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As the news broke last week over the deaths in Aurora, Colorado, the same conversations and arguments that follow gun deaths were heard in our nation's gathering places. One side argues "guns don't kill people, people kill people" while the other side argues against guns, especially automatic weapons.
It is a conversation that leaves both sides angry and the victims still dead.
I fully understand why the second amendment was added to our constitution. I also fully understand why some people truly believe they must own a gun to protect themselves.
But mostly I fully believe that the consumeristic nature of the United States is playing a role in the United State's two most disturbing statistics: we lead the world in gun related deaths as well as incarceration of our citizens. We kill and imprison our people like no other nation. Why? I think our cultural need for more stuff is an underlying factor. We are a nation that can be summed up in financial statistics. Our statistics illustrate who and what we are today in the United States.
According to Hoover's, an industry profiler, here are some interesting statistics:
- The US clothing stores industry includes about 100,000 stores with combined annual revenue of about $150 billion.
- The US personal care products manufacturing industry includes about 800 companies with combined annual revenue of about $38 billion.
- The US nonalcoholic beverage manufacturing industry includes about 500 companies with combined annual revenue of about $44 billion.
- The US tire dealer industry includes about 11,000 companies with combined annual revenue of about $30 billion.
- The US gun and ammunition manufacturing industry includes about 300 companies with combined annual revenue of about $6 billion.
The money generated by guns and bullets may be less than the other statistics but the fact that six billion US dollars are spent on items designed to kill is important here. Every year that US citizens are buying consumable products like new Fruit of the Loom t-shirts, toilet paper, soda pop, and snow tires, they are also buying new guns and bullets.
Why on earth are we buying more and more guns and more and more bullets? These are not consumables in the same vein as root beer. Guns don't wear out. Bullets kept to keep home owners safe from a home invasion don't "go bad". Neither has a "sell-by" date. Are there that many US citizens legally buying guns and ammunition every day that six billion dollars is spent every year?
Apparently the answer is yes.
We all have that friend who is always buying stuff. A new pair of shoes to add to the collection of only worn once shoes. A new purse, a new jig saw, a new kitchen gadget. New towels, new lawn chairs, new stuff. We may shake our heads and quip, "more money than sense" but their buying habits fall into the category of no harm, no foul. If they are compulsively buying stuff, it is only their checking account and credit score that will really be impacted.
But what if they want to collect bigger guns, bigger bullets? Who is impacted?
I say all of us.
The assailant in Aurora legally bought those guns and those bullets. No one batted an eye over those purchases because guns and bullets are just stuff like shoes and purses and kitchen gadgets. It is all about the almighty dollar and the US's desire to spend it to have stuff that we need or simply desire.
And the folks who know us, the folks that actually control us via consumerism and political power, know that. They know that if guns and bullets are packaged in the same way as cheap t-shirts and this season's hottest colors of shoes, people will buy them and no one will question those purchases. Because it's only stuff and if a person wants to collect more stuff, than it is their God-given and US constitution-given right to do so. Even if they plan on murdering as many citizens as possible with those guns.
So perhaps guns don't kill people. Perhaps it is our need for more stuff that is killing people.
Or perhaps it is the power of those six billion annual dollars and the people putting those dollars in their pockets.


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Do you sometimes feel like the doors to your success are locked? Perhaps all you need to do is stop worrying and find the keys. Sometimes, finding the right keys is always a daunting affair to us as Christians. It is for this reason that I have dug deeper to unravel some basic keys to Christian success.
1. Pray positive prayersThis is the number one key to success. Brethren, it is only through prayers that we can achieve any desirable thing in our lives. And yes, it is not just prayers; but positive prayers. Personally, prayers have worked wonders for me and my family. I find it disturbing whenever I hear fellow Christians claiming that their prayers never yield any fruits only to realize that they don't make positive prayers. If you need success in abundance, you need to pray positively!
2. Read the BibleLet the Bible be your guide if you want to have the finer things in life. Let it be your map whenever you are looking for that hidden treasure in your life. And yes, let the Bible unlock all those locked doors to success. Without knowledge in the word of God, it is almost impossible for us as Christians to open the doors to success. For that reason, we all need to read the Bible consistently and adhere to every word on it to the letter. Brother, the word of God is an important key to success that should never be lost or misplaced!
3. Attend ChurchLittle known to many, attending church is an important ingredient to spice up your journey to success. Attending church offers you an opportunity to have a closer connection to God and your fellow Christians. In your walk to success, you will need God and friends to encourage you to keep working hard. For that reason, attending church is an important key to success. There is a very thin line between attending church and being a valuable church member. For that reason, let us not just attend church for the sake of attending; let us attend church and make an impact. As Christians, attending church and making a positive impact will open our doors to success!
4. Yield your will to God's willWe also need to ensure that we yield our will to God's will. Whatever plans we have in life, God has His own plans as well. We need to ensure that we let God take control of our lives. If you want to have everything you have ever dreamt of in life, you need to ensure that your plans are in accordance with God's teachings. To scale the heights of success in life, we all need to let God take the wheel and steer us to wherever He has planned! In so doing, we will succeed beyond limits!
5. Expect blessingsMore often than not, we find ourselves having doubts as to whether we will be blessed or not! I will put it this way; doubts are the biggest hurdle to our success! Brethren, let us expect blessings in everything we do. This is a key to success and has worked miracles for countless people. Expecting blessings in our lives will attract success in our lives. In fact, if you expect blessings in everything you do, you get motivated to do more. Expect blessings and you will have blessings coming your way from all angles!
6. Receive your blessings
Did you know that some people have blessings hanging around them but they never receive them? Sounds strange, right? Well, that happens in so many cases! The reason behind this is the fact that most of us never receive our blessings. Maybe I should put it this way; most of us never claim our blessings! Let's take this analogy for example: Assume that your father had several sons and after passing on, he left each one of you something to inherit. Unfortunately, you never put an effort to claim your own share of the inheritance. Would the share ever come to force itself on you? I doubt if it would. Brethren, we need to receive our blessings!


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He made his debut at the Grand Opéra in 1946 as Duke in ''Rigoletto''. In 1949 he made his debut at the Théâtre National de l'Opéra Comique as Cavaradossi in ''Tosca''. The same year, opposite Jeanne Rinella (Santuzza), Jean Vieuille (Alfio) and Jeanne Matio (Lola), he appeared as Turiddu in ''Cavalleria Rusticana''. Probably he had a short career.
Chronology of some appearances
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But let's not be churlish - this is a great little slice of a "dream-step". If I understand it (and I don't, really) dream-step a new genre that splices 2-step and ambient vocal house. If you like Katy B, this is going to be right up your street.
The song is called Control. Janet Jackson's lawyers are already on the phone.
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Today, let's pause for a moment and honor the nearly 3,000 men and women who lost their lives 12 years ago.
Remember the firefighters who rushed to World Trade Center. Remember the service members who stood strong at the Pentagon. Remember the brave voices that shouted "Let's Roll" on Flight 93.
Remember them all.
In the midst of immense darkness, the American spirit shone brightly – sending this unforgettable message of hope around the world:
We'll never forget the ultimate sacrifice these heroes made. Today let's honor their memory of keeping America the land of the free and home of the brave.
God Bless America.
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LINCOLN – While other big-name politicians are still considering whether to jump into the Nebraska governor's race, Fremont Sen. Charlie Janssen continues to pound the pavement across the state and take advantage of the fact he was the first official entrant in the contest.
Today, Janssen talked taxes with about 20 people at Skeeter Barnes restaurant in Lincoln, after recalling how the illegal immigration issue exploded while he was on the Fremont City Council.
"I've got pretty thick skin right now because I take a lot of hits," he said.
But the point of the town hall meeting, the first of nine statewide, was to talk about tax reform. Janssen is a member of the Legislature's Tax Modernization Committee, which is studying ways to update the state's tax code.
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"As we debate the future of tax policy in Nebraska, it is critically important that the taxpayer has a voice in the process," Janssen said. "These town hall meetings are a great opportunity to exchange opinions and ideas about how best to move forward."
More"Charlie has worked closely with our organization and has been a strong advocate for taxpayers during his time in the Legislature," Kagan said. "These town hall meetings will be a great opportunity for our members and...
The following originally appeared in Gerard Harbison's Right Wing Professor's Blog on August 3, 2013.
Charlie Janssen is a politician on the move. On the Fremont City Council, he stood for legislation barring illegal aliens from renting or working in the city; the rental portion of this ordinance have been upheld by the courts. As a legislator, he sponsored a voter ID law that was only defeated by a filibuster. In the last session, he stood firm against Medicaid expansion and various other leftist measures beloved of the nominal Democrat minority and their RINO fellow travellers. He's now running for governor.
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Shopping Off the Beaten Path to Support a Plant-Based Diet
When you're immersed in the world of plant-based eating for a bit of time, grocery-store shopping may begin to lose its appeal. You may find yourself wanting to set foot instead on alternative ground, which is actually now becoming more mainstream. Shopping at places like farmers' markets and health-food stores or getting involved with a local community-supported agriculture (CSA) service will likely become your new terrain for shopping.
Why? First, the diversity of products that fall within your new plant-based standards are boundless in these locations (although you still have to be a discerning consumer, as organic cheeses and the like still aren't healthy snacks).
Also, at places like farmers' markets, you get access to some of the freshest produce. Not to mention, when you shop at places like these, you support smaller businesses that typically have as much interest in your health as they do in making a sale. All around, you feel better about your choices.
Farmers' markets
Farmers' markets have popped up everywhere. They're a gathering of local vendors and farmers offering produce (and sometimes other fresh items) for direct sale to consumers. They usually happen weekly in a public place, such as a park or community center, and are typically busy. You won't find everything of a certain category in one place like you do at a grocery store. Every vendor has something different to offer.
The main benefit of farmers' markets, aside from all the food being extremely fresh, is that you get the chance to talk to the farmers about their products. They can tell you all about your new find, how to prepare it, and where exactly it came from. You can even ask about the growing methods, such as what pesticides were used (if any) and when it was harvested.
Community-supported agriculture (CSA) programs
This is a program in which consumers purchase annual or seasonal shares in farmers' land and receive fresh, seasonal produce from that farm in exchange for their monetary investment. In some cases, you pre-pay before the growing season. In other cases, you pay weekly for a delivery or pick up your share at a designated meeting place.
An evolution is occurring away from single-farm CSAs to multi-farm CSA services that give customers a wider variety of foods and more choices (which can sometimes be customized online). This is a nice way to get produce and sometimes other specialty goods without having to fight traffic in the parking lot (or aisles, for that matter).
CSAs are an especially helpful service to use when you're just starting out on a plant-based diet because the produce is sometimes selected for you (which can feel way less intimidating than trying to pick out your own stuff at the store). It's a great way to learn about different fruits and veggies and when they're at the height of their freshness. You can likely find CSAs in your area by doing an online search.
Health-food stores
Every major city — and most smaller ones — have at least a few health-food stores. You can typically find a whole slew of smaller, privately or family-run businesses that are committed to stocking good-quality products, clean packaged products, and nutritional supplements.
Health-food stores are typically much smaller than supermarkets, so it's much easier to find what you're looking for, which makes them convenient and easy places to stock up. You may also get to know the owners well, making it likely that they'll order things in for you by request or make other special arrangements with you if needed.
Either way, shopping experiences at health-food stores are typically a lot smoother and more enjoyable than shopping at conventional grocery stores.
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Making a Healthy Breakfast & 12 Netflix "Home Sick" Movies #NetflixKids #StreamTeam
Right now along with cold and snowy weather, I'm trying to deal with it being the peak time for flu and colds. This time of the year can be tough for everyone but especially young child. So to help keep my son healthy (and warm), I make sure he eats as healthy as possible.
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While getting a child to eat healthy isn't always easy, it's not impossible. A good way to get your child more interested in healthy meals and snacks is by allowing them to help with a kid friendly recipe. After seeing the Silly Face Pancakes in "5 Healthy Snacks that will Make Kids Smile", I was inspired to make our own version.
My son loves pancakes and bananas so I combined them for a fun breakfast project. I also included tangerines and raisins to help boost my son's immunity.
Once everything was ready, my son started making his pancake face.
I expected him to make a regular smiley face but he surprised me by making a monster face. Horns and all. That's a boy for you.
It wasn't long till the "monster" pancakes were all gone and it was time for us to relax with our fully tummies. To help drive the "being healthy" message home, I decided to watch " Sesame Street: The Ten Commandments of Health" available on Netflix.
While I used Netflix in an educational way to teach my son about being healthy, if and when he gets a cold, using Netflix can easy switch to help me comfort him. When a child is home sick there's little they can do. But if you have Netflix, you can snuggle with them and enjoy movies that are perfect sick day entertainment.
Netflix has compiled a list of 12 titles that will turn sniffles into giggles.
- Daddy Day Care
- Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
- Hoodwinked Too!
- Escape from Planet Earth
- The Croods
- Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
- Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3
Show your kids that even their favorite characters get sick with episodes of these TV shows:
- Magic School Bus: Inside Ralphie
- Sesame Street: The Ten Commandments of Health
- The Adventures of Chuck & Friends: The Checkup
- Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Daniel Visits the Doctor
- Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Daniel Gets a Shot
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Lisa Lanzano, MS, RDN, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition & Food Management from Oregon State University, and a Master of Science degree in Gerontology (the study of aging), with an emphasis in Physiology & Nutrition, from the University of Arizona. Lisa is a Registered Dietitian with 19 years of experience in the field of nutrition. She specializes in the treatment of individuals struggling with eating disorders and disordered eating.
Lisa is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who specializes in working with individuals and families struggling with eating disorders and disordered eating. Lisa's emphasis is on helping clients develop and nurture a better relationship with food, eating, and their bodies. Lisa has a true passion for this work and has been in practice for 19 years.
Lisa holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition & Food Management from Oregon State University, and a Master of Science degree in Gerontology (the study of aging), with an emphasis in Physiology & Nutrition, from the University of Arizona.
As a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), Lisa spent her first six years in practice as a Clinical Nutritionist at the world-renown Canyon Ranch Health Resort in Tucson, Arizona, before moving to Colorado in early 2003. She then took the position as the sole nutritionist for the 15-physician South Denver Cardiology Center in Littleton, CO, before opening up her private practice, Essential Nutrition LLC, full time in Boulder in 2006. She has been interviewed for her expert nutrition advice by local newspapers and magazines, including Boulder, Colorado's Daily Camera, Rocky Mountain Sports, and Delicious Living.
Lisa co-authored the independently-published books Better Breast Health for Life! as well as the "Skeletal System and Joint Health," chapter in the textbook, Integrating Therapeutic and Complementary Nutrition (CRC Press, 2006).
Lisa is a member and supporter of the Eating Disorder Foundation (EDF), The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD), and the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP).
In 2015, Lisa became an IAEDP-Approved Supervisor to help supervise and educate other health professionals undergoing IAEDP's certification program, which enables health professionals to become more competent, skillful, and experienced in the field of eating disorder treatment and prevention.
I have a true passion for working with individuals struggling to overcome an eating disorder. I am not the kind of nutrition professional who criminalizes food or promotes the notion of "good" or "bad" foods. Rather, I apply the "when, why, and how much" method to determine the best dietary approach for each individual that honors one's whole self. I love teaching individuals how to navigate their OWN way through the complicated and often conflicting world of nutrition and health. I work hard to ensure my clients come away with better self-awareness, understanding, acceptance, and education.
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January 18, 2010
Posted by Jay Livingston
"Now playing at a theater near you," say the movie ads. How do they know?*
The distinction between "downtown" movie houses and"the nabes" has gone the way of the double feature and the newsreel. Most movies open everywhere. Still, not all neighborhoods are alike, and theater owners have a good idea of which movies will play well in their neighborhood.
Neighborhood patterns show up even when the geography of film distribution is not a factor – when you're renting or downloading from Netflix. The Times has a cool interactive map that shows a film's Netflix rankings in various neighborhoods. Here are the graphs in the New York region for "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" and "Vicki Cristina Barcelona."
Paul is the negative image of Vicki. Did you see both these films? Did anyone see both these films?
Some films have no discernible pattern. The map of "Benjamin Button," for example, is solid orange throughout. Others, like "Mad Men" are mostly white but with a few predictable shaded areas, like Manhattan and Montclair – a similarity that shows up in the map of just about every film. Montclair is basically the West Side but with lawnmowers.
On the Times site, you can choose from a dozen different metro areas. Take a look at the movies in a city near you, a city whose demographics you're familiar with, for in most cases, the movies are proxies for demographic variables. Not all films follow the same patterns. Here's "Last Chance Harvey" in New York and Boston.
Notice the concentric circle pattern in both cities. Somewhere, Burgess, Shaw, and McKay look down and nod.
*I once heard a comedian use this line (can't recall who it was).
A blog by Jay Livingston -- what I've been thinking, reading, seeing, or doing. Although I am a member of the Montclair State University department of sociology, this blog has no official connection to Montclair State University. "Montclair State University does not endorse the views or opinions expressed therein. The content provided is that of the author and does not express the view of Montclair State University."
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- Todd Krohn said...
Great post. If you really want to see Shaw & McKay at work, check out the metro Atlanta data. It forms almost perfect concentric circles regarding clever films v. mass consumption flicks.
- January 20, 2010 8:14 AM
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(Keep the chronology of the interviews in mind: this interview was done last week. Feige has since gone on record saying they know which films they PLAN on using to fill the 3 open slots, not that those plans couldn't change.)
Movies.com asked Feige about the plans for a Doctor Strange film, which has been in various stages of development since 2010 and, supposedly, has a solid script in place now. Abut the film, Feige said, "Doc Strange, as I've been saying for years, is a movie I believe we should make--we're just figuring out how to make it a great movie. It is in active development right now." He continued to say, "Whether that's one of the movies we announce for 2016-17, we have to see. I think it'll be the middle of next year before we announce officially what the post Ant-Man films will be." Smart money would be on Marvel announcing the Phase 3 slate at SDCC '14 as they typically has, but Feige cautions that may not be the case, "...stuff might happen before that. It's too early to tell."
We've certainly heard a great deal about Doctor Strange over the past 4-5 months. It seems a near certainty that we will get a Doctor Strange movie in Phase 3, but you can be sure that IF Marvel doesn't feel they have the right script to make it the great movie for which Feige is looking, it will not be in Phase 3. However, Feige wants this film done and done right, so odds are it will be done sooner than later. If the reports about the script are true, Strange will be one of the 2016-17 films.
Movies.com also asked Feige about the chances of Marvel putting a female superhero in her own solo film before DC gets around to it, likely with Wonder Woman. Feige replied, "Good question. I don't know what they're (DC) doing or what they're planning. I know we have numerous exciting female heroes, whether none of them are currently slated, some of them are in development--frankly, you can look at what Jane Foster does in [Thor: The Dark World], look at Pepper Potts literally saving the day and defeating the bad guy in Iron Man 3, and I'd say we already have great female heroes that are showcased and play major roles in our universe now." Feige continued to gush about Marvel's existing female heroes by saying, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier, as you will see, features Black Widow in her biggest role yet in any of our films. In terms of a solo standalone female hero, I'm not sure when that will be. We make two movies a year, we've planned through 2015 and we have some ideas of what we're doing in 2016 and 2017, so we'll see what happens."
My first thought here is, "Wow, it must suck to be Feige. You have to have a mental recording of everything you say because if you ever contradict yourself, even a little, someone is going to jump you." After that I returned to normal thoughts. It certainly doesn't sound like a solo female superhero film is on the docket for Phase 3. Feige will have a lot more to say over the next week or three but I wouldn't expect him to give away too much. Part of why Marvel has been successful is the fact that they plan their work and work their plan. It seems like they have a plan here and it doesn't involve letting DC influence them or letting the fans direct when they announce movies.


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6 Materialschutz und Oberflächentechnik
- 2016 (3) (entfernen)
- Zeitschriftenartikel (3) (entfernen)
- Coatings (1)
- Degradation (1)
- Density (1)
- Imaging ellipsometry (IE) (1)
- Impurities (1)
- Magnetron sputtering (1)
- Mass deposition (1)
- Optical microscopy (OM) (1)
- Optical properties (1)
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Visualization of low-contrast surface modifications: Thin films, printed pattern, laser-induced changes, imperfections, impurities, and degradation (2016)
Visualization of surface modifications may be very challenging for coating/substrate systems of either almost identical optical constants, e.g. transparent films on substrates of the same material, or minor film thickness, substance quantity and affected area, e.g. ultra-thin or island films. Methods for visualization are optical microscopy (OM), imaging ellipsometry (IE), and referenced spectroscopic ellipsometry (RSE). Imaging ellipsometry operates at oblique incidence near Brewster angle of the bare, clean or unmodified substrate. In this configuration, reflected intensities are rather weak. However, the contrast to add-on and sub-off features may be superior. Referenced spectroscopic ellipsometry operates in a two-sample configuration but with much higher intensities. In many cases, both ellipsometric techniques reveal and visualize thin films, printed-pattern, laser-induced changes, and impurities better than optical microscopy. In particular for stratified homogeneous modifications, ellipsometric techniques give access to modelling and hence thickness determination. Modifications under investigation are polymer foil residue on silicon, laser-induced changes of ta-C:H coatings on 100Cr6 steel, imperfections of ta-C:H on thermal silicon oxide, degradation of glass, thin film tin oxide pattern on silicon, printed and dried pattern of liquids such as deionized water, cleaning agents, and dissolved silicone. © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Iron-doped SnO2 coatings were deposited in a 50 kHz DC-pulsed magnetron sputtering discharge. The pulses had a duration of 4 µs in selected gas mixtures from pure argon up to 60% of oxygen at a constant total pressure of 0.2 Pa. A single target of SnO2 with Fe inset was used. The mass spectrometry study detected the gas-related ions Ar+, O2+ and O+, where the last one becomes the dominant positive ion at higher oxygen contents. Atomic oxygen ions had a higher energy as it resulted from the collision-caused dissociation on the target surface. The tin-related species were detected as Sn+ and SnO+. SnO2+ species were not detected. The deposition rate decreased by using gas mixtures with oxygen as well as the corresponding amount of Sn-related species in the plasma. The increase of oxygen also increased significantly the sheet resistance of the films. The XPS study showed that the iron concentration decreased by using additional oxygen. But the O/Sn ratio in the coatings was constant, contrary to the increased FeO/Fe ratio in the films. An additional analysis of the coatings by spectroscopic ellipsometry has shown a dependence of the polarizability and the permittivity on the amount of oxygen used during the deposition. In contrast, the study has found no such dependence for the absorption of the layers.
One of the crucial characteristics of functionalized thin films is their porosity (i.e., the ratio between the pore volume and the volume of the whole film). Due to the very low amount of material per coated area corresponding to thin films, it is a challenge for analytics to measure the film porosity. In this work, we present an Approach to determine the porosity of thin films by means of electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) either by wavelength-dispersive X-ray spectrometry (WDX) or by energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDX) with a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The procedure is based on the calculation of the film mass deposition from electron-excited X-ray spectra. The mass deposition is converted into film density by division of measured film thickness. Finally, the film porosity is calculated from the measured film density and the density of bulk, nonporous film material. The general applicability of the procedure to determine the porosity is demonstrated on thin templated mesoporous TiO₂ films, dip-coated on silicon wafer, with controlled porosity in the range of 15 to 50%. The high accuracy of the mass deposition as determined from X-ray spectra was validated with independent methods (ICP-OES and weighing). Furthermore, for the validation of the porosity results, ellipsometry, interference fringes method (IFM), and focused ion beam (FIB) cross sectioning were employed as independent techniques. Hence, the approach proposed in the present study is proven to be suited as a new analytical tool for accurate and relatively fast determination of the porosity of thin films.


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animation | an-uh-mey-shuhn |
1 the state of being full of life or vigor; liveliness: they started talking with animation. • chiefly archaic: the state of being alive.
2 the technique of filming successive drawings or positions of puppets or models to create an illusion of movement when the movie is shown as a sequence: [as adj. ] animation techniques | animations as backdrops for live action.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.(in the sense 'encouragement' ): from Latin animatio(n-), from animare 'instill with life' (see animate). Sense 1 dates from the early 19th cent.


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Grant to support LAG's Business Plan
Grant: £30,000
November 28, 2018
Grant: £74,320
November 14, 2018
CLC, have developed a prototype digital solution to address the unmet legal needs of children - a non-linear Chatbot built through Google's DialogFlow using natural language programming to provide accessible legal information to young people in response to basic legal queries.
The Prototype, focusing on 3 areas of law – Employment, Homelessness, FAQs on At What Age Can I.
Over 12 months the Project will develop the Chatbot to:
The long-term vision is to add a "Live Chat" function supported by volunteer lawyers/legal students to provide advice "out of hours".
FixMyBlock: An advice and reporting system for tower block residents
Grant: £46,315
November 14, 2018
Tower blocks are subject to a range of safety and maintenance issues, which, if not identified and dealt with properly and at an early stage, can potentially be life-threatening.
Residents must be at the heart of the system for managing and improving the safety of tower blocks – yet they are often unaware of their legal rights, and lack the capacity and resources to exercise these rights and make their voices heard.
To address this, mySociety and Shift Design will collaborate with the Tower Blocks UK project to build a new online service, adapted from mySociety's FixMyStreet platform, that will:
Law Centres 2020 Digital Vision Phase 3
Grant: £257,210
November 14, 2018
This project transforms the digital infrastructure of Law Centres. It establishes a minimum standard for digital equipment and systems across the network that enables Law Centres to:
Affordable advice and digital justice
Grant: £73,775
November 14, 2018
This partnership project by Law for Life and Resolution proposes an innovative approach to providing affordable legal advice to separating couples. It harnesses the expertise and strong track records of the two organisations, pioneering new ways of working to support separating families.
The pilot presents a unique opportunity for Law for Life to partner with the leading membership organisation for family justice professionals who are committed to offering affordable access to legal advice. Since the introduction of LASPO 2012, legal aid is not provided in most areas of family law, including early advice. Early advice is no longer available for issues such as family breakdown, divorce and child arrangements. Familial disputes - such as those regarding child arrangements - can escalate to court unnecessarily. These often result in more complex and costly legal proceedings, which ultimately have a more negative impact on families, and particularly children.
Increasing awareness about intermediaries
Grant: £30,000
November 14, 2018
To develop a communication platform, infrastructure and tools to raise awareness, so that more eligible individuals receive assistance and gain fair access to justice.
There are three parts to project:
Strategic review of Lasa Social Welfare Law Services
Grant: £26,340
November 14, 2018
Lasa will partner with Social Finance to create a new strategy to extend the reach of its services, and further develop the ability to generate earned income. The focus will be to concentrate on developing core social welfare law services meeting the needs of advisers working with communities to protect rights and ensure access to justice.
The project will include an analysis of Lasa's current userbase to see who, why and how people use Lasa's services, what is done well, what could be improved, people's perception of Lasa and where it sits in the market. The project will also review and analyse the current strategic plan and look to identify potential expansion opportunities into new areas.
Virtual Partnership Law Centre
Grant: £49,870
September 5, 2018
GLC will provide legal services for a remote area of Scotland. It will invest in broadband, computers with Skype, camera/microphone, in private confidential areas in offices and secure scanning to safely upload documents. The aim is to make legal services accessible anywhere in Argyll and Bute Council (A&BC) that has a private room and computer with camera connected to broadband. Skype client appointments will be booked in the same way as other clients, with a solicitor 'meeting' a Skype client in a local meeting room.
Reach Advocacy will train and support four people in A&BC to become citizen advocates, who will provide local support to Skype clients. Reach Advocacy are a Scottish Qualifications Authority approved training centre who provide support to individuals, families, carers and communities affected by drugs, alcohol and mental health problems.
Second Year of Falmouth Dracaena Centre Webcam Advice Project
Grant: £24,230
September 5, 2018
The Falmouth Dracaena Centre Webcam Advice Project is a partnership between the Legal Advice Centre and the Dracaena Centre (Falmouth.
Engagement with the Dracaena Centre is key to the projects sustainability, and a great deal of time has been invested by the Legal Advice Centre in assisting the Dracaena Centre with fundraising, as the ambition is that the Dracaena Centre can take ownership of this project once it has secured funding in its own right.
Technology enabled access to justice and lean legal services – a vision for Scotland
Grant: £8,000
August 16, 2018
This project is a scoping exercise to identify the Information, Communication and Technology developments needed to:
Future proofing BAILII: plan for its funding, technology and stakeholder needs
Grant: £90,000
July 4, 2018
Future proofing BAILII by funding it to plan strategically for its funding, technology and stakeholder needs.
Increasing capability to challenge unlawful decisions
Grant: £103,086
July 4, 2018
Increasing legal knowledge and capability among non-legal professionals to challenge unlawful decisions.
Online Reasonable Adjustments Guided Pathway Advice Platform
Grant: £114,930
July 4, 2018
Development of an Online Reasonable Adjustments Guided Pathway Advice Platform.
Asylum Guides National Scaling
Grant: £70,828
June 20, 2018
Scaling up the delivery of the Asylum Guides project, previously supported by TLEF, increasing the ability of newly arrived people to navigate the asylum process, and to feed lessons on systemic challenges into wider policy work.
Peer Review On-Line Platform (PROP) Pilot Phase
Grant: £32,030
June 20, 2018
Piloting an approach to establishing an on line peer review process for legal advice services, including developing a training programme and assessment process for peer reviewers.
Transforming access to justice
Grant: £40,000
June 20, 2018
Developing a chatbot that will provide basic legal advice on social care issues and so increase the ability of care workers to understand and use the law to support people with learning disabilities and their families.
Is your relationship abusive?
Grant: £72,923
June 20, 2018
Developing and implementing a series of digital resources for survivors of domestic abuse in order to enhance understanding of the legal remedies available, including embedding resources in web-sites of the Finding Legal Options for Women Survivors partners, local authorities and the police, and adding a chatbot to the RCJ CAB's pioneering CourtNav tool.
Understanding the role of technology in achieving IPSEA's strategic objectives
Grant: £14,600
June 20, 2018
Updating case management and client relationship management systems to ensure the organisation is better placed to advise and support families to understand and use SEND law to help their children, and to ensure the organisation meets GDPR requirements.
Law Centres 5 year Digital Vision
Grant: £8,800
June 20, 2018
Creating a 5-year digital strategy for LCN examining how the digital operations and infrastructure of Law Centres can best be structured to support effective services for clients and to promote organisational efficiency and sustainability.
Future proofing: plan strategically for funding, technology and stakeholder needs
Grant: £55,800
February 26, 2018
This work is primarily focused on analysis of the components that will go into a future sustainable business plan:
EEA citizens pooled fund
Grant: £200,000
November 16, 2017
This is part of a pooled fund to help secure a fair process for EEA nationals to stay in UK in accordance with the law. The fund will work on two main issues: capacity of civil society to engage with policy on matters for EEA citizens, especially vulnerable groups; and provision of information for vulnerable groups about the process, potentially looking at technology solutions.
Initially, NPC will work with experts to develop a suitable strategy for the fund and the fund will be advised by a council of experts throughout. NPC will conduct due diligence on potential grantees and put forward the most relevant organisations. A committee of NPC staff with relevant expertise in grant-making and policy work will peer review and decide the grants with oversight from council of experts.
We expect the fund to open for grants for two years from Spring/Summer 2018. Gathering and disseminating knowledge to benefit the wider sector will be a key objective of the fund and NPC will monitor the funding and disseminate learning (through roundtables, events, blogs) for another year.
Separation Solutions Finder
Grant: £130,000
November 13, 2017
Relate have concluded that it is not currently feasible to launch the full end-to-end, joint negotiation process envisioned by Rechtwijzer. However, it has identified a clear need for a well-designed interactive guided pathway and 'separation solutions finder'.
This digital service will help divorcing parents become more informed about their separation, and more emotionally and practically ready to effectively resolve matters out-of-court. It will also make them more able to take advantage of fixed fee and unbundled arrangements, if legal advice or mediation is required.
The project will draw on the extensive research, proven approaches and content, as well as cross-sector relationships to rapidly configure the service.
Relate will work closely with users and likeminded legal firms in designing and testing the tool. Their input will vitally shape the offer for OFDR v2.0 and help identify sustainable sources of income to drive forward its reach and impact.
Community Portal – serving small charities' legal information and service needs
Grant: £12,000
November 13, 2017
Delivering 'just in time' information on maternity rights at work
Grant: £39,500
November 13, 2017
The project will deliver 'just in time' information for pregnant women on maternity rights at work through apps and other social media channels.
The project will:
Maternity Action is well-placed to undertake this work as they are currently completing a project to deliver 'just in time' information on maternity rights through the Baby Buddy app, which is provided by the charity Best Beginnings.
Understanding the role of technology in achieving IPSEA's strategic objectives
Grant: £10,000
November 13, 2017
This project will research and define the requirements for an IT solution to replace an existing database.
Using the findings of the previous evaluation and scoping project of IPSEA's options for developing ICT systems, further investigate of the database requirements is now required. This is the first stage of a two-stage project, the second of which will be to identify and negotiate with potential suppliers and implement the proposed database solution.
This project will:
IPSEA will use experts to assist with this project to make use of cutting edge information and communications technology and proven experience.
These experts will work with IPSEA's staff, volunteers and beneficiaries to ensure they understand the needs of various groups of database users and service users, so that the proposed solution is fit for purpose. They will work with IPSEA to define the database functionality needed now and in the future before researching options and preparing a specification report.
Addressing the IT needs of Fair Trials – implementation phase
Grant: £39,689
November 13, 2017
The commissioning of an expert IT consultant to conduct a thorough review of IT systems and hardware culminated in a detailed report and the creation of an Invitation to Tender which was sent out to six suppliers in early September 2017. Interviews were conducted with four suppliers and the best selected. Implementation across the organisation is the next stage.
This project is to implement the findings and recommendations of the consultant to complete this upgrade.
Scoping Study for On Line Peer Review Platform for the Advice Quality Standard (AQS)
Grant: £17,468
November 13, 2017
The Advice Quality Standards (AQS) is fully owned by the Advice Services Alliance and is currently held by just under 700 separate social welfare legal advice services. The AQS includes a requirement for advice services to undertake independent file reviews of the work undertaken. Whilst all organisations see the benefit of independent review, it is often very difficult on a practical level to achieve, particularly for small advice centres.
Based on the ASA experience of establishing a peer review system with one member organisations, it is thought that an on-line peer review system might potentially provide a simpler and more effective mechanism for undertaking independent review which could additionally bring many other benefits (for example, development opportunities for case workers). In order to establish the parameters of such a project, a scoping study will be performed, to:
An online educational tool: human rights in health and care
Grant: £100,000
November 13, 2017
This project builds on key points from face-to-face education to develop an online educational tool to help patient advocates, advisers, and health/care professionals to use human rights to support patients, securing their rights and protecting them from neglect or abuse and unfair treatment. Whilst people can use the tool to self-advocate, the target will be the many organisations/agencies charged with supporting patients, particularly those with mental health/capacity issues. This includes people living with dementia, autism and/or learning disabilities. Our interactive tool will enable patients/advocates/health workers to identify whether a person's rights may be at issue and then take them through a series of practical steps and tools to resolve this pre-litigation (e.g. sample letters and worked examples).
Delivering maternity rights information through apps and email-based notification
Grant: £8,000
October 11, 2017
Addressing the IT needs of Fair Trials
Grant: £7,850
August 4, 2017
Fair Trials' IT system is currently not fit for purpose. As an increasingly international organisation, with offices based in London, Brussels and Washington DC, the reliance of the team on a single server hampers productivity and presents risks of organisational failure. The project will cover the costs of an IT consultation covering:
This consultation will enable the selection of the most appropriate IT system and the most cost-effective provider to implement the system, resulting in much-needed changes to Fair Trials' IT systems, reflecting their growth and more complex needs.
Falmouth 'Skype' Specialist Legal Advice Project
Grant: £71,000
July 28, 2017
The Project is to establish a 'Skype' advice clinic at the Dracaena Centre, and also to provide remote support to Cornwall CAB also largely using Skype. Staff solicitors at the Legal Advice Centre will provide free legal advice remotely to persons in need in Falmouth using a bank of Skype enabled computers at the Dracaena Centre. The clinics will run weekly on Monday and Fridays. The advice provided will be on Welfare Benefits and debt. Follow-up work will be undertaken by LAC lawyers.
Legal Advice Centre will provide the following to Cornwall CAB:
Law Centres 2020 Digital Vision - Phase 2
Grant: £170,000
July 5, 2017
This project is transforming the digital infrastructure of Law Centres nationally.
Phase 1 established a minimum standard for digital equipment and systems across the network.
Phase 2 provides:
9 Law Centres with 190 users are participating in Phase 1. In Phase 2, the upgrade will be rolled out to a further 15 Centres with 300 users.
Falmouth & Plymouth Skype Advice Clinics
Grant: £3,900
June 27, 2017
Frontline Immigration Project: Increasing access to immigration advice for migrants
Grant: £80,000
June 21, 2017
The Frontline Immigration Advice Project is significantly improving access to quality, publicly-available OISC-accredited immigration advice for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants who have complex immigration issues. It is the first nationally-delivered project to do this, with a specific and dedicated focus on organisational capacity-building to secure OISC registration; improved advice coordination; and the sharing and adoption of best practice. The acute scarcity of this advice means thousands of vulnerable people are unable to attain justice, safety and dignity (Clayton, Models of Immigration Advice, 2015).
The project is empowering frontline support organisations in key sectors to increase the delivery of quality, sustainable immigration advice through an innovative capacity building programme, involving training, coaching, case-sharing, organisational development, and regional coordination. All geographical areas where there is asylum dispersal and migrant communities have been reached, engaging 86 individual organisations nationally to date. Year 2 and 3 will deliver tailored training packages and capacity building support to provide more routes to acquiring immigration advice registration, extend organisational support to offer an e-learning platform and strengthen regional immigration advice coordination.
Taking Advantage of Digital
Grant: £50,000
June 21, 2017
The Unit will improve its digital provision, and transform its working practices, enabling it to fulfil its dual commitment to increase access to justice for those with unmet legal needs, and advance the practice skills, experience and knowledge of law students and professionals in the early stages of their careers. Our vision is "Streamlining and growing free representation and advocacy experience through seamless, intuitive and effective processes and systems, in secure, supported spaces."
Using the "cloud" and associated digital tools, the Unit will make better use of its situation (i.e. increasing number of cases) and resources (i.e. staff, advice agencies and volunteers) to achieve the organisations objectives (which are coextensive with those of the Foundation).
The project will simplify and speed-up administrative processes for staff, improve accessibility and efficiency for volunteers and allow the creation of new educational and training content. Central to this is FRUweb – a network of simple, connected, secure, supported spaces where people, platforms and paper meet to enable clients, agencies, volunteers and staff, which provides interfaces and enables Hubs for each key stakeholder group.
This funding will support the project through a phased approach.
Law Centres 2020 Digital Vision - Phase 1 Revision
Grant: £88,130
June 21, 2017
The project is transforming the Digital infrastructure of Law Centres nationally. It establishes a minimum (baseline) standard for digital equipment and systems across the network that will enable all Law Centres to:
The project will establish an ongoing subscription system to fund future upgrades and support.
Viability of a Guided Pathway for law relating to Reasonable Adjustments
Grant: £20,000
June 21, 2017
The project is to assist in developing an online guided pathway covering the law in relation to reasonable adjustments in the workplace for disabled people. The pathway will explain relevant laws and lead to the production of initial advice and signposting, and will in addition function as an efficient triage system for those cases that merit further advice from one of the lawyers working for DLS. The aim is to assess the feasibility of a system covering a limited area of law to ensure deliverability, but which will lend itself to further development such that other areas of disability discrimination and employment law can be added.
The aim is for the pathway to be developed such that it will be fully accessible in line with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
The scoping study will assess the following areas:
Support for bereaved families and witnesses attending a Coroners Court Inquest
Grant: £15,400
June 21, 2017
This project is intended to deliver an up-to-date, comprehensive website which will provide the information and support often lacking for bereaved families and witnesses attending a Coroners Court inquest. It will provide information on the inquest process – and the families and/or witnesses role in that process – identify the support available through CCSS in a particular court, refer users to the Helpline and signpost to other organisations for longer-term support.
It will be a key awareness raising tool, enabling the charity to increase public understanding of the process and procedures of an inquest as well as highlighting the help available to those attending an inquest, as a bereaved family member, a lay or professional witness (including the emergency services and health care workers).
The website will also provide an interactive secure space for CCSS volunteers to share experiences, offer advice and support one-another through difficult cases. It will be an accessible space for the charity to communicate with its geographically diverse team of volunteers.
Finally, the website will be a key resource in generating interest and financial support for CCSS, enabling it to achieve its long-term plan of providing a national service, offering a presence in all 92 Coroners' Courts.
Best Practice Guide on Asylum and Human Rights Appeals
Grant: £8,500
June 21, 2017
This project will comprehensively update the electronic Best Practice Guide to Asylum and Human Rights Appeals which is published on the EIN website at www.ein.org.uk/bpg/contents. The current version of the Guide was published in early 2015 and states the law as at 30 November 2014.
Virtual Law Centre
Grant: £82,011
April 10, 2017
The Virtual Law Centre is a Skype based service providing specialist legal advice from pro bono solicitors and barristers based in Bristol to clients in more rural areas of the South West who do not have access to pro bono services. The project is hosted by Avon and Bristol Law Centre working closely in partnership with Citizens Advice North Somerset and Citizens Advice South Somerset whose clients will be accessing the service. The project aims to develop to include more partners and provide a comprehensive network of pro bono advice across the region.
The aim is to start with family law and employment with one off advice sessions but build up to an end to end casework service as the project develops.
Focus will be on helping the most vulnerable people to resolve their legal issues quickly and helpfully, with clients being supported on to further services where needed. The aim is to provide a much needed service in areas where people have no access at all to free specialist legal advice and representation.
LAG Digital First Strategy- Phase II
Grant: £86,400
April 4, 2017
Implementation of the second phase of the digital first strategy developed by LAG will enable all of the content from LAG's books, Legal Action journal and Community Care Law Reports to be made available through a new website. This will give enable LAG to bundle the content to sell on a subscription basis.
Online dispute resolution in family disputes in England & Wales – lessons
Grant: £15,978
March 29, 2017
Between September 2015 to October 2016 Relate piloted the prototype Online Family Dispute Resolution (OFDR) service it had built by adapting the Dutch Rechtwijzer model. During this period they carried out:
Relate also worked intensively on determining a sustainable social business model to allow the service to scale.
Unfortunately, despite the successful pilot, Relate have not managed to secure the delivery and investment partnerships required for the public launch of the ODFR service. They now aim to disseminate the lessons learnt from the pilot, focused on key findings on service users, practitioner involvement, and service sustainability; and to identify remaining innovation gaps in each of these areas.
In this their objectives are twofold:
Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Award - Access to Justice through IT Award
Grant: £30,000
December 12, 2016
Youth Justice Legal Centre
Grant: £100,000
November 9, 2016
This project is to enable YJLC,
YJLC has developed six business streams:
Ask CPAG – access to justice through technology for social security claimants
Grant: £21,300
November 9, 2016
This project will provide advisers with comprehensive, interrelated online resources to help navigate the government's wide-ranging welfare reforms.
This online system will enable advisers to assess their clients' entitlement to social security benefits and give them resources to challenge unfavourable decisions.
This will be done through three interrelated channels:
Strengthening 21st Century Access to Justice
Grant: £91,287
November 9, 2016
This project builds on the recommendations from recent reports Delivering Justice in an Age of Austerity and What is a Court?, which informed the senior judiciary and Government's thinking on system reform.
This project aims to ensure that the changes to the court and tribunals systems through digitisation respond to the needs of court users, and that ordinary people are provided with the tools to be able to take advantage of an improved, online justice system.
The project will involve on-going work with senior judges, law makers and Government officials on the adoption of modified dispute resolution processes by the judiciary and on reconfiguration of the court and tribunal estate centred on flexibility and IT enabled access to court buildings. It will also involve the establishment of a Working Party of JUSTICE members focussed on how 'Assisted Digital' might be enhanced to ensure that everyone, including the most technologically marginalised, can access justice online.
The Right to Participate
Grant: £98,000
November 9, 2016
This project will create an innovative interactive guide to increase disabled people's understanding of their legal rights. It will combine new technology with best evidence on framing rights-based messages and support disabled people to see where the barrier they are facing has a legal solution.
This resource will consist of four main elements:
LGBT Legal Matters
Grant: £14,460
November 9, 2016
There are three parts to this project:
R2R : Route to Resolution
Grant: £20,000
November 9, 2016
This project is to establishment an interactive guided pathway website for employees and employers, providing a one-stop-shop workplace ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) Service (called Route to Resolution – R2R). The employee /employer will provide information (through separate portals) in response to key questions. Accessible information will be provided about employment law and definitions to help the user answer questions and understand their position.
Help will be available (if necessary) for inputting information. The details provided will enable a lawyer to advise the user more efficiently about their rights and obligations. The website will include legal, practical and strategic information about how best to negotiate in a variety of situations, based on YESS's experience. This should enable some users to negotiate themselves with minimal or no input from a lawyer.
Digital Delivery of the Children's Legal Centre (Wales)
Grant: £15,000
November 9, 2016
Kids in Need of Defence - IT strategy
Grant: £10,000
November 9, 2016
This project is to enable KIND UK to partner with commercial law firms to support pro-bono capacity for legal advice and representation to enable children/young people with irregular immigration status to regularise their status and enjoy the rights of settled residency.
Strategic aims
An online education service for Small and Local Charities
Grant: £30,000
November 9, 2016
Delivering maternity rights information through apps and email-based notification
Grant: £57,450
November 9, 2016
The project will develop 'just in time' information for pregnant women on maternity rights at work, to be delivered through pregnancy-related apps and email notification services. Written and video materials suitable for inclusion in the Baby Buddy app and written materials suitable for inclusion in Public Health England's Start4Life email notification service will be produced. Partnerships with other apps and email services will also be explored.
Pregnancy discrimination is widespread and increasing. Government research found that 11% of pregnant women lose their jobs because of discrimination. Only 3% of these women pursue a grievance and fewer than 1% take their claim to the employment tribunal. Lack of knowledge about rights is a factor in women choosing not to take action.
The resources will be informed by Maternity Action's 2016 report, "Use of apps to deliver maternity rights information: scoping report", which includes a literature review and data from focus groups and stakeholder interviews. The resources will be piloted prior to release. The resources will be fully evaluated and learning will inform future projects to build legal capability. Maternity Action is well-positioned to undertake video work as they are currently completing three videos on pregnancy discrimination, focusing on sickness and health and safety.
Virtual Law Centre - South West
Grant: £10,000
October 4, 2016
Online Income Generation Capacity Building Pilot
Grant: £50,000
October 4, 2016
Digital Publishing Further Support
Grant: £8,025
October 4, 2016
Loan to support LAG's Business Plan
Grant: £40,000
October 4, 2016
Law Centres 2020 Digital Vision
Grant: £186,000
October 4, 2016
The project is the first phase of a programme to transform the Digital infrastructure of Law Centres nationally. It will establish a minimum (baseline) standard for digital equipment and systems across the network that will enable all Law Centres to:
The project will establish an ongoing subscription system to fund future upgrades and support.
Phase 1 Replacing Basic IT Systems
Grant: £29,680
July 29, 2016
Management of Mediation Online (MoMo) Implementation
Grant: £195,500
July 6, 2016
A website for the community working with Litigants in Person ('LIP Community')
Grant: £47,199
June 22, 2016
Applying Article 2 to Inquests
Grant: £45,760
June 22, 2016
The Law for Good Platform
Grant: £20,000
June 22, 2016
The 'Law for Good' campaign will connect expert technologists wanting to donate their time with charities offering legal advice who need technical support and advice support.
There is a lack of technology and IT resource in legal advice charities which is underpinned by a cultural resistance to change. This inefficiency results in fewer people having access to legal support.
Digital Triage Platform for Londoners needing free Community Legal Advice
Grant: £18,194
June 22, 2016
Creation of a digital solution to accelerate resolution of client queries which are relatively straight-forward to enable resources to be focused on more complex cases.
The idea is to help more of the people served to understand, articulate and categorise their own legal advice needs so that the organisation can be more focused and efficient with its advice, education and support services. This project will approach the challenge from first principles – looking at the client journey from first contact to a resolution of their problem and the efficiency of the processes that is currently employed along the way. The intention is to seek ways in which digital solutions can accelerate the journey without compromising the client's experience and the quality of support given to them.
Analysis by the organisation suggests that the triage process holds the greatest potential for a digital solution to resolve more of clients' relatively straight-forward queries so that focus can be given to face-to-face time on people with multiple, complex and urgent legal advice needs.
The aim is to implement this solution in boroughs across London on a fee-earning basis and to add value to bids for advice contracts in order to pay for on-going development.
Development of e learning and digital resources
Grant: £12,000
June 22, 2016
Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards 2016
Grant: £10,000
February 10, 2016
RightsInfo - Bill of Rights Proposal
Grant: £10,890
December 31, 2015
The government's consultation on replacing the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights ('BoR') is due to begin shortly. The consultation is expected to last 12 weeks. It is not clear yet what the proposals will be but they could significantly reduce the level of rights protection in the UK. The coming debate therefore poses a huge public educational challenge. Government consultations rarely succeed in engaging the public whose interests will be most affected.
We want to change that and produce an easy to navigate, engaging and fun online resource with around ten sections which explain the key proposals. It is not intended to tell people what to think, or take a political line, but rather to explain the potential pros and cons and encourage them to contribute to the consultation.
Using Technology to Transform Support to Litigants in Person
Grant: £50,000
November 10, 2015
The aim is to better serve LIPs by further investing in PSU's legal education support and knowledge management systems, while fully establishing dynamic IT systems to support its rapidly expanding service.
Project plans to,
The project will achieve these aims by:
Immigration & Asylum Partnership Project
Grant: £7,363
November 10, 2015
The aim of project is to provide individuals across North Wales, access to independent legal advice on all categories of law relating to immigration & asylum seekers. It is intended that such advice will be delivered through the medium of video conferencing at CAB Cylch Conwy & Wrexham District Citizens Advice offices. The video conference legal advice partnership will be delivered by Jackson Canter through their offices in Liverpool and Manchester.
The grant is to provide the video conferencing equipment required within two Citizens Advice Bureau offices in North Wales, Llandudno & Wrexham, and is required to deliver a pilot face to face advice service via video conferencing.
The Asylum Guides Project
Grant: £148,638
November 10, 2015
The Project will empower people claiming asylum in North West England to engage meaningfully with the asylum process by providing them with legal literacy on the UK asylum system.
Highly skilled volunteer Asylum Guides, located in organisations trusted by the client group, will provide people seeking asylum with a legal literacy programme. They will meet their clients in person at key stages in their journey through the asylum process to understand and prepare for their interactions with the Home Office - from arrival until their case is concluded.
Exhausted by the asylum seeking experience, and ill-prepared to navigate the process alone, this staged, relational legal literacy approach will engage this population to feel more engaged with their claim and have a better understanding of what is happening at each stage of the process. Moreover, the Solihull Early Advice Pilot showed, they are more likely to accept the outcome of their asylum claim if they have had the process explained to them and are able to participate in the decision making with the support of a trained advisor.
Asylum Guides will be trained using digital educational tools thus ensuring that this is an accessible, scalable public law educational model.
Building Legal Capability Of Pregnant Women At Work
Grant: £57,300
November 10, 2015
The project will produce four short videos guiding pregnant women and new mothers through the processes they need to follow to resolve disputes about management of sickness at work and will also scope use of apps to deliver maternity rights information.
Pregnancy discrimination, including poor management of sickness, is widespread. Government research found that 11% of pregnant women lose their jobs because of discrimination. Only 8% of these women take formal action (pursue a grievance, seek advice, employment tribunal claim).
The videos will guide low income women through informal meetings with their employers and the formal grievance process, complementing Maternity Action's widely used online information. The videos will be informed by focus groups with low income women and input from unions, and will be piloted with women prior to release to test efficacy. The videos will be fully evaluated and the learning will inform future projects to build legal capability.
Discussions have been held with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) about joint work to deliver maternity rights information through apps and the project will also scope this work, producing a detailed proposal.
Get Legal Small Charity Overlay
Grant: £71,500
November 10, 2015
BWB has just soft launched a new On-Line service "BWB Get Legal" (getlegal.bwbllp.com) aimed at the charity sector, which produces bespoke legal and policy documents in response to the user answering document specific questions.
This project is to fund an overlay on BWB Get Legal to meet the specific needs of the smaller charities – where they do not even know what they need - and provide a seamless and very low cost method of meeting those small charity legal needs.
Free Online Legal Health Check Self-Assessment For NGOs
Grant: £19,600
November 10, 2015
This project gives NGOs a free, easy-to-use online tool to assess their legal needs, resulting in a report that they can work through with lawyers over time, whether on a fee-paying or pro bono basis. This will help NGOs to use lawyers more effectively and efficiently, being clear about exactly what they need to address and preventing costly disputes from arising by identifying the gaps in their standard operations and programmes.
It will also generate a body of knowledge about the needs and challenges of NGOs, creating the evidence required to generate policy and legislative reform.
Developing an Online Tool to Assess the Eligibility of Destitute Families
Grant: £58,000
November 10, 2015
A project to develop an interactive online tool which would allow advisors and service-providers in the voluntary and public sectors to assess the eligibility of destitute migrant children and families for local authority support under s17 Children Act, where they lack expert knowledge on that area of law.
The accessibility of the tool, housed on the NRPF Network site and tailored to take account of minor variations in law in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, will empower voluntary sector agencies to advocate on behalf of eligible families. It will also ensure that local authority staff have an authoritative tool that enables them to make an informed initial response, reducing the likelihood of rejection of applications prior to formal assessment.
The tool will provide a printout the advisor can use when approaching a local authority. Inserting a post-code will provide relevant contact details.
The project will increase the prospect of eligible families securing s17 support while reducing potential for ill-advised applications. Further, it will serve as a pilot for establishing the potential for a technological solution of this kind to enhance access to rights in geographical areas and sectors where specialist legal knowledge is not readily available.
Defamation Law for Advocacy NGOs – Online Training and Self-Assessment Guide
Grant: £21,250
November 10, 2015
This project gives advocacy and campaigning NGOs free online tools to understand English defamation law so they can check the vast majority of their publications for defamation risks themselves, saving paid-for and pro bono legal services for specific, more technical points.
The training and self-assessment tool will be developed by A4ID in partnership with leading defamation barristers and in consultation with relevant NGOs, so that they are legally correct but also engaging and user-friendly.
This will mean that NGOs acting in the public interest to expose serious misconduct will be able to do so responsibly and without jeopardising the work of their organisations.
Management of Mediation Online (MoMO)
Grant: £10,000
November 10, 2015
Knowledge Bank and Website
Grant: £40,000
November 10, 2015
The project is to develop and improve the LinC website as a digital resource for the existing group of charities so that subject experts can share practical guidance and information on key areas of law that are relevant to charities. A Professional Support Lawyer will:
The Project will create a unique legal resource providing relevant and risk-based guidance on key areas of the law, as well as template policies and documents relating to governance and charity management, to non-specialist or generalist lawyers working in a wide range of charities.
A feasibility study into potential sources of future funding for the website e.g. the charging of a membership fee based on the improvement and enhanced value of the website to members will be undertaken.
Advancing the JUSTICE Student Network
Grant: £20,000
November 10, 2015
Advancing the JUSTICE Student Network (JSN) will build upon the initial success of developing the JUSTICE Student Human Rights Network microsite and increased engagement with the student community. While much of initial objectives of the project (supported by the LEF) have been achieved there is still much to develop.
This project is multi-faceted in its objectives, intending to equip students with a practical understanding of how lawyers can work to strengthen the justice system and the rights of individuals within it. It is also designed to encourage contact between students and practitioners. This experience cannot be obtained from normal academic or vocational programmes. By drawing upon our unique history, experience and membership, a comprehensive JSN website will make a valuable contribution to legal education.
The site will contain a selection of unique resources designed to support academic legal education and to encourage interest in public interest law. Additionally, a key aspect of this project is the hiring of a JSN Fellow to carry out the work. The fellow will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the JSN, organising events, liaising with students and practitioners and coordinating the new 'A Day in the Life of Justice' initiative.
BHT Pro Bono
Grant: £10,000
November 10, 2015
BHT Pro Bono is a collaborative clinical law project initiated between Brighton Housing Trust ('BHT') and Sussex University's Law Department, where law students are placed at BHT's Legal Advice Centre in central Brighton, to gain experience in housing and legal aid advice provision. The aim of this project is to develop a digital advice unit.
The assistance the students can give will not only be in the traditional form of face-to-face, over the counter client-based work, but also delivered through an online portal currently being developed by BHT, part of the 'Advice Brighton and Hove' technology strategy 'Digital Inclusion'.
Realising the Legal Rights of Migrant Children and Young People in Practice
Grant: £120,000
November 10, 2015
This project will develop new, innovative training and capacity-building interventions aimed at professionals, carers and young people to further our objective of improving the implementation of children and young people's rights in practice.
This proposal builds upon an existing training programme, which seeks to build capacity amongst non-legal professionals e.g. social workers. To enhance this practice-improvement work, Coram are seeking to develop complementary legal education interventions for additional beneficiaries:
By supporting professionals who are at the coalface of implementing children's rights Coram are ensuring a comprehensive approach to improving the experiences of a group of children amongst those most at risk of breaches of their legal rights.
Through this project Coram aim to directly train and support 510 professionals and young people, and provide resources and remote training to over 3000 per year.
Post 16 Pilot Project
Grant: £35,000
November 10, 2015
This is a pilot project to expand access to public legal education in order to;
This pilot project will;
The Children and Families Act 2014, including the special educational needs (SEN) and Disability Code of Practice 2015, replaced the old SEN Law. The old Law dealt primarily with the entitlements of children. The new law is also about children but it also includes a new definition; that of a "young person".
The new SEN Law benefits children and young people from the ages of 0 – 25. The new definition of "young person" covers those aged 16 to 25 years old.
Young People, Housing, Homelessness And The Law Film Project
Grant: £51,250
November 10, 2015
The aim is to,
Evaluation and Scoping Project
Grant: £33,000
November 10, 2015
A project to research and develop IT solutions that will expand access to public legal education in order to;
This project will;
IPSEA will use experts to help with this project in order to ensure that it is drawing on cutting edge information and communications technology and proven experience to future-proof our work. These experts will work with IPSEA's staff, volunteers and beneficiaries in order to ensure that they are involved in these developments. They will also work to define the IT functionality that is needed now and in the future before researching options and then preparing a specification report.
IT Upgrade Project
Grant: £21,000
July 30, 2015
Rightsnet Online Peer Support Project
Grant: £85,780
July 1, 2015
Grant: £68,000
June 25, 2015
Law in Schools
Grant: £35,995
November 26, 2014
Training Modules for online Anti Trafficking Hub
Grant: £50,000
November 26, 2014
Helping People to find Public Legal Education Online
Grant: £8,500
November 26, 2014
The vision of the Charity is a world where every person's right to a fair trial is respected, whatever their nationality, wherever they are accused. Its mission is to promote fair trials according to internationally recognised standards of justice and defend the rights of those facing charges in a country other than their own.
The funds will allow Fair Trials to expand the reach of the public legal education materials it has developed for individual suspects and defendants arrested in countries across the globe (and their friends and relatives). The process will be shared as a case study for other organisations providing online public legal education to identify and share examples of good practice in terms of effective dissemination.
Development of IT based Knowledge network
Grant: £125,000
November 26, 2014
Defence Rights E-Training Stage 2
Grant: £20,000
November 26, 2014
An access to Justice Evolution – re imaging the role of Pro Bono
Grant: £67,000
November 26, 2014
Digital Platform
Grant: £26,000
August 8, 2014
The Youth Justice Legal Centre
Grant: £86,400
August 8, 2014
The Just for Kids Law charity aims to transform the lives of children and young people through the rule of law and child-centred advocacy. Many of the vulnerable young people it works with have multiple and complex needs; these include physical and mental health problems, unstable immigration status, unstable accommodation and weak or non-existent support networks.
The charity advocates on behalf of clients in school exclusion hearings, at police stations, in the courts and in other formal and informal settings. The aim is to ensure clients receive a fair hearing, are properly supported and have access to essential services (such as a placement in school or suitable accommodation).
The Foundation grant will be used to create a YJLC website to share it unique knowledge base with as many people as possible, and provide a comprehensive resource about children in the criminal justice system to professionals, lay people and young people.
The JUSTICE Student Human Rights Network
Grant: £40,000
August 8, 2014
JUSTICE is an all-party law reform and human rights charity working to strengthen the justice system – administrative, civil and criminal. Its vision is of fair, accessible and efficient legal processes, in which the individual's rights are protected, and which reflect the country's international reputation for upholding and promoting the rule of law. This includes "promoting education and conducting research into the law, including current proposed practices and administration and reform of the law".
The Foundation's grant will enable the charity to build a dynamic student website to arm students with the necessary skills and experience to engage with law reform when they enter practice.
Street Law
Grant: £7,500
August 8, 2014
Remodelling Advicenow
Grant: £123,000
August 8, 2014
Migrant & Refugee Children's Legal Unit (MiCLU)
Grant: £81,400
August 8, 2014
GENDER MATTERS: Women taking control
Grant: £70,000
August 8, 2014
Benefit Assessment Advocacy Programme
Grant: £61,000
August 8, 2014
Vulnerable Witness Sexual Offences and Child Cases Training Course
Grant: £18,000
November 27, 2013
Vulnerable Witness Masterclasses
Grant: £3,000
November 27, 2013
The further development of The Advocate's Gateway, with particular reference to the Treatment of Vulnerable Witnesses through Masterclasses and Toolkits in Practice.
These classes are aimed at advocates and other lawyers who wish to understand how better to communicate with vulnerable witnesses inside and outside the courtroom.
Foreign Languages in Court
Grant: £22,500
November 27, 2013
Vulnerable Witness training courses
Grant: £38,000
November 27, 2013
Subscription for service on Social Housing Advice Practitioners
Grant: £82,000
November 27, 2013
Smartlaw SMART PHONE APP
Grant: £49,000
November 27, 2013
Public legal education materials on welfare rights
Grant: £29,000
November 27, 2013
Public and Civil Legal Education Gateway
Grant: £136,000
November 27, 2013
Online Portal for the London Libraries Consortium
Grant: £25,000
November 27, 2013
Interactive game for Social Security Tribunal
Grant: £30,000
November 27, 2013
Many vulnerable individuals find themselves needing to make appeals against Social Security decisions, but don't know how. Most have long-term health problems and will have mental and/or physical illnesses. The appeals process can be daunting – often they're expected to sit in front of a panel of professionals.
This project will develop an online game to ensure claimants can learn exactly how the tribunal process works in an engaging and interesting way. The project will also offer followup face-to-face informational group workshops. The game will be shared for free through the CAB network and could be shared with other voluntary organisations for free and on subscription to not for-profit companies. The project funding will also cover training packs for volunteers and staff delivering the workshops effectively.
Free Talks
Grant: £70,000
November 27, 2013
Family law Pro Bono Assistance
Grant: £25,000
November 27, 2013
E-Training Courses
Grant: £20,000
November 27, 2013
E-learning Modules
Grant: £25,000
November 27, 2013
Development of training materials for national dissemination
Grant: £39,500
November 27, 2013
Grapevine help people with learning disabilities to get the life they want – to make their own choices and be part of their community. The LEF funded project is prompted by recent research into the problems accessing legal services experienced by people with learning disabilities. This potentially affects 1.5 million of the most vulnerable citizens of the UK.
The project will use current networks to make resources available to 50,000 solicitors, every law centre and CAB in the country, 42 national and 170 regional carer organisations, 50 local self-advocacy groups and a range of care and support service providers including educational material, practice notes and presentations on topics such as hate crime, discrimination and mental capacity.
The second strand of work provides material directly to the people with learning disabilities, their families and other supporters (including paid staff) to help recognise the types of legal issues that affect people with learning disabilities, what they should expect from legal services and how to work in partnership with local legal services to improve issues such as accessibility of information and adjustments to practice.
Grant: £42,000
November 27, 2013
Training Videos
Grant: £3,000
June 3, 2013
Vulnerable Witness Toolkits 2013
Grant: £20,000
May 1, 2013
Three additional toolkits in the Vulnerable Witness series.
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