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Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías
18 April 2024
New York, United States of America
Photo # UN71035340
Image from 'A History of the United States for schools ... With topical analysis, suggestive questions ... by F. A. Hill. [With maps.]', 001244698
Author: Fiske, John
Page: 126
Year: 1894
Place: London
Publisher: Watt & Son
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Dans plusieurs traditions, il est question d’un personnage fictif malfaisant que l’on charge de tous les maux et que les participants au carnaval parviennent à éliminer. Dans notre quartier, c’est le Miniss Hiver qui symbolise le mal, qui sert de bouc émissaire et dont on doit se débarasser pour que le printemps puisse commencer sereinement. Tous les habitants, en particulier les plus jeunes, se lancent à sa recherche dans le quartier. Un jeune personnage leur vient en aide. Il s’agit de Léon Tchiniss. Ce « tout petit géant » n’est autre que le fils caché de Tchantchès. En revanche, on ne sait rien de sa mère, sauf que c’est une dame qui est passée par le quartier! Grâce à lui, le Miniss est arrêté et on peut procéder à un procès burlesque, lors duquel tout un chacun peut lui adresser des reproches. Jugé coupable, malgré les gesticulations de l’avocat véreux qui tente de le défendre, il est condamné à être exhibé dans le quartier durant le cortège, puis attaché sur un bûcher. Là, il est d’abord lapatatisé (canardé de pommes de terre) et ensuite brûlé. Cette double mise à mort garantit une sorte de retour à l’ordre et de prospérité.
"What is it exactly that you do Mary?" is a question i get asked almost everyday. Well, what you see here represents a good 70% of what I spend a LOT of my time doing. Meeting and talking with various stakeholders of whatever program possibility I happen to be looking into. Not super exciting, but a huge part of my job.
Photographed here are all the major heads of various municipal, governmental, and educational institutions involved in working with people with different abilities in Manta.
In the age of social media, not snapping a pic of your perfectly plated meal is like finding a unicorn at a horse race—it's pretty rare and might make people wonder if you're really living in the 21st century. It's become such a phenomenon that one-third of social media users have admitted to ordering food just for the 'gram. Imagine that! People are literally choosing their meals based on how well they'll fit into a square photo frame with a filter. Restaurants have caught onto this trend faster than a cat on a laser pointer, turning their dishes into Instagram-worthy works of art. They know that a picture is worth a thousand likes and potentially just as many dollars. So, when you don't take a photo, it's like you're saying, "No thanks, I don't need any extra likes today," which, let's be honest, sounds as odd as a dog walking on two legs. It's all about the visual appeal; after all, we eat with our eyes first, and if the camera eats first, can you even say you've dined out?
Question: what do most of the telegraph poles, half the lamp-posts, most of the fire hydrants, most of the dog mess bins, grit bins and traffic signs in Skelmorlie village have in common?
2024 Conference of CSOs working on the Question of Palestine
“Building Bridges with International Civil Society to Address the Ongoing Nakba”
Convened by the
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP)
United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG), Switzerland
3-4 April 2024, PLENARY III
“State Actions on Accountability: Discussing Best Practices”,
Dans plusieurs traditions, il est question d’un personnage fictif malfaisant que l’on charge de tous les maux et que les participants au carnaval parviennent à éliminer. Dans notre quartier, c’est le Miniss Hiver qui symbolise le mal, qui sert de bouc émissaire et dont on doit se débarasser pour que le printemps puisse commencer sereinement. Tous les habitants, en particulier les plus jeunes, se lancent à sa recherche dans le quartier. Un jeune personnage leur vient en aide. Il s’agit de Léon Tchiniss. Ce « tout petit géant » n’est autre que le fils caché de Tchantchès. En revanche, on ne sait rien de sa mère, sauf que c’est une dame qui est passée par le quartier! Grâce à lui, le Miniss est arrêté et on peut procéder à un procès burlesque, lors duquel tout un chacun peut lui adresser des reproches. Jugé coupable, malgré les gesticulations de l’avocat véreux qui tente de le défendre, il est condamné à être exhibé dans le quartier durant le cortège, puis attaché sur un bûcher. Là, il est d’abord lapatatisé (canardé de pommes de terre) et ensuite brûlé. Cette double mise à mort garantit une sorte de retour à l’ordre et de prospérité.
My brothers and i are going to order from bricklink for some old stuff and with the rest of my money i want to buy brickarms or brickforge. But i dont know where to buy.FFFUUUU-!!!
Jack Szostak has spent his life circling one of the oldest questions in science. How does life begin. Not as metaphor, but as chemistry that somehow learns to copy itself and change. He approaches the question with the patience of a careful observer and the curiosity of someone who never stopped wondering how the natural world first opened its eyes.
He was born in London and raised in Canada, drawn early to radios, circuits, and the quiet logic of biology. By his early twenties he was deep into graduate work at Cornell, where he helped reveal how chromosomes guard their ends. That work later contributed to a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The recognition could have easily kept him anchored in genetics, yet it had the opposite effect. It cleared space for him to chase something even more elemental.
At Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital he turned fully toward the origin of life. The lab became a place where ancient Earth could be rebuilt in small glass containers. He and his students tried to imagine a planet before biology. They studied which molecules were likely to have existed and how they might have assembled into simple protocells. They examined the early copying of nucleic acids and the fragile steps that must occur before evolution can take hold. Szostak’s own definition of life rests on that point. If it evolves, it is alive. Before that moment, it is still chemistry.
The work is demanding and beautifully slow. It requires an eye for tiny shifts in behavior and a willingness to test the same idea again and again. Szostak has the right temperament for this. He is calm, thoughtful, and open to surprise. He speaks with a gentle steadiness that makes the most complicated ideas seem almost plain.
When I photographed him in his Chicago home, the winter light was already fading. He welcomed the quiet, which suited the conversation. We talked about protocells and the first sparks of biology, and about the puzzles that still trouble him after so many years. His humor rose often, along with the soft trace of a Canadian accent.
His wife, Professor Yamuna Krishnan, stepped in and out of the room as we worked. She is a brilliant chemist in her own right, building molecular devices from DNA to study the inner life of cells. Her presence brought an extra warmth to the evening. Each time she walked into the room, something changed in him. His face softened and brightened in a way that needed no explanation. It was clear that their partnership carries both intellect and real affection.
In one portrait he sits in his study with two thick books stacked in front of him. One is his own doctoral thesis from his Cornell years. The other is Jennifer Doudna’s thesis, completed during her time in his lab. He rests his arms on them as if they are old companions. They are reminders of a long arc of discovery and mentorship, and of the people who have traveled through his scientific life.
Today Szostak continues his work at the University of Chicago. He studies the boundary where chemistry turns into biology, narrowing the gulf between the early Earth and the living world. His work remains steady and searching, not driven by the need to solve everything at once, but by the desire to understand something true about how life first appeared. In his hands, the origin of life feels less like an abstract mystery and more like a patient story unfolding, one experiment at a time.
This execution marked a shortlived turning point in advertising strategy for the World RPS Society. Instead of bludgeoning viewers with strong clear simple mesages as they had done in the past, a more subtle approach was explored.
While this execution went on to win many industry awards for it's thought-provocking approach and was appauled for not "insulting the intelligence of its viewer", for the most part, this execution went far over the heads of the intended audience
These were responses to Frontier fates that student had to answer very quickly. Time was allotted for group discussion and decision making and then as a group they were to write a paragraph about what they chose to do and why they made that decision. These two paragraphs met me expectations because they are a paragraph in length and they answered the question of what they chose and why they chose it.
This card uses a transfer from an artist trading card I made. See the original ATC here: www.flickr.com/photos/mandypoet/3850069859/in/set-7215762...
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Title: "The anti-vivisection question."
Publisher: [London] : [Victoria Street Society For the Protection of Animals From Vivisection united with the International Association For the Protection of Animals From Vivisection]
Sponsor: Wellcome Library
Contributor: Wellcome Library
Date: 1884
Language: eng
Description: Consists of 25 separately titled articles
Includes bibliographical references
The moral aspects of vivisection / by Francis Power Cobbe. -- The Lord Chief Justice of England on Vivisection. -- Light in dark places / by Francis Power Cobbe. -- The uselessness of vivisection. -- Vivisection : is it justifiable? / Charles Bell Taylor. -- The futility of experiments with drugs on animals / by Edward Berdoe. -- Do the interests of humanity require experiments on living animals? : and if so, up to what point are they justifiable? / by F.S Arnold. -- Our meanest crime : a paper / by John H. Clarke. -- Pasteur's statistics / by Ernest Bell. -- Pasteur's treatment for hydrophobia : medical evidence, Irish opinions
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As Bear and I approached the end of our hike, perched high on boulders beside the trail were several volunteers greeting visitors to the park. They patiently answered questions they must get asked over and over and over, like "What trails are good for beginners?", "Are there really rattlesnakes here?", and "Why didn't the eagles fly Sam & Frodo to Mordor?"
2024 Conference of CSOs working on the Question of Palestine, “Building Bridges with International Civil Society to Address the Ongoing Nakba”, Convened by the
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG), Switzerland, 3-4 April 2024, PLENARY I
“The War on Gaza: Advocating for a Humanitarian Ceasefire and Assistance for the Palestinian People”
2024 Conference of CSOs working on the Question of Palestine, “Building Bridges with International Civil Society to Address the Ongoing Nakba”, Convened by the
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG), Switzerland, 3-4 April 2024, PLENARY I
“The War on Gaza: Advocating for a Humanitarian Ceasefire and Assistance for the Palestinian People”
2024 Conference of CSOs working on the Question of Palestine, “Building Bridges with International Civil Society to Address the Ongoing Nakba”, Convened by the
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG), Switzerland, 3-4 April 2024, PLENARY I
“The War on Gaza: Advocating for a Humanitarian Ceasefire and Assistance for the Palestinian People”, Chair,