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Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
A monumental, aerial sculpture is suspended over Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway from May through October 2015 as the signature contemporary art installation in the Greenway Conservancy’s Public Art Program.
The sculpture for Boston spans the void where an elevated highway once split downtown from its waterfront. Knitting together the urban fabric, it soars 600 feet through the air above street traffic and pedestrian park.
The form of “As If It Were Already Here” echoes the history of its location. The three voids recall the “Tri-Mountain” which was razed in the 18th-century to create land from the harbor. The colored banding is a nod to the six traffic lanes that once overwhelmed the neighborhood, before the Big Dig buried them and enabled the space to be reclaimed for urban pedestrian life.
The sculpture is made by hand-splicing rope and knotting twine into an interconnected mesh of more than a half-million nodes. When any one of its elements moves, every other element is affected. Monumental in scale and strength yet delicate as lace, it fluidly responds to ever-changing wind and weather. Its fibers are 15 times stronger than steel yet incredibly lightweight, making the sculpture able to lace directly into three skyscrapers as a soft counterpoint to hard-edged architecture. It is a physical manifestation of interconnectedness and strength through resiliency.
In daylight the porous form blends with sky when looking up, and casts shadow-drawings onto the ground below. At night it becomes an illuminated beacon. The artwork incorporates dynamic light elements which reflect the changing effects of wind. Sensors around the site register fiber movement and tension and this data directs the color of light projected onto the sculpture’s surface.
“Here in Boston, I’m excited to visually knit together the fabric of the city with art,” said Echelman. “The creation of the Greenway was a seminal event in the unfolding of our city, so I’m delighted and humbled to be a part of its transformation into a vibrant cultural destination.”
The work invites you to linger, whether seen amidst the skyline from afar, or lying down on the grassy knoll beneath. It embraces Boston as a city on foot, where past and present are interwoven, and takes our gaze skyward to feel the vibrant pulse of now. It invites you to pause, and contemplate a physical manifestation of interconnectedness – soft with hard, earth with sky, things we control with the forces beyond us.
By the Numbers:
– The sculpture includes over 100 miles of twine
– Longest span is 600 ft
- Highest point of attachment is 365 ft
– There are over half a million knots (~542,500)
– The sculpture weighs approximately 1 ton
– The sculpture can exert over 100 tons of force
– Projected plan area of the sculpture is 20,250 sq ft, or almost half an acre
A monumental, aerial sculpture is suspended over Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway from May through October 2015 as the signature contemporary art installation in the Greenway Conservancy’s Public Art Program.
The sculpture for Boston spans the void where an elevated highway once split downtown from its waterfront. Knitting together the urban fabric, it soars 600 feet through the air above street traffic and pedestrian park.
The form of “As If It Were Already Here” echoes the history of its location. The three voids recall the “Tri-Mountain” which was razed in the 18th-century to create land from the harbor. The colored banding is a nod to the six traffic lanes that once overwhelmed the neighborhood, before the Big Dig buried them and enabled the space to be reclaimed for urban pedestrian life.
The sculpture is made by hand-splicing rope and knotting twine into an interconnected mesh of more than a half-million nodes. When any one of its elements moves, every other element is affected. Monumental in scale and strength yet delicate as lace, it fluidly responds to ever-changing wind and weather. Its fibers are 15 times stronger than steel yet incredibly lightweight, making the sculpture able to lace directly into three skyscrapers as a soft counterpoint to hard-edged architecture. It is a physical manifestation of interconnectedness and strength through resiliency.
In daylight the porous form blends with sky when looking up, and casts shadow-drawings onto the ground below. At night it becomes an illuminated beacon. The artwork incorporates dynamic light elements which reflect the changing effects of wind. Sensors around the site register fiber movement and tension and this data directs the color of light projected onto the sculpture’s surface.
“Here in Boston, I’m excited to visually knit together the fabric of the city with art,” said Echelman. “The creation of the Greenway was a seminal event in the unfolding of our city, so I’m delighted and humbled to be a part of its transformation into a vibrant cultural destination.”
The work invites you to linger, whether seen amidst the skyline from afar, or lying down on the grassy knoll beneath. It embraces Boston as a city on foot, where past and present are interwoven, and takes our gaze skyward to feel the vibrant pulse of now. It invites you to pause, and contemplate a physical manifestation of interconnectedness – soft with hard, earth with sky, things we control with the forces beyond us.
By the Numbers:
– The sculpture includes over 100 miles of twine
– Longest span is 600 ft
- Highest point of attachment is 365 ft
– There are over half a million knots (~542,500)
– The sculpture weighs approximately 1 ton
– The sculpture can exert over 100 tons of force
– Projected plan area of the sculpture is 20,250 sq ft, or almost half an acre
One of my first 3D renderings, from an early version of my flight simulator (Year 1999 I believe). It was created during the project planning phase back when my project was made from wood.
You could be forgiven for thinking the blue lines are just on the line of the M25, and the dashed red line is the M4. But on closer inspection, these routes are slightly different and date from much earlier than the construction of the motorways. The North Orbital Road, in this part of the world, was the original 1930s concept of what became today's M25. Here it would've run further west, nearer Slough, before crossing over to head closer to Uxbridge and pick up the route of the A412 north, at Denham. Taken from an undated Geographers' 35 Miles Round London Road Map.
For a clearer idea of the routes being planned around London in the 1930s, see the Outer London Development Survey on SABRE Maps: www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps/index.php?view=51.58634,-0.23...
ILRI DG, Jimmy Smith and Chan -Woo Kim, Ambassador of the republic of Korea to Kenya(seated 4th and 5th left) with participants at the launch of the country DAGRIS project (photo credit: ILRI).
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
This Unesco World Heritage site is sometimes known as the "White Heron" castle due to it's white exterior walls. Originally completed in 1346, it was almost completely rebuilt around 1600. Major restoration was undertaken in the 1950's and indeed is about to recommence with a project planned for the next 5 years. We were lucky indeed to see this exterior before the main work had begun.
The location, design and structure is essentially a defensive one. There are a number of outer wall and water defenses, followed by a complex maze of doorways, courtyards and dead-ends. Each floor could then also be defended. Below, an historic painting taken from the internet shows this quite well....the painting is freely available and in the public domain. You can also see a photo that I took in daylight.
Task Force Gridley Soldier, 2nd Lt. Raymond Jones draws a diagram of the dam project planned for a village in Paktika Province, Afghanistan on March 9. The dam is one of many projects projected to address the village’s critical agricultural needs, as well as assisting the village in becoming self-sustainable. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Anna Rutherford, Task Force Gridley Public Affairs)
From a mini-workshop I led for Boston area higher education technologist. "Harnesssing Visual Thinking for Project Planning." Great group with folks from Brandeis, Wellesley, Harvard, Brandeis, Tufts, Wheaton College, and Wentworth Institute of Technology. Thanks to David G. Wedaman of Brandeis for being the point man in coordinating the event!
New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announces that the city is issuing new rules setting forth a permitting process and guidelines for the take-off and landing of unmanned aircraft in New York City. The rules including building inspections, infrastructure inspections, and capital project planning, at Pier 35 in Manhattan on Friday, July 20, 2023. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District began a remedial investigation and feasibility study July 13 at the former Sahuarita Air Force Range in Pima County, Arizona.
SAFR is a Formerly Used Defense Site of approximately 27,000 acres. Airmen from Davis-Monthan in Tucson used the site from 1943 to 1958 for bombing and gunnery training.
This RI/FS will investigate more than 10,000 acres using digital geophysical mapping.
"DGM is being used to characterize the nature and extent of munitions of explosive concern at the site," said Kyle Lindsay, a geophysicist from the Sacramento District. "DGM locates anomalies resulting from metal in the subsurface. These anomalies are then excavated to determine what they are, and the information is then used to define concentrated target areas which help determine an appropriate remedial action."
To calibrate the DGM equipment, three site survey control points were established for the area.
"A number of quality control tests are run at the beginning of each day to ensure the geophysical instrument is functioning properly," added Lindsay. "Additionally, data is collected over an area with known objects buried at known depths and locations to verify GPS accuracy and instrument readings."
In addition to the harsh desert terrain, some of the munitions used were quite small.
"The smaller an object is, the more difficult it is to accurately detect in the subsurface," said Lindsay. "There were some very small munitions potentially used at SAFR which presents an interesting challenge for DGM."
The District is working with the State of Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Federal Projects Team as a regulatory partner for the project.
"ADEQ's role is to provide oversight of the project and to ensure that all State and Federal regulatory requirements are properly followed and met," said Sara Benovic, ADEQ project manager. "We will coordinate with the Corps and all stakeholders to discuss the project by participating in Technical Project Planning meetings, teleconferences, site visits and emails."
The RI/FS will run through May 2018, with a final report due in August 2019.
"ADEQ appreciates being a part of this project and looks forward to working with the Corps, as well as stakeholders such as Arizona State Land Department and the City of Tucson," added Benovic. "Our mission is to protect and enhance human health and the environment."
The construction process continues as Siskiyous Hall is torn down to make way for a new physical science building on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU Chico)
Campus administrators take a tour of the construction process of the new physical science building on Friday, February 14, 2020 in Chico, Calif.
(Jessica Bartlett/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
The construction process of the new physical science building continues on Monday, December 16, 2019 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU, Chico)
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
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Photo taken at: The Helix Bridge, Marina Bay area, Singapore.
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon 12-24 mm f/4
Focal Length: 16 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Aperture: f/9
Shutter Speed: 1/125, 1/200, 1/320 sec. Merged into HDR.
The Helix Bridge, previously known as the Double Helix Bridge, is a pedestrian bridge linking Marina Centre with Marina South in the Marina Bay area in Singapore. It was officially opened on 24 April 2010 at 9 pm, however only half was opened due to ongoing construction at the Marina Bay Sands. It is located beside the Benjamin Sheares Bridge and is accompanied by a vehicular bridge, known as the Bayfront Bridge. The entire bridge was opened on 18 July 2010 to complete the entire walkway around Marina Bay. The bridge complements other major development projects planned in the area, including the highly anticipated Integrated Resort Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Flyer, Gardens by the Bay and the 438,000 m² business and financial centre. [wikipedia]
Marina Bay Sands is an Integrated Resort fronting Marina Bay in Singapore. Developed by Las Vegas Sands, it is billed as the world's most expensive standalone casino property at S$8 billion, including cost of the prime land. With the casino complete, the resort features a 2,561-room hotel, a 120,000 m2 convention-exhibition centre, the 74,000 m2 The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands mall, a museum, two large theatres, seven celebrity chef restaurants, two floating Crystal Pavilions, an ice skating rink, and the world's largest atrium casino with almost 500 tables and over 2,500 slot machines. The complex is topped by a 340m-long SkyPark with a capacity of 3,900 people and a 150m infinity swimming pool, set on top of the world's largest public cantilevered platform, which overhangs the north tower by 67m. The 20-hectare resort was designed by Moshe Safdie Architects. [wikipedia]
11 Earthly Matters Mural Magazine and Photography
Mining and the Environment, 2007-2008
Of the many years Myths and Mirrors has explored themes with the public, engaging residents in collective creation community project about local issues, we have found ‘Mining and the Environment’ has been a difficult theme for public participation. We have also found many people simply do not want to know about the impacts of industrial pollution on our local environments and their impacts on human health. Throughout the years we have built fundamental partnerships and relationships in the community and abroad to help guide us collectively in grasping a broad understanding of the issues Sudburians face, and collectively create opportunities for working together on fun transformative projects using interesting models and methods for our coming together, understanding issues and be included in making big decisions together for our common futures.
Through community consults, a main response received was that the environmental issues we face can be very sad and paralyzing for some because it is about their lives and futures, their employers, and about the future of all of our children.
Through experimenting with different mechanisms through the process of trying and doing in our collective community creation projects, the groups involved built a sense of awareness, feedback and togetherness with those who did not necessarily know the science or have technical expertise involved with the Soil Study and Risk Assessments undergoing in our community.
Continually through the process, we collectively created alternative spaces for dialogue and built innovative ways of open participation through our collective learning, research, and response through creation, inclusively making decisions together about living together. We have felt it has been important that through working with the difficult theme, it was important that we cradled our focus to emphasize curative notions and antidotes to despair, empowering the bringing together of communities for remedial solution building without casting blame, or cause denial and feel this is an exciting time for people to be involved in coming together to build a healthier, safer, bright community.
In January 2008, a core group of youth interested in creating collective art reflecting the dialogue taking place about industrial pollution and began participatory research on the Sudbury Soil Study while awaiting the release of the Human Health Risk Assessment based on the soil study’s findings, results and conclusions. Health and safety partnerships were made with expert resources for supporting the participants in the projects who did necessarily have the background in technical aspects of the study preventing them from understanding the bigger picture of what was happening with high metal concentrates in their environments and how they impact our health.
A youth led collective bookwork entitled, “Earthly Matters”, was also created over the winter and spring of 2008, with partnership from local artist run gallery space and media arts network, “TAG and Film”. The incredible work came together into a dense range of articles and artworks into a creative 60 page booklet, a mixture of collective and self-expression reflecting interests around Northern Ontario’s environmental challenges, offers recipes for emanating change, shares values and beliefs, suggests our common generosity of spirit in coming together for important issues that impact us, and lessons learned through our experiences. The exploratory dive shown in the material tells a story of continual openness in learning and seats a range of issues encouraging active community participation in our collective involvements in creating change for our common futures.
Youth groups involved were interested in creating a series of artistic response pieces to share with the public. This included their questions, thoughts and ideas, reflections about their home town, and responses to a range of issues related to industrial pollution. The group publicly distributed their youth attractive collective creation, attracting a larger community in the coming together for their involvement. This moved the groups forward into solution suggestive artistic project planning as they felt their involvement should shift into focusing on reclamation, proper compensation and remediation in their next steps.
What’s the Risk photography project took a core group of youth and young adults on a 5 month exploration of Sudbury’s landscapes to learn about and take an inventory of the state of the environment. The groups met weekly for the outdoor adventures and soon found themselves accompanied with the collection of testimonies from local residents, mainly past and present workers from mining and smelting operations who wanted to share their stories and enthralling experiences about working in and around the mines. Their humble enthusiasm was generously shared helping us answer many questions about our history and helped us face our own human quandaries. The photography, film and video capture raw, passionate, fierce and powerful imagery and dialogue. The group met with environmentalists, environmental justice and protection organizations, scientists, health advisors, study groups, unions, and health and safety experts, to help shape and guide the project. This moved the groups into thinking about how they could participate in being included in the involvement in environmentally sound decisions to be made in our communities.
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nrhp # 93001607- Dealey Plaza Historic District-
nrhp # 93001607- Dealey Plaza Historic District-
Dealey Plaza is bounded on the south, east, and north sides by 100+ foot (30+ m) tall buildings. One of those buildings is the former Texas School Book Depository building, from which, both the Warren Commission and the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded, Lee Harvey Oswald fired a rifle that killed President John F. Kennedy. There is also a grassy knoll on the northwest side of the plaza, from which, the House Select Committee on Assassinations determined, based on controversial and disputed acoustic analysis, there was a "high probability" that a second gunman also fired at President Kennedy, but missed. At the plaza's west perimeter is a triple underpass beneath a railroad bridge, under which the motorcade raced after the shots were fired.
Today, the plaza is typically filled with tourists visiting the assassination site and The Sixth Floor Museum that now occupies the top two floors of the seven story former Book Depository. Since 1989, more than 5 million people have visited the museum.
The United States National Park Service designated Dealey Plaza a National Historic Landmark District in 1993, roughly encompassing the area between Pacific Avenue, Market and Jackson Streets and the former railroad tracks. Therefore, nothing of significance has been torn down or rebuilt in the immediate area. (A small plaque commemorating the assassination exists in the plaza.)
Visitors to Dealey Plaza today will see street lights and street signs that were in use in 1963, though some have been moved to different locations and others removed entirely. Buildings immediately surrounding the plaza have not been changed since 1963, presenting a stark contrast to the ultra-modern Dallas skyline that rises behind it.
Over the last 40+ years, Elm Street has been resurfaced several times; street lane stripes have been relocated; sidewalk lamp posts have been moved and added; trees, bushes and hedges have grown; and some traffic sign locations have been changed, relocated or removed. In late 2003, the city of Dallas approved construction project plans to restore Dealey Plaza to its exact appearance on November 22, 1963. As of 2004[update], voters had approved US$500,000 of the $3,000,000 needed.[5]
from Wikipedia
Core Redevelopment plans to redevelop the historic Crosley Building in Camp Washington into affordable apartments.
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announces that the city is issuing new rules setting forth a permitting process and guidelines for the take-off and landing of unmanned aircraft in New York City. The rules including building inspections, infrastructure inspections, and capital project planning, at Pier 35 in Manhattan on Friday, July 20, 2023. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
Mediterranean Revival Semi-detached House (1924)
1–5 N. Daniels Ave.
Architect: George W. Kelham
Bay Terrace
Vallejo Heights
Vallejo, Solano
Architect George W. Kelham designed residences as part of the Mare Island Industrial Housing project planned in 1915 and built in 1918–24 to provide civilian workers' housing for the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. The district was originally called Georgetown but re-renamed Bay Terrace in 1920. The houses had varying exterior styles but were limited to about five floor plans. This is an example of two five-room semi-detached houses.
George W. Kelham (1871–1936) came to San Francisco in 1906. He organized the plan for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915 and designed numerous major buildings in San Francisco and elsewhere.
© Matthew X. Kiernan
NYBAI17-4180
The sixth edition of the Globethics.net's flagship event, the Global Ethics Forum, was held in Geneva from 25 to 27 June 2015. Leaders, experts and future leaders from civil society, government, religious and academic institutions as well as from the business sector came together to share their learning and experiences in order to take action together to promote responsible leadership.
The Forum welcomed a total of 160 participants from all continents. Over 50 speakers shared their insights in four plenary sessions and 12 workshops, resulting in concrete project plans on the conference topic "Responsible Leadership in Action: The Value of Values." The programme also featured a public evening with a panel discussion, music and a reception hosted by the City of Geneva at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Photographs taken during the Forum give some of the flavour of the event, www.flickr.com/photos/globethicsnet.
"The insights shared focused on both parts of the responsible leadership equation: the personal and the organisational level of value awareness, practice and stewardship for stakeholder needs", commented Professor Christoph Stückelberger, Executive Director and Founder of Globethics.net.
On the personal level, keynote speaker Musimbi Kanyoro, President and CEO of the US-based Global Fund for Women, emphasised the need for empathy towards the people one serves, as well as sharing, celebrating others and accepting failure.
The programme also offered a personal reflection session on the value of compassion and emphasized sharing, openness and gratefulness as core values for the Forum experience.
On the organizational level, the gathering focused on overarching tools like organisational training and codes of ethics, integrated reporting and dialogue; sector-specific tools; as well as problem-specific tools such as those used to address gender equality. Workshops were designed to exchange insights on existing tools and then to create a work plan to build upon them for greater impact.
As well as providing the opportunity to forge and strengthen invaluable relationships between different actors, the Forum's outcomes include a colourful bouquet of concrete plans to foster responsible leadership in organisations, including: disseminating knowledge about codes of ethics; creating access to sustainable jobs and education; enhancing awareness and knowledge about gender ethics; strengthening values-driven responsible investment; improving Africa-China business relations through further dialogue; developing an integrated values-based sustainability toolkit for business; understanding higher education's impact on community; ensuring knowledge exchange on values-based higher education programmes; fostering ethical elections in DR Congo; and advancing responsible resource management in religious organisations.
The 2015 Global Ethics Forum was made possible through the support of the Loterie Romande, the Ville de Genève, the Sri Ramanuja Mission Trust, the Graduate Institute Geneva and Nestlé SA.
News items about the Forum and a webcast of the public event at the Graduate Institute Geneva on 25 June can be found on the Global Ethics Forum pages at www.globethics.net/web/gef/conference2015.
The sixth edition of the Globethics.net's flagship event, the Global Ethics Forum, was held in Geneva from 25 to 27 June 2015. Leaders, experts and future leaders from civil society, government, religious and academic institutions as well as from the business sector came together to share their learning and experiences in order to take action together to promote responsible leadership.
The Forum welcomed a total of 160 participants from all continents. Over 50 speakers shared their insights in four plenary sessions and 12 workshops, resulting in concrete project plans on the conference topic "Responsible Leadership in Action: The Value of Values." The programme also featured a public evening with a panel discussion, music and a reception hosted by the City of Geneva at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Photographs taken during the Forum give some of the flavour of the event, www.flickr.com/photos/globethicsnet.
"The insights shared focused on both parts of the responsible leadership equation: the personal and the organisational level of value awareness, practice and stewardship for stakeholder needs", commented Professor Christoph Stückelberger, Executive Director and Founder of Globethics.net.
On the personal level, keynote speaker Musimbi Kanyoro, President and CEO of the US-based Global Fund for Women, emphasised the need for empathy towards the people one serves, as well as sharing, celebrating others and accepting failure.
The programme also offered a personal reflection session on the value of compassion and emphasized sharing, openness and gratefulness as core values for the Forum experience.
On the organizational level, the gathering focused on overarching tools like organisational training and codes of ethics, integrated reporting and dialogue; sector-specific tools; as well as problem-specific tools such as those used to address gender equality. Workshops were designed to exchange insights on existing tools and then to create a work plan to build upon them for greater impact.
As well as providing the opportunity to forge and strengthen invaluable relationships between different actors, the Forum's outcomes include a colourful bouquet of concrete plans to foster responsible leadership in organisations, including: disseminating knowledge about codes of ethics; creating access to sustainable jobs and education; enhancing awareness and knowledge about gender ethics; strengthening values-driven responsible investment; improving Africa-China business relations through further dialogue; developing an integrated values-based sustainability toolkit for business; understanding higher education's impact on community; ensuring knowledge exchange on values-based higher education programmes; fostering ethical elections in DR Congo; and advancing responsible resource management in religious organisations.
The 2015 Global Ethics Forum was made possible through the support of the Loterie Romande, the Ville de Genève, the Sri Ramanuja Mission Trust, the Graduate Institute Geneva and Nestlé SA.
News items about the Forum and a webcast of the public event at the Graduate Institute Geneva on 25 June can be found on the Global Ethics Forum pages at www.globethics.net/web/gef/conference2015.
To efficiently implement Great American Outdoors Act projects, the Allegheny National Forest has partnered with the US Army Corps of Engineers. This partnership will leverage the Corps' project planning, engineering, design and contracting expertise. Allegheny National Forest Supervisor Jamie Davidson and her team recently hosted Colonel Adam J. Czekanski, District Commander, USACE Pittsburgh District, on a tour of projects his team has responsibility for implementing on the Forest in 2023 and beyond.
For this weeks "sportswear" challenge I made a vintage inspired romper with a coordinating reversible button up skirt. My little one wanted to join in the fun so she "designed" her own graphic art for a tee shirt then I scanned and printed on fabric and appliqued the shirt which she can wear with the skirt. I also made a head scarf out of some beautiful fabric. Now my moppet is ready for the beach, a picnic in the park or a game of croquet! I love how fresh this color combination looks! I blogged about it here: urbanmoppets.blogspot.com/2012/04/sewing-along-with-proje...
Hopefully this is a good start to a winter project! Planning on taking a lot of time on this one... also planning on using 2x2 binning for this too. Tested out some 4x4 binning at last nights astrocamp, decided it killed the resolution too much to even try to integrate it with 1x1 binning. Also tested out our new astrocampgrounds in Wailua! A very nice location, I think this one might stick.
Usual equipement, 1 hour total exposure time; 6x600s 1x1 binning.
Hit the pepper sauce too much and added some exposures that shouldn't be there, for posting purposes. I'll do it properly when I process the final image...
Baggins was given a Cerberus Internship, delivered to him through agent magimix. Read the letter, below.
Cerberus Operative Internship
"Maximize your optimal potentiality"
Dear (Agent Baggins)
We thank you once again for expressing a discrete interest in our new internship program. I am pleased to inform you thet your references have been verified, your vouch confirms your bona fides, and your security evaluation has been successful. With these preliminary steps in hand, you are no entitled to further information about the program you are being inducted into. While you will in due course be sent a fully specified briefing, in this letter I will provide a short summary of the internship program, and also the projet that is being offered to you.
Operative Internship
Cerberus is a dynamic, and quickly evolving organization that always has an eye for new talent; the Operative Internship program was created to provide exciting opportunities for those interested in furthering the interests of humanity, through espionage, research, and technology. As an operative intern, you will be assigned a secondary project to manage and steer to completion. You will enjoy a modest degree of autonomy, and limited access to Cerberus resource.
The duration of the internship is determined by the life-cycle of the project itself. Upon delivery, if the project is judged to have met expectations, you will be offered full operative status. However, if the assigned project is judged to have failed to meet expectations, your internship will be terminated accordingly.
The project that will form the core of your internship originates from the Cerberus Public/Private Initiative. The overarching goal of this initiative is to explore synergies that may be available by combining knowledge, resources, and technology from private Cerberus research divisions, and public cover corporations. Pursuant to this, it is felt there may be good dividends obtained through a combination of technology and IP from Cerberus' Combat AI Research Division and 'cover corporation' HappyFunCo's new range of building-blocks - TeknoBricks.
"Self-assembling TeknoBrick Combat Mechs"
In high-level terms, the primary delivery requirement is a working prototype of an autonomous combat mechanoid that can self-assemble from TeknoBrick-brand building blocks. Note that while the scope of the requirement dos not cover matters pertaining to large-scale manufacture and deployment, the prototype must exhibit combat readiness upon assembly. Bearing in mind the risks that may be associated with this project, the requirements catalog will also include the following:
* That unit control algorithms be restricted to combat VI, as opposed to combat AI.
* That project personnel casualty rates be kept below 30% rated manpower allocation per fiscal quarter.
* That civilian testing, if judged necessary, be restricted to non-humans only.
While the project is not fully resourced at this time, enclosed with this package is a quantity of 'seed money' that you are encouraged to begin basic research and analysis with, prior to formal commencement. It is expected that when the project launches, you will have completed an analysis of requirements, and produced a project plan.
On a more personal note, it is my hope that this induction augurs well for a long and fruitful career with Cerberus. However, to reiterate, do be aware that Cerberus expects results - consistent failure to meet your S.M.A.R.T. objectives may result in extraordinary reassignment.
If you have any further queries, please forward them to the pre-assigned dead-drop location, pusuant to security guidelines.
Yours faithfully,
(Redacted)
The first of two consecutive scans that show a mapping error on the former M85. Here, the motorway is shown as projected, extending northeast from the M90, past Junction 1 and around to the existing A85 dual carriageway. While the route itself is correct, the motorway regulations only ran to Junction 1, after which the road was the all-purpose A85. With renumbering in 1994 taking the A90 number towards Dundee, the M85 was lost from maps. Taken from an RAC Regional Map of South Scotland (Sheet 10, revision D) from the late 1970s.
"High Paddington is sited on the existing goods yard of Paddington Railway Station—a centre of communications and a key locality in the borough, consisting of some 18 acres between Westbourne Bridge and Bishops Road Bridge. Over this area, without undue disturbance to the railway system, it is proposed to build a small town of 8,000 or so inhabitants, with accepted standards of amenities and open spaces, including homes, gardens, a church, shops, schools, commerce and light industry, places of entertainment, recreation, sport and leisure.
The national advantages are these. No more land at the expense of agriculture and industry is needed; in fact, land can even be reclaimed, and daily travelling time is made shorter."
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
Mr. Talley engages students in explaining their work. These girls are explaining their research project and who will be doing what steps next.
The sixth edition of the Globethics.net's flagship event, the Global Ethics Forum, was held in Geneva from 25 to 27 June 2015. Leaders, experts and future leaders from civil society, government, religious and academic institutions as well as from the business sector came together to share their learning and experiences in order to take action together to promote responsible leadership.
The Forum welcomed a total of 160 participants from all continents. Over 50 speakers shared their insights in four plenary sessions and 12 workshops, resulting in concrete project plans on the conference topic "Responsible Leadership in Action: The Value of Values." The programme also featured a public evening with a panel discussion, music and a reception hosted by the City of Geneva at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Photographs taken during the Forum give some of the flavour of the event, www.flickr.com/photos/globethicsnet.
"The insights shared focused on both parts of the responsible leadership equation: the personal and the organisational level of value awareness, practice and stewardship for stakeholder needs", commented Professor Christoph Stückelberger, Executive Director and Founder of Globethics.net.
On the personal level, keynote speaker Musimbi Kanyoro, President and CEO of the US-based Global Fund for Women, emphasised the need for empathy towards the people one serves, as well as sharing, celebrating others and accepting failure.
The programme also offered a personal reflection session on the value of compassion and emphasized sharing, openness and gratefulness as core values for the Forum experience.
On the organizational level, the gathering focused on overarching tools like organisational training and codes of ethics, integrated reporting and dialogue; sector-specific tools; as well as problem-specific tools such as those used to address gender equality. Workshops were designed to exchange insights on existing tools and then to create a work plan to build upon them for greater impact.
As well as providing the opportunity to forge and strengthen invaluable relationships between different actors, the Forum's outcomes include a colourful bouquet of concrete plans to foster responsible leadership in organisations, including: disseminating knowledge about codes of ethics; creating access to sustainable jobs and education; enhancing awareness and knowledge about gender ethics; strengthening values-driven responsible investment; improving Africa-China business relations through further dialogue; developing an integrated values-based sustainability toolkit for business; understanding higher education's impact on community; ensuring knowledge exchange on values-based higher education programmes; fostering ethical elections in DR Congo; and advancing responsible resource management in religious organisations.
The 2015 Global Ethics Forum was made possible through the support of the Loterie Romande, the Ville de Genève, the Sri Ramanuja Mission Trust, the Graduate Institute Geneva and Nestlé SA.
News items about the Forum and a webcast of the public event at the Graduate Institute Geneva on 25 June can be found on the Global Ethics Forum pages at www.globethics.net/web/gef/conference2015.
This is one of many almost identical jelly mould concrete stations that punctuate the line. They were intended to be stations for communities along the route which were to be established as part of the New Nile Valley Project. This vast project planned to bring water from Lake Nassar and by 2020 irrigate over 2000km2 of desert. However as can be seen in 2005 this had yet to happen and to this day the project is far from finished and salinity in the soils coupled with other geological difficulties mean the whole project is a long way from ever IF ever coming to fruition.
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
Edited Voyager 1 image (reprocessed recently) of the Pale Blue Dot image, which is of Earth in the middle of a sunbeam and seen from past Saturn. Color/processing variant.
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23645
Original caption: For the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic images taken by NASA's Voyager mission, a new version of the image known as "the Pale Blue Dot."
Planet Earth is visible as a bright speck within the sunbeam just right of center and appears softly blue, as in the original version published in 1990 (see PIA00452).
This updated version uses modern image-processing software and techniques to revisit the well-known Voyager view while attempting to respect the original data and intent of those who planned the images.
In 1990, the Voyager project planned to shut off the Voyager 1 spacecraft's imaging cameras to conserve power and because the probe, along with its sibling Voyager 2, would not fly close enough to any other objects to take pictures. Before the shutdown, the mission commanded the probe to take a series of 60 images designed to produce what they termed the "Family Portrait of the Solar System." Executed on Valentine's Day 1990, this sequence returned images for making color views of six of the solar system's planets and also imaged the Sun in monochrome.
The popular name of this view is traced to the title of the 1994 book by Voyager imaging scientist Carl Sagan, who originated the idea of using Voyager's cameras to image the distant Earth and played a critical role in enabling the family portrait images to be taken.
The image of Earth was originally published by NASA in 1990. It is republished here to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Family Portrait of the Solar System (see PIA00451) and the Pale Blue Dot image in particular.
The planet occupies less than a single pixel in the image and thus is not fully resolved. (The actual width of the planet on the sky was less than one pixel in Voyager's camera.) By contrast, Jupiter and Saturn were large enough to fill a full pixel in their family portrait images.
The direction of the Sun is toward the bottom of the view (where the image is brightest). Rays of sunlight scattered within the camera optics stretch across the scene. One of those light rays happens to have intersected dramatically with Earth. From Voyager 1's vantage point — a distance of approximately 3.8 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) — Earth was separated from the Sun by only a few degrees. The close proximity of the inner planets to the Sun was a key factor preventing these images from being taken earlier in the mission, as our star was still close and bright enough to damage the cameras with its blinding glare.
The view is a color composite created by combining images taken using green, blue and violet spectral filters by the Voyager 1 Narrow-Angle Camera. They were taken at 4:48 GMT on Feb. 14, 1990, just 34 minutes before Voyager 1 powered off its cameras forever.
Like the original version, this is technically a "false-color" view, as the color-filter images used were mapped to red, green and blue, respectively. The brightness of each color channel was balanced relative to the others, which is likely why the scene appears brighter but less grainy than the original. In addition, the color was balanced so that the main sunbeam (which overlays Earth) appears white, like the white light of the Sun.
At its original resolution, the newly processed color image is 666 by 659 pixels in size; this is Figure A. The main image is an enlarged version.
The image was processed by JPL engineer and image processing enthusiast Kevin M. Gill with input from two of the image's original planners, Candy Hansen and William Kosmann.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Image Addition Date:
2020-02-12
Ray Algood (Right), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District facility manager, speaks with Charles E. Lewis Jr., professional engineer and vice president of A.G. Gaston Construction in Birmingham, Ala., during the First Annual Nashville District Small Business Opportunities Open House at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tenn., March 16, 2017. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts)
Mohammad Ali Lund, a 45-year-old taxi-driver and farm labourer, has 12 children and 14 grandchildren in Badin, an arid district in southern Pakistan’s Sindh province. In August and September heavy rain breached canals deluging his home and farmland and breaking the rear window of his Suzuki taxi cab..
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Ali is among 16,000 families Plan and its partner HANDS have provided with health and hygiene kits in the district of Badin where 1.8 million people were hit by the floods. He is also among the 80,000 people whom Plan and HANDS are providing some 200,000 litres of safe drinking water to daily, as the availability of safe drinking water has been a major challenge in Badin. Only 20 out of 78 water sources remain usable after the heavy rainfall. .
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Although Ali’s six adult children have moved on to live elsewhere, Ali still has more than 10 mouths to feed. He has been living on a government cash transfer of 10,000 rupee (USD 114) and relief supplies from Plan and other NGOs. He realises that the food and cash will be depleted soon if he doesn’t look for work..
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“I am happy to do any work, I’m looking for a job on a farm in the village or a labour job in town, to have some money to feed my children and rebuild our home,” Ali said..
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Plan Pakistan is hoping to fill this gap, working on a “cash for work” project for the flood-hit survivors. Through this project, Plan will be helping families to generate income to support their children while at the same time providing an opportunity to repair and restore essential community services that were damaged by the floods..
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The sixth edition of the Globethics.net's flagship event, the Global Ethics Forum, was held in Geneva from 25 to 27 June 2015. Leaders, experts and future leaders from civil society, government, religious and academic institutions as well as from the business sector came together to share their learning and experiences in order to take action together to promote responsible leadership.
The Forum welcomed a total of 160 participants from all continents. Over 50 speakers shared their insights in four plenary sessions and 12 workshops, resulting in concrete project plans on the conference topic "Responsible Leadership in Action: The Value of Values." The programme also featured a public evening with a panel discussion, music and a reception hosted by the City of Geneva at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Photographs taken during the Forum give some of the flavour of the event, www.flickr.com/photos/globethicsnet.
"The insights shared focused on both parts of the responsible leadership equation: the personal and the organisational level of value awareness, practice and stewardship for stakeholder needs", commented Professor Christoph Stückelberger, Executive Director and Founder of Globethics.net.
On the personal level, keynote speaker Musimbi Kanyoro, President and CEO of the US-based Global Fund for Women, emphasised the need for empathy towards the people one serves, as well as sharing, celebrating others and accepting failure.
The programme also offered a personal reflection session on the value of compassion and emphasized sharing, openness and gratefulness as core values for the Forum experience.
On the organizational level, the gathering focused on overarching tools like organisational training and codes of ethics, integrated reporting and dialogue; sector-specific tools; as well as problem-specific tools such as those used to address gender equality. Workshops were designed to exchange insights on existing tools and then to create a work plan to build upon them for greater impact.
As well as providing the opportunity to forge and strengthen invaluable relationships between different actors, the Forum's outcomes include a colourful bouquet of concrete plans to foster responsible leadership in organisations, including: disseminating knowledge about codes of ethics; creating access to sustainable jobs and education; enhancing awareness and knowledge about gender ethics; strengthening values-driven responsible investment; improving Africa-China business relations through further dialogue; developing an integrated values-based sustainability toolkit for business; understanding higher education's impact on community; ensuring knowledge exchange on values-based higher education programmes; fostering ethical elections in DR Congo; and advancing responsible resource management in religious organisations.
The 2015 Global Ethics Forum was made possible through the support of the Loterie Romande, the Ville de Genève, the Sri Ramanuja Mission Trust, the Graduate Institute Geneva and Nestlé SA.
News items about the Forum and a webcast of the public event at the Graduate Institute Geneva on 25 June can be found on the Global Ethics Forum pages at www.globethics.net/web/gef/conference2015.
Entering Southampton Western Dock at dock gate 20. The UK transport project planning, permits & escorts was by Teahan Convoi Service. This load was escorted by Teahan, Convoi Assist, RVT & Hampshire Police.
Viewed from the inside of Meriam Library, the steel beams for the framing are installed as the construction process continues to make way for a new physical science building on Monday, May 13, 2019 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU Chico)
The deconstruction process continues as Siskiyous Hall is torn down to make way for a new physical science building on Friday, July 13, 2018 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU Chico)
Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland