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West Point Systems Engineering Capstone: Cadets Design Program to Project Future Army Production Capabilities - April 2015
Corpus Christi Army Depot Commander, COL Garner Pogue, thanked West Point Department of Systems Engineering Cadets David Jaye, Stephen Kerns, and Nathaniel Green for designing an innovative program to maximize UH-60 main rotor blade production as part of the continuing partnership between the depot and West Point - The U.S. Military Academy. The Cadets will graduate in May and receive their commissions as Second Lieutenants in the Army. COL Pogue presented Army Achievement Medals to the cadets and shared valuable advice for their future careers. "Throughout your career, you should never miss an opportunity to recognize a deserving soldier for excellence."
Photo by Brigitte Rox, CCAD Public Affairs
Julia happened to spot this little guy, motionless and drenched, floating in their lobster pool in the backyard. They warmed up a corn bag, dried him off and held him in their laps for an hour or so. Revived! Carl was just about to release him when I snapped this shot.
The average American will have nine operations before the age of 85. Surgery accounts for half of all hospital admissions and over 40 million inpatient operations per year in the United States. These procedures carry an inherent risk—globally, major surgical complication risks range from 3 to 16 percent, and death rates from 0.2 to 10 percent—yet there is remarkably little effort to discover how to reduce surgery’s high rate of complications, ensure access to surgery, reduce unnecessary surgery, or understand how to make its provision more cost-effective.
This is emblematic of a distortion in thinking about where the risks in healthcare are—or how policy can help ensure medicine saves more lives. Pharmaceuticals get the headlines, but are only a fraction of life-saving care. And while federal funding has supported an enormous output of new discoveries, there has been little recognition of the need to ensure these discoveries are effectively put into practice and reach ordinary Americans wherever they seek care. At least half of the major complications that occur in hospital care such as surgery are avoidable with existing knowledge. Recent findings indicate that simple tools like checklists can transform that care to make it safer, more effective, and less expensive.
Through the Center for Surgery and Public Health, Michael Zinner and Atul Gawande are developing strategies for improving the quality and safety of technological care like surgery, enhancing our understanding of how such care is distributed across socioeconomic and racial/ethnic lines, and charting a path toward expanding nationwide access to higher quality care. The Center for American Progress held an engaging presentation and a lively discussion of the policy dimensions of their important work.
Dr Robert Walters-Chairman of Orbis UK, and HRH the Countess of Wessex cut into the celebratory cake at the Orbis 30th Anniversary celebrations. The Countess is Royal Patron of Vision 2020: The Right to Sight.
I was walking through the first quad of the Princeton Graduate College and some crows were swooping and killing baby rabbits. Many escaped, but this poor rabbit was freaked out by seeing his brother (sister?) killed just a few feet from him, so was paralyzed with fear. We saved him and are going to raise him until he's ready to be let back into the wild. He's tiny!
Strobist Info: Small handheld Jessops 150S flash fired through a 20" shoot through umbrella to camera left.
My new workbench lighting consists of 2 "Daylight" Energy Saving Bulbs. Each 18Watts and a Colortemperature of 6400K.
This picture was taken with a Nikon D40 with its normal Auto-Whitebalance.
In Photoshop I only sharpened this picture and compressed the file-size.
The colors look so much better now right out of the camera.
Considering the price-drop of these bulbs (€ 5,-- a piece) a cheap but big improvement.
" Yeah, yeah, have you heard the news today?
People right across the world
Are pledging they will play the game.
Victims of the modern world,
Circumstance has brought us here,
Armageddon's come too near,
Too, too near now,
Foresight is the only key,
To save our children's destiny,
The consequences are so grave,
So, so grave now,
The hypocrites we are their slaves,
So my friends to stop the end,
On each other we depend,
Oh, we depend.
Mountain high and river deep,
Oh yeah, we've gotta stop it goin' on.
We gotta wake this world up from its sleep
Oh, people. Stop it goin' on.
Yeah, yeah, have you heard the news today?
Money's on the menu in my favourite restaurant.
Well don't talk about quantity,
'Cuz there's no fish left in the sea,
Greedy men been killing all the life there ever was.
And you'd better play it nature's way,
Or she will talk it all away,
And don't try and tell me you know more than her 'bout right from
wrong.
Oh you've upset the balance man,
Done the only thing you can,
Now my life is in your hands.
When You Gonna Learn (Didgeridoo) - Jamiroquai
A community of a small seaside township of Patea fighting to save a young female Orca. NZ North Island's West Coast.
I love that the facade of this old American Legion building is being saved, while a brand new modern structure is being built behind it.
The US, Nigeria, Norway, World Vision and PATH co-organized a World Health Assembly side event, “Securing the Future: Saving the Lives of Women and Children” on May 22nd. The event focused on increasing access to essential life-saving commodities, the impact of innovation and overcoming barriers to access and financing. The session, moderated by USAID Assistant Administrator Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez, focused on the significance of the work of the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children. The World Health Assembly Resolution in support of the Commission’s work was passed during the Assembly the next day. Panelists included Dr. Pate, Minister of State for Health, Nigeria, Dr. Timothy Evans, Director of Health, Nutrition and Population, World Bank, Dr. Mesfin Teklu, Director, Maternal and Child Health, HIV and Infectious Diseases, World Vision International, Dr. Flavia Bustreo, Assistant Director-General for Family and Community Health, WHO and Michael Schreiber, Managing Director, GBC Health. Dr. Tore Godal, Special Advisor to the Norwegian Prime Minister on Global Health and Princess Sarah Zeid, Global Health Ambassador, Jordan, Dr. Carole Presern, Excutive Director, PMNCH and Rachel Wilson, Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy, PATH made official comments.
U.S. Mission Geneva / Eric Bridiers
This brilliant money box is divided into sections so you can save for life's essentials. And it locks. Which I am sure would deter any burglar.
(Am I) gainin' ground
(Am I) losin' face
(Have I) lost and found my saving grace
Thankful for the gift my angels gave me
Born alone, we die alone
'n' I'm just sittin' here by the phone
Waitin' for the Lord to send my callin'
~Everlast
More than 80 firefighters and 10 officers are involved in a major incident involving 15,000 pallets that are well alight on 28 April. There is the surrounding risk of factory units - three have been evacuated. Crews are using ground monitors and jets to tackle the blaze. A water relay is in operation. "The area affected covers about an acre, with pallets stacked approximately 30 feet high. "When we got here, the fire was in one corner but because these are wooden pallets, flames got a hold and it spread rapidly. Our priority was to surround the fire and stop spread to surrounding risks. Crews did a brilliant job saving two warehouses close by - one containing more pallets and another a tool factory.
"Fortunately there were no casualties. We evacuated 12 people from the tool factory."
Station Officer Steve Wintrit, of Braintree Fire Station, was the initial officer in charge of the incident and among the first firefighters to arrive on the scene.
My girlfriend had gotten this for me last christmas, but I never had a good enough camera to do it justice.. To be honest, this still doesn't.
HDR'ed with Photomatix; Best viewed LARGE, or View On Black
My sister found these little baby birds just about an hour ago!
She came and got me and we saved them.
Haha, I wanted to take the gloves off in the beginning, because they were hard to pick up!! My sis didnt think that was a good idea. lol. I finally figured it out though. I didnt want to hurt them, they were sooo tiny!
We called a wildlife rehabilitator and she told us we did the right thing by putting them back in the nest.
Its a myth that birds wont take care of their babies once a human touches them.
The lady said that adult birds have really bad smell.
The rehabilitator advised us to put them in a basket and hang them from a branch in the tree. So we did that :) We are waiting for the mama bird to come to her babies. If she doesnt by night time we are supposed to call the lady back. Thought you guys would enjoy the video.
Photos in comments.
We both took some pictures. And the video my sister took. Thats me picking them up!
UPDATE: The mama bird has not returned to the babies yet. So we now are going to put them in the garage under a warmer light, like advised earlier. We are waiting for a call back from the wildlife rehabilitator.
UPDATE: The birdies are safe in the garage with a lamp warmer. The people told us to feel them soggy dog food, torn into tiny pieces. 2 of them ate like pigs, but one of them is not eating. She is very tiny too. Tomorrow morning we drop them off at the rescue place!
People living with opioid use disorder now have more options to access life-saving medication that will help support them on their pathway to treatment and recovery. As of Feb. 14, 2018, the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia (CRNBC) expanded the opioid treatment prescribing standards to allow nurse practitioners around the province to prescribe medication like injectable hydromorphone, buprenorphine-naloxone and methadone. All are used in the treatment of opioid addiction.
Read more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2018MMHA0005-000564
Pictured: The teams process through scrutinisation.
Ten Tors is one of the biggest multi-agency, tri service civil contingency exercises in Britain. It is run by more than nine hundred military personnel - almost all of them Reservists - from all three branches of the Armed Forces, led by the Army’s 43 (Wessex) Brigade with its HQ in Tidworth, Wiltshire.
The 54th running of the event this year comes just months after military personnel, including Reservists from the South West , assisted local authorities, the Environment Agency and blue-light services during the floods, carrying out a range of tasks from sandbagging to engineering.
As a military exercise Ten Tors provides the Armed Forces with an invaluable opportunity to practice these life-saving civil contingency responsibilities, to enable the military - assisted by the emergency services, including The British Red Cross and the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Group - to be ready to help when they are called upon during a national emergency.
Brigadier Piers Hankinson MBE, Director of Ten Tors, is the Commander of 43 (Wessex) Brigade and was the Joint Military Commander for the South West during the flooding.
“The severe flooding across parts of the South West earlier this year clearly demonstrates the importance of such training and the ability to react to fast changing conditions and working in a multi-agency tri-service team. It also highlights the way that Reservists, who have wide ranging civilian experience and employment (from plumbers to accountants), train to operate with their regular counterparts under a One-Army ethos.”
Ten Tors:
As well as a vital high-level military exercise, The Ten Tors Challenge is also one of the biggest outdoors adventure events for young people in Britain today. In all, 2400 youngsters aged between 14 and 19 will take part in Ten Tors, with a further 300 youngsters with physical or educational needs taking part in the Jubilee Challenge.
The majority of the teams who enter Ten Tors are from schools and youth groups from Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. As usual, scores of scout groups, sports and ramblers teams and Armed Forces cadet units have accepted the challenge and are taking part.
Those teenagers taking on the Ten Tors Challenge will trek unaided over 35, 45 or 55 miles of some of the toughest terrain and highest peaks in Southern England relying on their navigational skills and carrying all their food, water, bedding, tents and other essentials as they go.
It is a feat they must complete as a team and without any help from adults and they’ll remain entirely self-sufficient during their arduous expeditions, including camping out overnight on the moor.
They do it for the challenge; to test themselves against one of the last remaining wildernesses in Britain. What they get in return for their months of hard training and commitment, as well as determination and bravery during the event itself, is an experience they’ll remember forever and the chance to learn a set of skills and values which will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
It’s a rite of passage which has played a positive and formative role in shaping the lives of more than a quarter of a million people.
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