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A big thank you to the participants and generous donors of the first ESCP Europe Fundraising Gala in London last week. An impressive £220,000 was raised which will contribute greatly to the ESCP Europe Scholarship Programme.
Over 100 guests gathered at the Four Seasons Park Lane for a wonderful evening sponsored by Ondra Partners and New End Associates. A cocktail reception was offered, serving champagne premier cru Frerejean Freres, and was followed by a gourmet autumn dinner.
The auction, led by Adrian Biddell, spurred great interest for the wonderful lots donated by Pierre Guénant (72), Olivia de Posson (06), Jean-Pierre Raffarin (72), Christian Marti (93), and W. Salamoon & Sons.
Around 15 alumni pledged their support to the ESCP Europe Scholarship Programme for the equivalent of eight years of study or a total amount of £120,000.
This unprecedented mobilisation demonstrates the unity and dynamism of the ESCP Europe alumni network. It also shows its commitment to support the School's growing momentum, forging a path to become the number one business school in Europe with a truly global reach.
On behalf of the scholarship students and all the ESCP Europe community, thank you!
Due to the generous donation from Mike and Monette Hopton of Fair Hope, Alabama, we also sent Jackton Wasiema, who is currently living in Nairobi, Kenya, three boxes of shoes, T-shirts, and medals. Boonies first learned about Jackton from Edit Berces, a Hungarian national Ultramarathon champion who also receives and disperses shoe shipments. Jackton and several of his athlete friends were dislocated by the civil unrest in Kenya last year. At that time, Boonies helped him out by sending shoes and clothing. Due to instability in Kenya, Jackton has been competing locally the last year and a half, winning events in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. With his proceeds, he is currently assisting 20 athletes. Here are some of the goals Jackton is helping his friends meet: keep them away from drugs and vices such as thuggery (his terminology); look out for means to help them get an education; nurture, groom and tap athletic talents; make them better people in the society; and empower them with life skills.
Please see the photos of Jackton and one of the training sessions with his runners.
Here are some highlights from Jackton’s resume:
Marathon best in France 1997 – 2:13:17
Half-marathon best in Germany 2002 – 1:01:48
10K in Rome (Vatican City) in 2002 - 28:35
Winner Budapest Marathon (Hungary) 2004, 2005, 3rd place 2006Winner Valencia Marathon (Spain) – 1999, 2002
Winner Hegau International Half- marathon in Germany – 20022nd place Chantilly Marathon (France) - 2000
3rd place Regensburg Marathon (Germany) - 2002
Other top four finishes in international marathon and half from 1997-2002.
Several wins in U.S. events in 2003 from 5k to ½ marathon
Thomas Lingen died 16th May 1742 Sheriff of the County in the year 1735 An undeviating affectionate father
Generous to Relations . Kind to dependents, yet pleasing & affable to neighbours a person in whom the well nurtured gentleman. The sincere friend The real Christian Truly and happily united
He died May 6th 1742 aged 49 years
Also Ann Burton, wife of the above.. She was the daughter of Robert Burton
She was a person truly excelling in every relation of life.
Dutiful daughter, a tender mother, an affectionate wife.
She had issue 12 children of whom Robert, Thomas, Henry, Ann, Elizabeth, Frances, Blanch & Rachel survive her; And doe with her disconsolate husband bemoan their irreparable loss.
She died May 23rd 1737 in the 35th year of her age
Thomas Lingen was the son of Roger Lingen of Radbrook by Rachel daughter of Thomas Willis of London
He m 1722 Anne daughter of Robert Burton of Longner
Children
1. Robert ++ (Lingen / Burton) of Radbrook b1725 m Ann daughter of Thomas Harwood later Thomas Hill of Shenstone Park & Ann daughter of Richard Powys; Sister of the Margaret 3rd wife of Bennet Sherard 3rd Earl of Harborough (1770) flic.kr/p/cQgzTw
2. Thomas 1730-dsp 1764
3. Henry b1734 dsp
4-7 Thomas, Roger, John . Edward died as infants
1. Ann 1724-1786 m Edward Plowden of Plowden
2.Elizabeth 1729-1796 m Rev William Allen of Hereford
3 Frances 1732-1789
4. Blanche 1735-1742
5. Rachel 1737-1788 m Rev J Guest
Anne died probably after the birth of daughter Rachel , having had 12 children in 15 years
++Robert eldest son of the deceased pursuant to the Will of his great Uncle took by an act of Parliament the name of Burton
The Lingens acquired the manor on the marriage of John Lingen d1506 & Isabel Clopton flic.kr/p/e2HRZC one of 3 co-heiress daughters of Sir John Burgh 1471 of Wattlesborough by Jane daughter of William Clopton 1419 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/ULKmVY & Joanna Pesrsford / Basford 1430 of Quinton www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/y8z341
Thomas Lingen in 1739 repaired the tomb of is 7 x great grandmother Joanna Besford Pearsford Clopton in 1739. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/V6g4rc
- Church St Swithin, Lower Quinton Warwickshire,
This CreativeMornings/NewYork event was generously hosted by SVA Theatre through the Masters in Branding Program, all thanks to Debbie Millman.
Our speaker was Josh Clark.
The event was sponsored by MailChimp, FreshBooks, Adobe, and WordPress.
Free coffee was generously provided by Irving Farm. Natalie's Orchid Juice Company provided the event with free juices.
All photos by Paul Jun.
This CreativeMornings/Gothenburg event was generously hosted by Stendahls
Nora Lorek was our speaker.
This event was sponsored by Stendahls, Mailchimp, Adobe, Wordpress, Main Local Partner Gothenburg Symphony.
Techpartner Datanova
photos by Sina Farhat,Gunnar Fägersten Novik, Sandi Habinc
2019/02 - Symmetry - Nora Lorek
A generous donation from the Oatley family provides for this garage-cum-workshop at the Department of Engineering where student teams can work on and store their projects. These photos were taken at the garage's opening ceremony on 15 February, 2016.
UN Women, through generous support from the Government of Japan through the Japan Supplementary Budget, is currently implementing the multi-country project “Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Access & Protection in Crisis Response (LEAP) -South Sudan Displacement and Refugee Crisis”.
The one-year project is part of a regional response that is being implemented by UN Women offices in Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan, which are currently hosting refugees estimated at 537,504 (Ethiopia: 422,240, Kenya: 115,264) and internally displaced persons (IDPs). According to the South Sudan 2018 Humanitarian Needs Overview, there are around 1.9 million IDPs in the country, 210,000 persons in protection of civilian sites (PoC) and an estimated 2.1 refugees in neighboring countries.
The overall goal of this project is to ensure that women and girls affected by the South Sudan displacement and refugee crisis lead, participate in, are empowered by and benefit from response and recovery efforts.
UN Women Kenya, through the Government of Japan, is responding to the needs of women and girls in humanitarian crisis by contextualizing the UN Women global LEAP flagship programme to promote resilience, restore dignity and provide durable solutions to women and girls within the humanitarian- development nexus in Kenya.
This CreativeMornings/Melbourne was generously hosted by The Commons .
Peter Drew was our speaker.
The event was sponsored by Billy Blue College Of Design , Adobe
, Wordpress, Mailchimp and Shutterstock.
All photos by Elleni Toumpas Photography
On May 9 and 10 the Foundation hosted a donor recognition event for the first time since 2019. Donors were invited to an inspiring evening with student ambassadors who are award, bursary and scholarship recipients.
Love Song
Rainer Marie Rilke
How shall I hold on to my soul, so that
it does not touch yours? How shall I lift
it gently up over you on to other things?
I would so very much like to tuck it away
among long lost objects in the dark,
in some quiet, unknown place, somewhere
which remains motionless when your depths resound.
And yet everything which touches us, you and me,
takes us together like a single bow,
drawing out from two strings but one voice.
On which instrument are we strung?
And which violinist holds us in his hand?
O sweetest of songs.
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You can follow the adventure here:
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Fuji X-T1 23mm f1.4
Processed with Snapseed on iPhone 6s
This CreativeMornings/Gothenburg event was generously hosted by Cobham
Christer Fuglesang was our speaker.
This event was sponsored by Cobham, Mailchimp, <a Adobe, Wordpress, Stendahls, Main Local Partner Gothenburg Symphony.
Techpartner Datanova
photos by Sina Farhat, Joanne Lau Gunnar Fägersten Novik
2018/09 - Choas- Christer Fuglesang
Thanks to the great generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Iowa is hosting this 2016-17 Mellon Sawyer Seminar – Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript Across Premodern Eurasia. The seminar is an interdisciplinary collaboration dedicated to mapping cultural exchanges across Eurasia from roughly 400 CE - ca. 1450 CE, by focusing on the development, distribution and sharing of manuscript technologies. The program is directed by three University of Iowa faculty members: Tim Barrett (Center for the Book), Paul Dilley (Classics and Religious Studies), and Katherine Tachau (History). We will convene approximately fifteen times over the course of the 2016-2017 academic year, in dialogue with a series of invited speakers who are internationally recognized experts in the various manuscript cultures of pre-modern Eurasia. Five of the seminar meetings will be followed the next day by hands-on workshops at the University of Iowa’s Center for the Book, in which participants will reproduce historically significant book structures, with their associated materials, under the guidance of conservators. The seminar will also develop an innovative website tracking the development of Eurasian manuscript formats and materials chronologically and geographically.
The organizers of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar wish to thank the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School, and the many partners on the University of Iowa campus who have helped to make the seminar possible: the Obermann Center, the Center for the Book, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Graduate College, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, the Office of Research and Economic Development, the University of Iowa Libraries and the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio.
For more information on the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, visit:http://eurasianmss.lib.uiowa.edu/
photo: M. Moreton
A generous $2.5 million pledge from the Manning family to the Victoria Hospitals Foundation will fund a major research project to integrate leading-edge research and care for patients living with cognitive health issues on Vancouver Island. Partnering on this project are Island Health, the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia: ow.ly/s1p230fFzXj
He offered to give Alycia a lap dance for free! What a bargain!
I think this is my favorite picture of the night. We did a lot of laughing!
Evolutionary theory gives us a pretty good notion of why flowers, butterflies, peacocks, and tropical fish are so delightfully colorful; but rainbows and sunrises/sunsets? They seem to be just a bonus feature of a generous nature -- they don't serve any functional purpose, but our lives would surely be diminished without them.
I had hoped to get a good sunrise or sunset at the fall equinox but had to wait more than a week for this sunrise. I don't know about you but this somehow looks like it should be a sunset; maybe it's because the clouds are moving away from us, or maybe it's the soundtrack* I chose, but it just feels like a sunset to me even though I know better.
*Soundtrack is a portion of: Saxophone and piano Nordic-themed soundtrack. Perfect for movies – by Kjartan Abel. Visit kjartan-abel.com/library to find free music for your next project.
This work is licensed under the following: CC BY-SA 4.0 Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
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A very nice gift from Nikos Kolovos. And a Magnum of a distinguished wine - voted a few years ago as the best Syrah in the world.
On May 9 and 10 the Foundation hosted a donor recognition event for the first time since 2019. Donors were invited to an inspiring evening with student ambassadors who are award, bursary and scholarship recipients.
On May 9 and 10 the Foundation hosted a donor recognition event for the first time since 2019. Donors were invited to an inspiring evening with student ambassadors who are award, bursary and scholarship recipients.
This CreativeMornings/NewYork event was generously hosted by Parsons School of Design.
Our speaker was Paola Mendoza.
The event was sponsored by MailChimp, Shutterstock, FreshBooks, Adobe, and WordPress.
Coffee was generously donated by Irving Farm and breakfast was catered by Eat Offbeat.
All photos by Paul Jun.
Generous Gavin Grant from Small Beer Press bought a round of bargain mai tais and yes, Kelly Link appears to be partaking times two. Also pictured: Seth and Seth.
Kirtlington Stud, June 2007
The foal is much darker now. He was just beginning to lose his foal coat, you can see from his face how he was going to change.
local river transport that use by people who lives in the banks of the Citarum river in West Java Indonesia
A big thank you to the participants and generous donors of the first ESCP Europe Fundraising Gala in London last week. An impressive £220,000 was raised which will contribute greatly to the ESCP Europe Scholarship Programme.
Over 100 guests gathered at the Four Seasons Park Lane for a wonderful evening sponsored by Ondra Partners and New End Associates. A cocktail reception was offered, serving champagne premier cru Frerejean Freres, and was followed by a gourmet autumn dinner.
The auction, led by Adrian Biddell, spurred great interest for the wonderful lots donated by Pierre Guénant (72), Olivia de Posson (06), Jean-Pierre Raffarin (72), Christian Marti (93), and W. Salamoon & Sons.
Around 15 alumni pledged their support to the ESCP Europe Scholarship Programme for the equivalent of eight years of study or a total amount of £120,000.
This unprecedented mobilisation demonstrates the unity and dynamism of the ESCP Europe alumni network. It also shows its commitment to support the School's growing momentum, forging a path to become the number one business school in Europe with a truly global reach.
On behalf of the scholarship students and all the ESCP Europe community, thank you!