Inclusivity and Indie Authors: the Case for Community-Based Publishing

African Americans remain marginalized within the children’s publishing industry, despite the 2014 increase in books about Africans/African Americans. This sudden spike was not paired with a comparable increase in the number of books by Blacks, however, suggesting that power remains where it has always been: in the hands of whites. The homogeneity of the publishing workforce matches the homogeneity of published authors and their books. The marginalization of writers of color is the result of very deliberate decisions made by gatekeepers within the children’s literature community—editors, agents, librarians, and reviewers. These decisions place insurmountable barriers in the path of far too many talented writers of color. In this essay I advocate for a model of community-based publishing that uses printon- demand technology to transfer power from the industry’s (mostly white) gatekeepers to those excluded from the publishing process. I will also demonstrate how public libraries place additional barriers in the path of writers of color by adhering to policies that prevent self-published books from being acquired. Indie authors and their books offer important counter-narratives that cannot easily circulate—particularly in low-income communities—without the assistance of libraries and informed, nonbiased librarians

To Build A Home

It is in our nature as humans to want for a home, a point of origin to start from and safe place to return at journey\u27s end. When that place is lost, we risk becoming lost too. This body of work is an exploration of how the spaces we occupy shape us. It\u27s location is focused on the American landscape in an attempt to explore the ideals that have developed within the psyche of the American culture, and what happens to those dreams when expectations do not mirror reality. I am particularly interested in socially and geographically vulnerable locations. Places that are in liminal states of existence because of tragedy or economic failure.! What happens when we do not just lose our sense of home, but we lose the very geographic location that we once knew as home? Can home ever truly be found again once it has been lost? It is hard to ignore the ever more pressing issues surrounding population, social class, energy crisis, and depletion of natural resources. When our economic decisions overshadow our human and cultural needs we risk far more than just losing the building we call home or the streets that collectively makeup that location. We risk losing our values, morals, history, and even future. The particular interest of this body of work comes from my own personal experiences as well as borrowed stories. Born in a Pennsylvania oil refinery town, I am no stranger to the perils of the over-consumption of natural resources. As a former resident of Oakland, CA, a socially vibrant city, perpetually in an economically and geographically vulnerable position, I have developed a sensitivity to the unique relationship that a cultural sense of belonging has on the urban psyche and landscape. As a current resident of Rochester, NY, a rustbelt city living in the shadow of the monoliths of its cultural prowess, I have cultivated an appreciation for the historical significance of specific local and the role that memory plays in shaping one\u27s sense of home. It is places like this that stir my imagination and sympathies. I have gathered and collected these homes that have shaped me. They will now travel with me as memories and stories that guide this work, to honor the very idea of home in all of its manifestations

Identification of Critical Path Changes and Concurrent Delays Using EDAM Method for Building Project

Achieving a project whose punctually in completion date and duration is one of the main purposes of the project planning. However, avoiding the issue of the delay is hard to do. Delays itself commonly divided into three types, EN, EC and NE delays that represent the contribution of each project parties. Furthermore, the concurrent delay is at different levels that often use as a tool against each other parties. In term of preventing the time-frame problems, the critical path method (CPM) is widely applied. In the delay analysis technique, the EDAM method employs CPM to identify the critical path changes and the occurred concurrent delays. Implementing a six-floor building as-planned schedule and its delays information as a case study, this research results show that the critical path of the building has changed eight times and the concurrent delay occurred on the first change with six days of delays. By identifying the critical path change, project parties are expected to be able to prevent continuously delays by escalating the work progress. Furthermore, the information about concurrent delays would be essential in avoiding disputes regarding this issue. Project parties would be aware of their contribution to critical path changes by knowing their caused delay in that time period

The Association of Relief Status of the Farm Operators in South Dakota with the Size of Farms Operated and with Various Personal Characteristics of the Farm Operators

The purpose of this thesis is to determine the extent the relief status of the farm operator in South Dakota may be associated with various sizes of farms maintained. The author offers this particular study as one that has a decided bearing upon the relief situation in South Dakota 1934 to 1936 as that problem was decreased or augmented by the size of farm. The problem of relief, in the past discussed as poverty and pauperism, has been considered essentially a social problem. Poverty has been thought and written of as a pathological social condition, although few sociological students have considered the problem entirely apart from the economic field. Social and economic students of today are discussing the problem as a joint responsibility. This thesis shows the relationship of the sociological factor, poverty, as determined by the relief status of the South Dakota farmer, and the economic factor, size of farm operated

UPAYA PREVENTIF PENYEBARAN VIRUS CORONA DI DESA PANCAWATI KECAMATAN KLARI PADA BALITA DIHUBUNGKAN DENGAN PERATURAN PEMERINTAH REPUBLIK INDONESIA NOMOR 2 TAHUN 2OI8 TENTANG STANDAR PELAYANAN MINIMAL

Sejak awal tahun 2020, Indonesia dilanda musibah yaitu dengan adanya wabah viruscorona yang menyebabkan penyakit Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Viruscorona ini termasuk ke dalam golongan β-coronavirus (Adnan et al., 2020). Infeksi virusCorona, atau yang dikenal juga dengan sebutan COVID-19, merupakan penyakit yangmenyerang sistem pernapasan. Penderita COVID-19 sejauh ini kebanyakan adalah orangdewasa. Namun, kasus pada anak-anak juga telah dilaporkan, termasuk pada balita.Pasalnya, gejala COVID-19 pada anak cenderung ringan seperti pilek biasa, atau bahkanbisa tanpa gejala. Hal ini diduga karena pada anak-anak, kelenjar timus yang terlibat dalamsistem imun tubuh masih bekerja secara maksimal. Permasalah dalam penelitian ini adalahbagaimana upaya preventif penyebaran virus corona di desa Pancawati di hubungkandengan Undang-undang Kesehatan nomor 36 tahun 2009 tentang kesehatan. metode yangdigunakan adalah yuridis empiris yaitu mendapatkan informasi secara langsungdilapangan. Untuk upaya pecegahan yang dilakukan oleh petugas kesehatan kecamatanklari adalah Kegiatan rutin yang sering dilakukan yaitu Posyandu dengan pemberianVitamin A dan Polio pada balita. Namun, karena dampak dari pandemi, semua kegiatanatau aktivitas diluar rumah harus menerapkan standar protokol kesehatan. Salah satukegiatan posyandu saat ini yaitu pemberian vitamin A dan polio pada balita namun untukmembantu Pemerintah dalam memutus rantai penyebaran virus COVID-19 maka kegiatanposyandu tetap berjalan dengan metode door to door.Kata kunci :, Desa Pancawati, Kecamatan Klari, COVID-1

ANALISIS KEBUTUHAN TENAGA KERJA MENGGUNAKAN METODE RESOURCES LEVELING PADA PEKERJAAN STRUKTUR BAWAH GEDUNG BERTINGKAT

Abstrak: Analisis Kebutuhan Tenaga Kerja Menggunakan Metode Resources Leveling Pada Pekerjaan Struktur Bawah Gedung Bertingkat. Proyek konstruksi merupakan suatu kegiatan yang dilakukan dengan tujuan tertentu dan dibatasi oleh satuan waktu. Dalam pelaksanaannya setiap proyek konstruksi memiliki rencana penjadwalan yang harus diikuti. Keberhasilan rencana penjadwalan dipengaruhi oleh sumber daya, waktu, dan biaya. Pada umumnya kontraktor cenderung fokus pada optimalisasi waktu dan biaya, sehingga tidak jarang mengesampingkan sumber daya yang diperlukan, terutama dalam hal tenaga kerja. Dimana sumber daya tenaga kerja yang mengalami fluktuasi atau alokasinya tidak rata dapat menjadi penghambat dalam penyelesaian proyek. Berdasarkan hal tersebut, Resources Leveling menjadi penting dilakukan sebagai upaya untuk mengalokasikan pembagian tenaga kerja. Dari hasil analisis diketahui bahwa jumlah pekerja yang dibutuhkan untuk setiap pekerjaan bervariasi bergantung pada besarnya bobot pekerjaan, koefisien pekerja, serta durasi pelaksanaannya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pekerja yang digunakan dalam proyek mengalami overallocated resources atau tenaga kerja yang dibutuhkan melebihi tenaga kerja yang tersedia. Analisis Resources Leveling menjadikan manajemen tenaga kerja tersusun secara optimal. Resources Leveling membantu pelaksana untuk lebih memberdayakan pekerja yang ada sesuai dengan kebutuhan di lapangan. Selain itu, metode ini juga dapat memprediksi waktu penyelesaian proyek sehingga memudahkan pelaksana untuk membuat beberapa pilihan sebelum memutuskan pemerataan mana yang terbaik. Sebagai contoh pada tanggal 6 september kebutuhan pekerja sebelum leveling adalah 131 orang, setelah dilakukan leveling kebutuhan pekerja menjadi 70 orang. Hal tersebut menunjukkan bahwa terjadi disparitas atau selisih sebesar -87,14%. Lebih lanjut, perubahan alokasi tenaga kerja tersebut mengakibatkan adanya pergeseran waktu mulai pekerjaan, sehingga durasi total proyek yang seharusnya selesai dalam 76 hari berubah menjadi 88 hari atau lebih lambat 12 hari. Kata kunci: Proyek; Tenaga Kerja; Perataan Sumber daya; Resources Leveling; Overallocated Resources. Abstract: Analysis of Manpower Needs Using the Resources Leveling Method in the Work of the Lower Structure of Multi-storey Buildings. A construction project is an activity carried out with a specific purpose and is limited by a unit of time. In practice, every construction project has a scheduling plan that must be followed. The success of the scheduling plan is influenced by resources, time, and costs. In general, contractors tend to focus on optimizing time and costs, so it is not uncommon for them to neglect the resources needed, especially in terms of manpower. Where labor resources fluctuate or their allocation is uneven can become an obstacle in project completion. Based on this, Resources Leveling becomes important as an effort to allocate the division of labor. From the results of the analysis it is known that the number of workers needed for each job varies depending on the size of the work weight, the worker coefficient, and the duration of the implementation. The results of the study show that the workers used in the project experience overallocated resources or the required workforce exceeds the available workforce. Resources Leveling analysis makes workforce management optimally structured. Resources Leveling helps executors to better empower existing workers according to the needs in the field. In addition, this method can also predict project completion time, making it easier for implementers to make several choices before deciding which distribution is the best. For example, on September 6, the need for workers before leveling was 131 people, after leveling, the need for workers was 70 people. This shows that there is a disparity or difference of -87.14%. Furthermore, the change in labor allocation resulted in a shift in the start time of work, so that the total duration of the project which should have been completed in 76 days changed to 88 days or 12 days slower. Keyword: Project; Labor; Resource Alignment; Resources Leveling; Overallocated Resources