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Tag Archives: Hawai'i Department of Corrections
Hawaii AG report blasts "humonetarianism" and dependence on private prisons
Posted on December 29, 2011 by internationalprisonwatch
This document could go a long way towards changing the Hawai'i prison system; I'm impressed that it was released by the state Attorney General. That, in turn, could have ripples elsewhere – certainly in Eloy, AZ, where Corrections Corporation of America incarcerates nearly 2000 Hawai'ians. Eloy has real problems – as does CCA.18 Hawai'ian prisoners are suing employees at Saguaro prison there for torture, and one is suing for sexual assault (the guard who perpetrated it was actually prosecuted).
All either Eloy or CCA seem to be concerned with is the money they can make in Arizona, of course, not reducing crime or victimization in Hawai'i or human rights abuses in their own community. If Hawai'ian legislators don't get on the ball with sentencing and prison reform, they should be called out as either incompetent or corrupt – no one can afford for any of them to be indifferent to the prison crisis anymore.
Read the report this links to, then find your state legislators here.
Call or write to them here:
Senate Clerk's Office
State Capitol, Room 10
(808)586-6720 phone
sclerk@capitol.hawaii.gov
House Clerk's Office
hclerk@capitol.hawaii.gov
The key term is "evidence-based practice". Good luck. I hope you manage to wage a successful boycott of Eloy and CCA by the time this battle is over. Israel outlawed private prisons because the profit motive is in direct opposition to human rights concerns – maybe Hawai'i will abandon them as well, for all the right reasons.
—from Hawaii.gov—
Hawaii's Imprisonment Policy and the Performance of Parolees
Who Were Incarcerated In-State and on the Mainland
Here's the Executive Summary:
This study examined the records of the 660 persons who were released on parole in the State of Hawaii between July 1, 2005 and June 30, 2006 (Fiscal Year 2006). It addresses two main questions: What are the demographic and criminal history profiles of parolees who have been incarcerated in Hawaii and in private prisons out of state? And, how do the recidivism rates of these two groups compare? Using records obtained from the Hawaii Paroling Authority, the Department of Public Safety, and the Department of the Attorney General, parolees were tracked for three to four years after their release from prison.
The study found that:
– 54 percent of Hawaii's prisoners are incarcerated in private prisons on the mainland — the highest percentage among all U.S. states.
– As of the end of 2009, it cost approximately $118 per day to incarcerate an inmate in Hawaii, and at least $62 per day to incarcerate him or her in a private prison on the mainland. Note, however, that unlike the in-state per day cost, the private prison cost estimate is not all-inclusive.
– 75 percent of Fiscal Year 2006 parolees never served time in a private prison on the mainland, while 25 percent did serve time there.
– Of the one-quarter of parolees who have been imprisoned on the mainland, 70 percent served half or more of their time there.
– The average time served on the mainland was 3.5 years.
The analysis of the parolees' demographic and criminal history profiles found that:
– Parolees averaged 56 total prior arrests and 24 convictions per parolee, including an average of 20 prior felony arrests and 8 felony convictions.
– Parolees in the mainland cohort had somewhat more felony arrests and felony convictions per person than did parolees in the Hawaii cohort.
– Parolees in the mainland cohort had been convicted of fewer property and drug crimes, and more violent and "other" offenses, than had the parolees in the Hawaii cohort.
– The average maximum sentence for parolees who had been incarcerated on the mainland was longer: 10.9 years, versus 8.5 years for the Hawaii cohort.
– The average time served by the mainland cohort was longer: 6.2 years, versus 3.2 years for the Hawaii cohort.
– The mainland cohort included substantially more males than did the Hawaii cohort: 20 male parolees for every female parolee in the mainland group, versus 4 male parolees for every female parolee in the Hawaii group.
– As compared to their male counterparts, female parolees in both cohorts were more likely to be property and drug crime offenders.
– There were no statistically significant differences in ethnicity between the two parole cohorts. Most notably, Native Hawaiians comprised 40 percent of each cohort.
The analysis of recidivism found that:
– Parolees in the mainland cohort received significantly lower scores on the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R). Hence, mainlanders had fewer needs for service and a lower average risk of recidivism than did parolees in the Hawaii cohort.
– In the aggregate, the LSI-R scores predicted recidivism fairly well.
– A little more than half of parolees in both cohorts failed on parole within three years.
– The average time to recidivism in both cohorts was about 15 months.
– The recidivism rate for the mainland cohort (53 percent) was slightly lower than the recidivism rate for the Hawaii cohort (56 percent), but this difference is not statistically significant.
– There was more recidivism among the mainland cohort for parolees in the higher-risk LSI-R categories.
– There was more recidivism among the mainland cohort for violating conditions of parole.
– Nearly half of all rearrests were for violating the conditions of parole.
– In both cohorts, older people recidivated less than did younger people. Age is a powerful ally of efforts to stop criminal offending.
– There were few significant differences between the two cohorts in acts of misconduct committed while in prison.
– Parolees in the mainland cohort were more likely to violate parole conditions than were parolees in the Hawaii group.
– Furlough programs were related to significantly lower rates of recidivism among mainland parolees, but not among parolees who were imprisoned only in Hawaii.
Recommendations from this study:
– Since there is no empirical justification for the policy argument that private prisons reduce recidivism better than public prisons, the State of Hawaii should decide whether to continue, discontinue, expand, or contract its reliance on private prisons based on other criteria. While cost is one criterion, it is not the only one that is important to consider.
– It is ill-advised to rely on a framework for thinking about corrections (herein termed humonetarianism) that stresses short-term financial savings at the expense of programs aimed at improving the prospects for offenders' rehabilitation and the satisfaction of their basic needs and rights. Long-term savings are often found in forward-thinking policies and programs.
– The State of Hawaii needs to calculate more inclusive and accurate estimates of the cost of incarceration in-state and in private prisons on the mainland.
– Much more research needs to be done in order to adequately describe the contours and consequences of Hawaii's correctional policy. One high priority is a study that explores who gets sent to prison (and where). The present study examined only persons who were released on parole.
– The State of Hawaii should conduct more research about its correctional policies and outcomes, especially given a policy world that is increasingly evidence-based.
– The Department of Public Safety and the Hawaii Paroling Authority need an integrated records management system. At present, inmates' records are often incomplete, scattered, and difficult to locate.
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Hunger Pains: Hawaii's prison diet – one size fits all.
Posted on June 1, 2011 by internationalprisonwatch
Interesting article. Arizona calls our prison food a "sedentary diet" and a "heart healthy diet", interchangeably – which is an indicator of how little programming they have for prisoners here, too. The poor nutrition is a real problem for prisoners with cancer, Hepatitis C, and other serious illnesses. Many need to supplement their diet with basic vitamins, but then they have to pay for them – even if they're indigent and dying.
Inmates lose weight, call prison food inadequate
By Rob Perez
Honolulu Star Advertiser
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 22, 2011
Gemmi Rowan said that shortly after this photograph was taken, her husband was incarcerated at Halawa Community Correctional Facility and has since lost nearly 100 pounds, weighing 220 pounds at the end of April.
Jonathan Namauu and Paul Keck say they each have lost at least 40 pounds over the past year.
George Rowan told his wife he's lost 100 pounds, nearly a third of his weight, since October.
While the three Oahu men have not been trying to lose weight, they share the same diet: prison food.
All three are inmates at Halawa Community Correctional Facility. They say the meal portions have become so meager that many inmates are suffering unwanted weight loss, in some cases shedding substantial amounts.
An increasing number of inmates and their family members in recent months have complained to outside groups about the adequacy of Hawaii prison meals.
The state Ombudsman's Office, the Public Defender's Office, the Community Alliance on Prisons and other organizations say they have received or are hearing about more food-related complaints than usual. The issue of unwanted weight loss — a red flag to watchdog groups — is being mentioned more frequently, according to the community alliance group and the Ombudsman's Office.
"Even dogs and cats at the Humane Society eat better than us," said Namauu, serving time for negligent homicide. Namauu, who is 5 feet 10 inches, said in a phone interview that his weight has dropped to 230 pounds since he was transferred to Halawa from an Arizona prison in June. Other inmates, especially those who returned from Arizona, tell similar stories, blaming inadequate, unhealthy food.
FEEDING THE INMATES
The Department of Public Safety, which runs Hawaii's prisons, say these are typical meals served to inmates. Some prisoners, however, say they frequently get much less.
Fruit or fruit juice: 4 oz.
Scrambled eggs: 4 oz.
Rice: 8 oz.
Whole wheat bread: 2 slices, margarine
Cold cereal: 1 cup
Skim milk: half pint
Hot beverage (coffee): 8 oz.
Roast beef: 4 oz.
Brown gravy: 2 oz.
Mashed potatoes: 8 oz.
Green beans: 4 oz.
Whole wheat bread: 2 slices with margarine
Fruit: 4 oz.
Beverage (juice): 8 oz.
Grilled fish: 4 oz.
Steamed rice: 8 oz.
Cooked cabbage: 4 oz.
Tartar sauce: 4 oz.
Beverage: (skim milk or juice): 8 oz.
Source: Department of Public Safety
But the Department of Public Safety, which runs Hawaii prisons and oversees the more than 4,500 inmates incarcerated here, say the prisoners are getting nutritionally balanced meals and sufficient calories.
The meals are designed to provide 2,600 to 2,900 calories daily, according to Larry Hales, acting administrator for the department's corrections program services.
"The meals are nutritionally balanced as approved by a registered dietitian," Hales said in written responses to the newspaper. "All statewide correctional facilities follow the same five-week standardized menu cycle."
Attorney David Fathi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project in Washington, D.C., said if prisoners are experiencing weight loss because of insufficient food "that's a serious red flag. It's a real danger sign."
The ACLU successfully sued an Arizona sheriff several years ago for unconstitutional conditions at a jail there. Among the conditions cited by the court was inadequate food.
Vanessa Chong, executive director of the ACLU in Hawaii, said her office started receiving food-related weight-loss complaints this year and is looking into the situation. She encourages more inmates to contact her office.
Given the state's failure to adopt practical, cost-effective prison policies, she said, more problems are surfacing and she wouldn't be surprised if the food situation is yet another.
"This could be part of the ongoing cracking of the system," Chong said.
Hales said in a phone interview that meal portions for the general prison population have not been reduced because of budget cuts.
Hales did note that Halawa recently corrected a practice in which some inmates were getting double portions when they shouldn't have been. He also said that male and female inmates, regardless of their size, get the same portions unless a doctor orders something different for medical reasons.
If an inmate loses weight, he or she can request to see a doctor, and if the doctor orders an enhanced diet for medical reasons, the meals will be adjusted, Hales said. But the department has few cases of medical diets for increased food, he said.
If an overweight inmate claims weight loss and is seen by a doctor, the inmate will not be placed on a medical diet to increase weight, he added.
Hawaii inmates' dislike of prison food is nothing new. Groups such as Kat Brady's Community Alliance on Prisons have heard such grumblings for years.
What's different this time, though, is the repeated complaints from family members who visit their loved ones and reported being shocked to see how much weight the inmates have lost, according to Brady, coordinator for the alliance.
"When families started calling me and saying, 'Oh, my God, it looks like they've been in Auschwitz,' that tells me something is wrong," said Brady, referring to one of the concentration camps operated by the Nazis in World War II.
Criminal defense attorney Earle Partington, who represents inmate Paul Kleck, likewise said he was stunned when he recently visited his client at Halawa for the first time in about a year.
"His face was so gaunt, he's lost so much weight, it's incredible," Partington said.
Keck, 63, who is 6 feet tall, told the Star-Advertiser he weighs 205 pounds, down from about 250 a year ago.
"Everybody has lost weight," said Keck, who is serving time for sexual assault.
Social worker Gemmi Rowan said her 6-foot, 5-inch husband, George, has lost so much weight since returning from Arizona in late October that flaps of skin hang from his torso. He now weighs about 220 pounds.
"He looks terrible to me," Rowan said, adding that her husband was able to maintain his weight in Arizona.
When Rowan's daughter spent more than two months this year at Oahu Community Correctional Facility, she also lost weight, shedding about 20 pounds, Rowan said. Her 5-foot, 6-inch daughter weighed 110 when released.
"She looked like a twig," Rowan said.
Asked why organizations are receiving more food-related complaints, Hales wrote, "The complaints coming from the outside could be due to the public learning of the current economic situation that the state is facing and hearing from inmates who feel they are not fed adequate, nutritious meals."
But Hales said DPS consistently has spent more than $10 million annually over the past four years to feed Hawaii's inmate population.
Given conflicting information provided by prisoners and the department, it's tough for an outsider to get an accurate gauge of what's happening on the inside. The two sides don't seem to agree on anything.
Prisoners, for instance, say they've complained to prison staff about the meal situation. DPS says no food service unit at any facility statewide has received complaints.
Prisoners say they sometimes get only a slice of cake or a biscuit for breakfast and they hadn't had fresh fruit in months — until the Star-Advertiser started making inquiries. DPS says that isn't accurate.
Most of the inmates and family members who spoke to the Star-Advertiser on the record did so reluctantly because they feared retaliation. But they said the situation has become so intolerable that they decided to speak out anyway, hoping the exposure will lead to changes.
Most of the complaints reported to the Star-Advertiser involved Halawa, but a few mentioned Oahu Community Correctional Center, the women's prison in Kailua and the Maui prison.
"It's definitely something more recent," Public Defender Jack Tonaki said of the rise in complaints his office has heard from prisoners.
State Ombudsman Robin Matsunaga estimated that his office has received fewer than 50 food-related complaints from prisoners in recent months. After following up with DPS, Matsunaga's office did not find an indication of a problem. But he acknowledged that his office has neither the expertise nor the resources to conduct a food audit to independently verify such information as calorie or nutrition levels.
The ACLU's Fathi said courts have ruled that inmates are entitled to meals that are nutritionally balanced and adequate to sustain health, and instances of significant unwanted weight loss raise questions on whether that standard is being met.
"People should not be losing 40 or 100 pounds because they're not being fed enough," he said.
Fathi said he is seeing more cases of states and counties across the country paring prison diets in a short-sighted attempt to cut costs. Those efforts, he said, will lead to greater costs in the long run.
"Hungry prisoners are unhappy prisoners," Fathi said. "And unhappy prisoners are harder to manage."
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Delay on Mainland Prison-building
All the more reason to develop prison alternatives, folks…by all means, though, get them out of Arizona. We're just killing them here...
New Prison Contract Overdue
Hawaii Reporter
Posted by Jim Dooley
BY JIM DOOLEY – Although Gov. Neil Abercrombie has said repeatedly he wants to halt out-of-state incarceration of Hawaii prison inmates, the state is finalizing the award of a new, three-year contract for Mainland imprisonment of up to 2,000 convicts.
The contractor selection was supposed to be made at the beginning of this week, but a public safety official said the issue was still being finalized.
A spokesman for Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the company that owns a private Arizona prison where some 1,900 Hawaii medium security inmates have been held, said he could not comment because contractor selection is still underway.
Abercrombie and other officials say new prison space, owned by the state or a private partner, needs to be developed here.
The new Mainland prison contract award is s being made against the backdrop of recent studies by the Hawaii Auditor and the Arizona Department of Corrections which question the true costs to taxpayers of privately-operated prisons.
CCA's current agreement to house Hawaii inmates at Saguaro Correctional Center expires June 30.
The new contract is to take effect July 1 and last three years, with two possible annual extensions beyond that, according to the bid request published by the state earlier this year.
The state can cancel the contract with three months' notice.
At present, the state is paying CCA $63.22 per day for each of the 1,900 or so inmates held at Saguaro, which is located in Eloy, Arizona, about halfway between Phoenix and Tucson.
Saguaro Correctional Facility (Hawaii Auditor Photo)
The present contract has an automatic escalator clause in the per diem rate and the charge has risen between two and three per cent annually since 2007, when it was set at $57, according to a December 2010 report Prison Audit from the office of Hawaii Auditor Marion Higa.
Costs to Hawaii for Mainland incarcerations have more than tripled since 2001, rising from just under $20 million annually to more than $60 million, according to Higa's audit.
In-state prison expenses were more than $167 million last year.
Higa's study was harshly critical of the state Public Safety Department's reports to the Legislature on prison costs, saying the department used different methods to calculate in-state and out-of-state expenses.
"Management chooses to report artificial cost figures derived from a calculation based on a flawed methodology, designed entirely on what is easiest for the department to report," Higa said.
"Because funding is virtually guaranteed, management is indifferent to the needs of policymakers and the public for accurate and reliable cost information. As a result, true costs are unknown," said the audit, which was prepared before the Abercrombie administration took office.
One of the audit's complaints was that didn't use exact inmate counts for its in-state expense numbers, instead basing its reporting on the total number of prisoners that could be held in state-owned prisons.
And some overhead and administrative costs assigned to in-state operations should have been counted as out-of-state costs, Higa found.
Each bookkeeping method increased the costs of in-state incarcerations and decreased out-of-state costs, Higa said.
A recently-released study by the Arizona Department of Corrections of that state's contracts with private prisons reached some of the same conclusions.
The study did not include the Saguaro facility. No Arizona prisoners are held there.
Like Higa's study, the Arizona the report found that per diem rates charged by private prisons did not include "inmate management" expenses which the state also had to pay for privately-incarcerated inmates.
"As a result, the 'real' costs for private contract beds are understated in comparison to the reported costs for state beds," the report said.
And the report pointed out that private prisons are selective about the types of inmates they accept.
Prisoners with severe physical or mental health problems are either not accepted by the private contractors or their treatment expenses are billed separately to the state, the report said.
That's the situation with Hawaii's CCA contract, according to Higa's report and language in the new contract bid.
One factor in deciding whether to ship a Hawaii prisoner to Arizona is that there are "no medical or
Halawa Correctional Facility (Hawaii Auditor Photo)
mental health conditions that may affect an inmate's ability to function within a normal range," Higa reported.
The pending contract requires the vendor to pay the costs of routine "medical, mental health, and dental service."
But some expenses must be paid by the state, including hospital physician reimbursements, surgeries and other "invasive procedures" and procedures involving anesthesiology, the contract language stipulates.
In those cases, the contractor must pay the first $2,000, but the state is responsible for the balance, according to the contract.
In a response to Higa's audit, newly-appointed Public Safety Department director Jodie Maesaka-Hirata made it clear that no matter how the numbers are sliced and diced, private prisons are cheaper than Hawaii lock-ups.
Maesaka-Hirata is a leading advocate for bringing Hawaii inmates home to local prisons or to expanded community release programs.
She told Higa the price for 1,000 or so inmates now imprisoned at the Halawa Correctional Facility is double what it would be if they were held in Arizona (assuming the private prison would accept them).
Posted in 2011, CCA, Correctional Corporation of America (CCA), corrections corporation of america, Hawai'i, Hawai'i Department of Corrections, Hawai'i prisoners, private prisons	| Tagged 2011, CCA, corrections corporation of america, Hawai'i prisoners, Hawai'i, Hawai'i Department of Corrections, private prisons
Prisoners Post: to the CEO of CCA, Damon Hininger.
Posted on April 17, 2011 by internationalprisonwatch
Hope some of Hawai'is legislators are paying attention to this – look at what you really get for your dollar in Arizona.
This is a courageous, frank letter from a prisoner of the Corrections Corporation of America and the City of Eloy out at the Saguaro Correctional Facility (where 18 prisoners are suing for torture, and one is suing a guard for sexual assault).
I sure hope Thad was right when he guessed that the CEO may actually answer his letter, though, if he's right about all this, then they'll be sure to send someone to his cell to harass and write him up, at the very least.
Keep us posted on how you're faring in there, Thad. We still want to see you make it out of there soon. He makes a hell of a lot of money off of prisoners like you behaving yourselves, so I'd think he' could afford the grace to listen...
– Peg
"Prisoners Have Families, Too".
Maricopa County Jail: Tent City.
Phoenix, AZ. (April 6, 2011)
PS: Here's the follow-up post to this letter. Thad got harassed alright – he was hit for another year by the parole board after they had already given him an out date, thanks to a personal call from the good warden at Saguaro after this post went up. As far as I'm concerned, they're corrupt through and through in Eloy, Arizona: the City of God.
To The CEO of CCA:
Damon Hininger
Corrections Corporation of America
10 Burton Hills Boulevard
Phone: (615) 263-3000; (800) 624-2931
Posted in 2011, abuse, CCA, Correctional Corporation of America (CCA), damon hininger, Hawai'i, Hawai'i Department of Corrections, Hawaiian prisoners, neglect, prison privatization, private prisons, saguaro correctional center, thad thompson	| Tagged 2011, abuse, CCA, Hawai'i, Hawai'i Department of Corrections, Hawaiian prisoners, neglect, prison privatization, private prisons, saguaro correctional center, Thad Thompson


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Asobi Seksu (2004), 6/10
Citrus (2006), 6/10
Hush (2009) , 5/10
Rewolf (2009), 4/10 Links:
Asobi Seksu's website
New York-based Asobi Seksu, led by female Japanese-American singer Yuki Chikudate and guitarist James Hanna, played old-fashioned shoegazing-rock. Asobi Seksu (2002 - Friendly Fire, 2004) was an unabashed tribute to the walls of distortions of My Bloody Valentine.
Citrus (Friendly Fire, 2006), recorded by the duo with a new rhythm section, was slightly more original, boasting catchier riffs and refrains: the breezy Thursday, the dreamy jangling Strawberries, the pounding power-pop of New Years, the retro singalong Goodbye (reminiscent of the ye-ye girls of the 1960s), the emphatic and stately Lions and Tigers (in which guitar noise steals the show), etc. But the songs still suffers from their derivative roots. They stubbornly stick to the song format, occasionally bordering on kitschy Japanese pop. The exception is the eight-minute shoegazing apex Red Sea, in which the singer sounds like a lively version of Kate Bush and Bjork, and that boasts a coda of blissful noise. In general, though, her angelic-evil voice is a mixed blessing.
A more elegiac tone pushed Hush (Polyvinyl, 2009) towards the sumptuous dream-pop of the Cocteau Twins. However, the final product sounded occasional and erratic, with a few cute songs (mainly Me & Mary and I Can't See) buried into a jelly of self-imitations.
Rewolf (2009) offers acoustic renditions of Asobi Seksu songs done by vocalist Yuki Chikudate and guitarist James Hanna.
Fluorescence (2011) was another mediocre stab at dream-pop celebrity.
Hanna later formed Youth Worship that debuted with Youth Worship (2015). (Translation by/ Tradotto da xxx)

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The Skyledger Dubai Conference took place on 28-29 April, 2018 at the beautiful Fairmont on the Palm. Organised with the help of Planet Blockchain, a Dubai-based start-up, the conference was refreshingly free of change for all attendees (well over a hundred in total) at the background of hefty fees being changed by many conference organisers, locally and internationally.
The conference opened with a keynote by Jane Zhang, CEO of Shellpay, who shared her passion for reinventing society with Blockchain. She pieced together the components of a well-functioning society whose seeds have been planted with the projects currently being built on SkyLedger. These projects are focused on education, energy, life sciences, agriculture and metals exchanges. Jane invited everyone to participate in a social experiment and create a digital society on blockchain at Yong Bang, aiming to attract 40M digital residents. Jane also revealed her plans regarding SkyPalace, an incubator co-working space which will have a physical presence in Dubai.
Dr Tatiana Zalan, Academic Advisor at Planet Blockchain and Professor at the American University in Dubai, spoke about the highlights in 2017 and early 2018. If there were one major theme in 2017, this would be "more diversity" – diversity brought about by cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin, and particularly Ethereum and Ripple, ERC-20 and ERC-721 tokens, ICOs, Bitcoin forks, Bitcoin futures, new institutional investors and South Korea coming in as a new player after China banned ICOs and cryptocurrency exchanges. Crypto returns for investors were nothing short of spectacular, with ROI as high as 50,000%. And while ICO funding exceeded by far VC funding of blockchain start-ups in 2017, 2018 looks even more promising. The growth drivers for 2018 include continuing spending by enterprises, increasing ICO funding, friendly regulations (such as in Malta), and reputable VC funds moving into the blockchain space.
David Yue, Managing Partner at Meredith Capital, took the stage to explain some of the advantages and disadvantages of the dominant blockchains and emphasized the current trend – convergence between Blockchain, IoT, AI and big data. David spoke about SkyFund, a fund catering for investments in token projects, secondary markets, investment banking and asset management.
Jeff Stollman, Principal Consultant & Polymath at Rocky Mountain Technical Marketing, served as a consultant and advisor to multiple ICOs and reviewed dozens of white papers. Jeff distinguished between three types of ICOs – the good, the bad and the ugly. The key criteria include team sincerity, project goal, team, business model and metrics. He then offered specific advice on how to differentiate between these three categories, which – judged by the questions asked at the end of the presentation – the conference attendees found particularly useful and practical.
The second part of the first day of the conference was dedicated to a roadshow of projects built on the SkyLedger / Skycoin blockchain, but not before the attendees played the Crypto Trivia game – and there were several lucky winners!
spoke about how Aionis can leverage blockchain to delay or even reverse ageing. Individuals will be able to put their personal aging cell information into Lifecoin and hash it to protect personal information. The aging cell information indicates which diseases you may have, and in future products will be developed to clean your aging cells in order to slow the process of aging.
Magdeleen Jooste, the CEO and Co-Founder of Planet Blockchain, better known as MJ in the community, presented the vision behind Planet Blockchain – Connect Globally, Innovate Locally. Planet Blockchain is a multi-sided platform designed to ensure a faster adoption of blockchain globally, by facilitating interactions between multiple user groups – start-up-ups, investors, advisors, educators, service providers and service consumers – to learn, earn, connect and innovate in the blockchain space.
Personalised K-12 education is a particular passion of Angela Li, CEO of Miao Zhua and the driver behind MZ World Coin. Algela believes that blockchain, AI and social robots will enable project-based learning, putting the student at the centre of learning, so that learning needs are initiated by students rather than the teacher or the school system. Learning is by searching, learning is by doing …and students can be more involved in social change and in problem solving…this is what Angela firmly believes in.
The first day of the conference ended on a cheerful note, with everyone enjoying the cocktail party, getting to know each other, speaking about their projects in a casual way, and discussing the latest developments in the blockchain and crypto space.
On 29th of April, the conference was open exclusively to entrepreneurs pitching their ideas to Jane Zhang and a panel of experts. These projects were very diverse, ranging from creating a dashboard for crypto portfolios, tokenising Central London real estate to protecting our identities on the Internet! Overall, of the eleven pitches Shellpay selected three promising ventures. These lucky ventures were given an opportunity to present their ideas to Shellpay in not so distant future and in much more depth so that they, hopefully, receive support and funding. Even the founders of the projects that were not selected spoke very highly of the opportunity to expose their ideas to Shellpay. Mind you, they received a fair share of grilling from Jane…and we all know she can do it!
"The pitch was very interesting to me, it didn't go too well for me but they were industry leaders sitting there who have much more expertise on how to disrupt the market, what new startups supposed to bring in".
"Overall the pitch was amazing, the event was remarkable, the whole experience was tremendous. Thank you Planet Blockchain for organising such event".
"My pitch was not so good, because we were pitching the applications, but Skyledger team was looking for protocols. It was very interesting to learn why we should invest in protocols, not the applications. Thank you Planet Blockchain and Jane for giving me this opportunity".
Dubai is certainly looking forward to hosting yet another SkyLedger conference!


In order to become a truly aware, authentic self, individuals must process their suppressed experiences and desires. This act is most effectively done when the individual is able to accept their experiences through seeing their suppressed self reflected in or approved by another individual. In Charlotte Brontë's novels Jane Eyre and Villette, Brontë describes the journey to an authentic self through the female protagonist's relationship with her male counterparts. Within both novels, the protagonist has a choice between two men: an ideal, marriage-plot husband and an unlikely brute. The men that are ultimately chosen allow a pathway for the protagonist to process their suppressed desires because the man understands the woman as a being-in-creation, rather than a finished product. By entering into these relationships that encourage self-growth, the women are engaging in relationships that rely on a substance deeper than what is found in traditional marriage-plot novels.


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ACLU of New Mexico Files Lawsuit Over Jail Guard's Sexual Abuse of Female Prisoners
CONTACT: media@aclu.org
ALBUQUERQUE, NM - The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico today filed claims of sexual abuse and 'cruel and unusual punishment' against a McKinley County detention officer, Brian Orr, on behalf of two female inmates from Wyoming.
"If proper safeguards had been in place, these assaults might never have occurred," said Peter Simonson, Executive Director of the ACLU of New Mexico. "Jails aren't supposed to be pleasant places. However, prisoners are entitled to basic rights, and protection against predatory guards certainly is one of them."
During 2003, Sheila Black and Cristy Herden were incarcerated at the McKinley County jail pursuant to a housing contract between McKinley County and the Wyoming Department of Corrections to relieve overcrowding in Wyoming's main prison for women. Orr repeatedly sexually assaulted the two women and photographed them in the nude, causing the women physical injury and severe psychological and emotional distress, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also accuses the jail's acting warden, Gilbert Lewis, the board of McKinley County commissioners, and the company that managed the jail, Management and Training Corporation, of negligence and failure to properly train and supervise Orr.
New Mexico ACLU attorneys Kari Morrissey, Phil Davis, and George Bach are litigating the case in collaboration with Stephen Pevar, Senior Staff Counsel for the national ACLU.
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He tells you he doesn't need this drama in his life, that you're too controlling and demanding. Translation: He wants things his way. As soon as you challenge him, he will flip things on you. He will say you're "too much" and "crazy," and you're just too jealous and need to work on yourself.
New light doesn't get in unless we're a little shaken up and broken and only then are we ready to truly transform our lives.
When they're around, you don't need alcohol, or money, or anything. This weird connection is more satisfying than anything else.
No matter how complicated life will get, I will always love you.
The problem is not that they don't know what being faithful means. The problem is that they aren't sure about you.
You are amazing, you hold the power, and the real problem is that you don't feel it. The moment you feel it, you will stop going back to him.
With the strongest girls, there is so much more beneath the surface.
Deep down if your heart doesn't want it to end, maybe it's for a reason.
If they don't challenge you, if they let you slack on your talents and leave you uninspired or unsatisfied, be single.
Wait for the guy who knows that love isn't shiny and perfect.
You'll fake it, even for your closest friends - the "I'm fine" and "I'm good," and "everything happens for a reason," and maybe, you'll say it so much that you'll even start to believe it.
She pushes through her fears the hardest - because she has the most to lose.
Coffee can actually be counter-productive for you.
Please, tell us more about what we should do with our bodies and the REAL motivations behind what we do!
You don't see all the ways you hurt her, because you don't realize you're the root of the problem.
Wait for the friend who's imperfect, because there's no fun in perfection, but who never stops trying - texts checking in after your date, buying you a drink just because, never forgetting what you love, what you can't stand, what moves you.
A toast to you for not settling, when it would be so easy to.
But I also know they seem to only make you a priority when they know they're about to lose you. I also know that you only seem to feel safe in their arms but when you're apart you get anxious and restless and unsatisfied.
there's a reason why you keep letting him back in.
Take a chance on yourself and watch as your whole life begins to change.
If you want easy, if you want normal, if you don't want to put in effort, you're dating the wrong girl.
Before you know it, it's destroying you. It's so hard to process. There's something about your connection that takes you to a place where no one else can.
They do this to control you, because they know how amazing you are, because they know that you could have anyone and be happy without them.
The truth is, everyone can look into their past and blame something or someone for the way they are or the way their life turned out. But this will not make your life better. This will not facilitate change.
It's like one moment she's extroverted, the next introverted - you can't ever seem to figure her out.
You think you could have done things differently. You think that if you could do things over again, you would make it work. But the truth is, you gave it everything you had.
Your path may be more challenging, but it is also so much more compelling.
You never have to feel that you deserve feeling so conflicted. You never have to feel that love has to be this way.
While they can rule the world with their passion, they need to have patience, too.
If you say you love her, never take her love for granted. Never think you have her, even though her heart is yours.
You feel naked and vulnerable and you don't know what to do next. You're thinking, this is why I'm so stingy with trust. This is why I have so many walls.
There's a lot of layers to you, and at times you struggle with knowing what to do with them. You're untamed and raw - but also reserved.
The person who we fall in love with has the full power to destroy us - and sometimes they do.
If we were still us, I'd still feel like a little kid. I'd still wake believing true love conquers all.
The truth about starting over is that it is the best thing you will ever do. But it will also be the hardest thing.
But like every other time before, your blissful reverie quickly turns sour, things turn dark so fast that you don't even have time to think, only to feel how hurt you are.
It's so easy to get caught up in your own head and believe you're behind where you're supposed to be for your age or that a single mistake is the end of the world.
Don't let this love get discarded for the next hit because you're mad, too stubborn or can't let go of something in the past.
And maybe, just maybe, you not being there, was the biggest blessing in disguise.
Be with someone who would never risk losing you.
No, dating you was not the end of their liberty; it was the beginning of it. But this is not what they'll tell people. This is not what they'll tell themselves.
Love doesn't know religion or geography, time or age. It doesn't care about whether it's convenient for you, or whether the person is even compatible with you.
You and your best leave the club in search of food. You're an actual gorilla in heat looking savage AF.
Your heart doesn't care about how many people you meet, how beautiful they are, or how amazing.
It's not going to be easy. But when you will gain their trust and love, it will be everything.
Never let any circumstance get in the way of putting her first.
Everything she did was out of love.
The person who once made your cells dance now makes blinking and breathing and speaking feel like so much effort.
You learn to take your life back from what broke you.
I flat-out refuse to settle for someone who doesn't give me all the feels.


Northwest Center is pleased to welcome Michael Padilla as an intern writer and photographer. Michael has ataxic cerebral palsy, which is a muscle disability. He's currently a sophomore at Bellevue College and upon graduation, he wants to become a sports reporter.
The Washington Spirit, coached by Northwest Center's own VP of business development Mike Quinn, battled South Carolina in an early round soccer match at the Special Olympics USA Games at Seattle University. The Washington Spirit controlled the pace of the game from start to finish and won by a final score of 7 to 1.
Kam grabs a slice of "watermelon" from the play food on his family's coffee table. He pretends to eat it, then offers some to Ricky, his dad.
Get out your drivers, wedges, and putters: it's time to secure a hole-in-one at the 7th Annual Northwest Center Golf Classic, July 16 at The Golf Club at Newcastle.
This year's event will raise funds to launch EPIC (Expanding Play, Interaction and Communication), a new Northwest Center Kids program that will support children with autism or social communication delays to be engaged with their parents, peers and the community.
What an impact The Derby had on IMPACT™, a new initiative from Northwest Center Kids. The silent and live auction held in April at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, with a goal of raising $100,000 to launch the new service, instead raised more than three times that amount with donations totaling $306,000.
Witness sports history at the 50th Annual 2018 Special Olympics USA Games in Seattle: sign up to volunteer with Northwest Center July 1-6.
Join us as a volunteer during the soccer competitions, where you can also cheer on a team with a special connection to Northwest Center. The Issaquah Spirit, coached by our VP of Business Development Mike Quinn, is representing the state in soccer as Team Washington.
Donate clothing and household goods to The Big Blue Truck™ or at Value Village™ to keep them out of landfills and to benefit Northwest Center. Here are a few tips to make sure your donation counts.
Northwest Center was founded on a mission of inclusion in 1965, and each year we celebrate that mission with business partners, friends, employees and the greater community at the Golden Hearts Luncheon. Join the celebration on October 23 at the Sheraton Hotel, downtown Seattle, from noon-1 p.m.
This year's keynote speaker is actress and advocate Lauren Potter, best known as Becky Jackson on the hit TV show Glee. Potter was the Ambassador for the Special Olympics World Games, served on President Obama's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, and is on the International Board of Best Buddies, working in conjunction with Special Olympics on the "R Word: Spread the Word to End the Word" anti-bullying campaign.
Pacific Northwest Theatre Associates (PNTA) knows the value of inclusion. The theatrical supply store, located in West Seattle, contacted Northwest Center last year with the specific goal of employing people with disabilities in their shipping and receiving department. A manager had learned how productive it can be to employ people of all abilities, so PNTA decided to become inclusive, too.
Northwest Center welcomes Trevor Pacelli as a contributing writer and photographer. Trevor has drawn on his experiences as a person with autism and his creative talents since he was a child. At 15, he illustrated a children's book about autism awareness written by his sister Briana, "The Kindergarten Adventures of Amazing Grace." At 19, he wrote a book in the "Six-Word Lessons" series to help families understand how a person with autism thinks and feels. He has also written for news outlets such as CNN and, drwing on his degree in film and media studies from Arizona State University, regularly writes about the cinema.
We raised over $306,000 at The Derby 2018, allowing us to launch IMPACT™ (Inclusion Mentorship Program for increasing Access in Childcare Team) on May 1! Learn more right here.
Excitement is building for the Special Olympics USA Games. Northwest Center athletes are competing, staff and board members are volunteering, and I want to personally invite you. Buy your tickets to the Opening Ceremony, July 1 in Husky Stadium, and you'll be seated in a section dedicated to NWC and our supporters. Arrive early and stop by our tailgate party—hope to see you there!
We envision a world where individual talent meets unlimited opportunity. Thank you for your continued support in bringing us closer to a truly inclusive society.
Enjoy this first-person account of Trevor's trip to the Washington State Capitol in Olympia, where he joined with other Northwest Center employees and friends as a self-advocate for inclusive employment.
That's a question many of us ask when we learn how few people with developmental disorders have a good full-time job. Earlier this year, many of us from Washington state traveled to the state capitol to find an answer to that question.
We met up at the United Churches, a block from the Legislative Building, to talk about our plan for the day. Outside, the air was nippy, with snow barely glazing the lawn. Inside, the pews were packed as the sun beamed a carnation violet through stained glass windows. Together, we heard the hope among the good and bad news.
Northwest Center is pleased to welcome Trevor Pacelli as a contributing writer. Trevor has drawn on his experiences as a person with autism and his creative talents since he was a child. At 15, he illustrated a children's book about autism awareness written by his sister Briana, "The Kindergarten Adventures of Amazing Grace." At 19, he wrote a book in the "Six-Word Lessons" series to help families understand how a person with autism thinks and feels. He has also written for news outlets such as CNN and, drawing on his degree in film and media studies from Arizona State University, regularly writes about the cinema.
Happy Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you)! In honor of the legendary saga, I would like to discuss how the beloved characters can encourage us to keep pressing ahead despite physical challenges, as well as address questionable depictions of physical differences.
Our team had a productive week attending APEC 2018 – The Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition – on March 4-8 in San Antonio, TX. As first-time exhibitors, we were immediately engaged by the variety of activities and professional training sessions made available to attendees.
On the exposition floor, we had a wonderful time meeting with customers, strengthening partnerships, showing off our capabilities, and checking out the competition. Our booth, which was strategically located next to the food and beverage area, was fully decked out with new signage, a variety of sample parts, fun giveaways, and, of course, free candy bars.
For the team at Argus Janitorial, a division of Northwest Center in Spokane, it was especially meaningful to receive the "Outstanding Support" award at the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery's (VBCN) Heart of Gold awards. The janitorial services the team provides to VBCN, says Argus General Manager Jackie Fountain, are very much a labor of love.
"One, two, three, edge-to-edge, edge-to-edge. One, two, three, edge-to-edge, edge-to-edge." Glenda's table wiping process is precise—each table cleaned with unparalleled focus and care.
Glenda works at Red Robin in Renton, where she gets the restaurant ready for the day before opening—a job that she, her managers, and her job coaches agree is a perfect fit. Glenda has been at the job for a little over seven months, gaining confidence by proactively adding new responsibilities and even taking on another shift on Saturdays.
Erika's first few shifts at Amazon Prime Now warehouse had their challenges. The pace was hectic, she was negotiating a scanning system, and she was navigating a dizzying assortment of quadrants and aisle numbers. Several times, Northwest Center job coaches found her wandering an aisle, saying she was lost.
That unwavering optimism gave Northwest Center and Prime Now management confidence that Erika would get the hang of things. And it didn't take long for their faith to be rewarded.
We're well into 2018, and the momentum continues to build here at Northwest Center. There isn't enough space to mention all our successes, so I'll highlight just a few.
Our Early Intervention and Early Learning teams served a record number of kids in 2017 (770!) and are well on their way to surpass that number this year. We'll soon launch an Inclusion Team to train other preschools to provide inclusive early learning education and support, while our new autism program (EPIC: expanding play, interaction, and communication) will complement the services we already provide.
Recently Job Developers in the Omak office adopted a new team motto. Developers are out to achieve the "Triple Win" where job seekers, employers, and the job developer all hit the tape at the end of the race at the same time.
A growing number of individuals, organizations, and for-profit companies are recognizing the many benefits of a diverse workforce. Studies show that inclusion benefits the entire workplace with better morale, efficiency, and consumer reviews; and we know from over fifty years of first-hand experience that employing people with disabilities is good for business. The strategies outlined below are designed to enhance inclusion in the workplace for employees of all ages and all skill levels.


On Friday, 3.2. 2017, starting at 18.00 hours in hotel Amor in Supetar, there will be held a seminar entitled "Food make us healthy and slim".
The main speaker at the seminar, which will focus on correction of existing eating habits and tailoring the same lifestyle and needs of the organism in order to improve the quality of life, will be the master of nutrition Dragana Olujić with years of experience in the diet therapy, who works as a nutrition professor in secondary school "Braća Radić", as well as an outdoor associate of Faculty of Kinesiology in Split, and reference nutricionist for the Sailing team of Croatia. She is also the director of the company Nutricionist Ltd. for nutritional counseling.
The seminar is completely free! For all information please call 021 606 606 or 099 606 6067.


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Gateway to overcoming paralysis
Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, researchers report in the latest advance in harnessing brain waves to help disabled people.
Leo Paré
NEW YORK — Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, researchers report in the latest advance in harnessing brain waves to help disabled people.
In the past year, similar stories have included a quadriplegic man in Pennsylvania who made a robotic arm give a high-five and stroke his girlfriend's hand, and a partially paralyzed man who remotely controlled a small robot that scooted around in a Swiss lab.
It's startling stuff. But will the experimental brain-controlled technology ever help paralyzed people in everyday life?
Experts in the technology and in rehabilitation medicine say they are optimistic that it will, once technology improves and the cost comes down.
The latest report, which was published online Wednesday in the journal Nature, comes from scientists at Brown University, the Providence VA Medical Center in Rhode Island, Harvard Medical School and elsewhere.
It describes how two people who lost use of their arms and legs because of strokes years before were able to control free-standing robotic arms with the help of a tiny sensor implanted in their brains.
The sensor, about the size of a baby aspirin, eavesdropped on the electrical activity of a few dozen brain cells as the study participants imagined moving their arms. The chip then sent signals to a computer, which translated them into commands to the robotic arms.
The computer was taught how to interpret the brain patterns through practise as the paralyzed participants watched the robot arms move and then imagined that they were moving their own arms the same way.
In one task to test the system, the two participants tried to direct a robot arm to reach out and squeeze foam balls in front of them. The man succeeded in less than half his attempts, but the woman was able to do it about 60 per cent of the time.
The woman, Cathy Hutchinson of East Taunton, Mass., was also asked to use the arm to drink the coffee. That involved picking up the bottle, bringing it to her lips so she could sip from a straw, and putting the bottle back on the table. She succeeded in four out of six tries with the arm, which was specially programmed for this task.
"The smile on her face … was just a wonderful thing to see," said Dr. Leigh Hochberg, a researcher with the Providence VA, Brown and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Researchers said in Hutchinson's case that the results show that the implanted chip still worked after five years, and that her brain was still generating useful signals even though she hadn't moved her arms in almost 15 years.
The ultimate goal, researchers said, is an implanted device that would reactivate a person's own paralyzed limbs. Another goal is to operate high-tech prostheses for amputees.
Andrew Schwartz, who is doing similar research at the University of Pittsburgh, said the coffee-sipping was encouraging because it represents an everyday task a paralyzed person might want to do. "I think it's showing this technology has therapeutic potential," he said.
"The field is rapidly advancing, and I think this offers hope for people who are paralyzed," Schwartz said. "The types of movements we'll be able to do are getting more and more sophisticated at a rapid pace."
But he and others said the technology faces a number of hurdles to widespread use, like reducing its high cost, making it more reliable, and refining the technology. For example, the brain implant now sends signals out with a wire through the skull, and researchers want to develop a completely implanted version that communicates wirelessly.
Another step toward wide use will be enticing companies to invest the money to make commercial products. Just when that might happen is an open question, Schwartz said, but it could be in the next couple of years, with prostheses or free-standing robotic arms on the market a few years after that.
Dr. Bruce Gans, executive vice-president and chief medical officer of the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, N.J., said the technology is too expensive now for widespread use. But if brain control finds uses outside the relatively limited market of paralyzed people, that might drive improvements in technology and dramatically reduce the cost, he said.
Gans suggested other uses might involve industrial applications; neuroscientist Andrew Jackson of Newcastle University in England suggested it might be in rehabilitation for victims of less severe strokes.
At some point, Gans said, "It may even turn into something that allows a person with paralysis to go back to work, so it becomes a tool a vocational rehabilitation program could eventually endorse and support."
Dr. Preeti Raghavan, an expert in physical rehabilitation of the arms and hands at the New York University Langone Medical Center, noted that the cost of the technology would be weighed against the significant expense of caregiving for paralyzed people who can't do much on their own.
She said she expected that within a decade, many people may be using the technology to control their own limbs or robotic arms. Gans said that wider use of robotic arms might be feasible within five years, but that reactivating paralyzed limbs could be decades away.
Journal Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature
Research program: http://www.braingate2.org
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December Pack Meeting - Caroling with the vets!
We will once again be honoring our veterans by singing Christmas carols for them at the Minnesota Veterans home in Minneapolis. Immediately following our caroling, we will be helping the veterans with their Bingo games. Please make sure to bring as many spare quarters to help the veterans buy their Bingo cards.


Super Angry Birds is a force feedback USB controller for Angry Birds that simulates the feeling of a slingshot. All the controls found in the game are available in this device. You can control the pull, the angle, and of course trigger the special power of the bird. We hacked a motorized fader found in audio mixing consoles to simulate the force you would feel when using a slingshot.
We programmed in Max/MSP and Arduino. For controlling the hardware, we used an Arduino-based microcontroller called Music & Motors developed by CIID.
This was part of the class on Haptics at CIID run by Bill Verplank and David Gauthier.


A group of young women living in high poverty areas of rural Cambodia will have access to tertiary level education after a recent live crowdfunding event in Perth raised more than $10,000.
Grassroots organisation Classroom of Hope, which is dedicated to enabling access to education for children in poverty, pitched for funds alongside other local charities FairGame and Teach, Learn, Grow at The Funding Network's latest live crowdfunding initiative.
In all, 95 Perth philanthropists attended the event, pledging a total of $39,500 for the three charities.
Classroom of Hope founder Duncan Ward and creative director Nicola Courtin pitched for $10,000 to go toward the organisation's 'Stem For Women' project in Cambodia, which empowers young women in high poverty rural areas to study science, technology, engineering and maths.
"We exist to help children unleash their greatness through life-changing education," Mr Ward told Business News.
"It's statistically proven that, for every young girl or woman you empower and educate in developing countries, they bring five out of poverty with them.
"This is by far the best solution for speeding up the process of breaking the poverty cycle.
"And in Cambodia specifically, there's a very low percentage of young girls and women working in STEM fields."
Mr Ward said Classroom of Hope would now be able to provide scholarships for 10 young women to undertake two-year tertiary vocational degrees.
Once these women were qualified, Mr Ward said, his charity would work with local partners to assist with their entry into the Cambodian workforce.
"Online crowdfunding has got its merits, but to be face-to-face and have that human connection, that's where people get inspired," he said.
"It's democratising giving; whether you're donating $50 or $1,000, it's giving everyone an opportunity to give to small, charitable grassroots organisations."
Since 2013, The Funding Network has provided $4.5 million for 130 charities across Australia, including $370,000 for 23 Perth charities, plus in-kind and pro-bono support.
The Funding Network chief executive Lisa Cotton said the success of the live crowdfunding events was attributable to the accessibility for charities and donors, as well as the transparency of where the funds were being directed.
"The large organisations get the share of philanthropic dollars in Australia," Ms Cotton told Business News.
"We need to fund smaller organisations to really reveal what innovation is happening in our community and this model is perfect for that.
"It's addressing that lack of access to networks and funding for small grassroots organisations and people's desire to do something in the community but don't know where to go."
Read the full article in Business News WA here.


The American Evaluation Association invites evaluators from around the world to attend its annual conference to be held Wednesday, November 7, through Saturday, November 10, 2007 in Baltimore, Maryland. We will be meeting in two immediately adjacent conference hotels, the Sheraton Baltimore City Center at 101 West Fayette St and the Radisson Plaza Lord Baltimore at 20 West Baltimore Street. The two hotels are connected via a skybridge on their conference levels. The AEA registration desk will be at the Radisson and the conference sessions are split between the two venues.
AEA's annual meeting is expected to bring together over 2500 evaluation practitioners, academics, and students, and represents a unique opportunity to gather with professional colleagues in a supportive, invigorating, atmosphere.
The conference is broken down into 38 Topical Strands that examine the field from the vantage point of a particular methodology, context, or issue of interest to the field as well as the Presidential Strand highlighting this year's Presidential Theme of "Evaluation and Learning." Presentations may explore the conference theme or any aspect of the full breadth and depth of evaluation theory and practice.
This year's event is to be held in two hotels, the Sheraton Baltimore City Center at 101 West Fayette Street and the Radisson Plaza Lord Baltimore at 20 West Baltimore Street, in historic downtown Baltimore. The two venues are immediately adjacent to one another and connected by a short bridge above street level. Sessions and workshops will be held in both hotels while conference registration, your starting point for the conference, will take place on the Mezzanine level in the Radisson.
For as long as contemporary forms of evaluation have been around, questions concerning effective practice, relevant theories, impacts and consequences, and use of findings, have been posed and debated by practitioners and scholars in the field. Embedded in all of these questions is an implicit assumption that evaluation, in some way, is about learning…learning about a program and its outcomes, learning from an evaluation process, learning how to do evaluation, or learning about evaluation's effect on others. If learning is the act, process, or experience of gaining knowledge or skills, then it is hard to imagine evaluation as anything other than a means for learning. Increasingly over the years, evaluators have come to acknowledge the learning aspect of evaluation by framing it as evaluation capacity building, evaluation use and influence, evaluation for organizational learning, empowerment evaluation, knowledge management, and within the broad construct of evaluation, social betterment. Inherent in each of these areas of study and practice is the notion that learning is a fundamental process that enhances our individual and collective capacity to create the results we truly desire now and in the future. Consequently, learning from and about evaluation has the potential to generate knowledge for decision-making and action and to move us in the direction of our visions.
What does it mean to learn from and about evaluation processes and outcomes?
How does evaluation facilitate learning? Conversely, how and when does evaluation hinder learning?
How might learning from evaluation be enhanced and sustained?
In what ways can evaluation create learning communities of practice?
How can differences—individual learning styles, community cultures, ethnic and geographic dimensions—enhance and challenge our learning from and about evaluation?
What does learning from evaluation look like in different organizational and community contexts?
Who else is involved in the process of learning from evaluation in different contexts and how?
How, and in what ways, does learning lead to evaluation?
What kinds of evaluation designs and approaches maximize which kinds of learning from and about evaluation?
What is the relationship between workplace and adult learning theory and evaluation theory? What other theories help us understand the intersection of learning and evaluation?
The AEA Annual Conference is a vibrant and exciting learning community: how do we maximize our own learning in the evaluation profession?
Some of the sessions for the Presidential Strand will be specially invited by the Strand program Chair, Darlene Russ-Eft. Others will be selected from sessions nominated by AEA's Topical Interest Groups (TIGs) from the proposals that they review. And, I expect that several other excellent sessions, outside the Presidential Strand, will be related to the Strand theme. I encourage you to consider submitting a proposal that addresses some aspect of the relationship between evaluation and learning, or on any topic of interest to evaluators, for peer review by one of AEA's 38 TIGs.
I hope that you will consider sharing your best work as part of what promises to be a stimulating and enlightening conference. I look forward to seeing you in Baltimore - home of crab cakes, the first U.S. railroad, and the place where Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner. Be sure to explore this site to learn more about the conference and access the proposal submission guidelines and forms.


One of the most important decisions business owners and managers will face is the office environment. From installing a water filtration system or buying a water cooler, to considering a central air conditioning system for the warmer months, all of these decisions affect the staff. With this in mind, did you know that a temperature controlled office increases productivity?
Not having a central air conditioning system, or even having an outdated central air conditioning unit, is costing companies more money due to loss of productivity and other issues that arise from an uncontrolled air temperature environment. Not having the proper temperature controlled office actually contributes to employee's sick days too!
Research done in the United Kingdom by the Office of National Statistics shows that working in an office where the temperature is not properly controlled caused a loss of 28 million dollars. One of the main reasons is because the amount of mistakes increases exponentially due to concentration lessening when working in an overheated environment. This causes problem-solving skills as well as even basic functions like data input to be performed carelessly. Being too hot attributes to slowing down mentally and physically, which can happen extremely quickly.
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Skye - Landscapes Set in Stone
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The Isle of Skye offers a magical combination of wild land and breath-taking natural beauty. Skye's geological history involves some of the most ancient rocks on the planet; a grandstand view as the Highlands of Scotland were formed over 400 million years ago and the development of one of the mightiest volcanoes ever to blow its top. Skye is also known as Scotland's 'dinosaur island', yielding the remains of many species of plant and meat-eating creatures that stalked land some 140 million years ago. Finally, the rocks forged in earlier times were shaped into the familiar hills and glens of today by the passage of ice as a great freeze gripped the land. This book provides key information about the formation of the island and the on-going processes of natural landscape evolution that continue to leave their mark on these spectacular vistas.
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Lilo & Stitch 2: Island Favorites
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Lilo & Stitch 2: Island Favorites, the soundtrack to Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (which is the direct-to-video sequel to the Disney hit Lilo & Stitch), delivers the familiar mix of Hawaiian music and Elvis songs that provided the musical backdrop to the first movie and TV series. In fact, this collection should seem very familiar indeed to Lilo & Stitch fans, since it's basically a slightly altered and repackaged version of the 2002 collection Lilo & Stitch: Island Favorites. Several of the standout tracks on this album -- including Lisa Loeb's "My Little Grass Shack," Annette Funicello's "Pineapple Princess," and Tia Carrere's "Aloha 'Oe" -- appeared on the first version of Island Favorites. Elvis' "A Little Less Conversation [Junkie XL Remix]" and "Rubberneckin'" provide the required Presley tunes, while songs like Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu and the Kamehameha Schools Children's Choir's "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" and Dennis & David Kamakahi's "Always" nod to Lilo & Stitch's Hawaiian setting. Even though Lilo & Stitch 2: Island Favorites follows the musical formula of past Lilo & Stitch albums a little too closely, it's still an entertaining album, and downright creative compared to some other current Disney soundtracks.
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The Art of the Great Media Interview
About About Warren Featured in the News
Session Types Media Training: Introductory Media Training: Intermediate (most popular) Media Training: Advanced Media Training: Issues & Crisis Presentation Training Social Media Training
About Warren
Featured in the News
Session Types/
Media Training: Introductory
Media Training: Intermediate (most popular)
Media Training: Advanced
Media Training: Issues & Crisis
Media Training by Warren Weeks
An overview of Warren Weeks's social media training program.
warren weeks Running a social media 'boot camp' series for a client in toronto in 2015.
warren weeks giving a talk on how to use social media to connect with audiences at an industry conference in muskoka in november (did the poppy give it away?), 2014.
"If you build it, they will come." While that line from Field of Dreams might work with baseball diamonds in Iowa, it doesn't hold true for social media. Just because you have a Facebook page or a Twitter account doesn't entitle your business to an audience that wants to engage with you.
There's a lot of conflicting information out there about how to use social media for your business. In this customized training session, Warren will show you and your staff how to go from 'existing' on social media to actually 'engaging' with your most important audiences.
In March of 2010, Warren started a social media campaign to get former NHL coach Pat Burns into the Hockey Hall of Fame before he died of cancer. In a matter of just over two weeks, the campaign gathered more than 72,000 followers and generated more than $2 million in media coverage from across North America. Warren is a frequent speaker on the topic of getting better social media engagement. And he has advised a long list of companies and associations to help them to increase engagement with their key audiences using social media.
While the specific agenda is customized based on the needs, experience level and industry/sector of the particular client, the typical social media training session will cover the following topics:
Understanding the key performance indicators (KPIs) that matter to your organization,
The power of listening on social (and how to do it effectively),
Tips for using images and videos like the pros,
Determining which channels are right for your business,
How to create custom content for each channel,
Storytelling techniques to take your content from boring to interesting,
Before & after visual examples of how posts from your own business (or businesses in your industry) could have been more effective and impactful,
The right way to leverage partners and influencers,
The single most powerful advertising tactics on Facebook and LinkedIn that you're probably not using,
How to use Snapchat custom geofilters for your events,
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Here are a few quick samples of Warren speaking about increasing social media engagement to an audience of about 100 at the CSAE Trillium Summer Summit in Collingwood in July 2016.
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DHARMA Initiative Stations
The Hydra • The Arrow • The Swan
The Flame • The Pearl • The Orchid
The Staff • The Tempest
The Looking Glass • The Lamp Post
Hydra Island is a small island sitting off the coast of the main island. The island takes its name from the DHARMA Initiative's Hydra, located there. ("Some Like It Hoth") Rousseau's map depicts at least 9 offshore islands. It is unclear which of these represents Hydra Island.
It is described by Ben as being about the twice the size of Alcatraz Island, which makes the land area about 0.06 square miles (just under ¼ mile by ¼ mile). ("Every Man for Himself") However, in subsequent appearances, particularly when seen by air from Frank's perspective, the island appears somewhat larger, with large hills and expanses of jungle. ("Namaste"). This is furthered by the distance given by the Man in Black from the landing beach to the Hydra station as a half mile, and Lapidus later saying the distance from somewhere nearby the station to the Ajira plane as being a about quarter mile. ("The Candidate")
The distance from Hydra Island to the main island is unclear. Both Juliet ("Not in Portland") and Sawyer ("I Do") report that Hydra Island is "about 2 miles offshore" of the main Island. Ben, however, directs Lapidus to a small dock on the main Island approximately a half mile due south from Hydra Island. This portion of coastline is close to the Barracks. ("Namaste")
Hydra Island went unnamed on the show until Dr. Chang threatened to have Hurley reassigned to Hydra Island where he would "weigh polar bear turds for their ridiculous experiments", confirming the island's name as Hydra Island. ("Some Like It Hoth") It was also named as such by The Man in Black. ("Recon")
Hydra Island moved along with the main island through space and time. ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
See main article: The Hydra
Sawyer uses the behavioral training device for food in ("A Tale of Two Cities").
The DHARMA Initiative used the second Island as the location for the Hydra, a Zoological Research Station. Their facility included an aquarium with an underwater section, where Jack was held prisoner when he was captured by the Others. Additionally, there were outdoor cages with facilities for operant conditioning. ("A Tale of Two Cities")
Jack operates on Ben at the Hydra in ("I Do").
The Others used the Station after the downfall of the DHARMA Initiative. This island is not where the Others lived, but rather where they worked on what they refer to as "projects". Most Others prefered to remain at "home" on the main island.
Sawyer and Kate leave Hydra Island in a sailing canoe in ("Not in Portland").
After their capture, Jack, Kate and Sawyer, were brought to Hydra Island. ("A Tale of Two Cities") Jack was held in a room under the aquarium, while Kate and Sawyer were jailed in cages above ground. The station has an operating room where Jack performed surgery on Ben. ("I Do") Kate and Sawyer were employed as laborers in the construction of a runway. While Sawyer and Kate were imprisoned, Tom remarked on the speed with which the cage's previous inhabitants ("the bears") had solved the conditioning puzzle. Thus the extent to which The Others were involved in, or were aware of, the DHARMA Initiative's activities on Hydra Island remains open to speculation.
Ben shows Sawyer where they are, and reveals his "con" in ("Every Man for Himself").
After Ben reveals to Sawyer that they actually never placed a pacemaker inside him, they climb over hill, and Sawyer is stunned to see another island across from the one they are on. Ben announces that the nearby island is Sawyer's island and so that they cannot escape because there is nowhere to go. Ben points out that the only way to get the respect of a con man is to con him. He then also quotes "Of Mice and Men" and mentions Sawyer only gave in when he threatened Kate. Ben points out that Sawyer tries to distance himself from Kate when he really does need her. Ben tells him to return to his cage, and Sawyer, unsettled, follows.
The Others had at least one large boat that provided transport to and from Hydra Island. The Others had also mentioned using a submarine to travel between the two islands. ("The Man from Tallahassee") Outrigger sailing canoes were used as well, one of which Alex gave to Sawyer, Kate and Karl to escape the island. Alex revealed that there was no tunnel between Hydra Island and the main Island. ("Not in Portland")
It is on Hydra Island that Juliet was branded with the mark for the death of Danny and her part in the escape of Kate and Sawyer. ("Stranger in a Strange Land") Some time after Jack, Kate, and Sawyer left Hydra Island, The Others seem to have completed the runway and subsequently, may have abandoned the station.
See main article: Runway
Kate and Sawyer at the quarry in ("The Glass Ballerina").
Close by the Hydra compound is a rock quarry which the Others were working to clear as a construction project in 2004. The project appears to have been overseen by Pickett, and Kate and Sawyer were forced to work at the site. ("The Glass Ballerina") ("Every Man for Himself") ("I Do") Juliet later told Sawyer that the land they were clearing would be used to build a runway, although claimed she did not know why. ("Through the Looking Glass") This same runway in a completed or nearly-completed state was used later by Ajira Flight 316 in 2007 for an emergency landing on Hydra Island.
Ajira Airways Flight 316
Co-Pilot killed during plane crash in ("Namaste").
As a result of the time shift that caused a mid-air stall, Ajira Airways Flight 316 attempted an emergency landing on Hydra Island in 2007. The pilot, Frank Lapidus, overshot the runway but managed to land the plane before blacking out. Upon awakeneing, Lapidus found his co-pilot dead, and many passengers seriously hurt. ("Namaste") Led by Ilana and Caesar, the passengers set up camp on the Hydra Island beach. They also fashioned one of the abandonned Hydra station buildings into an infirmary, where they attended to injured survivors.
"John Locke" welcomes Ben "back to the land of the living" in ("Whatever Happened, Happened").
Ben Linus showed Sun and Frank where he had hidden three dug-out canoes. Sun, who was untrusting of Ben, knocked him out cold with a paddle. Accompanied by Frank, Sun took a canoe and paddled to the main island to look for Jin. Ilana was also aware of the canoes and that one was taken by the pilot and "a woman" during the night. ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham") At some point in time, Ben Linus was found injured and unconscious. He was taken to the make-shift infirmary at the Hydra, where he was awakened by the appearance of the deceased John Locke. At the Hydra, Caesar found his way to Ben Linus' old office and recovered a map, a page from Daniel's journal and a shotgun. It is this same gun that Ben Linus used to kill Caesar, as Ben and Locke prepared to leave Hydra Island with one of the remaining outriggers. ("Dead Is Dead")
Frank Lapidus later returned to Hydra Island, only to be greeted at gunpoint by Ilana and Bram. After a confrontation with Ilana, Frank was knocked out with a rifle butt. When Frank regained consciousness, he was in a canoe with Ilana, Bram and a large metal crate. They, along with several other survivors of Flight 316, were on their way to the main island to look for the Others. ("The Incident, Parts 1 & 2")
Widmore's camp
The Man in Black instructed Sawyer to travel to Hydra Island in a reconnaissance mission to gain information on the survivors of Ajira Flight 316. After finding the dead bodies of all of the survivors of Ajira 316 on the island, Sawyer found a woman who called herself Zoe and who claimed to be one of the survivors from the Ajira flight. Sawyer went along with her, until they got to the outrigger and she asked him whether the people he was with had guns. This tipped Sawyer off to the fact that she was lying. She dropped the act and whistled loudly, then several men appeared at the treeline, cocked their guns, and took Sawyer prisoner. Sawyer surrendered to these men and was taken to a submarine at the dock. In the submarine, Sawyer was taken to a cabin and was introduced to Charles Widmore. Sawyer proposed that he would bring John Locke to the submarine in exchange for the protection of his friends and a secure trip off of the island. Charles agreed to this and let Sawyer go back to the main island. ("Recon") Widmore's people appeared to be setting up a portable sonar fence around their camp. However, Sayid disabled the station's generators, allowing the Man in Black to breach the barrier. A battle occurred soon after at the cages, and later at the Ajira plane and dock. ("The Candidate")
The dock
There is a small dock on Hydra Island where Charles Widmore docked his submarine. It is within the perimeter of Widmore's sonar fence. ("Recon") ("The Package")
A small island can be seen in background in ("Live Together, Die Alone").
Fan names for Hydra Island include "Falcatraz" (false Alcatraz) or "Lostcatraz". The producers once dubbed it "Damonville". (Official Lost Podcast/December 06, 2006)
While fans had dubbed the second island "Hydra Island" ever since Season 3, this name was not used canonically within the show until "Some Like It Hoth".
There have been two notable occasions where a "second island" can been seen in the background during shots.
When Ana Lucia leads her group across the Island, a smaller island can be seen on the horizon (pictured). Note a second, smaller silhouette to the left of this island. ("Abandoned")
As Michael and Walt leave Pala Ferry, a small island can briefly be seen behind the boat as it moves away. However, no island was visible when Sayid arrived at the pier on the sailboat.
World locations by city
Australia • Egypt • France • Germany • Indonesia • Iraq • Nigeria • South Korea • Tunisia • United Kingdom • United States
Flight 815 survivors
and Flight 316 survivors
Beach camp • Caves • Claire's hut • Eko's church • Eko's grave • Garden • Golf course • Graves • Hydra Island camp • Rose and Bernard's cabin • Shannon's tent • Sweat lodge • Tiger pit
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and U.S. Army
The Hatch • The Hydra • The Arrow • The Swan • The Flame • The Pearl • The Orchid • The Staff • The Looking Glass • The Tempest • The Lamp Post • The Door • The ? • Army camp • The Barracks • The Others' beach camp • Cages • Capsule dump • Cliffside cave • Decoy village • East coast dock • The Hostiles' camp • Hydra Island • The Incident Room • Jacob's cabin • The Lighthouse • Man in Black's camp • Mass grave • Oldham's tent • Pala Ferry • Processing Center • Runway • Radio tower • Tree mark • Sonar fence • Subterranean conduit • The Temple • The Temple wall • The Tunnels • Jughead
The Island's locations
Alex's hideout • Ancient village • Balloon • Bamboo grove • Bench • Black Rock • Cliff • Cove • Dark Territory • Drug smugglers' plane • Statue of Taweret • Frozen wheel • Heart of the Island • Jungle • Lagoon • Lake • The Line • Man in Black's camp • The Mesa • North Valley • Ocean • Pascal Flats • Polar bear cave • Rivers • Rope bridge • Rousseau's camp • Ruins • Waterfall • Wells
Off-Island locations
Bars • Eloise's church • The Lamp Post • Choogdong Hospital • Commune • Cowin Heights High School • Delerue Center for Rehabilitation • DHARMA Logistics Warehouse • Die Mauer • Dina's Coffee Shop • Fieldcroft School • Golden State Natural History Museum • Gus' Pawn Shop • Heathrow Airport • Hotels and motels • Kanpai Bar and Grill • Kashmir Curry • LAX • Tracking station • Marina Medical Center Long Beach • Melbourne Walkabout Tours • Membata • Moriah Vineyards • Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack • La Vida Tacos • Le Portail d'Arabie • Long Beach Marina • OC staffing services • Rainbow Drive-In • Safe house • Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute • Sidney New South Medical • Smith Stop & Run • Spanish Johnny's • Southway Garrison • Simon's Butcher Shop • Sri Lanka • St. Francis Hospital • St. Sebastian Hospital • Stadium • Sun Palms Nursing Home • Sydney Airport • University of Michigan • Washington Tustin High School
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Toponyme

 Rise, une localité du comté de Nordland, en Norvège.

Cinéma et télévision

 Rise, un film d'horreur américain de Sebastian Gutierrez sorti en 2007 ;
 Rise, un film américain de , sorti en 2016.
 Rise, série télévisée américaine (2018).

Musique

 , un album composé en 1979 par le trompettiste américain Herb Alpert ;
 Rise, un album du groupe japonais SPEED, sorti en 1998 ;
 Rise, un album de la sitariste indienne Anoushka Shankar, sorti en 2005 ;
 Rise, un album du groupe irlandais The Answer, sorti en 2006 ;
 , un album de Shaggy sorti en 2012 ;
 Rise, un album du groupe américain Skillet, sorti en 2013 ;
 Rise, un album du Taeyang, chanteur du groupe sud-coréen Bigbang, sorti en 2014 ;
 Rise, chanson de The Glitch Mob, Mako et The Word Alive, hymne des Championnat du monde de League of Legends 2014 ;
 Rise, un single de Katy Perry sorti en 2016 ;
 Rise (2022), album du groupe finlandais de rock, The Rasmus.

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 Rise Wrestling, une fédération de catch (lutte professionnelle) féminine américaine

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Staircase to the Moon only happens at certain times of the year when the full moon rises and shines over the mud flats when the tide is low.
During our recent visit to Broome we were fortunate to see this happen from the grounds of our accommodation.
My camera is not the best, (a poor photographer always blames his camera) so I didn't manage to capture everything as I wished.
A little higher and the first stair can be seen.
and this is what it is supposed to look like thanks to an advert.
During two of the three evenings when people can see the 'stairway' Broome holds a special stairway to the moon market.
Maureen and I visited the market before it went dark.
From someone who can not stand shopping I managed to pass a little time keeping myself amused wandering around while Maureen had her fill of the stalls.
As a consolation prize I managed to get to Matso's, which is a local brewery. Diving for pearls and oyster shells helped create Broome and as time passed the divers moved on from skin diving to the deep sea style of diving.
The picture below is the closest that I wanted to get diving for pearls – anyway I had my work cut out tasting all the beers that this company produced.
The tall glass with a yellow coloured liquid is a mango beer – not bad, but a little sweet for me.
The evening special was an Indian curry, which turned out very good.
Goat on the left, vegetable curry in the middle and fish (barramundi) curry on the right. The meal brought back memories of India it was that good.
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