Monday, October 14, 2013

Military MOJO Career Fair in DC; October 31. November 1, 2013

Attached schedule for DC MOJO later this month. This is a small but very interactive career fair with interviews taking place on site – this is not a cattle call where you stand in lines waiting to speak with companies.

We offer complimentary resume assistance, Industry Seminars and a Networking Reception with complimentary food & beverage.




The Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City, Arlington, VA 22202 (703) 415-5000


MILITARY   
MOJO       


Thursday 31 October

4:00 – 6:30pm                   CANDIDATE INDUSTRY SEMINARS – DIPLOMAT ROOM
                                                                Ameriprise, Capital One, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft
                6:30 – 7:30pm                               NETWORKING RECEPTION – AMBASSADOR ROOM
                                                Candidates & Companies – Business Casual Attire – No jeans


                                Complimentary Food & Beverage & Open Bar
                       Friday 1 November
8:45 – 4:00pm                               COMMISSIONED OFFICERS CHECK-IN
8:00 – 12:00pm            COFFEE STATION – Hosted by Huron Consulting
                                                                Snacks provided by General Mills
9:00 – 12:00pm            COMMISSIONED OFFICERS CAREER FAIR
                                                                Meet with Former and Currently Commissioned Officers
                8:00 – 12:00pm            COFFEE STATION – Hosted by Huron Consulting
                                                                Snacks provided by General Mills
Noon – 1:05pm             LUNCH BREAK – Everyone on their Own
12:45 – 4:00pm            SENIOR NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS CHECK-IN
1:05 – 4:00pm               COMMISSIONED OFFICERS and SENIOR NCO CAREER FAIR


                                           Meet with Commissioned Officers & Senior Non-Commissioned Officers
                                                               

SPONSORS
AMERIPRISE l CAPITAL ONE l HEWLETT-PACKARD
LIFE TECHNOLOGIES l MICROSOFT l GENERAL MILLS


Actavis
Bank of America
Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc.

Booz Allen Hamilton
CompoSecure
Deloitte Consulting
Edward Jones
Farmers Insurance
Genentech
General Electric

Georgetown University
Goldman Sachs
Huron Consulting
John Hancock
Johnson & Johnson
Los Alamos Nat’l Lab
M+W Group
Merck
Morgan Stanley
Nielsen
Purdue Pharma

PetSmart
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Raytheon
Shell Oil
Southwest Airlines
Terex Aerial Work Platforms
Travelers
U.S. Secret Service
U.S. CBP & DHS
U.S. Secret Service
Verizon



Saturday, October 12, 2013

Caribbean born creator\engineer demonstrating Solar Powered Generator


Creator demonstrating solar generator device. http://lnkd.in/bN2vPru


http://kurenergy.com

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Training Opportunity: The Tribal Emergency Management Association

iTEMA
The Tribal Emergency Management Association
October 23, 2012 -- 12:00 Noon Eastern

EMForum.org is pleased to host a one hour presentation and interactive discussion Wednesday, October 23, 2013, beginning at 12:00 Noon Eastern time (please convert to your local time). Our topic will be the recently founded Tribal Emergency Management Association (iTEMA). Among its activities, the association supports education and training, and earlier this month announced a partnership with the University of Nebraska at Omaha for a certificate program in tribal emergency management.

Our guest will be Jake Heflin, President and Interim-Chief Executive Officer of iTEMA. An enrolled member of the Osage Nation, Mr. Heflin has been involved with emergency services for over 22 years and serves as an adjunct instructor for FEMA/EMI  teaching tribal emergency management, CERT Train-the-Trainer, and CERT Program Manager throughout the country.

Please make plans to join us, and see the Background Page for links to related resources and participant Instructions. On the day of the program, use the Webinar Login link not more than 30 minutes before the scheduled time. 

As always, please feel free to extend this invitation to your colleagues

In partnership with Jacksonville State University, EIIP offers CEUs for attending EMForum.org Webinars.  See http://www.emforum.org/CEUs.htm for details.

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Date and time:
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 12:00 pm
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Panelist(s) Info:
Our guest will be Jake Heflin, President and Interim-Chief Executive Officer of iTEMA.
Duration:
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The Tribal Emergency Management Association
Our topic will be the recently founded Tribal Emergency Management Association (iTEMA). Among its activities, the association supports education and training, and earlier this month announced a partnership with the University of Nebraska at Omaha for a certificate program in tribal emergency management.

International Food Policy Research Institute

As an emergency manager within your EOC (Emergency Operations Center) consideration for your Emergency Support Function (ESF) that handles water, and food should think 'outside of the box' that each of these areas may become a natural disaster within itself that will require coordination and our expertise in planning, and long-term recovery efforts for our communities.

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International Food Policy Research Institute

NEW@IFPRI

Upcoming Events
The Challenge of Hunger: Building Resilience to Achieve Food & Nutrition Security. Speakers: Connell Foley (Concern Worldwide), Derek Headey (IFPRI), Wolfgang Jamann (Welthungerhilfe) - event/webcast Friday, Oct 18, 12:15 pm.

2020 roundtable discussion with Tom Arnold, Kathy Spahn, and Shenggen Fan - event/webcast Monday, Oct 21, 4:00pm.

IFPRI-WFP Policy Seminar “Cash, Food or Vouchers? Evidence from a Four-Country Experimental Study” with John Hoddinott (IFPRI) and Annalisa Conte (WFP) - event/webcast Wednesday, Oct 23, 12:15pm.

Books
Book on methodology for including socioeconomic considerations in regulatory decisionmaking.

Book on the benefits, costs, and risks for African countries of adopting GM crops.

Annual Report
CGIAR Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health Annual Report.

CNN: Where does aid money really go....

 http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/09/opinion/where-does-aid-money-really-go/index.html?hpt=iaf_t3  

Where does aid money really go -- and what is it spent on?

By Charles Lwanga Ntale, Special to CNN
October 9, 2013 -- Updated 1239 GMT (2039 HKT)                                           People in Jonglei state, South Sudan, unload aid from the U.N. World Food Program in January 2012.
People in Jonglei state, South Sudan, unload aid from the U.N. World Food Program in January 2012.
  • Impact of international aid is hard to measure, says Charles Lwanga Ntale
  • large amounts of aid money never actually leave rich countries, he adds
  • But extreme poverty cannot be ended without international aid
Editor's note: Charles Lwanga Ntale is director for Africa forDevelopment Initiatives, a not-for profit organization that focuses on the role of information in ending poverty by 2030. Investments to End poverty can be downloaded at www.devinit.org
(CNN) -- What is the value and impact of international aid? In an era of global austerity, this is a question that is frequently posed by policymakers and the citizens they represent.
The truth is, it is actually quite hard to measure. But there are important questions about both the quantity and quality of aid that must be answered.
Charles Lwanga Ntale, director for Africa for Development Initiatives
Charles Lwanga Ntale, director for Africa for Development Initiatives
Contrary to popular perception, aid is not one homogenous entity or a single transfer of money from donor to recipient countries. The term "international aid" actually covers a wide variety of things, including food and commodities, advice and training, and debt relief.
In 2011 -- the last year we have comprehensive data for -- total development aid from rich countries stood at nearly $150 billion, according to the Investments to End Poverty report. Only $59 billion identifiably involves the transfer of actual cash to, for example, recipient governments, NGOs operating on the ground or special project funds.
Aid in kind makes up another $25 billion. Most of this is food aid, which is used to tackle acute hunger -- but even this form of aid is not without controversy. Many donors avoid shipping actual food to developing countries, aware that it destroys local markets and harms local farmers.
Research demonstrates that food aid can be poor value for money, especially when food grown in donor countries is shipped to the developing world. Sorghum shipped from the United States is 200% more expensive than it is in Chad and almost 100% more than in Sudan, according to Development Initiatives calculations. Despite this, the United States and Japan continue to make extensive use of food shipments.
Large amounts of aid money never actually leave rich countries. 
Charles Lwanga Ntale, Development Initiatives
Perhaps even more surprising is the fact that large amounts of aid money never actually leave rich countries.
As much as $22 billion -- or 20% of bilateral aid spending -- is spent on activities in donor countries or put towards the cancellation of debt. This includes funds to cover housing, food and other services for the first 12 months of refugees' stay in the donor country. It also includes public spending on universities to cover the costs for students from developing countries. In 2011, $4.5 billion was spent on refugee costs, $3.5 billion on university costs and around $7.5 billion on debt relief.
As important as these expenditures may be, they do not result in any transfer of resources to developing nations. These schemes may of course be beneficial to recipient countries in the long term -- for example, contributing to capacity development if students return to their countries. But it is undeniable that these schemes are at odds with the common perception of aid as financial support transferred from donor to recipient countries to fight poverty.
These different elements of aid obviously have very different effects on economic development and growth. A dollar of cash will have a very different impact to a dollar's worth of food or a dollar's worth of a consultant's time. It is difficult to understand just how bundling all of these items into one lump sum can allow us to draw meaningful and reliable conclusions about the value of aid.
This lack of clarity was part of the motivation for Investments to End Poverty -- a major new report that analyzes aid in all of its complexity. AtDevelopment Initiatives we reviewed each individual record of foreign aid from OECD donors over the period 2006-2011 -- over a million rows of data. Now, for the first time ever, we can see just how much aid flows between specific countries and, crucially, what that aid consists of.
The results are striking. For example, according to our calculations, Italy and Denmark both gave very similar levels of bilateral aid, just above $2 billion, in 2011. But almost 70% of Italy's aid stayed in the country, spent on refugee costs and debt relief, whereas around 70% of Denmark's aid resulted in a transfer of resources to developing countries.
On the recipient side, some countries that appear to receive considerable funds in fact receive a lot less than advertised. Our research found that of the $7.5 billion in aid reported as given to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2011, more than $5 billion was not transferred to that country, and consisted instead of debt relief.
All of this matters because we are at a crossroads in international development. In the last few decades, we have seen unprecedented progress in alleviating poverty, as recognised by world leaders meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September. There is a growing consensus that we can end extreme poverty by 2030.
The truth is that we cannot meet this goal without international aid. While FDI and remittances undoubtedly contribute to economic growth in developing countries, aid is the only international resource flow which can be targeted explicitly to improve the lives of the poorest people around the world.
In sub-Saharan Africa alone, 400 million people live in extreme poverty and require interventions that are targeted and complementary to existing support to lift them out of it. Without the support of international aid, most poor people will be left behind.
If we want to maximize the impact and reach of international aid, we need to ensure that every dollar is spent as efficiently as possible. We can only do this with better information and a clear understanding. Then policymakers in both donor and recipient countries can make better and more informed decisions, and civil society can better monitor progress and hold them to account.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Charles Lwanga Ntale.

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