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HCMC / Saigon, Linking District 2 to District 7 over the Saigon River, Cable-Stayed Bridge with Stressing with H-Shaped Maintowers. Joint French, German, Australian, and Vietnamase efforts. All firsts in Vietnam: Private sector infrastructure, BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) scheme, and export credit finance. Built March 2007 - September 2009.
My little homage to the ordinary everyday 1st Class stamp.
"Rant Mode Engaged"
A few short months after the Royal Mail was privatised... price increases were announced. Oh what a surprise!
So, they sell off a profit making organisation which belonged to us all... and then we're charged more to use it.
It's their brazen, bare-faced cheek that gets me!
"Rant Over"
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Update - BBC News 25-03-2014 - Royal Mail is planning to cut 1,600 roles as part of a drive to cut costs...
"Royal Mail's primary reason for existing is now about making profits rather than serving the nation," said Brian Scott, Unite officer for Royal Mail.
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Loans from Access bank has enabled small bussinesses a chance to develop and grow. As businesses ramp up operations, job opportunities are offered to women and other members of the community who are socially disadvantaged.
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A tea picker from Cianten, within the boundaries of Mount Halimun Salak National Park in West Java, collecting tea leaves in a basket. Starting their day at 6 am tea pickers finish at 10 am and have no other source of income.
Photo by Aulia Erlangga/CIFOR
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Tea pickers from Cianten, within the boundaries of Mount Halimun Salak National Park in West Java, collecting tea leaves in a basket. Starting their day at 6 am tea pickers finish at 10 am and have no other source of income.
Photo by Aulia Erlangga/CIFOR
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A women harvests all the leaves from Gnetum spp. (okok) in village of Minwoho, Lekié, Center Region, Cameroon.
Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR
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A women harvests all the leaves from Gnetum spp. (okok) in the village of Minwoho, Lekié, Center Region, Cameroon.
Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR
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Oil palm plantation in Indonesia.
Photo by Ryan Woo/CIFOR
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Women preparing the Gnetum (okok) nursery in the village of Minwoho. Lekié, Center Region, Cameroon.
Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR
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Elon Musk may have made history today.
The video feed cut out after the second stage went through some harmonic oscillations. In any case, the first stage worked wonderfully, and the rocket made it to space.
Update: "We did have a roll-control anomaly," Musk says of the second stage. Fate of the rocket remains unknown. Elon says the rocket may have re-entered the atmosphere prior to reaching the intended orbit. The rolling motion caused the second stage engine to shut down early. (further updates in comments below)
The rocket uses dynamic thrust control to stabilize the flight without fins. After the cowlings fell away, it went into a roll.
Info from SpaceX on the Falcon milestones: The Falcon 1 rocket will begin its journey to orbit, accelerating to 17,000 mph (25 times the speed of sound) in less than ten minutes. Designed from the ground up by SpaceX, Falcon 1 is a two stage rocket powered by liquid oxygen and purified, rocket grade kerosene. On launch day, Falcon 1 will launch into the history books for several notable reasons:
• It will be the first privately developed, liquid fueled rocket to reach orbit and the world's first all new orbital rocket in over a decade.
• The main engine of Falcon 1 (Merlin) will be the first all new American hydrocarbon engine for an orbital booster to be flown in forty years and only the second new American booster engine of any kind in twenty-five years.
• The Falcon 1 is the only rocket flying 21st century avionics, which require a small fraction of the power and mass of other systems.
• It will be the world's only semi-reusable orbital rocket apart from the Shuttle.
• Most importantly, Falcon 1, priced at $6.7 million, will provide the lowest cost per flight to orbit of any launch vehicle in the world, despite receiving a design reliability rating equivalent to that of the best launch vehicles currently flying in the United States.
Workers plucking chillies from the fields at Gabbur, Raichur district, Karnataka, India.
Project Result: Private Enterprises Spice Up India's Rural Incomes
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Villiage chief Ngontsimi Onana. Minwoho, Lekié, Centre Region, Cameroon.
Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR
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A Lubuk Beringin villager, Zulita, taps a rubber tree on her farm at Lubuk Beringin village, Bungo district, Jambi province, Indonesia. Rubber plantations management on rubber agroforest form is a form of utilization and management of forest resource which is practised specifically by Lubuk Beringin villagers.
Photo by Tri Saputro/CIFOR
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Diolo Celine plants Gnetum (okok) in the village of Minwoho, Lekié, Center Region, Cameroon.
Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR
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It looks very windy in the Marshall Islands, with scattered birds...
You can see the vent gases going horizontal, and the support lines rocking, and the flag flapping...
3pm update: they are loading liquid oxygen from the first stage back to the storage facility.... sounds like a delay (which is to be expected).
When Elon Musk gets this bird in the air, he will make history.... The Falcon 1 is a new orbital launch vehicle with modern materials (carbon fiber) and electronics (the Shuttle uses 1970’s technology). It has no fins, and dramatically lowers the cost of getting to orbit.
Anticipatory email from SpaceX on Thursday:
“At T-Zero, the hold-down clamps will release and it will begin its journey to orbit, accelerating to 17,000 mph or twenty-five times the speed of sound in less than ten minutes.
The launch will take place from Omelek island, which is in the Kwajalein Atoll of the Marshall Islands. This mission's customer is DARPA and the Air Force and the payload will be FalconSat-2, part of the Air Force Academy’s satellite program that will measure space plasma phenomena, which can adversely affect space-based communications, including GPS and other civil and military communications. The target orbit is 400 km X 500 km, just above the International Space Station, at an inclination of 39 degrees. On launch day, SpaceX will make history for several reasons:
–Falcon 1 will be the first privately developed, liquid fueled rocket to reach orbit and the world's first all new orbital rocket in over a decade.
–The main engine of Falcon 1 (Merlin) will be the first all new American hydrocarbon booster engine to be flown in forty years and only the second new American booster engine of any kind in twenty-five years.
–The Falcon 1 is the only rocket flying 21st century avionics, which require a small fraction of the power and mass of other systems.
–It will be the world's only semi-reusable orbital rocket apart from the Shuttle (all other launch vehicles are completely expendable).
–The Falcon 1 first stage has the highest propellant mass of any launch vehicle currently flying.
–SpaceX will have developed and activated two new launch sites, including the only American ground launch site near equator.
–Most importantly, Falcon 1, priced at $6.7 million, will provide the lowest cost per flight to orbit of any launch vehicle in the world, despite receiving a design reliability rating equivalent to that of the best launch vehicles currently flying in the US."
A worker fertilizing on oil palm plantation in Papua, Indonesia.
Photo by Agus Andrianto/CIFOR
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Tapping and selling pine sap provides alternative work to picking tea leaves, but few people pursue it. One worker can collect up to 40 kg of pine sap in a month and sell it for 7000 rupiah (US$0.70) per kg. But the sap can only be sold to forestry officials. When this photo was taken in May, 2008, officials had not visited in two months and the workers could not sell elsewhere, affecting their income.
Photo by Aulia Erlangga/CIFOR
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The dried chillies are packed and being loaded to send it to the spice plants for further processing at Sindhanur, Raichur district, Karnataka, India.
Project Result: Private Enterprises Spice Up India's Rural Incomes
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Chala Severine harvesting the Gnetum (okok) in the village of Minwoho, Lekié, Center Region, Cameroon.
Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR
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A villager transports oil palm fruits from the plantation. Jambi, Indonesia.
Photo by Iddy Farmer/CIFOR
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Worker plucking chillies, from the fields at Gabbur, Raichur district, Karnataka, India.
Project Result: Private Enterprises Spice Up India's Rural Incomes
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Plantação de cana-de-açucar família Bertolini.
Photo by Icaro Cooke Vieira/CIFOR
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Global Business and Philanthropy Leaders’ SDG-5 Forum for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
This high-level Forum will convene business and philanthropy leaders from around the world who are committed to advancing gender equality for women and girls. Business and philanthropy leaders are convening to pledge financial support and discuss how collective action from the public and private sectors can help to accelerate Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals, on women's empowerment and equality.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Clients of MiBank in Waigani Central branch.
The Microfinance Expansion Project will support the further development of the microfinance sector in Papua New Guinea.
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You can watch the launch live, if it happens (update: now scheduled for 5:05pm PST, March 20) video replay
The Falcon 1 is a new orbital launch vehicle with modern materials (carbon fiber) and electronics (the Shuttle uses 1970s technology). It has no fins, and dramatically lowers the cost of getting to orbit.
Scenes from demo flight one, which blew up in flight.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for the Private Sector, Jose Raul Perales, delivers the Keynote address on day two of the East Coast Trade Symposium in Baltimore Maryland. Photo by James Tourtellotte.
A tea picker from Cianten, within the boundaries of Mount Halimun Salak National Park in West Java, collecting tea leaves in a basket. Starting their day at 6 am tea pickers finish at 10 am and have no other source of income.
Photo by Aulia Erlangga/CIFOR
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A worker carrying fertilizer at an oil palm plantation in Papua, Indonesia.
Photo by Agus Andrianto/CIFOR
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UN Women, the UN entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and SAP, the world’s largest provider of enterprise application software, partnered to host the first UN Women Global Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship Industry Forum, a one-day global conference, which will brought together CEO’s, social entrepreneurs, innovators and thought leaders to share how innovation, technology and entrepreneurship can be used to advance gender equality and women’s economic empowerment around the world. This leading Industry Forum addressed the key barriers to women’s and girls’ advancement, and showcased leading strategies and innovative solutions for overcoming these challenges.
Speakers included Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General; Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women Executive Director; Alicia Tillman, Chief Marketing Officer, SAP; Nate Hurst, HP Chief Sustainability and Social Impact Officer; Meredith Walker, Founder, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls; Christyl Johnson, NASA Deputy Director for Technology and Research Investments; Rachel Roy, Founder of the fashion brand Rachel Roy; Sarah Michelle Gellar, Chief Brand Officer & Co-founder Foodstirs; and Hugh Evans, CEO of Global Citizen, among others.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
A tea picker from Cianten, within the boundaries of Mount Halimun Salak National Park in West Java, collecting tea leaves in a basket. Starting their day at 6 am tea pickers finish at 10 am and have no other source of income.
Photo by Aulia Erlangga/CIFOR
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Eveline Sonia works at the Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya’s Practical Training Center, which teaches best practices to horticulture farmers.
The association is a Feed the Future private sector partner in Thika, Kenya.
Photo by Riccardo Gangale, USAID
UN Women, the UN entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and SAP, the world’s largest provider of enterprise application software, partnered to host the first UN Women Global Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship Industry Forum, a one-day global conference, which will brought together CEO’s, social entrepreneurs, innovators and thought leaders to share how innovation, technology and entrepreneurship can be used to advance gender equality and women’s economic empowerment around the world. This leading Industry Forum addressed the key barriers to women’s and girls’ advancement, and showcased leading strategies and innovative solutions for overcoming these challenges.
Speakers included Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General; Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women Executive Director; Alicia Tillman, Chief Marketing Officer, SAP; Nate Hurst, HP Chief Sustainability and Social Impact Officer; Meredith Walker, Founder, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls; Christyl Johnson, NASA Deputy Director for Technology and Research Investments; Rachel Roy, Founder of the fashion brand Rachel Roy; Sarah Michelle Gellar, Chief Brand Officer & Co-founder Foodstirs; and Hugh Evans, CEO of Global Citizen, among others.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
launched the Global Innovation Coalition for Change (GICC) in New York City. This unique alliance with 22 partners from private sector, non-profit organizations and academic institutions will work over a two-year period to drive industry-wide action to make innovation and technology work better for young women and girls.
The Coalition has the support of a diverse set of global industry leaders, such as BHP Billiton, CISCO, Citi, Dell, Ericsson, Facebook, General Electric, HP Inc., Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, LinkedIn, Pax World Management, PwC, SAP, Sony, South32 and Statoil, all working together to advance the gender equality agenda. The Coalition also includes academic institutions like MIT Solve and New York Academy of Sciences, as well as organizations like Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, Branson Centre for Entrepreneurship (South Africa) and Ellevate Network.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for the Private Sector, Jose Raul Perales, delivers the Keynote address on day two of the East Coast Trade Symposium in Baltimore Maryland. Photo by James Tourtellotte.
The freshly plucked red chillies are being dried for further processing at Sindhanur, Raichur district, Karnataka, India.
Project Result: Private Enterprises Spice Up India's Rural Incomes
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The 2013 UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR13) is entitled “From Shared Risk to Shared Value: The Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction”.
The report looks at the central role of the private sector in reducing escalating levels of disaster risk and how business is increasingly seeing disaster risk management as an opportunity rather than a cost.
GAR13 highlights how the transformation of the global economy over the last 40 years has led to rapid increases in disaster risk affecting businesses, communities and governments.
Learn more about the Global Assessment Report for Disaster Risk Reduction: www.unisdr.org/we/inform/gar
UN Women, the UN entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and SAP, the world’s largest provider of enterprise application software, partnered to host the first UN Women Global Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship Industry Forum, a one-day global conference, which will brought together CEO’s, social entrepreneurs, innovators and thought leaders to share how innovation, technology and entrepreneurship can be used to advance gender equality and women’s economic empowerment around the world. This leading Industry Forum addressed the key barriers to women’s and girls’ advancement, and showcased leading strategies and innovative solutions for overcoming these challenges.
Speakers included Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General; Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women Executive Director; Alicia Tillman, Chief Marketing Officer, SAP; Nate Hurst, HP Chief Sustainability and Social Impact Officer; Meredith Walker, Founder, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls; Christyl Johnson, NASA Deputy Director for Technology and Research Investments; Rachel Roy, Founder of the fashion brand Rachel Roy; Sarah Michelle Gellar, Chief Brand Officer & Co-founder Foodstirs; and Hugh Evans, CEO of Global Citizen, among others.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
A Lubuk Beringin villager, Zoel, taps a rubber tree in the rubber forest near Lubuk Beringin village, Bungo district, Jambi province, Indonesia. Rubber plantations management on rubber agroforest form is a form of utilization and management of forest resource which is practised specifically by the Bungo community.
Photo by Tri Saputro/CIFOR
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The 2013 UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR13) is entitled “From Shared Risk to Shared Value: The Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction”.
The report looks at the central role of the private sector in reducing escalating levels of disaster risk and how business is increasingly seeing disaster risk management as an opportunity rather than a cost.
GAR13 highlights how the transformation of the global economy over the last 40 years has led to rapid increases in disaster risk affecting businesses, communities and governments.
Learn more about the Global Assessment Report for Disaster Risk Reduction: www.unisdr.org/we/inform/gar
Nurses and doctors at their work station in the covid ward of the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram, India. 12 February 2021.
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Loans from Access bank has enabled small bussinesses a chance to develop and grow. As businesses ramp up operations, job opportunities are offered to women and other members of the community who are socially disadvantaged.
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An oil palm plantation in Jambi, Indonesia.
Photo by Jenny Farmer/CIFOR
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Brazil nut fruits ready to be hacked open to extract the nuts.
Photo by Marco Simola/CIFOR
For more information about CIFOR's work on Brazil nuts in Peru, see Harvesting brazil nuts in Peru www.blog.cifor.org/16623/harvesting-both-timber-and-brazi...
For more information on CIFOR's research on Brazil nuts in Peru, please contact Manuel Guariguata (mailto:m.guariguata@cgiar.org)
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Land cleared for oil palm plantation, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Photo by Mokhamad Edliadi/CIFOR
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The laboratory facility at the Akay Flavors and Aromatics Pvt. Ltd. in Ambunad, Cochin, India.
Project Result: Private Enterprises Spice Up India's Rural Incomes
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October 11, 2012 Tokyo, Japan - 2012 IMF / World Bank Annual Meetings. Program of Seminars: Women in the Private Sector: Good for Development and Business. Panelists: Caroline Anstey, Managing Director, World Bank Group; Margaret Biggs, President, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA); Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President, Republic of Liberia; Larke Riemer, Director, Women's Markets, Westpac Banking Corporation, Australia; Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group; Moderator: Su-Mei Thompson, Executive Director, The Women's Foundation Hong Kong S.A.R., China. Photo: Roxana Bravo / World Bank
Photo ID: 101112_Women_in_Private_Sector_361_F
Just 5 minutes ago... But Falcon1 went into Terminal Count Abort 0.5 seconds after ignition. Email from the team relayed that pressure for the main chamber was 0.2% under the abort limit.
There was a lot of water on the pad, and cursing that I don't think they intended to mixed into the audio link... I can only imagine the intensity of the emotions at times like this.
Update: They have now recycled the countdown to launch. You can watch the launch video here.
Brazil nut fruits ready to be hacked open to extract the nuts.
Photo by Marco Simola/CIFOR
For more information about CIFOR's work on Brazil nuts in Peru, see Harvesting brazil nuts in Peru www.blog.cifor.org/16623/harvesting-both-timber-and-brazi...
For more information on CIFOR's research on Brazil nuts in Peru, please contact Manuel Guariguata (mailto:m.guariguata@cgiar.org)
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