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Tragic events with the Space program prevented the journalist - in - space initiative from proceeding, but I think the question I posed then is now more relevant than ever.

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Over the years, Gotham has pushed through initiatives that ranged from lifestyle perks like free Wi - Fi in public parks and subway stations to make the city more attractive to a tech workforce, to establishing a network of business incubators to help provide affordable office space to more than 500 startups.

Google announced last week a big virtual reality initiative, and players in the space ranging from startup Leap Motion to smartphone maker HTC have generated plenty of buzz.

Thursday's announcement is the latest in a series of initiatives from Alibaba in the auto space.

The announcement is the latest in a series of initiatives from Alibaba in the auto space.

The Chartered Institute of Building brings art to public spaces by offering thought - provoking photography for construction sites Forget corporate logos and advertising - soon the public will be treated to dramatic, eye - catching art galleries on construction sites around the country, thanks to a new initiative from the Chartered Institute of Building.

More than 30 law enforcement professionals from five counties are attending a three - day training session in Albany this week, participants in a unique initiative: a law - enforcement training program that analyzes how the design of buildings and public spaces can contribute to crime reduction and improve quality of life.

From permitting to management training, board development to activating underused spaces, the Mayor's initiative can help build more vibrant, resilient and creative neighborhoods.

A regular bicycle commuter, Menchaca looks forward to working to extend the Brooklyn Greenway from Red Hook to Sunset Park, and to launching a community - led initiative to transform the space beneath the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway along Brooklyn's Third Avenue.

The changes, which range from consolidating office space to modernizing bureaucratic payment nightmares, are the first in a series of initiatives intended to cut waste while simultaneously improving city services, the mayor said.

Second, she argues that removing charter schools from co-locating in public school buildings will also help free up space for de Blasio's proposed pre-kindergarten initiative.

In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2006.

A new citizen science initiative within the EVE Online game will ask players to find distant worlds lurking in data from space observatory missions

«We will continue the solar electric propulsion efforts benefitting from those developments for future in space transportation initiatives.»

-- Receipt of $ 1.2 million from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute as part of an initiative to support human health during spaceflight.

We are able to gain evidence from overseas as to potential avenues to address student learning or engagement needs, wellbeing initiatives, maximising active working and learning spaces and staff development, all with a connection to student learning results.

Jimmy Casas, a high school principal from Bettendorf, Iowa, who attended the summit, predicts that meeting the #FutureReady challenge will require an expansion in «student - led initiatives that give students a voice in curriculum offerings, school policies, design of classroom and other learning spaces, lesson / unit design, student - led conferences and feedback on teacher effectiveness in the classroom.»

Green Strides - Webinar Series This webinar series, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's Green Ribbon Schools initiative, features experts from the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Interior, Department of Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and other federal programs.

Over the past 15 years, funding from the 21st Century Community Learning Centers initiative and other afterschool sources has a created a new space and extra time for caring adults to work with children and youth.

As part of a comprehensive initiative designed to help SEMA Show exhibitors save costs, last year's drayage (handling from freight drop - off to booth space) rates have been frozen and exhibitors will see no increase in 2008.

Interestingly, another new contender in this space, the OLPC XO from the One Laptop Per Child initiative, thoughtfully adds a set of controls to the screen edge to solve this problem.

Gould further adds, «Based on the alliance's greater media - buying power, market intelligence and sector expertise, this initiative will serve as a platform to allow our members to leverage greater returns from their marketing in the digital space.»

We have a wide selection of exposure options, ranging from booth space, networking and social events such as our upbeat official parties, happy hours and famous gala dinner as well as business matchmaking to our newest initiative, the Nordic Game Discovery Contest.

Let's run - down the statistics: well over a hundred games on display; a dozen developers and publishers; 22 titles specifically dedicated to Microsoft's ID@Xbox initiative... and Sony — arguably (from a marketing standpoint) the better [console] platform for indie gaming — having a pretty dominant stake in the showroom space.

Elsewhere, we have a meditation on — or possible antidote to — the UK's massively depleted art education system from the ever - genial Bob and Roberta Smith, who has turned the whole town into a space for artistic investigation and self - expression, via his Folkestone is an Art School initiative - announced in his usual bright, poster - paint signage on banners all over the town.

Temporarily taken over by Galerie BRD, an initiative invited to Berlin for the Project Space Festival, Å + hosted second co-operation between two parties who negotiate whether and how they might use one another: Cosmin Covacju and Jasmina Ferouca, both from a Leipzig - based Sinti and Roma community, and Uwe Greiner, who runs a trade in scrap metals with Covacju and accompanies him in his dealings with German authorities.

The region will need more initiatives like that one, and increased support from the government and tech industry, to ensure the health not only of the larger gallery imports — the Gagosians and the Paces — but also of spaces with deep cultural roots, like the Mission District's Galería de la Raza.

It wasn't just the fact that the small social space that adjoined the gallery — a big table in the middle, and a bar to one corner seemingly constantly stocked with beers straight from the crate — looked like a sauna that made this artist - run initiative unique.

Among the 40 or so galleries from across the Rhineland — including Beck & Eggeling, David Achenbach Projects and Philine Cremer — are a number of non-commercial spaces that highlight the region's independent scene; this draws on the network established recently by Art Initiatives Cologne.

Together with curator Chris Sharp, Soto Climent founded the independent project space Lulu in Mexico City in 2013 and currently collaborates with blogs and independent initiatives from the international art scene, while preparing his master's degree on photography at the Academia de San Carlos, UNAM.

The public sculpture initiative enables this major work from the museum's collection to remain on long - term view in ICA Miami's former space in the Design District's Moore Building.

The free weekend event and artist - run initiative brings together the art world private view into the public space with a series of screenings, live performances and installations from the likes of Larry Achiampong, Cory Arcangel, Benedict Drew, Joey Holder, Hannah Black, and Rachel Maclean, among others.

With very few galleries at Frieze featuring artists or work from an African perspective, the initiative for an independent contemporary African art fair dedicated to the space seems valid.

Our biggest challenge was navigating Edel Assanti's initial growth phases, from a pop - up initiative to a project space and finally to a fully functional gallery, while simultaneously each having full - time jobs at other galleries.

About Co / Lab at Art Platform — Los Angeles Co / Lab is a new and unique event bringing together 19 non-profit art institutions, alternative spaces and independent art initiatives under one roof at the inaugural edition of Art Platform — Los Angeles, the modern and contemporary art fair for Los Angeles from September 30 — October 3, 2011.

They came together to talk about the problems and the current situation of project spaces and initiatives in Berlin: lack of governmental support, lack of financial support from the city.

The diverse roster of 10:52 reflects a timeline of initiatives that have distinguished Ayyam Gallery as an arts organisation, from its launch in Damascus as a multi-platform space for Syrian art to its most recent programming in Beirut and Dubai, which includes retrospectives for pioneering Arab painters, and the debut of highly anticipated artist projects.

CIFO fosters cultural understanding and educational exchange through three primary initiatives: a Grants and Commissions Program for emerging and mid-career visual artists from Latin America; an exhibitions program showcasing work by Latin American artists and international contemporary art from the Ella Fontanals - Cisneros Collection at the CIFO Art Space; and foundation - initiated support for other arts and culture projects.

Alemani was previously the curatorial director of X Initiative, a temporary nonprofit space that presented more than 50 varieties of initiatives, everything from traditional exhibitions and performances to site - specific installations and lectures.

In an exciting new initiative IMMA has invited the Irish Architecture Foundation to take over a gallery space during the run of the Eileen Gray exhibition, from which they will run a programme that will provide contemporary context to Gray's work.

CHICAGO: Threewalls, Roots and Culture and Public Media Institute announce The MDW Fair, a gathering of independent art initiatives, spaces, galleries and artist groups from the Chicago metropolitan area.

The title of the initiative — Wild Noise — is taken from a Victor Hugo poem, «Ma vie est déjà dans l'ombre de la mort,» and refers to the sublimity and chaos of urban spaces, «the wild noise where infinity begins.»

Gió Marconi gallery started in 1990 under the initiative of Gió Marconi who created the Studio Marconi 17, an experimental space for young artists and art critics that he directed from 1986 to 1990.

Evelyn Hankins: Mark's project is part of an initiative under [Hirshhorn Museum director] Melissa Chiu to rethink the inner - circle galleries, which traditionally displayed small - scale sculpture from the collection, as a space for site - specific commissions.

This exhibition kicks off the new Hole initiative where our Gallery 3 space will be used intermittently to showcase top young galleries from cities outside of New York and around the world as they present solo exhibitions of their gallery artists.

When the initiative launched in 2013, the director Raj Pandya, wrote an article for Eos, the American Geophysical Union magazine, explaining the goal is «to enable communities to partner with Earth and space scientists and access the expertise needed to address problems arising from hazards, disasters, resource limitations, and climate change.»

For example, with Étienne Berthier, of the Laboratoire d'Études en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales in Toulouse, I am writing a chapter on the Subantarctic for a book about GLIMS, the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space initiative.

My impulse would be that the movement should move away from the COP space in favour of grassroots initiatives.

A new book from the international GLIMS (Global Land Ice Measurements from Space) initiative, an international collaboration including the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado [continue reading...]

The new proposal, if approved, would help ease a significant «stumbling block preventing New Yorkers from cycling to work or to perform errands»: a lack of secure parking for bicycles.Both the League of American Bicyclists and Transportation Alternatives support the initiative, which would «require weather - protected, lockable bike parking spaces at apartment buildings with at least 10 units, at commercial office buildings and at stores, hospitals, universities and automobile parking garages.»