Friday, October 27, 2017

Halloween in NYC


Halloween Pumpkin Flotilla

The annual Halloween Pumpkin Flotilla is going down at Central Park’s Harlem Meer on October 29th from 4-7pm! This is a free event!
Festivities will include pumpkin carvings, a costume parade, scary stories and the highlight is the Pumpkin Flotilla — which is a whole bunch of lit up pumpkins floating across the Harlem Meer (this will commence at 6:30pm)!
Carve up your own pumpkin for a chance to get it on the Flotilla! But they are only accepting 50 so do your best work and bring it in on time! The official “pumpkin drop off” begins at 4pm.


Halloween NYC Parade

March IN the 2017 Parade!
Only those in costume are welcome to join…
hundreds of PUPPETS, 53 BANDS of Different Types of Music, DANCERS and ARTISTS, and thousands of other New Yorkers in costumes of their own creation in
…the nation’s most wildly creative public participatory event in the greatest city in the world!

Line-up for 2017!
http://halloween-nyc.com/
For ONLY those in costume is on 6th Avenue at Canal Street between 6:30pm and 8:30pm.

Alert! ONLY enter the line-up on 6th Ave. at Canal Street! Map

2017 Theme:

Cabinet of Curiosities: An Imaginary Menagerie

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Long-Term Worries: Innovations for Growing Old at Home

The University of Ottawa and the German Center for Research and Innovation cordially invite you to a panel discussion on

Long-Term Worries: Innovations for
Growing Old at Home


November 8, 2017
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Prof. Colleen Flood
Associate Vice-President, Research, and Director of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, University of Ottawa
Dr. Lorraine Frisina Doetter
Senior Research Fellow at Socium, Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen, Germany
Mr. Ali Hamandi
Trudeau Foundation Scholar and PhD candidate, Health Policy at Harvard University

German House, 871 United Nations Plaza (First Ave. at 49th Street), New York, NY
To RSVP by November 6 click here. Registration is required to attend.
Reception to follow.

Across the globe, long-term care systems are confronting growing demand, more complex patient needs, and limited capacity. Policy-makers face the increasing challenge of developing high quality and sustainable strategies to address the needs of aging populations. In many countries, the balance of long-term care is shifting from institutions towards home- and community-based care, which is generally more desirable from the patient perspective, and more cost-effective from a government perspective. But what are the costs of this shift to friends and family members providing informal care? What innovations can support the increasing role of home care? What promises and perils might assistive technologies offer? This panel features leading experts in law and policy from Canada, Germany and the United States, and will explore how innovations in financing and delivery are reshaping the landscape of long-term care.
www.germaninnovation.org
www.uottawa.ca/en