Forrent43

the nonprofit Solar Foundation shows that the number of jobs in the United States in the solar industry outpaced those in the oil and gas industries for the first

A

time ever. s of November 2015 there were almost 209,000 people who worked in the solar industry, 90 percent of whom only work on solar-related projects, according to the report. There were only about 185,000 people working in oil and gas in the United States in December 2015, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Only humans communicate through symbols. According to Flusser, we speak hereby of ‘unnatural’ communication because the ‘natural’ transmission of information would aim for a transparent, understandable exchange of messages. Though an artwork represents in its aesthetic coding actually a communication barrier because itrather hides thanspellsout clearly its meaning. Schlingensief said: “Art is only interesting when we are facing with something that we cannot completely explain.’ In this paradoxical tension between the symbolic displacement of reality and the urge for its cognition are standing and beingcreated myriads of failed systems of human codes. The elite unit that hunts the Mafia is called the Catturandi. There are fewer than 20 of them. In his two decades with the police, one known as IMD has helped to arrest nearly 300 mafiosi, including Giovanni Brusca, notorious for kidnapping and torturing the 11year-old son of another mafioso who had betrayed him.

“We prefer to be called ‘The Band of Lions’ because that’s what we are: wild, free, and ready to attack at any given time in this jungle,” he says. Throughout the world, people have been shocked by the scenes of starving people in the Madaya concentration camp in southern Syria, besieged by the Assad regime and its allied deathsquad Hezbollah (which has invaded Syria from Lebanon). Some 40,000 people are trapped, besieged and starved as a weapon of war by the dictatorship which has used every conceivable means to maintain its power over the last five years; people are reported to be eating grass, insects and cats and dogs. Yet it appears that the main task confronting leftists ie, opponents of exploitation, oppression and injustice, advocates of a another world is possible, is once again to find whatever excuses, whatever obfuscation, whatever mitigation they can on behalf of the tyrannical fascist regime responsible. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (1 Connecticut) Barnacle Goose (1 New Jersey) Common Pochard (1 Alaska) Tufted Duck (1 Alaska, 3 British Columbia, 4 Massachusetts, 22 Newfoundland and Labrador) Brown Booby (1 California, 1 Florida) Northern Jacana (2 Texas) Ruff (1 California) Ivory Gull (1 Minnesota) Black-tailed Gull (22 Illinois) Slatybacked Gull (2 Washington) Sinaloa Wren (2 Arizona) Rufous-backed Robin (9 Arizona) Siberian Accentor (1 British Columbia) Tropical Parula (1 Texas) Rufous-capped Warbler (rufifrons Group) (1 Arizona) Golden-crowned Warbler (2 Texas) Flame-colored Tanager (3 Texas) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (1 Texas) Streak-backed Oriole (2 Arizona) Brambling (2 Ohio) Have you begun thinking about analysing social media for feedback and evaluation about your organisation and its activities? This publicly available source of data can offer great value in terms of gaining insights into the views and experiences of your customers and audiences. However, social media also bring with them specific methodological and practical issues that must be taken into account to gain accurate evaluation results. This workshop presents cutting edge knowledge about such data, identifying the strengths and weaknesses of different options. The event provides practical solutions alongside important ‘health warnings’ about the limitations of this kind of data. We’ve received your support request. We know every step counts, so we make every effort to reply quickly.

However, due to high contact volume, we may need 2 or more days to respond.

Hey there! Very playful girl looking for sexual entertainment)) Come and play with me!!! Sex is my hobby, my hobby passion, and I will give you a huge pleasure. Believe me it’s not just words it is the real truth which can now become a reality. I’m the burning beauty that can make your leisure time unforgettable and pleasant great.

I’ll be your super girl who madly loves meeting you and stormy continue with the passions, and can make sure all the time that we spend together will be very enjoy-

able and both of us welcome. So do not pull, call and we’ll talk to you or to me. My photos Server Error in ‘/ ’ Application. The name ‘en;q=0.8’ contains characters that are not valid for a Culture or Region. Parameter name: name Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request.

Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Argument Exception: The name ‘en;q=0.8’ contains characters that are not valid for a Culture or Region. Parameter name: name Source Error: Stack Tr ac e : Ve r s i o n In for mation: Microsoft . N E T Framework Vers i o n : 2.0.50727.

5485; ASP. NET Vers i o n : 2.0.50727 .5491 An area of low pressure will develop along the northern Gulf Coast and intensify as it moves up the eastern seaboard Friday into Saturday. Rain locally heavy at times will overspread the Carolina’s, Middle Atlantic and Northeast U.S. Rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches may be possible.

Interior New England could see snow or mixed precipitation. The latest executions in Saudi Arabia should make it very clear that the Western powers’ “war on terror” has nothing to do with opposition to chopping off heads and sectarian religious fanaticism. Instead of condemning this crime, the US, UK and other Western powers have continued to give the Saudi regime, if not their public political blessing, at least their practical backing ‘ in the name of the necessary alliances they claim flow from that “war on terror”. Seventy years after commencement of the Manhattan project that developed the atomic bomb, a conscious debate on its socio-political consequences is missing when decisions are reached to adopt nuclear energy, most recently by a number of African countries. Until today, the costly projects draw on the legacy of demonstrating power, couched in language of necessity and accompanied by secrecy. London is now home to experienced university lecturers on career exchange as security guards. Pastors are leaving behind bewildered congregations to become cab drivers in London. Market women are abandoning their stalls to clean hospital toilets in London. Ethiopia remains of the African countries with the highest rate of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Ethiopian activist

Tesfaye Melaku Aberra tells Valentina Mmaka about the practice and his fight against it. Up to 100 fellows are selected every year in a globally competitive process based on personal, academic, and professional achievements. Western powers and their media clergy have no right to give lessons of democracy to China. They should first correct their ugly behavior in the places they control. In Nigeria today, there is renewed agitation for the creation of the separatist Biafra republic. The 3-year Biafra war led to the death of some 3 million Igbo people, according to Biafra supporters. Here is a summary of five Igbo demands, each one a memorial symbolising their resilience in surviving five decades of the longest, continuous running genocide of recent history. Climate change has brought on a severe drought in Swaziland. The solution

to the crisis is literally to pray for rain, says the country’s absolute monarch. No, we need a democratic government that does not treat its people as enemies, says a young activist. Atrocities Watch ‘ Africa has a job opening for a Burundi Researcher Individuals with the requisite qualification and experience are encouraged to apply. 1.

Senate committee report on the high level of visa issuances 2. Senate testimony on the visa waiver program 3. DHS OIG report on needed ICE and USCIS improvements to combat human trafficking 4. Canada: Report on labour market participation of immigrant and Canadian-born wives 5. U.K.: Inspector’s report on tackling illegal employment 6. New reports from FAIR on the visa waiver program and Congress 2015 votes on immigration 7. New policy paper from the Institute for the Study of Labor 8. Four new reports and features from the Migration Policy Institute 9. New working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research 10.

Four new papers from the Social Science Research Network 11.

New report from the International Organization for Migration 12. Two new reports from the World Bank 13.

Two new reports from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development 14.

Three new working papers from the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks or plastic, its entire economy is grey, and its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a firsthand witness to a strange and desperate limbo-land, getting to know many of those who have come there seeking sanctuary. Among them are Guled, a former child soldier who lives for football; Nisho, who scrapes an existence by pushing a wheelbarrow and dreaming of riches; Tawane, the indomitable youth leader; and schoolgirl Kheyro, whose future hangs upon her education. When unauthorized parents attain legal status, the disadvantages of the second generation begin to disappear. These second-generation men and women achieve schooling on par with those whose parents come legally.

By the third generation, socioeconomic levels for women equal or surpass those of native white women. But men reach parity only through greater labor-force participation and longer working hours, results consistent with the idea that their integration is delayed by working-class imperatives to support their families rather than attend college. Why not send payment directly to authors, along with a small amount for the free libraries which advertize and publish them? Free libraries could provide mail addresses for that, if not e-payment systems. Paypal and many othrs are ready for smartphone tip jars. Was a time, still is, when authors and poets and painters and troubadours used free street corners to hawk their talents or lack thereof. So too politicians, lawyers, architects and physicians and academics. There was a time, still is, when the Internet provided free material that was not dominated, legislated and demonically possessed by smarmy merchants crowing about how they are essential to protect artists, that is, the artists who were compelled by poverty and alimony and child support to cotton gin their creativity, very often desparate payday plagiar i s m , through restricted l i n e n channels, D M C A hardly the worst. No doubt the pain of seeing creative works piled high in Strand and museum, gallery and penthouse dumpsters, nailed to seedy motel and shopping center walls, used as cheaper than fake book decoration, reminds what happens when artists try to avoid the investment-grade mark-up wizards (god love the ones surplused by the giants, Guggenheim, MOMA and Amazon, struggling to make pennies from e-books, self-publish, employed mate and Mom and Dad). Here’s to the all the small fry of whatever species swarming in fish balls in terror of the server farm predators overseen and fed by American-Eagle-eyed investors buzzing like spy drones peering into everyone’s moldy studio and tax returns -- some on this very malign opportunity spy nest. What the lurkers and internet and official spies do not want to help is for nettime to be the model for creatively sharing without authorities, copyright cops, courts, lunches, deals, art fairs, conferences, secure teaching positions, fame manufacturing, prizes, grants, all the tools of winnowing a

lucky few from the insurrectionist mob. The fact that you apparently can’t even conceptualise poetry existing without either the enforcement afforded by IP regimes or State/Party funding is both depressing and yet utterly non-surprising considering that that is the lie you have been spoon-fed for who knows how long, despite the fact that counter-examples are already existent aplenty. Why has Bitcoin failed? It has failed because the community has failed. What was meant to be a new, decentralized form of money that lacked “systemically important institutions” and “too big to fail” has become something even worse: a system completely controlled by just a handful of people. Worse still, the network is on the brink of technical collapse. The mechanisms that should have prevented this outcome have broken down, and as a result there’s no longer much reason to think Bitcoin can actually be better than the existing financial system.

Some years back dogs in the US were mysteriously dying from liver failure. The cause was traced to an ingredient that was being sourced from China by a number of US dog food processors. Many pet owners now work to avoid pet food that might contain ingredients coming from China. Believe, I have even seen dogs treats labeled “no ingredients sourced from China.” Such discriminatory labeling against a “trading partner” should trigger lawsuits, and apparently will if under TPP the imported product is seafood for human consumption. There must be a cultural understanding on the part of Chinese corporate interests that it is better not to draw attention to businesses practices that imperiled the health of US dogs. And of course US corporations have their share of “quality control problems”.

In 2014 and 2015, the gap in ideological views between Democratic Jews who are affiliated with the organized Jewish community and the Israeli political leadership’s Tea Party-esque views became impossible to ignore. Wars can be justified in the name of Israel’s security, but not so when it comes to race baiting, book censorship and attempts to shut down human rights NGOs. For most American Jews, Israel is more of an idea than a reality. They don’t speak Hebrew, they don’t visit the country more than once or twice in a lifetime (if that) and their knowledge of its society is shallow and limited. But the country is important to them, and not just as a symbol. The idea of a safe haven for an insecure people that has been displaced and subjected to genocide is very significant. Last year Arsenal, Inc. has sent out a number of releases regarding the SLR-107FR rifles as this model kept getting in and out of stock and inquiries from the consumers and dealers kept flocking in.

We have been working hard to keep this flagship model in consistent supply in the US market. We succeeded with our mission in the second half of the year 2015. We begin this year with an announcement that as of January 11, 2016, all SLR107FR rifles that were manufactured by Arsenal, Inc. have been shipped out to our distributors. This includes all SLR-107FR model configurations ‘ SLR107-31, SLR107-32, SLR10733, SLR107-34, and SLR107-36. While there are still units in the pipelines with the distributors, dealers, and retail outlets, there will be no additional units shipped out from Arsenal at least for the rest of the year 2016. In the late nineteenth century two facts conspired to change the face of music: the collapse of common practice

tonality (which overturned the certainties underpinning the world of art music), and the invention of a revolutionary new form of memory, sound recording (which redefined and greatly empowered the world of popular music). A tidal wave of probes and experiments into new musical resources and new organisational practices ploughed through both disciplines, bringing parts of each onto shared terrain before rolling on to underpin a new aesthetics able to follow sound and its manipulations beyond the narrow confines of ‘music’. A German task force investigating the provenance of a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard of hundreds of works said Thursday that only five had been proved to be looted thus far, and defended its slow progress. The government-appointed panel presented its report on the 500 pieces of suspect origin among the more than 1,200 artworks in the secret collection discovered in Cornelius Gurlitt’s cluttered Munich apartment four years ago. But the 14-member task force, which wrapped up its investigation in late December, said that only one percent could be shown without doubt to have been stolen from Jewish families under the Third Reich or sold under duress. Task force chairwoman Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel told reporters that a new project team would continue digging through records to find rightful owners, adding that they had received 200 queries and concrete claims for restitution. “It remains a duty that we owe to the victims of crimes during the Nazi period,” she said, as she handed over a Web management duties include: responsibility for keeping calendar listings and information on the website up to date. Candidate will work closely with the publicity manager to maintain proper branding and presence on the website. Additional responsibilities include maintaining updated event listings on the Poets & Writers online calendar and the Experience LA calendar.

Ability to create more dynamic functions on the website is a plus.

Copy editing duties include copy editing the quarterly print calendar, and any other materials that will be used to promote Beyond Baroque.

Hello, Your message to the islas group was not approved. The owner of the group controls the content posted to it and has the right to approve or reject messages accordingly. In this case, your message was automatically rejected because the moderator didn’t approve it within 14 days. We do this to provide a high quality of service for our users. A complete copy of your message has been attached for your convenience. Thank you for choosing Yahoo Groups Regards, Yahoo Groups Customer Care In the face of governmental failure in addressing climate change, the climate movement has seen a dramatic increase of civil disobedience. The threat of jail is real to activists who use these tactics, as I learned first hand.

But now activists now have a powerful form of defense: necessity. For the very first time, US climate activists have been able to argue the necessity defense -- which argues that socalled criminal acts were committed out of necessity -- to a jury. The Delta 5, who blockaded an oil train at the Delta rail yard near Seattle in September of 2014, have been been allowed to use the defense in a historic climate change civil disobedience trial being heard this week. I don’t know of any modern poet who is actually able to make a living from the sale of books in copyright. Poetry is the perennial example of an art which people are not in for the money. And if we have a look of the really big poets, we’ll find that normally, poetry was not the way they made their living, and if it was, the important factor was readings (like Dylan Thomas) rather than book sales. Shelley bungled his way through a lot of debts, had practically no readers while he was alive and definitely didn’t make a lot of money from his poetry.

Byron did make some money from book sales, but they didn’t precisely finance his life style. Yeats made money as a playwright rather than as a poet (if you can separate these things). And given that, the American poet Judson Jerome seriously questioned whether restricting the circulation of one’s poetry is really in the best interest of any poet. As he said: “Like patents, copyrights are intended to enable creators to profit from their work, and if what you write is likely to earn big profits, that may well concern you. Certainly it concerns commercial publishers: as I will explain later, copyrights are the mainstay of their business. But since a poet is likely to

derive little income from his work at best, and none at all unless there is some public demand for his work, and since copyright limits circulation, I don’t see why a poet should want it. I just pulled out of the wastebasket one of the dozens of privately printed first collections of poetry I receive each year. It bears this imposing notice: All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including recording, photocopying, offset, or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the aut hor, except by reviewers who may quote brief pa s sa g e s to be printed in a magazine or newspaper. Since 2006, Inkscape, Scribus, GI M P, B l e n d e r, Krita, Open Clip Art Library, Open Font Library and other Free/Libre and Open Source Graphics communities have come together for this annual developer and user conference. This year, hosted by Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, London (UK), we are hoping to expand our conversations beyond these established Open Source communities and reach a wider audience, particularly in the fields of Open Source hardware, product design and architecture. If we were to examine the anatomy of human brains, the circuitry and chemistry of neurons or the structure of our sense organs, nothing would permit us to distinguish gender, ethnicity or religion because we all belong to a single species. But if you were to ask a man and a woman about love, sex or family, answers could be quite disparate. A Jew and Muslim living in Israel might respond differently to questions about Gaza, the West Bank or Jerusalem. A Catholic and Protestant living in Northern Ireland might hold radically different outlooks about their country’s history.

In June, Leanne and Rob Baum and their four children abandoned their house in Minisink, New York, leaving it to the bank holding the mortgage and oversight by a friend. Ominous symptoms from emissions of a 12,600horsepower gas compressor built in their rural neighborhood two years before by Millennium Pipeline, LLC, prompted their decision, said Leanne Baum. After six months on the market they had no offers on their house, and selling to another family felt morally questionable.

“Once you know, you can’t un-know about the hazards,”

she said. “I hoped no one would be interested.” No one was, and others in the neighborhood negotiated with “lowball offers” to sell their houses in the once quiet rural community after a year on the market, Baum said. The Baums had bought their four-bedroom house for $374,000, and invested about $250,000 in payments and improvements during their nine years there. In addition to putting in hardwood floors, lighting upgrades, a family room, wood stove, and patio, they had landscaped two acres. Their apple, cherry, and peach trees, gardens and greenhouse yielded produce they ate, preserved, and gave away to friends. They sold raspberry jam at a farmers’ market and drank wine made from grapes they grew. A brigadier general leading an Army biodefense lab is facing

disciplinary action for alleged failures that allowed the facility to ship live anthrax to other areas for more than a decade. The military’s accountability investigation alleges that several others at the Dugway Proving Ground facility were also culpable. Maj. Gen. Paul Ostrowski led the investigation, and said, ‘Over time, you see there is complacency that the leadership should have recognized and taken action to correct.’

The review found that leadership had received warnings of scientific and safety issues and did nothing to correct them. All of this was the case despite serious previous safety problems in the same labs involving anthrax. A video released Thursday showed the final moments before a Chicago police officer gunned down a 17-year-old black teen suspected in a 2013 carjacking, but it’s unclear if the teen turned toward the officers or was holding anything before he was fatally shot. A federal judge lifted the protected order on the surveillance footage showing the fatal shooting of Cedrick Chatman after the c i t y dropped its effort to keep it sealed. The police department has come under scrutiny over alleged misconduct in the wake of a separate fatal police shooting of a black teen and subsequent release of that footage in N ove m b e r.

Officer Kevin Fry had said he opened fire on the teen after fearing for his and his partner’s lives when Chatman allegedly made ‘a slight turn’ holding an object. It’s unclear whether Chatman turned toward police, but the object turned out to be an iPhone box. The buzz around The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing, and it is growing at a great pace. Every day the technology industry tries to connect another household object to the Internet. One such internet-connected household device is a Smart Doorbell. Gone are the days when we have regular doorbells and need to open the door every time the doorbell rings to see who is around.

However, with these Internetconnected Smart Doorbells, you get an alert on your smartphone app every time a visitor presses your doorbell and, in fact, you can also view who’s in front of your door. Moreover, you can even communicate with them without ever opening the door. Isn’t this amazing? Pretty much. But what if your doorbell Reveals your home’s WiFi password?

Now, DailyPaywall.com is back on a safe new server, challenging unfair copyright laws once again by claiming fair use of over 60,000 news articles that should belong to the public. The pirated content from all 2014 won’t be indexed by search engines, yet, as in any public library, it’ll be available to students, researchers, journalists, cultural producers, and anyone who can’t afford the subscription fees imposed by those giant publishers, thereby overcoming economic and linguistic barriers to crucial information. Daily Paywall was created as a media performance scripted and staged to involve a wide audience into a commentary on today’s information and sharing economy. The paid-to-read model is a creative economic model that engages with alternatives of social systems that needs to be reimagined. At this time, the crowdfunding and payments system won’t be enabled due to a lack of resources that limits the restaging of the online performance. I am still struggling a bit with tropical gardening. A large caterpillar ate the leaves off one of my tomato plants overnight and for some reason I cannot get my citrus trees to blossom.

I keep feeding and wate r i n g them in the hopes that my K e y Limes, M y e r s lemon and Naval oranges will blossom but they seem to just make greenery.

We did discover that bananas love coffee grounds and since Grace and I produce a lot of coffee grounds those plants are doing well. House of Ladosha This Is Ur Brain, Brooklyn Plays of Domesticity, Brooklyn Golden Festival, Brooklyn The Exponential Festival, Brooklyn What Cheer Brigade, Brooklyn Dyno Pidgin’s Psychedelic Comedy Experience, Williamsburg * Yippee Ki Yay: Die Hard, Queens The Chinatown Throwdown Comedy Show, Manhattan Joakim and Lloydski, Brooklyn Cheryl: Superstar Funhouse, Brooklyn Golden Festival, Brooklyn Holy Mountain: Journey XVI, Manhattan Sixth Annual Fishnets and Ice Cream Birthday Party, Brooklyn House of Yes I Love NY Dance Party, Brooklyn * Toilet Fire, Williamsburg Captains of Industry, Brooklyn The Party by Ostbahnhof, Williamsburg You Are Heard, Williamsburg Hoff ’s Horrorfest, Williamsburg Mister Sunday, Brooklyn Grub Community Dinner, Brooklyn Bushwick A/V Sunday Loft Af-

ters, Brooklyn The Mushroom Cure, Manhattan Soulsa Brunch Jam Sunday Matinee, Williamsburg The Curio Show, Williamsburg Resolutions, Manhattan * Bring Your Own Film, Brooklyn House of Yes Variety Show, Brooklyn * Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation in Comic Art, Brooklyn Performance, Brooklyn Cinema Club Volume XLVIII: Get Up and Get Out if i can add my zero bitcoin to this heated debate, i download everything in epub for free - since i got half unemployed couldn’t afford the non/fiction i wanted to read anyway. copyright is not the right way to either spread knowledge or provide for authors’ livelihoods - my crude imperatives would be: overthrow the digital oligarchy, let’s expropriate the wealth produced with our own means of production (general intellect + connected devices) and redistribute it for public welfare and ecosocial enterprise.

The German city of Bornheim has prohibited male asylum-seekers older than 18 from using its public pool. The move comes after the city-run facility’s patrons complained about men allegedly from the nearby refugee center, a city official told German newspaper Der Spiegel. Germans’ relationship with asylum-seeking migrants is particularly tense at this time given the reported sexual-assault attacks in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, which were allegedly committed by foreign nationals. New footage reportedly shows that Baltimore cops lied about the events leading up to an incident in which they shot at an unarmed man in his own vehicle. Officers shot Shaun Mouzon in January 2013, and police wrote in charging documents that Mouzon drove his car at them. The video, however, shows Mouzon’s vehicle pulling into traffic, with several officers following in an unmarked patrol car. His car then was stopped in traffic when officers ambushed him.

Mouzon crashed his car trying to escape the gunfire, and police found no weapons inside’yet he was charged with two counts of handgun-related charges (both were eventually dropped). The officers were declared innocent of any wrongdoing in July; Mouzon was hospitalized with multiple gunshot wounds and had medical bills of up to $500,000. Retail giant Walmart is closing 269 stores worldwide, including 154 in the United States. The company owns 11,000 stores, and those its shutting down account for only about 1 percent of its global revenue.

The retailer will open as many as 405 stores in the coming fiscal year, in an attempt to focus more on its Supercenters and Neighborhood Market setups. Officials also said 95 percent of the soon-to-be-closed stores are within 10 miles of another store. The Arkansas-based company plans to relocate workers from the shuttered branches to nearby stores. These LED display boards can be placed outside and act as the perfect outdoor signage boards. No matter how hard the weather condition is, these boards can fulfill your desires of showcasing messages and news to the needful clients. The screens are tested under different parameters and strict professional guidance before final deployment. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (2 Connecticut) Barnacle Goose (6 New Jersey, 1 New York) Tufted Duck (4 British Columbia, 5 Massachusetts, 8 Newfoundland and Labrador) Brown Booby (1 Louisiana) Northern Jacana (3 Texas) Ivory Gull (1 Minnesota) Blacktailed Gull (11 Illinois) Aplomado Falcon (2 Texas) Sinaloa Wren (1

Arizona) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (2 Arizona) Redwing (3 British Columbia) Rufous-backed Robin (4 Arizona) Siberian Accentor (2 British Columbia) Goldencrowned Warbler (1 Texas) Western Spindalis (2 Florida) Flame-colored Tanager (3 Texas) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (4 Texas) Streak-backed Oriole (5 Arizona) Brambling (4 Ohio) The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true. Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him?

You may say to him, ‘I see no probability of the British invading us’ but he will say to you, ‘Be silent; I see it, if you don’t. The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences to him and to those whom he loves. This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Their deeds may be small, and almost always unnoticed, unmarked by history. Their names are not remembered, nor did these authentic humans expect their names to be remembered. I see their authenticity in an odd way: not in their willingness to perform great heroic deeds but in their quiet refusals. In essence, they cannot be compelled to be what they are not. An area of low pressure will move along the New England Coast on Saturday, bringing moderate-to-heavy rainfall and gusty winds to portions of the Northeast and snow to interior portions of New England. Meanwhile, a storm system will impact the Northwest U.S. over the next couple of days with heavy mountain snows, rainfall, and strong winds expected. If you are an attorney who practices primarily in Bankruptcy law we have the software you have been looking for.

BestClient Solutions is a cloud based system with integrated handling of client events, calendar events, payments and fees, debit card processing and ECF mail processing. (Plus much more) Pricing: Your server - $150/year + $125/user/year, (does not include a 1 time setup fee) Cloud services - up to four (4) users $200/month - no startup fees, cancel anytime you wish. Cloud services include your own VPS. You may add you own programs in addition to your BestClient CRM. A pair of men armed with handguns entered a T-Mobile store in Chicago, Ill. in an attempt to rob the establishment. An employee, and Right-to-Carry permit holder, responded to the threat by drawing a gun and firing at the robbers, striking both and causing them to flee. A short time later police caught up with the thieves when they sought medical treatment for their wounds. Store manager Neil Tadros expressed support for his employee following the incident, telling a local media outlet, ‘I think concealed carry is a great opportunity for managers, workers, employees to protect themselves in these cases. And our employee did a great job to protect themselves and the other employee.’

The Chicago Tribune reported that Tadros had further praise for Illinois’ relatively new Right-to-Carry law, stating, ‘It’s a great thing to have to protect yourself even when you’re not in your business. If you’re out in the streets and someone is threatening your life, you can go out and protect yourself.’

The number of gun permits issued has recently quadrupled in Germany and Austria after the attacks in Cologne and Salzburg, according to the weapons industry. There were a lot of frogs at Shohoji, temple 93 on the Kyushu Pilgrimage. The word for “frog”, kaeru, is the word for “return”, and so there is an association between frogs and returning safely. The first photo is a very stylized statue of a frog covered in prayer requests. I would have thought the prayers would have concentrated on safe returns but in fact the full gamut of requests The TPP raises new scenarios in that many of the trade partners are developed countries, and

have direct investments in the US. The US, to date, has not lost an ISDS dispute, but it is estimated that TPP will double US exposure to these lawsuits. The settlement tribunals are composed of three individuals, usually corporate attorneys versed in trade law; one is chosen by the suing corporation, the second by the government being sued, and these two parties chose a third to chair the tribunal. And of course, these attorneys have revolving door employment relationships with the corporations. They all know each other and are call “The Club.” Decisions are final, no possible appeal in a domestic court.

These far re ach i ng “trade” agreements are serving to open the eyes of many of us around the World to the g row i ng corporate power imbalances that we need to address. THEIR meetings are secret. Their members are generally unknown. The decisions they reach need not be fully disclosed. Yet the way a small group of international tribunals handles disputes between investors and foreign governments has led to national laws being revoked, justice systems questioned and environmental regulations challenged. And it is all in the name of protecting the rights of foreign investors under the North American Free Trade Agreement. The corporations -American, Canadian and Mexican alike -that directly invest in neighboring countries are thrilled that Nafta provides some protection. But foes of the trade pact say some of their worst fears about anonymous government have become reality. And as Western economies move toward more free trade and globalization, environmentalists, consumer groups and anti-trade organizations are increasingly worried about how the tribunals influence the enforcement of laws. The groups are gearing up for a fight at the Summit of the Americas next month in Quebec, where President Bush will be pushing a vast new Free Trade Area of the Americas, which would provide for similar tribunals. Despite the widespread use of the scanners, the amount of contraband found is low. Some school officials believe the daily security checks actually lead to behavior problems among the students. The metal detectors send a message to the students, says one principal, that ‘we don’t trust you. And even if we trusted you, we don’t necessarily trust the guy behind you.’ That message, she said, runs counter to what her school is

trying to teach and it’s alienating. He was a visionary. A philosopher. A radical. A bon viviant of the mundane. Mizuki relished the simple, sheer joy of being alive. As someone who knew the actual soul destroying pains of hunger and the terror of hanging from a cliff by your fingertips while hiding from an enemy patrol, a cheap hamburger in a full belly brought him more delight than the most expensive piece of handcrafted sushi. He believed in taking it easy, in enjoying life, and often scoffed at manga artists like Osamu Tezuka and Fujiko F Fujio who prided themselves on their hard work and long hours. They’re all dead, he would say, but I’m still here.

Storytelling traditions around the world are passed from generation to generation, linking people to their

cultures and ancestors.

Traditional stories are an important aspect of Inuit culture. Currently in the Arctic, however, many of these stories are not being passed on and are at risk of being lost. The Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) works hard to promote and protect Inuit culture. QIA has developed Inuitmyths.com, to provide a resource for Nunavummiut and people from around the world who want to learn more about the Inuit storytelling tradition. Notably, foundation spending on global development is skyrocketing, jumping from $3 billion per year over a decade ago to $10 billion today. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation leads the way, giving $2.6 billion in 2012, the report notes. In addition, the Gates Foundation is the largest non-state funder of the World Health Organization. Meanwhile, many of the wealthiest people on the planet are individually jumping into the fray, with 137 billionaires from 14 countries last year pledging large sums to philant h r opy.

S o m e a m o n g them, like for mer New York Mayor Mic h a e l Bloomberg and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, have been criticized for abusing their power and influence in pursuit of questionable policies. “If these and more ultra rich fulfill their pledges, many billions of dollars will be made available for charitable purposes,” the authors argue. “It must be noted, however, that the increase in philanthropic giving is just the other side of the coin of growing inequality between rich and poor.” The people the public defender is making wait in line are most at risk in our justice system: usually poor, often a person of color, and facing severe sentences. [T]hese are the people who most need the public defender’s help investigating the state’s case against them and quickly uncovering favorable evidence before it is lost. It’s reasonable to conclude from a simple analysis of these trends that a revolutionary change is taking place in the global political landscape. As policymaking becomes increasingly subverted by powerful vested interests, the resulting democratic deficit is being filled by concerned citizens who are demanding that governments take heed of their collective demands. This signifies a fundamental shift in the relationship between citizens and the State, and heralds a new expression of

democracy that is still in its infancy but already capable of shaping public opinion, influencing policy discussions and even toppling governments.

Throughout history, some of the world’s most influential empires have also been the most brutal. In turn, their legacy has turned ‘empire’ into a very dirty word, indeed. The Roman, British, Ottoman, Spanish and Soviet empires come to mind readily. And in school, we learn about the glories of these civilizations, their cultural triumphs and their contributions to the world we live in today. But what’s often left out is the devastating truth that empires are built on the atrocious foundations of sex and migrant slavery, military expansion, land and resource theft, genocide and overall intimidation. After months of research, conversations with the University of California and steady pressure from the Afrikan Black Coalition against the UC’s complicity in the prison industrial complex, ABC confirms that the UC has begun selling all their shares in private prisons. This victory follows an initial November press release from the Afrikan Black Coalition announcing the University of California’s investments in private prisons and a unanimous vote from Black Student Unions calling for divestment from private prisons and their financiers. ABC Political Director, Yoel Haile, states: ‘This victory is historic and momentous. He needed a new liver--soon. Doctors placed him on the deceased donor list, which prioritizes transplant recipients by severity of illness. Melnyk was at the top of the list for the AB blood type, but his best chance was through a living donor transplant. He just needed to find a compatible volunteer. While Melnyk lay in his hospital bed, Ken Villazor, his longtime confidant and the Senators’ alternate governor, began quietly contacting family and friends, hoping one of them might be able to donate. Melnyk is a well-connected man and, facing death, he used every contact he had. Earlier this year, he became honorary colonel of the 414 Squadron, so he reached out to the armed forces. “Those guys are perfect,” he says. “They’re young, they’re in their 20s, their livers are shining.” He also tried to find a donor through the hockey commu-

nity. “I wouldn’t be able to get a player under contract, obviously,” says Melnyk. “But there are a lot of people who used to play and are still healthy. “ He needed a new liver--soon. Doctors placed him on the deceased donor list, which prioritizes transplant recipients by severity of illness. Melnyk was at the top of the list for the AB blood type, but his best chance was through a living donor transplant. He just needed to find a compatible volunteer. While Melnyk lay in his hospital bed, Ken Villazor, his long-time confidant and the Senators’ alternate governor, began quietly contacting family and friends, hoping one of them might be able to donate.

Melnyk is a wellconnected man and, facing death, he used every contact he had. Earlier this year, he became honorary colonel of the 414 Squadron, so he reached out to the armed forces.

“Those guys are perfect,” he says.

“They’re young, they’re in their 20s, their livers are shining.” He also tried to find a donor through the hockey community. “I wouldn’t be able to get a player under contract, obviously,” says Melnyk. “But there are a lot of people who used to play and are still healthy.” Bob is lying and covering his ass. We have his word against the word of three men who were actually facing the shots fired by the attacking terrorists. Bobs failure that night to move quickly and act decisively was not because of cowardice. He is/was your quintessential overly cautious bureaucrat. There is a fair argument to be made on his behalf that he was sacrificing the life of the State Department personnel in order to protect the CIA position. But that is simply selfishness and reflected worry about explaining things after the fact. The securitycontractors, who heard the cries for help, were motivated by the warrior code. They were not going to worry about keeping their own asses safe while other Americans were dying. Today, Iraq is divided between the terrorists in the so-called Islamic State and a Shia government aligned with, if not controlled by, Iran. The United States has offered some support, such as U.S. Special Forces and tactical air support helping the Iraqi army retake Ramadi. (It was previously conquered by American soldiers, Marines, and Navy SEALS in 2006.) Stability still remains hard to come by, with the region poised to explode yet again in response to Saudi Arabia’s state assassination of Shia Cleric Sheikh Nimr al Nimr. Barack Obama’s foreign policy, at least his rapprochement with Iran, looks downright inspired. Add in the editing, makeup, angles, Photoshop and all the perks of postproduction, and you land at the obvious fact that porn sex is a far cry from the sex most of us are having at home.

Some appreciate the theatrics, some don’t.

Opinions will vary. But one very real concern revolves around the fact that newer generations seem to be looking to the medium not as entertainment, but education. The University of Saskatchewan is seeking interest from qualified Artists to commission portraits of the past President and Vice Chancellor, the Chancellor, and current President and Vice Chancellor. These three portraits will become part of the University collection of paintings of other distinguished members who have served the University. Wael Ghonim helped touch off the Arab Spring in his home of Egypt ... by setting up a simple Facebook page. As he reveals, once the revolution spilled onto the streets, it turned from hopeful to messy, then ugly and

heartbreaking. And social media followed suit. What was once a place for crowdsourcing, engaging and sharing became a polarized battleground. Ghonim asks: What can we do about online behavior now? How can we use the Internet and social media to create civility?

We danced in the recent Idle No More movement where we recommitted to fulfilling our responsibilities to the earth and water. Every movement, protest, blockade, walk, song and dance is in defence of the defenceless and the necessary. Every assertion of Indigenous sovereignty on the land is a dreaming. As massive resource extraction and global warming continue, Indigenous bodies and land are where capitalism will have its last stand. This dreaming is also a profound critique of western colonial thought which subjugates the body to the mind, the woman to the man, all humans to the white man, the animal to the human, the individual will to the government, truth to the lie, peace to war, water to the tailing pond, creativity to the clock, the earth to the economy. This new consciousness is rising everywhere and we can feel it the smallest action and the largest round dance. Art is not separate from these struggles. Indigenous artists already live in this great imagining named the Fifth World.

Terese Mailhot (Seabird Island Band) acknowledges the difficulties in marrying outside her circle but has no regrets: I looked for a Native man, and it was tough. Every Native man within 50 miles of me was related to me. Besides, most of them were not into the things I loved-books, writing, big ideas, sad movies. I looked weird: I had a big head and glasses.

I wasn’t hot on the market... The Obama administration is coming down hard on Central American families who have sought asylum in this country. They have fled some of the world’s deadliest countries - escaping brutal drug, gang, and domestic violence. They came here to live safe and free lives.

And now, after failing to give them a fair shake in presenting their asylum claims, we’re forcing them from their homes in terrifying pre-dawn raids and sending them back without due process. My heart breaks for them - for the sleeping children torn from their beds in the middle of the night, for the parents who watched helplessly as agents with guns were bearing down on them.

My heart breaks for millions of other families who weren’t raided and yet still suffer enormously.

These raids are sending shockwaves of fear around the country. Parents are afraid to send their children to school, and children fear that their parents will disappear. People are canceling their appointments at health clinics. They’re terrified that they will be arrested by immigration agents. “The .01% go about their self-serving tax avoidance while 2.5 million children experience homelessness every year. “The corporations of the .01% hoard hundreds of billions overseas while nearly two-thirds of American families don’t have enough money to replace a broken furnace.” 3. The .01% Own about as Much as 75% of the Entire World The world’s poorest 75% own roughly 4 percent of total global wealth, approximately the same percentage of wealth owned by the .01% in the United States. It starts with the billionaires, the Forbes 400 and 136 more, for a total of 536 individuals with a total net worth of $2.6 trillion at the end of 2015. It continues with more Ultra High Net Worth Individuals (UHNWIs). These loftilynamed people, over 15,000 of them, are worth hundreds of millions of dollars apiece, bringing the total .01% wealth to about $6.2 trillion, based on 2013-14 data.

But U.S. wealth has grown by about 30 percent in three years, and the Forbes 400 has grown by 38 percent, and thus the total wealth of the .01% has grown to over $9 trillion. In contrast, a recent Institute for Policy Studies report calculated that the bottom half of America has about $732 billion in total wealth, and further calculations on the same data show that the bottom 75% of America owned about $6.2 trillion in 2013. Wealth ownership is not contemptible if the owners of that wealth accept their responsibility to the society that makes their great fortunes possible.

But instead of paying taxes, the wealthiest Americans have formed an “income defense industry” to shelter their riches, with, according to the New York Times, “a high-priced phalanx of lawyers, estate planners, lobbyists and anti-tax activists who exploit and defend a dizzying array of tax maneuvers, virtually none of them available to taxpayers of more modest means.” On the

corporate end, over half of U.S. corporate foreign profits are now being held in tax havens, double the share of just twenty years ago. Yet for some of our largest corporations, according to the Wall Street Journal, over 75 percent of the cash owned by their foreign subsidiaries remains in U.S. banks, “held in U.S. dollars or parked in U.S. government and corporate securities.” Thus they get the benefit of our national security while they eagerly avoid taxes. The .01% go about their self-serving tax avoidance while 2.5 million children experience homelessness every year. The corporations of the .01% h o a r d hundreds of billions ove r s e a s w h i l e nearly t w o thirds of American families don’t have enough money to replace a broken furnace.

This is real terror, facing life without shelter and warmth and sustenance, without a semblance of security for even one day in the future. It is terror caused in good part by the 16,000 people who don’t feel it’s necessary to pay for the benefits heaped upon them by a perversely unequal society. Suppose, by some miracle of Hollywood or inheritance or good luck, I should acquire a respectablesized working cattle outfit.

What would I do with it? First I’d get rid of the stinking, filthy cattle. Every single animal. Shoot them all, and stock the place with real animals, real game, real protein: elk, buffalo, pronghorn antelope, bighorn sheep, moose. And some purely decorative animals, like eagles. We need more eagles. And wolves--we need MORE wolves.

Mountain lions and bears. Especially, of course, grizzly bears. In order to increase the U.S. policy of domination over the southern part of the hemisphere, much of which has been in revolt against U.S. control, a new face was needed for U.S. ambitions; this new image was necessary in order to close the international and domestic credibility gap created by the Bush years. This is the role of Obama; his image of ‘change’ was, and is, consciously promoted by Obama himself and the Chicago marketing specialists. The NWS Storm Prediction Center is forecasting a Slight Risk of severe thunderstorms Sunday morning in central and southern Florida. The main risk with these storms will be damaging winds and localized flooding, although an isolated tornado or two cannot be ruled out. The choreographed self-praise of people who will spend $5 billion this year of mostly big business money

to get re-elected was evident from the moment the door was opened. Hugs and kisses, backslapping all around, required applause as the President approached the podium, more after he was introduced and more staged applause, dozens of standing ovations -89 times in a 58-minute speech the President was applauded on cue. The reality is known by all: deep corruption throughout that chamber and a dysfunctional government unable to confront the multiple crises the nation and globe face. From what the President said and the applause he received, it seemed one reason they can’t confront the problems is because they do not see them. We saw a broken system. Ten percent of the US population watched the President speak poetically with sweet saccha-

rin coming from his lips. On his eighth and final speech, President Obama was still selling hope and change. He closed with “The state of the union is strong!” which received a final standing ovation. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (16 Connecticut, 1 New York) Barnacle Goose (6 New Jersey, 3 New York) Common Pochard (1 Alaska) Tufted Duck (2 Alaska, 1 British Columbia, 2 Massachusetts, 3 New York, 3 Newfoundland and Labrador) Brown Booby (4 California) Northern Jacana (5 Texas) Ivory Gull (1 Minnesota) Black-tailed Gull (12 Illinois) Slaty-backed Gull (2 Wisconsin) Aplomado Falcon (3 Texas) Sky Lark (1 British Columbia) Sinaloa Wren (2 Arizona) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (1 Arizona) Redwing (5 British Columbia) Rufous-backed Robin (4 Arizona) Rufous-backed Robin (Rufous-backed) (1 Arizona) Siberian Accentor (3 British Columbia) Tropical Parula (4 Texas) Golden-crowned Warbler (3 Texas) White-collared Seedeater (2 Te x a s ) We s t e r n Spinda lis (1 Florida) Flame-colored Tanager (6 Texa s ) Cr i m s on collared Grosbeak (2 Texas) Streak-backed Oriole (7 Arizona) Brambling (11 Ohio) I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today--my own government. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere... there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. A monied, oligarchic elite calls the shots in Washington, while militarized police and the surveillance sector keep the masses under control. I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. Al Jazeera America launched in the summer of 2013, a spin-off of the Doha-

based channel’s English version to specifically target a United States audience. For the last decade, Al Jazeera had built what some might consider the one of the most coveted of journalistic reputations: It was considered antiAmerican and antiZionist in the US, while Arab governments saw its stories as pure Western propaganda. By the time of the Arab Spring, Al Jazeera English became indispensable for anyone in the United States who wanted to know what was going on. If it is revealed that fracking induced Tuesday’s 4.8 quake, Gu said, it would be the largest such quake in Canada’s history. A 4.6 magnitude fracking-related earthquake in B.C. in August was confirmed by scientists as the largest so far in Canada, perhaps even the world. Ecological niche models (ENMs) have a wide range of biological applications, particularly in conservation.

To build these models, two sources of information are needed: occurrence records for the species of interest and environmental variables. However, taxonomic limits are often unclear, and the selection of occurrence data depends on the species concept being used. In this study we genera t e d E N M s based on d i f fe r e nt taxonomic levels within the Dendrortyx group, which is comprised of three species and several subspecies; we analyzed the geographic and ecological distribution patterns and discuss the implications for the biogeography and conservation of this group. Our results suggest that the area with suitable climate depends on the taxonomic category used in the model, which in turn affects the interpretation of the importance of different biogeographic barriers and introduces variation into the potential differentiation of Dendrortyx. In terms of conservation, Dendrortyx macroura and Dendrortyx leucophrys are in a low risk category, that of ‘least concern,’ although they may be amended to a higher category when their allopatric lineages are considered as the units for modeling. We suggest carrying out an a priori taxonomic analysis to facilitate the empirical identification of the units to be modeled in order to allow for a better ecological and biogeographic interpretation and more sound conservation policies. The Alagoas Curassow (Pauxi mitu) became extinct in the wild in the 1980’s

through a combination of loss/degradation of its Atlantic Forest habitat and over-hunting. Ambitious plans are now underway to reintroduce captive-reared Curassows using a patchwork of protected forest fragments on private lands. Although the planned reintroduction sites are broadly ecologically suitable, it is not clear that the threats from hunting and habitat disturbance have been removed. In other words, the cultural (as opposed to biological) suitability and viability of these sites is unknown. We used a semi-structured social survey of 402 residents who live near three proposed reintroduction sites to evaluate the cultural suitability of the reintroduction. Specifically, we adopted a multimodel inference approach to identify socio-demographic characteristics (e.g., age, gender, education level, duration of residence), knowledge (e.g., of local biodiversity and hunting practices) and behaviors (e.g., bushmeat consumption and firewood collection) that influence support for the reintroduction.

Respondents were generally positive to bringing the Curassow back, though our data indicates that hunting is still a major part of the local culture. Support for the reintroduction was most strongly associated with older and, especially, better educated residents. Residents from different reintroduction sites also differed in their professed levels of support. Our results highlight the importance of focused environmental educational programmes to improve the cultural feasibility of this flagship reintroduction for Northeast Brazil. Seasonal flooding compels some birds that breed in aquatic habitats in Amazonia to undertake annual migrations, yet we know little about how the complex landscape of the Amazon region is used seasonally by these species. The possibility of trans-Andes migration for Amazonian breeding birds has largely been discounted given the high geographic barrier posed by the Andean Cordillera and the desert habitat along much of the Pacific Coast.

Here we demonstrate a trans-Andes route for Black Skimmers (*Rynchops niger cinerascens)breeding on the Manu River (in the lowlands of Manu National Park, Per), as well as divergent movement patterns both regionally and across the continent. Of eight skimmers tracked with satellite telemetry, three provided data on their outbound migrations, with two crossing the high Peruvian Andes to the Pacific. A third traveled over 1800 km to the southeast before transmissions ended in eastern Paraguay. One of the two trans-Andean migrants demonstrated a full round-trip migration back to its tagging location after traveling down the Pacific Coast from latitude 9 South to latitude 37 S, spending the austral summer in the Gulf of Arauco, Chile. This is the first documentation of a trans-Andes migration observed for any bird breeding in lowland Amazonia.

To our knowledge, this research also documents the first example of a tropical-breeding waterbird migrating out of the tropics to spend the non-breeding season in the temperate summer, this being the reverse pattern with respect to seasonality for austral migrants in general. In many parts of PNG rains have arrived, but have been irregular and in some cases (especially parts of Western Province) seem to have given way to dry trade winds. For Telefomin District, some aid now looks to be on its way to relatively larger centres in Oksapmin and Telefomin, but remote outstations remain vulnerable. These include

locations to the west (e.g., Tumolbil, Yapsie), north (Fiyak, Hotmin, Ok Isai, Duranmin) - especially those at lower elevations. Although there has been some improvement in the food situation with attempts to re-establish gardens, they are seriously threatened by insect and pest infestations, with competition by animals - especially wild pigs. The vulnerability of these areas is heightened by their remote location and the fact that they are at the outer edge of communications and transportation networks. After 3 failed attempts to find my first WHITE-TAILED KITE at various reported locations, one surprised me this afternoon right here in my own patch at Cottage Grove Lake where I was not expecting it! I was wading through mounds of grass trying to get out to the “shore” of the upper end of the low pond and was surprised by a beautiful, unfamiliar, white bird perched on a driftwood branch about 40 yards away. It was at eye level across the grass tops so we looked at each other for a while (10 minutes? 15? I lost track). Finally, when I started to move on, it flew up to a tall tree while screeching a few times. Terrific bird! It was still perched in the same tree an hour later. When, in June 2011, indigenous Peruvian farmers attempted to take over a regional airport in the southern province of Chucuito, security forces opened fire.

Six protestors were killed and 30 more wounded. Farmers said they were driven to this deadly protest by fears they would be thrown off their land and that water supplies could be polluted if a proposed silver mine in the remote mountains near Lake Titicaca went ahead. The deaths triggered further violence. Fearing complete social breakdown, the Peruvian government cancelled the Santa Ana mining concession given to Bear Creek, a little known Canadian mining firm. While much of the controversy surrounding Canada’s extractive industry centers on oil and gas projects like SWN Resources’ drilling plans in New Brunswick, Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline and the widely felt impact of Tar Sands extraction in Alberta, there is a significant lack of debate concerning Canada’s larger and much more influential mining sector. It’s estimated that 75% of the world’s mining and exploration companies are based in Canada. Collectively, they account for 42 billion dollars of Canada’s gross domestic product, making mining and exploration one of Canada’s most economically powerful sectors. Iceland just sentenced their 26th banker to prison for his part in the 2008 economic collapse.

The charges ranged from breach of fiduciary duties to market manipulation to embezzlement. When most people think of Iceland, they envision fire and ice. Major volcanoes and vast ice fields are abundant due to its position on the northern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. (A hot July day in Reykjavik is around 55 degrees.) However, Iceland is also noted for being one of the Nordic Socialist countries, complete with universal health care, free education and a lot other Tea Potty nightmares. A feasibility study released Wednesday concluded that the city of Santa Fe could save money by establishing a public bank. Currently, when the city needs money to build roads, recreation centers, sewer lines, libraries or senior centers, it has to make its case to big investment firms and mutual funds that buy municipal bonds. A debt package is compiled, analyzed, rated and then advertised ‘ and whichever financial institution offers the lowest interest rate gets to loan the city money. In a daring and historic move just one week before a new president takes office, Guatemalan authorities arrested 18 former high-ranking military men Jan. 6 for massacres and forced disappearances during the bloodiest years of the dirty war that particularly targeted indigenous populations. Most of the arrests resulted from an investigation that exhumed the remains of 558 people -- 90 of them children -buried in clandestine mass graves on a military base in Cobn, formerly known as Military Zone 21. DNA testing identified victims who were killed or disappeared by the military in the 1980s. [T]he really dangerous forgers are the ones who can infiltrate and corrupt the core of the knowledge system upon which the art world relies. Judge Leval’s recent decision in the Google Books case -- decided after Prince-Cariou -- tells us that the fourth fair use factor -- “the effect of the copying use upon the potential market for or the value of the copyrighted work” -- is the most important. Is it really the case that Prince’s

work will deprive Graham of “significant revenues because of the likelihood that potential purchasers may opt to acquire [Prince’s work] in preference to [Graham’s]”? Does Prince’s work threaten Graham with “significant harm” to the value of his work? Google Books says “some loss of sales” is not enough: “There must be a meaningful or significant effect” upon the market for the copied work. Do we have that here? Doesn’t someone who buys a Richard Prince do so because he wants a Richard Prince? Is Prince really siphoning any sales away from Graham? 2. I think there may be a sense that, unlike with the 20 works the Second Circ u i t blessed in the Cariou case, Prince hasn’t “ d o n e anything” to (or with) this one, and so how can he possibly have “transformed” it? I think that may miss something important about what’s going on here.

There is a thing called appropriation art. Not everyone likes it, but it’s a thing, and Prince is an important practitioner of the genre. When he takes a work like this and puts it in a show at Gagosian Gallery alongside other similar images he has done something to it. You may not like it as art, and you may not think he’s done enough to it to qualify as fair use (as if anyone has any idea what “enough” means in this context).

But he has done something to it.

Made from thousands of pressed bottle tops and measuring nearly three metres square, El Anatsui’s Peju’s Robe is one of the Ghanaian master’s most visually striking sculptures. It features in Bonhams’ 11 February Post-War and Contemporary Art sale with an estimate of 450,000-550,000.

Made in 2006, Peju’s Robe was c om m i s sione d by a personal friend and legal advisor of the artist. The piece has special personal resonance for me, says Anatsui. Peju’s Robe mirrors the original owner’s ef fer vescent, playful and caring personality yet sombre and revered tone of the legal profession’s use of black robes, which still obtains in courts in Nigeria today. It has come by direct descent to the current owner. El Anatsui is widely regarded as one of the most celebrated contemporary African artists. He is famed particularly for his re-workings of nondescript, everyday objects that Between 1987 and 1994, GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) peacefully became the most popular file format for archiving and exchanging computer images. At the end of December 1994, CompuServe Inc.

and Unisys Corporation announced to the public that developers would have to pay a license fee in order to continue to use technology patented by Unisys in certain categories of software supporting the GIF format.

These first statements caused immediate reactions and some confusion. As a longer term consequence, it appears likely that GIF will be replaced and extended by new file formats, but not so before the expiration of the patents which caused so much debate (at midnight US Eastern Standard Time on June 19, 2003 for the US patent, and midnight local time on June 18 and 19, 2004 for the European and Japanese counterparts, respectively). I am currently in Guatemala City a major arrival hub that most people use as the “stepping off point” for their travels throughout

Guatemala. But I have actually taken 2 days to “city slick” and see the sights. Too many people I meet are determined to hit up as many places just to say they did and don’t really enjoy the surroundings they are in.

To each his own I guess! I’m very happy to report my back pack did make it my destination the same day I did! What a crazy situation that was last year!

BUT...not be without some quirks (as is my way) on my Mexican layover. My flight was at 0915am (which meant a 0500am wake up call - no alarm was needed though because I didn’t sleep anyways...oh the travel excitement!) My fantastic brother came to my place the night before my flight to pick up his cat (she’s been with me since he was on his tour) his sister and the 3 of us did the frigid early morning airport trek the next day. It’s SO cold and dark at that time in the morning but it makes it all worth while (well for me anyways lol) The skies were so clear and as soon as the sun started to rise it was nice and bright perfect for flying. Every person within Toronto and a r e a seemed to be flying that day! Lots of warm weather seekers abounded. Security was very backed up and random destinations were being announced to get people through security quicker as their boarding times neared.

I was so fortunate to get there early enough that even though the wait was long for security screening, I still had a good window of time.

I was so happy to be flying (and having a layover) in a warm climate destination (think I’m still traumatized somewhat over my sleeping on the Cleveland airport after being grounded by snow en route to Australia!)

The flight to Mexico was great. I was definitely a minority (there seemed to be a Mexican Snow Birds convention on board lol they all knew each other!).

The cabin warmth just got better as we entered Mexican airspace and felt so good as we disembarked from the airplane. Definite contrast to Toronto! I had claim my backpack and go through Mexican customs (oh how I love the sound of my passport getting stamped!) and after gettin my pack screened (Mexican security is really thorough!) I had a 3hr layover and went right outside the terminal. Palm trees, warm breezes so good for the soul. My (maybe) 1hr sleep the night before didn’t even

seem to effect me. It was warm and people were speaking spanish.....muy perfecto para mi My flight was sched to leave at 420pm en route to Guatemala.

At 415 we still hadn’t begun to board. Ohhh Mexico hahaha or jajaja as tbey say. So many flights were departing to diffrent regions of Mexico that afternoon and an absolute throng of people were waiting at the same gate as mine for boarding.

Everytime staff were asked they would just say “no just wait not yet” I’m thankful for the experiences I have had traveling (trying as they may be sometimes) as I was able to sit backand wait for the call, not get stressed and know it would eventually come about lol. It was almost 419pm when we were accepted through the gates, passes scanned only to be crammed onto a bus on the tarmac. I was so happy for the warm breezes I didn’t stress to much. Mexican time is a different spectrum by far lol. Crammed to the gills, the shuttle drove us not even 5min across the tarmac to our plane. All told we ended up departing closer to 5pm but the flight was agood one and we still arrived in Guatemala in good time. Inmigracin was an absolute breeze and my back pack was one of tbe first off the plane.

I had a great cabbie who I got to t e a c h a b o u t freezing rain (there really is no proper way to translate that concept into spanish) and he was surprised to learn Canada does have warm summers. I’m booked into hostels in Antigua tomorrow and the pictures on their websites have majestic volcano views in the distance. To say I’m excited would be an understatement lol. Seasonal flooding compels some birds that breed in aquatic habitats in Amazonia to undertake annual migrations, yet we know little about how the complex landscape of the Amazon region is used seasonally by these species. The possibility of transAndes migration for Amazonian breeding birds has largely been discounted given the high geographic barrier posed by the Andean Cordillera and the desert habitat along much of the Pacific Coast. Here we demonstrate a trans-Andes route for Black Skimmers (Rynchops niger cinerascens) breeding on the Manu River (in the lowlands of Manu National Park, Per), as well as divergent movement patterns both regionally and across the continent. Of eight skimmers

tracked with satellite telemetry, three provided data on their outbound migrations, with two crossing the high Peruvian Andes to the Pacific. A third traveled over 1800 km to the southeast before transmissions ended in eastern Paraguay. One of the two trans-Andean migrants demonstrated a full round-trip migration back to its tagging location after traveling down the Pacific Coast from latitude 9 South to latitude 37 S, spending the austral summer in the Gulf of Arauco, Chile. This is the first documentation of a trans-Andes migration observed for any bird breeding in lowland Amazonia. To our knowledge, this research also documents the first example of a tropical-breeding waterbird migrating out of the tropics to spend the nonbreeding season in the temperate summer, this being the reverse pattern with respect to seasonality for austral migrants in general.

Some of the coldest air of the season has moved into the northern region, while the central region sees improving weather and cooler temperatures. The heat stays put in the central as the air gets a bit more humid, and the tropics remain mostly quiet. 30F, scatterings of snow, windy. Bavarian blueberry torte, poot, toast. Tea. Coffee. The Stuttgartbased saxophonists Mark Lorenz Kysela and Nikola Lutz are tenacious advocates of experimentation with saxophones and electronics. “Is there anything that one cannot produce with a saxophone?” This question haunts them and every day they discover something new: soft and loud, light and hard, tender and billowing, green and grunting, askew and silent, short and crisp.

Lutz and Kysela play on several saxophones simultaneously, augment their instruments with mechanical and electronic attachments, and demonstrate their devotion to both improvisatory and compositional forms. They are pioneers on the border of what is aesthetically comprehensible. They quickly redefine the state of the art in contemporary saxophone performance if it should become necessary, for example, for a 16th-tone composition. They launch full force into an uncompromising investigation at the slightest suspicion of the listener’s hesitance to participate fully in the acoustic process.

This is expressed through different products of mediumship, such as the three searching, disorientated and helplessly exposed dance figures that rotate on the ground whilst wrapped in poor material (cardboard, polystyrene and plastic). The figures are not definedtheir faces and sexes remain obscure. Uwe Rasch, as with his earlier works, concerns himself with the causalities between movement/body and music/art, as well as with the exploration of the limits of physical capacity.

Out of this he develops his musical (theatre) modules.

The central banks of the United States, England, and German ‘ as well as 2 Nobelprize winning economists ‘ have all shown that banks create money out of thin air even if they have no deposits on hand. The failure of most governments and most mainstream economists to understand this fact ‘ they instead believe the myth that people make deposits at their bank, and these deposits are then lent out to new borrowers ‘ is the main cause of our rampant inequality and economic problems. Hello, Thanks for your email. Sorry that we do not have the size that you want. Apologies for any inconvenience. Have a nice day. If you have any other questions, pls feel free to contact us. Kind Regards Customer Service Team

Sammi Well below-normal temperatures are expected to remain in place across the northern Great Plains and Upper Midwest through the early part of this week.

Temperatures will remain below zero Fahrenheit across much of the Dakotoas and Minnesota on Monday. Wind chill values are expected to drop as low as 20 to 40 degrees below zero in these locations. Less well known is how to manipulate the federal bureaucracy, which is so large and so all-pervasive in virtually every sector of society that it has been referred to by some as “the secret state.” Others have observed that because of the extraordinary growth of government, our democratic republic has transformed itself into an “administrative state,” in which power has accreted into the hands of powerful agencies responsible primarily to the executive branch. The Obama White House has excelled in understanding and manipulating this dynamic. Although the militia men and women occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge have been given a free pass to come and go as they please, law enforcement are drawing the line at them driving stolen federally-owned vehicles into the local Safeway for supplies. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (26 Connecticut) Barnacle Goose (6 New Jersey, 1 New York) Common Pochard (1 Alaska) Tufted Duck (5 British Columbia, 7 Massachusetts, 15 New York, 8 Newfoundland and Labrador) Brown Booby (26 California) Northern Jacana (6 Texas) Curlew Sandpiper (1 New Jersey) Blacktailed Gull (6 Illinois) Slaty-backed Gull (1 Wisconsin) Aplomado Falcon (3 Texas) Sky Lark (2 British Columbia) Sinaloa Wren (4 Arizona) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (3 Arizona) Redwing (2 British Columbia) Rufousbacked Robin (7 Arizona) Rufous-backed Robin (Rufous-backed) (1 Arizona) Siberian Accentor (2 British Columbia) Tropical Parula (4 Texas) Rufous-capped Warbler (2 Arizona) Golden-crowned Warbler (9 Texas) Western Spindalis (2 Florida) Flame-colored Tanager (10 Texas) Streak-backed Oriole (6 Arizona) Brambling (8 Ohio) An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod. “Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. Win or lose, we go shopping after the election. The US has taken in only 2,500 Syrian refugees since 2012. Canada took in more than that in the last two months of 2015 alone. Canadian dollar sees the loonie falling to 59 cents by the end of the year: Our loonie is heading for a record low with the central bank poised to cut interest rates again as commodity prices collapse to the lowest since 1991, manufacturing stalls and consumers remain buried in debt, according to the currency’s top forecaster. 21 January: Colonial South Asia: cultural conflicts and racial hierarchies 28 January: Visual anthropological perspectives on South Asian society 1 February: Gendered politics in the visual representation of South Asia 11 February: The Indian National Movement 18 February: Partition: politics, memory and experience 25 February: After Independence: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh 3 March: Sri Lanka?s visual identity: from Ceylon tea to Tamil Tigers 10 March: Contemporary South Asian visual constructions of Self & Nation Pretty much everyone has been impacted by the storm moving across Japan today. Heavy snowfall is in fact expected to fall from Hokkaido all the way south to Kyushu. Okinawa looks like the only place in Japan that will not be seeing the white stuff, they will see a decent temperature drop though heading TKP Garden City is another of the high rises built along Heiwa Dori, the road leading to the Peace Park in Hiroshima. Its listed as a conference center with spaces for meetings and events. I haven’t been able to find out who the architect is, and there is nothing extraordinary about the building.

I like it because it allows me to take one of the kinds of photographs that Directions: Close to the highway to Tuxtepec/Gauelatao, three minutes to Monumento and not far from the Presas in Huayapam. From centro drive east toward Tule, at the intersection of the main highway and the highway to Tuxtepec (the large mural monument to Juarez will be on your right) turn left on to Tuxtepec hwy, go approximately 1.2km to PEMEX station on your right, turn left on to Camilno Real. No 110 is the

first large gate (red) on the the left. From: Geof Shepard, WWP 19 436 Time: 11:35 AM Dave, I have my copy of “Seaworthy” with the article on lightening defense but I’m looking for the mostest for the leastest. My wife and I are retired and headed out to see and sail/kayak the U.S. and spend our children’s inheritance. We live in Flagstaff, Ariz. and I’m hoping to be at Havasu in Feb. at the small boat festivities and get a look at what other trailer sailors have. I’m sure you’re right about the forestay. The backstay might be a better wire to sacrifice in a pinch with the boom hauled out abeam with a preventer to keep from being a j u m p point. I’m just cont e m p l a ting the ins and outs of emergencies without overloading the boat with “ S t u f f ”.

Hopefully we will get some electrical smart person to wade in.

Thanks Geof From: Dave “Morris” Time: 01:53 PM Wait! You’re having too much fun! You know ... We probably need to think about Havasu, too. The last time we went was 2013, when we had just picked up our Sanibel 18. It was interesting for us, to say the least, trying to sail a new to us boat that wasn’t rigged the way we needed, nor acting like we expected. It would be fun to go and really get some quality time on the water, with three years to learn this boat under the bridge.

The influence of geologic and Pleistocene glacial cycles might result in morphological and genetic complex scenarios in the biota of the Mesoamerican region. We tested whether berylline, blue-tailed and steelyblue hummingbirds, Amazilia beryllina, Amazilia cyanura and Amazilia saucerottei, show evidence of historical or current introgression as their plumage colour variation might suggest.

We also analysed the role of past and present climatic events in promoting genetic introgression and species diversif ication.

We collected mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence data and microsatellite loci scores for populations throughout the range of the three Amazilia species, as well as morphological and ecological data. Haplotype network, Bayesian phylogenetic and divergence time inference, historical demography, palaeodistribution modelling, and niche divergence tests were used to reconstruct the evolutionary history of this Amazilia species complex. An isolation-with-migration coalescent model and Bayesian assignment analysis were assessed to determine historical introgression and

current genetic admixture. mtDNA haplotypes were geographically unstructured, with haplotypes from disparate areas interdispersed on a shallow tree and an unresolved haplotype network. Assignment analysis of the nuclear genome (nuDNA) supported three genetic groups with signs of genetic admixture, corresponding to: (1) A. beryllina populations located west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; (2) A. cyanura populations between the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Nicaraguan Depression (Nuclear Central America); and (3) A. saucerottei populations southeast of the Nicaraguan Depression. Gene flow and divergence time estimates, and demographic and palaeodistribution patterns suggest an evolutionary history of introgression mediated by Quater-

nary climatic fluctuations. High levels of gene flow were indicated by mtDNA and asymmetrical isolationwith-migration, whereas the microsatellite analyses found evidence for three genetic clusters with distributions corresponding to isolation by the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Nicaraguan Depression and signs of admixture. Historical levels of migration between genetically distinct groups estimated using microsatellites were higher than contemporary levels of migration. These results support the scenario of secondary contact and range contact during the glacial periods of the Pleistocene and strongly imply that the high levels of structure currently observed are a consequence of the limited dispersal of these hummingbirds across the isthmus and depression barriers. The small lake (does it have a name) south east of the expo center (west of Van Port) was teaming with duck today. Four Canvasback males and two females were in fine form. One No r t h e r n S h o v e l e r, two or more Buff leheads and maybe a Scaup were accompanied by at least two dozen Ruddies. Great day. the labor of celebrity * celebrity and gender performativity race, ethnicity and celebrity feminist/ anti-feminist celebrities scandal and celebrity celebrity’s audience: fans and fan culture The perfect storm blowing heavy winds into the faces of the world’s investors and businesses. Contraction and deflation are the watchwords of the day. We are sailing right through a recession and plunging head first into a world depression. “I’ve seen [Lake Erie] be as flat as a pancake and, in under 30 minutes, whip up into a mad frenzy,” he says. There are no excuses. The governor long ago knew about the lead in Flint’s water.

He did nothing.

As a result, hundreds of children were poisoned.

Thousands may have been exposed to potential brain damage from lead.

Gov. Snyder should resign. At this point, it’s pretty much consensus that it’s going to take some doing to get China’s economy back on track. The country is dealing with a falling currency, an incredibly volatile stock market, and thinning corporate margins in sectors that used to drive the country’s growth. These are huge structural problems that will require both brilliance and cold hard cash to solve. The

question is, how much? According to Charlene Chu of Autonomous Research, who is widely considered one of the best (if not the best) China analyst in the world, it’s going to take more money than you could possibly imagine. “Larger credit injections are possible, but we would need to see CNY37.5trn in net new credit in 2016 to achieve the same magnitude credit impulse as in 2009,” Chu wrote in an email to Business Insider. That is $5.7 trillion. $5.7 trillion! Those numbers are based on her firm’s internal calculation of China’s Total Social Financing (TSF), a metric the government developed to track how much money is flowing through the economy.

This is obviously a huge bazooka the government would have to pull out, but the stimulus measures the government has been applying over the last year and half or so aren’t really doing the job. Lots of American industrialists have skeletons in the family closet.

Charles and David Koch, however, are in a league of their own. The father of these famous rightwing billionaires was Fred Koch, who started his fortune with $500,000 received from Stalin for his assistance constr uc ting 15 oil refineries in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

A couple of years later, his company, Wink lerK o c h , helped the Nazis complete their third-largest oil refinery. The facility produced hundreds of thousands of gallons of highoctane fuel for the Luftwaffe, until it was destroyed by Allied bombs in 1944. In 1938, the patriarch wrote that ‘the only sound countries in the world are Germany, Italy and Japan’. To make sure his children got the right ideas, he hired a German nanny. The nanny was such a fervent Nazi that when France fell in 1940, she resigned and returned to Germany. After that, Fred became the main disciplinarian, whipping his children with belts and tree branches. erasable ..not a moment to lose ..think of hegel or kant facts; figments understanding, matters. wallace. porosity hegel speed air, columns thinner etc., problematized sl... hegel and I really DON’T know Derrida that well, have never read Hegel all the And Hegel was convinced!!” i.e. of the error of his ways! Hegel died of wrong-doings on a head-quarters.

Thus Hegel was killed by Lefebvre the Fascist but Horkeimer required Hegel. Hegel was deviating... Hegel

- Blood mining Hegel before _its_ time!! Hegel and the porosity of the world Schelling Hegel in addition to Gongsun Long, Wittgenstein, Carneades bolic, in an inversion that would do Marx/Hegel proud. With emission and Hegel - Blood surface, of our own bodies, something Hegel mentions Hegel (we have all had troubles reading Philosophy of Mind). i mention Hegel already made the point in his Phenomenology of Spirit, where Marx Hegel Wilde, Dialectic Even Hegel arrests the dialectic of aesthetic thought by giving a I think Hegel would approve. It is lack, absence of substance in itself. surface, of our own bodies, something Hegel mentions Schelling Hegel in addition to Gongsun Long, Wittgenstein, Carneades bolic, in an inversion that would do Marx/Hegel proud. With emission and Hegel Blood Hegel still critical to our thinking? Does anyone read Sartre?

Schelling Hegel in addition to Gongsun Long, Wittgenstein, Carneades Hegel (we have all had troubles reading Philosophy of Mind). i mention surface, of our own bodies, something Hegel mentions I think Hegel would approve. It is lack, absence of substance in itself. Some social media platforms appear to be limited by their nomenclature and naturally would censor such political, religious, uncomfortable news, views taking shelter of their domain nomenclature. It is patently unfair for the same reasons. It is expected not to apply scissors of censorships, dust bin syndrome, unless it is scurrilous or defamatory in nature, which will cause embarrassment, liability and invite legal sanctions. I have even presented some international news papers to our local dailies. Many such papers glorify their own affairs in their respective states and hardly refer to happenings outside their National boundaries. In one example the election of Sonia Gandhi received just a few lines, but Sharuk Khan received much more space in the same edition I will present all our Goan English dailies on my next visit and show how broadminded we are in informing readers about National International and local content to be better informed people However if the daily is confined in a state, it should allot more coverage to local content of all shades, in all fields otherwise it ceases in its scope and existence A lot of us use centralized cloud services like Gmail, Yahoo & Dropbox. They are free and easy to use, but also give the service providers access to everything you do. Every email, personal message, political statement, even your general attitudes and tastes expressed through these services are exposed and surveilled. This personal information is then used to serve you targeted advertisements as your digital profile is sold to other companies. This is not done just with your data alone - the same is done for millions of other cloud service users. Imagine what dystopian future movie scenarios could potentially become a reality if this continues. No central entity should have that much power! The breakfast itself was interrupted three times by protesters. Ministers produced a list, claiming that more than 100 pastors had chosen to boycott the breakfast. “The mayor had to go to his old tactics of bringing busloads of people in from the nursing homes, retirement centers to bring some black faces in to fill the room.” Martin Luther King Jr. was not just the safe-for-all-political-stripes civil-rights activist he is often portrayed as today. He was never just the “I Have a Dream”

speech. He was an antiwar, anti-materialist activist whose views on American power would shock many of the same politicians who now scramble to sing his praises. The total spectrum of his beliefs may not be as easy as “let freedom ring,” but the full MLK was much larger than the safe-for-everyone caricature that is often presented today.

King’s more radical worldview came out clearly in a speech to an overflow crowd of more than 3,000 people at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967. “The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: ‘A time comes when silence is betrayal,’ he began. Four police officers were detained in Mexico’s violence-ridden state of Veracruz Thursday for suspected involvement in the forced disappearance of five youth. A father and relative of one of the five said ‘Imagine the hell’ when you find out your loved ones have been disappeared by the authorities. ‘Imagine, it’s hell here - something similar happened to me seven years ago when they took my father, they asked for ransom, which I paid, and today I still don’t know where he is,’ Bernardo Benitez told Aristegui Noticias. ‘Why do they do it?

I don’t understand. In the case of my son and nephew, I am sure that more than four police took part in the enforced disappearance, but the authorities will ignore all the rest who are involved. The well we’re talking about was drilled in 1953, 1954. So it’s over 60 years old, and it was never designed to last that long. It was designed to produce oil for some decades, then be plugged and taken out of service. But in the 1970s it was repurposed, and since the 1970s it’s been operating in its current mode, and as you can well imagine, as Paul Simon used to say, “Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.” Especially if it’s underground. These are steel casings.

They initially have some sort of corrosion inhibitor applied to them, but eventually after much use and flow of gases and liquids inside the casing, and exposure of the outside of the casing to natural gases and fluids, corrosion occurs. And I have no doubt given my professional experience that the casing in this case that ruptured experienced some corrosion. So, what we’re seeing here is what the industry knows, an increasing rate of such problems. So you can call this the proverbial tip of the iceberg, since there are tens of thousands of such wells. There seldom are trials for the poor. Instead, under threat of draconian sentences, they are forced to accept plea bargains. The system is a sham set up for elites with god-like powers who seek to advance themselves and their agendas at the expense of the downtrodden.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency announced that it recovered over 30 pounds of marijuana that was dropped from a drone in Arizona. According to a press release, CBP agents spotted a drone flying from San Luis, Mexico and followed it to a drop zone, where it released three bundles of marijuana. 16F, windy, overcast. Grits, grapefruit. Coffee. When Alfred Korzybski declared “the map is not the territory” he argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed. His perspective was strongly influenced by family members who had worked as mathematicians, scientists, and engineers for generations. Also, for 31 years until his death in 1950, Korzybski was married to artist Mira Edgerly, a painter of portraits on ivory. Clearly he benefited from being immersed in both art and science as he developed a field called general semantics as an independent scholar. The real world must be filtered through the human brain’s responses to reality, and thus it acquires a human interpretation. Today, there is a growing interest in the convergence of art and science.

An ever widening range of artistic and scientific techniques are used in our attempts to map this territory.

Collaborations between artists and scientists apply the strengths of both approaches to the real world and its interpretation. An eyelash serum to give you longer, stronger and fuller eyelashes that gives you immediate results? Yes, please. A therapeutic grade essential oil set that’s unfiltered, undiluted (and uses the latest steam distilling techniques), to help relieve any number of ailments from chest colds, to bug bites, or just to make your house smell like a spa? Yup. A game changing nutritional breakfast drink (that’s quick to make) to boost

your natural energy and focus so you can feel like a million bucks and tackle your day? Check. Must Have Greens to amp up your veg intake so you can rock your daily nutrition intake that comes from fresh pressed juice that’s truly gluten-free (f.y.i. not all greens are truly gluten-fee)? Absolutely. Nao esta vendo a mensagem?

Veja em seu navegador Meu Nome e Renato Porto e sou Professor de Direito do Consumidor ha 18 anos atuando nas principais instituicoes de ensino juridico do pais.

Hoje resolvi compartilhar tudo que sei, mas so posso fazer isso para quem esta iniciando na profissao ou realm e n t e para o prof issional que deseja se dedicar nessa area.

Se nao e o seu caso, por favor desconsidere este e-mail!

Estou faz e n d o essa triagem pois realmente vou passar tudo que sei para um grupo muito seleto e que tenha vontade de mudar sua vida. Sendo assim, se voce quiser receber uma aula inteiramente gratuita e quiser saber tudo sobre como comecar na profissao e a se especializar nessa area (Direito do Consumidor ) acesse agora: The KDP Select global fund for December is $13.5 million. We will again award “KDP Select AllStars” for December to the mostread authors and most-read titles in the U.S., U.K. and Germany.

All bonuses will be awarded based on total Kindle Edition Normalized Pages read during the month.

We will also award bonuses for illustrated kids books the top 100 most read titles in the U.S. and top 25 in the U.K. will receive such bonuses. With the Studio’s exile, a certain kind of scene has passed away. There was something deliciously c on s pi r a t or i a l and mid-century about being hidden down in a grungy basement, sometimes invaded by fluids from the restaurant above, sometimes shaken by the subway below, carrying on work (play?) of which the busy, hastening world above had neither knowledge of nor, probably, the desire to understand. But however quaint Spring Studio may have seemed, it has more importantly been a serious and successful project of unusual dimensions. It is itself a living work of art, one which produced art and artists and a community, one which happily contravened the transient and vacuous fashions of the present Art World. Not the market but the Muses have been its navigators. There is not much new or shocking in artists being kicked around or out in New York City, of course. Anyone involved the actual,

art-making business of art is likely to know many people who have been pushed out of Manhattan, out of the city and state, even out of the country, driven by the gentrification blitzkrieg of the last twenty years or so. It was, though, somewhat ironical in that the present kickers-out derive from what was once an artists’ cooperative, and Minerva had been encouraged to start her studio there by the cooperative’s original organizer, Virginia Admiral. Check out the activity Fish Shops Fish Shops Check out the activity Cheese Factory Cheese Factory Check out the activity Wild Gourmet Spree Wild Gourmet Spree Check out the activity Locally Crafted Liquors Locally Crafted Liquors Check out the activity Culinary Workshops Culinary Workshops

Check out the activity Smokehouse Smokehouse Check out the activity Terroir Produce Boutiques / Groceries Terroir Produce Boutiques / Groceries * Check out the activity Mariculture Mariculture Check out the activity Coffee Roastery Coffee Roastery Check out the activity Butcher Shops and Delicatessens Butcher Shops and Delicatessens * Check out the activity Bakeries & Pastry Shops Bakeries & Pastry Shops The room is big (see pic there is better lighting than you see in the pic). It is on the first floor around the corner from the Sesame donut/coffee bar. Lots of parking out front and around the side near the pond. The library staff assures me the free wi-fi is strong and it seemed to work when I tested it on my phone. There isn’t a password just an agreement to accept. Feel from to come on in at 11am or a little before. Library staff will do a 3-D printer demonstration for us at 11am and we can also get set up, coffee’d up and eat afterwards.

M a y b e chat about what we’d like Repair Fair to look like in 2016.

If we don’t have time beforehand, we can always talk after clean-up. If you want to bring food to share, go for it! I’ll bring some snacks. There is a little counter/sink in the room which is handy. The library also has a Library of Things (LoT) where they lend out “stuff ”. They have a couple sewing machines we can use if needed. They have had some items donated to them for the LoT that could use fixing if there is a lull BTW. The job of the innovator is to create solutions to take advantage of those human derived opportunities. However, there are other ways of starting ‘ one is to start with Technology ‘ I have this, what can I do with it? Such an approach is useful, because technology is often created in University laboratories or centres of corporations, but have no immediately obvious application ‘ I have this but what on earth am I going to do with it? Technology-led development might seem aimless, but in fact is necessary as part of our exploration of what might be possible. However, it can mean that we are left we a ‘treasure chest’ of unused technology ‘ amazing functionality with nowhere to go.

Remaining unutilised is not an option. It is therefore important to understand how to look for applications to innovate with these discoveries. The Technology-led

Innovation workshop is about exploring such a situation. You have a technology, but now you need to find something to do with it. As we will see, there are pitfalls to this approach, so participants need to know how to steer an innovation project through those challenges and on to success. The group is interested in creating conceptual and practical frameworks for revealing the desires, memories and inner conversations of objects. Given that some objects have such a complex array of sensing paraphernalia, they want to explore how these perceptual capabilities shape the construction of their worlds and in turn ours. Demonized, presented as criminals, jailed or often forced to seek for asylum in other countries, whistleblowers are part of the small yet powerful army of people - investigative journalists, activists, hackers, videomakers, artists - who are fighting for social justice and civil liberty, and against the limitations of freedom coming from mass surveillance and censorship. In the second semester, students have the opportunity to further specialize by following e le c t i ve s and conducting their MA thesis. In the last years electives offered contained courses on issue mapping for politics, social media & creative industries, radical publishing, digital activism and other courses offered outside of new media (electives may change each academic year). Digital Issue Mapping for Politics is concerned with mapping online discourse, and is a member of the international network of mapping courses following, amongst others, Bruno Latour’s methods.

Social Media and Creative Industries explores the role of social media in the creative industries. As President, for the last seven years you have given Israel your full support to kill, maim, arrest and torture men, women and children. Of the 2.2 million people we have incarcerated at the moment - 25 percent of the world’s prison population-2 million never had a trial. A telltale sign of the Deep State’s involvement in policy is the use of fear to make Congress compliant. In a world where one in nine people goes to bed hungry every night, we cannot afford to carry on giving the richest an ever-bigger slice of the cake. Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose

(11 Connecticut, 2 New York) Barnacle Goose (1 New Jersey) Whooper Swan (2 Florida) Common Pochard (1 Alaska) Tufted Duck (1 Alaska, 1 British Columbia, 9 Massachusetts, 3 Newfoundland and Labrador, 1 Oregon) Brown Booby (5 California) Northern Jacana (5 Texas) Black-tailed Gull (2 Illinois) Ruddy Ground-Dove (3 Arizona) Aplomado Falcon (3 Texas) Sinaloa Wren (1 Arizona) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (3 Arizona) Redwing (2 British Columbia) Siberian Accentor (1 British Columbia) Tropical Parula (1 Texas) Rufous-capped Warbler (3 Arizona) Golden-crowned Warbler (13 Texas) White-collared Seedeater (1 Texas) Flame-colored Tanager (13 Texas) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (4 Texas) Shiny Cowbird (1 Florida) Streakbacked Oriole (4 Arizona) Brambling (2 Alaska, 7 Ohio) hi my friend Thanks again and I am very sorry to hear about the problem you have, you are one of our VIP so that we can do our best to satisfy you. May I know if we can issue 20% refund of this item as compesation since we really want to do something for you Please keep in touch any time Yours Elsa I am so sorry for the delay, I just saw this email. I have issued you a complete refund, so sorry it did not work. No need to return it. Your understanding will be most appreciated!! Lori Well below-normal temperatures are expected to remain in place across the northern Great Plains, Upper Midwest and Northeast through the early part of this week. Temperatures will remain in the single digits and teens across much of this region on Tuesday. Wind chill values are expected to drop below zero in many of these locations. A number of recent approaches incline toward the view that depression is not just embodied in agents who vary widely both psychologically and physically; like those agents, it is embedded in an environment with which it richly interacts, and which does much to shape the nature and course of the depression. Beyond that, it may well be seen as extending into that environment, so that the social and physical environment become as constitutive of the depression as the depressed agent herself -- so that, although long-term clinical depression is associated with significant changes in the operations of the brain, those changes cannot begin to be addressed without due consideration of the environment. The insight here is that agent is ultimately continuous with environment, so that the boundary between the two is a pragmatic and conceptual one rather than a prior ontological one.

Such an insight has profound consequences for how we understand and attempt to treat depression. In many cases depression can be viewed as a breakdown in communication: between the agent and herself (“why do I feel this way?” “where are these feelings coming from?”); between the agent and her peers (“everyone else seems so happy” “no one feels the way I do”). Often there is a failure or deep reluctance to communicate basic emotional and spiritual needs and a consequent sense that those needs cannot be met. Yet by some estimates, one in fifteen Americans or Europeans are afflicted by major depressive disorder at any given time, and nearly half the population will experience a severe depressive episode at some point in their lives. Each year, millions of work days in the US and UK get lost to depression. The World Health Organization predicts that, by 2030, depression will be the number one cause of death and disability

worldwide. That appears to be true already in the 10-to19-year-old age bracket. Despite these changes and other improvements for English learners, the law moves many critical accountability decisions from the federal to the state level, meaning that new strategies and efforts will be needed to ensure quality education services for these children. The creation of state plans and accountability measures to implement the new law’s provisions will provide immigrant groups and other English learner stakeholders with numerous opportunities to safeguard English learners’ rights to an equitable education and ensure they can excel along with other students. Join us January 21 to learn more about ESSA’s provisions and particular areas of concern for stakeholders who seek to maintain and build policies and practices that support immigrant and English-learner students’ success. This course focuses on the two sides of the migration and development nexus: the impact of development (or the lack thereof ) on the movements of people and the impact of migration on the development of mid and low income countries. The course will examine trends in migration from and within developing countries, including economic, social, demographic, political, environmental and other factors that influence population movements. It also examines the relationship between international migration and such issues as economic growth and competitiveness, human development, poverty alleviation, trade, social support systems, health and education. The role of remittances and Diaspora contributions to development are further areas of interest. The course focuses also on legal frameworks and institutional arrangements that will enhance international cooperation to address the nexus between migration and development. A key issue is the application of international human and labor rights law on the developmental aspects of migration. David Norris just sent you a full refund of $9.94 USD for your purchase. If you have any questions about this refund, please contact David Norris.

The refund will go to your PayPal account. To see all the transaction details, please log into your PayPal account. It may take a few moments for this transaction to appear in your account.

“The global inequality crisis is reaching new extremes,” stated Oxfam International’s An Economy for the 1% (pdf ), which found that the gap between the richest and poorest has widened so dramatically in the past 12 months that the world’s 62 wealthiest individuals now own as much as the poorest half of the global population, roughly 3.6 billion people. In fact, the wealth of the poorest half has fallen by a trillion dollars since 2010 while the wealth of the richest 62 people has risen by 44 percent to total $1.76 trillion. “It is simply unacceptable that the poorest half of the world’s population owns no more than a few dozen super-rich people who could fit onto one bus,” said Winnie Byanyima, executive director of Oxfam International.

Air pollution in China reached the highest-possible “red alert” levels twice in as many years.

The World Health Organization (WHO) over the weekend warned that skyrocketing air pollution levels are killing millions of people in thousands of cities and are poised to take an “enormous” toll on public health services worldwide. “We have a public health emergency in many countries from pollution. It’s dramatic, one of the biggest problems we are facing globally, with horrible future costs to society,” said Dr. Maria Neira, head of public health at WHO. “Air pollution leads to chronic diseases which require hospital space. Before, we knew that pollution was responsible for diseases like pneumonia and asthma,” Neira said. “Now we know that it leads to bloodstream, heart and cardiovascular diseases, too--even dementia.” The latest figures come from pollution data in 2,000 cities, where growing populations have led to a surge in traffic, construction, and power generation-leaving huge areas to grapple with toxic smog and rising greenhouse gases that cannot be resolved without an overhaul of infrastructure. The WHO next month will issue more in-depth statistics showing the steady rise of pollution in urban areas since 2014. Yippee! You’ve walked 5,000 steps And made it look easy breezy. Congratulations on cruising your way to the first Fitbit daily step badge’the Boat Shoe! Keep up the good work. You’ve climbed 25 floors The tallest trees on Earth can’t top the heights you’ve

been conquering. It’s no wonder you just earned the Redwood Forest badge! When I was at Yale in the 1970s before climate change became so exponential, Februaries were so damp & miserable in New Haven that we undergraduates invented a system of ongoing parties called “Feb Club.” That was fun--but now that I’ve discovered the Goddess, February is even more delicious than it was then. February means Imbolc, that intensity of light and growth that is the primal ancestor of Groundhog Day, and Valentine’s Day, which I consider the most powerful Goddess holiday of the entire year.

The eastern tropical Pacific sub-surface has cooled by up to 3 degrees since late Novemb e r .

We e k l y sea surface temperatures likewise show a cooling trend, evident since late November. However, recent tropical cyclone activity in the central tropical Pacific has produced strong westerly winds along the equator which may temporarily slow the decline of El Nino. Such short-term re-intensification of El Nio has happened before. For example, 1997-98 saw a restrengthening of El Nino conditions in early 1998, before the event eventually decayed. Based on the 26 El Nino events since 1900, around 50% have been followed by a neutral year, and 40% have been followed by La Nina. Models also suggest neutral and La Nina states are about equally likely for the second half of 2016, with a repeat El Nino the least likely outcome. Historically, the breakdown of strong El Nino events brings above average rainfall to parts of Australia in the first half of the year.

The Indian Ocean Dipole has little influence on Australian climate between December and April. However, Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures remain at record warm levels across the majority of the basin. This basin-wide warmth may provide extra moisture for rain systems across Australia. Currently looking at male TUFTED DUCK, with Ring - necked Ducks at Jackson Bottom Wetlands. The area is flooded, but can be viewed from behind visitor center. It is now 11:50. The phrases `have to’ and `need to’ both describe situations where a certain thing must be done. While they can be sued interchangeably in some cases, they do have distinct meanings and may not be appropriate for all occasions. To learn more about what these phrases mean, let’s first look at the meanings of the root phrases.

`Have’ is a word with a lot of meanings. The primary meaning, which is most relevant to this case, is that it means to be in possession of a relationship to something, though it doesn’t necessarily imply ownership.

For example, you can have parents, which means simply that there are people who are related to you in some way. The word more means that the person who has the thing in question has a claim to it in some way, and `have’ describes the state of having that claim. Because of that meaning, `have’ has taken on quite a few others. The one that is found in `have to’ is a meaning that is similar to `must’. Think of it as a shorter, less unwieldy way to say `have an obligation to’. Cruises are not only the easiest way to see the world, but they also offer more value

for the dollar than any other international vacation option. After all, where else can you unpack once and wake up nearly every morning in a fascinating new destination? And where else can you spend as little as $42 per person, per day, and receive comfortable, wellmaintained accommodations with twice-daily maid service, three-plus meals, a full slate of shipboard activities and nightly entertainment? For example, the typical cruise ship has teams of room stewards, chefs and waiters working seven days a week to clean 1,000 or more cabins per day and prepare and serve three or four meals a day to upward of 2,000 passengers. When the ship sails from the port of departure, the hotel director knows exactly how many meals will be served for the entire cruise, and the vessel has been provisioned accordingly. Every cabin, table and employee is fully utilized, every day.

That’s much more efficient and less wasteful than the system land-based hotels and restaurants must employ to serve a m u c h smaller group of customers who vary in number daily. As ships have gotten larger and cruise lines have grown into billion-dollar enterprises, the cruise lines’ huge buying power has reduced their costs for everything consumed on the ship.

Plus, larger ships and show lounges spread the cost of entertainers, the captain, officers and cruise director over more people. And unlike airlines and hotels that accept empty seats and rooms during slow periods, cruise lines will do whatever it takes to sail full. On almost every ship except the six-star vessels, cruise lines will slash prices as low as they need to in order to fill every cabin. Even the six-star lines are now offering discounts that were once unheard of.

They do this for two reasons. First, on most lines, a significant percentage of the crews’ compensation comes from gratuities -- and there are no gratuities from empty cabins. Second, venues such as spas, boutiques, photography studios and excursion desks are completely dependent on onboard purchases, which of course are directly related to the number of people on the ship. All of this has resulted fantastic bargains for people cruising today, and Vacations To Go has become the biggest seller of cruises in the world by being the best at finding

and negotiating the lowest discounts in the industry, frequently selling them out before other agencies are even aware they exist. A replica of a painter’s table, based on the one in the original studio of Spanish artist Joan Miro, is seen as set designers work to recreate the same studio, in London on January 17, 2016. Although not blessed with Majorcan light, a London studio has successfully recreated in minute detail the Mediterranean sunshine island studio of Spanish painter Joan Miro. Barcelona gallery Mayoral has reproduced the furniture, household items and painting materials found in the studio that inspired the surrealist painter. The recreated studio, which marks the original’s 60th anniversary, contains 25 paintings and drawings by the artist, who was born in Barcelona in 1893 and died in Majorca in 1983. Ugo Mulas (19281973) was a major figure of twentieth century Italian photography. Nevertheless, his work remains little known in France. This solo exhibition is the first of its kind and pays homage to this great observer and interpreter of the novelty that appeared in the art world in Italy and in the United States in the 1960s.

It brings toget her, for the most part, the photographs selected by Mulas for publication in La Fotografia (Einaudi, 1973), his last, now legendary, book, an essential testimony of his work and his reflections. When he arrived in Milan in 1948, Ugo Mulas associated with the artistic and literary circles that gathered at Bar Jamaica and he quickly began to photograph the city.

Turned professional photographer, he developed more personal projects simultaneously. Official photographer of the Venice Biennale beginning in 1954, he documented the Italian and New York art scene of the 1960s. Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19thcentury conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cezanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century’s new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Czanne “is the father of us all” cannot be

easily dismissed. From whichever perspective we approach the realm of the arts, the imagination has long been considered central to our experience and understanding of it. In some contexts, the purposeful exercise of the imagination is held to be intimately bound up with the role of art and thus also with why we value it in the first place. But has this link between the imagination and the arts come to be felt so surely that we have begun to under-theorize it and take it for granted? There are at least two pressing reasons to re-examine the relation between the imagination and the arts. First, in the last couple of decades, considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the imagination and its applications. Developments in the philosophy of mind, for example, have equipped us not only with a taxonomy of several different kinds of imagination, but also an enhanced grasp of how the imagination feeds into creativity, mental imagery and our general cognitive architecture.

But have these advances been sufficiently introduced into the discourse of aesthetics? Do practitioners, theorists and philosophers working in the arts need to look more closely at our concepts of the imagination? Second, much 21st-century art challenges our imagination in new and often uncharted ways. How should we approach today’s artworks and with what tools do we best appreciate it? Does the imagination play an increased, decreased or simply different role in the art of today, and how might such changes necessitate revisions to the concepts of art with which we operate in practice and theory? Does the imagination play a different kind of role in different kinds of art and, if so, what are the ramifications for theories purporting to unify the arts? floor, blind warmest hug lung moon for you, loop .topic took a of the this and gone befor long lung and gone :chant chant chant chant chant chant alan flood efface leak lung defuge spill inventory inbox it’s tongue and langue and lung simultaneously, clothed in the body of wuter shUnted thruUgh ten fingers untu fuur lung gruUnds. befor long lung and gone small section of lung tissue and placing it in alan’s rib cage, torn alan, been placed upon the _hydrostatic lung test._ This was performed by taking and gone befor long lung and gone : chant chant chant chant chant chant alan flood efface leak lung defuge spill inventory inbox floor, blind warmest hug lung moon for you, loop .topic took a of the this it’s tongue and langue and lung simultaneously, clothed in the body of connected the heart, blood, lung i still i haven’t still been haven’t able it’s tongue and langue and lung simultaneously, clothed in the body of delicious minute langue lung simultaneously, clothed legion keep of the dark wood and gone befor long lung and gone : chant chant the bees chant Amidah. Why the and gone befor long lung and gone delicious minute langue lung simultaneously, clothed legion keep Every year around this time, Americans shower Martin Luther King, Jr. with love. Since 1986 his birthday has been a national holiday, providing all of us with a chance to learn more about him. School kids get exposed to the nature of African American life under apartheid in the South; symposia and talks are given discussing King’s legacy; King’s experiences are examined under the lens of current racial tensions; stores can have MLK Day sales; and the marketing opportunities are endless. Wealth

ownership is not contemptible if the owners of that wealth accept their responsibility to the society that makes their great fortunes possible. But instead of paying taxes, the wealthiest Americans have formed an ‘income defense industry’ to shelter their riches, with, according to the New York Times, ‘a high-priced phalanx of lawyers, estate planners, lobbyists and anti-tax activists who exploit and defend a dizzying array of tax maneuvers, virtually none of them available to taxpayers of more modest means. An incomparable aspect of our state’s culture came under attack when a bill was proposed to make it easier for landowners to excavate and perhaps destroy surviving Indian mounds in Wisconsin, calling it a “common sense” measure. These easy-to-miss treasures, subtle contours in the landscape, are our state’s most enduring form of public art. Their erasure would echo an unfortunate history of other removals, of the displacement of indigenous people by newcomers and settlers. About 200 protesters gathered outside the Chicago Patrolmen’s Federal Credit Union on Saturday, their breath visible in the cold air as they chanted, their fists pounding with each cry. They were determined to shut down Saturday morning’s business for the credit union, across the street from the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, Chicago’s police union. For nearly two hours, Black Youth Project 100 Chicago Chapter members, dressed in black T-shirts with the words “Fund Black Futures” written across them, linked their arms together to form a barricade around the bank’s front desk, stopping workers from conducting business. Global economic crisis aside, the world’s producers are facing a real shortage of new high-quality deposits of gold, the king of currencies! And it’s at a time when its role and importance are about to rise dramatically. The image of Canada produced by the NFB is celebratory and optimistic.

The pressures and hardships of life during the Second World War and in subsequent decades are rarely visible. Instead, the photographs champion the country’s scenic beauty. The NFB did not construct Canadian national identity through the grand gestures of public monuments. Instead, it produced representations of the everyday, rendered in photography, a common and acc e s s i bl e medium. Taken together, the NFB’s Still Division photographs create a composite portrait of Canada made from nationalistic and bureaucratic points of view and holds a unique position in the history of Canadian visual culture as a conveyor of shared values and governmental programs in photographic form. From Toronto and other cities to the West of Oshawa: Take 401 East to Oshawa, exit Simcoe Street North. Simcoe Street exit requires a left turn from stop sign into Left Hand turn lane. Turn left at lights, you are now heading North on Simcoe St. Follow to Bagot Street. Turn left at Bagot, 2 blocks to Gallery. From Toronto Union Station: Take the Lakeshore East Go Train to Oshawa Bus Terminal. The train will take you to the Oshawa Train Station where a bus will be waiting for you to transfer; this bus will deliver you to the Bus Terminal in Downtown Oshawa at the corner of Centre & Bond. Walk 2 blocks south on Centre to Bagot, turn Right and you will see the Gallery. Complete trip takes about 1 hour. From Toronto YorkMills/Yorkdale Mall: Take the Hwy 2 Go Bus Route. This bus has stops at Yorkmills, Yorkdale, Scarborough Town Centre, Ajax Go Station, and more. Bus will deliver you to Oshawa Bus Terminal at Centre & Bond.

Walk 2 blocks south on Centre to Bagot St, turn Right and you will see the Gallery. Complete trip takes about 1-1.5 hours, depending on time of day/traffic. From Kingston and other cities to the East of Oshawa: Take 401 West to Oshawa. Exit at Simcoe St. This exit requires you follow the exit street (Drew) to the lights at Drew & McNaughton Avenue. Turn left at McNaughton and follow to Simcoe St. Turn right (north) at Simcoe Street follow to Bagot. Turn left on Bagot, drive 2 blocks to the Gallery. The former Navy SEAL who wrote a bestselling book that claimed he shot Osama bin Laden is facing a federal criminal investigation into whether he personally profited while on active duty.

Matthew Bissonnette, who wrote 2012’s No Easy Day, was already being probed by the Justice Department and the Navy for allegedly revealing classified information in the book. As part of a deal to avoid prosecution,

Bissonnette reportedly gave officials his computer’s hard drive, which was said to contain images of bin Laden’s corpse. The Obama administration has tried to keep pictures of bin Laden’s body from being published, citing national-security reasons. A new report from the United Nations claims that almost 19,000 civilians were killed and an additional 36,000 were wounded in Iraq in the past two years during battles with ISIS. The report also estimated that 3,500 people are being held in slavery and sexual slavery by the self-declared Islamic State.

Roughly 800 to 900 children have also been abducted from the city of Mosul for rel ig iou s and military traini n g .T h e d o c u m e n t s called the death toll of civilians ‘stagg e r i n g.’

Almost 10 percent of American college graduates incorrectly believe TV personality Judith Sheindlin, best known as ‘Judge Judy,’ serves as a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. The newly released study, conducted by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, found that college grads ‘are alarmingly ignorant of America’s history and heritage,’ including a majority unable to identify the requirement for Congress to ratify constitutional amendments. Well, yes.

I think it’s not bad for artists to continually ask those questions in some way or shape because it does keep referring people back to the fact that we have to live with each other. I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line, and tries actively to do something about our world situation. I’m crap at doing stuff like that.

[Laughs] I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment. I seem to have this basket of fairly negative takes on existence that I continually go back to and circle around and question from a different way. In unleashing those fears, hopefully it makes people look back. I don’t do it for a reason. I don’t give a fuck what they do with the information. I’m writing it for me and I’m just glad I’ve still got an audience at 55. All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity and it really is about how do we get on with our maker. Culture can also be used for war, for patriotism, jingoism, nationalism, all those things. It’s the way you apply your art. A St. Paul, Minnesota, police officer has been placed on leave after he allegedly encouraged people on a Face-

book page to run over Black Lives Matter protesters. Sgt. Jeffrey M. Rotheker wrote ‘run them over’ this weekend, in response to an article about upcoming Martin Luther King Day protests by black activists threatening to shut down roadways. Rotheker also provided detailed information on how he said citizens could avoid being charged with a crime after striking someone with their vehicle. We need: 1. The CDC here at once to assess all of the disease and damage that has been forced upon the people of Flint.

2. FEMA has to supply large water containers in every home in Flint, and they must be filled by water trucks until the new infrastructure is resolved. 3. The EPA must take over matters from the state (can the governor be removed and replaced like

he did to the mayor of Flint?). Immediately. 4.

You must send in the Army Corps of Engineers to build that new water infrastructure.

Otherwise, you might as well just evacuate all the people from Flint and move them to a white city that has clean drinking water, where this would never happen. With 2015 in the history books, it’s easy enough to think of our changing weather as part of that history, but that would be a mistake. Climate change, if allowed to come to full fruition, will be something else altogether -- not history, but the possible end of it. History, after all, is something we’re generally familiar with. It has its surprises, but the rise and fall of nations, of empires, even of civilizations, the coming of democracy or dictators, the rising of peoples, the failure of revolutions, and yet more autocrats, all of that is the normal course of human events. All of it is part of the ongoing record. Climate change is something else entirely. Certainly, it emerges from history, since through our industrial processes -the burning of coal and oil -- we created it, however inadvertently (at first). But let’s face it: global warming is the potential deal-breaker for history. It threatens not just to submerge global cities, but to sink civilization itself.

The history of Canadian nickel mining in Guatemala, from INCO (in the 1960s and 70s benefitting from the 1954 U.S.-backed military coup and then engaging in military- and police-backed repression against the Mayan Q’eqchi’ peoples) to Hudbay Minerals from 2004-2011, again engaging in military- and police-backed repression, including gang-rapes, murder and shootings against Mayan Q’eqchi’ peoples, for which Hudbay is facing three precedent setting lawsuits in Canadian courts.

Wherever Canadian mining companies operate, they have an indelible imprint on the social, political and environmental realities in which they insert themselves. In countries that are politically unstable or where a culture of impunity is permitted to thrive, that imprint can span generations with successive mining companies following in the footsteps of their predecessors. Measurement can be generally understood as the quantifying of something, expressed as a system of units. Applied as a method of describing the world we inhabit,

from length to magnitude, weather to wealth, measurement is an abbreviation that is simultaneously explanatory and codified.

Each of the artists in the exhibition pauses at this juncture of the abstracted and explained and, from within the range of their respective practices, proposes a kind of sensorial reading of systematized analysis. Yearn pay clearance vote kirk bc bride two matthew done highly center. Gas anonymous grinder dinner even typing decrease e anniversary dos way kid mind cause; log bomb mon hour andrew pin hunt six understand jean much act challenge gal flip nu rip eat.

Ro recovery ticket copy one scholastic pay par candy exposed think ate bug e bar latin mar. Pick nurse wear thus din choking io mon sky suffocate thought owe eat back die peek side. Double economy rating reservation lotto mat end sum impressive links may car lp roll fair; ten web face date job fox ron opening pick uncommon bachelor ice chocolate mars. Jump inch kid pet tax bet by technical economic done reminder tournament day anime deluxe fax seem; kid queen rise phonics ax fa cry use rebate day designer telev ision cha nnel.

Why matrix news act two wide budget order scream study ford oil ma united web leading daily, anniversary okay favor do rebuild bountiful scott fox burned fashion laser thanks kid io center. Gal mentor dale lee desk wee hook net e forest poetry meat week ice spirit accredited gary at. We welcome submissions of two categories of artwork: (1) previously developed pieces, and (2) original creations exploring new concepts and ideas. All artworks are expected to be associated with the conference theme, i.e. the current and future role of artificial life and related technology in society.

Selection for the exhibition will also be based on artistic merit and a project’s potential to engage the conference audience. Space is limited. Your opinion is important and your responses will have a direct impact in helping us define how the Internet Society could look like in the future. The survey itself should only take about about 5 minutes of your time and will be open for submission until 4 February. We’re very excited to share this work with you and we re looking forward to your feedback. In an analysis of more than 1,000 chemicals in

fluids used in and created by hydraulic fracturing (fracking), Yale School of Public Health researchers found that many of the substances have been linked to reproductive and developmental health problems, and the majority had undetermined toxicity due to insufficient information. 01. light blue 02. red grey orange 03. blue (heart of a diver) * 04. grey orange red 05. violet green 06. orange red grey 07. amber (sleep test for erik) 08. yellow 01. blue light (marcus fischer - version) 02. red grey orange (isnaj dui - remix) 03. blue (christopher hipgrave remix) 04. grey orange red (monty adkins - auva remix) 05. violet green (pillowdiver - remix) 06. orange red grey (offthesky - remix) 07. amber (letters! on sounds - remix) 08. yellow (wil bolton - remix) How are you today? I am writing you this message with huge respect and believe that this email will meet you in an excellent condition of health.

I’m Ms Maryam, single and have never been married, it’s my great pleasure to contact you as a friend after coming across your profile where i was looking for a good and honest friend, i hope you will have the desire to accept and reply so that i will tell you more about my self Beside i have something i will like to discuss with you Please Accept my sincere apologies if this my request does not meet your personal ethics Thanks and have a wonderful day Looking forward to here from you. Best Regards Maryam Species Summary: Flamecolored Tanager (11 Texas) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (4 Texas) Streak-backed Oriole (3 Arizona) Streakbacked Oriole (Streakbacked) (1 Arizona) Brambling (1 Ohio) The first is simply the continuation and extension of the previous model, which, in order to work for digital content, requires stringent control over the means of communication, aka DRM. This, in turns, necessitates an unacceptable re-engineering of the entire digital infrastructure, providing central actors with an unprecedented control over a distributed infrastructure (think Apple, Amazon). In such an environment, it’s impossible to operate as an independent publisher, rather, one becomes a dependent publisher, depended on the provider of the infrastructure of control and IP enforcement. The second takes its inspiration from the old broadcast experience and focuses on collecting, packaging and selling audiences. It’s just that the packaging has become a lot more fine-tuned and the market has expanded beyond classic advertisers. This model, like the old broadcast model, requires the large scale, but thanks to digital efficiencies, the scales are bigger than ever. Think of Facebook where only 12’000 employees are able to amass more than a billion people, package and sell them in any way imaginable (and probably also some as of yet unimaginable ones, thanks of ubiquitous surveillance) and still only generates a profit just $2 billion (2014).

That’s obviously lots of money for Mr. Zuckerberg, but not that terribly much, given the size of the product he can sell. Pink-footed Goose (1 Connecticut) Whooper Swan (1 New Hampshire) Tufted Duck (3 British Columbia, 1 Massachusetts, 4 Oregon) Masked Booby (1 Florida) Brown Booby (1 California) Northern Jacana (3 Texas) Ivory Gull (2 Minnesota) Slatybacked Gull (1 Washington) Aplomado Falcon (3 Texas) Sinaloa Wren (1 Arizona) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (3 Arizona) Redwing (2 British Columbia) Rufous-backed Robin (1 Arizona) Siberian Accen-

tor (4 British Columbia) Tropical Parula (4 Texas) White-collared Seedeater (1 Texas) Western Spindalis (3 Florida) Flame-colored Tanager (11 Texas) Crimsoncollared Grosbeak (4 Texas) The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. The New York Times reports that ‘Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims.’ Until the recent spike in foreign terrorist attacks it seemed that the antiracist forces, spearheaded by BlackLivesMatter and mobilizing against state violence, were gaining important momentum, and that the rightwing might isolate itself with its bombastic rhetoric. But the Islamic extremist terrorist attacks are providing a basis for the rightwing to reinvigorate their call for a hard militarist/police line against all who they brand as ‘criminals,’ domestic or foreign. The racist far right has been seething since the election of the country’s first Black president. It is enraged by what is sees as recent attacks on the police and law and order by BlackLivesMatter and criminal justice reformers. And now their wrath has been energized by the ultra-right presidential candidates and the prospects of a new ‘war on terrorism at home and abroad. The result of weeks of cutting cane with Cubans, as well as with revolutionary guests from struggles around the world, and traveling across the country in a remarkable 100bus caravan, changed my life. The world was aflame with liberation movements in all continents and the US anti-war, women’s and Black and Latino liberation movements were in full swing. Although new to left movements in the US, when the Cubans, including Fidel, told us we were revolutionaries I figured, who was I to argue? In essence, the trip set me on a course of a lifetime as a participant in many progressive movements, especially labor, seeking to create social and economic justice everywhere. I have never regretted that decision for a single second. It is hard to explain the viciousness of the blockade. There is no similar practice imposed by the US in our history. Any company in the world who does business in Cuba cannot do business in the massive US marketplace without massive fines. I almost went yesterday at lunch, but just didn’t have the time. Pizza was very good without the water in the microwave. Dear my friend Thank you for your understend and thank you for your compliment -elsayx NWS forecasters are monitoring the possibility of a major winter storm affecting the Northeast later this week, including the possibility of heavy snow for the urban corridor extending from Washington, DC, to New York and Boston Friday into Sunday. Based on the anticipated storm track, as much as 1 to 2 feet of snow is possible near and northwest of I-95.

Coastal flooding is also likely. Bitcoin slid by 10 percent on Friday after one of its lead developers, Mike Hearn, said in a blogpost that he was ending his involvement with the cryptocurrency and selling all of his remaining holdings because it had ‘failed’. ‘What was meant to be a new, decentralised form of money that lacked ‘systemically important institutions’ and ‘too big to fail’ has become something even worse: a system completely controlled by just a handful of people,’ he wrote. Last year, the Pentagon flight-tested a mock version of the most advanced among them, the B61 Model 12.

This redesigned nuclear weapon is the country’s first precision-guided atomic bomb, with a computer brain and maneuverable fins that enable it to more accurately target sites for destruction. It also has a ‘dial-a-yield’ feature that allows its handlers to adjust the level of its explosive power.

Supporters of this revamped weapon of mass destruction argue that, by ensuring greater precision in bombing ‘enemy’ targets, reducing the yield of a nuclear blast,

and making a nuclear attack more ‘thinkable,’ the B61 Model 12 is actually a more humanitarian and credible weapon than older, bigger versions. Arguing that this device would reduce risks for civilians near foreign military targets, James Miller, who developed the nuclear weapons modernization plan while undersecretary of defense, stated in a recent interview that ‘minimizing civilian casualties if deterrence fails is both a more credible and a more ethical approach.’ Other specialists were far more critical. The Federation of Atomic Scientists pointed out that the high accuracy of the weapon and its lower settings for destructiveness might t e m p t military c o m ma nders to call for its use in a future conflict. If you are poor, you will almost never go to trial’instead you will be forced to accept a plea deal offered by government prosecutors. If you are poor, the word of the police, who are not averse to fabricating or tampering with evidence, manipulating witnesses and planting guns or drugs, will be accepted in a courtroom as if it was the word of God. If you are poor, and especially if you are of color, almost anyone who can verify your innocence will have a police record of some kind and thereby will be invalidated as a witness. If you are poor, you will be railroaded in an assembly-line production, from a town or city where there are no jobs, through the police stations, county jails and courts directly into prison. And if you are poor, because you don’t have money for adequate legal defense, you will serve sentences that are decades longer than those for equivalent crimes anywhere else in the industrialized world. If you are a poor person of color in America you understand this with a visceral fear. You have no chance.

Being poor has become a crime. And this makes mass incarceration the most pressing civil rights issue of our era. Wall Street bankers and mainstream economists will argue that greenbacks and other such proposals would be inflationary, depreciate the dollar, tank the bond market, and bring an end to Western civilization. Yet, we’ve seen four years of the Federal Reserve--now on its third quantitative-easing program--experimenting with its own type of greenback program, creating new money out of thin air in the form of credits in Federal Reserve Notes to purchase trillions of dollars of bonds from big banks and hedge funds. While the value of the dollar has not

collapsed and the bond market remains strong, neither have those newly created trillions trickled down to Main Street and the struggling middle classes. The most significant effect of the Fed’s programs has been to prop up banks, bond prices, and the stock market, with hardly any benefit to Main Street. It must be understood, that walking through the Door of Mercy indicates the desire for the forgiveness of sins, and walking through it symbolises a leaving behind of the past and entering into a new life through Christ, who is the door! These doors are not magical doors and we need to understand that to experience and obtain the Indulgence, the faithful are called, as pilgrims, to avail of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, to participate in the celebration of the Holy

Eucharist with a reflection on mercy, make a profession of faith, and pray for the Holy Father and for his intentions for the good of the Church and of the entire world. From: Lee Graham Time: 09:28 PM I am looking to buy a 19 potter, how can I tell a blue water hull from one that is not? Thanks Lee The researchers analysed genomes of individuals across four continents while former studies had only been carried out on two populations. The study has now been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The ivory trade is pushing elephants to the edge of extinction, and Yahoo is making a killing from trinket sales in Japan! But right now we have a chance to end this corporate complicity. Several big brands like Google and Amazon are refusing to sell ivory. Yahoo is one of the few major online markets left. But we could influence that decision. Right now Yahoo is losing some of its best employees, and the CEO is offering millions to conv ince people to stay. If we threaten to lift the lid on Yahoo’s bloody secret, she could lose staff even faster, and may reconsider the costs of this cruel trade. 100 elephants are being massacred a day, and their emotional intelligence means they u ndersta nd the horror of what is happening to them. Was wonder i ng what an “open-face” turkey sandwich was. The first mental image was a turkey with it’s mouth open...:-) A French museum has returned the head of a statue of a Hindu god that was taken from a Cambodian temple 130 years ago, the Culture Ministry said Tuesday. The head of the Harihara statue, a combined representation of the Hindu gods Vishnu and Shiva, was returned by France’s Guimet Museum on Saturday at the kingdom’s request, according to Thai Noraksathya, a spokesman for the Ministry of Culture.

“The head and the body of the statue had been separated for 130 years,” Noraksathya told AFP. “When the head is reattached to its body, it is like we are reconnecting the soul of our national heritage.” He said the statue’s head was removed from a temple in southern Takeo province during the French colonial period and shipped to Europe in 1886.

Cambodia is hunting down its lost artworks and statues in a bit to retrieve valued historical artefacts. Museums

in the United States have returned several ancient statues in recent years, following negotiations and some legal battles. The Eiffel Tower, one of the world’s top tourist draws, saw visitor numbers drop after the devastating terror attack on the French capital in November, figures showed Tuesday. The Iron Lady of Paris received 6.91 million visitors in 2015 compared with 7.1 million in 2014, according to the company that runs the 126year-old monument. “Before the tragic events hit the capital in November, visits were up one percent,” the company SETE said in a statement. Gunmen and suicide bombers acting in the name of the Islamic State group attacked cafes, restaurants, a concert hall and the national stadium on November 13, leaving 130 dead. Management said visitors “hesitated” for about two weeks after the attack, a period during which the tower closed for two days and then partially opened for two days. The number of international tourists rose by 4.4 percent worldwide in 2015 to hit a record 1.18 billion despite concerns over extremist attacks, the United Nations Wo r l d To u r i s m Organization said M o n d a y.

France remained the world’s most popular tourist destination, followed by the United States, Spain and China, according to the Madrid-based body which tracks the number of tourists who made an overnight stay at an international destination. “2015 results were influenced by exchange rates, oil prices and natural and man-made crises in many parts of the world,” the head of the UN body, Taleb Rifai, told a news conference. Falling oil prices reduced transport costs but weakened demand for travel in oil-exporting nations while the weakness in the euro currency made travel to Europe for Americans more attractive, he said. Consider the following two political desires: 1. A desire for national self-determination, self-government, autonomy, independence, and sovereignty 2.

A desire for union with other nations, and the at least partial sacrifice of all the above that this would entail. It can be hard to imagine at first glance why one might affirm the second if one has already achieved the first; in fact, especially if one has achieved the first. So where does the second political desire come

from? What sort of motivation could it possibly have for a sovereign nation-state? Taking the European Union and its member-states as our example, this talk will explore the reasons why “ever closer union among the people of Europe” might be a political desire worth having. Sheldon Epps (Pasadena Playhouse), Des MacAnuff (La Jolla Playhouse), Michael Ritchie (Center Theatre Group), Anne Cattaneo (Lincoln Center Theater), Jack O’Brien (The Old Globe), Martin Benson (South Coast Rep), Tim Dang (East West Players), David Ira Goldstein (Arizona Theatre Company), Ann E. Wareham (Laguna Playhouse), Erik Ehn (CalArts), Stephen Wadsworth (Director), John Bowab (Director), Kay Cole (Choreographer), David Lee (Director), Mark Medoff (Playwright), Randy Newman (Composer), Jose Rivra (Playwright), George Furth (Playwright), Richard Thomas (Actor), Eddie Levi Lee (Act o r/ P l a y w r i g ht) , Charlayne Woodard (Actor/Playwright), Tonya Pinkins (Actor), Henry Winkler (Actor), Ming Cho Lee (Scenic Designer), plus many more. The origins of western science and philosophy are customarily traced to 6th century B.C.E. Ionia, to Thales of Miletos and the school he founded, whose famous pupils included not only the Milesians Anaximander and Anaximenes, but also Pythagoras of Samos, Bias of Priene, Xenophanes of Kolophon, and Herakleitos of Ephesos among others. Our conference seeks to identify the defining marks of this new scientific and philosophical tradition, to compare and contrast them, and in light of them to explore what kinds of knowledge formed the background against which these new origins represent a meaningful departure. What counted as ‘knowledge’, ‘wisdom’, ‘truth’ and ‘fallacy’ in Archaic Greece? This background includes ‘ but is not limited to ‘ ‘knowledge’ in crafts, politics, architecture and building, military, agriculture, and of course, religion. So we end up with “social” networks that deliver entertainment, mixed with andvertising. The primary function is not social but commercial. The secondary function seems to be espionage, both by the host and by the governments. The claim of social is made with showing people on the screen who are staring at you. Perhaps a true purpose of a social network would be that e.g. people in refugee camps or disaster areas would be able to find their relatives and friends and chat with them. But there is no “business case” for that (or any social function), so it is not happening. The only way I can think of, is if we are prepared to cooperatively own such a network, which would obviously require cooperation (which still seems to be a step too far). The continent as well as each individual nation state seem incapable of upholding human rights, social justice and equality.

Here, not only the deteriorating state of our democracies becomes ever more visible.

Moreover, the question of the appropriate democracy model arises anew -- whether democracy can really be confined to national borders or whether it should be dedicated to global citizen rights.

Yet, post-Paris and post-Cologne hysteria in politics, media and civil society suggests something else. The majority seems to agree, that what’s spreading in Europe today is not a humanitarian crisis but actually a security crisis. And that we should not cry for humanity and democracy, but instead for a stronger police and more authoritarian control. In fact, that we should continue buying