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The Expo is generously hosted by the State of Qatar and co-organized by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation and the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau for Arab States. The main objective of the Expo is to serve as a platform for matching capacities of the solution providers with the needs of the solution seekers, which will potentially lead to practical exchanges of South-South solutions and experiences in the region. It is an opportunity for countries in the Arab States region to share achievements and replicate successes in the context of the production, marketing and transfer of solutions in response to shared development challenges. The three thematic focus areas of the Expo are youth and women’s employment, energy efficiency and renewable energy, and water and food security.
"SENTOUKI" is probably a dwarf, if compared to the other adjacent rocks of Meteora. A generous and saving rock:
On “Lazarus’ Saturday” (the day before Palm Sunday) in 1943 (April 17, 1943) the entire family of my grandfather, Christos Charal. Papachristos—six souls—found a hospitable bomb shelter just below Sentouki.
During the ruthless bombing of Kalambaka that day by the Nazi German airplanes, all family members ran for life; they ran all over the cliff, crossed the stream gulch (recently covered by the local municipality) and then climbed to the opposite side of a steep slope: There they all found shelter under the rocky mass and remained hidden there, watching their own house being devoured by the wicked flames. If they had stayed in it, no one would have survived!
My grandfather rebuilt the house with his own hands later, but the Nazis then burned Kalabaka—not once but twice—in the autumn of 1943:
• 16.9.1943 (Thursday, the day after the feast of the city’s patron, St. Bessarion)
• October 18, 1943 (Monday).
"Sentouki" is surrounded by the streets "G. Liakata," "A. May / N. Plastira" & "I. Metaxas". Its latitude and longitude are:
• 39° 42'31 "(39,7088) North
• 21° 37'23 "(21.6232) East
Here are just a few important DATES, garnered by the “Memories of War” book, by KI. Karasimos (ed. 2009, ISBN 9789609315647):
-18.4.1941 (Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday): German entry to the unfortified/open town of Kalambaka
-17.4.1943 (Lazarus’ Saturday, i.e. the day before Palm Sunday): aerial bombardment by the Germans of Kalambaka (the Italians had abandoned it and retreated to Trikala since March 8, 1943)
-23.4.1943 (Maunday Thursday) the victorious battle of Kalambaka
-16.9.1943 (Thursday, St. Bessarion’s (the city patron’s) feast): arson of 120 stores & houses by the German nazis
-18.10.1943 (Monday): burning of the rest of the houses in their entirety by Germans - Kalambaka was completely burned down
-18.10.1944 (Wednesday): German departure
Dates of massive Nazi executions for retaliation: I deliberately decided not to mention them here in this post, today, on Easter Sunday in 2018:
We celebrate the Resurrection and we thank God for what we enjoy: Peace, Freedom.
Nonetheless, let’s pray for unexceptionally All, for each and every one of our fellow countrymen, to get to enjoy the divine goods of freedom and peace: our heartfelt thoughts accompany our brothers incarcerated in a Turkish prison. Courage; Resurrection will be celebrated by you too, as free men: Light always destroys darkness…
You're not supposed to feed the "wildlife" in Central Park. When I saw this man and his wheelchair-bound daughter tossing bread to the ducks and geese, I thought to open my mouth and say something, but stopped. The man and his daughter were happy, the waterfowl were clearly happy, and after spending an hour and wishing that my lens had a longer reach in order to get better shots of the ducks that had been keeping to the middle of the pond, I was sure to be happy as well.
The timing for this shot was difficult. While it may look as though the goose gingerly plucked the bread away from the man's hand, it actually snapped it away in a brief instant. I have plenty of shots where the Canadian goose is about to bite, or where it's just bitten (timed so closely that you can see crumbs falling away). This was what I had envisioned, and I'm pleased that I was able to get it.
Special thanks to the man who fed the ducks. He noticed me snapping away and at one point asked whether I was ready or not before leaning in to offer more bread to the goose. I know why the park requests that the animals not be fed, but I appreciated your gesture of kindness toward the animals. Your generosity also allowed me to get a lot of great shots on that day.
Shot with an Olympus E-520 and Zuiko Digital 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 with lens hood and Hoya UV filter attached. Aperture was manually locked at f/7.1 for maximal sharpness. Shot hand-held with IS mode 1 enabled. This picture was cropped extremely lightly. The maximum resolution was scaled down for upload. This is a camera-derived JPEG that has not been subject to any additional post-processing. The following settings were used on-camera: sharpness, saturation, contrast at +1; "vivid" color scheme; white balance set to sunny.
A romantic & generous prince presents his beloved Princess with a gift -- a beautiful key set with a light pink diamond. He takes her by the hand and leads her to a richly ornamented wall cabinet. With delight she realizes that there is more to the gift than just the key. She opens the padlock and sees shelves with a miniature crystal chandelier, a glass rose, a bottle of Enchanted elixir perfume, and a Russian doll.
She picks up the larger Russian doll and opens it, eager to find layers of progressively smaller dolls inside. Instead, inside there is a sparkling enchanted doll, decorated from head to toe in diamonds & precious gems. She beams at her prince, at a loss for words, to describe her gratitude for such a masterpiece.
The prince has one little surprise left -- inside the small Russian doll is a heart shaped diamond pendant set with a rare, natural Australian Argyle pink diamond with the coveted grade of 'Fancy Purplish Red'. (This little treasure weighs less than half a carat & is valued at over half a million dollars.)
The princess is absolutely thrilled by these extravagant gifts -- especially adoring the pendant and the stunning Enchanted doll.
The Enchanted doll website
View the competition entry on youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwQLtKV27qc
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Members of the Los Angeles Fire Department were honored to collect donations from generous Los Angeles residents supporting the 2011 'Fill The Boot' campaign to fight muscular dystrophy. © Photo by Mike Meadows
PictionID:46827459 - Catalog:14_022579 - Title:GD Astronautics Facilites Details: Pad 14 at Night; AMR Date: 09/27/1957 - Filename:14_022579.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Entry in category 2. Women and men of science; © CC-BY-NC-ND: Jennifer Giovanoli
Research would be difficult to carry out without the people who agree to participate. Here we see the immeasurable generosity of people who support research by participating. After allowing samples to be taken from their livestock, the villagers kindly offered a meal to two researchers.
The staff at the restaurant, 1051GWR, closed by the pandemic, decided to use their skills to cater for the elderly, vulnerable, NHS and keyworkers, providing 800 free meals a day.
The restaurant was able to reopen for business during the summer. The restaurateur, David Maguire, was subsequently awarded an MBE for his work during the chaotic early days of lockdown. Immediately after the announcement of his award the business had to close its doors again as a result of the resurgence of the pandemic.
The building was designed by Sir John James Burnet as Kelvinside Railway Station, 1896, to blend in with the nearby grand villas along Great Western Road.
Goal: message series title art
Audience: general church audience
Direction: multi-week series teaching about (surprise) giving, etc. Not much specific direction other than that.
A romantic & generous prince presents his beloved Princess with a gift -- a beautiful key set with a light pink diamond. He takes her by the hand and leads her to a richly ornamented wall cabinet. With delight she realizes that there is more to the gift than just the key. She opens the padlock and sees shelves with a miniature crystal chandelier, a glass rose, a bottle of Enchanted elixir perfume, and a Russian doll.
She picks up the larger Russian doll and opens it, eager to find layers of progressively smaller dolls inside. Instead, inside there is a sparkling enchanted doll, decorated from head to toe in diamonds & precious gems. She beams at her prince, at a loss for words, to describe her gratitude for such a masterpiece.
The prince has one little surprise left -- inside the small Russian doll is a heart shaped diamond pendant set with a rare, natural Australian Argyle pink diamond with the coveted grade of 'Fancy Purplish Red'. (This little treasure weighs less than half a carat & is valued at over half a million dollars.)
The princess is absolutely thrilled by these extravagant gifts -- especially adoring the pendant and the stunning Enchanted doll.
The Enchanted doll website
View the competition entry on youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwQLtKV27qc
unellenu
unellenu on Shapeways
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Generosity week ran from February 24th to March 2nd 2014 at USF as a way for students to give thanks for the generosity of all the donors that contribute to the University of San Francisco.
The week started with a Generosity Food Truck Kickoff, a “Thank You” banner signing and a chance for students to meet the student philanthropy committee.
Could you imagine USF without any of these buildings or statues?
Lo Schiavo Science
75% of the cost of LCSI was funded by 3,407 donors. Gifts ranged in size from $2 to $10 million, from Alumni, Faculty, Staff, Parents, Friends, Foundation and Corporations.
Gleeson Library
The library has received over 4,000 donations from Alumni, Students, Faculty, Staff, Parents, Friends, Foundations and Corporations. Some of the books in Gleeson Library were donated to USF by students like you, through previous Senior Class Gift campaigns.
Kalmanovitz Hall
K-Hall was renovated in 2008, which was made possible by over 1,200 gifts from people like you. The Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation has continued to support your USF experience as one of the University’s generous supporters.
Cowell Hall
The renovation and update of Cowell Hall in 1995 was made possible in part by the S.H. Cowell Foundation. Many additions, within Cowell Hall were made possible by gifts from people like you.
Malloy Hall
Renovated in 2004, this building is named for our current Chair of the Board of Trustees, Tom Malloy ’61 and his family. Their generosity helped make this building possible.
Runner Statue
Students like you made this statue possible. The Runner Statue was made possible by the USF class of 1986, who raised over $8000 as part of their Senior Class Gift.
Leona and Dominic Tarantino Plaza
This plaza is named for Leona and Dom’54 Tarantino, alumni and trustee emeriti. Their generosity helped to make this space possible.
Koret Health and Recreation Center
Without the support of the Koret Foundation, USF would not have this Garden Courtyard, the Koret Gym, or the Koret Law Center. Without their generosity, many spaces at USF would not be possible.
This CreativeMornings/Oklahoma City event was generously presented by The Halls Pizza Kitchen, KLLR Coffee, Roast Scout, Clover Partners, and The Treasury.
Miranda Hodge was our speaker.
The event was sponsored by MailChimp and Wordpress.
All photos by Prints Charming Photography
One favorite bit the Morton Arboretum has added to the Illuminations trail in recent years is a wheat field made of lights. I got better pictures of this in the past, but they moved the wheat so that Generosity the Vivid Deer would rise over top of it, so I only caught the field's edge. I got a wider view that showed more of the field of gold that would have been a better shot, except the focus was off.
I am hit-and-miss in my attempts to photograph Illuminations. That's another reason I skipped the pictures the last couple of years. I'll probably skip them again next year.
Letter on reverse (below) generously translated by Heinrich.Stürzl.
Dated 30.4.1916, a time when the war was going well for Germany, the author writes to his wife of his routine bicycle patrols accompanied by his friend Baudner from Marktredwitz and how he has received four day old newspapers sent from home.
Both fellows are wearing the familiar feldmützen pork-pie caps, simplified Feldrock (tunic), dark-blue trousers and regulation marching boots. Both men are armed with captured Russian M91s and socket bayonets.
Bavarian Landsturm Infanterie Bataillon 'Ingolstadt' was mobilised on 22.9.1914 and assigned to General-Gouvernement Belgien, Etappen-Inspektion Nr. 5.
PictionID:52720400 - Catalog:14_029138 - Title:Atlas 10A Details: AFMTC; Missile 10A in Hangar K Date: 10/01/1957 - Filename:14_029138.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The Richard H. Simons Rainforest was created in 2000 thanks to a generous grant from Mr. Robert M. Kramer, trustee of the Richard H. Simons Charitable Trust. Our rainforest showcases plant diversity and has a paved path to allow for easy access to the many scenic locations found within its two acres. A meandering stream with waterfalls and cascades, flows throughout many areas of the rainforest. The stream is fed by water that is pumped from Glade Lake. The water is then gravity fed down the stream bed and later flows back into the lake where it is recycled.
Our rainforest is meant to showcase a globally imperiled habitat that is thought to house at least half of all species on earth. The Fairchild rainforest, at just over two acres, is a tiny example of what is known as a tropical rainforest which are typically found much closer to the equator. Using the current global rate of rainforest destruction, one and half acres of rainforest are destroyed each second, meaning an area similar in size to our rainforest would be destroyed in less time than it would take to read this sentence. With the incredible amount of plant and animal diversity found in the rainforests, it is possible that species are being lost before they are even being discovered.
Rainforests consist of four levels: the emergent level, the canopy, the understory and the forest floor. The emergent level is the very top of the forest and is above the canopy. It contains only the fastest growing and tallest trees that have broken through the canopy, as well as, butterflies, bats, monkeys and birds of prey. Below the emergent level is the canopy which contains the majority of plant, insect and animal life found in the forest. Some estimates claim that 50% of all plant species in the world are found in the rainforest canopy. Forest canopies were not begun to be explored until the 1980s and still have not been thoroughly researched. It is thought that millions of species still remain undiscovered. Below the canopy is the understory where only 5% of the forest sunlight penetrates. Predators such as boa constrictors and jaguars are found here along with a multitude of insects, snakes, lizards and birds. Beneath it all one finds the forest floor. A rainforest’s floor is relatively barren of plant life due to the low amount of light that reaches the forest floor. The floor does contain a large amount of decaying plant and animal material that is recycled back into nutrients which are then taken up by the roots of the towering plants above.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL
This image, from her music video 'Generous' (2017), shows the then 20-year-old blonde American actress and singer Olivia Holt in a most flattering hotel chambermaid costume. She is wearing a short, frilly white apron over a black, short-sleeve minidress with white collar and cuffs. She is also wearing a frilly, white cap with black trim and black, stiletto-heel shoes. This outfit shows off her lovely legs to great effect! In this image, she is reclining on the floor of a hotel room with a tray bearing food and a glass of wine(?) in front of her. With her left hand she is pouring maple syrup(?) on to the pancakes on her plate. She has evidently availed herself of room service! The video can be watched at, for example:
Miracle Child Benjamin Grumbine high-fives Four Diamonds childhood Survivor and Penn State graduate Nick Vicidomini at Generosity & Gratitude 2022, held at the Hershey Lodge on May 4.
PictionID:44939264 - Catalog:14_015407 - Title:Atlas Details: Test Tower Erection; "B" Tank Press Date: 03/24/1958 - Filename:14_015407.TIF - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Fostering a spirit of empathy and generosity in The Age of Amazement lunch at TED2018 - The Age of Amazement, April 10 - 14, 2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photo: Jason Redmond / TED
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. It rescues an average of 24 people every day and since it was founded in 1824 has rescued 140,000 people at a cost of more than 600 lives lost in service. The RNLI makes a distinction between people aided and lives saved. There were 8,304 lifeboat launches in 2013 and lifeguards aided 21,938 people.
RNLI Lifeguards operate on more than 200 beaches across the UK. The RNLI operates Flood Rescue teams nationally and internationally.
Click on this link to see where RNLI lifeboats have been launched in the last 48 hours:
O God, thank You for my birthday today.
Thank You for all the blessings I have received.
But most importantly is the Spiritual growth I experienced –
Through my Love for You.
Please, through my wonderful experiences and relationships with others –
That I may continue to grow in Humility, Love, Generosity and Forgiveness.
That the Holy Spirit of Virtues are the ones that keep us all alive each day.
I pray that my birthday wish be not for my own,
But for my family and all families throughout Humanity.
That we may all be happy and peaceful together as God’s Children.
That Humanity as a Child may learn to Spiritually grow each year –
Under Your Love and Care from Heaven.
Amen.
Copyright Robert W. Dickinson. Unauthorized use of this image without my express permission is a violation of copyright law.
Taken at the Good Guys Car Show 11/18/22. Olympus E-M5 Mark III and OM System 20mm f1.4 Pro lens with circular polarizer.
Members of the Los Angeles Fire Department were honored to collect donations from generous Los Angeles residents supporting the 2011 'Fill The Boot' campaign to fight muscular dystrophy. © Photo by Mike Meadows