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ELYSIAN PARK - With the Los Angeles Fire Department's training center as a backdrop, graduates of the Firefighter/EMS Magnet (FEMS) program at Woodrow Wilson High School in El Sereno were honored by civic leaders and LAFD leadership at a May 25, 2019 ceremony capped with a skills demonstration as their families cheered their accomplishment. One of four youth programs supported by the LAFD, FEMS provides a highly structured and progressive pathway for achieving academic, physical and life skills beneficial to a fire service career, including teamwork, leadership, courage and commitment.
LAFD Event: 052519 - Wilson High School FEMS Graduation
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Awarding ceremony for the IAEA Nuclear Security Essay Competition on the Future of Nuclear Security: Commitments and Actions. A side event organised by the IAEA Division of Nuclear Security and the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom. IAEA Vienna, Austria. 7 December 2016
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Secretary Price visited Liberia to highlight the United States’ role in and commitment to global health security and to discuss the partnership formed between Liberia and the United States to strengthen capabilities to prevent, detect, and respond to potential health emergencies. During his visit, Secretary Price met with survivors of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, visited facilities that cared for Ebola patients and are continuing efforts to prevent future outbreaks, laid a wreath on the grave of an unknown Ebola victim at Disco Hill, and more. Learn more about Secretary Price’s visit to Liberia: www.hhs.gov/about/news/2017/05/19/secretary-price-visits-.... Monrovia, Liberia. May 17-18, 2017. Photo Credit: U.S. Embassy Monrovia.
Climate Leaders Summit 2009.
Climate Leaders Summit Opening Commitment Session.
Governor Chris Gregorge, Washington Srate.
A half-track motorcycle
The German commitment to military mechanisation is well illustrated in this highly specialised vehicle. It was designed by NSU in 1939 and was intended to operate with paratroops as a light, airportable tractor for supply trailers or small guns. They were first noted by the Allies during the invasion of Crete in1941.
The Kettenkrad is, in fact, a small tracked vehicle with a pilot wheel rather than a motorcycle and it can actually operate without the front wheel. Turning the handlebars activates steering brakes on the tracks. It is also a very sophisticated machine, with roller bearing, rubber padded tracks; expensive to manufacture and difficult to maintain. It is altogether too complicated for military use.
(Text from the Tank Museum website)
International Conference on Nuclear Security: Commitments and Actions, at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 5 December 2016
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
For Strobist Sundays: Part of a person plus a prop.
We don't always see immediate results from our efforts.
f/3.6 ISO 100. Exposure .125 sec. 13 watt CFL positioned a foot from my arm.
what a day what a day. i have been dreaming about this for a while. and today was the day.
sunshine: check
no prior commitments: check
no hot dates: check
laundry done: check
apartment clean: check (well, mostly)
gas in the car: check
feeling creative: check
ok, so off i went. exploring the D. i LOVE this city. it has truly grown on me. i have to admit being a lil farm-girl, it scared me at first (ok, it still scares me at times). however, i have learned to see so much in all aspects of this city.
i took over 300 pics today. and since i am such a fabulous photographer (hahhahahahaha!) they all turned out remarkable. however, i'm sure i will bore you all to death if i post them all here. so i'll post some and call it good.
i also learned that being an urban explorer is probably something not so good for me to do...alone anyway. here are the top 10 reasons why:
(in no particular order)
1. my car is not reliable (not a good getaway if necessary)
2. i get scared really easily of animal sounds. i heard some growling near one house today and that was the end of that one!
3. i always have to go pee-not good when you are at these places and a girl
4. i can't run very well anymore due to my achilles tendon problem (not good for possible get aways)
5. i always give homeless people all my money
6. i get way too caught up in how i would decorate the place if i lived there
7. i don't want to be mistaken for a prostitute. i did see 2 working girls on the streets today turning down jobs
8. due to the achilles problems, i can't jump fences anymore either
9. i'm not good enough w/ my camera to take a quick shot and run. i like to try lots of settings.
10. i stick out like a sore thumb in these hoods. i seem to glow in the dark!!!
There's never been a Nursery web spider recorded at Sagehen (that I can find a record of, anyway), and they are not commonly observed in California. But they have been documented in wet areas nearby so it's (at least somewhat) likely that they are here in the Sagehen Basin, too. I took this photo of a cool New Hampshire Pisaurina spider while at an OBFS meeting one fall.
I'm using it here to illustrate a phenomenon that occurs in many Sagehen species: sexual cheating in the animal kingdom. For instance, after many days of attending to and guarding her from other males while she digs her redd, a large male and the female Brook Trout line up side by side and simultaneously deposit their eggs and milt. At that moment, young males will sometimes dart in and quickly release their contribution into the mix while the larger fish are briefly preoccupied and incapable of chasing him away. You can watch the whole show in the fishhouse every year in late summer.
Cases of cheating animals turn out to be very common. The evolutionary interests of males and females are simply in conflict: males have a much, much smaller reproductive commitment. Sperm is cheap, so it doesn't cost him much to splash it around as much as possible, even if it's unlikely to succeed (but it's not always sunshine and roses for the lads).
Meanwhile, females are generally choosy. Her reproduction can take a whole lot more out of her body, so she gets far fewer chances; plus, childbirth might kill her, endangering both her current offspring, and her offspring's future ones. Even if births go fine, just having children is enough strain that it may shorten her life. Therefore, reproduction is deadly serious business for her, and she has to be very, very careful (it turns out that there may be a rather sinister reason why humans haven't evolved away from high maternal death rates as one would expect...ugh).
So, the male has to convince her (and other gals) to invest her more limited reproductive capacity in him (and survive the date!). In humans, some birds, and other animals whose offspring require extended parental care to survive and thrive, males can often be far more faithful. And in fact, for some animals--like some seahorses and tropical fishes--it's the female that famously skips town after laying her eggs, leaving the male to do the work of raising the kids.
Getting back to the spider...the strategies to impress girls in the animal kingdom are varied, astonishing, and rightly famous. But sometimes it's just easier to try to pull the wool over her eyes:
There are many more examples of remarkable cheating behavior at the link. But it's not just the males--females cheat, too, and may have more imperative: to gain the simultaneous benefits of a particularly studly father's genetics, and the partnership investment of a less handsome good provider, for instance.
However, this is all rather simplistic, old-fashioned, anthropomorphic, and even somewhat misogynist thinking, "...animal dating strategies are far more complex and varied than initially acknowledged." For instance, female extra-pair mating in birds appears to also offer distinct advantages against predators and higher genetic diversity, including a greater number of disease-detecting genes. And female extra-pair mating seems to work to prevent speciation in diverging populations.
So why doesn't everybody just cheat all the time, since it's obviously easier? Research suggests that it just isn't as effective--it's often the strategy of last resort for total losers :)
Which makes sense, otherwise cooperation wouldn't exist at all. But some feeble reproductive success is better than none, especially when it may be your only chance: for instance, most of the little Brook Trout won't survive to be the big one.
If you continue to think about all this, you'll find that this whole field of inquiry is actually completely morally fraught, and appalling in its implications.
However, it's important to not fall into the Appeal to Nature (or Naturalistic Fallacy): that because something is natural, it's automatically good...or that if something IS, then it OUGHT to be. After all, it's perfectly natural for E. coli to eat hamburger...but that doesn't mean we should just accept that fact and choke down our slimy rotten meat. In fact, there are a number of multi-billion dollar global industries, and massive regulatory structures (and even religious dietary restrictions) that were generally initiated for nothing more than to prevent bacteria and other parasites from sickening us by spoiling our food supply.
So, despite the fact that there are some really repulsive things going on behind the scenes of our conscious minds, that is no excuse to ignore, glorify or justify vile behavior in ourselves or in others. Humans can make choices. And as social animals, we have to get along with each other to survive.
In the immortal words of Mick Jagger (and the unofficial theme song of the UC Natural Reserve System managers): "You Can't Always Get What You Want". In fact, how conflicts are controlled in social organisms is a major topic of evolution research.
Pairing up is so fraught and can be such a mess, that it's not surprising that some creatures just give it a hard pass!
Here's a recent book on all kinds of cheating in the animal world. Here's an example of another kind of animal cheating at Sagehen, and here's another one.
South Sudan’s Defense Minister Kuol Mayang Juuk has announced that the government will integrate an Action Plan on grave violations against children into the army training curriculum. Speaking to media in the capital Juba, at the end of a South Sudanese led process supported by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan and Unicef, the minister reiterated the government’s commitment to respect the rights of children.
At the close of three-days, the Minister said he would ensure the implementation of the reviewed Comprehensive Action Plan on the six grave violations against children in letter and spirit.
This consultative effort has been put together by the South Sudan Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism – an effort of both UNMISS and UNICEF, in collaboration with SSPDF, and will hopefully create a document that will prevent the future suffering of the children of South Sudan.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
November 13, 2011
Resurrection commitments and expected gifts total 4.8 million dollars—more than the original goal of 4.5 million.
Photo by Trevor McMaken
I love the effect, the colors and specially the Commitment that exists in between a spiky plant and a pretty/addable flower....!
Mark Fleming, behavioral health regional director for Corizon in Tennessee, had often thought of finding a way to support our soldiers. With work commitments preventing his own private practice to provide psychological services, an article in the July 2012 issue of TIME magazine opened his eyes to the rates of suicide among active, deployed, reserve, national guard and soldiers who had never deployed. The article revealed some astonishing numbers and Fleming knew he wanted to do more.
After speaking with a recruiter, they asked him to join up! Although hesitant at first, Fleming realized how much more he could help as a fellow soldier. Because of his accolade of academic accomplishments and work history, he was able to persevere through a nine-month process to finally be commissioned on February 14, 2013 as a Captain in the Missouri National Guard. Fleming said he “always felt like I served my country by being a good citizen,” and added that he feels “honored to wear the uniform of a soldier and serve our country by providing my psychological expertise to ensure the very lives of those who wear the same uniform I do.”
Congratulations, and way to pay it forward, Mark!
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The Habitat III Exhibition will be one of the most vibrant and active areas of the conference where member states, organizations and institutions, civil society, and the private sector can showcase proposals and commitments to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and advocate their work on housing and sustainable urban development. It will provide space for informal discussions, side events and presentation of urban innovations.
Designed to attract a large audience, the exhibition will be open to the public and to Habitat III delegates 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. daily from 15 to 20 October 2016.
For inquiries and clarification, you may email us at habitat3exhibition@un.org
Download the Habitat III Exhibition Map and Exhibitors List here: www2.habitat3.org/file/536699/view/590133
Habitat III Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development taken place in Quito, Ecuador from October 17th to 20th. The Conference´s mission is the adoption of the New Urban Agenda.