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This India photograph was shot in Sikkim, North-India by Dutch travel photographer Hans Hendriksen. Should you want to buy a high-res file for publication, photo print or poster? Visit www.hanshendriksen.net to find all information about the author and how to order or publish his work.
Deze foto is gemaakt in sikkim, Noord-India door reisfotograaf Hans Hendriksen. U wilt meer zien? Bezoek dan zijn populaire homepage href="http://www.hanshendriksen.net" www.hanshendriksen.net met 39 fotogalerijen uit 32 landen, info over de auteur en hoe te bestellen/publiceren.
Cette India photographie Voyage photo a été prise à Sikkim par Hendriksen Voyage photographe néerlandais Hans. Si vous voulez acheter un haute-rés. fichier pour la publication, tirage photo ou une affiche? Visite www.hanshendriksen.net pour y trouver toutes les informations sur l'auteur et la façon de commander ou de publier son travail.
Este India fotografía viajes foto recibió un disparo en Sikkim por el fotógrafo de viajes neerlandés Hans Hendriksen. Si usted quiere comprar una de alta resolución de archivo para la publicación, impresión de fotografías o carteles? Visita www.hanshendriksen.net para encontrar toda la información sobre el autor y la forma de orden o publicar su trabajo.
Autor dieser Indien Reise-Fotografie Galerie ist Hans Hendriksen, ein Niederländischer Reise-Fotograf mit Vorliebe für das Abbilden des Alltags. Mehr auf seiner Homepage www.hanshendriksen.net mit Informationen über den Autor und wie Sie seine Bilder bestellen/publizieren.
Эта фотография Сикким Индии путешествий был убит выстрелом в Гаване путешествия голландский фотограф Ханс Хендриксен. Если вы хотите приобрести высокое разрешение файла для печати, печать фото или плакат? Посетите www.hanshendriksen.net, чтобы найти всю информацию об авторе и как заказать или опубликовать его работу.
I'm so excited to share with you that my Gratitude Pages have been published in the April issue of Art Journaling Magazine! More at my blog.
Published by F W Holloway, Neath.
Posted to Peterborough.
From the hillside above the Lion pub. Villiers Street can be seen crossing the view diagonally
The Postcard
A DP Series postcard that was printed and published by E. T. W. Dennis & Sons Ltd. of Scarborough. The rather obscure joke isn't very funny.
The card was posted in Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire on Monday the 17th. August 1970 to:
Mr. & Mrs. F. Hardy,
Lees Lane,
Winterton,
Scunthorpe,
Lincolnshire.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Arrived safe. It is
raining this morning -
no good to do a bit
of harvesting today.
Hope the weather is
a bit better for you.
Daisy".
Venera 7
So what else happened on the day that Daisy posted the card?
Well, the 17th. August 1970 marked the launch of Venera 7.
Venera 7 was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus. When it landed on the Venusian surface on the 15th. December 1970, it became the first spacecraft to soft-land on another planet, and the first to transmit data from there back to Earth.
Launch of the Venera 7
The probe was launched from Earth on the 17th. August 1970, at 05:38 UTC. It consisted of an interplanetary bus, based on the 3MV system, and a lander. During the flight to Venus, two in-course corrections were made using the bus's on-board engine.
Design of the Venera 7 Lander
The 500 kg lander was designed to be able to survive pressure of up to 180 bars and temperatures of up to 580 °C. This was significantly greater than what was expected to be encountered, but significant uncertainties as to the surface temperatures and pressure of Venus resulted in the designers opting for a large margin of error.
The interplanetary bus carried a solar wind charged particle detector and a cosmic ray detector. On the lander there were temperature and pressure sensors as well as an accelerometer to measure atmospheric density. The probe also carried a radar altimeter.
The Touch-Down of the Lander
Venera 7 entered the atmosphere of Venus on the 15th. December 1970. The lander remained attached to the interplanetary bus during the initial stages of atmospheric entry to allow the bus to cool the lander to −8 °C (17 °F) for as long as possible.
The lander was ejected once atmospheric buffeting broke the interplanetary bus's lock-on with Earth. The parachute opened at a height of 60 km, and atmospheric testing began with results showing the atmosphere to be 97% carbon dioxide.
The parachute was initially reefed down to 1.8 square metres, opening to 2.5 square metres 13 minutes later, when the reefing line melted as designed.
Six minutes after the un-reefing, the parachute started to fail, resulting in a descent more rapid than planned. The parachute eventually failed completely, and the probe entered a period of freefall. As a result, the lander struck the surface of Venus at about 16.5 m/s (37 mph).
The probe appeared to go silent on impact, but recording tapes kept rolling. A few weeks later, upon a review of the tapes by the radio astronomer Oleg Rzhiga, 23 minutes of very weak signals were found on them. The spacecraft had landed on Venus, and probably bounced onto its side, leaving the antenna not aimed correctly for strong signal transmission to Earth.
The probe transmitted information to Earth for a total of 53 minutes, which included about 20 minutes from the surface. It was found that the temperature at the surface of Venus was 475 °C (887 °F). From the spacecraft's rapid halt (from falling to stationary inside 0.2 seconds), it was possible to conclude that the craft had hit a solid surface with low levels of dust.
The probe provided information about the surface of Venus, which could not be seen through a thick veil of atmosphere. The spacecraft definitively confirmed that humans cannot survive on the surface of Venus, and excluded the possibility that there is any liquid water on Venus.
Crowd at Copse Corner.
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I received my 'proof of publication' copies in the mail this evening ... I had totally forgotten their request earlier in 2009 ... a very nice surprise!
my original photo here (taken from the window of my soon to be departing plane):
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 17th of May 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images or have any stories or information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
This photograph of country estate De Wiersse near the village of Vorden, Municipality of Bronckhorst, the Achterhoek, eastern region of The Netherlands has been made by Dutch travel photographer Hans Hendriksen. Should you want to buy a high-res file for publication, photo print or poster? Visit www.hanshendriksen.net to find all information about the author and how to order or publish his work.
Deze foto van Landgoed De Wiersse tussen Ruurlo en Vorden, gemeente Bronckhorst, Achterhoek, Gelderland is gemaakt door reisfotograaf Hans Hendriksen uit Haarlo. Wilt u een vergroting of poster van deze opname bestellen ga dan naar zijn internetsite www.hanshendriksen.net. Hier vindt u alle informatie over zijn werk, publicatiemogelijkheden en zijn contactgegevens.
Two black and white photographs used in St. Thomas Times-Journal article published June 10, 1954 with captions: Final Graduating Class - Nine young nurses received awards, pins and diplomas at graduation exercises held on Wednesday afternoon in the Alma College Garden Theatre [amphitheatre]. The class was the last to graduate from the old Memorial Hospital on Pearl Street. From left to right are, front row (awards in brackets), Marjorie Martin, Ingersoll (general proficiency in surgery); Madeline Boughner, Southwold; Betty Davis, St. Thomas; and Gloria Clifford, Springfield. Standing behind, left to right, Marjorie Funnell, St. Thomas (Canadian Nurse award); Donna Drake, St. Thomas (general proficiency and valedictorian); Marilynn Mickle, St. Thomas (Dr. Jerrold W. Snell scholarship in obstetrics); Elizabeth Pullen, St. Thomas; Marion Graham, Fingal (general proficiency in medicine" (C8 Sh5 B2 F2 5a) Took Part in Program - Taking part in the graduation exercises for 1954 of the Memorial Hospital School of Nursing were, left to right, front row, Miss Bernice Lewis, Director of the School of Nursing; W.R. Cavanaugh, chairman of the advisory committee; Miss Katherine Foster, intermediate student who received the Elgin County R.N.A.O. general proficiency award; Miss Barbara Harper, junior student, who received a similar award; Reverend G.W. Birch, London, who addressed the graduating class; and Miss Irene Poole, assistant director, School of Nursing. Second row, [Elgin County] Warden Kenneth Williamson; Dr. J.D. Curtis, dean of the St. Thomas medical profession, who led the nurses in the Florence Nightingale pledge; J. Bruce Caldwell, chairman, St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital provisional board; Reverend E.J. Robertson; Dr. E.L. Brown, chief of medical staff; Dr. K.L. Clark. Back row, Reverend R.B. Craig; Dr. R.J. Bristow; Reeve Elmer Wackley of Springfield, member Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees; and Mahlon Penhale, president of the Board (C8 Sh5 B2 F2 5b).
The Postcard
A postally unused Comic Series postcard that was published in the mid-1960's by Bamforth & Co. Ltd. of Holmfirth, Yorkshire.
The card, which has a divided back, was printed in England. The artwork was by Fitzpatrick. The card has been overprinted in gold lettering with 'At Port Campbell, Vic.'
Bamforth & Co. (1870-1990)
James Bamforth began his career as a manufacturer of lantern slides. In 1890 he started production of illustrated song lyric slides that audiences could sing along to at shows. This quickly became his most popular selling item. In the years following, the Company became the largest producer of life model slides.
From this vast photo inventory Bamforth began to publish a variety of postcard types including comics, greetings, propaganda, real photos and views, but especially song sets, many of which were reproduced from lantern slide images.
Today they are best remembered for their series of saucy seaside postcards, which may have numbered close to a 100,000 different titles. While this series was begun in 1902, they did not become very popular until the 1930’s.
In 1906 Bamforth opened a New York Office at 35 West 21st. Street. By 1910 they had become a Limited company. The Company was sold to E. T. W. Dennis, but in 2000 the rights to their images were purchased by Ian Walker.
Port Campbell
Port Campbell is a small coastal town in Victoria, Australia. The port and the town are named after Captain Alexander Campbell, a whaler and colonist of the Port Fairy region.
The town was settled in the 1870's, with the first wharf being built in 1880. Port Campbell Post Office opened on the 19th. March 1874.
The town is on the Great Ocean Road, west of the Twelve Apostles, in the Shire of Corangamite. At the 2016 census, Port Campbell had a population of 478.
The town was settled in the 1870's, with the first wharf being built in 1880.
Port Campbell is now a popular tourist destination for visiting the limestone structure of the Twelve Apostles, located 12 kilometres to the east of the town. Port Campbell also maintains a small cray fishing community.
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Skirmish - Clifford D. Simak [589 2014-02-11]
"Skirmish"(1977) is a collection of ten stories by the noted science-fiction author Clifford Simak (1904-88). The stories were all previously published during years 1944-75.
In addition to the stories there is a very informative 5-page author's forward. Simak details the themes he uses, the type of characters that appeal to him and his use of southwest Wisconsin as a local for many of his stories.
The following are comments on the stories in the order they appear in the book:
"Huddling Place"(1944) and "Desertion"(1944) may be familiar to some readers since they are chapters from the author's future history novel "City". The stories can be enjoyed individually but interested readers should read them again in the context of the book "City".
"Skirmish"(1950) originally published under the title "Bathe Your Bearings in Blood" features a newspaper editor as the protagonist - interestingly that was author Simak's day job for most of his working life. Alien beings animate machines - typewriter, sewing machine etc. prior to an outright invasion and the subjugating of mankind. This 60 plus year old story has not aged well.
"Good Night, Mr. James"(1951) a vicious alien being is let loose in a Midwestern city and must be apprehended before they reproduce. A nasty twist of fate for the protagonist awaits readers in the stories last sentence.
"The Sitters"(1958) the location for this thoughtful story of human aging and benevolent alien beings is the town Millville - a local used frequently in Simak's fiction and the name of the town where he was raised.
"The Big Front Yard"(1958) this story won the Hugo award for best novelette published during 1958. I found this story just too cute and overflowing with SF stereotypes and full of logical impossibilities but many Simak fans think this is one of his better stories.
"All the Traps of Earth"(1960) one of the best stories in the collection in my estimation. The two themes that permeated much of Simak's fiction, robots and mankind's intellectual evolution, are thoughtfully parsed out in this absorbing tale.
"The Thing in the Stone"(1970) a man retreats to a dilapidated farm in southwest Wisconsin to heal from an accident that killed his family. In this geological pristine location he become aware that a head injury gives him a view into the ancient past where he discovers an enigmatic mystery.
"The Autumn Land"(1971) an old town in a hidden Midwest valley serves as a metaphor for an indeterminate rest stop after death. In his introduction to this collection Simak states he was very pleased with this story - and so was this reader.
"The Ghost of a Model T"(1975) another metaphoric story of life after death. A model T automobile drives two presumably dead individuals around reliving some prior life experiences.
If you are curious or new to the writings of Simak this collection is well worth reading.
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Ketty Passa porterà tutta la sua energia live sul palco dell’ARCI Ohibò di Milano il 30 gennaio e sul palco del Monk di Roma il 2 febbraio. Le due date live costituiscono l’anteprima del tour in cui Ketty Passa proporrà il suo primo disco di inediti dallo stile Urban, accompagnata sul palco dalla nuova band formata da Fabrizio Dottori (tastiere, sax, synth), Marco Sergi (chitarra), Marco Pistone (basso) e Manuel Moscaritolo (batteria).
È online il video di “Caterina”, il brano della cantautrice dai capelli turchini che anticipa l’album di inediti di prossima uscita! La canzone è già stata apprezzata durante le selezioni di Sanremo Giovani per la 67° edizione del Festival di Sanremo.
Intanto si è conclusa con successo la campagna di Musicraiser con cui l’artista ha anticipato il mood del nuovo lavoro discografico.
Ketty Passa è un’artista poliedrica figlia della Brianza e dell’Italia del sud, nata e cresciuta con la musica nel sangue. Cantante, musicista, performer, speaker e presentatrice televisiva, collabora come cantante con il progetto Rezophonic e come dj/selecter per la serate di Milano Pink Is The New Black, progetto itinerante e tutto al femminile, e Smashing Wednesday. Ha lavorato, tra gli altri, con Rock TV, Deejay TV e Radio Popolare. È deejay e consulente musicale del programma di Rai2 Nemo-Nessuno escluso.
Mr. M.H.M.N. Bandara is a Member of the Sri Lanka Foreign Service (2000 batch)
(The following article published on Sunday Nation on 30 September 2007,{www.nation.lk/2007/09/30/special2.htm} and Sunday Observer on 7th October 2007 {www.sundayobserver.lk/2007/10/07/fea01.asp}
Foreign Service Invest further for a fruitful harvest
(The 58th anniversary of the Sri Lanka Foreign Service falls on October 1)
By M.H.M.N. Bandara
The Sri Lanka Foreign Service (SLFS) will commemorate its 58th anniversary on October 1. The SLFS, which commenced its activities independently on October 1, 1949 with five members – Dr. V.L.B. Mendis, H.O. Wijegoonawardena, A. Basnayake, I. B. Fonseka and Y. Yogasunderam – has since grown substantially, having undergone changes, challenges, disputes, etc., and now has a strength of 153 career personnel serving as ambassadors, high commissioners, additional secretaries, directors general and directors.
It is my view that the SLFS has not received its due share of ‘praise’ from both the media and the general public. This is mainly due to the fact that the general public is not appropriately apprised of the onerous duties performed by the members of the SLFS for the benefit of the country as a whole.
One allegation levelled against the SLFS is that SLFS officers are not closely linked with Sri Lankans living abroad. They are at times targetted by the media in a critical manner for not taking action to ‘safeguard’ the Sri Lankan migrant workers who are found guilty of violating the rule of law applicable to the respective countries. Nevertheless, it will have to be conceded that there may be very few instances where SLFS officers have observed the rules in the breach, perhaps unwittingly.
Criticism
Another criticism levelled against SLFS officers is that they are keener on ‘looking after the welfare of their children’s, education,’ rather than the wellbeing of the country. This allegation is baseless and is unfounded.
Of the 419 home based officers serving in Sri Lankan foreign missions abroad, only 97 officials, a mere 23%, are from the SLFS. The remaining 322 personnel, or 77%, comprise officers from various government services and also those who have political patronage.
Of the 153 officers now serving the SLFS, 61% comprise of unmarried officers and officers with one child per officer or none. Most of the children of these officers are not receiving the ‘education allowance.’ Hence, it is not fair by these officers to level such criticism against them.
The SLFS is a specialised service. It runs parallel to the Sri Lanka Administrative service and other combined services in the country. However, its role is different from other services. Broadly, the SLFS officials are tasked with the responsibility of coordinating bilateral and multilateral relations with foreign countries and also with the responsibility of protecting and safeguarding the image of the country.
The SLFS officers have measured up to their counterparts in other countries in discharging their assigned duties with diligence and bringing ‘name and fame’ to our motherland.
When we gained independence in 1948 after a period of foreign domination of almost 150 years, the most sought after and the prestigious service in the country was the then Ceylon Civil Service (CCS). Therefore, every young man with the requisite qualifications aspired to be a ‘civil servant’ and the failures at the Civil Service had the opportunity to join the then Overseas Service, which was then new to the country. However, they had to answer an extra question paper on world affairs.
First Overseas Service Minute
In terms of the first Overseas Service Minute – operative from 1949 to 1959 – nearly 32 officials were recruited to the then Ceylon Overseas Service as probationers and they were designated as ‘Grade IV Officers of the Ceylon Overseas Service.’
The Overseas Service Minute of 1949 was superseded by the Overseas Service Minute of 1959, which had the effect of a revision of the examination to recruit officers to the Overseas Service. From 1949 to 1973, a total of 73 officers had been recruited to the SLFS.
From January 4, 1974 onwards, the scheme of recruitment to the SLFS was revised so as to allow the opportunity to those graduates who had qualified themselves in Sinhala and Tamil media also to sit the examination in Sinhala and Tamil media in addition to the examination in the English medium.
Thereby, many graduates from Sinhala and Tamil speaking rural areas who received their education in the Sinhala and Tamil media and who were the products of ‘central colleges’ established in keeping with the ‘C.W.W. Kannangara vision’ were benefited and the numbers from such rural areas exceeded the numbers from the urban areas.
Until the time of late President Ranasinghe Premadasa, the post of Foreign Affairs Ministry secretary was held by non-SLFS officers. It was during Premadasa’s time that an SLFS officer was appointed to this post for the first time and that honour went to Bernard Tilakaratna.
Subsequently T.H.W. Woutersz (1965 batch), R.C. Vendargart (1967 batch), G. Wijesiri (1970 batch), D.E.N. Rodrigo (1965 batch), B.A.B. Goonetilleke (1970 batch) and H.M.G.S. Palihakkara (1979 batch) held that coveted post.
Creating history
Manel Abeysekera created history in the SLFS by being the first female career diplomat and the first female chief of protocol of the Foreign Ministry. Mary Luxhmi Naganathan was the second female career diplomat and the first from the Tamil community to reach that level.
Sarala Fernando (1975 batch) was the first female permanent representative of the United Nations. Of an approved cadre of 179, the SLFS now has 153 officers in its service in the categories Grade I, II, and III, (and at the additional secretary level too).
The ethnic, religious and gender balance in the SLFS is healthy. Of the 153 serving officers, 52 are females and four of them are serving as heads of missions in Paris (C. Wagiswara), The Hague (Pamela J. Deen), London (Kshenuka Senewiratne) and Vienna (Aruni Wijewardane).
In addition to the aforesaid female heads of missions, SLFS officers head the following missions: New Delhi (C. R. Jayasinghe), New York (Prasad Kariyawasam), Berlin (Jayantha Palipana), Warsaw (C. F. Chinniah), Beijing (Karunathilaka Amunugama Stockholm (Ranjith Jayasuriya – designate) , Tel Aviv (W.M. Senevirathna – designate), Tokyo (Ranjith Uyangoda), Muscat (M. Maharoof), Cairo (I Ansar –designate), Oslo (Esala Weerakoon), Katmandu (Sumith Nakandala), Pretoria (R.K.M.A. Rajakaruna), Hanoi (A. L. Rathnapala), Dhaka (V. Krishnamoorthy), Frankfurt (T. Raveenthiran) and Chennai (P.M. Amza).
Two officers of the ‘ambassador rank’ are serving as an Additional Secretary (Sarala Fernando) and a Director General (Grace Asirwatham) respectively at the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Of the aforesaid 153 SLFS officers, 57 officers, including the 10 officers recruited in April 2007, are attached to the office of the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Colombo. The remaining 91 SLFS officers are attached to Sri Lankan missions abroad (four officers are on study leave and one of senior officers has been working in the international organisation).
Recruitment
The majority of the SLFS officers had been recruited through competitive examinations and some through the ‘merit system,’ which was an opportunity extended to clerical grade officers serving the Foreign Ministry and the other category through a ‘limited examination’ conducted by the Examinations Department for the benefit of certain grades of public servants with a certain number of years of service to their credit in government departments.
Recruitments to the SLFS under the merit and limited systems were abolished by the new minutes introduced in 2001. Anyone who wishes now to join the SLFS has to sit an Open Competitive Examination conducted by the Examinations Department. The examination comprises six written papers and a viva voice.
When we look back at the performance of some of our SLFS officers during the last ‘half-a-century,’ we can be really proud of our service. Many of them have excelled in their respective fields. I take this opportunity to name a few of them:
Deshamanya Dr. V. L. B. Mendis was in one of the very first batches of officers selected to the overseas service of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). His contribution to our foreign service is priceless. He was highly respected wherever he served. To his credit, there are several publications authored by him which are a sine qua non to SLFS officers.
The 1976 Non-aligned Summit was the most successful international conference ever held in this country. Dr. Mendis was its secretary general and it was he and the SLFS officials who meticulously planned and programmed the proceedings of the summit. The whole world acclaimed that it was a complete success.
The diplomatically famed Dr. Jayantha Danapala has brought fame not only to the Foreign Service, but also to our motherland as a whole. He is a product of the SLFS and has displayed his ‘diplomatic skills’ internationally by serving the United Nations at different levels. His name was also proposed for the post of secretary general of the United Nations in the year 2006.
Achievements
Dr. John Gunaratne, who joined the Foreign Service in 1967, has several publications to his credit, one of which is A Decade of Confrontations: Sri Lanka and India in the 1980s. His recent publication launched in July 2007 is Negotiating with the Tigers.
S.B. Atugoda joined the Foreign Service in 1975 and he has several publications to his credit – fiction in both Sinhala and English.
Ranjith Gunaratana of the 1992 batch has published several fictions both Sinhala and English.
In 2006 he translated into Sinhala and published the biography of the former Singaporean Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew.
Niluka Kadurugamuwa, who joined the Foreign Service in the 2003, was a journalist at the Lakbima Newspaper. He has translated into Sinhala and published two publications, In Evil Hour authored by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Maya authored by Manel Abeyratne under the titles Vikal Horawa and Maya, respectively.
Bandu de Silva and Kalyananda Godage of the 1956 and 1973 batches respectively are two prolific writers. They subscribe to the local press periodically on matters not only pertaining to the Foreign Service but also of national interest. Their publications have boosted the image of the Foreign Service.
Nihal Rodrigo is not only a diplomat (1965 batch) but is also a painter of no mean repute. Rodrigo, when he once met Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, on the spur of the moment sketched the Cuban Leader’s face on a piece of paper. The Cuban Leader was so happy with the ‘sketch’ that he autographed it. It is now a souvenir with Rodrigo. Rodrigo served as the SAARC Secretary General from January 1, 1999 to January 10, 2002.
T.Z.A. Samsudeen of the 1981 Foreign Service batch served as the executive director of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IORARC) in Mauritius. Rodney Perera of the 1988 batch and a former ambassador to Italy received one of the highest honours awarded by the Italian government.
Media personnel
Our Foreign Service also possesses experienced media personnel. Ravintha Abeysinghe of the 1988 batch was an announcer as well as a presenter at Sri Lanka Rupavahani Corporation. As a presenter of SLRC, he had also conducted several interviews with visiting VIP leaders of many countries. He is presently the director general of public communications at the Foreign Ministry.
Madhrika Joseph and George Cooke of the 1998 and 2007 batches sharpened their skills as announcers at SLRC and TNL respectively. Several SLFS officers are well versed in UN languages and other international languages.
B. Kandeepan joined the Foreign Service in the year 1996. His hobby is playing the tabla and he is a skilled tabla player. He has displayed his tabla-playing skills even at musical shows conducted by Maestro Visaradha Amaradeva.
Chanaka H. Talpahewa (year 2000 batch) has excelled in the sport of rowing in the country. He became the first rowing captain of Sri Lanka when he led the Sri Lanka rowing team to the Asian Games in South Korea in 2002. He also won a silver medal at the SAF Games in Pakistan (2004) and a bronze medal at the South Asian Games in Colombo (2006). He is the holder of two Sri Lanka records. He is also an accomplished rowing coach and the secretary of the National Rowing Association.
The SLFS had to face an uphill task to redeem the lost prestige of the country. Human rights violations were the main allegation levelled against Sri Lanka. Our officers working in foreign missions, especially New York, Geneva, Brussels and some European countries and India, had to burn the midnight oil to keep the Sri Lankan flag flying with prestige.
Our officers, with the guidance of that great and inimitable statesman, the late Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, were not only able to turn the tide against the terrorists and redeem the lost prestige of our motherland but also to persuade several countries, including those who initially supported terrorist activities, to proscribe the anti Sri Lanka movements in their countries. It was a great achievement and the unsung heroes were the Foreign Affairs Ministry officials and the Minister.
Significant role
Foreign Ministry officials played a significant role at the peace talks/negotiations with the LTTE commencing from Thimpu to Geneva. The first Peace Secretariat Secretary General was B.A.B. Goonetilleke, a product of the SLFS 1970 batch. Dr. Jayantha Danapala and Dr. John Gooneratne too had worked at the Peace Secretariat. Presently C. H. Poologasingham of the SLFS 1975 batch is working at the Peace Secretariat. The two SAARC summits held in Sri Lanka were excellently handled by SLFS officers.
The tsunami of December 2004 was the biggest disaster the country ever suffered. The administrative machinery too was affected and several public servants could not even reach their work places. The international community reacted to the situation immediately and the influx of foreign aid was instantaneous. Over 300 foreign delegates arrived in the country.
The SLFS officers were ever ready to meet any situation and the coordination of the visits of the foreign delegates was handled by the SLFS officers to the satisfaction of everyone.
Officers of the Sri Lankan missions abroad collected more than Rs. 500 million as donations as well as officers’ personal contributions. The Sri Lankan Mission in China alone collected approximately Rs. 200 million. With those funds, the Foreign Ministry completed five housing projects comprising 856 housing units for tsunami victims – 152 units at Trincomalee, 300 units at Ampara, 116 units at Galle (two projects) and 288 units at Kalutara.
The recent reception held at the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Japan to commemorate ‘Sri Lanka Day’ was attended by more than 100,000 guests and the spouse of the Japanese Prime Minister graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. It was a great publicity event organised by the SLFS officers of the mission.
Yeoman service
SLFS officers have done a yeoman service to the country. They have protected and safeguarded the image of the country. They have kept the Sri Lankan flag flying with dignity. Their services are indeed praiseworthy.
The next batch to the SLFS is scheduled to be recruited in the near future. As a member of the SLFS, I invite talented young graduates who passed out recently to join the SLFS and serve our motherland.
In conclusion, I mention with gratitude the encouragement given to me by that veteran administrator, Lionel Fernando, a one time Foreign Affairs Ministry secretary and member of the former Civil Service, to make an in-depth study of the SLFS. I thank him from the bottom of my heart.
(The writer is the First Secretary of the Embassy of Sri Lanka, The Hague, The Netherlands. E.mail. menikb@hotmail.com
Postcard. Postally unused.
Frith's Series. Published by F. Frith & Co. Reigate.
One of a related pair bought from an eBay seller in Poynton, United Kingdom.
Dated from The Francis Frith Collection.
Always nice to be published. And very cool that they wanted a drone shot! This one is for the Svenska kyrkan (swedish church) Husie församling.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 5th of February 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories or information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Being published in the Birmingham Evening Mail August 2012
You can take him a walk and then he still wants to play. It a great ball that takes shape once Ben gets his head off it. Wish I had removed the weeds now
New Zealand Heritage magazine is a quarterly publication by the NZ Historic Places Trust / Pouhere Taonga. Their Summer 2006 issue just published this week features four of my photographs of Masterton in its Travel Feature entitled Centre of Attention by Gareth Winter.
And, they found them on Flickr. How cool is that?
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Afropunk, Fancy Dress Ball 2015
Friday August 21st, 2015
Commodore Barry Park
Brooklyn, New York
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well, not in a book, but it's a start:
Nordiska muséet
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I Biffy Clyro arrivano in Italia giovedì 2 febbraio 2017 al Fabrique di Milano.
I Biffy Clyro non hanno affatto deluso le aspettative di stampa e pubblico, calcando i palchi delle più importanti arene e festival europei, tra cui I-Days Festival al Parco di Monza, hanno infatti dimostrato negli anni di essere una delle band più amate della scena rock mondiale. I loro live sono composti da adrenalina pura, riff energici, alt-rock e pop punk.
Il loro ultimo album Ellipsis ha velocemente dimostrato che i 3 sono capaci di evolversi rimanendo fedeli al loro stile. Opposites, uscito nel 2013, è schizzato ai vertici delle classifiche di vendita, aggiudicandosi in pochissimo tempo la posizione n.1 delle charts inglesi, facendo vincere alla band il premio Best Album ai Kerrang! e ai Q Awards.
Attivi dal 1995, il primo album di studio Blackened Sky esce nel 2001, mentre due anni dopo pubblicano The Vertigo Of Bliss. Il loro terzo album Infinity Lands esce nel 2004, ma è il 2007 l’anno in cui i Biffy Clyro si fanno conoscere al grande pubblico grazie a Puzzle: disco di platino nel Regno Unito.
Il loro quinto album, Only Revolutions, esce nel 2009. Nel 2013 la band viene scelta come special guest per il tour europeo dei Muse. Quest’ultimi non sono i soli a averli voluti al loro fianco sul palco, infatti nella lista si annoverano band del calibro dei Linkin Park, Foo Fighters, The Who, Red Hot Chili Pepper, The Rolling Stones, Kasabian, Queens Of The Stone Age.
Dopo lunghi tour mondiali che hanno registrato quasi ovunque il tutto esaurito, facendo aggiudicare al gruppo il premio come Best Live Band sia agli NME che ai Q Awards, i Biffy Clyro sono pronti a sorprendere il pubblico italiano con tre live indimenticabile.
Simon Neil - voce, chitarra
James Johnston - basso
Ben Johnston - batteria
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Zakk Wylde, alla nascita Jeffrey Phillip Wielandt, noto chitarrista di Ozzy Osbourne e leader di Black Label Society, in occasione del 20° anniversario del suo primo album solista “Book Of Shadows”, si esibirà in un tour particolare nei teatri che farà tappa in Italia al Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano il 9 giugno prossimo.
Lo stile musicale di Wylde trae ispirazione da musicisti di vario genere. Le sue maggiori influenze provengono da chitarristi heavy metal, specificamente Eddie Van Halen, Tony Iommi e Randy Rhoads. Tuttavia, Zakk ha ampie vedute musicali ed è appassionato anche di generi come jazz, blues e country e segue altri chitarristi come Frank Marino, Albert Lee, John McLaughlin e Al Di Meola.
Il suo stile è, tipicamente, caratterizzato dal preponderante utilizzo di armonici artificiali, i quali permettono di emettere suoni simili a dei fischi. La sua tecnica di solo si contraddistingue per l'utilizzo della scala pentatonica minore che esegue a plettrate alternate creando un distintivo attacco inatteso, comparato allo stile più "fluido" di altri chitarristi.
Una ulteriore caratteristica dello stile tecnico di Zakk è l'uso frequente del chicken picking, una tecnica chitarristica che è solitamente utilizzata nella musica country, difficilmente riscontrabile nel genere heavy metal. Probabilmente egli è stato ispirato nell'uso di questa tecnica da Albert Lee, uno dei suoi artisti di riferimento.
Zakk è rinomato anche per l'uso delle chitarre Gibson Les Paul con un singolo marchio di un "bersaglio - bullseye" riportato sul corpo, un design che egli utilizza per differenziarsi da Randy Rhoads, che utilizzava invece una Les Paul bianca. Ironicamente, uno dei setup di chitarra che Zakk preferisce è proprio il "Flying V" di Rhoads.
Edited Library of Congress poster originally published by the WPA of an advertisement for a play of A Christmas Carol. Those must be the three ghosts of Christmas...
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New post (Boat Patrol) has been published on Naval, Military, and Marine Life
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Sailors assigned to Commander, Task Group 56.7, conduct a patrol on a riverine command boat during a training exercise. Riverine command boats provide a multi-mission platform for the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility by focusing on maritime security operations, maritime infrastructure protection and theater security cooperation efforts, as well as conduct offensive combat operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Taylor M. Smith) #Military POTD
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The Postcard
An image of the wharf or landing stage at Port Said on a postally unused postcard published by the Cairo Postcard Trust of Cairo.
Port Said
Port Said is a city that lies in north east Egypt extending about 30 kilometres (19 mi) along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Suez Canal, with an approximate population of 604,000 (2010).
The city was established in 1859 during the building of the Suez Canal. There are numerous old houses with grand balconies on all floors, giving the city a distinctive look.
Port Said's twin city is Port Fuad, which lies on the eastern bank of the canal. The two cities are connected by free ferries running all through the day, and together they form a metropolitan area with over a million residents that extends both on the African and the Asian sides of the Suez Canal. The only other metropolitan area in the world that also spans two continents is Istanbul.
Rudyard Kipling once said:
"If you truly wish to find someone you
have known and who travels, there are
two points on the globe you have but
to sit and wait, sooner or later your man
will come there: the docks of London
and Port Said".
The Suez Canal
The Suez Canal offers a significantly shorter passage for ships than passing round the Cape of Good Hope.
The construction of the Suez Canal was favoured by the natural conditions of the region: the comparatively short distance between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, the occurrence of a line of lakes or depressions which became lakes (Lake Manzala in the north, and depressions, Timsah and the Bitter Lakes, part way along the route), and the generally flat terrain.
Ferdinand de Lesseps
The construction of the canal was proposed by the engineer and French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, who acquired from Said Pasha the rights of constructing and operating the canal for a period of 99 years.
The Opening of the Suez Canal
The Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez was formed. Construction took 11 years, and the canal opened on 17 November 1869. The canal had an immediate and dramatic effect on world trade.
Nationalisation of the Canal
In July 1956 the Egyptian government nationalised the Suez Canal Company, which had been run by the French and owned privately, with the British as the largest shareholders.
The Suez Crisis
The Israeli–British–French invasion of Egypt which followed is known in Egypt as the Tripartite Aggression, but elsewhere as the Suez Crisis of 1956.
Closure of the Canal
Following Israel's invasion and occupation of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in the Six-Day War of 1967, the Canal was closed, and did not reopen until 1975.
The Canal Today
Today, the Canal is a vital link in world trade, and contributes significantly to the Egyptian economy; in 2009 the income generated from the canal accounted for 3.7% of Egypt's GDP.
Alexis Mag Vol.004
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Photography: Shavonne Wong (zhiffyphotography)
Styling: Raudhah Hanafi
Assistants: Ravinder Kaur
Hair and Makeup: Julyen Z L.
Model: Ksenyia Vasylchenko (Avenue)
Published in 1882.
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