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Improved access to life-saving health care is on the way to downtown Vancouver with the approval of the business plan for a new St. Paul’s Hospital.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/18990
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Improving driver and pedestrian safety and modernizing Virginia's transportation system, press conference. (Photo by Tom Saunders, VDOT)
More people with complex needs can get improved employment supports on their path to long-term recovery, health and wellness, thanks to an $8.2-million provincial grant to the Canadian Mental Health Association of British Columbia.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/28237
After receiving support and guidance from CSISA, Savita Devi (L) and Gunddi Rani (R) started using 'super bags' to store their wheat grains.
Harpur village, Muzaffarpur district, Bihar, India.
The U.S. military works with Asia-Pacific partner nations to improve Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response capacity by helping ensure a reliable and interoperable blood supply throughout the region. Since 2009, the PACOM Blood Safety Program has worked with civilian and military agencies of partner nations such as Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam to ensure an adequate response in the event of a disaster. (Photo by U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Frederick Matheu, PACOM joint blood program officer)
Read the article: www.militaryblood.dod.mil/viewcontent.aspx?con_id_pk=1865
I didn't like the way I had Sport sitting in the air on the last photo, so I went back and put in shadows to give him the look of sitting with depth. My husband says it looked like I glued a picture of Sport to the fabric.......
This is the second part for the construction of your own Light Panel.
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Improved and shaded version of the BE Hawkeye. This time also fitted with a built in Laser Pointer.
NOTE: Sights on top are backup sights, NOT standard sights.
The project built and launched Burundi’s first two modern milk collection centers, which increased dairy farmer revenues by 36 percent in the first six months and introduced innovative solutions to improve animal health.
Invincible Me proposes a new way of improving the mental health and emotional well being of the most vulnerable children in our society. And the Aga Kan Foundation has a new process for measuring outcomes. View the pitch for GESF 2017 Challenge Fund Grants. @GESForum #GESF
Speakers: Andrew Cunningham, Global Education Officer, Aga Khan Foundation | AMy Shocker Executive Director, Invincible Me
"The first thing to say about the new improved Design Museum ......... is that it is an exceptional achievement. It is a space for celebrating and exploring the made and the visual, the magic of human invention, the objects that shape our lives, and the skills and forces that shape them. First glimpses of its permanent and temporary exhibitions suggest intriguing (if strongly western-oriented) displays. This is important, valuable, thrilling stuff, when you consider what the Model T Ford or the iPhone have done for and to the world.
The project, in Kensington High Street, west London, has enrolled some considerable talents: the minimalist designer John Pawson has created the museum’s interior, and OMA, the world-famous architects led by Rem Koolhaas, have both masterplanned the city block in which it stands and designed the luxury apartments that play an important part in making it viable. A relic of 1960s optimism has been restored, the half-beautiful, half-quaint hyperbolic paraboloid roof of the otherwise demolished former Commonwealth Institute, its propensity to leak fixed, and the new museum has been installed under its sheltering wing.
The achievement would have been greater if OMA had designed the museum and Pawson had designed the luxury apartments
New palaces of culture like this don’t happen often or easily, yet the new improved Design Museum has come into being over the decade of the Great Recession and with limited government support. It is the result of 10 years’ effort by its director, Deyan Sudjic, formerly of the Observer. It is the culmination of more than 60 years’ campaigning for good modern design by Terence Conran, the retailer-restaurateur-designer who founded and helps fund the Design Museum. More specifically it owes its origins to the Boilerhouse design gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum, which Conran helped set up in 1981, which then morphed into the Design Museum, which opened in its first building near Tower Bridge in 1989."
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/nov/13/design-museu...
"The Design Museum is a museum in Kensington, London, which covers product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design. The museum operates as a registered charity, and all funds generated by ticket sales aid the museum in curating new exhibitions. Entrance is free to the museum's permanent collection display, "Designer Maker User". The museum was founded in 1989 by Sir Terence Conran. It was originally located by the River Thames near Tower Bridge, and later relocated to Kensington.
In June 2011, Sir Terence Conran donated £17.5 million to enable the Museum to move in 2016 from the warehouse to a larger site which formerly housed the Commonwealth Institute in west London. This landmark from the 1960s, a Grade II* listed building that had stood vacant for over a decade, was developed by a design team led by John Pawson who made the building fit for a 21st-century museum, whilst at the same time retaining its spatial qualities.
The Design Museum opened in its Kensington location on 24 November 2016. The move gave the museum three times more space than in its previous location at Shad Thames, with the new Swarovski Foundation Centre for Learning, 202-seat Bakala Auditorium and a dedicated gallery to display its permanent collection, accessible free of charge. The move brought the museum into Kensington's cultural quarter, joining the Royal College of Art, V&A, Science Museum, Natural History Museum and Serpentine Gallery."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Museum
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Improving climate change reporting in the Mediterranean: Science – Media interface
Round Table: The socio-economic and political dimension of climate change in the Mediterranean
11 November 2016
Marrakech, Morocco
Since climate change is a cross boundary issue and involves several fields of action (water, energy, wildlife, biodiversity, climate refugees, social conflicts, biodiversity), the networking developed in the last decades could be seen as a fruitful opportunity to build mitigation and adaptation capacity in the Mediterranean. Understanding the need and urgency to adapt and mitigate this impact is the only way forward to put into practice solutions for the benefit of people and nature.
Roberto ROSON, Professor at Economy Department, Ca' Foscari University, Venice - Economic Impacts of Climate Change in the Mediterranean.
Dr. Maria SNOUSSI - Professor at Mohammed V University, Rabat-Morocco and Head of the ‘Coastal Environment & Climate Change’ Research Group at the Faculty of Sciences – Climate change on coastal areas.
Olgu OKUMUŞ - Project Manager, UfM Energy Division, Union for the Mediterranean - UfM Climate Change Expert Group.
Leila RADHOUANE, National Tunisian Institute for Agriculture Research – Climate change impacts on agriculture in North African countries.
Chairperson: Elsa ALVES - LUSA Agency, Portugal
The International Labour Organization (ILO), supported by the Delegation of the European Union to Thailand and in partnership with the Foreign Trade Association (FTA) through its Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) hosted this roundtable event which was attended by more than 100 international buyers, local industry leaders and suppliers, the Thai government representatives, workers and employer’s organizations, and civil society representatives. The event discussed ways in which the business sector can contribute to improving labour practices, including migration management, as Thailand endeavors to combat unacceptable forms of work in its food and fisheries supply chains. The photo shows participant from Thailand organizations speaking in the event.
26/05/2016
Find out more about this meeting: bit.ly/1U6sh1m
Learn more about the project “Combatting Unacceptable Forms of Work in the Thai Fishing and Seafood Industry”: bit.ly/1rnfyzj
Photo: ©ILO/Ying Yang
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We use Concentric Circles every time we have a new group of students or staff as the ideal way to improve group dynamics. You can see our video on Concentric Circles at: www.movingbeyondicebreakers.com/
NEPAL: Improved Wood Stoves Save Health, Environment.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 9, 2011 (IPS) - When Binita Lamichhane got married she was troubled by her husband's bloodshot eyes. "What happened to your eyes?" the 18-year-old bride asked. "Smoke," came the answer. .
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People living on Vancouver Island will have improved cancer care with a new state-of-the-art PET/CT scanner suite at the BC Cancer centre in Victoria.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019HLTH0105-001501
Today, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill met with Emerson A. Kretzer, the President of the Missouri Rural Letter Carriers Association, to discuss their joint efforts to ensure reliable delivery service and keep post offices open in rural areas of the state.
“Letter carriers in rural Missouri deliver everything from life-saving medications to business supplies,” said McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “Ensuring that rural Missourians can depend on their local post office is essential, and I was glad to discuss how we can improve postal service throughout the state.”
McCaskill, a longtime advocate for postal service in rural communities, is widely credited with having waged a successful campaign over several years to save rural post offices and maintain delivery standards. Earlier today, McCaskill introduced bipartisan legislation[LINK] to protect hundreds of post offices around the country from indefinite “emergency closure.” McCaskill has also directed the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to look into reported postal service problems. Last January, McCaskill demanded answers from the Postal Service on how it will protect mail delivery for rural Missourians and efficiently manage the cost-sharing benefits with competitors to carry mail the “last mile,” especially in rural areas.
William Hope patent 279, this patent was taken out in 1823 and was an improvement using leavers instead of screws of the Stanhope press.
The Stanhope was invented by Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope
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I used line to improve the photo by using the lined fence to lead up to my subject. I also used line with the road and the implied line with the trees. I used the healing brush tool to take out some stray branches. I also used 2 different green filters and a blue filter to be colder. what I thought I did well was having a solid subject and line going to it. I wish I could've been a bit closer to my subject.
Improving access to safe sanitation facilities can be especially beneficial to women and girls, as they are more vulnerable to violence when using public facilities or seeking privacy for open defecation. It can also increase school attendance, as without proper facilities, menstruating girls may stay home in order to more easily manage menstrual hygiene (Burt, Nelson and Ray 2016). The best toilets are the ones that people will use and maintain. Toilets for women will be most successful if they consider: design, privacy, security and affordable.
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FAO has distributed farm inputs worth over US$ 623,000.00 to over 6,500 food insecure households in The Gambia. This FAO-supported programme covered households in the North Bank Region (NBR), Lower River Region (LRR), Central River Region (CRR) and Upper River Region (URR)). These regions have stunting rates above the national average. The intervention aims to reverse the trend through increased crops (rice, maize, groundnuts) production and productivity. Photo Credit: ©FAO/Samuel Creppy
Participants practice their networking skills at a new
MS&T workshop led by Emily Kinser, 3M and Vice Chair of the TMS Professional Development Committee.
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Now that I know that you can take photos inside the Birmingham Musuem & Art Gallery, thought I'd go along and take what I wanted (not the paintings).
This is in the part of the museum near Great Charles Street Queensway.
On Friday it opened at 10:30am and I got here just in time before the crowds showed up.
Some of the museum galleries currently open.
The two galleries to the left and right of the Equiano exhibition on the top floor of the museum near Great Charles Street Queensway.
Think this floor is about African history.
Some galleries are still closed as they are still finishing off the new Birmingham History Galleries.
I look forward to it opening in the autumn of 2012.
amazing what a little maintenance will do to a tube of silver with a bunch of holes. it was looooong overdue. now, as my technician says, it's got "balls".
St Martin Palace Plain, Norwich, Norfolk
A small church, but everything is in place, the tower, the aisles, the clerestories. It is worth making a tour of the outside to see this, for the current configuration of the interior makes it seem unfamiliar, as we shall see. The church sits in a tight little graveyard with traffic on three sides, trees bowering high around and above. But on closer inspection the current appearance of St Martin is essentially that of a substantial Victorian restoration, as a result of a partial collapse of tower and chancel, and the heavy hand of Edward Hakewill.
Despite the proximity to the cathedral (the Palace in question is that of the Bishop) the setting was rather unlovely until a couple of decades ago, because the Norwich city gasworks sat immediately to the north of it. At one time, there had been a plan for a railway that would have cut St Martin off from the Cathedral precincts, but this is an area of regeneration, and today you would not know that such a controversy had ever existed.
The courts building is now on the site of the gasworks, and this led to St Martin being used for several years as the home of the Probation service. Internally, a split level steel and glass mezzanine provided working space above and below the floors. It ascends into the space beneath the tower, reaching ground floor level at both the west end and in the chancel. The aisle chapels have been glassed in and form meeting rooms. It is all crisp and airy, fully functional without detracting from the former character of the church too much, for the inner walls are pretty much intact and unscathed. Of course, it is now very different to how George Plunkett found it in 1934.
Much of the glass was destroyed in the Norwich blitz, but some good figures by Heaton, Butler & Bayne survived and are now isolated in clear glass. The later figures of Christ in Majesty flanked by Longinus and the Blessed Virgin appear to be by the William Morris of Westminster workshop, installed in 1952. Bikin Hayward thought them poor, but they stand up well for the period, especially the figure of Mary.
A surviving piece of Victoriana is the solemn inscription How Dreadful is this Place: This is the House of God, and this is the Gate of Heaven above the south doorway, which must have concentrated the mind a bit. A good 18th century ledger stone features a skull and hourglass backed by crossed bones, and Lady Elizabeth Calpthorpe's table memorial of 1578 is a good example of the seemly Anglicanism of the period.
Today the building is in use as the headquarters of the Norwich Historic Churches Trust, a worthy use no doubt but it does rather give the place the feel of a museum. Back in 2005 when I was here last I asked the kind man from the probation service who let me wander around if it was a suitable building for its then-use. He said that it was, and that the setting generally encouraged everybody to take each other seriously, and so when clients came for the first time they knew that this was a place that would give them a future. Perhaps the same applies now that the building is the focus of giving the city's historic churches a future.