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covid-safer-hotties · 2 months ago

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by Betsy Ladyzhets

She is part of an administration that many advocates believe turned its back on COVID-19. Still, some see more hope in a potential Harris presidency.

In early August, the newly minted Kamala Harris campaign posted a job opportunity: disability engagement director. The director would meet with disability communities across the United States, build relationships with disability advocates, and help people participate in campaign events.

Some Long COVID advocates expressed excitement for the role on social media, and hoped that it would be filled by someone familiar with their disease. For these advocates, the disability engagement director is part of a broader opportunity presented by Harris’ move to the top of the ticket: to make their case for national recognition. For others disillusioned by the Biden administration’s response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, however, the campaign has a higher bar to clear before they will support Harris.

Advocates say that people with Long COVID, a potentially debilitating chronic disease that can impact all parts of the body, represent a growing voting bloc in this year’s presidential election. Leaders from Long COVID advocacy groups and the broader disability community are considering how to make their case to Harris’ staff, with a particular interest in Anastasia Somoza — a disability advocate who was hired for the engagement director role — and Tim Walz, Harris’ running mate who has championed Long COVID research as governor of Minnesota.

“VP Harris is part of an administration that has turned its back on public health,” said Karyn Bishof, founder and president of the COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project, in an email. However, Bishof added, Harris’ “track record suggests that she could prioritize the well-being of those most affected [by Long COVID], particularly women and marginalized communities, and perhaps push for more honest and accessible education and care.” Bishof pointed to Harris’ experience supporting health care and women’s rights and her selection of Walz as reasons for optimism about Long COVID organizing under a potential Harris administration.

One recent review paper found over 400 million people have developed Long COVID worldwide, costing an estimated $1 trillion to the global economy. About 18% of U.S. adults have experienced the disease, with higher rates among women and LGBTQ+ people, and 1 in 4 people currently living with it experience “significant activity limitations,” according to surveys from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Many can no longer work, attend school, or engage with their communities. And the numbers grow with every new COVID-19 wave.

Some people with Long COVID have shared these experiences with politicians and in the media as they organize for scientific research, health care, and social support. At a Senate committee hearing in January, Long COVID advocates packed the chamber and encouraged senators to attend with phone campaigns. The hearing contributed to new legislation introduced this summer that would provide over $10 billion in funding for research and health care.

Scott Hugo, a housing justice attorney with Long COVID, wrote an open letter to the Harris campaign asking it to recognize this growing population. In an interview, he explained the connection he sees between the campaign’s message of supporting vulnerable members of society and the struggles people with Long COVID face to find medical care, access government services, and educate their loved ones about the disease. By publicly discussing Long COVID, Harris could inspire people in this community to vote and organize when they were previously apathetic about the election, he suggested.

“None of us are disposable, and I think that’s what the Democratic Party understands,” Hugo said. His message to the Harris campaign: “You want us in your coalition, and you need us in that coalition to win.”

Somoza and the campaign’s press team did not provide comments for this story.

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sa7abnews · 4 months ago

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Conservative watchdog notches win in court as CDC ordered to stop deleting emails

New Post has been published on https://sa7ab.info/2024/08/13/conservative-watchdog-notches-win-in-court-as-cdc-ordered-to-stop-deleting-emails/

Conservative watchdog notches win in court as CDC ordered to stop deleting emails

A conservative government watchdog group secured a legal victory against the Biden-Harris administration by compelling the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop deleting employee emails they say had been done in violation of the Federal Records Act.America First Legal, the right-leaning, Washington, D.C. based public interest organization founded by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, sought records concerning the CDC’s endorsement of the controversial gender ideology within public schools in February 2023. In response, the CDC told AFL that it systematically deletes the emails of most employees 30 days after they depart from the agency.As of Friday, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is now required under a preliminary injunction granted to AFL to enlist the help of Attorney General Merrick Garland and inform Congress to recover the deleted emails and halt the destruction of records. COVID VACCINE COMPANIES TOLD TO FOCUS ON KP.2 VARIANT FOR FALL SHOTS, PER FDA ANNOUNCEMENT”Notably, while the Biden-Harris administration has been slapped down for illegally violating the law, CDC employees’ homes were not searched and raided without notice or consent, nor have their families had to endure the trauma and onslaught of legal fees or indictments,” AFL said in a news release. “Yet, the Biden-Harris Administration did exactly that to President Trump. We cannot have a country where government bureaucrats are allowed to circumvent the law without repercussion, and innocent civilians are subjected to invasive and unlawful political persecution for saying the “wrong” thing. The two-tiered justice system in the United States has never been more prevalent,” the group said. In April, AFL filed the initial lawsuit against the Biden-Harris Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and NARA.”The Biden-Harris Administration was actively destroying the records of federal employees at the CDC in blatant violation of the law–and we are pleased that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ordered a stop to their illegal conduct,” AFL executive director Gene Hamilton said in a statement. AFL subsequently reached out to NARA urging an investigation into the CDC’s policy of deleting employee emails. KAMALA HARRIS FINALLY FIELDS QUESTIONS FROM PRESS AFTER DODGING MEDIA FOR 18 DAYS SINCE BECOMING DEM NOMINEE”NARA investigated the allegations but determined that because the ‘CDC instructs individual email account holders to apply retention based on the email’s content value and its applicability to a NARA-approved records schedule,’ NARA considered the matter closed. In short, NARA entrusted individual CDC employees to decide which emails can be automatically deleted,” AFL said in a news release.xThis isn’t the first time the CDC has been in hot water over its influence in the public. Last year, the CDC reportedly had “significant input on pandemic-era social media policies” at Facebook and Instagram and worked to “silence dissent” related to the COVID vaccine. JD VANCE ROASTS HARRIS ON WISCONSIN TARMAC FOR AVOIDING PRESS, CALLS AIR FORCE 2 HIS ‘FUTURE PLANE’Meanwhile, Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, denied attempting to suppress the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic began as a result of a lab leak in Wuhan, China, during the heated House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing this summer.Fox News Digital has reached out to the CDC, HHS and NARA for comment. Fox News Digital’s Brian Flood and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.

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ausetkmt · 2 years ago

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A psychiatric nurse practitioner repeatedly disrupts school board meetings because she believes mask mandates are facilitating child sex trafficking. A formerly stable husband and father stumbles down the QAnon rabbit hole, claims to experience mysterious visions, and ultimately grows so obsessed that his wife sees no choice but to leave him. A disabled veteran becomes convinced that Americans are being systematically “replaced” by immigrants and announces that he’s running for governor of Texas, on a secessionist platform. A restaurant owner, her business devastated by the pandemic, faces trial for her role in the January 6 insurrection. Cameras capture her in the Capitol Building, screaming “They all need to hang!”

Christopher Key in 'Shadowland'

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For a sense of how bad things can get—in a society that rarely lives up to its own melting-pot rhetoric—look no further than Ken Burns’ latest PBS docuseries, The U.S. and the Holocaust. University of Maryland history professor Jeffrey Herf spells it out in Shadowland: “The most important and famous conspiracy theory of the 20th century was the Nazis’ argument that the Jews started World War II.” As Germany descended into poverty and factionalism after the First World War, Herf says, “it explained things. And the explanation went along with a face.” Hitler didn’t have to work hard to sell new versions of conspiracy theories that dated back millennia and would, tragically, survive the fall of his genocidal regime. Shadowland subjects’ bizarre fixations on Illuminati and lizard people have roots in antisemitic lore that predates the Nazis.

Some of those delusions even originated on American soil. Burns’ typically textbook-like but genuinely illuminating series revisits the familiar story of how the Third Reich’s exploitation of its own Big Lie led to the Holocaust. But its unique contribution is to trace the conspiracy theory’s connection to and power over the United States, where Henry Ford had published screeds against the international Jewish community that helped inspire Mein Kampf and a President as progressive as FDR, fearing a public backlash, repeatedly failed to offer asylum to European Jews fleeing Hitler.

Party meeting or rally. Sign in the back reads: "Kauft nicht bei Juden"- Don't buy from Jews.

Heinrich Hoffmann—courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration

Watching Shadowland alongside Burns’ series, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the U.S. is amassing all the necessary ingredients for a combustion of world-historical proportions. Of course, America in 2022 is not Germany in the 1930s, for reasons as varied as population size, diversity, shifting geopolitical realities, and a century of technological advancements that have altered just about every aspect of life in the developed world. Jews are only one among many groups targeted by the paranoid and hateful. Still, as Ellen Cushing of The Atlantic (whose reporting is the basis of Shadowland) puts it: “Conspiracy thinking has a body count.” In the U.S. that looks like not just Jan. 6, but also decades’ worth of mass shootings and other hate crimes targeting Jews, Muslims, immigrants, people of color, the LGBTQ community, and other minorities. These beliefs also filter up into mainstream politics and policies (see: the rise of the “QAnon candidate”) in ways that cause material harm to perceived outsiders.

Robert Chapman in 'Shadowland'

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Unfortunately, both documentaries also illustrate how limited not just facts but empathy can be as a tool in the fight against conspiracy theories. If a devoted wife or a concerned child can’t pull a loved one out of the depths of delusion, what chance does anyone else have? Meanwhile, when the government cracks down on or the mainstream media debunks or social media sites ban accounts for harmful, conspiracy-related practices like the sale of bleach solutions as a panacea, it only further convinces true believers that they’re being silenced by a New World Order that doesn’t want people to find out the dark secrets they know. Many of the people in Shadowland really do appear to inhabit a sort of informational Upside Down, where they’ve discerned the truth and it’s people who trust science, journalism, and other fact-based epistemologies who are irrational, hysterical victims of brainwashing and groupthink.

The series has no obligation to solve the problem it documents, obviously. Still, the thinness of the solutions Shadowland floats is worrying. In a series finale that tackles the all-important question of how conspiracy theories end, Herf, the UMD professor, notes that in the past they’ve been squashed by a unified, nonpartisan message from trusted authorities in all sectors of a community’s public life—politicians and clergy, right and left—that they are lies. But considering how many of the series’ characters already vociferously mistrust officials across the political spectrum, it seems likely that the U.S. has passed the point at which such an effort, which doesn’t seem to be forthcoming anyway, could work. What happens in America instead may not turn out to be as extreme as the events revisited in The U.S. and the Holocaust, but there’s no denying that it constitutes the more convincing account of how conspiracy theories end.

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all4mba · 5 years ago

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

One of the biggest challenges facing management scientists has been the struggle to produce knowledge that is both academically rigorous and applicable to practicing managers. In an Academy of Management Journal editorial,we described two problems that contribute to this challenge.

The first is what we called the “Lost in Translation” problem, which refers to the fact that almost no managers turn to academic journals (publications like the Academy of Management Annals, the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, to name a few) for advice on how to improve their skills or practices. Researchers have found that managers tend to be unaware of research-supported management insights reported in academic journals, and that such insights are typically excluded in practitioner-oriented journals. Relatedly, managers tend to hold on to long-held assumed truths that often management scholars’ studies have dispelled. For example, many managers still believe that the errors they make in evaluating their employees can be corrected by training them to recognize the potential errors and suggesting ways to avoid them, while the actual evidence shows that such training can actually increase the number of errors they make.

The second problem, which we refer to as “Lost Before Translation,” is the tendency for academic researchers to design studies without input from managers or employees — the populations that their studies’ results are meant to help.

If academics want to help practitioners improve the way they manage and have an impact in the real world, they need to address these two problems. Unfortunately, the current way that business schools reward their professors will make this very difficult. This is because promotions and salary increases at most business schools are primarily based on professors’ number of peer-reviewed, “A” journal publications (or those appearing in journals with the highest impact factor, or frequency of citation-counts). Using these publications as the main “currency” for career advancement has produced four unintended consequences.

First, counting solely or primarily “A” journal publications when determining rewards, recognitions, and other career advancement-prizes communicates, in essence, that professors won’t advance if they choose to publish in outlets that are more widely read by managers.

Second, placing greater weight on professors’ number of “A” journal publications than on other ways in which they produce scholarship weakens professors’ ability to pursue activities that epitomize “engaged scholarship,” such as research and learning opportunities that occur when applying knowledge to help communities solve social problems.

Third, evaluating professors’ scholarly contributions by counting their “A” journal publications incentivizes scholars to produce as many published studies as possible. That can sometimes encourage scholars to use relatively quick research-gathering strategies such as outsourced sample-acquisition (like Amazon’s MTurk data collection tool), convenience samples (including their own students), and student-pools for laboratory studies over more time-consuming research methodologies, such as cross-cultural ethnographic studies or other qualitative studies, longitudinal studies, decades-long studies, manually-coded customization of publicly-available archival databases, which tend to have more generalizable results. For example, if a researcher wants to understand how employees respond to particular incentives, the results of a study measuring how undergraduate students in the U.S. respond to those incentives will have limited generalizability, and may not be at all relevant in most work contexts or in other cultures. One review of methodologies concluded that, management researchers “…do what they know, what they have done, what is efficient and easier, and what is rewarded (i.e., published)” which is not always the same as what would be most illuminating, or most useful.

Fourth, evaluating “scholarship” primarily by counting professors’ “A” journal publications also could encourage academics to engage in questionably ethical research practices in order to produce results that will be accepted by these journals. For example, researchers might omit variables that are associated with typically non-publishable (i.e., non-significant) findings — a phenomenon referred to as the “file drawer problem”). Or they might present surprising findings as though these were hypothesized all along — a phenomenon called “HARKing” (hypothesizing after results are known). These practices not only weaken the understanding of the phenomena being studied but call into question the validity of the research.

It’s time that business schools take a broader approach to assessing what it means to have scholarly impact. We advocate for three main changes. First, business schools shouldn’t just measure impact from within academia but outside it as well. For example, rather than counting up the number of times a professor’s articles have been cited by other academics, we should also be looking at how often the work is cited or used by students, practicing managers, policy-makers, and in articles (e.g., news, periodicals, magazines, podcasts, etc.) that are mass-distributed to these multiple stakeholders. Doing this is called taking a “pluralistic approach to scholarly impact.”

Second, we believe academics should focus on conducting research that positively impacts business and society, or what a global multidisciplinary team of leading management scholars calls “responsible research.” Responsible research has been described as research that balances the interests of shareholders with the social and economic outcomes of companies, uses rigorous research methods to understand puzzling local phenomena, and seeks truth above all else by using ethical research methods. Metrics that capture the extent to which research achieves these goals could be additional ways to assess scholarly impact.

Third, given that any research study is part of an ecosystem, it is incumbent upon all stakeholders — scholarly researchers, business school administrators, funding agencies, government, practicing managers, and journal editors — to work together in a concerted way to encourage and reward responsible research and move beyond the limited approaches to conducting and disseminating management research that are currently used.

What would these things look like in practice? On measurement, business schools could begin to look at the following metrics: the number of invites to highly visible business events; number of practitioner publications, including popular press books; media coverage in outlets that are viewed or read by a broad (non-academic as well as academic) audience; requests for time from industry or government agencies; number of presentations to practitioner events and communities; the amount of external funding received from well-known funding agencies such as the National Science or Kauffman Foundations; and partnerships with external stakeholders, such as local and state legislatures or other policy makers. Each of these metrics is a reflection that a management scholar’s research has helped or enlightened communities beyond academia.

Business schools could also rely on new technologies to measure a professor’s impact. They might take into account the following: inclusion of work in digital libraries; number of downloads of scholarly articles; online engagement, both on social media and with fellow researchers on sites like academia.edu, and ResearchGate; mentions in Wikipedia; and discussions in news outlets, such as newspapers, blogs, and websites. Business schools could use web-based tools known as “altmetrics” to collect data on how often research is mentioned in these outlets.

Assessing academics against these kinds of metrics or indicators would result in progress against the second change we are advocating for: more relevant and useful research. In particular, we see the following advantages: (1) more engaged scholarship; (2) a broader set of consumers who use scholarly work, including managers, employees, consumers, and policy makers in addition to management scholars; (3) increased likelihood that research topics and study designs will incorporate input from those same populations; (4) increased diversity in research methodologies used, including longer-term studies; and (5) more ethical research practices.

Unfortunately, in our view, it’s not likely that business schools will redesign performance management systems to include the metrics we listed above. Scholars who have benefited from the way scholarly impact is traditionally assessed (by counting only or primarily “A” journal publications) may resist seeing scholarship assessed more pluralistically. (Indeed, both of us have benefitted from this more traditional rewards system through publishing in top-tier journals with sufficient frequency to be promoted at our respective universities to positions of “distinguished professor” and named professorships.) Moreover, even if individual scholars, their departments, or schools were to see value in this new way of assessing professors, it will be difficult for them to make changes when other institutions continue to evaluate scholars’ records using more traditional methods. An academic who had received a promotion or tenure under one system may not have that recognition reciprocated at another school. Consequently, it will take the entire academic community – or at a minimum, the set of schools and universities that typically call upon their faculty to evaluate each other – to simultaneously broaden the way scholarly impact gets assessed.

Despite this seemingly uphill battle, it’s important that schools take initiative if management science is to survive and thrive as a relevant as well as rigorous science. And, there are schools that are starting to take the lead on this. As one example, the University of Michigan’s Ross Business School now has a “Business + Impact” initiative devoted to making sure research produced actually has a tangible social impact. The host of benefits is clear: scholars will use their voice in ways that go beyond merely publishing in top-tier academic journals with very limited practitioner readership; there will be less incentive to engage in questionably ethical research practices, such as only putting their best research findings forward and hiding non-significant findings; and perhaps most importantly, it will lead to more interest in, and perceived legitimacy of, management scholars’ work.

The consequences of not taking action hit home for us recently in the classroom when, after describing some of our research findings from a study done a few years ago, one of our MBA students asked, “Why haven’t I heard this before, this would have really helped me multiple times over the last few years of my career? Where has this stuff been hiding?” We could only console the student by saying that we’re all working on getting findings like this out to the broader market. We’re just not there yet. But we should be.

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stefankarlfanblog · 3 years ago

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I’m going to translate a series of articles that Stefán Karl wrote for the news website of Kvennablaðið, unfortunately Kvennablaðið has been discontinued and the site no longer exists.

But thankfully, the articles that Stefán Karl wrote were archived on archive.org and as a way to archive them further, I’m going to translate all of them.

Something to note first, while the text is intact, a lot of the images weren’t archived properly so they’re lost, I’m also going to leave some misspellings as is in the articles just for the sake of archiving.

This is part 6 of 8:

Original article: https://web.archive.org/web/20200919031758/https://kvennabladid.is/2015/09/30/breitt-bros-candyfloss/

"A beautiful smile is like cotton candy"

Published on 30 Sept 2015 Categorized as COUNTRY & NATION Tags: BULLYING • BULLYING DISCUSSION • COMPULSORY SCHOOLS • TEACHERS • STUDENTS • SCHOOLS • SOFFÍA VAGNSDÓTTIR • EXCLUSION

The headline is ironic, as we will see later. "Irony is an insidious way of telling the truth," said Lillian Hellman. Yes, there are many ways to tell the truth when it comes to bullying. This applies regardless of whether it's the perpetrator of the bullying, the parents of the children in question and teachers, school administrators and other school staff members. But, of course, there are, and fortunately most often, individuals who just get straight to the point, but for many reasons they seem to be declining.

Recently, I saw a post and media coverage on the Facebook page of Soffía Vagnsdóttir, the educational representative of Norðurlands eystri, the former principal of Bolungarvík Primary School and was knighted The Order of the Falcon for her contribution to social affairs and culture in Bolungarvík. There, Soffía said that she had had enough of the bullying discussion; in fact, she was a little offended, referring to the negative image and tradition of discussion that was always drawn up instead of teaching children rather the good old "national values" and then she listed them: Friendship, sympathy, compassion, helpfulness, honesty, justice and human rights.

These values can all be torn apart, reduced and added, etc., because whatever Soffía or I think we don't experience the same power in the words, it is now the power of language and the understanding of it. The same goes for emotions, there is a jungle of experiences, depending on who is involved, words and sentences that can be arranged in various ways to try to explain their well-being or behavior, and the same goes for irony. It seems that society is always trying to standardize children's well-being and put it in some form or system that is easy for the principal, teacher, parent and educational representative to deal with at work. But emotions and experiences will not be recorded in an excel file, ever.

There are many ways to tell the truth, and children who follow the discussion tradition of older ones know it. Children see through things like "National values" or "A beautiful smile is like a sweet cotton candy". They are pure and simple, if they hurt themselves they say loud and clear "OWWWWWIIIEE!" But when dad hurts himself he doesn't say anything because he's showing strength, then goes into the laundry room and then kicks the dryer. We are taught so early to find the way around the truth: "Don't always say that." - "Stop yelling now" (said in a negative tone) - "Don't start now" and so on.

But why are we so preoccupied with constantly trying to come up with new ways of going about things? Why is there no educator or school principal in the world who has come up with the simple and correct way to deal with bullying? Is it maybe because everyone just walks around with a beautiful smile like cotton candy when they hear "OWWWWWIIIEE" and then put their fingers in their ears, close their eyes and employ for themselves quotes like: "Now harden up your mind" or "That wasn't that serious" or "no one will be an unbeaten bishop." and the most commonly used: "It's good for everyone to have a little bit of adversity." All of these ironic methods used to avoid having to deal with a serious issue: A person's well-being.

Soffía makes it clear that she is not speaking as an educational representative at all, but that this is her personal opinion. However, it is quite clear that she is criticizing methods and issues that are clearly part of her job. Just like an actor going to a show, she can't get to work and back home without Soffía Vagnsdóttir.

But then I ask myself the core question that seems to burn on Sofia in that post and to others: Has anything been achieved with the discussion?

For me, the answer is obvious: Looking back over the last 15 years, the answer is yes. It's not to be mistaken that bullying cases have in most places been put in some kind of channel that didn't exist before, and in most cases children now have to go to some house to deal with their issues and well-being. It's not just a change for the better, but a clear and smart innovation in the school system.

All schools must now, by order of the Minister, have so-called bullying teams that work according to a special bullying plan that schools must have. The Olweus program has reached more than 100 schools in the country, but other schools choose to use their own system. The awakening that has taken place here since the turn of the century has not gone unnoticed by anyone.

Research, books, documentaries and feature films have been published, and laws on workplace harassment have been enacted, with associated reforms for the economy. The effects show better well-being and a better atmosphere in society in many ways. I could go on and on for a long time, but this should suffice.

It is therefore not only surprising, but also heartbreaking, to read that the poor wordsmith and the education representative should claim bluntly that little or nothing has been achieved with the bullying discussion in recent years. "All these big discussions and work in schools, in the workplace, in the whole community about bullying and negative communication just seems to have yielded nothing," says Soffía. It may be that the case was difficult for her in Bolungarvík, as she received many cases there which parents were very dissatisfied with not getting a better solution than was actually witnessed. I will not say anything about the reasons for that, but it may be because Soffía didn't have the strength to face the truth, to look up to the fact that bullying is real, mental violence that thrives in Bolungarvík like elsewhere?

Is the campaign that Soffía set up in Bolungarvík: "A Beautiful Smile is Like Cotton Candy" just a way to get around reality and not have to deal with it? I won't say anything about that, but Soffía wrote on her Facebook page: "Let's turn this into a positive approach, talk about and teach and introduce national values and then use art to spice it up. I have faith that the result can be much better. "

Erindi's campaign and the collection of Á Allra Vörum went well and showed us videos and stories from Iceland, based on true stories and not some sugar-coated world that doesn't exist, where the truth is turned into some positive approach and spiced with art. It is certainly often uncomfortable to look at the truth, just as it was difficult to look at the bodies of children on the sunny beach of Turkey, which was an example of denial by the outside world. It is also difficult to look at the true face of the society we live in.

A smile can certainly change the darkness into daylight, but then you have to stop indefinitely turning away from everything that is said. That is a dangerous societal evil. If we don't talk openly about it, we will never succeed. We all have to stop putting things in a system, committees and boards that only decide that nothing can be done. Only then do we begin to believe that the feeling of exclusion and loneliness that we feel when we are bullied is just a normal "negativity" or communication problem. We stop greeting ourselves on the street while the others smile.

"If there is someone who is never talked to and never talked about, then he must disappear little by little and stop daring to believe that he really exists."

(Tove Jansson: Eyjan hans múmínpabba (Moominpappa at Sea) - Translation by Steinunn Briem)

#stefán karl #stefan karl stefansson #stefán karl stefánsson #stefan karl #2015 #rainbow children #kvennablaðið

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kommabortsig · 2 months ago

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usnatarchives · 7 years ago

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Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC), Phase II (November 2017-October 2019)

The University of Virginia Library is pleased to announce Phase II of the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Cooperative program. The University of Virginia Library is collaborating with the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, and 27 other Cooperative members. This second and final phase of establishing the Cooperative (2017-2019) is generously funded by a $750,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the University of Virginia.

Phase II expands the number of cooperative partners from 17 to 29 members, and now includes two international archives, a U.S. state archive, two documentary editing projects, an individual scholar, and several new academic research libraries. During this new phase, SNAC will welcome additional members as the cooperative builds the capacity to ingest new sets of data and train editors.

Phase II has both social and technological objectives. The social objectives include developing a business model that will ensure long term sustainability, further developing editorial policies and standards, and being able to offer three forms of training for editors: on-site and remote as well as online self-guided. There will be many technological objectives, but chief among them will be the following: developing cooperative ingest tools that will enable data contributing institution to collaborate in refining and ingesting data into SNAC, and in return to receive persistent identifiers to enhance their descriptive data; refining and enhancing the History Research Tool for researchers; completing development of the key components of the technical infrastructure; and performing computational refinement and enrichment of existing SNAC data. A major focus will be on expanding capacity in training editors and ingesting new batches of data. Progress in these two areas will enable the Cooperative to vastly expand membership and the global social-document network represented in SNAC.

The SNAC Cooperative aspires to improve the economy and quality of archival processing and description, and at the same time, to address the longstanding research challenge of discovering, locating, and using distributed historical records. SNAC began as a research and development project in 2010 with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project demonstrated the feasibility of separating the description of persons, families, and organizations – including their socio-historical contexts – from the description of the historical resources that are the primary evidence of their lives and work. SNAC also demonstrated that the biographical-historical data extracted and assembled can be used to provide researchers with convenient, integrated access to historical collections held by archives and libraries, large and small, around the world.

Initial work made it clear that the potential power of the assembled data to transform research and improve the economy and effectiveness of archival descriptive practices required more than digital tools.

SNAC governance and administration is now moving to the University of Virginia Library, which will provide it a long-term organizational home that ensures close collaborations and partnerships within the cultural heritage and research communities.

As its primary cooperative role, NARA has taken the lead in development and execution of SNAC’s formal training program called SNACSchool. NARA’s SNAC Liaisons are active members of the SNACSchool Working Group along with SNAC partners from other SNAC partner institutions including Smithsonian’s Archive of American Art; George Washington University Library; New York Public Library; and University of Miami Library. The working group formed in late 2016 with the primary mission of developing a formal training program for SNAC. The current curriculum includes modules for basic archival name authority control, searching the SNAC database, and creating and editing data in SNAC. SNACSchool is also designed to take place anywhere and anytime: most sessions are conducted remotely. And in Phase II, the working group is aiming for online tutorials for Cooperative members.

Jerry Simmons, National Archives Liaison to SNAC, welcomes attendees at the SNAC Partners Meeting in the Innovation Hub in Washington, DC

NARA staff is also responsible for SNAC’s social media presence. Currently found on twitter be sure to follow @SNACcooperative for all the latest information about SNAC and to learn helpful tips on using it.

More information is available at Snaccooperative.org

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Call for Registration: Public Art Archive (Anywhere)

Public Art Archive Powered by WESTAF APPLY NOW Contact Email: [email protected] Call Type: Public Art Eligibility: National State: Unspecified Entry Deadline: Rolling Number of Applications Allowed: 20

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About The Public Art Archive™ (PAA™), like CallforEntry.org™ (CaFE™), is powered by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF). The Western States Arts Federation is a nonprofit regional arts service organization dedicated to the development of an expanded awareness of the power of the arts. Much of the organization’s work is accomplished through the development of technologies that benefit the arts and the arts community. WESTAF created the PAA™, which launched in 2009 with the collections of a few pilot public art agencies. We are pleased to invite artists and collection managers to include their artworks on this premier database for public art. Summary This is a call for the inclusion of public art collections in the Public Art Archive™, an online database of public art. To be considered for inclusion, you must be a professional artist who has completed and installed public artwork, or an administrator of an established public art program. There is no charge to submit entries to the Public Art Archive™. BEFORE APPLYING, READ CAREFULLY Public art is defined here as art that is sited in a public place that is accessible or viewable by the general public and was, in most cases, commissioned by a public art entity, typically using percent-for-art or public funding. Gallery art and art exhibited inside galleries and museums is not eligible. Works of art that were commissioned and/or gifted by corporations, museums, educational institutions, private parties, and other entities may be considered eligible. Artworks that have been destroyed are not eligible. Permanently cited, temporary, new media, performative, rotating, and portable works may be eligible if they meet the commonly known definition of public art or civic art. Visit the Public Art Archive™ to understand the scope of the subject and content for inclusion. If your work is already in the Public Art Archive do not submit a duplicate record. To update or correct an entry, contact us. Note: This is not a RFQ/RFP, roster, or commissioning project call. This call is for the inclusion of your project(s) in a national database of public artworks. Eligibility Public artworks and public art collections completed and installed within the last 100 years in the 50 United States and Canada may apply. These include: -- Works by artists who have completed and installed publicly funded civic and public art projects. -- Percent-for-Art programs and Art in Public Places programs with public art collections. -- Public art agencies, public art foundations, sculpture parks, colleges and universities with publicly accessible public art collections. -- Private and corporate-owned public art collections may be eligible if artworks are accessible and visible to the general public without any kind of fee. Contact us at [email protected] to discuss this further. Note: The final determination of an artwork’s eligibility will be made by the Public Art Archive™ Advisory Committee. There is No Charge There is no charge to submit entries to the Public Art Archive™ database. There is no charge for retaining the work(s) on the site indefinitely, and there is no charge for anyone to to access and search the site. The PAA™ has a bright future, with support from a long-established, nonprofit arts service organization with a rich history in building earned income technology projects. To support the project financially, certain optional collection-management features will be built as part of the PAA™ and made available to users for a fee. Timeline This project has no deadline, and the PAA™ team will make ongoing determinations regarding when accepted submissions to this call will be imported into the Archive™ database. Contact Please email [email protected] for any questions. For administrators who would like to include more than 20 artworks or the entire collection of their program, please see this form to begin or email [email protected] for details. Submission Materials Checklist Each applicant may submit up to 20 artworks. For each project, you may submit: up to 7 media files. This may include 7 images, (5 required - no composites please) or 5 images & 1 audio, if available and/or 1 video, if available. Please note: you may submit additional content by emailing [email protected]. NOTE: You may not submit less than 5 images per project. Public art is best represented by more than one image. For each public art project that you contribute, you will be asked to provide the following artwork information on the application form. Basic details are included with each image upload, but these details are more specific and will be filled-in via the application form.

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Training Market To Surpass US$ 174.6 Billion By 2027 - Coherent Market Insights

The worldwide preparing market was esteemed at US$ 94,828.5 Mn in 2017 and is required to display a CAGR of 6.4% over the estimate time frame and reach US$ 174,596.6 Mn in 2027. North America represented 45.1% of the income share in the worldwide preparing market in 2018. The market in India is required to develop at a huge rate over the conjecture time frame, trailed by rest of Asia Pacific. This development is ascribed to developing reception of learning the executives frameworks over the globe to increase better rates of profitability made in ability improvement, representative preparing, and other comparative projects.

The Asia Pacific market is seeing high development because of expanding interest for financially smart learning the board arrangements. Additionally, an expansion in the quantity of new companies working in the e-learning industry has helped development of the preparation market in this area. There has additionally been a checked move from customary techniques to innovation driven strategies in the previous hardly any years. For example, in 2013, Oracle presented 'Prophet Learn Cloud 13A' with cutting edge preparing the executives and conveyance highlights in the Asia Pacific district.

Learning the executives framework section held predominant situation in the market in 2018

Learning the executives framework is a product application, which is utilized for arranging, announcing, following, organization, documentation, revealing, usage, and for getting to preparing or learning programs. Besides, a learning the executives framework can assist educators with creating and disseminate substance, and screen student's exhibition and progress. A learning the executives framework has application in the advanced education segment and corporate area because of its wide scope of capacities, for example, overseeing and conveying a wide range of substance, for example, archives and recordings; it additionally contains intelligent highlights, for example, video conferencing, conversation gatherings, and strung conversations. For example, different learning the board frameworks are accessible in the market, for example, TalentLMS, Canvas LMS, Edmodo, Schoology, Docebo, Litmos LMS, SkyPrep, iSpring Learn, and Brightspace among others.

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North America held the prevailing situation in the Training market in 2017

North America is required to be the biggest market as far as size during the figure time frame, inferable from rising interest for powerful and quality training in the area. Moreover, a few central members, for example, SafetySkills and IFP Training that are occupied with giving preparing to workers, have high nearness in this area. The preparation business in North America incorporates both inside and outer assets that are utilized by vital participants to prepare their staff on explicit and required aptitudes expected to play out their occupations. The essential factor that is driving interest in the U.S. instruction LMS area is the expanding number of colleges that offer online instruction, which thusly is encouraging development of the preparation market in the locale. Be that as it may, challenges with legitimate usage of learning the board frameworks looked by instructive foundations because of spending requirements and absence of aptitude, are relied upon to hamper development of the market.

Expanding interest for consistent learning in Europe is relied upon to bring about high reception of various preparing and learning philosophies and items. The preparation market in Europe is required to display consistent development, attributable to critical income contributed by nations, for example, Germany, U.K., and France over the estimate time frame. Factors, for example, expanding number of little and average sized organizations (SMBs), just as expanding number of government activities to improve specialized and non-specialized aptitudes of workers is required to add to development of the Europe market.

Also, Europe-based organizations are putting essentially in digitizing preparing measures, to guarantee snappier and helpful conveyance of preparing substance to workers. Digitization additionally assists with defeating limitations, for example, adherence to a set time and spot of preparing. Moreover, numerous associations incline toward utilizing normalized courses gave via preparing content engineers. For example, Pearson Education, a U.K. based instruction distributing and appraisal administration organization, offers IT affirmation instructional classes to driving systems administration, equipment, and programming organizations, for example, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, and IBM.

The preparation market in Latin America is relied upon to observe huge development sooner rather than later. This development is significantly ascribed to advancement of digitized corporate preparing in the locale that is quickly supplanting ordinary preparing techniques. Besides, expanding number of cell phone clients has prompted extensive interest for versatile based preparing. According to investigation done by Coherent Market Insights, in 2018, the quantity of portable clients in Latin America was 424 million, and the number expanded to 431 million by 2019. Also, development of novel instruction projects, for example, game-based figuring out how to advance internet learning by means of different stages including online media, is required to help market players fortify their impression in the preparation market.

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Why Do You Need A Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia

PeopleQlik #1 Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia It is an administration framework used to convey instructive courses as well as preparing projects to your client base. It is a product program that can help you effectively arrange the courses you intend to convey by aiding in creation, change, allotting, reviewing, and so forth.

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For instance, MS Office Word causes you to compose different archives, Gmail encourages you to get, send and deal with your messages, Adobe Illustrator encourages you structure and converts different sorts of components. Along these lines, Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia is a product program that causes you to make as well as oversee and convey eLearning courses. Generally a LMS site is the means by which a LMS framework will assist you with accomplishing this. We will clarify this further.

A Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia resembles a motor. It powers eLearning. In its most normal structure, it comprises to two separate parts - two components:

The first is a straightforward server segment. This is the place all the center capacities are performed. This incorporates formation of courses, their administration, and even their conveyance. It additionally incorporates some not really clear uses like validation of clients, information serving and overseeing warnings, in addition to other things.

The subsequent component is marginally more complexity. It is a UI. This is normally what is known as an eLearning site. It isn't entirely different from an ordinary site like Gmail, Facebook or Amazon. This is the marginally progressively noticeable part as this is the best approach to cooperate with the Learning Management System and is regularly even called the Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia site. This is utilized by understudies, educators, teachers, and administrators.

Who utilizes an online LMS site?

Anybody anywhere can utilize a Learning Management System once it goes web based relying on the settings. An assortment of clients get to it for an assortment of reasons/courses.

Anyone who is enthusiastic for eLearning can access and utilize a Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia site for their potential benefit. This isn't just applicable to instructive foundations yet is utilized by an assortment of clients

from varying backgrounds. To give you a non-thorough rundown of some example clients, it would be ideal if you allude to the content included beneath:

A wide range of organizations all things considered – from little to medium to enormous multinationals – everybody sooner or later of another has an utilization for an eLearning site.

Associations. Regardless of whether it is something as extensive as the United Nations or in any event, something as little as your nearby co-employable – everybody has a requirement for an eLearning site. NGOs use it, non-benefits use, benefit arranged associations use it.

Enormous government offices and even nearby governments have an assortment of employments for a web based learning the Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia.

Normal learning frameworks like instructive establishments including schools, colleges and universities.

A Learning Management System is utilized for a wide range of learning exercises, as its name proposes. Be that as it may, considerably more critically, it is a significant business device. A ton of business, undertakings and associations of numerous types utilize the utilization of a learning the executives framework.

The absolute most normal use for a LMS stage are as per the following:

Preparing of Employees

Each association, business or endeavor reliably needs to prepare new representatives or grow the abilities of existing workers. In that capacity, a web based eLearning site proves to be useful. From a medical clinic to a systems administration organization, even emergency clinics and government associations everybody needs a learning the executives framework for their instructive necessities.

A Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia can assist you with reducing expenses without any problem. It is additionally an extraordinary chance to take out any sort of business disturbances that are generally connected with conventional learning. This is on the grounds that it guarantees that representatives study online time permitting and at their own pace. With conventional learning, your workers need to invest significant time from their timetable to consider, though with eLearning, they are allowed to concentrate however they see fit. This helps cut expenses by an incredible edge.

Hence, we discover that with Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia business and associations can without much of a stretch burn through less cash and energy to show their workers when contrasted with customary strategies for contemplating or acquiring exceptional teachers for classes, and so on. What is surprisingly better that web based learning the executives framework accompanies its own devices of observing advancement and evaluating so you can control just as evaluation your representatives. You can likewise increase extraordinary bits of knowledge into the advancement of your representatives with the coordinated detailing apparatuses.

Direction of Employees

It is a distinctly significant errand to give legitimate acquaintance and direction with another representative. This can be effortlessly taken care of by a Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia.

A visit through the workplace can at present be given, yet they can consider the remainder of the information at their own pace even better, they can likewise allude to it when they have to since they will have it convenient.

You can give them information about their job, about the jobs of their seniors, subtleties information on organization's work and approaches, professional success openings and even the advantages gave to them by the organization.

Instructive Offerings

This is the most widely recognized utilization of an eLearning site. Understudies everywhere throughout the world can profit by a course made by an ace/master sitting in one piece of the world without spending anything on movement or different sorts of bunch costs. It reduces expenses drastically and carries information closer to the individuals who can't get to it in different manners.

What are the Key Features of a LMS?

From facilitating to doling out to overseeing and in any event, revealing and assessing, a Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia can do everything! As such it's key highlights are numerous and of various sorts. The following is a non-thorough rundown of a portion of the key highlights of LMS:

1. The executives of different kinds

Transferring courses, dealing with educators' jobs, understudies' jobs, relegating courses, proposals and in any event, creating reports. This spreads everything!

2. Course Calendar Development

This element permits the clients of the Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia to see any accessible preparing projects and courses and apply for the equivalent. It gives all data at one look and clients can enlist for the courses they are keen on as effectively as tapping on a catch.

3. Notices

Students can without much of a stretch send and get notices from the framework and the instructors about their course or any up and coming courses.

4. Appraisals

These can be either pre-test or post-test. In either case, these will help decide an understudy's learning level. This will help allocate them the correct sort of text for concentrating so they can comprehend their course at a level that is simple for them to grasp.

5. Affirmations and Transcripts

When the course has been finished, a declaration and transcript can be naturally produced. This can manage the computerized mark of the giving position to make it valid. This will likewise assist the Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia with maintaining a record of representatives/understudies who have effectively finished the courses.

The principal thing you have to do to convey your eLearning content is to add it to you Learning Management System.

This should be possible in two different ways:

You can either make new material without any preparation and compose your course's substance inside the Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia itself.

You can likewise import existing material like a Word Document, a PPT or some other arrangement and feed it into your Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia. There are even some progressed eLearning sites that will let you include study material from different sources and even incorporate mixed media records like sounds and recordings.

How to compose your course?

This can be a straightforward procedure with only one seminar on offer or somewhat confounded with various courses with various levels. What is significant is that it should conform to the kind of association/venture your run.

Any Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia should, above all else, offer you the opportunity to make, oversee and structure your course or courses such that you need to, regardless of whether you're a solitary individual contribution a solitary course or a global association offering different courses with numerous branches at various levels.

How to convey your courses?

After you've finished the initial hardly any means, the subsequent stage is to convey the course that you have made and composed. How you do it relies totally on your need and the requirements of your association/endeavor.

For instance, a few courses might be open for all, yet a few courses must be accessible to a limited crowd. A few courses may be free, others may cause an expense. These are choices totally at your own impulse.

Any Learning Management System will let you convey the courses in a way that is reasonable for you. What is stunningly better is that a Learning Management Software in Saudi Arabia is typically responsive, which implies that it can convey your course over an assortment of stages like versatile, PC, work area, tablet, and so forth.

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HL7 protocol and its benefits in the Medical Field

HL7 (Health Level Seven International) is a lot of benchmarks, organizations and definitions for trading and creating electronic wellbeing records (EHRs). HL7 guidelines, created and declared by the human services IT standard-setting specialist HL7 International are the accepted measures in healthcare IT, however, some HL7 users have approached Congress to make more grounded legitimate interoperability benchmarks for the healthcare IT industry.

A charitable association with individuals in excess of 50 nations, HL7 was established in 1987 and licensed by the American National Standards Institute in 1994. It grows new measures utilizing a multi-year balloting framework in which individuals vote and includes discourse in progressive balloting rounds until the point that negative remarks are wiped out and draft gauges and draft models for preliminary use (DSTU) are generally settled upon. HL7 likewise advances worldwide interoperability in social insurance IT by giving direction about how to execute its models. The “7” in the association’s name alludes to Layer 7 in the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference display. Layer 7 is the last layer – the application layer – in the correspondence demonstrates the International Organization for Standardization created for OSI.

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HL7 standards define and give configurations for messaging and data exchange, decision support, rules syntax and common health data definitions in clinical documents and EHR and personal health record claims good quality reporting, product labels for prescription medications and clinical genomics.

A few HL7 models – including Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and Continuity of Care Document (CCD)

The primary HL7 benchmarks are:

HL7 Version 2, the most broadly utilized informing standard for the trade of patient consideration and clinical data. It is a database inquiry dialect that empowers human services suppliers to send messages asking for and containing wellbeing information.

CDA, an ISO-endorsed standard that establishes a trade show for clinical archives, for example, release rundowns and advancement notes. Related with the CDA are the CCD, a record of patient release and confirmation among isolated offices, and the Consolidated CDA (C-CDA), which is utilized in ONC important use-affirmed EHRs to unite nine past CDA layouts into one report.

EHR-PHR System Functional Models give basic dialect parameters to creating EHR frameworks and their parts. The PHR Functional Model is a draft standard for capacities that ought to be in a PHR and for information trade among PHRs and EHRs.

Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR), a DSTU that experienced its first balloting round in spring 2015. It is a Web-based trade dialect that makes interoperable social insurance applications quicker, less difficult and simpler to compose.

What is HL7?

HL7 is the universal easy to use the standard which empowers the correspondence between at least two healthcare applications. The health-related data will be moved as at least one HL7 messages, for example, tolerant record and charging data.

The HL7 standard is regularly called the nonstandard, since it doesn’t think about a particular part as unique and, consequently, there is no standard business or clinical model for clinical communication.

HL7 improvement needs the contribution of clinical application analyst, integration authority, application programmers and system analyst.

What does HL7 rely on?

HL7 (Health Level Seven) symbolizes a 7-layer ISO correspondence display

Physical: Connects the substance to the transmission media

Data Link: Provides mistake control between contiguous hubs

Network: Routes the data in the systemz

Transport: Provides start to finish correspondence control

Session: Handles issues that are not correspondence issues

Presentation: Converts the data

Application: Provides distinctive administrations to the applications

1-4 manages Communication; 5-7 manages Function. Every one of these layers is utilized by HL7 interface motor for exchange and recovery of HL7 information.

Main Objective of HL7

The vision of HL7 advancement is where everybody can safely access and utilize the correct health data when and where they require it. So as to accomplish that objective, the work process ought to be improved between healthcare software applications and different merchants for the upgraded quality, exactness, cost and productivity of human services suppliers.

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Import endpoint – accepting the application

Methodology – move information between two endpoints

Methodology – taking care of the lining messages

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Every healthcare application must be open to send and acknowledge understanding information. There are sure settled guidelines of what to acknowledge and send for a simple exchange. This entrance is entirely constrained by every application merchant to guarantee information respectability inside their application.

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HL7 protocol and its benefits in the Medical Field

A few HL7 models – including Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and Continuity of Care Document (CCD)

The primary HL7 benchmarks are:

What is HL7?

HL7 improvement needs the contribution of clinical application analyst, integration authority, application programmers and system analyst.

What does HL7 rely on?

HL7 (Health Level Seven) symbolizes a 7-layer ISO correspondence display

Physical: Connects the substance to the transmission media

Data Link: Provides mistake control between contiguous hubs

Network: Routes the data in the systemz

Transport: Provides start to finish correspondence control

Session: Handles issues that are not correspondence issues

Presentation: Converts the data

Application: Provides distinctive administrations to the applications

1-4 manages Communication; 5-7 manages Function. Every one of these layers is utilized by HL7 interface motor for exchange and recovery of HL7 information.

Main Objective of HL7

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Export endpoint – sending application

Import endpoint – accepting the application

Methodology – move information between two endpoints

Methodology – taking care of the lining messages

Methodology – arranging the message stream

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Documenting U.S. Role in Democracy’s Fall and Dictator’s Rise in Chile

By Pascale Bonnefoy, NY Times, Oct. 14, 2017

SANTIAGO, Chile--An old rotary phone rings insistently.

Visitors at a new exhibition at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights here in Santiago who pick up the receiver hear two men complain bitterly about the liberal news media “bleating” over the military coup that had toppled Salvador Allende, the Socialist president of Chile, five days earlier.

“Our hand doesn’t show on this one, though,” one says.

“We didn’t do it,” the other responds. “I mean, we helped them.”

The conversation took place on a Sunday morning in September 1973 between former President Richard M. Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger. The two men were discussing football--and the violent overthrow of a democratically elected government 5,000 miles away with their assistance.

For the exhibition, two Spanish-speaking actors re-enacted the taped phone call based on a declassified transcript.

The chance to listen in on the call is part of “Secrets of State: The Declassified History of the Chilean Dictatorship,” an exhibition that offers visitors an immersive experience of Washington’s intervention in Chile and its 17-year relationship with the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

An enlarged and dramatically lit document sets the tone at the entrance. It is a presidential daily brief dated Sept. 11, 1973, the day of the coup. Its paragraphs are entirely redacted, every word blacked out.

A dimly lit underground gallery guides visitors through a maze of documents--presidential briefings, intelligence reports, cables and memos--that describe secret operations and intelligence gathering carried out in Chile by the United States from the Nixon years through the Reagan presidency.

“There is an arc of history that is very dramatic when you put these documents together,” said Peter Kornbluh, the exhibition’s curator who is a senior analyst at the National Security Archive in Washington and director of its Chile Documentation Project. “They have provided revelations and made headlines, they have been used as evidence in human rights prosecutions, and now they are contributing to the verdict of history.”

On view are documents revealing secret exchanges about how to prevent Chile’s Congress from ratifying the Allende victory in 1970, plans for covert operations to destabilize his government and reports about a Chilean military officer informing the United States government of the coming coup and requesting assistance.

There is a cable from the Central Intelligence Agency to its officers in Santiago after a failed operation in October 1970 to prevent Allende from assuming office, which he did that November. The C.I.A. provided weapons for the plan, which resulted in the killing of the commander in chief of the army, Gen. René Schneider, and the agency later sent money to help some of the plotters flee the country.

“The station has done an excellent job of guiding Chileans to a point today where a military solution is at least an option for them,” the cable says, commending the officers, even though their plot was foiled.

The exhibition includes only a small sample of the 23,000 documents on Chile that the Clinton administration declassified between 1999 and 2000 in response to international requests for evidence on Pinochet’s crimes. The former Chilean dictator was arrested in London in October 1998 and awaited extradition to Spain to face trial on charges of human rights abuses during his rule.

As several other European countries also sought Pinochet’s extradition based on the principle of universal jurisdiction, Mr. Kornbluh, the curator, led a campaign to persuade the White House to release classified records that could serve in an eventual trial against the general.

Documents on Chile from 1968 to 1991 from seven United States government agencies, some of them heavily redacted, were released as part of the State Department’s Chile Declassification Project. Most were declassified months after Pinochet was sent home from London for humanitarian reasons, but just in time to contribute to new judicial investigations in Chile.

The documents have been used as evidence in several human rights inquiries involving American victims, including the 1973 killings in Chile of Frank Teruggi and Charles Horman; the 1976 car bomb assassination of Orlando Letelier, a foreign minister and defense minister in the Allende administration, and his American colleague, Ronni Karpen Moffitt, in Washington; the 1985 disappearance in Chile of Boris Weisfeiler, an American professor; and the killing of Rodrigo Rojas, a Chilean-born United States citizen who was burned alive by soldiers in Chile in 1986.

They have also shed light on Operation Condor, a network of South American intelligence services in the 1970s and ‘80s that shared information, traded prisoners and orchestrated assassinations abroad. The head of DINA, Chile’s clandestine intelligence agency, Gen. Manuel Contreras, was the mastermind behind Condor, and hosted an inaugural meeting in November 1975 in Santiago.

In the exhibition, the seats at a rectangular table bear the names of the intelligence chiefs of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile who attended Operation Condor’s first meeting. A layer of earth covers the table, and brushes are provided for visitors to reveal what is beneath: the names of Condor victims, many of whom vanished without a trace.

Nearby, copies of the front pages of dozens of newspapers from the Pinochet era hang from a panel simulating a kiosk. They were all published by the conservative media empire El Mercurio, which received at least $2 million from the C.I.A.

The records in the exhibition also profile Pinochet, trace intelligence gathering on brutal state-sponsored repression and detail how the Reagan government abandoned Pinochet to his fate in 1988, fearing a further radicalization of the opposition.

“These documents have helped us rewrite Chile’s contemporary history,” said Francisco Estévez, director of the museum. “This exhibit is a victory in the fight against negationism, the efforts to deny and relativize what happened during our dictatorship.”

The Memory and Human Rights Museum opened in 2010 during the first term of President Michelle Bachelet and offers a chronological reconstruction of the 17-year Pinochet government through artifacts, recordings, letters, videos, photographs, artwork and other material. About 150,000 people visit the museum annually, a third of them groups of students, Mr. Estévez said.

The National Security Archive donated a selection of 3,000 declassified documents to the museum several years ago, while the State Department provided the Chilean government with copies of the entire collection. Chileans, however, have rarely seen them.

“To see on a piece of paper, for example, the president of the United States ordering the C.I.A. to preemptively overthrow a democratically elected president in Chile is stunning,” Mr. Kornbluh said. “The importance of having these documents in the museum is for the new generations of Chileans to actually see them.”

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Spa owner whose consulting firm marketed access to Trump is in a ‘nightmare': Lawyer

An attorney for a Florida massage parlor owner whose consulting firm marketed political access to President Donald Trump told ABC News her client has led an innocent life and is not the “threat” that she’s made out to be. The comments come as a top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee this week sought more details about the influence peddling allegations.

Li “Cindy” Yang, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in China, owns a number of nail and massage parlors in Florida, according to business records, and she was the previous owner of a parlor where police said New England Patriots’ owner and longtime Trump friend Robert Kraft, solicited prostitution. Yang had sold that parlor years ago, and Kraft has pleaded not guilty.

But her story took on a different dimension when she was later identified in media reports as having founded an international consulting firm called GY US Investments LLC targeting Chinese businesspeople which advertised among its services access to Trump, his family members and administration officials at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago country club, sparking the interest of congressional investigators.

Her attorney, Michelle Merson, said her client is now living through a “nightmare” after she was perceived as linked to the alleged prostitution or as a national security “threat” because of the questions of political access peddling – which, Merson said, is “far from the truth.”

“Mrs. Yang loves this country,” Merson said. “She has lived a very quiet life, doing good things for herself, her family and her community.”

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 22, 2018.

Authorities have not accused Yang of any wrongdoing, and Merson told ABC News she was unaware of any contact between authorities and Yang. Merson said Yang would cooperate with investigators if necessary to help “clear her name.”

The mostly Chinese-language website for the consulting firm has been taken down, but an archived version reviewed by ABC News shows the company offered to secure dinners and access to events where Trump and Trump associates were present, according to a translation of the Chinese text.

It is unclear how much, if at all, Yang’s business was able to deliver for its clients, or if it ever got off the ground. According to Mother Jones, which first reported on the website, photos showed Chinese executives and a Chinese movie star posing with people close to the president, including his son Don. Jr. The photos have since been taken down and are no longer available on the archived version reviewed by ABC News.

Merson said she could not comment on the contents of the GY US Investments LLC website because she and her legal team had yet to review it.

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A photo posted on Facebook shows Cindy Yang with President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr.

The extent of Yang’s relationship with Trump and his associates is unclear. Federal records show Yang and her family have contributed over $40,000 to pro-Trump and pro-Republican organizations since 2017, and photos from her Facebook page, now disabled, show her at various political events, including at Mar-a-Lago, posing with Trump, his sons, and other prominent Republicans.

But Merson said Yang was not a friend of the president and had only taken photos with him like many other Mar-a-Lago attendees.

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A photo posted on Facebook shows Cindy Yang with President Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump.

The Trump Organization declined to comment on whether Yang was a member of the club or attended events as a guest. Her attorney said Yang attended events at the club with a friend who was a longtime member, and entered as a registered guest.

Cliff Li, executive director of the National Committee of Asian Americans Republicans, told ABC News Yang that worked for the organization since 2015, first as a local fundraiser, and then in community outreach. He described Yang, who he said is no longer with the organization, as a “political novice” who got caught up in the excitement around Trump.

“I can see that she got fascinated, because she resonated with the president because [of his] media personality,” Li said.

Li said he was unaware of Yang’s consulting business, but said he was highly doubtful that she was connected to the Chinese government — as Merson said had been insinuated — or other nefarious activity.

“I think it’s far-fetched, probably a misunderstanding somewhere,” he said.

Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said this week that whenever there are “credible allegations of corruption or allegations that they’re selling influence out of massage parlors in Florida, those issues ought to be looked into.”

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Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff (D-CA) arrives for a closed hearing with Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney of U.S. President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill, Feb. 28, 2019.

But like Li, Merson suggested Yang, at least, is the victim of a misunderstanding. Yang sold the massage parlor in question six years ago, and Merson strenuously denied that any wrongdoing had taken place at Yang’s businesses.

“This is a woman who led a very quiet, innocent life,” Merson said. “[She is a] good person, who came to this country to live the American dream.”

Nery Ynclan is a freelance producer based in Florida. ABC News’ Meridith McGraw, Ben Siegel and Soo Rin Kim contributed to this report.

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Divest Middlebury activists gather outside a Board of Trustees meeting to show their support for divestment. (Photo by Elise Leise ‘22)

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Crowded in a small student home in Middlebury, Vermont, three generations of Divest Middlebury activists gathered from across the country to witness the outcome of a long-awaited vote. For some, this marked the culmination of their first college semester. Others had been hoping for this announcement since they started the campaign in 2012. After seven years of student-led activism, nothing was harder than keeping quiet about what we learned: Middlebury’s Board of Trustees had unanimously voted to fully divest the institution’s $1.1 billion endowment from the fossil-fuel industry.

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On January 26, Middlebury trustees voted on Energy 2028, a campus-wide sustainability initiative. Along with divestment, Energy 2028 also includes a transition to 100 percent renewable energy, a 25 percent reduction in energy consumption, and expanded environmental education. This successful resolution not only reinforces Middlebury as a higher-education climate leader; it demonstrates the power of relentless student activism.

Divest Middlebury launched a similar campaign in 2013; in response, the trustees announced that Middlebury would not divest. Despite this, as student activists, we knew we had to keep fighting. Overwhelming scientific evidence shows that we must rapidly transition away from fossil fuels in order to avoid climate catastrophe. The core business model of fossil-fuel corporations is simply incompatible with a sustainable future, of which we will be the stewards. Considering these impending climate threats, we knew that the question was not if Middlebury would divest, but when.

Divest Middlebury activist Gabe Desmond shares how climate change has affected his own life during a rally. Photo by Alec Fleischer ‘20.

Through persistent activism, dozens of dedicated students transformed divestment from a far-fetched idea to an inevitable reality. As the current leaders of Divest Middlebury, we are proud of our college. Middlebury is now part of a global movement of over 1,000 portfolios with $8 trillion in combined assets that will never again be invested in fossil fuels.

This story was produced for Student Nation, a section devoted to highlighting campus activism and student movements from students in their own words. For more Student Nation, check out ;our archive. Are you a student ;with a campus activism story? Send questions and pitches to Samantha Schuyler at ;[email protected]. The Student Nation program is made possible through generous funding from ;The Puffin Foundation.

Our generation of Divest Middlebury activists entered the campaign in 2016. In the wake of the board’s first rejection, we built a base of support and worked to ensure that a “yes” vote could be the only possible outcome. Most of the student body already recognized the urgency of addressing climate change and passively supported divestment; our job was not to change minds but to harness the activist potential of our peers.

To gain active support, we held rallies, hosted teach-ins, and collaborated with other collegiate divestment campaigns. With this momentum, we facilitated a community-wide referendum that garnered support from 80 percent of students and 93 percent of faculty. The referendum’s indisputable results provided us with a seat at the table, and we began cooperatively working with the administration.

During our presentation to the board, we stressed how climate change already threatens students’ well-being. Extreme weather events, geopolitical uncertainty, and sea-level rise are all slated to get worse as our generation moves into adulthood. We reminded the trustees that marginalized communities experience the worst effects of a warming world while contributing the least to the crisis. It is illogical to pay for students’ education by investing in corporations whose business models guarantees those very students will not have a livable planet to enact this education upon.

Divest Middlebury activists march across campus to show their demonstrate their support of Energy 2028. Photo by Elise Leise ‘22.

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Given Middlebury’s mission to “educate students to address the world’s most challenging problems,” trustees were convinced that divestment was both necessary and fiscally responsible.

Through collaboration with carbon pricing activists, Energy 2028 emerged as a primarily student-run campaign that holistically addresses climate change. (The divestment and carbon-pricing campaigns were both launched by the Sunday Night Environmental Group, the same club that founded 350.org—a leading climate-advocacy organization.) Divestment helped fast-track other campus environmental initiatives and, in turn, these other campaigns made divestment more palatable to reluctant trustees. Embracing a message broader than divestment alone, we organized a final series of rallies and educational events. We were ecstatic to see trustees who were previously against divestment show their support for Energy 2028.

By building student power, cultivating collaborative relationships, and packaging divestment as part of a larger effort, we turned a “no” into a unanimous “yes.” We see this shift as evidence of the growing strength of the climate justice movement across the country.

The track record of this rural Vermont student group speaks volumes to the power of collective action. In solidarity with global activists, we call on all institutions to stand for climate justice. We changed the zeitgeist of our institution; so can you.

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