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And yet, there are hundreds and hundreds of children in the developed world who never see nature, because they're growing up in concrete and all they know is virtual reality, with no opportunity to go and lie in the sun, or in the forest, with the dappled sun-specks coming down from the canopy above.
Let's make it concrete.
As I approached this concrete building, these tiny little windows, barbed wire, high walls, observation towers, and on the inside, these cold, hard spaces, little light or air, the guards are screaming, the doors are clanking, there's a wall of cells filled with so many black and brown bodies.
In multiple places, brick and concrete walls separate city and suburbs, white and black, running directly across municipal streets and through neighborhoods.
He's building this huge concrete place.
These are actually bricks that are made from old demolition waste, which includes the glass, the rubble, the concrete.
Now, I hope, in the coming years, that we are able to demonstrate through some concrete examples that fear is receding and that we can take courage from that alliance with civil society in different countries to support their problem-solving, among the Afghans, inside the Palestinian population, between the peoples of Palestine and Israel.
I was fortunate to have a supportive manager who was happy to see how things went as we went along, rather than requiring a concrete plan up front.
The first supervised injection site in Vancouver was at 327 Carol Street, a narrow room with a concrete floor, a few chairs and a box of clean needles.
That in order for people to understand the differences between the choices, they have to be able to understand the consequences associated with each choice, and that the consequences need to be felt in a vivid sort of way, in a very concrete way.
And it turns out that making it feel more concrete can actually be a very positive tool to use in getting people to save more.
And they use robotic arms to print everything from solid stone to concrete, to wax.
And in France, they have a regulator-approved although still experimental process where they print two parallel tracks of foam insulation and pour concrete in the middle to create solid stone.
They've got their experimental office of the future, which is constructed using 3-D printed concrete which was printed in China and shipped and assembled on location in Dubai.
And not to be outdone, in Australia, we've pioneered an amazing technology that allows you to print wax molds and pour concrete over the top of them, allowing you to create really intricately beautiful and cost-effective facades that you can see in person the next time you travel the London Underground.
And if people are migrating into urban, unfamiliar, concrete environments, they can also be helped in anticipation with social supporters ready and waiting for them based on SMS knowledge.
Now it's really hard to think about anything abstract like this without a good concrete metaphor.
(CA: Thank you.) (Applause) This may sound strange, but I'm a big fan of the concrete block.
The first concrete blocks were manufactured in 1868 with a very simple idea: modules made of cement of a fixed measurement that fit together.
Very quickly concrete blocks became the most-used construction unit in the world.
Essentially concrete blocks had become the building block of our time.
LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.
Like the concrete block, the transistor allows you to build much larger, more complex circuits, one brick at a time.
We've got lots of people, pollution, cars, concrete, lots of concrete.
So every time you see a concrete jungle like that, what you've got to do is find open spaces.
Most are neoclassical, heavy and opaque, made of stone or concrete.
But what you may not know is that on any given night in America, almost half a million people go to sleep in those concrete jail cells who have not been convicted of anything.
We know with them that you can print in many materials ranging from plastic to chocolate to metal and even concrete.
And the feedback in all these cases is concrete, it's unambiguous; you know if you've solved the puzzles or not.
And therefore, there are times when you're facing the INCA, when the feedback is going to be immediate, negative, concrete and you have the sense of agency, where you're far better off taking the passenger's seat and have someone else drive.
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