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Mr Abdul Sabor Sakhizada (center) of the Counterinsurgency Training Center - Afghanistan explains Afghan cultural considerations to District Stability Framework (DSF) students.
Projecting Stability Beyond our Borders- Speech by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a Townhall event co-hosted by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies
Worship of the Lords of Stability is apparently popular in East Oxford. The theological problems of timeless divinities have always amused me; just consider the scholastic contortions over tempus, aevum and aeternitas.
Also note the two foundation stones.
"Mass wasting" is the geologic term for all forms of landslides - rapid or slow. Many roadcuts are prone to small- and moderate-sized collapse events of rocks & soil. Especially vulnerable roadcuts are often modified using various slope stability measures.
The Tennessee roadcut seen here has been covered with numerous erosion control blocks. The underlying cut is probably composed of shale, a soft sedimentary rock type. Shale slopes weather and erode quickly, resulting in slow mass wasting (slump & creep) and rapid mass wasting (rock falls & rock slides). The erosion control blocks are composed of "quartzite" - actually, they're really hard, well-cemented, quartzose sandstones. Drainpopes are used to prevent ponding of water between the cut's bedrock and the covering erosion control material. Ponded water often causes mass wasting.
The cut is on the southern slopes of Clinch Mountain. The sandstone blocks are very likely derived from the Clinch Formation (a.k.a. Clinch Quartzite), a Lower Silurian unit.
Locality: Route 25E, Clinch Mountain, northeastern Grainger County, northeastern Tennessee, USA
Jose Vinals, financial counsellor, IMF, speaks at the IMF Global Financial Stability Report news conference Wednesday April 17, 2013, at IMF headquarters in Washington, D.C..
St John's chapel at the north east corner of Pershore Abbey. The chapel is suffering from a fissure that has opened through the east wall, window and vaulting, initially moving at a dramatic rate in 2005. After a period of stability, the fissure reopened in August 2011, moving apart yet further with worrying speed; currently the vaulted ceiling is threatened with collapse.
www.pershoreabbey.org.uk/whyscaffolding.html
Pershore Abbey is today a magnificent fragment, consisting of roughly half of the original medieval church. The monastery itself has long gone, the only traces being the scars on the wall of the south transept that show where the east range of buildings, perhaps including the monks' dormitory and refectory, were once attached to the church.
The Abbey dates back to Saxon times, having been founded by King Edgar in the 10th century, but the eatliest visible remains today are 12th century Norman, principally the south transept. What little evidence remains of the nave shows that this too was Romanesque, contemporary with the transept. The bulk of the building as it stands today dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, as witnessed by the splendid gothic choir (complete with rich vaulted ceiling and bosses, also added to the transept) with it's aisles and chapels. The imposing tower is the latest addition from the 1340s, and in it's topmost storey following a remarkably similar design to that of Salisbury Cathedral, suggesting involvement of the same architect/master mason.
The church today has a strangely L-shaped footprint owing to it's reduction in size as a result of the Dissolution of 1539, when the townspeople bought the eastern half of the church for parish use (instead of the smaller St Andrew's church immediately to the east). The nave was quarried away for it's stone, as were the monastic buildings (the cloister stood to the south of the nave) and have almost entirely vanished. The Lady chapel at the east end was also demolished at this time, the present apsidal chapel dates from the Victorian restoration. There were further reductions still to come, with the collapse of the north transept in 1686, of which only a tiny portion was rebuilt, giving the western part the curiously lopsided appearance it has to this day, with two of the former arches of the crossing now blocked up with recycled masonry.
The interior is impressive, both for it's Gothic and norman work. The higher ceilings have some excellent carved bosses, mainly foliage with the occasional face, rather difficult to make out from ground level. The original furnishings have not survived with the exception of the Norman font, carved with figures surrounded by strapwork, somewhat worn as a result of being exiled to a garden in the 18th century and later recovered.
There are a few monuments of note, mainly gathered in the south transept where two medieval effigies lie, one a fine 13th century cross legged knight (reputedly a crusader), not in situ and apparently brought in from the churchyard (presumably he lay in the now lost nave). A 14th century priest, somewhat worn, lies nearby along with a large, coloured late Elizabethan monument to the Haselwood family.
The Abbey was restored in the 1850s by George Gilbert Scott, during which time stained glass was reintroduced into the building (all trace of the medieval glass has gone), mostly by Clayton & Bell and Hardmans, the former of which also added some wall painting at the west end, that is now so deteriorated some must mistake it for medieval work. But the most notable feature of the Victorian period is the unique (and somewhat terrifying) bell-ringers platform suspended high in the centre of the tower by a cross of huge oak beams, in order to open up a view of it's interior. The bell ringers of Pershore must seriously need to conquer any fear of heights!
There have been ongoing structural problems with the foundations (presumably groundwater) on the north side of the building, first manifested in the collapse of the north transept, and more recently in the alarming fissures that have rapidly opened up in the north east chapel during the last six years. Currently the situation is growing ever more acute, and fate of this small corner of the building hangs in the balance.
Councillor James O'Sullivan canvassing for a Yes vote in the Stability Treaty.
Greystones, Co. Wicklow.
27th May 2012
See www.JamesOSullivan.ie for more.
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International Monetary Fund's Financial Counsellor and Director Jose Vinals answers questions from journalists after the Global Financial Stability Report Press Conference April 13, 2011 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
Philippine and U.S. Marines sight-in downrange during a live-fire sniper training May 8, 2014, at Crow Valley, Philippines, for Balikatan 2014. The Marines trained together to increase their effectiveness and proficiency for long range targets. Balikatan is an annual training exercise that strengthens the interoperability between the armed forces of the Philippines and U.S. military in their commitment to regional security and stability, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Joey S. Holeman, Jr./Released)
International Monetary Fund's Financial Deputy Director Robert Sheehy answersa question during the Global Financial Stability Report Press Conference April 13, 2011 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
Jose Vinals, financial counsellor, IMF, speaks at the IMF Global Financial Stability Report news conference Wednesday April 17, 2013, at IMF headquarters in Washington, D.C..
Labour Party Deputy Leader and Director of Elections, Joan Burton today launched “Vote YES for Stability”, the party’s animated video on the Stability Treaty.
Speaking at the launch, Minister Burton said: “This animated video is a short and simple guide to the main issues that arise from the Stability Treaty and it outlines some of the reasons why we believe that a YES vote is crucial for Ireland.
“We hope that the use of simple visualisations and key messages in the video will make the YES arguments accessible to an online audience who may be more accustomed to using online platforms to inform themselves on various issues.
“This Treaty is about ensuring a stable currency which will increase investor confidence in Ireland which will in turn bring about economic recovery. This is why it is vital that we vote YES on May 31st.”
The Interparliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination and Governance in the European Union on 17 February, co-hosted and co-presided over by the Netherlands Parliament and the European Parliament, will provide a framework for debate and exchange of information and best practices in implementing the provisions of the Treaty in order to strengthen cooperation between national Parliaments and the European Parliament and contribute to ensuring democratic accountability in the area of economic governance and budgetary policy in the EU, particularly in the EMU, taking into account the social dimension and without prejudice to the competences of EU Parliaments.
Read more: www.europarl.europa.eu/relnatparl/en/conferences/european...
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Greater protections for workers, job security, labour rights and stability for employers are the focus of amendments to the Labour Relations Code.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019LBR0015-000823
The Interparliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination and Governance in the European Union on 17 February, co-hosted and co-presided over by the Netherlands Parliament and the European Parliament, will provide a framework for debate and exchange of information and best practices in implementing the provisions of the Treaty in order to strengthen cooperation between national Parliaments and the European Parliament and contribute to ensuring democratic accountability in the area of economic governance and budgetary policy in the EU, particularly in the EMU, taking into account the social dimension and without prejudice to the competences of EU Parliaments.
Read more: www.europarl.europa.eu/relnatparl/en/conferences/european...
This photo is copyright free, but must be credited: © European Union 2016 - European Parliament. (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons license). If you need high resolution files do not hesitate to contact us. Please do not forget to send the link or a copy of the publication to us: photobookings(AT)europarl.europa.eu
After years of political stability and economic progress, Turkey is sliding backwards in reforms and in abiding to democratic principles and the rule of law.
A serious clampdown on media and individual freedoms has started and is likely to continue beyond the general elections in June 2015.
Journalists have been arrested and the authorities are cutting back the freedom of expression and media in Turkey.
As a reaction, a recent resolution by the European Parliament reminded Turkey that a free and pluralistic press is an essential component of any democracy.
Guy Verhofstadt, President of ALDE, and Rebecca Harms, President of Greens/EFA, have invited a number of key Turkish journalists from the major media corporations to address the issue of media freedom in Turkey and the role that the EU could play in that field.
Today was really meant to test my mental stability. And I even feel selfish for saying that.
I woke up this morning a little later then usual, since I didn't have class until two. I was reading outside my room when my brother texted me and told me my high school band teacher, who I was very close to, is expecting her first child. That is so exciting! Ever since she got married, everyone was always wondering when this would happen. I'm so excited for her. I am sure everyone is. If I had to guess, she is due around marching season though so that might get tough.
I then had a nice long conversation with my mother, originally to tell her about the good news from my band teacher. Then she informed me of some devastating news. She told me that my uncle (my mother's sister's husband) has a large mass in his stomach along with a pretty aggressive form of pancreatic cancer. The family went into Manhattan to find a doctor and unfortunately, they saw quite a few doctors who wouldn't operate because the mass was touching too many organs. However, we got good news later in the day that one doctor thought the mass might respond well to treatment and then maybe they could operate.
I haven't heard anything after that.
Then I had to go sing at my voice lesson and go to my improv class. I was holding it together all the way through that, title of show rehearsal, and then I got this news during Victoria Martin rehearsal.
This amazing lady is Jinhi Soucy Rand. I met Jinhi through the Bay Street Theatre and was honored to be directed by her in RENT in the spring. I know very little about this situation other then it is a new development in a line of medical issues.
This photo was taken by her husband, not me, but when I saw it I couldn't help but want to put it up. It shows strength and class and every other fabulous quality in this wonderful woman. I also had the pleasure of seeing her this evening at the theatre as we were preparing the set for our show that opens Wednesday. She seemed in amazing spirits and I was ecstatic to see that and be able to talk to just hang out and chat with all the wonderful people at Bay Street. We were all together and didn't have to say anything about anything really. Just being there was enough. It is a pretty tight family and I've been so honored to be a part of. The alcohol might not have hurt that situation either.
Two people I love dearly are now starting the hardest fight of their life. I hope they know I love them. Love is the best medicine. I sincerely believe in the good vibes and positive thoughts. I've never done anything as hard as what these strong people will be doing but I have this desire to shoulder their burden even though I know I can't. I always want to help.
Cancer sucks.
..........It is unrealistic to expect unity and stability under such a rule and would therefore not be conducive to finding a peaceful and lasting solution."
Complete statement of the Dalai Lama on protests in Tibet:
www.savetibet.org/news/newsitem.php?id=1217
Who did look in the faces of these people and experienced the deep veneration for their beloved Dalai Lama, surely knows that the Chinese politic is completely wrong. More than 50 years of occupation and suppression couldn't break the affection of the Tibetans to their Buddhist religion, their homeland Tibet and its unique culture and especially towards the Dalai Lama.
Those in power in Beijing they know very well that the Dalai Lama is an unbeatable challenge for them. Especially in the year of the olympic games. Posession of pictures of the Dalai Lama is forbidden in Tibet and punished severely. But anyway people in Tibet they ask tourists for photographs of their beloved leader.
Picture taken in Dharamsala. Exile Tibetans greeting the Dalai Lama while passing by. He is coming back to his exile from his visit to Bodh Gaya, an important Buddhist place of pilgrimage in India.
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Jeong Joon Yu (SK Group), Olga Algayerova (UNECE), Mark Harper (Secretary of State for Transport, UK), Volker Wissing (Federal Minister for Digital and Transport, Germany), Hee-ryong Won (Minster of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Korea), Kris Peeters (European Investment Bank, EIB) and Carlos Monje (Under Secretary for Transportation Policy, US explore the role of transport in promoting economic co-operation, peace and stability in the Open Plenary "Transport as an enabler of sustainable economies, peace and stability in time of crisis". The event takes place during the International Transport Forum's 2023 Summit on "Transport Enabling Sustainable Economies" in Leipzig, Germany on 24 May 2023.
Cultural Diplomacy, Soft Power, Multiculturalism, Interdependence, Mutual Understanding, Global Peace and Stability, Academic Exchange & Conflict Resolution
Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) www.culturaldiplomacy.org
Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies (CCDS) www.ccds-berlin.de
Greater protections for workers, job security, labour rights and stability for employers are the focus of amendments to the Labour Relations Code.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019LBR0015-000823
St John's chapel at the north east corner of Pershore Abbey. The chapel is suffering from a fissure that has opened through the east wall, window and vaulting, initially moving at a dramatic rate in 2005. After a period of stability, the fissure reopened in August 2011, moving apart yet further with worrying speed; currently the vaulted ceiling is threatened with collapse.
www.pershoreabbey.org.uk/whyscaffolding.html
Pershore Abbey is today a magnificent fragment, consisting of roughly half of the original medieval church. The monastery itself has long gone, the only traces being the scars on the wall of the south transept that show where the east range of buildings, perhaps including the monks' dormitory and refectory, were once attached to the church.
The Abbey dates back to Saxon times, having been founded by King Edgar in the 10th century, but the eatliest visible remains today are 12th century Norman, principally the south transept. What little evidence remains of the nave shows that this too was Romanesque, contemporary with the transept. The bulk of the building as it stands today dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, as witnessed by the splendid gothic choir (complete with rich vaulted ceiling and bosses, also added to the transept) with it's aisles and chapels. The imposing tower is the latest addition from the 1340s, and in it's topmost storey following a remarkably similar design to that of Salisbury Cathedral, suggesting involvement of the same architect/master mason.
The church today has a strangely L-shaped footprint owing to it's reduction in size as a result of the Dissolution of 1539, when the townspeople bought the eastern half of the church for parish use (instead of the smaller St Andrew's church immediately to the east). The nave was quarried away for it's stone, as were the monastic buildings (the cloister stood to the south of the nave) and have almost entirely vanished. The Lady chapel at the east end was also demolished at this time, the present apsidal chapel dates from the Victorian restoration. There were further reductions still to come, with the collapse of the north transept in 1686, of which only a tiny portion was rebuilt, giving the western part the curiously lopsided appearance it has to this day, with two of the former arches of the crossing now blocked up with recycled masonry.
The interior is impressive, both for it's Gothic and norman work. The higher ceilings have some excellent carved bosses, mainly foliage with the occasional face, rather difficult to make out from ground level. The original furnishings have not survived with the exception of the Norman font, carved with figures surrounded by strapwork, somewhat worn as a result of being exiled to a garden in the 18th century and later recovered.
There are a few monuments of note, mainly gathered in the south transept where two medieval effigies lie, one a fine 13th century cross legged knight (reputedly a crusader), not in situ and apparently brought in from the churchyard (presumably he lay in the now lost nave). A 14th century priest, somewhat worn, lies nearby along with a large, coloured late Elizabethan monument to the Haselwood family.
The Abbey was restored in the 1850s by George Gilbert Scott, during which time stained glass was reintroduced into the building (all trace of the medieval glass has gone), mostly by Clayton & Bell and Hardmans, the former of which also added some wall painting at the west end, that is now so deteriorated some must mistake it for medieval work. But the most notable feature of the Victorian period is the unique (and somewhat terrifying) bell-ringers platform suspended high in the centre of the tower by a cross of huge oak beams, in order to open up a view of it's interior. The bell ringers of Pershore must seriously need to conquer any fear of heights!
There have been ongoing structural problems with the foundations (presumably groundwater) on the north side of the building, first manifested in the collapse of the north transept, and more recently in the alarming fissures that have rapidly opened up in the north east chapel during the last six years. Currently the situation is growing ever more acute, and fate of this small corner of the building hangs in the balance.
International Monetary Fund's Assistant Director Peter Dattels anwers questions from journalists after the Global Financial Stability Report Press Conference April 13, 2011 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
Stability - apart from being old and slow - my immediate weak point as a runner is this knee and its ability to take all the pounding of running on the road. I seem to get a lot of twists to the foot when the knee weakens. Having said that I do a daily exercise which keeps the knee is good shape, so far.
Did quite a lot of editng on this photo, and I'm not sure my leg really looks like that, but the grainy realism is quite nice.
PHILIPPINE SEA (Mar. 24, 2020) Cmdr. Todd Penrod, captain of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89), looks at the America-class amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6), the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20), the Nimit-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and The Whidbey Island-class Amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42) as the ships transit the Philippine Sea. Mustin is underway conducting operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific while assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest forward-deployed DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Cody Beam)
Peter Dattles, IMF, speaks at the IMF Global Financial Stability Report news conference Wednesday April 17, 2013, at IMF headquarters in Washington, D.C..
Public Meeting on the EU Stablity Treaty in Scoil Áine Naofe, Lucan, Co. Dublin - © David Novak Photography
International Monetary Fund's Financial Counsellor and Director Jose Vinals anwers a question at the Global Financial Stability Report Press Conference April 13, 2011 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
Allow your body to fully extend without allowing your feet to touch the floor. Quickly V back up, grabbing the ball in your hands and back to the starting position.
Greater protections for workers, job security, labour rights and stability for employers are the focus of amendments to the Labour Relations Code.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019LBR0015-000823
International Monetary Fund's Financial Counsellor and Director Jose Vinals anwers a question at the Global Financial Stability Report Press Conference April 13, 2011 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
Zero.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE WARRIOR, Iraq – An Iraqi Soldier assigned to the 15th Brigade, 12th Iraqi Army Division, zeroes his M16 during the 15th Bde.’s last training mission with U.S. Soldiers at the 15th Bde. headquarters in Kirkuk province, Iraq, April 4, 2011. Before taking Commando Company to the firing range, Soldiers of Company C, 1st Squadron, 14th Infantry Regiment, 1st Advise and Assist Task Force, 1st Infantry Division reviewed fundamentals of marksmanship with the Iraqi soldiers.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrew Ingram, USD-N PAO)