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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Economic policies in isolation won't lead to growth in Europe
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Public release date: 25-Jun-2012[ | E-mail |
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p.franklin@soton.ac.uk
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University of Southampton
A study led by Dr Bryony Hoskins at the University of Southampton for the European Commission (EC) has warned of the dangers of concentrating solely on economic policies to create growth in European countries.
The report Participatory Citizenship in the European Union funded by a 274,996 grant from the EC examines how and to what extent, people in Europe actively take part in society, communities and politics, and identifies any barriers to this.
Lead researcher from Southampton, Dr Bryony Hoskins says, "In the current harsh economic climate across Europe there has been a loss of trust in political leaders and a move towards more extremist parties. It is important for people, especially the young and unemployed, to have their voices heard in the political decision making to mitigate this.
"The study maps the state of play on levels of citizen engagement, and identifies policies and practices to facilitate this across Europe to help find effective strategies to encourage people to get involved."
The research, carried out in collaboration with eight partner institutions in seven European countries1 was based on the analysis of data on current policies and practices from each of the 27 member states in the European Union (EU), interviews with key experts, and data from existing European and international studies.*
Results have shown that in relation to the economic crisis and creating growth participatory citizenship, economic competitiveness and social cohesion are interrelated and reinforce each other. The report recommends that strategies are needed to encourage people to get more involved in communities, politics and decision making, at both national level in EU countries, and more locally within individual countries.
The report makes these key recommendations:
- To place an emphasis on learning citizenship, both in schools and outside of school. The study shows people who vote and take an interest in politics and decision-making are usually engaged in diverse forms of learning at different levels.
- To target disadvantaged groups most at risk of unemployment and exclusion and achieve this through engagement in schools; vocational education or training; and youth work.
- The EC should provide long-term strategic and sustainable funding for projects; non-governmental organisations; and programmes encouraging participatory citizenship (to counter those being cut due to the financial crisis).
- Encourage collaboration and partnerships between different types of organisations, such as schools, local authorities, youth groups, charities and businesses.
- Explore the use of new social media to enable wider participation in decision-making by providing more interactive forums for the exchange of information between citizens and politicians.
Barriers and key challenges to participatory citizenship were identified as:
- A lack of trust in politicians.
- The challenge of creating a dialogue between politicians and the public.
- A decline in participatory citizenship generally as a policy priority.
- The need to meet the challenges of the globalised economy; climate change; an ageing population; and an enlarged EU.
The findings of the study will be used to help shape European policy and funding programmes, in particular the:
The full report, Participatory Citizenship in the European Union, can be found on the European Union website at http://ec.europa.eu/citizenship/news-events/news/29052012_en.htm
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*this includes the recent International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) and the European Social Survey (ESS).
Notes for editors:
1. This study was commissioned by the European Commission, Europe for Citizens Programme. It was led by the Institute of Education, University of London, with Dr Bryony Hoskins as Project leader, now of the Southampton Education School, University of Southampton. The project was co-led by David Kerr, now of the Citizenship Foundation, London and formally of National Foundation for Educational Research.
The consortium partners:
Denmark: Hans Dorf, Aarhus University, Department of Education
France: Jean Gordon, Antoine Bevort, Alain Michel, European Institute for Education and Social Policy (EIESP)
Germany: Hermann J. Abs, Tilmann Kammler, Institute for School Pedagogy and Citizenship Education, University of Giessen
Italy: Bruno Losito, Paola Mirti, Roma Tre University
Slovenia: Janez Krek, Mateja Perak, Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana
Netherlands: Wiel Veugelers, University of Humanistics Studies, Utrecht
UK: Germ J. Janmaat, Christine Han, Andy Green, Yvette Ankrah, Institute of Education, University of London. Juliet Sizmur, Jo Morrison, National Foundation for Educational Research, Slough. Rebecca Ridley, Southampton Education School, University of Southampton
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Public release date: 25-Jun-2012[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Peter Franklin
p.franklin@soton.ac.uk
44-238-059-5457
University of Southampton
A study led by Dr Bryony Hoskins at the University of Southampton for the European Commission (EC) has warned of the dangers of concentrating solely on economic policies to create growth in European countries.
The report Participatory Citizenship in the European Union funded by a 274,996 grant from the EC examines how and to what extent, people in Europe actively take part in society, communities and politics, and identifies any barriers to this.
Lead researcher from Southampton, Dr Bryony Hoskins says, "In the current harsh economic climate across Europe there has been a loss of trust in political leaders and a move towards more extremist parties. It is important for people, especially the young and unemployed, to have their voices heard in the political decision making to mitigate this.
"The study maps the state of play on levels of citizen engagement, and identifies policies and practices to facilitate this across Europe to help find effective strategies to encourage people to get involved."
The research, carried out in collaboration with eight partner institutions in seven European countries1 was based on the analysis of data on current policies and practices from each of the 27 member states in the European Union (EU), interviews with key experts, and data from existing European and international studies.*
Results have shown that in relation to the economic crisis and creating growth participatory citizenship, economic competitiveness and social cohesion are interrelated and reinforce each other. The report recommends that strategies are needed to encourage people to get more involved in communities, politics and decision making, at both national level in EU countries, and more locally within individual countries.
The report makes these key recommendations:
- To place an emphasis on learning citizenship, both in schools and outside of school. The study shows people who vote and take an interest in politics and decision-making are usually engaged in diverse forms of learning at different levels.
- To target disadvantaged groups most at risk of unemployment and exclusion and achieve this through engagement in schools; vocational education or training; and youth work.
- The EC should provide long-term strategic and sustainable funding for projects; non-governmental organisations; and programmes encouraging participatory citizenship (to counter those being cut due to the financial crisis).
- Encourage collaboration and partnerships between different types of organisations, such as schools, local authorities, youth groups, charities and businesses.
- Explore the use of new social media to enable wider participation in decision-making by providing more interactive forums for the exchange of information between citizens and politicians.
Barriers and key challenges to participatory citizenship were identified as:
- A lack of trust in politicians.
- The challenge of creating a dialogue between politicians and the public.
- A decline in participatory citizenship generally as a policy priority.
- The need to meet the challenges of the globalised economy; climate change; an ageing population; and an enlarged EU.
The findings of the study will be used to help shape European policy and funding programmes, in particular the:
The full report, Participatory Citizenship in the European Union, can be found on the European Union website at http://ec.europa.eu/citizenship/news-events/news/29052012_en.htm
###
*this includes the recent International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) and the European Social Survey (ESS).
Notes for editors:
1. This study was commissioned by the European Commission, Europe for Citizens Programme. It was led by the Institute of Education, University of London, with Dr Bryony Hoskins as Project leader, now of the Southampton Education School, University of Southampton. The project was co-led by David Kerr, now of the Citizenship Foundation, London and formally of National Foundation for Educational Research.
The consortium partners:
Denmark: Hans Dorf, Aarhus University, Department of Education
France: Jean Gordon, Antoine Bevort, Alain Michel, European Institute for Education and Social Policy (EIESP)
Germany: Hermann J. Abs, Tilmann Kammler, Institute for School Pedagogy and Citizenship Education, University of Giessen
Italy: Bruno Losito, Paola Mirti, Roma Tre University
Slovenia: Janez Krek, Mateja Perak, Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana
Netherlands: Wiel Veugelers, University of Humanistics Studies, Utrecht
UK: Germ J. Janmaat, Christine Han, Andy Green, Yvette Ankrah, Institute of Education, University of London. Juliet Sizmur, Jo Morrison, National Foundation for Educational Research, Slough. Rebecca Ridley, Southampton Education School, University of Southampton
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Monday, June 25, 2012
9,000 flee Utah fire; crews counterattack
SALT LAKE CITY?? Flames and smoke from a wildfire that forced some 9,000 people to flee had diminished by Saturday morning, allowing crews to mount an attack, but officials warned winds and dry heat would return by afternoon.
Some 2,300 homes were evacuated after the so-called Dump fire exploded on Friday. It had started Thursday in the Kiowa Valley near a landfill for Saratoga Springs, a town of 18,000 people about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City.
The blaze initially scorched about 750 acres of cheat grass, sage and pinyon juniper, but grew to 4,000 acres by Friday evening, stoked by gale-force winds and rising air temperatures, Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Teresa Rigby said.
No homes were in imminent danger in Utah, but fire authorities said they were unable to predict when ground crews might be able to begin encircling the blaze.
"It's going to take a significant effort to get it contained," Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said after meeting with fire officials.
Herbert, who said that 20 of the state's 400 wildfires this season had been caused by target shooters, was asking the state's cities and counties to consider banning all fireworks and imposing ordinances to restrict the use of firearms.
"We can do better than that as Utahns," Herbert said. "Now is not a good time to take your gun outside and start shooting in cheat grass that's tinder dry."
The governor said the state would seek aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help cover costs of the fire. Nearly 200 firefighters were working the blaze, with air support from an air tanker and a helicopter, and more help was expected.
Sheriff's deputies with bullhorns rolled through Saratoga Springs neighborhoods ordering the first evacuations at about 10 a.m., after flames had burned to within half a mile of homes.
By midday, evacuations were expanded to include a portion of nearby Eagle Mountain, just east of Saratoga Springs.
Homeowner and commercial photographer Renee Keith said she and her husband decided the fire had burned "too close for comfort" and began packing before authorities ordered them out. Keith said she packed her children's baby books, the computer hard drives, a bag of clothes and camera equipment.
"I was kind of nervous, especially when we were packing the car," Keith told Reuters. "Ash was falling on us as we were pulling away."
The Keiths said their top concern was a plant that makes explosives for the construction and mining industries. The fire was reportedly burning within a mile of the factory, but authorities said the flames appeared to have burned around it.
The blaze was one of 15 large, uncontained wildfires being fought across the country on Friday, most in six Western states - Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona, the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, reported.
Although federal authorities say the fire season got off to an early start this summer in parts of the Northern Rockies, the acreage burned nationwide is about on par with the 10-year average for this time of year, according to fire agency records.
The biggest by far is the Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire in New Mexico, that state's largest on record, which has charred almost 300,000 acres. That blaze is nearly 90 percent contained.
In Colorado, fire managers early on Friday reported progress against a 68,000-acre fire burning west of Fort Collins, near the Wyoming border, after two days of cooler temperatures, calmer winds and higher humidity.
But fire officials lost precious ground later when gusty winds and high temperatures propelled a renewed expansion of the lightning-caused blaze, Colorado's most destructive on record.
The latest confirmed tally of property losses stood at 191 homes, which was sure to climb in the latest flare-up. The fire has been blamed for one death, a 62-year-old grandmother whose remains were found last week in a cabin where she lived alone.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
ISRAEL - PALESTINE: Fresh violence threatens Gaza truce efforts
AFP -?Three Palestinians were killed and an Israeli wounded in air raids and rocket fire Saturday, medics said, as the armed wing of Hamas threatened to call off an Egypt-brokered truce.
"The air raids by the Zionist enemy are new crimes. We will not stay silent in the face of the crimes," said Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades of the Islamist movement Hamas which rules the Gaza Strip.
A fresh Israeli air raid shortly after its announcement killed a Palestinian and wounded 10 people in a Gaza City residential district, Palestinian medics said.
Adham Abu Selmiya, spokesman for the Hamas-run emergency services, named the dead man as Ussama Ali, 42, who had been on his way to a wedding when he was killed by a missile apparently aimed at a passing motorcyclist.
The rider was injured and taken to the city's Shifa hospital. The other casualties were either passers-by or residents of nearby apartments, Abu Selmiya said.
The Israeli military said its air force carried out an attack in the northern part of the strip, where Gaza City is located, but did not give the precise location.
The air force "targeted a terrorist squad ... during final preparations to fire a rocket at Israel," it said in a statement. "A hit was confirmed."
Palestinian officials said the attack raised to three the number of people killed in seven Israeli strikes on Saturday and the number since Monday's outbreak of the latest round of violence to 15, with dozens wounded.
At least 150 rockets and mortar shells have since hit Israel, wounding five people, among them four border police officers.
Earlier in the day, Palestinian medics said, an Israeli drone killed a Palestinian man, Khaled al-Burai, 25, east of Jabaliya, in northern Gaza.
And a medic said Ali al-Shawaf, aged six, was killed and his father and another man wounded in a strike east of Khan Yunis, but the Israeli military denied it was responsible.
"The explosion that caused the death of the Palestinian child today was because of ordnance belonging to one of the terror groups," Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibovich, the army's foreign press spokeswoman, said on Twitter.
Witnesses said Israeli aircraft carried out at least four other strikes elsewhere in Gaza on Saturday.
One targeted militants travelling in a car in the Zeitoun neighbourhood east of Gaza City after they had fired rockets into Israel, witnesses said.
Raids also struck the Beit Lahiya area in the north and the Nusseirat and Al-Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza, without causing casualties, they said.
Raids on Friday night targeted two camps of the Brigades in the centre and north of the territory, and a former Hamas security post in Gaza City. They wounded about 20 people, the health ministry said.
Palestinian militants struck back, firing at least 39 rockets into southern Israel, most of them hitting the town of Sderot, Israeli officials told AFP, adding that one man was wounded in the town when shrapnel sprayed a building.
The Israeli army said the latest raids were in response to rocket fire earlier in the week, for which it held Hamas responsible.
In its statement, the Qassam Brigades said "nobody will be able to blame our fighters when we respond.
"If our response was not sufficient to get the message through to the enemy, we stand ready to destroy his arrogance, stop his crimes and respond to his aggression," it warned in a statement on Saturday.
An army spokeswoman said that five of 39 rockets fired at Israel on Saturday were intercepted by its Iron Dome air defence system, while 16 fell into the sea or landed inside the Gaza Strip.
The violence came despite an Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas announced late on Wednesday by the Brigades after a wave of deadly exchanges in and around the territory.
The latest round of Israeli attacks and Palestinian retaliation began with air strikes Monday morning, just hours after gunmen from Sinai carried out an ambush along Israel's southern border with Egypt, killing an Israeli civilian.
Israel has said its sudden spike in Gaza operations was "in no way related" to the Sinai border incident, with the military saying the air force was targeting militants poised to attack the Jewish state.
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Self Improvement & Memory Training: Tips for Helping to Reinvent ...
For me, 2012 began at 5am on December 31st as my best friend phoned me from Australia to wish me a Happy New Year. Later in the day, the celebration continued as I participated in a video chat with relatives in London. When the ball dropped in Time Square, NYC at midnight, I could officially welcome 2012 into my world.
The New Year brought with it an awesome feeling of renewal and an opportunity to start all over again. It afforded me the privilege and responsibility of becoming a better me. Adopting that attitude is healthy because it forces us to leave some hiccups that may have stifled us in the old year. Hiccups come in the form of negativity, insecurity and even over indulgence ushered in by unsupportive people and bad habits. As you cross over the threshold of this first week of 2012, it is the perfect time to do some paring down.
Delete past and potential sources of hiccups:
Delete some phone numbers and email addresses. Yes!
Delete some associations and memberships.
Delete some of the places that you frequent and know are not healthy.
Delete some of the habits that hinder your growth
As you delete, replace those hiccups with a glass of water. Water will purify the new cavity and prepare you for the NEW YOU PROJECT.
Invite individuals who are positive and supportive into your world.
Invite new habits including meditation, exercise, and rest into your life. They strengthen our minds and bodies to face the world each day.
Visit places that encourage you, inspire you, and motivate you to be your best self.
Combine the new acquaintances and habits with the new venues and begin a NEW YOU. Do not feel the need to explain yourself to anyone. Do not feel the desire to restrain your authentic self because of people's hang-ups. Find new ways to move in the world because new opportunities will be presented to you. You will receive feedback from your new environment that will help you grow.
The New You Project is not about changing your hair color, nails or style of dressing. It's about cleansing the negative, purifying yourself and being ready to receive the great rewards of investing in you!
I have decided to consider 2012 the year of bounty. I am walking with an attitude of abundance and gratitude. I invite you to do the same.
I am Karen St. Hilaire, a certified life coach, motivational speaker, adjunct lecturer, workshop presenter. My niche is to help you identify the unique genetic code that speaks to your passion in life. You can find out more about my services at http://www.kadencellc.com. Follow me on on Twitter
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Business Services Supervisor Job - University of Utah Health Care (Salt Lake City, UT)
Business Services Supervisor
Requisition Number: 6052
Reg/Temp: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Shift: Day
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday Location Name: Business Services Building
City: SALT LAKE CITY
State: UT
Department: UUH ISC 10R PAT BILL & FIN SVC
Overview:
As a patient-focused organization, the University of Utah Health Care exists to enhance the health and well-being of people through patient care, research and education. Success in this mission requires a culture of collaboration, excellence, leadership, and respect. University of Utah Health Care seeks staff that are committed to the values of compassion, collaboration, innovation, responsibility, diversity, integrity, quality and trust that are integral to our mission.
This position is responsible for achieving financial performance targets and direct supervision of staff. The incumbent develops and sustains high performance work teams and practices that consistently achieve service standards, customer satisfaction, and clinician satisfaction. Accountable for creating a culture of compliance, ethics and integrity.
This position is not responsible for providing care to patients.
Responsibilities:
- Oversees the delivery of patient care and/or customer service, ensuring the timely resolution of concerns.
- Supervises all functions of the department as it relates to staff, operations and finance and accounting.
- Assist with the planning, implementation, measurement and attainment of the department goal and objectives.
- Jointly forecasts staffing, capital and budgetary needs.
- Analyzes and determines appropriate staffing to support business services while ensuring efficiency and maximizing resources.
- Oversees human resource activities such as interviewing and hiring, training, verifying payroll and managing employee performance.
- Purchases and maintains office/medical supplies.
- Maintains productive and collaborative working relationship with other coordinators, supervisors, managers and directors.
- Orients and train staff in policies and procedures.
- Prepares financial, accounting and customer reports.
- Ensures compliance with all company policies and procedures.
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
- Ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined above.
- Demonstrated human relation and effective communication skills.
- Computer literacy in multiple applications.
- Ability to use good judgment and critical thinking skills to prioritize multiple tasks.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
- Willingness and the ability to work independently and within a team environment.
- Ability to provide care appropriate to the population served.
- The individual must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of life span growth and development and the ability to assess data regarding the patient's status and provide care as described in the department's policies and procedures manual.
Qualifications:
Required
- Associates or Bachelor?s degree in Business management or a related field or equivalency.
- Three years of progressively responsible supervisory experience or equivalency.
Qualifications (Preferred):
Preferred
- Bachelor?s degree in a Business, Health or Finance area.
- One year of supervisory experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Hospital-based billing
- Ability to interpret contract language in ensuring expected reimbursement and denials resolution
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