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H.E. Ms Paula Ingabire
Minister
Ministry of ICT and Innovation
Bucharest, Romania
26 September 2022
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Taken by pro photographer Mr. Paul Duane, at the "Burning Man" festival. Tickets for the 2014 festival sold out in 44 minutes.
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H.E. Mr Darsanand Balgobin
Minister of Information Technology, Communication and Innovation
Ministry of Information Technology, Communication and Innovation
Bucharest, Romania
27 September 2022
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H.E. Mr Claudio Araya
Undersecretary of Telecommunications
Undersecretariat of Telecommunications
Bucharest, Romania
27 September 2022
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H.E. Mr Claudio Araya
Undersecretary of Telecommunications
Undersecretariat of Telecommunications
Bucharest, Romania
27 September 2022
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Senator Karen Grogan
Chair, Senate Communications and Environment Committee
Bucharest, Romania
30th September 2022
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H.E. Mr Gospel KAZAKO
Minister
Ministry of Information and Digitalization
Bucharest, Romania
30th September 2022
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IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano delivers his introductory statement at the 1383rd Board of Governors Meeting. IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria, 15 September 2014.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
The Office of Amani strongly condemn the despicable terrorist attack in Kabul, wish Allah’s mercy on those who lost their lives, hope for a speedy recovery to the wounded and convey our condolences to the Government and the brotherly people of Afghanistan. We send out our thoughts & prayers to the victims & condolences with the bereaved families. aboobackeramani.com/blog/statement-by-the-pro-on-the-blas...
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H.E. Mr Michel Chebat
Minister
Ministry of Public Utilities, Energy, Logistics & E-Governance
Bucharest, Romania
30th September 2022
©ITU/Rowan Farrell
This is the second image in the series called Mobile Apocalypse.
Artist Statement:
In recent years we have been warned that THE END IS NIGH, but when doomsday came around we were all still here. But with raging tornadoes, flash floods and even meteors hitting earth, could the apocalypse be on its way?
In today’s society Internet users from across the world can communicate through the online network. Information is constantly being shared and an example of this type of information is images. Social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram allow us to quickly send images to other network users. This has also increased the use of phone photography. With snapping and sharing technology at our fingertip with mobile device like phones and tablets, we can share our creations quickly and conveniently.
This project combines an apocalypse with a technological world where images have been taken from my perspective of being in an apocalypse in London. I take pictures wherever I go and I believe that the world ending wouldn't stop me. All images have been taken on and iPhone 5 and then edited in an app called Art Studio on an iPad. By keeping the capturing and editing mobile it gives a representation of images taken on a mobile device during an apocalypse.
PP22 - Policy Statements
H.E. Ms Paula Ingabire
Minister
Ministry of ICT and Innovation
Bucharest, Romania
26 September 2022
©ITU/D.Woldu
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Mr Konris Maynard
Minister of Information and Communication Technologies
Bucharest, Romania
30th September 2022
©ITU/Rowan Farrell
The heads of the international delegations made statements about the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence. This was done in a round table setting.
Watch the entire high level plenary session: youtu.be/J8APAkq4LlY
Read the speech by Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra at the round table: www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/...
Watch the REAIM 2023 aftermovie: youtu.be/dSZ48joIXJ0
Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Martijn Beekman
PP-22 - Policy Statements
H.E. Mr Sumbue ANTAS
Ambassador, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Other International Organisations, Geneva, WTO and to the Swiss Confederation
Bucharest, Romania
30th September 2022
©ITU/Rowan Farrell
THOUSANDS of midwives and their supporters protested in towns and cities across the UK at 2.00pm on Sunday to highlight the crisis in maternity services.
Rallies were held in London’s Parliament Square, Birmingham and Manchester and many other town and city centres in England, Scotland and Wales.
Elizabeth Duff tweeted: ‘#MarchwithMidwives 100s of midwives & supporters in Parliament Square today expressing frustration, grief, courage in crisis & above all togetherness. Mums, dads, birthing people, babies, children. Everyone’s been born: mostly with help of a midwife.’
The protests were organised by March with Midwives UK, which said in a statement: ‘It is clear that maternity services in the UK are in crisis.
‘Giving birth in the UK, a high-income country, is becoming critically unsafe. This is unacceptable.
‘Where we have women, birthing people and babies at risk; their families, communities and countries become sick.
‘This is a genuine national emergency which impacts every level of society.
‘We call on the UK government to implement urgent crisis management and resources.
‘Government promises are not being kept and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Maternity must take responsibility for their silence and call for immediate action.’
The group called on politicians:
to listen to all staff and service users and their advocates;
fund emergency retention of staff; enable all qualified midwives who are willing to work, and support students to enter training and finish their courses;
reduce demands on staff.
Giving its support to the protests, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) warned that staff are exhausted after years of working in wards with ‘too few staff and inadequate resources.’
The RCM executive director for external relations, Jon Skewes, stressed that staff are ‘reaching the end of their tether’, resulting in more than half of all midwives looking to leave the profession.
Skewes said: ‘NHS Trusts and Boards have relied on the goodwill of staff, and their genuine love of what they do, to maintain services – but staff are reaching the end of their tether.
‘Last month, we published a survey that showed that 57% of midwives are looking to leave – and the biggest group among them are those who have only been working for five years or less.
‘The UK and national governments have to do more, not only to train and recruit new midwives into the NHS, but to retain the ones we have.
‘Staff are frankly exhausted, many feel like they have nothing left to give – and services are suffering as a result.
‘We’re grateful to March with Midwives for highlighting the work we have been doing to get politicians and policy makers to pay attention to this untenable situation.’
In Nottingham, dozens of supporters set off from Forest Recreation Ground at 2.00pm.
Organiser Chantelle Thornley, a community midwife in Nottinghamshire, said: ‘I have been a midwife for 25 years and it is the first time I have felt I need to act.
‘We work a 13-hour day.
‘Most of the time we barely have time to get a drink or go to the toilet.
‘We are expected to look after three to four labouring women at one time.
‘How can you give them your undivided attention?’
Katie Campion, an anti-natal educator, helped to organise the march of over a hundred in Leeds.
She said: ‘Midwives are stretched, they’re burnt out, they’re ready to leave and it’s about the safety of the birthing women, the parents and the midwives as well.
‘Physically and mentally they can’t cope with what they have to deal with at the moment and it’s about supporting them.’
One of the hundreds of participants demonstrating at College Green in Bristol, midwife Sophie Inman said: ‘You are part of this beautiful daily experience but it’s being tainted by the struggles of staffing in the country.
‘At the moment we are struggling every single day.
‘We’re turning up to work not knowing if there’s going to be enough of us.
‘It’s a national issue and I’m so proud to be a part of this nationwide movement to try and eradicate that.’
Katie Falvey, a 21-year-old final year student midwife from Essex studying in Wales, spoke out at the rally in Cardiff.
She said: ‘We need to make sure that the government and public are aware of the crisis we’re facing.’
On the march in Bangor, new mum Vikki Mill said that without support from her midwives, she or her daughter ‘simply wouldn’t be here today’.
She stressed: ‘My story is not unique. To give birth, you rely on midwives.
‘It’s a momentous time in someone’s life but you need medical trained professionals.’
The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS) charity, founded in 1960 by Sally Willington to support women and families to achieve the birth that they want, issued a statement earlier in November.
AIMS Statement concerning the nationwide March With Midwives vigils taking place on November 21st 2021
‘Times are incredibly tough across the maternity services in the UK at the moment.
‘AIMS would like to take this opportunity to thank every single member of the maternity staff teams across the UK, and all those who support them, for doing their best in the most difficult of circumstances.
‘As in many other areas of life, the Covid19 pandemic has shone a light on existing weaknesses in our maternity services as well as adding its own pressures.
‘Most immediately, the pandemic situation, in addition to the effects of Brexit, creates a staffing crisis that we desperately need to get through together.
‘We need well-supported maternity staff to be available to offer families the support they need, when and where they need it.
‘It’s not complicated, even if it seems particularly hard to achieve: well-supported staff are most likely to be able to support families well.
‘The March with Midwives vigils across the country this weekend will see service users standing in solidarity with maternity staff, and midwives in particular, to offer their moral support and to draw attention to the current crisis.
‘This mass action offers an important commentary on how important midwives are to families in every single area of the UK and how keenly the current crisis is being felt.
‘The intention of the vigils sits well with AIMS’ own longstanding call to action: as we frequently remind ourselves, it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
‘As we know well in AIMS, raising awareness is the first step towards achieving change.
‘Urgent action is certainly needed to shore up what seems to be a maternity service that is losing staff at a catastrophic rate.
‘The range of issues that have led to the current situation with regard to midwifery staffing have been well-documented.
‘But this is not a new problem. For too long, we have seen poor retention levels in midwifery: this is a service that seems unable to support its own staff, including our precious newly-qualified members of staff, with frequent reports of bullying.
‘In England, this focus of the Better Births Report (2016), and an issue which the ongoing Maternity Transformation Programme has been working to address, with a particular focus on improving leadership within midwifery and the maternity services more generally.
‘AIMS continues to scrutinise the implementation progress of Better Births, in our role as “critical friend” and as a member of the Stakeholder Council.
‘So for AIMS, we remember today that we are in the midst of a Maternity Transformation Programme, which continues.
‘And we thank everyone participating in the vigils – including some of our Members and Volunteers – for reminding us why the work to improve the maternity services is so important. Together, we move forward.’
wrp.org.uk/features/midwives-rally-across-uk-to-highlight...
With Avengers: Endgame finally in theaters, it's only natural that the only Infinity War figure from Hot Toys I ordered finally shows up.
Portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch, Dr. Strange played a pivotal role in the Infinity War movie. I'm pretty sure that everyone who has watched this movie isn't exactly blown away by this statement.
What you may not be as familiar with is the drama when it came to the Hot Toys figure.
Hot Toys released a Dr. Strange from his standalone film, which effectively is the same as the Infinity War one, except for the head sculpt.. but I'm jumping ahead of myself. Once the collecting public realized that Dr. Strange got dusted in Infinity War, there was a mad panic.
It was probably close to a month after the release of the movie, and Hot Toys had not announced anything about an Infinity War Dr. Strange figure, even though he played an incredibly prominent part in the movie. Believing that there would be no further figure releases for Strange, the original figure starting commanding stupid high pricing, sometimes in the neighbourhood of almost $700 USD, way, way up from it's MSRP of about $250 USD.
Scalpers who had been "smart enough to stock up" started effectively selling at whatever price they felt like. Despite multiple calls for collectors to basically calm down and not to add fuel to the fire, people were still being people, and bought they from scalpers anyway.
Prices were jumping higher and higher everyday, with collectors calling Retail Aftermarket Sellers opportunists - understandably so, but opportunists none the less, and with the Sellers retorting that they were victims of "market value", and that collectors were simply bitter because they weren't smart enough to preorder.
Sellers had the upper hand, as it were, for weeks, growing more bold by the day.
Then one day, it all came crashing down. I don't remember exactly what day it was in May 2018, but I can tell you this much: the moment that Hot Toys announced the Infinity Wars Dr. Strange figure, the aftermarket scalping of the original figure effectively came to a grinding halt. There was much rejoice in the collecting community, with the exception of sellers who were now stuck with MSRP Dr. Strange figures, or if I may say so myself, potentially bitter "friends" that bought their scalper priced figures because they were informed that there would only ever be one.
From personal experience, one seller was so salty about this change that he proclaimed the 2.0 figure to be a piece of garbage and that we were all failures at life because we couldn't afford a $700 USD Dr. Strange figure.
It was fun, fun times. There have been a few close calls here and there, most recently with Infinity War Thor, but overall figures that are jacked up in price are because they really are sold out.
My figure finally arrived after I'd say a 5 month delay or so over the original Hong Kong release. Not that I was in a hurry or keeping track, but it was amusing to marvel at just how many of the damn things Hot Toys sold that even as I write this there are people who ordered it all over the world who still haven't gotten their order.
So, now that it's here, lets dig in, shall we?
As with most Hot Toys figures, Dr. Strange comes packed in a windowed box with a slipcover. These ones slightly differ from norm by having a cutout in the bottom right hand corner to show the Avengers: Infinity War logo that is printed on the inner box.
As mentioned above, the contents of the box are effectively the same as the original figure. Identical items are as follows: same gang hand signs, two Sling Rings, an open and closed Eye of Agamoto, full fabric outfit including magnetically attaching Cloak of Levitation, two orange magic energy effect discs, and two sets of magic energy rings meant to mimic the effect in the movie (one set orange for general magic, one set green for when the Time Stone is being used). Both sets also come with a dynamic stand, albeit branded differently.
The headsculpt, which features the Infinity War hairstyle, is naturally different. One of the original accessories, the Book of Cagliostro, is no longer here (not a part of the movie at all) but has been replaced with four new magic effects, including a square effect, a larger round magic effect, an effect for the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, and his sword construct. The Infinity War version also comes with a backdrop to mimic the effects of the Images of Ikon, where he multiplies to do battle.
I have to say, this is the first Hot Toys figure in a long time that I've personally been impressed with. The other ones have been pretty good, but the amount of work put into the design of his outfit is insane. It's pretty much all cloth (except for the belts and other such areas) and what is neat, at least for me, is that by staring at a miniature version of the character, you notice these fine details on the costume that you normally wouldn't even notice, like the various puffs on his boots and belt, and the asymmetric nature of the Cloak of Levitation.
The cloak attaches using three magnets, and generally holds in place but can move out of place when you're posing the main figure. There are some wires embedded into the cape itself, but I didn't find much use for the wires and wish they had simply made this a weighed cloak so it would drape down correctly.
Articulation in general is not hampered by this outfit, and this is the first Hot Toys figure I've opened in a long time that didn't come with a precautions list to follow when moving the figure. Sadly, Dr. Strange lacks any real neck movement other than pivoting, and has zero ankle articulation. This does limit the types of pose you can put the figure in, dynamic stand or not. The outfit SHOULD allow you to do overhead arm poses, but I can't say I bothered trying, particularly since you would need to remove the cloak to do it in the first place.
Paint work is, as always, top notch. Paintwork on the hair and mustache/goatee are phenomenal and really doesn't give me much to complain about, if anything. Paint on the Eye of Agamoto is also, unsurprisingly, solid.
Speaking of the head, the detailing is extremely well done, from the hairs on his head and face, to the subtle wrinkles on his face. The sculptor captured the shape of Benedict Cumberbatch's face and jawline very well, but I am of the belief that his hairline, particularly how close the grey parts slick to the side of his head, wasn't close enough, giving him, ironically, a fat head. Not that it changed from the prototype, mind you - this was always something I was weary of.
Another complaint I have is his eyes. For lack of better terms, it almost feels to me that as good as the Hot Toys sculpting team is, it's like they really don't get the shape of Westerner eyes. They're always way too small, if not too close together. Benedict Cumberbatch isn't an anime character, but he certainly has rounder eyes than what we see here.
Fine detailing isn't limited to the the head and outfit - each of the magic accessories also has a plethora of detailing in the form of the many mystic symbols and glyphs that exist in the world of Dr. Strange. it's quite impressive the amount of work that went into these.
While the coloured plastic pieces will never truly replicate the glowing CGI of the movies, most of the pieces do an acceptable job. The square coloured one, however, just looks really dumb. There really is no other way of putting it.
In the end, this figure truly is what ownership of a Hot Toys figure should feel like - premium quality all around, with just enough engineering limitations and design screw ups to remind you that this is an action figure.
These are some more shots of my Tour to Europe in Sept - Nov 2012. I has been a while since I last saw them.. great to be able to catch up on them at last!
Just arrived in Valencia on our Cosmos tour, October 15, 2012.
On a tour of the City of Arts and Sciences. It is an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia.
The City of Arts and Sciences is situated at the end of the former riverbed of the river Turia, which was drained and rerouted after a catastrophic flood in 1957. The old riverbed was turned into a picturesque sunken park.
Designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, the project underwent the first stages of construction in July 1996 and the finished "city" was inaugurated April 16, 1998 with the opening of L'Hemisfèric. The last great component of the City of Arts and Sciences, El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, was presented on October 9, 2005, Valencian Community Day.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Arts_and_Sciences
The heads of the international delegations made statements about the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence. This was done in a round table setting.
Watch the entire high level plenary session: youtu.be/J8APAkq4LlY
Read the speech by Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra at the round table: www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/...
Watch the REAIM 2023 aftermovie: youtu.be/dSZ48joIXJ0
Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Martijn Beekman
PP-22 - Policy Statements
H.E. Mr Sumbue ANTAS
Ambassador, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Other International Organisations, Geneva, WTO and to the Swiss Confederation
Bucharest, Romania
30th September 2022
©ITU/Rowan Farrell
The heads of the international delegations made statements about the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence. This was done in a round table setting.
Watch the entire high level plenary session: youtu.be/J8APAkq4LlY
Read the speech by Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra at the round table: www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/...
Watch the REAIM 2023 aftermovie: youtu.be/dSZ48joIXJ0
Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Martijn Beekman
To my Darkness and my Light,
I unfold myself; you, in turn, call to me with your warm and aching mouth— its tongue, a delicate command I will not long withstand.
Your lips spill sighs; I drink until your thirst is sated.
Trembling hands steady me beneath you. You guide me toward your deepest acceptance. I find a center in you; you grasp me and gasp.
(You shudder— hands bracing the afternoon light dying against such white walls. I see with the eye of god your ineffable Beauty. I fall and place this feeble kiss to caress the spine of your neck as I pass.)
With you I experience annihilations most will never know.
After I am restless; you know that what I want is what I will never manage alone— you coax from my every ending its next beginning.
We must map these new and nameless oblivions together.
2008
Silver gelatin print
The heads of the international delegations made statements about the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence. This was done in a round table setting.
Watch the entire high level plenary session: youtu.be/J8APAkq4LlY
Read the speech by Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra at the round table: www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/...
Watch the REAIM 2023 aftermovie: youtu.be/dSZ48joIXJ0
Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Martijn Beekman
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
The process of transforming paint and other materials into images continues to compel and challenge me. Over the years, that process has led me from ceramics, photography, drawing and painting, and most recently to pursue experimental processes on paper. Painting fills me with a sense of serenity and integrity, and has proven a most reliable vehicle for translating inner vision to outer reality.
My abstract paintings explore the wonders of nature and beauty in our world. Personal symbols that have emerged through this process include; the Turtle (wisdom/grace), the Dragonfly (metamorphosis/change) and the Tree (steadfastness/beauty).
I use a variety of different paints/media (oil pastel, ink, acrylic, latex, gouache, and wood) and yet I am always drawn back to water colors for their unpredictable nature and their transparency.
I paint from the inside out. Focusing on the sensation and context of my experience. I work deliberately, employing both traditional and innovative techniques, while letting the uncertain nature of painting free my hand. My paintings are finished when they are able to convey a moment or sensation, as well as what I am feeling.
I am avaiable to do commisions and private art lessons also.
GALLERY SHOWINGS/ART SHOWS
2002 Mixed Media Exhibit Thornes Market Place (Northampton, MA)
2003 Water Color Exhibit Café Amanouz (Northampton, MA)
2005 Mixed Media Exhibit Cummington Community Center (Cummington, MA)
2009 Water Color Exhibit Sati Wellness Center (Aspinwall Center) Lenox, MA
2009 Mixed Media Exhibit Berkshires Green Grocer Lee, MA
2009 Pittsfield Art Show (Juried Exhibition) Pittsfield, MA
2009 Think Pink Exhibit (Breast Cancer Benefit show) Pittsfield, MA
2009 JWS Art Supplies Watercolor/Mixed Media Exhibit Great Barrington, MA
PUBLISHED ARTICLES/COVERS
1) The Yoga Of Art (Interview), The Artful Mind, April 2009
2) Finding Peaceful Art: The Advocate, April 2009
3) Featured Artist of Month (Title: Into The Mystery): Preview Magazine, May 2009
4) The Art of Slowing Down: Berkshires Best Buys, Business and Beyond, November,2009
5) Cover Art (Winter Bloom): Wisdom Magazine-New England Edition
6) Cover Art (The Winds Of Change): Our Berkshire Green, June-August 2010
7) The Yoga of Art(part 2), Berkshires Best Buys, Business and Beyond, March 2011
8) The Business of Art, The Artful Mind, March 2011
COURSEWORK
1993 University Of Wisconsin-Eau ClaireIntroduction to Art Studio
1999 Camp Nebagamon, Wisconsin: Ted Semling Private Art Instruction
2001 Crow Hill Gallery, Vermont: Jeanne Carbonetti Private Art Instruction
2006 NX Level Training Network: Business Planning for Artists. Denise Mason
2009-2011 Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Stockbridge, MA Painting the Light Within. (Watercolor Training) Jeanne Carbonetti (Vermont)
2010 is183 Art School Stockbridge, MA Breathing in Color (Watercolor Training) Senta Reis
2011 is183 Art School Stockbridge, MA Painting Studio. Yura Adams
2010-PresentMassachusetts Small Business Development Center, Pittsfield, MA
Art Business Coaching/Training. Keith Girouard
VOLUNTEER WORK: 2010/2011 is183 Art School Stockbridge, MA
BS Degree in Biology
Masters Degree in Education
Peace Corps Service 1994-96 (Samoa)
Liscensed Massage Therapist
Outdoor Fitness Intstructor
If you are interested to learn more about this artwork feel free to contact me at scottharringt10@hotmail.com
You can also follow me on the following sites:
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pub/scott-harrington/11/189/a39
Facebook (personal page): www.facebook.com/scott.harrington1
Facebook (fine art group): www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=252127618069&v=wall
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/scottharrington111
My studio/gallery is in Lenox, MA. Tours are avaiable by request.
I have prints (framed/unframed) at discounted prices to fit your budget also.
(Photo taken in Plazo De Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina Spring 2008)
915 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC.
Statement of Significance
Description of Historic Place:
The Vancouver Club is a sophisticated five-storey building, notable for its symmetrical five-bay, brick and terra cotta front facade, with central entrance and projecting balcony. Displaying Classical Revival ornamentation, it is an imposing presence mid-block on the north side of West Hastings Street, between Burrard and Hornby Streets. The rear of the club faces north to the harbour.
Heritage Value:
The heritage value of the Vancouver Club lies in its historical, associative, and architectural significance.
The Vancouver Club is valuable for its unique role in the history of the city as one of the primary social organizations for many of the city's and the province’s most prominent citizens, including leaders in business and political affairs. This building recalls this unique social activity from 1914, when the club moved to this building from its previous clubhouse, located on the lot immediately to the east. The Vancouver Club survives as one of the few private clubs left in Vancouver.
The current Vancouver Club, opened on January 1, 1914, is one of the city's most sophisticated examples of Edwardian era architecture, displaying a high quality of workmanship and a significant degree of architectural integrity. Referencing its role as a home away from home for members, the club was built to resemble a substantial British townhouse. The club was inspired by seventeenth and eighteenth century English classicism - architecture influenced by the practices of the Italian Renaissance - and displays Palladian style ornamental motifs. Many of the famous gentlemen's clubs in London were similarly styled, and the style and appearance of the Vancouver Club reflects the British origins of most of its early members. When completed, the club was described as an example of ‘modern Renaissance’ design, due to its symmetrical appearance, harmonious proportions, Palladian-style attic type windows and ornamentation in the classical manner. The interior of the club displays handsome and dignified design. Rooms throughout feature elements such as vaulted ceilings, elaborate plasterwork, beautiful panelling and other fine materials such as terrazzo and marble. Principal rooms such as the Grand Ballroom (former Dining Room) are substantial in size, highly finished, and represent some of Vancouver’s greatest surviving early interior spaces.
This successful architectural achievement was the work of the firm of Sharp and Thompson, one of Vancouver’s most prolific and accomplished architectural partnerships. Shortly after winning the commission for the Vancouver Club, the firm won their most famous commission, the competition for the new University of British Columbia. One of the key talents of Sharp and Thompson was their ability to design in traditional styles but still remain in the forefront of advanced technology. Such was the case with the Vancouver Club, featuring a historical facade on an early example of a modern, reinforced concrete superstructure. Belying its traditional appearance, the club was provided with up-to-date ventilation, heating and electrical systems and engineered with all modern conveniences in the way of kitchens, refrigeration, central vacuum, electric lifts and dumbwaiters.
Source: City of Vancouver Heritage Conservation Program
Character-Defining Elements:
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Vancouver Club include its:
- continuous use as a private club
- institutional form, scale and massing as expressed in its five storey height, flat roof and regular, rectangular plan
- masonry construction, such as its brown coloured Hebron pressed brick facade; tan terra cotta detailing and granite-clad foundation
- elements of the exterior relevant to Sharp and Thompson's original design, including a symmetrical five-bay front facade; T-shaped plan; flat roof and stepped parapet with terra cotta cartouche and hanging torus mouldings; central entrance flanked by two service entrances; oak and glazed double doors with transoms, continuous balcony across the second storey with torus moulding; and simple continuous entablatures with dentils
- deeply inset, regular fenestration with multi-pane, steel-sash casement windows; double-hung multi-paned wooden sash windows; and small square attic windows
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Vancouver Club’s interior include its:
- interior spatial configurations relevant to Sharp and Thompson's original design
- interior detailing, materials and finishes, such as its dark honey-coloured oak window and door casings with square corner blocks
- mixed flooring materials, including white marble with grey veining, terrazzo with black and white marble inlay, black marble baseboards, unglazed white porcelain tile flooring with green border in lavatories
- ashlar terra cotta and black and white mosaic tiles in the main entrance
- double stair in main hall; vaulted, barrel-vaulted and flat ceilings
- Adams and Georgian style detailing
- and original fireplaces and radiators throughout
Key elements that define the Vancouver Club’s location include:
- prominent mid-block location on West Hastings Street, amongst numerous other prominent heritage properties
- contiguous and spatial relationship to the harbour
Repetition and Ritual
The sculptures for the show were created this summer and were inspired by the idea of repetition and fungi forms in nature. These pieces center on the creative act as personal obsession. This work is the beginning of an exploration of the idea of repetition and ritual experienced through the process of making. A prescribed order of assembling, manipulating, and presenting the materials borders on ceremony. Ritual is also found in these works and in this process.
These obsessions are expressed with the laborious act of felt making, the oldest known textile form dating back 8,500 years and also fungi, one of the oldest life forms, dating back one billion years ago.
In making this work, repetition is used to single-mindedly pursue, refine, and purify an idea. Repetition and obsession is an effort of holding a visual image or idea in the mind for extended periods. The profound techniques in art of repetition lead us from the repetitions of habit and daily life.
Repetition can be transcendence. Repetition is the capturing and stopping of time.
These forms are based on clusters of fungi I found in the forest this summer. These clusters would sometimes be comprised of hundreds of small round forms. The pattern work is an abstraction from mushroom spore prints that I made from the caps of foraged fungi. When placed under a glass over night the mushrooms release spores and make beautiful intricate forms.
My fascination with fungi stems from the idea of life cycles that has been ever present in my work. Fungi relies on mostly decayed organic matter to live, thus continuing the idea of the cycle of birth, life, and death. The physical becomes spiritualized. I construct forms to represent the sacred in universal archetypes of immortality and regeneration. It represents a desire for wholeness. Through ritual process I hope to manifest the magical to the physical.
Wessex coaches NBC days badge from late 70s. I had 3 at one stage but down to the one now. Was once told by a driver that not even he could get them at the time. Saw one go on Ebay a few years back for silly money - Not for sale ! The same design was also on a t-shirt. Now if i still had that...... !
Laziness, artistic statement, or just plain run out of numerals, whatever, SW9 RLCX 1258 has just about the most half-arsed livery application that I have ever seen. The offending owner is Relco Locomotives, Inc., and this 'gem' was recorded at the massive ADM plant in Clinton, Iowa, on April 30th, 2002. The yellow switcher was built in 1951 for the Chesapeake & Ohio.
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The trend these days is for women to carry classic, designer handbags that make a statement and are useful and practical at the same time.
The closing statements in the case of The Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda at the International Criminal Court (ICC) started on 28 August 2018 before Trial Chamber VI at the seat of the Court in The Hague (Netherlands).
Statements were made by the Office of the Prosecutor, the Defence for Mr Ntaganda and the Legal Representatives of the Victims. Trial Chamber VI is composed of Judge Robert Fremr, Presiding Judge, Judge Chang-ho Chung and Judge Kuniko Ozaki.