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Secretary-General António Guterres (fourth from left) holds an interactive dialogue with youth leaders on the role of young people in transforming education, during the first day of the Transforming Education Summit. Vivian Onano (third from left), youth leader, moderates.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
16 September 2022
New York, United States of America
Photo # UN7949887
I created these illustrations for a video that promotes Philadelphia as the perfect testbed for the google high speed fiber initiative. The video will go live on Friday, but I thought I'd get them up ahead of time. To find out more about the public-private partnership in Philly to promote the City of Firsts as a site for this project, please visit gigabitphilly.com And if you have ideas for how Philly could use an ultra high bandwidth data network that connects individuals, industry, and government, please submit your ideas here. You can also show your support by coming to the press conference with Philadelphia Mayor tomorrow (Thursday, March 25) at 2:30 at City Hall on the 2nd floor. A high speed data network in Philly has the potential to accelerate our medical, film production, university, technology, financial services, and community sectors by letting people share massive amounts of data rapidly---that means rich interactivity, problem solving, and communication. Gigabit Philly Videos GigabitPhilly Site GigabitPhilly Facebook Fanpage Follow GigabitPhilly on Twitter Can you imagine Gigabit Philly? ---Jonny Goldstein
Promotional art installation by UNIT in the grounds of Tower Works - a site with a rich industrial revolution heritage currently undergoing regeneration in the up-and-coming Holbeck Urban Village district of Leeds.
The word "Transform" is written in grass turf, and designed to be viewable from the top of the newly constucted Candle House tower located next door.
I was comissioned by Holbeck Urban Village to document the creation of this, you can see some of the resultant photos of it being constructed on my blog.
In the receding twilight
flapping your clipped wings
you remember the
Port Jefferson Ferry at Sunset.
You remember
We are all leaving all the time and coming away with something...
we are leaving something behind and going to claim someone..
I had a dream that I was in a store where they were selling Blacksuits but in the dream they were morphing into different shapes or textures or changing from orange and black to yellow, blue and white. These images created with prompts using recraftai get close to how the figurines looked in the dream.
Sureshot transform into a dune buggy .As a robot, he has great articulations.
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Digital technologies continue to transform nearly every aspect of our business and personal lives, from the use of payment technologies to manufacturing production lines and the ways we write, read and communicate. This transformation is happening despite, or maybe because of, the crises we face. Digitalisation reshapes the economy and disrupts traditional industries, and allows us to address the geopolitical, economic and social challenges ahead. Yet, delivering on the digital dividend in a cyber safe environment requires a “system upgrade”. And that “system upgrade” is the focus of this event. The EBRD has made the digitalisation of its economies and its clients a major priority, by launching a digital strategy for the years ahead and upgrading the support to clients and investors in their digital ambitions. This panel brings together leading voices in digital change, including investors, business and policy leaders, to discuss key questions around new technologies and the digital world. They also explore issues related to digital transition in EBRD economies, such as market concentration, risks to cybersecurity and the fear of automation.
Discussion Panel
Christine Namara
Venture Partner
The Baobab Network
Neil Cohn
Global Head of Markets and Sustainability
Chia Network Inc
Dina Matta - Speaker
Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer
EBRD
On the day the Global Goals were adopted by the United Nations, the UK, Care International, Empower Women and UN Women hold an event to boost momentum on economic empowerment of women worldwide, 25 September 2015
Picture: Ryan Brown/UN Women
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Mindfullness
October, and all the changes it brings to the world, serves are a reminder that we too are changing. We, like the leaves in the autumn trees, are fading, our colors transforming without warning. October is an annual reminder of your mortality, a reminder to live each day more fully, more mindfully.
Beth is playing in the leaves as well.
Metamorphosis of a Snall Tortoiseshell larva in action,at Gill Pond,near Carbarns Pool,Motherwell...24/06/17
This Vic Viper can transform in to a robot. The only pieces taken off during the transformation are the guns, which are then placed into the robot's hands when it has finished its transformation. Pictures of it in robot form will come soon, I just need to get this in, in time for Novvember ;).
Happy 200,000 views, Flickrites et al! (And all without a single Explore!)
Admittedly, this is one of the weirdest ones we've done in-studio in a while. Well done, sir.
[Strobist: Canon Speedlite 580EX into Photoflex Medium LiteDome camera left, 430EX into 12" beauty dish right and down-set, 430EX into Honl 1/4" grid left and down-set. All fired with Pocket Wizard Plus II]
June 4th, 2012.
Sydney will once again be transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 25 May – 11 June 2012.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the new Vivid Ideas Exchange at the MCA featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
Vivid Sydney is a major celebration of the creative industries and the biggest festival of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, attracting over 400,000 attendees in 2011.
From Wikipedia:
The Customs House is an historic Sydney landmark located in the city's Circular Quay area. Constructed initially in 1844-1845, the building served as the headquarters of the Customs Service until 1990. Ownership was then transferred from the Commonwealth Government of Australia to the City of Sydney Council in 1994, when it became a venue for exhibitions and private functions.
After being refurbished in 2003, it has also become the new home of the City of Sydney Library.
People of the Eora tribe are said to have witnessed from the site, in 1788, the landing of the First Fleet. Convict David O'Connor was hanged on the site in 1790 and it is said that his ghost haunts the Customs House to this day, offering people rum.
The driving force behind the construction of the original sandstone edifice on Circular Quay was Colonel John George Nathaniel Gibbes (1787-1873), the Collector of Customs for New South Wales for a record term of 25 years from 1834 to 1859. Colonel Gibbes persuaded the Governor of NSW, Sir George Gipps, to begin construction of the Customs House in 1844 in response to Sydney's growing volume of maritime trade. The building project also doubled as an unemployment relief measure for stone masons and laborers during an economic depression which was afflicting the colony at the time.
The two-storey Georgian structure was designed by Mortimer Lewis and featured 13 large and expensive windows in the facade to afford a clear view of shipping activity in Sydney Cove. Colonel Gibbes, who dwelt opposite Circular Quay on Kirribilli Point, was able to watch progress on the Customs House's construction from the verandah of his private residence, Wotonga House (now Admiralty House).
The Customs House opened for business in 1845 and replaced cramped premises at The Rocks. It was partially dismantled and expanded to three levels under the supervision of the then Colonial Architect, James Barnet, in 1887. Various additions were made over the next century, particularly during the period of the First World War, but some significant vestiges of the original Gibbes-Lewis building remain.
The Coat of arms of the United Kingdom is displayed on Customs House. The coat features both the motto of English monarchs, Dieu et mon droit (God and my right), and the motto of the Order of the Garter, Honi soit qui mal y pense (Shamed be he who thinks ill of it) on a representation of the Garter behind the shield.
Now heading into its fourth year, Vivid Sydney was ranked in the Top Ten global ideas festivals by the influential Guardian newspaper in the UK.
ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2021. ROME CANNOT SURVIVE ANOTHER RAGGI TERM AS MAYOR - Raggi: "I rebuilt Rome, transforming it into a Ferrari, the strongest Italian car." The Romans: "A Ferrari driven by wild boars." Italics Magazine (16 Sept. 2021) & Cinghiali “contromano” tra il traffico: in via Trionfale; in: Prati Borgo / San Pietro (21/09/2021). wp.me/pbMWvy-1VH
“Bestemmie e cinghiali…dimmi che sei di Roma senza dirmi che sei di Roma”; in:
welcometofavalas / Instagram (Giugno e Luglio 2021).
1). ROME CANNOT SURVIVE ANOTHER RAGGI TERM AS MAYOR – Raggi: “I rebuilt Rome, transforming it into a Ferrari, the strongest Italian car.” The Romans: “A Ferrari driven by wild boars.” Italics Magazine (16 Sept. 2021)
Foto: Roma & Virginia Raggi / Facebook & Twitter (09/2021).
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ROME - With just under three weeks left until elections in Rome, more than 2 million residents are tasked with choosing the next mayor of the Italian capital city amid a flurry of last-ditch public appearances and advertising onslaughts. The current mayor, anti-establishment Five Star Movement Virginia Raggi, is not lacking for opponents. The most significant is Enrico Michetti, who has thrown down the gauntlet to Raggi in a bid to raise the center-right flag over Capitoline Hill. But she’s got plenty to worry about on her own side of the aisle in the forms of Roberto Gualtieri as the center-left nominee and Carlo Calenda as the candidate for the progressive Azione party.
Most polling doesn’t bode particularly well for the incumbent Raggi: she’s currently trailing both Michetti and Gualtieri and only a hair in front of Calenda. Of course, with undecided voters topping 40%, it really is still anyone’s game. But it shouldn’t be this close, not with the promise with which Raggi entered the Eternal City. So what went wrong for her?
A rough start as a mayor
Virginia Raggi was elected the 34th mayor of Rome in June 2016, with 67.2% of votes in the second round. The first female mayor of the capital city promised to rid it of corruption, with the promise that “the wind is changing.” But it all went wrong.
It was a risky move to withdraw their 2024 Olympic bid, and the way it was done made her no friends in both public or private circles. She insisted that “with more than €13 billion of debt, Rome can’t afford to shoulder more to build cathedrals in the desert.” But her detractors heavily contested the position, claiming that pulling out from the bidding wasted the chance to upgrade infrastructure and public facilities with little or no expense. Funds would have come into Rome via the International Olympic Committee, private investors, and the government. According to a study from Tor Vergata University, the city lost an estimated €7.1 billion of gross revenue, 40,000 job opportunities, and, most of all, the chance to drag the capital city into the 21st century with cutting-edge infrastructures.
Once, Roman emperors used to host awe-inspiring public games in an attempt to appease and distract a population in constant turmoil. Back then, the Roman poet called Juvenal called it panem et circenses, Bread and Circuses.
Foto: Foto: France / EuroNews (13/07/2021) & Virginia Raggi / Instagram (17/07/2021).
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These days no one seems to bother that much, preferring it seems to distract citizens with piles of garbage and wild boars. Though that sounds like a metaphor, it sadly is not. The waste management sector of Rome is near total collapse: every year the city council spends €170 million shipping the capital’s garbage to other Italian regions. Dumpsters are so full of trash that gulls, rats, and even boars have been spotted rummaging through bins to find something to eat. They are not particular, but no matter; they are spoiled for choice.
Foto: TG 3 Lazio & Virginia Raggi (07/2021).
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Make no mistake, Rome is filthy. Not only does the capital recycle 15% less garbage than the Italian average (45% as opposed to 61.3% in 2019), but only 60% of roads in the city are effectively cleaned, far below the 92% guaranteed by the publicly traded AMA, the company tasked with providing urban hygiene services. Yet despite this, Roman residents pay the highest waste tax in Italy, 42% higher than Florence.
The (lost) battle against corruption
Faithful to the motto of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, Virginia Raggi trounced her opponents by promising to clean the city of corruption. But for a mayor that failed to clean up waste from the streets, it’s not surprising that she soon found herself under investigation by magistrates. The long list of judiciary proceedings deeply undermined Virginia Raggi’s authority, as two cases of malfeasance in office regarding staffing of her private office broke out. Eventually, the Court dropped all the charges against the mayor, citing her right-hand Raffaele Marra instead for illegal hiring practices. But the damage was done to her reputation and in Rome, reputation is everything.
Another trial regarding the new AS Roma soccer club stadium in 2018 resulted in the arrest of none people for crimes including corruption. Among them was the president of Acea (the local multi-utility providing water and energy services) Luca Lanzalone, who had been appointed to the position by Raggi herself. Although the mayor didn’t receive a sentence, the affair perpetrated the notion that anyone around the mayor was incompetent or, at worse, corrupt.
Regardless of who takes the reins, expectations look gloomy for the Eternal city. And though it is unfair to blame Virginia Raggi for everything that has gone wrong in the capital, she certainly hasn’t done anything to alleviate the problems that both preceded her and emerged in her tenure. For someone with so much promise, her greatest sin may just be her apathetic governance. The data speaks for itself: the city of Rome dropped from 18th in 2019 to 32th in 2020 in the national rankings for quality of life. No amount of bread nor circuses can fix that.
Fonte / source:
--- Italics Magazine (16 Sept. 2021).
italicsmag.com/2021/09/16/rome-cannot-survive-another-rag...
Foto: Rome, Prati Borgo / San Pietro (21/09/2021).
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2). ROMA - Cinghiali “contromano” tra il traffico: in via Trionfale la processione si svolge in pieno giorno. Prati Borgo / San Pietro (21/09/2021).
In una via Trionfale trafficata, in pieno giorno, i cinghiali “contromano” si districano tra il traffico. La scena è stata ripresa, all’altezza del civico 8229, da un residente mentre era sul balcone della sua abitazione e mostra un comportamento fin qui inedito di suidi che, solitamente, si spostano al calar del sole alla ricerca di cibo, soprattutto accanto ai cassonetti ricolmi di rifiuti.
Automobilisti e scooteristi, quasi increduli, sono costretti a scansarsi per far passare tre cinghiali adulti e undici cuccioli, non si sono registrati incidenti.
Il candidato sindaco di Azione, Carlo Calenda, ha postato nel proprio profilo Twitter un video che ritrae i cinghiali da un’altra angolazione. “Non pensate sia arrivato il momento di sedervi a un tavolo e affrontare la questione?” – ha scritto Calenda taggando il presidente della Regione, Nicola Zingaretti, e la prima cittadina di Roma, Virginia Raggi.
I suidi sono animali dal comportamento prevalentemente notturno. La carovana non è la prima ripresa nel nostro territorio, il 21 luglio scorso, un cinghiale è stato filmato da una passante in viale Mazzini, a poche decine di metri da piazzale Clodio, due giorni dopo, invece, un cucciolo è stato trovato morto in via Trionfale, accanto ai bidoni della spazzatura.
Fonte / source:
--- Prati Borgo / San Pietro (21/09/2021).
romah24.com/prati/news/cinghiali-contromano-tra-il-traffi...
Transforming Program Performance
February 2, 2011, 10:00am – 11:30am
To view a video of this event, click here: www.americanprogress.org/events/2011/02/design.html
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama signed the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010 into law—the first major government performance reform in 17 years. The law requires all departments and agencies to set high-priority goals, develop a plan to accomplish each goal, and regularly adjust the plan as they go along so the goals are more likely to be met. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) was one of the key architects of the bill and will discuss the implementation phase of the legislation at this event.
CAP will also launch a major new report titled "The Secret to Programs that Work" at the event. With the input of more than 200 experts over six months, the Doing What Works team has developed tools and processes to ensure that essential questions of likely success are asked early in the program design process. The report will also present tools and a new process to evaluate the effectiveness of existing programs.
The Doing What Works project was joined by Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), discussing the implementation of the new law and next steps in improving government performance. Following the interview, a panel of government performance experts discussed and responded.