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Kevin Delaney, Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive Officer, Charter, USA, speaking in the Prioritizing Mental Health session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 23 May. Congress Centre - Ignite. Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Valeriano de Domenico
Since entering the tractor business in 1918 upon purchasing the Iowa, Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company, John Deere has prioritized innovation and quality for its customers.
Participants in the Prioritizing Mental Health session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 23 May. Congress Centre - Ignite. Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Valeriano de Domenico
Participants interact during the Prioritizing Mental Health session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 23 May. Congress Centre - Ignite. Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Valeriano de Domenico
Participants in the Prioritizing Mental Health session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 23 May. Congress Centre - Ignite. Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Valeriano de Domenico
April 17, 2020 - Albany, NY - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo provides a coronavirus update during a press conference in the Red Room at the State Capitol. (Mike Groll/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)
April 17, 2020 - Albany, NY - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo provides a coronavirus update during a press conference in the Red Room at the State Capitol. (Mike Groll/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)
Organizations are facing more and more challenges when it comes to digital marketing. With growth and revenue a priority for most businesses, 74% of marketing professionals this year have focused on converting leads to customers, while over half prioritized increasing traffic to their website.
Alongside accelerating inbound marketing being a top priority, technologies continue to evolve while social platforms seem to have a life of their own when it comes to growth. Take the current shining star in the app world Snapchat, only launched in 2012 the application has dominated headlines this year piquing interest amongst brands and investors alike raising nearly $650 million in six rounds of funding and its founders demonstrating such belief in their product they rejected a $3 billion buy-out offer from Facebook.
This is the reality of digital. It doesn’t just move, it skyrockets, and as technologies continue to evolve so do customers. As a result, the marketing activities of organizations also needs to move apace to keep up with both its application of digital technologies and developing the knowledge and skills to use them.
So while 2016 continues to witness developments in the realms of social media, VR, mobile marketing and user experience to name a few - what does 2017 hold? To help keep you in the loop, here are five digital marketing trends to look out for next year.
In-store marketing
In-store marketing may not sound like a branch of digital marketing or Indianapolis SEO, but in 2017, the relationship between physical and online sales techniques is expected to narrow even more.
In a smartphone dominated world, 80% of millennials use their phone in-store and 74% claim to be willing to receive location-based mobile alerts. For an organization with an optimized mobile strategy, capturing customers in-store through digital techniques will provide an effective means of conversion.
Live video
As consumers become savvier and more tuned into their digital surroundings, they have a greater desire to connect with brands and follow their stories.
Online video now accounts for 50% of all mobile traffic and this year has seen a huge rise in video sharing, and video content creation, particularly in the realms of social media.
Platforms such as Periscope and Facebook Live now make it easy for brands and businesses to connect with their fans and followers in real-time and get their message across by streaming live broadcasts and promoting them in advance, and as people's thirsts for video stimulation increases, so will the need for live video content.
Expiring social content
As social media consumption continues to rise and the big players are monopolizing the market, we can expect significant changes in social from next year and beyond.
Facebook bought WhatsApp, Twitter purchased Periscope, and as social becomes more consolidated, the way in which these platforms operate may very well change, and it's up to businesses and their marketers to keep their eye on the changes to remain ahead of the game.
One big digital marketing trend that is expected to blow up in the world of social media comes in the form expiring content. Expiring digital content offers brands and businesses a means of cutting through the noise and clutter, and gaining the attention of their target audience without spending massive amounts of capital.
Wearable mobile devices
There are currently 7.22 billion active mobile devices in the world - that's more technology in the world than people, so it's easy to understand the importance of smartphone marketing and its relevance to an organization.
Participants interact during the Prioritizing Mental Health session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 23 May. Congress Centre - Ignite. Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Valeriano de Domenico
I tried playing around with the aperture value and got this shot of this bright, chilly pre-autumn sunset
この明るくて涼しい夕焼けはカメラの絞り優先設定で遊んでみた結果です。
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx interviewed with Brownfield Ag News, Agritalk, CBS Radio and on the Grow America Act in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Radio Studio in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Jul. 8, 2014. The Secretaries’ discussed Transportation funding and what the legislation means for rural America, prioritizing road improvements, transportation safety and road worker training. The funding also includes increased broadband access. USDA Photo by Bob Nichols.
The LAHSA Homeless Engagement Team (HET) approach Gabrielle Rowe during wellness checks at an encampment in Lancaster, April 28, 2020. The Los Angeles County strategic COVID-response outreach collaboration in SPA 1 includes Department of Health Services funded Multidisciplinary Teams, LAHSA’s Homeless Engagement Team, Department of Mental Health HOME Team, LA Sheriff Department HOST, and Department of Public Health. The team will prioritize encampments, provide increased wellness checks and soon offer COVID testing. (Photo Credit: Los Angeles County)
Deputy Robert Carrillo distributes a hand washing kit to Gabrielle Rowe at an encampments in Lancaster, April 28, 2020. The Los Angeles County strategic COVID-response outreach collaboration in SPA 1 includes Department of Health Services funded Multidisciplinary Teams, LAHSA’s Homeless Engagement Team, Department of Mental Health HOME Team, LA Sheriff Department HOST, and Department of Public Health. The team will prioritize encampments, provide increased wellness checks and soon offer COVID testing. (Photo Credit: Los Angeles County)
Robert Hicks learns about his options if he were to fall ill from COVID-19 during wellness checks at an encampment in Lancaster, April 28, 2020. The Los Angeles County strategic COVID-response outreach collaboration in SPA 1 includes Department of Health Services funded Multidisciplinary Teams, LAHSA’s Homeless Engagement Team, Department of Mental Health HOME Team, LA Sheriff Department HOST, and Department of Public Health. The team will prioritize encampments, provide increased wellness checks and soon offer COVID testing. (Photo Credit: Los Angeles County)
A man carrying his children in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines, after Super Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) hit the province. UNICEF has already mobilized from available local supplies therapeutic food for children, health kits, and water and hygiene kits to support up to 3,000 families in the affected areas, with distribution prioritized for the Tacloban area as soon as access is possible.
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Jerome Armstrong tells Public Health Nurse Maria Berry-Turner about his chest pain during wellness checks at an encampment in Lancaster, April 28, 2020. The Los Angeles County strategic COVID-response outreach collaboration in SPA 1 includes Department of Health Services funded Multidisciplinary Teams, LAHSA’s Homeless Engagement Team, Department of Mental Health HOME Team, LA Sheriff Department HOST, and Department of Public Health. The team will prioritize encampments, provide increased wellness checks and soon offer COVID testing. (Photo Credit: Los Angeles County)
The investment project will finance the first of three prioritized corridors of the planned regional rapid transit system (RRTS) network in India's National Capital Region (NCR). The Delhi-Meerut RRTS will pass through the densely populated sections of the NCR, connecting Delhi to Meerut in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The 82-kilometer corridor will provide safe, reliable, and high-capacity commuter transit services between various locations along the corridor. The investment project will finance rail track, signaling, station buildings, and maintenance facilities. It will also support capacity and institutional development of the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC), a joint venture company of the Government of India and states of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, that is mandated to implement the RRTS project across the NCR.
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No matter how much you love your friends and family, hosting them in your home can be tricky. How do you make them comfy without sacrificing your own space and routine? And what do you do if spare space in your home is at a premium?
Living with limited square footage doesn’t mean you should never host house guests. But you will have to come up with some big ideas to do so without a hitch—and, best of all, without traumatizing you or your visitors.
Place your guests strategically
Whether they’re using air mattresses, sleeping bags, or futons, prioritize your guests’ top needs: easy access to a bathroom and not being stepped over or woken up while they’re sleeping.
If providing both these things is impossible, “privacy definitely comes first,” says Tidy Tova, a professional organizer in New York City. “Unless it’s a grandparent who pees 10 times a night.”
Buy furniture that multitasks
If you live in a small space, you might not be able to squeeze in a guest bed—or even an air mattress. If you know you’re going to be hosting people from time to time, go ahead and invest in the right kind of furniture that can pull double duty.
“A pull-out couch is ideal for hosting guests subtly and conveniently,” Tova says. So is a big, comfy sofa.
And don’t stop with sleeping arrangements. Your guests will appreciate extra space wherever they can get it.
“There’s lot of furniture now—from ottomans to chairs—that have storage,” Tova adds. “Those are great for regular use and providing extra space for guests.”
If you have somewhere to store it when it’s not being used, you may also want to buy a folding privacy screen.
Clean up your entryway
Before your guests arrive, pay close attention to your entryway and areas by the door since they are the first things guests see, says Bridget James, senior professional organizer with the Organizing Professionals in Philadelphia. It couldn’t hurt to also wash your dog and get your rugs professionally scrubbed.
“Cleaning can go a long way in having your guests feel comfortable and happy during their visit,” James says.
Make a space for their suitcases
“Invest in a small unpacking solution that can double as a night table or foldable luggage rack so your guests can lay out their suitcase,” Tova says. (She likes the stackable, modular Stax products.)
Create the illusion of privacy…
Small space + thin walls = potential embarrassment when it comes to using the bathroom. To make everyone slightly less self-conscious, play light music in or around the bathroom, Tova advises.
… and space
Of course I have room for your things! That’s the idea you’re going for. To encourage that perception, clean out at least one drawer in your bedroom per guest. Then either buy a set of matching hangers they can use in your closet or double up your clothes on hangers so you have a few spare ones to share.
Clear off all flat surfaces
That includes kitchen counters, coffee tables, end tables, and TV consoles—if it’s horizontal, it should have nada on it.
“The less stuff that is lying around and taking up space, the more spacious and inviting the room will feel,” James says. “If you don’t love it, need it, or use it, it doesn’t deserve a place in your home.”
Not only will less clutter make your space seem larger, it will also reduce everyone’s stress level.
Transform your kitchen into a snack station
Did you really get everything off your counters? Because you’ll want plenty of space when you’re preparing and serving nonstop food and beverages.
Make it easier on yourself by designating an area for extra beverages and snacks, or a coffee station that includes mugs, a coffee pot or Keurig, sugar, and so on. That way, your guests can help themselves during the day.
Plan enough seating
Do a quick inventory before people arrive. Are all your sofas and chairs cleared off and ready to be used? Your space will feel even smaller if someone’s forced to sit on the floor.
If you need extra seating, set up folding chairs, James advises. True, it’s not fancy, but if your guests complain, they can go to a hotel, right?
Max out your use of baskets
You might not have enough cabinets or shelf space to share in your bathroom, but damn if you can’t put a trendy wicker or wire basket on the counter and shove everything in there.
Bonus: Displaying a selection of toothpaste, soaps, razors, cotton balls, hand lotion, and the like may prevent your guests from cluttering the counter with their own toiletries.
Add small touches
What would make your guests feel at home, besides extra blankets, clean pillows, and a clean set of towels? A bedside lamp or clip-on night light? Their favorite yogurt/coffee/contact lens solution? It’s these small gestures your guests will remember far more than the not-so-big space you have.
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Public Health Nurse Maria Berry-Turner and Sheriff Deputy Heriberto Gutierrez conduct wellness checks at an encampment in Lancaster, April 28, 2020. The Los Angeles County strategic COVID-response outreach collaboration in SPA 1 includes Department of Health Services funded Multidisciplinary Teams, LAHSA’s Homeless Engagement Team, Department of Mental Health HOME Team, LA Sheriff Department HOST, and Department of Public Health. The team will prioritize encampments, provide increased wellness checks and soon offer COVID testing. (Photo Credit: Los Angeles County)
Kids touching and playing with colours in a moment of joy.
What a beautiful moment I like to capture.
To protect children's online privacy, I prioritize framing the image to minimize the visibility of their faces while still allowing their emotions to be conveyed
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MAY 20: (L-R) VP of Science & Technology at Pharmavite Dr. Susan Mitmesser and VP of Video at SHE Media Reshma Gopaldas speak onstage during the Women's Wellness Prioritized session at BlogHer 22 Health on May 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for BlogHer)
Since it's been a busy month, and we hadn't had time to have a family circle, we decided Earth Day was the perfect day to prioritize making time to be together. Monday's are usually "Media Free Day" in our house, so we figured it was as good of time as any to get the kids' attention! And, Earth Day is also good fodder for discussion.
We opened our circle by reflecting on this quote and inviting awareness and peace.
The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. -- Gaylord Nelson
Then, we talked about things we can do to be gentler on the Earth & the impact of the "stuff" we consume. We watched The Story of Cosmetics, and patted ourselves on the back for the changes we've made in the past five or six years, minimizing the products we use, and choosing the ones we do wisely. We really don't rely on too many cosmetics. Baking soda, vinegar, peroxide, coconut oil, and Dr. Bronner's soaps comprise the majority of our daily routine, from tooth brushing to cleaning the house.
We also looked up the Great Garbage Patch Island in the Pacific ocean. The kids were really astonished by the videos and photos we found. It could really make you feel overwhelmed at the enormity of healing our Earth will have to do to repair that wound. But, we emphasized to the kids that even the little things than do, CAN make a difference, and talked about ways we could be even "greener" in our daily lives.
In our Family Journal today, we wrote things we are thankful for about the Earth. We closed our circle with a Buddhist prayer. Darren and I went out to enjoy an evening walk on a chilly Spring night. The kids retreated to the activities in which they were previously engaged before we summoned them downstairs. A good day.
We gently caress you, the Earth, our planet and our home. Our vision has brought us closer to you, making us aware of the harm we have done to the life-network upon which we ourselves depend. We are reminded that we have poisoned your waters, your lands, your air. We have filled you with the bones of our dead from war and greed. Your pain is our pain. Touching you gently, we pray that we may become peace-bringers and life-bringers so that our home in its journey around the Sun not become a sterile and lonely place. May this prayer and its power last forever. -- Sensei Ulrich, Manitoba Buddhist Temple
Bob Cusack, Editor-in-Chief of The Hill, interviews Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) during a policy briefing entitled “Prioritizing Patients: A Discussion on Outcomes-Based Care” sponsored by The Value Collaborative, PhRMA, and The Hill at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, June 13, 2017.
ADB President Takehiko Nakao spoke at the 28th Pacific Developing Member Countries Governors and ADB Management Meeting, which was held on 2 May 2018 at the ADB Headquarters in Manila, Philippines. In his welcome remarks, he said that ADB will prioritize support for small island developing states (SIDS) and countries in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS).
Jerome Armstrong tells Public Health Nurse Maria Berry-Turner about his chest pain during wellness checks at an encampment in Lancaster, April 28, 2020. The Los Angeles County strategic COVID-response outreach collaboration in SPA 1 includes Department of Health Services funded Multidisciplinary Teams, LAHSA’s Homeless Engagement Team, Department of Mental Health HOME Team, LA Sheriff Department HOST, and Department of Public Health. The team will prioritize encampments, provide increased wellness checks and soon offer COVID testing. (Photo Credit: Los Angeles County)
EXPRESATE A TI MISMA DE FORMA CREATIVA CADA DIA porque es realmente muy bonito
Ten tu propia experiencia de vida, vive tus sueños propios y anhelos, realmente todo es posible, y los sueños si se hacen realidad.
Es mi intención, que las imágenes, les den mucha alegría y felicidad, compartirlas siempre ha sido importante p/ mi, espero que les sean utiles en la planeacion de sus viajes o en su vida cotidiana.
“Lo q nos hace humanos es la humanidad que nosotros mostramos por otros. Es acerca de dar, preocuparnos por los demas, respetar y tener compasion.”
“What makes us human is the humanity we show each other. It’s about giving back, caring, respecting and having compassion for others.”
“Solo hay una vida para cada uno de nosotros, la nuestra. / There is just one life for each of us our own” Euripides
“ Cuida de tu alma, prioritiza la belleza, la contemplación, las Experiencias que se sientan de forma profunda, las relaciones interpersonales, conocimiento, sentido de un hogar, arte, paz Espiritual, comunidad, relajación y confort” / Take care of your soul prioritize: Beauty, Contemplation, Deeply felt experiences, Meaningful relationships, Knowledge, Sense of home, Art, Spiritual peace, Community, Relaxation and confort” Thomas Moore
“Your imagination is able to do all that you ask in proportion to the degree of your attention” Neville
“ I love, I accept you, I appreciate you, I forgive you” / “I am grateful” John Gabriel
“Live independent of the good opinion of others” Wayne Dyer
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your ownself” Bob Proctor
No te quedes con un sólo momento, porque la vida esta llena de muchisisisimos momentos
“To win you have to believe it will happen” Megan Rapinoe
"We are all in the same quest to feel the peace inside us and live a fulfill life /Todos estamos en la misma búsqueda para sentir paz interior y vivir una vida plena”Prew Rawat
Antes, iba por la vida en busca de vivir experiencias únicas e increíbles. Ahora me doy cuenta que cada instante de la vida es realmente único e irrepetible
“We must reflect that when we reach the end of our days our life experience will equal what we paid attention to, whether by choice or default”William James
“Develop the habit of feeding your mind with positive mental food, remember, you are very sensitive to the influences in your environment, whether they are radio, television, newspapers, magazines, billboards or conversations with other people. Your mind is your most important and precious asset, you must protected and keep it clean, clear and focus on what you want rather that allowed it to be polluted by the negative influences around you…Keep your mind clean, clear, positive and free, not only you become what you think about it, but you also become what you feed in your mind on a regular basis.” Brian Tracy, Million Dollar Habits
“Get around the right people, make the habit to associate ONLY with the kind of people you admire, respect and want to be like, don’t just drink coffee with whoever happens to be sitting in the break room, do not go out for lunch with the person next door, do not socialize after work with anyone who invites you, be thoughtful and clear about the kind of people you allowed to influence your thinking and feelings with their conversations and opinions.” Bryan Tracy
“You can't fly with the eagles if you continue to scratch with the turkeys" - Zig Ziglar
“Make things happen” Bryan Tracy
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if it be peace with itself, what a man can be it must be“ Maslow
“Universal principles:
The law of control: you feel happy to the degree you feel you are in control of your own life, you feel happy to the degree you feel you are not in control of your own life
The law of believe: Whatever you believe with conviction, becomes your reality, your believes then become your realities, your are not what you think you are as they said but what you think you are.
The Law of expectations: Whatever you expect with confidence becomes your own self fulfilling prophecy, in other words, you do not necessary get what you want but rather what you expect
The law of attraction: you are a living magnet, you invariably attract into your life the people, ideas and circumstances that harmonize with your dominate thoughts, specially your dominate thoughts emotionalized
The law of correspondence: your outer world is a reflection of your inner world,
You become what you think about most of the time, what you think about you bring about, you always move in the direction of your dominate thoughts ” Brian Tracy
"My life, my message" Ghandi
"You can never bath in the same river twice, the river is always flowing“
El universo es único
"I made my existence meaningful, at the least we will have no regrets " Dalai Lama
La confianza se gana, y es muy frágil
“Your most import goal in life is ensure your own happiness, if you don’t place your own happiness as the central organizing principal of your life no-one else will do it for you, each person is intensivly focus on doing the things that him her or her happy.” Bryan Tracy
“You can only give away something that you already have, often unhappy people said they are sacrificing their own happiness so they can make others happy. You cannot give away what you don’t have, you cannot make other people happy, if you are unhappy yourself.”Bryan Tracy
“If you want to improve anyone else quality of life begin by improving the quality of your own inner life,“Bryan Tracy
“Real change lies within all of us its in the choices we make everyday,” Megan Rapinoe
No seas sin darte cuenta, una repetidora, ten SIEMPRE, TU OPINION propia
Decide your environment wisely
Cultivate a vibrant o social life
Que puedas,
No necesariamente quiere decir que debas
"Kids need sleep and phisycal activity and family time and time to use their imaginations, those things cannot happen when they are lost in screen worlds" Adam Alter
"Tv and other entertainment media should be avoided for children and infants under age 2. A child's brain dévelops rapidly during these years. And young children learn best by interacting with people not screens" AAP
I am enough
Evita siempre que puedas a los "intermediarios"
Mas conciertos, más reuniones, más conexión humana verdadera cara a cara
Peaceful coexistence / Coexistencia pacifica
"Always embrace the common humanity that lies at the heart of all us, always affirm the oneness of our human family, let your hear be soften by the balm of compassion reflecting deeply upon the needs and aspirations of yourself and others..." Dalai Lama
Compassion
"May peace and happiness prevails everywhere/ Que la Paz y la Felicidad prevalezcan en todos lados " Dalai Lama
"Despite doctrinal differences we are all simply humans/ A pesar de todas las diferencias doctrinales todos somos simplemente humanos” Dalai Lama
Harmony
Basic human quality: empathy and good heart/ Cualidades humanas básicas: empatía
y buen corazón” Dalai Lama
¿Qué llevar contigo a cualquier viaje?
-Una actitud de respeto hacia los usos y costumbres locales, los habitantes de la region. la naturaleza, los minerales, y los seres vivos.
“La verdadera marca de la grandeza no está sólo en lo que una persona logra en su propia vida, sino en su capacidad de ayudar a otros a ayudarse a sí mismos y darse cuenta de que ellos también pueden llegar a ser grandes”
J. Earl Shoaff
La confianza es cómo el papel China / que al romperse, imposible que quede igual
Answer the call for compassion, included self-compassion
Stop outsourcing decision making about your life to devices and computers
“Trata de forma deliberada mantener tu atencion plena en el momento presente “
Las bibliotecas publicas son una de las mejores ideas del universo, ya que cualquiera puede acceder a un numero casi infinito de libros, audiolibros, revistas, material e información reelevante que pueden tener un super mega impacto positivo en nuestras vidas.
“Anything is possible” / Cualquier cosa es posible
Tu siempre tienes el poder de elegir como reaccionar y que hacer en el ahora “
Cada momento es unico
La naturaleza es hermosa, respetemosla, y cuidemosla todos los dias, usemos jabones y detergentes biodegradables, y tratemos lo mas posible usar envases reusables
"Your voice is the most important voice that you need to hear , & it needs to be positive and strong " Ian Smith
Respira y disfruta de hoy y cada instante de la vida, ya que es muy bonita!
Recuerda, hoy y siempre TODOS somos seres humanos Y SERES vivientes, las plantas, la naturaleza, todo. Es nuestra humanidad lo q nos hace humanos y nos hace sentir la alegria o el dolor de otros. Aprendamos a ver a los demas, no desde un punto de juzgarlos x sus decisiones, ni condenarlos constantemente x sus acciones, xq en realidad nos proyectamos nosotros mismos c/ vez q juzgamos a otros, sino mas bien, como alguien q al igual que nosotros esta en un proceso de vida. Toda la energia extra mejor usemosla para aprender como amarnos a nosotros mismos, hacer nuestros anhelos y sueños realidad y alcanzar La Paz interior.
Haz un esfuerzo deliberado por terminar con las actitudes y actos que fomentan la separacion entre seres humanos y el medio ambiente / “Work to end separation in your own life” Deepak Chopra
“Humans learn Empathy and understanding by watching how their actions affect other people.
Empathy cannot flourish without immediate feedback and is a very slow developing skill “ Adam Alter
“We all are in this together” Deepak Chopra
Todo depende la la situación actual en el momento presente
La ´UNICA forma de APRENDER es VIVIR
Nada es complicado
“Treasure your greatest gift, your imagination” Wayne Dyer
“Never let your attention, be directed by anything or anyone other than your own highest self” Wayne Dyer
Verdad, amor, luz
“Haz una practica diaria de meditar por La Paz - por tu paz interior y por La Paz en el mundo” / Make it a daily practice to meditate for peace - yours and the world’s. “Wayne Dyer
“Expresarnos a nosotras mismas, es algo que la verdad es que nunca termina y nunca debería terminar. Cada uno de nosotros, tiene algo único que traer al mundo. / Self expression is something that does not and should not ever stop. Each of us is creative. Each of us has something unique to bring to the world”. Julia Cameron
“1.- Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy, pure creative energy
2.- There is a underling in dueling creative force infusing all of life including ourselfs
3.-When we open ourself to creativity we open ourselves to the creators creativity, within us and ours lifes.
4.- We are ourselfs creations, and we in turn are meant to continue creativity by being creators ourselves
5.- Creativity is God given gift to us, using our creativity is our gift back to God.
6.- The refusal to be creative is self will and is counter our true nature.
7.- When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity we open ourselves to God orderly direction.
8.- As we open our creative channel to the Creator many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected
9.- It is safe to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity.
10.- Our creatives dreams and yearnings come from a divine Source, as we move to our Dreams, we move towards Divinity ”. Julia Cameron
"If you are depressed, your are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present /
“Si tu estas deprimido, estas viviendo en el pasado. Si sientes ansiedad, estas viviendo en el futuro. Si estas en paz, estas viviendo en el presente” Lao Tzu
Claridad:
Pregunta, con sinceridad A que se refiere ? )
Viajo con alegria
Hasta q no se sabe, no se sabe
"Crea una vida que a ti te encante"
I choose me
Me elijo a mi.
Compassion
“Se necesita valor para convertirse en quien realmente eres"
“If I want to be free, I have got to be me, not the me I think you think I should be, not the me I think my wife thinks I should be, not the me I think my kids think I should be, If I want to be free, I have got to be me and I better know who me is” / “Si yo quiero ser libre, entonces tengo que ser yo, no el yo que yo pienso que tu piensas que yo debería ser, no el yo que yo pienso que mi esposa piensa que yo debería ser, no el yo que yo pienso que mis hijos piensan que yo debería ser. Si yo quiero ser libre, tengo que ser yo, por lo que es mejor saber quien yo soy yo” Bill Gove
No te quedes con un sólo momento,
porque la vida esta llena de
muchos momentos más.
"...el lenguaje universal, el que todos entendemos alrededor del mundo, es el de los sentimientos que todos los seres humanos experimentamos.."
Privacy is a fundamental human right
“Ayer yo era inteligente, asi que quería cambiar el mundo. Hoy soy sabio, asi que me estoy cambiando a mi mismo./
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi
Paz en. la tierra / Peace on Earth
L.A. County Sheriff Deputy Heriberto Gutierrez and SGT William Kitchin conduct wellness checks at an encampment in Lancaster, April 28, 2020. The Los Angeles County strategic COVID-response outreach collaboration in SPA 1 includes Department of Health Services funded Multidisciplinary Teams, LAHSA’s Homeless Engagement Team, Department of Mental Health HOME Team, LA Sheriff Department HOST, and Department of Public Health. The team will prioritize encampments, provide increased wellness checks and soon offer COVID testing. (Photo Credit: Los Angeles County)
April 17, 2020 - Albany, NY - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo provides a coronavirus update during a press conference in the Red Room at the State Capitol. (Mike Groll/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)
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HEAD MOLD: "Jess"
***My doll is wearing the Truly Me Star Squad Outfit.
PERSONAL FUN FACT: Since I began collecting dolls again in 2011, I only have purchased two contemporary, non-character American Girls brand new. Ironically, they are both very similar to one another, which is a testament to how much I love the combo of hair color and face mold they both utilize. There were a lot of different reasons I never prioritized getting Truly Me dolls new. Firstly, I am definitely more inclined towards characters. They have names, collections, interests....all of this is greatly appealing and makes the doll feel like a celebrity of sorts. Secondly, the price of brand new American Girls is costly, even on sale. It's hard to pick a contemporary doll when there are just SO many options these days. When I was a kid, you basically had the same choice of doll in just a bunch of different colors. They all pretty much had the same medium length hair with super thick bangs, the "classic" head mold, and varying skin tones. As the years have gone on, American Girl has evolved...there is so much more variety. Funnily enough, my two new adult purchased girls look very similar in some ways. Both have black hair and the "Jess" mold.
I am a self professed American Girl addict. I can pretty much talk myself into wanting any of them on a given day. But so rarely do I latch onto the idea of a Truly Me girl for long. It was different with #130...as soon as she debuted, it was love at first sight. She was "Jess" with bangs and super long hair!!! I was tantalized and the "meet" outfit she was sold in was a banger. Her doppelganger, #111 aka Joynomi, joined the family in December 2023. That was just about two years before Miss Alaska. Part of her appeal was the same as #130's...she looked like a version of Jess! If you haven't guessed yet, Girl of the Year 2006 Jess McConnell is one of my personal favorites. It's safe to say I'm obsessed with the Jess. Something about her adorable chubby cheeks, narrow eyes, and happy expression always make my day. Joynomi and Alaska are both Jess, but goddess like Jess dolls. I thought of #130 as "Jess with bangs" for the first few months she was out. I mulled over in my brain how much I'd love to own her someday...what would I name her...what clothes would she look good in. By that point, the idea of getting a new Truly Me doll wasn't a foreign concept, because I'd purchased Joynomi two years before. However, I wrestled with the desire...did I really "need" her when she looked so similar to Joynomi?!!!
Despite the rationale that this girl was basically Joynomi with a different hairdo, I couldn't get her out of my head. I knew that within a couple years, American Girl would switch out the "meet" outfit she was sold in. I was obsessed with the Star Squad Outfit from the jump. So much so, I would have bought this by itself if it had been separately sold. I was also wary that they might retire #130 quickly. Joynomi hadn't been out long (her predecessor without the added facial details was out a while though). Perhaps this concern was just another excuse to get Alaska sooner than later...who knows. Anyways, I kept hoping she'd go on sale. Greedily, I'd always check to see if #130 was included whenever American Girl ran some kind of offer. They have a tendency to gate keep newly released items and 18 inch dolls when it comes to discounts. I was super surprised in October of 2025 when this doll DID qualify for a sale. Unfortunately, my cat, Oliver, had just passed away. We were left with a pretty expensive vet bill and no cat. Though we were fortunate enough to be able to pay the bill without dipping into savings, I couldn't justify buying a costly doll in that moment. I honestly resigned myself to the fact that I probably wouldn't get an American Girl order for Christmas that year...since all the prices had been recently raised (and what I most wanted, #130 and Summer's Waggy Pup Tales Outfit, were excluded from most offers).
Just because I wasn't planning on getting a new American Girl doll or stuff, didn't mean I wouldn't find something else I wanted. I ended up finding a steal on Girl of the Year 2003 Kailey, and a small lot of four pretty much complete My American Girl fashions on eBay. I was exceedingly happy with these unexpected acquisitions. American Girl relentlessly emailed my sister daily by the time November came around. It's part of their annual holiday sales tactic. I swear, sometimes we'd get more than one email a day. I'd always glance to see if there was some really good deal, but there never appeared to be. One day, I was enticed by the "Super Savers," which were heavily discounted, final sale items. Nanea's dog and accessory set were super cheap and I wanted them. But for the shipping price on just these two items, it wasn't worth only getting them. Then they ran a 20% off sale on Truly Me dolls. It wasn't actually a great deal when you consider the recent price increase on them. I was still resisting the urge to get #130....she wasn't cheap enough for me.
Something kept nagging at me though...telling me there was a way to save more money that I was missing. I remembered I had a $50 Visa Gift Card in my wallet. We'd had it for months...they can be annoying to use online since some websites see them as debit cards, not gift cards. This can limit how you use them, as you need to keep your order total less than the amount on the card (making sure to factor in sales tax). Even using them at self checkout in person can present the same problem, depending on the store. I tried using other Visa Gift Cards on the American Girl website, seeing if they'd be recognized as gift cards, not debit/credit cards. But it never worked. It occurred to me that perhaps I could use my Visa Gift Card to buy an American Girl e-gift card. I looked it up, and realized that American Girl does not charge tax or shipping on e-gift cards. Usually, when you buy a physical gift card in person, at least where I live, you are charged sales tax on it. Then you are charged sales tax again on whatever items you purchase with it. However, such was not the case with the AG e-gift card. I was able to convert the $50 into American Girl dollars!!! Between the sale, the gift card, and our measly $4 in rewards, we saved a substantial amount of money. I was able to get #130 after all, Nanea's items, and two Bitty Baby outfits (in order to qualify for free shipping)!!! I was so grateful, and also super ecstatic I'd found a way to use that gift card for something great.
We'd ordered the American Girl stuff a few days after Thanksgiving. It took a few days for the shipping label to even be printed. Fed Ex didn't end up delivering Miss Alaska until Sunday afternoon the next week. But I was glad that she hadn't gotten lost in the mail what with all the holiday orders backing it up. I chose her name because I wanted it to be Native American, like Joynomi's. I actually named one of my Bratz Formal Funk Nevra dolls Alaska too (since my childhood gal was named Nevada...my first duplicate is called Arizona...you get the idea). As soon as I thought of the name, it just fit her. And as soon as I freed her from the package, I was even more in love. How is that possible?!!! She's so much prettier in person, despite being a total knockout in stock images. She also looks very different than Joynomi. Their skin tones and lip colors aren't remotely the same. I'd be able to tell them apart even if their hair was identically styled. She also resembles Ivy, what with the bangs (Ivy was my first brand new American Girl doll as an adult collector...the first in ten years...clearly I love this head mold).
There are times I've waited years to get a doll. I've contemplated getting them, talked myself out of it, and it took me forever to pull the trigger. Other occasions are much more impulsive...like I see the doll at the flea market, or I stumble upon a really great eBay deal, or I fall in love with some newly released girl. There isn't always a rhyme or reason, and whether I wait an eternity, or I hardly wait at all, it doesn't change how much I love them. In fact, sometimes the dolls I get more impulsively, like Jess herself, I end up being even more obsessed with in the long run. But that isn't always the case...I wanted Kaya for several years as a kid, for instance, and she's always been one of my most special dolls. I admit, I didn't put a whole lot of consideration into Alaska. I mean, I knew I wanted to save money on her and that it would be tricky finding room for her. But life is too short to find a million reasons not to do something that you really want to do. Getting her sooner meant I'll be able to enjoy her for longer. And it does make her seem a little extra special knowing I didn't wait that long (as it is a rarity with me and new dolls directly from American Girl...more time usually does lapse). Clearly this doll really spoke to me, in the same way Girl of the Year Corinne did (but perhaps not with quite as much intensity).
ADB President Takehiko Nakao spoke at the 28th Pacific Developing Member Countries Governors and ADB Management Meeting, which was held on 2 May 2018 at the ADB Headquarters in Manila, Philippines. In his welcome remarks, he said that ADB will prioritize support for small island developing states (SIDS) and countries in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS).
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Product backlog, and product grooming
What is Product Backlog?
Product Backlog is a list of priority items in a project. This list consists of high priority items at the top and low priority items at the bottom. It is one of the three main artifacts that make Agile Development. With the help of product backlog, product owners create a prioritized list of features known as ‘User Stories’. This list can further evolve according to the situation. This product backlog can contain function requirements, non-function requirements, engineering requirements, and any feedback that you get from the stakeholders. Thus, product backlog is configured considering the vision of a product.
Agile Development (Scrum) favors the short succinct proclamation that represents the quintessence of a “necessity”. A product backlog is configured of following components:
• Knowledge acquisition
• Features
• Errors and problems
• Technical Work
Release Backlog
A subset of product backlogs is the release backlog. A release backlog consists of a list of minimum features that are required for the product to go into the market. You can think of it as a minimum eligibility criteria list for a product before releasing it. Depending on the specific needs of your organization, release backlogs can get ready within a range of few months to a year.
Sprint Backlog
A subset of release backlog is the sprint backlog. If you are a product owner, you will have the responsibility to supervise the manufacturing of the product. You will hold a meeting of the marketing team, domain experts, and other managing directors. The sprint backlog will be derived from the product requirements put forward by the team that you called.
When should be Product Backlog Re-Prioritized?
The team of stakeholders develops a vision for the product. From this vision, further requirements go into the product backlog. You will then give a business value to each of these requirements. These requirements will be very high-level requirements definitely. Once you will come up with a list of assets to assemble product backlog items. After this, you will identify your release backlog. Once you are through with this step, you will report to the scrum team. You will explain them the high-level requirements of the sprint backlog. The team will select appropriate requirements, and they will start the process of refining it even further. During the refining, they may include engineering requirements and other essential processes that are important to modify the release backlog. This will change the release backlog depending on customer priority, implementation difficulty, urgency of feedback, and other crucial factors
How to Write Product Backlog
Many people use ‘Story Cards’ in the industry. Users of the product write these story cards. These cards are comprised of description defining the features of the product. These descriptions are the result of the perception of the particular user. The format of a user story is; as a, I want so that
could be fulfilled.
The important concept when writing a user story is that you are able to slice the requirement vertically. This step will ensure a demonstrable output at the end of the script. As your product keeps maturing, you will start receiving numerous feedbacks from the customers. It may become very difficult to prioritize items on the product backlog immediately. This is why experts divide feedbacks into three main stages
• Raw Feedback: This is the category that you can keep vaguely
• Prioritized Feedback: This is the category that you can use to eliminate some of the raw feedbacks. You can select a few of these that you consider as valid for the vision of your product
• Moving to the Product Backlog: On this stage, you can move vivid feedbacks to the backlog
These stages will help you to maintain your product backlog.
Product Backlog Grooming
A backlog requires maintenance and consideration. During the initiation stage, the Scrum Team and Product owner begin by conceptualizing and recording all the points that they consider important. A product backlog requires consistent changes such as adding and portraying new things, changing or discarding existing things, and the process of re-evaluating passages.
While utilizing the Scrum Framework, it is essential to save 10% of the Scrum Team’s aggregate time for Product backlog’s maintenance.
A well-maintained backlog can solve many problems. Back in old days, the product backlog was just a list of things that the scrum team kept remembering. The firms and industries soon realized the importance of grooming the product backlog.
Grooming a product backlog involves a handful of separate actions. Firstly, new items can be added to the product backlog. Usually, the product owners and the scrum team are responsible for this. The product owners would require a rough estimate of time from the team. This rough estimate of time is the time needed to prepare that item. If it is not going to take longer to develop, the product owner may want it immediately. If that item will take a long time to develop, they will move ahead on the list.
Secondly, the step of re-prioritizing product backlog follows. Sometimes, an angry customer may demand some features. In such situations, that particular feature is moved up and given the preference. Thirdly, the action of splitting larger backlog items into smaller ones comes into play. As the items near to the top of the backlog, it is important for it to be small enough so the team can finish it in a single sprint. Therefore, this part of backlog grooming involves the discussion of how to minimize the technical efforts required completing the task.
How to Estimate Product Backlog?Estimating a product backlog is part of the release planning process. A product backlog is a repository of everything that the product owner would like to have created. Experts commonly used two different ways for estimating their product backlogs.
The first method is called estimation by analogy. It is an important technique that you can rely on when finding real estimates. In this method, you can compare the thing being estimated to some other thing. You might, for example, compare the time of reading a book with another if you know the size and time taken to complete the book. You can recall how long it took you to complete a specific book, and then you can increase or decrease that amount of time by considering the size of the book that is to be estimated.
Another technique is the precise calculation. You can first think about the size of the work, estimate your pace through the work, and then divide to come up with the precise estimate of the duration. Both of the methods work great if done with extreme precision.
Some Useful Tips:
Maintaining a product backlog is not as simple as it looks. Many Scrum teams and product owners struggle with details and features of the backlogs. These vital tips will help you deal with product backlogs proficiently.
• Make a blueprint for product backlogs and implement on it
• Prioritize your backlog considering next product launch
• Work with the development team
• Keep your backlog simple to read
• Do not only rely on user stories. Think outside the box yourself.
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Photographer: Liz Charles
Liz Charles working on research prioritization project for the World Health Organization as a Duke Global Health Fellow and intern in the Department of Public Health Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights, Geneva 2013.
Families from Munshigong keep together as they seek refuge in the Caritas Bangladesh cyclone shelter, attempting as much safe distancing as possible, while prioritizing safety from the deadly storms. Here a woman named Najma with her child seeking refuge in a cyclone shelter.
Tropical cyclone Amphan intensified rapidly in the Bay of Bengal to become a “Super Cyclonic Storm” – the equivalent of a strong Category 4/weak Category 5 on the Saffir Simpson scale. It weakened ahead of landfall on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 as a very severe cyclonic storm (strong Category 2 equivalent), bringing dangerous winds, storm surge and flooding to coastal areas of West Bengal in India and Bangladesh. At least 658,000 people were evacuated in West Bengal and Odisha before the cyclone struck. Amphan impacted densely populated areas, including the Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta) at a time when restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been in force, thereby complicating disaster. The strong winds and the pounding rains have left the city inundated making the city’s already vulnerable urban poor more vulnerable. CRS and Caritas will implement a joint response to Cyclone Amphan. A joint emergency response team has been established to support response efforts including immediate needs such as temporary shelter, access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene.
21 May 2020 Day 2
Photo by Amit Rudro for CRS/Caritas Bangladesh
I've struggled for some time to create a place to compose music in my tiny home; limited space and budget have made it a challenge. I think the result is quite nice, however. The key thought was to prioritize activities and do the simplest possible thing to achieve activity level. Here were my top musical priorities:
1. Just make music. This meant connecting speakers (Yamaha) to the keyboard (Roland SD-700SX). 2 1/4" patch cables, 3 ordinary power cables, and a small plug multiplier. Easy.
2. Record MIDI. This meant adding a computer to the mix (Thinkpad X41 Tablet P-M 1.5GHz 1.5G RAM named "Quirky") , installing software (Ableton Live 7), and attaching the keyboard to the computer (via USB). Worked great.. However once I plugged the laptop into wall power the speakers got very noisy. This was because of a cheaply constructed third-party power supply - by replacing it with the official Thinkpad power supply the noise disappeared. (This would have been difficult to diagnose if I had put everything together all at once, I think.) One small innovation: flipping the screen around but keeping it at an angle, to serve as a kind of touchscreen music stand; reminds me of the Korg OASYS.
3. Record audio. This took some experimentation to get right. I felt compelled to test the tablet's native sound abilities even though I was pretty sure it wouldn't sound good. The tablet has a "mic in" which, sure enough, testing showed it to be of very poor quality for accepting audio from the keyboard (primarily a strange warble). So I purchased an MBox (M-Audio Fast Track Pro) and attached it to the computer (USB), and connected the keyboard (2 XLR cables). Now it sounds very good. I was glad to see that a modest computer can do well at audio. I thought it would.
4. Playing virtual instruments. Now I was getting frisky - it was straightforward to get this working (just have to setup MIDI correctly and remember to 'arm' recording in Live). However at this stage I decided to "break" the solution to #2 by removing the direct keyboard USB/MIDI and using the MBox for MIDI. Required 2 MIDI cables and eliminated 1 USB cable. The benefit is that the tablet has fewer cables going into it.
5. Applying virtual effects. Again, works well and sounds great. Surprisingly low latency (I can just barely hear it).
6. Monitoring PC audio. Headphones in the MBox work great. Using speakers turned out to be surprisingly complicated. First, I was loath to abandon the simple solution to #1. I realized that if I plugged the speakers into the MBox I wouldn't be able to "just play" without a computer attached, which from experience I know I don't like being tethered to a PC to make music. Luckily the MBox can be powered separately, although it required the purchase of a wall wart. I also needed a couple of extra cables (XLR) - easily fixed (I do wish the MBox had 1/4" inputs as well as XLR inputs, though). One other annoyance: the MBox pops, badly, when it's turned off with speakers still attached. This is not as much of an issue when the MBox is seperately powered, as unplugging the computer no longer causes the MBox to power down. (Essentially it turns out the MBox is serving as a simple line mixer for keyboard and pc audio.)
For a finishing touch, I draped the (semi soft) travel case over and behind the keyboard. This is not only a great place to store a very bulky item, but it also serves to cushion the tablet and protect the keyboard. I also plugged everything into a power strip so the whole shebang can be turned on and off with one switch (which saves power and avoids pops). I sort of miss using the Roland's power switch, though - it's a really nice switch. Very wide and solid and with a pleasant curve to it.
I actually believe there is a market for a simple standalone MIDI sequencer, even if this solution works for me. To have a small hand-held device that I could attach to the keyboard, play into, then take to a computer for editing might be quite nice, especially if you are prone to long solo jamming, like I am.
ice magazine
Contemporary Istanbul art fair 2013
Guardians of Time by Manfred Kielnhofer page 41-45
Toplumsal Sanat ve Güncel Dinamikleri
İstanbul bir Laboratuvar mı?
Hasan Bülent Kahraman
Social Art and
Its Contemporary Dynamics
Is Istanbul a Laboratory?
Hasan Bülent Kahraman
The transition from the twentieth to twenty-first century did not only
refer
to a temporal continuity and it wasn't happening by nature. Continuity
of time was going to bring us to the twenty-first century anyway. On the
other hand, the twenty-first century was also bringing us to the concept
of "millennium," which had an importance in Western metaphysics.
Since human relationships are based on transforming nature on a cultural
platform through intellectual effort, and humanity struggles to overcome
and restrain the nature on these levels, the twentieth century gives way to
the twenty-first century on the verge to a profound intellectual break.
During the transition to the twenty-first century, the most important issue
was the great criticism against the idea of modernity and the grand split
it undergoes. During the twentieth century, using different methods, all
nations agreed on the notion of modernization that was in some sense
developed as the homogenization of humanity and can be summarized
as installing Western metaphysics into 'outsider' societies but the result
was the same: a systematic formation that prioritizes and is led by the
government. This transformation would be based on two big pillars:
refusal of the past, along with the complete cultural baggage if necessary,
and the reconstruction of the subjects, the human beings towards the
guidance of the government.
This method, which can be described as the abolition of the subject,
made it natural for the great totalitarian regimes to appear. The twentieth
century means millions of people abolished by those regimes.
During the evolution towards the twenty-first century, the first
protestations were against the hegemony of the radical rationality
that had built this system. Because, post-Weber bureaucracy with a
government and organon was the concentration point of rationality. In
the end, the Cartesian radical rationality was the imprisonment of human
consciousness in the human consciousness itself. With this appreciation,
science as a tool to control nature had turned into a superior category
that left no space for the subjectivity of the individual.
The re-emergence of the subject, and its desire to bring forward the sum
of values hidden inside it is a problem of identity. Of course, politics of
memory and space can be added to that. The Proust-esque memory as
'remembering today' and the coincidences and spontaneities that makes
it work was replaced by a remembering policy that offered multiple
choices and multiple consciousnesses. A Bergsonian integrity of time
was no longer needed either.
Within this new appreciation, subjects were the individuals who would
build their own existence with their own willpower.
Such an assent did not only drive back the notion of state, but it also
brought forward the notion of publicum, the sense of community. This
innovation begins with the replacement of the notion of society with
societies. We can also call these communities. Once the communities
emerged, spatial politics changed firstly. The vertical depth of the space
that contained the homogeneous and uniform humans now was going
to be replaced with a horizontal span that meant varieties living together.
These varieties living together in a narrow area without conflicting but
"rubbing" to each other created the new forms of social space.
On the other hand the space the communities have been created is now
only topological, it's not a notion that directly belongs to the "ground."
The twenty-first century has unexpectedly found itself in an almost scary
virtuality with the innovations electronic media has created. The "crowd"
Plato heavily criticized in the context of "theatricality" in his last
dialogue
Nomo, is not only in the amphitheatre or agora anymore. It is everywhere.
Furthermore, what's produced now is not "common thoughts" anymore;
it is the "uncommon" thoughts.
What does art represent in this structure?
The answer is hidden in two points. First, this stadium is a matter
of democracy. A pluralist democracy that is based on varieties and
nourished by interaction is not a utopia but a reality for the twenty-first
century. Secondly, if we can talk about this kind of democracy, then the
relationship between art and community will also turn into another phase.
The new phase of the relationship between art and community makes
the visibility of art inevitable. As a form of production that is pluralist
and based on varieties, art is the reference point of this new sense
of community. This new sense of community cannot evolve naturally
by itself. It needs to important devices to align and direct. Intellectual
production and its alignments and directions are the constative powers of
artistic expression. The new democracy has to be inspired by democratic
theory and though on every step. Similarly the dynamic and constantly
changing texture of art is necessary for the formation of an astatic
democratic platform. This pursuit emerging within the new urban texture
is a matter in itself.
The new global capital is building new cities. This is a new urban texture
that allows the inner movement and liquidity of the capital. The most
important aspect of the new city is that it is gentrified. This is not a
choice
but a need in terms of the new capital, because the new city is also the
realization of a certain aesthetic visuality.
Performing gentrification through new artistic institutions is a wise
choice.
The income produced by new museums, art spaces and galleries is a
planned and systematic application. This means that art creates a new
policy of circulation on the grounds of the city. This art that meets the
expectations of upper classes still has its own critical, social identity.
More importantly, art should interrelate with large communities. That
kind of art will have the real critical power. That kind of art is a field
of
resistance itself. With this aspect, it is sure that the relationship
between
art and community will appear as opposition and resistance. A "real"
democracy is only real as long as it gives the opportunity to oppose
and resist. This is why the relationship between art and community is a
necessity and expectation today, more than ever.
Having the characteristics of a metropolis in any aspect, Istanbul
is an important laboratory in this sense. The capital it attracts, the
transformation it undergoes, and finally the artistic activity and
production
articulated to these turns Istanbul into a new focal point that needs to
be observed in a new way. It is sure that we are witnessing a phase that
the relations between capital and politics are turning into the relations
between capital and art. But the real question is, within the
gentrification
it undergoes, how much place Istanbul will give to artistic discourse. Will
this art form a platform of resistance in the social grounds that remains
from the transformation areas with a global architectural language; or
will those "new" areas actually open a door for the pluralist, variable,
provocative art?
A city, which has never been close to the language of social art in any
way, even today, is going to determine its character as much as it
answers these questions while it globalizes.
icemagazine.contemporaryistanbul.com/files/document/ice-1...
Toplumsal Sanat ve Güncel Dinamikleri
İstanbul bir Laboratuvar mı?
Hasan Bülent Kahraman
20. yüzyıldan 21. yüzyıla geçiş sadece zamansal bir sürekliliğe işaret
etmiyor ve bir doğallıkla gerçekleşmiyordu. Zamanın kendi sürekliliği doğal
olarak bizi 21. yüzyıla taşıyacaktı. Kaldı ki, 21. yüzyıl aynı zamanda Batı
metafiziğinde çok önemli bir yeri olan "bin yıl" kavramına da açılıyordu.
İnsan ilişkileri doğallığın kültürel bir platformda ve zihinsel çabalarla
dönüştürülmesine dayandığından ve bütün insanlık çabası o doğallığı bu
düzlemlerde aşmak, hatta dizginlemek olduğundan 20. yüzyıl yerini 21.
yüzyıla çok derin bir düşünsel kırılmanın eşiğinde bıraktı.
21. yüzyıla girilirken en önemli olgu modernite düşüncesinin aldığı
büyük eleştiri ve yaşadığı büyük parçalanmaydı. Bir manada insanlığı
homojenleştirme olarak geliştirilmiş ve Batı metafiziğinin "dışarıdaki"
toplumlara yerleştirilmesi olarak özetlenebilecek bu modernleşme
anlayışını, her ulus 20. yüzyıl boyunca belki farklı yöntemlerle kabul etti
ama sonuç aynıydı: devlet öncelikli ve devlet önderliğinde sistematik bir
dönüşüm. Bu dönüşüm iki büyük taşıyıcı üstüne oturacaktı: geçmişin,
gerekirse bütün kültürel bagajla birlikte reddi ve öznenin yani insan
tekinin
devletin güdümü doğrultusunda yeniden kurgulanması.
Öznenin ortadan kaldırılması olarak da adlandırılabilecek bu metot
büyük totaliter rejimlerin çıkmasını doğallaştırıyordu. 20. yüzyıl o
rejimler
tarafından ortadan kaldırılmış milyonlarca insan demektir.
21. yüzyıla evrilirken ilk itiraz bu sistematiği kuran radikal
rasyonalitenin
hegemonyasına yönelikti. Çünkü, Weber sonrasında devlet ve organon'u
olan bürokrasi rasyonalitenin temerküz noktasıydı. Descartesçı radikal
rasyonalite son kertede insan bilincinin, gene insan bilincine tutsak
edilmesiydi. Doğayı kontrol aracı olarak öne çıkan bilim bu anlayışta
bireyin öznelliğine yer bırakmayan bir üst kategoriye dönüşmüştü.
Öznenin yeniden ortaya çıkması ve kendisinde saklı olan değerler
bütününü öne almak istemesi bir kimlik problemidir. Buna elbette hafıza
ve mekan politikaları eklenebilir. "Bugünde hatırlamak" olan Proustgil
hafıza ve onun işlemesine olanak sağlayan tesadüfler, kendiliğindenlikler,
yeni anlayışta çok seçmeci ve çok bilinçli bir anımsama politikasıyla terk
ediliyordu. Artık Bergsoncu bir zaman bütünlüğüne de gerek yoktu.
Özne kendi varlığını kendi iradesiyle kuracak kişiydi yeni algı içinde.
Böyle bir kabul sadece devlet kavramının hızla geri itilmesine yol açmakla
kalmadı. Publicum yani toplumsallık (Türkçedeki yanlış çevirisiyle
'kamusallık') olgusunu da yeniden öne itti. Bu yenilenme daha önceki
anlayışta tek olan toplum/kamu kavramının yerini toplumlar kavramına
bırakmasıyla başlar. toplumlar dediğimiz şeye topluluklar (communities)
demek de mümkündür. Topluluklar bir kere ortaya çıktı mı ilk elde mekan
politikaları değişecekti. Mekanın homojen ve üniform insanı barındıran
dikey derinliği şimdi yerini farklılıkların bir arada bulunması anlamına
gelen
bir yatay genişliğe bırakacaktı. Dar bir alanda birbiriyle çatışmayan ama
birbiriyle "sürtünen", öylelikle de etkileşen farklılıkların bir arada
bulunması
toplumsal alanın yeni formlarını meydana getiriyor şimdi.
Buna mukabil toplumsalın oluştuğu mekan artık sadece topolojik,
doğrudan doğruya "yere"/zemine ait bir olgu değil. 21. yüzyıl hiç
beklemediği bir şekilde kendisini elektronik medyanın sağladığı
yeniliklerle
birlikte neredeyse ürküntü veren bir sanallık içinde buldu. Plato'nun
"tiyatrosallık" bağlamında, son diyaloğu Nomo'ide şiddetle eleştirdiği
"güruh" şimdi sadece amfitiyatroda veya agora'da değil. Her yerde.
Sadece tiyatroya gidenler arasında değil iletişim ve ortak düşünce
oluşturma yetisi. Her yerde. Üstelik üretilen artık "ortak düşünce" değil
"ortak olmayan" düşüncelerdir.
Böyle bir yapı içinde sanat ne ifade eder?
Sorunun cevabı iki noktada gizli. Birincisi, bu stadium demokrasiyle
ilgili bir meseledir. Çoğulcu, farklılıklara dayalı, karşılıklı
etkileşimlerden
beslenen bir demokrasi 21. yüzyılın ütopyası değil realitesidir. İkincisi,
eğer böyle bir demokratik durumdan söz açılabiliyorsa, o takdirde, sanat-
toplumsallık ilişkisi de yeni bir evreye geçecektir.
Sanat-toplumsallık ilişkisinin yeni evresi sanatın görünürlüğünü
kaçınılmazlaştırıyor. Kendisi çoğulcu, kendi içinde farklılığa dayalı bir
üretim olan sanat, bu özellikleriyle, yeni toplumsallığın nirengi
noktasıdır.
Yeni toplumsallık kendi kendine, doğal bir şekilde gelişemez. İki önemli
hiza ve istikamet aracına ihtiyaç duyar. Zihinsel üretim ve ona bağlı
düzeltmeler, yol göstermelerle sanatsal ifadenin saptayıcı gücü. Yani, yeni
demokrasi her aşamada demokratik kuram ve düşünceden bazı esinler
almak zorundadır. Aynı şekilde sanatın dinamik ve sürekli değişen dokusu
statik olmayan bir demokratik platformun oluşması bakımından zaruridir.
Böyle bir arayışın yeni kentsel doku içinde can bulması başlı başına bir
konu olacaktır.
Yeni ve küresel sermaye yeni kentler inşa ediyor. Sermayenin iç hareketini
sağlayacak, akışkanlığını sürekli kılacak bir yeni kentsel dokudur bu.
Yeni kentin en önemli özelliği mutenalaşmasıdır. Bu bir tercih değil yeni
sermaye bakımından ihtiyaçtır. Çünkü, yeni kent aynı zamanda belli bir
estetik görselliğin realizasyonudur.
Mutenalaşmanın yeni sanatsal kurumlar üstünden yapılması akıllıca bir
iştir. Yeni müzelerin, yeni sanat kurumlarının, galerilerin meydana
getirdiği
alanların ürettiği rant planlı ve sistematik bir uygulamadır. Bu sanatın
kentsel zeminde yeni bir dolaşım politikası yaratmasına tekabül ediyor.
Daha üst sınıfların ve daha güçlü sermaye kesiminin beklentilerine yanıt
veren bu sanat her şeye rağmen kendisine ait bir eleştirel, toplumsal
kimliğe sahiptir.
Ama ondan daha önemlisi sanatın geniş toplumsallıklarla ilişki kurmasıdır.
Asıl eleştirel güç o sanattın elinde olacaktır. Bu özelliği taşıyan sanatın
kendisi bir direniş alanıdır. Böylesi bir özelliğiyle sanat ve toplumsallık
ilişkisinin muhalefet ve direniş olarak belireceği muhakkak. "Gerçek" bir
demokrasi de muhalefet ve direniş olanağı sağladığı ölçüde hakikattir.
Bu bakımdan sanatın toplumsallıkla/kamusallıkla ilişkisi bugün her
zamankinden daha ziyade bir ihtiyaç, bir zaruret ve bir beklentidir.
Yeni metropol özelliklerini her bakımdan taşıyan İstanbul bu açıdan
önemli bir laboratuvar bugün. Bir yandan çektiği sermaye, diğer yandan
yaşadığı dönüşüm, nihayet bunlarla eklemlenmiş sanatsal etkinlik ve
üretim İstanbul'u ayrı bir gözle bakılması gereken bir odağa dönüştürüyor.
Sermaye siyaset ilişkilerinin şimdi sermaye-sanat ilişkilerine dönüştüğü
bir evreye tanıklık ettiğimiz muhakkak. Ama asıl soru yaşadığı soylulaşma
içinde İstanbul'un kentsel mekan olarak ne ölçüde sanatsal söyleme
yer vereceğidir. Küresel bir mimarlık dilinin öne çıktığı büyük dönüşüm
alanlarından arta kalan toplumsal zeminde mi bu sanat bir direniş
platformu oluşturacaktır; yoksa bizatihi o "yeni" mekanlar da çoğulcu,
değişken, tahrik eden bir sanata kapı aralayacak mıdır?
Hiçbir biçimde, bugün dahi, toplumsal sanat diline ve gerçeğine yakın
durmamış, onu tanımamış bir kent, küreselleşirken bu soruları cevapladığı
oranda karakterini tayin edecektir.
Look at the graceful slope of that back. Peabody designed this one prioritizing comfort. Check mate.
The Kard Bar Fire on January 12, 2015, in Cross Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England, was a significant event that had a profound impact on the local community and garnered national attention. The fire, which engulfed the iconic Kard Bar music store, marked the end of an era and left a lasting legacy in the city's history.
The Kard Bar was a well-known institution in Newcastle upon Tyne, particularly among music enthusiasts. Located in the heart of the city, the store served as a cultural hub and a gathering place for generations of music lovers. The store was renowned for its vast collection of vinyl records, CDs, and other music memorabilia, attracting customers from all walks of life.
On that fateful day, January 12, 2015, a fire broke out at the Kard Bar, quickly spreading through the premises. The fire was first reported in the early morning hours, and the emergency services were alerted promptly. Firefighters from the Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service rushed to the scene to combat the blaze and prevent it from spreading to neighboring properties.
Despite the firefighters' valiant efforts, the fire raged on, fueled by the store's extensive stock of music records and CDs. The iconic wooden structure of the building, along with its accumulated stock, made it difficult for the firefighters to gain control over the inferno. The blaze consumed the entire store, reducing it to ashes within hours.
As news of the fire spread throughout Newcastle and beyond, an outpouring of grief and shock swept across the city. The Kard Bar held a special place in the hearts of many, who mourned the loss of a cherished landmark. The store had become synonymous with the vibrant music scene of the city, and its demise marked the end of an era.
In the aftermath of the fire, investigations were launched to determine the cause of the incident. The authorities worked tirelessly to piece together the events leading up to the fire. Ultimately, it was revealed that an electrical fault in the building's wiring was the likely cause. The age of the structure and its outdated electrical systems contributed to the rapid spread of the fire.
The loss of the Kard Bar was deeply felt by both the local community and the wider music industry. Musicians, artists, and fans rallied together to express their support and solidarity. Benefit concerts and fundraising initiatives were organized to help the store owners and employees recover from the devastating incident. The overwhelming response demonstrated the profound impact the Kard Bar had on the lives of countless individuals.
In the years following the fire, the Kard Bar's legacy lived on through the memories and stories shared by those who had visited the store. The music community in Newcastle united to honor the store's memory and preserve its spirit. Local artists dedicated their performances to the Kard Bar, ensuring that its influence would endure.
The Kard Bar Fire also highlighted the importance of fire safety regulations and the need for improved infrastructure maintenance. The incident prompted authorities to review safety protocols, particularly in heritage buildings, to prevent similar tragedies from occurring in the future. The fire served as a wake-up call for both the city of Newcastle and other communities across the country to prioritize the preservation of cultural landmarks and implement effective fire prevention measures.
Today, the site where the Kard Bar once stood remains a poignant reminder of the store's rich history and the impact it had on Newcastle's music scene. The memories and stories associated with the Kard Bar continue to resonate, ensuring that its spirit remains alive in the hearts of those who cherished it. The Kard Bar Fire of January 12, 2015, remains a significant event in the city's history, forever etched in the collective memory of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle is a cathedral city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is located on the River Tyne's northern bank, opposite Gateshead to the south. It is the most populous settlement in the Tyneside conurbation and North East England.
Newcastle developed around a Roman settlement called Pons Aelius, the settlement became known as Monkchester before taking on the name of a castle built in 1080 by William the Conqueror's eldest son, Robert Curthose. It was one of the world's largest ship building and repair centres during the industrial revolution. Newcastle was part of the county of Northumberland until 1400, when it separated and formed a county of itself. In 1974, Newcastle became part of Tyne and Wear. Since 2018, the city council has been part of the North of Tyne Combined Authority.
The history of Newcastle upon Tyne dates back almost 2,000 years, during which it has been controlled by the Romans, the Angles and the Norsemen amongst others. Newcastle upon Tyne was originally known by its Roman name Pons Aelius. The name "Newcastle" has been used since the Norman conquest of England. Due to its prime location on the River Tyne, the town developed greatly during the Middle Ages and it was to play a major role in the Industrial Revolution, being granted city status in 1882. Today, the city is a major retail, commercial and cultural centre.
Roman settlement
The history of Newcastle dates from AD 122, when the Romans built the first bridge to cross the River Tyne at that point. The bridge was called Pons Aelius or 'Bridge of Aelius', Aelius being the family name of Roman Emperor Hadrian, who was responsible for the Roman wall built across northern England along the Tyne–Solway gap. Hadrian's Wall ran through present-day Newcastle, with stretches of wall and turrets visible along the West Road, and at a temple in Benwell. Traces of a milecastle were found on Westgate Road, midway between Clayton Street and Grainger Street, and it is likely that the course of the wall corresponded to present-day Westgate Road. The course of the wall can be traced eastwards to the Segedunum Roman fort at Wallsend, with the fort of Arbeia down-river at the mouth of the Tyne, on the south bank in what is now South Shields. The Tyne was then a wider, shallower river at this point and it is thought that the bridge was probably about 700 feet (210 m) long, made of wood and supported on stone piers. It is probable that it was sited near the current Swing Bridge, due to the fact that Roman artefacts were found there during the building of the latter bridge. Hadrian himself probably visited the site in 122. A shrine was set up on the completed bridge in 123 by the 6th Legion, with two altars to Neptune and Oceanus respectively. The two altars were subsequently found in the river and are on display in the Great North Museum in Newcastle.
The Romans built a stone-walled fort in 150 to protect the river crossing which was at the foot of the Tyne Gorge, and this took the name of the bridge so that the whole settlement was known as Pons Aelius. The fort was situated on a rocky outcrop overlooking the new bridge, on the site of the present Castle Keep. Pons Aelius is last mentioned in 400, in a Roman document listing all of the Roman military outposts. It is likely that nestling in the shadow of the fort would have been a small vicus, or village. Unfortunately, no buildings have been detected; only a few pieces of flagging. It is clear that there was a Roman cemetery near Clavering Place, behind the Central station, as a number of Roman coffins and sarcophagi have been unearthed there.
Despite the presence of the bridge, the settlement of Pons Aelius was not particularly important among the northern Roman settlements. The most important stations were those on the highway of Dere Street running from Eboracum (York) through Corstopitum (Corbridge) and to the lands north of the Wall. Corstopitum, being a major arsenal and supply centre, was much larger and more populous than Pons Aelius.
Anglo-Saxon development
The Angles arrived in the North-East of England in about 500 and may have landed on the Tyne. There is no evidence of an Anglo-Saxon settlement on or near the site of Pons Aelius during the Anglo-Saxon age. The bridge probably survived and there may well have been a small village at the northern end, but no evidence survives. At that time the region was dominated by two kingdoms, Bernicia, north of the Tees and ruled from Bamburgh, and Deira, south of the Tees and ruled from York. Bernicia and Deira combined to form the kingdom of Northanhymbra (Northumbria) early in the 7th century. There were three local kings who held the title of Bretwalda – 'Lord of Britain', Edwin of Deira (627–632), Oswald of Bernicia (633–641) and Oswy of Northumbria (641–658). The 7th century became known as the 'Golden Age of Northumbria', when the area was a beacon of culture and learning in Europe. The greatness of this period was based on its generally Christian culture and resulted in the Lindisfarne Gospels amongst other treasures. The Tyne valley was dotted with monasteries, with those at Monkwearmouth, Hexham and Jarrow being the most famous. Bede, who was based at Jarrow, wrote of a royal estate, known as Ad Murum, 'at the Wall', 12 miles (19 km) from the sea. It is thought that this estate may have been in what is now Newcastle. At some unknown time, the site of Newcastle came to be known as Monkchester. The reason for this title is unknown, as we are unaware of any specific monasteries at the site, and Bede made no reference to it. In 875 Halfdan Ragnarsson, the Danish Viking conqueror of York, led an army that attacked and pillaged various monasteries in the area, and it is thought that Monkchester was also pillaged at this time. Little more was heard of it until the coming of the Normans.
Norman period
After the arrival of William the Conqueror in England in 1066, the whole of England was quickly subjected to Norman rule. However, in Northumbria there was great resistance to the Normans, and in 1069 the newly appointed Norman Earl of Northumbria, Robert de Comines and 700 of his men were killed by the local population at Durham. The Northumbrians then marched on York, but William was able to suppress the uprising. That same year, a second uprising occurred when a Danish fleet landed in the Humber. The Northumbrians again attacked York and destroyed the garrison there. William was again able to suppress the uprising, but this time he took revenge. He laid waste to the whole of the Midlands and the land from York to the Tees. In 1080, William Walcher, the Norman bishop of Durham and his followers were brutally murdered at Gateshead. This time Odo, bishop of Bayeux, William's half brother, devastated the land between the Tees and the Tweed. This was known as the 'Harrying of the North'. This devastation is reflected in the Domesday Book. The destruction had such an effect that the North remained poor and backward at least until Tudor times and perhaps until the Industrial Revolution. Newcastle suffered in this respect with the rest of the North.
In 1080 William sent his eldest son, Robert Curthose, north to defend the kingdom against the Scots. After his campaign, he moved to Monkchester and began the building of a 'New Castle'. This was of the "motte-and-bailey" type of construction, a wooden tower on top of an earthen mound (motte), surrounded by a moat and wooden stockade (bailey). It was this castle that gave Newcastle its name. In 1095 the Earl of Northumbria, Robert de Mowbray, rose up against the king, William Rufus, and Rufus sent an army north to recapture the castle. From then on the castle became crown property and was an important base from which the king could control the northern barons. The Northumbrian earldom was abolished and a Sheriff of Northumberland was appointed to administer the region. In 1091 the parish church of St Nicholas was consecrated on the site of the present Anglican cathedral, close by the bailey of the new castle. The church is believed to have been a wooden building on stone footings.
Not a trace of the tower or mound of the motte and bailey castle remains now. Henry II replaced it with a rectangular stone keep, which was built between 1172 and 1177 at a cost of £1,444. A stone bailey, in the form of a triangle, replaced the previous wooden one. The great outer gateway to the castle, called 'the Black Gate', was built later, between 1247 and 1250, in the reign of Henry III. There were at that time no town walls and when attacked by the Scots, the townspeople had to crowd into the bailey for safety. It is probable that the new castle acted as a magnet for local merchants because of the safety it provided. This in turn would help to expand trade in the town. At this time wool, skins and lead were being exported, whilst alum, pepper and ginger were being imported from France and Flanders.
Middle Ages
Throughout the Middle Ages, Newcastle was England's northern fortress, the centre for assembled armies. The Border war against Scotland lasted intermittently for several centuries – possibly the longest border war ever waged. During the civil war between Stephen and Matilda, David 1st of Scotland and his son were granted Cumbria and Northumberland respectively, so that for a period from 1139 to 1157, Newcastle was effectively in Scottish hands. It is believed that during this period, King David may have built the church of St Andrew and the Benedictine nunnery in Newcastle. However, King Stephen's successor, Henry II was strong enough to take back the Earldom of Northumbria from Malcolm IV.
The Scots king William the Lion was imprisoned in Newcastle, in 1174, after being captured at the Battle of Alnwick. Edward I brought the Stone of Scone and William Wallace south through the town and Newcastle was successfully defended against the Scots three times during the 14th century.
Around 1200, stone-faced, clay-filled jetties were starting to project into the river, an indication that trade was increasing in Newcastle. As the Roman roads continued to deteriorate, sea travel was gaining in importance. By 1275 Newcastle was the sixth largest wool exporting port in England. The principal exports at this time were wool, timber, coal, millstones, dairy produce, fish, salt and hides. Much of the developing trade was with the Baltic countries and Germany. Most of the Newcastle merchants were situated near the river, below the Castle. The earliest known charter was dated 1175 in the reign of Henry II, giving the townspeople some control over their town. In 1216 King John granted Newcastle a mayor[8] and also allowed the formation of guilds (known as Mysteries). These were cartels formed within different trades, which restricted trade to guild members. There were initially twelve guilds. Coal was being exported from Newcastle by 1250, and by 1350 the burgesses received a royal licence to export coal. This licence to export coal was jealously guarded by the Newcastle burgesses, and they tried to prevent any one else on the Tyne from exporting coal except through Newcastle. The burgesses similarly tried to prevent fish from being sold anywhere else on the Tyne except Newcastle. This led to conflicts with Gateshead and South Shields.
In 1265, the town was granted permission to impose a 'Wall Tax' or Murage, to pay for the construction of a fortified wall to enclose the town and protect it from Scottish invaders. The town walls were not completed until early in the 14th century. They were two miles (3 km) long, 9 feet (2.7 m) thick and 25 feet (7.6 m) high. They had six main gates, as well as some smaller gates, and had 17 towers. The land within the walls was divided almost equally by the Lort Burn, which flowed southwards and joined the Tyne to the east of the Castle. The town began to expand north of the Castle and west of the Lort Burn with various markets being set up within the walls.
In 1400 Henry IV granted a new charter, creating a County corporate which separated the town, but not the Castle, from the county of Northumberland and recognised it as a "county of itself" with a right to have a sheriff of its own. The burgesses were now allowed to choose six aldermen who, with the mayor would be justices of the peace. The mayor and sheriff were allowed to hold borough courts in the Guildhall.
Religious houses
During the Middle Ages a number of religious houses were established within the walls: the first of these was the Benedictine nunnery of St Bartholomew founded in 1086 near the present-day Nun Street. Both David I of Scotland and Henry I of England were benefactors of the religious house. Nothing of the nunnery remains now.
The friary of Blackfriars, Newcastle (Dominican) was established in 1239. These were also known as the Preaching Friars or Shod Friars, because they wore sandals, as opposed to other orders. The friary was situated in the present-day Friars Street. In 1280 the order was granted royal permission to make a postern in the town walls to communicate with their gardens outside the walls. On 19 June 1334, Edward Balliol, claimant to be King of Scotland, did homage to King Edward III, on behalf of the kingdom of Scotland, in the church of the friary. Much of the original buildings of the friary still exist, mainly because, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries the friary of Blackfriars was rented out by the corporation to nine of the local trade guilds.
The friary of Whitefriars (Carmelite) was established in 1262. The order was originally housed on the Wall Knoll in Pandon, but in 1307 it took over the buildings of another order, which went out of existence, the Friars of the Sac. The land, which had originally been given by Robert the Bruce, was situated in the present-day Hanover Square, behind the Central station. Nothing of the friary remains now.
The friary of Austinfriars (Augustinian) was established in 1290. The friary was on the site where the Holy Jesus Hospital was built in 1682. The friary was traditionally the lodging place of English kings whenever they visited or passed through Newcastle. In 1503 Princess Margaret, eldest daughter of Henry VII of England, stayed two days at the friary on her way to join her new husband James IV of Scotland.
The friary of Greyfriars (Franciscans) was established in 1274. The friary was in the present-day area between Pilgrim Street, Grey Street, Market Street and High Chare. Nothing of the original buildings remains.
The friary of the Order of the Holy Trinity, also known as the Trinitarians, was established in 1360. The order devoted a third of its income to buying back captives of the Saracens, during the Crusades. Their house was on the Wall Knoll, in Pandon, to the east of the city, but within the walls. Wall Knoll had previously been occupied by the White Friars until they moved to new premises in 1307.
All of the above religious houses were closed in about 1540, when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries.
An important street running through Newcastle at the time was Pilgrim Street, running northwards inside the walls and leading to the Pilgrim Gate on the north wall. The street still exists today as arguably Newcastle's main shopping street.
Tudor period
The Scottish border wars continued for much of the 16th century, so that during that time, Newcastle was often threatened with invasion by the Scots, but also remained important as a border stronghold against them.
During the Reformation begun by Henry VIII in 1536, the five Newcastle friaries and the single nunnery were dissolved and the land was sold to the Corporation and to rich merchants. At this time there were fewer than 60 inmates of the religious houses in Newcastle. The convent of Blackfriars was leased to nine craft guilds to be used as their headquarters. This probably explains why it is the only one of the religious houses whose building survives to the present day. The priories at Tynemouth and Durham were also dissolved, thus ending the long-running rivalry between Newcastle and the church for control of trade on the Tyne. A little later, the property of the nunnery of St Bartholomew and of Grey Friars were bought by Robert Anderson, who had the buildings demolished to build his grand Newe House (also known as Anderson Place).
With the gradual decline of the Scottish border wars the town walls were allowed to decline as well as the castle. By 1547, about 10,000 people were living in Newcastle. At the beginning of the 16th century exports of wool from Newcastle were more than twice the value of exports of coal, but during the century coal exports continued to increase.
Under Edward VI, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, sponsored an act allowing Newcastle to annexe Gateshead as its suburb. The main reason for this was to allow the Newcastle Hostmen, who controlled the export of Tyne coal, to get their hands on the Gateshead coal mines, previously controlled by the Bishop of Durham. However, when Mary I came to power, Dudley met his downfall and the decision was reversed. The Reformation allowed private access to coal mines previously owned by Tynemouth and Durham priories and as a result coal exports increase dramatically, from 15,000 tons in 1500 to 35,000 tons in 1565, and to 400,000 tons in 1625.
The plague visited Newcastle four times during the 16th century, in 1579 when 2,000 people died, in 1589 when 1700 died, in 1595 and finally in 1597.
In 1600 Elizabeth I granted Newcastle a charter for an exclusive body of electors, the right to elect the mayor and burgesses. The charter also gave the Hostmen exclusive rights to load coal at any point on the Tyne. The Hostmen developed as an exclusive group within the Merchant Adventurers who had been incorporated by a charter in 1547.
Stuart period
In 1636 there was a serious outbreak of bubonic plague in Newcastle. There had been several previous outbreaks of the disease over the years, but this was the most serious. It is thought to have arrived from the Netherlands via ships that were trading between the Tyne and that country. It first appeared in the lower part of the town near the docks but gradually spread to all parts of the town. As the disease gained hold the authorities took measures to control it by boarding up any properties that contained infected persons, meaning that whole families were locked up together with the infected family members. Other infected persons were put in huts outside the town walls and left to die. Plague pits were dug next to the town's four churches and outside the town walls to receive the bodies in mass burials. Over the course of the outbreak 5,631 deaths were recorded out of an estimated population of 12,000, a death rate of 47%.
In 1637 Charles I tried to raise money by doubling the 'voluntary' tax on coal in return for allowing the Newcastle Hostmen to regulate production and fix prices. This caused outrage amongst the London importers and the East Anglian shippers. Both groups decided to boycott Tyne coal and as a result forced Charles to reverse his decision in 1638.
In 1640 during the Second Bishops' War, the Scots successfully invaded Newcastle. The occupying army demanded £850 per day from the Corporation to billet the Scottish troops. Trade from the Tyne ground to a halt during the occupation. The Scots left in 1641 after receiving a Parliamentary pardon and a £4,000,000 loan from the town.
In 1642 the English Civil War began. King Charles realised the value of the Tyne coal trade and therefore garrisoned Newcastle. A Royalist was appointed as governor. At that time, Newcastle and King's Lynn were the only important seaports to support the crown. In 1644 Parliament blockaded the Tyne to prevent the king from receiving revenue from the Tyne coal trade. Coal exports fell from 450,000 to 3,000 tons and London suffered a hard winter without fuel. Parliament encouraged the coal trade from the Wear to try to replace that lost from Newcastle but that was not enough to make up for the lost Tyneside tonnage.
In 1644 the Scots crossed the border. Newcastle strengthened its defences in preparation. The Scottish army, with 40,000 troops, besieged Newcastle for three months until the garrison of 1,500 surrendered. During the siege, the Scots bombarded the walls with their artillery, situated in Gateshead and Castle Leazes. The Scottish commander threatened to destroy the steeple of St Nicholas's Church by gunfire if the mayor, Sir John Marley, did not surrender the town. The mayor responded by placing Scottish prisoners that they had captured in the steeple, so saving it from destruction. The town walls were finally breached by a combination of artillery and sapping. In gratitude for this defence, Charles gave Newcastle the motto 'Fortiter Defendit Triumphans' to be added to its coat of arms. The Scottish army occupied Northumberland and Durham for two years. The coal taxes had to pay for the Scottish occupation. In 1645 Charles surrendered to the Scots and was imprisoned in Newcastle for nine months. After the Civil War the coal trade on the Tyne soon picked up and exceeded its pre-war levels.
A new Guildhall was completed on the Sandhill next to the river in 1655, replacing an earlier facility damaged by fire in 1639, and became the meeting place of Newcastle Town Council. In 1681 the Hospital of the Holy Jesus was built partly on the site of the Austin Friars. The Guildhall and Holy Jesus Hospital still exist.
Charles II tried to impose a charter on Newcastle to give the king the right to appoint the mayor, sheriff, recorder and town clerk. Charles died before the charter came into effect. In 1685, James II tried to replace Corporation members with named Catholics. However, James' mandate was suspended in 1689 after the Glorious Revolution welcoming William of Orange. In 1689, after the fall of James II, the people of Newcastle tore down his bronze equestrian statue in Sandhill and tossed it into the Tyne. The bronze was later used to make bells for All Saints Church.
In 1689 the Lort Burn was covered over. At this time it was an open sewer. The channel followed by the Lort Burn became the present day Dean Street. At that time, the centre of Newcastle was still the Sandhill area, with many merchants living along the Close or on the Side. The path of the main road through Newcastle ran from the single Tyne bridge, through Sandhill to the Side, a narrow street which climbed steeply on the north-east side of the castle hill until it reached the higher ground alongside St Nicholas' Church. As Newcastle developed, the Side became lined with buildings with projecting upper stories, so that the main street through Newcastle was a narrow, congested, steep thoroughfare.
In 1701 the Keelmen's Hospital was built in the Sandgate area of the city, using funds provided by the keelmen. The building still stands today.
Eighteenth century
In the 18th century, Newcastle was the country's largest print centre after London, Oxford and Cambridge, and the Literary and Philosophical Society of 1793, with its erudite debates and large stock of books in several languages predated the London Library by half a century.
In 1715, during the Jacobite rising in favour of the Old Pretender, an army of Jacobite supporters marched on Newcastle. Many of the Northumbrian gentry joined the rebels. The citizens prepared for its arrival by arresting Jacobite supporters and accepting 700 extra recruits into the local militia. The gates of the city were closed against the rebels. This proved enough to delay an attack until reinforcements arrived forcing the rebel army to move across to the west coast. The rebels finally surrendered at Preston.
In 1745, during a second Jacobite rising in favour of the Young Pretender, a Scottish army crossed the border led by Bonnie Prince Charlie. Once again Newcastle prepared by arresting Jacobite supporters and inducting 800 volunteers into the local militia. The town walls were strengthened, most of the gates were blocked up and some 200 cannon were deployed. 20,000 regulars were billeted on the Town Moor. These preparations were enough to force the rebel army to travel south via the west coast. They were eventually defeated at Culloden in 1746.
Newcastle's actions during the 1715 rising in resisting the rebels and declaring for George I, in contrast to the rest of the region, is the most likely source of the nickname 'Geordie', applied to people from Tyneside, or more accurately Newcastle. Another theory, however, is that the name 'Geordie' came from the inventor of the Geordie lamp, George Stephenson. It was a type of safety lamp used in mining, but was not invented until 1815. Apparently the term 'German Geordie' was in common use during the 18th century.
The city's first hospital, Newcastle Infirmary opened in 1753; it was funded by public subscription. A lying-in hospital was established in Newcastle in 1760. The city's first public hospital for mentally ill patients, Wardens Close Lunatic Hospital was opened in October 1767.
In 1771 a flood swept away much of the bridge at Newcastle. The bridge had been built in 1250 and repaired after a flood in 1339. The bridge supported various houses and three towers and an old chapel. A blue stone was placed in the middle of the bridge to mark the boundary between Newcastle and the Palatinate of Durham. A temporary wooden bridge had to be built, and this remained in use until 1781, when a new stone bridge was completed. The new bridge consisted of nine arches. In 1801, because of the pressure of traffic, the bridge had to be widened.
A permanent military presence was established in the city with the completion of Fenham Barracks in 1806. The facilities at the Castle for holding assizes, which had been condemned for their inconvenience and unhealthiness, were replaced when the Moot Hall opened in August 1812.
Victorian period
Present-day Newcastle owes much of its architecture to the work of the builder Richard Grainger, aided by architects John Dobson, Thomas Oliver, John and Benjamin Green and others. In 1834 Grainger won a competition to produce a new plan for central Newcastle. He put this plan into effect using the above architects as well as architects employed in his own office. Grainger and Oliver had already built Leazes Terrace, Leazes Crescent and Leazes Place between 1829 and 1834. Grainger and Dobson had also built the Royal Arcade at the foot of Pilgrim Street between 1830 and 1832. The most ambitious project covered 12 acres 12 acres (49,000 m2) in central Newcastle, on the site of Newe House (also called Anderson Place). Grainger built three new thoroughfares, Grey Street, Grainger Street and Clayton Street with many connecting streets, as well as the Central Exchange and the Grainger Market. John Wardle and George Walker, working in Grainger's office, designed Clayton Street, Grainger Street and most of Grey Street. Dobson designed the Grainger Market and much of the east side of Grey Street. John and Benjamin Green designed the Theatre Royal at the top of Grey Street, where Grainger placed the column of Grey's Monument as a focus for the whole scheme. Grey Street is considered to be one of the finest streets in the country, with its elegant curve. Unfortunately most of old Eldon Square was demolished in the 1960s in the name of progress. The Royal Arcade met a similar fate.
In 1849 a new bridge was built across the river at Newcastle. This was the High Level Bridge, designed by Robert Stephenson, and slightly up river from the existing bridge. The bridge was designed to carry road and rail traffic across the Tyne Gorge on two decks with rail traffic on the upper deck and road traffic on the lower. The new bridge meant that traffic could pass through Newcastle without having to negotiate the steep, narrow Side, as had been necessary for centuries. The bridge was opened by Queen Victoria, who one year later opened the new Central Station, designed by John Dobson. Trains were now able to cross the river, directly into the centre of Newcastle and carry on up to Scotland. The Army Riding School was also completed in 1849.
In 1854 a large fire started on the Gateshead quayside and an explosion caused it to spread across the river to the Newcastle quayside. A huge conflagration amongst the narrow alleys, or 'chares', destroyed the homes of 800 families as well as many business premises. The narrow alleys that had been destroyed were replaced by streets containing blocks of modern offices.
In 1863 the Town Hall in St Nicholas Square replaced the Guildhall as the meeting place of Newcastle Town Council.
In 1876 the low level bridge was replaced by a new bridge known as the Swing Bridge, so called because the bridge was able to swing horizontally on a central axis and allow ships to pass on either side. This meant that for the first time sizeable ships could pass up-river beyond Newcastle. The bridge was built and paid for by William Armstrong, a local arms manufacturer, who needed to have warships access his Elswick arms factory to fit armaments to them. The Swing Bridge's rotating mechanism is adapted from the cannon mounts developed in Armstrong's arms works. In 1882 the Elswick works began to build ships as well as to arm them. The Barrack Road drill hall was completed in 1890.
Industrialisation
In the 19th century, shipbuilding and heavy engineering were central to the city's prosperity; and the city was a powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution. Newcastle's development as a major city owed most to its central role in the production and export of coal. The phrase "taking coals to Newcastle" was first recorded in 1538; it proverbially denotes bringing a particular commodity to a place that has more than enough of it already.
Innovation in Newcastle and surrounding areas included the following:
George Stephenson developed a miner's safety lamp at the same time that Humphry Davy developed a rival design. The lamp made possible the opening up of ever deeper mines to provide the coal that powered the industrial revolution.
George and his son Robert Stephenson were hugely influential figures in the development of the early railways. George developed Blücher, a locomotive working at Killingworth colliery in 1814, whilst Robert was instrumental in the design of Rocket, a revolutionary design that was the forerunner of modern locomotives. Both men were involved in planning and building railway lines, all over this country and abroad.
Joseph Swan demonstrated a working electric light bulb about a year before Thomas Edison did the same in the USA. This led to a dispute as to who had actually invented the light bulb. Eventually the two rivals agreed to form a mutual company between them, the Edison and Swan Electric Light Company, known as Ediswan.
Charles Algernon Parsons invented the steam turbine, for marine use and for power generation. He used Turbinia, a small, turbine-powered ship, to demonstrate the speed that a steam turbine could generate. Turbinia literally ran rings around the British Fleet at a review at Spithead in 1897.
William Armstrong invented a hydraulic crane that was installed in dockyards up and down the country. He then began to design light, accurate field guns for the British army. These were a vast improvement on the existing guns that were then in use.
The following major industries developed in Newcastle or its surrounding area:
Glassmaking
A small glass industry existed in Newcastle from the mid-15th century. In 1615 restrictions were put on the use of wood for manufacturing glass. It was found that glass could be manufactured using the local coal, and so a glassmaking industry grew up on Tyneside. Huguenot glassmakers came over from France as refugees from persecution and set up glasshouses in the Skinnerburn area of Newcastle. Eventually, glass production moved to the Ouseburn area of Newcastle. In 1684 the Dagnia family, Sephardic Jewish emigrants from Altare, arrived in Newcastle from Stourbridge and established glasshouses along the Close, to manufacture high quality flint glass. The glass manufacturers used sand ballast from the boats arriving in the river as the main raw material. The glassware was then exported in collier brigs. The period from 1730 to 1785 was the highpoint of Newcastle glass manufacture, when the local glassmakers produced the 'Newcastle Light Baluster'. The glassmaking industry still exists in the west end of the city with local Artist and Glassmaker Jane Charles carrying on over four hundred years of hot glass blowing in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Locomotive manufacture
In 1823 George Stephenson and his son Robert established the world's first locomotive factory near Forth Street in Newcastle. Here they built locomotives for the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, as well as many others. It was here that the famous locomotive Rocket was designed and manufactured in preparation for the Rainhill Trials. Apart from building locomotives for the British market, the Newcastle works also produced locomotives for Europe and America. The Forth Street works continued to build locomotives until 1960.
Shipbuilding
In 1296 a wooden, 135 ft (41 m) long galley was constructed at the mouth of the Lort Burn in Newcastle, as part of a twenty-ship order from the king. The ship cost £205, and is the earliest record of shipbuilding in Newcastle. However the rise of the Tyne as a shipbuilding area was due to the need for collier brigs for the coal export trade. These wooden sailing ships were usually built locally, establishing local expertise in building ships. As ships changed from wood to steel, and from sail to steam, the local shipbuilding industry changed to build the new ships. Although shipbuilding was carried out up and down both sides of the river, the two main areas for building ships in Newcastle were Elswick, to the west, and Walker, to the east. By 1800 Tyneside was the third largest producer of ships in Britain. Unfortunately, after the Second World War, lack of modernisation and competition from abroad gradually caused the local industry to decline and die.
Armaments
In 1847 William Armstrong established a huge factory in Elswick, west of Newcastle. This was initially used to produce hydraulic cranes but subsequently began also to produce guns for both the army and the navy. After the Swing Bridge was built in 1876 allowing ships to pass up river, warships could have their armaments fitted alongside the Elswick works. Armstrong's company took over its industrial rival, Joseph Whitworth of Manchester in 1897.
Steam turbines
Charles Algernon Parsons invented the steam turbine and, in 1889, founded his own company C. A. Parsons and Company in Heaton, Newcastle to make steam turbines. Shortly after this, he realised that steam turbines could be used to propel ships and, in 1897, he founded a second company, Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company in Wallsend. It is there that he designed and manufactured Turbinia. Parsons turbines were initially used in warships but soon came to be used in merchant and passenger vessels, including the liner Mauretania which held the blue riband for the Atlantic crossing until 1929. Parsons' company in Heaton began to make turbo-generators for power stations and supplied power stations all over the world. The Heaton works, reduced in size, remains as part of the Siemens AG industrial giant.
Pottery
In 1762 the Maling pottery was founded in Sunderland by French Huguenots, but transferred to Newcastle in 1817. A factory was built in the Ouseburn area of the city. The factory was rebuilt twice, finally occupying a 14-acre (57,000 m2) site that was claimed to be the biggest pottery in the world and which had its own railway station. The pottery pioneered use of machines in making potteries as opposed to hand production. In the 1890s the company went up-market and employed in-house designers. The period up to the Second World War was the most profitable with a constant stream of new designs being introduced. However, after the war, production gradually declined and the company closed in 1963.
Expansion of the city
Newcastle was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835: the reformed municipal borough included the parishes of Byker, Elswick, Heaton, Jesmond, Newcastle All Saints, Newcastle St Andrew, Newcastle St John, Newcastle St Nicholas, and Westgate. The urban districts of Benwell and Fenham and Walker were added in 1904. In 1935, Newcastle gained Kenton and parts of the parishes of West Brunton, East Denton, Fawdon, Longbenton. The most recent expansion in Newcastle's boundaries took place under the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974, when Newcastle became a metropolitan borough, also including the urban districts of Gosforth and Newburn, and the parishes of Brunswick, Dinnington, Hazlerigg, North Gosforth and Woolsington from the Castle Ward Rural District, and the village of Westerhope.
Meanwhile Northumberland County Council was formed under the Local Government Act 1888 and benefited from a dedicated meeting place when County Hall was completed in the Castle Garth area of Newcastle in 1910. Following the Local Government Act 1972 County Hall relocated to Morpeth in April 1981.
Twentieth century
In 1925 work began on a new high-level road bridge to span the Tyne Gorge between Newcastle and Gateshead. The capacity of the existing High-Level Bridge and Swing Bridge were being strained to the limit, and an additional bridge had been discussed for a long time. The contract was awarded to the Dorman Long Company and the bridge was finally opened by King George V in 1928. The road deck was 84 feet (26 m) above the river and was supported by a 531 feet (162 m) steel arch. The new Tyne Bridge quickly became a symbol for Newcastle and Tyneside, and remains so today.
During the Second World War, Newcastle was largely spared the horrors inflicted upon other British cities bombed during the Blitz. Although the armaments factories and shipyards along the River Tyne were targeted by the Luftwaffe, they largely escaped unscathed. Manors goods yard and railway terminal, to the east of the city centre, and the suburbs of Jesmond and Heaton suffered bombing during 1941. There were 141 deaths and 587 injuries, a relatively small figure compared to the casualties in other industrial centres of Britain.
In 1963 the city gained its own university, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, by act of parliament. A School of Medicine and Surgery had been established in Newcastle in 1834. This eventually developed into a college of medicine attached to Durham University. A college of physical science was also founded and became Armstrong College in 1904. In 1934 the two colleges merged to become King's College, Durham. This remained as part of Durham University until the new university was created in 1963. In 1992 the city gained its second university when Newcastle Polytechnic was granted university status as Northumbria University.
Newcastle City Council moved to the new Newcastle Civic Centre in 1968.
As heavy industries declined in the second half of the 20th century, large sections of the city centre were demolished along with many areas of slum housing. The leading political figure in the city during the 1960s was T. Dan Smith who oversaw a massive building programme of highrise housing estates and authorised the demolition of a quarter of the Georgian Grainger Town to make way for Eldon Square Shopping Centre. Smith's control in Newcastle collapsed when it was exposed that he had used public contracts to advantage himself and his business associates and for a time Newcastle became a byword for civic corruption as depicted in the films Get Carter and Stormy Monday and in the television series Our Friends in the North. However, much of the historic Grainger Town area survived and was, for the most part, fully restored in the late 1990s. Northumberland Street, initially the A1, was gradually closed to traffic from the 1970s and completely pedestrianised by 1998.
In 1978 a new rapid transport system, the Metro, was built, linking the Tyneside area. The system opened in August 1980. A new bridge was built to carry the Metro across the river between Gateshead and Newcastle. This was the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, commonly known as the Metro Bridge. Eventually the Metro system was extended to reach Newcastle Airport in 1991, and in 2002 the Metro system was extended to the nearby city of Sunderland.
As the 20th century progressed, trade on the Newcastle and Gateshead quaysides gradually declined, until by the 1980s both sides of the river were looking rather derelict. Shipping company offices had closed along with offices of firms related to shipping. There were also derelict warehouses lining the riverbank. Local government produced a master plan to re-develop the Newcastle quayside and this was begun in the 1990s. New offices, restaurants, bars and residential accommodation were built and the area has changed in the space of a few years into a vibrant area, partially returning the focus of Newcastle to the riverside, where it was in medieval times.
The Gateshead Millennium Bridge, a foot and cycle bridge, 26 feet (7.9 m) wide and 413 feet (126 m) long, was completed in 2001. The road deck is in the form of a curve and is supported by a steel arch. To allow ships to pass, the whole structure, both arch and road-deck, rotates on huge bearings at either end so that the road deck is lifted. The bridge can be said to open and shut like a human eye. It is an important addition to the re-developed quayside area, providing a vital link between the Newcastle and Gateshead quaysides.
Recent developments
Today the city is a vibrant centre for office and retail employment, but just a short distance away there are impoverished inner-city housing estates, in areas originally built to provide affordable housing for employees of the shipyards and other heavy industries that lined the River Tyne. In the 2010s Newcastle City Council began implementing plans to regenerate these depressed areas, such as those along the Ouseburn Valley.
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