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Apologies if this sound ammature.
I am creating a form that has radio buttons and select tags.
I want some fields to be populated on the previous selection. For example if a radio button is selected, populate fields related to that selection and so on. I have scratched my head a lot on php and MySQL. I m nt a computer person. My question is this :
Do I have to create the form with all the fields added already and hide them and show then only when th respective selection is done? Is there an alternative to this ? Kindly describe any readings / tutorials for this.
Regarding the php part, il post a question in the php section.
I read simply JavaScript by Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams but as I said m nt a computer person so m doin al stupid things ..
Help appreciated !!
The usual way to pre-populate a form field is to set the value to be a PHP variable.
<input type='text' name='name' id='name' value='<?php echo $value; ?>' />
Where you create the variable is up to you. It can be from a previous showing of the form, or a default value generated in your PHP, etc.
For <select> and radio buttons you can pre-select a default using 'selected' like this:
<select name='status' id='status' >
<option value='prov' selected='selected'>Provisional</option>
<option value='canc'>Cancel</option>
<option value='closed'>Closed</option>
(I have read that it's no longer necessary to use "selected='selected'", you can just use "selected", but I've not proved this for myself).If you want to change the default selection of <select> and radio buttons you have to deal with the selectedIndex property (using JavaScript).
It's not clear to me whether you want to pre-set the selects and radio buttons, or take the user selections and use them to put values into other form fields (such as text inputs or text areas) ? If you can tell me a bit more I'll try to answer more fully.
Yep, you can safely use the selected attribute without a value.
If this is what you want, it would be great if you could go into a little more detail.If this is not what you want, then just forget I spoke
Thanks, Force Flow. I never seem to get around to testing it.
You can do a little fake-out where you just use javascript to submit the form when a radio is selected but only do full processing if button is submitted. Here's a rough sample.
if (isset($_POST['submit_choice'])){
echo "
";
echo "
";
//Set vategory as Checked
$cat_car = (isset($_POST['category']) && $_POST['category'] == "car" ? " checked=\\"checked\\"" : '');
$cat_truck = (isset($_POST['category']) && $_POST['category'] == "truck" ? " checked=\\"checked\\"" : '');
$cat_van = (isset($_POST['category']) && $_POST['category'] == "van" ? " checked=\\"checked\\"" : '');
$category = (isset($_POST['category']) ? "{$_POST['category']}" : '');
$vehicles = array(
"car" => array("Select","Acura","Buick","Cadillac","Chevrolet","Dodge","Ferrari","Ford","Jaguar","Jeep","Mercedes","Pontiac"),
"truck" => array("Select","Chevrolet","Dodge","Ford","Toyota"),
"van" => array("Select","Mazda Mazda5","Chrysler Town & Country","Toyota Sienna","Honda Odyssey")
$content = "";
$content .= "<form method=\\"post\\" action=\\"\\" name=\\"categoryform\\">
Car <input type=\\"radio\\" name=\\"category\\" value=\\"car\\" onclick=\\"document.categoryform.submit ();\\"$cat_car />
Truck <input type=\\"radio\\" name=\\"category\\" value=\\"truck\\" onclick=\\"document.categoryform.submit ();\\"$cat_truck />
Van <input type=\\"radio\\" name=\\"category\\" value=\\"van\\" onclick=\\"document.categoryform.submit ();\\"$cat_van />

<select name=\\"vehicle\\">\\r";
if (isset($_POST['category'])){
foreach($vehicles[$category] as $vehicle){
$content .= "<option value=\\"$vehicle\\">$vehicle</option>
\\r";
$content .= "<option value=\\"\\">Choose Model</option>
\\r";
$content .= "</select>
<input type=\\"submit\\" name=\\"submit_choice\\" value=\\"Submit\\" />
if (isset($content)){ echo "$content";}
I've made a PHP GUI API, you may want to try it out if you wish to implement your view layer in PHP rather than HTML. Note this version is not namespaced, so you may end up experiencing some naming conflicts with your own classes:http://www.phpclasses.org/package/7857-PHP-Render-HTML-pages-composed-programmatically.html
Thank you all for all ur help !! I got it !!! Thanks


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Recently I had to have all of my teeth pulled (upper/lower) because of a gum disease. My dentist strongly recommends implants on lower to avoid/stop my gume to decrease. Question: Why does he recommend only lower, if upper part will decrease what did I win? Question: Per my research, implants cost at least $30.000 which is out of reach for me, what can I do?
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Overnight Buttermilk Pancakes
8 Comments | Written on October 19, 2012 at 12:00 am , by Kristina Vanni
One of my favorite parts of the weekend is a long, leisurely breakfast. There's no need to rush, and I can lounge in my pajamas while sipping a warm cup of coffee and indulging in something delicious.
This recipe for Overnight Buttermilk Pancakes is my ideal weekend treat. Part of the preparation is done the night before, so the morning can be enjoyed without fuss!
Keep reading to find out how you can make breakfast for tomorrow…tonight!
Make the batter for these pancakes tonight, and you will have breakfast started for tomorrow. As part of the batter sits overnight, it develops an incredible flavor, similar to sourdough pancakes. Then in the morning, just add the remaining ingredients as directed. Serve with your favorite fruit, maple syrup or just a pat of butter!
Overnight Buttermilk Pancakes
2-1/2 cups buttermilk
2-1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
3 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 Tablespoon hot tap water
2 Tablespoons packed brown sugar
1. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the buttermilk and flour. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
2. The next day, beat the eggs in a mixing bowl until light. Add the salt, baking powder, the soda which has been dissolved in the hot tap water, and the brown sugar. Combine with the buttermilk-flour mixture and mix well.
3. Heat an oiled griddle pan until hot, and spoon on pancake batter to desired size of pancakes. Flip once and serve hot with syrup.
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Those pancakes are to die for! Bravo and thank you for the recipe. I have two little ones that will be excellent tasters!
Sounds great. Is the flour sifted after measured or before?
Always sift your flour first then measure.
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[…] Overnight Buttermilk Pancakes […]
I didn't let the mixture sit overnight because I wanted them this morning. I like this recipe. I used powered buttermilk. Just add the amount of water it says on the container. It lasts much longer in your refrigerator than the liquid form. I also added some pumpkin pie spices to my mixture. I'm a cook from scratch kinda lady. I love it! 🙂
How many servings? Say … 5 inch … 3 a serving. If you half the recipe, would it be 2 eges or one?
Is only the baking soda dissolved in the water overnight? And why tap water? Spring water OK?


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Effect of Acupuncture on Symptoms of Diarrhea and Pain in IBS
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Acupuncture has been used for centuries in China in the treatment of diarrhea. Our hypothesis is that acupuncture is effective in the treatment of abdominal pain and diarrhea in patients with diarrhea-predominant IBS
|Irritable Bowel Syndrome
|Procedure: acupuncture
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: Single
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Effect of Acupuncture on Symptoms of Diarrhea and Pain in Diarrhea Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Effect on Plasma Beta-endorphin and Serotonin Levels.
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Frequency of bowel movement
Secondary Outcome Measures:
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|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|August 2001
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|January 2004
Patients will complete a diary to determine if they qualify for the study. Patients will be randomized to receive either acupuncture or sham acupuncture (needle insertion 1 cm away from acupuncture site). Patients will be blinded to whether they are receiving acupuncture or sham acupuncture. The acupuncturist is blinded as to the patient response. The patients will undergo venupuncture to draw blood to determine sertotonin and beta-endorphin levels. They will receive treatment in 12 sessions over 4 weeks. They will maintain a diary during this time period to document level of pain and frequency of bowel movements. Blood will be drawn at week 2 and 4 and, 6 weeks after cessation of treatment, subjects will again record abdominal symptoms and frequency of bowel movements for 2 weeks. Blood will be drawn for hormone levels at 8 weeks after completion of study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
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|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- frequence of bowel movement of at least 3/day
- global disease severity of at least 3
Exclusion Criteria:
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- patient taking anticoagulants or suffering from coagulopathy
- pregancy
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|Principal Investigator:
|Ann Ouyangm, MD
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Diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome
abdominal pain
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Pathologic Processes
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Colonic Diseases, Functional
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The birthstone of May: Emerald
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This is also, National Day of Prayer.
Also, in Mexico, it is considered their celebration of
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2. The kitchen smells like "home."
3. The beloved story teller and keeper of traditions.
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May 18-
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May 20-
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Victoria, Canada.
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May 26- Memorial Day
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weekend, filled with parades and memorials for the ones
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on this Memorial Day.
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Bank Holiday.
In the small book, with precious illustrations by
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TAKOTNA, Alaska - The homemade pies are cooling in the corner, the stereo is playing country music and the griddle is frying up a breakfast of steak and eggs, or just about anything else, trail-weary mushers would want.
For mushers in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the Takotna checkpoint is the Iditarod Spa. It's where 72-year-old Jan Newton for decades has been barking at mushers like a mother dog whose pups are acting up.
"What the hell are YOU doing here," Jan says as another exhausted musher with a windburned face enters the community center and sits down at the long mushers' table adorned with a plastic red and white checkered tablecloth. "Just eat and shut up."
No one actually thinks Jan Newton is in a bad mood. Everyone knows she has a heart of gold. She and her husband, Dick, have been providing a home-away-from-home for mushers since 1972.
Jan begins making her Iditarod pies - apple, cherry, pumpkin, blueberry, pecan, banana, lemon, coconut, chocolate, pecan and butterscotch - in mid-January. Then she has to find a place to hide the more than 100 pies from her husband and his friends.
"Reliving their youth," she says of her 77-year-old husband's plan to hop on snowmobiles on Friday with two buddies and travel to Nome and the Iditarod finish line about 1,126 kilometres away.
"He ain't giving up," she said, when asked about the wisdom of an old man setting off by snowmobile on the Iditarod trail, "not as long as I can keep going."
Dick, known for his trapping skills (he just sent off 35 marten pelts), came to Takotna from Clayton, Idaho, in 1970, where he and Jan ran a cafe, hotel and bar that catered to miners. Jan followed two years later.
A friend, Dorothy Anderson, also called "Puddens," got the Iditarod Spa going by suggesting the two make a few meals for the mushers. At that time, Takotna wasn't even an Iditarod checkpoint.
"The mushers would stop to eat moose meat stew and chili. That is why we have those up all the time," Jan said, pointing to a counter running along one wall of the community center with three large stock pots.
Anderson pretty much left Jan to her own devices four years later and "you can see how that went," Jan says. "Things just grew."
"If you come in and ask for something and we didn't have it, we had it the next year," she said.
Musher Sven Haltmann, competing in his second Iditarod, enjoyed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, a sausage patty and potatoes on Thursday.
"It recharges the batteries," he said. "You can just come in here and say I'm hungry and within 10 minutes they have food on your table. ... It has always been great."
Haltmann said mushers sleep in the church where there is a heater for drying out wet clothing. Many of them sleep under the pews.
Most of the mushers this year chose Takotna to satisfy one of the race requirements, taking a 24-hour break. Mushers can take the 24 anywhere along the 1,770-kilometre trail but Takotna is hard to pass up, even in a good trail year.
This year, the trail up ahead is said to be tough-going. Snowmobiles recently cleared it of yet more snow but it had not "set" yet, meaning it likely would be a slow slog on a soft trail.
Ryan Redington, the 26-year-old grandson of Iditarod founder Joe Redington Sr., in his sixth race, described his slice of banana creme pie as "very good."
Redington put in another order as he prepared to hook up his dog team and leave - two double cheeseburgers for the road.
"It is unbelievable what they do for us," said musher Bill Cotter as he sat down to a breakfast of medium-rare steak, eggs over easy and wheat toast.
Cotter, who is running in his 20th Iditarod, said what he likes most is the way the checkpoint takes care of his dogs. The operation is efficient, he said. That means mushers don't have to waste valuable time toting water and bales of straw - time when their dogs could be resting.
It's all right there for them when they pull in.
In other checkpoints, that can take two hours. In Takotna, it takes a cool 35 minutes.
"It is really what you have is a little oasis in the wilderness," he said.
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Ojha grabbed two quick wickets to put New Zealand under pressure on the
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removed Kane Williamson (17) and well-set opener Martin Guptill (53) as
New Zealand reached 108-3 at lunch after electing to bat.
Skipper Ross Taylor was unbeaten on 27 at the break with one six and two fours, while Daniel Flynn was seven not out.
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I was 14th in line when I got there at 6:40am.
But 10th in line when they split us up into precincts.
It was extremely organized and everyone was cheery!
I felt a little overwhelmed that we were FINALLY voting. Whew!
Sammie helped me vote this morning. We went to the wrong polling place -- they keep moving it around every year and I didn't google it.And as we left the wrong place she was screaming "I want to bote! I want to bote!"
And when we got to her school, they were making all the kids their own "I voted" sticker and were making ballot boxes for them to vote too. (She ran up to her teacher and said Mrs -- I vote Obama!
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Lindsay Lohan's In A Bikini, Too
Lindsay Lohan has been doing a respectable job of showing up in swimwear whenever somebody more famous than her does, so here she is in Malibu yesterday in case you're really in the mood for freckles. Which is literally the only thing I could think of to say that wasn't, "BOOBIES ARE BIG!" even though that's why we're here. Although, if there is someone going, "My, look at the legs on Lindsay Lohan. And those jowls, ooh, mama," listen to the words I'm about to say very carefully: Shooting those people won't make the voices stop.
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- Additional Issues
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- USB driver conflict (Most Common) Download and install the drivers we supply on our website. Houdini is fully compatible with Windows 2000,XP,Vista.
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Congress Proposes Bill to Abolish Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
On January 11, 2017, Senators Lee (UT) and Rubio (FL) proposed the Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act of 2017 to Congress. The bill, would effectively prohibit the federal government from enforcing the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule, or using federal funds to design, build, maintain, utilize, or provide access to a Federal database of geospatial information on community racial disparities or disparities in access to affordable housing. This is a huge blow to the HUD universe. To read the full proposed bill, click the link below.
Video: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Confirmation Hearing.
Dr. Ben Carson testified on his nomination to be Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) secretary in the Donald Trump administration. Dr. Carson, a former neurosurgeon and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, spoke extensively about his childhood growing up in poverty, and answered questions on a variety of housing issues, including rental vouchers, tribal housing, and federal backing of mortgage loans. He was also asked to reconcile his personal views on poverty and LGBT rights with HUD's responsibility in adjudicating fair housing access cases.
Confronting Bullying with Caring and Empathy
Article from:
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Bullying Among Older Adults can offer important lessons to test in multifamily subsidized and public housing for elderly and disabled. A review of Bonifas on bullying:
Robin P. Bonifas et. al., Bullying Among Older Adults: How to Recognize and Address an Unseen Epidemic, (Baltimore:Health Professions Press, 2016).
I will focus on the valuable lessons that Bullying Among Older Adults can offer in multifamily subsidized and public housing for elderly and disabled. In multifamily subsidized housing for the elderly and the disabled, bullying is nearly everywhere, but in only a few cases do we find a bullying-free environment. Typically there may be a mixture of ages and backgrounds, and very limited support services, and sometimes lax management. Worse, at times management and staff, including social workers, may themselves bully residents, allow and enable residents to use bullying tactics, and even join in mobbing by collaborating actively with residents.
Bullying Among Older Adults covers residential institutional settings with professional staff such as nursing, social work, gerontology, and psychology. Bonifas is a leader in the understanding and prevention of bullying among elderly patients, based on her many years of service in chronic care and psychiatric facilities, focused on improving the psychosocial care of patients and their families. Bonifas presents a comprehensive overview of the subject—how to recognize bullying, how to understand the causes of bullying behavior, how to intervene, and how to enable staff and residents to work together to create a healthy community. She has assembled a group of contributors with expertise and together they present a useful overview of current understanding of bullying and a variety of intervention approaches to address a problem that affects so many elderly residential settings. Based on this book, an infographic presents some of the evidence on the epidemic prevalence, reality, and impact of elderly bullying. http://www.healthpropress.com/pdf/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Bullying-A…
Bonifas presents "a framework for anti-bullying interventions" that is informed by the need for staff to engage with residents as partners in developing a program that addresses their expressed needs. She shows the value of designing a program that addresses the organization, the perpetrators, the targets, and the bystanders. She recognizes that this is a challenge for staff, who may believe that only the perpetrator needs to change. To create a caring and empathetic organizational culture, staff as well as residents need to take part in training. Everyone must work together to create a caring community. The essential components are caring, empathy, accountability, and trust. The book provides an excellent overview and much practical advice, with extensive examples of bullying and intervention techniques.
An attitude of caring and empathy must be embraced by the entire organization; residents, staff, and management must make a commitment to promote and live by the tenet of equality and respect for all members of the community. p.45
In her research at two assisted living facilities, Bonifas studied the emotional impact on wellbeing related to bullying among residents, shared her findings with the residents, and helped the residents to devise solutions. Based on her experience, Bonifas asserts,
Care providers can be trained to recognize and minimize bullying behaviors, and those who are bullied can be taught effective skills to address and even prevent such behaviors. p. xvii
Bonifas notes the range of bullying behaviors among residents, ranging from one person targeting another, to social bullying to exclude a target, and cliques seeking to oversee and control others, and even affecting the whole institution, with the potential for staff to be affected or bullied, and even for staff to use bullying tactics in the attempt to restore peace. Bonifas proposes that training of staff is needed so they can effectively prevent bullying.
For many people, living in a communal setting is a challenge, requiring adjustments to sharing common areas with people of various other backgrounds. Claiming a territory or control over social activities is one way to resolve the frustrations of adjustment, converting "public space into private space."
Targets of bullying may disturb or annoy other people, or just be different in some way. How can a person who is targeted for bullying respond in a resilient manner? Coping strategies suggested by Bonifas can include ignoring the bullying, avoidance, keeping busy with individual activities or with supportive people and pets, understanding the perpetrator, and seeking to influence others. However, I am concerned because these strategies must be monitored lest they put the burden on the target, and also cause them to restrict their social interactions in communal activities, so that they display "warning signs" of being bullied. pp. 36-40
Engaging bystanders is essential. If bystanders don't intervene, the perpetrator will continue; but bystanders can learn how to break the cycle. Residents need to see that it is the perpetrator who has a problem, they need to stand up to the perpetrator, and then walk away.
While this approach with a focus on bystanders may prove effective to deal with an individual perpetrator, it may fail when there is a situation of group bullying. I have observed how a group of perpetrators can impose pyschological and social sanctions not only on a target that resists, but on their friends and bystanders, so bystanders will likely not dare step forward in the absence of support from management and staff. In multifamily housing, I have identified such situations as institutional mobbing, where the authority figures do not intervene, allowing a group of perpetrators to intimidate and punish targets at will. (1)
Bonifas asserts that a written policy, developed with participation by residents, can facilitate creating a caring culture. She provides ideas about how to carry out surveys to identify problems and to elicit suggestions from residents, and a model bullying policy statement. This section alone is worth the price of the book, providing a useful guide to creating a bullying policy. pp. 56, 66 Other approaches include a "peace learning circle" to learn how to respond to situations of conflict and turn them into peaceful situations; and encouraging civility in daily life. Residents need to learn to tolerate people who are different, learn to communicate without hostility and anger, encourage empathy, and more. But if these efforts fail, and the perpetrator is causing harm or violating the rights of others, they may have to leave the facility. I caution that helping a perpetrator to have more control or to gain more friends must be done with caution, lest this expand the circle of perpetrators.
Bonifas considers several ethical issues, problems that may be difficult to resolve. When the organization does not try to deal with bullying, it is bad for the organization and creates a situation that I have identified as institutional mobbing, where perpetrators have freedom to use bullying. Unfair treatment of residents can be avoided by careful investigation and hearing all sides. The rights of residents must be protected, so if a perpetrator harbors prejudices against classes of people, the staff needs to set limits and prevent such feelings from expression in public areas. Some residents who use bullying tactics may pose very difficult problems for staff. It is then most important to do a careful analysis of the underlying causes of the bullying behavior. Is it from substance abuse? dementia? a mental health condition? a need for power? Only after a careful diagnosis of the problem can action be determined.
The most effective interventions for elderly residents to forsake bullying as an answer include providing other ways for them to feel personal power and control, to deal with feelings of loss, and to learn how to understand and respect the feelings of others. Intervention begins with setting limits and enforcing boundaries. Targets can learn to protect themselves, stay out of harms' way, and to advocate for themselves. And support groups can be helpful. Even staff can become targets of bullying by residents. They need training and support from the organization.
Eleanor Feldman Barbara discusses methods to assess the prevalence of bullying and proposes strategies for intervention. The main method is to train residents and staff to recognize bullying and to be "upstanders," people who will speak out or act to stop the bullying and protect the target. Another intervention is to recognize and reward residents who have acted on the core values of the community. Finally, when residents engage in activities outside of the residence to do good in the community, they feel better about themselves, enhance the reputation of their residence, and bullying tends to diminish.
Alyse November discusses a method of empathy training called "different like me." There are many aspects of this program, which has approaches to several aspects of communal life that can be made more open and accepting of all persons.
Catherine Parker Cardinal proposes the goal of creating a positive community environment in order to prevent bullying, because it is much harder to act against bullying directly for social and legal reasons. Confrontational approaches might drive the bullying underground and result in a worse situation. Elderly people living independently may resist change, and unlike teachers of children, the housing provider and staff have limited options for enforcement. Thus, the goal of creating a culture of civility and social wellness is indeed a good idea. Can this gentle approach work in the face of determined resistance by an entrenched group that uses bullying tactics? What are the conditions to make this approach feasible? Is it possible in subsidized housing? Does it need more staff? New legislation? How to eliminate the harassment and serious bullying that would inhibit and defeat efforts to create a positive community?
Policy and legislation
Alyse November and Stephanie Langer address the social and policy issues that must be addressed to protect the elderly from bullying. While elder abuse is already a major problem which is bound to grow as the elderly population grows, there are almost no legal protections against bullying of the elderly. They present an excellent consideration of how to adapt laws protecting school children from bullying, and raise important questions about how to define and implement new legislation. They mention Massachusetts legislation, including the bills proposed by the Stop Bullying Coalition, which has now led to the creation of the Massachusetts Commission to Study Ways to Prevent Bullying of Tenants in Public and Subsidized Multi-Family Housing, pursuant to Chapter 2 of the Resolves of 2016. (2)
Alyse November and Stephanie Langer advise,
Any proposed legislation must include staff administration trainings on the importance of building caring communities, creating a congruent climate (everyone is in agreement or harmony), identifying and addressing inappropriate behaviors, and addressing bullying behaviors. There must also be ongoing programming for residents on issues such as prevention, managing bullying issues as they arise, and creating committees that include stakeholders.p. 147
And in Missouri, legislation recently passed because of vigorous advocacy by Edie Potts, a resident, making elderly bullying a form of abuse subject to the established elder abuse protective agency. (3)
Strongly recommended
I strongly recommend Bullying Among Older Adults: How to Recognize and Address an Unseen Epidemic, a timely and important resource. There is much of value which could be adapted to settings with diverse clients including independent-living elderly and younger people living with disability, so it could be very helpful for managers, staff, and resident service coordinators working in multifamily subsidized housing. The primary audience consisting of administrators and professional staff in residential environments providing assistive, supportive, or nursing services will find this an essential guide to enhancing the quality of life and work in their residential communities.
This review is Copyright 2016 Jerry Halberstadt and was published at http://stopbullyingcoalition.org/bonifas
(1) Halberstadt, Jerry; with a Foreword by Maureen Duffy, Stop Bullying: Creating Healthy Communities for the Elderly and Disabled, (Onset & Peabody: Togethering Press, Forthcoming, 2017.)
(2) Chapter 2 of the Resolves of 2016—S1984 189th An Act Resolve creating a commission to study ways to prevent bullying of tenants in public and subsidized multi-family housing.https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/Senate/S1984 also http://stopbullyingcoalition.org/signed
(3) Missouri SB732 Modifies numerous provisions relating to public safety. It includes a definition of bullying of elderly or disabled persons, creates a mandate to require making a report of suspected bullying to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Division of Senior and Disability Services, lists specific professions and roles that are mandated reporters, and sets penalties for a failure to report in a timely fashion.
NAHT Platform 2016
Concerned about how the upcoming November 8th election will affect low-income renters? Click here to see NAHT's 2016 Election Platform to see how NAHT is advocating to preserve affordable housing and renter's rights in 2016.
Protesters for affordable housing march in Pittsburgh
Protesters blocked Downtown traffic during Tuesday's lunch hour as they called for more affordable housing in Pittsburgh.
Marchers carried signs emblazoned with slogans such as "evict slumlords, not people" and "housing is a human right" after a rally at Katz Plaza. They moved down Penn Avenue to Sixth Street then to Market Square.
Among them was Randall Taylor, 50, who said he was forced from a rent-controlled East Liberty apartment last February along with dozens of other residents to make way for a Whole Foods grocery store development. He said gentrification is "running wild."
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Source: Protesters for affordable housing march in Pittsburgh
Apt. Building Resident On Old Broken Elevator: 'It's Unnecessary In The Year 2016'
These Miami Beach residents are speaking out after being unable to leave their homes for over a week due to a broken elevator in their building. Our VAHPP Legal Fellow Tatyana Manning at Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc. is helping the residents take action. Visit the link below to hear their story:
Apt. Building Resident On Old Broken Elevator: 'It's Unnecessary In The Year 2016'
The VISTA Affordable Housing Preservation Project
Who's Who In The VAHPP
National Alliance of HUD Tenants (NAHT)
Founded in 1991, NAHT is the first national membership organization of resident groups advocating for 2.1 million lower income families in privately-owned, HUD-assisted multifamily housing. Through NAHT, tenants have proven that united action can mount an effective campaign to save people's homes. For seven years, from 1995-2002, the National Alliance of HUD Tenants (NAHT) initiated and coordinated a successful VISTA program in HUD multi-family housing. The program placed up to 60 VISTA organizers each year in local host sites, and at the conclusion of the project, reached 32 cities in 27 states. .NAHT VISTAs helped tenants form more than 520 tenant organizations that met HUD standards, including several that achieved resident ownership of their developments. With assistance from VISTAs, these tenant associations preserved or improved more than 70,000 at-risk HUD apartments, and trained tens of thousands of tenants on their rights.
Equal Justice Works has partnered with NAHT to select organizing host sites and to provide training and support for 33 VISTA organizers placed with 20 local nonprofit tenant assistance organizations.
Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps VISTA)
VISTA was founded as Volunteers in Service to America in 1965 as a national service program designed specifically to fight poverty in America. In 1993, VISTA was incorporated into the AmeriCorps network of programs. VISTA builds capacity in nonprofit organizations and communities to help bring individuals and communities out of poverty. Since 1965, over 190,000 have served as VISTA volunteers working with local organizations to strengthen communities and help people escape poverty. Eighty percent of former VISTA members continue to volunteer in their communities after their term of service ends.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has set aside funds for a national VISTA Volunteer program in privately-owned HUD multifamily housing from Section 514 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act (MAHRAA). To date, HUD has advanced $2 million through an Interagency Agreement with CNCS for a two year VISTA Volunteer program. CNCS has matched these funds with its own resources for program benefits to support 45 participating VISTA Volunteers in VAHPP for two years.
About Equal Justice Works
The mission of Equal Justice Works is to create a just society by mobilizing the next generation of lawyers committed to equal justice. We provide leadership to ensure a sustainable pipeline of talented and trained lawyers are involved in public service. Equal Justice Works provides a continuum of programs that begin with incoming law school students and extend into careers in the profession. We provide the nation's leading public interest law Fellowship program and offer more postgraduate, full-time legal positions in public service than any other organization.
Equal Justice Works has been selected by CNCS as its Intermediary organization to administer the VAHPP program. Equal Justice Works will also select legal host sites and train and support 12 VISTA attorneys placed with 10 nonprofit legal service organizations.
VISTA Affordable Housing Preservation Project (VAHPP)
This project will build the capacity of tenant associations in eligible Project Based Section 8 HUD-assisted properties to increase tenants' knowledge of their rights, responsibilities and options for preserving and improving their homes and communities as affordable housing. The project aims to (1) increase tenant outreach and training capacity of qualified local nonprofit organizations in at least 20 cities; (2) organize or strengthen up to 120 independent tenant associations that meet HUD standards at 24 CFR Part 245 (3) help tenants save or improve at least 120 eligible Section 8 communities which house more than 18,000 families. 45 VISTA members will build the capacity of tenant organizations through outreach, education, leadership development and legal services over the next two years.
Map of the current VAHPP Community Organizers and Legal Fellows across the the USA:
NAHT Advocates for Anti-Bullying Rule
Harassment is a serious problem for too many tenants. We need more protections to allow us to feel safe in our homes.
HUD's proposed rule on harassment and liability for protected classes under the Fair Housing Act (FHA) is a strong step in the right direction. The proposed rule is thoughtful, thorough, and moving in its forthright affirmation of people's homes as a sanctuary for privacy, personal freedom, security and safety. It clearly declares that all protected classes under the FHA should be protected from broad, inclusive definitions of harassment which may be perpetrated against people because of their membership in one or more protected class.
In particular, we applaud HUD for clarifying in the proposed rule that third party providers (such as owner and their management agents) are directly liable for failing to "take prompt action to correct and end" harassment or any other unlawful discrimination under the Fair Housing Act.
Protected classes include women, people of color, people with disabilities, national origin, and people with families. One notable exception is age, which is an unfortunate gap in the federal law and not something HUD can alter.
Overall, NAHT supports the proposed rule, and endorses the recommendations filed by the National Housing Law Project, which suggests that the rule could be strengthened by highlighting, in the Preamble, additional examples of potentially harassing, unwelcome conduct that could give rise to FHA liability.
You can read our comments here, including our suggests for strengthening the preamble.
URGENT! ACT NOW to tell Congress to pass "clean" appropriations bills and prevent a government shutdown!
Tea Party forces continue to push hard for destructive policy "riders" to ban Syrian refugees; defund Planned Parenthood and Obamacare; repeal environmental and labor protections; gut campaign finance laws and weaken financial reform.
Housing "riders" have also been proposed to repeal Fair Housing protections and to abruptly terminate Section 8 contracts in "substandard" housing–potentially throwing thousands out of their homes.
THANK YOU if you are one of the thousands who have sent YOUR message to Congress! If you have, there's time to send another one NOW!
If you haven't done so yet, click here http://p2a.co/naht to send an email to your Members of Congress, urging "clean" appropriations bills. Then forward your message to your Facebook page and friends.
ACT NOW to tell Congress to pass "clean" appropriations bills and prevent a government shutdown!
NAHT Board Holding an Emergency Meeting with HUD over Museum Square
The NAHT Board will be meeting on Friday, October 2, 2015 with senior HUD officials including Milan Ozdinec, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Housing and Voucher Programs. Ozdinec is the point person at HUD for the Museum Square crisis.
During the meeting, NAHT will push for the the recognition of enhanced vouchers, the Right to Organize and the Right to Remain.
Washington, DC's Channel 9 report on the Museum Square Rally. Click the link below.


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BSB: Carolina drops opener to Charleston, 7-4
Posted February 15, 2014
No. 12 North Carolina dropped its 2014 season opener to the College of Charleston, 7-4, Saturday afternoon at Patriots Point. Tom Zengel's two-run double helped the Tar Heels build an early 4-0 lead, but the Cougars rallied for five runs in the sixth and added two in the seventh to spring the upset.
Junior Benton Moss started on the mound for the Tar Heels (0-1) and sailed through his first four innings, retiring all 12 batters he faced. After stranding four runners in the first three innings, Carolina broke through with four in the fourth.
Parks Jordan led off the frame with a walk before Wood Myers singled off CofC starter Nathan Helvey two batters later. Zengel then roped a double off the wall in right center to plate Jordan and Myers to give Carolina a 2-0 lead. Adrian Chacon then made it 3-0 when his hard-hit grounder got past Carl Wise at third for a run-scoring double. After Tyler Ramirez singled home Chacon to make it 4-0, the Tar Heels were off and running.
Moss ran into trouble in the fifth, but escaped unscathed thanks to an outstanding diving stop by Myers at second. With runners on first and second with one out, Nick Pappas ripped a grounder up the middle that Myers speared and flipped to Michael Russell covering for the second out of the frame. Moss then got Alex Pastorius to ground into a fielder's choice to end the threat.
He was not as fortunate in the sixth, however, as Carolina gave Charleston (1-0) two extra outs and the Cougars took advantage. Blake Butler and Gunnar Heidt opened the inning with consecutive singles before Brandon Murray grounded to Joe Dudek at first. Dudek was unable to corral the bouncing ball and all three runners were safe.
Wise was up next, and he lifted a fly ball to right that looked like a sure out. But with a stiff wind blowing toward right, Ramirez was unable to make the play and the ball fell just inside the foul line for an RBI single. After a Ben Boykin sacrifice fly made it 4-2, Moss was lifted in favor of sophomore right-hander Reilly Hovis.
Hovis quickly got ahead 0-2 on Charleston's Brandon Glazer, but the redshirt junior lifted a 1-2 pitch toward right that carried over the wall just inside the foul pole to put the hosts in front, 5-4.
CofC added two more in the seventh and Carolina was unable to solve Charleston freshman righty Bailey Ober until the ninth. The 6-8 freshman retired the first 13 batters he faced before allowing back-to-back singles to Myers and Zengel with one out in the ninth. But defensive replacement Morgan Phillips made a diving catch of a Zach Daly liner to center and Ober got Ramirez swinging to end it.
Six true freshmen made their Carolina debuts Saturday as starters Chacon, Dudek, Myers and Ramirez were joined by relief pitchers Zach Rice and Spencer Trayner. Freshmen accounted for six of UNC's nine hits, while Rice and Trayner retired the three total batters they faced.
The Tar Heels are playing in South Carolina this weekend due to the extreme winter weather that hit Chapel Hill Wednesday and Thursday and left Boshamer Stadium unplayable.
Game two of the three-game series is set for Sunday afternoon at 2. Carolina's Trent Thornton will face Charleston junior Taylor Clarke.


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Jack's Gym in Joliet, Illinois was a dream of Jack Phelan's. He loved the sport of boxing and opened a working gym above his furniture store where he trained the likes of Bucky Moreno, Carrie Marche and "Jumbo" Floyd Cummings.
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There is one central question underlying every debate about homosexuality going on in our country today: Is being gay a choice or is it innate? Is there a gay gene? Was I born a lesbian? These are things I think about all the time, but have shielded away from addressing. Why? Because my take on it is not the norm. Most people who fight for gay rights cling to the it's-not-a-choice argument. For them, people are gay from day numero uno, regardless of whether they embrace it at age 7 or 70. If you argue with someone who believes this, they'll say, "Why would anyone choose to be gay?" It's a compelling argument because gays and lesbians do not have equal rights and are looked at as second class citizens in many areas of the world, including, at times, right here in the United States.
But, somehow, I'm not convinced. I've kept my mouth shut for a long time because the moment you start suggesting that environment, upbringing and experience play a role in one's sexuality, ignorant people start arguing against things like gay couples' adoption, as if "abnormal" sexual preference could spread like a disease. But that said, I do actually believe that external factors play a huge role in sexuality for some people. I am one of those people.
I have talked to and dated women who never had sex with a man, and have never wanted to. I'm pretty sure they were gay from the get-go. But my story is different. Despite questioning my sexuality from the age of 14, I dated men in high school and throughout my first year of college. Eventually, sex with men became unbearable. But why? Was it in response to the bad relationship I stayed in for years? Was it because I was having sex with men I wasn't interested in? Or, did it have something to do with my undying fear of being "just like everyone else"?
There is no right answer to this question and when I first came out, thinking about it kept me up at night. However, I've come to the conclusion that I would have tried to overcome my blossoming dislike of heterosexual sex if I didn't enjoy being different so much. Would I have been successful? I don't know. The point is, my upbringing, personality and experience led me to embrace homosexuality.
For me, coming out as a lesbian was my own little way of rebelling. I am progressive to the point where no politician in Washington is ever going to satisfy me. I have a fear of mediocrity, of living a "normal" life and of settling down. I was raised in a family of hippies and atheists in a town where I couldn't relate to most people. I think women should do everything men do and refuse to believe that we are weaker, even physically. In short, I hate "the system" and being a lesbian was just another way to go against it. A friend of mine said it best when he wrote: "non-hetero sex is sometimes used as an act of political agency or defiance. It's a yet another way of expressing liberty, free will and sexuality." I know it sounds juvenile, but I'm not above admitting that I, like everyone, have juvenile tendencies.
Before you think I'm a complete poser, let me tell you: I absolutely love women. And that's the only thing that should matter. How I arrived at this conclusion is and should be irrelevant. I am not naive enough to think that choices like this are simply made because of a gene. I think environment plays a role and I've done a lot of thinking as to what environmental factors, for me, affected my sexuality.
Unfortunately, I think the it's-not-a-choice argument is necessary because it helps convince those who think gay parents are going to spawn broods of little gays and lesbians that we are, in fact, harmless. However, I also worry that, in the end, this argument could do more harm than good because saying that it's not a choice implies that heterosexuality is better than homosexuality. "It's not a choice" could easily be turned into "it's not my fault!" Or "Forgive me, I was born this way," as if gays and lesbians suffer from some strange mutation or disorder.
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Just the mention of Bafana Bafana inspires a roar of laughter that wouldn't be out of place at a stand-up comedy show these days.
And that, in essence, is what the national football team has become. A joke.
The excuses, the epic failures, the steady stream of overpaid farts that come in with Lazarus-like promises, and leave with bulging pockets have all contributed to the decline of Bafana on our list of priorities.
During this week's media welcome function ahead of the Springbok and England rugby series, a sponsor's representative, who may have been suckling at the free amber nectar for a little too long, expressed his deep sense of pride at being associated with the country's three big sporting codes.
He started with the Boks, and how much anticipation there was for the series that started yesterday. Then he spoke of the Proteas, who will also lock horns against the queen's best – and some local rejects – for the title of world's best Test team in a month or so.
He then tried to name the third source of national pride on the sporting arenas of the world. Sadly, he only managed one "Bafana" out before the room erupted.
No one likes a loser. But worse, everyone laughs at the loser who thinks they are infinitely better than they really are. For too long, Safa and their hangers-on have told anyone who cares that we are one of the top football nations in Africa.
The truth, though, is that we have become the England of Africa. Full of self-pride, yet desperately short of much substance on the field.
Heck, even the best of Britain have swallowed their pride and realised that with the likes of Stewart Downing and Andy Carroll in their ranks, a quarter-final spot in Euro 2012 would be a decent achievement.
South Africa's place in Africa was put in perspective by the drab draw with Ethiopia. Yes, that giant of African football. Can you name one Ethiopian player? Just one.
How about their coach, or their greatest ever footballer, maybe?
Precisely. No-hopers of the football landscape, absolute minnows of the sport, fancy their chances against our lot.
Forget the bumbling Pitso Mosimane, whose greatest claim to fame will be landing the biggest settlement in our footballing history, our football is in crisis.
We need a man who can restore pride in the national jersey. Not the fickle pride associated with the 2010 World Cup. No, that disappeared as quickly as our team did from that tournament.
What we need is the sort of pride that sees die-hards still sporting the original Bafana shirt, from the hallowed days of Sizwe Motaung and Lucas Radebe on either flank.
I ran into one a few weeks ago, worn by an old bullet at a shopping centre. When I asked the old man why on earth he was wearing those colours, he said it reminded him of a better time, when Safa was run by heroes like Sticks Morewa, and coaches knew how to get the best out of their players while earning peanuts compared to the fortunes of today.
Even when Bafana were getting hammered 4-0 by Zimbabwe and Nigeria, there was hope that the lessons being learnt would come in handy down the line.
Fast forward 20 years, and where has our game gone?
Mosimane was in good company at Safa House. Surrounded by head-in-the-sand types who insist that we are headed in the right direction.
Whoever comes in to replace Mosimane has a heck of a job on his hands. Nevermind winning. Forget trying to remind strikers where the net is. The biggest job the next coach has is to convince the public to start caring about Bafana again.
The crowds, who used to clamour for a mere glimpse of their heroes, are more interested in Idols, Generations and just about anything else that will take away the pain of caring for a team that has perfected the art of failure.
It's not even a joke anymore. But if we didn't laugh about it, how many tears would have been shed for Bafana over the past few years? – Sunday Tribune


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I'm stupefied by this group. No question, these are all women who had something to SAY!
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I'm baffled by how this ever came to be. Oh bondage, up yours!
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There are a lot of things Athena dislikes about Ares. She has a list of them, long and detailed and peppered with notes of her personal grievances with the only person who can make her lose her usual prudence. At the very top of this list is his utter lack of respect for rules. She's confronted him many a time, listing reasons and citing examples, but she may as well have been lecturing a sack of rocks so stubborn was he.
The only rule that she's ever seen him follow, obey almost obsessively, is the unspoken one that Hera teaches to all her children, love Hephaestus.
And still Ares manages to make a foul.
She runs into him in the halls. Athena's searching for Hephaestus and Ares is slinking out of Aphrodite's room.
She knows what has happened even before she smells his sister-in-law's perfume on him like a shroud of miasma. They look at each other for a long time, his face is haggard and weary and for once she has nothing to say. He lifts his hand, looks as if he's reaching for her. She decides then to have Hermes deliver her message and leaves Ares alone in the hallway.
She finds herself studying Ares as intently as a lost traveler studies a map.
She observes his wavering confidence when Hephaestus responds to him with one word answers and silent nods. She sees him steel himself against the criticism, sees him let his sisters pick him apart for what he's done, sees him break under Hephaestus' acceptance.
Athena wonders if she's the only one who sees Ares bleed when his brother distances himself from him.
"I thought she was you."
He's drunk, slumped over her door, and Athena thinks if he were wounded at this very moment he would bleed alcohol.
"Oh Ares."
She helps him over to the bed and lays his head on her lap. Ares grips her hand tightly; his eyes are glassy but focused only on her.
"I thought she was you."
Athena strokes his hair until he falls asleep.
"I don't hate him," Hephaestus tells her when she finally finds a chance to speak to him. "I could never hate him."
"Perhaps you should tell him that."
She's just leaving the throne room when Hermes barrels in.
"Ares has been wounded!"
Athena's never run so fast in her life.
"I'm sorry," Ares croaks into his brother's shoulder. "I'm so sorry."
"I forgive you." Hephaestus says, adjusting the splint on Ares' injured leg.
"You don't have to spare my feelings…"
"I'm not. I choose to forgive you Ares, I will always choose you." Hephaestus nudges Ares' forehead. "You're my favorite brother you know."
Athena listens behind the door, and smiles.
They resume their usual bickering when Ares' leg heals. His arrogance makes her want to pull her hair out and her life lessons drive him insane. They argue all the way from the throne room to her chambers, about mortals and philosophy and Dionysus' newest fling.
He holds open all the doors for her.
She kisses his cheek before saying goodnight.