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This is Dennis and Robin. I asked them for a portrait when I met them in Handen yesterday, only to realise that I had already met and photographed Dennis before. So here are a few facts about his friend Robin.He is originally from Malmö. These days Robin lives at Spånga. He works a a bartender here and there. On his free time he plays soccer (wing back), in a korp league team called Last Minute United.
An Artist´s Statement
By
Filip Haglund
In my work of art I address the problems society suffers from the most, but shows most resilience to resolve. The modern religious benevolent despotism, the narrow-mindedness of ideologies, the conflicts it results in, and their reluctance to acknowledge obvious problems like the global warming. Consequently the religion´s and ideologists intentional and unintentional oppression of mankind. I argue for the recognition of a correlation between moral theory and science. My artistry illuminate the necessity of an objective moral truth, as a foundation for the sincerely free and equal human beings. I choose art as my medium since art has a capacity to affect people in an unique way and the freedom of art makes it the ultimate social criticism.
During my foundation course at Nyckelviksskolan I developed a technical knowledge and investigative approaches to sculpture as a medium. Something I was able to experiment with on a larger scale during my work as set designer for Stockholm Operastudio’s production of Tjajkovskij´s Eugen Onegin. It gave me the opportunity to work with large installations and lighting design, which is reflected in my current work. In order to develop my historically, theoretically and critically informed approaches to art making I have taken courses in art history at Stockholm University and courses in architectural history and international contemporary architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology´s School of Architecture in Stockholm. Since my art is strongly related to our society its been in my interest to emphasize this more theoretical part of my creativity, hence, at present I am taking a course in PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) at Stockholm University. This has given me a greater understanding of society´s construction, its problems and possible solutions, which lays the foundation of my art making. These theories, I whish to anchor and find expression for through continued artistic studies.
The arts have always had a close relationship to philosophy. In my work of art I argue for the acknowledgement of the correlation between normative ethics, metaethics and science as a foundation for tomorrow´s society. A society in which art bears a responsibility, through its pioneering, to set an agenda for tomorrow. Art should explore itself, by formulating the ideas of society and the Camberwell College of Arts is a platform for creativity, with the means to explore and define society.
Let me begin by manifesting the existence of an objective moral truth and objective moral values. This truth and these values can be tested against empirical science, but not at the expense of moral-and-value theory. I define empirical science (naturalism) as a science within physiology, where a person's physical condition can be measured, in order to document and understand the human emotions. It is this sort of naturalism that asserts a moral truth, unlike a hypothetic idealized man made or theistic constitution. Morals can be reduced to semantic value judgment and ontological fact-value, which implies the existence of empirically measurable objective values and cognitive values. Consequently value judgement is incompatible with a moral converging towards God.
In my portfolio I am trying to illustrate society´s reluctance to solve its obvious issues, passively awaiting the helping hand of God. The form of moral values which I describe is a sort of objective realism, not religious idealism. Thus creating a coherence between moral and empirical science. This requires the objectivity of rational thinkers making rational choices. I define rational thinkers as individuals with an order of preference that acknowledges the correlation between naturalism (empiricism) and objective moral values (ethical non-naturalism). The scientists rarely approach the moral discussions and most proponents of morals have declared science and moral as incommensurable, or that the first merely describes the second. This discussions affects the fundament of society and it is therefore an essential question for the arts to approach. I describe this in my work of art through contrasting moods, mediums and expressions, displaying the imbalance in nature and society. I isolate conditions, highlights them with symbolism, in a portrayal of an objective commitment against distorted ideologies.
We must make assumptions of theoretical value, in accepting the supervenience of moral and empirical science, objective moral realism and naturalism. This is a trans scientific point of view, laying a new foundation for society, making it an important subject for the arts to investigate. According to me, art is an Utopia, equivalent of freedom. The liberty of art, its rejection of diminishing rules, makes art trans scientific, with the capacity of moving through the layers of society. And sculpture in particularly, since its 3D, 4D and cross-dimensional pathways, makes it the ultimate free medium of expression. With sculpture as my medium, I may begin to articulate and visualise my thesis of objective naturalistic moral realism. In attending a higher education in fine art, I aim to develop my theses, and through an open dialogue with the College´s staff, explore new ways of expressing them.
The following notation was accompanied with this photo from Jim Oborne:
Gift from J. Ross Oborne (Skootamatta Lake)
Man in centre- Alfred Ross Oborne- first cottages @Skootamatta in 1922.
'Aro' as a teenager attended Camp Mazinaw and on a portage to Skootamatta (circa 1900) came back in 1922 and bought land (Oborne Point), built a cottage (Oborne Island) and recruited others to join him. He supervised the building of the next 15 cottages, hiring dozens of local people from the Cloyne area- including Mike Schwager, Charlie & Pete Bey, Jim Meeks.
Was a long time close friend of Merrill /Denison who owned Bon Echo.
See letter from M. Schwager to 'Aro' wife- Clara- in Denison case.
On 'Aro's' right is Harry Gibbs and his left is Harry Bellingham (both friends from Toronto).
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Tutorial #1 from Rachel Denbow's summer art journal class.
I feel like I was trying to hard on this, the composition feels a little off to me and normally that's something that comes pretty naturally. Sometimes when I work on something I feel like is "for real" (i.e., not just messing around) I lose the spirit of the work.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, delivers his opening statement at the Building for Science – Aiming for the Finish, a ReNuAl Side Event at the March 2021 Board of Governors meeting held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 2 March 2021
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Programme:
Welcome Remarks by Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Opening Statement by Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General
Remarks from the Co-Chairs of Friends of ReNuAl
HE Mr Rapulane Molekane, Resident Representative of South Africa to the IAEA
Global Impact of the NA Laboratories
Highlighting achievements and benefits of collaboration with the NA Laboratories in Seibersdorf
Introduction of the new ReNuAl2 Donor Display
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General
In Person Event Participants:
Rafael Mariano Grossi , IAEA Director General
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Karin Foistner, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany
Jacek Bylica, IAEA Chief of Cabinet
Toshio Kaneko, Special Assistant to the Director General for Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Applications and Technical Cooperation
Edgard Perez Alvan, Senior Advisor to the Director General
Andy Garner, Laboratory Coordinator / Project Executive for Major Capital Projects in Seibersdorf, Department of Nuclear Applications
Westfalia unveils new mission statement:
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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.
View of car passing Thousand Oaks City Limit sign, 1965 or 66. Donated by Herb Noseworthy. CTLnos47.
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The Thousand Oaks Library requests that, when possible, the credit statement should read: "Image courtesy of Conejo Through the Lens, Thousand Oaks Library."
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, delivers his opening statement at the Building for Science – Aiming for the Finish, a ReNuAl Side Event at the March 2021 Board of Governors meeting held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 2 March 2021
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Programme:
Welcome Remarks by Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Opening Statement by Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General
Remarks from the Co-Chairs of Friends of ReNuAl
HE Mr Rapulane Molekane, Resident Representative of South Africa to the IAEA
Global Impact of the NA Laboratories
Highlighting achievements and benefits of collaboration with the NA Laboratories in Seibersdorf
Introduction of the new ReNuAl2 Donor Display
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General
In Person Event Participants:
Rafael Mariano Grossi , IAEA Director General
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Karin Foistner, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany
Jacek Bylica, IAEA Chief of Cabinet
Toshio Kaneko, Special Assistant to the Director General for Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Applications and Technical Cooperation
Edgard Perez Alvan, Senior Advisor to the Director General
Andy Garner, Laboratory Coordinator / Project Executive for Major Capital Projects in Seibersdorf, Department of Nuclear Applications
Speakers deliver their statement during the general debate at the IAEA 64th General Conference. IAEA Vienna, Austria. 21 September 2020.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Net Zero Needs Nuclear Power, Shared Presentations Stage 3, an IAEA Statement Event at the United Nations Climate Change Conference UNCCC held at the Expo City Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Blue Zone, 1 December 2023
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Westfalia unveils new mission statement:
Our Mission... To deliver unparalleled warehousing solutions by earning the trust of our customers, understanding their business needs and honoring the commitments we make.
© Westfalia Technologies Inc. 2013
What a #CashFlowStatement is actual?
CashFlowStatement or statement of cash is one of the four most typical financial statements while the three others are,
Income Statement
Statement of financial position
Statement of changes in equity
Artist's statement for my solo show in the Buntrock Commons at St. Olaf College, shown from March 19th until April 10th, 2009. Work was produced during the month of January, 2009, as the final project in a month-long course Advanced Drawing course I took.
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Mary Owens (1808-1877)
Mary Owens was born to a prosperous planter, Nathaniel Owens, on his Little Brush Creek plantation in Green County, Kentucky, on September 29, 1808.
Mary and Abraham met for the first time in 1833, while she was visiting her sister Betsey Abell in New Salem, Illinois. After Mary returned home to Kentucky, Lincoln was quoted as stating that he “would marry Miss Owens if she came a second time to Illinois.”
He realized the consequences of his rash statement when Mary came to New Salem and considered herself engaged. Lincoln immediately regretted his promise, and his papers record his objections to the woman’s appearance, weight, and temperament.
Too honorable to simply break the engagement, Lincoln wrote three letters to Mary during their engagement, painting a bleak image of their future and subtly suggesting that she could do better.
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Friend Mary
. . . I am often thinking about what we said of your coming to live at Springfield. I am afraid you would not be satisfied. There is a great deal of flourishing about in carriages here; which it would be your doom to see without sharing in it. You would have to be poor without the means of hiding your poverty. Do you believe you could bear that patiently? Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine, that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. I know I should be much happier with you than the way I am, provided I saw no signs of discontent in you. What you have said to me may have been in jest, or I may have misunderstood it. If so, then let it be forgotten; if otherwise, I much wish you would think seriously before you decide. For my part I have already decided. What I have said I will most positively abide by, provided you wish it. My opinion is that you had better not do it. You have not been accustomed to hardship, and it may be more severe than you now imagine.
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In a later letter to friends, in which he recounted the story of the “scrape” with humor, Lincoln said some quite unkind things about Owens’ physique.
"When I beheld her, I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother; and this, not from withered features, for her skin was too full of fat to permit of its contracting into wrinkles, but from her want of teeth, weather-beaten appearance in general, and from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced at the size of infancy and reached her present bulk in less than thirty-five or forty years ; and, in short, I was not at all pleased with her. . . . Exclusive of this, no woman that I have ever seen has a finer face. I also tried to
convince myself that the mind was much more to be valued than the person ; and in this she was not inferior, as I could discover, to any with whom I had been acquainted."
He also reserved a fair share of criticism for himself for having so thoroughly misunderstood the situation. “Others have been made fools of by the girls,” he wrote, “but this can never with truth be said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance, made a fool of myself.”
"Although I was fixed, "firm as the surge- repelling rock," in my resolution, I found I was continually repenting the rashness which had led me to make it. Through life, I have been in no bondage, either real or imaginary, from the thralldom of which I so much desired to be free.
. . . After I had delayed the matter as long as I thought I could in honor do (which, by the
way, had brought me round into the last fall), I concluded I might as well bring it to a consummation without further delay ; and so I mustered my resolution, and made the proposal to her direct ; but, shocking to relate, she answered. No.
At first I supposed she did it through an affectation of modesty, which I thought but ill became her under the peculiar circumstances of her case ; but on my renewal of the charge, I found she repelled it with greater firmness than before. I tried it again and again, but with the same success, or rather with the same want of success.
I finally was forced to give it up ; at which I very unexpectedly found myself mortified almost beyond endurance. I was mortified, it seemed to me, in a hundred different ways. My vanity was deeply wounded by the reflection that I had been too stupid to discover her intentions, and at the same time never doubting that I understood them perfectly; and also that
she, whom I had taught myself to believe nobody else would have, had actually rejected me with all my fancied greatness.
And, to cap the whole, I then for the first time began to suspect that I was really a little in love with her. But let it all go. I'll try and outlive it. Others have been made fools of by
the girls; but this can never with truth be said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance, made a fool of myself.
I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason : I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me."
Mary Owens returned to Kentucky, married her brother-in-law, Jesse Vineyard about 1842 and had five children in Missouri. Only two children lived to adulthood. Her sons joined the Confederate army. Jesse Vineyard was killed in the Civil War
Mary Owens Vineyard later admitted to William Herndon: "I think I did on one occasion say to my sister, who was very anxious for us to be married, that I thought Mr. Lincoln was deficient in those little links which make up the great chain of womans happiness."14 She cited as evidence a horseback ride to "Uncle Billy Greens, Mr. L. was riding with me, and we had a very bad branch to cross, the other gentlemen were very officious in seeing that their partners got over safely; we were behind, he riding in never looking back to see how I got along; when I rode up beside him, I remarked, you are a nice fellow; I suppose you did not care whether my neck was broken or not. He laughingly replied, (I suppose by way of compliment) that he knew I was plenty smart to take care of myself."
She herself tried to "bend" Mr. Lincoln to test his "love," according to her cousin Johnson Gaines Greene. One day, when she learned from a messenger boy that Mr Lincoln was coming to the Abell's farm to see her, Mary deliberately went instead to Mentor Graham's house.
Here and there small towns and big cities make their own display or host a traveling set of crosses, in which each marker represents 100 or 1000 aborted fetuses, for example. This is a powerful and persisting visual statement. Does the opposing position have something equally visible, though: something to show how life is different for the woman thus impacted?
MSfit Opens For People Living with multiple sclerosis
Opening statement on landing page:
A young man’s vision and the collaboration between WSSU’s Department of Physical Therapy and the Gateway YWCA have come together to form MSfit, a free fitness and wellness program offered to people living with MS.
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It was the brainchild of WSSU alumni and former WSSU employee Brian Murrill, whose mother Patsy Murrill is living with multiple sclerosis. She was diagnosed in 1995. She is a teacher at North Hills Elementary School.
"It's been a challenging yet rewarding experience seeing this program come together. I originally came up with this concept in January of 2013 to honor my mother. My original goal was to create a program that would directly address the physical and emotional needs of people living with MS,” said Brian. He said since then his organization has developed key partnerships with the Gateway YWCA, National MS Society, and the WSSU Department of Physical Therapy.
Here is his view of the future for the program. “Today we have three main objectives: the first one is to provide the MS community with a free fitness and wellness program that is designed to improve the quality of life of our participants and their families. The second one is to take the results from our program and share them with physicians to better understand the role fitness and wellness plays in managing MS. The last one is to create an opportunity for graduate level PT students to get hands on experience working with our participants. MS is the most common disabling neurological disease of young adults in the U.S. It is our hope to grow this program and improve the overall quality of life of as many participants as we can. When you support MSfit, you are empowering people to move beyond their MS by giving them the knowledge, skills, tools and confidence to adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors, actively co-manage their disease and live their best lives through health and wellness," Brian said.
The MSFit clinic is a free clinic where screenings occur for multiple sclerosis patients, along with development of an exercise program, and education on the exercise protocol for the clients at the YWCA.
MSfit officially opened its doors to participants January 26th at the Gateway YWCA, in Winston-Salem, NC, from 1-5 p.m. Since MSfit announced the launch of the program in October, it has received an overwhelming response from potential participants.
Prior to beginning the program, participants are required to complete an initial fitness screening that will gauge their level of ability. The screenings were conducted by the Winston-Salem State University Department of Physical Therapy (PT).
Dr. Sara Migliarese, a physical therapy professor at WSSU, said, “The WSSU Department of Physical Therapy is excited about the partnership with MSfit. Our third-year students performed the fitness screenings and developed exercise programs for the clients with MS based on their abilities.”
“Under the supervision of DPT faculty, the students will educate each client on safe and effective exercise using the YWCA facilities, classes, and equipment. This service-learning opportunity will benefit the students, as well as the clients, and the WSSU PT Club is already involved in early fundraising activities to help support the MSfit Foundation and cover the cost of the YWCA memberships for the MS clients. WSSU is committed to the success and sustainability of this community service,” Migliarese continued.
As a part of their coursework, the WSSU Department of PT will return to the Gateway YWCA once a month to reevaluate participants and document their successes.
NOPE! i just don't want the dentist to drill on my teeth today. today is the first of my many dental work appointments, getting 3 cavities filled. still have to go back for wisdom teeth out and root canal. ugh.
and i just wanted to do something a little different for my 365 today (even though i know the concept isn't new - it's frickin hard to do stuff that hasn't already been done, ya know? guess i'm not creative enough)
Model Ellen Hancock wears Corrugated and Chased Copper Cuffs along with 4" patinated Red and Turquoise Brass Earrings by San Francisco jewelry designer John S. Brana. www.johnsbrana.com
Photographer: Rachel Schwarz
Government Digital Service Executive Director Stephen Foreshew-Cain speaking to GDS team about the 2015 Spending Review.