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ibling Over Shoulder (chat) [not an acronym] a common misconception is that means Save Our Ship/Souls (a distress call); the letters don’t actually stand for anything Save Our Ship (distress call, common but incorrect) Secretary Of State Sound On Sound Somali Shilling (ISO currency code) Strength of Schedule (sports statistic) Switched-On Schoolhouse (Alpha Omega Publications) Save Our Souls Socialstyrelsen (Sweden: national board of health and welfare) System Of Systems Silicon On Sapphire Save Our Selves Sink or Swim (Super Nintendo video game) Same Old Song Share Our Strength Save Outdoor Sculpture Survivors of Suicide Son of Sevenless (enzyme involved in the signal transduction pathway) Same Old Story Spørgsmål Og Svar (Danish) Street Outreach Services (San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium) Save Our State (various locations) Shoot on Sight (gaming clan) Shoot on Sight Secular Organizations for Sobriety (Council for Secular Humanism) Structural Operational Semantics (computer science) Scope of Services Sygate Online Services Summer of Sam (movie) Source Of Supply Same Old Stuff (polite form) Swedish Obese Subjects (study) Science of Spirituality Summer of Service Services Of Supply (WWII) Source of Strength Sheamus O’Shaunessy (professional wrestler) Squadron Officer School (USAF) Sea of Shoes (blog) Save Our Wild Salmon Stuck On Stupid Save Our School Software Operating System Society of Singers Southern Oxidants Study (North Carolina State University) Sex on Stage (band) Samaritans of Singapore System-ofSystem Service on Site Science of Survival Swamp of Sorrows (gaming, World of Warcraft) Shot on Sight (band) Sign of Strength (Wyckoff trading theory) Save Our Sons Service over Self Scheduled Oil Sampling (Caterpillar Inc.) Save Our Sailors (Sailor Moon anime) Sophisticated Operating System (Apple /// OS) Snowboard Outreach Society (Avon, Colorado, USA) Stop OverSpending Save Our Society Share Operating System Statement Of Service Save Our Species Spawn of Satan Second Order Statistics Society of Stranders (shag/beach dancing group; Grand Strand, SC) Same ‘ol Situation Strawberry on the Shortcake Students for An Orwellian Society Son of Satan Sons of Satan Stamp Out Smoking Symbian Operating System Sons of Silence (Motorcycle Club) Science of Speed Same Old Situation (Mötley Crüe song) Save Our Sonics (organization that tried to keep the Seattle Supersonics from leaving town) Special Operations School Shakespeare Oxford Society (Yorktown Heights, NY) Save Our Shows (TV Guide) Sultan Of Swat (Babe Ruth) Speed Of Service Struck Off Strength Scope of Supply Storm of Swords (George RR Martin book) Son of Stopgap Sun or Shade (Dublin, OH) Save Our Skins (Cincinnati, OH) Service Oriented Software Skydivers Over Sixty (social club) Survival Optics Sunglasses Shoot on Site Support Operating System Supervisor of Shipbuilding Si Opus Sit (Latin: If Necessary; a prescription indication usually implies the drug is to be administered only once) Sick of School Self Opening Square (paper bag) Statement of Sensitivity Some One Special (chat) Sons of Solomon Syndicated Office Systems Save Our Saucepans Symbolic Operating System Sons of Samoa (gang) SumOf-Sinusoids Scope of Studies State Operated Schools Sub Ocean Safety (medical rescue of underwater divers) Source Off-Site Student Online Support Salsa on Sundays Supply Our Students (Sioux Falls, SD) Smör Ost Och Sill (Butter, Cheese and Herring) Stragglers Orienteering Society (UK) Song of Solomon/Song of Songs Stuff On a Shingle (polite form; common military chow hall meal; meat/cream sauce served on toast) Sword of Skardsen (Neopets) Security Overseas Seminar Spectrally Optimized Smart (Camera) Someone Over Shoulder (chat) Skits Outreach Services (theatre troupe) System Operation Status (Sprint) Save Our Shoes (Santa Cruz, CA) Son of Superman Simple Office Solutions (Santa Rosa, CA) Solar Optical Telescope Slightly Off-Specification (analogdigital interface failure) Standing Order Service Soap on Steel ( Pads) Sons Of Stalin (Quake gaming clan) Student Organization Support Ski or Snowboard Club (UC Davis) Save Our Shoreline, Inc. (Michigan) Skagway Outlet Store Student Ombuds Service Sarcoidosis Online Sites Senior Operations Specialist Student Outcome Survey Surveillance of Space Send Out Someone Soci-
ety for Ecological Sensibility Save Our Survivors Secure Object Store (Lotus Notes database system) Sacramento Orchid Society (California) Standards & Open Systems Send Out Service Sumatra Orangutan Society Speech Option Selection Stars Organisation for Spastics Save Often Stupid Smash on Site Strategic Options Study (India) Save Our Savannah Slop on a Shingle (chipped beef on toast; polite form) Sarasota Orchid Society (Florida) Story of Sadness (song) Sack Of Stuff (polite form) Space Operations Simulator Scoot Over Some Surveillance Operating System (Hekimian) Staff of Shielding (Everquest) Speed of the Shissar (Everquest) Seek Our Savior Soldiers of S a t i n (gaming clan) Singapore Organisation of Seaman Start Out/Off Slow (driver’s education) Strategic Operating System Special Order Sale Southern Ohio Sanitation, LLC Strahl-On-Strahl Society of Separationists, Inc. Sea of Slime (publication) Son of Samurai (band) Sensitizing Operation Sequence Signals Of Silence (band) Subscriber and Operator Services Save Our Sandwiches Sandia Office Supply Sink or Swing (band) Spirit of Selling GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) Save Our Submarine Split Option Soldier System Operational Specif ication Suppor t a bi l it y Online System Special Operator Service Traffic Significant Other Strike SPRINT Operations Shelter Sprint Office Support (Sprint) Straight Off da Street Share of Shelf Servants of Shade (Halo gaming clan) Son of Stick (fishing) Strategic Office Support Supplementary Ophthalmic Service Save or Sacrifice (bridge game) Start of Shipments Situation Objective Strategy Sex on Sight Stretch or Starve Semantics, Opinion and Sentiment in Text (summer school) Sea of Solutions ( Vlaardingen, Netherlands) Switch on Shropshire (UK) Superintendent of Schools (various locations) Sounds of Silence Service Optimization Solutions (software) Support Open Source (project) Safeguard Old State (Pennsylvania State University) State of the Science (conference) Switch off Something (government initiative; UK) Signs of Suicide (prevention program) Skoop on Somebody (Japanese band) Save Our School, Share Our Shores (Ontonagon County, MI) Sharing Our Stories (various meanings) Sense of Security Students of Sociology (various schools) Snake Oil Salesman
Secure Ordering System Save Our Saluda (environmental protection group; Marietta, SC) Save Our Service (Scotland, UK) Swedish Optical Society (est. 1991) Save Our Skies Save Our Stawberries Son of Sam Survival on Snow Standard Output Sensitivity (photography) Speed of Sound Special Operations Squadron Sending Out Signals (Garrison album) Javier Payne, a 14-year-old boy who was sitting in front of the Hookah Shop in the Bronx, just moments before a New York City police officer smashed him through the store’s plate glass window. The assault happened after an altercation with a man on the street, according to witnesses. Now, Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson said the State has decided against filing criminal charges against Sgt. Eliezer Pabon, who assaulted the
handcuffed 14-yearold. Payne had been placed under arrest even though he was bleeding critically. EMT paramedics finally arrived and found a boy near death and “nonchalant” officers, who did not seem concerned about the condition of the young boy, according to witnesses on the scene. Payne’s clothes were soaked in blood and yet in spite of his critical conditions, officers had made sure to cuff him, with his hands cuffed behind his back. “He looked like a young man who was facing down his own mortality,” one city employee said in assessing the situation. “This is a kid who was staring at his own doom. He looked like he was going to die. And if he didn’t get help when he did, he would have.” If you have had it with the NYPD’s unconstitutional and racist “Stop and Frisk” policy, and their sheer brutality, SPREAD THE WORD to raise awareness about this police abuse, which has - so far - gone completely unpuni s h e d . “There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples’ money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever” Benjamin Franklin More Americans living outside the U.S. gave up their citizenship in the first quarter of 2015 than ever before, according to data released Thursday by the IRS. The 1,335 expatriations topped the previous record by 18 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Those Americans are driven to turn in their passports in part because of laws that have expanded bank reporting and tax compliance requirements for expatriates. The increase in early 2015 follows an annual record in 2014, when 3,415 Americans gave up their citizenship. An estimated 6 million U.S. citizens are living abroad, and the U.S. is the only country within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that taxes citizens wherever they reside. In many cases, those choosing to give up their citizenship have limited connections to the U.S. and have lived outside of the country for most of their lives. Anyone born in the U.S. automatically receives citizenship, and people born abroad to U.S. parents are typically citizens as well. For some the decision is easy, because they perceive little
benefit from holding U.S. citizenship. The man, who friends identified as “Dizzle,” was shot and killed by police officers outside a bar near the neighborhood’s boardwalk. Police officers had responded to a call saying a homeless individual with a dog was harassing customers. Dizzle, a black man in his early 20s, was fatally shot as officers attempted to detain him. New technology is allowing officers to detect movement even through solid walls. The most disturbing thing about this technology is that it requires no warrant for officers to spy on you in the privacy of your own home. Your message to the mediamentor 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. Rumor: Video clip shows a man being struck by lightning twice within a minute -and surviving. Scam: That $200 Home Depot coupon Facebook giveaway will cost you a lot more than $200 if you try to claim your coupon. Even today, 45 years later, a culture of impunity persists. We read the news and see law enforcement killing young African Americans across the country. Those of us who witnessed Kent State have to ask whether things might have been different if this era of brutal suppression of political protest had resulted in accountability. I see echoes of Kent State when I read that Mike Brown’s family has to file a civil lawsuit because there will be no criminal accountability for his killing. This is the legacy of past impunity and it saddens me greatly to see it continue. There is an important legal distinction to be made as we pursue accountability for the killings. Because the statute of limitations for civil rights expires quickly, survivors and stakeholders have a time limit in seeking justice when our loved ones are murdered by US law enforcement and the US government. Fatal beatings and shootings of African American and Latino citizens, mainly men, by the police have continued seemingly unabated, with the latest being the widely publicised case of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland. Gray, 25, died Apr. 19 of spinal cord
injuries in what has been ruled a homicide after being arrested for allegedly carrying an illegal pocket knife. Six officers have since been charged in his murder. “As the U.S. claims a human rights mantle and criticises others for racism, it becomes the world’s greatest hypocrite.”The Canadian Building Trades Monument will celebrate the valuable contributions of tradespeople to Canadian life, prosperity and history, including recognition of the participation of women, First Nations and new immigrants in the building of Canada. The monument will be a place to celebrate the great achievements of skilled stonemasons, welders, carpenters, ironworkers, and many other construction workers, yet one that also commemorates the losses they have endured in carrying out their work. This is a unique Canadian opportunity to study with one of the masters of contemporary figurative painting, Vincent Desiderio. Represented by the influential Marlborough Gallery and a senior critic at both the Philadelphia and New York Academies of Art, Vincent has deeply influenced multiple artists in America and internationally. This is a chance to study with an artist who makes a compelling argument for figuration in contemporary painting as relevant and essential to our survival as thinking artists. Part technical figure workshop, part polemic on how artists must immerse themselves in thought and culture, a weekend of study with Desiderio can aid artists seeking to realize the profound potential in their art. The sun is out again. Warm but not hot, about 20 degrees Celsius. Muesli with banana and goat milk. Tea. Financial remittances sent back home by Mexicans working in other countries, already breaking records this year, will rise considerably in May, as they always do. That’s because of Mother’s Day, celebrated on May 10. About 6 years ago I was walking along the coast down near Masuda and while passing through the fishing village of Tsuda spied this wonderful sculpture of an elephant sitting in someones garage. Obviously made from wood and rope that had drifted up on the nearby beach. A few weeks ago I was walking the same section of coast so I was wondering if the man who had made it had done any more. NAACP Protests Momentum is building for an exciting new‚ idea, one which is in fact far older than many people realize: free higher education in the United States. The cost of educating oneself to participate fully in society is one which our revolutionary forebears understood should be borne by everyone. In John Adams’ day, that meant an elementary and high school education. Today, for many people, higher education is equally essential. The cost of that education is not an individual or charitable obligation. It is a social one. 1: Various Pulse Short Film New York 2: Assistant Editor - Indie Horror Feature - Scottsdale 3: Digital Media Distributor Spec - Maxim Media Marketing, Inc. - Scottsdale 4: Production Assistant - Intersport - Modesto 5: Junior Editor/Assistant Editor - Heist - San Francisco 6: 7D/C100/BM DP for interview - OTF Films - Nevada City 7: Digital Content Creators - Conde Nast Entertainment - San Francisco 8: Production Manager - Definite Films - Bay Area 9: Experienced Animator - Guerilla Wanderers San Jose 10: Make-up/Hair Artist USC - los Angeles 11: 2D/3D Graphic Animator - LandingPatterns.Com - Valencia 12: A.D.1 Comedy Feature Film - Indie Film-
makers - Los Angeles 13: Assistant Producer of Feature - Indie Filmmakers - Los Angeles 14: AV Production Tech - Freelance - SAG Foundation - Los Angeles 15: Gaffer - Pixel Films Studios - Aliso Viejo 16: Researcher / Copy Wrtiter - The Golden Closet - North Hollywood 17: On Set Sound Recorder - MasterMind Picturehouse - Burbank CA 18: 1st AC, Gaffer, Grip - Hot Tub Films Los Angeles 19: Anime Animator - Derek Sithidej - Los Angeles 20: Visual FX Artist - Ugly Brown Chair Productions - Encino 21: Script Supervisor - But Now What? Productions - DTLA / San Fernando Valley 22: Music Composer - Kid-Pseudo Media - long beach 23: Producer - Freelance - Los Angeles 24: Producer - Shuhe Wang - Los Angeles 25: Documentary Director - Tzu Chi Foundation - San Dimas 26: Lifestyle & Event Photographer - Spark LA - Los Angeles 27: Editor - Remainder One - Los Angeles 28: Polishing Editor Shoniqua Shandai Pictures - Los Angeles 29: Assistant Director (AD) - Man Of Silver Productions - Los Angeles 30: Sound Editor - Observation Pictures - West Side 31: Film Crew - Mandolin Casting - Los Angeles, Ca 32: First Assistant Director - Silver Entertainment - Los Angeles 33: Sound Operator - Just Giggle It - South Pasadena 34: C4D Animator - Merit/Andrew - Irvine 35: Gaffer,Key Grip,Craft Services - GOE, LLC - Los Angeles 36: Web Designer We Are Famous - Culver City 37: Music Video/Short Film Crew - Independent - Los Angeles 38: Producer Student Film - Los Angeles 39: General Crew - ScarlettOh Productions - Oceanside 40: Dolly Grip - American Film Institute - Los Angeles 41: Promo Director - na Los Angeles 42: Cinematographers - NYFA Student Los Angeles 43: Graphic Artist - Birds Eye Film - Miami, FL 44: Animator/artist, editors, etc - The Remnant Long Beach /LA 45: Soundguy&boom operator. - New York Film Academy - Los Angeles 46: Production Designer - Short film - Hollywood 47: DP & Sound, with equipment - Uncle John Productions - Los Angeles 48: Editor VM Productions - Los Angeles 49: Underwater Crew NEEDED UCLA Thesis Film - Westwood 50: Production assistant - Lone Ranger Films - Los Angeles 51: Art Decorator Feature Film Set - Indie Filmmakers - Los Angeles 52: VFX artist Independent Los Angeles, San Francisco 53: Script Supervisor - ASCA Films - Los Angeles 54: Director of Photography - Kristin Findley - Los Angeles 55: Production Designer - Art center college of design - Pasadena 56: Production Assistant - AFI - Los Angeles 57: Production Designer - Student Film - Los Angeles 58: Script Supervisor Feature Film - Indie Filmmakers Los Angeles 59: Feature Screenplay Writer (Music Film) - KJ Anderson Studios - Los Angeles 60: Bilingual Final Cut X Editor - CREXELS - Downtown Los Angeles 61: Director of Photography - Spectrum Productions - Los Angeles 62: DP, Producer, Pdtn. Designer - Torre - North Hollywood 63: Grip, electrics, camera assist AFI Short - American film institute - Los angeles 64: DP - The Present Future - LA 65: Production Designer - Columbia College Hollywood Shooting - Thousand Oaks 66: Art department - Lumen Actus, LLC - Anaheim 67: Executive Producer - Bam!PRODUCED., LLC - Los Angeles 68: DOP for Micro Horror Feature - BDE LLC - Los Angeles, CA 69: Production Team/ Producer - Lotus Kitty Inc - Los Angeles 70: Field Producer/Shooter Legends Rising Los Angeles 71: Production Assistant - Miraworld Los Angeles 72: Editor - DCG Arts - Los Angeles 73: Comedy Screenwriter - Whale Productions - Los Angeles 74: DP - NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY - BURBANK 75: Production Intern - Katy Cole - Los Angeles 76: General Crew Boxtruck Boyz Hollywood 77: co-writer - New York Film Academy - Burbank 78: Special Effects Make-Up Artist New View Pictures - San Fernando Valley 79: Location Manager - Brain Bug Los Angeles, CA 80: Construction Coordinator Grant Larson Productions - Los Angeles 81: Make up Artist (Horror) - Alexandre Wilson - Burbank 82: MILITARY VETERAN FILM CREW - Veteran Films - Los Angeles 83: Production Assistant - NBCUniversal - Stamford, CT 84: AVID Comedy Clip Editor - NBCUniversal - STAMFORD 85: Digital Sales Designer - NBC Sports - Stamford 86: Master Control Technician - Middle East Broadcasting - Springfield 87: VISUAL FX CGI ARTIST - TOTEM FILMS & VIDEO PRODUC-
TION - Work from your home 88: DSLR Operator - Boykins Entertainment - Orlando 89: Rental House Manager Needed - Moving Picture Electronic Services - South Florida 90: Editor Producer - Turner Broadcasting System Inc - Miami 91: Motion Graphics Artist - Vision Media, Inc. - West Broward 92: Various Crew Positions - O CHELSY PRODUCTIONS - Homestead Florida 93: boom operator - N/A - Orlando 94: Make Up/Hair Artist - Fine Light entertainment - Miami 95: Gaffer - Fine Light entertainment - Miami 96: Sound Mixer - FLE - Miami 97: PA - Fine Light Entertainment - Miami 98: Sound Mixer D & A Films Reality - Miami Beach 99: Assista nt / Intern - Dog Files - Orlando/Clermont 1 0 0 : Metadata Wr i t i n g and QC Crawford Metaforce - Working from home/Remote 101: production audio - naked mountain productions Atlanta 102: Cameraman Apprenticeship: ATL - Go To Team - Atlanta, GA 103: Camera Assisant - ChopperShoot Productions - Chicago 104: Production Assistant - Life Focus Communications - Orland Park 105: Production Manager/AD - Dreaming Tree Films - Chicago 106: Camera Operator - Patanjali Yoga - Bethesda MD 20814 107: Master Control Technician Middle East Broadcasting Springfield 108: Producer/Associate Producees Ask Dr. Nandi Farmington Hills 109: Wedding Videographer - Wilson Sarkis Photography - West Bloomfield 110: Online editor/script doctor - EverGate Studios - Stl 111: Camera Operator, AC, PA - HIDE - Springfield, 112: Production Assistant - Memories In Motion Las Vegas 113: Production Assistant - NBCUniversal - Stamford, CT 114: Post Production Producer - N/A - BROOKLYN 115: Digital Distribution Tech FilmRise Brookklyn 116: FreelanceVideoShooter/Producer - Tom’s Guide/ Purch - NYC/ Chelsea FlatIron District 117: Sound person w/ equipment - Independent - New York 118: Gaffer for low budget feature - Halcyon Valor Productions - Union City 119: Feature Film Editor - Electromesh Productions - New York City 120: Makeup Artist - Digital Film Academy - New York City 121: Production Assistant - The Production - Englewood, NJ 122: Set Designer / Assistant - independent - NEW YORK 123: Line Prod. Wardrobe, Makeup - Confidential - New York City 124: Production Assistant - blackSTORY - BROOKLYN 125: Seeking Agent - CONFI-
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176: Interns/Volunteers - Katra Film Series - NYC 177: Video Production Specialist - Legal Services of New Jersey - Edison 178: Development Intern NYC Production Company - New York 179: Account (Client Ser) Manager - Deluxe Media Services - Manhattan West Village 180: Editor Iron Rose Productions - New York 181: CREW MEMBERS DP, Sound, Editor - 21ST CENTURY VISION FILMS - New York 182: Shooter - Juice Groove Films - NYC 183: Still Photo Lighting Assistant - March of Dimes - White Plains NY & Norwalk CT 184: Makeup Artist - Psych Ward Films - Bayport, NY 185: Makeup Artist. - Land Dog Films - Brooklyn 186: Location Manager Game 7 Films - NYC 187: Line Producer Game 7 Films - New York City 188: Location Scout - Production Company - Central NJ 189: Office Manager - Maha Partners - Midtown 190: Production+Editing assistant - Callejero Films Inc - Brooklyn 191: PRODUCTION INTERN Meltzer Media Productions - MANHATTAN 192: Editor - Confidential - Manhattan 193: Production Assistants - These Three Girls Webseries - New York 194: Evening Receptionist - Jump NoHo 195: Editor - Vitale Productions - NYC 196: VFX Artist Shou lderHill Entertainment - NYC 197: PA/AE Harvard Grad Student - Manhattan 198: Art Director Light - New York 199: A.D’s and D.O.P’s - Confidential New York City 200: ALL CREW POSITIONS-Web Series - Independent - New York City,Brooklyn,Queens 201: Cartoon Animator - Blazur Films - Fairfield County 202: Seeking Animated Series - CARTUNA - BROOKLYN 203: Background Painter - Box Animation - New York 204: Wardrobe Supervisor - The Depths LLC Union City, NJ 205: Crew - Independent - Cape Vincent, NY 206: Editor - Small Media Extra Large - NY 207: Film Camara & lighting, Operator - Stove Top Productions - Williamsburg 208: UNPAID Asst. Editor - N/A - Brooklyn 209: Entire crew and talent - Where’s the Lake Productions - Parsippany 210: Editor, ScriptSupervisor,Still - A Reason LLC - New York City 211: Makeup Artist - L & H Productions, LLC - Manhattan 212: Editor - Trygon Pictures LLC - nationwide 213: Multiple Positions - Twenty Twelve Pictures - Brooklyn 214: Gaffer with some equipment - Feature Film - Brooklyn and
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within the vicinity of a robbery. Arthur Sargeant, 48 allegedly shot the man in the back, and although the suspect was taken to the hospital, he was never arrested or charged with a crime. In this area of St. Louis, the neighborhoods are patrolled by agents who are still hired by the state, but are under an entirely different jurisdiction than the official police department. On paper, they are nothing more than security guards, but in these communities they act as police, indiscriminately invading people’s privacy and arresting people for nonviolent crimes with no victims. However, St. Clair County State’s Attorney Brendan Kelly said that he will be charged to the same extent that an average citizen would. This week, 49year-old Arthur Sargeant of the St. Louis Police Department was charged with driving under the influence of cocaine, and one count of aggravated battery with a firearm. A state police investigation revealed that he may have been high when she shot a man in the back during a burglary investigation. “For more than seven years, the government has collected the phone records of every American under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, without ever having the justify the program’s legality in a public and adversarial court hearing,” Brett Max Kaufman, a legal fellow with the ACLU National Security Project, wrote for the ACLU blog after the lawsuit was filed on Nov. 2013. The ruling issued by the court says that a provision of the USA Patriot Act permitting “the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to collect business records deemed relevant to a counter terrorism investigation cannot be legitimately interpreted to permit the systematic bulk collection of domestic calling records.” Let’s know about Section 215 of the Patriot Act: Section 215 of the Patriot Act legally authorizes the law enforcement to collect “any tangible things” that the government proves are linked or connected to an investigation into any suspected terrorist. However, the latest verdict by U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals now ruled that the mass collection of telephone metadata program run by the NSA - Not Authorized by Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Section 215 “cannot bear the weight the government asks us to assign to it, and that it does not authorize the telephone metadata program,” writes Judge Gerard E. Lynch. “Such expansive development of government repositories of formerly private records would be an unprecedented contraction of the privacy expectations of all Americans.” Good Day, I am Nathan L. Arenson. Steve Tran is donating a grant of 550,000 United State Dollars to you as part of his humanitarian project. Contact him via email at ( s t e ve t r a n d o n a t i o n @gmail.com) for further details. Best Regards, Nathan L. Arenson For: Steve Tran Foundation The World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola on Saturday, making it the first of the three hardest-hit West African countries to bring a formal end to the epidemic. The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is over, the W.H.O. said in a statement read by Dr. Alex Ntale Gasasira, the W.H.O.s representative to Liberia, in a packed conference room at the emergency command center in Monrovia, the capital. Just prior to Dr. Gasasiras statement, Luke Bawo, an epidemiologist, showed a map depicting all of Liberia in green with the number 42 superimposed on it. This represented that two maximum incubation periods of the virus, a total of 42 days, had passed since the safe burial of the last person confirmed to have had Ebola in the country, fulfilling the official criteria for concluding that human-to-human transmission of the virus has ended. According to the W.H.O., there were more than 3,000 confirmed Ebola cases in Liberia, and a further 7,400 suspected or probable cases, with more than 4,700 deaths estimated to have occurred since the outbreak was declared there in March of 2014. Among the dead were 189 health care workers. The first nettime message was sent on 31 May 1995,[1] almost twenty years ago. A lot has happened since then, and we’re proud of how well this list, and the larger nettime ‘neighborhood,’ has traced many of these epochal changes. The list’s alumni/ae is a who’s who of critical culture across an incredible range of fields. They -- really, *you-- have helped to redefine activism, shape national and international legal and economic reforms, lead international cultural festivals and some of the world’s most famous musems, produce astonishing works of art, write fiction
and nonfiction that’s won awards and redefined entire disciplines, and build crucial free and open-source software, to name just a few things. And those are just the ‘heroic’ stories. There are many more obscure ones that, if anything, are even more impressive, as even a quick glance at nettime’s Wikipedia entry will show. A few nettimers have passed away, and we miss them dearly, still. Moreover, most like-minded projects of a similar age have either vanished or, alternatively, have succeeded by forsaking their alternative status for the discursive bonds of institutional security. Nettime stands alone as a deliberately, even radica l ly i ndependent project. Its migration over the years -in-berlin. de, desk. nl, material.net, thing.net, w a a g. n l , and now kein.org and bitnik.org -- tells just one part of that story. But if times have changed, Nettime has not. At a time when an email address as such is becoming a generational marker (for many younger people it’s little more than a tool of the man), the very idea of a mailing list is itself an anachronism. It’s slow -- sometimes slower than a mailed letter would be, at this point. It takes time to read and write. And there’s no images, no video, no memes, no numbers, stats or ranks, no friends or followers -- in short, there’s not much to like about it. ‘Tactical’ media has gone viral -it’s mainly absorbed in its own anthologies -- while ‘viral’ media have become a cliche for marketers and other assorted bottom-feeders. Nettime is still devoted to criticism of the net, in a way. But how could that matter when it’s debatable whether ‘the net’ even exists anymore? Hasn’t everyone else moved on to the post- dig ita l ? ‘Posttime,’ anyone? In this and many other ways, nettime has been ‘graying.’ It’s wedded to a particular Euro-American moment, the so-called summer of the Internet, which has since turned to winter. Nettime’s once-radical embrace of the ex-East -- or, if you like, of the ex-West -- barely extends to Hungary now, and has nothing to say to the decisive conflicts around Russia’s borders, obviously (but not only) in Ukraine. Its early tacit prohibition on ritualizeddebates about Israel and Palestine has grown into a complete failure to address the profoundly important dynamics across parts of the world conventionally -- and reductively -- called ‘Muslim’ or ‘Arab.’ These areas are too often consigned to the ‘timelessness’ of conflict, but there’s every reason to be-
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ing around newer, open questions. Unfortunately, that didn’t pan out. Nettime is not mobile and there is no app for that. After considering these and other options, and trying to imagine how we could ‘upgrade’ nettime’s creaky infrastructure so that it’d at least have a chance, we’ve reluctantly come to the conclusion that it would be better to make a graceful exit. So we’ve decided to fold up shop on 30 May, the day before the list would turn twenty. Nettime has a troubled history when it comes to unsubscribing people -- plus, since we’re stuck in 1995 and *none of this this is automated -- so we’re asking that each of you to pitch in by unsubscribing yourself before that date. You can find the link to do so here: Personally, we -- Ted Byfield and Felix Stalder -- would like to say that it’s been a pleasure and an honor to moderate the list for the last seventeen-odd years. It’s been a part of our lives, and we’ll miss it very much. However, this crime is not Rios Montt’s, alone. The genocide would have been impossible without the United States, which had run the show in Guatemala since 1954 and had armed the general to the teeth. The U.S. corporate media like to call President Ronald Reagan the “Great Communicator” but, in Guatemala, he was the Great Exterminator, encouraging and financing General Rios Montt’s orgy of mass murder. Reagan described the racist butcher as “a man of great personal integrity and commitment” who was “getting a bum rap.” All told, a quarter million or more Guatemalans died in the 40 years since the CIA robbed them of their democracy and independence.
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he Maya were targeted for extermination because of their ethnicity.” In 1999, when the civil war was over, President Bill Clinton apologized for the harm done to Guatemala by the United States. But by then, Clinton had already set in motion a far larger genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo – a U.S.-sponsored holocaust that has so far claimed 6 million lives. In a just world, Slick Willie would join an auditorium full of Obama, Bush and Clinton administration operatives who, over the space of 16 years, made eastern Congo the charnel house of the planet. Susan Rice would have a place of prominence
in this vast assemblage of criminals, as among the most culpable for the worst bloodbath since World War Two. In fact, there is no auditorium big enough to hold the all the living Americans who should justly be charged with genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. There are too many – great crowds of them from each administration, especially in the last ten years, since the invasion of Iraq. Imperialism in its last stages maintains an ever-lengthening Kill List. Guatemala is coming to grips with its past, in a trial that will probably last a few months. The United States has an infinity of crimes to answer for. Using the timeline on the right side of the window will allow you to reach back to a certain point in time. The timeline shows all the times of your backups on the drive. If you don’t know exactly when you deleted that photo you can use the back arrow to tell Time Machine to travel through time to show you when that folder last changed. You can also search for a file using a Finder window. From the Finder, enter Time Machine and then enter a search term in the search field. Use the back arrow to have Time Machine search through your backups. To restore a file, select the file or folder and click the “Restore” b ut t on . If you are not sure if you are restoring the right file, you can use Quick Look to preview the contents. Highlight the file and press the Space Bar to take a closer look. The military conflicts and political instability driving hundreds of thousands of refugees into Europe were triggered largely by U.S. and Western military interventions for regime change: specifically in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria (a regime change in-the-making). The United States was provided with strong military support by countries such as Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain, while the no-fly zone to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was led by France and the UK in 2011 and aided by Belgium, Denmark, Norway and Canada, among others. When Congolese women and children screamed in agony, United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice said, literally, that the U.S. should “look the other way” – knowing full well that a people were being annihilated. She is no different than the high Nazi officials who were hanged for waging aggressive war and the slaughter of millions, almost 70 years ago. “If the Nurem-
burg rules of international justice were in force today, the highest officials in London and Washington would face death by hanging for their monstrous crimes.” And now, after 16 years of unspeakable carnage, the world’s greatest military power, equipped with the most sophisticated means of information gathering ever devised, whose soldiers train and equip the Rwandans and Ugandans who are responsible for tens of thousands of murders a month, claims to have only the most limited knowledge of how six million people wound up dead – half of them children below the age of five. Today, many paintings that are displayed in the gallery are also contemplated online on platforms such as Instagram. This is a widely discussed phenomenon, but what is often overlooked in painting discourse is the role played by works created and experienced on the computer and the internet. This kind of digital painting has existed for decades: for example, the 1970s software SuperPaint already included many features found in modern paint applications. “Brushes” acknowledges this long history while focusing on practices that have emerged in recent years. Every day, hundreds of traumatised and persecuted families are crossing to Europe. With no peace in sight to wars like Syria, their choice to board a boat may be the only one they have. All they want is safety. The UN says nearly one million people need urgent help, and increasing safe and legal routes is the best way to reduce the numbers risking their lives, and curb violent people trafficking. In coarse black lines, handscratched metal, fragmented text and visceral colour, the Toronto-based artist traces the trajectory of heavy industry, high technology, military might and maniacal folly as they clear-cut their way through blighted landscapes and a besieged human psyche. From his working-class roots in Windsor, the self-aware and wry-humoured Scott has remained consistent and eerily prescient in raw-edged drawings and found-object installations that plot a vector from Space Age optimism -- mankind’s giant leap’’ in the 20th century to the nihilism of unceasing war and terror in the 21st. In just over 35 years. As refugees are stranded at train stations, attacked by riot police, and killed during the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, Europe’s failure to address the rising humanitarian crisis is being met with global outrage and sorrow. Now, many are also looking across the Atlantic to the United States, where observers say key responsibility for the crisis lies--not only because the country is lagging in its humanitarian response, but also because its war policies lie at the root of the ongoing displacement. What’s more, many have pointed out that aid dollars pale in comparison to U.S. military spending. Yacoub El Hillo, the top United Nations humanitarian official in Syria, recently noted to the New York Times that while the U.S. government spends $68,000 an hour on warplanes targeting ISIS, the UN grapples with dramatic funding shortfalls in which it has less than 50 percent of what it needs to care for Syrians uprooted by war. Chevron’s deliberate dumping of 18 billion gallons of toxic waste water and 17 million gallons of crude into the Ecuadorian Amazon created a massive health crisis and remains one of the worst oil-related environmental crimes in history. A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Gill Dewayne Garrett, 29, of Versailles, Kentucky, with unlawful distribution of a controlled substance that resulted in an overdose death, an-
nounced U.S. Attorney Kerry B. Harvey for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Special Agent in Charge Joseph Regan for the DEA and Chief John Wilhoit of the Versailles Police Department. Since the early Nineteenth century, childhood has been viewed as both a privileged condition for creative inspiration (mostly in the arts) and a decisive phase in the development of adult subjectivity (usually in scientific fields). Such centrality of childhood acquired particular importance in the Twentieth century. At the time, in fact, political systems - and especially dictatorships - began to understand children as a crucial national resource and therefore tried to exercise influence on them through educational policies and a wide range of cultural means. At the root of this phenomenon lies the awareness that children’s cognitive development is based on processes of assimilation and accommodation of external inputs. Consequently, future adults may have their thoughts and perceptions shaped by many tools, from toys to the language of education. By encompassing in the notion of dictatorship both absolute forms of power, such as totalitarianisms, and military dictatorships, the aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to investigate how last century dictatorial regimes tried to control and mould children, focusing on the mechanisms and instruments devised for that purpose. Species Summary: Least Storm-Petrel (1 California) Brown Booby (3 California, 2 Iowa) Brown Booby (Atlantic) (1 Iowa) Common Greenshank (1 Alaska) Ruff (1 Alaska) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (2 Alaska) Craveri’s Murrelet (2 California) Slaty-backed Gull (1 Alaska) Smooth-billed Ani (1 Florida) Plain-capped Starthroat (1 Arizona) Sinaloa Wren (1 Arizona) Common Chiffchaff (Siberian) (2 Alaska) White Wagtail (9 Alaska) Red-throated Pipit (7 Alaska) Rufous-capped Warbler (1 Arizona) Slate-throated Redstart (1 Arizona) Little Bunting (3 Alaska) A storm system in the northern U.S. will bring a variety of weather across several states from the Northern Rockies to the Upper Midwest on Saturday. Several inches of earlyseason snow are forecast in the higher elevations of Idaho and western Montana. Locally-heavy rain will accompany strong thunderstorms in the northern Plains and Upper Midwest. This last one is a MASSIVE Cooking library with over 1400 files totaling close to 9 hours recorded over the course of 7 years. For those of you who work on cooking shows, dump ‘n stirs, or just have a cooking segment in a TV show or film, this is for you! Every kind of cutting, chopping, dumping, pouring, stirring, whisking, tapping, banging, scraping, opening, tossing, grating,mincing, pounding, and much much more. Boils, sizzles, flames, etc. Just about every cooking and food prep sound you’d need. We are working on a separate “consuming” library (drinking, slurping, biting) but this includes a number of bites, chomps, and crunches. Also, we have a Setdowns, Sips, and Pours add-on library coming soon that will focus on beer, wine, liquor, & water. community is a form of communism.’ Even taking the train is too communal for them. Americans have been led to believe that only individuals matter, that every person should fend for him/herself, that winner-take-all‚ is the ultimate goal, and that the winners have no responsibility to others. To the capitalist, everything is a potential market. Education, health care, even the right to water. But with every market failure it becomes more clear that basic human rights can’t be bought and sold like cars and cell phones. The pursuit of profit, when essential needs are part of the product, means that not everyone will be able to pay the price. Some will be denied those essential needs. He’s a multi-millionaire businessman who’s lived in nearly a dozen countries, and today owns more than 100,000 acres of land on 3 continents He survived the Argentinian currency collapse in 2001, the largest sovereign debt default in history, and even made a 700% return in the aftermath He weathered the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s – and managed a 20-to-1 return amidst the economic shift What could happen? You could have lots of bank failures. You could have a stock market crash. All this money that the government has created has bulled up the stock market to new highs. So, the next step is likely to be down. A lot of people have assets in the stock market, and if they don’t, their pension funds are in the stock market. Most of the cities in this coun-
try have and most of the states in this country have gigantic pension liabilities that are underfunded, underfunded even though the stock market is at all-time highs and the bond market is in a super bubble.” Now, when interest rates inevitably go up from these artificially suppressed levels where they are now, the bond market is going to collapse, the stock market is going to collapse, and with it, the real estate market is going to collapse. These pension funds are going to be wiped out. Then what’s going to happen? This is a very bad situation. The U.S. is digging itself in deeper and deeper. Catastrophic droughts and raging wildfires rava g i n g much of the continent could either serve as a climate wa ke -up call or entrench denial and inac tion. Too many firms on Wall Street using high-speed trading to try to make a quick buck. But it’s risky and unproductive. Banks can execute thousands of stock trades a second thanks to sophisticated computer algorithms. Wall Street can keep doing this if it wants-but they’ll have to pay a tax on every one of those trades. And this tax on Wall Street speculation would be enough to pay for my plan to make tuition free at every public college or university. Brad Magazine is a Toront o - b a s e d contempora r y art and criticism periodical devoted to providing a forum for significant ideas in visual art and culture. Each quarterly issue explores a new theme through original art writing, criticism and artists’ projects. Brad is published by Brad The Visual Arts Foundation, a registered charitable organization established to present ideas, advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Brad doesn’t acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts and the OntarioArts Council for his publishing activities. We have to understand, that all compromises from the capital to the social sphere is first determined from the money reserves. And if they do not have it, then all “social protection” is finished. The actors have a big problem. They are depend of the workers and do not like it. USA moved the industrial base out of the land. In Germany we see the same. And “nacional economy”, like what we know from Adam Smith, is ignored. It exist, but stay never in the foreground. It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in
four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good. Art can only give food - a jolt - the occasion - for psychical experience. Cucumbers grown in Mexico have been linked to one death and 284 other cases of salmonella in the U.S., officials said yesterday. Heavy rains have caused extensive damage to roads in the north of the state of Oaxaca and in one case a washout has cut off thousands of families. Spe-
cies Summary: Tufted Duck (1 Newfoundland and Labrador) Redbilled Tropicbird (1 California) Blue-footed Booby (9 California) Brown Booby (9 California, 2 Iowa, 2 Virginia) Gray-tailed Tattler (1 Alaska) Common Greenshank (1 Alaska) Marsh Sandpiper (1 Alaska) Ruff (2 Alaska, 8 California) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (3 Alaska, 2 Alberta) Curlew Sandpiper (1 Oregon) Slatybacked Gull (1 Alaska) Smoothbilled Ani (1 Florida) Plain-capped Starthroat (1 Arizona) Tufted Flycatcher (2 Arizona) Sinaloa Wren (1 Arizona) Common Chiffchaff (Siberian) (9 Alaska) White Wagtail (12 Alaska) Red-throated Pipit (8 Alaska) Western Spindalis (1 Florida) Little Bunting (2 Alaska) Scattered strong/isolated severe thunderstorms are expected to develop over eastern portions of the northern Plains and Mid-Missouri Valley Sunday afternoon. The storms and accompanying severe risk should spread across the Upper Mississippi Valley and may spread as far eastward as the western U p p e r G r e a t L a ke s . Though ligament tears and broken bones are well-known, all of those violent hits football players take could be leading to hypertension and potentially chronic and traumatic brain injuries. As images from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are replayed around the world, they are still as shocking as they were ten years ago. Many of us watched in disbelief as we saw how the world’s richest and most powerful state seemed unable, then unwilling, to rescue its own citizens sending in trigger-happy troops who shot at the hurricane’s victims instead. Coming so soon after the Iraq war, the hapless Bush administration appeared unable to respond to any crisis without resort to the military. As the waters receded, America’s deep-seated racism and inequality was laid bare for the whole world to see. Dystopian preparations by the state are reflected in the corporate arena. Where we see a future climate crisis, many companies see only opportunity: oil firms looking forward to melting ice caps delivering new accessible fossil fuels; security firms touting the latest technologies to secure borders from climate refugees; or investment fund managers speculating on weather-related food prices to name but a few. The NWS Storm Prediction
Center expects severe weather to be possible on Monday in the Central U.S. The area of greatest concern covers portions of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, northern Missouri, northwest Illinois and southwest Wisconsin. The primary threats for this region will be damaging winds, hail and heavy rainfall which may cause localized flash flooding. A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings from the Louvre. After careful planning, he got past security, stole the paintings and made it safely to his van. However, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of gas. When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied, “Monsieur, that is the reason I stole the paintings.” “I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh.” See if you have De Gaulle to send this on to someone else. I sent it to you because I figured I had nothing Toulouse. For most insects (and other small animals), the praying mantis is a creature out of their worst nightmare; a deadly predator with giant compound eyes, a nasty set of high-speed spiky grasping limbs, and an appetite to boot. But C h o r dodes formosa nus is a parasite that w o u l d give mantis nightmares - it is a hairwo r m . The worm starts out as a microscopic larva hidden inside the body of small insects - the mantis’ usual prey - but once it is ingested by a mantis, it can then grow to several centimetres long inside its abdomen. By the time it is ready to bid farewell to its reluctant host, which comes when it reaches sexual maturity, the worm has already taken up most of the space within the mantis, leaving it a halfempty husk. The modus operandi of a horsehair worm is to then get into the water, which involves the host taking a dunk - whether it wants to or not. Apart from commandeering the mantis to go for a terminal end to their relationship, during the worm’s development, it takes a massive toll. After all, one does not simply host a giant worm inside one’s abdomen without any consequences. Their workplaces became war zones, and gun battles once punctuated union protests. In past decades, organizers have been beaten, stabbed and shot while seeking better pay and safer conditions deep underground. But more recently the United Mine Workers
in Kentucky have been in retreat, dwindling like the black seams of coal in the Appalachian mountains. And now the last union mine in Kentucky has been shut down. We resist political rhetoric by asking questions of language, of history and of context. We resist surveillance by pointing the camera back at the watchers. We resist the recurring bile of racism, sexism and bigotry by subverting stereotypes by creating new forms of beauty and a more interconnected sense of identity. We resist the predatory nature of capital and the upward linearity of growth and accumulation by challenging notions of value and currency with alternative definitions of wealth and new expressions of personal freedom. WWP-19Mast: wish to run cables up mast for light & VHF. Found a couple web descriptions but none for P-19. Expect to drill two holes, top and bottom but would like to remove at least one end cap to facilitate cable runs; photo attached of base. will appreciate comments, cautions, instruction or websites. 400 million Indians - one quarter of India’s population - have no electricity. But as far as the United States and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are concerned, they can keep sitting in the dark. Last month, the news was leaked that a WTO dispute panel had found that India’s subsidies for solar power contravene WTO trade rules. India must now remove the subsidies or face trade sanctions. The United States filed the WTO complaint in 2013. The US alleged that India’s subsidies for the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (NSM) discriminate against foreign suppliers of solar components. The WTO decision confirms yet again that neoliberalism always favors trade over environmental protection. The TransPacific Partnership (TPP) contains all the same features which enabled the WTO’s decision against India’s solar subsidies. Species Summary: White-faced Storm-Petrel (2 Massachusetts) Blue-footed Booby (11 California) Brown Booby (10 California, 1 Louisiana, 2 Virginia) Brown Booby (Brewster’s) (10 California) Collared Plover (2 Texas) Graytailed Tattler (1 Alaska) Ruff (16 California, 2 Oregon) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (7 Alaska, 2 Alberta) Red-necked Stint (2 Alaska) Great Skua (1 Maine) Slaty-backed Gull (4 Alaska) Smooth-billed Ani (1 Florida) Plain-capped Starthroat (1 Arizona) Aplomado Falcon (1 Texas) Tufted Flycatcher (1 Arizona) Sinaloa Wren (1 Arizona) Common Chiffchaff (Siberian) (3 Alaska) White Wagtail (8 Alaska) Red-throated Pipit (7 Alaska) Rufouscapped Warbler (1 Arizona) Slate-throated Redstart (1 Arizona) White-collared Seedeater (1 Texas) Fivestriped Sparrow (1 Arizona) Little Bunting (1 Alaska) hough it is the third temple on the pilgrimage, Shorakuji, by virtue of being the most easterly temple is often where most pilgrims begin their pilgrimage, and I was no exception. Located in the hills of Bizen, it is inland north of Hinase, Okayama. Known, among other things, for its rather fine gate, constructed in 1801, I was disappointed to find it encased in scaffolding and tarps Account Executive $55K Lancaster, PA Sr. Product Manager $120K Chicago, IL Commercial Lines Producer $84K Glastonbury, CT Sales Representative $60K Houston, TX Senior Director, Global Operations $275K Gaithersburg, MD General Manager $120K Phoenix, AZ Regional Manager $72K New York, NY Human Resources Manager $90K Atlanta, GA Sr. Scrum Master
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senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. Everything you want is on the other side of fear. Most people quite rightly smell the opportunism of politicians trying to exploit a tragedy. This mass migration from the Middle East and beyond is a direct result of the neocon foreign policy of regime change, invasion, and pushing “democracy” at the barrel of a gun. Death and despair has migrated to the doorsteps of Europe. Few things elicit outrage in the United States more than the suggestion that the overseas horrors flooding its news media were actually caused by the United States. Starting from the three areas already appointed, this project will address a set of topics related with the media, the proliferation and the unfolding of images in cyberspace, the new modalities of screens and their implications in spectatorship and audiences. The substantial increase of urban screens is also a potential field of investigation and reflection on new forms of interaction and collaborative environments in public spaces. The projection of light on urban surfaces arises, largely, as a way to create spaces for collective critical thought through which the video serves as a means for communication and not for consumption, often conveying a sense of political inquiry. Species Summary: Arctic Loon (1 Alaska) Flesh-footed Shearwater (7 California) White-faced Storm-Petrel (1 Massachusetts) Blue-footed Booby (4 California) Brown Booby (11 California, 1 Louisiana, 1 Massachusetts, 10 Virginia, 6 Wa s h i n g t o n ) Brown Booby (Brewster’s) (2 California) Collared Plover (1 Texas) Ruff (14 California) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (9 Alaska) Curlew Sandpiper (1 Oregon) Slatybacked Gull (1 Alaska) Whiteeared Hummingbird (2 Arizona) Tufted Flycatcher (2 Arizona) Sky Lark (1 Alaska) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (1 Arizona) White Wagtail (1 Alaska) Red-throated Pipit (4 Alaska) Tropical Parula (1 Texas) Rufous-capped Warbler (4 Arizona) Slate-throated Redstart (3 Arizona) The proposed Phillips 66 Oil Train offloading facility in San Luis Obispo County would ship 3 million gallons per day of volatile and toxic crude by rail in outdated and unsafe oil tank cars into California, including to and fro the Inland Empire and LA Harbor, all the way
through Downtown LA and the San Fernando Valley. The Revised Draft Environmental Impact Report concludes that the proposed Phillips 66 rail spur would cause significant and unavoidable rail accident hazard risks along the main rail line that could result in oil spills, fires, and explosions near populated areas. We removed the end cap by drilling out rivets. Did our particular project. Then, re-riveted the end cap back into place. Easy to do with no problems. Dave Bird nests offer an ideal situation to manipulate ectoparasites and study how they impact hosts. Several methods are available to eliminate parasites from nests and each has its own suite of advantages and disadvantages. For example, recent toxicity research has revealed that some commonly used insecti-
cides may not be suitable for use in experiments with nestlings. This highlights the need for investigators to control for the effects of methods used to eliminate nest parasites within experimental designs. Methods that can be used across treatment groups are also often needed to study the effects of variation in parasite intensity. To aid investigators in deciding which method(s) to use, we provide a comprehensive review of available methods for eliminating nest ectoparasites and also describe a new heat gun method. We tested the effectiveness of the heat-gun method with nests of Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) to which 100 nest mites were added and then quantified the number of surviving mites and other naturally occurring arthropods. We found that fully heated nests had significantly fewer mites and other arthropods than partially heated or control nests. Use of the heat gun had no negative effects on nestling growth or mortality rates. In studies of avian nest e c topa r asites, investigators need to consider methods that can be used across treatment groups to ensure that unaccounted for toxicity effects are not influencing results and leading to underestimation of the often subtle effects of ectopa r a site s on birds. Bardiot Clarisse, Barker Michel, Beiguelman Giselle, Born Georgina, Buiani, Roberta, Breuleux Yan, Broeckmann Andreas, Burbano Andres, Century Michael, Chapman, Owen, Chattopadhyay Budhaditya, Clausen Barbara, Cohen Hart, Dal Farra Ricardo, Darroch Michael, De Fren Alison, Diamond Sara, Emerson Lori, Fernandez Maria, Franco Francesca, Gagnon Monika Kin, Grau Oliver, Halpern Orit, Hamilton Kevin, Hauser Jens, Hayward Mark, Heyer Paul, Holtgen Stefan, Howes David, Jim Alice Ming Wai, Jolly Martyn, Kaikini Srajana, Kwastek Katja, Lapointe Fra ncois-joseph, Leeker Martina, Lehmann, Annette, Lewis Jason, Lichty Patrick, Loader Alison, Ma Jung-yeon, Malina Roger, Mariategui, Jose-carlos, Martinovic Jelena, Mccray Patrick, Menotti G. Gabriel, Morfin Jo Ana, Munsterparikka Jussi, Paul Christiane, Olsson Jesper, Orrghen Anna, Ozog Maciej, Penny Simon, Miyazaki, Shintaro, Sim Cheryl, Sndergaard, Morten, Seiser, Michaela, Thibault Ghislain, Wershler Darren, West Ruth, Zarina Solvita Marie-
luise Angerer, Monika Bakke, Samuel Bianchini, Georgina Born, Andreas Broeckmann, Annick Bureaud,Michael Cent ur y, Joel Chadabe,dooeun Choi, Ian Clothier, Sarah Cook, Nina Cz e g le dy, S a r a Diamond,Diane Domingues, Jean Paul Fou r me nt r au x , Zhang Ga, Genvo, Orit Halpern, Jens Hauser, Denisa Kera, Felipe Londono, Natalie Loveless, Glenn Lowry, Rafael Lozano-hemmer, Roger Malina, Sally Jane Norman, Nicolas Nova, Jussi Parikka, Christiane Paul, Simon Penny, Andrew Pickering, Sundar Sarrukai, Yukiko Shikata, Michel Van Dartel, Ionat Zurr Microsoft has the power to track every single word you type or say to its digital assistant Cortana while using its newest operating system, Windows 10. Last fall, we reported about a ‘keylogger’ that Microsoft openly put into its Windows 10 Technical Preview saying the company ‘may collect voice information’ as well as ‘typed characters. Several of Seagate’s 3rd generation Wireless Hard drives have a secret backdoor for hackers that puts users’ data at risk. A Recent study done by the security researchers at Tangible Security firm disclosed an undocu m e nt e d Telnet services‚ with a hardc o d e d password in Seagate Wireless Hard Drives. Fourteen years of wars, interventions, assassinations, torture, kidnappings, black sites, the growth of the American national security state to monumental proportions, and the spread of Islamic extremism across much of the Greater Middle East and Africa. Fourteen years of astronomical expense, bombing campaigns galore, and a military-first foreign policy of repeated defeats, disappointments, and disasters. Fourteen years of a culture of fear in America, of endless alarms and warnings, as well as dire predictions of terrorist attacks. Fourteen years of the burial of American democracy (or rather its recreation as a billionaire’s playground and a source of spectacle and entertainment but not governance). Fourteen years of the spread of secrecy, the classification of every document in sight, the fierce prosecution of whistleblowers, and a faithbased urge to keep Americans secure by leaving them in the dark about what their government is doing. Fourteen years of the demobilization of the citizenry. Four-
teen years of the rise of the warrior corporation, the transformation of war and intelligence gathering into profit-making activities, and the flocking of countless private contractors to the Pentagon, the NSA, the CIA, and too many other parts of the national security state to keep track of. Fourteen years of our wars coming home in the form of PTSD, the militarization of the police, and the spread of war-zone technology like drones and stingrays to the homeland. Fourteen years of that un-American word homeland. Fourteen years of the expansion of surveillance of every kind and of the development of a global surveillance system whose reach -- from foreign leaders to tribal groups in the backlands of the planet -- would have stunned those running the totalitarian states of the twentieth century. Fourteen years of the financial starvation of America’s infrastructure and still not a single mile of high-speed rail built anywhere in the country. Fourteen years in which to launch Afghan War 2.0, Iraq Wars 2.0 and 3.0, and Syria War 1.0. Fourteen years, that is, of the improbable made probable. Fourteen years later, thanks a heap, Osama bin Laden. With a small number of supporters, $400,000-$500,000, and 19 suicidal hijackers, most of them Saudis, you pulled off a geopolitical magic trick of the first order. Think of it as wizardry from the theater of darkness. In the process, you did “change everything” or at least enough of everything to matter. Or rather, you goaded us into doing what you had neither the resources nor the ability to do. So let’s give credit where it’s due. Psychologically speaking, the 9/11 attacks represented precision targeting of a kind American leaders would only dream of in the years to follow. I have no idea how, but you clearly understood us so much better than we understood you or, for that matter, ourselves. You knew just which buttons of ours to push so that we would essentially carry out the rest of your plan for you. While you sat back and waited in Abbottabad, we followed the blueprints for your dreams and desires as if you had planned it and, in the process, made the world a significantly different (and significantly grimmer) place. By sharing berries and directions, where a heart started considers the material interconnections and implications of intersecting desire, infrastructure and horizon lines. As we travel through life, our desire lines intersect with the desires of economics, resource transport, borders, barriers and walls, which manifest as rules, laws, and infrastructure such as train tracks and roads. Mario Macilau was 14 and living on the streets of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, when he got his hands on a camera. He taught himself to use it and 12 years later he was holding a solo exhibition in Lisbon. Here he explains how he snapped his way out of poverty: “I deal with very strong subjects, so my task is to use light and composition to provide balance.” Barnaby Barford has built a tower from 3,000 porcelain shops. For the past two years, he has been cycling around London, up to 50 miles a day, taking photographs of the city’s retail outlets. The photos were then made into small porcelain ornaments, which have been built into a 20fthigh (6.5m) tower. There are moments when I am in this room that I lose more than myself. I stand dumbstruck in this thing wondering about bats and dolphins. Echo location comes to mind. Am I missing some inner equipment? In place of
thoughts and words there are only feelings and sensations, heartbreak, regret, longing and fondness for the places and missing people of this world, and my own life. Abstraction at its best. The gears are freed up, spinning, sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly, I am just along for the ride. This is dislocation times one thousand and I for one am grateful for the break from myself. Above-normal temperatures will make it feel more like summer than early fall across parts of the western, southern and eastern U.S. again on Wednesday. Afternoon highs in the 90s will be prevalent across much of Calif., as well as across the southern Plains and Ohio Valley and into the mid-Atlantic and New England, where temperatures could reach 15-20 degrees above normal, perhaps record highs. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. When even one American-who has done nothing wrong-is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth-then all Americans are in peril. The neocon prescription of endless “regime change” is spreading chaos across the Middle East and now into Europe, yet the neocons still control the mainstream U.S. narrative and thus have diagnosed the problem as not enough “regime change.” Here lies the virus of fascism, wrapped in the American flag, held aloft by the Christian cross and buttressed by white supremacy. Fourteen years of the rise of the warrior corporation, the transformation of war and intelligence gathering into profit-making activities. During the Korean War, the United States bombed virtually all of North Korea and a good bit of the South, killing millions of people. It dropped massive quantities of Napalm. It bombed dams, bridges, villages, houses. This was all-out mass-slaughter. But there was something the U.S. government didn’t want known, something deemed unethical in this genocidal madness. It is well documented that the United States dropped on China and North Korea insects and feathers carrying anthrax, cholera, encephalitis, and bubonic plague. This was supposed to be a secret at the time, and the Chinese response of mass vaccinations and insect eradication probably contributed to the project’s general failure (hundreds were killed, but not millions). But members of the U.S. military taken prisoner by the Chinese confessed to what they had been a part of, and confessed publicly when they got back to the United States. U.S. cluster bombs in Yemen, U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, U.S. guns in Syria, U.S. white phosphorus and Napalm and depleted uranium used in recent years, U.S. torture in prison camps, U.S. nuclear arsenals being expanded, U.S. coups empowering monsters in Ukraine and Honduras, U.S. lies about Iranian nukes, and indeed U.S. antagonization of North Korea as part of that never-yet-ended war -- all of these things can be best confronted by people aware of a centuries-long pattern of lying. Ashley Nicole Richards 24, of Houston, Texas, has been convicted of creating and distributing videos depicting the torture and killing of puppies, chickens and kittens, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson for the Southern District of Texas. Richards entered a guilty plea today, admitting she produced and distributed what is referred to as animal crush videos. Species Summary: Smew (1 Utah) Flesh-footed Shearwater (5 California) White-faced Storm-Petrel (3 Massachusetts) Blue-footed Booby (1 California) Brown Booby (2 California, 4 Wa s h i n g t o n ) Brown Booby (Brewster’s) (1 California) Collared Plover (2 Texas) Ruff (6 California, 1 Oregon) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (2 Alaska) Slatybacked Gull (5 Alaska) Smooth-billed Ani (2 Florida) Plain-capped Starthroat (4 Arizona) White-eared Hummingbird (1 Arizona) Tufted Flycatcher (3 Arizona) Brown Shrike (1 Alaska) Sinaloa Wren (2 Arizona) White Wagtail (1 Alaska) Ru fous- capped Warbler (2 Arizona) Slate-throated Redstart (4 Arizona) I am Mr Tan Wong, I have an important business deal to discuss with you involving transfer of $24,500,000.00 that will be of great benefit for both of us. Reply if interested for more details Regards Mr Tan Wong Attn: Sir, The South Africa Government in Coalition with the United nation have come to a compromised to pay all defrauded and victim of financial fraud, ranging from lottery, inheritance or over inflated contracts the sum of USd1.5M dollars. Your email were among the contact of listed defrauded victim and you
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left helpless and dependent upon government - which cannot be relied upon - when the crisis tips over into true emergency. Panicked super rich buying boltholes with private airstrips to escape if poor rise up, detailing how elite at Davos and other confabs have been quietly planning their escape from the society they helped to splinter and destroy: Super rich hedge fund managers are buying `secret boltholes’ where they can hideout in the event of civil uprising against growing inequality, it has been claimed. Nervous financiers from across the globe have begun purchasing landing strips, homes and land in areas such as New Zealand so they can flee should people rise up. Linda Weston, 55, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to all charges in a racketeering and hate crimes case that involved holding disabled adults captive in locked closets, basements and attics in Philadelphia’s Tacony section and in other states. Weston pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, kidnapping resulting in the death of the victim, forced human labor, involuntary servitude, multiple counts of murder in aid of racketeering, hate crime, violent crime in aid of racketeering, sex trafficking, kidnapping, theft of government funds, wire fraud, mail fraud, use of a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime and false statements. U.S. District Court Judge Cynthia M. Rufe scheduled a sentencing hearing for Nov. 5, 2015. Weston faces life in prison plus 80 years consecutive, restitution, fines, supervised release and special assessments. Children just as innocent and precious as Aylan are being driven into the sea in Libya, incinerated by drone in Pakistan, or starved to death in Yemen all the time, and it is all on your dime. Washington bears full responsibility for the gravest refugee crisis since WW II. Julian Assange paints a picture of systemic US torture and killing as well as the destruction of the lives and livelihoods of billions of people right around the world. Essentially, the U.S. is doing in the Americas, what it is doing in Africa, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific regions: using its military to block independent development. As the girl’s family screamed for help, Egyptian soldiers reportedly referred to female refugees as “whores” and one prodded the girl’s dying body with his boots. Backed by American dollars, they brutalized their own people in the name of fighting communism or terrorism. They were feted by American presidents and invited to state dinners in Washington, even as they jailed and tortured anyone they deemed a threat to their way of life. Those employed by government in the United States in August of this year outnumbered those employed in the manufacturing sector by almost 1.8 to 1, according to data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Gas station clerk scares off robber, The Times Picayune, New Orleans, La. A man entered a Shell station in New Orleans, La. and attempted to rob the cashier, by claiming he was carrying a gun. The cashier responded by retrieving a gun and leveling it at the thief, prompting the criminal to flee. I preveiously posted photos of a few of the Fudo Myo statues at Myo-o In located high on Wakasugi Mountain in Fukuoka, a temple founded at a waterfall where Kukai practised austerities after his trip to China. Several of the other early Shingon patriarchs also visited here. At some point in the 14th Century the temple was destroyed and was not really revived and reconstructed
until Species Summary: Tufted Duck (1 Newfoundland and Labrador) Flesh-footed Shearwater (8 California) Blue-footed Booby (6 California) Brown Booby (8 California) Brown Booby (Brewster’s) (1 California) Brown Booby (Atlantic) (1 Iowa) Ruff (2 California, 2 Oregon) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (8 Alaska) Great Skua (1 Massachusetts) Slatybacked Gull (3 Alaska) Common Cuckoo (1 Alaska) Smooth-billed Ani (2 Florida) Plaincapped Starthroat (6 Arizona) White-eared Hummingbird (1 Arizona) Tufted Flycatcher (2 Arizona) Brown Shrike (1 Alaska) Sky Lark (1 Alaska) Sinaloa Wren (2 Arizona) Common Chiffchaff (Siberian) (1 Alaska) White Wagtail (3 Alaska) Rufous-capped Warbler (2 Arizona) Slate-throated Redstart (2 Arizona) Fivestriped Sparrow (1 Arizona) Little Bunting (1 Alaska) This e-mail communication and any attachments, including documents, files, or previous e-mail messages, constitute electronic communications within the scope of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USCA 2510 et al. This e-mail communication may contain nonpublic, confidential or legallyprivileged information intended for the sole use of the designated recipient(s). The unauthorized and intentional interception, use, copy or disclosure of such information, or attempt to do so, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful under applicable laws. If you have received this e-mail communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the original e-mail from your system. Historical injustice is ubiquitous in human history. The origins of just about every institution relevant to human political life has a pedigree stained by injustices of various magnitudes. Slavery, genocide, mass expropriation of property, mass internment, indiscriminate killings of civilians and massive political repression are all depressingly familiar features of human history, both in the distant and more recent past. Should any of them be redressed? Can historical injustice be redressed? Should states be held accountable for their bloody origins, such as the brutal colonization of the In America today, we have seen people kidnapped, caged and killed by police despite the fact that they were completely innocent and doing what the officer asked. C o mpl i a nc e and innocence are no guarantee of safety in a police state. Nidal, Shadi, Ghassan, Bader, Munir, Sleiman, Bilal, Amer and Kayed 9 Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike, refusing to eat, refusing to surrender. 9 Palestinian heroes held captive in Zionist dungeons, breaking the walls of captivity, defying their jailor, protesting their illegal and inhumane detention. 9 Palestinian freedom fighters; their only weapon their strong will and the belief in their just cause, their only weapon their empty stomachs steadfast in the face of torture, intimidation and force-feeding. Hunger strikes have always been a legitimate and effective weapon of protest and struggle used by Palestinian political prisoners and detainees in the face of injustice. Whether mass hunger strikes that sweep Israeli jails or single hunger strikes that last for months; Palestinian freedom fighters continue to resist the occupation from behind Zionist bars and isolation cells. Their battle against their jailors, against the policy of administrative detention, against the sham courts of the occupation, is the Battle of Breaking the Chains; an on-going battle till all Zionist jails are empty, an on-going battle till Palestine is free from the River to the Sea. It is a battle to break the chains of all Palestinians held in Zionist captivity; those held captive in small jails and those held captive in the bigger jails defined by the infamous Oslo Accords, it is a battle against injustice, a battle towards the freedom of all of us. Earlier this year, a 10-year-old girl in Paraguay made headlines when she arrived at a hospital 20 weeks pregnant. But this was not a one-off case. Last year, more than 700 girls aged 14 and younger gave birth in this South American nation of seven million people. All over Europe and the Mediter ra nea n world, barriers are being breached: the natural and man-made barriers used by nation-states to shut out unwanted travelers; the barriers of fear and grief that keep people from fleeing war or poverty until they have no choice; the barriers of indifference that enable the rest of us to get on with our lives as if those men, women, and children were no concern of ours. More than 380,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean this year in search of safety, two-thirds of them
landing in Greece; at least 2,850 have drowned or are missing at sea. Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans, and others walk for days in the heat, sleep rough on docks or station platforms or by the side of the road, are tear-gassed and beaten at borders and crammed into trains like cattle as they try to make their way north. The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a settlement with Duke Energy Corporation to resolve Clean Air Act violations at five coalfired power plants across North Carolina. The settlement resolves long-standing claims that Duke violated the federal Clean Air Act by unlawfully modifying 13 coal-fired electricity g e n e r a ting units located at the Allen, B u c k , Clif fside, Dan River and Riverbend plants, without obtaining air permits and installing and operating the required air pollution control technologies. One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain’t.The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-richquick theory of life. The convention which framed the Constitution of the United States was composed of fifty-five members. A majority were lawyers --not one farmer, mechanic or laborer. Forty owned Revolutionary Scrip. Fourteen were land speculators. Twenty-four were money-lenders. Eleven were merchants. Fifteen were slave-holders. They made a Constitution to protect the rights of property and not the rights of man. When It Comes to America’s Endless War: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure Year after year, as terror groups have multiplied, proxies have foundered, and allies have disappointed, the U.S. has doubled down again and a g a i n .T h e r e should be no such concept as stateless migrants, left to the mercy of the weather and the tides, the smugglers of human cargo, the border bureaucrats. The photos of a 3-year-old boy washed ashore in Turkey make this clear. Tropical Storm “Etau” hit mainland Japan on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 and rolled over the central part of the country, bringing strong winds and record-breaking rainfall which overflowed rivers and caused serious flooding and numerous landslides. Chapters include: ‘Raptures: Negotiation in the Created Object’, ‘Art and the Unexperienced Experi-
ence’, ‘Memorialization and Objects of the Dead’, ‘The Apparatus and the Unfixed Vanishing Point’, ‘Presence, Absence, and Play in the Hyperreal spaces of Computation’, ‘Traces of Absence in Photography: Dina Kanto and Alec Soth’, ‘The Cost of Burying the Dead: Six Feet Under’ and ‘Resisting Arrest: the Elusive Vanishing Point’. A 90-year-old man was at home in Youngstown, Ohio when he was alerted to an intruder by the sound of glass-breaking on his porch. The man retrieved a .357-caliber revolver and fired a shot in the direction of the home invader, prompting the intruder to flee the scene. Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (1 Oregon) Fleshfooted Shearwater (1 California) Brown Booby (1 California, 2 Virginia) Ruff (1 California) Sharp-tailed
Sandpiper (10 Alaska, 1 Washington) Slatybacked Gull (2 Alaska) Plain-capped Starthroat (3 Arizona) Sinaloa Wren (1 Arizona) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (2 Arizona) White Wagtail (1 Alaska) Rufous-capped Warbler (6 Arizona) Slate-throated Redstart (5 Arizona) Thu nde r s tor m s will continue over northern Kansas and southern Nebraska with large/ damaging hail and a risk of a tornado or two. The activity will shift southeastward across Kansas and into southwestern Missouri toward Friday morning. The remains covered the earthen floor beyond the narrow opening. This was, the scientists concluded, a large, dark chamber for the dead of a previously unidentified species of the early human lineage -Homo naledi. Researchers analyzing the H. naledi fossils have not yet nailed down their age, which is difficult to measure because of the muddled chamber sediments and the absence of other fauna remains nearby. Some of its p r i m i t i ve a n a t o m y, like a brain no larger than an average orange, Dr. Berger said, i nd i c a t e d that the species evolved near or at the root of the Homo genus, meaning it must be in excess of 2.5 million to 2.8 million years old. Geologists think the cave is no older than three million years. We welcome applicants from a range of d i s c i pl i ne s and specialties, but applicants should have research expertise that speaks to one or more of the Abrahamic religions (Islam, Judaism, and/or Christianity) and be able to demonstrate sophistication in using social-scientific and/or historical methods. The successful candidate will teach an introductory 100-level paper on Judaism, Christianity and Islam each year, plus one or two more papers (courses) of their own design (an average of two and a half papers per year). We particularly encourage candidates whose own papers would address aspects of Islam and/or Christianity outside Europe and North America. Applicants should have an energetic and enthusiastic commitment to teaching and an active research profile. Washington helped create the conditions with its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The numbers keep on growing. The authorities are overwhelmed, as are the solidarity networks. The refugee crisis has revealed a different rift: between thousands of ordinary citizens, from Greece to
Germany to Britain, ready to share their bread their homes, and governments determined to fortify their borders and protect their power, backed by both the anxious and the frankly xenophobic. Meanwhile, the people keep coming, and will continue to risk their lives to come. The Syrians entering Europe now are fleeing war, not poverty, but anyone who has spent time among refugees and migrants knows that these forms of violence often go hand in hand. Two billion people live on less than $1.25 a day. The barrier that once protected the rich world from the poor has been crumbling for years, undermined by globalization and the information revolution. No amount of barbed wire or steel can stand it up again. In the wake of the crisis and recession, despite the fact that nearly all the gains of the recovery have gone straight into the bank accounts of the wealthy, America’s billionaires keep doing things like comparing themselves to persecuted Jews in Nazi Germany and talking about the ever-popular pitchforks. Many aggressively denounce policies designed to redistribute wealth as “class warfare.” It’s been noted extensively that if there is any class warfare happening, it’s the wea lthy waging it against the lower classes. Yet the idea of a popular worker uprising that results in loss of property or violence against America’s rich is a bogeyman to which we keep returning. Even those in favor of addressing growing inequality use “avoiding class warfare” as the argument that putting in a fix is urgent. Children all over the world are suffering, and families remain trapped by artificial borders and legal requirements. Rather than simply increase quotas for some refugees, we need to envision a world where everyone has the right to flee violence and poverty. Tokyo is two sides of a coin. One side is tailored suits, high fashion, flashy Lamborghinis, and skyscrapers. If you look just a little deeper you can see the somber other side: the prostitutes along Dogenzaka, the homeless at Yoyogi Park, the empty beer cans and sake cups that litter the station as soon as the workday ends. At last count, state-funded shelters in all of Japan numbered around 25. Most public-housing services in Japan act as halfway houses, before the homeless are inevitably turned back out onto the street. There
are some opportunities for the homeless to earn a meager living, but most are undesirable at best. For example, they have been recruited--at minimum wage--to take part in the government-funded project of cleaning up nuclear radiation in areas affected by the 2011 Fukushima disaster. A crook snuck into a closed sushi restaurant and swiped $933 in ingredients including fish eggs, crab and lobster, according to a police report. The burglar stuck Mura, a sushi restaurant at 369 Fifth Ave., sometime between midnight and 11 a.m. on Sept. 1, according to the report. The thief entered the restaurant through a rear door and stole between 10 and 20 pounds of lobster, 30 pounds of beef, 15 pounds of shrimp, $85 in crab and $100 worth of tobiko -- fish eggs. The burglar was apparently thirsty, too, and took $200 in sake, plus orange juice, Coke and Sprite, according to the report. Azerbaijan has ca. 600,000 IDPs as a result of the Nagorno-Karabakh War. (Refugees and internally displaced persons in Azerbaijan) Afghanistan has 132,000 - 200,000 IDPs, mostly in the south and west parts of the country, due to fighting between NATO and Taliban-allied fighters. Burma (Myanmar) has about 503,000 IDPs due to decades of a long Internal conflict in Myanmar and government repression of ethnic minorities as well as Cyclone Nargis. The Central African Republic has about 197,000 IDPs due to the 2003 coup d’état and the subsequent civil war. Chad has about 178,000 IDPs due to the proximity to Darfur and the civil war in eastern Chad. Colombia has over 4 million IDPs according to the UNHCR, due to the war between the government, the FARC, the AUC and other armed groups. But, the numbers could be higher due this numbers correspond to statistics since 1997. CODHES determined that the IDP amount is higher, surpassing 5 million people. The Democratic Republic of Congo has almost 1,5 million IDPs due to the Second Congo War, mostly in the eastern provinces. Cote d’Ivoire has about 709,000 IDPs due to the civil war, mostly in the western regions. Cyprus had about 208,000 IDPs at the end of 2011, according to the Republic of Cyprus; the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus disputes this, saying that internal displacement ended in 1975. Ethiopia has about 200,000 IDPs due to natural disasters, the Ethiopian-Eritrean War and the Ogaden conflict. Georgia has 220,000 - 300,000 IDPs due to displacement of the ethnic Georgian population who have fled Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In Haiti, an estimated 1.5 million people were displaced following the January 2010 Haiti earthquake. As of June 2012, approximately 390,000 IDPs remained in 575 displacement camps. Iraq at least 4 million IDPs due to continued war eversince Saddam’s regime fall and recent ISIL based onslaught. India About 150,000, Kashmiri Pandits from the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir have been internally displaced due to the aggressive and violent separatist movement. Many adivasis (tribals) in the states(especially in Central India that fall in the Red Corridor) where the violence between the Naxals and the Indian State has been rising are forced by circumstances to move to the neighboring relatively peaceful states both for saving their lives and for employment. Indonesia has 200,000 350,000 IDPs due to fighting between the government and secessionist rebel movements. Israel has about 10,000 displaced Bedou-
ins, most of whom are Arab citizens of Israel. Kenya has 250,000 - 400,000 IDPs due to the violence that rocked the country after the 2007 elections. Kosovo had 590,000 displaced and 848,000–863,000 expelled. Kosovar Albanians by Serb forces during the Kosovo War. Kurdistan has more than 3.5 million IDP’s due to the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. Mexico has between 25,000 and 1.6 million IDP’s due to the war on drugs. Palestinian territories have 150,000 420,000 Internally Displaced Palestinians Pakistan has more than 400,000 IDPs at the end of 2008 due to ongoing conflicts in three regions of Pakistan. Currently 950,000 people have been displaced in KP province due to military operation. The Philippines have about 300,000 IDPs due to fighting between the government and communist and Islamic rebels. Serbia has over 220,000 IDPs from Kosovo after the arrival of NATO forces. Somalia has over a million IDPs due to the civil war. Sudan has 5 - 6 million IDPs due to decades of civil war in the south and the Darfur conflict in the west. Syria has at least 7.6 million IDPs as a result of the Syrian Civil War Uganda had about 869,000 IDPs in 2008 due to the insurgency of the Lord’s Resistance Army. The figure went down to almost 0 in 2012. Ukraine has about 1.3 million IDPs due to the War in Donbass, most IDPs relocated themselves in the countries eastern regions.Zimbabwe has 560,000 - 960,000 IDPs due to political violence, major land reform and an economic collapse of the country. As a Trial Attorney, the incumbent: Investigates and prosecutes cases in federal court, usually in partnership with United States Attorneys’ Offices. Handles complex, challenging, and potentially novel legal issues. Develops and maintains positive and effective relationships with our numerous law enforcement partners including federal, military and international investigative agencies. Advises and consults with the deputy chiefs, Section Chief, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General, the Assistant Attorney General, and others on the status of all cases and matters. Works with others in the Department of Justice and other agencies to develop policy. The first underwater dance and art performance in the world will be staged in Greece. Two choreographers, Apostolia Papadamaki from Greece and Sophie Bulbulyan from France, in collaboration with Lia Haraki from Cyprus and a group of artists from 12 countries (France, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Spain, Cyprus, Lebanon, Norway, Netherlands, Hungary, Portugal and Sweden) will present the show “Drops of Breath‚ off the coast of cape Sounion. Meet Miracle Mike, the fowl that lived for 18 months without a head. Recently, poetry has resurfaced as an engaged and active voice, both to the world at large and within its own borders: rejecting its own supposed avant-garde and writing new histories, creating new spaces. Taking poetry as a jumping-off point, the work collected in this issue restructures and renegotiates the parameters between word and image, language and meaning. Throughout the issue, the conceit that poetry and visual culture are separate genres is repeatedly undone, revealing new strategies that render visible a politics of world-making. Confirmed speakers: Robert van Boeschoten / Enric Duran / Rachel O Dwyer /Eduard de Jong / Primavera De Filippi / David Golumbia / Nyria Gwell / Max Haiven / Femke Herregraven / Cecile Landman / Silvio Lorusso / Paul Radu / Jip de Ridder / Lena Rethel / Robin Hood Minor Asset Management / Stephanie Rothenberg / Brett Scott If money is a medium, it can be imagined in different ways. If money is a medium, it can be used to different ends. Over the last seven years we have seen the rise of finance art: shrewd, bold, well-versed, trickster-like tools, installations and objects actively engaging with high finance and banking systems. In depth-research, provocation and visualization are some of the tactics used to critique, visualize and materialize the virtual political economy of banking and finance. How does money affect social processes and the way we relate to one another? Where is there room for intervention and autonomy? Is there such a thing as finance art? And what alternatives are imagined? How can we generate trust in these types of technologies on a larger-scale expanding outside the domain of the small, tech-savvy communities and progressive developers who currently use it without falling back on a centralized mediator, like banks? What does
it mean when we argue in favor of such a general tool that is designed to administrate whatever value or procedure? And how decentralized is it anyway? What underlying structures, political and economic, does it tackle? What does the future hold for crypto-currencies and blockchain technology? Will they be co-opted by the big banks as an extra payment service? Will they form parallel exchange systems of trust and security? Yet Japan is still caught in an economic trap. Persistent deflation has created a society in which people hoard cash, making it hard for policy to respond when bad things happen, which is why the businesspeople I’ve been talking to here are terri f ied about the possible spi l love r from China’s troubles. Scatt e r e d t hu nder storms tonight along a cold front across the southeastern and southern U.S. On Saturday, a few severe thunderstorms are possible in the mid-Atlantic and parts of Florida. Follow the Storm Prediction Center for updates. The person who submitted this change of address form states that he or she is the person, executor, guardian, authorized officer, or agent of the person for whom mail would be forwarded under this order. Anyone submitting false or inaccurate information on this form is subject to punishment by fine or imprisonment or both under Sections 2, 1001, 1702 and 1708 of Title 18, United States Code. Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority. Most Americans aren’t the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone. Dramatic footage has emerged showing people at Hungary’s main refugee camp on the border with Serbia being fed like wild animals. Refugees are just one symptom of a deeper crisis. Moreover, like other symptoms of this deeper crisis, the global elite is happy to use this symptom to keep us utterly preoccupied; after all, the immediacy of the refugee problem is
all too demanding of our attention and our compassion. The military conflicts and political instability driving hundreds of thousands of refugees into Europe were triggered largely by U.S. and Western military interventions for regime change - specifically in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria (a regime change in-themaking). The United States was provided with strong military support by countries such as Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain, while the no-fly zone to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was led by France and the UK in 2011 and aided by Belgium, Denmark, Norway and Canada, among others. Directed by a beardy-guy from a cave in Afghanistan, nineteen hard-drinking, coke-snorting, devout Muslims enjoy lap dances before their mission
to meet Allah. For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this ‘sludge’ reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by theintestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal. At 145 meters in height, Mount Shizuki in Hagi would be called a hill in English, but is symmetry and steepness give it quite a dramatic appearance. Jutting out into the sea it is particularly dramatic on a misty morning when viewed along the wide sweep of Kikugahama Beach. Hagi Castle was built at its base. The castle town and a couple of other sites in Hagi have been added to Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (2 Oregon) Tufted Duck (1 N e w foundland and Labrador) Fleshf o o t e d Shearwater (1 California) Brown Booby (1 Florida, 1 Louisiana, 1 Virginia) Ruff (2 California) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (6 Alaska) Slaty-backed Gull (3 Alaska) Plain-capped Starthroat (5 Arizona) White-eared Hu m m i n g bird (1 Arizona) Tufted Flycatcher (2 Arizona) B r o w n Shrike (2 Alaska) Sky Lark (1 Alaska) Sinaloa Wren (2 Arizona) White Wagtail (2 Alaska) Red-throated Pipit (2 Alaska, 4 Oregon) Slate-throated Redstart (2 Arizona) Hundreds of thousands of refugees from war-torn countries have entered Europe this year. As the debate over Europe’s responsibility to let these refugees in continues, calls for humanitarianism have been accompanied by an alarming and predictable Western response. Following the cynical adage that you can’t let a good crisis go to waste, intellectuals and states alike have been happy to use the crisis for renewed calls for Western military intervention. A law professor at West Point was forced to hastily resign after it emerged that he had authored a number of controversial articles. In one he suggested that legal scholars defending the rights of suspected terrorists could be considered legitimate military targets, while in another he examined a potential military coup in the United States, arguing that officers may have a duty to sieze control of
the federal government if the federal government acted against the interest of the country. The United States military has long embraced the idea of civilian control of national affairs, and apart from certain rare moments the American officer corps has faithfully followed the orders of their civilian superiors. YouGov’s latest research shows, however, that officers in the military are held in much greater esteem than their civilian superiors, and that they are widely viewed as having the best interests of the country in mind instead of their own selfish concerns. The country’s five largest for-profit health insurers are trying to merge into three mega corporations, creating an oligopoly that will drive up premiums for patients and employers, cut payments to doctors, and pocket the difference as profits. The health insurance industry is a national embarrassment that is costing patients their income and sometimes their lives. High deductibles and limited networks are becoming the norm, making healthcare inaccessible even for the insured. Tell Attorney General Loretta Lynch to block the health insurance mergers, s i n c e healthcare is a right and shouldn’t be controlled by “too big to fail” insurance profiteers. All of the powers that make single-payer healthcare so effective - the ability to negotiate low prices for drugs and medical devices, and set fair rates for providers - are deadly in the hands of for-profit insurers, who pocket savings instead of passing them along to patients, and squeeze providers until the quality of care plummets. The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist’s brush. As the eye functions as the brain’s sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview. Just a few years after the financial crisis, a new report tells an important story: Federal prosecution of white-collar crime has hit a 20-year low. The analysis by Syracuse University shows a more than 36 percent decline in such prosecutions since the middle of the Clinton administration, when the decline began. Landing amid calls from Democratic presidential candidates for more Wall Street prosecutions, the report notes that the projected number of prosecutions this year is 12 percent less than last year and 29 percent less than five years
ago. In the video, six members of the Sheriff ’s Emergency Response Team, along with several uniformed deputies can be seen wrestling the mentally ill woman down onto the floor. Please do not reply to this email. We are unable to respond to inquiries sent to this address. For immediate answers to your questions, visit our Help Center by clicking “Help” located on any PayPal page or email. Still getting magazines forwarded with yellow labels? To continue receiving your magazines, please change your address directly with the magazine publisher. Yellow stickers with your new address are placed on mail forwarded by the U.S. Postal Service. To receive your mail faster, notify the sender of your new address. Please make sure to notify other important parties of your change of address. Mail forwarding only covers certain classes of mail for a period of up to 12 months. Many government agencies and mailers will not change your address without direct contact from you, so it is important that you notify parties directly. Such a prospect is dreaded by the overwhelming majority of both the Kurdish and Turkish population. Only a mass, organised and united movement of Turkish and Kurdish workers and youth can stop the ongoing carnage. Unfortunately, the revenge attacks of the PKK play in Erdoian’s hands; they are also making the building of such unity much more difficult, and contribute to pushing a layer of the Turkish population into the arms of rightwing chauvinist reactionaries. Urgently the HDP, along with the trade unions and socialist organisations, should joint in their efforts to organize a large-scale response to the war, appealing to the working class, the poor and the youth across the ethnic divide. Mass protests and strikes should be called: against the AKP-led war, against racist attacks, against police repression and against terrorism in all its forms. Multi-ethnic and democratically organized initiatives should also be undertaken, in order to defend communities from future attacks. ...and breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin. Daffodil bulbs instead of balls Stared from sockets of the eyes! He knew that thought clings round dead limbs Tightening its lusts and luxuries. He knew the anguish of the marrow The ague of the skeleton; no contact possible to flesh allayed the fever of the bone. The dream was to catch a fish in the East River, put it in an aquarium mounted on a bicycle, ride it around singing songs to it about New York and humans, then safely return it to the river the same day. In June 2014, Brad sung to a live fish purchased from Chinatown. The fish barely made it through the concert. After the last song, it was rushed into the gallery’s backyard pond but later died. Hill now returns to sing new songs to a dead fish. I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive-nor will we deserve to. Does anyone have a truck and strong arms? My boss just pulled up all the carpet in his house but I only have a small car and am not able to lift much. Otherwise, the new carpet installer will dispose of it. Airline flights may be overbooked, and there is a slight chance that a seat will not be available on a flight for which a person has a confirmed res-
ervation. If the flight is overbooked, no one will be denied a seat until airline personnel first ask for volunteers willing to give up their reservation in exchange for compensation of the airline’s choosing. If there are not enough volunteers, the airline will deny boarding to other persons in accordance with its particular boarding priority. With few exceptions, including failure to comply with the carrier’s checkin deadline which are available upon request from the air carrier, persons denied boarding involuntarily are entitled to compensation. The complete rules for the payment of compensation and each airline’s boarding priorities are available at all airport ticket counters and boarding locations. Some airlines do not apply these consumer protections to travel from some foreign countries, although other consumer protections may be available. Check with your airline or your travel agent. Fall-like temperatures are overspreading the eastern U.S. this weekend behind a strong cold front. High temperatures on Sunday will be 5 to 15 degrees below average across much of the eastern half of the country. Some frost is possible in parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes early Sunday morning. Linked by computers, mobile devices, and real time sensors, these are places where the implicit connectedness of how we ought to live together depends on distributed networks, rules, codes, protocols, and infrastructures, all bound by a paradoxical, if not panopticistic, social contract now located in Cyberia. In such cities, the social fabric continues to collude (and potentially collide) with the very resilience of disciplinary and control societies. The regularity of social or architectural form has, in fact, become far less relevant than the orchestration of the data that a city produces, collects, and curates. The promise of democracy in the connected city is “always already” contradicted by a strict hierarchy that either structures access to information or that predetermines how (and by whom) the very tools of communication talk to each other. Wow, you are quite the Jack of all trades. Bet I could stay up all night (not a good things as I’ll be tired from my trip) listening to you talk. I am going to be in Portland one night (maybe two) depends if I can “couchsurf ” (so far bewelcome not a verb). I know it’s last minute and if not possible please let me know AND I can teach you some Chinese to add to your languages! The dates are Sept. 17, maybe the 16th, please let me know one way or the other! Thanks, Evangeline Additional themes - Reframing the Paradox: Examining the Intersections between Evidence-based Design and Design for the Public Sector - Design Research - History, Theory, Practice: Histories for Future-focused Thinking - Aesthetics, Cosmopolitics and Design - Embodied Making and Learning - Design for Design: The Influence and Legacy of John Heskett - Design Policy - Design Epistemology - The Politics of Commoning and Designing - Designing and Creative Philosophies - Food and Eating Design - Design Innovation for Society - Effective Information Design - Design Thinking in Industry and Academia - Aesthetic Pleasure in Design - Design and Translation Today we face complex challenges: preventing migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, delivering health and social care for an aging population, and dealing with the social impacts of growing economic inequality. Increasingly, designers are working to address such complex challenges and to deliver improved societal outcomes, for example, through the use of service design approaches to meet the needs of the elderly, the disabled, and the marginalised. However, a paradox is emerging. On the one hand, governments are realising that they cannot address new complex sociotechnical challenges in the way they approached them in the past, and so are turning to design for new strategies and techniques. On the other hand, policymaking and social design practices are increasingly being influenced by the positivistic view of research that underpins traditional evidence-based practice models. Furthermore, evidence-based practice and evidencebased design are seductive terms for those of us interested in advancing research-informed design. Therefore, we believe that critical examination of the underlying meaning and assumptions of evidence-based design and design for the public sector is warranted. Although design has a long and strong history in working for the
service sector, only over the last two decades have these efforts become more established as a new discipline in designing: service design. The coming-of-age of the discipline has coincided with the advent of new digital and networking technologies that have transformed both the design process and the resulting service innovations. As a result, there has been a growing entanglement of manufacturing and service operations, with many new types of services and product-service systems coming to market. Today, human activities constitute the primary environmental impact on the planet. In this context, c o m m i tments to sustainability, or minimization of damage, prove insufficient. To develop regenerative, c apabi l ities, architectural design needs to extend beyond the form and function of things in contained projects and engage with the management of complex systems. Such systems involve multiple types of dynamic phenomena biotic and abiotic, technical and cultural and can be understood as living. Engagement with such living systems implies manipulation of pervasive and unceasing change, irrespective of whether it is accepted by design stakeholders or actively managed towards homeostatic or homeorhetic conditions. Further, the boundaries of graphic design/communication and art are constantly in flux and being questioned. Illustrators create type, photographers illustrate, and both of these types of practitioner commonly create artefacts. The role of the graphic designer continues to change. Traditionally, image making for the most part, has rested in the hands of illustrators and photographers. But, for as long as designers have existed (and that is not very long) many have wanted to explore image as part of their output. Now, as boundaries between disciplines blur, designers do not always rely on the commissioning of others to complete designs and communicate messages. The discipline has been founded on the area of affluence of many knowledge streams, from service marketing and management to interaction design and product design. The ground knowledge from those disciplinary areas has been integrated through research and cases studies that have emphasized different and new aspects of service design, including user-participation and co-creation, user experience, systemic and social aspects, technological implications and strategic
perspectives. Analysis of sociotechnical relations: Critical nalysis of social and technical relations, e.g. how social and technical relations shape and can be shaped towards cooperative design of IT; politics and technology design; critical analysis of gender, power, culture and sociomaterial dimensions in the development, implementation and appropriation of technology. The identities of those employed within fashion and textiles are multifaceted. In the higher education sector individuals operate in complex roles as teachers, educators, facilitators, instructors, mentors, supervisors, creative practitioners, researchers, collaborators, coordinators, managers and leaders, in a continually evolving system responsive to external factors including the latest government agen-
das, policy initiatives and industry developments. The fashion and textiles industry is transient. Creative professionals work as designers, artists, makers, colourists, stylists, photographers, illustrators, technologists, futurologists, curators, authors, historians, conservators, journalists, buyers, marketers and publicists. It is commonplace for individuals to associate with numerous intersecting identities within the global fashion and textiles community. The goal of this event is to create a forum to explore meaningful changes in design profiles and convergence of design disciplines. By connecting cross-disciplinary, cultural, and social knowledge and various design approaches from diverse design domains, Design Connects will explore emerging design issues to make our life better. Just as one disease is eliminated, along comes another. The tropical virus chikungunya is spreading rapidly, with confirmed cases now numbering over 5,000. But it seems river blindness has been eradic a t e d . Along with the tileless terrace, Chris Dalton returns to PV only to find there’s still no electricity in the new condo. He shares the stress in the latest installment of his condobuying misadventures. Monjuin is a small temple located right next to Myooin on Wakasugi Mount a i n i n Fukuoka. At first I thought it was ust part of Myo-oin. What little I have been able to find out about it is a little confusing, but it is probably a fairly new temple. It is a Shingon temple, and part of the 24 temple Jizo Pilgrimage of Kyushu, which is who I think the first statue is. There was a shrine to Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (2 Oregon) Arctic Loon (1 Alaska) Flesh-footed Shearwater (2 California) Redbilled Tropicbird (2 California) Brown Booby (4 California, 4 Virginia, 1 Washington) Ruff (1 California) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (18 Alaska) Curlew Sandpiper (10 California) Great Skua (3 Maine, 2 New Brunswick) Slaty-backed Gull (6 Alaska) Buff-collared Nightjar (3 Arizona) Plain-capped Starthroat (4 Arizona) Aplomado Falcon (1 Texas) Brown Shrike (1 Alaska) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (2 Arizona) Redwing (Eurasian) (1 Michigan) White Wagtail (2 Alaska) Pechora Pipit (1 Alaska) Red-throated Pipit (2 Alaska, 4 Oregon) Fan-tailed Warbler (1 Texas) Five-striped Sparrow (1 Arizona) Bram-
bling (3 Alaska) After the Twin Towers fell, a layer of dust and debris coated Manhattan. Hidden among that cloudy air, inhaled by survivors and first responders alike, were carcinogenic particles and chemicals-asbestos, fiberglass, mercury, and benzene, among others. The Natural Resources Defense Council estimates that 300 to 400 tons of asbestos fibers were used to construct the World Trade Center. The information provided on this email service does not originate with UNESCO. UNESCO is transmitting this information on an unofficial basis. The official warning messages are sent by governmental authorities through the Tsunami Warning Focal Points (TWFP) and the designated national authorities. UNESCO does not warrant, guarantee, or make any representations regarding the timeliness, currency, correctness, accuracy, reliability, or other aspect of the characteristics or use of the information available through this email service. Terror attacks have jumped by a stunning 6,500% since 2002, according to a new analysis by Reader Supported News. The number of casualties resulting from terror attacks has increased by 4,500% over this same time period. These colossal upsurges in terror took place despite a decade-long, worldwide effort to fight terrorism that has been led by the United States. The analysis, conducted with figures provided by the US State Department, also shows that from 2007 to 2011 almost half of all the world’s terror took place in Iraq or Afghanistan -- two countries being occupied by the US at the time. Countries experiencing US military interventions continue to be subjected to high numbers of terror attacks, according to the data. In 2014, 74 percent of all terror-related casualties occurred in Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Syria. Of these five, only Nigeria did not experience either US air strikes or a military occupation in that year. The mother of Darrien Hunt, a 22-year-old black man who was shot and killed by Utah police last year, rejected an offer to settle her lawsuit against the city and two police officers involved. Had she accepted the settlement, she would have been barred from speaking publicly about the incident. “To me it was a gag order [that said], ‘Here’s hush money, don’t ever say Darrien’s name again,’” Susan Hunt,
mother of Darrien, told Utah’s KSL news about turning down the $900,000 settlement the city offered in response to her wrongful death lawsuit. “My biggest concern is for the truth to be told,” Susan said. The suit alleges that the police used excessive force and violated Darrien’s constitutional rights when they confronted him and shot him to death while he was wearing a costume and carrying a metal samurai-style sword, one that his family says was rounded and not an actual weapon. The capacity of the internet to connect buyers and sellers in new marketplaces is almost as old as the world wide web itself. From Craigslist and Ebay to Amazon, Alibaba and The Silk Road, home computers and internet access meant that virtual markets sprang up across the world selling everything under the sun. In retrospect, it was only a matter of time before this came to be extended to services, from remote personal assistants to accommodation and shared rides. Moreover, the surge in popularity of smartphones (in both developed and developing markets) has meant that the combination of GPS-enabled location services and powerful handheld computers has facilitated the commodification and monetization of just about everything, from parking spaces to downtime. In Syria, half the country has been displaced creating four million refugees. The UN reports a record 60 million refugees around the world, the number doubling since the US invaded Iraq. Ben Norton summarizes a reality that we must face: “The US has fueled the conflicts in all five of the Middle Eastern nations from which most refugees are fleeing, and it is directly responsible for the violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.” Iraq has 3.3 million refugees, Afghanistan, 2.6 million and Libya, 360,000. The most scathing are directed at the Conservative government and its use of public fear to justify a march toward vaguer and broader “security” where more and more people can be defined as security risks and threats. Pursing this sweeping and radical new concept of security will chill our democracy? Hello! I’m road tripping from burning man back to Seattle, taking a little break to check out portland! I’ll be around tonight too weds afternoon! Inbox me if you’d like to meet up- I am staying downtown! Hi all! Travelling to Portland for work trip and looking for things to do during my off time. Thinking of renting a car and heading to Astoria and/or Cannon Beach for Saturday and Sunday. Sunday night in Portland I’d like to meet up with folks at East Burn to watch Feer the Walking Dead. I have... I have a free passenger seat in my campervan, I only have one bed that I’ll be sleeping in, but there’s lots of room for a tent and camping gear. I have a camp stove to cook with. I’m leaving to travel around Europe, again, for three months, October through December! You can fly there for less than $400 so why not! So if ya want to meet up out there just shoot me a message and let me know! Hey, all I’m new to the area and have no idea about anything around here. I’m feeling vary (country mouse) and was just wondering if anyone would want to hang out (on the super cheap!!) and show me the ropes of Portland? Dear friend, How are you. have you receive the item? If yes, could you kindly offer me a positive feedback? Because we need that to grow. But for the item, If you have any questions or needs, you can also tell me, I promise to solve the problem for you. Thanks for
your kindly understanding. Looking forward to hearing from you soon. have a nice day! Regards, Seller In recent days, gunmen have carried out a wave of horrific attacks against the Guarani. The attacks are concerted and systematic. A young Guarani leader was murdered, a baby was shot in the head with a rubber bullet, and the houses of Guyra Kambi’y community were attacked and burned down. Shots are being fired daily at the Indians and the situation has become Brazil’s worst humanitarian crisis. The only thing that can put an end to this senseless violence is for Brazil to make good on its own laws which promise to return all the Guarani’s land from the hands of the ranchers. Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (1 Oregon) Tufted Duck (1 Newfoundland and Labrador) Flesh-footed Shearwater (3 California) Least Storm-Petrel (3 California) Red-billed Tropicbird (1 California) Blue-footed Booby (6 California) Brown Booby (10 California, 1 Louisiana, 2 Washington) Ruff (1 California, 1 Maryland, 1 Washington) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (12 Alaska, 1 Washington) Curlew Sandpiper (7 California) Little Stint (3 Newfoundland and Labrador) Great Skua (1 Maine, 1 New Brunswick) Guadalupe Murrelet (1 California) Craveri’s Murrelet (1 California) Slaty-backed Gull (9 Alaska) Smoothbilled Ani (2 Florida) Plain-capped Starthroat (3 Arizona) Brown Shrike (2 Alaska) Sky Lark (2 Alaska) Red-throated Pipit (4 Alaska, 4 Oregon) Tropical Parula (1 Texas) Rufous-capped Warbler (1 Arizona) Slate-throated Redstart (1 Arizona) Anthropologists who have earned their doctorate within five years prior to submission are invited to submit. Ethnographically-based original papers are invited on social and cultural anthropology relating to the Asia Pacific region, including Australia. The submission should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere, and should not be submitted to any other journal until the outcome of the competition is known. A flash mob invaded the British Museum in London to protest its sponsorship by oil and gas giant BP on Sunday. Dressed in black and carrying black umbrellas, the protesters sang and performed a dramatisation of an oil spill, before sitting down on the floor in the museum’s great court in lines forming the word “No”. The demonstrators carried banners reading “end oil” and “no new BP deal”. Protester Yasmin de Silva, who protested at Tate Britain before joining a larger protest at the museum, called BP “one of the dirtiest and most controversial oil companies in the world” and called their cultural sponsorship “incongruous”. Estimating civilian casualties of U.S. military operations is extremely difficult. There was essentially no record kept in Afghanistan and Pakistan for a few years of any U.S.-caused civilian casualties, and most especially the killing of children” . . . the harm to children in war is also indirect--morbidity and mortality due to the destruction of infrastructure which impairs delivery of medical care, makes drinking water unsafe, and makes food scarce. Thirty years ago, French secret service blew up Greenpeace’s flagship Rainbow Warrior ship in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a Portuguese photographer, as the ship was preparing to head to sea to protest against French nuclear bomb tests in the South Pacific. Now the French intelligence agent who led the deadly attack has come forward for the first time to apologize for his actions, breaking his silence after 30 years. The USA has its mainstream media entirely controlled by private power. Electronic media, where most Americans get their news, is nearly all corporate-controlled, including PBS/NPR, which take millions of dollars from corporations and acquiesce to their viewpoint. It is extremely deceptive for them to pretend to represent the public interest. Those who manage the corporate news know what to say, and those who manage the corporate government know what to do without being coaxed. Many have recognized this over decades which have left us increasingly militarized, both domestically and globally. Algorithms are often presented as guarantors of objectivity, particularly on controversial issues like security or risk assessment. But not even algorithms can achieve the impossible, that is, applying objective logic, precision and transparency to an opaque world full of irreducible ambiguity and subjectivity. The way in which data is generated and processed affects the results. In other words, algorithms and the underlying forms of ra-
tionality are biased and so is the world they help to create. This raises pressing questions regarding their methodology, their politics and their efficiency and the need to examine their intended and unintended consequences. The conference will address questions of rationality, governance and, prediction and modelling, but also look at agency of humans and new generative strategies. This call theme is Haunting.‚ Spooky creatures, frightening places, eerie experiences -- these are the things that haunt us. Sometimes we are haunted by obsessive habits and persistent memories. Haunting can be expressed in symbolic, literal, modern, traditional, abstract, or completely unique w a y s . W h a t hauntings can your imag ination create? There is no national database of missing people in Mexico. This in a country where thousands of women and girls disappear every year. More than 2,000 have been murdered in the last decade, while many more have been sold into prostitution. Some families are campaigning for the government to improve its record of tackling the problem. At present it’s like “looking for a needle in a haystack”, one worried mother complains. But that’s the side show. The real thing is happening at the borders. The European Union is falling apart at a staggering pace. Austria, usually a country where things happen later than elsewhere, is now at the center. Trains both to the East (Budapest) and the West (Munich) are currently interrupted, I don’t know if that ever happened since WWII. Germany closed it’s border and Hungary, after creating a massive fence to Serbia, is simply dumping 10,000s refugees at its Western border, emptying its camps. Do you like browsing the shelves for books at the library? We know you are trying to be helpful when you pull a book off the shelf, look at it, and put it back. However, the Book Committee wants to save you that last step. Please place books you are not checking out in the re-shelving baskets located in each room. We have expert re-shelvers who will make sure each book is returned to its rightful place. Alas, if a book is mis-shelved, it makes it difficult for others to find it. The Book Committee thanks you, in advance, for helping to make the collection easily accessible! I am Mrs Gloria C. Mackenzie, an 85 years old Widow. I am from Zephyrhills, Florida, United States of America but moved to Istanbul, Turkey in July after I
won my Power ball Jackpot of $590,500,000.00 on June 5, 2013. The jackpot was a gift from God to me. My family and I have agreed to do the will of God with it. I may not know you in person but I believe you are the lucky person chosen by God to receive my donation of $500,000 USD (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars). Get back to us if you are interested in collecting your fund. Regards Mrs. Gloria C. Mackenzie. We make the traditional natural mezcal which, unlike most tequila, is made from 100% agave. We only use agave, water and firewood to produce their mezcal. It doesn’t get more natural or any better. Doug teamed up with a Oaxacan master distiller and set up a mezcal distillery where he works directly with the indigenous Zapotec mezcaleros to make a delicious mez-
cal significantly superior to tequila. This production is all done in the single village of San Agustin de las Juntas, Oaxaca, Mexico. We distil mezcal from the finest agave varieties in a small artisanal distillery (this is called a “Palenque” by mexicans) making the best quality mezcal. Israeli society is sick, and it is our duty to treat this disease. A child of the Black Hebrew Israelite community, in Dimona, September 2005. Black Hebrew Israelites are groups of people mostly of African American ancestry who believe they are descendants of the ancient Israelites. They are generally not accepted as Jews by the greater Jewish community. Many choose to self-identify as Hebrew Israelites or Black Hebrews rather than as Jews. What is shocking about this dismal chapter in our history is that so many members of Congress (Democrats especially, but Republicans as well) sat quietly and allowed themselves to be cowed into complicity in this rush to war when there was so little genuine evidence to justify it. It is now clear that the decision to go to war was made long before Gen. Colin Powell presented a litany of “evidence” of an active nuclear-weapons initiative in Iraq to the U.N. Point after point was made, not only justifying the case for war, but as the only responsible course. Ignored were the conclusions of the Director General of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei and that of former director Hans Blix, after a U.N. weapons inspection in Iraq, that an invasion of Iraq was not justified. If the prelude to war did not involve intentional misrepresentations, it involved reckless indifference to the truth. The consequences were the same. Ultimately, the “evidence” relied upon to justify that war was demonstrated to be either false or inaccurate. Judge Silberman’s concern that a future president’s credibility may be undermined by memories of this “false charge” seems to me to be exactly backward. What should be remembered are the terrible consequences of an unjustified and unsupportable war, such as the one in Iraq. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Security forces in Egypt have mistakenly killed 12 people, including Mexican tourists, during an anti-terror opera-
tion, the interior ministry says. Warm weather is expected to continue across the central U.S. on Tuesday, with temperatures as much as 15-25 degrees above normal, especially across the central and northern Plains. Meanwhile, cooler weather is expected across much of the western U.S., with high temperatures as much as 5-15 degrees below normal. Continuing with Fudo Myos I encountered on the Shikoku Pilgrimage, this votive plaque (ema) was at temple 52, Taisanji, overlooking the port that serves Matsuyama in Ehime. Not to far away at temple 53, Enmyoji, was this fairly modern version Temple 56, near Imabari, was also called Taisanji, and that is where I find these two.... A little further inland, temple 57, Eifukuji, is Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (2 Oregon) American Flamingo (2 Florida) Fleshfooted Shearwater (1 Alaska, 1 California) Red-billed Tropicbird (1 California) Blue-footed Booby (1 California) Brown Booby (1 California, 2 Massachusetts, 2 Virginia, 6 Washington) Red-footed Booby (1 Alaska) Collared Plover (1 Texas) Gray-tailed Tattler (2 Alaska) Ruff (1 Washingt o n ) Sharpt a i le d Sandpiper (7 Alaska, 1 Illinois, 3 Washington) Curlew Sandpiper (4 California) Great Skua (7 Maine, 3 New Brunswick) Slaty-backed Gull (3 Alaska) Smooth-billed Ani (3 Florida) Buff-collared Nightjar (1 Arizona) Plain-capped Starthroat (1 Arizona) Aplomado Falcon (1 Texas) Tufted Flycatcher (3 Arizona) Sky Lark (2 Alaska) Siberian Accentor (2 Alaska) White Wagtail (1 Alaska) Redthroated Pipit (1 Alaska) Tropical Parula (2 Texas) Rufous-capped Warbler (2 Arizona) Slate-throated Redstart (1 Arizona) Five-striped Sparrow (1 Arizona) Shiny Cowbird (1 North Carolina) From: Robert Johnson Time: 08:36 PM I want to look at a WWP19, but I live it Ontario Canada. Does anyone know where the closest one would be. You could email me at bestof bo @i-zoom.net. Thank you. Robert The Internet and digital technologies have gone from exotic to commonplace in the blink of an eye. The Internet and digital technologies now provide the platform for much of the world^“s economic, social, cultural and political activities. The resulting transformations in the way we
conventionally do things presents enormous risks as well as benefits -- accelerating economic inequalities which appear to have partial roots in digital technology; the rise of digital surveillance and the surveillance State; the vulnerabilities built into remotely managed and controlled digital systems putting individuals and communities at continuing risk of catastrophic failures; all of this alongside unprecedented opportunities for increasing efficiencies in and universalizing access to information and to the means of production and distribution. and thus for realizing broadly based social equity. At the heart of these developments and their risks is the inability of current systems of public accountability to allow citizens to determine the broad directions for their communities and their own rights and responsibilities in a digital age. Existing forms of democratic control and citizenship do not seem adequate to the task. Rather there appears to be the need for a new form of citizenship, one which can renew the accountability of institutions of governance, of assigning the rights and responsibilities of individuals and communities in the context of this digital transformationa form of digitally enabled citizenship adequate to the digital age a digital citizenship for short. If there is a systemic solution to the problem of overclassification, it is likely to involve the kind of independent review that has been urged on ISOO by Open thegovernment.org in this case. Government agencies that are left to their own devices will almost always classify more information than is necessary or appropriate. Without assuming any malign intent on their part, it is simply the path of least resistance. However, when an agency is required to justify its classification activity to an impartial reviewer, even on a non-adversarial basis, a reduction in the scope of classification results more often than not. This has been confirmed repeatedly. Between 1996 and 2014, the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel directed the declassification of information in 71 percent of the documents presented to it by members of the public whose direct requests to agencies had been denied, ISOO reported in 2014. Documents concerning covert actions that the CIA had refused to acknowledge on its own were approved for declassification and publication in the Foreign Relations of the United States series after deliberation by the so-called High-Level Panel composed of representatives of the National Security Council, State Department and CIA. CIA classification of many records related to the JFK assassination could not withstand review by the independent Assassination Records Review Board. The Board ordered declassification of tens of thousands of assassination-related records including millions of pages. Even within individual agencies, the process of challenging classification decisions has borne fruit to a surprising extent. Government employees challenged the classification status of various items of information in 813 cases in FY2014, the Information Security Oversight Office reported. Their classification was overturned in whole or in part in 453 of those cases. It follows that new venues and new procedures for independently evaluating disputed classification decisions would help to reduce or eliminate spurious classification. Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a