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Faiz ul Mawaid al Burhani is a system in our Dawoodi Bohra Community, where every single home is delivered a tiffin (a meal)
called a “thali”. The system is built in such a way that the menu for each home in a particular sector is the same, a sign of unity
where no one is prioritized according to their wealth. The tiffin for me is a symbol of “Zero Hunger”.
Division " Sculpture"
Thousands of Nurses Hold National Day of Action Aug. 5 to Save Lives During COVID-19 and Beyond
As firsthand witnesses and actual victims during this COVID-19 crisis of a health care and economic system that prioritizes money over people, registered nurse members of National Nurses United (NNU) held on Aug. 5 more than 200 actions inside and outside hospital facilities in at least 16 states and the District of Columbia to demand that our elected leaders, government, and hospital employers take immediate action to save lives.
#ProtectPatients
#SaveLives
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf answers questions from the press. As the General Assembly convenes for a new legislative session, Governor Tom Wolf today outlined his agenda, in which he continues to prioritize ensuring that Pennsylvania businesses and workers have a path toward recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic, building on bipartisan progress by removing barriers to help everyday Pennsylvanians succeed, and demanding accountability through government reform. Harrisburg, PA – January 28, 2021
Sorting ideas into these four buckets helps prioritize them at a high level.
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Thousands of Nurses Hold National Day of Action Aug. 5 to Save Lives During COVID-19 and Beyond
As firsthand witnesses and actual victims during this COVID-19 crisis of a health care and economic system that prioritizes money over people, registered nurse members of National Nurses United (NNU) held on Aug. 5 more than 200 actions inside and outside hospital facilities in at least 16 states and the District of Columbia to demand that our elected leaders, government, and hospital employers take immediate action to save lives.
#ProtectNurses
#SaveLives
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf answers questions from the press. As the General Assembly convenes for a new legislative session, Governor Tom Wolf today outlined his agenda, in which he continues to prioritize ensuring that Pennsylvania businesses and workers have a path toward recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic, building on bipartisan progress by removing barriers to help everyday Pennsylvanians succeed, and demanding accountability through government reform. Harrisburg, PA – January 28, 2021
Iraq officials trained in assessing oil contaminated sites from the ISIL conflict
•UN Environment conducts a five-day training workshop for 26 national experts from Iraq’s ministries of environment and oil.
•Workshop strengthens national capacity to assess and clean-up oil-contaminated sites from the conflict in Iraq.
•Joint team of trained staff to carry out field-survey of oil contaminated sites after which UN Environment will review survey findings and provide guidance on site prioritization process.
Baghdad, 27 September 2018 –In Iraq’s post-conflict period, characterized by extensive destruction of infrastructure and looting - from oil resources to archaeological artefacts - by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), UN Environment conducted a five-day training workshop on oil-contaminated site assessment in Baghdad from 23-27 September 2018.
The workshop trained 26 national experts from the ministries of environment and oil on practical aspects of oil-contaminated site assessment, with a focus on sampling strategies and techniques. At the end of the event, a package comprising portable oil-contamination analysers and sampling tools, as well as personnel protective equipment was handed over to the Environment Ministry to support the assessment campaign.
“I cannot overstate the need to strengthen the capacity of our environmental experts in assessing contaminated sites and oil activities, and to develop pollution monitoring programmes which represents not only a threat to local communities, but whose impacts will also extend for generations to come’” said Dr. Jassim Humadi, Iraq’s Deputy Environment Minister.
“During the past few years, Iraq has undergone a transformative leap in its oil production driven by large investments. This poses a major capacity challenge for environmental staff to monitor and oversee the industry’s performance, assess the current situation and extrapolate future projections.”
As an immediate follow-up to the workshop, a preliminary field-based mapping survey of oil-contaminated sites in the four conflict-affected governorates (Nineveh, Salah El-Deen, Kirkuk and Diyala) will be conducted by a joint team from Iraq’s ministries of environment and oil in October-November 2018. The survey will aim to identify priority sites for cleanup that pose a serious risk to human health and the environment.
UN Environment is guiding this mapping campaign through the provision of assessment protocols and an initial inventory of around 60 oil-contaminated sites, including satellite image maps. UN Environment will also review the survey findings and provide guidance to the site prioritization process and conducting of detailed assessments.
“We commend UN Environment’s contaminated site assessment training programme, which is assisting environmental institutions in Iraq to fulfill their responsibility in achieving environmental security in accordance with the objectives of sustainable development to protect the environment and the public health of citizens,” added Dr. Jassim.
This is the second training course on contaminated site assessment which UN Environment has held in Baghdad this year to support Iraqi institutions address conflict pollution from the ISIL conflict. The training programme is generously supported by Norway’s Oil for Development Programme and conducted in collaboration with Spiez Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection and ALS Global Laboratory in the United Kingdom.
NOTES TO EDITORS
About UN Environment
UN Environment is the leading global voice on the environment. It provides leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. UN Environment works with governments, the private sector, civil society and with other UN entities and international organizations across the world.
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Africa tries to end vaccine inequity by replicating its own
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world’s poorest people.
The energy in the gleaming labs matches the urgency of their mission to narrow vaccine disparities. By working to replicate Moderna’s COVID-19 shot, the scientists are effectively making an end run around an industry that has vastly prioritized rich countries over poor in both sales and manufacturing.
And they are doing it with unusual backing from the World Health Organization, which is coordinating a vaccine research, training and production hub in South Africa along with a related supply chain for critical raw materials. It’s a last-resort effort to make doses for people going without, and the intellectual property implications are still murky.
“We are doing this for Africa at this moment, and that drives us,” said Emile Hendricks, a 22-year-old biotechnologist for Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, the company trying to reproduce the Moderna shot. “We can no longer rely on these big superpowers to come in and save us.”
Some experts see reverse engineering — recreating vaccines from fragments of publicly available information — as one of the few remaining ways to redress the power imbalances of the pandemic. Only 0.7% of vaccines have gone to low-income countries so far, while nearly half have gone to wealthy countries, according to an analysis by the People’s Vaccine Alliance.
That WHO, which relies upon the goodwill of wealthy countries and the pharmaceutical industry for its continued existence, is leading the attempt to reproduce a proprietary vaccine demonstrates the depths of the supply disparities.
The U.N.-backed effort to even out global vaccine distribution, known as COVAX, has failed to alleviate dire shortages in poor countries. Donated doses are coming in at a fraction of what is needed to fill the gap. Meanwhile, pressure for drug companies to share, including Biden administration demands on Moderna, has led nowhere.
Until now, WHO has never directly taken part in replicating a novel vaccine for current global use over the objections of the original developers. The Cape Town hub is intended to expand access to the novel messenger RNA technology that Moderna, as well as Pfizer and German partner BioNTech, used in their vaccines.
“This is the first time we’re doing it to this level, because of the urgency and also because of the novelty of this technology,” said Martin Friede, a WHO vaccine research coordinator who is helping direct the hub.
Dr. Tom Frieden, the former head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has described the world as “being held hostage” by Moderna and Pfizer, whose vaccines are considered the most effective against COVID-19. The novel mRNA process uses the genetic code for the spike protein of the coronavirus and is thought to trigger a better immune response than traditional vaccines.
Arguing that American taxpayers largely funded Moderna’s vaccine development, the Biden administration has insisted the company must expand production to help supply developing nations. The global shortfall through 2022 is estimated at 500 million and 4 billion doses, depending on how many other vaccines come on the market.
“The United States government has played a very substantial role in making Moderna the company it is,” said David Kessler, the head of Operation Warp Speed, the U.S. program to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine development.
Kessler would not say how far the administration would go in pressing the company. “They understand what we expect to happen,” he said.
Moderna has pledged to build a vaccine factory in Africa at some point in the future. But after pleading with drugmakers to share their recipes, raw materials and technological know-how, some poorer countries are done waiting.
Afrigen Managing Director Petro Terblanche said the Cape Town company is aiming to have a version of the Moderna vaccine ready for testing in people within a year and scaled up for commercial production not long after.
“We have a lot of competition coming from Big Pharma. They don’t want to see us succeed,” Terblanche said. “They are already starting to say that we don’t have the capability to do this. We are going to show them.”
If the team in South Africa succeeds in making a version of Moderna’s vaccine, the information will be publicly released for use by others, Terblanche said. Such sharing is closer to an approach U.S. President Joe Biden championed in the spring and the pharmaceutical industry strongly opposes.
Commercial production is the point at which intellectual property could become an issue. Moderna has said it would not pursue legal action against a company for infringing on its vaccine rights, but neither has it offered to help companies that have volunteered to make its mRNA shot.
Chairman Noubar Afeyan said Moderna determined it would be better to expand production itself than to share technology and plans to deliver billions of additional doses next year.
“Within the next six to nine months, the most reliable way to make high-quality vaccines and in an efficient way is going to be if we make them,” Afeyan said.
Zoltan Kis, an expert in messenger RNA vaccines at Britain’s University of Sheffield, said reproducing Moderna’s vaccine is “doable” but the task would be far easier if the company shared its expertise. Kis estimated the process involves fewer than a dozen major steps. But certain procedures are tricky, such as sealing the fragile messenger RNA in lipid nanoparticles, he said.
“It’s like a very complicated cooking recipe,” he said. “Having the recipe would be very, very helpful, and it would also help if someone could show you how to do it.”
A U.N.-backed public health organization still hopes to persuade Moderna that its approach to providing vaccines for poorer countries misses the mark. Formed in 2010, the Medicines Patent Pool initially focused on convincing pharmaceutical companies to share patents for AIDS drugs.
“It’s not about outsiders helping Africa,” Executive Director Charles Gore said of the South Africa vaccine hub. “Africa wants to be empowered, and that’s what this is about.”
It will eventually fall to Gore to try to resolve the intellectual property question. Work to recreate Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is protected as research, so a potential dispute would surround steps to sell a replicated version commercially, he said.
“It’s about persuading Moderna to work with us rather than using other methods,” Gore said.
He said the Medicines Patent Pool repeatedly tried but failed to convince Pfizer and BioNTech to even discuss sharing their formulas.
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, who is among the members of Congress backing a bill that calls on the United States to invest more in making and distributing COVID-19 vaccines in low- and middle-income countries, said reverse engineering isn’t going to happen fast enough to keep the virus from mutating and spreading further.
“We need to show some hustle. We have to show a sense of urgency, and I’m not seeing that urgency,” he said. “Either we end this pandemic or we muddle our way through.”
Campaigners argue the meager amount of vaccines available to poorer countries through donations, COVAX and purchases suggests the Western-dominated pharmaceutical industry is broken.
“The enemy to these corporations is losing their potential profit down the line,” Joia Mukherjee, chief medical officer of the global health nonprofit Partners in Health, said. “The enemy isn’t the virus, the enemy isn’t suffering.”
Back in Cape Town, the promise of using mRNA technology against other diseases motivates the young scientists.
“The excitement is around learning how we harness mRNA technology to develop a COVID-19 vaccine,” Caryn Fenner, Afrigen’s technical director, said. But more important, Fenner said, “is not only using the mRNA platform for COVID, but for beyond COVID.”
The Africa Youth Conference 2018- Unleashing the Potential of Youth: Prioritizing investment in Africa Youth within the Post-2015 Agenda- Organized by the UN Family in Kenya (UN Women, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Environment, UNIC Nairobi) and with Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) and YMCA Africa Alliance, gathered youth champions from all corners of Africa will gather, from 23 to 25 October 2018, in Nairobi- Kenya, to discuss the challenges of today’s time, including: how to enhance youth access to sustainable livelihoods through social entrepreneurship; youth engagement in governance/political participation leadership and decision making, with a focus on ensuring active participation and decision making by young women; youth action in preventing violence and other harmful practice against young women and girls; and showcasing and documenting youth-led social innovation addressing development challenges facing youth in Africa.
UNESCO brought on board 11 young champions- young engineers, innovators and educators- from 11 countries- Côte D’Ivoire, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda- to engage in conversations and make their voices and their needs heard, for the Africa they want, tackling both the 7 Aspirations of Agenda 2063 and the United Nations Agenda 2030.
In addition, a panel moderated by UNESCO on United Nations Day, 24 October 2018, from 9 to 10.30 am, looked at opportunities and challenges for youth employment, by creating the pathway for success in Youth Led Enterprise and Business in industry, with founders of social business from Egypt, Nigeria and Uganda.
Today, National Nurses United (NNU), along with a broader coalition of pro-Medicare for All organizations rallied outside of the national headquarters of PhRMA in support of Medicare for All. Hundreds of nurses, patients and supporters organized outside of the company’s front doors with chants and stories of how PhRMA’s focus on profits has caused hardships for many people.
“We have seen patients rationing their insulin to stay alive and families who can’t afford the medications their children need for treating leukemia. Families have to choose between facing homelessness or caring for their children,” said NNU Executive Director Bonnie Castillo, RN. “Drug companies know this, and still choose to prioritize profits over people. This is why we need Medicare for All, to protect patients from the abuses of Big Pharma.”
The rally culminated with a powerful action where nurses used Band-Aids to paste large print outs of various GoFundMe pages that people had set up to crowdsource medications and medical procedures
“Every day, we nurses see the painful toll our current for-profit health insurance system is taking on our patients. Expenses are so crippling that even people ‘with insurance’ have to set up GoFundMe campaigns in order to afford life-saving procedures – this is unacceptable,” said NNU President Zenei Cortez, RN. “The only groups opposed to Medicare for All are the ones profiting off of the status quo – insurance companies, Big Pharma, and the lobbyists who carry out their agenda.”
Nurses have led the grassroots movement for Medicare for All for decades, and have launched an unprecedented, national grassroots movement in support of this legislation, which includes thousands of canvasses and phone banks in every state across the country. H.R. 1384 will be taken up for a hearing in the House Rules Committee tomorrow – the first full committee hearing on Medicare for All -- and NNU will be on Capitol Hill to advocate in support of the bill and to mark this historic first step towards health care justice.
#MedicareForAll
Photo Credit: Jaclyn Higgs, National Nurses United, 2019
Siobahn Young of the University of Deleware talks about prioritizing math content in courses for elementary preservice teachers during a session at the 2017 NCTM Research Conference.
Coast Guardsmen and Customs and Border Protection agents discuss operations in St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 11, 2017. The interagency team prioritized and tasked flight requests in south Florida in response to Hurricane Irma . U.S. Coast Guard photo.
The Government of Azerbaijan and United Nations launched the formulation of the joint strategic partnership framework for the next five years.
The Ministry of Economy and Industry hosted the launch of the joint consultation process, which brought together senior government officials, development partners, representatives from the private sector and civil society to identify the broad priority areas for the cooperation between the UN system and the Government. The prospective collaboration framework will be aligned with the national priorities that are articulated in ‘Azerbaijan: Vision 2020’ development concept, which builds on the country’s latest socio-economic achievements and provides a framework for its transition from a traditional economy to a knowledge-based, competitive and diversified economy.
The new strategy will support the agreed international goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda, a new framework for sustainable development, reaffirming the mutual commitment of the Government of Azerbaijan and United Nations to further deepen partnership and continue working in a concerted and effective manner. It will constitute a robust mechanism to foster coherence, relevance, effectiveness and efficiency within the UN system, and will give a significant attention to achieving results, with a focus on strengthening national Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) capacity and deepening the integration of M&E into national development planning process.
On behalf of the Government of Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Economy and Industry will further co-lead the process of the preparation of the next partnership strategy until the end of August together with the United Nations and in consultation with all government and international partners. The strategic directions and expected results of the next partnership framework will be validated tentatively by end-September and endorsed by the Government by December 2014.
Thousands of Nurses Hold National Day of Action Aug. 5 to Save Lives During COVID-19 and Beyond
As firsthand witnesses and actual victims during this COVID-19 crisis of a health care and economic system that prioritizes money over people, registered nurse members of National Nurses United (NNU) held on Aug. 5 more than 200 actions inside and outside hospital facilities in at least 16 states and the District of Columbia to demand that our elected leaders, government, and hospital employers take immediate action to save lives.
#ProtectNurses
#SaveLives
Food has been prioritized by humanitarian organizations as a critical need in the relief phase of flood response.
You sure should be. Focusing on one, important item at a time will make you more competent and productive.
What are you doing while you read this? Are you dipping into your email while texting, reading tweets and partly listening at a meeting? Do you have your mobile phone, a desk phone, a...
My piece, "Empotty" is about how the prioritization of public washrooms is as much about empathy for others as much as it is about the washroom itself. This poem explores how community members can seek refuge in washrooms, and feel as though it is a space of their own when they are outside. It stresses the fact that to urinate/defecate with privacy and respect is a human right, and that public washrooms can have many more uses that we may not realize. "Empotty" speaks to the notion that doing things for the benefit of the community serves us all.
Thousands of Nurses Hold National Day of Action Aug. 5 to Save Lives During COVID-19 and Beyond
As firsthand witnesses and actual victims during this COVID-19 crisis of a health care and economic system that prioritizes money over people, registered nurse members of National Nurses United (NNU) held on Aug. 5 more than 200 actions inside and outside hospital facilities in at least 16 states and the District of Columbia to demand that our elected leaders, government, and hospital employers take immediate action to save lives.
#ProtectNurses
#SaveLives
Designed and built by the massive Obrez Corporation under contract from the Independent Systems Alliance, the Mako-Class is a fast pursuit cruiser, prioritizing speed and firepower over armour and flexibility. Makos are highly automated, with only a small bridge crew and essential systems' specialists. This reduces cost but also mission capability. Any Mako damaged even slightly needs to find a shipyard or wait for mobile repair platforms to effectuate repairs.
Makos, with a dozen heavy laser cannons and multiple missile silos are equipped with tremendous offensive capacity, supplemented by a small complement of assault bots. These last are very popular with pirates in the Flagian Sector, who are loathe to risk their own skins in boarding actions. As to how pirates came to be equipped with a military-grade vessel, Obrez Corp. also sells to "private entities".
Makos are used to patrol the ISA's borders and police their systems. They are very useful as orbital bombardment platforms. The Rebellion of Planet 3361 (known to locals as Tribune) was brutally crushed by shelling from six Mako boats, later increased to twelve when the ISS Will of Iron was destroyed by a hijacked ground-based planetary defence cannon.
This ship class has seen a lot of action in the frequent clashes between the ISA and the Sol System Union. Their performance against enemy warships was deemed lackluster, and the process to replace them with the Percheron-Class Cruiser was started in 2325.
Nurses hold national day of action Jan. 13 to demand employers, Biden administration protect RNs, health care workers
Registered nurse members of National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest union of RNs, hold actions across the country on Thursday, Jan. 13 — including a candlelight vigil in Washington, D.C. for nurses who lost their lives to Covid-19, and a national virtual press conference — to demand the hospital industry invest in safe staffing, and to demand that President Biden follow through on his campaign promise to protect nurses and prioritize public health.
NNU nurses emphasize that in recent weeks, the Biden administration has ripped away critical protections from health care workers and the public, with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) weakening Covid isolation guidelines and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announcing that it intends to withdraw critical Covid protections for health care workers—right when the Omicron variant is exploding across the country and hospitalizations are skyrocketing. Nurses emphasize that being left unprotected by the government and by their profit-driven hospital employers which have failed to invest in safe staffing and provide critical health and safety protections, has created such unsafe working conditions that nurses are being driven away from the profession.
#ProtectNurses
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf answers questions from the press. As the General Assembly convenes for a new legislative session, Governor Tom Wolf today outlined his agenda, in which he continues to prioritize ensuring that Pennsylvania businesses and workers have a path toward recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic, building on bipartisan progress by removing barriers to help everyday Pennsylvanians succeed, and demanding accountability through government reform. Harrisburg, PA – January 28, 2021
this may not make sense to anyone else, maybe it does...but it definitely answers some questions i've been asking myself....i need to stop SLACKING!!!
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~ Heritage conservation I – Movement from intensive economic development to an increased focus in preservation of individual historic landmarks. (Done By: Peh Chu Ming)
What does this picture show?
An ancient temple in Singapore’s Central Business District (CBD)
“The imperatives of a rapidly developing economy dictated the planning agenda” – A line from “A Development City State” by Martin Perry, Lily Kong and Brenda Yeoh.
Indeed, during the mid 1970s, urban conservation was not emphasized upon because of the need to prioritize development back then (Note: Singapore was still a developing country back then!) as a means to propel Singapore to first world status. Urban conservation took on a less visible profile in the government’s plans for the city’s development. The hint of a shift in policy only occurred in 1976 when the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) initiated area-wide studies for conservation opportunities.
The first few urban conservation efforts made by Singapore can be observed in this picture – the conservation of individual cultural or historic landmarks. In the mid 1980s, urban conservation efforts grew in numbers as seen in the government’s increasing interest to save buildings of rich historical backgrounds and heritage and also the realization of policies that were specially directed at the preservation of individual landmarks such as the ancient temple shown in the picture. This was seen as a “token concession” to the importance of conserving the city’s ‘roots’.
Extending the scenario depicted in the picture to other areas of the CBD, traces of conservation efforts as such (preservation of INDIVIDUAL historical landmarks and historically significant buildings) can be observed as well. For example, on the North bank of the Singapore River, various architecturally and historically significant buildings such as the Supreme Court, National Museum and Victoria Theatre are preserved because it is believed that such buildings are ‘valuable collections’ of Singapore’s history during the former colonial times. Similar to the conservation of large civic and cultural districts (e.g. stretches of shophouses that have evolved to be involved in the commercial sector – to be discussed in the next picture! - ), such preservation efforts have too established and enhanced the distinctive qualities of the area as a historical hub of the city. The adaptive reuse of such old buildings can be compared to the new use of traditional shophouses as commercial areas. Both cases show how conserved old buildings can be integrated into the modern landscape and more importantly, how they can be used to help the various commercial establishments now by acting as a ‘retail magnet’.
Apart from the various urban conservation efforts, efforts to IMITATE olden day buildings have too become increasingly ubiquitous as well. For example, the architectural façade of the Raffles Place MRT station is specially built to resemble buildings that originated from the former colonial times. So the question now is: why are such efforts made? Firstly, such features that reveal certain distinctive qualities of the city’s history actually help to enhance the special function of the district as the historical hub of the city. It revitalizes the district as a key cultural and retail magnet of the city.
All in all, the government’s focus on urban conservation has indeed shifted from the 1970s to 1980s. This short commentary reflects the first urban conservation efforts taken by the government – the preservation of individual landmarks and buildings. The next commentary will touch on a closely related form of urban conservation – the conservation of larger cultural districts.
Sanu Maya Bajracharya, 70, clears debris of and in front of her home.
A key post-earthquake response long prioritized by the Government of Nepal was debris collection and management. This effort is particularly crucial in the worst-affected districts where over 90 percent of the buildings have collapsed. In 2013, to help the Government plan for swift clearance of debris after an earthquake, USAID supported the IOM to work with the Government to develop a debris management plan. This plan pre-identified nine sites for rubble disposal in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital.
In January 2015, the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development formally took ownership of the plan, which provides organizational structure and standardized guidelines for the clearance, removal, staging, reduction, recycling, processing, and disposal of post-earthquake debris in an environmentally responsible manner.
Trump has prioritized environmental rollbacks and fossil fuel extraction on public lands since he took office. Our Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee met on March 12 for answers on the opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development, the weakening of methane and fracking regulations, and the rollback of Obama-era land use planning standards.
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
Doug and Mary Stange are passionate about wildlife and implementing conservation practices to prioritize wildlife habitat on their ranch. Photo taken June 17, 2019 at the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch in Carter County, Montana.
The Hill’s Kim Dixon, Cynthia Zagieboylo, President and CEO, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Patrick Geraghty, CEO, GuideWell and Florida Blue, Liz Fowler, Vice President, Global Health Policy, Johnson & Johnson, and Pamela Sutton-Wallace, Chief Executive Officer, University of Virginia Medical Center participate in a panel discussion 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.
Thousands of Nurses Hold National Day of Action Aug. 5 to Save Lives During COVID-19 and Beyond
As firsthand witnesses and actual victims during this COVID-19 crisis of a health care and economic system that prioritizes money over people, registered nurse members of National Nurses United (NNU) held on Aug. 5 more than 200 actions inside and outside hospital facilities in at least 16 states and the District of Columbia to demand that our elected leaders, government, and hospital employers take immediate action to save lives.
#ProtectNurses
#SaveLives
At 9:02 PM on Tuesday, December 23, 2025, The Los Angeles City Fire Department (LAFD) responded to multiple reports of a structure fire in the 1600 block of South Pacific Avenue, San Pedro. Upon arrival, firefighters encountered heavy fire venting through the roof of a single-story commercial structure. Firefighters immediately launched an interior, offensive attack. However, as the fire grew in intensity and the structural integrity of the roof became compromised, the Incident Commander ordered the transition to a defensive operation. This move prioritized firefighter safety, using ladder pipes and heavy stream hand lines to "drown" the fire from the exterior.
As a thick smoke plume drifted toward an adjacent apartment building, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers conducted door-to-door notifications, advising residents to"shelter-in-place" for their safety.
In a strategic maneuver late in the operation, crews briefly returned to an offensive posture once the bulk of the fire was suppressed. This allowed firefighters to penetrate the interior, reach isolated pockets of fire in hard-to-access areas, and push the fire towards the center of the building for final extinguishment from a safe defensive position.
Incident Commander, Assistant Chief Paul Pham, officially declared knockdown at 11:02pm, exactly two hours after initial dispatch. There were no reported injuries to firefighters or civilians.
During the overhaul process, fire continued to burn within isolated pockets along the roof in the auto repair / sales business. Firefighters performed a dual role mission, while some crews chased down the fire, others obtained keys to the cars remaining inside to move and protect them from smoke and water damage.
The fire heavily damaged "The Bike Palace," where at least 30 lithium-ion batteries were located. These units requiredLAFD Inspector looking down at the drone controller specialized handling and monitoring to prevent hazardous re-ignition. Inspectors from the LAFD CUPA (Certified Unified Program Agency) were on scene to oversee the identification and safe management of these hazardous materials. They also deployed an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) "drone" which provided critical real-time situational awareness, using thermal imaging to help the Incident Commander identify hidden hazards and hotspots that were not visible from the ground.
Per protocol for a Major Emergency fire, the LAFD Arson and Counter-Terrorism Section (ACTS) is investigating the cause of the fire.
© Photo by Raphael Richardson
LAFD Incident 122325-1493
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Map prioritizing forests in the western United States based on their ability to sequester carbon. Map provided by Bev Law, OSU College of Forestry.