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than previously thought. he 14,000-year-old bone was uncovered in 1989 in Maludong, known as the Red Deer Cave. The trove of fossils it was initially found with went unstudied until 2012. The partial femur, though relatively young in age, looks like the bones of far older species like Homo habilis and early Homo erectus that lived more than 1.5 million years ago, said the study in PLOS ONE. “Its young age suggests the possibility that primitivelooking humans could have survived until very late in our evolution, but we need to careful as it is just one bone,” said co-author professor Ji Xueping from the Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in China. Until now, scientists believed that the only pre-modern humans who survived in what is now Europe and Paleontologists in Spain have unearthed the partial skeleton of a previously unknown dinosaur, which carried a tall, sallike appendage on its back, a report said Wednesday. The new dinosaur, dubbed Morelladon beltrani, is a member of the iguanodon grouping and lived about 125 million years ago, said the study in PLOS ONE, the journal of the California-based Public Library of Science.

The creature was medium-sized for a dinosaur of the era, measuring about six meters (yards) long and 2.5 meters tall. Its “most conspicuous feature” was the presence of tall spines on its back, which may have looked like a sail and could have helped regulate body temperature or served as a place to store fat for times of scarcity. The specimen included a collection of back and pelvic bones and 14 teeth, only one of them complete. It was found in eastern Spain, southwest of Barcelona, in red-clay beds belonging to the upper Barremian Arcillas de Morella Formation. Its name combines In a tiny flat in a rundown alley in New Delhi, Rakesh Kumar Misra is working against the odds to bring India’s ancient Sanskrit language to the country’s millions. The 4,000year-old classical language was traditionally used by Brahmin intellectuals and Hindu priests. Rarely spoken as a mother tongue in India, Sanskrit is often dismissed as a dead language. But Misra is undeterred, spending up to 12 hours a day hunched over his computer, translating and writing articles for a weekly 16page newspaper in the script. “My aim is to take Sanskrit to the masses, to make it accessible to everyone,” Misra, who has a masters in Sanskrit studies and sees the language as indelibly linked to India’s heritage, told AFP. Hopes of a Sanskrit revival, long pushed by Hindu hardliners, have been rising since India’s Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi stormed to power at last year’s general election. Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree in planning, urban studies, art, or other related field preferred. Minimum 4 years experience in nonprofit setting or in working in close partnership with communitybased organizations. Project or program management experience. Experience working with, coordinating, communicating with artists of various backgrounds and genres. Creative placemaking experience strongly desired. Demonstrated ability to think creatively and strategically to build new relationships and support new programs and strategies. Excellent oral and written communication skills, including public speaking and ability to communicate with diverse audiences. Experience managing or coordinating coalitions or other collaborative partnerships.

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Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects. Passion and commitment for community-driven processes and projects. Possession of a valid California driver’s license (Class C) and proof of insurance required.

Maintain the donor database by ensuring accurate documentation of gift and donor contact information and tracking donor engagement. Steward donors by providing prompt, personalized acknowledgement of gifts and coordinating administration of donor benefits.

Prepare and disseminate board meeting materials, including board minutes, reports and agendas. Coordinate logistics and provide staff support for fundraising and donor cultivation events. Support the annual fund, fundraising campaigns and other funding initiatives, including creating content for social media, direct mailings and other donor related collateral. Perform a variety of donor related tasks as assigned. Ideal candidate will have 2-3 years related experience with strong writing skills.

The Development Associate will also demonstrate consistent attention to detail and accuracy; ability to stay organized and meet multiple and competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment; ability to be proactive and plan ahead; ability and willingness to learn new software and administrative systems; ability to present information in a poised and professional manner; ability to work both collaboratively and independently and interact effectively with a wide variety of people on and off site. Candidate must be self-possessed, practice discretion with sensitive information, demonstrate grace u n d e r pressure and in their interactions with others, be reliable, and possess ent husiasm and dedication for the arts and the task at hand. The corn is cooked with limewater to eliminate aflatoxins that cause liver and cervical cancer. Here a worker at the Grulin company is stirring the corn before it is washed, drained and ground, in San LuÌs Huexotla, Mexico. Sons, daughters-in-law and nephews and nieces divide the work in the family business that makes and sells cecina (dried, salted meat) tacos, longaniza (a kind of Spanish sausage), quesadillas and tlacoyos (thick stuffed ovalshaped corn dough tortillas).

“We cook the corn the night before and we grind it early in the morning, to serve people at 8:00 AM,” said Reyes, who has made a living selling food for years. The family loads up the metal countertop, gas cylinders, tables, chairs, ingredients and over 60 kg of corn dough in their mediumsized truck before heading from their town of San Jerunimo Acazulco, some 46 km southwest of Mexico City, to whatever spot they have chosen that day to sell their wares.

When the taco truck packs up, it has sold just about all the food prepared that day. The cooked corn dough takes on a yellow tone, an effect caused by a process called nixtamalisation - the preparation of corn or other grain, which is soaked and cooked in an alkaline solution, usually limewater, and hulled. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), 25 percent of world food crops are contaminated with aflatoxins. This technique dates back to before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in Mexico in the 15th century, when local indigenous people cooked corn this way. Nixtamalisation significantly reduces aflatox-

ins - any of several carcinogenic mycotoxins produced by molds that commonly infect corn, peanuts and other crops. The participants of the Curatorial Programme are supported and coached by a team of tutors and guest teachers with backgrounds in art, curating, art history and philosophy. During various tutorials and seminars the participants examine particular tendencies and developments in the field of contemporary visual art, according to a specific theme. Apart from these regular sessions, the programme also offers various excursions, including a research trip to a destination outside of Western Europe and the opportunity to meet with a large number of artists, curators, critics and other international professionals. Applicants may submit work in any medium, including, but not limited to: two dimensional

works, sculpture, installation, screen-based works and new media, performance, and multi-media. The festival takes place in both indoor and outdoor spaces, and projects can be accommodated accordingly.

Site-specific works and installations are particularly encouraged. A total of 54 journalists are currently being held hostage worldwide, versus 40 this time last year - a 35% increase. Journalists are easy targets for radical groups such as the Islamic State and AlNusra Front, who use them not only for ransoms or leverage but also, and above all to impose a reign of terror and to silence their critics. It comes as no surprise that the most dangerous country is Syria, where entire regions are now information black holes.‚ Alas all of this is true. A Canyon Cinema I found most of the color prints made in the 70’s had turned red. This even happens when the film is never projected. When I worked at the Encyclopedia Britannica in the early 70’s most of their prints had turned red. I am inspecting the 16mm film collection at the SF Art Institute and am finding the same situation with some prints made during the 70’s and some 1980 print. A pesticide used in the early 1980s may be a Parkinson’s disease cause, according to a study publ i s h e d Wednesday in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The pesticide in question is heptachlor epoxide, found in very high levels in the Hawaiian Global supermarkets in the U.S., Europe, and Asia have inadvertently been selling shrimp peeled by Burmese slaves in In the wake of demands for more transparency with regards to GMO labeling, PepsiCo announced last Friday that it would be labeling its Tropicana Pure Premium orange juice and four brand siblings. The Ecuadorian government has invested hundreds of millions over the past nine years to prepare for the storm that is about to batter the country. This year, the floods could be unprecedented. The officers rush into the cell. They expect the prisoner lie on the ground with their head in or nearby the toilet, and a prisoner is not allowed to sit on the bed. The officers spray the prisoner with pepper spray while sitting in the cell. The officers smash the prisoner’s face, throw the prisoner on the floor, push his face into the toilet, and they tie the

prisoner?s hands and legs behind their back. The prisoner is tossed out of the cell, and the officers search the cell. As all of this happens, a camera pointed at guards rolls while officers shout, “Stop resisting! Stop resisting!” to justify the brute force that is used. Military personnel sexually assault prisoners. And the bubble whose existence they denied really was inflated largely via opaque financial schemes that in many cases amounted to outright fraud - and it is an outrage that basically nobody ended up being punished for those sins aside from innocent bystanders, namely the millions of workers who lost their jobs and the millions of families that lost their homes. Everything in the settlement of the four-year lawsuit indeed represents major progress, and the limits and alternatives it prescribes will bring relief to perhaps thousands of individuals suffering in solitary in New York. If there is a downside, it is that the largely celebratory tone of the announcements and press coverage may lead all of the people in long-term solitary to mistakenly expect that their ordeals will soon be over, and the public to believe that the struggle to end prolonged prison isolation in New York has now been won.

In fact, e v e n amidst the hard-won celebrations, there is acknowledgement that the changes the settlement brings are incremental changes. While the agreement begins to address the underlying paradigm of punishment and control through isolation that has been liberally practiced in New York for decades, it does not destroy or replace it. And even when all its provisions are implemented, thousands of people are likely to remain in solitary, some for years or decades. Please be reminded that there is no tracking number for the shipping method you selected. The estimated delivery timeframe is between 4 Jan and 20 Jan. For any reasons, if you do not receive your package by 22 Jan, or if you are in any way not happy with the items or our services, please don’t hesitate to contact us directly by replying this email. We will guarantee you a 100% satisfactory shopping experience. We stand behind what we sell.

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Referred to by some politicians as Central America’s Plan Colombia, the Alliance for Prosperity combines security and development assistance in a multiyear strategy. Developed in the wake of the 2014 flood of child migrants from Central America, purportedly to address the root causes of migration, poverty and violence, in reality the Plan deepens the same economic policies that have generated the growing poverty in the region, and supports the same un-reformed security forces infiltrated by violent organized crime networks. The influx of transnational investment into the region is carried out hand in glove with renewed security operations. It takes experience to navigate the complexities of the constant harassment and repression targeting indigenous and small farmer communities, whose objective is to isolate, divide and ultimately silence grassroots movements seeking to stand up for their rights against corporations with political clout. Later in the interview Klein emphasized that climate change and economic justice must be linked in efforts for progressive social change. “If it is just about going on a march and if it just about parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere that’s not going to motivate a movement that is as motivated as Exxon and Shell to protect the status quo. “When people are fighting for a future that is better than their present, not just better than a catastrophe far off in the future, better than right now which is intolerable, better than unemployment, better than crumbling services, better than relentless austerity -- that’s the movement. “That’s why I find it endlessly frustrating that Europe’s anti-austerity parties almost never talk about climate change.” Signatories, he wrote, “like gas station owners on opposite corners looking at each other’s prices, have calibrated their targets about the same: enough to keep both environmentalists and the fossil fuel industry from complaining too much. They have managed to provide enough financing to keep poor countries from walking out of the talks, but not enough to really push the renewables revolution into high gear.” Right now, Morocco imports 94 to 97 percent of its energy from fossil fuels, yet it gets 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. All of that desert sunshine is about to reverse the energy-importing trend, turning the country into a leading world source of solar energy. Morocco is in the process of building a complex of four linked solar mega-plants as big as 35 soccer fields. The huge effort will, alongside with hydro and wind, “help provide nearly half of Morocco’s electricity from renewables by 2020.” It’s hoping to export any ex-

cess solar energy to other countries, especially those in Europe. The first phase of the project, called Noor 1, is due to open this month and will bring energy to 1.1 million people. The method of capturing solar energy, as described by EcoWatch, is more expensive and goes a lot further than most solar technology, such as photovoltaic cells. “The plant employs a large number of movable mirrors that can follow the sun’s path and harness sunlight to melt salt. The molten salt stores energy and can be used to power a steam turbine, allowing for energy production even at night.” Each parabolic mirror is 12 meters high and is focused on a steel pipeline carrying a “heat transfer solution,” or HTF, that is warmed to 393 degrees Celsius. That solution “snakes along the trough before coiling into a heat engine. There, it is mixed with water to create steam that turns energy-generating turbines.” The next phases of the project, projected to go live in 2017, will be able to store energy for eight hours. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (1 Ontario) Tufted Duck (2 California, 2 New York) Black-browed Albatross (1 New York) Brown Booby (1 Florida, 1 Texas) Hookbilled Kite (1 Texas) Northern Jacana (2 Texas) Ruff (5 California) Aplomado Falcon (1 Texas) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (3 Arizona) Rufouscapped Warbler (1 Arizona) White-collared Seedeater (1 Texas) Western Spindalis (3 Florida) Five-striped Sparrow (3 Arizona) Shiny Cowbird (1 Florida) One week until Christmas and there is no snow in the forecast for Vermont. Down here in Key West there are lights in palm trees and some fairly extravagant lighting displays. Our stores are busy helping with last minute Christmas shopping and Apple laptops, iPads and the new Apple TV seem to be on the top of a lot of folks’ lists this year. We have refreshed our supply of Apple Certified Reconditioned iMacs and MacBook Airs.

These are brought back to “as-new” condition by Apple and have the same 1-year Apple warranty as new Macs. They qualify for AppleCare as well which we strongly recommend for all of your Mac purchases.

AppleCare is a great value for not only does it extend the warranty on your Mac and associated Apple peripherals such as AirPort base stations or displays from 1-year to 3years but it extends the free Apple tech support from 90-days to 3-years as well. This comes in handy when you run into an annoying little problem and you need a solution for your Mac. I had one of those dilemmas with my Apple Watch.

I have never been able to answer phone calls with the watch and I was getting jealous of Grace acting like Dick Tracy all the time. So, I decided to chat Apple Support.

The first guy I was chatting with was patient but actually didn’t seem like he knew the Apple Watch all that well. He had me reset, restart, wipe and set-up the Apple Watch as a new Apple Watch and still the problem persisted. Fortunately, I was accidentally disconnected from chat and when the new guy took over he told me it was a tap vs. push problem. Sure enough I was trying to push the answer button rather than tapping it and when I did tap it I got to fulfill my Dick Tracy fantasy, too. Now, if I could only get the calls answered on my Apple Watch to stream directly to my hearing aids. A Public Policy Poll released today asked GOP primary voters, among other things, if they would support bombing Agrabah, the fictional country from the 1993 Disney film Aladdin. Thirty percent said yes while only 13 percent of Republicans oppose bombing a nation that doesn’t exist and therefore could not be a threat to anyone in this dimension let alone the United States. To be fair, 19 percent of Democrats said they would favor bombing Agrabah.

The candidate with the most supporters who want to bomb Agrabah is Donald Trump, with 41 percent saying they support the assault on the infamous cartoon stronghold. The question provides a fascinating window into how Islamophobia shapes our foreign policy. That almost a third of Republicans support bombing a Muslim-sounding country that does not, in fact, exist displays the degree to which an across-the-board dislike of Muslims and Arabs informs our current political culture. It is not a concidence that extreme-xenophobe Donald Trump would have the highest number of supporters who are in favor of bombing Agrabah. All featured fares: Prices are in US Dollars and are per person based on double occupancy in lead in room type and are subject to avail-

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The Party shall keep an open mind on the standardization of the script for Konkani by encouraging a proper time-bound pragmatic debate on this issue by excluding emotions and implement the decision arrived at with total commitment. Maximum G ove r n me nt a l funding or financial help shall be assured for the development of Konkani through audio-visual, print, cultural and other mediums. As far as Marathi language is concerned, it has the backing of a large State such as Maharashtra where, though there is a sizable population of Konkani speaking people, no recognition has been forthcoming for Konkani, unlike in the State of Karnataka. This Party proposes that, in case the Marathi protagonists in Goa are in a position to obtain for the Konkani language in Maharashtra the same status that they demand in Goa for Marathi, this Party will fully back their efforts for equal status for Marathi in Goa. Your PayPal account has been limited Dear Customer, Your PayPal account has been limited because recently there’s been activity

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For Loyal Thirsty Thursday lovers, there are prizes and some special

sales opportunities to help fill in your Christmas/Holiday shopping list (don’t forget to include yourself )! Plus, our loyal multi year sponsor Hopworks will be in force to fill your belly with liquid goodness (we have cider for all you Gluten Free paddlers). Newbies to Winter paddling will get the scoop on how to stay warm, comfortable and safe. Veterans of cold weather paddling, come “nerd out” with your drysuit vs wetsuit and layering technical questions, and maybe even look to upgrade your kit. We have a huge stock and selection of the latest from many brands, with the rest of our 2016 stock arriving in just a few weeks! Rain is in the air, so as of right now, we do not have a location for this weekend’s GOAP being led by our recently anointed Level 5 ACA Instructor Adam Edwards. There will be some special guest stars, and we will be updating Friday with a better idea of where we are going. If Friday is still too uncertain, then show up Saturday Morning at 8:45am at the Paddle S p or t s Center for a surprise adventure!

Deaths from heroin and opioid pain-killer overdoses increased sharply in 2014, by 14 percent, according to a Centers for Disease Control and P r e ve nt ion report released on Friday. 2014’s record number of opoid overdose deaths continues an upward trend the CDC has tracked over the past several years. The CDC reports that heroin-related deaths have tripled since 2010 and that almost a half-million Americans died from drug overdoses between the years 2000 and 2014. I do not believe that knowledge is embedded in documents, just as beauty is not embedded in objects.

Beauty and knowledge are created by joining and creating complex relationships between creators, viewers, contexts, histories, etc. The term “Algorithm” means a logically described step-bystep procedure. It has recently become a popular, if not dominant, term to refer to when describing the power computational processes have in contemporary forms of life. Algorithms are used in all systems that involve computers, from traffic control to rituals of mate-selection and war-fighting.

They select targets and enact processes. Certain kinds of algorithm extract novel readings or predictions from aggregates of data. Understanding their actions and

bringing them into ethical scrutiny is very important.

However, algorithms do not act alone. They require numerous other factors to operate, not the least of which is their organised relation to data and data-structures. Indeed, the recent critical attention to algorithms should be seen as only a useful step towards a more substantial understanding of computational systems in culture, politics and everyday life. After the emergence of the army’s role in slaughtering civilians in Tlatlaya came the disappearance of 43 students and the murder of three others in Iguala, Guerrero. On the night of September 26, 2014, six people were killed, three of them students at a nearby teacher-training college. One young man who was killed had his face pulled off and yanked down around his neck.

Others were wounded and denied medical treatment. By the next day, 43 more students from the Ravil Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa were missing.

The students were last seen as they were arrested by municipal police, allegedly for participating in taking over buses to use for transportation to a march in Mexico City. The police handed off the st udents to a local paramilitary group that the m e d i a dubbed Guerreros Unidos (United Warriors).

The remains of one of the missing 43 have been discovered and confirmed, but the other 42 students remain disappeared. In the search for the missing 43, groups of community police and other non-state organizations initiated one of the country’s first searches for clandestine graves. In the weeks and months following the massacre and the mass disappearance of the students, search parties made up of community police and families of the disappeared discovered mass graves containing dozens of recently buried bodies. Ayotzinapa is not an exceptional case: it is paradigmatic. Groups like Guerreros Unidos, which the state calls drug cartels or drug gangs, but which can be understood as something closer to paramilitary groups, do not threaten the state or control the state. On the contrary, they can actually strengthen the state repressive apparatus. This structural collusion is why no one person or group can absorb responsibility for the disappearance of 43 young men from the Ayotzinapa school and the massacre of six

people. Rather, these acts were facilitated by overlapping forms of domination, capitalism, impunity, racism, militarization and paramilitarization. These forms are created and upheld not only by the government of Mexico but also by the U.S. and other governments. Tlatlaya, Ayotzinapa, and Apatzingon are four places whose names today conjure the most recent examples of naked state violence in Mexico. As we’ve seen, however, there are many more areas of the country where tragedy is an everyday affair. We don’t know how many more events like these have taken place in past years. The number of mass graves being discovered (again, we only know about a fraction of those that are found) and the amount of people who have been disappeared in Mexico since 2006 (more than 27,000) indicate these three events could represent but the tip of the iceberg of state violence in a drawn out war on the people. Many of the youth held in custody by US Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) were subjected to measures that would be considered objectionable against anyone, convicted adults or otherwise.

Accusations against the CPB, in a complaint filed in June on behalf of 100 children by the American Civil Liberties Union and other rights groups, are truly grotesque.

They include denying necessary medical care to children as young as five-months-old, refusing to provide diapers for infants, confiscating and not returning legal documents and personal belongings, making racially charged insults and death threats, and strip-searching and shackling children in three-point restraints during transport. The Mapungubwe Golden Rhino is believed to have been made by people living in the northern region of South Africa in the between 1220 and 1290 AD. It was discovered in the 1930’s, alongside other treasures including gold jewellery, glass beads and ceramic pots. The Mapungubwe rhino and other artifacts from its site are now helping to redefine South African history before colonial rule. For years, South Africa’s apartheid government ignored the significance of a “golden rhino” figurine that provides undeniable proof of a sophisticated society existing before white men arrived. But since the end of racist rule in 1994, the stunning object -- just 15 millimetres (six inches) long and more than 700 years old -- has become a defining symbol of precolonial civilisation in South Africa. Described as southern Africa’s equivalent of Tutankhamun’s mask, the golden foil rhino could be displayed overseas for the first time in the British Museum at an exhibition of South African art late next year. Sotheby’s New York auction Robert Frank: The Americans, The Ruth and Jake Bloom Collection concluded last night with the strong total of $3,739,375, and with 89.6% of lots sold. Leading the auction was ‘Hoboken’ (Parade), an image taken at the city’s centennial in March 1955, which sold well above its estimate for $237,500 (est. $ 1 2 0 /18 0 , 0 0 0 , above). Other highlights of the sale included Frank’s iconic image, Charleston, S. C., which sold for $162,500, double its high estimate of $80,000, and ‘New Orleans’ (Trolley), which achieved $237,500 (estimate $200/300,000). Christopher Mahoney, Head of Sotheby’s Photographs Department, said: The strong results of tonight’s sale illustrated the market’s enduring enthusiasm for Robert Frank’s pivotal works.

The Americans remains one of the most influential books of photogra-

phy ever published, and its nuanced subject matter is as relevant tod Disputes over a background scene flaunting North Korean missiles sparked the cancellation of a rare performance by a popular North Korean pop group in Beijing last week, a news report said Friday. South Korea’s largest circulation Chosun Ilbo daily quoted a high-ranking South Korean government official as saying that the all-girl Moranbong band, formed by leader Kim Jong-Un, decided to return home rather than yield to pressure from Chinese authorities to stop projecting the scene of long-range missiles being launched on a large background screen on stage. Chinese authorities who spotted the scene during a rehearsal urged the band to drop it because of the concert’s high-profile audience including President Xi Jinping, the daily said. In the face of strong objections from the band, China decided that Xi and other top-ranking officials would not attend the performance. North Korea responded by cancelling As part of our ongoing project, we are mining a large corpus of programming source code (C, C++, Java, etc.). One of our goals is to curate and maintain a corpus encoded in such a way that broader analyses can be carried out in the future. As you can imagine, it is difficult to know before hand all possible metadata, since it is an evolving process. I have in the past worked with TEI for literary works, and although it is not intended for source code, it offers good ideas for what we want to do. One of my goals in the context of our group is to advance the notion that original sources (programming code in our case) are essential for preservation, research, and dissemination. I want to give the perspective that scholars or folks in digital humanities give to literary texts. If anyone has suggestions, please contact me. Thanks in advance. Despite its “new” label, new media art has a rich 40-year history, making obsolescence and loss of cultural history an imminent risk. As a range of new media are integrated in art works, these creative objects are becoming increasingly complex and vulnerable due to dependence on many technical and contextual factors.

However, no archival best practices yet exist for accessing and preserving complex born-digital materials.

In 2013, Cornell University Library received a 2year research and development grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to design a framework for preserving access to digital art objects. We are pleased to announce the publication of a white paper that describes the project’s findings, discoveries, and challenges: Recognizing that we must develop a framework that addresses the needs of future as well as current media art researchers, we developed a survey targeting researcher, artists, and curators to expand our understanding of user profiles and use cases. Based on findings and insights gained, we investigated emulation as an access strategy. Although the initiative focused on new media art, we hope that our methodologies and findings will inform other types of complex born-digital collections as well. We welcome your questions and comments.

Multiple news outlets reported that ISIS militants killed 38 children who were disabled or had Down’s Syndrome, but the claim was not verified. In 2010, Japan was ranked 11 in Reporters Without Borders’ global Press Freedom Index. By February 2015, that number had plummeted to 61 - and next year it will likely fall further. Since coming to power in 2012, PM Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party have embarked upon a war of attrition against press freedoms in Japan.

Assaults have included: embedding neo-nationalists in key positions at state broadcaster, NHK; issuing veiled threats to TV networks that coverage critical of the government might cost them their broadcast licenses.

John Trudell, the Santee Dakota activist, artist, actor, and poet who dedicated himself to indigenous human rights, land and language issues, and who helped spark a spoken word movement that has continued Native American oral traditions, walked on December 8 at the age of 69.

Trudell shared pain, courage, insight and wisdom. He felt he could mix thoughts, poetry, music and human energy to create power. Some felt him a prophet like Bob Marley. But he also said he was a happy soldier in Elvis Presley’s Army. Kevin K. Washburn, who has served as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) since September 2012, will step down in January. During his three years as Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs,

Washburn tackled a bevy of Native concerns. Preparing to resume his private life, he shares his thoughts on his record. Our programming and activities exist to establish and strengthen the communities evolving around the concepts and works we champion. As a not-for-profit organization with a unique focus on the production, dissemination and contextualization of artist-initiated publication in all media, the work Art Met does to support Canadian and international artists is largely dependent on community members like you. Your ongoing involvement and support is essential to our operations.

This was an ambitious year for AM. Our retail activities cont i nue to grow and we presented over 40 unique and engaging events at home and abroad.

These include book launches, artists’ talks, our own publications and our ongoing window installation series which hosted Garry Neill Kennedy, Archive of Modern Conflict, Innen Publishing, Steven Beckly, Seth Fluker, Healing Power Records, Parker Kay and Sarah Nasby.

In 2015 AM attended the New York Art Book Fair, Art Basel, Art Basel Miami, Material Art Fair (Mexico City), LA Art Book Fair and Feature Contemporary Art Fair carrying out its mandate to disseminate Canadian art. The Philippines has become a GMO battlefield, with the small farmers and organic farming advocates on one hand and the Philippine government with pro-GMO scientists on the other hand. The Philippine government is showing its cooptation to the neoliberal agenda of transnational biotechnology corporations and the World Trade Organization which protects TNCs interests in its approval of the importation of 60 genetically modified plants and plant products for direct use as food and feed or for processing, an additional eight GM plant varieties for propagation, and 21 modified plant varieties for field testing in Philippine soil. Alarmingly, despite concerns about BT corns impact on the environment, it now has 750,000 hectares of Philippine land devoted to it. According to Greenpeace Southeast Asia spokesman Daniel Ocampo, no GMO application has ever been rejected, which is very shocking and alarming given the controversy over their use. This makes the Philippines the country in Southeast Asia having the most number of genetically modified (GMO) crops approved by the government for human consumption, animal feed, propaga-

tion, and field trial. Most of the approved GMOs are genetically altered corn, soybean, potato, sugar beet, canola, and alfalfa.

The purpose of the genetic alteration is for these crops to resist pests and herbicide, delay ripening, and enhance their nutritional value. The one that gained the most attention and the greatest resistance was the field testing of golden rice, genetically modified rice artificially inserted with genes from a bacteria and corn to produce beta carotene, a precursor of Vitamin A. In August 2013, around 400 farmers stormed the field testing area of golden rice in Pili, Camarines Sur and uprooted the genetically modified golden rice. The farmers, members of the anti-GMO alliance SIKWAL-GMO, contended that far from benefitting farmers, Golden

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ice will contaminate native rice crops and pose risks to public health and the environment. A second objection concerns genetic contamination. Once released in the open, a GMO crop can reproduce via pollination and interact genetically with natural varieties of the same crop, producing what is called genetic contamination. In Oaxaca, Mexcio, Bt (Bacillus thurengiensis) corn has contaminated indigenous varieties of corn as published in Nature, one of the worlds leading scientific journals. Third, a GMO may have a toxic or lethal impact on other living things when brought into natural surroundings. One gruesome example of this was the finding that Bt corn destroyed the larvae of the monarch butterfly, causing many to fear, for a good reason, that many other natural plant and animal life may be impacted in the same way. Fourth, multinational biotechnology corporations like Monsanto and Syngenta, which develop and sell G M O seeds and crops, have oversold the benefits of GMOs without taking into c on s i de r ation the health and environmental risks and harm posed by such organisms.

A fifth and very strong argument is that patented GMO seeds concentrate power in the hands of a few biotech corporations, which is oppressive and inimical to small farmers. In 2012, more than 5.8 million Americans were prevented from voting due to their criminal history. In Florida alone, more than 1 out of every 10 citizens 18 years or older cannot vote due to their criminal history. 31F, scatterings of snow, bleak. Sausage, grits, toast, cheese, chestnuts. Coffee. While incarcerated, Herman has been a model prisoner and a positive influence on those around him. He has been a mentor and fatherfigure to many young men in prison, helping them take advantage of every academic and vocational program they can to prepare for release and reintegration into society. In addition to earning a dual Bachelor of Science degree in psychology and sociology, and a Masters degree in sociology, Herman has coached football and basketball in order to have a positive influence on the many young men he has met during his 4 decades in prison. With Herman’s help, the Victory Gardens project was established in 1995 with two farmers in Maine.

The project brought together people from diverse lifestyles and remote locations to plant, grow, tend, harvest, and then distribute the food free to our communities. This life-giving project enjoyed eight successful seasons distributing food in Maine, Boston, New Jersey, Brooklyn, Harlem, and the Bronx. Dear friends, the situation is quite clear. The state instances in Venezuela were unwilling and unable to build a free telecommunication system for all people in Venezuela. And the protagonists of neo-liberalism in the MUD will not do this because their interest is only the privatization of all public resources for capitalization.

We know, that the free telecommunication system for a free access to free knowledge and free communication is a necessary prerequisite for the development of our independence. The political independence always rests on independence in the economy. And this always rests on the local technical infrastructure and independence in the technology. State instances and political parties have no interest in the development of independence, because it always rests on the independence of the people. And in representative systems people never should be i nde pe ndent, because then they need no longer the represent at ive instances.

Because then they organize their life and their livelihood themselves. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (2 Connecticut) Tufted Duck (1 Massachusetts, 3 New York, 1 Newfoundland and Labrador, 3 Washington) Black-browed Albatross (1 Florida) Brown Booby (1 California, 2 Mississippi) Northern Jacana (2 Texas) Ruff (2 California) Ruddy Ground-Dove (1 Arizona) Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl (1 Texas) Tropical Parula (1 Texas) Join with movements around the world to ensure that the climate agreement made in Paris results in real revolutionary change away from fossil fuels.

Continue our fight against the corporate-led, free trade agenda and put a stop to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Generate a groundswell of public support for drug policy that puts public health and human rights first. And, continue our long standing commitment to work to end the embargo against Cuba. Radio Schizoanalytique is a mobile radio station conceived as a tool to foster the means of expression and internal communication within this

political struggle, distributing their voices beyond their local community and to creating a living history of the movement. Activists from the Committee of Struggle against Gold Mining from the village of Megali Panagia, Halkidiki, Greece, have been producing transmissions for Radio Schizoanalytique since March, 2015. This free radio folds diverse matters of knowledge into group discussions, taking in the existential understandings of territory, the dynamic flux and flows of resources, the machines at work, and the cultural universes and cosmologies expressed by the movement and its environment. These four aspects of radio schizoanalytique are inspired by Felix Guattari’s notion of schizo-analysis. The nightmare scenario of U.S. geopolitical strategists seems to be coming true: foreign economic independence from U.S. control.

Instead of privatizing and neoliberalizing the world under U.S.-centered financial planning and ownership, the Russian and Chinese governments are investing in neighboring economies on terms that cement Eurasian economic integration on the basis of Russian oil and tax exports and Chinese financing. Formal theories reveal a visual dimension underlying better-known picture theories. Patterns of elements such as lines, shapes, and spaces, along with their properties, generate emotional responses and follow visual styles in society. The elements combine into systems that create perspectives on the world. Formal awareness may generate an understanding of visual philosophies and their inherent values and consequences.

Picture theories start from the tension between scientific invention and artistic expression. From linguistics and philosophy, semiotics provides terms for analyzing pictures... Isotopic evidence from animal bones deposited in urban contexts offers a landscape perspective into urban life, hinting at where animals lived before reaching their final resting place in the city. Here, we use stable carbon and nitrogen isotope evidence from cattle (Bos taurus) bones excavated from commercial and residential sites within historic Charleston, South Carolina, to evaluate whether markets pooled or segregated access to beef cattle drawn into the urban economy from the broader landscape. Results indicate that stable isotope values of cattle are varied, suggesting a broad... The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their “vital interests” are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the “sanctity” of human life, or the “conscience” of the civilized world.”

Since world war two we’ve managed to create history’s first truly global empire. This has been done by the cor poratocracy, which are a few men and women who run our major corporations and in doing so also run the U.S. government and many other governments around the world. In the struggle of Good against Evil, it’s always the people who get killed. It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely. Grave crimes under international law were committed. The US government has a legal obligation to investigate and prose-

cute those responsible. Thursday afternoon, I visited Anderson Rd east of Aurora, following up on eBird reports of swans at the Anderson Rd swale. I found a mixed flock of 14 swans in a field a quarter mile east of the swale. There were four trumpeter (2 adult & 2 juveniles) and 10 tundra swans. They were close to the road and some tundra were close to the trumpeters, which provided good opportunity to study differences, beyond the noticeable size difference. The tundra swans all had a pink/ brown wash on the neck, which puzzled me a bit.

But my iBird field guide explained --- “head and neck often stained rust-brown from ferrous minerals in marsh soils”. Anderson Rd is a dead end that is accessed from Barlow Rd a little north of Hwy 99. It’s raining now. It is expected to continue raining.

Leadbetter Point, Columbia Estuary and Tillamook Bay CBC’s are this weekend.

Most of the really icky stuff is supposed to occur between 4pm Saturday and 8am Sunday, so nice-ish early on Saturday and decent Sunday by 9 or so. It’ll be the getting to or from that will be problematic...

If you are planning to attend any of these counts be advised that road condition, especially flooding and landslides, have affected and will continue to affect highways. There are sunken spots on Hwy 26. High water at Rockaway and Hwy 101 south of Seaside. I was in Kandep yesterday. People were saying that they are really hungry and eat only once a day mostly greens, cabbage etc. Someone was to fetch a person for me, requiring two hours’ walk and she said she couldn’t do it because she felt too weak from lack of food. They have received some relief supplies (rice) but seems it did nott last long. They are planting new gardens now, but in a cool climate of Kandep it might take many months before they can harvest. This is one of the things that has been tracked, at least in the areas most heavily hit though our information is often fragmentary, depending on how it comes to us. For most areas that have been hard hit pigs were killed or sold off early on (Oct or Nov), and people generally stopped feeding animals before then. In those parts of the Highlands where people have moved to other locations, they have sometimes tried to take a few pigs with them, but I imagine this is the exception rather than the rule (they would have to be fed at their hosts’ destination, unless killed at that point). The Highlands “fringe” (this includes large parts of North Fly and Telefomin Districts, but elsewhere too) has been hit hard, especially in the lower/hotter elevations. In addition to wild yams, wild bananas, and Pueraria, wild breadfruit in some areas is being used as famine food. There has been increasing resort to sago in some areas, and in part of Western Province people have either been felling trees before maturity, or shifting to other species to consume starch from pith. Two of the hardest hit areas are around Mougulu in the east central part of the province, and in the southwest - especially Trans-Fly, which is in desperate shape. In September 2015, a photograph shocked the world by showing the body of a small boy lying facedown on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey. Later identified as Aylan Kurdi from Syria, he and other members of his family perished in a failed attempt to flee to Canada. The image became the focal point of the on-going refugee struggles, confronting us with the power of images, their affective potential, and the politics of representation. We feel so sorry to bother you here.

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Please don’t hesitate to contact us if any question. -sinedya Facing the prospect of a billion dollars a year worth of retaliatory tariffs by Mexico and Canada, the US Congress voted to repeal meat labeling rules that violated trade agreements. Parts of the COOL law that the

WTO ruled were discriminatory were repealed through their inclusion in an omnibus‚ spending bill. Renowned as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, Chichen Itzv is at risk of losing that distinction due to the number of vendors who harass tourists. A Mexican bullfighter is in critical condition after being gored by an angry bull Thursday night at the Plaza Mexico in Mexico City. The proposed gondola system for Mexico City would be designed for regular daily commuters to get to work or other destinations. The first power system of the Industrial Revolution was flowing water. The rivers that turned the waterwheels w e r e sources of energy that ran huge factories. But water as an energy source has many limitations; there are limited places w h e r e mills could be built, sites which were often far from urban areas and lacked labour, and water itself is prone to change -- rivers freeze, dry up, or flood -- all of which can stop a mill. But despite these limitations, when the steam engine was invented, the switch to coal was not automatic, primarily because of cost. As one boss explained to a British government Factory Inquiry of 1833, the constant supply of water is much cheaper to turn an engine with than the supply of coal‚.

The ruling class dressed this up as benefiting the whole of society.

Wealth, even in 1833, was supposed to trickle down, but in reality this was about profits. Despite its defeats and its weaknesses the global working class today still has enormous potential to pull the plug on the fossil fuel industry. It is men and women who dig coal, build cars, load trains and aircraft and run electricity plants.

They are real individuals with enormous power.

It is workers like these, and all the others throughout the economy, who remain the only force in society that can bring about fundamental change precisely because they are central to capitalist production. Hispanics and Blacks in the U.S. are 45 percent more likely to be obese than whites, and nearly twice as likely to have Type 2 diabetes. These ethnic health disparities have long been blamed on diet, access to health care and healthy foods, and even genetics, with health professionals and policy makers focused on changing individual behaviors. But more and more research is pointing to another factor, the level of stress associated with poverty and discrimination. With the breakdown of this form of industrial organization, par-

ticularly in the advanced capitalist countries, you ended up with a much more decentralized configuration of capital: more fluid over space and time than previously thought. At the same time we saw the emergence of an opposition that is about networking and decentralization and that doesn’t like hierarchy and the previous Fordist forms of opposition. So, in a funny sort of way, the leftists reorganize themselves in the same way capital accumulation is reorganized. If we understand that the left is a mirror image of what we are criticizing, then maybe what we should do is to break the mirror and get out of this symbiotic relationship with what we are criticizing. How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sym-

pathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one’s own, is ever the beginning of one’s real ethical development. When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Is it any wonder local and national TV news is squeamish about taking on real, in-depth coverage of the campaigns that unload endless wheelbarrows of cash on their doorsteps? If people do not care about each other, if they have a “screw you, I got mine” attitude and are not willing to help others in need, then a nation is ready to topple at the first sign of signif icant stress. At least 75 pe ople have been killed in fighting between troops and Houth fighters in northern Yemen, military and tribal sources say, amid concern over the ceasefire violations. The casualties included 28 troops, according to military sources, while tribal officials added that Houthi fighters lost 40 men in heavy clashes on Saturday. Russian long-range warplanes drop 1,500 bombs on ISIS targets in Syria: The crews of Tu-22 (Blinder) and Tu-160 (Blackjack) strategic bombers took off from airfields in Russia and spent 16 hours in the air to fulfill their combat tasks in Syria. In a security investigation triggered by a wartime letter he wrote denouncing a proposal to deport all Japanese-Americans, the Army intercepted Seeger’s mail to his fiancee, scoured his school records, talked to his father, interviewed an ex-landlord and questioned his pal Woody Guthrie, according to FBI files obtained by The Associated Press. The United States has a prison crisis of epic proportions. With just five percent of the world population, but 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, the United States has, far and away, the highest incarceration rate, the largest number of prisoners, and the largest percentage of citizens with a criminal record of any

country in the world. The recent formal conclusion of negotiations for the Transpacific mega-treaty (TransPacific Partnership Agreement - TPP) is aimed at reaching goals that transnational capital has been pursuing since the 1980s. Its first strategy was headed by the structural adjustment programmes of the triad WB-IMF-IADB, and the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA (1994) was the first advancement in integrating the political objectives in a binding text, followed by the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO 1995).

When the WTO was recently created and working to introduce the themes of Finance and Intellectual Property Rights (Singapore Agenda-1996), as well as a Multilateral Investments Agreement (MIA), the general director of the WTO, Renato Ruggiero, cynically described the moment: “We are writing the Constitution of a single global economy” (Singapore, 1996). Nineteen years after the Ruggiero statement, the discourse on hegemony and the world economy is being renewed with the TPP: “Under this agreement we, rather than countries like China, are writing the rules for the global economy.”

Nonetheless, the objec tive was never restricted to the w o r l d economy, nor regional ones, nor does it seek global prosperity, security and sustainability, much less democracy, but rather the transformation of the rules of the world order in response to the needs of globalizing transnational capital. Over more than twenty years of resistance struggles, networks of social activists, of personalities, academics and governments have demonstrated that behind the cliche “free trade agreement” there are essentially political objectives such as eliminating the facilities of the State to regulate for social goals, placing corporate rights of capital above human rights and those of nature, and creating mechanisms of global governance of the economy without any democratic legitimacy or control. With a chain of disasters and a worn out strategy that was clearly unpopular, the neoliberal coalition, especially the US, changed their strategy and adopted a varied agenda of “soft power” , renewed as “intelligent power” to facilitate the weakening of resistance and adoption of the policies they were seeking. For this they proposed: 1) to

strengthen and deepen the agenda and the labour of the official hemispheric institutions, the majority coming out of the first Summit of the Americas (Miami, 2004); 2) to coordinate policies of the regional financial organizations and continue the agenda of advising on deregulation or “competitive modernization”, with the Latin American governments and the leaders of business organizations; 3) to firmly support the lobbying work of US organizations with a Latin American agenda, such as the Council of the Americas and academic institutions; 4) to make intensive use of the support of powerful media groups; and 5) to support and strengthen business opposition to Latin American governments that were seeking to confront this dominant model, even to the point of promoting (hard or soft) coups d’Ètat. The occurrence and nesting phenology of Ardeidae species and other wading birds were documented from 20092013 in the Bahia Kino bioregion of western Sonora, Mexico. Two active colonies were surveyed: in a mangrove (Avicennia germinans;Rhizophora mangle) estuary and on a nearshore desert island. Thirteen species of nesting wading birds were recorded, 11 of which are year-round residents and two occurring only during the breeding season; two additional species were documented only in migration. The most abundant species was the Snowy Egret (Egretta thula), which had a peak of 234 nests in 2012. Of particular conservation interest is the Reddish Egret (E. rufescens), which had a peak of 149 nests in 2012. Potential prey of wading birds in the estuary was also sampled, with special focus on brachyuran crabs, which constitute the main prey items of the Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea).

The rapid development of the region, and especially the establishment of largescale mariculture operations along Estero Santa Cruz, has the potential to impact local wading bird populations, and thus an understanding of wading bird diversity, abundance and habitat use may prove critical to inform future management and conservation initiatives. The reproductive biology of the Striated Heron (Butorides striata) was studied in the lagoon of the Reserve of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina, during two breeding seasons: September 2012‚ February 2013 (n= 77) and September 2013‚ March 2014 (n= 125). All nests (n= 202) were built on waxy-leaf nightshade (Solanum glaucophyllum) at 0.99 ± 0.27 m above water level. The incubation period was 20-23 (21.71 ¬± 1.57) days; laying and hatching took place on successive days. An average of 2.63 ± 0.60 (Range = 2-4) opaque pale blue eggs were recorded per nest.

Length, width and weight of eggs did not differ between seasons. Double (n= 43) and triple (n= 47) broods were recorded. A total of 631 eggs were monitored; no differences were detected in breeding, hatching, nesting, or fledging success between seasons.

The time spent by chicks in the nest was 14.6 ± 2.16 days, and the average number of chicks per nest was 2.15 ± 0.55. Age-specific mortality rate for eggs was 22% and 38% and for chicks 47% and 35% for the first and second seasons, respectively. Sixty-one percent of nest failures were related to the disappearance of eggs or chicks from the nests, possibly due to predation or climatic factors.

Waterbirds 38(4): 427-430. 2015 Forster’s Terns (Sterna forsteri) breed mainly in central Canada and the north-cen-

tral USA, and along both coasts of North America. In Mexico, only five nesting colonies were known prior to this study and all are coastal, three from Baja California, one from Colima on the Pacific coast, and one from Tamaulipas on the Gulf of Mexico. In 2014, a new inland colony was found at the Lake of Texcoco, east of Mexico City, Mexico. Eight nests that were located on small islets 400 m away from shore were monitored from April to June 2014.

Almost 90% of the eggs (n= 16) were lost by flooding, and only two chicks hatched. One chick died and the other survived to fledging, and at 25 days old it dispersed more than 3 km from the colony.

This nesting colony at the Lake of Texcoco represents a new breeding site of Forster’s Tern in Mexico, the first breeding record in an interior wetland of Mexico, and a southward expansion of the known breeding range for this species. Robert Baer just made an incredibly important admission that for me comes way too late, but still it’s good to know. The former CIA officer admits he was given millions of dollars which he used successfully to bribe politicians in Yugoslavia to betray their country’s interest. Robert Baer describes how the US brought democracy to Yugoslavia by destroying it.

Of course, this policy financed by my tax dollars, didn’t benefit me or my next door neighbors; but certain individuals in both the US and Yugoslavia benefitted handsomely from the gambit. Oops, too bad about those hundreds of thousands of lives; too bad about Srebrenica. The intercept has obtained a secret, internal U.S. government catalogue of dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and by intelligence agencies. The document, thick with previously undisclosed information, also offers rare insight into the spying capabilities of federal law enforcement and local police inside the United States. The catalogue includes details on the Stingray, a well-known brand of surveillance gear, as well as Boeing dirt boxes‚ and dozens of more obscure devices that can be mounted on vehicles, drones, and piloted aircraft. Today, he is honest about the unfixable corruption inside the establishment and the corporate interests driving foreign policy. Hear a rare insider’s view of what interests are behind U.S. wars, the manipulation of intelligence, the intertwining of the military and corporate world, and why the U.S. Empire is doomed. Poverty reduction has no silver bullet. Nor should we expect one. The exhausting and overwhelming work of reducing poverty must take a comprehensive, long-term approach that is led by the communities in need. These communities, who struggle against poverty and social exclusion every day, have repeatedly said this work requires more than a simple transfer of money. Once you get past the explanation of what Basic Income is and how offering it could eliminate poverty, support entrepreneurship, and prepare us for a future where most jobs have been displaced by automation, people are generally quite supportive - but they don’t believe that it could ever be implemented here. And their skepticism is entirely reasonable. In today’s political climate, it’s hard to imagine how a program as radical as Basic Income could be enacted. Germany’s teacher association said Friday that an annotated edition of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf ” should be taught in senior high school to help “inoculate” teenagers against political extremism. The Nazi leader’s anti-Semitic diatribe has not been printed in Germany since the end of World War II, but an annotated and critical edition is set to be published next year. The rights to the book have been held for 70 years by the state of Bavaria, which has refused to allow reprints, but the copyright runs out at the end of 2015. German authorities still plan to prosecute publishers of unedited reprints on charges of “inciting racial hatred”. However, Munich’s Institute of Contemporary History plans to publish in January “Hitler, Mein Kampf. A Critical Edition” which adds context to the hateful rant with historical commentary in some 3,500 annotations. Billions of dollars in gold and silver from an 18th century shipwreck have left Spain and former colony Colombia at odds over who rightfully owns the loot. The disagreement is over the “San Jose,” an treasure ship wreck that Colombia located recently off the coast of Cartagena de Indias, its old Caribbean port city. The “San Jose” sank in June 1708 near the Islas del Rosario, during combat with British ships at-

tempting to take its cargo, as part of the War of Spanish Succession. The Spanish galleon was the main ship in a treasure fleet carrying gold and silver -- likely extracted from Spanish colonial mines in Peru and Bolivia -- and other valuables to King Philip V. President Juan Manuel Santos announced in early December that experts had found the “San Jose” on November 27 in a place never searched before. I knew I wasn’t mad mad because I’d seen people in the grip of psychosis before, and that was madness as obvious as the taste of blood in the mouth.

The kind of madness I had was different. It was quiet, and very, very dangerous. It was a m a d ne s s desig ned to keep me sane.

My mind struggled to build across the gap, make a new and i n habita b l e world.

Time didn’t run forwards any more. It was a solid thing you could press yourself against and feel it push back; a thick fluid, half-air, half-glass, that flowed both ways and sent ripples of recollection forwards and new events backwards so that new things I encountered, then, seemed souvenirs from the distant past. I flew her later in the day. I flew her earlier. I fed her rabbit with fur and rabbit without. I fed her chicks that I’d gutted and skinned and rinsed in water. I reduced her weight. I raised it. I reduced it again. I wore different clothes. I tried everything to fix the problem, certain that the problem couldn’t be fixed because the problem was me. Sometimes she flew straight to my fist, sometimes straight over it, and there was no way of knowing which it would be. Every flight was a monstrous game of chance, a cointoss, and what was at stake felt something very like my soul. I began to think that what made the hawk flinch from me was the same thing that had driven away the man I’d fallen for after my father’s death.

Think that there was something deeply wrong about me, something vile that only he and the hawk could see. The anger was vast and it came out of nowhere. It was the rage of something not fitting; the frustration of trying to put something in a box that is slightly too small. You try moving the shape around in the hope that some angle will make it fit in the box. Slowly comes an apprehension that this might not, after all, be possible. And finally you know it won’t fit, know there is no way it can fit, but this doesn’t stop you using brute force to try to crush it in, punishing the bloody thing for not fitting

properly. That was what it was like: but I was the box, I was the thing that didn’t fit, and I was the person smashing it, over and over again, with bruised and bleeding hands. Beijingers have long been used to a numberplate based system that forces most cars off the roads for at least one day per week. But during the red alert, roughly half the city’s cars are forced off each day, with drivers who break the rules facing a 100 Yuan fine ($21.50) for every three hours they spend on the roads (Beijing’s labyrinth of cameras ensure they are spotted). Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (4 Connecticut) Barnacle Goose (1 New York) Tufted Duck (2 New York, 1 Newfoundland and Labrador) Smew (2 Ontario) Brown Booby (7 California, 2 Mississippi, 2 Texas) Northern Jacana (2

Texas) Ruff (1 North Carolina) Kelp Gull (2 Ohio) Ruddy GroundDove (2 Arizona) Aplomado Falcon (2 Texas) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (2 Arizona) Redwing (4 British Columbia) Rufous-capped Warbler (3 Arizona) White-collared Seedeater (1 Texas) Western Spindalis (1 Florida) The reality that corporatism cannot deal with the urgent problems faced in the US and around the world is becoming more obvious. People power is growing as more see that the current system is unable to operate in a functional way. People power is having an impact, forcing the country to listen. How do we create the transformation we need? On another issue of global concern, war and peace, more people including top government officials, are admitting that the ship of US Empire is sinking. During the presidential debates, rather than recognizing that the United States is committing war crimes and acknowledging that torture is a crime, candidates are being asked if they are willing to commit war crimes.

Wo u l d they kill civilians, wo m e n and children? Would they torture? And, at least in one party, most candidates are admitting they would do so. And, when it comes to the economy, the wealth divide has become so grotesque that 20 people have wealth equal to half the US population, 152 million. This has not occurred by accident or because those 20 people work harder than everyone else, orare smarter; it has happened because we live with a corrupt economy managed by a corrupt government and enforced by militarized police. And, those in power effectively divide people - by class and economics - to prevent people power from flourishing. The result has been the end of the middle class, a country where last year 51% earned less than $30,000 per year. Pick any year since 1776 and there is about a 91% chance that America was involved in some war during that calendar year. Thanks for your email. Yes, it has,and I have a check, it has Barometer, altimeter, thermometer, weather forecast, time and data function. We are so sorry to bring you so much trouble! Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have more questions! Best regards, Customer Service Department 18 -enc5b The Philippines continue to recover today after two back to back storms brought very

heavy rainfall to the country. Melor the by far worse of the two brought heavy rainfall across Visayas and Luzon and is the leading cause of the 45 plus casualties from the storm. If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it, If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time, If you can take criticism and blame without resentment, If you can conquer tension without medical help, If you can relax without alcohol, If you can sleep without the aid of drugs, Then You Are Probably The Family Dog! “Having just surpassed 100,000 copies sold (and with over 1,000+ 5-star reviews) for my self-published book, ‘The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM),’ I can confidently say that the number one key to driving book sales has been securing interviews on other people’s podcasts! It used to be TV shows that you wanted to get on to sell books. However, not only are podcasts now proving to sell WAY more books than TV, t hey’re free to get booked on! I invested o v e r $10,000 to get myself booked on 15 local and national TV shows (and saw very little increase in sales) and then invested zero dollars to get booked on over 200 podcasts, which has driven my sales to as high as 10,900+ copies in a single month. A great place to start is to look on iTunes in the “New and Noteworthy” section to find podcasters who are new (so they’re not inundated with requests) but are gaining a lot of momentum and listeners. Google them, go to their websites, and reach out to tell them how you and your book would add extraordinary value for their audiences!” -Hal Elrod, author of “The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)” Hello dear friend, Thank you for shopping in our store. We have shipped the item to your address on 201512-21 by international air mail. the estimated arrival time is from 2016-1-12 to 2016-1-27. You know it is an international mail from China, it will take a few days. pls don t worry, it is very safe to ship to your country, please wait for its coming a little longer with your greatest patience. Hope

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The whole event was caught on videotape. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, “Yes, officer, that’s her.

That’s the lady I stole the purse from.” The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti , Michigan at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn’t open the cash register

without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren’t available for breakfast....

The man, frustrated, walked away. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street by sucking on a hose, he got much more than he bargained for... Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline, but he plugged his siphon hose into the motor home’s sewage tank by mistake.

The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he’d ever had. It’s that time of year again. According to some, the holidays are nothing if not a prime opportunity to exploit seasonal get-togethers to dish up some hot political controversy along with the roast and eggnog. Information that state and federal government agencies collect about train derailments, particularly those that cause crude-oil spills, is hard to find. Huge amounts of data about collisions, derailments and other accidents that happen along railroads in the United States are collected every year. Some of it is compiled by the industry and distributed directly to the public upon request. But some is buried in databases that government officials are slow to release, if at all. For example, the U.S. Department of Transportation requires railroads to submit annual reports to state emergencyresponse officials estimating how many trains carrying crude oil from the Bakken shale region pass through each county. Some information on your account appears to be missing or incorrect. Please update your information promptly so that you can continue to enjoy all the benefits of your PayPal account. If you don’t update your information within 48 hours, we’ll limit what you can do with your PayPal account. Confirm your account now. If you need help logging in, go to our Help Center by clicking the Help link located in the upper right-hand corner of any PayPal page. . Any of us who have spent much time in the Zocalo will have encountered “Mr. Oaxaca, Oaxaca.” Always dressed in cowboy finery, with guitar on hand, he would serenade Zocalo diners with his theme song, “Oaxaca, Oaxaca,” also available on CD for purchase.

He would disappear for periods of time, amidst rumors of his demise, but then turn up again. Well, he’s not going to turn up anymore, as he was found dead on a Oaxaca street, not in his cowboy finery, but just a sad, emaciated corpse, finally done in by his alcoholism. This package includes: Fully equipped Motorcoach Professional English speaking guide-coordinator Vagabundos escort/coordinator 6 nights at first-class listed hotels or similar 18 high quality meals featuring regional cuisine All Tours and transfers as specified All admissions Free time in many locales to explore on your own Soiree with troubadours in Guanajuato Funicular in Guanajuato Horseback ride at the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Los Viejitos‚ dances and music in Potzcuaro Horse buggy ride Calesa‚ in Guadalajara Mariachi band at Farewell Dinner in Guadalajara Drinks as specified All taxes and gratuities at hotels and restaurants PRICE PER PERSON: $ 1,150 USD - DBL, $ 1,400 USD - SGL Kai Williams and I did the Harrisburg-Coburg raptor route today. We drove 66.9 miles in 4 hours and 23 minutes. It was mostly sunny, with temperatures in the 40s to low 50s. One dark cloud left scattered tiny raindrops on the windshield for about a minute.

Kestrels were the only raptors with strong numbers.

Red-tailed Hawk and Bald Eagle numbers were markedly low. Low numbers for other raptors are not unusual for this route. String theory, the multiverse and other ideas of modern physics are potentially untestable. At a historic meeting in Munich, scientists and philosophers asked: should we trust them anyway?

Physicists typically think they need philosophers and historians of science like birds need ornithologists, the Nobel laureate David Gross told a roomful of philosophers, historians and physicists last week in Munich, Germany, paraphrasing Richard Feynman. Since 2005, according to an analysis by the Washington Post and Bowling Green State University, only 54 officers have been prosecuted nationwide, despite the thousands of fatal shootings by police.

The Yemen crisis should serve as a prime moment for the U.S. to reconsider its alliance the Saudi regime, a regime that not only denies human rights to its own

people but exports death and destruction abroad. In the early 1970s, resisting the aesthetic criteria imposed by the socialist realism doctrine, eight photographers in Kharkiv, created images free from predetermined ideological prescriptions. Joining efforts in fighting the Soviet aesthetic canon they formed the Vremya group. For 15 Soviet years, despite censorship and persecution by all sorts of ideological watchdogs, official art critics to the KGB who would search their darkrooms and apartments, and despite the closing of exhibitions, the artists managed to secretly create and exhibit new art.

be criticized in the context of the actual, neoliberal, flexible regime of reproduction of capital? This publication brings together six essays that offer a critique of the relationship between the creative industries and capital. It treats “the networked world,” its democracies, cognitivities, its attention and its paradigmatic cultural discourses - as one of the domains wherein and by which capitalism and its colonial relations of dominance are being reproduced, reorg a ni z ed, perpetuated and ‘modernized’. The Gray Zones of Creativity and Capital (eds. Gordana Nikolia and Kefik Tatlif ) consists of works from a diverse range of authors from around the globe: Jonathan Beller, Josephine Berry Slater, Marc James Leger, Ana Vilenica, Sandi Abram & Irmgard Emmelheinz. The book first appeared in Serbian in 2015. U.S. Air Force officials have 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 dramatica lly expand the drone war just as the Pentagon faces a critical shortage of military pilots. As a result, civilian pilots will directly participate in military operations for the first time since the drone wars began about a decade ago.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the Air Force signed contracts with two private companies in 2015 to provide enough pilots to fly two “combat air patrols” or 24-hour surveillance flights that would involve as many as eight MQ-9 Reaper drones per day.Bananas have reached such all-star status in the American diet that we now consume more of them than apples every year.

Yet you’re probably used to seeing just one type of banana at your supermarket: the relatively bland yellow Cavendish.

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One person was killed and 37 others were injured when a driver repeatedly struck a crowded Las Vegas sidewalk Sunday night. A female motorist barreled into a crowd of pedestrians two or three times on South Las Vegas Boulevard near the Paris Hotel and Casino and Planet Hollywood, police said.

She was de t a i ne d nearby and is being tested for drugs and alcohol, police said. KSNV-TV reports the driver had a 3-year-old child with her and drove away from the scene before surrendering to authorities at Tuscany Suites and Casino. Of the injured, police said six people were in critical condition. According to an AP investigative report, security researchers in California claim they found that cyberattackers-possibly Iranian hackers-have opened a pathway into running the U.S. power grid. Researcher Brian Wallace told reporters he found that a group already had access to passwords and engineering drawings of power plants.

One was titled: Mission Critical.‚ Wallace said he found drawings so specific that experts say attackers could use them to knock out electricity to millions of homes.

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h e y started the fight for artistic freedom by trying to look behind the ideological facade of socialist realism. They pic t u re d f o o d shortage queues, drunks and whores, the hypocrisy of May Day demonstrations and the pomp of Victory Day parades. They portrayed ugliness, nudity and lust. But the artists were soon to discover that at least one of the socialist realism dogmas-stating the “inextricable connection” between form and content-was, after all, true, and that the conventional means of art photography expression were not good enough for the sought-after thematic novelty.

Thus, the search for a new visual language and imagery in Kharkiv fine art photography began. n archaeologist said Sunday that Maia, Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun’s wet nurse, may have actually been his sister Meritaten, reviving speculation about the identity of the mother of the boy king. DNA tests have proved that the pharaoh Akhenaten was the father of Tutankhamun, but the identity of his mother has long been a mystery.

On Sunday, Egyptian officials and French archaeologist Alain Zivie unveiled Maia’s tomb to journalists ahead of its opening to the public next month. The tomb was discovered by Egyptologist Zivie in 1996 in Saqqara, a necropolis about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Cairo.

Maia was the wet nurse of Tutankhamun, whose mummy was found in 1922 by renowned British Egyptologist Howard Carter in the Valley of Kings in Luxor along with a treasure trove of thousands of objects. “Maia is none other than princess Meritaten, the sister or halfsister of Tutankhamun and the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. The rise of the infamous cryptocurrency Bitcoin has sparked interest in another revolutionary

technology: the blockchain, which has been predicted to greatly alter the world we live in. MoneyLab2: Economies of Dissent offered critical reflection on the blockchain. ‘The best place to hide a dead body is page 2 of Google search results.’ This joke accurately introduces the core question of this essay. What is the effect of the list, as the most used structure of presenting online information, on the way people organize and find this information? What does it mean when people constantly use the list when dealing with information? What is the correlation among the creative industries, creative industry policies, new media paradigms and capitalism as colonial relations of dominance?

What is the role of these industries in the prioritization of the interests of capital at the expense of those of society and how can these paradigms

dam in 2013, in a previously undisclosed attack. At least 91 people were still missing after 33 buildings collapsed in a landslide Sunday in southern China. Premier Li Keqiang ordered an investigation into the mudslide that toppled Hengtaiyu Industrial Park in Shenzhen, which sits just across the border from Hong Kong. The mud covered more than 94 acres and was 11 yards deep in some areas,Shenzhen Vice Mayor Liu Qingsheng told the state-run Xinhua news agency. The ministry of land resources blamed the calamity on a nearby mountain of waste construction mud.About 900 people were evacuated as the landslide smashed into buildings and a section of China’s WestEast natural gas pipeline in the vicinity also burst, Xinhua reported. It’s unclear if the explosion had any impact on the landslide.

This event will explore the role of the archivist as an interpreter, creative and curator. It will look at principles and practicalities of display for physical and digital; facilitation and animation; challenges of content and subject matter in an exhibition; creative process, residencies and creative re-use.

The approach known as Building Partner Capacity (BPC) “has increased in prominence within U.S. strategy, arguably becoming a central pillar of U.S. national security and foreign policy in recent years,” based on the premise that strengthening fragile foreign security institutions abroad will have benefits for U.S. national security. Many ski resorts operate in America’s public forests. How they cut their runs can affect how beautifully the forest recovers, should the lodge ever go out of business. Boss Elf gives Hermey grief over his desired career path. It seems Boss does not understand the inner elf. Later on, Hermey lands on the Island of Misfit Toys. The island’s misfits -- a Charlie-in-theBox, a bird that swims, a cowboy who rides an ostrich -- also don’t match up with the expectations we have for them. Of course, the show ends on a happy note, and I suppose the message of the Island of Misfit Toys and of Hermey the Elf / Dentist is that we’re all a fit someplace.

And it’s the same for your career. I can’t tell you how many times my best advice for someone seeking career guidance has been to ask “what do you want to do?” followed by “well, why don’t you go do that?” More often than not, they know what they want to do... just like Hermey the Elf, they already know what would make them happier. So you’d think it would be easy. But when I ask “why don’t you do that”, I’ll hear a litany of reasons without rationale... “my family doesn’t think it’s prestigious enough...”, “well, I could never just get up and move like that...”, or “I don’t THE recent massacres in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., demonstrated, once again, the socalled Islamic State’s ability to win over disaffected Muslims. Using a mixture of textual literalism and self-righteous certainty, the extremist group is able to persuade young men and women from Pakistan to Belgium to pledge allegiance to it and commit violence in its name. This is why the Islamic State’s religious ideology needs to be taken seriously. While it’s wrong to claim that the group’s thinking represents mainstream Islam, as Islamophobes so often do, it’s also wrong to pretend that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam,‚ as many Islamophobia-wary Muslims like to say. Indeed, jihadist leaders are steeped in Islamic thought and teachings, even if they use their knowledge to perverse and

brutal ends. know what people would think of me if I did that...” And this is the hard part, because the most difficult opponent you’ll face in your career is yourself.

Your excuses. Your rationalizations. Your reasons why you shouldn’t even try. And it’s conquering yourself, and overcoming your doubts, and beating your own fears and anxieties and limitations, that will lead you to having the career and life that you deserve.

So in response to each reason why you can’t do it, ask the person in the mirror and reply: “That doesn’t matter, go do what you want.”, or...

“That’s not really true, why don’t you go do what you want?”, or... “Ok, but if you’ve only got a few decades left on this earth, why not go do what you want?” Over and over and over. In most cases, you’ll eventually convince yourself. And you can finally become the dentist you’ve always wanted to be. This award recognizes innovative books in archaeology or anthropological archaeology that best exemplify excellence in writing, significantly advance archaeological method, theory, or interpretation, and inform other subfields of anthropology or related disciplines. It was an amazing day yesterday in Scranton, PA, with more than 100 people inside and outside the courtroom. Folks joined us from all over the East coast. The Judge, Robert Mariani, began by reading an excerpt of the papers Mumia filed with the court, citing the life threatening conditions he suffered when he was hospitalized on March 30th, 2015. The Judge referred to those conditions as “serious,” signaling to all in attendance that he meant business. However, even before the proceedings began, the DOC’s attorney, Laura J. Neale, argued for dismissal of the case on a technicality. She argued that Mumia violated procedure in failing to exhausted his DOC administrative appeals process first, before filing a suit in court; and that, on that basis, the judge should dismiss. Our attorneys, Bret Grote and Bob Boyle, literally took out the demolition equipment and went to town. The judge disagreed with her too, citing precedents with which she was unfamiliar. The judge then asked her: are Abu-Jamal’s claims legitimate?

After much back and forth she was forced to concede that they were legitimate, but insisted that there was a violation of the process. Then judge asked her, “so do you mean to tell the court that you are upholding form over content?” Shortly thereafter, the court adjourned because the DOC’s attorney asked the judge to register his decision in a formal ruling. He came back with a powerful opposition to her motion citing precedent.

And p.s. he came back with fire in his belly.

Many Europeans fear the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) because it could enable American companies to file claims against their states. The strange thing, however, is that Western Europe is becoming a big hub in this mechanism, called the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), leading to billion dollar claims against poorer countries. Imagine this: a country is in the middle of the worst economic crisis in decades.

One in four people is unemployed. Tens of thousands are homeless. Four presidents have been replaced in two weeks’ time.

To halt the downward spiral, the government decides to nationalize previously privatized sectors and companies. In response, dozens of companies sue the government, because they feel disadvantaged by the new policy. The government is forced to pay hundreds of millions in financial compensation in the years after.

The authors explain the social and economic context of the project: “The housing crisis shaking Croatia and the entire EU has not emerged due to a shortage of housing.

It is a consequence of hikes in rent prices, loans, the gentrification process and the migration of people from city centres. Analyses of housing policies in Yugoslavia identify the period as one of a state of permanent housing crisis. Although there were many issues, ranging from the mode of apartment assignment, the absence of a consistent housing policy, an insufficient number of apartments and their inadequate amenities (an inconsistency with European standards), to the incongruities between state- and market-driven housing policies, it does appear that the egalitarianism of the period was on a higher level than it is today. If we are to refer to this as a period of housing crisis, how then are we to describe the housing policy in Croatia after the 1990s? We live in inherited apartments or, if we are not that lucky, we buy apartments (for ourselves or

for our children) by taking out loans we will then repay for some 20 years. The increasingly uncertain working conditions and temporary work contracts make us uncreditworthy, resulting in a growing number of young people facing no other choice than to become tenants.

A better conceived housing policy that would include social housing is a national interest because housing is the basic prerequisite of the social integration of citizens, i.e. a prerequisite for their contribution to the social and economic development of the country. Unlike many European countries Croatia’s constitution makes no mention of the right to housing or of the state’s obligation to provide its citizens w i t h housing. It is time we started considering the right to housing as a fundamental human right that represents not only the wellbeing of the individual, but also of the entire community.” Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (4 Connecticut) Art has a tremendous impact in indicating or shaping various dimensions of multilayered identities.

Trough time art represented or influenced human visions of life and death, natural or supra-natural, meanings of life and daily practices, beliefs and their expression, history and change, places and differences. Art is simultaneously a process of building contextual cultural identifications and an instrument for cross-cultural dialogue. Arts supported the symbolic legitimating of various political orders and had an essential role in the creation of national identities. Arts shaped cultural aspirations and credos as an effective element of cultural innovation, change and openness to new. Through imaginary representations, art inserted divisions and differences among cultures and self-perceptions of people yet also opened the path of curiosity for the other and the emergence of trans-cultural dialogue. As artistic visions touched upon the most intimate identitarian representations of individuals and societies, they exercise a fundamental role in the developments and dynamics of identity making processes. Arts deeply touched on social and self-representation through sculpture and portraiture, on civic identities through defining social spaces in architecture or quotidian perceptions through design, on social or political allegiances through symbols, iconic objects and cultural diplomacy, on acting identities through theater, literature or performance arts,

on the formation of transnational and global symbols. They exercised an essential impact on the formation of social memories or in addressing inclusion and exclusion nexuses for the marginalized or oppressed. Art is as well one of the important modes for asserting identities. This panel addresses explicitly and invites the theoretical or applied studies that relate artistic manifestations with identity making processes. As the universe of reflection and research on the topics involved are virtually unlimited and impossible to anticipate in full diversity, we welcome contributions that add value or challenges to the discussion of the topic. Barnacle Goose (2 New Jersey) White-cheeked Pintail (Whitecheeked) (1 Florida) Tufted Duck (2 New York, 1 Newfoundland and Lab-

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The artistic perception and practice are often identity making proce s se s while the object of art can be a direct or indirect embodiment of experienced identities. At the outcome line of the process of artistic creation, the perception of the objects of art as oeuvre is an identification with cultural claims for specific aesthetic standards. According to oral histories, Alcatraz Island had been used by indigenous people as a camping spot, an area for gathering food, as well as a hiding place for many Native Americans attempting to flee from the California Mission system. In November 1969, a group of Native Americans, many of them students, set out on a chartered boat to occupy the island under the name “Indians of All Tribes.” The protestors hoped to reclaim the land and build an American Indian university, cultural center, and museum.

Trudell was one of the leaders of this nineteen-month long occupation, which established a precedent for Native American activism.

By 1979, the FBI had built a 17,000-page dossier on John Trudell. “He’s extremely eloquent,” one FBI memo read, “therefore extremely dangerous.” That same year, while Trudell was demonstrating in Washington, D.C., his pregnant wife, three children, and mother-in-law were killed in a fire at her parents’ home on the Duck Valley Indian Reserva-

tion in Nevada. The fire occurred hours after Trudell had burned an American flag at the FBI building in Washington. Trudell and others said they suspected government involvement, but a cause was never determined.

Trudell considered poetry to be first among the arts. “When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art,” he said. While Republican presidential candidates make outrageous statements regarding refugees, unauthorized migrants, and a supposedly underresourced U.S. boundary policing regime, many pundits paint the Democrats as the party of reason. However, this simplified dichotomy, while no doubt reflecting certain truths and real disagreements, obscures how Republicans and Democrats are singing from the same hymn sheet with regard to a new reality for the policing of U.S. boundaries. This applies especially to the U.S.-Mexico border, and the movement of migrants moving northward from Central America and through Mexico and across the country’s divide with the United States, one result being evermore dangerous barriers to human mobility. Our track brings critical analysis to the plurality of collectives, spaces and futures that are assembling around increasingly accessible digital design and fabrication technologies. Computer integrated tools hold particular historical ironies and contradictions: early introduction threatened skills, livelihoods and identities amongst manufacturing communities ? while they are celebrated today as enabling agency, identities and communities for makers. Both processes has been promoted as ‘Industrial Revolutions. STS has much to contribute to understanding, engaging and bridging digital fabrications. Conversely, apparent historical turnarounds in digital fabrication, with tools spilling into new collectives and spaces, offers an opportunity to interrogate STS theory and methodology. Fifty years ago, social ecologist Murray Bookchin, like other commentators welcomed a future in which collectives would own tools and organise production non-hierarchically around liberatory technologies. Does grassroots appropriation of

digital fabrication in hackerspaces, makerspaces and amongst user groups online, mean his future for egalitarian tool-based creativity arrived? Or do digital fabrication futures reinforce the automation, flexible specialisation, and globalised outsourcing documented by David Noble in the 1980s, and that has been a driver for the technology amongst manufacturing strategists since then? How do the collectives and spaces pursuing these different futures intersect, contest, and co-exist? With essays on sculpture, drawings, watercolours and prints, the volume reflects the extraordinary range of Bindman’s knowledge of works of art and his impact through his teaching and research on the understanding of British and European artistic developments from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. The essays cast light on questions of technique and stylistic change, patronage, collecting and iconography, and engage with issues such as the representation of race, gender, sexuality, political violence and propaganda, exile, and notions of the canon. The artists discussed here include Hogarth, Blake, Roubiliac, Thorvaldsen and Canova, all subjects of books by David Bindman, as well as Morland, Rowlandson, Gillray, Millais, Munch, Nevinson, and Heartfield. Founded in 1947 by abstract expressionist painter Julian Beck and actress Judith Malina, The Living Theater was a group of artists, political activists and militant theater-makers devoted to blurring the lines between art, life, representation, poetry and political compromise. In New York city, the collective became a sort of hub for various scenes, attracting a host of intellectuals, artists and key figures of the New York context, from John Cage and Merce Cunningham to Andy Warhol, Jonas and Adolfas Mekas, or Allen Ginsberg to name but a few. For several decades, Beck, Malina and their associates constantly pushed the limits of their own formal language in an attempt to break the fourth wall and promote ideas of anarcho-pacifism and liberalism around the world.

Pleasantly cool.. Light lunch of rice with beetroot curry and cucumber raita, rasam and yoghurt. Second day of dinner outside. Today a cradle ceremony. Hope the menu will be good. “I can see the surface under the Vectran material,” American astronaut Rick Mastracchio told ground control in 2007. “I don’t know where that hole came from.” It’s the ultimate form of what former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson called “squeaky-bum time”. What can you do if things go awry on a spacewalk? It’s lonely out there. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (2 Connecticut) Barnacle Goose (1 Delaware, 1 New Jersey) Tufted Duck (1 California, 1 New York) Smew (5 Ontario) Masked Booby (1 Alabama) Brown Booby (7 California, 1 Florida, 2 Texas) Northern Jacana (2 Texas) Ivory Gull (1 Alaska) Slaty-backed Gull (1 California) Kelp Gull (1 Ohio) Fieldfare (11 Montana) Redwing (6 British Columbia) Rufous-backed Robin (1 Arizona) Western Spindalis (2 Florida) Mexico: The Frozen Revolution was not available from your local shipping center. Fortunately, it was available from a shipping center in another part of the country. It’s on its way and should arrive within 3 to 5 days. You’ll notice we also recently sent the next available DVD from your Queue to enjoy while Mexico: The Frozen Revolution makes its way to you. Your Queue now shows this extra DVD rental.

Enjoy. The NWS Storm Prediction

Center is forecasting a risk of severe thunderstorm capable of producing tornadoes, damaging winds and hail from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes on Wednesday.

The greatest threat will be across the Mid-South, from eastern Arkansas and northern Mississippi to southern Illinois, where a Moderate Risk of severe thunderstorms is in place. We went out with this person and his wife for dinner. We had the famous Hyderabad Biriyani. We had the veg. biriyani, while this couple had mutton biriyani. Dessert was the popular “Khubani ka Meeta”. Demonstrations will be formally timetabled either as plenary sessions or in parallel with paper presentation sessions.

Proposals are invited and should be submitted in outline as for papers, above. However, we will not expect detailed demo proposals until nearer the conference, to allow time for development. For publication you will be able to offer either a summary describing the demo or a paper. Proposals for panel sessions or workshops are welcome. A panel session would consist of two or more panel members who each make brief presentations or statements, followed by discussion with the audience. We will look for panel sessions to be of wide interest and to stimulate and engage the audience, since most delegates are interested and often expert in using and exploring technologies. A crackdown on corruption by the Attorney General has resulted in the imprisonment of 209 officials, all of them its own. Most of the officials charged worked in the prosecutors’ office or were members of the federal investigative police. Arrest orders for another 112 were also issued. Fifteen people died and 30 were injured Saturday in a head-on collision between a bus and a passenger van in Oaxaca. One of the most iconic Christmas celebrations in Mexico is the setting up of the nacimiento, the nativity scene that represents the birthplace of Jesus Christ. But more and more of the figures used in the scene are coming from China, threatening the livelihood of artisans. New archaeological findings have shown that carnivorous animals were kept in captivity in the Americas as far back as the first century AD, 1,000 years earlier than any previous evidence had shown.

An institution in Mexican television, Chabelo, the friend of all children, has said farewell after almost half a century on the air, putting an end to the longest-running show on Mexican TV. The strikingly colorful quetzal, the iconic Mesoamerican bird, says a researcher from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and their biggest threat is hunting by humans for their feathers, or to be sold as pets. The rise of the so-called postantibiotic era is widely linked to over- and misuse of antibiotics in industrial agriculture. A soldier was staying at a hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo. when a man came up to his door and asked to check the plumbing. The soldier let the man into his room, but once inside, the man drew a knife and attempted to rob him. The soldier responded by retrieving a gun and forcing the criminal to the ground. The convergence of fears over terrorism, a perceived threat of gun laws being changed and the Christmas holiday have sent gun sales soaring in what is already the busiest month of the year for firearm purchases. While Brazil has never officially suffered from a terrorist attack, at the moment the Brazilian congress is debating a counter-terrorism bill that could create further justification for the criminalization of social movements and popular protest.

Fracking is a relatively expensive process-about ten times more costly than the $5 to $6 per barrel cost of drilling oil from conventional wells in Saudi Arabia. By letting the price of oil drop, OPEC, in which Saudi Arabia is the key partner, has been applying financial pressure on the fracking industry.

Massive amounts of water and 600 chemicals are shot into the ground under high pressure to release the gas and oil. But gas from fracking wells leaks into underground water tables causing serious contamination and also the phenomenon of what comes out of a water faucet bursting into flames when touched with a lit match. Oil in much of 2015 went down to $60 a barrel making fracking a problematic undertaking economically. And consequently there have been reductions in and cancellations of numerous fracking operations. Still, the fracking industry cut costs in seeking to survive. The fall from a recent peak of $115 a barrel in August 2014 has left all OPEC members in fina ncial difficult, but Saudi Arabia has re-

fused to relent on the strategy of using a low crude price to knock out U.S. shale producers. Hopes that OPEC would announce production curbs to push up prices were dashed when the cartel met in Vienna last Friday, triggering the latest downward lurch in the cost of oil.

[America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting u n d e r other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like “democracy,” “freedom,” “rights,” “ justice,” which have so often inspired heroism and have led men to give their lives for things which make life worthwhile, can also become a trap, the means of destroying the very things men desire to uphold.

As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless. They (cor por at ion s) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. The West may become a Global Israel, forever occupying, forever dispossessing, forever bombing, and forever insecure. Nine children have been killed following a rocket attack by Islamic State on a school in Deir Ezzor, an oil-rich region in the east of Syria. A further 15 school kids were injured, three of whom are in a critical condition. About 20 people, including at least 12 civilians, were killed on Monday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, in two air strikes that destroyed houses believed to be used by Islamic State militants, six eye-

witnesses and a medical source said. The storm system that produced the severe weather outbreak on Wednesday will continue to move east on Thursday, but has diminished in strength.

Isolated severe thunderstorms will still be possible from the Mid-Atlantic to the Gulf Coast and lower Mississippi Valley. [America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the wellwisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. In Russia, vulnerability to Western sanctions has led to proposals for a banking system that is not only independent of the West but is based on different design principles. In Iceland, the booms and busts culminating in the banking crisis of 2008-09 have prompted lawmakers to consider a

plan to remove the power to create money from private banks. In Ireland, Iceland and the UK, a recession-induced shortage of local credit has prompted proposals for a system of public interest banks on the model of the Sparkassen of Germany. In Ecuador, the central bank is responding to a shortage of US dollars (the official Ecuadorian currency) by issuing digital dollars through accounts to which everyone has access, effectively making it a bank of the people. The popping and cracking noises emanating from the key support beam in our Temple of Athletics-the TV sports business-foreshadow wild disruptions ahead for the world of sports. No amount of wishing upon a star at the Disney offices in Burbank or the ESPN offices in Bristol, Connecticut, can hold back the forces of consumer choice that the Internet has unleashed. CNN footage showed dozens of excavators working to clear the rubble, dwarfed by the sheer scale of the landslide, which covered 380,000 square meters (94 acres) -- or around 60 football f ields.

Densely packed with few air pockets, in some places the mud and debris was piled four stories tall, CCTV reported. The landslide toppled buildings and ruptured a gas pipeline, so clearing the site could take weeks, it added. While the government remains mum on the detentions, the police sweep seems an unusually harsh crackdown on community-based groups that have long struggled to balance mutual aid and advocacy without courting controversy. Working outside the international spotlight and concentrated in China’s gritty southern manufacturing belt, organizers toil thanklessly each day on behalf of local workers: filing complaints, winning back wages, fostering collective bargaining, Beginning with the lunch counter sit-ins in early 1961 and continuing on through 1969 and beyond, college students around the country rallied to the cause of justice and freedom. The two best known student organizations of that time were the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Another important group, though less well known, was the Northern Student Movement (NSM) and it was founded on the Yale campus in New Haven. Tens of thousands of young Ameri-

cans were inspired by the lunch counter sit-ins that began in Greensboro, North Carolina and spread throughout the South.

The lie that many knew was a lie -- that the United States is based on freedom, justice and equality was exposed by the incredible bravery of young Black people.

It was as though a dam had broken and a tidal wave of people, led by college students, were suddenly passionately committed to making the world a better place and not so concerned about forging comfortable careers for themselves. With over 35 years combined experience, Doug Heiken and Chandra LeGue have been monitoring proposed timber sales throughout the state, including in southern Oregon to combat reckless proposals that threaten the last of our old-growth forests. Chandra has also helped to make the Siuslaw National Forest the posterchild for collaborative restoration. Jason Gonzalez is organizing Oregonians in the Coast Range to protect our forests and watersheds from several threats including toxic aerial pesticide spraying. Bridget Callahan has been hosting community events in Roseburg, Bend, and Medford to help advance permanent Wilderness protections for over 500,000 acres in a n d around O re g on’s only national park -- Crater Lake. Based in Enterprise, Rob Klavins is working to be a strong voice for gray wolf recovery and forest restoration in the northeast corner of our state. Pam Hardy is working in collaborative groups in eastern Oregon’s Malheur National Forest to promote conservation-based restoration in dry forests.

Stephanie Taylor has been working to recruit, train, and organize wildlife activists up and down the Willamette Valley (and beyond) to stand up for Oregon’s native wildlife, like gray wolves. Erik Fernandez has been working in Hood River to ensure that the last unprotected Wilderness-quality areas on Mount Hood will be there for future generations to enjoy. Sarah Cuddy has spent the last year building support for permanent Wilderness protections in the Ochoco Mountains by conducting community events in Bend, Redmond, and Prineville. A Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice was suspended from his job with pay Tuesday while a state judicial ethics court considers allegations his email ex-

changes, including photos of nude or topless women, crude jokes and salacious Internet memes, have tainted the court system. In the new study. Dr. Samson and Dr. Nunn combined that information with studies of 19 other primate species. The researchers found wide variations in how long the animals slept. Mouse lemurs doze for seventeen hours a day, for example, while humans sleep just seven hours or so a day -- “the least of any primate on the planet,” said Dr. Samson. The scientists looked for factors that could explain the differences.

Compared with big mammals, for example, smaller species tend to sleep more during the day and in short bouts, perhaps because they need to eat many times a day.

Dr. Samson and Dr. Nunn found that the time each primate species spends asleep generally corresponded to its physical size, along with other factors, such as the average number of primates in a group. Recently I have been thinking about how long it has been since I have seen, or even heard a BEWICK’S WREN on our property east of Silverton. When I am home on weekends, I almost always keep a weekend species list on our 5 acres and spend significant time watching, since I enjoy being outside putzing around, regardless of weather. I believe it has literally been a couple of years since I have counted one here. I reviewed about 30 years of Silverton CBC data and noted some interesting trend lines that I am not sure have relevance to the larger western Oregon region.

We had a fairly significant spike in numbers from 1995 - 2001, In 2001 we had 22 individuals, then a dramatic drop to only 3 in 2003, and *only 1 in 2004*. The last several years have averaged about 10-12 for the entire count. None of these are big numbers, but Silverton CBC also has only 6-8 sector teams for the entire circle. Is it just statistical noise, and unfavorable habitat, or is there something more regarding Bewick’s Wren numbers in W. Oregon? I know they have declined dramatically in the eastern US, and it is speculated it may be partly due to the expansion of House Wren numbers.

An extraordinary garden with crystal chandeliers attached to a sky of greenery. A magical fountain, a hotair balloon carrying an elephant or a unicorn playing the piano. A Belle Epoque fair (end 19th century) and its hundred-years-old carousels. A little Venice with its lagoon and baroque palace. This dream-like universe is real. At the heart of the Bercy neighbourhood in Paris, ancient wine warehouses built by Gustave Eiffel’s apprentice host thousands of objects, among them ancient fairground artefacts, theatre and music-hall objects and other curiosities. They were brought together and staged

by Jean-Paul Favand who considers them all as actors. The Musee des Arts Forains stands between cultural heritage and entertainment, where touching the objects and trying the ride is possible to enhance conviviality and daydream. In 1919 quite accurately 1 million people are living in Hamburg. 42.000 men do not return from the battles in World War I. The economy lies fallow, large payments to the victorious powers arrest development and often, the urban population is starving. But looking at the art at that time, the approximately one and a half decades between war and National Socialism, one seems to sense another reality. Of course many artists are hinting at poverty and misery, but overall an atmosphere of hope and change prevails.

The best known example is Bauhaus with its future-oriented suggestions for a new form of art and design. Even in Hamburg young artists develop new ways of life, plan monuments of the future and show a metropolis full of beauty and rhythm. Disclaimer This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) (“Intended Recipient”) to whom it is addressed. It may contain information, which is privileged and confidential. Accordingly any dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this message or any of its content by any person other than the Intended Recipient may constitute a breach of civil or criminal law and is strictly prohibited. If you are not the Intended Recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible. We and our third party service providers may use cookies and other web technologies in conjunction with this email.

These technologies are used to understand activity with this email and on certain portions of our website. This enables us to improve our site, your experience on our site, and the offerings that we may provide to you. If you do not want these technologies placed on your device, please opt-out of receiving emails from us. Founded in 1947 by abstract expressionist painter Julian Beck and actress Judith Malina, The Living Theater was a group of artists, political activists and militant theater-makers devoted to blurring the lines between art, life, representation, poetry and political compromise. In New York city, the collective became a sort of hub for various scenes, attracting a host of intellectuals, artists and key figures of the New York context, from John Cage and Merce Cunningham to Andy Warhol, Jonas and Adolfas Mekas, or Allen Ginsberg to name but a few. For several decades, Beck, Malina and their associates constantly pushed the limits of their own formal language in an attempt to break the fourth wall and promote ideas of anarcho-pacifism and liberalism around the world. For the second time in as many weeks activists in Canada have occupied and shut down Line 9 Endbridge’s 300,000 barrel per day oil pipe line.

This action effectively shuts down the flow of bitumen oil from the Alberta Tar Sands into the United States. The activists arrived at the Endbridge site just West of Sarnia, Ontario at 8AM and proceeded with closing the valve and locking themselves to the equipment.

Line 9 is a highly contested tar sands pipeline that began shipping crude earlier this month between Sarnia and Montreal.

Those involved assert that the operation of line 9 is a violation of indigenous sovereignty and treaty rights.

Lastly, there’s New Year’s Eve, which wouldn’t be complete without a celebratory beverage (or several).

Champagne is great for midnight, but what to drink before the year turns? The Seelbach cocktail-named for the Louisville, Kentucky, hotel where it was invented in the early 20th century-is just about perfect: You get a citrus bounce from the orange liqueur Cointreau, round sweetness and alcoholic force from bourbon, and festive fizz from sparkly wine, all knit together with a blast of bitters. Thu 24 Dec - closed Fri 25 Dec - closed (Bank Holiday) Sat 26 & Sun 27 Dec - closed Mon 28 Dec - closed (Bank Holiday) Tue 29 & Wed 30 Dec - open as normal Thu 31 Dec - open until 6pm Fri 1 Jan - closed (Bank Holiday) Sat 2 & Sun 3 Jan - open as normal It may take a plane to get there but once you land, it’s all wheels.

From Route 66 to South Africa’s coast, the romance of the open road knows no continental bounds. Hills, mountain ranges, deserts, and cliffsides-these are the most epic road trips on the planet. Driving around the tip of South Africa affords all sorts of diverse views, from world-famous surf spots to wild penguins, and so much more. The longest tunnel in the world, epic waterfalls, and the unparalleled Atlantic Road that stretches straight into the sea. A road trip along Norway’s fjords is anything but ordinary.

Without your financial support we cannot meet the challenge of providing legal services at no charge to those whose constitutional rights have been threatened or violated. That is why your annual gift of year-end support is critical to the future of our legal and educational programs. Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion [committing a religious sin], admonish

them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great. A terror suspect in France who allegedly decapitated his boss and took a selfie with the head has killed himself while in prison awaiting trial, The Guardian reports.Yassin Salhi, 35, was arrested in June. He was also accused of attempting to blow up an industrial gas factory. Officials have said Salhi was being held in solitary confinement but was not considered a suicide risk. Salhi also reportedly denied any terrorist connection, asserting instead that he had a falling out with his employer, H e r v e Cor na ra.

Two days after an argument, Salhi allegedly strangled him and cut off his head with a knife.

Russian airstrikes in Syria have killed at least 200 civilians, according to a human-rights watchdog report. Quoting witnesses and activists, the Amnesty International report released Wednesday accuses Moscow of using cluster bombs, which can kill civilians long after clashes cease, in attacks over the the past few months. The report focuses on six attacks in Homs, Hama, Idlib, Latakia, and Aleppo between Sept. 30, when Moscow formally joined the conflict, and Nov. 29. Moscow has repeatedly denied civilian casualties in Russian airstrikes in Syria. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that the Russian military in Syria operates in strict conformity with pricinples and norms of the international law. A streak of light blazing across the sky in California, Arizona, and Nevada was likely a Russian rocket booster re-entering the atmosphere, the U.S. Strategic Command said late Tuesday. Officials said the fireball was caused by a Russian SL-4 rocket that re-entered the atmosphere above Arizona and was reportedly spotted south of Las Vegas, in the eastern sky from Southern California and as far north as Sacramento.

The rocket was launched Monday and it was unknown where it ended up, according to Strategic Command.

Italian model Bianca Balti and English model David Gandy generally looking incredible.The one thing you have over these two beautiful people? Your escape doesn’t have to end at the 30 second mark.The Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue perfumes for both men and women represent the aroma of sparkling summer days yielding to evocative evenings. It’s the fragrance that transforms

you and transports you, an instant escape that embodies the joy of living the light blue Mediterranean life. Rescue workers pulled a migrant worker from rubble Wednesday, more than 60 hours after a massive landslide devastated Shenzhen, China. The survivor, Tian Zeming, had a very feeble voice and pulse when he was found alive buried under debris, and now he’s undergoing further checks,‚ Dr. Wang Yiguo said at a news conference. Tian told rescuers that a second person was buried alive near him, according to a transcript from the press conference.

Neurosurgeon Dai Limeng said the second person had not survived.

More than 70 people are still missing after a mountain of construction waste and mud collapsed and triggered a landslide into an industrial

park in southern China.

The artist’s complex, layered compositions employ symbols drawn from popular and traditional culture and explore such issues as race, class, cultural identity, equality, and independence.

Additional private support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Astoria Bank, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Bay and Paul Foundations, Bloomingdale’s, Con Edison, Deutsche Bank Americas Fo u n d a t i o n , The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Forest City Ratner Companies, The Hearst Foundations, Laurence W. Levine Foundation, The New York Community Trust, and the Oppenheim Family Foundation, as well as numerous individual supporters. Brazil is mired in its worst crisis in more than thirty years. The economy and employment are shrinking, while high inflation is eroding consumers’ purchasing power. The currency has tanked, and along with it the governm e nt ’s benchmark bond.

A major corruption scandal that has already implicated national politicians, big businessmen, and officers in state-owned companies grows worse by the day. The recession and the scandal have deeply damaged president Rouss e f f s ’ popu la r it y, and left her coalition in congress in tatters. This month congress took the first step toward opening impeachment proceedings. One of the most worrisome features of the crisis is fiscal. The budget negotiated by the president and the congress for 2016 is in deficit right from the start. Primary expenditures will burn up nearly all the tax revenues, leaving little or nothing to service the debt. The one person working to fix the imbalance was the finance minister, Joaquim Levy. He resigned this past weekend with little to show for a year’s work.

This fiscal impasse is very bad news for Brazil.

“Postcode lottery” is a widely used term in the UK, describing inequalities suffered because of one’s address. This is usually applied to services like healthcare and education. But does the experience of one county in the US show a similar phenomenon extends to the death penalty? Riverside in California accounted for 16% of such sentences handed out across the whole country last year, despite being home to less than 1% of

its population. Writing grants can be a rewarding path to the evolution of your art practice. Unpack essential strategies for crafting grant components including: a clear project description, realistic goals and objectives, a detailed timeline, and a functional budget. This workshop will provide you with tips, new knowledge and the courage to apply for that next grant! Woodblock prints can be simple, bold, graphic, detailed, subtle, and complex. Begin with the basics of carving wood blocks for relief printing on the etching press, then work to give your images more depth by layering multiple blocks.

Learn carving and printing techniques, image strategies, and layering registration. This indepth course explores all aspects of soft ground etching and its combination with aquatint, chine colle, and drawing. Learn about line and tone etching, shape and texture transfer, and aquatint manipulation. Create layered prints by adding a second plate to the one holding the key design. All levels welcome. Three instruments called airbeams are installed outside the entrance of the museum to take in air samples and analyze the amount of particulates in the surrounding air.

They generate data that is then converted to imagery and animation by a custom computer program and sent to the media facade of the museum, where it is visualized in in bursts of bright color over a constant background of falling blue light. Increasing frequency and size of the spots of color indicates a greater concentration of particles. The visualization updates with new particulate data every 15 seconds. The Australian government has repeatedly called for citizens to turn off two-factor authentication (2FA) at its main digital government portal, myGov. The portal’s Twitter account has recently been updated several times with cute pictures encouraging holidaymakers to “turn off your myGov security codes” so that “you can spend more time doing the important things.” The portal is the place where Australian citizens can use and manage a number of governmental services, including health insurance, tax payments, and child support. In case of myGov, two-factor authentication is implemented by sending users text messages that contain one-time codes to complement their usual pass-

words. There has been a searing irony to Christmas since August 1990 and the decimating embargo on Iraq.

It marked the beginning of the destruction of the region where the three Abrahamic religions were born at Ur in southern Iraq, where the Garden of Eden is believed to have flourished at Al-Qurnah, translation connection‚ or joint‚, since it is where the Biblical Tigris and Euphrates rivers join. The significance of reconnecting to the biosphere was emphasised by Jeremy Rif kin in his Third Industrial Revolution while taking full advantage of technological innovation to set up renewable energy, and Joanna Macy’s cri de coeur The Work that Reconnects, was not anti technology. These two approaches actually happily sit side by side, a discovery we need to make first within ourselves. Then we can decide what is appropriate to each situation, rather than having prejudged what approach is needed.

Species Summary: Pinkfooted Goose (1 Connecticut) White-cheeked Pintail (2 Florida) Tufted Duck (1 Newfoundland and Labrador) Smew (6 Ontario) Brown Booby (1 California, 2 Mississippi) Northern Jacana (3 Texas) Ruff (1 North Carolina) Slaty-backed Gull (1 California) Aplomado Falcon (2 Texas) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (1 Arizona) Fieldfare (9 Montana) Redwing (6 British Columbia) Western Spindalis (5 Florida) Brambling (1 Alaska) The U.S. is not mistakenly involved in conflicts and wars of aggression around the world - this is intentional. The U.S. establishment creates and uses the image of a “world of threats” to garner and keep the support of enough U.S. citizens, who ultimately are paying for this economic and military aggression across the globe. WHEN AMERICANS look out at the world, we see a swarm of threats. China seems resurgent and ambitious. Russia is aggressive. Iran menaces our allies. Middle East nations we once relied on are collapsing in flames. Latin American leaders sound steadily more anti-Yankee. Terror groups capture territory and commit horrific atrocities. We fight Ebola with one hand while fending off Central American children with the other. In fact, this world of threats is an illusion. The United States has no potent enemies. We are not only safe, but safer than any big power has been in all of modern history. Geography is our greatest protector. Wide oceans separate us from potential aggressors. Our vast homeland is rich and productive. No other power on earth is blessed with this security. Our other asset is the weakness of potential rivals. It will be generations before China is able to pose a serious challenge to the United States - and there is little evidence it wishes to do so. Russia is weak and in deep economic trouble - not always a friendly neighbor but no threat to the United States. Heartrending violence in the Middle East has no serious implication for American security. As for domestic terrorism, the risk for Americans is modest: You have more chance of being struck by lightning on your birthday than of dying in a terror attack. Our Swiss Leaks investigation revealed millions of dollars in potential unpaid taxes hidden in secret Swiss bank accounts that governments around the world now hope to recoup. Our investigation into the displacement of millions of people by World Bankbacked projects prompted the bank to announce reforms to better protect vulnerable communities from harm. Our Fatal Extraction project brought together journalists from

across Africa to expose the vast - and sometimes deadly - footprint of Australian mining companies in the continent, and has since been cited by rights groups and politicians as they campaign for stronger regulation of the industry. Looking to shop for the jetsetter in your life this holiday season?

We’ve got you covered.

With this list of refined, chic, and helpful items, your traveler will bring elegance to whichever exotic destination they choose. Many of America’s largest cities continue to grapple with rising food insecurity and homelessness, according to a report released by the nonpartisan U.S. Conference of Mayors on Tuesday. The latest iteration of the group’s annual hunger and homelessness survey found that homeless shelters and food pantries in 22 U.S. cities are struggling to keep up with rising demand for their services.

Homelessness was found to have increased most sharply in Washington, Seattle and Los Angeles over the past year. Officials closed all schools in a Virginia district as a precaution on Friday, days after an Arabic calligraphy assignment in a high school textbook sparked anger among some parents who said the exercise was meant to convert their children to Islam.

The closing comes amid heated rhetoric from politicians after a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, carried out by a Muslim couple earlier this month. The Russian warplanes destroyed two long convoys of ISIL’s oil tankers in the Homs province. The first convoy with at least 8 oil tankers and some other military vehicles was targeted by the Russian Air Force near the city of Palmyra.

Militants accompanying the convoy were also killed in the air raid. The joint squadron of the Russian and Syrian frontline bombers also destroyed 14 oil tankers and their guards near Sukhnah. A terror suspect who once worked at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport told another suspect he could build rockets that could take down planes at up to 2,000 feet, an FBI agent testified during a hearing Tuesday. CBS Minnesota reported that Abdirizak Warsame, who is reportedly the tenth young Minnesotan to be charged in 2015 with trying to join ISIS, was secretly recorded by a government informant. The agent testified there was no evidence that Warsame actually had any rockets capable of shooting down planes, but a magistrate still ruled that he should remain in jail for now, claiming that he was a flight risk and a danger to the community.Three women stand accused of beating a homeless man to death in a Philadelphia neighborhood in April at a gas station.

The women are to attend a Dec. 30 hearing on the charges in the death of Robert Barnes, 51, who died Nov. 25 at Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health. Aleathea Gillard, 34; Shareena Joachim, 24; and Kaisha Duggins, 24, are the adults being charged. Three minors also allegedly participated in the attack and are expected to be charged as adults with murder. Somalia’s government has banned any celebrations related to Christmas or the new year, alleging that the festivities are likely to attract Islamist attacks. Sheikh Mohamed Khayrow, the director general of the religious affairs ministry, told reporters Tuesday that all events related to Christmas and new year’s celebrations were contrary to Islamic culture, which could damage the faith of the Muslim community,‚ Lebanon’s Daily Star reported.

Khayrow even said security forces had been ordered to break up any such celebrations. Somalia is the second reported Muslim majority country to ban Christmas this year, after Brunei decreed a similar halt on Christian celebrations. Somalia issued another ban in 2013. Federal government lists are vulnerable to inaccuracy, and misuse by politicians to push political agendas.

The proposal to use the no-fly list as the basis for stripping U.S. citizens of constitutional rights is a case in point. Regardless of one’s position on gun control, using a secret government process to tinker with the Bill of Rights is wrong, and very dangerous. If Sandra Bland indeed committed suicide after spending three days in a Texas jail, as the Harris county medical examiner determined last week, her death fits a pattern: Half of all suicides behind bars occur within the first 14 days of custody. Twenty-three percent happen within the first 24 hours following an arrest. And like two-thirds of the 750,000 people in US jails, Bland had not yet been convicted of any crime.

Bland had two options to get out of jail. The court set a

$5,000 bond. If she had the money, which she didn’t, she could have posted it and gotten it back when she appeared for trial. Alternately, she could have paid a bail bondsman a 10 percent fee to post bond for her-$500 that she or her family would not get back. Her family’s attorney has said that they were working on trying to secure the fee to have her released. This system, in which people either stay locked up or pay money to a private company to get out, is almost entirely unique to the United States. The Philippines is the only other country with something similar. In Canada, acting as a bail bondsman can earn you two years in prison on a charge equivalent to bribing a juror. “We don’t have a system currently that does a decent job of separating who is dangerous and who isn’t,” Tim Murray, director of the Pretrial Justice Institute, told me when I wrote about the commercial bail industry. “We only have a system that separates those who have cash and those who don’t.” There is nothing to suggest that Sandra Bland was a danger to the community, so why was she kept in jail? Proponents of our current bail system would say that by requiring a cash bond, the court gave her a financial incentive to appear for court. But a handful of states have outlawed commercial bail, and they are doing just fine.

Wa s h i n g t o n , DC, for example, has had no bail bondsmen since 1992.

More than 80 percent of the city’s defendants are released before trial, and only 12 percent fail to appear for at least one court hearing. In Kentucky, where for-profit bail has been banned for nearly four decades, 74 percent of defendants are released before trial and only 6 percent of felony defendants are no-shows in court.

Nationwide, 18 percent of defendants released on commercial bail don’t show up, according to a 2007 study. The effects of bail on defendants are far-reaching. Eighty-nine percent of accused felons are in jail because they cannot afford bail. Staying behind bars means that defendants who can’t afford bail will lose their jobs. Studies have shown that the longer people are detained pretrial, the more likely they are to reoffend. And All defendants who are jailed before trial are three times more likely to be sentenced to prison than someone charged with the same crime who was released before trial. People stuck in jail are “more prone to take plea offers. We don’t have a system currently that

does a decent job of separating who is dangerous and who isn’t.

We only have a system that separates those who have cash and those who don’t. For these reasons, commercial bail is hugely unpopular within the criminal justice system. Attorney General Eric Holder called it a major obstacle to reducing inflated prison populations. It has been condemned by the American Bar Association, the National Association of Counties, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National District Attorneys Association.

One of the main criticisms of bail system is its arbitrariness. There are no national standards to determine whether a cash bond should be set and for how much. As a result, lowrisk defendants like Bland are kept in jail, while high-risk defendants who can afford bail are released. The ef-

fects of the gas on the people of Bhopal have been nothing short of catastrophic. Birth defects continue to occur among families affected by the gas leak and contamination of water at a higher-than-average rate even now -- 30 years after the explosion at the Union Carbide plant. A recent medical study has confirmed that the deadly gas that leaked from the Bhopal pesticide plant of the American multinational company Union Carbide 31 years ago is continuing to cripple the third generation of its survivors.

The study, conducted by 30 doctors in the last three years, has found that far too many children are being born with congenital malformations to parents with acute exposure to the toxic gas or chronic exposure to contaminated water compared to those who were not affected by either of the two’. Bhopal was struck by the worst industrial disaster in the world on December 2, 1984, when 40 tonnes of poisonous Methyl I soc y nate (MIC) gas leaked from the Union Carbide f a c t o r y, killing over 3,500 people the same night and maiming more than 500,000 people. Thirty one years later, its effects are still visible in the children and grandchildren of those who survived. The Sambhavna Trust Clinic, which sponsored the study, provided the researchers with information on diag nosed cases of TB, cancer, paralysis, reproductive health of women, physical growth, mental and social development of infants and children and birth defects. The study involved 20,000 families that were divided in four categories in equal numbers - exposed to the gas leak on December 2/3, 1984, exposed to the contaminated water around the defunct Union Carbide plant, exposed to both the gas and the contaminated water and unexposed to either the water or the gas. Studying digital media today means studying those technologists-hackers, security resarchers, game developers, system administrators, and designers--who create and maintain the digital worlds we live in. How much agency lies in the hands of programmers, coders, and engineers to create our digital worlds is still up for debate, yet this much is true: various hacking and related subcultures form critical nodes of practice that help shape and condition the

contemporary technologies we use everyday. Whether it is an analyst or coder implementing algorithms at a large financial institution, a group of designers working on improving the user interface for a cryptographic tool, a privacy team securing a browser, a developer coding her own app, cryptographers working on an open source anoymized system, a programmer working on a p2p file-sharing platform, hackers buying and selling zero days in a grey market, a team of system administrators at Google working to scale up services, a journalist-coder developing visualization tools, indie game developers seeking to write a politically minded game, or a hacker-leaker whistleblowing to salavage privacy - all have something to say about how digital technology can and should be created. These technology workers/experts are now central to every field of social, political, and economic import. They secure our communications networks; shape the design and portals we use to connect to our banks, our friends, our loved ones, our colleagues, our business partners; inform us about the ac tivities of our governments; design novel currencies; exf iltrate intellectual property and proof of wrongdoing from corporate actors; offer us alternative ways of organizing our political voices whether through political projects or games; function as conduits and warriors between nations; and allow us to confront the laws we don’t like - through democratic engagements, as in the Free Software movement, or tools that enable outright circumvention. This is an ideal time to understand and ultimately appraise their activities, actions, their desires, and intentions. While an increasing number of scholars - ethnographers, cultural anthropologists, sociologists, and media historians - are undertaking the study of hacker cultures, there are many methodological questions to pose and explore: How much technical knowledge is necessary to study the worlds of computing and programming? How does one gain access to secret nooks of hacking or corporate sites whether a security company, gaming outfit, or blackhat computer forum - where codes, designers, and hackers labor? How is the study of hackers similar and different

to the study of other experts such as scientists? As participant observers, how can we fully understand the engineering culture of the hackers we are studying, and what shortcuts in our methods must be taken in order to create an understanding? Texas was an awfully long way away, her mother worried. None of her daughters had ever strayed beyond the Chicago area, much less across the country. But the school was just as smitten with Bland as she was with it. She not only had an ACT score that placed her in the 90th percentile nationally but was a poster child for the well-rounded student. A band scholarship sealed the deal. f Bland had any concerns about attending school in the South, she did not voice them to her family.

But racial tensions in the town of Prairie View and surrounding Waller County had been simmering since slave days. Between 1877 and 1950, Waller County had 15 lynchings, among the highest in the state. The university itself sits on the old Alta Vista plantation, which once had a population of 400 slaves. The area was widely known to have had a robust Ku Klux Klan presence at one time. Even if the absolute number (and the percentage of the total denominator) is vanishingly small, that is a sort of mathematical logic that escapes many in the public, the Congress, and certainly in the science denialism camps. To get back into your Apple account, you’ll need to relog in your account. What’s the problem ? Your information records are out of date.

That requires you to verify the billing information. Click here, and verify your information on the following page. As the light of the sun returns and days grow longer here in California, we are sending love and wishing you and your family greater health, happiness and wellbeing. We are so grateful for the beauty of the community of life that sustains us, and for the children who bring an unbridled sense of awe, wonder and celebration. We are grateful for the extraordinary experience of being alive in this moment on planet earth; breathing fresh air, feeling the sun on our bodies, and feeling, tasting and smelling the rain on our faces. In this time when people around the world are reawakening to the power of their connection with nature-- a legacy of loving kindness, compassion, empathy, and a commitment to mentoring and the well being of future generations is being created.

We are filled with excitement about the nature connection movement’s power to create connective culture to transform consciousness worldwide. I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

Whenever a people... entrust the defence of their country to a regular, standing army, composed of mercenaries, the power of that country will remain under the direction of the most wealthy citizens. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. Three killed in a roadside explosion in NW Pakistan: It was the third attack in as many days in the Mohmand tribal region, one of seven such semi-autonomous districts where the military has been