aggiornamento (a-jor-nuh-MEN-toh) noun

   The process of bringing an institution or organization up to date;
   modernization.

[Italian, from aggiornare, to update : a-, to (from Latin ad-) + giorno,
day, from Latin diurnus, daily.]

   "He (Jay Josen) terms journalism a hidebound profession to which he is
   offering an aggiornamento, to engender a `healthier public climate.'"
   E.F. Porter, Rosen's civic journalism counter to good journalism,
   St. Louis Journalism Review, Dec 1999.

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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow
spot into the sun. -Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

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