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Insight September 2019
Monthly Newsletter September 2019 September INSIDE THIS ISSUE The Art of Global Warming IFRS Survey Results 2 UPCOMING EVENTS Environment 3-4 IFRS17 Program Update Forum Technology 5 Sunsystems Q&A Webinar Millennium News 6-8 Economy 9-10 1 IFRS17 PROGRAM UPDATE SURVEY During July and August 2019, an online survey was conducted by Millennium Consulting which asked international insurance companies questions about their IFRS 17 compliance programs. Participants. Participants included Finance Directors, Chief Actuaries, IT Directors and Senior Risk Managers. Participating regions. A large response was received from insurers in the following countries: UK, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Morocco, Mexico, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Taiwan and Australia. Significant outcomes • As expected, IFRS 17 compliance was identified as being primarily the responsibility of the Finance department although 47% of the responses suggested that it was a joint Finance, Actuarial, IT, Risk and Underwriting responsibility. • Compliance is managed centrally by almost 70% of the participants with only 28% having autonomy to implement their own local solutions. • 9% of respondents indicated that pure IFRS 17 compliance was their primary goal whilst 36% stated it was a catalyst for a broader Finance Transformation program. • 31% of the respondents reported that their IFRS 17 implementations were underway whereas 39% were still working on the detailed design. • Confidence in achieving IFRS 17 compliance within the current time scales is high with only 9% suggesting it would not be possible. • SAS was identified as the most popular technology for CSM calculation with 17% of the respondents having selected it. • The primary area of concern relates to data with 20% identifying data integration as of greatest concern. -
Nanga Parbat: Second Winter Ascent, First Complete Ascent of Northwest Face, and Rescue Pakistan, Himalaya
AAC Publications Nanga Parbat: Second Winter Ascent, First Complete Ascent of Northwest Face, and Rescue Pakistan, Himalaya Nanga Parbat from the northwest. Red is the upper section of the Mackiewicz-Revol route with Camp 4 marked. (C) is the crevasse bivouac at 7,280m from where Revol descended alone along the blue line (the Kinshofer Route). Google Earth A LITTLE AFTER SUNSET on January 25, 2018, Tomasz Mackiewicz (Poland) and Elizabeth Revol (France) reached the top of Nanga Parbat (8,125m) to make the second winter ascent of the mountain. The pair had completed the first ascent of the northwest face to the summit, with Revol becoming only the second women in history to climb an 8,000m peak in winter (after the Swiss mountaineer Marianne Chapuisat, who climbed Cho Oyu on February 10, 1993). Their ascent was made in very lightweight style. The northwest face had seen several previous attempts, including a 1991 Austrian team that reached 7,400m and a 2008 attempt that reached 7,760m, not far below the north summit. (See AAJ 2017.) Mackiewicz, a veteran of multiple winter attempts on the mountain, had attempted the northwest face with Revol in 2014-’15 and again the following winter. In 2018, they started along the same line but then angled right, eventually reaching the Kinshofer Route, which they followed to the summit. After a first foray in early January, in which they reached Camp 2 at 6,600m, Mackiewicz and Revol began their summit attempt on January 20. On the 21st they made it back to Camp 2, where they discovered their tent still intact (the shovel they’d left there had blown away). -
The Running Nonna
INKAFEST 15° Festival Internacional de Cine de montaña Mountain Film Festival AREQUIPA Del 14 al 19 de octubre Presentación Mountain & Culture s una asociación cultural sin fines de s a non profit organization, who organize lucro, quien organiza el Festival que the Festival, wich has the purpose of Etiene por objetivos el de acercarse a Iapproaching the sports communities las comunidades deportivas y a la gente de and the people in the city to offer those ciudad para ofrecerles películas, exposiciones, movies, exhibitions, slides presentations presentaciones de diapositivas que traten de about mountain sports and adventure. deportes de montaña y aventura. Inkafest also provides a forum for exchanging El Festival también crea una plataforma ideas among moviemakers, sports lovers para el cambio de ideas entre cineastas, and general public. At the same time, it deportistas y el público, al mismo tiempo provides a supportive showcase for creative apoya los modos más artísticos y eficaces and effective ways to spread the word de comunicar todo lo relacionado al mundo about the world of mountains. Inkafest de la montaña. El objetivo de este festival highlights the importance of protecting también es destacar la importancia de la and conserving our environment, mountain ecología, la naturaleza, la preservación de systems and nature in the modern world. las montañas y la naturaleza en el mundo de hoy.El Festival, también presenta a la The Festival's film presentations will showcase región con una geografía espectacular para our region's spectacular geography as a la práctica de los deportes de aventura, great place for adventure, extreme and extremos y el montañismo, mediante los Films. -
Polish Olympic Committee Fair Play Club Report (2019)
National Fair Play Reports European Fair Play Movement General Assembly Budapest (HUN) September 13, 2019 POLISH OLYMPIC COMMITTEE FAIR PLAY CLUB POLISH OLYMPIC COMMITTEE 4, WYBRZEŻE GDYŃKIE 01-531 WARSAW www.olimpijski.pl The Polish Olympic Committee Fair Play Club has a long tradition of promoting values in sports and the value of Fair Play, always being the top priority. Chair of the Polish Olympic Committee Fair Play Club - Hanna Wawrowska Secretary of the Polish Olympic Committee Fair Play Club- Magdalena Rejf 1030 Vienna, Maria Jacobi Gasse 1, Austria Webpage: www.fairplayeur.com www.facebook.com/EuropeanFairPlay/ Under the Patronage of the EOC EFPM Privacy Policy: http://www.fairplayeur.com/privacy-policy/ Our major achievements in 2019 were: POLISH OLYMPIC COMMITTEE FAIR PLAY AWARDS K2 winter expedition team with Fair Play Trophy 2018( article Krzysztof Rawa) Fot. Szymon Sikora Winners of the PKOl Fair Play Award for 2018 with the Fair Play Club Members 1030 Vienna, Maria Jacobi Gasse 1, Austria Webpage: www.fairplayeur.com www.facebook.com/EuropeanFairPlay/ Under the Patronage of the EOC EFPM Privacy Policy: http://www.fairplayeur.com/privacy-policy/ The Fair Play Awards have been given for the 52nd time at the headquarters of the Polish Olympic Committee. There are still many reasons for awarding these important trophies to sports people in Poland. Winners awarded for exceptional activity, life achievements or noble deeds in 2018 included, among others, climbers saving the lives of friends in the Himalayas, sailor Marcin Kamiński hurrying to help his rival in serious trouble, footballer of the Polish national team Jakub Błaszczykowski for active promotion of fair play and, honourably, excellent television journalist Włodzimierz Szaranowicz. -
An Article From
Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium. Tertium Linguistic Journal 4 (1) (2019) www.journal.tertium.edu.pl 10.7592/Tertium2019.4.1.Falkowska Jestem z wami sercem i myślami. O sposobach komunikowania empatii w dyskursie (studium przypadku) Marta Falkowska Uniwersytet Warszawski [email protected] Streszczenie Artykuł stanowi kolejną część studium językoznawczego poświęconego pojęciu ‘empatia’ i wykładnikom tego pojęcia we współczesnej polszczyźnie (Falkowska 2012, 2017, 2018). Analizie poddaję korpus polskich tekstów medialnych dotyczących zakończonej tragicznie wyprawy na Nangę Parbat (styczeń 2018 r.). Uwzględniam wybrane komentarze internautów, w tym użytkowników mediów społecznościowych. Termin „empatia” rozumiem tu jako zjawisko identyfikowania się nadawcy tekstu z którymś z uczestników opisywanej sytuacji (zob. Kuno 1987: 206). Głównym celem analizy jest stwierdzenie, jakich środków językowych używa nadawca wyrażając to, że utożsamia się z którymś z uczestników opisywanej sytuacji. Metodologicznie praca sytuuje się w obrębie krytycznej kognitywnej analizy dyskursu (Hart 2014), wykorzystującej Langackerowski model gramatyki kognitywnej (Langacker 1987, [2008] 2009), w szczególności terminy „empatia”, „hierarchia empatii” i „punkt widzenia”. Słowa kluczowe: empatia, hierarchia empatii, punkt widzenia, obiektyfikacja, wyprawa na Nanga Parbat 2018 Abstract My heart and thoughts are with you. Communicating Empathy in Discourse (a Case Study) The article is a part of a more extensive linguistic project exploring the concept of ‘empathy’ and its exponents in the present-day Polish (Falkowska 2012, 2017, 2018). The analysis is based on a corpus compiled out of Polish media texts concerning the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition (January 2018). Selected Internet posts and social media comments have also been included. I focus on empathy understood along the lines set by Kuno (1987), i.e. -
Appalachia Alpina
Appalachia Volume 70 Number 1 Winter/Spring 2019: Quests That Article 15 Wouldn't Let Go 2019 Alpina Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/appalachia Part of the Nonfiction Commons Recommended Citation (2019) "Alpina," Appalachia: Vol. 70 : No. 1 , Article 15. Available at: https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/appalachia/vol70/iss1/15 This In Every Issue is brought to you for free and open access by Dartmouth Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Appalachia by an authorized editor of Dartmouth Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Alpina A semiannual review of mountaineering in the greater ranges Everest 2018 Spring 2018 saw an unusual run of good weather in the prime summit season, the last two weeks of May. Everest chronicler Alan Arnette estimates the num- ber of successful summits from both sides of the mountain in 2018 at about 715. If that number turns out to be accurate, it will easily smash the previous record of 667 set in 2013. About 476 of 2018 summits came from the Nepali side of the mountain, while the remaining 239 were made from the north side in Tibet. The Hillary Step. In 1953 Edmund Hillary described a rock formation high on the summit ridge as perhaps spelling “the difference between success and failure.” He surmounted it with help from an adjacent cornice. The Hill- ary Step, usually climbed face-on, was a major obstacle to later challengers. In recent crowded years, climbers sometimes waited an hour at this point, despite the provision of fixed ropes. -
31 January 2018 Warsaw, Poland
31 January 2018 Warsaw, Poland # TomekMackiewicz43 (aged 43) Hope comes to a man along with another human being. (Dante Alighieri) Dear Sir or Madam, In response to the media noise regarding the activities of the # TomekMackiewicz43 Group, acting in consultation with the parents and relatives of Tomek Mackiewicz, we would like to announce that: - The inspiration for us to take one more attempt, one more effort to rescue Tomasz Mackiewicz was a great rescue action by the team of climbers from the national expedition to K-2: Adam Bielecki, Denis Urubko, Jarosław Bator and Piotr Tomala. What they did - exceeding their own physical limitations to save another human being - deserves the highest recognition and there is no reward that they should not get for their attitude. But most importantly, they saved Elisabeth Revol, and they restored our faith and hope. - The group was created on the initiative of private individuals, who wanted to let hope for saving Tomasz Mackiewicz - do not leave him without help. - We organized on January 28 (Sunday) because of disinformation and conflicting messages and misinterpretation of many data. It simply lacked facts and precise information. We took care of their collection, processing, analysis and the consultation process. - A lot of people have been involved in the work of the Group with great experience and competence in crisis and extreme situations, at the same time having relations that enable checking every potential help. We will provide names at a later date, with the knowledge and consent of these people. - We assumed and acted anonymously, except for the need to disseminate information that we are and can be contacted with us, which I made by name, as one of the initiators of Grupa # TomekMackiewicz43, a publisher, a person associated with the media. -
Killer Mountain
Stranded French climber flown from Pakistan's `Killer Mountain' Keywords: Climbing, Pakistan, French people, Poland, Denis Urubko, Nanga Parbat, K2, Ludovic Giambiasi, Masha Gordon Publisher: BBC News Link & QR Code: http://myvo.cab/gO1WM Date: January 28, 2018 Article length: 505 words Tomasz Mackiewicz, wearing a green climbing coat, is pictured on top of a snow-white mountain range [1] A French climber stranded on one of Pakistan’s most deadly Himalayan mountains has been flown to hospital after a dramatic rescue operation. [2] But the search for Elisabeth Revol’s Polish climbing partner was called off. [3] Ms Revol and Tomasz Mackiewicz were climbing Nanga Parbat, nicknamed “Killer Mountain”, when they got stuck at 7,400m (24,280ft) on Friday. [4] An elite Polish climbing team on nearby K2 came to the rescue, scaling Nanga Parbat overnight to rescue Ms Revol. [5] “Elisabeth is in the hospital in Islamabad. She has severe frostbite on her hands and feet,” Ludovic Giambiasi, a friend of Ms Revol, wrote in a post on Facebook on Sunday. 1 of 4 #NangaParbat Elisabeth is in the hospital in Islamabad. She has severe frostbite on her hands and feet. She is followed remotely by Dr. Cauchy and Dr. Robert Szymczak and on site by Dr. Ahmad Shahab of embassy. [6] Report How was the rescue operation carried out? [7] Four members of the Polish team, who had been attempting the first winter ascent of K2 - the second highest mountain in the world - were brought to Nanga Parbat by a Pakistani military helicopter. [8] They were dropped off more than 1,000 metres below the lost climbers ’ last known location. -
Climbing History of Nanga Parbat 8126 M (26.660 Ft) Coordinate: 35°14’15” N - 74°35’21” E
Climbing history of Nanga Parbat 8126 m (26.660 ft) Coordinate: 35°14’15” N - 74°35’21” E Early attempts Climbing attempts started very early on Nanga Parbat. In 1895 Albert F. Mummery led an expedition to the peak, and reached almost 6100 m (20,000 ft) on the Diamir (West) Face, but Mummery and two Gurkha companions later died reconnoitering the Rakhiot Face. In the 1930s, Nanga Parbat became the focus of German interest in the Himalayas. The German mountaineers were unable to attempt Mount Everest, as only the British had access to Tibet. Initially German efforts focused on Kanchenjunga, to which Paul Bauer led two expeditions in 1930 and 1931, but with its long ridges and steep faces Kanchenjunga was more difficult than Everest and neither expedition made much progress. K2 was known to be harder still, and its remoteness meant that even reaching its base would be a major undertaking. Nanga Parbat was therefore the highest mountain accessible to Germans and also deemed reasonably possible by climbers at the time. The first German expedition to Nanga Parbat was led by Willy Merkl in 1932. It is sometimes referred to as a German-American expedition, as the eight climbers included Rand Herron, an American, and Fritz Wiessner, who would become an American citizen the following year. While the team were all strong climbers, none had Himalayan experience, and poor planning (particularly an inadequate number of porters), coupled with bad weather, prevented the team progressing far beyond the Rakhiot Peak northeast of the Nanga Parbat summit, reached by Peter Aschenbrenner and Herbert Kunigk, but they did establish the feasibility of a route via Rakhiot Peak and the main ridge. -
Alpiniste Française Dans L&Rsquo;Himalaya
Les 4 Fantastiques qui ont volé au secours de l’alpiniste française dans l’Himalaya L’alpiniste drômoise Elizabeth Revol a été secourue ce week-end dans le Nanga Parbat au terme d’une mission de sauvetage dantesque menée par quatre alpinistes polonais. Tomasz Mackiewicz, son compagnon de cordée, ne pourra en revanche pas être secouru. Denis Urubko (44), Adam Bielecki (34 ans). Piotr Tomala (45), Jaroslaw Botor (44). Adam Bielecki, Denis Urubko. Jaroslaw Botor. Piotr Tomala. Ces quatre hommes voulaient écrire une nouvelle page de l’histoire de l’alpinisme en devenant la première expédition à gravir le K2 en hivernale. Mais l’histoire retiendra leurs noms comme ceux qui, en pleine nuit et à la lumière des frontales, se sont lancés au péril de leur vie dans le Nanga Parbat, « la montagne de la mort », pour secourir deux alpinistes en détresse. Rafal Fronia, membre de l’expédition au K2 écrira le dimanche après le dénouement : « Nous avons réalisé que nous sommes leur seule chance. Nous sommes préparés, nous avons du matériel, nous sommes acclimatés. Et nous voulons, nous voulons et nous pouvons les aider ! C’est une course pour la vie ». Embarqués à bord d’un hélicoptère de l’armée pakistanaise samedi au camp de base du K2 puis déposés vers 4 800 mètres dans le Nanga Parbat, Adam Bielecki et Denis Urubko ont gravi 1 200 mètres de dénivelé en à peine plus de trois heures, dans la nuit et sur une piste qu’ils n’avaient pas reconnue. Un véritable exploit, aux dires des professionnels et amateurs de la montagne.