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Staircase from the second to the third floor of the National Building Museum, in Washington, DC. Photo is processed in moderate HDR (basic default settings).
Credit: Cibele Vieira / Clinton Global Initiative
Breakout Session: CGI Conversation moderated by Al Jazeera’s Abderrahim Foukara
Globalization, Conflict, and Community
MODERATOR:
Abderrahim Foukara, Regional Director for the Americas; Host Min Washington , Al Jazeera Media Network
PARTICIPANTS:
Atifete Jahjaga, President, Republic of Kosovo
Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Women Journalists Without Chains
Lavinia Limón, President and CEO, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Participants in the Moderate Voices of Islam Initiative speak with an Afghan soldier after their return to Forward Operating Base Shank, Logar province, Afghanistan, Sept. 13. The participants traveled from FOB Shank to Amman Jordan where they met with King Abdullah II and then traveled to Mecca Saudi Arabia for the Umra. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Sean P. Casey)
Obama Independents are the most moderate segment of the electorate. Obama Independents are slightly center-left on the ideological spectrum, but McCain Independents lean to the right.
On a 5 point scale—where 1 is liberal, 3 is moderate, and 5 is conservative—Obama Independents are at 2.73 and McCain Independents at 3.73, a full point apart.
With 60% of Obama Independents identifying as moderates, there are more moderates in this group than any other, including all voters (44%), Democrats (47%), and all Independents (56%). By contrast, 42% of McCain Independents call themselves conservative and barely half say they are moderate. READ THE REPORT: 2012 Showdown: Battle for the Obama Independents
Moderated by Karolee Sowle, CEO, Desert Regional Medical Center with
Susan Dell, Founder, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation; Lakeysha Sowunmi, Mom & Wellness Community Leader; Notah Begay III, Health & Wellness Advocate; Annika Sorenstam, Founder, Annika Foundation; Goldie Hawn, The Hawn Foundation
Photo Credit- Barbara Kinney / Clinton Foundation
Moderated High-Level Policy Session 10
Inclusiveness – access to information and knowledge for all ©ITU/I.Wood
Credit: Cibele Vieira / Clinton Global Initiative
Breakout Session: CGI Conversation moderated by Al Jazeera’s Abderrahim Foukara
Globalization, Conflict, and Community
MODERATOR:
Abderrahim Foukara, Regional Director for the Americas; Host Min Washington , Al Jazeera Media Network
PARTICIPANTS:
Atifete Jahjaga, President, Republic of Kosovo
Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Women Journalists Without Chains
Lavinia Limón, President and CEO, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Moderated High-Level Policy Session 10
Inclusiveness – access to information and knowledge for all ©ITU/I.Wood
Moderated by Juan Goicolea (Deputy Minister for Innovation, Basque Government)
- José Luis Curbelo (Managing Director, Orkestra)
- Pedro Gómez Damborenea (Deputy Minister for the Press Office, Planning & Strategy, Department of Industry, Innovation, Trade & Tourism, Basque Government)
- Fernando Fernandez (Professor of Economics, IE Business School)
- Pedro Antonio Merino (Director of Economic Research, Repsol)
From right, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Local and Regional Food Systems Policy Advisor Tricia Kovacs, moderates a discussion about ‘How is USDA Measuring Impact of Local Food Investments?’ with Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Transportation and Marketing Program Deputy Administrator Arthur Neal, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Nutrition/Extension Division National Program Leader Jane Clary Loveless, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Census and Survey Division Director Barbara Rater, Food and Nutrition Service Community Food Systems Director Erin Healy, and Rural Development Rural Business-Cooperative Service Business Programs Deputy Administrator Claudette Fernandez, during the Local Food Impacts Conference, Monday, April 3, 2017, at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington DC. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), in partnership with GWU hosts the Local Food Impacts Conference. Congressionally authorized grant and loan programs to support local food systems have expanded in recent years. Quantifying and evaluating the impacts of these programs is critical. Attendees can explore how to best measure the impacts of local food investments, improve coordination across USDA agencies, and evaluate the extent to which disparate local food investments are complementary and reinforcing. Beyond metrics, this conference provides an opportunity to share local food stories with new stakeholders. For more information, please see localfoodsimpact.org/. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Krista Tippett moderates a panel on the power of storytelling with Lorraine Johnson-Coleman, Wayne B. Jonas, Lewis E. Mehl-Madrona and Michelle Otero at the 2013 America Healing Conference in Asheville, N.C.
African Ambassadors & Diaspora Interactive Form AAIF United Nations buildings International Maritime Organization HQ IMO London. Panel Discussion Moderated by Her Excellency Dr Justina Mutale
PROJECT INSANITY ALBUM
PITA Quotient: Moderate
Planned Project: Yes
We'd bought a coupla sets of this fencing for Halloween 2007, and as viewed in this photo, placed them outside along the walkway to the front door.
But in 2007, however, they went completely limp in the heat of the sun :::insert naughty mental imagery here::: Imagine the skull heads on these bowing down 2/3 of the way to the walkway. Argh! Turned out that the plastic just couldn't hold up under its own weight once the heat from the sun softened it. It wasn't even particularly hot . . . perhaps mid to high 70s. Even after cooling, they no longer wanted to remain upright, so I inspected their construction to see what, if anything, could be improved, and decided this could be fixed easily in 2008.
Famous last words! Well, it wasn't difficult, but as with everything else in October of 2008, it entailed considerably more work than I'd anticipated.
Everything connects together with +/- 5-inch-long interior lengths of a more rigid plastic. Unfortunately, that rigid plastic is connected to the much softer plastic of the bones and skull, and the softer plastic is what was going limp. Still, no problem. All of the bones are totally hollow, so all I needed to do was saw off the rigid plastic and replace them with a roughly one-yard length of broomstick or some such. Easy-peasy, no?
Yeah, well. Although the rigid plastic came right off with the Dremel, I still needed to sort of router out the areas where they connected in order for a broomstick to fit through the resulting holes. No problem; just tedious . . . and messy, LOL! I wound up covered with fine black plastic after performing said surgery upon each piece! I'd anticipated the mess landing all over the place and preemptively covered the floor first . . . but other than wearing eye protection, neglected to take my arms, legs, and feet into account. Live and learn!
Then there were the broomsticks. We'd bought several El Cheapo brooms at the dollar store. The handles appeared to be covered with plastic that I thought would end up peeling off. When I started sawing through them with the Dremel, the cutter went through that part quite easily, but when it made contact with the underneath, suddenly I started seeing sparks. Uhm. What?! Surely, I was imagining things. Made a second attempt. Nope, still sparks. Okie-dokie. The interiors weren't made of wood after all, but metal. *Sigh!* Back to the drawing board. After inspecting more brooms elsewhere, they all seemed to have a similar construction. Finally, I resorted to wooden paint roller extension attachments that fit the bill quite nicely, but it took a week or two of extra time going back and forth trying to find a workable substitute. Who knew brooms would be so freakin' problematic?
Of course, then I didn't want to be seeing raw wood between the joints of the bones, so I did a quick-and-dirty touch-up in those four spots on each stick with a fat, black, permanent marker. That was probably one of the easiest parts of this project, but still took an hour or two.
Another problematic bit was that the original bottom-most bone attached to the base with a screw-on cap from underneath. The wood substitution I'd made wasn't quite the same diameter, and it wobbled inside the base enough that it looked like The Leaning Tower of Bones. I knew that was going to be a problem when I had the original faux broomsticks, and spent considerable time roaming hardware stores trying to find either metal or plastic pipe end caps that would fit. Eh, no such luck . . . the sizing was either just a smidge too small or a smidge too large. In the end, I wound up wrapping a 5-inch-square piece of black, rubber shelf liner around the bottom of the wood, jamming it into the base piece, and beating the heck outta the top of the wood with a rubber mallet until the wood/liner combo was flush with the base at the floor. Voila; no more wobble nor leaning tower. I cut off any remaining bits of liner at the top of the base with a craft knife.
Up on the other end, there was a minor problem with the skulls. I'd made sure to cut the wood long enough that it went all the way to the top of the skulls on the interior. Still, the skulls wanted to sort of slide around on the cut end of the wood inside, giving them a cockeyed appearance. I removed the skulls and covered the top of the wood with an uninflated balloon, thinking they just needed some sort of nonskid, stopper-type gizmo to keep them from sliding around. That helped, but needed more oomph, so I removed the balloons, positioned a coupla cotton balls right on top of the wood, then replaced the balloons on top of the cotton balls. Bingo!
The acid test was placing them back on the walkway in the heat of the sun, aaaaaaaaand . . . :::crossing fingers::: . . . it all worked wonderfully well. Noooooooo unsightly sagging this year. This was probably the most satisfying of all of this year's projects.
The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new partnership to gather and analyze data about the status of women and girls' participation around the world, as part of the Clinton Foundation’s No Ceilings initiative. The partnership was announced during a discussion between Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Melinda Gates hosted by New York University and moderated by Chelsea Clinton on February 13, 2014.
Photo by Max W. Orenstein / Clinton Foundation
Moderated by Kojo Nnamdi, the "Rights, Equality and the American Dream" panel discussion included Judith Browne Dianis, Peter Edelman, Reverend Dr. Edna Canty Jenkins, Stephen B. Thomas and Reverend Dr. Christine Wiley.
The Enlightenment era gave rise to the United States of America and promised great opportunity. The emergence of public libraries and schools, transportation departments, the democratization of elections and the GI Bill guided millions into an upward mobility that seemed without limit. But opportunities have never been universal and African Americans have long been at the end of the line, even as other minority groups have gained access to them faster. Voting rights, education, health, housing and libraries have always been unevenly distributed. Join our speakers in the conversation of why racial inequities are on the rise again and what we can do to address this reality.
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Photo by Alison Harbaugh, Sugar Farm Productions
Moderated High-Level Policy Session 14
Knowledge societies, capacity building and e-learning/ Media
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TRP360 3D Works, Sialimonus - Moderate
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Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a traffic accident in the early morning hours on 01-01-10 at 48th St & Gramercy Pl in the Hyde Park Area. Jaws-of-Life utilized and RA66 transported to a local hospital. © Photo by Ryan Babroff.
Moderated High-Level Policy Session 10
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Moderated by Mike Papedis, Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Fusion Financial Partners
On the panel:
- Adrian Johnstone, CEO, Practifi
- Arnold Hsu, CEO, GReminders
- Erkko Etula, CEO & Co-Founder, Brooklyn Investment Group
- Howard Morin, Co-Founder & Partner, Helium Advisors
Moderated High-Level Policy Session 7: Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs
From left to right:
High-level Track Facilitator: Mr. Pavan Duggal, Founder and Chairman, International Commission on Cyber Security Law
WSIS Action Line Facilitator ITU – Ms. Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Strategic Planning and Membership Department
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Participants in the Moderate Voices of Islam Initiative are welcomed back to Forward Operating Base Shank, Logar province, Afghanistan Sept. 13, by Afghan, Jordanian and U.S. forces. The participants traveled from FOB Shank to Amman Jordan where they met with King Abdullah II and then traveled to Mecca Saudi Arabia for the Umra. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Sean P. Casey)
WIPO Chief Economist Carsten Fink moderates a panel discussion entitled "Are we at a crossroads of major changes in the direction of innovation?" during the launch event for the World Intellectual Property Report 2022.
According to the World Intellectual Property Report, the rapid global response to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic shows how innovative activity can adapt quickly to shifting priorities – and a similar effect is needed to urgently address climate change. The 2022 edition of the Report probes the complex sets of decisions that direct the development of life-changing innovations.
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World Intellectual Property Report 2022
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Moderated High-Level Policy Session 3: Bridging Digital Divides
H.E. Mr. Andre Müller Borges, Secretary of Telecommunications, Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication, Brazil
Ms. Crystal Rugege, Carnegie Mellon University Africa, Rwanda
Mr. Vincenzo Aquaro, Chief E-Government Branch, Division for Public Administration and Development Management, UNDESA
Mr. Bocar A. Ba, Chief Executive Officer, SAMENA Telecommunications Council
Prof. NK Goyal, Chairman/President, TEMA Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association of India/CMAI Association of India
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Moderated by
Bob Schieffer
Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News;
Anchor, CBS News' “Face the Nation”
Panelists
The Honorable Kurt Campbell
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific
Richard McGregor
Washington Bureau Chief, Financial Times;
Author, The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
Christopher K. Johnson
Senior Adviser and Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS
csis.org/event/schieffer-series-chinas-leadership-transit...
Finally, the digital zoom capacity of the A-570is is tested, with this 11x(digital) moderate telephoto shot. The Olds suffers from next to none of the distortion seen in shorter focal lengths, although the background barely resembles that seen in the wide-angle shot. The hood of the car exhibited behind the Olds seems about to swallow it! And if this is the first photo you are viewing of this series, you would probably have no idea where this photo was taken. See the Wide shot for description.
The moral: perception becomes reality. How you frame subjects(placement) and what focal lengths you choose can have a lasting impact on viewers' perception, in their mind, of your subject.. And it goes without saying, "zooming in" is actually a secondary function of longer focal lengths. :)
*For those of you that didn't catch on - in taking these three photos, I intentionally aligned the radio antenna on the RH-rear fender of the Olds with the "CUSTOMER PARKING" sign above the car's roof. This guaranteed my perspective from shot to shot.
post-movie Q&A with two of the main characters (Ben Stevenson, Charles Foster) portrayed in "Mao's Last Dancer," moderated by me @ Asian Film Festival of Dallas @ Magnolia Theatre, West Village (2010)
Moderated High-Level Policy Session 10
Inclusiveness – access to information and knowledge for all ©ITU/I.Wood
Moderate growth rate. Bright yellow gold with a slightly rippled margin. A stately, semi-upright, large mound of brilliant gold foliage, excellent glowing focal point. Hybrid of H. 'White Vision' X H. 'montana marophylla' from Dick and Jane Ward. Visit www.HostasDirect.com to order!
Out of this world public domain images from NASA. All original images and many more can be found from the NASA Image Library
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at Playwrights Horizons' 40th Anniversary season as the playwrights themselves, moderated by Edward Albee, discuss their latest productions. The upcoming season features a wide range of writers, from established master Edward Albee (whose play Me, Myself & I makes its NY Premiere at the theater) to Amy Herzog (After the Revolution), whose work is being produced off-Broadway for the first time. Also featured in the season and on the panel, are Obie Award winner David Greenspan (Go Back to Where You Are), Adam Bock (A Small Fire), Bathsheba Doran (Kin) and members of the team behind The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, a new musical. Coming off a season that included the hits Circle Mirror Transformation, This and Clybourne Park, Playwrights Horizons is a theater on a hot streak. Come listen as its newest crop of writers gives a sneak preview of what's to come!
Moderated by Eduardo Diaz, director of the Smithsonian Latino Center, a panel discusses baseball as a social and cultural force within Latino communities across the nation. The panelists include Adrian Burgos of the University of Illinois, Jose Alamillo and Cesar Caballero of California State University, and Sarah Gould and Priscilla Leiva of the University of Texas.
“Latinos and Baseball: In the Barrios and the Big Leagues” is a multi-year community collecting initiative at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in collaboration with the Smithsonian Latino Center. The initiative focuses on the historic role that baseball has played as a social and cultural force within Latino communities across the nation and currently includes eight partner organizations across the U.S. as well as a number of Smithsonian outreach divisions.
The project is designed to build on a growing body of original research, oral histories, and collections by and with Smithsonian partners to document the impact Latino communities have had on American history and culture through the lens of baseball. Baseball has been and continues to be an important means for celebrating national and ethnic identities, building communities, and negotiating race and class relations in an increasingly globalized world.
"Latinos and Baseball" launched on October 15, 2015, with an even program featuring a panel discussion, objects out-of-storage and book signings at the National Museum of American History. It was followed on October 16 by a working session including the museum and partner organizations.
Partners currently include: California State University, Channel Islands, Channel Islands, Calif.; John M. Pfau Library at California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, Calif.; Institute of Texan Cultures at the University of Texas, San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas; La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles, Calif.; Los Magnificos Film, LLC, New York, NY; Syracuse University, La Casita Cultural Center, Syracuse, NY; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana Champaign, Ill. and the Colorado/Wyoming based traveling exhibition, “Sugar Beet Fields to Field of Dreams, 1920s-1960s, Mexican/Spanish Contributions to America’s Favorite Pasttime.” To explore how to become a partner in the baseball initiative, individuals and organizations may e-mail NMAH-latinobaseball@si.edu
2015 “An Evening of Conversations and Connections” event held in New York City that showcased talented UD alumni in the fashion industry. Hosted by the New York City Alumni Club, this fourth annual event featured special guests George Watson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Marsha Dickson, chair of the Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies. The panel featured Johanna Murphy (AS92), Chief Marketing and Digital Officer for Ivanka Trump; Tre Roberts (AS02), Visual Merchandising and Store Planning Project Manager for TAG Heuer North America; Carly Handler (AS07), VP Merchandising for Nine West Group; Cynthia Gale (AS85), CEO & Designer for Cynthia Gale New York; and Josh Peskowitz (AS01), Men's Fashion Director for Bloomingdale’s. The panel was moderated by Paula Zusi (AS82), Consultant and formerly EVP and Chief Supply Chain Officer for Ann, Inc. - (Evan Krape / University of Delaware)
Credit: Cibele Vieira / Clinton Global Initiative
Breakout Session: CGI Conversation moderated by Al Jazeera’s Abderrahim Foukara
Globalization, Conflict, and Community
MODERATOR:
Abderrahim Foukara, Regional Director for the Americas; Host Min Washington , Al Jazeera Media Network
PARTICIPANTS:
Atifete Jahjaga, President, Republic of Kosovo
Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Women Journalists Without Chains
Lavinia Limón, President and CEO, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Moderated by
Bob Schieffer
Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News;
Anchor, CBS News' “Face the Nation”
Panelists
The Honorable Kurt Campbell
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific
Richard McGregor
Washington Bureau Chief, Financial Times;
Author, The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
Christopher K. Johnson
Senior Adviser and Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS
csis.org/event/schieffer-series-chinas-leadership-transit...
CGI Conversation moderated by Bloomberg TV
Now What? Investing in the Long Term
SESSION FEATURES: FILMED FOR BROADCAST
Seven years after the depths of the financial crisis, job creation is robust and unemployment is nearing its pre-recession levels. With the toughest years behind us, it is now essential that the lessons of the recession not be forgotten and that leaders take advantage of a healthier economy to invest in a more sustainable and inclusive nation.
In this session, panelists will discuss smart investments that they believe will have a lasting return for all Americans and make the nation more competitive globally. These investments will pay dividends beyond the recovery and through subsequent economic cycles, creating opportunities for future generations to achieve the American Dream.
Moderator:
David Westin, Anchor, Bloomberg TV
Participants:
Robert L. Johnson, Founder and Chairman, The RLJ Companies
Steven A. Sugarman, Chairman and CEO, Banc of California
Alex Taylor, Executive Vice President of Strategic Investments, Cox Enterprises