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Direct Relief's Senior Program Manager, Lindsey Pollaczek, sent this picture while on her trip in Somaliland:
Sado is overcome with emotion when she is asked what Edna means to her—“She is like my mother,” she says. The remarkable Edna Adan, a woman with over five decades of midwifery experience and a fierce passion for instilling knowledge in young people, wraps her arm around Sado's shoulder. “At my age you have to pass the torch, and I choose to pass it to them,” Edna says. “You have no idea how many lives she has saved, and this is why I continue to do what I do.”
Read more about Direct Relief's support for midwives here - www.directrelief.org/focus/maternal-and-child-health/midw...
Did you know the Film Photography Project provides refurbished and tested vintage film cameras free-of-charge to schools and not-for-profit organizations with film programs nationwide? When we started the program nearly a decade ago, we had no idea the demand would continue – much less grow! More and more educational and arts organizations are adding a film component to their photography courses, and the FPP is here for them. In 2024 alone, we’ve supplied over 300 working vintage cameras to High School, College and Arts Programs photography programs including Pickerington High School Central Ohio / California High School in San Ramon CA, Columbia University / BIPA grant program in NYC, ProPhound Kids Inc., RVCC Arts and Desgin in Branchburg NJ, Edgerton Jr. Sr. High School in Edgerton OH, Southeastern School District in Chillicothe OH and Woodrow Wilson High School in Los Angeles CA among others. Photos courtesy of Dan Yeager,
Pickerington High School Central, Pickerington Ohio.
CNUG April 2012 Users Group
Get Yourself Kinect-ed
This month we look at how you can build Windows applications that utilize Microsoft Kinect for Windows.
Prior to the regularly scheduled CNUG meeting the Chicago Azure Cloud Users Group and Scott Seely will present "Intro to Windows Azure and Windows Azure Appfabric" at 5:30PM.
Sponsor: Solving IT!
Website: www.solvingit.com/
When: April 18th
Where: Microsoft Downers Grove
3025 Highland Parkway
Downers Grove, IL
Agenda:
5:30PM - Arrival
6:30PM - Food and Beverages
7:00PM - Get Yourself Kinect-ed! - Greg Levenhagen, Skyline Technologies
Abstract:
Kinect development used to mean hacking without any support, but now that the Kinect SDK, Kinect for Windows hardware and commercial support for non-XBOX 360 applications has been released, the full power of the Kinect is unleashed. Come see how to start developing with the Kinect, using its hardware features and what the Kinect SDK provides.
Speaker Bio:
Greg Levenhagen has been designing and developing enterprise solutions, leading projects for a variety of businesses for over 10 years and has worked on a diverse set of platforms using many different tools. He is a true enthusiast of computer science, with passions and interests including mobile, cloud, architecture, parallel, testing, agile, ALM, UX, 3D/games, languages and much more. Greg is a Senior Software Engineer with Skyline Technologies, Board member of the Fox Valley .NET User's Group, cofounder of the Northeast WI Agile User’s Group, INETA speaker, IEEE member, ACM member, substitute professor and a PhD student.
Along with being a life-long geek, Greg enjoys golfing, football, woodworking, philosophy and stimulating conversation.
You can find Greg at devtreats.com and @GregLevenhagen.
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In 2011 the Norfolk Southern brought back their steam program, under the name 21st Century Steam, leading to speculation among some about a possible restoration of 611. On February 22nd 2013, the Virginia Museum of Transportation announced that they were forming a committee to conduct a feasibility study with the goal of returning the 611 to active service. The committee is known as "Fire Up 611."[4]
On 23 May 2015, #611 sits on the turntable at the North Carolina Transportation Museum, between back-and-forth runs around the facility.
Norfolk and Western class Y6a #2156, class J #611, and class A #1218 on display at the "Big Three" celebration at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, VA, on May 31, 2015.
On June 28th, 2013, the "Fire Up 611" committee announced that 611 would be restored to operating condition in time for Norfolk Southern's 2014 steam excursion season, if $5 million was raised by October 31st, 2013 .[5] If the money was raised, 611 would be restored at the North Carolina Transportation Museum roundhouse in Spencer, NC. The sum of $5 million was sought, comprising: $1 million for locomotive restoration, $2 million for a dedicated maintenance shop in Roanoke, and the balance for an endowment and other items. Restoration requirements included repairs of the engine truck, the preparation of a tool car and an auxiliary water tender, application of new safety appliances such as in-cab signals and an event recorder, installation of new flues, boiler work, hydro and fire testing, test runs and inspection and repairs of the tender, running gears and air brakes. However, the hoped for amount was not reached, and the locomotive was to remain at the Virginia Museum of Transportation until the $3.5 million goal was reached.
On November 22nd, 2013, Norfolk Southern announced that they were donating $1.5 million of the proceeds from an auction of a Mark Rothko painting to the Fire Up 611! campaign.[6] In February of 2014, several key appointments were made by the Fire Up 611 committee to the locomotive's mechanical team, and the following month, a formal agreement was made with the North Carolina Transportation Museum for restoration. On April 1st, 2014, it was announced that after raising $2.3 million, the locomotive would move to North Carolina on May 24th, 2014. 611 arrived in Spencer on May 25th and took part in the Streamliners at Spencer event the following weekend. Restoration work on the 611 began on June 2nd, 2014. Restoration was done with the help of volunteers, including several from the Age of Steam Roundhouse. Due to the generally good condition of the locomotive, restoration was complete within a year.
On March 31st, 2015, 611 was fired up for the first time in over 20 years for a test fire, and on May 9th, it ran under its own power as part of the first round of post-restoration testing and it was also the day when N&W 2-8-8-2 Y6a 2156 left the St. Louis Museum of Transportation[7] for Roanoke to welcome back the 611.[8] On May 21, 2015, 611 made a brief test run from Spencer to Greensboro, N.C., pulling the "Powhatan Arrow" passenger cars. On May 30, 2015, 611 pulled its first excursion from Spencer, North Carolina to Roanoke, Virginia.[9]
The locomotive is scheduled to run several excursions during the summer of 2015.[10]
The first set of these excursions (3 trips) operated by the Virginia Museum of Transportation, Fire Up 611, and in coordination with Norfolk Southern, was hosted on the former Southern Railway B-Line (East/West) from Manassas, Virginia B0.0 to Riverton Junction B50.9 (Front Royal, Virginia) on June 6th and 7th, 2015. This included a climb up the Linden grade, a grade over 1% for more than 3 miles in either direction.
The second set of excursion (2 trips) are scheduled for June 13th and 14th, 2015 from Lynchburg, Virginia to Petersburg, Virginia. This is a 260 mile round-trip on the former Norfolk & Western main line historically served by the Class J locomotive.
The third set of excursions and last announced for 2015 are scheduled for July 3rd through 5th. This event includes 3 morning trips from Roanoke, Virginia to Lynchburg, Virginia over the historic Norfolk and Western Blue Ridge grade. Also offered are 3 afternoon trips from Roanoke, Virginia to Radford, Virginia which will traverse both the Montgomery tunnel and the Christiansburg grade. Both follow former Norfolk and Western mainlines that were historically served by the Class J locomotives
so i finally got my first roll if film back from jasmine & my little frolic, and oh. my. goodness. it's quite possible that i love, love, love almost every single image, and i still have another roll that i have yet to see! i can't believe how gorgeous almost every image is, and that is a big deal to me, seeing as i went from possibly a 20-25% of images i love per roll, to a 75% of images i love per roll.
there is just something about film that feels way more tangible than digital. each image feels more precious. & the medium certainly loves jasmine's gorgeous face. ;)
(not to mention that i didn't have to do ANY computer work! no staring at my computer screen for hours on end to get this *look*! hallelujah!)
oh, you bet more are coming.
p.s. doesn't her expression just get you?
Alan Mooney programming on Fairymead's System 7 Computer in the new central control room at Fairymead. Article for Bundy Sugar News.
The Master of Disaster program is a three-module learning resource available in both English and French, designed to help Grade 6 students learn about emergency preparedness from a proactive and interactive all-hazards perspective.
Left to right:
Jennifer Wilson (principal)
Aaron Sutherland (IBC)
Kulvir Mann (North Vancouver Parent Advisory Council executive)
Minister Naomi Yamamoto
Bernadette Woit (ShakeOut BC)
MLA Ralph Sultan
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016TRAN0308-002005
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U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
Young people learn life skills through DARE program
By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
LANDSTUHL, Germany – Juggling red balloons symbolized life’s many challenges during graduation for a Drug Abuse Resistance Education program held recently at Wilson Barracks.
Fifth graders were helping Lt. Col. Lars Zetterstrom, commander of U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, juggle several red balloons. A blue balloon was tossed in, representing drugs and alcohol, to show the difficulty of keeping life’s balloons aloft with an added impairment.
Spontaneously, Zetterstrom tapped the blue balloon to the floor and popped it with his desert-colored combat boot.
“I saw that it represented something bad,” Zetterstrom said. “Stomping it out was the right thing to do.”
Lessons like that are what the DARE program is about. Since 1983, DARE has taught millions of students worldwide about the effects of alcohol and drugs. Each April, "National DARE Day" is commemorated in the United States by a presidential proclamation, community events and activities.
In Kaiserslautern Military Community's fours elementary schools, students complete 10 lessons over several weeks, working from DARE planners.
Weekly lessons often include acting out skits on peer pressure and watching videos about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.
Landstuhl’s graduating class was the first for Army Sgt. Raymond Engstrom, 29, of Cottage Grove, Minn., a garrison military police officer. The thought of facing children in classrooms each week was daunting at first. Yet, Engstrom knew the importance of DARE discussions and began enjoying the classes.
“You learn to have fun with it,” Engstrom said. “They’re just young people. I always refrain from calling them kids or students. I’d say “people about your age.”
Over the past few months, Engstrom has developed significantly, said his supervisor, Sgt. 1st Class Adrian Rouse, the provost marshal operations sergeant.
“He’s ran with it,” Rouse said. “Now he’s very interactive with the kids, parents and school staff. And I think he enjoys it significantly.”
During the graduation, held at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center’s Heaton Auditorium, Zetterstrom said he was proud to see Army noncommissioned offer leading the DARE program
“We’re American living overseas. We want our children to have the best education possible,” Zetterstrom said. “Learning is not always about academics, it’s about life skills and that’s what DARE does.”
This is our confined space firing training. Kinda cool stuff. Got to walk and fire and perform quick reaction firing drills. 29 Palms
Alt text: a uniformed ranger presents a program about Joshua trees along the Cap Rock Nature trail, surrounded by large boulders.
NPS/ Carmen Aurrecoechea
found this book for 0,50 Euro Cents in a sale. I think I was lucky. It's about the astronauts in the mercury program in the 50's and 60's.
The CSG Community came together for Thanksgiving on Tuesday, Nov. 25. The program featured musical performances from all four divisions and remarks from Head of School Jennifer Ciccarelli and Student Speaker Aisha Iftikhar '15.
Programa especial con la cantante zuliana Mónica Rodríguez, en nuestro programa El Escaparate Radio por Metrópolis 103.9 FM.
Alt text: a uniformed ranger presents a program about Joshua trees along the Cap Rock Nature trail, surrounded by large boulders.
NPS/ Carmen Aurrecoechea
Looming far off in the distance is the giant dome of Mt Kermon, an extinct volcano that keologists think once caused one of the largest eruptions in Kerbin's history several hundred thousand years ago
Meeting with Kenyans behind the innovative, behavior change communication program G-PANGE. G-PANGE is a call to action by the youth, for the youth and an announcement to the world that they are taking charge of their lives to make a difference.
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2022-05-24: (L-R) Nnenna Nwabufo, Director General, East Africa Regional Development and Business Delivery Office, AfDB; Grace Adesina; Angela Lamensdorf Ofori-Atta, wife of the governor of Ghana along with the toddlers during the Annual Meetings 2022: Spousal Program.
Patient and caregivers who need to travel for leukemia treatments or solid organ transplants are benefiting from a new $720,000 pilot project that provides affordable patient housing options.
Berklee Valencia Campus welcomes the Spain Summer Performance Program Students to the City of Arts and Sciences. Photos by Tato Baeza.
Enough Project Interns also know how to have fun at Happy Hour with the Raise Hope for Congo Campaign
Experienced MEN can earn $7,000 - $12,000 per year.
Hey, what's that woman doing in the illustration? Must be a secretary. Or maybe they're just paying her less.
Forklift Training and certification at Francis Tuttle. This is part of the week of certifications under the Transportation Assistance Program.
Dan and Jack at another extreme programming session as we wrap up the code for exacqVision version 2.7
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
4 March 2014. Tawilla: Women use fuel-efficient stoves to cook their meals in the Rwanda camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in Tawila, North Darfur.
More than 8,000 women from the camp are the beneficiaries of the Safe Access to Firewood and Alternative Energy (SAFE) project, run by the World Food Programme (WFP). Since 2011, displaced women receive training on how to make fuel-efficient stoves and fire briquettes from saw dust and dried leaves and household waste. WFP's SAFE project offers a safer, cheaper and greener way to cook food and also helps women to generate income through selling the stoves in the market.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID. - www.albertgonzalez.net