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H.E. Dr Ms Emilija Stojmenova Duh

Minister

Government Office for Digital Transformation

Bucharest, Romania

27 September 2022

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State Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications

Bucharest, Romania

26 September 2022

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The Chancellor prepares ahead of the Autumn Statement by HM Treasury

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The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt works on his speech ahead of the Autumn Statement in his office in No11. Photo by Zara Farrar / HM Treasury

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Curatorial Statement by Korean Cultural Centre UK

A BBC video of the Exhibition from BBC World's 'Impact Asia' can be found here:

Exhibition and Charity Auction in aid of the British veterans of the Korean War.

A positive, dynamic and exciting exhibition of contemporary art by forty Korean Artists, reflecting on the Korean War and its legacy.

This exhibition thanked the men and women of Britain who came to Korea’s defence in the name of liberty in 1950.

Exhibition Dates: 16 June – 17 July 2010

The artworks were subsequently sold at a Charity Auction at the KCC with the kind support of Sotheby’s and The Royal British Legion.

The contributing artists for the exhibition PRESENT FROM THE PAST: The 60th Commemoration of the Korean War:

in alphabetical order:

Je BAAK, Seung Woo BACK, Chan-Hyo BAE, C Gene, Francesca CHO, Young-Jin CHOI, Sen CHUNG, Shan HUR, Yun Kyung JEONG, Eemyun KANG, KANG Yong Suk, Ayoung KIM, Hayoung KIM, Kira KIM, Dae Hun KWON, KWON Kyung-hwan, Changwon LEE, LEE Lee Nam, Sang Youp LEE, Sea Hyun LEE, Suejin LEE, Yongbaek LEE, NA Hyun, NANDA, Jae woo OH, Junggeun OH, Hyung Jin PARK, Jinhee PARK, PARK Jongha, PARK Jongwoo, PARK Sungsil, PARK Young Geun, SEO, Gunwoo SHIN, Meekyoung SHIN, Bada SONG, Yun-Hee TOH, Seungho YOO, YOO Hye-Sook, Jungu YOON

PRESENT FROM THE PAST: the 60th Commemoration of the Korean War

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Protest Statement Berlin by Rick Recco

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Protestors making a statement through art at The Reichstag in Berlin Germany, at the site where The Berlin Wall Once Stood

endorsement. by beyondthegreyphotography

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anyways.

thoughts?

[btw, in case you didn't figure it out.. the red lines = "do not" :P ]

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I took this shot in London in the early 1980's. That's the monument at Piccadilly Circus that these young people are sitting on. I believe that there are at least three women in this group. Most of these persons are close to 50 years old now, assuming that they have lived that long. It's interesting that they are all Caucasian. Perhaps there was a future Member of Parliament in this group (smile)...

Welly Statement by Mike@ theimagebusiness

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Riding and Treking for kids at the Mid Breich Farm Stables, West Calder, Scotland,

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Previous political responses to shale gas / coal -bed methane exploration / exploitation in Wales: by Nigel Pugh

Previous contributions and statements:

1st statement

Bethan Jenkins ( Twitter @bethanjenkins ) Plaid AM for South Wales West, said:

“While I am always happy to hear about new developments in energy – particularly in renewables – and while I welcome the use of new technology to improve energy production – particularly where emissions are concerned – I still harbour a series of considerable reservations where shale gas extraction and fracking is concerned.

My concerns are both global and local. I worry that the ground where the South Wales Coalfield lies, and where much of this gas is found, has been subject to large levels of disruption during the years through extensive mining. This has created all kinds of problems where underground water is concerned, and the careful management it requires at present to prevent sudden flooding and other issues in Valleys communities could become severely disrupted by the practices used in fracking, such as the introduction of additional fluids into the water table.

“On top of that, the monitoring of pollution that may come with shale gas extraction becomes that much more problematic if statutory agencies and those responsible for ensuring clean water have to contend with the intricacies of mining’s legacy.

“I am also unconvinced by some of the economic argument put forward by proponents of shale gas – that it creates jobs. Of the handful of schemes I have seen, minuscule numbers of jobs are on offer. You won’t cure long-time issues of unemployment in the Valleys – and consequently improve the economy – by providing as few as three jobs per drilling site.

“Lastly, one of the sentiments I hear a lot from constituents who face planning applications of this kind is that the companies who put them in, the big energy companies and their financial backers, regard the Valleys as somewhere where you can get any kind of scheme through, because local authorities are so desperate to create jobs. But for those constituents, it goes deeper. They think these companies look at their communities and think it’s alright to test unproven technologies because of the heavy industries of the past and because of the high levels of deprivation now. ‘We’re here to be dumped on,’ is how one resident put it to me. Those concerns have to be addressed before anyone should even think of drilling for shale gas in South Wales.”

2nd statement Bethan Jenkins AM said:

8th Aug 2013

In realation to Frack Free Wales protesting in Balcombe

" I support people's rights to peacefully protest as I understand Frances and Justin did in Balcombe. It is important that they are able to voice their opinions about an issue that they are passionate about, and that is why I am supporting them. If people feel that they are not free to protest, then what does this say about our standards of democracy?

It is also true to say that many people have concerns about fracking, and that much more work needs to be done with regards to researching its viability and safety before plans for its development are pushed through. I have called on the Welsh Government to implement a moratorium on fracking until testing is completed in England, but I have not been reassured as yet that the Welsh Government will implement this moratorium.

"People who campaign in this field remain concerned about the dangers of water scarcity and the poisoning of aquifers, and the evidence presented in peer reviewed academic articles indicates that this process is not safe.

"I urge those who support the human rights of individuals to protest peacefully to support these campaigners on the 14th of August, and to raise awareness of this matter in any way they can."

Thank you very much Bethan Jenkins AM for South Wales West.

• Our Second Contributor

@MickAntoniwAM - Labour Assembly Member for Pontypridd

"I remain to be convinced that all issues on safety have been addressed & answered until then I wish to see a moratorium on fracking"

Statement from Mick Antoniw AM for Pontypridd below. Also included is the question that he asked to the Minister on this issue last month and the Minister’s response for your info.

“The local authority which covers my constituency of Pontypridd has recently overseen an application for exploratory drilling so this is an issue of great interest and importance to both my constituents and I. I have raised the issue of exploitation of unconventional gas reserves in the Llantrisant area with the Minister for Natural Resources and food to seek assurances with regard to public safety.

“Drilling is a different technology to “fracking” and does not have the same hazards. At present I am unconvinced that “fracking” is safe and I would not support such a development until there is far more investigation into the associated risks. I can assure you that I will continue to monitor this issue very closely.” Mick Antoniw AM for Pontypridd

Plenary Record from 12/06/2013

Mick Antoniw

13:30

1. Will the Minister provide an update on the Welsh Government’s approach to fracking? OAQ(4)0018(NRF)

Alun Davies The Minister for Natural Resources and Food

13:30

Our position is precautionary, and is based on the full consideration of all the available evidence. While acknowledging the potential economic benefits of unconventional gas development, we also recognise the environmental and safety concerns relating to the hydraulic fracturing process that is used to extract the gas.

Mick Antoniw

13:31

You will know that parts of the Pontypridd constituency have been highlighted as potential areas for shale gas extraction. There are, naturally, concerns regarding this new energy development. Could you outline what the Government’s strategy will be over the next 12 to 18 months in terms of assurances to the population about any developments in this area?

Alun Davies

13:31

I hope that I can provide those assurances. As I said in my answer to your original question, our position is a precautionary one. We support a robust regulatory regime for unconventional gas exploitation, to ensure the highest standards of public safety and environmental protection. Furthermore, any exploratory operations will also be subject to strict monitoring and scrutiny by the relevant planning authority, as well as by the regulatory bodies that are responsible for public health and environmental protection, including the Health and Safety Executive and Natural Resources Wales. To ensure that Welsh interests are fully represented as this policy area develops, my officials are already in regular discussion with the UK Government’s Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil, which has been established to promote the safe and environmentally sound recovery of the UK’s unconventional gas and oil reserves.

Thank you Mick Antoniw AM

• Our Third Contributor

Leanne Wood (leader of Plaid Cymru Wales)

"Key issue for us is where the decision is taken. Wales should decide on all energy developments"

She ask me to ref this article - www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/fracking-could-resu...

• Our Fourth Contributor - Plaid Cymru

Jonathan Edwards MP for Carmarthen East

@JonathanPlaid - my position is to oppose the dash for Welsh gas as energy is not devolved. Otherwise the profits from exploitation are lost.

@nspugh So if energy was devolved to Wales you would exploit shale gas reserves & coal bed methane?

@nspugh I wouldn't rule it out. Energy resources our biggest economic asset. Coal bed methane licenses already issued from what I understand.

@JonathanPlaid renewables are our biggest asset. Energy devolved, shale/coalbed methane & Wales's carbon emisssion targets climate change?

@nspugh the party's energy policy clearly favours the promotion of renewables.

@JonathanPlaid yes - but if energy was devolved would you leave the gas underground?

@nspugh I wouldn't copy the UK Gov and ignore the potential of bio gas.

@nspugh wouldn't rule out unconventional gas if exploited by Welsh Gov for people of Wales.30% of our people live in fuel poverty.

@nspugh vehemently oppose Osbourne dash for gas. Profits going to a few people and communities left with the legacy of environmental damage

@JonathanPlaid as long as what is feeding the biomass plant is sustainable.

@JonathanPlaid fuel poverty can be alleviated by community renewable energy shares, energy should be delivered on your doorstep.

@JonathanPlaid I don't understand, vehemently oppose Osbourne dash for gas, yet you would do the same, with the same consequences?

• Our Fifth Contributor -

Antoinette Sandbach Conservative Assembly Member for North Wales Region, Shadow Minister for Rural Affairs in Assembly

@ASandbachAM Are you happy for #shalegas or #fracking to commence in North Wales? #FGBill #FutureGen flic.kr/p/fjRey9

@nspugh no indication that would happen. Most of the reserves are in South Wales.

@ASandbachAM www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/data/fracking-map-w... N Wales borders under licence for #shalegas extraction, are you happy for it to commence?

@nspugh write to me as not something I can answer in 140 characters.

• Our Sixth Contributor -

Llyr Gruffydd AC/AM - Plaid Cymru The Part of Wales Assembly Member for North Wales & Shadow Minister for Environment, Energy & Agriculture.

@LlyrGruffydd If energy was devolved in Wales would you leave the gas underground?

@nspugh Yes I would. Too many unanswered questions at the moment

@LlyrGruffydd under what conditions would you let #shalegas - #fracking extraction happen in Wales; if any?

• Our Seventh Contributor -

Dafydd Elis-Thomas - AM for Dwyfor Meirionnydd

@ElisThomasD in relation to the #SDBillWales or #FGBill does @WelshGovernment sit back on #ShaleGas & #Fracking?

@nspugh @AssemblyWales Environment and Sustainability Committee inquiry on energy and planning evidence www.senedd.assemblywales.org

Dear Nigel,

Dafydd Elis-Thomas AM has asked the clerking team of the Environment & Sustainability Committee to contact you regarding the Committee meeting on 7 March, which looked at shale gas and gasification. Please see below a link to the meeting agenda / minutes which allows you access Committee meeting papers and the meeting transcript.

www.senedd.assemblywales.org/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=225... – English

www.senedd.cynulliadcymru.org/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=22... - Welsh

@ElisThomasD thank you for your help! Would you leave shale gas in the ground? :)

@nspugh Yes. E&SCommittee favours low carbon energy both renewables, particulary hydro and marine, and existing nuclear sites, not gas,

@ElisThomasD why do you think the Welsh Gov has been so submissive on shale gas extraction? Imagine 300 plus wells on The Vale Of Glam.

@nspugh As to WG planning decisions, if you want a moratorium on exploration and/or exploitation then you need an Assembly motion.

@ElisThomasD how do you get a Assembly motion, proposing a moratorium on the exploration and/or exploitation of shalegas in Wales?

@nspugh approach E&SCommitte Colleagues @MickAntoniw @russ_george @LlyrGruffydd @WilliamPowell and you have a potential majority!

Asked so far on Twitter:

@fmwales

@WG_NatResMin

@vaughangething

@JulieMorganLAB

@AndrewRTDavies - Welsh Conservative leader

@IrrancaDaviesMP

@LeanneWood - sent

@ElisThomasD

@natalieben - already clear: greenparty.org.uk/news/2013/06/27/fracking-is-not-the-ans...

@bethanjenkins - sent

@WLGrassroots

@MarkDrakeford

@ElunedParrottAM

@JulieJamesAM

@WilliamPowellAM

@MickAntoniwAM - sent

@AngelaBurnsAM

@KeithDaviesAC

@RhunapIorwerth

@parkgirl59

@MohammadAsghar

@suzydaviesam

@KenSkatesAM

@Byron_Davies

@williamgrahamam

@AlunFfredPlaid

@ElinCeredigion

@cjharris85 - Press & Research Officer to Jonathan Edwards MP and Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM.

@RhodriGlynPlaid

@mabonapgwynfor

@MarkIsherwoodAM

@JFinchSaunders

@peterblackwales

‪@KevinBrennanMP‬

@OwenSmithMP

@ASandbachAM -

@LlyrGruffydd - Plaid

@russ_george - Conservative

@lesley4wrexham - Labour Assembly Member for Wrexham

@ElisThomasD Dafydd Elis-Thomas - AM for Dwyfor Meirionnydd -sent

To ask...plus a few more I'm sure.

@RosemaryButler - AM for Newport West in the National Assembly for Wales.

‪@SandyMewiesAM‬

@ann_jonesam

@JaneHutt - Labour Assembly Member for the Vale of Glamorgan.

@DavidReesAM

@carlsargeant1 - Labour

@HuwLewis

@LeightonCymraeg - Labour

@lesley4wrexham

@Gwendathomas- Labour

@JennyRathbone - Labour

@IeuanWynJones - Plaid

@derekvaughan MEP - Labour

@WG_CommunityMin @JeffCuthbert - Labour AM for Caerphilly Welsh Government Minister for Communities & Tackling Poverty and Deputy Minister for Tackling Poverty

Edwina Hart A.M - Labour -Gower

@AlunCairns Conservative MP for the Vale of Glamorgan

@DavidJonesMP Conservative Member of Parliament for Clwyd West

@GlynDaviesMP Conservative Member of Parliament for MONTGOMERYSHIRE

Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru - The National Assembly for Wales

Y Pwyllgor Amgylchedd a Chynaliadwyedd - The Environment and Sustainability Committee

Dydd Iau, 7 Mawrth 2013 - Thursday, 7 March 2013

Questions to UK Onshore Gas Ltd

www.senedd.assemblywales.org/documents/s15086/7%20March%2...

Twitter @nspugh twitter.com/nspugh

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Oak Park No Kings protest

Summer Statement Cabinet by Number 10

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08/07/2020. London, United Kingdom. Summer Statement Cabinet. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak brief members of the cabinet at the weekly Cabinet meeting inside No10 Downing Street, on the day the Chancellor delivers his summer statement to the House during the coronavirus. Picture by Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street

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The closing statements in the case The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen were scheduled for 10-12 March 2020 before Trial Chamber IX of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or "Court") in The Hague, The Netherlands. The Prosecution, the Legal Representatives of Victims and the Defence will present their final arguments. Trial Chamber IX is composed of Judge Bertram Schmitt, Presiding judge, Judge Péter Kovács and Judge Raul Cano Pangalangan.

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Press Statement by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

July 21, 2017

Seoul Global Center, Jongno-gu, Seoul

Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism

Korean Culture and Information Service

Korea.net (www.korea.net)

Official Photographer : Jeon Han

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Statement by Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, EPP member of the European Parliament, during a debate on the situation in Ukraine by European Parliament

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The parliament debates recent developments in the Ukraine conflict with EU Foreign Affairs chief Federica Mogherini. On the agenda is the Merkel/Hollande peace initiative, Wednesday’s meeting of the presidents of Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia in Minsk (Belarus), a possible US arms delivery to Ukraine and new EU sanctions against Russia.

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Vlieland - strand - McDonald's ballon - 11 september 2017 by Islander

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After finding another McDonald's balloon that originates from a McDonald's restaurant in the UK on the beach of Vlieland, the Netherlands, and after again no reply to my questions, I did some research on the website of McDonald's on this subject.

I found two statements on the McDonald's UK website, one you can find here.

Below you will find the question to, and the answer by McDonald's.

The argument of McDonald's are thin.

I made a close read of the answers of McDonald's, and reacted on the answers of McDonald's, which you will find in bold.

I dare McDonald's to respond to my close reading of the arguments of McDonald's .

Question;

I found one of your balloons on the beach and wanted to know what your policy is on this?

Answer;

As a business we not only take pride in the local communities in which we operate, but we also recognize our wider responsibility to help protect and preserve the environment.

You have to do more than recognize, in case of the balloons, you have to act.

The issue of discarded balloons is one we are conscious of and we have taken steps to address it in recent years.

What steps have you taken, why did you not take the most important step, stop handing out helium filled balloons.

At McDonald’s, we appreciate that clean coastal resorts are vitally important from an environmental, marine wildlife protection and tourism perspective.

Again, you have to do more than appreciate, you have to act. The problem with the balloons can be easily solved, stop handing out helium filled balloons.

This is why we work closely with the franchisees and operators of our coastal stores to ensure they only hand out balloons on sticks, to prevent the immediate impact they can have on the local environment if discarded.

You assume the balloons we find on the beaches of the Netherlands only come from your coastal stores. This is a false assumption, we find other than McDonald’s balloons our coast, and they come from other regions in the UK than just the coastal. This one came from Cockermouth.

You work closely with the franchisees and operators, as if they have anything to say on such important matter. If the management of McDonald’s issues the order to stop using helium filled balloons, the franchisees have to stop handing them out.

We also worked with our suppliers a number of years ago to ensure that all our balloons are made from bio-degradable material.

Natural latex may be biodegradable, but after adding chemicals, plasticizers and artificial dyes, how natural could it be? In fact to make latex suitable for balloon production, curing agents, accelerators, oil, colour and water must be added. It may degrade after several years, but it’s surely not “biodegradable. ”And then there is the plastic plug in the opening of the balloon and the ribbon. Balloons or balloon fragments are eaten by Fulmar’s , balloon ribbons give the risk of entanglement, as pictured here and here.

As well as the measures we have control over as a business, we also have a role to play in working with our customers to encourage the responsible disposal of our products and packaging.

There is a difference between packaging and balloons, if you let go of the packaging, it will fall to the ground, if you let go of a helium filled balloon it will go up in the air. Packaging can still be picked up, a balloon not. I would not be surprised that a lot of balloons go up in the air by accident, they are handed out to kids.

That is why we display an anti-litter message on our balloons as well as our packaging.

See previous remark.

There is of course always more that can be done, however, and together with our stores in coastal locations, we are currently embarking on an assessment to see how the changes made in recent years are working.

There is only one thing to be done, stop handing out helium filled balloons, in all UK based McDonald’s restaurants.

You are currently embarking on an assessment, this notation is of April 2015, we are two years further. You must have had dozens of requests and complaints about your balloons. You must have read the alarming bulletins of the plastic sea. Still you think the promotional power of handing out the helium filled balloons is more important than all the negative aspects of these balloons.

I am sure you will decide at some point in the future to stop handing out helium filled balloons. Why wait, why not now

Thanks for getting in touch.

I get in touch frequently, but don’t get a response.

On another part of the McDonald's UK website I found a question and answer about the balloons, this can be found here.

Below a close read of this statement, bold is my response to the statement of McDonald's UK.

Question;

Do you think it's time McDonald's stopped giving out Balloons?

Do you not consider that it's time McDonalds stopped giving away balloons? There is so much evidence of the damage caused to marine wildlife from balloons and strings. Guernsey doesn't have a McDonalds Restaurant but yesterday one of your balloons advertising The Croods - still inflated, string attached - was picked up during the MCS Big Beach Clean in the Channel Islands organised by the States of Guernsey Environment Department.

Answer;

We are aware of the potential harm that balloons may cause in coastal areas to marine wildlife, as well as the additional litter generated when they are irresponsibly discarded or released.

Balloons do not only cause harm in coastal areas, they do harm to seas and ocean. Apparently you don’t know how far a helium balloon will travel, once up in the air.

You are aware, but you don’t take action to prevent the littering and creation of harmful situations to marine wildlife. Why is this? You give the answer further below.

We have worked with our suppliers to ensure that all balloons are made from bio-degradable material, in order to limit the longer term damage, but unfortunately, this does not prevent the immediate impacts that balloons have on the local environment, and especially beaches.

It is not just the balloon, it is also the ribbon and plastic plug in the opening of the balloon.

The biodegradability is at discussion. Natural latex may be biodegradable, but after adding chemicals, plasticizers and artificial dyes, how natural could it be? In fact to make latex suitable for balloon production, curing agents, accelerators, oil, colour and water must be added. It may degrade after several years, but it’s surely not “biodegradable.

Balloons are valued by families as part of the overall customer experience. Franchisees are therefore reluctant for balloons to be removed from coastal restaurants completely.

With this you finally answer the question why; Balloons are valued by families as part of the overall customer experience. If you have to choose between harm to marine wildlife or your customer experience, you pick the latter.

On your website I find the following statement;

Everyday all around the globe, McDonald's is putting people, processes and practices into place to make better food, more sustainable sourcing, happier people, a stronger community and a healthier planet.

With handing out helium filled balloons McDonald’s is not sustainable, making everybody happy and certainly not make this planet healthier.

However, as it is the discarding of the balloons that causes the issue, we believe that by replacing helium balloons in coastal restaurants with stick balloons will help our customers have greater control over their disposal, and minimise the unplanned environmental consequences of a travelling helium balloon.

As said before, McDonald’s has to replace helium filled balloons at all the restaurants. Helium filled balloons travel great distances, this problem is not solved by just stopping to hand them out in your coastal restaurants.

We are currently going through the process of making that switch, and also increasing the anti-litter messaging printed on the balloons.

Currently, May 2013, is four years ago. Nothing has changed, we still find McDonald’s balloons on our beach. Putting an anti-littering message on your balloons is laughable; when a helium filled balloon is released, it goes up into the air, it can’t be picked up and discarded in a responsible way.

Last updated May 2013

It's September 2017, four years later, and still a big problem.

TERRITORIAL STATEMENT by Bill Watson

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This plate set into a sleeper near Earsdon Box at the turn-out to the N.C.B. Backworth system. Circa 1967

Doorstep by the NATO Secretary General by NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Doorstep statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

160TH SOAR ( A ) by ARIF POONAWALA

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A military helicopter was shot down in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops, most of them from the elite Navy SEALs unit that killed Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden, along with seven Afghan commandos. It was the deadliest single incident for American forces in the decade-long war.

One current and one former U.S. official said that the dead included more than 20 Navy SEALs from SEAL Team Six, the unit that carried out the raid in Pakistan in May that killed bin Laden. They were being flown by a crew of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because families are still being notified.

None of those killed in the crash is believed to have been part of the SEALs mission that killed bin Laden, but they were from the same unit as the bin Laden team.

"We don't believe that any of the special operators who were killed were involved in the bin Laden operation," a senior U.S. military official told Fox News.

The Taliban claimed they downed the helicopter with rocket fire while it was taking part in a raid on a house where insurgents were gathered in the province of Wardak late Friday. It said wreckage of the craft was strewn at the scene. A senior U.S. administration official in Washington said the craft was apparently shot down by insurgents. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the crash is still being investigated.

NATO confirmed the overnight crash took place and that there "was enemy activity in the area." But it said it was still investigating the cause and conducting a recovery operation at the site. It did not release details or casualty figures.

"We are in the process of accessing the facts," said U.S. Air Force Capt. Justin Brockhoff, a NATO spokesman.

President Barack Obama mourned the deaths of the American troops, saying in a statement that the crash serves as a reminder of the "extraordinary sacrifices" being made by the U.S. military and its families. He said he also mourned "the Afghans who died alongside our troops."

The death toll would surpass the worst single day loss of life for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001 -- the June 28, 2005 downing of a military helicopter in eastern Kunar province. In that incident, 16 Navy SEALs and Army special operations troops were killed when their craft was shot down while on a mission to rescue four SEALs under attack by the Taliban. Three of the SEALs being rescued were also killed and the fourth wounded. It was the highest one-day death toll for the Navy Special Warfare personnel since World War II.

With its steep mountain ranges, providing shelter for militants armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, eastern Afghanistan is hazardous terrain for military aircraft. Large, slow-moving air transport carriers like the CH-47 Chinook are particularly vulnerable, often forced to ease their way through sheer valleys where insurgents can achieve more level lines of fire from mountainsides.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday gave the first public word of the new crash, saying in a statement that "a NATO helicopter crashed last night in Wardak province" and that 31 American special operations troops were killed. He expressed his condolences to President Barack Obama.

The helicopter was a twin-rotor Chinook, said an official at NATO headquarters in Brussels. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he was receiving his information from an Afghan officer in Kabul.

The crash took place in the Sayd Abad district of Wardak province, said a provincial government spokesman, Shahidullah Shahid. The volatile region borders the province of Kabul where the Afghan capital is located and is known for its strong Taliban presence.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that Taliban fighters downed the helicopter during a "heavy raid" in Sayd Abad. He said NATO attacked a house in Sayd Abad where insurgent fighters were gathering Friday night. During the battle, the fighters shot down the helicopter, killing 31 Americans and seven Afghans, he said, adding that eight insurgents were killed in the fight.

There have been at least 17 coalition and Afghan aircraft crashes in Afghanistan this year.

Most of the crashes were attributed to pilot errors, weather conditions or mechanical failures. However, the coalition has confirmed that at least one CH-47F Chinook helicopter was hit by a rocket propelled grenade on July 25. Two coalition crew members were injured in that attack.

Meanwhile, in the southern Helmand province, an Afghan government official said Saturday that NATO troops attacked a house and inadvertently killed eight members of a family, including women and children.

NATO said that Taliban fighters fired rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire at coalition troops during a patrol Friday in the Nad Ali district.

"Coalition forces responded with small arms fire and as the incident continued, an air strike was employed against the insurgent position," said Brockhoff. He added that NATO sent a delegation to meet with local leaders and investigate the incident.

Nad Ali district police chief Shadi Khan said civilians died in the bombardment but that it was unknown how many insurgents were killed.

Helmand, a Taliban stronghold, is the deadliest province in Afghanistan for international troops.

NATO has come under harsh criticism in the past for accidentally killing civilians during operations against suspected insurgents. However, civilian death tallies by the United Nations show the insurgency is responsible for most war casualties involving noncombatants.

In south Afghanistan, NATO said two coalition service member were killed, one on Friday and another on Saturday. The international alliance did not release further details.

With the casualties from the helicopter crash, the deaths bring to 365 the number of coalition troops killed this year in Afghanistan and 42 this month.

The Lady Chapel, Holy Trinity, Long Melford, Suffolk by Jelltex

I am indebted to John Fielding (www.flickr.com/photos/john_fielding/) for posting an aerial shot of Holy Trinity, and my interest was piqued by the timber-framed building with the triple gable at the east end. Turned out this was the Lady Chapel, and more of that later. So, on my way back home to Kent, I called in to see if it looked as remarkable in the flesh as in photographs.

I arrived at Long Melford, after being taken on a magical mystery tour in light drizzle from Wortham, down narrow and narrower lanes, under and over railway lines, through woods, up and down hills until, at last, I saw the town laid out beyond the church.

I parked at the bottom of Church Walk then walked up past the line of timber framed houses, the tudor hospital and the tudor manor house.

Holy Trinity sits on top of the hill, spread out, filling its large churchyard and the large tower not out of proportion.

Inside it really is a collection of wonders, from brasses, the best collection of Medieval glass in Suffolk, to side chapels, and behind, the very unusual Lady Chapel.

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The Church of the Holy Trinity, Long Melford is a Grade I listed parish church of the Church of England in Long Melford, Suffolk, England. It is one of 310 medieval English churches dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

The church was constructed between 1467 and 1497 in the late Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a noted example of a Suffolk medieval wool church, founded and financed by wealthy wool merchants in the medieval period as impressive visual statements of their prosperity.

The church structure is highly regarded by many observers. Its cathedral-like proportions and distinctive style, along with its many original features that survived the religious upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, have attracted critical acclaim. Journalist and author Sir Simon Jenkins, Chairman of the National Trust, included the church in his 1999 book “England’s Thousand Best Churches”. He awarded it a maximum of 5 stars, one of only 18 to be so rated. The Holy Trinity Church features in many episodes of Michael Wood's, BBC television history series Great British Story, filmed during 2011.

A church is recorded as having been on the site since the reign of King Edward the Confessor (1042–1066). It was originally endowed by the Saxon Earl Alric, who bequeathed the patronage of the church, along with his manor at Melford Hall and about 261 acres of land, to the successive Abbots of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmund’s. There are no surviving descriptions of the original Saxon structure, although the roll of the clergy (see below) and the history of the site extend back to the 12th century.

The church was substantially rebuilt between 1467 and 1497. Of the earlier structures, only the former Lady Chapel (now the Clopton Chantry Chapel) and the nave arcades survive.

The principal benefactor who financed the reconstruction was wealthy local wool merchant John Clopton, who resided at neighbouring Kentwell Hall. John Clopton was a supporter of the Lancastrian cause during the Wars of the Roses and in 1462 was imprisoned in the Tower of London with John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford and a number of others, charged with corresponding treasonably with Margaret of Anjou. All of those imprisoned were eventually executed except John Clopton, who somehow made his peace with his accusers and lived to see the Lancastrians eventually triumphant at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

The dates of the reconstruction of the church are derived from contemporary wills, which provided endowments to finance the work

In 1710 the main tower was damaged by a lightning strike.[3] It was replaced with a brick-built structure in the 18th century and subsequently remodelled between 1898 and 1903 to its present-day appearance, designed by George Frederick Bodley in the Victorian Gothic Revival style. The new tower was closer to its original form with stone and flint facing and the addition of four new pinnacles.

The nave, at 152.6 feet (46.5 m), is believed to be the longest of any parish church in England. There are nine bays, of which the first five at the western end are believed to date from an earlier structure.

The interior is lit by 74 tracery windows, many of which retain original medieval glass. These include the image of Elizabeth de Mowbray, Duchess of Norfolk, said to have provided the inspiration for John Tenniel's illustration of the Queen of Hearts in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The sanctuary is dominated by the large reredos, of Caen stone and inspired by the works of Albrecht Dürer. It was installed in 1877, having been donated by the mother of the then Rector Charles Martyn.

On the north side is the alabaster and marble tomb of Sir William Cordell who was the first Patron of the Church after the dissolution of the Abbey of Bury St Edmund's in 1539. On either side of the tomb are niches containing figures that represent the four Cardinal virtues of Prudence, Justice, Temperance and Fortitude.

The sanctuary also holds one of the earliest extant alabaster bas relief panels, a nativity from the second half of the 14th century. The panel was hidden under the floor of chancel, probably early in the reign of Elizabeth I, and was rediscovered in the 18th century.[6] The panel, which may be part of an altar piece destroyed during the Reformation, includes a midwife arranging Mary's pillows and two cows looking from under her bed.

The Clopton Chapel is in the north east corner of the church. It commemorates various Clopton family members and was used by the family as a place of private worship.

The tomb of Sir William Clopton is set into an alcove here, in the north wall. An effigy of Sir William, wearing chain mail and plate armour, is set on top of the tomb. Sir William is known to have died in 1446 and it is therefore believed that this corner of the church predates the late 15th-century reconstruction. There are numerous brasses set in the floor commemorating other members of the Clopton family; two date from 1420, another shows two women wearing head attire in the butterfly style from around 1480, and a third depicts Francis Clopton who died in 1558.

There is an altar set against the east wall of the chapel and a double squint designed to provide priests with a view of the high altar when conducting Masses.

The Clopton Chantry Chapel is a small chapel at the far north east corner of the church, accessed from the Clopton Chapel. This was the original Lady Chapel and is the oldest part of the current structure. After John Clopton's death in 1497, his will made provision for the chapel to be extended and refurbished and for him to be buried alongside his wife there.[10] The chapel was then renamed, while the intended Chantry Chapel became the Lady Chapel.

The tomb of John Clopton and his wife is set in the wall leading into the chapel. Inside, the canopy vault displays faded portraits of the couple. Also displayed is a portrait of the risen Christ with a Latin text which, translated, reads Everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. A series of empty niches in the south wall most likely once held statues of saints. Around the cornice, John Lydgate's poem "Testament" is presented in the form of a scroll along the roof, while his "Lamentation of our Lady Maria" is along the west wall.

The Lady Chapel is a separate building attached to the east end of the main church. In an unusual layout, it has a central sanctuary surrounded by a pillared ambulatory, reflecting its original intended use as a chantry chapel with John Clopton's tomb in its centre. Clopton was forced to abandon this plan when his wife died before the new building was completed and consecrated; so she was buried in the former Lady Chapel and John Clopton was subsequently interred next to her.[12]

The stone carving seen in the Lady Chapel bears similarities to work at King's College Chapel, Cambridge and at Burwell Church in Cambridgeshire. It is known that the master mason employed there was Reginald Ely, the King's Mason, and although there is no documentary proof, it is believed that Ely was also responsible for the work at Holy Trinity, Long Melford.[13]

The chapel was used as a school from 1670 until the early 18th century, and a multiplication table on the east wall serves as a reminder of this use. The steep gables of the roof also date from this period.

The Martyn Chapel is situated to the south of the chancel. It contains the tombs of several members of the Martyn family, who were prominent local wool merchants in the 15th and 16th centuries, and who also acted as benefactors of the church. These include the tomb chest of Lawrence Martyn (died 1460) and his two wives. On the floor are the tomb slabs of Roger Martyn (died 1615) and his two wives Ursula and Margaret; and of Richard Martyn (died 1624) and his three wives.

Originally, the Martyn chapel contained an altar flanked by two gilded tabernacles, one displaying an image of Christ and the other an image of Our Lady of Pity. These tabernacles reached to the ceiling of the chapel, but were removed or destroyed during the English Reformation in the reign of King Edward VI.

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The setting of Holy Trinity is superlative. At the highest point and square onto the vast village green, its southern elevation is punctuated by the 16th Century Trinity Hospital almshouses. Across the green is the prospect of Melford Hall's pepperpot turrets and chimneys behind a long Tudor wall. Another great house, Kentwell Hall, is to the north. Kentwell was home to the Clopton family, whose name you meet again and again inside the church. Norman Scarfe described it as in a way, a vast memorial chapel to the family.

Holy Trinity is the longest church in Suffolk, longer even than Mildenhall, but this is because of a feature unique in the county, a large lady chapel separate from the rest of the church beyond the east end of the chancel. The chapel itself is bigger than many East Anglian churches, although it appears externally rather domestic with its triple gable at the east end. There is a good collection of medieval glass in the otherwise clear windows, as well as a couple of modern pieces, and a very mdern altarpiece at the central altar. Jacqueline's mother remembered attending Sunday School in this chapel in the 1940s.

The intimacy of the Lady Chapel is in great contrast to the vast walls of glass which stretch away westwards, the huge perpendicular windows of the nave aisles and clerestories, which appear to make the castellated nave roof float in air. An inscription in the clerestory records the date at which the building was completed as 1496. Forty years later, it would all have been much more serious. Sixty years later, it would not have been built at all. A brick tower was added in the early 18th Century, and the present tower, by GF Bodley, was encased around it in 1903. As Sam Mortlock observes, this tower might seem out of place in Suffolk, but it nevertheless matches the scale and character of the building. It is hard to imagine the church without it.

I came here back in May with my friend David Striker, who, despite living thousands of miles away in Colorado, has nearly completed his ambition to visit every medieval church in Norfolk and Suffolk. This was his first visit to Long Melford, mine only the latest of many. We stepped down into the vast, serious space.. There was a fairly considerable 19th Century restoration here, as witnessed by the vast sprawl of Minton tiles on the floor, although perhaps the sanctuary furnishings are the building's great weakness. Perhaps it is the knowledge of this that fails to turn my head eastwards, but instead draws me across to the north aisle for the best collection of medieval glass in Suffolk. During the 19th century restoration it was collected into the east window and north and south aisles, but in the 1960s it was all recollected here. Even on a sunny day it is a perfect setting for exploring it.

The most striking figures are probably those of the medieval donors, who originally would have been set prayerfully at the base of windows of devotional subjects. Famously, the portrait of Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk is said to have provided the inspiration for John Tenneil's Duchess in his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, although I'm not sure there is any evidence for this. Indeed, several of the ladies here might have provided similar inspiration.

The best glass is the pieta, Mary holding the body of Christ the Man of Sorrows. Beneath it is perhaps the best-known, the Holy Trinity represented in a roundel as three hares with their ears interlocking. An angel holding a Holy Trinity shield in an upper light recalls the same thing at Salle. Other glass includes a fine resurrection scene and a sequence of 15th Century Saints. There is also a small amount of continental glass collected in later centuries, including a most curious oval lozenge of St Francis receiving the stigmata.

Walking eastwards down the north aisle until the glass runs out, you are rewarded by a remarkable survival, a 14th century alabaster panel of the Adoration of the Magi. It probably formed part of the altar piece here, and was rediscovered hidden under the floorboards in the 18th century. Fragments of similar reliefs survive elsewhere in East Anglia, but none in such perfect condition. Beyond it, you step through into the north chancel chapel where there are a number of Clopton brasses, impressive but not in terribly good condition, and then beyond that into the secretive Clopton chantry. This beautiful little chapel probably dates from the completion of the church in the last decade of the 15th century. Here, chantry priests would have celebrated Masses for the dead of the Clopton family. The chapel is intricately decorated with devotional symbols and vinework, as well as poems attributed to John Lidgate. The beautiful Tudor tracery of the window is filled with elegant clear glass except for another great survival, a lily crucifix. This representation occurs just once more in Suffolk, on the font at Great Glemham. The panel is probably a later addition here from elsewhere in the church, but it is still haunting to think of the Chantry priests kneeling towards the window as they asked for intercessions for the souls of the Clopton dead. It was intended that the prayers of the priests would sustain the Cloptons in perpetuity, but in fact it would last barely half a century before the Reformation outlawed such practices.

You step back into the chancel to be confronted by the imposing stone reredos. Its towering heaviness is out of sympathy with the lightness and simplicity of the Perpendicular windows, and it predates Bodley's restoration. The screen which separates the chancel from the south chapel is medeival, albeit restored, and I was struck by a fierce little dragon, although photographing it into the strong south window sunshine beyond proved impossible. The brasses in the south chapel are good, and in better condition. They are to members of the Martyn family.

The south chapel is also the last resting place of Long Melford's other great family, the Cordells. Sir William Cordell's tomb dominates the space. He died in 1581, and donated the Trinity Hospital outside. His name survives elsewhere in Long Melford: my wife's mother grew up on Cordell Road, part of a council estate cunningly hidden from the High Street by its buildings on the east side.

Simon Knott, January 2013

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Fashion Statement by Randy

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I photographed this colorful character at the Jazz'S Alive show last weekend.

Nikon D300 w/ Sigma 70-200 2.8

Mark Brinkmoeller hands the Pope a USAID mission statement card. by USAID U.S. Agency for International Development

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Mark Brinkmoeller hands the Pope a USAID mission statement card.

PP22 - Policy Statements by ITU Pictures