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A photographic answer to a friend's question. The sword in this case is just a prop, the hat is the answer. My mother made this for me perhaps 25 years or so ago. I was seriously into Dungeons & Dragons at the time, so for Christmas one year I asked her to crochet a viking helmet for me. It is one of my most treasured possessions, especially now that my mother has passed on.
The exhibition features the artworks from an interdisciplinary and culturally diverse group of architects/artists/designers investigating current and historical dilemmas facing new immigrants and political/religious refugees as well as their influences on local and global culture in everyday life and their complex relationship to artistic and cultural production. Each body of work represents a unique perception according to one’s individual expertise, experience, vision and culture identity.
Nice Questions on the Inner Cover. But a lot of things we don't know on this side of the Atlantic. You have to lived in the 1950s in the USA to give correct answers.
O senador Antonio Russo (PR-MS) questionou a falta de celeridade do Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE), órgão vinculado ao Ministério da Justiça, na definição sobre autorização de fusões de grandes empresas.
O CADE tem a finalidade de orientar, fiscalizar, prevenir e apurar abusos de poder econômico. Toda ação que possa alterar a estrutura dos mercados deve ser submetida ao órgão.
O senador Russo lembrou que até hoje as transações podiam ser concluídas e depois apresentadas para aprovação, o que gera insegurança jurídica por causa da possibilidade de desaprovação do negócio. Em alguns casos ocorre a impossibilidade de reversão de uma transação ao final da análise do CADE.
Russo citou o exemplo da fusão da Sadia com a Perdigão. A análise do CADE demorou cerca de 240 dias para ser concluída. O parlamentar propôs que técnicos do órgão passem a visitar as empresas que estão em processo de fusão para sinalizar aos investidores se o negócio será aprovado ou não. "A partir do momento em que o negócio é fechado, a coisa já começa a andar. É preciso, por exemplo, comprar insumos, decidir sobre o futuro dos funcionários, a descontinuação ou manutenção de unidades e marcas, etc. e o prazo entre a consulta ao CADE e a resposta é de 30, 60 e já chegou até a 240 dias! Enquanto isso, o empresário fica sem sinalização", disse.
O conselheiro Alessandro Octaviani Luis disse que o questionamento do senador Antonio Russo demonstra que ele conhece muito bem o meio empresarial. Octaviani informou que com a mudança na lei de Defesa da Concorrência, seguindo as práticas de países desenvolvidos, as transações deverão ser aprovadas pelo CADE antes de sua conclusão. Ele e o conselheiro Carlos Emmanuel Ragazzo disseram que visitas de um represente do CADE a empresa durante o processo de fusão já ocorrem.
Já o indicado para a presidência da CADE, Vinicius Marques de Carvalho, disse que eles têm sugerido que antes de negociar operações, a empresa - que já sabe que o negócio é complexo do ponto de vista concorrencial - deve levar as informações da transação comercial ao Conselho para que haja um endereçamento e acelere a definição sobre a autorização da fusão.
Após a sabatina, a Comissão de Assuntos Econômicos do Senado aprovou a indicação de Vinícius Marques de Carvalho para ocupar a presidência do CADE, de Alessandro Serafin Octaviani Luis para ser reconduzido ao cargo de Conselheiro e de Carlos Emmanuel Joppert Ragazzo, para ser o Superintendente-Geral do órgão.
Os três foram questionados pelos parlamentares sobre a atuação do órgão para evitar o desrespeito à livre concorrência em mercados que envolvem o setor de varejo, da indústria e da agroindústria.
Assessoria de Imprensa
Melancolies questions the possibility of resistance against mythologies of the body which build our identities today.
These self-portraits have been (re)created with the help of digital manipulation. By substituting my features for those of top models in women’s magazines, I (re)create figures with transient identities, inscribed in a hesitant reality.
Taking such action is a product of pure instinct, of immediate, unthinking admiration for those perfect faces, irresistibly western, fashioned and modelled by successive norms orchestrated by the media. I project indications of those prefabricated genders to on my own face, thus fulfilling the fantasy of any advertising executive and finally completing the infinite power of the brand.
This series is composed of two parts which permit me to explore the mechanics of sexual differentiation operated by these standardised images. Firstly, the impeccably made-up lips and eyes, accessory smiles (and other pre-set expressions) reveal the image of a subdued and available woman, reified into a seductive icon.
Secondly, there is the manly geometry of faces, the dark looks and the affirmed head-on confrontation of bodies which define myths of an exaggerated masculinity and put the man back in his patriarchal role of protector.
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I don't know how to tame Roxanne's hair!. It is way too fluffy and I don't like that, plus I think she has a smidge of prestick in her hair!. Please help.
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President Ramaphosa virtually updating Parliament on the national effort to contain the coronavirus, including public health measures, social relief, economic recovery and on a range of related matters on the occasion of questions for Oral Reply in the National Assembly. [Photo: GCIS]
This same question has probably been replayed at this event several thousand times in that evening. I imagine looking at this face, that he's thinking should I buy this or not?
BBC Radio 4 Gardeners' Question Time was hosted from the Jodrell Laboratory at Kew Gardens on Monday 6 September 2010.
Left to right in this photo: Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Biggs and Anne Swithinbank.
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If you were carrying around a small aluminum foil ball in your pocket, what would you imagine it to be? I give my thoughts on my blog at: www.spudart.org/blogs/randomthoughts_comments/3918_0_3_0_C/
"I dream of a better world, where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned"
sign on the square in Denton, Texas, haha
Gray scale image of a student (a young boy) in a plaid shirt (as viewed from behind), sitting at a school desk with his right hand raised as if to ask a question of his teacher; with a stack of books and an apple at his feet. I scanned this tiny image from an advertisement. Origin unknown.
Contact me if you have any questions about this image.
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The Misericórdia Church of Santarém was built in the late Renaissance (1559), according to the Hall-Church style.
The style of this church makes it aesthetically similar to others like the Santo Antão Church in Évora, the Se-Catherdrals of Miranda, Leiria, Portalegre and even Goa, in India.
With three naves, the dome is sustained by strong Tuscan columns which were decorated with gold paintings in 1630.
But in 1755, the cataclysmic earthquake that struck southern Portugal (particularly Lisbon) damaged the facade heavily. It was then decided to rebuild the facade according to the Baroque Rococo style of the epoch.
According to specialists this church is an excellent example of the late renaissance and Mannerist style in terms of harmonious proportion and conjugation of classical elements, like the columns, and medieval aesthetic and perfect in terms of architecture.
Yeah, this was an experiment that looked quite silly and stupid. We did finally start getting our act together later.
My IA Story:
I was studying Marketing at University of Alberta when I decided to go on a limb and take a coop posting as a Web Publisher in the neighbouring province of Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan, being the heart of the great white north, offered the prospect of adventure... and besides, it was only 4 months, right?
At the time I had a fascination with media, which was why I was taking marketing, and I thought this job would be a good chance to learn more about the internet. One of the questions in my job interview was "what search engine would you use to research something on the internet?" I scored big points with my answer of "Google" - back then google was still a bit of an insiders secret.
Time went on & I began to enjoy my stay in Saskatchewan. The lack of spectacle (in the Guy Debord sense) meant that people found ways to make their own fun. My 4 month work term eventually became 12 months. I took delight in riding polar bears to and from work every day... that's how we do things up here in Canada when our cars don't start.
Not that the job was that great really. There were two things in particular that characterized the work for me... First, it took forever to upload a simple text page to the public server, leaving me with frequent periods of 5 minutes at a time staring at a blank screen. Second, our job was simply to get the content up there, nevermind presenting it in a way that it could be understood. Neither of these were particularly great for my sanity - both of them frustrated me beyond dimension. I started scribbling little notes by my desk with things like "computers do not understand facial expressions."
One day I walked into my boss' office to find a sleek looking book on her desk. "Oh, what's this?" I asked. It was a paperback, a mostly black cover with red and white text. The synopsis of the book started on the front, and dropped off unexpectedly, continuing on the back. At once I had a feeling about this book - you might even call it love at first sight. The boss hadn't read it yet, (and I don't really think she intended to) so she lent it to me. This was Richard Saul Wurman's 'Information Anxiety 2.'
I took the book home to my basement suite and devoured it. Suddenly, all of my problems and frustrations had been articulated. They had words. I was not alone. I remember going for a walk afterwards, and feeling that the whole world had changed around me. I now knew what I needed to do for a living.
Time went on, and I learned more about information architecture and experience design through my netscape browser in my little basement suite in the north. I soaked up everything I could about the discipline then, which wasn't much really.
Eventually I returned to the University of Alberta, and changed my degree to Management Information Systems - the closest thing I could find that matched my understanding of what Information Architecture was at that point.
At school I rubbed shoulders with Comp Sci students who were fascinated with logical structures of programming, but had no interest whatsoever in this pesky thing called a "user." I attended classes with business students, who were really more interested in their own career ladders than in making things better for anyone.
I quietly finished my degree, still believing I was the only person in the country that had a vague understanding of what Information Architecture was, and why it mattered. The time came to look for a "real" job... and I lost it.
I had been going to all the different IT meetups and dinners, doing all the networking you are supposed to do, but still: "Information Architecture?"
"Oh yeah, we have a very advanced server / client architecture set up for our clients. Very effecient, enables server-sides scripting..."
Like I said, one day I lost it. I got so mad that there was such a large Information Technology community in the city, yet no one seemed to have any idea that people would eventally use the products they were developing, or cared to think about how to make things best for them. Like any upright citizen in a democratized country, I decided to hold the powers that be accountable.
I went downtown and walked into the office of every IT consulting company I knew of. The receptionists could cleary sense my repressed, yet polite rage when I came in.
"Hi. My name is Adam. I'm doing some ah.... Career Research. Can I talk to your Information Architect?" I asked with tight lips and a fixed stare.
"Oh, you mean our Technical Architect? Sure, I'll just see if he's available..."
And so on. I don't have to tell you how the rest of this day went. I spent the whole day talking to people who had no idea what I was talking about. Information Architects were apparently as elusive as the Canadian Sasquatch.
Finally at the end of it all, someone at one of the consulting agencies knew someone who knew someone. His contact had just started a small startup in town, and he could put me in touch. At long last I would be able to meet a real, live Information Architect instead of just reading about them. They did exist, and there was one in my city. Walking the same streets I did.
We sat down, and immediately it was clear that I had a bit of a ways to go before actually getting into the field. Yet he offered a small freelance contract to me: a content inventory. Needless to say I spent days on it, doing the best I could. And I did a pretty good job with it. Still, his company was a brand new startup, and it was pretty critical for them to have staff that could hit the ground running at that point.
Back to the cold, hard streets for me, but at least now there was hope: Information Architecture was real. Information Architects were out there.
Fast forward 10 years or so, and today I am working as a Senior Information Architect with the Office of the Chief Information Officer in the Province of British Columbia. Like most Information Architects, the path to get here was definitely not a straight one. If anything I had to do a lot of bush-whacking actually. But I love what I do.
I've done time working in Database Development, Project Management, Business Analysis, User Experience Design, and am now learning about Enterprise Information Architecture, working towards establishing a cross government metadata registry or ontology. I'll also be speaking at the Information Architecture Summit in New Orleans this year, spreading the gospel of metadata.
And while I refer to the Polar Bear book (and its children) more often than 'Information Anxiety 2' these days, I'm still designing for the common goal: a digital world that we can understand, navigate, and use.
Thanks for reading my IA Story folks, keep up the good fight!
@AdamUngstad
Virginia National Guard field artillery Soldiers explain the capabilities of the M119A2 howitzer, answer questions about the Guard and take part in a demonstration of 400 years of Virginia artillery during the Military Through the Ages event March 21, 2015, at the Jamestown Settlement in Williamsburg, Va. Hundreds of re-enactors portrayed military organizations from Roman times, the medieval period, Hundred Years’ War, War of the Roses, French and Indian War, American Revolution, War of 1812 and American Civil War as well as World Wars I and II, the Vietnam War and the Falklands War with Soldiers from the Hampton-based Battery B, 1st Battalion, 111th Field Artillery, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team representing the modern military. The event also gave the Soldiers the opportunity to train on crew drills and fire blank ammunition to improve their proficiency to prepare for live-fire training scheduled for their April drill weekend. The Virginia National Guard traces the heritage and traditions of citizen service to the founding of the Jamestown Settlement May 14, 1607, where Capt. John Smith organized a militia to defend the colony. There has not been a day since without a military presence in Virginia to defend freedom at home and overseas. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)
148/365 Taken the wee hours of this morning - (Wednesday, 11/18/09) Trying to do the best I can to at least keep up with my current photos, & get to posting my older 365 entries when I have a chance to sort them out & edit them. What lesson am I to learn from all of this when I don't think I did anything wrong in the first place? Perhaps I will figure it out in time. View On Black
Human resources specialists from the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice assist Virginia National Guard Soldiers with filling out applications for Juvenile Corrections Officer positions at the DJJ Oct. 16 at the Mullins Armory in Sandston, Va. Translating military experience into terms civilian employers can easily understand can be a challenge that potentially hinders chances of veterans finding employment. The HR specialists guided Soldiers throughout the application process, answering any questions the Soldiers had, providing guidance on how the Soldiers might describe their military experiences and training into civilian terms, and helping them effectively complete and submit the application.
Veterans continue to have an unemployment rate higher than the national average, so the Virginia National Guard is aggressively seeking ways to assist members of the Virginia Guard looking for Veterans continue to have an unemployment rate higher than the national average, and the Virginia National Guard is aggressively seeking ways to assist its service members. Those who are looking for Guard supportive employment opportunities should contact 1st Lt. Bryan Hicks, Virginia Guard Apprenticeship Program Coordinator, at robert.bryan.hicks@us.army.mil. The Apprenticeship Program is a partnership between the Virginia National Guard and the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry that translates military skills to civilian terms by offering a credential from DOLI to Virginia service members based on their military training and duties. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Terra C. Gatti, Virginia Guard Public Affairs)
Question - What do you make when you want to make some cupcakes but have no flour?
Answer - Cheese Cake Cupcakes
The Korean Cinema Forum returned to the London Korean Film Festival 2012. This annual event provides audiences with the opportunity to discuss the history of Korean Cinema, its present and future with a selection of Asian Film specialists from the UK and Korea.
This year, British born and based film critic, film festival programmer and occasional filmmaker, Tony Rayns led the forum. Dong-Jin Oh, the chairman of Jecheon International Music & Film Festival joined the forum as well as Young-Jin Kim, a lecturer at MyongJi University, Chan-Il Jeon, Busan International Film Festival programmer, Jegy Ra, a film journalist, Hae-ry Kim from Cine21 and Jin-hee Choi, a lecturer at King’s College.
(Answering BuicksRock question below...)
When I was browsing around on the second floor of Port Louis' Central Market, I noticed this guy pacing across the main floor downstairs, carrying these empty crates to wherever he needed to be. I chased him across the market - him zigzagging through the crowd down below, and me stumbling across the merchandise on the overhead walkways trying to keep up with him, while panning my camera along and managing to take a few shots.
Had a male Northern Cardinal in the yard today with some interesting coloration. Face, bill and crest were the usual reddish color. Black mask was OK too. But the rest of the bird's body was a combination of gray, peach, light orange, sort-of-bluish, and whitish colors. In other words, the facial area looked fine for a male Cardinal, but the rest of the feathers looked a little "different". Young male not quite transitioned to adult male plumage? Partially leucistic bird? Artifact of late afternoon light?