to every role in any firm or organization. These five steps, applied through the lens of your particular expertise and experience, are what can help you anticipate change and prepare for it. It's a new set of eyes and a new set of tools that only you can bring alive in your context of where you are professionally."
Those tools couldn't come at a better time.
Art Bilger, a venture capitalist and expert at the Wharton School of Business, says technological advances will help eliminate 47 percent of the jobs in all developed nations in the next 25 years — that's blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Moreover, says The Economist, "no government is prepared" for that level of job loss.
Other studies aren't quite that alarmist, predicting
that more jobs will be significantly altered than eliminated. Still, that change will be extreme. A McKinsey Global Institute study predicts that at least 30 percent of the activities in 60 percent of all occupations can be automated over the next decade, from welders to gardeners to CEOs.
One way or another — complete automation or partial — our jobs are about to change.
"How will the disruptive forces of technology and automation affect your organization and career? This is the most important thing for CPAs and finance professionals to pay attention to right now," said Hood. "Forces of change aren't something that we can or should fight. We're not going to slow down change. We're not going to make technology obsolete. What we can do is be ready for it. We can put ourselves in a place where the future helps us, not hurts us. That's what being a future-ready finance professional is all about. Don't fight change; leverage it, for the benefit of your career and organization."
The e-books can be downloaded for free from the Business Learning Institute's website. They are accompanied by an online quiz that will gauge readers' future-readiness and provide access to additional resources that can help them become even more future-ready.
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Get Ready for the Fast Future: Five Steps Toward Building a Future-Ready CPA Firm
Human Work in the Age of Machines: Five Steps for Building a Future-Ready Finance Team
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With the new Democratic majority in Congress, some young conservatives may be wondering how the change will affect their chances of getting an internship or job on Capitol Hill.
Most professionals and experienced students close to the issue agree there are plenty of opportunities for everyone.
Palczewski, a sophomore, said for most competitive internships on Capitol Hill, offices are more interested in whether or not an intern is from the same district or state as the Congressman. He said that it isn't as uncommon as most think to see a student cross party lines when looking for internships, making the opportunities party-neutral for the most part.
"There are several Democrats and Independents that I would work for if they might consider hiring me," Palczewski said.
Although the Republicans lost 28 seats in the House of Representatives and six seats in the Senate to the Democrats, College Republicans' Public Relations Director Peter Glessing stressed that the GOP still occupies hundreds of seats in both houses.
"Keep in mind that there are still 202 Republicans in the House and 49 Republicans in the Senate," Glessing, a junior, said.
James Murray, interim director of the GW Career Center, said party affiliation shouldn't be the determining factor in any application. He added that he does advise students to be aware of what they list on their resumes, especially party affiliations.
The NRA is traditionally a Republican organization that lobbies for gun owners' rights.
Murray said being a College Democrat or a College Republican will not prevent a student from getting an internship or job on the Hill because there are many opportunities for both parties. He said it's usually an issue of eligibility, not affiliation.
Michael Weil, communications director for the GW College Democrats, said he too felt there were more than enough opportunities for students on each side of the political spectrum. He said there are other more important factors employers consider.
Political science professor Christopher Deering stressed that being from a congressman's district is the most significant factor in getting a job on the Hill.
"The more moderate the member is, the less simple party ID will matter," he said.
Deering added that if students cannot get a job across party lines it is probably because they don't want to look.
Junior Laura Graham said working in an office that lost an election was a hard experience for the employees and interns. Graham was working for U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) when he lost his bid for re-election.
"After the election, the office was very sober as everyone looked for other employment," she said.
This article appeared in the February 5, 2007 issue of the Hatchet.


At the 2014 PICES Annual Meeting in Yeosu, Korea, it was announced that Trans-Pacific Volunteer Observing Ship (VOS) Survey Program was the recipient of the 7th POMA Award.
The presentation ceremony took place on October 20, 2014, during the PICES-2014 Opening Session. It was conducted by Drs. Laura Richards (PICES Chairman) and Thomas Therriault (PICES Science Board Chairman). A commemorative plaque and a certificate were presented to Dr. Yukihiro Nojiri, of the National Institute of Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan, who received the award on behalf of the Trans-Pacific Volunteer Observing Ship (VOS) Survey Program.
The PICES Ocean Monitoring Service Award (POMA) recognizes organizations, groups and outstanding individuals that have contributed significantly to the advancement of marine science in the North Pacific through long-term ocean monitoring and data management. The award also strives to enlighten the public on the importance of those activities as fundamental to marine science. It draws attention to an important aspect of the PICES Convention that is less appreciated: "to promote the collection and exchange of information and data related to marine scientific research in the area concerned".
It is my great pleasure to announce that the recipient of the 2014 POMA award is the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) of Japan for their Trans-Pacific Volunteer-Observing-Ship (VOS) Survey Program.
To understand global carbon budgets requires broad spatial and temporal in situ observation of oceanic CO2 partial pressure (pCO2). The atmosphere–ocean difference of pCO2 controls the flux and efflux of oceanic CO2. While many historical pCO2 observations were obtained from oceanographic research vessels, it was recognized that the need for more complete spatial and temporal coverage could be satisfied partially using volunteer observing ships (VOS). This approach was pioneered in 1985 by the late Dr. C.S. Wong of the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Canada. He installed a gas-chromatographic pCO2 instrument on board a cargo ship sailing between the west coast of Canada and Oceania that allowed repeated observations of pCO2 over the equator until 1988 when the ship route changed. Communication between Dr. Wong and Dr. Yukihiro Nojiri called for a new VOS program, and in 1994 a pCO2 VOS survey was revived using the Skaugran, a lumber and car carrier sailing between the U.S. west coast and Japan. Following negotiations with the Captain, Chief Engineer, and operator and owner, NIES prepared the on-board system and technical staff, usually students.
A second VOS, Alligator Hope, a container carrier operating between Tokyo and Seattle/Vancouver was outfitted. Dr. Nojiri obtained special funding to improve the on-board pCO2 system that was more automated and able to be operated by a one of the ship's crew. After 16 round trips, Alligator Hope had a route change to Oceania so the NIES project looked for a new candidate ship for the North Pacific. Since car carriers belong to the manufacturers, they appeared to offer longer-term stability for the Program.
The shipping companies, Toyofuji Shipping and Kagoshima Senpaku, having strong connections with Toyota Motors exporting Japanese cars to North America, Asia and Oceania, have been helping the NIES VOS project since 2001. They graciously allowed pCO2 systems to be installed on several ships, including the third VOS for the North Pacific, the Pyxis. Due to the efforts of NIES, Global Environmental Forum Foundation, Kimoto Electric Company, and the shipping companies, the Pyxis made 86 round trips, which must be a record for a single VOS in the world's pCO2 observations.
Dr. Hitoshi Mukai of NIES secured funding for an Oceania pCO2 line and, with cooperation from Toyofuji Shipping, designed an atmospheric and oceanic pCO2 observation space on the Transfuture 5, which is now in its ninth year.
The three VOS in the North Pacific achieved 148 trans-Pacific round trips from 1995 to 2013. It amounts to about 30 trips around the globe. This project has been encouraged and supported by PICES member countries and contributed to Working Groups 13 and 17, and now the Section on Carbon and Climate. The project has resulted in 17 scientific publications on North Pacific biogeochemistry, 8 on global ocean pCO2 database and analysis, and 18 on atmospheric sciences through the on-board sampling and measurement of atmospheric components. Additional results and details are available on the project's web page [http://soop.jp].
In 2007, world experts on ocean surface pCO2 determined that an integrated observational Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas, SOCAT, should be compiled. The NIES VOS data set contributed 14% of the total global pCO2 data in SOCAT. The SOCAT database demonstrated the value of VOS surveys in providing better geographic and seasonal pCO2 data, thanks in large part to NIES VOS Program.
Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in congratulating NIES, who is represented here by Dr. Yukihiro Nojiri, as the 2014 recipient of the PICES Ocean Monitoring Service Award.
First, I want to express my gratitude to the late C.S. Wong (Institute of Ocean Sciences, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada). NIES VOS observations were started by his proposal for collaboration. His laboratory people were on-board members in our first VOS, the Skaugran surveys. I visited him in March 2013, before he passed away in June. He was something like my father in oceanography, and he also took care of many Japanese oceanographers.
When we started pCO2 observations in 1995, we were not familiar with data exchange among ocean CO2 scientists. However, now we have the global open data exchange network, SOCAT. We developed this system under many international organizations, and PICES is an important supporter for the North Pacific. The PICES support for ocean CO2 scientists started in the mid-1990s, which was coincident with our VOS observations.
Most essential support was from shipping companies, captains, chief engineers and ship crews of the volunteer ships, and port authorities. The efforts of staff from NIES, GEF, Kimoto Electric Co., MIRC and many collaborators in Japan were inevitable. Finally, I want to acknowledge our partners such as IOS (Canada), NIWA (New Zealand), CSIRO (Australia), NOAA (USA), IOCCP and many other international supporters.


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Why can't I edit a form to sign the smooth signature widget?
I have dealt with this problem in the past and thought I had it resolved by using different web browsers to sign the form after it had been submitted by my client. At times it has worked in my regular web browser, Mozillla Firefox. The last two forms I have needed to sign would not allow me to edit the smooth signature widget although I tried on two different computers and three different browsers on each one, including a newly installed chrome browser. These are the same contracts that I have edited to sign the smooth signature box in the past. This is getting really tedious not knowing each time if it will let me sign or not. Can anyone help?
Somehow the Smooth Signature Widget is not available when in Edit Link mode.
then, using the cloned version, remove the Smooth signature widget and add it back again on the form. Then, do a test submission and edit the submission. Check if in Edit mode, the editing of the signature is working already.
I will also submit already a bug ticket report regarding the issue that had been discovered with the Smooth Signature Widget.
Our next level support will provide update response on this thread once they have news on the status of the ticket submitted.
I just tried cloning the form as you suggested and removing and adding the smooth signature widget, but when I tested it it still would not allow me to sign.
I'm sorry to hear that it's still giving you problems even in the cloned version. Since it didn't work that might be because sometimes our results can vary such as my colleagues but thank you for trying it anyway.
I would like to acknowledge that a bug report has been issued for this problem of yours and our developers will look into getting it fixed as soon as possible for you and we will update you about it here as soon as we can.
I took a look at the link you have provided http://submit.jotform.us/form.php?formID=40988784423165&sid=286872034801742888&mode=edit and yes, you are right it is not working for me neither. I will let the developers know about it.
This is probably because you need to re-add the widget to your form to accept the latest updates.
Removing the current smooth signature widget may cause you to loose all associated data - so please try this out on a clone(copy) of your form as shown here.
hey @amber, can I ask if the signature image was sent to your email notification or its just a blank image? It seems that the signature was successfully loaded on to your form when edit mode. The only problem is that its just an image without a signature.
I can confirm that the widget still working fine, I just want to ask though if they submitted the form without filling it up. I recommend to make it as a required field. Or if you just want to edit it right away then just click the clear button instead.
The form you sent me seemed to be working fine. The e-signature form was signed, and the smooth signature widget was left blank and I was able to edit it. Does that answer your question? I do not want to make the smooth signature field required, as it is not for my client to fill out, but for me to sign after they have completed their part and sent it to me. I will try cloning the form and re-adding the smooth signature widget again to see if I can get this to work on my own.
I just tried the clone and it worked great. Thanks everyone!
I tested this on my side just now via a brand new test jotform and I happen to agree with you. It appears that there's still a problem with editing the smooth signature widget.
Are you clicking on the "Edit" in your submission viewer or are you clicking on an edit link form you email notification?
I've discovered that the problem seems to recur only when the edit button in an email notification is used to edit the submission. I'll notify our developer to see what he has to say about it just in case.
Hey @amber. I'm glad that your previous form now works great. But with your second form, you are now using a page break(pagination) which really having a problem in most of our widgets.
That's why it appears that the widget was hidden somewhere and can't display itself on its own.
A great work around is that when you realized a widget signature was not there. Press the BACK button and then press the NEXT button again. This is our temporary solution for the widget to appear under page breaks.
Sorry for the inconvenience btw, widget team are doing their best to solve these kind of problems.
KadeJM, thanks for your response. I tried to edit both from the email notification and the submission viewer, neither are working for me on this form.
widgets, thank you for responding. The problem I am having is not that I cannot see the widget or signature, but that I cannot edit the smooth signature form.
I just found a possible solution to this problem. When trying the wedding contract form again, I was able to edit the smooth signature form after hitting clear. My other form does not require me to hit clear to edit. Neither one of them had been signed previously, so not sure why the difference, but as long as it continues to work this way it will be fine. Thanks for all the help, everyone.
I'll admit that the fact of this happening on both for you is indeed a bit strange but our widget developers are aware of it as mentioned above. I see that it appears to be temporary or at least on my end this is the case as after trying it again when edited now works normally.
Additionally, you're welcome. I think the alternative solution happens because you've reset the signature so this clears out the existing glitch allowing it to work normally afterwards.
Yes you have to click the 'clear' button for you to edit the signature. Because by default, when its viewed it was actually an image of the signature.
Just remember that sometimes that signature widget will not appear on a form with page break(pagination) like one of your forms. If it happens to be then please do what I said from my previous post to make it appear and then click the Clear button to edit it.
If you have any problems please let us know so that we can further assist you.