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Accelerating Climate Action through Philanthropic-Public-Private-Collaboration
Gim Huay Neo, Managing Director, Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum; Ray Dalio, Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Bridgewater Associates, USA; Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, European Commission; Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
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Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September
Large golfing umbrella featuring the Livingston Development Corporation logo and the slogan 'Make it in Livingston'.
Livingston was one of the ‘new towns’ created after WWII to relieve the need for housing in urban areas. Livingston Development Corporation (LDC) was set up by the New Town (Livingston) (Development Corporation) Order 1962 to create and co-ordinate new industrial activity in West Lothian and to manage the population over-spill from Glasgow by providing new homes and employment. LDC wound up in1997, when its functions were transferred to West Lothian Council.
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Resources dedicated to capacity development in fragile states have risen substantially in recent years. This panel discussion will review country experiences in implementing capacity development in fragile states, and focus on its impact, successes and challenges, and ways to further strengthen delivery modalities.
At Bishop's Mill, on Freeman's Reach where the ice rink used to be in Durham City. This National Savings building is nearly finished and nearby they're putting up the steel skeleton of the new Passport Office (info).
Archive photo of the construction of Sun Chui Estate taken in 1982. The Sun Chui Estate is part of the Urban Development Project of the ADB in Shatin, Hong Kong, China in 1980.
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Sustainable development after Rio+20: formulating global sustainable development goals - A seminar with Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Followed by a panel debate including
Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation
Johan Rockström, Director Stockholm Resilience Centre
Måns Nilsson, Research Director Stockholm Environment Institute
Moderated by Johan Kuylenstierna, Executive Director Stockholm Environment Institute
Cadets and Alpini officers finish climbing a mountain during an internship in conjunction with the Advanced Individual Academic Development program sponsored by West Point to help implement cadets’ knowledge from course work to enhance leadership, decision and problem solving skills. (U.S. Army Africa photo by Sgt. Terysa M. King)
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Dr Anne-Marie Slaughter discusses the The Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), for which she served as Executive Director, at Chatham House on Friday 21 January 2010.
Acadia University announces a new partnership with the Valley African Nova Scotia Development Association (VANSDA) to enhance support for students. The partnership establishes a full-time employment and cultural navigator to assist students with the transition to and from university. Although it has a holistic approach, the partnership focuses on helping students of African Nova Scotian, Black, or African descent.
Rich Reynolds, Microsoft Philanthropies Strategy and International Field Lead; Benjamin Karenzi, Youth leader CEO Robotical Africa Rwanda and Delegates having a group portrait during African Economic Conference (AEC) 2019 - Special Event D - Enhancing Demand - Driven Digital and Technical Skills Development in December 2019, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
The Compass Point development around Saunders Ness Road and taking in Mariners Mews and Sextant Avenue was built in the mid-80s forming a quiet, neat upmarket estate on the Isle of Dogs.
As part of the development, two tall blocks of flats are abutted by full height cylindrical towers, framing and echoing the view of silos across the Thames and acting as a small reminder of the estate's industrial past.
Architect Sir Jeremy Dixon's Georgian-inspired designs were built on Dudgeon's Wharf, reclaimed after the closure of the docks.
At the end of Sextant Avenue, a memorial remembers the old Wharf - not for its years of hard labour in the service of heavy industry - but for a reason more poignant and tragic.
Forty years ago the world was looking skywards for news of Nasa's audicious mission to take Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins to the moon.
On July 17, a day after Apollo 11 shot into the skies atop a cone of fire, another explosion took the lives of five fireman, the biggest loss of life suffered by the London Fire Brigade in peace time.
Dudgeon's was a ship building firm in the 1800s and was one of a cluster that prospered on the island - including names such as Ash, Stewart's and Samuda's. At its height, in the early 1860s, it is estimated that the firms on the Isle of Dogs employed up to 15,000 men and boys in the shipyards and engineering firms.
The most iconic of the ships built at these docks was Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Eastern, the largest ship ever built at the time of her launch in 1858.
But the Great Eastern was a last hurrah for ship building on the Thames. The rivers of the North were more efficient and labour and materials were cheaper and in double-quick time large firms of the Thames went bankrupt and tens of thousands were out of a job.
People starved, shipyards became wastelands and revival would take many long painful years.
Some shipbuilding survived by specialising - Yarrow built steam-powered gunboats while other firms turned to ship repair. Shipbuilding skills evolved. Workers produced a diverse range of goods including parts for major civil engineering projects - bridges and gas holders - as well as boilers, engine parts, tanks, propellers and wire rope. Other skills were cannabilised into new industries - sacks and tarpaulins, woodworking and paint, varnishes and chemicals.
Industry survived one way and another for another 100 years of so until the docks and their associated works began disappearing in the 1960s.
The arrival of containers - which London couldn't handle - in the late 60s finally rendered the docklands obsolete.
By the time of the 1969 tragedy, the wharf was a redundant "tank farm" with an array of a hundred or so containers for storing oils and spirit, some up to 200,000 gallons in size. However, these tanks were destined to go as part of the regeneration of the land and demolition contractors had received advice on how to take apart these structures safely.
The demolition was rife with danger and difficulties and firefighters had frequently attended the site after sparks from cutting gear ignited small fires.
Less than two weeks before the fatal explosion, 40 men with eight pumps had tackled a fire on waste oil in a derelict tank and now another call arrived at Millwall Fire Station at 11.21am alerting the emergency services to another fire.
Two appliances were sent from Millwall in F Division and another from Brunswick Road. A foam tender from East Ham was sent later along with a fireboat from Greenwich.
Station Officer Innard, believing the fire to be out when he arrived, decided to put a curtain of water into the open top manhole of Tank 97.
Four other officers joined him on top of the tank to feed in the water. Later reports concluded that this pull of water drew air into the tank, mixing with the flammable vapours.
SO Innard then decided to ensure there was no further fire by opening the bottom manhole. Unable to find a spanner to undo the nuts, it was suggested they should be burned off.
As soon as a workman applied the cutting flame of his torch to the first nut, the vapours inside the tank ignited immediately, blowing the roof off the tank, together with the five firefighters and a work man.
The explosion happened at 11.52. Three appliances were sent from Bethnal Green and Bow. Their role was to collect the bodies.
Remembering the tragedy on a brigade forum, one ex-firefighter wrote: "I had been in the job for seven years when this happened and it really shook us. As you say 'Never forgotten' especially from us guys who could have been involved. Rest easy, mates."
THE VICTIMS
- Temporary Sub Officer Michael Gamble of F23 Millwall, 28, married, 10 years in the brigade.
- Fireman John Victor Appleby of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 23, married, three children, almost five years' service.
- Fireman Terrance Breen of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 37, married with three children, 12 years' service.
- Fireman Paul Carvosso of C25 Cannon Street, aged 23, married, one child, four years' service.
- Fireman Alfred Charles Smee of F23 Millwall, aged 47, one son, 24 years' service.
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IMF economists Tao Sun and Parma Bains participate in a Capacity Development Talk moderated by Eva-Maria Graf titled Digital Money: Building Capacity for a Virtuous Circle at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
11 April 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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Meeting of the Telecommunication Development Advisory Group (TDAG). Geneva, 29 September to 1 October 2014.
Now for all the moaning about British Leyland I do, I will give it to them that when they got it right, they really got it right, and the Jaguar XJS is a fine sentiment to that.
However, even from before it was conceived the XJS was in boiling water, namely because of what it was replacing, the E-Type, a car which had cemented itself in the hearts and minds of so many as one of the greatest things mankind has ever made, so trying to build a car to emulate this machine of wonders was already going to be a difficult task. This was later compounded by the fact that the chief designer Malcolm Sayer, died in 1970 whilst the car was still in development, which meant that it was up to the British Leyland team in the Jaguar department to finish off the design. But in the end when the car was launched in 1975, the styling wasn't actually as bad as many make it out to be. Don't get me wrong, the car was absolutely hounded for its looks, its angular corners, ridiculous buttresses on the back that were feared to obscure rear visibility, and straight lines, not even remotely like the smooth, wind-tunnel designed E-Type, but when you get down to it, it is a lovely looking machine, it looks exactly like a sports car should, low, smooth, sleek, and generally pleasing to the eye.
The car was also one of only a handful of cars to be launched with a V12 engine, the only other cars being the extreme 200mph Lamborghini's and Ferrari's of the time such as the Countach. Putting a V12 in a luxury Limousine however was certainly a daring move by Jaguar, and with it's 5.3L powerhouse under the bonnet, the car could be whisked to a top speed of 143mph. However, putting the V12 in was not only daring, it was massively audacious as at the time there was a fuel crisis on, and thus the market for owning a gas-guzzling engine such as this was not exactly a big one. However, British Leyland were always one for product placement, and were able to promote the car by way of the TV Series 'The New Avengers' (along with a Triumph TR7 that broke down every 20 minutes, but that's another story). Build quality problems were also another major issue, including unreliable engines and being prone to rust, but the folks at Jaguar's factory in Coventry were willing to step up their act, and such the XJS became one of the more reliable models of the British Leyland range.
The car did eventually start to get sold though, primarily in America, where it became quite a fashionable Florida tourer for the new money. However, the car wasn't available as an open-roof cabriolet initially, which resulted in the Series II XJS in 1980, being known as the XJS-HE for its High Efficiency engine. In 1983 the XJS finally had it's roof partially cut off in the form of the XJS-SC, which also came with a much less thirsty 3.6L V6 for the more fuel sensitive new money millionaire. However, threats of legislation still lurked in the US about banning convertibles, so a roll-bar was placed over the passenger compartment in similar fashion to that of the Triumph Stag, so as to protect the occupants but still provide that wonderful sensation that only a convertible car can give. Eventually the car did get it's roof fully cut off when the legislation threats went away in 1988, although prior to this various coachbuilders would gladly take your regular XJS and remove its roof for you.
In 1986, during the breakup of British Leyland, Jaguar was made independent for a short while before being bought by Ford, who then wanted to give the XJS another update to keep it in the flow. So in 1990, the XJS Series III was launched, with a revised rear end to remove the two buttresses that had haunted its design from the beginning, a straight set of rear light clusters, and revised bumpers to make them look like part of the body rather than just yoked on at the last minute. These last XJS's were amongst the most reliable and popular sports cars on the market, selling in massive numbers both in Europe and the United States. The XJS once again was in the California sunlight, but the design from the early 70's was starting to look very tired. It was time for Jaguar to axe the XJS and in 1996 they did just that, replacing it with the surprisingly satisfying but sadly under-appreciated XK8. After 21 years of production, the British Leyland wonderchild ended off with 115,000 examples built.
Today you can find a fair few XJS's out and about in both Britain and America. In the UK you're more likely to find the later models from between 1988 and 1996, as most of the earlier British Leyland examples probably rusted away in someone's garage a long time ago. But although this car may receive a fair amount of bashing from classic Jag enthusiasts for committing the sinful crime of replacing the E-Type, the XJS certainly looked a lot more handsome than the MkIII E-Type, which looked like some kind of tugboat into which the passenger cabin had sunk!
Dean's Honored Graduate 2012, Photo by Alex Wang
Karen Gustafsson is a Dean’s Honored Graduate in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Karen is graduating with departmental honors in Human Development and Family Sciences, and is being recognized for her research described in her undergraduate thesis, “Men’s Sexual Behaviors Predict Cortisol Responses to a Passionate Love Prime,” performed under the supervision of Professor Timothy Loving.
Karen’s thesis explored the physiological and psychological consequences of falling in love. Physiologically, falling in love is associated with higher chronic and acute levels of cortisol, one of the body’s primary stress hormones. These higher levels of cortisol may be indicative of euphoric stress, a nonspecific stress reaction that occurs in response to a positive situation. Psychologically, falling in love is closely associated with sexual desire. Writes Professor Loving, “Karen reasoned that because men tend to equate love with physical intimacy, that they would show strong signs of physiological arousal (i.e., cortisol reactivity) when asked to reflect on falling in love with their current partners…to the extent that they engage in physical intimacy with their partners…As a result, the work has important implications for how love and sexual desire are associated with arousal in men, but not women. Moreover, to this point most of the research on passion, or falling in love, had relied on female samples… Importantly, Karen independently developed the hypotheses for the study.”
Throughout her undergraduate career, Karen has shown the independent drive to do original inquiry and research. Writes Professor Loving, who taught Karen in a large introductory course, “Karen approached me late in the spring 2009 about volunteering in my lab. Normally, I’m very hesitant to take volunteers, particularly those without any research experience, but something about Karen’s drive and passion convinced me to take a chance.”
Karen worked for a year with Professor Loving and Professor David Buss, learning the skills of interacting with study participants as well as collecting, transcribing, and coding data. As Professor Loving describes, “I had no hesitations when Karen asked if I would serve as her honors thesis supervisor beginning the spring 2011 semester. She had some loose ideas about what she wanted to research, so I gave her several articles to read over a weekend, thinking that they might spur a few concrete ideas. Sure enough, she e-mailed me on Monday morning to set up a time to meet – her e-mail included a brief literature review and a theoretically derived hypothesis that built off of two separate lines of research!”
An accomplished classical and bluegrass violinist, Karen will be recording an instrumental album in Sweden this summer. In the coming year, she will be teaching in New Delhi, India, at the Bhatti Mines School through the support of the Austin-based Amala Foundation. In the following year, she hopes to apply to PhD programs in either Human Development and Family Sciences or Clinical Psychology.
I had an opportunity to explore the construction site for the future city centre and captured a few interesting perspectives.
Leander Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center
2/21/2020
Premier Athletic Complex
8220 183A Toll Rd
Leander, TX 78641
Infusion Homes is an award winning development consisting of renovated and reconstructed houses, along with some new build, in Moss Side, Manchester. Houses include eco features such as solar panels, sun pipes and thermal insulation. The interior of the homes has been completed to a high standard and specification.
Acura Motorsports just released the first official images and details for the all-new, electrified ARX-06 prototype sports car, which will make its competition debut next January at the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
The latest in a line of successful Acura endurance racing prototypes, the ARX-06 features Acura-specific bodywork and aerodynamics based around an all-new ORECA LMDh chassis which utilizes an electrified hybrid power unit featuring an equally new, bespoke twin-turbocharged 2.4 liter V6 internal combustion engine designed, developed and manufactured by Honda Performance Development [HPD] the racing arm for Acura Motorsports in North America.
The public unveiling will take place Friday, August 19, at The Quail, a Motorsports Gathering, in Carmel, California. #LetsRide
In Basoko I again stayed in the Procure. It gave me the chance to attend the joyful Mass in Basokos outsized church, which bears a curious resemblance to Notre Dame in Paris. Over dinner I had the very good fortune to speak with the three charming and dedicated priests working there. They were led by Father Marc whose tales of village life bore a resemblance to Don Camillo. We talked over how African theology differs from Liberation theology, the rise of the evangelist churches in Congo, squabbles with the local authorities and the challenges of keeping a football pitch green.
November 12, 2019 - Syracuse, NY - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the completion of the state supported 50-mile unmanned traffic management drone corridor, which runs from Central New York to the Mohawk Valley. The first-in-the-nation corridor is the most advanced drone testing corridor in the nation. With the needed infrastructure now in place, companies will be able to test both unmanned aerial systems platforms and UTM technologies in real world settings, generating data that will inform the industry and regulators and taking us one step closer towards the routine commercial use of drones. The completion of the corridor advances the regions' collective strategy to accelerate and support emerging uses of UAS in key industries, including agriculture and forest management, transportation and logistics, media and film development, utilities and infrastructure and public safety. At the Syracuse International Airport, the Governor today also announced that the home of the innovative GENIUS NY UAS competition, the Tech Garden in Downtown Syracuse, will undergo a major expansion project to include the addition of two floors to the existing facility. The increased visibility and street-scape will serve as the anchor of the Syracuse's City Center Innovation Hub, a core component of the Syracuse Surge strategy, and will serve as the gateway to the "Innovation Alley" on Warren Street in Syracuse. Empire State Development is assisting the expansion project with up to $12.5 million made available through the regionally designed CNY Rising Upstate Revitalization Initiative plan. (Mike Groll/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)
Housing Support Worker Elaine Howell, Primary Care Project Manager Kathleen McHugh from the Irish Welfare & Information Centre, Narinder Kaur Sidhu from the Nishkam Civic Association and Housing Support Worker Angela Richards at the second Pannel Croft Community Workshop.
International Development Secretary Priti Patel meets a mother and baby at the immunisation clinic at New Maforki in Port Loko.
Ms Patel is in Sierra Leone this week to mark the one year anniversary since the end of the Ebola outbreak. She met nurses and mothers to discuss how UK support is helping to reduce very high levels of maternal and infant deaths, in partnership with the government.
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Jamila Amzil, President of the Agricultural Cooperative of Afourer near Beni Mellal, assists with olive production on January 27, 2013. PHOTO AFP © EU/NEIGHBOURHOOD INFO CENTRE.
Susan Bitter Smith supported John McCain's bid for the presidency. She took pictures of projects her company would have worked on if there had been finance available.
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At the ‘Mainstreaming gender in Myanmar aquaculture and fisheries sector’ workshop held on International Women’s Day on 8 March. The event was hosted by WorldFish together with the Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund (LIFT), the Department of Fisheries (DoF) and the Gender Equality Network (GEN).
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The prison in Basali is not used too much. The sole prisoner was working in the Chef de Collectivités plot. He had sold his brothers pirogue and was being detained whilst he made a replacement.
Michael Cramer, Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the Committee on Transport and Tourism speaking during the Plenary: "Transport and regional development: Taking trade and tourism beyond urban centres" taking place during the International Transport Forum’s 2015 Summit on “Transport, Trade and Tourism” in Leipzig, Germany on 29 May 2015.