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IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn meets Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff [and Finance Minister Guido Mantega] in Brasilia, Brazil. Photo: Roberto Stuckert Filho
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
Managed to get myself an old Nikkor lens for £20 because there was a slight fungus on it.
It's not noticable
and has now been killed by a short stint in the the freezer
and takes pretty nice sharp pictures.
=)
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...
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks at the Institute for International Finance, Beijing, China
Been very busy with work stuff of late and managed to squeeze in a detour on the way home this evening. After changing my mind about 4 times en-route to which location to visit, I decided to pay my due respects to none other than Mr Bowerman himself.
There was quite a large bank of cloud which the sun manage to sneak behind before I arrived although there was a small break in the clouds which might allow the final light through before the sun set for the day. Patience paid off and we had about 2-3 minutes of golden light before disappearing behind the last cloud bank for the evening.
MUMBAI/INDIA, 13NOV11 - Chanda Kochhar, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, ICICI Bank, India at the India in the New Global Reality (Opening Plenary Session) during the India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, India, 12-14 November, 2011.
Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org) / Eric Miller (emiller@iafrica.com)
Patrick O'Keefe knows a thing or two about managing online communities, in fact he wrote a book on it. Here is Patrick at the Modern Media Man Summit 2010. Here is my recap of Day 2 of the M3 Summit - www.benspark.com/i-talked-about-photos.html
Paso de Jesús del Rescate, el Señor de Granada, en la Passio Granatensis. Sábado Santo de 2009
The "capataz", in charge of managing the float of "Jesús del Rescate", in a procession in the Holy Week of Granada
Never managed a good photo of these lifers, Grandala (Grandala coelicolor), Balang Shan Pass, Sichuan, China
The Grandala (Grandala coelicolor) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.
It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal.
Source: Wikipedia
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 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.
SNCB class 62 locomotive 6244, on the rather short line 276 which serves the industrial area of Seneffe-Manage.
Taken whilst traveling on Along Different Lines 'Charleroi & Le Centre' railtour.
3rd August 1996
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.
Managing Director of Ingénue Consultancy Ms. Kayt Watts highlights the latest development trends of international certification schemes.
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
I thought I would see how I managed getting about on my own with my one hand.. I surprised myself. It was great walking around the city again. There was a lot to see because of the RISE festival.
December 22, 2013, Christchurch CBD New Zealand.
Street artists armed with spray cans and paint rollers are coming to the rescue of Christchurch's struggling suburbs and city centre. Dozens of large artworks have been created on walls across the city this month with many more going up this week.
The RISE street-art festival has commissioned a dozen large street-art paintings in the city centre, while the From the Ground Up project has organised about 16 large artworks in the city centre and Sydenham. Christchurch business owners and city leaders believe street art will help regenerate areas hit hard by the earthquakes and draw tourists to the city.
Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce chief executive Peter Townsend said street art adds ''a whole new dimension'' to what the city offered.
"Putting street art in significant places in our city has the potential to make Christchurch unique,'' he said.
''It can create a real point of difference for a city and transform otherwise ugly buildings into an asset for the city.''
RISE festival director George Shaw said vibrant street art changed the feel of a city.
''If you paint amazing art on blank walls it brightens everything up and makes the place feel relevant and alive.
''That is desperately needed in cities across the world and especially in Christchurch.''
From the Ground Up organiser Jacob Ryan said about 20 New Zealand artists had created artwork in the city for the project.
''We wanted to get the city going again and make Christdhchurch a more interesting place. The aim was to brighten up the city. It has a real impact on this scale. Christchurch is the perfect canvas.''
Sydenham Quarter chairman Anthony Barker said street art had brightened his quake-hit suburb and attracted shoppers.
The business association helped get permission for street artists to use walls in Sydenham for the From the Ground Up festival.
The RISE festival also includes a major street-art exhibition at the Canterbury Museum opening tomorrow. The exhibition will feature one of the largest private collections of Banksy artworks in the world, work by international and local street artists, and new work by Australian artist Ian Strange.
For More Info: www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/art-and-stage...
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn meets Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff [and Finance Minister Guido Mantega] in Brasilia, Brazil. Photo: Humberto Pradera
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
Bigger corn crops call for beefed-up infrastructure and service delivery.
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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.”
Please credit photographer.
Yoshito Hori, President, GLOBIS University; Managing Partner, GLOBIS Capital Partners; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, GLOBIS, Japan capture during a session: East, West and the Fusion of Ideas at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 11, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in a a Washington Post Live interview to discuss how the Fund is responding to the Global crisis.
IMF Photo/Kim Haughton
3 June 2020
Washington, D.C., United States of America
Photo Reference: KH200603012
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
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (C) is joined by IMF's African Director Antioinette Sayeh (L) and External Relations Advisor Gerry Rice (R) at a press conference at the Birchwood Hotel March 10, 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Strauss-Kahn is on his second leg of a three country visit to Africa. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
It is highly recommended to consult a health professional for managing Binge Eating Disorder (BED) as neglecting symptoms often leads to a wide variety of physical, emotional, and social problems. Know the best possible ways of diagnosing and managing BED. Read more at: bit.ly/binge_eating_disorder
Original Design Futuristic Military Cyborgs by Calvin's Custom @ Cyborg Corps special feat. Secret Master by Devil Toys
OPERATION "Saving the Monkeys"
In the near future, after the long prophesied apocalyptic polar shift, Earth suffered the gravest epidemic changes since the great flood described in the old religions... to survive the hazard environment, some human speed up the process of evolution by turning themselves into Cyborgs...
While those who secured the new type of energy and managed the technology became Cyborgs, the unfortunate mass of survivors were reduced to tribal and barbaric savages called the "Leftovers", and vastly out numbered the Cyborg race. To protect their resources and technology, the Cyborgs alienated themselves from the rest, and formed their own highly secured yet closed society called "World Order", a world of their own, separated from the rest and considering themselves the true human, whilst those outside their realm merely animals...
Both the Cyborgs and the Leftovers claimed they represent humanity, some argued that the very definition of "Being Human" has been long gone, neither groups has any humanity among themselves at all... at some point, a group of highly enlightened scholars from the mountains surfaced and preach a new science called "Re-Evolution", by means of tracing the DNA that are similar to human i.e. Apes and Monkeys or Pigs alike, a new race of truly human can be "created" to "RESTART" the glory of humanity...
While most of the Leftovers lack the knowledge nor the desire to "restart" anything, all they care is how to survive the next day without being eaten by others... the Cyborgs see "Re-Evolution" a threat to their existence, for they believe they are the new milestone of evolution, they will take humanity to a new height, reversing everything back to zero is blasphemy...
To stop this new science from coming to fruition, under the banner of "Rare Species Protection", the Cyborgs deployed their elite combat units the "WARDOGS" to raid and sabotage the "Re-Evolution" laboratories in Africa, to "Free" the experiment subject: the Monkeys.
Who would have thought, some members of the WARDOGS unit developed a strong affection towards the Monkeys, for they remind so much of how the world once was... little did they knew, their mission objective was to SAVE (COLLECT) and DESTROY the experiment subjects...
Would the unit turn against each other?
Would they defy their order and became renegade?
Would "Re-Evolution" really work?
Can the Cyborgs became human again...
Managed to get my hands on these all thanks to a friend in America! All I need now is the Bred XI's and I'm done!...
...With that number at least!