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PanARMENIAN.Net - The Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC), together with its General Partner VivaCell-MTS, will be implementing a new initiative within the framework of the joint Alternative Energy Project.
The partners have launched installation of solar powered electric fences in Shaghap, Lanjanist and Urtsadzor communities.
The solar powered electric fence presentation will be attended by VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian, founder of FPWC Ruben Khachatryan, heads of communities: Karapet Karapetyan (Shaghap), Hovhannes Davtyan (Lanjanist), Raffik Andreasyan (Urtsadzor), and local residents.
Henk Blaak, the Manager of one of the first (since 1938) and most successful electric fence producers called Gallagher, will do a hands-on demonstration of how the electric fence works. He was invited to Armenia by FPWC staff to conduct trainings.
A solar powered electric fence will protect sheep and goats against wolves and other predators. It also may be used to protect gardens and landscapes from damage by animal. This innovative solution, which for many decades has proved to be highly efficient in developed countries around the world, is expected to reduce human-wildlife conflict throughout Armenia.
The event will address the existing problems and introduce an innovative solution for rural communities. Eight solar powered electric fences will be installed in the target communities in the project framework.
The construction of the electric fence protecting the livestock from predators is yet another innovative project that we implement together with one of our major partners FPWC. For the first time in Armenia, the fight of the farmers against predators is with no lethal end, Yirikian said.
The Alternative Energy project aims to reduce pollution and protect the environment by giving villagers an opportunity to use alternative sources of energy. This ten month long project will be implemented in five communities of the Gegharkunik (Vahan and Tsovagyugh) and Ararat (Shaghap, Lanjanist and Urtsadzor) regions and contains two components: capacity trainings for local villagers and access to renewable energy (solar thermal system, electric fences, LED street lights).
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Regional director Jesus Teruel with two of the centres prisoners. Photograph: Paola de Grenet
From a distance, La Zarza re-educational centre, deep in the heart of the Murcian countryside, looks like any other jail high fences topped with rolled razor wire and a uniformed guard manning the gate. But a close inspection of the fences reveals gaps in the wire big enough for any agile teenager to get through, and inside there is a white horse, grazing in a small paddock. The children the prisoners, because this is a prison are allowed to ride the horse, but only when they have reached a certain stage in their development.
To the left children are playing on a five-a-side football pitch. Of 61 offenders, three are murderers, many have committed armed robbery and virtually all had drug problems when they arrived.
While Spains adult prisons are almost as overcrowded as Britains and similarly rife with discipline problems, youth detention is a different matter. Twenty-three years ago, a not-for-profit organisation, Diagrama, opened its first re-education centre in Spain. Now it runs 38 such centres and is responsible for virtually all of the Spanish youth custody system. Before, Spain locked up children in similar conditions to adults, and when children in custody reached the age of 18, they would automatically be transferred to adult jails. But in 1992, a law was passed requiring the juvenile justice system to operate according to international rules and standards on childrens rights. The understanding was that if children were going to be jailed, they would also have to be nurtured, educated and rehabilitated.
In Britain, meanwhile, detention centres for children go from controversy to controversy. Since 1990, 33 children under 18 in England and Wales have died in custody, 31 of whom killed themselves. In total, 291 inmates under 21 have died in detention in the same period; 264 of them took their own lives.
Diagrama has not had a single suicide in any of its centres since it began operating. The founder and current CEO is Rafael Cuadrado. A psychologist, he worked with children in the Spanish penal system, but became disillusioned with their treatment. Using his own money he bought the land La Zarza stands on and persuaded the authorities to let him run a centre using different methods. His staff say he works 24/7 and is always investigating new ways to improve the system.
The main difference between Spanish and British detention centres is philosophical. In Britain, the children tend to be regarded as inmates. Here, they are always children. In Britain, a good day is one without violence or disturbance. Here, a good day is one when the children have learned well and made progress. Perhaps the biggest practical difference is the level and nature of staffing. In Britain, training assistants are glorified guards (teachers go in to educate the children and are hired by the local authority); in Spain the staff who run the centres are called educators. British training assistants do not need qualifications; in Spain, educators all have degrees.
In Spains stifling afternoon heat, Diagrama regional director Jesus Teruel greets Ainhoa, the mother of one of the children, with kisses on both cheeks. Teruel is a tall, passionate man with the manic energy of a cartoon character. As he answers questions, his eyes and hands dart in different directions. Yes, of course he knows the names of all the children detained in the region, he says. Yes, of course he knows all the parents. If he didnt, he wouldnt be doing his job.
Ainhoa lives an hour away and visits once a week. In the UK, it is common for children to be locked up hundreds of miles from home, but Teruel says its important for children to be detained as close as possible to their family. Ainhoas son, Daniel, is 16 and has been here for four months. His offence is sexual harassment. Ainhoa was terrified when he was sentenced. He was on antidepressants and told her he would rather be dead than in prison. When he arrived, he was put on suicide watch. For several nights, an educator slept in the same room as him, with the door open. Now he is off medication and the suicidal thoughts have gone. Ainhoa says her son is getting discipline but also affection at La Zarza. Affection is a word we hear a lot.
Does she have any complaints about La Zarza? She thinks, then smiles. It takes him a while to answer the phone. Maybe they could get him quicker. She is allowed to call twice a day to speak to her son. In Britain, parents cannot call children in detention. Children are allowed to phone home, but only if they have credit. All their calls are made within sight and sound of other children and staff.
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Joseph Bacani stands in front of his portrait at the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial. Photo Courtesy AVDLM/C.J. Heatley
Joseph Bacani likes to be alone on Veterans Day, to reflect on his time in Iraq and the friends who died there. Its still raw, even though it has been more than seven years, he says.
Now a junior at Columbias School of General Studies, Bacani was a 21-year-old Army private in March 2007, when he was shot through the pelvis by a sniper while on foot patrol in Baghdad searching for improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Unable to walk because of neurological damage and suffering from post-traumatic stress, Bacani returned to the U.S. for treatment. Grueling rehabilitation for two years lay ahead. Still in a wheelchair, he was awarded a Purple Heart in a ceremony at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in April 2007.
A photo taken at that ceremony of Bacani in his wheelchair is now a part of history, etched into the glass of a new memorial for disabled veterans in view of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Bacani attended the Oct. 5 dedication of the memorial on and was surprised to see that his image takes up so much of a wall. When he gave permission to use his picture, I thought I would be a face among many, he says.
Being there that day was one of the best days of my life, Bacani says, but not because of his image on the wall. I saw so many veterans, some of them amputees. I could see on their faces the feeling that they were finally being recognized.
The American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, on 2.4 acres within sight of the Capitol, was built with private donations to honor disabled veterans from all wars.
Bacani, who was discharged from the Army in 2009, says he went through an extremely dark period while in Fort Hood, Texas, for rehabilitation, but decided to persevere. He still has pain and his right leg is unresponsive to touch. He also has recurrent nightmares and other symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Five men in his platoon died in Iraq and another died after returning home. Bacani says he is always thinking of them, especially his best friend, Darrell Shipp, who was 25 when he was killed by an IED in January 2007. They never got to experience the life I have, Bacani says. My drive is to live for them.
Last spring he was a student at Irvine Valley College, a community college in Southern California, when he learned that a Columbia representative would be visiting the area and he might be eligible for admission to the School of General Studies. He met with Kari Razdow, associate director of admissions, took the General Studies admissions exam and was accepted. I never imagined going to an Ivy League university, he says.
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A Woonona man claims contractors preparing his street for the National Broadband Network drilled through an underground stormwater pipe and spray painted his driveway.
Shawn Moore points to the spot where he claims that NBN contractors drilled through a stormwater pipe. Picture: KIRK GILMOUR
A Woonona man claims contractors preparing his street for the National Broadband Network drilled through an underground stormwater pipe and spray painted his driveway.
Shawn Moore lives in Harriet Spearing Drive in Woonona and he said contractors for NBN Co were in the street preparing the pits for the broadband cable about two months ago.
They damaged the stormwater [pipe] and then denied that it was damaged, Mr Moore said.
So I ended up having to dig the footpath up a week ago, to expose the pipe and the damage.
I paid for the materials myself and got some assistance from the contractors.
Once Mr Moore had uncovered the pipe, he found a metre-long section of the stormwater pipe had been cut out. That was replaced with a piece of bigger pipe and sleeved over the top and held in place with a bit of duct tape.
Also, the NBN conduit ran straight through the pipe.
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