Nowhere to Go: A Crisis of Affordability in the Bronx

The state of affordability in the Bronx has Nowhere to Go - the Bronx is in a full out crisis of affordability. New data reveals that more than half of all households in Bronx Community District 5 now pay more than 50% of their income on rent, something unprecedented in the history of New York City. This trend of percent of income spent on rent cannot go any higher without a significant increase in overcrowding and homelessness.Economic hardships and the housing affordability gap are well documented nationally, and are especially acute in the Bronx. About half of all renters nationally, and nearly two-thirds of renters in the Bronx, live in unaffordable housing, and both of those numbers are increasing. The legacy of redlining and disinvestment has had an enormous impact on the Bronx and contributed to poor housing conditions and poverty. Reinvestment work starting in the 1970s thwarted the threats for planned shrinkage in the Bronx and created the housing that became home to immigrants and others seeking to live in New York City. Just as community-led reinvestment by the public and private sectors transformed the old Bronx, investment is still needed today to preserve the new Bronx. Investment is especially needed in the low wage workers that keep the five boroughs running so that these workers can afford to live and thrive in New York City.The report Nowhere to Go: A Crisis of Affordability in the Bronx highlights trends in the data to explain the current economic situation in the Bronx and to help inform policy decisions from a community based perspective. The report was presented at our 30th Anniversary Forum on May 1st, 2013. Panelists at the forum included John Reilly, Executive Director of Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation; Christa Meyers, Senior Director of Research, Evaluation & Planning with the District Public Health Offices at the Department of Health & Mental Hygiene; and Nick Iuviene and Yorman Nuñez from the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative

Applying intercultural awareness to curriculum development in Art, Design and Architecture

Through selecting and synthesising the existing literature surrounding international students, the recurrent foci have been explored and a new simple model of the international student sojourn has been generated. This model is driven by a holistic concern for the support and development of staff and students, and has been used to open a dialogue between staff and students in order to raise intercultural awareness within the disciplines of art, design and architecture. It is suggested that the collaborative fostering of intercultural awareness is the necessary first step towards developing an internationalised curriculum (Nilsson, 2003; Harrison & Peacock, 2010). This poster session will demonstrate how the model has been used to structure a workshop in the school of art, design and architecture, in which staff and students have engaged in dialogue and formulated a good practice agenda for internationalising the curriculum. The disciplines of Art, Design and Architecture present their own specific challenges for internationalisation due to the culture-bound nature of aesthetics. It is important to find out how current international students and staff cope with these challenges, and to share good practice across their disciplines. It has been discovered that in the UK certain traditions prevail, such as the emphasis on the individual creative process as well as drawing by hand before using technology, which are at odds with process of design training in other parts of the world. It is hoped that by creating increased intercultural awareness, we will be able to design curricula that will enable us to capitalise on the diverse range of experiences that international students bring to the UK. The model and workshop structure can be adapted for use by participants within their own disciplines, and the poster session will encourage delegates to explore this

STRESS AND COPING IN SIBLINGS OF CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES

Past research investigating the siblings of children with learning disabilities has yielded inconsistent findings. Consequently, the assumption guiding present investigators is that while some children appear to be at risk psychologically, others adapt well and even benefit from the experience. This assumption may be interpreted as supporting the literature on stress and coping in children. Within this framework, variability is expected because not only are children faced with different stressors, they have a variety of resources available to protect them. A stress and coping framework was therefore adopted in the present study. It aimed to investigate the differential responses to stress of two groups of children; namely those identified as having a positive relationship and those identified as having a negative relationship with their learning disabled sibling. The study also looked at the association between satisfaction with this relationship and measures of psychological adjustment (i.e. depression and anxiety). In addition, the stability of satisfaction with the sibling relationship; the stability of coping strategies employed in response to stress arising as a result of that relationship; and parental insights into this stress was investigated. The results suggest that the nature of the sibling relationship does have an impact on depression at least. Furthermore, children rated as having a more positive relationship with their sibling were foiund to appraise and respond differently to stress than children who were rated as having a less positive relationship. Satisfaction with the sibling relationship was found to remain relatively stable over time, and the stability of coping was consistent with that expected for a process measure. Although parents were found to be good judges of the nature of the sibling relationship generally, they had little insight into the specific stressors that their children found most difficult to cope with. These findings support the need for sibling intervention programmes. Guidance as to how they might be implemented were offered, and implications for service provision more generally were discussed. Recommendations for future research were made, including an abandonment of the framework of assumed pathology that has dominated the field to date. Indeed, although the findings suggest that some children cope better than others, most seem to manage the stress they face very well, and have a great deal of love and affection for their brother or sister with learning disabilities.Southmead Health Services NHS Trust and Phoenix NHS Trus

Type and Layout

A review of Type and Layout, by Colin Wheildon

Passion & Purpose: Raising the Fiscal Fitness Bar for Massachusetts Nonprofits

Presents data on and financial analyses of the state's nonprofit sector by organization type, budget, focus area, and location. Recommends better financial stewardship, restructuring, repositioning, and reinvestment to enhance nonprofits' sustainability

Material state tracking by nondestructive evaluation data

This thesis tackles the challenge of using nondestructive evaluation data as a sensor measurement input for a state estimation scheme in order to estimate the current state a part that is changing over time. This is made particularly challenging because of the multidisciplinary nature of the problem. The estimation solution incorporates work from statistics, computer vision, and the physics of nondestructive evaluation. This thesis discusses the basis for spatio-temperal Kalman filtering and uses a simple version of spatio-temperal filtering to simulate material state tracking on composite spec- imens. The simulation illustrates that by using the algorithm presented here, even with very naive inputs, it is possible to track a dynamic material state and provide estimates that better reflect the true state of the part as compared with the most recent sensor measurement alone. Additionally, this thesis demonstrates the algorithm on laboratory test data. Com- posite panels were manufactured and then intentionally impacted to induce subsurface delaminations. The composite panels were then loaded multiple times in four-point bending to induce incremental damage growth. After each damage event (initiation and loading) flash thermography and computed tomography data was collected. The flash thermography data was used as a sensor measurement in the spatio-termporal Kalman filter and the computed tomography data was used as a ‘truth\u27 value for comparison. For four out of five data sets, at every time step, the spatio-temporal Kalman filter estimate matched the computed tomography ‘truth\u27 better than the most recent single sensor measurement. For the fifth data set, the estimate better matched the truth at most time steps. Finally, we present a method that uses a probabilistic approach to identifying the location and orientation, or pose, of a specimen or part within an image. This process found the most likely transformation from the object coordinate frame to the camera coordinate frame but also ranked less probable transformations by likelihood. The discus- sion is continued with an exploration of different, non-Gaussian uncertainty distributions that result from the process of registering two dimensional images to three dimensional part models. A method for approximating non-Gaussian distributions using Gaussian mixtures is presented and discussed. The work presented in this thesis successfully demonstrates that Bayesian estimation with nondestructive evaluation data will provide superior and more meaningful state estimates while discussing the issues that must be considered in doing this estimation properly

A sample poll to determine the attitude of South End residents of Boston toward recreation in settlement houses

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University, 1947. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

“There’s a Double Meaning in That”: Heroism and Blessedness in Much Ado About Nothing

I have chosen to include this line “There’s a double meaning in that” (spoken by Benedick in Act 2 scene 3) in the title of this analysis as a way of introducing the play’s two heroines: Hero and Beatrice, and my argument that these women’s names at once symbolically exemplify and ironically contrast with their characters’ natures. While referring to scholarship on Shakesperean names, allegory, and societal and gender roles, I will consider the meaning of these names—Hero meaning “hero” and Beatrice meaning “blessed” or “blessing”—and examine the ways that these characters define and are defined by heroism, blessing, and womanhood. Moreover, I will argue that as these characters are so closely knit and supportive of each other, they define and are defined by each other’s names as well as their own. Although I will be focusing on these women, I will also refer to Benedick—whose name can also be translated as “blessed”—and his noteworthy decision to advocate for these women when they find themselves at odds with a male-led society. Ultimately, I will conclude that both Hero and Beatrice are as cursed as they are blessed, as heroic as they are victimized by circumstance, and that these loving and supportive cousins help each other to find happiness by making the most of their name-given, definitive strengths