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Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
Giant chickens opposing a US trade deal visit the North Somerset constituency surgery of Liam Fox MP, protest organised by Global Justice Now highlights the concern that hormone-filled, chlorine-washed meat will flood British markets.
© Jess Hurd/Global Justice Now
Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
Photo credit: Geoff Dexter Sherborne Publications
UB40 members Brian Travers and Jimmy Brown joined a Birmingham Against the Cuts press conference on Wednesday to protest about unemployment and to publicise the TUC demo on Saturday. They were joined by trade unionists and councillors.
There are now 1 in 10 on the dole in the West Midlands.
Brian Travers drew attention to a number of damning figures:
* There are currently 265,000 people unemployed in the West Midlands, that is 9.9%
* This was an increase of 27,000 over the previous 3 months
* Birmingham Ladywood male unemployment is 15.5%, 6,059 men
* 6 Birmingham constituencies have unemployment over 10%
* Birmingham City Council intend to sack 7,000 as a result of their recent budget
The speakers from the Trade Unions were Caroline Johnson, assistant secretary of Birmingham UNISON. She announced they are now on their 18th coach for Saturday. Birmingham UNISON is preparing to ballot its members for industrial action against the proposed cuts.
Tony Conway from the PCS described the effect that the cuts are having on civil servants, with hundreds facing the dole in Birmingham.
Mary Pearson from the NUT drew attention to government policy on Academies and ‘Free’ schools, and the effect that cuts will have on education.
Birmingham Council Labour Group leaders Albert Bore explained that Birmingham’s Council leaders have ‘front loaded’ the cuts in Birmingham – bringing forward the cuts far sooner than would be necessary.
Labour Councillor Mick Finnegan also spoke. He pointed out that at the recent Budget meeting Birmingham’s ConDem majority voted against putting money back into public services, preferring to make cuts.
Jimmy Brown from UB40 wound up the press conference saying that a massive injustice is taking place – that working people didn’t create the crisis, but we will be expected to pay for it.
There are now over 40 coaches heading to London on Saturday, with more being added daily.
I tried to like Nayland, I really did. But it seemed to have ideas above its station, filled with the horsey set and high powered sports cars, a few more than is normal.
It also had no coffee shop, except in the ceramic shop, and that was full.
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Nayland village and the adjoining rural hamlet of Wissington (these days usually called 'Wiston'), were originally two separate parishes. However, in 1883 they were united into one civil parish, Nayland-with-Wissington, although the two ecclesiastical parishes remain separate.
Nayland and Wiston lie on the northern bank of the River Stour that divides Essex and Suffolk. Originally they were two different parishes with different histories. The name Nayland means an island, and the village developed on the higher ground amidst the lower river flood plain. It provided a good place for both a safe crossing of the river and an early manorial centre, probably a wooden castle. These advantages brought a market by 1227 and, by the late Middle Ages, it was a successful small town. The owners of the manor moved away and the little town was ruled by its cloth merchants, many of whom were very well off by the standards of the day. They were surpassed in wealth only by the merchants of Lavenham and Long Melford. They built fine Tudor houses and a fine church and the prosperity continued into the beginning of the seventeenth century. From then on the cloth trade began to move away, and although other trades like leather and soap manufacture developed, Nayland came to rely mainly on being a centre of commerce for the surrounding countryside. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the village drifted gently on, a relative backwater. The navigation on the river opened up but it did not bring a large increase in trade and the Navigation Company struggled to survive. The good result of this period of partial stagnation was that relative poverty prevented the beautiful old houses being knocked down to provide smart new homes and thus Nayland still possesses its Tudor and Stuart streets.
Nayland did have a small agricultural area but most of it lay out in the middle of the parish of Wiston and is nowadays considered to be part of Wiston. Although the official name for Wiston is Wissington, early documents suggest that Wiston is the original name, and it is certainly the one the local people always use. It had been a part of the manor of Nayland in 1066 but by 1087 had been given to a separate Norman family who lived across the river in Essex at Little Horkesley. From then on the history of the two places diverged. Wiston was administered from over the river and its links were with Little Horkesley rather than Nayland. The Lords of the Manor built the little Norman church, which still survives as a separate parish church, and they ran their estates in Wiston in conjunction with their land in Essex. The early wills and the taxation lists which still exist show only farmers in Wiston, and it remained purely an agricultural parish until the end of the nineteenth century. The manor was sold to more distant owners and the old manorial tenements became copyholds and then freehold farms.
The village and the surrounding area, like much of East Anglia, was a hotbed of Puritan sentiment during much of the 17th century. At least as early as 1629, parishioners such as Gregory Stone were censured for not kneeling at communion. By the mid-1630s, the Stone family and others had departed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony as part of the wave of emigration that occurred during the Great Migration.[2]
In 1883 the new West Suffolk county council decided that the two strangely divided civil parishes should be joined together as Nayland with Wissington, a process which Wiston resented but could not prevent. The needs of the two parts of parish, part semi urban, part agricultural, still make a slightly uneasy union. The Nayland with Wissington Parish Council was created in 1894 as a result of the Local Government Act of that year.
But Wiston had not disappeared. In 1896 Dr Jane Walker bought two farms (both technically in Nayland) and founded the East Anglian Sanatorium. This opened in 1901 for private patients and soon a lower block for free patients was added. A children’s block was also built. The Sanatorium continued to treat TB until that disease was conquered in the 1950s, when it closed. The lower block was sold away for housing and the upper block became a hospital for the mentally handicapped. While they functioned the Sanatorium and the hospital were the centre of Wiston as they provided most of the local employment. In 1991 the hospital itself closed under 'Care in the Community'. The original 'arts and crafts' Sanatorium, designed by Smith and Brewer, became a listed building and was converted into eight houses, while the rest was knocked down and replaced by another eight houses. Wiston still has seven working farms, six being old Wiston farms and one an old Nayland holding, while the other small farms and smallholdings have been absorbed into the bigger ones, leaving it is still predominantly agricultural. The mechanisation of farming has, however, cut the need for workers dramatically, so that most of the residents of Wiston now work either at home or elsewhere.
The parish of Nayland with Wissington is in the district of Babergh and the parliamentary constituency of South Suffolk. It has a population of nearly 1,200 and is situated in the Dedham Vale, an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the River Stour, the boundary between Suffolk and Essex. It was bypassed in 1969 by the A134 road which links Colchester, six miles south of Nayland, to Sudbury, nine miles to its north.
There are 15th century buildings in the village, Alston Court being one of these (see image) which contains a 13th-century section.
The village church of St. James contains a famous painting, Christ Blessing the Bread and Wine, by John Constable.
Littlegarth School has been located at Horkesley Park, Nayland, since 1994.
Rampgill mine is a disused lead mine at Nenthead, Alston Moor, Cumbria, England UK Grid Reference: NY78184351
It was one of the most extensive and productive mines in Nenthead. It can be accessed via the portal of the horse level close to the Heritage Centre car park.
The mine was completely closed for many decades due to collapses in the horse level, but in 2006 some work was done and it became possible to access the Bounder End Cross Vein (also known as the Boundary Cross Vein).
In 2013 the Canadian mining company Minco (www.mincoplc.com) sunk boreholes to discover the extent of zinc deposits beneath Nenthead. Test drilling could go on for several years, but the company believes that the village may be sited on huge deposits. The zinc is 150 metres below the surface, which is too deep to reach by old mining techniques.
The workings of the original lead mine were mainly in the so-called Great Limestone, which was laid down in the Namurian and is generally 10 to 20 metres thick. The lead sulphide mineral galena PbS was mined as an ore of lead, and the sulphides pyrite FeS2 and sphalerite ZnS were also present. Many carbonates occur there, including ankerite Ca(Fe,Mg)(CO3)2, barytocalcite BaCa(CO3)2, calcite CaCO3, siderite FeCO3, smithsonite ZnCO3 and witherite BaCO3, as well as the non-carbonate minerals fluorite CaF2 and baryte BaSO4.
These minerals can react together to alter from one species to another, depending on the prevailing local environment, such as temperature, pressure and acidity. This is demonstrated by the prevalence of pseudomorphs and epimorphs in specimens from this mine. Epimorphs of quartz SiO2 after fluorite CaF2 are characteristic. These occur when quartz crystals grow on the surface of fluorite crystals, then the fluorite dissolves, leaving a cubic cast in the quartz. The cast could in theory be that of any isometric mineral but in 2005 a cube of fluorite was found re-growing in the corner of a cast. This crystal was in perfect alignment with the cast, indicating that both came from the same source, and the original mineral forming the cast was, indeed, fluorite.
Baryte, BaSO4, is an extremely stable mineral. Under surface and near surface conditions it is far less soluble in aqueous solutions than are the barium carbonate minerals witherite BaCO3, barytocalcite BaCa(CO3)2 and alstonite BaCa(CO3)2, so baryte replaces the more soluble minerals. This is demonstrated by the numerous pseudomorphs and partial pseudomorphs of baryte after these carbonates. The sharp pointed crystals of baryte that occur, particularly where witherite is also present, are secondary in nature, forming from witherite. The change from witherite to baryte, however, can also go the other way, with barium carbonates, particularly witherite, replacing baryte. Replacement of baryte by both barytocalcite and witherite has occurred on a significant scale at Rampgill mine.
Initially cavities formed in the rocks, and some of these were then lined with quartz and sphalerite crystals followed by fluorite. Galena also formed at this time, and later on the barium and carbonate minerals formed. Baryte was the first barium mineral to form, as a primary mineral in slabs up to 10 cm across of irregularly layered crystalline material. Secondary baryte occurred later, typically as encrustations of minute diamond-shaped crystals on earlier minerals. Both barytocalcite and witherite have been found crystallised directly on fluorite and galena, showing that fluorite and galena preceded them in the sequence of deposition. In several fluorite specimens with a coating of barytocalcite, the barytocalcite alters to baryte, which in its turn alters to witherite.
Minerals at Rampgill
Sphalerite with selenite and ankerite from the Rampgill Mine, specimen size 3.8 cm
Ankerite Ca(Fe,Mg)(CO3)2: Ankerite occurs as brownish rhombohedral crystals on quartz.
Aragonite CaCO3: There is a photo of aragonite on Mindat, but it does not feature in the list of minerals from Rampgill.
Baryte BaSO4: Baryte occurs both as a primary and as a secondary mineral, and as pseudomorphs and epimorphs after witherite, barytocalcite and alstonite.
Barytocalcite BaCa(CO3)2: Barytocalcite occurs as masses of buff coloured granular crystalline material, with crusts of small euhedral to anhedral crystals in cavities.
Calcite CaCO3: Calcite is present as masses and granular crusts as well as skeletal frameworks epimorphous after baryte. Crusts of minute scalenohedral crystals often associated with minute baryte crystals are common on other minerals, and the outside of much of the witherite and some barytocalcite shows signs of corrosion and an encrustation of calcite crystals.
Chalcopyrite CuFeS2: Chalcopyrite is present as small irregular crystals occurring in all of the barium minerals found here.
Fluorite CaF2: Fluorite is apparent both as pale yellow cubes, sometimes covered with minute dark siderite crystals and as epimorphs of quartz after fluorite. Fluorite from Rampgill fluoresces purple under long wave UV light.
Galena PbS: Galena occurs as dull grey cubes with sphalerite and fluorite.
Gypsum variety Selenite CaSO4·2H2: Selenite occurs as white clusters associated with sphalerite and ankerite.
Hydrozincite Zn5(CO3)2(OH)6: Hydrozincite occurs with sphalerite.
Pyrite FeS2
Quartz SiO2: Epimorphs of quartz after fluorite are common, often with regrowths of fluorite, siderite and sphalerite.
Siderite FeCO3
Smithsonite ZnCO3
Sphalerite ZnS: Sphalerite occurs as black crystals with quartz and ankerite.
Native sulfur S
Witherite BaCO3: Witherite is an abundant barium mineral at Rampgill. Mostly massive and colourless to brown. Barrel-shaped masses up to 15 cm across of radiating witherite, often with a rudimentary hexagonal cross-section, have been found in cavities in the rock.
Witherite from Rampgill fluoresces white and calcite fluoresces red under SW ultraviolet light. Both phosphoresce.
Nenthead in the county of Cumbria is one of England's highest villages, at around 1,437 feet (438 m). It was not built until the middle of the 18th century and was one of the earliest purpose-built industrial villages in Britain.
Nenthead was a major centre for lead and silver mining in the North Pennines of Britain. The first smelt mill was built at Nenthead in 1737 by George Liddle, and this was subsequently expanded by the London Lead Company. By 1882 the smelt mill was capable of smelting 8,000 bings, i.e., 64,000 long hundredweight (3,300 t), of ore per annum.
Nenthead village in 1861 had 2,000 people, mostly Methodist and employed by the Quaker-owned London Lead Company in the Nenthead Mines - some of the most productive in the country. The Quakers built housing, a school, a reading room, public baths and a wash-house for the miners and their families.
Nenthead has accessible mines remaining, horse whims and a 260 feet (79 m) engine shaft in Rampghill. The mines closed in 1961 and there is a heritage centre displaying their history.
The economy of the village relies on tourism. A long distance cycle route, the C2C, passes through Nenthead. The Grade 2 listed Wesleyan Methodist chapel has not been used since 2002 but benefitted from a Heritage Lottery Grant of £134,500. The post office and community shop occupies the building which was once a reading room for the miners.
Nenthead is around 4.4 miles (7.1 km) east of Alston, 44.3 miles (71.3 km) west of Newcastle upon Tyne, 34.4 miles (55.4 km) south east of Carlisle, 24 miles (38.6 km) east of Penrith, and 20.5 miles (33.0 km) west of Hexham.
County Council subsidies have maintained limited bus services to Alston and beyond. However, in 2014 cuts to these subsidies were being discussed, threatening the existence of bus services for the village.
Nenthead is in the parliamentary constituency of Penrith and The Border. Neil Hudson (Conservative) was elected as Member of Parliament at the 2019 General Election, replacing Rory Stewart.
For Local Government purposes it is in the Alston Moor Ward of Eden District Council and the Alston and East Fellside Division of Cumbria County Council. Nenthead does not have its own parish council, instead it is part of Alston Moor Parish Council.
Before Brexit, its residents were covered by the North West England European Parliamentary Constituency.
In 2013 the Canadian mining company Minco sank 1,640 feet (500 m) deep boreholes in an effort to discover the extent of zinc deposits beneath Nenthead. Although test drilling could go on for several years, the company believes that the village may be sited on huge deposits of the chemical element. The zinc is 490 feet (149 m) below the surface and was previously too deep to reach by old mining techniques.
With a northernly latitude of 55° N and altitude of 1,434 feet (437 m) Amsl, Nenthead has one of the coldest and snowiest climates in England, yielding a borderline subpolar oceanic climate (Cfc) and cool oceanic climate (Cfb). The average annual temperature in Nenthead is 6.5 °C; 1,095 mm of precipitation falls annually, chiefly in winter as heavy snowfall, and in autumn.
Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. Its largest settlement is the city of Carlisle.
The county is predominantly rural, with an area of 6,769 km2 (2,614 sq mi) and a population of 500,012; this makes it the third largest ceremonial county in England by area but the eighth-smallest by population. After Carlisle (74,281), the largest settlements are Barrow-in-Furness (56,745), Kendal (29,593), and Whitehaven (23,986). For local government purposes the county comprises two unitary authority areas, Westmorland and Furness and Cumberland. Cumbria was created in 1974 from the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, the Furness area of Lancashire, and a small part of Yorkshire.
Cumbria is well-known for its natural beauty and much of its landscape is protected; the county contains the Lake District National Park and Solway Coast AONB, and parts of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Arnside and Silverdale AONB, and North Pennines AONB. Together these protect the county's mountains, lakes, and coastline, including Scafell Pike, at 3,209 feet (978 m) England's highest mountain, and Windermere, its largest lake by volume.
The county contains several Neolithic monuments, such as Mayburgh Henge. The region was on the border of Roman Britain, and Hadrian's Wall runs through the north of the county. In the Early Middle Ages parts of the region successively belonged to Rheged, Northumbria, and Strathclyde, and there was also a Viking presence. It became the border between England and Scotland, and was unsettled until the Union of the Crowns in 1603. During the Industrial Revolution mining took place on the Cumberland coalfield and Barrow-in-Furness became a shipbuilding centre, but the county was not heavily industrialised and the Lake District became valued for its sublime and picturesque qualities, notably by the Lake Poets.
Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
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Margo MacDonald contested the Hamilton constituency in 1978, which went to George Robertson.
Margo MacDonald joined the SNP in 1966 and was President of Edinburgh University Scottish Nationalists. She first stood as the SNP parliamentary candidate for Paisley in the 1970 election and was elected MP for Glasgow Govan from November 1973 to February 1974. She was elected as SNP MSP for the Lothians in 1999. In January 2003 she left the SNP and has held this seat as an Independent MSP. For further biographical information
www.scottish.parliament.uk/msps/currentmsps/Margo-MacDona...
This leaflet forms part of the Gordon Wilson collection. Gordon Wilson was MP for Dundee East between 1974 and 1987. He was Deputy Leader of the SNP between 1973 and 1974 and leader from 1979 to 1990. He has participated in an interview with the Scottish Political Archive discussing his memories of the 1979 and 1997 devolution referendums. His interview forms part of the Devolution Referendums Oral History Collection within the archive.
The Scottish Political Archive is housed at the University of Stirling. The archive is home to the oral interviews, personal papers and associated material from prominent Scottish politicians. For further information about the work of the archive please visit our website www.scottishpoliticalarchive.org.uk
Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets constituents during the St Mary’s coffee morning, at Richmond Town Hall, in Richmond, North Yorkshire. Image ©Licensed to Parsons Media. 17/12/2022. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Constituency Day. Picture by Dominic Lipinski / Parsons Media/ CCHQ
Image ©Licensed to Parsons Media. 27/07/2022. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Constituency Visit. Prime Minister Boris Johnson playing basketball with the children at FIESTA basketball camp at Uxbridge College during his constituency visit. Picture by Andrew Parsons CCHQ / Parsons Media
He was one of the founder members of the Kenya Federation of Labour and who, like most other KFL senior officials, started off as a close ally of the KFL’s powerful secretary general, Tom Mboya, but would later become one of Mboya’s critics in the country’s trade union movement. After Mboya was assassinated in July 1969, Kibisu would be elected to Parliament and be appointed an Assistant Minister for Labour. But in 1975 he would be sacked by President Jomo Kenyatta for being one of three Ministers who supported a motion in Parliament criticising the government over the murder of Nyandarua North MP Josiah Mwangi Kariuki.
Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
Image ©Licensed to Parsons Media. 02/06/2022. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Constituency Visit. Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Bessingby Park Bowls Club. Picture by Andrew Parsons / Parsons Media
Victoria (Vicki) Huntington is a native of Vancouver, BC, and has a degree in Political Science from the University of British Columbia. Much of her early career was spent in the RCMP Security Service and subsequently working with Ministers of the Crown in Ottawa. More recently, she served 5 terms as an elected Councillor in the municipality of Delta, B.C.
Vicki worked with the RCMP Security Service for most of the 1970’s. Prior to joining the Force she was commissioned a 1st Lieutenant in the Canadian Army Intelligence Corps (Res).
Following her years with the Security Service, Vicki served as Band Manager for the Gitanmaax Indian Reserve in Hazelton, B.C. The first-hand knowledge and understanding gained in this capacity was invaluable in her later work as Policy Assistant to the federal Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development; as a member of the Nisga’a Task Group; and as Vice Chair of the Lower Mainland Treaty Advisory Committee (LMTAC) and its representative on the Provincial Treaty Negotiating Team.
During her years in Ottawa, Vicki also served as Executive Assistant and Acting-Chief of Staff to the Solicitor General of Canada and to the Minister of National Revenue. She was also involved in various capacities with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. She returned to British Columbia in 1988 as the Director of the Federal Ministers’ Regional Offices at Canada Place in Vancouver.
Vicki has shown a particular interest in environmental and agricultural matters. In this regard, she received an award from the Delta Farmland and Wildlife Trust for exceptional service.
A resident of Ladner (Delta), British Columbia, Vicki was first elected in 1993 to Delta Municipal Council and returned to Council at or near the top of the polls in the four subsequent municipal elections. She declined to run again in 2008.
Ms. Huntington was elected as an Independent MLA for Delta South in May 2009. She was the first Independent elected to the BC Legislature in over 60 years, and made BC history in 2013 as the first BC Independent ever re-elected.
Telok Blangah Constituency held their Welcome 2014 at the West Coast Park. Displayed of various types of kites flying by the Singapore Kite Association.
Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
Image ©Licensed to Parsons Media. 10/01/2022. Uxbridge, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Boris Johnson at Boots Pharmacy meeting staff, and talking to patients receiving their vaccinations during a visit to his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency. Picture by Andrew Parsons CCHQ / Parsons Media
Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
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Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
2017-11-14:In a group photograph , President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina along with L-R) Levan Karumidze, First Deputy of the Parliament of Georgia; Catherine Cudré-Mauroux; Executive Director of constituency of Luxembourg, AfDB; Mrs. Georgina Maria Augusta Benrós de Mello, Director General of the Portuguese Community of Lusophone African Countries and Lamin G. Barrow, Director General of AfDB during the Meeting with Mrs. Georgina Maria.
Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
The Prime Minister David Cameron during a constituency day after giving a press conference in Number 10 on the Phone hacking scandal. after it was announced News International hacked into Millie Dowler's phone was hacked into, Friday July 8, 2011, Photo By Andrew Parsons/Parsons Media
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Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
EULOGY
EARLY CHILDHOOD
The late Mzee Harrison Orina Omoro was born in 1932 in Kenonka Village, Bokiambori Sub-location, West Mugirango Constituency in Nyamira County, to the late Omoro O’Isenyangi and the late Mama Kwamboka Kemunto Omoro “Mosiamani”. Orina is the sixth born in a family of 4 boys and 3 girls.
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
In 1951, Young Harrison Orina attended Tonga Primary school and later joined Sironga Intermediate school. In 1961, he joined Africa Inland Mission Kijabe where he undertook a technician course in carpentry. He joined the Africa Highlands Produce Company in 1962, where he worked at the Changana Tea factory as a clerk and later as a supervisor. Due to his diligence, hardwork and dedication, he rose through the ranks to the post of Grade 1 Supervisor. He retired in 1986 and retreated to his Matierio Home to concentrate on small scale farming. Upon retirement Mzee Orina was appointed as a village elder “Omotureti”, within the Bokiambori sub-location administrative Unit, working closely with the Assistant Chief. He was also active in the Tea and Coffee sub-sectors, and was a founding member of a number of self-help groups to promote education and development.
MARRIAGE
Mzee Harrison Orina married Mary Mosero in 1958 and Bilia Mokeira in 1961. They were blessed with 19 children: Charles Orina, Elsepher Moraa, Rebecca Ondieki, Florence Nyaboe, Robert Mosagwe, Naom Nyabate, Teresa Moraa, Elizabeth Kwamboka, Solpher Kwamboka, George Morara, Richard Osoro, Penina Nyaboke, Joseph Ogamba, Rose Nyaboke, Lorna Nyambare, Isabella Chebunga, Eric Rong’i, Joshua Nyandieka and Hellen Kemunto.
He leaves behind 60 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren.
RELIGION
Harrison Orina was a dedicated and baptized Christian within the Seventh Day Adventist church. Until his death he worshipped at the Tonga Omonuri Seventh Day Adventist church in Matierio.
SICKNESS
In 2017 Mzee Orina developed a chest infection for which he was put under medication. In April, 2018, he again complained of severe chest pains and an incessant dry cough. He was later diagnosed with Cancer of the esophagus and was put under medication in Nairobi. Following this treatment, Mzee’s condition improved for some time and he returned home.
In September 2018, he again started complaining of severe chest pain and was referred to a specialist for further examination, the doctors recommended stenting, which was successfully done in Tenwek Hospital in September 2018.
However, following a brief reprieve, Mzee’s condition continued to deteroriate and he was admitted at the Nyamira Level Five Hospital on 27 October 2018. His condition seemed to stabilize for some time. But, On 30th October 2018 at around 5p.m. Mzee developed breathing difficulties and efforts by doctors to resuscitate him did not succeed. Mzee reunited with his maker at 5.30pm on 30th October, 2018.
May the Lord Rest His soul in Eternal Peace.
2018-03-24: In a group photograph (Front row L-R), Kathy Riklin, Member of the Swiss National Council; Jennifer Blanke, Vice President, Agriculture, Human, and Social Development, African Development Bank; Mr. Charles O. Boamah, Senior Vice-President of the African Development Bank Group; Johann Schneider-Ammann, Member of the Swiss Federal Council; Catherine Cudre-Mauroux, Executive Director of constituency of Luxembourg, African Development Bank; Pierre Guislain, Vice-President, Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialization; Didier Berberat, Council of States of Switzerland; Stella Kilonzo, Senior Director, Africa Investment Forum; (Back row L-R), Christoph Heinrich, Audit & Assurance and Corporate Finance & Advisory Services; Mr. Vincent Subilia, Director General of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services (CCIG); Damian Müller, Member of the Council of States of Switzerland; Parfait Toure, Ad Interim Head of West & Central Africa Cluster; Dr. Abdu Mukhtar, Director, Industrial and Trade Development, African Development Bank during Visit to the Bank by the Swiss Federal Councilor.
Diane Dodds alongside George Robinson MLA, Adrian McQuillan MLA and Gregory Campbell MP MLA outside his constituency office during a visit to Coleraine
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We have discussed this before, but it is important to review and bring it all together. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is a president without a constituency. His presidency is assumed, not elected. He rules over a fantasy that doesn’t really exist and an organization that seems destined to disappear.
Abbas’ position is illegitimate. Palestinian Authority elections were scheduled to take place in early 2010 at the end of Abbas’ second term. Instead, the elections were “delayed.” However, they have never come to pass because Abbas’ Central Council – not the people – voted to extend his term in office indefinitely.
Abbas is in political trouble. A survey released on Christmas day, a day not typically celebrated by Muslims, indicated that, if an election were to be held today, Abbas would lose.
Abbas has the PA in economic trouble. Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi is planning to visit Ramallah at the behest of PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. Fayyad is calling for an immediate Arab summit to appeal to Arab leaders to help to stave off the rapidly approaching economic collapse. The Arab League has been withholding $100 million per month in “safety net” funds from the PA that had been previously pledged to them.
Abbas is corrupt. MPN said recently, “Reports suggest that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, like his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, has used his position of power to line his own pockets as well as those of his cohort of cronies, including his sons, Yasser and Tarek.” It’s not about the PA and the people; it’s all about himself.
Abbas refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist. In this matter, as in many others, he is coy and sly. He will say that he recognizes that Israel exists. But he will not say that Israel has a right to exist.
We need to be keenly aware of what is going on in the West Bank. The PA is like a mirror balancing on a pin. It’s only a matter of time before it all collapses and Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood step in and try to wrest it from Israel’s legal and rightful grasp. Pray about this matter with us. Israel, and especially the city of Jerusalem, could be facing the fight of their lives once again. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. (Psalm 122:6)
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Lucinda Creighton is an Irish Fine Gael politician. She is currently a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South East constituency.
Originally from County Mayo, she is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where she gained a Law degree (LL.B.) in 2002. She was a member of the Trinity College branch of Young Fine Gael, as was fellow 2007 entrant to the Dáil Leo Varadkar.
In 2003 she qualified as an Attorney at law for the state of New York. She was called to the Irish bar in 2005.
Creighton is a former Vice President of Youth of the European People's Party. She was elected to Dublin City Council in 2004 to represent the Pembroke local electoral area and served until 2007. She was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2007 general election. She is the youngest member of the current Oireachtas and the first to be born in the 1980s.
She was party Deputy spokesperson on Foreign Affairs with special responsibility for European Affairs from 2007–10. She has been critical of the current leader Enda Kenny. In July 2010 she criticized what she termed the "cute hoor politics" in Fine Gael.
In October 2010, she was appointed as party Deputy spokesperson on Justice with special responsibility for Immigration, Integration and Equality.
Young people from YOUNGO – the youth constituency under the UNFCCC – are taking action today inside the UN climate talks. Silently holding placards bearing the words ‘Equity is the Pathway to Ambition’, they issue a powerful reminder to negotiators from developed countries that it is their responsibility to take the lead in acting on climate change. YOUNGO demands a renewed drive for progress at the climate talks; progress which is based on science and equity.
“We have had loud and fun actions so far. But today we are silent, reminding negotiators of the respect that the fundamental principles of this Convention require. Some governments believe they can simply overwrite the principles of a global convention but these are based on equitable values which are not up for negotiation. It is only by following a pathway which is equitable and just that we will be able to make real strides in the fight against climate change.” said Maja Gudim Burheim from the Norwegian organisation, Changemaker.
READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE: pusheurope.eu/media/pressrelease-24052012/
Attending the Nicholas Academic Centers 4th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner Celebration were Retired Santa Ana Schools Superintendent Jane Russo, Dep. Superintendent Cathy Olsky, and Arturo Jimenez, the district's Director of Constituency Affairs.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets constituents during the St Mary’s coffee morning, at Richmond Town Hall, in Richmond, North Yorkshire. Image ©Licensed to Parsons Media. 17/12/2022. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Constituency Day. Picture by Dominic Lipinski / Parsons Media/ CCHQ