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Governor Inslee, Oregon Governor Brown, California Governor Newsom and British Columbia Premier John Horgan smile as they complete the signing of the Pacific Coast Collaboration Statement of Cooperation.
Statement by Dr Carlos Daniel Esteban, Argentine Council of International Relations (Argentina), at the 22nd 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 27 November to 1 December 2017.
Kondition, Konzentration und Regeneration ist in allen Serien im Motorsport wichtig. Was der Physiotherapeut der Formel 1, Balbir Singh, zu Airnergy sagt und welchen Insidertip er dazu gibt sehen Sie hier..."
A new free crochet pattern offered by Stitch Diva Studios in our very own glistening Studio Silk.
Make a statement with some inexpensive flat decorative marbles, basic crochet skills and some pretty yarn.
This project is fast enough for you to make a few of these very trendy statement necklace pieces - explore using more or fewer marbles or varying the configuration of the stones for your very own creation!
IAEA 59th General Conference. IAEA, Vienna, Austria. 14 September 2015
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Statement by Ambassador Sergey Batsanov, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Geneva, Switzerland and Russia) at the 22nd 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 27 November to 1 December 2017.
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
The Arse Electronica is a possible and necessary statement on artificial intelligence and robotics. We take note of the fact that countless contributions to the discussion about what machines could and should do are being made by almost everybody. Robots that take care of our old people, driverless cars, internet of things, intelligent market agents, big data, digitalization – the omnipresence of the topic deserves a statement like The Arse Electronica: a gigantic pink bottom, equipped with motors and sensors. Whoever dares to step under it is rewarded with a shower of golden confetti.
Credit: vog.photo
This gentleman's ensemble says either "I have chosen a rather obscure character; so obscure that few people will even be able to identify it" or "Oh, crap. You mean the Glenn Beck 'Americans For Freedom America God Liberty and Libertidinous American Freedom Under God' rally is next Saturday? I'm so embarrassed. "
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
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.
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South African studies suggest Omicron has higher 'asymptomatic carriage'
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Preliminary findings from two South African clinical trials suggest the Omicron coronavirus variant has a much higher rate of "asymptomatic carriage" than earlier variants, which could explain why it has spread so rapidly across the globe.
The studies - one of which was carried out when Omicron infections were surging in South Africa last month and another which resampled participants around the same time - found a far greater number of people tested positive for the coronavirus but were not showing symptoms compared to previous trials.
In the Ubuntu study evaluating the efficacy of Moderna's (MRNA.O) COVID-19 vaccine in people living with HIV, 31% of 230 participants undergoing screening tested positive, with all 56 samples available for sequencing analysis verified to be Omicron.
"This is in stark contrast to the positivity rate pre-Omicron, which ranged from less than 1% to 2.4%," the researchers said in a statement.
In a subgroup of the Sisonke trial evaluating the efficacy of Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ.N) COVID-19 vaccine, the mean asymptomatic carriage rate rose to 16% during the Omicron period from 2.6% during the Beta and Delta outbreaks.
"The Sisonke study included 577 subjects previously vaccinated, ... with results suggesting a high carriage rate even in those known to be vaccinated," the researchers said.
They added that the "higher asymptomatic carriage rate is likely a major factor in the rapid and widespread dissemination of the variant, even among populations with high prior rates of coronavirus infection".
South Africa experienced a surge in COVID-19 infections from late November, around the time its scientists alerted the world to Omicron. But new cases have since fallen back and early indications are that the wave has been marked by less serious disease than earlier ones.
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Canadian province of Quebec says it will impose a "significant" fine on those who remain unvaccinated
The Canadian province of Quebec announced Tuesday that residents who have so far refused a Covid-19 vaccine will have to pay a fine in the coming weeks as a way for them to contribute to the overburdened public health care system.
The fine would not apply to those with a medical exemption, and no details have been announced, although the premier said the amount to be levied would be “significant.”
The Quebec government says that while nearly 90% of eligible Quebecers have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, the unvaccinated remain a burden on the province’s public health system.
Nearly a quarter of all Canadians live in Quebec, and while the province was one of the first in the country to introduce a vaccine passport, public health officials say the vast majority of patients in Quebec hospitals remain unvaccinated. Officials did not give a specific percentage of how many hospitalized Covid patients were unvaccinated.
Last week, Quebec announced that residents would now have to be vaccinated to buy alcohol or cannabis, and the health minister claimed on social media that vaccine appointments spiked as a result.
“In just a few days, appointments for the 1st dose went from 1.5K per day to over 6K yesterday. Thank you to everyone who decided to get vaccinated. It is not too late to get your 1st dose. Protect yourself,” Christian Dubé, Quebec’s health minister, posted on Twitter after retweeting a newspaper story about the uptick in vaccination appointments.
Quebec already requires proof of vaccination to eat in restaurants, go to the gym or attend sporting events and has had some of the most restrictive public health measures in North America, including a nighttime curfew that was reimposed for a second time during the pandemic last month.
CDC preparing to update its Covid-19 mask information
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing to update its website to best reflect the mask options available to people and the different levels of protection they provide, a CDC official told CNN.
The agency continues to recommend that any mask is better than no mask, the official said. The update is expected later this week, according to the official.
The agency has not indicated if the updated masks page will say that if people can tolerate wearing a KN95 or N95 mask all day, they should. The Washington Post reported Monday that the agency is considering such an update.
What the guidance says now: The current guidance, last updated in October 2021, does not favor N95 or KN95 masks, which require a proper fit and may feel harder to breathe through than a cloth mask, according to the CDC. While the CDC still recommends three-ply cloth masks, many experts say they aren't adequate, especially given how easily the Omicron variant.
At least 1 in 5 eligible people in the US remain unvaccinated against Covid-19, according to CDC data
Here’s the latest data on vaccination efforts in the United States, published Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
■ Fully vaccinated: 62.6% of the total US population (all ages), about 208 million people
■ About two-thirds (66.6%) of the eligible population (age 5+) is fully vaccinated
■ Not vaccinated: At least 20.8% of the eligible population (age 5+) has not received any dose of Covid-19 vaccine, at least 65 million people
■ Current pace of vaccinations (seven-day average): 1,213,113 doses are being administered each day
■ Most doses being administered – about 678,000 – are booster doses
■ Only about 339,000 people are initiating vaccination each day
■ About 76.4 million people have received a booster dose
■ About 23% of the total US population is now fully vaccinated and boosted
Remember: CDC data on Covid-19 vaccinations are estimates. The agency notes that data on people who are fully vaccinated and those with a booster dose may be underestimated, while data on people with at least one dose may be overestimated.
Chicago health department distributing 1.9 million KN95 masks this week
The Chicago Department of Public Health is distributing 1.9 million KN95 masks into communities this week.
According to the department's commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady, they have more than 100 community-based organizations, such as churches and libraries, helping to distribute the masks, which are an upgrade from many of the cloth masks out there.
Arwady said they made sure Chicago Public Schools had some for staff right when they returned.
Rapid tests aren't going toward total case count in the US, CDC head says. Here's why they're still useful.
Although the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not including positive rapid tests in its total Covid-19 case counts, the tests are still important for making individual decisions about behavior, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday.
“We have been using the PCR test — not the rapid test — the lab tests, the molecular tests, to really capture our case counts and really get a good view of where we are in terms of the epidemiology, anticipating what was going to be coming into the hospitals,” Walensky said in a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing.
Walensky said those who feel sick and test positive should talk to a physician, but those who are asymptomatic can use a positive rapid test to figure out whether they need to isolate and how much contact they should have with other people.
“I think that it's less about the absolute case count of understanding whether you have asymptomatic infection or a runny nose and your rapid test is positive than it is really about empowering you to do the right thing and not be forward-transmitting,” she said.
Walensky said other countries, like the UK, are including rapid tests in their case count, “but they too, while they capture more than we have tried to, they also agree that they're missing some as well.”
West coast Governors and British Columbia Premier John Horgan sign the statement of cooperation, committing to protecting communities from climate impacts and investing in climate infrastructure.
This young bull was trying to tell me he wasn't leaving the pan just cos his friends were scared of me. See video on www.wildcast.net
Inside the "Justice For All March", Washington D.C.
December 13, 2014.
Shot with 35mm Nikon FE and Fujifilm Superia 200.
Frederick Douglass' statements in his speech to the Women's Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852, still has relevance to race-relations in the United States some 161 years later. Douglass escaped from slavery in Maryland and later became an abolitionist campaigner in Ireland and the United States.
Not quite sure what that statement is, though... She's wearing Mommy's crocs, a lovely pink sun hat (a gift from Milli) and has an old pair of slipper socks on her hands. I had thrown the socks away because they have a hole in the heel. Lilli found them and dug them out of the trash. She loves them. They have a cow print, so she puts them on her hands and walks around saying "Mooooo!" You can see that she has a finger poked through the hole.
This is the 10th image in the series called "Faceless Identity" The project is an investigation into the relationship between identity, time and distance.
This is the Artist Statement for "Faceless Identity"'
I have always been interested in portraits that do not conform to the norm. My photographic work always consists of capturing a live moment, but with my knowledge and extended research I have created a new direction of work with a personal perspective.
One of the main topics explored through this project is identity and time. To explore whether a character or personality can be captured during a period of time. The character throughout this project is myself, adding a personal view of how I can change over time. Each selection of images were taken over different days. I look different on each day, which shows how my identity has changed.
The triptych also expresses the factor between identity and time. The three images show the difference of identity over a small amount of time. The project in total shows the difference of identity over a long period. The difference between clothes, hair and even mood makes each image different in expressing identity.
Distance is also an important factor of the project. Depending on the distance of the viewer, the images takes on a different form due to the motion blur. Details are clear close up and the overall shape is visible further away. This expresses a difference in portrayal of identity depending on the distance of a person.
This project has been one of my most personal to date. Photographing myself over a long period has been an intimate experience. Creating a personal project has explored my own identity through photographic form.
I have taken inspiration from Alejandro Guijarro with his exploration of pixilation and audience visibility. Having an image take on a different form due to distance hugely inspired my thought process throughout this project, which influenced the use of a fast shutter speed through my self-portraits.
The future holds more self-portrait projects. My goals of expressing my identity photographically have been successful. After this effective project involving myself, I look forward to exploring myself photographically hereafter.
In einem Presse-Statement erläutert Christian Lindner im Berliner Thomas-Dehler-Haus die Steuerentwicklung in Deutschland.
Das Foto steht zur Verwendung auf den Webseiten der FDP-Bundespartei, der FDP-Bundestagsfraktion und der Gliederungen der FDP rechtefrei zur Verfügung. Die Verwendung zu anderen als hier genannten Zwecken bedarf der ausdrücklichen Zustimmung der FDP oder des liberal Verlages.
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The closing statements in the case The Prosecutor v. Paul Gicheru took place on 27 June 2022 at 9:30 (The Hague time) at the seat of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or the “Court”) in The Hague, The Netherlands.
They Live, We Sleep
Artist Statement
“We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep. The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent.
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it.
They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices ...their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness.
We have been lulled into a trance.
They have made us indifferent, to ourselves, to others; we are focused only on our own gain. They are safe as long as they are not discovered ...that is their primary method of survival.
Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated...they are dismantling the sleeping middle class.
More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.”
– They Live
This photographic body of work is inspired by John Carpenter’s 1988 film, “They Live.” The movie was also credited by Shepard Fairey “as a major source of inspiration for his own subversive brand of street art.” They Live was the basis for his use of the word ‘OBEY’ that became his main campaign and a popular clothing brand consequently.
The protagonist of the movie, an unemployed drifter named "Nada," accidentally comes across a box of sunglasses. After putting a pair on, he realizes that they are quite special. He sees the world in black and white and discovers that it's not what it seems. The series of images I have created are like those unique sunglasses that Nada stumbled upon, aim to show the world to the viewer for what it truly is. I hope they will help people to take into consideration what they sacrifice by blindly following self-serving governments and corporations’ agendas.
Through this photographic project my intent is to encourage people to be more aware of the habitual ways of living that we have been thoughtlessly following for most of human history. It seems as though the human race would have learned by now to not put their trust in the hands of the misguiding ruling class. Unfortunately most of the humanity is still in the state of mindless consumerism and simply does not realize that their decisions, their entire lives are being manipulated.