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1970s Yugoslavian Military Surplus. Brasscased, 123 Grain, full metal jacket. It’s packaged on 10-rd. stripper clips. They used to be called “fairy” penguins, but that all changed because of political correctness. They’re now known simply as “little” penguins - mundane but apt, as they’re not very big. But the furry residents of Australia’s Middle Island are still exciting to foxes. The predators got such a taste for the penguins they reduced the population from 800 to virtually nil. So, to undo the damage and deter the foxes, conservationists trained up fluffy Maremma dogs as guards. South Korea has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Some worried bosses are taking macabre measures to ensure their employees realise the value of life. They’ve started organising mock funerals, in which people lie in coffins and contemplate existence. Double the value of your donation by contacting your employer to check if your organization offers a matching gift program! We need to keep providing financial help to journalists and their families who require urgent assistance. Havez Ur Rehman was returning to his home in Kohat, Pakistan, on November 22 when unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle shot him three times and then drove off. He died on the spot. A journalist for the past 12 years, he worked for privatelyowned Neo TV, owned a local TV station, and used to edit his own local daily, until he closed it a year ago. He was the second journalist to be murdered in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in less than a month. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (3 Connecticut) Barnacle Goose (2 Quebec) Whooper Swan (3 New Hampshire) Tufted Duck (7 New York, 1 Newfoundland and Labrador, 2 Washington) Smew (1 Ontario) American Flamingo (1 Florida) Flesh-footed Shearwater (1 California) Masked Booby (1 New Jersey) Brown Booby (2 California, 7 Mississippi, 1 Texas) Northern Jacana (3 Texas) Ruff (3 North Carolina) Kelp Gull (1 Ohio) Black-capped Gnatc atcher (1 Arizona) Tropical Parula (1 Texas) Western Spindalis (5 Florida) Bangladesh is for the first time observing the Martyred Intellectuals Day after the execution of the first war criminal charged with the mass killing of the country?s brightest minds on the eve of liberation in 1971. The best way to lower the death toll and improve civilization’s future prospects is for civil society all over the world-climate-justice advocates, community and religious leaders, business and financial executives-to push harder than ever to turn the noble but non-binding aspirations declared in Paris into rapid, concrete transformations of our energy, agriculture, consumerist, and other socioeconomic systems. We can build a better future than what currently awaits us, and the Paris Agreement can help, but only if the resistance of the old order-as personified by the climate deniers and foot-draggers in Congress and their paymasters in the fossil-fuel industry-is routed once and for all. Of all over-written, under-reported issues and regions, the Middle East is perhaps one of the oldest, outstanding ones. To start with, it is a common belief -- too often heralded by the mainstream media -that the Middle East is formed entirely of Arab countries, and that it is about the sowrongly called Muslim, Arab World. This is simply not accurate.

Firstly, because such an Arab World (or Arab Nation) does not actually exist as such. There is not much in common between a Mauritanian and an Omani; a Moroccan and a Yemeni; an Egyptian and a Bahraini, just to mention some examples.

They all have different ethnic roots, history, original languages, traditions and religious beliefs. Example: The Amazighs -also known as the Berbers -- are an ethnic group indigenous to the North of Africa, living in lands stretching from the Atlantic cost to the Western Desert in Egypt. Historically, they spoke Berber languages.

There are around 25-30 million Berber speakers in North Africa. The total number of ethnic Berbers (including non-Berber speakers) is estimated to be far greater. They have been Arabised‚ and Islamised‚ since the Muslim conquest of North of Africa in the 7th century. Secondly, because not all Muslims are Arabs, nor

all Arabs are Muslims. Not to mention the very fact that not all Arabs are even Arabs. It would be more accurate to talk about Arabised, Islamised‚ peoples or nations rather than an Arab World or Arab Nation. brother Jason Rezaian is the Washington Post Teheran Bureau Chief and he has been unjustly incarcerated for more than 500 days in an Iranian prison for crimes he did not commit. He has been psychologically abused, physically mistreated, and deprived of due process of law. To call his trial a travesty of justice is an understatement. According to the International News Safety Institute (INSI), over 100 journalists were killed in 2 0 1 5 , many of them by assassins.

However shock ing this number might be, it merely gives a glimpse into the savagery that has been unleashed against members of the press throughout the world. This is a reminder that the first Eskimo North users meeting will be held this Saturday starting at 2PM and ending whenever it does at Spiro’s Pizza in the Fred Meyer parking lot on Aurora Ave N just south of 185th: My eldest Son, Carl, will be probably be there for the first hour, between 2pm-3pm, after that he has a wedding party to attend, so if you’d like to meet the person who held down the fort in my absence that is the timeframe he will be there. So far only 31 people have signed up for the new forums and only three have left introductions. Bar Carlo is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner with a neighborhood bistro inspired menu. We feature a popular weekend brunch, with specialty cocktails (including champagne mimosas!), Stumptown coffee and vegan and vegetarian options.

Our mission is to nourish the community in a delicious and sustainable manner, create a friendly and gracious atmosphere, and provide living wage jobs. We favor organic products and strive to source our ingredients as close to home as possible. Our crust is prepared by hand using organic cornmeal sourced from SE Oregon and NE California that is stone ground at Bob’s Red Mill here in Portland. All toppings are prepared in-house daily using fresh, locally sourced produce whenever possible. Dressings, marinades and brines are made from scratch to celebrate the loot of our locale. Fressen Artisan Bakery offers high quality artisan breads and pastries in the German tradition, incorporating organic, local, and sus-

tainable ingredients. The bakery uses minimal technology when making the breads, everything is done by handPaying homage, “iorio”, named after chef Chris Thompson’s great-grandmother, is an award-winning homestyle Italian restaurant dedicated to the tradition of gathering together to share a love of great food. Since 2008, Isabel Restaurant has brought a warm and healthy combination of Latin flavor with Asian accents to Portland’s Pearl district. We proudly use ingredients grown at our own Stargazer Farm in Sandy, Oregon. Serving breakfast and lunch daily from 8am - 3pm and dinner from 5pm-9pm. Le Bistro Montage is located in what once was the home of the Royal Hotel, in the heart of the Central Eastside Industrial district. A completely unique dining experience awaits

when you come in; linen-covered communal tables, custom art, a large selection of wine and eclectic decor is only the beginning.

While you are here do not forget to try our famous macaroni, mouth-watering frog legs, gator bites and our homemade desserts. Make sure to ask your server to wrap your leftovers, and see what foil art masterpiece creature you get to take home! With more than a decade of awesome music shows and other entertainment, such as: trivia, karaoke, and bingo, “The Mississippi Pizza Pub” keeps chugging along, serving great pizza and salads, to families, and above all, the local community. Located on Mississippi Ave. Reach us at 503288-3231 Nel Centro is spacious, filled with light and good cheer. Italian white marble, hand-blown glass lighting, floor-to-ceiling windows, plush leather booths, Douglas Fir tabletops, and an amazing outdoor patio all make for a relaxed and distinctive space. Our bar is open and friendly, a splash of uptown swank.

When The Observatory opened its doors in December of 2008, it became an instant anchor of the Montavilla neighborhood in Southeast Portland. Built by two young couples with years of restaur a n t experience, both the space and the menu were designed to have something for everyone. The Observatory and Over and Out do elegant dinners, quick lunches, inventive happy hour snacks, delicious cocktails, amazing desserts, and now Brunch on the weekends. The Observatory and Over and Out also feature rotating seasonal soups and specials. The environment is sophisticated yet casual so it works for a special night out or an easy place to meet up after work. When you walk in the door, you can tell right away that staff is happy to have you there.

For over a decade, Pambiche has been nourishing Portland with traditional Cuban dishes that have been in the Maribona Family for generations. At Pizza A Go Go we handcraft our quality ingredients daily. We use only 100% whole milk mozzarella grated fresh every morning, freshly prepared toppings, quality meats and local organic produce (when available ask for seasonal organic toppings from Green House Blue House Farm) on our pizzas. Enjoy the care and love we put into every bite! Produce Row has been the pulse of the craft beer

movement for over 40 years. Laid-back, long-standing gastropub with a big patio, pairing beer & whiskey with American eats. Old school full service diner with a myriad of naughty foods to choose from, and a TON of personality!

Breakfast served 24 hours a day. Sorry, no beer or other adult libations, but we CAN help you sober up after the bars close or soothe you the morning after with some of our famous hangover helpers. Bill Cosby has filed suit against seven women who have publicly accused him of rape. In a filing in a Massachusetts federal court, Cosby’s counsel claimsTamara Green, Therese Serignese, Linda Traitz, Louisa Moritz, Barbara Bowman, Joan Tarshis, and Angela Leslie published malicious, opportunistic and false‚ and defamatory accusations‚ against him. The French kindergarten teacher who claimed he was stabbed by a masked ISIS sympathizer has admitted to making up the attack, prosecutors say. The 45-year-old instructor earlier claimed that a man in overalls and a balaclava attacked him with a box cutter and scissors, shouting This is Daesh. He has since confessed to lying. List of finalists: .

Ana Marc o s (Spain) .

Fernando Garcia Ma lmi e r c a (Spain) .

Juan Carlos S. D uque (Spain) .

Sandrine Deumier (France) . Alois Yang (U.K.) . Daz Disley & Fenia Kotsopoulou (U.K.) . Nazare Soares (U.K. / Spain) . Matthew Schoen (Canada) . Wei Jing Lee (Taiwan) . Chou Tung Yen (Taiwan) . Christian Zanotto (Netherlands) . Xceed (Hong Kong) . Boedi Widjaja (Singapur) . Katherine Fiedler Gonzales (Peru) . Lea Petrikova (Czech Republic) . Jung-Hee Biann Seo (South Korea) . Slawomir Milewski (Poland) No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies. The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism. At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being. I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.

A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where

men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man’s skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality. Western sources know very well who carried out the sarin gas attack in Syria. Those who worship before the idols of profit will use every tool at their disposal, including violence, to crush us. Over half of Americans make less than $30,000 per year. The storm system that brought hazardous wintry conditions to much of the Intermountain West and portions of the Rockies will shift east Tuesday into Wednesday.

Heavy snow and gusty winds will impact the High Plains making travel treacherous.

The KDP Select global fund for November is $12.7 million.

As previously announced, beginning with November, payouts will differ per country based on local country factors such as exchange rates, customer reading behavior, and local subscription pricing. We will again award “KDP Select All-Star” bonuses for November to the most-read authors and most-read titles in the U.S., U.K. and Germany. All bonuses will be awarded based on total Kindle Edition Normalized Pages read during the month. We will also award bonuses for illustrated kids’ books – the top 100 most read titles in the U.S. and top 25 in the U.K. will receive such bonuses. With EPIC, you see cloud structure from sunrise on the left to sunset on the right,” said Jay Herman, EPIC instrument lead investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. “It’s the only view we have like this where everything is at the exact same instant in time, even though the local times are different.” EPIC takes measurements in visible, ultraviolet and near-infrared wavelengths. With the ultraviolet channels, Herman can watch as dust from the Sahara travels westward across the Atlantic. While other low-Earth orbit satellite instruments can pick this up as they orbit at a fixed local time, EPIC provides a day-long view of the process. “We can see the progression in real time, as it flows across the Atlantic,” Herman said. Typhoon “Melor”, also known in the Philippines as Nona, made initial landfall over Bulusan, Sorogon in southern Luzon at 16:00 local time on December 14, 2015, as a violent typhoon, equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale. Severe floods lashing portions of Democratic Republic of Congo since late November 2015, have left at least 20 people dead so far and cutoff water supplies to many communities in the area.

The proposed track is an invitation for STS scholars to reflect upon and experiment with the surprisingly under-explored question of the nature of problems across a range of fields of thought and practice in techno-science, as well as to a variety of other exploratory activities that address problems by other means. In a global, continuous present traversed by the seemingly unsurmountable nature of what some call‚ ‘wicked problems’, techno-science, as well as other practices of knowledge, invention and innovation, are increasingly called upon to develop effective ways of solving the ‘pressing soci-

etal problems’ of our time. Little attention, if any, is paid, however, to the question of what problems are. Across techno-scientific and policy discourses, there seems to be a widely held yet unexamined assumption that problems are negative states of uncertainty and methodological imperfection bound to dissipate with the solutions that techno-scientific progress yields.

As research in STS and beyond has suggested, however, such assumption is historically implausible, philosophically unconvincing, and of major social, political, and ecological concern in its consequences for the future. Solutions are always “more-than-scientific” they come into existence as they succeed in creating socio-technical arrangements that bring concepts, objects, instruments, scientists, institutions and publics together in a rearticulation of human and non-human collectives. If this is what solutions require, then what is a problem? If solutions are always more-than-scientific then arguably problems must be so too, finding forms of expression through practices, publics and collectives that exceed the narrow remits of modern technoscience, and that are capable not only of expressing problems differently, but also of posing new and different problems such that alternative, inventive solutions may in turn become available. Moreover, some philosophers who have been major sources of inspiration for STS scholars, such as Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem, John Dewey, Gilles Deleuze, Gilbert Simondon and Isabelle Stengers, for example, have argued against the conventional wisdom that regards problems as manifestations of uncertainty and the limits of our understanding, and proposed ways of conceiving of a positive ontology of the problematic, suggesting that problems possess their own thickness and vitality, constituting intrinsic phases of dynamic, complex, natural-cultural systems. If we were to conceive of the problematic not simply as a state of subjective or epistemic uncertainty awaiting dissolution, but as a mode of existence of things as such, then how should we think of solutions? What if the best that a solution can do is to develop and transform a problem, instead of making it the best that a solution can do is to develop and transform a problem, instead of making it disappear? She is a Gujarati girl from Toorak, one of the first science graduates and indeed gold medalist from USP, who later taught at USP. She did pioneering work in marine biology, and a pioneering PhD in environmental economics in relation to Fiji’s marine environment and the interface with commercial agriculture. She became an expert in the sugar industry, with her book Ganna (sugar cane‚ in Hindi) bringing together a collection of articles analyzing most problem areas in the sugar cane and milling industries, including detailed analysis of the productivity (or rather the lack of it) in the cane farms and sugar mills. She has worked for, and developed solid reputations with international scientific research organizations like ABARE, IUCN and CSIRO. The corporate media no longer serves the public good. The public is fed a never ending pablum of endless war, celebrity and sideshows. The crisp, clear and unapologetic progressive voice is ever harder to find amidst the din. Polls show it and commentators of all political stripes often cite the figures: Killer drone attacks by the U.S. military and the CIA in the Greater Middle East and Africa have strong U.S. public support. Yet major media ignore four former Air Force drone-war personnel who went public with an open letter to President Obama urging the President to reconsider a program that kills innocent civilians, and which only fueled the feelings of hatred that ignited terrorism.

The polls show it and commentators of all political stripes often cite the figures: Killer drone attacks by the U.S. military and the CIA in the Greater Middle East and Africa have strong U.S. public support.

According to the Pew Research Center’s most recent poll in May, 58 percent - up slightly from 56 percent in February 2013 - approve of missile strikes from drones to target extremists in such countries as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. The numbers of Americans disapproving of drone attacks actually increased from 26 percent to 35 percent over that two-year period - a hopeful sign, but still very much a minority view. But how well informed can U.S. citizens be on this subject when the major news media time and again ignore or under-report drone-strike stories - as we have discussed

here and here in recent weeks? Stories - such as The Intercept’s October series based on a trove of classified materials provided by a national security whistleblower - that would likely raise serious questions about the drone program in many more Americans’ minds if they were actually given the information? Today I work with California Rural Legal Assistance, as a photographer and a journalist. Growing up in Oakland, I didn’t know much about life in rural California, or who farm workers are and the work they do. But I come from a union family, so when I got back from Cuba in the early 70s, full of revolutionary ent husiasm, the p l a c e where I thought I c o u l d fight for r e a l change here was the farm workers union. I went to w o r k , learning from people like Eliseo Medina the nuts and bolts of how to organize strikes, win union elections, go on the boycott - the basic toolkit of working class struggle. Successful negotiations in Paris can only be the start of something far more sweeping when it comes to the forms of energy we use and how we live on this planet.

Fortunately, experiments are underway in the world of alternative energy, funding is beginning to appear, and a global env i ron ment a l movement is expanding and could someday, on a planet growing ever less comfortable, put the heat on governments globally before Emperor Weather can turn up the heat on history. For six centuries or more, history was, above all, the story of the great game of empires. From the time the first wooden ships mounted with cannons left Europe’s shores, they began to compete for global power and control. Three, four, even five empires, rising and falling, on an increasingly commandeered and colonized planet. The story, as usually told, is a tale of concentration and of destruction until, in the wake of the second great bloodletting of the twentieth century, there were just two imperial powers left standing: the United States and the Soviet Union. Where the other empires, European and Japanese, had been, little remained but the dead, rubble, refugees, and scenes that today would be associated only with a place like Syria. Although deaths of police officers are well documented, no reliable official US data exist on the number of persons killed by the police, in part because of long-standing and well-documented resistance of police departments to making

these data public. These deaths, however, are countable, as evidenced by “The Counted,” a website launched on June 1, 2015, by the newspaper The Guardian, published in the United Kingdom. Celebrated artist Ed Ruscha has committed to donate to the national collection one impression of all future prints he creates in his lifetime. Ruscha (b.1937) is widely regarded as one of the world’s most important living artists with a career spanning six decades. These new works will be gifted to Tate and will allow public museums around the country to stage exhibitions of his extraordinary works on paper. The donation has begun with a selection of eighteen recent works which reveal Ed Ruscha’s inventiveness as a printmaker, as well as reflecting his interest in signs and sig-

nage, his engagement with his hometown of Los Angeles, and his humorous approach to language. Prints such as Jet Baby 2011, Wall Rocket 2013 and Sponge Puddle 2015 show mountainous landscapes with sun-lit, snow-capped peaks, overlaid with texts in the iconic typeface devised by the artist himself. Other works make literary references Renowned street artist Banksy has created a trio of oeuvres to publicise the plight of migrants at the infamous “Jungle” camp in Calais, northern France, including one depicting Steve Jobs. One work painted at the camp itself shows Jobs, whose biological father was a Syrian immigrant to the United States, holding an early Apple computer terminal and a bin liner of personal possessions. Some 4,500 people were cramming the camp, to which Banksy recently made a donation and where he painted his latest works near a clutch of tents housing them. Few of the migrants, mostly from strifetorn Syria, knew who Banksy or Jobs were but the artist explained he had depicted the latter in his trademark black polo to underline the late computing king’s connection with the country. “We’re often led to believe migration is a drain on the country’s resources but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian m i g r a nt ,” said Banksy in a rare public statement.

“Apple is the world’s most profitable company. The Annual Giving Officer will be charged with the dual goals of (1) increasing the total number of individual donors who support the annual fund using digital channels and strategies combined with traditional sources of giving via direct mail and telefunding (2) develop and implement a stewardship system that promotes interaction with and recognition of donors/members giving below $10,000 annually and (3) develop and manage a personal portfolio of 50-100 individual donors. The Annual Giving Officer and Digital Fundraising Specialist will be an individual with a strong digital fundraising background, who has an interest in the performing arts, in addition to non-profit experience with donor stewardship and program management. Starting from the three areas already appointed, this project will address a set of topics related with the media, the proliferation and the unfolding of images in cyberspace, the new modalities of

screens and their implications in spectatorship and audiences. The substantial increase of urban screens is also a potential field of investigation and reflection on new forms of interaction and collaborative environments in public spaces. The projection of light on urban surfaces arises, largely, as a way to create spaces for collective critical thought through which the video serves as a means for communication and not for consumption, often conveying a sense of political inquiry. The U.S. government may impose tighter scrutiny of visa-seekers’ social media accounts following revelations that one of the San Bernardino attackers discussed violence before she was allowed into the country. Coding and decoding borders at the dawn of the 21st century is an event encompassing art, research and practice. Combining an exhibition and an international conference, it will host, at the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Free University of Brussels, and at the Headquarters of the World Customs Organization (WCO), researchers, artists and experts who will discuss the growing technologization of controls of persons, goods or capital w h i c h cross borders. As with the previous events organized by the antiAtlas of Borders, this conference/exhibition truly breaks away from compartmentalization of the fields of knowledge, creation and practice. By offering different levels of lecture and of participation, it opens up beyond academic, political and professional circles to reach the public at large. Thailand has long been a major international hub for human trafficking and people smuggling, with human rights groups accusing Thai officials of turning a blind eye to the multimillion dollar trade. Some have gone even farther, raising questions about the extent of collusion between crime syndicates and the authorities in Thailand. Dear thanks for your answer. When I was much younger I believed in ‘ just wars’ and was jailed four years for belonging to the Tupamaros guerilla, you must know about it since Baader-Meinhof had Tupamaros as inspiration ? It was an armed gerilla and to my disclaim I can say today I was only 19 years old, new examinated from a very stern German nun?s school I had a highly romantized image of Che Guevara

as icon and etc etc Today I am a stern pacifist and the only resistance I understand its the Palestinian because they are occupied for a foreign power and they have right to fight for their land. Clinically trained social workers are the nations largest group of mental health service providers. Social work is considered one of the five core mental health professions by federal law and National Institutes of Health. With more than 200,000 in the field, there are more clinical social workers than psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychiatric nurses combined. Social workers are highly trained professionals working to improve the quality of life and well-being of others through direct practice, crisis intervention, research, community organizing, policy change, advocacy, and educational programs. Social workers are dedicated to the pursuit of social justice and strive to help those affected by poverty, disabilities, illnesses, divorce, unemployment, and other personal problems and social disadvantages. Being a social worker requires extensive knowledge of human behavior and development, as well as social, cultural, and economic institutions and the ways in which they interact. Most social workers will hold at least a bachelors degree in social work or related field, though many (especially clinicians) will hold a masters degree and valid license to practice. A good social worker will often possess a high degree of compassion and empathy, a passion for helping others, strong interpersonal and problemsolving skills, and good listening and organizational skills. A Texas plumber has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the auto dealer who bought his truck and resold it without removing the decals-because the vehicle eventually ended up starring in an ISIS video. Mark Oberholtzer says he was assured the identifying decals would be removed before a resale, and that appearing in a terrorist video has severely damaged his business. A spokesman for the dealer, AutoNation, said the company expected the logo to be removed at the auction. Tashfeen Malik, one of the two attackers who fatally shot 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., sent at least two private messages on Facebook to a group of Pakistani friends in 2012 and 2014 revealing her support for Islamic jihad, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. Malik reportedly “expressed her desire” in one of the posts, written in Urdu, to become a jihadist, according to two top federal law enforcement officials.

The posts were recovered by FBI agents investigating whether Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, had any direct connections to foreign terrorist networks before they opened fire on the Inland Regional Center on Dec. 2. The new revelations suggest intelligence agencies missed red flags on social media that Malik was a potential threat before she entered the country on a K-1 fiancee visa in July 2014. A man who spent 438 days at sea after his boat was overpowered by a strong storm is being sued by his crewmate’s family-who accuse him of eating the junior sailor to stay alive. Salvador Alvarenga has said that crewmate Ezequiel Cordoba, 22, died on their vessel after he gave up, and that he kept Cordoba’s body aboard for six days for company. But days after Alvarenga’s new memoir was published, Cordoba’s family said Alvarenga was only able to survive by eating their son. I believe that this demand is part of the pressure from this family to divide the proceeds of

royalties, Alvarenga’s lawyer said. Many believe the book is making my client a rich man, but what he will earn is much less than people think. California police arrested two people Monday in connection to the death of two toddlers who were found dead in a storage unit as well as the abuse of a young girl. Plumas County sheriff ’s deputies arrested Tami Joy Huntsman, 39, and Gonzalo Curiel for felony child abuse, torture, and mayhem.

Investigators reportedly found a young girl severely abused at Huntsman’s apartment and further investigation led authorities to the toddlers’ bodies. Huntsman is an extended relative of the toddlers and the child, prosecutors said. All three children are siblings. This lecture seeks to understand the process of creolization for the enslaved in a temperate (Canadian) and tropical (Jamaican) slave colony and will ask how African slaves became AfricanCanadian and African-Jamaican respectively. Beginning with the premise that fugitive slave advertisements were “portraits” of the enslaved, this lecture combines an art historical examination of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century fugitive slave advertisements with genre studies of black slaves. Multiple workspaces and exceptional technical facilities support studio experimentation, while a range of theoretical seminars fosters the conceptual and historical underpinnings of individual practice. Following two years of course-work, students develop a concluding project and exhibition in their final year. An obscure United Nations body is making mail from developing nations unnaturally cheap-and hurting e-commerce, manufacturing, and postal systems in industrialized countries. The Universal Postal Union is a secretive backroom club, but its missteps were born from the highest of ideals. Maintaining a connection with the natural world helps children develop healthy social skills, enhances school curricula, strengthens family ties, and fosters an understanding and appreciation of the environment. Turkish Airlines flies to more countries in the world than any other airline, according to UMB’s Official Airline Guide. In addition to Europe, Turkish Airlines is also strategically expanding its network into Russia, Central Asia, Far East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and North and South America. The workshop will exp l o r e professional knowledge, skills and practices needed for managing collections and exhibitions while they travel. We will look into transporting artworks from collections within Canada and to/from Canada, including customs procedures.

The workshop will address the complexities of cultural property. We will look into how to handle a variety of artwork so that the conservation of high value Canadian artwork is maintained during transportation, ensuring Canadians continued access to these artworks. The workshop will look into case-by-case studies of touring exhibitions and registrants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share their own experiences. In Philadelphia on Dec. 9, 2015, supporters of Mumia AbuJamal marked his 34th year of wrongful incarceration with a freedom honk on the west side of City Hall, a teach-in on his case and medical condition and a screening of the film, ?Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia AbuJamal.? Simultaneous demonstrations were held at the Harlem State Office Building on 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell in New York and in Mexico City, Paris and Heidelberg, Germany, among other cities around the world. Finally, on Dec. 18, we have a rare, one-time opportunity to get Mumia the medical attention he desperately needs. U.S. Federal District Court Judge Robert Mariani will conduct an extensive public hearing on Mumia’s medical crisis and has asked for testimony from Mumia.

Credit for this victory is due in no small part to the public outcry. According to Pam Africa, ‘The fact that the judge has asked for testimony from Mumia at this hearing is a victory. Our consistent protests, here and around the world, against the inhumane denial of proper medical treatment for Mumia and others who our being sickened by the prisons are being heard.’ Military terms and symbols that are used by the U.S. Army have been compiled in an updated reference manual, along with acronyms and abbreviations. See ADRP 1-02, Terms and Military Symbols, December 2015. Intended to foster a common vocabulary, the manual can also help outsiders to interpret distinctive Army expressions and patterns of speech.

The manual devotes several chapters to “military symbology.” “A military symbol is a graphic representation of a unit, equipment, installation, activity, control measure, or tactical task relevant to military operations that is used for planning or to represent the common operational picture on a map, display, or overlay.” “The symbology chapters (chapters 3 through 10) provide detailed requirements for composing and constructing symbols.

The rules for building a set of military symbols allow enough flexibility for users to create any symbol to meet their operational needs,” the manual said. But it is time to consider that the right wing in Europe (as well as in the United States), is going beyond nostalgia and xenophobia.

Its growth in every European country is due to an expanding number of disaffected citizens, many of whom come from the working class and the poorest sections of society. They are citizens who once vote for the left, but have become frustrated with the decline of welfare structures, unemployment for them or their children, a state in retreat in favour of the market, growing social injustice, immigration felt as a threat, loss of national identity and strident corruption.

This has created a new category of what could be called economic nationalism‚ which wants to combat all forms of foreign intrusion, whether it be the European Union, immigrants, NATO or multinationals. The traditional parties are looked on as a self-referent mechanism of unaccountable elites, who are interested in perpetuation in power and do not deliver what citizens need. It is mix of xenophobia, nationalism, nostalgia for a past that was better, a call for an economy that enhances the nation without giving any space to foreign forces and institutions - it is a container large enough to accommodate a growing part of the electorate.

Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (4 Connecticut, 4 Ontario) Whooper Swan (1 New Hampshire) Tufted Duck (1 New York, 2 Newfoundland and Labrador, 1 Oregon) Smew (1 Ontario) Brown Booby (2 California, 1 Mississippi, 1 Texas) Northern Jacana (1 Texas) Ruff (3 North Carolina) Aplomado Falcon (3 Texas) White-collared Seedeater (1 Texas) Western Spindalis (5 Florida) We all know the narrative in which we (the West) are seized. It is the narrative of the Cold War: America versus the Evil Empire.‚ And, as Professor Ira Chernus has written, since we are

human‚ and somehow they (the USSR or, now, ISIS) plainly are not, we must be their polar opposite in every way. If they are absolute evil, we must be the absolute opposite. It’s the old apocalyptic tale: God’s people versus Satan’s. It ensures that we never have to admit to any meaningful connection with the enemy.‚ It is the basis to America’s and Europe’s claim to exceptionalism and leadership. And buried in the assumption that the enemy is not in any sense human like us, is [an] absolution for whatever hand we may have had in sparking or contributing to evil’s rise and spread. How could we have fertilized the soil of absolute evil or bear any responsibility for its successes? It’s a basic postulate of wars against evil: God’s people must be innocent, (and that the evil cannot

be mediated, for how can one mediate with evil). Slackware Linux Essentials is an indispensible resource that you will want to have by your side at all times.

It contains the most complete and up-to-date information available on the Slackware Linux Operating System. A must-have reference guide you have been waiting for, it delivers everything you need to get started with Slackware Linux, including straightf o r w a r d explanations of important programs and step-by-step instructions to guide you through the Slackware installation process. You too can become an expert on this powerful OS by reading about its history and capabilities. Since the early 1960s, Georg Paul Thomann has devoted himself to the grey zones where systems intersect: the art (market), politics, economics, pop, gaiety, vanity, good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, self-content, identity, utopia, Georg Paul Thomann, mania and despair.

The technique underlying his work is that of being and working in the fields of pa i nt i ng/ the fine arts, Pop/ a v a n t garde, theory/reflection, interventionism/politics, gaiety/lust/tragedy, (self-)configuration/mystification, and city/village.

“Urban and rural zones are like a circulator pump in a brown, stinking little garden pond.

They’re feeding each other, they’re sucking and spitting happily ever after” (interview with Thomann, in de:bug, Berlin, 1999). The project he pushes into and beyond these fields is ‘networking’ events, people, possibilities, material, impetus and identities.

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

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

The Interface Politics Conference is about reflecting on the role and influence of interfaces within the universe of tools from the contemporary production system.

How are the imaginaries related to creativity, politics, labour, economics and culture configured and created in the context of a universalised system of interfaces that is based on the promise of being natural, transparent, simple and accessible? What answers and actions can be articulated from design prac tices that aim to question the utopias arising from a form of communication that is increasingly subject to a culture of control? How can alliances be established between design, the field of critical thinking and action, and industrial and institutional narratives linked to technological theologies? The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.

How is it possible that the poorer classes can remain healthy and have a reasonable expectation of life under such conditions? What can one expect but that they should suffer from continual outbreaks of epidemics and an excessively low expectation of life? The physical condition of the workers shows a progressive deterioration. Don’t miss your last chance to receive this special discount. With 12 months of FREE access to the Museum, members-only events, discounts in the Museum Store and Museum Grounds cafe, and special programs, a Portland Art Museum membership is truly a unique gift for anyone on your list. Finish up your holi-

day shopping in just a few easy clicks. View categories and benefits and purchase today. A storm system will impact much of the High Plains bringing heavy snow, gusty winds, blowing snow, and treacherous travel conditions through Wednesday afternoon and evening. The snow will gradually end late in the day but some slippery travel could continue into Thursday over many locations. He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. The great only appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise. This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society.

People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships. Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society -- one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security. If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors. Bill Will will spend 5 weeks at the Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island in Southwest Florida.

The residency is located on the grounds of Robert Rauschenberg’s former home and studio. The site includes the two-story, 8,000-square-foot multimedia main studio for visual and performing arts, a dance studio, a writing cottage, three multipurpose studios, a communal dining space, an historical Fish House on stilts, and four houses that can accommodate a total of ten artists. Jungle Road, a meandering path bordered by Hong Kong orchids, strangler figs, bougainvillea, and gumbo-limbo trees, runs through the property from beach to bay. Follow Bill’s adventure on Instagram Human societies of all kinds have throughout history always generated their own distinctive visual cultures.

However, with the possible exception of art historians this sense of immense diversity and rich historical precedence has been somewhat ignored. Everyday discussions in all forms of media appear to suggest that ours is the visual generation, when this is clearly not the case.

Indeed, the term ‘visual literacy’ has crept into our general language use indicating that there is a code for interpreting visual texts of all kinds. This notion in itself has become a source of discussion in many areas and forms one of the key topics for this conference. This project seeks to place a reflective pause in the busy lives of the delegates who attend, and the visual bombardment we all encounter with the aim of unpacking how the visuals in the respective professional and personal worlds represented actually create meaning. The trauma inflicted on societies under communist regimes and post-traumatic symptoms manifesting themselves across the whole spectrum of public discourses remain one of the most painfully under-researched problems in the study of Central and East European (CEE) cultures. The conference aims to investigate the multiple forms of totalitarian trauma and of the (post-)traumatic transition period in the region. The assessment of the totalitarian pasts

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

Countries that have adopted EMV cards have seen card fraud drop anywhere from 50% to 70% within a few years of moving to EMV chip technology. A humanitarian program providing free cataract operations to seniors went seriously wrong last week, leaving 17 people in danger of going blind. A contaminated laboratory has been blamed for an infection that results in an inflammation that attacks the optic nerve and can result in loss of vision. The surrogacy boom in Tabasco is over: the state Congress approved legislation yesterday that prevents foreign couples from paying women to carry their baby, a practice that had grown steadily in the past three years. Princeton University’s long-overdue uproar over Woodrow Wilson’s racism barely scratches the surface of the damage he did to US democracy. At the core of his foul legacy is the fact that he dragged the United States into a hated world war

based on a monstrous lie, and that he used that war as cover to illegally shatter the United States’ democratic Socialist Party while permanently shredding the US Constitution. Wilson’s League of Nations was an instrument of imperial conquest meant to make the world safe for white supremacy, not democracy. Then, he got the US into World War I. Key was theLusitania, a British passenger ship sailing in 1915 from New York to London. With war raging, the Germans claimed it was loaded with weapons. They warned passengers not to board it, and then sank it as an act of war. Wilson responded with a national hate campaign against the “barbarity” of t h e “ H u n s .”

He was already in the process of invading Mexico, sending t h e slaughter all the way into Mexico City. Decades laterdivers found the Lusitania and confirmed that it was, indeed, loaded with munitions. Wilson knew his war fever was based on a lie, or else did a very good job of “not knowing.” In 1916, he ran for re-election as a “peace candidate.” Then he opened fire. Wilson used war as an excuse to break the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

He had broken new ground by reaching out to the conservative American Federation of Labor.

More than twenty years ago, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) made a strategic decision to seek a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip through bilateral negotiations with Israel.

Yet today the Palestinian people remain in practical terms stateless, and are divided and fragmented in a manner that rivals the immediate post-1948 period.

Israeli colonization has relentlessly eroded the land base for a genuinely sovereign Palestinian state. The United States has posed as the broker of the negotiating process, even though it has repeatedly proven Vice President Joe Biden’s insistence that There’s absolutely no daylight -- none -between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security. Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s famous red ministerial box fetched £242,500 ($364,600, 334,000 euros) at a sale of her possessions held Tuesday in London by auction house Christie’s.

Initially expected to sell for between £3,000 and £5,000, auctioneer Jussi Pykkanen finalised the sale to an unidentified buyer with a bang of his hammer, to applause from the audience. The box, in which the late Conserva-

tive leader would carry confidential documents, is one of the most iconic of around 200 of Thatcher’s personal belongings offered for sale by Christie’s.

Many have been advertised online since December 3, with the sale due to end Wednesday. Items which belonged to the “Iron Lady” have often sold better than the clothes she wore. A sheet featuring a typed prayer attributed to St Francis of Assisi and signed by Thatcher, which she quoted on first arriving in Downing Street in 1979, sold for £37,500, despite an initial estimate of between £600 and £900.

With wide bridges and clever strokes, Ano Stencil enlivens the page, instantly assembling into a fun and informal pattern. Take whatever visual connotations the stencil genre holds impermanence, necessity, urgency

this face plays up the best qualities of each.

Eduardo Manso expands his popular Geogrotesque family by an additional two widths, all seven weights now available in Compressed and Extra Compressed. The softened draftsman sans covers an interesting range between the more severe tech sans genre and the familiar neo-grotesques of the midtwentieth century.

This contemporary Venetian gives the typographer a strong calligraphic base for building typographic systems in books, cafe menus, and packaging. Its linear forms and long extenders suggest the work of Nicolas Jenson, while its harmonized proportions and sensuous italic curves are all its own. In Laura Varsky’s latest collaboration with Alejandro Paul, she explores the tone of a flowing, mixed-construction script written with a pointed pen. Its expressive lines and inky texture create a distinctive and instantly recognizable personality. The family includes a set of interchangeable pattern blocks.

Taking stylistic cues from type made to function at micro sizes, as Capo’s horizontal strokes meet its stems, they taper sharply. Though exaggerated, Capo isn’t just a conspicuous display face‚ it’s also marvelously legible at text sizes. Comes in four weights with all the essentials.

Too sunny to pass for any of the numerous cool-toned sanses available, Graviola broadcasts a positive vibe with its curved diagonals and soft details. While its extreme weights work best for display, its interior styles are well suited to setting text. Eight full weights including italics. Topping off Wolfgang Homola’s Soleil family is this dazzling contrivance, a set of impossible, Escheresque capitals made for flat, or layered chromatic setting. Comes with figures, punctuation, and an extensive set of symbols. Similar faces include Macula and Frustro.

We invite participants to join us and work with these concepts of integrative tactile experience, kinetic atmospheres, mu lt iper spe c t iva l space, and unconscious perception. ‘Metabody’ counteracts dominant technologies and their prevalent tendency to negate differences by reducing bodies and movements to prescribed forms in current surveillance culture. ‘Metabody’ emphasizes openness, and indeterminacy of embodied expressions as a key factor for a sustainable society. This

project also foregrounds the need for a new politics. The workshop & performance laboratory probes troubling interpretations of the increasing unrestrainment of capital, and capitalism’s impact on all social-economic, cultural, creative, and educational sectors in a shared developed world now expanded by massive migration and refugee movement. The sustainability of democracy is an urgent theme for all those in the performing arts/creative fields becoming intensely aware of the multiplication of realities (virtualization; networked infrastructures, diasporas) and the tightening of our bodies into technological environments. This is a call for peripheral perception in existential experience.

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

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

on down the food chain. Canadian artists and artist teams are invited to submit an Expression of Interest to enter into a juried competition to create new permanent public artwork. The objective of the public artwork is to enhance the resident and visitor experience at Hammond Stadium Park through the placement of a new piece of public art that celebrates the history of sport and the unique heritage character of this park. Hammond is a place with a long historical association with the sport of baseball and the cedar sawmilling industry in Port Hammond. The year-round training facility for minor baseball is located in the historic community of Hammond. Built in 1951, Hammond Stadium was refurbished in 2014. Today the Hammond Stadium Park also includes a community centre, basketball court, tennis court, soccer field and outdoor pool.

While it’s still far from common knowledge among the Western public that Washington’s closest allies in the Mid-East are funding, arming, and otherwise enabling the Sunni extremists (including ISIS) battling for control of Syria and working to destabilize Iraq, the massacre that unfolded earlier this month in San Bernardino has managed to focus some much needed attention on the role Saudi Arabia plays in promoting extremism. After may years of ignoring African challenges posed by global trading system, the WTO- one of the principal instruments of global economic governance- comes to the continent to seek legitimacy. The WTO is trying to reinvent itself to appear as if it cares about Africa and has solutions to a myriad of problems (increasing poverty, unemployment and underemployment, collapse of social institutions, etc). African economies most of which are agrobased were ruined by the WTO which promotes developed countries and transnational corporations. Delegates told stories of farmers abandoning their lands and moving to urban areas because they are unable to survive otherwise. They described extreme weather conditions that have caused damage to their crops, and they called attention to the spreading of diseases such as coffee rust‚ that has diminished productivity in several Latin American countries. Artwork must be maximum 12 inches x 12 inches outside size. 3 dimensional artwork must fit into a 12x12x12 inch space. Maximum retail price cannot exceed $250. All watercolours must be framed. 12x12 max with a maximum frame size 18x18 Artwork may be created in any media on canvas (gallery depth or narrow), Arches paper, professional quality photographic paper or acid free board. The most innovative of historical court studies build on a solid foundation of theoretical reflection. A wide variety of methodological approaches and models for the understanding of the court as a political and social institution are on offer today and all of them are in need of further development and empirical testing. Therefore, this workshop seeks to support the production of empirically wellgrounded studies, which apply theoretical and methodological approaches in a creative manner. Ozu wanted to capture the cinematic quality of everyday life,‚ says Bond, and doing so required a very specific style.‚ Rather than adding techniques on to his cinematic vocabulary, Ozu eliminated them, making complete and meaningful use of those that remained: rigorous, painting-like compositions using frames within frames; a low-

placed camera (set, legend has it, around the height of someone sitting on a traditional tatami mat) that hardly ever moves and always uses a human eyesight-like 50millimeter lens; dialogue that cuts between straight-on close-ups of each speaker (breaking filmmaking’s sacred 180-degree rule‚ every time). With wide bridges and clever strokes, Ano Stencil enlivens the page, instantly assembling into a fun and informal pattern. Take whatever visual connotations the stencil genre holds -- impermanence, necessity, urgency -- this face plays up the best qualities of each. Eduardo Manso expands his popular Geogrotesque family by an additional two widths, all seven weights now available in Compressed and Extra Compressed. The softened draftsman sans covers an interesting range between the more severe tech sans genre and the familiar neo-grotesques of the midtwentieth century. This contemporary Venetian gives the typographer a strong calligraphic base for building typographic systems in books, cafe menus, and packaging. Its linear forms and long extenders suggest the work of Nicolas Jenson, while its harmonized proportions and sensuous italic curves are all its own. In Laura Varsky’s latest collaboration with Alejandro Paul, she explores the tone of a flowing, mixed-construction script written with a pointed pen. Its expressive lines and inky texture create a distinctive and instantly recognizable personality. The family includes a set of interchangeable pattern blocks.

Taking stylistic cues from type made to function at micro sizes, as Capo’s horizontal strokes meet its stems, they taper sharply. Though exaggerated, Capo isn’t just a conspicuous display face, it’s also marvelously legible at text sizes. Comes in four weights with all the essentials. Too sunny to pass for any of the numerous cooltoned sanses available, Graviola broadcasts a positive vibe with its curved diagonals and soft details.

While its extreme weights work best for display, its interior styles are well suited to setting text. Eight full weights including italics. By now, the metrics of mass incarceration are well known. As documented in last year?s report of the National Research Council, incarceration rates in the U.S. more than quadrupled between the early 1970s and 2009, the peak year in the prison buildup. Over that time span, the tough-on-crime era produced the promised results each year, more people were held behind bars. Today, the U.S. incarceration rate is five to 10 times higher than the rates of European countries. As the NRC report concluded, this phenomenon is ?historically unprecedented and internationally unique. Less well known, however, are the metrics of a distinct phenomenon changing incarceration rates in American jails. This reflects, in part, a legalistic distinction between these two institutions. Prisons typically hold people convicted of serious crimes and sentenced to prison terms longer than a year. Jails, by contrast, typically hold two populations, people awaiting trial and those serving custodial sentences of less than a year. While the NRC consensus panel, which I chaired, referenced this legal distinction, its analysis focused primarily on incarceration rates in prisons.

This focus allowed the panel to explore the role of increasingly punitive sentencing policies as drivers in the prison build-up. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (1 Connecticut, 14 Ontario) Whooper Swan (4 New Hampshire) Tufted Duck (1 Washington) Smew (1 Ontario) Brown Booby (1 California, 1 Louisiana, 1 Mississippi, 1 Texas) Northern Jacana (1 Texas) Ruff (2 California, 4 North Carolina) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (2 Arizona) Tropical Parula (1 Texas) Rufous-capped Warbler (3 Arizona) Western Spindalis (3 Florida) The next in a series of storms will impact parts of the northwestern U.S. on Thursday with heavy rainfall, significant mountain snow, strong winds and flash flooding possible. Meanwhile, rain and thunderstorms are possible across the East Coast, with a Marginal Risk of severe thunderstorms from the central Gulf Coast to the mid-Atlantic. Today, much of the most interesting, innovative and passionate writing - and dialogue about museums and galleries takes place around some 500 carefully-crafted, thoughtfully-created museum blogs and personal websites. But all too little of this content enters into mainstream museum discourse on a regular basis. The Museum Blog Book aims to remedy this. In the late nineteenth century two facts conspired

to change the face of music: the collapse of common practice tonality (which overturned the certainties underpinning the world of art music), and the invention of a revolutionary new form of memory, sound recording (which redefined and greatly empowered the world of popular music). A tidal wave of probes and experiments into new musical resources and new organisational practices ploughed through both disciplines, bringing parts of each onto shared terrain before rolling on to underpin a new aesthetics able to follow sound and its manipulations beyond the narrow confines of ‘music’.

This series tries analytically to trace and explain these developments, and to s h o w how, and why, both musical and postmusical genres take the forms they do. We have a wide and expanding range of research interests, centered on three main research groups in social media, media policy and industries and media history. We have established centres for the study of the media in China, India, the Arab world and Africa. In the broadest sense we are interested in the social, economic, political and cultural significance of the media, and welcome proposals from prospective students on these or any other topic related to media and communication.

During the 11 years Jackson spent in prison following a oneyear-to-life sentence for his alleged role in a gas station robbery, he amassed a library of more than 99 books with which he used to educate himself and which he shared among his fellow prisoners. About 75 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas in developing countries. Most survive on subsistence farming, artisanal fisheries and/or nomadic herding and many are landless, working as seasonal labour on farms, plantations, in fisheries and industry.

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Their daily food needs are met primarily through local production, foraging, hunting and fishing - often by women - on small farms, common grazing lands and in woods, forests, streams, rivers and lakes. Reduced access to these ecosystems or decrease in the foods gathered in these environments can result in hunger and acute malnutrition.

Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (1 Connecticut, 1 Ontario) Whooper Swan (1 New Hampshire) Tufted Duck (1 Vermont) Brown Booby (1 Mississippi) Ruff (3 California, 2 North Carolina) Kelp Gull (1 Ohio) Ruddy

Ground-Dove (1 Arizona) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (1 Arizona) Rufous-backed Robin (1 Arizona) Rufous-capped Warbler (2 Arizona) Western Spindalis (1 Florida) Fivestriped Sparrow (1 Arizona) Not so long ago in a galaxy not so far away, the arts were under attack! In the mid90s, the U.S. Senate voted to shut down the National Endowment for the Arts’ grants to individual artists. A group of intrepid arts supporters took action, creating a new kind of organization that would embrace risk to support artists working in all disciplines. And Creative Capital was born. Now, 17 years later, I’m astonished to see the profound force that we have built to support creative individuals, and to see how our artists are shaping the world we live in. Geographically next door to Syria is what

remains of Israeli occupied Palestine, Christ’s birthplace in Bethlehem, where, at what is now the Church of the Nativity. He was believed born. Above are just a few of the jewels of a region now decimated by that created by George W. Bush’s and Tony Blair’s Crusade, not to mention Obama and Cameron’s humanitarian bombings‚ of the Land of two Rivers. Ur was vandalized by the US army, who arrived with Bibles in vast stocks, missionaries and plans for proselytizing those who had nurtured and stewarded the region’s wonders of all religions for centuries. AlQurna was stormed and devastatingly damaged by British, Lithuanian and Danish troops, the Tree of Knowledge whose legend and life seemingly spanned the mists of time, died, near certainly from the poisonous pollution of battle, more poisonous even than that which destroyed over half all fauna and flora after the Desert Storm 1991 onslaught, leaving the soil dead and infertile for years afterwards. An a c t i v e weather pattern continues across the Pacific Northwest on Friday, as a storm system brings areas of widespread snow and heavy rain near the coast. By Saturday evening, another frontal system will be approaching the region and will bring yet another round of precipitation to the region, including gusty winds. He insisted on paying. We had a very nice visit.

In addition to falling off a scaffold at work several years ago and causing permanent injury to his feet, he has had sclerosis of the liver. The liver has recovered, but it is always there in a dormant state. No more alcohol. He didn’t mention your postcards. I’ll ask him next time I contact him. He’s a bright little guy... just like his father. Too bad you live so far away or you could join Edna and me.

There are men now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder “censorship,” we call it “concern for commercial viability. “The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the

wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity much less dissent.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. Hillary Clinton has received more money from arms and military service companies than any other candidate during the 2016 presidential campaign. Lucifer haunts the corridors of power. Ordinary, decent people can turn into monsters -- rapists, murderers -- when given unlimited power over others.

US soldiers told their superiors they witnessed three Seals dropping heavy stones on detainees chests, kicking and stepping on their heads, firing weapons during an interrogation, and employing a variation of waterboarding. U.S. Air Force officials has begun to hire private companies to fly drone aircraft operating over Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. The unprecedented move is in response to demands from the Obama administration to dramatically expand the drone war just as the Pentagon faces a critical shor ta ge of military pilots.

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

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

ality, identity and intelligence is often presumed in evolutionary accounts of human development. Yet, given the hopes and aims of having a machine that is - for example - creative, could we also have a machine that could desire? And if so, what implications might lead from that in terms of sexuality, gender identity, and reproduction? For this symposium we will invite papers that engage with such topics, and seek to bring together a number of scholarly fields including computing, AI, philosophy, and psychology. The online questionnaire will take about 15 minutes to complete. We ask you to select one of your projects that best represents the way in which your organization collaborates with local governments in design projects. In addition, we would appreciate if you could kindly forward this invitation to others that you know to be active in this area, especially colleagues within your organization that may have been involved in design projects with local governments.

We thank you in advance for your participation and we look forward to sharing the map of design higher education and local government design collaboration with you in the near future. Over 100 workers were laid off at a Lexmark plant in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, after going on strike for two days to press for a daily wage increase of 6 pesos, or US $0.35. They sought the increase, from 114 to 120 pesos, for experienced workers, but the company rejected the demand in October. Universities giant and small, public and private, bring African-American men to campus at grotesque levels to earn the school millions in football and basketball revenues.

Stories about academic freedom and free speech have been appearing in newspapers more frequently over the last few weeks. And curiously enough political actors on and off campus who traditionally have been least likely to be concerned about these subjects are becoming its major advocates. Distortions and the deformation of late capitalism have led our contemporary world into a cul-de-sac characterized by cycles of economic failure and depression. This crisis of capital has also witnessed increasing global economic inequalities that are unprecedented in human history. That policy and structure of the international political economy lie at the heart of the resultant complex social conflict of global proportions is not in question. What is, however, is the manner in which various manifestations of this conflict in trouble spots around the world from Afghanistan to Iraq; from Egypt to Libya; from Nigeria to Kenya; and from Yemen to Pakistan, and elsewhere have been handled.

Oppressive instruments of international military control, rather than social transformation of affected nations by addressing the developmental needs of citizens, have been the preferred response.

This knee jerk firefighting has been inadequately complemented by multilateral and bilateral aid packages from the West, a raft of successive fiscal prescriptions from international financial institutions, band aid projects ran by non-governmental organizations and ameliorative operations by various United Nations agencies. Unfortunately, security operations, peacekeeping, peacemaking and peacebuilding missions and unilateral military interventions as well as fiscal policies have not always, if at all, been informed by the historical depth of stark social reality. The glaring “inconvenient” details of this social reality, centuries in the making, do not bear on “solutions” that are resorted to. This seems to fly in the face of

basic common sense that, if in a hole, the most practical first step to get out is to stop digging. This, with respect to intrastate conflicts (insurgencies, revolts, and wars of secession, ethnic conflict, civil wars, coups and racial or religious violence) sometimes experienced across states, strongly suggests the need for a critical examination of the structural and legal-policy foundations, and built-in or systematic inequalities, of the international political economy. Indeed, major decision-makers and intellectuals should not pretend that the current state of affairs in the world with regard to international politics, international law and underdevelopment of developing nations has nothing to do with the international imperial system and colonialism that was hastily “discarded” and “replaced” by the present state system. But, unfortunately little if any research has been undertaken to directly connect intractable international social conflict to the legal illegality of the imperial system in which it was enough to either read the requerimiento, the written of sovereignty, as, not only an assertive statement of arrival into a foreign land, but also taking possession of it. Whereas such European colonial conquest, possession and exploitation was not illegal under international law prevalent then and since the Roman Empire until the advent of 20th century international law, contemporary inadequacies of the international political economy characterized by internal contradictions and inequalities created by capitalism warrant a critical assessment of the imperial system. There is a lot to see at Nanzoin Temple. A friend once described it, critically, as like a Buddhist “theme park”, but I think back in the Edo period pilgrimage temples were a lot like that with many “attractions” to draw pilgrims. In the grounds stands a massive, ancient tree that had been hit by lightning, though still living. Carved into it is a relief of Raijin, the God of Thunder and A towering, 12-metre (40-foot) long Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton with a terrifying jaw goes on display in Berlin’s Natural History Museum from Thursday. Hoping that dino frenzy will drive a visitor boom, the museum Wednesday invited media to a face-to-face encounter with the 66-million-yearold beast called “Tristan”. The prehistoric predator is considered one of the most complete skeletons among the 50-odd sets of T-rex remains that have been unearthed worldwide, many in the hands of private collectors and out of public view. Tristan has come to the German capital for an at least three year long stint courtesy of Danish businessman and largefossil collector Niels Nielsen, who said he named it after his son.

“Dinosaurs attract people to museums” and such exhibits “encourage children to take an interest in research,” said Nielsen during the presentation After years of studying a mysterious thigh bone from a cave in China, scientists said Thursday they believe it represents an ancient species of human that persisted much longer than previously thought. The 14,000year-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 primitive-looking 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 4,000-year-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 d a y hu nc he d over his computer, t r a n s l a ting and writing articles for a weekly 16 - p a g e 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. Self-starter and ability to work independently, with little supervision. Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects.

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“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, ing redients and over 60 kg of corn dough in their medium-sized 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 aflatoxins 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 multimedia. The festival takes place in both indoor and outdoor spaces, and projects can be accommodated accordingly. Sitespecific 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 AlN u s r a 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 published 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 de-

mands 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, even 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 2016 and 20 Jan 2016. For any reasons, if you do not receive your package by 22 Jan 2016, 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. Sincerely, Audrey Luo Customer Service Supervisor royal way trade, a division of Suntekstore Working Hours: Mon to Fri 9:00-18:00 China Time, excluding statutory holidays This is the 9,460,624 order since 2001, and still counting. Thank you. Heavy lake effect snow will continue over portions of Upstate New York today. Lake effect snow warnings and advisories are in effect through this evening.

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more than ever, on-the-ground investigations into the impact of U.S. funding are needed, especially in Honduras and Guatemala where the governments are still controlled by the corrupt political-military alliances that engage in the repression of grassroots movements. This was an ambitious year for AM. Our retail activities continue 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, propagation, 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 Rice 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 GMO seeds and crops, have oversold the benefits of GMOs without taking into consideration 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 father-figure 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 proje c t brought t o g e t he r people from diverse lifestyles and remote locations to pla nt , g r o w , 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 c apit a l i z at ion .

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 independent, because then they need no longer the representative 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 betterknown picture theor i e s .

Patterns of elements such as l i n e s , 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.

F o r m a l 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 en-

slavement; 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 corporatocracy, 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 prosecute 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 m i x e d flock of 14 swans in a field a quarter mile east of the swale.

T h e r e 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. You may find your order on eBay still waiting for dispatch. We get a notice from our storehouse that we temporarily run out of stock of this item at the moment. We have been making every attempt to maintain stock of every item we offer on eBay, but on rare occasion that we meet the inventory management problem. We did not remove the item link on eBay, because to remove the item link would empty our sales records and lower our sales rank. We greatly appreciate your understanding on this matter.

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-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 Itzi is at risk of losing that distinction due to the num-

ber 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 water-wheels were sources of energy that ran huge factories. But water as an energy source has many limitations; there are limited places where 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, particularly in the advanced capitalist countries, you ended up with a much more decentralized conf iguration 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, sympathetic 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, indepth 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 significant stress. At least 75 people 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 denounc-

ing 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 Transpacif ic m e g a t reat y ( Tr a n s Pacif ic Par tners h i p 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 Agenda1996), 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.” (B. Obama, October, 2015).

Nonetheless, the objective was never restricted to the world 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 clichÈ “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 organi-

zations 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 2009-2013 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 re c orde d , 11 of which are yearround 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. r u fe s c e n s ) , 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. Agespecific 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-central 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 attempting 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 madness designed to keep me sane. My mind struggled to build across the gap, make a new and inhabitable 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, halfair, 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 number-plate 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 Summa r y: P i n k-foote d 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 Ground-Dove (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), 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-monthsold, 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 in-

cluding 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 Tutankham u n ’ s mask, the golden foil r h i n o could be displayed ove r s e a s 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. $120/180,000, 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 a c h i e v e d $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 photography 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 topranking 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 borndigital materials. In 2013, Cornell University Library received a 2-year 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 a n nou nce the publication of a white paper that de s c r i b e s the project’s findings, discover ie s, 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 gov-

ernment 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 notfor-profit organization with a unique focus on the production, dissemination and contextualization of artistinitiated 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. 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.

Would they kill civilians, women 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, or are 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 selfpublished book, ‘The Miracle Morning: The Not-SoObvious 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, they’re free to get booked on! I invested over $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 2015-12-21 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 it s coming a little longer with your greatest patience.

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The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger... The chef ’s claim was approved. 3.

A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her. 4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies... The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days. 5.

An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train.. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer... $15. 7.

Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly.. He decided that he’d just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape... 8. 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.” 9. 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. 10.

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 com-

piled 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 i n for mation within 48 hours, we’ll limit what you can do with your PayPal account.

C on f i r m 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 Motor-coach 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 Petzcuaro 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.

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hey started the fight for artistic freedom by trying to look behind the ideological facade of socialist realism. They pictured food 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 contentwas, 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 Val-

ley of Kings in Luxor along with a treasure trove of thousands of objects. “Maia is none other than princess Meritaten, the sister or half-sister of Tutankhamun and the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. The rise of the infamous cryptocurrency Bitcoin has sparked interest in another revo l u t i o n a r y 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 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, reorganized, perpetuated and “modernized”. The Gray Zones of Creativity and Capital (eds.

Gordana Nikolif and Tefik 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 dramatically 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 opera-

tions 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. It has high yields, ships pretty well, and ripens slowly, making it appetizing to global food distributors and the American palate. The threefold rise in hate crimes against Muslims since the Paris and San Bernardino attacks and the acceptance of hate speech in political discourse are signs of our society’s morbidity. thanks: only if you’ll be having some as I got all kinds of wraps, cheese, potatoes, muffins from TJ/SC (I wanted to use the Pike Place fish seasoning properly by dredging through milk/flour so maybe salmon would be best. I’d need some milk of some kind please.) & some chips for the salsa please Thanks for your purchasing We hope you enjoy your trading experience with us. Please notice: We have been shipped your order next working day after your payment is clear.

Due to the international transportation, we cannot control the shipping scheduling, and also different country customs has different customs inspection time and some reasons caused by your local postman service, etc , Normally, the shipment takes around 10-25 working days to your country via China Airmail registered Post (Sometime, it’s faster than expected) If the item not arrives within 25 working days, please don’t hesitate to contact us for solution before you leave us any nonpositive feedback or open case. 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 detained 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.

The AP reports that at least a dozen times in the last 10 years, foreign hackers have had enough access to control operations and networks that power American systems. In a separate report, U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal that Iranian hackers managed to breach the control system of a Rye, New York, 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