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Press Statement by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore: State Visit of the Governor-General of New Zealand Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae and Lady Janine Mateparae, 6 to 8 July 2015
The Governor-General of New Zealand, Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae will make a State Visit to Singapore from 6 to 8 July 2015 at the invitation of President Tony Tan Keng Yam. Governor-General Mataparae will be accompanied by his wife Lady Janine Mateparae and officials from the New Zealand Government House and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
An official welcome ceremony will be held for Governor-General Mateparae on 7 July, following which he will have separate meetings with President Tan and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. President Tan and Mrs Tan will host a State Banquet in honour of Governor-General Mateparae and Lady Janine that evening.
During the course of Governor-General Mateparae’s visit to Singapore, he will be accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean on a tour of the Treelodge@Punggol, HDB’s first Eco-Precinct. Deputy Prime Minister Teo will host Governor-General Mateparae to lunch after the tour. Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen will also host Governor-General Mateparae to lunch to reaffirm the close and long-standing defence ties between Singapore and New Zealand. Governor-General Mateparae will be accompanied by Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong to the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) to view ongoing collaboration between Singapore and New Zealand at the Neurodevelopment Research Centre under A*STAR’s Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences.
Governor-General Mateparae and Lady Janine will attend an orchid-naming and tree-planting ceremony at the Singapore Botanic Gardens on 7 July.
Governor-General Mateparae’s visit underscores the excellent ties between Singapore and New Zealand as both countries commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations this year. There is close cooperation in the fields of trade and investment, defence, and the people-to-people sectors.
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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
SINGAPORE
5 JULY 2015
For AIS3 multiple award winning artist Mary Jane Mansfield created an outdoor sculpture to animate a vacant lot at Stevens and Nicollet Avenue. MJ is getting her BFA at the University of MN currently.
Her statement reads:
Artist Mary Jane Mansfield's creative identity comes out of a rich history of
performance art from DaDa to the 70's and early 80's performance art era
where life/art was a prevalent theme. Ms. Mansfield studied under Mike
Kelley in the early 80's. She is best
known for her work with water and electricity. Light bulbs underwater in
buckets and jars and pouring cold water over them have long been a thread
that runs through her work in sculpture, performance and installation.
For round 3 of the Whittier neighborhood Artists in Storefronts projects she
has been commissioned to create an installation in an empty lot at 26th and
Stevens. For this project she created a house with no walls and a picket fence
filled with summers warm and lively colors. The remainder of the lot will host
community snowman building events as weather permits.
Keep your eyes peeled on the artist in storefronts website for
dates and times whenever you see it snow!!
Ms. Mansfield is a recent recipient of an NEA grant
from Franconia sculpture park and an Artists initiative
grant from the MN State Arts Board.
Photo by Steven Lang
Manic Coffee
for Eric and Avo's show opening on May 6, 2015
Only the street shots - thestreetzine.blogspot.com/
Mr Børge Brende, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway (host and co-organiser) held the opening statement on 24 February.
Photo: MFA/Oslo / Ken Opprann
Statement by Ms. Homeira Karimi Vahed, Organization for Defending Sardasht Victims (ODVCW) at the 24th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
The Conference is held at the World Forum, The Hague, the Netherlands, from 25-29 November 2019.
"This motel utilizes the latest technology to assure the safety and security of its guests, our valued customers. We want you to enjoy your stay, and we hope no one kicks in your
door in the middle of the night." (In West Memphis, Ark.)
Installation View
Juror Statement:
It was a delight to jury EDGE 2017. The chosen works explore and experiment along the edges, where quilters meet and mingle with painters, weavers, collage/assembly artists.
When approaching an artwork in any media I look for several things: skill in the use of the media, a recognition of the history and traditions of the materials being used, strong formal visual language skills, an awareness of artistic conventions (including when they are artfully broken), and the ability of the artist to combine these elements into original content that can engage the viewer deeply in an aesthetic, emotional, intellectual, or spiritual way.
The artists in this exhibit honor traditional media and criteria for excellence while celebrating experimentation and creative use of materials. They exemplify high skill and wild innovation. I selected a total of 28 exceptional works that include expressions that range from abstract and textured to graphic and figurative. These works truly do forge new pathways, and new connections with other visual disciplines.
HELEN KLEBESADEL, juror
Bio:
Helen Klebesadel is an artist, an educator, and an activist. Best known for her environmental and women centered watercolors, she is particularly interested in how myths and stories socialize us to have different expectations for some people than others. She uses the creative process to re-examine and re-present narratives that resist and contest existing power structures by revealing they exist.
Helen earned her BS and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She taught studio art and chaired the art department at Lawrence University (Appleton, WI) from 1990-2000, before leaving to accept the position of Director of the University of Wisconsin System’s Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium in 2000. From 2013-2016 Helen was the Director of the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies’ Wisconsin Regional Art Program. Helen continues to direct the Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium, now hosted by UW-Madison Department of Gender and Women’s Studies.
Very nice camera and lens for this tourist, however...
Apologies for the camera shake.
Circular Quay, Sydney (Friday 11 Apr 2008 @ 1:45pm).
ISO100 | f/6.3 | 1/500sec | 200mm | eval.metering | AWB | raw
Oslo Humanitarian Conference on Nigeria and the Lake Chad Region on 24 February. Opening statement by Norway's Foreign Minister Børge Brende (host and co-organiser).
Photo: MFA/Oslo / Ken Opprann
Mission Statement is a sweet hardcore band from Virginia Beach, this is a new t-shirt that they had printed. Check them out here: www.myspace.com/mission757statement
I caught these young men in typical elegant, understated Osaka fashion during my morning walk to the train station. Minami Senba, Osaka.
Statement leather necklace Fashion flowers necklace
Material: leather, beads, wire
Color: black, yellow, green
Length from clasp to clasp - 19" (49 cm) + extended chain
Statement:
In a society that is fueled by celebrity-obsession and vapid consumerism, superfluous consumption has become the norm. As a result, fashion has reached new levels of disposability, a fact which places chronic strain on the environment—from the exorbitant amounts of water, energy, and chemicals used during production to the space that quickly-discarded garments take up in landfills. For that reason, I have designed garments that stand as an alternative in our unrestrained, throwaway society. By utilizing thrift- store finds, secondhand remnants, and accumulated scraps, my goal is to demonstrate a valuing of materials and a conservational mindset that is often absent in our culture-at-large.
Inspired by depression-era patchwork and utilitarian thrift, the garments have a Midwestern sensibility, made distinct by their unassuming materials and contrasting prints and textures. The sleeveless shirt was constructed from a thrift-store blouse. Vintage buttons purchased at an antique store provide closure at the shoulders and back. The high-waisted skirt employs two main materials: corduroy and denim. The corduroy was purchased as remnants at a secondhand textile sale, and the black denim came from scraps leftover from a project several years past. The single-welt pocket on the back of the skirt closes with an antique glass button from my aunt’s button collection. By utilizing scraps and pooling secondhand materials and notions from a variety of sources, I was able to create an original design with unique details, and I was able to do so with negligible environmental impact.
By: Anna Louise Sviben
Caption: The Faith and Life Committee is reporting. From the left: Helmut Harder, Elke Huebert, Hugo Zorilla, Claude Baecher.
Citation: Mennonite World Conference. Twelfth Mennonite World Conference, 1990, Winnipeg, Canada. Slides by T. Klassen; Script by John Dyck. X-9 Box 52 Folder 4 Slide 128. Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen. Goshen, Indiana.
1537 Lakeview Street, Kelowna, BC.
Statement of Significance:
Description of Historic Place:
The Davies House is a two-storey, wood-frame Edwardian era residence with a front gabled roof. The house is located mid-block on a steeply sloping site on a short residential street in Kelowna's Glenmore neighbourhood. With its west facing aspect and location on a sloped site, this house has good distant views to the west.
Heritage Value:
The Davies House is significant as a demonstration of Kelowna's first phase of residential expansion, and reflects the city's development as the population and economic base increased due to significant growth in the fruit industry. It was built in 1912 for John Henry Davies (1875-1922), who worked in real estate and the fruit industry. He was later in partnership with W.C. Duggan as Duggan and Davies, fruit packers and shippers.
Built in 1912, the value of the Davies House is additionally associated with its Edwardian era architecture. Though re-cladded in stucco with some modern Craftsman style embellishments, the lines and proportions of the house reference its original Arts and Crafts architecture. This comfortable and modest house exemplifies the architecture of Kelowna's middle class residents during the early years of the twentieth century.
Source: City of Kelowna, Planning Department, File No. 6800-02
Character-Defining Elements:
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Davies House include its:
- mid-block location on a steeply sloped site, with western orientation and distant views to the west;
- residential form, scale and massing, as expressed by its two-storey plus basement height and rectangular plan;
- front gabled roof with side gabled dormer and boxed eaves;
- wood-frame construction and concrete foundation;
- exterior details, such as projecting bays on the main floor, glazed wooden front door and two brick chimneys (one internal and one external);
- irregular fenestration, such as 6-over-1 and 4-over-1 double-hung wooden-sash windows, and a fixed 20-pane window at entry; and
- associated landscape features such as mature trees.
A statement from the London Borough of Hounslow:
I understand that the water main 'burst' was in fact caused by the separation of a joint in the section of the main that runs across the canal bridge. When Thames Water 'relined' their mains last year, they did no work to the short section of the main across the bridge as this section had been completely replaced around 8 years ago. It is on this section of relatively new main that a joint has failed.
Thames Water has engaged a specialist contractor who will probably have to manufacture a new joint section to be put in place and I'm afraid we are still probably looking at a complete closure of the road for at least a week because of the damage that has been caused to the road structure.
Variable message signs have been ordered that will be placed at locations such as on Twickenham Road and Kew Bridge to alert motorists to the closure and diversion signing is being put in place, but congestion this evening is likely to be bad although it should ease somewhat tomorrow as drivers become aware of the closure.
We are working with TfL on signal timings at key junctions to try to mitigate as far as possible the impacts of the displaced traffic but, as has been discussed during the previous closures, this is a particularly problematic part of the Borough in terms of the availability of alternative routes for diverted traffic.
(01-02-2012)
Press Statement by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore: State Visit of the Governor-General of New Zealand Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae and Lady Janine Mateparae, 6 to 8 July 2015
The Governor-General of New Zealand, Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae will make a State Visit to Singapore from 6 to 8 July 2015 at the invitation of President Tony Tan Keng Yam. Governor-General Mataparae will be accompanied by his wife Lady Janine Mateparae and officials from the New Zealand Government House and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
An official welcome ceremony will be held for Governor-General Mateparae on 7 July, following which he will have separate meetings with President Tan and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. President Tan and Mrs Tan will host a State Banquet in honour of Governor-General Mateparae and Lady Janine that evening.
During the course of Governor-General Mateparae’s visit to Singapore, he will be accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean on a tour of the Treelodge@Punggol, HDB’s first Eco-Precinct. Deputy Prime Minister Teo will host Governor-General Mateparae to lunch after the tour. Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen will also host Governor-General Mateparae to lunch to reaffirm the close and long-standing defence ties between Singapore and New Zealand. Governor-General Mateparae will be accompanied by Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong to the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) to view ongoing collaboration between Singapore and New Zealand at the Neurodevelopment Research Centre under A*STAR’s Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences.
Governor-General Mateparae and Lady Janine will attend an orchid-naming and tree-planting ceremony at the Singapore Botanic Gardens on 7 July.
Governor-General Mateparae’s visit underscores the excellent ties between Singapore and New Zealand as both countries commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations this year. There is close cooperation in the fields of trade and investment, defence, and the people-to-people sectors.
. . . . .
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
SINGAPORE
5 JULY 2015
Up to 50 mph wind gusts on the way for tomorrow.
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Krystal nest is a set of two tables that can be used as side tables, coffee tables or as a modern, stylish console for your living room, bedroom or even entrance area. Their simple, elegant and minimal style will certainly fit with most of interior decorations. The HUD offers you 7 options to choose for the glass and 5 options for the metallic base. Easily resizable and stretched with just a click.
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13 June 2022 – Discussions and votes in plenary on Council statements.
The 2022 LWF Council meeting takes place in Geneva on 9-14 June. The theme of the Council is “In Christ all things hold together” (Colossians 1:9-20). The LWF Council meets yearly and is the highest authority of the LWF between assemblies. It consists of the President, the Chairperson of the Finance Committee, and 48 members from LWF member churches in seven regions. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay
Artist Statement
These images are works in the process being refined for eventual showing..
The images in this Flickr set will be part of a NoMa photo group project I'm involved in. The NoMa (North Manhattan) Photo Group is a dynamic group of talented community minded artists who support each other and promote the work they are doing. For images of the NoMa Photo Group please check out this exciting Flickr group. See: www.flickr.com/groups/manhattanville/pool/
We are documenting the Manhattanville area (Broadway between 125th St. and 137th St. in Manhattan) that will be razed to make way for the octopus expansion of Columbia University. There are of course issues relating to the displacement of a poor and working class neighborhood that may be priced-out of the existing rental housing market through the use of QUESTIONABLE (unconstitutional) eminent domain maneuvers.
The legal concept of eminent domain allows the government and municipalities to take over and raze properties that are partially “blighted”, in order to transfer their sites to private institutions such as Columbia University. Community advocates and protesters argue that this approach to urban redevelopment favors wealthy redevelopers and private institutions at the expense of poor and working class residents, and encourages profligate municipal expenditures and tax variances in support of dubious or marginal benefit to the existing community.
“Terrain Vague” is a French term used by Spanish architect and critic Ignasi de Solà-Morales to describe ambiguous, unresolved, and marginalized spaces in the urban landscape. Terrain vague refers to sites that are often ignored in the mainstream discourse on architecture and design, such as industrial wastelands and monotonous suburban developments.
Solà-Morales notes that photographers and architects address terrain vague in differing ways. The photographer sees these spaces as places that are imbued with a storied past. Architects, however, approach these spaces as problems to be solved through design. Solà-Morales asks:
What is to be done with these enormous voids, with their imprecise limits and vague definition? Art's reaction . . . is to preserve these alternative, strange spaces. . . . Architecture's destiny [by contrast] has always been colonization, the imposing of limits, order, and form, the introduction into strange space of the elements of identity necessary to make it recognizable, identical, universal. The voids, imprecise limits and ambiguities typical of “vague terraine” conjure visions of a species of twilight zone. Rather than being submitted for entertainment and approval by Rod Serling, the haphazard spaces of discontinuous improbabilty of Manhattanville are being submitted for exploitative redevelopment.
True to Solà-Moraleshas' observation, as a group of photographers, we have chosen to address “terrain vague” by documenting aspects of a neighborhood community that will soon disappear into the mist of NYC history. The Manhattanville community has historically given sustenance and a sense of place to a succession of working-class poor but soon will give way to trendy gentrification. The proposed draconian development project is occurring in the context of an insular university institution that has continually expanded at the expense of its surrounding minority neighbors. Understandably, this has resulted in a significant amount of conflict dating back to at least the 1960's.
I found the proliferation of advertising signs in the ManhatanviIle community to be visually oppressive and amplified my own sensation of “terraine vague.” On some level I felt the huge advertising signs were selling “solutions” and “fixes” for manufactured needs that could not be openly discussed.
The intrusive messages seemed to overwhelm\ and diminish the legitimacy of signs calling for urgent action such as: “Halt Columbia University's abuses of eminent domain!”
Some billboards pictured self indulgent, self-satisfied role models enticing as they flaunt their wealth, fame, lifestyle and accomplishments. As if to say….I got mine,….and you? They insinuate to pedestrians what cannot legitimately be articulated or promised in words.
These corporate mercenaries of popular culture model poses and attitudes, that dangle an antidote to the toxic powerlessness and soul sickness of poverty.....quickly, effortlessly, magically….. Without the bother of self-awareness or struggle for social justice.
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.” ~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
It is no wonder to me that the mixed messaging of political advertising and policy makers, etc., keep voters confused and easily misdirected, by so-called "wedge issuues", that appeal on the basis of low self esteem driven uncertainty and fear. Induced mass low self esteem is an interesting phenomenon that drives passive consumption of ideas, values, decision-making......and, yes, let's not forget.....material consumption!
Check out “Happiness: Lessons From a New Science”, by Richard Layard who exposes a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most of us want more income so we can consume more.
Mind control, anyone?
For me, the ideas that drive this photographic essay are connected to the vagaries of urban space usage and how the meaning of community is distorted, misdirected and shaped to fit the purposes of the power elite.
This art project hopes to bring attention to these ideas and inequities. It is expected that this work will result in an exhibition at sometime at the begining of 2008.
From March 30, 2106 to April 4, 2016, a small team of subject-matter experts from BOEM's Alaska OCS Region and its Sterling, Va. headquarters traveled around Alaska hosting a series of 10 public meetings.
The purpose of the meetings was to get public input on the draft environmental impact statement prepared to analyze the potential environmental impacts of the 2017-2022 Proposed Five-Year Program.
BOEM photos by John Callahan. All photos are in the public domain.
Making a bold statement with heavy beaded jade bracelet. The bracelet is handmade in Ternopil (western Ukraine) by Victoria Chaplinska.
More handcraft in Ternopil