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Bogart gets walked on all the time. As he lounges on the couch, countless (well, seven) felines think nothing about walking across him to reach their destination. Cumin has even been known to make Bogart her destination as has Vidalia. Tonight, however, Cumin climbed deliberately onto Bogart's back and started pulling his fur with her teeth then ramming her face repeatedly into his neck, holding on with outstretched paw and claws to keep from rolling off our beloved boy. She smashed her face into his fur only to the close her mouth on a clump and yank, then quickly return to her full-body smash move. Kevin and I both just watched her do this over and over as Bogart stayed quietly curled up between the two of us on the couch (happy anniversary, dear, hee hee). Of course, I didn't have a camera handy, not even my phone. And I'm buried under Ariel, Miss Raven, and Gumbo. After a while, I finally asked Kevin to hand me his smartphone. As Kevin stretched out his hand, Cumin hopped off Bogart and the performance ended. Bogart tolerated the whole odd event in his amazing, uber tolerant manner. Why, Cumin, why?
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Held Thursday 09/14/2017, the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosted a symposium discussing behavioral finance. This event included keynote speakers, interdisciplinary panel discussions, and an interactive audience experiment, exploring topics of technological progress in our overall economy.
Details: fordschool.umich.edu/events/2017/behavioral-finance-sympo...
Available for free download under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Mandatory attribution can be listed as: Peter Smith / Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
If there is not enough bird seed scattered on the ground to meet their needs, the chipmunks will scale the trees and leap to feeders in order to scrape out more seed to fall below... they're pretty enterprising! This on has scaled the metal pole that holds my thistle feeder... it will soon be helping himself!
IMG_4633; Colorado Chipmunk
A male plateau fence lizard, Sceloporus tristichus, does pushups to threaten other males to stay out of his territory, which was also occupied by a colorful female.
Megan Clark (left), Cristian Gonzalez (right) and graduating students of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS) were honored during their in-person commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 20, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/Chico State)
during the spring, summer, and early fall, my sister and i practically live on our roof. a few days before Easter, my friends Molly and Megan (also sisters) came over, and we all spent most of the time goofing around on the roof. these "model behavior" pictures are all of Molly. we were having a mock photo shoot. :P i think she needs to be a model when she gets older :)
P.S.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
check out molly's photostream! she's awesome!! :) ------------------------------------------------------------------->>
Since 2009, following near elimination of malaria in village communities, the MoH Malaria Program in Suriname has a focus on malaria transmission in remaining risk populations and areas, which are mostly mobile, illegal miners from Brazilian origin in gold mines. The Program aims to fill the gap of lacking malaria
services in these risk areas and among these populations. It is also working towards prevention of re-establishment of malaria in areas where malaria has been eliminated. The prevention effort is partly directed towards interception of import malaria, which made up about 75% of the number of cases diagnosed last year.
The four main strategies of the Malaria Program are:
Improved access to diagnosis and treatment, and case investigation. (T3 recommendations applied in the specific conditions of the gold mines)
Prevention in the highest risk areas with Long Lasting Impregnated mosquito Nets (LLINs).
Awareness building to change behavior.
National en regional Partnerships.
Improved access to diagnosis and treatment is achieved by establishment of Malaria Service Deliverers, so-called MSDs, in high risk areas. MSDs are people originating from risk populations and based in risk areas who are trained to provide diagnosis and treatment to their peers under supervision of the Malaria Program. The geographical distribution of MSDs in the MSD network is guided by the national surveillance system and has a focus on remote areas of high risk or areas where import of malaria is common. In addition, in areas where no MSDs are stationed yet, but which are prone to incidental outbreaks, regular Active Case Detections (ACD) campaigns are executed, guided by epidemiological data. Some of these areas, depending on priority, are serviced by mobile MSDs, traveling with all-terrain-vehicles (ATV) or boat. Trained MSD-supervisors of the Malaria Program support the local MSDs with case investigations in the areas of transmission.
LLINs provided to high risk mobile populations are of a specific design. The design was established prior to the onset of the current Program via community involvement and can be used for both beds and hammocks. They are distributed via the MSD network and during ACD surveys. Villages close to mining areas where transmission still occurs are considered susceptible to malaria re-establishment and are included in the LLINs distribution. Distribution here is done in cooperation with Medical Mission (MM), responsible for primary health care in stabile populations in the Interior.
Awareness building strategies are based on recommendation from previous studies on Knowledge, Attitude and Practices. The campaign takes into account amongst other factors, the ethnicity (language), education level (significant part illiterate) and mobility (messages also via SMS) of the target population.
National partnerships include cooperation with the MM and with multi-nationals active in logging and mining in Suriname. MoUs have been established with these partners with an aim to cooperate in the prevention and control of malaria. This secures ownership and sustainability of malaria prevention and control efforts. There is a continuous communication with neighboring countries for the exchange of epidemiological data and to support international cooperation.
Miners active in French Guiana cross into Suriname to sell gold and buy equipment Due to a hard-line policy of France towards illegal mining, the miners are not able to do this in French Guiana. The significant malaria problem in French mining areas and continuous cross-border movement of miners result in high importation of malaria into Suriname. The Malaria Program addressed this by establishing border posts for screening at the main garimpeiro crossing points. The Malaria Program has also started executing surveillance by boat along the South-Eastern part of the border, which facilitates provision of services to remote camps, boat landing sites and resting places. The border surveillance along the remainder of the border is supported by the Medical Mission clinics in villages.
The MSDs, many of which are from Brazilian origin, were trained/re-trained with help of Brazilian counterparts. Re-training is a continuous effort due to the high mobility and turn-over of the MSDs. This is the result of changes in profitability of mining areas. The garimpeiros are following the gold. The MSDs and most field personnel of the Malaria Program are Portuguese speaking enabling them to interact with the priority target population.
Annually the Malaria Program organizes a re-training of national malaria microscopists in order for them to maintain capacity for diagnosis in a near elimination setting. The national trainers have been trained and certified abroad. Also the Program is currently in the process of developing and implementing a guideline for all screening posts/personnel (including hospitals, private labs, private clinics, MM clinics etc) on the diagnosis, treatment and data management of malaria cases, again to help maintain capacity in situations where malaria is nowadays seldom encountered.
Personnel of the malaria program have participated in training on recognizing human trafficking and on the prevention of stigma and discrimination (related to illegality/ethnicity of the target population, sex workers in the mining areas, and HIV status (as part of integration of services and testing of HIV by Malaria Program personnel))
Active outreach towards the target populations includes activities both in the transmission settings as well as in selected neighborhoods in the capital, where the target population resides. The Program has a trained Outreach Officer. The Outreach Officer is also responsible for communication with hospitals and is available for support of hospitals when experiencing difficulties in interacting with patients of the target population (esp. due to language barriers).
October 11-15, 2014
Meeting with Live!y (www.mylively.com/)
SSIR Technology, Cognition and Behavior fall break trip to San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Mountain View, California
3/3/2017 Moonstone Beach, Cambria
San Luis Obispo County, CA
The creek runoff was causing a small rapids just before entering the ocean. This Mew Gull was "riding the rapids" repeatedly. I watched as this gull made at least 6 "rides" down the rapids. Was this something the gull did for "fun" or food or bath or _______?
Held Thursday 09/14/2017, the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosted a symposium discussing behavioral finance. This event included keynote speakers, interdisciplinary panel discussions, and an interactive audience experiment, exploring topics of technological progress in our overall economy.
Details: fordschool.umich.edu/events/2017/behavioral-finance-sympo...
Available for free download under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Mandatory attribution can be listed as: Peter Smith / Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Held Thursday 09/14/2017, the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosted a symposium discussing behavioral finance. This event included keynote speakers, interdisciplinary panel discussions, and an interactive audience experiment, exploring topics of technological progress in our overall economy.
Details: fordschool.umich.edu/events/2017/behavioral-finance-sympo...
Available for free download under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Mandatory attribution can be listed as: Peter Smith / Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Students and faculty in CMU’s Department of Social and Decision Science meet weekly to discuss ideas and their current work.
The book What Customers Really Want by Erkki Leppänen explains consumer behavior. More details: klaava.fi/node/2147
CMU's Saurabh Bhargava (left) moderates a discussion on how governments are using behavioral science with participants from The Lab @ DC and World Bank.
Climate Action Day observed
Drawing attention on the need to reduce carbon in the atmosphere to a scientifically determined safe level of 350 ppm, the International Day of Climate Action was observed in the country yesterday.
Different social and environmental organisations held different programmes in the city and across the country to mark the day.
With the slogan of "Change Behavior, Not Climate," Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB Trust) organised a colourful rally from National Museum to TSC of Dhaka University with participation of a large number of children from different parts of the city.
Prottyasa Madok Birodhi Sangathan, Nirapad Development Foundation, Nature Loving People (NLP), Green Voice, Swabhumi, Safe Bangladesh, and other environmental organisations, participated the rally with banners and festoons inscribed different slogans including 'Save the balance of climate and save the environment' and 'Save the coastal people'.
The rally was addressed, among others, by Ibnul Syed Rana, chairman of Nirapad Development Foundation, Syed Saiful Alam Suvan, programme officer of WBB Trust, Humaoun Kabir Somuon, Syeda Ananya Rahman, Mohammad Alamgir and Maruf Ahmed.
The speakers said that the temperatures are rising and storms are worsening due to the whimsical behaviour of human beings. Ice is melting and sea levels are rising day by day and due to the reason Bangladesh is likely to go underwater within a short peroiod, As a result, a large number of coastal people of the country will be homeless, they added.
They also said that the climate changes are going to worsen because people are burning fossil fuels - diesel, petrol, natural gas and coal - at rapid rates. So the future generations are now under threat.
They stressed on the importance of changing behaviour to balance the climate to raise attention to the 350 ppm target for reducing climate change.
Syed Saiful Alam
shovan1209@yahoo.com
I'm playing catch up on posting my files of juvie Hummers. While this may seem repetitive to viewers, I've given permission to birding pros to use my images... they access Flickr to access these images.
In the fall months here, there are more juveniles that appear to be adult females than actual adult females. Both sexes of first-year Hummers look much like adult females. You have to take multiple shots and look closely at the gorget area for metallic greens and reds. These juvies had a few such flakes at the margin of the gorget.
IMG_5709; Broad-tailed Hummingbird