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COVID-19 and Its Implications for the Sendai Framework
Progress in Disaster Science 6 (2020) 100080 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Progress in Disaster Science journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/pdisas Invited ViewPoint Building resilience against biological hazards and pandemics: COVID-19 and its implications for the Sendai Framework ⁎ Riyanti Djalante a,b,RajibShawb,c, ,AndrewDeWitd a Academic Programme Officer, United Nations University-Institute for the Advances Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Japan b Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), Japan c Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan d School of Economic Policy Studies, Rikkyo University, Japan ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history: 2020 has become the year of coping with COVID-19. This year was to be the “super year” for sustainability, a year of Received 20 March 2020 strengthening global actions to accelerate the transformations required for achieving the 2030 agenda. We argue that Accepted 23 March 2020 2020 can and must be a year of both. Thus we call for more utilisation of the health-emergency disaster risk manage- Available online 24 March 2020 ment (Health-EDRM) framework to complement current responses to COVID-19 and the patent risk of similar phenom- ena in the future. To make our case, we examine current responses to COVID-19 and their implications for the SFDRR. Keywords: We argue that current mechanisms and strategies for disaster resilience, as outlined in the SFDRR, can enhance re- Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) sponses to epidemics or global pandemics such as COVID-19. In this regard, we make several general and DRR- COVID-19 specific recommendations. These recommendations concern knowledge and science provision in understanding disas- Health-emergency disaster risk management ter and health-related emergency risks, the extension of disaster risk governance to manage both disaster risks and po- (Health-EDRM) tential health-emergencies, particularly for humanitarian coordination aspects; and the strengthening of community- Resilience level preparedness and response. -
Jokowi's War on Pandemic
This document is downloaded from DR‑NTU (https://dr.ntu.edu.sg) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Jokowi’s war on pandemic : growing dependence on TNI? Anindya, Chaula R.; Nugroho, Sigit S. 2020 Anindya, C. R., & Nugroho, S. S. (2020). Jokowi’s war on pandemic : growing dependence on TNI? (RSIS Commentaries, No. 088). RSIS Commentaries. Singapore: Nanyang Technological University. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143646 Nanyang Technological University Downloaded on 27 Sep 2021 16:17:33 SGT Global Health Security: COVID-19 & Its Impacts Jokowi’s War on Pandemic: Growing Dependence on TNI? By Chaula R Anindya and Sigit S. Nugroho SYNOPSIS President Joko Widodo’s approach in curbing the COVID-19 outbreak has further strengthened the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI)’s role in the country. COMMENTARY FOLLOWING THE declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic as a national disaster, President Joko Widodo (“Jokowi”) has granted the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) a broader authority to handle the outbreak. Doni Monardo, an active three- star Army general who assumed the position of head of BNPB in 2019 before the pandemic broke out, was appointed to lead the COVID-19 Task Force. His position as head of BNPB despite being in active military service is likely to shape the country’s strategy in containing the pandemic. Relying on TNI’s organisational capabilities and networks is aimed at expediting the disaster relief effort to offset the slow response of the civilian authority to the health crisis. TNI’s Tradition in BNPB Leadership Originally, BNPB was not considered a strategic post for an active three-star general. -
Perceptions of Information Overload in the American Home
The Information Society, 28: 161–173, 2012 Copyright c Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 0197-2243 print / 1087-6537 online DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2012.669450 Taming the Information Tide: Perceptions of Information Overload in the American Home Eszter Hargittai Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA W. Russell Neuman Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Olivia Curry School of Communication, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA In the last few decades Americans have integrated ca- This study reports on new media adopters’ perceptions of and ble television, the Internet, smart phones, blogging, and reactions to the shift from push broadcasting and headlines to online social networking into their lives, engaging a much the pull dynamics of online search. From a series of focus groups more diverse, interactive, always-on media environment. with adults from around the United States we find three dominant As was the case with most previous developments in media themes: (1) Most feel empowered and enthusiastic, not overloaded; technology, a few proponents have trumpeted the virtues (2) evolving forms of social networking represent a new manifes- of these devices (Negroponte 1995), but most academics tation of the two-step flow of communication; and (3) although and authors in the popular media are moved to warn of critical of partisan “yellers” in the media, individuals do not re- dire, dystopic consequences (Wartella & Reeves 1985). port cocooning with the like-minded or avoiding the voices of those There are concerns about sensory overload (Beaudoin with whom they disagree. We also find that skills in using digital 2008; Berghel 1997), media addiction (Byun et al. -
Balloon Boy” Hoax, a Call to Regulate the Long-Ignored Issue of Parental Exploitation of Children
WHAT WILL IT TAKE?: IN THE WAKE OF THE OUTRAGEOUS “BALLOON BOY” HOAX, A CALL TO REGULATE THE LONG-IGNORED ISSUE OF PARENTAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN RAMON RAMIREZ* I. INTRODUCTION On October 15, 2009, the world was captivated by the story of a little boy in peril as he allegedly floated through the Colorado sky in a homemade balloon.1 The boy’s parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene, first alerted authorities with an “emotional and desperate” 9-1-1 call, claiming that their son Falcon was in a balloon that had taken off from their backyard.2 Rescuers set out on a “frantic” ninety-minute chase that ended when the balloon “made a soft landing some 90 miles away;” but to their surprise, no one was in it.3 One of Falcon’s older brothers repeatedly said he saw Falcon get into the balloon before it took off, and a sheriff’s deputy said he saw something fall from the balloon while it was in the air, causing rescuers to fear the worst: Falcon fell out.4 The story appeared to have a happy ending after Falcon emerged from the family attic where he was hiding because his father yelled at him earlier in the day.5 That evening, the family appeared on Larry King Live on the Cable News Network (“CNN”) to tell their story, and when asked by his parents why he did not come out of the attic when they initially called for him, Falcon responded, “[y]ou guys said we did this for the show”; with that, suspicions began to arise.6 * J.D., University of Southern California Law School, 2011. -
The Place of Creative Writing in Composition Studies
H E S S E / T H E P L A C E O F C R EA T I V E W R I T I NG Douglas Hesse The Place of Creative Writing in Composition Studies For different reasons, composition studies and creative writing have resisted one another. Despite a historically thin discourse about creative writing within College Composition and Communication, the relationship now merits attention. The two fields’ common interest should link them in a richer, more coherent view of writing for each other, for students, and for policymakers. As digital tools and media expand the nature and circula- tion of texts, composition studies should pay more attention to craft and to composing texts not created in response to rhetorical situations or for scholars. In recent springs I’ve attended two professional conferences that view writ- ing through lenses so different it’s hard to perceive a common object at their focal points. The sessions at the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) consist overwhelmingly of talks on craft and technique and readings by authors, with occasional panels on teaching or on matters of administration, genre, and the status of creative writing in the academy or publishing. The sessions at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) reverse this ratio, foregrounding teaching, curricular, and administrative concerns, featur- ing historical, interpretive, and empirical research, every spectral band from qualitative to quantitative. CCCC sponsors relatively few presentations on craft or technique, in the sense of telling session goers “how to write.” Readings by authors as performers, in the AWP sense, are scant to absent. -
Overwhelmed and Underinformed? How Americans Keep up with Current Events in the Age of Social Media
Institute for Policy Research Northwestern University Working Paper Series WP-11-02 Overwhelmed and Underinformed? How Americans Keep Up with Current Events in the Age of Social Media Eszter Hargittai Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research Northwestern University W. Russell Neuman John Derby Evans Professor of Media Technology University of Michigan Olivia Curry Undergraduate Research Assistant Northwestern University Version: December 2010 DRAFT Please do not quote or distribute without permission. 2040 Sheridan Rd. w Evanston, IL 60208-4100 w Tel: 847-491-3395 Fax: 847-491-9916 www.northwestern.edu/ipr, w [email protected] Abstract This working paper reports on a study of new media adopters’ perceptions of—and reactions to—the shift from push broadcasting and headlines to the pull dynamics of online search. From a series of focus groups with adults from around the United States, the researchers document three dominant themes: First, most feel empowered and enthusiastic, not overloaded. Second, evolving forms of social networking represent a new manifestation of the two-step flow of communication. Third, although critical of partisan “yellers” in the media, individuals do not report cocooning with the like- minded—nor avoiding the voices of those with whom they disagree. The three co-authors also find that skills in using digital media do matter when it comes to people’s attitudes and uses of the new opportunities afforded by them. Overwhelmed and Underinformed? :: 2 Taming the Information Tide Americans’ Thoughts on Information Overload, Polarization and Social Media In the last few decades Americans have integrated cable television, the Internet, smart phones, blogging and online social networking into their lives, engaging a much more diverse, interactive, always-on media environment. -
The Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology And
The Secret History of Extraterrestrials “With our present knowledge of the cosmos, there is now a real possibility of evolved and intelligent civilizations elsewhere in the vast cosmological space. And possible visitations and even encounters can no longer be ignored. Naturally we must tread with caution and not jump to conclusions too easily and too readily; but we must also keep an open mind and respect those bold investigators who apply rigorous research and common sense to this fascinating although very debated hypothesis. Len Kasten is such an investigator, and his book The Secret History of Extraterrestrials is a must for the libraries of all seekers of truth with unbiased minds.” ROBERT BAUVAL, AUTHOR OF THE ORION MYSTERY , MESSAGE OF THE SPHINX, AND BLACK GENESIS “Len Kasten has provided an up-to-date survey of the vast array of issues that are now emerging into the public consciousness regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. For those who want to jump right into the pool and not just sit on the side and dangle their feet, take the plunge with The Secret History of Extraterrestrials.” STEPHEN BASSETT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PARADIGM RESEARCH GROUP “You can always count on Len Kasten to take you on a spellbinding galactic adventure, for he never fails to seek out ideas and theories that challenge your assumptions of what is true while firing your imagination. Whether in this dimension or another, be it past or future, your travels with Len Kasten will open your mind and introduce you to realities and experiences, you may have mistakenly assumed can exist only as fiction.” PAUL DAVIDS, DIRECTOR/PRODUCER OF JESUS IN INDIA AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/COWRITER OF ROSWELL: THE UFO COVERUP “This comprehensive book covers some of the most intriguing UFO and alien-contact cases ever reported. -
Case 2-7 Milton Manufacturing Company
Case 2-7 Milton Manufacturing Company Milton Manufacturing Company produces a variety of textiles for distribution to wholesale manufacturers of clothing products. The company‘s primary operations are located in Long Island City, New York, with branch factories and warehouses in several surrounding cities. Milton Manufacturing is a closely held company, and Irv Milton is the president. He started the business in 2005, and it grew in revenue from $500,000 to $5 million in 10 years. However, the revenues declined to $4.5 million in 2015. Net cash flows from all activities also were declining. The company was concerned because it planned to borrow $20 million from the credit markets in the fourth quarter of 2016. Irv Milton met with Ann Plotkin, the chief accounting officer (CAO), on January 15, 2016, to discuss a proposal by Plotkin to control cash outflows. He was not overly concerned about the recent decline in net cash flows from operating activities because these amounts were expected to increase in 2016 as a result of projected higher levels of revenue and cash collections. However, that was not Plotkin‘s view. Plotkin knew that if overall negative capital expenditures continued to increase at the rate of 40 percent per year, Milton Manufacturing probably would not be able to borrow the $20 million. Therefore, she suggested establishing a new policy to be instituted on a temporary basis. Each plant‘s capital expenditures for 2016 for investing activities would be limited to the level of those capital expenditures in 2013, the last year of an overall positive cash flow. -
Before the COPYRIGHT ROYALTY JUDGES Washington, D.C. in Re
Electronically Filed Docket: 14-CRB-0010-CD/SD (2010-2013) Filing Date: 12/29/2017 03:37:55 PM EST Before the COPYRIGHT ROYALTY JUDGES Washington, D.C. In re DISTRIBUTION OF CABLE ROYALTY FUNDS CONSOLIDATED DOCKET NO. 14-CRB-0010-CD/SD In re (2010-13) DISTRIBUTION OF SATELLITE ROYALTY FUNDS WRITTEN DIRECT STATEMENT REGARDING DISTRIBUTION METHODOLOGIES OF THE MPAA-REPRESENTED PROGRAM SUPPLIERS 2010-2013 CABLE ROYALTY YEARS VOLUME I OF II WRITTEN TESTIMONY AND EXHIBITS Gregory O. Olaniran D.C. Bar No. 455784 Lucy Holmes Plovnick D.C. Bar No. 488752 Alesha M. Dominique D.C. Bar No. 990311 Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP 1818 N Street NW, 8th Floor Washington, DC 20036 (202) 355-7917 (Telephone) (202) 355-7887 (Facsimile) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Attorneys for MPAA-Represented Program Suppliers December 29, 2017 Before the COPYRIGHT ROYALTY JUDGES Washington, D.C. In re DISTRIBUTION OF CABLE ROYALTY FUNDS CONSOLIDATED DOCKET NO. 14-CRB-0010-CD/SD In re (2010-13) DISTRIBUTION OF SATELLITE ROYALTY FUNDS WRITTEN DIRECT STATEMENT REGARDING DISTRIBUTION METHODOLOGIES OF MPAA-REPRESENTED PROGRAM SUPPLIERS FOR 2010-2013 CABLE ROYALTY YEARS The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (“MPAA”), its member companies and other producers and/or distributors of syndicated series, movies, specials, and non-team sports broadcast by television stations who have agreed to representation by MPAA (“MPAA-represented Program Suppliers”),1 in accordance with the procedural schedule set forth in Appendix A to the December 22, 2017 Order Consolidating Proceedings And Reinstating Case Schedule issued by the Copyright Royalty Judges (“Judges”), hereby submit their Written Direct Statement Regarding Distribution Methodologies (“WDS-D”) for the 2010-2013 cable royalty years2 in the consolidated 1 Lists of MPAA-represented Program Suppliers for each of the cable royalty years at issue in this consolidated proceeding are included as Appendix A to the Written Direct Testimony of Jane Saunders. -
COVID-19 Long-Term Care Situation in Indonesia
The COVID-19 Long-Term Care Situation in Indonesia Tara P. Sani, Marselia Tan, Kevin Kristian Rustandi, Yuda Turana Last updated 30 May 2020 Authors Tara P. Sani (Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia and Alzheimer’s Indonesia) Marselia Tan (London School of Economics and Political Sciences) Kevin Kristian Rustandi (Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia) Yuda Turana (Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia and Alzheimer’s Indonesia) ltccovid.org This document is available through the website ltccovid.org, which was set up in March 2020 as a rapidly shared collection of resources for community and institution-based long-term care responses to Covid-19. The website is hosted by CPEC at the London School of Economics and Political Science and draws on the resources of the International Long-Term Care Policy Network. Corrections and comments are welcome at [email protected]. This document was last updated on 30 May 2020 and may be subject to revision. Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open-access document distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported International License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/. Suggested citation Sani TP, Tan M, Rustandi KK, Turana Y. (2020) COVID-19 Long-Term Care Situation in Indonesia. LTCcovid, International Long-Term Care Policy Network, CPEC-LSE, 30 May 2020. Acknowledgements We thank Adelina Comas-Herrera and Klara Lorenz-Dant from the CPEC/LSE for providing us with the report template and for their valuable comments. -
Jurnal Pertahanan Vol
Risman, Widodo, Putro/Jurnal Pertahanan Vol. 6 No. 3 (2020) pp. 496-506 Jurnal Pertahanan Media Informasi tentang Kajian dan Strategi Pertahanan yang Mengedepankan Identity, Nationalism dan Integrity e-ISSN: 2549-9459 http://jurnal.idu.ac.id/index.php/DefenseJournal COVID-19, SECURITIZATION, AND TERRORISM: NATIONAL SECURITY CHANGE MANAGEMENT DILEMMA Helda Risman1, Pujo Widodo2, Resmanto Widodo Putro3 Indonesia Defence University IPSC Area Sentul, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia 16810 [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Article Info Abstract Article history: The Corona Virus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic is Received 28 September 2020 spreading globally, including in Indonesia, with a significant Revised 11 December 2020 impact not only in limited a sphere of the threat to public health. Accepted 26 December 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic shaped social phenomenon followed by the changes in the social order of life into the securitization process with multi-dimensional impacts. Due to restrictions Keywords: extensively, society's liability realities become an opening fissure Change Management, for terrorist groups to persist in their actions. This rational context National Security, raises awareness for the State as State-actor in the security realm Securitization, to generate security for its people. This paper aims to analyze how Strategic Leadership, the expansion of the Covid-19 outbreak with multi-dimensional Terrorism impacts in the securitization approach, counting terrorism expansion, and how the State dealing with as a State-actor. Using a qualitative approach, the authors expound on national security and change management theory, illustrating how the Government is a state-actor within its strategy. In responding to the emerging constellation, there are various dynamic challenges for the Government, within its central powers and regional authorities, toward change management dilemmas in the context of national security. -
More Than a Minor Inconvenience: the Case for Heightened Protection for Children Appearing on Reality Television, 32 Hastings Comm
Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal Volume 32 | Number 3 Article 5 1-1-2010 More than a Minor Inconvenience: The aC se for Heightened Protection for Children Appearing on Reality Television Katherine Neifeld Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/ hastings_comm_ent_law_journal Part of the Communications Law Commons, Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Commons, and the Intellectual Property Law Commons Recommended Citation Katherine Neifeld, More than a Minor Inconvenience: The Case for Heightened Protection for Children Appearing on Reality Television, 32 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 447 (2010). Available at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_comm_ent_law_journal/vol32/iss3/5 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal by an authorized editor of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. More Than a Minor Inconvenience: The Case for Heightened Protection for Children Appearing on Reality Television by KATHERINE NEIFELD I. How May the Role of a Minor on Reality Television Be Defined In Its Current Incarnation? ................................. ..................... .......... 448......448 A. Is a Minor Appearing on Reality Television "Working"? ........................................................ 448 B. The Necessary Creation of a New Legal Category Properly Defining