Still, the energy was high as the organizers of the event addressed a crowd of at least 100 at the morning gathering downtown.
Over beers and canapes, Dr Karen Woo, the British organiser of the event, addressed the assembled crowd, telling them how her Nuristan Medical Trek would bring help to an especially impoverished part of the country.
The ivory destruction, announced at a White House event addressed by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, was part of a broader effort by the administration on Monday to elevate wildlife trafficking from narrow conservation interest to urgent national security concern.
The focus on biology and dose-response at each step (key event) addresses the threshold of response for an individual and offers the basis for characterizing the threshold for a population, a "pragmatic threshold," if you will.
This important event addressed the needs of cancer survivors, and new collaborations between academic groups, patient advocates, financial and political representatives were formed to guide future European research and health policies in this field.
The suggested guidelines grew out of a set of events addressing "Content Moderation and Removal at Scale," the second of which is taking place today in Washington, D.C.
The Israel Museum will host two more events addressing the curatorial move, including guest speakers from The Black Panthers and the Holot Detention Center of African asylum seekers.
