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Todays' youth have less opportunity to experience nature due to busy schedules and financial constraints. South-central Oklahoma is largely impoverished with very few sources for environmental education. In FY2014, the Tishomingo National Fish Hatchery (OK) hosted one of the first Career Discovery Intern (CDIP) in the Fisheries program nationwide. The object was to provide field station experience for a college student with uncertain career goals. Beside other volunteers, two Youth Conservation Corps hirees were also employed at the Tishomingo Hatchery in 2014. All of the student workers received extensive experience in all aspects of captive rearing of imperiled and recreational aquatic species including monitoring water quality, feeding, health, tagging, and release into native habitat. Photo by Ralph Simmons/USFWS.
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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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Alt text: a uniformed ranger presents a program about Joshua trees along the Cap Rock Nature trail, surrounded by large boulders.
NPS/ Carmen Aurrecoechea
Picture taken from the office of the Fayette County prosecutor in Lexington, Kentucky. www.http://www.lexingtonprosecutor.com/d_a_r_e.htm (accessed April 3, 2007).
Wysong, Earl, Aniskiewicz, Richard, Wright, David. 1994. "Truth and DARE: Tracking Drug Education to Graduation and as Symbolic Politics". Journal of Social Problems. Vol. 41, No. 3. p. 448-472. www.jstor.org (accessed April 3, 2007).
Every child who attended a public school from the late 1980's up until the present most likely knows both this mascot and this program in great detail. Most all students who have been in the public education system in the last fifteen years can remember the police officer who came to talk with them concerning the dangers of drug use. The authors of the article listed above go into great detail in thier research to discover the truth concerning the effectiveness and efficiency of the DARE program. What the authors discovered is that this program like so many before it was a utter disaster and in no manner correlated to any decrease in the number of youths experimenting with illegal substances. In fact, the creators of the DARE program launched a short-term evaluation of the program after only four weeks of operation and concluded that it produced very little, if any anti-drug effects among the participating youth.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abuse_Resistance_Education
-Shannon Hughes
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As Chernobyl Children International has worked in Chernobyl affected regions over the past 20 years, we’ve seen first hand the medical, economic and social devastation suffered by individuals, families and communities as a result of the disaster.
Our Community Care program provides at home care for severely disabled children. Many of these children were placed on waiting lists for orphanages and institutions by desperate parents who had no where else to turn. We provide professional services such as speech and language therapists, physical therapists, and psychologists.
Hospice Care programs, such as one might find in Ireland and the USA, are in very early stages of development in Belarus. Working in close collaboration with local organizations such as Gomel Hospice Care, our Hospice Care programme helps families care for their terminally ill children in the dignity and comfort of their own homes.
The children served by our Hospice and Community Care programmes are in urgent need of financial sponsorship.
The Revera and Reel Youth Age is More Film Project is an intergenerational partnership between Revera, a Canadian leader in seniors' accommodation, care and services, and Reel Youth, a charitable project that empowers youth to create engaging films about important social issues. The partnership was launched in 2013.
With 80 films to date, the program celebrates older Canadians through story-telling and film, with the added benefit of fostering new intergenerational relationships. The project aims to shed light on ageism, challenge the assumptions of aging and recognize the valuable contributions of older adults to society.
The Revera and Reel Youth Age is More Film Project is an intergenerational partnership between Revera, a Canadian leader in seniors' accommodation, care and services, and Reel Youth, a charitable project that empowers youth to create engaging films about important social issues. The partnership was launched in 2013.
With 80 films to date, the program celebrates older Canadians through story-telling and film, with the added benefit of fostering new intergenerational relationships. The project aims to shed light on ageism, challenge the assumptions of aging and recognize the valuable contributions of older adults to society.
O Tribunal de Justiça do Amazonas (TJAM) e a Eletrobras – Amazonas Energia assinaram um contrato nesta segunda-feira (27) para a implantação do Programa de Eficiência Energética, que beneficiará o Fórum Ministro Henoch Reis, na Comarca de Manaus. Com a iniciativa, o prédio será o primeiro do Judiciário da região Norte a ser dotado de um sistema tecnológico moderno e ecologicamente correto em relação ao consumo de energia.
Resultado de uma parceria entre os órgãos acima, a Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica (Aneel) e Universidade Federal do Amazonas (Ufam), após um estudo minucioso sobre a implantação do programa, o projeto não tem custo para o TJAM e consiste na substituição de lâmpadas fluorescentes por outras mais econômicas nas salas do fórum e por lâmpadas do tipo LED nos corredores do prédio, num investimento no total de R$ 419,4 mil. O início dos trabalhos de instalação está previsto para setembro e a estimativa de redução de consumo de energia é de aproximadamente 30%. Hoje, a conta de energia elétrica do fórum é de R$ 130 mil, em média, por mês. Ao final de 12 meses, a estimativa é que o Tribunal economize um pouco mais de R$ 400 mil.
O Tribunal de Justiça do Amazonas já é considerado o "Tribunal Verde" do Norte do País pelas várias ações voltadas para a conscientização e preservação ambiental. Segundo o presidente do TJAM, desembargador Ari Moutinho, o convênio trará importantes resultados e é um bom exemplo que deve pode ser seguido por outras instituições. "Estou feliz por participar deste projeto, pois significa muito para nós. A economia no consumo de energia será significativa, o que é importante para o Tribunal, que temos um orçamento apertado".
"Trata-se do primeiro prédio público a ser dotado de um sistema tecnológico moderno e ecologicamente correto da região Norte", destaca o juiz auxiliar da Presidência do Tribunal, Adalberto Carim Antonio, titular da Vara Especializada do Meio Ambiente e de Questões Agrárias (Vemaqa), que acompanhou o estudo. Ele afirma ainda que "o TJAM está dando um passo muito grande para a questão da sustentabilidade, pois vamos economizar energia. É impossível estar à frente do poder público sem adotar medidas para cuidar do meio ambiente".
O Programa Eficiência Energética será executado por uma empresa contratada e supervisionada pela Eletrobras Amazonas Energia e implantado em três etapas. Primeiro, a contratada realizará a medição da demanda e do consumo de energia do circuito de iluminação pelo período de sete dias, depois fará a substituição e realização da manufatura reversa das lâmpadas e reatores, após isso, fará nova medição da demanda e do consumo de energia do circuito de iluminação pelo período de sete dias, objetivando medir o ganho no consumo de energia elétrica.
De acordo com o diretor de Geração, Transmissão e Operação para a Capital, da Eletrobras Amazonas Energia, Tarcísio Rosa, a assinatura do contrato é um momento único tanto para a empresa quanto para o Judiciário no Amazonas. "Este é um momento que deve servir de incentivo não somente para os órgãos públicos, como também para todo cidadão amazonense. É hora de iniciarmos uma forte campanha pela utilização da energia com racionalidade e economia", observa.
O diretor ressalta que a missão da Eletrobras é de se tornar uma das maiores empresas fornecedoras de energia limpa de todo o país e, por meio de projetos como o Eficiência Energética, a empresa vem cumprindo seu papel. "Dessa forma, além de economizar energia, a empresa também proporciona maior qualidade de vida para as pessoas", destaca Rosa.
O projeto consiste em substituir 3.398 lâmpadas tubulares fluorescentes de 40W por 3.398 lâmpadas tubulares fluorescentes de 32W; substituir 1.699 reatores de 40W por reatores de 32W; substituir 1.444 lâmpadas tubulares fluorescentes de 40W por 1.444 lâmpadas tubulares LED de 18W; retirar 722 reatores de 40W; realizar a manufatura reversa das lâmpadas substituídas e reatores retirados, conforme a Lei nº 12.305/2010; e realizar a medição e verificação por sete dias antes e sete dias depois da substituição das lâmpadas e reatores.
Projeto Parintins
Outro anúncio feito trata da instalação de placas fotovoltaicas (energia solar) no Fórum da Comarca de Parintins (a 379 quilômetros de Manaus), em um projeto piloto financiado pelas Empresas Distribuidoras da Eletrobras denominado "Projeto Parintins". A ação também será pioneira no Judiciário brasileiro, sem custos para o TJAM.
"O Amazonas tem muito sol, muita energia à disposição. Em Parintins, o fórum e cerca de 150 residências serão dotadas de placas fotovoltaicas, o que vai economizar o óleo usado na geração local de energia", destaca Tarcísio Rosa.
O Projeto Parintins, que adota o sistema smart grids (redes inteligentes), teve início em 2011 e prevê a total automatização da rede de distribuição de energia elétrica daquele município. Uma gama de equipamentos e dispositivos modernos e de alta tecnologia como: religadores e medidores inteligentes, irão oportunizar maior confiabilidade ao sistema e possibilitar que consumidores possam fazer uso racional de energia.
Pioneirismo
Outros projetos já vêm sendo desenvolvidos pelo Judiciário estadual na área ambiental. No fim de julho, o TJAM assinou um acordo de cooperação técnica com a empresa Eternal – Indústria, Comércio, Serviço e Tratamento de Resíduos da Amazônia, para o descarte de óleo lubrificante dos 67 veículos da frota do órgão.
Com a iniciativa, o TJAM tornou-se um dos primeiros Tribunais de Justiça do Brasil e o primeiro da região Norte a dar uma destinação ecologicamente correta ao resíduo. Até o momento já foram recolhidos 200 litros de óleo lubrificante e uma bombona de 200 litros com recipientes de óleo.
Além disto, o Amazonas conta há 15 anos com o trabalho pioneiro da Vara Especializada do Meio Ambiente e de Questões Agrárias (Vemaqa). Por meio da aplicação de penas alternativas e medidas compensatórias, a Vara desenvolve atividades de conscientização ambiental e implantou projetos como a Oca do Conhecimento Ambiental (são duas bibliotecas com livros na área em bairros de Manaus), Postos de Entrega Voluntária – PEVs - (oito unidades que estimulam o destino correto do lixo reciclável), e o Espaço da Cidadania Ambiental (Ecam) no Shopping Manauara, que promove oficinas de reciclagem, workshops e exibição de filmes ambientais para posterior discussão, em conjunto com outros órgãos do Sistema Nacional do Meio Ambiente (Sisnama).
A Vara do Meio Ambiente já recebeu várias premiações pelo trabalho desenvolvido:
- Prêmio de Qualidade do Superior Tribunal de Justiça, em 2001;
- Distinção no Prêmio Innovare, em 2007;
- Prêmio do Instituto Chico Mendes, em 2008;
- Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa da Natureza, em 2009;
- Ordem do Mérito do Cavaleiro do Exército Brasileiro, em 2010;
- Revelação pela
pesquisa mundial de varas e tribunais ambientais do Greening Justice, da Unesco e Universidade do Colorado, em 2010;
- Destaque com o trabalho prático "Especializar é a tendência", na Rio + 20.
Foto: Mario Oliveira
The Revera and Reel Youth Age is More Film Project is an intergenerational partnership between Revera, a Canadian leader in seniors' accommodation, care and services, and Reel Youth, a charitable project that empowers youth to create engaging films about important social issues. The partnership was launched in 2013.
With 80 films to date, the program celebrates older Canadians through story-telling and film, with the added benefit of fostering new intergenerational relationships. The project aims to shed light on ageism, challenge the assumptions of aging and recognize the valuable contributions of older adults to society.
The Revera and Reel Youth Age is More Film Project is an intergenerational partnership between Revera, a Canadian leader in seniors' accommodation, care and services, and Reel Youth, a charitable project that empowers youth to create engaging films about important social issues. The partnership was launched in 2013.
With 80 films to date, the program celebrates older Canadians through story-telling and film, with the added benefit of fostering new intergenerational relationships. The project aims to shed light on ageism, challenge the assumptions of aging and recognize the valuable contributions of older adults to society.
Army Brig. Gen. Laura Clellan, adjutant general, Colorado National Guard, stands for a photo with a delegation of Solvenian military officials during the Department of Defense and National Guard State Partnership Program 30th Anniversary Conference at National Harbor, Maryland, July 18, 2023. The SPP pairs Guard elements with partner nations worldwide, building enduring relationships through mutual training exchanges that strengthen security, improve interoperability and enhance the readiness of U.S. and partner forces. Established in July 1993, the program began with less than a dozen partnerships and has grown to include 100 countries representing more than 50 percent of the world’s nations. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Zach Sheely)
Adafruit Trinket (ATTiny) plus some addressable RGB LEDs, and some plain ones for good measure. Reasonably cheap and effective.
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/
Ecovolis program has proven successful in dramatically increasing bicycle use in Tirana, which, formerly, was a city without a developed bicycle culture. Ecovolis program is the first project in Albania that provides low-income adults with commuter bicycles as well as a donating program for children bicycles. The program recently completed two major steps, opening new bike stations in the city of Durrës and integrating Tourist Information Point Service to the bicycles stations' structure.
History
The Tirana Community Bicycle Albania project won financial support from the George Soros Open Society Foundation Albania (OSFA). An even larger contribution came from the US-based Pedal for Progress organization, which donated 450 bicycles. Sixty of these were used road bikes, which were modified and painted by local technicians to serve as public bikes in the Ecovolis scheme. Another portion was set aside to donate to children and to activists and volunteers at PASS. Still another portion were diverted to the project's Eco Bicycle Shop, a social enterprise which sells bikes for USD 50-150 and reinvests profits for the service and maintenance of Ecovolis bicycles. The main objective of the program was to introduce the community to an inexpensive, environmental friendly form of transport -- the bicycle; to sell used bikes at low prices; to donate bikes to the children of needy families and to PASS volunteers; to establish a bike sharing-scheme in the city (Ecovolis); and to employ financially disadvantaged people and young students to operate the bike-sharing scheme.
System
Each Ecovolis station is staffed by two employees in two shifts and contains 30 -- 60 bicycles. In order to use the bicycles it is required to provide a personal identification document (such as passport or ID card) or by subscribing to the Ecovolis membership Card.
The first black and red bicycles, (also the colors of the Albanian flag) were donated from US-organization Pedal for Progress, (which collect and donate used bicycles). As these bicycles were of different types, converting them for safe and comfortable public use took months of work. The price per bicycle varies from 60 US$ to 90 US$ each. The bicycle is equipped with a front bicycle basket, a behind carrier, a comfortable saddle and a public fender with the Ecovolis sign.
The bicycle stations also provide touristic information to the visitors and a list of the city attractions. Moreover, being a non-profit social enterprise, during particular days the program offers free bicycle service, cycling courses, donations of bicycles and helmets for children in need, bike tours and a bicycle recycle program.
MAZAR-E SHARIF, 29 January 2020 - With the support of UNDP’s Gender Equality Program, women at the cooperative have had access to machinery and hands-on training related to production and marketing.
Photo UNAMA / Sayed L Barez.
Description: Homecoming program for the game against the University of North Dakota, which they won by a score of 21-7. In 1963, the Bison took three out of eight contests, with wins over University of South Dakota, Morningside College and Northern Iowa..
Date of Original: October 19, 1963
Item Number:Football 4.9
Ordering Information: library.ndsu.edu/archives/collections-institute/photograp...
MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber, MTA Construction & Development President Jamie Torres-Springer, and NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli present a new MTA Capital Program Dashboard at Grand Central Terminal on Monday, Dec 1, 2025.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Фрактал "Люта Пифагора". Принцип построения очевиден.
Ancient sacred secret of "golden ratio" is used.
Используется древний секрет "золотого сечения" :)
Mayor Eric Adams attends a kickoff event for the 2022 season of the New York City Police Department's (NYPD) Saturday Night Lights program at P.S./I.S. 224 in the Bronx on Saturday , March 26, 2022. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
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NEWPORT, R.I. – The U.S. Naval War College (NWC) holds a commencement ceremony for the College of Naval Command and Staff and the College of Naval Warfare 2023 graduating classes June 16, 2023, on board Naval Station Newport. The ceremony, presided over by NWC President Rear Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, saw 468 students from senior-level leadership and intermediate-level leadership courses, including 103 international students representing 78 countries recognized alongside 1,925 students having completed coursework through NWC’s College of Distance Education programs, 121 of whom attended the graduation in person. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Representative to the United Nations, gave the commencement address. Established in 1884, NWC is the oldest institution of its kind in the world. More than 50,000 students have graduated since its first class of nine students in 1885 and about 300 of today’s active-duty admirals, generals and senior executive service leaders are alumni. Since creating a program for international officers in 1956, the college has more than 4,500 international alumni from 137 countries worldwide. Approximately 10 percent of these alumni have become chief of their country’s respective navy. Today, NWC continues to deliver excellence in education, research, and outreach, informing today’s decision-makers and educating tomorrow’s leaders. (U.S. Navy photo by Kristopher Burris/Released)
The North Charleston Police Department implemented Project S.T.A.N.D (Stop and Take A New Direction) aimed at not just arresting low level narcotics dealers with little or no prior criminal history but to go a step further and help those involved in the activity change their lives for the better. This is program aimed at reducing recidivism through working on all aspects of the criminals’ lives.
This project was the focus of a Dateline NBC special entitled “Intersection” which aired on March 14, 2013.
Photo by Ryan Johnson
As part of the Dean’s Business Scholar program, students have been actively involved with a development project in collaboration with the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency. Lloyd Clarke, Business Advisor, New York State Small Business Development Center visited students this spring semester to guide them in this joint project.
Lloyd has 21 years of experience as an SBDC business advisor specializing in business and marketing plans. He has conducted many business seminars using motivational techniques that encourage entrepreneurs. His prior experience as plant manager, director of distribution, and terminal manager for Continental Trailways brings a wealth of practical knowledge to his counseling skills.
Lloyd has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Baruch College and several post graduate Certificates in Communications and Multimedia from N.Y.U.
For more information about the Dean's Business Scholars program, contact Gioia Bales, Associate Dean at (516) 463-5703.
PEPP = Planetary Entry Parachute Program
"Construction of flight test unit from which parachutes will be deployed in a series of experiments to check out new techniques for landing unmanned capsules on Mars. A metal skin is being placed over the disc-shaped frame with a central tube which will house the packaged parachute. The unit will be carried to an altitude of about 140,000 miles by a huge balloon. It will then be released and when free from the balloon the unit will be propelled to a downward velocity of about 10,000 miles per hour by eight small rocket engines. This velocity will closely simulate the speed of a capsule entering the Martian atmosphere. When the unit has been propelled downward to 130,000 feet the parachute carrying a small instrument package will be deployed. The disc-shaped carrier will fall freely to the ground, and the parachute and laboratory instrument package will be recovered for inspection and laboratory analysis. The tests are scheduled to begin mid-1966 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. In some tests Nike sounding rockets will be used to launch the smaller flight units."
- original NASA caption
Esta foto me la hizo el otro día Pablo G. Batista mientras yo estaba grabando la entrega de "Hoy programa" del pasado lunes. Para los que no pudieran degustarlo en su momento, aquí puede bajarse o escucharse directamente online.