Findings From RAISE Act Research: Family Caregiver Priorities

To understand the needs and policy priorities of family caregivers, the Advisory Council commissioned research: first, through a request for information (RFI) in the Federal Register, which garnered roughly 1600 responses. Qualitative analysis revealed that family caregivers have diverse needs spanning their financial security as well as their needs for caregiver-focused supports; recommendations were similarly diverse, including requests for caregiver pay, improved access to respite, and other major policy changes. These findings fed into 12 focus groups focusing on diverse populations of caregivers, yielding more depth around caregiver priorities. Six stakeholder listening sessions built on these results, aiming to develop concrete suggestions for a national caregiver strategy – a key outcome of the Advisory Council. Such strategies ranged from a major publicity campaign creating awareness of family caregivers, to suggestions on implementing caregiver assessments, to more ambitious goals such as improved financing for long term services and supports more broadly.

Strategies for an Efficient Official Publicity Campaign

We consider the process of opinion formation, in a society where there is a set of rules B that indicates whether a social instance is acceptable. Public opinion is formed by the integration of the voters’ attitudes which can be either conservative (mostly in agreement with B) or liberal (mostly in disagreement with B and in agreement with peer voters). These attitudes are represented by stable fixed points in the phase space of the system. In this article we study the properties of a perturbative term, mimicking the effects of a publicity campaign, that pushes the system from the basin of attraction of the liberal fixed point into the basin of the conservative point, when both fixed points are equally likely.

Nature in the Dark - Public Space for More-than-Human Encounters

Drawing on the continuing work of the Nature in the Dark (NITD) project, an art collaboration and publicity campaign between the Centre for Creative Arts (La Trobe University) and the Victorian National Parks Association (VNPA), this paper aims to explore some of the disciplinary crossovers between art, science and philosophy as encountered by this project and to think about their implications for an environmental ethics more generally. Showcasing animal life from Victoria, Australia, the NITD video series I and II invited international artists to create video works inspired by ecological habitat surveys from the Victorian National Parks land and water. Videos and photographs originally used to identify animals and population sizes are now creatively repurposed and presented to new audiences. NITD negotiate ‘the distribution of the sensible’ (Rancière), as they mark the domain of what is accessible to the public. This paper relates the discussion in the contemporary arts about the politics of aesthetics with the ethical conundrum of how we might care about something that is beyond our reach and we are not yet aware of, given our own perceptual blind spots. Drawing on a conversation between the philosopher Georgina Butterfield and myself as an artist and curator, this paper argues that we cannot justify setting arbitrary limits on our valuing, questioning or understanding of the non-human world, and as such it is a position both the philosopher and artist share. While it may be an ultimately unreachable goal, it is paradoxically an essential starting point for ecological ethics.

Chapter 9

Chapter 9 explores the Paramount publicity campaign that cast Cary Grant and Randolph Scott as Hollywood’s most eligible bachelors, and it details Grant’s return visit to Bristol in 1933. While Grant appeared in weak films such as Alice in Wonderland (1933) and Born to Be Bad (1934), the studio attempted to build his name with publicity photographs that pictured him with Scott in the home that they shared. These photographs have been mistaken in recent times (and by previous biographers) as private snapshots revealing that the two men were lovers. In fact, the photographs were commissioned by Paramount, and they were carefully staged to appeal to the many women readers of film fan magazines, where they appeared many times in the mid-1930s. Grant’s return to Bristol, meanwhile, was one of the most tumultuous episodes in his life. The trip was meant to be a triumphant homecoming accompanied by his best friend (Scott) and his fiancé (Virginia Cherrill). However, his father took this opportunity to reveal that his mother was still alive, and that she had been in the asylum for nearly 19 years. Grant himself was hospitalized for several weeks after this revelation, although the nature of his illness remains a mystery. On release, he married Cherrill in a hasty ceremony in London, and returned to Hollywood to resume his career.

Conclusion

This chapter assesses the significance of the Russian Orthodox's publicity campaign in Paris. It explains how the Orthodox publicists found sympathy in some quarters and successfully initiated a reappraisal of Russian church–state relations in the West. It also discusses the sense of historical destiny that spurred further efforts to enhance Orthodoxy's global visibility and prestige. The chapter illustrates imperial Russia and its church that were seen as threats to European civilization from the standpoint of liberalism and Roman Catholicism. It mentions the joint agreement signed by Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis in February 2016 that suggests an alignment of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches on many issues.

China’s Belt and Road revamp will be a slow process

Subject China's second Belt and Road Forum. Significance At the closure of the second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on April 27, President Xi Jinping announced that deals worth more than 64 billion dollars were signed during the event. However, domestic media coverage of the forum was more subdued than in 2017, as was the publicity campaign in the run-up to it, amid deepening international criticism of the wider Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Impacts China’s geopolitical rivals will distrust its intentions no matter what, and will not warm much even to a reformed BRI. Private sector participation in BRI projects will be encouraged in line with a new emphasis on commercial viability. The BRI will not become truly multilateral because Beijing will not surrender its controlling role.

Towards an Uptake Framework for the Green Building Concept in Ghana: A Theoretical Review

The Green Building Concept (GBC), has become a topical issue and is receiving global attention as a potential solution to numerous adverse effects of construction activity both climatically and environmentally. Globally, the construction industry alone consumes 50% of all resources, 45% of all Energy and adds to 35% of CO2 emissions. Several developed countries has embraced the GBC as the most formidable solution to the preservation of their natural resources and cutting down on the negative impacts of construction on the climate and environment. However, uptake of the concept in the Ghana Construction industry is very minimal and not at the desired rate with only four (4) certified green buildings. This creates a fragile environment which undermines Ghana’s efforts at realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).A critical review of literature is conducted exploring the implementation of the GBC in Ghana. Through discussions, the research established the present status of the practice in Ghana as well as the drivers responsible for this current state. The implications of these drivers in the Ghana construction industry are discussed as well. For an increased uptake of the concept in Ghana and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), key measures to ensure rapid uptake are recommended to include; a national education, awareness and publicity campaign, the imposition of mandatory government regulations and policies and the provision of financial and market-based incentives amongst others.

My Data Is Mine

In August 2018, several European consumer associations have launched a lawsuit against Facebook arguing that “My data is mine,” but chose not to boycott the social network in its publicity campaign. The DECO FAQ list reveals why associations did not call for a boycott: they chose instead to use Facebook to disseminate information and to answer questions consumers might have. The argument presented by the associations confronts us with intricate questions concerning the nature of civil society, mainly with respect to the linkage between the market and the public sphere. Generally, critical theorists think that the realms of necessity and freedom are found incompatible with one another. The public sphere is considered as the realm of pure freedom where citizens deliberate matters concerning the destiny of the polis. The civil society is concerned with profit and with providing for material needs. The present paper approaches these questions by considering the nature of institutional configurations of contemporary digital capitalism and, also, the kind of interactions among social agents that act inside it. Are corporate digital networks (Facebook, YouTube, etc.) permeable enough to communicative rationality to make us believe that they can host a culture of convergence and cooperative interaction among social agents such that can aspire to a rational public sphere? To answer those queries, this paper develops a) a literature review on the contradictions of modern contemporary cognitive capitalism; b) a critical analysis of activists’ statements against the use of digital networks; c) support for a critical literacy approach that identifies textual structures and contextual frameworks in digital public debate.

Imagining Insurance in Japanese High Schools during the Era of Rapid Modernisation: From ‘Distrust’ to the Japanese ‘Spirit’

Individual private insurance is a risk-management practice that plays an important role in many people’s lives. Despite its prominence in industrialised countries, it remains an understudied area in Japan studies, where most work has focused on social insurance. Using insights from the governmentality literature, and in particular François Ewald’s concept of an ‘insurantial imaginary’, we examine the changing perceptions towards private non-life insurance during Japan’s period of high growth and rapid modernisation (1964–1992). While individual private insurance developed in Western Europe and the US over hundreds of years, it did not take off in Japan until the early postwar era. We argue that, like in Western Europe and the US, individual private insurance in Japan had to overcome normative resistance. The norms in Japan, however, were different. To illustrate this, we look at winning essays from an annual high school writing competition run by the Japanese insurance industry as part of a wide-ranging publicity campaign. We conclude that private insurance in Japan passed through four stages of moral understanding to successfully incorporate existing counter norms centred on ‘sincerity’ and ‘mutual aid’. What was initially viewed with ‘distrust’ ended up as a supposed manifestation of the Japanese ‘spirit’.

Conteúdos de língua Portuguesa em videoaulas para o ENEM

RESUMO: Discussões em torno da utilização de ferramentas tecnológicas no âmbito educacional têm suscitado o interesse de pesquisadores. Tal interesse se dá por meio da emergência de práticas de ensino com novos modelos e características que ampliem a compreensão de aula, espaço e tempo. Ao considerar esse contexto, constituem-se como perguntas desta pesquisa: que estratégia de abordagem do conteúdo de Língua Portuguesa prevalece em videoaulas do projeto “ENEM na palma da mão”? E qual a relação entre a estratégia de ensino nos eixos de leitura e de escrita e a concepção de ensino em função da recorrência dos conteúdos?No intuito de respondê-las, estabelecemos como objetivo geral analisar o funcionamento didático-pedagógico das videoaulas do referido projeto, e, de forma específica, identificar a estratégia de abordagem presente nas videoaulas, relacionando-a à concepção de ensino de LP. Nossa pesquisa tem características de natureza qualiquantitativa, sob um viés descritivo-interpretativista, e envolve a análise de quatro videoaulas que abordam os conteúdos “Leitura de textos multimodais (Tirinha e Charge)”, “Leitura de textos multimodais (Propaganda e Campanha Publicitária)”, “Estrutura e características do gênero dissertativo-argumentativo” e “Coerência, Coesão e Operadores Argumentativos”. Baseamo-nos teoricamente em Pfromm Netto (2011); Rodrigues; Schmidt e Marinho (2011), entre outros, para discutir a utilização da videoaula enquanto ferramenta da EaD, e em Zabala (1998), Mendes (2005), entre outros que permitem tratar das concepções de ensino, conteúdos de ensino e a didatização. Os resultados sinalizam a recorrência de mesma estratégia de abordagem de ensino em diferentes eixos e conteúdos de Língua Portuguesa. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: videoaula; concepções de ensino; conteúdos de língua portuguesa; didatização. ABSTRACT: Discussions around the use of technological tools in the educational field have aroused the interest of researchers. Such interest comes through the emergence of teaching practices with new models and characteristics that expand the understanding of class, space and time. By considering this context, questions are constituted for this research: what strategy to approach the content of Portuguese prevails in videotapes of the project “ENEM in the palm of the hand”? And what is the relation between the teaching strategy in the reading and writing axes and the conception of teaching in function of the recurrence of the contents? In order to answer them, we established as a general objective to analyze the didactic-pedagogical functioning of the videotapes of the said project, and, in a specific way, to identify the strategy of approach present in videotapes and to relate it to the conception of LP teaching. Our research has characteristics of a qualitative nature, under a descriptive-interpretative bias and involves the analysis of four videotapes that deal with the contents “Reading of multimodal texts (Comic strip and charge)”, “Reading of multimodal texts (Advertising and Publicity Campaign)”, “Structure and characteristics of the essay-argumentative genre” and “Coherence, Cohesion and Argumentative Operators”. We base ourselves theoretically on Pfromm Netto (2011); Rodrigues; Schmidt; Marinho (2011); among others, to discuss the use of videotapes as a tool for EDA and in Zabala (1998), Mendes (2005), among others that allow us to deal with conceptions of teaching, teaching contents and didatization. The results indicate the recurrence of the same strategy of teaching approach in different axes and contents of Portuguese Language.. KEYWORDS: videotapes; conceptions of teaching; Portuguese language content; didatization.