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The electoral fortunes of far-right parties, a number of which campaigned using anti-immigrant messages, varied during 2012, with notable albeit small advances for Greece's extremist Golden Dawn party. For the most part, however, extreme-right politicians continue to struggle to build sizeable support; and in Europe, the anti-immigration discourse has been overshadowed by anti-Brussels rhetoric and anger over high unemployment and austerity measures.
Migration flows that were stalled for a period by the pronounced recession that began in 2008 have resumed to a number of OECD countries, including the United States where there appears to be a slight increase in Mexican migration for the first time in several years. More migrants seem to be choosing emerging economies, including Brazil, China, and South Africa, over traditional destinations.
Belgium is often overlooked as a country of immigration because of its size and its less known history of immigration. Yet over the last three decades Belgium has become a permanent country of settlement for many different types of migrants. Our updated Belgium profile delves into modern migration flows and policies in Belgium which are inching away from a piecemeal approach towards a well-needed, long-term strategy.
Once known for large-scale emigration, Greece has become the main point of entry for unauthorized migrants heading toward Europe. The country must now — amid economic turmoil — grapple with issues related to its highly porous borders, mounting asylum applications, and inadequate immigrant-detention system.
Public backlash against the detention systems of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States mounted in 2011 with allegations of unacceptable living conditions, abuse, prolonged detention, and government waste.
Immigration flows this year continued to respond sharply to the economic climate in major immigrant-receiving nations, as many struggled to gain a labor market foothold in the aftermath of the global economic meltdown.
With unemployment rates remaining persistently high in the wake of the global economic crisis, ongoing turbulence in financial markets, and new austerity in public spending, anxious publics and governments trained their attention on immigration and immigrants during 2011.
The Arab Spring exposed critical weaknesses and exacerbated long-held disagreements within the European Union related to asylum, immigration, and external border control policy matters that spilled over into the operation of the Schengen area.
Europe's Schengen agreement eliminated border controls between 25 countries for over 400 million people. Schengen cooperation has come under intense pressure of late, however, and EU Member States are currently considering whether the rules under which it operates ought to be adjusted. Elizabeth Collett provides background and explains what the current debate means for the future of Schengen.
The heated debate between supporters and detractors of multiculturalism has been made all the more salient by the recent attacks in Norway carried out by Anders Breivik in the name of cultural conservatism and the political rhetoric that characterizes popular right-wing parties in Europe's north. Irene Bloemraad of the University of California, Berkeley, sheds light on the various meanings of the term "multiculturalism" and provides insights on the effects of multicultural policies on immigrant integration.
This event marks MPI Europe's official launch in Brussels. To inaugurate the new office, MPI Europe will host a panel discussion to explore what is driving societal discontent in Europe, the role immigration plays in this, and why there is a growing perception that immigrant integration efforts are failing.
Over the past year, MPI has partnered with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to examine how diasporas contribute to – or detract from - development efforts in their countries of origin. MPI and USAID have published an edited volume of the research. Please join us for the release of the book where speakers will discuss new thinking on the role of diaspora engagement in U.S. foreign and development policy.
Breakfast briefing with T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Demetrios G. Papademetriou, and Kathleen Newland.
This book release and discussion focused on the accumulation of talent and its effects on economic growth and migration trends.
MPI's symposium on citizenship examined immigrant civic and political participation, the notion of local voting rights for noncitizens, the concept and practice of dual citizenship, and the role of citizenship in immigrant integration.
How the anti-immigrant political movement and rancorous debates surrounding immigration will impact countries' ability to build strong economies and vibrant, diverse societies is yet to be determined. This discussion focuses on the factors and players that contribute to this environment, an analysis on the current situation in both Europe and the United States, and a discussion on its implications for community cohesion and national identity in European countries and the United States.
A discussion with Dr. Noppawan Tanpipat, Vice President, National Science and Technology Development Agency; Frank Laczko, Head, Migration Research Division, IOM; Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias, Regional Research Officer, IOM, and Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute (MPI); and Kathleen Newland, Director of Migrants, Migration, and Development, Migration Policy Institute (MPI).
This discussion highlights the best practices and experiences of different countries in engaging and maximizing the contributions that diasporas can and do make to the development of their country of origin, and more broadly the experience of policymakers in both sending and receiving countries and the related challenges and opportunities they face.
This discussion includes a status of preparation of the 2012 GFMD summit, including a discussion on the possible ideas and projects presently being contemplated that would fully integrate migration into the development framework, with a special focus on Africa.
A discussion with Rosario Farmhouse, Alejandro Mayorkas, Jasenko Selimovic, Peter Sylvester, and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
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This Migration Policy Institute Europe event, organized with the Bertelsmann Stiftung, entitled Effective Labour Migration Management: Creating Checks and Balances while Searching for Talent brought together experts, policymakers, and social partners involved in the management of labor migration to discuss the various options available to policymakers.
This policy brief reviews the challenges that face the EU-wide social security coordination system. It argues that while improving the fairness, clarity, and public support for this system are difficult, even small concessions from the European Commission could provide an opportunity to showcase the elements that do work.
This report evaluates the participation of immigrants in the German workforce development system, highlighting that immigrants are less likely than nonimmigrants to engage in further education or skills training, detailing the various barriers immigrants face in accessing programs for skills development, and proposing policy reforms to reduce these barriers.
As hundreds of migrants were drowning in the Mediterranean, the United Nations General Assembly was hours from gathering for only the second time in its history to address international migration. The juxtaposition threw a question into sharp relief: does the world body have any impact on the world's migrants?
This report, the first in a series examining workforce development systems in three countries, focuses on the increasingly employer-led and flexible UK system that operates alongside centralized immigration and employment policies.
This policy brief, which concludes a nine-brief series examining what is known about the linkages between migration and development, suggests that the policy framework on migration and development remains relatively weak, and few development agencies have made it a priority to promote the positive impact of international migration.
The Chair of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, along with the Special Advisor to the UN Special Representative for International Migration discuss what is expected from The UN High-Level Dialogue on Migration and Development in October 2013 and what impact it may have on the Global Forum on Migration and Development.
Circular migration has typically been viewed with skepticism by migrant-rights advocates and wary publics alike. But many experts and policymakers in the migration field — and some in development — have come to recognize that well-managed circulation that is respectful of migrants' human and labor rights can bring benefits to countries of origin and destination, as well as to migrants themselves. For countries of origin, circular migration can relieve labor surpluses; for destination countries, it can provide the flexibility to quickly overcome skills shortages while adapting to long-term labor market shifts. For migrants, circular migration offers the opportunity to earn higher wages and gain international experience.


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Artists & Their Regions - 2013
Take a journey into the artist's true country.
About "Artists and Their Regions: Flannery O'Connor and the American South"
Region—geographical space, language, architecture, demographics, population density, ethnicity, landscape—provides the raw material for artists: that is the premise of this capstone course for the Creative Work minor. To explore this premise, and to inspire the impulse in each of us to "make locally," we traveled during spring break to Milledgeville, Georgia, "a bird sanctuary" according to a now-removed sign north of town on State Highway 441. Milledgeville was also home to the world's largest insane asylum in the 1950s, and Flannery O'Connor from 1938-1964. In many ways, not much has changed, and we have learned much about O'Connor and other Southern writers and artists through our pilgrimage.
Artists & Their Regions is the CCW's signature course. It features seminar-style class meetings and a week-long artists' retreat that gives students and faculty time to focus on their creative projects.
The course is offered each spring to upperclassmen dedicated to honing their craft and developing a specific creative project over the semester. In the spring of 2013, the class read the work of Flannery O'Connor and traveled to O'Connor's hometown in Milledgeville, Georgia.
Recent Travels
In spring 2011, the Artists and Their Regions class studied the living and the dead from Houston, Texas, to New Orleans, Louisiana.
Reading List
- Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire, Marie Theresa Hernandez
- It Takes A Worried Man, Tracy Daugherty
- Down In Houston: Bayou City Blues, Roger Wood
- The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
- The Dirty Side Of The Storm, Martha Serpas
- Pleasure Dome, Yusef Komunyakaa
Retreat 2011
For spring break, we traveled to Lake Pontchartrain and stayed at Fontainebleau State Park, then traveled to New Orleans and spent a few days in the French Quarter.

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Jeffrey Gettleman is the East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times.
In April 2012, Mr. Gettleman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his 2011 "vivid reports, often at personal peril, on famine and conflict in East Africa, a neglected but increasingly strategic part of the world," the Pulitzer jury said.
He covers 12 countries and has focused much of his work on internal conflicts in Kenya, Congo, Somalia, Sudan and Ethiopia. Before this posting, Mr. Gettleman worked for The Times in New Jersey, Baghdad and Atlanta. He has also been a reporter for The Los Angeles Times and The St. Petersburg Times.
He won an Overseas Press Club award in 2003 for a feature article on a Pakistani boy being kept as a sex slave in an Afghan prison and another Overseas Press Club award in 2008 for reporting on human rights abuses in Ethiopia. He won several local journalism awards in Florida while at The St. Petersburg Times.
He studied philosophy at Cornell University and earned a master's of philosophy degree from Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has appeared as a news commentator on CNN, BBC, PBS, NPR, ABC and the Charlie Rose show. He has written features for The New York Times Magazine and GQ.
Pulitzer Entries for International Reporting in 2011
For Somali Women, Pain of Being a Spoil of War
With the famine putting hundreds of thousands of women on the move, more rapes are being reported now in Somalia than at any time in recent memory.
December 28, 2011worldNewsSomalia's Insurgents Embrace Twitter as a Weapon
While the Shabab militants are waging a traditional guerrilla war in Somalia, they are also using social media in a propaganda war with Kenya.
December 15, 2011worldNewsAfrican Union Force Makes Strides Inside Somalia
The efforts of its troops have put the African Union in the driver's seat of an intensifying international effort to wipe out Somalia's Shabab militants, once and for all.
November 25, 2011worldNewsSomalia's Agony Tests Limits of Aid
Drought, famine and the anti-Western policies of the Shabab, a militant faction, hinder efforts to feed and clothe hundreds of thousands of refugees, many of them children.
November 2, 2011givingNews AnalysisTaken by Pirates
One couple's 388-day ordeal — and their unlikely saviors.
October 9, 2011magazineNewsAs an Enemy Retreats, Clans Carve Up Somalia
As the Shabab militant Islamist group has been pushed back, the central government has been too weak to fill the power vacuum.
September 10, 2011worldNewsSomalis Waste Away as Insurgents Block Escape From Famine
The Shabab Islamist insurgent group is imprisoning displaced and starving Somalis who were trying to escape Shabab territory.
August 2, 2011worldNewsMisery Follows as Somalis Try to Flee Hunger
Many Somalis, fleeing one of the worst droughts in the country in 60 years, have walked for weeks through an anarchic landscape replete with bandits and militants but little food.
July 16, 2011worldNewsSudanese Struggle to Survive Endless Bombings Aimed to Quell Rebels
With the July 9 division of Sudan nearing, the government in Khartoum scrambles to force the rebel fighters to disarm.
July 4, 2011worldNewsAnother Area Girds for Revolt as Sudan Approaches a Split
Despite an agreement signed only days ago to bring peace to central Sudan, the country seems to be sliding inexorably toward war.
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Thievery Comes After Carnage at Kenya Mall
The looting of the Westgate mall in Nairobi has raised suspicions that the military took advantage of the crisis to engage in what one Western official called a "shopping spree."
October 4, 2013, FridayDuring Siege at Kenyan Mall, Government Forces Seemed Slow to Respond
In the confusion, officers and soldiers could not communicate, and few of the forces had night-vision goggles, limiting operations and possibly giving militants time to regroup.
October 2, 2013, WednesdaySomali Militants Mixing Business and Terror
The Shabab, which claimed responsibility for the deadly mall siege in Nairobi, Kenya, makes money through illegal endeavors and even employs a team of accountants.
October 1, 2013, TuesdayOminous Signs, Then a Cruel Attack
With Kenya's growing affluence and the mayhem next door in Somalia, the attack on the mall in Nairobi was inevitable.
September 29, 2013, SundayNarrow Escapes and Questions on Emergency Response in Attack at Kenya Mall
Pretending to be Muslim, hiding in a box and using the blood of a shooting victim were among the ways that potential victims escaped death.
September 28, 2013, SaturdayA Shaken Kenya Is Hit Again in 2 Deadly Attacks by Militants
Three people were killed in attacks on police officers near the border with Somalia. The Kenyan authorities blamed the Shabab militant group, which has taken responsibility for the mall siege.
September 27, 2013, FridayU.S. Sees Direct Threat in Attack at Kenya Mall
Dozens of F.B.I. agents are investigating the wreckage, hoping to glean every piece of information possible to help prevent such a devastating attack from happening again, possibly even on American soil.
September 26, 2013, ThursdayAttention Switches to Investigation of Kenyan Mall Siege
Investigators began sifting through rubble, studied closed-circuit television footage and brought in more resources to identify the militants who laid siege to an upscale mall in Nairobi.
September 26, 2013, ThursdayBefore Kenya Attack, Rehearsals and Planting of Machine Guns
The plot to attack the Westgate mall was hatched weeks or months ago, with militants studying the building's blueprints and hiding powerful machine guns in a shop, officials said.
September 25, 2013, WednesdayKenya Forces Said to Be Securing Mall After Long Standoff
The bloody standoff at a Kenyan shopping mall edged closer to a conclusion on Monday night, with Kenyan officials saying that there were no more civilians trapped inside.
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In Somalia's Capital, Hope and Reconstruction
Mogadishu had been reduced to rubble over 21 years of civil war, but the city is going through a transition.
In South Sudan, a Descent into Violence
Bitter ethnic tensions that had largely been shelved for the sake of achieving independence have ruptured into a cycle of massacre and revenge that neither the American-backed government nor the United Nations has been able to stop.
Taken by Pirates, Illustrated
When Paul and Rachel Chandler's small sailboat drifted off course and was hijacked by Somali pirates, they never imagined how long they'd be held captive – or who would ultimately save them.
Clans Battle for Control as Shabab Loses Ground
In Somalia, a weak transitional government is struggling to fill the vacuum left by the Shabab militant group, leaving clans and Islamist militias to battle it out.
Famine in Somalia
Nearly three million people are in urgent need of assistance as Somalia endures one of its worst droughts 60 years.
Amid Famine, Dangers Hinder Aid to Somalia
Southern Somalia is tipping into one of the worst humanitarian disasters to strike Africa in decades, but the region is essentially on its own.
Driven by Drought
Having already suffered years of war, many Somalians are now fleeing the most severe drought the region has known in 60 years.
Fleeing Somalia's Drought
Thousands of people fleeing a drought in Somalia are arriving at the world's largest refugee camp, in Dadaab, Kenya.
Sudanese Seek Refuge from Bombings
As the July 9 division of Sudan nears, the government of Khartoum has been relentlessly pounding the Nuba Mountains from bombers for weeks, demanding that rebel fighters disarm.
Southern Sudan's Referendum
As southern Sudan's referendum nears an end, the Abyei region on the disputed border is still rife with conflict. (An interview that was incorrectly translated has been removed from this video.)
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FIFA 14 – next-gen features discussed in video interview
FIFA 14′s next gen versions will be heading to PS4 and Xbox One, both running on the EA Sports Ignite engine. Producer Nick Channon tells VG247 what to expect from the new tech.
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EA's FIFA series has become part of the "fabric of football," says producer
Nick Channon, FIFA 14 producer, has told VG247′s Sam Clay that it's rather nice for the series to have become part of the "fabric of football." He also said EA is proud of the fact it can connect the game's users to the real sport. Listen to your man speak about it himself below. FIFA […]
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An convicted killer, who shot dead two firefighters with a Bushmaster assault rifle after leading them into an ambush when they responded to a house fire he set in Western New York, left behind a typewritten note saying he wanted to "do what I like doing best, killing people," police said.
William Spengler, 62, set his home and a car on fire early Monday morning with the intention of setting a trap to kill firefighters and to see "how much of the neighborhood I can burn down," according to the note he wrote and which police found at the scene. The note did not give a reason for his actions.
Spengler, who served 18 years in prison for beating his 92-year-old grandmother to death with a hammer in 1981, hid Monday morning in a small ditch beside a tree overlooking the sleepy lakeside street in Webster, N.Y., where he lived with his sister, police said today in a news conference.
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In order to understand why we need to grow our churches organicly (whatever that may mean - don't worry, we will get to that), we need to understand a little about how we, The Church, arrived at our current location as well as what the location is.
There was a time, frequently referred to as "the good ol' days," when the church was the center of society (as in the first quadrant of the illustration below). A large percentage of a community's life centered around the church. It was not only the moral compass and center for their lives, but it was their social and philanthropic center of their lives as well.
This afforded the church the ability to define for it's community what was acceptable and what was not. It was really unlikely that people would challenge the status quo that was being established (one, not surprisingly, heavily weighted down with dogma). Challenging the thing that defined your community and was the center piece of many people's daily lives and activities would have probably been a really good way to make sure you were not accepted by those who had power in the establishment and ultimately you would probably be pushed out to the margins of the circle of society, if included in it at all. So, the status quo that's being established goes unchallenged and ever-unchanging.
As you could probably guess, this kind of influence (and let's just be honest, power) was somewhat intoxicating. The Church, particularly it's leaders, began to believe the myth that they had established. The myth wasn't that they were at the center of community, because in many ways they really were. The myth that they had begun to believe was that they deserved to be there, that it was by some divine right that they have so much influence (and power).
That was the beginning of getting left behind. In the illustration below, the first quadrant represents where the church once was – in the center of society. The blue arrow represents time and change. Over time, society began changing. The church, in it's perceived place of godly instituted influence and power, did not change even though it has a history of changing and, at times, doing so dynamically. The further society moved down the time line, the more it changed and the more church did not. With each passing year The Church became less and less relevant for a quickly change society.
We have a problem. Growing our churches organicly is at least one good solution. But before we go there, we need to understand how our current condition has effected our relationship with our community. We will look at that in the third installment in this four part-er on Growing Church Organicly.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
By Amy Calder firstname.lastname@example.com
Staff Writer
WATERVILLE -- Planning Board member Michael Owens is the new city councilor representing Ward 2.
Owens, a teacher's aide at Waterville Junior High School and member of the board of directors for Kennebec Messalonsksee Trails, replaces George Myers Jr., who resigned earlier this fall.
Owens was one of four candidates for the position, including Edward Lachowicz, a student studying social work and the husband of state Sen.-elect Colleen Lachowicz, D-District 25; Nathaniel White, director of the American Heritage Tour at Alfond Youth Center; and Patrick Roy, a night auditor for Comfort Inn who is retired from Scott Paper Co.
Council Chairman Fred Stubbert, D-Ward 1, nominated White for the position Tuesday and Councilor Erik Thomas seconded the nomination.
Councilor John O'Donnell, D-Ward 5, nominated Owens, with Councilor Eliza Mathias, D-Ward 6, seconding his motion.
O'Donnell, Mathias and Councilor Karen Rancourt-Thomas, D-Ward 7, voted for Owens. Stubbert and Thomas voted for White.
Mayor Karen Heck thanked all who sought the position.
"Thank you to the other nominees and now, there is an opening on the Planning Board," she said.
Owens took the seat immediately after being appointed, so was not immediately available for comment.
In his letter to the city, Owens wrote that he has lived in Ward 2 for more than 20 years, was educated in Waterville schools and has an undergraduate degree in resource business management and a master's in public administration focusing on planning, development and environmental sustainability.
"I have always possessed the feeling of civic duty and have kept myself up to date and informed of the workings and changes of the city," his letter says. "I understand the challenges and needs of a municipality and those affecting Waterville."
In other matters, councilors appointed three members to the newly established Charter Commission: Peter Lyford, who served on two previous charter commissions; Cathy Taylor, a member of the police station study committee; and former City Councilor Roland Hallee, who also is a warden in Ward 6.
Lyford, Taylor and Hallee submitted letters to the city seeking appointment to the commission.
Taylor got five votes, with O'Donnell voting against; Lyford was appointed unanimously; Hallee was appointed 4-2, with Mathias and Stubbert dissenting.
The commission is charged with reviewing the charter, which acts as a local constitution, and determining if any changes should be made.
Heck asked Lyford if there were any unresolved issues from the last charter commission's work.
Lyford said the most significant change made was to weaken the mayor's power and institute a city manager's position. The idea of removing party politics from elected positions was discussed but no decisions made, Lyford said.
In other words, the commission discussed the possibility of removing party designation from candidates and elected officials.
"That issue ultimately was not resolved by that commission," Lyford said.
Councilors Tuesday also voted to renew public safety dispatching service contracts with Albion, Clinton, Sidney, Belgrade and Rome.
They took the first of three needed votes to approve a change to the tax ordinance that would deny city licenses or renewal to anyone more than 60 days delinquent in paying personal property taxes beyond the end of the city's fiscal year.
Amy Calder -- 861-9247


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News & Events
Sociology Class Inspires Art Exhibit Reflecting on the Meaning of Art
By popular demand, this exhibit has been extended to Friday, February 1. Enjoy!
An extension of Professor of Sociology Patrick Henry's 'Sociology of Art' course has inspired the weeklong exhibit, Am I an Artist Now? A reflection on the meaning of art and being an artist. Featuring artists and artisans from the local community and Creative Clay, the show will be on display in Elliott Gallery at Eckerd from January 20-26. An opening reception will be held on Sunday, January 20, from 3:00-6:00 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Eight local area artists / artisans will be featured, including artists from Creative Clay:
Kyu Yamamoto
Marquise R.
Adam Yungbluth
Yoko Nogami
Joseph H.
Patrick Henry
Nicole S.
Scott Ward
Each participant has been asked to reflect on questions such as, 'What is art?' 'Is there something special about being an artist?' 'How do you know if you are an artist?' Their answers will be presented in video and written formats during the gallery show alongside examples of their work.
The following is an excerpt from ceramicist Professor Henry's answer to the question, 'What is art?':
"What is art? A Picasso painting? A Beethoven symphony? A Hemingway story? These are among the things that you and I may imagine when we think of 'art'. But I believe art is much more than a thing you may see, hear or read. Art is a procession of human actions, sometimes drawn over a long time and many individuals. Art involves many creative actions among lots of creative people. So art is really about human interaction."
Eckerd College has a long relationship with Creative Clay, a local non-profit whose mission is to provide educational, expressive and vocational opportunities in the arts for people with obstacles to arts access. Founded by Eckerd alumna Grace-Anne Alfiero '04, Creative Clay serves people with developmental, physical and emotional disabilities, as well as people in healthcare settings, children, veterans, and provides outreach art experiences in our community. Current students, graduate and members of the Eckerd community have volunteered and/or have been employed by Creative Clay over the years.
The exhibit and opening reception are free and open to the public. All are welcome.


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Posted By Kevin R. Johnson, Jun 29, 2010
Over the weekend, I returned from a whirlwind business trip to Europe, where International Programs director Beth Greenwood and I visited two of our partner law schools in Dublin, Ireland and Cologne, Germany. It was an extremely busy and productive trip, and I especially enjoyed visiting with King Hall alumni and law school colleagues "across the pond!" On Tuesday, I visited University College Dublin (like UC Davis, it too is commonly abbreviated "UCD"), where I had lunch with law school Dean John Jackson and two UCD law professors. We have had a student exchange program with UCD for a few years. Professors Cruz Reynoso, Ed Imwinkelried, and Donna Shestowsky, among others, have previously visited UCD. I may visit there again next year. This spring, law student Rebecca Cohn attended classes as a visiting student along with several other UC Davis School of Law students. While staying in downtown Dublin, I also visited Trinity College, the Book of Kells, and the National Museum. We arrived in Dublin on one of the warmest days of the year, over 80 degrees F. Ireland struck me as an incredible country with the people having much energy and enthusiasm for life. On Wednesday, we traveled to Cologne, a commercial center in Germany, about a one hour high-speed train ride from Frankfurt. We have had a summer program in Cologne for 13 years in connection with the University of Cologne. Within hours of arrival, I visited with Dr. Professor Norbert Horn at the University of Cologne (commercial law), who has taught in our program for many years, and the Dean of the University of Cologne law school (criminal law), Thomas Weigend. Both are very impressive. We agreed to prepare a proposal for future student and faculty exchange programs with the University of Cologne law school. That evening, Beth and I had dinner with Dr. Horn, Andrea Bjorklund, who taught in the summer program this year, and Sean Duggan at a restaurant with a spectacular view of the Rhine River. Among many things I learned from the trip was how much soccer and the World Cup meant to many Germans; the first night at dinner on the Rhine, the restaurant erupted in "hurrahs" when Germany scored the winning goal and advanced in the tournament. Germany played England last Sunday. On the way back to the hotel, the streets of Cologne were filled with crowds as people watched the game at bars and restaurants with outside televisions. There were many celebrations that night! On Thursday, I visited one of our classes in Cologne. It was Dr. Horn's last class. The students were from Brazil, Germany, Finland, Switzerland and many other nations and appeared engaged and enthusiastic. That afternoon, I went with Beth to the Cathedral of Cologne (the Dom) and the Roman Museum. Cologne once was part of the Roman Empire. That night, we had an alumni reception for our Academic Year LL.M. and Summer International Commercial Law LL.M. students from Germany and Switzerland. Andrea, Sean, Dr. Horn, Beth, and Hannah Buxbaum, who taught in the program and teaches law at Indiana University, also attended. We had alums in attendance from Germany, Finland, Denmark, Mexico, Switzerland, and a number of other countries. Two alums, one from Switzerland and one from Mexico, who met in the Summer International Commercial Law LL.M. program brought their two month old baby with them. The alumni event -- drinks and dinner -- was held at a restaurant on the Rhine River. I made remarks about the importance of our international programs, our desire to expand them, developments at the law school, and the hope of creating an international student scholarship program. Before dinner, I visited a couple of beer gardens and drank Koelsch, a beer native to Cologne, with Stefan Bellin, an ICL LL.M. alum. On Friday, we spent the day with Cologne lawyer Dieter Korten, an ICL LL.M. alum who is a prominent attorney in Cologne. Dieter introduced us to Professor/Dr. Winfried Pinger, with whom we discussed the opportunities to create an international program in economic development and social justice. We also met with some attorneys from the law firm, and an Italian alum (Torino) of our ICL LL.M. program, Paolo Fabris, to discuss a possible international food and wine conference this fall in Davis, with a keynote speech by a representative from the United Nations. The program would focus on intellectual property issues with respect to food and wine. On Friday afternoon, Dieter drove us to Bonn, once Germany's capital, and along the Rhineland, which has many wine vineyards and is hilly. We visited the Dragon Castle south of Bonn, which was a hike up the mountain. Dieter hosted us at a wonderful dinner outdoors at a restaurant in a village in the Rhineland. It was beautiful with spectacular food, a fitting end to an incredibly productive week. For more information on the International Law Programs at King Hall, please visit www.law.ucdavis.edu/international.
University College Dublin Professors Oonagh Breen and Marie-Luce-Paris-Dobozy, me, University College Dublin Dean John Jackson, and Director Beth Greenwood in Dublin, Ireland
This is me, amid the crowd in front of Cologne Cathedral.
King Hall alums Aline and Fadri Lenggenhager with baby Valentin (future King Haller?)
University of Indiana School of Law Professor Hannah Buxbaum and King Hall Professor Andrea Bjorklund at the LL.M. Alumni Dinner in Cologne, Germany
Sven Helm, Louis Carnesale, and Thorsten Helm at King Hall LL.M. Alumni Dinner in Cologne, Germany
With International Commercial Law (ICL) LL.M. alums Dieter Korten and Paolo Fabris in Cologne, Germany
Beautiful scenery in the Rhineland


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iWeb 09 Photo page uploads don't display
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Ok, where is the update? I have people waiting.Quad G5, Mac OS X (10.5.5), iPhone 2.5G 8GB
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Variation on a theme: Photos appear okay in my albums after loading to my site (hosted through machighway) but I hyperlinked the photo titles in one album to open videos in separate windows. This always worked fine in iWeb 08 and actually the photos on the main album page immediately activated the new video windows, but with iWeb 09 the links don't work whether I publish OR if I drag the index file to the browser. They just appear as static photos. I'm hoping whatever this new fix is will also solve my problem. I try to update my website every month before I send out my biz newsletter, so I'm dead in the water until Apple fixes this.MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
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It is frustrating, isn't it? Well, in the meantime I am experimenting with a different approach. If the photo pages or the blog don't work as advertised in iWeb, then why not make those blogs or photo pages or other stuff with some other app? I am now busy looking at the possibilities of Sandvox. It has html, YouTube, so if I simply remove the blog part from iWeb, make it with another web app, and then put the link in the iWeb part that does work properly, then I've got a website with all bells and whistles working on all four cylinders.
What about that? It is an option so long as Apple does not release an update to fix the problems.
Of course, it will cost some extra. And one company would lose face a bit, but hey, navigare necesse est (surfing is of the essence), dash it.iMac IntelCore2Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.6), LaCie backup drives-
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Latest update did not fix the issue. Still waiting!!!Quad G5, Mac OS X (10.5.5), iPhone 2.5G 8GB
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Oh, no! I had hoped that some of the bugs would be fixed. When I added a post today and checked my blog summary page, rss feed and other blogs, I didn't see the usual mess up. But then due to all sites turning red now, what's the use of continuing blogging or developing your sites?iMac IntelCore2Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.6), LaCie backup drives
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I've tried to upload two different iWeb template "photo" pages and neither will display the actual photos in Safari or in Firefox. The same problem happens using iWeb's new FTP feature or uploading a published folder via a FTP client.
It's odd because the template features and titles show up, just +no photos+. Examining the upload site shows all the files are there. Publishing to a folder and viewing with a browser from the fold on my hard drive works flawlessly, as expected. However one they're uploaded, no photos.
I've tried everything, any suggestions oh Macintosh Illuminati!
Well, it looks like this update, iWeb '09 3.01, fixed the problem for me.
Here's the link for my fixed website. I'd be interested in how it works for others. I'm viewing this in Safari 4 beta.
http://home.earthlink.net/~vajranatha/Cape_Cod/Mac OS X (10.5.6)-
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Well, I think I might have solved my own issue. Turns out Cox only provides 10 megs of web space and my two sites are over 20 megs each. Apparently this caused my images to not upload correctly and show up as empty boxes on my web page after publishing. I have come to this conclusion by trying out the MobileMe and publishing my 2 web sites. I have yet been unable to reproduce the previous error.
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I have the latest iWeb (3.0.1) but the issue isn't fixed yet. My photo album page shows up well, but when you click on a photo, the subsequent page shows the thumbnails lined up on top, but no main photo is showing.Mac Mini 2009, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
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This is in Firefox 3 by the way. Site works well in Safari and IE, except that a flash I added (using HTML insert) is the wrong size in IE.Mac Mini 2009, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
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i know the link was from march, but i just tried to open your site and got a msg from earthlink that it doesn't exist... thought you'd want to know.MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.6)-
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Good Judgement
Proverbs 9:1 (NLT)
1Wisdom has built her house;she has carved its seven columns. -
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2She has prepared a great banquet,mixed the wines, and set the table. -
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4"Come in with me," she urges the simple.To those who lack good judgment, she says, -
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5"Come, eat my food,and drink the wine I have mixed. -
Proverbs 9:6 (NLT)
6Leave your simple ways behind, and begin to live;learn to use good judgment."
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Did you know a 4-year-old's brain uses more energy than it ever will again?
The first five years of life are a time of tremendous growth and change in the developing brain, said Samuel Meisels, one of the nation's leading authorities on the development of young children and early childhood learning.
More than 800 people — mostly educators, community leaders and parents — filled the Holland Performing Arts Center on Wednesday night to hear Meisels' advice on how early education can significantly improve the life of all children.
And it starts at home.
Parents need to nurture and build a positive relationship with their children, Meisels said.
"Their most important educators are their families."
Environment and community also play a huge role in a child's development. A child spends 15 percent of his time in school and 85 percent in his community.
Many children, because of poverty, abuse or other chal lenges, enter school unprepared to learn and thrive. The root of low academic achievement is poverty, Meisels said.
If parents are unwilling to support their children and there is no strong community base, there's very little success.
"Those born to parents of limited means will never live up to their potential," Meisels said.
Meisels recently was named founding executive director of the University of Nebraska's Buffett Early Childhood Institute, a universitywide research, education and policy center focused on children from birth to age 8. He has served since 2002 as president of the Erikson Institute in Chicago, the country's premier graduate school in child development.
Meisels also spoke about the developmental assessment of young children; the impact of state and federal policies on the families of children with disabilities; development of alternative assessment strategies; the developmental consequences of high-risk birth; and the effect of standardized testing on children.
"Once someone has been coached on a test, the test is worthless ... it's merely memorization," he said.
So what can a parent do to better prepare their child for school?
Give children early childhood experiences, he suggested. "Preschool is not just learning facts and numbers," Meisels said.
Instead, parents should focus also on non-cognitive skills, seven in particular:
� Confidence. A skill needed to push for opportunity and advancement.
� Curiosity. Learning new things, and getting excited about their findings.
� Intentionality. More intentional concepts equate to more accomplishments, he said.
� Self-control. Inner management of one's emotions.
� Relatedness. Relating and comparing to others.
� Capacity to communicate. Trusting and engaging others.
� Cooperativeness. Finding the balance of one's needs and those of another.
Maureen Gregor, a counselor at McMillan Magnet School, was thrilled to hear Meisels' suggestions for parents and educators to get excited about non-cognitive skills.
"I love those," she said, "especially curiosity. We need to just get excited about the world as they do."
The Holland Lecture Series has brought speakers to Omaha since 2005. It's hosted by the First Unitarian Church of Omaha with the financial support of Dick Holland.
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iTunes Film Import Bug?
On my films page in iTunes I Ctrl O to import a film I converted with handbrake and it goes into the Home Videos section.
Anyone else find this?...how do you redirect it into the Films location? OK I get it....for anyone else, locate the import in Home Movies then right click Get Info/Options/Media Kind/then drop down the menu to Film and it will relocate. Guess you have to do this manually each time until this bug is fixed. Last edited by wrkactjob; Dec 12, 2012 at 02:38 PM. Reason: Solved |
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The Other China
A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947
A Farewell: A Collection of Short Stories
The Great Transition: Political and Social Change in the Republic of China
Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization
The Protestant Community on Modern Taiwan: Mission, Seminary, and Church
Taiwan: Beyond the Economic Miracle
On the same late fall day in 1991, two stories about China appeared in the Western press. One announced that thirty-five drug dealers had just been executed in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, probably by a single police bullet fired into the back of each man's neck. Before their execution, the thirty-five had been paraded and "tried" in front of 40,000 people. A blurred photograph showed the defendants, arms tied behind their backs, each held by two helmeted policemen, in front of the enormous crowd. As their sentences were announced, a metric ton of refined heroin and four metric tons of opium, allegedly seized from the thirty-five dealers, were burned to ashes in sixty enormous cauldrons. Similar rallies and trials were said to have taken place in fifteen other southwestern Chinese cities, though the number of those executed or participating was not announced. The mass trials took place in a country where the annual per capita income was approximately $350, according to the World Bank.
The same day, confirmation came from Taiwan of the government's six-year plan to spend $300 billion on rebuilding and expanding public facilities all across the island: 779 projects, most to be put out for bids by local and foreign contractors, were designed to develop roads, rails and subways, schools, housing and medical facilities, refineries, sewage and power plants. Taiwan already had $72 billion in its official foreign exchange reserves, and anticipated no problem in raising the rest from its rapidly increasing domestic tax revenues and lively foreign trade. The reconstruction effort would substantially raise the living standards of Taiwan's population, whose annual per capita income was currently estimated by the World Bank to stand at $8,000.
Six months later a different set of contrasting images was once more presented to us. The first, from the People's Republic, told of the ordeal of a young Chinese worker named Han Dongfang. Han had organized an independent Workers' Federation during the heady month of May 1989, with its headquarters on Tiananmen Square. After the June massacre in Beijing, Han was arrested. Though not summarily executed like several other workers active in the demonstrations, he was treated with sadistic cruelty in prison, tortured with acupuncture needles when he went on a hunger strike, and confined to a ward for seriously ill tuberculosis patients, where, not surprisingly, he contracted the same disease. Reluctantly released by the authorities, so that he would not acquire a martyr's fame by dying in prison, Han spoke to his American interviewer of his fear that his wife, now pregnant, would be forced to have an abortion as a further way to punish and intimidate him. In a response to Western protest China agreed in August to allow Han Dongfang to travel to the United States for medical treatment.
The lead stories from Taiwan at the same time spoke of the hectic arguments and the flurries of excitement that gripped Taiwan's newly elected National Assembly …
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Reducing existing disparities within the American health care system is a key Federal priority.1 One factor that can impact the types of services offered is population density. In fact, it is known that the urbanization level of a community can impact both the types of services offered and the use of services received, particularly in the area of substance abuse treatment.1,2 Examining substance abuse treatment admissions in the most urban and most rural areas may help inform prevention, intervention, and expanded treatment efforts for urban and rural communities. For example, it has been demonstrated that urban drug abusers are more likely to use cocaine and heroin, while rural drug abusers report more alcohol, opiate pain reliever, and stimulant use.3 An enhanced understanding of these types of differences may enable policymakers and treatment providers to direct limited resources more effectively and increase the quality of care received in different geographic contexts.
The Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) can be used to explore characteristics of rural and urban admissions at substance abuse treatment entry. In order to identify rural and urban areas, U.S. counties and county equivalents were assigned to one of five urbanization levels according to the classification scheme developed by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).4 In this report, admissions receiving treatment at facilities located in the most rural areas (nonmetropolitan areas without a city, hereafter referred to as "rural") are compared with admissions receiving treatment at facilities located in the most urban areas (large central metropolitan areas, hereafter referred to as "urban"). In 2009, 31.4 percent of all treatment admissions (or 537,489 admissions) received treatment at facilities located in urban areas and 7.2 percent (or 123,807 admissions) received treatment at facilities located in rural areas.5
Demographic Characteristics
Urban and rural substance abuse treatment admissions had similar gender distributions, but rural admissions were less racially and ethnically diverse and were younger. Males represented over two thirds of both urban and rural admissions (69.9 and 68.3 percent, respectively) (Table 1). Non-Hispanic Whites accounted for 77.1 percent of rural admissions and 38.1 percent of urban admissions. Over one third of rural admissions (34.2 percent) were under the age of 26 compared to less than a quarter of urban admissions (23.5 percent). More than 6 in 10 urban and rural admissions reported having no health insurance (61.9 and 65.9 percent, respectively).
Characteristic | Urban Admissions (Percent) |
Rural Admissions (Percent) |
Gender | ||
Male | 69.9% | 68.3% |
Female | 30.1% | 31.7% |
Race/Ethnicity | ||
Non-Hispanic White | 38.1% | 77.1% |
Non-Hispanic Black | 33.7% | 8.7% |
Hispanic | 22.7% | 6.6% |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 1.3% | 5.5% |
Other | 4.2% | 2.1% |
Age | ||
Aged 12 to 17 | 7.1% | 8.3% |
Aged 18 to 25 | 16.4% | 25.9% |
Aged 26 to 49 | 60.6% | 55.4% |
Aged 50 or Older | 15.9% | 10.5% |
Education (Aged 18 or Older) | ||
Less than High School | 37.5% | 32.7% |
High School/GED | 40.7% | 46.1% |
Some College | 21.8% | 21.2% |
Employment Status (Aged 18 or Older) | ||
Full Time | 11.1% | 22.3% |
Part Time | 5.5% | 10.0% |
Unemployed | 37.0% | 42.6% |
Not in Labor Force | 46.4% | 25.1% |
Primary Income Source | ||
Wages/Salary | 18.0% | 36.8% |
Public Assistance | 11.3% | 6.3% |
Disability | 4.6% | 6.2% |
Other | 26.0% | 22.0% |
None | 40.1% | 28.7% |
Health Insurance Status | ||
None | 61.9% | 65.9% |
Note: Percentages may not sum to 100 percent due to rounding. Source: SAMHSA Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 2009. |
Rural and urban admissions aged 18 or older differed in educational attainment and employment. Rural admissions were more likely than urban admissions to have a high school education or GED (46.1 vs. 40.7 percent), whereas urban admissions were more likely than rural admissions to have less than a high school education (37.5 vs. 32.7 percent). Rural admissions were more likely than urban admissions to report being employed (32.3 vs. 16.6 percent).
Substances of Abuse
Rural and urban treatment admissions differed by primary substances of abuse and frequency of use at treatment entry. Rural admissions were more likely than urban admissions to report primary abuse of alcohol (49.5 vs. 36.1 percent) or non-heroin opiates (10.6 vs. 4.0 percent); urban admissions were more likely than rural admissions to report primary abuse of heroin (21.8 vs. 3.1 percent) or cocaine (11.9 vs. 5.6 percent) (Figure 1). Urban admissions were almost twice as likely as rural admissions to report daily use of their primary substance of abuse at treatment entry (43.1 vs. 23.5 percent) (Figure 2).
Primary Substance of Abuse | Urban Admissions |
Rural Admissions |
Alcohol | 36.1% | 49.5% |
Marijuana | 17.0% | 20.9% |
Cocaine | 11.9% | 5.6% |
Heroin | 21.8% | 3.1% |
Non-heroin Opiates | 4.0% | 10.6% |
Methamphetamine | 6.1% | 6.3% |
Note: Percentages may not sum to 100 percent because not all substances are presented. Source: SAMHSA Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 2009. |
Frequency of Use | Urban Admissions | Rural Admissions |
Daily Use | 43.1% | 23.5% |
3-6 Times in Past Week | 12.5% | 10.6% |
1-2 Times in Past Week | 9.3% | 9.6% |
1-3 Times in Past Month | 10.8% | 15.7% |
No Past Month Use | 24.3% | 40.6% |
Note: Percentages may not sum to 100 percent due to rounding. Source: SAMHSA Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 2009. |
Age of First Use
Rural admissions were slightly younger than urban admissions when they began using their primary substance of abuse (Figure 3). Compared with urban admissions, rural admissions were more likely to report having initiated their primary substance of abuse between the ages of 15 and 17 (32.1 vs. 26.7 percent) and less likely to report first use at age 18 or older (32.7 vs. 45.6 percent).
Age at First Use | Urban Admissions | Rural Admissions |
Aged 18 or Older | 45.6% | 32.7% |
Aged 15 to 17 | 26.7% | 32.1% |
Aged 12 to 14 | 21.1% | 25.1% |
Aged 11 or Younger | 6.6% | 10.2% |
Note: Percentages may not sum to 100 percent due to rounding. Source: SAMHSA Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 2009. |
Source of Treatment Referral and Treatment Characteristics
Rural and urban admissions also varied in source of treatment referral, the type of treatment received, and the number of previous treatment admissions. Rural admissions were more likely than urban admissions to be referred by the criminal justice system (51.6 vs. 28.4 percent) and less likely to be self- or individually referred (22.8 vs. 38.7 percent) (Figure 4).
Sources of Referral | Urban Admissions |
Rural Admissions |
Individual/Self | 38.7% | 22.8% |
Criminal Justice System | 28.4% | 51.6% |
Other Community | 15.4% | 10.0% |
Alcohol/Drug Abuse Care Provider | 10.4% | 7.0% |
Other Health Care Provider | 5.4% | 7.0% |
Note: Percentages may not sum to 100 percent because not all sources are presented. Source: SAMHSA Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 2009. |
Rural admissions were more likely than urban admissions to receive regular outpatient care (63.2 vs. 43.8 percent) and less likely to receive detoxification treatment (9.4 vs. 27.5 percent). Notably, urban admissions also reported more extensive treatment histories than rural admissions: 14.5 percent reported five or more prior treatment episodes compared with 8.1 percent of rural admissions. These differences related to detoxification and treatment history may reflect the higher proportion of primary heroin abuse among urban admissions relative to rural admissions, since heroin admissions are more likely to receive detoxification services and report multiple prior treatment episodes in comparison with other admissions.6
Co-occurring Psychiatric Problems and Living Arrangement
The overall proportions of rural and urban admissions who reported a co-occurring psychiatric problem7 were similar, but differences were found by living arrangement. Specifically, about 30.1 percent of rural admissions and 27.2 percent of urban admissions reported a co-occurring psychiatric problem. By living arrangement, urban admissions were nearly 5 times as likely as rural admissions to be homeless (20.9 vs. 4.3 percent).
Rural and urban substance abuse treatment admissions differed by nearly every aspect examined in this report (Table 2). These variations are expected given known differences between rural and urban populations, but they suggest a diverse set of needs that must be taken into account when developing effective treatment and prevention programs.
Rural treatment admissions are MORE likely than urban treatment admissions to:
Urban treatment admissions are MORE likely than rural treatment admissions to:
Source: SAMHSA Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 2009. |
Rural communities may consider focusing scarce public health resources on alcohol, marijuana, and prescription drugs to best address the needs of their populations. Early prevention and intervention efforts in rural areas may help to mitigate future substance dependence and abuse in light of the high rate of adolescent initiation among rural admissions. This may, in turn, alleviate the strain substance abuse and its associated problems (e.g., negative health outcomes, crime) levy on rural substance abuse treatment, health care, and law enforcement systems.
On the other hand, the findings among urban admissions underscore the ongoing importance of culturally appropriate treatment services that target a wide range of substances of abuse. Moreover, treatment in urban areas may be more efficacious if there are services that can address the socioeconomic challenges faced by urban admissions. This is essential given the known differences by race/ethnicity in terms of treatment need, care received, and the value in services that are tailored to address particular needs.8,9 Specifically, the low rate of employment and high rate of homelessness among urban admissions may reflect the continuing need for employment and housing services, which may be critical for helping these admissions achieve a type of stability that can support a lasting recovery. Finally, the large proportion of urban admissions who initiated their primary substance of abuse as adults points to the need for sustained or additional prevention and intervention efforts targeting older adolescents and young adults in urban areas.
End Notes
1 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2011). 2010 national healthcare disparities report (AHRQ Publication No. 11-0005). Rockville, MD: U.S. Department Health and Human Services. Retrieved from http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhdr10/nhdr10.pdf
2 Lenardson, J., & Gale, J. A. (February, 2008). Distribution of substance abuse treatment facilities across the rural-urban continuum. Muskie School of Public Service, Maine Rural Health Research Center, University of Southern Maine. Retrieved from http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/Publications/rural/pb35bSubstAbuseTreatmentFacilities.pdf
3 Gfroerer, J. C., Larson, S. L., & Colliver, J. D. (2007). Drug use patterns and trends in rural communities. The Journal of Rural Health, 23(Suppl.), 10-15.
4 Eberhardt, M. S., Ingram, D. D., Makuc, D. M., et al. (2001). Urban and rural health chartbook. Health, United States, 2001. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics.
5 The classification system used for these reports does not designate any of the five levels as "rural" or "urban." For the purposes of this report, when the terms "rural" or "most rural" are used, they refer to those counties classified as non-metropolitan without a city of 10,000 or more population, and when the term "urban" or "most urban" is used in this report, it refers to metropolitan counties classified as "large central."
6 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2011). Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS): 1999-2009. National admissions to substance abuse treatment services (DASIS Series S-56, HHS Publication No. SMA 11-4646). Rockville, MD: Author. Retrieved from http://www.samhsa.gov/data/DASIS/teds09/teds2k9nweb.pdf
7 Psychiatric problem in addition to alcohol or drug problem is a TEDS Supplemental Data Set item.
8 Schmidt, L. A., & Mulia, N. (2009, February). Racial/ethnic disparities in AOD treatment knowledge asset. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Substance Abuse Policy Research Program. Retrieved from http://saprp.org/knowledgeassets/knowledge_detail.cfm?KAID=11
9 Marsh, J. C., Cao, D., Guerrero, E., & Shin, H. (2009). Need-service matching in substance abuse treatment: Racial/ethnic differences. Evaluation and Program Planning, 32(1), 43-51.
Suggested Citation
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality. (July 31, 2012). The TEDS Report: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions. Rockville, MD.
The Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) is an administrative data system providing descriptive information about the national flow of admissions aged 12 or older to providers of substance abuse treatment. TEDS intends to collect data on all treatment admissions to substance abuse treatment programs in the United States receiving public funds. Treatment programs receiving any public funds are requested to provide TEDS data on publicly- and privately-funded clients. TEDS is one component of the Behavioral Health Services Information System (BHSIS), maintained by the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (CBHSQ), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). TEDS records represent admissions rather than individuals, as a person may be admitted to treatment more than once. Information on treatment admissions is routinely collected by State administrative systems and then submitted to SAMHSA in a standard format. There are significant differences among State data collection systems. Sources of State variation include the amount of public funding available and the constraints placed on the use of funds, facilities reporting TEDS data, clients included, services offered, and completeness and timeliness of reporting. See the annual TEDS reports for details. TEDS received approximately 1.9 million treatment admission records from 49 States and Puerto Rico for 2009. Definitions of demographic, substance use, and other measures mentioned in this report are available in Appendix B of the annual TEDS report on national admissions (see latest report at http://www.samhsa.gov/data/DASIS/teds09/TEDS2k9NAppB.htm). The TEDS Report is prepared by the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, SAMHSA; Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., Arlington, VA; and RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC. Information and data for this issue are based on data reported to TEDS through November 3, 2010. Latest TEDS reports: |
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Inactive BJCP Judges
From time to time, a beer judge decides that active participation is no longer possible. Although we hate to lose you, we appreciate your situation. It would be a great help to us if you would notify us so we can change your status in the database.
Status codes
We have several status codes used to identify judges who are not active:
Lapsed: Judges who have had no BJCP activity (such as judging at a sanctioned competition, taking a BJCP exam, attending a CEP event, or validating contact information) for at least two years. In other words, they simply lost interest. This is a passive status change based on judge activity, and is updated by IT staff.
Resigned: Some judges have asked to be placed in this status, and no longer wish any involvement or contact with the program.
Retired: Members who have retired from active judging but wish to remain affiliated with the program. Judges must request to be placed in this status, otherwise they are likely to appear as lapsed.
Deceased: We have a list of those we know about.
Banned: Someone whose membership has been terminated for cause by a unanimous vote of the Board of Directors, in accordance with Section 2.5 of the BJCP Bylaws. To date, only one such person has been banned.
What happens to your record?
In all cases, we don't erase your record — we simply mark it with the appropriate status, and you can still view it online. Judges in one of these status codes are not included in lists of judges provided to competition organizers, are not eligible to vote in BJCP elections, and do not participate in any events, programs or functions that are offered to active members.
How can you reverse this status?
If an inactive judge decides to judge at a competition, the organizer can report his or her participation and the judge automatically returns to active status. You can also "reactivate" your record by using the Change of Address form.
Making yourself inactive
If you need, for whatever reason, to drop into Resigned or Retired status, you can simply send an email to notify the IT Director. Your record will be marked appropriately, and you will no longer receive invitations to judge from competition organizers.
Incidentally, if you know of a former BJCP judge who is deceased, we would appreciate being advised of it, so his or her family doesn't have to deal with competition invitations in the future.