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One of four billboards that mysteriously popped up over San Francisco over the Memorial Day Weekend.
In the Cala Foods Parking Lot at Stanyan and Haight.
UPDATE: Pretty much gone by Sunday, June 5. It looks like the glue/paste used wasn't up to the job and the whole thing started peeling off in big sheets.
We're on the engineer's side of MEC #371 facing the old Bangor and Aroostook offices at Northern Maine Junction.
Following the completion of the Northern Maine Seaport Railroad in 1905, Northern Maine Junction became the BAR's entrance into their hometown of Bangor, Maine. The BAR formerly connected with the Maine Central at Old Town to get into Bangor.
In the Dallas Museum of Art.
Taken with Minolta MD Rokkor 50mm f1.4 lens on Panasonic GX7 with "Metabones Speed-booster" adaptor.
Laut serving up some delicious murg lababdar with pulao rice! (Laut in on East 17th Street) Photo: Rick Gilbert
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Members of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Police (DEP) Color Guard, and Veterans Corp of Artillery of NY Color Guard present the colors at the 104th Annual First Provisional Regiment New York Guard Aqueduct Defense Memorial Service at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery on May 1st, 2022.
The ceremony remembers the 40 Soldiers of the New York Guard First Provisional Regiment who died while serving New York during World War I, protecting the New York City Reservoir System. The New York Guard are the predecessors to the current NYC DEP, who protected the systems over one hundred years ago, the mission in which the NYC DEP continues to this day. (New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs photos by New York Guard Captain Mark Getman)
Peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) conduct a firewood patrol for women from the Mission’s Protection of Civilians’ site (POC) in Bentiu on December 10, 2018.
Such patrols are organized regularly to give protection to civilians as they go about their normal activities outside the protection site. The women leave early in the morning to go and find firewood and charcoal, and return later in the day.
According to the patrol commander, Ghanaian Staff Sergeant Mills, the peacekeepers have not witnessed any case of sexual assault along the patrol route for the last eight months during their deployment. Sgt. Mills stressed, “It’s our duty to escort them in and out. And as a peacekeeper, I feel great to be part of peacekeepers to help civilians in South Sudan.”
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
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Spc. Gladys Stewart, 108th Military Police Company, 16th MP Brigade, cuts an Army birthday cake at the north commissary on Fort Bragg, N.C. June 10, 2013. The cake cutting ceremony was part of a multiple day celebration of the Army's birthday at Fort Bragg.
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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
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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Greater Manchester Police, we have spoken to some of our longest serving officers; including 72-year-old Mohammed ‘Mo’ Shafiq, who was the first Asian officer to join the ranks of GMP 50 years ago.
In 1965 Mo, aged 13, moved to the United Kingdom from Pakistan to join his father. He said: “My family and I settled in Bury where I went to school. I took an interest in rugby and joined the under 18s team at Bury Sports Club. I remember my father didn’t approve as he didn’t understand why I wanted to play a game that made my clothes dirty!
“A few police officers also played for this club and one day one of the officers asked me if I’d ever thought about joining the police. Most of the jobs available then involved factory work, but I thought about my dad who had served in a uniform in the Indian army and then transferred to Pakistan army following independence. The officer advised me to go to Bury Station and apply, which I did.”
Mo first joined Lancashire Constabulary in January 1973. In April 1974 he became part of the newly established Greater Manchester Police, an amalgamation of Manchester and Salford police forces and parts of what were then Lancashire Constabulary, Cheshire Constabulary and West Yorkshire Constabulary.
“When I applied, the sergeant who interviewed me was quite frank and said I may face some discrimination – but I never felt marginalised or isolated while working in the force,” he told us.
“I’m fortunate to have had good opportunities and if I had my time again, I’d rejoin in a heartbeat.
"It’s a privilege to be seen as a role model to others – I never intended to be one, but through my position I’ve helped encourage others to join the police who otherwise may not have considered it an option.
“I spent my first two years on probation in Bolton which was possibly my favourite time in the police. I served as a constable doing mainly foot patrols.
“I also learned what we used to call the ‘street craft’ – basic skills you’d need to investigate crime. For example, at the time thefts of milk bottles were very common. The milk was delivered, and early morning workers would often steal it. We were taught if you could investigate something simple like stolen milk, you’d be able to investigate even the most serious crimes like murder. You learn the basics: how to identify witnesses and properly collect and record evidence.
“I remember my first ever day out on patrol as a PC. It felt strange, because suddenly people were looking at me and asking for the time and directions. I even took to carrying a local street directory around in my pocket.”
Commenting on some of the most memorable moments in his career, Mo said: “I remember when the Sex Pistols came to play a concert in Manchester City Centre. I was a sergeant at the time, and my unit was patrolling Piccadilly bus station when we were pelted with rocks thrown by punk rockers. We had to use bin lids for protection as that was all we had available to us. Thankfully the equipment has gotten much better over the years!
“The first time I arrested someone was during the first few months of my probation while I was responding to a burglary call. It was around 3am and I heard a strange noise coming from a small street and found a man trying to break into a garage. I arrested him and cautioned him, but he pushed me away, swung at me and ran off down the street. I ran after him and arrested him again, but he struggled and broke away – again.
“I caught him a third time, I cautioned him, and my colleague arrived in a police car and we took him to the custody office. I told the sergeant what had happened, and he took me to one side and said ‘son, next time, try not to let them run away three times before you bring them in’.”
Having completed two years in Bolton, Mo went on to have an impressive and varied career working in a range of fields; including licensing, the Tactical Aid Unit, cadet training and VIP protection training based at GMP’s training school at Sedgley Park. He was then promoted and later transferred back to Bolton as a uniform sergeant, before moving to Bolton CID as a detective sergeant. He subsequently spent some time in the drug squad, where he rose to the rank of detective inspector – a role he held on Stretford and Bolton divisions until his retirement.
Speaking about one of his proudest moments in the force, Mo said: “In March 2000, while I was based in Bolton, I was appointed deputy senior investigating officer to investigate the murder of a man stabbed in Wigan Town Centre. The case initially appeared straightforward, with a named suspect and small number of potential witnesses. However, we soon found out the suspect was a resourceful and practised offender who was not going to surrender willingly.
“The SIO was tied up with a major incident, so I took responsibility for managing, directing and supervising the investigation. We tracked the suspect to the Welsh coast, and I contacted the North Wales police to secure his arrest.
“The suspect was subsequently charged with murder and remanded into custody for trial. I was formally recognised by senior management for my efforts.”
Over the course of his career, Mo has received several commendations. In 2003, he attended Buckingham Palace to receive the Queen’s Police Medal for distinguished service; later that same year, he was again invited to Buckingham Palace by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh ‘to mark the contribution pioneers have made to the life of the nation’ in recognition of his service to the community. The Palace defined pioneers as ‘groundbreaking individuals who have changed or contributed something unique to the way we live or set new examples for others to follow’.
Mo retired from GMP in 2003, having risen to the rank of detective inspector. The father of three and grandfather now lives in Radcliffe with his family.
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