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Solitary double decker in the OMC Global fleet, Enviro 400 YX24 OVW, taken into stock after a season with Lochs Motor Transport on Cruise Shuttle work. It was seen in Brighton on 27th July, 2025 just about as far as it can get from its original home.

Carrocería/Bodywork: Castrosua CS-40

 

Chassis: Mercedes Benz OH1627

 

Lote/Batch info: 1/2 - 5 total (747-751)

 

Matricula/Plate: GC-0412-AY

 

Longitud/Length: 10m

 

Servicio/Service: 1992 - 2016 (Donated / Donado)

 

Info (SP): En total fueron doce los vehiculos carrozados por Castrosua en la gama CS-40 con motorización Mercedes Benz de diez que adquirio Salvia. En el caso de esta unidad, fue de las pocas de su serie que permanecio activa pasados los 2000. De hecho puede presumir de ser de los vehiculos mas longevos de la empresa, sumando mas de dos decadas de servicio. En 2016, con el comienzo de la renovacion de la flota, todos los modelos restantes fueron donados a Cuba, donde parece que siguieron dando guerra.

 

Info (EN): A total of twelve vehicles were built by Castrosua and powered by Mercedes Benz in their CS-40 range measuring ten metres which began service in Saluki. In the case of this particular vehicle, it is one of the few of its series to survive past the 2000s. In fact it can be proudly pointed as one of the longest serving vehicles in Global's fleet, having served over two decades. In 2016, with the beginning of Global's fleet renewal, all the remaining buses were donated to Cuba, where they seemed to have carried on powering.

Global Investment House is a Kuwaiti investment company licensed by the Central Bank of Kuwait and listed on the Kuwait, Dubai, Bahrain and London Stock Exchanges.

 

Since its inception in 1998, Global has effectively provided investment solutions to its wide client base and played a noticeable role in the development of the regional capital markets.

 

More info on the Company:

 

www.Globalinv.com.kw

   

For Purchases a print email Me: info@salsayegh.com

   

Picture Info:

CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II

Exposure20

Aperturef/18.0

Focal Length19 mm

ISO Speed50

Exposure Bias0 EV

FlashOff, Did not fire

       

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حقوق الطبع والنسخ والنشر والحفظ في هذا الالبوم جميعها محفوظة وحصرية لـ سارة الصايغ

ولا يمكن حفظ او نسخ او نشر او استخدام اي من الصور بدون اذن او عقد مسبق مع المصور

 

ان كان لديك الرغبة في استخدام او شراء اي من الصور الخاصة بالمصور يمكنك مراسلتي عبر البريد الالكتروني المذكور اعلاه

 

واي تعديات تخالف ما تم ذكره مسبقاً ستعرض مرتكبها للمسائلة والملاحقة القانونية

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Dr Brighton Samatanga, director and founder of the Biotech Institute Zimbabwe, working in his lab in Harare. The Biotech Institute collects and tests sample for COVID-19.

 

IMF Photo/Cynthia R Matonhodze

25 November 2020

Harare, Zimbabwe

Photo ref: IMF COVID_Cynthia R Matonhdze_11.jpg

 

Carrocería/Bodywork: Irizar i4 II

 

Chassis: Volvo B11R

 

Lote/Batch info: 1/1 - 5 total (1848-1852)

 

Matricula/Plate: 9018-MDC

 

Longitud/Length: 11m

 

Servicio/Service: 2023 - En curso/Ongoing

 

Info (SP): Esta primera y unica remesa de Irizar i4 de once metros es hasta la fecha el único encargo de unidades de menor tamaño del carrocero vasco. Mayormente encargan de rutas muy remotas, conectando pueblos como La Aldea, Moya o Tejeda.

 

Info (EN): This first and only batch of eleven-metre Irizar i4 is the only ever order of smaller sized Irizars in the company history. Majorly, they take care of routes in the most remote villages in the island such as Tejeda, La Aldea or Moya.

mabuti na lang traffic at ginagawa yung daan, mabagal lang siya, haha..

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Global Jet

LX-MLO

GL5T

RCKH

 

Police issue section 14 notice to XR Universities protesters on Earth Strike Day to prevent protest outside King's College London.

  

N82HP

Bombardier BD-700 Global 6500

Global Flight

Built 2020

C/N 60028

Based in Bradley Windsor Locks CT, anonymously registered to TVPX Aircraft Solutions

Steel orb in Wanganui NZ, near the river. Depicts the passage of the Wanganui River, which is very significant to local maori tribes. The river is reflected in this shot as is the world in which we live. Another perspective is that if we don't look after our little blue green planet it could break

9H-VTD Bombardier Global 6000

VistaJet

Luton Airport, England

29th October 2021

 

What to start the global conversation pool with?

 

Big question... then I saw this in London earlier today

Positive proof of global warming...

Japanese pavilion in Dubai's Global Village.

Global Village is a like a expo where countries from around the globe have a pavilion where the show and sell stuff related to that country. There is also a fair and shows. It is pretty big. I think its about 500x500m. Free entrance for pensioners.

"This very expensive Global Warming bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps, and our GW scientists are stuck in ice."

 

KOPF 18/02/23 Built 2009 Ex C-FVUK, OY-SGC

Name: Global

Length: 74m

2World's largest yacht number: 138

Shipyard: Lurssen

Price: ~70 000 000€

 

Kampala is among the districts with the highest numbers of COVID cases in Uganda. Sensitisation messages are shared to wear masks, maintain a social distance and sanitise, but fewer people are following the measures.

 

IMF Photo/Esther Ruth Mbabazi

27 September 2021

Kampala, Uganda

Photo ref: AY1A2449.jpg

 

Carrocería/Bodywork: Iveco Crossway III

 

Chassis: Iveco Cursor 9

 

Lote/Batch info: 1/1 - 10 total (1912 - 1921)

 

Matricula/Plate: 8410-MTN

 

Longitud/Length: 12m

 

Servicio/Service: 2024 - En curso/Ongoing

 

Info (SP): Como parte de la serie de vehiculos nuevos en ponerse de servicio en 2024, Global recibió un cargamento de diez unidades de la nueva generacion Crossway. Se pusieron de servicio en septiembre de 2024 y se estan asignando a todo tipo de rutas de media densidad

 

Info (EN): As part of the series of new vehicles added to their fleet in 2024, Global received a shipment of eight brand new Gen-3 Crossways. They started service in September 2024 and are currently being assigned to all sort of medium demand routes.

We Have to stop this situation, Stop Global Warming!

ORK 12/12/24 Built 2011 Ex F-WWHA, F-HSAS, LX-VAM

NYC Main Library Map Room

Air National Guard Emergency Managers search for radioactive material during a Global Dragon training event at the Guardian Center of Georgia on March 15, 2015.

 

During this day's training, airmen searched for material following a simulated aircraft crash in a deployed location. Students wore Mission Oriented Protective Posture (MOPP) 4 gear, and used Gieger Counters to search through an empty field for the lost material.

 

Global Dragon provides a refresher course for Airmen, allowing them to put their skills to use to identify live chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agents and materials. Air National Guard emergency management technicians from more than 20 individual units participated in Global Dragon.

 

Sgt. Timothy Cotterall is a member of the 137th Air Refueling Wing in New Jersey.

 

(New York Air National Guard / Staff Sergeant Christopher S Muncy / released)

Participants during the session: Global Science Outlook, at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017

Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard

Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock, USA speaking during the session: Global Economic Outlook at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017

Copyright by World Economic Forum / Greg Beadle

Globalización lleva la relación sobre el movimiento de alimento de China y servicio de comida.

 

El icono rojo de comunista va a llevar el símbolo de valor de Asia.

2 Days before Easter 2013 and it's stil snowing here in The Netherlands. Maybe we're entering a paradoxal Ice Age. Happy Easter!

The 2014 Global Security Forum will be held on Wednesday, November 12th from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at CSIS headquarters located at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.

2014 AGENDA

OPENING SESSION: 8:00 A.M. TO 9:00 A.M.

Keynote Address: "Strategic and Budgetary Dynamics Facing the U.S. Military"

The Honorable Robert O. Work

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

 

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS I: 9:30-10:45 A.M.

I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability

Jim Dyer

Principal, Podesta Group,

and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations

Charles J. Houy

Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Robert F. Hale

Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer

Sid Ashworth

Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Staff Director, Defense Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Moderator:

Clark A. Murdock

Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS

II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International,

and former Deputy Secretary of State

Kurt Campbell

Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,

and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Bonnie S. Glaser

Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS

Website Presentation:

Mira Rapp Hooper

Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS

Moderator:

Michael J. Green

Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,

and Associate Professor, Georgetown University

III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan

Mark Perry

Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command

COL Richard Lacquement (ret.)

Dean, School of Strategic Landpower, Army War College

 

Eliot A. Cohen

Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Counselor, Department of State

Moderator:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

 

IV. Health and Security in Fragile States

Gayle Smith

Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council

Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin

Medical Adviser, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross

Jason Cone

Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières

Nancy E. Lindborg

Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

Talia Dubovi

Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

 

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS II: 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.

I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense

William J. Lynn III

CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,

and former Deputy Secretary of Defense

Robert J. Stevens

Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Clayton M. Jones

Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins

Pierre Chao

Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors, and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS

Moderator:

Andrew P. Hunter

Director, Defense-Industrial Initatives Group, and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS

II. Iraq in the Balance

VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)

Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE, and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Moderator:

Jon B. Alterman

Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS

 

III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War

Arati Prabhakar

Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.

Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Moderator:

Maren Leed

Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS

IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa

Tom Frieden

Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Anne A. Witkowsky

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs

Ambassador Donald Lu

Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State

Jeremy Konyndyk

Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

J. Stephen Morrison

Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

 

LUNCH: 12:15-12:45 P.M.

 

MID-DAY PLENARY SESSION: 12:45-1:45 P.M.

I. Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World

Jeremy Bash

Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta

Kori Schake

Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign

Moderator:

David E. Sanger

National Security Correspondent, New York Times

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: 2:00-3:30 P.M

 

I. A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Michèle Flournoy

Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

John E. McLaughlin

Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

James B. Steinberg

Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Charles B. Curtis

Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS, and former Deputy Secretary of Energy

Joshua B. Bolten

Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors, and former White House Chief of Staff

Moderators:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

Heather A. Conley

Senior Vice Presdient for Europe, Eurasia, adn the Arctic, and Director, Europe Program, CSIS

*Please note that this session is off-the-record

Contributing CSIS Experts:

Frank A. Verrastro

Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS

Sarah O. Ladislaw

Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

Edward C. Chow

Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

James A. Lewis

Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS

Andrew C. Kuchins

Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Jeffrey Mankoff

Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Juan Zarate

Senior Advsier, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS

 

Programs

GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM

Topics

DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Regions

AFGHANISTAN, ASIA, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA

Bombardier Global 6000 (BD-700-1A10) 9H-VJL departs London Stansted.

Blue-berries from Argentina, Raspberries from Portugal, Strawberries from Holland, all purchased in Sweden. Global fruit indeed. These berries contain lutein, rutin, a-vitamins and c-vitamins. A colourful vitamin kick in the middle of december. I haven't eaten these fruits since july this year and I couldn't resist it. To read more about the healthy benefits of blue-berries follow these links to Wikipedia:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutein

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutin

The 2014 Global Security Forum will be held on Wednesday, November 12th from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at CSIS headquarters located at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.

2014 AGENDA

OPENING SESSION: 8:00 A.M. TO 9:00 A.M.

Keynote Address: "Strategic and Budgetary Dynamics Facing the U.S. Military"

The Honorable Robert O. Work

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

 

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS I: 9:30-10:45 A.M.

I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability

Jim Dyer

Principal, Podesta Group,

and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations

Charles J. Houy

Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Robert F. Hale

Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer

Sid Ashworth

Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Staff Director, Defense Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Moderator:

Clark A. Murdock

Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS

II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International,

and former Deputy Secretary of State

Kurt Campbell

Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,

and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Bonnie S. Glaser

Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS

Website Presentation:

Mira Rapp Hooper

Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS

Moderator:

Michael J. Green

Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,

and Associate Professor, Georgetown University

III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan

Mark Perry

Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command

COL Richard Lacquement (ret.)

Dean, School of Strategic Landpower, Army War College

 

Eliot A. Cohen

Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Counselor, Department of State

Moderator:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

 

IV. Health and Security in Fragile States

Gayle Smith

Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council

Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin

Medical Adviser, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross

Jason Cone

Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières

Nancy E. Lindborg

Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

Talia Dubovi

Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

 

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS II: 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.

I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense

William J. Lynn III

CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,

and former Deputy Secretary of Defense

Robert J. Stevens

Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Clayton M. Jones

Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins

Pierre Chao

Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors, and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS

Moderator:

Andrew P. Hunter

Director, Defense-Industrial Initatives Group, and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS

II. Iraq in the Balance

VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)

Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE, and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Moderator:

Jon B. Alterman

Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS

 

III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War

Arati Prabhakar

Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.

Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Moderator:

Maren Leed

Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS

IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa

Tom Frieden

Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Anne A. Witkowsky

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs

Ambassador Donald Lu

Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State

Jeremy Konyndyk

Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

J. Stephen Morrison

Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

 

LUNCH: 12:15-12:45 P.M.

 

MID-DAY PLENARY SESSION: 12:45-1:45 P.M.

I. Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World

Jeremy Bash

Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta

Kori Schake

Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign

Moderator:

David E. Sanger

National Security Correspondent, New York Times

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: 2:00-3:30 P.M

 

I. A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Michèle Flournoy

Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

John E. McLaughlin

Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

James B. Steinberg

Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Charles B. Curtis

Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS, and former Deputy Secretary of Energy

Joshua B. Bolten

Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors, and former White House Chief of Staff

Moderators:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

Heather A. Conley

Senior Vice Presdient for Europe, Eurasia, adn the Arctic, and Director, Europe Program, CSIS

*Please note that this session is off-the-record

Contributing CSIS Experts:

Frank A. Verrastro

Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS

Sarah O. Ladislaw

Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

Edward C. Chow

Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

James A. Lewis

Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS

Andrew C. Kuchins

Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Jeffrey Mankoff

Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Juan Zarate

Senior Advsier, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS

 

Programs

GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM

Topics

DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Regions

AFGHANISTAN, ASIA, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA

Name: Global

Length: 74m

World's largest yacht number: 138

Shipyard: Lurssen

Price: ~70 000 000€

the beer aisle at our local Food Emporium

Gautam Buddha the Serene One founded Buddhism a pan global religion which harkens on Peace and righteous content and the message of grace.

 

Buddha is a symbol of peace, enlightenment, and spiritual guidance. He is often depicted in various postures and representations, each holding deep symbolism and significance. One such representation is the orange statue to be seen in Srilanka with a raised hand.

 

This particular orange statue in the middle of a Nuwara Eliya town on one of the intersections lay forlorn on a dark summer evening.

This posture is known as the Abhaya Mudra, which translates to "fearlessness" or "dispelling fear." The raised hand signifies protection and assurance to all beings, offering them solace and freedom from fear.

 

Nuwara Eliya, situated amidst the lush greenery of Sri Lanka's hill country, provides an ideal setting for this sacred representation. The serene environment complements the peaceful aura that emanates from the Buddha statue.

 

This depiction of Gautam Buddha serves as a reminder of his teachings on compassion, wisdom, and inner peace. It invites visitors to reflect upon their own fears and anxieties while finding solace in the presence of the enlightened one.

 

Whether you are seeking spiritual enlightenment or simply appreciating artistry and cultural heritage, encountering the orange statue with a raised hand in Nuwara Eliya or elsewhere in Srilanka, the sight offers a profound experience that transcends boundaries.

 

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1 April 2015 -Grace Perez- Navarro, Deputy Director, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, during

2015 Global Forum on Development, Post-2015 Financing for Sustainable Development

Opening session

OECD Headquarters, Paris, France

Photo: OECD/ Andrew Wheeler

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