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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.
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)
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).
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)
Resist the temptation to swim in the Rhine River, no matter how appealing it might seem on a hot day. While the idea of a refreshing dip might cross your mind, the reality is that the Rhine poses significant dangers that make swimming incredibly risky. It's crucial to prioritize your safety and understand why entering these waters is strongly advised against.
The primary danger of the Rhine lies in its powerful and unpredictable currents. Even experienced swimmers can be quickly overwhelmed by the sheer force of the river, which can pull you under or sweep you away in an instant. Furthermore, the Rhine is a major shipping lane, meaning large vessels constantly traverse its waters. These ships create strong undertows and waves that can disorient and endanger anyone in the water, and their immense size makes it impossible for them to stop or maneuver quickly to avoid swimmers.
Beyond the immediate dangers of currents and shipping traffic, the Rhine's water quality can also be a concern, with potential pollutants from industrial and agricultural runoff. Therefore, for your own safety and well-being, it's essential to find alternative ways to cool off and enjoy the water. Stick to designated swimming areas, public pools, or other safe recreational spots where you can swim without fear for your life.
March 07, 2023 - During a tour of Bien Hoa Air Base, USAID Administrator Samantha Power and Vietnam’s Vice-Minister of National Defense, Senior Lieutenant General Hoàng Xuân Chiến visited a bench dedicated to former U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy. Senator Leahy played a crucial role in the U.S.-Vietnam reconciliation, leading remediation efforts and prioritizing aid for war victims. The bench is inscribed with a quote from Senator Leahy: “We cannot change history, but we can build a better future.” USAID
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.
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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.
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
25 refugees from Bosnia living in tents near Annecy (France). Refugee centers are crowded and prioritize families.
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Look at the graceful slope of that back. Peabody designed this one prioritizing comfort. Check mate.
Wellington is proud to receive the Award of Merit for Worker Safety and the Excellence Award for Vehicle Safety from the Safety Council of Palm Beach County, Inc.
This is the Village's 4th consecutive year earning these distinctions, which recognize our efforts to prioritize staff safety.
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.
“...if you can just search what your friends think and prioritize it over everything else, you have a very powerful recommendation engine.” | Steve Rubel, AdAge
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).
OpenACC is a directive-based programming API (application programming interface) to program accelerators. It is used to specify and describe the parallelism in an application written in C, C++, and/or Fortran to be offloaded from a host CPU to one or more attached accelerator devices, providing portability across different types of accelerators. OpenACC is one of the of the major programming models supported on Titan and Summit, the next-generation leadership class computing system from Oak Ridge National laboratory and our main computing facility for NCCS.
The OpenACC API specification is developed and supported by the OpenACC organization which has members including vendors, academia, and research laboratories. For more information, visit www.openacc.org
This is the OpenACC 2018 annual meeting with the goal of advancing the OpenACC specification, promoting its use and implementations. It is a three day meeting which includes a day to gather OpenACC user feedback and two days for technical work toward the next release of OpenACC. We will use the discussions from the user meeting and other user feedback to prioritize the technical discussions at this meeting and subsequent activities. Some of the items we are working on include improving OpenACC memory models, usage of multiple accelerators, clarifications to existing functionality, and more.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack (left) and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx were interviewed at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Television Studio for the USDA and RFD TV on the Grow America Act in the in Washington, DC, Tue. July 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.
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.
The horizontal piles help me with things that need to be done in the mid-term, but for the things I am currently working on (usually simultaneously), I use two methods:
For meetings and work sessions I have TODAY, I put associated documents on the cube wall, so I can easily take them on my way to the wherever the gathering place is.
For documentation I'm reviewing, reading or working on, I spread over my desk next to my computer. After they are done, they are either archived or recycled. If they are delayed, they go back to the main pile (see horizontal pile image). Nothing is allowed to linger on for more than a day.
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
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
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)
Front desk surface (to my left as I work.)
Surface: Lamp, phone, current drink, planner (more on planner later).
Wall: White board with prioritized tasks, dry erase markers, and calendar.
Engage the future hub
Discovery session
The OECD’s Better Life Index engages with citizens worldwide in a debate on what matters most for people’s quality of life. What are the key ingredients for a good life– is it better education, environment, healthcare, housing or working hours? Do people in different countries prioritize some things over others? What are the priorities for the Women’s Forum community?
Speaker
Anthony Gooch, Director of Public Affairs and Communications, ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD)
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack (left) and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx were interviewed at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Television Studio for the USDA and RFD TV on the Grow America Act in the in Washington, DC, Tue. July 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.
A workshop held in Guatemala City brought together a broad group of stakeholders to refine the initial list of practices, validate the overall objectives and then evaluating the criteria of the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture (adaptation, mitigation and productivity). Photos: J.L.Urrea (CCAFS)
via If you want to be happy, be bit.ly/GJv0PE Stress Management Techniques Are Perfect Stress Busters
By Natasha A. Unzueta
Some stress is an important part of everyday life. As a consequence of being stressed we react to situations better, perform with a heightened level of awareness, access a more focussed way of thinking. But to live in a permanently stressed state is counter-productive; it is draining and bad for our long term health.Learning to prioritize is an important stress management technique. We can become habituated to instantly reacting whenever there is a request for work or help, but learning to prioritize is an important way to manage stress. Doing the most urgent tasks first helps to manage stress and pressure as it minimises the need to have people banging on the door, urgently demanding a piece of work.
Seeing things through from start to finish is important, as it can be tempting to start one piece of work, then another and have several projects on the go at once. This can apply equally at home or at work; starting to clean a room, then doing a little ironing, then the garden can result in nothing being finished and leave a dissatisfied feeling at the end of the day. If a work task has to be left part way through make sure that you make clear notes so that it can be resumed efficiently once you return.
Once you get to know the chief reason behind your stress, you can easily manage it. All you need is spend some time with yourself and family away from tedious activities of your daily life. This helps in relieving your tensions and keeps you totally relaxed. A weekend getaway or a holiday to a hill station can also be a wise option to get rid of your stress, breaking free of the shackles of social events and work pressures. An exercise regime followed regularly acts as a positive catalyst in reducing stress levels. You can also join yoga classes or seek professional help from experts who can help you out with best stress management techniques. Various programs and counseling by professionals help to eliminate all issues related to stress in an easy and reliable way.
Look at the big picture: Take perspective of the stressful situation. Ask yourself how important it will be in the long run.Have role models: Emulate people who have had success that you admire. Learn about the struggles they have had during their career paths and the techniques they used to overcome difficult times.Be more assertive: Do not take a back seat in your life. Deal with problems head on, doing your best to anticipate and prevent them. When you have got an exam to study for and your chatty room mates just got home, say up front that you only have five minutes to talk.
Practice self-hypnosis. It need only take a second or two to visit a calm place in nature, like a garden, beach, waterfall, and enjoy the sense of peace it brings, or to practice telling yourself some positive affirmations and statements. These are effective ways to manage stress, boost your inner peace and improve your self-esteem. Self hypnosis can act as a quick mini-break at times of pressure, when you're maybe needing to clear cluttered thinking and access a sense of calm, peace and clear thinking.Self-hypnosis can also provide a fast and effective way to draw a line between work and home. Some people find it hard to switch off at the end of the day. They find themselves constantly checking their phone or emails, unable to stop worrying or stressing about the latest project or task. Practice breathing techniques and self-hypnosis as an effective way of letting go of invasive thoughts and setting better habits in place.
Remind yourself to value the other areas of your life, your family, friends, hobbies and interests as well as work. By introducing stress management techniques it becomes easier to find a balance between all those different areas. You establish a better quality of life and establish a healthy work/life balance that brings satisfaction, pleasure as well as challenge and only occasional stress.
Try it right now:Relax your body and free yourself of any signs of tension. Allow your tongue and jaws to relax. Drop your shoulders away from your ears. Let your abdomen relax and become softer, freeing yourself of all tension from that part of your body. Become aware of your breathing just as it is. Inhale and take in a deep, full breath.Allow the breath to flow all the way down into the lower belly. You can imagine that there is a small balloon in the belly. As you breathe in, allow that balloon to smoothly inflate. As you breathe out, feel how the balloon easily collapses. Take in several of these measured, gentle, deep breaths.
Many people find that they can start the page with a great deal of anger reflected in their strokes. You can often see the difference from the harder, less intentional strokes of the crayon to the softer and more reserved strokes. This is visually satisfying because you can see that it is working. As you start to see the pattern of strokes from one end of the book to the other, you will notice that it takes less time for the hard strokes to soften.
If you are just learning diaphragmatic breathing, it can be helpful to begin by lying on your back with your knees bent. In this posture, it is easier to feel "soft-belly", diaphragmatic breathing. Be mindful of the feeling of the belly rising with the inhalation and falling with the exhalation. Let the breath initiate that movement.You can also put your hands on your abdomen and breathe into their warmth. Feel how the weight of the hands goes up with inhalation and drops with exhalation. A thick book resting on the abdomen will create the same sensation.
Another wonderful way to find deep belly breath is to lie face down on your belly. In this position, the only way you can breathe is diaphragmatically.Lastly, it can sometimes be useful to let yourself sigh out loud with the out-breath. Sounding is a wonderful way to let go of stress and tension.Deep, diaphragmatic, soft-belly breathing has a profound effect on the body. Just three minutes of soft-belly breathing can shift your body out of Stress Response mode into the Relaxation Response! And if you can remain in that Relaxation Response for just 20 minutes each day, you will go a long way toward offsetting the destructive effects of chronic stress on your body.
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A workshop held in Guatemala City brought together a broad group of stakeholders to refine the initial list of practices, validate the overall objectives and then evaluating the criteria of the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture (adaptation, mitigation and productivity). Photos: J.L.Urrea (CCAFS)
We are on a day flight (11 hours) from Sydney to Shanghai and I have learned the hard way that Karam's toys, though bulky and heavy, hardly keep him entertained on planes. So I re-organize and re-prioritize, the whole time reminding myself that the more I take from here, the less I can shop and
CSAIP Validation Workshop - Follows the inception and prioritization workshops held in May 2022 to prioritize 8 investment areas cutting across the fisheries, aquaculture and blue economy, livestock, crop, and cooperative sectors. The main objective of the validation workshop was to present the methodology, results, review and validate the findings to inform the final report. November 22nd, 2022.
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“A slender and restricted diet is always dangerous not only in chronic
diseases but also in acute diseases.” Hippoctates 400B.C. Nutrition support
in critically ill is obligatory and least prioritized till date in this part of world. But
there has been a revolutionary change across the globe in last few years
since nutrition care is an essential and integral part of first line ICU protocol.
Nutrition care in the ICU presents several challenges because the usual
control mechanisms such as hunger and thirst may be missing. Despite the
huge body of evidence that Nutrition support is essential in ICU we face lots
of impediments to provide early and optimal Nutrition support. Throughout
ICU course patients and attending doctors faces cascades of challenges which more complicates the already fragile issues relating demands Vs. supply. Now a days it is not
uncommon to encounter patients who spend days and months in ICU struggling multidisciplinary
approaches. Most of well designed studies have suggested that both under and over feedings are
dangerous in critically ill hence the need to develop nutrition care plan which should be dynamic and
flexible enough to take care of all subsequent challenges.
Nutrition screening and assessment
The first step in providing appropriate nutrition therapy is to identify patients at risk and diagnose
nutritional problems. Nutritional screening and assessment are fundamental to an effective nutrition
therapy program. These should be routinely undertaken by appropriately trained and skilled nutrition
specialist. Screening and assessment have similar goals: to identify patients at risk of malnutrition or
patients who are malnourished. The first step in identifying risk factors for malnutrition is to observe
and interview patients. Questions that are commonly asked during screening should be easy and
include information about body weight changes within a given time frame and amount of oral intake .
By consensus and validations there is an urgent need to roll down our own assessment tool with an
Indian perspective.
Nutrition support
There are lots of myths about Nutrition support in ICU such as bowel sounds are absent , large
gastric residuals , diarrhea , proteins are restricted in ARF and so on. There are plenty of unmet
needs and there is an urgent need to change the dogmatic picture. Many a times critically ill patients
receive even less than half of the actual caloric needs.
Since there is no true biomarker of adequacy of nutritional status we solely rely on tools and
clinical skills. There is no doubt that starvations is bad for both community dwellers and critically
ill patients.Even well nourished critically ill patients passes through cascades of metabolic and
immunological events which ultimately affects host defense and both short and long term
outcome.
“ We can’t solve problems by using same kind of thinking we used them when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein
A workshop held in Guatemala City brought together a broad group of stakeholders to refine the initial list of practices, validate the overall objectives and then evaluating the criteria of the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture (adaptation, mitigation and productivity). Photos: J.L.Urrea (CCAFS)
Workers preparing to demonstrate use of Italian-made Cifarelli back-pack misting equipment used for forest caterpillar control. Bulgan Province, Mongolia.
Photo and caption provided by forest entomologist Karen Ripley. In June, 2017, she made a rapid assessment of Mongolia’s forest health surveys, site prioritization, and pest control activities that protect its forests from native defoliating insects. This evaluation was sponsored by the United Nations’ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation program.
Photo by: Karen Ripley
Date: June 10, 2017
For more about Forest Health Protection's International Activities see: www.fs.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsinternet/cs/main/!ut/p/z1/04...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
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)
"The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial built in Washington, D.C. between 1939 and 1943 in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, a central intellectual force behind the American Revolution, founder of the Democratic-Republican Party, and the nation's third president.
The Jefferson Memorial features multiple Jefferson quotes designed to capture Jefferson's ideology and philosophy, known as Jeffersonian democracy, which was staunchly supportive of American republicanism, individual rights, religious freedom, states' rights, and virtue and prioritized and valued what he saw as the undervalued independent yeoman. Jefferson was simultaneously deeply skeptical of cities and financiers and hostile to aristocracy, elitism, and corruption. He is widely considered among the most influential political minds of his age and one of the most consequential intellectual forces behind the American Revolution.
The Jefferson Memorial is built in neoclassical style and is situated in West Potomac Park on the shore of the Potomac River. It was designed by John Russell Pope, a New York City architect, and built by Philadelphia contractor John McShain. Construction on it began in 1939 and was completed in 1943, though the bronze statue of Jefferson was not completed and added until four years after its dedication and opening, in 1947. Pope made references to the Roman Pantheon, whose designer was Apollodorus of Damascus, and to Jefferson's own design for the rotunda at the University of Virginia as inspirations for the memorial's aesthetics.
The Jefferson Memorial and White House form a main anchor point to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Washington Monument, initially intended to be built at the intersection of the White House and the Jefferson Memorial's site, was ultimately built further east because the ground at that location was deemed too soft and swampy.
The Jefferson Memorial is a designated national memorial and is managed by the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Mall and Memorial Parks division. In 1966, the Jefferson Memorial was named to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2007, it ranked fourth on the "list of America's favorite architecture", published by the American Institute of Architects.
The National Mall is a landscaped park near the downtown area of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States, and contains and borders a number of museums of the Smithsonian Institution, art galleries, cultural institutions, and various memorials, sculptures, and statues. It is administered by the National Park Service (NPS) of the United States Department of the Interior as part of the National Mall and Memorial Parks unit of the National Park System. The park receives approximately 24 million visitors each year.
The core area of the National Mall extends between the United States Capitol grounds to the east and the Washington Monument to the west and is lined to the north and south by several museums and a federal office building. The term National Mall may also include areas that are also officially part of neighboring West Potomac Park to the south and west and Constitution Gardens to the north, extending to the Lincoln Memorial on the west and Jefferson Memorial to the south.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia, also known as just Washington or simply D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. It is located on the east bank of the Potomac River, which forms its southwestern and southern border with the U.S. state of Virginia, and it shares a land border with the U.S. state of Maryland on its other sides. The city was named for George Washington, a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, and the federal district is named after Columbia, the female personification of the nation. As the seat of the U.S. federal government and several international organizations, the city is an important world political capital. It is one of the most visited cities in the U.S. with over 20 million annual visitors as of 2016.
The U.S. Constitution provides for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress; the district is not a part of any U.S. state (nor is it one itself). The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of the capital district located along the Potomac River near the country's East Coast. The City of Washington was founded in 1791, and Congress held its first session there in 1800. In 1801, the territory, formerly part of Maryland and Virginia (including the settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria), officially became recognized as the federal district. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia, including the city of Alexandria; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the district. There have been efforts to make the city into a state since the 1880s, a movement that has gained momentum in recent years, and a statehood bill passed the House of Representatives in 2021.
The city is divided into quadrants centered on the Capitol, and there are as many as 131 neighborhoods. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 689,545, which makes it the 23rd most populous city in the U.S. as of 2020, the third most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and gives it a population larger than that of two U.S. states: Wyoming and Vermont. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area, the country's sixth largest (including parts of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia), had a 2020 estimated population of 6.3 million residents; and over 54 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of the District.
The three branches of the U.S. federal government are centered in the district: Congress (legislative), the president (executive), and the Supreme Court (judicial). Washington is home to many national monuments and museums, primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 177 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations, trade unions, non-profits, lobbying groups, and professional associations, including the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization of American States, AARP, the National Geographic Society, the American Red Cross, and others.
A locally elected mayor and a 13-member council have governed the district since 1973. Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. The District of Columbia does not have representation in Congress, although D.C. residents elect a single at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives who has no vote. District voters choose three presidential electors in accordance with the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
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Nurses Across Country to Hold National Day of Action July 21 to Demand Patient, Nurse Protections
The pandemic is not over; employers must address serious safety issues, say nurses
Registered nurse members of National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union and professional association of RNs in the country, will hold a national day of action on Wednesday, July 21, to demand that employers address problems highlighted by the Covid-19 pandemic and prioritize patient safety and workplace protections.
Tens of thousands of NNU registered nurses are in the process of bargaining contracts that govern safe patient care conditions and their own workplace safety. RNs say it is crucial to win these protections in writing because employers have proven during the pandemic that they will continue to prioritize the bottom line over occupational and public health and safety. To date, more than 400 RNs have died of Covid.
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Dr. Amina, Paktika Provincial Council member, discusses projects and programs during the provincial development plan review and validation shura in Sharana June 1. Amina showed great initiative in planning for the future of Paktika’s women. Paktika’s government directors attended a two-day event in which government officials prioritized goals and identified the most critical needs of the province. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ashley N. Avecilla)
The Maserati 250F is a symbol of 1950s motorsport, encapsulating the era's elegance and ambition. Unveiled to capitalize on the 1954 Formula 1 regulation changes, the 250F featured a tubular space frame. This deceptively simple design, prioritized balance and agility, making it a formidable contender on the racetrack for several years, not only for privateers, but also professionals. It's success culminated in the 5th and last F1 World Champion title for Juan-Manuel Fangio in 1957.
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A workshop held in Guatemala City brought together a broad group of stakeholders to refine the initial list of practices, validate the overall objectives and then evaluating the criteria of the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture (adaptation, mitigation and productivity). Photos: J.L.Urrea (CCAFS)
The transformation needed in the agriculture sector to address climate change requires the identification of climate-smart, context specific and investment-ready opportunities for farmers, investors and policy makers.
Speakers and participants at the CSA Investment Advantage event, part of the Agriculture Advantage 2.0 event series at COP24, discussed practical and cutting-edge techniques for prioritizing CSA practices and technologies for investment.
Photo: Ratih Septivita (CCAFS)
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)
Farmers in Mbarali – Rujewa rank the different indicators that they use to prioritize climate smart agriculture practices. Photo: Kelvin Shikuku and Caroline Mwongera.
While the Dominican Republic generates a relatively low volume of radioactive waste, it has prioritized their safe and secure treatment. Any disused radioactive source identified in the country is transported, characterized, classified, conditioned and stored in a centralized facility built in 2010 in Sierra Prieta, outside the capital Santo Domingo.
Around 170 sources from applications in hospitals and industry as well as so-called orphan sources — radioactive sources that are lost and then found again — detected in scrap metal industries have found a home in the facility. Some are high-activity sources, meaning they emit high levels of radiation, such as those used in radiotherapy to treat cancer. Others are low-activity sources, such as those used for industrial and research applications. Other disused sources come from mining, agriculture and construction.
The facility is equipped with radiation detectors provided by the IAEA. A team of professional staff trained under IAEA technical cooperation projects is in charge of the operation, maintenance and regular inspection of the storage facility.
Sierra Prieta, Dominican Republic. October 2016
Photo Credit: Laura Gil-Martinez / IAEA
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While the Dominican Republic generates a relatively low volume of radioactive waste, it has prioritized their safe and secure treatment. Any disused radioactive source identified in the country is transported, characterized, classified, conditioned and stored in a centralized facility built in 2010 in Sierra Prieta, outside the capital Santo Domingo.
Around 170 sources from applications in hospitals and industry as well as so-called orphan sources — radioactive sources that are lost and then found again — detected in scrap metal industries have found a home in the facility. Some are high-activity sources, meaning they emit high levels of radiation, such as those used in radiotherapy to treat cancer. Others are low-activity sources, such as those used for industrial and research applications. Other disused sources come from mining, agriculture and construction.
The facility is equipped with radiation detectors provided by the IAEA. A team of professional staff trained under IAEA technical cooperation projects is in charge of the operation, maintenance and regular inspection of the storage facility.
Sierra Prieta, Dominican Republic. October 2016
Photo Credit: Laura Gil-Martinez / IAEA