The Bevolicher, a carnivorous creature which lives on the flesh of baristas, is reported to be at large. Please report Bevolicher sightings to your local branch of the Masons or Knights Templar, as appropriate. Do not approach the Bevolicher yourself, as it may be dangerously peckish and prone to noxiously obscure foreign film references.
Goddam! My birthday just disappeared!
Sunday, April 27, 2007
On Monday, April 28, Pivot Legal Society director John Conroy will be representing the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users in a 10-day trial challenging the Federal Minister of Health’s ability to close Insite, the safe injection site in Vancouver.
Joe Arvey, representing the Portland Hotel Society which manages the site, will also be testing the federal government’s power to close Insite.
Where: B.C. Supreme Courthouse
When: Monday, April 28, 10am
Duration: 10 days
Case name: VANDU v. AG Canada and Minister of Health; PHS Community Services Society et al v. AG Canada
Presiding Judge: Judge Pitfield
It has been more than four years since Insite, the first supervised injection site in North America, opened with the goal of increasing access to drug treatment, reducing street disorder, and preventing overdose deaths and disease transmission among Vancouver’s drug user population. Numerous scientific studies in medical journals such as the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine have shown the effectiveness of the site in meeting those objectives. The Federal Government’s select advisory committee on Insite also published a report two weeks ago documenting the success of the site.
Despite the medical evidence, the Federal Minister of Health has refused to grant a permanent exemption to Section 56 of the Narcotics Control Act for Insite, which allows the injection of drugs on the facilities. Instead, the Minister has granted to two temporary extensions to the exemption. The most recent exemption is due to expire on June 30, 2008. After that, the future of Insite is uncertain.
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OUR NEXT CLASS RUNS
Wednesday, March 26th
Current course: Blogging for Nonprofits
• What: a hands-on, blog building workshop including advice on how your organization can get the most impact from social media and blogs.
• When: 9 – 4 Wednesday, March 26th
• Where: Tradeworks Training Society, Downtown Vancouver
• Why: Learn to use social media and blogs to complement your organization’s mission. Get a blog up and running in one day with personal instruction in a small, intensive workshop.
This workshop covers blogging issues like:
> what social media can and can’t do for your organization
> posting rich media like podcasts, video, and images
> basic copyright law and accepted practices
> solving basic technical problems, where to find help
> privacy, confidentiality, and the internet
> balancing accessibility and professionalism online
> SEO, publicity, and building your media presence
Tuition is $200 per participant. Please pre-register via email prior to Friday, March 21st. No late registrations will be accepted. Computers are provided; you may bring a laptop if you prefer. Presented by raincoaster media ltd, in partnership with Tradeworks Training Society. Contact or 778-235-0592, bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com .
With class size limited to 6, this will be a program of personalized, intense learning. During the workshop you will create a blog, customize the design, and publish several draft posts including various multimedia formats such as video. You will leave with a functional, professional blog and the skills you need to run and promote it.
Why blog? Check out the creative, effective ways that other nonprofits are using blogs to distribute their message independent of the mainstream media:
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> blogging basics for nonprofits
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Bio: Lorraine Murphy has been blogging for many years, and her flagship blog, raincoaster, is ranked in the top 20,000 blogs in the world. She maintains The Shebeen Club Blog for the literary group of the same name, running through rain for students of her course Blogging to Personal Growth, and Blogger’s Blurt, a resource for beginning WordPress bloggers. She mommyblogs at TeenyManolo and celebrityblogs at Ayyyy!. Ms Murphy is the author of Terminal City: Vancouver’s Missing Women and a former Small Business Columnist at Business in Vancouver newspaper and Occupational Pursuit magazine. As one of the cornerstone volunteers in the WordPress.com technical help forums, she has long experience helping beginning bloggers develop fluency and achievement online.
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stolen from nurse myra at the Gimcrack Hospital who stole it, obviously, from rotten.com
That last line’s a doozy, eh?
Let us now review, apropos of nothing in particular, the difference between Theory and Practice.
The distance between theory and practice is always so much smaller in theory than in practice.
Thank you. That concludes today’s Ugandan Discussion.
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