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5 April 2017 - OECD Headquarters, Paris, France
Closing Session
Pierre Duquesne, Chair, Governing Board, OECD Development Centre
Photo: OECD/Andrew Wheeler
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超過600名來自11所中學的學生掌握更多有關「可持續發展全球目標」的資訊，並許下承諾及身體力行為每一名兒童付出更多。感謝以下參與學校對活動的支持：
Over 600 students from 11 secondary schools learnt about Sustainable Development Goals, and pledged to support children in crises. Thank you for the support of all participating schools as follows:
佛教善德英文中學Buddhist Sin Tak College
明愛胡振中中學Caritas Wu Cheng-chung Secondary School
長沙灣天主教英文中學Cheung Sha Wan Catholic Secondary School
播道書院Evangel College
喇沙書院La Salle College
瑪利諾中學Maryknoll Secondary School
順利天主教中學Shun Lee Catholic Secondary School
聖公會林裘謀中學 SKH Lam Kau Mow Secondary School
聖士提反書院St. Stephen's College
東華三院黃笏南中學TWGHs Wong Fut Nam College
華英中學Wa Ying College
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Artist's concept of the Transit IV-A satellite in orbit.
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Communities Secretary @RobertJenrick in Cornwall visiting the Nansledan development, showcasing quality designs that have been backed by the local community. Planning reforms mean all future developments will have beauty and design quality at their heart
3 September 2020
At the Community Activity Center on Camp Casey May 29, civilians and Soldiers of the U.S. Army Garrison Red Cloud and Area I attend a professional development session geared especially to those in leadership positions. The audience of 145 leaders heard briefings on a range of topics that included customer service, mentoring subordinates, administrative and maintenance matters, and leadership itself. Speakers included Col. John M. Scott, Commander, USAG Red Cloud and Area I, and other garrison officials. The afternoon was capped by an indoor supper of hot dogs and hamburgers.
A hand auger technique used by researchers of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Puerto Rico Nuclear Center in obtaining bottom samples from a turtle grass bed. Circa 1972.
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The Postcard
A Gibson Lines postcard that was published by the Gibson Art Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. The card was posted in Cincinnati using a 1 cent stamp on Tuesday the 20th. December 1921.
It was sent to:
Mr. & Mrs. N. H. (surname deleted),
Felicity,
Ohio.
Felicity is a village in Franklin Township, Clermont County, Ohio. The population was 651 individuals at the 2020 census.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Uncle and Aunt,
Hope this card finds you
both well, and that your
Xmas stocking will be
full to overflowing.
Ada and Charlie."
The Significance of Holly
The European holly, Ilex aquifolium is commonly referenced at Christmas time, and is sometimes referred to by the name Christ's thorn.
In many Western Christian cultures, holly is a traditional Christmas decoration, used especially in wreaths and illustrations, for instance on Christmas cards.
Since medieval times the plant has carried Christian symbolism, as expressed in the Christmas carol "The Holly and the Ivy", in which the holly is said to represent Jesus and the ivy to represent the Virgin Mary.
Christians have identified a wealth of symbolism in its form:
The sharpness of the leaves help to recall the crown of thorns worn by Jesus; the red berries serve as a reminder of the drops of blood that were shed for salvation; and the shape of the leaves, which resemble flames, can serve to reveal God's burning love for His people.
Combined with the fact that holly maintains its bright colors during the Christmas season, it naturally came to be associated with the Christian holiday.
Mistletoe
Mistletoe is the common name for obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales. They are attached to their host tree or shrub by a structure called the haustorium, through which they extract water and nutrients from the host plant.
There are hundreds of species of mistletoe which mostly live in tropical regions.
The name mistletoe originally referred to the species Viscum album (European mistletoe); it is the only species native to the British Isles and much of Europe. The genus Viscum is not native to North America, but Viscum album was introduced to Northern California in 1900.
European mistletoe has smooth-edged, oval, evergreen leaves borne in pairs along the woody stem, and waxy, white berries that it bears in clusters of two to six.
-- Mistletoe Life Cycle
Mistletoe species grow on a wide range of host trees, some of which experience side effects including reduced growth, stunting, and loss of infested outer branches.
A heavy infestation may also kill the host plant. Viscum album successfully parasitizes more than 200 tree and shrub species.
All mistletoe species are hemiparasites, because they do perform some photosynthesis for some period of their life cycle. However, in some species its contribution is very nearly zero.
A mistletoe seed germinates on the branch of a host tree or shrub, and in its early stages of development it is independent of its host. The adhesive on the seed tends to darken the bark. On having made contact with the bark, the hypocotyl, with only a rudimentary scrap of root tissue at its tip, penetrates it, a process that may take a year or more. In the meantime the plant is dependent on its own photosynthesis.
Only after it reaches the host's conductive tissue may it begin to rely on the host for its needs. Later, it forms a haustorium that penetrates the host tissue and takes water and nutrients from the host plant.
Most mistletoe seeds are spread by birds who eat the 'seeds' (in actuality drupes). Of the many bird species that feed on them, the mistle thrush is the best-known in Europe.
Depending on the species of mistletoe and the species of bird, the seeds are regurgitated from the crop, excreted in their droppings, or stuck to the bill and causing the bird to have to wipe it off onto a branch.
The seeds are coated with a sticky material called viscin. Some viscin remains on the seed and when it touches a stem, it sticks tenaciously. The viscin soon hardens and attaches the seed firmly to its future host, where it germinates and its haustorium penetrates the sound bark.
-- Toxicity of Mistletoe
There are 1500 species of mistletoe, varying widely in toxicity to humans; the European mistletoe (Viscum album) is more toxic than the American mistletoe (Phoradendron serotinum).
In European mistletoe (Viscum), viscumin is the dangerous active toxin. It acts by irreversibly inhibiting ribsomal protein synthesis in cells, which leads to the death of the affected cell, tissue damage in the area of exposure from mass cell death in the very short term, with the potential for organ failure and death depending on the level of exposure.
Mistletoe has been used historically in medicine for its supposed value in treating arthritis, high blood pressure, epilepsy, and infertility.
-- The Cultural Importance of Mistletoe
Mistletoe is relevant to several cultures. Pagan cultures regarded the white berries as symbols of male fertility, with the seeds resembling semen. The Celts, particularly, saw mistletoe as the semen of Taranis, while the Ancient Greeks referred to mistletoe as "oak sperm".
In Roman mythology, mistletoe was used by the hero Aeneas to reach the underworld.
The Romans associated mistletoe with peace, love, and understanding, and hung it over doorways to protect the household.
In the advent of the Christian era, mistletoe in the Western world became associated with Christmas as a decoration under which lovers are expected to kiss, as well as with protection from witches and demons.
Mistletoe continued to be associated with fertility and vitality through the Middle Ages, and by the eighteenth century it had also become incorporated into Christmas celebrations around the world. The custom of kissing under the mistletoe is referred to as popular among servants in late eighteenth-century England.
The serving class of Victorian England is credited with perpetuating the tradition. The tradition dictated that a man was allowed to kiss any woman standing underneath mistletoe, and that bad luck would befall any woman who refused the kiss.
One variation on the tradition stated that with each kiss a berry was to be plucked from the mistletoe, and the kissing must stop after all the berries had been removed.
Mistletoe is the floral emblem of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and the flower of the UK county of Herefordshire.
Every year, the UK town of Tenbury Wells holds a mistletoe festival and crowns a 'Mistletoe Queen'.
Sir George Fuller
So what else happened on the day that Ada and Charlie posted the card?
Well, on the 20th. December 1921, Sir George Fuller took office as the new Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales, seven days after Premier James Dooley had lost a vote of confidence in the state legislature.
However, only seven hours after Fuller had formed a government and had become the head of government as premier, he lost another vote of confidence in the legislature and was not seated.
On the 27th. December 1921, James Dooley was appointed premier again after forming a new government.
The Russian Famine Relief Act
Also on that day, the U.S. Senate voted to pass the Russian Famine Relief Act, and approved the appropriation of $20,000,000 ($300 million in 2021) for that purpose.
The vote was pursuant to the request of President Harding, subject to the condition that all purchases of food be made in the U.S. and shipped to the Soviet Union in American vessels.
Julius Richard Petri
The 20th. December 1921 also marked the death at the age of 69 of the German microbiologist Julius Richard Petri.
Julius, who was born on the 31st. May 1852, is generally credited with inventing the device known as the Petri dish, which is named after him, while working as assistant to bacteriologist Robert Koch.
-- Julius Richard Petri - The Early Years
Petri was born in the town of Barmen (now a district of the city of Wuppertal), Germany. He came from a distinguished family of scholars, and was the eldest son of Philipp Ulrich Martin Petri (1817–1864), a professor in Berlin, and Louise Petri.
Petri's grandfather, Viktor Friedrich Leberecht Petri (1782–1857), was also a scholar, being both a director and professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany.
Petri initially studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for Military Physicians (1871–1875) and received his medical degree in 1876.
He continued his studies at the Charité Hospital in Berlin where his thesis on the chemistry of protein urine tests earned him his doctorate.
-- Julius Richard Petri - The Later Years
Julius was on active duty as a military physician until 1882, continuing then as a reservist. In 1886 he was a curator at the German Hygiene Museum where he subsequently worked under Robert Koch.
From 1877 to 1879 Julius was assigned to the Imperial Health Office in Berlin, where he became an assistant to Robert Koch. On the suggestion of Angelina Hesse, the New York-born wife of another assistant, Walther Hesse, the Koch laboratory began to culture bacteria on agar plates.
Petri then invented the standard culture dish, or Petri plate, and further developed the technique of agar culture in order to purify or clone bacterial colonies derived from single cells. This advance made it possible to rigorously identify the bacteria responsible for diseases.
Petri's first wife, Anna Riesch, died in 1894 during childbirth, and in 1897, he married Elizabeth Turk.
-- The Importance of the Petri Dish
Petri dishes are extensively used as research plates for microbiology studies. The dish is partially filled with warm liquid containing agar, and a mixture of specific ingredients that may include nutrients, blood, salts, carbohydrates, dyes, indicators, amino acids and antibiotics.
After the agar cools and solidifies, the dish is ready to receive a microbe-laden sample in a process known as "inoculation" or "plating". For virus or phage cultures, a two-step inoculation is needed: bacteria that is grown acts like a host for the viral inoculum.
The bacterial sample is diluted on the plate in a process called "streaking". This involves a sterile plastic stick, or a wire loop which is sterilized by heating; the loop is used to collect the first sample, and then to make a streak on the dish with the agar.
Then, using a fresh stick and sterilized loop, the new loop is passed through that initial streak, spreading the plated bacteria onto the dish.
This process is repeated a third time, and if necessary a fourth, resulting in individual bacterial cells that are isolated on the plate, which are then able to divide and grow into single "clonal" bacterial colonies.
Petri plates can be incubated upside down (agar on top), which can help lessen the risk of contamination from airborne particles containing microbes settling, and to decrease the chance of condensation from water accumulating and disturbing the microbes being cultured.
The basic design of the Petri dish has not changed since being created by Petri in 1887. It was a challenge to keep dishes free of dust, and extra bacteria could collect and alter samples; heavy bell jars used for this purpose proved ineffective, and so six years later Petri created a transparent plate slightly larger than the dish, which served as a transparent lid.
The Petri name has come into public prominence following a spate of serious food poisoning incidents on cruise liners; ships operating buffets in their restaurants have been referred to as 'floating Petri dishes.'
-- Julius Petri's Other Work
Not only was Petri responsible for many innovations and inventions, he also published a variety of papers including 150 on the topic of bacteriology and hygiene, which contributed significantly to information and concepts related to them.
Petri's papers detailed a number of steps in understanding microbiology, not limited to the study of microorganisms, but also including biological pathways and mechanisms.
In his paper of 1876 Julius considered questions regarding proteins found within urine, seeking ways that they could be used to identify conditions or functions.
On September 2, 2014 the Universities at Shady Grove (USG) hosted Congressman John K. Delaney and the Honorable Thomas E. Perez, United States Secretary of Labor, for a forum on the topic of workforce development entitled, “Preparing Today for Tomorrow’s Success.” In addition to Congressman Delaney and Secretary Perez, panelists included: Dr. DeRionne P. Pollard, President of Montgomery College; Mr. Diego Uriburu, Executive Director of Identity Inc.; and Mr. Patrick J. Caulfield, co-owner of Coakley & Williams Construction Inc. The panel discussion was moderated by USG’s Executive Director, Dr. Stewart Edelstein.
At the Community Activity Center on Camp Casey May 29, civilians and Soldiers of the U.S. Army Garrison Red Cloud and Area I attend a professional development session geared especially to those in leadership positions. The audience of 145 leaders heard briefings on a range of topics that included customer service, mentoring subordinates, administrative and maintenance matters, and leadership itself. Speakers included Col. John M. Scott, Commander, USAG Red Cloud and Area I, and other garrison officials. The afternoon was capped by an indoor supper of hot dogs and hamburgers.
This public forum, held on 28 November 2017, focused on findings and policy lessons stemming from recent research on inequality in Mozambique, with the ultimate aim of promoting innovative policies for inclusive growth.
The programme was build on research presented at the conference on poverty and inequality in Mozambique taking place on 27 November 2017.
2022-05-22: Haja Isatu Bah, a young entrepreneur from a state in transition, Sierra Leone; Colette Benoudji, Independent Civic Social Organizational professional, Chad sharing a stage with other members during COP15, Day 6.
At the Community Activity Center on Camp Casey May 29, civilians and Soldiers of the U.S. Army Garrison Red Cloud and Area I attend a professional development session geared especially to those in leadership positions. The audience of 145 leaders heard briefings on a range of topics that included customer service, mentoring subordinates, administrative and maintenance matters, and leadership itself. Speakers included Col. John M. Scott, Commander, USAG Red Cloud and Area I, and other garrison officials. The afternoon was capped by an indoor supper of hot dogs and hamburgers.
Deals Gateway (ONE SE8) Development by Burwell Deakins Architects Ltd. Photography by Joas Souza | Architectural and Aerial Photographer (www.joasphotographer.com)
Agribusiness Development Activity is aimed at the transformation from ineffective subsistence farming to commercial, profitable agribusiness through the disbursement of matching grants and the provision of technical and market information assistance. Grants are awarded through competition on the co-financing basis for the development of small value-adding enterprises, farm service centers, value chain and primary production in any region of Georgia. The project will help develop agribusiness and create new job opportunities.
Deals Gateway (ONE SE8) Development by Burwell Deakins Architects Ltd. Photography by Joas Souza | Architectural and Aerial Photographer (www.joasphotographer.com)
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At the Community Activity Center on Camp Casey May 29, civilians and Soldiers of the U.S. Army Garrison Red Cloud and Area I attend a professional development session geared especially to those in leadership positions. The audience of 145 leaders heard briefings on a range of topics that included customer service, mentoring subordinates, administrative and maintenance matters, and leadership itself. Speakers included Col. John M. Scott, Commander, USAG Red Cloud and Area I, and other garrison officials. The afternoon was capped by an indoor supper of hot dogs and hamburgers.
The Rwanda Development Board (RDB), together with the Rwanda High Commission in Singapore, which oversees Australia conducted successful tourism and investment promotion roadshows in the country’s five major cities.
The roadshows that took place in Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Perth aimed at attracting more investors and tourists from Australia to Rwanda.
While strengthening the national and local capacities according to the needs, the ART GOLD MOROCCO programme supports the implementation of the strategic planning process at the local level (participation, diagnosis, formulation, execution and follow-up-evaluation).It aims the valuation of Regions through the reinforcement of capacities, the promotion of the dialogue and the coordination in the planning and the management of local development actions.
Photo by Adam Rogers / UNDP
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