Sundar Aawaaj ;'Gb/ cfjfh

No. 78

14 May 2004 Friday

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1. Feedback/s and Contribution/s:


Posted On: April 12, 2004 07:51:35 PM
Name: Dr. Bisnu Bahadur Bastola
Email: bbbastola@healthnet.org.np
From:
Asia
Comments: Sundar Aawaaj is worth reading. You are really doing a very good job on personal capacity without
any financial gain. I like to congratulate you. Keep it up.

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Thanks for SA 74/75. It has been an interesting reading. The massages are informative and inspiring. The poems are invigorating. The poem composed by your father is just marvelous teaching total surrender to God, the only way to salvation. The massage by SSS on faith is worth emulating. I fully agree that the faith has to be total whether in God or in a person. The unshakable faith can move the mountains: says Mahatma Gandhi.

 

This is the critical time for Nepal as it offers a good opportunity for king and agitating parties to patch up their differences for the sake of peace in the country rising above their own interests.

 

With best wishes,

 

BPK

2. Advertisement/s:

Healthnet Nepal is planned to organize a week long GIS training from June 23 - 29, 2004. Morning 0630-0830 or, Evening 0530-0730.  The main objective of the training present course is to give basic ideas of GIS to the professionals who are involved in medical/health sectors. Many health related issues are directly associated with the social and natural phenomena. Such phenomena are highly complex. Country like Nepal has many social differentiation and spatial variations where types of diseases and nature of therapy might be controlled by such phenomena, which are highly essential to understand by the practitioners. To this point present course outline is designed to deliver very simple and introductory techniques of GIS to the professionals assuming no any prior geographic or advance computer background.

After the completion of the course, the participants will learn the following:

·         Participants will be familiar with the newly developed GIS technology.

·         Participants will get knowledge about the spatial and attribute database systems.

·         Participants will get new concept on handling public health/medical issues to present on spatial context.

·         Participants will enhance the conventional health related strategy through the spatial and socio-economic context.

·         With the knowledge of GIS technology health practitioners can design their preparedness and mitigate strategies more accurately, more economic and time efficiency manner.

Instructors are:

  1. Suresh Raj Pandit
    B.Sc. Civil Engineering
    B.Sc. Environmental & Sanitary Engineering
    M.Sc. Natural Resources Management
  2. Raju Palanchoke
    B.Sc. Environmental Science
    M.Sc. Natural Resources Management
  3. Shyam Sundar Shrestha
    M. Sc. Space Technology Applications & Research Program (Natural Resources Planning & Management), Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand.
    Thesis on WaterShed Planning for the Sustainable Development using Remote Sensing & GIS, A case of Tinau WaterShed, Nepal.
    B. Sc. Forestry on Soil Conservation Engineering & Watershed Management, Pokhara Campus,
    Institute of Forestry, Pokhara, Nepal.

One computer will be available to each participant for practical class. Apart from this, participant can use Internet facilities of HealthNet Nepal from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm during the training period. Participants can also communicate with instructors via e-mail regarding their individual query related to course outline through e-mail and discussion group during the training period.

Course handouts and related software will be provided in CD-ROM

Tea and Snacks will be provided as refreshments.

Certificate will be provided to each participant upon completion of the course.

Course fee is only 5,000/- per person.

 

Witter Bynner Fellowships

The Witter Bynner Foundation is giving the Library a five-year gift in order to award two or more poets each year, chosen by the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry in conjunction with the Library, and to encourage poets and poetry. The fellowships are to be used to support the writing of poetry. Only two things are asked of the fellows: that they organize a local poetry reading and that they participate in a poetry program at the Library of Congress.

Thus far all Fellows have been chosen by 1997-2000 Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. This is the third year of this special Fellowship; the 1998 Witter Bynner Fellows were Carol Muske and Carl Phillips; the 1999 Fellows were David Gewanter, Heather McHugh, and Campbell McGrath.

Photograph of Witter Bynner in 1917
Witter Bynner posing before a shrine in Japan. Hakone, 1917.

The 2000 Witter Bynner Fellows are Naomi Shihab Nye and Joshua Weiner. They appeared at the Library of Congress in “Poetry in America: A Library of Congress Bicentennial Celebration” on April 3 and 4, 2000. On April 3, each read in a special Favorite Poem presentation in the Jefferson Building’s Coolidge Auditorium, along with Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts William Ivey; Ellen McCulloch Lovell, Deputy Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady; Robert Pinsky; and Special Consultants Rita Dove, Louise Glück, and W.S. Merwin. On April 4, the Witter Bynner Fellows participated in the last in a series of seminars on that day, on “Poetry in America Today.”

Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Palestinian father and an American mother. She received her B.A. degree from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where she continues to reside. She is the author of Hugging the Jukebox (1982), Red Suitcase (1994), and Fuel (1998). A new collection of her poems, Come with Me, will be published this year.

Joshua Weiner, who received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, was director of the Writing Program at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and now teaches at Northwestern University. He has published poems in many literary journals, and his first book of poetry, The World’s Room, will be published in the Phoenix Poets Series at the University of Chicago Press in 2001.

The funding source for the fellowships, the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, was incorporated in 1972 in New Mexico to provide grant support for programs in poetry through nonprofit organizations. Mr. Bynner was an influential early-20th-century poet and translator of the Chinese classic the Tao Te Ching, which he named The Way of Life According to Laotzu. He traveled with D.H. and Frieda Lawrence and proposed to Edna St. Vincent Millay (she accepted, but then they changed their minds). He worked at McClure’s magazine, where he published A.E. Houseman for the first time in the United States and was one of O. Henry’s early fans.

 

3. Poem/s:

Poem in Nepali language composed by my grandfather Mr. Parashu Ram Shrestha in March 1984.

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4. View/s:

  • Dispute grows with more debate but solve with friendly dialogue.  For instant, if you dig more the pit will be larger if you fill it slowly then it will be covered soon.

 

5. Shree Sadhak Satyam (SSS):

The thought has the immense power; the power always gives aspiration to put oneself in action, karma. So if the thoughts are linked into positive deeds the results to turn out good & vice versa. Thoughts like small seeds if implanted and taken care properly they grow True man densely like a free and give fruits. All wonderful & excellent things we see and find around the world is the outcomes of the super and positive results of positive thoughts. If someone enters a cave and just starts thinking, about death he is sure to die. But if some with creative thinking enters the cave and starts thinking creatively and positively, the thought wares will come out even snaffling the walls of the cave and start spreading all around officiating all. The strength and power of thoughts is very different to be explained in few words. Every human being has the potentiality and the quality of thought but inspires of such an immense strength people are suffering and life unhappy. Thus the secret and life to success and happiness is within our possession use it or discard it. It's our choice.

Hari Om

6. Quote/s:  

Leadership is the ability to influence a group towards the achievement of goals.

- Stephenson, P. Robbins

Leadership is the process of influencing the activities of an individual or a group efforts towards goal attainment in a given situation.

- Haresy and Blanchard

7. Joke/s:

How to correct the regression:

 

First of all, King should install a Lion Operating System as PM.  Then 205 GB Hard Disk to SinghDarbar.  Install all deleted files and programs.  Only in this way regression could be corrected.  A joker says that five agitating parties could not correct the regression since they are not fully united by heart.

 

8. Breaking News:

* Gandhi sets to work on coalition *
India's Congress party, led by Sonia Gandhi, starts work on forming India's next government after its shock general election win.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/3713183.stm

 * Final Frasier episode airs in US *
The last episode of Frasier is broadcast in the US, ending the comedy's 11 years on air.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3710539.stm

* Private spaceship almost in space *

A privately built manned spacecraft has reached a record altitude of 212,000ft (64km) on one of its final tests before officially entering space.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/3713119.stm

* New demand boosts Dell profits *
Personal computer maker, Dell, reports higher first-quarter profits following more demand by companies for new technology.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/business/3712981.stm

 * GPs' computers 'miss drug errors' *
Patients are being put at risk because GPs' computer systems fail to warn of potentially fatal prescribing errors, say experts.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/health/3708757.stm

On This Day:

* 1964: Nasser and Khrushchev divert the Nile *
The Egyptian and Russian leaders end phase one of the construction of the Aswan High Dam by blowing up a huge sand barrage to divert the course of the Nile.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/14/newsid_2511000/2511423.stm

9. Recall/s:

Dhor Barahi.  When I was a small child, I used to go with my grandfather to worship Dhor Barahi annually.  We took a small lamb to sacrifice to the god and goddess over there.  After worship or Puja, we come down the stream and prepared or cooked luncheon ourselves collecting firewood around the Jungle.  One time when we are preparing the meat for cooking, a big fish come near us and try to eat the meat.  I captured the fish and roasted in the fire to eat.  I still remember the event.

Note: Dhor Barahi is a famous temple of god and goddess.  If you worship there, your desire will be flfilled.  Many people still believe on it.  This place lies in Dhor Phirdi VDC of Tanahu district of Nepal, just 3 hours walk from my village Rangrung Thoolohatiya.

10. Note/s:

Information is being produced in greater quantities and with greater frequency than at any time in history. Electronic media, especially the Internet, make it possible for almost anyone to become a "publisher." How will society preserve this information and make it available to future generations? How will libraries and other repositories classify this information so that their patrons can find it with the same ease that they can locate a book on a shelf?

These questions and others are being addressed by a program led by the Library of Congress and including a host of other participants from the public and private sectors. The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, or Digital Preservation Program for short, has been generously funded by the U.S. Congress and will seek gifts and in-kind donations to achieve its mission.

The ease with which electronic information can be created and "published" makes much of what is available today, gone tomorrow. Thus there is an urgent need to preserve this information before it is forever lost.

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Maoist has called Three Days Nepal Bandha from May 18 to 20.  Life of ordinary people will be affected by the Bandha. Similarly, Five Agitating parties also successfully organized two days Nepal Bandha May 11 and 12.

Introduction of GIS
Geographic Information System (GIS) is computer-based tool for mapping and analyzing things that exist and events that happen around us. GIS helps us to solve problems such as locating hospitals or facility, solid waste management, emergence vehicle routing, earthquake disaster mapping, real estate business and many more. In recent years GIS software and hardware required to operate it have become much more affordable and easy to use; thus GIS is rapidly reaching a much wider user group and becoming more easily available as a practical aid for use at the community administrative level. The present training course shows how GIS can be applied for analyzing, managing and mapping health related database.

 

12. Useful Link/s:

http://www.loc.gov/

http://www.healthnet.org.np/training/GIS/

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