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Residential and diplomatic mission neighbourhoods of Tanglin giving way to high-rise condominiums and office towers as viewed towards Orchard Road shopping belt.
Doorstep statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ahead of the meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union with Defence Ministers
A Romanian national from the 1st section "Les Aigles " (the eagles) of the 2nd REG , serving as a soldier with the French Foreign Legion, at Forward Operating Base Tagab-Kutschbach near Tagab in Kapisa Province on January 24, 2011. The French Foreign Legion, a military unit established in 1831, was created for foreign nationals of any nationlity wishing to serve in the French armed forces.
Legionnaires from the French Foreign Legion during combat operations while serving in Afghanistan with ISAF - 2011
Photos: Adj. Pelote
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivers remarks at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Day Memorial Plaque Ceremony at the Department in Washington, D.C., on May 5, 2017. The Secretary paid tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving our country around the world. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Flanged-on new building in the historic centre of Wetzlar.
Angeflanschter Neubau in der Altstadt von Wetzlar.
86 401, sporting the natty Network South East livery, is set to move a little nearer more familiar territory on June 19th 1988 as it prepares to depart Carlisle's Citadel station with the 1752 (SuO) Carlisle-Birmingham New Street service.
Wandering round the small nondescript city of Fengcheng while waiting for a bus back to Dalian, it seemed natural to take some photos. But what of ? This wasn't the sort of place that's used to foreign faces, especially foreign faces with one grotesquely swollen cheek from a gum infection. Were the prolonged stares I was getting as a hairy, misshapen, 186cm outsider enough of a validation to poke my lens back into the face of poverty ? I decided not, and resorted once more to shots of things and scenes. If it was my weary legs that first drew my eye to this old battered vinyl couch outside a small restaurant, still used, but only for watching the world go by, then it was the colours that held my attention. I had to be quick though. With each click of the lens, the group of bemused locals that was forming around me increased in number. I explained that it was old and broken but still beautiful. By now, the restauraunt owner had heard the commotion out in the street and was wanting some sort of explanation. She offered to sell me it. What did I think it was worth ? Where it stood, it was priceless, anywhere else, useless. 100 RMB and it could be mine though. How on earth could I get it back on the bus ? She'd settle for 20 RMB. Ten fingers were waved in my face, two each by five different people. Twenty, twenty, twenty... Part of me wanted to see if I could bargain them down to fifteen. I thanked them for the photo, checked my pockets, held my camera tight, and carved a path out through the mob. She dropped her price to fifteen and the chorus of chants from the onlookers changed accordingly. Their desperation, borne less out of poverty and more out of some face-saving game I'm yet to comprehend, was making me feel uncomfortable. Suggesting that the couch was good enough to take photos of but not good enough to buy was apparently worse than stealing the bloody thing. I gave them one last smile over my shoulder, a quick thumbs up as I rounded the corner and never saw the couch again.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock signs the guest book ahead of her meeting with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 5, 2022. [State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]
Piano Provenzana, a verdant plain with hotels, restaurants, numerous souvenir shops, a ski school and several ski lifts has been virtually cancelled on the first day of eruption, on 27 October 2002. Less known than the tourist complex on the southern flank (which also suffered from the same eruption), Piano Provenzana mostly attracted people from the surrounding areas rather than the masses of foreign tourists and thus suffered a certain disadvantage. This was in spite of the striking beauty of the place, a symphony of colors ranging from the perennial green of the pine forest named "Ragabo" to the multicolored lava fields of various age surrounding the nearby cone of Monte Nero. Tourists who only knew the touristic area on the southern flank, which is spectacular rather for the bleakness of its recent lava flows and pyroclastic cones, missed the other face of Etna, the sweet one, which gave an impression of eternity and peace. Piano Provenzana and the surrounding forest of Ragabo had not been invaded by lava flows for many centuries; eruptions on the Northeast Rift, which looms menacingly above the plain had occurred as recently as in 1911, 1923 and 1947 but their lava flows had taken a more westerly course, leaving Piano Provenzana and the forest unharmed.
Mount Etna (Aetna in Latin, also known as Muncibeddu in Sicilian and Mongibello in Italian, a combination of Latin mons and Arabic gibel, both meaning mountain) is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania. Its Arabic name was Jebel Utlamat (the Mountain of Fire).Volcanic activity at Etna began about half a million years ago, with eruptions occurring beneath the sea off the coastline of Sicily. 300,000 years ago, volcanism began occurring to the southwest of the present-day summit, before activity moved towards the present centre 170,000 years ago. Eruptions at this time built up the first major volcanic edifice, forming a strato-volcano in alternating explosive and effusive eruptions. The growth of the mountain was occasionally interrupted by major eruptions leading to the collapse of the summit to form calderas.From about 35,000 to 15,000 years ago, Etna experienced some highly explosive eruptions, generating large pyroclastic flows which left extensive ignimbrite deposits. Ash from these eruptions has been found as far away as Rome, 800 km to the north.Sicily's greatest natural attraction is also its highest mountain: Mount Etna, at 10,924 feet, is the most active volcano in Europe and the oldest recorded active volcano in the world.Mount Etna is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania. It is the largest active volcano in Europe, currently standing about 3329.6 m (10,924 feet)high, though it should be noted that this varies with summit eruptions; the mountain is 21.6 m (71 ft) lower now than it was in 1865. It is the highest mountain in Italy south of the Alps. Etna covers an area of 1,190 km² (460 square miles) with a basal circumference of 140 km.The fertile volcanic soils support extensive agriculture, with vineyards and orchards spread across the lower slopes of the mountain and the broad Plain of Catania to the south. Due to its history of recent activity and nearby population, Mount Etna has been designated a Decade Volcano by the United Nations.Etna lava stone is a material with unique characteristics: durable, indestructible, resistant to changes in the temperature (it’s a heat conductor), it offers infinite possibilities of uses: flooring, urban furniture, interior design.After the glazing process the product doesn’t get stained, resists to acids and doesn’t require particular maintenance: that’s why lava stone is the ideal material even to make kitchens and bathrooms countertops. The natural stone tends to grey, with the glazing process we can obtain any desired colour. Shapes, sizes and decorations can be customized . The lava stone it is formed by the solidification of cooled magma on the surface of the Etna volcano, in Sicily
L'Etna è un vulcano attivo che si trova sulla costa orientale della Sicilia (Italia), tra Catania e Messina. È il vulcano attivo più alto del continente europeo e uno dei maggiori al mondo. La sua altezza varia nel tempo a causa delle sue eruzioni, ma si aggira attualmente sui 3329.6 m (10,924 feet) s.l.m. Il suo diametro è di circa 45 chilometri.Un tempo era noto anche come Mongibello.In genere le eruzioni dell'Etna pur fortemente distruttive delle cose, non lo sono per le persone se si eccettuano i casi fortuiti o di palese imprudenza come quello dell'improvvisa esplosione di massi del 1979 che uccise nove turisti e ne ferì una decina di altri avventuratisi fino al cratere appena spento. L'Etna è un tipico strato-vulcano che iniziò la sua attività , tra 500 e 700 mila anni fa. La sua lava di tipo basaltico è povera in silice, è molto calda, densa e fluida. Per queste ragioni le eruzioni sono tranquille ed il percorso delle lave prevedibile. La velocità di scorrimento è superiore a quella delle lave acide, più ricche in silice e più viscose e leggere.La lavorazione della pietra lavica, derivante dall’industria estrattiva delle vicine cave dell'Etna, per scopi ornamentali o per materiali da costruzione, diede da vivere a molte famiglie siciliane.I "pirriaturi", anticamente, estraevano lungo i costoni dell'Etna solo strati superficiali di lava perché più porosi e più facilmente lavorabili con arnesi quali la subbia, lo scalpello, la mazzola e il martello. Sul materiale estratto interveniva lo spaccapietre che ricavava lastre di pietra, infine lo scalpellino rifiniva il materiale. Uno degli usi prevalenti cui era destinata la pietra lavica era la pavimentazione delle strade urbane
U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo chats with U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland and Canadian Minister of Defense Harjit Sajjan ahead of the U.S. – Canada 2+2 Ministerial at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on December 14, 2018. [State Department photo by Michael Gross/ Public Domain]
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- Official U.S. Army Special Operations Command Parachute Demonstration Team, the Black Daggers, dropped in to Presidio's Soldier Field on Nov. 4 during the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center's 75th Anniversary Week celebrations. The team carried a special gift on their 6,000 foot jump, delivering a scroll announcing the award of the Joint Meritorious Unit Award to DLIFLC Commandant Col. Phillip J. Deppert. Students from the Presidio's military service units were on hand to witness the spectacle after spending the day participating in a Sports Day competition.
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Legionnaires from 13DBLE ( 13e demi-brigade de Légion étrangère,) during a training exercise in Djibouti 21st to 28th March 2010
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Singaslaves :
From 248 000 in the early 90's to more than 750 000 nowadays, the foreign low-skilled (and very low-paid) workers are now a a vital element of the booming singaporean economy and a huge component of the population (18% of the 4.6 millions people living there) - although a lot of Singaporeans pretending not to be racist tend to say that the real singaporean population is 3.7 million (as if the foreign workers were not part of the population)...
Not so fun to be a foreign worker in the construction sites.
Of course, if you come from Sri Lanka, India or Bangladesh (or Myanmar, or Indonesia, etc), the pitiful 600 singapore dollars ( around 310 US dollars or 290 euros) salary you earn for the work is far more than the average wages you could earn in your native countries. Of course, you can buy a nice handphone or mp3, and maybe send a bit for the relatives you've left. So i guess i can understand when some of them i've talked to told me they were quite happy here.
But... They work like dogs, they are carried in lorries like cattle.
They are lonely. They are too poor to rent flats and in the miserable dormitories where they live, there is usually no comfort and very strict rules : no gathering, no drinking, no smoking, no guests, no talks after 10pm...
So some of them gather in the evening around HDB (public housing residences) void decks and eat, drink and talk, as they used to do in India or in their native countries. Of course, there are sometimes loud noises and other little troubles for the neighborhood, and i guess sometimes worse things.
Some residents seem to be very bothered by that - obviously more than when it's a rowdy ah bengs gang (local chinese singaporean bad boys) gathering or noisy mahjong players. In the newspapers, some residents say they created "vigilant groups" so as to catch foreign workers urinating or drinking around the HDBs. Some "not racist" madams say they are too afraid to go out when there are foreign workers around their residences because their smell is unbearable (!) an they feel "mentally violated" (!) by these poor guys. Some threw bags full of urine at foreign workers gathered under their windows... Classy.
The Prime Minister himself had to remind that foreign workers are human too and they are a necessary part of the economy, hence they deserve more tolerance and respect from the singaporean citizens - who by the way are very often descendents from migrant workers...
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Service members with the French Foreign Legion’s 6th Light Armored Brigade assault an objective during a bilateral seize and capture training exercise on Quartier Colonel de Chabrieres, France, May 29, 2015. U.S. Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa operated alongside the French infantrymen to further improve interoperability between the two NATO forces as they concurrently deploy their service members to Africa. (U.S. Marine Corps photograph by Lance Cpl. Christopher Mendoza/Released)
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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office occupies a building which originally provided premises for four separate government departments: the Foreign Office, the India Office, the Colonial Office, and the Home Office. Construction on the building began in 1861 and finished in 1868, and it was designed by the architect George Gilbert Scott. Its architecture is in the Italianate style; Scott had initially envisaged a Gothic design, but the then Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston insisted on a classical style. (Palmerston was Prime Minister at the time the building was begun, in 1861, not Foreign Secretary, a post that he had not held since 1851.) English sculptor John Birnie Philip produced a number of allegorical figures ('Art', 'Law', 'Commerce', etc) for the exterior.
In 1925, the Foreign Office played host to the signing of the Locarno Treaties, aimed at reducing tension in Europe. The ceremony took place in a suite of rooms that had been designed for banqueting, which subsequently became known as the Locarno Suite. During the Second World War, the Locarno Suite's fine furnishings were removed or covered up, and it became home to a foreign office code-breaking department.
Due to increasing numbers of staff, the offices became increasingly cramped and much of the fine Victorian interior was covered over—especially after World War II. In the 1960s, demolition was proposed, as part of major redevelopment plan for the area drawn up by architect Sir Leslie Martin. A subsequent public outcry prevented these proposals from ever being implemented. Instead, the Foreign Office became a Grade 1 listed building in 1970. In 1978, the Home office moved to a new building, easing overcrowding.
With a new sense of the building's historical value, it underwent a 17-year, £100 million restoration process, completed in 1997. The Locarno Suite, used as offices and storage since the Second World War, was fully restored for use in international conferences. The building is now open to the public each year on Open House Weekend. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is now also the main tenant of the Admiralty Extension building, at the opposite end of Horse Guards Parade.
With back to back trains having solid BNSF and KCSM (CPKC) power, is this VA or ND? Another ACe leader here, this time Southern Belle style, leading ethanol loads east along the James River towards Fulton Yard in Richmond, VA.
CSXT Rivanna Sub | Maidens, VA
CSXT B63321 w/ KCSM 4134 & KCSM 4902 (DPU)
1931 6th print; Tales of Foreign Lands by Lewis Marsh. Cover art and illustrations by John Campbell. First published in 1913 by Humphrey Milford London