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A row of run-down and empty (the middle one clearly torched) houses, except the end one of the right which is in relatively good condition and is clearly occupied, in Manor Farm, Coventry.
When I last visited Manor Farm in April 2009, these houses were nowhere near as bad as this. Manor Farm is set to be undergoing a major 'regeneration' programme at some point in the future.
The properties are owned and managed by Whitefriars Housing Group.
INSIGHT's full-featured Managed Services Datacenter will be built here:
4th floor, E16, Vo Dinh, District 12, HCMC
(Hanoi NOC is just for basic monitoring)
Crews working to keep supplies organized at the helispot. Credit the U.S. Forest Service, Mendocino National Forest.
Honeyhoney
Alcatraz - Milano
04 Dicembre 2013
ph ©Mairo Cinquetti
All rights reserved
Burlap and opals. Moonshine and macrobiotics. Shaken and soothed. How Suzanne Santo (vocals/banjo/violin) and Ben Jaffe (vocals/guitar) managed to reconcile not just polemics, but seemingly opposed realities for their sexually tinged, bruised knee honeysuckle take on roots music has to be heard to be understood.
Yet somehow the young 20-somethings figured out that it’s the extremes that define the middle, whether embracing the big mistakes in the bluesy smoulder “Glad I Done What I Did,” embracing the romantic doubt that is the low slung gospel of “Don’t Know How,” or the euphoric romp-age of “Let’s Get Wrecked” that embraces the arc debauchery completely. This is the sound of coming not of age, but awareness; and digging into what it means to be alive permeates throughout honeyhoney’s October 24th release of Billy Jack on Lost Highway Records.
“The album is made of a lot of stories, a lot of lives,” Santo picks up. “We’re very different, but those differences are what makes it. I’ve had a lot of different times in my personal life that kinda leveled me as a person. That’s why this record is the way it is. It’s made of guts: what’s happening on the inside, the notion of us being really independent, being on our own. That’s a big reality.”
With fiddles threading the melodies, big acoustic guitar sounds and banjos plinking as percussively as melodically, there is an old world feel to honeyhoney that is as fresh and right now as it is tube radios and old lace.
And it is the disparity of how the two came up and came together that informs honeyhoney with their singularity of sound. Meandering through unique paths, converging in Los Angeles where everyone is chasing something, and finally recognizing the chemistry they shared is no mean feat.
Evoking California’s hippie Dust Bowl fringe, equal parts Okie squalor and Pacific shimmer, there is a strong pull of Woody Guthrie-esque folk, vintage Buffalo Springfield, glints of Gram Parsons and bits of Bonnie Raitt’s early blues, Rickie Lee Jones reality and Bakerfsfield Saturday nights. Not country, not folk, not rock, it is a hybrid that defies exact definition.
Still "Billy Jack" pumps with the thump of hearts on fire, levels with the pang of real instruments played like someone means it.
"If we want anything from these songs," adds Jaffe, "it’s to bring people into this music, to engage them.”
Engage them they will. With the three-month long “Ten Buck Tour” with Joshua James kicking off on September 21st in Albuquerque, honeyhoney is ready to bring their new songs to the people who inspire them the most: their friends, peers and fans.
On the brink of truly coming into their own, they are ready for whatever the music brings…
Chairman and Managing Director of Keltruck, Chris Kelly with his son Chris D Kelly, the Marketing Director.
14/08/2008
Credit : Rich Eaton / newsteam.co.uk
31st July 2017 Monday.
Back to Ypres to attend the Ceremony of Remembrance 'Centenary of Passchendaele , Third Battle of Ypres service at Tyne Cot cemetery. The UK Government organised a public ballot to allocate 4,000 tickets in pairs, free of charge for descendants to attend the commemorative event at CWGC Tyne Cot Cemetery on 31 July and Jan managed to get a couple of tickets. More info: passchendaele2017.org/en/evenementen/herdenkingsplechtigh...
From Ypres station we were bussed to The Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 in Zonnebeke.
There were lots of re-en-actors creating campsite atmosphere on the site. Right up my street. I was busy taking photos of them and having chats. The cooks were actually cooking. Their leader told me that they would cook enough Tommy's Stew to feed the 300 actors on site today.
All to soon we had to get on the buses to Tyne Cot which was 1.5 miles away.
My photos of Tyne Cot do not have the impact that seeing it on the ground does. You would need a drone I think. I would like to go back and try again without the crowds.
We made our way to the memorial wall at the back of the cemetery. It is a semi-circular wall 4.25 metres high and over 150 metres long, faced with panels of Portland stone. The names of the missing are carved on the stone panels.
Jan quickly found the the Royal Warwickshire Regiments panel and Ernest Butchers name on it. Jan wrote a message on a poppy cross and placed it at the base of the panel with a photo of Ernest. The message read;
Ernest Leonard Butcher 1879-1917. In remembrance 2017 of our Great Grandad. Love always x.
Unbelievably as my eyes scanned the panel through the C's to the D's there is a Dipper W.A. there!
www.headington.org.uk/history/war/allsaints/dipper_willia...
It was a bit of a kerfuffle trying to find a spot amongst the graves to view the service from but eventually we settled underneath a TV screen in a position you would think nobody would be able to get in front of us later. Of course a few twats managed it!
We had to stand for 3 hours in the hot sun waiting for the Royals to arrive and the service to start. So long that we got to know Pat (who gave Jan her contact details) and Bob from Surrey!
For me the best part of the service were the readings of individual soldiers letters and diaries by descendants and serving military personnel.
At the end of the service as the crowd begins to break up Mary and Dave the Scottish couple walked by (what are the chances?) and stopped for a chat. He was dressed in his full piper regalia minus his bag pipes. He had come yesterday and played at the grave of his ancestor.
We were bussed back to the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 in Zonnebeke for a packed lunch provided by the UK government. It wasn't bad and went some way to ease my bread withdrawal!
By the time we had eaten and made sure we had seen all the re-en-actors we had missed earlier it was time to get the bus back to the station so we missed the museum.
www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/53300/TYNE%20COT%20...
It is now the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in terms of burials. At the suggestion of King George V, who visited the cemetery in 1922, the Cross of Sacrifice was placed on the original large pill-box. There are three other pill-boxes in the cemetery.
There are now 11,961 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in Tyne Cot Cemetery. 8,373 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to more than 80 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 20 casualties whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. There are also 4 German burials, 3 being unidentified.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
The TYNE COT MEMORIAL forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery and commemorates nearly 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom and New Zealand who died in the Ypres Salient after 16 August 1917 and whose graves are not known. The memorial stands close to the farthest point in Belgium reached by Commonwealth forces in the First World War until the final advance to victory.
The memorial was designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculpture by F V Blundstone.
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva meets with President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Kim Haughton
12 December 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde (L) and IMFC Chairman Agustín Carstens (R) hold their joint press conference after the conclusion of the IMFC meeting at the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings at the IMF Headquarters April 16, 2016 in Washington. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
Betty Pinney's House
1870s and renovated in 1970s
Betty enjoyed a creative career as a textile and graphic designer. At her marital home, Bettiscombe Manor, she renovated this Victorian dolls' house to recreate a grand country household, that she sete in the early 20th century.
Introducing elements of her own childhood, Betty viewed the house's interior as an escape into an idealised world. Rooms were furnished with exotic and decorative wares that she imagined were collected from across the globe. Betty developed characters too, such as the drunken old man in the saloon and a handsome footman with shapely calves.
The real Bettiscombe Manor in Dorset is said to be haunted by a screaming skull.
[V&A Museum of Childhood]
RIGHTS MANAGED CONTENT. INQUIRE FOR USE RATES. © Richards, 1999. Scanned from 35mm slide. During the genocidal war against the 98% Kosovar Albanian population by Slobodan Milošević when NATO took action. I, along with small contingent of native and foreign aid workers, delivered supplies to the border via the northern Albanian town of Kukës. We had to deal with mafia, rebel fighters, NGOs, countless international news reporters, and of course, and shadowy figures pushing American interests. The refugees were wonderful. We were almost killed both on the way north in the morning and that night on the way back to Tirana. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. WEBSITE
I managed to find Skull Shores Frankie the other day, who I absolutely love. I have SDCC Frankie as well, which is another Black and White version of the character, but since I've left her in her box I'm glad to have a "poor man's" version to fiddle with. Not a bad doll at all for $9, perhaps even lower for some, as she's rumored to be selling through some stores for $4.13 on 4/13.
I boiled-straightened her hair like I do with many of my dolls because I didn't like how it was curled on the shorter side. I've noticed that like the other short-haired MH girls (Toralei, DOTD Cleo, etc.), SS Frankie doesn't have much of a consistency in style once the hair gel is washed out. Some individuals have longer lengths than others and the shape is always different, depending on how the hair was laying and held in style when it was cut. I like it though, it makes each doll unique.
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has a bilateral meeting with the Director-General of the World Trade Organization Ngzoi Oknojo-Iweala at the World Trade Organization.
IMF Photo/Mark Henley
25 August 2021
Geneva, Switzerland
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John Candlish (bapt. 28 April 1816 – 17 March 1874) was a British glass bottle manufacturer and Liberal Party politician.
Candlish was born in Tarset, Northumberland, the eldest son of farmer John Candlish and Mary, née Robson. After Mary died in 1820, Candlish senior moved the family to Sunderland where he found work at Ayres Quay bottleworks, managed by his brother, Robert.
Candlish was educated at local Dissenter schools and then at an academy in North Shields before returning to Sunderland, aged eleven, to work in the bottleworks. Aged fourteen, his uncle secured him an apprenticeship as a draper and he began to study the French language and joined a debating society.
In 1836, Candlish became a partner in a drapery business, and later that year purchased the newspaper, Sunderland Beacon, but it failed within six months. Other short-lived ventures followed into coal exporting and shipbuilding at Southwick in 1844. In 1851, he returned to publishing by founding Sunderland News and was a secretary at the Sunderland Gas Company.
A turning point came to Candlish's career in 1855 when he acquired the lease of Seaham Bottle Works at Seaham harbour with his childhood friend, Robert Greenwell. He later bought out his partner and patronage was given by nearby resident Frederick Stewart, 4th Marquess of Londonderry, and the works renamed Londonderry Bottle Works, becoming the largest bottling business in Europe. Candlish purchased a site at Diamond Hall in Millfield and by 1872, had six glasshouses located in Seaham and four in Millfield.
In 1848, Candlish had been elected to Sunderland Borough Council and was mayor of the town in 1858 and 1861 and held other public offices as a river commissioner, magistrate, chairman of the board of guardians and principal of the Sunderland Orphan Asylum.
Candlish contested for one of Sunderland's two parliamentary seats at the 1865 general election but was defeated by Henry Fenwick and James Hartley. Fenwick's resignation a year later brought success for Candlish in the subsequent by-election. He held the seat until he stood down from the House of Commons at the 1874 general election.
In 1845, Candlish married his first cousin Elizabeth Candlish (the daughter of his uncle, Robert). She died on 21 March 1900, aged 86. Their daughter, Elizabeth Penelope, later married politician William Shepherd Allen.
Candlish undertook a parliamentary visit to India in 1870 (where he, incidentally, was presented with a bottle of beer manufactured by his own company), a trip which was blamed for the subsequent breakdown of his health. He died on 17 March 1874 in Cannes, France, and is buried in Sunderland Cemetery (Ryhope Road, Sunderland). In 1875, a statue of Candlish by Charles Bacon was unveiled in the centre of Mowbray Park and John Candlish Road, near his glassworks at Diamond Hall, is named after him.
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in an afternoon meet-and-greet with new staff members at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
9 June 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva listens to Germany’s Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz during the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting during the 2021 Spring Meetings from the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
6 April 2021
Washington, DC, United States
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(C) photonews.at/Georges Schneider - Wien 24.02.2016 - - Heute fand im österreichischen Innenministerium eine Westbalkan-Konferenz statt. Unter dem Titel 'Managing Migration together' wollen der österreichische Innen- und Außenminister mit ihren Amtskollegen aus Albanien, Bosnien-Herzegowina, Bulgarien, dem Kosovo, Kroatien, Mazedonien, Montenegro, Serbien und Slowenien über eine gemeinsame Politik in der Flüchtlingsfrage beraten. PHOTO: der österreichische Aussenminister Sebatian Kurz (R) und Innenministerin Joahnna Mikl-Leitner begrüssen den Aussenminister von Montenegro Igor Jovović,
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in an afternoon meet-and-greet with new staff members at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
9 June 2022
Washington, DC, United States
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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.
PHOTO: © GOA/GANP/DIMITRIOS PANAGOS-GANP/ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΠΑΝΑΓΟΣ
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva chairs an Executive Board meeting in a hybrid format at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
21 July 2021
Washington, DC, United States
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The BLM manages about 864,000 acres in its Medford district and some of that land includes portions of the famous Pacific Crest Trail, or PCT.
The 43-mile stretch of PCT in southern Oregon includes countless scenic views and well-known recreation points: Mount Shasta; Pilot Rock, Hyatt Lake; Soda Mountain Wilderness; and the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, to name a few.
Hikers will also be able to experience a variety of natural environments, from wildflower meadows to old growth forests and rocky bluffs.
This photo was captured in the summer of 2015.
How to access the PCT on southern Oregon public lands managed by the BLM: www.blm.gov/or/resources/recreation/csnm/csnm-pct.php
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in the Coalition of Finance Ministers meeting for Climate Action at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.
IMF Photo/Crispin Rodwell
3 November 2021
Glasgow, Scotland
Photo ref: COP Wednesday 31.JPG
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.
PHOTO: © GOA/GANP/DIMITRIOS PANAGOS-GANP/ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΠΑΝΑΓΟΣ
Managed to make the cockpit shorter. Very happy with that. Also redid the ceiling, was able to remove much of the gap.
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in a virtual meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Japan Taro Aso from the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
10 February 2021
Washington, DC, United States
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva is interviewed at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.
IMF Photo/Crispin Rodwell
2 November 2021
Glasgow, Scotland
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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.
A wet, cold, grey month. Managed to find something bright as often as possible though!
1. Look Ma, no hands! 182-365, 2. Show your hand 183-365, 3. Walkies 184-365, 4. Blow it out 185-365, 5. The Build Plans 186-365, 6. Storm Remnants 187-365, 7. Morning Glory 188-365, 8. Snowed in 189-365, 9. Greenery 190-365, 10. All play 191-365, 11. Gnomish 192-365, 12. More Rain 193-365, 13. High Tide 194-365, 14. Signed 195-365, 15. Lots of neighbours 196-365, 16. Dining Out 197-365, 17. Snuggles 198-365, 18. Dropped 199-365, 19. Tracked 200-365, 20. Grey 201-365, 21. Chow 202-365, 22. Foam on Top 203-365, 23. Play a Round 204-365, 24. Animal 205-365, 25. Hidden Falls 206-365, 26. Chilled out 207-365, 27. Droplets 208-365, 28. Do The Do 209-365, 29. Colour Coded 210-365, 30. Fin 211-365, 31. Rapids 212-365
RIGHTS MANAGED CONTENT. INQUIRE FOR USE RATES. © Richards, 1999. Scanned from 35mm slide. During the genocidal war against the 98% Kosovar Albanian population by Slobodan Milošević when NATO took action. I, along with small contingent of native and foreign aid workers, delivered supplies to the border via the northern Albanian town of Kukës. We had to deal with mafia, rebel fighters, NGOs, countless international news reporters, and of course, and shadowy figures pushing American interests. The refugees were wonderful. We were almost killed both on the way north in the morning and that night on the way back to Tirana. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. WEBSITE
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva arrives in Barbados and is greeted by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley. Photography: C. Pitt/BGIS
If you're around 3 feet tall, you use the lower shower setting. If you're 6 feet tall, you suffer and attempt to get the hose thing to fit into the higher clip.
(M) International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks with (L) Nigerian Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and (R) South Africa Finance Minister and G-24 Chairman Pravin Gordhan prior to the start of the Group of 24 Minister's meeting during the 2011 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings at International Monetary Fund Headquarters in Washington, DC on Sept 22, 2011.
IMF Staff Photograph
Agenda, Wednesday, June 5
0830 Registration of Participants
0900 Welcoming Remarks
Mr. Ernest Z. Bower
Senior Adviser and Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
0915 Presentation: "The South China Sea in Focus"
Mr. Gregory Poling
Research Associate, Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
0945 Break
1015 Significance of the South China Sea Dispute
Speakers:
Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
Senior Advisor and Senior Director, Asia-Pacific Security Program
Center for a New American Security
Mr. Alexander Metelitsa
Economist
Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
Mr. Murray Hiebert
Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Moderator:
Mr. Ernest Z. Bower
Senior Advisor and Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
1145 Break for Lunch
1200 Luncheon & Keynote Speech
Keynote Address:
Mr. Joseph Y. Yun
Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Moderator:
Mr. Ernest Z. Bower
Senior Advisor and Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
1315 Break
1330 Recent Developments in the South China Sea
Speakers:
Dr. Wu Shicun
President
National Institute for South China Sea Studies
Dr. Renato C. De Castro
Professor
De La Salle University
Dr. Yann-Huei Song
Research Fellow
Institute of European American Studies
Dr. Tran Truong Thuy
Director, South China Sea Studies Program
Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam
Moderator:
Mr. Murray Hiebert
Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
1500 Break
1515 South China Sea in Regional Politics
Speakers:
Amb. Hemant Krishan Singh
Wadhwani Chair in India-U.S. Policy Studies
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
Vice Admiral Hideaki Kaneda, JMSDF (ret.)
Director, The Okazaki Institute
The Japan Institute for International Affairs
Dr. Carlyle A. Thayer
Emeritus Professor
University of New South Wales, Australian Defense Force Academy
Dr. Donald K. Emmerson
Director, Southeast Asia Forum
Stanford University
Moderator:
Mr. Murray Hiebert
Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
1700 End of Day One
Agenda, Thursday, June 6
0800 Registration of Participants
0900 Role of International Law in Managing the Disputes
Dr. Xinjung Zhang
Associate Professor of Public International Law
Tsinghua University Law School
Mr. Henry S. Bensurto, Jr.
Secretary General, Commission on Maritime and Ocean Affairs Secretariat
Department of Foreign Affairs, Philippines
Dr. Peter Dutton
Professor and Director, China Maritime Studies Institute
U.S. Naval War College
Dr. Nguyen Dang Thang
Vietnam Lawyer’s Association
Moderator:
Mr. Ernest Z. Bower
Senior Advisor and Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
1030 Coffee Break
1045 Policy Recommendations to Boost Cooperation in the South China Sea
Ms. Bonnie S. Glaser
Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Mr. Leonardo Bernard
Research Fellow, Centre for International Law
National University of Singapore
Mr. Christian Le Miere
Senior Research Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime Security, Defense and Military Analysis Program
International Institute for Strategic Studies
Moderator:
Mr. Ernest Z. Bower
Senior Advisor and Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
1215 End of Conference
Managed a shot of Steve McQueen going back to his motorcycle after a brief visit with the Duke boys and of course Daisy too.
Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director, World Economic Forum, Matts Johansen, Chief Executive Officer, Aker Biomarine, Norway,
Sekai Irene Nzenza, Minister of Industry and Commerce of Zimbabwe,
Younes Sekkouri, Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills of Morocco, Emilija Stojmenova Duh, Minister of Digital Transformation of Slovenia, Jessica Zhang Xiaoyun, Senior Vice-President, Asia-Pacific, Automatic Data Processing (ADP), USA, Jean Daniel LaRock, President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), USA speaking in the „Making Sense of Jobs Amid Disruption“ session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center "Ignite" Room - Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva meets with Dutch executive Feike Sijbesma at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.
IMF Photo/Crispin Rodwell
3 November 2021
Glasgow, Scotland
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Anne Abraham, managing director for Cisco in Malaysia signing the MoU with Sime Darby as Dato' Tunku Putra Badlishah, managing director, Sime Darby Property looks on.
This dude managed to stay on the top of the tree for over 24 hours before eventually coming down of the tree. Screen-captured from one of my videos.
Full story: komonews.com/news/local/man-trapped-at-top-of-tall-tree-i...
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.
Varanasi is incredible to visit. It’s one of the world’s oldest continually inhabited cities, and one of the holiest in Hinduism. To die in Varanasi frees the soul from the cycle of rebirth and offers immediate moksha (the Hindu version of Nirvana). Pilgrims come to the ghats (embankments with stone steps) lining the Ganges to wash away their sins or to cremate deceased family members in the two funeral ghats directly at the river shore. They cremate up to 250 bodies per ghat per day, so for obvious reason Varanasi smells constantly of wood fire. Also a lot of ash that goes into the Ganges. Later we see the pumping stations where water is taken from the Ganges to be bleached and then used to supply the city. So we wash with Ganges water. Yuk!
The city is buzzing with life. The roads are full with colorful dressed people, cows, cars, tuktuks, motorbikes, rickshaws and hand-pulled carts. Not sure how they manage to move forward, but it somehow works. People are very polite though, there is no shoving or yelling when walking, only constant honking. They have cows that belong to someone and free cows, that have to make it on their own. Both roam the city during the day and cannot be bothered, standing in the middle of the road and letting everyone drive around them.
On the first day we have an evening boat tour and watch the prayer ceremony to mother river Ganges. Early next morning, we watch the sunrise and morning ritual bathing and have a walk in the alleyways of the oldest part of the town. It’s all so narrow, they built shops and kitchens it what are really just holes in the wall. In the afternoon we visit Sarnath, where Buddha thought his first lessons after enlightenment.