第76屆聯合國大會今天正式開議！每年九月，世界領袖、公民社會倡議人士、年輕族群、全球企業及各界人士在聯合國大會齊聚一堂，共同討論 #聯合國永續發展目標 的實質進展及未來努力方向。

聯合國於2015年發佈了17項永續發展目標，呼籲所有人採取行動促進繁榮、保護地球、改善衛生和教育品質並減少不平等。台灣在推動永續發展目標上表現亮眼，除了在各個領域積極推動經濟成長，也同時顧及人民健康，並尊重人民的基本權利 (詳情請見影片內容: https://fb.watch/80h0hqzJQJ/)。

九月底，美國、台灣和其他國際夥伴將在聯合國大會舉行期間，共同主辦 #全球合作暨訓練架構 (GCTF)「以科技力建構韌性及加速落實永續發展目標」國際研討會，屆時國際夥伴將分享彼此推動永續發展目標的經驗和決心。

#台灣能幫忙 #UNGA76 #HearTaiwan #TaiwancanHelp #UNGlobalGoals #GCTF

The 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) opens today! Every year in September, world leaders, civil society champions, young people, global businesses, and many others convene at UNGA to discuss progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the way forward. The 17 SDGs are a call to action for all to promote prosperity while protecting our planet, improving health and education, and reducing inequality. Taiwan has exemplified how the SDGs can be implemented in many different areas of life to ensure health and growth at the same time, while respecting the rights of people as demonstrated in this video. Later this month, a Global Cooperation and Training Framework (GCTF) workshop on “Building Resilience and Accelerating the Sustainable Development Goals through Technology” will take place on the sidelines of UNGA where the United States, Taiwan, and other partners will share experiences and demonstrate our strong commitment to the SDGs. #UNGA76 #HearTaiwan #TaiwancanHelp #UNGlobalGoals #GCTF

The Guerlain Perfumer has long been inspired by the world of fine art, exemplified in Guerlain's bold selection of Father's Day gift sets, designed by artist Michael de Feo alias 'The Flower Guy'.

The artist's unique floral creations come to life in these exclusive limited-edition gift sets, combining the Maison's passion for art and design with its ancestral savoir-faire in perfumery and fine fragrance.

Kévin Germanier has breathed new life into contemporary fashion by turning sustainable trends into incredibly desirable creations. In 2018, he founded his eponymous brand, renowned for its dazzling dresses – fireworks of pearls, sequins, and crystals made from upcycled fabrics and materials. His signature style draws on the limitless possibilities of upcycling: fabric remnants intended to be destroyed, glass beads that are buried because they cannot be burned… This novel process feeds his inspiration and allows him to reinvent forgotten treasures, with his findings informing each new design. His unique approach to eco-responsible upcycling is exemplified in this stunning Exceptional Piece, that reinforces Guerlain's commitment both to the arts and to sustainable development.

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Georgetown Coach John Thompson, whose team had just lost its first game of the season, was smiling. Georgetown point guard Allen Iverson, who had just scored a career-high 40 points, was not.

Those exemplified the Hoyas' mixed reaction to their 91-81 loss to No. 19 Arizona Friday night in the Preseason NIT championship. If the fifth-ranked Hoyas (3-1) thought they would achieve greatness in November, they were wrong. With no teams in the current Associated Press top 25 on the schedule until January, the Hoyas will have something to keep them humble during the next month.

"I feel like the guy in the shaving commercial: Thanks, I needed that,' " Thompson said, giving himself a slap in the face. "That's the way I feel about this game: Thanks, I needed that."

If Thompson wanted an excuse to "fuss" at his team, he got it. He says he only gets on players when they have talent and don't use it, and that was the case with several players Friday. Center Othella Harrington had four points and no rebounds in 16 foul-plagued minutes. Jerome Williams had nine rebounds, but only seven points, and Victor Page, Georgetown's leading scorer entering the game, had six points.

There's not much Thompson can say to Iverson, other than "get well soon." Iverson got knocked all over the court and picked up a bruised right elbow to go with the jammed left thumb he received Wednesday night -- in addition to the eight stitches over his left eye he received last week. He also kept the Hoyas in the game almost single-handedly, which earned him the tournament most valuable player award.

"I'd rather have the victory than the MVP," Iverson said. "We're just going to go back to practice and listen to Coach Thompson and the rest of the coaching staff and I think we'll be all right."

When the Hoyas return to practice for Wednesday's home game against Southern University, they will likely go back to basics: defense. Arizona shot 60 percent against a Georgetown team that had held opponents to 39 percent shooting in the first half. Arizona's intelligent offense kept working the ball inside, and fired only nine three-pointers.

"We weren't helping each other out on defense," Iverson said. "We weren't talking like we usually do."

Iverson did plenty of talking during the game, however.

"He was pumping up his teammates, telling them they could come back and {saying}, I've seen it happen before with these guys,' " said Arizona guard Miles Simon, who scored 17 points. "But this is a different team."

The Wildcats (4-0) came to New York seeking respect. Even though they have the nation's best winning percentage since 1988 (.830), they are notorious for their first-round NCAA exits: three in the past four years. Last season's loss to Miami of Ohio in the opening round quickly made people forget Arizona's trip to the Final Four in 1994.

The Wildcats took it as an insult when they weren't included in the preseason AP rankings after owning a spot in 141 straight polls. They also played their second game at Arkansas, while all of the other Preseason NIT semifinalists got to play two games at home. Arizona entered at No. 19 after beating the Razorbacks and will climb even higher following its victories over Georgetown and No. 16 Michigan in New York.

Beijing (formerly romanised as Peking) is the capital of the People's Republic of China and the world's third most populous city proper. It is also one of the world's most populous capital cities. The city, located in northern China, is governed as a direct-controlled municipality under the national government with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts. Beijing Municipality is surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighbouring Tianjin Municipality to the southeast; together the three divisions form the Jingjinji metropolitan region and the national capital region of China.

A city combining both modern and traditional architecture, Beijing is an ever-changing megacity rich in history but also truly modern, exemplified in its extraordinary global influence in politics, business & economy, education, history, culture, language, music, sporting, architecture, civilization, fashion, art, entertainment, innovation and technology. Beijing is the second largest Chinese city by urban population after Shanghai and is the nation's political, cultural, and educational centre. It is home to the headquarters of most of China's largest state-owned companies, and is a major hub for the national highway, expressway, railway, and high-speed rail networks. The Beijing Capital International Airport has been the second busiest in the world by passenger traffic since 2010, and, as of 2016, the city's subway network is the busiest and second longest in the world, after Shanghai's subway system.

The city's history dates back three millennia. As the last of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, Beijing has been the political centre of the country for much of the past eight centuries. With mountains surrounding the inland city on three sides, in addition to the old inner and outer city walls, Beijing was strategically poised and developed to be the residence of the emperor and thus was the perfect location for the imperial capital. Beijing was the largest city in the world by population for much of the second millennium A.D. The city is renowned for its opulent palaces, temples, parks, gardens, tombs, walls and gates, and its art treasures and universities have made it a centre of culture and art in China. Encyclopædia Britannica notes that "few cities in the world have served for so long as the political headquarters and cultural centre of an area as immense as China." Beijing has seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites – the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Ming Tombs, Zhoukoudian, as well as parts of the Great Wall and the Grand Canal, all popular locations for tourism. siheyuans, the city's traditional housing style, and hutongs, the narrow alleys between siheyuans, are common in urban Beijing and are also major tourist attractions. The city hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics and was chosen to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, which will make it the first city to ever host both events.

Many of Beijing's 91 universities consistently rank among the best in China, of which Peking University and Tsinghua University are ranked in the top 60 universities in the world. In 2015, 52 companies of the Fortune Global 500 company headquarters were located in Beijing, more than any other city in the world, including state-owned enterprises State Grid, China National Petroleum, and Sinopec Group, ranked 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, respectively. Beijing CBD is quickly becoming the center for Beijing's economic expansion, rapid modernization, and radically changing skyline, with the ongoing or recently completed construction of multiple skyscrapers. Beijing's Zhongguancun area is also known as China's Silicon Valley, China's center of innovation and technology entrepreneurship. According to the 2016 InterNations Expat Insider Survey, Beijing ranked first in Asia in the subcategory "Personal Finance Index," a measure of expats' salaries versus cost of living in the city. Expats live primarily in the east, in urban districts such as Dongcheng and Chaoyang, or in suburban districts such as Shunyi.

Let's take a proper look at Beijing, the Capital city of China...

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from the sixers.com

His emotion was raw. His words were real. He was who he is.

What else would you expect from Allen Iverson, especially on the night he appeared at The Center for the first time since being named a member of the 2016 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class?

“It brings back a lot of memories,” said Iverson of standing in the building where he played all of his home games during a Sixers career that spanned parts of 12 seasons. “It gives me chill bumps. This is me. This is my environment. This place made me a household name. This is the place that little kids fell in love with me.”

On Monday morning in Houston, Iverson was formally elected to the Hall of Fame. His enshrinement will be made official in Springfield, Massachusetts on Friday, September 9th. Shaquille O’Neal, Yao Ming, Tom Izzo, and Sheryl Swoopes are among the other inductees.

Friday, amidst some tears and laughs, Iverson spoke from the heart about this latest, and arguably most distinguished, individual honor. Because Iverson tells it so well, so passionately, and so deeply, the main objective of this article is to simply provide context to many of the Answer’s comments from Friday, and let them stand as they were delivered during a 20-minute press conference.

“This is a tribute to everybody that helped me accomplish it,” Iverson said. “My family, my friends, my fans, everybody that stuck with me through my ups and downs. The ride definitely wasn’t perfect. I made a whole bunch of mistakes just like people make. But people look at us like we’re not human, and don’t understand that we bleed just like them, and we have feeling, just like everybody else.”

At one point on Friday, Iverson got choked up when talking about the pride he feels when family and friends express how proud they are of him.

“I want so much for the people that stuck with me through the whole time, I want them to feel good about it. I want them to feel like they’re Hall of Famers. I want everybody that had an impact on my life, and that had an impact on me trying to get to this goal right here, I want them to feel good about it. Everybody that was with me throughout the ride, I want them to be proud of themselves for helping me get to such a high level.”

The highlights and achievements that the six-foot guard from Georgetown racked up while playing the game of basketball are plentiful, and well documented. It would be unrealistic and unjust to attempt to recap them all in a single article.

Iverson, however, did point to one particular ritual that stood out to him the most among all of the memorable experiences he created and lived through while on the court, or “dance floor,” as he put it, in Philadelphia.

“Probably when I put my hand up to my ear, the response that I got from doing it,” Iverson said. “I knew how those people on that side of the court would respond, and that was one of the like greatest moments for me that sent chills all through my body, because I knew that they felt like I was feeling. If not more, they were excited like I was. That’s one of the greatest moments as far as that court, but just that court period. In Philadelphia, period. Just me giving everything I had night in and night out to those fans, these fans, because I know they were there supporting me for 48 minutes.”

Such interplay exemplified the seemingly unshakable, entirely natural bond that was built, and continues to exist, between Iverson and the city.

“It’s a relationship that we might not ever see again, besides with [Michael Jordan], and his fans in Chicago,” said Iverson, a native of Virginia Beach. “It’s a long lasting relationship. We connect. They love me because I gave everything I had, and they honor that, and I love them for what they gave me. It will never be nothing like the relationship like I have with the fans in Philadelphia. I don’t think it’s possible. I don’t think it will happen.”

In addition to repeatedly stressing his appreciation for supporters and fans throughout Friday’s media gathering, Iverson wove another prominent theme into his remarks. He believes he has undergone substantial personal growth and development.