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Entrance Walk to GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS Commitment March Rally at Constitution Gardens along Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool North Elm Walkway, NW, Washington DC on Friday morning, 28 August 2020 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Visit Commitment March website at nationalactionnetwork.net/commitment-march-on-washington-dc/
Elvert Barnes 57th Anniversary of 1963 March on Washington COMMITMENT MARCH docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/57MOW2020
... so I was ironing on this hot and humid day, while watching The Committments (easy to follow while ironing, I must have seen it 5 times already), dreaming of shots in Dublin or NY, when I saw this and I thought... why not?
I wish I had a big screen tv with massive definition.
Just to take photos of the tv! :-)
Ivory roses are a symbol of innocence and purity, and can often be found included within bridal bouquets as they are used to express the sincerity of one's love along with their long lasting promise of commitment.
I shot the original photograph of this image over a year ago and felt that it wasn't a particularly interesting shot so discarded it and didn't bother to edit it. However, in searching for an image to display in a frame I stumbled across it again and felt it would be perfect if it had some work done in Photoshop. To create the image above I cropped into the centre of the flower head, cleverly placing it so that it followed the rule of thirds thus creating a far more aesthetically pleasing composition than the original. I then added a very light sepia tone to it which I think works wonderfully with the soft rose petals, especially in unison with the slight grainy look of the image as it works perfectly to create a very romantic old feel. I am thinking of getting this printed onto a canvas as I think it would work very well as a decoration within a home.
Also, I've recently started a photography blog, you can find the link in my profile information, labelled as 'my website', here --> www.flickr.com/people/hannahbennett22/
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Creator: Photographs from 6341 Dr Wilhelm Rechnitz Papers 1949-1972 hdl.handle.net/10462/eadarc/1070.
Location: Darnley Island, Erub Island, Torres Strait Islands, Queensland
Description: Coming of the light celebration at Erub Island, also known as Darnley Island were Christianity began.
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Bea wants to show you her massively huge ears!
The night before, I put her in the crate with one up, one down. She woke up in the morning with both of them standing straight up at attention. Beware of stiff winds - she might go airborne!
I shot this with f.18, over exposed it a smidge (dangit). It is basically SOOC (just a crop & added text). I was holding out on posting it to the group because I kept thinking I might get something better later in the week. This year I am making the commitment to post my photo before 11:30pm on Sunday night. Yeah!
Commitment è una parola nuova per me, e non solo... è la parola che cambierà la mia vita e la vita di molte altre persone. Ne sono sicura.
Reinforcing its commitment to product development and global expansion, Jaguar Land Rover, the UK's leading manufacturer of premium vehicles showcased its breakthrough Land Rover Discovery Sport and Jaguar XE models at the Paris Auto Show.
The British Columbia government and Métis Nation BC (MNBC) have renewed a commitment to work together for the betterment of Métis people throughout British Columbia.
Read more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016ARR0056-002376
Aruna Mohanty
Devotion, perseverance and commitment have placed Aruna Mohanty as the finest among Odissi dancers of her generation. Nurtured under the able guidance of Guru Gangadhar Pradhan, Aruna especially excels in the abhinaya aspect of Odissi. She has been a student and Secretary of Orissa Dance Academy. Her unique skill and versatility make her the recipient of many awards and accolades, including the Mahari Award 1997, Sanjukta Panigrahi Memorial National Award 2001, Fellowship by Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, and an award for her contribution to the field of Odissi Dance, from the Utkal University, orissa. Apart from dance, Aruna has also established herself as an excellent choreographer. Some of the items in her repertoire include the dance ballet “Shrusti O Pralay”, “Varsha Abhisara”, “Shravan Kumar”, “Samrat Kharavela” , “Kanchi Abhijan”, “Krupanidhana” & “Krushna Saranam”, etc. Widely traveled to countries like Canada, USA, South America and some of the European countries, she is the advisor-member of Central Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi. Currently she is conferred for the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for the year -2010 by the Govt. of India. And Govt. of Orissa has appointed her to be the Vice-President of State Sangeet Natak Akademi.
Concept Note
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Gatha Odissi - from the temple to the stage
History is not scripted; it gets created over the ages. It transforms itself according to the tides of life and times. Therefore, from the point of view of the present, how does one view the entire panorama of Odissi Dance, which has traveled through an arduous journey of nearly two thousand years?
After the sunrise, comes the dark hour of the sunset. But the rhythmic foot falls of Odissi dance, however, continue to reverberate from within the dark corridors of history.
Around the middle of Ninteenth century a new resolve paves the way for the resurrection of the flagging traditions of Odissi Dance. The danseuse damsels break out of their stony incarnation from temple-walls and metamorphose into life. In this hour of revival, the great Gurus of our times create a whole new grammar of Odissi. The genesis of Mangalacharan, Pallavi, Sthayi, Abhinaya and Moksha, which form the superstructures of Odissi, spring up from the sub-structures of the allied art forms and folk forms of Odisha such as Mahari, Gotipua, Sakhi Nata, Raasa and Leela.
Through brief narrations and symbolic images Odisha Dance Academy spins the story of transformation and resurgence of Odissi Dance spanning from the Jagannath Temple of Puri right up to the contemporary stage.
Conceptualized by - Guru Aruna Mohanty
Kedar Mishra
Music composition - Guru Bijay Kumar Jena
Rhythm composition - Guru Dhaneswar Swain
Guru Bijay Kumar Barik
Musicians :
Mardala - Guru Ddhaneswar Swain
Guru Bijaya Kumar Bari
Vocal - Harapriya Swain
Nazia Alam
Rupak Kumar Parida
Violin - Ramesh Chandra Das
Flute - Srinibash Satpathy
Sitar - Swapneswar Chakravorty
Dance Choreography- Guru Aruna Mohanty
Dancers :
Odissi Dance : Ramesh Ch. Jena, Madhusmita Mohanty, Yudhisthir Nayak, Pabitra Ku. Pradhan, Sridutta Bhol, Janhabi Behera, Pankaj Ku. Pradhan, Pravat Ku. Swain, Arupa Gayatri Panda , Prashant Ku. Behera, Bijan Ku. Palei , Pragati Das & Rudra Prashad Swain.
Gotipua Dance : Sriram Chahatray, Suryakanta Samantaray,Arupananda Pradhan, Santosh Biswal & Rama Pradhan
In an announcement at City Hall in New York, UN Women recognizes First Lady Chirlane McCray and NY Police Commissioner James O’Neill for the city’s commitment to preventing domestic violence.
Pictured: First Lady of New York, Chirlane McCray
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Royal Air Force and Royal Navy commitment to Search and Rescue will be taken over by the Coastguard as per 1 april 2015. The beautiful but ageing Sea King HAR3A made a last official appearance in Whitby to say goodbye. I think she will be missed by all for whom she has become such a familiar sight
Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 with Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12-50MM 1:3.5-6.3 EZ
Deep Purple - Soldier of Fortune
I have often told you stories
About the way
I lived the life of a drifter
Waiting for the day
When I'd take your hand
And sing you songs
Then maybe you would say
Come lay with me love me
And I would surely stay
But I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
Many times I've been a traveller
I looked for something new
In days of old
When nights were cold
I wandered without you
But those days I thougt my eyes
Had seen you standing near
Though blindness is confusing
It shows that you're not here
Now I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
I can hear the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
The Fee Glade, a green space with winding paths, is designed for both personal contemplation and community gatherings. There are stones engraved with quotations from Fee and a copy of the Great Commitments. The Glade reclaims a ravine formerly occupied by Berea’s utilities operations.
At one entrance to the glade, there is an engraved copy of the College’s Great Commitments to educate and inspire those walking through the glade to pause, reflect and re-consider Berea’s inclusive Christian principles, such as the power of “love over hate, human dignity and equality, and peace with justice,” the eternal ideals to which Bereans aspire.
Berea’s Story, Motto, and the Great Commitments
In 1855, the Rev. John G. Fee started a one-room school that eventually would become Berea College. Fee, a native of Bracken County, Ky., parted with the church in which he had been ordained because it was not sufficiently against slavery and eventually was disowned and disinherited by his slaveholding father.
Fee's uncompromising faith and courage in preaching against slavery attracted the attention of Cassius M. Clay, a well-to-do Kentucky landowner and prominent leader in the movement for gradual emancipation. In 1853, Clay offered Fee the 10-acre Madison County homestead on the edge of the mountains if Fee would take up permanent residence there. Fee accepted and established an anti-slavery church with 13 members on a ridge above an area known simply as "The Glade." They named it "Berea" after the biblical town whose populace was open-minded and receptive to the gospel (Acts 17:10).
In 1854, Fee built his home upon the ridge. The following year, a one-room school, which also served as a church on Sundays, was built on a lot contributed by a neighbor. Berea's first teachers were recruited from Oberlin College, an anti-slavery institution of higher learning in Ohio.
Fee and his colleagues believed that "God made of one blood all peoples of the earth," which would become the school's motto. The second bylaw established another characteristic of Berea by asserting, "This college shall be under an influence strictly Christian."
Fee worked with other community leaders to develop a constitution for the new school, which he and Principal J.A.R. Rogers insisted should ensure its interracial character. They also agreed that the school would furnish work for as many students as possible, in order to help them pay their expenses and to dignify labor at a time when manual labor and slavery tended to be synonymous in the South.
The first articles of incorporation for Berea College were adopted in 1859. But that also was the year Fee and the Berea teachers were driven from Madison County by Southern pro-slavery sympathizers. Fee spent the Civil War years raising funds for the school; in 1865, he and his followers returned. A year later, the articles of incorporation were recorded at the county seat in Richmond, and in 1869 the College Department became a reality.
Berea's commitment to interracial education was overturned in 1904 by the Kentucky Legislature's passage of the Day Law, which prohibited education of black and white students together. When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Day Law, Berea set aside funds to assist in the establishment of the Lincoln Institute in Simpsonville, near Louisville, for the education of black students through the high-school level. The College also provided financial aid to send black students to colleges such as Knoxville College, Hampton Institute, Tuskegee, and Wilberforce. When the Day Law was amended in 1950 to allow voluntary integration above the high school level, Berea was the first college in Kentucky to reopen its doors to black students.
Berea's Motto
“God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth.”
The Great Commitments of Berea College
Berea College, founded by ardent abolitionists and radical reformers, continues today as an educational institution still firmly rooted in its historic purpose “to promote the cause of Christ.” Adherence to the College’s scriptural foundation, “God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth,” shapes the College’s culture and programs so that students and staff alike can work toward both personal goals and a vision of a world shaped by Christian values, such as the power of love over hate, human dignity and equality, and peace with justice. This environment frees persons to be active learners, workers, and servers as members of the academic community and as citizens of the world. The Berea experience nurtures intellectual, physical, aesthetic, emotional, and spiritual potentials and with those the power to make meaningful commitments and translate them into action.
To achieve this purpose, Berea College commits itself
To provide an educational opportunity primarily for students from Appalachia, black and white, who have great promise and limited economic resources.
To provide an education of high quality with a liberal arts foundation and outlook.
To stimulate understanding of the Christian faith and its many expressions and to emphasize the Christian ethic and the motive of service to others.
To provide for all students through the labor program experiences for learning and serving in community, and to demonstrate that labor, mental and manual, has dignity as well as utility.
To assert the kinship of all people and to provide interracial education with a particular emphasis on understanding and equality among blacks and whites.
To create a democratic community dedicated to education and equality for women and men.
To maintain a residential campus and to encourage in all members of the community a way of life characterized by plain living, pride in labor well done, zest for learning, high personal standards, and concern for the welfare of others.
To serve the Appalachian region primarily through education but also by other appropriate services.
Kenya - Anglican Church of Kenya: Working with the Anglican Church of Kenya the Pand Pieri Primary School in Kisumu has been awarded the national Municipality Trophy Environmental Award for their water harvesting, tree planting and other environmental activity. On September 18, 2012, 26 Christian, Muslim and Hindu faith groups in sub-Saharan Africa launched long-term environmental action plans during ARC's 'Many Heavens, One Earth, Our Continent' celebration in Nairobi, Kenya. Visit www.arcworld.org
RCM- Africa Concludes Its 16th Session with a Call for Commitment and Action toward Women’s Empowerment in Africa
My white coat represents my commitment to health, in all forms, and care for patients.
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At the annual White Coat Ceremony, first-year medical students begin their journey from student to physician by receiving their white physicians' coats and taking an oath written collectively by the class. Learn more and read the oath at whitecoat.wustl.edu
Photo by Robert J. Boston
Reinforcing its commitment to product development and global expansion, Jaguar Land Rover, the UK's leading manufacturer of premium vehicles showcased its breakthrough Land Rover Discovery Sport and Jaguar XE models at the Paris Auto Show.
Singapore Zoo
Coordinates: [show location on an interactive map] 1°24?15.9?N 103°47?28.1?E? / ?1.404417°N 103.791139°E? / 1.404417; 103.791139
Date opened 23 June 1973
Location Singapore
Land area 28 hectares
Number of animals 2530
Number of species 315
The Singapore Zoo (Chinese: ?????? ; Malay: 'Taman Haiwan Singapura'; Tamil: ??????????? ????????? ????????????), formerly known as the Singapore Zoological Gardens and commonly known locally as the Mandai Zoo, occupies 28 hectares (0.28 km?) of land on the margins of Upper Seletar Reservoir within Singapore's heavily forested central catchment area. The zoo was built at a cost of S$9m granted by the government of Singapore and opened on 23 June 1973. It is operated by Wildlife Reserves Singapore, who also manage the neighbouring Night Safari and the Jurong BirdPark. There are about 315 species of animal in the zoo, of which some 16% are considered threatened species. The zoo attracts about 1.4 million visitors a year.
From the beginning, Singapore Zoo followed the modern trend of displaying animals in naturalistic, 'open' exhibits, i.e. with hidden barriers, behind moats and shrubbery etc. It also houses the largest captive colony of orangutans in the world. In 1977, primatologist Dr Francine Neago lived inside a cage with eighteen orangutans for six months to study their behavior and communication.
1 History
2 Present
o 2.1 Education and conservation
o 2.2 Rides
o 2.3 Friends of the Zoo
o 2.4 Organizing events
* 3 Incidents
* 4 Trivia
* 5 Awards
* 6 Gallery
* 7 See also
* 8 References
* 9 Notes
* 10 External links
* 11 Public Bus Services
History
Hamadryas baboons by a waterfall
The conception of the Singapore Zoo dates from 1969. At the time, the Public Utilities Board (PUB) decided to use some of its land holdings around reservoirs for parks and open recreational facilities. The then Executive Chairman of PUB, Dr Ong Swee Law, set aside 88 hectares of land for the construction of a zoological garden.
In 1970, consultants and staff were hired, and in 1971, the construction of the basic 50 enclosures started. Animals were collected from dealers and donated by sponsors. The Director of the Colombo Zoo in Sri Lanka, Lyn de Alwis, was hired as a special consultant to work out problems inherent in tropical zoos.
On 23 June 1973, the Singapore Zoo opened its gates for the first time with a collection of 270 animals from over 72 species, and a staff of 130. By 1990, 1,600 animals from more than 160 species lived in social groups, housed in 65 landscaped exhibits with boundaries conceived to look as natural as possible.
Present
A pair of white tigers
Today, the zoo is a model of the 'open zoo' concept. The animals are kept in spacious, landscaped enclosures, separated from the visitors by either dry or wet moats. The moats are concealed with vegetation or dropped below the line of vision. In the case of dangerous animals which can climb very well, moat barriers are not used. Instead, these animals are housed in landscaped glass-fronted enclosures.
The zoo has not expanded beyond the original 28 hectares. However, 40 hectares of secondary forest were later developed into the Night Safari. The remaining undeveloped land has been kept as wooded land. This and the waters of Upper Seletar Reservoir contribute to the Zoo, giving it a sense of natural, unrestricted space.
Among various attractions that the zoo offers,one highlight is the "Breakfast with an Orangutan" programme that allows visitors to meet and interact closely with the orangutans in the zoo, amongst which includes the famous primate matriarch Ah Meng, (died on February 8, 2008) who was an icon of the Singapore tourism industry. Animal shows, as well as token feedings coupled with live commentaries by keepers, are also the daily staple in the Singapore zoo.
Education and conservation
The Wildlife Healthcare & Research Centre was opened in March 2006 as part of the zoo's efforts in wildlife conservation. The centre further underscores Singapore Zoo and Night Safari’s commitment to conservation research, providing the infrastructure for the parks and overseas zoological partners to better execute their research programmes.
The zoo also embarked on various rescue and conservation efforts to protect wildlife.
Rides
White rhinos
The zoo also offers various modes of rides available within the premises: trams, animals, boat, pony and horse carriage rides. Additional modes of transportation which can only be rented include: strollers, wagon and wheelchairs.
Friends of the Zoo
The zoo also has a "friends of the zoo" programme, where people can sign up for a yearly pass which grants them special privileges such as:
* Free and unlimited entry to Singapore Zoo for whole year
* Free Zoo tram rides and parking
* A free quarterly "Wildlife wonders" magazine
* 10% discount at some participating retail outlets
Organizing events
Elephant show and the trainers
There are three event venues available in the zoo, Forest Lodge, Pavilion-By-the-Lake and Garden Pavilion. There are also three cocktail venues, Elephants of Asia, Tiger Trek and Treetops Trail. The Singapore Zoo also facilitates birthday parties and weddings.
Incidents
On 13 November 2008, two of three white Bengal tigers mauled a zoo cleaner to death after the man jumped into a moat surrounding their enclosure.[2]
Trivia
Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (September 2008)
* In 2002, teams of The Amazing Race 3 also came to the Singapore Zoological Gardens as part of a detour.
* Steve Irwin, the animal activist and conservationalist known as "The Crocodile Hunter", admired the Singapore Zoo greatly, adopting it as the 'sister zoo' to the Australia Zoo. He was at the Singapore Zoo in 2006 to officiate the opening of the Australian outback exhibit.
* The Singapore Zoo is the first zoo in the world to breed a polar bear in the tropics. Inuka was conceived on 26 December 1990.
Historic erm... Armour: Kettenkrad half-track motorcycle (1941)
- Sd Kfz 2/2 Kleines Kettenkraftrad half-track motorcycle
The German commitment to military mechanisation is well illustrated in this highly specialised vehicle. It was designed by NSU in 1939 and was intended to operate with paratroops as a light, airportable tractor for supply trailers or small guns. They were first noted by the Allies during the invasion of Crete in1941.
The Kettenkrad is, in fact, a small tracked vehicle with a pilot wheel rather than a motorcycle and it can actually operate without the front wheel. Turning the handlebars activates steering brakes on the tracks. It is also a very sophisticated machine, with roller bearing, rubber padded tracks; expensive to manufacture and difficult to maintain. It is altogether too complicated for military use.
With the demise of airborne operations Kettenkrads were used as communications vehicles, mostly on the Russian front where wheeled vehicles were severely handicapped. The Kettenkrad is powered by an Opel Olympia engine with a three speed and two ratio transmission.
Our exhibit is believed to be the one photographed in Tunisia in front of our Tiger I (E1951.23) at which time the name 'Baby Kate' was painted on the side. At some time, after this vehicle joined the collection, it seems to have been butchered by the removal of some parts, notably the handrails at the rear, but no explanation of this is recorded.
Precise Name: Kleines Kettenkraftrad
Other Name: SdKfz 2/2, HK 101, Versuchs Kfz 620
This fascinating vehicle looks like the offspring of a union between a large motor cycle and a half-track! It is really a small tracked vehicle that has a front pilot wheel; it can operate quite well without the front wheel. It was designed by NSU in 1939 as a lightweight air-portable tractor for use by Germany’s airborne forces, intended to tow supply trailers and small guns. The configuration is unique, quite unlike anything produced by the other combatants in World War II.
The ‘kettenkrad’ was a highly sophisticated design that was in many ways too complex for military use. Powered by a 1.5 litre Opel Olympia petrol engine the tracks were driven through a gearbox with two ranges and three forwards and two reverse gears. It was quite speedy and could reach up to 80kph on roads. Turning the handlebars activates steering brakes on the tracks that steer the vehicle in the same way as a tank. The tracks have rubber pads and roller bearings; they were expensive to manufacture and difficult to maintain under operational conditions. The main wheels are arranged to overlap so as to spread the vehicle’s weight over the tracks, just like the larger German half-tracks. Although this works well they tended to become clogged with mud or ice while repairs to any of the inner wheels required the removal of at least one of the outer wheels.
‘Kettenkrads’ were first used operationally by German paratroops during the invasion of Crete in May 1941. The German airborne forces sustained severe casualties during this operation and were never used again in the airborne role. However they gained a formidable reputation as infantry.
Subsequently ‘kettenkrads’ were widely employed for communications and in many other specialised roles, especially on the Eastern Front where the poor roads and deep mud and snow severely handicapped wheeled vehicles. They were used, for example, as weapons carriers, cable layers, for reconnaissance and as tractors for light guns and trailers. They proved to be so useful that the kleines kettenkradftrad remained in production until 1944.
Tankfest by World of Tanks - 24.-25.6.2016
The Tank Museum - Bovington, UK
Worlds biggest and best live display of historic armour, living history, and much more at the Home of the Tank - The Tank Museum, Bovington, United Kingdom.
More from Tankfest:
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More from me:
www.flickr.com/photos/jukkaokauppinen
Tankfest videos:
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CSW60 Side Event – Fulfilling Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Commitments
Lorena Cruz, President of INMUJERES, addresses the CSW60 Side Event: Renewed Commitment to Action: Fulfilling GEWE Commitments for 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. High Level event of the Group of 4; organized by Kenya, Denmark, Mexico and China. 14 March 2016.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Side Event at the IAEA International Conference on the Security of Radioactive Material: The Way Forward for Prevention and Detection. IAEA, Vienna, Austria. 4 December 2018
Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources: New Guidance on the Management of Disused Sources
Moderator:
Rene Schlee, IAEA Nuclear Security Officer, Division of Nuclear Security, Department of Nuclear Safety and Security
Opening Remarks:
Muhammad Khaliq, IAEA Section Head, Division of Nuclear Security
Panelist:
Mr. Ruslana Trypailo (Ukraine)
Mr. Jorge Paredes Gilisman (Cuba)
Mr. Mohammed Ali Mogahed Mahmoud (Sudan)
Closing Remarks:
Hilaire Mansoux, IAEA Section Head, Division of Radiation, Transport and Waste Safety
Organized by the IAEA Division of Nuclear Security
The side event will highlight the need and direct benefit for Member States to make a political commitment to the Code and its supplementary guidance; and will provide case studies of State’s successful implementation of its key provision, international cooperation and key actions, as well as promote the guidance as a key international instrument to strengthen the safety and security of radioactive sources globally.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
okay not really, but that's my joke about this new addition to the tendering fleet this summer.
the f/v commitment is a vessel normally engaged in the chignik fishery (just across the alaska peninsula from port heiden, not very far as the crow flies) but the chignik salmon run has suffered its second year of a total bust, not even getting enough salmon to make their minimum escapement goal.
this skipper of the f/v commitment accepted a short gig here in order to stay busy, make some money, and pay his crew.
I am not afraid anymore.
I am tracing the steps that
Brought me to this point
And crowning them,
The commitment.
The time between now and then
Is cracked and registers
With the pain of silent children.
A cloud is summoned in a
Horrible second of uncertainty.
I was doubted on the skylines.
Poisoned by the possibilites
Of the Hollow-Pointed mind.
I am the offspring of these phantom phases.
A vapor that passes through you.
And overseer to the secrets of our night.
Entrance Walk to GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS Commitment March Rally at Constitution Gardens along Lincoln Memorial North Elm Walkway, NW, Washington DC on Friday morning, 28 August 2020 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Visit Commitment March website at nationalactionnetwork.net/commitment-march-on-washington-dc/
Elvert Barnes 57th Anniversary of 1963 March on Washington COMMITMENT MARCH docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/57MOW2020
fellow smoker wants to remain anonymous after having seen the pp :D
strobist: one strobe camera left
COMMITMENT TO SAFE SCHOOL
Multi-Stakeholder Segment, Working session - Accelerating implementation
Organizer(s): WCDRR
Saturday 14 March 17:00 - 18:30
Venue: Sendai International Centre Room N°: Main Hall
Over the past decade, FYR Macedonia has taken signifcant steps to tackle the problem of domestic violence, demonstrating its commitment to building a society with zero-tolerance for such crime. It recently became one of the first countries to sign the Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women. Despite this progress, domestic and gender-based violence remains a serious issue in the country. The first ever baseline survey carried out in 2012 by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and the UN, shows that almost 40% of women in the country have been subject to some form of domestic violence. Furthermore, research showed that the social stigma attached to domestic violence means that many victims remain silent and continue to live in fear, with over three quarters of incidents not reported to any of the publicly available services. The UN agencies in the country have been working closely with national institutions and civil society organizations over recent years to help implement the National Strategy on Domestic Violence. Just recently, UNDP and UN Women in partnership with national institutions, started a new project titled ‘A better legal framework for supporting victims of domestic violence’. This project, funded by the Kingdom of Netherlands, has as overall objective to increase the accountability and transparency of the judicial system and to improve the legal services for victims of domestic violence.
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U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade conduct squad level live-fire training near Tapa, Estonia, June 9. The paratroopers of Company C are part of approximately 600 paratroopers from the brigade training with NATO allies in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, as part of an unscheduled land-forces exercise to demonstrate commitment to NATO obligations and sustain interoperability with allied forces. Photo By: Sgt. Anthony Jones, 145th MPAD, Oklahoma Army National Guard
Sir Peter Fahy and the memorial.
A short ceremony took place today (17/1/13) to mark the removal of memorial plaques to fallen officers from the Force's former headquarters.
The removal of the plaques is part of the decommissioning process for Chester House, which served as GMP's base for 33 years and is due to be closed down.
Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy said: “As we complete the move out of Chester House it is really important that we maintain the memory of fallen colleagues who gave their lives in the service of the public.
“The response to the tragic deaths of Fiona and Nicola showed how locally people have great respect for the self-sacrifice of police officers and they will want to see the recognition maintained. Time moves on and the headlines fade, but the sudden loss of a loved one sadly remains constantly fresh for the family involved.”
PCC Tony Lloyd said: "When police officers give their lives in the line of duty, we always commit to never forget that they gave their lives to keep us safe. Making sure these plaques are rehoused in a prominent place is part of that commitment. We will never forget their sacrifice and we will never forget the service of those that we honour once again in this ceremony."
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From the City of Toronto:
"Councillor Pam McConnell (Ward 28 Toronto Centre-Rosedale), City of Toronto staff and community members joined event partners Toronto Community Housing and The Daniels Corporation today to celebrate the opening of the new Regent Park.
"This park and its amenities provide a much desired natural recreational space for the community of Regent Park, allowing all a greater opportunity to enjoy the outdoors," said Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly. "The City continues to reaffirm its commitment to increasing natural amenities in Toronto's urban landscape."
"Today's celebration was a delightful reflection of the way this space can be used to bring people together to enjoy art, music, food and recreation," said Councillor McConnell. "With the opening of this park, we also honour the contribution that Regent Park residents have made to the design of their neighbourhood gathering place."
Toronto Community Housing provided the land to the City's Parks, Forestry and Recreation division to develop into park space. The six-acre park is a $6.2 million investment by the City and includes a playground, splash pad, multi-purpose green space, plaza for community events, dog off-leash area, community gardens, greenhouse, bake oven, walkways and lush landscaping.
"This new park is a key part of how revitalization is fostering a vibrant community in Regent Park," said Greg Spearn, Toronto Community Housing's Chief Development Officer and interim President and CEO. "It's a place at the heart of Regent Park where residents, neighbours and people from across the city can come together to be part of a community that thrives."
"Regent Park, with the bake oven, greenhouse and community gardens, will provide a community gathering place where people, ideas and food can be shared and celebrated," said Louise Moody, Executive Director of the Christian Resource Centre, the Chair Organization of the Regent Park Food Partnership. "The Regent Park Food Partnership is delighted by the opportunities to engage local residents in animating the new park."
The new park's amenities and Regent Park Food Partnership, comprised of over 25 community groups and individuals, will create numerous opportunities for people to get involved in planting, growing, harvesting, cooking and sharing food, as well as enjoying farmers' markets, musical and public gatherings, and more.
"Regent Park is quickly becoming one of Toronto's best communities to live, work and play," said Martin Blake, Vice President of The Daniels Corporation, which is Toronto Community Housing's Development Partner in the Regent Park Revitalization. "The new park joins the incredible amenities that already exist in this community including Daniels Spectrum and the Regional Aquatic Centre along with the soon-to-open community centre and athletic grounds. All of these amenities nurture a true sense of community and we expect this fantastic outdoor space to be a favourite for all ages!"
The park opening event, called The Magic City, was sponsored by Toronto Community Housing and The Daniels Corporation and brought to life by choreographer Bill Coleman of Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie, with musical direction by John Oswald featuring the Toronto Symphony Orchestra with Maestro Bramwell Tovey, the Regent Park School of Music and over 400 performers of all ages from the Regent Park community. Community performances were supported by Artscape and Daniels Spectrum.
Regent Park is the ground-breaking example of how Toronto Community Housing's approach to city building can transform a community into a successful, mixed-income, mixed-use neighbourhood, with rental buildings, market condominium buildings, townhomes, commercial space, community facilities, active parks and open space.
The new park spans the block from Dundas Street to the south, Sumach Street to the west, Sackville Street to the east and Oak Street to the north.
The Weston Family Parks Challenge:
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation initiated the Weston Family Parks Challenge in 2012 announcing $5 million, in aggregate over three years, to enhance Toronto’s green spaces while encouraging private-public partnership for the long-term sustainability of Toronto’s parks.
Year one accomplishments are notable with over $1.3 million in funding being allocated to innovative park projects across the City. Click here to learn more about previous grants under the Parks Challenge.
Building on this success, the Ontario Trillium Foundation has announced $1.25 million in new funding for projects as part of the Weston Family Parks Challenge and to strengthen the capacity of Toronto Park People. Ontario Trillium Foundation’s support will be available over the next two years to provide greater incentive for communities to revitalize their connection to each other and nature.
The Weston Family Parks Challenge will provide $120,000 over two years to support an innovative and collaborative partnership in Regent Park to engage the community with the City of Toronto’s newest park. The contribution of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation will support community engagement efforts to ensure the long term sustainability of this new park space as part of the Revitalization of the Regent Park neighbourhood.
“The generous contribution of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation will ensure this new greenspace in the Regent Park neighbourhood will be off to a successful start when it opens in 2014” said Liz Curran, Community Food Centre Manager at CRC. “The funding being provided by the Weston Foundation will ensure that the local community is engaged with the wonderful new amenities in this park, which will become a community hub for all who live in the area.”
See the projects funded to date: parkpeople.ca/content/weston-family-parks-challenge-%E2%8...
Learn more about the Weston Family Parks Challenge: parkpeople.ca/node/220
as part of our company's commitment to giving back to the communities in which we have locations, of which there are many, one of the entities we support is junior achievement. the company addresses corporate social responsibilities through a combination of volunteerism for a variety of projects and through monetary donations and fundraising. we generate funds and commit employees to teach on behalf of junior achievement in local classrooms from elementary school through high school regarding free enterprise, business and economics. i taught one such fourth grade class last year in manville, nj. yesterday, nationwide, hsbc held fundraising bowl-a-thons that typically raise significant contributions for this cause. our location of just more than 200 employees raised in excess of $15,000 for the nj chapter. this was the first time I was 'volunteered' to bowl. it was quite fun.
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green brook, nj
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Tottenville, Staten Island, New York City, New York
Westfield Township District School No. 5, erected in 1878'(architect undetermined) and enlarged in 1896-97 to plans provided by the architectural firm of Pierce & Brun, demonstrates the strong commitment of the inhabitants of Tottenville to education. As the oldest public school remaining in use on Staten Island, the building recalls the era when such schools on Staten Island were under the jurisdiction of Richmond County and the State of New York. The brick schoolhouse appears to have been designed by a builder or architect familiar with the neo-Grec style. The facade, with its temple-inspired form, incorporates stylized classical elements and incised ornament, while the side walls have a robust rhythm established by pilasters and window openings with denticulated window heads. The growing population of the village and the establishment of a two-year high school department prompted the construction of an addition to the schoolhouse in 1896-97. Pierce & Brun established a T-shaped plan and incorporated signature elements of the original building into an up-to-date scheme with banks of windows and a weII-lighted central stairhall. Denticulated brick window heads and patterned bands, as well as the bracketed wood cornice, unite the two portions of the building into a harmonious whole. The projects, undertaken by the School District Board of Trustees and Board of Education with the approval of district residents, were exercises in local government as well as architectural achievements. The schoolhouse, part of the educational complex in Tottenville, remains in use as the Public School 1 Annex.
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The southwestern tip of Staten Island (Richmond County), once an important Native American habitation site and burial ground, has a recorded history which dates to the 1670s, when Captain Christopher Billopp built a stone manor house (the Billopp or Conference House, a designated New York City Landmark) and initiated ferry service to Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Billopp's plantation, later enlarged and given the title "Manor of Bentley," was the largest holding in the West Division (later renamed Westfield Township), one of the four precincts into which the county was divided. Following the Revolution, the Billopp property was confiscated by the State of New York, partitioned, and sold; it continued to be used largely for farming and as a base for fishing and associated maritime trades. Gradually the land was subdivided into smaller lots and by the 1840s a hamlet began to form around the ferry landing and the nearby sections of Amboy Road, the path leading to it. The slow-growing settlement soon came to be known as Tottenville, after the prominent family who had erected a wharf, Totten's Landing. Many local residents were engaged in the oyster business and ship-building, which remained leading occupations and mainstays of the area economy into the 1920s, while the waterfront setting and frequent steamer and ferry connections prompted the development of small summer resorts, restaurants, hotels, and other recreation businesses.
The completion in 1860 of the Staten Island Railroad, which ran from Vanderbilt's Landing on the island's east shore to a depot near the hamlet's ferry landing, establishing an important link between the developing village and the rest of the island, spurred the growth of an adjacent commercial area. During the subsequent decade, a post office was begun and soon named Tottenville, and the hamlet was officially incorporated as a village — the only one to be chartered on the island's southern and western sections. The village, re-incorporated in 1894, reached a peak of development at the close of the nineteenth century, when many commercial and civic institutions — such as the Tottenville Free Library, several weekly newspapers, the Atlantic Terra Cotta Works, and the Tottenville Copper Company — were established. From the 1870s through much of the present century, Tottenville has been the largest, most populous, and most cohesive settlement in the southern section of Staten Island and has retained its individuality as a suburban village.
Common Schools on Staten Island Prior to the consolidation of Greater New York in 1898, the schools on Staten Island were under the jurisdiction of the Richmond County Superintendent of Schools and the State of New York. Though thought of today as public schools - as opposed to private or parochial institutions - they were known as "common schools" throughout the nineteenth century. In 1854, local school districts, organized and numbered by township, were given the power to select sites for schools and raise the money to construct and maintain schoolhouses, in addition to other school supervisory powers. Common school districts received financial support from state sources and school district taxes; some continued to use the rate bill system and assessed parents according to the number of children they sent to school. The Township of Westfield had seven school districts, which were centered on small villages and numbered in order of establishment.
During the last half of the nineteenth century, presumably all of the school districts on Staten Island erected schoolhouses, which varied widely since each school district was responsible for its own facilities. The increase in the population on the island throughout that period, however, taxed the adequacy of even the best-planned and largest facilities. During the 1870s, the Village of Tottenville and the Townships of Castleton and Southfield responded to the problem with the construction of substantial brick schoolhouses. During the late 1880s, the inadequate and overcrowded conditions of many of the schools on Staten Island prompted the County Superintendent to report that the public was generally taking a greater interest in schools and education, in contrast to the "good enough" attitude that had prevailed.
During the 1890s over twenty district schoolhouses were erected on Staten Island. The growing population and the enforcement of the Compulsory Education Act, adopted in 1894, prompted the school construction boom. Richmond County Superintendent of Schools Julia K. West, who held the position from 1894 to 1898, oversaw most of this construction. West noted in her first annual report that the schools in the county were overcrowded and some were unfit for use. The work on Staten Island occurred at the same time as the extensive construction of schoolhouses throughout New York State during the 1890s. According to a Department of Public Instruction annual report, schoolhouse construction emphasized "aesthetics, convenience, and hygienic provisions" and involved such a spirit of rivalry between districts to erect the most attractive school buildings that even the most parsimonious districts and stolid trustees were unable to oppose the progressive aspect of the times. The Staten Island Independent articulated the effect of the school building campaign, noting that the large brick school built in Tompkinsville was "an ornament to the neighborhood and will reflect great credit on the trustees of the district.,
The construction of a school on Staten Island prior to the consolidation of Greater New York in 1898 was an exercise in local government that was directed by the School District Board of Trustees, but included all voting residents of the district. The trustees of a school district board would call a special meeting to entertain the question of constructing a new building. If the vote was favorable, the trustees then appointed a committee to consider sites and make a recommendation to the voters. Once the district acquired a site, a small building committee - usually the trustees and two or three additional members of the community - was appointed; sometimes the trustees commissioned an architect to provide plans and specifications, while in other situations, particularly for larger building projects, the trustees acquired plans through a competition advertised in local newspapers. Once plans were adopted, the district usually issued revenue bonds to finance construction. Both the Kreischerville and Tottenville school buildings were erected by local contractors and furnished with materials acquired from Staten Island merchants.
Westfield Township School District No. 5 School districts were established in the townships of Staten Island in 1812, and it appears that a common school existed in the area that became Tottenville by 1822. Local residents recalled an early school that was located in a former chapel and Sunday school building near Richmond Valley (the small hamlet just to the northeast of Tottenville). The Leslie sisters from Nova Scotia operated one of the private schools in the village during in the early 1850s, and the Rollins family owned another. During the mid- nineteenth century there were two schoolhouses in the village, one of which was at Satterlee Street near the western termination of Amboy Road. The other was a two-story brick structure on the north side of Amboy Road, between Wood and Fisher Avenues. That building was remembered as having a single room downstairs for older students and two classrooms upstairs for the intermediate group; the primary class was located in a house across the street.
In the early 1870s, the residents of Tottenville began to consider the construction of a larger school house because the existing facility was overcrowded and more classrooms and teachers were needed. Although the residents considered erecting a building with two classrooms across the road from the existing schoolhouse, in 1873 the trustees chose a site for a new school: a large, partially wooded lot of about one-and-one-half acres between Garretson (now Yetman) and Prospect (now Brighton Street) Avenues - which was set back from the south side of Amboy Road. The residents instructed the trustees and members of the building committee to procure plans and specifications for a schoolhouse which was not to cost more than $9,000. After the trustees and the building committee presented the plans for the building, the voters in the school district defeated a proposal to issue revenue bonds for $10,000, and the project was temporarily set aside. In October 1877, the school district decided to move forward with the building program and authorized the trustees to solicit bids for construction of the building according to the plans and specifications on hand, and to issue bonds to raise money for building.
The new school opened with an official ceremony on the first Monday of September 1878. Students, parents, and friends heard America sung to the accompaniment of a new organ and remarks from officials, including David C. Butler, president of the board of trustees, who reminded the students of how their parents and neighbors had labored and saved to construct the fine school building and the importance of taking care of it. The students and visitors marvelled at the grandeur of the place, with its high ceilings, spotless floors, extra large blackboards, and heavy sliding glass doors that divided both the upper and lower floors into three large classrooms. Also impressive was the view from the upper windows which extended from Sandy Hook to the New Jersey Hills, prompting the name for the school, "Bay View Academy."
In 1895, the school district took actions that confirmed the village's strong commitment to education, as well as the effects of the continued growth of die village population and the Compulsory Attendance Law passed in 1894. It initiated the expansion of the school to include two upper grades which became one of the three high school departments established on Staten Island prior to the consolidation of Greater New York. In July 1896, the district decided to build an addition to the schoolhouse in order to accommodate 200 pupils and to improve the existing structure with a new heating and ventilation system. The newly-established Board of Education in the district commissioned the architectural firm of Pierce & Brun to prepare plans for the addition, which was built by the local contractor, P.W. Wolf & Son. The high school department occupied rooms on the upper floor of the building prior to its merger in 1902 with the Stapleton high school, which in turn was soon replaced with the establishment of Curtis High School in 1904.
Village Schoolhouse Architecture' Several nineteenth-century pattern book authors articulated the intent of schoolhouse architecture at that time. Henry Barnard, writing in 1842, asserted that schoolhouses should compare favorably to other public edifices in attractiveness, convenience, and durability, and that the exterior of the building should exhibit good architectural proportions and inspire children and the community with respect for education. In his 1871 volume, James Johnonnot added a "modern style" to the Greek and Gothic modes that he had previously recommended for schoolhouses, and noted that the best buildings had a composite style in which beautiful forms were adapted from any of the classic styles and arranged for convenience. School planners had long acknowledged the importance of lighting, ventilation, and adequate classroom size; in the early 1870s, school designers began to recognize the value of what came to be a signature element of a school architecture: banks of windows in classroom walls. Johnonnot noted that grouped windows not only provided the greatest amount of light, but also gave the opportunity for fine architectural detail. The small brick schools erected in Tottenville and Kreischerville were similar in size to designs recommended for schoolhouses in villages or towns that had two classrooms (for as many as fifty-six pupils) on each floor and often an assembly room in the attic; the buildings usually had separate entrances for boys and girls. In towns throughout the state, wood-framed schoolhouses were much more common than brick structures, and many of the schools erected in the small villages on Staten Island during die 1890s were picturesque wood-framed buildings. District School No. 7 in Kreischerville and the addition to the Tottenville school appear to have been the only brick structures of the smaller schools built on Staten Island during the 1890s, although several of the larger schools in north shore communities were brick. The school district trustees and architects were likely to have chosen that material in 1878 and 18% because of its fire-resistant qualities and its strong association with civic buildings, and to establish the Tottenville school as a small village school built of the finest affordable material.
District School No. 5 appears to have been designed by a builder/architect (undetermined) in the "modern style" of the era, which is best characterized as neo-Grec. Stylized references to classical architecture include the suggestion of a Greek-temple facade with a crowning pediment enclosing by an interrupted entablature, the denticulated window heads and bands, and incised ornament on the sandstone entrance and window elements. Pilasters incorporating ventilation flues and window openings with jaunty denticulated heads created a robust rhythm for the side walls of the structure; chimneys originally rose above alternate pilasters, creating a lively roofline. The designer of District School No. 5 acknowledged the convention of incorporating towers in school buildings to further their civic appearance by placing an open belfry on the roof. (See Fig. 1 for a late nineteenth-century view of the building.)
For the 1896-97 addition to the school Pierce & Brun skillfully incorporated up-to-date elements of schoolhouse design with the prominent elements of the original structure, such as the denticulated window heads. The central portion of the west-facing facade announces the location of the central stairhall; its large windows are flanked by expanses of classroom walls with no openings. The north- and south-facing end facades of the addition have closely-set windows, suggesting the banks of windows of contemporary school buildings; the joined denticulated window heads appear as a variation of a well-established theme. The intersecting gable roof of the entire structure is united by similar bracketed wood cornices which have interrupted entablatures framing each gable face to suggest pediments.
The architectural firm of Pierce & Brun specialized in school design during the mid-1890s. George Henry Pierce established an architectural practice in Long Island City, Queens about 1887. He moved his practice to Manhattan about 1892, where he was joined by Clement Benjamin Brun in a partnership from 1894-97; Pierce practiced in New York City until around 1900. After leaving his association with Pierce, Brun established a partnership with Leo Hauser from 1898 through 1902. The firm had provided plans for a school in Pleasant Plains, Staten Island, and may have become known to the Westfield District No. 5 Board of Education through that project.
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District School No. 5 is a T-shaped structure consisting of the original portion facing Yetman Avenue and a wing added to the west end, on the Brighton Street side of the site. The building is now surrounded by play yards and flanked by other school buildings: Public School No. 1 to the north and Intermediate School No. 34 to the southeast (buildings not included in this designation).
The 1878 portion of the school is a rectangular, two-and-one-half-story red brick structure on a raised basement. The main entrance is in the end of the building facing Yetman Avenue; steps (with a replacement pipe-rail balustrade) lead to a pair of doors set in a surround of sandstone with carved impost blocks supporting a pediment-like form with a segmental arch framing the opening. The fenestration of the facade of the building is irregular, with a single window on each side of the entrance, four bays at the second story, and an opening of the same size in the gable face lighting the attic. The window openings have sandstone supporting blocks, sills, and crested lintels that are incised with curvilinear and geometric designs, and (like all of the windows in the building) have four-over-four double- hung wood sash. A bracketed raking cornice at the edge of the gable roof is replicated as an interrupted entablature across the facade, which suggests a pediment form; the break in the entablature allows for the placement of a sandstone plaque inscribed "District School No. 5 Erected A.D. 1878." The bracketed cornice extends along the side walls of the building and longer brackets emphasize the corners. Bands of light-colored brick, with alternating denticulated and sawtooth patterns, extend across the end wall at each story at die height of the sills and just below the lintels of the window openings.
The side walls of the original portion of the school building are articulated with pilasters that are corbelled out at the main floor level and rise to the cornice. The narrow bays are nearly filled with window openings which are emphasized with denticulated segmentally-arched light-colored brick heads. The east end bays of the side walls have blocked windows; the pilasters west of those bays have corbelled terminations above low, rectangular window openings at the main floor level. Only two of the chimneys with corbelled caps that originally rose above alternating pilasters remain: one near the east end of the south wall and one near the west end of the north wall. A one-story, flat-roofed, metal-clad service structure extends from the mid-portion of the north wall.
The 1896-97 addition on the west end of the building has exterior walls of red brick similar to that of the original portion of the building; its intersecting gable roof is edged with a bracketed cornice which is nearly identical to that on the earlier portion. The facade of the addition facing Brighton Street has a central entrance and stairhall bay topped with an intersecting gable roof with a pediment formed by an interrupted entablature; an oculus window with a denticulated brick surround is centered in the pediment (and those above the end walls). Pilasters, like those that emphasize the corners of the addition, set off the bay. The bay has door and window openings with denticulated segmentally-arched brick heads (similar to those on the original portion of the building). Denticulated bands extend from the entrance arch at impost height across the central bay; the entrance has replacement paired doors. The upper portion of the tall, central window lighting the stairhall is separated by a brick panel from the lower opening, which has a sandstone lintel. The central bay is flanked by blank walls that form the side walls of classrooms. The north and south end walls of the classrooms have banks of five windows separated by narrow brick piers above which the denticulated brick heads join. At the junctures of the wings, external staircases have been added to serve entrances at the upper story which have solid doors. A rectangular chimney rises above the addition near its juncture with the original wing.
Subsequent History
Westfield District School No. 5 became Public School No. 1, Borough of Richmond, at the time of the consolidation of Greater New York in 1898 when all schools were renumbered. In 1905-06, a new school was erected north of the former Westfield District School No. 5. The New York City Board of Education Superintendent of School Buildings, C.B.J. Snyder, designed the new building (not included in this designation), which became P.S. No. 1. Snyder was the architect responsible for many New York City school buildings (several of which are designated New
York City Landmarks), and initiated the period of City-controlled school design in Tottenville. The former District School No. 5 became known as the P.S. 1 Annex. The complex of schools was expanded again with the construction in 1935 of the building south of Academy Avenue that originally housed the Tottenville High School, and is now Intermediate School No. 34 (also not included in this designation). The former District School No. 5 building has remained an integral part of this educational complex and currently houses classrooms and a small gymnasium on the main floor of the original portion of the building.
- From the 1995 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
KABUL, 05 October 2017 - The Government of Afghanistan, the international community and representatives from Afghanistan’s civil society and private sector met today to discuss progress and achievements in Afghanistan’s reform agenda, and to reaffirm their partnership and commitment to the country’s long-term development.
President Ashraf Ghani officially opened the 2017 Senior Officials Meeting, which comes exactly one year after the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan. In Brussels, new development assistance pledges through 2020 were made, following the London Conference held in 2014 and the last Senior Officials Meeting held in Kabul in 2015. Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah offered the closing remarks.
The senior officials and international delegations met to review progress, achievements and challenges in implementing the Brussels commitments and the Afghanistan National Peace and Development Framework (ANPDF).
The Minister of Finance, Eklil Hakimi, and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Tadamichi Yamamoto, chaired the meeting’s sessions, which focused on two main themes: governance and enabling the private sector.
“Today’s meeting is part of a larger conversation about how Afghanistan be an effective partner with the international community to build a better future for our children, a future that is free from terrorism and violence,” said President Ashraf Ghani.
Elsewhere in his speech, President Ghani pledged Afghanistan’s unwavering commitment to ending corruption in Afghanistan. “We recently endorsed a highly pragmatic but we believe very realistic national anti-corruption strategy that is already being put into practice,” he added.
Noting that the government has achieved important progress on key reforms, Mr Yamamoto, the head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), said the achievements deserve recognition and encouraged participants to use the meeting to decide how the government and its partners will continue moving forward, together.
“On behalf of the United Nations, I appreciate the frank exchanges we have had with the President and his team, and I affirm our commitment to continuously advancing our efforts to deliver as one UN, in line with the development aspirations so vividly put forward in the ANPDF,” said Mr Yamamoto, who stressed that real change is complex and takes time.
“In the ANPDF, the government links development progress to Afghans’ right, their demand, to live in a country that is at peace and on the road to self-reliance,” he said. “I challenge all of the partners, activists, business men and women, and officials here to consider each element of our work through the lens of its contribution to peace; if we can do that, we can contribute to the future that Afghans envision, and with which all of us in the international community wish to see Afghanistan succeed.”
Afghanistan’s Chief Executive, Abdullah Abdullah, said that supporting the private sector and encouraging domestic and foreign investment through strategic incentives and a friendlier environment are important pillars of Afghanistan’s growth strategy.
“To get to these goals, we have to overcome reform implementation challenges and remove impediments,” he said. “I am overseeing the progress of 11 medium-term private sector reform agenda items; this would allow us to expedite corruption-free and pro-investment policies and regulations in such areas as agri-business, the extractive industry, telecom, construction and local industries.
In addition, Afghanistan’s Chief Executive stressed the importance of free and fair elections: “We have learned the hard lessons of the past decade to understand that free and fair election in Afghanistan is a key to stability, rule of law, democratic rights and unity in the country.”
Dr. Abdullah went on to say, “President Ghani and I are fully committed to organize credible and viable parliamentary and Presidential elections by the end of our mandate.”
Minister Hakimi stressed the government’s commitment to the ANPDF, which he said will build strong institutions, a solid revenue base and a vibrant private sector in the country.
“Fostering inclusive economic growth, enabling the private sector, creating jobs, serving our citizens and ending corruption; the ANPDF is our plan to achieve this,” said Mr Hakimi. “Real economic growth is needed to help lift our people out of poverty; to do this, we must get the conditions right for the private sector and improve the investment climate.”
Minister Hakimi went on thank international partners for their continued commitment to the future of Afghanistan.
Notes to Editors:
At the 2012 Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan, the Afghan Government and the international community agreed to conduct annual high-level meetings to discuss progress on Afghanistan’s development and reform priorities. The last such meeting was the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan, held 5 October 2016 in Brussels, Belgium, where international partners committed and confirmed their intention to provide USD 15.2 billion (+/- EUR 13.6 billion) in support of Afghanistan's development priorities for the period 2017-2020, and committed to convene at a senior officials meeting in 2017. Today’s gathering fulfils that commitment in the communique of the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan.
Photo UNAMA / Fardin Waezi.