Ode dem verehrten Ober-Büchsenmeister Anastasius : am 27. Februar 1820

ehrfurchtsvoll geweiht von Wigand

Trauerreden auf den verewigten Herrn Benjamin Willstätter, Oberrat a.D., geb. 17. Dezember 1813, gest. 18. Juli 1895

[M. Appel .... et al.]

Die Bekehrung zweier Rabbiner : Selig Benjamin und Aron Mendel

dargestellt von Fr. Stolle

Zoning and the built environment: A public health analysis of zoning in Austin, Texas

The built environment is part of the physical environment made by people and for people. Because the built environment is such a ubiquitous component of the environment, it acts as an important pathway in determining health outcomes. Zoning, a type of urban planning policy, is one of the most important mechanisms connecting the built environment to public health. This policy analysis research paper explores how zoning regulations in Austin, Texas promote or prohibit the development of a healthy built environment. A systematic literature review was obtained from Active Living Research, which contained literature published about the relationships between the built environment, physical activity, and health. The results of these studies identified the following four components of the built environment that were associated to health: access to recreational facilities, sprawl and residential density, land use mix, and sidewalks and their walkability. A hierarchy analysis was then performed to demonstrate the association between these aspects of the built environment and health outcomes such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, and general health. Once these associations had been established, the components of the built environment were adapted into the evaluation criteria used to conduct a public health analysis of Austin's zoning ordinance. A total of eighty-eight regulations were identified to be related to these components and their varying associations to human health. Eight regulations were projected to have a negative association to health, three would have both a positive and negative association simultaneously, and nine were indeterminable with the information obtained through the literature review. The remaining sixty-eight regulations were projected to be associated in a beneficial manner to human health. Therefore, it was concluded that Austin's zoning ordinance would have an overwhelmingly positive impact on the public's health based on identified associations between the built environment and health outcomes.^

Environmental influences on self-reported leisure-time physical activity in the Austin/Travis County STEPS survey 2005--2009

This study was an examination of environmental and social correlates of physical inactivity in a socio-economically disadvantaged community. This study was a secondary analysis of data collected by the Austin/Travis County Department of Health and Human Services. The study included an analysis of perceived environmental influences (e.g. access to physical support features like sidewalks and streetlights). This study also investigated several features of the social environment (e.g. perceived neighborhood crime and social influence). Participants’ beliefs and attitudes about the neighborhood were investigated. Results included estimates of the association between neighborhood factors and physical inactivity controlling for age, gender and education. This study found significant associations for social and environmental variables with physical inactivity. The goal of this work was to identify factors that contribute to inactivity and address a number of environmental and neighborhood risk factors that contribute to sedentary behaviors in a population of relative social and economic disadvantage.^

Improving pregnancy prevention in the Austin Independent School District: Student participation in the development of social marketing media

Pregnancy prevention is an important goal of the Austin Independent School District (AISD), but present activity is limited to utilizing a single curriculum. To effectively prevent pregnancy, a diverse range of programs and activities is needed—including media and social marketing. This project (1) reviews literature to identify best practices and characteristics of effective pregnancy prevention programs for AISD, (2) reports on the results of meetings that gathered recommendations for effective channels and media messages for pregnancy prevention among high school students in Central Texas, and (3) presents samples of social marketing media products developed for pregnancy prevention that can be used by AISD.^

Sugar sweetened beverage consumption and behavioral correlates in a pilot study of high school students in Austin, Texas

Habitual consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) has been reliably linked to obesity in adolescents. A wide variety of beverages sweetened with sugar are available to this population. The objective of this secondary data analysis was to assess the consumption of SSB by category and to identify behaviors that occur concurrently with the consumption of soda, sport drinks and fruit-flavored drinks in high school students. The analysis used self-reported survey data from 97 adolescents ages 14 to 18. SSB categories considered in the consumption analysis included regular soda, sports drinks, fruit-flavored drinks (FFD), iced tea, coffee drinks and energy drinks. The mean weekly sweetened beverage load in this population, calculated from the frequency and amount of consumption, was 145 ounces when all categories were considered. When SSB categories were considered independently, sports drinks (45 oz.) had the highest contribution to the mean sweetened beverage load followed by FFD (41 oz.), iced tea (27 oz.), soda (26 oz.) coffee drinks (15 oz.) and energy drinks (2 oz.). Sweetened beverage load was higher in boys (151 oz.) than girls (138 oz.) and was highest in Hispanics (159 oz.) followed by whites (152 oz.), blacks (137 oz.) and others (104 oz.). Behaviors that occurred on a usual basis during SSB consumption included watching TV, eating a family meal, eating salty and fried foods, being on the computer and hanging out with friends. Activities concurrent with sports drink consumption included physical activity behaviors whereas soda and FFD did not. Sports drink and FFD consumption commonly co-occurred with fruit consumption. Multiple SSB categories contribute to the total SSB consumption and the common dietary and activity behaviors are distinct between categories. Several of the concurrent behaviors point to the importance of home beverage availability, and to the influence that parents and peers have on SSB consumption. Identifying and assessing intervention strategies targeted to specific beverage categories could be an important step in behavioral intervention research aimed at reducing added sugar consumption, and ultimately, promote a healthy weight in adolescents. ^

Walter Benjamin : a la búsqueda del tiempo perdido

El objeto de este trabajo es discutir algunas interpretaciones que, sobre la producción de Walter Benjamin, circulan en el espacio académico. Desde mi perspectiva las últimas lecturas han asignado a la obra benjaminiana una significación próxima a la de la teoría de la deconstrucción. Desde mi punto de vista estas interpretaciones se hallan bastante lejos de las preocupaciones que alientan en la producción del autor. La inocultable tensión entre una forma de escritura que puede ser leída sin dudas como poética y la crítica benjaminiana de la estetización fascista de la política, entre un lenguaje que asemeja en muchos casos el de los místicos judíos en el tiempo de la espera tensa del advenimiento del Mesías y el acontecimiento profano de cuya irrupción luminosa Benjamin aguarda la emancipación: la revolución social ha incitado intentos recurrentes de hacer jugar a Benjamin en el terreno de la moda. El modesto propósito de este escrito es el de esbozar apenas una aproximación a Benjamin, una suerte de lectura benjaminiana de Benjamin en una época que a la vez que rinde tributo a su producción (se han multiplicado las ediciones, traducciones, publicaciones, seminarios, cursos) tiende a obliterar en él la dimensión política.

Adorno y Benjamin sobre la cultura : acerca de un equívoco persistente

En teoría de la comunicación dentro de Latinoamérica, se ha vuelto un lugar común el supuesto de que W. Benjamin fue un defensor de la cultura de masas, un populista; el cual, por tanto, sería por completo opuesto a la figura de Adorno, con su reconocido elitismo cultural. De tal modo se opaca cualquier relación entre el pensamiento de ambos, al punto de que en una interpretación que ha popularizado Martín Barbero Benjamin no queda incluido como un autor frankfurtiano. El trabajo busca retomar la relación de Benjamin con lo sublime, para negar formas actuales de lo masivo; y con el marxismo, para mostrar su intransigencia ante el sistema capitalista, en oposición al neopopulismo latinoamericano actual. A la vez, la interpretación se diferencia también de la de B.Sarlo, quien hace una reivindicación unilateral de la cultura letrada frente a la cultura de masas.

Mendoza entre 1820 y 1880: política, religión y catástrofe

Con el fin de conocer las últimas interpretaciones acerca de nuestro pasado regional, los videos de la serie "Mendoza, crónica de nuestra identidad", pretenden llevar adelante la tarea constante de construir y reconstruir una identidad que se mantenga abierta a los valores del pasado, pero también a la inevitable reformulación crítica de los mismos principios. La propuesta es generar un proceso de actualización y perfeccionamiento en el campo de la historia regional. En el video MENDOZA ENTRE 1820 Y 1880: POLÍTICA, RELIGIÓN Y CATÁSTROFE, se describen los aspectos políticos a partir de la división de Cuyo en 1820, período en que comienza en nuestra provincia una etapa de reordenamiento institucional y un proceso de autonomía política que se verá interrumpido por el predominio rosista en la región. Una vez dictada la Constitución Provincial de 1854 se conoció en la provincia una etapa de estabilidad política que se vio removida por las rebeliones federales opuestas al liberalismo comandado por Mitre desde Buenos Aires. El patrimonio religioso de Mendoza muestra una provincia devota y comprometida con la fe católica. El terremoto de 1861 transformó radicalmente Mendoza en una ciudad moderna y diferenciada de la “vieja ciudad" colonial que se encontraba bajo los escombros. Los temas tratados en el documental son: - La organización institucional de la provincia. - La subordinación de Mendoza al orden político de Rosas. - La instauración del Liberalismo y las rebeliones federales. - Los enfrentamientos políticos dentro de la elite gobernante. - El patrimonio religioso de Mendoza. - El terremoto de 1861 y la reconstrucción de la ciudad.

La filosofía de Benjamin Aybar

Fil: Rego, Francisco.