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"Allende Wins"
Chile Marks 50th Anniversary of Salvador Allende's Election
Declassified Records Capture U.S. Reaction to First Free Election of a Socialist Leader
September 4, 1970, Historic Vote Prompted Nixon/Kissinger Regime Change Effort
National Security Archives – Washington D.C., September 4, 2020 – "Chile voted calmly to have a Marxist-Leninist state, the first nation in the world to make this choice freely and knowingly," U.S. Ambassador Edward Korry dramatically reported to Washington in a cable titled "Allende Wins" on September 4, 1970. "[W]e have suffered a grievous defeat; the consequences will be domestic and international; the repercussions will have immediate impact in some lands and delayed effect in others."
On the 50th anniversary of the history-changing election of Salvador Allende in Chile, the National Security Archive today posted a selection of previously declassified documents recording the reaction of U.S. officials to the first democratic election of a Socialist leader in Latin America, or elsewhere. Since the early 1960s, U.S. policy makers had dedicated tens of millions of dollars in overt aid and covert actions to preventing the popular head of the Chilean Socialist party from being elected. Allende's victory set in motion a furious effort, ordered by President Nixon, supervised by his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, and implemented by the CIA, to destabilize Chile and undermine Allende's ability to govern—an effort that set the stage for the September 11, 1973 military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet (…)
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Briefing Book #719
Edited by Peter Kornbluh
nsarchiv@gwu.edu
CategoríasDesvelando el tiempo presente, Historia de América digital EtiquetasAllende, Chile, CIA, Historia de América Latina, historia de chile, latin american and caribbean history, Latin American History, Socialismo, Unidad Popular
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EthicsDaily.com Has Role in Transformative Time Akin to Age of Gutenberg
by Robert Parham | Apr 6, 2009 | Opinion
We are witnessing a transformative period—a distant kin to the advent of the Gutenberg printing press—that has profound consequences for civic and moral engagement. Print newspapers are going out of business. Baptist and other religious newspapers are following the same path. What will emerge is uncertain.
Recall that the Gutenberg printing press increased literacy, played an instrumental role in the Protestant Reformation and launched democratic change across Europe.
We are living in a similar power shift.
In the past few months, five newspaper corporations have filed for bankruptcy protection, including companies that own the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Orlando Sentinel, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News. Attempting to reduce costs and survive, The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press have cut home delivery to only three days a week. The Houston Chronicle has laid off 90 staff members in its newsroom. Seattle Post-Intelligencer has stopped publishing. The Tennessean in my driveway each morning is seemingly lighter and the news and opinion content is thinner.
EthicsDaily.com's contributing editor Brian Kaylor wrote in early March: "In 2007, total subscriptions to all state Southern Baptist newspapers in the nation dropped below one million for the first time in over 50 years. Total circulation is down from nearly two million in the late 1970s and down a quarter of a million in just the past decade. Additionally, several of the state papers have moved from a weekly publication schedule to printing biweekly or monthly."
We are witnessing at worst the disappearance and at best the diminishment of newspapers—secular and religious.
Some may wonder why that matters.
Paul Starr, professor of sociology and public affairs, wrote in the New Republic a piece titled, "Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a new era of corruption): Why American politics and society are about to be changed for the worse."
"One danger of reduced news coverage is to the integrity of government," wrote Starr, pointing out the corruption in countries with limited circulation of daily newspapers.
"More than any other medium, newspapers have been our eyes on the state, our check on private abuses, our civic alarm systems," he wrote.
Newspapers not only serve as a watchdog for the actions of governments and corporations, but they also keep us informed about scientific developments and cultural events with a fact-checking quality missing in other forms of information distribution, such as blogging. Newspapers have encouraged civic engagement through involvement in local elections and acts of kindness.
Much the same could be said, should be said, about Baptist newspapers, although over the past 25 years they have fled from the watchdog function to the spin cycle of denominational offices. State papers too rarely check potential denominational misdirection or church corruption.
If newspapers and Baptist state papers go out of business, what comes next?
"We're collectively living through 1500, when it's easier to see what's broken than what will replace it," Clay Shirky, a Web-guru, noted recently in a reference to the age of Gutenberg.
"When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won't break before new systems are in place," he wrote. "They are demanding to be told that ancient social bargains aren't in peril, that core institutions will be spared, that new methods of spreading information will improve previous practice rather than upending it."
Shirky wrote, "When we shift our attention from 'save newspapers' to 'save society', the imperative changes from 'preserve the current institutions' to 'do whatever works.' And what works today isn't the same as what used to work."
Now, what does this have to do with EthicsDaily.com?
When we decided some seven years ago to post fresh content every weekday on EthicsDaily.com, we did so because we thought people of faith deserved current information about contemporary issues through news stories, opinion pieces and movie reviews. After all, we were living in a 24/7 information society, even if Baptist leaders stuck with an outdated approach to information distribution—providing news and opinion only after cutting-edge relevance had dulled.
We also thought people of faith desired help in applying their faith in real time to daily issues or events, not hindsight help two weeks or a month after their Baptist state paper arrived.
EthicsDaily.com was never about saving Baptist state papers. It was always about serving people of faith.
We think that EthicsDaily.com has the right news, information and resource model to help the faithful navigate the profound turbulence through which we are traveling. We combine news stories from multiple sources, opinion columns, blog reflections, advocacy and sermon podcasts, daily video clips and movie reviews.
As secular and religious newspapers fade, EthicsDaily.com will continue to be one of the important sources that encourages and enables civic and moral engagement for people of faith.
We hope our readers agree. We hope you will become ethics evangelists, telling others the good news about EthicsDaily.com.
Robert Parham is executive editor of EthicsDaily.com and executive director of its parent organization, the Baptist Center for Ethics.
Robert Parham
Robert M. Parham (1953 – 2017) was the founder and executive director of Baptist Center for Ethics from 1991 to 2017. He served as executive editor of EthicsDaily.com, BCE's website, from its launch in 2002 until 2017.
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Inside Ringside
The truth about boxing
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World Titles Mean Nothing Unless They Are Undisputed
Posted: August 16, 2016 in Personal Thoughts
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In todays world of boxing, there are so many sanctioning bodies with all of these different belts, which unfortunately only translates in to one thing. There are too many major world championships. This makes it impossible for one champion to stand out above the rest, because these days, everyone is a champion. There are 4 major sanctioning bodies in boxing as of today, which means that every single division has 4 major recognized world champions. It is an absolute mess. Actually I stand corrected, each division has 5 recognized champions, due to the fact that the WBA has a "regular" world title, and a "super" world title. A champion in my eyes is a fighter who is ranked #1 (in some cases #2) in their respective division, and holds a world title belt. To make matters even more complicated, on top of the "alphabet" titles, you also have TheRing championship belt, which the holder of that loosely translates into the "Lineal" champion of their respective division. So all in all, you can actually say that each division had 6 major world championships.
Boxing must do something to unify all of these titles, so that we can have clear cut champions. The WBA is actively trying to unify the "Super" title and the "Regular" title in each division, but they have been largely unsuccessful in doing so. The reason being is, why would anyone want to give up their world title, because a sanctioning body made a mistake by creating too many belts. There are way too many undeserving fighters these days that can technically call themselves world champions. The first that comes to mind was Charles Martin (heavyweight). Although Martin was beaten recently by Anthony Joshua, he never deserved the IBF title in the first place. Tyson Fury was stripped of that title, when he refused a fight so that he can have his rematch with Klitschko, and Martin was thrown into a fight for a vacant title, and won because his opponent was injured. Another example of a paper champion would be Danny Garcia (welterweight). Although Garcia's title run at 140 lbs was very respectable and deserving, he moved up to 147, and after 1 fight, got a title shot. Garcia is currently ranked #6 in the welterweight division, and he holds a world title. Amir Khan, Shawn Porter, and Tim Bradley (#3, #4, #5) all rank ahead of him, and do not hold titles. Given, they did all lose their title fights, but Garcia was a champion before they got those title fights. Its unfair. The biggest paper champion of all is Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. Recently stripped of the WBC title for refusing to fight Gennady Golovkin, he still holds TheRing Middleweight title, which puts him at the top of the division, even thought Golovkin would destroy him.
Mergers between sanctioning bodies are completely out of the question, even though that is what boxing needs. They simply make too much money to give up parts of their companies. Bottom line, it will never happen. If there was only some way for these bodies to work together and just merge the belts themselves, that would help tremendously. For example, without the company itself merging, lets say that the WBA & WBO belts were one. And the WBC & IBF belts were one. That would eliminate 2 title belts in each division, and have more clear cut champions. That will probably never happen as well, because these bodies make money off of the belts themselves. Champions must pay fees to hold their belts, believe it or not, which in my opinion is also very wrong.
Lately we have seen a lot more unification fights, which is good for boxing, because even though it does not decrease the amount of championship belts, it decreases the amount of champions. The latest of course being Terence Crawford VS Viktor Postol, when they unified the WBO/WBC/TheRing Junior Welterweight titles. In 2014, Sergey Kovalev unified the WBA/WBO/IBF Light Heavyweight titles, when he beat Bernard Hopkins. That cut the number of champions to just 2 in the Light Heavyweight division. This was a good thing. More titles must be unified, so that we can have true champions, because like I said before, there are way too many paper champions. If u have a division with 2 fighters ranked #1 and #2, and they both hold 2 belts, how do you know who is actually better? The WBA, being the biggest mess of all, must put up all of their "Super" champions and their "Regular" champions against each other, so that they can have just one title in each division.
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Polar Star: How a 63m Lürssen explorer yacht was reborn
2 May 2017• Written by Caroline White
There's usually chaos before the calm of a superyacht launch — or relaunch. The planks, tarpaulins, the entrails of electrical systems, dusty contractors wedged under and behind things; no matter how many times you see the endgame of a superyacht project, it seems inconceivable that they'll pull it off in time.
Polar Star, moored up at MB92 in Barcelona, was a maelstrom of activity in November. Built in 2005 and bought by her current owner in 2007, she had a thorough refit in 2015 and was back at the Spanish yard for some warranty work and edits to the sauna, before heading to the Caribbean.
It is a testament to those behind this extraordinary project that Polar Star met her deadline. But then this is a team adept at recognising the changes that will make the biggest difference using the lightest touch. The total project time was nine months; the interior team FM Architettura d'Interni, which fabricates most of its products from scratch, had just seven.
"Our approach is cosmetic," says Francesca Muzio, co-founder of the company. "We don't modify the structure because, if you start with a very intensive, aggressive approach, it costs money and time." And she should know, having spent 10 years as design director of CRN.
Luckily they had an Espen Øino-designed, well-maintained Lürssen to work with, so there weren't many worries on the structural side. The biggest edits to the guts of Polar Star were the electrics, electronics, audiovisual, plumbing and exhausts. Changes to the structure were mostly limited to exterior areas. The contemporary layout was fine as it was.
But the country house-style décor needed a total rethink. The guiding principles from Muzio were "cleaner, purer, softer" and — fittingly for an explorer yacht — the owners requested a design that was more in tune with the ocean environment.
Polar Star's new interiors were created by Italian studio FM Architettura d'Interni
The most literal examples of this are the stairwell carpets, designed and made by FM Architettura d'Interni, and rippled and coloured to resemble the Caribbean Sea, and the hand-stitched leather handrails that blend in with the beach club atmosphere on board Polar Star.
But the colour palette throughout Polar Star is a delicate silver grey, with aquamarine and bronze accents. The yellow tone of the varnished oak panelling has been muted and cooled with a bleach wash, while wallpapers by Venetian company Rubelli have a subtle silvery shimmer.
The deeper aim of the revamp was to streamline Polar Star's interior, making it more usable and, as Muzio notes, "increasing the perception of the volume".
The owners of Polar Star wanted an interior more in tune with the ocean environment
The main saloon is a case in point. Heavy floor-length curtains (which also featured on other levels) used to block out the edges of the window frames, even when drawn. These have been replaced with cream blinds that make the most of what the massive windows have to offer. Even when closed for privacy, the blinds' semi-translucent composition floods the space with light.
Rugs have also gone, revealing new grey parquet that makes the space lighter and seem wider. A large round of squashy taupe sofas to starboard has been replaced with a more structured white version. Pale blue scatter cushions pick up the tone of a spectacular central mosaic designed by FM Architettura d'Interni and built by DG Mosaic, which draws the eye all the more for the simplification of its surroundings.
In front of the seating area is a glamorous cabinet in shagreen with custom-made marble mosaic handles. It stores audiovisual equipment and above it is a 65-inch cinema screen, while to port a secondary seating area has been replaced with a smart bar.
Polar Star's heavy curtains were replaced by blinds during the refit
Forward, a seldom-used superyacht office has become a massage room with backlit furniture and a practical vinyl floor. The area has been transformed from one where you could sit or work, to one in which you can lounge, watch a film, socialise at the bar or have a massage.
The owner's deck saloon has a more glamorous edge, thanks to etched mirror-front cabinets that gleam in daylight or the glow from the marble fireplace. And thought has gone into a few smaller edits.
To aft, for example, the corners of two cabinets blocked the view from seating areas to the windows. These were scooped out to create recessed plinths — spaces for flower arrangements that free up sightlines and maximise light flow.
The owner's saloon on Polar Star features a marble fireplace
In the owner's cabin, forward on the same deck, more wardrobe space was needed. "We put this partition wall [behind the bed], pushed the bed forward 60cm, which is nothing, because there was a lot of space in front," says Muzio. "And we gained all these wardrobes."
Not a team to miss a decorative opportunity, that partition is covered in leather cut and moulded with a flower motif. They removed a bath to create two equal-sized shower rooms and made a little office to starboard in the cabin.
The main deck guest cabins now have their own decorative leather headboards and muted wallpapers, and while most marble in the en suites has been retained — "it was pointless taking something out that was good," says Van Wyk — fittings were updated and the only bathroom was made a shower room so that all four cabin facilities matched.
The owner's cabin on Polar Star was moved forward during the refit
The crew layout on board Polar Star was already voluminous and functional, so the cabins just needed new door panels and curtains. The superyacht wheelhouse had more of a revamp. "All new screens. All the radars have been redone, new gyros, all new controls," lists Van Wyk.
At the aft end of the bridge deck is a superyacht gym, which got new flooring and a storage rethink. "Before, things were stowed in different areas, it wasn't built-in and then you've got heavy items rolling around. Now it's really practical and they use it," says Van Wyk.
Out on the bridge aft deck, the exterior edits begin, as notable for what was preserved as much as for what was changed from Polar Star's previous incarnation. Replacing the hexagonal superyacht spa pool with a contemporary square allows space for large sunpads either side.
The spa pool on Polar Star was replaced during her MB92 refit
The only obstacles were the round skylights in the deck where these would sit — so they created sunpads with holes in them. They still function as skylights but the cushion holes can also be used as ice bucket holders. "And we made a round cushion that we could put in if they want to close it up," says Van Wyk. They also added two types of bar — one for chin-ups and one for drinking.
More significantly, Polar Star's aft platform was extended to Øino's design. "It was only 1.1 metre in depth, now it's 3.3 metres," says Van Wyk. Øino adds: "It has lots of benefits at a relatively modest cost. Not just space benefits but speed, noise."
The new sauna is just inside a door from here — the capacity did not change but the original was replaced by a modern version built by Klafs. Forward, up broad central stairs from the platform, the main deck aft used to be primarily for tender storage. Now there is a neat round of seating, with the tenders shielded behind wooden louvres. "So they have a sauna, then they can take an aperitif here," says Muzio.
Polar Star's new exterior finish features a custom shade of light brown
But the superyacht sundeck is the most dramatically transformed exterior space. The design team removed the hatch that used to provide access to the deck from the central internal staircase and made the external side staircase the main point of entry.
"My biggest concern was the new hardtop, because it's about 60 square metres — it's huge," says Van Wyk. "It would have been at least 3.6 tonnes with aluminium. It was just impossible, we could not do it. So we could only use carbon fibre. We probably came in at about 1.1 tonnes."
That was a weight difference small enough to balance out by losing weight elsewhere, for example all the furniture up top is carbon, too.
But it wasn't just the hardtop — which opens up "like a car roof" to give light when desired. Essentially the whole sundeck was remade because, as Muzio puts it, the owner never went up there.
Forward, beneath the hardtop, is a long bar, fronted with what Muzio calls "bubble glass", designed by FM Architettura d'Interni and built by the project's exterior carpenter Vedder, and lit from beneath.
On the other side of this, the area is split between a broad sunpad space for lounging and a seating area with two long tables that can be converted into dining tables.
Further al fresco dining space is provided on the main deck aft
In terms of Polar Star's exterior look, the dark blue hull has been replaced by a muted light brown. "We couldn't quite find the right brown," says Muzio, "the ones in the catalogue were too brown or too yellow or too red." Then they came across a flowerpot that was just the right shade, and they sent it to Pinmar and Awlgrip, who reproduced the colour exactly.
"It's now called Polar Star brown," adds Van Wyk. Øino approves of the resulting effect, which draws out his lines. "It is interesting to what extent colours are important," he says. "From the outside you can't really see various changes — two metres more on the stern platform or that gazebo structure — when you're down on the water. The deckhouse is a darker brown, which gives a depth or contrast between the hull and rest of the boat. And the windows in that darker colour disappear a bit."
So now the yacht is finished, how does the owner feel about her? He initially asked Muzio to pen the interior so he could sell Polar Star complete with redesign drawings. But he liked the ideas so much that he decided to do the refit himself. And he likes the result so much that he's keeping Polar Star for private use.
Polar Star's owner has had her for ten years
"There is no greater feeling than sitting on the refreshed sundeck at night, watching a film by starlight for example, or retiring to the improved owner's cabin to relax and enjoy a renewed sense of space, peace and the panoramic views," he says.
It's certainly a swift change of plans, but it's hardly a surprise from a superyacht refit project that was all about maximum impact in minimum time.
First published in the March 2017 edition of Boat International
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Kevin's friends, family, and associates look forward each year to his holiday card depicting a winter urban or suburban scene in the Capital District. Learn how he goes about creating this images, usually sitting in his car, through a process of rough sketches, value and color studies, and finished watercolors. We'll cover the logistics of drawing and painting in your car, looking out of a window in your house or a cafe, or working completely outdoors during the winter months, including choosing and carrying supplies, setting up comfortably, etc. We'll also discuss design, composing, perspective, drawing basics and different media conducive to sketching on the go.
You might have seen Kuhne's work before -- he's painted many local scenes, and some of his watercolors were on display at the First Presbyterian Church of Albany this past spring.
The class at Arlene's on Fuller Road is this Saturday, December 1 from 11 am to 4 pm. The class fee is $60.
By the way: Arlene's frequently has all sorts of art classes, from block printing to paper wreath making to oil painting to color theory.
Kevin is a great art teacher - for beginners and more advanced students. He's informative, down to earth in his approach, and very entertaining.
Oh, come now: "This sounds like it could be relaxing"!
Drawing is difficult and engaging, making one think. A lot. It is often frustrating. It is not relaxing!


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Spot rhinos in Chitwan National Park, one of Asia's best wildlife parks.


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The Seany Foundation namesake inspires recording artist to pursue her dream
As young love goes, this one is a doozy. Not only does their story include the trials of a long-distance relationship, but these two starry-eyed teens dealt with something no kid should ever face: terminal illness.
Print Title "Music and Memories"
Published Thursday, November 28, 2019
By Deanna Murphy
There are the usual childhood sweetheart tales, all googly eyes and broken hearts, and then there's the story of Jesse Palter and Sean Lewis Robins. As young love goes, this one is a doozy. Not only does their story include the trials of a long-distance relationship, but these two starry-eyed teens dealt with something no kid should ever face: terminal illness.
Though they lived far apart, Palter in Michigan and Robins in San Diego, the two were introduced by their parents, who knew each other professionally, when Robins was experiencing his first bout with cancer. He was interested in the entertainment world and his parents thought it would raise his spirits to connect with Palter, who'd been performing much of her life. "He asked for a demo and an autographed pic, which was very sweet," she remembers. "I sent both with a little note saying, 'if you ever feel like reaching out, here's my email,' and we began a pen pal relationship in the heyday of AOL." Though Palter says that initially, "I was so young I couldn't wrap my head around anything beyond a friendship with somebody who had a terminal illness," sparks flew when Robins was pronounced in remission. "He was my childhood sweetheart and one of the great soulmates of my life," she says. "There was no stopping that love and I'm grateful that I got to experience it."
Sean Lewis Robins and Jesse Palter in their teens
Though the relationship ran its course, Palter says they were in touch until the very end, when Robins ultimately lost his battle with Ewing's sarcoma in November 2006, just shy of his 23rd birthday. From his battle, his legacy was borne: his namesake organization, The Seany Foundation. The local nonprofit offers relief and joy to kids struggling with cancer and their families. Palter now lives in Los Angeles, where she continues to pursue her music and released her debut album, Paper Trail, this past July.
Nearly 13 years after Robins' death, Palter still feels his impact on her life's path. "He encouraged me to chase my dreams and pursue my career 110 percent, all-in," she says. "It hasn't been easy, but I feel in my darkest hours I can always hear his voice in the back of my head; he just believed in me so much."
Now chasing that dream head-on, she is booking shows to promote her album, including a recent stop in San Diego that doubled as a benefit concert for The Seany Foundation. "The whole thing felt very surreal," she admits. "It only made sense for me to do something in honor of him in San Diego, and The Seany Foundation has done wonderful things in his memory. I know he would be so proud."
And while her past will not be forgotten, it's full steam ahead now for Palter. "It's been a real journey," she reflects. "I've learned a lot along the way and have had some amazing experiences and milestones, and I feel like it's just the beginning." jessepalter.com, theseanyfoundation.org
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Role of Insulin Secretagogues and Insulin Sensitizing Agents in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Patients who have Diabetes
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aDepartment of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Tulane University Medical Center, SL-53, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699, USA bDepartment of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1601 Perdido Street, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among patients who have diabetes mellitus. Patients who have diabetes mellitus have a greatly increased relative risk of cardiovascular disease when compared with patients who do not have diabetes mellitus [1]. Furthermore, in patients who have established cardiovascular disease, the rate of subsequent cardiovascular events is significantly higher than in individuals who do not have diabetes mellitus [2] and is associated with greatly increased morbidity and mortality. Epidemiologic studies showed that diabetic patients are more prone to develop complications following cardiovascular events [3]. Moreover, diabetic patients who have ischemic heart disease have a substantially worse outcome after coronary interventional procedures compared with nondiabetic patients [4]. The basis for these differences in outcome remained unclear. In most animal studies, diabetic myocardium demonstrates an enhanced sensitivity to the detrimental effect of ischemia/reperfusion injury and it generally is believed that diabetes mellitus is less tolerant to such injury [3]. Recent advances in invasive cardiology and medical therapy have led to a significant reduction in cardiovascular mortality in nondiabetic men and women; however, the reduction in cardiovascular mortality in men who
* Corresponding author. Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Tulane University Medical Center, SL-53, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699.
E-mail address: [email protected] (V.A. Fonseca).
have diabetes mellitus has been modest and not statistically significant [5], whereas mortality rates increased during a 10-year period in women who had diabetes mellitus.
Diabetes is a complex disease. At least two underlying defects have been postulated in the pathogenesis of this condition. First, b-cell dysfunction and failure that lead to elevated glucose levels result in oxidative stress that causes increased cardiovascular morbidity. Second, insulin resistance, which is associated with endothelial dysfunction, inflammation, and abnormal fibrinolysis contributes to cardiovascular disease [6,7]. Most patients have both defects and the defects frequently are interrelated, in that hyperglycemia itself can lead to insulin resistance and insulin resistance can cause b-cell dysfunction. Fig. 1 illustrates these interactions and outlines a pathway between these defects and cardiovascular disease.
Few long-term studies that compared the effects of secretagogues with sensitizers on cardiovascular outcomes have been conducted. Of particular importance is the United Kingdom Prevention of Diabetes Study (UKPDS), which demonstrated that in obese patients, a weak sensitizer like metformin may be better than a secretagogue in preventing myocardial infarction and cardiovascular mortality.
In the UKPDS, patients who had type 2 diabetes mellitus were randomized to intensive (medication) or conventional (diet) treatment and were observed for approximately 10 years. The group that was assigned to intensive treatment
Fig. 1. Pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease in diabetes mellitus.
underwent a subsequent randomization to primary therapy with sulfonylurea or insulin. In addition, obese patients were randomized to metformin or placebo. When compared with conventional therapy, intensive treatment was associated with a decreased risk of predominantly microvascular complications, including a 12% reduction in any diabetes-related end point (P = 0.03) and a 25% reduction in all microvascular end points (P < 0.001). There was no significant effect on diabetes-related death or on all-cause mortality, however, and there only was a trend toward a small effect (—16%) on the risk of myocardial infarction (P = 0.05) [8]. Overall, there were no significant differences between subjects who were treated with sulfonylurea and those who were treated with insulin. Improved glycemic control from sulfonylureas alone is not enough to decrease macrovascular risk. In contrast, obese patients who were randomized to metformin had a reduction in myocardial infarction and cardiovascular mortality. This finding has started a controversial debate about the relative benefits of sensitizers and secretagogues in preventing cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular events.
This article examines the evidence in favor or against choosing treatment with insulin secreta-gogues or sensitizers as the preferred way to prevent cardiovascular events. It should be emphasized that most patients eventually will be treated with a combination of therapies; therefore, much of the discussion may not be relevant. Conversely, combination of two sensitizers may have added effects [9,10]. Also, retrospective data suggest that a combination of sulfonylurea and metformin may be associated with increased cardiovascular events [11]. Nevertheless, it is important to recognize the relative value of these different agents as we choose complex therapeutic regimens.
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A community survey says residents don't want a police academy on Chicago's West Side. Six mayoral candidates weigh in.
As the mayoral race escalates, candidates will need to make their stance on the city's police academy and investment disparity clear.
"I was shocked and frustrated," says Destiny Harris, 17, describing her reaction last September when she learned that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was planning to build a $95 million police academy in her home neighborhood of West Garfield Park. Emanuel claims that the academy is a necessary response to the 2017 Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation, which revealed significant civil rights violations by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and offered 99 suggestions for improvement.
West Garfield Park is a majority black neighborhood on Chicago's West Side and its young people suffer most from lack of investment in their schools, after-school programming and stable jobs after graduation. Harris was infuriated that the mayor seemed to find funding only for policing and not for other resources her neighborhood needs.
Harris was not alone. This summer, she joined the No Cop Academy (NCA), a self-described "youth-led, adult-directed" nonprofit founded in September 2017.
NCA has drawn attention in the past year for its tireless efforts to stop the development of the police academy. They have sued the city for withholding information about the origins of the plan for the police academy and also advocate constituent outreach to bring Chicago aldermen over to their side. Thus far they have the support of three out of 50 aldermen, including the particularly outspoken Ald. Carlos Ramirez Rosa. The City Council will vote on the developer for the police academy project this fall and then aldermen will have one final chance to vote down the plan for the academy.
Last week, NCA youth organizers gathered at a public event in West Garfield Park to present and celebrate their latest endeavor: "The Report," a 30-page summary of the results of a survey in which they asked West Side residents for their thoughts on the police academy.
72% of residents had not previously heard about the proposed police academy.
Only 18% of residents said that they wanted a police academy built in their neighborhood.
86% of residents said that they did not believe this to be the best use of $95 million.
95% of residents (regardless of support for the proposed police academy) recommended that the city invest in something besides police. Canvassers collected a total of 1,103 recommendations for other uses of this funding.
These results contradict Emanuel's assertion that the police academy fits the desires of "every member of the West Side." NCA organizers say that he never actually asked residents what they wanted. "We did the city's job for them and talked to people in the neighborhood," says Maria Hernandez, a West Side resident and Black Lives Matter organizer who helped to coordinate the community survey.
Proponents of the plan for the police academy, such as West Garfield Park Ald. Emma Mitts, claim that the project will boost economic development in the neighborhood in addition to its goals of improving policing in the city. Last November, City Council approved the use of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) money from the district to purchase the land for the academy. TIF money is supposed to serve as extra funding for projects that promote economic development in "blighted areas" of the city. While the construction is projected to produce around 100 jobs, these would be temporary and thus would not have a significant economic impact on the local community.
The police academy has been Emanuel's project since its inception. The upcoming 2019 mayoral race provides the opportunity to elect a candidate with different priorities when it comes to Chicago's budget and policing methods, especially given Emanuel's recent announcement that he will not be seeking re-election. Because the plans for the new academy are already in motion, it is an issue that all candidates will have to consider in their bids for mayor.
In These Times reached out to all candidates who had announced their bids by the beginning of September. Of the six who responded, none support the current plan for a police academy—still, very few took a concrete stand on NCA's demands.
Mayoral candidates Dorothy Brown, Ja'Mal Green, Lori Lightfoot and Garry McCarthy all noted the importance of investing in police training to different extents while still underscoring the urgency of investment in underserved communities. Similarly, Troy La Raviere noted that the DOJ investigation meant that the city would have to rethink and reinvest in policing, but that $95 million was too big a price tag and that the academy alone would not address the DOJ's 99 recommendations. Ja'Mal Green agreed, adding that we cannot pretend that police training is the same as economic development.
All of these candidates claimed to support NCA's demands for investment in the West Side and underserved youth in general but seemed wary of taking too strong of a stance against investment in policing. This vague stance is not surprising coming from McCarthy, the ex-chief of police who was fired over the Laquan McDonald case.
Amara Enyia, the most recent candidate to announce her bid for mayor, claimed a position to the left of her competitors. Enyia is a West Side resident who has put in time organizing on the ground with GoodKids MadCity and believes that policing is not the answer to violence. Enyia wants to look beyond the issue of the police academy and reimagine not only the $95 million police academy budget but the entire $10 billion budget of the city. "It's about critiquing the city's priorities and about the fact that the way the city invests its resources is a reflection of those priorities," says Enyia.
Through NCA, youth like Harris are taking concrete steps to promote change in the city. Earlier this month Harris and a friend from BLM organized their own canvass at Ald. Jason Ervin's Back to School event to warn people about his support of the police academy.
As of today, NCA has endorsements from 80 organizations across the city, and the organization's visibility and support is likely to spread with the publication of their survey. As the mayoral race escalates, candidates will need to make their stance on the city's police academy and investment disparity clear. So far, few candidates have taken a strong position on the police academy and now is the time for them to think seriously about how they will differentiate themselves from the pack. Given that Emanuel will not be seeking another term, the race will be a chance to vote in a fresh perspective on how Chicago politicians engage with a legacy of racist budgeting in the city.
as if the comments of school children are gravely important in determining societal affairs.


Gould has been the NFL's most accurate kicker during his two seasons with San Francisco and could have been a target to return to the Chicago Bears if he hit the open market.
Gould was at the game with his family, which has remained in the Chicago area even after the Bears released him following the 2015 season.
But with few key projected free agents on their roster, the 49ers decided to use the tag on one of their most reliable players.
Gould missed only one of 33 field goal tries last season when he set the 49ers record for single-season accuracy. His career mark of 87.7 percent ranks second in NFL history to Baltimore's Justin Tucker among players with at least 100 made field goals.


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Home Articles Religious Tourism: An Informal Confidence Building Measure in the Indo-Pak Lexicon?
Religious Tourism: An Informal Confidence Building Measure in the Indo-Pak Lexicon?
By Dr. Jyoti M. Pathania January 15, 2019
Informal Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) can be defined as an activity wherein there is an unofficial or informal interaction amongst members of adversarial groups of nations with the goals of developing friendship, influencing public opinion, organizing human and material resources, improving communication and mutual understanding's in ways that might help in creating an environment for amity. They should not be thought as a replacement for formal or state centric CBMs, but as an indispensable preparation for and adjunct to them. Ideally speaking, informal CBMs should pave the way for formal CBM's.[1]Unlike the official CBMs, whose principal aim is to avoid an unwanted outcome, informal CBMs main aim is to expand areas of co-operation and collaboration. This may lead to building co-operative institutions and arrangements, both formal and informal, incrementally overtime.[2]
Religious Tourism is one of the areas of informal CBM and can be the one positive which the two countries can explore. It is back on the agenda of India and Pakistan, though the riders' attached along with, need to be carefully studied and monitored – the main concern being Security.
Nuances of Religious Tourism
Previously also such religious interactions have been taking place between the two countries but at a low scale, and at times not all, for instance in the earlier occasions visits by Pakistan (zaireens) pilgrims was denied mainly because of the dispute over the alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, who continues to be in Pakistan custody till date. The decision to promote religious tourism was the important take away from PM Narendra Modi's meeting with his then counterpart Nawaz Sharif in a bilateral meeting in Russia's Ufa in 2015'[3]
Around 160 Pakistani Pilgrims were granted visas for the urs (death anniversary) of Amir Khusro, signifying that religious tourism is back on India's agenda with Pakistan. Many Indians too visit the Katas Raj temple in the Pakistani Punjab's Chakwal district. In March, over a 100 Hindus from India went to Pakistan to celebrate Maha Shivratri there.[4] Religious tourism saw a renewed ray of hope and optimism generated by the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor in Pakistan's Narowal district, which will facilitate Indian Pilgrim's visiting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib.
The Pakistan government also plans to promote religious tourism in Elum Valley(Khyber Pakthunkhwa province) revered by both Hindus and Buddhists and is of great historical significance to them, Elum Valley has been a site of divinity and pilgrimage for both the Hindu and the Buddhist communities. According to Hindu belief, Lord Ram spent time meditating there during his 14 years of exile, while Buddhists believe it to be the site where a previous incarnation of Lord Buddha gave up his life.[5]
Greater Contact between normal people from either countries will certainly help create more exposure to each other and put aside a lot of preconceived notions argues Sanjana Joshi[6] Regularisation of contacts will create constituencies with vested interests in maintaining good relations."When religious tourism really supported by the two governments takes off, it will create stakeholders on both sides in keeping this going,"[7]
Sumit Ganguly, Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, believes that there is no evidence that cultural and religious contacts can change fundamentally differing and incompatible interests. There is no serious literature in International Politics on the termination of rivalries that supports this proposition. If anything, those contacts might develop after the rivalry diminishes.[8]
Shahid Malik, who served two terms as Pakistan's high commissioner to India, agrees that religious tourism is insignificant in the grander scheme of Indo-Pak relations. Although an advocate of a liberalised visa regime, he is not convinced that good sentiments and people-to-people exchanges will influence policymakers.[9]
The major challenges remain poor infrastructure, marketing strategies, visa access and most pertinent the security issues. The Kartarpur Corridor is one such security concern since the corridor would bring the Pakistani infrastructure right up to the Indian border. The Indian officials are weary that the corridor might be used by the non state actors for the furtherance of their goals. Over the past few years gurudwaras have been used for pro-Khalistan propagation.[10]
International Law and Religious Tourism
In international law, it is incumbent on both countries to freely grant visas and facilities to the neighboring countries, for those nationals who wish to make religious pilgrimage to shrines and places of worship. Granting these is not a matter of discretion, but a legal obligation under a binding treaty. India and Pakistan need to amend their restrictive visa policies and reaffirm the 1953 agreement. Paragraph 2 of the accord concerns grant of visas and promises "increased facilities for visits to places of worship in both countries should be granted to pilgrims on their auspicious days; the Sewadars and Khadims at such places of worship should be granted facilities for residence and adequate protection." Though the accord was embodied in the form of minutes of the meeting, it nonetheless constitutes in law a binding treaty. Article 2(1)(a) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1980) states clearly that "treaty" means "an international agreement concluded between states in written form and governed by international law, whether embodied in a single instrument or in two or more related instruments and whatever its particular designation". Thus an agreement embodied in an exchange of letters or the minutes of a meeting will constitute a binding treaty in international law with all the attendant consequences of its breach.[11]
A Protocol on visits to Religious Shrines was signed on September 14, 1974[12], between Kewal Singh, Indian Foreign Secretary and Agha Shahi, Foreign Secretary of Pakistan. Discussions on the question of protection, preservation and maintenance of places of religious worship in India and Pakistan were carried out. The very first paragraph of their agreement said: "Every effort should be made to ensure that places of religious worship in both countries are properly protected and maintained and their sanctity preserved particularly in the case of buildings of historical importance; buildingswhich have been damaged should be repaired." It is in both countries' interest to actively promote such bilateral ties. As of November 2018, fifteen locations in Pakistan and five in India are covered under this protocol.[14]
Religious tourism, a mechanism of informal interactions which will provide continuum in relationships, though it is too early to say that revival of religious tourism will have the potential to be called a confidence building measure, but it is a positive step towards people to people contacts between India and Pakistan. At the same time one has to remember to tread this path with caution, since Security will remain of paramount significance.
[1]Jyoti M. Pathania, Ajay Saksena, India & Pakistan, Confidence Building Measures Deep & Deep Publications Pvt Ltd, 2012
[2]NavnitaChaddha, Enemy Images: The Media and the Indo-Pak Lesson," Michael and Amit Sevak, ed, p 183.
[3]SachinParashar ( July 3, 2018), Religious tourism back on agenda as India, Pakistan ... - Times of India Available at: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com › India News (Accessed on 11 Jan, 2019)
[4]Shehryar Nabi, (April 19, 2016), Divided by history, can religious tourism bring India and Pakistan closer?Available at: https://qz.com/india/663706/divided-by-history-can-religious-tourism-bring-india-and-pakistan-closer/(Accessed on 11Jan, 2019)
[5] Available at: https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/pakistan-government-plans-to-promote-religious-tourism-in-elum-valley-revered-by-both-hindus-and-buddhists/story-(Accessed on 11 Jan 2019)
[6] Sanjan Joshi is a senior consultant for the Indian Council for research on International Economic relations, who is working on a project to strengthen exchanges between India and Pakistan in the health sector.
[7]Shehryar Nabi, (April 19, 2016), Divided by history, can religious tourism bring India and Pakistan closer?Available at: https://qz.com/india/663706/divided-by-history-can-religious-tourism-bring-india-and-pakistan-closer /(Accessed on 11Jan, 2019)
[8] Ibid.,
[10] Shubhajit Roy, (Aug 22, 2018) Available at: https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/what-is-sikh-pilgrim-corridor-to-pakistan-gurdwara-darbar-sahib-kartarpur-navjot-singh-sidhu-5318258/ (Accessed on 11, Jan 2019)
[11] AG Noorani, (30 Dec 2018) Politics must not come in way of Travel by Pilgrims, The Asian Age, Available at:http://www.asianage.com/opinion/columnists/291218/politics-must-not-come-in-way-of-travel-by-pilgrims.html (accessed on 14 Jan, 2019)
[12]Protocol on visits to Religious Shrines, September 14, 1974 Available at: https://mea.gov.in/bilateral-documents.htm?dtl/6199/Protocol+on+visits+to+Religious+Shrines (Accessed on 11, Jan, 2019)
[13]A.G.Noorani, (Dec 29, 2018), Religious tourism, Available at: https://www.dawn.com/news/1454250(Accessed on 11 Jan, 2019)
[14] Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines 1974 Available at:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Visits_to_Religious_Shrines_1974 (Accessed on 13 Jan,2019)
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Working Together: Communities of Practice in Medicine as a Core Experience in Climate Change Adaptation
Posted by Ana Hategan
Posted in Editorials & Commentary
Vol 10 #16. December 29, 2021
Rini Dass, B.ScN., M.ScN., Adult-N.P.1, Ana Hategan, M.D. 2,✉,iD
1 Assistant Clinical Professor, Adult-Nurse Practitioner, McMaster School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
2 Clinical Professor, Geriatric Psychiatrist, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
✉ Corresponding author. Ana Hategan, Email: [email protected] iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0221-1154
Climate change has been declared the greatest global health threat of the twenty-first century. There is a need for effective dissemination of emerging evidence on climate-sensitive health risks, as well as innovative interventions to help healthcare systems adapt to and mitigate these consequences. Communities of practice can exemplify effective mechanisms to boost capacity in the intersection between climate change and health, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary teamwork.
The experience of climate impacts on human health
The Earth is about 1.1°C warmer now than it was in the late 1800s [1]. A 2018 United Nations report emphasized that action is needed to limit global warming to no more than 1.5°C in order to maintain the biodiversity for a livable climate [1, 2]. Subsequently, a growing coalition of countries has been committing to net zero emissions by 2050. However, in order to keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C, nearly half of carbon dioxide emissions reduction must be in place by 2030 [1]. These commitments must be espoused by persevering, convincing, and realistic actions. If the current path of carbon dioxide emissions is maintained while we move ever deeper into the Anthropocene (a term typically used to describe the time during which humans have had a significant impact on our planet), the world will likely see a rise by 4.4°C by 2100 [1]. This will have devastating consequences for life sustainability on Earth as we know it [1].
The 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report into the impacts of global warming examined the catastrophic consequences of allowing the world to heat to more than the 1.5°C target set out in the Paris Agreement [3]. Climate change can impact demographic, socio-economic, infrastructural, and institutional capacity, as well as health system resiliency; it can create disruptions in the food supply, housing, work, safety, and human health [3]. So far, climate impacts have manifested from protracted droughts and wildfires, sea level rise and saltwater intrusion, storms, flooding, and water scarcity, to declining biodiversity. This puts the population at risk of relocation and continuous adaptation. This requires health systems adaptation to meet the complexities of the ever changing population needs.
The state of human health is going to be increasingly tested by climate change and ecological affliction. The physical and emotional health of a community is vital to the state of wellbeing of its people. As public awareness of climate crisis and its critical impact heightens, a significant proportion of people may experience distressing level of anxiety symptoms and increased rates of depressive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder [4]. While many countries are trying to mitigate the effects of global warming, adaptation to climate change requires collective action to strengthen the physical and mental health of the population.
Healthcare systems strengthening through a systems thinking approach
The negative physical and mental health effects of planetary climate changes will be extensive and long term [1]. These effects include the cumulative burden of diagnosable systemic medical and psychiatric illnesses, exposure to poverty, food insecurity, unstable housing, deprivation of nurture, education, loss, stress, and collective trauma [2]. These health effects also have the potential to fracture the very fabric of our social cohesion, collective worth, and overall health, life expectancy, and quality of life.
However, a disease-centered approach in the era of climate change adaptation offers a halted and limited understanding of the scope of social and cultural environment on health [5, 6]. The medical field has the chance to reimagine its practice to be relevant to the task of maintaining healthy, humane, and equitable communities in order to meet the Sustainable Development Goals [7]. The Sustainable Development Goals are the proposed actions by the United Nations to achieve a "better and more sustainable future for all" [7]; they address issues such as climate change, environmental degradation, inequality, poverty, peace, and justice. Their main goal is the wellness of all people in the face of global climate adaptation.
We need cultural change, learning, and leadership to propel changes in healthcare systems and policy that put emphasis on the work of care, prevention of illness, and promotion of health, a two-pronged approach on the bilateral association between health and climate change [1]. This must include at the center the social and environmental determinants of health, combating racial and economic disadvantage and health inequity [7].
Clinicians, patients, community members, industry sectors, and stakeholders can co-lead and generate an expanded scope and purpose for healthcare systems in the "new normal" of climate change adaptation [8]. Broadened co-ownership of sustainability of health can only add value to the healthcare system's traditional focus on specific medical disorders. Moreover, healthcare professionals must become familiar with, and advocate for, broader social policies crucial to future population and public health; these should embrace full-on pursuit of equity and planning and budgeting processes that prioritize health, wellness, and wellbeing [9]. We know we can do it; managing the COVID-19 pandemic has already shown the nations the consequences of what joint forces can do when individuals come together in global unity and collective mobilization, and the relationship between health and illness with the goal of advancing equity and social progress [2, 7, 8].
Health sustainability through communities of practice (CoPs)
Health sustainability in the face of climate change may not be as much a political problem, but a cooperation problem. It is time to seize the chance for what we must do as our shared ownership in holding global temperature rise below 1.5°C. In this view, communities of practice (CoPs) have the potential to bring together collaborative endeavours among diverse professional fields and disciplines in response to the recent call to action by medical organizations [10, 11].
Interactive CoP initiatives dedicated to advancing knowledge and action in the field of medicine have started to operate worldwide, and we believe that the focus of climate change mitigation and adaptation should be incorporated. The concept of CoP (a term first introduced by Lave and Wenger and subsequently expanded on by Wenger [12]) could provide a framework of community learning, emphasizing the social nature of learning [13]. Individuals who share similar concerns or ideas wish to join the community, moving from peripheral to active participation, acquiring the identity of community members and undertaking the community's objectives [13]. Some authors argue that the collaborative learning process of "thinking together" is what essentially drives the CoP initiatives [14].
Adding CoPs in medicine to the arsenal of combating climate impacts on health has the potential to actively engage participants in joining the community, creating a welcoming community, expanding the emphasis on explicitly addressing experiential learning and reflection, as well as role modeling and mentoring on climate change action. It can provide professional faculty development to support medical education by integrating climate change-related health issues in core medical curricula. Some argued that lessons learned about building such CoPs have included the need for organizational change from the top of public health, the necessary power of community in intersectoral collaboration on climate change preparedness, and the importance of including the social and environmental determinants of health [11].
A summary of few existing virtual initiatives to address climate change is illustrated in Table 1. At the authors' location at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, there are two emerging CoP enterprises on climate change and health. These include a hospital-based Green Team group, which is an initiative serving as a location where healthcare administrators, researchers, and interested clinicians from across the city can come together to share knowledge, ask questions, generate ideas, and communicate and collaborate with others working in the field of medicine or other fields. The efforts of this group dovetail with a new provincial virtual CoP project named PEACH (Partnership for Environmental Action by Clinicians and Communities for Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities) [15]. PEACH is a partnership of clinicians and communities in Ontario amplifying environmental action in hospital and other healthcare settings (See Table 1) [15]. The PEACH project is a growing network for sharing lessons learned to integrate health capacity within the work of building resilient, humane, and equitable communities. PEACH includes topics on natural systems, transportation, food, buildings/energy, pharmacy, education, and leadership.
Programs such as these can act as blueprints for further development of climate action CoPs. They have the potential to engage, encourage, and empower those in the healthcare sector to take climate action at their own institution. Such initiatives can serve as a roadmap for sustainability, where interested individuals would be able to navigate through several topics related to environmental action and learn how they can make a difference. Therefore, we encourage readers to join a CoP in their region or country, and if one does not exist, it is time to start one.
Table 1. Selected examples from practice of virtual initiatives for climate change adaptation and environmental sustainability in Canada and worldwide
HealthADAPT
www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/programs/health-adapt.html A Canadian program managed by Health Canada, which aims to help the health sector prepare for and respond to the impacts of climate change; the participating health authorities across 5 provinces and territories are encouraged to collaborate and share best practices on climate change and health
www.bcgreencare.ca
A Canadian network that unites efforts across the British Columbia healthcare community to advance the healthcare system toward environmentally sustainable and resilient care for the health of people, place, and the planet
CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis)
www.sustainablehealthsystems.ca/cascades A Canadian capacity-building initiative to address healthcare's contribution to the climate crisis
Climate Change Adaptation Community of Practice (CCACoP)
www.ccadaptation.ca
A Canadian interactive online community dedicated to advancing knowledge and action in the area of climate change adaptation; it supports Canadian provinces and territories in their efforts to incorporate climate change adaptation into planning and policies
Sustainable Health System Community of Practice & CoP Sustainable Inhaler Initiative
www.sustainablehealthsystems.ca A Canadian interactive virtual enterprise in medicine; the CoP Sustainable Inhaler Initiative is an Ontario project of the Sustainable Health System Community of Practice
The Canadian Association for Global Health
www.cagh-acsm.org/en A Canadian online platform aiming to connect, engage, strengthen, and mobilize the global health community across Canada and internationally through collaborative research, learning, advocacy, policy and practice
PEACH (Partnership for Environmental Action by Clinicians and Communities for Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities)
www.peachhealthontario.com A Canadian partnership of clinicians and communities in the province of Ontario with the goal to strengthen environmental action in hospitals and other healthcare settings
Climate and Resilience Community of Practice
www.masgc.org/climate-resilience-community-of-practice A United States platform that aims to incorporate adaptation strategies into U.S. Gulf Coast communities' comprehensive plans, and to learn from each other and develop a set of effective common approaches that will make a difference in becoming a more resilient community
International Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) Community of Practice
www.adaptationcommunity.net A International online tool for knowledge sharing and mutual learning beyond projects, institutions, and regional boundaries, which includes a community of EbA practitioners, planners, and decision-makers
weADAPT
www.weadapt.org
An International collaborative platform on climate change adaptation issues, developed and maintained by the Stockholm Environment Institute; it allows practitioners, researchers and policy-makers to access high-quality information and connect with one another
Adaptation to global climate change means making securing the physical and mental wellbeing and health of people a common expectation of global governance.
With the growing expectation of climate-related health impacts, we draw attention to the opportunity of the healthcare leaders to come together through shared involvement in initiatives for health leadership at local, national, and global level.
The use of virtually mediated communication to develop collaborative learning environments, similar to those suggested in Wenger's CoP framework, has the potential to educate, engage, and mitigate a number of the challenges faced by clinicians, medical leaders, and healthcare administrators, even in remote locations [16], in their fight against climate change impacts on health.
Through the CoP framework, clinicians can meet their needs for multidisciplinary teamwork, have access to a collaborative learning environment, and have ongoing contact with expert resources. The construction of CoPs could potentially address a multitude of concerns identified by clinicians practicing in most affected areas due to climate change.
The authors thank Dr. Myles Sergeant and other members of the PEACH project for support.
The authors report no financial relationships with any companies whose products are mentioned in this article, or with companies of competing products.
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Q: Unity - sprites take up more memory than textures? Causes a black screen after launch on device? I have a series of sprites Im using to animate a UI animation that needs to be on a canvas - theres about 500 because I exported a png sequence from aftereffects and I flip through them with a canvas image with this:
public class VideoPlayerRawImage : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Sprite[] frames;
    public int framesPerSecond = 60;
    public int index;
    public bool paused;
    Image image;

    float t;
    public bool pause;
    public bool done;

    private void Start()
    {
        image = GetComponent<Image>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (!pause)
        {
            t += Time.deltaTime;

            if (frames.Length > 0 && !done)
            {
                index = (int)(t * framesPerSecond) % frames.Length;
                image.sprite = frames[index];
            }
        }

        //repeat
        if(index >= frames.Length-1)
        {
            done = true;
        }
    }
}

Ive compressed sprites like this:

And ive done this before with textures. Problem is, with these sprites added, I get a black screen after I launch the app, before the scene loads and after unity logo. What can I do to fix this? I need to use sprites because I need it on a canvas.
Unity:

A: I'm assuming you can not simply use a VideoPlayer component instead and rather load a video than a PNG file for each frame for the same reason I once did: The Alpha Channel.
Anyway importing every frame as PNG file and switching the sprite every frame is very unefficient!
So if it isn't about the alpha chanel anyway just use a VideoPlayer with a video clip and jump to step 3.2. down here using the video file instead of single frames/WebM file.

If the issue is the alpha chanel:
I have found a solution once for having a GIF-like texture but maintaining transparency
requires Adobe MediaEncoder (can be tested free for 30 days).
1. Somewhere get the single images from as PNG
I rendered mine using Blender3D but you can ofcourse use any PNG frames with (or without) transparency.
You seem to have those already anyway. However, the frame files should have a consequent numbered naming like e.g. frame_001.png, frame_002.png, etc.

2. Encode the PNG files to a WebM video format

*

*Install the WebM codec for Adobe Premiere and MediaEncoder

*Open the Adobe MediaEncoder

*Go to File->AddSource...

*Select the first frame of your animation and make sure PNG file sequence is enabled.

*In the Queue view click on the current target codec

*As format select WebM (only available after installing the plug-in in step 1.)

*in the Image Settings section you can either adjust the settings or simply click on Match Source

*In the Codec Settings switch to VP8 since Unity doesn't support VP9 (yet?)

*You might want to make further adjustments but the most important: Enable Include Alpha Channel

*When you think you are done hit Ok at the bottom of the window

*Back in the Queue view click on the play symbol to start encoding

*after finishing and closing Adobe MediaEncoder you will find the result in the same folder your source frames where in

3. Finally use the WebM "GIF" with transparency in Unity

*

*Import the two result files into your Unity Project.

*In the Assets do right-click -> Create -> RenderTexture

Name it and change the size maybe (the rest should be fine.)

*Somewhere in you Scene on a manager GameObject have a VideoPlayer component. You need only one (per gif texture). Here use the imported WebM file as VideoClip and the created RenderTexture from step 2. as Target Texture.

Enable Loop and (if you want) Play On Awake (otherwise you'll have to call Play manually.)

*Instead of the Image component use the RawImage component and as Texture reference the created RenderTexture from step 2.

Now you have a transparent GIF animation using your original PNG frames within Unity

Just for the file size difference:

*

*The single PNG files (I used 24) for me have about 4.5 mb in total

*the WebM file has about 0.5 mb. So this makes it more or less a factor 10 smaller.

Imagine now how much space you might save if you use this instead of 500 PNG files!

A: Black Screen
while launching the app unity will take some time to load the scene, which is based on the weight of the scene.
Change the background color of the camera to the loading screen video first frame color, by selecting the color from the video using the color picker in the CAMERA--> BACKGROUND. If you do this instead of a black color, video first frame color will occur so it will be seamless and the user won't notice.
we have done the same thing in this game you can check it out : Game link

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Danny Roy Moore
Louisiana State Senator for Claiborne and Bienville parishes
James T. McCalman
Charles C. Barham
(1925-08-09) August 9, 1925 (age 94)
Haynesville
Louisiana, USA
(1) Patricia Camp Moore (married, 1952-1976, divorced)
(2) Susan Butler Moore (died 2006)
Danette Moore ____
Daniel Judson Moore
(1) Homer
Claiborne Parish, Louisiana (2) Arcadia
Louisiana (since 1978)
Lake Claiborne, shown here east of Homer, Louisiana, was a principal project of former State Senator Danny Roy Moore.
Danny Roy Moore (born August 9, 1925) is a civil engineer and land surveyor in Arcadia, Louisiana, who served as a conservative Democrat in the Louisiana State Senate from 1964 until 1968. He represented a north Louisiana district, then unnumbered, encompassing Claiborne and Bienville parishes.[1]
Background[edit]
Moore was born in Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish just south of the Arkansas state line to Arthur Roy Moore (1904–1984), a Mississippi native known as Roy Moore, and the former Capitola Touchstone (1903–2002).[2][3] Roy Moore managed the Jitney Jungle grocery outlet in Homer, a since defunct chain store that originated in 1919 in Jackson, Mississippi. Moore began school in Haynesville, but his family relocated to Homer, where in 1942 he graduated from Homer High School. Capitola Moore was a sister of Sam F. Touchstone (1904–2002), who owned a taxidermy and wildlife museum in Haughton in southern Bossier Parish. Moore was hence a first cousin of Ned Touchstone (1926–1988), an advocacy newspaper publisher and a visible figure among what was called the Radical Right in Louisiana during the 1960s. In 1967, Touchstone unsuccessfully challenged the reelection of Louisiana Education Superintendent Bill Dodd. Roy and Capitola Moore are interred at Arlington Cemetery in Homer, the parish seat of Claiborne Parish.[4]
During World War II, Moore served in the United States Army Air Corps, forerunner of the Air Force.[5] He flew missions over Germany.[4] Moore is a Baptist and a still active 50-year member of the Masonic lodge.[6]
Moore first attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston before he transferred to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where in 1949, he received the Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering, with emphasis also in land surveying. At the age of eighty-five, he is still heavily engaged in surveying.[4]
Moore has been twice married. He and the former Patricia Camp (born 1930) have two children, Danette Moore (born 1954) of Shreveport and Daniel Judson Moore (born 1956), a dentist in Minden, the seat of Webster Parish. The couple married in 1952 and divorced in 1976. Thereafter, Moore wed the former Susan Elizabeth Butler (1945–2006),[3] whose father ran the Jitney Jungle store in Arcadia.[4]
Senate service[edit]
At the time of his Senate election and service, Moore still resided in Homer. In the 1963-1964 primary election cycle, Moore unseated his fellow Democrat, James T. McCalman, also of Homer. He served a single term until 1968. He neither sought reelection nor ran for any other public office before or since his Senate term. Moore's principal emphasis as a senator was to promote the construction of Lake Claiborne, a 6,400-acre (26 km2) man-made body of water near Homer established by the damming of Bayou D'Arbonne. The lake is deeper than others of its kind and has a short spillway, which was first filled with water on May 17, 1968. It is subject to less pollution than many other waterways. To obtain the needed state funding for the project, Moore had to overcome the initial opposition of newly elected Governor John J. McKeithen, who disbelieved that man-made lakes contribute to business growth. The lake was created as Moore left the Senate.[4] In 1974, Lake Claiborne State Park, known in the region for its swimming, fishing, birding, boating, waterskiing, camping, and hiking, opened at the site of the lake.[7][8]
From 1948 to 1960, Moore's seat was held by William M. Rainach of Summerfield in Claiborne Parish, who was an unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate in the 1959 Democratic primary. Rainach was defeated by Jimmie Davis, originally from Jackson Parish, who secured his second nonconsecutive term as governor in that election cycle. After legislative boundaries were altered in 1967 by the federal judiciary, Moore was succeeded in the Senate by Charles Clem Barham, an attorney from Ruston in Lincoln Parish and the son of former Lieutenant Governor C. E. "Cap" Barham. Charles Barham was first elected in the adjoining district to the east in 1964, and he and Moore were colleagues and friends though they often cast opposite votes in Senate roll calls.[1][4]
In the Senate, Moore's desk was coincidentally located at the extreme right side of the chamber in line, he said, with his strongly held conservative political views. His colleague and seat mate was neighboring Senator Harold Montgomery of Doyline in Webster Parish. The two became friendly with freshman Senator Edwin Washington Edwards of Crowley in Acadia Parish in south Louisiana, but within two years, Edwards had left the state Senate to take a seat in the United States House of Representatives. Despite their friendship, Moore and Montgomery often cast their votes opposite that of Edwards, who was thereafter elected in 1972 to the first of his four nonconsecutive terms as governor.[4]
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^ a b "Membership of the Louisiana State Senate from 1880 to 2012" (PDF). legis.state.la.us. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 24, 2012. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
^ US Search.com
^ a b "Social Security Death Index". ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
^ a b c d e f g Statement of Danny Roy Moore, Arcadia, Louisiana, January 5, 2011
^ "Names of Claiborne Parish WWII Veterans listed on a plaque in Homer High School". usgwarchives.org. Archived from the original on March 31, 2012. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
^ "Fred Volentine obituary". Shreveport Times, January 2, 2011. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
^ "Lake Claiborne State Park". crt.state.la.us. Archived from the original on January 10, 2011. Retrieved January 6, 2011.
^ Glynn Harris. "Remembering the birth of Lake Claiborne". Minden Press-Herald. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
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| Yale alum presents workshop on careers in the arts
Lindsay Daugherty
Yale alum presents workshop on careers in the arts
Lindsay Daugherty	1:11 am, Apr 03, 2019
Actress and singer Maria-Christina Oliveras '01 has a simple word of advice for aspiring professional artists: Be the CEO of your own company.
"Define your mission statements, what you want to put out into the world … do your research," Oliveras said. "You have to know what the game is, whether you choose to play is on you."
Oliveras, an award-winning actor and singer with extensive Broadway experience, imparted this advice at the end of a three-hour Yale Drama Coalition workshop entitled "The Business of Acting and Audition Technique." The workshop drew nine students to the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media on Friday. After graduating from Yale College, Oliveras moved to New York, and then to Denver to attend the National Theatre Conservatory, which has since closed. After returning to New York, Oliveras was casted in "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" and "Machinal" on Broadway and several off-Broadway shows. She returned to New Haven in 2018 to perform in "El Huracán" with the Yale Repertory Theater.
Oliveras said that entering the professional world of arts can be "daunting." Her workshop aimed to dispel some of the myths of the profession and equip students with the knowledge necessary to succeed in the field after graduation.
"The more we practice here at Yale, the better prepared we will be for the real thing," said Angela Barel di Sant'Albano '20, who organized and participated in Friday's event. "Having workshops with people like Maria-Christina who have been to Yale and lived in this environment is invaluable. She understands our world and what we will need to succeed when we get to New York, LA or London."
Throughout the workshop, Oliveras emphasized that professional artists are CEOs of their own companies who must manage their brands, employees, finances and growth. Oliveras spoke about finding and building relationships with agents and managers, auditioning and attending to self care. She also made sure to debunk the "starving artist myth" and offered tips she had learned through her own experiences as a young professional. She emphasized the importance of safe housing, tolerable "survival jobs," health care and gym memberships, adding that "you have to survive before you can thrive."
Oliveras defines herself as a "Fili-Rican actor-singer-educator-producer-artist citizen" and considers educating young artists an important aspect of her work. She led her first workshop at Yale in 2013 and has since worked with individuals and groups on both performance techniques and professional development.
"I rarely saw women of color in the classroom or on stage as I was growing up, and being the child of immigrants who supported my 'hobby,' it took me a long time to realize that it was possible to succeed in this business and make a living," she said. "I believe my presence as a first-generation woman of color is vital as an actor and educator."
Friday's workshop was funded by the Traphagen Funds and the Office of Career Strategy.
Lindsay Daugherty | lindsay.daugherty@yale.edu


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Procrasti-Nation, Again
Remember "It's the economy, stupid!" - the Clinton team's unofficial slogan for winning election in 1992? Well, the economy is doing just fine, thank you, as Alan Greenspan noted July 22. But now the president and Congress should get James Carville to scribble some new placards for their desks reading: "It's the demographics, stupid!"
Demographics as in too many baby boomers retiring on the payroll taxes of too few next-generationers.
Congress and the White House have gotten so swept up in program funding and tax cutting that they seem oblivious to the demographic whirlwind threatening both tax levels and federal programs early in the next century.
Both sides flirted this week with fixes for Medicare. Everyone knows by now that it's on the brink of a ballooning budget deficit. Senate, House, and presidential negotiators passed around like a hot potato legislation to increase premiums for upper- and middle-income beneficiaries, raise the eligibility age from 65 to 67, and add a $5 co-payment for some home health care services.
Then old fears of demagoguing surfaced. The fixes were abandoned. And the Medicare crisis was left to be taken up separately and later. This leaves America looking once more like procrasti-nation.
We cheered (slightly) when President Clinton, Trent Lott, Newt Gingrich, and the congressional budget shapers unveiled their balanced-budget deal in May. That deal ended two years of bitter combat and put both parties on a path to budget balancing - even though it dodged the hard issues of Social Security and Medicare.
Alas, the very factor that made that modest deal possible - big, deficit-shrinking tax revenues from the booming economy - led to the Democrats wanting to enlarge federal programs and the Republicans wanting to grant bigger tax cuts.
For two years we have argued that the president and Congress should tackle the hard job of solving the pending demographic problems before cutting taxes and expanding or adding federal programs. That means bravely tackling Medicare shortfalls and drawing a blueprint for tackling later Social Security shortfalls.
Realistically, such restraint won't happen now. Clinton and the temporarily Newt-ered GOP have promised some kind of child tax credit. The GOP and Clinton (but not his party's liberals) have promised some version of a capital-gains tax reduction. So both tax cuts will happen. The likeliest versions of each may not be the best, in economic terms.
For the future of families and the nation, a child tax credit allowed only for money put into a tax-deferred savings account makes the best sense. It would emphasize savings. It would provide capital for new innovative enterprises. And it would build, through compounding, a respectable sum for withdrawal when tuition time arrives. Alas, this version is not winning the day.
Neither, so far, is capital-gains indexing, the logical way to encourage long-term speculative investing. But we can't forget budget-balancing. Adding indexing to an almost certain reduction in capital-gains tax rates would undermine budget balancing. So leave it for another day.
Baby boom demographics have helped create the benign economy Fed chairman Greenspan salutes. Boomers have stimulated demand. They are now saving and investing like mad. They, and the technology they grew up with, have contributed to high productivity and profits. Also to the global competitiveness that holds down inflation.
But when boomers hit retirement age, they may strain the private market as well as the public realm of Medicare and Social Security. They will start withdrawing savings instead of investing in 401Ks and IRAs. They will be selling large numbers of bigger houses to smaller numbers of next- generationers. They will buy fewer durable goods.
All of which argues that political Washington should not procrastinate any more on the big budget problems. Today's strong economy provides the means to solve them.
Entitlement reform and immigration reform: How are they connected?
Good news on health costs, but threats to Social Security and Medicare persist
Taming Medicare costs: What are the options?
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