downloads of trails & custom routes Unlimited custom route creation Unlimited print maps The Comparative Research Network Competition is a long-standing tool that CODESRIA uses to encourage the development and consolidation of a comparative analytic perspective in the work of African social science researchers. The goal of the program is to contribute to the establishment of a strong corpus of comparative studies produced by African and Diaspora scholars that is theoretically innovative while being grounded in sound empirical research. The competition seeks to support work employing temporal and spatial frames of analysis and units of analysis that range from the regional and sub-regional to the national and local. The CODESRIA CRN Program encourages intra-African comparative work that explores and exploits the variegated nature of social realities on the continent as well as studies that put the continent in conversation with other areas of world with particular emphasis on the Global South. A 15-year-old asylum-seeker is in custody after fatally stabbing a female refugee worker Monday in Sweden. The 22-year-old Swedish woman, who worked at a home for young migrants where the boy was staying, was alone with the eight male refugees living there at the time of the incident, officials said. The identity of the boy has not been released; a police spokesman said this was not an act of terrorism. The family of a California teenager who was killed by police three months ago has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the circumstances of the young man’s death were covered up by police. According to the lawsuit, the incident was recorded on security cameras and a camera phone, but police seized and destroyed the footage. Sammy Villarreal, who was 18 years old at the time of his death, was killed in a car chase in a parking lot. Villarreal tried to escape from police by accelerating backward, crashing into a police vehicle. Police then opened fire.n an interview with Al Jazeera, public intellectual and MIT professor Noam Chomsky said that he’d “absolutely” vote for Hillary Clinton over a Republican if he lived in a swing state. Chomsky, who lives in the solidly blue state of Massachusetts, also said that though he likes Bernie Sanders, the left-wing candidate doesn’t have much of an electoral chance. “I agree with him in a lot of things, not in other things,” he said. “I frankly think that in our system of mainly bought elections he doesn’t have much of a chance.” A woman who accused former Florida State University quarterback Jameis Winston of an off-campus rape in 2012 received $250,000 in a Title IX settlement on Monday. Erica Kinsman dropped her federal lawsuit in exchange for the total $950,000 settlement, of which her lawyers received the bulk: $700,000. FSU announced the results of the settlement and claimed the payment is the largest ever to a single plaintiff in a Title IX sexual-assault case. Florida State president John Thrasher said the move helped the university avoid ‘millions of dollars in additional litigation expense.’ Winston now plays for the National Football League Konrad Becker of WorldInformation.net meets with the elusive author of “Cannibalistic Capitalism and Alien Algorithms” to discuss algorithmic regimes and the politics of code and machines. El Iblis Shah’s research on control and deception technologies focuses on encoding belief in symbolic representations and human sacrifice. On his way from the Middleeast’s fertile crescent to the “Conference on Classification and Violence” in Athens, the secretive wizard of dissent comments on infectious powers of alien formulas, the rise of a new cult and its rule of terror. Cuba is one of the earliest colonies and a pivot of global trade. Portland is the end of the Oregon Trail ‘ first traveled by the college’s namesakes. The artists have considered the particular history of Portland in their work for the exhibition and four of the artists will be here to discuss their work. Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzocreates installations and public actions that poke at the troubled cultural space for people of African ancestry. Reynier ‘El Chino’ Novo’s repurposed cultural objects reveal the depleted energy of true political action. Elizabet Cervio’s spare performances draw from the haunted contradictions in historic spaces. Rafael Villares’ displaced landscapes create tensions between desire and reality. The exhibition contains the work of two additional artists: Adriana
Arronte’s installations of exquisitely crafted glass and plastic objects complicate spaces of personal consumption; and Yornel Martinez’ works often leads off the canvas or page and into sculpture and even public interventions that create situates for language to grow and change. With global displacement at record levels, it is clear that humanitarian protection will continue to be a key focus for policymakers and the international community throughout 2016. This year’s calendar is dotted with a series of high-profile international events related to migration and refugee protection-including conferences in London (February 4) and Geneva (March 30) addressing the fallout of the Syrian civil war, and a pair of summits on refugees and mig ra nts hosted by the United Nations and the United States in September. These high-level meetings could prove crucial in paving the way for meaningful solutions for the world’s forcibly displaced populations. This course focuses on the two sides of the migration and development nexus: the impact of development (or the lack thereof ) on the movements of people and the impact of migration on the development of mid and low income countries. The course will examine trends in migration from and within developing countries, including economic, social, demog raphic, political, environmental and other factors that influence population movements. It also examines the relationship between international migration and such issues as economic growth and competitiveness, human development, poverty alleviation, trade, social support systems, health and education. The role of remittances and Diaspora contributions to development are further areas of interest. The course focuses also on legal frameworks and institutional arrangements that will enhance international cooperation to address the nexus between migration and development. A key issue is the application of international human and labor rights law on the developmental aspects of migration. Terrorists have continually exploited weaknesses in our nation’s visa and refugee process as a means to gain access to the country. From 9/11 to San Bernardino and the recent case of Iraqi refugees in Houston and California, it is clear that government officials must do more to prevent terrorists from exploiting American hospitality. This hearing will explore ways
to further strengthen visa and refugee security. Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (1 New York) Common Pochard (1 Alaska) Tufted Duck (2 British Columbia, 19 California, 9 Massachusetts, 1 Newfoundland and Labrador, 2 Washington) American Flamingo (10 Florida) Brown Booby (1 California) Northern Jacana (7 Texas) Ivory Gull (14 Minnesota) Slaty-backed Gull (1 California) Aplomado Falcon (1 Texas) Redwing (1 British Columbia) Rufous-backed Robin (2 Arizona) Siberian Accentor (1 British Columbia) Tropical Parula (1 Texas) Rufouscapped Warbler (1 Arizona) Western Spindalis (3 Florida) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (1 Texas) Shiny Cowbird (1 Florida) Streak-backed Oriole (4 Arizona) Brambling (9 Arkansas, 4 Ohio) The two latest masks I com-
pleted. Every winter I have a rather optimistic plan to finish lots of new masks. Summers are too humid to make them as everything stays soft and doesn’t dry properly. As usual the universe conspires to give me so many chores to do that I don’t get the time I want on my masks. These are two of the most popular of my masks. The customer has been waiting for. I grew up in a rural area of Queensland, and had many good Aboriginal friends. But I was a l w a y s alarmed by the rampant racism of many white people in that country town, including one member of my own family. I remember going to a Christian church every Sunday; we sang songs about how Jesus Christ loved everybody; but for the rest of the week, the same people behaved differently!! It’s worth asking what those special ops forces of ‘ours,’ relied on ever more heavily from one administration to the next, and settling into so many bases, actually represent. It’s hard to argue that they are there for the defense of this c o u n t r y. Like the b a s e s t h e m selves, they are, it seems, carrying out the increasingly messy business of empire in the far reaches of the planet. They are, you might say, Washington’s imperial shock troops. According to the Times, the Pentagon wants to build up a string of bases, the largest of which would permanently host 500 to 5,000 U.S. personnel. The system would include four “hubs” -- existing bases in Afghanistan, Iraq, Djibouti, and Spain -- and smaller “spokes” in locations like Niger and Cameroon. These bases would, in turn, feature Special Operations forces ready to move into action quickly for what Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has called ‘unilateral crisis response’ anywhere in the Greater Middle East or Africa. According to unnamed Pentagon officials quoted by the Times, this proposed expansion would cost a mere pittance, just “several million dollars a year.” Far from new, however, this strategy predates both the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. In fact, it goes back to 1980 and the Carter Doctrine. That was the moment when President Jimmy Carter first asserted that the United States would secure Middle Eastern oil and natural gas by ‘any means necessary, including military force.’ Designed to prevent Soviet intervention in
the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon build-up under Presidents Carter and Ronald Reagan included the creation of installations in Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. During the first Gulf War of 1991, the Pentagon deployed hundreds of thousands of troops to Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries. After that war, despite the disappearance of the Soviet Union, the U.S. military didn’t go home. Thousands of U.S. troops and a significantly expanded base infrastructure remained in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Bahrain became home to the Navy’s Fifth Fleet. The Pentagon built large air installations in Qatar and expanded operations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman. In high school, I had history teacherwho was, in his spare time, a millionaire owner of several marinas. He taught, he told us, because he loved it. Was he a good teacher? Not by the lights of most pedagogical standards, but he did intend, amidst all his lassitude and total lack of organization, to leave us all with something more important than history: the secret of his success. What was it, you ask? Naps. Each day he touted the power of power naps with a proselytizer’s relentless enthusiasm: 15 minutes a few times a day, the key to wealth and happiness. The charges have generated intense conflict in the new administration. A week after the Public Ministry’s announcement, Guatemala’s Minister of Defense, Division General Williams Agberto Mansilla Fernndez, and his second-in-command, Brigadier General Alfredo Sosa Daz, countered the charges by filing an action in Guatemala’s Constitutional Court to remove Article 8 from the National Reconciliation Law entirely. The Constitutional Court determined that it would not suspend the article. President Morales moved to find a replacement for Sosa Daz and filed to impeach Mansilla. haven’t heard much but I fear he might be another glamorous, lying, bogus barack clone to distract us from business-as-usual at our expense A low pressure system will impact the southeast U.S beginning Wednesday and continuing into Thursday. The potential exists for locally heavy rainfall and isolated severe thunderstorms especially over central and southern Florida. Some of the storms could contain damaging
winds. On This date January 27, 1700, a mysterious tsunami stole through several villages on the eastern coast of Japan. This was known as the “orphan tsunami” due to the high amount of orphaned kids in the region. The mysterious wave was in fact apart of a massive quake in the present day Washington area. Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (1 New York) Tufted Duck (2 British Columbia, 12 California, 1 Nova Scotia, 1 Oregon) American Flamingo (9 Florida) Masked Booby (2 Florida) Brown Booby (3 California) Northern Jacana (2 Texas) Ivory Gull (5 Minnesota) Slaty-backed Gull (1 Illinois) Smooth-billed Ani (1 Florida) Aplomado Falcon (3 Texas) Blackcapped Gnatcatcher (2 Arizona) Rufousbacked Robin (2 Arizona) Tropical Parula (5 Texas) Rufous-capped Warbler (1 Arizona) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (8 Texas) Shiny Cowbird (1 Florida) Streakbacked Oriole (1 Arizona) Brambling (5 Ohio)Acapulco ranks as Mexico’s most violent city and fourth most violent in the world based on the number of homicides committed last year. But Ciudad Jurez and Chihuahua both fell off the list of the world’s 50 most dangerous urban areas. The ranking was compiled by Mexico’s Citizens’ Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice. All indicators point toward third world status for Americans. A sense of lightness and dynamism characterizes the exhibition concept. Like nestling matryoshka dolls, ten cubes lift upwards in decreasing volumes. Outlined as a thin framework, the boxes reveal the products of collections within a unique installation worthy of art galleries. A double filter of curtains encompass the scene, allowing lights and dynamic videos to create an indefinite backdrop. This past week we seen some of the coldest temperatures in 50 years across North East Asia following a massive cold surge out of Siberia. Temperatures there dropped below -50 at times on Sunday and Monday and this was reflected in to Okinawa, Taiwan and Hong Kong as Snow and sleet across these sub-tropical regions. As if in some sort of dystopian novel, I leave my house to see the Red Cross providing disaster relief on my street. Down the block, a half-dozen National Guard Troops hand out rations of that oh-soimportant, scarce commodity: clean drinking water. My hometown of Flint has been known for many things through its history. First as the birthplace of General Motors, and subsequently as the battleground of the Flint Sit-Down Strike that formed the United Auto Workers. That gave rise to a wave of union organizing across the country, and to the middle class. The quality of life that Flint residents struggled for and enjoyed was once the envy of the world. More recently, Flint became famous as ground zero for the disastrous consequences of corporate globalization - chronic u nemploy ment and underemployment, increasing wealth inequality, and the violence and destabilization that can happen in a community when companies are allowed to destroy people’s livelihoods. These problems aren’t unique to Flint. But our city is a prime example of how the poor and working class are treated as disposable commodities’setting the stage for the current water crisis. As tens of thousands of children fleeing violence in Central America crossed the border in search of safe harbor, overwhelmed U.S. officials weakened child protection policies, placing some young migrants in homes
where they were sexually assaulted, starved or forced to work for little or no pay. Without enough beds to house the record numbers of young arrivals, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lowered its safety standards during border surges in the last three years to swiftly move children out of government shelters and into sponsors’ homes. The procedures were increasingly relaxed as the number of young migrants rose in response to spiraling gang and drug violence in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, according to emails, agency memos and operations manuals obtained by AP, some under the Freedom of Information Act. A 14-year-old Honduran girl whose stepfather forced her to work over a period of several months at cantinas in central Florida where women drink, dance and sometimes have sex with patrons. A 17-year-old from Honduras sent to live with an aunt in Texas, who forced her to work in a restaurant at night and clean houses on weekends, and often locked her in the home. A 17-year-old Guatemalan placed with a friend’s brother in Alabama who vowed to help him attend school, but instead was made to work in a restaurant for 12 hours a day to earn rent. A Central American teen placed with a family friend who forced her to cook, clean and care for a group of younger children in a Florida trailer park. A Honduran teen placed with a sponsor in New York City who was so physically abusive that she ran away and sought refuge in a shelter. In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed his name to the lease of a new apartment in Brooklyn. Even now, over half a century later, that uninspiring document prompts a double-take. Guthrie’s two-year tenancy in one of Fred Trump’s buildings and his relationship with the real estate mogul of New York’s outer boroughs produced some of Guthrie’s most bitter writings, which I discovered on a recent trip to the Woody Guthrie Archives in Tulsa. These writings have never before been published; they should be, for they clearly pit America’s national balladeer against the racist foundations of the Trump real estate empire. From Warren Buffett to Bill Gates, it is no secret that the ultrarich philanthropist class has an over-sized influence in shaping global politics and policies. And a study just out from the Global Policy Forum, an internationa l watchdog group, makes the case that powerful philanthropic foundations - under the control of wealthy individuals - are actively undermining governments and inappropriately setting the agenda for international bodies like the United Nations. Every year, thousands of Shia meet in the town of Nabatiyyeh, Lebanon to commemorate the death of Imam Hussein. With great sensitivity, MYSTIC MASS documents the emotional ceremony, and provides an engaging portrayal of how the mass is formed, how it attains its highest mystical levels, and how it dissolves--all within twenty-four hours. Beyond Recognition tells the story of a Native woman and her allies as they struggle to protect her ancestors’ burial places around San Francisco, ultimately establishing the first women-led urban Indigenous land trust. Their journey transforms the way viewers see cities, revealing Native histories that have been buried by shifting urban landscapes. This film points to the intersection of human rights, women’s rights, and environmental protection, spotlighting a California story that has worldwide resonance. An intimate and emotionally charged portrait of three polygamous families in Bali, Indonesia. Following these families over a seven year period, the film portrays the plight of Balinese co-wives, for whom marriage is frequently characterized by psychological manipulation, infidelity, domestic violence, and economic hardship. Let’s try a radically pragmatic view. Emergence is an observation: Things are more than the sum of their parts. This observation points to questions: What are the parts? How do they fit together? How do they interact? With what consequences ? What emergence is not is a thing. If it were, we would have to ask and answer these same questions about it. Emergence is, in other usage, what the late, great Dan Foss labeled a “thingie,” a made-up, fictional thing that we point to when we don’t understand the thing we are studying. It is logically and scientifically phlogiston or, theologically speaking, God, the unknown to which we refer when other explanations fail. Note 2: A work of art, an engine, a living organism, and an industry all display
emergent properties. They are more than the sum of their parts. But if we look at these different sorts of things, the parts and how they fit and interact together are different. “Emergence” adds nothing to the explanations required. Set a sleep goal. Most people need 7-9 hours per night, so the default is set to 8. Sleep on it to see if that works for you, or change it in the app. Insectivorous birds are known to play a decisive role for the natural control of herbivorous insects. Thus, they enhance the growth, reproduction, and survival of plant individuals and in the long-term benefit plant regenerat i o n . However, par ticularly in the tropics, forest fragmentation has been suggested to cause a loss of insec tivo rous birds. Yet, it is unclear whether this hampers the trophic control of herbivorous insects with potential consequences for plants. Therefore, we investigated the effect of increasing forest fragmentation on tritrophic interactions between insectivorous birds, herbivorous insects, and plants in a subtropical forest landscape, South Africa. We monitored the community composition of birds and estimated insectivorous bird abundances along a gradient of forest fragmentation. In the same sites, we installed bird exclosures on a common plant species (*Englerophytum natalense*) to assess effects of the trophic control of insectivorous birds on herbivorous insects and leaf area loss (LAL). Forest fragmentation strongly shaped the functional composition of bird communities, particularly through a loss of forest-dependent insectivorous birds. Moreover, LAL was higher within bird exclosures than on control branches and increased with increasing forest fragmentation on the control branches. Altogether, forest fragmentation seems to hamper the trophic control of herbivorous insects by insectivorous birds through changes in the community composition. This, in turn, may interfere with tritrophic interactions and ecological processes. Thus, conservation efforts aiming at enhancing the natural control of herbivorous insects should focus on the maintenance of continuous indigenous forests that are well-connected to smaller forest fragments on the landscape scale. The multi-scale spatial match between bird and food abundances is a main driver of the structure of fruit-eating bird assemblages. We explored how the activity of fruit-eating birds was
influenced by the abundance of fruits at the local and landscape scales in Andean mountain forests during the breeding season, when most birds forage close to their nest. We measured: (1) the spatial scale of variation in the abundance of fruits, (2) the spatial scale of variation in the activity of fruit-eating birds, and (3) the spatial match between both variables. The sampling design consisted of eleven 1.2-ha sites, each subdivided into 30 cells of 20 x 20 m, where we sampled fruits and fruit-eating birds. We found that fruit consumption, and to a lesser extent bird abundance, were associated with local spatial variation in abundance of selected fruit species. However, fruit-eating birds did not modify their spatial distribution in the landscape following changes in availability of these fruits.
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ur study shows that fruit-eating birds detect local spatial variation in fruit availability in their home breeding ranges, and exploit patches with large clusters of selected fruits. However, it may be unprofitable for breeding birds to stray too far from their nests to exploit fruit-rich patches, accounting for the absence of fruit tracking at larger spatial scales. Primary tropical rain forests are being rapidly perforated with new edges via roads, logging, and pastures, and vast areas of secondary forest accumulate following abandonment of agricultural lands. To determine how insectivorous Amazonian understory birds respond to edges between primary rain forest and three age classes of secondary forest, we radiotracked two woodcreepers (*Glyphorynchus spirurus*, N= 17; *Xiphorhynchus pardalotus, N= 18) and a terrestrial antthrush (*Formicarius colma*, N= 19). We modeled species-specific response to distance to forest edge (a continuous variable) based on observations at varying d i s t a nc e s from the primar ysecondary forest interface. All species avoided 8-14-yr-old secondary forest. *Glyphorynchus spirurus and *F. colmamostly remained within primary forest <100 m from the young edge. Young *F. colmararely penetrated >100 m into secondary forest 27-31 yr old. Young *Formicarius colma and most *G. spirurus showed a unimodal response to 8-14-yr-old secondary forest, with relative activity concentrated just inside primary forest. After land abandonment, *G. spirurus was the first to recover to the point where there was no detectable edge response (after 11-14 yr), whereas *X. pardalotuswas intermediate (15-20 yr), and *F. colmalast (28-30 yr +). Given the relatively quick recovery by our woodcreeper species, new legislation on protection of secondary forests > 20-yr old in Brazil’s Par state may represent a new opportunity for conservation and management; however, secondary forest must mature to at least 30 yr before the full compliment of rain forest-dependent species can use secondary forest without adverse edge effects. Tropical rain forest understory insectivorous birds are declining, even in large forest reserves, yet the mechanisms remain unclear. Abundant large mammals can reshape forest structure,
which degrades foraging microhabitat. We used six sites in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama with varying collared peccary (*Pecari tajacu*) density to test three linked hypotheses: (1) locally declining understory insectivores forage preferentially in liana tangles; (2) vine and liana density, cover, and frequency of dense tangles are lower in the presence of abundant collared peccaries; and consequently (3) abundant collared peccaries are associated with reduced understory insectivorous bird abundance. Three insectivores that declined at La Selva preferentially foraged in liana tangles: Checker-throated Antwren (*Epinecrophylla fulviventris*), Dotwinged Antwren (*Microrhopias quixensis*), and Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher (*Terenotriccus erythrurus*). Vine density, liana cover, liana tangle frequency, and forest cover were lower in the presence of collared peccaries relative to experimental mammal exclosures, with the greatest differences at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Across sites, five of seven vine and liana measures showed negative, curvilinear relationships with peccary densities. Vine and liana measures peaked at sites with intermediate peccary density, and were low at La S elva . Structural e q u a t ion models suggest negative indirect effects of the collared peccaries on focal bird densities, mediated by vine and liana density, cover, or tangle frequency. Forest area and rainfall affected both lianas and birds, but collared peccaries also contributed to the reduced abundance of understory insectivores. Indirect effects such as that suggested here may occur even in large, protected forest reserves where large mammal communities are changing. Nest predation is assumed to be an important factor driving avian life histories. Altitudinal gradients offer valuable study systems to investigate how avian nest predation risk varies between bird populations. In this study, a hypothesis postulating an increase in avian nest survival rate with elevation as a result of decreasing predation pressure was experimentally tested along an altitudinal gradient (300-2250 m) in West-Central Africa. Three types of artificial nests (cup-shrub, cup-ground and bare-ground) were used along the altitudinal gradient. Overall, elevation had no effect on the daily survival rate (DSR) of the
artificial nests. However, there was a significant elevation-nest type interaction. Daily survival rate for cupshrub nests decreased significantly with elevation, but for cup-ground and bare-ground nests, elevation had no significant effect. We tested the effects of the same vegetation parameters (tree density, herb and shrub layer coverage, and canopy openness) on the DSR of different nest types to understand how different vegetation layers or combinations of them affect DSR. Daily survival rate for bare-ground nests significantly decreased with increasing canopy openness, and was positively influenced by coverage of herb layer and tree density. For cup-shrub nests, DSR increased significantly with increasing shrub layer coverage. Finally, for cup-ground nests, we found a positive effect of shrub coverage and canopy openness on DSR. In summary, we found that different forest vegetation layers affect predation risk of different nest types along elevations on Mt. Cameroon. Whitesand vegetation (WSV) harbors a unique avifauna within Amazonia, including species with patchy distributions. The history of these species’ populations is likely related to variation in the availability and connectivity among WSV patches though time. By investigating the phylogeographic history of WSV bird species, we aim to better understand the dynamic evolution of forested and open habitats in Amazonia. Here, we perform a phylogeographic analysis of two WSV specialist bird species, a tanager, *Tachyphonus phoenicius*, and a hummingbird, *Polytmus theresiae*. We obtained and analyzed sequences of one mitochondrial and one nuclear gene region from 152 individuals. Results indicate that the two species have different histories. *Tachyphonus phoeniciussplit from its Atlantic Forest/Cerrado sister clade at about 11 Ma and includes two divergent lineages, north and south of the Amazon River. *Polytmus theresiae split from its Tepuian sister group at about 2.5 Ma and shows no genetic structure within Amazonia. Both lineages of *T. phoenicius and *P. theresiae show signs of recent population expansion. Although the two WSV species originated at different moments, and show distinct patterns of population structure, both seem to have expanded their population sizes recently, indicating that availability of white-sand habitats may have been increasing historically and the connectivity among different white-sand patches may have been higher in the recent past. Vegetation growing on white-sand soils is patchily distributed across the Amazon and is characterized by scrublands or open vegetation types (whitesand campinas) and by forests (white-sand forests) surrounded by contrasting habitat types. We studied birds in patches of white-sand campinas in contrasting landscapes in four regions located in distinct biogeographic units delimited by major rivers. Our aim was to investigate the contribution of landscape configuration and biogeographic context to patterns of species diversity and distribution. Arac and Viru landscapes (on opposite sides of Rio Branco) are composed by large and continuous patches of white-sand campinas, while Ja, Novo Airo and Uatum landscapes (on opposite sides of Rio Negro) are composed by small patches of whitesand campinas isolated by continuous terra firme forests. Birds were sampled using mist-nets and qualitative censuses, and were classified as white-sand vegetation specialists or non-specialists. Bird species diversity was significantly different
among studied regions, and composition was significantly different for both, specialists and non-specialists birds. Local variability in species diversity and composition was best explained by white-sand campina area, patch proximity, and distance to major rivers. We conclude that landscape configuration and biogeographical context influence patterns of bird diversity, abundance, and composition in Amazonian white-sand campinas. In Fiji, with the difference that a shallow pit is dug (and lined with stones), it is as Penny describes for Samoa: the lovo is men’s work. Of course the peeling of the taro, yams etc. and the cutting up of any meat that is not being cooked as a whole animal, and the wrapping of these into banana-leaf parcels, generally falls to the women. However these days, if the food being prepared is just a ‘special meal” for the nuclear family (and their guests if any), women may do the whole thing from gathering the firewood to distributing the meal. Often a small hearth complete with stones is retained outside the kitchen for these small meals, sometimes covered with sheets of corrugated iron when not in use. Even these small hearths retain high heat for many hours. When I was working on Namuka in the mid-80s, a toddler was brought to me with a very badly-scalded foot because he had trotted onto the lovo site many hours after it had been emptied and covered over with earth. They said the nurse on the island had absolutely no medicines except APC tablets, hence they brought him to me! As I was due to leave the island next day, all I could do was slather his foot with Savlon antiseptic cream I had in my travel kit, and bandage it up, with instructions to the women of his family to repeat this treatment until the tube ran out, then wash it in sea water and keep it bandaged with clean cloth. I have often wondered how the little chap fared, and hoped against hope that his foot healed perfectly. Gende mumus are pits dug in the ground and lined with hot stones. Men’s work. On occasion when the food needed quick cooking the pit would be shallow and the Gende would/will revert to a goroka style mumu... Like a pressure cooker, in which a bamboo pole is stuck upright above the stones, banana leaves and foods stacked and covered and then covered with a mound of dirt. I have pictures of this. Young men climbing atop the mound and pouring water down the bamboo and then leaping off as steam shot out the bamboo and cracks in the mound. The older men were well away from the ‘battlefield.’ Food cooked very very quickly. What struck me during my field work among the Lani (Western Dani) was the mode of co-operation of men and women before and during outdoors earth oven cooking. Men got the firewood and built a rack to heat the stones. Women brought in the freshly harvested food. To speed them up men might start a little make-believe fire at the rack so women would notice the smoke and make haste. Men carried the hot stones from the site of the rack to the oven around which women were waiting with their harvested food. They put the food in and, I think, also the greens that lined the hot stones. That was always a lively affair. Finishing the oven by putting stones, I think unheated ones, on top, was men’s work. The same for opening it. But women took the food out although men, if I recollect correctly, brought it around. Session 1: The (Self-)Quantified Consumer: Wearables and Lifelogging Session 2: The Well-fed Consumer: Sustainable and Healthy Food Consumption Session 3: The Educated Consumer: Chances and Limits of Role Models in Consumer Education Session 4: The Nudged Consumer: The Rise of Behavioural Governance Session 5: The Poor Consumer: Poverty, Debt Overload, and Income Inequality Session 6: The Modest Consumer: Good and Sufficient Lifestyles Session 7: The Scored Consumer: Privacy and Big Data Session 8: The Political Consumer: From Activism to Slacktivism, from Advocacy to Adhocracy Session 9: The Ethical Consumer: From Corporate to Consumer Social Responsibility Session 10: The New Consumer: Sharing Economy, Collaborative Consumption, and Peer Production Session 11: The European Consumer: Patterns and Developments of EU Consumer Policy Session 12: The Sustainable Consumer: Sustainable Consumption in Private Households The homeless are feared by the upper classes, and they’re often arrested for nonexistent
or non-violent infractions, in good part because they are simply considered ‘offensive’ to people of means. They usually have personal problems that society has failed to address. A study of nearly 50,000 cases revealed that most deal with alcohol or drug abuse, and mental health issues. Legislating against impoverished people is expensive: shelters, emergency rooms, jail cells. We have come to testify. There is much that we want the world to know. We want you to travel with us to the remote places of Papua’Wamena, Paniai, the Jayawijaya Highlands, the Star Mountains, Mindiptana, Timika, Arso, M a m beramo, Biak, Merauke, Asmat and many other places. We want you to hear stories of suffering from the mouths of ord i na r y people. Our memories are clear and sharp. ‘In this river our father was murdered’ ‘On that mountain slope there used to be villages.’ Lelu Island and Flora Bank, critical habitat for wild salmon at the mouth of the Skeena River in northwestern B.C., have been declared permanently protected from industrial development by an unprecedented coalition of First Nations leaders, local residents and federal and provincial politicians. The signing of The Lelu Island Declaration presents a major obstacle to plans by Malaysi a n- ow ne d oil and gas giant, Petronas, to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant near Prince Rupert. The declaration also deals a huge blow to the provincial government’s stated aim to get major LNG plants under construction before next year’s provincial election. Concepcion Picciotto, the protester who maintained a peace vigil outside the White House for more than three decades, a demonstration widely considered to be the longest-running act of political protest in U.S. history, died Jan. 25 at a housing facility operated by N Street Village, a nonprofit that supports homeless women in Washington. She was believed to be 80. She had recently suffered a fall, but the immediate cause of death was not known. We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so we
will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction. The story of the genetic engineering and patenting of plants and other living organisms cannot be understood without looking at the history of the global spread of American power in the decades following World War II. George Kennan, Henry Luce, Averell Harriman and, above all, the four Rockefeller brothers, created the very concept of multinational ‘agribusiness’. They financed the ‘Green Revolution’ in the agriculture sector of developing countries in order, among other things, to create new markets
for petro-chemical fertilizers and petroleum products, as well as to expand dependency on energy products. Their actions are an inseparable part of the story of genetically modified crops today. By the early years of the new century, it was clear that no more than four giant chemical multinational companies had emerged as global players in the game to control patents on the very basic food products that most people in the world depend on for their daily nutrition’corn, soybeans, rice, wheat, even vegetables and fruits and cotton’as well as new strains of disease-resistant poultry, genetically-modified to allegedly resist the deadly H5N1 Bird Flu virus, or even gene altered pigs and cattle. Three of the four private companies had decades-long ties to Pentagon chemical warfare research. The fourth, nominally Swiss, was in reality Anglodominated. As with oil, so was GMO agribusiness very much an Anglo-American global project. In May 2003, before the dust from the relentless US bombing and destruction of Baghdad h a d cleared, the P r e s i de nt of the United States chose to make GMO a strategic issue, a priority in his postwar US foreign policy. The stubborn resistance of the world’s second largest agricultural producer, the European Union, stood as a formidable barrier to the global success of the GMO Project. As long as Germany, France, Austria, Greece and other countries of the European Union steadfastly refused to permit GMO planting for health and scientific reasons, the rest of the world’s nations would remain skeptical and hesitant. By early 2006, the World Trade Organization (WTO) had forced open the door of the European Union to the mass proliferation of GMO. It appeared that global success was near at hand for the GMO Project. In the wake of the US and British military occupation of Iraq, Washington proceeded to bring the agriculture of Iraq under the domain of patented genetically-engineered seeds, initially supplied through the generosity of the US State Department and Department of Agriculture. The first mass experiment with GMO crops, however, took place back in the early 1990’s in a country whose elite had long since been corrupted by the Rockefeller family and associated New York banks: Argentina. To-
day at the World Economic Forum’s annual summit in Davos, Switzerland, a coalition of 30 leaders launched Champions 12.3, an effort to create political, business and social momentum to reduce food loss and waste around the world. Champions 12.3 is a voluntary coalition of executives from governments, businesses, international organizations, research institutions, farmer groups and civil society dedicated to inspiring ambition, mobilizing action and accelerating progress toward achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 12.3. The target aims to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels, as well as reduce food losses along production and supply chains by 2030. Seattle police said they’re searching for two suspects after two people were killed and three others were injured in a shooting at a homeless encampment Tuesday night. Police said they responded to reports of gunfire in a wooded area and found five victims. One woman was dead at the scene and four victims were taken to the hospital. Of those, one male died, two victims were in critical condition, and another was in serious condit i o n , authorities said. All of the victims lived at the camp, known as The Jungle. Seattle Police C h i e f Kathleen O’Toole said authorities have several leads and are interviewing witnesses. Police did not release any further details about the two ‘persons of interest,’ but said they have reason to believe the shooting was ‘very targeted’ and a dispute among people who knew each other. The founders of Cornell University, Andrew D. White and Ezra Cornell, dreamed of creating a great university that took a radical approach to learning. Their revolutionary spirit, and the promise to pursue knowledge for the greater good, is said to be at the heart of the Ivy League school their dream became. It is difficult to understand how these ideals are served by a unit of Cornell operating as a public relations arm for the agrichemical industry. Yet that is what seems to be going on at the Cornell Alliance for Science (CAS), a program launched in 2014 with a $5.6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a goal to “depolarize the charged debate” about GMOs. In a move decried as deeply inhumane, the Danish parliament on Tuesday
passed a sweeping package of laws that will allow police to search new asylum-seekers and seize valuables they are carrying on their person--including rings and necklaces. Part of a continent-wide crackdown on people fleeing war and poverty, the policies were initially introduced by the right-wing minority government of Denmark’s prime minister, Lars Lokke, and they passed with a large majority. One measure stipulates that new refugees entering the country with assets worth more than $1,450 can have them seized by police. The law claims that authorities will exempt possessions deemed to be of sentimental value, such as wedding rings. While proponents allege the measure covers the cost of housing refugees, it comes amid an alarming spike in racism and Islamophobia, marked by the rise of the Danish People’s Party. What’s more, the policy comes with a host of other cruel measures that the United Nations Refugee Agency recently charged are aimed at deterring refugees by making Denmark inhospitable and unlivable. And in fact, last year the Danish government went so far as to place an advertisement in Lebanese newspapers warning refugees not to seek asylum in their country. The new laws also force refugees to wait at least three years before reunifying with their family members, many of whom are trapped in refugee camps or areas threatened by war and siege. The death of a mentally ill Florida inmate who begged for his life as his skin was scalded from his body in a locked shower stall has been ruled accidental, according to reports. According to the Miami Herald, the death of Darren Rainey, 50, in 2012 was attributed to complications stemming from schizophrenia, heart disease and “confinement” in the shower where he was placed as punishment for defecating in his cell and then refusing to clean it up. A recently released autopsy report from the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office states that Rainey was shoved into a narrow shower stall with the scalding water turned on full blast, eventually leading to his death. Two hours after being placed in the stall, his lifeless body was found face up with his skin burned so badly that it had shriveled away from his body -- a condition medical examiners call “slippage.” After being removed from the shower, staff administered CPR, with one a nurse registering Rainey’s internal temperature at 102 degrees, well above the normal temperature of 98.6. The autopsy report states that 12 hours after his death, Rainey’s body still had a temperature of about 94 degrees. According to an inmate working as an orderly in the prison, Rainey could be heard screaming, “I can’t take it no more, I’m sorry. I won’t do it again.” Let me tell you something. The United States of America is the most powerful nation on Earth, period. Period. It’s not even close. It’s not even close. It’s not even close. We spend more on our military than the next eight nations combined. Our troops are the finest fighting force in the history of the world. No nation attacks us directly or our allies because they know that’s the path to ruin. The Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media brings together existing traditions of documentary practice with emerging approaches to create a unique multidisciplinary program. Innovative in structure and approach, the program is the first to offer an MFA degree in documentary media in Canada and is one of a very limited number of such programs offered
worldwide. The program is uniquely multidisciplinary, bringing together students working in film, photography and new media to explore documentary forms and strategies. Students’ master’s projects may take the form of documentary narrative films, print based and interactive photographic books, multi-platform documentaries and gallerybased installations. The graduates of the program can be found in diverse occupations including film and television production companies, positions within the creative industries, freelance careers as filmmakers, photographers and new media producers. Other graduates have gone on to further study at the PhD level and careers in the educational field. The Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media is a full-time, two-year/six-term program that strives to maintain a connection to documentary traditions while encouraging innovative approaches to the making of new documentary works. The program is based in Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts, an educational leader in the study and production of visual media and renowned for its outstanding programs, faculty and facilities. This four-volume set is under contract with ABC-CLIO, and features over 300 entries on all aspects of Colonial America from pre-contact through the founding of the United States. The editors seek contributors for all of the available entries, which run between 1000-2500 words, in addition to a small number of 6000-word overview essays still available. From its flawed notion of ‘separate but equal’ to the rampant violence against black bodies throughout the twentieth century, the United States faced a clear racial divide perpetuated by its Jim Crow culture and the disenfranchisement of blacks. In response, on August 28, 1963, noted American civil rights activist, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his iconic ‘I Have a Dream’ speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, urging radical social and political change in a society marred by a rich history of segregation and discrimination. Mindy Yan Miller was born in Sault Ste Marie and graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 1990. She teaches Fibres and Material Practices at Concordia University. She has been the recipient of numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Quebec Arts Council, the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Concordia Union for Part-time Faculty. Her work has been exhibited at the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery (Saskatchewan), The Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge), La Centrale (Montreal), Mercer Union (Toronto), Fe Gallery (Philadelphia), W139 (Amsterdam) and galleries across North America and Europe. Yan Miller lives in Saskatoon and periodically teaches in Montreal. With specific reference to urban settings and the dynamic interactions between cities and region, this Conference aims to contribute to increasing our capacity to understand important processes of agency in a worldwide context marked by a growing gap between citizenship and governance. Digital humanities are here to stay, although the academy has been slow to react to the rise of digital modes of research and publishing. As humanists have creatively renovated their homes in the humanities as universities turn toward technology and data-driven results, many postings in the recent rounds of the academic job market in the humanities have had digital components. While the methods in the humanities are shifting, many standards for evaluation, tenure, promotion, and degree conferral have not. The book about you, your art and your life edited and published by the International Confederation of Art Critics In the meantime, he remains in solitary confinement, living out his days in a 6foot-by-9-foot cell, punished for a crime he argues he did not commit. There’s no telling what 43 years away from other people has done to him, and it’s hard to imagine what sort of life he will have if and when he is released back into the world, having been away from it for so long. There are a few things we know about solitary confinement - none of them good. In 2011, the United Nations called on countries to do away with solitary confinement. The argument is that the mental abuse prisoners in solitary undergo as the result of their placement can amount to torture. Zika was first discovered in Uganda in 1947 and has no cure or preventive vaccine, which isn’t an uncommon problem for tropical diseases. Drug maker GlaxoSmithKline told Reuters on
Monday that it is studying whether its vaccine technology can help curb the spread of Zika, and researchers at the Butantan Institute in So Paulo say they are pushing to create a vaccine. But all parties warn that such development could take years. As University of Oxford global health professor Trudie Lang told Reuters, “We’ve got no drugs, and we’ve got no vaccines. It’s a case of deja vue because that’s exactly what we were saying with Ebola.” Men get raped. They make up an estimated 14 percent of total victims, although we’re pretty intent to collectively pretend that’s not true. Occasionally, there’ll be a bit of tip-toeing around military sexual assault. Otherwise, the discussion is largely limited to prison rape jokes with few p u n c h l i n e s smarter than “Don’t drop the soap.” Male victims in any other context are made invisible. It’s as if we’ve come to believe rape is so inconceivable outside of jail or the Army that it simply doesn’t happen. So, what about when it does? Six of the Cleveland police officers involved in the 137-shot, execution-style fusillade that killed an unarmed couple, have become “gypsy cops” eligible to be hired by other departments -which is to say they have been terminated without facing criminal prosecution. Six others have been given suspensions ranging from 21 to 30 days, and a 13th has been fired. The shooting came at the end of a November 12, 2012 high-speed chase involving more than 100 officers and 62 police vehicles. The pursuit began when officers standing outside police headquarters mistook the sound of Russell’s backfiring Chevy Malibu for gunfire. When the car stopped outside city limits, officers opened fire, perforating Russell with 24 shots and Williams with 23. Neither of the victims was armed, or suspected of anything more serious than traffic violations resulting from the pursuit. A search of the vehicle following the double homicide revealed a crack pipe. Both Russell and Williams had been diagnosed as mentally ill. Officer Michael Brelo, who mounted the hood of the vehicle to shoot through the windshield, was the only assailant who faced criminal charges. He was acquitted in a bench trial after W. Ken Katsaris, a retired sheriff and expert witness specializing in testimony tailored to exonerate police officers, testified that Brelo’s only mistake was to expose himself to potential danger, thereby potentially
inhibiting his colleagues as they unleashed gunfire in the direction of the vehicle. By leaping on top of the hood of the car, Brelo was “taking action that is not trained, not recognized, not safe, and put all of the other officers in the vicinity of his becoming a victim and their [the other officers] having to attempt to now engage to save his life,” Katsaris testified before trial judge John P. O’Donnell, who in exonerated the officer. Brelo was one of the six officers fired on January 26. If an officer is in fear for his life and behind cover, which was Brelo’s posture until the last eight seconds of the engagement, it would make sense for that officer to abandon cover and “put [himself ] standing on top of a car in the middle of, as he called it, a fire fight,” Katsaris explained. This violation of the
sacred principle of officer safety, rather than the reflexive resort to lethal force and clear overkill involved in firing through the windshield, was why Brelo’s actions were “unreasonable” and “unconstitutional” fashion, according to Katsaris. A federal court just gave a major boost to the Obama administration’s efforts to keep key details of the U.S. drone war -- including information about who exactly is being assassinated -hidden from the public. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Main Street Legal Services, affiliated with the City University of New York School of Law, aimed at gaining access to National Security Council records related to drone killings. The case stems from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by Main Street in 2012, in which the nonprofit demanded “all records related to the killing and attempted killing by drone strike of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals” and “all National Security Council meeting minutes taken in the year 2011.” The year 2011 marked the creation of the secret panel, housed under the NSC, that is largely responsible for the infamous drone “kill list” that can include both U.S. and foreign nationals. Itself a Cold War creation, the NSC has been central to the U.S. government’s shadowy drone war, which many argue violates the most basic principles of human rights, international, and domestic law. The NSC rejected Main Street’s initial public records request, prompting the group to file a lawsuit that resulted in a years-long legal battle. That battle came to a head on Tuesday, when three judges agreed with a lower court that the NSC is not subject to FOIA laws because it merely advises the president and does not have independent authority. Coastal Washington County has an unspoiled beauty that makes visitors feel as if they’ve stepped back in time. Yet not enough tourists from the south venture past Ellsworth to explore its villages and shores. The scope of that coast can be daunting, so a plan that unifies a 125-mile driving route could help boost tourism. We don’t want any PTel prepaid customers to be left without mobile service. We’ve been working with Ting to ensure your phones and phone numbers will continue
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American Bar Association’s publishing imprint, Ankerwycke, began reissuing Gardner’s Perry Mason books, which had been out of print in the United States.- Is manipulating evidence ever acceptable? - PM’s deductive/reductive abilities, do they make for a modern day philosopher? - A virtue ethics view of PM: can he look himself in the mirror after every trial? - PM the internal justifier: intuition carries over the court room. - The proof of guilt: how logic plays a role in PM stories. Causation and PM: do the lawyer’s tactics cause his clients to be innocent? - The predetermined path of PM: will he ever lose a case? - Does PM truly ‘know’ his client’s innocence? What is the nature of this knowledge? PM’s legal counsel: do all general truths supervene on particular facts? - A theological view of PM’s investigation tactics. The world is undergoing a populist revival. From the revolt against austerity led by the Syriza Party in Greece and the Podemos Party in Spain, to Jeremy Corbyn’s surprise victory as Labour leader in the UK, to Donald Trump’s ascendancy in the Republican polls, to Bernie Sanders’ surprisingly strong challenge to Hillary Clinton ‘ contenders with their fingers on the popular pulse are surging ahead of their establishment rivals. People’s Power [is] the grassroots mobilizations of ordinary citizens organized territorially in communal councils and communes or politically in support of the ‘process of change’ ‘ a force that is diffuse and still lacking a coherent structured national leadership. It is unclear at this point what role this relatively new force can play in helping to overcome the current economic and political crisis. The reason you can’t help is that you cannot reverse the irreversible brain damage that has been inflicted upon every single child in Flint. The damage is permanent. There is no medicine you can send, no doctor or scientist who has any way to undo the harm done to thousands of babies, toddlers and children (not to mention their parents). They are ruined for life, and someone needs to tell you the truth about that. They will, forever, suffer from various neurological impediments, their IQs will be lowered by at least 20 points, they will not do as well in school and, by the time they reach adolescence, they will exhibit various behavioral problems that will land a number of them in trouble, and some of them in jail. That is what we know about the history of lead poisoning when you inflict it upon a child. It is a life sentence. In Flint, they’ve already ingested it for these two years, and the toll has already been taken on their developing brains. No check you write, no truckloads of Fiji Water or Poland Spring, will bring their innocence or their health back to normal. It’s done. And it was done knowingly, enacted by a political decision from a governor and a political party charged by the majority of Michigan’s citizens who elected them to cut taxes for the rich, take over majority-black cities by replacing the elected mayors and city councils, cut costs, cut services, cut more taxes for the rich, increase taxes on retired teachers and public employees and, ultimately, try to decimate their one line of defense against all this, this thing we used to call a union. The amount of generosity since the national media finally started to cover this story has been tremendous. Pearl Jam sent 100,000 bottles of water. The next day the Detroit Lions showed up with a truck and 100,000 bottles of
water. Yesterday, Puff Daddy and Mark Wahlberg donated 1,000,000 bottles of water! Unbelievably amazing. They acknowledged it’s a very short-term fix, and that it is. Flint has 102,000 residents, each in need of an average of 50 gallons of water a day for cooking, bathing, washing clothes, doing the dishes, and drinking (I’m not counting toilet flushes, watering plants or washing the car). But 100,000 bottles of water is enough for just one bottle per person -- in other words, just enough to cover brushing one’s teeth for one day. Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Perhaps the notion of U.S. exceptionalism shouldn’t be derided as a myth. Indeed, the U.S. is exceptional in the violence it perpetrates upon innocent people around the world. Terrorism is the war of the poor. War is the terrorism of the rich. Hamied took his guests into the dining room on the seventh floor. The room featured a view of the private gardens of Gloucester Square, Bayswater, for which only the residents possess a key. The six men sat round a glass dining table overlooked by a painting of galloping horses by a Mumbai artist (Hamied has racehorses stabled in three cities). The discussion, which went on all afternoon and through dinner that evening at the Bombay Palace restaurant nearby, would help change the course of medical history. The number of people living with HIV/Aids worldwide had topped 34 million, many of them in the developing world. Hamied and his guests were looking for a way to break the monopoly held by pharmaceutical companies on Aids drugs, in order to make the costly life-saving medicines available to those who could not pay. Hamied was the boss of Cipla, a Mumbai-based company founded by his father to make cheap generic copies of out-of-patent drugs. He had met only one of the men before -Jamie Love, head of the Consumer Project on Technology, a not-for-profit organisation funded by the US political activist, Ralph Nader. Love specialised in challenging intellectual property and patent rules. For five years, he had been leading high-profile campaigners from organisations such as Medecins Sans Frontires in a battle to demolish patent protection. Patents grant protection on inventions, guaranteeing those who hold them a period of monopoly to recoup costs -- in the case of drug companies, this can be as much as 20 years. With no competition, pharma companies can charge whatever they want. Impressive! You’ve earned the Marathon badge. You’re 26 miles into your fitness journey and have walked your way to your first lifetime miles badge. If this is just the starting line, we can’t wait to see where you finish! The emails we received, social media comments that came through, and the good questions asked really touched my heart. It’s inspiring to know that so many of you are interested and willing to dig into these questions that get to the core of what we need to do in order to repair connection within ourselves, our families, and our communities. Over the past two years, I have been tracking this pattern as part of my own renewal process. This has helped me recognize my own personal blind spots resulting from disconnection. In this process I discovered a wound pattern in myself that I’ve repeatedly seen in others. This common wound pattern plays out under the surface of our awareness, with unconscious routines keeping us from living in our full power and potential. French taxi drivers blocked key roads and hundreds of flights were cancelled as air traffic controllers joined civil servants, hospital staff and teachers for a “Black Tuesday” of strikes. Angry French taxi drivers blocked key roads with burning tyres and hundreds of flights were cancelled as air traffic controllers joined civil servants, hospital staff and teachers for a “BlackTuesday” of strikes. Americans can no longer celebrate King’s dream of Barack Obama’s America and ignore King’s nightmare of Tamir Rice’s America. In reclaiming King, we must reclaim the totality of this visionary, the totality of
America’s recent racial history. We must observe the beauty and the ugliness - America’s racial progress and its simultaneous progression of racism - or King’s nightmare will continue to shoot and kill King’s unarmed dream. It is, in fact, misleading. Even a pile of randomly stacked bricks or a layer of fallen leaves is more than the sum of the bricks or the leaves, and what that more is depends on who is looking and what they see, touch, or feel. But whatever the perspective, the questions remain the same: What are the parts? How are they configured? How do they interact to produce that more we obser ve. T h i n k also of sod i u m chloride. We throw it into our food with g r e a t abandon, and the ions are critical for nerve and muscle f unction. But, as elements, they are deadly. Sodium is prone to flashing/ burning in the presence of water (and we are, after all, 60-70% water); in addition, chlorine is highly toxic. Together, however, most people would not enjoy food without them. Let’s try a radically pragmatic view. Emergence is an observation: Things are more than the sum of their parts. This observation points to questions: What are the parts? How do they fit together? How do they interact? With what consequences? What emergence is not is a thing. If it were, we would have to ask and answer these same questions about it. Rainforests, home to a large share of our total plant and animal species, are under serious threat from man-made destruction. “Nothing has done more to delay this catastrophe over the past 10,000 years, than the mosquito,” Quammen said. But destroying a species isn’t just a scientific issue, it’s also a philosophical one. There would be some who would say it is utterly unacceptable to deliberately wipe out a species that is a danger to humans when it is humans that are a danger to so many species. “One argument against is that it would be morally wrong to remove an entire species. And yet that’s not an argument we apply to all species, says Pugh. “When we eradicated the Variola virus, which caused smallpox, we rightly celebrated. “We need to ask ourselves, does it have any valuable capacities? For instance, is it sentient and therefore has the capacity to suffer pain? Scientists say mosquitoes don’t have an emotional response to pain like we do. “Also do we have a good reason for getting rid of them? With mosquitoes, they are the main carri-
ers for many diseases.” The question is likely to remain hypothetical, whatever the level of concern over Zika, malaria and dengue. Despite the success of reducing mosquito numbers in smaller areas, many scientists say knocking out an entire species would be impossible. “There’s no silver bullet,” says Hawkes. “Field trials using GM mosquitoes have been a moderate success but involved releasing millions of modified insects to cover just a small area. “Getting every female mosquito to breed with sterile males in a large area would be very difficult. Instead we should be looking to combine this with other techniques.” Innovative ways of tackling mosquitoes are being developed across the world. Scientists at Kew Gardens in London are developing a sensor that can de-
tect each different species of mosquito from its distinctive wing beat. They plan to equip villagers in rural Indonesia with wearable acoustic detectors to track disease-bearing mosquitoes. This would help them manage future outbreaks. Meanwhile, scientists at the London School of Tropical Medicine have worked out how female mosquitoes are attracted to certain body odours, raising hope for It seems preposterous to propose such a radical resolution at a time when the screen has infiltrated almost every aspect of our life, but if something seems so familiar that its definition or even its very nature seems unquestioningly obvious, then it is perhaps in this moment that we should wonder. Nexus 6P Review The Nexus 6P is the bigger and bolder brother of Google’s newest smartphones. Check out our unboxing and find out how you can enter to win one. We’re offering not one, but two chances for you to enter to win this sleek, Ting ready, 32 GB, aluminumclad beauty with a 5.7” AMOLED d i s p l a y. Better hurry though: Winners will be drawn on Monday, February 1. Visions of paradise in the mythical land of Cockaigne inspired many early modern European Cuccagna festivities, where tales of abundant food and drink were translated into architecture and monuments covered in breads and meats. Peasants would scramble for these edible delights while wealthy festival patrons watched from balconies above. Prints depicting Cockaigne and Cuccagna celebrations are now on display as part of The Edible Monument. Hello Everyone, The Hwacheon Trout Ice Fishing Festival Trip was such a hit. It is really a great way to enjoy the winter! So we are going again! This ice fiching festival is the biggest in Korea. Just picked up a 2007 model, great shape overall. Ex police unit. Motor is clean, no leaks. Charged up the battery, since it appeared to be sitting (low voltage). Turn it over and smell gas but doesn’t sound like its trying to fire at all. As the manual suggests also tried to “cold start” it with no success. First thought either the ignition module/coil is bad (always seems to die in my civic). Anyone else been there done that? Any help would be great. Also, does this have an OBDII plug? I see a memo where all the check engine lights after se-
rial number 150 were disabled at the factory by clipping a wire. If i hooked it back up, is there anyway to get a possible code? Or was this just a dummy light? Purchased a cushman which had a exempt motorcycle plate on it still attached. Called DPS yesterday and was told that 3 wheeled vehicles are not street legal and cannot be registered, they can only be used as off road vehicles. I tried to explain to the gentleman that I have seen them in Texas on public roads as ice cream trucks and asked if I would be able to register and plate it as a commercial vehicle. Answer was a NO! So I’m curious to know if anybody has registered one and how. Located in San Antonio, TX Where Claudio Fagardo-Saucedo grew up, on the colonial streets of the Mexican city of Durango, migrating to the United States was almost a rite of passage. It was following the stream of departures from Durango in the 1980s that the lanky young man left his family and traveled north. His mother, Julieta Saucedo Salazar, heard that he?d found jobs working as a laborer in Los Angeles. But they soon lost touch. We did not know much about him, really,? his younger sister told me. This article was reported in par tnership with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Instit ute, with support from the Puffin Foundation. It will be part of the February 6 episode of /Reveal/, a new podcast and public radio show produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. Fagardo-Saucedo worked, his jobs sometimes taking him out of California, and occasionally he got into trouble, once for ‘possession for sale’ of cocaine, another time for stealing jewelry. Every seven or eight years, his mother recalled, he’d return to her house, but never by choice. ‘They caught him all the time for being illegal,’ Julieta said. She always hoped her wandering son might stay, get to know the family again, but he never did. ‘He would be here a month, and then he’d go again.’ In the summer of 2003, immigration agents detained Fagardo-Saucedo on his way back to California, but this time the Border Patrol referred him to federal prosecutors, who charged him with ‘illegal re-entry,’ or returning to the United States after deportation. He served nearly five years before being sent back to Mexico. Again, he tried
to return. Early one morning in August of 2008, Fagardo-Saucedo triggered an infrared sensor as he and two others ran across the border near Tijuana. He pleaded guilty in a US District Court to another ‘illegal reentry’ charge. The judge sentenced him to four years in federal prison. When Fagardo-Saucedo arrived at Reeves, a prison complex in rural West Texas, he entered a little-known segment of the federal prison system. Over the previous decade, elected officials and federal agencies had quietly recast the relationship between criminal justice and immigration enforcement. These changes have done as much to bloat the federal prison population as the War on Drugs; they have also helped make Latinos the largest racial or ethnic group sentenced to federal custody. Until the 1990s, border crossing was almost always treated as a civil offense, punishable by deportation. But in the late 1980s, Congress started to change that. By 1996, crossing the border after deportation was punishable by years of imprisonment, with enhanced sentences for people previously convicted of crimes, most often drug offenses. Though federal investigators have found no evidence that criminalization has reduced the pace of border crossings over the long term, prosecutions for illegal entry and re-entry rose from fewer than 4,000 a year at the start of Bill Clinton?s presidency, to 31,000 in 2004 under George W. Bush, to a high of 91,000 in 2013 under President Obama. By the late 1990s, the flood of inmates from this new class of prisoner, coupled with a raging War on Drugs, sent the Bureau of Prisons searching for places to put them. The BOP turned to private companies to operate a new type of facility, low-security prisons designed to hold only noncitizens convicted of federal crimes. As of June 2015, these facilities, which are distinct from immigration detention centers, where people are held pending deportation, housed nearly 23,000 people. Three private companies now run 11 immigrant-only contract prisons. Five are run by the GEO Group, four by the Corrections Corporation of America, and two by a privately held company called the Management & Training Corporation. (A third MTC prison was recently shut down after inmates ransacked it in a protest.) Except for a prison largely used to house inmates from Washington, DC, these 11 facilities are the only privately run prisons in the federal criminal-justice system. In 2013, the BOP spent roughly $625 million on them. The contracts include the provision of medical care, for which the companies often hire health-services subcontractors. In one such facility in Reeves County, Texas, the BOP entered into an agreement with the county, which in turn hired GEO to operate the prison and Correct Care Solutions to manage prison healthcare. Jeremy Scahill describes “death by metadata,” such as using the location of a simcard from a mobile phone, as the sort of intelligence the U.S. uses to identify, track and kill people. This explains how U.S. claims of having killed militants could well amount to have “taken out” sim cards that happened to be among people the U.S. had no particular intention to kill, other than to create random terror. In place of actual identications, a profile is used, such as identifying all adult men in regions of Pakistan as “militants.” The more you know, the more sinister targeted killing by electronic means becomes, even as it gets more
pervasive. Joyce Ellwanger is part of the protest community at Volk Field in Wisconsin, an Air National Guard base which also trains drone operators. She was convicted of trespass on the base - for approaching a guard shack which the public routinely visits - and expected to do 5 days in jail. She was instead ordered to pay a fine, which is against her conscience to do. She said in court: “The trauma to the communities and families who endure drone attacks and drone killing is incredible: daily surveillance from the sky; fear of letting their children go outside to play or go to school; afraid to attend weddings, funerals, community gatherings; afraid even to offer assistance when drone strikes happen because of the double tap strike likely to follow minutes afterward. Their suffering is beyond words.” Species Summary: Whooper Swan (1 Florida) Tufted Duck (1 California, 1 Newfoundland and Labrador, 3 Nova Scotia) American Flamingo (5 Florida) Northern Jacana (1 Texas) Ivory Gull (3 Minnesota) Slaty-backed Gull (2 Illinois) Smooth-billed Ani (1 Florida) Blackcapped Gnatcatcher (3 Arizona) Redwing (1 British Columbia) Rufousbacked Robin (4 Arizona) Rufous-backed Robin (Rufous-backed) (1 Arizona) Tropical Parula (3 Texas) Rufous-capped Warbler (1 Arizona) White-collared Seedeater (1 Texas) Western Spindalis (1 Florida) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (5 Texas) Streak-backed Oriole (2 Arizona) Brambling (3 Ohio) To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget. The chains of military despotism once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless. Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience... therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring. On September 11, 2001 we Americans witnessed the calculated use of terror to traumatize our nation in order to impose a neoconservative political agenda that has been a disaster for the whole world. As long as the Masters of the Universe are in charge - and they have been for the last at least 150 years - there is no chance for a world of harmony and peace. What kind of democracy is too terrified, and too cowardly, to examine its own soul and reach toward values that are bigger than its short-term interests? The army forces backed by the international coalition aviation, Iraqi Army Aviation, army artillery, managed to kill 60 members of the so-called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), while destructed 19 booby-trapped vehicles driven by suicide bombers A couple of frontal systems will bring high elevation snow and rain to northern California and the Pacific Northwest into the weekend. Heavy snow is also possible in the northern Rocky Mountains and northern Great Lakes Region. My Dear Friend, I am very sure you can make a lot of difference by replying to my message, become good friends in our Lord Jesus Christ and see that with greater power comes greater responsibility. You can make a lot of changes in the life of others with this great offer from the Lord through me to you, most especially the poor at heart, and the less privileged. Firstly, I think i would start all with a proper introduction of myself I am kerrie mason, A widow to Late mason. I am 65 years old, suffering from long time cancer of the breast. From all indications, my condition is really deteriorating and is quite obvious that I may not live more than two months according to my doctor, because the stage at which my cancer is (Level 4), it is so critical
and also to a very severe stage. My personal physician told me that I may not live for more than 2 months and I am so scared about it. My late husband and i both grew up in a motherless home in Spain we got married and we travel to the United States for our wedding and we decided to stay back there simply because it is a lovely place to stay and we were given a permanent stay after so many years of stay and also we have no child of our own due to one problem and the other. Since his death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against even though i wish i had. It is late now you know, and age is no longer on my side, but i still believe the lord will send me some one that will make me s m i l e which is you because the bible says in the book of Psalms 119:116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live, and let me not ashamed of my hope. Psalms 138: 7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou will revive me...... Psalms 145:18Psalms 57: 7 My heart is fixed. O God my heart is fixed, I will sing & give praise Psalms51: 17 The sacrifices of God are broken spirit, a broken & contrite heart, O God thou will not despise. psalms 41: 1 Blessed is he that considered the poor, the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. Two of my favorite verses: Philippians 2:27: For indeed he was sick nigh unto death, but God had mercy on him & that on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. (I always say this in my mind ) So, I now decide to give all of my wealth, by contributing to the development of the motherless baby homeless privileges, needy, poor, charity homes, widows and Cancer patient too in your country and i just want you to forget about the distance between me and you. I am willing to donate the sum of $5.000,000.00, us dollars which is still the major inheritance i have left. I wish you could be someone who i could trust with all my heart, to make this wish of mine come true despite the my prayers over you before i get to contact you. I really need you to use the funds to help the poor which is very essential and also the widow and cancer patient as me. I know this is hard, but you should keep this saying in your heart, I am like Moses in the Bible . He came to the Red Sea and Pharaoh behind him and no way to turn but God delivered him all by a miraculous deliverance . It will be a miracle from God to
be able to help all the dear people God has laid on our hearts, as you have been laid on my heart to do is will. This is why with God in my heart i contact you and i want you to contact me so we be in contact with all the poor souls out there. Give new lives, hopes and days. I have come to find out that wealth acquisition without Christ is vanity and i hope you will agree with this also. I will be praying hard that Satan will not stop this effort. Do contact me and i will tell you more of what you wish to know. Note that the Lord have a great reason for me contacting you and i will be very grateful if you will heed to the call of the Lord by replying me Yours in Christ, United States residents made 1.9 million trips to Canada in November, an increase of 1.0% compared with October. Cana-
dian residents made 3.4 million trips to the United States in November, down 0.4% compared with October. The decrease was mainly attributable to a 3.9% decline in overnight car trips. Residents of overseas countries made 461,000 trips to Canada in November, down 0.7% from October. Travel by Canadian residents to overseas countries decreased 2.8% in November to 1.0 million trips. ICE records indicate that detainers were addressed to a total of 2,937 facilities across the nation. Eight facilities are recorded with more than one thousand ICE detainer requests during the most recent 12-month period for which data are available. These include two facilities in Arizona, four in Texas and two in California. Maricopa County Jail in Arizona led the list with the largest number of recorded detainers (2,626). However, the volume of ICE detainers fell sharply over this 12-month period at that facility - from 1,006 during the first four months (November 2015 - February 2015) to only 439 once PEP was implement during the last f o u r months (July 2015 - October 2015). The other Arizona facility the Alhambra State Prison, with 1,674 detainers overall - experienced little change after PEP’s implementation. The Harris County Jail in Texas was sent the second largest number of detainers, 1,902 according to ICE records. Over this 12-month period, this facility saw a modest increase of 7 percent. The remaining three high volume Texas facilities showed divergent trends: the Travis City Jail saw detainers rise by 26 percent, while the Dallas County Jail and the Hidalgo County Jail saw declines of 16 percent and 2 percent, respectively. The Los Angeles County Jail (Twin Towers) was addressed 1,781 ICE detainers, the third largest volume in the country. That facility showed sharp declines over this period down 45 percent. The other California facility with at least a thousand detainers during this recent 12-month period was the Orange County Jail. With 1,113 detainers overall reflected in ICE records, it had exactly the same numbers after PEP was implemented as it did during the first four months of the year. Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (3 New York) Common Pochard (1 Alaska) Tufted Duck (1 British Columbia, 2 California, 2 Nova Scotia) American
Flamingo (4 Florida) Brown Booby (1 Florida) Northern Jacana (3 Texas) Ivory Gull (2 Minnesota) Slatybacked Gull (9 Illinois) Sinaloa Wren (2 Arizona) Blackcapped Gnatcatcher (1 Arizona) Redwing (1 British Columbia) Rufous-backed Robin (2 Arizona) Tropical Parula (5 Texas) Golden- crow ned Warbler (3 Texas) White-collared Seedeater (2 Texas) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (2 Texas) Streak-backed Oriole (2 Arizona) Brambling (1 Arkansas) The diversity of Mexican culture is one of the country’s many attractions. But there is one little known culural tradition that many visitors would probably find abhorrent: filling a piata with small animals. That’s what the people of Citilcum do each year for Kots Kaal Pato, when they also strangle a few ducks. Mexico continues to rank poorly on an international index of corruption, scoring 35 out of a possible 100 points to place 95th on the list of 168 countries measured. Since officials acknowledged that pipes are leaching lead into the city’s drinking supply, millions of bottles of water have been donated to Flint’s 102,000 residents. Practice your pose in the mirror. Be especially aware of how long you break to pose and make eye contact with your audie n c e . When you are in front of an audience your nervousness can make a few seconds seem much longer. Get used to holding your pose for a couple of seconds in the mirror so that you have muscle memory to rely on in front of the audience. If we continue to ignore the hunger, poverty and desperate families and communities of our young, we guarantee there will be a huge, violent population plagued by crime, drug addiction and high incarceration rates. If we save the children, we save society. War is hell. Unless, of course, you happen to be a global corporate peddler of rockets, drones, bombs and all the other hellish weaponry of military conflict. This law enforcement technology can use facts such as ZIP codes and frequency of address changes to assign a danger level to people an officer might engage. A high threat score could increase the officer’s anxiety ... and you know where that could lead. This is a concern when factors such as one’s ZIP code or a family member’s criminal record--which could correlate with an offend-
er’s race--are used to decide how the justice system handles crime. A new technology that assigns “threat scores” to people so police can determine whether they’re dangerous raises similar issues. This technology crunches a number of factors to rank how dangerous a person is. Police can access this score and prepare accordingly before engaging with him or her. A version of this technology is currently being piloted in Fresno, Calif., and other parts of the country. Police departments have been secretive about whether they use such technology, but we know that threat-score software called Beware has been made by a company called Intrado. Intrado has not released details about how it works, but it’s likely that factors that determine a person’s score include social media activity, arrest reports, property records and other data. As I recently reported, where someone lives or whether he or she has been to jail before can sometimes be linked to racial or ethnic background. Its a g3 pismo upgraded to a g4 processor. Back in the day you could send your cpu card and they would remove the g3 chip and place a g4. In the pictures it shows the information. 500mhz g4 with 1gb of ram. As for the hinge it holds the lcd in place but if you wobble the laptop it it moves a little back and forth. So it might need tightening. The lcd is not pink but it has a line on the bottom corner theres a picture to show it. Even the staunchly pro-Israel French Socialist Party has had it with Israeli expansionism and aggression. At the Trumpless GOP debate last week, the candidates once again promised to bankrupt us with military and intelligence spending and to commit vast war crimes-with reckless disregard for the lives of women, children and noncombatant men-of the sort not openly plotted since the demise of the Axis powers in 1943-45. My Dear Customer, Thank you for being a valued customer. Because of your loyalty, I am offering you a special discount on your next order. This offer is available for a limited time only, please don’t miss out! Sincerely, Bruce Manager, Advanced Dry Cleaners We need a bipartisan and complete investigation based on a search for the truth -- no matter who is responsible. At least 100 children have tested positive for high levels of toxic lead in their blood. “My hair is falling out. My blood tests are a mess. I was healthy,” Flint resident Melissa Mays said. Mays has been outspoken about the tainted water, and said she was horrified by the new lead readings. There’s no trust. There’s no trust in the filters, there’s no trust in what the state and community are doing at this point. This major assessment contains 55 chapters divided into seven parts: 1) a summary; 2) context of the assessment; 3) assessment of major ecosystem services from the marine environment; 4) assessment of food security and food safety; 5) assessment of other human activities and the marine environment; 6) assessment of marine biological diversity and habitats; and 7) overall assessment of the ways in which human impacts affect the ocean and the benefits human draw from the ocean. Film Editor, San Francisco Fully Paid, starts ASAP Sound Recorder, Los Angeles Low/ No Pay, starts Early-Mid February Film Crew for lecture series, San Francisco Fully Paid, starts 3/8/16 Onsite Editor - San Francisco Event, San Fransisco Fully Paid, starts 02/05/2016 Grip/helper, Santa Rosa, Ca Low/No Pay, starts Jan 28th Shooter with Light Kit One
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possible. We live in interesting but depressing times today. Neoliberal ideas are hegemonic. The old collectivist values of the labor movement have been submerged in a tide of market fundamentalism, summed up in Margaret Thatcher’s claim that ‘there is no such thing as society; there are only individuals and families. Successful candidates will work in areas related to the economics or/and the behavioral economics of privacy, and collaborate with Professor Alessandro Acquisti. They may also interact with other members of CMU CBDR (Center for Behavioral and Decision Research) lab and of C M U PeeX (Privacy Economics Experiments) Lab, as well as with other CMU students and professors, in an interdisciplinary e nv i r on ment that includes social scientists and technologists. Successful candidates will be expected to conduct original research and publish their results in top-ranked journals and conferences. Countless Americans are sensitive to “fragrance,” a cryptic category of ingredients that manufacturers add to everything from cleaning supplies to toiletries. Now companies face mounting pressure to reveal the chemical recipes that some consumers say make them sick. You’ve seen the recent crash in equities markets and we’re sure you’ve heard about the collapse in the global commodity trade. What you may not know is that while trillions were being wiped out in equities, one asset in particular not only held strong, but rose in value - gold. And here’s the kicker: as demand from central banks, governments and the retail market for this financial asset of last resort increases, supply crunches may lead to widespread shortages, the consequence of which will likely be unprecedented price spikes. See the data for yourself below and learn how you can take advantage of the next bull market well before the mainstream investor realizes what’s happening. Transformation is an exhibit about the evolving nature of books and our lives. Everyday changes abound, politically, socially and psychologically, we as human beings are transforming. This is an invitation for artists to work with this theme of transformation in ways that intrigue the artist, viewer and community, to engage in the concept of change and evolution, using the book as the medium. In many countries donated corneas are in short supply, a situation aggravated by the fact that they have
a brief shelf-life. Given that harvesting of the eye must happen within a few hours of death and the cornea itself must usually be used on a patient within about four weeks, time is of the essence. “It seems like I’ve signed a certificate for every human being in Sri Lanka,” says the Eye Donation Society’s medical director. Immediately following the detonation of Gilda at Bikini Atoll on July 1, 1946, a ghostly fleet of aircraft flew into the rising mushroom cloud. They looked like manned military airplanes, but they were actually drones. Here is the little-known story of the crucial role that drones played in Operation Crossroads. Iranian state-run media released a video purporting to show an Iranian drone flying close to an American aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. In a statement,
U.S. Navy spokesperson Cmdr. William Marks said that an unarmed Iranian unmanned aircraft did in fact fly in proximity to U.S. and French aircraft carriers on January 12, the same day that a U.S. Navy patrol boat was seized by Iran near Farsi Island. The Nebraska Supreme Court has verified that Poindexter applied for commutation from the Board of Pardons, not once but twice. The record shows that the Nebraska Board of Parole has denied Poindexter parole several times. The record also shows that the Board of Pardons has denied Poindexter a commutation hearing on at least two occasions, March 1987 and May 1993. Nuclear weapons are the ultimate weapons of terror. You can’t use them without killing millions of innocent people. Targetting innocent people, people who are not part of a conflict, is a central defining characteristics of terrorism. On Wednesday last week the Malaysia’s attorney general confirmed that Saudi Arabia’s royal family gave Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak a $681 million personal gift. The following is your monthly statement showing the current charges due on your account. These charges are due on the 5th of this month. If you have automatic payment set up with us then your card will be debited on the 5th or the last business day prior to the 5th. We appreciate your business. Chicago cops now blame the “ACLU effect” for the city’s murder rate skyrocketing to highest January level in 16 years. For first month of this year, there were at least 50 murders in the Windy City, compared to 28 in 2015 and 20 in 2014. Law enforcement officers told the Chicago SunTimes that much of this is due to the “chilling effect” of a settlement between the American Civil Liberties Union and the police department requiring officers to record their activities in greater detail. Under the terms of the pact, which took effect at the beginning of 2016, police must fill out a two-page document or “contact card” for every stop. Compared to last January, when police only had to fill out a one-page document per stop, officers filled out 79 percent fewer contact cards. A flyer circulated Monday in Iowa promising “FAST CASH TODAY!” for anyone willing to sit at a Jeb Bush event in Des Moines. “$25/hr, 2 hours max. Bring your friends!
First come/first served,” the mysterious flyer read. The image was shared by Jeff Sadosky, a spokesman for the Conservative Solutions PAC, which supports Bush rival Marco Rubio. The flyer informs those interested to contact Dale Herbert and to report to him at the entrance of the rally. An unnamed individual at the email address provided said: “No we are not officially part of the Bush Campaign. Hopefully we’ll see you there. First come first served.” They did not respond to further request on the origin of the flyer. Bush’s campaign first suggested that the flyer could have come from Conservative Solutions because Sadosky shared the image. “I honestly have no idea and don’t really care though. It’s more telling how many reporters fell for such an obvious prank.” Sadosky also denied any affiliation with it. “The Jeb folks are saying it is a hoax, don’t have any reason to not believe them, I just saw it on Twitter,” he said. But Sadosky also took the opportunity to take a shot at the struggling campaign: “Given their fundraising troubles of late, probably makes sense that they couldn’t afford this.” As for Dale Herbert, the individual who is allegedly supposed to meet oppor t unistic people with their financial prizes at the rally, a Nexis search indicated that no one with that name is currently alive in Iowa. Overview: Terrorists have continually exploited weaknesses in our nation’s visa and refugee process as a means to gain access to the country. From 9/11 to San Bernardino and the recent case of Iraqi refugees in Houston and California, it is clear that government officials must do more to prevent terrorists from exploiting American hospitality. This hearing will explore ways to further strengthen visa and refugee security. Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak. The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent and labour power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesomeminority. It is a country so powerful, so big, so pleasing to so many of its’ citizens that it can af-
ford to give freedom of dissent to the small number who are not pleased. There is no system of control with more openings, apertures, flexibilities, rewards for the chosen. [...] There is none that disperses its’ control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media - none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty. The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilise savage and senile and paranoid peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells. The only way to protect both liberty and security is to stop trying to impose our will on other countries by military force. Violent criminals are socialized into violence. And a society that permits this to take place is culpable. Both political parties regard the needs of the American people as a liability and as an obstacle to the profits of the military/security complex. Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, babelfish, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell. Surfraw abstracts the browser away from input. Doing so lets it get on with what it’s good at. Browsing. Interpretation of linguistic forms is handed back to the shell, which is what it, and human beings are good at. Combined with netscaperemote or incremental text browsers, such as lynx, links or w3m, along with screen a Surfraw liberateur is capable of navigating speeds that leave GUI tainted idolaters agape with fear and wonder. Our juror, Katherine Ware, has chosen your work from the 172 submissions we received from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon. On behalf of everyone at Blue Sky, I am excited to include your series along with some of the region’s finest photography in our Drawers program. This year we are accepting portfolios from 69 photographers. We must receive original prints of the 10 images you submitted no later than 5:00 PM on Friday, March 25. If you are hand-delivering your prints, please plan to do so between 12PM and 5PM, Tuesday through Saturday, as these are times when someone will be available at the gallery to accept and store your work securely. All work will be on display in the Drawers for our opening reception on First Thursday, April 7. Cold air and improving conditions settle in across the north, while the central region deals with lots of moisture and a pretty raw day ahead. The south once again heats up to near-record levels and the tropics go silent once again. Each image must be matted or mounted to a size no larger than 20” X 24” (your 10 matted or mounted photos must not exceed 1.5” when stacked). These are optimal dimensions for viewing work in the Drawers without damaging the prints. We also highly recommend that you place plastic sleeves around your matted images, as this will encourage visitors to peruse your portfolio and reduce the potential for damage. Should your work have special
display requirements, please contact me to discuss potential options. I understand that the two men who allegedly committed the assault have been identified and were detained by the police, but were subsequently released. However, I understand that the men have been ordered to appear before the Ministerio Publico in San Marcos to give statements regarding the incident. Both the men are residents of San Miguel Ixtahuacan. One of the two was employed by Montana, but his employment was terminated more than one year ago. The other man is employed by a contractor that provides underground mine development services to Montana at the Marlin Mine. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (3 Connecticut) Barnacle Goose (6 New York) Whooper Swan (1 Florida) White-cheeked Pintail (1 Florida) Tufted Duck (3 British Columbia, 7 California, 1 Massachusetts, 1 Nova Scotia) American Flamingo (13 Florida) Masked Booby (1 Texas) Brown Booby (3 California) Hook-billed Kite (2 Texas) Northern Jacana (10 Texas) Slaty-backed Gull (2 Washington, 6 Wisconsin) Ruddy Ground-Dove (1 Arizona) Smooth-billed Ani (2 Florida) Aplomado Falcon (6 Texas) Blackcapped Gnatcatcher (2 Arizona) Redwing (1 British Columbia) Rufousbacked Robin (4 Arizona) Rufous-backed Robin (Rufous-backed) (1 Arizona) Tropical Parula (7 Texas) Golden-crowned Warbler (6 Texas) White-collared Seedeater (2 Texas) Western Spindalis (13 Florida) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (7 Texas) Blue Bunting (8 Texas) Streak-backed Oriole (5 Arizona) Brambling (7 Ohio) thanks you again and the replacement has been added with the parcel of tracking NO of LK769075515CN please have a check there ANN Dear valued buyer, thanks for your buying, could you please kindly let me know if you receive the package? if yes, is there any problem with your item? are you satisfied with it? If you have any concern, just let me know directly. Feedback is really important for a seller, if you have any problem, please do not open the case or leave negative feedback directly, it won’t solve any problem, I cherish every buyer and every transaction, I am always here and let’s keep in touch. thank you crystalcoral A major storm system will move across the Plains to the Upper Great Lakes by We d n e s d a y. Heavy snow, with some blizzard conditions, will accompany this storm on Tuesday. Meanwhile, this same storm will bring severe thunderstorms capable of damaging winds and a few tornadoes from Miss. and Ala. northward into the Ohio River Valley Tuesday afternoon and evening. Two bills HB4040 and SB1557 would legislatively (and redundantly) delist wolves, but also sidestep the public’s right for a legal review, allow ODFW to ignore the law, and set a dangerous precedent for all wildlife. HB4040 goes even further by making it incredibly difficult to reinstate protections, even if wolf populations declined from poaching or disease to half of where they are now. Wolves could become effectively extinct in Oregon before regaining protections. Over the last few years, Oregon has done an admirable job balancing 21st century conservation values, science, and legitimate concerns against old fears and prejudice. Rather than double down on that success and address real challenges, these divisive bills turn back the clock. This exhibition is only for printed photographic work, which I believe was made clear in the initial call for submissions. Also, all costs associated with producing the work for the Drawers is the responsibility of each artist. Unless you are able to adhere to these guidelines, I will be removing your submission from the list of accepted artists. Zemie Zemie Barr, Exhibitions Manager Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts 122 NW 8th Ave. Portland, OR 97209 High pressure brings colder air to the north and central regions, while the south continues to bake and the tropics go dead quiet. NORTH Cooler air continues to settle into the north region today, with lots of high pressure building in to keep the skies clear and the temperatures cold. A pair of men entered a gift card establishment in Hampton, Va. and attempted to rob the store. An employee responded to the threat by retrieving a gun and shooting both thieves, killing one and prompting the other to flee. Police captured the wounded thief a short distance from the store. The armed citizen is not expected to face any charges. Hawaii gun owners would be required to have insurance
for their firearms and renew their gun registrations every five years under a bill introduced Wednesday at the State Legislature, proposals that gun advocates said are unneeded and would have a chilling effect on constitutional gun rights. We are still waiting for an investigation into how and why Khaiyum’s aunty, Nur Bano Ali’s company, Aliz Pacific Limited, was used to pay the regime’s ministers salaries from 2010-2013? Or an investigation into the $1.8 million paid to ministers with no supporting documents of how the money was to be spent? We call on the Obama administration to end the U.S. alliance with S a u d i Arabia and to stop providing the Saudi regime with military and diplomatic support. The execution in January of Sheikh N i m r al’Nimr, an opponent of both Sunni and Shiite sectarianism and an advocate of a non-violent strategy, is only the most recent example of the barbarity of the Saudi dictatorship; the government carried out at least 157 executions in 2015, many of them by grisly beheadings. Saudi Arabia’s outrageous oppression of women is well known and, as Amnesty International has documented, the regime systematically represses dissent with flogging and other forms of torture, equates criticism of the government and other peaceful activities with terrorism, and continues to discriminate against the country’s Shia minority. Washington has issued only pro’forma expressions of “concern” about these human rights violations, while in practice maintaining solid support for the Saudi regime. The Saudi Kingdom has long played a reactionary role across the Middle East with such actions as supporting Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak to the bitter end and then supporting the repressive Sisi regime that came to power in a coup. When the Arab Spring spread to Bahrain, the Saudi government sent troops into that country to buttress the brutal repression of protesters. In Yemen, the Saudis are engaging in indiscriminate bombings resulting in the death of thousands of innocent civilians. Notwithstanding Saudi Arabia’s reactionary domestic and regional policies, the Obama administration has approved new arms sales agreements with the regime, amounting to $50 billion, while American companies train thousands of Saudi military personnel. And Washington supports Saudi Arabia’s deadly war in Yemen, supplying bombs
(including deadly cluster bombs), refueling, and logistical assistance. Washington justifies its alliance with the Saudis and other dictators in the name of defeating ISIS and preserving regional “stability.” But the effect of U.S. policy is the opposite. Authoritarian regimes, both secular and sectarian, that have been consistently or intermittently supported by Washington - like those in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Syria, Iran under the Shah, and Iraq both before and after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein - have fueled the rise of Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and other murderous theocratic movements. The only way such groups can be decisively and sustainably defeated is by the victory of grassroots movements for democracy and social justice across the region -
from Saudi Arabia and Egypt to Iran, Syria and beyond. The United States and other Western powers bear responsibility for enabling the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda not only because of their support for repressive regimes, but also because of their disastrous military interventions. In addition, the West has pressured countries throughout the Middle East to adopt harsh neoliberal policies that have cut social programs and reduced the already miserable living standards of ordinary people. When most of the mass movements of the Arab Spring for democracy and basic economic rights were crushed, jihadism gained in appeal. Moreover, Israel’s denial of the basic rights of the Palestinian people - a policy that receives massive support from Washington has produced legitimate anger across the region, anger that has often been hijacked by authoritarian fundamentalists in the absence of a progressive solution. To be sure, the United States and the other We s t e r n c o u nt r ie s are not solely responsible for the rise of groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Other regional powers like Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran share responsibility, and Russia, by backing Assad’s brutal dictatorship, has made its own catastrophic contribution. However, a new democratic, peaceful and just U.S. foreign policy could start to reverse the horrific downward spiral of politics in the Middle East. An important element of such a policy would be for the United States to end all forms of support for the Saudi government. At the same time, we offer our solidarity and support to the brave Saudi women and men - many of them behind bars - who are working for democratic change, as we offer support to all movements in the Middle East that struggle for democracy and challenge inequality and repression. They are our hope. What are the principles underlying this new ‘system’? To encourage participation and organization, collect ively- developed ideas get priority over individual or corporate preferences. To meet the challenges of global neoliberalism and new political realities, the government must take risks and engage in ‘radical innovation.’ To bridge the gap between government and the people, the government has to support multiple vehicles for popular par-
ticipation. To rebuild confidence and bring government into the communities, leaders have to peel away privileges of authority and work on an equal basis with residents. If anyone knows the B52, it’s the people of Hanoi. The enormous planes bombed them day and night for twelve days at Christmas in 1972. Today there’s a museum dedicated to the bomber, and the wreckage of one still sits in a small lake in the middle of the city. The B-52 was built originally in the early 1950s to drop nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union. Since then it’s carried “conventional” bombs, releasing them instead over people and homes in dozens of other countries. “It is the longevity and versatility of the giant bomber, which started flying in 1952 and is expected to remain in service until 2037, that is so fascinating,” Zuckerman commented. While both writers carefully note that carpet bombing inspired massive protests both in the U.S. and internationally, what’s glaringly absent in their pieces is any sense of what it means to be under the B-52, on its receiving end. The Christmas bombing of Vietnam was a war crime. No U.S. official was ever tried and punished for it, and it was as irrational as it was savage. The negotiations for the U.S. t r o o p withdrawal from South Vietnam would reach a conclusion within a few weeks of it. Could some minute extraction of leverage in those talks have been worth the deaths of more than a thousand Vietnamese? Throughout the eight years in which the U.S. bombed North Vietnam, its bombers had few military targets. One airman quoted by Philipps tried to claim that bombing nevertheless had some strategic value: “We’re doing a lot more than killing monkeys and making kindling wood out of the jungle,” he claimed. The B-52s targets, however, were people and the infrastructure that held their lives together. U.S. planes bombed dikes to try to cause flooding in Hanoi and the countryside. They bombed the Long Bien railroad bridge - the link that brought food and coal into Hanoi so that people could eat and keep warm. Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (2 New York) Tufted Duck (3 British Columbia, 1 California, 1 Nova Scotia) American Flamingo (9 Florida) Nazca Booby (4 California) Brown Booby (8 California) Northern Jacana (4
Texas) Slaty-backed Gull (7 Illinois, 2 Washington, 5 Wisconsin) Smooth-billed Ani (2 Florida) Aplomado Falcon (4 Texas) Sinaloa Wren (1 Arizona) Redwing (1 British Columbia) Rufous-backed Robin (3 Arizona) Tropical Parula (3 Texas) Rufous-capped Warbler (1 Texas) Golden-crowned Warbler (1 Texas) White-collared Seedeater (9 Texas) Western Spindalis (2 Florida) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (2 Texas) For the first time ever, sex slavery will be prosecuted where the war crime took place, 30 years after 11 Mayan women from Sepur Zarco were raped and enslaved. First the army came for the men. Fifteen Mayan peasant leaders in the tiny hamlet of Sepur Zarco in eastern Guatemala were seized and killed or forcibly disappeared. A few weeks later, they came back for the women. Soldiers raped them in front of their children, burned down their houses and crops, stole their meagre belongings and made them move into shacks outside the nearby military base. Every two or three days, each woman was made to report for 12hour ‘shifts’ at the base where they were forced to cook, clean and submit to systematic rape, often by several soldiers. It was 1982, one of the bloodiest years of the country’s civil war as counter-insurgency operations against ethnic Mayans intensified under the rule of the military dictator and evangelical Christian, Efran Ros Montt. More than 30 years later, two former military officers will finally face charges of sexual and domestic slavery and forced disappearance in a landmark trial which opens on Monday. The trial marks the first in the world that sexual slavery perpetrated during an armed conflict has been prosecuted in the country where the crimes took place. The two defendants, former base commander Esteelmer Reyes Girn and former regional military commissioner Heriberto Valdez Asij, are accused of crimes against humanity, which are exempt from the country’s post-war amnesty law. Throughout Guatemala’s 36-year conflict, state security forces used rape as a weapon of terror, according to the 1999 report of a UN-backed Truth Commission, but no officers have ever faced charges of sexual violence. And while the plight of Korean and Filipino ‘comfort women’ forced into sexual slavery by Japanese troops during the second world war remains the subject of high-level diplomatic disputes, victims of similar crimes in Guatemala have had little or no official support. ‘The women have worked with an amazing coalition of organizations over years to build the case in an effort to overcome the stigma and break the silence that so often accompanies sexual violence in armed conflict,’ said Jo-Marie Burt, political science professor at George Mason University and senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America (Wola). The Sepur Zarco crimes took place during the presidency of Ros Montt, who in May 2013 was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity - a verdict controversially overturned by the constitutional court just 10 days later. Montt and his coaccused are currently awaiting retrial. Guatemala’s 19601996 civil was triggered by a CIA-backed coup after a democratically elected president promised land reforms. Ros Montt justified the state-sponsored violence by claiming the victims were communist guerrillas. But army actions were largely about protecting the interests of rich landowners. In Sepur Zarco, Mayan Q’eqchi’ peas-
ant leaders had angered local landowners by fighting for the legal titles to the land upon which they had lived and worked for years. The landowners called in the army for protection. After the 15 men were illegally detained and disappeared, 11 of their wives were forced into domestic and sexual slavery. The macabre ‘shift’ system ended after about 10 months. But for some victims, the bondage lasted for as long as six years until the military installation was closed in 1998. During this time, the women were forced to find corn and make tortillas for the soldiers, even though their own children were starving. And the rapes continued. The other four women fled to the mountains, where they hid for years with no shelter and little food. Many of their children died from hunger or disease. Bringing the case to trial has been a long and painful process. The victims, now in their 70s and 80s, are frail, illiterate and speak no Spanish, only Q’eqchi’. Most continue to suffer physical and psychological problems as a result of the sexual violence, aggravated by ongoing harsh living conditions. Because of the victims’ ages and frailty, the judge agreed to pre-trial evidentiary hearings in 2012 so that their testimonies were on record. Just four months later, one of the women died. Five men who were detained and tortured at the Sepur Zarco base are also witnesses. Reyes faces charges of sexual violence, sexual and domestic slavery, and for the murder of Dominga Coc and her two daughters at base camp. Valdez, who allegedly identified the so-called subversives, will be prosecuted for sexual violence and the forced disappearance of at least nine men. Both defendants, who have been held in remand since June 2014, deny the charges. The investigation into other alleged perpetrators continues. ‘By speaking out and seeking justice the women of Sepur Zarco are writing Guatemalan history, helping us all better understand what happened and why. Let’s hope that the justice system is up to the task,’ Burt told the Guardian. The trial is expected to last 40 days. In 2010, protagonists in the Sepur Zarco case participated in the Tribunal of Conscience against the sexual violence to which women were subject during the internal armed conflict. Over the course of several days, numerous survivors gave testimony regarding the atrocities they suffered during the war years. After the Tribunal, 15 Q’eqchi women from the community of Sepur Zarco decided to present a criminal suit demanding justice for the sexual violence and domestic and sexual slavery they had endured. The law suit was presented to the Public Ministry in 2011 and in June 2015, Judge Miguel Angel Glvez, of High-Risk Court B received evidence and sent the case for trial. Sepur Zarco is a community located on the border between the departments of Alta Verapaz and Izabal. As stated in the initial 1982 complaint, men from the community who were attempting to gain legal title to their land were captured and disappeared by military forces, on grounds of insurgency. The wives of these men were considered ‘widows and thus available.” These women were then subjected to domestic slavery, sexual violence and sexual slavery. According to testimony, for six consecutive months, the women had to report to the military base every third day for shifts. They cooked, cleaned and washed military uniforms. These women were repeatedly raped, both individually and collectively and some of them were forced to take medications and receive injections to prevent pregnancy. According to the UN Historical Clarification Commission report ‘sexual violation during the armed conflict was used widely, massively and systemically as part of the counterinsurgency policy of the State.’ This can been considered to be a crime against humanity, a war crime and amounts to an act of domination and terror. This is the first time that a national court has recognized crimes of sexual slavery during the armed conflict. In other countries, such cases have been presented to international tribunals but the women of Sepur Zarco are setting a precedent by bringing the lawsuit forward in their own country. This is a very brave act. The trial will take place on February 1, in High-Risk Court A. Lieutenant Colonel Esteelmer Francisco Reyes Girn will be tried for crimes against humanity in the form of sexual violence, sexual and domestic slavery against 11 women, murder of 3 women’a mother and her two little girls’ and cruelty to children.
Ex-military commissioner Heriberto Valdez Asig is accused of the forced disappearance of six men, who were the husbands of the victims and of crimes against humanity in the form of sexual violence against a woman. The women of the Sepur Zarco case have had to wait over 30 years for justice to be done. For decades, the justice system remained under the control of those who wanted only to perpetuate impunity. Despite enormous obstacles and on-going cooptation, in the past few years, the women have managed to push the process forward. During the pre-trial hearing in 2012, one of the surviving women made the following statement to the judge: ‘We want to ensure that other women in Guatemala do not have to endure the brutal acts to which we were subjected.” Her words are highly significant. The women are seeking justice so that what they experienced is not repeated. What they are saying is that justice is not a form of revenge; it is a way to reconciliation and a guarantee that these atrocities do not occur again. Guatemala’s high-risk court A announced last week that the opening of the landmark Sepur Zarco trial will begin on February 1, 2016, earlier than previously scheduled. The case against two defendants relates to enforced disappearances, mass sexual violence, and sexual slavery committed at the former Sepur Zarco military base during Guatemala’s 36-year conflict. The case will be the first in which a Guatemalan court considers a case of sexual violence as an international crime, and the first time anywhere that a domestic court has weighed charges of sexual slavery. The trial had previously been scheduled to start on April 11, 2016 but has now been moved up, although no reason has been given for the earlier start date. Highrisk court A will hear the case. Sepur Zarco is a small hamlet located in eastern Guatemala. According to the prosecution, armed forces repeatedly attacked the small village in 1982 and killed or forcibly disappeared Mayan Q’eqchi’ leaders, who had sought land title from the state, provoking the anger of rich landowners who accused them of being associated with the guerrillas. Military forces considered Q’eqchi’ women to be ‘available’ and systematically subjected them to sexual and domestic slavery. They were required to report every third day to the Sepur Zarco military installation for ‘shifts’ during which they were
raped, sexually abused, and forced to cook and clean for the soldiers. After this initial period, soldiers reportedly continued to rape the women when they went to fetch water and forced them to work at the military installation. For some victims, the situation lasted as long as six years until the closure of the military installation in 1988. In its 1999 report, the UN-backed truth commission affirmed that state agents perpetrated rape as a widespread and systematic practice as part of their counterinsurgency strategy. The report stated that the practice amounted to a weapon of terror and a grave violation of human rights and international humanitarian law. The two men who now stand accused in relation to the Sepur Zarco allegations are alleged former base commander Lieutenant Colonel
Esteelmer Reyes Giron, and former Military Commissioner Heriberto Valdez. They face charges of crimes against humanity related to alleged rape and sexual violence committed against at least 11 Q’eqchi’ women, and charges of enforced disappearance for the disappearance of at least nine men. Both accused were arrested in June 2014. In October of the same year, preliminary judge Miguel Angel Galvez decided that there was enough evidence to believe that Reyes Giron and Valdez could have played a role in the commission of the alleged crimes, and sent the case for trial. Since then, numerous defense challenges have delayed the start of the trial. During the trial, which could last around 40 days, the prosecution and civil parties intend to present the testimony of 15 survivors. Other witnesses will also testify before the court, among them military, cultural, linguistic, medical, psychosocial, gender, anthropological, forensic, and other experts. In total, 73 w it ne s se s are scheduled to offer testimony for the prosecution. Addit i o n a l l y, prosecutors are expected to provide evidence from exhumations, including the remains of victims and reports explaining their causes of death. In his defense, Colonel Reyes will present 18 witnesses and 50 documents to support his claim that he was never assigned to the Sepur Zarco base. He is also expected to claim that military policies at the time forbade sexual violence, and that such crimes simply did not occur. The defense for his co-defendant, former Military Commissioner Heriberto Valdez, is expected to present at least ten witnesses, as well as letters from individuals attesting to his strong moral character. His anticipated main defense is that, as a military commissioner in Panzos, he was unaffiliated with any abuses at Sepur Zarco. Mayan Q’eqchi’ women and their supporters have been demanding accountability for the alleged crimes at Sepur Zarco for over six years, even as survivors have faced discrimination, stigmatization, and re-victimization. Their efforts are now culminating in a trial that will shed new light on the nature of Guatemala’s conflict and break new ground in efforts to prosecute sexual and gender-based violence around the world. Blue Bunting (2 Texas) Shiny Cowbird (1 Florida)
Streak-backed Oriole (1 Arizona) Brambling (2 Ohio) There are 13,000 Airbnb listings in Israel, though investigations have revealed that many of the properties are actually located in settlements built on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank. By allowing users to list and rent these properties and taking 915% from hosts and guests, Airbnb is making money off of Israel’s continued military occupation of Palestinian land and helping facilitate settlement activity. Gang-rape As a Tool of Military and Mining Repression These precedent setting war crimes trials for gang-rape and sexual enslavement of 11 women in the 1980s from the Mayan Q’eqchi’ community of Sepur Zarco have finally begun in Guatemalan courts, at the same time as a precedent setting lawsuit works its way through Canadian courts, against Hudbay Minerals, for its responsibility for the gang rape in 2007 of 11 other Mayan Q’eqchi’ women from the nearby community of Lote 8. ‘In its 1999 report, the UN-backed truth commission affirmed that state agents perpetrated rape as a widespread and systematic practice as part of their counterinsurg e n c y strateg y.’ (See article below by Sophie Beaudoin) In the May a n Q ’e q c h i ’ region, today, it is understood that Hudbay Minerals’ private security guards and soldiers and police gang-raped 11 women on January 17, 2007, as part of their repression strategy to forcibly evict the entire village of Lote 8 (that same day, over 100 homes were burnt to the ground), so that Hudbay Minerals could start its nickel mining operation. Hello Curators, We hope the new year started well for all of you. And to help make it even better, this month we offer you 30 opportunities. As always, good luck! Online course by Node Center. This course will explore interesting strategies in exhibition-making and ways of thinking about curating by sharing a wide variety of innovative curatorial approaches that are designed to inspire. Expanding Exhibitions is for emerging and established curators who want to open up ways of thinking about their practice from the white cube and beyond. The Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture will build the collection through significant acquisitions, and raise Mia’s profile through ambitious and intellectually rigor-
ous exhibitions, gallery rotations, publications, and programs. MoMA PS1 is seeking a Director of Exhibitions to support the Curator and Associate Director of Exhibitions and Programs in a highly creative and fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will be a multitalented, collaborative and organized individual with a proven record of exhibition management and a solid knowledge of Contemporary Art as well as the Contemporary Art community, locally, nationally and internationally. SCAD seeks an assistant curator of exhibitions to work with a talented and dynamic team in collecting and exhibiting art from SCAD artists. In this position, you will research, seek out and develop relationships with SCAD artists for exhibitions and other projects and opportunities. You will collect art from alumni, faculty and current students, particularly M.F.A. thesis candidates. If you want to venture into organization of large-scale projects and events, this course will give you the practical tools to skillfully coordinate them. Feel confident to step it up and get your big idea off the ground. Whether your idea is a festival, a thematic week, a multi-platform exhibition, or a brand-new format, the number of abilities needed to effectively realise the initial idea is often at first unknown or under-evaluated. The art world has become a complex network of individuals, institutions, and larger forces that activate a global marketplace for art. This course will assist in demystifying the dynamics of the art market to help you navigate it successfully. Over the course of 4 weeks, we will explain the complex interactions between key players and institutions including collectors, art galleries, auction houses, art fairs, and what independent art professionals such as appraisers and advisers do. Master Program for Exhibition Theory & Practice. /ecm is a postgraduate master program concerned with core competences in the expanded field of museums and exhibitions. The goal of the two-year university course is to provide the scientific fundamentals and professionalization of cultural work. An intensive engagement with theoretical positions goes together with the development of practical competences in the visualisation and realisation of projects in institutions as well as in the independent scene. The Summer School in Curatorial Practice will take place during the International Architecture Biennale of Venice. With an interdisciplinary approach, the course provides practical training and experience within museums and exhibition settings. Its international faculty includes curators and museum professionals, artists and critics. The course is designed to increase students understanding of the intellectual and technical tasks of the curator figure. This MA programme is relevant for those wishing to pursue an advanced career in cultural and creative organisations such as museums, galleries, private and social enterprises, design agencies, and research centres. The programme will also be applicable to artists, curators, designers and policy-makers wishing to advance their design thinking by bringing their own projects to life, or create outputs for their own clients and industry partners. The perfect opportunity to take your site-specific exhibition exactly where it needs to be. On February 1, 2016 apexart opens its 9th annual Franchise Program Open Call for exhibition proposals: an opportunity to propose and produce an exhibition that takes
place anywhere in the world outside of New York City. No prior curatorial experience is necessary, and anyone may apply. Artist in residence opportunity - to live and work in a regional park The selected artist lives in a bach for eight weeks within a park, surrounded by nature! The mission is to make new work inspired by some aspect of the spectacular surroundings or the experience. Open to all artists whatever their media/ mediums(provided they are NZ citizens). Don’t procrastinate if you’re planning on applying as applications close in just two weeks (on February 15). This collection is on the hillside along the Spruce Trail near the Wedding Meadow. Currently the understory of this collection is grossly overgrown and not conducive to proper site management and healthy trees. The funding will enable us to engage professional crews for brush and stump removal, improve the soil and purchase new plantings. It will allow the arboretum to meet the goals in the Pine collection plan. Over the next two years we will create an environmentally healthy site that will make for a thriving Red pine collection. And thank you to all of our generous donors who helped us surpass our 2015 year-end appeal goal of $40,000 by several thousand dollars. W i l l a m e t t eWe e k Give!Guide contributions grew by 29%! Your gifts will help us repair storm damage and meet our mission to improve Hoyt Arboretum, conserve threatened species and educate the public about the importance of trees in our environment. Another form is a selection of a species from Nepal. M. napaulensis ‘Maharaja’ is perhaps not as cold hardy as some of the other forms, so it will be watched closely in the Winter Garden. This clone is from a plant sent to England from India and has found its way to the United States. The leaves grow up to two feet long with four to eight leaflets; the late winter blooming flowers are fragrant on eight to ten inch spikes. Plant height can reach ten feet, which is not uncommon amongst most of the hybrid forms as well. Winter brings a surprising amount of blooms to the arboretum. Camellias, witch hazels and mahonia are all blooming, along with crocus and snow drops. If you are looking for great winter blooms and plants to attract hummingbirds coupled with great evergreen leaves, then check out the mahonia cultivars in the Winter Garden. The plants are still small but growing fast. If you are travelling down under, why not combine a trip to Australia and New Zealand? It is now even easier with the introduction of our new Qantas codeshare services with American Airlines from Los Angeles to Auckland from June 2016*, plus Qantas services from New Zealand to Australia and back to the US. Stylish Melbourne is the cultural and sporting heart of Australia. Head to Melbourne’s laneways and discover hidden secrets. Outside the city explore the wonders of the 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road, the Yarra Valley wine region or Phillip Island, Melbourne’s wildlife wonderland. These long buried, bitter-sweet memories of people affected by the invasion of Kuwait now find themselves dug out by the Bollywood hit, Airlift, which tells the story of the attempts of one man -- played by Akshay Kumar -- to rescue people trapped in the West Asian country. The mission of the BAU Institute is to support visual artists, creative and dramatic writers, composers, performance artists and other arts professionals in the creation and exhibition of new work. BAU Institute offers residencies in France and Italy to provide uninterrupted time and space for the development of new work in settings of cultural interest and extraordinary natural beauty. In 2014 BAU Institute launched a new arts residency hosted by the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. The Residency provides BAU Institute funded Fellowships for the realization of projects in the arts. There is no cost to attend. Creative practioners demonstrating a serious commitment to their practice and a desire to work independently within an international community are welcome to apply. The BAU at Camargo Fellowship provides artists with live-work apartments at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France . at no cost. The residency supports the development of work in the Visual Arts (including photography, video and new media), Creative Writing, Dramatic Writing, Performance and Musical Composition. The residency may acco mmodate up to 15 people at a time. Fellowship selections are determined
by a rotating panel of discipline specific professionals. While current students (except for non-traditional students and advanced PhD candidates) are not eligible to apply, we strongly encourage applications from recent graduates and emerging artists. The selected artist for the Solo Exhibition will receive $1,000 CASH, from Dacia Gallery. All visual artists, national and international artists may apply. We are looking for new talented artists to exhibit and represent. If you are looking for gallery representation and to have a Solo Show in New York City, submit your art that we may discover your compelling work and present it to the public, gallery directors, curators and collectors. D a c i a’s Ar tist Residency pr ov ide s an acad e m i c pr og r a m to inspire, refine and redefine the creative direction of artists in an intensive two-week figure-painting program. We are accepting artists that want to dedicate their time to painting, learning the ins and outs of the New York art world and exploring all the wonderful opportunities that the city has to offer artists. Art classes will alternate between figurative painting and drawing, the business of art, guest speakers and lecturers. Additionally, an exhibition and opening reception will be held for the participating resident artists at Dacia Gallery. This is a wonderful opportunity to study and paint in NYC. If you are interested in participating register today. Atlas of power-laws is inspired by the work of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, an HungarianAmerican physicist, best known for his work in the research of network theory. The idea that there are similarities throughout social, technological and natural networks inspired Albrecht to visualize the diversity of the power laws behind them. This project tries to answer the question: can network science guide us to a more unified view of the world? These are grim times. The world seems increasingly insane, filled with avarice, indifference, and pointless suffering. And David Fullarton appears to be intent on making matters worse. Here is an artist who apparently finds our atrocious situation endlessly amusing. Laughing in the face of looming disaster, mocking our fears and anxieties and ridiculing the absurdity of modern existence, he demonstrates no respect for the seriousness of our malaise. This latest assortment of abject scrawls continues his dubious chronicle of ma-
nia and melancholy, of lives infested with quiet desperation and bitter regret. We would advise prudent individuals to avoid it at all cost. Curator: Anna Frants Artwork by: Justin Berry, Petr Belyi, Svjetlana BukovichNichols, Alexandra Dementieva, Marianna Ellenberg, Carla Gannis, Elena Gubanova / Ivan Govorkov, Pavel Ivanov, Peter Patchen, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Alexander Terebenin, Alyona Tereshko, The Window / Romanian Project, Bryan Zanisnik ElNio remains strong, but continues its gradual decline. Climate models suggest a return to neutral levels in the second quarter of 2016. Close to the equator, the surface of the Pacific Ocean has now cooled by 0.5C since the ElNio peaked in late 2015. Below the ocean surface, cooler than average waters now extend into
the central tropical Pacific Ocean. In the atmosphere, trade winds have recently returned to near-normal levels in the central and eastern Pacific, although the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) has been strongly negative in recent weeks. During Australia’s northern wet season, it is not unusual to see big fluctuations in the SOI due to the passage of tropical systems, and hence its value may not be representative of the overall ENSO state. Based on the 26 El Nino events since 1900, around 50% have been followed by a neutral year, and 40% have been followed by LaNina. Indoor and outdoor. Top floor and dance floor. City views and industrial views. Recent production costs haven’t allowed us to throw a good old fashioned, cheap as fuck, sweaty party in a minute so we’re making tickets dirt cheap, and drinks even cheaper for a proper Valentine’s love fest. The space is a crowd favorite, an industrial loft space with amazing views that no one has been able to use for years. So after tons of renovations and fire code what have yous, we’re finally able to use it again. Aura Minerals’ gold mine in La Unin, Copan, Honduras, cannot expand its operation without illegally exhuming and relocating hundreds of family members buried in the historic community cemetery. They can only do this with military and police force. While community members have many complaints and concerns about Aura Mineral’s on-going operation, with respect to this possible military-enforced cemetery destruction, Aura Minerals and its subsidiary company MINOSA have not complied with even the basic standards for cemetery relocation, including carrying out a public, transparent community consultation; then receiving legal permission from the next of kin based on an agreed upon relocation strategy that is fair and acceptable to the local communities, and providing adequate monetary compensation to the affected families and communities. The communities deeply value their cemetery and plan to continue protecting it. Just two weeks ago, two community members were buried there by their community and loved ones. Aura Minerals is deceiving the public, when suggesting the cemetery is not being used. Aura Minerals CEO and President James Bannantine told the Cana-
dian Parliament in April 2014, that Aura Minerals abides by basic environmental and human rights standards as outlined in the Equator Principles. This is untrue. Aura Minerals is violating the weak and unenforceable Equator Principles by criminalizing local leaders resisting the cemetery relocation; ignoring, entirely, the communities wishes related to the fate of their cemetery; and not presenting an appropriate cemetery relocation plan for community consultation and agreemnt. Because a harmonious environment does not presently exist due to the policies of intimidation and blackmail used by the company, we make the following pronouncement: 1. As communities located close to the mining project, we reject the pressure our communities have been experiencing on behalf of some authorities who have put themselves at the service of Aura Minerals. The mining company claims that these authorities already gave them the necessary permits that will soon enable them to initiate the process of closing and relocating the cemetery. 2. The communities will NOT permit the closing of and the relocation of the cemetery until they comply with the o t h e r c om m itm e n t s made with each of the communities. 3. If Aura M i ner a l s a t t e mpt s to move the cemetery in an abusive and arbitrary manner, without honoring all of the agreements, it will force us to take actions, and file lawsuits (nationally and internationally), until we have the means to defend the corresponding rights. 4. We denounce the mining exploitation being carried out close to the cemetery. The daily explosions are making the area vulnerable, and in this manner, they seek a justification (for health and security reasons) for some authorities to declare the closure of the cemetery. We thank the municipal corporation for the support given to each of our initiatives in defense of the rights of our communities. Finally, we clarify that we are willing to dialogue, as long as real and convincing responses are provided to the demands made by our communities. As a small business owner, I believe I would benefit from a larger number of Americans feeling secure in their homes and knowing that they will have enough food for their families. I want to live in a country where we all make enough money to
meet not just our basic subsistence needs, but also our need for happiness. Prevent militant black nationalist groups and leaders from gaining _respectability_, by discrediting them to three separate segments of the community. The goal of discrediting black nationalists must be handled tactically in three ways. You must discredit these groups and individuals to, first, the responsible Negro community. Second, they must be discredited to the white community, both the responsible community and to”liberals” who have vestiges ofsympathy for militant black nationalistsimply because they are Negroes. Third, those groups must be discredited in the eyes of Negro radicals, the followers of the movement. This last area requires entirely different tactics from the first two. Publicity about violent tendencies and radical statements merely enhances black nationalists to the last group; it adds “respectability” in a different way. Newkill was a joint FBI/NYPD operation involving total cooperation and sharing of information. The FBI made all its facilities and resources, including its laboratory, available to the NYPD. Defendant Michael Codd, then NYPD Chief Inspector, was assured of ‘complete’ FBI cooperation. In turn, NYPD Chief of Detectives Albert Seedman, who coordinated the NYPD’s investigation, ordered his subordinates to give the FBI “all available information developed to date, as well as in future investigations”. The FBI and NYPD held regular conferences during which all parties were fully briefed. Whenever I start my car, the computer console in the center of the dashboard lights up with an admonition about driving safely. I rarely read it word for word, but just that quick reminder imbues the truth that I am undertaking the serious business of navigating a 3500 pound weapon on streets with teenagers playing basketball, dads pushing strollers, grandmas walking curly-haired fox terriers. For a time at least, I start my drive with more consciousness and thought. Extensive new kinds of cultural archives have taken shape in recent years on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. Social media facilitates the creation of cultural archives that are both diverse and participatory, and riddled with problems including censorship, data loss, and obsolescence. Today, with Rhizome’s Mellon Foundation’funded Webrecorder emerging as a new user-centered tool for archiving the dynamic web, complex and urgent questions arise about how to facilitate digital social memory: What kinds of archives are needed, and who should own them? What kinds of archives should be avoided? What privacy concerns are raised by social media archiving? Born blind in 1880, in Floyd County, Virginia, Alfred Reed felt compelled to compose his own songs and was exceptionally talented in this endeavor. Relying upon his talent to generate money for supporting his family, he played music on the streets, performed at dances and various social and church gatherings. In 1927 Reed made his first recordings at the legendary Bristol Sessions, the same recording trip that “discovered” his contemporaries, The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers. If/when gun confiscation comes to your door, you will need to have some of your weapons hidden or stashed away. Event Donors Above Ground Above Ground Art Supplies | Art Gallery of Hamilton | Art Gallery of Ontario | Art Gallery of York University | Articu-