#Phl union

[thegreatturbo17]

Raccoon!

[rickztalk]

‘Critical’ for PHL to sign FTA with Europe within two years

‘Critical’ for PHL to sign FTA with Europe within two years

By Alyssa Nicole O. Tan, Reporter THE PHILIPPINES must enter into a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) within a two-year window or become the last of three major markets in Southeast Asia deemed priorities by the EU, according to the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP). “The timeline here is critical,” ECCP President Lars Wittig told BusinessWorld in a…

[circlesandsoundwaves]

Photos of Sorority Noise, 6/14/17 at Union Transfer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Photos by Molly Louise Hudelson.

[tradersturf]

PHL to implement EU registration system for domestic exporters

EFFECTIVE on January 1, the Philippines began implementing a European Union registration system authorizing exporters to issue self-certification for eligible goods to avail themselves of preferential tariffs under the EU’s Generalized Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+). The self-certification will gradually phase out the use of old GSP Certificate of Origin Form A.

The Philippines is one of the beneficiary countries of the EU GSP+ that grants zero tariffs to 6,274 product lines.

[dailychapel]

Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you that, on the basis of your merit, I have inherited a full, abundant and eternal life. Awaken confidence in me that I may receive all the blessings that you have prepared for me. In union with you, I ask for special favor today. If it be your holy will, grant my request and fix my eyes upon you that I may honor and glorify your name.  In your glorious name, Amen.

[Psa 149:1-9 ESV] 1 Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly! 2 Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King! 3 Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre! 4 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation. 5 Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds. 6 Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands, 7 to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples, 8 to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron, 9 to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the LORD!

[Mal 1:6-14 ESV] 6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, 'How have we despised your name?' 7 By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, 'How have we polluted you?' By saying that the LORD's table may be despised. 8 When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the LORD of hosts. 9 And now entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With such a gift from your hand, will he show favor to any of you? says the LORD of hosts. 10 Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand. 11 For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts. 12 But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised. 13 But you say, 'What a weariness this is,' and you snort at it, says the LORD of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the LORD. 14 Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.

[Phl 1:12-14 ESV] 12 I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, 13 so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ. 14 And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

[tigerstrikesasteroidnetwork]

PHL / Leroy Johnson: Crossroads

Leroy Johnson, “Memories,” mixed media, early 2000’s (photo credit: Patricia Yanez)

Leroy Johnson: Crossroads Saturday, July 3 to Saturday, August 7, 2021 Reception: Thursday, July 8th, 6-9pm Gallery hours: Saturdays, 12-4 and by appointment

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia is proud to present Crossroads, a solo exhibition featuring sculptures and works on paper by Leroy Johnson. A self-described outsider artist, Johnson surveys the rhythms of the city of Philadelphia in a range of disciplines: for over seven decades, his virtuosic studio practice has included painting, assemblage sculpture, collage, and ceramics.

These sculptures are tender and unflinching portraits of Johnson’s Philadelphia. Through assemblages of materials sourced from Johnson’s walks throughout the city, he transforms the cityscape into a site of human connection. Made of everything from found plastic to cardboard to clay, and embedded with layers of photographs, painting, portraits, and found objects, Johnson’s sculptures capture the richness of urban life.

Crossroads also features works on paper from Johnson’s participation in the Barnes Foundation Artist-in-Residence program in 2019. Layered with corn husks, paint, caution tape, union and confederate flags, these works draw connections between the Civil War and contemporary racial injustice in the United States.

Philadelphia native Leroy Johnson (b. 1937) is a mixed-media artist whose poetic work reflects his many experiences in the city. Johnson has exhibited widely, with past solo shows at Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, Tirza Yalon Kolton Ceramic Gallery (Tel Aviv), Gloucester County College (Sewell, NJ), the Camden County Historical Society, and Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia, PA). He has received grants from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Independence Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Johnson received a Masters of Human Services from Lincoln University (1986-88), and was a 2014 Pew Fellow at the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. He has been a participating/resident artist for several community-based arts projects, including for Ile Ife, The Village of Arts and Humanities, Taller Puertoqueno, and The Church of the Advocate, St. Francis Academy, in Baltimore. He was selected for the Woodmere 77th Juried Exhibition at the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, in spring 2018; was included in the two-person exhibition “#WE HAVE NO PRESIDENT” (with Sara McEneaney) at Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, PA; was the inaugural resident artist at Art Barn in Amaranth, Amaranth, PA in 2017; and was Artist-in-Residence at the Barnes Foundation’s “Let’s Connect” program in 2019.

photos by Constance Mensh

[davidfoster215]

652 N Union St, Phila. PA 19104 Mantua city of Philly $205,000 1,839 St Ft 5 bedrooms 1.5 Baths . 512 N 39th St SOLD for $235,000 3908 Warren St Phila., PA 19104 full rehab ACT for $429,000 . If you or someone you know are looking to buy, sell or rent residential or commercial property in Pennsylvania or Delaware please give me a call 215.779.2862. #realtor #winning #betonyourself #homeownership #buyers #sellers #properties #home #house #condo #forsale #investment #agents #sold #mls #shortsale #phillyrealestate #psp #homeforsale #homes #hustle #workhardplayhard #newhome #phila #phl #reaalestate #realestateagent #realtorlife #realtors #realestatelife

[broadcastemotion]

THE JESUS LIZARD BLEW THE ROOF OFF THE JOINT! . . . #thejesuslizard #jesuslizard #davidyow #davidwmsims #duanedenison #macmcneilly #touchandgorecords #touchandgo #philly #philadelphia #phl #philadelphiapa #phillypa (at Union Transfer) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6uYfjnA20k/?igshid=17fjo6p7a4leq

[tigerstrikesasteroidnetwork]

PHL / Where Are You Now / Michelle Cho

Back to exhibition info

My name is Michelle Cho and I am a first-generation Korean-American currently enrolled in the MFA program at The University of Pennsylvania. Prior to moving to Philadelphia, I attended the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City and graduated with a BFA in 2019. *My body began adapting—the skin on my fingers took longer to rupture from knotting the rubber bands, my lungs stretched wider from holding my breath in from wafting scents of ammonia brought by the liquid latex. These slight expansions in bearance carried over and elevated my day-to-day. I was able to peel more onions in the kitchen and hold my breath longer during a swim. Each time the cusp was shifted. My sculptures were tracking something that could not be plateaued, because it was always extending.  The sculptures solidify Time in the form of Habit. 3 pounds of rubber bands take me 4 hours to coil and 2 days for my fingers to recover in return to make more. The curing of latex and the healing of skin (from knotting rubber bands) reverts me to count Time as minutes and days instead of piles and strands. Repetition exists in my sculptures not as a practice to multiply but as a transition to enlarge a single form. My acts of repetition are a practice of condensing space, which compromise spatial expansion. The accumulation is not spread out but packaged and concealed, allowing them to seem transportable.  By actively feeling my body in the process of making, I was able to keep track of Time. The study of my body is important because in the act of sculpting, it is my dead skin particles that are sticking to the rubber, my hair follicles that are fusing to the latex adhesive and so on. Once I began viewing my body’s presence with the sculptures, I was reminded of a Korean comfort woman from a book I was reading the previous night. The sculptures are almost studies of this wrong and inappropriate ability to freely explore sex and sexuality as a Korean-American female with the syncopated history of comfort women.   This brought me to explore how history is being passed over from Koreans to Korean-Americans. The separation of land creates a definite off-beat of transferred  information that adds to the disattachment. Only having visited Korea once, practicing robotic acts of custom, shown by my mother, forced me to practice a culture on foreign land. Marking space through the act of performing customs created boundaries that signified difference. I found myself creating sculptures that resembled containers and orbs to fill space temporarily.  The sculptures are influenced by the composition of the surrounding space. Light changes the appearance (the piece darkens with the introduction of light and heat) as well as the scent (the final cure of latex exudes a scent that is reminiscent of body odor) of the rubber sculptures. Jobs that are easily accessible to immigrants are works of manual labor. Light and heat prompts the sculptures to mimic the symptoms from labor in the sunlight.  I see my sculptures going further to explore repetition as a form of protection and concealment. The semi-translucent nature of latex acts as a veil that parallels the outside peering into customs that mark difference.

110 days, latex, fluorescent lights, bent 10 ft. latex roll, 2019

Emulating putting light up against skin. Fluorescent lights are tightly wrapped in a single 11 foot latex sheet. The piece is turned on at 4am and powered off at 5pm (paralleling the working times of South Korean Rice Farmers). The folds in the latex sheet mimic the physicality of veins. When the latex is cured under high temperatures of heat, it darkens in tone. It takes 110 days of the piece being activated to reach maximum opacity (the same amount of time for rice to be harvested). This piece is customizable and can just be presented as a stand in sculpture.

Inflatable 2, rubber bands, plastic, air, 9ft diameter, 206 lbs, 2019

The thick nature of the plastic inflatable allows the sculpture to be rolled without penetration.

Comfort, rubber bands, steel, 200 lbs, diameter is customizable, 2020

200 pounds of hand-coiled rubberbands lie inside a mirrored steel tube basin.

Dryer study, latex, dryer, tubing, window, dimensions variable, 2021

At-home studio sculpture: Steel pipe is connected to the dryer vent emitting hot air from the turned-on dryer. The pipe emitting warm air is being released to the window on the opposite side of the room. Created amidst the pandemic, I have been critical about domestic spaces, utility bills, etc. The penetrating latex balloon possibly represents bodies cohabitating, existing, and breathing the same air. The balloon is pumped with an air pumper that is dependent on the electricity of the apartment. This piece is able for display in a new environment. Like other artists, this is how I am adapting to the pandemic and working in apartment spaces.

Previously to the pandemic, I was working inside a large garage. After enrolling in the MFA program at The University of Pennsylvania, I was looking forward to using the studio space and facilities prepared by the school. Due to higher education institutions closing in general, I am now working out of a car and my apartment.

[pennsylvaniaprelawland-blog]

Philadelphia's New Equal Justice Center

By Olivia Pereira, Villanova University Class of 2020

June 26, 2019

Philadelphia’s new Equal Justice Center is set to officially open in 2022. The $65 million project will soon house a way array of 20 civil legal aid organizations. These various organizations on their own help over 40,000 people annually [1]. The initiative to build a center in Philadelphia was backed by the Philadelphia Bar Foundation. So what does this mean for the city of Philadelphia? Currently specific civil legal aid organizations are dispersed throughout the city. With this new center, it will be more convenient and efficient for both the organizations and clients. Individual civil legal aid organizations are vastly underfunded and have a difficult time providing quality and efficient services to their clients. With the construction of the Equal Justice Center, the Philadelphia Bar Foundation hopes that this issue will be fixed and more people can get the quality legal service that they have the right to. Another goal is to make Philadelphia’s Justice Center and model for the rest of the country. If the project is successful, the Philadelphia Bar Foundation hopes that other major cities around the country will follow Philly’s example and construct their own Equal Justice Centers.

Why is it beneficial to have a wide array of civil legal aid organizations in one place? The people that need help the most are classified as low-income and are living paycheck to paycheck. Seeking help from a civil legal aid organization means taking time off of work, finding someone to watch their kids, and transportation costs. If the organization they go to cannot help them and directs them somewhere else, that’s more time and money they have to give up to get the correct legal help [2]. Single agencies only practice their specific style of law. Even if they want to help someone, if it does not fit into their practice of law, they simply can’t. With the New Equal Justice Center, clients will be able to find the right legal help in one convenient place.

Right now, low-income citizens have a much more difficult time getting the legal service they deserve. They do not have the money to hire a private attorney and must turn to civil legal aid organizations. Other than being underfunded, the public defenders with these organizations have a large workload and simply do not have the time to work as thoroughly on each case as a private attorney would.

According to a report from the Legal Services Corporation, 4 out of 5 low income Philadelphians who need a lawyer for civil disputes do not get one. This is largely due to the fact that they either do not know how the complex legal system works or they cannot afford a lawyer.

The money for the project is coming from private donations, state grants, and bonds. The public can even donate to the cause on their website.

The executive director of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation, Jessica Hilburn-Holmes said, “The first of its kind in the country, the Equal Justice Center will provide more effective solutions, promote pro bono opportunities in the legal community, and encourage information sharing, collaboration, creative thinking, learning, and research” [1].

The building is not just going to be a hub for civil legal aid organizations— there are plans to put a hotel, senior citizen housing, another building with market rate rentals, and a retail space.

The agencies that have committed to the project are the following: [3]

●       Center for Advocacy for the Rights & Interests of the Elderly (CARIE)

●       Community Legal Services (CLS)

●       Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project (CBAP)

●       Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Philadelphia

●       Good Shepherd Mediation Program (GSMP)

●       Pennsylvania American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

●       Pennsylvania Health Law Project (PHLP)

●       Philadelphia Bar Foundation (PBF)

●       Philadelphia Legal Assistance (PLA)

●       Public Interest Law Center (PILC)

●       Regional Housing Legal Services (RHLS)

●       SeniorLAW Center

●       Women’s Law Project

This project undoubtedly has great potential and if it succeeds, could be a landmark project that sets a precedent for the rest of the country. Many people are not getting the legal help that they constitutionally have the right to receive. And if they are, it is not quality service. As a result, people in poverty have a hard time bettering their lives and are more likely to run into legal trouble.

________________________________________________________________

https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2018/11/12/equal-justice-center-to-break-ground-in-2019.html [1]

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/one-stop-legal-shop/ [2]

https://philaequaljusticecenter.org/partners [3]

Photo Credit: Pennrose PHL, LLC, via Phila.gov

[trendingph]

EU, PHL trade meetings to resume soon REUTERS ECONOMIC COOPERATION and trade meetings between the Philippines and the European Union (EU) are set to continue before year’s ... https://trendingph.net/eu-phl-trade-meetings-to-resume-soon/?feed_id=188550&_unique_id=5fa1126456924 #meetings #philippinenews #philippinesnews #phl #resume #trade #trendingph

[tartsky]

~ SUMMER !! ~

5/30 - Radical Puppet Morality Plays @ Ohev Shalom - 9pm (NY)

5/31 - Incident Report @ Basilica Hudson - 8pm (NY)

6/7 - Alex Millan’s The Last Ha - 10pm (NY)

6/8 - Shield the Joyous w/ Gabi Revlock & Sasha Frolov @ Dixon Place - 7:30pm (NY)

6/9 - Trade School: Studio Visits @ A Phila Thing - 2pm (PHL)

6/11 - Symposium @ Tisch NYU - 3pm (NY)

7/12 - work in progress showing @ FringeArts - 7pm (PHL)

7/27 - 8/2 - SIGN FELT in residence @ Abrons Art Center (NY)

7/27 - celebration for release of HAPPINESS @ Anyone Comics (NY)

8/3 - LAUGH WORLD @ Union Hall

8/5 - Abortion Access Benefit Show @ The Glove - 8:30pm (NY)

8/10 - Voice of the Valley 

[tradersturf]

25 PHL food brands new $83.2M export sales at Dubai food show

TWENTY-FIVE Philippine companies bagged more than $83 million of export sales from over 1,163 foreign buyers when the country joined Gulfood in Dubai.

Our country’s tropical selections once again delighted the palate of buyers across the globe under the Philippine pavilion in Gulfood.

Among the best sellers under the FoodPhilippines pavilion were dried fish (herring and anchovies), fruit preserves, nuts, condiments from Pixcel Transglobal Foods Inc.; fresh banana from SL Agritech; tamarind mix and oyster sauce from Mama Sita’s; canned sardines from Phil-Union Frozen Foods Inc.; and sardines, tuna, frozen fish, canned vegetables and fruits from Mega Global Corp.

Read more: https://bit.ly/2HnKCMb

[trendingph]

Digital banking trailblazer UnionBank is Phl’s 'Best Bank for SMEs' Three-time “Best Digital Bank” winner, Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank), was recently acclaimed as the Philippines’ Best Bank for SMEs, by... https://trendingph.net/digital-banking-trailblazer-unionbank-is-phls-best-bank-for-smes/?feed_id=114212&_unique_id=5f6dec5a3cb53 #bank #banking #digital #philippinenews #philippinesnews #phls #smes #trailblazer #trendingph #unionbank