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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
How Honduras managed to carry out genomic sequencing for the first time
June 2023
When microbiologist Soany Ávilez was selected to implement the genomic sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Honduras, she was amazed. In the wake of the pandemic, Soany had started working at the National Virology Laboratory in 2020 performing PCR tests. At that time, genomic sequencing to detect circulating variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 was carried out outside the country. But a project to provide Honduras with the capabilities to do it in situ and obtain faster results was being developed with technical support from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and financial support from the United States Government.
Although she lacked knowledge on the subject, Soany remembers that she longed for the opportunity to work in sequencing. "When they chose us (her and her partner Karla Romero) to implement sequencing in the country and move the area forward, I couldn't believe it," she says.
Genomic surveillance allows us to know the evolution of viruses and other pathogens as they change over time. Knowing those changes or mutations that can modify its transmissibility and severity, allows us to guide public health measures. During the pandemic, it was a key strategy to monitor the behavior of SARS-CoV-2 and a technique that is being integrated into the surveillance of other pathogens.
Karla Romero, the other microbiologist in charge of genomic surveillance, acknowledges that the implementation of sequencing in Honduras has been "a great challenge" that required a lot of "sacrifice and commitment" both inside and outside the laboratory.
The sequencing area had to be created from scratch. In 2022, the authorities selected and conditioned a space within the National Virology Laboratory. With the support of PAHO, a sequencer, supplies, reagents, and furniture were purchased, and Soany and Karla were trained in bioinformatics and genomic sequencing at the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Panama.
“All with the aim of strengthening the capacities for genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens in Honduras,” says Gabriela Rodriguez Segura, coordinator of the PAHO Project for the Consolidation of Genomic Sequencing Capacities in Honduras. Before these capacities were created at the local level, samples to determine the variants circulating in the country were sent to the laboratories of the Regional Network for Genomic Surveillance of COVID-19 (COVIGEN) created by PAHO to support countries without capacity to carry out sequencing in its territory.
In March 2023, the effort paid off and excitement took over the National Virology Laboratory when, after several attempts, the first sequencing of SARS-COV-2 in the country was successfully carried out. “We couldn't believe it,” says Soany. "We feel very happy because it was a great challenge and the result made us feel fulfilled."
On March 21, 2023, the results were obtained and it was the first time that the XBB sublineage of the omicron variant was detected in the country and by Honduran health professionals. For Karla, the key was “not to give up in the face of the biggest challenge”.
"It is a milestone for the country that genomic sequencing is being carried out," says Dr. Mitzi Castro, head of the National Health Surveillance Laboratory of Honduras. “It is a historic moment because we are starting from here to carry out future genomic surveillance of other pathogens of sanitary interest to the country,” she adds.
According to Dr. Castro, the country now has state-of-the-art technology. "The laboratory is at the forefront, and that is a success and a source of pride, for which we thank all those who have contributed their bit so that Honduras is not left behind."
“Managing Time & Targets” @ Interra Systems India Pvt. Ltd. A-10,
Sec. 9, Noida on 28th Feb 2020. Guest - Mr. Chandan Gambhi
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva conducts a virtual meeting with all of the European Union Finance Ministers during the 2020 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, on October 12, 2020. IMF Photo/ Cory Hancock
Managed forest of birches outside Växjö, Sweden. Very nice weather today, the sun was warm enough to wear your jacket open even thought the air was cold. I saw the crisp shadows from these trees from some distance away and dared to hope for some interesting photos.
Managed to snap this at lunch-time, on a busy road (New St) when no-one was about. Gawd knows whats going to happen to this historic building, it's been closed up for a few years now. The home of radio...
British Columbia Ferry Services Inc., or BC Ferries (abbreviated BCF) is an independently managed, publicly owned company that provides all major passenger and vehicle ferry services for coastal and island communities in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Set up in 1960 to provide a similar service to that provided by the Black Ball Line and the Canadian Pacific Railway, which were affected by job action at the time, BC Ferries has become the largest passenger ferry line in North America and the second largest in the world, boasting a fleet of 36 vessels with a total passenger and crew capacity of over 27,000, serving 49 locations on the B.C. coast.
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Bruce Decoteau (Williams) , KellyLynn Bentz (BBL/Skanska), and Neil Davis (Skanska) inspecting progress
Managed a trip out to Leighton Moss today with 'er indoors, as she now has only her foot in plaster and now walks with the aid of a crutch. The weather was beautiful and the sun obliged.
This little chap(ess?) was also very obliging and did it's best to pose in the tree.
Lanie is exploring Mischief Managed Roleplay Sim, based on the Harry Potter novels.
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My poor old computer doesn't do the place justice, it's beautiful! This is the Great Hall.
BLM managed lands around Fredonyer Peak offer panoramic views of Eagle Lake and surrounding valleys.
Photo by Jesse Pluim, BLM.
Rajan Swaroop, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Airtel Nigeria and Bisi Onasanya, Group Managing Director, First Bank Nigeria during the signing (MoU) on mobile money service today in Lagos, Nigeria
Managing Partner Maxus where she leads the L’Oréal team giving an inspirational talk to our students
As a part of the MSc in Marketing & Creativity programme at ESCP Europe Business School, students complete a module named 'Managing For Social Impact'.
During the module, the students are challenged to employ their marketing and management skills to develop creative solutions for a better world, working alongside social entrepreneurs either in the UK or in the context of an emerging economy.
Students are offered the choice between taking part in one of two experiential-learning missions overseas or completing a London-based social consultancy project with an organisation closer to home. Previous year groups have travelled to Uganda and worked with grassroots organisations to develop revenue-generating businesses and to build local competences; they have also worked during term time with a range of organisations on issues such as international microcredit, disadvantaged child and orphan care, corporate transparency and social entrepreneurship.
These pictures are from a project completed in the Philippines. Student Miguel J Saavedra has written a report on the trip, which you can read here: escpeuro.pe/1JOBDbP
This was a late-day session just west of the Eden Shores housing development. I have photographed this area a few times and have been drawn back by the colors and textures of what I believe are old duck hunting ponds next to Eden Shores. These ponds fill seasonally with rainwater and then dry out during our summers. This session caught them before our fall rains arrived so they are empty and dry. As I read it, residual salt from the Baumberg salt plant, which operated here into the 1950s, is still present in quantities that support halophiles and these lend interesting colors to the soil and mud. The area also has low-slung levees with interesting visual features, subtle curves, and intersections with levee top widths that vary curiously. I often wonder how old they are and how they came to be like this.
Just west of the fallow duck ponds is a small group of three former salt ponds. By the look of them, they were part of the crystallizer bed system for the Baumberg salt plant. Now part of the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve they are designated the North Creek Managed Pond. Like the duck ponds, these former salt ponds seem to fill with the winter rains and evaporate dry during the summer. During this photo session, they were dry except for a shallow pool in the northernmost pond. The middle pond displayed a large field of buckled gypsum.
I lost a portion of this photo session, images of Salt Pond E6A and Eden Shores, due to a camera cradle failure. The IR LED that my radio control system uses to fire the Canon camera’s remote shutter became misaligned. It is the first malfunction in quite a few years and easily remedied.
I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife. Kite flying is prohibited over the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve without a Special Use Permit.
Managed to capture 2 water drops colliding. Timing could have been better but found it very difficult to do. Made a dropper out of an old bottle, some tubing and a valve from an old fish tank pump. Will try and get a better one when I have more time.
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva conducts a virtual meeting with all of the European Union Finance Ministers during the 2020 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, on October 12, 2020. IMF Photo/ Cory Hancock
After adding the field to the front page view and to the mn-feeditem.tpl.php template, here is how it shows up on the UI.
Managed by the Nature Conservancy, this 1,600-acre nature preserve is located in Preston County, West Virginia and Garrett County, Maryland. From the Nature Conservancy site - "A window into ice ages past, Cranesville Swamp is located in a "frost pocket," an area where the surrounding hills capture moisture and cold air that conspire to create a landscape more reminiscent of habitat found much further north in Canada. Given Cranesville Swamp’s lush forest and wetland, it’s not surprising that it is home to an exceptional variety of animals. In total, more than 50 rare plants and animals live at Cranesville." Did not see a ton of birds, mostly they were high up in the trees - along with the squirrels. But I did see a hairy woodpecker and a few butterflies. Still, it was a nice day to be in the preserve on my visit, Thursday August 10th, 2017.
This was a late-day session just west of the Eden Shores housing development. I have photographed this area a few times and have been drawn back by the colors and textures of what I believe are old duck hunting ponds next to Eden Shores. These ponds fill seasonally with rainwater and then dry out during our summers. This session caught them before our fall rains arrived so they are empty and dry. As I read it, residual salt from the Baumberg salt plant, which operated here into the 1950s, is still present in quantities that support halophiles and these lend interesting colors to the soil and mud. The area also has low-slung levees with interesting visual features, subtle curves, and intersections with levee top widths that vary curiously. I often wonder how old they are and how they came to be like this.
Just west of the fallow duck ponds is a small group of three former salt ponds. By the look of them, they were part of the crystallizer bed system for the Baumberg salt plant. Now part of the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve they are designated the North Creek Managed Pond. Like the duck ponds, these former salt ponds seem to fill with the winter rains and evaporate dry during the summer. During this photo session, they were dry except for a shallow pool in the northernmost pond. The middle pond displayed a large field of buckled gypsum.
I lost a portion of this photo session, images of Salt Pond E6A and Eden Shores, due to a camera cradle failure. The IR LED that my radio control system uses to fire the Canon camera’s remote shutter became misaligned. It is the first malfunction in quite a few years and easily remedied.
I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife. Kite flying is prohibited over the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve without a Special Use Permit.
How Honduras managed to carry out genomic sequencing for the first time
June 2023
When microbiologist Soany Ávilez was selected to implement the genomic sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Honduras, she was amazed. In the wake of the pandemic, Soany had started working at the National Virology Laboratory in 2020 performing PCR tests. At that time, genomic sequencing to detect circulating variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 was carried out outside the country. But a project to provide Honduras with the capabilities to do it in situ and obtain faster results was being developed with technical support from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and financial support from the United States Government.
Although she lacked knowledge on the subject, Soany remembers that she longed for the opportunity to work in sequencing. "When they chose us (her and her partner Karla Romero) to implement sequencing in the country and move the area forward, I couldn't believe it," she says.
Genomic surveillance allows us to know the evolution of viruses and other pathogens as they change over time. Knowing those changes or mutations that can modify its transmissibility and severity, allows us to guide public health measures. During the pandemic, it was a key strategy to monitor the behavior of SARS-CoV-2 and a technique that is being integrated into the surveillance of other pathogens.
Karla Romero, the other microbiologist in charge of genomic surveillance, acknowledges that the implementation of sequencing in Honduras has been "a great challenge" that required a lot of "sacrifice and commitment" both inside and outside the laboratory.
The sequencing area had to be created from scratch. In 2022, the authorities selected and conditioned a space within the National Virology Laboratory. With the support of PAHO, a sequencer, supplies, reagents, and furniture were purchased, and Soany and Karla were trained in bioinformatics and genomic sequencing at the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Panama.
“All with the aim of strengthening the capacities for genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens in Honduras,” says Gabriela Rodriguez Segura, coordinator of the PAHO Project for the Consolidation of Genomic Sequencing Capacities in Honduras. Before these capacities were created at the local level, samples to determine the variants circulating in the country were sent to the laboratories of the Regional Network for Genomic Surveillance of COVID-19 (COVIGEN) created by PAHO to support countries without capacity to carry out sequencing in its territory.
In March 2023, the effort paid off and excitement took over the National Virology Laboratory when, after several attempts, the first sequencing of SARS-COV-2 in the country was successfully carried out. “We couldn't believe it,” says Soany. "We feel very happy because it was a great challenge and the result made us feel fulfilled."
On March 21, 2023, the results were obtained and it was the first time that the XBB sublineage of the omicron variant was detected in the country and by Honduran health professionals. For Karla, the key was “not to give up in the face of the biggest challenge”.
"It is a milestone for the country that genomic sequencing is being carried out," says Dr. Mitzi Castro, head of the National Health Surveillance Laboratory of Honduras. “It is a historic moment because we are starting from here to carry out future genomic surveillance of other pathogens of sanitary interest to the country,” she adds.
According to Dr. Castro, the country now has state-of-the-art technology. "The laboratory is at the forefront, and that is a success and a source of pride, for which we thank all those who have contributed their bit so that Honduras is not left behind."
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managing to finally get a model in, well my brother, i had a wee play about with a few rock n roll shots in homage to Liam Gallagher!
Managed to track down the owners of some of the rarest cars in Singapore.
I have a personal affection towards DC2s as I have a DC2 VTi-R myself.
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President of African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina having a group portrait with Terence Patrick McCulley, United States Ambassador to the Ivory Coast and Mr. Kamran Khan, President Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC); Mr. Lamin G. Barrow the Director, Joint Secretariat Support Office (JSSO) for the African Union Commission; Malango Mughogho, Managing Director of ZeniZeni Sustainable Finance Limited and Staffs of President's office; Valerie Dabady, Manager for the Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Department of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and delegates on February 11, 2016.
Lok Kawi Wildlife Park, Panampang, Sabah, Malaysia.
13 May 2013
The Lok Kawi Wildlife Park is managed by the Sabah Wildlife Department. Occupying an area of 280 acres it is one of the largest wildlife parks in Malaysia.
"I presume this is (Axis axis), also known as Chital deer, Spotted deer or Axis deer. It commonly inhabits wooded regions of India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and in small numbers in Pakistan，and also in northeast China."
Ref. and suggested reading:
Philip Metzger , Managing a Programming Project, Prentice Hall, 1973; ISBN 0135507561.
"The earliest programming project management text I've been able to find. There are nuggets here, but the perspective is pure Taylorism. Out of 200 pages, he spends only two paragraphs on maintenance."
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Kent Beck
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Second Edition