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Chevrolet Corvette C6 - Dubai JBR The walk
Canon EOS 1100D
Canon lens 18-55mm
Hoya PL-CIR 58mm Polarizer
The Lidl Run Kildare Events 2013 were held at the Curragh Racecourse, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland on Sunday 12th May 2013. There were three events: a 10KM, a half marathon, and a full marathon. This is a selection of photographs which includes all events. The photographs are taken from the start and finish of the marathon, the finish of the 10KM, and the finish of the half marathon. Due to the large numbers participating we did not manage to photograph everyone - which was not helped by the weather. Congratulations to Jo Cawley and her RunKildare crew for another great event. The weather didn't dampen the spirits of the many happy participants.
Electronic timing was provided by Red Tag Timing [www.redtagtiming.com/]
Overall Race Summary
Participants: There were approximately 3,000 participants over the 3 race events - there were runners, joggers, and walkers participating.
Weather: A cold breezy morning with heavy rain at the start. The weather dried up for the 10KM and the Half Marathon races
Course: This is an undulating course with some good flat stretches on the Curragh.
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Some Useful Links
GPS Garmin Trace of the Kildare Marathon Route: connect.garmin.com/activity/175709313
Homepage of the Lidl Run Kildare Event: www.kildaremarathon.ie/index.html
Facebook Group page of the Lidl Run Kildare Event: www.facebook.com/RunKildare
Boards.ie Athletics Discussion Board pages about the race series: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056815306
Our photographs from Run Kildare 2012: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157629707887620/
Our photographs from Run Kildare 2011: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157626725200956/
A small selection of photographs from Run Kildare 2010: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157623899845567/ (first event)
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva poses in a group photo after global leaders gathered today for the Global Center on Adaptation High-Level Dialogue: An Adaptation Acceleration Imperative for COP26.
IMF Photo/Eric Kampherbeek
6 September 2021
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) meets with Korea's President Lee Myung-bak (L) at the presidential office July 14, 2010 in Seoul, Korea. Strauss-Kahn is in Seoul to meet with the President after spending several days in Daejeon, Korea attending the Asia 21 conference. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
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.
Photo showing Julia Kloiber (AT) (Managing director and co-founder of the feminist non-profit Superrr Lab), Glacier Kwong (HK) (Digital Rights Activist), Kilian Kleinschmidt (DE) (international networker, development and migration expert), Caroline Sinders (US) (critical designer and artist) and Simon Weckert (DE) at the "AI X Civil Society" Panel Talk at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021.
AI infrastructures are being developed and deployed. In cadence with their implementation, our dependency on digital systems grows. However, new algorithms still carry old bias and societal discourse is limited by lack of access and dissolution of commons. The panel turns to experts in the fields of science, art and technology to help recognize the formative processes, made rampant by digital technology, that shape our living together. On a global scale, society has been dealt a foul hand within the parameters of “A New Deal”. The panel will give a platform to concepts, projects and individual actors who take an active role in changing that fact.
Credit: vog.photo
Meeting between Managing Director of the IMF Christine Lagarde and China's Vice Premier Wang Qishan, Beijing, China
Inflation jitters, acute global imbalances and persistent low interest rates in the US are just a few of the factors complicating many governments’ efforts to manage record levels of debt.
1) In the aftermath of the financial crisis, how have governments changed their approach to issuing debt? Is there a danger of saturated debt markets?
2) Are bond traders destined to be the new masters of the universe?
3) How are concerns over a weakened dollar impacting strategies? Could this accelerate moves into alternative reserve currencies?
4) When can we expect governments to shift attention to deficit reduction?
Moderator
* Robert Thomson, Editor-in-Chief, Dow Jones; Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Panelists
* Prof. K. C. Chan, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, SAR Hong Kong
* Stanley Fischer, Governor, Bank of Israel
* Peter Hooper III, Managing Director, Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank
* Alexei Kudrin, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation
* Christine Lagarde, Minister for Economy, Industry and Employment of France
* John Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
* David Riley, Group Managing Director, Fitch Ratings
* Yuri Solovyov, President and Global CEO, VTB Capital
Copyright St.Petersburg International Economic Forum (http://forumspb.com/en/)
This year’s welcome reception and platinum dinner were hosted at One King West, in Toronto | Learn more about Canada’s Best Managed Companies.
Welcome reception: This event is an opportunity to toast to the arrival of executives and management teams from the Best Managed network from across the country.
Platinum dinner: Best Managed Platinum Club CEOs are invited to this exclusive dinner for an opportunity to share insights with their peers from across the country.
Inflation jitters, acute global imbalances and persistent low interest rates in the US are just a few of the factors complicating many governments’ efforts to manage record levels of debt.
1) In the aftermath of the financial crisis, how have governments changed their approach to issuing debt? Is there a danger of saturated debt markets?
2) Are bond traders destined to be the new masters of the universe?
3) How are concerns over a weakened dollar impacting strategies? Could this accelerate moves into alternative reserve currencies?
4) When can we expect governments to shift attention to deficit reduction?
Moderator
* Robert Thomson, Editor-in-Chief, Dow Jones; Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Panelists
* Prof. K. C. Chan, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, SAR Hong Kong
* Stanley Fischer, Governor, Bank of Israel
* Peter Hooper III, Managing Director, Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank
* Alexei Kudrin, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation
* Christine Lagarde, Minister for Economy, Industry and Employment of France
* John Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
* David Riley, Group Managing Director, Fitch Ratings
* Yuri Solovyov, President and Global CEO, VTB Capital
Copyright St.Petersburg International Economic Forum (http://forumspb.com/en/)
Take Skype with you wherever you go with Skype 2.1 for Android. With Skype now available on more Android devices you can mange your contacts wherever you go!
Managed a fun astro shoot last night. I had been planning on trying to get a shot from the Langstone Rock caves for the last year, but I needed the combination of elements, so dark sky – no moon, milky way core, low tide and of course a clear sky.
The milky way was due to arrive at around 1:30 to the South East and would align with the caves at around 3:00. I thought I would start by shooting the core over the old Groyne on Dawlish Warren, after walking around the beach I was able to find them, I think the old wooden Groyne has been taken out as part of the current beach management scheme?? I was able to get some nice shots out to the south east with the lights of Exmouth in the distance. Unfortunately shooting on wet sand was a bit of a challenge as the tripod continued to gradual sink, however, I managed to get some interesting angles combined with nice reflections in the pools.
Moving back to the Langston Rock the caves were amazing and worth the wait to get. As the milky way rose into the vertical it started to fill the large arch, I also tried shooting from one of the smaller caves which worked quite well. Eventually by around 3:30 the approaching dawn started to reduce visibility of the Milky Way so time to head for home and bed...
This year’s welcome reception and platinum dinner were hosted at One King West, in Toronto | Learn more about Canada’s Best Managed Companies.
Welcome reception: This event is an opportunity to toast to the arrival of executives and management teams from the Best Managed network from across the country.
Platinum dinner: Best Managed Platinum Club CEOs are invited to this exclusive dinner for an opportunity to share insights with their peers from across the country.
Managing Director Helena Leurent from WEF, presenting at the 1st Future Industry Innovation Forum.
Kyunddong Hall, Main Admin. Bldg., UNIST
Thursday, October 13, 2016.
International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (C), First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky (L) and External Relations Director Caroline Atkinson (R) hold a press conference April 14, 2011 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. The IMF/World Bank Meetings are being held in Washington, DC this week which will host Finance Ministers and Bank Governors from 187 countries
©IMF Photo
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) has coffee with participants including Professor Wellington Otieno (L) and Dr. Moses Ikiara (C) along with leaders of civil society organizations, youth groups, teachers and health workers union and think tank officials March 7, 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya. Strauss-Kahn is on his first leg of a three country visit to Africa. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
Managed by BLM, the Johnson Valley area provides critical habitat for the endangered desert tortoise.
Photo by Joanna Gilkeson/USFWS.
Managed to get another one together without smashing any bits!
Made a red wig and now making a costume!
This year’s symposium was hosted at Metro Convention Centre, in Toronto | Learn more about Canada’s Best Managed Companies.
Symposium: A range of topics were on the agenda this year– from innovation to leadership to talent strategies and much more. The CEOs and senior management teams of winning companies leveraged this day to learn and connect among one of Canada’s strongest business networks. Over 800 people attended this year’s symposium.
I managed to find an Art-Déco building!!!
Former Burton's Store, 25-27 Ann Street - built in 1933, Architect: Harry Wilson of Leeds.
It is a three-storey Art Déco building with a remarkable decorative faïence façade which includes stylized geometric patterning derived from Egyptian design and two elephants heads crowning the columns. Few Burton’s buildings had such ornate decoration which surely singles this out as worth saving.
The Burton’s store on Greenwich’s Nelson Street, south-east London, built in 1932, has similar elephant head decorations.
The building on Belfast’s Ann Street has been derelict for several years (apart from the shop at street level), it has lost its distinctive façade lettering but it is still recognizable as a vestige of its former glory.
Had great weather on our half-term holiday and managed a couple of good walks including a round walk from Bicknoller onto the Quantock Wills and back via Weacombe. Spotted this little fungi colony set in moss on a tree branch overhanging a small stream. Perfect macro material and for once I've managed to control the focal plane quite well.
I found identification almost impossible, even with Roger Phillips' Mushroom book, and can only guess they may be of type Mycena or Galerina. Any suggestions are welcome.
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Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva listens to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres during the United Nations Heads of State FfD Meeting from the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
29 September 2020
Washington, D.C., United States of America
Photo Ref: CH200929002
Managing Dir.Miriam Allen& Actress Saoirse Ronan at the 25th Galway Film Fleadh on Sunday. Photo: Declan Furey.
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.
Lyme Park is a large estate located south of Disley, Cheshire. The estate is managed by the National Trust and consists of a mansion house surrounded by formal gardens, in a deer park in the Peak District National Park.[1] The house is the largest in Cheshire,[2] and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.[3]
The estate was granted to Sir Thomas Danyers in 1346 and passed to the Leghs of Lyme by marriage in 1388. It remained in the possession of the Legh family until 1946 when it was given to the National Trust. The house dates from the latter part of the 16th century. Modifications were made to it in the 1720s by Giacomo Leoni, who retained some of the Elizabethan features and added others, particularly the courtyard and the south range. It is difficult to classify Leoni's work at Lyme, as it contains elements of both Palladian and Baroque styles.[a] Further modifications were made by Lewis Wyatt in the 19th century, especially to the interior. Formal gardens were created and developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The house, gardens and park have been used as locations for filming and they are open to the public. The Lyme Caxton Missal is on display in the Library.
The land now occupied by Lyme Park was granted to Piers Legh and his wife Margaret D'anyers, by letters patent dated January 4, 1398, by Richard II, son of the Black Prince. Margaret D'anyers' grandfather, Sir Thomas D'anyers, had taken part in retrieving the standard of the Black Prince at the Battle of Crécy in 1346, and was rewarded with annuity of 40 marks a year by the Black Prince, drawn on his Cheshire estate, and which could be exchanged for land of that value belonging to the Black Prince. Sir Thomas died in 1354, and the annuity passed to his nearest surviving kin, his granddaughter Margaret, who in 1388 married the first Piers Legh (Piers Legh I). Richard II favoured Piers and granted his family a coat of arms in 1397, and the estate of Lyme Handley in 1398 redeeming the annuity. However, Piers was executed two years later by Richard's rival for the throne, Henry Bolingbroke.[6]
When in 1415 Sir Piers Legh II was wounded in the Battle of Agincourt, his mastiff stood over and protected him for many hours through the battle. The mastiff was later returned to Legh's home and was the foundation of the Lyme Hall Mastiffs. They were bred at the hall and kept separate from other strains, figuring prominently in founding the modern breed. The strain died out around the beginning of the 20th century.[7][8]
The first record of a house on the site is in a manuscript folio dated 1465, but that house was demolished when construction of the present building began during the life of Piers Legh VII, in the middle of the 16th century.[5] This house, by an unknown designer, was L-shaped in plan with east and north ranges; piecemeal additions were made to it during the 17th century. In the 1720s Giacomo Leoni, an architect from Venice, added a south range to the house creating a courtyard plan, and made other changes.[3] While he retained some of its Elizabethan features, many of his changes were in a mixture of Palladian and Baroque styles.[2] During the latter part of the 18th century Piers Legh XIII bought most of the furniture which is in the house today. However, the family fortunes declined and the house began to deteriorate. In the early 19th century the estate was owned by Thomas Legh, who commissioned Lewis Wyatt to restore the house between 1816 and 1822. Wyatt's alterations were mainly to the interior, where he remodelled every room.[9] Leoni had intended to add a cupola to the south range but this never materialised.[10] Instead, Wyatt added a tower-like structure (a hamper) to provide bedrooms for the servants. He also added a one-storey block to the east range, containing a dining-room.[2] Later in the century William Legh, 1st Baron Newton, added stables and other buildings to the estate, and created the Dutch Garden.[9] Further alterations were made to the gardens by Thomas Legh, 2nd Baron Newton and his wife during the early 20th century.[11] In 1946 Richard Legh, 3rd Baron Newton, gave Lyme Park to the National Trust.wikipedia
This year’s symposium was hosted at Metro Convention Centre, in Toronto | Learn more about Canada’s Best Managed Companies.
Symposium: A range of topics were on the agenda this year– from innovation to leadership to talent strategies and much more. The CEOs and senior management teams of winning companies leveraged this day to learn and connect among one of Canada’s strongest business networks. Over 800 people attended this year’s symposium.
Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Fortinet, USA captured during the Session: Managing Cyber-Risks: Equipping CEOs at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 2, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
TIANJIN/CHINA, 26SEPT08 - Participants at the Managing Global Risks session in the Tianjin WorkSpace 2008 at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2008 in Tianjin, China.
Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org)/Photo by Liu Ying
Regional Managing Director, Coventry University Africa Hub, Kigali, Rwanda, Silas Lwakabamba delivers his speech during the event
Managed to get out and take a few photographs last week with Jason. We went to some amazing rocks - I literally didn't believe they were natural, but it turns out they are. 130m year old sandstone. And crazy trees. And us. And two of the best cameras in the world! :)
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.
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International Monetary Fund?s Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) and Tanzania?s President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (R) hold a joint press conference after the completion of their two day conference March 11, 2009 at the Bank of Tanzania Conference Center in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The two day conference brought together a diverse group of participants that examined the unprecedented challenge for African policymakers posed by the current global financial crisis. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
TIANJIN/CHINA, 26SEPT08 - Scribing from the final discussion of the Managing Global Risks session in the Tianjin WorkSpace 2008 at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2008 in Tianjin, China.
Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org)/Photo by Liu Ying
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva talks with President of the African Development Bank Group Akinwumi A. Adesina before addressing the Global Center on Adaptation.
IMF Photo/Eric Kampherbeek
6 September 2021
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Philadelphia Water gathered with partners and supporters of the City of Philadelphia’s Green City, Clean Waters program at the Fairmount Water Works on Thursday, June 16 2016 to celebrate the five year anniversary of the historic green stormwater infrastructure plan’s adoption.
Joined by U.S. EPA Regional Administrator Shawn Garwin, Pa. DEP Regional Director Cosmo Servidio and City of Philadelphia Managing Director Michael DiBeradinis, Philadelphia Water Commissioner Debra A. McCarty announced that City had surpassed five year regulatory targets, resulting in a 1.5 billion gallon reduction in stormwater runoff and combined sewer overflows during a typical year of rainfall.
This historic achievement was made possible through the public and private creation of 837.7 Greened Acres in Philadelphia, and many of the partners and organizations contributed were on hand to celebrate at the event, dubbed “5 Down.”
Under the 2011 agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Pa. Dept. of Environmental Protection (EPA), the City was required to create 744 Greened Acres, representing a 600 million gallon per-year reduction in runoff and overflows, by June 2016. Overall, the City must create nearly 10,000 Greened Acres over at 25-year period and reduce typical annual overflows by about 8 billion gallons.
Each Greened Acre uses green tools such rain gardens and stormwater tree planters to manage at least 27,158 gallons of runoff from hard surfaces like streets and parking lots every time an inch of rain falls in the city. In addition to filtering pollutants out of stormwater, green infrastructure sites keep excess water out of Philadelphia’s overburdened sewer system, where overflows can lead to sewage spilling into local waterways.
The event also featured a special beer created by Saint Benjamin Brewery in Kensington to highlight efforts to protect the source water they depend on for brewing and a musical performance by Philadelphia native Sterlen Barr. Mural Arts and the Public Workshop helped to support the five year milestone celebration. Members of the Philadelphia Water Public Affairs Unit created a backdrop showing photos from green infrastructure sites and Green City, Clean Waters events held since 2011.
Learn more about the what Green City, Clean Waters has accomplished in the first five years and what’s in store for the 20 at www.Phillywatersheds.org/5Down