Residential and support services for older people in the Waikato, 1992-1997: Privatisation and emerging resistance

As disproportionate users of services, older people are more vulnerable to shifts in policy in health care and social support. This paper focuses on older people as a group affected by economic and social restructuring. We summarise the history of support for older New Zealanders in the century prior to 1984, and assess the impacts of the subsequent shifts in social welfare policy up to 1997. Four reference points for appreciating the impacts of these policy changes are suggested: • shifts in general health care and housing policy • the cumulative impacts of restructuring on families and communities • evolving patterns of disability in the older population • the emerging resistance of older people to privatisation. We follow this up with analysis of a case study carried out in the Waikato on the provision of residential and caring services, and describe shifts in the supply of age-targeted housing and community support services. For example, in contrast to the trend towards reduced involvement by the state in residential care (e.g. rest homes), there has been no concerted dis-investment in pensioner housing. Finally we document the emerging resistance of older people to change

Seeing farmers' markets: Theoretical and media perspectives on new sites of exchange in New Zealand

In this paper we explore the extent to which a reciprocal relationship exists between contemporary theorisation about farmers' markets in geography and the rapidly expanding public discourse surrounding these sites of exchange in New Zealand. Activities branded as farmers' markets are seen widely as local phenomena of systemic significance for the understanding of evolving geographies of production, consumption and exchange. As something ‘new’ on the landscape, farmers' markets also attract attention in the media. An electronic database of significant print media contributions over the period 1995 to 2007 provides the empirical basis for an assessment of the extent to which theorisation and the public discourse address common themes. Our analysis indicates that, while the economic and social constructions in both the research literature and the media database share common themes, strong contrasts in ways of ‘seeing’ farmers' markets are apparent. We note the predilection in the print media to present the nature and purpose of farmers' markets through the personal experiences and ‘stories’ of participants. There is a tendency to focus on the appeal of markets to the consumers who form the readership base. The theorised alterity of the farmers' market, either in terms of production methods or motivations for consumption, is not reflected strongly in media reports, and this raises questions about ‘over-theorisation’ in the academic literature. Our aim is to promote reflection in both the editorial offices of the media and in the academy by documenting the nature of these contrasting views

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The Intermediate Coupling Regime in the AdS/CFT Correspondence

The correspondence between the 't Hooft limit of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and tree-level IIB superstring theory on AdS(5)xS(5) in a Ramond-Ramond background at values of lambda=g^2 N ranging from infinity to zero is examined in the context of unitarity. A squaring relation for the imaginary part of the holographic scattering of identical string fields in the two-particle channels is found, and a mismatch between weak and strong 't Hooft coupling is pointed out within the correspondence. Several interpretations and implications are proposed.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX, reference adde

The Establishment of Sequenced Skills in Language Arts, Reading, and Mathematics for Grades K Through 6 of the Hoopeston-East Lynn Public Schools

Statement of Purpose The purpose of this field study was to establish a list of sequenced skills for grades kindergarten through six for language arts, reading, and mathematics. Furthermore, a need existed for the evaluation of student/classroom progression in the mastery of skills. Therefore, this study consisted of the following two tasks: (1) Development of a list of sequenced skills which are to be utilized in conjunction with objectives that are located within the textbook of each subject area. (2) Development of a record keeping process to monitor students’ academic progress of skills mastered within language arts, reading, and mathematics from grade level to grade level. Procedure A scope and sequence chart was instrumental in the development of the established list of skills in each subject area. The publishing company for that subject area furnished the scope and sequence chart. For example, the language arts scope and sequence chart was furnished by the Macmillan Publishing Company. The reading scope and sequence chart was furnished by the Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company. The scope and sequence chart for Mathematics was furnished by the Laidlaw Publishing Company. The skills for each subject area were duplicated in the same order as they were listed on the scope and sequence chart for that subject. However, each document was developed to serve a specific purpose. Results This study produced four separate documents: Teacher-Master Guide Sheet Priority-Skills Sheet Student-Skills Sheet Teacher-Classroom Skills Sheet Two of these documents, The Teacher-Master Guide Sheet and the Priority-Skills Sheet, will be used to designate the order in which skills should be mastered at each grade level. The other two documents, Student-Skills Sheet and the Teacher-Classroom Skills Sheet, will be instrumental in evaluating student academic progress, in the mastery of skills. Teacher-Master Guide Sheet: This guide sheet was designed to make available to each teacher a list of all sequential skills in each subject area. This master guide will list all skills in a sequential manner for the following subjects: language arts, reading, and mathematics. This guide will list all skills separately by subject area starting with kindergarten and completing through the sixth grade. The Teacher-Master Guide Sheet should be kept with the teacher’s lesson plan book. Priority Skills Sheet: The purpose of this skills sheet was to prioritize all of the skills in each subject area. Each skill will be designated as one, two, or three. A number “one” skill will be a skill that has been mandated by the state of Illinois to be mastered by students. Skill “two” will be a skill that the teachers in the Hoopeston-East Lynn Elementary buildings feel is a basic need to further education. The number “three” skill will be a publishing company designated grade level skill but an advanced skill as determined by the teachers in the elementary program at Hoopeston-East Lynn. This skill sheet has all of the sequential skills listed for each subject area mentioned above starting with kindergarten through the sixth grade. Each teacher should indicate his/her priority of those skills taught each week for each subject area and return that information to the building principal weekly. Student-Skills Sheet: The student sheet was initiated to verify student mastery of each skill as it was tested and the student passed the test at an eighty per cent level or better. The Student-Skills Sheet should be under control of the teacher and held in a file folder at the teacher’s desk. This will enable the teacher the opportunity of verifying by dating each skill as it is mastered by a student. This skill sheet will be available to the next teacher the following year, as this skill sheet should be passed along in the student’s temporary folder at the end of each year. Teacher-Classroom Skills Sheet: The purpose of the classroom skills sheet is to evaluate class progress and to allow students a chance to evaluate their progress as compared to their classmates. This classroom skills sheet should be placed in the classroom where it is accessible to all students. This skills sheet could be verified by the teacher or the student as each skill is mastered. The classroom skills sheet should be destroyed at the end of the school year

VisGenome: visualization of single and comparative genome representations

VisGenome visualizes single and comparative representations for the rat, the mouse and the human chromosomes at different levels of detail. The tool offers smooth zooming and panning which is more flexible than seen in other browsers. It presents information available in Ensembl for single chromosomes, as well as homologies (orthologue predictions including ortholog one2one, apparent ortholog one2one, ortholog many2many) for any two chromosomes from different species. The application can query supporting data from Ensembl by invoking a link in a browser

Final Report of the Commission on Presidential Disability and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment

This Report examines the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to identify potential difficulties in presidential succession and makes recommendations