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Ddasaccident370, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

The Victim was working on a slope and the initial blast caused him to fall backwards and roll a little way down the hill. The team leader witnessed the explosion and then assisted the Victim to the rest area where they then awaited the arrival of the team medic. [The control group] was notified of the accident and a helicopter CASEVAC was requested. When the medic arrived he applied first aid treatment to his eyes. He was then assisted to the helicopter winch area by the medic and the remainder of the team and awaited the arrival of the CASEVAC …

Ddasaccident370, Hd-Aid

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On the day of the accident at approximately 11:45hrs, the Victim was commencing a clearance lane up the side of a hill. He was investigating a reading from his metal detector by prodding, and was in the kneeling position at the time. Whilst prodding he detonated a PMA3 anti-personnel blast mine.

Ddasaccident367, Hd-Aid

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Approximately 70cm past this 1.2m x 1.2m area was a visual PMR2A. [The Victim] had an indication from his metal detector and was investigating this reading. He had cut the vegetation and was in the process of turning around to get his detector to pin point the reading when he placed the outside of his left foot on the mine and it detonated.

Impact – Information Management, Public Access, Community Transformation: Year One Evaluation Report, September 1, 2000 Through August 31, 2001, Oscar Gutierrez, John Mcgah, Donna H. Friedman

Center for Social Policy Publications

The goals of the IMPACT project are “to improve access to and delivery of human services for low-income residents, strengthen community planning and resource allocation, and enhance understanding of how data on homelessness can be gathered and aggregated on local and national levels to accurately capture the scope of the problem and the effectiveness of efforts to ameliorate it.”

The first year of the IMPACT project was one of infrastructure development in a broad sense. It involved primarily the development and modification of innovative information technology tools as well as the identification, selection and deployment of other information systems designed …

Ddasaccident440, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

HALO Sri Lanka manual demininG SOPs for 100% excavation. He was using the axe hammer tool to excavate the face of his lane down to a depth of 15cm when the detonation occurred. The mine detonated on the left hand side of his lane as he was using the axe hammer.”

Ddasaccident501, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

At approx. 0855 Hrs on Tuesday 11th September 2001 the deminer [the Victim] was fatally injured while performing manual demining duties for [International demining NGO]. The accident was caused by the accidental detonation of Pt Mi Ba III anti-tank mine. It should be noted that the casualty had been accepted to participate in the next Team Leaders course. At the commencement of the shift he was congratulated by all members of GS8 for being accepted for a demining team leader course. He was extremely happy on the day of the accident. He was married with one child and had no …

Pension Reform In Latin America And Its Lessons For International Policymakers By Tapen Sinha Kluwer, Boston: Academic Publishers, 2000., Mukul G Asher

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of The Economy And Welfare Policy On Welfare Accessions: Implications For Future Reforms, Vicky N. Albert, William C. King

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This longitudinal study analyzes the impact of labor market conditions and welfare policies accompanying the 1990s waivers granted by the federal government to California and the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRWOA) on families entering welfare (accessions). A time series model was specified for analyzing the number of families entering welfare from January 1983 to December 1998. The findings suggest that in 1998 under PRWOA, all else constant, there were fewer case openings. Prior to the PRWOA, policy shifts of the 1990s did not have an impact on case openings. The findings also show that under economic recovery …

A New Perspective On Families That Receive Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (Tanf), Christopher R. Larrison, Larry Nackerud, Ed Risler

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

A review of the scholarly literature shows that a number of analyses of welfare are mistakenly based upon the premise that the overwhelming majority of welfare recipients receive benefits because they are young single women who are undereducated and caring for a child either born out of wedlock or abandoned by divorce/separation. The term welfare can encompasses a number of social programs (e.g. Food Stamps, state general assistance programs, Medicaid), but in this paper it refers specifically to Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) or its contemporary Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). In an attempt to calibrate the …

3rd Meeting Of The States Parties To The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (2001), Apmbc

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Managua, 18-21 September 2001

THIRD MEETING OF THE STATES PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE USE, STOCKPILING, PRODUCTION AND TRANSFER OF ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES AND ON THEIR DESTRUCTION

The Transition From Afdc To Prwora In Florida; Perceptions Of The Role Of Case Manager In Welfare Reform, Adela Beckerman, Leonard Fontana

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Welfare reform was implemented in Florida with the passage of WAGES. WAGES' emphasis on support services in preparation for employment portends to be a radical transformation of the "eligibility compliance" organizational culture that had developed under AFDC. Interviews with welfare staff focused on whether WAGES' offices were able to develop the organizational culture and methods of frontline practice needed to implement the goals of welfare reform legislation. The interviews indicate an emerging organizational culture in which case managers readily identify with the mantra of welfare reform. The interviews also indicate a discrepancy between the importance of the case manager role …

Ddasaccident372, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

[The Team Leader] then proceeded to step over the base stick at the end of the lane into the uncleared area. He has stated he did this in order to investigate the tripwire and identify the location of the PMR2A fragmentation mine. No one witnessed him at this time, and at 09:35hrs an uncontrolled detonation was heard in the location of where [the Victim] had walked.

Ddasaccident311, Hd-Aid

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The victim was conducting a “full-excavation” drill wearing a protective vest (RBR), a full-face visor with headband, and gloves. He was using a gardening tool/hand trowel and as he worked, he activated an M14 mine with the trowel.

Ddasaccident405, Hd-Aid

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The work-site leader, [the Victim], came to deminer [Deminer 1] at 9:20 to measure and record the positions of the mines he had found. During that process he noticed a PMA-2 in the waste [on the ground?] next to his left foot. During the exit of deminers from the lane and due to his own movements he activated [another] PMA-2, from which explosion he suffered heavy injuries (with the consequent amputation of his left foot).

Ddasaccident348, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

One deminer in team two notified his Section Leader that he had found a fuse in his lane. The Section Leader removed the fuse by lifting it and left the lane. Once back to his control point he decided to disarm the fuse by using a needle. When he opened the booster the fuse detonated.

Treatment Staff Burnout: Measuring The Effect Of Administrative Support In Adult Male Prisons, Brett Garland

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

For the past few decades, criminologists have evaluated the success of treatment programs as the primary strategy to identify the best ways to lower offender recidivism. In doing so, they have repeatedly overlooked staff burnout as a potential barrier to rehabilitation. Because past research in human service agencies in general and prisons in particular has found organizational and administrative shortcomings to have the greatest impact on job strain and discomfort, this exploratory study examined the relationship between administrative support and the burnout of prison treatment staff. Burnout, the dependent variable, was measured by a modified version of an exhaustion index …

The Child Care Problem For Low-Income Working Families, Jean Kimmel

Reports

No abstract provided.

Ddasaccident374, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

At approximately 08:40 hrs whilst Deminer [name excised] was either investigation a previously identified signal with his probe, or attempting to move a rock with his probe, an uncontrolled detonation of a PMA-3 anti-personnel blast mine occurred.

Ddasaccident402, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

On the morning of the accident a pile of mines were discovered at the base of a large tree approximately 7 metres before the seat of the explosion, this pile consisted of 8 x PMR2A, 1 x PMA1 and 1 x PMA2. [The Victim] had disarmed these mines and they were removed. The clearance lane then continued. In this lane there is a large rock, and beside this rock a PMR2A was discovered as well as 3 x PMA2. These mines were all disarmed and removed. The deminer was continuing with the clearance of this lane when [the Victim] came …

Celibacy, Sexual Exclusivity, And Illicit Drug Abstinence: Giving Up The Life As Taboo In Aids Prevention, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article highlights social cognitions that seem to impede cost-effective approaches to AIDS prevention.

Ddasaccident005, Hd-Aid

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The demining group were clearing an 80km stretch of road using mine-dog teams and manual demining methods. They began work in November 1999. Work was suspended during the period of National floods, then restarted. They had cleared “approximately 43km” at the time of the accident. During the clearance task the demining team had found “1 UXO, 377 SAA of AKM” and 1724 pieces of metal.

Ddasaccident322, Hd-Aid

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This minefield is PMA 3 Anti Personnel Blast minefield with the mines laid in a very dense pattern. All minefields in the Koshare area are cleared by prodding and excavation drills [detectors not used]. At 10:55 whilst Victim No.1 was conducting manual clearance, he stepped over his base stick and detonated a PMA3 blast mine.

Ddasaccident387, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

The mine accident happened at 10:00 hrs on the 3rd July 2001 while the [Demining group] were conducting manual clearance operations at minefield GY002. The deminer had a signal when using his mine detector which he investigated with a prodder and then excavated using a trowel. After exposing the item that had given the signal the deminer removed it from the ground using his right hand. The item exploded.

Ddasaccident462, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

Mine exploded during excavation

Standing Against Censorship—Again, Alisa Solomon

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Good afternoon. I'm Alisa Solomon, the executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Cay Studies (CLAGS) at the City University of New York, and I'm glad to be here on behalf of CLAGS to voice our strong objection to Mayor Giuliani's so-called Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission. We at CLAGS are not fooled by the Mayor's disingenuous assertions that this committee is merely a group of concerned citizens exercising their free speech in offering him their advice, for we recognize many of the members as long-time activists in the effort to squelch dissident viewpoints and legislate their own narrow morality. …

Discrimination And Segregation In Housing, Kelly Derango

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Loosening The Bounds Of Human Rights: Global Justice And The Theory Of Justice, Christina Jones-Pauly

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

Bounds of Justice by Onora O’Neill. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 219pp.

Ddasaccident278, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

During the work, an unnamed TCN decided to light a PMN booster apparently “to frighten his mates”. The resulting explosion slightly damaged soft tissue on his hand.

Ddasaccident278, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

A commercial company was awarded an extensive contract that included the clearance of trenches along the coast in Kuwait city. The UXO that was safe to be collected was removed by “gangs” of ex-pat supervised Thai workers. Called “TCNs” (Third Country Nationals) the Thai workers were reported to have been given a one-day UXO handling course. They were not issued protective equipment.

During the work, an unnamed TCN decided to light a PMN booster apparently “to frighten his mates”. The resulting explosion slightly damaged soft tissue on his hand.

Ddasaccident306, Hd-Aid

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The victim was squatting while carrying out a “full excavation clearance” drill in the lane. He was using an unauthorised digging tool when he detonated a VS50 anti-personnel mine. The excavation tool is use was a Garden Trowel. The excavation tool was being used in a pushing motion rather than a scraping motion.