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Regenerative Land-based Learning Practices at xʷc̓ic̓əsəm Garden
Get PDFThe past, present, and future of Indigenous food systems have always been dependent on Indigenous knowledge mobilization of sustainable land-based practices. Intergenerational approaches to teaching, learning, and researching are featured in this work at the xʷc̓ic̓əsəm Garden: ‘The Place Where We Grow’ situated on the ancestral and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people located at the UBC Farm.
This presentation explores the Garden’s land-based methodological implications in promoting Indigenous resurgence agendas. We will do that by drawing on Wilson Mendes’s Ph.D. research on the intersections of land-based pedagogies, Indigenous food sovereignty, and Indigenous youth cultural identity and wellness. In this context, we will reflect on the Medicine Collective intergenerational pedagogical approaches to explore how Indigenous knowledge systems through language, protocols and ceremonies encourage Indigenous People’s resurgence through regenerative land-based practices via Indigenous food systems engagement. We acknowledge the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for supporting our research.
We raise our hands in gratitude to Dr Eduardo Jovel (Pipil and Mayan ancestry) for his leadership at the xʷc̓ic̓əsəm Garden. Dr. Jovel is the Interim Director of First Nation House of Leaning and Director of the Indigenous Research Partnerships at the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia.
Reducing the Prevalence of Stroke in Nigeria by Addressing Hypertension and Alcohol Use as Risk Factors
No full textDue to Nigeria’s aging population, the prevalence of strokes remains a high threat for the country. Although Nigeria has focused on stroke treatment, these is a lack of preventative interventions. Management of hypertension and alcohol consumption are two modifiable risk factors that have been found to decrease the risk of strokes but are loosely regulated in Nigeria. The aim of this paper is to 1) review the measures currently in place for preventing strokes in Nigeria and, 2) propose that reduction of salt consumption and, 3) revision of alcohol consumption policies can reduce the risk of strokes in Nigeria
COVID-19 Distancing Behaviors Among Non-Vaccinated and Illicit Drug Using Canadians: A Predictive Analysis
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Introduction: Worries due to the COVID-19 pandemic have increased illicit drug use among Canadians. There are 5 commonly used illicit drugs in Canada: cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, heroin, and meth. Given that substance use is related to worry management, the use of illicit drugs has also impacted the occurrence, or lack of occurrence, of social distancing.
Research significance: This study investigates the association between distancing and illicit drug use for unvaccinated Canadian adults. This insight will aim to close gaps in knowledge regarding the changes to the covid distancing variable as a result of different frequencies of use of common illicit substances. In doing so, future interventions can be better targeted to address covid distancing for different types of illicit drug users to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Methods: 2448 observations were obtained via the Canadian Social Connections Survey and vaccinated participants, missing/NA values, and participants below age of 19 were removed.
Results: In the multivariable model, use of cocaine at least once a week (OR = 7.55, 95% CI), use of hallucinogens at least once a month (OR = 0.0955, 95% CI), age cohort of Generation X (OR = 0.10, 95% CI) and Baby Boomers (OR = 0.245, 95% CI) were statistically significant predictors of covid distancing. Interaction between age cohorts and cocaine use was conducted and found to be statistically different and superior.
Conclusion: Substance use is not a strong predictor of COVID-19 distancing. Other confounders should be investigated in order to better predict the outcome of covid distancing across explanatory substance use variables. Then we can alter the interventions required to address confounding factors that may exist for unsafe covid-19 behaviors
Excerpts from: All the Time: lyric epistles
Get PDFA poem about Kelowna; Vernon; Enderby; Ucluelet, and Shanghai, China. 
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Preface vii
Notes to Users ix
25. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41 OE version of Bede's "Historia ecclesiastica"; Charms; Verse "Solomon and Saturn"; Homilies; Liturgical Texts (R.J.S. Grant) 1
27. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 57 "Regula Sancti Benedicti"; "Martyrology" of U suard; ''Diadema monachorum" of Smaragdus, and other texts (fimothy Graham) 28
39. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 191 Chrodegang of Metz, "Regula canonicorum" ( enlarged version) (Timothy Graham) 39
48. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 302 LElfric, "Hexameron"; Homilies (Elaine M. Treharne) 48
49. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 303 Homilies (Elaine M. Treharne) 55
54. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 367 Late historical texts; OE Homilies, OE ''Vision of Leofric," etc. (Elaine M. Treharne) 67
55. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 383 Laws (Peter J. Lucas) 74
60. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 422 "The Red Book of Darley" (Timothy Graham) 8
A Tiny Field for Soundscape Design: A Case Study of the Soundscape Museum in Osaka, Japan
Get PDFThe author worked out his idea of the ‘soundscape museum’ as an experiment in order to put into practice ideas on soundscape design that can be executed by any individual citizen. He ran the Hirano Soundscape Museum (HSM) from 1998 to 2004 as part of a grass-roots activity for com- munity development in Hirano, Osaka, Japan. In this paper, the author reports on the activities of the HSM and discusses his concepts and methods of soundscape design he has gathered as part of this case study
Intermissions With The Orchestra
Get PDFI have spent the last several years at orchestra concerts and bal- let performances on my own singular plane of existence. Furtive, vigilant, with my eyes everywhere (for I might get caught!), and my ears carefully attuned to “playing” the orchestra, I am on a secret mission: to surreptitiously record intermissions..