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7 unusual facts about aid


Aid

The economist William Easterly and others have argued that aid can often distort incentives in poor countries in various harmful ways.

The United Nations, the World Bank, and many scholars use the DAC's ODA figure as their main aid figure because it is easily available and reasonably consistently calculated over time and between countries.

In an interview in Germany's Der Spiegel magazine, Shikwati uses the example of food aid delivered to Kenya in the form of a shipment of corn from America.

Andrew Leipus

In addition to improving facilities and treatment options (he legendarily found on his first day that the team's first aid kit was out of Band-Aids), he encouraged the team to start training in gyms.

Band-Aid

They continue to be a commercial success today, with such themes as Superman, Spider-Man, Hello Kitty, Rocket Power, Rugrats, smiley faces, Barbie, Dora the Explorer and Batman.

M Network

M Network produced home ports of popular arcade games, including BurgerTime, Bump 'n' Jump and Lock 'n' Chase (all 1982) as well as original titles such as Tron: Deadly Discs (1982 – based on the Disney movie) and Kool-Aid Man (1983), one of the earliest "promogames", originally available only via mail order by sending in UPC symbols from Kool-Aid containers.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The book chronicles the Acid Tests (parties in which LSD-laced Kool-Aid was used to obtain a communal trip), the group's encounters with (in)famous figures of the time, including famous authors, Hells Angels, and The Grateful Dead, and it also describes Kesey's exile to Mexico and his arrests.


2011 G-20 Cannes summit

At the summit protesters donned Robin Hood caps and demanded a tax on international financial transactions in order to provide aid to poor countries instead of catering to banking and other financial institutions.

Airnav.com

Additionally available on Airnav.com is METAR, terminal aerodrome forecast (TAF), distance calculator, times of morning and evening civil twilight and sunset/sunrise to aid the pilot for decision-making purposes and to be legally equipped for night flight, airport management remarks, Notice to Airmen (NOTAM), distances to popular landmarks and attractions, hotels, cities, and closest airports.

Ananda Chandra Dutta

# Appointed in Assam Agricultural University as Audio Visual Aid Assistant on 1 April 1983 & continued till Dec 1986.

Awn

Awn Access to Justice Network in Gaza Strip, Legal Aid Network operate in Gaza Strip, Palestine.

Battle of Agridi

Following the battle, John of Beirut, with funds from Henry of Cyprus, hired thirteen Genoese galleys to aid in the siege of Kyrenia.

Bowman H. McCalla

McCalla's force of 112 men spearheaded an international column, under British Admiral Sir Edward Seymour, which was attempting to fight its way to the aid of foreign legations under siege at Peking.

Burning Spear discography

"Perfect Day" (1997) - Various Artists charity single in aid of Children in Need

Children's Institute Inc.

Kee MacFarlane, an employee at the center, had the idea to use hand puppets and anatomically correct dolls during interviews with children, believing they would aid disclosure and therapeutic recovery.

Clapper

Clapperboard, used in film production to aid synchronizing audio and video and to identify different shots

Consumer council of Fiji

The Council receives an annual grant from the Government and supplements the grant with funds from donor agencies such as the European Union and Australian aid agency, AusAID.

David Francisco

The primary charter of the Clarence Packet was to aid in the execution of the La Grange expedition in search of three missing men, Frederick Panter, James Harding and William Goldwyer.

Downtown Oakland

Oakland's Community and Economic Development Agency stepped in to provide financial aid to the shop owners whose windows were smashed as a part of the response by the Dellums administration.

Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007

The minimum wage was passed by the House and the Senate on May 24, 2007 as part of HR 2206, the supplemental aid to the Iraq War.

Feudal aid

The historian Susan Reynolds notes that the evidence for feudal aids only dates from the 11th century, rendering the view that it arose earlier in a requirement of a vassal to give aid to his lord somewhat suspect.

Fort Kearny

In the novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, a train in the process of being hijacked by Sioux stops at Fort Kearny to request aid from the troops there.

France–Libya relations

In late 1987, there were 1,300 French troops in Chad, primarily defending the Chadian capital N'DJamena from attack, including an air attack using Tupolev Tu-22 strategic bombers; France also gave $90 million in military aid to Chad that year.

Frank Colman

Colman returned the Majors to the Intercounty loop in 1958, organizing an exhibition ballgame in June 1958 in conjunction with the Knights of Columbus and the Mocha Temple Shrine in aid of the Shrine Hospitals for Crippled Children.

German-Jordanian University

GJU receives government aid through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) and also the State of Saxony-Anhalt and the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences are contributing.

Haldane Reforms

Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, had privately agreed to commit the Army to the aid of France, if attacked, and Haldane began to consider how best to accomplish this.

Harry Godfrey Massy-Miles

He was at his Regimental Aid Post when he heard that a gas shell had burst on the Battalion H.Q. at Villers-Bretonneux, had pierced the roof, and penetrated into the cellar.

Henry Plummer

Jess Harper (Robert Fuller) and Pete Dixon (Warren Oates), and Pete's younger brother, soon come to Slim's aid.

International Humanitarian City

An independent free zone authority created by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and the Government of Dubai through the merger of Dubai Aid City (DAC) and Dubai Humanitarian City (DHC), IHC addresses the specific needs of the humanitarian aid and development community, while grouping aid agencies in a secure environment that fosters partnerships, social responsibility and global change.

Islam in Libya

The Jihad Fund, supported by a payroll tax, was established in 1970 to aid the Palestinians in their struggle with Israel.

Israel–Kenya relations

Following the Kenyan presidential election, 2007, there was rioting, and Israel came to the aid of Kenyans by donating medicine to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret.

John de Bourchier

Bouchier is first mentioned as deputed by Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford (1257-1331) to represent him in the parliament summoned in 1306 for the purpose of granting an aid on the occasion of the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward II (1307-1327)) receiving knighthood.

Joseph Bach

Without the aid of a teacher he studied several foreign languages; after which he attended the University of Prague, remaining there 12 years.

Jyrki Otila

Otila worked as assistant office chief of YLE from 1965 to 1970, in the United Nations in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 1970 to 1973, in YLE in 1974, in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs as a development aid expert in Tanzania from 1975 to 1977, and as a factory chief for the Orion Corporation in Arusha, Tanzania from 1977 to 1980.

Li Jihui

when he was one of the officers that Li Maozhen, then the military governor of Fengxiang Circuit (鳳翔, headquartered in modern Baoji, Shaanxi), sent to aid his ally Gu Yanhui the military governor of Dongchuan Circuit (東川, headquartered in modern Mianyang, Sichuan) when Gu was under attack by Wang Jian the military governor of Xichuan Circuit (西川, headquartered in modern Chengdu, Sichuan).

Pierre Béarn

While commanding a trawler to aid the French evacuations in 1940, he was captured and was detained in the concentration camp at Aintree.

Preston Pals

To aid this scheme, he encouraged local councils to establish what became known as Pals battalions, made up of groups of friends and neighbours who were keen to fight alongside each other, rather than being individually assigned to regular army regiments.

Principality of Gjirokastër

In 1412, Zenebishi allied with the Despot of Arta, Maurice Shpata, and defeated the army of Carlo I Tocco, who had some months earlier taken possession of Janina, with the aid of its Greek inhabitants.

Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton

Since 1962, he was member of the Abbeyfield Society, the Catholic Housing Aid Society, the London Housing Aid Centre, the National Federation of Housing Associations, Mencap, the Foundation for Alternatives, the Hugh of Witham Foundation, and the Action around Bethlehem Children with Disability (ABCD).

REC 2

It turns out that Owen is actually a priest sent by the Vatican to get a blood sample from a possessed girl named Tristana Medeiros and aid the other priest in charge of her.

Regressive Aid

Regressive Aid was an instrumental band consisting of Simeon Cain (drums), William Tucker (guitar), and Andrew Weiss (bass guitar), managed by Tom Burka.

Rick Jolly

With Denzil Connick, he campaigns for the recognition of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for all Falkland veterans in aid of the South Atlantic Medal Association.

Riding the Rap

The book also features a reappearance of Joyce Patton, Harry's ex-girlfriend and a former stripper, and her new boyfriend Raylan Givens, an always-gets-his-man old western type law enforcer who later comes to Harry's aid when he discovers the plot set up by Chip Ganz, Bobby Deo, and Louis Lewis.

Robin Lane

Since then, Lane has moved to western Massachusetts, where she works with the Turners Falls, Massachusetts Women's Resource Center, using music therapy to aid survivors of abuse.

San Luis Obispo Mardi Gras controversy

The Associated Students of the University of California system (ASUC) created a bill in opposition to SB 337, noting that it altered the Donahoe Higher Education Act and eligibility for Cal Grants, a form of financial aid.

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

To aid in identifying the future research needs, industry leaders — Gazpromneft, IBS, National Composite Centre, Rosatom, SP Korolev Rocket & Space Corporation Energia and TNK-BP — also gave presentations to scientists.

Son of Godzilla

Minilla comes to the aid of Reiko when she is attacked by a Kamacuras, but inadvertently awakens Kumonga (Spiga in the English-dubbed version), a giant spider that was sleeping in a valley.

Starvin' Marvin in Space

During this time, Pat Robertson is shown attempting to raise funds for various absurd weapons and upgrades to aid the missionaries while in space.

Tadateru Konoe

In 1994, he was lecturer on Micro study on International Relief Organizations at the Graduate School of Toyo Eiwa University, in Tokyo, Japan, and he is a lecturer, panelist, commentator, and speaker at various academic and other forums on topics including humanitarian aid, IHL, disasters, development, and bio-ethics.

The New Lawn

In August 2012, a Manchester United XI played a pre-season friendly at the ground in aid of the Sustainability in Sport foundation which was created by Forest Green chairman Dale Vince and Gary Neville.

The Stoneman Murders

Vikram Gokhale as AIG Satam: Sanjay's senior who comes to his aid by unofficially letting Sanjay continue his investigation and to save his job.

Thomas Charles Lethbridge

In 2003, a group of admirers of his work calling themselves "The Sons of T.C. Lethbridge" (Doggen Foster, Kevlar Bales and Welbourn Tekh), with the aid of Julian Cope and Colin Wilson, released A Giant: The Definitive T.C. Lethbridge, a set containing a booklet and two CDs containing music accompanying discussions of Lethbridge's work.

UnKnown Aerospace Cygnet

Cygnet is a British cargo and logistics UAV system designed to provide lift and reconnaissance capability for military, humanitarian aid cargo capability, and to provide specialist payload transport.

Viborg Cathedral

Odin was the god of warriors and when the men set off across the sea to ravage and plunder, the aid of Odin and Thor would have been critical.

We Are Most Amused

We Are Most Amused was a gala event held at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 12 November 2008 in honour of the 60th birthday of Charles, Prince of Wales, in aid of The Prince's Trust.

West Russian Volunteer Army

The Estonians sent two armoured trains to aid the Latvians (according to some explanations, in exchange for Latvia ceding the island of Ruhnu and its territorial waters to Estonia) while the Lithuanians were engaged in battles with the Bolsheviks and could only issue diplomatic protests.

Zeleia

Zeleia led a force of warriors to aid Troy during the Trojan War, led by Pandarus, son of Lycaon.


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