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JUBA, 31 MAY 2023: The Human Rights Division of the UN Peacekeeping mission, UNMISS, hosted a consultation on promoting accountability and identifying key challenges within the justice system in Central Equatoria state. The forum brought together representatives from the local government, human rights institutions, civil society organizations, and justice actors. The objective is creating a space to enhance common.
understanding on the importance of human rights for all.
Photos by Isaac Billy/UNMISS
While financial inclusion and financial deepening can promote economic growth and contribute significantly to denting poverty and inequality that is rampant in the region, there are also concerns that it could aggravate systemic risk and financial instability. Various dimensions of financial inclusion will be explored in this day and a half research workshop hosted by the Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and co-sponsored by Centre on Asia and Globalisation (CAG), at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore (NUS).
More about the event at iems.ust.hk/events/event/understanding-financial-inclusio...
Cape Town, South Africa. July 2012.
South Africa hosted the second global Understanding Risk (UR) Forum in Cape Town from July 2-6, 2012. The Forum convened more than 500 thought leaders and decision-makers from 86 countries to exchange knowledge and share best practice in disaster risk assessment.
Photo: World Bank
Reminds me of the joke where the lecturer asks the student, if he can see the person under-standing the tree..
Director General of the Finance Ministry of Israel Doron Cohen, and United States Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing a new framework for administering the recently extended U.S.-Israel Loan Guarantee Program.
Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
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Understanding the Essence of Flowers - Exploring Pollen 12-14th
June, 2013, Helsinki
Photo: Tommi Taipale
Cape Town, South Africa. July 2012.
South Africa hosted the second global Understanding Risk (UR) Forum in Cape Town from July 2-6, 2012. The Forum convened more than 500 thought leaders and decision-makers from 86 countries to exchange knowledge and share best practice in disaster risk assessment.
Photo: World Bank
Peter Darche and I came up with a concept to track the medicine you have taken: basically installing a tablet in an off-the-shelf medicine cabinet running a custom app. This is a low entry way to make a "smart" medicine cabinet.
Personal Statement
Memories construct our reality; they aid our understanding of the present. Memories help determine the decisions we make and thus have a massive influence on our future and the course of our lives.
My work is about the memory of a loved one. It is about loss and the trace that is left behind when something is removed. It is about the energy that remains when someone leaves the room. It is about the uncertain image that remains in our minds when they leave our lives.
When remembering someone do you see their face or do you simply feel their presence?
My work is strongly fuelled by the loss of my father. It is the search for him and the search for myself.
My works are as much self portraits as they are portraits of my father.
The memory of him constructs my identity.
I became interested in photographers that document their lives and the lives of others (Nan Goldin, Corrine Day, Richard Billingham etc.) wanting to eternalise moments of my own life the way they appeared to in their photographs. Perhaps this was a vain attempt to fight the inevitability of death. I quickly saw flaws in my thinking, looking at the few photographs of my father it became apparent that not one of them showed him as I remembered. The photograph is dependent on capturing the moment as it happens, it never covers every angle and only captures the smallest of moments, detail and time. Through reading Barthes and Sontag (amongst other photography theorists) I came to realise the personal photograph only work because we impose our own memories and feelings of the person or event to the image.
The photographic image merely aids the memory.
I have therefore explored ways of creating images that come from the inside to allow people to see my memories as I see them, not as the camera would. I have been visually investigating the way memory works.
I have explored drawing and painting techniques. Through print I’ve repeatedly used the same image and plates, testing the possibilities the medium offers, finding and loosing the image, mimicking the fragile way an image comes and fades in for memory.
With powdered graphite I have drawn the image of my father from memory (without photographs). Once each drawing is finished I have removed it with a rubber leaving only a trace of the mark. I would repeat this several times on the same picture until the traces build up and you feel and see the figure. You can no longer focus on the image which changes all the time as it does in your mind. The light powdered graphite on the drawings also means the images can be easily changes every time they are touched allowing them to be ever changing and deteriorate as the memory does.
Perhaps the most important part of my work is the collected graphite dust and rubber shavings that have fallen from the drawings when they are erased. These have become known as the ashes of the drawing yet they are quite the opposite. Ashes are traces left when everything else has burnt away and been removed. These rubber ashes are the bit that has been removed, they are what have been taken away from me.
The rubber ashes are my father and the drawings and etchings are memories that remain.
Each image of my father brings the viewer and myself no closer to the figure in my mind but shows the obsessive search that is so important in creating my own identity. It became apparent that the identity of my father has become lost in my mind, and what now exists is a symbolic figure and an idol that I have created myself. I create art for my own development and self discovery and feel the work and thought processes I have developed throughout my degree have strengthened me as a person and aided my understanding of who I am.
Understanding Seasons Conference. with Apostle Dr. Paul M Gitwaza at Gospel Restoration Church Abilene Texas United States
Link to video portrait:
www.vimeo.com/rampleman/dawn-somewhere-over-the-rainbow
Performer bio:
Dawn is a multifaceted drag being from the depths of your wildest dreamscapes. Residing in Brooklyn, NY, her mission with any show is to provide a space for whimsy and creativity. Understanding the vision is not always the point, but making it unique, thought provoking and fun is. Whether it be glamour, creature, or surrealism the key characteristic of anything Dawn does is ethereal beauty.
Dumby in Season 16 (2024) of RuPaul's Drag Race.
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace & CADAF
www.franklinfurnace.org/about-us/
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
Cape Town, South Africa. July 2012.
South Africa hosted the second global Understanding Risk (UR) Forum in Cape Town from July 2-6, 2012. The Forum convened more than 500 thought leaders and decision-makers from 86 countries to exchange knowledge and share best practice in disaster risk assessment.
Photo: World Bank
Cape Town, South Africa. July 2012.
South Africa hosted the second global Understanding Risk (UR) Forum in Cape Town from July 2-6, 2012. The Forum convened more than 500 thought leaders and decision-makers from 86 countries to exchange knowledge and share best practice in disaster risk assessment.
Photo: World Bank
AHF's Latino Outreach & Understanding Division (LOUD) hosted their 3rd annual SOMOS Gala to commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month on Saturday October 21st at the iconic Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. The formal gala dinner and ceremony honored the contributions of both individuals, organizations, and Celebrity honoree Olga Tañon for their contribution to the advancement and well-being of Latino communities in the United States and Puerto Rico.
Taking a workshop on understanding poverty for work..........very interesting......I am getting a better understanding of the behaviors of the children I work with.........the book is.......a framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D........good reading!!
While financial inclusion and financial deepening can promote economic growth and contribute significantly to denting poverty and inequality that is rampant in the region, there are also concerns that it could aggravate systemic risk and financial instability. Various dimensions of financial inclusion will be explored in this day and a half research workshop hosted by the Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and co-sponsored by Centre on Asia and Globalisation (CAG), at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore (NUS).
More about the event at iems.ust.hk/events/event/understanding-financial-inclusio...
Understanding the performance penalty: HTTP vs. HTTPS Pete Mastin (Cedexis), Sam Richardson (Microsoft
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Side event at the fifth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership: “Understanding landscape and watershed management in mountains ”, 17.30-19.30, 12 December 2017, FAO HQ. During the side event, the new FAO publication “Watershed Management in Action” was launched.
The fifth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership – with its theme “Mountains under pressure: climate, hunger, migration” – was held at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, on 11-13 December 2017.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Roberto Cenciarelli. Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO
Who Are We series. Design composed of surreal human portrait, fractal and mathematical patterns as a metaphor on the subject of philosophy, religion, math, science, technology and education
I'm not sure Pepper is all that into my reading Understanding Exposure...
And yes, that means I'm finally flirting with manual mode. Half ack! Half yeah! And this was my favorite of the bunch I took trying out on of the first exercises. Makes my brain hurt, but eventually I will figure this out! Oy! :)