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The Premier of Nevis Mark Brantley held a Town Hall meeting during his trip to Bermuda. A spokesperson previously said, “The meeting is aimed at all citizens of Nevis and St. Kitts who currently live in Bermuda and those persons who may be curious about Nevis. The session will offer information about visiting Nevis and […]

“All Overseas Territories with financial centres are committed to global tax transparency standards,” Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon said. During the British Parliament’s session on June 10th, Liberal Democrat Lord Jones of Cheltenham asked “what progress they have made on reforming procedures in the UK’s Overseas Territories to eliminate [1] tax avoidance, and [2] money laundering.” […]

One Bermuda Alliance leader Jarion Richardson and Warwick candidates will host a town hall on November 14 to discuss the OBA’s platform and community issues. A spokesperson said, “Join One Bermuda Alliance leader, Jarion Richardson as he and Warwick candidates host a town hall meeting on Thursday, 14 November 2024 at the Warwick Workman’s Club. The […]

Detective Chief Inspector Jason Smith and Acting Chief Inspector Mark Tomlinson of the Bermuda Police Service [BPS] are currently in Brazil where they are attending the 9th Americas Working Group meeting on Cybercrime. A police spokesperson said, “The officers addressed the gathering on measures and countermeasures implemented by the [BPS] to deal with cybercrime, which […]

The Chinese authorities are seeking to host a meeting with the representatives of major international economy-focused organizations to discuss its progress and the situation around the globe, the Sout...

But my parents...they'll never understand. Would it help at all if I ate them?

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There exists a delightful subreddit called Council of Cats. This is where you'll find groups of cats having important discussions of matters both urgent and mundane. I have four cats, and I find it difficult to get all of them in one picture if they aren't asleep, so seeing many cats getting along is really nice. You can often guess what they are discussing at their council meeting, or they might be enjoying some group activity like birdwatching or annoying their human. They often get together to make demands on your time, or in other words, they gang up to get what they want.  

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But there are also pictures that show cats just like each other's company. Bored Panda has collected 50 of the most amusing photographs from Council of Cats to give us a taste of a cat colony's strength in numbers, presented in a ranked list for your amusement.

Learn the fundamentals of finance in at our accessible and engaging lectures! Whether you want to get prepared for finance recruiting or just are curious about investing, our sessions will give you a technical education and an understanding of how investing works. Tiger Investments is Princeton’s oldest investment club. As conveyed by our mission statement, financial education rooted in fundamental analysis and equity research are at the heart of our organization. Our curriculum can be found here https://tigerinvestments.princeton.edu/education/

Ever been interested in learning how to swing dance? Come and join our group! Everyone is welcome, including undergraduate and graduate students, staff and faculty, and community members. No partner or experience necessary! Our weekly schedule starts with a beginner lesson, where we’ll teach you the basic steps and a few fun moves. After that, we hold an intermediate lesson for more experienced dancers. We end the night with a social dance to practice our skills and learn from each other! For more details, please visit https://swing.princeton.edu. (Masks are optional but encouraged)

The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers meets weekly on Wednesdays in the Yeh PDR to come together, socialize, and envision the future of the club together.

Young Democratic Socialists of America - General Meeting

RSE Regional Group meeting: connects research software engineers and other closely related staff. We gather a few times per year to share RSE-relevant information. Regardless of official title, all Princeton staff with an interest in research software and computing are welcome.

Learn the fundamentals of finance in at our accessible and engaging lectures! Whether you want to get prepared for finance recruiting or just are curious about investing, our sessions will give you a technical education and an understanding of how investing works. Tiger Investments is Princeton’s oldest investment club. As conveyed by our mission statement, financial education rooted in fundamental analysis and equity research are at the heart of our organization. Our curriculum can be found here https://tigerinvestments.princeton.edu/education/

Ever been interested in learning how to swing dance? Come and join our group! Everyone is welcome, including undergraduate and graduate students, staff and faculty, and community members. No partner or experience necessary! Our weekly schedule starts with an intermediate lesson for more advanced dancers; after that, we teach a beginner lesson, where we’ll teach you the basic steps and a few fun moves. We end the night with a social dance to practice our skills and learn from each other! For more details, please visit swing.princeton.edu. We hope to see you there!

The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers meets weekly on Wednesdays in the Yeh PDR to come together, socialize, and envision the future of the club together.

Young Democratic Socialists of America - General Meeting

Learn the fundamentals of finance in at our accessible and engaging lectures! Whether you want to get prepared for finance recruiting or just are curious about investing, our sessions will give you a technical education and an understanding of how investing works. Tiger Investments is Princeton’s oldest investment club. As conveyed by our mission statement, financial education rooted in fundamental analysis and equity research are at the heart of our organization. Our curriculum can be found here https://tigerinvestments.princeton.edu/education/

Join the ForWord Collective at this Thursday's meeting, where we will write, discuss, and share poetry!

Ever been interested in learning how to swing dance? Come and join our group! Everyone is welcome, including undergraduate and graduate students, staff and faculty, and community members. No partner or experience necessary! Our weekly schedule starts with an intermediate lesson for more advanced dancers; after that, we teach a beginner lesson, where we’ll teach you the basic steps and a few fun moves. We end the night with a social dance to practice our skills and learn from each other! For more details, please visit swing.princeton.edu. We hope to see you there!

Young Democratic Socialists of America - General Meeting

Regardless of their home department or primary discipline, Student Affiliates of the Kahneman-Treisman Center are interested in investigating the way humans make decisions and how the systems, practices, and policies that govern how people move through the world can be designed with these inclinations in mind. Open to all undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows and researchers, the bi-weekly meetings feature speakers from Princeton and other academic institutions as well as industry and public-sector practitioners in applied behavioral science. Check behavioralpolicy.princeton.edu for details of each meeting.

A couple weeks ago, my pals at Twitter were kind enough to invite me in to visit with their (rapidly growing) team. The topic was meetings, so I used it as an opportunity to publicly premiere a talk I've been presenting to private clients over the past few months.

I hope you'll enjoy, Broken Meetings (and how you'll fix them).

Slides:

Supplementary links and commentary forthcoming, but I wanted to go ahead and post the talk as quickly as the video was available. Special thanks to Michelle, Jeremy, and the crackerjack Twitter crew for a swell afternoon.

I really like this talk and sincerely hope you will find it useful in helping to un-break your own meetings.

Prices, Products and Priorities: Meeting Refugees’ Energy Needs in Burkina Faso and Kenya Other resource sysadmin 24 January 2018

As the number of displaced people increases, and aid budgets come under further pressure, the imperative to identify cost-effective and sustainable solutions for delivering energy to refugees is more pressing than ever.

This paper examines the issue of energy and displacement in detail, using insights from refugees in camps in Burkina Faso and Kenya. It seeks to promote a better understanding of their energy needs, priorities and preferences, and explores how increased access to energy might help to achieve lasting impact in the two camps surveyed. The paper is based on primary research from the Goudoubo camp in Burkina Faso and the Kakuma I camp in Kenya, but the analysis and conclusions are pertinent in the wider context of camps for forcibly displaced people.

Summary points

• There is a low level of energy access in the refugee camps of Kakuma I and Goudoubo, which contributes to poverty and hampers relief and development efforts. Trying to meet basic cooking, lighting and phone-charging needs is costly for refugees, consuming a significant share of stretched monthly budgets.
• The predominant cooking solution consists of basic improved cookstoves burning wood and charcoal. The ‘three-stone fire’ method also remains commonplace. Three out of five families in Kakuma I report health problems due to smoke from cookstoves.
• Street lighting is a high priority for residents, due to concerns about security and safety in camps. In Goudoubo, 86 per cent of survey respondents said that more household members would go out after dark if there were better public lighting.
• A significant proportion of refugees would pay for cleaner and more efficient energy technologies, but many lack the financial resources required, and the development of markets for such products remains partially contingent on sustained financial support.
• There is a need for a diversity of energy technologies that give varying levels and qualities of service; a ‘one size fits all’ approach is inappropriate if universal access to sustainable energy is to be achieved.
• Clean cookstoves and fuels (LPG, ethanol, biogas, etc.) are in high demand, but require much greater investment if they are to be introduced at scale. Solid biomass and improved cookstoves will continue to be important cooking solutions in Kakuma I and Goudoubo, as well as in other refugee camps. A shift to more efficient cooking can be achieved at little or no extra cost for the significant proportion of people who still cook on three-stone fires.
• Users of quality-verified household solar products spend dramatically less on light and power than do people using inferior technologies. Strong brand recognition and a high willingness to pay indicate a large market and a significant opportunity for the solar private sector.
• Centralized electricity supply solutions – mini-grids or grid connections – are more economic than multiple standalone diesel generators. The current piecemeal and ad hoc approach, with each facility managing its own power supply, is inherently wasteful. Greater coordination among humanitarian clusters is required so that centralized solutions can be assessed, designed, financed and implemented.
• Collecting data on energy expenditure and use, as well as quantification of the wide ranging impacts of improved technologies, is necessary to build a compelling case for investment in electricity infrastructure. In addition, engaging refugees on their needs, preferences and willingness to pay can improve the sustainability and impact of energy interventions.
• Private-sector and market development approaches offer long-term, cost-effective solutions for refugees and can also benefit host communities. As the number of displaced people in the world increases, and as aid budgets come under further pressure, the imperative to identify cost-effective and sustainable solutions is more pressing than ever.

Chatham House is a part of the Moving Energy Initiative, a consortium working towards clean energy for refugees. For more information visit movingenergy.earth

President Joe Biden will hold a White House meeting with President Prabowo Subianto of Indonesia on Tuesday to celebrate 75 years of U.S.-Indonesian relations and discuss ways to strengthen their countries' cooperation.

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FAO Director-General Graziano da Silva today opened the 150th session of the FAO Council, highlighting the successful conclusion of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), held last month in [...]

The Pre-Summit will bring together the global efforts to shape the transformation of agri-food systems.

The mayor of the eastern P.E.I. town of Three Rivers says comments on social media have become so 'aggressive' that council has decided to hold Tuesday night’s meeting virtually instead of in-person out of concerns for their own safety.

Ryan Dinwiddie and the Toronto Argonauts have been down this road before. Toronto will be minus starting quarterback Chad Kelly, the CFL's outstanding player last season, on Sunday when it faces the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Grey Cup.

The Interior B.C. city is reviewing its policies for public hearings following the incident.

The agenda for Planning Commission on 2019-12-16 7:00 PM - Special Meeting dated Monday, 16 December 2019 has been archived. Access it here:
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The agenda for City Commission - Special Emergency Meeting dated Sunday, 26 April 2020 has been archived. Access it here:
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A little girl’s dream of Jesus prepares her and her mother for the gospel message a visiting outreach team brings to their home.

Three ladies attend an OM Mexico meeting to pray for Mexican workers around the world. Little did they expect to be so blessed in return.

God answers a long-term worker’s prayer for an outreach day in Spain, connecting her with people from her host country in North Africa.

A new resource offers tips on how to keep Individualized Education Program meetings focused and on-schedule.

Penn State will be sending its second delegation of students and faculty to COP29, the United Nations’ annual climate meeting, which will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November.

Theresa Tarves, interim associate dean for library and information services and professor of legal research, and Rebecca Mattson, interim director of the Law Library and professor of legal research, were invited to speak at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting held in Chicago, Illinois, from July 21 through July 23.

An OM Chile short-term participant describes a recent ministry outing as the hardest night of his life but remains hopeful in spite of it all.

Worker Mirjam Hoolsema, from the Netherlands, talks about her experience with a woman she saw every day during her daily devotion.

OM’s Xenos team in Heilbronn ministers to immigrants in a holistic way by proclaiming the gospel and supporting them in their physical and emotional needs.

DOVER – More than 200 representatives from state and community agencies focused on assisting Delawareans navigate the challenging and sometimes harrowing experience of becoming gainfully employed will come together this week to further strategize on enhancing their collaborative efforts to serve their customers. The One-Stop Partner Convening provides an opportunity for front-line staff to continue […]

The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC), along with state and federal partners, will hold a virtual meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 13 regarding ethylene oxide (EtO) – with the meeting’s focus on public health and safety concerns over Croda, Inc.’s EtO production in the New Castle area.

At their 25th annual meeting on May 9, 2023, the Friends of the Delaware Public Archives (FODA) presented Stephen Marz, State Archivist and Director of the Public Archives a financial gift of $2,000 to assist in the digitization costs of several thousand historic acetate and nitrate film negatives. “Digitizing these fragile negatives not only ensures […]

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The Delaware State Review Board for Historic Preservation will meet for its annual business meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 16.

Residents can learn about programs that provide grants to help make their homes more energy efficient.