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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).
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
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Participants from Zimbabwe gather together for a Constitution Strategy Development Meeting with the UNDP Resident Coordinator, Elizabeth Lwanga and the Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Thokozani Khupe. (Photo credit. UNIC Harare, 12 February 2010)
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Makati City | Philippines
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North of City of Bandung is well-known for its problematic environment vs. development. Government always emphasizes that this area is for water reservation from rain and also a forest for City of Bandung, but in reality it seems like developments continue day to day.
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Managing Director of the IMF Christine Lagarde speaks with Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati the Development Committee meeting at the 2017 World Bank-IMF Spring Meeting in Washington on April 22, 2017.
Managing Director of the IMF Christine Lagarde speaks with Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati the Development Committee meeting at the 2017 World Bank-IMF Spring Meeting in Washington on April 22, 2017.
Director General of Revenue of Somalia Jafar Mohamed Ahmed, Senior Economist Vincent de Paul Koukpaizan, and Deputy Division Chief of the IMF Statistics Department Zaijin Zhan participate in a Capacity Development Talk titled Building Capacity in Fragile States at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
12 April 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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Managing Director of the IMF Christine Lagarde speaks with Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati the Development Committee meeting at the 2017 World Bank-IMF Spring Meeting in Washington on April 22, 2017.
Managing Director of the IMF Christine Lagarde speaks with Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati the Development Committee meeting at the 2017 World Bank-IMF Spring Meeting in Washington on April 22, 2017.
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This road has been closed for a couple of years....
see www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/la/qala.nsf/18101dc36b6383...
4015—MOUNT COMBOYNE TRIG POINT AND LOOKOUT
Mr John Turner to the Minister for Education and Training, and Minister for Women representing the Minister for Primary Industries, Minister for Energy, Minister for Mineral Resources, and Minister for State Development—
Is access to the trig point and lookout of Mount Comboyne open to the public?
If not, why not?
If not, how long has the trig point and lookout been closed to tourists and the general public?
If not, is the lack of access advertised by way of a road sign or on the State Forest's website to inform the general public?
If not, why not?
Is the Minister aware visitors from Sydney and Melbourne recently travelled to the trig point lookout of Mount Comboyne but access was denied because of locked gates across the road?
When will the gates be reopened to tourists and the general public?
Answer—------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
No.
While the area was used by many bone-fide four-wheel drive enthusiasts and other recreational users, it was also victim to excessive vandalism and misuse. This rendered the fire lookout tower, which is a strategic tool in fire management of the region's State forests, unsafe for use. Additional vandalism had occurred to the Forests NSW radio repeater, which is used to service the whole of the region and is an important tool for the safety of staff. To preserve the safety of the tower operators and other staff, the gate was locked and access permitted to walking traffic only.
Comboyne Trig Road and Trig Point have been closed for approximately 1 month coinciding with the restoration of the fire tower and the upgrade of the road. The restoration of the fire tower and Comboyne Trig Road cost in excess of $10,000.
A sign was erected in the area approximately two years ago advising of the intention to lock the gate.
See above.
No.
Gates will not be open to casual tourists due to safety risks to visitors, and due to excessive vandalism to the fire lookout tower and the radio repeater. A number of other vantage points are available in the region, including North Brother Lookout (picnic and toilet facilities available), Bago Bluff Lookout (Pine Hut Road, Bago NP), Rawson Lookout (Borganna NP), Newbys Lookout and Flat Rock Lookout (Coorabakh NP). These all provide views of Camden Haven and surrounds.
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Check this trig too! From www.westprint.com.au 14/12/18
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Townsend Corner
Townsend Corner is the junction of the Murray River with the Black-Allan Line at the eastern end of the Victorian – New South Wales border. I hadn’t heard of this before and so I have done some research. Jo.
This Information came from a paper written by Nadia Albert on behalf of the Office of the Surveyor General of Victoria.
Prior to the 1870s, some survey work had been done in the area of the Black Allan
line, most notably that of Surveyor Thomas Scott Townsend (1812-1869) under the leadership of NSW Surveyor General Major Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell.
Townsend led his party of ‘free-men’ (ex-convicts) and bullocks under difficult conditions, ‘days being generally excessively hot, the nights severely cold.’ To ascertain what he believed to be the nearest source of the Murray to Cape Howe, Townsend surveyed the Great Dividing Range. This was not an easy task given the ‘large number of springs and rugged, densely timbered terrain,’ and it required that ‘every water channel and every minutest bend of the range [be investigated] so as to leave no doubt as to the particular source sought for.’
From this Townsend made a reduced plan to indicate the straight line to Cape Howe. At the expedition’s end, Townsend’s equipment was in a ‘mutilated state:’ his men and bullocks were not much healthier.
In 1866 the Victorian Parliament deemed Townsend’s marking of Cape Howe insufficient, and so in 1869, a conference was held to geodetically survey the twenty kilometres of Cape Howe, and to decide the exact position of the boundary end-point.
It is believed that this survey was never completed or maybe never undertaken.
The Age Nov 24, 2004.
With its restoration of a historic survey cairn near the source of the Murray River complete, a team of 16 surveyors has ended 153 years of unfinished business between Victoria and NSW.
The team, from the Victorian Surveyor General's office, RMIT's geospatial science unit and volunteers from the Institution of Surveyors finished restoring the 134-year-old monument.
The team's work paves the way for a formal recognition of the straight-line part of the border. A draft proclamation was begun in 1874 but never invoked.
The land boundary, as distinct from the Murray River boundary, was agreed to before the colonies separated in 1851.
The border begins at the official source of the Murray - a two-metre-wide patch of wet ground - on the north-west slope of Forest Hill, near Mount Kosciuszko. It then drops east-south-east for 155 kilometres in a straight line to Cape Howe.
RMIT lecturer and survey team member Ron Grenfell said there had been intense rivalry between the two colonies from the start and NSW usually triumphed.
Before they had even split, the southern colony had already lost the rich farm country of the Riverina and rights to tax the lucrative Murray River trade.
The original border was to have been the Murrumbidgee River, which would have ceded to the southern colony a large tract of land, almost as far north as Canberra.
"Victoria would have been huge," Dr Grenfell said.
The discovery of gold at Delegate, and the question of which colony it lay in, prompted the first survey of the line from the Murray to Cape Howe nearly 20 years after the colonies had split. Surveyors Alexander Black and Alexander Allan forced their way through some of Australia's most rugged terrain to finish the two-year survey in 1872.
Black, a Victorian, laid the marker stone so that it faced Victoria. The straight segment of border was named the Black-Allan Line in their honour.
Even though it owns Delegate, not everything has gone NSW's way. When Dr Grenfell and a team of RMIT students surveyed part of the Black-Allan Line in 1984, they discovered an error that meant NSW had for decades been repairing a Victorian stretch of the Princes Highway just north of Genoa.
It was only a 14-metre stretch but, after the loss of the Riverina, the Murray watercourse and the gold at Delegate, it was, for Victoria, a symbolic victory.
And from the Bombala Times Feb 21, 2006.
AFTER a wait of more than 130 years, the eastern straight-line portion of the NSW and Victorian border was formally recognised last Thursday, February 16.
Parliamentary Secretary to the Victorian Premier, Bruce Mildenhall completed a dedication to Townsend Corner, which was named after early explorer, Thomas Scott Townsend who found the source of the Murray River nearest to Cape Howe.
Officially naming Indi Springs of the upper reaches of the Murray, NSW Minister for Lands, Tony Kelly then explained the Aboriginal origins of the title, with 'Indi' meaning ‘something far away, or belonging to the past'.
Below is a photo of the post at the Eastern end of the Black Allen Line (you refer to it as Townsends Corner) and the stone cairn on the first peak about a kilometre East of that point. The trail of stones marks the direction of the border line. This cairn was rebuilt about 7 years ago. Peter.
Marco Lambertini, Director-General, WWF International, Switzerland
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International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell today met with children from a Keighley school to find out about their educational partnership with schools in Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Mr Mitchell took questions from young people at Holy Family Catholic School as he paid a visit following a Cabinet meeting in Bradford.
To read the full article on the visit go to: www.dfid.gov.uk/Media-Room/News-Stories/2010/Internationa...
York Minster is the second largest Gothic cathedral of Northern Europe and clearly charts the development of English Gothic architecture from Early English through to the Perpendicular Period. The present building was begun in about 1230 and completed in 1472. It has a cruciform plan with an octagonal chapter house attached to the north transept, a central tower and two towers at the west front. The stone used for the building is magnesian limestone, a creamy-white coloured rock that was quarried in nearby Tadcaster. The Minster is 158 metres (518 ft) long and each of its three towers are 60 metres (200 ft) high. The choir has an interior height of 31 metres (102 ft).
The North and South transepts were the first parts of the new church to be built. They have simple lancet windows, the most famous being the Five Sisters in the north transept. These are five lancets, each 16 metres (52 ft) high and glazed with grey (grisaille) glass, rather than narrative scenes or symbolic motifs that are usually seen in medieval stained glass windows. In the south transept is the famous Rose Window whose glass dates from about 1500 and commemorates the union of the royal houses of York and Lancaster. The roofs of the transepts are of wood, that of the south transept was burnt in the fire of 1984 and was replaced in the restoration work which was completed in 1988. New designs were used for the bosses, five of which were designed by winners of a competition organised by the BBC's Blue Peter television programme.
Work began on the chapter house and its vestibule that links it to the north transept after the transepts were completed. The style of the chapter house is of the early Decorated Period where geometric patterns were used in the tracery of the windows, which were wider than those of early styles. However, the work was completed before the appearance of the ogee curve, an S-shaped double curve which was extensively used at the end of this period. The windows cover almost all of the upper wall space, filling the chapter house with light. The chapter house is octagonal, as is the case in many cathedrals, but is notable in that it has no central column supporting the roof. The wooden roof, which was of an innovative design, is light enough to be able to be supported by the buttressed walls. The chapter house has many sculptured heads above the canopies, representing some of the finest Gothic sculpture in the country. There are human heads, no two alike, and some pulling faces; angels; animals and grotesques. Unique to the transepts and chapter house is the use of Purbeck marble to adorn the piers, adding to the richness of decoration.
The choir screen.
The nave was built between 1291 and c. 1350 and is also in the decorated Gothic style. It is the widest Gothic nave in England and has a wooden roof (painted so as to appear like stone) and the aisles have vaulted stone roofs. At its west end is the Great West Window, known as the 'Heart of Yorkshire' which features flowing tracery of the later decorated gothic period.
The East end of the Minster was built between 1361 and 1405 in the Perpendicular Gothic style. Despite the change in style, noticeable in details such as the tracery and capitals, the eastern arm preserves the pattern of the nave. The east end contains a four bay choir; a second set of transepts, projecting only above half-height; and the Lady Chapel. The transepts are in line with the high altar and serve to through light onto it. Behind the high altar is the Great East Window, the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world.
The sparsely decorated Central Tower was built between 1407 and 1472 and is also in the Perpendicular style. Below this, separating the choir from the crossing and nave is the striking fifteenth century choir screen. It contains sculptures of the kings of England from William the Conqueror to Henry VI with stone and gilded canopies set against a red background. Above the screen is the organ, which dates from 1832. The West Towers, in contrast with the central tower, are heavily decorated and are topped with battlements and eight pinnacles each, again in the Perpendicular style.
York as a whole and particularly the Minster have a long tradition of creating beautiful stained glass. Some of the stained glass in York Minster dates back to the twelfth century. The 76-foot (23 m) tall Great East Window, created by John Thornton in the early fifteenth century, is the largest example of medieval stained glass in the world. Other spectacular windows in the Minster include an ornate rose window and the 50-foot (15 m) tall five sisters window. Because of the extended time periods during which the glass was installed, different types of glazing and painting techniques that evolved over hundreds of years are visible in the different windows. Approximately 2 million individual pieces of glass make up the cathedral's 128 stained glass windows. Much of the glass was removed before and pieced back together after the First and Second World Wars, and the windows are constantly being cleaned and restored to keep their beauty intact.
In 2008 a major restoration of the Great East Window commenced, involving the removal, repainting and re-leading of each individual panel. While the window was in storage in the Minster's stonemasons' yard, a fire broke out in some adjoining offices, due to an electrical fault, on 30 December 2009.[10] The window's 311 panes, stored in a neighbouring room, were undamaged and were successfully carried away to safety.
The towers and bells
The two west towers of the minster hold bells clock chimes and a concertcarillon. The north-west tower contains Great Peter (216 cwt or 10.8 tons) and the six clock bells (the largest weighing just over 60 cwt or 3 tons). The south-west tower holds 14 bells (tenor 59 cwt or 3 tons) hung and rung for change ringing and 22 carillon bells (tenor 23 cwt or 1.2 tons) which are played from a batonkeyboard in the ringing chamber. (all together 35 bells.)
The clock bells ring every quarter of an hour during the daytime and Great Peter strikes the hour. The change ringing bells are rung regularly on Sundays before Church Services and at other occasions, the ringers practise on Tuesday evenings. York Minster became the first cathedral in England to have a carillon of bells with the arrival of a further twenty-four small bells on 4 April 2008. These are added to the existing “Nelson Chime” that is chimed to announce Evensong around 5 pm each day, giving a carillon of 35 bells in total (3 chromatic octaves). The new bells were cast at the Loughborough Bell Foundry of Taylors, Eayre & Smith, where all of the existing Minster bells were cast. The new carillon is a gift to the Minster. It will be the first new carillon in the British Isles for forty years and first handplayed carillon in an English cathedral. Before Evensong each evening, hymn tunes are played on a baton keyboard connected with the bells, but occasionally anything from Beethoven to the Beatles may be heard.
Development Impact and the PhD scholarship - Road Map training, December 2013
Cumberland Lodge, Windsor
in my ongoing exploration of photography. 4x5 film hanging to dry, the first I have ever shot. Not sure if I didn't quite load the film all the way in on the first of these, or didn't quite load the holder all the way into the camera, but that's too much margin at the top. Negs look rather dense, maybe because I decided to dive right in to processing multiple sheets at once, and maybe over-agitated the soup while shuffling. I figured doing one sheet at a time wouldn't help me learn how to shuffle. Anyway I'm thrilled to have images and am really looking forward to scanning these, fingers crossed.
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.
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Gabriela Ramos, Chief of Staff and G20 Sherpa of the OECD, at the High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development and Co-operation, Mexico City, 15-16 April 2014.
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Development Impact and the PhD scholarship - Road Map training, December 2013
Cumberland Lodge, Windsor
A large drainage outlet and cascade off the Wren’s Nest phase of the development, immediately behind Brookside bungalow.
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).
Tim Stall presents ALM: Empowering Teams with Automation and Build Servers
ALM tooling: Empowering teams with build servers and metrics
Everyone knows that automated builds are a good thing, but many teams don't leverage them fully because it's hard to get started. Tim will go over practical techniques and concepts for automating builds with TFS and MSbuild. Once you have an automated build, there are dozens of steps you can hook into it, such as metrics. Tim will walk through several core metrics, including line count, code churn, duplication, complexity, and test code coverage, as well as the concepts and pitfalls for adopting these within a team.
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Tim Stall is a Software Architect. He blogs at www.timstall.com. Tim specializes in .Net and has a passion for empowering teams with process, automation, builds, tools, continual education, and enjoys writing blogs and developing side projects. Tim has an MCAD.Net certification. He lives in Chicago with his wife and three children.
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