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as our walls tumble down
the scars we hide become visible
the honesty, sincerity, the emotion
lay like open wounds
their stories are of triumph and heartache
told only by the heart on the sleeve
even as the time passes by
the triggers of such incidents exist
in a kiss, a word, a picture, a song
the vulnerability is there
whether or not we choose to portray it
remains in the risk we dare take
for the script is never known but familiar
as we seek to repair, resurge and conquer
that which makes us vulnerable...
The European Union Naval Force operates in an Area of Operation covering the Southern Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and a large part of the Indian Ocean, including the Seychelles, representing an area of about 1.5 times the size of the Europe mainland. The entire region is considered as High Risk Area.
Within the Area of Operation, EU Naval Force - Somalia assets conduct tasks in accordance with the mandate. Warships provide protection to vulnerable shipping in the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC) in the Gulf of Aden. Moreover, close co-operation with WFP and AMISOM ensures that no vessel transporting humanitarian aid and logistics for the African Union mission into Somalia will travel unprotected.
Read more... eunavfor.eu/
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
~ C.S. Lewis
"The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off.
The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.”
~ Bill Hicks
Rapid increases in public debt have emerged recently in low-income countries while development needs remain large. The drivers of rising debt vary greatly across countries: for some, it has been driven by scaling-up of public investment; for others, adverse commodity price shocks are to blame, while a third group of countries have followed still imprudent fiscal policies. Flat—if not falling—official development assistance and an increasingly diverse group of multilateral, bilateral, and private lenders have accompanied the debt escalation. This seminar panel will discuss (1) various debt drivers across countries; (2) financing needs for development; and (3) how national authorities, multilateral and bilateral partners, and private creditors can strike the right balance between development spending and containing debt vulnerability. The session took place at IMF Headquarters during the 2019 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings April 12, 2019 in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Cliff Owen
Trisha Yearwood is an American singer, author, and actress. She is known for her ballads about vulnerable young women from a female perspective that have been described by some music critics as "strong" and "confident". Yearwood is a member of the Grand Ole Opry and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2000.
Yearwood rose to fame in 1991 with her debut single "She's in Love with the Boy", which became her first No. 1 single and was featured on her self-titled debut album. Yearwood has continued to find success and widespread critical acclaim, releasing a further 10 studio albums, which have spawned eight more No. 1 singles and 20 top-10 hits combined, including "Walkaway Joe", "The Song Remembers When", "Thinkin' About You", "I'll Still Love You More", and "I Would've Loved You Anyway". In 1997, Yearwood recorded the song "How Do I Live" for the soundtrack of the movie Con Air. It became her signature song, achieving high positions and sales worldwide, and won her a Grammy Award. She has also recorded successful duets with her husband, country singer Garth Brooks, including "In Another's Eyes", which won the couple a Grammy Award.
Yearwood has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, and has won three Grammy Awards, three Country Music Association Awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards, an American Music Award, and a Pollstar Industry Award for touring. Aside from her success in music, Yearwood has also ventured into writing, releasing three successful cookbooks, which earned her the status of two-time New York Times best-selling author. Since April 2012, Yearwood has hosted a culinary series on Food Network titled Trisha's Southern Kitchen, for which she has won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program. 5/1/16
Yemen, 2010: Children sit in a UNICEF-supported centre for vulnerable children, in the conflict-affected Hajjah Governorate. Behind them, drawings depict people fleeing soldiers and child traffickers. As of late June 2011, Yemeni children continue to face high rates of malnutrition, wide gender disparities and increased regional conflicts, including violent responses to general protests.
© UNICEF/Brent Stirton
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Climate change adaptation in not just about physically adapting - building walls to block off rising seas or raising wells above flood water levels like in this picture. It is anything that limits the impact of climate change - more intense storms, more frequent floods, decreasing harvests, rising temperatures. In the case of these communities, they are too poor to adapt to even their current conditions. So adaptation for them takes the form of development - making them a little bit better off, and hoping they will continue to improve their standard of living. This makes them safer in the face of their risks.
While we do need things like seawalls and raised wells, it is just as important to remove vulnerability to the hazards people face, to minimize the incredible disruptions they face to their lives.
To see why I was in Bangladesh click here, or take a look at the previous or next photo in the series.
If you are interested, please view the series to see what I found and what I learned in my few weeks in Bangladesh, visiting some of the most vulnerable people anywhere on our planet.
The vans, however, are property of the community. So each day, from the payment he receives from fellow villagers for transporting them and their goods around the area, the driver pays a small amount towards a community disaster management fund. This fund is accessible in the event of a disaster to provide monetary support to those who lose their possessions.
This is one way in which these communities are trying to break the cycle of poverty that often traps them in bad circumstances through no fault of their own. In the process, a simple cycle van becomes protection against not only floods and other disasters, but also against the impacts of climate change, which these communities are seeing on a daily basis.
To see why I was in Bangladesh click here, or take a look at the previous or next photo in the series.
If you are interested, please view the series to see what I found and what I learned in my few weeks in Bangladesh, visiting some of the most vulnerable people anywhere on our planet.
Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) is a Slackware and Slax-based live DVD.
It has been created by Thorsten Schneider and and Kryshaam from the French Reverse Engineering Team.
It has been discontinued, but can be downloaded via sourceforge.jp/projects/sfnet_virtualhacking/downloads/os...
LA County Department of Public Social Services service manager Freddy Mozo, left, and LA County Department of Mental Health administrative services manager Nick Jordan carry the belongings of Merced Smith into her new hotel room, Saturday, April 11, 2020. LA County is working with state, federal and local partners on Project Roomkey, an initiative to bring medically vulnerable people experiencing homelessness indoors during the COVID19 pandemic. (Photo/Michael Owen Baker)
Vulnerable families affected by #COVID19 lockdown start getting food items from Government | Kigali, 28 March 2020
vulnerable to the flies biting her that is
i do have a full body shot of her but i dont like the pose
strobist
speedlight shoot thru umbrella camera right
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I told him “I wish you would have just hit me. Bruises, cuts, they heal. Emotional pain, it lingers. It may hide itself, but it never truly goes away.”
The ‘Ecosystem-based Adaptation South’ project seeks to help the Seychelles, Nepal and Mauritania to adapt to climate change, in part by restoring natural habitats across all types of ecosystems. In the Seychelles, on-the-ground ecological restoration will rehabilitate 29 hectares of mangrove and wetland forests, thus providing natural flood barriers. Learn more about UNEP's work on adaptation: www.unep.org/explore-topics/climate-change/what-we-do/cli...
Photo credits: UNEP
was rough. :[
I kinda look high. I swear i'm not. i would never ever waste my brain cells on something like that. it's from tears and a headache, and make-up that's been killing me.
promise.
I'm just trying to figure out who I am, and what God's plan for me is. My mind is all scrambled into this mad crazy yuck mess, and I, in fact, do not like it even one bit. I cried, quite a lot of tears. I'm worried. About someone. That someone always thinks there is TIME. Maybe there ISN'T time, ya know? You never ever know what could possibly happen, and it bothers me whenever he says, "maybe some other time."
I don't know who I am yet, and I'm trying to figure that out.
I'm really stressed with school, I'm failing almost every class.
I'm worried that I have doomed everyone I've ever come into contact with because I haven't taken the little bit of time to share with them how great God is.
I want someone to share everything with, to talk about EVERYTHING with. The worst part is, I don't want that at the same time. It would make me vulnerable, and prolly even scared, because they know so much about me. ack, just that feeling of every thought being spoken aloud scares the crap outta me. but i know if i keep it in too much longer,
i will explode. i know it.
i break-down a lot, for silly things like this. so i really need to get it out.
I want someone to love me for me, nothing more and nothing less, and it kills me that I can't have that right now.
I need to figure out what's going on with me and someone.
I really need to start trusting and talking to God wayyyy more.
My head is like kjasnbdfbasdhasuiog not even kidding.
but im happy, nonetheless. i hung out with ryan tonight, and that made my like, life. Jake called meee!!! :D we talked for 13 minutes. He is really nice, would be a really awesome influence for me, if I lived closer to him. I mean, he's still an awesome influence, of course, but would be nice if he lived closer. :D He's 19. ( I still hardly believe it, LOL he doesn't look like he's 19...haha.) And in college, and wants to be a youth pastor. Talks about God to anyone and everyone.
I want to be like him someday, not caring about what people think about me, just happy that God has given me life.
I am determined, although my mind is like spaghetti right now, to put God first, and trust him to figure this out. although it's so so hard. i know he has a plan for me. and anyways, how can i be upset?
I got to spend the afternoon with my bestest friennn, got a call from one of the most influential guys ever, am going to see TWIIILLIIIGGGHHHHTTTT (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) with mackenzie tomorrow night, i got challenged to take a dramatic silhouette photo for tomorrow's picture. me and mickee are gunna wake up SUPERLY early, and walk down to this dam and do it there. :D it'll be fun. and God has given me all that I need in this life to get by.
sorry for the rant, and extra picture. i just knew this wouldn't be appropriate for the awesomeness and reality of Cassie and Rachel from the Columbine shooting.
That was too serious, and I really needed to vent. I took this last night after my ma left my room. and she had held me tight for a long while. Ryan, now you know why I was sad tonight. My head is so blehhh right now, i didn't know how to put it into words. im sorry it took me so long. so i thought i would put it up, since it kinda shows how im feeling.
vulnerable.
scared.
ugly.
Climate change adaptation is a strange thing. Since the beginning of the debate on what to do about climate change, adapting to it has been the elephant in the room. No one wanted to allow human-induced climate change to happen and just adapt after the fact - rather, people wanted to stop it by eliminating the causes.
That is not going to happen, for a long while. What's more, the poorest countries, with the least capacity to adapt, like Bangladesh, are the ones who are bearing the brunt. The did nothing to cause it, can do little to stop it, but must suffer the most. So they must adapt.
But how? Many people think that the type of activity pictured above is perfect - raising a well above the level of floodwaters, so that as climate change increases the frequency and intensity of floods, the communities water supplies are preserved. In Bangladesh they are poor - they raise the water. In richer places, like the Netherlands, they build a dam to protect everything. It is all adaptation.
But that is too simple a description - read on for more thoughts.
To see why I was in Bangladesh click here, or take a look at the previous or next photo in the series. If you are interested, please view the series to see what I found and what I learned in my few weeks in Bangladesh, visiting some of the most vulnerable people anywhere on our planet.