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For fast-growing countries, investments that promote access to family planning and education for girls can lead to declining fertility rates and eventually provide a window of opportunity to realize a “demographic dividend.” For example, as their populations grew less youthful, Thailand and other East Asian countries successfully capitalized on demographic shifts to support economic development. However, a shift in age structure alone does not necessarily lead to national economic growth. How can we learn from the East Asian experience and which key investments will maximize a potential dividend? Will Africa experience a demographic dividend like that of Asia? David Canning, professor of global health and population at Harvard University and co-author of the World Bank special report, “Demographics and Development Policy”; Sangeeta Raja, senior health specialist at the World Bank; and Jay Gribble, co-author of Population Reference Bureau's 'Achieving a Demographic Dividend,' discussed at the Wilson Center.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-demographic-dividend-econo...
APP and its pulpwood suppliers currently support a broad range of community water access programs. Activities include providing access to clean water for hundreds of villagers around the mills and working together with local stakeholders to maintain community wells. APP also provides community-based agricultural and horticulture training designed to help produce maximum yield with minimum water usage, and brings water treatment technology to communities around its conservation areas.
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Telephoto of Hyde Park Café closed for construction of easy access lifts to the platforms. Work should start after ANZAC Day and should be completed by October.
Access to the PATH (Port Authority Trans Hudson) rail system inside the Oculus.
The PATH lines run to various stops in Jersey City and Newark via a pair of Downtown Hudson Tubes that run under the Hudson River. The tunnels are about 97 feet below sea level and opened in 1909.
In 2006 the FBI uncovered a plot to detonate explosives that would destroy and flood the tunnel in the PATH's Downtown Hudson Tube.
Our unlimited MTA cards didn't give us access to the PATH system but I later found that if I added $2.75 to my MTA card, the PATH gates would have taken just that portion as a "pay-per-ride" value and let me through. It would have nice to get some photos of this relatively brand new station. Fortunately I found a user on Flickr that posted a lot of photos that let me see what it looks like down there.
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View from the land side.
Built in 1801; the station dates to 1761. The octagonal brownstone tower is 84 feet tall, with it's original 4th order Fresnel lens, installed in 1857 producing a white light with a red sector 3 seconds on and 3 seconds off. The 2 and 1/2 story brick keepers house next door has been a private residence since 1928. The lighthouse is owned by the New London Maritime Society as of 2010, who wished to make it a museum. The immediate neighbors sued the Maritime Society and won a favorable judgement based on the area's residential zoning making land access to the lighthouse impossible.
This is both the oldest and tallest lighthouse in Connecticut. Located at the west entrance to New London harbor.
It wouldn't be a road trip without something going wrong I guess. 3 years ago we traveled Route 66 from Chicago to L.A. and managed to get our car-towed (suitcases, passports and all!) in Los Angeles so we were up for some sort of problem.
We wouldn't have predicted this though.
The record high temperatures had set the snow in the mountains melting like mad which then caused a mudslide right across the Trans-Canadian Highway 1 - our route to Lake Louise.
We couldn't get any further than this so we had no option but to hang out around Revelstoke and wait to see if they managed to clear the mudslide. It was the Victoria Day weekend so everyone was off work on the Monday so it was sooooo busy. We knew this would work in our favour for them to get the road open as quick as they could.
At one point we were gearing ourselves up for waking up in Revelstoke on our First Wedding Anniversary. Nothing against Revelstoke, it's a sweet place, but when you have a room booked at Lake Louise....well, I don't need to explain any further.
the greenhouse had at least 10 different growing houses and was biggest enclosed nursery in the area
Access tunnels under the Old Main building on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on May 1, 2015. (Jay Grabiec)
Siena, 7 giugno
"Europe Without Barriers", la sfida dell'accessibilità totale oggi si gioca a Siena. Accessibilità a 360 gradi per i viaggiatori del tour europeo di AISM e per i nuovi arrivati: difronte al Duomo, la senese Maria Grazia, ipovedente, descrive la città come poco accessibile, i percorsi "loges" sono scarsi così come le altre facilitazioni per i ciechi. Eppure, Siena appare una città vocata al turismo per tutti. Il Duomo accessibile, il Museo di Santa Maria della Scala (con i biglietti gratuiti per tutti quanti, e non era un obbligo), l'Ufficio del turismo, la sala bambini dello stesso Museo per accogliere i bimbi, proprio perchè "turismo per tutti" è anche per le famiglie. Manca qualche segnaletica d'aiuto alle persone con disabilità, a volte ci si affida più alla buona volontà dei singoli che non al sistema. Ma nel complesso, la città è accogliente. La squadra impara a gestirsi (è proprio un viaggio di formazione, il nostro) e scopre che girare a piccoli gruppi, visti i bisogni diversi, è molto meglio.
Piazza del Campo è lunga da arrivare, ma le vie sono scorrevoli. E la piazza, col suo dislivello da capogiro, fa barcollare chi ha qualche problema d'equilibrio, magari per la SM. Ma il colpo d'occhio è sempre fenomenale". Laura Santi
Nella foto alcuni membri coinvolti nel tour pilota EWB ("Europe without barriers"), un itinerario che toccherà varie mete turistiche in Italia e in Europa per promuovere l’idea che viaggiare è possibile, e deve essere possibile, in qualunque condizione.
Per informazioni: www.aism.it/index.aspx?codpage=2015_06_EWB
This is a woman with spastic cerebral palsy who has to risk life and limb by dodging cars, buses and trucks in order to get around town because the sidewalks are mostly broken and impassable for wheelchairs. "Why can't she take a taxi like anyone else", you might ask? Because there ARE no wheelchair accessible taxis...that's why. best viewed large size! You can meet Donna and view our videos at: www.youtube.com/user/lejaz/videos
The Ueno Zoo (恩賜上野動物園 Onshi Ueno Dōbutsuen?) is a zoo, managed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and located in Taito, Tokyo, Japan. It is Japan's oldest and most famous zoo, opened on March 20, 1882. It is a five-minute walk from the Park Exit of Ueno Station, with convenient access from Tokyo's public-transportation network. The Ueno Zoo Monorail, the first monorail in the country, connects the eastern and western parts of the grounds.
The zoo is located within Ueno Park, a large urban park that is home to several museums, a small amusement park, and other attractions.
As of March, 2003, the zoo has 422 species. The Sumatran tiger, and western lowland gorilla head the list of the zoo's population. Ueno has most variety of species on exhibition than any other zoo in Japan.
At some point, redistribution of the animals among Tokyo's other zoos (including Tama Zoo and Inokashira Nature Park) left Ueno without a lion. However, in response to public demand, Ueno borrowed a female from the Yokohama Municipal Zoo
As of 2008, recent animals at the Ueno Zoo included:
Giant panda (Ling Ling, Ueno's only giant panda, died of chronic heart failure on April 30, 2008, leaving Ueno Zoo without a panda for the first time since 1972.)[1] China has agreed to lend a male and female to Ueno[2].
A Lesser panda (also known as the Red Panda)
Other animals have included the Sumatran tiger the Asiatic lion, the Western lowland gorilla, the Polar bear, the Asian elephant, the Reticulated Giraffe. and the White rhinoceros
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The zoo is also often home to zebras, Japanese macaques, red-crowned cranes, White-tailed eagles and King Penguins, along with goats, sheep, pigs, ostriches, and rabbits.
For extra convenience, the Deluxe Cabin’s wide-opening side door opens
in two stages: to 41° and 180°. The first stage provides easy entry and exit
for the driver; the second gives service engineers unrestricted access to
the engine for servicing and maintenance, extending your truck’s durability.
The heavy-duty, side-opening engine hood also helps to reduce noise inside
the cabin for a more pleasant work experience.
Graduación de Alumnos del programa Access en la Alianza Cultural Uruguay - EEUU.
[U.S. Embassy photo: Juan Francisco Casal / Copyright info]
Access Control points for a building location changes from status DFO (Door Forced Open) to Acknowledged in Visual Command Center after a security officer has acknowledged receiving the notification
It's amazing to me that here in Latin America Che Guevara is a big hero to most people. In the US we are so propagandized that most people from the US regard him as a violent Communist revolutionary. He was those things but what he was really fighting was the extremely violent US neocolonial empire that thwarted democratically elected governments and installed dictators who would allow US corporations free access to the county's natural resources. Strange that our propaganda has so obscured what was really happening. People here in Latin America see things much more accurately.
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Rope Access Painting in Sydney. For more information visit www.rigcomaccess.com/ropeaccess/building-maintenance/pain...
Governor O'Malley visits Kent Island High School to highlight broadband access by Tom Nappi at Kent Island High School, Kent Island, Maryland
Stonehenge is a "must see" for anyone visiting the UK. Our Stonehenge Special Access tour gives you privileged access to the Stone Circle in the evening. As one of the country's most famous World Heritage sites most visitors are not allowed direct access to the stones, but we have arranged with English Heritage for privileged access when the site is closed to the general public!