Giving New Zealand: Philanthropic Funding 2006

This report provides measurement of New Zealanders' philanthropic funding for the 2005/2006 year and what these funds supported

Suitability of the WHO 25 x 25 chronic disease targets and indicators for Australia

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs 2013‐2020 aims to reduce the burden of non‐communicable diseases by 2025, through action on nine targets measured by 25 indicators of performance. While the WHO 25 x 25 targets were cited as a key set of measures for Australia to assess and improve the health of the population, they must be tailored to the Australian context. This paper reviews the nationally available data relevant to the WHO 25 x 25 targets and indicators, identifying any gaps that exist. This report will be used to provoke discussion and inform the development of targets and indicators, based on the WHO model, but tailored to Australia’s population health needs

Price's Law on Nonstationary Spacetimes

In this article we study the pointwise decay properties of solutions to the wave equation on a class of nonstationary asymptotically flat backgrounds in three space dimensions. Under the assumption that uniform energy bounds and a weak form of local energy decay hold forward in time we establish a $t^{-3}$ local uniform decay rate (Price's law \cite{MR0376103}) for linear waves. As a corollary, we also prove Price's law for certain small perturbations of the Kerr metric. This result was previously established by the second author in \cite{Tat} on stationary backgrounds. The present work was motivated by the problem of nonlinear stability of the Kerr/Schwarzschild solutions for the vacuum Einstein equations, which seems to require a more robust approach to proving linear decay estimates.Comment: 32 pages, no figures, typos correcte

Can Hong Kong do without a Cultural Bureau?

I commenced this study with a single question: Can Hong Kong do without a Cultural Bureau? As the respondents fed back over a four-month period, thematic various strands converged. It seems that, by and large, there is a consensus amongst the cultural sector that a Cultural Bureau would be a good idea, though this is highly contingent on a clear and transparent mandate, and a Chief who the cultural sector will support. A Cultural Bureau might solve various issues, such as; fragmentation, centralization, issues concerning perceived value of culture, metrics for measuring success – and other inhibiting factors. Perhaps a more realistic, outcome, however, was the shared view that a unified vision is needed ahead of a Cultural Bureau. The term Cultural Bureau is so politically charged at this moment in Hong Kong’s history, that its chances of survival are slim. Rather late in the study, I chanced upon the Culture and Heritage Commission’s Policy Recommendation Report from 2003 – here was the vision, and the blueprint – though it was incredulously shelved! The discussion has turned back to that report – as many respondents were either not aware of its existence or had forgotten about it. I hope my contribution here, will shine a light on that report and will go some way towards encouraging further debate around the matter.published_or_final_versionMedia, Culture and Creative CitiesMasterMaster of Social Sciences in Media, Culture and Creative Citie

Homeless Prenatal Program's 2012-2013 Annual Report

The Homeless Prenatal Program (HPP) believes every family wants to deliver healthy babies and raise healthy children in a stable and nurturing home. Seizing the motivational opportunity created by pregnancy and parenthood, HPP partners with families to help them recognize their strengths and trust in their own capacity to transform their lives. At the heart of our program is non-judgmental, supportive case management provided by Family Case Managers, the majority of whom were once HPP clients themselves. As the first agency in San Francisco to hire and promote former clients as employees, HPP is unique in that the community it serves has—from the organization's earliest days—guided its growth and evolution

The Prospectus of the Invisible University

This exhibition and research project, helped by Hardingham, is an updating of the famous Locally Available World Unseen Network (L.A.W.u.N.) project that Greene began in the late-1960s while still in Archigram. The original aim, which has now been substantially revised and mutated, was to look at how newly emerging invisible, trans-spatial communication technologies could lead to a new form of Invisible University as a model for tertiary education. In the interim, much of what was once speculation has now come to pass through the advent of the internet, intranet, text messages, etc. – hence this latest presentation for the 2006 London Architecture Biennale showed what the revised version of the project was becoming. As such it involved taking over a newspaper shop, putting up advertising holdings and posters, holding impromptu workshops, and a number of other discrete outputs. The exhibition installation featured in the local press and raised a good deal of discussion. In terms of workload, Greene was responsible for 90% of the research and presentation material used in the exhibition installation and its ancillary outputs, and Hardingham for the other 10% involved in editing it. This latest research work has constantly been disseminated across the world through exhibitions and lectures, with for instance Greene talking about the Invisible University project in connection with the Archigram exhibition in Mito, Japan (December 2004). Elements of the project have also been exhibited at the Architectural Association, ICA, etc. The ongoing scheme for the Invisible University also featured as the subject for a specially invited interdisciplinary design workshop for the ESPRC Ideas Factory in Middlesbrough (May 2006), set up to look at ideas of designing for uncertainty; this event was jointly organised by Greene and Hardingham, and was then attended by many of Britain’s leading mathematicians and scientists

EVOLUTION OF DAIRY GRAZING IN THE 1990'S

A literature review of selected items from 1985 to 2002 shows the evolution of management intensive grazing (MIG) with emphasis primarily on Michigan, and secondarily on the Great Lakes Region. There are sections on 1) Using Pasture, 2) The Technology of MIG, 3) Great Lakes People, 4) Economics of MIG, 5) Private Sector Response, 6) Public Sector Response, 7) Agricultural Experiment Station Response, 8) Conjugated Linoleic Acid, 9) a Disclaimer, and 10) Future Directions for MIG Research. The author also draws on his experience as a farm management extension specialist during those years.Livestock Production/Industries,

Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 21, 1994.

Bryant University Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 21, 1994