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Second Model UN (MUN) Summer School was held in Ismayilli Azerbaijan. This MUN Summer School was organized in the framework of joint project implemented by the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Azerbaijan.
The main format of the Summer School was based on the simulation of the United Nations’ Committees. Nearly 200 participants from various universities, academies and schools have been involved in the simulation of the work of three United Nations Committees .
The participants discussed the issues on “Alternative Sources of Energy”, Restoration of peace and security in Boko Haram affected areas” and “Philippines vs. China: South China Sea Arbitration” at the UN General Assembly (UN GA), UN Security Council (UN SC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ), respectively.
The Summer School applicants were obliged to proceed through a numerous process of screenings and interviews. Selected outstanding participants of the Model UN will be awarded for the nominations of "The Best Delegate", "The Best Position Document" and "The Best Debater". The certificates and prizes were handed to the winners of nominees by the organizers at the end of the Summer School.
The main purpose of our joint project on “Creating new platforms to support active youth engagement in global policy debates” is to support the capacity building of young people and youth-led institutions, and the advancement of youth participation in governance. Additionally, this project also contributed to the process of institutionalization of the UN Model activity in Azerbaijan, establishment of MUN clubs at the educational institutions, and building MUN network.
Maestro Frameworks, LLC builds custom steel bicycle frames one at a time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Each frame is built with the owner’s unique requests and custom measurements. Whether you want a simple frame for city riding, a rigid fixed gear for track racing, a single-speed 29″ mountain bike frame or even a custom sized unicycle, Meastro Frameworks will craft the bicycle of your dreams.
With funding from the Appalachian New Economy Partnership, Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs was able to provide training, technical assistance, and evaluation services to support a non-profit prevention agency in Lawrence County and a philanthropic foundation in Adams County as they worked to reduce the impact of underage drinking in their communities.Photo essay by 2019-20 Voinovich Photojournalism Fellow Lauren Santucci.
On 26 September 2014, a Validation Workshop of "United Nations and Azerbaijan Partnership Framework" was held at Baku Business Center.
The conference was organized by the Economy and Industry Ministry and the United Nations in Azerbaijan, to discuss the priorities of Azerbaijani government's cooperation with the UN. Addressing the event, Deputy Minister Sevinj Hasanova reported on the situation in Azerbaijan's economy, stressing that the country's macroeconomic stability is ensured.
It was noted that one of the important mission is to create a competitive, export-oriented, diversified and innovative economy in recent years as a result of successful socio-economic policies implemented in Azerbaijan.She said that the government of Azerbaijan pays special attention to cooperation with international organizations, including the UN agencies. The preparation for approving
UNAPF document started after a joint press conference on the strategic priorities, held in Baku on June 12. "The priorities identified during the national consultations on the development of Azerbaijan in the coming years are consistent with the concept of development "Azerbaijan 2020: Looking into the Future", and areas of cooperation envisaged in the UNAPF document until 2020 were defined according to the priorities of the concept of development," she said.
During the even, other topics were also discussed including: "Economic development and the creation of decent jobs", "Strengthening of institutional capacity and efficient public and social services" and "Environmental management and resilience to natural and man-made disasters."
Steel posts and beams in what will be the collections storage and processing area on the east side of the building. 1-13-11
2 November 2015: A Surveillance Framework for a Digital Age: Authorisation, Oversight & the Judiciary (JUSTICE - King’s College London Roundtable)
The meeting, in association with the NGO JUSTICE, brought together practitioners, politicians, industry experts, and academic leaders to consider the key challenges to law reform of surveillance powers in the UK today.
Members of South Consulting firm (left) during discussions on a PSC-Framework Report, Nairobi, 13-14 August 2014
22 August 2022, Assiut, Within the framework of the collaboration between FAO Egypt and Assiut University in terms of the establishment of the FAO Model at the university.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAOEgypt
Michael Jackson and Bubbles - 1988
Jeff Koons
USA - 1955
Michael Jackson and Bubbles is a porcelain sculpture by the American artist Jeff Koons. It was created in 1988 within the framework of his Banality series.
The life-size porcelain sculpture depicts the American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson leaning back on a flower bed. On his lap reclines his domesticated chimpanzee Bubbles who clasps a white cloth. Jackson and his pet form an optical unit. They wear similar clothing, are colored homogeneously and parts of their bodies are paralleled with each other, such as Jackson's right hand and Bubbles' paw. The sculpture has been arranged in a triangular and multi-perspective composition.
Bubbles was Jackson's domestic animal who was bought by the artist from a Texas research facility in 1983. It has been claimed by the media that he was Jackson's best and faithful friend who even joined the singer on his world tours and helped in the household. Jeff Koons used a press photo of Jackson and Bubbles as a template for his sculpture. It is almost identical to the artist's work except for a slight variation of the posture. Koons changed Jackson's direction of view and thus adjusted the composition to the requirements of a sculptural work which has to take into account many different viewing angles.
At the time the sculpture was created, Jackson had already become a world-famous performer. Having achieved a sales record with his album Bad, he was at the pinnacle of his career. Koons artwork can be read as a comment on the great media interest that has been directed at Jackson's life as musician and as a private person.
Three of the Michael Jackson and Bubbles sculpture were made. One was sold at Sotheby's on 15 May 2001, when it was auctioned off to the record price of 5.6 million dollars. The artist's proof is owned by the Broad Art Foundation of businessman and art collector Eli Broad and is displayed in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (It is now at The Broad Museum in Downtown Los Angeles). The two other versions are in Oslo in the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art and in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Jeff Koons has stated that his works of art should reach the largest possible audience. For this purpose he sought inspiration in entertainment media, pop culture and Christian art. The depiction of a media effective person like Michael Jackson might have helped him to achieve this aim. In the 1980s, which were characterized by a new consumer and media culture, Jackson enjoyed an enormous chart success and became a pop icon. Koons now overemphasized the King of Pop's icon-like manner paralleling him with Christian icons. The artist once said about the sculpture:
I wanted to create him in a very god-like icon manner. But I always liked the radicality of Michael Jackson; that he would do absolutely anything that was necessary to be able to communicate with people.
Koons has stated that he was also inspired by the triangular composition of Michelangelo's Pietà.[6] Furthermore, the work's material reminds of catholic mass-produced figures of saints which are usually manufactured in porcelain and gold leaf. Thus the sculpture becomes a kitschy object that is appealing for a wide public and the art market. Koons claims that he wanted to depict Jackson as a new redemptive figure who enables people to discover their own cultural mythology.
Michael Jackson and Bubbles has also been read as a symbol of the human desire for self-discovery. Jackson demonstrated publicly his childlike personality and tried to reinvent himself by means of plastic surgery. Koons was fascinated by the self transformations of Jackson and the way he played with images such as himself against Bubbles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_and_Bubbles
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The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art is a privately owned contemporary art gallery in Oslo in Norway. It was founded and opened to the public in 1993.[1] The collection's main focus is the American appropriation artists from the 1980s, but it is currently developing towards the international contemporary art scene, with artists like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Tom Sachs, Doug Aitken, Olafur Eliasson, and Cai Guo-Qiang. The museum gives 6-7 temporary exhibitions each year. Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art collaborates with international institutions and produces exhibitions that travel worldwide.[2] In 2012 the museum moved to two new buildings designed by Renzo Piano in Tjuvholmen.
The museum opened in 1993, and was funded by two philanthropic foundations established by descendants of the Fearnley shipping family, the Thomas Fearnley Foundation and the Heddy and Nils Astrup Foundation.
The two foundations merged in 1995 to become the Thomas Fearnley, Heddy and Nils Astrup Foundation. The Thomas Fearnley Foundation was established by shipping magnate Thomas Fearnley (1880–1961) in 1939; he was the son of shipping magnate Thomas Fearnley (1841–1927) and grandson of romantic painter Thomas Fearnley. The Heddy and Nils Astrup Foundation was named for Nils Ebbessøn Astrup, who was a maternal grandson of Thomas Fearnley (1841–1927).
The museum created a stir in the international art world in 2002 when it purchased the American artist Jeff Koons's monumental sculpture in gilt porcelain of the pop star Michael Jackson with Bubbles, his favourite chimpanzee, for US $5.1 million.
The permanent collection consists of works of Norwegian and International Contemporary Art. The museum collection was originally based on a private collection that goes back thirty years and has significantly developed with the many changes in modern/contemporary art. There has been an interest in German Abstract Expressionism, English modern painting, and the Young British Artists. Presently the collection is orientated towards the young American art scene. It also encompasses works pertaining to the steadily increasing global art community. The main areas of curatorial expertise in the museum are art from the 1960s to the present, including American and European pop-art, post-modern appropriation art of the 1980s and international contemporary art.
Astrup Fearnley Museet is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary in 2023. To mark this significant milestone the museum presents an extensive exhibition featuring iconic works, hidden treasures and recent acquisitions to the Astrup Fearnley Collection, across the museums two buildings. The selected works represent various time periods and highlight a number of key directions that have come to define the identity of the collection and the museum more broadly. The collection includes significant works by Matthew Barney, Paul Chan, Trisha Donnelly, Félix González-Torres, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Bjarne Melgaard, Julie Mehretu and Cindy Sherman.
The museum building is designed by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, whose other notable museum buildings include Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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"The collection does not concentrate on specific eras, styles or groups, but reflects an in-depth attention to the work of a wide variety of artists. The museum maintains the vibrancy of the collection by regularly rehanging the exhibitions, placing the works in new constellations and contexts. The presentation on show focuses on a range of practices, often including several works by individual artists, in order to highlight the breadth and depth of the collection. Well-known artworks are juxtaposed with newly purchased pieces that have never been exhibited before. Not selected according to an overall theme, the different works generate a dialogue through their interplay with one other. This exhibition presents a multitude of topics and concepts that may inspire new directions of exploration. The artworks encourage us to examine complex issues and meditate on questions of aesthetics and politics, of identity, sexuality and violence, and of loss, faith and belonging."
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Our earlier visit to Oslo in September, 2022:
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Aker Brygge and Tjuvholmen
www.visitnorway.com/listings/aker-brygge-wharf/4471/
A bridge connects Aker Brygge to Tjuvholmen ('the thief islet'). Tjuvholmen is not only one of Oslo’s newest quarters, it is also a must-see for all design and architecture aficionados. The area is known for its rich, architectural diversity and the many art installations in between the houses. There are also a lot of galleries on Tjuvholmen, as well as the AstrupFearnley Museum, which situated at the outermost tip of the island, between its sculpture park and a small beach.
Dezsö created Victorian-like fretwork for the porch (corbels, gable decorations, and column brackets).
Photo: Adam Gurvitch.
Unlike many other churches in Paris, Notre-Dame-du-Travail has an exposed steel framework in the interior.
Progress shots always hit different when the bones are this good.
My good friend Christophe has wrapped up the full framework of the RS6 and it’s already packed with clever engineering before a single body panel goes on.
He’s currently enjoying the custom features: adjustable suspension, a proper 8-speed gearbox, bespoke paddle shifters I designed, and a slick steering/HOG setup.
That big V8 sitting perfectly between the suspension just completes the picture.
The exterior is coming in a color you don’t see often on RS6 builds… reveal soon. 👀
#LEGOtechnic #AudiRS6 #CustomFramework #LEGOEngineering #audi.
Session 2 – Central bank operational frameworks
Chair: Thomas Vlassopoulos, European Central Bank
Reserve Demand, Interest Rate Control, and Quantitative Tightening
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen*, Federal Reserve Board
Co-author: David Lopez-Salido
Discussant: Stefano Corradin, European Central Bank
Stop Believing in Reserves
Sriya Anbil*, Federal Reserve Board
Co-authors: Romina Ruprecht, Alyssa Anderson, Ethan Cohen
Discussant: Rafael Repullo, CEMFI
ECB Main Building, Frankfurt, Germany - November 9, 2023
© Maria Rita Quitadamo / ECB
I visited Matthew (who runs Saffron Frameworks) to interview him about frame building and more back in February. The interview will be online soon.
15TH APRIL, LONDON – Luke Daley @ldaley delivers a talk on Ratpack. The micro web framework for the JVM inspired by Ruby's popular Sinatra framework. Showing what could be a valuable addition to the Groovy developer's toolkit for simple HTTP solutions. Watch this SkillsCast (film, code slides) at: bit.ly/ZvFtzx
northern side of train station at sunset. double exposure shot, one taken of the now-exposed framework of the station platform overhang & one of the northern facade at angle.
West Oakland, CA
These branches are young and flexible, they merge with one another, they make room for one another and they spring free if there is too much resistance.
In the framework of the National Model United Nations held in Azerbaijan on 20-23 February 2016, the historical simulation of the UN Security Council on the case of the resolutions on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was organised. It was the first kind of simulation model that pictured the historical event in a mocking game.
36 people participated in the simulation conference during four days. The sessions were moderated by Sabuhi Khalili and Parvin Rahimli. The resolution on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was sponsored by France, the Russian Federation and the United States of America and adopted unanimously. As the result of the game, the participants were awarded with certificates. For their outstanding contribution to the committee the following delegates were awarded at the closing ceremony.
-Toghrul Novruzlu, the delegation of Azerbaijan (Best Delegate)
-Bryant Hebb, the delegation of Armenia (Best Debater)
-Fasli Nabiyev and Rashad Alakbarov, the delegation of Spain (Best Delegation)
-Zumrud Jalilova, the delegation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain of Northern Ireland (Best Position Paper)
-Anar Guliyev, the delegation of Morocco (Honourable Mention)
-Leila Abdulrahimova, the delegation of the Russian Federation (Honourable Mention)
Photos by Dilavar Najafov and Yagub Jafarov
Progress shots always hit different when the bones are this good.
My good friend Christophe has wrapped up the full framework of the RS6 and it’s already packed with clever engineering before a single body panel goes on.
He’s currently enjoying the custom features: adjustable suspension, a proper 8-speed gearbox, bespoke paddle shifters I designed, and a slick steering/HOG setup.
That big V8 sitting perfectly between the suspension just completes the picture.
The exterior is coming in a color you don’t see often on RS6 builds… reveal soon. 👀
#LEGOtechnic #AudiRS6 #CustomFramework #LEGOEngineering #audi.