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- 2001. n 2001 we had 22 individuals, then a dramatic drop to only 3 in 2003, and *only 1 in 2004*. The last several years have averaged about 10-12 for the entire count. None of these are big numbers, but Silverton CBC also has only 6-8 sector teams for the entire circle. Is it just statistical noise, and unfavorable habitat, or is there something more regarding Bewick’s Wren numbers in W. Oregon? I know they have declined dramatically in the eastern US, and it is speculated it may be partly due to the expansion of House Wren numbers. An extraordinary garden with crystal chandeliers attached to a sky of greenery. A magical fountain, a hot-air balloon carrying an elephant or a unicorn playing the piano. pulled through, two long windows open in the dark of birth, the gold cord raised too in its wake. Awake, the first morning. The first morning & all, all the windows were closed inside. A blindness scalding broken sight. Contemplation is conscious gazing; it represents the in-between space where dualities like inside/outside, mind/ body are dissolved to reveal the content of the form and the experience within it. Contemplation is the way by which futures, presents, and pasts are created and maintained in a particular form of time, and related to the alteration of perception through some or no intervention. A whole world of conceptual possibilities, including the postcolonial, are opened through the act of contemplating: Diasporas, recognitions in the self and some other as a surface for reflection, the subversive evidentiation of hidden meanings and unsolved narratives. Over this basic scheme, there is a steady flow of variations, following a rhythm found in certain primitive epics. (Primitive, too, is the habit of referring to the protagonist always by his full name’even his mother addresses Charlie Brown in that fashion, like an epic hero.) Thus you could never grasp the poetic power of Schulz’s work by reading only one or two or ten episodes: you must thoroughly understand the characters and the situations, for the grace, tenderness, and laughter are born only from the infinitely shifting repetition of the patterns, and from fidelity to the fundamental inspirations. They demand from the reader a continuous act of empathy, a participation in the inner warmth that pervades the events. The poetry of these children arises from the fact that we find in them all the problems, all the sufferings of the adults, who remain offstage. These children affect us because in a certain sense they are monsters: they are the monstrous infantile reductions of all the neuroses of a modern citizen of industrial civilization. They affect us because we realize that if they are monsters it is because we, the adults, have made them so. In them we find everything: Freud, mass culture, digest culture, frustrated struggle for success, craving for affection, loneliness, passive acquiescence, and neurotic protest. But all these elements do not blossom directly, as we know them, from the mouths of a group of children: they are conceived and spoken after passing through the filter of innocence. Schulz’s children are not a sly instrument to handle our adult problems: they experience these problems according to a childish psychology, and for this very reason they seem to us touching and hopeless, as if we were suddenly aware that our ills have polluted everything, at the root. Radical changes to ecological, environmental, social, and biological conditions are turning some artists from traditionally defined practices towards new approaches that reinvent their engagement with life, health, and wellbeing. Their practices, while not new, are increasingly relevant for culture and health. These transformative changes to the nature of practice have put those trained in the arts, their insights and methods, in contact with those of other disciplines such as ecology, medicine and healthcare. Even though we are open to all proposed forms of art and media, we use to focus to works which causes people to reflect on the larger community and a kind of art capable of changelling the viewers’ traditional perspective on art itself. This competition aims to give the impetus and opportunity to artists to work between the boundaries of Contemporary Art. Warning ‘ Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System Are you also the one who downloaded Linux Mint on February 20th? You may have been Infected! Linux Mint is one of the best and popular Linux distros available today, but if you have downloaded and

installed the operating system recently you might have done so using a malicious ISO image. Here’s why: Last night, Some unknown hacker or group of hackers had managed to hack into the Focusing on transitioning society into one of post-scarcity, emphasizing social and environmental justice, the topics of discussion will include the role of technology, the latest understandings in public health science, critical factors for sustainability, transition steps such as universal basic income, and the structural incapacity of market capitalism to address current problems, holding progress back. The purpose of The Zeitgeist Move ment is to a s s i s t global transition into a new socia l m o d e l b a s e d upon the pursuit of socia l e qu a l it y, sustainability and abundance. A new humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Malakal, South Sudan, just days after an attack on a Protection of Civilians camp by government soldiers the challenge of caring for tens of thousands of survivors. Real New Yorkers eat local pizza, whether it’s from the fancy brick-oven pizzeria or the cheap slice place on the corner. When it comes to finding the right insurance for your apartment, there are a lot of national insurers with 800 numbers who think they know what you need. You need to talk to someone local. thanks! [but it’ll surely shutdown my ol’ computers... any moving anything is pretty much out lately :))] all these sites seem predicated on collecting/selling information rather than distributing it: I can see all the scripts and cookies being downloaded which just give my old machines indigestion... :) could you tell the gist of it? (I didn’t used to be all that interested in politics until I was shut-out of any viable art-care er s /f u nd i ng. Building a detachment, I begin to see how/ where it all comes-from. ) incredibly, it really does seem that JFK was knocked-off by the CIA I’m still a little upset about the Fiji cyclone: when it’s reported that several Yasawa fishermen were lost at sea, these would almost be inevitably people I met/knew.... they’re accustomed to cyclones this time of year (I sure didn’t like it: the children laughed at me) but this is massive... a visitor could return to these places many years later and most would remember your name/you... Located just outside Mononobe Shrine, Fukujoji, number three on the Iwami Kannon Pilgrimage is just a small rural temple, however

it has a large Kannon statue in the grounds. It’s a Pure Land sect temple, and the honzon is an Amida Buddha. The Kannon statue was not erected and paid for by the temple per se, rather it was the parish womens group. There had been a lot of Dear Sir/Madam Please find attached our new purchase order for you to process. Please send proforma for approval at your earliest convenience. It will be very helpful to us if you can let us know how long it will take for this order to be completed. Your prompt attention to this matter is greatly appreciated. Please acknowledge received this email asap!! Your early reply is highly appreciated. Thank You! Best Regards, Mr.Nithya Saravanaraj Ss-sea Purchasing Sales Manager Storm to bring a variety of weather hazards to the South, mid-Atlantic and Great

Lakes A storm system will bring the potential for severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and tornadoes to the Gulf Coast Tuesday into Tuesday night, and across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic region Wednesday into Wednesday night. This storm will also produce heavy rain from the Miss. Valley to the mid-Atlantic. A swath of heavy snow is also possible in parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes. Read More... Dear customer, please did you received your item from us? For any problem, please contact us to solve it for you. Thank you so much for not let ebay to step in any issue. -digital-paradise9 With over 45 years of experience, Art Basel expertly serves as a bridge between gallerist, collector and artist. Next month, the premier art fair will celebrate its third year in bustling Hong Kong at the waterfront Convention and Exhibition Centre. As the newest city to join the show, this edition serves as a portal into Asian interpretations of modern and contemporary art, which have become so prized. Running from 24 until 26 March, visitors will have the opportunity to view artwork from a worldwide selection of galleries, with the majority hailing from Asia and Asia-Pacific. In conjunction with the event, they will present a public light insta llation entitled Time Waterfall by Japanese contemporary artist Tatsuo Miyajima. Viewable along the city’s Kowloon harbour front, the work consists of a series of numbers moving at varying speeds and size to serve as a metaphor for life and death. Have you not found the time to planyour trip as you have a very busy schedule? Need not worry as there’s always Lufthansa Private Jet, which allows you to book your jet up to ten hours before departure for flights within Europe, or 12 hours within North America. Every booking of a private jet, which can accommodate up to eight passengers, has a fixed price and comes with a limousine, so while the service remains private by skipping security and customs lines, the charges are transparent. As a true bastion of flexibility, Lufthansa allows for free cancellations in the 48 hours prior to departure, meaning that you can change your mind but keep its peace. Hi, The only marking on the plates is the maker, so I don’t have any way of knowing if they’re dishwasher or microwave-

safe. I ship breakables via Priority Mail as it provides automatic insurance. If I ship via Parcel Select, it might be cheaper but I would have to add the cost of insurance. If you give me your zip code, I can see if it would be any cheaper to ship to you that way. Kind regards, Kelly Date. How I should negotiate for a higher starting salary. And that’s exactly the point, Readers. By asking these questions, which focus on the needs, traits, and preferences of your future boss and future employer, you’re demonstrating that you are somebody who is genuinely interested in their well-being. And the more interest we show in others, the more commitment they show to aiding our cause. With that in mind, here’s the twice-a-year update to my collection of “best interview questions”. My aim here is to arm you with easy-to-ask, revealing-to-answer questions for you to take with you to an interview: 1. What’s the biggest change your group has gone through in the last year? Does your group feel like things are getting better in the economy and for your business? 2. If I get the job, how do I earn a “gold star” on my performance review? What are the key accompl i s h m e n t s you’d like to see in this role over the next year? 3. What’s your (or my future bos s’ ) leadership style? 4. About which competitor are you most worried? 5. How does sales / operations / technology / marketing / finance work around here? (I.e., groups other than the one you’re interviewing for.) 6. What type of people are successful here? What type of people are not? 7. What’s one thing that’s key to this company’s success that somebody from outside the company wouldn’t know about? 8. How did you get your start in this industry? Why do you stay? 9. What are your group’s best and worst working relationships with other groups in the company? What are the pain points you have to deal with day-to-day? 10. What keeps you up at night? What’s your biggest worry these days? 11. What’s the timeline for making a decision on this position? When should I get back in touch with you? 12. The economy has been getting better, and there’s a lot of hiring going on. Why did you decide to prioritize this position instead of the many others you could have hired for? 13. What is your reward system? Is it a star system

/ team-oriented / equity-based / bonus-based / “attaboy!”-based? Why is that your reward system? What do you guys hope to get out of it, and what actually happens when you put it into practice? What are the positives and the negatives of your reward system? If you could change any one thing, what would it be? 14. What information is shared with the employees (revenues, costs, operating metrics)? Is this an “open book” shop, or do you play it closer to the vest? How is information shared? How do I get access to the information I need to be successful in this job? 15. If we are going to have a very successful year in 2017, what will that look like? What will we have done over the next 10 months to make it successful? How does this position help achieve those goals? (This question helps show your ability to look beyond today’s duties to the future more than a year away.) 16. How does the company / my future boss do performance reviews? How do I make the most of the performance review process to ensure that I’m doing the best I can for the company? 17. What is the rhythm to the work around here? Is there a time of year that it’s “all hands on deck” and we’re pulling all-nighters, or is it pretty consistent throughout the year? How about during the week / month? Is it pretty evenly spread throughout the week / month, or are there crunch days? 18. What type of industry / functional / skills-based experience and background are you looking for in the person who will fill this position? What would the “perfect” candidate look like? How do you assess my experience in comparison? What gaps do you see? 19. What is your (or my future boss’) hiring philosophy? Is it “hire the attitude / teach the skills” or are you primarily looking to add people with domain expertise first and foremost? 20. In my career, I’ve primarily enjoyed working with big / small / growing / independent / private / public / family-run companies. If that’s the case, how successful will I be at your firm? 21. Who are the heroes at your company? What characteristics do the people who are most celebrated have in common with each other? Conversely, what are the characteristics that are common to the promising people you hired, but who then flamed out and failed or left? As I’m considering whether or not I’d be successful here, how should I think about the experiences of the heroes and of the flame-outs? I hope you find these questions useful in your interviews, Readers! I’m rooting for you! In 1951, scientists at McGill University conducted an experiment in which they subjected male graduates to solitary confinement in a simulated prison cell, to see how they would cope with prolonged isolation. The study was intended to run for six weeks but was abruptly terminated after only seven days because several students began hallucinating and suffering from severe mental breakdowns. US’s longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner set free in Louisiana after more than four decades in form of captivity widely denounced as torture Albert Woodfox has been held in such conditions of extreme isolation in Louisiana prisons and jails not just for seven days, but for 15,000. On Friday, after 43 years and 10 months of almost continuous captivity totally alone in a 6ft by 9ft cell, America?s longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner finally walked free After more than 43 years in solitary confinement, Albert Woodfox is a free man and joins us today for


his first broadcast interview. The former Black Panther spent more time in solitary confinement than anyone in the United States, much of it in a six-by-nine cell for 23 hours each day. Albert Woodfox was released Friday after he entered a plea of no contest to charges of manslaughter and aggravated burglary of a prison guard more than four decades ago. Prior to Friday?s settlement, his conviction had been overturned three times. Albert Woodfox was serving a five-year sentence for armed robbery at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola when he and fellow prisoner Herman Wallace were accused in 1972 of stabbing prison guard Brent Miller. The two men always maintained their innocence, saying they were targeted because they had organized a chapter of the Black Panther Party to address horrific conditions at the Angola prison, a former cotton plantation. Woodfox, Wallace and and a third man, Robert King, became collectively known as the Angola 3. For decades, Amnesty International and other groups campaigned to free the three men. Woodfox was the last remaining member of the group to be released. Today we speak to Woodfox and King, who was freed in 2001 when his conviction for killing a fellow inmate was freed in 2001 when his conviction for killing a fellow inmate was overturned. Herman Wallace was freed in 2013, just days before he died from cancer. I want to go on record as saying that this is the stupidest, most irresponsible action a diplomatic mission like ours could get itself involved in, and that we’ve started a series of these things that will never end.’ Dean Hinton, US State Department official pertaining to planned CIA coup against Syria in 1949. Acer Inc. Mrs Chan wish to contract you to “Represent” our company in your location and 10% commission will be giving to you. Kindly indicate your interest Via Email: infomrs @yeah.net War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself. Revolution begins with the self, in the self. Any revolution has to start with the transformation of the individual, otherwise individuals are corrupted by the power they get if their revolution succeeds. Species Summary: Common Pochard (1 Alaska) Tufted Duck (1 Newfoundland and Labrador, 2 Nova Scotia) American Flamingo (2 Florida) Masked Booby (2 Florida) Brown Booby (2 California) Northern Jacana (9 Texas) Yellow-legged Gull (1 Newfoundland and Labrador) Slaty-backed Gull (1 Illinois, 2 Indiana) Zenaida Dove (6 Florida) Aplomado Falcon (6 Texas) Sinaloa Wren (4 Arizona) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (9 Arizona) Rufous-backed Robin (1 Arizona) Tropical Parula (6 Texas) Rufous-capped Warbler (2 Arizona) White-collared Seedeater (5 Texas) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (5 Texas) Blue Bunting (1 Texas) Brambling (1 Ohio) When the Kentucky governor, Matt Bevin, suggested last month that students majoring in French literature should not receive state funding for their college education, he joined a growing number of elected officials who want to nudge students away from the humanities and toward more jobfriendly subjects like electrical engineering. With Obama’s latest narrowing of the list of inadmissible communicable diseases, only syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, and leprosy remain. The report includes links to the Federal Register entry detailing the changes as explained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Pow! Another mural. Wow! So beautiful. But those decorative canvases-on-walls by globe-trotting muralists have been clogging up all my feeds lately. They have their place, but I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed. For my small attempt to counter the barrage, here are a few pieces that I’ve come across lately that don’t fit that fly-in-fly-out festival paradigm. I could play the accordion so I was selected for the amateur propaganda team. It was very cold. I had to stop up the hole in my shoe. I used the lid of a tin can. As far as I can tell, there’s nothing trustworthy about my experience of reality. I stand on one leg. I stand on the other leg. I rotate my arms clockwise Participating artists Inbal Shirin Anlen, Freya Birren (Jennifer Walshe), Vadim Epstein, Dragan Espenschied, JODI, Olia Lialina, Abe Linkoln, Guthrie Lonergan, Armin Medosch, Ignacio Nieto, Anna Russett, Tale of Tales a.k.a. Entropy8Zuper!, Mark Wirblich. With two new works by Constant Dullaart

and Foundland (commissioned by MU). Coins and banknotes, trading floors with angry men shouting into phones, skyscrapers and stock charts. When you combine the Spanish language with the culture that has made it come alive, you are truly transported. Learning the language while experiencing Spain’s culture to the fullest is the perfect way to let the language grab you and pull you in. And that is exactly what happens when you study with don Quijote in Spain. We know you’ve been thinking about learning Spanish; now is your chance! I am John Logan, Attorney at law. I am contacting you because of a deceased client of mine that bear the same last name as yours, who died as the result of a hear t-re lated condition in March 12th 2013. Please get back to me @deskattorney@yahoo. co.uk for details if you are interested in my proposal Verum Ultimum Gallery is thrilled to invite artists to explore, “Abstract Sanctuary” for their third annual exhibit of this theme and enter work that is any interpretation of the call. They don’t seek to drive the work, they only hope to discover your unique vision and showcase it. All mediums are welcome. This call emphasizes the process with a focus on the individual style of theart maker. Abstraction is a vital vehicle of expression for many contempora r y artists and the use of abstraction dates back to the beginning of man. It is one of the most elemental forms of expression for artists. Verum Ultimum Galleryinvites artists to showcase their talent within this expressive genre. Portland Open Studios is a premier, two-weekend public tour of ~100 artists’ studios. Participants engage the community by demonst r at i ng their methods and showing their work. The tour is a celebrated, annual event that attracts a wide variety of artists and visitors. Open to all visual mediums except film. The weekends of October 8, 9, and 15, 16. $150 participation fee due upon acceptance. A library card is a passport that takes you to every corner of the universe. And it’s not reserved for the well-off or the well-educated. It’s available to everyone who wants one - free of charge. To make that possible - to provide books, classes, storytime, and world-class programming to all New Yorkers - we rely on the support of Friends of the Library members. When we learned that the Forest Service was resurrecting the Polallie Cooper Timber Sale

ten years after it was stopped by local opposition, it felt like deja vu. But then something else happened - we found out there’s more people than ever who care about the Cooper Spur forests. Over the past few weeks, thousands of people have registered their opposition to logging such remarkable forests. The Hood River News reported on the 3,584 comments Bark delivered at the recent open house, as well as the mountain bike rider groups who have expressed concern for the impact to trails. Following a week of high temperature, strong rainstorms lashed eastern and southern Israel and triggered flash-floods on February 22, 2016. Rain and winds battered eastern Israel, causing intense flashfloods and traffic disruptions across the affected areas. Deforestation has made Vietnam, China and South Ko-

rea vulnerable to coastal storms, floods and sandstorms. All three nations are pursuing the same solution -- restoring degraded landscapes with trees. We ran into a problem with your recent comment reply by email. Specifically, we weren’t able to find your comment in the email. We’ll do our best to get this fixed up. In the meantime, you may want to comment directly on the post: Many African countries have experienced recent attacks by fundamentalist groups on establishments including educational institutions, hotels and public transportation systems that have transformed these groups, in the minds of many, into the epitome of the evolving panoply of threats to lives, societies and institutions faced by these countries. The spectacular and gory nature of violence by these groups and the sometimes unpredictable nature of its victims have led to heated debates over the causes and effects of these threats and the best ways of dealing with them. Also evident in m a n y countries is a hasty move toward praxis in the form of the search for security solutions. Severe weather continues on Wednesday The NWS Storm Prediction Center expects severe weather to continue on Wednesday. For the early morning hours, the greatest risk will be in the Southea st. By Wednesday afternoon, the threat shifts to the Eastern United States, particularly the Carolinas, where strong tornadoes are possible. 33F, steady rain. pan seared flatiron steak draped with blue cheese, blanched kale with lemon tahini sauce, raspberries with heavy cream, apples, oranges. Tea. This focus issue will examine individuals and groups of people who influence(d) how men dress, departed from sartorial conventions, expanded the concept of ‘men’s style’, or whose own aesthetic presentations were/ are unique to warrant analysis. Manuscripts can focus on specific individuals or general groups of people, real or fictional. Contributions are welcome from all disciplines including: fashion studies, anthropology, art, art history, design, business, consumer studies, cultural studies, economics, gender studies, humanities, literature, marketing, psychology, queer studies, religion, sociology, and textiles. Diverse methods including critical analysis, reportage, quantitative analysis, qualitative

analysis and arts methods are accepted. All manuscripts will undergo double blind peer review. Articles will be selected on their content, scholarship, and technical quality. The content must be in line with the vision of the journal in advancing scholarship on men and appearance. Indigenous people are struggling to clean up 3,000 barrels oil that have poured into the Chiriaco and Morona tributaries of the Amazon River. A disastrous spate of oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon have gone from bad to worse in recent days, leaving Indigenous tribes frantically trying to clean up the mess left by the nation’s state-owned oil company. The catastrophic ruptures in Petroperu’s Northern Peruvian Pipeline occurred on January 25th and February 3rd and have threatened the water supply of nearly 10,000 indigenous people. the oil has poured into two critical Amazon River tributaries that eight Achuar tribes depend on for water. According to the news agency, these two tributaries of the Amazon River, the Chiriaco and Morona rivers, are now filled with 3,000 barrels of oil. Critics charge that the spills continued to spread and caused far w o r s e damage after the responsible company, Petroperu, failed to act to contain the oil released by the pipeline breakages. History is repeating itself in the northern Peruvian Amazon, where three oil spills have been reported along the Northern Peruvian Pipeline since January 25th. The first incident, along the Chiriaco River, released an estimated 2000 barrels of oil, affecting eight Awajn indigenous communities and some 5000 people. On February 3rd, another thousand barrels contaminated the territories of Wampis communities, in the proximity of some 3500 people. And news reports are claiming a third spill near Pucar, though the pipeline operator Petroperu has taken to Twitter to deny this. A two-year-old boy was kidnapped yesterday morning as a Canadian-owned gold mine and its employees continue to be a target for criminals in Guerrero. The decline in the value of the Mexican peso against the American dollar has created a vacation destination that is ‘too favorable to ignore,’ in the words of an internationallyknown travel writer. Apple Computer is the current champion of privacy against U.S. government attempts

to expand its spying on us. The company, a frequent NSA and FBI collaborator in the past, finds itself in the strange position of confronting a federal court order to dislodge its iPhone security system, an action Apple insists will cripple encryption as a privacy-protection measure. The conclusion that the world’s dominant economic model’a globalized form of neoliberal capitalism, largely based on international trade and fueled by extracting and consuming natural resources’is the driving force behind planetary destruction will not come as a shock, but the model’s detailed description of how this has worked since the middle of the 20th century makes a more substantial case than many previous attempts. Humanity’s rapacious growth and accelerated energy needs over the last generation - particularly fed by an economic system that demands increasing levels of consumption and inputs of natural resources - are fast driving planetary systems towards their breaking point. A little boy wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with a bag of potato chips and a six-pack of root beer and started his journey. When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old man. He was sitting in the park, just staring at some pigeons. The boy sat down next to him and opened his suitcase. He was about to take a drink from his root beer when he noticed that the old man looked hungry, so he offered him some chips. He gratefully accepted it and smiled at him. His smile was so pretty that the boy wanted to see it again, so he offered him a root beer. Again, he smiled at him. The boy was delighted! They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling, but they never said a word... As twilight approached, the boy realized how tired he was and he got up to leave; but before he had gone more than a few steps, he turned around, ran back to the old man, and gave him a hug. He gave him his biggest smile ever... When the boy opened the door to his own house a short time later, his mother was Surprised by the look of joy on his face. She asked him, “What did you do today that made you so happy?” Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus-the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers’ enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others. He replied, “I had lunch with God.” But before his mother could respond, he added, “You know what? He’s got the most beautiful smile I’ve ever seen!” A5 box with contributions from 25 invited artists from 9 countries Visual poetry, collages, prints, multiples and objects 40 copies signed and numbered 1/40 to 40/40 March 2016 Only 15 copies available for sale Price: 70 euro / 100 $ / 60 UK st. Meanwhile, the old man, also radiant with joy, returned to his home. His son was stunned by the look of peace on his face and he asked, “Dad, what did you do today that made you so happy?” More than 5,000 civilians in Myanmar have been displaced in the past couple of weeks by heavy fighting between two ethnic armies, one of which signed a recent national ceasefire


accord while the other was excluded. Critics of the agreement, which is meant to end 60 years of civil war,say the military is using it to create divisions between groups that signed and those that didn’t. The making of a game cinematic is a large undertaking, but the end results are fruitful to creating interest in a video game. Without a cinematic it is very hard to generate the desired customer anticipation for an upcoming release. The art and elements of the cinematic are inspired by the game, but It’s more akin to a promotional short film or commercial, rather than an exact example of the finished product. He replied “I ate potato chips in the park with God.” However, before his son responded, he added, “You know, he’s much younger than I expected.” Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime! Embrace all equally! The Koch brothers are the second-wealthiest family in America worth $82 billion. For the Koch brothers, $82 billion in wealth apparently is not good enough. Owning the second-largest private company in America is apparently not good enough. It doesn’t appear that they will be satisfied until they are able to control the entire political process. Have lunch with God.......bring chips. Sorry, you cannot post to this list if you are not a member. Radical changes to ecological, environmental, social, and biological conditions are turning some artists from traditionally defined practices towards new approaches that reinvent their engagement with life, health, and wellbeing. Their practices, while not new, are increasingly relevant for culture and health. These transformative changes to the nature of practice have put those trained in the arts, their insights and methods, in contact with those of other disciplines such as ecology, medicine and healthcare. A U.S. federal magistrate judge has ordered Apple to undermine the security of an iPhone that was used by one of the perpetrators of December’s San Bernardino shootings. If carried out, the order would compromise the security of every Apple customer in the world. Fortunately, Apple is fighting back and standing up for its users, and EFF is filing an amicus brief in support of Apple’s position. The government is doing more than simply ask for Apple’s assistance. For the first time ever, the government is telling Apple to write brand new code that eliminates the security features of its own products-features that benefit everyone who uses Apple products or even communicates with iOS users. Essentially, the government is asking Apple to create a master key so that it can open a single phone. And once that master key is created, we’re certain that both our government and others will ask for it again and again. This continuous presence and permanent action in the public sphere will, from the 70s on, have special resonance with the way African women appropriated, the discussions (the various conferences of Mexico, Copenhagen, Nairobi, Beijing, Cairo) and international and regional conventions (CEDAW, the Maputo Protocol, etc.) to focus their claims on issues pertaining to having control over their bodies, sexuality and fertility, but more importantly, over their democratic rights, thus widening up for themselves democratic and economic governance spaces. While the larval worms are usually found in the gut of their fish host, after their host dies, the worm tend to migrate into the muscle, where they are sometimes found by people preparing fish fillets for a meal. Since its lifecycle takes place in the open sea, anisakids have incorporated many marine animals into acting as their hosts at various stages of their development. One seemingly unlikely animal that they have incorporated is the hagfish. Hagfish themselves are often mistakenly consider as a parasite when they are in fact mostly scavengers. This misconception has probably arisen from their habit of burrowing into the body cavity of dead and dying fish while feeding, however unlike the other living lineage of jawless fish - the lamprey - hagfish do not exhibit any parasitic habits. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (1 Massachusetts) Tufted Duck (1 New York, 1 Newfoundland and Labrador, 1 Nova Scotia, 1 Oregon) Brown Booby (12 California, 1 Florida, 1 Louisiana) Northern Jacana (3 Texas) Zenaida Dove (5 Florida)

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in New York City. Leading the charge against them was a real estate mogul whose divisive rhetoric can be found in his presidential campaign today. The miscarriage of justice is widely remembered as a definitive moment in New York’s fractured race relations. But Trump’s intervention - he signed full-page newspaper advertisements implicitly calling for the boys to die - has been gradually overlooked as the businessman’s chances of winning the Republican nomination have rapidly increased. Now those involved in the case of the so-called Central Park Five and its aftermath say Trump’s rhetoric served as an unlikely precursor to a unique brand of divisive populism that has powered his rise to political prominence in 2016. On the evening of 19 April, as 28-year-old investment banker Trisha Meili, who was white, jogged across the northern, dilapidated section of Central Park, she was brutally attacked - bludgeoned with a rock, gagged, tied and raped. She was left for dead but discovered hours later, unconscious and suffering from hypothermia and severe brain damage. Just two weeks after the Central Park attack, before any of the boys had faced trial and w h i l e Meili remained critically ill in a coma, Donald Trump, whose office on Fifth Avenue commanded an exquisite view of the park’s opulent southern frontier, intervened. He paid a reported $85,000 to take out advertising space in four of the city’s newspapers, including the New York Times. Under the headline ‘Bring Back The Death Penalty. Bring Back The Police!’ and above his signature, Trump wrote: ‘I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes. They must serve as examples so that others will think long and hard before committing a crime or an act of violence.’ Salaam, now 41, cannot remember exactly where he was when he first saw the ads. He had no idea who Trump was. ‘I knew that this famous person calling for us to die was very serious,’ he recalled. There is a schism within economics between the neoclassical and behavioral schools. A primary cause of the behavioral ascent is the experimental evidence of deviations between ac-

tual behavior and the neoclassical prediction of behavior. While behavioral scholars have documented these “anomalies,” they have made little progress explaining the origin of such behavior. This paper proposes a biological and evolutionary foundation for the anomalies of behavioral economics by separating proximate and ultimate causation. Such a foundation may allow for a reuniting of economics; a neo-Darwinian synthesis of neoclassical and behavioral economics. It avoids the politics of one discipline occupying another. Less time is spent on border skirmishes. This doesn’t mean that a field cannot not be open to modes of questioning that come from elsewhere -- it just means that “recognition” is not characterized as flag waving. This text is interesting but it’s not getting to the heart of things. What’s missing are the core questions: racialized class, generational time, and professionalized culture (i.e. art). Europe 1.0 staked a lot on the existing forms of professionalized culture (from classical music to contemporary art) while ignoring the racialization of class altogether. Professionalized culture was somehow supposed to overcome an almost absolute color line that confined non-white people to low paid jobs and zero political representation. At the same time, the same culture was supposed to magically “open the minds” of racist whites who were stuck in dead-end jobs or outright unemployment while opportunistic people around them caught the escalator of the cognitive economy and moved upward where all the high-end art was. Meanwhile, the kinds of colloquial cultural practices that come out of deep generational time - childhood and childrearing, rootedness or long wandering, lingering dialects and crosslanguage experience, aging and inter-generational caregiving, and don’t forget religion - were basically abandoned by professionalized culture in favor of packaged mono-heritage or ultramodern hybrid transnationalism. There were exceptions to this abandonment - in the communist cultural centers of the Parisian banlieue, for example, or in the Black Arts movements in the UK, and surely many others but they were grassroots exceptions on scant resources. Billions of cultural euros were spent for the and surely many others - but they were grassroots exceptions on scant resources. Billions of cultural euros were spent for the upwardly mobile middle classes and the alreadyrich. The deep time of communities all across the color spectrum and the geographical map was not elaborated into complex art. A message in a bottle dropped in New York harbour in 2013 by an American painter has been found years later, and 5,700 kilometres (3,500 miles) away, on a beach in southwest France - by a French artist. George Boorujy threw the bottle, containing a drawing of a cormorant and a signed letter into the harbour at Staten Island in October 2013, regional French newspaper Sud Ouest reported. It washed up two and a half years later on a beach in the Aquitaine region of France where it was found last week by Brigitte Barthelemy, a painter, and her husband Alain who were out walking their dog Elton. Brigitte was intrigued by the perfectly preserved drawing and the letter congratulating the finders of the bottle and jokingly asking that they did not respond with another letter in a bottle, a “very inefficient” means of communication. In fact, Boorujy gave his email address in the letter, so Brigitte was able to


make ontact by more modern means. “When I saw the email from Alain and Brigitte, I was amazed and crazy with excitement,” the French newspaper quoted the American as saying. “And the fact that Brigitte is also a painter is extraordinary,” he said. Boorujy hopes his bottle will help raise awareness about the protection of wild birds. People in Mosul call it “the Biter” or “Clipper” - a metal instrument newly introduced by Isis officials to punish women whose clothes they claim do not completely conceal their body. A former school director, who fled from the city earlier this month, describes the tool as causing agonising pain by clipping off pieces of flesh. Fatima, a 22-year-old house-wife who does not want to give her full name, said she had finally escaped from Mosul after several failed attempts because her children were starving and Isis had become more violent and sadistic compared with a year ago, especially towards women. Isis insists that women be fully veiled, wear loose or baggy trousers, socks and gloves, and be accompanied by a male relative whenever they step outside their homes. Fatima said that a month after the use of this metal tool to punish her sister “the bruises and scars are still visible on her arm.” She quoted her sister as saying that “the biting punishment is more painful than labour pains.” Other witnesses describe the Biter as operating like an animal trap, or a metal jaw with teeth that cut into the flesh. that negation is a token; that ipseity struggles with the angel; the ipseity of sight - burned its way through the flesh - cuneiform, ipseity lost in overwhelming detail, there is no mean; what is meant here and now; ipseity; that negation is a token; that ipseity struggles with the angel; ipseity, we’re that itself to an ipseity that is questionable, what does one ‘point to’ in I am lost in the ipseity of my freedom, confused about beings (there ipseity relegates ipseity questionable. ‘point to’ diffusion obviates, extends,Floral City, about 70 miles north of Tampa, has been the home of Ferris Groves since 1931. L. G. “Doc” Ferris started out as a boom time land developer in the 1920s but like almost everybody else in Florida back then, he went bust after the major hurricanes came followed by the Great Depression. He owned a lot of land in Floral City, including Duval Island on Lake Tsala Apopka, and instead of developing a golf course he planted citrus trees on the rich soil of the island. At the peak of his operation he had 350 acres planted with 31,000 trees. Almost everyone in Flora City worked for Doc Ferris. Doc was reportedly the grand nephew of George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., the inventor of the Ferris Wheel. Ever the promoter, Doc added a picture of the Ferris Wheel on some of his early citrus box posters. He also built fruit stands along many major Florida highways and even had fruit stands in some of the tourist hotels in Miami Beach. Among those early stores was the current one on U.S.-41 in Floral City that still does a great business. I bought some great tangerines there recently. Even though most of Central Florida’s citrus industry was wiped out in the freezes of 1983 and 1985, the fertile hammock soil of Duval Island still produces Valencia oranges, Ruby Red Grapefruit and Fall Glow tangerines in its 24 acre grove. In recent years they have added strawberries and blueberries. Their delicious strawberry is named the Ferris Berry. Fruit bearing trees are not the only hallmark of Floral City. This small community of about 5,000 people has done a good job in preserving the old oaks and native palms that give the town so much of its current day charm. It’s a good place to park your car and just walk or ride your bicycle. The Withlacoochee State Trail is a 46 mile long paved corridor that runs through Floral City. It’s a “Rails To Trail” project that was formerly a historic train route that was sold to the state in 1989. Its northern end is in Dunnellon, and its southern terminus is the Trilby trailhead southeast of Brooksville. I settled into the one remaining seat at the counter and soon realized I need not have worried. I drank my great cup of coffee and watched the owner and server handle everything extremely well. It was obvious they were shorthanded that day, but the kitchen staff cranked out the food in short order and the server got it to the customers at once. I had three eggs over easy, sausage patties, tater tots and silver dollar pancakes with plenty of butter and syrup, washed down with good coffee. It was delicious and reminded me of

how much I like a heart healthy breakfast. If your relationship with IT is good, we can help you make it better. And if your relationship with IT is strained, frustrating or non-existent, we’re focused on helping you identify why, and what you can realistically do about it. Jose LaCrosby was an African-American hair stylist to the stars. Nina Simone, James Brown and Miles Davis all frequented his San Francisco salon. Terminally ill at the age of 89, LaCrosby was told by his doctors that he should return to die among his friends in Midtown Apartments. But the City of San Francisco had just h i k e d rents by up to 300 percent. If the Korean War veteran wanted to move back in to a g roundf l o o r apartment it w o u l d now cost him $3700 a month. LaCrosby had lived in Midtown for two decades, but he spent the last 7 months of his life under fluorescent lights in an anodyne hospice ward, unable to afford the grossly inflated rent. In January, a two-day Salmon Nation Summit discussed the science behind a corporation’s bid to set up industry in salmon habitat, habitat that is on unceded Ts’msyen territory. Concern for the wild salmon was generated by the proposal of Malaysian state-owned Petronas to construct a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on Lax U’u’la (Lelu Island) in the Kysen (Skeena) River estuary. The estuary is vital salmon habitat, and hard science warns that the LNG project is a danger to fish habitat Bear River, Utah resident Rex Iverson, 45, died in the Box Elder County Jail on January 23 after being incarcerated for his failure to pay an ambulance bill. A deputy arrested him on a $350 bench warrant issued by the justice court on December 29. He was found unresponsive in his cell by a detention deputy a few hours after being arrested. Political theory has considered the moral challenges posed by labour migration, as though all labour migrants present the same kinds of moral quandaries. But, this is a mistake. Whereas low-skilled labour migration is considered to be a benefit to the migrants, who gain opportunities in robust labour markets high-skilled migration is perceived to be a benefit to the receiving societies and subject to a global competition for talents. As result, whereas low-skilled migrants are admitted on temporary contracts, and subject to significant rights-restrictions, participants in high-skilled labour migration pro-

grams are subject to targeted recruitment and wooed by states with easy access to citizenship. Deer Lake Lodge is a unique wellness resort where guests enjoy comfortable detoxification and relaxation in a natural, sustainable setting. Our holistic approach addresses mind, body, and spirit. The refugee crisis in Europe has taken a turn for the worse. Barriers are going up in the Balkans and elsewhere, preventing desperate asylum-seekers from making it to the few places willing to accept them. The burden is falling on the shoulders of the Greeks, who are perhaps least equipped financially to deal with the problem. We take your security very seriously. To help keep your Online Banking information safe, be careful not to share your Client Card Number, Username, Pass-

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nated by established and emerging artists from across Canada and abroad, and selected by a jury of notable art world professionals. When your ticket is drawn, you have one minute to choose your perfect print. Whether you have one of the 50 art draw tickets or a general admission party ticket, all guests will experience first-hand some of the remarkable techniques used by the artists during live printmaking demonstrations. The night also includes fabulous raffle prizes, complimentary drinks and gourmet hors d’oeuvres, and Members’ Ink, our silent auction of framed prints specially created by Open Studio artists for Editions. Media critics spend a lot of time discussing how our military industry manipulates the press into war and bloated defense budgets. Far less time, however, is spent discussing how our local police departments plays the media to suit their ends. The reason for this mostly has to do with the fragmented nature of localized propaganda, combined with a prejudice that police aren’t very savvy. But ever since Ferguson and the subsequent unrest, various departments and their ideological allies have gotten more soph i s t i cated at playing the media without much notice. Assassinations and o t h e r forms of violence targeting critics of the State have been part and parcel of Guyana’s political history. Revelation that Walter Rodney was murdered by the State must now force the people of Guyana to confront the reality of state brutality, seeking to end it once and for all. Pope Francis has remained silent several months after a letter was sent to him providing compelling evidence of entrenched racism at the World Bank and the systemic exclusion of Africa as a continent and Africans as human beings from participation in international forums even in areas that determine their destiny. The regime has killed over 140 students, teachers and farmers since last November. This is part of a crackdown on anti-government protests by farmers who are demanding to stop the implementation of the Addis Ababa Integrated Master Plan, which will displace people from their ancestral land. Inclusions trapped in amber are often found in the Baltic Sea region of Northern Europe. Fossilized from tree resin and formed through a long period of petrifica-

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ing generations from the scourge of war” haver failed. Since the end of world war 2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians” Storm System To Pull Away From The Northeast, Quieter Weather To Close The Week. The intense low pressure system that brought heavy rain and severe weather to much of the eastern U.S., and heavy snow to parts of the Midwest, will continue to move northward into Quebec. Any remaining snow over the Great Lakes, New England,and portions of the Appalachians will come to an end by Friday. High pressure will build into the eastern U.S w i t h wa r m i ng temperatures for the weeke n d . Wakamitsu Inari Shrine is located right next to Nos H a c h imangu in Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture. This is one of the most unusual fox statues I’ve seen, I couldn’t find a date for its establishment, though it is known that the cult of Inari became very popular in the Edo Period. Depending on how you define “shrine” either Inari, or the neighboring Hachiman are considered to be the From: p.f. sullivan, seattle Time: 11:02 PM Am a new Potter 19 owner (my first real sailboat) Just bought a 2010 WWP 19. Noticed a slight oilcanning or reverse curve on the bottom where it bears on the trailer bunks. There seems to be no damage or cracking of the hull although the lightly built mounting for the cooler has popped loose. The trailer is a standard Pacific brand Baja type trailer. Near as I can tell from the equipment that came with the boat, it is the Blue Water model. The bunk boards are about a foot in from the chines at the amidships position. Can someone tell me if this condition is normal/acceptable. I am wondering if I should add more support at say the chines or the keel to take pressure off of the bottom. Maybe the boat will be more weatherly with sharper chines!? Sleepless in Rain City Monash University-led research has shown that the evolution of human teeth is much simpler than previously thought, and that we can predict the sizes of teeth missing from human fossils and those of our extinct close relatives (hominins). The research confirms that molars, including wisdom teeth, do follow the sizes predicted by what is called ‘the inhibitory cascade’ - a rule that shows how the size of one tooth affects the size of the tooth next to it. This is important because it indicates that human evolution was a

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of earth bounded by water gasped air great churning fury of water gasp earth drown in air crash water gasp of grasp swollen collapse cavern roiled through earth cries earth murmurs earth gasp last gasp of water gasp of air in earth aire upon earth Indigenous people in the southern Philippines are caught in the middle of a violent struggle between an array of armed groups. Wild caught in Bristol Bay, Alaska, each package has 5 individually wrapped Sockeye fillets (30 oz total) marinated in a savory blend of ginger, garlic, and sesame. Feed the whole family for just $18.98! When you’re ready to cook, simply thaw, bake, and eat! Like all Fishpeople products our Wild Sockeye Salmon Fillets are traceable to the source. Meet Capt. Chatoney on the front of the box! Three days from now, after half a century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor. This evening I come to you with a message of leave -ta king and fa rewell, and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen. Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and all who will labor with him, Godspeed. I pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all. Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on issues of great moment, the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the Nation. My own relations with the Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West Point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-war period, and, finally, to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years. In this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to serve the national good rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the Nation should go forward. So, my official relationship with the Congress ends in a feeling, on my part, of gratitude that we have been able to do so much together. We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our

own country. Despite these holocausts America is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America’s leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment. Throughout America’s adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad. Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings. We face a hostile ideology -- global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. Unhappily the danger promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle -- with liberty the stake. Only thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment. Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties. A huge increase in newer elements of our defense; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research -- these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to theroad we wish to travel. But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs -- balance between the

private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage -- balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration. The record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their government have, in the main, understood these truths and have responded to them well, in the face of stress and threat. But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise. I mention two only. IV. A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea. Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrialmilitary posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government. Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard


there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present - and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite. It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system -- ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society. Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society’s future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield. Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite sense of disappointment. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war -- as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years -- I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight. Happily, I can say that war has been avoided. Steady progress toward our ultimate goal has been made. But, so much remains to be done. As a private citizen, I shall never cease to do what little I can to help the world advance along that road. The first festival showed works of: Rafael Abreu Canedo (BRA), Sarah Boulton (GBR), Derek Dadian-Smith (USA), Craig Damrauer (USA), Dino Dinco ((USA), Mr. and Mrs Gray (NLD), Linda Hesh (USA), Hiroomi Horiuchi (JPN), David Horvitz (USA), Daan den Houter (NLD), Jeroen Jongeleen (NLD), Ienke Kastelein (NLD), Jonathon Keats (USA), Joke van Kerkwijk (NLD), Kees Koomen (NLD), Margreet Kramer (NLD), Gavin Krastin (ZAF), Frans van Lent (NLD), Steef van Lent (DEU), Gretta Louw (AUS), Lilla Magyari (HUN), Maria Martens (S AV), Andrew McNiven (GBR), Janet Meaney (AUS), Tim Miller (GBR), Marnik Neven (BEL), Joyce Overheul (NLD), Nico Parlevliet (NLD), Malin Peter (SWE), Jess Rose (GBR), Julie Rozman (USA), Roekoe M (NLD), Joshua Schwebel (CAN), Edwin Stolk (NLD), Topp & Dubio (NLD). Stop by the info booth on Saturday the 5th to pick up a free BFM magnet (pictured below). This colorful little magnet (3” x 3”) contains all of the 2016 Market dates. This way, you’ll always know when we’re open (and you’ll have a pretty reminder that lives on your fridge!). And if you can’t make it to the market this Saturday, never fear, we’ll have plenty of Magnets and will keep a stash at the info booth. Mild Weather Expected Over The Central and Eastern U.S Above normal temperatures are expected this weekend over a large portion of the central and eastern U.S. On Saturday, warm, dry, and windy conditions will lead to critical fire weather over portions of the Northern Plains. By Sunday, high pressure will bring west southwest winds to much of the eastern seaboard causing temperatures to soar 10 to 20 degrees above normal. Good news! We issued you a full refund of $4.77 on Feb 27, 2016. The refund includes the purchase price plus original shipping and has been credited to your PayPal account. Please Decision: This case has been decided in your favor. Comments: We didn’t re-

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that did not have sanctions against Iran. More than a third of Iran’s foreign trade is with China, which is Tehran’s top oil customer. A spokesperson for Iran’s rail company told AFP that future trains from China would arrive with greater frequency, starting at once a month and increasing from there. The leaders of both countries agreed to a 10-year, $600 billion trade partnership last month. The Silk Road is an ancient network of trade routes dating back to 220 BCE, connecting China to the Mediterranean Sea. It was a significant player in the rise of both Eastern and Western civilizations, including China, India, Greece, Rome, and Persia. In 2013, the president of China proposed the idea of creating a new Silk Road through Russia and the Ukraine into Europe.

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nder the title “One Belt, One Road,” this plan is China’s new national vision to improve its connectivity to Europe, Asia, and Africa. The U.S. Extends Its Drone War Deeper Into Africa With Secretive Base The Orbit is the iconic observation tower built for the 2012 London Olympics. It is considered to be the biggest sculpture in Britain and is 114 meters high. It was designed by artist Anish Kapoor, and from the observation deck there are expansive views over the Olympic Park and onto London. Constructed out of 600 prefabricated “nodes” and held together with 35,000 bolts. From: Steve Kane Time: 06:51 AM I had a new 2009 WWP-19 that I ordered from the factory with the bluewater lay-up to make the hull stiffer. Not only did the hull flex on the trailer, it was also translucent in many places. I wonder what the hull would be like without the extra layers of glass? I guess a little flexing is o.k.. Species Summary: Tufted Duck (2 British Columbia, 6 California, 2 Newfoundland and Labrador, 1 Nova Scotia) B r o w n Booby (1 California, 2 Louisiana) Hook-billed Kite (Hook-billed) (1 Texas) Northern Jacana (5 Texas) Ruff (3 California) Slaty-backed Gull (1 Washington) Zenaida Dove (7 Florida) Smoothbilled Ani (1 Florida) Aplomado Falcon (1 Texas) Sky Lark (2 British Columbia) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (2 Arizona) Redwing (1 British Columbia) Rufous-backed Robin (2 Arizona) Tropical Parula (1 Texas) Rufous-capped Warbler (3 Arizona) White-collared Seedeater (2 Texas) Crimsoncollared Grosbeak (2 Texas) Blue Bunting (6 Texas) Shiny Cowbird (5 Florida) Brambling (1 Ohio) New York’s famed Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the biggest museums in the world, announced Friday it had settled a long-running lawsuit challenging its admissions policy of charging up to $25. The Met will next month change “recommended” to “suggested” on signs requesting a $25 entrance fee for adults, $17 for seniors and $12 for students. The agreement, which needs to be approved in court, brings to an end a three-year lawsuit that first disputed the museum’s right to charge visitors and then quibbled its semantics. The suit argued that visitors thought they had to pay $25, when in fact they could pay whatever they wanted. The changes are being

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what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. Paleontologists in Argentina have announced the discovery of a major Jurassic-era fossil site four years after it was first discovered. The site, which spans 23,000 square miles (60,000 square kilometers) in Patagonia, southern Argentina, came to light this week with the publication of a report in the journal Ameghiniana. “No other place in the world contains the same amount and diversity of Jurassic fossils,” said geologist Juan Garcia Massini of the Regional Center for Scientific Research and Technology Transfer (CRILAR). The fossils -between 140 and 160 million years old -- lie on the surface because they were recently exposed by erosion, said Garcia Massini, who leads the research team investigating the site. “You can see the landscape as it appeared in the Jurassic -- how thermal waters, lakes and streams as well as plants and other parts of the Universities are places where progressive and radical thought takes place a n d knowledge is produced. However u n ive r si ties particularly the most elitist ones have been reticent to be representative of the various forms of knowledge which exist, and embrace and accommodate non-Western knowledge and thought, particularly knowledge produced by African/Black scholars and intellectuals. there’s nothing to specify the existence of a consciousness - consciousness is an attribute from the position of the conscious, nothing more. the only permitted operations are quantal everything fundamentally occurs within the granularity of the real. quanta are always already atomic structures and the world are inherently grained everywhere, the universal sieve. within the swollen fecundity of creation as much as possible, prions for example, everything, degrees of random but fixed codes, inherited antiques. gaps to be filled by categorical dynamics incalculable and unobservable movements. creation is always a relation what changes in time, stumbling, mute transformations on every scale. mathematics always already an annihilation thinking of abstract animals, peregrinations to incalculable degrees. thought’s

movements construe sensations of pain and pleasure among the insipid grains of the world. suicide can only be universal cessations are always cessations from the viewpoint of consciousness; strike out consciousness, become time and space; forgo annihilation; forgo granularity; swallow granularity, dissolve in it; thin yourself out; disappear; become universal; become a covering set; leave them all behind; die. when i look around, they look around they are within me; i am within them; they are multitudes; i am dissolved; i am dissolute; they see through me; they see through my eyes; they take over. when they look around, i look around they conquer; they take over; they couldn’t care less; they’re speechless; they see everything; they are my dissolute; they are my dissolve; they are multitudes of multitudes; they are without me; i am without them; they are within. momentary displeasure as something falters within not me something collapses; my collapse collapses; suicide is other side; suicide pleasures displeasure. sedimentations of categories, i’m piled up within there are piles within me; continents and islands of piles; blanked eyes of piles; chaotic gatherings; hailstorms of phenomena; dispersions of cloud dispersions; percolations of percolations. While some communities are currently enjoying the fruits of the recovery, others have sunk further into poverty. According to the authors, this pattern of distress vs. prosperity not only ‘diverges between cities and states but even more starkly within cities at the neighborhood level.” In the period of recovery following the Great Recession, the authors find, jobs in the median U.S. ZIP code grew at less than half the national rate. The gap between the richest and poorest American communities has widened since the Great Recession ended, and distressed areas are faring worse just as the recovery is gaining traction across much of the country. From 2010 to 2013, for example, employment in the most prosperous neighborhoods in the United States jumped by more than a fifth, according to the group’s analysis of Census Bureau data. But in bottom-ranked neighborhoods, the number of jobs fell sharply: One in 10 businesses closed down. While the problems in many poorer cities predate the recession, what has felt like a real recovery for Americans in healthier cities and towns has left the worst-off locations ‘ many of them concentrated in the nation’s old industrial heartland ‘ even further behind. The man who wants to transform public education by bringing market discipline to schools has no problem gorging at the public trough to beef up his namesake museum. The Broad, an immaculate white postmodern structure, is the latest architectural jewel representing the revival of downtown Los Angeles. The selftitled museum is a ‘gift’ from Eli Broad, the billionaire Angeleno property developer-turned-philanthropist. Broad is attempting to use his gifts to the arts and a high-profile push to shake up the city’s education system as a way to etch his name deep into the streets of Los Angeles. But Broad’s philanthropy is two-faced. While publicly making dramatic, self-aggrandizing gestures supporting Los Angeles’ poor children and their schools, Broad’s private business practices and political machinations cripple the very communities he claims to support.The $140 million museum, meant to be a symbol of Eli Broad’s public largesse, is actually a symbol of his philanthropic


hypocrisy. Eli Broad, who is estimated to be worth $7.4 billion, styles himself an advocate for poor black and brown children. Urban education is his pet project. Decrying the underperformance of poor children of color, Broad points the finger at unionized public school teachers and bureaucracy, claiming educators simply aren’t working hard enough to improve academic outcomes. To save the children, Broad wants to reform education along a corporate model -- privatizing schools, busting teachers’ unions and imposing punitive accountability systems. Broad is calling for - and helping fund - a complete transformation of the American education system. And he wants it done in his name. A series of dark, craggy pinnacles rises 80 metres above the grassy plains of Namibia. The peaks call to mind something ancient - the burial mounds of past civilizations or the tips of vast pyramids buried by the ages. The stone formations are indeed monuments of a faded empire, but not from anything hewn by human hands. They are pinnacle reefs, built by cyanobacteria on the shallow sea floor 543 million years ago, during a time known as the Ediacaran period. The ancient world occupied by these reefs was truly alien. The oceans held so little oxygen that modern fish would quickly founder and die there. A gooey mat of microbes covered the sea floor at the time, and on that blanket lived a variety of enigmatic animals whose bodies resembled thin, quilted pillows. Most were stationary, but a few meandered blindly over the slime, grazing on the microbes. Animal life at this point was simple, and there were no predators. But an evolutionary storm would soon upend this quiet world. Within several million years, this simple ecosystem would disappear, and give way to a world ruled by highly mobile animals that sported modern anatomical features. The Cambrian explosion, as it is called, produced arthropods with legs and compound eyes, worms with feathery gills and swift predators that could crush prey in tooth-rimmed jaws. Biologists have argued for decades over what ignited this evolutionary burst. Some think that a steep rise in oxygen sparked the change, whereas others say that it sprang from the development of some key evolutionary innovation, such as vision. The precise cause has remained elusive, in part because so little is known about the physical and chemical environment at that time. But over the past several years, discoveries have begun to yield some tantalizing clues about the end of the Ediacaran. Evidence gathered from the Namibian reefs and other sites suggests that earlier theories were overly simplistic ‘ that the Cambrian explosion actually emerged out of a complex interplay between small environmental changes that triggered major evolutionary developments. Some scientists now think that a small, perhaps temporary, increase in oxygen suddenly crossed an ecological threshold, enabling the emergence of predators. The rise of carnivory would have set off an evolutionary arms race that led to the burst of complex body types and behaviours that fill the oceans today. ‘This is the most significant event in Earth evolution. Suppose a country owes money to another nation’s government or official agency. How can creditors collect, unless there’s an international court and an enforcement system? The IMF and the World Bank were part of that enforcement system and now they’re saying: ‘We’re not going to be part of that anymore. We’re only working for the U.S. State Department and Pentagon. If the Pentagon tells the IMF it’s okay that a country doesn’t have to pay Russia or China, then now they don’t have to pay, as far as the IMF is concerned.’ That breaks up the global order that was created after World War II. The world is being split into two halves: the U.S. dollar orbit, and countries that the U.S. cannot control and whose officials are not on the U.S. payroll, so to speak. The UK state ‘ its economy, its culture, its fractured identities and party system -- is in a much deeper crisis than many want to accept. Its governors, at least in public, remain in semi-denial. English politicians assumed that the threat to the unitary state had been seen off after they got the result they wanted in the Scottish independence referendum. The results of last year’s general election suggested otherwise. The SNP now exercises a virtual monopoly of Scottish representation in the House of Commons and most opinion polls indicate a small majority in favour of

Scottish independence. The impact of this on the crisis of Labourism, old and new, should not be underestimated. It is the most dramatic change in the UK party system since the foundation of the Labour Party itself. It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep. Saudi Arabia opened 2016 with a tragic, yet increasingly common event for the Kingdom, a mass execution. In the words of Amnesty International, ‘Saudi Arabia’s authorities demonstrated their utter disregard for human rights and life by executing 47 people in a single day.’ According to the British rights organization Reprieve, S a u d i Arabia has had one of the wor l d ’s highest rates of execution for over ten years. Many of these executions occur after unfair trails and may be carried out by the barbaric means of beheading, public crucifixion, stoning, or firing squad. All 47 individuals executed on January 1 were accused of being terrorists. However, four of those executed were involved in Saudi Arabia’s Arab Spring protests. These four remained strictly nonviolent in their calls for greater democracy and rights in the Kingdom. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) knew within hours following the 3/11/11 tsunami that a fullscale, multi-reactor nuclear meltdown was underway. THE LIE: TEPCO waited nearly two months to inform the public. Those were the staggering admissions handed down to the media in a press release published by TEPCO on February 24, 2016. Of course, for many people on the inside track with Fukushima Daiichi news, this came as no surprise at all. TEPCO admitted it was aware of the meltdowns from the inception and apologized, saying a declaration should have been made to the public. Despite the admissions of wrong-doing in the press release, on the other hand, TEPCO says it didn’t break the law, and did what was required when it reported the meltdowns to the Japanese Government within three days. It provides unparalleled access to the thinking, planning and practicalities involved in running a major museum. Through a rich, varied and intensive programme of activities, discussions and visits, an intimate group of culture professionals from across the globe will come together to share knowledge and exchange ideas concerning current practices and emerging trends that are shaping cultural institutions. The programme is de-

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apply for Trans-Pacific departures Fri-Sun. Charges or taxes imposed directly by third parties are not included in the price. Prices correct as of 29 February 2016, but are subject to change due to fluctuations in airport and government costs and exchange rates. Please note: A i r p o i n t s Dollars™ cannot be used to pay for Vacation Packages. Prices from other USA gateway cities may also available. Offers are subject to availability and may change at any time. The establishment structure is sliding toward its death, and the foremost sign of this is the silly and sickening display of “ junk politics” that we call an election campaign. Imagine the scene: you uncover a painting stored away in the closet of an elderly relative’s home, coated in a blanket of dust so thick you can hardly make out anything but more dust underneath. You slide it out, begin to carefully brush it off, and find two piercing eyes peering out at you. You brush away more dust, you are covered in it, and the image slowly reveals itself: a stunning oil painting of a young woman in a blue headdress and gold tunic, her red lips parted slightly in an enigmatic, over the s ho u l de r glance. T h r e e people w e r e stabbed and 13 were arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim after a clash between Klan members and protesters. A nanny allegedly waited until a 4-year-old’s parents left their apartment, killed the child, decapitated her, and set the house on fire. The woman was detained in Moscow after she was caught on camera holding the girl’s head to the sky near a metro station and shouting ‘I am a terrorist!’ The suspect has been identified as a 39-year-old Uzbekistan woman named Gyulchekhra Bobokulova. Local media reports say police tried to check the woman’s papers and she responded by taking the head out of her bag. Video footage reportedly shows one officer charge at the woman before a group of others tackle her to the ground. A round object can be seen rolling away as she falls. Police have said they are not treating the incident as related to terrorism. His work is represented in numerous public and private collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Musee d’art contemporain de Rochechouart (France), Musee des beaux-art de Montreal, Musee d’art contemporain

de Montreal, Art Gallery of Ontario, Museum London, Woodland Cultural Centre, The Glenbow Museum, Indian Art Centre, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Mackenzie Art Gallery, the Art Bank of the Canada Council, Smithsonian/National Museum of the American Indian, Vancouver Art Gallery, Fondation de la Maison Rouge(Paris), Rideau Hall (Ottawa), The Logan Collection/Denver Art Museum and Hart House/University of Toronto. People who fall in the middle of the personality spectrum have special skills to succeed. As much as you can prepare for the standard interview, it can all go out the window when you are speaking to a legendary boss. We have a psychological need to hold coherent opinions, even if that means looking at the evidence selectively. Two companies are gamifying the recruiting process before candidates even submit their resumes. But the idea of treating propositions as only a kind of types along with the possibility of considering more structured types, allows common type-theoretic constructions to find unexpected manifestations. For example, working in the `context’ of a group, we can carry out constructions in representation theory, and treat the invariance of the Erlangen program. Working in the context of infinitesimal neighbourhoods allows constructions of differential equations. More elaborate contexts allow the expression of prequantum field theory. Psychoanalytic concepts are today integrated into the fabric of the social and political sciences. They range from mechanisms of social control, to theoretical lenses on colonization, to subaltern voices of protest. Many of our most commonplace economic theories use pseudo-Freudian concepts to imagine a marketplace of atomised egos, open to the systematic manipulation of affect by the advertising industry. National psyches are considered ‘well developed’ or ‘regressive,’ and are even labelled ‘neurotic,’ ‘psychotic’ or ‘sadistic.’ What is noticeable throughout is the hierarchization of the political over the psychological: psychoanalysis, whether Freudian, Lacanian, or otherwise, is confined to the toolkit of political analysis. There is, however, a counter-tradition that stands in opposition to this assimilation of psychoanalytic thinking into the social sciences in general and politics in particular. This counter-tradition is characterized by its distinctive psycho-political methodologies, which recognise the productive convergence of two sets of problems - the critical and the clinical - without subordinating the one to the other. Some of the most radical insubordination comes from those engaged in institutional therapy - Tosquelle, Fanon and Guattari - who refuse to collude in the all-too-eager bourgeoisification and colonisation of mental space by mainstream psychoanalysis. Other influential positions include that of R. D. Laing who in his own engagement with the social-political refused to align his thought with the Left or with Marxist psychoanalysis. Equally rich approaches can be found in the work of Marxist-Freudians in South American psychoanalysis, who have pioneered new conceptions of group analysis with enduring contemporary relevance. Possible topics: The closing-off of mental and physical spaces, the forces which enable this violent closure, and possibilities for resistance The globalisation of Western categories of mental health and illness, and the possibility of thought outside these


categories. The analysis of desire and its role in the production of subjectivity and group subjectivity The problematization of dominant subjectivities by queer theory and gender problematics Political ecology and its relations with other ecologies Non-patriarchal and non-heteronormative forms of institutional healing. Where and When? The monarch butterfly migration was well up this season, according to a study by Texas A&M University, which estimates that 100 million made the annual migration to Mexico from the U.S. and Canada. In an era when metaphysical and existential certainties are in a state of crisis, when people are being uprooted and alienated and are losing their sense of what this world means, this ideology inevitably has a certain hypnotic charm. To wandering humankind it offers an immediately available home: all one has to do is accept it, and suddenly everything becomes clear once more, life takes on new meaning, and all mysteries, unanswered questions, anxiety, and loneliness vanish. Of course, one pays dearly for this low-rent home: the price is abdication of one’s own reason, conscience, and responsibility, for an essential aspect of this ideology is the consignment of reason and conscience to a higher authority. The principle involved here is that the center of power is identical with the center of truth. There’s a perverse form of American exceptionalism circulating around the Clinton camp: just because things work in other countries doesn’t mean they can work here. As Hillary herself put it, “We are not Denmark. I love Denmark, but we are the United States of America.” True enough, but that has no bearing on why single-payer couldn’t work here. The only obstacles are political -- elites, which include Hillary and Starr, don’t want it. Each stage in Afghanistan’s tragic 40-year history of intervention-- the 1980s covert war, the 1990s civil war, and the U.S. occupation since 2001 --helped transform this remote, landlocked nation into the world’s first true narco-state --where illicit drugs dominate the economy, fuel corruption and determine the fate of foreign interventions. Afghanistan can only progress when it is no longer a client narco-state with its rural areas dependent upon the opium crop. After fighting the longest war in its history, the United States stands at the brink of defeat in Afghanistan. How can this be possible? How could the world’s sole superpower have battled continuously for 15 years, deploying 100,000 of its finest troops, sacrificing the lives of 2,200 of those soldiers, spending more than a trillion dollars on its military operations, lavishing a record hundred billion more on ‘nation-building’ and ‘reconstruction,’ helping raise, fund, equip, and train an army of 350,000 Afghan allies, and still not be able to pacify one of the world’s most impoverished nations? So dismal is the prospect for stability in Afghanistan in 2016 that the Obama White House has recently cancelled a planned further withdrawal of its forces and will leave an estimated 10,000 troops in the country indefinitely. Were you to cut through the Gordian knot of complexity that is the Afghan War, you would find that in the American failure there lies the greatest policy paradox of the century: Washington’s massive military juggernaut has been stopped dead in its steel tracks by a pink flower, the opium poppy. Species Summary: Tufted Duck (4 British Columbia, 3 California, 1 New Brunswick, 1 New York, 5 Newfoundland and Labrador) Masked Booby (2 Florida) Blue-footed Booby (1 California) Brown Booby (4 California, 1 Florida) Northern Jacana (4 Texas) Ruff (1 California) Slaty-backed Gull (1 Washington) Zenaida Dove (4 Florida) Smooth-billed Ani (4 Florida) Aplomado Falcon (2 Texas) Sky Lark (3 British Columbia) Sinaloa Wren (2 Arizona) Blackcapped Gnatcatcher (7 Arizona) Redwing (1 British Columbia) Rufous-backed Robin (5 Arizona) Tropical Parula (1 Texas) White-collared Seedeater (6 Texas) Crimsoncollared Grosbeak (6 Texas) Blue Bunting (4 Texas) Shiny Cowbird (2 Florida) Brambling (2 Ohio) The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. Last weekend nearly 50 people gathered at the Robinwood Station Community Center in the spirit of fixing the disposal culture we live in one repair at a time. More details about their success in the March issue. Environ-

mental injustice makes social justice impossible. To achieve environmental justice, we have to recognize the role that capitalism plays in exploiting communities for profit and driving wealth inequality, particularly in communities of color. The struggle of our time is people power versus corporate power. All over the world people are taking action for economic, racial, environmental and climate justice. We can, and we must, prevail by stopping harmful policies and practices and putting in place new systems that are rooted in solidarity, cooperation and sustainability. As many as 1,500 people are facing similar penalties in Houston alone, and many thousands of others elsewhere across the c o u n t r y. Still, the image of s e v e n heavily a r me d and armored U.S. Marshals taking a shackled man to jail for an ancient, unpaid student loan of such a trivial amount put the college debt crisis back into the spotlight - if only for a few days. Each year, War Resisters League analyzes federal funds outlays as presented in detailed tables in “Analytical Perspectives” of the Budget of the United States Government. Our analysis is based on federal funds, which do not include trust funds -- such as Social Security -that are raised separately from income taxes for specific purposes. What you pay (or don’t pay) by April 18, 2016 goes to the federal funds portion of the budget. Fifty years after the founding of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, the agenda and style of the legendary Black revolutionary organization remains relevant in today’s public discourse. An end to ‘police brutality and the murder of Black people,’ central to the Black Lives Matter movement, was laid out in the Black Panthers’ 10-Point Platform five decades ago. Both acclaim and condemnation erupted when their iconic black berets made an appearance recently in Beyonce’s half-time show performance during the Super Bowl. Dark, and the wind-blurred pines, With a glimmer of light between. Then I, entombed for an hourless night With the world of things unseen. Mist, the dust of flowers, Leagues, heavy with promise of snow, And a beckoning road ‘twixt vale and hill, With the lure that all must know. I was surprised to see someone raising this often heard critique in public. It needs some civil encouragement to address this somewhat taboo topic as those who raise it are easily accused of anti-intellectual-

ism and considered not politically correct. Such critique is unlikely to emanate from the Anglo-Saxon West; nor will it stem from France or Germany. There is an additional risk factor as it can ruin one’s academic career, which so often depends on nepotism and informal networks that were built up over years. Brenna Murphy (American, b. 1986 in Edmonds, WA) is a Portlandbased artist and musician. Murphy received her BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR (2009). Recent solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at the Art15 London Art Fair (by Upfor), American Medium, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Kunstverein Dsseldorf, Germany; Gloria Maria Gallery, Milan, Italy; and The Future Gallery,

Berlin, Germany. Her work has also exhibited throughout the United States and internationally in Monterrey, Milan, Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Notable group exhibitions include This is What Sculpture Looks Like at Postmasters and The New Romantics at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York. She was recently interviewed for Art in America. Murphy is also a member of the art collectives MSHR and Oregon Painting Society. To achieve environmental justice, we have to recognize the role that capitalism plays in exploiting communities for profit and driving wealth inequality, particularly in communities of color. We also have to recognize the dominant cultural narratives that reinforce the current system and inequality, the false beliefs that those at the bottom can rise if they work hard enough and that those at the top earned what they have. Private banks have a long history of discrimination. Most people are aware of the predatory practices of banks that pushed sub-prime mortgages on communities of color. The Public Banking Institute is starting a new project, “What Wall Street Costs America” which points out other ways that banks e x t r a c t wealth from communities. The first city to be highlighted is Ferguson, MO where the interest owed on bonds is being financed through traffic tickets and fines. Creating public banks is a way to stop this wealth extraction and create capital that can be used to restore these damaged communities. Likewise the climate crisis is seen by industry as an opportunity for profit by pushing market-based false solutions. An example are industrial biofuels, which release large amounts of carbon, displace projects for sustainable energy rather than replacing the burning of fossil fuels and cause displacement of people from their land and other human rights abuses. Civil society organizations in the European Union are working to remove biofuels from the Renewable Energy Directive. In 2013, in Peru, only about two-thirds of the 25 million people had access to electricity. The Peruvian government decided to do something about it, and instituted a program to provide free solar energy to the underprivileged. With the goal of providing at least 95% of Peruvians with

electricity, Peru began the National Photovoltaic Household Electrification Program, installing free solar panels in impoverished communities. The program, which is expected to be completed by next year, has so far installed almost 15,000 photovoltaic systems. In the wake of the collapse of the housing bubble in 2008, it was not only the United States that almost fell into a deep economic depression. The same criminal activity our banks engaged in, inflating the housing market and gambling away our money while saddling crippling debt on untold millions, was also occurring around the world. One country in particular, Iceland, almost imploded. It had a far different response to the crisis, however. At the same time that the United States was bailing out our “too-big-to-fail” banks, Iceland was letting them suffer the consequences of their greed, namely bankruptcy and failure. Instead of bailing banks out, the Icelandic government bailed out homeowners by forgiving mortgages that were overvalued. While it is arguable whether a similar course of action would have been advisable in the far-larger United States, it may be more important to note that Iceland b e g a n prosecuting actual people who propagated the illegal activity. Unlike the U.S., where exactly zero bank executives have answered for their crimes, and prosecutions for white-collar crime are at a 20-year low, 26 bankers in Iceland have gone to prison for their misdeeds. While the United States may be the richest nation on the planet, more than 15 million children go to bed hungry. Digest this fact while also noting that 133 billion pounds of food, fully a third of the available supply, goes uneaten, eventually ending up in a landfill. France, facing a similar problem, made a very simple decision: stop throwing the food away. As of early this month, it became illegal in France for large grocery stores (4300 square feet or more) to throw out unsold food. Instead, French groceries must contract with charitable organizations, which will be responsible for collecting and redistributing the food to the needy. The law also mandates educational programs in schools to raise awareness among children about the problem of food waste.Americans are the most overworked employees in the devel-

oped world. Even though the traditional work week for American workers is 40 hours, the average actual number of hours they work has crept up to 47 hours a week, almost a full extra work day. And while Americans are also among the most productive workers in the world, most social scientists will point out that many hours a week are wasted by employees who are simply burnt out and unable to focus for so many hours. Sweden thinks it has a solution. A trial six-hour work-day has been instituted by several Swedish companies. Accepting the premise that eight hours is too long to be able to focus on work-related tasks, participating companies believe that six hours is sufficient time to accomplish productive work, minimize employee burn-out and enhance the worklife balance. The hope is also that by shortening the workweek, new employment will open up from companies that by necessity need more man-hours. While the trial is ongoing, results so far are promising. Dump Massive Funding into Militarism. Why should this be included? Well, militarism is the biggest public program in the United States. It’s over half of federal discretionary spending. If you’re going to claim that lobbyists are concentrating wealth through their influence on the government, why not notice the single budget item that eats up over half the budget? It does indeed concentrate wealth and also power. It’s a vast pot of unaccountable funding for cronies. And it generates public interest in fighting foreign enemies rather than enemies hanging out on Wall Street. It does militarize the police for free, however, just in case Wall Street generates any disgruntled customers. Two former Guatemalan soldiers have been sentenced to life in prison after they were found guilty of raping women in the Sepur Zarco military base as part of the military strategy. [The Judge] rejected the idea that sexual violence in the military base was to satisfy the sexual desires of the soldiers, but was a weapon of war. ‘There was a strategic design to pulverize the social fabric. The Sepur Zarco case is the first wartime sexual abuse case prosecuted in Guatemala, and the first of sexual and domestic slavery tried in a national court. Two former Guatemalan soldiers have been sentenced to 120 and 240 years in prison after they were found guilty of raping women in the Sepur Zarco military base in the 1980s as part of a military strategy. Coronel Esteelmer Reyes Giron and former soldier Valdez Asig were found guilty of crimes against humanity, including the enforced disappearance of seven men, and the systematic rape and enslavement of 11 women in the historic case. This is the first case of wartime sexual abuse prosecuted in Guatemala, as well the first case of sexual and domestic slavery tried in a national court. To a packed courtroom, including the U.N. Special Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, Judge Jazmin Barrios said that she had found the testimonies of the women to be ‘completely credible. A Guatemala court has sentenced two former members of the military to 360 years in jail for the murder, rape and sexual enslavement of indigenous women. Francisco Reyes Giron and Heriberto Valdez Asij were found guilty of crimes against humanity. The historic ruling is the first successful prosecution for sexual violence committed during Guatemala’s military conflict in the 1980s. There were jubilant scenes in


court as the judge read out the sentence. “This is historic, it is a great step for women and above all for the victims,” said Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, who attended the hearing. Dozens of protesters who heard about a planned Ku Klux Klan rally were waiting by a Southern California park when six people pulled up in a black SUV. They were dressed in black shirts decorated with the Klan cross and Confederate flag patches and took out signs that read “White Lives Matter.” Witness video show the Klansmen were quickly surrounded Saturday afternoon by the counter-protesters who shouted at them. Someone smashed the SUV’s window. One KKK member stabbed a counter-protester with the decorative end of a flag pole, setting off a vicious brawl where three people were stabbed, one critically, and two were assaulted. 57448 leap year The last time we crossed a bissextile, or leap year day, we made a filecast to mark it. And so, four years later, here is another, also marking this rare event. Accompanying it is an image that was taken in the Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome, which houses a spectacular meridian line, a kind of elaborate sundial. In the ancient city of Yerevan the streets do not generally coil and narrow into dense networks as in other cities that old, because in the 1930s, there was a fever for pushing aside the elaborations of the ages, replacing them with a rationalized grid. Well, it is was it is, and some of it looks like this. Participating and SelfCurating Artists Include: Kristina Durka, Parker Flood, Stephanie Grant, Rachel Hillock, Meaghan McMurrich, Jonathan Mitchell, Hilary Rosa, Hannah Sampson, Maria Simmons, Jasmyne Smith, Brittany Sostar, Jennifer Tewnion, Riley Vanderzee, Tess Visser, Cassandra Whall Many storage vendors claim to be disaster-proof, or resilient, but how well do they really stand up in the event of devastating circumstances? For most companies, disaster recovery means moving data off-site using removable media, or replicating data using software. These types of disaster recovery plans have many moving parts, which may rely on someone to backup, transport, verify and restore data. So, what happens when someone forgets, or something goes wrong? ioSafe data storage products are fireproof and waterproof. They can withstand extreme heat, flooding, defy theft and allow you to recover data almost instantly in the aftermath of a devastating event, by simply removing the drives and inserting them into a replacement chassis. With capacities from 2TB to 6TB, the ioSafe Solo series will give you an instant disasterproof solution for your critical data. Through the end of March, take advantage of a 10% discount on the ioSafe SoloPRO and Solo G3 using coupon code “LY2016”. “Oh, I’m looking for anything,” you might tell well-meaning friends who ask. It’s a problem. Because in today’s economy, no employer is looking for a “VP, Anything”, or a “Director of Whatever Needs to Be Done.” They’re looking for an experienced professional who can solve specific problems. When you’re thinking about moving jobs, you need to have a brief, pithy assertion of who you are and what you’re qualified to do. It’s important that you be able to explain to an old colleague, or a new connection, in 30 seconds or less, what it is that you’re looking for. That’s called an “elevator pitch” ‘ a concise statement of your abilities and goals that can be shared in the time it takes an elevator to go to the top floor. Vague and general aren’t helpful: “I’m a saleswoman”, or... “I’m in logistics”, or... “I’m a finance guy”, don’t work because they don’t explain succinctly what you need and how your audience can help. No, in the 21st century you need to be more precise and more concrete. You need to describe what you’ve done and what you’re looking to do... specifically. So it’s not “I’m a saleswoman” but rather... “I’m a sales management professional looking to lead a 100+ person sales organization, and am particularly interested in opportunities leading sales teams going through the transactional-to-relationship-selling transition. I’m especially interested working for SaaS platforms.” It’s not “I’m in logistics” but rather... “I’m a logistics team leader who specializes in driving efficiency improvements in established groups, bringing down the cost of production year after year.” And it’s not “I’m a finance guy” but rather... “I’m a finance guy who enjoys rationalizing finance teams in multi-unit businesses and creating metrics and

operating procedures that partner with the business to drive understanding of the underlying levers of growth.” You need to be specific and concise in your description of your ambitions, so that your network contacts, your future boss, or an HR recruiter can understand how and where you’ll add value and improve the business. So please avoid the easy temptation to say that you’re looking for anything, and be specific in your job search. It’s the best way to let people know how to help you, and to let companies know how you’ll help them. He is a conceptual artist whose practice includes painting, sculpture and photography. He is known for his sculptures in glass and for his site - spe cific installations in collaboration with museums and cultural institutions throughout North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He received his B.F.A. from the State University of New York, Purchase, in 1976, and was awarded Honorary Doctorates from Maryland Institute College of Art, MD (2013), Skidmore College, NY (2009), and Northwestern University, IL (2007). Wilson’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and retrospectives worldwide, including, among others, the critically acclaimed Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson, sponsored by the Contemporary in collaboration with The Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore (1992-1993) and Fred Wilson, Objects and Installations 1979-2000, which traveled to eight different venues nationally from 2001-2004. In 2003, Wilson represented the United States at the 50th Venice Biennale with the solo exhibition, Fred Wilson: Speak of Me as I Am. In 2008, Wilson was named to the Board of Trustees of the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, as well as to the Board of Trustees of the American Academy in Rome. His many accolades include the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant (1999). Wilson’s work can be found in numerous public collections worldwide, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Hood Museum, New Hampshire; the Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Institute of Jamaica, Kingston; the Jewish Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; the Seattle Art Museum;

and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Italian government has given the United States permission to fly armed drone missions out of an air base in Sicily. The drones, which will be based at Naval Air Station Sigonella, will fly on missions over North Africa. The decision comes after more than a year of negotiations, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Disney is reportedly planning to use drones to keep an eye out for other drones that may be spying on the set of Star Wars Episode VIII. Coconut Water Sale. Natural Value is changing their labels so clearing out the previous stock. $10/case comes out to just $.80/can! Find it under Bulk Dry Goods/Shelf Stable Pantry Zolo is a Black New Afrikaner political prisoner in Indiana and who we have

done support work for during the last 15 years or so. He has spent nearly 27 years during his nearly 35 years of incarceration on death row for a crime in which he has always maintained his innocence. The state of Indiana gave up trying to kill Zolo in 2008. There was an agreement that he would serve an additional 7 years if he earned a bachelors degree while in prison. Zolo was nearly half way through from meeting this obligation when the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) ended all college courses in Indiana prisons as a cost saving measure. Otherwise Zolo would have been eligible for release last year. He has an official release date of February, 2017, but until recently the IDOC has been telling Zolo he can get out early on a work release program for his last year and he was on a waiting list. Suddenly the IDOC informed him that since he was convicted of a violent crime he is no longer eligible. His councilor in prison said that she failed to notice his classification as level 2 and therefore mistakenly made him j u m p through all the work release hoops and procedures for the last year and a half. We think that his classification has been changed recently. Zolo has been a model prisoner (a fact not disputed by the IDOC). He would like to be able to earn some money and get some work experience before they just dump him on the street in a year. Most parties now agree that mass incarceration is NOT the solution to crime in America. The reason being is that its prison population size is NOT determined by the number of CRIMES committed. For at least five straight years, both violent and nonviolent crime rates have been declining and serious crime rates were as low in 2011 as they were in 1964, yet the nation’s prison population remained functionally the same size and the U.S. continued its shameful position as the country with the most prisoners in the world. So if the crime rate is not the dominant factor, what is? A look at the U.S. prison population shows that poor people make up its largest economic group and Blacks are its largest racial group, followed closely by Latino(a)s and other people of color. Whites are a racial minority in the prisons. The financial cost of mass incarceration has put critical strains on federal, state and city budgets

nationwide, plus the moral crisis brought on by continued unjust racial and class policies toward people of color and the poor has created a social crisis in America. This has forced the federal government to initiate projects that address mass incarceration in federal prisons. Similar processes are being put in place to free state prisoners. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work across media and across disciplines. Candidates should have a strong background in digital design as well as in digital arts and imaging, and be actively working in the field. It is expected that candidates are, and will remain, current in the field of design. Candidates should have an MFA, MDes, or equivalent experience, and must demonstrate potential for excellence in practice and undergraduate and/or graduate teaching. The successful candidate’s skills should complement the research and teaching activities of the Department of Fine Arts and the Stratford Campus, with a particular emphasis in one or more of the following: digital text-based design, web and app design, digital photography, drawing, and 3-D modelling. A demonstrated ability to analyze cr itica lly the role of digital media in contemporary culture is essential. Additional expertise, such as video production/motion graphics, as well as the creation and teaching of online courses is also an asset. Gaming and analysis of gaming are not part of the purview of this position. We are seeking a person with energy, enthusiasm, and vision who can contribute meaningfully to excellence in teaching, the student experience, collegiality, and academic service. The piece is constructed from sonic discoveries made during the expeditions of Mooste and its surroundings, which was especially appealing to me for the contrasts between nature and derelict and abandoned structures from the soviet area. I chose recordings of rain resonating two large scaled plastic tubes, a gurgling stream, wire fence set to motion by the ever changing winds, startled geese flying over and frogs singing their songs embedded into the natural soundscape of rural Estonia, amongst others. We ran into a problem with your recent comment reply by email. Specifically, we weren’t able to find your comment in

the email. We’ll do our best to get this fixed up. In the meantime, you may want to comment directly on the post: Romanticism is “the largest recent movement to transform the lives and the thoughts of the Western world.” Indeed, Romantic ideas and attitudes - embraced by Goethe, Hegel, Sade, de Stal, Rousseau, Baudelaire, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Beethoven, Schubert, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Turner, and Delacroix, to name but a few - not merely changed the course of history in the West in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but helped to fashion twentieth-century democracy, environmentalism, Surrealism, fascist nationalism, communist universalism, spiritualism, social liberalism, and so forth in the West as well as in the East. This twoday interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together academics from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the full spectrum of possible Romanticisms, the germination, maturation, and development of this heritage on both sides of the Atlantic and its afterlife in our global capitalist culture today. Are color adjectives (‘red’, ‘green’, etc.) relative adjectives or absolute adjectives? Existing theories of the meaning of color adjectives attempt to answer that question using informal (‘armchair’) judgments. The informal judgments of theorists conflict: it has been proposed that color adjectives are absolute with standards anchored at the minimum degree on the scale, that they are absolute but have near-midpoint standards, and that they are relative. In this paper we conduct two experiments, one based on entailment patterns and one based on presupposition accommodation, that investigate the meaning of scalar adjectives. We find evidence confirming the existence of subgroups of the population who operate with each type of standard for color adjectives that has been proposed in the literature. But the evidence of inter-personal variation in where standards are located on the relevant scale and how those standards can be adjusted indicates that all of the existing theories of the meaning of color adjectives are only partially correct. We also find evidence that paradigmatic relative adjectives (‘tall’, ‘wide’) behave in ways that are not predicted by the standard ‘off the shelf ’ theory of scalar adjectives. We discuss several different possible explanations for this unexpected behavior. We conclude by discussing the relevance of our findings for philosophical debates about the nature and extent of semantically encoded context sensitivity for which color adjectives have played a key role. Prima facie, ecological and enactive approaches to psychological and cognitive phenomena share important philosophical commitments. Nonetheless, they have a more or less independent history and cross-fertilization between the two is still scarce. What ethically acceptable measures can be used to monitor, promote and enforce ethical standards in public life: in particular, does any kind of entrapment have an ethically permissible role to play? This is the focus of this interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited speakers from academia, law, and the media and University of Liverpool speakers from Communication and Media, Law, Philosophy, Politics, and Sociology and Social Policy. “Street Art”, the term has expanded to include diverse artistic and visual interventions in the exterior space. In contrast to the traditional term



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