Aid

In international relations, aid (also known as international aid, overseas aid, foreign aid or foreign assistance) is – from the perspective of governments – a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another.

Aid may serve one or more functions: it may be given as a signal of diplomatic approval, or to strengthen a military ally, to reward a government for behaviour desired by the donor, to extend the donor's cultural influence, to provide infrastructure needed by the donor for resource extraction from the recipient country, or to gain other kinds of commercial access. Humanitarian and altruistic purposes are at least partly responsible for the giving of aid.

Aid may be given by individuals, private organizations, or governments. Standards delimiting exactly the types of transfers considered "aid" vary from country to country. For example, the United States government discontinued the reporting of military aid as part of its foreign aid figures in 1958. The most widely used measure of aid is "Official Development Assistance" (ODA).

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AID

AID or Aid may refer to:

  • Activation-induced (cytidine) deaminase, an enzyme
  • Aid (rapper) (born 1990), stagename of Aida Alonso Iglesias, a Spanish rap singer
  • Algebraic Interpretive Dialogue, an implementation of JOSS II for the PDP-10
  • Americans for Informed Democracy, an American non-profit organization
  • Amputee identity disorder, now more commonly known as Body integrity identity disorder, a controversial psychological and neurological mental disorder
  • Artificial Insemination by Donor, a type of human artificial insemination in which donor sperm are provided by an individual other than the recipient's partner
  • Association for India's Development, an American/Indian non-profit organization
  • Autoimmune disease, a disorder with an overactive immune response of the body
  • Automatic Interaction Detection, a precursor to, and component of CHAID
  • Aid (Würm), a River in Germany
  • The application identifier in the EMV payment card chip standard
  • See also

  • All pages with titles containing Aid
  • Aid (international aid)
  • Feudal aid, feudal taxation
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    .travel

    The domain name .travel is a top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name suggests the intended and restricted use by travel agents, airlines, bed and breakfast operators, tourism bureaus, and others in the travel industry.

    It is sponsored by Tralliance Registry Management Company (TRMC). Registrations are processed via accredited registrars.

    History

    The domain was approved by ICANN on April 8, 2005 as a sponsored TLD in the second group of new TLD applications evaluated in 2004. TheGlobe.com acquired Tralliance Corporation, the operator of .travel, on May 9, 2005.

    The official launch began in October 2005, with a screening process to determine eligibility to register domains in each of three monthly groups for October, November and December. Open registrations began in January 2006. Governments were given priority registration for geographic place names from July 2005 to December 21, 2007.

    A 2006 proposal that a wildcard DNS record point all unused *.travel domains to Tralliance's search.travel site was rejected by ICANN due to technical considerations.

    Travel

    Travel is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations, and can involve travel by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, airplane, or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.

    Etymology

    The origin of the word "travel" is most likely lost to history. The term "travel" may originate from the Old French word travail. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, the first known use of the word travel was in the 14th century. It also states that the word comes from Middle English travailen, travelen (which means to torment, labor, strive, journey) and earlier from Old French travailler (which means to work strenuously, toil). In English we still occasionally use the words travail and travails, which mean struggle. According to Simon Winchester in his book The Best Travelers' Tales (2004), the words travel and travail both share an even more ancient root: a Roman instrument of torture called the tripalium (in Latin it means "three stakes", as in to impale). This link reflects the extreme difficulty of travel in ancient times. Also note the torturous connotation of the word "travailler." Today, travel may or may not be much easier depending upon the destination you choose (i.e., Mt. Everest, the Amazon rainforest), how you plan to get there (tour bus, cruise ship, or oxcart), and whether or not you decide to "rough it (see extreme tourism and adventure travel). "There's a big difference between simply being a tourist and being a true world traveler," notes travel writer Michael Kasum. This is, however, a contested distinction as academic work on the cultures and sociology of travel has noted.

    List of Rob & Big episodes

    The following is an episode list for the MTV television series Rob & Big. The show follows the lives of professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek and his best friend and bodyguard Christopher "Big Black" Boykin. The series premiered on November 2, 2006 and featured eight episodes in each of its first and second seasons and sixteen episodes in the concluding third season. Along with the regular episodes, the series feature three recap specials.

    Overview

    Episodes

    Season 1 (2006)

    Season 2 (2007)

    Season 3 (2008)

    Specials

    References

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Drive All Night

    by: Bruce Springsteen

    When I lost you honey sometimes I think
    I lost my guts too
    And I wish God would send me a word send me something Im afraid to lose
    Lying in the heat of the night like prisoners all our lives
    I get shivers down my spine and all
    I wanna do is hold you tight
    (chorus)
    I swear I'll drive all night just to buy you some shoes
    And to taste your tender charms
    And I just wanna sleep tonight again in your arms
    Tonight there's fallen angels and they're waiting for us down in the street
    Tonight there's calling strangers, hear them crying in defeat.
    Let them go,
    Let them go,
    Let them go,
    Do their dances of the dead (letem go right ahead)
    You just dry your eyes girl,
    And cmon cmon cmon lets go to bed,
    Baby, baby, baby
    (chorus)
    There's machines and there's fire waiting on the edge of town
    They're out there for hire but baby they can't hurt us now
    Cause youve got,
    Youve got,
    Youve got,
    Youve got my love,
    Youve got my love
    Through the wind,
    Through the rain,
    The snow, the wind,
    The rain
    Youve got,
    Youve got my,




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