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Ikram Paramanik and his wife, both sharecroppers, in their paddy field in Gaspara village in Pabna of northwestern Bangladesh.
This is firstly a very scarce programme from the 1931-2 Season as this was the Season that as far as the official club programme was concerned was changed from the All Blue since 1910 and for some reason United continued to choose a colour that they never played in nor had any relevance to the Club or the Supporters in choosing "Brown" as a colour for both the First & Second Team!, however a little after this match was played common sense prevailed in over 20 years and United finished this 1931-2 with a programme cover printed in Red!
"Club Chatter" kept the low Reserve crowds amused for the best part of a minute unless you were a slow reader then it was 90 seconds top!
The Club reported how A few days earlier in front of 12,000 spectators the First Team had derailed Burnley 5-1 stating they were " undoubtedly usefull" but "NOT A BRILLIANT SIDE"!!!, can you imaging the fall out from a Klop or Pep who actually told the Press what they really thought after the match!.
Club Chatter also welcomed 2 new players who were both signed from Doncaster Rovers and were making their debuts in this match with Sheffield born Goalkeeper John Moody who at one time had played for Arsenal for 3 years but only played in 6 games then he was off to
Bradrford where he stayed for 2 years and again only got 6 games before joining Doncaster Rovers. At Rovers he made a name for himself with his spectacular displays and that is why he moved to Manchester.
6 days after appearing in this Reserve match Moody made his debut for United at home to Oldham Athletic and United won 5-1.
He then went on to play a further 50 consecutive games for United and was an ever present in Season 1932-33.
For some reason United let him transfer to Chesterfield at the end of 1933 and when the new Season 1933-4 commenced United during that season fielded 4 different goalies and it was obvious they made a massive mistake in letting him leave, but i suspect it was all about the transfer fee as the club was skint and performed so badly conceding 85 with the worst defensive record in Division 2 that the final match away to Millwall in 1934 meant whoever lost would be in the 3rd Division for the following season, but United won at the Den miraculously 2-0.
On the other hand Moody was ever present in his first season with Chesterfield who had the ebst defensive record in the entire Football League!. When Chesterfield won a 3rd Division North Championship medlal with Chesterfield in 1935-6 he played in all 42 games and conceded 39 all that season. He made 190 appearances for Chesterfield and stayed until 1939.
For the other new recruit Leslie Lievesley who was Half Back whose Father played in goal for Sheffield United and Arsenal and toured with the FA Party to South Africa in 1910.
Leslie started out as a forward with Doncaster Rovers and was top scorer with 12 in only 14 games.
By the time he arrived at United he made his debut v Charlton Athletic at home on the 25th March 1932 as a half back and only played another game for the first team after this. He was always going to be just a reserve player at United so in March 1933 he left to join Chesterfield but he only stayed there for 3 months and moved to Torquay United in June 1933. He stayed 4 seasons playing in 130 League games and scoring 3.
After the War he turned his hand to coaching and after a very promising career in his new field found himself in Italy working with AC Torino.
There have been 4 shocking Aeroplane Crashes since the War around the world involving football, with the first being at Superaga west of Turin in May 1949 when the entire AC Torino team who were then Italian "Championes" and all the club's staff including coach Leslie Lievsley numbering a staggering 49 persons plane crashed and all were lost.
1958 saw the Munich Air Disaster and 2019 saw the death of Emiliano Sala on the 21st January 2019 as well as the terrible crash in 2016 wiping out the Brazilian side Chapacoense, 71 fatalities in total including 19 players and coaching staff -- only 3 players survived
On April 30th Fr. Mark Cachia welcomed Mrs. Daniela Schadt, the German President’s partner to the JRS offices in Birkirkara. After pausing in front of a painting by refugees from Liberia, Eritrea and the Democratic Republic of Congo depicting their desperate journey to Europe, Mrs. Schadt spoke for over an hour with a group of Somali women who had participated in an empowerment programme organized in detention by JRS. Dr. Alexia Rossi, one of the psychologists working at JRS, explained that over the past two years, one of our priority areas has been to work with women in detention centres and within the community. These women often suffer sexual and gender-based violence in their countries, and when they arrive in Malta they are detained in centres run predominantly by men. JRS provides these women with social, health and psychological services.
The testimony of these women will be put together in a booklet that will be published in May.
40 young people from East London and 20 UpRisers from Bedford who completed their 9 month programme in June at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 4 July 2013, for a graduation ceremony.
Signing of Country Programme Framework (CPF) between Ms. Ana Maria Cetto, IAEA Deputy Director General, Department of Technical Cooperation and Mr. Liu Yongde, Director General, China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA). IAEA, Vienna, Austria, 7 June 2010
In the photo: Mr. Dazhu Yang, DIR-TCAP, IAEA, Mr. Hans Forsstrom, NEFW-IAEA, Mr. Hu Xiaodi, Amabassador, Chinese Permanent Mission, Mr. Liu Yonde, Direcotr General, CAEA,, Mr. Huang Wei, Minister-Counsellor, Chinese Permanent Mission, Mr. Wang Langyi, Assistant to Chairman, Ms Xiao Lili, Interpreter, IAEA Director General Yukiya, Amano, Ms Ana Maria Cetto, IAEA Deputy Director General, Department of Technical Cooperation, Mr. Rafael Grossi, IAEA Chef de Cabinet.
Copyright: IAEA Imagebank
Photo Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=29-1UajnbWo Frankie Laine (March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007), born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio, was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005. Often billed as America's Number One Song Stylist, his other nicknames include Mr. Rhythm, Old Leather Lungs, and Mr. Steel Tonsils. His hits included "That's My Desire", "That Lucky Old Sun", "Mule Train", "Cry of the Wild Goose" "Jezebel", "High Noon", "I Believe", "Hey Joe!", "The Kid's Last Fight", "Cool Water", "Moonlight Gambler," "Love Is a Golden Ring," "Rawhide", and "Lord, You Gave Me a Mountain." www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLwPziSznU
The Standard Assessment of Mitigation Potential and Livelihoods in Smallholder Systems (SAMPLES) Program aims to identify pro-poor mitigation options in smallholder farming systems, focusing on opportunities to both benefit farmers’ food security and contribute to climate change mitigation.
Photo: Training SAMPLES students from Maseno University in the field in Nyando District, western Kenya.
06/04/2022. Ashford, United Kingdom. Jacob Rees-Mogg, Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency visits staff at the Fire Aid Programme to look at emergency equipment including fire engines and ambulances being supplied to support Ukraine. Picture by Simon Walker/ HM Government
The award for Male Performance in a Comedy Programme at the Arqiva British Academy Television Awards in 2014, is accepted by Richard Ayoade for his role in The It Crowd.
Ceremony of the Arqiva British Academy Television Awards 2014, at London's Theatre Royal on 18 May 2014.
CFA organised a “National Seminar on Changing Landscape and Growing Financial Crisis in the Power Sector” on September 1st & 2nd, 2018. The venue for the programme is USO International Centre (USOIC), USO House, USO Road, 6, Special Institutional Area, New Delhi-110067 and the session will start from 9:30 AM.
This two day seminar will bring together experts, activists and journalists, who are monitoring and raising issues related to power sector to understand current landscape and changes in policies, failure of the regulatory mechanisms, growing burden on Public Sector Banks due to NPAs in electricity sector, etc. and fruitless attempts to solve the deepening financial crisis by the government in this sector.
In the past few years, a major shift has taken place in the power sector on several fronts including environment clearance, national forest policy, coal mining regulation, power purchase agreement (PPA), fuel supply agreement (FSA) and policies of financial institutions. In India, the shift started with Electricity Act, 2003 which unbundled the State Electricity Boards in three separate companies for generation, transmission and distribution along with delicensing the thermal power sector giving a free hand to private companies to expand power projects. This model was imposed by the World Bank which aimed to bring the private companies into the safer and profitable zones.
These changes have pushed for privatization in the power sector favouring the big companies often going against the interest of people. The private developers setting up thermal power plants took undue advantage of the situation and forced the state power utilities to sign PPA for a period of 25 years with a deemed generation clause, where this clause forced the power distribution companies (Discoms) to pay for the power that they may not consume during the lean periods. These thermal power plants are spread all over the river basins across India and have been grabbing the land and forests for the projects and mining. There is a fight to control the natural resources of the country whether it is land, forests, minerals or rivers. The coal-based power projects apart from causing massive displacement also hugely impact the livelihoods of communities, who in most cases are farmers, Adivasis and Dalits. These projects also adversely impact the environment causing serious health concerns for people and destruction of ecology. The energy needs of urban India is being fulfilled at the cost of land and livelihoods of rural communities.
The expansion of power projects is not only affecting the environment and natural resources but also robbing the public of their own money through companies taking huge loans from the banks for these projects and not repaying them. However, this robbing of public money is not limited to the power sector alone. Currently, the Indian banks are facing a financial crisis due to a staggering amount of stressed assets (Gross NPAs + Restructured Advances). Indian banks’ gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs), or bad loans, stood at Rs 10.25 lakh crore as of 31 March 2018. Last quarter, the pile has grown by Rs 1.39 lakh crore or 16 per cent from Rs 8.86 lakh crore as on 31 December 2017. In the RBI’s Financial Stability Report, the apex bank said that the Gross NPA (GNPA) ratio of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) is likely to rise in the current fiscal.
The problem of NPAs in power sector was highlighted in 2017 through two key power projects – Coastal Gujarat Power Limited (4000MW) owned by TATA Power and Adani’s Mundra Thermal Power Project (4660MW), which were incurring massive losses and asked the state government to bail them out. The trend of the government bailing out private companies with public money is growing day by day. In March 2018, a report was published by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy to focus on the ‘Stressed/Non-Performing Assets’ in the electricity sector. The committee identified 34 thermal power projects worth Rs. 1.74 lakh crore were on verge of becoming NPAs. It is worthwhile to note that out of these 34 thermal power plants, 32 power plants belonged to the private sector, while only two were from the public sector. Apart from that, the committee highlighted that Stressed Assets were around 17.67% (Rs. 98,799 crores) of the total advances in the thermal power sector.
These projects have been given loans in tune of lakhs of crores rupees by Indian banking and non-banking institutions. The current government made a number of unsuccessful attempts to resolve this mounting financial crisis, including a number of mechanisms such as Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC), Bad Bank Formula, Project Sashakt, etc. Now the government has set up a committee headed by cabinet secretary to look into the matter. It raises the questions on the intentions of the government whether they really want to resolve this or making some visible attempt due to an upcoming election.
The consequences of this situation are that the stressed assets of banks are compounding due to the haphazard expansion of projects by power companies, which are eventually being bailed out by the government through public money. On the one hand private companies are robbing the public money and on the other hand, they are ignoring the social and environmental impacts of these projects.
Speakers included:
Praful Samanatara,
Senior Activist & Environmentalist Odisha Soumya Dutta, Environmentalist ,Beyond Copenhagen Collective, New Delhi
Dr. Shoibal Chakravarty,
ATREE) Bangalore
Paranjoy Guha Thakurtha,
Senior Journalist
Rajesh Kumar,
Centre for Financial Accountability
Shreya Jai,
Senior Journalist Business Standard
Er. Shailendra Dubey ,
All India Power Engineer Federation (AIPEF) Er. Padamjit Singh
All India Power Engineer Federation (AIPEF)
Jesu Rethnam
Senior Activist, Coastal Action Network Tamilnadu
Prabir Purkayastha
Senior Journalist, News click
Ashok Shrimali
Senior Activist Mine Mineral and People, Gujarat
Nitin Sethi
Senior Journalist Business Standard
Philip Cullet,
Water polices expert
Rajkumar Sinha
Senior Activist, Bargi Bandh Visthapit Avam Prabhavit Sangh, Madhya Pradhesh
Diwan Singh, Environmentalist, River policy experts, New Delhi
Gaurav Dwivedi,
Centre for Financial Accountability
Srinivas Krishnaswamy,
Economist Vasudha Foundation
Sanjay Mangala Gopal
Senior Activist & Renewable Energy expert
Prof. E. Somanathan
Economist, Indian Statistical Institute Delhi
Linda Chhakchhuak,
Independent Journalist, Shillong
Er. K. Ashok Rao
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) Er. Shailendra Dubey ,
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF)
Joe Athialy
Centre for Financial Accountability
Com. Thomas Franco,
Former General Secretory AIBOC
Er. K. Ashok Rao
All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF)
The Civil Society Programme took place on Wednesday 11 May and Thursday 12 May and provided an opportunity for dialogue between civil society and EBRD staff, senior management, the President and Board Directors. It was an occasion for civil society stakeholders to learn more about the Bank and discuss issues of interest and concern regarding the EBRD’s policies and investment projects.
The Programme also featured multi-stakeholder roundtable sessions on key strategic themes related to the role of civil society as an important actor in transition and development processes. Special features of the Civil Society Programme 2016 were discussions on:
•25 years of Transition - The Role of Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia
•Engaging civil society to promote transparent procurement
•EBRD’s Strategy for the Promotion of Gender Equality (2016-2020): the role of civil society
•Inclusion through skills and innovatiom
In addition, a panel organised by the youth organisation AIESEC looked at the role of youth in shaping the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
25 years of Transition: The Role of Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia
A fire-side chat with Sergei Guriev, Professor of Economics, Sciences Po (incoming EBRD Chief Economist)
Civil society, operating in the space between public and private sectors, has played an important role in socio-political and economic transition processes around the world, including the EBRD’s traditional countries of operations. In 25 years since the establishment of the EBRD, civil society’s contribution to transition has varied across the post-communist transition region. In some countries, the work of civil society organisations (CSOs) has contributed to more democratic political systems and more open market based economies as a ‘reputational actor’ performing a ‘watchdog’ function and as a generator of ‘social capital’ necessary to sustain the change process through the difficult early years. In other countries, the focus of CSOs has been on providing a variety of social services particularly to disadvantaged and vulnerable people negatively affected by the transition process. Many civil society actors have been operating in restrictive regulatory environments, and have relied heavily on international donor funding.
What has been civil society’s input into promoting good governance, sustainable development and economic inclusion in EBRD’s traditional region over the past few decades? What are the key lessons learned, from both its successes and failures that can be applied to other countries embarking on a transition process? What steps could be taken to increase the role of civil society in promoting positive changes in societies and economies?
The discussion looked back at the key achievements and setbacks of the civil society sector in contributing to transition since the Bank’s establishment. It also reflected upon the challenges ahead for civil society in building well-governed, sustainable and inclusive economies and societies.
40 young people from East London and 20 UpRisers from Bedford who completed their 9 month programme in June at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 4 July 2013, for a graduation ceremony.
In the 1980s (?) the TV programme Highway, hosted by Sir Harry Secombe, visited Arbroath. The producer of every episode, Bill Ward (left), is pictured with Sir Harry and Arbroath's Father Bill Ward.
Le programme de la Kiwi Party 2011 affiché à la porte des deux salles ayant accueilli les conférences et les ateliers.
Strength in numbers - The number of female police officers doubled in the past three years, enabling more accessible and comfortable service delivery for women.
British Aerospace EAP (Experimental Aircraft Programme) ZF534 at Farnborough on 6th September 1986. The EAP was BAe's technology demonstrator for the Eurofighter and used the same basic layout as the eventual EF2000/Typhoon. ZF534 is now on display at the RAF Museum Cosford.
Photo by John W. Read.
The London East Asia Film Festival's programme launch was held at Electric Cinema in Notting Hill on 12th September.
We are incredibly excited to have announced our programme. The Fortress is being screened as our Opening Gala at Odeon Leicester Square as an international premiere. We are thrilled to say that there will be a Q+A with Director Hwang Dong-hyuk and Actor Lee Byung-hun! Our Closing Gala, Outrage Coda, directed by Takeshi Kitano is a must see, action-packed film which we are honoured to be screening at our festival this year. LEAFF’s Festival Director, Hyejung Jeon, gave an inspiring speech at the beginning of our press launch to start out festival season off with a bang.
You can discover our full programme on our website. www.leaff.org.uk/programme-2/