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Far from complete! But I love it and it's very functional. Aside from my computer, office supplies, and delivery of the desk, this whole area cost me just under $100. I think I did pretty good!
Right at the moment the cyclone status was all clear. Luckily. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.
Current inhabitants:
20 Rote Neon (Paracheirodon axelrodi)
10 Rotkopfsalmler (Hemigrammus bleheri)
10 Schrägschwimmer (Thayeria boehlkei)
3 Panda Panzerwelse (Corydoras panda)
3 Südamerikanischer Schmetterlingsbuntbarsch (Mikrogeophagus ramirezi)
11 Corydoras sterbai
8 Diskus (Symphysodon)
3 Apistogramma macmasteri
After a lull for both trees last year, we've got dozens of pineapple guava and persimmon, neither of which we know how to actualize. Perhaps bread & jam?
A close look at a pair of lamps secured on the running board of GWR Tank locomotive 1450.
These lamps are used mainly to identify the type of train the engine is hauling to assist signalers in routing the train.
Current owner since June 2007.
Not something I'd usually snap, but this was a lovely, bright Fabia estate which looked in showroom condition. It's due an MOT next month, but last year it had 45k on the clock and judging by the mileage pattern it won't be much over 46k now...
... Human by Rag 'n' Bone Man. I recently received this as a gift, and it's been played continuously in my car ever since. It's not often I'm moved by a song, but Skin certainly does that. It's not often I learn the words to a song, but unfortunate passengers have been tortured by my karaoke this week.
Members of the We're Here! group are visiting Currently Listening To group to share our aural pleasures.
CFA organised a “National Seminar on Changing Landscape and Growing Financial Crisis in the Power Sector” on September 1st & 2nd, 2018. The venue for the programme is USO International Centre (USOIC), USO House, USO Road, 6, Special Institutional Area, New Delhi-110067 and the session will start from 9:30 AM.
This two day seminar will bring together experts, activists and journalists, who are monitoring and raising issues related to power sector to understand current landscape and changes in policies, failure of the regulatory mechanisms, growing burden on Public Sector Banks due to NPAs in electricity sector, etc. and fruitless attempts to solve the deepening financial crisis by the government in this sector.
In the past few years, a major shift has taken place in the power sector on several fronts including environment clearance, national forest policy, coal mining regulation, power purchase agreement (PPA), fuel supply agreement (FSA) and policies of financial institutions. In India, the shift started with Electricity Act, 2003 which unbundled the State Electricity Boards in three separate companies for generation, transmission and distribution along with delicensing the thermal power sector giving a free hand to private companies to expand power projects. This model was imposed by the World Bank which aimed to bring the private companies into the safer and profitable zones.
These changes have pushed for privatization in the power sector favouring the big companies often going against the interest of people. The private developers setting up thermal power plants took undue advantage of the situation and forced the state power utilities to sign PPA for a period of 25 years with a deemed generation clause, where this clause forced the power distribution companies (Discoms) to pay for the power that they may not consume during the lean periods. These thermal power plants are spread all over the river basins across India and have been grabbing the land and forests for the projects and mining. There is a fight to control the natural resources of the country whether it is land, forests, minerals or rivers. The coal-based power projects apart from causing massive displacement also hugely impact the livelihoods of communities, who in most cases are farmers, Adivasis and Dalits. These projects also adversely impact the environment causing serious health concerns for people and destruction of ecology. The energy needs of urban India is being fulfilled at the cost of land and livelihoods of rural communities.
The expansion of power projects is not only affecting the environment and natural resources but also robbing the public of their own money through companies taking huge loans from the banks for these projects and not repaying them. However, this robbing of public money is not limited to the power sector alone. Currently, the Indian banks are facing a financial crisis due to a staggering amount of stressed assets (Gross NPAs + Restructured Advances). Indian banks’ gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs), or bad loans, stood at Rs 10.25 lakh crore as of 31 March 2018. Last quarter, the pile has grown by Rs 1.39 lakh crore or 16 per cent from Rs 8.86 lakh crore as on 31 December 2017. In the RBI’s Financial Stability Report, the apex bank said that the Gross NPA (GNPA) ratio of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) is likely to rise in the current fiscal.
The problem of NPAs in power sector was highlighted in 2017 through two key power projects – Coastal Gujarat Power Limited (4000MW) owned by TATA Power and Adani’s Mundra Thermal Power Project (4660MW), which were incurring massive losses and asked the state government to bail them out. The trend of the government bailing out private companies with public money is growing day by day. In March 2018, a report was published by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy to focus on the ‘Stressed/Non-Performing Assets’ in the electricity sector. The committee identified 34 thermal power projects worth Rs. 1.74 lakh crore were on verge of becoming NPAs. It is worthwhile to note that out of these 34 thermal power plants, 32 power plants belonged to the private sector, while only two were from the public sector. Apart from that, the committee highlighted that Stressed Assets were around 17.67% (Rs. 98,799 crores) of the total advances in the thermal power sector.
These projects have been given loans in tune of lakhs of crores rupees by Indian banking and non-banking institutions. The current government made a number of unsuccessful attempts to resolve this mounting financial crisis, including a number of mechanisms such as Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC), Bad Bank Formula, Project Sashakt, etc. Now the government has set up a committee headed by cabinet secretary to look into the matter. It raises the questions on the intentions of the government whether they really want to resolve this or making some visible attempt due to an upcoming election.
The consequences of this situation are that the stressed assets of banks are compounding due to the haphazard expansion of projects by power companies, which are eventually being bailed out by the government through public money. On the one hand private companies are robbing the public money and on the other hand, they are ignoring the social and environmental impacts of these projects.
Speakers included:
Praful Samanatara,
Senior Activist & Environmentalist Odisha Soumya Dutta, Environmentalist ,Beyond Copenhagen Collective, New Delhi
Dr. Shoibal Chakravarty,
ATREE) Bangalore
Paranjoy Guha Thakurtha,
Senior Journalist
Rajesh Kumar,
Centre for Financial Accountability
Shreya Jai,
Senior Journalist Business Standard
Er. Shailendra Dubey ,
All India Power Engineer Federation (AIPEF) Er. Padamjit Singh
All India Power Engineer Federation (AIPEF)
Jesu Rethnam
Senior Activist, Coastal Action Network Tamilnadu
Prabir Purkayastha
Senior Journalist, News click
Ashok Shrimali
Senior Activist Mine Mineral and People, Gujarat
Nitin Sethi
Senior Journalist Business Standard
Philip Cullet,
Water polices expert
Rajkumar Sinha
Senior Activist, Bargi Bandh Visthapit Avam Prabhavit Sangh, Madhya Pradhesh
Diwan Singh, Environmentalist, River policy experts, New Delhi
Gaurav Dwivedi,
Centre for Financial Accountability
Srinivas Krishnaswamy,
Economist Vasudha Foundation
Sanjay Mangala Gopal
Senior Activist & Renewable Energy expert
Prof. E. Somanathan
Economist, Indian Statistical Institute Delhi
Linda Chhakchhuak,
Independent Journalist, Shillong
Er. K. Ashok Rao
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) Er. Shailendra Dubey ,
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF)
Joe Athialy
Centre for Financial Accountability
Com. Thomas Franco,
Former General Secretory AIBOC
Er. K. Ashok Rao
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF)
my current read... started this a month or so ago and haven't been afforded the time to read like I had previously while pregnant. but despite the slower pace I'm still enjoying this memoir when I do get to it. which is usually during the kids' nap times and I need a break before I move on to the dishes, laundry, vacuuming etc., etc.
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Current and former Virginia National Guard Soldiers and Airmen gather for the VNG Alumni Network Kickoff event May 6, 2019, at the Sergeant Bob Slaughter Headquarters at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia. The event, hosted by Maj. Gen. Timothy P. Williams, the Adjutant General of Virginia, reunited dozens of former Soldiers and Airmen, and was attended by several veterans’ service organizations. The goal of the newly-formed network is to bring together anyone with interest in the Guard to help tell the organization’s story and rally support when needed. The organization is open to anyone who honorably served in the Virginia Army National Guard, Virginia Air National Guard and the Virginia Defense Force, and there are no dues, fees or costs. For information about the network, please visit www.facebook.com/groups/VNGAlumniNetwork/. (U.S. National Guard photo by Mike Vrabel)
Tour of the Current Headquarters in San Francisco
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May 29, 2023 - "The skyline of downtown Columbus has been transformed with this monumental artwork by internationally recognized sculptor Janet Echelman. "Current" is a stunning, ephemeral, sky-high sculpture that will inspire wonder and imagination in all who see it. As it dances gracefully in the wind, this awe-inspiring work of art will become an emblem of Columbus’ culture and innovation.
The design and installation of "Current" was funded by Jeff Edwards. He has graciously donated the work to the Museum. We will oversee the care and maintenance of the sculpture as part of our permanent collection." Previous description of "Current" from a Facebook post by the Columbus Museum of Art.
Article about "Current" including its mean can be found here: dispatch-oh.newsmemory.com/?publink=04d385aae_134abf4
Meet Elena. Elena currently is obtaining her PHD in Spanish and Portuguese Literture at UC Davis. Not only is she a student at UC Davis but she is also teaches Intermeditated Spanish at UC Davis. After graduation Elena would like to be a full time professor teaching both Spanish and Portuguese. Elena tells me doesn't have an since humor and on that note I chose this image of Elena as my favorite. Thank you Elena for taking part in my 100 Stranger Project. This picture is #089 in my 100 Strangers Project. You can follow my progress in this project at Portraits by David 100 Strangers Project or Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group
BOWIE BY MICK ROCK: See the rise of Ziggy Stardust through the "man who shot the seventies."
Between 1972 and 1973, when David Bowie was redefining glam rock as the androgynous alien rock star Ziggy Stardust, fellow Londoner Mick Rock was the musician’s official photographer. Bowie told his manager at the time, “Mick sees me the way I see myself.”
Bowie by Mick Rock features 65 of Rock’s photographs that capture Bowie’s creativity and charisma, from dressing room shots of his transformation into Ziggy Stardust and live performances to private moments between gigs. “I think David trusted me,” reflects Rock. “I regarded myself as a guardian of his image, and that’s true to this day.”
The gallery also includes rare performance footage, oral history interviews, an audio tour narrated by Rock, and photos of other music icons like Lou Reed, Queen, and Debbie Harry.
Currently there are two very ugly barriers on the road known as the Marina and I am not sure as to why they are there but they may have something to do with crowd control when there is a match at the GAA stadium. I first became of the barriers when I discovered that Google Maps failed to gain access to the section between the two barriers. The area is attractive but it urgently some care and attention as it is badly run-down.
The Mariana dates from 1900 and at the time was later described as follows: "The Marina is a delightful, tree-lined promenade on the south bank of the River Lee, of which it commands some exquisite peeps. Easy of access, this promenade is a delight to visitors, and has been greatly improved in recent years, a bandstand having been provided; there are also seats and rustic shelters at intervals. Within easy reach of the park and racecourse."
Currently the Marina is in the process of being redeveloped as a public amenity. Demolition work on the old Showgrounds was completed late last year, paving the way for the construction of the multi-million euro project includes the redesign of the entire Marina, from the Shandon Boat Club to Blackrock, including grounds around Páirc Uí Chaoimh [GAA stadium] and the Atlantic Pond.
The Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) currently includes over 100 Issuing Banks in the EBRD region and more than 800 Confirming Banks worldwide. The event gave EBRD partner banks the opportunity to review and discuss industry challenges, pricing, limits and trade opportunities with key industry specialists, regulators and representatives from the World Trade Organization, the International Chamber of Commerce HQ and local National ICC Committees.
It also featured the highly popular award ceremony for ‘The Most Active EBRD TFP Banks’ and ‘The Best Transaction of 2016’.