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Physical inactivity is a pressing public health concern. In this commentary we argue that Canada's approach to increasing physical activity (PA) has been fragmented and has lacked coordination, funding and a strategic approach. We then describe a potential solution in Active Canada 20/20 (AC 20/20), which provides both a national plan and a commitment to action from non-government and public sectors with a view to engaging corporate Canada and the general public. It outlines a road map for initiating, coordinating and implementing proactive initiatives to address this prominent health risk factor. The identified actions are based on the best available evidence and have been endorsed by the majority of representatives in the relevant sectors. The next crucial steps are to engage all those involved in public health promotion, service provision and advocacy at the municipal, provincial and national levels in order to incorporate AC 20/20 principles into practice and planning and thus increase the PA level of every person in Canada. Further, governments, as well as the private, not-for-profit and philanthropic sectors, should demonstrate leadership and continue their efforts toward providing the substantial and sustained resources needed to recalibrate Canadians' habitual PA patterns; this will ultimately improve the overall health of our citizens.

Charles Underwood was in the United States Army for more than 31 years from 1941 to 1972. His active military service included command of infantry, armored infantry and armored units from platoon through brigade. Most staff assignments were in information and public affairs. He was a Prisoner of War for the Japanese Imperial Army from 1942-1945 and survived the Bataan Death March. ; The collection consists of slides, photographs, letters, military documents, and other personal documents of Charles Underwood. It includes information on the Bataan Death March as well as the different bases around the world he was stationed at during his time in the Army. ; The collection is organized by the following series: Bataan, Birth Records, Certificates, Correspondence, Drawings, Financial Records, Genealogy, Legal Document, Literary Productions, Medical Records, Memorial, Military Documents, Newspaper, Periodical, Personal Documents, Photographs, Printed Material, Retirement Records, School Records, Scrapbook, and Slides. ; Box 1, Folder 20

Gegenstand des folgenden Beitrags ist die Darstellung der Konzeption eines transdisziplinären Vorhabens, an dem drei WGL-Institute, das Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Mannheim), das Institut für Zeitgeschichte (München) und das Herder-Institut (Marburg) beteiligt sind. Vorangestellt sind grundsätzliche methodische und theoretische Überlegungen zu einer transdisziplinären Forschungskonzeption in Bezug auf die gesellschaftlich-politischen Umbrüche des 20. Jahrhunderts. Es schließt sich die Konkretisierung dieser Überlegungen in Bezug auf das transdisziplinäre Forschungsprojekt an, das sich auf die frühe Weimarer Zeit bezieht. Dabei werden auch die drei unterschiedlichen Zugriffe aus den Perspektiven der drei Beteiligten skizziert. Eine Beispielanalyse demonstriert schließlich den methodischen Ansatz des Vorhabens exemplarisch. ; The following article describes the plan of a crossdisciplinary project involving three institutes belonging to the WGL (Scientific Community Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz): the Institute for the German Language (Mannheim), the Institute for Contemporary History (Munich) and the Herder-Institut (Marburg). A preliminary section examines the fundamental methodical and theoretical considerations of crossdisciplinary research on the subject of the radical socio-political changes of the 20th century. This is followed by a clarification of these considerations with regard to the crossdisciplinary research project described here, which is concerned with the early Weimar period. The three different approaches from the perspectives of the three participating institutions are outlined. Finally, the article presents an analysis which serves as an example of the methodical approach adopted by the project.

International audience ; Illustrated by 14 slides, this chronicle recounts an ethnomusicologist's return to the field, after a gap of 20 years, for a book launching. It tells of various kinds of change : demographical, architectural, economical, ritual, religious, musical and political. The changes invite us to grasp two contrary developments: on one hand, a taste for innovating, for adaptating to modernity, for creativity through borrowings (musik elekton, sound systems, western weddings, television programs) ; on the other hand, a strong desire to come back to the values of the ancient religious tradition, and a will to reappropriate a past largely destroyed by Christian conversions. The book launching proves to be an awakening that provokes intense debates between new generations of social actors. ; Après vingt ans, me voici de retour dans les montagnes du sud de Sulawesi avec le but que je m'étais fixé : restituer aux Toraja mes résultats de recherche dans leurs langues (toraja et indonésien) portant sur leur liturgie musicale éradiquée par la christianisation (fig. 1) 2. La tâche se révèle à la fois ardue et plaisante. Ardue, car enfin, comment rendre ? À qui ? Dans quelles conditions ? Comment rapporter un savoir musical et poétique ancien dans une société christianisée aujourd'hui rompue à la musique pop ? Tâche plaisante néanmoins, car restituer un savoir est une occasion trop rare dans nos vies de chercheurs pour ne pas en dire un mot ici. Plaisante enfin, car vingt ans après, je découvre une société renouvelée, enthousiaste, en pleine introspection.

La Primavera Árabe logró una visibilidad inusual a lo largo de 2011 para la mayoría de los países del Magreb y de Oriente Próximo. En Marruecos, el movimiento se conoció como "Jóvenes del 20 de febrero". Se propone aquí el análisis de las prácticas audiovisuales durante el Movimiento 20F en su poder de convocatoria, en el activismo, en la expresión de las demandas, y también como instrumento de denuncia o en la acción política. Se trata de contribuir al estudio de la visibilidad de movimientos sociales a partir de la producción audiovisual, de vídeos capturados con móviles, desde la apropiación social del espacio comunicativo ; The Arab Spring got an unusual visibility throughout 2011 in most of the Maghreb and the Middle East countries. In Morocco, the movement was known as "Youth of February 20". Here it is proposed the analysis of audiovisual practices during the 20F Movement, its convening power, its activism, its expression of the demands, as well as its character of instrument of denunciation or in political action. This study aims to contribute to the visibility of social movements from its video productions, from mobile videos captured and from the social appropriation of communicative space

Ein stark geraffter Rückblick auf die Geschichte der Vertragsänderungen und die Darstellung der Ausgangssituation vor der Wahl zum Europäischen Parlament 2014, bei der die Auswirkungen des Inkrafttretens des Vertrags von Lissabon auf die Zusammenarbeit der EU-Institutionen ebenso berücksichtigt werden wie jene der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise bieten eine gute Basis für das eigentliche Thema. Die Diskussion aktueller Initiativen setzt mit den Spitzenkandidaturen für das Amt des Kommissionspräsidenten ein und fokussiert auf die neuen Strukturen in der Kommission und die Entwicklung der Prioritäten für die neue fünfjährige Funktionsperiode ebenso wie auf die Arbeiten an einer besseren Funktionsweise der EU, die unter italienischem Ratsvorsitz im zweiten Halbjahr 2014 begonnen wurden und unter lettischem Vorsitz weitergeführt werden. Es wird versucht, dabei auch Hintergründe und aktuelle Trends sowie die österreichische Haltung zu den Vorschlägen aufzuzeigen. ; A very short retrospective look at the history of amendments of the EU Treaties and a closer look at the situation before the European Parliament elections 2014 that focuses on the effects of the Treaty of Lisbon on interinstitutional cooperation between EU institutions as well as on the effects of the economic and financial crisis serve as a good starting point for the discussion of the topic. The presentation of recent initiatives for the improvement of the functioning of the European Union starts with the initiative of European political parties, which presented top candidates for Commission President, and focuses both on the new structures in the Commission and the development of priorities for the current five-year term of the Commission as well as on the work for a better functioning of the EU started under the Italian Council Presidency in the second half of 2014 and continued under the Latvian Presidency. The author tries to give background information and show latest trends and the Austrian position with respect to the ongoing discussion.