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DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 21JAN16 - Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway speaks during of the session 'The New Climate and Development Imperative' at the Annual Meeting 2016 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2016.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Valeriano Di Domenico
A four-pint pack of by Sainsbury's fresh milk now costs just £1. What hasn't changed is our commitment to British dairy farmers. Since 2007, we've led the industry in paying fair prices to farmers through our Dairy Development Group. And that support will continue. Because for us, good value also means good values.
April 21, 2013 - 2013 World Bank/ IMF Spring Meetings. Advisory Council on Gender and Development. Photo Frank R. Vincent / World Bank
Idea machine used to collect people's view on the local area development (Franche Comte - Fr) . This machine is put on display in markets and and city centers.
The Battier Take Charge Foundation is devoted to providing Learning resources for the development and education of underserved youth in Miami.
New housing development in Stayner, ON (Clearview Township). After years of sluggish development in the community, new housed seem to be popping up like mushrooms!
53rd ADB Annual Meeting: ADB Webinar - Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by Strengthening Domestic Resource Mobilization and International Tax Cooperation
17 September 2020. ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa discussed with developing member countries and development partner representatives how their collaborative efforts can help address challenges facing the region in domestic resource mobilization (DRM) and international tax cooperation (ITC). President Asakawa also presented ADB’s Vision and Action Plan, including the establishment of a DRM and ITC regional hub.
Countries are facing increasing pressure to raise tax revenues, especially with the introduction of tax policy relief measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
The webinar was held virtually as part of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the ADB Board of Governors (2nd Stage). View the full list of webinars and meetings.
The first stage of the 53rd Annual Meeting comprised a reduced-scale meeting of the Board of Governors on 22 May, during which Governors approved ADB’s financial statements and net income allocation in line with ADB institutional requirements.
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.
Meeting sponsored by Salesforce.com
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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Votivkirche (9, Rooseveltplatz, the provost parish church "To the Divine Savior").
History
Archduke Ferdinand Max after the rescue of his brother Franz Joseph I (assassination attempt of Johann Libenyi on 18 February 1853), suggested by an appeal the construction of a memory church, which was built from 1856 to 1879 according to the plans of Heinrich Ferstel (who at the beginning of construction was only 28 years old) together with the parsonage behind it in the style of French cathedral gothic of the 13th century on the Glacis in front of the (gate) Schottentor. Since the Glacis had not yet been released for development, the church had to be erected on the outer edge of this one and thus a few years later it stood distant from the Ring Road. Around the construction of the church there were a number of unrealized projects: the planned in a semicircular shape University of Vienna behind the church respectively a Hall of Fame (Viennese Acropolis, realized in the Arsenal) and the Tegetthoff monument in front of the church.
The site was definitively established on 25th October 1855; on 24th of April, 1856, the foundation stone was laid by Cardinal Archbishop Rauscher (commemorative plaque); on 18th of August, 1868, the completion of the tower was celebrated. The consecration was carried out by Cardinal Archbishop Kutschker on the occasion of the silver wedding of the Imperial couple on April 24, 1879 (commemorative plaque). The Votivkirche was in the monarchy (catholic) garrison church for Vienna (imperial decision of 1862). Here, too, all military funerals commenced. The Votivkirche is one of the most outstanding examples of historic architecture.
Roosevelt square - Votivkirche, around 1900
Exterior
Double tower facade with three figures portals and window rose.
Main portal
Main portal with rich figural decoration by Johannes Benk (Christ-King statue in the midst of the apostles, surrounded by models from the Old Covenant [Abel, Noe, Melchizedek, Isaak, Samson, Aaron, Moses]; in the gable above the Holy Trinity (by Josef Gasser), on the side four evangelists and Austro-Hungarian provincial patrons (Koloman [Lower Austria], Vigilius (South Tyrol), Aegius [Carinthia], Josef [Steiermark], Leopold [Lower Austria], Wenzel (Bohemia), Spiridion (Dalmatia), Michael (Galicia), Georg (Krain), Rochus (Croatia), St. Nicholas of Bari (Veneto), Ladislaus (Transylvania), Justus (Trieste), Hedwig (Silesia), Ruprecht (Salzburg), Johannes Nepomuk (Bohemia) by Franz Melnitzky and Peter Kastlunger) above the rosette "Coronation of Mary" by Gasser.
Side portal
Reliefs of Gasser ( "Annunciation of Mary" [below it the four prophets Jeremiah, Isaiah, David and Micah by Anton Schmidgruber], "Resurrection of Christ" (below it St Francis, Elisabeth and Sophie von Kastlunger).
Entrance portals
The entrance portals into the transept are devoted to God the Father and the Holy Spirit. There are eight prophets, or church fathers, on the arcade arrows. The church received a new roof of Eternit-plates in 1967.
Interior
Three-aisled, ribbed vaulted basilica, with four flat side chapels on each side; three-aisled transept; choir with 7/12 closing; chapel ambulatory and apse chapel. The wall and ceiling paintings stem from Joseph von Führich, A. von Wörndle, Carl Jobst and Josef Matyáš Trenkwald. On the vault of the central nave, the Christ's Family Tree by Franz Jobst and Carl Jobst. The organ (1874-1878) by E. F. Walcker & Co. (Ludwigsburg) is the only mechanical work of this size (3,762 pipes) in Europe (Anton Bruckner has also played here).
The glass paintings of the church windows, to which Trenkwald had supplied the designs, were destroyed during the Second World War and replaced by figural windows (mostly by designs by Christine Feldmann, with the exception of the "emperor window" which was renewed according to old pattern, thus in the replacement windows there are also topics that fall into the time after church building).
High altar
High altar of white marble with six Egyptian alabaster columns with figural ornamentation by Gasser, Robert Streschnak and Ferdinand Laufberger (cardinal virtues in the vault of the canopy), portrait of Mary, that was a gift from Pope Pius IX in the middle of the (constantly locked) chapel ambulatory.
Marienaltar (once the Antwerp altar)
Here stood the Antwerp altar (the most important work of the Flemish carving art of the 15th century, since 1996 for security reasons as a loan in the cathedral and diocesan museum).
The theme of the church window is the history of Christ's suffering.
"Emperor window"
Window of the city of Vienna "Emperor window"
The window was donated by the municipality of Vienna in 1877 and renewed by the latter after the Second World War.
Bishop's Chapel
The altar is dedicated to the Divine Heart of Jesus; grave of the Auxiliary Bishop Godfried Marschall (he was the first church minister).
Church windows: Bishops of Austrian church history.
Altar of the Mother of God of Guadelupe.
Church window: History of the worship of the Virgin of Guadelupe.
Winged altar
The altar made of cedar wood from Lebanon, shows Mary's engagement with St. Joseph, the proclamation with closed wings.
Church window: History of the worship of the Marienbild of Mariazell.
Barbara candle (Artillery Memorial).
Church window: History of Mary's image by Maria Pötsch.
Monument to the members of the executive who have fallen.
Church window: History of the wonderful glass window of Absam (Tyrol).
Church window: Rudolf I
Church window: Ferdinand II
Gothic chapel shrine
Holy grave for the last days of Holy Week.
Church window: 23rd Eucharistic Congress in Vienna (1912).
Church window: death in the National Socialist concentration camp Mauthausen.
Baptismal chapel
Baptismal stone of Egyptian marble; tumba by Niklas Graf Salms (Salm tomb).
Church windows: Major Austrian missionaries.
Pulpit
Pulpit of marble; On the gold mosaic of the parapet, the four church fathers and the teaching Savior; at the foot of the pulpit the bust of Ferstel by Viktor Tilgner.
Monument to the Austrian Kaiserschützen Regiments, church Window: Representatives of the Austrian Social Reform (draft by Hans Schweiger).
Cross altar
Church window: left John of God (defense of Vienna against the Turks 1529), right Franz Jägerstätter.
Votivkirche (9, Rooseveltplatz; Propsteipfarrkirche „Zum göttlichen Heiland").
Geschichte
Erzherzog Ferdinand Max regte nach der Errettung seines Bruders Franz Joseph I. (Attentat von Johann Libenyi am 18. Februar 1853) durch einen Aufruf den Bau einer Gedächtniskirche an, die 1856-1879 nach den Plänen von Heinrich Ferstel (der bei Baubeginn erst 28 Jahre alt war) samt dem dahinterstehenden Pfarrhaus im Stil französischer Kathedralgotik des 13. Jahrhunderts auf dem Glacis vor dem Schottentor erbaut wurde. Da das Glacis damals noch nicht zur Verbauung freigegeben war, musste die Kirche am äußeren Rand desselben errichtet werden und stand damit einige Jahre später fern der Ringstraße. Rund um den Bau der Kirche gab es eine Reihe unrealisierter Projekte: die halbkreisförmig hinter der Kirche geplante Universität Wien beziehungsweise eine Ruhmeshalle (Wiener Akropolis; realisiert im Arsenal) und das Tegetthoffdenkmal vor der Kirche.
Das Areal wurde am 25. Oktober 1855 definitiv festgelegt, am 24. April 1856 fand die Grundsteinlegung durch Kardinal-Erzbischof Rauscher statt (Gedenktafel), am 18. August 1868 feierte man die Turmvollendung. Die Weihe nahm Kardinal-Erzbischof Kutschker anlässlich der Silberhochzeit des Kaiserpaars am 24. April 1879 vor (Gedenktafel). Die Votivkirche war in der Monarchie (katholisch) Garnisonskirche für Wien (kaiserlicher Entschluss von 1862). Hier nahmen auch alle militärischen Leichenbegängnisse ihren Ausgang. Die Votivkirche ist eines der hervorragendsten Beispiele historisierender Architektur.
Rooseveltplatz – Votivkirche, um 1900
Äußeres
Doppelturmfassade mit drei Figurenportalen und Fensterrose.
Hauptportal
Hauptportal mit reichem figuralem Schmuck von Johannes Benk (Christ-König-Statue inmitten der Apostel, umgeben von Vorbildern aus dem Alten Bund [Abel, Noe, Melchisedech, Isaak, Samson, Aaron, Moses); im Giebel darüber Heilige Dreifaltigkeit (von Josef Gasser), seitlich vier Evangelisten und österreichisch-ungarische Landespatrone (Koloman [Niederösterreich], Vigilius [Südtirol], Ägydius [Kärnten], Josef [Steiermark], Leopold [Niederösterreich], Wenzel [Böhmen], Spiridion [Dalmatien], Michael [Galizien], Georg [Krain], Rochus [Kroatien], Nikolaus von Bari [Venetien], Ladislaus [Siebenbürgen], Justus [Triest], Hedwig [Schlesien], Ruprecht [Salzburg], Johannes Nepomuk [Böhmen]) von Franz Melnitzky und Peter Kastlunger), über der Rosette „Krönung Mariens" von Gasser.
Seitenportale
Reliefs von Gasser („Verkündigung Mariens" [darunter die vier Propheten Jeremias, Isaias, David und Michäas von Anton Schmidgruber ], „Auferstehung Christi" [darunter Namenspatrone der kaiserlichen Familie: Franziskus, Elisabeth und Sophie von Kastlunger]).
Eingangsportale
Die Eingangsportale ins Querschiff sind Gott Vater und dem Heiligen Geist gewidmet. An den Arkadenpfeilern befinden sich acht Propheten beziehungsweise Kirchenväter. Die Kirche erhielt 1967 ein neues Dach aus Eternitplatten.
Inneres
Dreischiffige, kreuzrippengewölbte Basilika, beiderseits vier flache Seitenkapellen; dreischiffiges Querschiff; Chor mit 7/12-Schluss; Kapellenumgang und Kapellenkranz. Die Wand- und Deckengemälde stammen von Joseph von Führich, A. von Wörndle, Carl Jobst und Josef Matyáš Trenkwald. Am Deckengewölbe des Mittelschiffs Stammbaum Christi von Franz Jobst und Carl Jobst. Die Orgel (1874-1878) von E. F. Walcker & Co. (Ludwigsburg) ist das einzige mechanische Werk dieser Größe (3.762 Pfeifen) in Europa (auch Anton Bruckner hat hier gespielt).
Die Glasgemälde der Kirchenfenster, zu denen Trenkwald die Entwürfe geliefert hatte, wurden während des Zweiten Weltkriegs vernichtet und (mit Ausnahme des nach alter Vorlage erneuerten „Kaiserfensters") durch Figuralfenster (zumeist nach Entwürfen von Christine Feldmann) ersetzt (daher finden sich bei den Ersatzfenstern auch Themen, die in die Zeit nach dem Kirchenbau fallen).
Hochaltar
Hochaltar aus weißem Marmor mit sechs ägyptischen Alabastersäulen mit figuralem Schmuck von Gasser, Robert Streschnak und Ferdinand Laufberger (Kardinaltugenden im Gewölbe des Baldachins), Bildnis der Maria, das ein Geschenk von Papst Pius IX. war, in der Mitte des (ständig gesperrten) Kapellenumgangs.
Marienaltar (einst Antwerpener Altar)
Hier stand der Antwerpener Altar (bedeutendstes Werk der flämischen Schnitzkunst des 15. Jahrhunderts; seit 1996 aus Sicherheitsgründen als Leihgabe im Dom- und Diözesanmuseum).
Thema des Kirchenfensters ist die Leidensgeschichte Christi.
„Kaiser-Fenster"
Fenster der Stadt Wien („Kaiser-Fenster"). Das Fenster wurde 1877 von der Gemeinde Wien gespendet und von dieser nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg erneuert.
Bischofskapelle
Der Altar ist dem Göttlichen Herzen Jesu gewidmet; Grabstätte des Weihbischofs Godfried Marschall (er war der erste Propst der Kirche).
Kirchenfenster: Bischöfe der österreichischen Kirchengeschichte.
Altar der Gottesmutter von Guadelupe.
Kirchenfenster: Geschichte der Verehrung des Marienbilds von Guadelupe.
Flügelaltar
Der aus Zedernholz vom Libanon geschaffene Altar zeigt die Verlobung Mariens mit dem heiligen Josef, bei geschlossenen Flügeln die Verkündigung.
Kirchenfenster: Geschichte der Verehrung des Marienbilds von Mariazell.
Barbarakerze (Artilleristen-Gedächtnisstätte).
Kirchenfenster: Geschichte des Marienbilds von Maria Pötsch.
Denkmal für die im Dienst gefallenen Angehörigen der Exekutive.
Kirchenfenster: Geschichte des wunderbaren Glasfensters von Absam (Tirol).
Kirchenfenster: Rudolf I.
Kirchenfenster: Ferdinand II.
Gotischer Kapellenschrein
Heiliges Grab für die letzten Tage der Karwoche.
Kirchenfenster: 23. Eucharistischer Kongress in Wien (1912).
Kirchenfenster: Todesstiege im nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager Mauthausen.
Taufkapelle
Taufstein aus ägyptischen Marmor; Hochgrab von Niklas Graf Salms (Salmgrabmal).
Kirchenfenster: Bedeutende österreichische Missionare.
Kanzel
Kanzel aus Marmor; auf dem Goldmosaik der Brüstung die vier Kirchenväter und der lehrende Heiland; am Kanzelfuß Büste Ferstels von Viktor Tilgner.
Denkmal für die österreichische Kaiserschützen-Regimenter, Kirchenfenster: Vertreter der österreichischen Sozialreform (Entwurf von Hans Schweiger).
Kreuzaltar
Kreuz-Altar.
Kirchenfenster: links Johannes von Gott (Verteidigung Wiens gegen die Türken 1529), rechts Franz Jägerstätter.
From A Proposal for the Development of the East Shore Tidelands of San Francisco Bay, Prepared for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company by Victor Gruen Associates, October, 1963.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced on April 26, 2020 that the nation-leading, innovative L Project tunnel rehabilitation had been completed three months earlier than the most aggressive original schedule of 15-18 months, and under budget, saving more than $100 million and with no shutdown. As shown in this photo, the L Project tunnel rehabilitation plan employed new construction methods and technology that had been used in other transit systems around the world and several industries, yet never in a similar project in the United States. The methods, recommended by engineering faculty from Columbia and Cornell Universities, allowed NYC Transit to continue running subway service in the tunnel throughout the construction so regular weekday commutes of the vast majority of L customers between Manhattan and Brooklyn were not disrupted, including during the busiest times.
Photo: Trent Reeves/MTA Construction & Development
Inside the Prototype Development Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers in the lab hold a banner marking the successful delivery of a liquid oxygen test tank called Tardis. Engineers and technicians worked together to develop the tank to build it at the lab to support cryogenic testing at Johnson Space Center's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The 12-foot-tall, 3,810-pound aluminum tank will be shipped to White Sands for testing. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
Prior food security development project representing the focus on long-term solutions via activities such as improved agriculture. Photo credit: USAID/Livatina Ranarison
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Three new USAID projects will deliver immediate food aid and long-term solutions in South and Southeastern Madagascar
In December 2020, alongside President Andry Rajoelina, U.S. Ambassador Michael P. Pelletier was pleased to announce three new projects funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), making an additional $100 million commitment by the United States to combat food insecurity in Madagascar. Through these projects, the Government of the United States, working side-by-side with the Government of Madagascar, will respond to the urgent needs of families in hunger
and provide long-term solutions to food insecurity in the south and southeast of Madagascar. Ambassador Pelletier, who just returned from a trip to the most affected regions of the south, shared his impressions of the challenges there, and the effectiveness of ongoing US assistance, in coordination with the Government and many partners. He invoked a well-known Malagasy proverb, noting that “We are brothers walking in the forest...You can always rely on the United States of America, as we know we can rely on Madagascar.”
In the past decade alone, the United States has helped the Government of Madagascar and the Malagasy people overcome cyclones, plague, measles, and COVID-19. Since 2015, the U.S. government has been the leading provider of food aid and agricultural supplies to southern Madagascar, providing more than
$100 million in emergency assistance.
In line with the Government of Madagascar’s own strategy for addressing food insecurity in the south, these three new USAID projects will not only provide emergency food assistance, but also develop long-term solutions to food insecurity.
USAID’s Firangà project will provide $10 million in emergency food assistance to more than 222,000 people in hard-hit Atsimo Andrefana and Androy regions. The project will also treat malnutrition in children under five years old. Catholic Relief Services will implement Firangà.
USAID’s five-year, $45 million Maharo development project will address the long-term nutritional needs of more than 279,000 vulnerable people in Atsimo Andrefana and Androy, helping them become healthier, more resilient, and more prosperous. In the short-term, Maharo will also provide immediate food relief to vulnerable families. Catholic Relief Services will also implement Maharo.
The third USAID project is the five-year, $45 million Fiovana project, which will reduce food insecurity for more than 428,000 people in the southeastern regions of Vatovavy-Fitovinany and Atsimo Atsinanana. The Adventist Development and Relief Agency will implement Fiovana. These projects will collaborate closely with the Government of Madagascar’s drought response and long-term development efforts. They are also aligned with more than $10.5 million in U.S. government-funded emergency activities that the World Food Programme and UNICEF are already delivering, including 8,330 metric tons of emergency food aid and $2.5 million in malnutrition treatment for young children.
The U.S. government, through USAID, has worked with the Government of Madagascar and local partners for 36 years to promote the health and prosperity of the Malagasy people. Last year, USAID assistance totaled $114 million, including $62 million in health sector activities where the United States is the largest single country donor. The other $52 million supported a range of programs to promote
economic growth and job opportunities, protect and develop natural and human resources, marine and forest resources, and promote sustainable agriculture and food security.
A GBR Development Squad Training day was held at the Wrestling Academy on Saturday 7th January 2023.
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Doctor takes a break from his work at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital (SMS) Hospital. Sawai Man Singh Hospital (SMS) Hospital is an important government hospital in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
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Future beneficiaries of the Songinohairkhan district hospital being built under the Fourth Health Sector Development Project.
The Fourth and Fifth Health Sector Development Project will upgrade hospital services in Ulaanbaatar, improve human resource development, and strengthen the country's drug safety regime.
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The community participation was impressive. In addition to having made reservoirs and fountains they had dug a six kilometer one meter deep trench leading from where the source was capped to the last of a half dozen fountains.
Three villages had worked together for three months, each village working two days a week. They call this way of working together Salongo. Nearly all the villagers work on communal projects until 11h00, in the afternoon going about their own business. Teachers are excused and should a villager not which to work he can pay an exemption per day of 400 Francs Congolais, about 75 US cents.
Villagers contribute 200 Francs Congolais for the maintenance of the project. We were told that this was the same cost as two bottles of banana beer and therefore was affordable.
I suspect that the participation was particularly successful because of the help of the diocese and the lack of fighting in the village. For the villagers the diocese is credible, it supports the villagers on a variety of issues and has been doing so for years. The lack of damage from war or displacement means that villagers do not have to spend their timer repairing what has been lost and broken and hence have more time to spare for community work.
Daily lives of indigenous women of Wamena, Papua, under the ILO's Entrepreneurship Skills Development Project. Photographer: Tauvik Muhamad. Year: 2007
Photo: ©ILO/Tauvik Muhamad. Year: 2007
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Former UK International Development Secretary Justine Greening pictured meeting with Australian Foreign Minister Senator Bob Carr, London 29 January 2013.
The UK will work with Australia to help over 200,000 children in Burma to complete basic education.
Justine Greening and Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr today announced a new education initiative - the Myanmar Education Consortium (MEC) - which will help over 200,000 children in Burma to complete a quality basic education.
The MEC will work alongside Burma's formal education system to reach children not in the government system. This will include an emergency component to support children whose education has been disrupted by violence such as the ongoing conflicts in Rakine and Kachin states.
The announcement follows a meeting between the British and Australian ministers in London today to discuss international development cooperation between the two countries.
For the full story, please see www.dfid.gov.uk/News/Latest-news/2013/Burma-Joint-support...
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5 May 2014 - Forum 2014 Session: Tax for Development. OECD Headquarters, Paris, France.
Moderator: Zeinab Badawi, Presenter, World News Today, BBC World News (tbc)
Scene Setting
- Jon Lomøy, Director, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD
& Pascal Saint-Amans, Director, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
Speakers
- Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International
- John Christensen, Director, Tax Justice Network
- Paul Collier, Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Professor of Economics and Public Policy,
Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Margaret Hodge, Chair, Public Accounts Committee, House of Commons, United Kingdom
- Alan McLean, Member, Taxation and Fiscal Policy Committee, BIAC
For more information, visit: www.oecd.org/Forum
Photo: OECD/Hervé Cortinat
IMF economists Tao Sun, Parma Bains, and and Akihiko Yoshida, Deputy Director General for International Bureau, Ministry of Finance of Japan, participate in a Capacity Development Talk moderated by Eva-Maria Graf titled Digital Money: Building Capacity for a Virtuous Circle at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
11 April 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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Large golfing umbrella featuring the Livingston Development Corporation logo and the slogan 'Make it in Livingston'.
Livingston was one of the ‘new towns’ created after WWII to relieve the need for housing in urban areas. Livingston Development Corporation (LDC) was set up by the New Town (Livingston) (Development Corporation) Order 1962 to create and co-ordinate new industrial activity in West Lothian and to manage the population over-spill from Glasgow by providing new homes and employment. LDC wound up in1997, when its functions were transferred to West Lothian Council.
West Lothian Local Museums. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/tourism/museumsgalleries/ums/information
If you would like more information about this object, please contact: museums@westlothian.gov.uk, quoting WLCMS2008.004.001.
At Bishop's Mill, on Freeman's Reach where the ice rink used to be in Durham City. This National Savings building is nearly finished and nearby they're putting up the steel skeleton of the new Passport Office (info).
Brianna Wu is a video game developer. She cofounded Giant Spacekat, an independent video game development studio with Amanda Warner in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also a blogger and podcaster on matters relating to the video game industry.
In October 2014, Wu posted multiple tweets about Gamergate advocates, ridiculing.While she was monitoring 8chan's pro-Gamergate chanboard (/gg/), anonymous users posted sensitive personal information about her, including at least one post containing her address. Subsequently, Wu began receiving multiple, specific rape and death threats, forcing her to flee her home.
The Gamergate controversy concerns sexism in video game culture. It garnered significant public attention after August 2014, when several women within the video game industry, including game developers Zoe Quinn and Brianna Wu and feminist cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian, were subjected to a sustained campaign of misogynistic attacks. The campaign was coordinated in the online forums of Reddit, 4chan, and 8chan in an anonymous and amorphous movement that ultimately came to be represented by the Twitter hashtag #gamergate. The harassment included doxing, threats of rape, death threats and the threat of a mass shooting at a university speaking event.
Participants from Zimbabwe gather together for a Constitution Strategy Development Meeting with the UNDP Resident Coordinator, Elizabeth Lwanga and the Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Thokozani Khupe. (Photo credit. UNIC Harare, 12 February 2010)
Managing Director of the IMF Christine Lagarde speaks with Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati the Development Committee meeting at the 2017 World Bank-IMF Spring Meeting in Washington on April 22, 2017.
Rapidly evolving technology offers Africa the potential to accelerate development significantly. The ubiquitous presence of mobile phones has radically changed the landscape for financial sector development, reaching segments of the population who have never had access to financial services. The same platforms are now opening up business opportunities that didn’t exist before. CEO Keller Rinaudo of Zipline will talk about the dramatic impact that his company has had on the health sector in Rwanda through the drone-based delivery of vital medical supplies. Moderated by Clapperton Mavhunga, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, this seminar will discuss the opportunities that technology offers governments to boost the delivery of public services, and how the African private sector can leverage technology to create jobs.
Peter Tabichi talks to students at Nelson Primary School in London, 2019 Connecting Classrooms British Council UK aid
Peter Mokaya Tabichi (born 1982) is a Kenyan science teacher and Franciscan friar at the Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School in Pwani Village. He is the winner of the 2019 Global Teacher Prize.
Credit: Rich Taylor/ DFID
Arrested Development play HMV Institute in Birmingham, 14 October 2010.
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