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I have been driven somewhat demented. I have been following this unravelling on Twitter, and have just, 5 minutes ago, deleted my account there, having only managed to have an account there for about 10 days. There is a certain hysteria abroad. The argument that one should, perhaps, keep oneself up to the minute relative to worldwide developments may be true, but there is a point of over-information (and mis-information), where you start to absorb everything from everywhere. There is a lot of fear about, universally, and for good reason too, but to absorb it all from every direction is probably not the best idea. There are enough reasons to despair, without actually attempting to absorb them all, from all points of view. I suspect it is the same relative to Eco developments, or rather catastrophes, just the ‘news’ could drive you crazy, completely disregarding possible sources of that ‘news’. So, am I now advocating burying one’s head in the sand would seem to be the underlying question? Yes and no would appear to be the answer.
I woke up tossing and turning, around 5am, as I usually do. Then two hours were spent where one’s brain goes into over-drive. I was thinking of how we disrespect this magnificent virus, this burgeoning life force. You know it’s also how I feel about this HIV virus I have been ‘enjoying’ for the past 20 years. I know, strange choice of words, it would appear, but I will try to make my meaning clearer. Mutually respectful co-existence would seem to be the ideal that we could, or should even, strive for.
Of course, the virus destroying the host makes no sense for the continuation of the virus itself, which is also exactly the situation relative to ourselves and the planet we are currently destroying. It’s just the same story extrapolated, evidently. This is a very basic idea, and as you know, the reason eventually why most viruses become less lethal as they evolve, in the same way that we are going to have to become relative to our home.
My niece and nephew arrived in Amsterdam for a four-day break on Thursday. They flew into a European Covid hotspot from another European Covid hotspot because they thought they deserved a ‘break’. To make it even more interesting my nephew had just achieved his Doctorate in Biochemistry (last week) from UCD, specializing in viral diseases.
Before they came, I told them that things were very bad here, that practically no one wears masks and that virtually no one has had the booster shot, the ministry of health (the RIVM) are currently, very slowly, doling them out to the over 80’s, and the Netherlands has the lowest booster rates in the whole of Europe. I also explained to them that the majority of Netherlanders were fairly militantly anti-mask, as this was a position held by the RIVM itself, or at least by its leader, a Mr. Van Dissel, since the beginning of the pandemic. I also explained to them that we had the second highest infection rate in Europe, behind Austria. They said they were just coming for a “bit of fun” and they would be more or less keeping to themselves anyway. I explained to them that I didn't feel I would be living up to my 'avuncular' responsibilities if I didn't, at least. warn them of the situation here.
That for me is the crux, this profound inbred lack of respect. We have to respect this formidable foe, recognize it as at least our equal and perhaps, even, our necessary vanquisher. I know this is a very tall order. That we gestated it, and I don’t care how we did this, whether it was in a laboratory, or a wet market, is also something that we have to look at very hard. That we proliferate it, spread it, because we feel we deserve a bit of fun, that holidays are our right, that cheap flights are a ‘human right’, even, that we need to ‘save Christmas’ and celebrate carnival, because they are ‘traditions’. Here, in Limburg, where just 3 weeks ago they insisted that carnival had to go ahead, they now find themselves to have the highest Covid rates in the whole of Europe. The photos of the carnival celebrations were reminiscent of ‘Dance of Death’ images from plague art of other centuries, Bosch reverberating.
The ‘strange’ thing is that we have to learn not to care, though that’s not really true, it’s more not to react, to sit in that position of 'Royal Ease' (Mahārājalīlāsana), like the Indra and the unseeing Mr. Joyce.
Participants 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
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See ‘Forward to page 1’, managing (Great) expectations with a mix of ‘Pecha Kucha and speed dating’.
By Caroline Roberts on the Eye blog.
Stanislav Kuznetsov, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank, Russian Federation 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
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.
Participants 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
Managed to get four out of five instruments visible, sadly don't have name of group. They were taking photos and recording.
‘Scene’ in North London, Finsbury Park Interchange again
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Friend Peter Rose has once more been exploring the delights that the capital has to offer.
This time he and his trusty camera have brought us the transport highlights of the area surrounding what was Finsbury Park railway station and has now been elevated to the level of an Interchange.
All the images reproduced here do so with Peter’s permission and my thanks.
The station dates back to the 1850s when the ‘Great Northern Railway’s line from Kings Cross arrived at what was then known as Seven Sisters Road (Holloway) station.
Becoming Finsbury Park station in July 1861
This was gradually extended North to York by the GNR and eventually to Edinburgh by the ‘North Eastern’ and ‘North British Railways’ so creating what is now known as The East Coast Main Line.
Underground trains arrived in the form of the ‘Great Northern & City Railway’ in 1904.
Trams and buses have been around since the early days when I suspect that they would have been powered by horses.
Today, such is the volume of traffic that two bus stations are required to service their needs
Pictured under the station canopy.
I wonder how the graffiti ‘artist’ managed to access the roof support??
1C26 18.30 London Paddington to Taunton today ran with the last scheduled 8 car HST on GWR. It is heading into Yatton at 20.43 at speed. Unusually GWR managed to find a full set of green coaches for this run.
43002 was the first production HST powercar to be constructed, whilst the front powercar , 43198 , was the last one to be built.
43198 has been interlock fitted and will continue in use with GWR with 4 car sets on Cardiff services.
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn meets Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff [and Finance Minister Guido Mantega] in Brasilia, Brazil. Photo: Roberto Stuckert Filho
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in the Curtain Raiser event for the 2020 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, on October 6, 2020. IMF Photo/ Cory Hancock
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
Photo ref: 210906_0629_ Kristalina Georgieva_LR.jpg
I managed to sneak in a visit to Hardwick Hall before it was forced to close for the November lockdown. Wednesday 4th November 2020. It’s one of the grandest and most important Elizabethan country houses and it’s actually changed very little since that period.
Hardwick Hall was built between 1590 and 1597 (while the adjacent Hardwick Old Hall was still being constructed!) for Bess of Hardwick, and was designed by the architect Robert Smythson. Bess was born in 1527 and through a series of well-made marriages, she rose to the highest levels of English nobility and became enormously wealthy. She was a shrewd business woman, increasing her assets with business interests including mines and glass-making workshops. Already owning Chatsworth House, Bess of Hardwick was the richest woman in England after Queen Elizabeth I and she wanted a grander house to reflect that (it contains one of the largest long galleries in any English house - pictures of that to follow!). The house was very modern for its time and contained a lot of glass windows in a period when glass was seen as something of a luxury.
After Bess's death in 1608, the house passed to her son William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, and subsequent Dukes preferred Chatsworth over Hardwick. As a secondary home, Hardwick escaped the attention of modernisers and thankfully received few alterations after its completion. In 1950, the unexpected death of the 10th Duke of Devonshire, with the subsequent death duties (rated at 80%), caused the sale of many of the Devonshire assets and estates. Hardwick was handed over to HM Treasury in lieu of Estate Duty in 1956 and the estate was transferred to the National Trust in 1959.
In recent years Hardwick Hall was used to film the exterior scenes and interior scenes of Malfoy Manor in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!
Managed to get the new 100W solar panel set up the day before the build. It's kinda jerry rigged, but it works...
A client infographic that spread across the internet due to a Coolinfographic clue; originally published here:
www.galorath.com/wp/project-prediction-by-seer-infographi...
2 August 2012 - The vast reserves of minerals buried throughout Afghanistan, including large deposits of copper, gold, and gas could greatly improve the country’s economy and provide funds to develop the country for years to come. But all that wealth might also create a crisis. While some estimates put Afghanistan’s mineral wealth at about $1 trillion, for these minerals to be extracted in a way that benefits all Afghans and promotes sustainable development the industry needs to be managed transparently.
That was the key message at a conference recently held in Kabul to coincide with the release of a report called the Afghanistan Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (AEITI). The report contains details of all payments of taxes, royalties and fees the Afghan Government has received from companies operating in the extractive sector. The report equally publishes details of payments made by mining companies to the Afghan Government in order ensure transparency.
“The Afghan Government is committed to share publically all the information related to the extractive sector in the country,” said Dr. Omar Zakhilwal Zakhilwal, Afghanistan’s Afghan Finance Minister.
This kind of transparency is important because sudden new wealth from mining and gas have had a way of undermining many economies. Rather than using that wealth as a blessing that can improve the lives of citizens and improve a country’s infrastructure, it can cause Afghanistan’s currency to appreciate and lead to increased corruption. This well-studied phenomenon is called the “resource curse”, whereby countries with vast oil and mineral wealth don’t see an improvement in the living standards of citizens. For instance Nigeria, which has one of the world’s largest oil reserves, has seen no improvement in its real gross domestic product per person in 30 years. The GDP per capita of Venezuela, another mineral rich country, is lower today than it was in 1977.
Afghanistan joined the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in 2010 to help beat the “resource curse”. That Initiative sets international standards for good governance and has established accountability mechanisms for the extractive industries sector. Before a country can join the EITI it has to has to agree to some governance and transparency inidicators.
With funds from the World Bank and the Harakat-Afghanistan Investment Climate Facility Organization (HAICFO), the Ministry of Finance established a secretariat for Afghanistan Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (AEITI) to take lead of EITI implementation in Afghanistan.
Speaking at the conference, the Minister for Mines, Waheedullah Shahrani said the government has devised effective policies to better allocate royalties and taxes collected from this industries to make sure that industry can thrive.
“Transparency means that the process is clean, defendable and the information from the process of negotiation up to awarding contracts and exploration and exploitation of mineral resources are shared publically,” said Shahrani.
Shahrani said oil production from Afghanistan’s first ever oil extraction contract at the Amu-River basin will start soon. This will generate $400-$500 million in revenue for Afghan government each year.
Also underway is the Hajigak Iron project, which is already the biggest project in the history of Afghanistan not just from economic perspective but also from the scale of its operations. Hajigak will produce approximately 25 to 30 million tons of iron annually.
Proposals to develop five other mines, of gold and copper, have been tendered. Evaluations of these proposals are underway.
Eight renowned international companies have expressed interest in investing in oil extraction in Tajik-Afghan basins and currently work is in progress on preparing financial model of this project.
The Afghan government is also bringing reforms in the Mining Law of the country to make it more in line with international standards for broader investment attraction.
“Afghanistan’s commitment to EITI for transparency will be integrated into the law and licensing system will be simplified along with ensuring a legal framework for protection of the rights of investors,” said Waheedullah Shahrani.
Minister Shahrani hoped that mining sector will constitute 45 to 50 percent of Afghan economy by 2024.
The Director of World Bank in Afghanistan, Bob Sam said AEITI is an important tool to increase knowledge and information about Afghanistan’s natural resources and help increase accountability and transparency.
“The AEITI is moving ahead well; specifically it is reaching out towards the producer regions where people who are directly affected by mining activities live. It is essential that this initiative is not only supported by Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Mines but also by the grassroots movements across the country and private sector,” said Bob Sam.
Photo: UNAMA / Fardin Waezi
This is the wee statue in the pond in Benmore Gardens. It is actually a fountain but it has not worked since the Lockdown in Spring/Summer of 2020.
The Casey Library began a new chapter May 3 as the community got its first look at the re-located facility.
Raymond Myers, U.S. Army Garrison Casey's deputy to the garrison commander spoke to community members about the move and the enhanced library.
"Moving here brings the library closer to the school and creates more of a downtown feel," said Myers.
In addition to being closer to Casey Elementary, the library is across the street from Child, Youth & School Services and across an adjacent street from Starbucks. Part of that downtown feel Myers mentioned.
According to Tracey Klippert, supervisory librarian for the Casey enclave libraries, they are enjoying the openness and the new furnishings.
"It's very easy to manage, you can see down all of the stacks, see into the children's area," said Klippert. "Other than DVDs, children's books are the most checked out item, we get a lot of parents in here with their children
every day and it is the most popular feature of the library."
And, Klippert means everyday... the library is open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week and has added some very sharp e-readers with e-magazines coming soon to their free Wi-Fi area.
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in a call with the G24 and Bank Governors during the 2020 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, on October 13, 2020. IMF Photo/ Cory Hancock
Managing leaves and keeping up with the right time to travel does not work all the time, though we have planned this trip 3 months back, it's almost the end of the travel season to Spiti. Many hotels and restaurants were about to shut for the winter when we reached Spiti. Noticed mainly different shades of brown as winters are about to start.
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva poses for a portrait at the International Monetary Fund.
IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
22 December, 2020
Washington, DC, United States of America
Photo Reference: CH201222008
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn meets Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff [and Finance Minister Guido Mantega] in Brasilia, Brazil. Photo: Humberto Pradera
Conference co-organized by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Brazilian National Confederation of Industry (CNI) and sponsored by CNI
Managed to get a slip of polarising reflective film glued in behind the slit to represent coated armoured glass.
Just a little thing and a pain to photograph but it makes me inordinately happy when it glints and shimmers in the light.
Managed to pull even more out of the exhaust this morning....
This is the fourth lot of " artificial hair-extensions " that have come out of it !
Where it all comes from is a Mystery... as they used to say in Peckham.
Bigger corn crops call for beefed-up infrastructure and service delivery.
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The fleet of Aggregate Industries Caterpillar equipment, managed by the Finning Managed Solutions team at Finning UK and Ireland. Equipment shots include the Cat 982M and Cat 972M wheel loaders and Cat 740B, Articulated Trucks.
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Managing Director and CFO of the World Bank, Bertrand Badré with President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) greets Bob Geldof (R) at the Millennium UN Plaza Hotel September 20, 2010 in New York City. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
Soldiers of Wiltshire based 4th Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers of 43 (Wessex) Brigade and 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh were attached from 12 Mechanised Brigade were sent from Tidworth to help fill sandbags and assist the people of Gloucestershire.
At Imjin Barracks in Gloucester over a two hour period they managed nearly 3000 sand bags which will be used by Tewkesbury Council in their flood defences.
The soldiers are also prepared to assist where they are needed.
Tewkesbury Borough Council’s Lead Member for Clean and Green Environment Cllr Jim Mason said: “We are working hard to ensure our communities across the borough are provided with the support and free, filled sandbags that they need. The back-up provided from the military is very much welcomed and we will continue working over the weekend and into next week to continue the support to our communities.”
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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.
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