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The more I learn about myself, the more I fear myself. I’m told I should remain neutral. A Switzerland of the mind.
Technical Meeting on Advanced Techniques for Equipment Testing Under Field Conditions (BRD TM). Division of Nuclear Security, IAEA Seibersdorf. 13 June 2019
Figure 48. Internal components from one the tested backpack radiation detectors.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
مؤتمر الكويت للتدقيق الداخلي
30th November to 1st December 2016
Hilton Kuwait Resort, Al Dorra Ballroom
Internal Office Stock Commercial Photography
Client: Blue Orchid Management Consultants
Photography used on:
Website, Corporate Marketing Materials, Blue Orchid Presentations, Hand Outs
By CL Group of Companies
All rights to these images are held by Blue Orchid and not the CL Group of companies and must not be re-produced or re-used.
For showcase of project only.
25 March 2013. Nyala: One of the participants of the Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees Conference calls for peace at the Koral Hotel in Nyala, South Darfur. 600 participants took part, including Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees in Darfur and Refugees in Chad.
The objective of the conference, organized within the framework of the Doha Document for Peace and in Darfur and facilitated by UNAMID, is to ensure that the concerns of Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees are addressed and to solicit their contributions to the agenda of the upcoming Darfur Donors Conference.
The forum allows all stakeholders to share their views toward reaching a durable solution toward bringing peace to Darfur.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID - www.albertgonzalez.net
“It is very difficult for us. We feel lonely here as we are afraid to go out. We don't know anyone here.”
The Quintero family is currently living in one room. It is surviving with help from the ICRC and from their cousin, who owns a small grocery store.
© ICRC / Christoph von Toggenburg / www.icrc.org
As the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Incident approaches the PRC government still has not officially acknowledged it ever happened. As a result a rash of anti-government protests has broken out and the PRC military has been quick to respond. Protesters has been detained and silenced and peace has been restored.
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مؤتمر الكويت للتدقيق الداخلي
30th November to 1st December 2016
Hilton Kuwait Resort, Al Dorra Ballroom
iQ Student Accommodation in Leeds
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9 May 2012 - The United Nations has distributed humanitarian aid to 175 internally displaced families in the northern province of Balkh who were forced to leave their home due to ongoing drought and insecurity. The families from Tandorak village in the Charkent district are currently living in the Nasaji area of Mazar-e Sharif.
“We left our homes due to insecurity and unemployment and now we do labour work,” said Mohammad Akbar.
“The Taliban started infiltrating our villages and government forces conducted counterinsurgency operations, night raids, planes, bombs made us leave the area,” he added.
Many families in Charkent migrated to the cities abandoning their homes and families when their crops failed due to a lack of rain-fed farming last year. Some have been living in Mazar-e Sharif for nearly five months.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) together with its governmental counterpart – provincial department of repatriation and refuges, distributed yesterday aid donated by UNHCR, World Food Programme (WFP) and International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Each family package included blankets, plastic sheets, cooking supplies, gas cylinders, gas containers, soap, a metal bucket, beans, oil and salt.
“I am the only supporter of a family of seven members and I am thankful to the UN for this assistance,” said Amrullah, adding that he hoped for more aid. “I do labor work for 250 AFN (equivalent to USD 5 ) per day and it’s hard to manage supporting a seven-member family on that amount.”
UNHCR has assisted over 1000 IDP families with humanitarian aid since the beginning of this year in the north and northeastern provinces of Balkh, Jawzjan, Faryab and Kunduz and is planning to assist hundreds more vulnerable IDP families in coming weeks in the same region.
By UNAMA Mazar
Photo: UNAMA / Sayed Barez
Above view of internal daylight in the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA)
Leuvensesteenweg 13
B-3080 Tervuren
BELGIUM
original (1904-1909) : arch Charles Girault (FR, Dec 27, 1851, Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, Dec 26, 1932, Paris)
restoration (2013-2017) Stéphane Beel Architects + Origin
© picture by Mark Larmuseau
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale published by C.V.
Saint-Ouen
The church of St. Ouen is built on a similar scale to Rouen Cathedral.
It is the largest Gothic church in France, and some people feel that it is even more spectacular than the nearby cathedral. The complex rosace, or rose window, is stunning.
Building of the church began in 1318 and, after an interruption for the Hundred Years' War, was completed in the 15th. century.
It measures 137m long under 33m high vaults. The central crossing is surmounted by an unusual lantern-style tower similar to the one in Ely Cathedral in England.
The Organ
Saint-Ouen has a famous organ - a large, unaltered four-manual Cavaillé-Coll organ built in 1890, which Charles-Marie Widor described as a "Michaelangelo of an organ".
The "buffet d'orgue" refers primarily to the decorative exterior of an organ, which not only hides the internal workings but also provides resonance for the organ pipes. Buffets were often retained when the organ interior was updated.
In fact Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811-1899) created the present organ using the existing buffet which dates back to 1630, as well as older pipework from the former Daublaine and Callinet organ.
The St.-Ouen organ is the last in a series of masterpieces from a man whom many would regard as a genius in the field of organ design and building.
Alexandre de Berneval
The south rose window was designed and built by the architect Alexandre de Berneval, who was one of the foremost masons in Normandy in the early 15th. century.
The church elders were so pleased with his work on the Église St.-Ouen that when he died in 1440, they buried him under it.
Alexandre's grave-cover depicts him life-size with a pair of compasses in his right hand, and a drawing of a quarter of a rose window in his left.
Rouen
Rouen is a city on the River Seine in northern France, and is relatively close to the English Channel. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population of the metropolitan area is 702,945 (2018). People from Rouen are known as Rouennais.
“Upon approaching Rouen one is sure to be struck
by the insolent daring of its situation. Lying on a
sloping plain beside the river, it seems to disdain the
well-nigh impregnable site afforded by the steep cliffs
which rise just to the northeast.
The history of the city bears out the audacity of its
location. Through all the centuries, its inhabitants
concerned themselves so continuously in conquering
other peoples that little time was left in which to
consider the security of their own homes.”
-- Charles Hitchcock Sherrill, Stained Glass Tours in France (1908).
Rouen was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy during the Middle Ages. It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th. to the 15th. centuries.
From the 13th. century onwards, the city experienced a remarkable economic boom, thanks in particular to the development of textile factories and river trade. Claimed by both the French and the English during the Hundred Years' War, it was in Rouen that Joan of Arc was tried and burned alive.
Severely damaged by a wave of bombing in 1944, Rouen nevertheless regained its economic dynamism in the post-war period thanks to its industrial sites and busy seaport, which is the fifth largest in France.
Endowed with a prestige established during the medieval era, and with a long architectural heritage in its historical monuments, Rouen is an important cultural capital. Several renowned establishments are located here, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, the Secq des Tournelles Museum, and Rouen Cathedral.
“Perhaps the most characteristic feature of Rouen
when viewed from a distance is the great number
of its spires that shoot up above the housetops,
earning for it the sobriquet of the City of Churches.”
-- Charles Hitchcock Sherrill, Stained Glass Tours in France (1908).
Sadly not all of those churches are still there because of the ravages of war.
Seat of an archdiocese, Rouen also hosts a court of appeal and a university. Every four to six years, Rouen becomes the showcase for a large gathering of sailing ships called "L'Armada"; this event makes the city an occasional capital of the maritime world.
Rouen Cathedral
Rouen Cathedral was commenced in the 12th. Century on the site of an earlier structure. It has a Roman crypt.
The Butter Tower dates from the 16th. century. The name of the Tour de Beurre comes from the fact that butter was banned during Lent, and those who wished to carry on eating it had to donate 6 Deniers Tournois towards the building of the tower. Practically everyone in Rouen must have carried on eating butter in order to fund a tower like that!
The Victorian cast-iron Lantern Tower in the centre of the building made the cathedral the tallest building in the world from 1876 until 1880, when it was overtaken by Cologne Cathedral.
The Lantern Tower was designed by the architect Jean-Antoine Alavoine who proposed the use of cast iron, a modern material for the time, because it was less combustible than wood, and lighter than stone. The Lantern Tower took 50 years to construct. The 151 metre height of the spire still makes Rouen Cathedral the tallest cathedral in France.
The presence of a lantern tower at the crossing of the transept is a frequent feature in churches in Normandy (St. Ouen in Rouen, and Bayeux) and in England (Gloucester, Salisbury, and Winchester).
The lantern is in a bulge in the ironwork near the top of the spire, which is surmounted by a weathercock.
The Cathedral holds the heart of Richard the Lionheart. His bowels were buried within the church of the Château de Châlus-Chabrol in the Limousin. The cathedral seems to have got the better end of that particular deal!
Claude Monet painted a series of studies of the cathedral's façade 1894. Roy Lichtenstein also made a series of pictures of the front of the building.
The Cathedral has had to put up with a lot of wilful destruction during its lifetime:
- The Calvinists damaged much of what they could easily reach during the religious wars of the 16th. Century - the furniture, tombs, stained glass and statuary.
- The French State nationalised the building in the 18th. Century, and sold some of its furniture and statues to make money. The chapel fences were melted down to make guns.
- In WW2 the Cathedral was first bombed in 1944, taking 7 bombs. The bombs narrowly missed destroying a key pillar of the Lantern Tower, but damaged most of the south aisle, and destroyed two medieval rose windows. One of the bombs was fortunately a dud and failed to explode.
- As a consequence of a subsequent WW II bombing, the north tower, on the left of the façade, was entirely burned. During the fire the stonework calcified and the bells melted, leaving molten metal on the floor. The cathedral is still being restored after the extensive damage incurred during World War II.
Also, during the violent storm of December 1999, a copper-clad wooden turret weighing 26 tons fell into the Cathedral and damaged the choir and the stalls. The three other turrets were removed for maintenance and safety purposes before being replaced in 2012.
The Execution of Jeanne d'Arc
Jeanne d'Arc was executed not far from the Cathedral in the Vieux-Marché on Wednesday the 30th. May 1431.
The famous depiction of 19 year old Joan of Arc's execution showing her on top of a pile of wood and straw is wrong.
The site for her execution comprised a stake at the centre of a large ring of wood, with a gap left for Joan to be led to the stake. Once she was tied to the stake and the gap closed, she was hidden from sight.
One authority has suggested that her body would have burnt in the following sequence: calves, thighs and hands, torso and forearms, breasts, upper chest and face.
However in all likelihood she would have died from heatstroke, loss of blood plasma and carbon dioxide poisoning before the fire attacked the upper parts of her body.
After Jeanne had expired, the English exposed her charred body so that no-one could claim that she had escaped alive, then burned her body twice more to reduce it to ashes in order to prevent the collection of relics.
They then cast her remains into the Seine.
A modern church now stands on the site of her execution.