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The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) prioritized shifting gears to ensure that LDCs are firmly in the driver’s seat on the road to prosperity.
With less than a decade to deliver on the 2030 Agenda, supporting LDCs as they harness their social and economic development potential is critical. The five-day conference in Doha, Qatar brought world leaders together with the private sector, civil society, parliamentarians, and young people to accelerate efforts in places where it is needed the most.
“LDC5 was a once-in-a-decade opportunity to build momentum on meaningful dialogue so that we can best understand what the next era of sustainable development in these countries will look like,” said UNOPS Acting Executive Director Jens Wandel.
© UNOPS/Jason Florio
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For the first time an ecosystem survey with R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen will be conducted in the coastal area of Gabon. Identification and abundance of birds, whales, fish, phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthos will be conducted in the period from 9-23 May. In addition environmental parameters such as temperature, salinity, current, chlorophyll and oxygen will be measured. A reception was help onboard the vessel before the start of the cruise and the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Security, the governor of Port Gentil, and the FAO representative in Central Africa, were among the distinguished guest.
Credit: Adam Schultz / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States
Credit: Adam Schultz / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States
The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) prioritized shifting gears to ensure that LDCs are firmly in the driver’s seat on the road to prosperity.
With less than a decade to deliver on the 2030 Agenda, supporting LDCs as they harness their social and economic development potential is critical. The five-day conference in Doha, Qatar brought world leaders together with the private sector, civil society, parliamentarians, and young people to accelerate efforts in places where it is needed the most.
“LDC5 was a once-in-a-decade opportunity to build momentum on meaningful dialogue so that we can best understand what the next era of sustainable development in these countries will look like,” said UNOPS Acting Executive Director Jens Wandel.
© UNOPS/Jason Florio
The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) prioritized shifting gears to ensure that LDCs are firmly in the driver’s seat on the road to prosperity.
With less than a decade to deliver on the 2030 Agenda, supporting LDCs as they harness their social and economic development potential is critical. The five-day conference in Doha, Qatar brought world leaders together with the private sector, civil society, parliamentarians, and young people to accelerate efforts in places where it is needed the most.
“LDC5 was a once-in-a-decade opportunity to build momentum on meaningful dialogue so that we can best understand what the next era of sustainable development in these countries will look like,” said UNOPS Acting Executive Director Jens Wandel.
© UNOPS/Jason Florio
The 10th Mountain Division conducts a Leader Professional Development class on targeting on Fort Drum, N.Y., Dec. 4, 2019. Targeting is the process of selecting and prioritizing targets and matching the appropriate response while considering operational requirements and capabilities.
(U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Josue Patricio)
Meeting with the Students of the Faculty of Food stuff Technologies
Prioritizing the fast and operative solutions to the issues raised by the students the ANAU interim rector Vardan Urutyan and vice-rector in academic affairs Robert Makaryan continue to conduct the meetings with the students.
Credit: Adam Schultz / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States
Photo by Mike Akester.
Sittwe is the main city in N. Rakhine. The immediate area and to the north saw the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people. WorldFish is working with the FAO to develop a vulnerability analysis to climate change to be applied in this and other areas of Myanmar. The photos listed here document the dialogue with local government officials. In addition they form a
Pure selfishness?
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US rejects call by WHO to stop giving COVID booster shots
White House press secretary says it is a ‘false choice’ to demand wealthy nations halt third doses in order to supply poor countries
The United States on Wednesday rejected an appeal from the UN health agency for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots and for rich countries to focus instead on supplying poorer nations.
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had urged the countries and companies controlling the supply of doses to change course immediately and prioritize addressing the drastic inequity in vaccine distribution between rich and poor nations.
“We definitely feel that it’s a false choice and we can do both,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters, adding that the United States has donated more than any other country and was asking others to step up. “Also in this country [we] have enough supply to ensure that every American has access to a vaccine,” she added.
“We will have enough supply to ensure if the FDA decides that boosters are recommended for a portion of the population to provide those as well. We believe we can do both and we don’t need to make that choice,” Psaki added.
The WHO has for months been sounding the alarm over a glaring and growing imbalance in vaccine availability against a disease that has killed 4.2 million people worldwide.
Some 4.3 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered globally, according to an AFP count.
The WHO wants every country to have vaccinated at least 10 percent of its population by the end of September, at least 40% by the end of the year, and 70% by the middle of 2022.
In countries categorized as high income by the World Bank, 101 doses per 100 people have been injected. That figure drops to 1.7 doses per 100 people in the 29 lowest-income countries.
Israel, Russia and Hungary have already started providing third booster doses to wide swaths of their populations, while Germany and France have announced they will do so starting September 1. Other nations, including the United States and Britain, are considering plans to do so in the wake of the emergence of the highly transmissible Delta variant.
Israel began administering COVID vaccine booster doses to the immunosuppressed last month, and rolled them out to all Israelis over age 60 on Sunday.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has urged the elderly population to make appointments to receive a third dose in order to better protect themselves.
“The booster, the third vaccine, simply ‘reloads’ the body’s defenses and allows us to save lives,” Bennett said on Tuesday as he accompanied his mother, Myrna, to receive her third dose. “I ask everyone — children, grandchildren and parents: Go and get vaccinated. Vaccinate a third time whoever is over age 60… The more we vaccinate, the more we protect our mothers and fathers and also safeguard an open Israel.”
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WHO calls for a moratorium on booster shots until at least the end of September
(CNN) The World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on booster shots until at least the end of September, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a news briefing in Geneva on Wednesday.
"WHO is calling for a moratorium on boosters until at least the end of September to enable at least 10% of the population of every country to be vaccinated. To make that happen, we need everyone's cooperation, especially the handful of countries and companies that control the global supply of vaccines," he said.
"Even while hundreds of millions of people are still waiting for their first dose, some rich countries are moving towards booster doses," added Tedros. "So far more than 4 billion vaccine doses have been administered globally. More than 80% have gone to high and upper middle income countries, even though they account for less than half of the world's population."
Germany, the UK, and Israel have all announced plans to provide booster shots for certain vulnerable populations.
While Tedros said he understood the concern of all governments to protect their people from the Delta variant, "we cannot and we should not accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it while the world's most vulnerable people remain unprotected."
In May, Tedros called for global support to enable countries to vaccinate at least 10% of their populations by September. He said that although it's more than halfway to the target date, the world is not on track.
When his challenge was issued, high income countries had administered around 50 doses for every 100 people, Tedros said.
Since then, the number has doubled, with high income countries having now administered almost 100 doses for every 100 people, while low income countries have been able to administer 1.5 doses for every 100 people due to lack of supply.
"We need an urgent reversal from the majority of vaccines going to high income countries to the majority going to low income countries," Tedros said.
Tedros called upon the G20 leaders to make concrete commitments to support WHO's global vaccination targets, for vaccine producers to prioritize COVAX, and for everyone with influence to support the call for the moratorium on boosters.
Credit: Adam Schultz / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States
The 10th Mountain Division conducts a Leader Professional Development class on targeting on Fort Drum, N.Y., Dec. 4, 2019. Targeting is the process of selecting and prioritizing targets and matching the appropriate response while considering operational requirements and capabilities.
(U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Josue Patricio)
The 10th Mountain Division conducts a Leader Professional Development class on targeting on Fort Drum, N.Y., Dec. 4, 2019. Targeting is the process of selecting and prioritizing targets and matching the appropriate response while considering operational requirements and capabilities.
(U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Josue Patricio)
Credit: Adam Schultz / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States
Changing and prioritizing content and experience based on what we know about the user's context. A fascinating talk!
My apartment is a mess, but I spent my time creating this instead of cleaning up. At least I have a firm grasp of prioritizing. :-)
Thanks to fd's Flickr Toys for the idea :-)
Credit: Juliana Thomas / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States
NTRODUCTION: In 1994, ArcelorMittal has outlined guidelines for the Environment, in line with its policy. It prioritizes projects that focused on the knowledge of environmental aspects and impacts, as well as its monitoring and mitigation, the reduction of resources and improvement of process efficiency, protection, conservation and restoration of biodiversity and community integration, within this last theme was created Regular Environmental Education Program.
OBJECTIVES: (1) Promoting activities of individual and collective local actions to contribute to the conservation and preservation of the environment, (2) Cooperate with the school of Regional Schools, (3) Recognize the importance of socio-economic and environmental natural and planted forests, (4) Understand the importance of rational use of natural resources and biodiversity.
METHODOLOGY: Implementation of an Environmental Education Center where works are developed on a regular basis, in partnership with the Regional Superintendent of Education and the School District and State and the Municipality of Carbonita. A regular program of environmental education is carried out with students from the 7th year of the respective municipality due to: the curriculum content of the sixth grade, the age range of students, and to continue the activities and not just a "ride" the CEAM. Each class visits the CEAM twice a year and the program coordinator visits the school once, talking with students about the diagnosis or the environmental situation of the school. During the school holidays are designed work with employees and contractors, parents, neighbors of company property.
RESULTS: promoting recycling of teachers through courses and seminars, dissemination and multiplication of environmental education, it was observed that students gained more knowledge about the need for
effective actions to ensure the future; a higher valuation of the improvements made in the community, most recognize the importance of improving the school environment, show maturity and critical questioning about environmental issues. Are met staff, parents and students visited all registered neighbors. From 04/10/94 to 31/12/2011, the Environmental Education Centers in Arcelor Mittal Carbonita and Bom Despacho has already received more than 110,000 people.
CONCLUSIONS: Working in partnership enables better planning of activities, includes institutions that have common goals, divide the responsibilities and costs enabling effective action permitting the exercise of citizenship that implies commitment, participation, rights and responsibilities of each member of society as a influencing the environment we live in, instead of taking ourselves for it.
Roosevelt Almado
ArcelorMittal BioFlorestas
Forest Research Management and Environment — em Carbonita, Minas Gerais.
Kick-off and release!
After a short 'cheat-survey' between Cape Town and Durban, the official start of the 2018 research expeditions with Dr. Fridtjof Nansen was marked with a grand reception in Durban, South Africa. The event took place onboard Dr Fridtjof Nansen on the 26th of January, and discussed the current situation of local and international fisheries, and the importance of multi-disciplinary research and cross-boundary partnerships in addressing pressing challenges such as marine pollution and climate change.
On the guest list were a number of prominent guests including Senzeni Zokwana, the South African Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, and Trine Skymoen, the Norwegian Ambassador to South Africa. The visitors were given a guided tour of the technologically advanced research vessel.
The most important guests who were welcomed onboard Dr. Fridtjof Nansen that day however, were probably five young Leatherback turtles (Caretta caretta). The turtles were found stranded 18 months ago and have since been in recovery with the uShaka Sea World's conservation team. They were now declared sufficiently rehabilitated to be released back into the ocean, and as the research expedition's first planned transect line was in an area deemed suitable for release, the turtles were left in the care of the onboard scientific team.
After 15 hours of overnight steaming the release point was finally reached. With both scientists and crew present to cheer them on, the turtles were lowered one by one into the sea in a basket from the trawl deck. Free and back in their natural environment, they immediately dived down and disappeared into the blue. Having completed the days most important task of giving five little turtles another chance at life, we're now hard at work collecting equally important multi-disciplinary data to better understand the biodiversity and oceanic conditions in the environment in which these five wonderful creatures will continue living their life.
Upon arrival, refugees present their registration documents for verification of their eligibility for winterization assistance, through mobile phone technology. UNHCR’s winterization programme prioritizes vulnerable refugees, living at high altitudes in Lebanon’s coldest regions.
Photo credit: UNHCR/S.Hoibak
this is lamby :) my stuffed animal from way back when. haah and thats the trunk that i also found yesterday :)
sorry this is weird, its a monday and i have no time.
The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) prioritized shifting gears to ensure that LDCs are firmly in the driver’s seat on the road to prosperity.
With less than a decade to deliver on the 2030 Agenda, supporting LDCs as they harness their social and economic development potential is critical. The five-day conference in Doha, Qatar brought world leaders together with the private sector, civil society, parliamentarians, and young people to accelerate efforts in places where it is needed the most.
“LDC5 was a once-in-a-decade opportunity to build momentum on meaningful dialogue so that we can best understand what the next era of sustainable development in these countries will look like,” said UNOPS Acting Executive Director Jens Wandel.
© UNOPS/Jason Florio
When you plan for a goal, all you have to do is two things. First prepare a list of tasks to achieve that and then prioritize them based on either dependency and importance.
Alan Lakein Quotation about Priority.
In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.
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values, planning and visioning retreat
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The 10th Mountain Division conducts a Leader Professional Development class on targeting on Fort Drum, N.Y., Dec. 4, 2019. Targeting is the process of selecting and prioritizing targets and matching the appropriate response while considering operational requirements and capabilities.
(U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Josue Patricio)
#REALTALK: Being Stressed?
Yesterday I hit a wall and I was feeling incredibly overwhelmed with everything. I took a step back and reminded myself to refocus and follow these steps. "Prioritize and Organize" hopefully these help you out! 😊
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Many families, due to extreme poverty, are forced to prioritize who will receive malaria treatment and mosquito nets. 'I am not lying in my bed; this is not my mosquito net. I do not have a mosquito net. My brother does, but I don't.'
Photo: Adam Nadel/Malaria Consortium
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The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) prioritized shifting gears to ensure that LDCs are firmly in the driver’s seat on the road to prosperity.
With less than a decade to deliver on the 2030 Agenda, supporting LDCs as they harness their social and economic development potential is critical. The five-day conference in Doha, Qatar brought world leaders together with the private sector, civil society, parliamentarians, and young people to accelerate efforts in places where it is needed the most.
“LDC5 was a once-in-a-decade opportunity to build momentum on meaningful dialogue so that we can best understand what the next era of sustainable development in these countries will look like,” said UNOPS Acting Executive Director Jens Wandel.
© UNOPS/Jason Florio
Credit: Juliana Thomas / Clinton Global Initiative
Breakout Sessions: Can impact investing prioritize profit, people, and the planet?
MODERATOR:
Elizabeth L. Littlefield, President and CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert A. Annibale, Global Director, Citi Microfinance and Community Development
Amy Bell, Executive Director, Social Finance, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Tammy Newmark, President and CEO, EcoEnterprises Fund
Nick O'Donohoe, Chief Executive Officer, Big Society Capital
Mark Tercek, President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy
Prioritizing Workplace Mental Health
Geneva - Switzerland, 25-29 January 2021. Copyright ©️ World Economic Forum/Pascal Bitz
Punit Renjen, Global Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte, USA; International Business Council Garen K. Staglin, Chairman and Co-Founder, One Mind, USA
Miranda Wolpert, Head, Mental Health Priority Area, Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
Moderated by Sir Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Springer Nature, United Kingdom
Credit: Adam Schultz / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States
Things to accomplish for 2010:
1. Prioritize the little money I do have/get
2. Stop being so status preoccupied
3. Stop conforming all the time
4. Learn to play bass
5. Get a new DSLR body (40D...)
6. Get a couple of L series lenses
7. Be a better friend
8. Be a better son
9. Make 85's and up on everything but Adv. Biology
10. Listen to more music
11. Be thankful for what I DO have
12. Finally, to stop living life like I've got a million days to live it. Because I don't. I need to live each day like its my LAST!
BRING IT ON 2010!!!!!!!!
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL!!!!!!
(I soooo turn 17 this year)
:D
SOOC
The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) prioritized shifting gears to ensure that LDCs are firmly in the driver’s seat on the road to prosperity.
With less than a decade to deliver on the 2030 Agenda, supporting LDCs as they harness their social and economic development potential is critical. The five-day conference in Doha, Qatar brought world leaders together with the private sector, civil society, parliamentarians, and young people to accelerate efforts in places where it is needed the most.
“LDC5 was a once-in-a-decade opportunity to build momentum on meaningful dialogue so that we can best understand what the next era of sustainable development in these countries will look like,” said UNOPS Acting Executive Director Jens Wandel.
© UNOPS/Jason Florio
The fire station was built in 1925. It is a bit cramped by now, but still being used by Volunteer Fire Department in Dobczyce, because town authorities prioritize construction of muncipal hotel higher than construction of new fire station.
The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) prioritized shifting gears to ensure that LDCs are firmly in the driver’s seat on the road to prosperity.
With less than a decade to deliver on the 2030 Agenda, supporting LDCs as they harness their social and economic development potential is critical. The five-day conference in Doha, Qatar brought world leaders together with the private sector, civil society, parliamentarians, and young people to accelerate efforts in places where it is needed the most.
“LDC5 was a once-in-a-decade opportunity to build momentum on meaningful dialogue so that we can best understand what the next era of sustainable development in these countries will look like,” said UNOPS Acting Executive Director Jens Wandel.
© UNOPS/Jason Florio
Army Family Action Plan leads to change
By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Home on leave from Iraq, Matthew Smith swerved across an Indiana roadway to avoid a soda can he thought was a roadside bomb and nearly crashed into oncoming traffic.
Smith, 27, now a sergeant with the Kaiserslautern-based 457th Civil Affairs Battalion, mentioned the 2007 memory to his wife Stephanie, who had an idea. Why doesn’t the Army make mental health screenings mandatory for deployed Soldiers before their Rest and Recuperation leave?
“That event really scared him,” said Stephanie Smith, an Army Community Service employee at U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern. “If someone had warned him – to take time to reintegrate and make adjustments on R&R – that could have been prevented.”
Last year, the Smith’s submitted the idea as a suggestion the Army Family Action Plan – a grassroots program where community members indentify quality of life issues for the Army to address. It ended up being considered at the highest Army levels.
“Change starts with people like me, just another community member,” Smith said.
Representatives from U.S. Army Garrison Baden-Württemberg and U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern came together Oct. 19 for a combined 2011 AFAP conference. Roughly 200 people attended the three-day event held at the Kaiserslautern Community Activity Center on Daenner Kaserne.
In past years, ideas were submitted anonymously in community drop boxes. This year, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern webmaster Brandon Spragins created a way for community members to offer AFAP ideas online – significantly increasing submission numbers from previous years, said Michelle Thomas, Army Community Service director at U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern. Also, mobile device photographed a special bar code that pointed them directly to the submission site.
“This allowed users to offer ideas with ease, from either their workplace or the comfort of their home,” Spragins said. “Using today’s interactive technology revolutionizes how community members can suggest improvements and make changes both locally and Army wide.”
At the conference, issues were prioritized and solutions recommended. Some topics brought up this year included improvements to parking, housing, speeding on post and the transformation of Sembach Kaserne, where several Army units are moving.
Some issues were raised to higher commands or senior Army leadership. Other problems can be addressed at the local level, Thomas said.
“We have command team that has no problem with confronting issues and finding solutions. They’re family and Soldier oriented,” Thomas said. “When you have that in a command team, you have a wonderful thing.”
AFAP conferences began in 1983. Early issues focused on child care standards and volunteer support. Since then, milestones included changes to pay, healthcare, insurance, single
Soldier programs and school liaisons. AFAP suggestions also led to an increase of annual leave carryover, toll-free hotlines for wounded service members and education benefits for surviving spouses. AFAP issues even led to legislative changes as well as changes of Army and DoD policies, AFAP program manager Kimberly Lazarow said.
“Our first step is to see if the submitted issues affect the local community or is it something Army-wide,” Lazarow said. “About 90 percent of issues submitted are worked at the local level, others are pushed higher.”
Last year, the Smith’s issue was elevated through Installation Management Command to the Department of the Army for consideration.
“This really works. Everything has to get looked at and nothing gets pushed off to the side,” Stephanie Smith said. “One little event in my husband’s life may change Army policy.”
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For the first time an ecosystem survey with R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen will be conducted in the coastal area of Gabon. Identification and abundance of birds, whales, fish, phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthos will be conducted in the period from 9-23 May. In addition environmental parameters such as temperature, salinity, current, chlorophyll and oxygen will be measured. A reception was help onboard the vessel before the start of the cruise and the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Security, the governor of Port Gentil, and the FAO representative in Central Africa, were among the distinguished guest.
Governor Deval Patrick this week joined state and local officials to announce a $490,000 MassDOT Transit Oriented Development (TOD) grant to the City of Somerville to fund bicycle and pedestrian improvements near the privately-funded, multi-family residential MaxPak development project.
"This important investment illustrates how prioritizing projects near public transportation can address the economic vitality of communities while creating private investments, and jobs today and for tomorrow," said Governor Patrick.
MassDOT's TOD Infrastructure and Housing Support Program ("TOD Bond Program") is intended to help create more compact, mixed-use, walkable development near transit stations. The TOD Bond Program provides financing for pedestrian improvements, bicycle facilities, housing projects and parking facilities within a quarter-mile of commuter rail, subway or bus stations, as well as ferry terminals.
The former 5.5-acre Brownfield site has been reclaimed and permitted as a TOD project for 199 residential units; 25 of which will be designated as affordable housing. The $50 million project is entirely funded by KSS Realty. Construction has started on the MaxPak site with demolition underway to prepare for construction of the first 15 housing units.
The MaxPak project is adjacent to the planned Green Line Extension, which will extend MBTA service to three densely-populated municipalities with high demand for public transit. The Green Line Extension is a significant economic development and transportation access improvement project for this key region of the Commonwealth.
As a result of the redevelopment of the MaxPak site, an extension of an existing Community Path is planned, encouraging alternative methods of transportation. The TOD grant funds a Community Path extension from Cedar Street to Lowell Street.
Learn more about Massachusetts Works.
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Recent studies have shown that two important sources of highly-localised and enriched organic matter in the deep sea are the sunken carcasses of dead whales and large pieces of wood which have been washed out to sea.
These large inputs of organic matter can support a highly specialised microbial and invertebrate fauna. During this 2009-410 Seamount cruise, two moorings, each carrying a package of minke, fin and sperm whale bones and a package of mango wood logs, were deployed to two seamount sites from the Research Vessel Dr Fridtjof Nansen. These moorings will remain in place until recovery by ROV in late 2011.
Credit: Juliana Thomas / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States
Thousands of Nurses Hold National Day of Action Aug. 5 to Save Lives During COVID-19 and Beyond
As firsthand witnesses and actual victims during this COVID-19 crisis of a health care and economic system that prioritizes money over people, registered nurse members of National Nurses United (NNU) held on Aug. 5 more than 200 actions inside and outside hospital facilities in at least 16 states and the District of Columbia to demand that our elected leaders, government, and hospital employers take immediate action to save lives.
#ProtectNurses
#SaveLives
Prioritizing Workplace Mental Health
Geneva - Switzerland, 25-29 January 2021. Copyright ©️ World Economic Forum/Pascal Bitz
Punit Renjen, Global Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte, USA; International Business Council Garen K. Staglin, Chairman and Co-Founder, One Mind, USA
Miranda Wolpert, Head, Mental Health Priority Area, Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
Moderated by Sir Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Springer Nature, United Kingdom
Ant nest mound. Terelj National Park, Mongolia.
Photo and caption provided by forest entomologist Karen Ripley. In June, 2017, she made a rapid assessment of Mongolia’s forest health surveys, site prioritization, and pest control activities that protect its forests from native defoliating insects. This evaluation was sponsored by the United Nations’ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation program.
Photo by: Karen Ripley
Date: June 7, 2017
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