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The Wages of Population Meddling
China, Chinese birth policies, population, roe v. wade
Policy makers learn in due course to look for clues in the nooks and crannies: those places clothed in semi-darkness while life's big battles go on in the fierce sunlight.
The birthrate problem—"problem"? You don't have to call it that, but others do—exists in a semi-hidden, up to now, venue for examination of the consequences that follow from de-valuing human life.
The other day China, still run by the overweening folk we once supposed would be gone by now, declared modification of its birth policies. A Chinese couple is now, lawfully—without fear of prison or fine—permitted to have three children.
Three! It used to be two. And before that it was one, under the Maoist prescription for slowing population growth.
What happened? What happened was that most, though decidedly not all, Chinese couples reduced their populational output, in line with the Party's will. And behold—population growth slowed. And now China has, or is approaching, a population problem of the sort hard for outsiders to imagine when it relates to the world's most populous nation. But, yes, with births dropping steadily over the past four years, the labor market of the near future is marked for shortages, meaning challenges in supplying human needs. Thus the inauguration of the three-child policy. Get busy!, the Party is saying in effect. Your duty is to propagate.
Oh? What about the duty not to propagate!? That's off. A course correction is under way, and we'll see how it works out. However, it comes late in the voyage. The Wall Street Journal quotes the economist Justin Evans-Pritchard to the effect that "With small family sizes now well ingrained into the fabric of Chinese society, there is little that policy makers can do to turn back the clock." A 38-year-old woman who lives with her boyfriend and several cats is quoted as saying, "Getting married and having children is not the only path for women anymore. We have more options and can live our lives in many ways."
Where have we heard that one before? In the modern United States, as well as Western Europe. Birth rates in the major industrial countries are below the rate necessary to replace those "going out," shall we say—I speak as one of them—with those "coming in." A population drop, howsoever caused, contributes to disorders not just of the economic but of the cultural kind—educational, for example; religious; psychological. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, as Rodgers and Hammerstein's King of Siam put it.
But that's where we are. Assumptions, as expressed by the afore-mentioned Chinese lady, are not the same as they once were. The attendant consequences rapidly unfold.
I mentioned clues to the larger picture. That picture displays, inter alia, women surrounded by cats; pursuing interests that would have seemed foreign to the baby-breeding old-timers responsible for those who read these lines.
I invite attention to how modern assumptions about the importance of life have influenced the way moderns think about abortion. The more one thinks about Roe v. Wade (regardless of what the present Supreme Court decides to do with that infamous decision), the clearer it becomes that, yes, the Court in 1973 got ahead of the nation but not by all that much. As with Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down school segregation in 1954, public attitudes and assumptions were changing. There was something in the air. The Court sniffed. Took it in. And sensed something not sensed before.
So Roe v. Wade partook of a new public mood: one of fast-growing attention to the asserted rights of women for independence and free choice. The new mood left diminished room for the deeply planted, not to mention God-breathed, satisfactions and obligations attendant on the creation of new life. We just weren't into that old stuff anymore. Thus Roe. Thus the struggles of the past half-century over the Court's brush-off of God and nature alike.
Communist China gave a similar brush-off to the ancient sentiments and beliefs, only to discover in due and predictable course the inconveniences, injuries, and setbacks that accompany arrogant meddling of the unmistakably human kind.
"When will they evvvvv-er learn?," as Peter, Paul, and Mary used emotionally to warble, to the accompaniment of guitars. Probably never. Meddling seems woven into the human character. But watching the meddlers squirm and slap their foreheads, as in China and elsewhere, can be fun in a perverse sort of way. And instructive: provided we're paying due and direct attention.
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William Murchison, a former syndicated columnist, is a senior editor of the Human Life Review. He will soon finish his book on moral restoration in our time.


I love the feel of interiors that embrace natural elements and adopt an earthy rich colour palette. 2016 has seen us move away from the ever popular pastel tones to celebrate the warmth of chunky timbers, moody ceramics and rich colours and textures. Bringing a sense of the Australian bush into our inner city homes allows us a chance to escape the daily grind and take a little break from the hustle and bustle.
1. Artwork: Local artists are creating works that use Australian fauna as a subject matter and these are stunning in any space. I could style these pieces in a living room, a kids room or even a kitchen. Their sense of sophisticated playfulness brings a lovely warmth to the room. One of my favourites is Melbourne artist Carla Fletcher as featured below, with her 'Alchemist' koala who is completely hand drawn from pencil.
2. Ceramics: Custer up ceramics in earthy bold tones. Deep grey hues, inky blues and sea greens in honed matt finishes makes an eye catching arrangement like some of the examples below by local designers Marmoset Found. I also love the concrete vessels created by Studio Twocan; their deep colours incorporate lots of burgundy, creams and mustards and the organic shapes and colour pigments mean each piece is unique.
3. Timbers: Think about incorporating chunky timbers into your interior. No one celebrates the beauty of natural timber more than Melbourne based designer Mark Tuckey. His pieces are all hand crafted and feature beautiful knots and imperfections that give each furniture piece it's own story.
4. Foliage: If you're a flower lover, fill your vases with natives like king proteas, blushing brides and banksias. They make a big statement and will breathe an instant hit of life into any space. Gum foliage is brilliant in vases and lasts forever; the smell of fresh gum inside your home will give you a little escape when you come through the front door.
Images below styled by me, see more of my work at Archer Interiors.
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Get ready to rumble again: WWE is coming back to Abu Dhabi
Andy Sherwood
Some of American wrestling's biggest names are set to perform at Zayed Sports City in December
WWE is coming back to Abu Dhabi for the first time in two years – and some big names will be clashing in the capital, including multiple WrestleMania headliner Roman Reigns and two-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins.
WWE Live Abu Dhabi takes place Thursday December 7, at Zayed Sports City Tennis Stadium, with tickets going onsale Wednesday October 11 at 10am. Ticket prices start at Dhs250.
Also on the bill are Dean Ambrose, Braun Strowman, Bray Wyatt, Finn Bálor, Cesaro and Sheamus.
Roman Reigns, real name Leati Joseph Anoaʻi, has been with the WWE since 2010, and made his main roster debut in 2012, ironically alongside Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose. He was crowned Superstar Of The Year in 2014 and Royal Rumble winner in 2015. He's defeated two of the sport's most famous talents, Triple H and The Undertaker, on his way to those three WrestleMania victories.
Rollins, real name Colby Daniel Lopez, hails from Buffalo, Iowa, and also signed with the WWE in 2010, was 2014's Money In The Bank Winner and was crowned Superstar Of The Year in 2015.
The WWE has been held in the capital twice before, once in 2015 and once in 2013. Check out this fan footage from the 2015 event below.
We'll have a full preview of the event in the December edition of What's On Abu Dhabi magazine.
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Essential for life, food and fluids are regarded as basic care, professionally, ethically, and legally. This chapter seeks to contextualize and explore the significance and meaning of compromised nutrition and hydration in contemporary adult palliative care. The internationalization of Western medicine, Western bioethics, and palliative care generates new perspectives and can challenge established practices. It is important that evidence of the relevance, efficacy, and appropriateness of artificially intervening in the natural course of terminal illnesses is developed; however, that knowledge will not necessarily resolve the issues associated with the reality that food and fluids mean different things to those involved.
Universally, food and fluid, its preparation, use, symbolism, and value are inherently meaningful. Discussions, opinions and decisions vary regarding supporting oral intake, and clinically assisted nutrition and hydration, particularly towards the end of life. Inevitably, the perspectives of the ill person, their companions, and informal and professional caregivers are not necessarily consistent or static.
Endeavors to address declining oral intake must be individualized, congruent with care goals, and cognizant of cultural values, religious, and personal beliefs. It is an aspect of care (and dying) that should not be taken for granted nor considered problematic. Rather, it is inevitable for many people and no lasting resolution should be anticipated or desired. Professional knowledge and curiosity towards the multiple meanings surrounding eating, food, nutrition, and hydration, and their meaning is the proposed aspiration.
Ivanović N, Büche D, Fringer A. Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking at the end of life – a 'systematic search and review' giving insight into an option of hastening death in capacitated adults at the end of life. Br Med J Palliat Care. 2014;13(1):1–8. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-684X/13/1. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-684X-13-1.


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Weather cancels No. 23 Boise's First Responder Bowl vs BC
DALLAS (AP) No. 23 Boise State's first appearance at historic Cotton Bowl Stadium turned into what is believed to be the first bowl game called off because of weather.
The SERVPRO First Responder Bowl between the Broncos and Boston College was canceled because of the threat of severe weather after a delay of nearly 1 1/2 hours Wednesday.
The game was stopped with BC leading 7-0 with 5:08 remaining in the first quarter. The delay came not long after AJ Dillon ran 19 yards for a touchdown .
Broncos Headlines
BC gets play-caller back for bowl match with Boise, Rypien
Passing Yards: B. Rypien 3705
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Rushing Yards: A. Mattison 1415
Rushing TDs: A. Mattison 17
Receiving Yards: S. Modster 978
Receiving TDs: S. Modster 8
Interceptions: K. Kaniho 3
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Yards: 5974 (19)
Passing Yards: 3796 (16)
Rushing Yards: 2178 (65)
Points per game: 35.4 (20)
Yards per game: 459.5 (21)
Touchdowns: 55 (24)
Field Goals: 12 (88)
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Q: Demystifying Ruby ERB Code Ruby on Rails newbie question...
Consider the following code (which is within a view):

<%= link_to time_ago_in_words(status.created_at) + " ago", status %> |

<%= link_to "Edit", edit_status_path(status) %> |
<%= link_to "Delete", status, method: :delete, data: { confirm: "Ya sure?" } %>

Some of methods called within the ERB tags seem like magic to me, and I'm trying to demystify them. I don't feel comfortable using code if I don't understand how it works under the hood.
Can someone point me to where the following methods (er, I think they are methods, maybe that's not the right term) are defined and/or documented?

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*edit_status_path()

*:delete

*data:

*confirm:

A: There is only one method here: edit_status_path. It is created within you routes file (config/routes.rb), most likely by another moethod called resources (in this case it would be resources :statuses).
:delete is not a method, it is a symbol: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.2/Symbol.html
data: alone has no meaning in ruby, it always comes with a second part (like data: value). It is ruby syntax for Hash object: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.2/Hash.html, using symbols for keys. So
{a: 1}

is the same as
{:a => 1}

I don't feel comfortable using code if I don't understand how it works under the hood. - I understand you completely. I strongly advise you to read some ruby book (not ruby on rails) before you start learning rails (and then start with a good book as well). The fact I started learning ruby from rails was the reason why I hated this language for couple of months before I fall for it.

A: ERB
ERB code is basically Ruby / Rails' way of dynamically handling code (like PHP's <$ $>). The use of ERB code is basically just about calling methods & classes which utilize the pre-processing power of Rails
To demystify your code, and as stated by @BroiState, you have several elements to consider:
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Methods
edit_status_path(status)

This is a Rails method to render a path (which will basically output domain.com/path/to/your/controller
As mentioned, this will be derived from your config/routes.rb file. However, what I want to express the role methods play in your code. Every time you call a mysterious method in Rails, you're basically tapping into the MVC programming pattern - which means you're using the methods available to your view.
Every piece of ERB functionality is a method or object
In Rails' case, these are typically known as helper methods, which can both be explicitly declared (in app/helpers), or implicitly declared (inside Rails).
Many of the path helpers will be defined inside the Rails framework, which is why they seem mysterious. However, as you gain more experience, you'll see many different Rails Classes which define many of the mysterious methods - allowing you to gain a more intimate view of how this works
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Arguments
The famous :symbol is a ruby module which basically allows you to define a temporary object, ready to be populated with data (I think)
All of the method: :delete etc - are all arguments for the methods you're using in your views. Every method you use has arguments, and many of them will be symbols.
ERB is basically just a case of using methods & objects, and your :arguments essentially allow you to use different methods in your views

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Home Politics Pew Analysis Shows Only 1 In 6 BLM Protesters Are Black
Pew Analysis Shows Only 1 In 6 BLM Protesters Are Black
Analysis carried out by the Pew Research Center has revealed that just one in six protesters turning out at BLM demonstrations in the US are actually black.
The research notes that the plurality of those present at the gatherings have been white people.
The full breakdown reveals that just 17 percent of protesters were black, while 46 percent were white.
A further 22 percent were Hispanic, with eight percent being Asian, the analysis highlights.
Perhaps even more telling is the demographic breakdown in terms of political affiliation.
Almost four out of every five "protesters" identified as Democrats or Democrat-leaning, with fewer than 17 percent identifying as Republicans.
The findings dovetail with comments made by BET Founder Robert Johnson yesterday, who noted that most black Americans "laugh" at white people attempting to bring down monuments and cancel everything they deem to be "racist".
Johnson said that white poeople "have the mistaken assumption that black people are sitting around cheering for them saying 'Oh, my God, look at these white people. They're doing something so important to us. They're taking down the statue of a Civil War general who fought for the South."
"You know, black people, in my opinion, black people laugh at white people who do this the same way we laugh at white people who say we got to take off the TV shows." Johnson said in an interview with Fox News.
"Look, the people who are basically tearing down statues, trying to make a statement are basically borderline anarchists, the way I look at it," he continued, adding "They really have no agenda other than the idea we're going to topple a statue."
"It's not going to give a kid whose parents can't afford college money to go to college. It's not going to close the labor gap between what white workers are paid and what black workers are paid. And it's not going to take people off welfare or food stamps." Johnson urged.
"It's "tantamount to rearranging the deck chairs on a racial titanic. It absolutely means nothing." Johnson asserted.


Your Palomino Horse Breeders Heritage Foundation board members have continued to work on the museum throughout the spring and summer. There have been three work sessions since the grand opening during the 2013 PHBA Convention this past March.
Some of the accomplishments have been putting new frames on some of the hanging exhibits, documenting the items which are either on loan or have been donated to the PHBHF museum, adding more exhibits and items, working on the touch screens, planning for the large task of archiving some of the old documents, registrations, photographs and such, planning for the celebration of the 1st Anniversary of the Museum and taking steps to ensure that there is a sound, fiscal future plan in place for the Foundation. The PHBHF is pleased to welcome Carol and Terry Goble of Dalton, GA to the board.
The Foundation is very pleased to have three students from the Oklahoma State University ( Stillwater), working on the development of strategic plans for growth of PHBHF's financial and public exposure future. Amy, Jeanette and Taylor are working under the guidance of Traci L. Naile, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Agriculture Education, Communications and Leadership, to formulate the plan. Dr. Floyd and Lynn Branson are the Foundation board's liaisons on this project. The PHBA members attending the 2014 Convention in Tulsa this coming March will have a chance to meet them.
The Foundation is very excited about the celebration of the 1st Anniversary of the opening of the museum and is planning a very special night for the PHBA members and friends at no additional charge for those attending the 2014 convention on Thursday, March 13th in Tulsa. PHBA directors and their guests will be invited to tour the museum and see all the updates, the evening will feature dinner at the hotel and entertainment provided by Craig Clemons, Chief Development Officer of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum at Oklahoma City. The highlight will be his program, The Wisdom of the West, consisting of storytelling, pictures, and live music. Mr. Clemons is a published songwriter and a very talented singer. This evening promises to be not only entertaining, but educational as well. The PHBHF is looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible there.
The Foundation's next workdays will be November 13th through the 16th. If you are interested, come over and see what is being done with your investment in the past, present and future of PHBA's history. Contact any of the Board for information or questions.


Within the scope of the law, if the fixed rate of loss due to a natural disaster is 40 percent or above, agriculture directorates should prepare the necessary reports to cover the relevant loss after controlling and fixing the rates. Thus, the farmers can make use of bank credits and convenient payment schemes.
"The reasons are the excessive regression of underground waters, changing climates and extreme heat. Yet the final stroke was the desert dust that came with the rain at the end of May which seriously damaged the olive trees in the blossoming period that had negative effects on the fruits," added Özgen.
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On behalf of the Supreme Court of Texas, the Foundation administers the following funds:
Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts (IOLTA)
The IOLTA program, established in 1984 by the Supreme Court of Texas, allows attorneys to pool short-term or nominal deposits made on behalf of clients or third parties into one account. Interest generated by these accounts is dedicated to helping nonprofit organizations that provide free civil legal services. As of July 1, 1989, all Texas attorneys handling qualifying client funds must establish an IOLTA account, unless a low balance account exempts them.
Per Supreme Court of Texas rules, attorneys must hold IOLTA accounts in eligible banks -- those that pay interest rates comparable to other similar situated accounts.
Basic Civil Legal Services (BCLS)
The Texas Legislature enacted the BCLS program in 1997, when federal funding for legal services decreased significantly. People who file lawsuits must pay a small additional fee to the court, ranging from $2 in the lower courts to $25 for suits taken to the Supreme Court of Texas. These fees are designated to assist nonprofit organizations in providing free civil legal services to low-income Texans.
Included in this program are the mandatory Access to Justice fee (assessed to qualifying Texas attorneys), "And Justice for All" license plate proceeds, pro hac vice funds (fee assessed to out-of-state attorneys practicing in Texas), and other public funding.
Crime Victims Civil Legal Services (CVCLS)
In 2001, the Texas Office of the Attorney General and the Supreme Court of Texas entered into an agreement to administer a $5 million Crime Victims Civil Legal Services fund over the biennium. The monies granted must be used to provide free civil legal services to low-income victims of crime.
CVCLS-funded Organizations
Voluntary Access to Justice Contributions
Each year, Texas attorneys have the option of donating $150 or more when paying their State Bar of Texas dues. A significant portion of these donations is administered by the Texas Access to Justice Foundation and granted to legal aid organizations statewide.
These diverse funding sources make it possible for the Texas Access to Justice Foundation to grant millions of dollars each year for the provision of legal aid to low-income Texans.


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The capital for the construction of the building was almost entirely donated by Stephanos Rallis, a prominent Greek from London, as well as by other members of the Greek community there, like Korialenes and Eugenides. Donations were also given by the Public Endowment Fund, and other sources following various initiatives of King George I.
In 1970 a study by the architect M. Perrakis, for the transformation of an experimental convertible theater, was conducted and apllied.
Inside the building there have been restorations and the stage installations have been modernized. The facets were also restored and the "New Stage" was remodeled. By a ministerial decree of 1952, the building was identified as "in need of special protection" according to the relevant 1950 Law.
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Conversos on Trial. Hispania Judaica, v.
This story is eloquently related on the basis of Inquisition files which depict the Conversos' deep yearning to their Jewish past and the ultimate sacrifice they were prepared to offer for their continued adherence to their ancestral faith.
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Conversos on Trial. Hispania Judaica, v. 3
About Book Conversos on Trial. Hispania Judaica, v. 3
Front MatterFront Flap Half Title PageTitle PageCopyright PageDedication PageThe Hispania Judaica Series are published with the aid of the Jewish Memorial FoundationTable Of ContentsPREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITIONContentsI. THE CONVERSOS, THE INQUISITION AND THE CROWN The Conversos in Castile in the Fifteenth CenturyJews and ConversosChristian Society and the ConversosThe Conversos' Attitude to Christians and JewsThe Public Controversy Over the Converso Question andthe Plans for its SolutionAlonso de EspinaThe Establishment of the Inquisition in CastileThe Crown's Connection with the InquisitionThe Beginnings of the Spanish National InquisitionLast Attempts to Oppose the Inquisitorial MethodPope Sixtus IV and the InquisitionThe Victory of Torquemada's Policy and MethodII. THE CONVERSOS OF CIUDAD REAL: 1391-1483 The Jews of VillarrealThe Jewish Quarter of VillarrealCharitable Societies of the ConversosThe Return to JudaismPLATES 1The Riots of 1449The Repercussions of the Fall of ConstantinopleJudeo-Converso RelationsThe Riots of 1474The Uprising of the Marquйs de VillenaAlonso Carrillo's Examination of Heresy in Ciudad RealThe Rehabilitation of the Converso PopulationIII. THE HISTORY OF THE TRIBUNAL OF CIUDAD REALThe Location of the CourtThe Arrivai of the Inquisitors and the Period of GraceThe TrialsIV. THE COURT OF CIUDAD REAL AT WORKThe Beginning of the Inquisitorial ExaminationThe Commencement of the TrialClassification of the Accused— Those tried in their presence— Those tried in absentia— Those tried posthumouslyThe Evidence and the WitnessesThe Secrecy of Witnesses' IdentityThe Reliability of WitnessesWitness-InformersOther Types of WitnessesThe Confession as TestimonyThe Nature of the EvidenceThe Giving and Confirmation of EvidenceThe Prosecution and its MethodPLATESThe Defence and its MethodThe Defence in the Early DaysThe Defence in EvolutionThe Defence QuestionnairesThe Consulta-de-FйThe Sentence and the PunishmentV. THE ACCUSED'S FILE AND ITS PREPARATIONVI. THE PUBLIC AND SOCIAL IMAGE OF THE CONVERSOS OF CIUDAD REAL Public FiguresMerchantsThe Rank and FileThe WomenVII. THE JEWISH LIFE OF THE CONVERSOS OFCIUDAD REALConditions for the Observance of MitzvothThe Composition of Converso GatheringsPlaces of WorshipPrayersRitual SlaughterEducation in Jewish PreceptsMitzvothVIII. THE ATTITUDE OF THE CONVERSOS OF CIUDAD REAL TO CHRISTIANITY AND THEIR OUTLOOK ON LIFE AND DEATH The Conversos and ChristianityThe Conversos' Outlook on Life and Death Back MatterAPPENDIX I - NOTARIAL AUTHORIZATION OF THE DECLARATION OF THE PERIOD OF GRACE IN CIUDAD REAL APPENDIX II - PLACES OF RESIDENCE OF THE INHABITANTS OF CIUDAD REAL A Historical-topographical EstimateTHE SANTIAGO QUARTERTHE SAN PEDRO QUARTTHE SANTA MARНA QUARTERBARRIONUEVOAPPENDIX III - HEBREW TERMS IN THE FILES OF THOSE TRIED IN CIUDAD REAL INDICESINDEX OF PERSONSINDEX OF PLACESINDEX OF SUBJECTSLIST OF ABBREVIATIONSBack Flap
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Mandatory Device Recalls
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Issue 27: Diaspora
Cultural Diplomacy
Model UNESCO: A Roundtable
With Sarah Rifky, Nadia Ayari, Annabel Daou, Ranya Husami, and Mahmoud Khaled
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For the past two decades, the US State Department has sponsored an American pavilion at the International Cairo Biennale. The American participation has been variously wrongheadedly PC, expensive, beautiful, boring, or, in the case of one California-based artist named Lita Albuquerque, outright controversial. (She planned to build a hexagonal honeycomb structure at the pyramids; some detractors claimed it was the Star of David.)
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For the 2010 iteration of the Biennale, the State Department took the unusual step of awarding the curatorial platform not to an individual curator but to an American museum. Founded in 2005, the Arab American National Museum, in Dearborn, Michigan, is the first and only museum in the United States devoted to Arab American history and culture. Its website reads, "By bringing the voices and faces of Arab Americans to mainstream audiences, we continue our commitment to dispel misconceptions about Arab Americans and other minorities. The Museum brings to light the shared experiences of immigrants and ethnic groups, paying tribute to the diversity of our nation."
The museum, in turn, commissioned independent curator Ranya Husami to tend to the selection, which she did, working with four Arab American artists — Rheim Alkadhi, Nadia Ayari, Annabel Daou, and Dahlia Elsayed — and a highly articulated (in the catalog, anyway) rubric of "Orienteering." The State Department's press release declared, vaguely, that the four artists would "exhibit work that examines issues of time, place, and identity." In the exhibition catalog, Arab American National Museum director Anan Ameri declares that the arts are "a powerful tool that empowers people, instills community pride, and bridges some of the racial, ethnic, and global divisions that have separated communities and nations for too long." In this cheerily formulated gesture, the Arab Americans would be going "home."
On December 11, the day after the Biennale opened, the American embassy and the State Department organized a talk at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo to address that year's American representation. Daou and Husami were joined by curator Sarah Rifky and Alexandria-based artist Mahmoud Khaled. Ayari, in the meantime, was in the audience, along with Ameri and a representative from the State Department. What was initially conceived of as a one-hour discussion ended up extending into two or more, as the very basis of the selection — the Arab American meme — inspired impassioned debate, if not outright vitriol, on the part of some of the local artists present in the room.
As it happens, Daou took the Biennale's top prize. And some weeks later, revolution would come.
Nadia Ayari: The discussion at Townhouse has become mythic in our experience, a myth of an experience.
Mahmoud Khaled: Frankly, we were surprised when we saw the selection. We had a pretty established idea about the American pavilion at the Cairo Biennale. They used to send over big names, people like Daniel Martinez or Paul Pfeiffer. So this was a surprise. I mean, the Biennale is a professional international event that hopefully brings with it a new language. We expected a certain quality, especially coming from the American pavilion.
Ranya Husami: When I got the invitation to curate the pavilion, I thought about whether I should walk away. It was a difficult position to be in. I sought the advice of a lot of people. A lot of them said forget it, it's too political, don't do it. I do have an allergic reaction to the Arab American category. Maybe that's what eventually made it more interesting to me — to have the chance to throw myself into this thing I felt totally uncomfortable with and find out why. I wasn't fond of the museum, but I did think the Biennale could be an important platform.
NA: I consider myself an Arab and an American. I grew up in Tunisia and moved to the US when I was eighteen. I know the experience of being an Arab in America is very different from being an Arab living in the Arab world. And as identity politics–based as it is, there is validity to the category. But sure, the pigeonholing is a problem.
Annabel Daou: What is an Arab American anyway? I mean, it's complicated. I lived in Lebanon for the first nineteen years of my life. I consider myself Lebanese, probably, before I consider myself American. Given the war, you're living in an intense place and inevitably your childhood is marked by that. At the same time, I've lived in America and Europe for fourteen or fifteen years now, so I don't really know where that leaves me. I've always been hesitant about the category. And in terms of my work, I don't consider myself an Arab American artist or a Lebanese artist at all.
RH: So they asked me to suggest an Arab American artist, and that's when I approached Annabel. A lot of people had suggested [the artist] Diana Al-Hadid, but I guess I was hoping for someone who was a little more under the radar. We went ahead with Annabel's proposal, thinking it was a long shot.
AD: I put together a proposal for a project that was meant to explore the ambiguities of social and geographic, but also personal or emotional, location. The plan was to travel from New York to Beirut and ask people, "Where are you going?" and "Where are you coming from?" en route. The answers were sometimes complex, sometimes enigmatic, sometimes straightforward. It became a sound piece accompanying a visual work in which I charted my own locations. It seemed to resonate with the premise of the invitation, the fact that we're all in between places…
RH: The museum kept reminding me they wanted something that would resonate with their mission.
MK: When I Googled the museum, I noticed that it was more like a cultural center. I totally understand that it's important to have such a place in a city like Dearborn to promote and represent the Arab culture, but when it comes to international contemporary art shows, it's really problematic for a cultural center to commission work to put in the context of an art museum.
RH: It turned out that having Annabel wasn't enough. The museum wanted several artists that would address Arab Americanness — like four! It was ludicrous. I had something like four days to get three new artists. They said okay, we'll send you a catalog from an exhibition that [curator] Salwa Mikdadi had curated to look at, as if it would be quick and easy to add a few more people into the mix. I approached others. Some artists said no, understandably.
AD: I don't really know what happened behind the scenes. We went through different phases in this process. At one point the museum wanted to make a bigger show, so they asked Ranya to add artists, but they claimed it was the State Department that wanted that. They made all sorts of demands. I withdrew at one point… I had a lot of hesitations. You felt you were always making a concession to some sort of position or agenda.
RH: When I had originally called each of the artists about the project, I was honest about the situation and the difficulties involved. It was more like, Are you game? And most were and found it an interesting paradigm. We said, collectively, what could we do with this situation? The problem became part of the work itself.
NA: Sure, we all had qualms about being grouped together in this Arab American woman thing. In the end you had one Iraqi, one North African, one Lebanese… That was heavy. It had always been a one-person pavilion and suddenly you needed four women? Why? It didn't make any sense.
AD: A pragmatic way to think about it for me, maybe, was that you're surrounded by cages no matter what you do. Being in New York is a sort of cage, being an artist from the Arab world is another cage… It's something you just have to learn how to negotiate.
RH: It was discussions like that one that left us with the title of the exhibition, this Orienteering concept. We liked that it played on the words "Orient" and "disorientation" and also had nothing to do with them. It's a reference to this Swedish land navigation sport from the nineteenth century in which you negotiate unfamiliar terrain in trying to locate defined checkpoints before going back to where you came from. These artists were "orienteers" in their own way — and the checkpoints of the game are a metaphor for all sorts of institutional pressure. Rather than having a structured counter-narrative, it was about destructuring things. It allowed us to be very free and very loose.
AD: I guess the conversation between us leading up to the Biennale was, like, why should we pussyfoot around this? We're four Arab American women who come from very different places. It's complicated to put all these people together and we thought the Orienteering framework would allow us to play around with it… take the piss out of the circumstances of being grouped together under this very limiting label.
RH: We weren't prepared for the talk at all. I don't know if you spoke to William Wells and Sarah Rifky about it, but I think it's safe to say they had zero expectations. Or they expected we would be horrible Americans. They were ready to roll their eyes and I knew it.
NA: We realized immediately that people at Townhouse hadn't actually seen the show. I felt they didn't want to deal with it, but just wanted to focus on the Orienteering bit.
RH: I don't even remember what the official topic of the discussion was to be, because we moved away from it so quickly. It started off with us explaining what Orienteering was, and then Sarah spoke. If I recall correctly, she had a major allergic reaction to the title and also had a big sensitivity to us working with the Arab American Museum in the first place.
AD: It's funny; we thought it would be this quiet thing — the discussion. They really had it in for us. They had it in for Ranya especially, even though, in the end, it was me and Nadia who pulled that title together. We thought that the Egyptian art scene — and this is where we got it wrong — would recognize that this was a strategic response to a set of circumstances, an attempt to create something productive out of the reality of the situation. But then this would have required them to have looked at the work first or at least to have read the catalog essay. Little did we expect that they would come at us with: "How dare you use that word?"
SR: It worried me vis-à-vis art in general. The preceding question should have been, What is this museum of Arab American art? What is this particular tradition that isn't coming from a tradition of art? Is it an ethnographic museum? What does it mean when this museum commissions contemporary art? The discourses and the questions being raised weren't finding any resonance from the commissioner. They found this Arab Americanism something to be celebrated rather than critically conceived. There was no consideration of the artist's work beyond birthright or origin.
MK: The fact that it was organized by an Arab American museum raises important questions about the difference between art and culture.
AD: I don't think we were trying to do anything subversive as such, but something authentic to us. There was a certain amount of realism about our work and what it represented rather than us trying to come up with some clever idea. The title came after a lot of thought about what could possibly hold us all together. Nadia and I had been joking about how the idea of mapping always seems to come up in relation to work by Arab artists. In the end you could say our work was pulled together in a map-like way. We were finding our way, finding spots that were sometimes disparate, sometimes cohesive.
MK: We talked about this — the fact that they kept saying they were "playing." Like they were being in the game and playing with it, too. But you can't be in it and be critical, too. It doesn't work: you're already instrumentalized.
SR: In Egypt these issues hit a sore spot. It was all framed as an opportunity to "play." This kind of thing makes us crazy. And it makes Edward Said turn in his grave.
MK: Yeah, we're very sensitive about this kind of stuff. We always face this dilemma of identity and how it relates to our practices. I personally was surprised that art institutions and cultural-funding bodies in the States are still waiting to hear the same old identity-based narratives and not looking for a new language. Also the fact that they were all women: It felt like art as a form of helping minorities or something.
SR: It goes back to 2002 and 2003 and the very first topographic shows, like Contemporary Arab Representations by Catherine David or Fault Lines by Gilane Tawadros. It's an issue that's been tackled extensively since then by people like Tirdad Zolghadr, with his Ethnic Marketing project. The curator seemed unaware of a long history of problematizing these platforms.
RH: I tried to explain, if you read the essay, that we're actually critiquing these ideas, that we're aware of the problems related to this kind of representation. They said, "Don't even address them at all," "You're playing into it by even naming it as such," and "You're reinforcing these identities." Which is true in some ways. Sure, sometimes by talking about the "Arab American" in the first place, you might be reinforcing a myth you're trying to dispel.
MK: For me this identity stuff has been one of the biggest challenges of my career. It even informs my work. It's always a question in the Egyptian scene. How do you deal with it? National representations are already problematic in a place like the Cairo Biennale.
NA: It got so heated — this question of representing a place or a culture. At one point during the discussion, Annabel turned to one of the local artists, I think it was Mahmoud, and said, "Would you represent Egypt in Venice?" and he said something like, "Venice is different." What? How is it different? And what would it have meant to accept a commission from Farouk Hosny? To each their own at that point.
RH: No one really turned it around. Every one of these artists occasionally takes part in a loosely Arab show. No matter who you are, whether you're Hassan Khan or you're placed in a Christie's Dubai show. You can't say you're above and beyond these issues… . You can't possibly be immune to these cultural categories as an artist.
AD: Townhouse is also a very Western place. It's where every visitor goes when they come to Egypt. It's as much an extension of the international art community as it is a local institution. So there were all sorts of ironies with respect to their own positions.
RH: You can't push these things away and say these issues are so '90s, or so ten years ago, which is what I kept hearing. Everyone is involved in a multicultural experience, whether you're an Egyptian or an Arab American. All these issues are real. I mean there's some truth to the Arab American stuff. You know, when I was a kid I had a hummus sandwich and everyone else had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It's a silly example, but I mean to say there's something there that needs to be addressed.
MK: Culture is specific to a place, a land, a minority, an ethnicity, etc., while art's job is to go beyond all these things.
NA: It's true — we were stand-ins for what America does best, which is the melting pot. And sure, that is a powerful part of the US's identity… but it's complicated. I felt as if there was a need for me to present a very lovely face of my experience as an Arab American. I wish the encounter were more complex and nuanced. I wish it had been reflected on a little more on their part.
SR: To be apologetic about the framing is not enough. There are many constituents involved in such an invitation. It starts with the State Department and the commissioning museum. These discomforts are best addressed through the framework that hosts these artists and with the curator, who is the arbiter between these different constituents. It's one thing to use this opportunity for a real critical encounter in some prolific way that speaks truth to power from the position of the artists, but that didn't really happen here. The agency of the artists was completely lost.
NA: I think it was the fact that we were funded by the State Department in December of 2010 in Cairo — that was the real problem. I don't think I really understood that until later.
AD: There are times when I'm uncomfortable representing the US, but it also comes down to individuals and relationships with them. It turns out the person from the State Department — her name was Maura Pally — was great.
RH: At some point someone said, "Why would the State Department give the commission to the Arab American Museum?" implying that it was because of political interests and it would serve to make them look good. Maura from the State Department was in the audience and got up and said, "I would like to introduce myself as deputy secretary of the cultural department, and I could say with one-hundred percent honesty that we gave it to the museum because they had the best proposal." She kind of shut everyone up with that. In the end, I think the problem was the Arab American Museum.
AD: It was the museum.
NA: I mean, there were so many cooks involved. At one point the museum told us that my work was "jarring." I think it was a combination of the psychosexual quality of large pink flowers that look like tongues as well as the political undertones of the piece, which is about two politicians.
RH: Basically, I think the museum was doing anything it could to get this grant from the State Department. I think for them it was a big deal. It was a quarter-million dollars or something, so they wanted to give the State Department what they thought it wanted to see. A lot of it was mental laziness. They weren't willing to dig deeper. They just wanted to get a grant and put their logo on it.
SR: You can't really expect much from the State Department or even the museum, but you could expect more from their critical counterparts — the curator, the artist, and so on.
RH: Throughout this whole discussion I was thinking, Has anyone read the catalog? Will anyone talk about the work? They got so caught up about the labels attached to the exhibition that no one bothered to look at the work. Rheim stood up at one point, frustrated, and said, "No one has seen the work! Why don't you go see the work and then we have this talk again?"
SR: Regardless of what I think about the artwork, these issues irk me because they represent a much broader condition for art. When art becomes a stand-in for cultural performance, it completely co-opts the artwork and overrides the agency of the artist. Not to be aware of these things raises questions for me about the role of the curator in this context.
NA: I'm not sure how much we interacted with the Biennale. That's why we talk about the talk at the Townhouse as mythic. Everyone was screaming! It was meant to be one hour, but it became a two-hour back-and-forth questioning why the US State Department would fund a pavilion of four "Arab American" artists in Cairo. Outside of that and the awards ceremony, there wasn't that much engaging with what we were doing as a group.
AD: You know, a lot of us don't like the contexts in which we may work, and the fact is, this is the world we live in. We thought we were doing the best thing we could do given the context. And if we said no to the platform, they would have just done it with a different set of artists.
NA: I don't know if we were changed by seeing the work there. I think that everyone saw — how can I put this? — everyone was satisfied with what they accomplished given all the constraints. I don't want to misspeak or offend anyone, so I'll be careful, but I think everyone saw what they wanted to see. There was no real epiphany, but the entire experience was profound.
AD: In the end, it was a very precious experience on all kinds of levels. On the level of language, for example, a lot has happened to my work since. The important thing is what these encounters do in the long run, whether good or bad.
NA: I would do it again, in retrospect. Even with all the drama. Simply because the work really carried the pavilion. It created this relationship between Annabel and I and Rheim and I and Ranya that's more important than being seen as perhaps placating these agendas or these institutional identity politics. Whenever you take on these projects, the risks are big. You know how that is.
MK: All in all, it was problematic for the [Egyptian] scene. It raised a lot of issues that we struggle with as is. And the American pavilion? It once had a reputation and it was destroyed.
SR: If art is the last zone of autonomous expression, it should also be a place where one could respond critically to these platforms.
RH: I thought, Let's see if we could play with the platform and get away with it. I understand we may have failed. In the end, it may have just have been our fault. It turns out that the Arab American Museum wanted a happy Arab American show. And I thought we could manage to work with an institution and do whatever we wanted. In retrospect, that may have been a bit overambitious…
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Peru arrests 200 in Lima; Machu Picchu ordered closed
People protest outside the Police Investigation Operations Center – DIRINCRI to demand the release of those arrested at the campus of the University of San Marcos in Lima on Jan 21, 2023. (ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP)
LIMA – Peruvian police arrested over 200 people accused of illegally entering the campus of a major Lima university, while authorities in Cusco shut the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu and the Inca trail as deadly anti-government protests spread nationwide.
Dozens of Peruvians were injured after tensions flared again on Friday as police clashed with protesters, with security forces in capital city Lima using tear gas to repel demonstrators throwing glass bottles and stones, as fires burned in the streets.
Some 46 people have been killed in the weeks-long clashes and another nine in traffic accidents related to the barricades set up amid the protests
Some 46 people have been killed in the weeks-long clashes and another nine in traffic accidents related to the barricades set up amid the protests.
Alfonso Barrenechea, with the crime prevention division of the prosecutor's office, told local radio station RPP that arrested 205 people at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos for illegally trespassing on the university's premises and for allegedly stealing electronic goods.
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A group of masked protesters stormed the campus late Friday and removed security personnel from the campus after taking vests and other equipment from them, the university said in a statement.
In videos circulating online, an armored vehicle can be seen breaking down a door on the university campus to allow entry for security forces.
In the Cusco region, the gateway to Machu Picchu, Glencore's major Antapaccay copper mine suspended operations on Friday after protesters attacked the premises – one of the largest in the country – for the third time this month.
Airports in Arequipa, Cusco and the southern city of Juliaca were also attacked by demonstrators, delivering a fresh blow to Peru's tourism industry.
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Cultural authorities in Cusco said in a statement that "in view of the current social situation in which our region and the country are immersed, the closure of the Inca trail network and Machu Picchu has been ordered, as of January 21 and until further notice".
The imposing Incan citadel is a major tourist attraction, with over a million visitors per year, though that number was reduced due to the pandemic.
Protests have rocked Peru since former President Pedro Castillo was ousted in December after he attempted to dissolve the legislature to prevent an impeachment vote.
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The unrest, which until this week had been concentrated in Peru's south, has prompted the government to extend a state of emergency to six regions, curtailing some civil rights.
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Javy Baez is the greatest tagger in the history of baseball. This is quite an achievement for a 24-year-old baseball player, but it's obviously true for one simple reason: Nobody even knew that was a thing before he came along.
Clicking on the story will also lead you to video of Baez's greatest tags.
Great story. The creativity behind identifying the "greatest tagger ever" adds to my interest in the sport and hopefully becomes a "thing' this season. He certainly makes it look easy.
I hate to be a killjoy, but some of this is just showboating. Geez, he almost missed the tag on Cruz (looks to me like he barely grazed the inside of his knee/thigh, when he coulda/shoulda slapped the tag on the top or outside of his leg), and on Lindor. I respect the athleticism and cockiness, but on some of these plays he's introducing an unnecessary element of risk.
I think that tagging maybe *is* like parking – not that there are limits to how great you can be at it – but that there's no point (apart from pride and esthetics), and significant potential downside, to pushing those boundaries. What's better: a hundred mediocre tags, or 99 really cool tags and one botch?
Forget going all Goose Gossage, I'm going all Ty Cobb on this. Keep that up and you'll be needing a dozen stitches or more. I am surprised Joe would think showboating on a fundamental play deserves meritorious mention. What's next? A no-look bunt?
At the 49 second mark, he leaps left, catches the ball, swipes downward behind his back, and nails the runner right on his keister milliseconds before he reaches the base. Most guys would be happy just to keep that ball out of centerfield. Unbelievable.


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AHA News: A Heart Researcher's Heart Stopped at a Restaurant. His Daughter's Coaches Saved Him.
Last Updated: November 11, 2021.
Kevin and Marjorie Volpp (middle and far right) with daughters Daphne, Anna and Thea (left to right) in a photo taken upon his discharge from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in July.
THURSDAY, Nov. 11, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- A little after 9 p.m. on a Friday in July, Dr. Kevin Volpp arrived at a restaurant in Cincinnati with his 15-year-old daughter Daphne, her squash coach and some friends. Everyone was tired and eager for a good meal.
Daphne was coming off her second long, intense match of the day, with another the next morning. The tournament was important enough to have lured them away from Philadelphia on the 52nd birthday of Marjorie Volpp, Daphne's mom and Kevin's wife.
Kevin needed to fuel up because he was 16 days from competing in an Ironman 70.3 event. He'd never done anything like it. But when one of his older daughters suggested it, doing something so challenging – and doing it with her – felt irresistible. By this night, he was easily in his best shape since his mid-20s.
Next to Kevin sat John White, the squash coach at Drexel University, boyfriend of Daphne's coach and himself a squash legend. He'd even been nicknamed, "The Legend." A former world No. 1, his game had been all about power. For years, he held the record for the hardest shot.
White ordered the filet mignon and Maine lobster tail. That sounded good to Kevin, so he ordered it, too.
Chewing his first bite, Kevin reached for his water but knocked it over.
Then he slumped onto the table and tumbled toward White.
His heart wasn't beating.
What happened next is a story rich in lessons about living and about avoiding death. It's about the importance of knowing CPR, why being fit always helps and what's possible when every link in the chain of survival holds firm.
On Monday, Volpp – a leader at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School whose current research includes a variety of efforts to help people lower their risk of heart attacks – will share his story publicly for the first time at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions, the organization's flagship conference.
Put another way, thousands of people from around the world who are devoted to keeping hearts pumping will hear from one of their own about the day this summer when his heart stopped pumping.
"After the last year and a half, to say we need more wins is truly an understatement," said Dr. David Harris, the attending physician in the cardiac care unit where Kevin was treated. "Kevin is an absolute win. He's a patient I will always remember."
Before that fateful dinner, Daphne played two matches. Her second ran so long that their group was late for a dinner reservation.
Her coach, Gina Stoker, and White arrived last. Daphne had been seated next to her father, but gave her seat to White.
Because of that, when Volpp collapsed and rolled left, White caught him.
Placing Volpp back into his chair, White thought his body felt stiff.
Stoker immediately called 911. White started giving CPR. He kept going until police took over.
When paramedics arrived, they connected Volpp to an AED, a portable electronic device that analyzes the heart rhythm and, if needed, can deliver a shock to try restoring a normal rhythm. The machine advised that a shock was needed. They deployed it, then gave more chest compressions.
After another shock, Volpp's pulse became strong enough to take him to the ambulance. Before driving away, his pulse disappeared again, requiring a third shock.
Volpp collapsed because of cardiac arrest. The cardiac arrest was caused by a heart attack.
En route, paramedics called the hospital with details. A team was waiting in the cardiac catheterization lab. Doctors found one of his arteries 99% blocked. They performed a minimally invasive procedure that involved inflating a balloon to open the narrowed pathway and inserting a stent to keep it open.
With his body on the mend, the unknown was his brain.
He'd gone without a pulse, thus starving his body of oxygen, for about 14 minutes. Permanent brain damage can begin within minutes.
Once he regained consciousness, Volpp was confused, as is typical.
Yet by Saturday night, he understood all that went wrong with his heart – and he began absorbing all that went right to fix it.
911 was called right away.
White and then a police officer provided CPR continuously until paramedics took over.
Paramedics arrived with an AED within five minutes of the 911 call.
The ambulance left 12 minutes later and made it to the hospital in six minutes.
From reaching the hospital until Volpp's artery was open (what's known as "door-to-balloon time") took 1 hour, 8 The target is less than 1 hour, 30 minutes.
With each successful step, his odds improved.
Still, survival rates for cardiac arrest outside of a hospital nationally are around 10%.
Harris, the on-site cardiologist, told Volpp the key to his survival was immediately receiving high-quality CPR.
"How do you know I received high-quality CPR?" Volpp asked.
"Because I'm talking to you 25 hours after the event," Harris said.
At 7:40 a.m. on Sunday, Volpp tapped out the following text to White: "Hey John, I don't know how to thank you. I think you saved my life. I think I'm doing OK now thanks to you"
For a few weeks after his life was saved, Volpp's chest and ribs were sore.
"But it was sort of a pleasant reminder of how people helped me survive," he said. "So I didn't really mind."
He traded Ironman training for cardiac rehabilitation. A stress test showed no problems stemming from the repaired artery or elsewhere in his heart.
He's been cleared to exercise daily. He's even rejoined his triathlon training club.
"I'm choosing to believe the narrative that all these things perfectly fell into place to save my life for a reason," he said. "There's a lot for me to yet do in this world."
Such as helping fewer people die of heart disease.
Volpp is one of two leaders of a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how behavioral economic approaches (think, "nudges") can increase physical activity among patients at higher risk of heart disease. He is also leading a multi-project initiative at Penn Medicine on reducing heart attack risk by influencing patient and clinician behavior and has published more than 150 articles on related topics.
"It's always been one of my most important efforts," he said, "but now I'm doubling down on it."
American Heart Association News covers heart and brain health. Not all views expressed in this story reflect the official position of the American Heart Association. Copyright is owned or held by the American Heart Association, Inc., and all rights are reserved. If you have questions or comments about this story, please email editor@heart.org.
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