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20 May 2019 – Building a Societal Contract for the World, Facilitator: Chris Hoenig, Co-Founder, Citizens Alliance
Scene setting: Anthony Gooch, Director, Public Affairs & Communications, OECD
Discussion leaders
Hossein Derakhshan, Journalist, Research Associate, MIT Media Lab
Natasha Friis Saxberg, Deputy Chairman, Foundation for Social Responsibility
Gabriela Gandel, Executive Director, Impact Hub
M. Yasmina McCarty, Head of Mobile for Development, GSMA
Ida McDonnell, Team Leader, Senior Policy Analyst, Development Directorate, OECD
Manuel Muñiz, Dean of the School of Global and Public Affairs; Rafael del Pino Professor of Practice of Global Leadership, IE University, Spain
David Grégoire Van Reybrouc, Cultural Historian, Archaeologist & Author
Friederike Röder, CEO, ONE France
Dennis Snower, President, Global Solutions Initiative
Closing: Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD, OECD Headquarters, Paris.
Photo: OECD / Christian Moutarde
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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.
On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. (ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably).
With visits now in excess of 17.168 Million to my FLICKR site, used primarily these days as a fun platform to reach friends and family as I have now sold my professional gear and now take a more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to FLICKR, GETTY IMAGES and everyone who drops by.
***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on September 26th 2016
CREATIVE RF gty.im/627282480 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**
This photograph became my 2,248th frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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Photograph taken in the golden hour around sunrise at 08:22am at an altitude of seven metres, on Tuesday 1st January 2013 opposite Adventure Island Theme Park and the Western Esplanade on the muddy shoreline of Southend on Sea, Essex, England.
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Nikon D800 200mm 1/160s f/13.0 iso200 Mirror Up RAW (14-bit) Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Single point focus. Auto Active D-lighting.
Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED IF VRII. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod. Manfrotto quick release plate 200PL-14. Manfrotto 327RC2 Grip action ball head. My memory 32GB class 10 20MB/s SDHC. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit
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LATITUDE: N 51d 31m 53.62s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 42m 58.82s
ALTITUDE: 7.0m
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RAW (TIFF) FILE: 69.10MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 20.68MB
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PROCESSING POWER:
Nikon D800 Firmware versions A 1.10 B 1.10 L 2.009 (Lens distortion control version 2)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit (Version 1.2.4 24/11/2016). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
In 1995 with a contracted system of coastal route 15 for which new cars arrived and the remaining hilly routes, Carris decided to upgrade 45 of its four wheel cars, recognising their iconic status and tourist appeal. 39 of these were taken from the 200 series (including the 415 and 483) and six from the later 700 series. All 45 were completed in 1995/6.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano hands over the IAEA Collaborating Centre plaque to Philippe Corréa, Director of the National Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (INSTN) held at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria on 25 May 2016.
from left to right: Patrick Dominique Brisset, Industrial Technologist, Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, HE Ms. Marion Paradas, Resident Representative of France to the IAEA, Philippe Corréa, Yukiya Amano, Jean-Pierre Cayol, Departmental Programme Coordinator, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, Paul Livolsi, INSTN, Liaison Officer for the Collaborating Centre, Jean-Christophe Conte from the French Permanent Mission and Natalie Colinet, Section Head, Research Contracts Administration Section, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
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Paul S Winson have won the contracts for services 3 and 13 from Centrebus. These routes are run on behalf of Leicestershire CC.
Acquired for the routes is Enviro200 JB51 BUS, which is duly seen here on route 3.
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One of many papers I signed for the car purchase and trade-in, and definitely the longest.
Pictures of the car to come when I can get some daytime shots in.
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In a debate with Presidents Michel and von der Leyen, MEPs called for continued support for Ukraine and a common EU response to the US inflation reduction act.
“We are seeing more examples of Russia’s strategy of terror in Ukraine but its people will continue to resist and the EU will support their efforts”, said European Council President Charles Michel. He added that the EU must rapidly boost the competitiveness of European companies so they can compete with those in the USA and China that receive massive state aid. President Michel also highlighted the significant progress made in the EU’s coordinated response to high energy prices and underlined the importance of the upcoming reform of the electricity market, talks on migration and the need to strengthen sanctions against Iran for its continued repression of its citizens. “2023 will be a key year for the European project”, he concluded.
On Russia’s war against Ukraine, the Commission President said that “we need strength and resolve”. Europe has shown unity and joint efforts, for example regarding energy, have paid off, with gas prices now lower than before the invasion and gas storage at 80%. “For this winter we are safe, but we now have to prepare for the next one”, she continued and announced that the first energy supply contracts will be signed before summer.
To boost the competitiveness of Europe’s industry, President von der Leyen presented the “Green Deal industrial plan”, based on four pillars: speed and access, by simplifying and fast-tracking procedures; boosting investment in clean tech production by temporarily adapting state aid rules; supporting workers to improve their skills set to create good and well-paid jobs; and trade agreements to secure strong and resilient supply chains.
MEPs welcomed the EU’s continued support for Ukraine‘s stand against Russia’s aggression. They were convinced the European model will prevail over the Russian dictatorship, because Europe puts people first and does not use them to push through the will of a political leader.
Some MEPs demanded an increase in support for the most vulnerable during the cost of living crisis, and to ensure better conditions for platform workers. Others welcomed the Commission‘s action plan for European industry and called for an EU fund in response to the US inflation reduction act.
Some MEPs suggested better targeting of EU subsidies and more investment in research and development, a major prerequisite for improving the EU’s competitiveness. On the green transition, several MEPs urged the EU to maintain the momentum and advance the work set out in the European green deal.
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The past week or so really knocked the hell out of me. I contracted both Shingles (first time) and COVID at roughly the same time. It took 4 days, and good advice from my dad to even figure out why the hell it hurt to touch my hair! I finally went to urgent care last weekend where a doctor confirmed Shingles and prescribed an antiviral medication. Then, literally the very next day, my wife wakes up and says "I'm sick!" She missed 2 days of work which is pretty unusual for her, so I knew it was bad. Two more days after that, I had caught whatever she had. By this time, the appointment I'd made with my actual doctor rolled around, so I went in for a follow up, only to learn I ALSO had COVID! The next few days were pretty damn miserable with a splitting headache, ear ache, body aches, fever, chills, fatigue, coughing, and a runny nose like I've not had in years. The day I took this photo, I still wasn't even feeling that great, BUT I felt better than I had in days which was a huge improvement. Today, I'm even better and hoping I can return to society by Tuesday as planned.
This Eastern Bluebird sure was a surprise to see during yesterday's mini-snowstorm. Actually I had heard them calling sometime last week before getting sick, but wasn't sure if they would stick around or not. At this point, I'm hopeful they stick around just one more week, when some friends and I will do our annual Christmas Bird Count which includes this area. Hennepin County, MN 12/09/23
This is an interesting place. I do like a petrol station with independent branding and this has only been one for a short while having previously been branded Gulf. Back in 2008 in the earliest Streetview shot it was a derelict former British Benzol site with pole sign still standing and the carcass of a car almost unrecognisable on the forecourt. It looks very much like there was a fire here and indeed there was just three months before that initial Streetview shot was taken.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8647289.stm
Soon after the rebuilding took place and in time it was nicely resurrected as a Gulf site. That Gulf contract clearly didn't last too long as for the last few years it has been an independent and apparently the cheapest fuel in the area and highly regarded by its customers. The tanker making delivery at the time I passed by is also interesting, XPO Logistics are an American company with business in eighteen different countries including clearly the UK. They have a very cool website
Here's the Streetview showing the burnt out site when branded British Benzol
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6341772,-1.2790393,3a,80.4y,253...
Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 1400. Photo: Paramount Films.
Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn (1915-2001) started as a contract player at Paramount, where he mainly played villains and ethnic types. He became disenchanted with his career and did not renew his Paramount contract. Instead, he returned to the stage and replaced Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway. This performance made his reputation and boosted his film career. For his role as Brando's brother in Viva Zapata! (Elia Kazan, 1952), Quinn won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. He gave his greatest performance as the circus strongman in Federico Fellini's masterpiece La Strada (1954). Quinn won his second Supporting Actor Oscar in 1957 for his portrayal of Paul Gauguin in Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli, 1956), opposite Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh. Over the next decade Quinn lived in Italy alternated between Hollywood and the European cinema.
Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn was born in 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico. His parents were Manuela (Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn. After starting life in extremely modest circumstances in Mexico, his family moved to Los Angeles, where his father became an assistant cameraman at Selig Film Studios. Quinn often accompanied his father to work, and became acquainted with such stars as Tom Mix and John Barrymore, with whom he kept up the friendship into adulthood. He attended Polytechnic High School and later Belmont High, but eventually dropped out. The young Quinn boxed which stood him in good stead as a stage actor, when he played Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. He won a scholarship to study architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright at the great architect's studio, Taliesin, in Arizona. Quinn was close to Wright, who encouraged him when he decided to give acting a try. After a brief apprenticeship on stage, Quinn hit Hollywood. He made his film debut with a character role in the crime drama Parole! (Lew Landers, 1936). Quinn picked up a variety of small roles in several films at Paramount, including a Cheyenne Indian in The Plainsman (1936), which was directed by his future father-in-law, Cecil B. DeMille. As a contract player at Paramount, Quinn mainly played villains and ethnic types, such as a gangster in the crime drama Dangerous to Know (Robert Florey, 1938), a Chinese gangster in Island of Lost Men (Kurt Neumann, 1939) and an Arab chieftain in the Bing Crosby-Bob Hope vehicle Road to Morocco (David Butler, 1942). He also played the sympathetic Crazy Horse in They Died with Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh, 1941) with Errol Flynn. As a Mexican national (he did not become an American citizen until 1947), he was exempt from the draft. With many actors in the service fighting World War II, Quinn was able to move up into better supporting roles. He had married DeMille's daughter Katherine DeMille, which afforded him entrance to the top circles of Hollywood society. He became disenchanted with playing supporting parts as Chief Yellow Hand in Buffalo Bill (William A. Wellman, 1944) and a Chinese in China Sky (China Sky (Ray Enright, 1945). His first lead was the Indian farmer Charlie Eagle in Black Gold (Phil Karlson, 1947) opposite his wife, Katherine DeMille. By 1947, he had appeared in more than fifty films and was still not a major star. He did not renew his Paramount contract despite the advice of others, including his father-in-law whom Quinn felt never accepted him due to his Mexican roots. Instead, he returned to the stage. His portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire in Chicago and on Broadway, where he replaced Marlon Brando, made his reputation. However, IMDb also gives another explanation for his move to the stage: “Became a naturalized United States citizen in 1947, just before he was ‘gray-listed’ for his association with Communists such as screenwriter John Howard Lawson and what were termed ‘fellow travelers’, though he himself was never called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. When warned of his gray-listing by 20th Century-Fox boss Darryl F. Zanuck (a liberal), Quinn decided to go on the Broadway stage where there was no blacklist rather than go through the process of refuting the suspicions.”
Anthony Quinn’s success on Broadway boosted his film career. He returned to the cinema in The Brave Bulls (Robert Rossen, 1951). Director Elia Kazan cast him as Marlon Brando's brother in his biographical film of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, Viva Zapata! (1952). Quinn won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for 1952, making him the first Mexican-American to win an Oscar. It was not to be his lone appearance in the winner's circle: he won his second Supporting Actor Oscar five years later for his portrayal of painter Paul Gauguin in Vincente Minnelli's biographical film of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life (1956), opposite Kirk Douglas. Over the next decade Quinn lived in Italy and became a major figure in world cinema, as many studios shot films in Italy to take advantage of the lower costs. He appeared in several Italian films, giving one of his greatest performances as the dim-witted, thuggish and volatile circus strongman who brutalizes the sweet soul played by Giulietta Masina in her husband Federico Fellini's masterpiece La Strada (1954). Alternating between Europe and Hollywood, Quinn built his reputation and entered the front rank of character actors and character leads. He received his third Oscar nomination (and first for Best Actor) for Wild Is the Wind (George Cukor, 1957). Quinn starred in The Savage Innocents 1959 as Inuk, an Eskimo who finds himself caught between two clashing cultures. He played a Greek resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation in the monster hit The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson, 1961) and received kudos for his portrayal of a once-great boxer on his way down in Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson, 1962). Back on Broadway, he was nominated for the 1961 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for Becket. He returned to the cinema to play ethnic parts, such as an Arab warlord in David Lean's masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and he played the eponymous lead in the Sword-and-sandal blockbuster Barabbas (Richard Fleischer, 1961) opposite Silvana Mangano. Two years later he reached the zenith of his career, playing Zorba in Alexis Zorbas/Zorba the Greek (Michael Cacoyannis, 1964)), which brought him his fourth, and last, Oscar nomination as Best Actor. The 1960s were kind to him: he played character leads in such major films as The Shoes of the Fisherman (Michael Anderson, 1968) opposite Laurence Olivier, and The Secret of Santa Vittoria (Stanley Kramer, 1969), with Anna Magnani. However, his appearance in the title role in the film adaptation of John Fowles' novel, The Magus (Guy Green, 1968), did nothing to save the film, which was one of that decade's notorious turkeys.
The following decade saw Anthony Quinn slip back into playing ethnic types again. He starred as the Hispanic mayor of a rapidly growing city in Southwest United States in the TV series The Man and the City (1971). IMDb writes about an interesting incident: “Around 1972, he announced his desire to play Henry Cristophe, the 19th-century emperor of Haiti. Upon this announcement, several prominent black actors, including Ossie Davis and Ellen Holly, stated that they were opposed to a ‘white man’ playing ‘black’. Davis stated, ‘My black children need black heroes on which to model their behavior. Henry Cristophe is an authentic black hero. Tony, for all my admiration of him as a talent, will do himself and my children a great disservice if he encourages them to believe that only a white man, and Tony is white to my children, is capable of playing a black hero.’” Quinn’s career lost its momentum during the 1970s. Aside from playing a thinly disguised Aristotle Onassis in the cinematic roman-a-clef The Greek Tycoon (J. Lee Thompson, 1978), his other major roles of the decade were as Hamza in the controversial The Message/Mohammad, Messenger of God (Moustapha Akkad, 1976), as the Italian patriarch in L'eredità Ferramonti/The Inheritance (Mauro Bolognini, 1976) opposite Dominique Sanda, yet another Arab in Caravans (James Fargo, 1978) and a Mexican patriarch in The Children of Sanchez (Hall Bartlett, 1978) with Dolores Del Rio. In 1983 he reprised his most famous role, Zorba the Greek, on Broadway in the revival of the musical Zorba, for 362 performances. Though his film career slowed during the 1990s, he continued to work steadily in films and television. Anthony Quinn lived out the latter years of his life in Bristol, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his time painting and sculpting. In 2001, he died in a hospital in Boston from pneumonia and respiratory failure linked to his battle with lung cancer. Quinn was 86 years old. He was married three times. After divorcing Katherine DeMille in 1965, he married Jolanda Addolori (1966-1997) and Kathy Benvin (1997-2001). He had ten children, five with DeMille, three with Addolori, and two with Benvin.
Sources: Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Pedro Borges (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
The Golden Triangle Regional Library Consortium (GTRLC) welcomed 17 new libraries this week as the Mid-Mississippi Regional Library System and the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System joined ranks with 23 other libraries in the consortium.
During a contract signing on March 7, Dr. Mark Keenum, Mississippi State University President, welcomed the new libraries and thanked the directors and board members for their confidence in the MSU Libraries and for their vision and commitment to providing the best possible service and resources to their patrons.
The Mid-Mississippi Regional Library System serves Mississippi’s Attala, Holmes, Leake, Montgomery and Winston counties, while the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System manages collections for the communities of Columbus, Artesia, Crawford, and Caledonia, Mississippi.
“This is a very exciting time for our patrons and for what our library system can offer to the citizens of Attala County,” said Richard Greene, Executive Director of the Mid-Mississippi RLS. “This library resource sharing consortium will bring the collections of 38 libraries to the finger tips of our Attala County customers.”
“Being a member of the GTRLC means that we can bring a world of information to the citizens of Lowndes County,” said Alice Shands, Director of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System. “No longer are Lowndes County citizens limited to only the informational resources we can afford to purchase. Membership in the GTRLC provides an exponential increase in the amount of information our patrons may now access.”
The GTRLC was established in 1993 as a means of increasing the sharing of resources (access to one database which would contain all of the holdings within the Golden Triangle area) and automation costs as well as the sharing of technical expertise. The mission of the Consortium is to provide a central database that customers can utilize to provide easy access to resources available in the Golden Triangle Region. Building upon the success of the venture between charter members Mississippi State University and Mississippi University for Women, the Consortium continues to impact libraries and provide exceptional service to its members.
“We are very pleased to have the Columbus-Lowndes Library System and the Mid-Mississippi Regional Library System join the GTRLC,” said MSU Libraries Administrator of Systems, Stephen Cunetto. “With these additions, the Consortium, the only one of its kind in the State, now includes 40 libraries, including academics, publics, and school libraries.”
Since its establishment, Starkville High School, Tombigbee Regional Library System, Oktibbeha – Starkville Public Library, and the East Mississippi Community College Libraries have joined the consortium. Training and ongoing development and support for the Consortium is handled by the Mississippi State University Libraries.
For more information on the Golden Triangle Regional Library Consortium, please visit library.msstate.edu/GTRLC.