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☆ An Arts Festival About Sports, for People Who Don’t Like Sports
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Laura Cappelle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When it comes to the biggest sports show on earth, many Parisians have reached the stage of begrudging acceptance. “The Olympics are coming — whether we like it or not,” a curator from the Pompidou Center, Linus Gratte, said as he introduced a performance there this past weekend as part of the “Hors Pistes” festival. For the Paris Cultural Olympiad — spearheaded by Dominique Hervieu, an experienced performing arts curator — the city has opted to go big. Any cultural institution could apply for the “Olympiad” label, leading to a sprawling lineup of sports-related exhibitions and performances, which started back in 2022. This has led to a degree of confusion over what, exactly, the Olympiad stands for: Its official website currently lists no fewer than 984 upcoming events.

Persons: ”, Linus Gratte, Dominique Hervieu Organizations: Pompidou Center

☆ Opinion: Here are the jobs AI will impact most
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Bethany Cianciolo | Jessica Chia | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +42 min

Dan’s research and teaching focus is on using AI for legal services and the regulation of AI in society. For instance, we can develop AI tools to help individuals understand their responsibilities and rights, and preserve and enforce those rights. People in businesses, large and small, are already using chatbots, AI assistants and other AI tools to help them comply with laws, regulations and internal policies. Additionally, new roles are emerging in the legal industry, such as legal engineers who build systems, legal data scientists and legal operations professionals. AI tools will then quickly re-optimize decisions associated with inventory shipments, staffing and promotions.

Persons: ” That’s, Dropbox, Goldman Sachs, isn’t, Erich S, Huang, ” Erich S, Huang I’ve, Regina Barzilay, Barzilay, Geoffrey Hinton, radiologists, —, ’, Daniel W, Linna, Dan, …, ” Daniel W, Refik, Anadol, ”, Adam Elmachtoub, Nisreen, Theodore Kim, don’t, ” Theodore Kim Moreover, Janis Joplin, Jackie Jormp, We’re, Baz Luhrmann’s “, Gatsby, That’s, Leonardo DiCaprio, mockbusters, Eirini, GitHub Copilot, Ashok Goel, Jill Watson, ” Ashok Goel, Kristen DiCerbo, Alireza, Davis Organizations: CNN, CNET, International Association of Machinists, Aerospace Workers, Informatics, Verily, Duke Health, Biomedical Informatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Adobe, Apple, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science Department, MIT, Jameel Clinic, Machine Learning, MacArthur, National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University’s CS, Center, Better Housing, UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts, The Museum, Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, Walt Disney Concert, Department of Industrial Engineering, Research, Columbia University, NBA, Spice, Digital Organisation and Society, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Academy of Information Systems, Yale, Pixar, Technical, Writers Guild of America, SAG, Hollywood, YouTube, Tech, Developers, Georgia Institute of Technology, National AI, Adult, Education, US National Science Foundation, Georgia Tech, Khan Academy, Systems, Studies, Agricultural Engineering, University of California, university’s, Agriculture, Labor Locations: outplacement, Iceland

☆ Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic torch unveiled by designer Mathieu Lehanneur
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Christy Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Smooth, sleek and chic is the look for the next Olympic torch. “For Paris 2024, and for the first time in its history, (the torch) plays on perfect symmetry, speaking to us more clearly about equality,” he said in a statement. As simple as a hyphen and as fluid as a flame.”Chair of the Paris 2024 organizing committee Tony Estanguet (left) and designer Mathieu Lehanneur (right) pose with the latter's Olympic and Paralympic Torch. This is part of the organizing committee’s strategy to “build bridges between the Olympic and Paralympic Games,” Paris 2024’s president Tony Estanguet said in a statement. Mathieu Lehanneur holds aloft his design for the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Torch.

Persons: Mathieu Lehanneur, ”, “, Tony Estanguet, ’, Lehanneur, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Moët Hennessy Organizations: CNN, Games, Olympic, Paralympic Games, ”, Sydney Opera House, Museum of Modern Art, Pompidou Centre Paris, LVMH, Louis Locations: Paris, French, Russia, New York, Olympia, Greece, France

☆ How to Turn Eyesores Like Radiators Into ‘Sculptural Elements’? Steal This Inexpensive Pro Trick
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( David Eardley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

EVERYONE LOVES ROOMS with “character”—but reckoning with oddities like timeworn radiators and awkwardly placed pipes can challenge even pro decorators. One solution: Don’t downplay these aesthetic irregularities, say decor authorities. Instead play them up in bold, eye-drawing paint. This fun, if counterintuitive, strategy celebrates function and can add an unexpected layer of complexity to an otherwise so-so room. We asked Keasler and other interior experts what makes the gutsy approach work and how to do it right.

Persons: ”, Casey Keasler, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Keasler Organizations: Pompidou Locations: Portland ,, Paris’s

☆ Why this in-flight magazine is the fashion industry’s new must-read
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Nick Remsen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Model Ismael Savane pictured in an Air Afrique T-shirt during Paris Fashion Week Mens Spring-Summer 2023 on June 23, 2022 in Paris. “We want to revive the African transcendence that Air Afrique represented,” Lamine Diaoune, the founder and creative director of the Air Afrique collective, said in a statement. It really was about more than just flights.”An Air Afrique stewardess, pictured during training in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in 1971. The cover of Air Afrique magazine's first issue, featuring the French rapper Tiakola (far right). (All members of the Air Afrique collective have backgrounds in creative fields; each also has projects outside of the group, too.)

Persons: Michel Renaudeau, Côte, Senegal —, Ismael Savane, Melodie Jeng, ” Lamine Diaoune, ”, Djibi Kébé, ” Kébé, “, Côte d’Ivoire, they’ve, Bottega, Tiakola, Lamine Diaoune, Djiby Kébé, Jeremy Konko, Amandine Nana, Zhedy Nuentsa, Bamba Thiam, Axel Pelletanche, ” Nana, Paul Kodjo, Marie, Hélène Tusiama, Tusiama, ’ ” Pope Jean, Paul II, Jean, Claude Delafosse, Pope Jean, Abdel El Tayeb, El Tayeb, Matthieu Blazy, El Tayeb’s Organizations: France CNN, Afrique, Air, Central African, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Air Afrique, “, Air Afrique Air Afrique’s, Franco, El Locations: Paris, France, New York City, Mauritania, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Niger, Republic of, Congo, Senegal, West Africa, New York, Abu Dhabi, Europe, Abidjan, Côte, Dakar, West, Africa, Ivory Coast, ”, ‘, Sudanese, El

Paris CNN —France’s finance minister is in the spotlight. “It is about music, my passion for music,” Le Maire insisted of the novel, whose central character is a piano virtuoso. Some in France chastized the finance minister for devoting time to writing, especially as the country weathers economic headwinds. The French finance ministry confirmed to CNN that Le Maire had warned the French presidency of the book before its release. And the finance minister seemed unabashed on Twitter.

☆ Exploring Picasso’s Málaga
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Andrew Ferren | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Christine Picasso renewed those efforts in the 1990s by offering to donate a portion of her own collection of Picasso’s work to establish a new museum in the city. Since the Museo Picasso Málaga opened in 2003, it has helped convert the city into a top cultural destination, not just in Spain, but in southern Europe. The sidewalks and pretty pedestrian streets of the historic city center once again bustle with pedestrians amid the palm trees, geraniums and bougainvillea. “Evidently, people don’t want to just lie on the beach.”If you goWithin Spain, Málaga is a short flight from both Barcelona and Madrid; the latter is also less than three hours away on Spain’s high-speed AVE rail network. About 300 feet from the Picasso Museum, Hotel Palacio Solecio offers luxury accommodations in a beautifully restored 18th-century palace; doubles from about 300 euros, or about $326.

☆ China’s lockdown protests spread to campuses and cities abroad
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

HONG KONG — Protests against China’s strict zero-Covid policy and restrictions on freedoms have spread to at least a dozen cities around the world in a show of solidarity with rare displays of defiance in China over the weekend. Expatriate dissidents and students staged small-scale vigils and protests in cities around the world including London, Paris, Tokyo and Sydney, according to a Reuters tally. In most cases, dozens of people attended the protests, though a few drew more than 100, the tally showed. The protests on the mainland were set off by a fire in China’s Xinjiang region last week that killed 10 people who were trapped in their apartments. It has been common in recent years for overseas Chinese students to rally in support of their government against its critics, but anti-government protests have been rare.

☆ China's protests over lockdowns spread to campuses and communities abroad
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Jessie Pang | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Dozens of people attended most of the protests with a few drawing more than 100, the tally showed. The protests on the mainland were triggered by a deadly fire in China's Xinjiang region last week that killed 10 people who became trapped in their apartments, in a disaster blamed in part on lockdown measures. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson told a regular briefing on Monday that China was not aware of any protests abroad calling for an end to the zero-COVID policy. State media and government spokespeople have not made any official comment on the protests in China. "At the core of it is China's system,” said the student, who asked to be identified as just Emmanuel.

☆ China's lockdown protests spread to campuses and cities abroad
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Jessie Pang | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Expatriate dissidents and students staged small-scale vigils and protests in cities around the world including London, Paris, Tokyo and Sydney, according to a Reuters tally. In most cases, dozens of people attended the protests, though a few drew more than 100, the tally showed. The protests on the mainland were triggered by a fire in China's Xinjiang region last week that killed 10 people who were trapped in their apartments. On Monday evening, dozens of protesters gathered in Hong Kong's Central business district, the scene of sometimes-violent anti-government demonstrations in 2019. BLAME, SLOGANSIt has been common in recent years for overseas Chinese students to rally in support of their government against its critics, but anti-government protests have been rare.

☆ New contemporary art event boosts Paris scene
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Elizabeth Pineau | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

A visitor walks past the "Buste de Diego" (1961) by artist Alberto Giacometti as Paris+ par Art Basel international contemporary art fair opens in Paris, France, October 19, 2022. The event, "Paris+ par Art Basel", was awarded to Art Basel, one of the giants in the art world, which hosts fairs in Switzerland as well as Miami and Hong Kong. Contemporary art, dating roughly from 1945 onwards, made up 23% of the art market in 2020-2021, compared with 3% in 2000-2001, according to the Artprice data bank. The Paris event replaces the International Contemporary Art Fair (Fiac) and follows the high-profile Frieze fair in London. Paris is the only big city in the continent, the only important city for contemporary art, so it was an obvious choice," Kilchmann told Reuters.

☆ Un tablou pictat de Picasso a fost expus într-un supermarket din Essonne, o suburbie a Parisului
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-10 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

Un tablou pictat de Picasso a fost expus într-un supermarket din Essonne, o suburbie a ParisuluiTabloul „Atelierul”, de Pablo Picasso, a fost expus miercuri într-un supermarket din Essonne, la sud de Paris, departament unde va fi inaugurat în 2025 un „Centru Pompidou regional”, care va adăposti opere din Muzeul Naţional de Artă Modernă al Franţei. O simeză modestă a fost construită în faţa rafturilor cu produse şi a fost degajat un culoar astfel încât clienţii acestui supermarket, situat între două oraşe cu mai puţin de 60 000 de locuitori laolaltă, să poată contempla opera pictorului cubist. „Nu este colecţia Centrului Pompidou, ci cea a Franţei, întrucât este naţională şi este a tuturor francezilor, oriunde ar fi”, a argumentat el. Această expoziţie se înscrie în cadrul demersului de amplasare, în oraşul Massy (departamentul Essonne), a unui Centru Pompidou regional, preconizată pentru decembrie 2025. În prezent, operele sunt păstrate şi păzite cu sfinţenie în nordul Parisului, într-un spaţiu care „nu mai este adecvat”, a explicat pentru AFP Julie Narbey, directoare generală a Centrului Pompidou.

Persons: Picasso, Pablo Picasso, cubist, June, mărturiseşte Aline Vidal, Serge Lasvignes, Pompidou, Julie Organizations: Pompidou, Artă, AGERPRES Locations: Essonne, Parisului, Paris, Franţei, Massy, Ile - de - France

☆ Principalele muzee ale lumii au înregistrat o scădere de 77 % a numărului de vizitatori. Pierderile financiare sunt estimate la zeci de milioane de euro
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-05 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +4 min

Principalele muzee ale lumii au înregistrat o scădere de 77 % a numărului de vizitatori. Instituţiile britanice au suferit o scădere de 77 % a numărului de vizitatori şi au rămas închise, în medie, mai mult de jumătate din anul 2020. Muzeul Reina Sofia, situat tot în capitala spaniolă, a raportat o scădere cu 72 % a vizitatorilor. Muzeul Solomon Guggenheim din New York a înregistrat cea mai severă scădere a numărului de vizitatori, aceasta fiind de 88 %. Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu ocupă primul loc în topul celor mai puţin afectate muzee din lume de pandemia de COVID-19, raportând o scădere a numărului de vizitatori de doar 28 %.

Persons: Le Figaro, Eugene Delacroix, Reina Sofia, îşi Organizations: Luvru, Metropolitan Museum, Art, ONU, National Gallery, Prado, Crystal, Gallery Locations: Paris, New York, Chinei, Beijing, Luvru, Europa, Franţa, Italia, Franţei, Orsay, Spania, Madrid, spaniolă, Atlantic, Statele Unite, California, Arkansas, Noua Zeelandă, Christchurch

☆ Fostul președinte al Franței Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, infectat cu SARS-CoV-2, a murit
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-03 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +5 min

Fostul preşedinte Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, promotorul unor reforme profunde în Franța și un susținător fervent al proiectului european, a decedat miercuri seara „ca urmare a COVID”, a informat într-un comunicat familia înaltului demnitar. „Valéry Giscard d'Estaing s-a stins miercuri, 2 decembrie, în locuinţa familiei sale din Loir-et-Cher. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing a exercitat un singur mandat, fiind învins la scrutinul din 1981 de socialistul François Mitterrand. Votul negativ al francezilor acordat acestui proiect la referendumul din mai 2005 a fost o dezamăgire imensă pentru Giscard d'Estaing. El a înființat G7Valéry Giscard d'Estaing a instituit în 1975 reuniunea anuală la nivel înalt a ţărilor celor mai industrializate, devenită ulterior G8.

Persons: Valéry, d'Estaing, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Loir - et - Cher, Jacques Chirac, Georges Pompidou, François Mitterrand, Acesta, Francois Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy, Giscard, G . Pompidou, francez Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, german Helmut Schmidt ., Le, Charles de Gaulle, Jean Monnet . El, Giscard d'Estaing Organizations: Agerpres, Uniunea Europeană, Comunitatea Economică Europeană Locations: Franța, Loir - et -, Franței, Paris, Authon, Tours, preşedinte, secţia, Germania, francez, german, Britanii, Château, Rambouillet, SUA, RFG, Japonia, Britanie, Franţa, Italia, Italiei, Canadei, Rusia

,,Valéry Giscard d'Estaing s-a stins miercuri, 2 decembrie, în locuinţa familiei sale din Loir-et-Cher. Starea sa de sănătate se deteriorase şi a murit de Covid-19”, a scris familia sa într-un comunicat. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing a exercitat un singur mandat, fiind învins la scrutinul din 1981 de socialistul François Mitterrand. În memoriile sale, ,,Le Pouvoir et la vie” (Puterea şi viaţa), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing scrie că personalităţile politice care l-au impresionat cel mai mult au fost Charles de Gaulle şi Jean Monnet. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing a instituit în 1975 reuniunea anuală la nivel înalt a ţărilor celor mai industrializate, devenită ulterior G8.

Persons: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Loir - et - Cher, Valéry, Georges Pompidou, François Mitterrand, Giscard, G . Pompidou, Jacques Chirac, Le, Charles de Gaulle, Jean Monnet, Giscard d'Estaing Organizations: Uniunea Europeană, Comunitatea Economică Europeană Locations: Loir - et -, Authon, Tours, preşedinte, Paris, secţia, Britanii, Château, Rambouillet, SUA, RFG, Japonia, Britanie, Franţa, Italia, Italiei, Canadei, Rusia

☆ A fost deschisă prima afacere socială în sistemul penitenciar al Republicii Moldova
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-07 | by ( ) tvrmoldova.md time to read: +3 min

07.11.2020 20:40 Sursa foto:TVR Moldova Vizualizari:A fost deschisă prima afacere socială în sistemul penitenciar al Republicii MoldovaA fost deschisă prima afacere socială în sistemul penitenciar al Republicii Moldova. Scopul este de a creşte incluziunea socială dar şi de a extinde oportunităţilor de angajare în câmpul muncii a persoanelor private de libertate. Cei 11 foşti consumatori de droguri ai comunităţii Terapeutice "Catharsis" au mare grijă de prepeliţe. Afacerea cu prepeliţe va da roade. Afacerea socială din penitenciar oferă şi noi oportunităţi de angajare după ce deţinuţii îşi vor ispăşi pedeapsa.

Persons: MUSCĂ, OLEG, prepeliţe, INA VUTCARIOV, EDUARD TIMOFEI Locations: Republicii Moldova, deţinut, Germaniei

Protestatarii au luat străzile capitalei franceze pentru a denunța a doua izolare națională impusă de autorități pe fondul creșterii noilor infecții cu coronavirus, au fost înregistrate ciocniri cu poliția, care a răspuns cu gaze lacrimogene. Mai mulți manifestanți s-au lansat joi seară într-un marș de protest, începând de la iconica Place de la Republique din Paris și continuând în oraș. Agenția video a RT, Ruptly, precum și reporterul RT France Charles Baudry, au fost la fața locului. 🔴Manifestation en cours au départ de la Place de la République à Paris pour protester contre le confinement. ” Până în prezent, țara a înregistrat peste 1,3 milioane de infectați și aproximativ 36.000 de decese, potrivit datelor colectate de Universitatea Johns Hopkins.

Persons: Charles Baudry, Charles Baudry Organizations: RT, Ruptly, Paris Locations: Paris

(foto) Cele mai lunatice 11 întrebări de la Cupa Moon Power la Ce? Duminică, 9 august, echipa Moon Power de la Clubul Moldovenesc de Jocuri Intelectuale a organizat cea de-a II-a sa cupă de vară. În iunie 2015, în Turcia a avut loc o paradă a minorităților sexuale. Însă, în loc să o oprească, a ajutat și mai mult la promovarea ideii marșului. În 1844, la propunerea Regelui Oscar I, a fost creat un steag ce ar simboliza uniunea dintre Norvegia și Suedia.

Persons: Grigore Vieru, Valeriu Streleț, Frodo, Sam, Oscar I, Day, Elisa, Aceștia, Nick Cave, Kylie Minogue, Georges Pompidou, Lautrec, Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher Organizations: Moon, Moon Power, Moldovenesc, BBC, Organizația Mondială a Sănătății, Artă Locations: Moldova, China, bulgară, Turcia, Norvegia, Suedia, suedez, Paris, Montmartre, România, Toulouse, Britanie

Instituţiile britanice au suferit o scădere de 77% a numărului de vizitatori şi au rămas închise, în medie, mai mult de jumătate din anul 2020. Impactul noului coronavirus s-a făcut simţit şi în Spania, mai ales la Muzeul Prado din Madrid, care a rămas închis timp de 80 de zile şi a înregistrat o scădere cu 76% a numărului anual de vizitatori. Muzeul Reina Sofia, situat tot în capitala spaniolă, a raportat o scădere cu 72% a vizitatorilor. Muzeul Solomon Guggenheim din New York a înregistrat cea mai severă scădere a numărului de vizitatori, aceasta fiind de 88%. Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu ocupă primul loc în topul celor mai puţin afectate muzee din lume de pandemia de COVID-19, raportând o scădere a numărului de vizitatori de doar 28%.

Persons: Eugene Delacroix, Reina Sofia, îşi Organizations: Luvru, Metropolitan Museum, Art, ONU, National Gallery, Prado, Crystal, Gallery Locations: Paris, New York, Chinei, Beijing, Luvru, Europa, Franţa, Italia, Franţei, Orsay, Spania, Madrid, spaniolă, Atlantic, Statele Unite, California, Arkansas, Noua Zeelandă, Christchurch

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