Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker COSTA RICA'S LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER The Legislative Assembly has approved a motion declaring a State of Emergency for Public Calamity along Costa Rica’s southern border in response to the ongoing migrant crisis The declaration passed with 43 votes from across party lines after being introduced by the Security and Drug Trafficking Commission According to commission president Gilberth Jimenez of the PLN, the situation in the Southern Zone has become dire. Thousands of migrants, mainly from Venezuela are flooding across the border via Paso Canoas every day This massive influx is causing major sanitation and health issues as people crowd into makeshift camps What we are experiencing on the border has exceeded the country’s capacity to deal with it,” said Jimenez The decree urges the executive branch to take immediate action to address the escalating humanitarian emergency. This includes activating the Permanent Binational Commission with Panama to tackle border problems It also requests that the Foreign Ministry seek international cooperation from organizations and partner governments Jimenez stated that between 2,000 to 3,000 migrants are entering through Paso Canoas daily He accused the government of inadequate response leaving migrants without basic services or humanitarian aid no place where they can meet their basic needs; there are diseases that are being reported in the area,” Jimenez added The approved motion calls on relevant ministries to establish temporary migrant shelters with adequate food It advises strengthening security and public health strategies in impacted zones Jimenez reiterated that managing the influx exceeds Costa Rica’s current capabilities He argued that declaring a state of emergency would allow accessing special funds and resources to mitigate the crisis With migration in the region surging 867% since 2021 Costa Rica has straining to uphold its humanitarian commitments But critics argue an emergency decree could lead to rights violations andruns counter to Costa Rica’s immigrant-friendly reputation Lawmakers hope the drastic measure highlights the need for comprehensive regional strategies rather than just shifting migrants across borders “this is not just Costa Rica’s crisis Providing an end-to-end design and construction framework for creating low-carbon workplaces, Canoa is a design tool with an embedded marketplace that aims to reduce the environmental impact of commercial interiors Operating under the circular economy principles Canoa seeks to keep goods in use for as long as possible and help preserve natural resources while supporting businesses and suppliers in carrying out commercial retrofits Selected as one of Archdaily's Best New Practices of 2021, Canoa is a New-York based start-up founded in 2019 by designer and entrepreneur Federico Negro with the purpose of delivering environmentally conscious working environments for a wide range of businesses Canoa is a business-to-business marketplace for low-carbon office products ranging from furniture to lighting and accessories The company focuses on providing conscious durable furniture and prefabricated units with traceable materials and manufacturing that can be easily moved and reused Courtesy of CanoaCanoa allows designers to rapidly test and iterate workplace layouts and get a live overview of costs while also helping property managers with keeping track of their inventory The firm addresses the need for comprehensive information regarding the environmental impact of furniture products while also embracing the contemporary ethos of reuse Canoa capitalizes on post-occupancy support and fosters a business model that incentives the reduction of waste by deploying as less material as possible into workplace designs consumers today […] are demanding more information about the products they use We are already seeing this in the food industry and transparency is quickly becoming a requirement for businesses Society will soon expect as much of our furniture transit and cities as we do of our coffee and sneakers The products are also featured in curated collections Another essential feature is the schedule of occupancy that gives the possibility of tracking occupancy goals, as well as costs per workstation unit. This allows designers to measure at a glance the efficiency of the floorplan layout and evaluate the spatial and programmatic configuration of the design. In addition, the layouts created in Canoa can be exported as CAD drawings to be included in the projects' documentation. Courtesy of CanoaCanoa's design tool also allows companies to integrate their own office standards into the design and helps property managers with their inventory management, with easy access to the specifications, repair information, and cost of the product through its use. In keeping with its goal of reducing waste and keeping items in the economy for longer, Canoa also offers a marketplace for used items acting as a mediator between companies changing offices transparent and efficient business models for delivering new and rehabilitated buildings across both private and public sectors are pivotal if we are to rise to the challenge of providing healthy work and living environments to the billions that still don't have them without the irresponsible depletion of natural resources Designer Federico Negro started Canoa as a response to the AEC sector’s failure in addressing current environmental issues Technology and design have been an early interest of Negro and getting involved with disaster relief after Hurricane Katrina shifted his outlook on architecture’s contribution to climate change focused on developing design technologies for built environment businesses and was acquired by WeWork in 2015 During his time as Head of Design for WeWork Federico Negro observed the traceability challenges within the FF&E industry while also gaining a post-occupancy perspective on the workplaces designed by the company Canoa was born from the desire to contribute to the decarbonization of office buildings The company just launched its private beta for workplace designers and is constantly expanding its catalog and features You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email By entering your email address and clicking “Submit,” you agree to receive updates from the Open Society Foundations about our work. To learn more about how we use and protect your personal data, please view our privacy policy it’s hard to imagine getting by with something else.” Eliécer had arrived at the mud-floored cantina a few minutes earlier along with 25 other farmers who are members of a local chapter of Colombia’s National Union of Coca They had gathered that morning inside the Canoas indigenous reservation in Colombia’s southwestern province of Cauca an epicenter of violence during the civil war.  was to hear from one of the local indigenous leaders who had been liaising with the regional government over a slew of unresolved issues related to the illegal source of their livelihoods were wary of pursuing another dead-end discussion The help they had been promised in exchange for the voluntary eradication of their crops seemed nowhere in sight they saw no reason to further disrupt their already precarious situation.  FARC militants controlled vast and remote territories where thousands of peasant families made a living from producing coca paste—the crude extract used to make cocaine—which cartels then bought When the government finally reached a peace agreement with the FARC in 2016 the National Comprehensive Program for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (known as PNIS) was a critical component of the deal farmers agreed to voluntarily uproot their coca fields the government would provide subsidies and training programs to help them swap illegal crops for alternative Drug policy experts hailed the program as transformative charting a clear course for farmers to transition away from illegal economies without following the traditional path of criminalization According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime around 99,000 families enrolled in the PNIS.  But cracks in implementation began to show almost immediately the government of Juan Manuel Santos rushed into signing contracts with farmers before hashing out some of the logistical details of the program the 2018 change in government ushered in a strong backlash against the PNIS and other components of the peace deal and lack of political will began to derail the voluntary substitution process Colombia’s armed forces resumed forced eradication in many parts of the country as farmers saw the economic alternatives that had been promised to them become less and less attainable.  But even against the backdrop of these power struggles local agricultural communities have adapted and managed to maintain a measure of autonomy in their daily practices.  Nowhere is this more evident than in the Resguardo Canoas a Nasa indigenous reservation that maintains a traditional hierarchy and actively enforces its constitutionally guaranteed judicial independence The indigenous authorities there serve as spokespeople for many local coca farmers in their negotiations with the government though they say talks have long been stalled they have developed their own system for regulating the drug trade through checkpoints armed with wooden batons and escorted by townspeople regularly patrol the main highway that runs through Canoas and search vehicles they suspect to be transporting drugs Anything they confiscate is immediately burned—a policy that has incited the anger of the criminal mafias that operate in this area This places leaders like Daniel Ulcue in an awkward position When the PNIS was introduced amid high hopes had some leverage in his quest to rid his territory of illicit crops as it becomes more apparent that the government lacks both the capacity and the resolve to fulfill elements of the peace deal leaders who advocated for voluntary substitution are facing a crisis of credibility they are being targeted by those whose economic interests are tied to the drug trade as well as human rights and environmental organizations voicing concerns about the impact on the environment and public health coca is easy to grow and far more lucrative compared to other crops like coffee and bananas many farmers in Cauca and elsewhere continue to show interest in crop substitution they assert that the government has yet to provide the technical assistance or livelihood alternatives that were offered which for now leaves them little choice but to return to coca production they are clear-eyed about what it will take to leave behind an illegal economic model that has been in place for so long What they know for certain is that, time and again repression has proven to be the wrong answer and partners about how we’re working around the world to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people Every year the Open Society Foundations give thousands of grants to groups and individuals that work on issues we focus on—promoting justice Canoa Lake was once a “kid’s haven” with piers and rowboats it’s now back to having water up to 9 feet deep Canoa Lake once had cottonwoods reaching 40 feet and 20-foot-tall willows Ann and Leslie Manning fish at Canoa Lake in 1954 They are the granddaughters of Howell Manning Sr. Canoa Lake was featured in a 1951 American Airlines calendar spent years trying to preserve Canoa Ranch before her death in 2012 Actress Shirley Jones swims in Canoa Lake during filming of the movie musical “Oklahoma!” which was released in 1955 Undated black and white photo of Canoa Lake Canoa Lake at The Raul Grijalva Canoa Ranch Conservation Park on Jan Canoa Lake anchored a ranch that covered hundreds of thousands of acres and showcased the most advanced cattle operation in Arizona and possibly the U.S Canoa Lake played host to 19-year-old Shirley Jones swimming in the buff for a scene in the movie “Oklahoma!” which was filmed in Southern Arizona the lake — although smaller and more aptly called a pond — brims with water again because of a $750,000 Pima County project to restore some of its former grandeur The 2ƒ-acre pond shimmers a bright blue green greeting visitors as they turn off the Interstate 19 frontage road into the historic Canoa Ranch south of Tucson It’s part of an ongoing restoration project that’s also fixing ranch buildings up to a century old Nine feet deep at the south end and 3 feet deep at the north end the pond is half the acreage of the original lake It contains no bass or frogs like the old one did Only patches of mesquite trees and waist-high grasses serve as a natural backdrop elderberry and other trees will be planted It’s hoped the other improvements will be in place by mid-October a Pima County Department of Natural Resources who lived at the ranch as a child in the early 1950s said she’s thrilled that a rare desert lake like this one was restored A photo from that time shows her and her sister Ann Fiegen as toddlers sitting by the lake wearing gingham shirts and holding fishing poles owned the ranch from the 1930s until he died in 1966 He told Woods-Hulse’s mother (his daughter-in-law) Deezie Manning that his last wish was for the ranch was killed in an auto collision with a drunken driver just before Christmas 1951 The family sold the ranch at the end of the 1960s Deezie died in 2010 after spending years working on preserving and rehabilitating Canoa Ranch “I definitely feel my father’s spirit is there and definitely my mother’s because this is something that needed to be done bought what was known as the old Canoa Land Grant The ranch ran purebred Arabian stallions and mares and Hereford cattle The Mannings also ran cattle at a much smaller operation to the north known as Scotch Farms in what’s now Tucson subdivision Midvale Park designed the lake as part of a much larger irrigation system seeking to adapt to the vagaries of the neighboring Santa Cruz River which ran only irregularly although far more often than today He dug a ravine from the river to draw its shallow groundwater “Wells were then sunk at the head of the ravine and a large stream was piped away for the irrigation of 1,200 acres,” the Arizona Daily Star reported in 1927 where the water is now collected in a pond arbored by stately cottonwoods after seeing the herds at the Canoa Ranch and Scotch farms have declared that there are no better specimens anywhere produced in the United States,” the Star wrote saw the ranch and lake for the first time during a visit to his sister Deezie Manning and there was this verdant thing and then you drove right into the (ranch) compound.” He remembers smelling the mesquite wood in the guest house where he stayed built as a wedding gift for his son and daughter-in-law and which he recalls combined the essence of Spanish adobe and modern architectural styles Its living room picture window looked out on the lake which Lewis says was the core of the ranch operation They had windmills that pumped the water to watering troughs for cattle and they pumped water out of the pond,” he recalled an American Airlines calendar featured a photo of Howell Manning Jr with Deezie standing at his side in a grassy field His father Jesus was one of about 40 people who worked there as a ranch hand installing and welding fences and cooking until 1965 regularly took a canoe — Canoa translated from Spanish into English — onto the lake to catch bass for his dinner He said he caught and sold bluegill at five cents a fish to a woman who gave them as food to cotton pickers she supervised You cannot imagine having a childhood like that growing up among horses and cattle,” said Salcido who today does volunteer work for the ranch restoration He recalled cottonwoods reaching 40 feet tall limbs and leaves kind of drooped over the water.” where she and her friends would sometimes hop in a rowboat with a hole that they had to regularly bale water out of They often dug worms from the ground and sold them to residents and visitors for fishing “It was the unofficial rest area for people traveling from Tucson to Nogales,” recalled Castillo “I think when you say Canoa Ranch even now lived on the ranch from 1953 to 1967 with her parents who ran much of the operation after Howell Manning Jr.’s death Claire was Howell Manning Sr.’s stepdaughter remembers the lake as a “kid’s haven” and recalled that her grandfather would let visitors take rowboats attached to piers installed 15 to 20 feet into the lake to catch fish Her father and grandfather forbade her from swimming there because they feared she’d get tangled in moss underwater She swam instead in an irrigation canal running behind the main family ranch house — “and we’d pull leeches off each other,” she said Her parents sold the ranch to Duval Mining Corp. The company used its water rights on its Sierrita Mine west of Green Valley Claire Schnaufer said in an interview that they sold it because they didn’t have the money or energy to run Canoa and Navarro Ranch west of there when a group of bird-watchers spotted a great kiskadee flycatcher a bird normally seen only in Texas and Mexico “From the Backyard to the Backwoods,” recalled that the lake was where he first saw the Mexican specialty tropical kingbird said the lake’s cottonwoods also drew the Western yellow-billed cuckoo which has since been federally protected as a threatened species and more common riparian birds such as the gray hawk whose husband Steve Russell is a well-known ornithologist who always stopped at that "very good" birding spot when going south on birding trips The 1984 edition of 'Birds in Southeastern Arizona," Steve co-authored recommended that birders in the area take a walk around the pond to check for birds and that ruddy ducks and American coots have nested there this little lake provides a stopping place for water birds and waders in migration It is recommended as a stop on the way up or down route I-19," the 1994 book said "The trees around the pond are an excellent place to look for warblers and other land birds in migration." an Amado activist who has worked to preserve the historic ranch since the 1990s said she was told by former ranch caretaker Jimmy Johnson that the pond was dried because the state’s 1980 groundwater law doesn’t let mines use water from the ranch for irrigation The law says farmland can’t be irrigated with groundwater if it wasn’t irrigated from 1975 to 1980 can legally pump 22,600 gallons a minute of water using rights from the Canoa purchase That’s enough to cover the ranch’s remaining 4,800 acres 6 feet deep which unsuccessfully sought a rezoning to build more than 6,000 homes Pima County bought 4,835 acres of the ranch during the 2000s for $10.6 million reshaping and lining it with a plastic-based material that will mix with the soil to minimize seepage enough for 56 typical Tucson households for a year it will need refilling each year with 16 to 18 acre feet The next step in the restoration will be for the County Regional Flood Control District to plant 25 acres of native trees Rainwater harvesting will supply some of the irrigation water along with a 400-foot-deep well The county will use the restoration plantings as mitigation for its construction work elsewhere such as roads and bridges That will help the county meet its legal requirements of getting federal Clean Water Act permits for its project The return of birds is a ways off; birders last week saw only two hawks near the pond during a county-sponsored bird walk said he’s seen 10 to 25 deer at the pond several days in the past week with “way more people” living here and with the Southwest’s native cottonwood stands “decimated” over the past century there’s more need for the pond and its environs than ever “It will contribute a few more acres to a dwindling resource,” he said Contact reporter Tony Davis at tdavis@tucson.com or 806-7746. On Twitter@tonydavis987 Grijalva Canoa Ranch Conservation Park (named after the congressman who lived there as a child of a ranch worker): • Open Tuesdays and Saturdays through February • Tours of the historic ranch are given those days from 10 a.m • Take Interstate 19 south from Tucson through Green Valley to the Canoa Road exit Make your second right turn into the ranch picnic tables and other improvements are installed at the park Pima County officials hope to increase the number of days the site is open to the public • Other tours are also available at the ranch go to: http://webcms.pima.gov/cms/One.aspx?pageId=1507 Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. 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To learn more see our FAQ Sponsored contents planned and edited by JT Media Enterprise Division More than a public institution, a public space. This is the premise and guiding goal for the development of the new campus of UFCSPA by OSPA Campus Igara emerges as a potential articulating element of both spatial and human relationships that surrounds it in contrast to the volumetric density that the programmatic solution suggests in a first approach Two possibilities of connection with the city Interfaces that despite the hierarchical distinction are equally necessary to the composition of the block whose face today reveals the scars of our housing policy Activate the Wp-related-posts plugin to see the related post list! XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong> Text description provided by the architects. In February 2021, A Gentil Carioca gallery decided to expand its exhibition spaces beyond the renamed historical guesthouse situated in the Saara region, in Rio de Janeiro, by taking its artwork to the Paulista capital. For that, the gallery chose a rental estate situated in a pleasant village, occupied by residences and local range businesses, nearby the Consolação Cemetery, in São Paulo, Brazil. The forthright relationship between the ground floor level and the public sidewalk, as well as the unpretentious vitality of the neighborhood suited finely the irreverent and festive tradition of the gallery. © Manuel SáAt the same time, the liberation of the patio, restituting its original configuration, was determinant. Besides from improving conditions of natural illumination and ventilation, that operation permits the extension of the exhibition space outwards. The following project solutions reinforce that conception. Transparent toughened glass doors with a slide and rotate opening system assure visual continuity and allow to fully open the four passages from inside to outside. Such glass panels don´t need aluminum channels and revealed to be economically accessible because of its extensive use for the protection of residential building balconies in São Paulo. © Manuel SáThe terracotta color micro-cement floor resembles the vital matter earth. Its color was carefully chosen to establish continuity with the round rose arenite pebbles embedded on the external patio. The choice for micro-cement was based on execution speed and economy, dispensing the need to demolish pre-existing floors. © Manuel SáOn the northeast boundary, besides the staircase that accesses the upper neighbor, were placed a deposit space and a ceiling-suspended pull-out art rack, made of four sliding panels with 3,00m of length and 2,45m of height. Such equipment significantly increased the capacity of storage and presentation of artwork. © Manuel SáGallery backup programs such as bathroom, cafeteria, library, and administration resources were placed on a 1,20m wide band, along the estate´s back wall. The reception desk was thought to be a mobile element, shifting positions throughout the gallery depending on each exhibition project. The lighting project was based on the premise of simplicity: three metal channel longitudinal lines run parallelly and connect themselves through wiring steel pipes Tubular fluorescent lightbulbs were placed under the metal channels alongside with a few directable reflectors all of which can easily be repositioned depending on each exhibition project landscape design emphasis relies on the plantation of a cupuaçu tree well adapted to local insolation conditions Canoa is a historical drama about the horror of history made all the more frightening because it is based on a true story A scene from “Canoa: A Shameful Memory.” The film sticks close to verisimilitude in its structure and story line affable university employees in nearby Puebla decide to take the bus out town in order to climb Malinche the legendary mountain that looms over the remote village of Canoa Aware of — and sympathetic to — the student riots in Mexico City they don’t have any particular agenda other than a fun weekend out in the country The nightmare that overtakes their trip unfolds with tension and suspense; we already know what will happen to the jovial bunch We are introduced to Canoa’s landscape and its fatalistic inhabitants with documentary objectivity the well-designed compositions subtly reminding viewers how foreigners appear in the villager’s eyes the locals glance at the students and whisper to the camera Cazals’s approach is determinedly static; the voiceover narration serves up information with an eerie matter-of-factness Weary farmers stare directly into the camera (a in Godard’s agitprop films looks that testify to the bleakness of their lives: paltry One of the farmers becomes our unofficial narrator stepping out of the background and telling us point blank that “this town’s been jumpy for weeks … some bad shit is going to go down here soon.” The location shots of Canoa are rooted in the specificity of time and place but its psychic desolation and political unrest feel timeless and universal Even worse than the arid terrain is the influence of the corrupt local church which is spoken of apprehensively or with helpless outrage We are not given much to go on about the church’s power other than its parasitic relationship to the community and its coziness with the federal government (An official disingenuously praises the church as a “modernizing” force.) An unidentified priest pulls the strings in Canoa fusing ‘official’ religious and political roles until it’s impossible to tell them apart: given his bullying rule of the town he comes off as a colonialist clad in vestments We are bitterly informed that the church demands money and resources The wealth is used to build token gestures of civic improvement such as a water fountain (which the farmers are charged to access) and installing loudspeakers above the roofs which are principally used to broadcast propaganda and embarrass struggling citizens It’s clear that the priest is after more than saving people’s immortal souls; he also wants what’s in their wallets as well as their votes for the next rigged election Played with icy distance by the esteemed actor Enrique Lucero he wears thick dark sunglasses at all times alluded to in the film principally through snippets of radio programs and casual quotes from newspapers provides the church with plenty of fuel to feed growing panic over the threat of Communist infiltration in Canoa The authorities insist that these mysterious ever-lurking traitors want to hoist their flag “red like hell and black as sin,” above the church There may be plenty of people in Canoa who don’t approve of the priest or his oppressive policies a heavy rain forces the boys to seek shelter for the night who doesn’t even bother to check their identities Word gets out that these strangers are from “the university” and an angry mob begins to build furiously shouting words like “antichrist” and chanting the name of “San Miguel,” whom these assumed Communists are supposedly bent on blaspheming wild rumors swirl that these outsiders are committing crimes and refusing to pay for their sodas and peanuts at the local shop the mob roars through the streets looking to punish the interlopers; it is not about to let mistaken identity get in the way of its righteous bloodlust economical script is meticulous in terms of following the known facts and timeline Cazals brilliantly chose to tell this story via a detached which gives the film a haunting vividness and mounting inevitability that wouldn’t be out of place in an agonizing horror film that is just what Canoa is: a vibrant historical drama about the terror of history In exclusive interviews for Criterion’s new release great Mexican directors who first saw the film as young cinephiles recall the spellbinding experience of Canoa’s initial release and praise it as a tremendous step forward for Mexican cinema No one had the courage to tell this kind of story before not only to examine villager’s lives and faces so directly but to offer a scrupulous account of the seething paranoia and hysteria of this difficult period in Mexican history Canoa still has much to remind us about the causes of political chaos and who pays the ultimate price Matt Hanson is a critic for The Arts Fuse living outside Boston He blogs about movies and culture for LoveMoneyClothes His poetry chapbook was published by Rhinologic Press Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" The Lady’s Dressing Room (1732) BY JONATHAN SWIFT Five hours (and who can do it less in?) By haughty Celia… but this Littlefield review has convinced me to make the purchase your comments reek of what is wrong in today's society and also if entitlement About Us Advertising/Underwriting Syndication Media Resources Editors and Contributors © 2025 The Arts Fuse. All Rights Reserved. Site by AuthorBytes Three months of clopidogrel is sufficient to curb new-onset migraine headaches after percutaneous atrial septal defect (ASD) closure new data from the randomized CANOA trial show There was no rebound effect after patients stopped the P2Y12 inhibitor By 6 and 12 months after ASD closure, both the number and the severity of migraines had decreased, Jérôme Wintzer-Wehekind, MD (Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada), et al report today in JAMA Cardiology. The main results from CANOA showed that clopidogrel was effective within the first 3 months of therapy ASD closure has long been known to cause new-onset migraines among patients who didn’t previously have the severe headaches but there has been debate over why this phenomenon occurs and the presence of microthrombus on the ASD closure device have been proposed as potential mechanisms,” the investigators note Around 15% to 20% of patients get these de novo migraines which carry “a high burden and a huge impact on daily living,” Wintzer-Wehekind told TCTMD “So it’s really important to limit this bad effect of closure.” As the investigators note in their paper ASD patients with subsequent migraine are often young adults of working age “and present within the day and weeks following the procedure leading to a significant burden of medical consultations in addition to missed work or school days and reduced productivity.” “This study confirms that the optimal duration of dual antiplatelet therapy following transcatheter ASD closure should be no longer than 3 months,” Josep Rodés-Cabau principal investigator for CANOA and the new paper's senior author the lack of rebound effect is the main takeaway from the latest CANOA analysis “We need 3 months of dual antiplatelet therapy to have the device really endothelialize,” and thereafter 99% of patients are migraine free The study importantly “confirms the benefit of dual antiplatelet therapy not only for device thrombosis prevention but also for the elimination of migraine symptoms which can occur de novo after closure,” Sommer commented to TCTMD enrolled 171 migraine-free patients (mean age 49 years; 62% women) who underwent ASD closure at six Canadian hospitals between December 2008 and November 2014 randomizing them to dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT; clopidogrel and aspirin) or to placebo plus aspirin 9.5% of the DAPT group and 21.9% of controls developed new-onset migraine in the 3 months following ASD closure (P = 0.03) 3.5% of patients who’d developed migraines continued to have the headaches at 6 months and 1.2% (one person in each group) experienced new-onset migraines for a total of 4.7% across the entire study cohort 2.3% of patients still had recurrent migraines but no new-onset headaches emerged between 6 and 12 months There also were no moderate or severe migraine attacks after 3 months with no differences in migraine rate between patients initially assigned to clopidogrel versus aspirin at either 6 or 12 months These results align with his clinical experience “When the headaches occur after the procedure most of the headaches are gone and that has to do with endothelialization of the device the platelets no longer stick to it and they no longer become activated.” People who have headaches beyond 3 months likely do so because of differences in healing times suggesting that these individuals might benefit from restarting clopidogrel Wintzer-Wehekind agreed that their findings indicate that increased platelet aggregation rather than something about the device itself and vasoprotective effects of clopidogrel could also play a role on the prevention of migraine attacks,” the researchers suggest in their paper Cox is News Editor of TCTMD and Associate Director Editorial Content at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation Wintzer-Wehekind J, Horlick E, Ibrahim, et al. 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Forgot Password Enter the email you used to register to reset your password Sign up to receive the most important cardiovascular news This content is available for meeting attendees and/or Platinum Members The page you're looking for does not exist WORLD NEWS 5:00 PM | Updated: 5:01 pm BY MICHAEL HOUCK RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Brazil — The Church of Jesus Christ is sending humanitarian aid to those affected by the recent flooding that devastated Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul the Church said the Brazil Area Presidency is using its 21 meetinghouses as shelters for the thousands of evacuated people The Church is also providing thousands of basic food packages to Rio Grande do Sul’s Civil Defense which have already begun distribution to the locals The Church said that its missionaries helped unload emergency supplies from an airplane at a military airport in the city of Canoas on Wednesday Missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints help unload emergency supplies from an Azul airplane at a military airport in Canoas following severe flooding in the Rio Grande do Sul state it is working with Azul Airlines to send an aircraft from Saõ Paulo to Porto Alegre with supplies donated by the Church on Thursday The Church said its Welfare and Self-Reliance and Family Services departments are working with the Brazilian government to support the Rio Grande do Sul community “(Brazilian) news reports say some 80% of the population is without running water right now Many also do not have telephone or internet services,” the Church news release stated Firefighters rescue a man and his dog from a flooded area at the city center of Sao Sebastiao do Cai The death toll from a severe storm in Rio Grande do Sul amid the “worst disaster” in the history of the state where President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva traveled on Thursday Photo by Anselmo Cunha / AFP) via Getty Images The Church said the flooding blocked all routes from Brazil’s capital city, Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul. News reports state that the flood waters affect more than two-thirds of the nearly 500 cities in the area “Thousands of essential items are being donated personal protective equipment and tools,” the Church said “These donations are being coordinated in collaboration with the State Civil Defense local church leaders are coordinating efforts to help the community.” Missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints help load emergency supplies from an Azul airplane onto a truck at a military airport in Canoas The Associated Press reports that nearly 100,000 people have been forced out of their homes with at least 90 people dead and more than 130 missing Other cities in Rio Grande do Sul were already suffering from at least three previous major floods in less than eight months The Church said if you want to donate to those affected by this flooding you can do so through official government organizations that are coordinating donations through civil defense and social funds Follow @KSLMichaelHouck “…building bonds of friendship is easier when we have unity of vision.” The youth walk to the main hall for the morning plenary session Workshop participants are warmed by the sun The youth listen eagerly to their fellow workshop participants The conference provided time for both study and socializing with friends Participants met in workshop groups in several places on the conference grounds The large and small workshop groups were also held in tents outside the main hall Activities strengthened bonds of friendship throughout the weekend Joyful participants in one of the small workshop groups A group shot of the conference participants This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Essaying the pop culture that matters since 1999 I will admit a prejudice from the very outset of this review and if my readers feel that this invalidates my take on this film I positively assess the film despite this initial prejudice) I have always been suspicious of claims that recommend — or worse justify — a film because it’s based on a true story This is a favorite gambit of my stepfather and as much as I admire that man and enjoy his company this particular ploy of his has always driven me a bit batty I can’t remember what film it was that first led him to introduce this strategy but that seems too late in our relationship I feel like he started with this maneuver nearly from the moment I met him as soon as he figured out that it rankled me he had recourse to it at every possible occasion I know it was a film I hated (and boy did I hate Black Hawk Down) we got to the end of it and I released an exasperated sigh Certain films just bother me — not merely in the sense that I feel they were a waste of my time (and that certainly applies to Black Hawk Down) but also in the sense that I am disturbed by their disingenuousness their penchant to pull your strings in order to cajole you into accepting a premise that is false on its face the way they dress up a view of the world as patriotism or rational or heroic or moving that you ought to find repugnant I don’t think my stepfather particularly loved the film but it had entertained him enough that he found my acerbic reaction questionable “What’s the problem?” he asked I unleashed a barrage of complaints ranging from the political to the ethical to the aesthetic He listened with an air of confused amusement “but you do realize it’s based on a true story right?” I admit it was a decent riposte insofar as it flabbergasted me My stepfather specializes in a certain brand of non-sequitur and this one has nearly become his ’80s sitcom catchphrase how on earth is knowing that it’s based on reality going to redeem it and miraculously change my point of view I always wonder what my stepfather thinks my response ought to be at that point: “Oh Black Hawk Down is the greatest film since Battleship Potemkin!” The fact is that reality itself is often odious Art has always had a vexed relationship with reality As Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin never tired of asserting: art relies upon a semblance structure for its mode of being Art is a form of appearance that recognizes itself as appearance There’s a play here on Kantian thought wherein the world is divided between the noumenal (how things are in themselves) and the phenomenal (how things are to our perception and understanding — in other words we are confronted by appearances that we take for something real (we don’t see a dog and think we are just seeing an appearance with art we recognize that this thing that we are seeing exists as a kind of semblance This is easily seen in representational art You see a Fragonard painting of a charming couple in an idyllic setting the young man gently pushing the young woman on a swing and you recognize it’s a representation Western thought has recognized that part of the enjoyment of art is bound up in the fact that it’s not real claimed that this explains why we can admire paintings of corpses but if we happened upon one in real life we would be repulsed Different rules apply to art because of its semblance structure It critically registers aspects of reality Leni Riefenstahl’s film Triumph of the Will gives us an incredible and disturbing insight into the era of the Nazi regime as well as into the official ideology of the Third Reich its penchant for an aestheticized politics its concern for an order that transformed authoritarian control into a kind of sublime and terrible artwork Even the most rigorous documentary film is not simply documentation In the case of Triumph of the Will (1935) or in the case of the most scrupulous documentary We don’t have full access to the material here or focusing on one part of a scene while neglecting another are acts of interpretation the most outrageously ludicrous attempt to thwart reality or the most outlandishly imaginative bit of science fiction will nonetheless have some purchase on (and for Adorno a sometimes hidden and sometimes obvious connection to the world outside its frame But no artwork simply is a reflection of reality in an untouched All films purporting to present reality are bound up in the ineluctable semblance structure of all art This leads me back to my suspicion regarding films “based on a true story” or at least to my suspicion of those who would marshal that fact as a means of aesthetic justification I found myself considering these issues while viewing a film that I had never seen but knew was based on an actual event: Felipe Cazals’s Canoa: A Shameful Memory of 1976 Canoa is reputed to be one of the most important Mexican films and one of the most important political films of the ’70s (a great Canoa tracks the true story of a group of university employees from Puebla who take a half-hour bus trip out to the small village of San Miguel Canoa to hike the La Malinche mountain a torrential downpour prevents them from immediately going on their hike They are told by the owner of a small diner to ask the priest (Enrique Lucero) if they can stay at the church They meet the local police captain (Juan Ángel Martínez) who seems as though he will allow them to stay in a municipal building but he They return to the diner and attempt to rent a room there only to be refused yet again A stranger invites them to a local home where they chat with the owner who regales them with bitter tales concerning the hold that the priest has over the entire village — not only spiritually but financially as well This is in 1968 and with the student rebellions in full swing the priest is convinced that communists will soon come to town to raise a red and black flag in the village steal away the people’s religion (it’s never made clear how that would work) It doesn’t take long before he comes to consider these young men the realization of his premonitions and he convinces his many rapt followers to believe that this is indeed the case and march out to the home of the discontented resident who offered lodging to the university employees The young men inside the house are at first blithely unaware that the increasingly raucous noise they hear outdoors pertains to them They take the gunfire to be fireworks — until it’s far too late to escape The last third of the movie portrays the horrific attack of the villagers on the unarmed young men and the depraved acts of people who have clearly lost their sense of humanity while in the throes of a murderous frenzy brought on by misdirected and paranoid religious zeal difficult to watch but beautifully choreographed grabs the attention: just as the mob of villagers is about to march out to the home where the young men are staying there’s an aerial view that reveals one large influx of people with torches moving toward a larger group that’s momentarily stationary but then responds to their encroachment; the entire mass of vicious humanity seems to roil about itself for a moment before it heaves itself forward in pursuit of its prey It’s mesmerizing to see and disgusting to contemplate Canoa is shot in a faux-documentary style that actually bifurcates into two differing documentary approaches there’s the crime documentary style — complete with black screens that feature the time of the next scene which were so reminiscent (before the fact of course) of Law and Order that I kept intoning “Duh duh” to myself whenever they cropped up This documentary charts the progress of the crime itself and the news reporting surrounding that crime The other documentary style is more akin to ’60s television documentaries on exotic locales where you can hear the whirring of the camera and you hear interviews with local residents the only person interviewed is one fellow with a characteristic hat (Salvador Sánchez) He’s the epitome of the unreliable narrator providing some insight into the life of the village but always with a sort of ominous portentousness promising the eruption of suppressed tensions Whereas the typical “travel film” waxes enthusiastic about the simple innocence of a rural culture our narrator discusses the role of poverty and alcoholism within the village he too participates and indeed looks right into the camera to remind us that he is our conduit (our only one really) into an understanding of why these atrocities are taking place he’s a symptom of the village’s disease What’s remarkable about Canoa that doesn’t seem to apply to so many other films that are renowned for being “based on a true story” is that it plays with the boundary between semblance and the real The documentary elements of the film are obviously fake nearly a parody of actual crime and tourist documentaries The scenes of violence teeter between an overriding aestheticization (ala Riefenstahl) and a perverse registering of the real made into a memorable picture (like the scene with the swirling mob described above) and at other times the filming is almost casual (seeming almost like found footage of a horrible event) And yet this winking acknowledgment of the semblance structure of the film doesn’t make it less horrific but rather more so It confers upon the actual event a kind of surreal and terrifying irreality The statistical sufferings of the villagers offered up by the man in the hat no more explain the twisted behavior of the inhabitants than the bitter accusations of the homeowner against the corrupt priest There’s no accounting for human acts of inhumanity There’s no way to explain away cruelty Cruelty of this magnitude is not so much a condition as it is an event that irrupts into the lives of the unsuspecting and undeserving victims If the notion of the real is predicated on observable and predictable behavior then actual reality seems to fly in the face of such assumptions — particularly when human beings are involved The real continually slips toward the irreal; reality becomes a horrible semblance the reality of cruelty always presents an “as if” an assumption that things could always be otherwise What’s truly abominable about the semblance nature of cruelty is that we cannot help but wonder why the “as if” had to go the way it did Why must one suffer when there were other possibilities If Adorno claims that all art is the “coded language of suffering” then perhaps it’s fair to say that cruelty is the reverse face of art Cruelty codes the language of suffering that art expresses Canoa is not worth seeing because it’s based on real events (don’t listen to my stepfather if he tells you that it is) Canoa is worthy of our attention because it inhabits the liminal space between the real and the irreal and thus reveals that reality was semblance all along Criterion Collection presents a director-approved Blu-Ray edition of Canoa: A Shameful Memory to marks its 40th anniversary The extras include an introduction by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and a conversation between filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón is the essay included in the booklet by film scholar Fernanda Solórzano While many of the essays Criterion commissions for these releases are lackluster at best Welcome to “Throwback Thursdays,” a new film feature at The Stanford Daily the Arts & Life section will publish reviews highlighting older or more obscure works — sometimes both — that are currently not playing in traditional theaters critic Amir Abou-Jaoude recommends Felipe Cazals’ “Canoa: A Shameful Memory” (1976) for its combination of cinéma vérité style and political paranoia “Canoa: A Shameful Memory” can be found in the Media & Microtext Center under the call number ZDVD 40608 Felipe Cazals’ “Canoa: A Shameful Memory” begins with a title card telling us what follows is a true story So many movies begin with this claim that the late film critic Roger Ebert once joked that he had “grown immune to it.” In the case of “Canoa,” however Cazals uses this device not to dubiously link his film to reality five employees of the Autonomous University of Puebla decided to hike La Malinche they were caught in a strong storm and were stranded in the village of San Miguel Canoa at the foot of the mountain The villagers were anything but hospitable Convinced that the employees were communists Cazals’ film uses this gruesome incident as a starting point to create a perceptive study of how paranoia and poverty incite man’s inhumanity towards man Cazals’ examination of these issues begins as he establishes the environment in which the murders took place He employs documentary techniques to convey these essential facts A narrator tells us that San Miguel Canoa is only accessible by a pothole-ridden dirt road Although there are three schools in the area most of the population is illiterate because they cannot afford education and many residents resort to illegal wood trafficking to make a living and while we are told that the priest’s “influence is decisive in the life of the town,” this priest does not seem to take the Christian principles of charity and benevolence to heart appoints corrupt officials to government positions uses his influence to silence anyone who disagrees with him and delivers polemics on the cruelty of communists Cazals also conveys information about the town by interviewing the various villagers they tell us about life in San Miguel Canoa The villagers are primarily concerned with the fertility of the soil and the state of the wood trade Most believe that the priest’s program is benefitting the village While they complain about his taxes and his excesses they commend him for bringing electricity to the town and building a new school warns of the priest’s autocratic tendencies These interviews illustrate that the priest wields enormous power because the villagers are desperate They also remind viewers that although San Miguel Canoa is a real town He includes title cards counting down the minutes until the hikers’ deaths creating a sense that the hikers are being overcome by the inevitable San Miguel Canoa becomes an inescapable hell with the priest as an anti-communist version of Jim Jones or the legendary Western town of Tombstone They are looking to get drunk and find some beautiful girls These ordinary people have no way to reestablish law in Canoa so they are swallowed up by the lawless mob Cazals makes a comment on Mexico’s politics and students gathered there to protest the corruption of the PRI They were mercilessly gunned down by the police the hikers listen to news reports of the massacre When student demonstrations against the government occur at the university these apathetic individuals are branded as rabblerousing communists Cazals suggests the political climate is so volatile that even the most apolitical people find themselves at the center of current events “Canoa” becomes not just a study of a horrific incident but a survey of Mexico’s political landscape after 1968 Perhaps because of its outlook on Mexican society in this era “Canoa” is cited as one of the greatest Mexican films Directors like Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón have championed it while the story of “Canoa” certainly concerns Mexican society Cazals’ story recalls other shameful events such as the Salem Witch Trials and the 1950s Red Scare in America and the Dreyfus Affair in France his study of the dangers of demagoguery and the perils of paranoia seems eerily relevant today As new demagogues rise to prominence and poverty increases we leave the film reminded that history can repeat itself Contact Amir Abou-Jaoude at amir2 ‘at’ stanford.edu University Academics Campus Life Graduate Students Business & Technology Equity Project Fall Sports Winter Sports 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president The migrant wave stems from an arduous 266 km jungle crossing known as the Darien Gap which separates Colombia and Panama For many extracontinental migrants like those from Venezuela passing through the roadless wilderness of the Darien jungle is the only option to make their way north Guatemala and Mexico are also feeling the effects of being part of the primary transit corridor to the United States Regional cooperation and international assistance have become crucial to managing the flow “We cannot turn a blind eye to the human struggle behind this exodus Costa Rica will act with compassion but firmness for the security of all.” the Costa Rican government will have additional tools and funding to uphold stability at its borders leaders agree that the migrant crisis cannot be solved alone More international cooperation is urgently required a Singapore-based petroleum logistics unit of Malaysian energy logistics group MISC Berhad, has taken delivery of the second of three Suezmax second-generation dynamic positioning (DP2) shuttle tankers which are purpose-built for a long-term charter with Shell for operations in Brazil Following the announcement from 24 February 2022, when AET confirmed the naming of the first of two dual-fuel very large crude carriers (VLCCs) built for a long-term charter with TotalEnergies and added it took delivery of one more Suezmax Dynamic Positioning (DP2) Shuttle Tanker the company provided more details about this delivery on Wednesday AET explained that Eagle Canoas – the second in the series of three commissioned DP2 shuttle tankers – was delivered by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) last month Eagle Canoas further strengthens its commitment towards decarbonisation and sustainability commented on the delivery: “This is indeed another milestone and a matter of pride for all of us that after the successful delivery of Eagle Campos last month we are now taking delivery of Eagle Canoas “I wish to take this opportunity to thank everyone from HHI DNV and colleagues from Eaglestar and AET and all vendors and partners involved who collaborated tirelessly as one team to ensure that all jobs were completed on time and to the highest standard.” As previously reported, AET’s commitment to moving energy in an increasingly responsible and eco-friendly way led to the agreement with Shell in December 2019 to operate these three Suezmax DP2 shuttle tankers in the international and Brazilian Basin on a long-term charter The remaining sister vessel is currently under construction at the Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan South Korea and is expected to be delivered later this year.  Daily news and in-depth stories in your inbox The Pioneers of Offshore Engineering GustoMSC part of NOV’s Marine and Construction business is recognized for providing advanced design & engineering consultancy for mobile offshore units and reliable equipment and technical knowledge into realistic & innovative ideas The performance of new and 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