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Director General of Revenue of Somalia Jafar Mohamed Ahmed, Director General of Somalia National Bureau of Statistics Sharmarke Farah, Senior Economist Vincent de Paul Koukpaizan, and Deputy Division Chief of the IMF Statistics Department Zaijin Zhan participate in a Capacity Development Talk titled Building Capacity in Fragile States moderated by Noha El-Gebaly at the International Monetary Fund.
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12 April 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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April 18, 2015 - Washington DC., 2015 World Bank Group / IMF Spring Meetings.
Photo: Yuri Gripas / World Bank
Joy Searchie, from USAID El Salvador, reflects on positive youth development experiences from her mission.
September 24, 2011- Washington DC., 2011 World Bank Annual Meetings. Realizing the Demographic Dividend: Challenges and Opportunities for Ministers of Finance and Development. Panelists:David Bloom , Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Harvard University, United States; Melinda Gates , Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, United States; Maria Kiwanuka , Minister of Finance, Uganda; Andrew Mitchell , Secretary of State for International Development, United Kingdom; Thirachai Phuvanatnaranubala , Minister of Finance, Thailand (shown); Rajiv Shah , Administrator, US Agency for International Development, United States.
Photo: © Simone D. McCourite / World Bank
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April 16, 2016 - WASHINGTON DC., 2016 World Bank / IMF Spring Meetings. Development Committee. Photo: Grant Ellis / Word Bank
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Yingluck Shinawatra and the Pheua Thai Party get their election posters up on Phetchburi Road.
Broadly the poster means, "Stay with the rules of law that safeguard democracy. Respect the public's decisions."
However, the tactic pursued by Suthep's minority anti government protest group (who want to return Thailand to Military Rule Endorsed by Absolute Monarchy) / and the minority Democrat Party, is to disrupt the coming elections by creating a situation in as many southern constituencies as possible where there are no candidates or, at the least, no opposition candidates fielded. This would lead to one of the pre-requisites for a democratic election as defined by the Thai constitution being removed.
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Elements of Elections
Prerequisites
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For an election to represent the true wishes of the people it must meet certain conditions. Among the most important features of a democratic election are:
1. Diversity in political parties and candidates so that the choice before voters is real, not illusory. An election dominated by a single significant party is unlikely to generate different visions and plans for the country, let alone debate around these. Without such an exchange of ideas in the public sphere, voters will not be equipped to select parties or candidates in an informed manner. Further, a party that is elected more or less unopposed will have no real reason to listen to the people. Such a situation is contrary to the basic idea of democracy.
2. Competing political parties must have freedom to campaign in the run-up to the election. This means they must be free to hold meetings and to communicate with voters about their ideologies and proposed policies and programmes – through meetings, pamphlets, advertisements or any other legitimate means, including new information and communications technologies. Without such communication, voters will not be in a position to learn about the ideas and solutions offered by different parties and candidates, especially those who are not yet in power.
3. Rules to govern the election must not only be in place but they must be widely known and observed. A credible, respected individual or organisation (such as an election commissioner/commission) must be charged with administering the rules. Courts must have jurisdiction over both the rules and the administration of the election so that election-related complaints can be dealt with by the judicial system. The rules should include strong and effective legal procedures against electionrelated corruption and violence. Nobody should be able to dictate to voters who they should vote for. If citizens are not protected from such violations of their rights, the outcome of the election will be questionable and people will feel cheated. Members of the public who are unhappy with election results may express their dissatisfaction through protests; some may even take steps towards establishing a different kind of government. There is likely to be more public trust in the elected government if people perceive that the election was conducted in a free and fair manner.
4. Most importantly, the public must be aware of the importance of voting as well as the choices with regard to candidates and voting procedures. Voters must have the opportunity to become interested in and knowledgeable about the election through access to non-partisan information presented in a manner that is not only comprehensible but also clarifies the connection between politics and the lives of ordinary people. Without such knowledge they will be vulnerable to manipulation, if not deception, by special interests. The media have a key role to play in providing citizens with the relevant, balanced information they need to do justice to their vital role as voters.
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Listed in the National Register on March 19, 2018, the Peachtree Center Historic District, Fulton Co., Georgia is significant at the national level under architecture and community planning and development for the work of architect and developer, John C. Portman, Jr.
Portman is nationally known for his innovative ideas and approaches to design and planning as both architect and developer. His design concepts involved interior-focused architecture as seen in his use of atrium forms and his development of the “coordinate unit,” the interconnection of pedestrian-oriented city blocks. The district is also significant under social history for its association with the civil rights movement. The period of significance is 1961-1988.
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April 18, 2015 - Washington DC., 2015 World Bank Group / IMF Spring Meetings.
Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank
Photo ID: 041815-DevelopmentCommitte127f
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Heights record the change in distance to an MRT station from current system to proposed expansion, Large differences identify underdeveloped areas which will soon be more accessible.
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Idea machine used to collect people's view on the local area development (Franche Comte - Fr) . This machine is put on display in markets and and city centers.
April 21, 2013 - 2013 World Bank/ IMF Spring Meetings. Advisory Council on Gender and Development. Photo Frank R. Vincent / World Bank
2 September 2016. Pov Kin, 31, is an electrician that lives in Kros village, Svay Dangkom commune, Siem Reap city, Siem Reap province. The project has expanded access to non-formal TVET for the young and unemployed through voucher skills training program and regional training centers. The project has improved rural income and responded to labor market needs and demands of businesses in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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Teodoro Alonso presents "Using Apache Cordova (Phonegap) for cross platform mobile apps" at the Mobile Software Development Community (Mobile SDC) in Oakbrook Mall at the Microsoft Store
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Teodoro Alonso is a Technical Architect at Model Metrics a Salesforce.com company.
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Apache Cordova (previously known as Phonegap) has emerged as one of the most important hybrid (native-html/javascript) cross platform mobile application development environment. The goal of this meetup is to present the basic architecture of Cordova/Phonegap in iOS and demonstrate its capabilities by creating a simple application in HTML/Javascript and then deploy it to a mobile device as a native application. We will also discuss the resources available to learn how to develop applications in Cordova/Phonegap. If time permits, we will review a simple Cordova/Phonegap plugin that I developed to extract information from an iTunes library.
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April 18, 2015 - Washington DC., 2015 World Bank Group / IMF Spring Meetings.
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Studio Suite
Utilizing tools that the director has at hand, the Studio Suite is the system that can run a full production show. Utilizing some of the same software as the Filmer's Suite but adding the ability to synchronize video feeds from different camera sources, automatic color correction between cameras with video sync, works with virtually any camera, WIFI compatibility with audio and video sources and/or direct network, connection to other video sources over the Internet, can be used for presentation displays, record up to 3 HD sources at one time per server, clear slo-mo playback expansion packs depending on camera specs, adaptable to any type of usage, and works with Office 365 SharePoint or any SharePoint setup by using custom templates that can be installed and work with this suite.
Low Cost
Software for server should be low, no more than $99 per server and license, $299 for pro pack expansion (to be decided later).
Mobile phone software should be free, but cannot be used with the main software or access to the Office 365/SharePoint account. FREE
AnyCam Amateur Rack - connects any camera or video sources, transmitting via WIFI or network to the server. $99
GUEST Smartphone video can be synced with file-name entries and time code. FREE
- a separate mobile phone download can be used for this setup if a guest smartphone cam is used. FREE
Remote Tripod will connect to the AnyCam Amateur Rack or SereDev compatible cameras. $129 for amateur, $299 for pro.
SereDev cameras can cost anywhere between $399 and $10,000 depending on feature, manufacturer, and cost.
AnyCam Pro Rack can connect to the camera controls for remote camera use. $199
A mic can be instantly wireless via WIFI with WIFI Audio connectivity.
A/D inputs can be used with use of third party devices, we will help set this up if needed.
Lights
Compatible with DMX controllers.
Music
If there is a band who uses USB keyboards and devices, no need to mic the instruments. MIDI wireless and USB wireless can be used to control just about any sound pack available. The performer can use a tablet or smartphone to change sound, voice, pitch, and effect, or it can be programmed to follow a beat that can be preset to change automatically for concert venues.
Compatibility
Even though Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 tablets will be the selling point for this, the software utilizing HTML5 can be used on iOS devices and Android.
Smartphones
Limited control to the entire studio depending on the permissions settings in Office 365/SharePoint site.
Tablets
Full controls utilizing the touch screens to control audio, lights, video switching, etc. Depending on budget, multiple tables can be used as switch boards.
Analog Control Feel
Also USB controlled mixing boards and light boards can also be used for those who are into knobs and levers.
Venues
Churches, concerts, live events, studios, etc.
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Settings up a chain of WIFI nodes may be needed for large venues making sure that the WIFI is covered. Traditional WIFI should be okay. Commercial WIFI will be provide more security. For smartphone broadcast and sharing from guest, a separate WIFI can be setup for open WIFI to capture guest video live.
Guest Smartphone - for live events, this will be a cool feature. If a user is directed to an app store, utilizing Microsoft Tag app link, it will direct the user to the downloads page to their OS app store. It will be a Guest Smartphone App. After installing the app, there will be a prompt asking the user to remind of uninstall in a set amount of hours. On a large sign at the live venue, all the user has to do is connect to the local WIFI. It will be recommended that the WIFI is connected to the Internet so to not cut off the users normal data. If the public WIFI is not available, then a QR Code can then be used to direct the users to a launch file that will launch the app. The video is then recorded into the phone's SD card where the default location for storing video is set and transmitted to the server. The server can record all video coming from the camera directly. If the director chooses, the director can place the video live in the feed.
In editing, because three HD feeds can be recorded at the same time, the director can always edit out the footage without pain because of the synced time code within the video file itself.
If ever there was to be an effective weapon that could be termed as being successful as well as deadly, it would have to be the Junkers Ju87, known to Germans as the Sturzkampfbomber, and better known to the English as a dive-bomber or better still a "Stuka". No other aircraft can make claim to the number of ships sunk and also it ranks second to the number of enemy tanks destroyed during times of warfare.
The Junkers Ju87 was an attacking aircraft. Normally carrying one 250 kg bomb (later 500 kg ) under the fuselage and up to four 50kg bombs under the wings, a formation of Ju87 "Stuka" dive bombers became a deadly cocktail, flying directly overhead their target, then dive bombing at an angle of almost 90 degrees. During the campaigns in Spain, Poland, the Low Countries these deadly formations were devastating, but over the English Channel during the Battle of Britain they could not compete against the superior Hurricane and Spitfire and they ceased to become the attacking force that they were so well known for, and became the victims themselves.
Although a technique of dive bombing existed during the First World War, there was no aircraft designed primarily for this purpose. The first known aircraft designed for the purpose of dive bombing was the Junkers K47 which was being developed during the mid 1920's, and which flew for the first time in March 1928. It is believed that of the fourteen built, two remained in Germany while twelve were sold the China. Continuing research showed that such aircraft would be an effective weapon when working in close support of ground forces. Advances would be far more effective if concentrated aerial bombardment could pave the way for mechanized troops and infantry and Germany made the decision to manufacture aircraft suited for this role. In 1933, Henschel developed the Hs123 while Junkers continued development of the K47.
Where the Hs123 was a biplane, the Ju87, developed from the K47 was a single engined monoplane that differed from all previous Junkers aircraft in that it did not have the corrugated ribbed metal stressed skin appearance. Looking very similar to the "Stuka' of the 1940's, the prototype had a fixed undercarriage and the gull-wing appearance and was powered by a Rolls-Royce Kestrel power plant and made its first flight in May 1935. Full scale production of the aircraft commenced in 1937. The first variant was the Ju87A-1 and had dive brakes added to the outer wings, the kestrel engine was replaced by a Jumo 210Ca 640 horsepower engine which drove a variable pitch three bladed propellor, and a single tail fin replaced the twin fins of the original design. The Ju87A-1 and Ju87A-2 (The A-2 differed by having larger fairings over the landing gear and having a 680 hp Jumo 210Da engine) was delivered to StG163 which saw action with the legion Condor in Spain and the Gruppen proved very effective. By early 1939, all the A series were sent to training units and all the Stukageschwäder were equipped with the more powerful Ju87B series. These were powered by the Jumo 211A direct injection power plant that produced 1,200hp, had more streamlined spats over the landing gear, and was now equipped with an automatic dive control.
This automatic dive control was was an apparatus that was initially set by the pilot, allowing him to choose the pull out height using a contact altimeter. The whole procedure became necessary for the pilot to go through about ten different actions with the apparatus before he opened up the dive brakes under the outer wings. This automatically commenced the dive action of the aircraft, the pilot adjusting the dive angle manually by indicator lines painted on the canopy of the aircraft. the correct line was achieved by aileron control which was usually at about 90 degrees, and the pilot visually seeing his target by the marker on the canopy. with the aircraft hurtling earthwards directly at the target, a signal light on the contact altimeter would then come on and the pilot would press the button on the top of his control column and the pull out would commence as the bombs left their cradles. The bombs would continue the same course as the aircraft had during its dive, towards the target while the pilot would be suffering some 6g as the aircraft levelled out ready for its climb skywards.
The accuracy of the bombing run was completely in the hands of the pilot. Its defence were two MG81 belt fed machine guns. The rear gunner operated a machine gun which was reasonably effective, but it was the slow top speed of the aircraft and the poor rate of climb that was to be the downfall of the Ju87. Over combat areas of Europe and in Spain, they managed to hold their own, but they were no match for the fast and maneuverable Hurricanes and Spitfires of the RAF. Whole Gruppen were being destroyed on missions over the English Channel, and the Luftwaffe had no alternative to withdraw them from operation duties during this period, although as the war progressed, further variants were produced and the Ju87 saw service in Europe and in the Mediterranean.
Junkers Ju 87B Stuka Specifications Type Anti-Tank Aircraft/Anti-Shipping Strike Aircraft
Power Plant Junkers Jumo 211Da 1,400hp
Unladen weight 9,700lbs (4400Kg)
Laden weight 14,550lbs (6600Kg)
Max Speed Approx 195 mph (314 kph)
Cruising Speed Approx 118 mph (190 kph)
Rate of Climb Not known
Max range 199 miles (320 kms)
Service Ceiling Not known
Armament 2 x fixed MG81 machine guns + 1 removable MG81
Wingspan 49ft 2½in (15m)
Length 37ft 8¾in (11.50m)
Height 12ft 9¼in (3.90m)
Wing Area 362.6 sq ft (33.69m²)
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Sustainable development after Rio+20: formulating global sustainable development goals - A seminar with Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Followed by a panel debate including
Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation
Johan Rockström, Director Stockholm Resilience Centre
Måns Nilsson, Research Director Stockholm Environment Institute
Moderated by Johan Kuylenstierna, Executive Director Stockholm Environment Institute
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A followup to my photo during the interesting loading of these vessels destined for scrap. The Development Way is a semi-submersible -- the floating cargo is nudged into position, then she lifts back out of the water and everything is welded and secured in place for the trip to China.
Something I hadn't noticed until I shot this closer detail is that the Straits Logger has another three small vessels loaded on top of her.
Capt. Davide Dallago, rock climbing and skiing master with 6th Alpini Regiment , leads cadets as they perform a mountain climbing exercise during an internship in conjunction with the Advanced Individual Academic Development program sponsored by West Point to help implement cadets’ knowledge from course work to enhance leadership, decision and problem solving skills. (U.S. Army Africa photo by Sgt. Terysa M. King)
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On April 3, U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah unveiled the U.S. Global Development Lab. The Lab will foster science-and technology-based solutions to help end extreme poverty by 2030. The Lab and its 32 inaugural Cornerstone Partners will support breakthrough solutions in water, health, food security and nutrition, energy, education, and climate change. In the next five years, scientists and technology experts at The Lab will create a new global marketplace of innovations and take them to scale to reach over 200 million.
During her visit to Afghanistan, International Development Secretary Priti Patel saw a HALO Trust training site where UK funding is helping staff learn to identify and safely remove mines and other unexploded ordnance, saving lives and reclaiming land that can be used for agriculture and building.
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From A Proposal for the Development of the East Shore Tidelands of San Francisco Bay, Prepared for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company by Victor Gruen Associates, October, 1963.
Created in the mid-to-late Nineteenth Century by Melbourne stained glass manufacturer Ferguson and Urie, the Saint Bartholomew stained glass window may be found in Lady Chapel in the eastern transept of Christ Church Brunswick.
Saint Bartholomew was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. He is purported too have taken two missions; one to India and the other to Armenia. It was in the latter that Saint Bartholomew was executed. According to popular hagiography, the apostle was flayed alive and beheaded. According to other accounts he was crucified upside down with his head downward like Saint Peter. He is often depicted holding a knife, however it seems that Victorian middle-class morals stepped in when the window as made, and rather than holding something so gruesome, he is shown simply holding a partially opened book.
This window was erected by James Grice, eldest son of pastoralist, businessman, philanthropist and churchman Richard Grice. Richard was born on October the 30th 1813 in Cumberland, England. The son of William Grice and his wife Sarah, née Parke. he was born into a family who ran a private family bank in Cumberland, built on generations of his family who had begun as farmers in the area before becoming successful businessmen in Cumberland. Richard attended Walker's School in Whitehaven, and gained farming experience on one of his family's properties. However, in his mid twenties, Richard felt that his future did not lie in England, so he set sail to Australia in 1839. He arrived at Adelaide in September 1839 with shepherds and a business partner named Benjamin Heape. They did not stay in Adelaide, and journeyed east to Melbourne where Richard and Benjamin set up an importing and exporting business. Richard decided to explore the idea of pastoral opportunities in the Western District where he successfully raised and bred sheep, going on to become one of the most successful pastoralists in Australia. He expanded his pastoral holdings into Queensland. In 1844 Richard married the daughter of James Hibberson, Anne Lavinia. In 1847 they did a Grand Tour of Europe and then settled in the affluent Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. They had twelve children. Benjamin returned to England in 1852, so Richard entered into a partnership with Mr. T. J. Sumner, who had worked as a clerk within the original firm. Mr. Sumner's eldest daughter married Richard's son James, and the firm became known as Grice, Sumner & Co. The business flourished and by the mid 1870s the firm held vast grazing properties in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland. Richard died at his home in Fitzroy on November the 4th 1882, survived by his wife and by three sons and four daughters.
Christ Church, built almost on the corner of Glenlyon Road and Brunswick Street in Brunswick, is a picturesque slice of Italy in inner city Melbourne. With its elegant proportions, warm yellow stuccoed facade and stylish Romanesque campanile, the church would not look out of place sitting atop a rise in Tuscany, or being the centre of an old walled town. This idea is further enhanced when the single bell rings from the campanile, calling worshipers to prayer.
Christ Church has been constructed in a cruciform plan with a detached campanile. Although not originally intended as such, at its completion, the church became an excellent example of "Villa Rustica" architecture in Australia. Like other churches around the inner city during the boom and bust eras of the mid Nineteenth Century as Melbourne became an established city, the building was built in stages between 1857 and 1875 as money became available to extend and better what was already in existence. Christ Church was dedicated in 1857 when the nave, designed by architects Purchas and Swyer, was completed. The transepts, chancel and vestry were completed between 1863 and 1864 to the designs created by the architects' firm Smith and Watts. The Romanesque style campanile was also designed by Smith and Watts and it completed between 1870 and 1871. A third architect, Frederick Wyatt, was employed to design the apse which was completed in 1875.
Built in Italianate style with overture characteristics of classical Italian country house designs, Christ Church is one of the few examples of what has been coined "Villa Rustica" architecture in Victoria.
Slipping through the front door at the bottom of the campanile, the rich smell of incense from mass envelops visitors. As soon as the double doors which lead into the church proper close behind you, the church provides a quiet refuge from the busy intersection of Glenlyon Road and Brunswick Street outside, and it is quite easy to forget that cars and trams pass by just a few metres away. Walking up the aisle of the nave of Christ Church, light pours over the original wooden pews with their hand embroidered cushions through sets of luminescent stained glass windows by Melbourne manufacturers, Ferguson and Urie, Mathieson and Gibson and Brooks Robinson and Company. A set of fourteen windows from the mid-to-late Nineteenth Century by Ferguson and Urie depicting different saints are especially beautiful, filled with painted glass panes which are as vivid now as when they were created more than one hundred years ago. The floors are still the original dark, richly polished boards that generations of worshipers have walked over since they were first laid. The east transept houses the Lady Chapel, whilst the west transept is consumed by the magnificent 1972 Roger H. Pogson organ built of cedar with tin piping. This replaced the original 1889 Alfred Fuller organ. Beautifully executed carved rood figures watch over the chancel from high, perhaps admiring the marble altar.
Albert Purchas, born in 1825 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, was a prominent Nineteenth Century architect who achieved great success for himself in Melbourne. Born to parents Robert Whittlesey Purchas and Marianne Guyon, he migrated to Australia in 1851 to establish himself in the then quickly expanding city of Melbourne, where he set up a small architect's firm in Little Collins Street. He also offered surveying services. His first major building was constructing the mansion "Berkeley Hall" in St Kilda on Princes Street in 1854. The house still exists today. Two years after migrating, Albert designed the layout of the Melbourne General Cemetery in Carlton. It was the first "garden cemetery" in Victoria, and his curvilinear design is still in existence, unaltered, today. In 1854, Albert married Eliza Anne Sawyer (1825 - 1869) in St Kilda. The couple had ten children over their marriage, including a son, Robert, who followed in his father's footsteps as an architect. Albert's brother-in-law, Charles Sawyer joined him in the partnership of Purchas and Sawyer, which existed from 1856 until 1862 in Queens Street. The firm produced more than 140 houses, churches, offices and cemetery buildings including: the nave and transepts of Christ Church St Kilda between 1854 and 1857, "Glenara Homestead"in Bulla in 1857, the Melbourne Savings Bank on the corner of Flinders Lane and Market Street (now demolished) between 1857 and 1858, the Geelong branch of the Bank of Australasia in Malop Street between 1859 and 1860, and Beck's Imperial Hotel in Castlemaine in 1861. When the firm broke up, Albert returned to Little Collins Street, and the best known building he designed during this period was St. George's Presbyterian Church in East St Kilda between 1877 and 1880. The church's tall polychomatic brick bell tower is still a local landmark, even in the times of high rise architecture and development, and St, George's itself is said to be one of his most striking church designs. Socially, Albert was vice president of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects for many years, before becoming president in 1887. He was also an inventor and philanthropist. Albert died in 1909 at his home in Kew, a wealthy widower and much loved father.
The stained glass firm of Ferguson and Urie was established by Scots James Ferguson (1818 – 1894), James Urie (1828 – 1890) and John Lamb Lyon (1836 – 1916). They were the first known makers of stained glass in Australia. Until the early 1860s, window glass in Melbourne had been clear or plain coloured, and nearly all was imported, but new churches and elaborate buildings created a demand for pictorial windows. The three Scotsmen set up Ferguson and Urie in 1862 and the business thrived until 1899, when it ceased operation, with only John Lamb Lyon left alive. Ferguson and Urie was the most successful Nineteenth Century Australian stained glass window making company. Among their earliest works were a Shakespeare window for the Haymarket Theatre in Bourke Street, a memorial window to Prince Albert in Holy Trinity, Kew, and a set of Apostles for the West Melbourne Presbyterian Church. Their palatial Gothic Revival office building stood at 283 Collins Street from 1875. Ironically, their last major commission, a window depicting “labour”, was installed in the old Melbourne Stock Exchange in Collins Street in 1893 on the eve of the bank crash. Their windows can be found throughout the older suburbs of Melbourne and across provincial Victoria.
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The low level counter used in the solar neutrino experiment is being
placed in the shield. In this experiment neutrinos which result from
nuclear reactions in the sun's core are detected by measuring the
radioactive argon nuclides that they produce in a target.
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