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Ready for the next step. Not in the shot the one tree a large cedar, still there. Unknown whether it will remain
Accessing public services often presents particular problems for deaf citizens, with average waiting times for an interpreter varying from two to six weeks across the UK.
SignVideo is an award-winning solution developed by Significan’t in partnership with the GLA, Cisco and London Connect, which enables local service providers to communicate with deaf people who use sign language, through videolink technology. Significan’t is a Deaf and Sign Language led social enterprise, which aims to empower deaf citizens, using the latest developments in new technology to tackle barriers to their social inclusion.
There are now 40 SignVideo Access Points across London, and new Access Points are being set up in local and health authorities across the UK, from the Shetlands to the South West.
Jeff McWhinney, the deaf MD of Significan’t, said: “We are thrilled to see how this easy-to-access service enhances the quality of deaf people’s lives and we plan to build on this.”
Significan’t are seeking partners to develop initiatives such as mobile videophones and test the latest videoconferencing software for notebooks, as well as exploring the potential for WiMAX and building on the DWP’s agreement to bring SignVideo to deaf people’s workplaces.
For more information, please contact Significan’t on 020 8463 1120 or visit their website: www.signvideo.co.uk
During a visit to the Business Development Center (BDC) which creates job opportunities for fresh graduates and enhances competitiveness for small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
Amman, Jordan / May 14, 2007
خلال زيارة إلى مركز تطوير الأعمال الذي يتيح الفرص أمام اكبر عدد من الشباب خريجي الجامعات للاستفادة من خدماته بالتدريب والتأهيل
عمان، الاردن / 14 أيار 2007
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Touristic Development in La Fortuna of San Carlos
HistoricalPrecedents
“From Sugar Bread to a powerful volcano: a natural catastrophe converted La Fortuna on what it is nowadays, an obligatory touristic destiny”
La Fortuna of San Carlos is part of this natural paradise that we call Costa Rica. Surrounded by a resplendent flora and fauna and embellished by the majestic and powerful Arenal Volcano, this is a jewel for sharing with the rest of the world. The tourism is the principal source of work in the zone, but it wasn’t always like this way. Before the colossus awakened it was known for been a hill and the community had a different economical activity and it was not based on tourism, La Fortuna was populated by just a few families and it was dedicated to agriculture and cattle raising.
Later, alter five hundred years of inactivity on July 29th 1968 the Arenal Hill or “Sugar Bread” exploited burying the town of Pueblo Nuevo and affecting the town of Tabacón and many others in a perimeter of 4 km. According to many survivors one day before the explosion there was an uncountable amount of quakes and an uncomfortable heat, even for the dawn in the morning of the 29th the quakes won’t stop and finally between 7 and 8 in the morning it exploited. The explosion opened three craters. From three crates, volcanic material came out. In just one minute the territory and the people around the volcano were burned because of the gases and incandescent rocks with temperatures between 1.000 and 8.000 degrees Celsius. The people died burned or melted by the caloric wave that the eruptions produced.
Some of the bodies were found hours later with their skin with hot plastic texture. The estimation of the dead people it was between 80 and 100 victims. The wind spread all the ashes to Tilaran town affecting the entire resident and their animals, also the virgin forest was completely destroyed, and all the pastures and crops suffered a lot of damage. Two days later, July 31st of 1968 a second explosion happened and it reached a group of volunteers which came from Ciudad Quesada town to help on the emergency. The first cone was active until 1973, after that, the volcanic activity immigrated to the last cone and nowadays it has the activity. The accumulation of material it has increased the cones, and nowadays two cones share the same crater.
Certainly you could say that the Arenal Volcano is the main attraction of the zone, but there are additional attraction. The Arenal Lake is one example which is a lake artificially made after the construction of a dam in 1979 taking advantage of a small lake with the same name. This caused the complete flooding of the towns of Arenal Viejo and Tronadora and the government has to relocate 2500 people to a new town. This lake is cataloged between the five best places in the world for windsurf, the lake is import for tourism in La Fortuna, and for the whole country as well because it is the biggest electric generation project in Costa Rica and nowadays it produces around 363.410 KW of hydroelectric energy for a big part of the country. In addition it also supplies of drinkable water to the communities.
With not doubt the eruption of the volcano caused big social-economical changes in la Fortuna, a proof of this is the implementation of tourism in the zone and the enormous increase. At the beginning the people saw the volcano as a dangerous risk but slowly they began to change their mine and they started to see it as a great tourist attraction.
According to the Costa Rican Institute of Tourism the area of La Fortuna appears as an important touristic site until the second half of the decade of the 1990, more of the 85% of the tourists visiting the country went to this area. Some of the additional attractions in La Fortuna are:
•Arenal Volcano National Park.
•Lava observation.
•Thermal Waters.
•Fishing at the Arenal Lake
•Hanging bridges and canopies.
•Complementary activities: Rafting, ATV, Safari float trips, Horse back riding, Canyoning, Bird watching and Hikes.
All those attractions have become the Arenal area to be the obligatory stop for many people who visit La Fortuna. Tourism has made big changes in La Fortuna; an evidence of this is that in the year 1972 there were two hotels in the zone and for today there are not just a lot of hotels, but we can also find most of the complementary services of the touristic industry. In this list of hotels we can find the Arenal Manoa Hotel.
The Hotel Arenal Manoa is the result of a huge family effort. The Cedeño family moved from the town of La Balsa, San Ramon to the area of La Fortuna in the year 1964, they were dedicated to the ranching of cattle and agriculture..
Knowing the potential of the tourist activity in the zone, Ganadera Manoa of La Fortuna S.A. dedicated to the production of milk and meat, decided to take advantage of part of the ranch to develop the project called: Hotel Arenal Manoa; which started the construction in February of 2005 and opened to the public on April 2006.
One of the main objectives of the Hotel is involve the guests on the productive activities in the Manoa Farm, there is organized a free daily excursion to the farm in case the clients decide to do something different meeting the daily activities in a traditional Costa Rican farm., you only have to make the reservation one day before at the Front Desk. The roads to the farm are in your entire disposition even if you want to take a walk in the afternoon and you can also take a trail which will take you to the middle of a forest located in the back side of the hotel. All the way to the farm, you will have the opportunity to observe a variety of plants, birds and insects. Once you arrive to the farm you will have the option to see the process of milking and to have the experience of participating in the duties of the farm like to milk and feed the cows yourself. Also you can appreciate the raising of pigs. In the same way you will find the chicken are from the hotel takes the daily eggs you eat at the breakfast and the chicken for some dishes, as well as you can see crested turkeys and faisanes which are there because they have been found by the farm workers. There is also the area of sheep which is very special for children.
The Manoa farm tries to works in a sustainable way causing the minimum possible damage to the environment. The farm is in a reforesting process. A part of the consumed food in the hotel’s restaurant is produced in the farm.
Hotel Arenal Manoa were are part of the started evolution after the Arenal explosion, and it is a example in the change of main for the original farmers before 1968, and the new character with a management vision taking advantage of the attractions in the area, and at the same time it contributes to maintain the natural resources with sustainable activities, giving great contributions but huge efforts the preserve the environment. This mentality has taken La Fortuna of San Carlos to be the touristic wonder that today we share with the rest of the world and that allows us to say that we are owners of a treasure in this natural paradise that we call Costa Rica.
A development sketch for a t.v. series idea I've been pitching. Sort of based on my hometown in Wyoming... and "the Black forest". A lot of my work has a sort of "cut-out" look because for many years I didn't have a Wacom tablet ... so drew everything with a mouse.
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Kelvin Rivas (right), a food distribution coordinator for Adventist Development Relief Agency, assist locals as they pick up a bag of rice at a food distribution site in Carrefour, Haiti, Feb. 12, 2010. Marines from Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, and United Nations Security Forces are assisting ADRA and the World Food Program during their major two-week distribution over the first half of February 2010.
Taken from hotel window up the hill. How elating it would be to live in one of those rooftop shacks!
Designed by Bernard Taylor Partnership architects and built for Mosscare housing, the development consists of houses and flats with mixed tenure for sale as freehold properties, shared ownership and for rent as social housing. The streets are named after northern author and former Moss Side resident Mary Gaskell and her literary works.
This is a sign i photographed in a Mc Donalds in Chicago The advertising plaque is titled "The parade of progress"
October 31, 2019- Clayton, NY- Governor Andrew Cuomo announces the state is providing $60 million to advance 38 projects in St. Lawrence and Jefferson counties under the Lake Ontario Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative. Governor Cuomo launched REDI in May to increase the resilience of shoreline communities and bolster economic development in the region. Today's announcement marks a major milestone in the REDI effort. Identified by the communities and evaluated by state agency experts, the projects address both immediate and long-term resiliency needs, enhance economic development, protect critical infrastructure, incorporate green, natural, or nature-based features, and will help sustainably rebuild and enhance communities along the Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River shorelines.
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From left to right: General Bjorn Bisserup (Chief of Defence - Denmark), Major General Martin Herem (Chief of Defence - Estonia), General Francois Lecointre (Chief of Defence - France) and General Eberhard Zorn (Chief of Defence - Germany)
Simon Ruda of Behavioural Insights Team on influence of behavioural science on public policies, including development. Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Lisbon on 13 November 2014. More: kapuscinskilectures.eu.
Penny Abeywardena, Commissioner for International Affairs, Mayor's Office, City of New York, USA; Young Global Leader
Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2019
New York, USA 23—24 September
Above California. Somewhere east of Los Angeles pockets of development spread into the desert like viruses. I wonder what the metaphoric antibiotic would be to stop this stuff? No doubt if it were ever found the development viri would mutate and continue spreading.
I took this at the Child Development Center at Grossmont College. They have developed into a Reggio Emilia center. I loved it. I really like how they used natural items through out the classrooms and I liked how they displayed the art work. They had really neat 3-D art projects displayed.
What we have been dreading for several years in Cwmbran; a new "rape of the fair country". Looking from the A4051 at Pontrhydyrun over doomed fields.
This area, from South Sebastopol to Pontnewydd, is due to be carpeted with over 2000 homes and shops known as the "South Sebastopol Development" (or as I prefer to call it, "Cwmbran New Town 2"). Despite a fierce campaign which at one time forced the council to drop the plan, the development will now go ahead, confirming the power of money over local wishes. As a child, I would walk around here with my father who used to say "see this, they'll never build on it, it's green belt". He will be turning in his urn.
2019-02-12: President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina shaking hands with Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission at the African Union - African Development Bank, High-Level Consultative Meeting Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Teodoro Alonso presents "Using Apache Cordova (Phonegap) for cross platform mobile apps" at the Mobile Software Development Community (Mobile SDC) in Oakbrook Mall at the Microsoft Store
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Teodoro Alonso is a Technical Architect at Model Metrics a Salesforce.com company.
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Apache Cordova (previously known as Phonegap) has emerged as one of the most important hybrid (native-html/javascript) cross platform mobile application development environment. The goal of this meetup is to present the basic architecture of Cordova/Phonegap in iOS and demonstrate its capabilities by creating a simple application in HTML/Javascript and then deploy it to a mobile device as a native application. We will also discuss the resources available to learn how to develop applications in Cordova/Phonegap. If time permits, we will review a simple Cordova/Phonegap plugin that I developed to extract information from an iTunes library.
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St. Louis Rams linebackers Justin Cole (right) and James Laurinaitis address some 240 high school football players Wednesday at Festus High School as part of a National Guard/NFL sponsored player development camp. (Bill Phelan photo)
16 April 2014 - Mario Pezzini, Director of the Developement Centre of the OECD speaking at the High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development and Co-operation, Mexico City, 15-16 April 2014
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Wed. 13 September2017, NYC - Opening day of UNDP's exhibition "Survivors" at Photoville in NYC under the Brooklyn Bridge. STORIES OF SURVIVORS OF VIOLENT EXTREMISM IN AFRICA is a UNDP project featuring photographs and stories documented in 2016 across six African countries that have been directly affected by violent extremism – Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Somalia and Uganda.The photo essay was shot by the renowned female photographer, Malin Fezehai.
To see more: survivors-of-extremism.undp.org/en?_ga=2.201035052.340749...
Between 2011 and 2016, more than 33,300 Africans lost their lives to violent extremism. The growth of violent extremism has set in motion a dramatic reversal of development gains in Africa, and is also threatening to stunt prospects of development for years to come. Africa bears the brunt of the impact of terrorism in lives lost, economies ruined and relationships fractured. Extremists target public spaces such as markets and bus stations, forcing people to make a choice between risking death by going to work, or risking the very survival of their families.
In response, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Africa has developed a strategy to prevent and respond to violent extremism through a development lens.
In the photo exhibition, “Stories of Survivors,” the UNDP and photographer Malin Fezehai seek to shed light on and amplify the voices of those who often suffer in silence. Theirs are stories of resilience, perseverance and the triumph of humanity, as they rebuild their lives again. The survivors’ diverse religious, ethnic and national backgrounds highlight that violent extremism is a shared burden, and one that humanity, as a whole, must respond to.
To read about the report and the findings: journey-to-extremism.undp.org
© UNDP / Freya Morales
13-14 November - Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum 2014.
For more information, visit: www.oecd.org/greengrowth/ggsd-2014.htm
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April 21, 2012 - Washington Dc., World Bank/IMF 2012 Spring Meetings., Closing Development Committee Press Briefing. Marek Belka is the Development Committee Chairman; Robert B. Zoellick World Bank President; Christine Lagarde IMF Managing Director. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank
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