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http://www.miamisburgcityschools.org/district/district-offices/student-services/student-information | 2017-04-29T17:30:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123549.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00343-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.929114 | 1,794 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__249435582 | en | Notification of Rights under FERPA for Elementary and Secondary Schools
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) affords parents and students over 18 years of age ("eligible students") certain rights with respect to the student’s education records. These rights are:
(1) The right to inspect and review the student’s education records within 45 days of the day the school receives a request for access.
Parents or eligible students should submit to the school principal [or appropriate school official] a written request that identifies the record(s) they wish to inspect. The school official will make arrangements for access and notify the parent or eligible students of the time and place where the records may be inspected.
(2) The right to request the amendment of the student’s education records that the parent or eligible student believes are inaccurate.
Parents or eligible students may ask the school to amend a record that they believe is inaccurate. They should write the school principal [or appropriate school official], clearly identify the part of the record they want changed, and specify why it is inaccurate. If the school decides not to amend the record as requested by the parent or eligible student, the school will notify the parent or eligible student of the decision and advise them of their right to a hearing regarding the request for amendment. Additional information regarding the hearing procedures will be provided to the parent or eligible student when notified of the right to a hearing.
(3) The right to consent to disclosures of personally identifiable information contained in the student’s education records, except to the extent that FERPA authorizes disclosure without consent.
One exception, which permits disclosure without consent, is disclosure to school officials with legitimate educational interests.
A school official is a person employed by the school as an administrator, supervisor, instructor, or support staff member (including health or medical staff and law enforcement unit personnel); a person serving on the School Board; a person or company with whom the school has contracted to perform a special task (such as an attorney, auditor, medical consultant, or therapist); or a parent or student serving on an official committee, such as a disciplinary or grievance committee, or assisting another school official in performing his or her tasks.
A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the official needs to review an education record in order to fulfill his or her professional responsibility.
Upon request, the school discloses education records without consent to officials of another school district in which a student seeks or intends to enroll. [Note: FERPA requires a school district to make a reasonable attempt to notify the parent or student of the records request unless it states in its annual notification that it intends to forward records on request.]
(4) The right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by the School District to comply with the requirements of FERPA. The name and address of the Office that administers FERPA are:
Family Policy Compliance Office
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-4605
The District proposes to designate the following personally identifiable information contained in a student’s education record as "directory information"; it discloses that information without prior written consent, except that directory information is not released for a profit-making plan or activity. Such information includes:
1. student’s name
2. names of student’s parents
3. student’s address
4. telephone number(s)
5. student’s date (and place) of birth
6. participation in officially recognized activities and sports, including videotaped programs
7. student’s achievement awards or honors, including videotaped programs
8. student’s weight and height, if a member of an athletic team
9. major field of study
10. dates of attendance ("from and to" dates of enrollment)
11. date of graduation
12. class designation
13. student photo, including videotaped programs
14. previous school attended
Within the first three weeks of each school year, the District publishes the above list, or a revised list, of the items of directory information which it proposes to designate as directory information. For students enrolling after the notice is published, the list is given to the student’s parent(s) or to the eligible student at the time and place of enrollment.
After the parents or eligible students have been notified, they have two weeks in which to advise the District in writing (a letter to the school Superintendent’s office) of any or all of the items which they refuse to permit the District to designate as directory information about that student.
At the end of the two-week period, each student’s records are appropriately marked by the record custodians to indicate the items which the District designates as directory information about that student. This designation remains in effect until it is modified by the written direction of the student’s parent(s) or the eligible student.
Notification of Rights Under the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA)
The Board recognizes the importance of maintaining student records and preserving their confidentiality. Student records containing personally identifiable information are kept confidential at collection, storage, disclosure and destruction stages. Boards that receive funds under any applicable program must provide reasonable notice to parents at least annually at the beginning of the school year that their children may be involved in Board-approved third party surveys. The school must also give the parents the opportunity to opt their child out of the activity. A student shall not be required, as part of any applicable program, to submit to a survey, analysis or evaluation that reveals information concerning:
1.) political affiliations or beliefs of the student or the student’s parent;
2.) mental or psychological problems of the student or the student’s family, "potentially embarrassing to the student or family";
3) sex behavior or attitudes;
4.) illegal, antisocial, self-incriminating or demeaning behavior;
5.) critical appraisals of other individuals with whom respondents have close family relationships;
6.) legally recognized privileged or analogous relationships, such as those of lawyers, physicians and ministers;
7.) religious practices, affiliations or beliefs of the students or student’s parent,
8.)income (other than that required by law to determine eligibility for participation in a program and/or for receiving financial assistance under such program).
Parents have a right to inspect a survey created by a third party before that survey is administered by the school to students. Parents are notified by the school when a survey is to be administered and will have at least two weeks to review the materials.
In order to protect student privacy rights when a school survey is to be administered that contains one of the prohibited eight items identified in this policy, parents have the right to inspect the survey. If parents do not want their child to be a participant in the survey, they must notify the school.
The collection, disclosure or use of student personal information for the purpose of marketing or selling that information, or providing the information to others for that purpose, is prohibited. This does not include personal information collected for the exclusive purpose of developing, evaluating or providing educational products or services for, or to, students or educational institutions such as:
1.) post-secondary institutions or military recruiters;
2.) book clubs, magazines and programs providing access to low-cost literary products;
3.) curriculum and instructional materials used by K-12 schools;
4.) tests and assessments used by grades K-12 to provide cognitive, evaluative, diagnostic, clinical, aptitude or achievement information about students, or to generate other statistically useful data for the purpose of securing these tests and assessments, and the subsequent analysis and public release of the aggregate data from these tests and assessments;
5.) the sale by students of products or services to raise funds for school or education related activities or
6.) student recognition program.
For specific events, the school must notify the parents annually of the projected or approximate dates of the following activities:
1.) the collection, disclosure or use of student personal information for the purpose of marketing or selling that information, or providing the information to others for that purpose;
2.) the administration of a survey containing any of the eight items identified in this policy and
3.) annually, the District will notify parents of physical exams or screenings conducted on students except for vision, hearing or scoliosis.
Parents or eligible students, who believe their rights have been violated, may file a complaint with:
Family Policy Compliance Office
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue SW
Washington, DC 20202-4605 | public_administration |
http://kleinprojects.blogspot.com/2017/ | 2018-06-23T14:06:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267865081.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623132619-20180623152619-00495.warc.gz | 0.975279 | 313 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__143539961 | en | It's been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
Tomorrow we will witness the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th US president. Despite electoral college results and the possibility - or likelihood - of foreign interference in the election, Trump was duly elected. What does this say about the American electorate? American democracy? Or democracy in general?
We tend to view democracy as being election-based. Of course, fair and free elections are integral to democratic forms of government. However democracy means much more then just electoral results. It means that elected officials are accountable to the electorate both before and after the elections, and that elected officials pursue policies that provide the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people. It also means that aware and empowered citizens interact with elected officials and provide essential input to legislation and policy.
Let's not forget that Hitler was democratically elected in 1932. As we know, he used his electoral victory to abolish all semblance of democracy in Germany and beyond. Trump may not be Hitler, but we have seen him embrace intolerance, racism, xenophobia and misogyny. All of these run counter to the principle of providing the greatest good for the electorate.
So forget the Russians, and the electoral college. Let's acknowledge that Trump won the election fair and square. It is incumbent on American citizens to hold their new president accountable, to "hold his feet to the fire," and to ensure that he adheres to democratic values.
Democracy doesn't end when the election is over. It continues. | public_administration |
http://www.costamesaphotography.com/California/OC-Orange-County/Santa-Ana | 2018-10-17T00:03:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583510893.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20181016221847-20181017003347-00123.warc.gz | 0.967401 | 195 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__25379343 | en | As reported by the L.A. Times on March 18th, 1985, Carl Thornton Park, having been declared the best-designed neighborhood park in California, was dedicated in a ceremony attended by the widow and daughter of the late city manager after whom the park is named. Thornton was city manager from 1951 to 1972.
The history of this 30-acre park, located in Santa Ana on Segerstrom Avenue goes back to the early 60s when the city purchased a 35-acre parcel at Raitt Street and Segerstrom Avenue. Original plans called for Santa Ana Stadium to be built on the site. After officials decided to build the stadium in the Civic Center area instead, and due to unstable subsoil conditions, the land developed into a marsh and lay vacant for 10 years, used only as a landfill.
The park now features a two-acre lake stocked with fish, multiple field areas for recreation, a child playground, and wildlife trail featuring various habitats | public_administration |
http://michielwillems.blogspot.com/2011/08/ebay-liable-for-your-fake-gucci-or.html | 2018-05-22T02:27:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864622.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522014949-20180522034949-00297.warc.gz | 0.955534 | 158 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__26960207 | en | The Court of Justice for the EU also said that under European law operators of online marketplaces can be ordered by national courts to take measures to prevent counterfeit goods being sold on their sites. This means courts in the UK, Germany, France, Italy or other European Union countries can step in and obstruct the sale of fake bags, scarfs, clothes, shoes and other common luxury goods.
Kirsten Gilbert, a partner at the London law firm Marks & Clerk, said in a response: "EU trade mark law has been straining under the pressure of dealing with the internet age. The rise of online commerce has created a host of scenarios never envisaged when our laws were drafted. Today's ruling will give national courts guidance on how to approach just one of these scenarios”. | public_administration |
https://neattas.edublogs.org/category/apta/ | 2020-04-08T01:10:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371807538.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20200408010207-20200408040707-00014.warc.gz | 0.916988 | 132 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__47110047 | en | A message from the Education Council Secretariat:
Level 3, 15-31 Pelham Street,
Carlton South, VIC 3053
Following the public written submission process and consultation events held across Australia on the Review of the Melbourne Declaration, an Exposure draft of the Declaration on Education Goals has been developed and we are now seeking final input from stakeholders about the goals and aspirations for educating Australians into the future.
To view the draft Declaration and provide any final feedback, please visit the Education Council website at www.reviewmelbournedeclaration.edu.au. Feedback on the draft Declaration is sought by 5pm AEST 25 October 2019. | public_administration |
https://nevadatransitionconference.wordpress.com/ | 2020-08-13T16:42:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439739048.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20200813161908-20200813191908-00281.warc.gz | 0.930433 | 533 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__143715358 | en | The Nevada Department of Education holds inaugural transition conference
Carson City, Nevada – The Nevada Department of Education is collaborating with the Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities to hold the First Annual Nevada Transition Conference on October 4th and 5th in Las Vegas. The theme of this year’s inaugural conference is Youth in Transition – The Pathway to Success. The conference brings over 300 educators, adult service providers, and parents together from across the state to discuss current trends and best practices to help Nevada students with disabilities successfully transition from high school to employment or post-secondary education.
“Secondary transition is an important stage of the education process for all high school students, but our students with disabilities face unique challenges that require additional support during high school and after graduation,” says Superintendent of Public Instruction Dale Erquiaga. “This conference provides a valuable networking and professional development opportunity that will allow us to better meet the needs of Nevada’s students with disabilities.”
The conference will include nationally recognized speakers and leaders as well as state and local experts. Keynote speaker LeDerick Horne is a nationally recognized motivational speaker and advocate for people with disabilities. Other confirmed national speakers include:
· Mary Morningstar – Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of Kansas and Director of the Transition Coalition, which offers online transition professional development and resources for secondary special educators and practitioners;
· Ed O’Leary – Program Specialist for Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center, a U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs funded project that helps build the capacity of State Education Agencies in improving programs and services for youth with disabilities;
· Stephan Smith – Executive Director of the Association on Higher Education and Disability in Charlotte, North Carolina;
· Larry Kortering – Professor of Special Education at Appalachian State University, with extensive experience with secondary special education programs, school dropout issues, and transition;
· Curtis Richards – Senior Fellow, Center for Workforce Development at the Institute for Educational Leadership and previous Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in the U.S. Department of Education;
· Mindy Larson – Senior Program Associate, Center for Workforce Development at the Institute for Educational Leadership; and
· Jennifer Cease-Cook – graduate assistant working on the National Secondary Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC) grant at University of North Caroline at Charlotte (UNCC), and a doctoral student in the Department of Special Education and Child Development at UNCC, specializing in transition focused education and services.
For more information, go to the Nevada Transition Conference homepage. | public_administration |
https://football.zululion.com/bald-eagle-rescued-from-new-jersey-electrical-tower-after-its-wing-was-stuck-for-five-hours/ | 2023-09-27T15:28:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510300.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927135227-20230927165227-00538.warc.gz | 0.971544 | 391 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__152360574 | en | The bird’s left wing was stuck on an ice shield off the side of the tower
A rescue team spent hours helping a bald eagle that got itself caught on an electrical tower.
Police in Monmouth County, New Jersey, were notified by local bird watcher Blake Bohinc that a large bird appeared to be stuck on a communications tower.
The Monmouth County Police then contacted radio communications supervisor Jonathon Gregory and the SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) for further help.
The two were able to coordinate climbers affiliated with the New Jersey Task Force 1, Monmouth County OEM (Office of Emergency Management) and Oceanport OEM to rescue the bird from the tower.
After five hours, the bald eagle, whose left wing was stuck on the ice shield of the public safety communications tower, was freed.
The Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office shared more information about the rescue on Facebook — noting that the collaboration within the community made a tremendous difference in the bird’s rescue efforts.
A bald eagle was rescued from a public safety communications tower in New Jersey after getting stuck in the tower’s ice shield.
Monmouth County Police Sheriff Shaun Golden was mentioned in the social media post — and said he appreciated the combined effort from people and groups in the community.
“Each person and agency involved played an important role in bringing this helpless bird to safety,” he said, as quoted in the Sheriff’s Office Facebook post.
After five hours, the bald eagle was rescued by tower climbers and taken to a rehab center.
The bird was later taken to a rehab specialist in Toms River, New Jersey.
It is said to be doing well now.
“The rescue was a huge effort made by many who were determined to bring the bald eagle to safety,” the sheriff’s office Facebook post also noted. | public_administration |
https://hawaiijewelersassociation.com/hja-is-in-constant-communication-with-the-honolulu-police-department-regarding-any-crimes-that-we-gain-knowledge-about/ | 2023-09-30T09:18:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510671.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20230930082033-20230930112033-00261.warc.gz | 0.945421 | 164 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__122969901 | en | HJA is in constant communication with the Honolulu Police Department regarding any crimes that we gain knowledge about.
We have been in collaboration with HPD to discuss the recent increase in local burglaries in order to keep our businesses and community informed.
"The Honolulu Police Department encourages any persons, or entities that are the victims of crimes to report these incidents immediately. At present we have not identified any patterns indicating a significant rise in crimes perpetrated against jewelry retail establishments, but if these types of crimes are going unreported we may not be able to focus the appropriate resources to address these problems. It is the Honolulu Police Department’s policy to not disclose specifics of a crime outside of departmental channels unless it is with the consent of the business owner."
Honolulu Police Department
Criminal Investigation Division | public_administration |
https://red-button.org/new-worksheet-makes-calculating-child-support-easier-for-new-mexico-parents/ | 2023-09-27T05:58:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510259.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927035329-20230927065329-00311.warc.gz | 0.961858 | 332 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__119906501 | en | New Mexico parents now have an easier way to calculate child support payments. The New Mexico Child Support Enforcement Division (CSED) recently released a new worksheet to help parents determine the amount of child support they should pay or receive.
The new worksheet is designed to make the process of calculating child support simpler and more accurate. It takes into account a variety of factors, including the parents’ incomes, the number of children, and the cost of health insurance. It also includes a section for special expenses, such as daycare or extracurricular activities.
The worksheet is available online and can be filled out by either parent. Once completed, the worksheet can be submitted to the CSED for review and approval. The CSED will then issue an official child support order, which will be legally binding.
The new worksheet is a welcome addition for New Mexico parents. It makes the process of calculating child support easier and more accurate, which can help ensure that children receive the financial support they need. It also helps to reduce the amount of time and money spent on legal fees, as parents can now calculate child support payments on their own.
The new worksheet is just one of the many ways the CSED is working to make the process of calculating child support easier for New Mexico parents. The CSED also offers a variety of other services, such as assistance with locating a non-custodial parent, establishing paternity, and enforcing child support orders.
For more information about the new worksheet or other services offered by the CSED, visit their website at www.csed.state.nm.us. | public_administration |
https://claner.es/en/2022/11/09/claner-en-el-wd-summit-2022/ | 2023-12-09T08:17:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100873.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209071722-20231209101722-00689.warc.gz | 0.926065 | 357 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__21573941 | en | 09 Nov CLANER at the WD summit 2022
On 26 October 2022, the WD Summit 2022 took place, a meeting organised by WomANDigital, part of the Digital Agency of Andalusia.
Below you have the recording of the event. Our president Mr. Alfonso Vargas participated in it, you can see his intervention in the event from the time 2:49:00.
The Andalusian Renewable Energy Association (CLANER), with more than 20 years of experience, is a group of companies, official bodies, technology and research centres, universities and public foundations, among other agents.
Its aims include the representation and defence of the Andalusian renewable energy and energy efficiency sector, as well as the promotion and encouragement of research, technological development and innovation of products, processes and services associated with this field through collaboration and cooperation between the members of the cluster in order to strengthen the competitiveness of Andalusian companies in the clean energy sector.
The members of the association, which currently has more than 140 member entities and represents more than 90 percent of the Andalusian renewable energy sector, include Andalucía Tech, the Energy, Environmental and Technological Research Centre (CIEMAT), part of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, the University of Jaén, the Pablo Olavide University in Seville, the Descubre Foundation, municipal and provincial energy agencies, as well as the main renewable energy companies in Spain and the electricity company Endesa Distribución.
Original event post at WD Summit 2022
For further information or to arrange interviews with CLANER management, please contact the Communications Department on 676 46 57 00; 951 910 401 or [email protected] | public_administration |
https://www.scudderfallsbridge.com/archaeological-dig-set-to-begin-at-pennsylvania-side-of-scudder-falls-replacement-bridge/ | 2022-11-26T18:54:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446708046.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20221126180719-20221126210719-00085.warc.gz | 0.938488 | 1,367 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__56700386 | en | LOWER MAKEFIELD, PA – Archaeologists working for the Delaware River Joint Toll
Bridge Commission are set to begin excavation work next week in the vicinity of the Pennsylvania landfall location for a new bridge structure that will replace the current Scudder Falls Bridge, which carries I-95 across the Delaware River between Bucks County, PA. and Mercer County, N.J.
The archaeological team will seek to recover and catalogue Native American artifacts, some of which could date back to between 8,000 and 10,000 B.C.
Up to 12 archaeologists and other scientists will be working at the site, which is located slightly north of the current Scudder Falls Bridge. The archaeologists are employees of AECOM, the project’s design management consultant. The excavation at the Pennsylvania location will be more expansive than a similar AECOM archaeological dig that was completed earlier this year in the vicinity of the I-95/Route 29 interchange in New Jersey.
“We’re really excited about this dig getting underway,” said Frank G. McCartney, the Commission’s executive director. “There is a remote possibility of recovering and permanently preserving Native American artifacts that could date back to the time when Native Americans first paddled the waters of the Delaware River. This is just the latest in a series of mitigation measures the Commission is undertaking in preparation for actual construction activities on the I-95/Scudder Falls Bridge Improvement Project.”
Standard archaeological excavation methods will be employed, requiring all soil to be dug by hand with shovels and trowels and passed through screens to recover artifacts. The excavation work will extend to as much as 14 feet deep, the depth of the potential impacts of the replacement bridge piers at the site. The artifacts recovered from the archaeological dig will be taken to a laboratory where they will be cleaned and cataloged before being stored with the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.
AECOM’s prior archaeological dig in Ewing, N.J. discovered a possible pre-historic hearth, evidence of tool-making, and evidence the site may have been occupied as long ago as 2,000 B.C. Artifacts from that dig will be provided to the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton.
The two excavations are part of $1.1 million worth of archaeological activities the Commission is funding in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act and at the request of New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Scudder Falls Bridge project consultants previously determined that further archaeological work at the two sites was warranted following archaeological testing that occurred in 2004, 2005, and 2009. Items recovered during the testing phase included pottery shards and projectile points.
Archaeologists determined that dig locations are at a geographically significant point in the river because it is an ecotone location, the broad area upstream from where the river ceases to be tidal. Such sites were attractive to Native Americans because ecotones contained a greater variety of diverse food resources in a concentrated area. In addition to the archaeological dig and recovery, scientists such as geomorphologists and palynologists will work to determine the time when the site was occupied and what the environmental conditions at the site were at the time.
The Scudder Falls Bridge project will be the Commission’s largest single capital initiative in its 76 year history, with a current estimated project cost of $322 million. The project is part of the Commission’s comprehensive $1.2 billion capital improvement program enabling the agency to refurbish, expand and modernize its 20 Delaware River bridges and other facilities.
“The Commission’s motto is ‘Preserving Our Past, Enhancing Our Future,’ and the Scudder Falls Bridge project certainly is in keeping with those words,” said McCartney. “This archaeological dig promises to recover and preserve Native American artifacts that could date back dozens of centuries as we continue to move forward in preparing for the construction of a new river crossing that will better serve the region’s growing transportation needs.”
Congestion on the bridge results in average delays for motorists of 27 minutes per day and traffic is projected to rise an additional 35 percent — to 77,500 vehicles per day – by the year 2030. The project area extends 4.4 miles along I-95 from PA Route 332 in Bucks County, PA to Bear Tavern Road in Mercer County, N.J. The project includes replacement of the existing functionally obsolete four-lane Scudder Falls Bridge with new twin structures — one on the upstream side of the existing bridge and the other overlapping the current bridge’s footprint.
The new structures will have six lanes of through traffic (three in each direction) with two auxiliary northbound lanes for entry/exit travel and one auxiliary southbound lane entry/exit travel. The project calls for full inside and outside roadway shoulders on the bridge crossing to handle breakdowns and emergencies. The inside shoulder also would have the capacity to serve proposed bus/rapid transit routes. Last year, the Commission responded to public requests and approved the inclusion of a bicycle/pedestrian walkway on the new bridge.
The project will include the reconfiguration of the Taylorsville Road interchange on the bridge’s Pennsylvania side and the reconstruction and reconfiguration of the Route 29 interchange through the use of roundabouts. The project also will include an inside widening of I-95 in Pennsylvania in the project area and the installation of noise-abatement walls at multiple locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
A “cashless tolling” system in the southbound direction will be used to collect revenues to help pay for the project, averting the need for conventional cash toll booths.
For more information, please visit the project website at www.scudderfallsbridge.com.
About the Commission
The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission was formed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey in 1934. It operates seven toll bridges and 13 toll-supported bridges, two of which are pedestrian-only spans. The Commission is a self-supporting public-service agency that receives neither federal nor state tax dollars to finance its projects or operations. Funding for the operations, maintenance and upkeep of its bridges and related transportation facilities is solely derived from revenues collected at its toll bridges. The Commission’s jurisdiction extends along the Delaware River from the Philadelphia-Bucks County line north to the New Jersey/New York border. The bridges carried more than 139 million cars and trucks in 2010. For more information about the Commission and its various initiatives to deliver safer and more convenient bridge travel for its customers, please see: www.drjtbc.org. | public_administration |
https://www.arcadiamediatica.com/libro/urban-street-stormwater-guide_32964 | 2023-12-04T13:04:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100529.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204115419-20231204145419-00465.warc.gz | 0.91433 | 535 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__264344621 | en | The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) and the Global Designing Cities Initiative recently announced the launch of the Global Street Design Guide as a globally accessible document that can be downloaded at no cost, allowing urban planners, designers and transportation practitioners in cities around the world to immediately implement tested and life-saving street designs. The worldwide release of the guide, made possible by the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety, will also soon include translations into Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin and other languages making the guide even more accessible. The launch comes as 29 cities and 15 organizations—including London, Buenos Aires, Sydney, Addis Ababa and Toronto—have endorsed the guide as a new standard for transforming streets to prioritize safety, pedestrians, transit and sustainable mobility.
Streets make up more than 80 percent of all public space in cities, yet street space is often underutilized or disproportionately allocated to the movement of private motor vehicles. Excess impervious surface contributes to stormwater runoff, posing a threat to the environment and human health, and often overwhelming sewer systems. This excess asphalt also poses a threat to public safety, encouraging faster speeds and dangerous conditions for people walking and biking.
The Urban Street Stormwater Guide begins from the principle that street design can supportor degradethe urban areas overall environmental health. By incorporating Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) into the right-of-way, cities can manage stormwater and reap the public health, environmental, and aesthetic benefits of street trees, planters, and greenery in the public realm. With thoughtful design, GSI can bolster strategies to provide a safe and pleasant walking and biking experience, efficient and reliable transit service, and safer streets for all users.
Building on the successful NACTO urban street guides, the Urban Street Stormwater Guide provides the best practices for the design of GSI along transportation corridors. The authors consider context-sensitive design elements related to street design, character and use, zoning, posted speed, traffic volumes, and impacts to non-motorized and vehicular access. The Guide documents and synthesizes current practices being developed by individual agencies and recommends design guidance for implementation, as well as explores innovative new strategies being tested in cities nationwide. The guidance will focus on providing safe, functioning and maintainable infrastructure that meets the unique needs and requirements of the transportation corridors and its various uses and users.
The state-of-the-art solutions in this guide will assist urban planners and designers, transportation engineers, city officials, ecologists, public works officials, and others interested in the role of the built urban landscape in protecting the climate, water quality, and natural environment. | public_administration |
https://training.hh.ucla.edu/program/preventing-workplace-discrimination-sexual-violence-sexual-harassment/ | 2023-09-29T23:58:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510529.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929222230-20230930012230-00438.warc.gz | 0.930941 | 124 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__47983239 | en | This training is for new and current UCLA managers, supervisors and staff. It covers a range of equal employment opportunity issues under civil rights statutes, including Title VII and Title IX.
Participants explore scenarios and discuss best practices in ensuring a respectful work environment.
These two-hour workshops qualify for AB 1825, thus any team members who attends this training will not need to take the online version of this training.
All team members are required to renew this training every two years.
*Team members who have completed UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Prevention Training for Staff will not be required to complete this training. | public_administration |
https://www.crpa.net/athletics/cherokee-invitational/ | 2019-11-14T20:01:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496668534.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20191114182304-20191114210304-00353.warc.gz | 0.939776 | 140 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__16002186 | en | Cherokee Recreation & Parks Agency is the host site of the GHSA sanctioned Cherokee Invitational. Since 1990 some of the best high school softball teams in Georgia have competed right here in Cherokee County. Over the years this tournament has produced teams that have went on to be crowned state champions or state runner-ups. In 2015 the tournament format changed and allowed for Junior Varsity teams to play in their own tournament. The tournament is played at Twin Creeks Softball Complex and Hobgood Park in September. The registration form can be found on this page under resources. For more information regarding this tournament please contact Shawn Schumacher at [email protected]. | public_administration |
https://courtformsonline.com/consumer/ | 2022-08-18T23:50:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00324.warc.gz | 0.922589 | 351 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__34430684 | en | Use this form to tell the court that you need an interpreter for court hearings if you do not speak English.
This form is not directly filed with the court.
This cover sheet must be filed in each civil case entered into Superior Court. The purpose is to assist the Clerk’s office by providing basic contact information for the parties, the case category, an estimation of how long the case will take, statement of damages and related cases pending in the Superior Court.
Unlike other forms found on this site, this form is not yet intended for direct filing with the Massachusetts Trial Court. It is not yet an approved court form. It will help you produce a document you can download and file on your own.
This form helps a child support obligor (a parent who has been asked to pay child support) get help if the Department of Revenue
This form is not directly filed with the court or the Department of Revenue.
The public can call the Helpline to ask general questions about their civil and criminal cases and help them navigate the court system while the court system remains closed to the public except for emergency matters. The Helpline will be staffed from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
For emergency matters, court users should first call their local court Clerk's or Register's Offices. Contact numbers for individual courts and offices can be found online on the Courthouse Locator page. Emergency matters include: emergency protection and harassment prevention orders; arraignments of new arrests; bail reviews; dangerousness hearings; mental health commitment orders; care and protection orders; and other matters. Each department of the Trial Court issued Standing Orders that contain full lists of emergency matters. | public_administration |
http://107.170.216.239/about/ | 2020-02-28T09:21:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875147116.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20200228073640-20200228103640-00187.warc.gz | 0.978457 | 379 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__161461990 | en | State Senator Janet Nguyen was elected to represent the 34th district in 2014. Formerly, Janet was a small business owner and Orange County Supervisor. She is former Vice-President of Government and Public Affairs for the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.
Janet is known for her “firsts.” She is the first Vietnamese-American elected to the State Senate, was the first woman Supervisor to represent the First District, the first Asian-American and the first Vietnamese-American to serve on the Board of Supervisors, as well as the youngest Supervisor elected in Orange County history. In addition, Senator Nguyen is the highest ranking Vietnamese-American elected official in California and the highest ranking Vietnamese-American woman elected official in the United States.
Janet Nguyen previously served on the Garden Grove City Council where she was the first woman Councilmember elected in nearly 35 years and the youngest member ever elected.
She was awarded the We Give Thanks 2004 Women of Vision Award, which recognizes outstanding women who have provided exceptional services to the community. Nguyen was also named to the Class of 2008 Latino OC 100 for her work with the Latino community, and was awarded the 2008 St. Anselm’s Cultural Diversity Award. In addition, the Orange County Register has listed her as one of the “30 Vietnamese-Americans to Watch” and she was named one of OC Metro Magazine 2006 “25 Hottest People” in Orange County for her demonstrated leadership and influence in Southern California.
Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Janet Nguyen and her family escaped their homeland on a small wooden 10-meter boat sailing across the South China Sea in search of freedom. After passing through numerous refugee camps, Janet and her family arrived in California in 1981. She is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine. She resides in Garden Grove with her husband, Tom and two sons. | public_administration |
https://img-advisors.com/organizational-performance | 2024-04-16T05:08:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00852.warc.gz | 0.911425 | 248 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__97670857 | en | If your organization could use a governance framework which protects the integrity of your organization, IMG offers policy driven governance framework development and implementation consulting.
Successful policy frameworks can establish the set of guidelines for your organization to follow in order to make decisions in line with the enterprise strategy and provide easy internal dispute resolution while reaching for IT-related goals and enabler goals.
Whether it is a policy driven governance framework needed to support organizational growth, resolve an internal dispute, or there is an accountability related issue within your enterprise, let IMG’s policy consultation services provide their professional recommendation.
IMG can apply industry specific standards tailored to your organization and provide implementation assistance. This includes frameworks such as NIST 800-53, COBIT, or even SAFe 5.0.
Ongoing governance mechanisms based on your organizational structure can be developed depending on your overall growth strategy.
IMG has the ability to apply contemporary academic policy development theories to customize a governance framework for your organization and drive performance enhancement.
To help guide you further in addressing your organization’s specific needs, schedule a free consulting call today! Our knowledgeable policy consultation services are able to meet your needs, no matter the size of the project. | public_administration |
https://myottawaagent.com/canada-emergency-commercial-rent-assistance-program/ | 2024-02-21T22:11:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473558.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221202132-20240221232132-00235.warc.gz | 0.964566 | 344 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__122122535 | en | Retail businesses affected by the pandemic have received some positive news.
Some rent relief is on the way for retail businesses. The retail sector has been hit especially hard as a result of forced closures. It’s imperative that these companies are given the chance to ride out this crisis and have a proper chance to recover when the all-clear is given.
If you haven’t had a chance to learn about this program directly from the government read the quote below and click here:
“We reached an agreement in principle with all provinces and territories to implement the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA) for small businesses. This program will lower rent by 75 per cent for small businesses that have been affected by COVID-19.
The program will provide forgivable loans to qualifying commercial property owners to cover 50% of three monthly rent payments that are payable by eligible small business tenants who are experiencing financial hardship during April, May, and June.
The loans will be forgiven if the mortgaged property owner agrees to reduce the small business tenants’ rent by at least 75% under a rent forgiveness agreement, which will include a term not to evict the tenant while the agreement is in place. The small business tenant would cover the remainder, up to 25% of the rent.
Impacted small business tenants are businesses paying less than $50,000 per month in rent and who have temporarily ceased operations or have experienced at least a 70% drop in pre-COVID revenues. This support will also be available to non-profit and charitable organizations.
It is expected that CECRA will be operational by mid-May, and further details will be announced soon.” | public_administration |
http://haryanatourism.gov.in/showpage.aspx?contentid=5033&lang=English | 2017-05-24T02:22:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607731.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20170524020456-20170524040456-00498.warc.gz | 0.939156 | 278 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__56051894 | en | Haryana Tourism Corporation was incorporated as a Public Limited Company under the Companies Act, 1956 on 1.5.1974. The registered office of the Corporation is located at S.C.O. 17-18-19, Sector 17-B, Chandigarh. It was incorporated with an authorized capital of Rs.5.00 Crore but as on date, the authorized Share Capital is Rs.25.00 crores divided into 25 lakh equity shares of Rs.100/- each. As per orders of the Haryana Government at the time of incorporation of the company, the main features of the Corporation were as under :-
- The Corporation will be directly responsible for the running and maintenance of the commercial units namely Restaurant, Bars, Liquor Vends, Tourist taxis, Petrol Pumps, Swimming Pool, Health Club, Golf Club, Lakes, boating, etc.
- The Corporation will manage non-commercial units as an agent of the State Government. Non-Commercial units will mean tourist bungalows/huts/ motels/ rest houses and other such establishments.
The Corporation is responsible to issue equity share capital equivalent to the market value of assessed projects taken over from the State from time to time.
Rules and functioning of the Corporation have been described in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of Haryana Tourism Corporation. | public_administration |
http://eplerwood.com/index.php | 2019-03-19T17:48:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202003.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20190319163636-20190319185636-00298.warc.gz | 0.894141 | 116 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__166759874 | en | This research of the International Sustainable Tourism Initiative
from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will provide a science-based set of measures for destinations to manage their GhG emissions and the unaccounted-for costs of tourism growth.
Data gathered confirmed that the ISTI Framework can provide a standardized measurement system to local authorities seeking to achieve efficient destination economies, measure progress on meeting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and evaluate the investment required to protect valuable natural and social capital. Primary research took place in Tunisia, on Djerba Island with the support of GIZ | public_administration |
http://www.samaritanhouse.net/familygroupconferencing.htm | 2013-05-18T11:33:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.952344 | 164 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__191933737 | en | |Family Group Conferencing|
|The Family Group Conference is a formal gathering
of extended family and community supports to discuss privately and with Child and Family Services, a plan for the safety and care of their children.
The project has had its offices at Samaritan House for the past seven years, providing support to families who are working to provide a safe environment for their children.
The Family Group Conference Project is funded by Manitoba Family Services and Housing Strategic Initiatives Program.
These partners form a community advisory group responsible for supervising the project, deciding on funding requests specific to family plans, and overseeing the operation of the program in our community and ensuring that it responds to the needs of those it serves.
Please contact us at:
Family Group Conference Coordinator [email protected] | public_administration |
http://www.casinopeople.com/news/online-gambling-moves-forward-in-new-jersey.html | 2013-05-23T16:54:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703592489/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112632-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.939044 | 473 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__200810677 | en | Online gambling legislation in New Jersey is moving ahead at a fast pace. In April the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee passed some online gambling legislation, and the New Jersey State Assembly has now passed a similar bill.
A number of lawmakers and gambling industry leaders in New Jersey feel it is extremely important that their state be the first to legalize online gambling, especially ahead of some of the competition, such as Nevada, Iowa, and California.
Brick and mortar casinos in Atlantic City are operating at greatly reduced incomes at this time, having shown much reduced revenue over the past three years, at least in 35 months out of the 36 months. Senator Ray Lesniak is amongst a number of other lawmakers who feel that legalizing online gambling in New Jersey will save the ailing land based industry.
Robert Griffin, the president of the Casino Association of New Jersey, read a prepared statement that noted that the Casino Association of New Jersey "strongly supports" online wagering, as long as it comes with the protection of consumers. The statement noted that the current pending legislation fulfills the objectives of the Casino Association. He explained that the Atlantic City casinos will be strengthened if the current online gambling bill is passed into law. The statement also noted that the state of New Jersey would also benefit because of increased taxation revenue, rather than the "profits and jobs to go illegally overseas." Robert Griffin has urged the New Jersey lawmakers to consider this and to pass the current online gambling bill, bearing in mind that the current proposal for online betting will be more profitable for the state than the current accepted forms of wagering.
Apart from taxation, there will be licensing fees collected from the online casinos and other online gambling sites, should online gambling be legalized in New Jersey. The first year of operations will come with a licensing fee of $200,000, and the licensing renewal cost for the next year will be set at $100,000. These licensing fees would send funds in the direction of programs to aid those with gambling problems.
New York state might soon be opening seven land based casinos. Should this take place, it will further affect the Atlantic City brick and mortar casinos in a negative way, taking even more potential customers away from the Atlantic City casinos.
The main objections to the new online gambling legislation comes from those involved in the ailing horseracing sector. | public_administration |
http://www.geonetcastamericas.noaa.gov/ | 2016-02-06T13:18:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701146550.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193906-00242-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.891274 | 532 | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-07__0__3909691 | en | What is GEONETCast Americas?
GEONETCast Americas is the Western Hemisphere component of GEONETCast, a near real time, global network of satellite-based data dissemination systems designed to distribute space-based, air-borne and in situ data, metadata and products to diverse communities.
This user-driven, user-friendly and low-cost information dissemination service aims to provide global information as a basis for sound decision-making in a number of critical areas, including public health, energy, agriculture, weather, water, climate, natural disasters and eco-systems. Accessing and sharing such a range of vital data will yield societal benefits through improved human health and well-being, environment management and economic growth.
GEONETCast receiving technology is based on using widespread and off-the-shelf components allowing for widespread adoption of the service at low cost. An entire receiving station can be purchased and installed for $2,000–3,000.
GEONETCast is led by three regional infrastructure providers: EUMETSAT in Europe (EUMETCAST), Chinese Meteorological Administration (CMA)in the Asia-Pacific region (FengYunCast), and NOAA in the Western Hemisphere (GEONETCast Americas).
GEONETCast is part of the Group on Earth Observation’s contribution to the organization of the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS)
In 2007, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a commercial services contract to enable expansion of GEONETCast into the Americas, and the service went operational in early 2008. Easy to-use, low-cost receiving stations will be operational in over 10 Western Hemisphere countries by 2009.
To better serve you, please visit NOAA's Satellite Ground Station Customer Questionnaire and register your contact information. While not required, registering will allow NOAA to keep you informed of any updates that are occurring with GEONETCast Americas.
Register with NOAA
GEONETCast Americas is a contribution from the United States National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration whose goal is to enable enhanced
dissemination, application, and exploitation of environmental data and
products for the diverse societal benefits defined by the Group on
Earth Observations (GEO), including agriculture, energy, health,
climate, weather, disaster mitigation, biodiversity, water resources, and ecosystems.
GEONETCast Americas Announcement of Opportunity for Providers and Users
(English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese)
GEOSS in the Americas Symposium 2008
September 30 - October 3 | public_administration |
http://careertrainingconcepts.com/elp | 2021-05-18T11:35:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243989819.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20210518094809-20210518124809-00193.warc.gz | 0.938662 | 151 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__595217 | en | The eduCONNECT™ Program acts as a bridge between the Army National Guard and our country’s secondary and post-secondary educational institutions.
Our eduCONNECT™ representatives assist the National Guard with its community service mission by promoting education and life skills workshops to high schools, technical schools, colleges and youth-oriented agencies.
The eduCONNECT™ Program's goal is to help today’s youth have a better sense of who they are, what they want to do, and how to achieve success.
These education and life skills programs are provided at no cost to schools as they are sponsored and funded by the National Guard.
For more information, please contact your state’s eduCONNECT™ representative. | public_administration |
https://www.alexander-cleaver.com/practice-areas/administrative-law-and-alcoholic-beverage-licensing/ | 2023-09-28T21:51:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510454.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928194838-20230928224838-00701.warc.gz | 0.938917 | 982 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__36646932 | en | Administrative Law and Alcoholic Beverage Licensing
Administrative law is comprised of the rules, regulations, and laws of state and federal regulatory agencies. Violations or non-compliance with rules, regulations and laws enforced by administrative agencies are extremely serious. In addition to very hefty fines, suspension or revocation of licenses are a real possibility. Accordingly, it is vitally important that individuals and businesses understand how they are regulated by these agencies. Compliance can be extremely complex. Alexander & Cleaver has been pleased to represent individuals, professionals, and businesses throughout Maryland in matters before administrative agencies in licensing, disciplinary, and compliance matters. Navigating the numerous laws and regulations in administrative matters can be daunting for the uninformed and unrepresented. Non-compliance can close a business, or cost an individual their livelihood. Our firm understands the seriousness of these matters and become partners with our clients in pursuit of a favorable outcome.
Collectively, our attorneys have over eighty (80) years of experience handling these matters, representing countless businesses, individuals, and licensed professionals before various regulatory boards and commissions.
WE HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF REPRESENTING INDIVIDUALS IN LICENSING AND COMPLIANCE MATTERS
Our representation of individuals in administrative matters is extensive. Many of us require licensing by an agency before we can engage in an occupation. These include, but are not limited to, medical providers, home improvement contractors, physical therapists, pharmacists, and commercial drivers, just to name a few. A license is personal to the individual, and any violation could lead to the inability to engage in your chosen profession. We have a history of representing medical providers for alleged violations of regulations applicable to their practice. Likewise, our attorneys have also represented pharmacists and physical therapists before regulatory bodies for alleged violations. Many of these cases can be resolved favorably without a full hearing before the applicable board. We have been able to get positive results at the Case Resolution Conference stage of the process with our clients, which saves our clients’ money in legal fees and potential fines. Our successes also extend to the hearing stage, as we have represented many in these complex matters. If you run into difficulty before an administrative agency, we have the knowledge and experience to assist you in protecting your livelihood.
Our representation extends to enforcing individuals’ claims against licensed professionals for inadequate service. Many are victims of substandard or incomplete home improvement work. We have represented many individuals against home improvement contractors before the Maryland Home Improvement Commission. Pursuit of these claims in this manner, as opposed to filing a lawsuit, is more cost effective and increase the likelihood of making a recovery due to the Guaranty Fund administered by the Commission for these types of cases.
OUR REPRESENTATION OF BUSINESSES IN ADMINISTRATIVE AND REGULATORY MATTERS IS CONSIDERABLE
Our attorneys have over six decades of experience representing hundreds of businesses in alcoholic beverage licensing matters in several counties Maryland. These include restaurants, hotels, liquor stores, and clubs. Our representation includes applications for new licenses, transfer of licenses, transfer of location applications, defending alleged violations, and substitution of officer applications. In addition, in the rare circumstance we are unsuccessful before the liquor board, we have experience in appealing decisions to the appropriate courts. Currently, attorney Jason DeLoach serves as counsel to the Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners (Liquor Board), which administers and enforces the alcoholic beverage laws of the State of Maryland, and the Board’s Rules and Regulations. Jason also currently represents one of the largest chain drugstores in the nation with its alcoholic beverage licensing issues in Maryland.
- Alcoholic Beverage Licensing and Compliance
- Zoning and Development
- Professional Licensing Matters
- Professional Disciplinary Representation
Our attorneys have experience in quasi-judicial matters before the following administrative bodies and others:
- Maryland Insurance Administration
- Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA)
- Public College and University: Suspension and Expulsion Hearings
- Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation
- Maryland Board of Physicians
- Maryland Board of Nursing
- Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners
- Maryland Department of Social Services (DSS)
- Maryland State Board of Dental Examiners
- Maryland Board of Pharmacy
- Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE)
- Maryland Department of Health and Human Services
- Maryland Home Improvement Commission
Each legal matter has its own unique set of facts, and our decades of experience in these matters give comfort to our clients that they are receiving the best possible representation. Please contact us at 301-292-3300, or toll free at 1-800-292-5297, for a consultation to see how we can partner with you on your legal issue. | public_administration |
https://ctssnet.net/ariel-compressors-to-power-two-miami-cng-stations/ | 2023-05-29T16:04:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644867.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529141542-20230529171542-00649.warc.gz | 0.934578 | 379 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__202132925 | en | Love’s Trillium CNG has received a 10-year, more than US$330 million contract to build two public-access compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations for the Miami-Dade Transit in southern Florida.
Each station, which can support 250 CNG-powered buses, will use three Ariel electric-driven, multi-stage reciprocating compressors. The 600 to 700 hp (447 to 522 kW) compressors will be arranged on three skids with space for a fourth.
Each station will be capable of dispensing up to 10,000 cfm (283 m3/min). Based on the contract, the stations, the only ones in the Miami-Dade county, are required to dispense a minimum of 20% renewal natural gas.
The contract also calls for Trillium CNG to provide 300 CNG buses for the county’s public transportation system throughout this year and 2018. Trillium has contracted with New Flyer of America Inc., a subsidiary of New Flyer Industries Inc., to provide the buses, which will be New Flyer’s 40 ft. (12.2 m) Xcelsior CNG buses. More CNG buses may be added in the future, according to Trillium CNG.
Trillium CNG will also be responsible for CNG-related updates to existing transit infrastructure, as well as new fueling buildings, bus washes, and a 10-year operation and maintenance pact, according to Love’s.
The stations are set to open in 2018. Construction of the first station, 3300 N.W. 32nd Ave., is to start and finish this year and open in early 2018. The second CNG station, 2775 S.W. 74th Ave, is to open in the summer of 2018. | public_administration |
https://showlow.municipal.codes/Code/11.20.080 | 2021-05-12T04:01:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991252.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20210512035557-20210512065557-00112.warc.gz | 0.920057 | 190 | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__129246340 | en | (A) Upon collection of reimbursement amounts pursuant to any special public improvements ordered under Section 11.20.050 which are located in a municipal improvement district and financed by assessments, such funds shall be deposited with administrative services. The funds shall be applied against the outstanding indebtedness for which improvement district bonds were issued.
(B) Reimbursements for special public improvements pursuant to Section 11.20.050 may be used in combination with a general obligation bond issue; provided, that the general obligation bond issue question submitted to the qualified electors indicates that such reimbursements may be required of benefited property owners. All amounts collected from such reimbursements shall be deposited in the general obligation bond fund from which the special public improvements project is financed. (Ord. No. 2013-04, § 1, 7-16-13. 1976 Code § 18-4-8)
State law reference: A.R.S. § 48-571. | public_administration |
https://www.on.is/en/electricity/street-lighting/ | 2021-12-02T03:23:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964361064.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20211202024322-20211202054322-00000.warc.gz | 0.902499 | 372 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__165140470 | en | ON Power is responsible for the management of street lighting in Reykjavík, Kópavogur and Garðabær (partially), Mosfellsbær, Seltjarnarnes and Akranes - adding up to a total of 50,000 lampposts.
We make it our goal to maintain the system efficiently so that a light bulb never goes out. We also provide advice on state-of-the-art lighting technology, and upgrade and follow developments to enhance the quality of lighting and minimise light pollution.
Do you have an inquiry?
If you want to report any street lighting malfunctions in Reykjavik, Kópavogur and Gardabær (up to the stream), Mosfellsbær, Seltjarnarnes or Akranes, you can email us at [email protected]. If it concerns street lighting in Reykjavik, you can also send your remarks through the City of Reykjavik’s notifications webpage.
If lampposts could talk
If lampposts could talk; smart street lighting – presentation by Svanborg Hilmarsdóttir, electrical designer at ON Power at Reykjavik Energy’s Science Day in 2018 (in Icelandic).
How to light and for whom?
In the design of lighting, the emphasis is placed on a human approach and smart energy utilization. The demands we place on the experience and quality of lighting are constantly increasing. Requirements vary and several factors have to be taken into account when it comes to street light, such as:
- Different locations
- Different conditions
- Different times of the day
- Composition of the traffic
- Walkers and cyclists | public_administration |
https://longwallsecurity.com/case-study/south-london-maudsley-nhs/ | 2024-03-04T11:02:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476442.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304101406-20240304131406-00639.warc.gz | 0.947834 | 734 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__42643076 | en | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provides the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK and aims to be a leader in improving health and wellbeing – locally, nationally and globally. Serving a local population of 1.3 million people across Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, as well as specialist services for children and adults across the UK and beyond, SLaM each year provides inpatient care for over 5,000 people and treats more than 40,000 patients in the community.
As a provider of mental health services, patient confidentiality is a founding principle. SLaM’s CTO, Stuart Maclellan, is unequivocal about the priority: “Providing assurance and governance in securing and protecting our data is of the utmost importance.”
In 2016, against a backdrop of increasing cyber attacks in the sector, SLaM made significant investments in best-in-class anti-malware, intrusion prevention, and web and email security technologies. Longwall was initially engaged to provide the specialist skills needed to deliver a best practice implementation, upskill and develop the internal teams and fully deploy best practices across the estate, ensuring a rapid return on that investment.
This foresight was a major factor in protecting SLaM from the 2017 WannaCry outbreak which, at the time, led to significant disruption in more than a third of trusts in England. However, Maclellan recognised that there remained a gap in visibility of network activity across SLaM’s estate. He also acknowledged that his team lacked both the capacity and specialist skills to prevent, detect or respond to more sophisticated threats.
Following an extended proof-of-concept of their protective monitoring capability, SLaM adopted Longwall’s full Managed Security service, including Managed Detection & Response, Managed Risk & Exposure, and Managed Strategy & Resilience.
Longwall’s engagement starts with a comprehensive security assessment to establish the organisation’s current state security posture and to build a roadmap of strategic improvement initiatives leading to a desired future state.
Implementation of vendor agnostic threat monitoring and a full vulnerability management programme brought clear visibility of threats and exposures across SLaM’s estate and supply chain. A Security Manager was then appointed to take in-house ownership of SLaM’s cyber security strategy and to work with Longwall’s nominated consultant to coordinate roadmap and remediation efforts.
Within 3 years, SLaM has achieved a significant level of cyber security maturity compared to many of its peers. Visibility of network activity and exposures, both internally and within SLaM’s supply chain, has been a major win for the Trust, enabling a risk-focused approach to prioritise remediation efforts within available resource capacity. This leads to better-informed decision-making and ensures that valuable in-house Digital resources can be balanced appropriately between security and business process performance.
In blind penetration testing and through an incident within its supply chain, SLaM, has been able to demonstrate its capability to rapidly detect and respond to new cyber threats and show tangible return on its investment and assurance to the Trust Board.
“We are proud of the fact that SLaM was one of the first NHS Trusts to have a protective monitoring solution and we simply could not have achieved this without our partnership with Longwall. They have given us the tools as well as the strategic advice to ensure we’re continually improving our defences and securing our systems, services, and data.” | public_administration |
https://www.sup.org/books/extra/?id=28262&i=Excerpt%20from%20Introduction.html | 2023-12-11T15:25:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679515260.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211143258-20231211173258-00523.warc.gz | 0.938252 | 5,351 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__258160709 | en | WITH OVER TWENTY-FOUR MILLION residents, Shanghai has become one of the world’s most populated cities. Discussions of how to curb its population growth and prevent overcrowding and social disorder feature prominently in official documents and the media. At the core of these discussions is the question of how to keep the migrants, who come from different parts of China and account for over a third of the city’s total population, under control. Since Shanghai’s natural population growth rate among its native residents has been negative over two decades,1 most of the city’s population growth has been driven by internal migration. Migrants also outnumbered native residents in the fertile age groups of seventeen to forty-three by 2010,2 which means that they will contribute more to the city’s population growth by birth in the long run. Migrants are hence seen by city officials and native residents as both an indispensable resource and a burdensome threat. This has been evident now for years in everyday life, even amid many an average school day, as I have witnessed as a participant observer.
In early January 2007, approximately two thousand students and teachers were preparing for the day’s lesson at Jianying Hope School, a privately run elementary school for migrant children in northern Shanghai. Suddenly, more than a hundred police officers and security agents cordoned off the school’s courtyard. By noon that day, the school had been shut down, and by the following week, the students had supposedly been reallocated to a public school. A spokeswoman for the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission offered almost no explanation for the school’s closure, only saying, “We are not kicking them out of Shanghai.”3
The ambivalence of the spokeswoman’s response reflects an urban growth dilemma that is by no means unique to Shanghai. In pursuit of economic growth and urban expansion, the need for human capital often comes with a fear of overpopulation and overstretched social services. On the one hand, cities need a continuous supply of labor to operate factories, run restaurants, build and maintain infrastructure, and care for children and the elderly. On the other hand, city governments and urban elites feel burdened with the cost of labor reproduction—laborers demand housing, schooling, medical care, and social security. The mutually contradictory incentives pulling in and pushing out migrant workers produce such an urban growth dilemma under capitalist urbanization around the world (E. Friedman 2018).
The socialist hukou (household registration) system, instituted by the government led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since the 1950s, imposes highly particular conditions and contours to Shanghai’s urban growth dilemma. As an “internal passport” system, the hukou registers and controls population within national borders. It divides Chinese citizens into two household categories (huji leibei): “agricultural [nongye]”/rural, and “nonagricultural [feinongye]”/urban. The hukou system also assigns each household a place of registration (huji suozaidi), tying one’s legal status and entitlement to welfare to the specific locale. In the Mao era, the hukou system served the socialist planned economy by institutionalizing geographic segregation, preventing population movement, and redistributing social wealth based on state plans (F.-L. Wang 2005; Whyte 1995, 2010). In the post-Mao era, the state has loosened its control over the citizens’ physical movement to stimulate export-oriented economic development, which demands constant flows of cheap labor comprised mostly of rural-to-urban migrants (K. W. Chan 2010; K. W. Chan and Buckingham 2008; K. W. Chan and Zhang 1999). The largest population movement in human history has thus been unfolding within China’s national boundaries since the 1980s. By 2010, over 220 million Chinese were reported to have worked and lived outside of their registered hukou place (National Bureau of Statistics of China 2012).4 The hukou system nevertheless remains largely intact and continues to tie individuals’ access to public services with their hukou places instead of residential places, making migrant workers de facto second-class citizens suffering from discrimination and maltreatment in their adopted cities (Pun 1999; Solinger 1999).
As now one in three children living in Shanghai are nonnative and do not hold Shanghai hukou, it is almost impossible and certainly impractical for the municipal government to “kick out” all migrant children, as the official spokeswoman admitted. Coming from all over China, the parents of these children have been working and living in the city for years, if not decades, and have become indispensable to Shanghai’s manufacturing and service industries. Meanwhile, as the city faces a rapidly aging local population due to three decades of the “one-child policy,” the need for young, skilled labor becomes more urgent than ever. This second generation of migrant youth will be a key source for Shanghai’s labor pool, so how these migrant children learn and socialize carries significant implications for Shanghai’s socioeconomic transformation.
In addition, for the Shanghai municipal government, escalating conflicts resulting from international migration in developed countries in the West have become cautionary tales about the risks brought on by marginalized migrant youth in cities. In 2008 when the Shanghai municipal government announced plans to close all unqualified migrant schools by 2010 and use its public schools to absorb those migrant students, policy makers referenced the November 2007 Villiers-le-Bel riots in Paris, sparked by the death of two teenagers after they collided with a police car: “The 2007 Paris Riot is an alarm for us. We need to take lessons from those events: we need to care for migrant children. We need to respect them through real and tangible actions, facilitating them to develop a sense of belonging to the city” (Shanghai Municipal Education Commission 2008, 4).
The sudden closure of Jianyin Hope School described above represents the state’s harsh response to facilitating urban inclusion of migrant children. By 2010, the Shanghai municipal government closed over 120 migrant schools that had fallen below official standards set by its education bureau. It had reportedly invested 150 million RMB (about $21 million) in 2008 and 2009 to subsidize public elementary and middle schools to accommodate migrant students at no cost, to improve the facilities and management of all remaining migrant schools, and to open public vocational schools to migrant graduates. However, implementation was often volatile and would bring unintended and uneven consequences. How did the city government and its apparatus balance the competing imperatives of inclusion and exclusion in governing the migrants? More importantly, how did migrant children navigate the institutions and discourses that still privilege the native population? And what do their experiences and subjectivities say about the nature of citizenship under the joint forces of the late-socialist state and the global capitalist economy?
Drawing on ethnographic data collected from multisited field research between 2007 and 2017, this book traces the journeys of dozens of migrant students from middle school to the labor market in the years after the Shanghai municipal government partially opened its public school system to them. It offers the first longitudinal account of second-generation migrant youth growing up in Shanghai as the city wrestles with the mandate to “care for migrant children.” Through the trajectories of these migrant youth, this research explores the urban growth dilemma and its everyday ramifications. It reveals the contested process of segmented inclusion, during which institutions, discourses, and practices relating to land ownership, family planning, educational eligibility, residential status, and employment structure accommodate migrant youth just enough to guide them through the schooling system toward manual labor but fail to give them the same opportunities enjoyed by their local peers.
This is a story of an inconvenient generation of migrant children coming of age through channels that designate them second-class citizens in a reemergent global Shanghai. Necessary yet burdensome, migrant youth are inconvenient subjects to the local government that must struggle with contradictory imperatives of developing a prosperous and orderly city. Local states readily combine their administrative apparatus with market mechanisms and sociocultural criteria to selectively include or exclude subgroups and to achieve a desired urban population and metropolitan image.
The case of Shanghai exemplifies the intensification, rather than reduction, of inequality against the backdrop of economic growth and urban development. Migrant youth in both international and intranational contexts face bureaucratic and legal restrictions and experience linguistic and cultural discontinuities. Examining these experiences through the lens of Shanghai reveals the everyday politics of citizenship as an ongoing process of inclusion and exclusion in the era of urbanization and globalization.
The urban growth dilemma in Shanghai manifests itself in the naming practices of its migrants. Yimin, the Chinese equivalent for “migrant,” is almost never used in official documents and daily conversations. For almost two decades, Chinese rural-to-urban migrants have been referred to as “floating populations” (liudong renkou). This term presumes a temporality to China’s internal migration: migrants are believed to migrate seasonally to towns and cities and will, it is presumed, ultimately return to the countryside. Coupled with the more derogatory term mangliu (literally “blind flow”), “floating population” also suggests the perceived danger associated with the migrants’ transience and aimlessness, which potentially threaten the established social order (Dutton 1999; Solinger 1999; L. Zhang 2001a).
Nevertheless, China’s internal migration patterns have been changing from seasonal migration to urban settlement. A 2010 survey conducted in China’s five major metropolises, including Shanghai, finds that nearly 20 percent of migrant adults stayed in their adopted cities for more than a decade (China Family Planning Committee 2010). Many first-generation migrants have also managed to bring their spouses and children to live with them as they have grown increasingly financially secure. As urban settlement and family unification became more common among rural migrants, the term “floating population” gradually lost its currency in the early 2000s.5 In its place, “peasant worker” (nongmingong, or mingong for short) has become the most common way to refer to migrant workers in both state discourse and everyday conversations. The official term for migrant workers’ children consequently has changed from “floating children” (liudong ertong) to “peasant workers’ children” (mingong zinü).6
In March 2006, the state council issued its “Opinions on Solving Peasant Workers’ Problems.” For the first time, the Chinese state set forth its official definition of “peasant workers”: “peasants who are registered with an agricultural hukou but engage mainly in non-agricultural work (especially during off-farm seasons) in urban areas or in township-level enterprises” (State Council 2006, 1). The state council specified two reasons for adopting the term “peasant worker” to define migrant workers: first, the term had already been used in the media; and second and more importantly, the term is an “accurate” way of categorizing this social group. By confirming the official term, the official opinion reifies the binary categorization of the citizenry through the hukou system. It refuses to admit, still less to problematize, the arbitrary and artificial nature of a rural-urban divide in face of massive migration and urban settlement. Instead, the state council goes as far as acknowledging that the rural-urban binary is simplistic and arguing for the necessity for space in between. It claims that this social category of “peasant worker” “exists and will remain long-term as China continues to industrialize and urbanize” (State Council 2006, 1). This statement naturalizes the unilineal trajectory of development from an agricultural, rural society to an industrial, urban one (Fabian 1983). The definition readily identifies the group “peasant workers” as symbiotic with the nation’s industrialization and urbanization and impresses upon people that such a transitional category caught between the binaries is and should be accepted as a social fact.
However, the official explanation hides the crucial effects of institutional discrimination against the rural population, which has fundamentally shaped China’s internal migration, its patterns, and the migrants’ livelihood. In the era of Mao’s planned economy, the party-state heavily subsidized city-oriented industrialization and provided urban residents a so-called iron rice bowl that came with long-term employment, as well as access to public housing, schooling, and medical care through the danwei (work unit) system. In contrast, state investments in irrigation, basic infrastructure, and medical care in the countryside were disproportionally low (Davis and Wang 2009; Whyte 2010). Agricultural households suffered tremendously during the famines of the early 1960s partly because of disastrous policies that collectivized land, prohibited sideline production, and extracted agricultural surplus to subsidize industrialization. Though incrementally improved, the livelihoods of rural people remained meager and strained in most parts of Mao’s China.
Although market-oriented economic reforms have opened new ways for “agricultural” people to break out of rural poverty by working and trading in towns and cities, the socialist hukou system and its segmented governing logic remain largely intact. Since the late 1990s, even though a series of policy adjustments were introduced to loosen hukou restrictions on migrants’ physical mobility (K. W. Chan 2012; K. W. Chan and Buckingham 2008; C. Chen and Fan 2016), it remains difficult for rural-to-urban migrants to change their huji category or registered huji place. Rural-to-urban migrant workers have been subject to widespread discrimination despite their tremendous contribution to the urban economy (K. W. Chan and Zhang 1999; Goldman and Perry 2002; Guang 2010; B. Shi 2005; Solinger 1995, 1999; F.-L. Wang 2005; Whyte 2010; H. Yan 2003; L. Zhang 2002b). Their nonlocal status has prevented them from accessing public provisions, including basic social and medical insurance, in their adopted cities. More importantly, hukou status is hereditary. Migrant children who were raised or even born in Shanghai still hold “agricultural” status and are registered as residents of their parents’ hukou place. Under the label “peasant workers’ children,” these children continued to be denied urban local residential status and to face numerous obstacles to attending urban public schools.
The “Opinions on Solving Peasant Workers’ Problems” interprets the foreseeable continuation of rural-to-urban migration by way of the conventional push-and-pull economic model. Yet it is overt discrimination against the “peasants” that has facilitated China’s export-oriented economic growth. China has become the “world’s factory” partly by dampening the price of migrant labor and shirking state responsibility to provide them social welfare (E. Friedman 2014; Pun 2005a, 2005b; Pun and Chan 2012; Pun and Lu 2010; Swider 2015). In naturalizing migrants’ in-between status as “peasant workers” in the name of developmental necessity, the Chinese state has ignored the institutional injustice embedded in the hukou system. The state’s definition of “peasant workers” thus reveals its unwillingness to address systematic discrimination against those rural-to-urban migrants. Whether the transitional social category of “peasant workers” will and should exist for long remains more a question of the state’s intentions than one of the natural consequences of urbanization.
The state council’s argument for the necessity of the category “peasant workers” signals the state’s intention to maintain the territorialized citizenship regime that has been built upon the hukou system. As more and more migrants work and reside longer in cities, the rural-urban divide that has been emphasized by extant studies of the predicaments facing Chinese migrant workers actually becomes less relevant in their everyday lives. It is the inside-outside distinction that intertwines with the local-nonlocal binary in the hukou system to continue to differentiate groups and distribute public services and symbolic resources.
The schooling barriers facing migrant children exemplify how China’s territorialized citizenship regime renders migrants second-class citizens and even noncitizens once they are on the move. Although China’s constitution and its compulsory education laws mandate that every Chinese citizen has the right and obligation to receive nine years’ basic education, the legal framework requires local governments to enroll and fund local students whose hukous are registered in their vicinity through its public school system. Consequently, migrant children whose hukou registrations remain tied to their parents’ native places cannot attend public school in their adopted cities for free. They either pay exorbitant fees to buy their seats in urban public schools or attend substandard private migrant schools at a lower cost (Y. P. Chen and Liang 2007; Han 2004; Kwong 2004; Z. Liang and Chen 2007; Yuan 2010; Zhu 2001). Many more are left behind in home villages without parental supervision in order to receive free basic education (C. Liu 2008; Z. Liu 2009; Lü 2007; Y. Lu 2012; K. Wang 2007; Ye 2010; Ye and Pan 2008).7
There is a complex relationship between spatial hierarchy and subject formation (L. Zhang 2001c, 2002a). The place of origin listed in the hukou register determines one’s position in the spatial hierarchy and, to a large extent, shapes one’s life chances because public resources highly correlate with the spatial hierarchy of China’s political economic structure.8 Shanghai, as one of China’s four municipal cities (zhixiashi),9 enjoys greater administrative autonomy, fiscal power, and resources (educational and more) than other locales. Provincial capital cities and major cities along the east coast are on the next rung of this hierarchy, followed by small cities and counties. Towns and villages in the southwest and northwest hinterlands are at the bottom.10 Native residents in Shanghai are better positioned by birth, in terms of life chances, than their fellows in remote areas and small towns and villages. Moreover, big cities like Shanghai boast developed consumer markets, entertainment venues, and symbols of modernity. The spatial differentiation applies to cultural and symbolic resources for constructing identities and drawing boundaries.
In everyday conversations, migrants are often referred to as waidiren (outsiders) as well. This term waidiren carries a particularly derogatory connotation in Shanghai. Because of the city’s history of being China’s biggest and most prosperous metropolis since the late nineteenth century, being a native Shanghainese often confers on its local residents a sense of superiority over their fellow countrymen, especially those coming from the rural regions. In Shanghai dialect, waidiren is often used interchangeably with xiangxiaren (people from the countryside, country bumpkins). People from rural China are often considered not only different from but also inferior to local Shanghai residents. Visible socioeconomic deprivation among low-income migrants—partly resulting from hukou policies that deny migrants equal access to land use, labor protection, medical insurance, school access, and other rights—reifies the negative connotation of waidiren as the poor and uncivil.
Place-based prejudice and identity politics have long been common in Shanghai’s modern history. “To be a Shanghairen [Shanghai people] was to be urbane and sophisticated like the Jiangnan elite, in contradistinction to the crude, backward natives of Subei,” observed Emily Honig (1992, 131) in her study of the social construction of the “Subei people” in Shanghai since the mid-nineteenth century. Even though no place called Subei actually existed, the social category of Subei people was created to give a label to poverty-stricken migrants, mostly from northern Jiangsu, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The construction of such an inferior Subei people has been instrumental for the Shanghai elites, many of whom were actually migrants from southern Jiangsu, to define themselves and claim their sense of sociocultural superiority in semicolonized Shanghai, a treaty port where “foreigners shaped the city’s political and social life in profound ways” and “portrayed all Chinese as uncivilized and backward” (Honig 1992, 131). Identity based on one’s native place hence functions similarly to the way racial and ethnic labels do in forming the basis of prejudice and discrimination.
Since the 1950s, the hukou system and its place-specific welfare provision schemes have reinforced such spatial-social differentiations and place-based prejudices. In Shanghai, since residents originating from both southern and northern Jiangsu were officially categorized as Shanghai hukou holders, the spatially less specific labels of waidiren and xiangxiaren11 have been used to index the Others when local residents make dismissive comments about rustic manners or social problems that are believed to be associated with new rural-to-urban migrants. The evocation of waidiren maintains an increasingly porous inside-outside boundary amid China’s rapid urbanization process and supports state agendas to control population size and protect nativist interests.
1. In 2010, Shanghai’s natural population growth rate of native residents (i.e., population increase or decrease caused by birth and death instead of immigration and emigration) was −0.6 percent, which means the number of deaths was bigger than the number of births in that year. The city’s natural population growth rate of native residents has been negative since 1993. “Outlander Population Grew Close to Local Hukou Population,” Xinmin Evening, September 22, 2011, accessed May 6, 2012, http://news.xinmin.cn/t/xmwbtj/2011/09/22/12157438.html.
3. See also Howard W. French, “Shanghai Moves to Close Private Schools for Migrants,” New York Times, January 24, 2007, accessed July 12, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/world/asia/25iht-china.4335146.html?pagewanted=all.
4. The 2010 National Census, the National Bureau of Statistics of China.
5. The term “floating population” is nevertheless still in use occasionally, which shows the resilience of the binary sedentary-versus-mobile framework in the hukou system. Two Chinese academic conferences held in December 2008 in Shanghai and in June 2009 in Beijing used liudong renkou and renkou liudong frequently without much reflection on the term itself.
6. There are several Chinese variations in use. For instance, nongmingong tongzhu zinü (children living together with peasant workers) and wailai renkou suiqian zinü (children who move with the outsider population) are also used in news reports and official documents.
7. The so-called left-behind children (liushou ertong)—22 million migrant workers’ children—were estimated to have stayed in villages under the supervision of grandparents, relatives, or boarding schools. See “As China Booms, Millions of Children Are Left Behind,” Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2007, accessed March 3, 2019, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116959002141185426.html.
8. China’s administrative hierarchy contains central level (zhongyang), provincial level (shengji), city level (shiji), region level (diji), county level (xianji), district level (quji), and basic levels (jiceng), including rural county (xiang) and town (zhen) levels, plus grassroots administrative units, villages (cun), and neighborhoods (shequ).
9. These municipal cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Chongqing, enjoy the administrative rank of provincial-level governments and report directly to the central government.
10. The geo-administrative hierarchy in the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) parallels the tiered marketing system proposed by G. William Skinner, which seeks to map out the interconnections between villages, towns, cities, and regions to explain how Chinese society remained integrated and unified to various extents in spite of vast regional variations and poor communication and transportation technologies in late imperial times (Skinner 1964, 1965a, 1965b). However, scholars argue that the rural-urban divide and articulated hierarchies favoring cities have been largely constructed in the twentieth century, especially through the hukou system in the PRC era (Brown 2014; Siu 1990; Whyte 2010).
11. There are more specific native-place identities based on provincial or regional names, such as Henan ren (people from Henan Province), Anhui ren (people from Anhui Province), and Liu’an ren (people from Liu’an County in Anhui Province) that suggest certain geographic, linguistic, occupational, or cultural characteristics and stereotypes. However, such references of native-place identities are more used among migrant groups. It is not easy for most local Shanghai residents to tell such differences, especially when referring to second-generation migrant youth, the majority of whom are Han Chinese, have grown up in Shanghai, speak Mandarin, and sport urban styles that defy regional distinctions. | public_administration |
https://www.socameluk.co.uk/news/socamel-partner-of-the-national-project-meals-in-hospital/ | 2024-02-29T02:00:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474775.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229003536-20240229033536-00859.warc.gz | 0.915296 | 139 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__68718228 | en | Socamel partner of the national project “Meals in hospital”.
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SOCAMEL at the heart of the “Meals in hospital” project at the Douai hospital.
Our Multiserv solution is in the spotlight in this culinary experiment led by the National Food Council (CNA), the 3 ministries (agriculture, environment and health) and the Directorate General for Healthcare Provision (DGOS).
We are proud to be part of this initiative which aims to improve the catering service, reduce the percentage of undernourished patients, regain the pleasure of eating in hospital, reduce food waste and promote virtuous and organic products. | public_administration |
https://rtnewbritain.org/safe-at-home | 2023-09-29T09:42:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510501.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929090526-20230929120526-00641.warc.gz | 0.982239 | 121 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__46762840 | en | The Safe at Home program was established in 2005 in response to demonstrated community need. The goal of the program is to extend Rebuilding Day repair services to local homeowners throughout the year. Since its inception, Safe at Home has helped RTNB nearly double the number of homeowners served annually.
Safe at Home projects are chosen based on homeowner need and can vary in scope from whole house rehab projects to urgent services, such as heating and plumbing repairs. Homes are evaluated based on Department of Housing and Urban Development Principles of Safe and Healthy Housing, so projects with demonstrated health and safety hazards are prioritized for this program. | public_administration |
https://logofrank.com/public-benefits-of-the-lottery/ | 2024-04-23T20:13:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818740.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423192952-20240423222952-00354.warc.gz | 0.966206 | 602 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__78786982 | en | The lottery is a form of gambling in which bettors pay an entry fee for the chance to win a prize. The prize can be a cash sum or goods or services. Ticket sales are usually organized by state governments and the proceeds go to public funds. Despite this, many people are skeptical of the legitimacy of lotteries. Others are concerned about the effect they have on the poor. Some even argue that the money raised by lotteries can be better used for other public needs.
The basic elements of a lottery are a pool or collection of tickets or their counterfoils, a method for selecting winners, and a means of recording the identities of keluaran hk bettors and their amounts staked. Traditionally, the tickets were thoroughly mixed by mechanical means, such as shaking or tossing, before being selected for the drawing. More recently, computers have been used for this purpose. Computers can also keep records of the number and symbols chosen by each bettor. This information can then be used to identify the winner(s).
Whether you play the Powerball or Mega Millions, the chances of winning are slim. But you can improve your odds by choosing numbers that are not close together or that have sentimental value, such as birthdays or anniversaries. You can also increase your chances by purchasing more tickets. If you don’t want to spend a lot of money, try playing smaller games such as state pick-3 or EuroMillions.
In addition to the obvious, such as the prizes, there are several other reasons why states run lotteries. One is to raise funds for public works projects. This can include such things as roads, schools, and hospitals. It is also used to pay for the salaries of government employees. In addition, it is a way to avoid raising taxes.
Some governments use lotteries to distribute land and other property. The Old Testament contains references to giving away land in this way, and Roman emperors offered property and slaves as rewards. In the US, Benjamin Franklin organized a lottery to give away cannons for Philadelphia’s defense and George Washington advertised the Mountain Road Lottery in the Virginia Gazette in 1768, with prizes including land and slaves.
A significant portion of lottery funds must be devoted to prizes, which reduces the percentage available for taxation and other public purposes. This is because of the costs involved in organizing and promoting the lottery, and the need to make sure the prizes are sufficiently high to encourage ticket sales. The prize structure may also be designed to reduce the number of winners in order to control the size of jackpots.
Lottery winners can have an enormous impact on their lives, rewriting their stories and opening doors to opportunities that they might never have thought possible. The key to success is not luck, but a dedication to understanding the game and using proven strategies. The time for ordinary dreams is over, and success awaits those who dare to step outside of their comfort zones. | public_administration |
https://kids4.org/blog/blog/latest-statistics-homelessness-u-s/ | 2023-05-31T11:04:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224646457.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20230531090221-20230531120221-00236.warc.gz | 0.972522 | 919 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__63242078 | en | Latest Statistics on Homelessness in the U.S.
Despite the strength of the U.S. economy, homelessness continues to be a real issue that many people are facing. Today, we will look into important information and critical statistics of homelessness in the U.S.
Causes of Homelessness
There are several factors that may lead a person to become homeless, some of which include the following:
- Lack of affordable housing: Not all individuals may be able to afford paying a certain amount of rent due to low salaries.
- Insufficient funds: Some individuals may find themselves incapable of being able to pay for their rent after paying for other necessities like medicine, food, and child care.
- Unemployment: Especially during the recession, many families have found themselves living in the slums due to retrenchment.
- Poverty: Many consider this as the most common cause of homelessness. Being poor may have placed a limitation on individuals. Lack of education due to poverty may not allow these individuals to land a job that would allow them to sustain for the immediate of their families, lest afford to have a house of their own.
- Mental illness and the lack of needed services: It is unfortunate how some individuals with mental illness end up on the streets, particularly when their own families abandon them due to desperation or the financial incapacity to support their medical needs.
- Substance abuse and the lack of needed services: Substance abuse may become rampant, no matter how poor a city is. Individuals who have become addicted to illegal drugs are either unemployed or fired from their jobs. Lacking the needed funds to support their addiction may force them to live in the streets, either to ask for alms or steal from other people.
- Domestic violence: Individuals who no longer feel safe in their homes due to domestic violence are forced to leave their own homes for safety reasons. Unfortunately, more often than not, their only choice to live is on the streets.
Homelessness Statistics in the United States
Homelessness is an ongoing challenge, judging from the statistics on homelessness in the U.S. collected in 2016:
- More than 83,000 individuals – that’s 15% of the homeless population – are considered “chronically homeless”. This label describes individuals who have a disability and have experienced homelessness for a year or longer. It may also include those who have a disability and have experienced at least four episodes of homelessness in the last three years. Individuals who are considered as chronic homeless usually have mental illness and substance use disorders.
- Over half million individuals who were living on the streets, in cars, in homeless shelters or in subsidized transitional housing were asked in a survey conducted in January 2016. Results showed that at least 206,00 were people in families, more than 358,400 were individuals, and 25% of the entire group were children.
- About 8% of homeless individuals are veterans. Roughly 45% of veterans are black or of Hispanic descent, and 10% of the homeless veterans are women.
- About 550,000 young adults under the age of 24 experienced homelessness episodes of longer than one week. These homeless individuals are less likely to spend time in the same place as older homeless adults. They are less willing to disclose their real situation or identify themselves as homeless. Some of them would even look for ways to find themselves a job in order to blend in with their peers who are not homeless.
- About 50% of the homeless individuals are above 50 years old. These individuals often face additional health and safety risks due to age.
- One of the most vulnerable population is the LGBTQ youth, estimated at around 110,000. Family rejection, abuse and neglect are the primary reasons why some of these people became homeless since they are refused to be accepted as what they are.
Response to Help Homelessness
The government may not be able to help all of the homeless individuals due to other national concerns. Fortunately, there are non-profit organizations that are willing to extend assistance to alleviate the increasing number of homeless individuals.
That’s why we at Kids4Community do what we do. In addition to that, we teach children to become part of providing community service to homeless people.
Kids4Community have several programs, which include food drive, dinner service, basic needs drive, sandwich making, hygiene kits, and educational programs.
If you would like to extend help to homeless individuals, you may send donations in cash or in kind, or participate in any of our community services. | public_administration |
http://www.newnhamonsevern.co.uk/living/parish-council/ | 2013-12-05T14:39:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163046151/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131726-00095-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.863042 | 525 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__214839461 | en | This web site is updated solely by the Clerk to Council. Any questions or requests for information to be added to the site should be addressed to the Clerk.
The website provides an additional medium whereby information relating to the Council can be viewed. The legal requirements of public notification for meetings will be, as has always been, the Parish notice boards situated on the Wall of Red Lion House and at the Cliff. General documentation is also available via the Clerk
Parish Council Members
- Mrs Joy Larkham Chair - 01594 510652
- Mrs Wendy Anderson – 01594 516315
- Mr Felix Bihlmeier – 01594 510963
- Mrs Jackie Chapman – 01594 517272
- Mr Trevor Firman – 01594 516303
- Chris Kenny – 01594 510241
- Mr Graham Murray – 01594 516626
- Mr I Walker – 01594 516822
- Mr R Puttock – 01594 516915
Clerk to Newnham on Severn Parish Council
5, Fir View Road
Tel 01594 824818
Parish Council meetings are held on the last Monday
of every month at 7pm in the W.I. Hut, preceeded by Public consultation at 6.45 p.m.
with the exception of August and December.
Announcements & Updates
The November Parish Council meeting will be held on TUESDAY 26th not Monday 25th as originally planned.
Minutes of Meetings
There are several publications on the whys and wherefores of being a Parish Councillor on the NALC web site
About the Parish Council
Quick link to the Forest of Dean District Council’s Local Plan here Download District Council’s Development Policy for Newnham. Download District Council’s Settlement Inset Map for Newnham. To interpret the District Council’s Inset Map you will need to use this Key
Community Emergency Plan
Our local County Councillor
Richard Leppington – [email protected]
Member of Parliament
Mark Harper – Conservative MP for Forest of Dean
He works with the Deputy PM on: Fixed Term Parliament Referendum on Alternative Voting system Boundary changes/ reduction in the number of MPs Support for disabled people to become MPs Recall of MPs Elected second chamber Individual voter registration Commission to consider the ‘West Lothian Question’ Statutory register of lobbyists Reform of party funding All postal primaries
Some Quick Links to other parts of the site | public_administration |
https://www.division6recreationandculture.com/recreation | 2021-03-06T04:28:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178374391.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20210306035529-20210306065529-00483.warc.gz | 0.932614 | 392 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__61878495 | en | We're trying something NEW!
We are offering a reimbursement of 50% of expenses to a maximum reimbursement of $100 per household for recreation & culture activities! Due to COVID-19, we are not able to offer recreation & cultural activities at this time so we are expanding our scope of funding for residents.
We consider traditional recreation activities such as: fitness classes, sports teams, golf lessons and will take into consideration other recreation & culture activities that can be enjoyed in Red Deer County as well as in our beautiful province of Alberta. These activities could be: hunting/fishing licenses, lift tickets to a ski/snowboard resort in Alberta, online courses, snow shoes, Zoo Lights, Ice Castles, etc. We encourage all Division 6 residents to apply, no matter the recreation or culture activity! Division 6 Reimbursement Committee Members will review submission based on the scope of Recreation and Culture.
Please fill out the form below (reminder - a receipt of your recreation and/or culture purchase needs to be accompanied in the application):
Applications are open from January 1, 2021 until March 31, 2021. *Please note that this recreation & culture reimbursement is a trial and may be subject to change.
NOTE: Your application will be reviewed in April and funding will be disbursed at that time to approved applicants (via cheque mailed to applicant). We are trying to establish a baseline for our reimbursement program and we ask for your patience at this time. We will do our best to send out funding in a timely manner.
For residents wanting to submit their applications by mail please mail to:
Division 6 Recreation and Culture Board
10-1220 TWP Rd 384
Red Deer County, AB
**Note please only send copies of receipts as originals will not be returned**
All applications will have to be postmarked by March 31 to qualify.
Thank you for your submission, patience and understanding! | public_administration |
https://mvkzrt.hu/en/history-buses-miskolc | 2023-12-07T00:20:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100626.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206230347-20231207020347-00630.warc.gz | 0.975804 | 2,375 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__25337931 | en | The current transportation systems of the greatest cities all over the world are based not only on trams but also other highly developed transportation technologies. Miskolc, however, is only home to buses apart from trams. The first benzene engine-driven vehicle appeared on the streets of the city in 1897, the same year when the first tram was launched.
Nonetheless, the number of automobiles only started to increase after World War I. Our city can boast to be the first one to launch a scheduled bus service in Hungary, on 8 June 1903. Passengers were transported by 8-seater cars.
rams were, however, so popular at the time that they were preferred over any other means of transport. The foundations of a modern city bus service were laid down by private entrepreneur Géza Siposs. He petitioned the city government in 1925 to allow him to set up a public transportation company that would suit the requirements of passengers to the fullest. The administrative authority rejected the application. In 1926, Miskolci Villamossági Rt. launched bus services to Tapolca and Lillafüred. The terminal of the buses to Tapolca was by the Hejőcsaba tram terminal at first, then at the Mindszenti church. The Lillafüred bus line joined the tram near the reformed church in Diósgyőr. These buses were the first to frequent back-streets, and demonstrated convincingly that buses can play an important role in the traffic of the inner city, and what is more, can be serious competitors of trams.
After World War II, there was a long pause before scheduled city bus services were launched. The first line was opened between Martin Estate and Ságvári Estate on 17 November 1948. In April 1949, the council established the Miskolc Motor Vehicle Transportation Company. The dynamic development of the city and the expansion of local heavy industry posed great challenges to the company. By the autumn of 1951, city buses ran between the following termini:
- Tisza Railway Station – Ironworks – Diósgyőr Town Hall (every 15 minutes)
- Tisza Railway Station – Újdiósgyőr – Ságvári Estate (every 15 minutes )
- Ironworks – Rotating Bridge – Martin Estate – Szirma
- Rotating Bridge – Görömböly
- Tisza Railway Station – Lillafüred
Line 6, launched in 1952, travelled between Városház Square and Pereces. In the same year, Line 7 was launched starting from Dózsa György Road, connecting the nearby village of Felsőzsolca to the transportation network of Miskolc. The main line, labelled Line 1 also travelled to the Ironworks. On 1 January 1953, number 2 was given to the line between the Rotating Bridge and Tapolca. The first buses went to Szirmabesenyő from the Rotating Bridge (4/A) in 1954, and to Kistokaj in 1955.
Thanks to the intensive development of local transportation, new lines were opened, terminating in Komlóstető, Vargahegy, Martin Estate, Zsarnai Estate, and Ómassa.
To get an idea of the expansion of bus services, consider that the number of passengers nearly quadrupled between 1954 and 1963, from 10.3 million to 39.7 million. In 1954, in the year of unification with the tram, a total of 51 buses ran on 8 lines, and by 1963, 112 buses transported passengers along 14 lines. In the 1960’s, Line 4 was extended to go as far as the airport junction, and Line 4/A was launched between Airport Junction and the Cement Factory, and Line 4/B between Airport Junction and University Town. Line 10 was also extended, so starting from Dózsa György Street it then went as far as the Zsarnai Estate.
Also starting from the terminus in Dózsa György Street were Line 9, stopping at the Ironworks and terminating at the Heavy Machine Tool Factory. Line 8 connected Béke Square and the Cold Storage. Line 2/a was added to supplement the buses terminating in Tapolca. In 1966, several Ikarus 31 buses, originally manufactured as long-distance coaches, were replaced by Ikarus 620 buses that suited the requirements of city transport better.
In 1964 and ‘65, modern termini were built at Béke Square and the airport, which satisfied all traffic and technical requirements. Most of the cross-city lines were shortened and modified to fit the new termini. In 1967, line numbers were changed: the buses starting from the terminus at the airport were renumbered 12 and 14 from 4/A and 4/B, respectively, and buses number 2, 2A, 3, 3/A, 4, 7, 8 and 10 terminated at Búza Square from then on.
The terminal at Dózsa György Street was eliminated.
The buses that used to start from here were relocated to Búza Square and the new junction at Marx Square. Lines 5, 6, 9, 16, and 19 terminated here.
In accordance with the new transportation policy concept approved of in 1968, passenger transportation was discontinued in early 1971 on the narrow-lane industrial railway. To service the miners travelling there, a new bus numbered 16 was launched from the terminal at Marx Square.
The single-track Tatárdomb tram (Nr. 4) was discontinued on 15 January 1976, and replaced by a branch line (9/Y), travelling between Marx Square and Iván Street.
Miskolc Transportation Company received a government grant of HUF 120 million, which was used between 1972 and 1974 to purchase new vehicles and technological equipment as well as to complete the investment projects at the central site. By eliminating the obsolete and scattered workplaces at other sites, the activities of Miskolc Transportation Company became more organised and efficient, resulting in dynamic development in the decade and a half to follow. In 1985, transportation performance was 221.5% of the level in 1970. The primary objectives were to reduce the crowdedness of buses and the time spent travelling, to modernise the network and to improve geographical coverage. This was the time when new lines were launched either to connect so far unserviced areas (Lines 17 and 69) or to reduce crowdedness in others (7/A). In construction phases I and II of the Avas Residential Estate, the new demand was satisfied by launching Lines 31, 32, 33, and 33/A, and faster access was ensured by launching shuttle buses nr. 102, 103, 104, 108, 121, and 133. The primary way of reducing crowdedness is to increase capacities, therefore the company accelerated the reconstruction of buses. Obsolete vehicles with too few seats were discarded two years before the scheduled deadline, in 1978.
Ikarus 620 buses travelled last along lines 3, 15, 23, and 32, while the last Ikarus 180 buses were nr. 1 and 1/D. The newly commissioned Ikarus 260 single buses had 20% more capacity than the old ones. Another effective way of reducing crowdedness was to increase the number of articulated buses from 35 to 90, and increasing the ratio of bendy cars from 23.4% to 42.8%. Between 1975 and 1980, the fleet of the transportation company was expanded by 230 new buses.
In the early 1980’s, a substantial number of ticket vending machines were installed, along with modern, so far unseen digital display passenger information boards and starting devices. In the meantime, the number of articulated buses kept increasing in response to the ever growing demand. In 1980, some 170 million passengers travelled by bus in the city. A new road, named after Ottó Korvin was opened in 1978 in the inner city, which made it necessary to reorganise traffic along the north-south backbone line between Petőfi Square and People’s Park.
The new, modern terminal in Mayfair Park was opened on 2 January 1979 to support the east- west backbone line. The terminal of buses nr. 5 and 15 was relocated from Marx Square to Mayfair Park, and Line 1 buses ran more frequently along the abandoned section. In 1981, Lines 35, 36 and 31 were extended to go as far as Avas Lookout. The route of Line 32 was first changed in 1982, and then in 1985, so as to provide a no-change connection between Avas Lookout and the new terminal at Gömör Railway Station.
In 1983, the inner terminal of Line 11 was also moved to Gömör Railway Station. In order to better service the outer areas, Line 69 was extended, and a new line (55) was launched between Mayfair Park and Coppice. As a result of a change in administrative borders, intercity (Volán) buses were replaced by Line 68 to service the village of Bükkszentlászló. The line of Bus 14 was extended through Hejőcsaba to as far as Farkas Antal Road. Some line modifications were also performed; Buses 24 and 32 were relocated to Vándor Sándor Street, and Buses 21 and 121 were redirected to their original route on Vörösmarty Road. Szabadságharc Street was reconstructed to be suitable for bus traffic, and Buses 35 and 38 still travel this way, although Buses 34 and 133 no longer do. A number of unexploited shuttle buses were terminated and basic lines made more frequent, including Line 108 in 1981, Line 103 and 105 in 1983, and Line 133 in 1984 (which was replaced by Line 36) as well as Lines 104 and 7/A in 1985. In an effort to reduce crowdedness, articulated buses were launched in 1982 on Lines 4 and 31, in 1983 on Lines 21 and 121, and in the next year on Line 8. With effect on 1 February 1984, the bus network of the city was modified fundamentally, since through traffic was banned on the inner city section of the east-west main road, and buses were redirected to relieving roads. The new and modern building of the Avas Lookout terminal was opened, and the next summer bus drivers could move in to the new terminal at Tisza Railway Station. By then, buses carried 198.7 million passengers a year. Miskolc Transportation Company had a total of 262 buses at the time. By 1988, some new lines had been launched (18, 37, and 67), less utilised ones terminated (1/D and 55). It was at the same time that vehicle advertising, commenced in 1987, started to boom.
Between 1990 and 1992, the articulated buses previously serving Lines 4 and 24 were moved to Line 3 and, during the summer, to Line 16, and were replaced by single buses. As its utilisation was decreasing, Line 33 also ran with single buses from then on. The discontinued Line 69 was replaced by dividing the buses serving Line 1 and launching Line 1/A in an effort to help the then unserviced areas. From the second half of 1992, in an effort to further reduce capacity kilometres and costs, several lines (1, 101, 12, 14) were served by single buses on weekends and holidays. | public_administration |
http://hpv2010.org/main/index.php?option=com_conference&view=presentation&id=880&conference=1&Itemid=100 | 2013-05-23T13:50:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703326861/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112206-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.94874 | 460 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__202510719 | en | >> P-835: India demonstration projects: experiences of reaching adolescent girls with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination
19:00 PM - 19:00 PM
1PATH, New Delhi, India; 2PATH, Seattle, WA, USA.
Background: PATH, in collaboration with government immunization programs in India, is implementing human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination demonstration projects in three blocks each of Khammam district (Andhra Pradesh) and Vadodara district (Gujarat), catering to a population of approximately one-half million and targeting about 32,000 girls in two years. The aim is to generate critical data for decision-making on potential for introducing HPV vaccination as part of a comprehensive cervical cancer prevention program.
Objectives: Assess number of young adolescent girls reached using two different HPV vaccine delivery strategies.
Methods: The vaccine delivery strategies - campaign approach and routine immunization - were finalized by national-level immunization experts based on results from formative research and in consultation with state governments. Girls aged 10-14 years were categorized into school-going and non-school-going for immunization services delivery, and vaccinated by regular government health workers at schools and Anganwadi centers using the vaccination schedule and its window period. Comprehensive communication activities to sensitize and mobilize communities, parents and girls, as well as informed written consent from parents and assent from the girls, occurred prior to vaccination.
Results: Two doses are completed. Using the campaign approach, 14,091 and 13,930 girls received the first and second doses respectively. Using the routine immunization approach, 10,686 and 10,259 girls received the first and second doses respectively. The drop-out from dose one to dose two was 1.2 percent with the campaign approach and 4 percent with the routine immunization approach.
Conclusions: Uptake was higher in the campaign approach compared to the routine immunization approach. Drop-outs due to migration and the fixed-window period were decreased in the campaign approach. This pattern may be attributed to the intensity of team-based activities within a fixed time period in the campaign approach, as compared to the staggered in-flow of girls in the routine immunization approach. | public_administration |
http://eng.spb-venchur.ru/vuzs/184.htm | 2017-04-26T05:59:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121165.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00465-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.904742 | 272 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__134140508 | en | Autonomous public institution of Tyumen Region "West Siberian Innovation Center" (Tyumen Technopark) was created in July 2009 by order of the Governor of Tyumen Region.
The Center’s founder is the Committee on Innovation of the Tyumen Region.
Tyumen Technopark objectives:
Strengthening the position of the Tyumen oil and gas industries in the global marketplace;
Ensuring sustainable development of the Tyumen economy due to diversification and innovation;
Expanding opportunities for the realization of the population’s labor potential and creativity.
Assessment of innovation projects to address the issue of granting status of the business incubator resident;
Provision of business facilities (meeting rooms, conference rooms, exhibition area);
Consulting, information and resource support during innovation project implementation;
Arranging presentations of innovation projects;
Arranging meetings with potential customers;
Technopark residents training.
At present, Tyumen Technopark is:
33 innovative companies (oil and gas, construction, engineering, agroindustrial sector, information technology);
Convenient platform to establish regional cooperation with universities, large companies and technology parks in other regions of Russia; official representative of the Fund for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and Technology (Bortnik Fund) in Tyumen Region; | public_administration |
https://bellcoffinpto.org/marblehead/2020/08/22/make-your-mark-on-the-new-school/ | 2021-01-16T18:00:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703506832.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20210116165621-20210116195621-00046.warc.gz | 0.947796 | 304 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__236750351 | en | Students in the community are invited to celebrate the new elementary school that is currently under construction. Construction is underway, steel beams are up, and you are invited to join in the construction fun by signing your name in Sharpie on a large steel beam. Come to Gate D August 24-28 between 8:30 AM and 3:00 PM and forever make your mark in town history!
The School Building Committee asks parents and students to follow these safety requirements:
- Abide by social-distancing regulations. Keep a minimum of 6 feet between you and others.
- Be aware of other families on site and wait your turn entering the gate area, as needed.
- WEAR A MASK! We cannot allow anyone (students or guardians) on site without proper face-coverings.
- Bring your own Sharpie, please. In order to maintain the safety of all, we cannot provide community pens.
- Hand sanitizer will be made available.
- Access to the beam will be available Monday, August 24 – Friday, August 28 from 8:30 am – 3:00 pm. Please do not arrive outside of these timeframes, as gates may be closed and the site inaccessible.
- Enter at Gate D on Baldwin Road and proceed directly to the beam, as directed by signage. Visitors are not permitted in the work site beyond Area D.
- Adhere to all street parking signs.
Thanks for making your mark and celebrating the new school with us! | public_administration |
https://thefullwellavenuesurgery.nhs.uk/prescriptions | 2024-04-21T14:01:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817780.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421132819-20240421162819-00678.warc.gz | 0.918082 | 634 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__118012251 | en | Notice: For appointments, test results, and general inquiries, call the surgery at 020 8550 9988.
We do NOT take prescriptions over the phone, and prescriptions must be requested by writing it down on a piece of paper and taking it to the surgery, or by email on [email protected]
To order a repeat prescription please write, post or visit to the surgery with you repeat prescription slip. Please tick the appropriate boxes.
Please allow 24 hours for collection.
Alternatively you can request repeat prescriptions on line via the link at the top of this page (registration required).
Please note; requests for repeat prescriptions are not accepted over the telephone as this can lead to mistakes.
Electronic Prescribing Service
This practice is set up for the electronic prescription service.
This means that for most patients we can send your prescription to your chosen chemist directly saving you having to come down to the surgery.
To get your prescription sent to your chosen pharmacy you will have to ask reception to sign up.
For more information please click here.
Help with NHS costs
In England, around 90% of prescription items are dispensed free. This includes exemptions from charging for those on low incomes, such as:
- those on specific benefits or through the NHS Low Income Scheme
- those who are age exempt
- those with certain medical conditions
- More information is available at NHS Choices
These charges apply in England only. In Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales prescriptions are free of charge.
- Prescription (per item): £9.65
- 12-month prepayment certificate (PPC): £111.60
- 3-month PPC: £31.25
If you will have to pay for four or more prescription items in three months or more than 14 items in 12 months, you may find it cheaper to buy a PPC.
- Telephone advice and order line 0845 850 0030
- General Public - Buy or Renew a PPC On-line
There is further information about prescription exemptions and fees on the NHS website.
When you are discharged from hospital you should normally receive 7 days’ supply of medication.
On receipt of your medication requirements, which will be issued to you by the hospital, please bring this to the surgery or post via a stamped addressed envelope before your supply of medication has run out.
Hospital requests for change of medication will be checked by the GP first, and if necessary your doctor will issue you with a Prescription. The Practice will endeavour to issue you with your prescription on that day, but it cannot be issued until your medical details are checked by the doctor, your prescription should normally be ready by 4pm on that day, or you may be advised to attend the next day.
The doctors will review your medication, regularly, which may involve changes to your tablets, in accordance with current health board policies. Please be reassured that this will not affect your treatment. | public_administration |
https://grandjunctionpolicedepartment.com/2015/06/08/grand-mesa-landslide-update-mesacounty/?shared=email&msg=fail | 2020-10-26T02:11:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107890108.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20201026002022-20201026032022-00470.warc.gz | 0.939335 | 263 | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__149577840 | en | Today, Mesa County officials are downgrading their response to the West Salt Creek Landslide on the Grand Mesa to a Level One.
On Wednesday, officials decided to transition to a Level Two because conditions indicated the “sag pond” that had formed near the top of the slide from rainwater, snowmelt and other runoff was likely to spill. The Level Two response designation put residents in low-lying areas on alert that something could happen and they may need to seek higher ground.
Since Wednesday’s designation, though, snowpack in the basin above the landslide diminished. Also, storms that were forecast for the weekend did not produce substantial rain in the landslide area.
Officials spent the past five days engaged in intense, on-site monitoring. Though they noted new water-related features and minor landslide activity, the stability of the slump block does not appear to be deteriorating.
Mesa County officials will continue to actively monitor the landslide area and will elevate the response level again if conditions deteriorate.
U.S. Forest Service restrictions remain in place, and trespassing is prohibited on private property.
Mesa County Emergency Manager Andy Martsolf is available for media interviews this afternoon. To arrange a time, please call Veronica Daehn Harvey at 244-1854 | public_administration |
http://hondoisd.schoolinsites.com/ | 2015-06-30T23:59:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375094629.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031814-00146-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.939508 | 169 | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-27__0__166763846 | en | Hondo ISD campuses and offices will be closed on Friday, July 3 in observance of Independence Day!
Hondo ISD campuses and offices will be closed July 13 - 24!
Don't miss out on all the district news! Send an email to [email protected] and join the parent listserv. Be the first to read Hoot & Holler - the district's monthly newsletter!
We look forward to connecting with you!
Our vision at Hondo ISD is to develop life-long learners who are productive members of society.
In our relentless pursuit of academic excellence, our mission at Hondo ISD is to make learning the priority for all and serve the educational needs of every student, in every classroom, every day.
Every Student ♥ Every Classroom ♥ Every Day | public_administration |
https://jrzhomes.com.au/homebuilder/ | 2021-01-25T10:41:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703565541.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20210125092143-20210125122143-00485.warc.gz | 0.952845 | 301 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__34221708 | en | The $15,000 Federal Government HomeBuilder is an exciting stimulus for our local construction industry.
If you’re a first home buyer you are also eligible to receive the $15,000 State Government First Home Owners’ Grant. In addition, you are exempt from having to pay Stamp Duty on the land purchase as always was the case. In addition to this, the regional home building boost grant has now been extended to 31 March 2021. The regional home building boost grant is a state government initiative to help home owners in regional Queensland into their new home sooner. It will give you $5,000 after the purchase or construction of a brand new house valued at less than $750,000.
This is certainly something we haven’t seen the likes of in a very long time.
At JRZ Homes, we continue to make it easy for our clients to build homes and more specifically, to their budget.
We have by far the best reviews in Bundaberg on Google and Facebook which offers you an assurance that you’re engaging with a quality builder.
Below are some links and attachments to answer a lot of your questions.
Contact us today to organise for your FREE Building Estimate; you will not be disappointed in what we can offer!
STATE GOVERNMENT REGIONAL HOME BUILDING BOOST GRANT
Access to the State Government website flyer with further details on the Regional Home Building Boost Grant and it’s eligibility | public_administration |
http://www.psn.gov.my/en/educator-placement-programme/ | 2017-06-23T05:04:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320003.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623045423-20170623065423-00439.warc.gz | 0.904874 | 256 | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__56379616 | en | This programme is a collaboration between the National Science Centre (PSN) and the Curriculum Development Division (BPG), Ministry of Education (MOE).
i. Provide exposure on interactive hands-on teaching-learning through exhibits, programmes and activities to educators to be absorbed into the school curriculum.
ii. To obtain expertise in the formulation of educational programmes and exhibits of the National Science Centre.
- Two (2) science and mathematics teachers in primary schools selected by the Ministry of Education Malaysia
- Two (2) science and mathematics teachers in secondary schools selected by the Ministry of Education Malaysia
- Teachers are exposed to the exhibits, science enrichment programmes, resource centre and teaching and learning facilities such as workshops and hands-on interactive science laboratory at the National Science Centre.
- Based on the expertise of teachers in curriculum and theory, the teachers will produce programme and activity modules and work sheets that can be implemented by teachers at school or during a visit to the National Science Centre.
Yearly Programme Frequency
One (1) time per year with a period of three (3) weeks each time.
Low Yoon Keong (yklow[at]psn.gov.my)
Tel: 03-20893400 ext. 3462 | public_administration |
https://store.spokanetransit.com/fares-passes/issues-with-your-pass | 2022-10-07T21:50:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030338280.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20221007210452-20221008000452-00154.warc.gz | 0.907155 | 807 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__155329322 | en | Problems With Your Pass?
Are you having issues with your bus pass? Take a look at the most frequent issues riders have with passes.
My Stored Value Smart Card is declined at the farebox, even though I know there is money on it.
As a safety measure, Stored Value Smart Cards go dormant after 14 days of non-use. Visit Customer Service at The Plaza to reactivate your Smart Card.
My paper bus pass has been “bad listed”.
Please visit Customer Service at The Plaza or call 509-328-RIDE (7433) for assistance. A Customer Service Representative will need to research your card. It can take up to 3 days to verify the card is valid.
My pass or Smart Card has been damaged.
- Folding a paper bus pass, or damaging the magnetic stripe on the back of the pass, can cause the pass to no longer work. Visit Customer Service for assistance. If the activation date on the card is still legible, the remaining value on the pass may be replaced.
- Bending a Smart Card can break the technology within the card causing it to no longer work. Visit Customer Service for assistance. If no physical damage is visible, a new Smart Card may be issued free of charge, depending on the damage to the technology of the card. Reissue of a Smart Card with damage is $5.
- Suggestions to keep your Smart Card damage free: Avoid placing a Smart Card in a wallet that will be sat on, avoid placing magnets near your Smart Card, and don’t attempt to use your Smart Card as a screwdriver or pry tool.
University and School-Issued Passes
I’m a high school student and I’m having problems with a pass that was issued to me by a school and/or program.
Please see your school or program lead for assistance.
My student ID card isn’t working.
Verify that you are using the most recently issued ID card. If this is a brand new ID card, it can take up to 48 hours for the card to be entered into the system, so please wait 48 hours after the card was issued to attempt using it again. If you continue to have issues with you ID, see your school or university’s program administrator. Contact info below.
Other Student ID issues
Please see your school or university’s program administrator for assistance. A list of contacts for many schools is below. Be sure to note the error message displayed by the fairbox, the route and time the issue occurred. This may be needed for trouble shooting the issue.
Eastern Washington University
Parking and Transportation Office
101 Tawanka Hall
Campus Card Services
Crosby Center, Lower Level
On Track Academy
Spokane Community College
Spokane Falls Community College
Washington State University Spokane
Academic Center, Room 130
Info Desk at the HUB
City of Spokane - Employees having issues with your city issued bus pass, please see City of Spokane Human Resources.
Kendall Yards - Card holders having issues with your Kendal Yards issued bus pass, please visit the Kendal Yards Welcome Center at 1335 W. Summit Parkway, or call (509) 474-1316.
Spokane County - Employees having issues with your STA issued bus pass please visit Customer Service at The Plaza. | public_administration |
https://www.mindwell-leeds.org.uk/myself/coronavirus-mental-health-information-hub/employers/ | 2021-06-21T12:52:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488273983.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20210621120456-20210621150456-00204.warc.gz | 0.963501 | 281 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__62969439 | en | MindWell has a wealth of information and resources that can help to support staff during this difficult time and find the support they need.
Our Self-care whilst working from home page has lots of tips and useful information to help you stay well whilst working remotely.
We also have downloadable self-care resources which can be shared with employees.
Mindful Employer Leeds has a strong network of employers in Leeds who want to make postitive changes to properly support staff mental health. It’s free to join the network and to receive a monthly newsletter. Current newsletters have information and advice about supporting staff wellbeing during the coronavirus outbreak. They have worked with the Leeds Mind Training team to create ‘Learning from lockdown and planning for a new normality: Putting staff wellbeing at the centre’ which you can download here.
This is Me is a nationwide campaign empowering employers of all sizes to collectively change the narrative around mental health in the workplace by encouraging employees to share their stories and experiences. Find out how to get involved in Yorkshire.
Public Health Resource Centre offers information for anyone with a responsibility for or interest in public health or promoting health and wellbeing in Leeds. The website has the latest advice and guidance from the Leeds Public Health team, and signposts you to relevant local services and resources, to help you undertake your role as effectively as possible during the Coronavirus pandemic. | public_administration |
https://storieslight.com/531-2/ | 2022-06-28T00:46:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103344783.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220627225823-20220628015823-00576.warc.gz | 0.945709 | 563 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__75543603 | en | NGO is the acronym for the non-government organisation and very well makes sure that people will be able to avail several kinds of advantages through this particular concept. The very basic role of the NGO is to play a very critical part in terms of developing the society, improving the communities and promoting citizen participation in different kinds of activities.
Following are some of the most important points justifying the importance of NGO in Gurgaon for the entire society:
- NGOs always helps in providing the people with a complete opportunity of making sure that there will be comprehensive development and operation of infrastructure in the society. Different kinds of NGOs help in providing the people with different kinds of services in terms of maintaining and utilising the infrastructure like public toilets, waste collection services, development of the building and several other kinds of related things. Most of the NGOs also have proper tie-ups with the government agencies which provide them with the complete ability to enjoy the technical assistance in the whole process.
- NGOs also help in providing the people with a chance of undertaking innovative projects and ensure that there will be a high level of support in the whole system. In this particular manner, the organisations are highly successful in terms of implementing things rather than dealing with the governmental bureaucracy.
- NGOs also use interpersonal methods of communication in terms of studying the right entry points and further making sure that the rest of the community will be significantly gained the whole process. They also help in providing the people with comprehensive feasibility of the products and make sure that everything will be perfectly undertaken without any kind of hassle in the whole system. NGOs are always in a very unique position of sharing information horizontally so that networking between different kinds of organisations can be perfectly carried out without any kind of problem in the whole process.
- There will be a higher level of research, monitoring and evaluation of the things because things will be perfectly undertaken without any kind of problem so that innovative activities can be perfectly documented and shared in the whole process. Organisations like NGOs also have the technical assistance in terms of trading capacity to ensure that they will be perfectly assisting the government in terms of implementing different kinds of projects without any kind of problem in the whole process.
- Organisations like NGOs also help in providing the people with an opportunity of undertaking different kinds of activities by perfectly influencing the government policies and programmes with the formulation of the right kind of systems. Ultimately it will help in advocating for the poor in terms of implementation of the things so that there is no problem at any point in time and overall goals are very easily achieved.
Hence, blood donation in Gurgaon with the help of an NGO can be perfectly planned out by the people so that all the individuals who need the blood at hard times can perfectly have proper access to it without any kind of extraordinary hassle in the whole process. | public_administration |
http://arcosnetwork.org/en/team-member/mrs-salome-alweny | 2019-04-19T08:14:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578527518.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20190419081303-20190419103303-00318.warc.gz | 0.936348 | 240 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__83352179 | en | Salome is a holder of a Master of Science (Msc.) degree in Environment and Natural Resources from Makerere University, Kampala. Her Msc. research was on “Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Responses of Fish Dependent Communities in the Albertine and Victoria Drainage Basins in Uganda”. She also holds a Bachelor degree of Arts in Environmental Management and advanced certificates in Environmental Journalism and communication - all from Makerere University.
She has worked with various organisations the latest being Uganda Carbon Bureau where she worked as a Carbon Finance Specialist - managing the bureau’s on-going Carbon Neutral service as well as the Bureau’s communications and publications. Before joining Uganda Carbon Bureau, She worked with Uganda’s National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) as the National Project Assistant Coordinator under the UNEP - UNDP Poverty-Environment Initiative (UNPEI. Prior to working with NEMA Uganda, she worked as an Environment writer at the Daily Monitor Newspaper in Uganda.
As Leader of Environmental Change, Development and Policy Department, she manages all aspects related to promoting sustainable mountain development in Africa including coordination and strategic leadership of the African Mountains Programme. | public_administration |
https://canselori.utem.edu.my/en/main-puu.html | 2023-10-02T05:06:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510967.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002033129-20231002063129-00689.warc.gz | 0.953757 | 338 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__250569821 | en | The Legal Adviser's Office was initially known as the Law and Discipline Unit and was created in 2007 when UTeM was formerly known as KUTKM. The Legal and Disciplinary Unit was placed under the responsibility of the Registrar's Office and was later upgraded to the Legal Division with two (2) units namely the Drafting & Legal Unit and the Disciplinary Unit.
In 2010, the Legal Division was upgraded to the Office of Legal Affairs and placed under the Chancellery. Finally, in 2016, the Office of Legal Affairs was rebranded to the Office of Legal Advisers with five (5) divisional functions, namely the Advisory & Negotiation Division, the Drafting Division, the Legal & Legal Review Division, the Contract Management & Compliance Division and the Integrity & Administration Division.
From May 2023, the Office of the Legal Adviser has carried out four (4) divisional functions which are Divisions namely the Advisory & Negotiation Division, the Drafting Division, the Legal & Legal Review Division and the Contract Management & Compliance Division. Currently, the Legal Adviser's Office has ten (10) staff headed by Encik Mohd Nizam Bin Pavel, Legal Adviser and assisted by four (4) officers and six (6) executive staff.
The Office of the Legal Adviser can be classified from a combination of four (4) divisions namely:
Advisory & Negotiation Division
Legal & Legal Review Division
Contract Management & Compliance Division
Office Of The Legal Advisor, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, 76100 Durian Tunggal, Melaka, Malaysia. | public_administration |
http://pflagftcollins.org/ | 2017-07-23T02:31:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424239.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170723022719-20170723042719-00272.warc.gz | 0.9245 | 353 | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__102663669 | en | Next PFLAG Chapter Meeting
Date: June 12: 7 PM Program, 8 PM Support
Program: Current legislative issues and trends at the national and state level
Diego Sanchez, PFLAG National’s Director of Advocacy, Policy and Partnerships, recently met with PFLAG leaders in the Mountain West region (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Wyoming). He shared emerging trends and legislation to watch. Julie Wilson, PFLAG’s Mountain West Regional Director, will share highlights from Diego’s presentation and facilitate a discussion around these issues.
Welcome to PFLAG Fort Collins/Northern Colorado!
Founded in 1972 with the simple act of a mother publicly supporting her gay son, PFLAG has been saving lives, strengthening families, and changing hearts, minds and laws ever since. Uniting people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) with families, friends, and allies, PFLAG is committed to advancing equality through its mission of support, education, and advocacy.
PFLAG Fort Collins meets on the 2nd Monday of each month at Plymouth Congregational Church, 916 W. Prospect Road, Fort Collins. Meetings typically begin with a program at 7:00 and support at 8:00.
PFLAG welcomes the participation and support of all who share in and hope to realize this vision.
The PFLAG meeting is a safe space for people to share their stories and their feelings. Please remember that who you meet and what was said is to be kept completely confidential. Thank you.
For more information about PFLAG National, see pflag.org.
For more information about other PFLAG chapters in Colorado, see pflagcolorado.org. | public_administration |
https://goffstownea.neanh.org/member-information/ | 2023-12-05T05:14:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100545.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205041842-20231205071842-00272.warc.gz | 0.964576 | 221 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__310684543 | en | This page has been created to allow our members access to information that relates to the important updates from the Executive Board and monthly meeting minutes. The drop down menu also includes access to the Goffstown school board website, Frequently asked questions, sick bank and member forms, a GEA events calendar, the master agreement (s) and GEA meeting minutes.
March, 2020: Below is a link to the Prep Committee’s Recommendation letter that was sent to Superintendent Balke in February and shared with the school board in March. Since this is a negotiated item, these are only recommendations at this time. The Association will once again attempt to add language to the next contract that guarantees every teacher in the district covered under the agreement gets a prep each day.
Memorandum Of Understanding during Remote Learning
On March 30, 2020 the Association signed a Memorandum of understanding with the Goffstown school district to establish an agreement regarding the use of technology by the district staff during the period of remote learning. A copy of the agreement can be seen by clicking on the link . MOU final Copy copy | public_administration |
https://www.psmb.pl/www2/en/eurbe/ | 2024-02-21T11:03:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473472.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221102433-20240221132433-00636.warc.gz | 0.92966 | 177 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__173211906 | en | AEEBC has developed a system for recognizing construction managerial qualifications in the European Union by preparing rules and procedures for awarding construction managers and construction engineers EUR BE (European Building Expert) card.
The first formal requirement for the establishment of the Polish National Monitoring Committee was the achievement by three of its members of the European AEEBC competence standards and obtaining the status of the European Construction Expert. These conditions were met by: dr hab. Eng. Andrzej Minasowicz, dr inż. Pawel Nowak, Janusz Zaleski, MA. This made it possible to apply to the AEEBC Professional Development Committee for approval of the composition of the Polish National Monitoring Committee at the Polish Association of Construction Managers. In September 2011, the first composition of the Polish National Monitoring Committee of the EurBE Card was appointed and approved by AEEBC. | public_administration |
http://old.prezident.uz/en/news/visit_foreign_country/?PAGEN_4=8 | 2020-11-28T08:14:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141195198.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20201128070431-20201128100431-00427.warc.gz | 0.942397 | 369 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__25952346 | en | President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov attended the United Nations General Assembly Session on Millennium Development Goals in New York on the invitation of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The head of our state delivered a speech at the summit.
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov has been on official visit in Russia, April 19-20, at the invitation of President Dmitriy Medvedev.
Major part of events started in the Kremlin on April 20 with the meeting of Islam Karimov and Dmitriy Medvedev in tet-a-tet format. During the talks, the sides exchanged views on advancement of Uzbek-Russian relations, expansion of cooperation in the framework of international organizations, on regional and international issues of common interest, including the mitigation and overcoming the global financial and economic downturn.
Interaction with Russia in Uzbekistan’s foreign policy, as well as relations with Uzbekistan in Russia’s foreign policy, is of particular magnitude. Contemporary cooperation is premised on Strategic Partnership Treaty between the two nations signed in 2004, and the one on Allied Relations reached in 2005.
President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov arrived in Ashgabat December 13 on a two-day official visit by the invitation of Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov.
Official welcoming ceremony of the head of Uzbekistan was held at the palace of the President of Turkmenistan. State anthems of the two countries were played. The leaders of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan observed the guard of honor.
At the talks tet-a-tet, the presidents noted that relations between the two countries have been on a steady development course. They expressed confidence that the visit would boost the bilateral cooperation based on mutual trust, respect and interest. | public_administration |
https://www.countyzoning.org/ny-st-lawrence-county/ | 2021-12-04T17:36:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362999.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20211204154554-20211204184554-00284.warc.gz | 0.845865 | 789 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__66467027 | en | The St. Lawrence County Building Department ensures the construction of safe buildings by creating and enforcing building codes and zoning rules in St. Lawrence County, NY. As part of this process, the Building Departments maintain records on St. Lawrence County zoning requirements and regulations, and they typically also check building plans to make sure they meet zoning rules and keep records on approved and rejected building and renovation plans. Building Department records may include St. Lawrence County zoning maps, building plans, and compliance reports on any violations of zoning laws. St. Lawrence County zoning information may be available on the Building Department website.
Ogdensburg Permits Ogdensburg NY 330 Ford Street, Ste 2 13669 315-393-1935
Ogdensburg Planning Department Ogdensburg NY 330 Ford Street, Ste 11 13669 315-393-7150
The St. Lawrence County Clerk's Office maintains important documents for a county or local government, which can include records related to zoning in St. Lawrence County, New York. These records, such as St. Lawrence County zoning maps and parcel maps, can show the zoning lines in a community, and they can also include zoning regulations and violations of zoning rules. St. Lawrence County Clerk Offices may also house building plans or renovation plans that have been approved based on zoning rules. St. Lawrence County zoning information is often accessible through the Clerk Office website.
Brasher Town Clerk Brasher Falls NY 11 Factory Street 13613 315-389-4223
Colton Town Clerk Colton NY 94 Main Street 13625 315-262-2810
De Kalb Junction Town Clerk De Kalb Junction NY 2907 County Road 17 13630 315-347-3331
Edwards Village Clerk Edwards NY 161 Main Street 13635 315-562-3704
Fine Town Clerk Star Lake NY 4078 New York 3 13690 315-848-3121
Hammond Village Clerk Hammond NY 24 South Main Street 13646 315-324-6171
Lawrence Town Clerk North Lawrence NY 11403 U.s. 11 12967 315-389-4487
Lisbon Town Clerk Lisbon NY 6963 County Road 10 13658 315-393-5988
Madrid Town Clerk Madrid NY 3529 County Road 14 13660 315-322-5760
Morristown Town Clerk Ogdensburg NY 604 Main Street 13669 315-375-6510
Norfolk Town Clerk Norfolk NY 5 West Main Street 13667 315-384-4821
Norwood Village Clerk Norwood NY 11 South Main Street 13668 315-353-2372
Potsdam Town Clerk Potsdam NY 18 Elm Street 13676 315-265-4270
Richville Village Clerk Richville NY 87 Main Street 13681 315-287-0956
Russell Clerk Russell NY 4 Pestle St 13684 315-347-2358
St Lawrence County Clerk Canton NY 48 Court Street 13617 315-539-1700
The St. Lawrence County Code Enforcement Office ensures compliance with codes, including zoning codes, as well as other rules and regulations in St. Lawrence County, NY. They are responsible for enforcing St. Lawrence County zoning regulations, and their records include documents listing the zoning rules and regulations as well as reports of St. Lawrence County code violations from complaints or inspections. Code Enforcement Offices in St. Lawrence County investigate potential violations and keep records of zoning problems. They may also keep St. Lawrence County abatement records. St. Lawrence County zoning information may be available through the Code Enforcement Office website.
Hammond Code Enforcement Hammond NY 17 North Main Street 13646 315-324-5321
Norfolk Town Code Enforcement Norfolk NY 5 West Main Street 13667 315-384-0440
Potsdam Code Enforcement Potsdam NY 35 Market Street 13676 315-265-0670 | public_administration |
https://www.emedina.net/job-market-paper | 2023-12-06T18:26:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100602.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206162528-20231206192528-00853.warc.gz | 0.910923 | 304 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__99676778 | en | Job Market Paper
Abstract: Deportations affect undocumented migrants already in the US and may also affect future migration; relationship potentially mediated by migratory networks. I study the effects of deportations on current and prospective migrants by combining micro-level data on undocumented migrants from Mexico and nationally representative US survey data. I then use an IV strategy that exploits local variation in deportations driven by the staggered rollout of the Secure Communities program (2008-2013), the size of the local undocumented population before activation, and the extent of local authorities’ engagement with the program. Estimates suggest that deportations reduce local undocumented populations more than one-for-one, partly through internal relocations. Long-term, local immigration enforcement reduces the probability that new immigrants settle in a given location even when there is a network connection, and it reduces the probability that incoming flows form new network links. Together, this establishes migrant network disruptions. Moving on new migration, I use a shift-share IV design and data on millions of new undocumented immigrants to estimate the impact of increased exposure to immigration enforcement at the origin via networks. I find that such exposure reduces migrant outflows, indicating a direct deterrence effect. I also find that exposure increases new migrants’ educational attainment, expected wages upon arrival, and the proportion of incoming migrants who speak English, with no effect on the age and gender mix. These findings suggest that migrant networks are widespread and active in the US, and that local immigration enforcement permanently shifts migratory networks, generating new regional migration patterns. | public_administration |
http://www.retirementliving.org.au/village-life/village-life/resident-association/ | 2019-02-23T20:43:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249550830.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20190223203317-20190223225317-00254.warc.gz | 0.922822 | 346 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__122020389 | en | Residents supporting residents
Each village can have a Resident Committee, which is involved in determining what activities take place in the village and play an important role in developing the range of services available.
Typically the Resident Committee is elected annually at an Annual General Meeting and the Committee works with the Village Manager for the good of all residents.
Residents also play an important role approving the annual village budget each year. Because the budget relates to the allocation of the services fees paid monthly by the residents (see Fees & Charges, Service Fees), it is important that residents have a role in determining exactly how money is spent in maintaining and improving the village.
There are also state associations of retirement village residents. Residents can choose to join their state association who represent all people living in retirement villages and provide a single voice for all residents.
The Property Council works closely with the associations, particularly in relation to legislative matters.
For more information of the associations follow the links below:
- The Retirement Village Residents Association (RVRA)- NSW & ACT – www.rvra.org.au
- Association of Residents of Queensland Retirement Villages (ARQRV) – www.villagers.org.au
- South Australian Retirement Village Residents Association SARVRA – www.sarvra.com
- Residents of Retirement Villages Victoria (RRVV)– www.rrvv.org.au
- WARCRA Western Australia Retirement Complexes Residents’ Association (WARCRA)– www.warcra.org
There is also now a national residents association, encompassing the leadership of each state organisation: the Australian Retirement Village Residents’ Association – www.arvra.org | public_administration |
https://www.b2econsulting.com/post-acquisition-separation/ | 2023-06-01T00:03:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647459.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20230531214247-20230601004247-00436.warc.gz | 0.938758 | 383 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__184974989 | en | What was the challenge?
Following the successful acquisition of the one of the world’s busiest airports, our client, a leading infrastructure investment corporation with over $40 billion assets under management across the globe, required experts to support the separation of the airport from its parent company.
It was imperative that the migration strategy was planned and executed with meticulous precision to ensure day-to-day operations were not impacted by the transition of technical processes to new digital systems. Our client required consulting support to manage multiple aspects of the transformational programme which would ensure the migration of activities from a shared service centre to their own private systems.
What did B2E do?
B2E Consulting performed a crucial role in delivering multiple aspects of our client’s technical operations, ensuring the stable transition of digital systems post-acquisition. Specific management responsibilities encompassed:
- Developing and directing a secure technical strategy to ensure the successful transition of 35,000 people from the airport system data base
- Driving transformational IT change with full staff, P&L and capital budgeting responsibility of £25 million reporting to the CIO
- Designing and directing a digital training programme enabling progress excellence amongst key users
- Identifying the critical finance and procurement processes
- Development of the RFP for the target state finance and procurement Systems
- Human Resources and Payroll transformation
- Business analysis/process improvement
What were the outcomes?
The success of the post-acquisition, stabilising project was significantly aided by the substantial technical and management expertise of B2E individuals. Specific outcomes which were cited as being fundamental to the transformation programme’s effective implementation included substantial efficiency savings to the airport partners by altering the technical delivery approach and by developing strategies for new Knowledge Management solutions.
In addition, B2E Consulting was a fundamental part of developing the airports 5-Year IT transformational strategy. | public_administration |
https://thainetizen.org/2009/03/police-arrest-web-director-of-prachatai-for-lese-majeste/?amp=1 | 2022-11-27T04:16:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710192.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20221127041342-20221127071342-00458.warc.gz | 0.96269 | 500 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__49378767 | en | Crime Suppression police yesterday raided the office of non-profit online newspaper Prachatai, accusing its Web director of violating the Computer Act by posting lese-majeste comments.
Web director Chiranuch Premchaiporn was arrested on a charge of committing a computer crime, because she allowed the offending comments to be posted on Prachatai’s Web board.
The website said Chiranuch denied the allegation and would agree to be interrogated only in front of her lawyer.
Five police officers arrived at the office late yesterday afternoon to conduct a search. They confiscated Chiranuch’s computer.
The Web director has a duty to monitor all comments on the website and delete any improper ones. Prachatai consistently censors improper or rude comments on its website and Web board.
Police said the offending comments had been left on the on the Web board for 20 days.
A Prachatai official said police and the Information and Communications Technology Ministry always issued a warning when such comments were found on the website but that there had been no warning this time.
The official said there was no clear criteria for judging what kind of comments and content on the Web might be deemed to constitute lese majeste. Police did not show the posted comments in question.
Violators of the Computer Act are liable to not more than five years in jail and/or a fine of not more than Bt100,000.
The authorities have launched a crackdown on websites accused of posting lese-majeste content. Many websites based inside and outside the country have been blocked.
A dozen individuals have been arrested on lese-majeste charges recently, such as former PM’s office minister Jakrapob Penkair, social critic Sulak Sivaraksa and Australian English teacher Harry Nicolaides. Some who have been arrested under the Computer Act include reporter Suwicha Thakhor and Chiranuch.
A group of 50 international academics called on the government to reform the Lese Majeste Act and release all detainees charged under it.
Supinya Klangnarong, a media activist representing a network of Internet users, said the arrest could sow fear among the media and Internet users. Police should have asked the Web director to explain herself.
She said police were only trying to curry favour with Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva after his speech stressing libel laws. | public_administration |
https://wt.ncs-customers.io/article/customers-can-now-contact-charterspectrum-about-streaming-benefits | 2020-02-20T14:21:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875144979.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20200220131529-20200220161529-00506.warc.gz | 0.931749 | 564 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__7074908 | en | ALBANY — Customers will soon start to see the benefits of a settlement agreement between the state Attorney General’s Office and internet cable giant Charter/Spectrum, Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday.
The attorney general announced Dec. 17 that Charter/Spectrum, formerly known as Time Warner Cable, would have to payout out $174.2 million in a record financial settlement with its customers reached in state Supreme Court.
“Today, New Yorkers will start to receive the tens of millions of dollars and additional services owed to them due to the company’s failure to provide quality services to its customers,” James said in a statement. “In issuing the largest-ever consumer payout by an internet service provider, my office is proud to set a higher standard for the way that internet providers accurately market services,” James said.
Under the terms of the settlement, $62.5 million in refunds will be sent to more than 700,000 active subscribers, meaning each active subscriber will receive between $75 and $150. More than 2.2 million active subscribers will receive streaming services and premium channels valued at more than $100 million, at no charge, according to the state Attorney General’s Office.
The direct customer refunds alone are believed to constitute the largest consumer relief payout ever paid by an internet service provider in U.S. history.
Under terms of the settlement, Charter/Spectrum will reach out directly to eligible customers about compensation. Information for eligible customers on how to request streaming or premium services will be included in their March bills.
Subscribers should contact Spectrum to receive the streaming services, according to the attorney general’s office.
“We are issuing credits to certain eligible customers in New York state, in accordance with our agreement with the New York Attorney General regarding the former Time Warner Cable,” according to statement from Charter/Spectrum on Tuesday.
Streaming services will be available to about 2.2 million internet subscribers at no extra charge as part of the settlement.
Customers who don’t already subscribe to HBO or Showtime will have the option of selecting one of the services for a limited time. Internet-only subscribers will get one month of Spectrum TV Choice streaming service.
Charter/Spectrum serves the Columbia County towns of Ancram, Austerlitz, Canaan, Chatham, Copake, Ghent, Hillsdale, New Lebanon, Kinderhook and Stuyvesant. The company also serves Windham in Greene County.
To reach reporter Amanda Purcell, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2500, or send an email to [email protected], or tweet to @amandajpurcell. | public_administration |
http://greenwichparentvoice.com/february-greenwich-inclusive-and-active-forum-2/ | 2018-01-16T07:46:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886237.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20180116070444-20180116090444-00312.warc.gz | 0.911898 | 626 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__157746994 | en | This forum brings together sports and physical activity service providers, the Royal Borough of Greenwich and organisations representing disabled people in the borough. It meets every two months and may invite other organisations to join it, either on a one-off basis or permanently. It aims to represent the disability, gender, ethnic and social make-up of the borough. Greenwich Parent Voice has a working role in the forum.
The Greenwich Inclusive & Active Forum’s (GIAF) overarching aim is to increase the participation in sport and physical activity by disabled people across the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
This will be achieved by:
1) Agreeing an Action Plan that complies with Inclusive and Active 2: a sport and physical activity strategy for disabled people in London 2010-2015. It is a London wide strategy, with a vision of active disabled Londoners. It has been created in partnership between the Greater London Authority (GLA), NHS London and Interactive. It sets out five overarching strategic themes and identifies targeted outcomes to increase opportunities for disabled people to participate in sport and physical activity.
2) Monitoring the effectiveness of that Action Plan against its objectives and indicators.
3) Ensuring that the objectives of that Action Plan are embedded into all relevant plans for sport and physical activity across the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Representatives at the Forum currently include:
• Greenwich Association of Disabled People
• Greenwich Mencap
• Blind Independence Greenwich
• Greenwich Parent Voice
• Paralympic Ambassadors from Greenwich Starting Blocks
• GLL Sports Development
• Charlton Athletic Community Trust
• Active for Health
• AHOY Centre
• South London Special League
• Pro-Active East
• Motivate East
• Activ Kids
• Greenwich Dance
and Royal Borough of Greenwich services:
• Adults and Older People
• Public Health and Wellbeing
• Customer and Community Services
• Families Information Service
• Learning and Achievement
• Children’s Services
• Schools & Further Education
Much of the discussion in these forum meetings centres around removing the barriers to participation not just in organised sport, but in daily physical activity for disabled people of every age and ability. We look at initiatives to remove these barriers, encouraging and inspiring people to become more active, helping them to discover the benefits of sport. We look at communication channels to see how well these are working and what could be better. The forum also looks at developing mentoring schemes, campaigns to promote the success of local disabled athletes and sportspeople and improving hub websites where people go to find out local information.
Tell us what you think
We need your ideas on what would make it easier for your child to take part on sport and activity in the borough. There are many opportunities out there, what would help you access these? Clearer information, special discounts, tailored schemes, improvements in the way services are delivered or just a wider choice to suit your child’s abilities? Let us know your thoughts by email or by posting comments below. Your personal or identifying details are always kept confidential so you can speak freely. | public_administration |
http://i800guswho.blogspot.com/2013/08/obama-set-to-strike.html | 2018-07-21T15:21:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592636.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721145209-20180721165209-00422.warc.gz | 0.962962 | 1,764 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__95762973 | en | Reuters) - President Barack Obama made the case on Wednesday for a limited military strike againstSyria in response to last week's chemical weapons attack even as he faced new obstacles with British allies and U.S. lawmakers that could delay any imminent action ...
Obama has already made up his mind... This is going to happen!
The UK has put a suggested resolution to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council "authorising all necessary measures to protect civilians" in Syria.
It calls for military action against what Britain has termed Syria's "unacceptable" use of chemical weapons.
But Russia has said the UN must finish its investigation into the claims before discussing any resolution.
Syria has accused the West of "inventing" excuses to launch a strike.
"Western countries, starting with the United States, are inventing fake scenarios and fictitious alibis to intervene militarily in Syria," Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said on Syrian state television.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague told reporters the international community had a responsibility to take action against the Syrian government, even if agreement could not be reached at the UN.
The Syrian government has strongly denied that it used chemical weapons and blames opposition fighters for the attack on 21 August, which reportedly killed hundreds of people near Damascus.
A team of UN weapons inspectors is currently investigating the sites of the attack. UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon said the experts were expected to finish their investigation in four days and would need more time after that to analyse their findings.
Mr Ban appealed for the team to be given "time to do its job".
And in a phone conversation with Mr Hague, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a draft resolution should not be considered until the inspectors had reported.
Russia and China have previously vetoed resolutions critical of Syria.
In a separate development, Syria's ambassador to the UN, Bashar Jaafari, asked for the inspectors to investigate three cases of the use of chemical weapons in the last week against "dozens" of government troops in Damascus suburbs.'Give peace a chance'
Britain's National Security Council "unanimously" backed action against Syria over its "unacceptable" chemical weapons use, Prime Minister David Cameron said earlier on Wednesday.
He had gathered the UK's armed forces and security chiefs with key cabinet ministers for emergency talks over possible military action, ahead of the UN Security Council meeting.
On Thursday, British MPs are set to vote on a government motion condemning the attack, but the vote will not authorise direct UK involvement in military action.
The motion says UN weapons inspectors should be allowed to report to the Security Council, after which a further vote on military action may be taken.
Britain's proposed UN resolution would condemn the "chemical weapons attack by [Syria's President] Assad", Mr Cameron added.
Mr Ban earlier called on the council's permanent members - China, Russia, France, the US and the UK - to act together.
"The body interested with maintaining international peace and security cannot be 'missing in action'," Mr Ban said.
He added: "Give peace a chance. Give diplomacy a chance. Stop fighting and... start talking."
The meeting of the five permanent members has now finished, but the UK, US and France are continuing talks. No representative of any of the five countries was prepared to comment officially after the meeting.
Meanwhile, in a briefing to journalists, joint UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said: "It does seem clear that some kind of substance was used... that killed a lot of people" on 21 August.
But he also emphasised that any military action would need Security Council authorisation.Stocks fall
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that US intervention would be a "disaster" for the region.
"The region is like a gunpowder store and the future cannot be predicted," Mr Khamenei said, according to Iran's Isna news agency.
Meanwhile the Israeli government has authorised a limited call-up of reserve soldiers. Officials told the BBC that although the likelihood of Israel being drawn into fighting with Syria was very low, the country nevertheless had to prepare for that scenario.
Stocks have fallen on global markets and oil prices have shot up amid growing concern about an impending attack on Syria.
The UN weapons inspectors resumed investigations after having called off work on Tuesday because of security concerns.
On Monday, the team's convoy was shot at by unidentified snipers. One of their cars came under fire as it crossed the buffer zone between government and rebel-controlled areas.
More than 100,000 people are estimated to have died since the conflict erupted in Syria in March 2011.Forces which could be used against Syria:
- Four US destroyers - USS Gravely, USS Ramage, USS Barry and USS Mahan - are in the eastern Mediterranean, equipped with cruise missiles
- Cruise missiles could also be launched from submarines, including a British Trafalgar class boat. HMS Tireless was reportedly sighted in Gibraltar at the weekend
- Airbases at Incirlik and Izmir in Turkey, and in Jordan, could be used to carry out strikes
- Two aircraft carriers - USS Nimitz and USS Harry S Truman are in the wider region
- The Royal Navy's response force task group- which includes helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious and frigates HMS Montrose and HMS Westminster - is in the region on a previously-scheduled deployment
- RAF Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus could also be used
- French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is currently in Toulon in the western Mediterranean
- French Raffale and Mirage aircraft can also operate from Al-Dhahra airbase in the UAE.
Mabus is ready to strike ... Though it clearly sounds like most countries are backing out of this...
Obama Says Damascus Carried Out Chemical Attack
US President Barack Obama says Washington is convinced Damascus carried out chemical attack, but has not decided yet on whether to take military action.
.S. President Barack Obama has said the United States has "concluded" that the Syrian government carried out a large-scale chemical attack on civilians last week but has not made a decision yet on possible military action.
Speaking on U.S. public TV on August 28, Obama said he is still evaluating possible military options to punish Syria for the August 21 in the suburbs of Damascus that activists say killed hundreds of people.
"If in fact we make a choice to have repercussions for the use of chemical weapons, then the Assad regime, which is involved in a civil war trying to protect itself, will have received a pretty strong signal that in fact it better not do it again," Obama said.
Obama suggested any possible U.S. military response would be limited in scope.
"I have no interest in any kind of open-ended conflict in Syria, but we do have to make sure that when countries break international norms on weapons, like chemical weapons that could threaten us, that they are held accountable," the U.S. leader explained.
China's foreign minister on August 29 urged restraint over Syria, saying any military intervention in the crisis would only worsen turmoil in the Middle East.
Later on August 29, parliament in Britain will meet in emergency session to vote on whether to back international action against Syria.
British Prime Minister David Cameron told British lawmakers he would not back military action in Syria until UN weapons inspectors on the ground in Syria have a chance to report their findings.
The UN inspectors are due to wrap up their 14-day mission in Syria over the weekend.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on August 28 urged the inspectors be given time to finish their work.
At the UN Security Council, Britain put forward a draft resolution seeking authorization for the use of force, but Russia, as expected, objected, saying it was too early to consider such a measure.
UN Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said on August 28 that any military action in Syria must have UN approval.
"I think international law is clear on this. International law says that military action must be taken after a decision by the [UN] Security Council. That is what international law says," Brahimi stated.
Also at the UN, Syria's ambassador Bashar Jaafar urged the United Nations to immediately send inspectors to” investigate three instances of use of war chemicals against Syrian servicemen” in the suburbs of Damascus on August 22, 24, and 25.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rohani spoke by phone about Syria, stressing diplomatic means must be pursued to resolve the crisis. | public_administration |
https://cca-acc.org/resources/where-do-cartographers-work | 2024-02-20T22:01:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473347.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20240220211055-20240221001055-00609.warc.gz | 0.946047 | 1,099 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__130161654 | en | - About the CCA
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The short answer is indoors–a point worth noting, for cartography is primarily an indoor job. Maps are often associated in people’s minds with outdoor activities like surveying and exploring, but specialization has long rendered that image obsolete. Opportunities for field work may arise–ground-checking information obtained from airphotos, for example–but they are the exception rather than the rule.
The long answer is that cartographers are widely employed in both the public sector (especially in government and education) and the private sector. Some cartographers in Canada work for the government, and details of the more important federal and provincial mapping agencies are given below. But opportunities also exist with commercial mapping companies, with colleges and universities, and–especially for cartographers with a knowledge of GIS–with a broad range of businesses. More maps are being produced now than ever before, and the trend will continue, especially now that desktop mapping has brought high-quality cartography within the reach of anyone with access to a microcomputer.
The Federal Government
The premier mapping organization in Canada is the Surveys, Mapping and Remote Sensing Sector of Natural Resources Canada. Its various divisions do work in geodesy, surveying, photogrammetry, remote sensing and GIS, as well as making maps. The principal agency of cartography in Canada is the Earth Sciences Sector of Natural resources Canada. Various divisions of this sector deal with geodesy, land surveying, photogrammetry, remote sensing, GIS, as well as production of maps. One of these divisions, the Centre for Topographic Information, amongst other things produces large scale topographic maps covering all of the country and maintains the National Topographic Data Base. Another division, the Data Dissemination Division, publishes the maps and data of the Atlas of Canada as well as geological maps at various scales. This sector employs all types of cartographers some of whom are in the research and development foreground of the cartography of today. The Centre employs cartographers of all types, some of whom are at the very forefront of research and development in cartography today.
Many other federal agencies engage in mapping and related work. The most important are the Geological Survey (part of NRCan), the Atmospheric Environment Service and the Water Planning and Management Branch (both part of Environment Canada), the Directorate of Geographic Operations (National Defence), the Canadian Hydrographic Service (Fisheries and Oceans) and the Geography Division (Statistics Canada). Several of these are engaged in innovative work in computer cartography and GIS. Special mention must be made of the Cartographic and Audio-Visual Archives Division of the National Archives, which maintains a map collection of almost two million items.
Provincial and Local Governments
To a degree mapping activities at the provincial level mirror those at the federal level, though there are necessarily differences because of differences in jurisdiction. Each province has its equivalent of a ‘surveys and mapping branch’ that produces topographic maps at scales not covered by the federal government, and maps are also produced by departments responsible for geology, transportation, tourism, forestry, land registration, and so on.
Provincial mapping agencies, like their counterparts at the federal level, are heavily involved in computer cartography and GIS, especially in connection with topographic mapping and land registration. Most provincial governments also maintain their own cartographic archives. At the regional and municipal levels of government cartographers are employed in planning and public works departments and assessment offices.
Colleges and Universities
These obviously are where most teaching cartographers are employed, but it should be noted that many university departments, especially departments of geography, geology and engineering, also employ staff cartographers to produce maps and other graphics for teaching and publication purposes. Most of their work is in black-and-white, but sometimes university cartographers get involved in major projects such as atlas production. Examples are the Economic Atlas of Ontario and the Historical Atlas of Canada, both produced at the University of Toronto. Most universities also have map libraries where cartographers may be employed.
The situation here is very complex, but certain broad divisions can be identified. First, there are companies engaged in a range of environmentally-related activities, such as oil companies, surveying and photogrammetric firms, public utilities, engineering and construction companies, and planning and consulting firms. Many of these make extensive use of computer cartography, remote sensing and GIS, and offer excellent employment opportunities for cartographers. Second, there are the private companies that specialize in smaller-scale thematic mapping, such as the making of school atlases, wall maps, road atlases and street plans. Third, there are the vendors of computer mapping, remote sensing and GIS products, who employ cartographers in research, development, applications and marketing roles. The importance of private sector activities is reflected by the existence of the Geomatics Industry Association of Canada to represent companies involved in this general area.Moreover, aeronautical charts, necessary for airplane pilots, are produced by NAV Canada, a company which deals with the control of the Canadian civil air traffic.
These are the places cartographers earn their livings, but how much do they earn? Needless to say, this varies according to education, responsibilities, experience and employer. | public_administration |
https://www.humanresources.illinois.edu/employees/policies/discrimination-and-harassment.html | 2022-08-10T22:46:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00007.warc.gz | 0.863487 | 298 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__170400466 | en | The commitment of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms. The university does not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, disability, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, age, order of protection status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, arrest record status, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a protected veteran and complies with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations.
University complaint and grievance procedures provide employees and students with the means for the resolution of complaints that allege a violation of this statement. Inquiries or complaints may be addressed to the Associate Vice Chancellor for Access and Equity, Office for Access and Equity, 616 E. Green Street, Suite 214, Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 333-0885, fax (217) 244-9136, TTY (217) 244-9850, and the Director of Illinois Human Resources, Illini Union Bookstore, 807 S. Wright St., Suite 420, (217) 333-6747, fax (217) 333-4019.
Full text available at The Office for Access and Equity website. | public_administration |
https://wickliffe.mugshot.press/arrest/380999/katherine-compton | 2019-07-22T07:47:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195527828.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20190722072309-20190722094309-00168.warc.gz | 0.848451 | 274 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__215536968 | en | - Arrest Number: 2009006048
- First Name: KATHERINE
- Last Name: COMPTON
- Middle Name: B
- Current Age: 38
- Booking Date: 9/7/2017 2:33:00 PM
- Height: 5' 7"
- Weight: 165 lbs
- Hair Color: BROWN
- Eye Color: BROWN
- Race: White
- Sex: F
- Arresting Agency: McCracken County Sheriff Office
- Arrest Date: 09/06/2017
- City: Wickliffe
- State: Kentucky
- CRIMINAL MISCHIEF, 1ST DEGREE
- TAMPERING WITH PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
KATHERINE COMPTON was booked on 9/7/2017 2:33:00 PM. COMPTON was arrested by McCracken County Sheriff Office in Wickliffe, Kentucky. COMPTON was 38 years old at the time of the arrest.
KATHERINE COMPTON may not have been convicted of the charges or crimes listed and are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Please contact the McCracken County Sheriff Office for more information regarding arrest records.
We are not affiliated with the McCracken County Sheriff Office and we cannot make any claims as to the validity of the records provided by them. | public_administration |
https://www.curran-connors.com/work-items/city-of-san-jose-office-of-economic-development/ | 2022-10-05T12:06:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337625.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20221005105356-20221005135356-00798.warc.gz | 0.907154 | 142 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__232577893 | en | City of San Jose Office of Economic Development
Branding, Website and Corporate Communications Materials
The City of San Jose’s Office of Economic Development needed help in attracting businesses, residents and creative talent to the Silicon Valley region. Seeking to distinguish itself from the well-known cities to its north, we created a brand persona that coupled a new visual identity with a more distinct voice to speak to the bright future of opportunity and ambition that embodies the city. Applying this to signage, maps, banners, brochures and advertising builds frequency and familiarity, while the website provides access to useful tools and more in-depth information making it easier for each group to obtain the information they need to call San Jose home. | public_administration |
https://www.acjfs.org/application_page/child-card-parents/ | 2022-06-30T14:09:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103821173.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220630122857-20220630152857-00044.warc.gz | 0.970502 | 101 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__144775624 | en | Applicants are required to participate in an approved activity like work (full or part time), school or a qualifying training program.
Applying for child care services through Allen County Job and Family Services requires you to complete both an application and to submit verification documents. Please read the following information carefully to ensure your application is processed as quickly as possible. Please note it may take up to 30 days to complete your application. We complete cases in the order they are received and when all verification documents have been received. | public_administration |
https://www.asprinotaires.com/en/service/general-power-of-attorney/ | 2024-04-22T19:03:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818337.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422175900-20240422205900-00055.warc.gz | 0.934644 | 308 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__63907144 | en | Extended delegation of powers
Entrust the management of your affairs to someone you trust with a general power of attorney. Our services include :
- Management of your belongings in the event of prolonged absence.
- Financial decisions made by your mandatary.
Frequently Asked Questions:
A general power of attorney gives the mandatary the power to act on behalf of the mandator in a variety of situations, while a specific power of attorney limits the agent’s action to specific tasks or situations.
A standard general power of attorney ceases to be valid in the event of the mandator’s incapacity. Instead, you should take steps to homologate the mandate of protection.
You can revoke a general power of attorney at any time as long as you are fully capable of making decisions. It is sufficient to notify the attorney-in-fact in writing of the revocation and, if the power of attorney has been signed before a notary, to inform the notary by registered letter. It would also be prudent to inform all financial institutions where you hold bank accounts or investments of this revocation.
Under a general power of attorney, the mandatary can manage your financial affairs, real estate, and make administrative decisions on your behalf, unless restricted in the document.
No, a general power of attorney becomes invalid upon your death. Decisions concerning your assets will then be made according to your will or, in the absence of a will, according to the laws of succession. | public_administration |
https://rrpb.ro/european-union-law/why-is-the-european-parliament-important/ | 2023-12-06T08:12:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100583.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206063543-20231206093543-00342.warc.gz | 0.950127 | 1,003 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__195597894 | en | With next year’s European Parliament elections, the phrase “I am a European citizen and I have rights” becomes even more relevant.
Why do we need to know what the European Parliament does?
Because it is the only institution of the Union whose members are elected by direct, free, universal and secret ballot by citizens. The Parliament, as a political, co-legislative and co-budgetive body, directly serves the interests for the residents of the EU Member States and it is assisted by an Economic and Social Committee and a Committee of the Regions. The Parliament also elects the European Ombudsman, a mediator who investigates possible maladministration within the Union institutions and deals with petitions from citizens. It is important to point out that the increase in competences and authority took place in 2009, with the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty, when the European Parliament became equal to the Council of Ministers.
The European Parliament has three headquarters – Brussels, where the parliamentary committees meet, Strasbourg, where the plenary sessions are held, and Luxembourg, where the Secretary-General is based.
How the European parliament works?
The Parliament is composed on the principle of proportionality, according to the size of the national population. Therefore, Romania now has allocated 33 seats. MEPs are organised into 8 political groups, plus independent MEPs, without any affliation. Their term of office is 5 years and for the President is 2.5 years. There are a number of incompatibilities for potential candidates, such as being a member of a national parliament or government, an officer of the EU institutions, a judge at the CJEU, an European Ombudsman etc. The organisational structure of the Parliament features 3 types of committees – permanent (20 in number, focusing on certain areas), temporary, as well as committees of inquiry. Romania has, like the other Member States, a European Parliament Liaison Office, where events are organised for information or educational purposes.
Which is the working method?
Although most legislative proposals generally emerge from the European Commission, the head of executive, they have to be debated and approved (or rejected) by the Parliament. This is called the ordinary legislative procedure, where the Council of Ministers is equally involved. A legislation draft will go through 3 readings in Parliament, depending on the changes that are made by the Council. As a result, after the first reading in Parliament, the Council can adopt or amend the text of the law. If it is amended, the proposal will be sent back to Parliament for a second reading. When the Parliament modifies it, the second reading in the Council will proceed. If the Council does not adopt all the amendments, the Conciliation Committee procedure will be opened. This Committee is made up by an equal number of representatives from the two institutions mentioned above and its aim is to reach a common position. Once agreement has been reached, we will have a third reading in Parliament, where the joint text is forwarded to the plenary for the final vote, with no further amendments possible. If it gets the vote, the Council’s opinion will be required again. Finally, the act will be signed by the presidents of both institutions and published in the Official Journal in all 24 languages of the Union to gain force and effectivity.
The Parliament has also the last word in the budgetary procedure, giving final consent to the adoption of acts concerning the finances of Member States, even though the Commission is the budget administrator. The Parliament cooperates with the Court of Auditors to give discharge to the Commission for the budget`s execution.
What represents the advisory opinions?
The Parliament also issues advisory opinions in areas such as competition and the internal market. This type of opinion must be requested, but is not required to follow.
Another type of opinion issued by Parliament is the assent opinion. For this, both the request and compliance are mandatory. The areas where the law demands assent are of the utmost importance for the proper functioning of the Union – association and accession agreements with the EU, serious infringements of fundamental human rights, combating discrimination and withdrawal from the EU.
Among other duties, the European Parliament participates in the appointment or dismissal of members of the EU institutions (e.g. European Commission, European Ombudsman, Court of Justice of the European Union, Court of Auditors). The most important effect of this prerogative is the possibility of dismissing members of the Commission through a motion of censure. Given that, scrutiny of the executive can result in a block resignation.
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http://employeewellness.wvu.edu/crisis-emergency-information | 2017-03-25T21:34:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189083.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00054-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.688356 | 220 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__75204584 | en | Crisis & Emergency Information
For life-threatening emergencies, go to the nearest Emergency Room or Call 911.
- University Police: 304.293.2677
- Valley Healthcare 24 Hour Crisis Line: 1.800.232.0020
- WV Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1.800.273.8255
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1.800.273.TALK (8255)
- Veterans Crisis Hotline: 1.800.273.8255 (Press 1)
- Rape and Domestic Violence 24 Hour Crisis Line: 1.304.292.5100
- National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1.800.799.SAFE (7233)
- Report Child Abuse in WV: 1.800.352.6513
- WVU Council for Women’s Concerns: 304.293.5600
- First Choice Services Call or text 1-844-HELP-4-WV for immediate help for any West Virginian struggling with an addiction or mental health issue. | public_administration |
https://k-agro.com/en/news/chapter-mo-mr-borovskiy-rayon-reported-on-the-results-of-socio-economic-development-of-the-district-for-2018.html | 2024-03-03T12:54:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476374.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303111005-20240303141005-00201.warc.gz | 0.943425 | 323 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__164944194 | en | In his report, Nikolai Kalinichev among the most important tasks of the district authorities in 2018 called the fulfillment of social obligations to the population and ensuring the progressive development of the economy. According to him, the volume of industrial production in the municipality has almost doubled over the past three years. Last year it reached 204 billion rubles. This is the second place in the region. The main volume of shipped products falls on large industrial enterprises of the industrial Park "Vorsino". According to this indicator, the district ranks first in the region. The total investment in fixed assets in 2018 amounted to 15 billion rubles, and over the past three years – 38 billion rubles. 59 investment projects are being implemented at industrial sites. Multimodal transport and logistics center "Freight village Vorsino"is actively developing. Over the past five years, the volume of transit container traffic exceeded 150 thousand containers, including 72 thousand containers in 2018. At the end of the year, 350 new jobs were created at large enterprises of the district. In 2019, it is planned to put into operation 9 more enterprises. The total investment in these projects is 7 billion 317 million rubles, 824 jobs will be created. Speaking at the end of the report of the head of the municipality, Vladimir Potemkin noted the positive changes that occurred last year in the local economy and agriculture. According to the Deputy Governor, new modern enterprises are opening on Borovskaya land, stable results are demonstrated by the agricultural sector, whose products are in high demand among the Kaluga region and Muscovites. | public_administration |
https://mikahouse.com/2020/04/10/government-grants-for-planting-trees/ | 2023-09-23T02:17:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506429.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922234442-20230923024442-00608.warc.gz | 0.945725 | 573 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__57032398 | en | Tree planting projects require the whole neighborhood to become involved.
Federal, state and local governments provide grants for neighborhood tree planting projects. Tree planting grants are provided to urban communities for beautification projects and also for areas that have been damaged by natural and human causes. Trees provide many benefits to society. They remove dust, ash and smoke from the air. They also help slow the movement of storm water, which reduces soil erosion and flooding. Tress also increase the market value of a home. Tree planting grants typically require communities and residents to get involved in the tree planting process
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Recovery Act Tree Planting Grant
In 2010, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided $144,644 to Groundwork USA to plant trees and provide landscaping services across the country. Groundwork USA works with inner city teens and trains them for outdoor conservation work. The summer Green Team Program employs high school students and also helps them to develop leadership skills. For this grant program, teens worked along side of National Park Service Staff to plant trees and shrubs in a rough environment.
State Grant Programs
States agencies also provide grant funding for tree planting initiatives. The State of California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's Green Trees for the Golden State grant program provides funding for tree planting projects in urban areas. Grants between $30,000 and $100,000 are awarded to local governments, businesses and residents, as well as nonprofit agencies. In 2011, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Energy Foundation awarded 32 grants to local communities for tree planting projects. It is estimated that the grants will be used to purchase 1,000 trees.
Local Government Grants
Contact your city or county department to find out if there are any tree planting grants available. Kirkwood community in Greensboro, North Carolina received a grant from the city's NeighborWoods Program to plant 150 trees. NeighborWoods provides the trees and the mulch. Residents and volunteers plant, water and mulch the trees on the designated tree planting day. Olympia, Washington's Neighborhood Matching Grant Program provides a maximum grant up to $4,000 that can be used to plant trees. Only registered 50(c)(3) nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply for an award. A 50-percent matching contribution is required to participate in the program.
Global ReLeaf Grants
American Forests' Global ReLeaf program has planted more than 33 million trees through its grant program. American Forest forms partnerships with local, state and federal agencies for reforestation projects. To qualify for a grant, the plantable area must be 20 acres or larger and have been damaged by natural disaster such as wildfire, hurricanes or tornadoes. Areas that have been damaged by humans and other causes are also eligible. Grant proposals must have innovative restorative approaches or technology that can be applied elsewhere. | public_administration |
https://courses.nisru.org/courses/prm-102-determining-vulnerabilities | 2021-03-08T11:42:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178375439.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20210308112849-20210308142849-00262.warc.gz | 0.880729 | 159 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__153068912 | en | Full course description
Welcome to PRM-102 Determining Vulnerabilities
This vulnerability assessment course will help you to understand and assess vulnerability of your specific infrastructure through the lenses of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP). You will learn several approaches to vulnerability assessment which will enable you to conduct a vulnerability assessment from an all-hazards perspective focusing on a facility’s susceptibility to specific threats or hazards.
This course will guide you through the process of assessing vulnerability and provide detail regarding considerations for assessing vulnerability of critical infrastructure assets. You will also learn how to incorporate vulnerability information in your risk assessment.
A background in infrastructure protection and/or Vulnerability Assessment is unnecessary to succeed in this course. An understanding of threats and hazards will be helpful to those taking this course. | public_administration |
http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/nc/news/messages-archive/archive/browse/2/article/erc-to-boost-eu-basic-research.html | 2016-08-24T04:01:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982290765.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823195810-00051-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.926062 | 688 | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-36__0__54209894 | en | ERC to boost EU basic research
A new era in science funding has started this January with the inception of the European research Council (ERC). For the first time, the European Union will channel Euro 7.5 billion of its application-orientated research framework programme into basic research of outstanding excellence. For this year, Euro 292 million have already been earmarked for so-called ‘starting independent researcher grants’ from the Euro 54 billion budget of FP7 (2007-2013), making up one third of the annual Euro 1.25 billion budget of the ERC. In autumn, a second funding scheme termed ‘the advanced investigator grant’ will be introduced. In total, 40% of the ERC’s total budget will be channelled into biological research.
The first call, especially designed for postdoc researchers, was published at the end of December with the aim of supporting independent frontier research. “This is a signal to support not only research into applications but also to back excellent basic research”, said Prof. Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Secretary General of the ERC. “Up to now, little money has been allocated particularly to young researchers by the national research agencies. Furthermore, there is a lot of double work in European labs. With the ERC funds, we want to improve this”, stressed Winnacker.
The German science manager will act as an ‘interface’ between the 22 scientific experts of the ERC’s Scientific Council – which is responsible for ERC strategy, and will draft and overview the implementation of the annual working programme and the evaluation process – and an executive agency (dedicated implementation structure (DIS)/directorate S) of currently 85 staff, established by the European Commission. The agency will implement the working programme, the peer review, and the evaluation process.
Criteria for measuring scientific excellence
Currently, 19 thematic interdisciplinary panels of 10 experts each, which will be supported by up to 50 scientific referees each, will evaluate the project proposals in a 2-step procedure after pre-registration.
In the first step, a project outline (excellence, feasibility, methods) and the qualification of the principal investigator (funding ID, high impact publications, ability to initiate new lines of thinking, novelty of approaches), will be evaluated using a score, qualifying applicants with a score higher than 8 to enter phase 2. In the next step, the full proposal including an assessment of the research environment (e.g. infrastructure) and a presentation will be evaluated. The deadline for pre-proposals will be 25 April 2007. It is expected that the ERC will fund about 200 projects with Euro 100,000 to Euro 400,000 per year. The main challenge for the reviewers will be on identifying promising novel research ideas besides the research mainstream.
A similar funding mechanism has been already established by the US National Science Foundation, which supports US basic researchers (NIH-funded projects excluded) with funds of Euro 4.3 billion annually.
However, research excellence will not be the only criterion for research grants. Because the new funding mechanism is part of the European Union’s framework programme FP7 it will suffer from the same political limitations. There will, for example, not be any equal treatment of European researchers working on human embryonic stem cells, due to differences between national legislations. | public_administration |
https://jewel925.com/recovery-plan-for-sandbags/ | 2020-07-14T06:09:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657149205.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20200714051924-20200714081924-00213.warc.gz | 0.918519 | 148 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__14623495 | en | At a special meeting on May 10th, Municipal Council adopted a recovery plan to address the removal of sandbags, construction debris, and other waste goods from the affected flood zones. This strategy also addresses the restoration of impacted roadways, and the removal of contaminated materials once the floodwaters have subsided. Details to follow.
In the meantime, please leave your sandbags walls in place. Also, you will continue to see municipal employees completing their daily site visits until the river reaches a normal level.
For non-emergency flood information, please contact 211 or 1-877-761-9076 or visit their site at https://easternontario.cioc.ca/record/OCR4589. | public_administration |
https://www.idc-componentes.com/en/blogs/iot/tecnologia-que-ayuda-a-preever-accidentes-de-trafico-traxio | 2024-02-27T03:37:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474670.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227021813-20240227051813-00881.warc.gz | 0.939138 | 373 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__174425317 | en | Ford is developing a digital road safety tool that could predict potential trouble spots, using data from sources such as connected vehicles and road sensors.
Ford has partnered with Vivacity Labs, Oxfordshire County Council and Loughborough University with support from Transport for London following funding from the British government's innovation agency, Innovate UK, and the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. United.
The initiative stems from extensive Ford research on how advanced data and analytics from connected vehicles can be used to improve urban mobility and road safety. This identified how relatively minor improvements could potentially address the problems.
A Ford-led consortium is developing an innovative road safety prediction tool that, using data from connected vehicles and smart road sensors, could help make city and town travel safer and easier.
Each year more than 1.3 million people die on the world's roads - around 3,700 every day - with road injuries the eighth leading cause of death worldwide. In addition to the human impact, accidents also have significant financial consequences. The UK Department for Transport estimates that the annual economic cost of road incidents is more than £ 35 billion.
The data-driven road safety tool will analyze information from connected vehicles, smart road sensors, and data from local authorities to predict likely locations and possible root causes of potential road safety hot spots. The knowledge gained will enable cities to take preventative measures to deal with roads and crossings that pose the greatest risks to road users.
Ford Mobility is working alongside partners including Oxfordshire County Council, AI sensor specialists Vivacity Labs, and leading academics from Loughborough University's Transportation Safety Research Center, with support from Transport for London. . The goal is to turn the tool into a solution that can benefit cities and road users around the world. The initiative has now received financial support from Innovate UK, the government-backed innovation fund. | public_administration |
https://actonprimary.ovw3.juniperwebsites.co.uk/page/?title=School+Meals&pid=16 | 2024-04-15T11:35:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816977.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415111434-20240415141434-00484.warc.gz | 0.945404 | 162 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__194825415 | en | You may be eligible for Free School Meals if you are on a low income or receive certain benefits. It is important that you apply if you think you are eligible as you may receive further financial help including trips, music lessons and the School Essentials Grant. It can also mean increased funding for school.
Application forms and further information can be found here.
From September 2024 all children in Reception up to Year 6 will be offered a free school meal under the Welsh Government roll out of Universal Primary Free School Meals (UPFSM). More information about UPFSM can be found here.
If you wish for your child to have a free meal, then these must be booked in advance using ParentPay. If you need your login details then please contact the school office. | public_administration |
https://globalhealthdatamanagement.tghn.org/articles/ebola-and-twitter-lessons-learned/ | 2020-08-10T16:20:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439736057.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20200810145103-20200810175103-00560.warc.gz | 0.951754 | 151 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__95816299 | en | Published on 11 Dec 2015 - Tatiana Vorovchenko
MSc by Research in Clinical Medicine candidate, University of Oxford
Twitter plays role in information distribution during emergencies, and it is widely used by public health organisations during public health crises. Twitter has facilitated transmission of both accurate information and misinformation during the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Twitter activity during the recent Ebola outbreak was more likely to coincide with news events rather than disease dynamics. Twitter provides a unique opportunity for public health organisations to listen to their audience and to share scientifically accurate information. Public health organisations could do more to engage with the Twitter population during the recent Ebola outbreak. Such organisations may benefit from employing humorous and emotional content and/or collaborating with accounts with a high level of Twitter engagement. | public_administration |
http://www.delta.utah.gov/ | 2016-06-30T19:17:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.95751 | 690 | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-26__0__53162627 | en | Call for Entries in Delta City 4th of July Parade
Delta City’s 4th of July Celebration is one of the best in the Country. The City Council and City Staff strive tirelessly to ensure festivities maintain their small, hometown feeling and remain as near as possible to our previous holiday celebrations of many years past. An irreplaceable component of the celebration is the Parade itself, and more specifically, the community effort of those that spend time and money for parade entries for all to enjoy. Each and every float sponsor and parade participant deserves our thanks for their contributions that make this event so successful.
A paramount concern for the City Council is that everyone is able to enjoy the day safely, leaving with only happy memories. The throwing of candy during the parade has been an honored tradition. However, it cannot be ignored that this tradition places many children in harm’s way as they focus on scattered treasures on the road, not recognizing the danger of being in the path of the next float. Accordingly, it is necessary for the City make some changes to safeguard against tragedy, and to comply with Utah Department of Transportation requirements in order for us to host a parade upon our Main Street, which is a Utah State Highway. Therefore, Delta City is asking parade participants to do the following:
· No candy or other items will be thrown from a float or vehicle.
· Items may be handed out by float walkers, and walkers are to stay in the outside lane when handing out items. Walkers must be 12 years of age or older. There should not be more than two walkers per side of a float (for a total of 4 walkers per float).
· Walkers may only resupply their candy or other items to be handed out from behind the rear axle of the float, and only when the float vehicle is not in motion. Some form of containers must be filled upon the float and ready to resupply and exchange empty containers from the walkers.
· No climbing on and off of a float vehicle except for exchanging walkers. Exchanges should be kept to a minimum to keep the parade flowing, and only when the float vehicle is not in motion.
· The Millard County Sheriff’s Office and the Millard County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue will be asked to enforce these rules, and remind float drivers and participants at intersections along the parade route.
Chairs and other items left in the public right-of-way prior to 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 3rd to “save spots,” may be removed. Items removed by City Staff may be claimed by owners through the City Offices on July 5th during regular business hours.
It is the City Council’s sincere hope that everyone, from parade participants to spectators, will embrace these changes and recognize they are necessary to keep Delta the happiest place to be on the 4th of July. Please join with us in continuing to make our 4th of July the best by participating with your float entries.
As a reminder, the Children’s Parade will begin at the Delta High School parking lot at 400 North 100 West and will proceed south to the City Park at 7:00 P.M. Cars may park perpendicular to the curb on either side of the road in order to view the children along the way.
Delta City Mayor and City Council | public_administration |
https://www.open-for-business.org/medellin/ | 2019-01-16T05:23:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583656897.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20190116052151-20190116074151-00088.warc.gz | 0.961294 | 540 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__198474391 | en | This success story has its roots in deep crisis. At one point, Medellín was considered the most dangerous city on earth. From 1990 to 1993, more than 6,000 people were murdered annually. Today, the city is seen as a model for urban innovation and economic transformation:
– Its murder rate is down 80% from 1991.
– Its unemployment rate is down from 15% in 2004 to 10% in 2016.
– The poverty rate is down from 36.5% in 2004 to 14.1% in 2016. Its Gini coefficient (a measure of inequality) dropped from 54.2 in 2008 to 46.3 in 2016.
These improvements are largely connected to the start of Social Urbanism, a policy enacted by Sergio Fajardo, mayor of Medellín in 2004. Urban development projects typically target infrastructure solutions to physical problems. Medellin opted for a different strategy, using architecture and culture as tools for social inclusion: projects such as the España Library Park and the city’s elevated Metrocable are designed to connect together different parts of Medellín society.
LGBT+ inclusion has become an important part of this strategy. In 2008, the mayor opened the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, which focuses on challenging stereotypes about LGBT+ people, providing employment opportunities, and reducing discrimination. It also hosts sexual diversity roundtables, which allows LGBT+ people to discuss discrimination in the city.
The proactive inclusion of the LGBT+ community is an acknowledgment of the contribution it can make to the cultural life of the city. Luis Bernard Velez, the Center’s director, says, “Medellín is a city that has understood diversity,” and that the Center “was born out of a recognition of the diversity in the city and participation of this community.”
It should be noted that LGBT+ inclusion is not perfect in Medellín. According to Colombia Diversa, there is still a higher-than-average rate of homicides of LGBT+ people, particularly gay men and transgender individuals. There are also issues of forced displacement as a result of threats of violence. This presents an opportunity for Medellín to continue proactively including the LGBT+ community in its continued growth.
Achieving this opportunity is possible, and Medellín is positioned to do it. As a report by the World Economic Forum the importance of this inclusive approach to the transformation of the city: “Medellín has changed in the past 10 years, not just in its spatial dynamics but also in the mentality and perception of its inhabitants who now see culture as an important tool for development.” | public_administration |
https://b-l-s.lu/churchill-lectures/this-year-s-lecture | 2019-12-05T17:11:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540481281.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20191205164243-20191205192243-00355.warc.gz | 0.948981 | 356 | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__132257761 | en | The Sir Winston Churchill Memorial Lectures are hosted annually by the BLS. Over the years we have had the privilege to host a series of eminent speakers from the British political, economic or cultural world.
Past speakers have included: The Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister; The Rt. Hon. Neil Kinnock, former Vice-President of the European Commission; The Rt. Hon. Christopher Patten, former European Commissioner for External Relations; The Rt. Hon. Douglas Hurd CBE MP, former British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and Eddie George, former Governor of the Bank of England.
The speakers gave a lecture to the members of the BLS on their topic of choice, generally but not always a European theme.
The 2019 memorial lecture:
Lord Green, as Stephen Green, is a former Chairman and former Chief Executive of HSBC Holdings plc.
As Lord Green he was Minister of Trade and Investment in the UK Government.
PROGRAMME 17:30 Arrival: Harp music by Autumn Le Lievre (HSBC) 18:00 Welcome: Hubert Wurth, Patron of the BLS and former Ambassador to London Albert Hansen, President of FONARE David Clark, President of the BLS 18:10 Lecture: Stephen K. Green “Whither Europe in the context of the rise of Asia” 18:45 Summary and questions: Sir Nicholas Forwood QC, former Judge of the General Court at the Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg and Patron of the BLS 19:15 – 20:30 Reception at the Residence of the British Ambassador 16 Boulevard F-d Roosevelt, 2450 Luxembourg
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https://secutechindia.tw.messefrankfurt.com/mumbai/en/facts-figures/market-update/India_transportation.html | 2020-08-11T00:56:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738723.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20200810235513-20200811025513-00490.warc.gz | 0.963509 | 310 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__25286011 | en | With more and more people working night shifts in the country and public safety continuing to remain a challenge, the Indian government has come up with certain mandates for private companies. Employees, especially female employees, must be provided a safe cab service if they are required to commute in the late evenings or early mornings.
This rule has brought about the growth of the cab-service industry for private companies in recent years. While the rules mandate several things like a dedicated guard who will be in the vehicle making sure that the female employees are not the first to be picked up and last to be dropped off, etc., a technological demand that has come up is the need for GPS solution in the cabs.
Reports suggest that the Indian vehicle telematics market is expected to touch US$300 million by 2021. To put this in perspective, the global market for the same is expected to reach $113 billion to $230 billion by 2022. The Indian government has been mulling over making GPS tracking mandatory for commercial vehicles for a while and has finally given an ultimatum that all public vehicles registered from the beginning of this year will have to have GPS and panic buttons.
The state of public safety has also given rise to several mobile apps that cater to women’s safety. These include apps that can share cab ride details with friends, send SOS messages, and provide insights into the safety situation in specific parts of a city at a specific time of the day.
Source: Prasanth Aby Thomas, Freelancer, asmag.com | public_administration |
https://www.beltwaycatalyst.com/congressional-distribution | 2021-03-02T05:00:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178363217.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20210302034236-20210302064236-00060.warc.gz | 0.952336 | 251 | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__35259710 | en | Whether you're a corporation with critical research that requires targeted distribution to Congress or a lobby firm or PAC interested in streamlining some of your efforts on the Hill, Beltway Catalyst is here to help. We will distribute your content to your in-house list or we can tell you which offices are working on the issues centering around your special interest and we can even tell you which staffer in each office is fielding and managing the type of research you're distributing.
A popular add on to this service to the Congressional Distribution solution is our customized "Distribution List". We will give you a detailed excel spreadsheet which lists: Representative's name, office address, main phone, targeted staffer name, direct number and email. You will be able to call, email or snail mail each offices as your research evolves and your organizational message evolves.
If you're organization is outside of the Beltway region you can tell us when you're coming into DC and we can set appointments with the targeted staffers in each office so that you can further communicate your message to the legislative representatives that matter most to your initiative. We are not lobbyists, we are advisors so we will be able to sit in on some meetings while we can't in others. Call us for more information. | public_administration |
https://www.stfloriankc.org/?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=856420&page=About20Us | 2023-02-09T13:36:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499966.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20230209112510-20230209142510-00760.warc.gz | 0.936666 | 520 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__106398823 | en | The Kansas City St. Florian Scholarship Fund Committee is comprised of nine (9) members; President, Secretary-Treasurer, First Vice-President, Second Vice-President, Third Vice-President and four (4) Trustees. Of the four (4) Trustees two (2) may be members of IAFF Local 42 and two (2) must be members of the Public at Large as set forth in the By-Laws adopted by the Kansas City St. Florian Scholarship Fund Committee.
Judi Albors, Trustee: Daughter of KCFD Fire Captain George, who died in the line of duty at the Southwest Boulevard fire and explosion in 1959.
Timothy Buster, President: Retired KCFD Fire Captain, Active Retiree of IAFF Local 42 and member of Greater Kansas City Firefighters Alumni Association.
Nick Cascone, 2nd Vice-President: Retired KCFD Fire Apparatus Operator and IAFF Local 42 Active Retiree.
Cindy Circo, Trustee: Director of Contract & Business Center for Evergy. She is a former elected official for the City of Kansas City, Missouri. Cindy has uncles, cousins and a son who are past and present members of the fire department. Her proudest title is MOM.
Tarshish Jones, 3rd Vice-President: KCFD Fire Captain, Station 10, with 23 years of service. Graduate of Lincoln University of Missouri, Bachelor of Science Degree (Sociology). Married, wife Corrie and two sons, Tyson and Terrell.
Michael LaCapra, Secretary-Treasurer: Retired KCFD Fire Apparatus Operator, Active Retiree of IAFF Local 42 and Secretary-Treasurer of Greater Kansas City Fire Fighters Alumni Association.
Kenneth Pegue, Trustee: Retired Fire Investigator, Active Retiree IAFF Local 42, Substance Abuse Counselor State of Missouri, PEER Support Chaplain.
Clare Murphy Shaw, Trustee: Clare is an attorney and is licensed in both Kansas and Missouri. She has served on numerous nonprofit boards in the Kansas City, assisted community groups in seeking nonprofit status and amending their by-laws, written grants, and aided various community development project through her work on neighborhood association boards.
Sherwood Smith, 1st Vice-President: Retired KCFD Fire Captain, Missouri State Council of Fire Fighters President Emeritus and IAFF Local 42 Active Retiree. | public_administration |
https://lionelwirth.com.au/2016/01/08/can-a-statutory-demand-be-served-on-an-incorporated-association/ | 2022-06-29T15:35:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103640328.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220629150145-20220629180145-00684.warc.gz | 0.925095 | 857 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__39384569 | en | The statutory demand process is a familiar one to those who practise in insolvency and debt-collection. Section 459E of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) provides, inter alia, as follows:
(1) A person may serve on a company a demand relating to:
(a) a single debt that the company owes to the person, that is due and payable and whose amount is at least the statutory minimum; or
(b) 2 or more debts that the company owes to the person, that are due and payable and whose amounts total at least the statutory minimum.
(2) The demand:
(a) if it relates to a single debt–must specify the debt and its amount; and
(b) if it relates to 2 or more debts–must specify the total of the amounts of the debts; and
(c) must require the company to pay the amount of the debt, or the total of the amounts of the debts, or to secure or compound for that amount or total to the creditor’s reasonable satisfaction, within 21 days after the demand is served on the company; and
(d) must be in writing; and
(e) must be in the prescribed form (if any); and
(f) must be signed by or on behalf of the creditor.
(3) Unless the debt, or each of the debts, is a judgment debt, the demand must be accompanied by an affidavit that:
(a) verifies that the debt, or the total of the amounts of the debts, is due and payable by the company; and
(b) complies with the rules.
The relevant form is Form 509H found in Schedule 2 of the Corporations Regulations 2001 (Cth): regulation 1.0.03 and Schedule 1, Item 51H. The affidavit is to be in accordance with Form 7 of the Supreme Court (Corporations) Rules 2013 (Vic): rule 5.2.
Can a demand under section 459E of the Corporations Act be served on an incorporated association registered under the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012 (Vic)?
Section 459E(1) provides that a person may serve a demand “on a company”. Section 9 of the Corporations Act defines company to be one registered under the Corporations Act.
The national system of corporations legislation, when devised at the beginning of this century, was attended by a number of constitutional complications, and so there is a plethora of supporting legislation at the State level. One of those statutes is the Corporations (Ancillary Provisions) Act 2001 (Vic). Part 3 of that Act has the effect that a statute can declare that provisions of the Corporations Act (and related legislation) apply in relation to a matter as a law of the State.
Basically, if the Victorian Parliament wants to be efficient and avoid reproducing legislation that exists in the Commonwealth’s corporations legislation, it can just point to the relevant Commonwealth provisions and say “they apply as a law of this State”. (Compare that process with the application of the Australian Consumer Law – found in Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) – as a law of the State: Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012 (Vic), section 8.)
Such declaratory provisions exist in the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012 (Vic): generally, Part 11. Section 150 specifically applies, with sensible modifications, Part 5.4 of the Corporations Act. Section 459E is in Part 5.4.
So, as a law of Victoria, section 459E(1) reads:
A person may serve on an incorporated association a demand …
And so on.
Section 459P similarly applies, so that an incorporated association can be wound up for failing to comply with a statutory demand. Section 459G (applications to set aside statutory demands) applies, too. When drafting a statutory demand, it would presumably be sensible to substitute the word “company” for “incorporated association”. | public_administration |
http://www.afhos.co.uk/who-can-apply.asp | 2014-04-18T05:30:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609532573.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005212-00468-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.921342 | 504 | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-15__0__72464448 | en | Who can apply?
Who can take part in the scheme?
Please note: You are not eligible if you have LESS THAN 4 YEARS or MORE THAN 6 YEARS service (from your Enlistment date)
The Armed Forces Home Ownership Scheme is available to qualifying regular serving members of the British Armed Forces who cannot otherwise afford to buy a home on the open market. There is no restriction on level of household income. Funding for the scheme is limited and applications will be taken on a first come, first served basis. Please note that 2013/2014 is the last year of this Pilot scheme and we therefore cannot guarantee that funds will be available to all applicants.
Qualifying Criteria for All Applicants
- Must meet the basic MOD eligibility requirements for the scheme, in particular that you have between 4 - 6 years continuous service at the point of application. We will seek confirmation of this from the MOD.
- The start date used is 'The date an individual commences Regular Service in the Armed Forces'.
- Must be able to demonstrate access to savings or sufficient funds to pay a deposit (which may be 5% or more of the purchase price), legal fees, stamp duty and other costs of moving.
- Must be able to sustain home ownership in the longer term.
- Must have a good credit history - if you have rent arrears during the previous 12 months, are in breach of your current tenancy agreement, or have an adverse credit history, including County Court Judgements, which means you are unlikely to be able to sustain ownership, you will not be eligible for the Armed Forces Home Ownership Scheme.
- If an existing homeowner is approved as eligible, their existing home MUST be sold prior to exchange of contracts on their new home.
- Must not be named on the deeds of any other property.
If you have any questions about whether or not you are eligible, please contact us on 0800 028 1980 (drop the first zero if calling from a mobile) or email us at [email protected].
If you are not eligible for the Armed Forces Home Ownership Scheme, or feel this scheme is not suited to your needs, there are a range of other schemes designed to help you get a foot on the housing ladder, or to find an affordable home to rent. For more details, find your local HomeBuy Agent here, or visit the website of the Joint Services Housing Advice Office (JSHAO) | public_administration |
https://ozarkchamber.com/Missouri/coronavirus/ | 2021-08-02T19:36:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154356.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20210802172339-20210802202339-00103.warc.gz | 0.90517 | 303 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__112975009 | en | The Senate and House have both passed the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. This aid package will help provide emergency assistance to organizations and individuals impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
UPDATE 8/12/20: CARES Act Grant Available for Christian County Small Businesses – The Christian County Commission, at the recommendation of the Christian County CARES Act Fund Committee, has released an application for small businesses to request funds for reimbursements of expenses incurred through the COVID-19 Pandemic. Contact [email protected] with questions.
UPDATE 4/27/20: As of this morning, applications for the Paycheck Protection Program have re-opened. If you were not able to apply for the first round of funding, please contact your lender ASAP to take advantage of additional funding.
UPDATE 4/18/20: The Small Business Administration reports that funding allocated for the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program has been exhausted. Congress is working to appropriate additional funds toward those programs. The Ozark Chamber will make our members and the public aware of any additional funds available as soon as applications resume.
For information about the CARES Act and other government programs, click here.
For information about the Paycheck Protection Program, click here.
For information about the Economic Injury Disaster Loan, click here.
For information about additional financial programs (grants, etc.), click here. | public_administration |
https://www.promusicaz.org/heroes-act/ | 2023-12-06T23:57:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100626.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206230347-20231207020347-00769.warc.gz | 0.938188 | 225 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__124840394 | en | In May, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the HEROES Act, which would extend expanded unemployment benefits including the extra $600 per week in benefits through January 2021. But the Senate has still not voted on this critical piece of legislation.
The extra $600 per week in unemployment benefits will run out at the end of this month if the Senate does not act NOW.
- Extending Pandemic Unemployment Compensation which provides an additional $600 per week that unemployed workers have been receiving since the CARES Act passed in March.
- Preserving healthcare benefits by passing a 100% COBRA premium subsidy for families who have lost access to their employee-based insurance.
- Safeguarding renters and homeowners from evictions and foreclosures.
- Protecting the pensions we have earned by allowing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to provide partition assistance to struggling multiemployer plans.
- Increasing funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Musicians standing together will get through this stronger than ever.
AFM International President | public_administration |
https://celebcampus.com/2023/06/05/explosive-allegations-controversial-korean-societys-covert-cash-flow-to-lydia-kos-family-sparks-outrage/ | 2024-03-02T16:31:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475833.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302152131-20240302182131-00647.warc.gz | 0.969811 | 1,207 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__58478416 | en | Society breached rules by hiding Korean bank donations to golfer’s family: officials
Donations of more than $100,000 from a Korean Government bank to golfing superstar Lydia Ko’s family were secretly filtered through an Auckland charity, breaching its own rules, says Internal Affairs.
Internal Affairs says it found the activities of the charity – the Korean Society of Auckland – could “constitute serious wrongdoing” and has issued a formal warning notice over the way it tried to disguise the donations in 2012 and 2013.
The saga arose after the Korean Development Bank (KDB) wanted to assist Ko but feared being criticised for supporting a non-Korean citizen, the Herald can reveal.
Following “private discussions” with Ko’s parents and the bank, Korean Society president Sung Hyuk Kim and past president Young Pyo Hong agreed to let the bank use the society’s bank account to transfer money to Ko’s parents.
“Due to their concerns both the KDB and Lydia Ko’s parents asked for the assistance of the society to facilitate the passing of money between them as they believed the society had the trust and confidence of the New Zealand and Korean public,” says the formal warning notice from Internal Affairs.
“These discussions established a way of transferring the funds from KDB to Lydia Ko’s parents without the payments becoming public knowledge.”
But Ko’s parents last night distanced themselves, saying they had no knowledge of, or influence over, the internal actions of the bank or charity.
Korea-born Ko, 17, was last month ranked the world’s No1 woman professional golfer, becoming the youngest player of either gender to attain the top-ranked position.
In the warning notice, dated March 3, Internal Affairs-Charities Services investigations manager Hammond Rees said the two Korean leaders “deliberately concealed” the real purpose of the money and allowed the society to be used as a cover.
“If questioned, the KDB would falsely claim that they had donated the money to the society for the benefit of the Korean people of Auckland,” Mr Rees wrote.
On September 25, 2012, fifty million Korean won ($53,931.35) was electronically deposited by the bank into the society’s Auckland bank account. The next day, $53,962.39 was withdrawn and electronically transferred to the personal bank account of Bangsuk Hyon, Ko’s mother.
A second transaction was made on March 28, 2013, when $53,787.94 was transferred from the bank to the society, and a few days later a cheque for the same amount was written for Ko’s mother and transferred into her account.
The cheque was authorised by Mr Hong and signed by Mr Kim.
The investigation also found that Mr Kim had used his position of influence to manipulate other financial transactions in an alleged attempt to obtain a personal profit, the warning notice states.
Mr Rees said the society’s activities were against its charitable purpose and in breach of society rules.
“The investigation has determined that these activities could constitute serious wrongdoing and could be grounds for removal from the Charities Register,” he wrote.
Investigators did not accept Mr Kim’s argument that assisting the bank’s funding for Ko was to create greater diversity in Auckland, and greater harmony between the Korean and New Zealand communities.
“The involvement of the society provided no benefit to the Korean community other than a potential sense of associated pride,” Mr Rees said.
Ko’s family said through a spokesman they had no influence over how the organisations were run.
“From our perspective and Ko’s understanding, this was a proper funding donated by KDB Foundation to Lydia’s parents through the Korean Society as part of KDB Foundation’s programme to support top global talents whose family were faced with financial difficulties as was the case with Lydia’s family,” said Ko’s agent, Michael Yim, in an email.
“How KDB or the Korean Society leaders chose to handle things internally within their organisations is unbeknownst to the Ko family and something which they have no influence over.”
Ethnic Communities Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga said he was disappointed the Korean Society’s reputation and future had been put in jeopardy.
“However I am pleased that the Department of Internal Affairs-Charities Services has taken firm action … this action should allay the fears of members that any similar activity could occur again.”
The department said the society would not be removed from the register as it would be “disproportionate” and “unfairly impact” its ongoing membership, function and reputation. Instead, it had given the society until March 31 to provide a “thorough and detailed written response” to address the issues raised.
Mr Kim said he accepted the findings. A meeting would be held this month to disclose details to members.
Q & A
What is it about?
Korean Society of Auckland leaders used the organisation to conceal financial support of over $108,000 from a Korean Government bank to Lydia Ko. The society’s president also allegedly made loans to the society for personal profit and there is civil court action against him.
Why is it wrong?
The society is a registered charity and an Internal Affairs-Charities Services investigation deemed these activities were against its charitable purpose and a rules breach.
What could happen?
The society could be struck from the Charities Register under the Charities Act 2005, but it was deemed that such formal action would be disproportionate and impact unfairly on its membership. It has been issued a formal warning. | public_administration |
https://www.arlingtonlibrariesfoundation.org/latest-news/2015/6/6/two-year-anniversary | 2019-10-22T08:41:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987813307.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20191022081307-20191022104807-00520.warc.gz | 0.974401 | 189 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__126064484 | en | At their March meeting, the Arlington Libraries Foundation Board noted that the first meeting of the Foundation was March 14th 2013, and the current meeting marked the 2nd Anniversary of the formation of the board.
The transition process to form the Foundation as a separate entity from the Library predates the launch of the foundation, and the board thanks all those who helped in creating, developing and bringing to fruition this entity. In the first two years the board has had successful fundraising campaigns for all of their permanent funds, added a fund, increased awareness of the Foundation in the community, and has been able to meet the needs for funds requested by the Director of Library. With a new website, a social media campaign, and a new Director of Library, the board members look forward to seeing what success the Foundation can help the library achieve in the future.
Thank you to all who have donated be it monetarily, physically, mentally or with professional expertise. | public_administration |
http://friarlaw.blogspot.com/2013/04/ct-parental-responsibility-plans.html | 2018-07-20T08:17:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591575.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720080634-20180720100634-00167.warc.gz | 0.937492 | 269 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__127480800 | en | If there is a dispute between parents regarding the custody, care, education and upbringing of their child in a divorce, legal separation or custody action, the parents must file a proposed parental responsibility plan with the court.
Connecticut General Statute section 46b-56a(d) lists six items which must be included in the plan:
(1) a schedule of the physical residence of the child during the year,
(2) provisions on decision-making authority between the parents regarding the child's health, education and religious upbringing,
(3) provisions for the resolution for future disputes between the parents,
(4) provisions regarding parents' failure to honor their responsibilities under the plan,
(5) provisions for dealing with the child's changing needs as the child grows and matures, and
(6) provisions for minimizing the child's exposure to harmful parental conflict, encouraging the parents in appropriate circumstances to meet their responsibilities through agreements, and protecting the best interests of the child.
According to C.G.S. section 46b-56a(e), the objectives of a parental responsibility plan "are to provide for the child's physical care and emotional stability, to provide for the child's changing needs as the child grows and to set forth the authority and responsibility of each parent with respect to the child." | public_administration |
https://runonless.com/bootcamp/working-with-your-utility/ | 2023-12-09T04:19:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100800.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209040008-20231209070008-00817.warc.gz | 0.894112 | 251 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__158177765 | en | Working with Your Utility
Fleets and utilities must work together in unprecedented ways to ensure successful deployment and operation of charging infrastructure for electric trucks. Join NACFE and industry experts to learn more about utility business models and programs and best practices for successfully partnering with your local utility.
In this training, participants will learn:
How are utilities thinking about and planning for commercial fleet electrification?
What programs exist to help fleets plan and pay for necessary charging infrastructure, including grid upgrades?
What factors impact electricity bills, including time-of-use rates, demand charges, and more?
What is a public utilities commission (PUC) and how can you work with yours?
How can electric trucks help put downward pressure on electricity rates for all customers?
Bootcamp speakers include:
- Trucking Fleet Primer (about utilities) for Commercial Truck Electrification (NACFE)
- Utility Company Primer (about truck fleets) for Commercial Truck Electrification (NACFE)
- Preparing to Plug In Your Fleet: 10 Things to Consider (NRECA, EEI, & APPA)
- Charge Ready Transport program (Southern California Edison)
- Electric Vehicle (EV) Fleet Hub (National Grid) | public_administration |
https://1topjob.xyz/2021/06/upsc-nda-2-recruitment-2021-notification-out-apply-online-form.html | 2023-09-25T19:37:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510085.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925183615-20230925213615-00729.warc.gz | 0.837261 | 370 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__191469035 | en | UPSC NDA 2 Recruitment 2021 Notification Out Apply Online form
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UPSC NDA 2 Recruitment 2021
UPSC NDA 2 Recruitment 2021 Notification Out Apply Online form: UPSC has issued notification for National Defense Academy and Naval Academy Examination (NDA 2) 2021. Eligible and interested candidates for UPSC NDA can apply online through the official website. Online applications for this can be made from 9 June to 29 June 2021 till 6:00 PM. Under this, 208 posts of Army, 42 posts of Navy, 120 posts of Air Force and 30 posts of Naval Academy have been kept. Candidates must check the official notification once before applying online.
UPSC NDA 2 Recruitment 2021 Age Limit
For UPSC NDA Recruitment 2021, the candidate should be born between 2 January 2003 to 1 January 2006.
UPSC NDA 2 Recruitment 2021 Educational Qualifications
- Army Wing : Passed /Appearing 10+2 Exam in Any Recognized Board in India.
- For Airforce & Naval Wing : Passed /Appearing 10+2 Exam with Physics & Math Subjects
UPSC NDA 2 Recruitment 2021 Application Fee
In UPSC NDA Recruitment 2021, the application fee for General, OBC and EWS category will be ₹ 100. While the application for SC and ST will be free. | public_administration |
https://www.nicolefrethem.com/vote | 2019-10-16T18:11:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986669057.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20191016163146-20191016190646-00168.warc.gz | 0.95362 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__73609351 | en | When and where do I vote?
Vote early by mail or in person at Ramsey County Elections beginning September 20. To request an absentee ballot, go to the Ramsey County Elections website.
From October 29 to November 4, you can vote at a countywide early voting location.
The general election will be held on Tuesday, November 5, and you will be able to vote at your regular polling place from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. You can find your polling place on the Secretary of State's website.
Who can vote for Ramsey County Commissioner in District 1?
Any registered voter in District 1 can vote in the election. District 1 includes Arden Hills, Gem Lake, North Oaks, Shoreview, Vadnais Heights, and White Bear Township. It also includes most of Mounds View and small portions of Spring Lake Park and Blaine. | public_administration |
http://portland.smartgridroadshow.com/ | 2014-12-22T13:27:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802775338.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075255-00049-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.931792 | 900 | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-52__0__132046106 | en | REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
Fall 2010 Smart Grid RoadShow
November 2-3, 2010 • The Nines Hotel • Portland, Oregon USA
Register Today for the Electric Utility Industry's Premier Smart Grid and Grid Transformation Conference!
The Fall 2010 Smart Grid RoadShow, the 5th semi-annual installment of this unique conference series, will continue to deliver on its reputation as the highest quality event of its kind, focused exclusively on Grid Transformation and Smart Grid initiatives.
Co-hosted by the Bonneville Power Administration and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the special significance of this geographical venue is underscored by the many pioneering contributions and initiatives sponsored and implemented by these world-renowned organizations. Together with the many utilities and suppliers native to the 5-state Pacific Northwest region, a substantial portion of the foundational research, development and testing of Grid Transformation concepts and Smart Grid technologies created over the past two decades is rooted in their unwavering regional, national and international efforts to foster a smarter, more efficient system that matches the growing demands for clean, safe and reliable power today, as well as tomorrow!
Many of these initiatives are exemplified by the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project, which serves as a centerpiece for the Portland conference. Participants from all facets of the project will be on hand to share their experiences to date as well as their plans for the future of this unique and diverse project initiative*.
(*Special Luncheon Panel: This project will be further detailed in a special interactive luncheon panel on the second day of the 2-day event with representatives from utility, supplier and other participating organizations with panelists to be announced soon!)
Register now to get in on the Early Bird Registration discount and special $149** room rate at the conference hotel in downtown Portland.
**Basic room rate; does not include taxes, etc.
Hear what our host organizations have to say about the upcoming conference…
|Terry Oliver, BPA||
The Bonneville Power Administration was one of the early originators of Smart Grid with our EnergyWeb concept featured in a 2001 issue of Wired magazine. Since then we have advanced the use of synchrophasors for grid management and, with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, tested advanced Smart Grid concepts in the Olympic Peninsula GridWise Demonstration Project. These key advances effectively illustrated the potential; now we need to test the business models.
Here in the Pacific Northwest, we're building on our legacy of energy efficiency and reliability, adding new goals of integrating large amounts of variable renewable generating resources, while continuing to advance national and industry challenges such as interoperability and standardization. And through these efforts we are building a more complete understanding of the costs and benefits of Smart Grid applications at an appropriate scale.
The sessions comprising the Portland Smart Grid RoadShow Conference program will give all attendees a better understanding of Smart Grid benefits and challenges and also how to apply real-world experiences and lessons learned by others from across the industry. I hope you will join us for this insightful and informative event.
The Pacific Northwest has a long history of leading and advancing what is characterized today as the “Smart Grid.” This region pioneered many of the advanced phasor monitoring and controls on the Northwest transmission system that substantially influenced the current spread of phasor concepts and tools across the North American power system. Regional initiatives in the 1980s and 1990s that focused on energy efficiency as a means of addressing power supply requirements influenced many of the early demand management and response concepts that are central to the Department of Energy’s GridWise Program innovations and the subsequent regional Smart Grid demonstrations being implemented in 2010 and beyond.
The Portland Smart Grid RoadShow Conference will provide a venue to better understand the current and emerging deployments of Smart Grid activities across the entire Pacific Northwest power system, from transmission to distribution and through to consumers. Participants will learn the benefits achieved in current deployments and hear about new value streams being tested in upcoming Pacific Northwest Smart Grid investments at virtually every level of energy and utility enterprise operations.
|Carl Imhoff, PNL|
What do you think was the most succesful aspect of the Smart Grid RoadShow?
What do you think are the most significant TECHNOLOGICAL challenges facing the Smart Grid today?
What do you think are the most significant FINANCIAL challenges facing the Smart Grid today
What do you think are the most significant POLITICAL challenges facing the Smart Grid today | public_administration |
http://brise.com.au/maximising-use-of-research | 2021-11-26T23:34:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358074.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20211126224056-20211127014056-00552.warc.gz | 0.901879 | 226 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__132544661 | en | Maximising the use of research
The improvement of health outcomes and reduction of health inequities in BBV and STI populations requires surveillance, research and evaluation of the highest standards of scholarship that is directly relevant to policy and practice.
BRISE will implement a number of strategies to successfully maximise the use of BBV and STI research, including the central involvement of stakeholder groups representing marginalised communities.
Strategies that will be implemented include:
- Establishing expert advisory committees to guide and oversee research projects
- Disseminating annual research updates to NSW Health and key stakeholders
- Producing and disseminating reports and summaries of significant research and evaluation projects
- Delivering evidence synthesis reports that compile published and unpublished data
- Publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals
- Providing expert advice on BBV and STI related issues provided to NSW Health
- Delivering presentations and briefings at relevant policy forums and meetings
- Convening an annual BBV and STI research forum to discuss findings and new evidence
- Participating in relevant NSW Health and sector advisory groups and committees | public_administration |
https://healthmerchantservices.com/2022/02/18/what-is-ebt-payment-processing/ | 2023-12-05T09:25:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100550.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205073336-20231205103336-00411.warc.gz | 0.949969 | 804 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__312822253 | en | EBT payment processing is a method of clearing and settling transactions (obtaining verification of transaction). EBT stands for Electronic Benefits Transfer. It is the system that was set-up by the government to help welfare recipients with food, cash, and rental assistance. These payments are made through state and local governments who distribute federal financial assistance through their designated Electronic Bank Account. In general, EBT systems are tied directly to the food stamp system.
How does an EBT Payment Work?
EBT payment processing requires two account types to work properly: one bank account and one prepaid card or debit card. The bank is used for direct deposit of benefits each month while the debit cards are used to make purchases at the supermarket. In some cases, recipients use both a bank account and a debit card in conjunction with each other. The money is distributed from either a Federal Reserve Bank or via Direct Express®, a private company that distribute funds for free on behalf of the U.S. government.
When a recipient makes a purchase it is automatically deducted from his or her account. There are no cash withdrawals because the card cannot be used for such transactions. The recipient uses the card to buy groceries and essential items like diapers and gasoline. Each month, a pre-set amount of money is added to each person’s EBT payment processing account depending on how many people are living in the home.
How is the EBT System Funded?
The government provides the funding for each account and all necessary equipment and fees (including ATM, POS (point of sale), and web-based services) is paid by the merchants who accept the debit card as payment. In some cases, recipients may be required to pay a small fee of $1.00 and may be charged up to $5.95 each time their card is checked at an ATM or POS terminal.
Who uses an EBT card?
Any household can receive benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) if they meet state and federal eligibility guidelines. SNAP beneficiaries receive their food stamp allocation on an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card which resembles a bank debit or credit card. The EBT card is used like cash at most supermarkets and convenience stores.
Who administers the EBT system?
In most cases, a state or local government agency is contracted to administer and manage SNAP through an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card. The benefits recipient receives may come from a Federal Reserve Bank as in New York State or from a private company as in Ohio. In either case, the benefits are placed into the recipient’s account each month.
How does someone apply for EBT?
Households must meet State residency requirements, provide necessary verification of identity and be certified by income limits set forth by Federal law. Households with an elderly or disabled person can apply online through the state agency website (except California) or at their local SNAP Office. Those who are not computer-literate can also apply in person through a local office. If you want to apply online check the eligibility list of states and apply directly on the state eligibility page.
How do I get my EBT card?
Once someone is approved for food stamps benefits, the state prints an EBT card. It looks like a bank debit card and can be used at any store that allows food stamp purchases. You can use it to buy household products or personal items, but not hot foods or alcoholic beverages because the federal government does not allow this type of transaction. If someone prefers cash, they risk losing their benefits if they sell their EBT card. This is a crime under Federal Law and can result in prosecution.
What food items are covered by SNAP benefits?
SNAP benefits can be used to buy any edible item that people eat including breads, cereals, fruits, meats (excluding pork), vegetables, dairy products like cheese or milk, juice, fish, poultry and seeds to grow food for personal use. | public_administration |
https://kansasepp.formstack.com/workflows/kepp_landlord_certification | 2022-08-12T05:02:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00743.warc.gz | 0.952072 | 687 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__13111871 | en | I certify that the information presented in this application is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief. I authorize Kansas Housing Resources Corporation (KHRC) and any other Federal or state agency, to verify and investigate such information, and commit my full cooperation at any time. I understand that providing false, misleading or incomplete information may result in the application being declared void and may result in my having to repay any funds I have received on my tenant's behalf. I understand that it is a criminal violation under Kansas law to make a false statement in writing for the purpose of procuring assistance from a state agency.
I acknowledge and agree to the requirement that I must not evict the renter for non-payment of rent associated with any of the months for which the rent relief payment is made. Furthermore, I understand that KHRC funds cannot be used to pay rent charged prior to April 1, 2020. I understand if the renter owes past due rent charged prior to April 1, 2020, I must work with the tenant to develop an appropriate payment plan. I certify that, as part of the intake and assessment of the household, I have attempted to assist the household with identifying other resources that may be available to them to prevent eviction without using KEPP funding, including savings, linkages to mainstream and natural supports. I will advise Tenant on next steps if Tenant finds they are unable to pay rent in the future. Furthermore, I acknowledge and agree to reimburse KEPP funds to KHRC if it is determined at a later date that I or my Authorized Agent(s) (identified below) recorded inaccurate information contained in the Tenant Application Packet that resulted in determining the Tenant eligible for KHRC financial assistance when Tenant was actually ineligible for said assistance. Furthermore, I release and shall hold harmless the state of Kansas, KHRC, its grantees, agents, and employees from all claims and demands that relate to or arise out of my application to the KEPP and any action or inaction taken by the state of Kansas, KHRC, its grantees, agents and employees in the administration and management of the KEPP. I shall maintain all contractual and household records for at a minimum of five years, and shall provide access to such records by KHRC as may be requested. I confirm that, in processing tenant’s application, I have complied with all applicable fair housing laws, including but not limited to, Fair Housing Law which makes it illegal to discriminate in residential housing on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, source of funds, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, or disability.
If this Application is completed by an Authorized Agent on behalf of Landlord, Authorized Agent hereby certifies that it is duly authorized to act on behalf of Landlord as its agent with respect to this Application, including, but not limited to, the Landlord Agreement set forth above. The Landlord / Authorized Agent’s agreement with the certifications, terms, and conditions set forth herein is evidenced by the following signature.
I understand that all information submitted to KHRC related to this application may be subject to Kansas' Open Records Law. Furthermore, I am aware that funds will not be disbursed until Tenant has been determined to be eligible and all proper certifications have been submitted. | public_administration |
http://dementiaelevator.ie/blog/2015/11/10/development-of-new-national-dementia-office-repository/ | 2020-05-28T22:02:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347400101.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20200528201823-20200528231823-00372.warc.gz | 0.914291 | 300 | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__107177633 | en | The National Dementia Strategy Office (NDO) which was established as part of the National Dementia Strategy Implementation plan, is currently exploring ways to share/promote exemplars of best practice in Dementia care. In order to facilitate this, the NDO propose to develop a repository of examples of quality/practice/service developments that are currently happening across the country in public, private, voluntary and education settings. Links to established information and resource hubs already developed across the country will also be included.
To assist in collating this information, the NDO are inviting interested parties to complete the form which can be accessed through the link below. The NDO will subsequently develop a database from the information received that will be accessible to all services. This database will provide a focal point for gathering and disseminating current initiatives in dementia care. The information will assist the NDO in strategically planning and supporting the ongoing development of dementia care across services. It will also assist in developing dementia-specific learning initiatives across services in line with the National Dementia Strategy objectives. It is intended that the development and availability of this repository will avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, and enhance networking and learning opportunities. The repository will be hosted as part of the HSE’s Lenus repository (www.lenus.ie).
To complete & submit the form click here.
If you have any queries regarding the template please contact Mary Manning at [email protected] | public_administration |
https://www.leadingchangeuk.com/case-studies/operational-rehearsal-tideway-incident-management-plans/ | 2024-02-24T05:50:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474523.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224044749-20240224074749-00761.warc.gz | 0.960899 | 590 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__52561203 | en | Operational rehearsal of Tideway incident management plans
Tideway is the company delivering London’s super sewer – the Thames Tideway Tunnel. They lead a delivery team constructing a 25km sewer tunnel under the River Thames, preventing tens of millions of tonnes of pollution from flowing into the Thames each year. This project began in 2015 and is due to complete in 2024, at a cost of £4.2bn. Construction is taking place across 24 construction sites in central London, many located on the river edge, in the busy centre of the city.
Unsurprisingly, given the size of the project and its location, Tideway faced many challenges. With multiple sites in key central London hotspots, like Blackfriars Bridge and Chelsea Embankment, and a third of a million freight vehicle movements, there was enormous potential for negative impact on London road network. Transport for London’s Surface Transport team manage the road network and they sought assurance from Tideway that effective incident management plans were in place, understood and thoroughly tested by delivery partners, with appropriate coordination from Tideway’s incident management. Although incident plans were in place at major works contractor level, they were untested at project and network level. Tideway manages delivery through four delivery partners, themselves major works consortia. They needed to build confidence in their ability to coordinate and respond effectively to a range of scenarios likely to impact Tideway sites and road network operations.
Tideway knew they needed effective change management and expert communications to manage challenges they faced in delivery of this project. With our experience and depth of knowledge, we were able to offer advice and input on refining and simplifying their Incident Management Plan, ensuring it was clear, unambiguous and effective. We engaged with their stakeholders to identify high-risk sites and scenarios as priorities for testing. We then prepared, developed and carried out two operational rehearsal workshops, attended by over 40 managers, including delegates from delivery partners and Transport for London.
The scenarios we developed for the operational rehearsals provided clarity and valuable insights into how coordination and control processes would work in practice. As a result, processes were streamlined and developed into a simple aide-memoire for management teams. The event proved highly successful in increasing confidence in the Incident Management Plan. Serious incidents in September and November 2017 really emphasised the importance of effective Incident Management Plans and the benefits of the operational rehearsal programme.
The overwhelming view from Tideway and Transport for London was that these events, and our ability to develop and facilitate them, were a great success. Every stakeholder we engaged during the process found it worthwhile and an effective way to validate Incident Management Plans at the interface of major projects and Transport for London.
In March 2019 Tideway’s tunnelling machines from the three major drive sites reached the 100-metre mark. Only a fraction of an estimated 8 million tonnes of spoil has been moved so far! | public_administration |
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