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Written by: Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 8 hrs
When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.
Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.
By Jeremy on 2018-09-13
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Narrated by: Simon Vance
In his final novel - which he considered his most important - Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and - to his amazement - give him hope.
The Doors of Perception
Narrated by: Rudolph Schirmer
The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley, describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience. The title of this classic comes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern."
short and worth the time
By Colin Climie on 2019-05-23
The Perennial Philosophy
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
With great wit and stunning intellect - drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam - Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains how they are united by a common human yearning to experience the divine. The Perennial Philosophy includes selections from Meister Eckhart, Rumi, and Lao Tzu, as well as the Bhagavad Gita, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Diamond Sutra, and Upanishads, among many others.
Fantastic Eastern Philosophy
By Jake S.L. on 2019-03-02
Le meilleur des mondes
Narrated by: Thibault de Montalembert
632 après Ford : désormais on compte les années à partir de l'invention de la voiture à moteur. La technologie et la science ont remplacé la liberté et Dieu. La vie humaine, anesthésiée, est une suite de satisfactions, les êtres naissent in vitro, les désirs s'assouvissent sans risque de reproduction, les émotions et les sentiments ont été remplacés par des sensations et des instincts programmés.
D actualité!
By sebastien drapeau on 2018-04-26
A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Jonathan Coy, Justin Salinger, and others
It's 2116, and Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are token rebels in an irretrievably corrupted society where promiscuity is the norm, eugenics a respectable science, and morality turned upside down. There is no poverty, crime or sickness - but no creativity, art or culture either. Human beings are merely docile citizens: divided into castes, brainwashed and controlled by the state and dependent on the drug soma for superficial gratification.
Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Jonathan Coy, Justin Salinger, Pippa Bennett-Warner, full cast
Brave New World (Dramatized)
Narrated by: Aldous Huxley
The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental series of productions, subtitled "radio's distinguished series to man's imagination" that ran between 27 January 1956 and 22 September 1957. The premiere production was Brave New World, narrated by Huxley himself, with a complicated sound-effects score that evidently took a long time to construct, and comprised a ticking metronome, tom-tom beats, bubbling water, an air hose, a cow's moo, an oscillator, and three kinds of wine glasses clicking together.
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Crome Yellow
Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
One of the greatest prose writers and social commentators of the 20th century, Aldous Huxley here introduces us to a delightfully cynical, comic, and severe group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most free-thinking and modern kind of talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian primitive painting are just a few of the subjects competing for discussion among the amiable cast of eccentrics drawn together at Crome, an intensely English country manor.
The Devils of Loudun
A True Story of Demonic Possession
Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
In 1632, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier - accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge - was convicted of being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake for witchcraft. A remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession, The Devils of Loudun is considered by many to be Brave New World author Aldous Huxley's nonfiction masterpiece.
Masterpieces of Modern Short Fiction
Written by: Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others
Narrated by: David Birney, Michael York
An eclectic compendium of the finest short fiction of the last 150 years, featuring works by Paul Theroux, Joseph Conrad, James Ellroy, Ambrose Bierce, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Aldous Huxley, Philip Roth, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Written by: Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley, Joyce Carol Oats, Philip Roth, Paul Theroux, Orson Welles, Isabel Allende
After the Fireworks
Three Novellas
Written by: Aldous Huxley, Gary Giddins
Narrated by: Michael Page, Tom Parks
In After the Fireworks, three of Aldous Huxley's lost classic pieces of short fiction are collected for the first time. In the title novella, Rome is the stunning backdrop where internationally famous novelist Miles Fanning is setting out on a walk down Via Condotti toward the Spanish Steps when he encounters the mysterious Pamela Tarn - a beautiful young American admirer of his work who shares a name, as well as conspicuous personality traits, with a character from his most celebrated book.
Antic Hay
Young Oxford tutor Theodore Gumbril has become thoroughly dismayed by the formality of college life and the staid British institutions of learning. An impetuous need for celebration, even rebellion, possesses him. He and his bohemian companions embark on wild and daring "bacchanalian" adventures that steer them resolutely away from stifling conventions of behavior. Antic Hay, first published in 1923, is one of Aldous Huxley's earlier novels, and like them is primarily a 'novel of ideas' involving conversations which disclose viewpoints rather than establish characters; its polemical theme unfolds against the backdrop of London's post-war nihilistic Bohemia. This is Huxley at his biting, brilliant best -- a novel, loud with derisive laughter, which satirically scoffs at all conventional morality and at stuffy people everywhere -- a novel that's always charged with excitement.
Schöne neue Welt
Narrated by: Gerd Wameling
Im Jahre 632 nach Ford ist die Welt ein perfekter Ort: Kriminalität und Armut gehören der Vergangenheit an. Babys werden in Flaschen gezüchtet und so konditioniert, dass sie später, betäubt durch die Glücksdroge Soma, zufrieden den ihnen zugedachten Platz in der Gesellschaft einnehmen. Doch dann betritt ein sogenannter Wilder die "Schöne neue Welt". Der faszinierende Fremde, der über Gefühle und Freiheit spricht, wird wie ein Star gefeiert - bis er zur Bedrohung für die selbsternannte Zivilisation wird.
A Rare Recording of Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He was best known for his novels Brave New World and The Doors of Perception. Early in his career, Huxley edited the Oxford Poetry magazine and wrote travel articles, film stories, and scripts. He later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, including universalism. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in seven different years.
The Greatest Mysteries of All Time, Volume 6
Written by: Wilkie Collins, C. P. Donnell Jr., John Collier, and others
Narrated by: David Warner, Christopher Cazenove, Orson Welles, and others
The Greatest Mysteries of All Time, Volume 6 is an exciting addition to this series, featuring the most acclaimed writers, past and present. This unique collection of master writers, including Wilkie Collins, Aldous Huxley, and Edith Wharton, edited by multi-award winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler, is a delightful mixture of mystery and suspense.
Written by: Wilkie Collins, C. P. Donnell Jr., John Collier, Edith Wharton, James Thurber, Melville D. Post, Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: David Warner, Christopher Cazenove, Orson Welles, Carol Lawrence, Mackenzie Phillips, Arte Johnson, Roger Rees
Mortal Coils
Mortal Coils is a collection of five pieces written by Aldous Huxley in the 1920s. The first one, "The Giaconda Smile", is a short murder story. "Permutations Among the Nightingales" is a play concerning amorous problems experienced by the patrons of a certain establishment. "The Tillotson Banquet" tells of an old artist who was thought to be dead. "Green Tunnels" is about the boredom of a young girl on holiday with her family. "Nuns at Luncheon" is a story told by a nun falling in love.
Great Classic Mysteries
Thirteen Unabridged Stories
Written by: Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and others
Narrated by: Simon Prebble, Kim Hicks, Simon Vance, and others
Enjoy the great detectives of the Golden Age of classic mysteries in this unique collection of audio whodunits. Newly recorded for this original anthology, the crimes, criminals, and sleuths depicted here set the standard for decades to come, and remain as entertaining today as they were when first published. Fantastic narrators including Simon Prebble, Kate Fenton, Bill Wallace, and Robert Fass breathe new life into these stories.
Written by: Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Israel Zangwill, C. L. Pirkis, Jacque Futrelle, Maurice Leblanc, Baroness Orczy, O. Henry, Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: Simon Prebble, Kim Hicks, Simon Vance, Kate Fenton, Bill Wallace, Robert Fass
Narrated by: Michael Maloney
Denis Stone, a self-conscious young poet, is invited to the English town home of Crome, renowned for its gatherings of intellectuals. Hosted by Henry and Priscilla Wimbush, the house party has much to offer the naive Denis. The guests include the self-contained Anne, whom Denis adores; the handsome artist Gombauld, his rival for Anne's affections; and the cynical Mr. Scogan. All have their stories and ideas to unfold but, as Denis comes to realize, ideas cannot compensate for reality.
Narrated by: James Langton
The renowned author of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, made his literary debut with the 1921 classic Crome Yellow. Set in post-WWI England, this perennial favorite satirizes the fads and fashions of the time with the tale of a hapless couple who join a colorful mix of British aristocrats attending a party at a rural country estate.
Jacob's Hands
A Fable
Written by: Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood
Narrated by: William Windom, Burt Reynolds
Jacob Ericson, a shy, enigmatic, and somewhat inept ranch hand learns that his hands possess the mysterious gift of healing: a gift he uses to cure animals and Sharon, the woman he adores. His gift is quickly exploited and the boundaries of his charm and naïveté begin to stretch. Following Sharon to Los Angeles, Jacob offers his healing powers for free at a church in Los Angeles, and then at a seedy stage show where his beloved Sharon also works.
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London's Malign Geometry - A Hawksmoor tour (Part 2 Spitalfields & Whitechapel)
Spitalfields starts somewhere in the warren of streets between Bishopsgate and Commercial Street. As soon as you come off the main thoroughfare you start running into groups of tourists being walked around by tour guides. One of the places you will often find a group of people being lectured by a guide is at the entrance to an unnamed service road at the side of White's Row multi-storey car park. Groups of travellers from Japan, the States, Germany or even from the English provinces stand here in rapt attention, only moving to lift their camera viewfinders up to their eyes and take a shot. They are gripped by this unprepossessing street because it was once Dorset Street, 'the worst street in London' and there, by the steps to the office block, was Miller's Court, the scene of Jack the Ripper's last and most brutal killing of Mary Jane Kelly on November 9 1888. Hawksmoor's Christchurch is just around the corner and Iain Sinclair writes that the building was a "magnet to the archetypal murder myth of the late 19th century ... The whole karmic programme of Whitechapel in 1888 moves around the fixed point of Christ Church ..." Hmmm.
The street was originally laid out in 1674 and was known as Datchet Street. The name was gradually corrupted to Dorset Street and the street became full of doss houses. By the 1880's it was estimated that 1200 men slept every night in the lodging houses of a street that was only 400 feet long. Miller's Court was built off an alleyway between Dorset Street and Brushfield Street to the north. Mary Kelly who worked as a prostitute rented a room in the court which she used to entertain her clients. She had taken a stout ginger haired man who wore a bowler hat and carried a can of beer back to the room just before midnight on the 8th November. By 2.00am she was back out on the streets and asking an acquaintance to give her sixpence. Whilst he was making his excuses Mary was approached by a man of 'Jewish appearance'. She took the man home with her and was never seen alive again. Her landlord sent his assistant to collect the rent the following morning and it was the unfortunate rent collector who, getting no response to his knock on the door, opened the curtains through a broken window and discovered Kelly's horribly mutilated corpse. Kelly was the only victim to be photographed at the scene of her murder – the photograph is grainy, blurred, faded and obviously Victorian but still harrowing and shocking. You can easily find it on the net if you want to see it.
Fiona Rule's "The Worst Street in London" is an excellent account of the history of Dorset Street if you are interested. The photograph below was taken in 1902 as an illustration for Jack London's "People of the Abyss", a classic account of the east end and significant contribution to the east end myth and shows Dorset Street looking west from Commercial Street. Once one of the most degraded areas of the capital ("in the shadow of Christ's Church, at three o'clock in the afternoon, I saw a sight I never wish to see again…." wrote Jack London in "People of the Abyss", appalled at the squalid poverty he witnessed in what was meant to be the greatest city in the world) now an uber-trendy artists quarter where rich artists and corporate types who like to live somewhere a little bit edgy blow vast sums to buy houses and flats in the Georgian weavers houses and where the local colour is now provided by the local Bangladeshi community down Brick Lane.
It may look like it has been there since 1888 at least but I'd be surprised if Verde & Co have been here for even 20 years. The veneer of age and gentle dilapidation is all carefully contrived. It is a rather expensive delicatessen serving the new well heeled residents of Spitalfields and the thousands of people who work in nearby offices. Just across the road is Spitalfields' market which has been through a similar face lift and now has restaurants as well as stalls selling designer clothes, arty crafty bric a brac and so on. (It does have a good second hand book stall though specialising in old Penguin paperbacks, most of which are only a couple of quid). Christchurch is at the end of the street, not looking at all like the axis of evil Iain Sinclair would have us believe it is.
Donovan Brothers was an authentic east end business at 46 Crispin Street. It was founded in the 1830's by Jeremiah and Dennis O'Donovan who came to Spitalfields from Dublin via Liverpool to escape the economic collapse of Ireland during the potato famine, and is still going strong, in Leyton rather than Crispin Street though.
The foundations for Christ Church were started in the summer of 1714. It took over 14 years and £40,000 to complete the church which was consecrated in July 1729. Spitalfields lay in the large medieval parish of Stepney which also included Poplar, Bethnal Green, Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse. In 1710 the Church Convocation, in its report on parishes that needed new churches, had reported that Stepney had 86,500 inhabitants, one parish church and two Anglican chapels-of-ease. In stark comparison the non-conformists had an estimated 19 meeting houses. The church commissioners agreed that the parish needed four new churches built. All four were eventually built, three were designed by Nicolas Hawksmoor, Christ Church, St George's-in-the-East and St Anne's at Limehouse.
Often cited as Hawksmoor's masterpiece but even at the time it was built it was already out of fashion. The Palladian critic James Ralph wrote, a mere 5 years after it was consecrated, wrote that the 'monstrous expense' lavished on it had resulted in the erection of 'one of the most absurd piles in Europe'. Even in the 20th century Nicholas Pevsner called it 'ugly'. Hawksmoor's original design, in so far as it can be reconstructed from the extant drawings, did not include either the Tuscan portico or the gothic looking steeple (see above).
When Gilbert and George moved into Fournier Street, it was because the monthly rent was £16, and the landlords didn't mind whether you slept in the building or used it as a studio. The area was run-down, but, says Gilbert, "totally magic, romantic". Fournier Street was occupied by buttonmakers, furriers and hat-makers, and the area was Jewish. "The front doors were open all day," says George. "All the windows were open, so people would speak to each other from one side of the street to the other. Extraordinary antique behaviour."
"This area has been everything. It's been a Roman cemetery, it's been part of the hospital for the returning Crusaders. It's been a manufacturing base for guns which, curiously, was staffed entirely by Germans. "In between the Jews and the Bangladeshis, it was briefly Maltese, then Somali. It was extraordinary when it was Maltese because they all had Alsatian dogs, they kept ferrets, they played cards all day."Their London centres around Fournier Street, which is now seen as a masterpiece of early Georgian architecture, just as Gilbert and George are hailed as pioneers of the East End art scene. "George used to teach in Hoxton in 1967," says Gilbert. "In the evening, when we came back, my God." "All the businesses were totally shuttered," says George. "Totally deserted - scary. You could either have sex with a stranger or get beaten up. Those were the only two choices. And that was only Hoxton Square!"
"It's extraordinary to think that within walking distance you can find the tomb of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism - the tomb of George Fox, the founder of the Quakers, of Daniel Defoe, author of one of the few books in the world which is never out of print, John Bunyan, and William Blake," says George. "Only one grave has a jam-jar of flowers - William Blake". "We rather like John Bunyan," says Gilbert, "because we feel that's what we did - Pilgrim's Progress. Every year we have to fight all the moral dilemmas in ourselves."
To explore this further, Gilbert and George take me on a tour. The first stop is the mosque on the corner of Fournier Street and Brick Lane. "That was the synagogue when we were students," says George. "The posh synagogue at that." "It was a French church," says Gilbert. "A Huguenot church. They tried to convert Jewish people to Christianity. It didn't work."
Alastair McKay, Evening Standard 31 Jan 2007
The name Spitalfields is a contraction of 'Hospital Fields' , the fields being ones that lay in medieval times to the east of the priory of the New Hospital of St Mary without Bishopgate which presumably stood just outside the city walls ('without' in the sense of 'there is a green hill far away without a city wall'). Brick Lane runs from Bethnal Green, down through Spitalfields and ends almost at Whitechapel Road. It was originally called Whitechapel Lane and took its current name from the brick and tile works that grew up in the area to take advantage of the local brick earth deposits. As well as bricks brewing was big business. The most famous was Truman's Black Eagle brewery (see picture below). The area has always had a large immigrant population, Huguenot's in the 18th Century, the Irish and then Ashkenazi Jews in the 19th and Bengalis in the 20th. Today Brick Lane is the heart of Banglatown, the street signs are written in Sylheti as well as English and every other shop is an Indian restaurant.
If you get on a walking tour you'll be shown the brewery and the railway bridge, whatever recent street art is worth looking at and someone will point out the brickwork bas relief high on the façade of the Sheraz Balti House that tells you that this used to be the Frying Pan public house. It was here is this pub that 43 year olf Polly Nichols, the first of the rippers victims, spent the last evening of her life. She left the pub at 12.30am and tried to get a bed at a lodging house in Thrawl Steet ( the pub stood at the corner of Thrawl Street and Brick Lane) but was thrown out when it transpired she didn't have the necessary four pence needed. She was seen on Whitechapel Road at 2.30 but an hour later her body was discovered at Bucks Row, a few hundred yards away, with her throat cut and her abdominal area viciously slashed probably after she was already dead.
From Brick Lane I walk down to the Whitechapel Road and make my way to St George's-in-the-East via Cannon Street Road, crossing the Highway (formerly known as the Ratcliffe Highway), Commercial Road and Cable Street.
This piece was originally written and published on Flickr in November/December 2011.
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Boreham Wood fell to a 1-0 defeat away to Maidenhead United at York Road on Saturday, as the home side finished with 10-men.
The scores were level at half-time, following a solid first half performance. However, substitute James Akintunde came off the bench to net the winner for Alan Devonshire's side.
Midfielder Harold Odametey was then sent off late on for Maidenhead United, following a second yellow card.
Luke Garrard made one change to the side for the away trip, with Danny Woodards coming in for Sean Shields, which saw Ricky Shakes return to the midfield.
The first chance of the game fell to the home side, after Sam Nombe latched onto a through ball into the box, but he couldn't slide it past George Legg, who held.
The Wood reacted through Gozie Ugwu, who battled with his marker, but couldn't find Idris Kanu with a pass.
Still on the attack, Ugwu backed into his marker and collected a loose ball on the edge of the box, but his powerful twisted shot was blocked.
Struggling to gain a foothold in the game, Maidenhead failed to clear Keiran Murtagh's free-kick, which Ugwu latched onto, but his eventual shot was blocked.
Kanu and Shakes both done well to battle off Maidenhead challenges on the counter, before Ugwu slipped in Murtagh. The midfielder attempted to loft the ball over Carl Pentney, but it was deflected over for a corner.
The best chance of the first half fell to the home side. Odametey slid a Pacey low ball in from the left, that Adrian Clifton and Ryan Upward somehow failed to turn in, from the back post.
Slick interplay from Femi Ilesanmi and Murtagh released the former into the area and he dragged it across goal, but Alan Massey scrambled clear.
A near identical chance then fell to Ilesanmi once again, but Maidenhead were able to clear their lines once more.
A darting run from Josh Kelly down the left made space for Maidenhead and the forward looked to pick out Odametey, but his ball sailed past the midfielder.
Alfie Kilgour met a drifting cross from James Comley's and forced a superb reaction save out of Legg, who pushed it from the top right corner.
The resulting corner caused a goal-line scramble, but it was eventually struck over the crossbar by a mixture of Maidenhead attackers.
The second half started in a similar fashion to the first and Odametey broke free from the midfield and charged forward. However, he was caught by the backtracking Tom Champion, who nicked the ball clear. Kilgour then headed wide from the resulting corner.
Clifton then thumped a low free-kick at the Wood wall, which resulted in a goal line scramble, but the visitors scrapped it away.
Garrard's side countered and Ugwu found Ilesanmi deep inside the left of the box, but he could only send it into the side netting from a tight angle.
Legg made a superb save to claw the ball from his top right corner as the game passed the hour mark. Akintunde had just been brought on and met Nombe's cross, but couldn't beat the on-loan stopper.
The home side found a way past the visiting defence shortly after though and it was Akintunde who netted the strike. The forward was found in space inside the box, took a touch, and fired the ball past Legg and into the bottom right corner.
With less than five minutes remaining, Odametey was given his marching orders following a challenge on Murtagh, which resulted in a second yellow card.
There were two late chances for the Wood to equaliser, and each fell to Shakes on the edge of the area. The first was blocked for a corner and an identical second was sent over the crossbar, with a sea of Maidenhead bodies in front of him.


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Development Agencies and the "New Normal"
Rachael Calleja
Mikaela Gavas
Why Global Leadership is Key to International Development
Rachael Calleja et al.
Development agencies are facing a period of profound change. Upheaval from the global pandemic and urgent calls to tackle the climate crisis are happening against a backdrop of sustained demand for traditional development programming and squeezed development budgets.
In this blog, we map key trends and changes in the development landscape and highlight the implications of these changes for the future of ODA. These findings were presented at the Development Leaders Conference 2021, held earlier this month. All development agencies will need to ask themselves how to better address challenges that extend beyond national boundaries and how to respond to the increasing incidence of poverty and inequality at the national level. Both approaches are linked and can co-exist. But they require a re-think of roles, practices and capacities.
Global challenges and the development landscape
We live in a world characterised by rapid change with a significant probability of major shocks. Changes in the environment and the global economy are increasing the frequency and magnitude of both unanticipated and foreseeable shocks. These shocks can, and often do, intrude dramatically to alter the course of history. Take COVID-19, which has stalled what was a hyper-globalizing world economy, increased global poverty and deepened inequality.
Since the early 1990s until recently, the world had been witnessing an economic convergence, whereby poor countries were beginning to catch up with rich ones. COVID-19 has reversed this trend. The IMF predicts that while advanced economies are forecasted to return to their pre-crisis growth path by 2023, sub-Saharan Africa is not expected to regain the lost ground any time soon, knocking it off the economic convergence process (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Change in real GDP per capita, 2019-2024
Source: World Economic Outlook 2021, IMF
The pandemic has also exposed the structural vulnerabilities of local food systems, hitting already fragile contexts and vulnerable groups hard. Figure 2 shows how food import costs relative to income have surged to record levels in developing countries (in red) compared to developed countries (in blue).
Combined with the broader impact of COVID-19, the historically unprecedented increase in global poverty as a result, and the measly supply of COVID vaccines to some of the poorest countries, these problems risk derailing the longer-term process in which more countries steadily climb the economic development ladder and pull citizens out of poverty.
Figure 2: GDP vs food import bills, 2015-2021 (2015=100)
Sources: Calculations based on FAO statistics and World Bank data
Dilemmas and challenges facing development agencies
In this landscape, development agencies are finding it harder to be resilient, prepared and responsive. They are now operating in a "new normal"' and face hard choices. At the country level, huge national poverty challenges require resources, a strong presence, understanding, engagement and responsiveness to local needs and political realities. But at the global level, pandemics, conflict, displacement and climate change are huge challenges that affect us all, and require international moderation, management and finance.
Should country-based poverty reduction give way to global public goods (GPG) provision? With the increase, interconnectedness and complexity of transnational development challenges, Official Development Assistance (ODA) is coming under intense pressure to accommodate global public goods spending, and the gap between GPG spending and spending on country development challenges is narrowing. Most GPG spending is in the form of climate mitigation in middle-income countries (MICs) (see Figure 3).
Figure 3: GPG vs non-GPG ODA disbursements, 2000-2019
Source: Calculations based on OECD Creditor Reporting System statistics
Should bilateral interventions give way to multilateral engagement? Multilateral organisations have played a key role in financing the immediate response to COVID-19 and will have a key role in addressing global challenges. However, while a rising share of ODA is being allocated through the multilateral system, the increase is mainly due to the rise in earmarking rather than core funding for the system itself.
Should the focus be on fewer low-income countries (LICs) and more on middle-income countries (MICs)? And if on MICs, how do you help them both contribute to the production of GPGs but also cope with the negative externalities that derive from their under-provision. The World Bank predicts declines in poverty in high income countries and MICs while LICs are expected to see further increases in poverty. And yet MICs continue to receive a larger share of ODA at the expense of LICs (see Figure 4).
Figure 4: Change in net DAC bilateral ODA by income group, 2018-2020
Source: Calculations based on OECD Creditor Reporting System statistics. ODA data for 2020 based on OECD summary statistics (preliminary).
Should development agencies deploy less in the form of concessional aid and more in the form loans and catalytic aid? As recipient countries become richer, it makes sense that scarce concessional resources should focus on the poorest places, while loans and equity should be used in more well-off places. ODA provided by development agencies in the form of loans and equity is increasing. However, limited amounts of development agency ODA (relative to their overall budgets) are being allocated to mobilising the private sector through raising returns or mitigating risk.
The role and purpose of ODA in the "new normal"
Amidst the changing landscape, development agencies are facing important questions about how, where and on what limited development resources should be spent. These questions are fundamental to the work of development agencies, affecting both the main purposes of providing ODA (the objectives or goals of development spending) as well as the role of ODA (its use as a source of development finance) relative to other flows.
In a survey conducted earlier this year, we asked a sample of development agency staff and partner country officials about how the roles and purposes of ODA were changing for their agencies. Preliminary findings are presented below; a full analysis of the survey results will be published in early 2022.
When asked how the purposes of ODA have changed over the last decade, respondents reported that tackling global challenges and supporting the development of the private sector have become increasingly important purposes of ODA for their organizations (Figure 5). Our partner country survey revealed similar results. At the same time, respondents answered that the use of ODA to promote "democracy and human rights" and to "alleviate poverty and human suffering" saw the largest decrease in importance as a purpose of ODA for their agencies, over the last decade. This stands in contrast to the partner country survey which currently shows that poverty reduction has increased in importance, from their perspective.
Figure 5: How have the purposes of ODA changed over the last decade, from an organisational perspective?
Note: results are based on responses to the development agency survey only.
Number of observations = 55
If the purposes of ODA are shifting to increasingly focus on the provision of GPGs and to promote private sector development, then does this change expectations around the role of ODA as a source of development finance? We put this question to survey participants, and asked them to identify how the role of ODA might be changing alongside shifting purposes and the "new normal" in the development landscape. Our results show that 85 percent of respondents suggested that the catalytic role of ODA was becoming increasingly important, while almost 40 percent said that the traditional role of ODA was in decline (Figure 6). Yet results from the corresponding partner survey suggest that these trends in the changing role of ODA run counter to current partner country priorities—only a minority of partners prioritised ODA's catalytic role as opposed to others.
Figure 6: How has the role of ODA changed for your organisation in response to shifting purposes for cooperation?
Taken together, these preliminary (and limited) findings, already paint a picture of shifting expectations of ODA and the agencies that provide development finance. To understand how these changes are expected to impact the work of development agencies, we asked participants to identify how their agencies would need to adapt over the next five years in response to the shifting purposes of ODA, and to select all options that apply (Figure 7). The responses show a mixed but telling picture: development agencies will need to adapt on several fronts. They will need to engage in more diversified partnerships, utilize new funding instruments, build new thematic expertise alongside traditional development specializations, and work more across government to support policy coherence for development. These changes are ongoing, but will need to be deepened in the years ahead.
Figure 7: In the next five years, how will the work of your organisation need to change to adapt to the purposes of ODA you expect it to pursue?
Adapting to a new "new normal"?
It is clear that for development agencies, adapting to the demands ahead will be no small task. Agencies will be asked to reconcile the tension between the traditional model of country-focused development alongside calls to use ODA to support global public goods. They will need to work effectively in a more diversified development landscape, including within their own governments, and will need to develop new skills, capacities, and ways of working at a time when ODA resources are dwindling and calls to use ODA to support domestic interests remain strong. At the same time, agency-level changes will need to be combined with efforts to ensure that global norms and standards of doing development keep pace with emerging challenges and remain agile enough to provide direction amidst increasing uncertainty.
Over the next year, our work on "Rethinking and Renewing Development Cooperation" will continue to explore and provide evidence to inform solutions to the challenges ahead. Our goal is to build a body of evidence that provides practical support to help agencies remain "fit for purpose" and resilience in an era of change. For more information, please contact the authors.
The authors would like to thank Beata Cichocka and Samuel Pleeck for their invaluable research support.
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Samsung loves its flagship devices, it really does. So much that it tries to make use of their names years after the devices themselves have gone out of fashion. This looks like the case with this new Galaxy S III Neo+, a refurbished smartphone from 2012, just with an added extra SIM card slot.
Not that the Galaxy S III is exactly dated. By all means, it still sounds like a decent mid-range smartphone, with a quad-core 1.4 GHz Exynos CPU and 1 GB of RAM. The display is 4.8 inches only but has a good 1280×720 HD resolution. The 8 megapixel camera might fall slightly behind today's flagships but should be quite decent for basic mobile needs.
The Galaxy S III Neo+ is practically the same in most aspects, except with the addition of a second SIM slot as mentioned. Given that it has a quad-core processor, we can presume that this also uses the same Exynos chip of the 3G model, so no LTE for this one. Fortunately, Samsung at least decided to make use of a more up-to-date Android 4.3 instead of the Ice Cream Sandwich that ran on the original Galaxy S III.
This smartphone has just appeared in Samsung's Chinese catalog but the price tag is still unknown. Though the Galaxy S III Neo+ might not make it to US shores, it could probably still pop up in other markets around the world.
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When Zoo Contract Ends, Giant Pandas Must Go Home to China
November 18, 2022 - Posted by Brittany Michelson
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Giant pandas YaYa and LeLe have been kept at the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee since 2003 and over time numerous issues have been raised about their care, health, and well-being. In recent years the pandas' suffering has noticeably increased as their health continues to deteriorate. The zoo and relevant officials must send Yaya and Lele back to China where they can get the appropriate care they need at a sanctuary!
Their fragile appearance and health have deteriorated tremendously in the last few years. They appear distinctly distressed and malnourished in their small, dirty enclosures, and they display a form of stereotypical stress behavior known as zoochosis. This behavior is a physical manifestation of mental suffering due to their restrictive enclosures and lack of enrichment.
Other notable issues are YaYa's severe fur loss due to a chronic infection from mites and LeLe's broken molars. In addition to their depressed appearance, both pandas have shown a lack of interest in the bamboo offered to them, which is often yellow and dried out. It is common to see YaYa pacing around her enclosure, shaking her head, and displaying self-harming behavior, or sleeping the whole day, and LeLe sitting for hours on end, playing with his tongue and roaring in anger after a long wait for food without any response.
For nearly two decades, YaYa and LeLe have been living in small indoor enclosures and sharing just one outdoor yard at the zoo. As pandas are for the most part very solitary animals, they must take turns using the outside yard rather than going out together. Because the zoo does not alternate them consistently throughout the day, they therefore do not have daily access to larger outdoor areas and cannot freely decide whether they want to stay indoors or go outside. In one documented period, YaYa was only allowed outdoors four times in a four-week period!
Several animal advocacy organizations have expressed concern about the issues the pandas are experiencing. Additionally, growing awareness about their condition on social media has drawn the attention of panda fans and animal advocates around the world, including the famous singer Billie Eilish (who tweeted for YaYa and LeLe), and zoo visitors who have witnessed their situation first-hand.
Concerns that were previously raised over a period of many months were confirmed when statements directed to Chinese panda fans were released by the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens (CAZG) on March 10, 2022. They stated that medical examinations which were conducted in 2021 and in January 2022 concluded that the pandas were indeed underweight, especially YaYa. They also concluded that YaYa has fur loss due to chronic Demodex mites and LeLe has several broken molars. Given their underweight condition, CAZG suggested that the Memphis Zoo increase protein sources in the pandas' diet, provide various types of bamboo and treats, and offer bamboo shoots as supplementary food. However, according to the daily panda cam monitoring, it seems none of these suggestions to improve their health have been implemented.
Although In Defense of Animals and Panda Voices continue to expose the pandas' suffering and have called for a meeting with the Memphis Zoo president a number of times to address these concerns, the zoo neither gives a positive response nor accepts the meeting requests for a transparent discussion. Instead, the zoo repeats its tired (and now seemingly untrue) statement that the pandas are being "well cared for" and neglects the public's specific concerns and follow-up questions. The zoo argues the pandas' ages justify their "older looking" condition. However, 22-year-old YaYa and 24-year-old LeLe are among the youngest pandas in captivity in the U.S, yet they look considerably older than other captive pandas who are over 30 years of age. The Memphis Zoo has chosen the path of denying that anything is wrong and has gone so far as to block fans' comments on its social media pages. Furthermore, the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) has shamefully declined to hold the Memphis Zoo accountable for the condition of the pandas.
The good news is that the loan contract between China and the Memphis Zoo is ending in April 2023. Therefore it is of great importance to put pressure on the zoo, CAZG, Chinese authorities, and the AZA to return the pandas to China once the contract ends and to immediately improve their diet and overall care to ensure that they are able to meet the health requirements to travel.
Join us in urging the new Memphis Zoo president Matt Thomspon and other relevant authorities to send YaYa and LeLe back to China, where they can live out their final years peacefully and free of suffering at a specialized panda refuge in their native country. Also, call on them to immediately improve the pandas' diet and care so that they can travel there.
YaYa and LeLe deserve a much better life with a rich and nutritious diet that includes a wider choice of bamboo, fresh bamboo shoots, a broader variety of snacks, and the care of experienced panda experts who will help them on their journey back to health, physically and mentally. It's long past time for the Memphis pandas to be returned to China where they will receive expert care and best have their needs met.
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Kmart – 45 Years in Berks
Posted on September 3, 2019 July 15, 2020 by Alexa Freyman
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Kmart has been a staple nationwide big box store since the 60s. The company, originally called S. S. Kresge Corporation, dates back to 1899. It wasn't until 1974 when it broke into the Berks County market, opening a store at the 94,500-square-foot Cumru Township location in Shillington Plaza.
Source – pictured in 1983
According to the Reading Eagle, it featured an auto service center, a garden shop and a self-service snack bar. It shared space with a newly built Weis Market that eventually moved to a bigger site in Spring Township in 2011.
Blue Light Special
Kmart had a retail cultural phenomenon… as you may remember wandering around waiting to see what the next blue light special would be. The Blue Light Special was a sale promotion within the store for a short period within store hours only. It was advertised using a rotating blue light, in the same style a police car used, and was announced over the store public address system with the phrase "attention Kmart shoppers", a phrase which became a pop culture reference.
Expansion in Berks
Two more stores opened within the mid-1970s. One took over the space of a former W.T. Grant Store on Fifth Street Highway, Muhlenberg Township, in 1976. And another was opened in Exeter Township on the site of the former Mount Penn Drive-In Theater in 1977.
Fifth Street Highway Muhlenberg location after closing
At its peak in 1994, Kmart operated 2,323 discount stores and Super Kmart Center locations in the United States.
The Exeter store, which had then made another move to Shelbourne Square shopping center in 1993, was the first to go when the former Kmart Corp. filed for their first bankruptcy in 2002. Shortly after in 2004 Kmart and Sears merged. Both were struggling companies and decided to jointly sell off many of the Sears product lines, including Craftsman tools, to make ends meet.
Things were quiet for the remaining two locations in Berks for over a decade. The Fifth street Highway location was eventually closed in the summer of 2016. It was one of 68 other Kmarts to close nationwide in another attempt to cut off the profitless limbs of the failing company.
The first Kmart location in Berks would also be it's last. The Shillington Plaza Kmart is finally on the chopping block and is set to start liquidating mid-September. It will be fully closed by the end of 2019. I took this video below in July before the news, but we all knew it was only a matter of time. You can see there was virtually no one in the store shopping.
So now we have yet another vacant big box store shell wasting space and potential community tax income. Kmart enjoyed a 45 year run in Berks, and now quietly joins the ranks of Two Guys, Pomeroy's and other retail relics of the past.
Sources: Reading Eagle Wikipedia
Categories1970s, 5th Street, Culture, Defunct Department Store, Exeter, Laureldale, Nostalgia, Retail, Rt. 724, Shillington Tagsdefunct, Department Store, Kmart, retail
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Joe Hofmann says:
I worked at the Shillington K-mart in 1975 and it had been open for a while before that. So 42 years is on the low end.
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Place the well ‐ being, safety and enjoyment of each player above everything, including winning.
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Our hearts are always blessed to receive updates from FCAP groups meeting in countries from around the world. We recently received this photo from Uganda. It captures Job, a Christian brother sharing with co-workers during one of their recent lunch hour fellowships. As the Lord reminds you, please pray for these faithful ones as they gather on a regular basis for time in the Word and fellowship with one another.
Over many years now Dr. Bill and Susalee Sasser have traveled into Third World countries taking dental/medical help and the Gospel to those in need. Bill is a retired dentist and Susalee is a retired Delta flight attendant. Both have been a part of our FCAP family for many years. It has been our joy and privilege to pray for them as they embark on these journeys.
While traveling to one of their remote destinations, twice they encountered places where several vehicles got stuck in the road and the team had to go around them. From that point they had two more days of travel on these same roads. But God brought them safely through.
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Swedish retailers have a declining faith in the development of sales and continued weak profitability makes Svensk Handel's Future indicator drop from -7 in May to -16 in June.
May-sales among Swedish specialist retailers in fashion was the worst for three years. "May was i bit of a perfect storm", says Mikael Sandström, industry-president of Svensk Handel Stil.
Norwegians who travel across the border to shop increased their purchases in Sweden by 600 million SEK during 2014.
The joy of the retail sales growth in Sweden is deleted by declining profitability. More retailers now believe profitability will decline the next three months.
Tina Thorsell has been recruited as the new Head of Communications at the Swedish Trade Federation, Svensk Handel.
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Veteran Olympian Steven Nyman Cut From US Olympic Downhill Team
Aunika Skogen | February 4, 2022 |
Steven Nyman, Olympic veteran; image: athletespeakers.com
The Olympics are here, and rosters are being finalized. Competition for a spot on the 2022 Olympic team was especially high this year. The team consists of 11 women and six men. It's the lowest number of men on the team since 1984!
Steven Nyman, a veteran Olympian, is one of many names missing from the 2022 Olympic Downhill Ski Team. The team features Mikaela Shiffrin as the heavy favorite, as well as many other veteran Olympians.
Nyman, who competed in the last four Olympics, is one of the most recognizable names missing from the roster. The soon-to-be 40-year-old, who is celebrating a birthday during the games, was on track for the sixth and final spot on the team. However, he ended up being beaten out by Tommy Ford, the US' top male giant slalom skier for the past three years.
Ford, a former Olympian as well, competed in the 2010 and 2018 Olympics. However, he didn't end up racing in the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics after tearing his ACL two weeks beforehand during a training run.
Because of his injury ahead of the previous Olympics, Ford was able to petition his way onto the 2022 Olympic Team. Therefore filling the sixth and final place on the team ahead of Nyman.
2022 Olympic Downhill Team; image: usskiandsnowboard.org
Aunika Skogen | February 4, 2022
2 thoughts on "Veteran Olympian Steven Nyman Cut From US Olympic Downhill Team"
The (lower case) olympics are not right, and neither is the qualifying criteria
John Jasper says:
"Ford…competed in the 2018 Olympics. However, he didn't end up racing in the 2018 Olympics "
Aunika Skogen


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This is a list of all Pacific typhoons that have had their names retired from the international list of tropical cyclone names used in the Western Pacific Ocean. Since tropical cyclones started to be named in the basin after World War Two a total of 65 typhoon names have been retired. Those typhoons that have their names retired tend to be exceptionally destructive storms. Several names were removed or altered naming list for various reasons other than retirement. Collectively, the typhoons with retired names have caused over $108 billion in damage ( USD), as well as over 12,000 deaths.

Background

The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back several centuries, with systems named after places, saints or things they hit before the formal start of naming in the Western Pacific. These included the Kamikaze, 1906 Hong Kong typhoon, 1922 Shantou typhoon and the 1934 Muroto typhoon.

The practice of retiring significant names was started during 1955 by the United States Weather Bureau in the Northern Atlantic basin, after hurricanes Carol, Edna, and Hazel struck the East Coast of the United States and caused a significant amount of damage in the previous year. Initially the names were only designed to be retired for ten years after which they might be reintroduced; however, it was decided at the 1969 Interdepartmental hurricane conference, that any significant hurricane in the future would have its name permanently retired. The first tropical cyclone names to be retired in the Western Pacific were Lucille and Ophelia during 1960. Several names have been removed from the Pacific naming lists for various other reasons than causing a significant amount of death/destruction, which include being pronounced in a very similar way to other names and  political reasons.

In 2000, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) began naming tropical cyclones from a list of 140 names, submitted by 14 countries. Previously, the JMA labeled storms with numbers, but not names. The JMA has been the official warning agency of the western Pacific Ocean since 1981, though other organizations have also tracked typhoons. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) unofficially named tropical cyclones from 1947 to 1999. During this time period, there were several pre-determined tropical cyclone lists, in which many names were removed and replaced with others. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) names tropical cyclones using a separate list, which is adjusted periodically.

Between 1947 and 2000, eleven names of significant tropical cyclones were retired from the list of names used by the United States Joint Typhoon Warning Center. During this time other names were removed from the naming lists, including in 1979 when the lists of names used were revised to include both male and female names. Tropical Storm Lucille was the first name to be retired for its impacts, while Ophelia was retired because of its long  track.

At the 33rd session of the typhoon committee held in November 2000, the committee was informed that the India Meteorological Department had objected to the name Hanuman being used as a name because of potential religious sentiments. Thailand also requested that the spelling of several names be corrected and indicated a desire to change the names Prapiroon, Durian and Khanun. The representatives of the United States of America also requested that the name Kodo be changed as it would have an undesirable meaning if mispronounced.  The session subsequently accepted the spelling changes as well as the requests from Thailand and the United States and established that both countries would submit a list of four names in priority order to its Secretariat within a week of the session ending. The Typhoon Committee Secretariat would then circulate the list to all members for comment, with the highest priority name acceptable to all members used. The secretariat subsequently reported to the following years session that the names Morakot and Aere had replaced Hanuman and Kodo.

Names

See also

List of retired Atlantic hurricane names
List of retired Pacific hurricane names
List of retired Philippine typhoon names
List of retired Australian cyclone names
List of retired South Pacific tropical cyclone names

Notes

References

External links

Names Pacific typhoon retired

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Ghostbusters has released the first image of Chris Hemsworth. He looks so hot even when they try to make him look like a nerd. Is there ever a time when Chris Hemsworth doesn't look good? If so, send me those pictures!
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Stéphane Richard, born in 1961, has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Orange SA since March 1, 2011.
He joined the Orange group in September 2009 and, since then, has successively fulfilled the roles of Deputy Managing Director in charge of French Operations, Delegate CEO and, from March 1, 2010, CEO. Between 1992 and 2003, Stéphane Richard was appointed deputy to the CFO of Compagnie Générale des Eaux, CEO of Compagnie Immobilière Phénix and Chairman of CGIS (Compagnie Générale d'Immobilier et de Services), now Nexity. From 2003 to 2007, he joined Veolia as Deputy Managing Director of Veolia Environnement and CEO of Veolia Transport, before becoming a director of Orange SA. From 2007 to 2009, Stéphane Richard was Chief of Staff to the French Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment.
Stéphane Richard is a graduate of École des Hautes Etude Commerciales (HEC) and École Nationale d'Administration (ENA). He is a Knight of the French Legion of Honor. He is a French national.
Since January 2019, he has also served as Chair of the GSMA. In September 2018, he wrote, "Human Web: Working to Connect Humankind", published by Débats Publics.
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