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The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization consisting of 192 member states that was formed in 1945 after WWII to promote international peace, security and cooperation. Decision-making is conducted through various administrative bodies, the most notable being the General Assembly and the Security Council. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), a branch of the United Nations that seeks to address environmental issues at both the regional and global level, focuses on a wide range of activities regarding terrestrial, marine and atmospheric ecosystems. (Source: UNEP, UN, WordNet / Photo: Flickr)
U.N. supports World Environment Day with new anthem
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The United Nations shares "ONE Life," a new song and music video highlighting the severity of climate change.
11 cultural traditions protected by UNESCO
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There are intangible parts of culture that are important, too.
Is time running out for the 'leap second'?
December 9, 2016, 2:22 p.m. by Russell McLendon
World leaders can't agree on nixing this tiny morsel of time, so we'll just keep adding them until they figure it out.
As U.N. makes history on Earth Day, Leonardo DiCaprio reminds us not to rest on laurels
April 22, 2016, 2:31 p.m. by Russell McLendon
More than 170 world leaders signed the Paris Agreement on Earth Day 2016, but that's just the beginning.
4 things to know about the Paris climate deal
December 14, 2015, 5 p.m. by Russell McLendon
The new U.N. climate agreement is being called 'a monumental triumph' and 'a turning point for the world.' Here are a few key points to keep in mind.
Why the Paris climate talks might actually work
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The U.N. summit is going on despite recent terrorist attacks, and it does so with diplomatic momentum as well as a renewed sense of global solidarity.
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The U.N. holiday's 2015 theme promotes getting serious about wildlife crime.
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A key focus of this week's Transformational Media Summit is how sharing stories can change attitudes and raise awareness to help us create a more peaceful world.
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With a new Global Alliance dedicated to Climate-Smart Agriculture, you'll be hearing more about this effort with a goal to improve agriculture and food security.
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A young poet from the Marshall Islands reportedly 'brought world leaders to tears' at the U.N. Climate Summit.
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The island country is experiencing a harrowing infestation of the Malagasy migratory locust, which threatens the livelihoods of the more than 13 million people.
Journalist gets up close and personal with a seal
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My kids all have terrible ear infections.
Days are running into each other, and I haven't slept through the night in, well, I don't know how long.
I get slapped in the face with reality.
And the reality right this second, is motrin and tylenol piggybacked every three hours, antibiotics twice a day for all four, and lots of crying and whining.
The good thing is since I was already at the doctor, we got to discuss Blayne's bowels in great detail, and she now has an appointment at the Children's National Medical Center.
It's a charmed life I lead.


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Avalanche Foundation of Ava Labs Raises $42 Million Dollars
Avalanche is an open-source platform that supports interoperable blockchain, custom blockchain development, non-fungible tokens, and the creation and trading of 'smart' digital assets (assets that are a digital representation of real-life items which can be governed by rules). Some key characteristics of Avalanche include the fact that it has high transactional throughput, low transactional finality, and has a high safety threshold. On July 22nd, Ava Labs announced that Avalanche's native token, the Avalanche Token (AVAX), raised $42 million in 4.5 hours by selling 72M AVAX tokens to participants from 100 different countries. Upon launch of the mainnet, AVAX's supply will sit at 360 million, although there will be a total supply of 720 million tokens. AVAX will be used as the base unit for the network and will also provide a wide array of utility services some of which include staking rewards and transaction fees.
The key element of Avalanche that distinguishes itself from other layer one smart contract platforms is its novel 'Avalanche' consensus algorithm. A pseudonymous group that goes by the name Team Rocket, released a paper in 2018 that outlined this new family of consensus protocols; protocols in this family now include Snowflake, Snowball, and Avalanche. The Avalanche protocol attempts to address the problems with Classical and Nakamoto consensus, of low throughput, and high latency by implementing sub-sample voting and metastability. In the case of Avalanche, a node picks a sample of five to ten people out of a large group of users and asks them to pick either red or blue. The small group will most likely tip to one side (either red or blue) and depending on the end result the node can make a generalized statement. The node then puts their weight behind the winning side by changing to the color with more support, and then the process will continue throughout the larger group, and as time progresses the split will start to become more skewed. The Avalanche protocol also allows for Byzantine tolerance, which prevents nodes from trying to trick the network into remaining imbalanced, and does not allow nodes to decide on two different colors. Additionally, if a user tries to double spend, the consensus algorithm might not be able to decide and the money will become lost. Unlike Nakamoto and Classical Consensus, one bad actor does not cause problems for anyone other than themselves. Time will only tell whether or not Avalanche's novel algorithm and improvements in efficiency will make it stand out in a crowded layer one space.
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Sometimes in the still of the evening, when the cacophony of chatter and laughter from the day past has quietened to nothing, I worry what will be left of me once my children are grown.
Sometimes I worry I've given too much of myself away, kept nothing back for when they're gone.
As I'm sure is the case for all parents, I've put everything of myself into the raising of my children. I've all but disappeared, swallowed up into the cheerful chaos of the past few years.
Those countless mornings when I've made do with a hastily ingested Penguin bar, washed down with lukewarm coffee, in order to devote myself to getting little ones to eat their porridge and fresh fruit…I forgot that I too have a body that needs nourishing food.
The afternoons bent over studious little heads, helping with homework, urging them on and reminding them of the importance of education….I forgot how my own education lies dormant, untapped and unused for now.
The sunny mornings I stand alone in the park watching on as my children chatter brightly to new friends….I forgot that I too need companionship.
All the rainy afternoons when the TV is instinctively switched on to CBeebies…I forgot how much I love a good crime drama.
All the busy days of fun when I walk straight to the children's section of the library…I forgot how wonderful it feels to spend an entire day curled up with a good book.
I've given them all of me. Was it too much? Was it the wrong thing to do?
I recognise that a time will come in the near future when I'll start to find pieces of me again. I'll carve out more time to rediscover the things I love.
Heck, I might even find more time to blog and treat my lovely readers to well-written pieces rather than the hurried, poorly formed Facebook posts they've grown accustomed to.
I hope something of me is salvageable. I hope there'll be something left.


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Uneven Improvement: The Desert Healthcare District's Expansion Is Leading to Good Things—but a Serious Funding Disparity Needs to Be Addressed
Back in October, a mulch fire ignited at the Sun Valley Recycling Center near Thermal, on land owned by the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians. The smoke plagued schools and neighborhoods for several weeks, creating health concerns for thousands of residents in the eastern Coachella Valley.
Communities and school boards called for help—and one of the organizations that answered that call was the recently expanded Desert Healthcare District, led by newly elected Board President Leticia De Lara, and Chief Executive Officer Conrado Barzaga.
"There were funds (accessible to the DHCD) that were identified for clean air and to address some of the air-quality issues related to the fires that were burning in the east valley last October," De Lara said during a recent phone interview. "Our CEO, Conrado, was able to identify these funds and some partners who could bring some immediate health-care resources to the residents, including Borrego Health, Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo, federally qualified health clinics, the Coachella Valley Unified School District and the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians tribe. Also, (Barzaga) was able to identify some funds that were set aside to address issues like this in the future, and (allow potential responders) to avoid the chaos that resulted … (by facilitating) their coordination."
This would not have been possible a couple of years ago: In November 2018, Coachella Valley residents voted to expand the Desert Healthcare District beyond its original, antiquated Cook Street boundary, all the way to the eastern end of the valley. Since then, seven districts were re-drawn and approved by the DHCD board, and directors were put in place for each. As 2019 drew to a close, the DHCD was starting to make its supportive influence felt in these historically underserved east valley communities.
In another recent dangerous health-related incident that drew substantial attention, the management of the Oasis Mobile Home Park in Thermal proved to be incapable of supplying reliable access to clean drinking water for its nearly 2,000 residents; the drinking water drawn from wells on the property, also owned by the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, was found to contain unacceptably high levels of arsenic. Immediate attempts to import clean water proved insufficient.
"At our December meeting, we allocated some funding to be used in partnership with the county of Riverside to address some of the water-quality issues affecting the mobile home park in the Thermal area," De Lara said. "And we also funded a request from Martha's Village back in October. So, those are some examples of what's already been accomplished" in the expansion territory.
The arrival of the DHCD as a new funding option in the east valley is welcomed by established nonprofit health service providers working with east valley residents, including the Coachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine (CVVIM).
"It's nice to see new things happening," said Doug Morin, the executive director of CVVIM, in a phone interview. "There's about $300,000 for east valley funding. So, when you consider all the (health-care-related) charities serving residents in the east valley, (the funding) is limited, but anything is better than nothing."
Morin said he had just submitted an application for a $50,000 grant to be used to defray the costs of the east valley patient services his nonprofit provides. He hopes his proposal will get approved by the DHCD board in February. However, when compared to the roughly $120,000 annual grant that CVVIM has received from the DHCD to serve its west valley population, the geographic discrepancy in available support becomes apparent.
De Lara said the disparity comes from the fact that funding going toward efforts within the previous DHCD boundaries aren't being reduced to fund efforts in the expanded portion.
"We're continuing to provide the same level of funding for the west valley. … We are continuing to address homelessness and (work) for a regional solution," she said. "We believe that in the west valley, there are some major gaps in services (for the homeless)."
According to the June 30, 2018, audited financial statements, the total outlay of funds to west valley grant recipients was $5,076,039 for fiscal year 2018, the last full fiscal year prior to the expansion eastward. However, efforts by the DHCD to raise comparable funds to support east valley service grants are foundering. Given this reality, it's impossible for the grant levels to reach parity across the valley without cutting the grants to providers serving west valley residents. However, as De Lara indicated, that is not a likely scenario for the DHCD board to pursue.
Morin sees his CVVIM as somewhat unique among Coachella Valley health-care service nonprofits, because it has served residents at both ends of the valley for years. He said the distinction and disparity between funding levels for the original DHCD territory and the new expanded territory is obvious and challenging.
"Their max funding request (for the recent proposal he submitted to serve east valley patients of his clinic) was $50,000, which is what I requested," he said. "They don't have that restriction on the west valley, because, of course, they have more funds for the west valley."
How can the DHCD address this funding imbalance?
"I think we're realizing that there's going to be a need to include other partners," De Lara said. "Sharing costs on some of these long-term visions, I think, is important. Also, there's the potential to bring in dollars from the state and federal governments by communicating to them in a much better way, through our assessments and studies, where the gaps are, and how they can help us. We can put together a really strong, compelling case statement for some funding. I think the potential to bring in grants that add to our current resources is a very promising possibility for funding."
In the past, DHCD representatives have approached Riverside County and the state government about various tax strategies designed to generate the new revenues necessary to fund the annexed east valley needs. However, that outreach has so far proved fruitless.
"The possibility of going to the voters or the county for some assessment is something that we have not discussed, so I wouldn't feel comfortable saying where we're at on that, because we're nowhere," she said. "But in the last board meeting (of 2019), we actually approved two positions to take the lead on exploring funds and grants to help support the work that we're going to be doing on behavioral health. So I think that we'll start with grants to try to generate more revenue."
Despite the immediate challenges presented by the revenue shortfall, De Lara said she sees a bright future for her organization's ability to enable much-needed quality health care through its grantee nonprofits.
"We have to think strategically," De Lara said. "We have to think incrementally, and we have to think partnerships. I think that's how we'll be approaching the mass of the needs that we (face) now because of the additional area, as well as the district we had before. We're one Coachella Valley. We're one district, and we have to keep asking, 'Are we advancing toward our mission, and are we doing it in a fair way, a smart way and collaboratively?'"
While Morin said the funding disparity is problematic, he praised the efforts the DHCD is making.
"They're a great foundation," Morin said. "They're very transparent about everything that they do, and I like their plan of this 'One Coachella Valley.' Their (east valley) impact will be felt immediately, once we receive those (requested grant) funds. Even though I may wish that (those funds) were more, it's a start. … Sources of funding in the east valley are somewhat limited, so this is valuable. It's important for us, and it will allow a number of agencies to provide more services. So they're out there doing their own fundraising, and hopefully, over the years, the amount of funding available to the east valley will increase, and that's a good thing."
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Medical Care Via Wine: The WineLover's Auction Supports Coachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine
Galileo Galilei once said, "Wine is sunlight, held together by water." Of course, Galileo never made his way to sunny California—but if he were here now, something tells me he'd want to be at the WineLover's Auction, taking place at the Thunderbird Country Club on Saturday, Feb. 16.
The WineLover's Auction is the signature annual fundraiser for Coachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine. Doug Morin is the executive director of CVVIM, which operates the only free medical clinic in the Coachella Valley, in Indio at 82915 Ave. 48.
"This rose out of a study that was undertaken by JFK Memorial Hospital in 2007. The conclusion of that was the valley needed a free clinic for individuals who did not have insurance by whatever means," Morin said. "The program was modeled after a national program called Volunteers in Medicine. … After a couple years of fundraising … in 2010, we started providing services near JFK.
"There was a lot of community support behind opening the clinic. Part of what was so time-consuming was getting the nurse practitioners, doctors and dentists to volunteer, as well as (raising money for) the operational costs and the direct patient costs, like the bandages and all the other sorts of things that are required for treatment and diagnostic services. … The county helped out by providing a county-owned office for us; our cost is the maintenance of the office space.
"Since then, we have consistently seen about 1,000 unduplicated clients every year, totaling around 3,500 visits … Many have a chronic illness that requires ongoing follow-up, like diabetes, which is our No. 1 issue that we see clients for, (followed by) COPD and congestive heart failure. We provide primary care and a few specialty services, but not urgent or emergent care. If someone breaks a leg, or has a heart attack, or an open wound, then they have to go to the emergency room."
Morin said the clinic also offers case-management services to those in need, as well as education services. "A lot of diabetes education is designed for healthy living, to help the patient get around with diabetes and keep it stable," he said.
"Almost two years ago, we began a homeless-outreach program around the Indio and Coachella area. We have physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, psychologists, social workers and a number of other Individuals who work in the field. We tend to think that (homeless people) need blankets and shoes, which they usually do, but what most of them really need is medical services. Often, they'll get vaccinations or A1C level checks in the field.
"We do all of this with about 200 volunteers and six full- and part-time staff for the year."
Who can receive treatment at Coachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine?
"We do have eligibility requirements," Morin said. "One is that you must be a resident of Coachella Valley. You can't have medical insurance, or you (must be unable to afford) to use your current medical insurance, and you must be at 200 percent of the federal poverty level. For an individual, that means making only about $20,000 a year."
So … what about the WineLover's Auction?
"This is the fourth annual wine auction, and it has, for the past three years, raised more than $200,000 each year. Our yearly budget is $600,000 to cover patient care, so almost a third of our yearly budget is raised from this," Morin said. "We have presenting sponsorships from both JFK Memorial Hospital and the Desert Regional Medical Center. The evening starts off with a wine reception and a general silent auction, and then moves into the dining room for the live auction. There's not just wine, but a lot of things that are wine-related; for example, there are trips to Napa Valley, trips on yachts and cruises for several hours, some featuring foods and wine. Sometimes there's art involved. … There's something for everybody. The auction items' values are anywhere from $100 to several thousand dollars.
"Our biggest wine sponsor is Chateau Ste Michelle. They provide all the wine for the reception and the dinner. They also provide a number of packages of rare wines, signed bottles and collector bottles. … To cap the evening's festivities off, there is usually some entertainment with songs from a winner of a local talent show."
The WineLover's Auction takes place at 5 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Thunderbird Country Club, 70737 Country Club Drive, in Rancho Mirage. Tickets start at $250. For tickets or more information, call 760-625-0737, or visit cvvim.ejoinme.org/winelovers-auction.
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District Reconstructed: The Whole Valley Is Finally Part of the Desert Healthcare District—and the Expansion Means There's a Lot of Work to Do
An Election Day decision by eastern Coachella Valley voters could have a positive impact on all valley residents' access to quality healthcare moving forward.
Voters overwhelmingly approved Measure BB—written by the Desert Healthcare District in conjunction with the Riverside County Board of Supervisors—as the final step required in the DHCD's efforts to expand its borders east beyond Cook Street. While the expansion of services to some of the valley's most underserved communities may have seemed like a no-brainer during the run-up to the election, the process did not get this far without a lot of work.
"I think it's important to note that this has been an extremely robust, kind of overwhelming process just to get to this point," said interim DHCD CEO Chris Christensen during a recent phone interview. "There were times when there was concern whether the public would potentially (be able to) vote for passage of the measure. With all of the polling, the focus groups, the negotiations with the county board of supervisors and all the effort that has gone into this over the last year and a half, it was extremely close that this would not have made it onto the ballot this year. … I was told that no other health-care district in the state has ever had to go through this process of expansion, so it's unprecedented. Our next step is to get the funding and continue the good things the district does."
The Desert Healthcare District was created by the state of California in 1948. Today, the DHCD provides support to a variety of organizations (such as Find Food Bank, Volunteers in Medicine, Coachella Valley Rescue Mission, etc.) that provide health and wellness services to residents. However, the district's boundaries stopped at Cook Street—until the passage of Measure BB finally expanded the district valley-wide.
The fundraising challenge ahead for the DHCD is daunting—more about that later—and a number of milestones need to be achieved soon to keep the bureaucratic end of this process on track and on time. One of the first requirements stemming from the voters' expansion approval is the appointment of two new DHCD board directors who live in the annexed areas. According to a current DHCD timeline, the board must adopt a resolution to increase the number of its members from five to seven by no later than Jan. 2, 2019. Once that commitment is confirmed, the board will start to accept applications from east valley residents who would like to serve. Any interested residents will have until Jan. 8 to submit an application. During this same period, the DHCD staff will be managing a multi-pronged information-outreach effort to the annexed communities.
This candidate search will culminate at a public meeting of the board on Jan. 15, where applicants of interest to the board will be interviewed and considered. By the meeting's conclusion, two new board members will be appointed, with one serving a term ending in December 2020, and the other serving until December 2022.
"Obviously, we're looking for individuals who have a passion for our mission and what we're doing," Christensen said. "We're willing to hear from anyone. But whether the board chooses to hear from all the applicants during the meeting interview opportunity will be at its own discretion. There are some limitations where a candidate cannot have worked in management, or as an executive, at the Desert Regional Medical Center or other hospitals in our region.
Doug Morin, the executive director of Coachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine in Indio, welcomed the forthcoming expansion, while taking a realistic view of the overall process.
"Though this has passed, I don't know that the district really understands fully yet how they're going to proceed," Morin said. "Nobody has come to us to say, 'Hey … you're going to get access to more money.' None of that has happened yet. For many of us agencies, we're all very pleased and excited, because the valley is the valley. It shouldn't be eastern valley and western valley; it's one valley. … It certainly is the beginning of treating everyone in the valley equally regardless of where you live."
A first step toward that end will be the creation of two new zones of service, which will get under way in February 2019. It will require the redrawing of boundaries for the existing five districts, as well as the establishment of new boundaries for the annexed area zones. According to the DHCD informational materials, a resolution to be passed in February will call for the new zones to be properly established; outline a public-outreach process; explain the zone-creation process and encourage public participation; and offer a schedule of public hearings regarding the new maps. A vote to adopt a final map of the seven new zones is set to take place sometime in October.
"We will be making concerted efforts in community relations in the expanded areas to better understand what the needs are, and how to provide access, program services, facilities or whatever options there are that make the most sense relative to the resources we have available," Christensen said. "Obviously, we're planning to increase those resources to provide additional opportunities. We'll establish an office presence in the expanded area. We're currently looking at a property where we would set up a satellite office so that we can have access to the community members there. We don't want them to feel that they have to go all the way to Palm Springs to talk with staff or communicate with the board."
As for that aforementioned fundraising challenge: The DHCD is currently facing an estimated budget shortfall of roughly $3 million in order to service the new zones completely and in their entirety.
"At the end of the day, it's certainly our goal to match the funds currently available in the existing districts (roughly $3.5 million) to provide services in the new districts," Christensen said. "Ideally, it would be nice if we could hypothetically receive the same allocation of property taxes from the expanded district residents as we currently get from district residents. That would be neat and simple."
Last summer, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors turned down a request from the DHCD to receive a portion of county property taxes collected from the annexed zones' residents, as has been the case in the previously existing districts. The Board of Supervisors may re-examine the question now that Measure BB has passed.
"We've got our backs against the wall in the sense of developing funding," Christensen said. "First and foremost was to get the measure passed to approve the expansion. Now we have to address additional funding sources. It's not going to be easy, but it will be up to the new board. We'll have three new board members come January, with new thoughts and ideas that might come to play in helping to further the fundraising."
The Fear Factor: Increases in Hateful Rhetoric and Border Patrol Actions Cast Dark Shadows on the Coachella Valley's Immigrant Populations and Their American Dreams
Alan has now lived in the Coachella Valley for 17 years, ever since he was 17 years old.
Even though he has always worked hard and played by the rules—at least the rules that aren't stacked against him—he doesn't want his last name used in this story. The reason: Both he and his wife are undocumented immigrants. They have a son, 10, who is a U.S. citizen by birth.
"Since President Trump has been in office, we have seen all the anti-immigrant statements and all the news coverage on TV of what's happening," he said. "We've been afraid to go out and go about our normal life routines, because if a cop stops us, they will call the immigration (agents), and we will be taken away.
"We're very uncomfortable, and it is not easy for us to live every day. We always have to be looking behind our backs."
The government under Donald Trump seems to be quite proud of such discomfort. On Feb. 16, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a news release stating that the agency's personnel had arrested 212 individuals for violating federal immigration laws, and had served 122 notices of inspection to businesses in the Los Angeles area. On March 16, another ICE news release trumpeted the arrests of 115 individuals in San Diego and Imperial counties, again for violating federal immigration laws. On June 14, yet another ICE news release announced the arrests of 162 individuals in Los Angeles and surrounding counties, including 15 people in San Bernardino County, and 12 here in Riverside County.
Yet another ICE news release, from May 14, proclaimed that between Oct. 1, 2017, and May 4, 2018, Homeland Security had opened some 3,510 worksite investigations, and had made 594 criminal and 610 administrative worksite-related arrests. Compared to the entire previous fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, the number of investigations had more than doubled—and the number of arrests had quadrupled.
Anyone believed to be in this country illegally is fair game. "ICE does not exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement," ICE Director Thomas Homan said in a statement. "All those in violation of the immigration laws may be subject to immigration arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States."
It's clear: Not only is the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration violations intended to identify and remove convicted criminals from American society; it's also designed to create a climate of fear in the daily lives of all undocumented immigrants—including many of our neighbors here in the Coachella Valley.
"The U.S. Border Patrol has jurisdiction over our streets and our community; that's why immigration has always been a problem, and our community continues to be at risk," said Luz Gallegos, the community programs director for TODEC Legal Center, an organization with offices in Perris and Coachella which seeks to empower disenfranchised immigrant communities, according to its website. "But what has changed lately is that a lot of the rhetoric is creating more fear, and all of the political division at the federal level is really impacting people at the grassroots level."
This rhetoric has brought out a lot of hate—and it's plaguing both undocumented and documented immigrants in our community, Gallegos said.
"We hear from students what they are going through in their schools," she said. "Even kids are emboldened to talk on their hate, saying things like, 'Go back to Mexico!' and calling them wetbacks. We see that people now feel empowered to speak out about feelings they've carried their entire lives.
"Having grown up here for my whole life, as a child, we heard that the KKK would gather in Rainbow (in northern San Diego county), and we always feared the KKK growing up. Back then, we didn't know who they were, because they wore robes and covered their faces, but now, you really know who these people are, right? People are coming out, and now we can really see where people stand."
Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia represents the state's 56th District, which includes much of the eastern Coachella Valley. He said the hatred being openly expressed toward immigrants ignores the valuable contributions they make to our community.
"It's important to highlight just who we are talking about," Garcia said. "We are talking about people who work in very significant and important industries to the Coachella Valley economy—folks working out in the farming fields of the eastern Coachella Valley who are putting food on people's tables, along with the men and women who make up a large part of the hospitality and service industry that is essential to our economy in California. So we're talking about just putting a face to the subject. These are the working people who help drive the economic engine of our region."
Megan Beaman-Jacinto is an immigration-rights attorney, activist and candidate for the Coachella City Council.
"A lot of things that this president has tried to do against immigrants have not been able to proceed, like trying to end DACA," Beaman-Jacinto said. (DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, allows some younger people who came to the United States without documents to stay and work legally in the U.S.) "But other things have happened—things like people being denied immigration benefits at higher rates now (than under previous administrations). And (President Trump) is trying to pass new regulations that will make it harder for even permanent residents to become citizens if they used certain public benefits, even legally, in the past.
"Every day, almost, there's a new attack on immigrants—and the media's exposure of that is definitely having mixed results. On the one hand, it's great that people are finally seeing this and paying attention when they didn't before. But on the other hand, for people who are personally impacted by it, it is really stressful to see all the time, everywhere you look. I went with some clients to a citizenship interview a few weeks ago in the immigration offices in San Bernardino. In that lobby, there are two TVs, and they're always on CNN. So the whole time we were waiting there, it was like, 'Trump says this about immigrants, and Trump says that about immigrants and this about the immigration department.' … I'm thinking, 'Well, at least my client is about to become a citizen,' but who knows what other status everyone else in that room has? That's really terrifying if you're one of the people directly impacted, and it goes on nonstop."
The nation's immigration system has been broken for a long time, since long before Donald Trump became president. In fact, some immigration activists referred to President Barack Obama as the "deporter-in-chief" due to his administration's high number of deportations.
However, the intensity of the rhetoric is indeed new.
"Now you get an administration that begins to utilize the state of fear—(saying) that illegal immigration is taking over, that illegal immigration is the reason for increases in violent crimes. … 'They are rapists, murderers, etc., etc., etc.,' Garcia said. "The fact that we still remain with no comprehensive immigration reform policy creates a huge level of uncertainty for a lot of people in this country, in California and in the Coachella Valley.
"I've got to imagine that this type of fear-mongering has disrupted our economy to some extent. Perhaps people are not presenting themselves for work. Perhaps the kids are not showing up at school. (There's a) decrease in the number of people who want to access health-care services due to the concern that they may be 'outed' for being here undocumented. I would even argue that our public-safety services suffer, because the cooperation between our residents and law enforcement is impacted negatively. For instance, a victim of crime or a witness to crime, who might be here undocumented, might not be willing to cooperate with law enforcement. So it's a very huge issue, and it goes back to the inability of a U.S. Congress and an administration to put together what would be a comprehensive immigration policy that would bring about certainty for the people in our valley, our state and in our country."
Gallegos said she and her colleagues at TODEC have seen the damage this rhetoric is causing.
"There is a lot of fear out there, and (at TODEC), we believe that our role is to educate the community," Gallegos said. "But that fear still exists, and it even impacts our local economy. We talk to the farmers in the east end of Coachella Valley, and they tell us they're concerned that they are losing their workforce. The stores, like Cardenas, tell us that they've lost a lot of business because of this whole fear factor. It's affecting our community and the local economy."
The hyper-politicization of the immigration issue has also led to another type of fear—a fear of speaking out. The Independent reached out to numerous agricultural and retail businesses, and they all declined to go on the record for this story.
The same thing happened when we tried to talk to valley health-care providers about the effects ICE enforcements have had on immigrants seeking treatment and services: Only one person agreed to go on the record, and that was Doug Morin, the executive director Coachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine, an organization in Indio that offers no-cost health care to adults who are uninsured or underinsured. He said his clinic has noted a substantial and ongoing decline in patient visits since the Trump administration took office in January 2017.
"I would say we're still 20 percent below the number of patient visits we had during the pre-Trump days," he said.
The decline has continued despite a concerted effort on the clinic's part that included hiring an outreach specialist to make door-to-door contact with underserved populations to assure them that both they and their personal information would be safe if they came to get medical attention.
"We even changed our fliers that we had out for patient recruitment," Morin said. "They used to just say, 'Your health is our number one concern,' and now it says, 'Your safety and your health is our number one concern."
So … where do we go from here? After all, Trump's four-year term is less than half over, and there's no hint that his administration will ease up on either the enforcement actions or the rhetoric anytime soon.
"We tell community that 'our faith will keep us strong,'" Gallegos said. "There are a lot of young people coming up who want to make change. They see how this uncertainty and fear is impacting their family, friends and (everyone's) mental health, and they're taking it very personally. We tell them, 'We have to continue resisting—and the way you're going to resist is go to school. Finish your high school; go to college; and be a professional. You will prove everybody wrong,' and that's what our kids are doing. They are people of character, with morals and compassion. It's become personal to them.
"Most importantly, we tell them to make sure to vote because that's the way you create change."
Garcia said some actions can be taken on the local and state levels.
"It is a federal question, but you know, states have rights," he said. "When we have an emergency in California—as we've seen in recent months with the fires, the droughts and other natural disasters—we have the ability to declare a state of emergency and have the federal government support that position via policy and/or resources needed to address that emergency. In California, I believe that the issue of labor shortages in very specific industries that are highly occupied by immigrants could be considered such an emergency. I think that in itself is reason to work as a state in addressing our labor needs. These labor shortages are having a significant impact on our local economy right now—and not addressing the immigration issue ties into this threat very closely.
"I made an effort this past year to exercise that states' right and develop a working group (in the state Legislature), that would ultimately need the blessing of Homeland Security and the federal government, to put together a program that would bring certainty of legal status, allowing those California residents working in these critical industries to continue contributing to our economy. Also, it would address ways to ensure that people are being paid salaries, receiving benefits and having housing that are respectable by California's high standards. Stabilizing the existing unpermitted workforce by removing their tremendous fear and giving them and their families some certainty would be the first objective, and the second would be to develop a framework that would allow for us to address the real labor shortages that exist for these industries. I just think there's a better way to go about this than disrupting the economies of the country, state and the Coachella Valley."
Garcia's effort did not get very far; his Assembly Bill 1885 didn't even make it up for a vote in a committee.
"It continues to engage a number of individuals in a dialogue," Garcia said. "… Unfortunately, we had a lot of people who got stuck on the notion that this issue is a federal issue only. They would not look at it as an economic and labor-shortage issue in California, as well as a national food-security issue. You know, we feed a large part of the world, and if our agricultural industries see a significant decline, because we can't get enough people to do the necessary work, then we're looking at being dependent on other nations for our food and commodities, which should be a major concern for people from a security standpoint, a health standpoint, and because we would be supporting other countries' practices of underpaying and undervaluing their workforces.
"So the bill did not move. Next, we introduced a resolution, (Assembly Joint Resolution) 34. The resolution took a strong position supporting the same principles we supported in the legislation, and it had bipartisan support built around a coalition of assemblymembers and senators from farming communities throughout the state. This resolution would send the message to Washington, D.C., about what California is thinking, and wanting to do, and we encouraged our federal counterparts to engage with us in this conversation. It was passed and sent to the governor's desk. Resolutions are position papers. As a result, they are not as controversial as trying to set something in stone as a law."
Meanwhile, Coachella Valley residents like Alan and his wife continue to live in fear.
"Thank God I haven't had to go to the hospital or seek medical services of late, but if we had to, we would go to get medical help here. My son is attending school," he said. "What upsets all of us the most is that we feel like we're being held back, and we're not able to move forward with our lives. (The federal government) now is putting all these obstacles in our way."
Upper right—Immigration-rights attorney and Coachella City Council candidate Megan Beaman-Jacinto: "Every day, almost, there's a new attack on immigrants—and the media's exposure of that is definitely having mixed results. On the one hand, it's great that people are finally seeing this and paying attention when they didn't before. But on the other hand, for people who are personally impacted by it, it is really stressful to see all the time, everywhere you look. Below—"We talk to the farmers in the east end of Coachella Valley, and they tell us they're concerned that they are losing their workforce," said Luz Gallegos, the community programs director for TODEC Legal Center. "The stores, like Cardenas, tell us that they've lost a lot of business because of this whole fear factor. It's affecting our community and the local economy." Photos by Kevin Fitzgerald.
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Aether: Tones & Talks #7:
Stellar Om Source, Wouter Jaspers, Dennis Knopper
Open: 7.30pm. Concert from 8pm
Welcome to Aether! This is our seventh edition so we are taking this opportunity to reflect on the forward looking aspects of this auspicious numeral – and afterall there are seven notes to the western musical scale. Tonight's guests revel in ideas of the visionary, expressing the dynamic nature of the modern age through the mystical, narrative and mind expanding qualities of their musical output. Read on…
Stellar OM Source
Stellar OM Source is the solo-project of musician, artist and architect Christelle Gualdi. Working with a variety of synthesizers she creates abstract dancescapes where esoteric music, prog-rock and disco collide in a visionary tour de force. Loving kitsch is one of the vices of our time, and yet Stellar OM Source manages to combine all these influences and turns it into a music with a new spirit, a combination of hallucination, technology and spirituality. This is complimented and visualized in the futuristic fantasy artwork she creates. She has just released "Trilogy Select" which rounds up of a selection of tracks from her incredible self released CD series of the same name. The album is well worth getting lost in for its psychedelic incantations and forward looking antics. It also features a collaboration with the equally mind bending Dan Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never. Christelle has been portrayed as a "Total Electronic Music Goddess" and her music described as "Synth Meditation." Her latest release has been praised by London's influential Phonica record store as "One of the best records by one of the nicest people in music right now and definitely one of the highlights of the musical year so far." After an intense and somewhat eventful tour of the USA, it is with an immense sense of pride that we welcome the Goddess to descend upon the Aether wormhole and lavish us with a taste of her electronic paradise…
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Stella Om Source performing at Aether
Wouter Jaspers
With over 400 concerts under his belt in the past 3 years it's no surprise the idea of the journey is metaphorically transposed into the work of Wouter Jasper. A.k.a. Franz Fjodor, he is an auteur of field recordings, making use of his busy tour schedule to amass a noise archive where the narrative qualities of sound become catalysts for dark ambient folk chasms and ear splitting adventures. As an auto-didact he avoids specialisation in one particular instrument and mostly performs with electro-magnetic waves, analog synthesizers and modified electric guitars. 2010 has seen the release of several new records for Wouter Jaspers including collaborations with Jos Smolders (from THU20) and Staplerfahrer, a CD for Ashtray Navigations as well as EPs of extended/remixed tracks from his last two albums. His democratic belief in music, has seen him play in a wide variety of settings from hi-brow art festivals all over the world to garages in Russia and so tonight we are very grateful he adds the journey to the atmospheric outer limits of Aether to his travels.
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5 Records That Matter, hosted by Dennis Knopper
For this edition of 5RTM we are honored to welcome the owner of one of Holland's finest purveyors of ambient and electronica, Dennis Knopper. From his origins as a singer/songwriter/producer he set up the Databloem label in 2000 which has since grown into a world renowned label and webshop that excels at finding new talent in the ambient electronica genre. Databloem has become synonymous with sound so clearly defined that one can call it the Databloem genre and has expanded into two sub-labels, Practising Nature and Bluebox; all with slightly different profiles in developing and creating new sound. His own musical interest goes way back to Analogue Space Ambient en Prog Rock from the sixties and early seventies to contemporary laptop soundart. For Dennis Electronic Music is all about experimentation and creativity without formulas or boundaries. With this in mind we are very curious what tonight's 5RTM will bring to us.
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1. King Crimson : In The Court of The Crimson King (1969, Island)
2. Tangerine Dream : Rubycon (1975, Virgin Records)
3. FranK Zappa : Apostrophe (1974, Discreet)
4. Pete Namlook : Silence (1993, FAX)
5. Danny Kreutzfeldt : Counterperipheral (2004, Databloem)
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Independent Evaluation Group Annual Report FY19 : Transforming Evidence into Better Outcomes (English)
In a year marked by change throughout the institution, the Independent Evaluation Group's commitment to rigorous analysis, innovative methodological approaches, and the sharing of knowledge and lessons remains its foundation. ... See More + Though topics ranged from forced displacement to creating markets, the evaluations presented similar stories about what is and is not working at the World Bank Group, providing guidance on improving outcomes. Common themes included building resilience, monitoring who benefits, and increasing private sector engagement. A highlight of FY19 was the release of the World Bank Group Evaluation Principles, co-led by the IEG Methods Adviser in collaboration with IFC, MIGA, and the World Bank. The principles act to solidify a Bank Group evaluation approach based on the evaluation framework established in FY18. The document delineates core principles for evaluation and underlying principles for planning, conducting, and using evaluations at the Bank Group. In FY20, IEG will position itself to provide even greater impact by focusing on the development effectiveness questions that most concern the institution and its clients in terms of what is needed to influence country development outcomes and where the Bank Group can do more, differently, or better. IEG has aligned its work program with Bank Group strategic priorities, keeping in mind the Sustainable Development Goals, commitments made in the IBRD and IFC Capital Packages, and the themes of the IDA's last two replenishments (IDA18 and 19). See Less -
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Western Africa - AFRICA- P162337- West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Investment Project - Procurement Plan (English)
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Public Private Partnership in the Health Sector : Practical Issues for Consideration (English)
In 2012, the government of the Kyrgyz Republic embarked on an ambitious public private partnership (PPP) program across a range of public infrastructure sectors. ... See More + Driven by the constraints in the public sector financing, PPP is seen as a central element of the government's reform agenda by increasing private sector investment in public infrastructure. Not only was PPP seen as beneficial in reducing the need for public borrowings, it was also expected to provide better quality services and bring about other benefits, such as transferring the risks that may be more efficiently managed by the private sector. This paper provides a framework to help think through key issues in PPP with a particular application to the health sector. It puts a strong emphasis on the operation aspects, post-contract period, of the PPP projects. This paper serves as a background for a workshop on PPP in the Kyrgyz Republic jointly supported by the World Bank and IFC. Taken together, these activities aim to help the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic to successfully manage the first PPP project in the country, the hemodialysis project, and make informed decisions regarding future PPP projects. Public Private Partnership is not a panacea in development, yet it is promised to help address a number of constraints faced by the public sector. As the country economy continues to develop and the role of traditional donors in the health sector dwindles down, the role of the private sector will become increasingly important. It is therefore important for the public sector authorities to be prepared and become a proactive player in this new stage of development. See Less -
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IFC support to health public-private partnerships : highlights of IFC transactions in primary care, hospitals, clinical services, and specialized services : 保健官民パートナーシップに対するIFCの支援 : プライマリケア、病院、臨床サービス、専門サービスにおけるIFC取引のハイライト (Japanese)
Access to affordable, quality healthcare is critical to economic growth and development. As governments struggle to contain deficits, yet increase access to healthcare, private sector resources and expertise can complement traditional public sector approaches. ... See More + The challenge is to engage private partners effectively so that public benefits can be optimized. This working paper includes the following headings: challenges in health; benefits of public, private, partnerships (PPPs); working with International Finance Corporation (IFC); IFC's experience; and conclusion. See Less -
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Romania : Outpatient Dialysis Services (English)
More than a quarter of Romania's dialysis patients have received better health care as a result of a public-private partnership to provide dialysis on an outpatient basis. ... See More + This was IFC's third public-private partnership transaction with the government of Romania in the health care sector since 2002. Four international operators won four-year contracts (extendible to seven years if the operators opt to build new facilities) to refurbish, operate, and manage dialysis centers at eight hospitals around the country. The companies have invested more than 28.6 million euros to modernize the facilities and expand services. Between 2005 and 2008, the government of Romania saved 2.9 million euros as a result of this outsourcing of public dialysis services to private providers. See Less -
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 96931 Document Date: DEC 01, 2008
Kenya - Total War Agaist HIV/AIDS : environmental assessment : Executive Summary (English)
This environmental assessment for Kenya total war against HIV/AIDS project undertakes a situational analysis of health care waste management through assessment of policy, legal and administrative framework in relation to health care waste management. ... See More + The study also assesses the existing technologies, levels and presence of scavenging and recycling; established the cost benefits of public-private partnership in health care waste management, and finally reviews existing training curricula, identifying unmet needs and proposing appropriate and affordable strategies for the training at various levels. Mitigation measures includes: the need to reduce the volume or contaminated and organic waste through shredding, recycling cremation of human body parts, autoclaving. The segregation of material is crucial in order to facilitate hygienic disposal. Proper and adequate facilities for storage of healthcare wastes. Measures will be taken for effective transportation of healthcare wastes. Capacity will be carried out at all levels from generation to disposal through appropriate training, media and other forums. Community awareness and advocacy. See Less -
Document Type: Environmental Assessment Report No.: E1579 Document Date: FEB 07, 2007
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