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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivers a doorstep statement upon arrival at the European Council
Una banca al lado de una de las entradas del cementerio de San Felipe, mi pueblito natal.
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Statement of love: I love you Cheni (Cheni my lovvve)
A bench next to an entrance of my town's cemetery.
WIT: Fishtank filled with water. SB-600 flash set on Manual with 1/8 output set against tank to the right with a piece of typing paper on left of tank for reflection. SB-600 with blue gel behind the tank shot through tracing paper set on TTL. Shot from floor up with D90.
Here is one of my personal photos from the 24 April 2019 Northwest Training and Testing Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement open house in Everett. For more info go to www.NWTTEIS.com please.
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
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
This Statement to be submitted to the ext Board Meeting on the 9th August 1950.
A Fascinating document informing the Board of current expenses & a list of all Professional players that had been signed during 1949-50.
These documents formed a ledger that was the former property of Manchester United Director Harold P. Hardman
L-R Megan Davis, June Oscar, Pat Anderson, Sally Scales, Irene Davey. Pat is holding the Uluru statement with coolamon given to her by the Anangu community
From Asia 2011 exhibit, Larry Cwik photographs/installation, at Gallery 5, Milepost 5, Portland, Oregon, January 2012
Larry Cwik – Artist Statement – Asia 2011 – Gallery 5, Portland
Much of the work here comments on the dueling trends I observed in Asia in 2011 between commerce and spirituality. Commerce is represented by the video of Asian television commercials on the floor. Spirituality is represented by the Buddha garden, Buddha eyes lamp, Hand of Fatima glass ornament, and Gamesh magnet. Islam, represented by the Hand of Fatima, is the largest religion in Asia. Hinduism, represented by Ganesha, is the second largest. Buddhism is the third largest.
A symbolized Ganesha is in one of the photographs.
Commerce is represented in several of the photographs, from the cottage industries of fishing nets and rickshaw transportation in Bangladesh to a sleek ultra-modern office tower in Qatar.
The growing importance of Asia’s population to the globe is represented by two photographs of children. Billions of Asia’s peoples are under 30 years old. The wonderful contributions of Asia to world science, history, and culture are represented by a photograph from a still-preserved 17th-century astronomy observatory in India. The tension between historic political systems and the yearning for freedom and opportunity is represented by a photograph of posters of famous Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, currently under house arrest in China.
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The assignment was the utilization of the high and/or low range of the shutter speed for varying effects and results, applied onto any subject of your choosing. The concept was to capture objects of varying colours moving in front of a still model in a controlled lighting environment, creating an abstract and surreal relationship between the subject and the objects. During the execution of the concept, the object best fitting was coloured paper sheets, threw around the model, shoot at a shutter speed of 2-6 seconds, while the aperture didn’t do much for the depth of field given the black backdrop and tightness of the space, it did control how the light on the model and the paper sheets were received which were kept around at a small 13. The concept was not followed through fully as the coloured papers did not achieve the intended effect, while some shoot included a multicoloured dispositioned objected in front of a still model, most were shoots of the most and playing with lights, colours, and flash impression. The black backdrop definitely compliments the ghostly colours and the lighting, creating in some shoot a void effect where the subject is framed in darkness. It goes without saying the shoots with the thrown paper sheets created a layer of flowing stream of colour that seemed liquid and could be interpreted as forming shapes framing the model.
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.
48 Pontiac - Do a Google image search for "Pontiac hood ornaments" sometime ....... probably the most photogenic.
Statements und Podiumsdiskussion: "Neue Heimat – Neue Perspektiven: Aufstieg durch Migration"
v.l.n.r.: Dr. Michael Werz, Cem Özdemir, Tamar Jacoby, Howard Duncan
Foto: CC-BY-SA Stephan Röhl / www.boell.de
What it does: Normally you want your bra to be unobtrusive, but there are those moments when a gorgeous bra is just meant to be seen. For those occasions, it's smart to have a gorgeous, eye-catching bra, whether it's with sexy straps, beautiful lace, or a pattern that really pops.
When to wear it: Underneath sheer tops where the idea is that your bra is visible. Or depending on the venue, it can even be worn on its own as a bustier or bikini top.
When to replace it: This bra, even if inexpensive, can be seen as an investment and should ideally be one you can keep your whole lifetime, just as you do the clothes you wear on top of it.
I originally read it as: "No to the EU! Yes to much!" (in Norwegian) - which I thought was a brilliant statement capturing the zeitgeist in Oslo of the summer of 2005 perfectly.
Well it turns out that it says (thanks, Forteller!): "No to the EU! Yes to MØE!" Where MØE, or M.Ö.E) is a group of taggers operating in Oslo. Not half as brilliant, I'm afraid - but still a statement. (Location: Blindernveien, by the tube-stop).
1306 Government Street, Victoria, BC
Statement of Significance
Description of Historic Place
The Palace Cigar Store is a two-storey, brick commercial building located on the west side of Government Street within Victoria’s Old Town. The building features a prominent arcade of three round-headed windows, each springing from a pair of columns, across the upper storey. The ground floor has a retail storefront with a central recessed entrance.
Heritage Value
The Palace Cigar Store is symbolic of the development of Victoria’s Old Town during the city’s early twentieth century economic renewal. At the time, there was increasing demand for retail space downtown, which resulted in construction activity along Government Street as the main shopping district. This building was an investment property for Heinrich Siebenbaum (1859-1942) who was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and arrived in Canada in 1893. By 1899, he was the operator of the Palace Saloon in the adjacent Adelphi Building at the corner of Government and Yates Streets. 1306 Government Street was opened as the Palace Cigar Store, with offices above. Siebenbaum’s business was destroyed in 1915 in local attacks on German commercial properties after the sinking of the Lusitania in World War One.
The Palace Cigar Store is additionally significant as an example of the transition from the Late Victorian era to the Edwardian era at a time when architectural styles, as well as building technologies, were changing. It typifies the late persistence of the Romanesque Revival style, as shown in the round-arched window openings on the upper floor. The ground floor was originally a single arched opening, further emphasizing a Romanesque character, but was later modernized to a rectangular storefront in line with changing commercial tastes.
Source: City of Victoria Planning Department
Character-Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Palace Cigar Store include its:
- location on Government Street, part of a grouping of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century historic masonry buildings in Victoria's Old Town
- continuous commercial use
- siting on the front and side property lines, with no setback
- commercial form, scale and massing, as expressed by its two-storey height, symmetrical rectangular plan and flat roof
- masonry construction, including pressed brick façade, common brick side and rear walls, and stone cornice
- Romanesque Revival style details, such as round-arched window heads, coupled columns with foliate cushion capitals, simply articulated archivolts, and corbelled brickwork
- fenestration, such as one-over-one double-hung wooden-sash windows with fixed semicircular transoms
- early storefront with central entry and plate glass display windows
- Canada's Historic Places
Statements und Podiumsdiskussion: "Neue Heimat – Neue Perspektiven: Aufstieg durch Migration"
v.l.n.r.: Dr. Michael Werz, Cem Özdemir, Tamar Jacoby, Howard Duncan
Foto: CC-BY-SA Stephan Röhl / www.boell.de
Artist statement: I remember in the late ’30s the Okies arriving in the Hollister Valley, looking for work. Coming from a Mexican family that had just immigrated to the USA, I had just learned American English. I recall their form of speaking. Their language sounded strange and very expressive, the people were tall and bony. I recall the men wore overalls and no underwear.
By the time of their arrival, the Depression had reached California. By the late 1930s most people were receiving food and clothing from the government. These were very dark years.
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This window display in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York city makes a strong statement about gay rights.
Copyright 2009, Amy Strycula
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.
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
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
Öl är hälsa, hälsa ofta. The Swedish word Hälsa means both Health and Greetings. Two teenagers driving an EPA-tractor and holding up the little traffic that it was with the top speed of 30 km/h. The kid driving the Volvo was having a conversation with a guy on a motorcycle. Either discussing the statement or the speed.
Shame this place no longer exists. We tried to go back this year and were caught by site security before we even crossed the road to go near the asylum. Here's a shot from last year. We stayed in the single room shooting for around 30 minutes and started getting cocky. We carried on searching the hospital, avoiding security. We then went through a door and were literally left facing a security guard, we went to run but decided to hand ourselves in for the easy exit, after all fake names don't mean much.