Raptor latching on big carnivores?
Well i has been able to make my Utahraptors fight back when attacked but... not exactly in the way I wanted or expected, instead of latch into them they go back and bite their ankles(Yup The Isle all over again ) and do a lot of damage. So i has been wondering i can get them to latch on big carnivores?
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Esri and United Nations Team to Provide Countries with COVID-19 Data Resources
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UN to Offer Free Access to Smart Mapping Software During Global Pandemic
Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, announced that it will partner with the Statistics Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs to offer its mapping and analytics technology for member states to help access and visualize the data needed as they combat the novel coronavirus pandemic. These countries can now use the software and tools that will enable them to be part of a Federated Network of COVID-19 data hubs. A hub is a cloud-based community engagement platform that organizes people, data, and tools through information-driven initiatives.
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"As we face an unprecedented health crisis, the world has never needed easy access to reliable and timely data as urgently as today," said Stefan Schweinfest, Director of the United Nations Statistics Division. "Tracking trends of the pandemic, identifying the more vulnerable groups, and understanding the impact of the crisis on all sectors of society and the economy are the most pressing needs of the global statistics and data community. This partnership offers an important tool easily accessible and usable by any national statistical office."
With a hub, organizations can leverage their existing data and technology and work together with internal and external stakeholders to track progress, improve outcomes, and create actionable policies. This new international network of hubs will allow countries to maximize communication, collaboration, and data sharing. By placing that data in a geographic context, hubs give governments, NGO's, citizen groups, and other organizations a deeper, more complex understanding of issues that face their communities.
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Home Education Pennsylvania foster kids will be able to attend college tuition-free in 2020....
Pennsylvania foster kids will be able to attend college tuition-free in 2020. But the law could be even stronger, advocates say
Sarah Anne Hughes
Representatives from the Field Center testify about foster care in front of the House Democratic Policy Committee. (Photo by Sarah Anne Hughes)
EXTON — Starting in fall 2020, young adults in the foster care system will be able to enroll tuition-free at Pennsylvania colleges and universities.
But at a Monday hearing on foster care convened by the state House Democratic Policy Committee, child welfare experts told lawmakers the legislation could be even stronger.
This summer, the Pennsylvania General Assembly approved a bill that requires post-secondary institutions to provide tuition and fee waivers to teens and young adults who were in foster care at age 16 or older.
"Although this is a wonderful example of how the Legislature can make a difference in contributing to improved outcomes, a notable shortfall of the legislation is that it focuses on tuition only," Sarah Wasch, program manager at the University of Pennsylvania's Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice & Research, testified Monday at the West Whiteland Township Building in Chester County.
"The waiver kicks in after all other grants and scholarships have been applied to the school's tuition, leaving students without financial support for room and board, a crucial component of post-secondary success and often a significant barrier to perseverance for foster youth," she continued.
A May report from the Field Center estimated that between 392 and 866 eligible teens and young adults would enroll under the law each year. The most likely cost for tuition will total between $319,000 and $704,000 per year, depending on the number of students.
Adding room and board waivers would bring the total annual cost to between $1.03 million and $5.66 million statewide.
At the moment, Pennsylvania foster kids who were still in the system at 16 can apply for a federal Chafee Education and Training Grant of up to $5,000.
But of the 8,356 people who were eligible for a grant during the 2018-19 academic year, just 429 applied for and received one, according to the Field Center.
Unlike the existing federal grant program, the costs of the waivers will be borne by the colleges and universities where the students enroll.
That's one reason Penn State University originally opposed parts of the measure.
"Penn State did have concerns with the costs associated with the proposed legislation ― costs which would have to be paid for by other students," university spokesperson Wyatt DuBois told the Morning Call in July. "We worked with legislators to address those concerns."
The Field Center anticipates that between 20 and 44 students will use the waivers at Penn State campuses each year. That would bring the cost for tuition, minus grants, to between $127,626 and $281,949.
Adding room and board would bring the price tag to just over $781,000, if 44 students enroll.
Wasch said in a follow-up call that "including room and board at residential four-year colleges and universities would be a huge component in allowing foster youth to stay in school for four years and graduate."
"We already know that such a low percentage of foster youth are making it to college — so few foster youth are even graduating from high school," she said. "And the majority of foster youth actually attend community college, at least for their first two years. So the number of college students in need of room and board may not even be that great."
Language providing for such waivers was added via amendment to a bill from Rep. Dave Hickernell, R-Lancaster, during the 2017-18 session. The bill passed the House, but was never taken up by the Senate for a vote.
Similar language was not included in the legislation Hickernell introduced this year that was eventually folded into a budget-enabling school code bill.
The provision was removed to make the bill more palatable, Nadia Mozaffar, a staff attorney at the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia who helped draft the legislation, told the Capital-Star. It's something the center still supports.
"We know that even after tuition and fees are waived there's still a lot of unmet financial need that people in foster care face," she said.
There's another change Pennsylvania lawmakers could make to benefit more foster youth.
The federal government allows states to lower the age of eligibility for Chafee grants to 14, rather than 16. In Pennsylvania, eligibility for a tuition waiver matches the Chafee standards.
Lowering the age would help children and families plan for the future, Mozaffar said, and prevent an unintended consequence — delaying adoptions until kids are old enough for a tuition waiver.
The new law as written also requires each college and university in Pennsylvania to establish a point of contact for foster youth. Some schools, like Penn State, already provide extra supports for this population.
The Field Center is helping 17 post-secondary institutions establish or maintain "campus-based support programs," Wasch said.
"The program is a hug. It's a home. It's a place that operates programs and services to ensure that foster youth maximize their chances of being successful in college," she said. Services can include counseling, case management, social outings, and year-round housing.
Wasch used the example of a foster youth from a group home who's starting college.
"When the roommate is hanging their Christmas lights and hanging photographs of their family, you have a foster youth literally dropped off by a case manager," she said. The support programs may provide a mentor who can greet the student and help get them settled.
The programs support "not just the academic and financial but the holistic needs" that young people from the foster care system have, she said.
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Associate Editor Sarah Anne Hughes covers the governor and Pennsylvania's agencies. Before joining the Capital-Star, she was the state capitol reporter for Billy Penn and The Incline, and a 2018 corps member for Report for America. She was previously managing editor of Washington City Paper, editor-in-chief of DCist, and a national blogger for The Washington Post.
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It is so very sad to learn that our students end up seeking help at the Institute of Mental Health or IMH with relations to Stress from such a tender age. Is this a clear manifestation of the failure of the PAP policy and the emphasis on the current curriculum of today's education system?
Doesn't this revelation prove that the main cause and or fault of depression, anxiety and depressive disorder lies on the current education and curriculum which pushes meritocracy as believed by the PAP?
If one look clearly, it does appear and seems to suggest the possible co-relation between the students seeking treatment at the IMH's Child Guidance Clinic and the linkage better the current education system and curriculum.
The patients as young as 6 to those aged 18 is a clearest indicator. The clinic seeing an average of 2,400 new cases every year from the Year 2012 to 2017 is disturbing.
I wonder why IMH does not track the causes of the disorder (insofar as statistics on cases related to school stress) is concerned? Something is terribly wrong. Is it not related to "mental pressure" insofar as the schools subjects are concerned or could it possibly be due to the parental expectation on their beloved children related to the heavy homework, examination mood, projects or even relationship-linked (issues of with school authorities, friendship and bullying), etc.
THIS IS SERIOUS MATTER which must be satisfactorily and most importantly TRUTHFULLY resolved for the over-all good of the students, their future and the happiness of the parents and all.
If the policies and curriculum is the culprit, do we still need the program and syllabus drafted by the PAP?
A good Education rightfully directed towards the good of students should be encouraged so as to better develop them towards a better and brighter self-development.
What good is the percentage of the knowledge acquired through today's curriculum towards our students? According to educational experts it's only about 13% benefits from 12 to 18 years of education.
We should have a re-think of the educational system of Singapore by doing a post-mortem of the disadvantages or benefits of the current education system in Singapore. This re-evaluation should be from as early as pre-schoool till university.
Peoples Voice would look into it because the value of our children for the future of Singapore is most important.
These students are realising they have no hope to compete as their parents have given their future to FT… This brings about desperation and suicidal behavior.
But there is nothing they can do – they are screwed. Our first rate hard working future generation will be drivers, waiters and toilet cleaners (with degrees) to serve the FT.
People at any age can go crazy due to unfettered demands at work etc. This gagament is no exception. As they do not face such demands but only dictate fellow Singaporeans.
JUST VOTE THEM OUT AND ALL WILL BE WELL…cannot be WORSE!!!
Highly pre$$urised parents are pressurising their kids.
Scholar-principals hankering after HIGH KPI in pur$uit of MOE recognition are pressurising their TEACHERS as well.
These teachers,in turn,instill undue pressure onto the pupils/students.
It is a pressure-cooker to *cook faster,quicker n seemingly better* all round not unlike the corporate world.
Meanwhile,students who cannot cope just fall by the wayside n become delinquent.
The more achievement-oriented ones ultimately become *SCREW-LOSE* when they fear their results fall short of parents' expectations or even personal targets???
Our cohorts are so confused by PAP two dictionaries. One day they learned that inside is not within.
When this kid grows up, one foot inside the smoking box is not enough. He is fined.
They are also very confused about how an Indian can be a Malay. Like that sure go IMH.
That's why the richer and smarter FTs don't send their kids to our local schools.
Also, that's why many richer and smarter sg parents have already migrated to siam the high stress sg education system.
Don't play play. If you have only 1 kid, treasure him/her. Don't stress them. Bring them up healthily is more important so that they can live to vote out the crooked garbagemen.
Sg. lacking smiles and laughter.
too much stress and too little love!
There are lots of mad people in Singapore. More women than men. You hear them laughing like lunatics in public and talking extra loudly. No sense of decorum. Don't know how to behave like ladies in public. More like crazy school girls. Childish, immature, shallow, gossipy. Their own life is so dull and their sense of self esteem so low that they need to gossip and put others down to feel good about themselves.
what to do ? white idiots want more hungry FTs to come into the mix via their white monkey open-leg policy to add more 'hunger' into the system leh ? white monkey idiotic kaki lang even suggested 10m leh.