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Freedom Ride organiser Charles Perkins 'powerful because he was moderate', says veteran journalist

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Charles Perkins, who led the Freedom Ride in New South Wales 50 years ago this week, was a powerful and often uncompromising personality who became the first Aboriginal person to not only complete tertiary education, but to head a Federal Government department.

But his determination to work with the system, not just criticise it from the outside, led veteran journalist Gerald Stone, who covered the first Australian Freedom Ride in 1965, to remember him as "powerful because he was moderate".

Sydney University student Perkins organised the 1965 Australian Freedom Ride, modelled on the Freedom Rides against segregation in America's deep south.

The bus trip was designed to show how much discrimination Aboriginal people in Australian country towns were still encountering.

Stone told the ABC's PM program that Perkins and his fellow riders on the bus trip were very open, allowing people to question their motives and actions along the way.

"You could be very resentful about what was happening," said Stone.

"It would have been so easy [for Perkins] to have become radicalised and make provocative statements, but he wanted to try and win the mainstream of Australian people."

One way of doing that was via media coverage.

Stone, who at the time had recently arrived from America, was working for Sydney afternoon tabloid Daily Mirror at the time.

One of the biggest stories he broke was about segregation at a local swimming pool in the town of Moree.

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Fifth Innovation Centers Summit Workshop to be Held May 19-20, 2015 at Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation in Rochester …

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CRANBURY, NJ (PRWEB) February 17, 2015

BluePrint Healthcare IT announced that its Fifth Innovation Centers Summit Workshop will be held at Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation (CFI) on May 19-20, 2015. Provider-based healthcare innovation centers will be invited to meet at CFIs facility on the Mayo Clinic campus in Rochester, Minnesota. The workshops theme, Engaging the Entire Healthcare Innovation Eco-system in TransformationInside and Out," will be explored over two days. The unique interactive forum will feature participant-generated content in master workshops and breakout brainstorming sessions as well as BluePrint's hallmark speed dating sessions between centers.

Barbara Spurrier, Administrative Director, Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation said, We are excited that BluePrints Summit Workshop will be held at the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. It will be a wonderful opportunity for healthcare innovation centers from across the country to share their best practices and learnings for engaging clinicians, patients, family caregivers, system leadership and external stakeholders in support of healthcare transformation. Just as Mayo Clinic and CFI focus on a collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach toward innovation in healthcare delivery, this event opens up the opportunity for collaboration across the entire landscape of the healthcare innovation eco-system. Attendees will be welcomed with a tour of CFI, added Spurrier, and will have the opportunity to take an optional tour of the Mayo Clinic campus.

The Summit Workshop builds on the participation of nearly 60 provider-based healthcare innovation centers in one or more of the first four Innovation Centers Summit Workshops, according to Mike Squires, Vice President, Innovation and Public Policy at BluePrint Healthcare IT. With the events continued focus on innovation centers and program operations as part of healthcare transformation, Squires said, participants will be inspired by the collaborative and engaged environment of Mayo Clinic and its Center for Innovation. Specific topics surrounding innovation center stakeholder engagement will be based on input from registrants prior to the Summit Workshop.

Potential topics for breakout brainstorming sessions include the role of innovation centers in building multi-disciplinary teams for innovation centers/initiatives; engaging physicians, clinicians beyond physicians, C-suite leadership, patients and family-caregivers; tools for measuring engagement, scaling innovation for diffusion, testing engagement for innovation, building collaborative engagement models, the ROI for engagement and collaborating with external partners.

Innovation center leaders will also lead master workshops in their field of expertise, which will include such topics as engaging patients on health and wellness, using technology to support patient engagement, using disruptive innovation to engage clinicians and patients, using incremental innovation to engage clinicians and patients, measuring engagement in innovation, building a multi-disciplinary team to lead innovation, building cross-collaborative engagement and engaging external partners. A special master workshop is being planned to engage all Summit attendees in a social networking experience.

Mike Squires, Vice President, Innovation and Public Policy of BluePrint Healthcare IT, will chair the event.

Squires said, "Emerging themes from the series of Summit Workshops surround engagement, process and measurement. By focusing on engagement in the upcoming event, the BluePrint Healthcare IT Innovation Exchange (BIX) Summit Series seeks to accelerate more robust communication and collaboration among healthcare stakeholders from CEOs to clinicians to patients and caregivers, and to external partners, with the goal of developing a continuous learning healthcare innovation (centers) eco-system. BluePrints public policy initiative grew out of our focus on innovation as central to healthcare transformation."

In post-Summit feedback, participants generally agreed that the speed dating sessions led to the start of new relationships or encouraged the continuation of existing relationships, and breakout sessions led to thinking through best practices for innovation centers. Attendees have continued to recommend this Workshop to their colleagues.

Twenty to thirty-two innovation centers have participated in each of the first four Summit Workshops. Most recently, the Fourth Summit Workshop took place at The Innovation Institutes Innovation Lab (Newport Beach CA) in fall 2014. The Innovation Institutes members include St. Joseph Health and Bon Secours Health System. Previously, the Third Summit Workshop in the spring of 2014 was held at Johns Hopkins Hospital, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (Baltimore, MD), the second at Kaiser Permanentes Center for Total Health (Washington, DC) in the fall of 2013 and the first at Kaiser Permanente Garfield Innovation Center (San Mateo, CA) in the fall of 2012.

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Ukrainian ‘Cyborgs’ Freed: Ukrainian cyborg soldiers freed in latest prisoner exchange deal – Video

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Hand of a Superhero

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Kevin Liles for The New York Times Ethan Brown, 8, of Opelika, Ala., was born with two fingers missing on his left hand. Now he wears a Cyborg Beast in black and red, his school colors. It looks like Ironman or Spider-Man, he said. The materials for a 3-D-printed prosthetic hand can cost as little as $20.=

Dawson Rivermans parents tried to help him make the best of it.

Born without fingers on his left hand, Dawson struggled to perform even the simplest tasks, like tying his shoes or holding a ball. God made you special in this way, his parents told him. But by age 5, Dawson was demanding tearfully to know why.

The Rivermans, of Forest Grove, Ore., could not afford a high-tech prosthetic hand for their son, and in any event they are rarely made for children. Then help arrived in the guise of a stranger with a three-dimensional printer.

He made a prosthetic hand for Dawson, in cobalt blue and black, and it did not cost his family a thing. Now the 13-year-old can ride a bike and hold a baseball bat. He hopes to play goalkeeper on his soccer team.

Hes realizing he can do things with two hands and not have to try to figure out how do them, said his mother, Dawn Riverman.

The proliferation of 3-D printers has had an unexpected benefit: The devices, it turns out, are perfect for creating cheap prosthetics. Surprising numbers of children need them: One in 1,000 infants is born with missing fingers, and others lose fingers and hands to injury. Each year, about 9,000 children receive amputations as a result of lawn mower accidents alone.

State-of-the-art prosthetic replacements are complicated medical devices, powered by batteries and electronic motors, and they can cost thousands of dollars. Even if children are able to manage the equipment, they grow too quickly to make the investment practical. So most do without, fighting to do with one hand what most of us do with two.

E-nable, an online volunteer organization, aims to change that. Founded in 2013 by Dr. Jon Schull, the group matches children like Dawson in need of prosthetic hands and fingers with volunteers able to make them on 3-D printers. Designs may be downloaded into the machines at no charge, and members who create new models share their software plans freely with others.

The materials for a 3-D-printed prosthetic hand can cost as little as $20 to $50, and some experts say they work just as well, if not better, than much costlier devices. Best of all, boys and girls usually love their D.I.Y. prosthetics.

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The Fall of the Cyborgs, Little Stalingrad Or Ukrainian Alamo by James Dunnigan February 16, 2015

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In eastern Ukraine, on 21th January, the saga of the defenders of Donetsk's airport, also known as "Cyborgs", ended with victory by the pro-Russian rebels. The Cyborgs earned their nickname with their tireless and stalwart defense of the airport for 242 days. This was a motley force consisting of Ukrainian Army soldiers, Territorial Defense soldiers, and volunteers from various paramilitary organizations, including the Right Sector. The Cyborg numbers varied between 100 and 200 throughout their battle. They were periodically supported, resupplied and reinforced by nearby Ukrainian Army units the closest of which were located two kilometers away from the airport terminal building the Cyborgs defended. The support included lots of artillery fire, which was very effective thanks to the Cyborg's forward position and excellent observation posts, especially the airfield's air traffic control tower. In addition there were counterattacks with small units of armor against pro-Russian rebel attempts to encircle the airfield.

Up until January, this setup has functioned reasonably well for the defenders, creating the Cyborg's legend, which in turn provided a great symbol, example, and morale boost for all the Ukrainian forces. However, during the recent de-escalation efforts, Ukrainian forces were forced to limit artillery use and counterattack maneuvers for political reasons. The Minsk Memorandum signed on 19th September urged all sides of the conflict to, among other things, withdraw heavy weaponry 15 kilometers away from the frontlines, withdraw foreign mercenaries, and cease offensive operations. With rebel takeover of the airfield this agreement is dead. To reinforce that rebel leaders have clearly stated that they will ignore the September ceasefire from now on.

Ukraine made serious efforts to honor this agreement in order to preserve the international support it enjoys, while the rebels, since late 2014, began ignoring the ceasefire terms. That meant more rebel artillery fire on the Cyborgs in addition to moving tanks and professional soldiers direct from Russia into this battle. This allowed the rebels to gain launch an offensive that surrounded the airport while also hitting the Cyborgs with continuous artillery and rocket fire. This advance made resupply and reinforcement efforts extremely risky, as the Ukrainian armored vehicles risked being fired on by the tanks and antitank missiles the rebels had moved forward in violation of the ceasefire.

On top of that, on January 13th, all the shelling done so far during the conflict led to the control tower collapsing, depriving the defenders of the ability to see the entire battle area. Noticing the rapidly deteriorating situation of the airport defenders, on January 17th the Ukrainian Army attempted a desperate, poorly organized counterattack against the rebel positions. The Russian troops (with the rebels) expected this and the attack failed with significant Ukrainian losses. The attack might have succeeded had not senior Ukrainian generals, far from Donetsk, not gotten involved with directing the operation. The main problem was that the counterattacking force was too small and the interference by senior commanders led to poor coordination and communication between the attacking units and bad tactical decisions that doomed the relief effort.

With the failed counterattack the Cyborg's were doomed. They were cut off from friendly forces, and the territory they held was pretty much limited to the terminal building, which itself was not the greatest defensive position. Recently built, it had a modern, light structure, which limited the cover provided by it, forcing the defenders to rely on improvised fortifications. The only truly effective cover from artillery fire was provided by the Soviet era tunnels beneath the airfield, which also had to be defended from separatist infiltration attempts.

The rebel troops and tanks attacked the terminal building with the help of some convenient fog. On January 19th, after taking some parts of the terminal, they used demolition charges to collapse parts of the terminal's first floor ceiling, peppering many defenders with a rain of debris which killed and wounded many of them. By the end of the 19th both sides claimed control of the airfield. But by the 21tst Ukraine admitted that the rebels had overrun the area. The rebels claimed to have taken 44 of the defenders alive.

What the rebels won was nothing more than a ruin. There was barely a metal skeleton left where the terminal, built for the Euro 2012 games at the cost of almost $900 million, once stood. Other buildings were also heavily damaged by the shelling, and the runways are full of craters created by constant artillery bombardment. No matter how the civil war ends, this kind of economic damage will take many years to repair, especially in a country as cash-stricken as Ukraine.

How will the Ukrainian forces take the defeat of the brave Cyborgs? Will they take the right lessons from their final battle? Only time will tell.

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Shelley King ~Building a Fire~ at Spinnaker Lounge on the Sandy Beaches Cruise XXI – Video

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NGO calls for seriousness in saving beaches

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Regional News of Monday, 16 February 2015

Source: GNA

Save Our Beaches Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization, has called on stakeholders and government institutions to put measures in place to help fight the negative human activities destroying the coastal belt of the country.

Mining of sand, the practice of open defecation, and throwing of waste along the shores of the beaches, they said, had caused investors great loss, thereby making the beaches unattractive to tourists.

Paa Kwesi Wilson, Founder of the NGO, in an address to mobilise support to halt the practices and save the sea, said the beaches were important national assets that needed investments to turn them into beautiful resorts that would earn the country some foreign exchange.

However, he said, unfortunately, many Ghanaians did not appreciate the value of the beaches, hence they degraded them with their activities.

He warned that the destruction of the beaches could pose serious implications for human existence and wellbeing.

Ms Peace D. Gbeckor-Kove, Programmes Officer of the Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) said the unsafe activities at the beaches had caused erosion, algal bloom and the influx of sargassum species to be forming at the beaches, thus killing aquatic life and leaving the fisher folks unemployed.

She said the dumping of refuse into the sea and not handling waste properly in the country was one of the reasons the EPA embarked on the waste segregation project to help promote the recycling some of these waste materials and to reduce the rate of waste generated.

Ms Gbeckor-Kove recommended the education of people to change their behavior and attitudes towards helping to manage urban waste, reusing and repair of waste produced, saying some of the waste could serve as raw materials for other products.

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The Brant geese are coming – no dogs allowed on Parksville Qualicum beaches

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Local beaches will be closed to dogs again Feb. 15 to April 15 to give the migrating black Brant geese space to fatten up during their long flight up the coast of North America.

"Compliance is up around 95 per cent or higher," said Vancouver Island University professor Greg Klimes. His resource management students help patrol the beaches during the closure.

"People are really good about it and I'd say 99 per cent of the people we do see with dogs on the beach are from out of town and just had no idea," he said.

He said his students provide information and don't argue if people resist, pointing out they don't have any authority. They will report details to conservation officers if people continue to disobey the ban.

Conservation officer Stuart Bates agrees, praising the compliance of most residents and that they have given out very few of the possible $230 fines.

"The geese see any dog as a predator," Bates said, adding the Brant's main predator in the north is the Arctic fox. "If they see a dog from even a distance on a leash they will stop feeding and fly out to sea."

He said it can take hours of feeding to make up for a five-minute-flight like that.

The geese are primarily feeding on eelgrass and herring roe to increase their fat stores.

The beach closures are in effect in Parksville from Doehle Avenue to the Englishman River, plus Rathtrevor Beach, which is also closed to dogs by a separate provincial park ban. People are still allowed to walk their leashed dogs on the boardwalk at Parksville Beach.

Dogs are also banned from the waterfront from the Little Qualicum River delta to Seacroft Road in Qualicum Beach and Columbia Beach in French Creek.

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