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2016 was the deadliest year ever for environmental defenders
A Global Witness report has found that more than 200 people were killed for engaging in peaceful protest against corporate mining, logging, agribusiness and poaching activities last year. The trend is growing.
An average of four people were killed every week in 2016 for protecting their land against mining, logging, and logging interests. Video: Global Witness
By Vaidehi Shah
At least 200 people were murdered last year for taking peaceful action to protect their lands from mining, logging and agricultural companies, and this trend is on the rise globally, a new report from non-profit organisation Global Witness found on Thursday.
Titled 'Defenders of the Earth', the report showed that the number of murders in 2016 has increased from 185 deaths in 2015, making last year the deadliest year on record. The number of countries where killings took place has also jumped from 16 in 2015 to 24 last year.
About 60 per cent of the murders documented by Global Witness happened in Latin America, with Brazil and Colombia accounting for 86 deaths. The oil and mining industries were linked to the highest number of killings, with logging and agribusiness following closely behind.
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The report also found that while it is difficult to identify the exact perpetrators of the murders because they are rarely prosecuted, Global Witness identified paramilitary forces as involved in some 35 cases. Police, landowners, private security guards, poachers, and hired gunmen were among the other perpetrators identified.
The spike in numbers is due to several factors, said Global Witness. Among these are: an intensifying fight for natural resources, which has led to more extractive projects initiated in communities; a crackdown on protest and dissent by some national governments; and political shifts, such as the peace deal between Colombia's government and FARC guerrilla group.
Ben Leather, campaigner, Global Witness, said in a statement that these reports tell a grim story. "The battle to protect the planet is rapidly intensifying, and the cost can be counted in human lives," he said.
People around the world are increasingly left with no choice but to take a stand against land theft and environmental destruction, but are brutally silenced by political and business interests, noted Leather, adding that "the investors that bankroll them do nothing".
He also explained that Global Witness tallied the numbers using online searches and information from its network of local contacts. A death must be verified by credible evidence about the individual's environmental activism and how they died. However, the organisation's data is likely to be incomplete because many killings are neither reported nor investigated, he added.
A tally of environmental defender deaths in 2016 by country. Image: Global Witness
Murders and more
As horrific as the murder of environmental defenders is, the killings merely "represent the sharp end of a range of threats" against activists, observed the report. Blackmail, illegal surveillance, sexual and judicial harassment and the use of force in peaceful protests are also strategies used to intimidate and silence these individuals.
For instance, Jakeline Romero, a Colombian women's rights activist and indigenous Wayuu woman, received death threats via text message after speaking out about against the El Cerrejon mine.
This project, owned by London-listed companies Glencore, BHP Billiton and Anglo-America, is Latin America's largest open pit mine, and the Wayuu people say that they were not consulted about the mine's expansion, which has polluted the region's water resources, and even sought to divert a river that is the community's main water source.
"They threaten you so you will shut up; I can't shut up," Romero said. "We are fighting for our lands, for our water, for our lives."
Another area of concern for activists is a growing crackdown on dissent and protest, noted the report. In India, for instance, the report documented increasing attacks against communities who oppose commercial mining projects, as well as national infrastructure development initiatives.
Murders in the subcontinent have also "shot up dramatically" from six in 2015 to 16 last year, making India the fourth deadliest country in the world, Global Witness observed. Nearly half of the 16 individuals killed in 2016 died while engaging in public protests and demonstrations.
The Narendra Modi-helmed government has also silenced civil society organisations that oppose so-called 'development policies', revoking the licenses of Greenpeace India and 25 other human rights organisations under an act that prevents organisations from receiving overseas financial backing.
The battle to protect the planet is rapidly intensifying, and the cost can be counted in human lives.
Ben Leather, campaigner, Global Witness
Tackling the root cause
The root cause of conflict between people—often, indigenous communities—and corporate or state interests is a failure to respect their right to make informed decisions about how their land and resources are used, said Global Witness.
It explained that governments and investors often grab land, forests, and water resources from communities without their consent or prior knowledge. Often, rural villagers are given little to no compensation, and project developers refuse to back down in the face of opposition because they have already invested resources in the project.
In the face of unilateral decision-making about land use and a crackdown on dissent, communities often have no choice but to protest, noted the report.
There is, however, a globally agreed upon process for consulting communities in decisions about development projects. 'Free, Prior, and Informed Consent', or FPIC.
In practice, FPIC means that communities are not coerced or intimidated into approving projects, are given sufficient time for decision making, and are given all the information they need in a language they understand. Perhaps most importantly, FPIC requires that a community always has the right to veto a project.
"As well as governments, business also has the responsibility to ensure that FPIC is guaranteed before projects go ahead," said the report.
Investors must act
Global Witness also noted that investors have a big role to play in putting an end to violence against peaceful activists. Today, however, corporates who commit brutalities against activists are often financially backed by development banks and investors alike.
For instance, the Dutch and Finnish development banks continued to finance the controversial Agua Zarca dam in Honduras even after activists reported several threats and attacks by the corporation behind the project. They only pulled funding when globally renowned activist Berta Caceres was murdered last March, an event that sparked a global outcry.
Rather than turning a blind eye to such abuses in pursuit of economic returns, investors have the power to ensure that community rights are respected for the projects they fund, said Global Witness. At the very least, investors should flag concerns to local authorities, shareholders and clients; condemn the threat publicly, and engage in dialogue with vulnerable individuals to mitigate the threats, said the report.
Global Witness's Leather added: "States are breaking their own laws and failing their citizens in the worst possible way."
"Governments, companies and investors have a duty to guarantee that communities are consulted about the projects that affect them, that activists are protected from violence, and that perpetrators are brought to justice," he said.
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Patrick Aiming To Cash In On Form
Scotland's Fraser Patrick heads to York next week for the Cazoo UK Championship, hoping to build on a career best showing at the English Open and push for the chance to pack in his part-time job and become fully devoted to snooker.
Patrick has spent eight seasons as a professional, since he first earned a place on the circuit in 2007. However, he is yet to be able to financially fund himself purely from prize money. Patrick currently juggles his hours on the practice table with a job working as a delivery driver for Amazon.
His recent run to the last 16 of the English Open was his best ever ranking event performance to date. That included defeats of Simon Lichtenberg, Hossein Vafaei and 2005 World Champion Shaun Murphy. The 36-year-old also recently beat Stuart Bingham to qualify for the final stages of next year's European Masters.
Patrick faces a tricky first round tie against Joe Perry at next week's UK Championship and we caught up with him to find out how his preparations have been going ahead of the event…
Fraser, how are you feeling ahead of your trip to York for the UK Championship?
"I never really get too overconfident or pessimistic. If I go there and play well I know I have a good chance of winning. That's kind of how I look at all of these games. I think Joe is a cracking player. He was in the top 16 for years and although he is world number 30 at the moment, he is a top 16 player in my eyes. I know he has struggled recently and I think he has said that he has found the Covid times difficult. I'm sure he will raise his game being at a nice venue in York. I think it will be a good match."
You had a run to the last 32 of the UK Championship back in 2014 when you were beaten 6-3 by Judd Trump. What are your memories of that experience?
"I had two good wins against Jamie Burnett and Ryan Day to get to the last 32. Even in the match with Judd I played well, but he didn't miss for the first three or four frames. It was hard to get into the match. I was 4-0 down and did pretty well after the interval. He got to the final and lost to Ronnie O'Sullivan that year. It was the first run I'd been on in a big event at a venue with a crowd and everything. That was a good experience.
"It is different when you are in one of the big tournaments. That match with Judd was the first time I'd ever played on TV. The music and the walkons were in place and there were all kinds of different things I'd never experienced before. After I beat Ryan Day, I went into the crowd and watched John Higgins finish off his match. I got a message from Ivan in the media room telling me that they wanted to have me in the studio to do some interviews ahead of my game with Judd. That was more nerve wracking than the games for me. I was panicking. Dealing with reporters and the media was something I wasn't that used to.
"The back tables all have fixed cameras, but it isn't the same. When cameramen come into play, they are often still moving when you are on your shot. It takes a wee bit of getting used to. You can easily start making excuses for yourself when you go into that environment. I spoke to a player a few years ago that said when he went on the TV table he couldn't see the angles because the lighting felt so different. The top players are completely used to that environment. If you miss, they will clear up. It isn't like you are getting three or four chances. One mistake and you are in your chair for ten minutes. It is a good challenge though."
What are your main goals for the rest of the season?
"I've never been able to play full-time, so that is the goal. I want to do well enough to fund myself to fully focus on the snooker. I used to work in a snooker club behind the bar for 10 years while I was playing. I left that club in August 2018 and started looking for a different job. I now play out of the Red Triangle in Cumbernauld, which is a great place to play, but I decided I want to work outside of a snooker environment. I got a job as a delivery driver for Amazon three years ago. It isn't full-time, which is difficult. It is all done through your phone, so you can sit there for two hours just trying to get a shift. When one comes up you just have to take it. I have to try to fit the odd bit of snooker in and around that.
"If I go to the qualifiers and get beat, most matches that is for about £3,000. That loss means I am then going home to work four hours for £70 instead. That puts into context how much pressure you are under at these events. A win can fund you for a couple of months. The top guys want to win to be able to do the best they can, but they don't have the financial worries of the other guys. Some players are literally playing to be able to afford Christmas presents and mortgages. Everyone has different pressures."
How much would it help you and your progression to be able to make that leap to playing full-time?
"It would be massive. Everyone knows the players that live around me. I've got John Higgins, Anthony McGill, Stephen Maguire and Graeme Dott, all within a 15 minute drive of my house. When I'm working I can't get games with them, but they are all willing to give me games. I am playing with Graeme and Stephen before the UK Championship, but normally that just isn't possible. If I was able to just not worry about work, I would hope that I could really improve how I perform on the tour. Only good things would happen if that were the case. I beat Shaun Murphy last week, I beat Stuart Bingham the week before and I lost to Neil Robertson before that. I've played three World Champions in the last few weeks and beaten two of them. I know I can do it and I know I can play. I'd like to think if I can get practising at the same level as everyone else, I'd do well."
You've developed a bit of a reputation as one of the go to people for re-tipping cues on the circuit. How did you learn and perfect that skill?
"One of my best mates Raymond Cohen taught me how to do it and since then he has gone on to become a top cuemaker. He used to do John Higgins' tips for him. I then basically took over doing it for John, Graeme Dott and Marcus Campbell as well. I was re-tipping for most of the Scottish professionals. A few years ago at the Scottish Open Ronnie O'Sullivan wasn't happy with his tip so I got called over to the Emirates Arena, which is just a few minutes from my house. I walked over and did it for him. I've done a lot of players over the years.
"It can be nerve-wracking. The first time I did John's cue, he was over me watching and my hand was shaking. I had to ask him to go through to the other room because he was hovering over me. When Ronnie wanted his tip done they had a TV camera in my face. I've been doing it for years so it is easy to do, but at the same time you are using an open stanley blade and superglue. It doesn't take much for something to go wrong. I've seen guys put tips on and an air bubble has burst and sent glue all down the cue.
"It got to the stage where I'd be practising and a random guy would come up and ask me to do his cue. It was non-stop, so I've stopped doing all of that. I've sold all of my stuff. I used to have over 1000 tips in my house. I've sold every one of them apart from the ones that I use. It takes a lot of time. I used to do the club cues and that is three hours of my time. It takes a wee while."


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by Frank Strong
Ally Bank's current TV advertising campaign is one of the best I've seen in a while. The message is clear, the timing couldn't be better and it is both entertaining and humorous. It prompted me to go look up an excerpt from a book I've read long ago.
If you can look past the gender preference expressed (it was originally published in a different era), there is a lesson to be learned. The words below are adopted from Guerrilla Marketing, (1998) by Jay Conrad Levisnon and the lesson is, assuming you've done your homework, about committing to your marketing campaign.
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Essenbæk Kirke i Assentoft er sognekirken i Essenbæk Sogn i Randers Søndre Provsti i Århus Stift.

Gammel Essenbæk Kirke

En tidligere kirke byggedes på en banke i Haldherred formentlig i det 12. århundrede, og kendes fra det 13. århundrede som Essenbæk (Eskingbec) – et navn som måske refererer til den nuværende Volkmølle Bæk. Forleddet esking betyder vist en beboer af Assentoft, men bækken synes senere at være navngivet efter en valkemølle, der med tiden dog benyttedes som kornmølle.

Kirken byggedes først i romansk stil som et langhus og nok et kor – indvendigt bestående af granitkampe murede omkring rå marksten, og udvendigt af granitkvadre. På kirkens nordlige og sydlige side var en simpel firkantet indgang, og kirkens loft var fladt og gipset. Senere nedreves koret, hvorefter langhusets østlige ende afgrænset af en spidsbuet korbue benyttedes som sådan, og den nordlige indgang tilmuredes. Nok også senere etableredes et lille rundbuet vindue på den nordlige side, og et tårn hvilende på fem piller indbyggede i langhuset og med pyramidetag af bly tilbyggedes over kirkens sydvestlige hjørne. Et våbenhus ved den sydlige indgang og en krydshvælving synes tilføjede i det 15. århundrede. Da var kirken indvendig 31¾ alen (19,93 meter) lang og 12¼ alen (7,69 meter) bred. Kirken stod i det nordvestlige hjørne af en ca. 65 meter lang og 65 meter bred kirkegård omhegnet af et 1,5 meter højt kampestensdige, sydvestligt i hvilket var en køreport og en gangport i en hvidkalket portal i senmiddelalderlig stil af munkesten. Allerede den 4. september 1424 kaldtes kirken Gammel Essenbæk (Gamel Essenbæk), og ejedes da af Essenbæk Kloster, som sammen med dets gods konfiskeredes af kongen i 1540. Da klosteret senere nedreves, førtes dets klokke til kirken.

Christen Skel Jørgensen købte den 7. september 1678 "Kirkens Andel af Tienden af de nævnte Sogne, Herligheden over Præstegaardene og Degnebolene og alt Kirkernes tilliggende Jordegods og anden Herlighed samt Kaldsretten" omfattende bl.a. Essenbæk Sogn. Med denne såkaldte patronatsret var han reelt kirkens ejer, dog med ansvar for dens stand.

Da kunsthistorikeren N. L. Høyen i 1830 besøgte Essenbæk Kirke, tegnede han bl.a. dens kirkefont. I sommeren 1865, da arkitekten Johannes Frederik (Frits) Christian Uldall besøgte kirken, stod der dog en anden døbefont – denne i barokstil af træ, og forestillende en knælende figur bærende en kumme.

I efteråret 1865 reves den da faldefærdige kirke ned, men kirkegården bevaredes og benyttedes endnu nogle år. Noget af kirkens inventar, inklusive 10 af altertavlens figurer forestillende de 12 apostle, solgtes på auktion, men figurerne forestillende apostlene Jakob den Ældre og Peter tog mureren N. Schunck, der medvirkede ved nedrivningen. I 1894 gav han dem til Randers Museum, og to år senere gav lensgrevinde Christiane Scheel altertavlens figurer forestillende Kristus og Maria til museet. I 1910 rejstes en mindesten på kirkegården, og i 1971 føjedes trælåger til den da teglhængte portal i kirkegårdsdiget. Omkring mindestenen markeres kirkens hjørner nu af kantrejste natursten.

Bygningshistorie

"Kirkeejeren" ville bygge en ny kirke i Assentoft, men det lokale sogneforstanderskab ville at en ny kirke ligesom den gamle skulle stå udenfor landsbyen. Kultusministeriet, som formidlede kommunikationen mellem de to parter, skønnede i 1866 at de ikke kunne enes, men i oktober 1868 begyndtes byggeriet af en ny kirke i Assentoft. Det var den første kirke Frits Uldall tegnede, og den 28. november 1869 indviedes denne nye Essenbæk Kirke af biskop Brammer. Dens klokke omstøbtes i 1885.

Efter at "kirkeejeren" begærede sig ansvarsfri for kirkens stand, blev kirken i 1913 selvejende.

Arkitektur

Kirken er bygget i rundbuestil af røde munkesten, på en sokkel af granitkvadre fra Gammel Essenbæk Kirke. Den består af et skib og kor i ét, indvendigt adskilt af en rundbuet triumfmur, samt en apsis mod øst, og mod vest et 26,4 meter højt tårn, inkl. et ottekantet spir, hvis underrum benyttes som våbenhus. Kirkens bjælkeloft er dækket med bly.

I kirken var prædikestolen, stolestaderne, indfatningerne af alterbilledet, og løvværket i bjælkeloftet i romansk stil da kirken indviedes. Alterbilledet var et maleri af A. Dorph forestillende Kristus og farisæerne.

Inventar

Som altertavle står der en rose af kobber.

Alterstagerne er fra ca. 1600.

Døbefonten fra den tidlige middelalder er af granit i romansk stil, med relieffer af hoveder på stage, et korslam, en fugl og to løver på kummen. Den benyttedes som fuglebad i haven ved Gammel Estrup, til den i 1869 flyttedes til kirken. Den er nok identisk med døbefonten der i 1830 stod i Gammel Essenbæk Kirke.

På et pulpitur i kirkens vestlige ende står et firstemmigt orgel.

Restaureringer

1967-1968
Mogens Henri Jørgensen maler skibets loft, prædikestol og stoleværk.

1985
Glasmosaikker af Mogens Henri Jørgensen indsættes i skibet.

1986

Der indsættes flere værker af Mogens Henri Jørgensen - en glasmosaik i koret, et glasmaleri i apsis, samt altertavlerosen.

1993
En glasmosaikrude af Mogens Henri Jørgensen indsættes.

Omgivelser
På ca. tre tønder land omkring kirken anlagdes en kirkegård, der omgaves af en mur af tilhuggede sten mod syd og vest, et stendige mod nord og øst, samt beplantedes med nåletræer langs resten af dens nordlige rand. Efter at de nyligt begravede kister fra den gamle kirkegård som kunne holde til det flyttedes dertil natten før, indviedes den nye kirkegård af biskop Brammer og sognets præst Alfred Hjalmar Elmqvist den 28. november 1872.

Et ligkapel byggedes på kirkegården i 1930.

Gravminder

I våbenhusets nordlige væg er indsat en stor gravsten med portrætrelieffer i halvfigur af Anne Nielsdatter, samt hendes ægtemænd Rasmus Pedersen og Bertel Henningsen. Den første af mændene var Essenbæk og Kristrups birkefoged til sin død i 1602, og efterfulgtes som sådan af den anden mand. Den ca. to meter lange og ca. halvanden meter høje sandstenstavle lå måske i Gammel Essenbæk Kirkes gulv.

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A Lovely Little Life: 33 weeks!
First of all, I just want to thank you all for all your sweet words from Monday's post.
Thank you for appreciating my ramble of a post.
Thank you for making me feel like I wasn't alone in all of that.
I love my little blogging family and the support I get from all of you as well.
It really means so much to me, so thank you.
This belly is getting bigger and almost pointier! HA!
How Far Along? 33 weeks!! So we have 6 weeks to go until the induction date!
Size? Pineapple, according to the app she is 4 pounds and growing 1/2 a week until birth....but she is already bigger, so we'll say 4 3/4. With that logic she will be just about the same size as her sister was!
Stretch Marks? Lathering and lathering!
Movement? all the time, still the best part!
Food Cravings? just as of late, it's been lemony flavored things. I had limoncello gelato (and it was amaze!), found these lemon fiber one bars and the are awesome (and a bonus at only 90 calories!!), and My awesome Momma made me that lemon lime cake on the cover of the new Southern Living....delish!!
Anything making you queasy or sick? not too bad anymore!
Labor signs? lots of braxton hicks. LOTS!
What I Miss? being able to bend over to put my shoes on! HA!
Symptoms? heartburn has lightened up, which is awesome! I am definitely feeling those 27 pounds though, everything is hard to do these days....it's pretty entertaining to see me roll out of bed to waddle to the bathroom!
Happy or Moody? happy happy happy happy happy!!
Best Moment of the Week? hearing that E was helping to take care of a sad little boy in her MDO class on Monday. She kept trying to bring him toys, and pat and rub him, mely my heart!! She is going to be THE best big sister!!
Looking super adorable, as always!! I can't believe how fast our pregnancies are flying! Do you feel like this one is going waaaay faster than it did with Elise??
Also, I'm soooo feeling you on the shoes deal! LOL! It seems like the distance between me and my feet (or floor...or anything under my belly, for that matter) has increased! haha.
You are literally all belly. I mean look at those arms and legs!! You look awesome.
You couldn't look any cuter! Fingers crossed that I'm carrying half as adorably as you in another 11 weeks!
Awww love your cute belly bump. Glad you're happy happy and I hope you continue to stay that way.
You look just stunning! Can you believe you have less than 10 weeks to go! Oh my! I am still at 23 weeks myself ... with a GIRL this time so I feel as though its all new for me!
You have to be the cutest pregnant mama around!


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Children in the Palajunoj Valley of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, play before Carnival—note the paper confetti in their hair. In 2011, eight VUSN students joined Primeros Pasos staff to help provide health care, education and community outreach to the rural clinic that serves 10 surrounding communities. Photo courtesy of Mavis Schorn.
Carol Ziegler's great-grandfather was a Rough Rider, charging into battle with Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War. He had an intimate view of the effects of foreign intervention and hammered into his descendants that cultures were to be respected, not interfered with.
The night she graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing's Family Nurse Practitioner program, Ziegler met her future husband, a Kenyan named Kipkosgei Magut. Just a few months later, she was traveling to Kenya to meet his family with her great-grandfather's longstanding admonishments ringing in her ears.
"As soon as his family heard I was a nurse they said I should start a clinic there. But I looked around and saw people in their 90s and one over 100 with all their teeth. I thought, 'You don't need me!'"
But she was interested in the state of health care in this very remote village, especially when she learned that Magut's mother was an herbalist.
"They're using artemis for malaria, which effectively treats malaria the same as the drugs we use. They deal with skin disease, a lot of cancer, some high blood pressure and diabetes. The main thing they're lacking is trauma care," Ziegler said.
They were also facing a health care worker shortage because all of the herbalists were older than 65 and few younger people were learning their trade. While Ziegler completed her Doctorate of Nursing Practice at VUSN, she decided to use her culminating scholarly project to interview the village's traditional healers about their world view and practice and archive the information for the future.
"We found many barriers to their practice. The government has started protecting the forest, which is great for the plant and wildlife, but doesn't allow these healers to go in and get the herbs they need. The government is also requiring licenses, which can put some competent healers out of practice. Now biotech companies are pirating the herbs that these villagers have developed over thousands of years. When all these tribes are involved, who gets the patent?" said Ziegler, who is now assistant professor in the FNP program and coordinates VUSN's global health programs.
Ultimately, Ziegler learned the lesson that VUSN emphasizes in all global health work, and one her great-grandfather would approve of—whatever you do, it must benefit the community.
"It's really important from Vanderbilt's perspective that whatever we do outside our borders we do because the people want us to be there. We could come up with all kinds of things that would be great learning experiences for students, but it also has to be good for that community," Ziegler said.
With technology and travel making the world increasingly more accessible, more and more students are entering VUSN with a desire to participate in global health. Many have been on mission trips, served in the Peace Corps or studied abroad during college.
"I repeatedly hear from those students that when they were abroad they realized how important health was and that inspired them to be a nurse. They want to have the knowledge and skills to go back and make a difference," said Mavis Schorn, PhD, CNM, senior associate dean for Academics. "That's the nature of this next generation. They're much more traveled and very concerned about the wider world and its needs."
The school recently added a special session during the campus visit to talk about international programs because they were fielding so many inquiries.
"Our challenge is trying to fill their desire for global health and still meet, in a very compact time, their requirements in order to practice in the U.S.," Schorn said.
VUSN students, faculty and alumni participate in patient care, education and research around the globe, with the belief that experience and understanding about people from diverse populations enhances the quality of health care that can be provided in any location.
One of VUSN's biggest partners is the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, which provides multidisciplinary research and training programs worldwide. Its elective courses are open to students across the University.
"Foundations of Global Health" takes a theoretical look at the state of global health and what can impact it beyond the disease burden, including the environment, socio-economic and political climate, culture and history of a place. "Foundational Skills in Global Health" is more practical with lessons on core field tools, needs assessment, implementation techniques and methodologies.
"Leadership Development in Global Health" is a new requirement that emphasizes leadership and management skills.
"There are a lot of people who want to do missions, but actually making that a reality in a substantive way can be very challenging. We are encouraging students to do more than a parachute in or out experience, and that a very real need in many global settings is to have good clinicians who are also skilled in leadership and management," said Carol Etherington, MSN, RN, FAAN, associate director of Community Health Initiatives at VIGH and associate professor of Nursing at VUSN.
Etherington began discussing global health with former VUSN Dean Colleen Conway-Welch in 1998, "long before global or international health was sexy or even seemed in the realm of possibility," she recalled.
"We began a series of meetings called the VU-triple I, which stood for International Interdisciplinary Initiatives, with the law school, divinity school, medical school, nursing school and business school. It has always been special to me that the conversation was started in the School of Nursing," Etherington said.
Today, VUSN is again a pioneer, this time in ways to incorporate global health into a demanding curriculum.
Mary Martin, CNM, was the first nursing student to complete VIGH's Graduate Certificate in Global Health. While the certificate usually requires an overseas practicum, Martin focused on Arabic-speaking immigrants in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Vanderbilt, facilitating patient education through group settings to teach women to participate in their own health care.
"It was not at all a contrived placement. It was global health, without question, in a most innovative way. We really do think that global health can be done at home, and it's the nursing students who are frontrunners with that concept," Etherington said.
Project Pyramid, operated out of Owen Graduate School of Management, is another strong global health partner for VUSN. Approximately 35 students from across Vanderbilt's graduate schools do coursework and plan and execute a spring break service trip. Past trips have included Guatemala and Nepal.
In addition to global health, students are immersed in interprofessional learning.
"Other students really appreciate having the nurses' well-developed and sophisticated view of health care on the ground as it is really delivered, and the nurses really learn from business, engineering and law students. They all work beautifully together," said Bart Victor, Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership and Project Pyramid faculty leader.
Schorn said Project Pyramid emphasizes that global health can't succeed without teamwork.
"You can treat for worms all day long, but if you haven't worked with the engineer to improve the water supply, you're not going to get very far. The more they learn how what one does impacts the other and learn to work together, it ultimately improves the whole," Schorn said.
It has been Etherington's long-held vision that nurses be an integral part of any global health team.
"With those very chronic and complex problems, where health is directly related to the environment, education, economics and the geopolitical issues going on, I think that nursing is the profession that has its finger on the pulse of how all those issues come together. But rarely are nurses pulled into the decision making in a lot of places," she said.
Global Health Nurses in Residence have a robust experience, learning from many different opportunities and people. Pictured L to R, Laine Scott-Nelson, Poppy Buchanan (VUSN ' 61) and Grace Appert. Courtesy of Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health.
That vision is partially realized this fall with the first participants in the Global Health Nurse in Residence Program, an opportunity for Vanderbilt affiliated nurses to serve, train, network and collaborate with nurses and other health care workers for up to 12 weeks in the Central Province of Kenya.
Supported by VUSN alumna Poppy Buchanan, this program is the first to focus solely on providing nurses and nurse practitioners with a funded opportunity for a global health immersion experience. Grace Appert and Laine Scott-Nelson were selected as the inaugural Nurses in Residence.
"We always emphasize how important it is to be sensitive to the uniqueness of each culture and ethnicity," Etherington said. "But the reason nurses are so important to this effort is that with all of those differences, at the heart of global health is the understanding that there really isn't that much difference in human beings. And nurses get that."
Zambia and Nicaragua
Michelle Drew has made it her mission to "infect" the next generation of nurses with the global health bug.
"Teaching students, I try to reinforce the idea to work in a resource-poor area.
I want to equip them with the knowledge, understanding and desire to work in those areas. It's amazing to me that the idea of 'service' has become so ingrained in the U.S. and I hope it continues. It's important to expose students to the idea of caring for 'the least of these.'"
Drew has spent more than a decade doing just that in rural Zambia and Nicaragua. It started with a medical outreach trip to Zambia in 2001 and quickly turned into a full-time position in a mission-based hospital there.
"I first studied tropical medicine and then came to Vanderbilt to earn my MSN in Nurse-Midwifery/FNP program to give me the training I needed to be able to serve the whole community, but women and children were my passion from the start because I was struck by the disparity and how the position of women and children in the prevailing culture affected the health care they received."
Even though the World Health Organization recommended pregnant women be treated with anti-malarial drugs in their third trimester, the patriarchal society gave first priority to males and first-born children.
"You have to really take the cultural temperature and develop relationships to institute change. It's easy to walk around as a bull-in-a-china-shop American, but that wouldn't have gotten me anywhere. I can't overstress cultural competence," Drew said.
Patients line up waiting to be seen at Namwianga Rural Health Center, Kalomo, Zambia.
After 10 years in Zambia, a desire to be closer to her aging parents led Drew to a non-governmental organization in Nicaragua that develops community-based maternal/child health networks and trains and supports traditional birth attendants and midwives.
"The geography is very mountainous and volcanic. Getting women to come down to the hospital for an attended birth is not always feasible. They still tend to deliver at home, and our goal is to have trained women there with them," Drew explained.
The non-governmental organization provides a casa maternal to feed and house the women who travel down from the mountains before delivery.
Drew also leads students on international trips and has seen the global health "buzz word" grow over the years.
"I went from maybe once a year getting a student inquiry to now turning people away in droves," she said. "To go from seeing problems all due to our sedentary lifestyle—knee pain, diabetes, high blood pressure—in the U.S. to being in Nicaragua seeing scabies and pin worms is an eye-opener. I hope it reinforces their desire to work with the underserved, even in the U.S."
When Stephenie Plowden's husband received a Fulbright Fellowship to study in South Africa, she immediately looked into ways she could join him and continue her Nurse-Midwifery/FNP studies there. The answer was a five-month independent study through the University of Cape Town, which has a partnership with Vanderbilt University.
Plowden worked in a state-sponsored birth center that is the primary level of care for pregnant women without private insurance.
"Women don't have an option. There are no epidurals, no continuous fetal monitoring, no Doppler. You could definitely say it was low resource."
The center averaged 400 births a month in six delivery beds. Delivering at least two herself every shift, Plowden quickly went back to basics.
"I learned to palpate where the baby was lying to get the best heart rate. We don't do that in the U.S. because we have machines. In South Africa, my main tools were my hands, ears and eyes."
But, she emphasized, her greatest tool was humility.
Nandi women elders attend a morning tea and planning meeting in Kitale, Kenya
"Being an intruder or guest, I learned to put aside what I saw in my world view as best practice and took in what they could share with me. It takes humility to learn from each other and to value our various backgrounds and experiences. I didn't want to make the mistake of playing God and telling them how they should reform their country and save Africa. I saw a lot of goodness in many things they do that we lack."
Plowden noted a great disparity between the educated health provider and the uneducated patient and was often frustrated with providers who didn't listen to their patients or give them time to express concerns.
"Through these experiences, I know I'm a better midwife, but I feel like I'm a richer person by the impact of these South African women. I'm inspired by what they endured, and I never want to be too busy to explain something or to reassure someone who is scared."
After graduation in May, Plowden would like to focus on providing the midwifery model of care to marginalized women in the U.S.
"I feel like immigrants and refugees and other marginalized women often receive substandard care because they don't know how to get anything better. I want to empower women through birth, and that starts with women who are not empowered in life."
Erin Dittmer, an adult and women's health nurse practitioner student, just spent seven months in Beijing studying Chinese as a David L. Boren Fellow.
Sponsored by the National Security Education Program, the David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are a federal initiative designed to build a broader and more qualified pool of U.S. citizens with foreign language and international skills. In exchange for funding, Boren award recipients agree to work in the federal government for at least one year.
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In February, Vanderbilt University will host the Nursing Leadership in Global Health Symposium, which aims to promote the nursing model of care as a means to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable populations in resource-limited settings around the globe.
Dittmer taught English in China for 13 prior to entering VUSN, and seeing the SARS outbreak there contributed to her decision to change fields. During her fellowship, she was a full-time language student and arranged some clinical observations and language exchange with local health care students to acquire more medical vocabulary.
For anyone interested in working long term with a non-English speaking population, Dittmer encourages investing time in learning the population's language.
"Besides the practical skill of being able to use the language for communication, the experience of being a foreign language learner helps to develop empathy for those we encounter in the U.S. whose first language is not English," she said.
"As health care providers, we need to remember how vulnerable patients feel when they are in need of medical care but don't understand what is going on around them or can't express themselves clearly because of language differences. Both living abroad and studying a foreign language can help to cultivate this awareness."
Faculty goes global
Global health activity at VUSN is not limited to students. Many faculty members have formed collaborations at Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland, Hong Kong University, and Melbourne University in Australia.
In September, Karen D'Apolito, PhD, APN, NNP-BC, FAAN, professor of Nursing and director of the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program, will spend five days at Queen's University to explore possibilities for cooperative research or faculty exchanges.
"I plan to meet the faculty, visit their nurseries and talk about ideas for collaboration. I'm seeking information. Once I find out more about what they do and what they're interested in, then we can decide the best way to move forward," D'Apolito said.
She said she is excited to see how differently the Irish manage newborns and how they teach students, and says learning from other nations can inspire new innovations.
"They may educate students differently than we do here in the U.S. Do they use distance education and/or problem-centered learning? What is required for faculty education? These exchanges of information may lead to new and different teaching strategies that can enhance the education of students in the U.S. and abroad."
— by Leslie Hill
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Mobile data security and HIPAA compliance have become two of the biggest concerns among health IT professionals. Mobile devices must be defended to keep the data on them from being accessed in the event of theft or loss, but security, alone, is not enough. There is considerable potential for mobile device users to violate HIPAA rules and company policies. These devices are also a target for cybercriminals who view them as an easy entry point into healthcare networks.


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Devotee do not want liberation, they only want to serve. Service here or service there doesn't matter. 'Let me always serve you', that is the mood of a devotee.
By practice or by becoming sinless we will not become a pure devotee but by surrendering to Krishna we will become a pure devotee.
Devotees apparently go through some difficulities at a time but those difficulties do not affect them by any means because they are always protected by Krishna's merciful embrace.
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USAID Funded Aphiaplus Western Kenya Zone One - Implementors
Our mission is focused on quality Improvement in Programs for Vulnerable Children. Dago Dala Hera CBO works with APHIA Plus Western Kenya to address the plight of orphans and vulnerable children in East Sakwa location. They are currently working with 3000 vulnerable children at the capacity of implementors.
Aldersgate United Methodist Church - Evansville Indiana
Our mission is to work for Health and Education with the people of Kenya. Our focus area in Dago village is to Support children and teachers in the Early Childhood Development (PreSchool) program, and building a new classroom for the youngest class of children in the program.
Bernard and Elsie Weiss Dago Scholarship Fund
Provide bright, needy students of Dago, Kenya with the opportunity for a high school education.
One Way Out Kenya - North Carolina
Our mission is to provide educational opportunities to orphaned and vulnerable children in rural Kenya through educational sponsorships, scholarships and the support of community, non-governmental schools.
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Ryerson University - Canada
Entrepreneurship in Action – Enactus Ryerson provides co-curricular opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience and generate personal and professional success. We transform others' lives as well as our own through the positive power of business and entrepreneurship.
University of Evansville - Indiana
Run for Hera Is a student organization at University of Evansville creating opportunities for campus family and students to engage and support the work of Friends of Dago in Kenya.
University of Southern Indiana - Indiana
The USI Men's Rugby Club started in 1991, and are a 5-time Indiana state championship; Mid-Central Champion and National Championship qualifying team! Have served the team since 2010 leading them to historic wins. I engage the students in a lot of community service work and leadership development opportunities.
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Harambee is a swahili word meaning the coming together for a common good. This UNC-CH based club will fundraise and otherwise help create sustainable education opportunities for vulnerable and orphaned children in Kenyan villages.
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We are delighted to let you know that following the temporary closure of St Marks Post Office we will be re-opening the branch on Monday 3 December 2018. This will be in a new location – Tennyson Convenience Store, 66 Tennyson Road, Cheltenham, GL51 7BY, where it will be known as Tennyson Road Post Office.
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ALAMOSA—Joy Mejia will be attending Adams State University on a full-ride scholarship thanks to the generosity and support of the Boys and Girls Clubs of the San Luis Valley and ASU. The scholarship was part of the BGCSLV's annual Celebration of Youth breakfast and benefit that awarded Mejia the Youth of the Year award Tuesday morning.
Lisa Mix, last year's winner, was the runner-up. Alamosa City Councilor Kristina Daniel, ASU Assistant Professor Cheri Meder and Alamosa County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Randy Wright judged the event.
Guest speaker this year was Alamosa Police Chief Duane Oakes. He talked about the BGCSLV's mission and the impact it has in the Valley. "We need to recognize the good things youth are doing in the community," Oakes said.
Oakes said that the BGCLSV helped over 1,000 kids in 2016 and saw an average of 114 kids each day. He mentioned that it's partly because BGCSLV is open during the summer and holidays.
"It's great to have a place where children can go when parents are working so they aren't home alone," said Oakes.
The police chief also mentioned the volunteer work that he and his staff do at the club such as playing dodge ball, basketball and pool with the kids. "The less we have to deal with kids on the bad side, the more we can focus on the good side of our community," Oakes said. "As much free time as we get, we spend with the kids. They see us as normal people instead of just thinking of us as the people who show up when bad things are happening at home."
Oakes ended his speech with a quote by Frederick Douglass and said, "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
Before presenting the Youth of the Year award, BGCSLV Chief Program Officer Claire Lara awarded Adrian Raya with the Junior Youth of the Year award. This year was the first the BGCSLV presented a Junior Youth of the Year award and it's reserved for BGCSLV members aged 10 to 13. Isaiah Avila was the runner up.
Raya, a seventh grader at Ortega Middle School, spoke about how BGCSLV gave him the foundational skills to be a leader. With the BGCSLV's programs, Raya has assisted on field trips, tutored other members, and helped at the humane society. He has a 4.0 GPA at OMS and participates in soccer, track and band.
Other Valley youth, who may or may not be members of BGCSLV, were also recognized. Arielle Sandoval, Amyas Maestas, Manuelito Casias, Isabella Griffin, Dean Martinez, Michael Ward and Mason Torr excelled both in and out of school.
Afterwards, Lara honored five BGCSLV members. Elijah Cardenas, Aiden Pintor, Zane Sullivan, Kason McMillan and Brianna Barrios shined in the BGCSLV's various programs.
There was also a show of support for BGCSLV employees and the new Teen Tech Academy.
Rio Grande Farm Park director Julia Mordecai lead the annual pledge drive like last year, however, she had some extra help from hip hop band The Flobots. Band member Stephen "Brer Rabbit" Brackett shared his own experience with after school programs in order to persuade attendees to donate. Brackett talked about how the program was vital in stimulating his mind and how it allowed him to give his parents, who were both suffering from cancer, a needed break.
"I doubt that I would be here without an after school program like the Boys and Girls Club," said Brackett. The Flobots also performed at a BGCSLV benefit concert held at ASU's Richardson Hall last night.
Mejia closed out the ceremony with her award-winning speech. She thanked the staff of BGCSLV for supporting her and her sister through difficult times. Through reading and writing, the club provided her an outlet for her depression.
"The damage my mother has done to me was unbearable and I didn't think I would get through it," said Mejia.
Adams State University President Beverlee McClure awards Joy Mejia the Youth of the Year award at the Boys and Girls Clubs of the San Luis Valley's annual Celebration of Youth breakfast and benefit on Tuesday morning. The award includes a full-ride scholarship to ASU.
Cynthia Mejia, 11, Flobots band member Stephen "Brer Rabbit" Brackett and Carlos Gonzales, 11, sing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" at the Boys and Girls Clubs of the San Luis Valley's annual Celebration of Youth breakfast and benefit on Tuesday morning. The Flotbots also performed at a BGCSLV benefit concert held at ASU's Richardson Hall that night.
Alamosa Police Chief Duane Oakes speaks at the Boys and Girls Clubs of the San Luis Valley's annual Celebration of Youth breakfast and benefit on Tuesday morning. Oakes stressed the positive impact the club has on the community.
Adrian Raya gives a speech at the Boys and Girls Clubs of the San Luis Valley's annual Celebration of Youth breakfast and benefit on Tuesday morning. Raya won the Junior Youth of the Year award.
Arielle Sandoval, Amyas Maestas, Manuelito Casias, Isabella Griffin, Dean Martinez, Michael Ward and Mason Torr were recognized for their outstanding academic and extracurricular work at the Boys and Girls Clubs of the San Luis Valley's annual Celebration of Youth breakfast and benefit on Tuesday morning.
Aiden Pintor, Zane Sullivan, Kason McMillan and Brianna Barrios were recognized at the Boys and Girls Clubs of the San Luis Valley's annual Celebration of Youth breakfast and benefit on Tuesday morning for their work in the club's programs. Elijah Cardenas was also honored but he was not present at the ceremony.


Figures from the previous quarter show that capital gains for real estate buyers in POINT FREDERICK are low, as opposed to average gains per annum over the past five years.
This number can mean, real estate investors could earn a rental income of $697.5 based on current median home prices for the suburb.
On average, rents on listings have reached the $697.5 mark, reflecting a 2.87% increase in returns based on the current median price in POINT FREDERICK.
POINT FREDERICK, 2250 ranks 1236th in NSW in terms of median property value increase and capital gains, based on year-to-date figures.
While it ranks 973rd on the list of best yielding suburbs for rental properties in NSW, posting a 2.87% return.
Property investors have seen a -2.6% drop in POINT FREDERICK based on a decrease in median home prices for the past three months.
Based on its average 5-year and quarterly capital gains POINT FREDERICK, 2250 saw average growth in the long term.
POINT FREDERICK, 2250 delivered a stronger performance in contrast to other Australian suburbs in terms of appreciation of property value. Investors saw the median home price rise to $523,500.
Profits due to an upward trend in home prices in POINT FREDERICK, 2250 averaged 8.97% per annum over a 3-year period.
This number can mean, real estate investors could earn a rental income of $390 based on current median home prices for the suburb.
The gross rental yield in POINT FREDERICK, 2250 is 3.87%.
An average of 4 real estate transactions take place per month in POINT FREDERICK which translates to 48 per annum.


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The ancient history of our community is largely an unknown one to most people – a deliberately ignored one. To a large extent it is a history stolen from us – the events that occurred in our story have been taken over by another community – Christianity, to be rewritten and claimed as their own.
Reclaiming our past is an uphill struggle; Talmidi saints, heroes and prophets have been turned into Christian heroes, and great moments in Talmidi history have been repainted and redesigned to look like Christian triumphs.
We only know our past from those who criticised us (see Historical references to ancient Talmidin). Our own writings were altered and taken over by Christians (the 'Letter of Ya`aqov Nasi to the Communities Abroad' was rewritten as the 'Epistle of St James', and the 'Book of Visions' was expanded to become the 'Book of Revelation'). Anything that could not be altered was purposefully destroyed.
Restoring our history has been very much like detective work – either playing on hunches, or putting together a jigsaw puzzle with only 10% of the pieces. I have had to guess and make up many of these pieces from many hunches, but what have found is, I believe, a story that fits with what we know for certain of Jewish history.
I would therefore like to point out the people and places which have been taken over by Christianity, and try to reclaim them for our own community.
The Prophet Yeshua`
The abduction, distortion and eventual deification of our prophet, Yeshua` bar Yosef, was the worst act of iniquity. He was a human prophet, a Galilean Jew, a faithful servant of YHWH the God of his ancestors. He would have been outraged and dismayed that Gentiles would later take over his message, de-Judaise it, and turn him into a pagan god-man. It would have been an anathema to him.
The misrepresentation of Yeshua`'s death was another grave injustice. Yeshua` was the Jewish victim of merciless Roman torture and cruelty. When we read of Yeshua`'s death, we cry in our hearts, 'This is wrong! This is unjust! This oppression was evil! How could these heartless people have murdered a man of God like this!' But Christians look at the story, at his bleeding, pain-racked and tortured body and cry, 'How wonderful! How marvellous! How great!'
To the Jews of his day, the cross was the symbol of evil and oppression. Christianity has covered up the injustice that the story is supposed to evoke in us, the outrage it is supposed to provoke, and instead glorified his death, and turned an evil symbol of death into the sign of their religion.
The early community of Followers
Christianity has also abducted the identities of Yeshua`'s first Jewish followers, given them new names, new roles, and new beliefs. The first Followers of the Way were not Christians, but remained faithful Jews, faithful to YHWH, to the Torah, and to the customs of their ancestors. They were not 'the early Church', but a community of Jews within Judaism who followed the teachings of Jewish prophet.
After Yeshua`, the second greatest leader of our community was his cousin / brother Ya`aqov bar Qlofah. He was chosen as Nasi (religious president) of the community), and led the community for nearly thirty years (see more on Ya`aqov bar Qlofah). Unfortunately, this image conflicts with the Christian view that Peter was the leader of Yeshua`'s Jewish Followers, so Ya`aqov is demoted, and turned into a Christian bishop.
In reality, Shim'on Keyfa (Simon Peter) was only the leader of the Judean community of Followers. He defected to Paul and his teachings, was expelled from the Talmidi community, and was exiled to Rome for converting to Christianity.
The character of St Paul is the most lied about and deceitful figure in the Christian rewrite of early history. In Christianity he is extolled as a great Apostle and teacher. We see him rather differently (see more on Paul of Tarsus).
He was the son of gentile converts from Cilicia (modern south-east Turkey). He tried to join the Pharisees, but they would not have him. In an attempt to hide his failure from his parents, he became a captain in the ranks of the Temple police, in the service of the High Priest and the Sadducees. It was in this capacity that he persecuted, not Christians, but the Greek-speaking sect of Followers (see page on the Hellenicists).
We view Paul of Tarsus, not Yeshua`, as the true founder of the belief system most people know today as Christianity.
In the 'Book of Acts', there arises a dispute between Paul's Believers in Antioch, and a delegation sent up from Jerusalem, concerning the conduct of Paul's Gentile disciples in relation with the laws of the Jewish community. He is summoned to Jerusalem to explain himself. In the Christian version of the story, Paul wins, is reconcile to the Jerusalem council, and all is well.
In our version of the story, Paul's views are so irreconcilable with those of any branch of Judaism, that he is politely informed that he can no longer consider his Believers as part of the Jewish community, and is expelled from the Talmidi community.
Paul must have held a deep resentment for this, and I believe that this is the original motivation behind the subconscious loathing Paul had for the Jewish community of Followers.
Taking back our story
When we see Christians tell and write about our story as if it were theirs, we feel an enormous wrong is being perpetuated through time. There doesn't seem to be anything we can do to stop it and reclaim our story. However, there may be a ray of hope.
Ordinary people, both spiritual and non-spiritual, have a simple idea of what the first followers of Yeshua` were like: a community of people striving to live lives of kindness, charity, forgiveness and generosity of spirit; a community of people who worshipped and served a loving God, full of compassion and warmth. If we can show these things in what we do, then others can judge for themselves who we are. I believe our actions will do more for us than any arguments and evidence that we could ever put forward.


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Officials Agree To Cap Population at D.C. Jail
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2009 by Michael Rigby published in Prison Legal News February, 2009, page 12
Filed under: Totality of Conditions, Overcrowding, Injunctions (PLRA), Injunctions, Sanctions, News, State Legislation. Location: District of Columbia.
After decades of fighting lawsuits, skirting court orders, and defying legislative decrees, the District of Columbia Mayor's Office has finally agreed to a definitive population cap at the notoriously overcrowded and dangerous D.C. Jail.
Under the terms of the settlement, the jail will hold no more than 2,164 prisoners—a number arrived at more than four years ago by the District's own correctional consultants.
In two rulings spanning a decade, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia held in 1975 and again 1985 that the jail's continuous overcrowding regularly violated the Eighth Amendment rights of convicted prisoners and pretrial detainees to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.
This chronic overcrowding, the court held in a 1985 contempt hearing, resulted in prisoners being forced to stay in their cells with no water or basic supplies, haphazard laundry service, and substandard medical care. Not surprisingly these base conditions led to regular assaults and stabbings. Noting the unwillingness of officials with the D.C.
Department of Corrections (DCDC) to remedy the constitutional violations, the court imposed a population cap of 1,694 based on testimony of the then-Assistant Director of the DCDC who testified that the jail was designed to hold 1,356 prisoners but could safely hold 25% more, or 1,694 prisoners.
Still, the District continued to violate the court's orders. In 1993 the court appointed a Special Officer to oversee the Districts efforts to comply with the court order. The Special Officer reported to the court in 1994 that the District remained in "substantial noncompliance" with the court's order. Consequently, with the Mayor's Office agreeing to be held in contempt, the court imposed in 1995 a structured remedial plan with a specific timetable to bring the jail into compliance. Still, no definitive action was taken and the jail remained noncompliant.
Then, in 1996, in a triumph to tyrannical prison and jail autocrats everywhere, the U.S. Congress enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). The PLRA drastically reduced the authority of federal courts to oversee prison and jail reform and subjected ongoing actions--except in rare instances--to immediate vacatur upon a motion by the defendants. Defendants in the DC jail case proffered such a motion 2002, and, in an order dated October 5, 2002, the court nullified the previous court-approved consent decree imposing a population cap at the jail.
Following the dissolution of this decree, overcrowding at the jail skyrocketed while safety and security conditions careened out of control. In December 2002—when the jail population exceeded 2,400 prisoners—two pretrial detainees were stabbed to death. Another prisoner was stabbed but survived.
Responding to the increased violence, members of the D.C. Council introduced a bill—ultimately known as the "Jail Improvement Act"—aimed at rectifying the deteriorating conditions at the jail, which included overcrowding.
After negotiations with the Mayor's Office, it was agreed that "the population cap would be determined on the basis of findings by an independent corrections consultant to be appointed by mutual consent of the Mayor and the Council." On April 12, 2004, the consulting firm issued its final report, based on the American Correctional Association's Adult Local Detention Facility Standards, determining that jail's optimum "operational range" was between 1,958 and 2,164 prisoners.
During the time of the consulting firm's study, population at the jail ranged between 2,300 and 2,400 prisoners. When the findings were presented, the DCDC offered no objections and later even endorsed the report's recommendations.
The Mayor's Office, however, was a different story. The District's Deputy Mayor defended the jail's population of 2,300 by arguing that "the concept of establishing a jail's capacity is not an exact science" and promised only that the Mayor's Office would "establish the recommended operational capacity only as a long term goal."
On June 29, 2005, plaintiffs Garry Anderson, Georgene Greenfield, Melvin Hucks, Darryl Mayo, Terri Meade, Brian Patterson and Donnell Williams filed a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief. The document filed in Superior Court sought to force compliance with the Jail Improvement Act of 2003, D.C. Law 15-62, D.C. Code. Ann. Sec. 24-201.71.
Dismissing the District's arguments that the 2003 law was not binding on the Mayor, the Court affirmed that District's compliance was long overdue. On October 6, 2007, the Washington Post ran a story quoting presiding Judge Melvin R. Wright saying he was ready to hold the District of Columbia Mayor in contempt of court. "There have been numerous judges who have come and gone, who have died, who have been unable to get the District to establish a cap," the paper reported he said. "I don't want to bring the mayor in here, but what choice do I have? … Am I supposed to turn my head?"
Rather than proceed to trial, the Mayor's Office agreed to settle the case by promising to establish a population cap at the jail of 2,164 prisoners—the number recommended by the mayor's hand-picked consultants in April 2004. This agreement was reflected in an October 12, 2007 court order formally requiring the District to comply with the population cap. Additionally, since there is an exception to the population cap for exigent circumstances, such as, but not limited to, mechanical failures or natural disasters, the Defendants must notify attorneys for the Plaintiffs in writing in the event of such circumstances. The notice must also contain a description of the circumstances necessitating the temporary suspension of the cap and the anticipated time the defendants believe it will be necessary to exceed the cap.
Judge Wright retained jurisdiction over the case to make sure that all the necessary rulemaking procedures were followed and that the District continued to act in accordance with the Order. The city published the official order of a population cap for the D.C. Jail in the January 18, 2008, edition of the D.C. Register, 55 D.C. Reg. 492 (Jan. 18, 2008).
On October 28, 2008, the Judge dismissed the case without prejudice, but also included a provision that the attorneys could file any objection of counsel before January 19, 2009. The average daily population at the Jail for September 2008 (the last month for which statistics are publically available) was 1,933. Anderson and the other plaintiffs were represented by Deborah M. Golden of the D.C. Prisoners' Project in Washington, D.C. and Theodore A. Howard of the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wiley Rein LLP. See: Anderson v. Fenty, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Civil Division, 2005 CA 005030 B.
Anderson v. Fenty
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Civil Division, 2005 CA 005030 B
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Officials Agree To Cap Population at D.C. Jail, by Michael Rigby
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Changes in Texas Parole Laws Violate Ex Post Facto Clause, by Matthew Clarke
Department of Justice Report on Prison Rape Elimination Act, by Matthew Clarke
Fifth Circuit: § 1983 Nominal and Punitive Damages Allowed Absent Physical Injury
Report Criticizes Conditions in U.S. Immigrant Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, by David Reutter
Notwithstanding Federal Healthcare Receiver, California Prisoners Can Still Use State Habeas Corpus to Redress Medical Complaints
Washington DOC Restarts Private Industry Prison Jobs Following State Constitutional Amendment, by John Dannenberg
Ohio Settles Actual Innocence Claim For $1,500,000
Alaskan Prisoner in Arizona Can Enforce CCA Contract
Supreme Court of Canada: No Wage Loss Compensation While in Prison Caused by Sexual Assault by Staff
GAO Report Critical of BOP's Methodology for Comparing Costs Between BOP and Private Facilities, by Brandon Sample
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Texas Awards Prison Phone Contract, by Matthew Clarke
Jury Awards Almost $900,000 to Dallas County Jail Stroke Victim, by Gary Hunter
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Los Angeles Sheriff Department Report: Prisoner Lawsuits Slowed, But Payouts Grew, by John Dannenberg
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Washington Prisoner Suit for "Prevailing Wages" from Private Employer Fails, by John Dannenberg
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Scientific Advances in Arson Investigations Reveal Wrongful Convictions, Jan. 15, 2013
Ninth Circuit Rules Right to Court Access Violated When Lockdown Prevents Prisoner from Researching Issues Related to Direct Appeal, Nov. 15, 2011
Some Agencies Balk at Releasing Prison Phone Data, April 15, 2011
Facebook Lands Prison Guards, Prisoners in Hot Water, April 15, 2011
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Is the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Ready to Investigate Arbery Cover-Up?, Oct. 15, 2020. News, News in Brief.
Blue Lives Matter More: Georgia Introduces Hate Crime Bill Designed to Protect the Cops, Oct. 15, 2020. Protests, Qualified Immunity, State Legislation, News in Brief, Hate Crimes.
The Prison Was Built to Hold 1,500 Inmates. It Had Over 2,000 Coronavirus Cases, Sept. 1, 2020. Criminal justice system reform, COVID-19, Overcrowding.
Record Number of Laws Passed Reducing Barriers for People With Criminal Records, Sept. 1, 2020. State Legislation, Restrictions, discrimination.
Mississippi Prisons in Crisis, July 1, 2020. Prison Gangs, Cost of Prison Systems, Overcrowding, Staffing.
Report: Tennessee Prison Population Climbs, Bucks Nationwide Trend, June 1, 2020. Overcrowding, Mental Health.
Ohio Prisoner's Facebook Live a Plea for Help During COVID-19 Pandemic, May 1, 2020. COVID-19, Overcrowding.


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Why is Gov. Kathy Hochul calling Cynthia Nixon?
The new governor is systematically paying attention to people her predecessor often ignored – or ran against.
Why is Kathy Hochul on the phone with Cynthia Nixon? lev radin/Shutterstock
| October 13, 2021
Gov. Kathy Hochul has worked hard in recent weeks to demonstrate how she is a different type of governor compared to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. One strategy has involved reaching out to longtime critics of his such as the actress Cynthia Nixon, a 2018 primary rival who has also been a high-profile activist on education policy. Hochul said their discussion centered on education funding and how she agreed with Nixon that the state needed to maintain funding increases for public schools following a 15-year fight between activists and Cuomo. "I think people should know what we're doing, and it's part of my transparency, so I let her know," Hochul said at a Wednesday press conference when asked about the Tuesday phone call by City & State.
A phone call with Nixon – the former running mate of Hochul's likely 2022 gubernatorial opponent New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams – is one of many meetings and phone calls that the governor has held in recent weeks on issues like nursing homes, school funding and ethics reforms. This includes a Tuesday meeting with Assembly Member Ron Kim of Queens and Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean on COVID-19 in nursing homes as well as a previously unreported meeting last week with good government groups like the New York Public Interest Research Group on reforming the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
"As part of Governor Hochul's commitment to change the culture in Albany and restore trust in government, our administration has been working to proactively solicit feedback from advocates, stakeholders, and impacted communities on a range of issues facing New Yorkers," Hochul spokesperson Hazel Crampton-Hays said in a statement.
Nursing home advocates brought a list of policy requests for the governor for a meeting that arose from a chance encounter between the governor and Kim on a New York City street two weeks ago. "It was night and day," said Kim – who infamously was the target of Cuomo's wrath earlier this year over nursing homes. "At this meeting, there was full recognition of some of the mistakes." While the governor did not commit to supporting advocates' various demands such as the establishment of a bipartisan investigation into COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, she did apologize for how the state has handled the issue – a notable contrast to the defiant attitude Cuomo and his administration had on the issue. Dean said in a statement that the meeting represented a "small step in the right direction" by the administration.
Hochul was also all ears – though equally noncommittal – about supporting a proposed constitutional amendment to replace the state's much criticized JCOPE ethics watchdog, which critics say is too beholden to governors. "When new governors come in, they want to shake the place up," New York Public Interest Research Group Executive Director Blair Horner, whose group had no meeting with Cuomo for years, said about the meeting last week with good government advocates at the governor's Manhattan office. "Not surprisingly they reach out to reform groups to see what we think." The discussion last week centered on a proposal that would allow members of the judiciary, rather than a governor or legislative leaders, to appoint a majority of the commissioners to oversee a new state ethics body.
The phone call to Nixon is not the only one that Hochul has made to longtime Cuomo critics on education policy. Jasmine Gripper, executive director of the Alliance for a Quality Education, said that she had no idea how the governor got her phone number, but she was pleasantly surprised to get a call from Hochul Tuesday morning. "This is really different," Gripper said of Hochul reaching out to express her support for continuing funding increases for local school districts. "We had a really contentious relationship with the previous governor." That included fighting him for nearly a decade on whether the state owed billions to school districts per a 15-year-old state court decision on a lawsuit that had now-state Sen. Robert Jackson of Manhattan (who Hochul said she has also reached out to) as a co-plaintiff. Cuomo eventually conceded defeat on the issue earlier this year, when the new state budget included billions in new school funding, but Hochul's support of continuing these funding increases was something new.
This appears to all be part of a broader effort by Hochul to distance herself from Cuomo, a man she loyally served for years as lieutenant governor, as she gets ready to run for a full term in office next year. "My guess was she was trying to shore up the opposition – you know folks who can be loud and would likely (support) a more progressive candidate for governor," Gripper said of her own interpretation of why Hochul reached out to her and Nixon considering their past battles with Cuomo. Nixon did not respond to requests for comment.
Not every longtime Cuomo critic has gotten a chance to meet with Hochul yet. Her top staffers met with criminal justice activists last month to discuss legislation aimed at addressing predatory court fines, according to Katie Schaffer, director of organizing and advocacy at the Center for Community Alternatives. Parole reform advocates are in the process of scheduling a meeting with the governor, according to TeAna Taylor, co-director of policy and communications with the People's Campaign for Parole Justice. The Sexual Harassment Working Group, an organization established by former legislative staffers, also has yet to get a meeting with Hochul personally to discuss legislative priorities – though a meeting did happen with her staff after she became governor, according to Erica Vladimer, a co-founder of the working group. "I'm hoping this is the first of many conversations to have with the Second Floor," Vladimer said in an interview. "We do anticipate this being an actual working relationship and something that will carry over to the new legislative session."
With reporting by Rebecca C. Lewis.
This article has been clarified to reflect the status of a proposed meeting between Gov. Kathy Hochul and advocates of parole reforms.
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