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Establishing a permanent crisis mechanism to safeguard the financial stability of the euro area:
Commissioner Olli Rehn and EC president José Manuel Barroso
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/default_en.htm
©European Parliament/Pietro Naj-Oleari
from the Davis Standard (a Croydon cinema newsheet), November-December 1933.
£2 2 shillings in 1933 would be equivalent to about £102.45 these days according to measuringworth.com. That can't be right, can it?
Front view seen from OUde Waalsdorperweg towards the main entrance © schmidt hammer lassen architects
Neighborhood Gateway by Lisa Turner
masonry
Installed: 2001
Location: Fort Negley, Piney Woods & Rustville Gateway
Funding: Purchased with private funds from The Assocation for Visual Arts & The Chattanooga Masonry Association
Permanent Collection City of Chattanooga
So I have a bit of a thing for body mods. Anything you can do to the body, either permanently or temporarily, is interesting. Long nails are a mainstream body modification. There aren't many practical applications for long nails unless a girl likes scraping the skin off the back of her partner. They are pure decoration, and make life as difficult for the wearer as high heels or tight corsets. The easiest of jobs becomes so much harder. Driving, typing, doing up laces, any delicate work where dexterity is required, dressing, changing jewellery, personal hygeine, the list goes on.
Kudos to the ladies who choose this style. They look fabulous, they cost so much, they take a lot of care and attention, and they are so restrictive.
They tick quite a lot of boxes actually...! :)
PictionID:45528754 - Catalog:14_019441 - Title:GD Astronautics Experiments Details: Underwater Activities at Stardust NASA- Huntsville Date: 01/19/1966 - Filename:14_019441.TIF - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Rita Claverie De Sciolli, Chair of the OAS Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the OAS
Date: November 6, 2019
Place: Washington DC
Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS
Grupo de alumnos de la Millán Santos junto con la directora, Carmen Serrano, y el escritor Gustavo Martín Garzo
From left to right:
José Miguel Insulza, OAS Secretary General
Michel Martelly, President of Haiti
Pedro Vergés, Chair of the OAS Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Dominican Republic to the OAS
Pierre-Richard Casimir, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Haiti
Albert R. Ramdin, OAS Assistant Secretary General
Date: February 7, 2014.
Place: Washington, DC.
Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS
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Primeira sessão do Conselho Permanente da CNBB com nova composição, no quadriênio 2023-2027.
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Black Springs.
Black Springs was named after a permanent water spring which was vital to the bullock teams travelling from the Burra cooper mine to Port Adelaide. Edmund Bowman, the great SA pastoralist owned land at Black Springs in the 1850s. He had a habit of buying at least one 80 acre section in many different Hundreds when they were surveyed. Thus he purchased land here and planned the town of Emuville almost opposite Black Springs but it never amounted to anything. The town was laid out in 1850 with 38 town blocks but it doubtful than any blocks were ever sold. But there are some remains of an old wooden water trough used by the bullockies in the creek bed at Emuville. It was however, a good spot on the bullock team journeying from Burra to Port Adelaide and Bowman took over the Emu Springs hotel which was established here by another great pastoralist Daniel Cudmore in 1846. Edmund Bowman’s sister Jane Bowman had married an inn keeper Thomas Tapley of Darlington (hence Tapleys Hill Road). In 1848 they moved from Darlington to the Emu Springs Hotel opposite Bowman’s proposed town of Emuville. Jane died early in Burra in 1855 and the hotel changed owners around this time to John Stanway. It eventually went out of business in 1883. Edmund Bowman had large estates near here with Holm Hill near Manoora and Martindale at Mintaro and he also had the leasehold of Tothills Belt which contained the headwaters of the Wakefield River. The only town to develop in this district was Black Springs which began as Glendore around 1860 after a private town subdivision by John Williams. By the mid-1860s it had a chapel (see below), a school (1861) and a few houses. From 1866 the Rechabites met in the school room which was constructed in 1863. It is not clear when the name Black Springs was adopted but it was certainly within a few years of the founding of the town. But it was also known as Emu Plains in the early years! Glendore was possibly a short distance from Black Springs and the two settlements merged into one. Certainly by around 1880 the Apoinga Black Springs Council was selling off allotments in Glendore where the rates had not been paid. The cemetery was a Glendore which is now just to the north of the current Black Springs and this undoubtedly where the Glendore Primitive Methodist Church was erected in 1865. It was demolished in 1970 and only the cemetery remains.
A few building survive from the early years of Black Springs. The town was named by James Lewis who had been an explorer with Charles Sturt in 1844 to 1846. The Hundred here was declared early in 1851 because of the copper trade. A Primitive Methodist Church was built in 1865 and it became the only Methodist Church in Black Springs in 1900 when the three Methodist churches united. It was demolished in 1970. In 1869 a stone Wesleyan Methodist Church was built in Black Springs. At the time of Methodist churches union it was closed as a Wesleyan church and sold to the Anglicans in 1898. It was used as the Ascension Anglican church from 1898 to 1962 when it became Trinity Lutheran Church. Alas Trinity Lutheran Church closed in late 2016. The Black Springs Hall was built in 1912 and then added to several times. It is unusual for a local hall as it was built entirely in galvanised iron. It is now closed. Black Springs also had a school. It began as a town school in 1861 and became a state school in 1875 before it finally closed 1970. From the foundation of the town in 1861 it had a Post Office but that too has been closed for decades. Black Springs had its own District Council from 1868 but by the 1870s Council meetings were held at Emu Downs rather than in Black Springs. The town certainly grew more in the 1870s as more and more farmers moved into these northern districts. The Council of Black Springs Apoinga was amalgamated with that of Waterloo in 1890 which in turn amalgamated with Saddleworth in 1932. Today Black Springs is a dying town.
Carlos Alberto Calles, Chair of the OAS Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the OAS
Date: January 10, 2019
Place: Washington DC
Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS
A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface. A distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.
Some wall paintings are painted on large canvases, which are then attached to the wall (e.g., with marouflage). Whether these works can be accurately called "murals" is a subject of some controversy in the art world, but the technique has been in common use since the late 19th century.
HISTORY
Murals of sorts date to Upper Paleolithic times such as the paintings in the Chauvet Cave in Ardèche department of southern France (around 30,000 BC). Many ancient murals have survived in Egyptian tombs (around 3150 BC), the Minoan palaces (Middle period III of the Neopalatial period, 1700-1600 BC) and in Pompeii (around 100 BC - AD 79).
During the Middle Ages murals were usually executed on dry plaster (secco). In Italy, circa 1300, the technique of painting of frescos on wet plaster was reintroduced and led to a significant increase in the quality of mural painting.
In modern times, the term became more well-known with the Mexican "muralista" art movement (Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros, or José Orozco). There are many different styles and techniques. The best-known is probably fresco, which uses water-soluble paints with a damp lime wash, a rapid use of the resulting mixture over a large surface, and often in parts (but with a sense of the whole). The colors lighten as they dry. The marouflage method has also been used for millennia.
Murals today are painted in a variety of ways, using oil or water-based media. The styles can vary from abstract to trompe-l'œil (a French term for "fool" or "trick the eye"). Initiated by the works of mural artists like Graham Rust or Rainer Maria Latzke in the 1980s, trompe-l'oeil painting has experienced a renaissance in private and public buildings in Europe. Today, the beauty of a wall mural has become much more widely available with a technique whereby a painting or photographic image is transferred to poster paper or canvas which is then pasted to a wall surface (see wallpaper, Frescography) to give the effect of either a hand-painted mural or realistic scene.
TECHNIQUE
In the history of mural several methods have been used:
A fresco painting, from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco ("fresh"), describes a method in which the paint is applied on plaster on walls or ceilings. The buon fresco technique consists of painting in pigment mixed with water on a thin layer of wet, fresh, lime mortar or plaster. The pigment is then absorbed by the wet plaster; after a number of hours, the plaster dries and reacts with the air: it is this chemical reaction which fixes the pigment particles in the plaster. After this the painting stays for a long time up to centuries in fresh and brilliant colors.
Fresco-secco painting is done on dry plaster (secco is "dry" in Italian). The pigments thus require a binding medium, such as egg (tempera), glue or oil to attach the pigment to the wall.
Mezzo-fresco is painted on nearly-dry plaster, and was defined by the sixteenth-century author Ignazio Pozzo as "firm enough not to take a thumb-print" so that the pigment only penetrates slightly into the plaster. By the end of the sixteenth century this had largely displaced the buon fresco method, and was used by painters such as Gianbattista Tiepolo or Michelangelo. This technique had, in reduced form, the advantages of a secco work.
MATERIAL
In Greco-Roman times, mostly encaustic colors applied in a cold state were used.
Tempera painting is one of the oldest known methods in mural painting. In tempera, the pigments are bound in an albuminous medium such as egg yolk or egg white diluted in water.
In 16th-century Europe, oil painting on canvas arose as an easier method for mural painting. The advantage was that the artwork could be completed in the artist’s studio and later transported to its destination and there attached to the wall or ceiling. Oil paint can be said to be the least satisfactory medium for murals because of its lack of brilliance in colour. Also the pigments are yellowed by the binder or are more easily affected by atmospheric conditions. The canvas itself is more subject to rapid deterioration than a plaster ground. Different muralists tend to become experts in their preferred medium and application, whether that be oil paints, emulsion or acrylic paints applied by brush, roller or airbrush/aerosols. Clients will often ask for a particular style and the artist may adjust to the appropriate technique.
A consultation usually leads to a detailed design and layout of the proposed mural with a price quote that the client approves before the muralist starts on the work. The area to be painted can be gridded to match the design allowing the image to be scaled accurately step by step. In some cases the design is projected straight onto the wall and traced with pencil before painting begins. Some muralists will paint directly without any prior sketching, preferring the spontaneous technique.
Once completed the mural can be given coats of varnish or protective acrylic glaze to protect the work from UV rays and surface damage.
As an alternative to a hand-painted or airbrushed mural, digitally printed murals can also be applied to surfaces. Already existing murals can be photographed and then be reproduced in near-to-original quality.
The disadvantages of pre-fabricated murals and decals are that they are often mass-produced and lack the allure and exclusivity of an original artwork. They are often not fitted to the individual wall sizes of the client and their personal ideas or wishes can not be added to the mural as it progresses. The Frescography technique, a digital manufacturing method (CAM) invented by Rainer Maria Latzke addresses some of the personalisation and size restrictions.
Digital techniques are commonly used in advertisements. A "wallscape" is a large advertisement on or attached to the outside wall of a building. Wallscapes can be painted directly on the wall as a mural, or printed on vinyl and securely attached to the wall in the manner of a billboard. Although not strictly classed as murals, large scale printed media are often referred to as such. Advertising murals were traditionally painted onto buildings and shops by sign-writers, later as large scale poster billboards.
SIGNIFICANCE OF MURALS
Murals are important in that they bring art into the public sphere. Due to the size, cost, and work involved in creating a mural, muralists must often be commissioned by a sponsor. Often it is the local government or a business, but many murals have been paid for with grants of patronage. For artists, their work gets a wide audience who otherwise might not set foot in an art gallery. A city benefits by the beauty of a work of art.
Murals can be a relatively effective tool of social emancipation or achieving a political goal. Murals have sometimes been created against the law, or have been commissioned by local bars and coffeeshops. Often, the visual effects are an enticement to attract public attention to social issues. State-sponsored public art expressions, particularly murals, are often used by totalitarian regimes as a tool of mass-control and propaganda. However, despite the propagandist character of that works, some of them still have an artistic value.
Murals can have a dramatic impact whether consciously or subconsciously on the attitudes of passers by, when they are added to areas where people live and work. It can also be argued that the presence of large, public murals can add aesthetic improvement to the daily lives of residents or that of employees at a corporate venue.
Other world-famous murals can be found in Mexico, New York, Philadelphia, Belfast, Derry, Los Angeles, Nicaragua, Cuba and in India. They have functioned as an important means of communication for members of socially, ethnically and racially divided communities in times of conflict. They also proved to be an effective tool in establishing a dialogue and hence solving the cleavage in the long run. The Indian state Kerala has exclusive murals. These Kerala mural painting are on walls of Hindu temples. They can be dated from 9th century AD.
The San Bartolo murals of the Maya civilization in Guatemala, are the oldest example of this art in Mesoamerica and are dated at 300 BC.
Many rural towns have begun using murals to create tourist attractions in order to boost economic income. Colquitt, Georgia is one such town. Colquitt was chosen to host the 2010 Global Mural Conference. The town has more than twelve murals completed, and will host the Conference along with Dothan, Alabama, and Blakely, Georgia. In the summer of 2010, Colquitt will begin work on their Icon Mural.
The first permanent residents in this community were William Stokes Boyd, James P. Doss, J.H. Caldwell, and A.L. Smith. Doss had come here in 1882 to manage the Astor estate, and built his two-story frame home here. It has been modernized in later years and became the home of the Wass de Czege family in 1952.
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They clapped. They danced. They sang. They celebrated in their hundreds at the opening of a new permanent United Nations peacekeeping base in the South Sudanese town of Yei.
The people of Yei had asked for UN troops to be sent to the area to help protect them from the impact of ongoing violence, including rape, roadside ambushes, killing and looting. The UN Mission in South Sudan has responded to that need.
At the official opening of the base, the community celebrated alongside legendary South Sudanese singer Emmanuel Kembe whose music has both comforted and inspired his people during the civil war that has raged across the country for more than four years.
Yei was hit particularly hard by the violence with most of its population fleeing to other parts of the country or across the border to escape the violence.
Security has improved since the signing of a peace deal by warring parties last year and it is hoped that the situation will stabilize further with the arrival of the peacekeepers.
“I cannot promise that we are going to protect everybody,” said the Head of UNMISS and Special Representative of the Secretary-General, David Shearer. “What I think we are able to do though is to provide confidence in the area, be a witness to what is happening here, and to provide a better, secure environment for people to come back.”
One hundred and fifty Rwandan and Nepalese peacekeepers will initially be based in the town with that number gradually rising to 300. They will provide regular patrols, particularly to rural areas, to improve security so humanitarian agencies can reach people in need and to encourage people who fled the violence to return to their homes and farms.
“UNMISS has come so that we can start peace. We have to forget the past,” said Yei Women’s Association Vice-Chair, Mama Hawa Adam. “UNMISS has come at the right time so we can start cultivating seeds because all of our food has been taken away. We don’t have that culture of begging for food, we produce our food using our hands.”
The lush and fertile land of Yei was once the breadbasket of South Sudan but crops were destroyed and farms abandoned. With the gradual improvement in security though, life and industry is beginning to return.
“It is not like last year. Last year, life was very risky in Yei,” said local market stall-holder, Mary Deng. “People were not moving, they found somebody killed in a house or attacked at the roadside. There was no movement. But, right now, people are moving well and people are coming back, there are now many people in Yei.”
Humanitarian agencies are also welcoming the arrival of the peacekeeping troops, saying it will enable them to safely reach distant communities in need. The head of UNHCR in Yei said that, with the help of UNMISS, the agency and other humanitarians, had been able to reach Lasu where there has been violent clashes recently.
“Unfortunately, when we arrived there was not a single civilian,” said Frances Okagu. “All of them have gone into the bush, fearing for their lives.”
This indicates that, while the town is becoming safer, the outlying areas are still suffering from the conflict. Community leaders say they are committed to continuing efforts to bring people together across the region.
“All of us as South Sudanese, we need to rise now together and say enough is enough,” said Yei River State Legislative Assembly Speaker, Joel Malish. “Let us stop the talk about war and embrace peace and reconciliation. Let us stop the bloodshed and protect and preserve lives. It is very, very important. We should not be inclined to tribalism. We need to uphold the principle of one nation, one people.”
One people who are looking forward to the day when they will no longer need the assistance of the international community to live safe and dignified lives.
“I would love to close this place. I would love it if the environment here was so good that we will be able to leave,” said David Shearer. “That will be a measure of success. I would like Yei to be an example to the rest of South Sudan so the people here can say they don’t need UNMISS anymore, it is peaceful here and, UNMISS, thank you for your job but goodbye we don’t want to see you here. That would be music to my ears.”
Music to the people of Yei too as they celebrate the prospect of a peaceful and prosperous future.
Photo: UNMISS / Eric Kanalstein
Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva Alexandr Alimov (left) deposited the instrument of ratification of the Geneva (1999) Act of the Hague Agreement with WIPO Director General Francis Gurry. The Russian Federation becomes the 53rd member of the 1999 Act and 67th member of the Hague Union. The 1999 Act will enter into force in the Russian Federation on February 28, 2018.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
Residência permanente da dinastia VISCONTI, Castello Sforzesco, da Torre dei Carmini.
Ele atravessou guerras, disputas, demolições, reconstruções, restaurações e obras de embelezamento e hoje é uma das atrações imperdíveis de Milão. O Castello Sforzesco, assim como a famosa catedral de Milão (o “duomo”), é um dos monumentos mais amados pelos milaneses, um símbolo do poder exercitado pelos Senhores de Milão ou pelos conquistadores estrangeiros.
O nome do castelo é uma referência a Francesco Sforza, que no século XV decidiu reconstruí-lo. Mas na verdade a sua origem é ainda mais antiga: sua base começou a ser construída na segunda metade do século XIV por vontade de galeazzo II Visconti.
Permanent raised beds being reshaped on a long-term conservation agriculture (CA) trial plot at CIMMYT's headquarters at El Batán, Mexico. Permanent beds are a key principle of CA, but during the growing (i.e. rainy) season, they gradually begin to disintegrate and lose their shape. The beds must therefore be reshaped once each year. This involves a pass with cutting disks to break up any remaining large pieces of crop residue, and reshaping shovels which reshape the bed and direct residues out of the furrows and up onto the bed. These were invented by CIMMYT specifically for CA.
In this case the beds shown are narrow beds, measuring 75 cm each (two are reformed on each pass), rather than wide beds measuring 150 cm. CIMMYT is testing if narrow beds work well for seasonal, non-irrigated cropping (with one crop per year, grown in the rainy season). The answer seems to be that they do, but CIMMYT's CA team is building up the years of experimental evidence needed for a more definitive understanding.
Photo credit: CIMMYT.
There are six permanent collections of paintings that trace historical events and native cultures of the Southwest. They are DeGrazia and Padre Kino, DeGrazia Paints Cabeza de Vaca, DeGrazia Paints Papago Indian Legends, Retrospective Collection, DeGrazia Paints the Yaqui Easter and DeGrazia Paints The Bullfight.
I was wearing these on a long walk when more of the glue let go. The sole twisted mostly out from under my foot, but hey, another "barefoot shoe" for the rest of my walk. The temporary repair when I got home was a rubber band, not for the first time.
Since the adhesives I had tried kept failing after a short time, I've adopted a possibly more permanent repair: a staple holding that side of the upper to what is left of the sole (the other side is held by the Mostro Velcro strap).
So far, the repair seems to work, the shoes are back in service. Good for years to come, with occasional minor repairs.
My favourite loco at the moment,60045 "The Permanent Way Institution " with the Eastleigh yard to Fawley Esso oil tanks (6b93).
08 Nov 2022 . El Gobernador del Estado, Enrique Alfaro, acude a la Mesa de Diálogo en torno a la permanencia de las Fuerzas Armadas en materia de Seguridad
From left to right:
José Miguel Insulza, OAS Secretary General
Michel Martelly, President of Haiti
Pedro Vergés, Chair of the OAS Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Dominican Republic to the OAS
Date: February 7, 2014.
Place: Washington, DC.
Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS
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ITU Secretary-General, Doreen Bogdan-Martin welcomed H.E. Luis Chuquihuara, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Peru.
©ITU/D. Woldu
Carlos Trujillo, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of United States of America to the OAS
Date: July 18, 2018
Place: Washington DC
Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS
A view of participants during the opening of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), held on the theme: "Indigenous peoples, business, autonomy and the human rights principles of due diligence including free, prior and informed consent". The 21st session of the UNPFII is held between 25 April - 6 May.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías
25 April 2022
New York, United States of America
Photo # UN7930713