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October 9, 2013 - Washington DC.2013 World Bank / IMF Anuual Meetings. Program of Seminars - From Poverty to Prosperity
Though millions have moved out of extreme poverty since 2000, prosperity for people at the lower end of the income spectrum remains elusive. World Bank President Dr. Kim and a panel of distinguished speakers discussed strategic policy questions related to shared prosperity.
The panel featured:
Kaushik Basu, WB Senior Vice President and Chief Economist;
Helen Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme;
Pravin Gordhan, Minister of Finance, Republic of South Africa;
Santiago Levy, Vice President for Sectors & Knowledge, Inter-American Development Bank; and Moderator,
Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times.
Photo: Brangelina Clawson / World Bank
Photo ID: 100913_POS_Poverty_to_Prosperity188_F
Final version of the two trains for the layout of 2017.
One train has color dark blue and the other dark red.
Single Soldiers share Patriot Day with wounded warriors at Landstuhl
By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
LANDSTUHL, Germany – Taking care not to bump his busted ankle, Pvt. Michael Waskon pushed his wheelchair up to the barbeque serving line at the USO Warrior Center, hoping for seconds.
A week earlier, Waskon, 19, of Linton, Ind., a M240 machine gunner with the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, was injured when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan.
On Sept. 11, volunteers from U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern’ Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers program treated Waskon and dozens of other injured troops to a cookout – just a small gesture among Soldiers to commemorate Patriot Day.
In recent days, while convalescing at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Waskon watched newscasts focused on the Sept. 11 attacks. Just 10 years old when terrorists flew passenger jets into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, Waskon still remembers his elementary school teacher dropping her coffee cup as news of the events flashed across his classroom television.
“Remembering 9-11 has had a big impact on me,” Waskon said. “It’s affected me, so much. It hit me right in the heart. That’s why we’re fighting.”
Although Patriot Day was established in 2002, few Soldiers recognized the term. Like many Americans, the term 9-11 was enough to start conversations.
“9-11 always reminds me of when the deployments started,” said 1st Lt. Nick Dordon, from the California National Guard’s 224th Sustainment Brigade, who went to the Sinai in 2002 and twice to Iraq.
Digging into a bowl of chili, Dordon, 38, of Paso Robles, Calif., could almost forget the pain from an injury he sustained at Talil airbase in southern Iraq. He arrived at LRMC just as volunteers ignited charcoal grills.
Behind the serving line, wearing a red BOSS t-shirt, Pfc. Brian Lamson served barbeque to his comrades – many who were bandaged or in wheelchairs.
“These wounded warriors already gave their time,” Lamson said. “We just wanted to show them how we appreciate what they have done.”
Some Soldiers grabbed burgers and hot dogs and watched films on the USO’s flat screens. Some talked quietly with visiting family. Others shared their stories, about how they were injured and wounded.
On Sept. 6, when most Americans were celebrating Labor Day, Spc. Scott Gossett was on patrol in Afghanistan’s Zabul province. Gossett, 26, of Ruidoso, N.M., an infantryman with the Vilseck, Germany-based 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, was part of a convoy resupplying a forward operating base.
That Monday around dawn, Gossett jammed to the Beatles and snacked on Cheezits, awaiting orders to move out. The convoy, made up of Strykers and Afghan National Army pickup trucks, spent the morning rambling over hot, dusty roads and washed out wadis. By mid-morning, they reached an area of previous attacks.
Up ahead, an ANA truck exploded. Gossett’s Stryker moved forward for security. Black smoke billowed from the burning ANA truck.
Gossett closed his bag of Cheezits and silently prayed.
“I said, ‘Please God, don’t let there be a secondary device,’” Gossett said. “But there was.”
The Stryker bounced, throwing Gossett forward. Shocked into silence, Gossett saw an injured buddy through a dusty amber glow. Then, he heard the Stryker’s alarms, swearing and screaming. His legs were broken.
He spent the entire week on his back, flying first to Kandahar, then to Bagram and onward to Germany. Staff at LRMC found Gossett a wheelchair and mentioned the Warrior Center event. His wife, Jennifer, propped his bandaged legs up with a pillow. Together, they made their way to the USO.
Gossett was glad to be in the sun, he said, although he didn’t have much of an appetite. Still, he was glad to be sharing Sept. 11 with fellow Soldiers, he said.
“Terrorism is designed to change the way people act. If we take this day, when a great tragedy occurred, and treat it like a funeral – then the terrorists win,” Gossett said. “If we remember it as a time when patriots came together and fought back, then we’ve already won.”
Spc. Rob Dickinson, 23, of Saint Augustine, Fla., president of the U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern’s BOSS program, quietly listened to Gossett’s story – one he understood all too well. In 2008, while driving a truck in Iraq, his convoy also hit roadside bomb.
“These are our fellow Soldiers, who deployed to protect us all and got injured doing so,” Dickinson said. “We’re glad to volunteer our time, to offer them a little bit of good food and good company.”
Since 1989, BOSS has strived to improve single service members’ quality of life. Members take part in social, recreational and educational events, Dickinson said. Community service is also a big part of what BOSS does, he said.
Planning for the event began in mid-August, said Ms. Yanir Hill, acting director if the USAG-K director of human resources. More than a dozen BOSS volunteers, plus Air Force officers and Army civilians from the Kaiserslautern Military Community, took part, she said.
Pfc. Lance Biddle, 22, of Palmetto, Fla., a Soldier from Company A, 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment , always remembers 9-11 as the day after his mom’s birthday. Biddle, who recently underwent back surgery, often finds comfort and conversation at Landstuhl’s USO, as he did at his home station, in Grafenwöhr, Germany, he said diving into a bowl of chili.
“It’s really the only way to relate to the outside world,” Biddle said. “It’s nice to talk to people who realize what’s going on and relax with people who understand you.”
For many, the afternoon cookout offered a calm moment to reflect. For Soldiers, may who have deployed into harm’s way over the past nine years, it was a chance to examine their feelings about Sept. 11.
Staff Sgt. Phalon Nelson, 31, of Virginia Beach, Va., an NCO from the 1st Battalion, 91st Cavalry Regiment, escorted a wounded Soldier from Afghanistan and stopped in to the USO to show his support. Like others, Nelson thought that turning negative event like the Sept. 11 and making it something positive sends a clear message to those who carried out the attacks.
“By celebrating instead of mourning,” Nelson said, pausing to collect his thoughts. “We are saying, ‘you can do this to us, but look how we have pulled together.’”
For more information on U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern’s BOSS program, call DSN 493-4344.
PHOTO CUTLINE: Spc. Rob Dickinson, 23, of Saint Augustine, Fla., president of the U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern’s BOSS program, serves chili to Pfc. Lance Biddle, 22, of Palmetto, Fla., a Soldier from Company A, 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment during a Patriot Day cookout at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. (Photo By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern)
To learn more about U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, visit our official website at www.kaiserslautern.army.mil
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4 March 2014. Tawila: A woman and her child wait to be attended in a food distribution center in the Rwanda camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in Tawila, North Darfur.
More than 8,000 women and children living in the camp benefit from two nutrition programs run by the World Food Programme (WFP) in the camp. One is Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme, which is designed to treat moderate acute malnutrition among children under the age of five and pregnant and nursing women. The other is Integrated Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programme meant to prevent malnutrition among children under the age of three. Through both programs, women learn to prepare highly nutritious food by combining corn soya blend with sugar and oil or by using local ingredients such as lentils and cereals. The women also learn basic child care practices that prevent infection and sickness among their children.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID.
Argonne’s Bike Share program provides an alternative to automobile use at the lab, promoting sustainability and wellness in the workplace.
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Return to the Western world! We spend one month in Croatia, and sample the joys of Central Europe by the Adriatic Sea.
Zagreb is thoroughly modern and beautiful, with a livelier local crowd, fresh markets, and more hidden gems than Prague or Budapest.
The Plitvice Lakes are one of the most awesome national parks we have visited so far.
Dubrovnik is like stepping back into the 1400s, all rocky hillside, stone streets, towering city walls, and Mediterranean blue sea.
Split is Croatia's second city, perched on the sea and built around the Roman ruins of Diocletian's Palace. We would love to come back here.
Read more about our travels at www.circumnavacation.com!
I grew up as a metal baby in the late 80s/early 90s, and I’ve never lost my taste for the hard stuff. The combination of two of my great loves, heavy metal and computer programming, in one of my favorite mediums, the t-shirt, makes this an instant favorite.
Fun fact: Although not widely known, corpse paint has been worn by computer programmers as early as the late 1960s. It’s rumored that Kim Petersen, better known as King Diamond, was first exposed to corpse paint by some LISP developers who were attending a mathematics conference in Denmark in the early 1970s.
Pro-tip: While real programmers wear do wear corpsepaint, real programmers do not wear nail studded gauntlets. They’re a major contributing factor in repetitive stress injuries.
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Please see the camera-wiki article on the Super Program (or outside North America, the Super A). These were joined by a new Pentax-A series of K mount lenses which enable the body to set an aperture automatically. A locking "A" position on the aperture ring is now provided.
Here Pentax joins the movement towards "multimode" exposure options which had begun with Canon's A-1. In particular programmed autoexposure and TTL flash control were becoming must-have features in the enthusiast SLR space.
Unfortunately this also marks a breakdown in what had been harmonious sharing of the K mount standard with Ricoh. They also introduced multimode program models, but the mount linkages enabling this are not compatible. In fact, a pin extending from the Ricoh lens flange can become trapped in the autofocus drive slot of later Pentax models and is quite difficult to get unstuck.
Photo credit: Elena Olivo
Copyright: NYU Photo Bureau
The Fall 2010 Student Hackathon brought in hundreds of students from 30 universities to NYU's Courant Institute for 24 hours of creative hacking on New York City startups' APIs.
Selected startups presented their technologies at the beginning of the event, and students formed groups to brainstorm and begin coding on their ideas. Many students worked into the night, foregoing sleep to fulfill their visions.
On Sunday afternoon students presented their projects to an audience including a judging panel, which selected the final winners.
hackNY hosts hackathons one each semester, as well as a Summer Fellows Program, which pairs quantitative and computational students with startups which can demonstrate a strong mentoring environment, a problem for a student to work on, a person to mentor them, and a place for them to work. Startups selected to host a student are expected to compensate student Fellows. Students enjoy free housing together and a pedagogical lecture series to introduce them to the ins and outs of joining and founding a startup.
For more information on hackNY's initiatives, please visit www.hackNY.org and follow us on twitter @hackNY
High school students participating in the Biotechnology Learning Alliance for Bioscience (LAB) Program at Ohlone College. Get information at www.ohlone.edu/instr/biotech/labprogram/
A view from above of the vast forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Forest Service photo by Olivia Freeman)
Sanad’s mother reads to him in Jordan as part of an effort called Drive to Read (DTR). Funded by USAID for three years, the program aimed to foster a love for reading and build a reading culture among the children of Jordan. DTR is a mobile library which takes educational and cultural activities into East Amman and Zarqa neighborhoods, where large concentrations of disadvantaged people live. Each bookmobile – one in East Amman and another one in Zarqa – is equipped with over 2,000 Arabic- and English-language books and acts as a magnet for families in search of interesting and fun activities to do.
Photo credit: Angie Haddad
if you're hemming and hawing over where to put your wedding money, just remember this picture if you're considering selling the farm for things like wedding programs...
if you're opting not to make your own invitations, one piece of advice i found was to get one fancy set for a keepsake [if you ask, some folks will do the proof in the fancy stuff], then do the rest in a more cost-effective manner. eg. get one letterpressed or engraved invitation and have the rest thermographed or flat printed. the (approximate) 50% savings are staggering and just as nice.
we designed our programs, had them printed up at the local print shop, then gathered a trusty sweatshop to assemble them. i think the total cost of printing and cutting 100 programs in half was around... $8? i checked out a DIY wedding website for ideas on how to do them, and if i remember correctly, they were charging around $2.50 per program--the package included the two pieces of fancy paper with the program info on them and a wood stick to glue in the middle, but you still had to assemble them yourself.
pretty much, no matter how gorgeous the majority of paper goods you cash out on may be, they're going to end up in the recycle bin.
Photo credit: Elena Olivo
Copyright: NYU Photo Bureau
The Fall 2010 Student Hackathon brought in hundreds of students from 30 universities to NYU's Courant Institute for 24 hours of creative hacking on New York City startups' APIs.
Selected startups presented their technologies at the beginning of the event, and students formed groups to brainstorm and begin coding on their ideas. Many students worked into the night, foregoing sleep to fulfill their visions.
On Sunday afternoon students presented their projects to an audience including a judging panel, which selected the final winners.
hackNY hosts hackathons one each semester, as well as a Summer Fellows Program, which pairs quantitative and computational students with startups which can demonstrate a strong mentoring environment, a problem for a student to work on, a person to mentor them, and a place for them to work. Startups selected to host a student are expected to compensate student Fellows. Students enjoy free housing together and a pedagogical lecture series to introduce them to the ins and outs of joining and founding a startup.
For more information on hackNY's initiatives, please visit www.hackNY.org and follow us on twitter @hackNY
2012 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit - Bathurst, NSW, Australia
V8 Supercars Championship
High school students participating in the Biotechnology Learning Alliance for Bioscience (LAB) Program at Ohlone College. Get information at www.ohlone.edu/instr/biotech/labprogram/
La última salida del Grupo Militar de Alta Montaña de este año a territorio pirenaico se realizaba entre el 9 y el 13 de diciembre de 2019 en la Cerdaña Francesa
El proyecto final del GMAM será una expedición a un pico de 6.000 metros en el Himalaya (Nepal) el cual será bautizado con el nombre Comandante Fernando Yarto que perdió la vida por un disparo accidental durante unos ejercicios en el campo de tiro de “Las Batiellas” en 2018.
En resumen una óptima concentración de alpinismo a pesar de las condiciones nivometeorológicas y del estado precario de las vías de escalada, el grupo del PAEA ha regresado más cohesionado y con una determinación de cara para el objetivo de proyecto final para el 2020.