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A programme for the event held at Central Hall Westminster.
Children from the Harpenden an Brackley Branches of The National Children's Home entertained and sung at the event.
THE UK COACH RALLY IS AT BLACKPOOL THIS WEEKEND, SHAME ABOUT THE WEATHER!
AS I AM UNLIKELY TO ATTEND ANY MORE COACH RALLIES I HAVE SCANNED THE COVERS AND PAGES OF INTEREST OF PREVIOUS RALLIES BEFORE I DISPOSE OF THEM.
The Forth Bridge is a masterpiece of railway civil engineering, an iconic landmark, a milestone in the development of railways, the first major structure in Britain to be made of steel and its completion created a single continuous railway line from London to Aberdeen.
The first rail crossing here was made in 1850 when the Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway started the world’s first ‘train ferry’ - designed by Thomas Bouch - between Granton and Burntisland. In August 1873 Bouch was instructed by the North British Railway to build a suspension bridge across the Firth of Forth. Construction began in 1878 but when Bouch’s original Tay Bridge collapsed during a storm in December 1879, work immediately stopped and never restarted.
Designs for a new bridge to cross the Forth between South and North Queensferry were invited by the newly formed Forth Bridge Railway Company which had been formed jointly by the North British, the Midland, the North Eastern and Great Northern railways, The design had to conform to specifications from both the admiralty who stipulated that the Forth remained a navigable channel, and the Board of Trade who stipulated, following the Tay bridge collapse, that the bridge must be rigid, stiff and capable of carrying the heaviest freight trains.
John Fowler and Benjamin Baker were engaged to develop their cantilevered design for the bridge while the contract for the construction was let to Sir William Arrol & Co with work on the bridge starting in 1883.
Construction of the 1.6 mile long bridge took 6 years, 55,000 tonnes of steel, 173000ft³ of concrete, 50t of cement, 640,000ft³, of granite, 8 million rivets and the lives of 73 of the 4600 men who worked on the site. The bridge was built in two phases. The first, from 1882 to 1885, involved enabling works, including sinking the caissons and constructing the foundations and piers to support the superstructure. The superstructure, which weighs about 51,324t, was built from 1886 to 1890.
The Forth Bridge has three double cantilevers, 330ft tall & 680ft long, with two 1700ft suspended sections between them. As required by the Admiralty, the rail level is 151ft above the river. Each of the towers has four steel tubes, 12ft in diameter, which reach to a height of 361ft above the water. The foundations extend 89ft below the bridge into the river bed, making the total height from foundations to the top of the towers 450ft. Each tower rests on separate granite pier constructed by 70 ft diameter caissons which used compressed air to keep water out of the working chamber at the base
In recent years a £130m refurbishment programme has been undertaken that has seen the whole bridge repaired and repainted. The paintwork was sand blasted back to bare metal and any damaged steelwork repaired before the new paint was applied. The techniques and epoxy based paint used means that the bridge will not require a full repaint for at least 20 years, finally putting an end to the myth that “painting the Forth Bridge” is a never ending task!
As part of a broader package of BBC reports called Qatar Direct, the travel programme Fast Track shot on location in the capital Doha and elsewhere in the country.
Programme for performance by the Royal English Opera during their 1863–4 season at Covent Garden www.roh.org.uk/about/roh-collections
`sasrai’ appeal turned into demand of seven billion`Consume With Care’
To
Mr. Achim Steiner, Executive Director
Attention: Mr. Naysan Sahba
Acting Director of the Division of Communications Public Information and Spokesperson
Office of the Executive Director
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Nairobi, Kenya
Subject: Appeal to have a resolution to hang sasrai banner for one week June 03 to 07 at each UN related office gate across the globe in honor of World Environment Day.
Dear Sir
Greetings from sasrai-Movement
We are in 100% agreement with UNEP belief influencing consumption and production patterns at the local level would have a significant impact at the global level, because resource efficiency facilitates the transition towards a green economy and global sustainable development.
Since 2004 our appeal is we must get each one caring to each particle of resource. sasrai-Movement aimed at every person would have a mindset `save a bit in every step’. Street beggar to state driver will save resource no matter how small it is. Last 11 years we have tried our level best to disseminate the message to people from all works of life.We are thankful to the voter and UNEP for the slogan ‘Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care’. We consider this is institutionalization of our appeal.
To attain the resilient and resource efficient cities; sustainable transport and mobility; and integrated solid waste management, globe in need of resource efficient individual, institution, organization finally the government. To materialize the utmost need, we are in needing voice from each corner of globe. Since 2011 we approached to the honorable minister for environment and forest & minister for education of Bangladesh to have an initiative to keep a sasrai banner in each educational institution in honor of world environment day. Based on our appeal honorable Divisional Commissioner of Chittagong passed a request to all Deputy Commissioner of his division to do the same.
Bringing behavioral and attitudinal change is the toughest job and we have no chance to spare a single second. Nature demands absolute care that includes concerted, cooperative and collaborative effort. UNEP could have an initiative to get each UN office and official - resource efficient first. And keeping a sasrai banner at each office gate across the globe for one week June 03 to 07 in honor of World Environment Day could be the first step.
Scientists estimate that humans will consume twice as many resources as the planet can support by 2050. At the rate things are going, the Earth in the coming decades could cease to be a “safe operating space” for human beings. The Planet is in Need of Each Creature Equality, Gender Equality and `sasrai’ Living (Stop Consumption Slavery or Stop Advertisement Administered Lifestyle). Albert Einstein opine "Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act."
Kindest Regards
SM Farid Uddin Akhter
Secretariat In-charge
sasrai-Movement
NB.
a. Since 2004 we worked without any financial assistance from any donor. We volunteered aimed at better earth for each creature. We believe voluntarism needed to be Prudent, Provident, Proficient and Relentless, Fearless, Greedless. We must have zeal to offer a habitable earth to our next generation. We owe to our next generation to offer the earth as we received and we vow to be unswerving, unshakeable.
b. Humanity in need of Climate Responsible Community, Climate Compatible Development. sasrai ONLY THE PATH TO SAVE MOTHER PLANET EARTH, NATURE. sasrai only the path to Eliminate Racial Discrimination - End violence against WOMEN and CHILDREN. sasrai only the path to end POVERTY, VULNERABILITY, HUNGER, DISASTER, CLIMATE Threat. Each second, minute, hour day needed to be spent considering earth, environment and humanity. We must get each child caring to each particle of food and resource. Wish the Peace, Justice, Dignity and Rights for each - save a bit, reserve, preserve, rejuvenate and conserve resources.
c. Scientist Opine
Earth is halfway to being inhospitable to life
We have already crossed four “planetary boundaries.” They are the extinction rate; deforestation; the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; and the flow of nitrogen and phosphorous (used on land as fertilizer) into the ocean. Scientist shown human activities — economic growth, technology, consumption — are destabilizing the global environment,”
"Human security will be progressively threatened as the climate changes," the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCCC) warned in its overview report. The Pentagon agrees. "Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels, and more extreme weather events will intensify the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty and conflict,"
Scientists estimate that humans will consume twice as many resources as the planet can support by 2050. At the rate things are going, the Earth in the coming decades could cease to be a “safe operating space” for human beings.
At the rate things are going, the Earth in the coming decades could cease to be a “safe operating space” for human beings.
Africa Will Starve and Asia Will Drown in 30 Years Due to Climate Change
People in Asia and the Pacific are four times more likely to be affected by natural disaster than in Africa and 25 times more than in Europe or North America?
Global warming could cause an 18 percent drop in world food production by 2050
15 Cities Threatened by Climate Change
The World Bank alarm bells are just the latest to sound about the havoc climate change and man-made global warming will cause to the planet.
The World Health Organization predicts that climate change will cause 250,000 additional deaths per year around the globe between 2030 and 2050, primarily from malaria, diarrhea, heat exposure and malnutrition.
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/
Our second cohort of Affiliate Trainee Teachers joined us at the School for a week on intensive training.
©2022 The Royal Ballet School. Photographed by Rachel Cherry.
1st June 2016 - OECD MCM 2016: Ceremony For the Launch of the OECD Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Programme
OECD, Paris, France.
Photo: OECD/Michael Dean
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.
Programme Name: Sherlock - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. 3) - Embargoed for publication until: 07/01/2014 - Picture Shows: ++++PUBLICATION OF THIS IMAGE IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 00.01 HOURS TUESDAY JANUARY 7TH 2014++++ Sherlock Holmes (BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH) - (C) Hartswood Films - Photographer: Robert Viglasky
Sylvia Nkatha is the programme officer in Meru county for Act Change Transform (ACT!). She is addressing a crowd gathered to hear about keeping peace during the election period. She coordinated the movement of the participants in the peace caravan around three sub-counties within Meru and gave speeches to promote peace.
Through USAID support, ACT spreads a message of keeping peace through local community leaders and government officials. People in market places, small towns and those with businesses along the roads are taught about the importance of maintaining peace and reporting violence during the election period.
ACT contributes towards peaceful and credible elections in Kenya. The 8-month program covers 9 other counties (Nairobi, Isiolo, Garissa, Marsabit, Kwale, Kilifi, Mombasa, Lamu and Tana River). Local leaders and community professionals and members talk to groups of people about their capacity to effectively mediate conflicts and to boost chances of credible and peaceful elections.
Photo: Solomon Onyata/USAID
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.
I recently got the job of scanning a batch of football programmes, magazines and comics for sale on www.ebay.co.uk under the seller name of the_genies_cave. I thought that they might have a wider interest. Further, I discovered a Flickr group dedicated to them!
Leadership Development Programme (LDP), Pillar 2: People and Organization Management - Opening Event held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 27 June 2023
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
I recently got the job of scanning a batch of football programmes, magazines and comics for sale on www.ebay.co.uk under the seller name of the_genies_cave. I thought that they might have a wider interest. Further, I discovered a Flickr group dedicated to them!
Evening Dinner reception for Graduates with their family and friends at the Connaught Rooms, London. This was following the University of London International Programmes, Graduation Ceremony at The Barbican, London with The Chancellor HRH The Princess Royal.
A close-up of the first group of beneficiaries who received 3,000 Ethiopian Birr on 23 March to assist pregnant and lactating women in the drought-affected Borena area of Oromia Region as part of the Humanitarian Cash Transfer programme launched by UNICEF in partnership with the Oromia State Bureau of Labour and Social Affairs. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2022/Pouget
The Civil Society Programme took place from Thursday 14 May through Friday 15 May. The Programme in 2015 introduced a new approach to the flagship event of the EBRD engagement with civil society.
For the first time, CSOs had the chance to shape the Civil Society Programme through a social media consultation. In addition, CSOs were invited to submit proposals for the organisation of discussion panels dedicated to issues of specific interest to the Caucasus region and stakeholders in the EBRD.
Leadership Development Programme (LDP), Pillar 2: People and Organization Management - Opening Event held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 27 June 2023
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
59th ABU General Assembly and Associated Meetings 2022
25 November - 30 November 2022
New Delhi, India
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At the Malay Heritage Centre informing the visitors and public of the coming events and activities along Kandahar Street, Kampong Glam.
Silk programme for state performance in honour of the King and Queen of Denmark, 11 May 1914 www.roh.org.uk/about/roh-collections