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Credit: Plenary Healthier Juliana / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States
As the land around the City of Gretna is annexed, many farmers are battled to keep their farmland taxed under a greenbelt status. LB 580, introduced and prioritized by Sen. Holdcroft was signed into law in 2023 allowing farmers to keep their greenbelt status.
This moment will too pass us by.
It's this notion inside all of us to prioritize through our selfish eyes.
To be the bull behind the rampage, the reason for all the riot.
Credit: Juliana Thomas / Clinton Global Initiative
Breakout Sessions: Can Impact Investing Prioritize Profit, People, and the Planet?
MODERATOR:
Elizabeth L. Littlefield, President and CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert A. Annibale, Global Director, Citi Microfinance and Community Development
Amy Bell, Executive Director, Social Finance, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Tammy Newmark, President and CEO, EcoEnterprises Fund
Nick O'Donohoe, Chief Executive Officer, Big Society Capital
Mark Tercek, President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy
The prioritization framework uses a four phase approach to guide stakeholders through the process of filtering a long list of applicable CSA practices into portfolios of priority practices.
This workshop is the fourth phase of the process conducted in the CCAFS Climate-Smart Village of Tuma-La Dalia (Nicaragua). More info: ccafs.cgiar.org/climate-smart-agriculture-prioritization-...
Photo: M.Lizarazo (CCAFS)
Credit: Plenary Healthier Juliana / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States
15 February 2016, Rome, Italy - Eduardo Trigo, Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Buenos Aires, Argentina. FAO International Symposium on “The Role of Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition”. Parallel Session 3.1. Social and economic impacts of agricultural biotechnologies for smallholders: Taking stock of the evidence and prioritizing future assessments. FAO headquarters (Green room).
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Pier Paolo Cito. Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.
Credit: Plenary Healthier Juliana / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States
Credit: Plenary Healthier Juliana / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States
SUN VALLEY - LAFD responded to 9360 North Telfair Avenue at 1:02 AM on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 for an auto fire that spread into nearby vegetation. Firefighters prioritized the brush first, then extinguished the burning auto, without injury. The cause of the fire is yet to be determined.
© Photo by Ismael Miranda
LAFD Incident: 060921-0073
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7.16.13 | After securing an accounting of the New York City Housing Authority’s repair backlog, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio released a report analyzing the nearly 370,000 outstanding repairs, and warned the agency against neglecting its most time-sensitive and health-threatening repairs in favor of more expedient ones.
Prioritizing Workplace Mental Health
Geneva - Switzerland, 25-29 January 2021. Copyright ©️ World Economic Forum/Pascal Bitz
Punit Renjen, Global Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte, USA; International Business Council Garen K. Staglin, Chairman and Co-Founder, One Mind, USA
Miranda Wolpert, Head, Mental Health Priority Area, Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
Moderated by Sir Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Springer Nature, United Kingdom
August 24, 2020 — The Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Department of Energy's Water Power Technology Office and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers signed a Federal Hydropower generation memorandum of understanding at Hoover Dam. The MOU provides for a collaborative working relationship that prioritizes similar goals and aligns ongoing and future renewable energy development efforts among the three agencies.
Credit: Plenary Healthier Juliana / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States
April 07, 2022— Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman meets with World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to discuss global health emergencies in Ukraine and Afghanistan, WHO’s work in humanitarian emergencies, and the U.S. government’s prioritization of and USAID’s commitment to a zero-tolerance stance on sexual exploitation and abuse.
Another reshot of "Shattered", shifting the window of interest off-center. Post-processing prioritized bringing out the textures here, both of the damaged window and the wall, along with perspective correction.
SYLMAR - On June 14-16, 2021 the Los Angeles Fire Department organized a multi-agency brush fire exercise near Veterans Memorial Park in Sylmar.
Participants included Fire Departments from the cities of Burbank, Glendale, Los Angeles, Pasadena, the County of Los Angeles and Angeles National Forest, as these agencies frequently respond together along and near their jurisdictional borders in what are known as Mutual Threat Zones (MTZs).
Training sessions took place on three separate days to assure each platoon (duty shift) of firefighters had an opportunity to participate in operational training that prioritized interoperability of communications and tactics on a large multi-agency incident..
© Photo by Rick McClure
LAFD Event: 061421-MTZ Brush Training
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Officials from the 66 MDS continue to vaccinate personnel deemed eligible by the Department of Defense prioritization schema while vaccine supplies last.
Kick-off and release!
After a short 'cheat-survey' between Cape Town and Durban, the official start of the 2018 research expeditions with Dr. Fridtjof Nansen was marked with a grand reception in Durban, South Africa. The event took place onboard Dr Fridtjof Nansen on the 26th of January, and discussed the current situation of local and international fisheries, and the importance of multi-disciplinary research and cross-boundary partnerships in addressing pressing challenges such as marine pollution and climate change.
On the guest list were a number of prominent guests including Senzeni Zokwana, the South African Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, and Trine Skymoen, the Norwegian Ambassador to South Africa. The visitors were given a guided tour of the technologically advanced research vessel.
The most important guests who were welcomed onboard Dr. Fridtjof Nansen that day however, were probably five young Leatherback turtles (Caretta caretta). The turtles were found stranded 18 months ago and have since been in recovery with the uShaka Sea World's conservation team. They were now declared sufficiently rehabilitated to be released back into the ocean, and as the research expedition's first planned transect line was in an area deemed suitable for release, the turtles were left in the care of the onboard scientific team.
After 15 hours of overnight steaming the release point was finally reached. With both scientists and crew present to cheer them on, the turtles were lowered one by one into the sea in a basket from the trawl deck. Free and back in their natural environment, they immediately dived down and disappeared into the blue. Having completed the days most important task of giving five little turtles another chance at life, we're now hard at work collecting equally important multi-disciplinary data to better understand the biodiversity and oceanic conditions in the environment in which these five wonderful creatures will continue living their life.
“Pork: Eat it, Don’t Spend it” was the theme of a bipartisan barbeque pork lunch hosted today by U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill and Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona, to discuss the introduction of their bill to make permanent the temporary moratorium on congressional earmarks that McCaskill helped put into place in 2010.
At the lunch, which featured Arthur Bryant’s original Kansas City barbeque sauce and special guest former Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, the Senators focused on recent hearings in the House of Representatives to explore lifting Congress’ self-imposed, temporary ban on the practice of earmarking. McCaskill and Flake’s Earmark Elimination Act would permanently ban the practice.
“Earmarks are the Washington swamp creature that just never seems to die—emerging from the lower depths every few years in an effort to waste taxpayer dollars on politicians’ pet projects,” said McCaskill, who has never requested an earmark and has been the leading Democratic voice opposing them. “Our bipartisan bill would ban their return by permanently ending the practice of pork-barrel patronage so we can ensure Missourians’ taxpayer dollars are protected, and projects are prioritized on merit.”
“It’s time to stick a fork in congressional pork with a permanent ban on earmarking,” said Flake. “Republicans were beaten like a borrowed mule in the 2006 elections largely because of the corruption associated with earmarks. Let’s not test the voters again by leaving the door open for a return to the pork barrel politics that sent members of Congress to prison and saddled taxpayers with a bridge to nowhere, a teapot museum, and countless other wasteful pet projects.”
For years, the earmarking process was notorious for its secrecy and lack of oversight or accountability, with funding for politicians' pet projects often awarded based on political influence instead of on merit. McCaskill’s legislation would expand the ongoing temporary moratorium on earmarks to a permanent ban. Specifically, the legislation would ban all earmarks, and define earmarks as any congressionally directed spending item, limited tax benefit, or limited tariff benefit.
McCaskill, the Senate’s leading Democratic opponent of earmarking, has led the fight to permanently ban earmarks from the legislative process. In 2010, McCaskill worked with bipartisan colleagues to put in place the current moratorium on earmarks. Additionally, a provision included in a recent highway bill, based on legislation McCaskill introduced with Senator Flake, is allowing Missouri to claw back more than $72 million in previously unspent earmarked funds that would never have otherwise been used—giving the state the resources to spend on critically needed transportation and infrastructure projects within a 50-mile radius of the project site of the original earmark.
Having a horizontal pile versus a vertical pile is a much better way to visualize *really* how much stuff is there to read through . More on this here livlab.com/?p=4
During the Capacity Development - Financial Sector Stability session at the 2019 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings at IMF Headquarters April 10, 2019 in Washington, DC, Nico Valckx, Naoto Osawa, and Tumubweine Twinemanzi answe the questions : How can policymakers implement a strong reform agenda? Join us to learn how countries such as Uganda are using targeted tools like the Financial Sector Stability Review, so they can prioritize reforms and build a more resilient financial sector. IMF Photograph/Joshua Roberts
Credit: Plenary Healthier Juliana / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States
For most of us, our prime objective is to be satisfied. Everything that we do in our daily life is motivated by that desire. But are our actions really leading to the satisfaction that we crave? If life were a game of checkers, just thinking about the next source of temporary satisfaction would probably give a us a reasonable chance of success. However, the reality is that these short-term gains are just that, fleeting.
We’re much better off looking at life as a game of chess where we need to strategically position ourselves to take advantage of opportunities that actually make us satisfied over the very long-term. This kind of positioning is achieved by training in mindfulness so that we are able to respond quickly and correctly to life’s difficulties when they arise. This likely means a degree of sacrifice along the way but if we’ve prioritized correctly, those sacrifices will be what’s fleeting and the happiness we gain will endure.
7.16.13 | After securing an accounting of the New York City Housing Authority’s repair backlog, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio released a report analyzing the nearly 370,000 outstanding repairs, and warned the agency against neglecting its most time-sensitive and health-threatening repairs in favor of more expedient ones.
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.
Pesticides being stored adjacent to a contractor’s camp. 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 07, 2022— Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman meets with World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to discuss global health emergencies in Ukraine and Afghanistan, WHO’s work in humanitarian emergencies, and the U.S. government’s prioritization of and USAID’s commitment to a zero-tolerance stance on sexual exploitation and abuse.
“Shurei” means "to observe propriety” and
also that “Ryukyu is a country that prioritizes
propriety.” This gate is constructed in the
traditional Chinese architectural style of Paifang
(also known as pailou).
Source: SYURIJO CASTLE PARK Home page
Prioritizing Workplace Mental Health
Geneva - Switzerland, 25-29 January 2021. Copyright ©️ World Economic Forum/Pascal Bitz
Punit Renjen, Global Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte, USA; International Business Council Garen K. Staglin, Chairman and Co-Founder, One Mind, USA
Miranda Wolpert, Head, Mental Health Priority Area, Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
Moderated by Sir Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Springer Nature, United Kingdom
Did you know?
The National Multi Agency Coordination Group (NMAC), through intergovernmental coordination, provides national wildland fire operations direction, prioritization, allocation and oversight.
NMAC Roles/ Responsibilities include:
-Establishes national priorities among the Geographic Areas (GAs).
-Directs, allocates or reallocates resources among or between GAs to meet national priorities.
-Attempts to anticipate and identify future national fire management resource requirements.
-Provides oversight of general business practices between NMAC and the Geographic Multi-Agency Coordination (GMAC) groups.
-Distributes and archives NMAC decisions, direction and best management practices.
-Provides an NMAC member as the media spokesperson assisting NIFC External Affairs for issues of national importance (as requested).
-Serves as liaison to a specified GAs including: Rocky Mountain, California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest and Alaska, Southern Area.
GVSHP unveiled a historic plaque to mark the site of The New York Infirmary for Women and Children, the first hospital for women, staffed by women, and run by women, founded by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell. Blackwell was the first woman in America to receive a degree in medicine, blazing the trail for the entry of women into medicine and focusing her work on public health efforts for the poor and working classes. The hospital provided free care for women and children, and instruction for women studying for their medical degree.
Speakers were
:
Andrew Berman, Executive Director of GVSHP
Carey Bloomfield, the great, great niece of Elizabeth Blackwell. Carey continues the family engagement in social and philanthropic causes with her thirty-year professional career in non-profit fundraising and active membership in the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), and Women in Development. She was President of Group I Directors of Development, League of American Orchestras, and is a Trustee of the Dana Hall School and Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Episcopal Chaplaincy at Harvard.
Jen Weintraub is a digital archivist and librarian at the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University where she coordinates work with born-digital materials while expanding the already robust work to digitize the Library's collections. She served as the chairperson of the Schlesinger library's 2016 exhibition Women of the Blackwell Family: Resilience and Change. She has also held digitization-focused positions at Yale University Library, among others. She holds an MLIS from University of Michigan and a BA from University of Chicago.
Betty Bayer is an expert on the intersections of women's history, psychology, science, religion and spirituality, Bayer has explored the abolitionist and women's rights movements, and their common history in central New York. Recognized for her outstanding teaching, Bayer received the Colleges' Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award in 2004 and the Community Service Award in 2009. She has served as the chair of the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Women Studies Program since 2001 and directed the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men from 2002 to 2009. A former senior fellow at the Martin Marty Center for the Study of Religion at the University of Chicago, Bayer earned her Ph.D., M.A. and B.A. in psychology from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Judy Tung, M.D., is the chair of the department of medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital and associate professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. She also serves as the section chief of ambulatory internal medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Committed to providing high-quality, comprehensive care, Dr. Tung’s philosophy of practice prioritizes communication and continuity. Her clinical interests are in women's health and preventive medicine.
Virginia Reath, RPA MPH, has been a practicing clinician, educator, and activist in the fields of gynecology, sexual and reproductive health care for the past 30 years. She was the recipient of the ACLU Reproductive Rights Project Award for her work and activism in women's sexual reproductive health & justice. She has lived in the neighborhood since 1975.
ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao speaking to delegates at UNESCO’s Mobile Learning Week event on the need to prioritize ICTs in delivery of education.
© ITU
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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21 August 2018, Kigali, Rwanda - A young man participant in the conference 'Youth Employment in Agriculture as a Solid Solution to ending Hunger and Poverty in Africa' visits the FAO stand in Kigali Conference Center, Kigali, Rwanda on August 21, 2018. The conference aims to foster an exchange among stakeholders on knowledge and best practices regarding the interfaces between agriculture, youth employment, entrepreneurship, ICT innovations, leading to prioritizing interventions going forward.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Luis Tato. Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.
A closer look on my final piece painting in real life.
Description:
Component 2 Final Piece –
“Why?”
At first glance, it would look like two princesses in fancy dresses and jewellery, posing for a decent photograph. But at a closer look, this painting has a few deep meanings behind it, where the painting prioritizes three meanings symbolized by the gestures and stains of blood; the sad expression of their faces and their eyes, representing sadness and regret, their hands gripping tightly onto each other, representing hope and struggle, and the blood stains on Princess Anastasia of Russia’s dress and Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria’s corset, representing the history of their murders itself.
The title “Why?” summarizes the whole meaning of the painting, where the princesses, bound unknown to their fate, with a million questions on their minds only visible through their teary eyes and painfully sad expressions.
The strong grip of their hands together symbolizes their struggles as the princesses went through their depressing journeys of pressure and tears, leading to the blood stains on their corset and dress, showing the history of their murder, where Anastasia was executed with her family with her body parts dismembered, along with her family’s, showing the large amount of blood stains on her dress, while Empress Elisabeth was murdered with a direct stab to her heart by an Italian man who only had the reason of “doing the deed” or need to kill a royal family.
Another meaning, however is shown also from the grip of their hands; bond. They are both princesses, both ending in cruel fate and both showing regret as I had visualised them. Anastasia did not get to spend any more time with her sisters, mother or literally an older figure of a woman, while Empress Elisabeth never got to spend time with her children, whom some had lost their lives earlier than she had.
The feeling of regret brought tears to their eyes, for their fate, loss of time, and history led to a million questions starting with “why?” on their face expressions, supported by the strong grip of struggle, a bit of hope and bond. I have also concentrated on the details of this painting, including the jewellery, the crowns and the veil, showing themselves as indeed, the royal-blooded princesses from two different countries, sharing the same bond of fate.
The faint shades of golden yellow on their dresses also symbolises their shining figure as royalty, and I have chosen her coronation dress for Empress Elisabeth because all of her depressing journey to her end began right after the coronation and wedding day, and a court gown for Princess Anastasia, for which both symbolizes the purity and innocence of the two.
The dark black with faint golden background also represents engulfing darkness into their lives, even with only a little bit of happiness they had experienced, it had slowly faded along into the overall misty, uncomfortable dark aura that had surrounded and destroyed their lives.
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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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.
Credit: ©2022 CIAT/Owen Kimani
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April 07, 2022— Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman meets with World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to discuss global health emergencies in Ukraine and Afghanistan, WHO’s work in humanitarian emergencies, and the U.S. government’s prioritization of and USAID’s commitment to a zero-tolerance stance on sexual exploitation and abuse.
your Life is precious to you. Don't pretend otherwise.
Spend it wisely.
Learn what you want to learn
don't let anyone or anything stop you
including yourself and bad habits.
ALSO
I dislike that watch but it doesn't fall off like my other watch does.
My wrists are small and it is difficult to find watches that fit.
The clock side is on the inside.
Credit: Juliana Thomas / Clinton Global Initiative
CGI Annual Meeting 2013
Plenary Session
Healthier Futures: Prioritizing Prevention
Moderator
Chelsea Clinton
Board Member, The Clinton Foundation
Participants
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
Adrian Gore
Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Holdings Limited
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Closing Conversation
Participants
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
President Bill Clinton
Founding Chairman, Clinton Global Initiative;
42nd President of the United States