Strengthening Neighborhoods by Creating Long-Term Multifamily Assets

Edited proceedings of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Symposium, NeighborWorks Training Institute, April 18, 2001, Chicago. Hosted by the NeighborWorks Multifamily Initiative.The five papers that follow were written by five lead presenters at the symposium and distributed in advance to symposium participants to provide a framework for each panel discussion. Reports of the panel discussions are also provided, which includes many valuable insights offered by audience members as well as panelists

Consequentialist Options

According to traditional forms of act-consequentialism, an action is right if and only if no other action in the given circumstances would have better consequences. It has been argued that this view does not leave us enough freedom to choose between actions which we intuitively think are morally permissible but not required options. In the first half of this article, I will explain why the previous consequentialist responses to this objection are less than satisfactory. I will then attempt to show that agents have more options on consequentialist grounds than the traditional forms of act-consequentialism acknowledged. This is because having a choice between many permissible options can itself have value

How practitioners can improve the way they work together in planning, supporting and facilitating the introductions process between adoptive parent(s) and their children (Sharing our experience, Practitioner-led research 2008-2009; PLR0809/109)

The introductions process is the short time in which the prospective adoptive parents and children meet for the first time and start to get to know each other. It is also when the parents get to find out about the child’s routine before taking them to live in their new home. This research explores the experiences of foster carers and prospective adoptive parents during the introductions process. It has been undertaken to help improve the way practitioners work together in planning, supporting and facilitating the introductions process between adoptive parents and their children. The aims of the research were • to investigate what helps to ensure the best experience and outcomes of an introductions process • to investigate ways in which integrated planning has contributed to making this process as easy and rewarding as possible for the families and carers involved • to make recommendations to support the spread of good practice in integrated working. Key findings include: • A need for an increasingly integrated approach to ensure that everyone involved knows what to expect during the process and how it will work. • Experiences across different services and localities should be shared to develop a robust, supportive and ultimately successful practice. • Opportunities for children and their families to input into practice improvement should be developed

Prudence, Sunk Costs, and the Temporally Extended Self

Many find it reasonable to take our past actions into account when making choices for the future. In this paper, I address two important issues regarding taking past investments into account in prudential deliberation. The first is the charge that doing so commits the fallacy of honoring sunk costs. I argue that while it is indeed irrational to care about sunk costs, past investments are not sunk costs when we can change their teleological significance, roughly their contribution to our excellence as temporally extended, reasons-responsive, and goal-directed agents. I suggest some general principles for evaluating such significance. Second, it’s a live issue whether we should care about the fate of our past projects, even if we can now affect it. I reject Dale Dorsey’s recent answer, and argue that the puzzle he addresses turns out to be merely apparent, if we take seriously the fact that we are temporally extended

A Good Exit: What to Do about the End of Our Species?

We know that Homo sapiens will not exist forever. Given this, how should our species end? What are the reasons, if any, to delay our extinction? In this paper, I show that the pre-eminent reasons which favour prolonging the existence of the species are partial: they will arise from the particular attachments and projects of the final few generations. While there may also be impartial reasons to prolong the species, these reasons are liable, with time, to reverse their valence: we can be reasonably confident that they will ultimately recommend hastening the demise of the species. Consequently, it is likely that our descendants will eventually face a difficult -- possibly tragic -- conflict, between partial duties that recommend living on, and an impartial duty to extinguish the species

Why bad ideas are a good idea

What would happen if we wrote an Abstract that was the exact opposite of what the paper described? This is a bad idea, but it makes us think more carefully than usual about properties of Abstracts. This paper describes BadIdeas, a collection of techniques that uses ???bad??? or ???silly??? ideas to inspire creativity, explore design domains and teach critical thinking in interaction design. We describe the approach, some evidence, how it is performed in practice and experience in its use.published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe

When will we learn: key factors and potential barriers

The overall aim of this research was to improve the dissemination of Lessons Learned in construction projects so that contractors’ project teams have access to the most relevant lessons at the most appropriate time, in the most appropriate format. The outcome of the research aimed to provide (1) an understanding of the different systems and tools used for recording Lessons Learned amongst major construction contractors; (2) an understanding of the needs in terms of what sort of lessons are required, the level of detail required and how best these should be made available; and (3) an approach on how best to disseminate Lessons Learned. The key objectives of the research were to: 1. Investigate current practice for recording and disseminating Lessons Learned; 2. Identify potential barriers for successfully disseminating Lessons Learned; and 3. Identify key factors affecting company processes to encourage a more systematic dissemination of Lessons Learned. The study was conducted in three phases. The first investigated contractors’ current practices for recording and disseminating Lessons Learned through a questionnaire survey. The second phase identified key factors that would encourage the institutionalisation of Lessons Learned and also the factors that inhibit their use. The third phase examined how current processes could be adapted to develop a process that would embed the systematic dissemination of Lessons Learned within an organisation’s existing practices. This report focuses on the second stage of the project that identified from the end users those factors that would encourage the institutionalisation of Lessons Learned and also the factors that inhibit their use of Lessons Learned

The Official Student Newspaper of UAS

Letter from the Editor / Whalesong Staff -- UAS In Brief -- Suddenly, College / Unisex Bathrooms? -- Lab Grown Coral Helps Reef -- Single Valentine's Day Ideas -- Health Corner / Advertising Information -- Calendar and Comics

Economic conditions and trends in the region: potential strategies to encourage foreign direct investment

The technology revolution has lead globalization. Because of globalization, there is an advantage of being small like Gaza as it is easier to get organized. The foreign direct investment is crucial to the development of Gaza. It includes technology, markets, scarce management skills, scarce engineering skills: thing cannot be bought. In order to attract foreign direct investment to the offshore island, the selling proposition needs to be indentified

The Official Student Newspaper of UAS

Letter from the Editor / Whalesong Staff -- UAS In Brief -- Suddenly, College / Unisex Bathrooms? -- Lab Grown Coral Helps Reef -- Single Valentine's Day Ideas -- Health Corner / Advertising Information -- Calendar and Comics