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Senin, 13 Juni 2011
A road trip of disability sport discovery
Michelle Daltry of Disability Sport Wales tells us how Welsh sport is set to be more inclusive to disabled people:
In March 2011, Jon Morgan -Executive Director of Disability Sport Wales - and I set out on a road trip across Wales to present the new partnership agreements for 22 Local Authorities in Wales.
In all honesty, despite my enthusiasm for the partnership agreements and roadside cafes, I was a little concerned that by the end of a few thousand miles cris-crossing Wales for hours in a car with Jon, his jokes and observations - life may begin to run a little dry!
We started our meetings with an early start from Cardiff to my homeland of North Wales, with Gwynedd, Anglesey and Wrexham hosting us. Later that same evening, we returned home tired but very excited after hearing some of the most positive and powerful messages from our local authority partners around the need for inclusive practise within their programmes.
And by the time we had completed all 22 meetings, it became very clear that the future for disability sport in Wales is very bright and one that is shared right across Wales.
insport is the brainchild of the Disability Sport Wales team. Inspired by the Australian Sports Commission Disability Sport unit’s model, Sports Connect, insport aims to support our key partners across Wales to encourage everybody to think about how disabled people can be involved in all aspects of sport – from participating to coaching or volunteering.
The insport programme has three strands – National Governing Bodies of Sport, Local Authorities (Development) and Club. Each one of these packages has a Ribbon, Bronze, Silver and Gold pathway and through the Disability Sport Wales team each of these key groups will be given all the support needed to help embed inclusive thinking in all elements of their work.
While we were on our cross country tour we were hoping to inspire a few local authorities to help us design and pilot the package for insport development. What we were actually met with was unanimous support for the programme and more local authorities wanting to be involved than we could actually manage!
Caerphilly even approached us before we had actually met them!! The task of narrowing these down to a manageable group was completed after much deliberation and Wrexham, Conwy, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Newport, Torfaen and Caerphilly were last week announced as the seven local authorities helping to lead the way on developing fully inclusive sports development programmes.
The first insport development group meeting will be held within the next few weeks, with the intention of supporting all 22 Local Authorities to achieve at least the Ribbon standard by 2013.
In the meantime, work behind the scenes is well underway to identify the next five National Governing Bodies of Sport to join insport trailblazers Welsh Athletics and Welsh Rowing who have already achieved the ribbon award.
And whilst all this is going on, the 22 Disability Sport Wales Development Officers across Wales are hard at it supporting the insport club programme to deliver appropriate sporting opportunities for all disabled people, bringing together the final key pieces of the inclusion puzzle.
If you've got any questions or comments, feel free to post them here or catch me on Twitter
ps. sorry for not being around last week, we went to GA b/c our AC is acting up!! fingers crossed it's fixed today!!
*images courtesy of unknown, shelter/ruthie sommers, sweetie pie pumbkin noodle, drew barrymore
Secure your networks, this time with feeling!
I know I've said that my research area is not security, but you'd think I was lying with all my recent posts on these topics.
The IMF has now been hacked. (Apparently by a foreign government). I read this in the NY Times article -
1) How could it be unclear what information the attackers were able to access? Don't they have logs? And if the logs were vaporized, don't they have clever digital forensics experts who can figure out what happened? This is the IMF for pete's sake.
2) All the data stored in these databases was encrypted with strong encryption, right? Oh, and all the traffic from client computers to the database was encrypted, right? And they keep a tight access control list, right? Right?
If you follow good practice to begin with, you don't have to worry quite as much when you're hacked. But so few organizations do, which is really depressing.
I used to bemoan the lack of good practice to friends who do work in this field, and they would chuckle and said, "Look, FCS, if you want to protect your data, write it on a slip of paper, burn the paper, dig a hole 10 feet deep, and put the ashes in the hole. Or better yet, don't write it down in the first place."
Yeah.
The IMF has now been hacked. (Apparently by a foreign government). I read this in the NY Times article -
Because the fund has been at the center of economic bailout programs for Portugal, Greece and Ireland — and possesses sensitive data on other countries that may be on the brink of crisis — its database contains potentially market-moving information. It also includes communications with national leaders as they negotiate, often behind the scenes, on the terms of international bailouts. Those agreements are, in the words of one fund official, “political dynamite in many countries.” It was unclear what information the attackers were able to access.- and had two immediate thoughts:
1) How could it be unclear what information the attackers were able to access? Don't they have logs? And if the logs were vaporized, don't they have clever digital forensics experts who can figure out what happened? This is the IMF for pete's sake.
2) All the data stored in these databases was encrypted with strong encryption, right? Oh, and all the traffic from client computers to the database was encrypted, right? And they keep a tight access control list, right? Right?
If you follow good practice to begin with, you don't have to worry quite as much when you're hacked. But so few organizations do, which is really depressing.
I used to bemoan the lack of good practice to friends who do work in this field, and they would chuckle and said, "Look, FCS, if you want to protect your data, write it on a slip of paper, burn the paper, dig a hole 10 feet deep, and put the ashes in the hole. Or better yet, don't write it down in the first place."
Yeah.
Sejarah Sepeda Motor Aprilia
Aprilia adalah perusahaan kelas dunia berasal dari kota kecil. Kota yang berpenduduk 15.000 orang disebut Noale, di Italia, adalah rumah pertama sebuah pabrik sepeda yang didirikan setelah Perang Dunia Kedua oleh Cavaliere Alberto Beggio. Ketika perusahaan sepeda motor besar Jepang bertenaga bensin ke sepeda, dengan mata terhadap pasar sepeda motor, Aprilia masih manufaktur sepeda polos tanpa niat ada kaitannya dengan sepeda motor.
Itu semua berubah pada tahun 1968, ketika putra Beggio's, Ivano Beggio, mengambil alih kepemimpinan perusahaan. Visinya adalah memproduksi motor sport yang memenangkan ras dan menempatkan nama Aprilia di peta. sepeda motor pertama 50cc, lebih dari moped, diproduksi lama setelah Ivano Beggio mengambil alih, dan Aprilia memiliki 3 moped populer di akhir 1960-an.
Pada tahun 1970, pertama Aprilia's motorcross sepeda, yang Scarabeo, lahir. Sebagai Scarabeo mulai menarik perhatian, Aprilia fokus pada memperluas katalog selama 70-an dan awal 80-an, menambah banyak model-model baru dari 50cc ke 600cc.
Aprilia pertama menarik perhatian di panggung dunia pada tahun 1977, ketika pembalap Italia memenangkan balapan di Kejuaraan motorcross Italia baik di kelas 125cc dan 250cc, saat mengendarai mesin Aprilia. sepeda motor Aprilia akhirnya memenangkan gelar Ivano Beggio selalu memimpikan mereka.
Resesi pada 1980-an menyebabkan penurunan untuk produsen sepeda motor, tetapi Aprilia terus memperluas katalog dan menawarkan model baru. Popularitas dan kesuksesan Aprilia tidak berenang di tahun 1980-an seperti yang banyak dari kompetitor. Pada tahun 1985, Aprilia mulai outsourcing produksi mesin untuk model tertentu. Sebuah perusahaan Austria, yang disebut
Rotax, adalah pilihan utama, dan Aprilia mesin terus menang.
Pada awal 1990-an, mencari inovasi, Aprilia mengunjungi kembali akar sebagai perusahaan skuter dengan memproduksi Amico, skuter semua-plastik pertama di Italia, yang terbukti populer. Aprilia juga telah banyak berhasil di seluruh dunia sejak awal 1990-an, memenangkan 124 gelar Grand Prix di kelas 125cc dan 250cc. Mereka juga memiliki 15 Road Racing World Championships di bawah ikat pinggang mereka, dan Aprilia mesin juga memegang 16 judul kecepatan Eropa. Aprilia diakuisisi oleh Piaggio, pada tahun 2004, membuat Piaggio, produsen sepeda motor terbesar keempat di dunia.
Sebuah nama Diakui Dalam Curcuit Racing
Nama Aprilia kemungkinan tidak juga tahu kepada orang yang rata-rata, karena Aprilia terutama mengkhususkan diri dalam olahraga dan balap sepeda daripada sepeda motor rekreasi. Berbeda dengan nama Jepang Aprilia tidak mengekspor volume tinggi sepeda motor, mobil, atau kendaraan lain ke Amerika Utara, dan nama Aprilia tidak sering terlihat di jalan. Aprilia, bagaimanapun, dikenal penggemar balap sepeda motor, yang melihatnya sebagai merek pilihan bagi banyak pengendara.
Itu semua berubah pada tahun 1968, ketika putra Beggio's, Ivano Beggio, mengambil alih kepemimpinan perusahaan. Visinya adalah memproduksi motor sport yang memenangkan ras dan menempatkan nama Aprilia di peta. sepeda motor pertama 50cc, lebih dari moped, diproduksi lama setelah Ivano Beggio mengambil alih, dan Aprilia memiliki 3 moped populer di akhir 1960-an.
Pada tahun 1970, pertama Aprilia's motorcross sepeda, yang Scarabeo, lahir. Sebagai Scarabeo mulai menarik perhatian, Aprilia fokus pada memperluas katalog selama 70-an dan awal 80-an, menambah banyak model-model baru dari 50cc ke 600cc.
Aprilia pertama menarik perhatian di panggung dunia pada tahun 1977, ketika pembalap Italia memenangkan balapan di Kejuaraan motorcross Italia baik di kelas 125cc dan 250cc, saat mengendarai mesin Aprilia. sepeda motor Aprilia akhirnya memenangkan gelar Ivano Beggio selalu memimpikan mereka.
Resesi pada 1980-an menyebabkan penurunan untuk produsen sepeda motor, tetapi Aprilia terus memperluas katalog dan menawarkan model baru. Popularitas dan kesuksesan Aprilia tidak berenang di tahun 1980-an seperti yang banyak dari kompetitor. Pada tahun 1985, Aprilia mulai outsourcing produksi mesin untuk model tertentu. Sebuah perusahaan Austria, yang disebut
Rotax, adalah pilihan utama, dan Aprilia mesin terus menang.
Pada awal 1990-an, mencari inovasi, Aprilia mengunjungi kembali akar sebagai perusahaan skuter dengan memproduksi Amico, skuter semua-plastik pertama di Italia, yang terbukti populer. Aprilia juga telah banyak berhasil di seluruh dunia sejak awal 1990-an, memenangkan 124 gelar Grand Prix di kelas 125cc dan 250cc. Mereka juga memiliki 15 Road Racing World Championships di bawah ikat pinggang mereka, dan Aprilia mesin juga memegang 16 judul kecepatan Eropa. Aprilia diakuisisi oleh Piaggio, pada tahun 2004, membuat Piaggio, produsen sepeda motor terbesar keempat di dunia.
Sebuah nama Diakui Dalam Curcuit Racing
Nama Aprilia kemungkinan tidak juga tahu kepada orang yang rata-rata, karena Aprilia terutama mengkhususkan diri dalam olahraga dan balap sepeda daripada sepeda motor rekreasi. Berbeda dengan nama Jepang Aprilia tidak mengekspor volume tinggi sepeda motor, mobil, atau kendaraan lain ke Amerika Utara, dan nama Aprilia tidak sering terlihat di jalan. Aprilia, bagaimanapun, dikenal penggemar balap sepeda motor, yang melihatnya sebagai merek pilihan bagi banyak pengendara.
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