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www.youtube.com/watch?v=29-1UajnbWo Frankie Laine (March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007), born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio, was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005. Often billed as America's Number One Song Stylist, his other nicknames include Mr. Rhythm, Old Leather Lungs, and Mr. Steel Tonsils. His hits included "That's My Desire", "That Lucky Old Sun", "Mule Train", "Cry of the Wild Goose" "Jezebel", "High Noon", "I Believe", "Hey Joe!", "The Kid's Last Fight", "Cool Water", "Moonlight Gambler," "Love Is a Golden Ring," "Rawhide", and "Lord, You Gave Me a Mountain." www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLwPziSznU
1913 program with a Continental Tyres advertisement stating that Frits Wiersma won the Dutch Road Cycling Championship. Which indeed he did. In Belgium, in superior style, on wooden rims.
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A programme for the event held at Central Hall Westminster.
Children from the Harpenden an Brackley Branches of The National Children's Home entertained and sung at the event.
Programme printed at the Technical School, Highfield, Harpenden
The Standard Assessment of Mitigation Potential and Livelihoods in Smallholder Systems (SAMPLES) Program aims to identify pro-poor mitigation options in smallholder farming systems, focusing on opportunities to both benefit farmers’ food security and contribute to climate change mitigation.
Photo: Training SAMPLES students from Maseno University in the field in Nyando District, western Kenya.
The Social Cash Transfer Programme has helped beneficiary households to pay for school feed and they can now afford to buy new uniforms for their children.
The main objective of the Social Cash Transfer (SCT) Programme is to reduce extreme poverty and the intergenerational transfer of poverty. The SCT Programme has been operating in Zambia since 2003 and is implemented by the Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health (MCDMCH). Several positive impacts among beneficiary households include reduced poverty, increased food security, improved child wellbeing, improved living conditions and greater productivity and asset ownership.
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CFA organised a “National Seminar on Changing Landscape and Growing Financial Crisis in the Power Sector” on September 1st & 2nd, 2018. The venue for the programme is USO International Centre (USOIC), USO House, USO Road, 6, Special Institutional Area, New Delhi-110067 and the session will start from 9:30 AM.
This two day seminar will bring together experts, activists and journalists, who are monitoring and raising issues related to power sector to understand current landscape and changes in policies, failure of the regulatory mechanisms, growing burden on Public Sector Banks due to NPAs in electricity sector, etc. and fruitless attempts to solve the deepening financial crisis by the government in this sector.
In the past few years, a major shift has taken place in the power sector on several fronts including environment clearance, national forest policy, coal mining regulation, power purchase agreement (PPA), fuel supply agreement (FSA) and policies of financial institutions. In India, the shift started with Electricity Act, 2003 which unbundled the State Electricity Boards in three separate companies for generation, transmission and distribution along with delicensing the thermal power sector giving a free hand to private companies to expand power projects. This model was imposed by the World Bank which aimed to bring the private companies into the safer and profitable zones.
These changes have pushed for privatization in the power sector favouring the big companies often going against the interest of people. The private developers setting up thermal power plants took undue advantage of the situation and forced the state power utilities to sign PPA for a period of 25 years with a deemed generation clause, where this clause forced the power distribution companies (Discoms) to pay for the power that they may not consume during the lean periods. These thermal power plants are spread all over the river basins across India and have been grabbing the land and forests for the projects and mining. There is a fight to control the natural resources of the country whether it is land, forests, minerals or rivers. The coal-based power projects apart from causing massive displacement also hugely impact the livelihoods of communities, who in most cases are farmers, Adivasis and Dalits. These projects also adversely impact the environment causing serious health concerns for people and destruction of ecology. The energy needs of urban India is being fulfilled at the cost of land and livelihoods of rural communities.
The expansion of power projects is not only affecting the environment and natural resources but also robbing the public of their own money through companies taking huge loans from the banks for these projects and not repaying them. However, this robbing of public money is not limited to the power sector alone. Currently, the Indian banks are facing a financial crisis due to a staggering amount of stressed assets (Gross NPAs + Restructured Advances). Indian banks’ gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs), or bad loans, stood at Rs 10.25 lakh crore as of 31 March 2018. Last quarter, the pile has grown by Rs 1.39 lakh crore or 16 per cent from Rs 8.86 lakh crore as on 31 December 2017. In the RBI’s Financial Stability Report, the apex bank said that the Gross NPA (GNPA) ratio of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) is likely to rise in the current fiscal.
The problem of NPAs in power sector was highlighted in 2017 through two key power projects – Coastal Gujarat Power Limited (4000MW) owned by TATA Power and Adani’s Mundra Thermal Power Project (4660MW), which were incurring massive losses and asked the state government to bail them out. The trend of the government bailing out private companies with public money is growing day by day. In March 2018, a report was published by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy to focus on the ‘Stressed/Non-Performing Assets’ in the electricity sector. The committee identified 34 thermal power projects worth Rs. 1.74 lakh crore were on verge of becoming NPAs. It is worthwhile to note that out of these 34 thermal power plants, 32 power plants belonged to the private sector, while only two were from the public sector. Apart from that, the committee highlighted that Stressed Assets were around 17.67% (Rs. 98,799 crores) of the total advances in the thermal power sector.
These projects have been given loans in tune of lakhs of crores rupees by Indian banking and non-banking institutions. The current government made a number of unsuccessful attempts to resolve this mounting financial crisis, including a number of mechanisms such as Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC), Bad Bank Formula, Project Sashakt, etc. Now the government has set up a committee headed by cabinet secretary to look into the matter. It raises the questions on the intentions of the government whether they really want to resolve this or making some visible attempt due to an upcoming election.
The consequences of this situation are that the stressed assets of banks are compounding due to the haphazard expansion of projects by power companies, which are eventually being bailed out by the government through public money. On the one hand private companies are robbing the public money and on the other hand, they are ignoring the social and environmental impacts of these projects.
Speakers included:
Praful Samanatara,
Senior Activist & Environmentalist Odisha Soumya Dutta, Environmentalist ,Beyond Copenhagen Collective, New Delhi
Dr. Shoibal Chakravarty,
ATREE) Bangalore
Paranjoy Guha Thakurtha,
Senior Journalist
Rajesh Kumar,
Centre for Financial Accountability
Shreya Jai,
Senior Journalist Business Standard
Er. Shailendra Dubey ,
All India Power Engineer Federation (AIPEF) Er. Padamjit Singh
All India Power Engineer Federation (AIPEF)
Jesu Rethnam
Senior Activist, Coastal Action Network Tamilnadu
Prabir Purkayastha
Senior Journalist, News click
Ashok Shrimali
Senior Activist Mine Mineral and People, Gujarat
Nitin Sethi
Senior Journalist Business Standard
Philip Cullet,
Water polices expert
Rajkumar Sinha
Senior Activist, Bargi Bandh Visthapit Avam Prabhavit Sangh, Madhya Pradhesh
Diwan Singh, Environmentalist, River policy experts, New Delhi
Gaurav Dwivedi,
Centre for Financial Accountability
Srinivas Krishnaswamy,
Economist Vasudha Foundation
Sanjay Mangala Gopal
Senior Activist & Renewable Energy expert
Prof. E. Somanathan
Economist, Indian Statistical Institute Delhi
Linda Chhakchhuak,
Independent Journalist, Shillong
Er. K. Ashok Rao
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) Er. Shailendra Dubey ,
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF)
Joe Athialy
Centre for Financial Accountability
Com. Thomas Franco,
Former General Secretory AIBOC
Er. K. Ashok Rao
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF)
The Civil Society Programme took place on Wednesday 11 May and Thursday 12 May and provided an opportunity for dialogue between civil society and EBRD staff, senior management, the President and Board Directors. It was an occasion for civil society stakeholders to learn more about the Bank and discuss issues of interest and concern regarding the EBRD’s policies and investment projects.
The Programme also featured multi-stakeholder roundtable sessions on key strategic themes related to the role of civil society as an important actor in transition and development processes. Special features of the Civil Society Programme 2016 were discussions on:
•25 years of Transition - The Role of Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia
•Engaging civil society to promote transparent procurement
•EBRD’s Strategy for the Promotion of Gender Equality (2016-2020): the role of civil society
•Inclusion through skills and innovatiom
In addition, a panel organised by the youth organisation AIESEC looked at the role of youth in shaping the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
25 years of Transition: The Role of Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia
A fire-side chat with Sergei Guriev, Professor of Economics, Sciences Po (incoming EBRD Chief Economist)
Civil society, operating in the space between public and private sectors, has played an important role in socio-political and economic transition processes around the world, including the EBRD’s traditional countries of operations. In 25 years since the establishment of the EBRD, civil society’s contribution to transition has varied across the post-communist transition region. In some countries, the work of civil society organisations (CSOs) has contributed to more democratic political systems and more open market based economies as a ‘reputational actor’ performing a ‘watchdog’ function and as a generator of ‘social capital’ necessary to sustain the change process through the difficult early years. In other countries, the focus of CSOs has been on providing a variety of social services particularly to disadvantaged and vulnerable people negatively affected by the transition process. Many civil society actors have been operating in restrictive regulatory environments, and have relied heavily on international donor funding.
What has been civil society’s input into promoting good governance, sustainable development and economic inclusion in EBRD’s traditional region over the past few decades? What are the key lessons learned, from both its successes and failures that can be applied to other countries embarking on a transition process? What steps could be taken to increase the role of civil society in promoting positive changes in societies and economies?
The discussion looked back at the key achievements and setbacks of the civil society sector in contributing to transition since the Bank’s establishment. It also reflected upon the challenges ahead for civil society in building well-governed, sustainable and inclusive economies and societies.
40 young people from East London and 20 UpRisers from Bedford who completed their 9 month programme in June at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 4 July 2013, for a graduation ceremony.
Édition 2019
Cette édition se déroulera du 21 au 23 juin 2019.
Le line-up est dévoilé:
Alien Weaponry, All Them Witches, Anthrax, Aorlhac, Architects, Banane Metalik, Batmobile, Beartooth, Blackberry Smoke, Blackrain, Bliss Of Flesh, Brutus, Böhse Onkelz, Cancer Bats, Cannibal Corpse, Carach Angren, Carcass, Carpathian Forest, Cave In, Cemican, Clutch, Combichrist, Conan (en), Cradle Of Filth, Cult Leader, Cult Of Luna, Dagoba, DDent, Deadland Ritual, Death Angel, Def Leppard, Deicide, Demons & Wizards, Descendents, Devourment, Diamond Head, Dool [archive], Dream Theater, Dropkick Murphys, Eagles Of Death Metal, Eisbrecher, Embryonic Cells, Emma Ruth Rundle, Emperor, Employed To Serve, Enter Shikari, Envy, FM, Fumanchu, Gloryhammer, Godsmack, Gojira, Gold, Graveyard, Hank Von Hell, Hellhammer, Hygral, Immolation, Impaled Nazarene, Insanity Alert, Khaos-Dei, King Diamond, Kiss, Klone, Koritni, Lamb of God, Last Temptation, Le Bal Des Enrages, Les Wampas, Like A Storm, Lofofora, Lucifer's Child, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mad Sin, Mantar, Mass Hysteria, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, Messa, Morning Again, Municipal Waste, My Sleeping Karma, Myrkur (Folkesange), Nasty (de), No Fun At All, No One Is Innocent, Nova Twins, Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals, Psycroptic, Punish Yourself, Radio Moscow, Refused, Revocation, Richie Kotzen, Sham69, Skáld, Skindred, Slash Featuring Miles Kennedy And The Conspirators, Slayer, Sonata Arctica, Stinky, Stone Temple Pilots, Sum 41, Sumac (en), Tesla, Testament, The Adicts, The Amsterdam Red Light District, The Creepshow, The Dwarves, The Fever 333, The Interrupters, The Living End, The Necromancers, The Obsessed, The Ocean, The Rumjacks, The Sisters Of Mercy, Tool, Tormentor, Tremplin Voice Of Hell, Trivium, Trollfest, Uada, Ultra Vomit, Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats, Valley Of The Sun, Venom Inc., Vltimas, Vomitory, Whitechapel, Whitesnake, Wiegegood, Within Temptation, Will Haven, Wolfheart, YOB, ZZ Top
Le Hellfest, également appelé Hellfest Summer Open Air, est un festival de musique français spécialisé dans les musiques extrêmes, annuellement organisé au mois de juin à Clisson en Loire-Atlantique. Sa forte fréquentation le fait figurer parmi les plus importants festivals de musique français. Il est aussi l'un des plus grands festivals de metal en Europe et le premier en France.
Il trouve son origine dans un autre festival musical, le Furyfest, qui se tenait de 2002 à 2005 dans différents lieux de la région des Pays de la Loire ; le Hellfest en prend la suite en 2006 puis connaît, en quelques années, une hausse continue de sa fréquentation, passant de 22 000 pour la première édition à 152 000 entrées payantes en 2015.
Sa programmation est avant tout centrée sur le hard rock, le heavy metal et le metal alternatif pour les deux scènes principales, tandis que chacune des quatre autres scènes du festival est dédiée à un style plus particulier comme le black metal, le death metal, le punk hardcore, le doom metal ou le stoner rock, s'assurant ainsi la présence de groupes et d'artistes internationaux de renom comme Scorpions, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, ZZ Top, Motörhead, Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kiss, Guns N' Roses, Black Sabbath, Linkin Park, Alice Cooper, Korn, Slipknot, etc., tout autant que celle de groupes plus spécialisés dans leur genre : Slayer, Megadeth, Sepultura, Cannibal Corpse, Anthrax, etc.
Le Hellfest est élu trois fois « Meilleur grand festival » (2014, 2015 et 2017), « Meilleur camping » (2015 et 2016), « Meilleure ambiance » (2013) par le site Festival Awards.
Hellfest, also called Hellfest Summer Open Air, is a French rock festival focusing on heavy metal music, held annually in June in Clisson in Loire-Atlantique. Its high attendance makes it the French music festival with the largest turnover. It is also one of the biggest metal festivals in Europe and the first to exist in France.
It originated in another music festival, the Fury Fest, held from 2002 to 2005, in different areas of Pays de la Loire. Hellfest took over in 2006 and over the years has seen a continuous rise in visitors, from 22,000 in the first edition, to 55,000 tickets sold per day in 2017
Amis metalleux, voici l’info que vous attendez tous : les dates de la quinzième édition du Hellfest. Lors de la conférence de presse de cet après-midi, dimanche 23 juin, les organisateurs ont annoncé les dates à ne pas manquer : les 19, 20, et 21 juin 2020.
Pour la programmation, il faudra encore patienter. Mais pour vous faire saliver un peu, on peut déjà vous dire qu’un bar Hellfest va ouvrir à Paris.
In the 1980s (?) the TV programme Highway, hosted by Sir Harry Secombe, visited Arbroath. The producer of every episode, Bill Ward (left), is pictured with Sir Harry and Arbroath's Father Bill Ward.
Strength in numbers - The number of female police officers doubled in the past three years, enabling more accessible and comfortable service delivery for women.
Sir David Paradine Frost, Kt., OBE (born 7th April 1939) is an English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and daytime TV game show host best known for his two decades as host of Through the Keyhole and serious interviews with various political figures, the most notable being Richard Nixon. Since 2012 he has been hosting the weekly programme The Frost Interview.
Photo taken by Julian Mason at the funeral of Baroness Thatcher on Wednesday 17th April 2013.
Ayer's Cliff, Québec. 8 août 2010
Le programme Sans limites,
Le Sgt Patrick Bédard, un soldat blessé en Afghanistan membre du 12e Régiment blindé du Canada, fait du kayak pendant un camp de sports nautiques adaptés organisé par le programme Sans limites. Ce camp de 4 jours avait lieu au camp Massawippi en Estrie et 10 soldats blessés etaient présents.
Image des Forces canadiennes numéro LV2010-178-1
Par le Cplc Simon Duchesne avec les Nouvelles de l'Armée
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Ayer's Cliff, Québec, 8 August 2010
The Soldier On program
Sgt Patrick Bédard, a member of the 12e Régiment blindé du Canada injured in Afghanistan, kayaks at an adapted water sports camp organized by the Soldier On program. This four-day camp was held at Camp Massawippi in the Eastern Townships, and was attended by ten injured soldiers.
Canadian Forces image number LV2010-178-1
By MCpl Simon Duchesne with Army News
The Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) currently includes over 100 issuing banks in the EBRD regions and more than 800 confirming banks worldwide. The event gave 150 guests the opportunity to review and discuss current market challenges with key industry specialists, regulators and representatives from the World Trade Organization, the International Chamber of Commerce HQ and the local, national International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) committees industry. It also featured the highly popular annual award ceremony for ‘The Most Active EBRD TFP Banks’ and ‘Deal of the Year’, co-hosted with the “Financial Times Special Editions”.
Moderators
Anna Brod
Principal Banker, EBRD
Kamola Makhmudova
Associate Director, Senior Banker, TFP, EBRD
Rudolf Putz
Head Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), EBRD
Speakers
Marc Auboin
Counsellor, World Trade Organization
Faycal Badawi
Director of Foreign Banking Relations & Trade Financing, BMCE Bank Of Africa
Chafic Haddad
Head of EMEA, Financial Institutions, Citi
Andrea Hauptmann
Executive Director, Head of Guarantees Department, Raiffeisen Bank International AG
William Howarth
President, International Compliance Association
Alan Ketley
Managing Director, Global AML Advisory, MUFG
Hans Krohn
Regional Head CIS, Commerzbank AG
David Yung-Lo Lin
Representative, Taipei Representative Office in the UK
Francis Malige
Managing Director Financial Institutions Group, EBRD
Jelena Moraca
Corporate Strategy & Transactional Banking Department Deputy m, Eurobank A. D.
Ulf-Peter Noetzel
Global Head of Trade Finance Financial Institutions, Deutsche Bank AG
Vincent O'Brien
Chair, ICC Banking Commission
Selma Omić
COO - Member of the Management Board, Addiko Bank dd
Lakis Pantelides
Manager Trade Services, Bank of Cyprus Group
Sanela Pašić
CEO - President of the Management Board, Addiko Bank dd
Elena Ristevska
Senior Officer, Komercijalna Banka AD Skopje
Senad Softić
Governor, Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. School children in Muthunagar during a lunch break .
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is funding school feeding programme which encourage children to continue their studies by offering a free nutritious lunch.
WFP’s activities in Sri Lanka continue to focus on providing support to the most vulnerable groups and for peace building to resolve the 23 year old conflict in the country through food assistance. The three main components of WFP interventions in Sri Lanka are:
Nutritional supplementation to pregnant and nursing mothers, as well as to children 6 months to 5 years;
School meals to address short term hunger in primary/secondary schools;
Food for work for seasonally unemployed people and landless labourers.
Emergency assistance to those who have fled conflict areas and have become internally displaced is the fourth component that is activated as and when necessary. These programmes assist population groups that constitute the most vulnerable and food insecure groups in the country.
The need: School meals to address short term hunger in primary/secondary schools;
The action: donate
The non-profit Organisation: www.wfp.org
The Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) currently includes over 100 issuing banks in the EBRD region and more than 800 confirming banks worldwide. The event gave 250 guests the opportunity to review and discuss current market challenges with key industry specialists, regulators and representatives from the World Trade Organization, the International Chamber of Commerce HQ and the local, national ICC committees industry. It also featured the highly popular annual award ceremony for ‘The Most Active EBRD TFP Banks’ and ‘Deal of the Year’.
Acting President David Mabuza delivering the sixth annual Opening Address to the National House of Traditional and Khoi-San Leaders at the Good Hope Chamber, Parliament, Cape Town.
The sixth annual Opening of the National House of Traditional and Khoi-San Leaders follows the State of the Nation Address delivered by President Cyril Ramaphosa, which has outlined the overall government programme of action for the next financial year.
The institution of Traditional and Khoi-San leadership is an important pillar of unity and cohesion in our country’s democratic constitutional dispensation. As custodians of culture and heritage, Traditional and Khoi-San leaders promote the interests of citizens through their active participation in efforts to address the socio-economic challenges facing society broadly, especially those in traditional communities.
In his address, Acting President Mabuza highlighted the critical role played by Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership, as the legitimate voice of the people, and custodians of culture, customs and tradition, as well as an embodiment of our heritage, in partnership with government.
The Acting President has further emphasised the critical importance of government working together with Traditional and Khoi-San leaders in resolving the complex challenges confronting society.
[Photo: GCIS]
The Standard Assessment of Mitigation Potential and Livelihoods in Smallholder Systems (SAMPLES) Program aims to identify pro-poor mitigation options in smallholder farming systems, focusing on opportunities to both benefit farmers’ food security and contribute to climate change mitigation.
Photo: Training SAMPLES students from Maseno University in the field in Nyando District, western Kenya.
Induction Programme held for Jawaharlal College of Engineering & Technology in the blessed presence:-
Chief Guest - Shri P B Nooh IAS(Sub Collector, Ottapalam)
Trustee - Adv.Dr.P.Krishnadas - Nehru Group of Institutions
Ceo & Secretary - Dr P Krishnakumar - Nehru Group of Institutions
Commonwealth Youth Programme Pacific Centre in Honiara, Solomon Islands
17 September 2012
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