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The Germans have not been very creative when bestowing new names upon their neighboring countries. They tend to go with "Germany."
They have, however, been marvelously inventive linguists, giving the world delicious words such as "schadenfreude." What an amazing concept to encapsulate in a single word. You can't do it with fewer than four words in English: "joy in others' pain."
Your humble narrator called football games on the radio for many years, and "shadenfreude" is not a football-friendly term. Neither, for that matter, is "standard deviation"; drop that one into a broadcast and your color guy will think you're talking about an unoriginal pervert.
Yes, this happened.
For the 49ers Faithful peering south at Levi's Stadium, however, schadenfreude is very much a football term. There's been a lot more schadenfreude than quality football in Santa Clara this preseason.
Thus far, the rollout for the new arena has been about on par with HealthCare.gov. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune befalling the $1.3 billion stadium and those who'd hope to watch or play ball within it have been legion. Getting to and from the stadium has involved transit nightmares befitting escapes from nuclear attacks — or Woodstock. Its $1.4-million playing field looked a lot more like an ill-maintained municipal golf course last week; players skittered about like Bambi on ice as large divots came free. The team curtailed practice early and legitimate questions were raised about whether the field was up to hosting just its second football game ever. (An entirely new turf installation was required for the 49ers to on Sunday drop San Diego, 21-7.)
A fan died of an apparent heart attack during the stadium's sweltering National Football League debut — leading an ingrate sitting one row away to take to the internet and plead for a refund. Two workers died during its construction. Personal injury attorney Christopher Dolan wrote in the Examiner that the stadium's railings are too low; he warns it's a potential deathtrap and lawsuit Valhalla.
Levi's Stadium, it seems, is the Bay Bridge of ballparks. The team may not have gotten what it paid for, but it certainly paid for what it got.
And so, jilted San Francisco fans have been offered the schadenfreude smorgasbord. It's akin to watching an ex decamp to the burbs with a rich, obnoxious new paramour, and take up residence in a McMansion built atop an Indian burial ground. Hilarity ensues.
In the current edition of San Francisco magazine, Gary Kamiya pens a lengthy, lyrical elegy for our dearly departed football team provocatively titled "The Death of the San Francisco 49ers."
And yet, the home side is only mostly dead.
In truth, the Niners' exodus 38 miles south changes very little. The team has long been headquartered in Santa Clara. Now it'll be there for seven days a week instead of six.
The dysfunctional relationship between erstwhile Mayor Gavin Newsom and team ownership has been dutifully recounted in these and other outlets. Newsom attempted to strong-arm the Niners into erecting a new stadium atop a radioactive superfund site (the rare opportunity to juxtapose the terms "Candlestick Park" and "hot").
Newsom did some strange things in his time here as mayor. But his cajoling of the Niners was among the strangest. At one point, he told the Chronicle that a new 49ers facility would be the jewel in the crown of a revitalized Hunters Point — but also told the Examiner that Santa Clara voters would be fools to greenlight a new 49ers facility because they'd be "subsidizing a giant stadium for 10 games a year."
These quotes, incidentally, ran on the same day.
The team opted to move far from Newsom and radioactive superfund sites, and took up Santa Clara on the offer of a state-of-the-art stadium paid for with $114 million in public funds and a $621 million public exposure via borrowing.
So, that's what it would have taken to keep the Niners in town. You'd have had to come up with a nonexistent site that would satisfy all parties, then pump hundreds of millions of public dollars into building it.
Anyone talking up the positive economic impact a new stadium would have on the vicinity is welcome to tour the environs around Candlestick Park and note the economic impact 50 years of ballgames had on that area.
Do it during the day.
Kamiya's story documents the lamentations of lifelong 49ers fans being asked to pony up $20,000 for the mere privilege of then shelling out $325 per Levi's Stadium ticket. A longtime season ticket-holder (who was sitting in the end zone where Dwight Clark made The Catch in '81) earlier told your humble narrator he'd be out some $30,000 for the right to then pay roughly double his Candlestick per-ticket fee of $180. "It's ridiculous," he says wearily. "But they have a monopoly."
Aggrieved fans can grouse about the loss of identity for a team with roots in Kezar Stadium and battalions of grown-up Christopher Milk kids decked out in vintage gold satin jackets that'd be deemed hideous in any other environment.
The new stadium will be antiseptic while the old ones had character; it will be full of affluent people while the old ones held blue-collar crowds; its denizens cannot possibly care as much as those who attended previous home games.
The sad truth, however, is that the 49ers obviously don't much care — and were, in fact, slow to adopt this league-wide trend. Every football team has blue-collar roots. Every new football palace discards the intimacy and intensity of its creaky forbear and caters to a fan base that, itself, is less intense. These coliseums are, by and large, located miles away from the urban centers of the cities whose names the teams carry.
And, for the most part, that matters very little.
Baseball parks, traditionally, are sited downtown. That matters. The game's quotidian nature — 81 home games a year — enables the fickle fortunes of a baseball team to work its way under the skin and into the consciousness of a city in a way football cannot. The coursing of attendees to and from a baseball stadium in the city's heart almost resembles a living process within the civic body.
Football, however, is a once-a-week spectacle. We'd be fools to subsidize a giant stadium for 10 games a year. A facility on the outskirts of town surrounded by a massive parking lot is par for the course. And there's no bigger parking lot than Santa Clara.
For four decades, the team played its games in a remote stadium cut off from the rest of the city and out of sight of the vast majority of its fans.
That's still the case.
Eight bucks for a slice of pizza and $11 for a beer, though? That's a goddamn travesty.
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MELVILLE, Sask. — A Canadian National Railway employee has died after being injured in a railway yard in Saskatchewan.
CN (TSX:CNR) spokesman Patrick Waldron says in an email that the employee was fatally injured early Friday while performing "regular duties" at the company's Melville Yard.
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The May 13 Generation: The Chinese Middle Schools Student Movement and Singapore Politics in the 1950s. The May 13 Generation was the first belonging to the immigrant communities from China to grapple with the issues of being Malayan/Singaporean, breaking irrevocably with the received wisdoms of their elders, and in a political climate where their explorations were deemed to be subversive. This book comprises the recollections penned by the participants of the era of the 1950s, where their generation was in the forefront of the anti-colonial movement, and the work of academic researchers who have examined the historical framework and context of the period, as well as how it has been made to fit in to the country's mainstream history. The researchers have also examined the students' cultural expressions, whether it is in art, drama, dance or literature and found to be socially engaged, and grappling with the question of who they were as a people. The cultural explorations of that period have been forgotten or repudiated. It is revealing just how this amnesia and silence has become so set. It is also impossible to imagine the demands that age had put on this generation of youths.
The May 13 Generation
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Sunday, April 17, 2011
Kitchen/upstairs remodel - PART 1
9 comments:
- Pia said...
This sounds and looks like so much hard work! But I am sure it will be so worth it. :)
I wish I could get a new kitchen. Sigh.
- April 18, 2011 at 12:17 AM
- Nicole Dianne said...
fun fun fun! i can't wait to see the finished project :)
- April 18, 2011 at 12:33 AM
- b. lee said...
holy canoli that's lots of work! but gonna be so worth & makes for some sweet memories * * lookin' forward to seeing those sparkly finish prod. pics ~ ~ ~
- April 18, 2011 at 4:59 AM
- Amy {The Idea Room} said...
Wow! It is going to look so great! I can't wait to see it either!
- April 18, 2011 at 7:16 AM
- Chelsea said...
it's going to be great when it's all done! cant wait to see pics.
- April 18, 2011 at 8:38 AM
- Spencer said...
Sure looks like fun! Adam, Haley I can't believe how big Brooks is now! It has been so long since I have seen you two! Hope everything is going well. Have fun with the remodels. I love doing that stuff!
- April 18, 2011 at 12:58 PM
- thatjordangirl said...
Wow that's amazing, I can't wait to see the results!
- April 18, 2011 at 2:32 PM
- Alli said...
Looks great! I'm excited to see the final product. Nothing's better than a Subway lunch either so that's a great way to treat such helpful friends!
- April 18, 2011 at 4:52 PM
- Ashley {hudson's happenings} said...
WHEW! So much hard work!! Glad there was some yummy Subway for the hungry crew!! (my favorite!)
I simply can NOT wait to see everything when it's all finished! You have such great taste...I know it will be BEAUTIFUL!
Hope you had a happy weekend, Haley! :)
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The balls were flying out of Charlotte on Friday night when the RailRiders took on the Knights. Scranton Wilkes-Barre powered their way to a 15-8 victory over Charlotte thanks to four home runs hit by the team. The big night came off the bat of the former first round pick, Billy McKinney.
McKinney put on a show in the game. He finished the contest 4-5 with a double, two triples, a grand slam home run, and six RBI's. He was one single away from completing the cycle. The big night comes during a Triple-A resurgence for McKinney.
McKinney was the 24th overall pick by the Oakland A's in 2013. He was traded to the Chicago Cubs, ranked their #2 prospect at the time, as a piece in the Addison Russell trade. A knee injury saw his prospect status fall as he put up miserable numbers in the 2016 season. This allowed the Yankees to grab him in their trade that sent Aroldis Chapman over to Chicago for Gleyber Torres.
2017 started to look like more of the same for McKinney when he was hitting .250 to start the year at Double-A Trenton but thanks to a flurry of call-ups McKinney got moved up to the RailRiders. Since his promotion, entering this game, he was hitting .306 with four home runs and 11 RBI's over 22 games.
The RailRiders jumped on the board right out of the gate. Top Prospect, Miguel Andujar got it rolling with a solo home run to left field. Two Batters later, McKinney plated Mike Ford for the second run of the game. They would take on one more to jump out to a 3-0 lead. A solo home run by Charlotte's Jake Peter got the home team on the board but Scranton Wilkes-Barre plated two more in the third inning thanks to McKinney's second triple of the night that was laced to right field.
The game was broken open by SWB in the 5th inning. A two-run homerun by Ji-Man Choi scored McKinney to get the inning started. A few more runs would come in thanks to a Mason Williams single and a throwing error by the Knights' first baseman. The RailRiders' would bat around in the inning and allow McKinney to come up for a second time. He took advantage by demolishing a pitch to right field for a grand slam home run. SWB would finish off the inning with a 14-4 lead and never looked back.
Despite the offensive fireworks, RailRiders' starter Brady Lail only lasted 4.1 innings and gave up 6 runs. Giovanni Gallegos pitched two scoreless innings in relief and picked up the win. Jake Cave also tacked on a late home run for Scranton Wilkes-Barre.
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At the instant the pitch black and lusterless Talisman Armament entered his hands, Chen Xi's disposition changed abruptly as killing intent that seemed material swept out with a bang, and it shook the surroundings while filling every inch of space.
Chen Xi who stood casually in tattered clothes like a beggar seemed as if he was another person, with a menacing look between his brows while standing straight like a spear. At this moment, the ghastly killing intent he tempered from the countless arduous battles during these past three months had been released with a bang!
Instantly, the entire hall seemed as if it had fallen into severe winter. The bodies of every single person froze and felt as if a sword was against their backs, and even their breathing felt difficult as they looked at Chen Xi with gazes that were filled with shock.
No one had imagined that when this fellow who was covered in rags and blood merely released his killing intent, it would seem material and be so ghastly and fierce.
He didn't speak a single unnecessary word. Chen Xi had forcefully slaughtered a path of blood out of Gloom Forest, and it was a path worthy of being called a path of blood. Besides the blood of countless ferocious beasts, Chen Xi himself had already forgotten exactly how many times he was injured or how much blood he'd shed.
Amidst this ceaseless battles and slaughter, Chen Xi had even grasped a completely new Dao Insight — the Grand Dao of Slaughter! At the instant he decided to enter into battle, he'd already entered into battle conditions.
His feelings were indifferent like a dried up well that had no ripples.
His soul was highly concentrated.
His expression was icy cold and indifferent.
Killing his enemies in the swiftest way possible had become the one and only objective in Chen Xi's heart, and it was a firm and pure objective.
The Talisman Armament that was constructed with the Sickle of Slaughter as its base seemed to have felt the killing intent in Chen Xi's heart, and it emitted a joyful cry that contained the intent of wanting to drink its fill of fresh blood.
In the next moment, the villains of the Roving Vultures noticed to their horror that Chen Xi's figure had suddenly vanished into thin air in their field of vision, and they were unable to lock onto him any longer!
Pu! Pu! Pu!
A string of muffled sounds resounded out as a string a scarlet and hot blood sprayed into midair, and it was like a string of firecrackers that had exploded in succession. A flawless string of blood appeared in the sky, and it was tragically beautiful and bloody.
The surrounding spectators noticed to their horror that the throats of every single one of the seven bandits that were closest to Chen Xi had a uniform bloody hole pierced on their throats, and their expressions of shock were frozen on their faces as if they didn't understand what had happened even until their death.
The thing that caused the others to feel horrified the most was that due to his speed being too swift, they were utterly incapable of seeing Chen Xi's figure clearly from the beginning until the end, let alone see how he struck.
Pu! Pu! Pu!
The horrifying muddled sounds resounded out once more like the footsteps of the god of death, and it stomped in the hearts of everyone, causing their entire bodies to go cold as if they'd fallen into an icy pit.
In less than an instant, another five bandits had died miserably, and the state of their death was exactly similar, a single strike to the throat!
Only now did the other bandits recover from their shock, and all of them were terrified to the point their souls almost left their bodies as they fled in all directions. At this moment, did they still seem like members of the notorious Roving Vultures? Did they still seem like ferocious villains that had tainted their hands with blood?
In the eyes of Yun Na, these bandits that had caused her to have countless nightmares were now like a flock of sheep whose lair was invaded by a ferocious tiger, so helpless and so despaired.
There was no sympathy or pity in her heart. These notorious bandits were too detestable, they specialized in robbing and killing independent cultivators who had no background and bullied the weak while fearing the strong, so they deserved death.
Presently, when she saw them fleeing for their lives, there was only happiness and excitement in her heart. If it wasn't for her strength being insufficient, she wished for nothing more than to charge up and slaughter them without restraint.
How satisfying!
When she recalled how she was terrified to the point of being completely helpless earlier, Yun Na felt a wave of shame. But she didn't feel too embarrassed, because she knew that if she didn't have this ferocious fellow, Chen Xi, by her side, everything would return to how it was in the past. At that time, she would probably be unable to escape the fiendish claws of these bandits.
The will to fight of the remaining bandits collapsed as they fled with a bang, yet this was unable to make Chen Xi stop just like that. The battles during these past few years had allowed him to deeply understand a single truth, never hold back in the slightest when dealing with any enemy. One must pull out weeds by the roots and eliminate them completely, so that one could forever put an end to any future troubles.
In fact, he did indeed not hold back in the slightest. In his eyes, these fellows were no different than the ferocious beasts he encountered earlier, and their deaths weren't worthy of pity.
During the arduous battles and tempering in these past three months, his cultivation had broken through once again. His body refinement and qi refinement had both attained the advanced-stage of the Golden Core Realm, causing his strength to be more than two times more formidable than when he was in the Gloom Forest.
Coupled with the combat technique and will he'd tempered during the battles with those terrifying ferocious beasts, it allowed him to precisely control every single segment in the entire battle situation, and he was able to annihilate his enemies with the swiftest speed while being in a state that saved the most of his physical strength.
It was even to the extent that he didn't compare himself with others any longer, as there was utterly nothing that could be compared. People like Qing Xiuyi, Zhao Qinghe who could be called the peak experts of the younger generation of the entire Darchu Dynasty did indeed possess extremely formidable strengths, and it had even attained the limit they were capable of achieving.
But up until now, even if his live combat experience had multiplied, he hadn't arrived at his own limit. His potential was still enormous, and he had an even greater space to improve. If he was given sufficient time, then he was completely confident in surpassing all the Golden Core Realm experts of the Darchu Dynasty's younger generation!
Even if it was now, his strength was already sufficient to look down upon most of the Golden Core Realm experts of the younger generation, and if they were to compete solely on combat experience, then there was probably no one capable of achieving all the life and death battles that Chen Xi had experienced while fighting all the way to attain his current achievements.
This was a type of extremely precious experience, because only by receiving the baptism of countless life and death battles could one truly be able to understand the meaning of battle and reveal extraordinary combat skills. This was something that couldn't be passed down by any sect or book, and it required one to personally contemplate it and temper one's self.
As the saying goes, the master guides one through the entrance, yet cultivation depended on one's self. Cultivation was like this, and so was combat.
The slaughter was still being carried out.
Shrill cries resounded out successively within the hall. The shrill cries emitted before death caused every single person present at the scene to feel as if they were immersed in icy cold and bone piercing water, and they couldn't help but start shivering.
This was absolutely a slaughter without suspense!
When facing such a slaughter, no matter how firm their minds were, they couldn't help but feel awe and terror.
Even the spectators were so terrified, and the villains of the Roving Vultures were even more so. Up until this point in the battle, they'd practically been beaten to a muddled state.
In a single move, almost 20 of their companions had fallen, so how would they fight a completely one sided battle with an opponent that easily crushed everything in his path? How would they resist?
At the back of the crowd, the expression of the Roving Vulture's leader, Vulture Meng, became grim as he felt great regret in his heart. I only coveted the beauty of a woman, yet why would it bring out such a god of disaster? But the situation was critical, and he'd already discerned that it was already too late for him to submit now, so only a single path remained...
An expression of resolve appeared on Vulture Meng's face right away, and he gritted his teeth savagely as he shouted explosively. "Retreat! Leave Fort Desolate! While there's life, there's still hope!"
His voice was so loud that it seemed like a thunderclap that resounded out in the entire hall.
However, unexpected to Vulture Meng, his voice actually didn't obtain any reply, and it was even to the extent that everyone present at the scene looked at him with a strange expression when they heard him.
Hmm? What's going on?
Vulture Meng's heart jerked as he felt something was wrong, and then his gaze swept once more towards his surroundings before his face that was covered in scars instantly froze.
They're dead!
At this moment, the 29 subordinates he'd brought with him this time were already lying in pools of blood. The throats of every single one of them had a blood hole penetrated upon it and dark red blood was still gurgling out from within, causing the air in the entire hall to be filled with a nauseating dense smell of blood.
Vulture Meng seemed as if he was struck by lightning. These subordinates had followed by his side for numerous years, yet had transformed into icy cold corpses now. How could he be able to accept such an outcome?
But compared to the sorrow in his heart, he still treasured his own life more, and his years of living a life of bloodshed allowed him to instantly sober up from the feeling of losing his brothers. Moreover, he made the preparations to flee at the same time.
He'd even planned that once he escaped this calamity, he would surely lead a large group of his brothers and cut this fellow that was like a god of disaster into pieces!
However, when he was about to make a move, he suddenly noticed that the surrounding atmosphere was too strange, and it seemed as if the gazes in the entire hall that shot at him were filled with pity…
Have these fellows gone mad?
Vulture Meng felt it was extremely incomprehensible, and then he suddenly realized something, causing him to raise his head and hastily sweep his gaze at the surroundings before his expression instantly turned terrified to the extreme.
He gulped down a mouthful of saliva and still refused to give up hope as he turned his head around with great difficulty. Sure enough, he saw that god of disaster had already arrived behind him without him becoming aware of it.
Moreover, the pitch black sword that had killed 29 of his brothers was only an inch away from his throat, and he even saw traces of warm traces of blood still remaining on the sword!
I'm doomed, I'm afraid I won't be able to escape calamity this time…
Right when this though had just emerged in Vulture Meng's mind, he suddenly felt pain in his throat, then a 'Pu' sounded out in his ears, and it was exactly similar to the sound that resounded out when the throats of his brothers were penetrated.
Nevertheless, the scene before the eyes of Vulture Meng, the leader of the notorious Roving Vultures that roamed freely in Fort Desolate for many years went black, and he perished on the spot. At the moment before his death, he saw a wisp of blood that sprayed into midair and a pair of icy cold and calm eyes.
After he killed Vulture Meng, Chen Xi put away the Talisman Armament, and then he didn't even spare a glance to the corpses on the ground nor did he pay any attention to the shocked and speechless gazes of everyone present at the scene before directly arriving before Yun Na and asking. "Are there rooms here? I want to take a rest."
"Ah!" Yun Na cried out as she sobered up from the blood and shocking scenes from before, and then she nodded hurriedly and said, "There are, there are. So long as it's an empty room, you can stay in any room upstairs."
Chen Xi nodded before turning around to walk towards the stairs, and he said as he walked, "Take the treasures in the possession of these bandits as the compensation for leading me here."
Yun Na was stunned, and then she seemed to have suddenly thought of something and cried out. "Senior, I forgot to tell you that not anyone can occupy the rooms upstairs. You must possess a certain level of strength, otherwise, you will only be kicked out, and in some serious cases, it's even possible to be killed!"Previous Chapter Next Chapter


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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Coco Gauff's latest history-making Grand Slam run at age 15 is over after she was beaten by Sofia Kenin in three sets in the fourth round of the Australian Open.
Kenin is a 21-year-old American who made it to her first major quarterfinal. The 14th-seeded Kenin got early service breaks in all three sets, including the first game of the match against Gauff. She dropped a first-set tiebreak before storming back for a 6-7, 6-3, 6-0 win.
Gauff was fresh off a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Naomi Osaka before running out of gas versus Kenin, committing seven double-faults and 48 unforced errors, more than twice as many as Kenin.
When Gauff took out defending champion Osaka in the third round, she became the youngest player in the professional era to defeat the reigning women's champion at the Australian Open. The 15-year-old also beat seven-time major winner Venus Williams in the first round.
Kenin will next play 25-year-old Ons Jabeur of Tunisia, who advanced to her first Grand Slam quarterfinal with a 7-6 (4), 6-1 win over No. 27-seeded Wang Qiang.
Wang was coming off an upset win over 23-time major winner Serena Williams in the third round. Jabeur was coming off a win over 2018 Australian Open winner Caroline Wozniacki, who went into retirement after the loss.
Jabeur is the first Arab woman to make it to a Grand Slam singles quarterfinal, and she's proud to lead the way.
"I'm trying to inspire many young generations back home either in Tunisia or the Arabic world, especially in Africa, which is amazing," she said.
In other fourth-round action, Novak Djokovic, Milos Raonic and Petra Kvitova all won.
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This is an average of the three domain scores below.
The U.S. Government received a 70 (C-) with transparency and a 74 (C) without transparency for Maternal and Child Health across all actors due to the lower budget requests by the White House and Congress. This domain grade was further lowered due to the omittance of specific references to MCH programming in the PLGHA FAQ and Six Month Review documents, which indicates that the U.S. government is not considering the unique impact of the implementation of PLGHA on maternal and child health programs. Low transparency on policy and funding data related to maternal and child health also contributed to this score.
The State Department received a 35 (F) with transparency and a 40 (F) without transparency for Maternal and Child Health based on two documents related to the PLGHA expansion of the Global Gag Rule: the Six Month Review and the FAQ. Neither is gender aware nor based in evidence or human rights principles. However, both documents are responsive to need because they address concerns and questions from partners regarding the implementation of PLGHA. The omittance of specific references to MCH programming in both documents indicates that the State Department is not considering the unique impact of the implementation of PLGHA on maternal and child health programs. This shortsightedness has serious implications for the ability of the State Department to implement comprehensive MCH programming. With regards to budget allocation, the State Department budget evaluation depicts that funds are being distributed according to countries with the highest maternal mortality.
USAID received a 70 (C-) with transparency and a 72 (C-) without transparency for Maternal and Child Health based on three documents issued in 2018 that relate to MCH. Though the impact of this guidance on SRHR ranges from positive to negative, all of the guidance focused on child survival more than maternal wellbeing and lacked a gender transformative approach to programming. Maternal health programs should address issues beyond maternal survival — such as the impact of gender norms on pregnancy and the importance of respectful maternity care to address disrespect and abuse. These factors are vital in determining the health of the mother and, subsequently, the health of the child. USAID, as the agency that coordinates maternal and child health in-country through local civil society partnerships, has the potential to support gender transformative and person-centered policies and programming that reflect the realities of the infrastructure and gender norms. These documents are evidence that USAID did not fully step into this role in 2018. Furthermore, the PLGHA FAQs did not adequately address the unique impacts the PLGHA policy could have on maternal and child health programming. The USAID budget grade reflects the conclusion that MCH programs are not responsive to need, as a significant portion of the funds disbursed for MCH programming in FY 2019 was not disbursed in countries with the highest maternal mortality.
HHS received a 66 (D) with transparency and a 75 (C) without transparency for Maternal and Child Health. HHS was graded on the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA) FAQ that includes the "HHS Specific Information" section on page 17. The disbursed funds for MCH programs through HHS are not publicly available, which contributed to this actor's low transparency grade in this domain.
DoD does not receive a grade within the maternal health domain because they do not work in international maternal and child health.
Congress received a 89 (B+) with transparency and a 90 (A-) without transparency for Maternal and Child Health because, although no new legislation was passed on MCH, the FY 2019 Congressional budget included an appropriation of funds for UNICEF and UNIFEM — despite the absence of funding for both in the President's budget request. Congress also appropriated more funding for USAID's Maternal and Child Health programs in FY 2019 than the amount appropriated in FY 2018. The transparency score was lowered due to a lack of clarity regarding UNIFEM funding.
The White House received a 63 (D) with transparency and 68 (D+) without transparency for Maternal and Child Health because the President's FY 2019 budget did not allocate funds for UNICEF or for UNIFEM (now UN Women). The White House also did not issue any maternal health executive actions or sign any MCH-related legislation in 2018. Similar to other domains, the transparency score for the White House under MCH is low due to difficulty accessing funding information and the inability to search White House policies by criteria that have been previously available. The low transparency score in this domain, in combination with the lack of funds requested for UNICEF and UNIFEM in the President's FY 2019 budget request, led to this low score.


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*Not pointing fingers—two-drinks-a-day got me through many a rough patch (one twenty years long) but read what Nietzsche had to say about alcohol or watch the movie "The Iceman Cometh" for a different perspective.
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Scheda insegnamento
Docente Fabrizio Carinci
Crediti formativi 6
Lingua di insegnamento Inglese
Anno Accademico 2018/2019
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
By the end of the course the student knows the most commonly used medical sources at European and world level and the methods of study of health and social phenomena, with particular reference to multivariate statistical analysis. In particular, the student is able to: - use statistical methods to estimate the life expectancy of the population in health - analyze health and social phenomena in terms of the effects on the population, and analyze the effect of health policy change on the population using appropriate statistical methods and software.
This course is intended to support the student towards a fundamental understanding of the societal value of the health information infrastructure and the methods and tools used to report, evaluate and continuously improve policies.
In particular, the course will present solutions to current challenges involving the use of large scale routine databases available at national and international level, including practices and novel solutions to deal with confidentiality rules. Practical cases of data analysis will be presented using relevant statistical software. Issues in the correct communication of health statistics will be also discussed.
At the end of the course, the student should be able:
to calculate and interpret health indicators used in regional, national and international reports (in particular, the EU European Core Health Indicators, European Sustainable Development Indicators and State of Health in the EU): from life expectancy to quality of care, access and efficiency measures.
to apply advanced techniques for health systems performance evaluation: from risk adjustment and standardization through the use of multivariate models (generalized linear models, generalized estimating equations, multilevel and Cox-derived models), to modern approaches using privacy-enhanced information systems (distributed data processing) and person-centered statistical models (risk prediction and stratification for population health management).
to apply principles of study design (experimental vs observational) and analytical techniques (e.g. propensity scores, meta-analysis) to plan and evaluate health interventions and policies, considering social determinants of health and prevention.
Lectures will cover the following subjects:
STREAM 1. Regional, national and international health statistics
International data sources, projects, classification and coding systems (Health status and quality of life, Surveys, Reports and Health Databases - WHO, European Commission/EUROSTAT, OECD Health at a Glance).
Standardized health care data sources in the Italian National Health System.
Theory and applications of health systems performance assessment. The "Triple Aim" and the future of health statistics: Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) for value-based health care.
R Labs: analysis of health indicators
STREAM 2. Risk stratification and standardization
Standardization methods in AHRQ and OECD indicators. Multivariate models for complex data: GEE logistic regression, time dependent covariates using the Cox Proportional hazard model.
Healthcare performance intelligence: modern approaches for international comparisons (including the privacy problem and distributed data analysis: the BIRO approach and the OECD hospital performance benchmarking method). Advanced techniques for predictive modeling (classification and regression trees, cross validation and bootstrapping methods).
R Labs: risk adjustment and standardization techniques
STREAM 3. Statistical methods and tools to plan and evaluate health policies
Study design (experimental vs observational, cluster clinical trials, etc) and statistical techniques (propensity scores, etc).
Meta-analysis of health interventions: principles, methodology and the quantitative analysis of binary and continuous data.
R Labs: propensity scores and meta-analysis.
Main References (extracts)
Kleinbaum DG, M Klein, Survival analysis. A self learning Text. 3rd Edition. Springer 2012.
Kleinbaum DG, Logistic Regression. A self learning text. 3rd Edition, Springer, 2010.
OECD, Health at a glance 2017, Paris 2017 Available at: http://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/health-at-a-glance-19991312.htm
Papers (provisional list)
Carinci F et al., Towards actionable international comparisons of health system performance: expert revision of the OECD framework and quality indicators, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Apr; 27(2):137-46, 2015. Available at: http://intqhc.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/2/137.long.
Carinci F et al. Lower extremity amputation rates in people with diabetes as an indicator of health systems performance. A critical appraisal of the data collection 2000-2011 by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Acta Diabetologica, 2016 Oct;53(5):825-32. Available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00592-016-0879-4.
Nicolucci A, Carinci F, Ciampi A, Stratifying Patients at Risk of Diabetes Complications: An integrated look at clinical, socio-economic and care-related factors, Diabetes Care, 21 (9):1439-1444, 1998.
Metodi didattici
Lectures with open discussion + Computer labs + Selected readings
Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
The exam will evaluate the achievements of the student through a direct assessment of the following learning outcomes:
ability to identify the most suitable methods required to carry out the analysis and interpretation of health-related data
ability to conduct a critical appraisal of the methodology adopted in a research project or scientific publications
The exam will consist in the presentation of a small project of data analysis chosen by the student, using datasets available in the public domain, followed by an oral assessment concerning the statistical techniques and the underlying theory related to the specific study program. An understanding of the fundamental societal goals relevant to population health and health policies will be also requested for the examination.
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
Slide power point
R - scripts
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Fabrizio Carinci


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Telegraph – Calcutta, India – Many want K.L.
- Many want K.L.
- Dhawan suffered the injury when a Nathan Coulter-Nile bouncer thudded onto his thumb during India's clash against the Aussies.
- Dhawan will miss the June 16 India-Pakistan match, which for many Indian fans is as important as the World Cup finalThis is a long World Cup, one that ends on July 17.
- If India do reach the semi-final stage and final and if Dhawan's recovery is on track, the southpaw might still come back for the all-important final match.
- It will be, at this point, an understatement to say that Team India will miss Dhawan's swashbucklery at the top of the batting order.


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Cancelling my Blockbuster Unlimited Game Rental Thingy
Posted by Scotsman on April 21, 2009 in Gambling, Geek Stuff, Life, Multimedia | ∞
Well at the end of this month, I'm going to cancel my Blockbuster Unlimited Game Rental deal that I had going since the beginning of February. It's actually a great idea, but the problem is that you feel obligated to play the rental game. My game collection is huge and I haven't been playing a […]
Update from Twitter
Posted by Scotsman on April 21, 2009 in Mobile Updates | ∞
Just finished Lee Childs Killing Floor for about the 8th time. Reacher kick is still on, Die Trying next.


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LONDON — The sporadic release of documents from Britain's National Archives gives a glimpse into the country's inner workings. For instance, there was the revelation that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher debated using the military to quell a miners' strike in 1984.
The archives are a repository of both the historical and the mundane, storing everything from Shakespeare's will to countless government tweets.
And then there are the more offbeat offerings: Britons learned on Friday, in the government's latest release, about Mrs. Thatcher's refusal to travel with a panda. Previous released included disclosures about leftover moon dust (found in a cupboard), a report concerning U.F.O.'s (there were none) and Princess Margaret's hoped-for marriage (no government opposition).
Here are some of the quirkiest revelations from recent years.
No Panda on Thatcher's Concorde
"I'm not taking a panda with me," Mrs. Thatcher scribbled on a memo about the financial struggles of London Zoo. "Pandas and politicians are not happy omens!"
The note came after the president of the zoo, Lord Zuckerman, contacted Mrs. Thatcher through a cabinet minister with a plea for financial help. Lord Zuckerman proposed that Mrs. Thatcher take a panda "in the back of her Concorde" on her first visit with President Ronald Reagan.
The trip would have been a chance for the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington to borrow London's male panda to mate with its female panda. But Mrs. Thatcher was having none of it.
Moon Dust in Downing Street Cupboard
When America's Apollo 11 astronauts returned to Earth, they brought with them 48 pounds of rocks from the moon's surface. President Richard M. Nixon presented Harold Wilson, the prime minister, with a sampling during a meeting in Washington in 1970.
The four tiny pebbles mounted on an a commemorative wooden plaque first went on loan to the Science Museum in London, but as successive prime ministers struggled to find an appropriate spot to display it, the gift languished in a cupboard for years.
Security concerns, about U.F.O.s
Files from other departments, like the Ministry of Defense, provide interesting details about Britain's security concerns through the past century, including those involving unidentified flying objects.
The ministry received drawings, reports of sightings and questions from concerned citizens over several decades, papers released in several batches through the National Archives showed.
"No U.F.O./flying saucer has landed in the vicinity of Menwith Hill and the base had no connection with U.F.O. research," the ministry once replied to local farmers who reported sighting a disc-shaped object.
The U.F.O. files are available for browsing on the National Archives website.
A Royal Wedding That Never Was
Anthony Eden, who briefly served as prime minister in the 1950s, did not seem poised to stand in the way of a potential marriage between Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II's sister, and Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Even as the royal family was navigating what it would mean for Princess Margaret, then third in line for the throne, to wed Mr. Townsend, who was divorced, the government was coming up with plans to support the marriage.
Mr. Eden's government would have allowed Princess Margaret to keep her royal title.
"The government was looking for ways of enabling her to marry," an official at the National Archives told the BBC after government papers were released after the death of the princess.
A Merger With France?
When Prime Minister Guy Mollet of France visited Britain during the Suez Crisis in 1956, he had a surprising suggestion, according to papers from the National Archives seen by the BBC in 2007. He proposed a union between the two countries.
Later, when Mr. Eden was in Paris, Mr. Mollet reiterated the proposal and said that France would be happy to join the Commonwealth.
The documents had been declassified years before, but, the BBC said, nobody noticed them until 2007.
A Joke for Posterity
A suggestion to relocate Hong Kong residents after the territory's return to China, in 1997, once inadvertently reached the Foreign Office.
A Belfast newspaper published the proposal, by a lecturer in Northern Ireland, that the population be moved to a theoretical city-state to be created in Magilligan, between Coleraine and Londonderry. The piece provoked a flurry of correspondence between an official in Northern Ireland and one in Britain's Foreign Office.
But the Foreign Office official told the BBC it had been nothing more than a joke between colleagues.
"Sadly, it's impossible to make jokes like this any more," the official, by then retired, told the BBC when the correspondence was revealed. "The Diplomatic Service has lost its sense of humor."


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Blown transformer zaps power in Bethalto, Holiday Shores
Nearly 4,000 households and businesses in Bethalto and Holiday Shores lost power for several hours Tuesday night after a transformer went down.
Southwestern Electric Cooperative, based in Greenville, said the power went out around 8:30 p.m., when the transmission feed to three substations - Bethalto, Holiday Shores East, and Holiday Shores West - was interrupted.
The outage resulted from a blown-out transformer on one of the cooperative's metering stations, according to Director of Operations Paul Strausbaugh. The agency posted the information on its website this morning.
Nearly 4,000 member accounts in Madison County were without electricity for more than five hours. The problem was fixed and power was restored to the affected customers by 2 a.m., the agency said.


text: Thai Gripens Participate In Falcon Strike 2019 Joint Exercise 09 September 2019 Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) and People's Liberation Army of China (PLAAF) held a 3-day joint training exercise, also known as Falcon Strike 2019 in the last week of August. As a part of the exercise, Thai Gripen and China's J-10 aircraft pilots practiced several missions together. The three-day exercise, which was held at the Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base (Udorn RTAFB), was designed to build interoperability between the two air forces. The participants also got an opportunity to test different combat tactics and methods, and hone their combat skills.PLAAF and RTAF have participated in the same joint exercise thrice before - in the years 2015, 2017, and 2018. On 29th August, during the closing ceremony, Thai Gripen and China's J-10 aircrafts flew in a tactical formation. Here are some images from the ceremony. Last updated: 10 September 2019 • 12:43


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|The Best Side of Triplets
MOST (Mothers of Supertwins) conducted a survey of parents with multiples (twins, triplets, quadruplets, etc.) from June 25, 2009 to July 27, 2009. The survey was designed to develop baseline statistics about the prevalence of divorce among multiple birth parents and contained 10 multi-part questions on family background, socioeconomic status, parent and children's age, as well as questions about marital status and divorce.
The survey found:
- That 4.3% of respondents divorced during the pregnancy or following the birth of multiples (indicating that the divorce rate among this group may not be as high as many have speculated.)
- Over 95% of the marriages were intact.
- About 82% of the respondents reported an overall positive level of marital satisfaction.
According to MOST researcher, Dr. Laurie LaMonde, a clinical psychologist and mother of triplets, "Identifying a more accurate divorce rate is important to ease the concerns of multiple birth families as well as to determine if additional services may be beneficial for families that may be at greater risk of marital discord."
Specifically, the divorce rate was:
- 3.6% for parents with twins
- 5% for parents with triplets
- 9.2% for parents with quadruplets
- 4.2% for parents with quintuplets/sextuplets or multiple sets of multiples
|Managing the Path with Triplets + One
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New categories for Best New Product Awards
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Two new categories have been added to this year's Angling International–sponsored EFTTEX Best New Product Awards.
Exhibitors at the show in Warsaw, Poland, in June will now be able to enter categories for Best Sunglasses, Headlamps and Headwear and Best Boxes, Holders, Bags and Luggage.
The new awards have been introduced as part of a number of changes implemented to improve what has become the highlight of the three-day show and Europe's most prestigious awards ceremony.
Open to all exhibitors at the showpiece, the Best New Products Awards represents a unique opportunity for company's to showcase their new products at the Best New Product Stand at EFTTEX throughout the event.
As an added bonus, every product in each category is also listed on the Angling International website on the eve of the show.
The new additions brings to 19 the number of awards that will be won at the Gala Dinner, which takes place on Friday, June 12th at the Warsaw Marriott.
The complete list of categories in the Best New Product Awards includes:
- Best Rod
- Best Fly Rod
- Best Fly Reel
- Best Fixed Spool Reel
- Best Multiplier Reel
- Best Fly Line
- Best Monofilament Line
- Best Braided Line
- Best Hard Lure
- Best Soft Lure
- Best Metal Lure
- Best Accessory
- Best Terminal Tackle
- Best Clothing
- Best SoftDough/Natural Hook Bait
- Best Sunglasses, Headlamps and Headwear
- Best Boxes, Holders, Bags and Luggage
- Innovation of the Year
- Visitors' Choice


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A former actor in BBC medical drama Casualty has had part of his ear bitten off at a Newcastle Travelodge.
Clive Mantle, who also stars in US drama Game of Thrones, was attacked at the Foster Street hotel in a dispute over noise, his agent said.
The 55-year-old had finished a run in The Ladykillers at the Theatre Royal. The ear has been sewn back on.
A 32-year-old man from Hamilton in South Lanarkshire has been charged with wounding with intent.
He will appear before magistrates next month following the attack in the early hours of Sunday.
'Shaken and shocked'
A spokesman for Mr Mantle's agent, London-based Sarahband Associates, said surgeons at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary had managed to sew the top part of the actor's right ear back on.
He said he believed Mr Mantle was pinned to the floor in the hotel and attacked after asking other guests to keep the noise down.
He said: "He is very shaken and shocked by what has happened, you don't expect this kind of thing to happen in a hotel.
"The part of the ear that was bitten off was found and sewn back on. Mr Mantle said the police, ambulance and hospital staff were amazing."
'Horrified by events'
The Ladykillers finished its run in Newcastle on Saturday but its tour is due to continue in Salford on Tuesday.
Laura Myers, publicist for the play, said: "Clive doesn't yet know when he will be able to rejoin the cast and feels he must mention the ambulance crew, police and hospital staff who were all superb.
"Fiery Angel, producers of The Ladykillers, are horrified by the events of Sunday morning and are doing everything they can to ensure Clive has a speedy recovery."
A Travelodge spokesman confirmed that emergency services were called to the Newcastle Central Travelodge in the early hours of Sunday morning after an incident involving two guests.
"As this is a live police investigation, we cannot offer any further comment at this stage, but we can confirm we are working very closely to assist Northumbria Police with their investigation," the spokesman added.
"Travelodge's number one priority is the health and safety of customers and staff, and we do not tolerate any form of harmful behaviour on our premises towards our customers or staff members."
Another man has been released on bail in connection with the attack and a third man released without charge.
Mr Mantle played surgeon Mike Barrett in Casualty and spin-off series Holby City for more than nine years.
He also featured in the first season of Game of Thrones as Lord Greatjon Umber.
In the 1980s he co-starred in the TV series Robin of Sherwood as Little John.
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The Travel Stick is the shortest version of the stick and therefore more portable. It has been popularized by the USA Cycling team.
This stick is great for use on the legs but as it is 43 cm long, it will not be as useful for the upper body as the rest of the range.
The center rod is surrounded by 8 spindles which independently roll over the muscle and has "memory" which allows the rod to return to its original position. Handles provide maximum comfort in the grip.
- Improves flexibility, recovery, performance, injury prevention, injury therapy
- Eliminates muscle soreness & pain
- Can be used in the workplace to manage production fatigue and prevent repetitive strain injuries
- Durable material
The Stick Company is US based, they have created and produced in the USA since 1991 and their tools are still considered today as some of the most useful self-massage tool on the market.


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If we need any evidence for how Thilo Serrazin has poisoned the atmosphere in Germany we should just look at the hysterical reation to president Christian Wulff's speech on the Day of Unity. I read the speech and thought it was a rather bland effort replete with platitudes. But right-wing politicians and hate blogs picked up on one paragraph where Wulf extended a hand of friendship to Muslims in Germany:
"Christianity is of course part of Germany. Judaism is of course part of Germany. This is our Judeo-Christian history ... But now Islam is also part of Germany," he said in his speech. "When German Muslims write to me to say 'you are our president', I reply with all my heart 'yes, of course I am your president'."
The simple statement of fact - Aber der Islam gehört inzwischen auch zu Deutschland. - reflecting the reality of 4 million Muslims living in Germany was simply to much for some.
Christian Democrat Wolfgang Bosbach, the head of parliament's interior affairs committee, also said Islam could not expect to be put on the same level as the faiths based solely on the New and Old Testament.
"Islam has certainly become part of the reality of daily life in Germany, but we belong to a Christian-Judeo tradition," he said.
On cue, hate blogs such as Politically Incorrect and Fakten Fiktionen erupted with glee and ridiculed Wulff for his "appeasement to Sharia". The Birther and "Amerika-Expertin" Gudrun Eussner posted obscene lyrics to the German National Hymn (Deutschlandlied - Baukran, Baukran über alles,über alles in der Welt, wenn er stets zum Schutz des Islam´nen Schwulen an den Seilen hält.) In this era of Sarrazin and Wilders the full spectrum of xenophobia is now visible: homophobia, racism, anti-Americanism and - anti-Semitism: a blogger known as Der Honigmann blames the Jews for promoting multi-culturalism in Europe and destroying German culture: Juden spielen eine "führende Rolle" Multikult in Europa auszubreiten.
Vielen Dank, Herr Sarrazin!


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Translation of video games is a multi-stage process that involves not only linguists, but also experts from other fields: graphics, programming or culture of a relevant region. A proper linguistic and cultural localization of a game may be one of the determinants of its success on markets other than the domestic one.
Translation of video games — is that enough?
As already mentioned in the introduction, the translation of video games is a multi-stage process. It should be borne in mind that it includes not only translation of a game itself, but also all the marketing materials (website, posters and graphics promoting the game) or technical materials (specifications, manuals). Moreover, a game itself can also be divided into several elements: storyline (dialogs, narration), UI (user interface, i.e. what a player sees on the screen), subtitles, comments or live online support. In addition, there is, of course, also the technical background, i.e. the code, in which the game is written.
So, to answer the question above — is the translation of video games a sufficient process? No, it's not.
Localization of video games — what is it all about?
Localization helps in situations where translation is not a sufficient process. Linguistic and cultural localization means adapting the material to a new language, cultural background, customs, traditions or beliefs. Thanks to the localization, a player can fully feel the "atmosphere" of a video game.
So, the localization includes such elements as:
– narration and dialogs, which are not only translated into the target language, but also adapted thereto (e.g. references to the popular culture or customs present in a given region, adaptation of jokes/puns, slang, dialects);
– user interface: it often contains abbreviations, and a specialist localizing them takes into account not only the specificity of a language but also the culture and community of players;
– code: assuring that all the diacritics are displayed appropriately, adjusting the code to local requirements;
– units of measure, currencies, date format — adapted to a given region;
– transliteration — in languages using a different alphabet. Whether the game authors decide to translate proper names or not, they should always be written in a local alphabet, so that a player has no problems with reading the tips and instructions;
– keywords — they can also be localized in order to optimize them for search engines or digital distribution platforms, such as Google Play or AppStore.
Localization is supposed to provide players with complete satisfaction of the experience a game offers them. If the cultures of the author and players are distant, it is important that the elements of the storyline do not seem completely unreal or making the game difficult to complete — e.g. cars moving on the wrong side of the road, payment in foreign currency, notation of proper names in an incomprehensible alphabet. Smooth gameplay has an impact on the overall reception of a game by users. Localization takes into account not only the language preferences of a recipient, but also the realities of a culture in which he or she was raised.
Translation of video games — who is the best to do it?
Localization of games often requires not only translation, but also additional services, such as multilingual subtitling (creating, synchronizing and adding subtitles), voice-over, DTP or localization of software, flash applications, animations or DTP. Therefore, in order to fully translate a game into a foreign language, it is advisable to contact an experienced language services provider. The Sales Department of Summa Linguae Technologies will be happy to answer your questions and provide you with a quote for the services you need at: firstname.lastname@example.com


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The Piece Hall, Halifax
Working with L&R Consulting as an associate, Peter White has been appointed to provide the Business Planning Role to Calderdale Council for the Piece Hall in Halifax. The council has recently secured HLF funding for a stage 2 bid to transform the building into a vibrant creative hub.
The capital scheme is estimated at £16m. Clearly we are delighted to have been selected following a competitive tendering exercise and are excited at the prospect of helping determine the future of this prestigious Grade I listed building, which is seen to be a major driver for the success of the town centre and of the cultural quarter in particular.


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The Care Inspectorate and the SSSC have published new figures on the levels of staff vacancies in Scotland's social care services.
As with the previous report, this report provides a national overview of vacancies and recruitment difficulties reported by care services to the Care Inspectorate, the body which registers and inspects all social care services. It also introduces for the first time data on the actual number of vacancies services have, held by the SSSC, the social service workforce regulator.
In the past year, 38% of services reported having vacancies. This was an increase of 2% points on the previous year, (36%).
Care at home services (62%), care homes for older people (59%), housing support services (59%) and care homes for adults (53%) were the main service types with the largest proportion of services reporting vacancies all significantly above the national average.
Daycare of children services (23%) was the only main service type where the vacancy rates were significantly below the national average.
At 31 December 2017, the rate of whole time equivalent (WTE) vacancies for all services in Scotland was 5.9% up from 5.5% in 2016. This was higher than the overall vacancy rate across all establishments in Scotland of 3.1%.
Gordon Weir, interim chief executive of the Care Inspectorate said:
'Our evidence suggests that having an effective and stable staff team is strongly associated with providing high-quality care.
'This allows trusting relationships to be developed between people providing and experiencing care, often supporting positive experiences and outcomes.
'The Care Inspectorate recognises that recruitment and retention into some parts of the social care sector remains a challenge, and we collect significant data about the places and parts of the sector where recruitment problems are more challenging.
'This report has been prepared to provide a national overview of the vacancy levels and recruitment difficulties reported by care services in their Care Inspectorate annual returns.'
Lorraine Gray, Chief Executive of the SSSC said:
'It is vital that social care continues to attract staff with the right values, skills and experience as well as filling vacancies.
'That's why our work to promote careers, develop clear career pathways and professional frameworks for practice for social care and social work is so important. It all helps to establish social services as a career of choice with opportunities for gaining qualifications and real progression while helping to improve people's lives.
'The data will be used to inform improvement and redesign of services in the sector to address the vacancy issues highlighted in the report. Good examples of this are nurses working in care homes and the National Homecare Contract (which agrees rates between local authorities and care home providers), the review of integrated children's plans and child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and the development of the social care qualifications framework.'
The information in today's report on vacancies, problems filling vacancies and the reasons why services have reported having problems filling vacancies, has been extracted from information provided by care services, across early learning and childcare, children's services and adult social care.
Every care service is asked to complete an annual return each year to provide statistical and other information. The vacancy questions are asked for every care service type apart from childminders, who are typically sole providers.