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Lila Tretikov, Chief Executive Officer, Terrawatt Initiative, France; Young Global Leader speaks at the press conference "Accelerating Energy Decarbonization." The World Economic Forum holds the Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2017 in New York, NY USA. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ben Hider
Construction continues on Western's Accelerator Centre at the Advanced Manufacturing Park.
February 24, 2014
Photo: Douglas Keddy
Leila Chikhaoui, Minister of Environment for Tunisia, speaking at the Building Back Better: Accelerating Deep Collaboration in the Built Environment event at the SEC for COP26, Glasgow, 11/11/2021. Photograph: Justin Goff/ UK Government
60163 Tornado accelerates away from Tyseley South Jn onto the North Warwicks line with a special train from Manchester Piccadilly to Stratford on Avon
Accelerating Board Action for Net Zero
Emily Farnworth, Director, Centre for Climate Engagement, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Kirsten Dunlop, Chief Executive Officer, Climate-KIC, Netherlands; Shai Ganu, Managing Director, Willis Towers Watson, USA; Jane Nelson, Director, Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, USA; Antonia Gawel, Head, Climate Action; Deputy Head, Platform for Public Goods, World Economic Forum
Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jeffery Jones
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September
Accelerating through the switch at the west end of Walnut, CA on March 25, 1978 is the 6904/6944 with the "3-LAX". All of the area around this is warehouses now.
PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre
It has been released by BSS on January 23 in 2010 to all newspapers and its web-page
MP-FACE-TO-FACE
MPs can accelerate establishing digital Bangladesh timely: Dr
Tawfiq
NAOGAON, Jan 23 (BSS)-Advisor to the Prime Minister on Power,
Fuel and Mineral Resources Affairs Dr. Tawfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury
Bir Bikram has said Members of the Parliament (MPs) can
accelerate developments to make a digital Bangladesh timely.
The adviser made the remark after being informed that a
massive development work has been accomplished during the first
year of the present government in Mohadebpur upazila of Naogaon
district as per the election pledges of Awami League.
Dr. Akram Hossain Chowdhury, MP, from Badalgachi-Mohadebpur
constituency, also member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee
of Food and Disaster Management Ministry informed his
performances in 2009 at a Face-to- Face programme on Thursday.
Dr. Akram said that the massive development works so far
completed in Mohadebpur upazila last year have fulfilled most of
the long-cherished demands of the local people and founded
stronger footing for building a developed digital Bangladesh.
Mohadebpur Nagorik Committee (MNC) and Centre for E-
Parliament Research (CEPR) organised it at Mohadebpur upazila
auditorium- cum-community centre on the occasion of one year
completion of the present government.
Convener of MNC Golam Nurani Alal chaired the Face-to-Face
accountability occasion and Advisor to the Prime Minister Dr.
Taufiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury Bir Bikram attended as the chief guest
where more than 2,000 citizens were present in the jam-packed
centre.
Secretary of Naogaon unit of Awami League (AL) Abdul Malek,
Additional Divisional Commissioner of Rajshahi Swapan Kumar Saha,
Acting Deputy Commissioner of Naogaon M Shahjahan Ali, Executive
Director of CEPR Tamzid-Ur-Rahman, addressed.
Police Super Mofazzel Hossain, chief executive of Zila
Parishad Shah Alam Mridha, district and upazila level officials,
leaders of different political parties, socio-cultural and women
community leaders, distinguished citizens, elite and
professionals, attended.
Dr. Akram said development work of 500 km roads have been
completed in 2009 allover Mohadebpur upazila at a cost of huge
amount of money bringing a revolution in the rural communication
sector there.
He told the people that the Local Government and Engineering
Department (LGED) completed construction of 198.89 km roads under
19 projects under the Upazila Road Construction Programme during
the period in the upazila.
The works included construction of 134.89 km pucca roads,
63.75 km katcha roads, 0.25 km haring bond and 230 bridges and
culverts.
Under the Union Road Development Programme, a total of 138.89
km roads were constructed under 22 projects including 92.22 km
katcha roads, 44.05 km pucca roads, 2.62 km haring bonds and 168
bridges and culverts in the upazila.
Under the Rural Road-A Programme, a total of 208.23 km roads
were constructed under 100 projects including 177.46 km katcha
roads, 29.88 km pucca roads, 0.90 km haring bonds and 121 bridges
and culverts in the upazila, Dr. Akram said.
Under the Rural Road-B Programme, a total of 106.18 km roads
have been completed under 76 projects that included 99.13 km
katcha roads, 7.34 km pucca roads, 0.71 km haring bonds and 30
bridges and culverts last year in the upazila.
Besides, construction of Mohadebpur upazila auditorium- cum-
community centre at a cost of Taka 78.90 lakh, its boundary walls
at Taka 12 lakh and other development work at Taka 6.95 lakh have
been completed there last year, Dr. Akram said.
Under the special programmes of the Upazila Project
Implementation Department, huge infrastructural development work
was completed during the period creating adequate employment to
successfully alleviate poverty and overcome lean season, he said.
The work included construction, reconstruction, maintenance
and development work of the rural roads, water bodies, ponds,
canals and earth-filling at different institutions at a cost of
877.095 tonnes rice worth Taka 2.58 crore under 106 projects.
Besides, development of the public welfare institutions and
small-scale projects at a cost of 759.933 tonnes rice worth Taka
2.23 crore under 612 projects was also completed last year in
Mohadebpur upazila, Dr. Akram MP said.
In addition, 22 barrack houses were built with a view to
rehabilitating 220 landless and homeless families and 100 of the
families have so far been rehabilitated there and Taka 1.20 lakh
assistance have been provided among them, the MP said.
Dr. Akram, widely known as an honest person, informed that
number of beneficiaries under the ongoing allowances for the
freedom fighters, widows and handicapped people, VGD, VGF and
supply of electricity has largely been increased in the upazila
last year.
Later, Dr. Akram Hossain MP answered dozens of questions
asked by the attending citizens and urged all to cooperate for
further development in all sectors of the upazila.
The advisor expressed his overwhelming satisfactions over the
successes of Dr. Akram Hossain MP and said that the Prime
Minister's Digital Bangladesh Programme would definitely be built
timely if all MPs worked like Dr. Akram throughout the country.
BSS/MI/AKM/13105HRS
Accelerating Climate Action through Philanthropic-Public-Private-Collaboration
Gim Huay Neo, Managing Director, Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum; Ray Dalio, Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Bridgewater Associates, USA; Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, European Commission; Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jeffery Jones
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September
I am using video to accelerate serendipity! I didn't plan my career so far; now I'm engineering conversation and self-presentation to help me find my next cause or undertaking. This video explains that I don't have an answer for "what am I doing with my life" - I only have a method to ask the question. And you are a part of the method! Thank you for watching!
More context, as ever, at links.net/
Zooming with the 17-40L...still waiting for my brother Vic to land. No enhancements just one exposure.
11.45 pm Cork Airport
...to 350 MPH and pulling 15g’s at this point. This fat 18 lb rocket takes her time getting off the pad. (next frame, 1/3 sec later)
(7-second video of the blastoff. The sound was still impressive where we were perched up on a bluff top)
Leaders, social innovators, and decision makers from large and small businesses, corporations, higher education institutions, government, non-profits, social enterprises, social venture capital firms, and more joined in exploring how we can effectively collaborate to create a sustainable future as part of the Accelerate Collaborating for Sustainability Conference in Guelph ON, June 10-11, 2013.
Harald Hirschhofer, Senior Advisor, TCX Investment Management Company, speaks at the press conference "Accelerating Energy Decarbonization." The World Economic Forum holds the Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2017 in New York, NY USA. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ben Hider
The Natural Step Canada hosted the 2nd annual Accelerate: Collaborating for Sustainability Conference June 5-6, 2014, at the Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto, Ontario www.naturalstep.ca/.
Leaders, social innovators, and decision makers from large and small businesses, corporations, higher education institutions, government, non-profits, social enterprises, social venture capital firms, and more joined in exploring how we can effectively collaborate to create a sustainable future as part of the Accelerate Collaborating for Sustainability Conference in Guelph ON, June 10-11, 2013.
Accelerating the Women’s Movement for Peace and Humanitarian Action: Innovating & Challenging the Status Quo
A Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) event, co-hosted by the Permanent Missions of Australia, Canada, Ireland, the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, Cordaid, UNFPA and UN Women. WPHF’s commitment night and reception spotlighting the actions and commitments of partners to reach USD 40 million by 2020 and celebrate the results of WPHF-supported women peacebuilders and crises responders. Moderated by CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs and 60 Minutes Correspondent Lara Logan—and featuring remarks from WPHF Global Advocate Kristen Bell and a special tribute performance by French recording artist Louane—the event concludes with the lighting of New York City’s Empire State Building in support of WPHF and its mission to empower women working to build peace and responding to crises around the world. Speakers include: Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, UN Population Fund; Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women; Mavic Cabrera Balleza, CEO, Global Network of Women Peacebuilders.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Accelerating the Women’s Movement for Peace and Humanitarian Action: Innovating & Challenging the Status Quo
A Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) event, co-hosted by the Permanent Missions of Australia, Canada, Ireland, the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, Cordaid, UNFPA and UN Women. WPHF’s commitment night and reception spotlighting the actions and commitments of partners to reach USD 40 million by 2020 and celebrate the results of WPHF-supported women peacebuilders and crises responders. Moderated by CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs and 60 Minutes Correspondent Lara Logan—and featuring remarks from WPHF Global Advocate Kristen Bell and a special tribute performance by French recording artist Louane—the event concludes with the lighting of New York City’s Empire State Building in support of WPHF and its mission to empower women working to build peace and responding to crises around the world. Speakers include: Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, UN Population Fund; Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women; Mavic Cabrera Balleza, CEO, Global Network of Women Peacebuilders.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
From left to right: Accelerator Physicist Alex Bogacz, Old Dominion University Graduate Student Alex Coxe, and Staff Scientist II Ryan Bodenstein pose for a photograph inside the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility SRF Test Lab on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
Bogacz and his research team worked on a design that would allow the lab to double the maximum energy of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) to offer new experimental possibilities — from 12 GeV to around 24 GeV.
Accelerating Climate Action through Philanthropic-Public-Private-Collaboration
Gim Huay Neo, Managing Director, Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum; Ray Dalio, Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Bridgewater Associates, USA; Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, European Commission; Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jeffery Jones
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September
Playing around with particles moving according to various rules, like accelerating toward a certain particle unless some distance condition is satisfied in which case they accelerate toward something else.
More like this in my set
www.flickr.com/photos/31382652@N00/sets/72157633365213026/
Made with Processing (processing.org).
The Natural Step Canada hosted the 2nd annual Accelerate: Collaborating for Sustainability Conference June 5-6, 2014, at the Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto, Ontario www.naturalstep.ca/.
Accelerating the Women’s Movement for Peace and Humanitarian Action: Innovating & Challenging the Status Quo
A Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) event, co-hosted by the Permanent Missions of Australia, Canada, Ireland, the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, Cordaid, UNFPA and UN Women. WPHF’s commitment night and reception spotlighting the actions and commitments of partners to reach USD 40 million by 2020 and celebrate the results of WPHF-supported women peacebuilders and crises responders. Moderated by CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs and 60 Minutes Correspondent Lara Logan—and featuring remarks from WPHF Global Advocate Kristen Bell and a special tribute performance by French recording artist Louane—the event concludes with the lighting of New York City’s Empire State Building in support of WPHF and its mission to empower women working to build peace and responding to crises around the world. Speakers include: Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, UN Population Fund; Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women; Mavic Cabrera Balleza, CEO, Global Network of Women Peacebuilders.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Accelerating the Women’s Movement for Peace and Humanitarian Action: Innovating & Challenging the Status Quo
A Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) event, co-hosted by the Permanent Missions of Australia, Canada, Ireland, the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, Cordaid, UNFPA and UN Women. WPHF’s commitment night and reception spotlighting the actions and commitments of partners to reach USD 40 million by 2020 and celebrate the results of WPHF-supported women peacebuilders and crises responders. Moderated by CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs and 60 Minutes Correspondent Lara Logan—and featuring remarks from WPHF Global Advocate Kristen Bell and a special tribute performance by French recording artist Louane—the event concludes with the lighting of New York City’s Empire State Building in support of WPHF and its mission to empower women working to build peace and responding to crises around the world. Speakers include: Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, UN Population Fund; Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women; Mavic Cabrera Balleza, CEO, Global Network of Women Peacebuilders.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Accelerating Grassroots Innovation (Option 2)
Copyright ©️ World Economic Forum/Pascal Bitz
Alban Bressand, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer, Reforestum, Spain
Wajiha Khalid, Steering Committee, Rawalpindi Hub, Pakistan
Kenneth Kwok, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Global Citizen Capital, Hong Kong SAR, China
Alexei Levene, Co-Founder, Desolenator, Netherlands
Moderated by John Dutton, Head, Uplink; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum; Young Global Leader
Marines with Weapon’s Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment finish their patrol and make their way back to Forward Operating Base Marjah, Afghanistan, April 23. While out on patrol Marine and Afghan forces with 1/6, met with local farmers and landowners who are participating in the Marjah Accelerated Agricultural Transition program.
Athens, GA (Clarke County) Copyright 2008 D. Nelson
Wuxtry Records is going to have their traditional midnight sale for the new REM record which comes out on April 1. Doors open at 11:30 p.m. on Monday, March 31, and sales begin at midnight. Be there!
Leaders, social innovators, and decision makers from large and small businesses, corporations, higher education institutions, government, non-profits, social enterprises, social venture capital firms, and more joined in exploring how we can effectively collaborate to create a sustainable future as part of the Accelerate Collaborating for Sustainability Conference in Guelph ON, June 10-11, 2013. www.naturalstep.ca/
The Natural Step Canada hosted the 2nd annual Accelerate: Collaborating for Sustainability Conference June 5-6, 2014, at the Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto, Ontario www.naturalstep.ca/.
Leaders, social innovators, and decision makers from large and small businesses, corporations, higher education institutions, government, non-profits, social enterprises, social venture capital firms, and more joined in exploring how we can effectively collaborate to create a sustainable future as part of the Accelerate Collaborating for Sustainability Conference in Guelph ON, June 10-11, 2013.