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BREAKING NEWS! Fatoş İrwen has been released from Turkish prison!
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Fatoş İrwen has been released from Turkish prison!!
Artists at Risk (AR) has long been advocating for the release and just treatment of Fatoş İrwen (bio page). Since 2016, İrwen faced harsh prison conditions under charges designed to silence dissident freedom of expression and activism in Turkey under President Tayyip Erdogan's authoritarian regime.
As part of AR's campaign, Fatoş İrwen was a participant in AR's The AR Pavilion Berlin: Mutatis Mutandis in October 2018 (Documentation: The Artists at Risk (AR) Pavilion Berlin: Mutatis Mutandis) and her work has most recently been represented in Perpetuum Mobile's AR PAVILION HELSINKI – MASS MEMORY MACHINES.
The Financial Times was one of the first major international newspapers to report her predicament (Rachel Spence, 27 September, 2019).
Photo by Ahmet Aküzüm
Fatoş İrwen is an artist and teacher from Diyarbakır, Turkey, who was imprisoned in 2016. The charges against her are based on evidence provided by an anonymous witness in relation to a protest she attended in 2013. She was taken into custody while trying to board an internal flight in Turkey, unaware of the nature of the charges against her. She was eventually charged with "resisting the police, opposition to the law against demonstrations and assemblies, propaganda for a terrorist organization, belonging to a terrorist organization" and sentenced to two years in prison.
Fatoş İrwen was born and raised in the Sûr neighborhood of Diyarbakır. She attended Dicle University. After receiving her diploma, she began teaching in Batman, in southeastern Anatolia. She later continued her art and teaching career in Diyarbakır.
Fatoş Irwen, El dikişi, Video of performative work, 2016. This work was shown as part of the AR PAVILION – BERLIN.
After struggling to get access to art materials, İrwen was able to produce works in prison. However, Artist at Risk (AR)'s sources have explained that Irwen was imprisoned in the same jail where other prisoners held hunger strikes in support of the Kurdish cause. (Especially the case of the ex-MP of HDP is internationally known). Some of the strikers have already died there, and a state of heightened anxiety reigns in the complex. Reports suggested that Irwen's health was in a fragile state, and in her last communications from prison she had been increasingly wary of censorship of her letters.
Fatoş İrwen is due to be released in the coming months, but her future under the current authoritarian regime is uncertain. Unlike Zehra Dogan, whose case was made famous by Ai Weiwei and Banksy, İrwen's case is unfortunately little known internationally.
Artists at Risk (AR) is currently campaigning to bring attention to this brave young artist's difficult and unjust predicament and ill-treatment by the Turkish authorities. We demand not only her immediate release from prison, but that she be able to travel and communicate without impediment to internationally recognized standards of freedom of movement and expression.
#FreeFatosIrwen
Artist Fatoş İrwen, also thrown in jail, Kedistan Net, 03/10/2017.
If You Say it Forty Times (Video)
Istanbul Biennial: eco-warriors outdone by dissidents, Financial Times, 27/09/2019.
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Q: UITableViewIndex Grows to Incorrect Bounds Unexpectedly I have a standard UITableView + UISearchDisplayController + UITableViewIndex setup. Everything works like a champ.
Except, under very specific conditions, the index grows too long to display on the screen. Specifically, after ending a search and re-displaying the unfiltered, indexed table, the index sometimes grows too long.
More specifically, this doesn't happen if I search then cancel. It only happens if I search, then push a view controller from the search table, then pop that view controller back to the still-searching table, then cancel the search, then re-search and then cancel that final search. After the end of the final search the index is too long.
In portrait, the table view is reporting a height of 416 and the index a height of 404 under normal conditions. If I log from searchDisplayControllerDidEndSearch when the index is sized incorrectly, it is reporting a height of 620.
I've tried everything from setLayout on the table and the index to manually re-sizing the frame. Nothing works (the manual re-size causes the correct height to be logged, but it doesn't change the display on screen).
I was about to try re-sizing after a delay in case the cancel animation was interfering, but then I realized what an absurd situation I'm in and thought seeking help might be wise...

A: If you are still having trouble, you might try setting a symbolic breakpoint on -[UITableView setFrame:] and trace where the set frame call is coming from. HTH

A: My scenario was a little different from the one posted, but I found a solution that works in my case, so hopefully in the one posted here as well.
I have a UITableView that uses a fetchedResultsController and loads more elements from a server when you reach the end of the tableView. When searching, the fetchedResultsController is filtered down and loads more entries from the server when there is not enough to display.
When the connection returns its results (after hitting "search"), I'm reloading the tableViews (the original one and the searchResultsTableView). Now when you cancel the search and everything is set back to normal I experience the problem from the question. The UITableViewIndex grows to its unexpected bounds.
Since I also experiencing that the UITableView resized to be a lot larger than expected, I played a hunch and it worked for me. In your UITableView subclass (this is ARC/6.1):
- (void)loadView
{
    [super loadView];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(keyboardWillShow:) name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(keyboardWillHide:) name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
}

- (void)dealloc
{
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
}

- (void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *)notification
{
    if ( self.isSearching )
    {
        // Ensure the correct height of the original tableview while displaying the searchresults-tableview
        // only this will make sure, the height of the UITableViewIndex is set correctly ...
        [UIView animateWithDuration:[[[notification userInfo] valueForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationDurationUserInfoKey] floatValue] animations:^(){
            CGRect rect = self.tableView.frame;
            rect.size.height -= [self.tableView convertRect:[[[notification userInfo] valueForKey:UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] CGRectValue] fromView:nil].size.height;
            self.tableView.frame = rect;
        }];
    }
}

- (void)keyboardWillHide:(NSNotification *)notification
{
    if ( self.isSearching )
    {
        // Ensure the correct height of the original tableview while displaying the searchresults-tableview
        // only this will make sure, the height of the UITableViewIndex is set correctly ...
        [UIView animateWithDuration:[[[notification userInfo] valueForKey:UIKeyboardAnimationDurationUserInfoKey] floatValue] animations:^(){
            CGRect rect = self.tableView.frame;
            rect.size.height += [self.tableView convertRect:[[[notification userInfo] valueForKey:UIKeyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] CGRectValue] fromView:nil].size.height;
            self.tableView.frame = rect;
        }];
    }
}

You might need to tweak this.

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Looking for the Lock - Where are your charities compliance documents?
The clock is ticking, and quickly. Once a visitor enters your website, you have less than one minute to showcase your charitable purpose and the impact you have on the community. Not only that, but the average user will read less than a quarter of the text you have on your site.
We believe that each of our members has a unique and worthy purpose that helps to impact the lives of everyone in Ireland and beyond. These purposes must be showcased to the general public in a clear and concise way that will in turn be attractive, and not overwhelming, to potential donors, volunteers, and the general public. But, in order to do this, an organisation must also face the facts and obstacles in front of them.
In an effort to further the progress of our organisational members towards the Triple Lock, we have recently explored each member's website for governance documents and transparency information, including public compliance statements and financial reports. From this, we have gathered important information from our members that we believe can help guide them in a clear direction towards a more transparent future.
We researched our Organisational Members and targeted the user experience of their websites. The goal was to determine how easy it is for a potential donor or member of the public to navigate to important governance and transparency documents, which included access to the Donor Charter, Annual Reports, Public Compliance Statement, and Feedback and Complaints Procedure, among others. This was completed by entering the website and navigating to the necessary webpages to find those documents.
Time spent on website: a stopwatch began when the website was fully loaded and ended when access to the aforementioned documents was found. The timer was paused if excessive load times took place or stopped if the documents could not be found within three minutes. Any site that took more than three minutes was considered an outlier and excluded from the data.
Number of clicks: a tally was kept as to the number of different webpages were visited during the session in order to find access to, not necessarily open, the aforementioned documents. If the stopwatch exceeded three minutes, no further clicks were accounted for.
Internet speed: the data could be different if explored with internet of a different bandwidth.
Our organisation understands what documents should be available to the donor and know generally where to find it on a charity's website, whereas members of the public may have a more difficult time and may not know what to search for.
The majority of organisations required 4 clicks or more through their website to find transparency and governance documents.
The average time spent on an organisation's website was 61 seconds.
Only 8% of members fell into the desirable 20 second rule of finding public compliance statements.
The average user will leave a webpage within 20 seconds, and the average person's attention span lasts nearly eight seconds. Due to this, it is important to focus on drawing users in and guiding them to the information they want, rather than overwhelming with information. Too much text, as mentioned in the introduction, will not be absorbed by the reader. Not only that, but it can waste the precious few seconds you have to either keep the user on your website, or drive them away.
The saying goes, "too much of anything is a bad thing." This is very much true for website design. Too much text, too many visuals, too many links, all can lead to a stressed user that does not know what to do or where to go next on an organisation's website. A charity should strive to do three things on their main page: draw a reader in and make it easy to navigate and learn more about them, convey their value proposition, and showcase their compliance with governance standards and financial transparency.
This is absolutely critical for Charities, and much information on transparency can be found in our Charities 2037 Report. Not only this, but an organisation could see an increase in their donations by being more transparent. A report by Georgetown Institute for Consumer Research shows that charities can increase donations by being more transparent, specifically with their requests for donations. Another report by Giftcoin shows that consumers would be willing to give on average up to 49% more if a charity was more transparent with their finances.
In Ireland specifically, our Charities 2037 report found that over half (54%) feel they do not know what charities do with the money donated (the same proportion that don't trust donations are used effectively) and the clear majority agree that transparency is not currently satisfactory for the public (74%). Consequently, a vast majority of key stakeholders, including staff, volunteers, and the general public, all think that charities have to be more transparent moving forward. This could be a huge help in stopping the stagnation of trust in the sector, as currently only 7% of those surveyed say they trust charities.
To put it simply, the public is begging for transparency, and the sector desperately needs it if trust is to increase. It is a snowball effect: if transparency increases, trust increases. If trust increases, confidence and donations increase. If donations increase, the impact on our community increases. It is a perpetual cycle of good and is why our membership exists—to actively help our members work towards the goal of transparency and good governance.
But it isn't enough to have the information on a charity's website. It must be organized, easy to access, and easy to read. Our Triple Lock Standard is a great tool that should be actively pursued by all members and displayed once it is achieved. That is only a start. Too many of our members have the information scattered throughout their website, making it too complex for users to find information. Having transparency and governance information in one easy-to-locate section on a charity's website cuts down the time spent looking for this critical information, buying you more time to showcase your value proposition and increase donations. As an example, create an "Our Transparency" or "Our Governance" section that is easily visible on your website's landing page. Within that section develop easy-to-navigate subsections where a user can find information on financials, transparency, and governance documents.
Many of our members have their public compliance information, but it is in too many different sections of their websites. We believe in a simpler, more transparent, and more standardized experience for users. It is time to think about reorganizing and bringing transparency to the forefront, because it is what the public is asking for. One shouldn't have to ask, "Why is the same information found in so many different places if the charity is trying be more transparent?" It is a slippery slope that can lead to other questions: "Why doesn't this charity have this information here? Do they not have the information or they trying to hide something?" We believe that a potential donor should be able to find the same information with the same amount of ease, no matter which charity they choose to explore.


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Findings from research done by Badenoch & Clark, which is part of The Adecco Group UK and Ireland, are more than a little disturbing. On the one hand, they found that one in five (20%) of employees have taken action to hide their age, disability, social background or sexuality in the workplace or when applying for a job. Some 22% think that their company does not embrace diversity and inclusion at any level, 29% have never read their company's diversity and inclusion policy and a worrying 11% said that their company does not even have one.
But their research also throws out some surprisingly positive views about inclusion in the workplace. Almost half think that their organisation embraces diversity and inclusion at a board level (46%) and at management level (43%). 86% also agree that their organisation employs a broad range of people from all social backgrounds.
Which leads me to wonder a bit about how much people are prepared to say in research like this....which will always reflect the views of a savvy majority.
It's good to see they are not taken in either.
"Whilst it's great to see that employees are, in some cases, positive about the level of diversity and inclusivity in UK organisations, there is still a long way to go. Each worker that has experienced bias is one too many, and employees will only ever flourish if they feel they can truly be themselves at work. Businesses need to commit to living and breathing diversity and inclusion throughout the entire employee lifecycle and in everything they do – every strategy, every hire, every decision. Ultimately, they should become inclusive by instinct" said Nicola Linkleter, President of Professional Staffing.
The report is Inspiring Inclusion In The Workplace - and we need more people to treat this with the urgency it requires.
Here are some thoughts from me on diversity and inclusion at Forbes. Last month - Britain Needs To Rethink Its Love Of Privilege (inspired by the gala charity evening at the Chelsea Flower Show and featuring a pic of one of the young Royals as they are actually extremely good at engagement with all on a very human level, in my view) and one on gender diversity earlier this month. (I have only just noticed it is an Editor's Pick.) Nice.
Here is a good video on #inclusion - via Accenture. Play videos like this in your business, instead of ones that are pure promotional marketing ? It might achieve the same purpose, only better.
If it doesn't work, look for my Facebook business page, as it is there as well @DinaMedlandWordsThatWork. I dislike paying Facebook to promote the page, so join me there if you like what I flag up in the news. Thank you for reading.


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"Emerging crisis" as thousands flee rising farmer-herder violence in Nigeria
by Nellie Peyton | @nelliepeyton | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Wednesday, 11 July 2018 17:02 GMT
People are seen on a truck carrying the coffins of people killed by the Fulani herdsmen, in Makurdi, Nigeria January 11, 2018. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
Nomadic herdsmen and local farmers have for decades clashed over land and resources, but fighting has sharply escalated in recent weeks
By Nellie Peyton
DAKAR, July 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tens of thousands of people have been uprooted by a recent surge in violence between farmers and herders in central Nigeria that may spiral further, aid workers and analysts said on Wednesday.
Nomadic herdsmen and local farmers have for decades clashed over land and resources in the West African country, but fighting has sharply escalated in recent weeks. An attack on June 23 was the bloodiest in months, leaving more than 200 dead.
An estimated 38,000 people in central Plateau state have fled or lost their homes since the attack last month and are living in crowded, makeshift camps with little food and few facilities, according to Geneva-based research group ACAPS.
"They left their homes with little or no belongings," Red Cross spokeswoman Aleksandra Mosimann told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"They're in a situation where they need everything now."
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) started distributing food, clothing and hygiene kits on Tuesday and aims to reach at least 22,000 people in the current aid drive, although it expects the number in need to rise, Mosimann said.
Heavy rain and mud have slowed down distributions, she said.
The rain also heightens the risk of waterborne disease outbreaks such as cholera, said ACAPS analyst Alex Odlum.
Nigeria has seen similar levels of displacement due to farmer-herder conflict in other parts of its Middle Belt region, but it is unusual for Plateau state, he said.
"I think it's an emerging crisis, (and) one that maybe requires humanitarian responders to adjust their operation," Odlum told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Most aid groups are focused on the northeast, where Islamist militants Boko Haram have been waging a nine-year insurgency that has driven millions of people from their homes, he added.
But this year, attacks by Fulani - the main ethnic group of nomadic herdsmen in Nigeria - on civilians have been about 50 percent more frequent than Boko Haram strikes, shows the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project - a public dataset.
Farmer-herder clashes have increased partly because Boko Haram and growing desertification in the north have pushed herders toward greener farming areas in the south, analysts said. It is unclear what triggered the latest spell of violence.
(Reporting by Nellie Peyton, Editing by Kieran Guilbert Please credit Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights, and climate change. Visit www.trust.org)
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At Glenwood Landing Elementary, first graders dressed up as characters in literature to become part of their favorite fairy tales including Cinderella, Goldilocks and The Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, The Gingerbread Man, and Jack and the Beanstalk and many others! The students took to the stage in front of their families and peers, and sang songs beginning the celebration of the annual Fairy Tale Ball. This interdisciplinary event culminates numerous weeks of literary studies in folk and fairy tales as part of the English curriculum and also combines many interdisciplinary lessons in art and music. During the celebration, guests were invited back to each first grade classroom to further explore each of the children's writing samples.
During the English study, first graders focused on story elements including: settings, story lines, characterization, and problems and solutions. Prior to the celebration, the first graders were taught all about the wonders of magic, repetition of words, rhyming, and happy endings. Additionally, under the direction of art teacher Lauren Vione, students created artifacts which were displayed in the hallways for everyone to see, music teacher LiJu Cheung helped with the various songs, and librarian Stephanie Smith encouraged all of her students to read, read, read!
Many thanks to all of the first grade teachers plus the parents, and families who helped make the Fairy Tale Ball such a wonderful success!


CUMBERLAND, Ind. – Police in Cumberland believe a 14-year-old shot and killed a man at a Dollar General store this week.
FOX59 looked into the criminal history of the 14-year-old, who we're choosing not to identify because he's not yet facing charges as an adult. Police reports show he was arrested for several crimes dating back to when he was 11 years old.
After the shooting, police quickly arrested the two suspects. While searching the area, they found Sheppard walking on Washington Cove Way and detained him.
They also spotted a parked car and saw E.C. get into the back seat. Officers approached the vehicle and asked E.C. and two other men to get out.
The two others inside the vehcle exited and were taken into custody for questioning; E.C. didn't get out and officers had to physically remove him. They found a handgun in the waistband of his pants.
During the robbery, police said E.C. went into the store while Sheppard stayed outside. E.C. jumped the counter, put a gun to a woman's neck and ordered her to open the cash register. Police found E.C. with cash and rolls of coins, according to court documents.
E.C. was booked on preliminary charges of murder and armed robbery. Sheppard was booked on a preliminary charge of robbery. The two men detained for questioning were released. They told police they didn't know E.C. or Sheppard.
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My LA2050 Ideas Archive My LA2050
Social Connectedness / 2013
The Los Angeles Service Academy
Idea submitted in the My LA2050 Maker Challenge by The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
The Los Angeles Service Academy (LASA) begins with questions. How does a city run? How does a vast metropolitan region like Los Angeles work? Which institutions are responsible for moving water, people, food, and power from points A to points Z? How are such agencies funded? Who runs them? How can neighborhoods be made more livable? What does an elected official do all day? What role do cultural institutions play in the life of Los Angeles? What about businesses and non-profits? What are the potential career paths for young people interested in civic, civil, and public service in the Los Angeles Basin? These are among the thousands of questions that students have about the city and region in which they live. There are a million more that they would have if they knew more about place, region, and history.
Designed as a supplement to the regular school year, LASA provides an intensive introduction to the infrastructure and institutions of greater Los Angeles for high school juniors who have expressed an interest in public, civic, and civil service. Participants gain the experience and knowledge necessary to better understand the intricacies – infrastructural, historical, political, economic, and otherwise – of the region in which they live, and build lasting bonds of friendship, camaraderie, and work experience with a diverse group of peers. Students who successfully complete the program during the junior year are placed in internships during their senior year, and will receive assistance and mentoring in the college application process.
Social connectedness is at the very heart of LASA's mission. Our hope is that LASA will change the lives and career paths of hundreds of high school students in the region and will become an agent of change and community building across the Los Angeles basin. Throughout the year, LASA places particular emphasis on making certain that participants get to know one another personally, become familiar with one another's region and/or neighborhood, and gain an appreciation for one another's goals while participating in LASA (and beyond).
Currently in its first full year of operation, LASA brings together a diverse and select group of 20-25 students and 6-8 high school teachers from across the Los Angeles basin; 80% of the student participants are from public schools. The students begin their examination of Los Angeles during an intense four-day Summer Institute (scheduled for July 29th- August 1 in 2013). The summer program will be followed by once-a-month sessions on Saturdays from September through May. Depending on the topic on a given day, students will gather in the morning at the Huntington Library or at the Central Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. Each session will focus on a particular theme or module and will be guided by experts on the given topic. In 2013-2014, the topics will include water, transportation, business, local and county governance, business, museums and cultural institutions, sports and entertainment, downtown, the LA River, police and criminal justice, food and housing, and the harbor complex.
Utilizing the astonishing archival resources of the Huntington Library and the Los Angeles Public Library, LASA will teach students about the historical growth of Los Angeles from the mid-nineteenth century forward. We will work from shared seminar readings ("homework" will be kept to a minimum), draw archival resources and personnel into our discussions, and build a collaborative working knowledge of Los Angeles history.
Our seminars will be but step one of a two-step process as our work "in the classroom" will be supplemented by fieldwork. For example, our investigation of the history of Los Angeles water resources and water engineering will start from in-depth study of regional water history, hydrology, and the many interfaces between water history and water politics. On that same afternoon, LASA will visit one or more key water facilities in order to have first-hand and practical knowledge as to contemporary water issues in the greater Los Angeles Basin. During the past year, for instance, and again with reference to water, LASA visited the Metropolitan Water District's Weymouth Treatment Plant in Azusa and the San Gabriel Dam. Future site visits might include Hansen Dam or the LADWP's Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant. In all site visits, LASA participants meet with key personnel who are in a position to contribute to our discussions and investigations.
The academic and investigative part of LASA takes place during the junior year. For those students who faithfully attend and take part in the required number of monthly meetings, LASA will facilitate internships during the senior year in collaboration with Leadership LA, the non-profit arm of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, whose alumni work in agencies and institutions across the entire region.
What are some of your organization's most important achievements to date?
LASA has been active since the summer of 2012. Our inaugural class of 20 high school juniors, one high school intern, two college interns, and seven high school teachers has met in a summer intensive Los Angeles history and culture seminar at The Huntington Library, and we've met one Saturday a month since then. Each Saturday session is focused on a different "node" of regional infrastructure. The day usually begins with a speaker and discussion, and then the LASA group goes into the field and to various sites which fit that day's themes. Our investigation of water started with a history overview of regional water development -- with rare documents -- and we then went to the dispersal facility for Colorado River water coming into the Metropolitan Water District system. Our business investigation took us to a private aerospace manufacturing facility, in business for 57 years, in Glendale, and a tour with that company's chief technologist. We ended that day with a discussion with Idealab executives and entrepreneurs. Our law enforcement day featured a morning with Connie Rice of the Advancement Project (we all read her book on the LAPD), and an afternoon tour with LAPD leaders of the new station and the regional 911 call center; we ended the day with a tour of SWAT team equipment and vehicles. For our investigation of regional transit and transit history, we began our day with seminars by experts from The Getty and the Automobile Club of Southern California on the history of automobiles, freeways, and railroads in the region. Following an on-foot journey from LAPL to Union Station, we met with the lead architectural design team tasked with re-imagining Union Station in the urban fabric of downtown (a stop at the Bradbury Building completed that day). A more recent investigation of the entertainment landscape of Los Angeles took us to AEG's Staples Center, the GRAMMY Museum, the Disney Concert Hall, and an end-of-the-day Bunker Hill discussion with the architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times.
We believe our LASA students are getting to know the region, getting to know one another, and beginning to build lasting ties to their home and one another through LASA's commitment to fostering engaged civic participation and civic education. We believe that we are off to a great start.
Please identify any partners or collaborators who will work with you on this project.
LASA is directly partnered with the Huntington Library and the Los Angeles Public Library. Leadership LA, the non-profit arm of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, provides assistance in coordinating internship placements for LASA students during the senior year.
In addition, LASA works closely with institutions helping facilitate our exploration of regional infrastructure. In 2012-2013, LASA has visited, or will visit, Los Angeles City Hall, Warner Brothers Studios, the Metropolitan Water District's Weymouth Treatment Plant, the Glenair Corporation, LAPD headquarters, Union Station, Mudtown Farms in Watts, the Staples Center, the GRAMMY Museum, Disney Hall, the harbor complex, and LACMA.
Please explain how you will evaluate your project. How will you measure success?
Our metrics for success will include both simple and complex measures. In the short term, can we show that LASA expands its service year to year? Can we build more partnerships with more schools, more teachers, more students, and more institutions? Can we facilitate student interest in moving on to collegiate education, and can we bring important college-success tools and strategies to the students? We can, and will, track these issues by reference to each student and each student's post-LASA trajectory.
On a more complicated level, can we foster bonds of commonality, community, and connectedness between and among our diverse group(s) of students and teachers? Will friendships develop across region, background, or socio-economic status which help bridge the distances and differences in Los Angeles? Although tracking such issues or such progress will be difficult, we expect to monitor these aspects of LASA success by way of careful attention paid to student goals, student progress, and student evaluations.
Much farther out, can we say – eventually – that LASA has fostered bonds of connection and community which serve to make Los Angeles more efficient and more humane when LASA graduates enter the workforce in civil, civil, and other service to our region?
How will your project benefit Los Angeles?
LASA inspires young people to think about their region and their future and how these are intertwined. We aim to foster ties of community and connection between diverse groups of teenagers as we collectively explore how greater Los Angeles works. Along the way, we will offer assistance to those students by way of collegiate counseling and mentoring internships across the basin. Our LASA graduates will have foundational understanding of Los Angeles history and institutions as they move on in their education and into career paths. By maintaining connections to one another and to what we learn together, LASA students and graduates will create new and lasting ties across region and background, ties which we hope will grow as LASA grows and as our student participants move into positions of public service in their lives and careers.
LASA aims to change the lives of its student participants and, in so doing, change the future of Los Angeles for the better.
What would success look like in the year 2050 regarding your indicator?
2050 is a long ways away. But LASA is, in part, aimed precisely at that future. 37 years from now, can we point to a large body of LASA graduates? More schools, more students, more teachers, more partnerships -- all serving to draw together regional ties of connection, education, and community?
Most exciting, can we look to a Los Angeles of 2050 in which LASA students have entered the realms of civil and civic service (professionally or otherwise) and can they, through the bonds established when they were much younger, find innovative ways to work together and to communicate beyond the challenges of size and metropolitan complexity? Can LASA help pull our region together in common pursuit of the public good?
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Today was a great day for me. I got to meet a reader of my blog and fellow expat wife! The lovely Mrs C from Wiltshire in the UK who arrived here with her family and 17 suitcases just before Christmas.
Mumbai welcomes you and your family Mrs C!
Mrs C had initially contacted me when she found out she was going to be relocated to Mumbai through her husband's work. She had been following BombayJules for a while and felt that I would be able to give her some guidance about life in Mumbai. I was so flattered that she asked me and I was more than happy to help! And luckily, through one of my own contacts, I was able to put her in touch with the mother of a child at a school where her children would be attending. Bringing young children to a place like Mumbai must be a very daunting prospect but I understand they have already settled in well after their first day at school last Monday.
After three months since our initial contact and many emails in between it was just great to finally meet today. What was even better, as we were walking along to a coffee shop in Powai, another friend (and NGO colleague) saw me out of her car window and stopped the car to leap out and say hello. Mrs C and I ended up back at Mrs PJ's house where we had a freshly brewed cup of coffee whilst helping to make a batch of nutrition bars for our NGO community. There were some other lovely ladies there whom new Mrs C was able to hook up with, including a fellow blogger who I'd heard of but never met!
Due to the rental of a flat falling through at the last minute before Christmas (a typical occurrence in Mumbai), Mrs C and her family had been living out their 17 suitcases in a hotel suite ever since. Despite admittedly enjoying the hotel breakfasts, they are grateful to be finally moving into another newly agreed apartment at the weekend - so we wish her the best of luck with that. Oh and Mrs C, if you need help shopping for crockery and towels and bedlinen...well you know where to come!
For my final 'First'...BombayJules has joined Facebook! Please like my page here (or by following the link on the sidebar). I will post links to my blog and make comments there from now on.
How good you were there to welcome Mrs. C and show her around. It must be daunting to bring children to a new country and get them settled in schools and making new friends, so that was nice you were there to help.
Good Blog, Seems like you are an antique lover. There is a good place in Chennai called as VTI Victoria Technicial Institute. They deal with luxuru wood furniture including teak, rosewood & sandal wood.
Just wondering if you have visited the golden temple of my country. One in Amrister and the other one in Vellore.
Hello there - yes certainly I am an antique lover but also a lover of beautiful Indian handicrafts. I wish I'd known about that place when I visited Chennai - sounds like a good recommendation.
No I haven't yet been to Amritsar although it's on our list of places to visit this year...can't wait to blog about that one!


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Florida is suing Georgia: What you are witnessing is real. The participants are not actors. They are states with a case pending in the U.S. Supreme Court.
The suit, which was filed by Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi, is over Georgia's consumption of freshwater in a river system that serves Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.
The dispute between Florida and Georgia over how much water each can take from the Appalachacola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin has apparently been going on for at least two decades.
But Scott filed the lawsuit Tuesday with the news that the northwest Florida oyster industry is taking a serious beating, and a day after federal officials declared a fishery disaster for oystermen in the Gulf Coast.
"Georgia has refused to fairly share the waters that flow between our two states, so to stop Georgia's unmitigated consumption of water we have brought the matter before the U.S. Supreme Court. Georgia's over-consumption of water threatens the existence of Apalachicola Bay and the future economic development of the region."
Scott had been planning to file the lawsuit since August.
The lawsuit asks the Supreme Court to force Georgia to share water that flows downstream from Georgia into Alabama and Florida. Oysters need a good mix of fresh- and saltwater to survive.
But Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has vowed to duke it out, if need be.
"We will not roll over. If Florida wants to fight, we'll fight," Deal told the media.
There's no telling where this thing will go. But kudos to Scott for gunning for Georgia for that water and taking the fight to the highest court.
Although we do wish that both parties would agree to dismiss their court case and have their dispute settled on The People's Court.


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10 Shocking Facts About Homelessness
Having a place to call home isn't just about living inside four walls and a roof. A house is a foundation of security and safety. It's a basic need that everyone must-have.
Unfortunately, approximately 1 in 200 Australians find themselves without a safe place to sleep at night.
To understand this problem better, let's look at these 10 shocking facts about homelessness in Australia.
Fact 1: The average life expectancy is between 45 and 47 years of age for homeless men
New resarch concluded that homeless men living on the street in Australia have a lower life expectancy compared to some of the poorest countries in the world.
The average life expectancy of homeless men living more than ten years on the street is 45 - 47 years old.
Since these homeless men sleep out in the cold almost every night, their bodies are working harder to regulate their temperature and maintain heat. Being on the street can cause a lot of other serious health issues.
For a 1st world country like Australia, it's alarming that the average life expectancy of homeless men is so low when the life expectancy of other Australian men is 80.7 (ABS 2018).
Fact 2: 116,000 Australian's were homeless in 2016. An Increase of 14% from 2011
There was a 14% increase of homeless people in Australia from 2011 to 2016.
According to data, homelessness has increased mostly in capital cities. Sydney has the highest increase of 48%, followed by Darwin (up 36%) and Brisbane (up 32%).
There has been a disproportionate rise in rough sleeping during the past five years which highly affected the rise of homelessness. Nationally there was a 20% increase in homeless people sleeping on the street from 2011 to 2016.
Aside from that, one of the biggest changes to this growing problem is severe overcrowding. The past decade had an 88% increase in those affected by overcrowding where people are sharing homes with multiple families.
Fact 3: Up to 21% of homeless people sleeping on the street have suffered Hypothermia, Frostbite or Trenchfoot.
Up to 21% of people sleeping on the street in Australia have suffered avoidable cold weather illnesses hypothermia, frostbite or trenchfoot. These illnesses only occur when people are cold and wet. Body heat is lost 5 times faster when a person is wearing wet clothes – this increases more when there is a wind chill.
Hypothermia is life threatening and can lead to death in a short period of time.
Fact 4: Australia does not provide emergency accommodation to everyone who needs it
In 2018–19 there were an average of 253 requests for accommodation that were not met across Australia every day. This was a total of 92,300 unassisted accommodation requests. This was an increase of 6,200 more unmet requests than the year before.
Most commonly, accommodation was not provided because there was no accommodation available at the time.
Fact 5: Homelessness is a Human Rights issue
Homelessness is a Human Rights issue – especially for people sleeping on the street. Australia is one of the nations that authored the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
For example the severe stress of finding cardboard to sleep on each night and being provided inadequate emergency bedding impacts on the human rights of street sleeping homeless people:
the right to health
the right to personal safety
the right to non-discrimination
the right to freedom from cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Fact 6: Children who experience homelessness are more likely to experience it as an adult
Homelessness isn't just a housing issue. It has a lot of drivers and causes long term unemployment, domestic violence, relationship breakdown, mental health issues, substance abuse and shortage of affordable housing.
Domestic and family violence is the main reason for homelessness for most homeless women and children in Australia. Homelessness has become a cycle and according to statistics, most children who experience homelessness are most likely to experience it again as an adult.
Fact 7: Social housing only accounts for 4% of all dwellings in Australia
Social housing makes up only 4% of all dwellings in Australia and lack of housing affordability is responsible for increasing homelessness. There was a 7% drop in investment in affordable and social housing between 2011 to 2016.
The sad reality is that the rising cost of housing is one of the many key contributors to poverty. 613,000 Australians have fallen below the poverty line just because of the high housing costs in the last five years.
Low-cost renters are also feeling the pressure of paying rent that counts to 30% or more of their monthly salary.
Fact 8: Homelessness Statistics by state
Total Homeless People
Rate of Homelessness
Change since 2011
NSW 37,715 50.4 people per 10,00 +37%
VIC 24,817 41.9 people per 10,000 +11%
QLD 21,671 46.1 people per 10,000 +14%
SA 6,224 37.1 people per 10,000 +7%
WA 9,005 36.4 people per 10,000 -2%
TAS 1,622 31.8 people per 10,000 -2%
NT 13,717 599.4 people per 10,000 +11%
ACT 1,596 40.2 people per 10,000 -8%
Since it has the largest population, it also makes sense that NSW has the highest percentage of homelessness growth over the past 5 years. Because of many different factors, more and more people are becoming homeless every day.
If you look at the data above, you can see that even states with small populations like Tasmania have increased their number of homelessness. Although the numbers are going down in Australian Capital Territory and Western Australian, it's still alarming that the numbers have gone up in most states.
Fact 9: People aged 55 years and over make up 16% of the total homeless population
Although the life expectancy for homeless people is quite low, homeless people aged 55 years and above make up about 16% of the total homeless population in Australia. 27% of this age group lives in boarding houses while 24% of them are staying temporarily in other households.
The number of older homeless men had a 26% increase between 2011 and 2016. On the other hand, there has been a 31% growth in the older female homeless population between 2011 and 2016.
Fact 10: Long waits for public housing
There are over 144,000 Australian households awaiting public rental housing.
Eligible applicants who don't have a "priority need" can wait up to ten years to be housed. People sleeping on the street are given a high priority on the wait list.
Applicants also face strict eligibility checks to remain on the waiting list. If an applicant simply does not respond (which is difficult for homeless people without an address) they may be suspended or removed from the list.
Fact 1. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-12/australian-homeless-have-shorter-lives-than-some-africans/5741024
Fact 2. ABS 2016.
Fact 3. MS2H 2011 and https://www.princeton.edu/~oa/safety/hypocold.shtml
Fact 4. AIHW 2018-2019.
Fact 5. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Fact 6. https://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2008-12/apo-nid2882.pdf
Fact 7. https://issr.uq.edu.au/files/3347/FINAL_for_print_AHM_full_report.pdf
Fact 10. AIHW and https://theconversation.com/focus-on-managing-social-housing-waiting-lists-is-failing-low-income-households-120675
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Kareem Hunt Signs With The Cleveland Browns
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February 11, 2019 2:32 PM ET
The Cleveland Browns have signed Kareem Hunt.
We've signed RB Kareem Hunt
Details » https://t.co/JuetC3gyAh pic.twitter.com/oBvdbH55S5
— Cleveland Browns (@Browns) February 11, 2019
Hunt was cut earlier in the season by the Kansas City Chiefs after he appeared to get physical with a woman in a video released by TMZ Sports.
He hadn't been touched by anybody in the league since. That all changed the today when the Browns inked in. General John Dorsey explained his decision in part:
We fully understand and respect the complexity of questions and issues in signing a player with Kareem's history and do not condone his actions. Given what we know about Kareem through our extensive research, we believe he deserves a second chance but certainly with the understanding that he has to go through critical and essential steps to become a performing member of this organization, aside from what the NFL determines from their ongoing investigation. We fully understand that Kareem is subject to discipline by the NFL.
I honestly can't believe Hunt got signed this quickly. It's actually a bit mind-blowing to me. After TMZ released that video of him appearing to get physical with a young woman, I thought his career was potentially over. (RELATED: Will A Team Sign NFL Player Cut After Alleged Violence Against A Woman? Here's What Executives Are Saying)
It's honestly a bit shocking to me that he's back so soon. He might still be suspended by the league, but at least he's on a roster.
A post shared by Kareem Hunt (@bigreem_3) on Nov 2, 2018 at 5:24pm PDT
You can guarantee the Browns are going to take some serious heat for this decision. Look, I'm all about second chances, but this is a PR nightmare just waiting to happen.
If Hunt does anything going forward, it'll all fall on the Browns management for bringing him onto the team.
Dorsey better know what he's doing because this is the kind of decision that could cost somebody their job if it goes south. As always, the NFL never fails to entertain us.
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Q: mutate several features simultaniously with a custom function I've found several SO posts on this already but cannot see how to apply to my specific problem.
I have a dataframe with a number of features that I would like to simultaneously mutate. I want to write over them rather than create new features.
E.g. using mtcars. Suppose I want to amend am, gear and carb to be 1 if greater than 0 and 0 otherwise. For each of those 3 features. How could I do that?
mtcars %>% mutate_at(vs:carb, funs(???))

I want to apply a custom function of this form ifelse(x > 0, 1, 0) where x is either of the 3 features being worked on.
How can I achieve this?

A: You need to use vars() for vs:carb to parse, and you use . as a stand-in for the argument in funs:
mtcars %>% mutate_at(vars(vs:carb), funs(ifelse(. > 0, 1, 0)))
#     mpg cyl  disp  hp drat    wt  qsec vs am gear carb
# 1  21.0   6 160.0 110 3.90 2.620 16.46  0  1    1    1
# 2  21.0   6 160.0 110 3.90 2.875 17.02  0  1    1    1
# 3  22.8   4 108.0  93 3.85 2.320 18.61  1  1    1    1
# 4  21.4   6 258.0 110 3.08 3.215 19.44  1  0    1    1
# 5  18.7   8 360.0 175 3.15 3.440 17.02  0  0    1    1
# 6  18.1   6 225.0 105 2.76 3.460 20.22  1  0    1    1
# ...

This is explained in the ?funs help page:

A list of functions specified by:

*

*Their name, "mean"

*The function itself, mean

*A call to the function with . as a dummy argument, mean(., na.rm = TRUE)

With this corresponding to the third bullet.


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La responsabilité civile  est l'obligation faite à une personne de réparer le préjudice causé à autrui. C'est aussi, dans les traditions de droit romano-germaniques, le domaine du droit portant sur cette matière.

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Il existe trois éléments classiques de la responsabilité civile :
1) la faute
2) le préjudice (ou dommage)
3) le lien de causalité

Dans les législations de certains territoires, le législateur ajoute un quatrième élément : être doué de raison.

La responsabilité civile se divise généralement en deux grands domaines : la responsabilité contractuelle et la responsabilité extracontractuelle (appelée aussi responsabilité délictuelle ou aquilienne). Dans plusieurs pays, la responsabilité civile est régie par un ensemble d'articles du code civil.

La responsabilité civile se distingue de la responsabilité pénale. Dans le premier cas, l'objectif est d'indemniser un dommage, tandis que dans le second, il s'agit de répondre face à l'État de la violation d'une loi pénale (menant généralement à une amende ou à l'emprisonnement). Si l'infraction pénale entraîne la responsabilité individuelle sans même qu'il y ait dommage, ce dernier est en revanche une condition nécessaire à la responsabilité civile. Le dommage résultant de la violation d'une loi pénale, par exemple un vol, peut aussi être actionné devant les tribunaux civils afin d'obtenir réparation.

La responsabilité civile n'est pas un concept présent dans les traditions juridiques de common law. À la place, ces traditions ont différentes branches du droit qui jouent un rôle similaire : la responsabilité délictuelle, le droit des contrats

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Articles connexes
 Devoir de vigilance
 Responsabilité civile en droit belge
 Responsabilité civile en droit français
 Responsabilité civile au Québec
 Responsabilité civile en Suisse
 Responsabilité délictuelle
 Responsabilité contractuelle
 Théorie de la garantie

Responsabilité civile

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