During this Open House, the community will review draft action items for the South Acton Village Zoning District as well as explore draft zoning changes for allowed uses, dimensional standards, and designs for new buildings.
The Forest Resource Assessment is a comprehensive look at South Dakota's tree and forest resources and discusses their extent, condition, threats, and opportunities. As such, it provides a unique foundation upon which to develop long-term strategic goals and actions for sustainably managing our state's rural and community forest resources.
Situated in West Seattle, the South Delridge community is made up of several neighborhoods, such as Roxhill, Westwood, Delridge, and Highland Park. South Delridge is a culturally diverse community with commercial areas that serve southern West Seattle and White Center.
Community members in the area last completed a vision and accompanying policies to help shape the growth and investment in their neighborhood over 20 years ago. For many years, community members have expressed a desire to update their vision.
This community planning process includes the Westwood-Highland Park Urban Village, and the surrounding South Delridge neighborhoods where people gather, shop, seek services, and recreate, that are important to communities living in the planning area. An exact planning area is being determined through the initial engagement process.
Community members will be involved in every step of defining the project, developing a vision, identifying strategies, and taking action.
During the second half of 2022, we will participate in community events and host gatherings for community members to provide their input.
Residents raised concerns about excessive planning work with limited results, so we shifted from the original approach to work to move past recommended projects or programs forward. Developing an action plan with accountability measures and clear tasks became the top priority. Engagement with the public was primarily conducted through the Resident Advocacy Council, a youth event, festivals, and any potential future meetings the RAC would like to host.
Kathy Schuth serves as executive director of the Near Northwest Neighborhood, Inc., (NNN), a non-profit community development corporation with a focus on the revitalization of the NNN through providing affordable housing, engaging community and building leadership, representing the interests of the neighborhood within the wider community, and fostering an inclusive and diverse neighborhood. Kathy is a licensed architect, a ND graduate, and her previous work experience has been drawn from Urban Design Associates in Pittsburgh, and locally with Duncan Stroik, and with Alliance Architects. Climate action areas of greatest interest include renewable energy sources, and electric vehicles.
David Yang is a civic innovation fellow at enFocus Inc., a local non-profit, working on community development projects. Some of his projects include a city workforce development pilot program and building a data dashboard for the Northern Indiana Hispanic Health Coalition. He recently graduated with a B.S. from the University of Michigan in economics, and is excited to facilitate meaningful conversations for climate action. David is passionate about active transportation and expanding the climate workforce. In his free time, he enjoys running, playing the cello, and winning at bar trivia.
The South Asian population is rapidly ageing and sarcopenia is likely to become a huge burden in this region if proper action is not taken in time. Several sarcopenia guidelines are available, from the western world and from East Asia. However, these guidelines are not fully relevant for the South Asian healthcare ecosystem. South Asia is ethnically, culturally, and phenotypically unique. Additionally, the region is seeing an increase in non-communicable lifestyle disease and obesity. Both these conditions can lead to sarcopenia. However, secondary sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity are either not dealt with in detail or are missing in other guidelines. Hence, we present a consensus on the screening, diagnosis and management of sarcopenia, which addresses the gaps in the current guidelines. This South Asian consensus gives equal importance to muscle function, muscle strength, and muscle mass; provides cost-effective clinical and easy to implement solutions; highlights secondary sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity; lists commonly used biomarkers; reminds us that osteo-arthro-muscular triad should be seen as a single entity to address sarcopenia; stresses on prevention over treatment; and prioritizes non-pharmacological over pharmacological management. As literature is scarce from this region, the authors call for more South Asian research guided interventions.
Indiana University takes affirmative action, positive and extraordinary, to overcome the discriminatory effects of traditional policies and procedures with regard to people with disabilities, minorities, women, and veterans.
At Indiana University South Bend, the Office of Institutional Equity and Inclusive Excellence is a leader, a partner and a resource for educating the community and creating dialogues about equal opportunity, affirmative action and inclusive excellence. We work to prevent harassment, discrimination and retaliation as well as to assure the provision of reasonable accommodations for disability and religion.
Civil society can also reach out to the SAIEVAC Regional Secretariat directly and find out what meetings are happening in their country in relation to the action plan to offer their expertise and insights. Where participation is not possible, civil society can organise parallel events to promote broader discussion around key issues that the regional action plan aims to address.
With the 19th SAARC Summit happening in November this year, we have a chance to reinforce the commitments in the regional action plan by ensuring that the issue of child marriage is raised during the Summit.
The defendants allegedly defrauded programs entrusted for the care of the elderly and disabled, and, in some cases, used the proceeds of the schemes to purchase luxury items, including exotic automobiles, jewelry, and yachts. In connection with the enforcement action, the Department seized or restrained millions of dollars in cash, automobiles, and real estate.
The charges also targeted over $150 million in false billings submitted in connection with other types of health care fraud, including the illegal distribution of opioids and clinical laboratory testing fraud. This enforcement action includes charges against 24 physicians and other licensed medical professionals who lined their own pockets, including doctors who allegedly put their patients at risk by illegally providing them with opioids they did not need. The charges also include cases where healthcare companies, physicians, and other providers paid cash kickbacks to patient recruiters and beneficiaries in return for patient information, so that the providers could submit fraudulent bills for Medicare reimbursement.
The Center for Program Integrity of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CPI/CMS) separately announced that it took adverse administrative actions in the last six months against 90 medical providers for their alleged involvement in health care fraud.
Political leaders and social movements in the Global South are aware of these facts. For years, they have been calling for more dramatic action from governments in the Global North, whose per capita emissions remain far higher than the rest of the world. But their pleas fall on deaf ears. None of the Western governments is on track to meet their fair share of the Paris agreement goals. Why? Because to achieve sufficiently rapid emissions reductions will require rich economies to dramatically reduce their energy use.
It is unlikely that Western governments will do this voluntarily. We can hope that the climate movement will push them, but the movement itself is divided on this issue, with a large faction insisting on growth-as-usual. Why should the South wait around for a miracle to occur? Why gamble everything on the goodwill of states that have never cared about the interests of the South or the welfare of its people?
Governments fear taking these steps because they know that Western capital would punish them for it. But moving towards economic sovereignty would dramatically limit that leverage. Collective action is also essential here. As the anti-colonial leaders of the 20th century emphasised: we are stronger together than we are alone. If Southern governments unite and take these steps as a bloc, it would be difficult for anyone to stop them. Climate change is playing out along colonial lines, and it requires an anti-colonial movement in response.
Yeah, ridiculous that 3.5 years into development it was released with zero instant action options.
But what's kinda hilarious is the fanbois saying, 'It's early access! They probably didn't have time to add them!' and in the same breath saying, 'It only takes 3 seconds do it yourself!'
Do you see how these statements are kinda contradictory and self-defeating?