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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, Vera Songwe, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, and Mohamed A. El-Erian, President of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz, participate in a seminar titled “Averting a COVID-19 Debt Trap,” moderated by Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, during the 2021 Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Joshua Roberts
6 April 2021
Washington, DC, United States
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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde (R) holds up an IMF publication with First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton (L) at their press conference April 20, 2017 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photo/Stephen Jaffe
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, Deputy Secretary of the IMF Sabina Bhatia, and Founder of Marshall Plan for Moms and Girls Who Code Reshma Saujani participate in the IMF Inspired event Reimagining the Workplace for Women during the 2021 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
8 October 2021
Washington, DC, United States
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We had a last minute cancellation for a river shoot. Grace was close by and in the mood to shoot so she gladly joined up. I was busy with another model for most of the time but I did manage a few shots. Thanks Grace!
Managed to get these for equivalent of about USD 100. Two bags are unopened, but all the elements from the third bag are loose inside the box, which makes me a little concerned.
IMF First Managing Director David Lipton, left, and Chilean Governor Rodrigo Vergara, center, look on as Carmen Reinhart, of the Harvard Kennedy School, speaks during the IMF-Chatham House Seminar titled "The Liberalization and Management of Capital Flows" at the 2013 IMF World Bank Spring meetings Thursday April 18, 2013 at IMF headquarters in Washington, D.C. (IMF Photo/Cliff Owen)
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva is interviewed by Al Arabeya during COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
IMF Photo/Georges Mohsen
6 November 2022
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
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The Ueno Zoo (恩賜上野動物園 Onshi Ueno Dōbutsuen?) is a zoo, managed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and located in Taito, Tokyo, Japan. It is Japan's oldest and most famous zoo, opened on March 20, 1882. It is a five-minute walk from the Park Exit of Ueno Station, with convenient access from Tokyo's public-transportation network. The Ueno Zoo Monorail, the first monorail in the country, connects the eastern and western parts of the grounds.
The zoo is located within Ueno Park, a large urban park that is home to several museums, a small amusement park, and other attractions.
As of March, 2003, the zoo has 422 species. The Sumatran tiger, and western lowland gorilla head the list of the zoo's population. Ueno has most variety of species on exhibition than any other zoo in Japan.
At some point, redistribution of the animals among Tokyo's other zoos (including Tama Zoo and Inokashira Nature Park) left Ueno without a lion. However, in response to public demand, Ueno borrowed a female from the Yokohama Municipal Zoo
As of 2008, recent animals at the Ueno Zoo included:
Giant panda (Ling Ling, Ueno's only giant panda, died of chronic heart failure on April 30, 2008, leaving Ueno Zoo without a panda for the first time since 1972.)[1] China has agreed to lend a male and female to Ueno[2].
A Lesser panda (also known as the Red Panda)
Other animals have included the Sumatran tiger the Asiatic lion, the Western lowland gorilla, the Polar bear, the Asian elephant, the Reticulated Giraffe. and the White rhinoceros
[edit]Other animals
The zoo is also often home to zebras, Japanese macaques, red-crowned cranes, White-tailed eagles and King Penguins, along with goats, sheep, pigs, ostriches, and rabbits.
Portrait of Nobumitsu Hayashi, COO, Senior Managing Director at Japan Bank for International Cooperation and delegates during Day 4 of AfDB Annual Meetings 2018, in May 2018, in Busan, South Korea.
I managed to get out with the camera the other afternoon, trying to get some autumn shots before the leaves disappear. The light over that last two weeks as been terrible, very dull but with flashes of beautiful light-I'm always at work or the wrong place as is usually the case. I popped up to Marsden, around Tunnel End. No filters just straight shots. At teatime , after work I legged it to Wessenden Head, up West Nab -one photo, just one! and the sun slipped behind a cloud never to be seen again - not that night anyway. I met Chris Nickerson on West Nab. We had never met before and stood for ages as darkness fell talking photography and road cycling.Occasionally taking a photo.Chris has some nice stuff on Flickr. We had almost the same kit with us.
I stayed until total darkness, taking photos when it was that dark I couldn't see the image in the wiewfinder. Digital sensors amaze me, the images look like they were taken in much lighter conditions. the giveaway is that the lights are all on in the distance. The morning after I went out early chasing some autumn sunrise photos. I went to South Crosland but |I was too early - can you be too early? I nipped back to work and unlocked and then went back to Helme Edge and set the tripod up - me with a tripod twice in 12 hours!- and waites fpr the sun to light Helme-and the steeple of the church I was married in. I nipped back to work but passing Blackmoorfoot Res' I saw some amazing light on the trees, I cuoldn't stop because of the rush hour traffic so reported into the girls in the office and shot back out for 15 minutes. I had to climb down to the waters edge but it was worth it.
Septermber 24, 2011 - Washington DC. 2011 World Bank / IMF Annual Meetings. Press Briefing: Development Committee Chair, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. Photo: ©vSimone D. McCourtie / World Bank
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has breakfast with other leaders before the G20 family photo at the Fontana di Trevi.
IMF Photo/Giuseppe Nucci
31 October 2021
Rome, Italy
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. on June 22, 2020. IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde delivers a statement on the conclusion of the IMF's Executive Board regular five-yearly review of the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) November 30, 2015 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. Lagarde stated “The Executive Board's decision to include the RMB in the SDR basket is an important milestone in the integration of the Chinese economy into the global financial system. It is also a recognition of the progress that the Chinese authorities have made in the past years in reforming China’s monetary and financial systems. The continuation and deepening of these efforts will bring about a more robust international monetary and financial system, which in turn will support the growth and stability of China and the global economy.” IMF Staff Photo/Stephen Jaffe
Managed to get a shot of this bird with my DSLR rather than my compact camera, and I'm very pleased with how it turned out.
I managed to get out with the camera the other afternoon, trying to get some autumn shots before the leaves disappear. The light over that last two weeks as been terrible, very dull but with flashes of beautiful light-I'm always at work or the wrong place as is usually the case. I popped up to Marsden, around Tunnel End. No filters just straight shots. At teatime , after work I legged it to Wessenden Head, up West Nab -one photo, just one! and the sun slipped behind a cloud never to be seen again - not that night anyway. I met Chris Nickerson on West Nab. We had never met before and stood for ages as darkness fell talking photography and road cycling.Occasionally taking a photo.Chris has some nice stuff on Flickr. We had almost the same kit with us.
I stayed until total darkness, taking photos when it was that dark I couldn't see the image in the wiewfinder. Digital sensors amaze me, the images look like they were taken in much lighter conditions. the giveaway is that the lights are all on in the distance. The morning after I went out early chasing some autumn sunrise photos. I went to South Crosland but |I was too early - can you be too early? I nipped back to work and unlocked and then went back to Helme Edge and set the tripod up - me with a tripod twice in 12 hours!- and waites fpr the sun to light Helme-and the steeple of the church I was married in. I nipped back to work but passing Blackmoorfoot Res' I saw some amazing light on the trees, I cuoldn't stop because of the rush hour traffic so reported into the girls in the office and shot back out for 15 minutes. I had to climb down to the waters edge but it was worth it.
WIPO Director General Francis Gurry presents a keynote speech at a seminar organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) and India's Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) on "Managing Copyright in Publishing: The Need for Awareness and Outreach” in New Delhi on March 31, 2016. Also present at the opening were: DIPP Joint Secretary Rajiv Aggarwal, FICCI Secretary General Alwyn Didar Singh and WIPO Assistant Director General and Chief of Staff Naresh Prasad.
The Director General addressed the importance of copyright as the principle market mechanism for remunerating creators, as well as the challenges of digital transformation.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Abhishake Singh. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and Austrian Finance Minister Magnus Brunner talk after the signing ceremony continuing the cooperation between the IMF and Austria in the context of the Joint Vienna Institute (JVI) for another four years, at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Ariana Lindquist
23 April 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva talks with former First Managing Director of the IMF John Lipsky during the 2022 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Tom Brenner
12 October 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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The Tripartite Action to Protect and Promote the Rights of Migrant Workers within and from the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS TRIANGLE) project aims to reduce the exploitation of labour migrants by contributing to the development of legal and safe recruitment channels and improved labour protection mechanisms.
Funded by AusAID, one specific mechanism of the GMS TRIANGLE project is managed cross-border migration services, as shown here in Lao PDR.
© ILO/A.DOW
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, Minister of Finance of Indonesia Sri Mulyani, and Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley participate in the Debate on the Global Economy during the 2022 Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
21 April 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde is pictured with Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan TD (left) and Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore TD during a press conference in Government buildings during her visit to Dublin on March 08, 2013 in Dublin, Ireland; Photo by Justin Mac Innes/Mac Innes Photography
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva visited Matipula School in Chongwe District, Zambia.
IMF Photo/Kim Haughton
23 January 2023
Lusaka, Zambia
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I managed to get out with the camera the other afternoon, trying to get some autumn shots before the leaves disappear. The light over that last two weeks as been terrible, very dull but with flashes of beautiful light-I'm always at work or the wrong place as is usually the case. I popped up to Marsden, around Tunnel End. No filters just straight shots. At teatime , after work I legged it to Wessenden Head, up West Nab -one photo, just one! and the sun slipped behind a cloud never to be seen again - not that night anyway. I met Chris Nickerson on West Nab. We had never met before and stood for ages as darkness fell talking photography and road cycling.Occasionally taking a photo.Chris has some nice stuff on Flickr. We had almost the same kit with us.
I stayed until total darkness, taking photos when it was that dark I couldn't see the image in the wiewfinder. Digital sensors amaze me, the images look like they were taken in much lighter conditions. the giveaway is that the lights are all on in the distance. The morning after I went out early chasing some autumn sunrise photos. I went to South Crosland but |I was too early - can you be too early? I nipped back to work and unlocked and then went back to Helme Edge and set the tripod up - me with a tripod twice in 12 hours!- and waites fpr the sun to light Helme-and the steeple of the church I was married in. I nipped back to work but passing Blackmoorfoot Res' I saw some amazing light on the trees, I cuoldn't stop because of the rush hour traffic so reported into the girls in the office and shot back out for 15 minutes. I had to climb down to the waters edge but it was worth it.
So, somehow despite paying extra for EMS shipping from Singapore, I still managed to get my MP57 after everyone who preordered in the US did. Needless to say I'm not exactly thrilled with the outcome of this.
MP57 is of course Skyfire/Jetfire, and is the most recently reelased figure in the Masterpiece line up. After seeing the pretty good job that Hasbro/Takara did on the Siege version, I figured that this figure would just be that one, but with much better production values.
Turns out I'm only half right.
Being in MP scale, Jetfire is huge. The box is 20.5 inches long, and is basically the entire length of the Jet mode. Photos have put the Jet mode at the same length as the combined Convoy/Optimus Prime 3.0 with its trailer attached.
Of course, the character mass shifts during transformation to result in a robot mode that is canonically twice as tall as Convoy, but in Jet mode is a flying fortress capable of troop transport. To show this side of things, the set comes with three mini figures - Prime, Wheeljack, and Jazz. Not sure why specifically these three, but that's what they chose..
The mini figures are actually decently articulated, with no articulation on the main torso whatsoever and very basic arms and legs. Which is normally fine (and expected) for figures of this size, but I REALLY thing they should have either given Jezz wrists of maybe considered the awkwardness of how things look with his hands fused like that.
Otherwise, accessories include two additional faces, a battle mask, his rifle, two thruster effects, Decepticon/Blank chest plate and the same Base/Stand that came with the Seekers and Dinobot,
Jet mode features landing gear that are manually operated (I say this because I remember the original G1 toy featuring spring mounted goodness) and there are various compartments you can open up for the mini figures to fit into/use, specifically the cockpit, under the fuselage, in the jetpack, and in the red pods on the lower legs. The pods are also accessible in robot mode should you so wish.
Being an updated G1 toy, this toy can assume the infamous Gerwalk mode that was the result of repurposing a Robotech toy. I honestly can't recall it actually being used in the show, but then again I can't remember many things.
Gerwalk mode can be achieved with or without the arms deployed, but of course the process is a bit more involved than back in the day. In order to make Gerwalk mode a bit more stable, the figure has die cast metal hips that provide additional support for the legs.
While yes, you can actually put the figure in Gerwalk without the support, for your own sanity you're probably going to want to do it, especially if you're displaying it in said mode for a longer period of time.
Transformation into robot mode is for the most part straight forward. MOST part. When you get to the backpack though, you're likely going to want to throw the figure out the window. The whole shifting mechanism is based on sliding panels, which are notoriously bad because of misalignment issues and just general friction. Couple with that some questionable QC and you've got a very frustrating time and getting things to shift and hold together.
The QC issues don't appear to be limited to the backpack as I have had a somewhat difficult time getting the shoulders to slot into their tab properly. I've also got a loose joint on one of my wings, though fortunately that doesn't really affect much. Getting the various accessories into the backpack cavity was also a bit of a challenge due to fit issues. I also found that the heels had to be put in just the right position for it to fold out correctly.
The resulting robot is tall, though when compared to other figures it's not as excessively large in comparison as comparing vehicle modes The goal was G1 accuracy, and you have to admit they did a bang up job from that respect. Proportions were always wonky so no criticisms from me in that regard.
Due to the weight of the figure, the legs are pretty much all ratcheting joints. Which is great from stability perspective, but not that great from an actual posing perspective. The actual hip joints are strong enough for standing robot mode, but the legs will splay out in Gerwalk mode. With the "ab crunch" hip joints deployed, the hips CAN be strong enough, but as always, test and observe. Actual range of motion is pretty typical, and the waist has flaps so you can move the legs out to the side.
However, it should be stated that the figure at least can stand up. My Siege figure has some issues with a loose hip, so it's either stand up straight or do the splits.
The rest of the body is.. pretty standard, really. There's no waist joint, and the shoulders technically are standard shoulders - but because there are additional flaps needed to move the shoulder in place, you technically have Butterfly Joint-type range of motion, but yeah, it looks weird. Elbows are single jointed but you're able to maximize range of motion. Hands are the typical MP hands with semi-fixed positions. The head can actually pull up a bit for additional range of motion
In general, you're probably not doing any dynamic battle poses without the stand, and even then you're doing them with the figure facing forward because there's only so much you can do laterally.
Speaking of heads, the facial expressions are alright, and the battle mask appears to be useable with or without an underlying face (though I think it fits better without the face under, so that might just be me forcing the thing on). It attaches with a magnet, so the grip is just the right amount to hold it in place. The faces, on the other hand, are friction based and can be a royal pain to get on and off. The other head gimmick to mention is in the head there's a meter of some sort. I don't remember the purpose of this, but I think it had to do with his changing of allegiances between Autobot and Decepticon (Jetfire was a scientist associate of Starscream).
So there you have it. Was it worth the wait? Ehhh.. I mean, it's not as bad as I thought it would be, but it turns out the lack of waist was my smallest concern. It just feels to me like the QC guys dropped the ball, because if they can get smaller figures to tab and slot n perfectly, there's no reason a figure that is at least double that size can't get it right. I mean, the new Seekers are much more complicated transformation wise and I don't have any problems like I do with Jetfire... though I guess the weak hips on the seekers is a problem I avoid here.
I think overall, though, unless you're looking specifically for a G1 styled Jetfire, you should probably consider the Siege figure, especially if you get one that doesn't have joint issues. It's like 1/3 the price, about the same size, and is significantly less frustrating to deal with.
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva visits a recipient of a Social Cash Transfer initiative in her household in Chongwe, Zambia
IMF Photo/Kim Haughton
23 January 2023
Lusaka, Zambia
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managed to catch this lego ice skater on my grandads bird bath on thursday another 5 mins later and i would have missed her
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and IMFC Chair and First Vice President of Spain Nadia Calviño conduct the IMFC press conference at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
21 April 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and Vera Songwe, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, speak with Mohamed A. El-Erian, President of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz, during a seminar titled “Averting a COVID-19 Debt Trap,” moderated by Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, during the 2021 Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Joshua Roberts
6 April 2021
Washington, DC, United States
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in an interview with the BBC’s Katty Kay during the 2021 Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
7 April 2021
Washington, DC, United States
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva meets with President of Togo Faure Gnassingbé at the Hotel Bristol.
IMF Photo/Lewis Joly
16 May 2021
Paris, France
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva talks to President of the World Bank David Malpass between meetings during the 2022 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
12 October 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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Petworth, West Sussex.
Petworth House (owned and managed by the National Trust) is a late 17th century Grade I listed country house, having been rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin. It is famous for the extensive art collection of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837), and contains many works by his friend, J.M.W Turner.
Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, Petworth Park is owned and managed by the National Trust, and the wall around the 700 acre deer park is 14 miles long. The grounds are managed sustainably for wildlife and are protected under a Higher Level Stewardship agreement with Natural England. Petworth Park and Pleasure Grounds were transformed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown throughout the 1750s, the formal gardens being replaced with the graceful curves and wide sweeping vistas of a perfect ‘natural’ looking landscape. The Park and Pleasure Grounds were one of Capability Brown’s earliest large-scale commissions and considered by many to be his masterpiece, taking 12 years and no less than five contracts to complete.
I've managed to make a bit more progress on the side table project I've been having some fun with. There was an additional loom arm assembly that was part of this abandoned structure that can now be seem as the lowest shelf now being added to the table. There are a series of 1/2" dowel holes on the main frame side rails and that was to accommodate other weaving combs to be injected into the designer's weaving pattern, as each additional combed loom harness represents variable options as to the complexity of the finished effort.
But really, I know I'm probably going into pretty murky waters in attempting to describe a mechanism to which I have zero practical experience at ever using. So I'm no doubt butchering the appropriate shop talk language for this craft which goes back pretty much as far as our own species goes...at least in more traditional terms related to how we have recorded our collective civilizations via pictograms and writings in the ancient languages of several thousand years ago.
Anyway...The table now seems to sit with greater stability having the added keel weight of this arm, which I also stripped down to match the raw wood finish of the rest of it thus far.
One last interesting side note related to some manufacturer's info on this piece, the metal comb assembly of this had some writing on the outer rails of it which spelled out the following:
MMONS loom harness co. with the listing off of their two business facilities. One of them in Charlotte South Carolina, the heart of America's textile industry for a great many years. The second location was listed as being more up north in Lawrence Mass.
Sadly, I was not able to find a single decent piece of information on the company, in order to perhaps gain more insight as to its age. But of the hundreds of pictures of table top sized weaving looms I shuttle boated my eyeballs back and forth over, my loom would appear to be one of the better made ones, with the thickest, sturdiest timbers and with very strong fasteners that have a feeling of confidence that it will stay that way for a long, long time. All while enduring the stresses put on it by the weaving process itself which calls for fairly robust tensioning of the materials being used as the yarn. But it doesn't fold up or go as wide as most of the larger floor mount, free standing looms. So that probably devalued it down to garbage status, as far as its last owners were concerned. I think it has value as a table frame and saves it from the landfill. That's a win-win situation in my books.
Cheers! :)
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks at her press conference during the 2021 Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Joshua Roberts
7 April 2021
Washington, DC, United States
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We managed to get up to The Lake District for a few days at Easter. We got away from work on Good Friday afternoon and spent three hours covering 110 miles, the M61 and M6 were very slow or stopped. As ever once there we soon left the hassle behind. We were using a B&B that we used very regularly for ten years until the owner passed away quite suddenly. Now under new ownership it has been totally gutted and refurbished, it’s very nice but twice as expensive.
We were out in good time on Saturday, it was dull and cool but very calm. I’d deliberated for ages as to where to walk, wanting to avoid the worst of the Easter crowds. It was the busiest I’d seen the Lakes for a long time amd the North Lakes in particular had stunning weather, the South Lakes had dense fog in places until the afternoon and was much cooler – but not cold. Parking in Patterdale we headed up Arnison Crag, on to Birks aiming for St Sunday Crag. This was where it started to go wrong. I got a sudden pain in my right ankle, near a previous serious ankle injury, it’s not unusual to get a bit of pain in this ankle but it got worse. My ankle felt like it was in a vice. On the plus side the cloud which was very low initially was clearing higher at the same speed that we were climbing. We scrambled over Cofa Pike through some snow on to Fairfield and for a change the summit was clear with glorious views. I had to undo my gaiter and slacken my boot, my ankle was swelling and bruising. I took paracetemol and carried on – I didn’t have much choice really. We walked to Hart Crag out to Dove Crag, back to Hart Crag as we wanted to head down over Hartsop above How. We stopped for a quick sandwich and pot of lemon tea before heading down the rocky path. By now I was suffering but still able to walk fairly fast. The yomp back along the road to Patterdale was tough. We covered 11.5 miles in around five hours, which was OK for a first walk in the mountains for a while. We drove to Keswick wanting to get to Brysons tearooms for cake and coffee. Keswick was packed and sunny and we had to walk in half a mile, that was painful, my ankle was agony until I got it loosened up. Toasted Plum Bread, apple pie and ice cream and coffee made up for the grief.
On Sunday I knew I couldn’t walk much. I was applying Ibuprofen Gel regularly but it was going to be a car and camera day. There was dense fog when we set off so I decided we needed to be somewhere attractive when it started to clear, I just didn’t know when that was going to be. We drove into Langdale and the fog broke to reveal Blue sky and the top of the Langdale Pikes, it was fantastic. I immediately thought of Blea Tarn and drove up the pass out of Langdale. I expected to find, as is usual, tripods in a row, with photographers clicking away. There wasn’t a soul, it was so calm and peaceful – and beautiful – I couldn’t believe my luck. I limped as fast as I could to the Tarn, unfortunately an overnight camper, who I chatted with about the beauty, reflections and the camera I was carrying, did her best to encourage her dog into the water and she got in to get washed. It was so calm that the ripples would cross the entire tarn and spoil the photos. I shot as quick as I could, moving away from her all the time. I think I had around 15 minutes at the most before a breeze – that I couldn’t feel – started to ripple the water. The reflections disappeared and it was over. Without the bad ankle I would have missed this tranquillity as we would have been toiling up out first climb of the day. The fog stayed put in the South Lakes but we headed north over Dunmail Raise to blue sky and 17 degrees.
On Monday after 36 hours of Ibuprofen I felt that my ankle would stand a six or seven miler – but where? We had very thick fog in Ambleside so again I drove over Dunmail Raise and again it was fantastic. I could see the chance of some good photos around Thirlmere but I had to get waterside at a point where the view wasn’t obstructed with saplings and bushes growing out of the water. This was easier said than done, it took three attempts to get a decent location. I had reflections, hanging mist, water and mountains – and wet feet again, fortunately I had my walking boots and socks to put on for the walk ahead. After my photo chase we parked at Steel End and headed up the steep nose of Steel Fell. It’s a tough climb but the view over Thirlmere was great. We could see the wall of fog to the south and I was looking forward to getting to the top, hoping that we would be able to see over it with mountains poking out of a sea of white. This was exactly as it was, the Lion and the Lamb on Helm Crag looked like an island in the sea of mist. We walked along the ridge to Calf Crag with clear views to the north and a sea on mist to the south, it looked like the right choice again. We were going to head down Wythburn back to Thirlmere. Wyth Burn runs through a secluded hanging valley through an area called The Bog. I’ve walked down here a few times and at first glance it looks dry – they didn’t name it The Bog for nothing – it is extremely wet. It doesn’t matter how high you walk to avoid it – you can’t! We were wet above the gaiters by the time we got back and it was tough on the ankle. Brysons here we come, another beautiful hot day in Keswick but back to work tomorrow.
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde (L) and Central African President Faustin Touadera (R) hold a joint press conference after their meeting at the presidential palace in Bangui, CAR on January 24,2017. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
Vienna Business School
Legal form - funds
Seat Wien 4, Schwarzenbergplatz 14
Head Dr. Rainer Trefelik (chairman), Mr. Martin Göbel (managing director)
Business school operators
Website www.vienna -business school.at
The Vienna Businnes School is a term for educational institutions with an economic focus, which are operated by the Fund of the Viennese Merchants (Wiener Kaufmannschaft) in Vienna and Mödling.
Overview
Under the umbrella brand name Vienna Business School, by the Funds Wiener Kaufmannschaft six commercial colleges and six trade schools are operated . Furthermore, commercial colleges , an advanced course as well as the in cooperation with the Vienna Chamber of Commerce founded higher educationals courses of the Vienna Economy (Wiener Wirtschaft) are offered. The minority interest in the Humboldt institutions is a further commitment in the field of education.
According to the statutes of the Funds of the Wiener Kaufmannschaft these educational institutions are expressly operated with the aim to educate economically competent junior staff for the Viennese economy. The establishment of the graduate network the Vienna Business Circle serves the members even after the conclusion as an information and communication platform.
The Funds of the Wiener Kaufmannschaft began in 1954 in the area of the schools with a building and renovation program that is consistently continued in the following years. The 3-year economic education of the business school offers the best basis for professional practice in all branches of business and management. English as a foreign language is part of the curriculum, a second modern foreign language can be chosen freely. Here, too, the focus is put on key course elements such as entrepreneurship or information technology. Practical experiences in practice firms and communication and presentation training are integrated into the teaching. Another part of the education are voluntary work placements, accredited IT and language certificates can be obtained separately.
As biggest private school holder next to the Catholic Church, the funds with its offers and services in the field of business-oriented education and training is a leading operator in Austria. Under the umbrella branch name Vienna Business School six commercial colleges, three colleges, two advanced courses, two HAK Plus as well as six business schools in Vienna and Lower Austria are operated, all of which offering a robust economic formation and continuing education with different focal points.
Educational offering
Currently priorily commercial colleges and trade schools are run. In detail, these are:
HAK/HAK I Akademiestraße
HAK II/II HAS Hamerlingplatz
III HAK/HAS III Schönborngasse
HAK/HAS Augarten
HAK/HAS Floridsdorf
HAK/HAS Mödling
College of Arts Management at the VBS Akademiestraße
Commercial College - City Tourism & Event Management
HAK Plus - Schönborngasse & Mödling
History
The Business Academy Vienna (after Prague) was founded in 1857 as the second commercial academy in Austria-Hungary, in the following year, the class began with 5 teachers and 59 students. The first president of the Academy of Commerce was Friedrich Schey of Koromla. The building of the Commercial Academy in the Akademiestraße near the Karlsplatz was designed by the architect Ferdinand Fellner the Elder and completed in 1862.
The New Vienna Commercial Academy was founded by the Vienna Mercantile Association in 1905. The school building was built 1906-1907 at Hamerlingplatz after the design of Julius and Wunibald Deininger. Also in 1907, by the physicist Dr. Olga Ehrenhaft-Steindler the first Viennese Commercial Academy for Girls was established in the Schönborngasse. In the other business schools girls were not taught until 1921 and in separate classes.
The Vienna Commercial academies were taken over by the Board of the Vienna merchants in the 1920s, in the period 1940 to 1954 the city of Vienna took over the sponsorship. All Vienna Commercial Academies were introduced after 1952 in the newly established funds of the Wiener Kaufmannschaft and received in doing so new names: Trading Academy was renamed HAK I, the New Business Academy in HAK II, the Vienna Commercial Academy for Girls in HAK III. 1957 was set up in what was then the district of Vienna Mödling (it now belongs to Lower Austria) another commercial academy in a former trade school, the HAK IV.
Since 1997, trade academies operate under the name Vienna Business School.
Prominent students and graduates
Listed are prominent graduates (main factor is the prominence), with completion date if known.
Graduates of the Commercial Academy in Vienna before the First World War
Ekkehard Arendt (actor)
Franz Josef Brakl (opera singer and theater director)
Hugo Breitner (finance politician), 1893
Richard Eybner (actor)
Walther Federn (economist, economic journalist )
Franz Gallent (politician, SDAP )
Andre Gassner (Industrial)
Josef Hellauer (forerunner for the establishment of business economics as a science), 1894
Emil Justitz (actor)
Leo Lania (writer )
Henry Lehrman (actor and producer)
Julius Linder (politician, SDAP )
Georg Luger (inventor)
Leopold Mayer (economist)
Josip Murn (lyricist)
Hans Schürff (politician)
Hanus Schwaiger (painter and educator)
Ernst Stern (set designer)
Arthur von Scala (engineer, economist)
Karl Weller (politician, VF)
Graduates of business colleges of Vienna after the First World War
If known, the number of the business academy is included.
Otto Basil (writer)
Carlo Böhm (actor)
Otto Broschek (founder Gebro Pharma), 1921 at the Business Academy I
Fritz Hungerleider (religious scholar, Buddhist) - nomen est omen - starveling!
Eduard Klein (writer)
Leo Kofler (philosopher)
Hans Lang (composer)
Otto Sagmeister (politician, SPÖ)
Otto Schweda (politician, SPÖ ), 1937
Graduates of business colleges of Vienna after the Second World War
If known, the number of the business academy is included.
Fritz Aichinger (politician, ÖVP)
Michael Amon (writer), at the Business Academy I
Helga Braunsrath (politician), 1962 at the Business Academy III
Bernhard Dworak (politician, ÖVP), 1969 at the Business Academy I
Herbert Eisenstein, 1962 ( politician, FPÖ)
Christine Heindl (politician, Green)
Herbert Hufnagl (journalist)
Radek Knapp (writer)
Heinz Fischer (politician SPÖ, since 2004 President)
Andrea Kuntzl , 1977 (politician, SPÖ)
Michael Ludwig, 1980 ( politician, SPÖ)
Ferdinand Maier (politician, ÖVP), 1971
Lukas Mandl (politician, ÖVP), at the Business Academy III
Michaela Mojzis (politician, ÖVP)
Detlev Neudeck, 1974 (politician, FPÖ/AAF)
Sieghardt Rupp (actor)
Karl Schneider (politician, ÖVP)
Gabriele Tamandl, 1986 (politician, ÖVP)
Desirée Treichl-Stürgkh (publisher), at the Business Academy I
Monika Vana (politician, Green ), 1988 at the Business Academy I
Graduates of the Vienna Business School(s)
Desirée Treichl- Stürgkh journalist
Ingrid Thurnher (ORF ZIB journalist and presenter)
Elisabeth Colditz (cabaret)
Martin Essl (BauMax AG)
Brigitte Jank (Chamber President)
Heinz Kammerer (Wein & Co)
Alexandra Reinprecht (opera singer)
Rudolf Tucek (Vienna International Hotel Management)
Gerhard Weber (anthropologist at the University of Vienna)
Prominent professors and lecturers
(sorted by time)
Adolph Wagner (1858-1863)
Adolf Beer (1858-1868)
Franz Xaver von Neumann Spallart (from 1863)
Rudolf Sonndorfer (from 1872)
Heinrich Friedjung (1873-1879)
Emil Steinbach
Karl Zehden
Otto Neurath (1907-1914)
Wladimir Eliasberg (1928-1937)
Ernst Robetschek (1936-1938)
Erik Arnberger (1946/1947)
Franz Richter
The Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Philoptochos honored Archon Michael Psaros, Co-Founder
and Co-Managing Partner of KPS Capital Partners at its 64th Annual Chrysanthemum Ball on November
10 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City.
The invocation was delivered by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios assisted by Archdeacon Panteleimon
Papadopoulos. The guests were welcomed by Fr. John Vlahos, Dean of the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the
Holy Trinity, Stella Pantelidis, co-chair of the ball and the Cathedral Philoptochos President Dr. Miranda
Kofinas. This year's honoree Michael Psaros was introduced by Maria Marinakis and Maro Stratakis.
Honored guests included Dr. Konstantinos Koutras, Consul General of Greece to New York, and his wife,
Popita Pavli, Ambassador Maria Theophili, Permanent Representative of Greece to the UN, Ambassador
Vasilios Philippou, Consul General of Cyprus to New York, and his wife Anthea, Jennifer Constantine,
Direct Archdiocesan District Philoptochos President, James Gianakis, Archdiocesan Cathedral Board of
Trustees President and Rev. Robert Stephanopoulos, Dean Emeritus of the Cathedral along with
Presvytera Nikki Stephanopoulos.
The Chrysanthemum Ball is the Holy Trinity Archdiocesan Cathedral Philoptochos’ main annual fundraising
event for its charitable activities.
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Deputy Managing Director Antoinette Sayeh talks with Sania Nishtar, Special Assistant of the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Poverty Alleviation and Social Protection, and Tanja Goodwin, Senior Country Economist for Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru, at the World Bank Group, during the Capacity Development Talk: The IMF’s Engagement on Social Protection during the 2021 Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
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Washington, DC, United States
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Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan TD is pictured welcoming International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde prior to her key note speech in Dublin Castle during her visit to Dublin, Ireland on March 08. Also in the pictured from seated from left : Brendan Halligan Chairman of IIEA (The Institute of International and European Affairs) (left) Dáithí O'Ceallaigh. Director General (IIEA)Photo by Justin Mac Innes/Mac Innes Photography
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (R) meets with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde (L) on June 10, 2015 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC.
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, participate in a seminar titled “A Critical Year for Climate Action: A Conversation between Kristalina Georgieva and John Kerry” moderated by CNN International Anchor Becky Anderson during the 2021 Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund.
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Managed to get this done between changing nappies! Farish N gauge 47/7 given the weathering treatment.
3 May 2019. Discussions focused on ADB’s role as a knowledge broker helping developing countries to continue reducing poverty in the face of threats including exploitation of natural resources, environmental degradation, and climate change. The event was held during the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ADB Board of Governors.
Visit the event page for more information on this event and the list of speakers.