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New Deal 50+ : No News Is Good News? A year has gone by since the Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) published any new data on the New Deal 50 Plus welfare-to-work programme. Up till April 2003 nearly 100,000 unemployed people over 50, who had volunteered to participate, had been helped into work by the programme.

It will build on the New Deal for work and policies in place or planned under the Skills Strategy e.g. free training in basic literacy, numeracy and ICT skills;

In home politics he was a Little Englander, a true hater of jingoism and imperialism, and according to his lights a true friend of democracy.

"It's been a fantastic start to 2009. Awards mean a lot to me. After you work so hard, the award validates your work. So every award has a very special place in my heart and gives me a huge sense of achievement and encouragement," Priyanka told IANS over e-mail.

North Dakota National Guard Airmen and Soldiers, in their traditional camouflaged uniforms, slugged thousands of 20-pound sacks of sand alongside an Army of Fargo residents and out-of-towners resolved to save the El Zagel Shrine and Masonic Temple from floodwater from the rising Red River.

However, what I deem to be probably the most interesting part of the whole book is the discussion by Frank Uekoetter in chapter 4 of the evolution of air pollution control in Nazi Germany and of the effects of polycracy on environmental policy-making. In this chapter, through an analysis of the debate between diverse bodies of the regime on how to approach air pollution, Uekoetter gives us insight into the ways Nazi polycracy actually worked and shows us how, at the end of the line and notwithstanding the claims of propaganda, pragmatism and continuity with the Weimar period characterized Nazi environmental policy-making.

MSc in Education (e-Learning)Course Code | 003105 This one-year, full-time course consists of three papers and a dissertation. The three papers are on Historical, Theoretical and Technological Foundations of e-Learning; Practical Applications of e-Learning; and Foundations of Education Research. The three papers are assessed by long essays. After Easter students continue to work on their research-based dissertation which is submitted in September. Length of programme: One year full-time Core and optional courses: see the departmental websiteProgramme specification: see the departmental website

The medical industry is one that sees a lot of UGC. A search on YouTube finds thousands of videos of people talking about their illnesses, from cancer sufferers to people with bullemia. Support groups are flourishing and people are finding that sharing experiences and content online is sometimes easier than face-to-face. Talking about your experiences to video and uploading this to YouTube for others to respond to and comment on is probably easier than discussing it in real life. The internet and social networks probably offer access to a greater number of fellow-sufferers than even a local support group might offer. Beyond support, people can use social media and user-generated content to help understand their illnesses. The supposed danger here is that people will self-diagnose and that this may be incorrect. At the same time, you’d expect that privacy issues would prevent any meaningful and useful exchange of ideas. But in fact, user-generated medical content is a vibrant example of how the social networking and online communities can be powerful for exchanging information.

A report by Jupiter Research in 2007 showed that 20% of Americans turn to others online for information about medical issues. They are clearly not shy of seeking or giving advice, even on more personal issues. They use sites such as OrganizedWisdom, a Wiki-style community, to share information they have and get information they need. The concern over the accuracy of this information still stands, with worries about non-medical professionals sharing information that people use to self-diagnose. But research by the British Medical Journal in 2004 found that in the online support communities it studied only 6% of content was incorrect. If this replicated across all medical content online then it would probably be among some of the more accurate user-generated content on the internet. User-generated medical content shows that people are willing to share and are accurate when they do so. Even in a more niche and potentially risky area such as medical advice and disgnosis, the quality and usefulness of user-generated content is high.