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Amélie Bottollier-Depois  (The Jakarta Post) PREMIUM Agence France-Presse/United Nations, United States   ● Tue, March 21 2023 With water scarce in some places, in excess elsewhere, polluted or otherwise problematic, the United Nations addresses this week a global crisis that has been long overlooked even as the welfare of billions of people is at stake. "It's the first time in 46 years that the world comes together on the issue of water," said Henk Ovink, water issues special envoy for the Netherlands, which is co-organizing the UN Water Summit from Wednesday to Friday along with Tajikistan. "It's now or never, as we say, a once in a generation opportunity," he told AFP. to Read Full Story SUBSCRIBE NOW Starting from IDR 55,500/month Unlimited access to our web and app content e-Post daily digital newspaper No advertisements, no interruptions Privileged access to our events and programs Subscription to our newsletters We accept … [Read more...] about UN holds rare conference on global water crisis

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy said Sunday that Americans should not protest if former President Donald Trump is indicted. Trump announced Saturday on Truth Social he expects to be arrested Tuesday by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, led by Alvin Bragg. “Now illegal leaks from a corrupt & highly political Manhattan District Attorneys office, which has allowed new records to be set in violent crime & whose leader is funded by George Soros, indicate that, with no crime being able to be proven, and based on an old and fully debunked (by numerous other prosecutors!) fairytale, the far & away leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States of America, will be arrested on Tuesday of next week.” DAVENPORT, IOWA – MARCH 13: Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Adler Theatre on March 13, 2023 in Davenport, Iowa.(Scott Olson/Getty Images) Trump then urged supporters to “protest” if the arrest occurs. McCarthy spoke out … [Read more...] about McCarthy Says Americans Should Not Protest If Trump Is Indicted

The University of Pittsburgh (UPitt) Student Government Board (SGB) allocated more than $26,000 for a student organization to host transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney during Pride Week, the student newspaper The Pitt News reported. The Pitt Program Council and the Rainbow Alliance will host “An Evening With Dylan Mulvaney” on March 22 at 8:30pm on campus to begin its Pride week activities, according to the Council’s website . The former Broadway actor made headlines after a TikTok series went viral documenting the “days of girlhood” after Mulvaney came out as transgender. (RELATED: Drew Barrymore Gets Down On Her Knees In Bizarre, Intimate Interview With Trans Activist Dylan Mulvaney) The Rainbow Alliance requested $26,250 to pay for the event which the SGB unanimously approved in full, according to the Pitt News. The Council will reportedly cover the remaining speaker fees which can range between $30,000 and $50,000, according to All American Speakers, a talent … [Read more...] about University Shells Out More Than $26,000 To Host Trans Activist

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin “I’ve always been attracted to the momentum of institutions,” begins the art historian Tim Marlow. “I like a busy place. I want to bring different audiences and for them to have communal experiences in a shared space.” He clarifies: “This is what museums do best.” As director and chief executive of the Design Museum in London, a position he’s held since 2019, he’s in a prime spot to achieve this. I’m meeting Marlow at the museum west of the city in Kensington, housed in the former Grade II* listed Commonwealth Institute. A curious building with its place in time, it opened in 1962 to inform and educate about the Commonwealth of Nations. The listing notes say its founding came “at a critical moment in the evolution of the modern Commonwealth out of the old Empire.” Meanwhile, the design and displays conveyed a “sense of idealism and a new start.” It, therefore, feels like a fitting place to be occupied by a museum also … [Read more...] about What Is A Design Institution Today? London’s Design Museum Director Tim Marlow Considers

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin I recently traveled to Pakistan after being invited to speak about personal branding with a group of entrepreneurs and business owners in Lahore and Karachi. I’d never been to that part of the world before, and I wasn’t at all familiar with the business, professional, or cultural scene there. Delivering a workshop on the other side of the world where you’re unfamiliar with the language, culture, and local dynamics presents unique challenges for speakers whose job is to hold the attention of an audience for several hours. As someone who regularly gives talks to international audiences, I was confident I could host a valuable workshop, but acutely aware this specific assignment would be challenging due to my extremely limited knowledge of the region. My days in Pakistan were eye-opening to say the least, both personally and professionally. Presenting in a completely different region illuminated some of my blind spots, and … [Read more...] about Remember These 7 Public Speaking Basics When Presenting Overseas

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin “Dancing With the Stars” will kick off season 32 with a new host who’s also an old favorite in the ballroom. Just days after Tyra Banks announced she’s hanging up her dancing shoes, and heading “to the boardroom, baby,” after three seasons as emcee of the long-running, celebrity-packed competition, comes news that former “DWTS” pro and two-time champ Julianne Hough will rejoin the series. The show’s official Twitter account revealed the casting news Monday, March 20, as well as the fact that Hough won’t be hosting alone. Alfonso Ribeiro, the season 19 winner and Carlton Dance icon who joined the ballroom bash last season, will stay on and serve alongside Hough. “We are so excited to welcome @juliannehough as co-host of #DWTS Season 32 along with @alfonso_ribeiro!” the tweet read . Within minutes of the announcement, viewers chimed in about the hosting shakeup on social media, with Hough getting a … [Read more...] about Julianne Hough Named New ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Host

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The highly anticipated release of GPT-4, the latest iteration of OpenAI's groundbreaking language model, has sent ripples of excitement throughout the banking and fintech industry. As ChatGPT’s capabilities expand, the traditional roles of personal finance management and financial advisors may soon become obsolete, paving the way for a new era of customized and intelligent financial solutions. The latest release of GTP-4 shows how quick ChatGPT is evolving. Industry giants like Microsoft MSFT and fintech firms like Stripe recently announced integrations of ChatGTP-4, while banks like Morgan Stanley Wealth have publicly announced their internal adoption. With its increased ability to deliver empathetic advice, potential for providing personalized insights, and delivery of real-time information, the ChatGTP-4 and beyond is a dream come true for innovators in financial services and technology. Consumer Expectations: … [Read more...] about A Brave New World: ChatGPT’s Potential To Reshape The Financial Services Landscape

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin On Friday, Balaji Srinivasan , a man who wields considerable influence in the tech and crypto worlds, made a jaw-dropping bet : $2 million that bitcoin would skyrocket from the mid-$20,000 range to $1 million per coin within 90 days. With this wager setting tongues wagging, the question on the lips of everyone outside the Silicon Valley club is: who exactly is Balaji Srinivasan? Srinivasan, or @balajis, as he’s known on Twitter, has a resume that could be a model for the tech and crypto industries. He’s an angel investor, tech founder and bestselling author of The Network State (in which he argues that technology will usher in the end of the nation-state era). His experience spans from being the CTO of Coinbase and a general partner at venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, to cofounding several companies that were later acquired. Srinivasan is hailed as a polymath, with degrees in electrical and chemical engineering … [Read more...] about Who Is Balaji Srinivasan And Why Should We Care About His $1 Million Bitcoin Prediction?

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin One of the world’s most successful drone delivery companies will be expanding to mainland Europe and the United States in 2023. Manna Aero has already done over 100,000 drone deliveries in multiple locations in Ireland, and is trending to hit over 1,000 deliveries per day in individual dense urban markets. But it won’t be instantly available everywhere. And Manna is not releasing its first target market in the U.S. “Nobody is to go full throttle up scaling,” says CEO Bobby Healy on a recent TechFirst podcast. “We're more interested in demonstrating we can operate in multiple markets, and that we can do, say, a thousand deliveries a day in a very dense area. And so that's what we'll be doing by this summer ... in Dublin.” Google sister company Wing is probably leading drone delivery in the U.S., right now, running deliveries in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in addition to other locations in the U.S. and globally. … [Read more...] about Irish Drone Delivery Startup Expanding To U.S. And Mainland Europe

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Center-stage startups may soon become gamechangers; meanwhile their journey could already contain a valuable lesson for us all Innovation Spotlight The journey of each start up is unique, yet the challenges they encounter are not. The ways they choose to overcome obstacles on their path, the creativity it takes to maneuver and prevail along the way and their ultimate recipes for success can all fill chapters in a potential guidebook for new starts up. Each company has something to contribute to this vast shared pool of collective knowledge. Foresight Autonomous Holdings (Nasdaq and TASE: FRSX) is an innovator in automotive vision systems; it develops smart multi-spectral vision software solutions and cellular-based applications. Startup’s founder and CEO, Haim Siboni, explains: “Our vision solutions vary. They include modules of automatic calibration and a dense three-dimensional (3D) point cloud that can be … [Read more...] about The Trailblazers: Introducing Foresight