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Robert Bean
Barbara Berry
Thierry Delva
Peter Dykhuis
Eryn Foster
Leah Garnett
Sara Hartland-Rowe
Andrew Hunt
Chad Jagoe
Adriana Kuiper + Ryan Suter
Barbara Lounder
Frankie Macaulay
Michael McCormack
Dan O'Neill
Mathew Reichertz
Fionnuala Reynolds
Becky Welter-Nolan
Jessica Lynn Wiebe
current/upcoming
Past Images
www.hermeshfx.com
Ian McKinnon: Still/Life Drawings
Sat, Jul 6, 2019 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Jul 28, 2019 6:00 PM 18:00
Exhibiting: July 6th - 28th, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, July 5th at 6pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, July 28th at 2pm
Ian McKinnon, untitled #107 (Still/Life series), 2019
prismacolor pencil and iridescent gold gesso on 14" x 10" birch panel
An installation of over 100 drawings that viewers are invited to engage with contemplatively and to ponder why we seek out such places, seek out art - and why we make it; and to reflect further on the vocabulary of transcendence and healing so often ascribed to our art experiences. These quiet works speak of stillness, of being fully here in the present and presence of grace - of life, still.
Please join us for an artist talk with Ian McKinnon on Sunday July 28th at 2pm.
Jessica Lynn Wiebe: Repeat
Sat, Jun 8, 2019 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Jun 30, 2019 6:00 PM 18:00
Exhibiting: June 8th - 30th, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, June 7th at 6pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, June 30th at 2pm with Peter Dykhuis
Jessica Lynn Wiebe, Untitled Camo 1, 16 x 20"
Repeat is part of an ongoing study of performed movement and pattern. The paintings in this exhibition directly reference techniques performed in the martial art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Having trained in Jiu Jitsu over the past year, Wiebe has become more and more invested in how the body relates to itself, to others, and to the environment.
By using a variety of Jiu Jitsu positions, Wiebe creates figurative repeat patterns. The patterns allow her to isolate specific movements within a sequence. The isolated movement repeats across the painted surface and is further broken down using shape and colour to disrupt and camouflage the repeat pattern.
Jessica Lynn Wiebe is a Halifax based interdisciplinary artist. A former artillery soldier in the Canadian military, her artwork investigates the mechanisms of war, including the complex politics around gender, economy, architecture of war, and the human condition. Through the use of various media she makes work that creates dialogue by engaging and challenging deeply held beliefs and emotions about the military and war. Currently she is a participant of the Canadian Forces Artist Program (CFAP) 2018-2019 through the Canadian War Museum (CWM) in Ottawa.
There will be an artist talk at Hermes Gallery on Sunday June 16 at 2pm.
Fionnuala Reynolds: Still Under
Sat, May 4, 2019 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Jun 2, 2019 6:00 PM 18:00
Exhibiting: May 4th - June 2nd, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, May 3rd at 6pm
Fionnuala Reynolds first delved underwater to face her primal resistance to the unknown. What she found was, in fact, both dazzling and soothing. The light transmission and refraction, the altered sensory experience, and the exquisite sea organisms kept drawing her back to the ocean. Still Under explores and imparts the buoyant calm found in the shallows of the dynamic and precious Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.
About the Artist:
Fionnuala Reynolds is driven by her passion to examine the natural world, describing striking and curious elements in her surroundings with paint. She transfers her perception of the way natural light reflects in a particular atmosphere, at a particular moment, onto the canvas.
In Reynolds' previous collection, Head Underwater, she recreated experiences and imagery from snorkeling around the inlets in East Chester, Mahone Bay. Her newest body of work, Still Under, submerges the viewer into the Caribbean swells to experience the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef through her biophilic lens.
Reynolds' work has been exhibited in Calgary, Toronto, and Halifax. Her murals are displayed in private and public spaces throughout Nova Scotia, such as EDNA Restaurant and Oceanview Manor. A graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Fionnuala creates at her studio in East Chester, using paint to explore light hitting life.
Reni Gower: GEOmatrix
Sat, Apr 6, 2019 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Apr 28, 2019 6:00 PM 18:00
Exhibiting: April 6 - 28, 2019
Presented by Peter Dykhuis
Reni Gower, Flow 15, 2016 22" x 22" pulped paper
Inspired by sacred geometry, Gower's artwork celebrates slow work made by hand, while it counters visual skimming and encourages quiet reflection. Recognizing geometric perfection as the matrix of humanity, her artwork embraces a shared artistic legacy fluid across diverse cultures through mindfulness and mutual respect. Viewer response worldwide has confirmed the prevalent yet profound spiritual and emotional qualities of color, light, and pattern central to Gower's art.
About the Artist: In 2017, Reni Gower received SECAC's (Southeastern College Art Conference) Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement. In 2014, she received the College Art Association's Distinguished Teacher of Art Award, as well as distinguished teaching awards from Virginia Commonwealth University and VCUarts. Her art work is represented in many prestigious collections and has been exhibited at international and national venues for over 40 years. In addition to her painting practice, she curates award winning traveling exhibitions that include FABRICation, Geometric Aljamía: a Cultural Transliteration, and Pulped Under Pressure: The Art of Handmade Paper. After 37 years, Professor Gower retired from Virginia Commonwealth University in December 2018. She holds a MFA from Syracuse University, a MA from University of Minnesota-Duluth.
Please note, there are no opening or closing receptions for this exhibition. Visit Hermes Saturdays and Sundays from noon-6pm.
INFO/FLOE: Curated by Michael McCormack
Sat, Mar 2, 2019 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Mar 31, 2019 6:00 PM 18:00
Exhibiting: March 2 - 31, 2019
Opening Reception: 6pm Friday, March 8th
Lindsay Dobbin and Matthew Morgan, Receive Transmit (Bay of Fundy and Yukon River), Bay of Fundy photo by Lindsay Dobbin, Yukon River photo by Matthew Morgan, 2018.
Josh Winkler, Klondike Tailings, colour woodcut, 2018
Josh Winkler (Mahkato/Mankato, Minnesota); and Lindsay Dobbin (Kanien'kehá:ka /Acadian/Irish based in K'jipuktuk/Halifax) in collaboration with Elder Angie Joseph-Rear, Michelle Olson and Matthew Morgan (Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in citizens) and Sharon Maureen Vittrekwa (Tetlit Gwich'in citizen).
Curated by Michael McCormack.
INFO/FLOE is a project that brings together work from two methodologies of communicating with the land as archive; through listening and performance, and through synthetic reproduction of found objects. It considers the impermanence and malleability of information, language, experience and storytelling, through time-based, and print-based media. Josh Winkler, and Lindsay Dobbin have developed practices that deeply consider our relationships as stewards, protectors and active communicators with the natural environment.
This is the second iteration of this exhibition, involving a selection of works completed during the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture's six-week Natural & Manufactured residency program in July/August of 2018. Winkler's work emerged from a two-week hike through the Chilkoot Trail and further shorter hikes in and around Dawson City. Dobbin collaborated remotely from their home on the Bay of Fundy in Mi'kma'ki (the ancestral and unceded territory of Lnu'k or Mi'kmaq), with three Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in citizens – Elder Angie Joseph-Rear, Michelle Olson and Matthew Morgan – and one Tetlit Gwich'in citizen – Sharon Maureen Vittrekwa.
Involving participatory performance, sound, and installation, Dobbin's work is ecocentric, using listening as wayfinding. Their work intends to deepen our relationship with the natural world, and bridge our relationships with the natural environment that have been fragmented and scattered through colonization and industrialization. Josh Winkler's work involves in-depth research and consideration of materials that are found in the area of the Klondike, recorded and reproduced as manufactured objects. Winkler's woodcut prints include detailed representations of the results of human interaction with the environment, and how it affects our physical relationship with the land.
Click here to see the exhibition essay by Michael McCormack.
Hermes Gallery is located in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of Lnu'k (the Mi'kmaq People). This territory is covered by the "Treaties of Peace and Friendship" which Mi'kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognized Mi'kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.
We would like to extend our gratitude to the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation for their continuous stewardship of this land, and for welcoming this project through it's developing stages on their traditional territory, and to the staff and volunteers of the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre, The Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Parks Canada, and CFYT 106.9 FM for their support.
Josh K. Winkler is a Minnesota artist working primarily with traditional and contemporary print media. Since receiving his MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2010, Josh has been creating works on paper, running a small gallery, building a stone cabin, and exhibiting work nationally and internationally. He is currently an Associate Professor of Printmaking at Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minnesota. Winkler's work stems from an interest in how humans manipulate and label the land. How time, politics, and social change alter the context of both natural and inhabited locations. By combining personal experience with historical investigation, Winkler builds layered landscape narratives to reflect on an uncomfortable disconnect between contemporary Americans and the history of the land. He utilizes a range of drawing, printmaking, and sculptural processes to facilitate these ideas.
joshkwinkler.com
Lindsay Dobbin is a Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) – Acadian – Irish artist, musician, curator and educator who lives and works on the Bay of Fundy in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of Lnu'k (Mi'kmaq). Born in and belonging to the Kennebecasis River Valley in New Brunswick, Dobbin has lived throughout the Maritimes as well as the Yukon Territory. Dobbin's place-responsive practice includes music, media art, performance, sculpture, installation, social practices and writing, and is invested in and influenced by Indigenous epistemologies and cultural practices, such as drumming. Through placing listening, collaboration and improvisation at the centre of the creative process, Dobbin's practice explores the connection between the environment and the body, and engages in a sensorial intimacy with the living land.
lindsaydobbin.com
Frankie Macaulay: Artist Residency
Sat, Feb 2, 2019 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Feb 24, 2019 6:00 PM 18:00
In Residence: February 2 - 24, 2019
Closing Reception: Friday, February 22nd at 6pm
Throughout the month of February, Hermes Gallery is hosting an artist residency with Frankie Macaulay. Macaulay will use the space to begin creating a new series of architectural paper constructions.
Viewers are welcome to visit during regular open hours and also invited to attend a closing reception at the end of the month on Friday, February 22nd starting at 6pm for a showcase of works in progress.
Frankie Macaulay is a visual artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Macaulay graduated with honours from NSCAD University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Major in Photography.
Arianne Pollet-Brannen: nine one one
Sat, Jan 5, 2019 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Jan 27, 2019 6:00 PM 18:00
Exhibiting: January 5 - 27, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, January 4 at 6pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, January 13th at 2pm
Arianne Pollet-Brannen, Perma-Hand Silk. Image transfer, graphite and ink on paper. 18" x 18".
"Invention is the shaping spirit that re-forms fragments into new wholes"
- Jeanette Winterson from Art Objects - Imagination and Reality
Combined funding from Arts Nova Scotia in 2017 with a creation-production and a presentation grant specifically to install this project in the emergency communications hub at QE 2, enabled Arianne to claim, renovate and restyle the common function of medical materials, repurposing gloves and isolation gowns, tourniquets and sutures and in this arrangement for Hermes, complimented by pencil portraits of department personnel reproduced and toner transferred to hospital bed sheets. Pollet-Brannen gently, mindfully, elevates these new wholes into measures of time ordered into quiet containment fields arranged with caring attention, offering balanced, contemplative verses.
So there was every reason why these works should be temporarily removed from emergency medicine for presentation at Hermes, as a welcome compliment to her established profile, deciding together that this work would engage a wider appreciation of her most recent achievement. The pertinent stories carried into the gallery suggest Arianne has intentionally arranged reflective, counter balances in framed partitions, setting a sympathetic order to her working encounters.
- Dan O'Neill, curator
"Art does indeed matter, and will have its effect, especially for those working within the confines of an emergency department where tragedy, immediacy and urgency are part of the full operation of everyday life."
- Arianne Pollet-Brannen
to Dec 23
Holiday Ya-Ya: Hermes Group Show
Sat, Dec 1, 2018 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Dec 23, 2018 6:00 PM 18:00
Exhibiting: December 1 - 23, 2018
Artists' Yak-Yak: Sunday, December 16th at 4pm with seasonal treats and eggnog
Featuring the work from Robert Bean, Barbara Berry. Thierry Delva, Peter Dykhuis, Eryn Foster, Sara Hartland-Rowe, Andrew Hunt, Chad Jagoe, Barbara Lounder, Frankie Macaulay, James MacSwain, Mathew Reichertz, Fionnuala Reynolds, Becky Welter-Nolan and Jessica Wiebe.
James MacSwain: Ex Libris
Sat, Nov 3, 2018 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Nov 25, 2018 6:00 PM 18:00
Exhibiting: November 3 - 25, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, November 2nd at 6pm
Jame MacSwain, The Ghost of a Flea, Homage to William Black, 2006.
Paper, matt board, acetate and glue, 9" x 10" x 6"
James MacSwain's Ex Libris is an exploration of the era of books. Before the internet all knowledge was transmitted through the printed word. In this era of instant communication books will become objects, not only in the realm of antique collectables, but of derision. The book will survive like newspapers, magazines and the theatre only if the upcoming generations are moved to examine what will be lost. And what will be lost? The psychological meaning between the logos and the page; the actual heft and weight of a book, may have a comeback as more and more our digital privacy and alienation from our physicality become pronounced. As well the book may survive as artists in a DIY frenzy, such as myself, create the book as a sensual object to be contemplated in a number of formats such as the accordion and starbooks on display.
Becky Welter-Nolan: Pushing It | Gillian Dykeman: Revolution Revolution
Sat, Oct 6, 2018 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Oct 28, 2018 6:00 PM 18:00
Exhibiting: October 6 - 28, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, October 5th at 6pm
Becky Welter-Nolan, Pushing It, 2017
video still of performance
Pushing It
Pushing It is a performative project by Becky Welter-Nolan featuring a roughly 200lb quilted soft-sculpture "boulder" entitled Rocky III, pushed uphill in true Sisyphean style. Testing the body and space through physical exertion, tension, and force, the work critiques labour and the narrative of success, navigating between endurance and
futility.
Gillian Dykeman, Revolution Revolution (YouTube Edition), 2018
video performance recorded at the Banff Centre
Revolution Revolution
Gillian Dykeman
Revolution Revolution is a new performance and video work by Gillian Dykeman that activates the latent radical potential of the human energy amassed through engaging fitness. Operating as a home stationary bike workout, Revolution Revolution delivers fitness instruction in tandem with revolutionary rhetoric.
Peter Dykhuis: Homepage | Jane Affleck and Peter Dykhuis: Squirrel Variations
Fri, Sep 7, 2018 6:00 PM 18:00 Sun, Sep 30, 2018 6:00 PM 18:00
Exhibiting: September 8 - 30, 2018
Reception: Friday, September 7th at 6pm
Talk: Sunday, September 16th at 2pm
Demo: Saturday, September 29th from 2 - 6pm
Peter Dykhuis, Homepage-1 (Doers and Dreamers/Hurricane Irma/Vital Stats), 2018
found texts on paper, encaustic on commercial maps, documents and watercolour paper 24 panels each 6" square, 30" x 46" installed
The mixed media works of Homepage mirror visual information – such as personal notes, mapped locations, and digital weather phenomenon – as found within the frames of cell phones and computer screens which shape the world as we know it.
Jane Affleck and Peter Dykhuis, Squirrel Variation #2, 2018
graphite, marker, and encaustic on found and collaged paper, 2 of 3 panels, each 6" square,
6" x 22" installed
Squirrel Variations
Jane Affleck & Peter Dykhuis
In the past year, Affleck and Dykhuis have shared paper-based panels onto which they independently layered individual images and materials. Affleck contributed the squirrel image that became the anchor motif that interweaves with, for example, bits of domestic detritus, mapped components, board-game play, and lyrics from a song by the Talking Heads.
Kids from Mulgrave Park: Summer Camp in Our Town
Wed, Aug 1, 2018 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Aug 26, 2018 6:00 PM 18:00
Exhibiting: August 1 - 26
Closing Reception: Friday, August 24 from 4-6pm
Organized by René Boudreau, Hyla Silburt, Barbara Lounder and Peter Dykhuis
The artwork will also be on display for Park Days in Mulgrave Park on August 25 and 26.
From August 1-17, Summer Camp leaders from Mulgrave Park are using the HERMES space as a drop in destination during summer outings where their camper kids can map out where they have been, and make drawings of what they have seen and done. This will culminate in a public display and reception on Friday August 24, from 4-6 pm.
The Mulgrave Park Caring and Learning Centre was opened in 2007 by a group of concerned community members who wanted a place for people to go when they needed services and information they could not otherwise obtain. The Centre has grown to be a community hub that serves people, brings services and collaborations into the neighbourhood, and allows for children to develop through programming for parents. The Centre has a community garden, lots of social and cultural activities, and residents of all ages enjoy some great fun during the many annual celebrations. Please join us in celebrating the art made by children in the 2018 Summer Camp program.
Magnetic Attraction: Modules and Components
Wed, Jul 18, 2018 12:00 PM 12:00 Sat, Jul 28, 2018 12:00 PM 12:00
Exhibiting: July 18 – 28, 2018
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 21, 2 - 4pm in Toronto, Ontario (401 Richmond Street West)
The Red Head Gallery in Toronto, Ontario, is pleased to present Magnetic Attraction: Modules and Components, an exhibition exchange with Hermes Gallery.
This exhibition features artwork that consists of modular components and serial objects that create single works of art or generate conversations between multiple pieces/units. At stake: how is the conceptual 'whole' of the installed work much larger than just the sum of its material parts?
Based in Toronto at the 401 Richmond Building, The Red Head Gallery is a professional artists' collective comprised of seventeen members. The Red Head Gallery proposed an exchange exhibition with Hermes Gallery because the two collectives share member connections: Peter Dykhuis, Hermes member and co-director, was a member of Red Head for many years, and Leah Garnett is a current member of both collectives. In November 2017, Red Head members Jim Bourke, Jack Butler, Tonia Di Risio, Teri Donovan, Leah Garnett, Phillip Hare, Gillian Iles, Margie Kelk, Ian Mackay, Lois Schklar, Christina Sealey, Peggy Taylor Reid, Sally Thurlow, and Elaine Whittaker exhibited big / SMALL at Hermes Gallery.
For more information on The Red Head Gallery, please visit: redheadgallery.org
Angella Parsons: Heart Matter(s)
Opening Reception: Sunday, July 8 at 6pm
On View July 12 - 29, 2018
Artist Present 12 - 6pm, Thursday - Saturday, July 12 - 28 (except July 21)
Photo courtesy of the artist
Artist-in-residence Angella Parsons presents a solo exhibition of drawing and sculpture: Heart Matter(s) chronicling her experience of being hit by a car as a pedestrian on the corner of North and Agricola Streets in Halifax in December 2013 and her subsequent healing journey. Adjacent to the street corner where the accident occurred, Hermes Art Gallery and Co-operative provides a site specific component to the work.
Parsons' multifaceted interdisciplinary practice carries over into her writing where she employs a multi-genre approach to what she describes as Life Writing. During the residency, Parsons will be developing her manuscript: The Glass Is Half Full - A story about the power we have as human beings to overcome our own suffering through connecting intimately with others.
"My goal has been to use pivotal times during my recovery to introduce gratitude as a kind of super power that we all possess. Early on in my recovery I was amazed by how small acts of kindness reshaped my perspective in profoundly impactful ways."
– Angella Parsons
The public is invited to drop in to the gallery starting July 12th where she will be in residence on Thursday, Friday and Saturdays from 12-6pm to July 28.
NSCAD Students: Land Escape
One Night Only: Friday, June 29 2018 at 6pm
A one night exhibition of paintings and plein-air drawings by NSCAD students enrolled in the summer course "Abstraction and Landscape."
Photo courtesy of Andrew Hunt
Kaashif Ghanie: Adaption | Nicholas Rosin: Disposable Income
Opening Reception: Friday, 1 June 2018 at 6pm.
Exhibiting: 2 - 24 June, 2018
Curated by Becky Welter-Nolan
In these paired solo exhibitions, emerging artists Kaashif Ghanie and Nicholas Rosin exhibit new bodies of work created during a nine-month artist residency at the Centre for Craft Nova Scotia. With different approaches both artists address issues affecting their daily lives, materializing their conflicts with a challenging society in vessel forms.
Adaption is Kaashif Ghanie's latest body of ceramic vessels presenting an interpretation of the lived experience of Islamophobia. Ghanie magnifies traditional Islamic pottery forms and adapts their surfaces to embody the systemic discrimination against Muslims in Canada. Drawing on personal histories, these mutations and surface treatments contrast the themes of sacredness in Islam and the current sociopolitical climate impacting the Muslim community.
Kaashif (Kaas) Ghanie is a First-Generation Muslim Guyanese Canadian from London, ON based in Halifax, NS. His ceramic work engages viewers in the sociopolitical issues surrounding Muslim culture. After receiving a BFA from NSCAD University in 2015 he was an artist-in-residence in the Centre for Craft's airCRAFT program and summer residencies. He has exhibited his work at the Mary E. Black Gallery, the Craig Gallery, and the Anna Leonowens in Halifax, and has participated in Nocturne Art at Night and Antigonight festivals.
Intrigued by ironies in social norms and the impact of status anxiety in our modern world, Nicholas Rosin's practice reflects on society through a satirical lens. In Disposable Income, he questions our daily consumption and habits in a series of disposable vessels created in silver and brass. These anti-amulets illustrate the absurdity of our unconscious obsessions with these objects through Rosin's signature hand-engraved characters. With witty irony Rosin's language both critiques and empathizes with the subtle addictions many of us rely on to cope with the daily grind.
Nicholas (Nick) Rosin is an emerging metalsmith and engraver based in Halifax, NS. While earning his BFA in jewellery design and metalsmithing at NSCAD University (2015), Rosin studied hand-engraving abroad in Pforzheim, Germany, making it the primary focus of his work. Rosin has exhibited at the Mary E Black Gallery and Seeds Gallery in Halifax, and Ornamentum Gallery, NY. He is a current artist-in-residence, studio technician, course instructor, and gallery coordinator at the Centre for Craft Nova Scotia.
Erica Flake: Behind Closed Doors
Sat, May 5, 2018 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, May 27, 2018 6:00 PM 18:00
Closing Reception: Friday, 25 April 2018 at 6pm.
The artist will be present 12-6pm Saturdays and Sundays and by chance.
Sponsored by Becky Welter-Nolan
Behind Closed Doors is an artist residency and exhibition at Hermes Gallery by artist Erica Flake. Throughout the month of May, Hermes Gallery will be hosting an artist residency where Flake will be drawing, mapping, and creating three-dimensional photographs based on specific spaces in relation to her artistic practice.
Concurrently, Flake will exhibit a collection of urban exploration and relating food-based works from past photographic series including Sweet Tooth (2018), Crossing Over (2017), and Traces of Humanity Reprise (2015). A closing reception at the end of the month will showcase works in progress created throughout the residency.
Erica Flake is a visual artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Flake graduated from NSCAD university with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a Major in Photography as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree with a Major in Art History.
Frankie Macaulay: How to Fold
Closing reception Friday, April 27th @ 6pm
Macaulay will be at the gallery from 12 - 6pm Saturdays and Sundays and by chance.
How to Fold is an artist residency at Hermes Gallery by new member Frankie Macaulay.
Throughout the month of April, Hermes Gallery is hosting an artist residency where Macaulay will be focusing on sculptural developments and material explorations with paper.
Concurrently, Macaulay will exhibit a collection of photographic and sculptural works relating to nature and architecture including Uprooted (2017), Construction Paper (2016), Tree Versus (2015 - 2017), Paper Bark (2014) and Urban Paper (2014 - 2016).
A closing reception at the end of the month on Friday, April 27th starting at 6pm will showcase studies created during the residency.
Bean + Lounder: Being-in-the-Breathable: Weathering
Fri, Mar 2, 2018 6:00 PM 18:00 Sat, Mar 31, 2018 6:00 PM 18:00
Friday 2 March, reception @ 6 PM
Sunday 11 March, discussion with the artists @ 2 PM
In drawings, images, words, and objects, Bean and Lounder present their observations of the natural history and the culture of walking in the Lake District of Cumbria, England. Being-in-the-Breathable is a multi-part collaboration considering air as our last Commons; where we breathe, gasp and expire together. In 2017, the artists presented Being-in-the-Breathable: An Annotated Walk at the Contexte Festival of Ephemeral Art in Sokolwsko, Poland. The current exhibition at Hermes is part 2 in this series, and brings together creative research, walking and art making undertaken by Bean and Lounder in the Lake District, intermittently since 1999.
Brent Garbett Selected Works – Paintings and Drawings
Fri, Feb 2, 2018 6:00 PM 18:00 Sun, Feb 25, 2018 6:00 PM 18:00
Reception Friday 2 February @ 6 PM
Organized by Dan O'Neill
Every student I have ever worked with at NSCAD University is always moving toward embracing higher levels of studio independence often enrolling in Advanced, Studio and Independent studies in the later years of their visual art program. This choice is meant to test self-appointed challenges and to further develop their conceptual bearing, with multiple opportunities offered to every student to advance the space and time required to extend research, theory and practice, and to illuminate unlit recesses of production that encompass their highest aspirations to succeed. I believe that these areas of study are always focused on preparation for studio practice, post graduation.
Brent Garbett and I embarked on such a plan of action he wanted to embrace, when we agreed to an Independent study across the summer of 2016. Discussion was the mainstay of our week-to-week meetings, and I was also privileged enough to frequently observe him in action as we advanced the customary to and fro of our exchanges, both exploratory and beneficial. Garbett's devotion to his explorations, undertaken post graduation, certainly confirms his dedication and intent, and the results of his most recent accomplishments are here presented at HERMES for the benefit of the Halifax community.
It's important for me to offer a responsive, personal experience for the viewer. Much of my work for painting is observationally based, a continuing record of capturing urban settings, those places I consider familiar territory with Halifax and Guelph being the most recent sources for this record keeping. Yet over the last two years, I've worked to break away from certain painting processes that I had previously developed, explored and extended, that I felt were beginning to become slightly restricted in being able to reveal the breadth of new approaches to examining familiar subject matter that I thought I could accomplish.
Drawing has been the activity that has best helped me address this challenge, allowing me to work more spontaneously and unconstrained. I use little preliminary planning and no form of external reference outside of memory and intuitive response. This activity allowed me to come into contact with understanding how to generate a more spontaneous and abstracted image, while also sustaining an uncomplicated approach, which I could now attend to in realizing the next stage for my painting.
So now I set about painting with renewed exuberance and an appreciation of having uncovered approaches and confidence with my practice of drawing and painting that now comfortably orbit and inform one another. These recent works then are the result of having made a step toward a more energized, less constrained and perhaps, a little more truthful agreement with myself to proceed.
Brent Garbett
Adriana Kuiper + Ryan Suter: Cover
Fri, Jan 5, 2018 6:00 PM 18:00 Sun, Jan 28, 2018 6:00 PM 18:00
Reception: Friday 5 January @ 6 PM
6 - 28 January
Saturday and Sunday, 12 - 6 PM
For this exhibition at Hermes, Adriana Kuiper and Ryan Suter take a sidestep from their public site specific installation to highlight new studio experiments. Working with improvised, handmade quilts, sound blankets, collected objects, video and sound the artists present various tests with these objects in an organized tableau.
GEMS: a HERMES Group Show
Fri, Dec 1, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00 Sun, Dec 17, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00
SATURDAY + SUNDAY 12 – 6 PM
RECEPTION: FRIDAY 1 DECEMBER @ 6 PM
Featuring the work of:
Adriana Kuiper
Ryan Suter
big / SMALL: AN EXCHANGE WITH THE RED HEAD GALLERY, ORGANIZED BY LEAH GARNETT
Fri, Nov 3, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00 Sun, Nov 26, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00
4 – 26 NOVEMBER 2017
RECEPTION: FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER @ 6 PM
Based in Toronto at the 401 Richmond Building, The Red Head Gallery is a professional artists' collective comprised of 17 members. Though primarily dedicated to exhibiting members' works at The Red Head Gallery, the collective periodically creates a travelling group show to exhibit members' work beyond the Greater Toronto Area, and to forge connections with other artist run collectives.
This show, big / SMALL, is such an endeavor. The Red Head Gallery proposed an exchange exhibition with HERMES Gallery because the two collectives share member connections: Peter Dykhuis, HERMES member and co-director, was a member of Red Head for many years, and Leah Garnett is a current member of both collectives. Furthermore, as a collective celebrating its 27th anniversary in 2017, Red Head was excited about working with a new collective. Red Head is thankful for the opportunity to exhibit big / SMALL and to introduce its members to the Maritimes; and we greatly look forward to hosting a group exhibition of HERMES members in July 2018.
big / SMALL evolved from a physical constraint into a thematic framework. The collective needed to develop a show that could ship at minimal cost, a fact that restricted the weight and size of all 14 works in big / SMALL. Bound by a size limitation, each member used this condition to consider big / SMALL as a conceptual exploration. This "assignment" resulted in diverse solutions that reflect the collective's range of practices and experiences.
big / SMALL includes works by: Jim Bourke, Jack Butler, Tonia Di Risio, Teri Donovan, Leah Garnett, Phillip Hare, Gillian Iles, Margie Kelk, Ian Mackay, Lois Schklar, Christina Sealey, Peggy Taylor Reid, Sally Thurlow, and Elaine Whittaker.
For more information on The Red Head Gallery, please visit our website: http://www.redheadgallery.org/
25: THIERRY DELVA + STEVEN HOLMES
Thu, Oct 5, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00 Sun, Oct 29, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00
Opening Reception:Thursday 5 October @ 6 PM
HERMES is open to the public Saturday and Sunday 12 – 6 or by appointment.
Thierry Delva and Steven Holmes were MFA students together at NSCAD in 1992. In the years since, each has developed a career in the visual arts: Delva as a professor at NSCAD, and Holmes as a curator living and working in the US.
25 is an exhibition that marks twenty five years of conversation and argument about art.
Longstanding friendships between artists are not uncommon, of course: art history has many examples. These conversations can be a fundamental part of how one thinks about art and its meaning. In the case of Delva and Holmes, twenty five years of arguments have had a fundamental impact on the most basic aspects of how each sees himself: as art professionals as well as art makers.
The work in 25 is two things: it is an exhibition featuring each artist's most recent work, and it is an exhibition of work that contains within it a quarter century of persistent and committed conversation. In each case, 25 is offered without apology.
Delva will exhibit four bronze casts of artificial hips based on a mould taken from Delva's own hip, the result of a prior surgical procedure.
Holmes will present photographs of contemporary burial grounds.
to Oct 1
Chad Jagoe + Michael Fuller
Fri, Sep 8, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00 Sun, Oct 1, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00
Chad Jagoe: New Works
Chad Jagoe is an artist, musician and woodworker living in the rolling hills of Earltown, Nova Scotia. Jagoe's paintings are abstract and sculptural in nature. They attempt to strike a balance between the technical manipulation of the wood and canvas supports, with a more playful, 'hands-off' approach to the application of paint.
Michael Fuller: 7 Photographs
Michael Fuller is a photographer and filmmaker based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His photographs and film work have been exhibited in Canada and the United States. This exhibit represents work from various projects over a period of fifteen years.
to Sep 3
Passages: A HERMES Group Show
Fri, Aug 11, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00 Sun, Sep 3, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00
Reception @ 6 PM, Friday 11 August
Artist Talk @ 2 PM, Sunday 27 August
We are collectively wishing a fond farewell to Katie Belcher and Eryn Foster, members of the HERMES community, both bound for new adventures in Vancouver.
This exhibition speaks to 'passages' of all sorts within artists' lives, for example: social and familial changes, professional shifts, new formal investigations or political redirections.
Participants are:
Katie Belcher (window drawing installed on 20 August)
Mathew Reichertz + Sym Corrigan
to Aug 6
Ian Funke-McKay + Bree Hyland: Pools and Pride
Fri, Jul 21, 2017 5:30 PM 17:30 Sun, Aug 6, 2017 5:00 PM 17:00
Opening Reception: Friday, July 21: 5:30 - 7:30
Public hours:
Saturday, July 22: 12:00 - 3:00
Sunday, July 23: 1:00- 4:00
Saturday, July 29: 1:00 - 5:00
Saturday, August 5: 1:00 - 5:00
Sunday, August 6: 1:00 - 5:00
Pools and Pride presents recent works by Ian Funke-McKay and Bree Hyland. Both artists share a studio in Halifax, and are focused on painting based projects. The exhibition will feature ceramics, hand-carved surfaces, collage, works on paper, and canvas.
Bree Hyland is a figurative painter located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Hyland's figures exist in a dream-like domain, invoking fragmented narratives with no obvious closure.Hyland is also the owner and creator of BARRE
www.barrestudio.ca
Ian Funke-McKay is based in Halifax. He is currently building specialized emblems, figurines, and displays that are combined for exhibition purposes. He works seasonally as a visual arts instructor at the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts.
For more information about their work visit:
www.breehyland.com
www.ianfunkemckay.com
Cliff Eyland: The Queer Set and Opioid Wall Book
Sat, Jul 8, 2017 1:00 PM 13:00 Wed, Jul 19, 2017 5:00 PM 17:00
1 – 5 PM DAILY
RECEPTION: FRIDAY 14 JULY, 7 PM
HERMES is pleased to host Cliff Eyland's solo exhibition of 3" x 5" paintings, titled "The Queer Set," along with a loose-leaf 12" x 18" set of boxed pages called "Opioid Wall Book."
States Eyland, "The 'Queer Set' is made up of paintings of invented imagery. I begin a figure painting without any reference to models or photography or memories. The result is often mysterious to me, as if a naked person I don't know has just walked through my front door. I may or may not be queer, but some of my art is without doubt queer."
"The 'Opioid Wall Book' consists of digital photographs made with several programs and apps that depict the often horrifying visions I had during a recent recovery from a double lung transplant, for which I was medicated with Hydromorphone, Percocet, Tramacet, Fentanyl and high doses of Prednisone."
Eyland, a current resident of Winnipeg, is best known in Halifax for his paintings at the Halifax Central Library. His website address is www.cliffeyland.com.
Eyland will be in residence at HERMES. To arrange meetings please call 204 297-8421 or email cliff.eyland@gmail.com
Th'underBrush
Fri, Jun 16, 2017 5:00 PM 17:00 Sun, Jun 18, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00
OPEN: SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 12:00 - 6:00 PM
OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY JUNE 16 @ 5 PM
A group show of paintings and sketches by students in the NSCAD course "Abstraction and Landscape", instructed by Andrew Hunt. All work was completed on-site or derived from sketches made during outdoor excursions outside of Halifax in May and June 2017.
Emily Baron, Katelyn Bungay, Sylvia Calver, Krista Grunsky, Andrew Hunt, Katie Tasa, Nicole Williams & Ashley Wolodka
Last Chants
Sat, May 13, 2017 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Jun 4, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00
Closing Reception Saturday June 3rd @ 8 PM
Last Chants is a collection by a collective, loosely. The thread connecting these 9 artists is a shared studio hive on Agricola Street in Halifax. An established haunt of the city's North End arts community, the Last Chance Studios have been quietly fostering, creating, rotating, anchoring and changing for the better part of a decade in the junked and dusty spaces above the Army Navy Surplus Store. This sampling of work by its current members speaks to this undetermined relation to space. What does it mean to 'have space'? And how does that inflect a sense of 'having place'?
Jacques Gaudet | Merle Harley | Sam Kinsley| Michael McCormack | Jesse Mitchell | Andrew Patterson | William Robinson | Lou Sheppard | Anna Taylor
Barbara Berry + Ian McKinnon - Sacred Outlooks
Fri, Apr 7, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00 Sun, Apr 30, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00
Reception: Friday 7 April, 6:00 pm
Artists Talk: Saturday 22 April, 4:00 pm
In the exhibition entitled "Sacred Outlooks", Barbara Berry and Ian McKinnon will show art inspired and motivated by their own personal spiritual paths and meditations. Berry's large scale painted, wooden constructions are based on the traditional Five Buddha Families. Each of the Buddha families embodies one of the five different aspects of enlightenment and is associated with a color, a time of day, a season and an element. McKinnon's abstract paintings are in a theological sense icon-like; infused with the glowing colored light of stained glass, the viewers are invited to occupy the paradox of a thin and simultaneously deep space acted upon by both the created order and the Divine.
Barbara Berry was born in Denver Colorado. She earned a BFA at the Parsons School of Design in New York City and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. After living in Boston for four years, she moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1989. She has exhibited extensively in Canada and the United States. In addition to private collectors, her works have been purchased by the Nova Scotia Art Bank and the Canada Council Art Bank. In 2009 Berry received a Creation Grant from the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture, for a project entitled "Vision/Ex'Voto". From 2004 to 2013 she taught drawing, painting and printmaking at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She currently lives and works from her studio on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.
Ian McKinnon is a Halifax based artist and educator. He has a BFA from NSCADU (1980) and a MFA from Concordia (1994.) A part-time faculty member, Ian has taught drawing at NSCADU in the Foundation Division since 2003. After course work at the Atlantic School of Theology (2005/6) Ian transferred to the Faculty of Divinity at Trinity College (University of Toronto) where he completed a Master of Theology Studies (2011). His thesis, "Mutual Illumination and the Artist: Dispossession, Disinterested Love and Making Other" is an exploration of and argument for the necessity of theology and contemporary art entering a dialogue. From March 2014 to December 2016 Parish Ian was Parish Artist-in-Residence at St. Paul's Anglican Church (Grand Parade, Halifax) where besides pursuing his own work in a studio provided by the church, he has also established an exhibition program within the church itself. His most recent cycle of paintings is titled "Fragments of Glory."
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I'm always on the lookout for ways to keep my gadgets charged when I travel. That usually refers to my phone when I'm at conventions, where service is terrible and my trusty iPhone battery dies quickly — but sometimes it's my kids' iPods or an iPad or even other phones. It can be a pain when you're on the move and don't want to stuff a charger and a bunch of cables and connectors into your bag. Which is where the Powerbag Backpack 3000 comes into play. It provides not only a sturdy backpack with plenty of pockets for all your stuff, but also a built in charger and connectors so you can charge no matter where you go.
This product combines a Fūl backpack with a 3000mAh battery that plugs into a port on the bottom of the bag's interior pocket. It gives you enough power to charge most smartphones twice. To recharge the battery itself, you just plug the included AC adapter into the front of the bag, rather than having to dig through a full bag and remove the battery each time. You can even leave all your devices plugged in and charging and they'll charge up first followed by the Powerbag battery. A one touch button illuminates battery level lights on the front of the bag so you know when you're running low.
Once your battery is charged and ready, you can easily charge smaller devices through a side pocket which contains the PowerVine System. This includes an Apple, micro-USB, and mini-USB connector. Plug in your gadgets, tuck them into the little pockets, zip, and you're on the move and charging. There's also a standard USB port right by the battery in the large interior pocket to use for other devices, including tablets.
One of the things that makes this backpack shine is that it not only charges gadgets, but it's also a quality bag by itself. As a genuine Fūl backpack it's well-constructed, with a padded 16″ laptop compartment, a 15″ side-entry laptop compartment, a padded interior tablet compartment and lots of little pockets for whatever you need to bring along. I could easily pack everything I'd want for a day out with the kids, or a day at a convention, and still have room leftover to fit in a few trinkets. It also has suspension contoured backstraps so even full to the brim it can be easily adjusted for comfort.
The Powerbag Backpack retails for $139.99 so it's a bit more expensive than your average backpack, but when you consider what you'd pay for a portable charger and a good backpack separately, then it's an incredible price. Powerbag also makes a larger backpack which includes a bigger battery and additional styles including messenger bags and slings. If you need to charge your gadgets while you're on the move, and you don't want to worry about fumbling for cables and connectors, then the Powerbag is the way to go.
I received this product for review.


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 Alexandr Gennadijevič Zajcev (* 1952), sovětský krasobruslař
 Alexandr Michajlovič Zajcev  (1841–1910), ruský chemik

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Home | News Saturday 12 October 2019
Armed groups says committed to peace in Sudan, but want to discuss benchmarks first
October 11, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) leader Hadi Idris Friday said they will travel to Juba to discuss issues of concern about the peace process in the country.
Hadi Idris,SLM-TC leader and SRF Chairman
The South Sudanese government is preparing to host the negotiations between the Sudanese transitional government and the armed groups in Darfur region, Blue Nile and South Kordofan states.
In line with the Juba Declaration signed on 11 September, the SRF and the transitional government agreed to begin the peace talks on 14 October but they didn't agree on the venue of the process.
Only the Sudan's People's Liberation Movement-North led by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu agreed in a separate document with the government that the negotiations will be in the South Sudanese capital.
"We are committed to the Juba Declaration and we will be there on 14 October," Idris told Sudan Tribune before to add that they want first to address some "reservations and benchmarks" before to launch the talks.
During a recent workshop on peace issues held in Addis Ababa, SRF leading officials told Sudan Tribune that the South Sudanese government want to impose Juba as the venue of the talks while this matter was not agreed between the parties last September.
The official who spoke under the cover of anonymity further pointed that the invitation for talks received from Juba, the South Sudanese government even went to determine the agenda of the talks, another matter they didn't yet agree on it.
In Khartoum, South Sudanese Presidential Adviser on Security Affairs Tut Kew Gatluak handed over officially an invitation to the head of the Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
The Sudanese presidency, in a statement issued after the meeting, said that Gatluak briefed a meeting of the Supreme Council for Peace headed by al-Burhan on the arrangements and preparations of South Sudan to host the negotiations.
During his visit to Addis Ababa, the Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok met with SRF Secretary-General Gibril Ibrahim who is also the leader of the Justice and Equality Movement.
"We also talked about the peace process and the need to go along the peace path as quickly as possible so that the country can take the road of construction rather than the path of war," said Ibrahim in statements to the official news agency SUNA.
"In the Juba Declaration we talked about reaching a peace agreement within two months and we are still optimistic that we can reach this agreement during the agreed period," he further said.

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Q: How to reload the Page by header at first time only I need to reload or refresh the Page (index.php) at once on first time page loading. Because the google.com is giving the url to my page where there is no more data like index.php?id=10. So, I need to revert the url to index.php on first time only. I need solution in simple way. please any help?

A: I'd recomend you use $_SESSION global array, for it allows you to pass information from one page to another (or the same one, like in this case) easily. Be sure you initialize sessions on each page you use it, though.
The code should be something like this:
session_start();    //Important! Without this, $_SESSION doesn't work

//reload_index is a variable I'm using in the array, nothing restricted; you can use whichever name you like
if (!isset($_SESSION['reload_index']) || ($_SESSION['reload_index'] == 'yes'))
{
    $_SESSION['reload_index'] = 'no';
    header("Location: index.php");    //Or whatever page you want to go; you can add parameters as well, like index.php?id=10
}

//...Rest of the page

I hope this helps you resolve your problem. Best regards.

A: Check if a flag is set in session. If not, set it and reload your page.
Simple pseudo-code example:
session_start();

if (!isset($_SESSION['redirect_flag'])) {
  $_SESSION['redirect_flag'] = true;
  header("Refresh:0; url=index.php");
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/**
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public interface Car {

    /**
     * get the starting grid position, can be used as id during the race
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    /**
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    /**
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    /**
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More than anything we always want you and your pup to be happy!! If you're not satisfied with any part of your experience on BarkShop please reach out to us at happy@BarkShop.com and let us help!
We do our very best to inform our customers about all products in BarkShop but we know sometimes something arrives in the mail and for one reason or another its not quite what you expected.
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Portland Thorns FC starting eleven
Seattle, WA - Saturday, July 1, 2017: Portland Thorns FC starting eleven during a regular season National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) match between the Seattle Reign FC and the Portland Thorns FC at Memorial Stadium.
Photographer: Jane Gershovich
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Voting in Portuguese elections
Information updated on January 13, 2022
Find out where to vote in this page at ePortugal.
In Portugal, people over 18 years vote in the following elections:
President of the Portuguese Republic (every 5 years)
Parliamentary (every 4 years)
Regional parliamentary (every 4 years)
Regional Government of the Azores
Regional Government of Madeira
Municipal (every 4 years)
European (every 5 years)
And also whenever they are called upon to give an opinion on important issues for life in society, through:
Local Referendum
To learn more, consult the Voter'sPortal page on elections and referendums.
Voter registry
Enrolment in the Electoral Register is automatic.
From the age of 18, any national can exercise his/her right to vote.
Voter number
The voter number has been eliminated. Therefore, in order to exercise your right to vote, you only need to appear at the polling station accompanied by your identification document/Citizen Card.
Enrolment in the Electoral Register is carried out according to the address indicated on the Citizen Card, both for nationals residing in national territory and for nationals residing abroad. It is therefore important that you keep your address updated on your Citizen Card.
In case you have changed residence, if you have not changed the address on your Citizen Card, your voting location will remain associated with the previous address. You must, however, carry out and confirm the change of address on the Citizen Card before the 60-day period prior to any election in order for the new voting location to take effect.
To learn more about the change of address on your Citizen Card, you can go to https://eportugal.gov.pt/servicos/alterar-a-morada-do-cartao-de-cidadao.
You can find out where your voting location is
It is only possible to know the place of voting in the 15 days before each election or referendum. Outside this period, you can only check in which parish council you are registered.
Online, on the voter registry portal:
with your civil identification number - enter your civil identification number (on the Citizen Card or the Identity Card) and your date of birth in YYYYMMDD format
with your name - enter your full name and date of birth in YYYYMMDD format
Through an SMS:
write the following message: RE <space> Civil identification number <space> date of birth in YYYYMMDD format (example: RE 12345678 19531007)
and send it to 3838 (free service).
Face to face, in a parish council or town hall.
How to vote?
On the election or referendum scheduled day, go to your voting location and present your identification document at the polling station.
The ballot paper is delivered by the president of the polling station. In municipal elections, 3 ballot papers are delivered.
Go to the polling station and put a cross (X) on the square in front of the list or the candidate for whom you wish to vote. In case of a referendum, you must put a cross (X) in the option "YES" or in the option "NO". If you damage the ballot paper, return it to the polling station's president and ask for a new one.
Fold the ballot paper in 4 with the printed part facing inwards.
Return to the polling station and give the ballot paper to the president, who will insert it into the ballot box. In municipal elections, the ballot papers are introduced into the ballot box by the voter.
Voters who are notoriously ill or physically handicapped and whom the bureau finds unable to vote alone may be accompanied by another voter of their choice. If the bureau has doubts about the notoriety of the illness or physical disability, it may require a certificate proving the impossibility of voting alone, issued by a doctor who exercises health authority powers in the area of the municipality. For this purpose, health centres are open on election days.
The persons responsible for the companies or services that are active on election day must make it easier for the workers to leave the service for long enough to exercise this right.
Ballot paper
The ballot paper contains the names, acronyms and symbols of all competing parties and coalitions. The order in which they appear on the ballot paper is the result of the drawings carried out by the courts provided for in the Law.
Example of a ballot paper for the election of the Assembly of the Republic:
The vote is considered null in the following situations:
when more than one square is ticked or when there is doubt as to which square is ticked
when the square of a list which has withdrawn from the elections or which has not been admitted is ticked
when the ballot paper has been cut, drawn on, erased or any word has been written
in cases of early voting, when the ballot paper does not reach the polling station in the legally prescribed conditions or is received in an envelope that is not duly closed.
The ballot paper that does not have any type of trademark is considered a blank vote.
Blank votes, as well as null votes, which are not validly cast, shall not influence the calculation of the number of votes obtained by each candidacy and their conversion into mandates.
Even if the number of blank or null votes is in the majority, the election shall be valid and the mandates shall be established taking into account the votes validly cast in the candidacies.
Citizens who are prevented from going to the polling station on election day may vote early.
Early voting covers the following situations:
hospitalized patients
prisoners not deprived of political rigths
citizens in mobility
citizens abroad.
The request is made through the Early Voting platform.
For more information, consult the early voting page on the Voter's Portal.
Find out where to vote
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Q: Burninate the [low-priority] tag The meta-tag, low-priority seems to be pointless for a few reasons:

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*If it is so low of a priority, is it worth asking?

*It isn't obvious who can make the decision of its priority.

*It may be an actual problem for someone else.

*Does this tag add anything of substance? Would anything change without it?

*There are only 7 questions with this tag.

Can this tag be removed?

A: I edited the seven questions with the tag to remove it (and make any other worthwhile changes).  It will be automatically removed as an orphan in ~24 hours.
For an obvious meta-tag tag with so little use, I'm not sure anyone really needs to ask for burnination versus just editing it away themselves.


The Square Cremation Ring is made of stainless steel and created by artist jewelers. The quality is magnificent and the craftsmanship outstanding. This Keepsake Ring can hold a small amount of the cremation ashes or a piece of hair. Memorialize your loved one forever and keep your loved one close to you at all times.
"This ring is not as matte or vintage looking as the photo provided. It is a lot more shiny and gemstone-like rather than rock-climbing, which gives the ring a more glamorous look rather than everyday, which is what I was expecting.
I am pleasantly surprised by the beauty of this ring, especially for the price and I am so glad I got it.
This is the perfect way to keep my mom close and would recommend this ring and the other cremation jewelry to anyone!" Gabrielle T.


Are you current with the National Model Swimming Pool and Spa Code? CDC, through an initial grant from the National Swimming Pool Foundation, is working with public health and industry representatives across the United States to prevent drowning, injuries, and the spread of recreational water illnesses at public swimming pools and spas by building a Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC). The MAHC will serve as a model and guide for local and state agencies needing to update or implement swimming pool and spa code, rules, regulations, guidance, law, or standards governing the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of swimming pools, spas, hot tubs, and other treated or disinfected aquatic facilities.
In the United States, there is no federal regulatory authority responsible for disinfected aquatic facilities (e.g. swimming pools, water parks, etc.); all pool codes are developed, reviewed, and approved by state and/or local public health officials. As a result, there are no uniform, national standards governing the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of swimming pools and other treated aquatic facilities. Thus, the code requirements for preventing and responding to recreational water illnesses (RWIs) can vary significantly among local and state agencies. The Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) is intended to transform the typical health department pool program into a data-driven, knowledge-based, risk reduction effort to prevent disease and injuries and promote healthy recreational water experiences. The MAHC should ensure that the best available standards and practices for protecting public health are available for adoption by state and local agencies. It will provide local and state agencies with uniform guidelines for the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of swimming pools and other disinfected aquatic facilities.
This effort stems from a CDC-sponsored workshop called "Recreational Water Illness Prevention at Disinfected Swimming Venues" that was convened on February 15-17, 2005, in Atlanta, Georgia. The workshop assembled persons from different disciplines working in state, local, and federal public health agencies and the aquatics industry to discuss ways to minimize recreational water illnesses spread through disinfected swimming venues. The main recommendation from this workshop was that CDC sponsor a national partnership to create a model guidance document that helps local and state agencies incorporate science-based practices into their pool programs without having to "recreate the wheel." CDC has been working with public health and industry representatives across the United States to build this effort. Initial efforts have been focused on reducing the spread of recreational water illnesses and injuries at disinfected aquatic facilities.


I hereby agree to terms that Eatonville Dance Studio has set forth.
Dress Rehearsal: June 14th 5:00 to 8PM.
I agree Costumes money is due no latter then March 1st. I agree Costumes are non refundable. I understand that my dancer is to attend all 4 dates in June Pictures, dress rehearsal and 2 show dates. I understand that I will still be liable for monthly tuition from Feb until June if my child decides to quit. If my child misses multiple classes I may be required to pay for a private lesson to get them caught up.


I'm new to Douglas Rushkoff, but I'm digging what he's saying over on FastCompany about the state of 'brands' and the future (now!) of marketing.
In short, ditch the inflated and created 'branding' that takes place at your org–just be transparent and really good at what you do. BTW: One good example of this is MailChimp.
[But] it's not about creating a mythology around the way a product was created, so it's no longer "these were cookies made by elves in a hollow tree." That's not the value of the brand. The value of the brand is where did this actually come from? What's in this cookie? Who made it? Are Malaysian children losing their fingers in the cookie press or is this being made by happy cookie culture people? At that point, all these companies come to people like me saying, "We want to become transparent. We want a transparent communication strategy." And I'm like "Well, are you proud of what's going on inside your company? Are you proud enough to pull up the shades and let people see inside?" It's that easy.
It will be companies that figure out how to communicate the non-fiction story of a company, so it's going to look a lot more like a communications company than a creative branding agency. It's going to look a little bit more like PR, in some sense. It's going to be people who go and figure out what does your company do and how do we let the world know about that? There's going to be a lot of psychology involved, except instead of it being psychologists turned against the consumer, it's going to be psychologists going in and trying to convince companies that what they're doing is worthy. It's breaking down this false need in companies to hide from the public what they're doing–except for the ones that do (need to hide).
We're getting back to the basics–and I like it.


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Q: How to solve Mnesia - inconsistent_database error in clustered ejabberd environment? We have an ejabberd cluster set up consisting of two hosts with which we are running into issues during restarts of the hosts.
We are seeing inconsistent_database errors logged in. However, we cannot conclusively analyse what in configurations or module_init executions may actually cause the behaviour.
Deleting the mnesia on node1 may help resolve the issue. Yet, it is not desirable for administration purposes.
Would like to request a review of below data along with some configuration and feedback on what may actually be causing the behavior as well as how to mitigate it.
Thank you in advance.
The environment configuration is as follows:

*

*Ejabberd Verison : 16.03

*Number of hosts :2

*odbc_type : MySQL

Error logged:
    ** ERROR ** mnesia_event got {inconsistent_database, running_partitioned_network, other_node}

Repro step:

*

*Restart node1

*Restart node2

NB: it does not repro if the hosts are restarted in reverse order.
MnesiaInfo:
There seems to be two schemas with different entry size and possbily content on either nodes:
muc_online_room and our custom schema as renamed SCRUBBED_CUSTOM_FEATURE_SCHEMA_NAME down below:
Node1:
---> Processes holding locks <---
---> Processes waiting for locks <---
---> Participant transactions <---
---> Coordinator transactions <---
---> Uncertain transactions <---
---> Active tables <---
mod_register_ip: with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
muc_online_room: with 348      records occupying 10757    words of mem
http_bind      : with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
carboncopy     : with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
oauth_token    : with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
session        : with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
session_counter: with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
sql_pool       : with 10       records occupying 439      words of mem
route          : with 4        records occupying 405      words of mem
iq_response    : with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
temporarily_blocked: with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
s2s            : with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
route_multicast: with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
shaper         : with 2        records occupying 321      words of mem
access         : with 28       records occupying 861      words of mem
acl            : with 6        records occupying 459      words of mem
local_config   : with 32       records occupying 1293     words of mem
schema         : with 19       records occupying 2727     words of mem
SCRUBBED_CUSTOM_FEATURE_SCHEMA_NAME     : with 2457     records occupying 49953    words of mem
===> System info in version "4.12.5", debug level = none <===
opt_disc. Directory "SCRUBBED_LOCATION" is used.
use fallback at restart = false
running db nodes   = [SCRUBBED_NODE2,SCRUBBED_NODE1]
stopped db nodes   = []
master node tables = []
remote             = []
ram_copies         = [access,acl,carboncopy,http_bind,iq_response,
                      local_config,mod_register_ip,muc_online_room,route,
                      route_multicast,s2s,session,session_counter,shaper,
                      sql_pool,temporarily_blocked,SCRUBBED_CUSTOM_FEATURE_SCHEMA_NAME]
disc_copies        = [oauth_token,schema]
disc_only_copies   = []
[{'SCRUBBED_NODE1',disc_copies},
 {'SCRUBBED_NODE2',disc_copies}] = [schema,
                                                                  oauth_token]
[{'SCRUBBED_NODE1',ram_copies}] = [local_config,
                                                                 acl,access,
                                                                 shaper,
                                                                 sql_pool,
                                                                 mod_register_ip]
[{'SCRUBBED_NODE1',ram_copies},
 {'SCRUBBED_NODE2',ram_copies}] = [route_multicast,
                                                                 s2s,
                                                                 temporarily_blocked,
                                                                 iq_response,
                                                                 route,
                                                                 session_counter,
                                                                 session,
                                                                 carboncopy,
                                                                 http_bind,
                                                                 muc_online_room,
                                                                 SCRUBBED_CUSTOM_FEATURE_SCHEMA_NAME]
2623 transactions committed, 35 aborted, 26 restarted, 60 logged to disc
0 held locks, 0 in queue; 0 local transactions, 0 remote
0 transactions waits for other nodes: []
ok

Node2:
mnesia:info().
---> Processes holding locks <---
---> Processes waiting for locks <---
---> Participant transactions <---
---> Coordinator transactions <---
---> Uncertain transactions <---
---> Active tables <---
mod_register_ip: with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
muc_online_room: with 348      records occupying 8651     words of mem
http_bind      : with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
carboncopy     : with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
oauth_token    : with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
session        : with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
session_counter: with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
route          : with 4        records occupying 405      words of mem
sql_pool       : with 10       records occupying 439      words of mem
iq_response    : with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
temporarily_blocked: with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
s2s            : with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
route_multicast: with 0        records occupying 299      words of mem
shaper         : with 2        records occupying 321      words of mem
access         : with 28       records occupying 861      words of mem
acl            : with 6        records occupying 459      words of mem
local_config   : with 32       records occupying 1293     words of mem
schema         : with 19       records occupying 2727     words of mem
SCRUBBED_CUSTOM_FEATURE_SCHEMA_NAME     : with 2457     records occupying 38232    words of mem
===> System info in version "4.12.5", debug level = none <===
opt_disc. Directory "SCRUBBED_LOCATION" is used.
use fallback at restart = false
running db nodes   = ['SCRUBBED_NODE1','SCRUBBED_NODE2']
stopped db nodes   = []
master node tables = []
remote             = []
ram_copies         = [access,acl,carboncopy,http_bind,iq_response,
                      local_config,mod_register_ip,muc_online_room,route,
                      route_multicast,s2s,session,session_counter,shaper,
                      sql_pool,temporarily_blocked,SCRUBBED_CUSTOM_FEATURE_SCHEMA_NAME]
disc_copies        = [oauth_token,schema]
disc_only_copies   = []
[{'SCRUBBED_NODE1',disc_copies},
 {'SCRUBBED_NODE2',disc_copies}] = [schema,
                                                                  oauth_token]
[{'SCRUBBED_NODE1',ram_copies},
 {'SCRUBBED_NODE2',ram_copies}] = [route_multicast,
                                                                 s2s,
                                                                 temporarily_blocked,
                                                                 iq_response,
                                                                 route,
                                                                 session_counter,
                                                                 session,
                                                                 carboncopy,
                                                                 http_bind,
                                                                 muc_online_room,
                                                                 SCRUBBED_CUSTOM_FEATURE_SCHEMA_NAME]
[{'SCRUBBED_NODE2',ram_copies}] = [local_config,
                                                                 acl,access,
                                                                 shaper,
                                                                 sql_pool,
                                                                 mod_register_ip]
2998 transactions committed, 18 aborted, 0 restarted, 99 logged to disc
0 held locks, 0 in queue; 0 local transactions, 0 remote
0 transactions waits for other nodes: []
ok

A:
NB: it does not repro if the hosts are restarted in reverse order.

Inconsistent database is to protect data. If you stopped the cluster in one order, you have to restart it in reverse order. Otherwise, the first node stopped, will have recorded that there were other active node and what for the up to date information to prevent data loss.


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Q: Why should I never use an unsafe block to modify a string? I have a String which I would like to modify in some way. For example: reverse it or upcase it.
I have discovered that the fastest way to do this is by using a unsafe block and pointers.
For example:
        unsafe
        {
            fixed (char* str = text)
            {
                *str = 'X';
            }
        }

Are there any reasons why I should never ever do this?

A: Put it this way: how would you feel if another programmer decided to replace 0 with 1 everywhere in your code, at execution time? It would play hell with all your assumptions. The same is true with strings. Everyone expects them to be immutable, and codes with that assumption in mind. If you violate that, you are likely to introduce bugs - and they'll be really hard to trace.

A: The .Net framework requires strings to be immutable. Due to this requirement it is able to optimise all sorts of operations.
String interning is one great example of this requirement is leveraged heavily. To speed up some string comparisons (and reduce memory consumption) the .Net framework maintains a Dictionary of pointers, all pre-defined strings will live in this dictionary or any strings where you call the String.intern method on. When the IL instruction ldstr is called it will check the interned dictionary and avoid memory allocation if we already have the string allocated, note: String.Concat will not check for interned strings.
This property of the .net framework means that if you start mucking around directly with strings you can corrupt your intern table and in turn corrupt other references to the same string.
For example:
         // these strings get interned
        string hello = "hello";
        string hello2 = "hello";

        string helloworld, helloworld2;

        helloworld = hello;
        helloworld += " world";

        helloworld2 = hello;
        helloworld2 += " world";

        unsafe
        {
            // very bad, this changes an interned string which affects
            // all app domains.
            fixed (char* str = hello2)
            {
                *str = 'X';
            }

            fixed (char* str = helloworld2)
            {
                *str = 'X';
            }

        }

        Console.WriteLine("hello = {0} , hello2 = {1}", hello, hello2);
        // output: hello = Xello , hello2 = Xello

        Console.WriteLine("helloworld = {0} , helloworld2 = {1}", helloworld, helloworld2);
        // output : helloworld = hello world , helloworld2 = Xello world

A:
Are there any reasons why I should never ever do this?

Yes, very simple: Because .NET relies on the fact that strings are immutable. Some operations (e.g. s.SubString(0, s.Length)) actually return a reference to the original string. If this now gets modified, all other references will as well.
Better use a StringBuilder to modify a string since this is the default way.

A: Oh dear lord yes.
1) Because that class is not designed to be tampered with.
2) Because strings are designed and expected throughout the framework to be immutable.  That means that code that everyone else writes (including MSFT) is expecting a string's underlying value never to change.
3) Because this is premature optimization and that is E V I L.

A: Agreed about StringBuilder, or just convert your string to an array of chars/bytes and work there.  Also, you gave the example of "upcasing" -- the String class has a ToUpper method, and if that's not at least as fast as your unsafe "upcasing", I'll eat my hat.


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MIDTERMS: KPCC's Mary Plummer looks at whether the increased political energy will effect the midterm elections. "Every bit of data we have on these voters and their interest in elections is that these are the very voters who will underperform in an election like what we have coming up in 2018," said Paul Mitchell, an expert on California elections and vice president of the data firm, Political Data Inc."
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