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Kitrhona Cerri, Executive Director, Thinking Ahead on Societal Change (TASC) Platform, Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland ; Sanda Ojiambo, Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer, United Nations Global Compact, New York; Alex Campbell, Director, Washington Office, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Belgium; Amol Mehra, Director, Industry Transformation, Laudes Foundation, Switzerland; Daan Wensing, Chief Executive Officer, Chair of the Executive Board, IDH - The Sustainable Trade Initiative, Netherlands; Mirek Dušek, Managing Director; Global Programming Group, World Economic Forum; Pham Binh Minh, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister of Viet Nam. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jeffery Jones
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September 2022
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Man with a Stop Sign at the construction site near the West Side Rail Yards at the Highline Park.
Olympus E-M5 with a Lumix 12-35mm f2.8 Lens
So I have been working on this for a week. I have now figure out how to add the rig, make the animation, add the mesh modifier upload the mesh, and script it to work. There is a crazy limitation on distance, and I developed a hack to get more distance on the animations. I'm sure I know someone thinking, "how is he getting the distance so far"
Snow, snow and more snow, no matter where I go. So given the circumstances, pulled out the fastest lens I could, the f0.95 50mm on the Canon 7 and ventured out into the sub-freezing temps. I was a bit worried that the rangefinder was going to seize up at some point, or the film would snap (at one point it was about 4 degrees F) but no issue. Was smarter about gloves this time - I guess I can learn when there's (significant) discomfort involved. Thanks to all those flickeranians who continue to inspire us!
Kristina is an 18 years old ballet dancer in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the ballet hall of the Sarajevo Music School closed due to COVID-19, she had to practice in the confines of her little room for 5 months.
Now Kristina has received some good news. The school building, which is protected as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been given a face-lift, as part of UNDP’s effort in partnership with the Embassy of Sweden to contribute to environmental protection and economic development of the country. When she returned, she was pleasantly surprised:. The building where she has been going for the past seven years is no longer drab and dilapidated. She now gets to do all the spins her heart desires!
Read more: bit.ly/2F46FYo
Photos: I.Kapetanovvić, S.Omerbašić, D.Ruvić/ UNDP Bosnia and Herzegovina
My neighbor lived here as a renter since 1992. The property was sold, to be replaced by townhouses.
He had done amazing work inside and had a lovely little garden behind. There is a second little house back there as well.
Post demolition that cedar tree remains. Whether it will stay is unknown.
26-27 November 2019
2019 Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum - GGSD
OECD Headquarters, Paris, France
Photo: OECD/Andrew Wheeler
This nine-screen composite video (a winner in the 2017 FASEB BioArt competition) captures the first 24 hours of life for nine different animal species (from left to right, starting at the top row):
Zebrafish (Danio rerio), a popular model organism for studying development
Sea urchin (Lytechinus variegatus), a spiky marine relative of the starfish
Black widow spider (Latrodectus mactans), I think it’s safe to say this one needs no explanation!
Tardigrade (Hypsibius dujardini), an eight-legged micro-animal that lives in water, mosses, and lichens
Sea squirt (Ciona intestinalis), an immobile, filter-feeding organism that lives on the ocean floor
Comb jelly (Ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi), an ancient, water-dwelling invertebrate that looks like a tiny, transparent jellyfish
Parchment tube worm (Chaetopterus variopedatus), a spiny marine worm
Roundworm (Caenorhabditis elegans), a soil-dwelling worm, the first multicellular organism to have its genome sequenced, and a popular model for studying development
Slipper snail (Crepidula fornicate), a medium-sized sea snail
Credit: Credit: Tessa Montague, Harvard University, and Zuzka Vavrušová, University of California, San Francisco
NIH support from: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Agriculture women worker
Solomon Islands
©ILO/Peter Blumel
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Microscopy of induced stem cells. Neuron precursors typically form a "rosette" structure that is seen here. Learn more: go.usa.gov/c7pmA.
Credit: K. Francis, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
"There's always money in the banana stand."
Not Balboa Island, Orange County. Rather, Marina Del Rey which is about 50 miles north of Balboa. The patio of this landmark snack shack used for the filming of Arrested Development (top) is in the Fisherman's Village that is located about 10 minutes South of LAX, for you travelers.
sometimes at the end of a roll of film I will take a few cat pics :) this roll was interesting. I went to do a stand development and forgot about it and went to bed. what was meant to be a 2 hr development turned into a 10 + hour. Most of the pics survived, some had some weird artifacts
2007
Development application 12 April 2007 – demolition of dwelling
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The picture shows the rampage of mining and industrial activities on nature, in the name of development.
A series of pictograms created to highlight the international development achievements and goals highlighted during President Barack Obama's 2016 State of the Union address on January 12, 2016.
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Navigating a Volatile Geopolitical Landscape
Mirek Dušek, Managing Director, World Economic Forum;
Simon Freakley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AlixPartners, USA;
Speaking in theNavigating a Volatile Geopolitical Landscapesession at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2024. New York, USA.
23 September 2024. World Economic Forum Office New York, .
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Her name is CHAN JI RA and she has always lived in Khlong Toei along with her husband and two children.
They don’t want to move. It could mean travel-to-work costs and new schools and many other stresses.
She is hoping that protesting with the support of her neighbours will get the Port to change its mind.
Original Caption: Development of Artificial Reefs at Marco Island.
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-11378
Photographer: Schulke, Flip, 1930-2008
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Marco Island (Collier county, Florida, United States) island
Environmental Protection Agency
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USAID hosted a Signature Event —Shared Progress: Modernizing Development Finance on September 22, 2016 in New York City, NY. Running concurrently to the United Nations General Asembly, the event highlighted the challenges and opportunities for financing current and future development goals.
During the event, UAID Administrator Gayle Smith and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, discussed how to foster an enabling environment for private investment and increasing domestic resource mobilization. A panel of speakers also offered recommendations on how to make better use of the three streams of finance in order to improve development outcomes.
Photo by Ellie Van Houtte/USAID
Meeting of the Education 4.0 Alliance
Asheesh Advani, President and Chief Executive Officer, JA Worldwide, USA; Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director, World Economic Forum
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Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September
Brig. Gen. Sean Gainey, Deputy Commanding General for the United States Army Cadet Command, Fort Knox, Kentucky presents Army ROTC Scholarship checks to DECA students.
The U.S. Army is an annual sponsor of DECA’s International Career Development Conference. The nonprofit student organization hosted this year’s event April 23-26 in Nashville, Tennessee.
For more information about the DECA International Career Development Conference, visit: www.deca.org/high-school-programs/high-school-educational...
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London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south-east of England, at the head of its 50-mile (80 km) estuary leading to the North Sea, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. Londinium was founded by the Romans. The City of London, London's ancient core − an area of just 1.12 square miles (2.9 km2) and colloquially known as the Square Mile − retains boundaries that follow closely its medieval limits. The City of Westminster is also an Inner London borough holding city status. Greater London is governed by the Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
London is considered to be one of the world's most important global cities and has been termed the world's most powerful, most desirable, most influential, most visited, most expensive, innovative, sustainable, most investment friendly, most popular for work, and the most vegetarian friendly city in the world. London exerts a considerable impact upon the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transportation. London ranks 26 out of 300 major cities for economic performance. It is one of the largest financial centres and has either the fifth or sixth largest metropolitan area GDP. It is the most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the busiest city airport system as measured by passenger traffic. It is the leading investment destination, hosting more international retailers and ultra high-net-worth individuals than any other city. London's universities form the largest concentration of higher education institutes in Europe. In 2012, London became the first city to have hosted three modern Summer Olympic Games.
London has a diverse range of people and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken in the region. Its estimated mid-2016 municipal population (corresponding to Greater London) was 8,787,892, the most populous of any city in the European Union and accounting for 13.4% of the UK population. London's urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The population within the London commuter belt is the most populous in the EU with 14,040,163 inhabitants in 2016. London was the world's most populous city from c. 1831 to 1925.
London contains four World Heritage Sites: the Tower of London; Kew Gardens; the site comprising the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey, and St Margaret's Church; and the historic settlement in Greenwich where the Royal Observatory, Greenwich defines the Prime Meridian, 0° longitude, and Greenwich Mean Time. Other landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Paul's Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square and The Shard. London has numerous museums, galleries, libraries and sporting events. These include the British Museum, National Gallery, Natural History Museum, Tate Modern, British Library and West End theatres. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world.
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Westminster is an area of central London within the City of Westminster, part of the West End, on the north bank of the River Thames. Westminster's concentration of visitor attractions and historic landmarks, one of the highest in London, includes the Palace of Westminster, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral.
Historically the area lay within St Margaret's parish, City & Liberty of Westminster, Middlesex.
The name Westminster (Old English: Westmynstre) originated from the informal description of the abbey church and royal peculiar of St Peter's (Westminster Abbey), literally West of the City of London (indeed, until the Reformation there was a reference to the 'East Minster' at Minories (Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate) east of the City). The abbey was part of the royal palace that had been created here by Edward the Confessor. It has been the home of the permanent institutions of England's government continuously since about 1200 (High Middle Ages' Plantagenet times), and from 1707 the British Government — formally titled Her Majesty's Government.
In a government context, Westminster often refers to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, located in the UNESCO World Heritage Palace of Westminster — also known as the Houses of Parliament. The closest tube stations are Westminster and St James's Park, on the Jubilee, Circle, and District lines.
The area is the centre of Her Majesty's Government, with Parliament in the Palace of Westminster and most of the major Government ministries known as Whitehall, itself the site of the royal palace that replaced that at Westminster.
Within the area is Westminster School, a major public school which grew out of the Abbey, and the University of Westminster, attended by over 20,000 students. Bounding Westminster to the north is Green Park, a Royal Park of London.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster
The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Commonly known as the Houses of Parliament after its occupants, the Palace lies on the north bank of the River Thames in the City of Westminster, in central London, England.
Its name, which is derived from the neighbouring Westminster Abbey, may refer to either of two structures: the Old Palace, a medieval building complex destroyed by fire in 1834, or its replacement, the New Palace that stands today. The palace is owned by the monarch in right of the Crown and, for ceremonial purposes, retains its original status as a royal residence. The building is managed by committees appointed by both houses, which report to the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Lord Speaker.
The first royal palace was built on the site in the 11th century, and Westminster was the primary residence of the Kings of England until fire destroyed much of the complex in 1512. After that, it served as the home of the Parliament of England, which had been meeting there since the 13th century, and also as the seat of the Royal Courts of Justice, based in and around Westminster Hall. In 1834, an even greater fire ravaged the heavily rebuilt Houses of Parliament, and the only significant medieval structures to survive were Westminster Hall, the Cloisters of St Stephen's, the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, and the Jewel Tower.
The subsequent competition for the reconstruction of the Palace was won by the architect Charles Barry, whose design was for new buildings in the Gothic Revival style, specifically inspired by the English Perpendicular Gothic style of the 14th–16th centuries. The remains of the Old Palace (except the detached Jewel Tower) were incorporated into its much larger replacement, which contains over 1,100 rooms organised symmetrically around two series of courtyards and has a floor area of 112,476 m2 (1,210,680 sq ft). Part of the New Palace's area of 3.24 hectares (8 acres) was reclaimed from the River Thames, which is the setting of its nearly 300-metre long (980 ft) façade, called the River Front. Barry was assisted by Augustus Pugin, a leading authority on Gothic architecture and style, who designed the interior of the Palace. Construction started in 1840 and lasted for 30 years, suffering great delays and cost overruns, as well as the death of both leading architects; works for the interior decoration continued intermittently well into the 20th century. Major conservation work has been carried out since then to reverse the effects of London's air pollution, and extensive repairs took place after the Second World War, including the reconstruction of the Commons Chamber following its bombing in 1941.
The Palace is one of the centres of political life in the United Kingdom; "Westminster" has become a metonym for the UK Parliament, and the Westminster system of government has taken its name after it. The Elizabeth Tower, in particular, which is often referred to by the name of its main bell, Big Ben, is an iconic landmark of London and the United Kingdom in general, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city, and an emblem of parliamentary democracy. Tsar Nicholas I of Russia called the palace "a dream in stone". The Palace of Westminster has been a Grade I listed building since 1970 and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.
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Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London and is usually extended to refer to both the clock and the clock tower. The official name of the tower in which Big Ben is located was originally the Clock Tower, but it was renamed Elizabeth Tower in 2012 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.
The tower was designed by Augustus Pugin in a neo-gothic style. When completed in 1859, its clock was the largest and most accurate four-faced striking and chiming clock in the world. The tower stands 315 feet (96 m) tall, and the climb from ground level to the belfry is 334 steps. Its base is square, measuring 39 feet (12 m) on each side. Dials of the clock are 23 feet (7.0 m) in diameter. On 31 May 2009, celebrations were held to mark the tower's 150th anniversary.
Big Ben is the largest of five bells and weighs 13.5 long tons (13.7 tonnes; 15.1 short tons). It was the largest bell in the United Kingdom for 23 years. The origin of the bell's nickname is open to question; it may be named after Sir Benjamin Hall, who oversaw its installation, or heavyweight boxing champion Benjamin Caunt. Four quarter bells chime at 15, 30 and 45 minutes past the hour and just before Big Ben tolls on the hour. The clock uses its original Victorian mechanism, but an electric motor can be used as a backup.
The tower is a British cultural icon recognised all over the world. It is one of the most prominent symbols of the United Kingdom and parliamentary democracy, and it is often used in the establishing shot of films set in London. The clock tower has been part of a Grade I listed building since 1970 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.
On 21 August 2017, a four-year schedule of renovation works began on the tower, which are to include the addition of a lift. There are also plans to re-glaze and repaint the clock dials. With a few exceptions, such as New Year's Eve and Remembrance Sunday, the bells are to be silent until the work has been completed in the 2020s.