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natcatcher (2 Arizona) Rufous-backed Robin (1 Arizona) Rufous-backed Robin (Rufous-backed) (1 Arizona) Western Spindalis (7 Florida) The FBI responded by sending two agents provocateur to entrap the Duka brothers in criminal activity. The agents showered attention on them and used money and manipulation to try to create interest in jihad. They asked the men to download jihadist videos, taunted them for their lack of resolve to take action, and followed them around with hidden tape recorders to record every word spoken.

One agent talked alone in general terms with a relative of the brothers, Mohammed Shnewer, about how one might theoretically attack the Fort Dix army base. In response to the agent’s repeated demands, another defendant, Serdar Tatar, gave the agent a map of the Fort Dix base, which his father had used to deliver pizza there. (Tatar thought that the agent was suspicious and reported him to law enforcement, who said not to worry about it.)

The other agent then persuaded the Duka brothers to buy some guns, supposedly for more target shooting in the Poconos, so they would not have to wait in line at public shooting ranges. At this point, the whole group was arrested and eventually convicted in 2008 of conspiracy to attack Fort Dix, even though no plans had been made to attack anything and the government?s own witness conceded that the Duka brothers had never been told about any conversation regarding Fort Dix. Under federal law, in a conspiracy case all associates are considered equally culpable, even if they do not know of the existence of a plan. Thus the Duka brothers were convicted for essentially vacationing while Muslim and given life sentences plus 33 years for a plot they literally had never heard of. The U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the case was Chris Christie, now governor of New Jersey and candidate for U.S. president. The EAM and the Adviser condemned terrorism and resolved to cooperate to eliminate it. They noted the successful talks on terrorism and security related issues in Bangkok by the two NSAs and decided that the NSAs will continue to address all issues connected to terrorism. The Indian side was assured of the steps being taken to expedite the early conclusion of the Mumbai trial.

Both sides, accordingly, agreed to a Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue and directed the Foreign Secretaries to work out the modalities and schedule of the meetings under the Dialogue including Peace and Security, CBMs, Jammu & Kashmir, Siachen, Sir Creek, Wullar Barrage/Tulbul Navigation Project, Economic and Commercial Cooperation, Counter-Terrorism, Narcotics Control, Humanitarian Issues, People to People exchanges and religious tourism. Buying Time contains a compelling analysis that points to the origins of the current crisis in the wave of strikes of 1968-69. It caused the capitalist class to try and wrest free from the post-war social (democratic) contract forced on it by labour. However, not only does Streeck not pay attention to imperialism and war, he also tends to assume that capital-asagency governed the entire period since, attempting to postpone the full social impact of the crisis in three different ways, restricting democracy as it went along.

However, the three periods he distinguishes (inflation, state debt and private debt) were directed by changing coalitions of capitalist interests uniting behind a different concept of control-corporate liberalism and two versions of neoliberalism. This highlights that in 2008, when these remedies all had exhausted themselves, capitalas-agency in command was the bloc of forces led by speculative, money-dealing capital, which in the 1990s had captured the states of the West and steered them onto a path of high-risk, high-reward policies both in the economy proper and in international affairs.

This explains why after 2008, solutions to the crisis followed this particular politicaleconomic orientation, with more risk-taking in all areas on the agenda. This is Vint’s main contribution because it is universal. He states: “The term “local” is used in a loose sense, here, since it means “peculiar to the particular network” rather than “a network of limited geographic extent.” A satellite-based network such as the ARPA packet satellite network, therefore, has “local” characteristics (e.g. broadcast operation) even though it spans many thousands of square miles geographically speaking.” This, together with Louis Pouzin’s catenetting actually defined glocality as a local virtual network global

reach. I.e. what I call a VGN (virtual glocal network).

This is something difficult for IETF people to consider because they are only referred to twice in RFCs as being outside of the “end to end”. In addition, it was a national security issue: UNIX internet systems had no protection against non-US protected accesses established through T/ES. It was also a strategic political/industrial issue within the deregulation context where AT&T was dismantled, killing its own X.25 technology development.

Tymnet then started proposing X.75/TCP/IP/Tymnet technology to the seven FCC regulated “Baby Bells” (Regional Bell Operating Companies) the same as they had already leased and operated the five FCC regulated IRCs (international records c a r r ie r s ) and all the other foreign Operators and PTTs (except BT) throughout the world. Dear friends, I am a journalist writing to you from Aleppo, a city where people are being bombed every day by Russia and the Syrian regime. Tomorrow I will be hosting a live webchat from Aleppo and I would like you to join me. What’s happening in Syria is complicated so I would like to offer you a view from the ground. I returned here three weeks ago to report on the attacks against civillians. I have witnessed Russian airstrikes targeting civilian homes and not Isis. I’ve spoken to dozens of people who oppose both Isis and the regime but feel abandoned by the world. With no international media in Aleppo, it is my duty to try and get these stories out. I’ve been in and out of Syria since day one of the fighting but what I’ve seen since returning to Aleppo has changed me forever. I’ve seen fathers scramble through rubble for parts of their children.

I’ve seen children dig in the rubble for parents killed days before. I’ve also seen the heroism of the White Helmets, of the medical workers and of all the people who struggle every day just to stay alive. Against the backdrop of continuous bombs, the solidarity and the spreading of word of what is actually going on in Syria is tremendously helping the people here. Every argument you make, every action you take, every hashtag in support of the innocent victims makes a difference. As we see throughout the Bay Area, many schools are being privatized or made into charter schools. Education has become a money-making machine and no longer a tool to

educate, prepare and liberate the minds of our youth. As a study by the Black Organizing Project found, Black youth make up only 30.5 percent of the OUSD population, but account for 73 percent of OUSD arrests. According to the study, 85 students were arrested between 2010 and 2012, and none of those were white. Naiyma, 17, dreamed of pursuing a college degree in textile design. There are many reasons such a dream could have been out of reach: She’s one of five daughters of a single mother who has a disabling health condition. There is no college savings fund. The price of college tuition is scaling dizzying heights. Economic and religious imaginaries often merge in ways that affect how socieities and individuals operate. Relations of power, hierarchies of knowledge, and the circula-

tion of ideas are all entangled intersections between the religious and the economic, affecting the social and the political. In the social sciences and in the humanities, the idea of the ‘neoliberal’ now rivals most any other reasoning behind the forces of social and political change. Istanbul might be the most beautiful city on the planet.

It has somehow managed to condense everything that is awesome about the two continents it straddles -- Europe and Asia -- into a single magnificent metropolis. We got to hang out in Istanbul for a week and visit some of its most spectacular sights: the legendary Hagia Sophia, the waterside Ortakoy Mosque, the mind-bendingly intricate mosaics of the Blue Mosque, and the labyrinthine Grand Bazaar, not to mention it’s beautiful parks, neighborhoods, bridges, and waterfronts. You could spend entire centuries in Istanbul and still not see all there is to see, but we decided to try and sum the week we spent there up in just over two minutes with t h i s timelapse.

Sure, we didn’t capture everything. But that just means we get to go back and try again. 58F, hazy. Black beans, eggs, biscuits, cheese. Coffee. Several distinguishable types of fraud against the census must be considered, including: hacking the census for fun or bragging rights; social media attempts to discredit the census and reduce cooperation; mimicry of the census forms or apps for purposes including phishing; city or district-level attempts to changes population numbers or distributions; large scale attempts to affect apportionment of the House of Representatives; individual mischief and anti-government protest. Even a non-supervisory employee at levels GS-15 and below is expected (under ICS 610-3) to demonstrate creative thinking (he or she “designs new methods and tools where established methods and procedures are inapplicable, unavailable, or ineffective”); to consider alternative points of view (she “seeks out, evaluates, and integrates a variety of perspectives”); and to display intellectual integrity (he “exhibits courage when conveying views, presenting new ideas, and making/executing decisions irrespective of potentially adverse personal consequences. Does not alter judgments in the face of social or political pressure.”). And senior officers (ICS

610-5) “are expected to personally embody, advance and reinforce IC core values: a Commitment to selfless service and excellence in support of the IC’s mission, as well as to preserving, protecting, and defending the Nation’s laws and liberties; the integrity and Courage (moral, intellectual, and physical) to seek and speak the truth, to innovate, and to change things for the better, regardless of personal or professional risk.” Considering the state of the species, it would be remarkable if more than a small fraction of the IC workforce comes close to meeting the lofty standards for performance and conduct that are described here. But perhaps these statements of expectations themselves serve a wholesome, instructive purpose, making their own fulfillment somewhat more likely.

And the standards are more than rhetorical flights. They are to be used (pursuant to Intelligence Community Directive 610) for “qualification, training, career development, performance evaluation, [and] promotion.” The guiding principles for implementing and operating the Intelligence Community (IC) Information Technology Enterprise ( I T E ) were set forth in a 2 0 1 3 memorandum from the Director of National Intelligence that was recently released under the Freedom of Information Act. The purpose of IC ITE (pronounced “eye sight”) is to establish a common information architecture for the entire U.S. intelligence community, thereby fostering integration and making information sharing among agencies the default option. “Information acquired, collected, or produced

by IC elements shall be available for access for all IC missions and functions, subject to applicable legal and policy requirements,” the 2013 DNI memo said. Once available through IC ITE, however, access is still to be limited by need-to-know. “Determinations about access to and use of such information within IC ITE shall continue to be based upon content and mission need.” Nevertheless, agencies are expected and required to make “their” information available to the larger IC. “Unless a discovery exemption has been obtained, originating IC elements shall authorize and provide for automated discovery and retrieval of intelligence and intelligence-related information in IC ITE.” “IC ITE moves

the IC from an agency-centric IT architecture to a common platform where the Community easily and securely shares technology, information, and resources,” according to an ODNI fact sheet. “These new capabilities, with seamless and secure access to Community-wide information, will positively and deeply change how users communicate, collaborate, and perform their mission.” IC ITE technically “went live” in 2013, but it is still at an early stage of development. “The classified annex of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 required the CIA, DIA, NRO, NGA, and NSA to provide specific plans for adoption of IC ITE-compliant capabilities,” the Senate Intelligence Committee noted in a report earlier this year. Get behind the scenes of DLS’ incredible new exhibitionwith a meal ticket to Monday’s Culinaria. Executive Chef Ryan Mead of the Bent Brick has designed auniquely crafted menu that features savory dishes highlighted by rich textures and warm notes--with some delightfulsurprises. The dinner also offers paired wines donated by Casa Bruno to complement each course along with specialty cocktails for the exhibition tour. In 1996, devastating floods removed many of the roads and bridges from Fish Creek area and now the watershed is home to one of the largest whole watershed restoration projects undertaken in the United States. When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at 4:00 am and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for 10km or swim for 1500m (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at 9:00 pm. I keep to this routine every day without variation.

The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind. But to hold to such repetition for so long - six months to a year - requires a good amount of mental and physical strength. In that sense, writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. Periods of heavy rain will continue across the Pacific Northwest and northern California as another in a series of storms moves onshore. In addition to the heavy rain, strong winds and mountain snow are possible across the Cascades, Sierra and northern Rockies. Rain and snow will also move into the inter-mountain west. Light snow is possible across the northern Plains. While the adult tapeworm lives a pretty ordinary life in the gut of a woodpecker, the larva uses a worker ant as a place to grow and a vehicle to reach the bird host. Specifically, they infect Temnothorax nylanderi - a species of ant found in oak forests of western Europe. These ants nest in naturally occurring cavities in trees such as sticks or acorns and the colony consists of a single ant queen surrounded by several dozen worker ants. These ants are a regular part of the woodpecker’s diet so there’s a fairly reasonable chance that the tapeworm will reach its final destination if it waited around for long enough. But A. brevis is not content with just leaving it to chance. Worker ants can become infected through eating bird faeces which are contaminated with the parasite’s eggs. As the tapeworm larvae grow inside the ant’s body, these infected worker ants become noticeably different from their uninfected counterpart; they smell different (determined by the layer of hydrocarbon chemicals on their cuticle), they’re smaller, they have yellow (instead of brown)

cuticles, spend most of their time sitting around in the nest, and for some reason their uninfected nestmates are more willing to dote on these tapeworm-infected ants rather than healthy ones. They essentially become a different animal to the healthy workers, and other ant parasites have been known to alter their host to such a degree that parasitised individuals were initially mistaken as belonging to an entirely different species. The New York Times reported in 2014 new immigrants are more often to be found in midsize cities, like Dayton, Ohio than in New York, Chicago, and other large cities. Like Youngstown, Dayton had lost over 40% of its population. But city officials embraced immigration by establishing a Welcoming Dayton plan in 2011.

New immigrants and refugees were encouraged to relocate in this community and developed support groups to help newcomers adjust to their new community. The refugee crisis facing Western nations has begun to peak both demographically and politically. The United Nations has reported that more than 6.5 million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries and Europe, and even nations that until recently welcomed refugees are frantically trying to change immigration policy or protect borders. In contrast, as migration has swelled the population in some places, in others, like the Rust Belt of the United States, depopulation undermines future economic development. Some have begun to ask whether population trends can or should determine policy. The answer is yes. Trump’s proposal taps into a reservoir of racism that is part of American history. FDR ordered American-born and immigrant Japanese people into prison camps at the outset of World War II, one of the worst violations of the Constitution.

From the moment the first slave was taken off a ship in colonial America, African-Americans have been subjected to violent racism. So have Latino immigrants, another Trump target. We have been satellite-tagging Swallowtailed Kites in the Southeastern USA since 1996. Recently we lost the signal on a Swallow-tailed Kite in Mato Grosso Brazil on its winter territory. Looking at Google Imagery, it looks to be in a field not far from BR 364. We are wondering if there is any biologist or citizen that may have a GPS receiver that could look for remains or maybe the transmitter of this bird. We wonder if the bird was killed, shot, poisoned, eaten or just died of old age. Perhaps some conversation with the locals there could lead to clues about Swallow-tailed Kites in the area. The last location of the Swallow-tailed Kited appears to be in a highly cultivated field along a wooded edge‚ soy or sugar? This is 150 miles N of Barra dos Bugres (direct).

The closest town is 38 miles south: Campo Novo do Parecis to the south off of BR 364. Gerald was funny that way. At least that’s what everybody said. Gerald didn’t think he was funny at all. Anyway, how funny Gerald was, or wasn’t, really doesn’t affect what happened that day. It was a sunny summer day. The sun was high in the sky.

It would have been a lovely day, except for the humidity. It was one of those days where you look out your office window and think, “I wish I was outside”. But the moment that you actually step outside, you immediately regret it. Gerald had taken the day off. He had big, exciting plans. He was going cruising. And he had a plan. But like most of Gerald’s plans, this plan was doomed to failure.

Gerald learned the hard way that packing a pickle, in the front of his spandex yoga pants, would not yield the results he had been hoping for. Not at all. Dear Mike, As I recall, Donna Lustoff heard a Long-eared Owl calling during the day from woods near my parents’ farm near Hopewell in Yamhill County about 20 years or so ago.

I think this occurred sometime during the spring.

I have never heard a Long-eared Owl call during the day before.

Every Long-eared Owl I have ever heard was calling at night. Sincerely, Tim Janzen The purple finch in this line-up looks like my bird so I’m going with Purple Finch. Frankly, I cannot see the difference in culmen shape or brown cheek stripe. The pictures in Sibley’s and Peterson’s are no help. I will have to go back to my old tried and true method learned long ago: House Finches are strawberry colored and Purple Finches raspberry colored... totally unscientific and with lots of orange and other House Finch exceptions. But the best I can do without hearing the song (which is how I easily tell them apart). As for

Cassin’s, I’ll look for the top of the head being much redder than the rest of the head. I find the females of these finches much easier to tell apart than the males (by face pattern). Thanks to those of you who have tried to educate me. If anyone has any other clues, I’d love to hear them. Ukrainian investigators on Thursday called on the Netherlands to help probe the fate of a batch of precious Dutch paintings reportedly being held by a volunteer battalion fighting pro-Russian insurgents in the east of the ex-Soviet state. “We are waiting - and they are welcomed here in Ukraine - the official investigators who can investigate this material”, Ukraine’s police c h i e f K h a t a Dekanoidze told a press conference. She said the Dutch exp e r t s c o u l d work together with their Ukrainian counterparts. “Our doors are opened, we are transparent”, she said. The Westfries Museum in the Dutch town of Hoorn said on Monday that two dozen 17th-century paintings that went missing a decade ago had been found in a villa in a Ukrainian-controlled part of Donbass - a splintered zone of a conflict that has already killed more than 9,000 people since April 2014. Two men claiming to represent the Organisation of Berlin’s parliament on Thursday voted to open the doors of museums, zoos, operas and theatres for free on January 31, 2016, to thank the capital’s residents for their mobilisation in the country’s biggest refugee relief drive since World War II. “With open arms and with an infinite energy, Berliners welcomed thousands of refugees to Berlin,” the city state’s parliament said. “Without the unconditional help of thousands of Berliners in the refugee shelters, and the donations of clothes, toys, medicine and food.

Berlin would not have been able to cope with this exceptional situation,” it added. The institutions which would offer free entry for the day would be listed on a website called “Berlin says thanks” or berlin-sagt-danke.de. Further details of the programme were not yet available. The decision came as the capital’s A rare sapphire and diamond ring achieved U.S. $1.35 million, including premium, at Bonhams New York’s Fine Jewelry auction on Dec. 8, setting a world-record for a Kashmir sapphire under 10 carats ($172,000 paid per carat). A stunning turn-of-the-century Tiffany & Co. ring centered by an oval-cut sapphire, the stone is of rare quality - deep and

rich - and flanked by beautiful European-cut diamonds, weighing 7.84 carats. On the heels of three world-records at our recent Bonhams London jewelry sale, Bonhams New York sets another world-record in price per carat for a Kashmir sapphire under 10 carat, said Senior Director of International Jewelry Daniel Struyf.

It’s been a successful week for Bonhams’ international jewelry department and a sign that colored gemstones are on the rise. Other top lots include: AN IMPORTANT SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND RING, cushion-shaped Hong Kong is presenting Aspects of German Art (Part One) - Revisited, a comprehensive survey of German post-war and contemporary art, featuring works by some of the most important and pioneering artists

working in Germany during this period. The exhibition brings together seminal paintings, photographs and installations that provide an overview of the artistic, socio-economic and political concerns of postwar Germany, a time period when these artists were reconciling with the trauma of war, finding a national identity and constantly pushing the limits of modern and contemporary art, through to the present day. Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) Georg Baselitz, a pioneer of the Neo-Expressionist movement in Germany, has spent his career exploring the postwar German identity, creatingWith his perfectionist musical instincts, tough guy swagger and impeccable sartorial sense, Frank Sinatra captivated the 20th century like few other entertainers. A singer who so defined his craft that he was often called simply “The Voice,” the sight of Sinatra would send young fans into a tizzy starting in the 1940s as he became pop culture’s original heartthrob.

Even 17 years after his death, the phenomenon then called “Sinatramania” or “ Swoona tra” has persevered to a startling extent with the singer still enjoying a hold on the public imagination. With Saturday marking 100 years since Si nat r a’s birth in the workingclass town of Hoboken, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York, at least 10 new books have been published this year on Sinatra, exploring the colorful and often brash lifestyle of the singer who famously sang, “I did it my way.” Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books About a Bicycle (AAB) Anthology Booksellers Big Big Wednesday Book Arts Editions Bridge Lab by MediaSurf Communications Container Corps Couch Press Division Leap Fillip Floating World Comics Future Tense Books Gobshite Quarterly / Reprobate Books Know Your City Mini Chapbook Press Monograph Bookwerks Mother Foucault’s Bookshop Nationale New Documents Octopus Books Passages Bookshop Perfect Day Publishing Personal Libraries Library Poor Claudia Portland Museum of Modern Art Publication Studio Reading Frenzy Sidebrow Sincerely Analog Press Two Plum Press University of Hell Press Whitewall of Sound Publications Successful candidates will have skills and aptitudes in humanities- and library-oriented research and develop-

ment, including training or demonstrated experience creating or working with a variety of resources such as digital archives, scholarly editions, journals and monographs, social media, and text analysis and visualization tools in an open access and open source environment.

Organizational skills and proficiency in current developmental technologies are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset.

The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Postdoctoral Fellowships (201617) include salary that is competitive in the Canadian context, governed in part

by SSHRC practices.

Postdocs will join the existing work of our team.

Positions are available as early as April 2016, for a one-year term with the possibility of renewal.

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowships (2016-) are available to those already holding external fellowships and positions in 2016-17 and 2017-18 with aligned programs of research, and may be assumed for an academic term or longer. Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV including list of projects and developmental roles, and the names and contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to Daniel S o n d h e i m , ETCL Assistant Director. Interviews may be conducted via Skype or in person, in Victoria or other venues as feasible. Of note: ETCL members will be at MLA 2016 and available for discussion there; if this is of interest to you, please indicate this in your cover letter. Review of applications begin 31 January and will continue until positions are filled. The position is subject to funding and budgetary approval. When Looking Down is Looking Up is an ongoing investigation of the shift from outer space to page as a re-envisioning of matter and printed matter. It centers on how when contemplating what is known and unknown, one usually finds themselves either staring down at the page or up into the sky. With well over two billion photographs posted daily on social media this is now the dominant form of contemporary photography. It also means the photograph takes its place with text and voice as central to contemporary human communication and as an aspect of sociality. All of this should be welcomed by anthropologists, since as

the photograph moves to the centre stage of everyday life, it also provides new possibilities for anthropological study. But first we need to acknowledge what is happening. We the members of Watchdog Foundation, Bombay East Indian Association along with Save Our Land (SOUL), would be making a detailed presentation on causes of Chennai floods. The in depth analysis done by us have identified numerous causes which led to the floods in Chennai. We have examined in detailed the Development Plans of Chennai, Ahmedabad, Thane, Pune, Nashik and Mumbai Metropolitan Region and we find that no flood buffer zone around various rivers have been provided by the Municipal Corporations of Chennai and Pune. However, the Municipal Corporations of Ahmedabad, Thane and Nashik including Mumbai Metropolitan Region have provided flood buffer zones around the rivers. Over the last few years, we experience a culture of excess where on one hand the overabundance of information has generated a wave of passive consumption and on the other has allowed many previously unseen trends and voices to emerge. Today, Pop may be as well defined by likes, shares, tweets, views or followers showing in a way the power of the people to decide about trends and attitudes but also highlighting the ephemerality of it, as the culture around us is changing at high speed. In that sense, we might as well say that what is considered Pop in 2015 might be outdated in 2016 and so on. What is defined as Pop is characterised through the culture of here and now.

The pleasure of sharing everyday life through online environments and digital devices manifests a new way of living where our collective identities and digital selves intersect.

GIFs, memes, selfies, viral videos, the internet slang as well as sharing, posting, uploading, commenting are all practices that reflect the current cultural condition. In the wake of ISIS’ attacks on Paris, French authorities jumped on the opportunity to revoke permits for the Global Climate March, a well-planned series of demonstrations scheduled to coincide with international climate talks.

After speculation around the fate of the demonstrations, several prominent groups including 350.org and Avaaz gave in and announced that the march was canceled, while key grassroots groups announced they would take to the streets despite the ban. Climate activists march in Paris in 2014. On Thursday, a coalition of international NGOs and individual climate activists have demanded that France lift its imposed bans on large protest for the COP21 talks. By Staff of Greenpeace International - Climate change is a human rights issue. Already today many people around the world have their rights to life, water, food, health, housing and other rights impacted by climate impacts. It is in our hands to stop making this situation worse.

Governments must speed up this change here in Paris to phase-out of fossil fuels by 2050 through a just transition towards 100% renewable energy, as well as the protection and restoration of forests and other ecosystems. As policymakers gather in Paris for climate change talks, it is difficult not to be cynical about how committed they are to actually creating the fundamental political change necessary to address the gathering environmental storm. Despite the factthat Indigenous Peoples either own, occupy or manage up to 65 percent of the Earth’s land surface’ or that

speakers at a pre-COP21 UNESCO conference declared Indigenous knowledge to be indispensable in the fight to protect the planet, Indigenous Peoples have been largely ignored in national, and international, plans to address climate change. Art met protest in the Louvre today, as six performers ritualistically spilled oil on the gleaming marble floor. As security guards, police and gun-toting soldiers looked on menacingly, the black-clad figures removed their shoes and socks, and walked oily footprints in circles, to symbolise the polluting influence that two oil companies wield through their sponsorship of Paris’s most iconic museum. Singing Total and Eni, out of the Louvre, allez allez allez!’ they held black umbrellas aloft, mirroring a much larger action that was happening outside, simultaneously. Over the last few years, we experience a culture of excess where on one hand the overabundance of information has generated a wave of passive consumption and on the other has allowed many previously unseen trends and voices to emerge. Today, Pop may be as well defined by likes, shares, tweets, views or followers showing in a way the power of the people to decide about trends and attitudes but also highlighting the ephemerality of it, as the culture around us is changing at high speed. In that sense, we might as well say that what is considered Pop in 2015 might be outdated in 2016 and so on. Like Many Americans, My Mom Has No Retirement Savings “My plan is just to work until I die.” That’s how my mom sums up her retirement prospects. Small-Scale Violations of Medical Privacy Often Cause the Most Harm Breaches that expose the health details of just a patient or two are proliferating nationwide. Regulators focus on larger privacy violations and rarely take action on small ones, despite the harm. Hi Dave, I wasn’t aware that Steven Wright was arrested, just that his home was raided. What I found interesting about that is that the raid seems to in response to his position that cryptocurrency should be treated as a proper currency for tax purposes, rather than as a taxable intangible asset. Cheers, Martin Even if he is the inventor of Bitcoin, actually raiding his home is shocking. It’s not as though Bitcoin itself is something evil, it’s another networked technology, and raiding the home of the inventor is weird. Could you imagine Tim Berners Lee’s home being raided because of the content of websites? Or Edison’s house because his light bulbs illuminated criminals houses?

The tragedy we’re witnessing in so many places around the world is heartbreaking. Responses on the ground and in the media to events in Paris, Beirut, Syria and elsewhere have ranged from inspiring to chilling. Too often, people express fear and distress as anger, suspicion and scapegoating. Please do not respond to this message. If you would like to contact us, please log in to U.S. Bank Online Banking at usbank. com and send a message to Customer Service. You are receiving this email because you signed up for alerts through U.S. Bank Online Banking. If you no longer wish to receive this alert, log in to U.S. Bank Online Banking at usbank.com to temporarily disable or permanently delete this alert. For months, accusers, authorities and now an Oklahoma jury say, Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw preyed on vulnerable women. During traffic stops and interrogations, in the back of his police car or in their own homes, he used the threat of arrest to force women to submit to sexual assault and rape.

Many of his victims had criminal records or histories of drug use; most lived in the low-income neighborhood where he patrolled.

All of them were African American. He didn’t choose CEOs or soccer moms; he chose women he could count on not telling what he was doing, McConnell said of the former police officer during the closing arguments of a trial that drew national attention, according to Reuters. He counted on the fact no one would believe them and no one would care.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gave birth to identical twin girls yesterday morning, but she’s not taking the 16 weeks paid time off that new mothers at Yahoo are allotted. Instead, she says that she plans to approach the birth as did with her son three years ago; “taking limited time away and working throughout.” Circumstances have worked against her with both pregnancies: With the birth of her first child she had just stepped into the top job and now Yahoo is in turmoil that certainly couldn’t handle an

absent CEO. Daniel Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma police officer, accused of raping more than a dozen women, was found guilty Thursday on a number of charges, including five counts of rape and an additional 13 counts of sexual assault. He was recommended to get a sentence of 263 years in prison, after 45 hours of deliberation by the jury. Sentencing will take place next month.

A poll released Thursday found Americans surveyed were more fearful of a terrorist attack than at any time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The New York Times/ CBS News poll found 44 percent said an attack is very likely‚ to happen in the next f e w mont hsthe highest in Times or CBS News polls since the weeks following the 2001 attacks.

T h a t mounting fear has helped Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s rise in the polls. The survey found seven in 10 people who are likely to vote in the GOP primary said he has what it takes to respond to the threat of terrorism. ISIS fighters stormed the Libyan town of Sabratha near Tripoli in pickup trucks, potentially threatening a UNESCO World Heritage Site of 3rd century Roman ruins. Sabratha is in the top 5 percent of archaeological sites in the world. As with Palmyra, it is a Greco-Roman site, which Islamic State has a particular view on: representation of human form in sculpture and artworks, representatives of idols,‚ said British archaeology professor David Mattingly. Things they prefer to destroy. President Obama has directed his team to complete a proposal aimed at expanding background checks on gun buyers without the approval of Cong ress.

Obama is seeking to finalize a set of recommendations on what more the administration can do on its own to save lives from gun violence, and those recommendations will include making sure we do everything we can to keep guns out of the wrong hands, including those expanded background checks,‚ White House adviser Valerie Jarrett said at a national gun-violence vigil in Washington, D.C. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Thursday that the review Jarrett referred to has been going on for a couple of months,‚ adding that there was now renewed appetite for an overhaul of the rules in the wake of recent mass shootings. Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistan-born assailant who killed 14 people with her husband at a San Bernardino holiday party, at-

tempted to contact Islamic militant groups and was ignored, U.S. government sources told Reuters on Thursday. It’s unclear how many groups Malik tried to contact, but the organizations included al Qaeda’s Syria-based affiliate, the Nusrah Front, people familiar with the matter said. Investigators have little evidence that Malik or her husband,Syed Rizwan Farook, had any direct contact with ISIS, the government sources said. The FBI and the San Bernardino County Sheriff ’s Department on Thursday sent a team of divers to search a nearby lake, where investigators said they believe the couple visited on the day of the attack, an FBI spokesman said. Officials declined to say what divers were looking for. The number of chronically homeless persons in the U.S.

dropped from more than 120,000 in 2008 to around 84,000 in 2014, a new report from the Congressional Research Service notes.

The federal government has undertaken to end chronic homelessness by 2017. “One of the reasons that federal programs have devoted resources to ending chronic homelessness is studies finding that individuals who experience it, particularly those with serious mental illness, use many expensive services often paid through public sources, including emergency room visits, inpatient hospitalizations, and law enforcement and jail time,” the CRS report said. “Even emergency shelter resources can be costly. In addition to potential ethical reasons for ending chronic homelessness, doing so could reduce costs in providing assistance to this population.” Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (1 Connecticut) Barnacle Goose (2 New York, 1 Quebec) Tufted Duck (1 Newfoundland and Labrador) Brown Booby (3 California) No r t h e r n Jacana (3 Te x a s ) Aplomado Falcon (1 Te x a s ) Sinaloa Wren (1 Arizona) We s t e r n Spindalis (3 Florida) The NWS Storm Prediction Center expects a slight risk of severe weather on Saturday.

The area of greatest concern is in the Southern Plains from northeast T e x a s through central Oklahoma and into southeast Kansas. In this area, large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes are possible. A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of day. Despite their support for sending troops, 85 percent of respondents told pollsters they would “definitely” or “probably” not be willing to join the military. If we want to curb terrorism in the United States, we must stop drone attacks in the Middle East. Americans are in a quandary,

desperate to act but unable to share in responsibility for the violence around them. The initial death toll was put at 15, in addition to over 90 injured, before 45 more civilians later succumbed to their wounds, according to a source at Hasaka governorate.

The bombings were carried out by suicide terrorists who used two gasoline tankers and a truck packed with large amounts of explosives.

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Above is an Enmeijizo, a Jizo who grants a long life, housed in a small. thatched structure. Of course there are plenty of other Jizo statues. En no Gyoja, the famed 7th Century asc e t i c , Streams of hanging i c i c l e lights tower over d i s pl ay s , l i g h t s a d o r n bushes and a yellow obelisk with red, green and white lights stands high above the Italian Formal Garden terrace. Since the light show began in 1996, it has been a tradition for friends and families to brave the cold and walk along the path under a sea of lights and stars. Reporting from public sources over the last year, the Washington Post has identified more than 900 fatal shootings by police - an average of nearly three deaths a day. By contrast, the FBI has recorded about 400 deaths a year over the past decade, or just over one death a day - less than half the rate recorded by The Post. The FBI is now unveiling an attempt to compile a more complete record. A jury convicted former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw on Thursday of raping or sexually assaulting eight women, all black, between late 2013 and 18 June 2014. Legal documents seen by the Guardian appear to show that the Oklahoma City police sex crimes unit began investigating Daniel Holtzclaw before his final assault, on 8 May 2014. Their investigation

would eventually link Holtzclaw to 13 separate incidents of rape or sexual assault. Five of those occurred in the 41 days after they opened their investigation. My name Carl Chapman and I work for a Search Marketing company in Sydney, Australia. I was doing some research on your industry and I landed on your website. Thing is i had a look at some of the other businesses who are currently ranked on Page 1 and I truly believe you have a better website and a better brand. Long story short, I have created an 18-Page WebsiteAudit which addresses all of the technical and web errors on your website that is stopping you from ranking on PAGE 1. I am happy to send you this report for FREE. All I want is the opportunity to call you and discuss THE WEBSITE AUDIT in greater detail. What do you think? Speaking to people from Tubetube, a (very) small island in Milne Bay Province, it is clear that even after repeated requests from the Local Level Government representative, people are not receiving any relief. The wells are dry or only giving salt water; the gardens have dried up; the trees are dropping leaves and dying and even bush animals are dying from lack of food and water. People usually drink coconut water when the wells become salty, but now the coconuts are dry when they harvest them. My guess is that this is in part political retribution because the previous MP used to give the Bwanabwana region (his family is based there) assistance at the expense of other places. Now his opponent is in office, no assistance to these small islands. The internet is shit today. It’s broken. It was probably always broken, but it’s worse than ever. Last month we saw Demonii disappear. It was the biggest torrent tracker on the internet, responsible for over 50 million trackers a year. Additionally, the MPAA took down YIFY and Popcorn Time. Then news got out that the Dutch Release Team, an uploading collective, made a legal settlement with anti-piracy group BREIN. While it might look like torrenters are are still fighting this battle, Sunde claims that the reality is more definitive: “We have already lost.” Take the net neutrality law in Europe. It’s terrible, but people are happy and go like “it could be worse.” That is absolutely not the right attitude. Facebook brings the internet to Africa and poor countries, but they’re only giving limited access to their own services and make money off of poor people. And getting government grants to do that, because they do PR well. Finland actually made internet access a human right a while back. That was a clever thing of Finland.

But that’s like the only positive thing I have seen in any country anywhere in the world regarding the internet Well, we don’t have an open internet. We haven’t had an open internet for a long time.

So, we can’t really talk about the open internet because it does not exist anymore.

The problem is, nobody stops anything. We are losing privileges and rights all of the time. We are not gaining anything anywhere. The trend is just going in one direction: a more closed and more controlled internet. That has a big impact on our society. Because they are the same thing today. If you have a more oppressed internet, you have a more oppressed society. So that’s something we should focus on. But still we think of the internet like this new kind Wild West place, and things are not in chains yet, so we don’t care because everything will be OK anyhow. But that is not really the case. We have

never seen this amount of centralization, extreme inequality, extreme capitalism in any system before. But according to the marketing done by people like Mark Zuckerberg and companies like Google, it’s all to help with the open network and to spread democracy, and so on. At the same time, they are capitalistic monopolies. So it’s like trusting the enemy to do the good deeds. It is really bizarre. Well, one thing is, we have been growing up with an understanding of the importance of things like a telephone line or television. So if we would start to treat our telephone lines or TV channels like we treat the internet, people would get really upset. If someone would tell you, you can’t call a friend, you would understand then that this is a very bad thing that is happening. You understand your rights.

But people don’t have that with the internet. If someone would tell you, you can’t use Skype for that and that, you don’t get the feeling it’s about you personally. Just by being a virtual thing, it’s suddenly not directed at you. You don’t see someone spying on you, you don’t see something censored, you don’t see it when someone deletes stuff out of the search results out of Google. I think that’s the biggest problem to get people’s attention.

You don’t see the problems, so people don’t feel connected to it. I would rather not care about it myself. Because it’s very hard to do something about it, and not become a paranoid conspiracy person. And you don’t want to be that. So rather just give up. That’s kind of what people have been thinking, I think. Hopefully technology will give us robots that will take away all the jobs, which will cause like a massive worldwide unemployment; somewhat like 60 percent. People will be so unhappy. That would be great, because then you can finally see capitalism crashing so hard. There is going to be a lot of fear, lost blood, and lost lives to get to that point, but I think that’s the only positive thing I see, that we are going to have a total system collapse in the future. Hopefully as quick as possible. I would rather be 50 then be like 85 when the system is crashing. Der groesste japanische Fernsehsender, Fuji TV, war bei uns zu Gast. Es ging um das Thema Klimawandel und als Beispiel um die Auswirkungen auf den Weinbau. Die sind zum einen positiv, so koennen wir dank mehr Sonne, frueherem Austrieb etc. bessere Rotweine ernten.

Zum anderen merken wir, das die Herbste feuchter werden, was bei Riesling je nach Weinberg problematisch werden kann - wir muessen mehr Arbeit und Handlese investieren, um gute Weine zu machen. Um den Weinjahrgang 2015 zu verstehen, muessen Sie sich bis in den Januar zurueck versetzen. Im Winter gab es genuegend Regen, so dass die wa sserspeicher nden Schieferboeden bestens mit Wasser gefuellt waren. So konnte die Entwicklung der Reben zuegig starten. Der Austrieb war zwar nicht aussergewoehnlich frueh. Aber dank tollem, trockenen und heissem Juli waren die Grundlagen fuer einen guten Jahrgang gelegt. Wichtiger aber als Hitze pur ist stabiles und eher kuehleres Wetter im Spaetsommer und ein trockener Herbst.

Haben wir im August und September ein stabiles eher kuehleres Wetter, dann wachsen grosse Weine. Regnet es in dieser Zeit haeufig und ist gar noch warm dabei, dann droht eine problematische Lese. It’s Christmas Eve 1965. In the small village of Barwell, the carol singers are out in force, preparations for the big day are well under way and, completely unexpectedly, the biggest meteorite to hit the UK arrives.

Fifty years on, the search for fragments continues.

“It’s the debris from the birth of our solar system,” says one expert. “It’s no wonder people keep a piece of it tucked away in a box.”

Each year thousands of tonnes of perfectly good sofas are thrown away and can’t be given to families who want them.

The lack of a fire label can be enough to send a sofa straight to the landfill site. It’s estimated that more than 50% of those that could be sent to a new home instead have to be scrapped just because they don’t have the correct labels. “It seems like such an easy thing to fix,” says one expert. “And yet it is nobody’s responsibility to fix it, so it is not happening.” Live-in landlords are on the increase. On the surface, it might seem like a good arrangement for both parties, but dig a little deeper and tensions over communal areas and etiquette can quickly arise. “I’m allergic to cats, which results in a nasty reaction around my eyes, but when I was away, the cat had come into my room

and sat on my pillow,” says Emma, who lived as a weekday lodger with a mother and daughter in Eastbourne while studying. “When I confronted the landlady, I was told ‘It’s the cat’s room’.” The famous psychedelic Porsche convertible driven by late rock legend Janis Joplin smashed estimates to sell for nearly $1.8 million in New York on Thursday in a frenetic five-minute bidding war, RM Sotheby’s said. It was a world-record price at auction for a Porsche 356, a spokesman for the firm said.

The custom-painted 356C 1600 Cabriolet model, dating back to 1964 and which had never left the Joplin family, tripled its highest pre-sale estimate of $600, 000 in a f ive-minute sale peppered with applause. Joplin-- who sang “Oh L o r d , won’t you buy me a M e r cedes-Benz” -- forked out for the Porsche but decided its original white finish too dull. She had it painted red with a mural that included images of butterflies and jellyfish, as well as of Joplin and her band. The auctioneer opened bidding at $300,000 before a packed room in New York with RM Sotheby’s staff - Strengthen relationships with government, foundation, corporate and individual funders and significantly expand fund development program. Direct advocacy efforts to ensure continued and increased funding for the Arts Council and arts community on the local, regional and national level. Lobby local, regional and state policymaking bodies. - Identify significant issues and trends affecting the environment for cultural growth in the region and shape the organization’s response to current issues, needs and practices. - Serve as primary staff liaison to the board ofdirectors, as well asexecutive, finance, development and strategic planning committees.

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Please put Costume Intern in the subject line. Incomplete applications will not be considered. A Noise Within is an equal opportunity employer. the highest-pitched recorder confronts fog and wind at beavertail point. recorded by azure carter. the foghorn subsequently sounds. recorded 3 meters away. I eat berries. roles while a foghorn sounds, now, in the distance, on a nova scotia winter night, recording a foghorn and its echoes, here in rhode island, an impossible day on the time when a rare appearance in these parts of harlequin ducks, living in rough and stormy weather, waters, our first sightings in nova scotia, and here a commensurate moment among rock, bay and eternity, brief moment of organisms, medieval instrument playing among the fog and wind, and later, the categories and topos of the world, solidity lost later among the violence of our species, but not for a moment, now Despite the French Ministry of Interior’s demands, France will not ban the TOR anonymity network or Free public

Wi-Fi as a way to help the law enforcement fight terrorism. French Prime Minister Manual Valls has gone on record saying that a ban on Free public Wi-Fi is “not a course of action envisaged,” and he is not in favor of banning the TOR anonymity network, either. FBI declared War against Encryption. Encryption is defeating government intelligence agencies to detect terrorist activities and after the recent ISIS-linked terror attacks in Paris and California, the issue has once again become a political target in Washington. ...and meanwhile, Kazakhstan plans to make it Mandatory for its Citizens to Install Internet Backdoor, allowing the government Pleasantly warm... Lunch: Rice with “Ribbed gourd” chutney.

Radish curry (grated and tempered with red & green chillies and flavoured with fresh coconut and lemon juice). Tomato Rasam and yoghurt rice with amla pickle...

Fewer than a hundred fossil fuel companies are responsible for 63 percent of human-caused CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. The U.N.’s Climate Summit is being urged to make them pay.

Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (5 Connec t ic ut) B a r n a c le Goose (1 New York) Tu f t e d Duck (1 N e w foundland and Labrador) Brown Booby (7 California, 1 Florida) Northern Jacana (1 Texas) Ruff (1 North Carolina) Kelp Gull (1 Ohio) Smooth-billed Ani (1 Florida) Aplomado Falcon (3 Texas) Sinaloa Wren (1 Arizona) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (1 Arizona) Rufous-backed Robin (1 Arizona) Western Spindalis (3 Florida) Western Spindalis (Bahamas Black-backed) (1 Florida) These are dark times. They may get worse. We are up against a dangerous combination of intolerance and a new style of authoritarianism. What is happening in parts of America challenges our fundamental values. I think that science and technology are inherently political, and whether we want to think about it that way or not, it’s the nature of the beast. Our training as scientists and engineers tends to deemphasize the social positioning of what we do, and most of us scientists don’t give a whole lot of thought to how our work impacts society. But it obviously does. It’s not something easily taught, either. I’ve taught an ethics and technology course myself, for sev-

eral years, and the students are not predisposed to get the message that things technological are also political.

We tend to analyze what we’re working on from a very self-directed perspective. [We focus on] how it impacts us and how it impacts the small group or the company with which we’re dealing, and the broader social influences of what we do aren’t usually on the horizon. I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. In the end, wealth is only a fact of life that I am accustomed to. At this moment, lying on the sick bed and recalling my whole life, I realize that all the recognition and wealth that I took so much pride in, have paled and become meaningless in the face of impending death. In the darkness, I look at the green lights from the life supporting machines and hear the humming mechanical sounds, I can feel the breath of god of death drawing closer... Now I know, when we have accumulated sufficient wealth to last our lifetime, we should pursue other matters that are unrelated to wealth... Should be something that is more important: Perhaps relationships, perhaps art, perhaps a dream from younger days Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me.

God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth.

The wealth I have won in my life I cannot bring with me. What I can bring is only the memories precipitated by love. That’s the true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on.

Love can travel a thousand miles. Life has no limit. Go where you want to go. Reach the height you want to reach.

It is all in your heart and in your hands. What is the most expensive bed in the world? Sick bed... You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear the sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost Life.

When a person goes into the operating room, he will realize that there is one book that he has yet to finish reading Book of Healthy Life. Whichever stage in life we are at right now, with time, we will face the day when the curtain comes down. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others. 50F, scattered light rain, bleak. Blueberry caulfluti. Coffee. I don’t think terrorism has much to do with the mass-surveillance issue at all.

This is a convenient storyline to be weaving in the present day, but the NSA’s own mission statement says that they’re there to serve their customers. And while some of those customers are interested in terrorism, other NSA customers have completely unrelated interests, and I don’t think that surveilling is particularly aimed at confronting terrorism. It wouldn’t be effective even if it were. Anyone who really wants to encrypt their communication is going to find a method for doing so, whether it’s bundled with mass-market products or not.

When you make encryption harder to get for ordinary people, you don’t deny it to terrorists. You just make the population as a whole insecure in their daily communications. Furthermore, law enforcement has an extraordinary set of tools available to them now. An unprecedented set of capabilities, both for law enforcement and intel-

ligence services. These aren’t somehow the dark times for either law enforcement or intelligence. These are the times of extraordinary information. Nowhere in history has it been so easy to learn so much about everybody.

So, in some sense, we’re really talking about protecting the smallest remnants of remaining privacy. I have a figure with 4 levels and different types of elements on these levels. the important part is a png image where I removed the background to have colour shining through. However I do not succeed in saving the svg file and exporting it to pdf: the png figure is not shown. Do you have any idea what triggers this behaviour? Other similar files are properly saved and exported. Enclosed are two screenshots to show what is shown in inkscape (1) and anywhere else (2), for example in windows explorer which is examplary for Acrobat and anyother program.

You will notice that the next figure 127BK is shown properly, demonstrating that with the first figure there is something fishy. The bells, bands, and booms have been soundtrack of the city for a week -- the virgins are being celebrated!

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If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Thank you for submitting to the Torist a while back. We are pleased to say three images from your 12hr series are being included in our first issue which we hope to be releasing very soon. We are proud to be publishing your work, and will be sure to let you know when the issue is released. Season’s greetings and best of luck in the future, The Torist Both the Columbia and the Willamette Fleet are together tonight! Both fleets meet in the afternoon at Coon Island and leave for Scappoose arriving approximately 5:00PM then continue up the Multnomah Channel to the Willamette River. This is a long night and arrival at the Willamette River is usually between 8:00P and 9:00PM. It is not possible to give a closer time frame due to weather conditions, debris in the river, and

other conditions beyond our control. The parade will be visible in the Linnton area at parades end. The Willamette Fleet will be seen returning to RiverPlace Marina.

If you would like to play our gift exchange game, the limit for the wrapped gift is $15.00. We will be having our annual canned food drive for the food bank in Scappoose and the ladies voted unanimously to bring gifts (unwrapped) for the VA medical center. Anything you can give to these men and women that have sacrificed so much for our country would be appreciated. We are looking forward to a wonderful party with our Island neighbors! The greatest c o u n t r y, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, imme n s e g r a b bings, vast for t unes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds-where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough-a modest living-and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities. A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man’s conscience, he hears a voice whispering, “There is something not right,” no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code. There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else. For the second time in just over six months, the BBC has been forced to admit that its flagship news and current affairs program - Today - has misled its audiences over the situation in Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Saudi Arabia’s fighter jets mistakenly targeted a camp of pro-Riyadh militants in northern Yemen, killing and injuring scores of them. At least 87 people were found dead in Burundi’s capital Bujumbura on Saturday, a day after the government said an unidentified group

carried out coordinated attacks on three military installations.

Authorities say at least seven people are dead and 30 others wounded in northern Cameroon after the latest suicide attack blamed on Boko Haram militants. At least six people are thought to have been killed on Saturday in northern Nigeria, with the military claiming there was an attempted assassination of the country’s chief-of-staff. Two police officers were sentenced on Saturday to five years in jail by an Egyptian court for torturing a lawyer to death in a police station in February, a rare penalty against members of the security forces. At least 17 people were injured when a grenade was thrown into the main mosque in the Ethiopia capital Addis Ababa after Friday prayers, a government spokes-

man said today. At least 4000 people were killed including 200 children while thousands were injured in 370 drone attacks: Speaker Asad Qaiser said that the matter of compensation related to drone attacks would be raised in the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Despite a mounting civilian death toll and increased opposition from civil liberties activists, the US Air Force has announced that it plans to double its number of drone squadrons. According to the report, US President Barack Obama confirmed drone attacks for the very first time. At least 50,000 Malaysians support the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, the country’s transport minister said on Saturday, raising alarm about possible attacks in the Southeast Asian nation. Late on Thursday night the first 163 of a planned 25,000 Syrian refugees arrived in Canada, and were greeted and given winter coats by prime minister Justin Trudeau. The nearly 500 children, all undocumented, will be taken to the L a ke v ie w Camp and Retreat Center near Waxahachie over the next few days.

The plan right now is to house them at the facility over the next 21 days, while officials figure out where to send them next.

33,480 Americans dead after 70 years of atomic weapon r y: U.S. hopes to save money by cutting medical benefits for nuclear workers A second video has been released that shows the controversial fatal police shooting of a Texas man who had raised his hands up just before he was shot. They’re scanning faces and eyes at a busy MexicoU.S. border crossing in an effort to crack down on people who remain in the United States after their visas have expired. Through the secret 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, Britain and France reconfigured the boundaries of the Middle East, dividing Arab provinces of the former Ottoman Empire into areas of future British and French control. While the devious and unjustified character of the Sykes-Picot Agreement is indisputable, a century later there is growing talk of yet another remapping of the Middle East, a dangerous Balkanization along ethnic lines that will exacerbate communal hatred. It oozes out of grilled cheese sandwiches, defines the common cheeseburger, and claims a place of high status in the lunchboxes of children across the nation.

However what we know and love in this country as American cheese‚ is neither American nor is it cheese.

Pregnancy is a beautiful experience, to be sure, but certain physical changes that go along with it don’t always leave you feeling that way. Skin hyperpigmentation is an issue many women deal with while expecting and after childbirth. One mother took matters into her own hands and ended up creating La Mav Organic Skin Care, a vegan and certified organic skin care line to solve this skin issue, and benefiting women of all ages in the process. No, I’d say, rather it does indeed extend corporate property rights to include the fruits of your leisurely labour. Autonomist marxist inspired, radical feminists have since the 1970s been working on recognition of the essense of the economy - the reproductive sphere - but instead it has been corporatised in the cloud. Now liberal feminists worship reproductive technology and capital, celebrating life itself as a commodity.

That corporate ownership now extends to almost the entire realm of human existence has been greatly helped by the naive, technoworshipping tossers riding on a wave of wealth created by the californian ideolog y.

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We’re all mourning the loss of lives from the devastating attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.

We’re all thinking deeply about how to create safety and There is, it turns out, a serious problem of domestic terrorism in the U.S., but it’s not the kind that typically receives attention or concern.It’s a fraud really, a fake. It’s just bull*hit for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.’ It’s just worthless

words.Saudi Arabia has been the target of international condemnation once again after it was reported that the kingdom plans to carry out more than 50 executions in the upcoming days, including the beheading of some protestors who were juveniles at the time of their arrest.

Man wielding machete shot dead at Pennsylvania Walmart: Pennsylvania State Police say Sunday that 20year-old Andrew Joseph Todd, of Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania, was shot when he refused officers’ orders to drop his weapon inside the Walmart late Saturday.

These are a unique form of Nio that I have not seen anywhere else. They are carved as diagonal spars that support the porch roof on the Jizo Do at Hofukuji, a small temple in the Teramachi district of Hagi. Only the Jizo Do remains, the main hall being destroyed in early Meiji. I have been unable to find out anything about them, so if anyone has seen anything like this before, please After 20 years printing and distributing 20,000 copies every two months to 750 locations across Australia, RealTime 130 is the last edition of the magazine in print. In 2016, we go totally online, staying true to our vision of free access, highly responsive and constructive reviewing with a focus on innovation and experimentation across the arts. Stay tuned for a completely new website and new-format E-ditions. Bob was born in Pound Ridge, New York, January 7, 1933. He graduated from Bucknell University with BS in Engineering and worked as a Mechanical Engineer, was a deep sea diver in the US Navy, but his real passion was Race Cars and following the circuit...his alias was Bob Bower. Bob was proud of being Chairman of the Southern California ACLU and having lead the movement to end the death penalty. Fifty years ago Bob and his wife Helen moved to Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, where he had a business and where one of their sons was born. Fifteen years ago, when he and Helen retired, they moved to Oaxaca. He loved living in Oaxaca and the many Oaxacan friends from his pueblo. peace - and how to stop reckless violence. Some political leaders, meanwhile, are taking advantage of a climate of fear. Some politicians are calling to ban Muslims from entering the United States and to stop the resettlement of Syrian refugees fleeing violence.

This is not about safety. These scare tactics are about hate, division, and discrimination. Should we have to remind these politicians to uphold America’s fundamental freedoms: justice, equality, liberty, and democracy?

The storm system that brought a variety of impacts to the West Coast over the weekend will move east and bring impacts from the Intermountain West to the High Plains.

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the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children’s pastime like mere highway robbery. I will be harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject i do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.

No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present”. Iniquity, committed in this world, produces not fruit immediately, but, like the earth, in due season, and advancing by little and little, it eradicates the man who committed it. ...justice, being destroyed, will destroy; being preserved, will preserve; it must never therefore be violated. Simple logic says that we must go to the roots of terror. Only a fool can believe that the services of a suicidal terrorist can be purchased, or that they can be bred at will anywhere. Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. The long-cherished neocon dream of “regime change” in Syria is blocking a possible route out of the crisis - a ceasefire followed by elections in which President Assad could compete. Our western world has become a theatre of lies and deceit. Nothing is ‘mistake’ or ‘blunder’. These are the same bloodthirsty war criminals who have destroyed seven countries, murdered, maimed, and displaced millions of Muslim peoples. Since World War II alone the US has murdered up to 30 million people around the globe with an estimated 90% of them being civilians. We see nations illegally bombed into oblivion by the US with no remorse or sense of guilt. Human lives are totally inconsequential, unless of course they are US lives. Gentle medicine based on Ancient Healing techniques combined with the latest brain science, palpation of the internal rhythms of the fluids in the body, and Quantum Biodynamics, these are treatments to renew, rebalance, and re-energize your body! Healing modalities include CranioSacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, SomatoEmotional Release, BodyTalk, Lymph Drainage, EFT, and dreamwork.

The house, in a quiet part of Mexico City, had a study within, and in the study he found a solitude he had never known before and would never know again. Cigarettes (he smoked 60 a day) were on the worktable. LPs were on the record player: Debussy, Bartok, A Hard Day’s Night. Stuck up on the wall were charts of the history of a Caribbean town he called Macondo and the genealogy of the family he named the Buendeas. Outside, it was the 1960s; inside, it was the deep time of the pre-modern Americas, and the author at his typewriter was all-powerful.

ON DECEMBER 8, the state of Georgia carried out its fifth and final execution of the year, killing 47-year-old Brian Keith Terrell by lethal injection for a 1992 murder. It was a fight over money, the state said. Terrell forged checks belonging to an elderly family friend, then shot the man after he was found out. But for years Terrell and his lawyers insisted he was innocent- no physical evidence linkedhim to the crime, and, after three trials, the key witness against him recanted, telling a defense investigator that he had implicated Terrell in order to save himself.

And now the literary folk. Work with big textual data is often clothed in the rhetoric of revelation. Once we were lost, thinking that a handful (ok, a generous handful) of canonical 19C novels could lead us by reading them closely to understanding of the novel. Now we have found that with collections of literary Big Data we can abandon the foolishness of close reading to see in numbers and charts how the rejected and despised majority of novels give us a truer picture.

Once again analogical reasoning, through statistical modelling, interpenetrates throughout. It’s not quite that we are making it all up, and certainly not that we are wasting our time (unless we fail to be critical about the processes and results) but neither are we seeing at last the one true picture. Perhaps we need to stress again, to ourselves as well as to our students, that “evidence” is what argument does to data to make it meaningful? A large crate tucked away in a musky storage room reveals a treasure: a pair of

meticulously crafted wings covered with swan feathers made for a final film Charlie Chaplin never completed.

The seminal filmmaker had the surprisingly heavy contraptions made for his daughter Victoria, whom he envisioned in the role of “The Freak” -- a winged girl who brings hope to humanity, but also exposes its deepest flaws. “It seemed to me to be a very beautiful fairytale.

Something that maybe only a man of his age can imagine, can dream. A very charming dream,” Chaplin’s now 69-year-old son Michael told AFP, his dark eyes sparkling as he recalls reading his father’s script back in the 1970s.

Comic genius Charlie Chaplin, whose iconic films like “The Kid”, “Moder n T i m e s ”, “ T h e G r e a t Dictator” and “City Lights” are admired and loved the world over, was planning something very different for what he intended to be his last picture. Dissident artist Ai Weiwei Thursday said he believes his activism is helping to change China and the price he has paid for speaking out was worth it. Ai, in Melbourne for a new exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Victoria, with human rights and politics at its core, said someone had to make the sacrifice and take a stand against injustice. “Freedom of speech or human rights is never something you can grant for free,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. “It takes somebody to sacrifice, to make the effort. Yes, I have suffered and many people are continuously suffering.

My lawyer is still in jail after a year-and-a-half. And many, many people are still in jail.” Ai, China’s most prominent contemporary artist, was detained in 2011 for 81 days over his advocacy As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect, that beyond this lies nothing but the sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Scythian ice, or a frozen sea, so in this work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men with one another, after passing through those periods which probable reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well say of those that are farther off: “Beyond this there is nothing but prodigies and fictions, the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of fables; there is no credit, or certainty any farther.” Nothing less than a systemic transformation of our societies,

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As social movements, environmental

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Joan Tarshis, and Angela Leslie published malicious, opportunistic and false‚ and defamatory accusations‚ against him.

The French kindergarten teacher who claimed he was stabbed by a masked ISIS sympathizer has admitted to making up the attack, prosecutors say.

The 45-year-old instructor earlier claimed that a man in overalls and a balaclava attacked him with a box cutter and scissors, shouting This is Daesh.‚ He has since confessed to lying.

List of finalists: Ana Marcos (Spain) . Fernando Garcia Malmierca (Spain) . Juan Carlos S. Duque (Spain) . Sandrine Deumier (France) . Alois Yang (U.K.) . Daz Disley & Fenia Kotsopoulou (U.K.) .

Nazare Soares (U.K. / Spain) . Matthew Schoen (Canada) . Wei Jing Lee (Taiwan) . Chou Tung Yen (Taiwan) . Christian Zanotto (Netherlands) . Xceed (Hong Kong) . Boedi Widjaja (Singapur) . Katherine Fiedler Gonzales (Peru) . Lea Petrikova (Czech Republic) . JungHee Biann Seo (South Korea) .

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“It’s the only view we have like this where everything is at the e x a c t same instant in time, even though the local times are different.” EPIC takes measurements in visible, ultraviolet and near-infrared wavelengths. With the ultraviolet channels, Herman can watch as dust from the Sahara travels westward across the Atlantic. While other low-Earth orbit satellite instruments can pick this up as they orbit at a fixed local time, EPIC provides a day-long view of the process. “We can see the progression in real time, as it flows across the Atlantic,” Herman said. Typhoon “Melor”, also known in the Philippines as Nona, made initial landfall over Bulusan, Sorogon in southern Luzon at 16:00 local time on December 14, 2015, as a violent typhoon, equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale.

Severe floods lashing portions of Democratic Republic of Congo since late November 2015, have left at least 20 people dead so far and cutoff water supplies to many communities in the area. The proposed track is an invitation for STS scholars to reflect upon and experiment with the surprisingly under-explored

question of the nature of problems across a range of fields of thought and practice in techno-science, as well as to a variety of other exploratory activities that address problems by other means. In a global, continuous present traversed by the seemingly unsurmountable nature of what some call ‘wicked problems’, techno-science, as well as other practices of knowledge, invention and innovation, are increasingly called upon to develop effective ways of solving the ‘pressing societal problems’ of our time. Little attention, if any, is paid, however, to the question of what problems are. Across techno-scientific and policy discourses, there seems to be a widely held yet unexamined assumption that problems are negative states of uncertainty and methodological imperfection bound to dissipate with the solutions that techno-scientific progress yields. As research in STS and beyond has suggested, however, such assumption is historically implausible, philosophically unconvincing, and of major social, political, and ecological concern in its consequences for the future. Solutions are always ‘morethan-scientific’ they come into existence as they succeed in creating socio-technical arrangements that bring concepts, objects, instruments, scientists, institutions and publics together in a rearticulation of human and nonhuman collectives. If this is what solutions require, then what is a problem? If solutions are always more-thanscientific then arguably problems must be so too, finding forms of expression through practices, publics and collectives that exceed the narrow remits of modern techno-science, and that are capable not only of expressing problems differently, but also of posing new and different problems such that alternative, inventive solutions may in turn become available. Moreover, some philosophers who have been major sources of inspiration for STS scholars, such as Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem, John Dewey, Gilles Deleuze, Gilbert Simondon and Isabelle Stengers, for example, have argued against the conventional wisdom that regards problems as manifestations of uncertainty and the limits of our understanding, and proposed ways of conceiving of a positive ontology of the problematic, suggesting that problems possess their own thickness and vitality, constituting intrinsic phases of dynamic, complex, natural-cultural systems. If we were to conceive of the problematic not simply as a state of subjective or epistemic uncertainty awaiting dissolution, but as a mode of existence of things as such, then how should we think of solutions? What if the best that a solution can do is to develop and transform a problem, instead of making it the best that a solution can do is to develop and transform a problem, instead of making it disappear? She is a Gujarati girl from Toorak, one of the first science graduates and indeed gold medalist from USP, who later taught at USP. She did pioneering work in marine biology, and a pioneering PhD in environmental economics in relation to Fiji’s marine environment and the interface with commercial agriculture. She became an expert in the sugar industry, with her book Ganna (sugar cane‚ in Hindi) bringing together a collection of articles analyzing most problem areas in the sugar cane and milling industries, including detailed analysis of the productivity (or rather the lack of it) in the cane farms and sugar mills. She has worked for, and developed solid reputations

with international scientific research organizations like ABARE, IUCN and CSIRO. The corporate media no longer serves the public good. The public is fed a never ending pablum of endless war, celebrity and sideshows.

The crisp, clear and unapologetic progressive voice is ever harder to find amidst the din. Polls show it and commentators of all political stripes often cite the figures: Killer drone attacks by the U.S. military and the CIA in the Greater Middle East and Africa have strong U.S. public support. Yet major media ignore four former Air Force drone-war personnel who went public with an open letter to President Obama urging the President to reconsider a program that kills innocent civilians,‚ and which only fueled the feelings of hatred that ignited terrorism. The polls show it and commentators of all political stripes often cite the figures: Killer drone attacks by the U.S. military and the CIA in the Greater Middle East and Africa have strong U.S. public support. According to the Pew Research Center’s most recent poll in May, 58 percent up slightly from 56 percent in February 2013 - approve of missile strikes from drones to target extremists in such countries as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.‚ The numbers of Americans disapproving of drone attacks actually increased from 26 percent to 35 percent over that two-year period - a hopeful sign, but still very much a minority view. But how well informed can U.S. citizens be on this subject when the major news media time and again ignore or under-report drone-strike stories - as we have discussed here and here in recent weeks? Stories such as The Intercept’s October series based on a trove of classified materials provided by a national security whistleblower - that would likely raise serious questions about the drone program in many more Americans’ minds if they were actually given the information? Today I work with California Rural Legal Assistance, as a photographer and a journalist.

Growing up in Oakland, I didn’t know much about life in rural California, or who farm workers are and the work they do. But I come from a union family, so when I got back from Cuba in the early 70s, full of revolutionary enthusiasm, the place where I thought I could fight for real change here was the farm workers union. I went to work, learning from people like Eliseo Medina the nuts and bolts of how to organize strikes, win union elections, go on the boycott - the basic toolkit of working class struggle. Successful negotiations in Paris can only be the start of something far more sweeping when it comes to the forms of energy we use and how we live on this planet. Fortunately, experiments are underway in the world of alternative energy, funding is beginning to appear, and a global environmental movement is expanding and could someday, on a planet growing ever less comfortable, put the heat on governments globally before Emperor Weather can turn up the heat on history. For six centuries or more, history was, above all, the story of the great game of empires.

From the time the first wooden ships mounted with cannons left Europe’s shores, they began to compete for global power and control. Three, four, even five empires, rising and falling, on an increasingly commandeered and colonized planet. The story, as usually told, is a tale of concentration and of destruction until, in the wake of the second great bloodletting of the twentieth century, there were just two imperial powers left standing: the United States and the Soviet Union.

Where the other empires, European and Japanese, had been, little remained but the dead, rubble, refugees, and scenes that today would be associated only with a place like Syria. Although deaths of police officers are well documented, no reliable official US data exist on the number of persons killed by the police, in part because of longstanding and well-documented resistance of police departments to making these data public. These deaths, however, are countable, as evidenced by “The Counted,” a website launched on June 1, 2015, by the newspaper The Guardian, published in the United Kingdom. Celebrated artist Ed Ruscha has committed to donate to the national collection one impression of all future prints he creates in his lifetime. Ruscha (b.1937) is widely regarded as one of the world’s most important living artists with a career spanning six decades. These new works will be gifted to Tate and will allow public museums around the country to stage exhibitions of his extraordi-

nary works on paper. The donation has begun with a selection of eighteen recent works which reveal Ed Ruscha’s inventiveness as a printmaker, as well as reflecting his interest in signs and signage, his engagement with his hometown of Los Angeles, and his humorous approach to language. Prints such as Jet Baby 2011, Wall Rocket 2013 and Sponge Puddle 2015 show mountainous landscapes with sun-lit, snow-capped peaks, overlaid with texts in the iconic typeface devised by the artist himself. Other works make literary references Renowned street artist Banksy has created a trio of oeuvres to publicise the plight of migrants at the infam o u s “Jungle” camp in Calais, nor thern France, including one depicting Steve Jobs.

One work painted at the camp itself shows Jobs, whose biological father was a Syrian immigrant to the United States, holding an early Apple computer terminal and a bin liner of personal possessions. Some 4,500 people were cramming the camp, to which Banksy recently made a donation and where he painted his latest works near a clutch of tents housing them. Few of the migrants, mostly from strifetorn Syria, knew who Banksy or Jobs were but the artist explained he had depicted the latter in his trademark black polo to underline the late computing king’s connection with the country. “We’re often led to believe migration is a drain on the country’s resources but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant,” said Banksy in a rare public statement. “Apple is the world’s most profitable company, it The Annual Giving Officer will be charged with the dual goals of (1) increasing the total number of individual donors who support the annual fund using digital channels and strategies combined with traditional sources of giving via direct mail and telefunding (2) develop and implement a stewardship system that promotes interaction with and recognition of donors/members giving below $10,000 annually and (3) develop and manage a personal portfolio of 50-100 individual donors. The Annual Giving Officer and Digital Fundraising Specialist will be an individual with a strong digital fundraising background, who has an interest in the performing arts, in addition to non-profit experience with donor stewardship and program management.

Starting from the three areas already appointed, this project will address a set of topics related with the me-

dia, the proliferation and the unfolding of images in cyberspace, the new modalities of screens and their implications in spectatorship and audiences.

The substantial increase of urban screens is also a potential field of investigation and reflection on new forms of interaction and collaborative environments in public spaces. The projection of light on urban surfaces arises, largely, as a way to create spaces for collective critical thought through which the video serves as a means for communication and not for consumption, often conveying a sense of political inquiry. The U.S. government may impose tighter scrutiny of visa-seekers’ social media accounts following revelations that one of the San Bernardino attackers discussed violence before she was allowed into

the country. Coding and decoding borders at the dawn of the 21st century is an event encompassing art, research and practice.

Combining an exhibition and an international conference, it will host, at the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Free University of Brussels, and at the Headquarters of the World Customs Organization (WCO), researchers, artists and experts who will discuss the growing technologization of controls of persons, goods or capital which cross borders. As with the previous events organized by the antiAtlas of Borders, this conference/exhibition truly breaks away from compartmentalization of the fields of knowledge, creation and practice. By offering different levels of lecture and of participation, it opens up beyond academic, political and professional circles to reach the public at large. Thailand has long been a major international hub for human trafficking and pe ople smuggling, with human rights groups acc u s i n g Thai officials of turning a blind eye to the multimillion dollar trade. Some have gone even farther, raising questions about the extent of collusion between crime syndicates and the authorities in Thailand.

Dear thanks for your answer. When I was much younger I believed in ‘ just wars’ and was jailed four years for belonging to the Tupamaros guerilla, you must know about it since Baader-Meinhof had Tupamaros as inspiration. It was an armed gerilla and to my disclaim I can say today I was only 19 years old, new examinated from a very stern German nun?s school I had a highly romantized image of Che Guevara as icon and etc etc Today I am a stern pacifist and the only resistance I understand its the Palestinian because they are occupied for a foreign power and they have right to fight for their land.

Clinically trained social workers are the nations largest group of mental health service providers. Social work is considered one of the five core mental health professions by federal law and National Institutes of Health. With more than 200,000 in the field, there are more clinical social workers than psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychiatric nurses combined.

Social workers are highly trained professionals working to improve the quality of life and well-being of others

through direct practice, crisis intervention, research, community organizing, policy change, advocacy, and educational programs. Social workers are dedicated to the pursuit of social justice and strive to help those affected by poverty, disabilities, illnesses, divorce, unemployment, and other personal problems and social disadvantages. Being a social worker requires extensive knowledge of human behavior and development, as well as social, cultural, and economic institutions and the ways in which they interact. Most social workers will hold at least a bachelors degree in social work or related field, though many (especially clinicians) will hold a masters degree and valid license to practice. A good social worker will often possess a high degree of compassion and empathy, a passion for helping others, strong interpersonal and problemsolving skills, and good listening and organizational skills. A Texas plumber has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the auto dealer who bought his truck and resold it without removing the decals-because the vehicle eventually ended up starring in an ISIS video. Mark Oberholtzer says he was assured the i de nt i f ying decals would be removed before a resale, and that appearing in a terrorist video has severely damaged his business. A spokesman for the dealer, AutoNation, said the company expected the logo to be removed at the auction. Tashfeen Malik, one of the two attackers who fatally shot 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., sent at least two private messages on Facebook to a group of Pakistani friends in 2012 and 2014 revealing her support for Islamic jihad, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. Malik reportedly “expressed her desire” in one of the posts, written in Urdu, to become a jihadist, according to two top federal law enforcement officials. The posts were recovered by FBI agents investigating whether Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, had any direct connections to foreign terrorist networks before they opened fire on the Inland Regional Center on Dec. 2. The new revelations suggest intelligence agencies missed red flags on social media that Malik was a potential threat before she entered the country on a K-1 fianance visa in July 2014. A man who spent 438 days at sea after his boat

was overpowered by a strong storm is being sued by his crewmate’s family-who accuse him of eating the junior sailor to stay alive. Salvador Alvarenga has said that crewmate Ezequiel Cordoba, 22, died on their vessel after he gave up, and that he kept Cordoba’s body aboard for six days for company. But days after Alvarenga’s new memoir was published, Cordoba’s family said Alvarenga was only able to survive by eating their son. I believe that this demand is part of the pressure from this family to divide the proceeds of royalties, Alvarenga’s lawyer said. Many believe the book is making my client a rich man, but what he will earn is much less than people think. California police arrested two people Monday in connection to the death of two toddlers who were found dead in a storage unit as well as the abuse of a young girl. Plumas County sheriff ’s deputies arrested Tami Joy Huntsman, 39, and Gonzalo Curiel for felony child abuse, torture, and mayhem. Investigators reportedly found a young girl severely abused at Huntsman’s apartment and further investigation led authorities to the toddlers’ bodies. Huntsman is an extended relative of the toddlers and the child, prosecutors said. All three children are siblings.This lecture seeks to understand the process of creolization for the enslaved in a temperate (Canadian) and tropical (Jamaican) slave colony and will ask how African slaves became African-Canadian and AfricanJamaican respectively. Beginning with the premise that fugitive slave advertisements were portraits of the enslaved, this lecture combines an art historical examination of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century fugitive slave advertisements with genre studies of black slaves. Multiple workspaces and exceptional technical facilities support studio experimentation, while a range of theoretical seminars fosters the conceptual and historical underpinnings of individual practice. Following two years of course-work, students develop a concluding project and exhibition in their final year. An obscure United Nations body is making mail from developing nations unnaturally cheap-and hurting e-commerce, manufacturing, and postal systems in industrialized countries. The Universal Postal Union is a secretive backroom club, but its missteps were born from the highest of ideals. Maintaining a connection with the natural world helps children develop healthy social skills, enhances school curricula, strengthens family ties, and fosters an understanding and appreciation of the environment. Turkish Airlines flies to more countries in the world than any other airline, according to UMB’s Official Airline Guide. In addition to Europe, Turkish Airlines is also strategically expanding its network into Russia, Central Asia, Far East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and North and South America.

The workshop will explore professional knowledge, skills and practices needed for managing collections and exhibitions while they travel. We will look into transporting artworks from collections within Canada and to/from Canada, including customs procedures. The workshop will address the complexities of cultural property. We will look into how to handle a variety of artwork so that the conservation of high value Canadian artwork is maintained during transportation, ensuring Canadians continued access to these artworks. The workshop will look into case-by-case studies of touring exhibitions and

registrants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share their own experiences. In Philadelphia on Dec. 9, 2015, supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal marked his 34th year of wrongful incarceration with a freedom honk on the west side of City Hall, a teach-in on his case and medical condition and a screening of the film, ?Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.? Simultaneous demonstrations were held at the Harlem State Office Building on 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell in New York and in Mexico City, Paris and Heidelberg, Germany, among other cities around the world. Finally, on Dec. 18, we have a rare, one-time opportunity to get Mumia the medical attention he desperately needs. U.S. Federal District Court Judge Robert Mariani will conduct an extensive public hearing on Mumia?s medical crisis and has asked for testimony from Mumia. Credit for this victory is due in no small part to the public outcry. According to Pam Africa, ?The fact that the judge has asked for testimony from Mumia at this hearing is a victory. Our consistent protests, here and around the world, against the inhumane denial of proper medical treatment for Mumia and others who our being sickened by the prisons are being heard.?

Military terms and symbols that are used by the U.S. Army have been compiled in an updated reference manual, along with acronyms and abbreviations.

See ADRP 1-02, Terms and Military Symbols, December 2015. Intended to foster a common vocabulary, the manual can also help outsiders to interpret distinctive Army expressions and patterns of speech. The manual devotes several chapters to “military symbology.” “A military symbol is a graphic representation of a unit, equipment, installation, activity, control measure, or tactical task relevant to military operations that is used for planning or to represent the common operational picture on a map, display, or overlay.” “The symbology chapters (chapters 3 through 10) provide detailed requirements for composing and constructing symbols. The rules for building a set of military symbols allow enough flexibility for users to create any symbol to meet their operational needs,” the manual said. But it is time to consider that the right wing in Europe (as well as in the United States), is going beyond nostalgia and xenophobia. Its growth in every European country is due to an expanding number of disaffected citizens, many of whom come from the working class and the poorest sections of society. They are citizens who once vote for the left, but have become frustrated with the decline of welfare structures, unemployment for them or their children, a state in retreat in favour of the market, growing social injustice, immigration felt as a threat, loss of national identity and strident corruption. This has created a new category of what could be called economic nationalism‚ which wants to combat all forms of foreign intrusion, whether it be the European Union, immigrants, NATO or multinationals. The traditional parties are looked on as a self-referent mechanism of unaccountable elites, who are interested in perpetuation in power and do not deliver what citizens need. It is mix of xenophobia, nationalism, nostalgia for a past that was better, a call for an economy that enhances the nation without giving any space to foreign forces and institutions -- it is a container large enough to accommodate a growing part of the electorate. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (4 Connecticut, 4 Ontario) Whooper Swan (1 New Hampshire) Tufted Duck (1 New York, 2 Newfoundland and Labrador, 1 Oregon) Smew (1 Ontario) Brown Booby (2 California, 1 Mississippi, 1 Texas) Northern Jacana (1 Texas) Ruff (3 North Carolina) Aplomado Falcon (3 Texas) Whitecollared Seedeater (1 Texas) Western Spindalis (5 Florida) We all know the narrative in which we (the West) are seized.

It is the narrative of the Cold War: America versus the Evil Empire.‚ And, as Professor Ira Chernus has written, since we are human‚ and somehow they (the USSR or, now, ISIS) plainly are not, we must be their polar opposite in every way. If they are absolute evil, we must be the absolute opposite. It’s the old apocalyptic tale: God’s people versus Satan’s. It ensures that we never have to admit to any meaningful connection with the enemy.‚ It is the basis to America’s and Europe’s claim to exceptionalism and leadership. And buried in the assumption that the enemy is not in any sense human like us, is [an] absolution for whatever hand we

may have had in sparking or contributing to evil’s rise and spread. How could we have fertilized the soil of absolute evil or bear any responsibility for its successes? It’s a basic postulate of wars against evil: God’s people must be innocent,‚ (and that the evil cannot be mediated, for how can one mediate with evil). Slackware Linux Essentials is an indispensible resource that you will want to have by your side at all times. It contains the most complete and up-to-date information available on the Slackware Linux Operating System. A must-have reference guide you have been waiting for, it delivers everything you need to get started with Slackware Linux, including s t r a i g htforward e x pl a n a tions of important programs and stepby-step instructions to guide you through the Slackware installation process.

You too can become an expert on this powerful OS by reading about its history and capabilities. Since the early 1960s, Georg Paul Thomann has devoted himself to the grey zones where systems intersect: the art (market), politics, economics, pop, gaiety, vanity, good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, self-content, identity, utopia, Georg Paul Thomann, mania and despair. The technique underlying his work is that of being and working in the fields of painting/the fine arts, Pop/avant-garde, t he or y/re f le c tion, interventionism/politics, gaiety/lust/tragedy, (self-)configuration/mystification, and city/village. “Urban and rural zones are like a circulator pump in a brown, stinking little garden pond. They’re feeding each other, they’re sucking and spitting happily ever after” (interview with Thomann, in de:bug, Berlin, 1999). The project he pushes into and beyond these fields is ‘net work i ng’ events, people, possibilities, material, impetus and identities.

However, the networking here does not aim at constructing a transcendental mesh of contacts, but rather an ever-expanding and self-decentralising field of immanence, taking into account the phenomenon of rampancy as its determinate form of motion. Rampancy here does not only mean prospering and thriving, growing beyond inherent boundaries, as suggested by a popular misreading of theoretical text, but sheer growth, growth in and on and through all levels. This is a movement of redundancy and contingency that genuinely implies its own counter-tendencies: splitting and implosion, even self-

termination, self-sublimation, and re-cycling, several segments getting horny, putrefaction, cartilagination, hunchbackedness, fermentation, and repulsiveness ... Just as Thomann himself announces in his Maschinist Thomann manifesto: “If you use postmodern cliches, please at least do it properly!” His strategic approach to interacting with and facing the ‘outside’ turns Thomann’s form of networking into a non-dialectic dialectics of distance and nearness, presence and absence, hostile take-over and friendly separation, particularisation and formation of fractions and, of course, the everlasting readiness for alliance. Thomann calls it “die and let live” (Georg Paul Thomann: Zum 100. Geburtstag Der 80er Jahre. Majuskeln, Vienna, 1992).

The Interface Politics Conference is

about reflecting on the role and influence of interfaces within the universe of tools from the contemporary production system. How are the imaginaries related to creativity, politics, labour, economics and culture configured and created in the context of a universalised system of interfaces that is based on the promise of being natural, transparent, simple and accessible? What answers and actions can be articulated from design practices that aim to question the utopias arising from a form of communication that is increasingly subject to a culture of control? How can alliances be established between design, the field of critical thinking and action, and industrial and institutional narratives linked to technological theologies? The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left. How is it possible that the poorer classes can remain healthy and have a reasonable expectation of life under such conditions?

What can one expect but that they should suffer from continual outbreaks of epidemics and an excessively low expectation of life?

The physical condition of the workers shows a progressive deterioration.

Don’t miss your last chance to receive this special discount. With 12 months of FREE access to the Museum, members-only events, discounts in the Museum Store and Museum Grounds cafe, and special programs, a Portland Art Museum membership is truly a unique gift for anyone on your list. Finish up your holiday shopping in just a few easy clicks. View categories and benefits and purchase today. A storm system will impact much of the High Plains bringing heavy snow, gusty winds, blowing snow, and treacherous travel conditions through Wednesday afternoon and evening. The snow will gradually end late in the day but some slippery travel could continue into Thursday over many locations. He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. The great only appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise. This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have

spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships...Ma ny Americans hunger for a different kind of society -- one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity.

Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security. If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.

Bill Will will spend 5 weeks at the Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island in Southwest Florida. The residency is located on the grounds of Robert Rauschenberg’s former home and studio.

The site includes the twostory, 8,000-square-foot multimedia main studio for visual and performing arts, a dance studio, a writing cottage, three multipurpose studios, a communal dining space, an historical Fish House on stilts, and four houses that can accommodate a total of ten artists.

Jungle Road, a meandering path bordered

by Hong Kong orch ids, st ra ngler figs, bougainvillea, and gumbo-limbo trees, runs through the property from beach to bay. Follow Bill’s adventure on Instagram Human societies of all kinds have throughout history always generated their own distinctive visual cultures. However, with the possible exception of art historians this sense of immense diversity and rich historical precedence has been somewhat ignored. Everyday discussions in all forms of media appear to suggest that ours is the visual generation, when this is clearly not the case. Indeed, the term ‘visual literacy’ has crept into our general language use indicating that there is a code for interpreting visual texts of all kinds. This notion in itself has become a source of discussion in many areas and forms one of the key topics for this conference. This project seeks to place a reflective pause in the busy lives of the delegates who attend, and the visual bombardment we all encounter with the aim of unpacking how the visuals in the respective professional and personal worlds represented actually create

meaning. The trauma inflicted on societies under communist regimes and post-traumatic symptoms manifesting themselves across the whole spectrum of public discourses remain one of the most painfully under-researched problems in the study of Central and East European (CEE) cultures. The conference aims to investigate the multiple forms of totalitarian trauma and of the (post-)traumatic transition period in the region.

The assessment of the totalitarian pasts has been the object of divisive and partial political debates, themselves, at times, no more than post-traumatic symptoms at the discursive level. The conference aims to investigate the seriality of trauma in the recent history of CEE (from ghettos to gulags to globalization, from Holocaust to communist and postcommunist mass killings, from concentration camps to immigration camps etc.), as well as the palimpsestic interplay between the different historical and experiential layers of cultural distress. Hidden/forgotten/silenced discourses: topics prohibited or manipulated by the communist regime of /in the official political-social-cultural space including the colonization of Eastern Borderlands (Kresy Wschodnie) by the Second Polish Republic; the politically designed famine in the Ukrainian SSR; the extermination of intelligentsia in the Soviet Union in the 1930s; the Gulags; 1939 and the Second World War confronted with Nazism and Stalinism; collaboration with the Nazis; Stalinist and Nazi crimes; the UPA (The Ukrainian Insurgent Army) from the Ukrainian and Polish perspectives; the post-war massive repatriations/resettlements/expulsions of local populations of diverse ethnicities in the name of mononational state (and the especially traumatic eviction of the German minorities); the Operation “Vistula”; the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; the Berlin Wall and the political division of Germany; the post-war collaboration of intellectuals with the communist regime; repressions of the Church; Starting from the three areas already appointed, this project will address a set of topics related with the media, the proliferation and the unfolding of images in cyberspace, the new modalities of screens and their implications in spectatorship and audiences. The substantial increase of urban screens is also a potential field of investigation and reflection on new forms of interaction and collaborative environments in public spaces. The projection of light on urban surfaces arises, largely, as a way to create spaces for collective critical thought through which the video serves as a means for communication and not for consumption, often conveying a sense of political inquiry. In addition to these aspects, issues related with algorithms, the decoding of images through different outputs, or the new imagery offered, for example, by satellite images, or even the possibilities generated by the virtual reality, are some of the themes to be addressed in this second edition of the PSF, taking into consideration new proposals and approaches which may arise during the course of the project. EMV is an acronym for Europay, MasterCard and Visa, three of the world’s leading payments companies. They partnered together a while ago to develop a new type of debit and credit card security using microchip technology. With EMV chip cards, a microchip embedded into the front of the card generates a unique code every time the card is inserted into an EMV chip-enabled

card reader. Traditional magnetic stripe cards contain one unique code that is used over and over when you swipe the card, which makes it more susceptible to being copied or stolen. Because each unique EMV code is only used once, EMV cards are less likely to be affected by fraud, which offers you better card security.

It all boils down to helping you, your financial institution, and the retailers you shop at, fight fraud. Because traditional magnetic stripe cards make it a little easier to copy the code, card fraud has continued to climb in the United States. EMV chip cards do not eliminate card fraud entirely, but do severely reduce it. Countries that have adopted EMV cards have seen card fraud drop anywhere from 50% to 70% within a few years of moving to EMV chip technology. A humanitarian program providing free cataract operations to seniors went seriously wrong last week, leaving 17 people in danger of going blind. A contaminated laboratory has been blamed for an infection that results in an inflammation that attacks the optic nerve and can result in loss of vision. The surrogacy boom in Tabasco is over: the state Congress approved legislation yesterday that prevents foreign couples from paying women to carry their baby, a practice that had grown steadily in the past three years. Princeton University’s long-overdue uproar over Woodrow Wilson’s racism barely scratches the surface of the damage he did to US democracy. At the core of his foul legacy is the fact that he dragged the United States into a hated world war based on a monstrous lie, and that he used that war as cover to illegally shatter the United States’ democratic Socialist Party while permanently shredding the US Constitution. Wilson’s League of Nations was an instrument of imperial conquest meant to make the world safe for white supremacy, not democracy. Then, he got the US into World War I. Key was theLusitania, a British passenger ship sailing in 1915 from New York to London. With war raging, the Germans claimed it was loaded with weapons. They warned passengers not to board it, and then sank it as an act of war. Wilson responded with a national hate campaign against the “barbarity” of the “Huns.” He was already in the process of invading Mexico, sending the slaughter all the way into Mexico City. Decades laterdivers found the Lusitania and confirmed that it was, indeed, loaded with munitions. Wilson knew his war fever was based on a lie, or else did a very good job of “not knowing.” In 1916, he ran for re-election as a “peace candidate.” Then he opened fire. Wilson used war as an excuse to break the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). He had broken new ground by reaching out to the conservative American Federation of Labor. More than twenty years ago, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) made a strategic decision to seek a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip through bilateral negotiations with Israel. Yet today the Palestinian people remain in practical terms stateless, and are divided and fragmented in a manner that rivals the immediate post-1948 period. Israeli colonization has relentlessly eroded the land base for a genuinely sovereign Palestinian state. The United States has posed as the broker of the negotiating process, even though it has repeatedly proven Vice President Joe Biden’s insistence that There’s absolutely no daylight -- none -- between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security. Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s famous red ministerial box fetched ¬£242,500 ($364,600, 334,000 euros) at a sale of her possessions held Tuesday in London by auction house Christie’s. Initially expected to sell for between £3,000 and £5,000, auctioneer Jussi Pykkanen finalised the sale to an unidentified buyer with a bang of his hammer, to applause from the audience. The box, in which the late Conservative leader would carry confidential documents, is one of the most iconic of around 200 of Thatcher’s personal belongings offered for sale by Christie’s. Many have been advertised online since December 3, with the sale due to end Wednesday. Items which belonged to the “Iron Lady” have often sold better than the clothes she wore. A sheet featuring a typed prayer attributed to St Francis of Assisi and signed by Thatcher, which she quoted on first arriving in Downing Street in 1979, sold for £37,500, despite an initial estimate of between £600 and £900. With wide bridges and clever strokes, Ano

Stencil enlivens the page, instantly assembling into a fun and informal pattern. Take whatever visual connotations the stencil genre holds impermanence, necessity, urgency this face plays up the best qualities of each. Eduardo Manso expands his popular Geogrotesque family by an additional two widths, all seven weights now available in Compressed and Extra Compressed. The softened draftsman sans covers an interesting range between the more severe tech sans genre and the familiar neo-grotesques of the mid-twentieth century. This contemporary Venetian gives the typographer a strong callig raphic base for building t y p o graphic systems in books, c a f e menus, and packaging. Its linea r forms and long extenders suggest the work of Nicolas Jenson, while its harmonized proportions and sensuous italic curves are all its own. In Laura Varsky’s latest collaboration with Alejandro Paul, she explores the tone of a flowing, mixed-construction script written with a pointed pen. Its expressive lines and inky texture create a distinctive and instantly recognizable personality. The family includes a set of interchangeable pattern blocks. Taking stylistic cues from type made to function at micro sizes, as Capo’s horizontal strokes meet its stems, they taper sharply. Though exaggerated, Capo isn’t just a conspicuous display face -- it’s also marvelously legible at text sizes. Comes in four weights with all the essentials. Too sunny to pass for any of the numerous cool-toned sanses available, Graviola broadcasts a positive vibe with its curved diagonals and soft details.

While its extreme weights work best for display, its interior styles are well suited to setting text. Eight full weights including italics. Topping off Wolfgang Homola’s Soleil family is this dazzling contrivance, a set of impossible, Escheresque capitals made for flat, or layered chromatic setting. Comes with figures, punctuation, and an extensive set of symbols. Similar faces include Macula and Frustro. We invite participants to join us and work with these concepts of integrative tactile experience, kinetic atmospheres, multiperspectival space, and unconscious perception. Metabody counteracts dominant technologies and their prevalent tendency to negate differences by reducing bodies and movements to prescribed forms in current surveillance culture. Metabody emphasizes openness, and indeter-

minacy of embodied expressions as a key factor for a sustainable society. This project also foregrounds the need for a new politics. The workshop & performance laboratory probes troubling interpretations of the increasing unrestrainment of capital, and capitalism’s impact on all social-economic, cultural, creative, and educational sectors in a shared developed world now expanded by massive migration and refugee movement.

The sustainability of democracy is an urgent theme for all those in the performing arts/creative fields becoming intensely aware of the multiplication of realities (virtualization; networked infrastructures, diasporas) and the tightening of our bodies into technological environments. This is a call for peripheral perception in existential experience.

We are looking for submissions of both artworks and experiences to be included that highlight the work of our current students, alumni, and faculty as well as allowing for a unique opportunity for these three groups to work together! We are asking alumni to also consider donating their time through experiences or mentoring opportunities for current st udents /recent alumni such as studio visits, portfolio reviews, workshops, etc.

Submissions will be juried, and accepted alumni work will be part of our silent auction, with the work being sold as 50% donation to the Drawing and Painting catalogue fund, and 50% to the artist. MacKeeper anti-virus company is making headlines today for its lax security that exposed the database of 13 Million Mac users’ records including names, email addresses, usernames, password hashes, IP addresses, phone numbers, and system information. MacKeeper is a suite of software that claims to make Apple Macs more secure and stable, but today the a nti-v i r us itself need some extra Our Swiss Leaks investigation exposed how one of the world’s largest banks, HSBC, profited from doing business with tax dodgers and criminals. Minutes after publication, swissleaks trended on Twitter and the public pressure resulted in government investigations, inquiries and a raid by authorities on a Swiss bank. In 20 years, the taco place will be a used car lot, then a meth lab, and finally, the city will seek a grant to tear it down.

Big-box stores follow the same pattern, with Dollar Stores and the like taking up residence in former Walmart buildings, and so on down the food chain. Canadian artists and artist teams are invited to submit an Expression of Interest to enter into a juried competition to create new permanent public artwork. The objective of the public artwork is to enhance the resident and visitor experience at Hammond Stadium Park through the placement of a new piece of public art that celebrates the history of sport and the unique heritage character of this park. Hammond is a place with a long historical association with the sport of baseball and the cedar sawmilling industry in Port Hammond. The yearround training facility for minor baseball is located in the historic community of Hammond. Built in 1951,

Hammond Stadium was refurbished in 2014. Today the Hammond Stadium Park also includes a community centre, basketball court, tennis court, soccer field and outdoor pool. While it’s still far from common knowledge among the Western public that Washington’s closest allies in the Mid-East are funding, arming, and otherwise enabling the Sunni extremists (including ISIS) battling for control of Syria and working to destabilize Iraq, the massacre that unfolded earlier this month in San Bernardino has managed to focus some much needed attention on the role Saudi Arabia plays in promoting extremism. After may years of ignoring African challenges posed by global trading system, the WTO- one of the principal instruments of global economic governancecomes to the continent to seek legitimacy. The WTO is trying to reinvent itself to appear as if it cares about Africa and has solutions to a myriad of problems (increasing poverty, unemployment and underemployment, collapse of social institutions, etc). African economies most of which are agro-based were ruined by the WTO which promotes developed countries and transnational c or p or a tions. Delegates told stories of farmers abandoning their lands and moving to urban areas because they are unable to survive otherwise. They described extreme weather conditions that have caused damage to their crops, and they called attention to the spreading of diseases such as coffee rust‚ that has diminished productivity in several Latin American countries.

Artwork must be maximum 12 inches x 12 inches outside size. 3 dimensional artwork must fit into a 12x12x12 inch space. Maximum retail price cannot exceed $250.

All watercolours must be framed. 12x12 max with a maximum frame size 18x18 Artwork may be created in any media on canvas (gallery depth or narrow), Arches paper, professional quality photographic paper or acid free board. The most innovative of historical court studies build on a solid foundation of theoretical reflection. A wide variety of methodological approaches and models for the understanding of the court as a political and social institution are on offer today and all of them are in need of further development and empirical testing. Therefore, this workshop seeks to support

the production of empirically well-grounded studies, which apply theoretical and methodological approaches in a creative manner. Ozu wanted to capture the cinematic quality of everyday life, says Bond, and doing so required a very specific style.‚ Rather than adding techniques on to his cinematic vocabulary, Ozu eliminated them, making complete and meaningful use of those that remained: rigorous, painting-like compositions using frames within frames; a low-placed camera (set, legend has it, around the height of someone sitting on a traditional tatami mat) that hardly ever moves and always uses a human eyesight-like 50-millimeter lens; dialogue that cuts between straight-on close-ups of each speaker (breaking filmmaking’s sacred 180-degree rule‚ every time). With wide bridges and clever strokes, Ano Stencil enlivens the page, instantly assembling into a fun and informal pattern. Take whatever visual connotations the stencil genre holds -- impermanence, necessity, urgency -- this face plays up the best qualities of each. Eduardo Manso expands his popular Geogrotesque family by an additional two widths, all seven weights now available in Compressed and Extra Compressed. The softened draftsman sans covers an interesting range between the more severe tech sans genre and the familiar neo-grotesques of the mid-twentieth century. This contemporary Venetian gives the typographer a strong calligraphic base for building typographic systems in books, cafe menus, and packaging.

Its linear forms and long extenders suggest the work of Nicolas Jenson, while its harmonized proportions and sensuous italic curves are all its own. In Laura Varsky’s latest collaboration with Alejandro Paul, she explores the tone of a flowing, mixed-construction script written with a pointed pen.

Its expressive lines and inky texture create a distinctive and instantly recognizable personality. The family includes a set of interchangeable pattern blocks. Taking stylistic cues from type made to function at micro sizes, as Capo’s horizontal strokes meet its stems, they taper sharply. Though exaggerated, Capo isn’t just a conspicuous display face, it’s also marvelously legible at text sizes.

Comes in four weights with all the essentials. Too sunny to pass for any of the numerous cool-toned sanses available, Graviola broadcasts a positive vibe with its curved diagonals and soft details. While its extreme weights work best for display, its interior styles are well suited to setting text. Eight full weights including italics. By now, the metrics of mass incarceration are well known. As documented in last year?s report of the National Research Council, incarceration rates in the U.S. more than quadrupled between the early 1970s and 2009, the peak year in the prison buildup. Over that time span, the toughon-crime era produced the promised results each year, more people were held behind bars. Today, the U.S. incarceration rate is five to 10 times higher than the rates of European countries. As the NRC report concluded, this phenomenon is historically unprecedented and internationally unique. Less well known, however, are the metrics of a distinct phenomenon ? changing incarceration rates in American jails. This reflects, in part, a legalistic distinction between these two institutions. Prisons typically hold people convicted of serious crimes and sentenced to prison terms longer than a year. Jails, by contrast, typically hold two popula-

tions, people awaiting trial and those serving custodial sentences of less than a year. While the NRC consensus panel, which I chaired, referenced this legal distinction, its analysis focused primarily on incarceration rates in prisons. This focus allowed the panel to explore the role of increasingly punitive sentencing policies as drivers in the prison build-up. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (1 Connecticut, 14 Ontario) Whooper Swan (4 New Hampshire) Tufted Duck (1 Washington) Smew (1 Ontario) Brown Booby (1 California, 1 Louisiana, 1 Mississippi, 1 Texas) Northern Jacana (1 Texas) Ruff (2 California, 4 North Carolina) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (2 Arizona) Tropical Parula (1 Texas) Rufous-capped Warbler (3 Arizona) Western Spindalis (3 Florida) The next in a series of storms will impact parts of the northwestern U.S. on Thursday with heavy rainfall, significant mountain snow, strong winds and flash flooding possible.

Meanwhile, rain and thunderstorms are possible across the East Coast, with a Marginal Risk of severe thunderstorms from the central Gulf Coast to the mid-Atlantic.

Today, much of the most interesting, innovative and passionate writing - and dialogue - about museums and galleries takes place around some 500 carefully-crafted, thoughtfullycreated museum blogs and personal websites. But all too little of this content enters into mainstream museum discourse on a regular basis. The Museum Blog Book aims to remedy this. In the late nineteenth century two facts conspired to change the face of music: the collapse of common practice tonality (which overturned the certainties underpinning the world of art music), and the invention of a revolutionary new form of memory, sound recording (which redefined and greatly empowered the world of popular music). A tidal wave of probes and experiments into new musical resources and new organisational practices ploughed through both disciplines, bringing parts of each onto shared terrain before rolling on to underpin a new aesthetics able to follow sound and its manipulations beyond the narrow confines of ‘music’. This series tries analytically to trace and explain these developments, and to show how, and why, both musical and post-musical genres take the forms they do. We have a wide and expanding range of research interests, centered on three main research groups in social media, media policy and industries and media history. We have established centres for the study of the media in China, India, the Arab world and Africa.

In the broadest sense we are interested in the social, economic, political and cultural significance of the media, and welcome proposals from prospective students on these or any other topic related to media and communication. During the 11 years Jackson spent in prison following a one-year-to-life sentence for his alleged role in a gas station robbery, he amassed a library of more than 99 books with which he used to educate himself and which he shared among his fellow prisoners. About 75 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas in developing countries. Most survive on subsistence farming, artisanal fisheries and/or nomadic herding and many are landless, working as seasonal labour on farms, plantations, in fisheries and industry. Click here to download the English edition.Their daily food needs are met primarily through local production, foraging, hunting and fishing - often by women - on small farms, common grazing lands and in woods, forests, streams, rivers and lakes. Reduced access to these ecosystems or decrease in the foods gathered in these environments can result in hunger and acute malnutrition. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (1 Connecticut, 1 Ontario) Whooper Swan (1 New Hampshire) Tufted Duck (1 Vermont) Brown Booby (1 Mississippi) Ruff (3 California, 2 North Carolina) Kelp Gull (1 Ohio) Ruddy GroundDove (1 Arizona) Black- c apped Gnatcatcher (1 Arizona) Rufousbacked Robin (1 Arizona) Rufouscapped Warbler (2 Arizona) Western Spindalis (1 Florida) Five-striped Sparrow (1 Arizona) Not so long ago in a galaxy not so far away, the arts were under attack! In the mid-90s, the U.S. Senate voted to shut down the National Endowment for the Arts’ grants to individual artists. A group of intrepid arts supporters took action, creating a new kind of organization that would embrace risk to support artists working in all disciplines. And Creative Capital was born. Now, 17 years later, I’m astonished to see the profound force that

we have built to support creative individuals, and to see how our artists are shaping the world we live in. Geographically next door to Syria is what remains of Israeli occupied Palestine, Christ’s birthplace in Bethlehem, where, at what is now the Church of the Nativity. He was believed born. Above are just a few of the jewels of a region now decimated by that created by George W. Bush’s and Tony Blair’s Crusade,‚ not to mention Obama and Cameron’s humanitarian bombings‚ of the Land of two Rivers. Ur was vandalized by the US army, who arrived with Bibles in vast stocks, missionaries and plans for proselytizing those who had nurtured and stewarded the reg ion’s wonders of all religions for centuries.

Al-Qurna w a s stormed and devastatingly damaged by British, Lithuanian and Danish troops, the Tree of Knowledge whose legend and life seemingly spanned the mists of time, died, near certainly from the poisonous pollution of battle, more poisonous even than that which destroyed over half all fauna and flora after the Desert Storm 1991 onslaught, leaving the soil dead and infertile for years afterwards. An active weather pattern continues across the Pacific Northwest on Friday, as a storm system brings areas of widespread snow and heavy rain near the coast. By Saturday evening, another frontal system will be approaching the region and will bring yet another round of precipitation to the region, including gusty winds. He insisted on paying. We had a very nice visit. In addition to falling off a scaffold at work several years ago and causing permanent injury to his feet, he has had sclerosis of the liver. The liver has recovered, but it is always there in a dormant state. No more alcohol. He didn’t mention your postcards.

I’ll ask him next time I contact him. He’s a bright little guy...just like his father.

Too bad you live so far away or you could join Edna and me. There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder “censorship,” we call it “concern for commercial viability. “The corporate grip on opinion in the United

States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity much less dissent. Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. Hillary Clinton has received more money from arms and military service companies than any other candidate during the 2016 presidential campaign. Lucifer haunts the corridors of power.

Ordinary, decent people can turn into monsters -- rapists, murderers -when given unlimited power over others. US soldiers told their superiors they witnessed three Seals dropping heavy stones on detainees

chests, kicking and stepping on their heads, firing weapons during an interrogation, and employing a variation of waterboarding. U.S. Air Force officials has begun to hire private companies to fly drone aircraft operating over Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. The unprecedented move is in response to demands from the Obama administration to dramatically expand the drone war just as the Pentagon faces a critical shortage of military pilots.

Sexual activity is central to our very existence; it shapes how we think, how we act and how we live. It is deeply embedded in our society. With cognitive systems development being heavily influenced by human cognition, perception, and interaction, should sexual behaviour and sexuality be part of that influence? Previous research has examined what might happen to us if we form close relationships with machines and intelligent systems. We feel that this is only one aspect of what we term Artificial Sexuality, and suggest that there are multiple and equally important strands that have not yet been fully explored, including, but by no means limited to, modelling sex and cognition, embodiment, gender issues, reproduction, ethics, and law.

With cognitive computing trying to find a way for machines to learn and think, much of the research looks towards humans to understand our own cognitive processes. However, sexuality and sexual behaviour is largely ignored within the discipline despite its central role in human biological and social behaviour.

Indeed the relation between sexuality, identity and intelligence is often presumed in evolutionary accounts of human development. Yet, given the hopes and aims of having a machine that is - for example - creative, could we also have a machine that could desire? And if so, what implications might lead from that in terms of sexuality, gender identity, and reproduction? For this symposium we will invite papers that engage with such topics, and seek to bring together a number of scholarly fields including computing, AI, philosophy, and psychology. The online questionnaire will take about 15 minutes to complete. We ask you to select one of your projects that best represents the way in which your organization collaborates with local governments in de-

sign projects. In addition, we would appreciate if you could kindly forward this invitation to others that you know to be active in this area, especially colleagues within your organization that may have been involved in design projects with local governments.

We thank you in advance for your participation and we look forward to sharing the map of design higher education and local government design collaboration with you in the near future. Over 100 workers were laid off at a Lexmark plant in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, after going on strike for two days to press for a daily wage increase of 6 pesos, or US $0.35. They sought the increase, from 114 to 120 pesos, for experienced workers, but the company rejected the demand in October. Universities giant and small, public and private, bring African-American men to campus at grotesque levels to earn the school millions in football and basketball revenues. Stories about academic freedom and free speech have been appearing in newspapers more frequently over the last few weeks. And curiously enough political actors on and off campus who traditionally have been least likely to be concerned a b o u t these subjects are becoming its major advocates.

Distortions and the deformation of late capitalism have led our contemporary world into a cul-desac characterized by cycles of economic failure and depression. This crisis of capital has also witnessed increasing global economic inequalities that are unprecedented in human history. That policy and structure of the international political economy lie at the heart of the resultant complex social conflict of global proportions is not in question. What is, however, is the manner in which various manifestations of this conflict in trouble spots around the world from Afghanistan to Iraq; from Egypt to Libya; from Nigeria to Kenya; and from Yemen to Pakistan, and elsewhere have been handled.

Oppressive instruments of international military control, rather than social transformation of affected nations by addressing the developmental needs of citizens, have been the preferred response. This knee jerk firefighting has been inadequately complemented by multilateral and bilateral aid packages from the West, a raft of successive fiscal prescriptions from international finan-

cial institutions, band aid projects ran by non-governmental organizations and ameliorative operations by various United Nations agencies. Unfortunately, security operations, peacekeeping, peacemaking and peacebuilding missions and unilateral military interventions as well as fiscal policies have not always, if at all, been informed by the historical depth of stark social reality. The glaring “inconvenient” details of this social reality, centuries in the making, do not bear on “solutions” that are resorted to. This seems to fly in the face of basic common sense that, if in a hole, the most practical first step to get out is to stop digging. This, with respect to intrastate conflicts (insurgencies, revolts, and wars of secession, ethnic conflict, civil wars, coups and racial or religious violence) sometimes experienced across states, strongly suggests the need for a critical examination of the structural and legal-policy foundations, and built-in or systematic inequalities, of the international political economy. Indeed, major decision-makers and intellectuals should not pretend that the current state of affairs in the world with regard to international politics, international law and underdevelopment of developing nations has nothing to do with the international imperial system and colonialism that was hastily “discarded” and “replaced” by the present state system. But, unfortunately little if any research has been undertaken to directly connect intractable international social conflict to the legal illegality of the imperial system in which it was enough to either read the requerimiento, the written of sovereignty, as, not only an assertive statement of arrival into a foreign land, but also taking possession of it.

Whereas such European colonial conquest, possession and exploitation was not illegal under international law prevalent then and since the Roman Empire until the advent of 20th century international law, contemporary inadequacies of the international political economy characterized by internal contradictions and inequalities created by capitalism warrant a critical assessment of the imperial system.

There is a lot to see at Nanzoin Temple. A friend once described it, critically, as like a Buddhist “theme park”, but I think back in the Edo period pilgrimage temples were a lot like that with many “attractions” to draw pilgrims. In the grounds stands a massive, ancient tree that had been hit by lightning, though still living. Carved into it is a relief of Raijin, the God of Thunder and A towering, 12-metre (40-foot) long Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton with a terrifying jaw goes on display in Berlin’s Natural History Museum from Thursday. Hoping that dino frenzy will drive a visitor boom, the museum Wednesday invited media to a faceto-face encounter with the 66-million-year-old beast called “Tristan”.

The prehistoric predator is considered one of the most complete skeletons among the 50-odd sets of T-rex remains that have been unearthed worldwide, many in the hands of private collectors and out of public view. Tristan has come to the German capital for an at least three year long stint courtesy of Danish businessman and large-fossil collector Niels Nielsen, who said he named it after his son. “Dinosaurs attract people to museums” and such exhibits “encourage children to take an interest in research,” said Nielsen during the presentation After years of studying a mysterious thigh bone from a cave in China, scientists said Thursday they believe it represents