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inpatient treatment at a mental health facility. pon discharge, she began outpatient therapy, but quickly dropped out, and turned to street drugs. Her father started her on crack at age 14. When her father went to prison, Tiffany went to live with her mother. But her mother threw her out when she asked for money to go to rehab. Tiffany dropped out of school, and lived on the streets.

After two short stints in prison (for possession of drugs and trespassing), she was making some money doing sex work.

She was hired for a party (by an adult male), but it turned out her actual client was a juvenile. Tiffany was arrested for sex with a minor - his consent is not a valid defense, because as a minor, he cannot legally consent. She was sentenced to five years in prison, and will have to register as a sex offender when released. During her prison sentence, Tiffany has pretty constantly been on and off suicide watch. In the summer of 2015, she was housed in Logan’s mental health unit on watch, when she tried to hang herself. She was moved to the Health Care Unit and put on constant watch status in September 2015. Tiffanyremained on constant watch through September, October, December; through Christmas, through New Year’s, and was still there when I visited. Five months. The only times she leaves her cell are for groups, three times a week for a little less than an hour each, and for a meeting with a psychologist or psychiatrist, just for a few minutes, once a week. And for my visits. Tiffany is taking a heavy duty cocktail of medicine, but it is not working. She continues to try and kill herself. At this point, Tiffany does not believe that she will ever get off constant watch until she completes her sentence. She is scheduled for release in early May. The largest owner of U.S. debt, China sold $18 billion of U.S. Treasury debt in December. And it’s not alone. Japan sold even more: $22 billion. In the past year, Mexico, Turkey and Belgium have also lowered their holdings of U.S. debt, all of which have led to a record annual dump by central banks. Many countries are suffering from the global economic slowdown, forcing central banks to pull out all the stops to help buttress their economies. Central banks in Japan and Sweden have resorted to negative interest rates to spur banks to lend more; the European Central Bank is buying bonds issued by its member countries; the People’s Bank of China is injecting cash into its financial system. For many central banks, selling U.S. Treasuries gives them the cash to prop up their collapsing currencies. When commodities plunge, currencies tend to follow suit. And when currencies rapidly decline, cash tends to flow out of a country and into safer havens.

So central banks have tried to prevent massive capital outflows by easing their currency collapse. China spent $500 billion last year just to prop up its currency, the yuan.

Despite all its spending, China’s total holdings -- by public institutions and private investors -- of U.S. Treasury debt is up a bit from a year ago. That’s also true for the majority of countries: total foreign holdings increased in December compared to a year ago. So even though central banks are dumping U.S. debt, there’s plenty of demand for it from private investors. Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (7 Pennsylvania) Common Pochard (1 Alaska) Tufted Duck (1 British Columbia, 1 Nova Scotia, 1 Washington) American Flamingo (1 Florida) Brown Booby (2 California) Northern Jacana (4 Texas) Great Skua (2 North Carolina) Slaty-backed Gull (1 California, 2 Illinois) Smooth-billed Ani (1 Florida) Aplomado Falcon (3 Texas) Blackcapped Gnatcatcher (6 Arizona) White-throated Thrush (2 Texas) Tropical Parula (2 Texas) White-collared Seedeater (4 Texas) Crimsoncollared Grosbeak (3 Texas) Blue Bunting (2 Texas) In the late nineteenth century two facts conspired to change the face of music: the collapse of common practice tonality (which overturned the certainties underpinning the world of art music), and the invention of a revolutionary new form of memory, sound recording (which redefined and greatly empowered the world of popular music). A tidal wave of probes and experiments into new musical resources and new organisational practices ploughed through both disciplines, bringing parts of each onto shared terrain before rolling on to underpin a new aesthetics able to follow sound and its manipulations beyond the narrow confines of ‘music’. This series tries analytically to trace and explain these developments, and to show how, and

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There is an enduring myth that people who rely on public assistance are unwilling to work. However, there are 41.2 million working Americans (nearly 30 percent of the workforce) who receive public assistance and nearly half of these workers (19.3 million) have full-time jobs. Not surprisingly, these workers are concentrated in jobs paying low hourly wages. A majority (53.1 percent) of workers earning less than $12.16 per hour - the bottom 30 percent of wage earners earn so little on the job that they must rely on public assistance to make ends meet.

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Vaithilingam Lingarajan spent the war years plying the seas off the northerncoast of Sri Lanka in his small fishing boat. It was only once the conflict ended that he decided to flee the country, making a failed bid for Australia that has left him destitute and facing possible criminal charges. It’s mid-morning on a dusty road to Lisungwi market in Neno, southern Malawi, and Bertha Cham’bwinja is

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The rains should have begun around December, but this is an El Nino year and the skies have been alarmingly clear. In 2006, northern Uganda was nearing the end of the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency.

Some 1.8 million people had been displaced and tens of thousands kidnapped, mutilated or killed. Ten years later, the region appears rejuvenated: a bustling trade and business centre with buildings shooting up and a renewed sense of optimism. However, scratch beneath the surface and you find an unequal recovery and plenty of hidden scars. Mondo is no longer David Rice after a name change in prison.

After several years in the penitentiary I decided it didn?t make any sense for me as an African to have a European name. I had to improvise. My name basically means wild, natural manchild of the sun in four African languages, M o n d o says. What I did was once I decided what my name was going to be, I then got in contact with people from different parts of the continent to give me one component of that name in their language.

The reason for that was if somebody asks any African in this country who was born here and whose parents and grandparents were born here, ‘What is your nationality?’ he or she doesn’t know. My name, Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen we Langa, is from the Kwanyama, Gikuyu, Ibibio, and Hausa languages which means Wild Man Child of the Sun. In African languages, typically there aren’t first and last names as in English. Though since colonialism, this has become a feature of many of the languages, explains Mondo.

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The commission has encountered numerous difficulties designed to sabotage its work since inception in 2013. It remains to be seen whether the President of Guyana will release the findings. Disabled 71-year-old Tony Pitts was watching TV in bed at home in Hickory, N.C. when he heard his sliding glass door shatter. Pitts retrieved a .22-caliber pistol, went to investigate and saw a man coming through the broken door. Pitts responded to the threat by firing at the criminal, striking him twice.

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Now is the right time for Congress to consider going further than Dodd-Frank with bold, transformational solutions to solve this problem once and for all. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is launching a major initiative to develop an actionable plan to end TBTF, and we will deliver our plan to the public by the end of the year.

Given the scale of job losses, home foreclosures, lost savings and costs to taxpayers, there is widespread agreement among elected leaders, regulators and Main Street that we must solve the problem of TBTF. We know markets make mistakes; that is unavoidable in an innovative economy. But these mistakes cannot be allowed to endanger the rest of the country.

When roughly 1,000 savings and loans failed in the late 1980s, there was no risk of an economic collapse.

When the technology bubble burst in 2000, it was very painful for Silicon Valley and for technology investors, but it did not represent a systemic risk to our economy. Large banks must similarly be able to make mistakes-even very big mistakes-without requiring taxpayer bailouts and without triggering widespread economic damage. That must be our goal. Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (1 New York, 3 Pennsylvania) Tufted Duck (1 British Columbia, 1 New Brunswick, 1 Newfoundland and Labrador, 2 Nova Scotia, 2 Wash-

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China’s millionaires, having looted their country, are anxious to get their money out of reach of the Politburo, to guard against confiscation should the political tides turn. Only one problem: the government will only let Chinese nationals move $50K/year out of the country.

The majority of China’s new super-rich are prepped to leave the country, but getting their cash out is a serious problem. Much of the volatility in Bitcoin can be ascribed to Chinese elites using the cryptocurrency to smuggle cash out of the PRC. With the Chinese Yuan tanking, the race is on to convert Chinese wealth to other currencies and get out while the getting is good.

But there’s a better way: for a small sum, you can just set up an offshore shell company, direct it to sue a Chinese company you own, throw the lawsuit, and then, oh well, I guess there’s nothing for it but to send a bunch of cash to your shell company, exempted from export controls, in the form of c o u r t- o r de r e d damages.

As ever-pricier degrees have become the price of entry to the job market, students and their families have had no choice but to load up on punishing debt, and, not surprisingly, they struggle to pay it back. Universities have tried dirty tricks and even out-and-out crooked arm-breakers to collect.

Now there’s a new tactic, one that dumps the collection of these dirty debts back on the taxpayer: Universities sell their debts to bill-collectors, the bill-collectors lard on spectacular “fees” and “penalties,” then they get court orders for repayment, and those orders spawn contemptof-court charges, and then the arrests start. It’s a new debtor’s prison, something that’s been outlawed in the

USA since 1833. The beneficiaries are investment banks and their investors, university administrators who command an ever-higher proportion of the ever-higher tuition bill, and the collection agencies. The losers are the tax-payers, the poor families who are desperate to buy their children a chance for a future at any cost, and the adjunct faculty and instructors who do the real work of universities. Oh, and the future. The future totally loses out here. Version 3 Geofabric products are based on best available mapped data and the 1 second DEM. The data structure of version 3 products conform as far as possible to the same data model as version 1 and 2 Geofabric products. Version 3 will not initially contain a Groundwater product. The Geofabric Sample Toolset

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The concepts are there, hovering in the background, however. The Net, too, is partial and indeterminate; beyond D&G nomadism, obscuring the skin).Scanning implies bandwidth, implies negation: scan(x) and (x)(-x). landscape: perspective. There, is not even another question. There, is Barthes, Roland, S/Z, Hill and Wang, 1974. On literary codes, of some use. As with Elements of Semiology, the

definitions are largely philosophical, somewhat inexact, but more than useful in considerations of the lifeworld. (See The Fashion System as well.) ting the value of each symbol (such as [), adding 128 to it, and re- an outside and an inside...[has] an inner reality...an inner world which +/- 1200 screens per second. (The presence of stereoscopy will of course nonetheless _trickles,_ interlocks. It cannot be contained, circumscri- the absence of digital, absence of analog, absence of the figure-in-the- Currently, 80-90% of internet traffic originates in North America; Alan S o n d h e i m , sondheim @panix.com ; enter port 2445. All secrets will be revealed.

Someone is calling Note that this absolute time is finite, that it begins and ends, that the origin is historical. And note that so many other systems portend a creation behind/beyond which numeracy was non-existent; the numbers begin in mythic time. So there are configurations that are lost in essence - not a guy hanging out, as if known by one and all. There’s always the problem of the divine with historical time; mythos turns to miracles, Jesus doing this or that, almost like a party.

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Cheers David What secret had Nietzsche discovered when he walked the Turin streets before he flung his arms around a horse being beaten and collapsed into a decade-long coma? Clinging to the cowering brown beast, he said Mother, I am stupid. Wild hair and a three- piece tweed suit constrained the body that held the mind that knew too much. Why am I mining dead men for answers when they were all as mad as I am? The horse, his eyes hollow as those of the Burmese elephant that Orwell shot decades later, had the look of every betrayed creature. Perhaps Nietzsche saw the shock in the animal’s eyes’ how every human contains the capacity to inflict cruelty. The look that turns to recognition, to resignation, to an eye reflecting a field full of

fallen horses. Remote Australian communities often use diesel generators for power. They’re expensive to run and emit pollution and greenhouse gases. Even people who don’t rely entirely on generators use Australia’s power grid, which is mostly fuelled by polluting, climate-altering coal. Now, one company is showing that supplying Australia’s energy needn’t be expensive or polluting. This email and associated attachments are sent in confidence for the addressee(s) only. Unauthorised use, dissemination, distribution, publication or copying of this communication without permission is strictly prohibited. If you receive this communication in error, please notify us immediately and delete any copies.

Blind Ditch cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from any use of this e-mail or attachments. Any views expressed may not necessarily be the views of the company. The cry for social justice has become today loud, clear and very shrill! It is a cry that no longer seems to be the prerogative of only the poor and the marginalized as several from across the social strata want their voices to be heard; these include students from prestigious universities in India and abroad, academia and intellectuals, litterateurs and poets, film-makers, playwrights and other celebrities - the list is endless. The cry, the refrain is the same everywhere, “We want Justice!” one is reminded of the uprising of workers led by trade union leaders of yesteryears. This time however, whilst the script remains the same- the dramatis personae has changed. Those who cry out are not just crying out for themselves they are crying out for the rights of others, for the sanctity enshrined in the Constitution, for democracy, for the children of tomorrow! By definition the word “process” denotes a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.

The word “particular” makes one think that the result or the “end” is always the same, but it can be interpreted more broadly. A particular end can be within particular range of possible endings and it is possible to define the range by using an algorithm. The study presents data and commentary from 55 institutions that manage digital image collections, including museums, historical societies, botanic gardens, churches colleges and universities, government agencies and others. The study looks at a broad range of issues in cataloging, findability, marketing, revenue generation, technology use, rights, digitization, staffing, budgets, access, preservation, image collection building and many other issues of interest to administrators of large digital image collections. 15year-old British Hacker Arrested Over FBI Computer Hack Another 15year-old teenager got arrested from the land of cakes, Scotland, by British Police for breaking into the FBI Systems on 16th February.

Under the Britain’s anti-hacking law, Computer Misuse Act 1990, the boy has been arrested for his role in hacking and unauthorized access to the digital material. Federal Agents had fled to Glasgow in an attempt to carry out a raid on his home before proceeding with the boy’s arrest. “He has since been released and is the subject of a report to the procurator fiscal,” a Police Spokesman told a Scottish journal.

As with the present scenario, reports say that the boy could be extradited to the United States to face the Intrusion and hacking charges.

Second Member of the Hacking Group Arrested The suspect is be-

lieved to be an active member of the notorious hacking group called “Crackas with Attitude” aka “CWA”, Motherboard confirms. Another member of the same group got arrested from the United Kingdom last week. The 16-year-old British teenager was suspected of hacking into the CIA and the FBI confidential. The hacktivist group “Cracka with Attitude” is behind a series of hacks on the United States government and its high-level officials, including: Leaked the personal and sensitive details of tens of thousands of FBI agents and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees. Hacked into AOL emails of CIA director John Brennan. Hacked into the personal phone accounts and emails of the US spy chief James Clapper. Broke into AOL emails of the FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano.

Last Member of Hacking Group Left Cracka-with-Attitude Additionally, it is assumed that only one more member (with a pseudonym “Thwarting Exploits”) has been left in the CWA group to get busted, as this got evident from his tweet finalizing the fact that it is a the third member of the group.

Nowadays, the amateurish approach of teenage hackers are hunting down the world’s greatest Crime solvers such as FBI and CIA. The busted cyber criminals are liable to spend their rest of the life behind bars. The cyber laws are strict enough; that it would eat up your whole life years and even beyond your lifetime sometimes. Aside from swimming in the rain, your scene looks pretty appealing. Temperatures have increased today with mild weather predicted.

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Learning becomes secondary when teachers are trying to keep children safe and well-adjusted. The Catholic Church recognizes that sovereign nations have the right to control their borders and to enforce their laws.

The U.S. system of legal immigration is the most generous in the world, allowing in over one million legal permanent immigrants annually, more than all the rest of the nations of the world combined. These numbers do not even include the hundreds of thousands of guestworkers, foreign students, and illegal immigrants offered temporary protected status, parole, or asylum.

Our immigration ceilings are set through a democratic process and try to balance openness with the need to screen for national security purposes, to allow immi-

grants to assimilate, and to avoid disadvantaging American workers at a time of high unemployment, underemployment, stagnant wages, and increasing economic inequality. The reason for the humanitarian crisis driving people north is the corrupt anti-capitalist governance so common to Latin America - the same sort of governance the pope believes is apparently more godly than the capitalism drawing people like a magnet to the United States. So the same system the pope decries is the system the pope wants inundated with victims of those who oppose that system. How ironic. Even more ironic: the Va t i c a n remains one of the most immigration-rest r ic t ive states on earth. In 1957, Elia Kazan directed an extraordinary movie about d e m a gogy, titled A Face in the Crowd. In it, Andy Griffith portrays a hard-drinking ne’er-do-well with a folksy demeanor, a talent for playing the guitar, and’as he discovers by accident one day, an extraordinary presence when a radio mike or television camera is put in front of his face. USA! USA!’ his supporters chant. Trump responds, ‘Do we love our country?!’ Chopping the air with his hand, he tells his audience, in his New Hampshire victory speech, that, ‘no one is going to mess with us. Believe me. We are going to make our country soooo strong.’ He tells his supporters, ‘We’re going to build a wall. It’s going to be built.’ And he chops the air again. ‘USA! USA!’ they chant. Trump stops, looks at them, almost hugs himself in his florid orangeness, in his moment of triumph, saying, more to himself than his audience, ‘It’s sooooo beautiful.’ It’s the only time in his speech that his volume falls off. There’s an extraordinary intimacy to those three words, an almost masturbatory intensity.

Species Summary:Barnacle Goose (1 Maryland, 3 New York, 6 Pennsylvania) Tufted Duck (3 New York, 1 Newfoundland and Labrador, 2 Nova Scotia) American Flamingo (1 Florida) Brown Booby (3 California, 1 Louisiana) Northern Jacana (8 Texas) Great Skua (1 North Carolina) Ivory Gull (1 Wisconsin) Yellow-legged Gull (2 Newfoundland and Labrador) Slaty-backed Gull (2 Illinois) Smooth-billed Ani (1 Florida) Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl (1 Texas) Aplomado Falcon (2 Texas) Sinaloa Wren (2 Arizona) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (5 Arizona) Redwing (Eurasian) (1 British Columbia) White-throated Thrush (5 Texas) Rufous-backed Robin

(4 Arizona) Rufous-capped Warbler (1 Arizona) White-collared Seedeater (1 Texas) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (1 Texas) Blue Bunting (2 Texas) Brambling (2 Ohio) Albert Woodfox’s conviction for the 1972 murder of a prison guard, Brent Miller, has been overturned several times, yet he has remained in prison. The state had planned to mount a third trial against him, even though all of the witnesses to the murder have since died. Wallace will now go free Friday because of a plea deal with the state. Designed for students interested in new ways of exploring and understanding the social world through the use of visual, sensory and other experimental approaches, this programme allows you to study sociological issues alongside innovative methods. The MA will enable

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A widespread and permanent loss of forests in Madagascar that occurred 1,000 years ago was due not to climate change or any natural disaster, but to human settlers who set fire to the forests to make way for grazing cattle. The researchers came to this conclusion after determining the composition of two stalagmites from a cave in northwestern Madagascar. Stalagmites form from water that percolates from the surface, through the soil, and into a cave. These finely layered pillars can be preserved for thousands of years, and their composition serves as a historical record of the environment above ground. Behavioural barriers to gene flow can play a key role in speciation and hybridisation.

Birdsong is w e l l known for its potential contribution to such behavioural barriers as it may affect gene flow through an effect on territorial and mating success across population boundaries. Conspecif ic recog nition and heterospecific discrimination of acoustic variation c a npre ve nt or limit hybridization in areas where closely related species meet. Here we tested the impact of song differences on territorial response levels between two adjacent *Henicorhina*wood-wren species along an elevational gradient in Colombia. In an earlier study, playback results had revealed an asymmetric response pattern, with low-elevation *H. leucophrys bangsi*responding strongly to any conspecific or heterospecific song variant, whereas high-elevation *H. anachoreta*birds discriminated, responding more strongly to their own songs than to those of *bangsi*. However, in that study we could not exclude a role for relative familiarity to the song stimuli. In the current study we confirm the asymmetric response pattern with song stimuli recorded close to and on both sides of the distinct acoustic boundary. Furthermore, we also show a previously unnoticed divergence in singing style between these two wood-wren species, which may contribute to an acoustically guided

barrier to hybridization in this secondary contact zone.

The unusual Arctic heat has been accompanied by a new record low level for Arctic sea ice extent The unusual Arctic heat has been accompanied by a new record low level for Arctic sea ice extent Getty Images New data from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration suggest that January of 2016 was, for the globe, a truly extraordinary month. Coming off the hottest year ever recorded (2015), January saw the greatest departure from average of any month on record, according to data provided by NASA. But as you can see in the NASA figure above, the record breaking heat wasn’t uniformly distributed -- it was particularly pronounced at the top of the world, showing temperature anomalies above 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 1951 to 1980 average in this region.

Global warming has long been known to be particularly intense in the Arctic -- a phenomenon known as “Arctic amplification” -- but even so, lately the phenomenon has been extremely pronounced. This unusual Arctic heat has been accompanied by a new record low level for Arctic sea ice extent during the nor ma l ly i c e packed month of J a n u a r y, according to the Nat iona l Snow and Ice Data Center -- over 400,000 square miles below average for the month. And of course, that is closely tied to warm Arctic air temperatures. Scientists say it will take them years to figure that out, and pointed to other factors that may have played a larger role in starting the crisis. But these same experts added that the Zika epidemic, as well as the related spread of a disease called dengue that is sickening as many as 100 million people a year and killing thousands, should be interpreted as warnings. Cities in the tropics, the climate zone most favorable to the mosquito, have undergone explosive growth: Humanity passed a milestone a few years ago when more than half the population had moved to urban areas. But spending on health care and on basic public health infrastructure, like water pipes and sewers, has not kept pace. Mosquito control has also faltered in recent decades. Altogether, dengue killed at least 839 people in Brazil in 2015, a 40 percent increase from the previous year. Worldwide, dengue is

killing more than 20,000 people a year. Written by playwright Sarah Gubbins based on Chris Kraus’ influential and somewhat controversial 1997 novel, I Love Dick is set in a colorful academic community in Marfa, Texas.

It centers on a struggling married couple, Chris and Sylvere, and their mutual obsession with an off-putting but charismatic professor, Dick. Told in Rashomon-style shifts of POV, I Love Dick charts the unraveling of a marriage, the awakening of an artist and the reluctant deification of a man named Dick. The Italian author Umberto Eco, a philosopher who wrote best-selling novels including “The Name of the Rose,” has died at 84, Italian media said Saturday, quoting his family. Eco, who had been suffering from cancer, passed away at 9:30pm (2030 GMT) on Friday, La Repubblica said on its website. Considered by many to be one of the greatest writers in modern Italian literature, Eco was born on January 5, 1932, at Alessandria in the northern region of Piedmont. His family name was reportedly an acronym of the Latin ex caelis oblatus, “a gift from the heavens”, which was given to his grandfather, a founding father, by a city official. The young Umberto had a Roman Catholic upbringing, being educated at one of the Salesian institution’s schools. His father was very keen for him to read law, but instead he took take up mediaeval philosophy and literature at the University of Turin. Beginning in 1900, Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) set out on a monumental quest to create an unprecedented, comprehensive record of the Indians of North American.

The culmination of his 30year project led to his magnum opus, The North American Indian, a twenty-volume, twenty-portfolio set of handmade books containing a selection of over 2,200 original photographs. Today this work stands as a landmark in the history of photography, book publishing, ethnography, and the history of the American West, producing an art historical record of enormous and irreplaceable importance. One Hundred Masterworks presents an extraordinary selection of vintage photographs by Curtis that highlights both iconic and previously little known images, revealing the aesthetic, emotional, and spiritual qualities, which are the cornerstone of his art. Ideal candidates will have experience working in a theatre, concert venue, festival or other live performing arts setting, preferably with staff management responsibilities, or will have comparable customer service experience in another industry. Experience working with and providing excellent customer service to diverse communities is highly valued. Candidate must demonstrate good judgment and leadership, use of courtesy and tact when interacting with staff and the public, and have strong verbal and written communication skills. Candidate must also have strong attention to details and logistics, and be wel l- org a ni z ed, flexible, and proactive. Candidate must be reliable, honest and possess enthusiasm, and dedication to the arts. Ability to speak a second language is desirable but not required. The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in relation of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. We are

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Even though the grave has silenced my granddaughter’s voice, I will continue to speak for her,’ vows Renee Hess of Helyna Rivera, a Mohawk woman who was murdered in the U.S.-Canada border city of Buffalo, N.Y. on Aug. 10, 2011. Hess was one of many family and community members at the 2015 Strawberry Ceremony, an annual Valentine’s Day event organized to mourn and protest the brutal rapes, killings, and disappearances of over 1,100 indigenous women since 1981.

Relatives of Sandra Bland, the jailed motorist who authorities say hanged herself in a Texas cell seven months ago, said they’re still unable to get basic information about her death from authorities. Police files contain discrepancies, they said, and a videotape that investigators promised would show the hanging never materialized. Further, authorities haven’t returned personal items confiscated from Bland when she was booked.

A medical examiner ruled that Bland, 28, committed suicide on July 13, but her family is unconvinced, their lawyer said. In Haiti, the majority of the people working the land are women. Not only are they there during planting, weeding and harvesting, but they also play a role in transforming and marketing food products.

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This is why we call women the poto mitan, central pillar, of the country. When a family is dispossessed of its land, women are victims. Rural women are the first to feel the pain. So much have I forgotten in ten years, So much in ten brief years; I have forgot What time the purple apples come to juice And what month brings the shy forget-me-not; Forgotten is the special, startling season Of some beloved tree’s flowering and fruiting, What time of year the ground doves brown the fields And fill the noonday with their curious fluting: I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsettia’s red, blood-red in warm December. How can the Democratic presidential candidate claim to support immigrant families who fled to the U.S. when the policies she backed devastated lives and livelihoods south of the border? There was a time when houses large and small belonging to garden fanciers sported a succession of home-grown indoor plants all year round. From the smallest succulent to the mightiest tree fern, an older generation of gardeners always made time and space for plants that did well in the house. Gardening habits and trends have changed over the decades: since evergreens such as ficus, monstera and dieffenbachia rampaged through the homes and offices of the Seventies and Eighties, old-fashioned flowering houseplants have been left reeling. The low

maintenance aspect of these dreary plants played a big hand in lowering our expectations and the advent of widespread central heating didnt help either. Rooms became too hot for flowering plants, while the evergreens flourished. Its tough to think of major disruptions in the shipping industry since a company called Federal Express came up with the mind-bending concept of overnight delivery back in the 1970s. But a San Francisco startup called Shyp--often called the “Uber for shipping”--aims to eliminate all the things people don’t like about sending packages, from finding a box to waiting in line at the post off ice.

The 21st century is w itnessing a great change over in the daily life of folks with the advent of IoT devices that are capable of talking to each other without any human intervention. Yeah! Now you do not have to individually cascade an instruction to each of your home devices to accomplish a task. All have gone automated with the actuators and sensors which are infused into the home. When a major South American lake dries up, researchers seek answers and indigenous people suffer. Lake Poopo, Bolivia’s second largest body of water, has almost completely disappeared as the result of climate change, El Nino weather patterns and severe pollution according to experts, who say the loss could be permanent. The lake now looks like a large saline desert. The abstract painter has once again managed to place a portal onto the white screen, captivating the viewers in an array of worlds breathing with different energy and intensity. With a complex physical surface which often hides a completely new story just underneath its exterior, all of the paintings are overflowing with paint evoking emotions and questions of various sorts. Nine years after completing high school in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp, Mohamed Abdullahi finally got a scholarship to study in Nairobi. But a security-related squeeze by the Kenyan authorities on refugee movements means his long-held dream of a university education is under threat. Just moments ago, Albert Woodfox, the last remaining member of the Angola 3 still behind bars, was released from prison 43 years and 10 months after he was first put in a 6x9 foot solitary cell for a crime he did not commit. After decades of costly litigation, Louisiana State officials have at last acted in the interest of justice and reached an agreement that

brings a long overdue end to this nightmare. Albert has maintained his innocence at every step, and today, on his 69th birthday, he will finally begin a new phase of his life as a free man. Tunisian photographer, Karim Kamoun’s image of a naked woman, whose body shows clear signs of physical abuse has been removed from Facebook following complaints by users. nothing is gained be it with hand weapons on the ground or with airplanes bombing from the air - territory won yesterday is lost tomorrow - communities are destroyed - great powers are powerless - local powers are reckless - those who have fled will be hated for it by those who stayed behind... later. Does it still matter what the captions of these photographs are?

The role of perpetrator and victim

are dynamically reversed in civil wars even more so with this war that has become at the same time a ‘proxy war’ between world powers and their shifting local alliances. One century after the (secret) carve up of the Ottoman Empire, including (nowadays) Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel/Palestine, in the Sykes-Picot Ag reement worked out by the colonial powers of France and Britain with the assistance of Tsarist Russia... one century later this dirty colonial deal still casts it’s shadow over the region. Instead of a ‘common wealth’ of the Levant, there is ‘common misery’ produced by all those who still try to grab territory and power for themselves, exclude others. As always religious, ethnic and ideological differences are wrenched into levellers of dominion.

Sunni, Shia, Christian, Jews. Kurds, Druze, Armenians, Israeli, Palestinians. Zionism, salafism, jihadism, wahhabism, name it... False ‘common causes’ that by their idea of ‘primacy’ of one particular cause over others, neglect the rights of all those human beings that do not fit that ideological or religious label. Both Britain and France have been bombing what they saw as insurgents against their power in the twenties and thirties of last century.

(1) The Brits called it ‘policing from the air’ and now they do the same with a new type of insurgents that has been bred in the cauldron of geo-politics - the Middle East - and spreads far beyond: ISIS. No democracy will be brought about by bombs, thrown by hand or from the air. Destroying the bases of ISIS means at the same time destroying all of the territory where they reign. Not just ISIS offices, barracks, weapon depots, vehicles, fuel, but also the amenities of those terrorised by ISIS. Will people embrace these “forces of liberation” that killed people (combatants, non-combatants, on purpose orcollateral) and destroyed their neighbourhoods? Hey, I wanted to give you a courtesy heads-up.

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real jerks with new sellers. I think that they try to save time and trouble by assuming that everybody new is either potentially or actually a thief and liar. If there were another site this comprehensive. Anyway, I am sorry for the inconvenience, but I would have felt a lot worse selling you a piece of non-functioning junk. David Leffingwell Rain and high elevation snow for the Pacific Northwest More rain and high elevation snow will develop across the Pacific Northwest Sunday as another storm system approaches. A cold front will also bring light snow to the High Plains, Upper Midwest, Great Lakes and Northeast by Sunday.

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They used that knowledge to bid on leases in the melting Arctic, and to build their own drilling rigs to cope with the sea level rise they knew was coming. But they didn’t tell the rest of us. Instead they devoted their wealth to spreading disinformation, funding the think tanks that followed Big Tobacco’s playbook. If they’d told the truth, we could have skipped the last quarter century of phony debate about climate change and gotten down to work on the solutions.

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Here the kids play: they play with friends, with toys and with older

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Brilliantly tinted flowers tumble over walls, in an array of reds, oranges and pinks. Eye-catching and beautiful colors abound. The weather: January is the coldest month of the year with average daytime temperatures of 27 degrees C and nighttime temperatures of 19. November to April is the dry season and that normally gives us cool dry weather with an average of nine hours of sunshine per day. Kids can be kids: The uncomplicated lives of local kids always brings a smile to our faces. Here the kids play: they play with friends, with toys and with older siblings and grandparents. They ride bikes. Swim in the ocean. Explore the neighborhood. Run from house to house with friends. Giggle and laugh.

We feel younger just watching their antics. The weather: January is the coldest month of the year with average daytime temperatures of 27 degrees C and nighttime temperatures of 19. November to April is the dry season and that normally gives us cool dry weather with an average of nine hours of sunshine per day. Low oil and gas prices are close to triggering a wave of bankruptcies and debt defaults among US producers, investors fear. The fall in the oil price to levels that are punishingly low for producers is putting up to $88bn of borrowings potentially at risk. About 30% of the oil and gas industry’s debt is now said to be at distressed levels - meaning companies are experiencing financial or operational problems severe enough to put them at risk of default or bankruptcy. Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (3 Pennsylvania) Tufted Duck (1 New Brunswick, 2 New York, 1 Newfoundland and Labrador) Brown Booby (2 Louisiana) Northern Jacana (5 Texas) Ivory Gull (1 Wisconsin) Slaty-backed Gull (4 Illinois, 4 Indiana) Aplomado Falcon (1 Texas) Sky Lark (3 British Columbia) Sinaloa Wren (1 Arizona) Black-capped Gnatc atcher (3 Arizona) White-throated Thrush (7 Texas) Tropical Parula (3 Texas) Rufous-capped Warbler (1 Arizona) White-collared Seedeater (2 Texas) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (5 Texas) Blue Bunting (4 Texas) Brambling (2 Ohio) There is a whiff of classic functionalist explanation in the question’s formulation, but I think it neither obviously right nor obviously wrong. At any point in time there will be parties that benefit and lose out on any decision to go to war, and it seems likely that these will make their preferences known.

There may be some that see war as an opportunity to gain access to the resources and/ or markets of particular places, but I suspect that the path from war to that access is not so clear as it may have been in times past.

Territorial conquest is not allowed under international law.

On the other hand, in as much as suppliers of arms and other military goods and services benefit from war, they benefit regardless of where the war occurs, and so leaves unanswered why we go to war where we do. One might think that the more war the better for them, but not necessarily! Its easier to sell junk that doesn’t work to the US military when its not actively putting soldiers into coffins. The conflict between democracy and state repression, often claimed as necessary to protect our safety and security, has moved the United States consistently toward a greater national security state that has become inconsistent with people’s privacy and freedom; as well as their ability to exercise First Amendment protected political activities. The depth of surveillance including infiltration of political movements, cameras to enforce traffic laws and monitor activities almost everywhere in populated areas, aerial surveillance of neighborhoods and protests by helicopters, drones and airplanes and digital spying, have created a pervasive surveillance apparatus that undermines privacy, political activity and communication. We cannot have a real democracy with this level of surveillance. I dreamed that I was a rose That grew beside a lonely way, Close by a path none ever chose, And there I lingered day by day. Beneath the sunshine and the show’r I grew and waited there apart,

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Right now, 10 states have laws on the books that disenfranchise some felons for the rest of their lives. Of course, there’s a strong argument for preventing society’s most dangerous criminals from voting. But many people believe that American citizens convicted of nonviol e n t crimes should be able to vote after they are released from prison. When a major S o u t h American lake dries up, researchers seek answers and indigenous people suffer. Lake Poopo, Bolivia’s second largest body of water, has almost completely disappeared as the result of climate change, El Nino weather patterns and severe pollution according to experts, who say the loss could be permanent. The lake now looks like a large saline desert. “Hello I am sorry for the trouble you have gone through and apologize for the inconvenience. You can return the item to the following address: Systems Integration Business, RMA 206980 & ERP 5885666, 233 Clifton Boulevard, Clifton, NJ 07011, USA. Upon receiving it we will test the item, if it is defective we will send you a replacement; otherwise, will issue a refund. Notes: 1. New items needs to be returned in original retail box or the way you received from us. 2. The item must be returned to us within 10 days of this email. 3.

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Tropical Cyclone “Winston”, the strongest storm in the history of Southern Hemisphere, made several landfalls in Fiji group of islands on February 19 and 20, 2016 (UTC). The system wreaked havoc across the islands with winds of hurricane force and flooding, and a month-long state of disaster has been declared by the local authorities. At least 10 people have been reported dead so far, and hundreds of homes have been devastated. Tropical Cyclone “Winston”, a violent category 5 system, rated by experts as the strongest storm in the recorded history of the Southern H e m i sphere and the second strongest landfalling tropical cyclone in the world, lashed the islands of Fiji with maximum sustained winds of about 297.7 km/h (185 mph). The cyclone began affecting the islands at 18 UTC on February 19 with 265.5 km/h (165 mph) winds. The airport on Vanua measured 10-minute average winds of 170.6 km/h (106 mph) at 18:00 UTC. Winston continued its intensification while crashing ashore the Koro island with peak strength sustained winds of 297.7 km/h (185 mph) around 02:00 UTC on February 20. Reported landfall was second strongest made by any tropical cyclone in the world throughout the recorded history. The landfall made by the Super Typhoon “Haiyan” in Samar, Philippines, with 305.8 km/h (190 mph) winds in 2013. Winds at Koro at the time can be compared to an EF4 tornado strength. The suspect in the random shootings that lead to at least six people dead on Saturday was an Uber driver, said neighbors living across the street from his family. Noso Hachimangu is the main shrine of Iizuka in Fukuoka. When I visited it was a few days before the new year and so the place was busy with people preparing for the busiest time of the year for most shrines. The

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For the first time in nearly two centuries the Kashia Tribe of the Pomo Native Americans will be able to enjoy the Pacific coast where they and their ancestors once hunted, fished, and developed a rich culture. The final piece of the complex deal was completed October 18, 2015 when California landowner, Bill Richardson, agreed to gift his 700 acres family farm to the neighbouring Kashia Tribe of Stewarts Point. The sheep ranch has

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burial pits around the tomb of Liu Qi, the fourth emperor of the Han dynasty who lived between 188 and 141 BC, and his wife, a team of researchers from China and Britain wrote in the journal Scientific Reports. The oldest written reference to tea is from the year 59 BC. And the oldest physical remains ever discovered were hundreds of years younger than the new find -- dating from the northern Song Dynasty (960-1,127 AD).

“Our study reveals that tea was drunk by Han Dynasty emperors as early as 2,100 years BP (before present),” wrote the team. They compared this tea to residues A Japanese artist charged with obscenity for distributing a design for a kayak shaped like her vagina scoffed Monday at a demand by prosecutors to punish her with a $6,600 fine and vowed to appeal if found guilty. Megumi Igarashi’s case has drawn widespread attention and sparked accusations of heavy-handed censorship in a country known for its multibillion-dollar pornogr a p h y industry but where actual depictions of genitalia are banned.

Igarashi was arrested in July 2014 for trying to raise funds online to pay for the construction of the kayak by disseminating a coded 3D image of her genitals.

The artist, who calls h e r s e l f Rokude Nashiko -- slang that loosely translates as “r e p r o b a t e child” -- was released days later following a legal appeal and after thousands of people signed a petition demanding her freedom. The conference will be held under the general theme: ‘Memory, Commemoration and Communication: Looking Forward, Looking Back’. The latter seeks to explore the relationship between memory, commemoration and communication. This theme anticipates the 60th anniversary of the IAMCR in 2017, an organisation which has played a strong role in the development of media and communication studies.

Although scholars have long been interested in memory and culture, advancements in technologies are providing new and innovative opportunities to think about how it is created, preserved, passed on, and archived.

Starting from the remit of the Communication Policy and Technology section, we focus on the role and meaning of media and communication technologies, both analogue and digital, in past, current and future societ-

ies, as well as their policy implications. For the IAMCR conference in Leicester we especially invite papers that analyse and discuss the interrelationship between society, analogue and digital media and the shifting borders between public, private and corporate space in past, current and future societies. We refer to media, communication technologies and online platforms, ranging from print-cultures, telecommunication, social media to sharing economy applications in different domains of society (health, hospitality, transport, education, surveillance, etc.). We are interested in the politics of these media platforms and communication technologies and how they relate to the transformation of public, private and corporate space. With public space in a state of flux, the relations between (state) institutions, citizens, and corporations are being fundamentally reconfigured. There is a strong push to limit and reduce the role of state institutions in the organization of public space, whereas citizens and corporations claim and are also expected to fulfil key public functions. Although this push should be understood as part of the long-term de ve l o p ment of the neoliberal mode of governance, the rapid rise of digital m e d i a platforms appears to both accelerate and further complicate this development. A key aspect of these developments is the collection, storage, processing, (re)use and commodification of (personal) data, based on the ?datafication? in all areas of life. We need to critically assess from interdisciplinary perspective what this means for the (dis)empowerment of users/citizens/consumers as (not) being in control (any more) regarding identity, security, privacy and publicness. We know how overwhelming and confusing tax time can beespecially as a self-employed artist! That is why our Tax Tips for Artists workshop is specifically geared towards artists, writers, and performers like you. This workshop will provide you with important information and tools to help you better understand your taxes. Some, but not all, of the topics that will be covered include: Understanding Self-Employment Tax and how it’s calculated Differences in taxes and expenses for Employees vs. the Selfemployed Business vs. Hobby: Important facts Tips for

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The international court of justice ‘ founded in 1945 to rule on legal disputes between nations ‘ announced late on Friday dates for separate hearings for the three cases between March 7 and March 16. In the cases brought against India and Pakistan, the court will examine whether the tribunal based in The Hague is competent to hear the lawsuits. In the two days before Christmas, Black Lives Matter activists staged protests nationwide.

Hundreds swarmed the Mall of America in Minneapolis.

Protestors in Chicago hit the area’s so-called “Magnificent Mile” shopping district. And in Los Angeles, a dozen or so activists shut down our most sacred of cows: the 405 freeway. Activists were arrested in Chicago, Minneapolis and elsewhere, but according to Melina Abdullah, L.A.’s protestors were dealt with particularly harshly. he first official signs of Super Bowl 50’six-foot-tall, 1,600-pound, solar-powered number 50s, each with its own Super Bowl-themed design’started popping up at photogenic landmarks around San Francisco two weeks ago. The first unofficial signs’rows of tents and tarps lining a major thoroughfare under the I-80 freeway to the Bay Bridge’started popping up two months ago. That’s when Oscar McKinney, a 49-yearold hearse driver, pitched a tent on the sidewalk across from a Best Buy parking lot. The Canadian company that has proposed to mine rare earth minerals near the culturally significant tribal landmark of Mahto Tipila, or Devils Tower, suspended activities Jan. 21, at the socalled Bear Lodge Project. The announcement by the company’s California law firm led the U.S. Forest Service to cancel open houses Jan. 23 in Sundance and Jan. 24 in Upton, Wyoming, which the agency had scheduled to inform the public of the plans contained in a draft environmental impact statement, or DEIS, for the project.

Activists say the French government’s crackdown on protests has done nothing to make the country safer.

Thousands of people marched across France Saturday to protest the country’s nearly three month old state of emergency. Rallies took place in around 70 cities, including the capital Paris, where organizers said more than 20,000 people took to the streets. Police put turnout at

closer to 5000. Many protesters said the state of emergency had curbed civil rights while doing little to improve security. The Internet is being used as a tool to fill the gaps on previous structures of scrutiny, surveillance, authority and governance. The role social platforms have played in social uprisings highlights the attempts to exploit Internet affordances in order to trigger both the disrupting power and the potential for organization of new media and communication technologies. During the Arab Spring, Facebook and Twitter were used to organize horizontally structured demonstrations, while in Iceland they served as tools of engagement for the drafting of a new constitution. Blogs are constantly being used as precarious ways to speak where human right issues do not allow dissidence; organization to enact legitimate forms of protest are now seamlessly made through social media; traditional democratic processes have adapted to new technological channels, while new democratic efforts have also arisen empowered by digital tools. Both antisystemic and systemic political agendas are being enabled and extended by Internet technology. We are interested in critical readings of these events; novel approaches into the politics of the networks; challenges and opportunities of the Internet as a tool for democratization, participation and collective action worldwide and particularly in the Global South. The conference Internet, Participation and Society is an invitation to deal with new proposals and views of this field of inquiry. It will bring together academics and civic society innovators to discuss and analyse the disruptive impact of the Internet and more importantly to hint to new ways in which it can be use to increase public scrutiny and political engagement in the developing regions. Book a 2016 Monograms “Wanderlist” South American Selection (ISI) vacation to receive a 20% discount on the land-only portion of the core package, including extensions. Not including extra night accommodations, hotel upgrades, intra-vacation air, transfers, taxes/fees, tips or supplements. Booking must be made, under deposit and discount applied between February 1-29, for travel in 2016. Not applicable to custom tours. Discount will apply to individual members of groups adding a name and non-refundable per person deposit WITHIN the promo window. Not applicable on TBA space. Offer not valid with any other offer except Journeys Club Repeat Traveler benefit and current air promo. Applies to new 2016 bookings only, and offer will not be applied to pre-existing bookings.

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Even in the United States, millions of children under five years old don’t get the nutrition, education, and care they need to develop into healthy, happy adults. Buried and thus frozen in timeby the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the ancient Roman town of 11,000 has provided an object of great historical interest ever since its rediscovery in 1599. Baths, houses, tools and other possessions (including plenty of wine bottles), frescoes,

graffiti, an ampitheater, an aqueduct, the ‘Villa of the Mysteries’: Pompeii has it all, as far as the stuff of firstcentury Roman life goes. You could hear the shrieks of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men; some were calling their parents, others their children or their wives, trying to recognize them by their voices.

People bewailed their own fate or that of their relatives, and there were some who prayed for death in their terror of dying. Many besought the aid of the gods, but still more imagined there were no gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness for everm o r e .

And now I cannot remember how I w o u l d have had it. It is not a conduit (conf luence?) but a place.

The place, of movement and an order.

The place of old order. But the tail end of the movement is new.

Driving us to say what we are thinking. It is so much like a beach after all, where you stand and think of going no further. And it is good when you get to no further. It is like a reason that picks you up and places you where you always wanted to be. This far, it is fair to be crossing, to have crossed. Then there is no promise in the other. Here it is. Steel and air, a mottled presence, small panacea and lucky for us. And then it got very cool.

The case of a Somali-born man who was stripped of his British citizenship and recently sentenced in New York to nine years in federal prison on terrorism charges is being held up by civil liberties advocates as an example of the harsh US treatment of suspects linked to Islamic extremism and overreach by American authorities in the war on terror.

Mahdi Hashi, 26, pleaded guilty in May 2015 to a charge of conspiracy to provide material support to the Somali militant group al Shabaab.

Prosecutors sought a 15-year sentence, maintaining he had deep ties to al Shabaab’s leadership, as well as links to alleged suicide bombers used by the group. Hashi’s co-defendants, Swedish citizens Ali Yasin Ahmed and Mohamed Yusuf, were each sentenced to 11 years in January. Later in the summer of 2012, Hashi was arrested in Djibouti, the tiny nation sandwiched between Somalia and Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa, where he maintains he was threatened with physical abuse and rape if he refused to cooperate with interrogators. Hashi and his co-defendants also claim they were questioned in Djibouti by unidentified US agents, always with a member of the

Djiboutian Secret Police in the room, according to court documents submitted by his defense.

In November 2012, Hashi and his co-defendants were transferred to American custody without any formal extradition proceedings.One final issue centers on the US government’s decision to prosecute Hashi, given that he is not an American citizen and was not charged with planning attacks on US soil or endangering US citizens. In a sentencing memo submitted to the court, US Attorney Robert Capers acknowledged that “the government admittedly is not aware of information to indicate that [Hashi and his co-defendants] posed a specific threat to any Americans.

Hashi’s case is particularly significant given the deep anxiety in the US about the threat posed by foreign

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As Kana’aneh attempted to visit Al-Qeeq, a protest outside the hospital was organized demanding AlQeeq’s release. He noted that the hospital had been turned into a “military base” with a massive armed presence surrounding the hospital and AlQeeq’s room, where despite his desperate condition, he is shackled to his bed. His further report for Samidoun follows: We are now in the heart of the hospital, where Mohammed al-Qeeq is being held. We were prevented by police from approaching his room, and the representatives of the so-called prison service refused to give us any information about his situation, refusing to speak to the lawyer, Comrade Mahmoud al-Madani.

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(47), Bethlehem (46), Tulkarem (23), Qalqilya (19), Tubas (11), Jericho (10) and Salfit (8). In January, occupation forces arrested Palestinian Legislative Council deputies Hatem Qufeisha and Mohammed Abu Teir, as well as former minister Issa al-Jabari, raising the number of PLC members jailed to 7. This comes in addition to the arrest of journalists Mujahed al-Saadi and Mahmoud Qawasmi, as well as the arrest of seven university students. There are 54 women prisoners, including 8 minor girls, all of whom are held in Damon and HaSharon prisons. There are now 450 children and youth under 18 detained in three prisons, Megiddo, HaSharon and Ofer.

The Israeli prison administration continues the practice of medical negligence and delay in the privision of proper treatment to sick prisoners, and during January there were a number of cases of health conditions exacerbated by this policy, most notably the cases of Nahid al-Aqra, who is denied a wheelchair in Gilboa prison despite his leg being amputated; Alaa al-Hams, who is suffering from nerve injuries, trembling hands and lymph swelling six years after a treatment for tuberculosis administered in the prison by occupation doctors; and Riad Amour, who says that his medical records have been falsified to claim that he received a new pacemaker a year ago when he has been waiting for this surgery for over four years.

Total number of prisoners in Israeli jails: 7000 Children and Minors: 450 Women prisoners: 54 Administrative detainees: 650 Palestinian Legislative Council members: 7 Sick prisoners: 700 The prisoners’ institutions hold the occupation forces fully responsible for the deteriorating situation in occupied Palestine; the cause of the deteriorating situation are the practices of the settlers and occupation forces, especially the provocative attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque and Palestinian holy sites, in addition to the daily violations of Palestinian rights and collective punishment against Palestinians, including home demolitions, mass arrests, and the extrajudicial execution of Palestinians, as well as attacks on Palestinians in their homes and workplaces, as well as the continued imprisoment of hunger-striking journalist Mohammed al-Qeeq, on strike for 69 days, and the continued imprisonment of the bodies of 10 martyrs for over 100 days. They emphasize that the practices of the occupation against the Palestinian people violate international humanitarian law, which categorically prohibits collective punishment and reprisals against peoples living under occupation, as stated in section 33 of the Fourth Geneva Conention, which applies to the occupied Palestinian territories, and which gives the Palestinian people under occupation the status of protected persons under international law. Mexicans are the thirstiest consumers of sugary drinks in the world. So acute is the problem that two years ago, in January 2014, Mexico introduced a national tax on sugary drinks and junk food - a 10% tax on every litre of sugar-sweetened drinks and an 8% tax on high-calorie food. “Mexican mums like having chubby kids in their homes as it shows they’re feeding them properly,” says one expert. Only one in five people who get Zika will develop symptoms. Those symptoms aren’t particularly pleasant -- they include fever, rash, headaches, joint pain, muscle pain, and red eyes -- but the sickness is usually not as severe as some of the other nasty mosquitoborne diseases like dengue, malaria,

chikungunya, yellow fever, or the West Nile virus. Zika’s scariest aspect is that it may be linked to microcephaly in babies. Microcephaly is abnormal brain development that can cause a disproportionately small head in the child, which may, in some circumstances, lead to death.

This link is suspected but is as of this writing not totally confirmed -it has only been under investigation since October 2015, as the result of an abnormally high number of cases of microcephaly in a region in Brazil that had recently experienced a Zika outbreak. A normal mom will take one shower a day. A Brazilian mom will take at least two if it is spring, autumn or winter. But if it’s summer, that number’s going to go up to 3 or 4. It’s not just that we’re a warm country, a Brazilian mother has a `harsher’ sense of personal hygiene than the rest of the world. She likes her things and her people clean. Costa Rica’s size and geographic location on the narrow Central American isthmus mean you can surf both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the same day. With the two coasts a six-hour drive apart, it’s possible to catch your first wave of the day on the Caribbean coast and then hop over to the Pacific for a sunset session before dinner. The water is deliciously warm on both sides. The word “oxcart” may not conjure a very glamorous image, but the Costa Rican carreta isn’t your typical cart; in fact, it’s the country’s most celebrated craft and a UNESCO Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Once a means of transporting coffee beans, Costa Rican oxcarts are now a proud symbol of the country’s cultural heritage and are often painted in colorful and intricate designs, turning them into works of art. You can catch a whole parade of exquisitely painted oxcarts on the second Sunday of March at the spectacular annual Da del Boyero (Oxcart Driver’s Day) festival in San Antonio de Escaz, a western suburb of the capital city, San Jos. Yearround, check out the world’s largest oxcart in the town of Sarch, Costa Rica’s most famous crafts center, about 30 miles northwest of the capital. Home to more than half a million species -- nearly 4% of the total estimated species in the world -- Costa Rica is one of the best places on the planet to explore nature’s flora and fauna. One-quarter of its land area is protected in national parks and reserves, and these places contain an astounding variety of ecosystems, including tropical rainforest, tropical dry forest, cloud forest, mangrove forest, Atlantic and Pacific coastline, and miles and miles of offshore reefs. Part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, Costa Rica contains more than a dozen volcanoes, both active and inactive. The most famous is Arenal, whose conical beauty and former status as one of the most active volcanoes in the world spawned a thriving tourism industry in its environs and, subsequently, an array of hot springs resorts of varying degrees of luxury. Arenal stopped spewing in 2010 and has since become dormant, but it’s still amazing to look at while soaking in a hot springs pool, tropical cocktail in hand. Costa Rica prides itself on its pioneering ecotourism and sustainability efforts, and rightly so. The country is home to a wealth of ecolodges that allow tourists to maintain a low environmental footprint during their visit without sacrificing comfort -- or, in some cases, pure luxury.

From tent lodges, beach bungalows, and former farms to solar-powered hotels, an impressive selection of ecolodges exist across Costa Rica, allowing visitors to “stay green” in virtually any part of the country. Every year in the days approaching August 2, millions of pilgrims from around Costa Rica, Central America, and the world travel on foot, horseback, or, for the truly devout, on their knees to the colonial capital of Cartago. They walk to attend mass at the Baslica Nuestra Seora de los ngeles (Our Lady of the Angels Basilica) in honor of the Virgen de los ngeles (Virgin of the Angels), Costa Rica’s patron saint.

There, they pay their respects to, and make requests of, an eight-inch black stone statue of the Virgin, affectionately called La Negrita. Many pilgrims make only the 14-mile trek from the capital city of San Jos to Cartago, but some walk from the farthest reaches of Costa Rica and even from neighboring countries out of devotion to the saint.

That, and legend has it La Negrita can conjure miraculous healings. A major new study has revealed that the global seafood catch is much larger and declining much faster than previously known. Around the world, subsi-

dized fishing fleets from Europe, China and Japan have depleted the fish populations on which coastal residents depend. Launch Pad, New York (2015); the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, (2014); Musee d’art moderne de Saint Etienne, France (2012); and the Return Gallery, Goethe Institute, Dublin (2012). Nolan has participated in numerous major group exhibitions including Lofoten International Arts Festival (LIAF), Svolvaer, Norway and Artspace, Sydney (both 2015); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013); Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, traveling to The Model, Sligo (2012); EVA International, Limerick (2012); M u s e e d’art moderne de Saint Etie n n e , France, travelling to the Accademia d’Ungheri, Rome and The Daejeon Museum of Art, South K o r e a (2009).

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Digital media, once thought to be fundamentally intangible, has been shown in recent years to have very real effects on the physical world. The transformation of data into engaging, interactive formats (online gaming, mobile software, networked art) has shown that digital media distributed across networks has the power to educate, to connect, to visualize a politic and produce emotional response. This [Inter]web of relations mimics key properties of another technological achievement: textiles. Ironically, one of humanity’s oldest technologies serves as the perfect metaphor for its latest inventions.

And, as the digital age advances, artists and industry alike must consider the possibility of ‘digital textiles’. Android, Google Play and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google, Inc. Apple and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. 1 The Mobile Banking app is available on iPad, iPhone and Android devices. Not all Mobile Banking app features are available on all devices. 2 Mobile Banking requires enrollment through the Mobile Banking app, Mobile website or Online Banking. View the Online Banking Service Agreement for more information. Data connection required. Wireless carrier fees may apply. 3

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The movement is considered one of the largest and most signif icant le f t i s t m o v e ments in Latin America, providing support to similar efforts in other countries and pushing for agrarian reform within Brazil. The MST is more than just a p e a s a nt ’s movement. It seeks to restructure Brazil’s social, economic, and political by “(1) strengthening civil society through the organization and incorporation of marginalized sectors of the population; (2) highlighting the importance of public activism as a catalyst for social development; (3) facilitating the extension and exercise of basic citizenship rights among Brazil’s poor; and, (4) engendering a sense of utopia and affirmation of ideals imbued in Brazil’s long term, complex and open-ended democratization p r o c e s s .” T h e movement arose in reaction to neoliberal economic policies introduced in Brazil’s government postmilitary dictatorship.

The country shifted from an agro-centric economy to an industrial economy, driving peasants from their land into urban areas. Along with this, changes in agriculture included corporatization of land ownership, increased use of pesticides and monoculture, and mechanization of farms. These displacements of workers led to the formation of the MST as a way to re-claim the land for the people through

civil disobedience and organized mass action. However, the true origins of the movement can be found much further back in Brazilian history. Every winter the world’s political and business elite retreat to the Swiss mountain resort of Davos to think deep thoughts and sup at five-star eateries. The corporate execs, bankers, and finance ministers who frequent this annual Davos World Economic Forum have of late devoted considerable time to the topic of inequality. Last year’s forum, for instance, identified income inequality as 2015’s “most significant trend.”

But talk can be cheap. In fact, the more the elites at Davos seem to contemplate our global great divide, the more global wealth seems to concentrate in fewer pockets.

Back in 2010, as the global charity Oxfam reminds us in a new report released on the eve of Davos 2016, the world’s 388 richest billionaires had a combined fortune that equaled the net worth of the poorest half of the world’s population. But last year just 62 top billionaires had enough net worth to match the wealth of humanity’s poorest half. That bottom half t o t a l s some 3.6 billion people.

S i n c e 2 0 1 0 , those 3.6 billion folks have together lost just over $1 trillion -41 percent -- of their household wealth. The richest 62 of our global billionaire class, meanwhile, have gained $542 billion over that same time span, a 44 percent increase in their personal net worth. These fortunate 62 - a group small enough to fit in a bus -- certainly do have some good-times company. Our world’s wealthiest 1 percenters now average $1.7 million each in wealth, a total over 300 times greater than the average net worth of our world’s bottom 90 percent. The ultimate global inequality bottom line. Our top 1 percent, notes Oxfam, “now have more wealth than the rest of the world combined.” Turkey is a fascist police state, Erdogan a hoodlum, an international outlaw, a tyrannical regional scourge. His aggression against Turkish and Syrian Kurds, downing a Russian SU-24 bomber in Syrian airspace, committing other provocative acts against the Russian Federation, and now cross-border shelling of targets in Syria following permission from or complicity with Washington. Texas health officials confirmed on Tues-

day the first case of a patient acquiring the Zika virus through sexual transmission. ‘The patient was infected with the virus after having sexual contact with an ill individual who returned from a country where Zika virus is present,’ a Dallas County Health and Human Services said in a statement. The troubling news confirms suspicions that the mosquito-borne virus can also be transmitted via sex. The number of Muslim Americans associated with extremist plots peaked in 2015, according to a new report issued by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security. Eighty-one such individuals were identified last year, while the total number of Muslim Americans believed to be involved in extremist plots since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks is 344, researcher Charles Kurzman reports.

Kurzman adds that government officials continue to estimate that only about 250 Americans have joined ISIS in Syria’a number that has not changed since mid-2015. Some of them have been charged in the U.S., while others are presumed dead by authorities. Only one is believed to have gone to Syria with the intention of returning to carry out an attack on American soil. Perhaps it is just what happens when one reaches the West coast of America--the Pacific Wall as Jean-Francois Lyotard calls it in a rather obscure and obscured text written in the nineteen seventies. Perhaps a similar sensation confronted Hitler when, facing the Atlantic, he is turned back towards the immolation of the ground war. Backs to a wall and the scene turns nasty. Backs to the wall and the catastrophe strikes. This will be played out, as we will see, in the fascism and racism all too well known in the binary twin of Amerika/ Europe or, if you prefer, Lyotard/Kienholz. As the European empire is eclipsed by the western expansion, the libidinal drive becomes the pure white epidermal screen that characterizes Lyotard’s women--his version of California Girls. So here we have the fantasy of desire in its pure form as the skin of “white women.” Back again to the fallen virgin, now no longer Georges Bataille’s Dirty but a reconstituted pure, clean racist flesh that will turn all into jealous suitors. In a strange and bizarre fashion Lyotard finds in this jealousy the set up of the Nazi Final Solution. That is a revenge against the Jews for being God’s chosen people at the expense of the fragmented and dismembered German nation. Or, at least, Lyotard simultaneously advances this proposition all the while denouncing it, of course, as too superficial, as too much under the sway of “white women’s skin.”

On the libidinal band though what does one have other than surface inviting penetration? No less powerful is the way Renewal of Creative Path has helped to strengthen relationships between individuals. If you have spent enough time with a person, I am sure you have noticed that it can be difficult to always maintain positive communication and deep trust. This comes from the accumulated effect of all those times we spoke out of impulse, despite not being at our best; and when missed opportunities for connection nudged us towards greater disconnection instead of renewed connection. Even when there is nothing major, these small things have a way of corroding the lines of connection. Renewal of Creative Path can be a powerful tool for cleaning away that corrosion and helping people to revitalize their feelings of connection with each other. I have heard from many-

couples, co-workers, and organizations, who have seen profound shifts in their relationships as a result of working through the Renewal of Creative Path together. First, he’s trying to salvage the island’s horse-drawn carriages that date to 1876. At the same time, Gawne is leading a project to potentially lure companies that make fully self-driving cars, vehicles without steering wheels or pedals. Such is the life of a bureaucrat on one of the world’s most unusual islands. The self-governing island - nestled between Ireland and Britain - has a population close to 90,000 and a land mass about the size of Chicago. It claims to have the oldest continuous parliament in the world, dating back more than 1,000 years. Its reliance on tourism dictates keeping the horse carriage in business. Driverless cars probably would draw visitors, too, and the government’s ability to move quickly given its small size could make it an appealing destination for companies developing such vehicles. Stop Making Sense PG - 100 min. (1984) 9:409: 409:409:409:409:409:40 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 PG13 - 137 m i n.9 : 309 : 301:10 9 : 309 : 309 : 309 : 309 : 30 Youth R - 124 min.

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3:30 6:153:30 6:153:30 6:156:156:156:156:15 The Martian PG13 - 144 min. 3:15 9:153:15 9:153:15 9:159:159:159:159:15 As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only doing their duty, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed bomb, he will never sleep any worse for it. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil. Oh! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would today pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation m u s t b e roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. U.S. troops are going back into Iraq, our presence in Libya is escalating, and Obama has widened the war in Afghanistan-all without much of a public debate. What appeals to many scholars about interpretive and critical modes of policy analysis is the common normative desire to provide voice to the local knowledge of subalterns and challenge the hegemony of power within contemporary neoliberal society.

This fringe event to the 2016 conference begins from the premise that in replicating the norms of academic disciplines the IPA conference has inadvertently become what it often critiques when analysing policy-making. By replicating many of the practices that are common in academic conferences, it can reinforce hierarchies; lack reflexivity of power/ knowledge within academic contexts; and perpetuate behaviours and norms that can exclude certain groups and individuals. - Why use qualitative methods for evaluation? - Which qualitative evaluation methods are most appropriate to your evaluation question or situation? How can you develop a good interview or focus group guide? How do you avoid common pitfalls of qualitative evaluation design and data collection? How can effective interview or focus groups be conducted? - How can you gather qualitative evaluation data under tight resource and time constraints?

What are the steps involved in analysing qualitative evaluation data? - How do you analyse different kinds of qualitative data, in particular interview versus focus group data? - How can you report qualitative results to stakeholders? - How can qualitative and quantitative results complement each other? - What are the indicators of good or poor quality qualitative analysis? Italian painter Caravaggio and Spanish poet Quevedo engage in a deadly allegorical tennis match in this metaphysical

romp of a novel that vaults through time to explore art, history, religion, and modern thought. When a gang of armed men turned up on a street in the town of Cristo Rey, Sinaloa, it was too much for half a dozen police officers last week: they beat a hasty retreat, according to a video that has gone viral.The illegal sale of turtle eggs continues despite the effort and time invested by all orders of government to stop poaching, as consumers want them in order to enhance sexual virility or for use in witchcraft. Five months after the discovery of ancient tunnels beneath the city of Puebla, the centuries-old pa s s a g e ways are b e i n g opened as part of the Secretos de Puebla, or Secrets of Puebla, project. A yo u n g man who had been st udy i ng to be a priest was arrested last Friday in California after a U.S. Homeland Security investigation found he planned to travel to Mexico to have sex with a toddler or baby. Remittances sent home

by Mexicans working outside the country surpassed petroleum revenues in 2015 for the first time. A shootout at a 15th birthday party in Guerrero yesterday killed nine people and has been linked to the death shortly after of a woman who was en route with her husband to Zihuatanejo, where they were going to celebrate their honeymoon. The number of counterfeit banknotes in circulation in Mexico rebounded during 2015, putting an end to a two-year streak of declining numbers.

Rare snow fell in Southern China’s Guangdong province Tuesday resulting in wide spread travel problems for those on the roads, in the air and as seen here on the trains. At its peak up to 100,000 passengers were stranded at G u a n g z h o u’s train station by Tuesday evening due to delays caused by the weather further On January 19, Bastrop County, Texas Deputy Dylan Morris attempted to pull over a vehicle due to the driver’s erratic behavior. The driver did not initially comply, but eventually stopped at a gas station. Once the vehicle was stopped, Dorris attempted to arrest the driver, however, the driver resisted. While Dorris was struggling with the driver, the man reached for the deputy’s weapon.

Thankfully, Marine veteran, and Right-to-Carry permit holder, Scott Perkins came upon the struggle and immediately intervened. Perkins drew a gun and ordered the driver to ‘freeze,’ which halted the attack and prompted the criminal to flee. Following the incident,

Dorris said of Perkins to the Austin American-Statesman, ‘I’m alive today because of him,’ adding, ‘There are no words to explain it. He’s such an outstanding citizen. He’s here for our country, our community and you really feel the love.’ Despite his heroics, Perkins remained modest, telling the paper, ‘Anytime somebody is in need of help you should assist them. It doesn’t matter whether your life is in danger or not, you should always assist anybody who is in need. Kinsoji is a relatively modern temple, not being founded until 1914. Its location is right behind the Kibune Shrine in Iizuka that was very popular with boatmen on the two river forks that run nearby and I suspect that may have had something to do with it.

No-one was home when I visited so I

couldn’t get inside to see the Fudo Myo enshrined there. It is known locally as Chiri Kiri With three home team games under our belt, 2016 is shaping up to be a crazy season. Last month, the Breakneck Betties were the only team to remain undefeated. Can they keep up their winning streak when the take on last year’s champs the High Rollers? Get your tickets here to witness the action in person.

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at a cool $1.1 billion, but the war and subsequent instability created a tsunami of weapons and refugees -- and the fighting continues. It also produced one of Clinton’s more tasteless remarks. Referring to Gaddafi, she said, ‘We came, we saw, he died.’ The Libyan leader was executed by having a bayonet rammed up his rectum.

Ukraine: The death toll now exceeds 8,000, some 18,000 have been wounded, and several cities in the eastern part of the country have been heavily damaged. The fighting has tapered off, although tensions remain high.

Yemen: Over 6,000 Yemenis have been killed and another 27,000 wounded. According to the UN, most of them are civilians. Ten million Yeminis don’t have enough to eat, and 13 million have no access to clean water. Yemen is highly dependent on imported food, but a U.S.Saudi blockade has choked off most imports.

The war is ongoing. Iraq: Anywhere from 400,000 to over 1 million people have died from war-related causes since the 2003 invasion.

Over 2 million have fled the country and another 2 million are internally displaced.

The cost: close to $1 trillion, but it may rise to $4 trillion once all the longterm medical costs are added in. The war grinds on its latest incarnation: a bloody turf war with the Islamic State, which emerged from the Sunni insurgency against the U.S.-installed government. Syria: Over 250,000 have died in the war, and half the country’s population has been displaced ‘ including four million Syrian refugees abroad. The country’s major cities have been ravaged. The war, like the others, is ongoing. There are other countries - like Somalia - that one could add to the butcher bill. Then there are the countries that reaped the fallout from the collapse of Libya. Weapons looted after the fall of Gaddafi largely fuel the wars in Mali, Niger, and the Central African Republic. And how does one calculate the cost of the Asia Pivot not only for the United States, but for the allies we’re recruiting to confront China? Since the ‘Pivot’ got underway prior to China’s recent assertiveness in the South China Sea, is the current climate of tension in the Pacific basin a result of Chinese aggression, or U.S. provocation? Sweden plans to expel 80,00

asylum seekers from the country after their applications for refugee status were rejected, with other countries in the region looking to do the same. The country’s citizens are divided on Sweden’s refugee policy following the stabbing of a 22-year-old refugee centre worker. Our elected representatives are once again cutting out the public from an important debate over mass surveillance.

The House Judiciary Committee held a “members only” meeting today to discuss Section 702 of the FISA Amendment Acts, the law on which the NSA relies to operate its notorious PRISM surveillance program and to tap into the backbone of the Internet. Last week, EFF joined two dozen civil liberties, human rights, and transparency organizations, demanding in writing that leaders of the House Judiciary Committee open the hearing, at least in part, to the public. Instead, the committee heard today only from a panel of intelligence officials drawn from the NSA, FBI, DOJ, and ODNI who released a 12-page unclassified statement. Vigilant Solutions, one of the country’s largest brokers of vehicle surveillance technology, is offering a hell of a deal to law enforcement agencies in Texas: a whole suite of automated license plate reader (ALPR) equipment and access to the company’s databases and analytical toolsand it won’t cost the agency a dime. Instead of paying for ALPR gear themselves, Texas police fund it by gouging people who have outstanding court fines and handing Vigilant all of the data they gather on drivers for nearly unlimited commercial use. Focusing on transitioning society into one of post-scarcity, emphasizing social and environmental justice, the topics of discussion will include the role of technology, the latest understandings in public health science, critical factors for s ustainability, transition steps such as universal basic income, and the structural incapacity of market capitalism to address current problems, holding progress back.

The purpose of The Zeitgeist Movement is to assist global transition into a new social model based upon the pursuit of social equality, sustainability and abundance.

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and more details while reducing the number of times you have to visit the Camera to swap out depleted batteries. Whitetail’R PhoneREAD’R The easiest way to view your trail camera images and video right in the field. Don’t get a separate viewer for your trail cam... just use your Android smartphone! Now you can show off the trophy game lurking in your woods instantly. In the last two decades, scholars have begun to challenge the typologies that informed nationalism research for much of the twentieth century, and most particularly the binary juxtaposition of civic v. ethnic nationalism. These binary dichotomies, as scholars revealed, were normatively charged: they served to justify nationalisms among ‘western’ nations such as the United States and France but de-legitimizing those of ‘eastern’ nations. Illiberal elements in supposedly ‘civic’ nationalisms were obscured, the liberal aspects of allegedly ‘ethnic’ nationalisms were ignored. The UN report documents ‘widespread and systematic’ attacks on civilian targets in violation of humanitarian law. Three of MSF’s hospitals have been bombed and now women are fleeing to give birth in caves.

Multiple wedding parties have been targeted too, killing over 200 family members. The report even found civilians fleeing airstrikes being targeted and shot by helicopters -- an image that’s hard to shake. Saudi Arabia, with the support of key allies, started the bombing campaign in Yemen in March last year in order to defeat the Houthi rebels who are backed by Iran. The Houthis are not blameless in this war -- they are also also guilty of violating humanitarian law. But Saudi Arabia is bombing the Yemeni people indiscriminately -- without any regard for human life. Islands are paradoxical. Although perceived as peripheral relative to mainlands and continents, islands are also centres of affective, cultural, and identity reference for those who were born and/or live on them. As spaces of transit and encounters, insular peripheries are moreover sociocultural and political realities marked by transgression, innovation, and (re)creativity. It is important to give scholarly attention to the interrelated peripheralities and centralities of island spaces, cultural phenomena, and subjects. By expanding our focus beyond Western metropolitan centres, we can contribute to a new cartography of modernity that (re)views the cultural, epistemological, and (re)creative density of insular peripheries, shedding light on the modernities and modernisms to which they gave rise. High European modernism is often regarded as having been enacted by emigration from the provinces to the great European capitals (Eagleton, 1970; Silvestre, 2008), but what has occurred in reverse, with migration from centres to peripheries? How have modernisms been experienced in geopolitical and cultural spaces regarded as peripheral? How have (European and colonial) insular societies and subjects responded to such incoming modernisms?

What role have peripheral geocultural spaces been assigned in constructing the narratives of diverse modernisms and modernities? Golden rice is genetically modified to contain a jolt of betacarotene, which our bodies transform into vitamin A. Diets deficient in this key micronutrient are the leading cause of blindness of children in the global south, where rice tends to be a staple grain. But though it was developed back in 2000, golden rice has yet to be planted commercially. If it’s such a panacea, why does it flourish only in headlines, far from the farm fields where it’s intended to grow? It remains to be seen which is the better organized, the German or the British. We know what the British heel means for us and the non-European races of the world.

But we would never wish to end the British rule with German aid. We have found in nonviolence a force which, if organized, can without doubt match itself against a combination of all the most violent forces in the world. In non-violent technique, as I have said, there is no such thing as defeat. It is all ‘do or die’ without killing or hurting. It can be used practically without money and obviously without the aid of science of destruction which you have brought to such perfection. It is a marvel to me that you do not see that it is nobody’s monopoly. If not the British, some other power will certainly improve upon your method and beat you with your own weapon. You are leaving no legacy to your people of which they would feel proud. They cannot

take pride in a recital of cruel deed, however skillfully planned. I, therefore, appeal to you in the name of humanity to stop the war. Dear Customer, Ali Andersen Your parcel has been sent on January 23rd, 2016. Your order should have already reached you. We do not see any problems from our side. Please, contact your closest post office as the status says that the parcel was delivered to your doorstep on January 27th. Please, contact us if you have any additional questions. Please doublecheck the purchase and the delivery details in the file enclosed. Brandon Astor Jones, the oldest man on Georgia’s death row, was executed e a r l y We d ne s day, hours after Sup r e m e Court Justice Clare n c e Thomas denied a request for a stay in his scheduled lethal injection. The 72-year-old had been on death row for 18 years after being convicted in 1997 for the slaying of a convenience-store worker 18 years prior. Lawyers had asked the Supreme Court to block the execution over Jones’s challenge to the state law that keeps secret the company responsible for manufacturing the drugs used in the state’s lethal injections or because the death sentence is disproportionate to the crime. On Tuesday, the state supreme court turned down an appeal that argued his sentence was disproportionate to the crime while a federal appeals court also declined a challenge to the state’s execution secrecy law. A report published Wednesday found a record number of people were exonerated of crimes in the U.S. in 2015, with nearly 40 percent of cases involving people falsely convicted in homicides. The National Registry of Exonerations said 149 people spent an average of 15 years in prison before being exonerated last year - 10 more than in 2014 - the highest total since the group began keeping records in 1989. The convictions included 47 drug crimes, 54 murder convictions that were overturned, and five convicts who were awaiting execution. Of those wrongly convicted for homicides, the report said, ‘more than two-thirds were minorities, including half who were black.’ Researchers said the annual number of exonerations has more than doubled since 2011, with an average of nearly three exonerations a week. A Los Angeles civilian oversight panel has ruled that LAPD officers were justified in killing a homeless black man on Skid Row in March 2015.Charly Keundeu Keunang was shot six

times, including twice in the chest. Activists have since called for police to release body-camera footage of the shooting. The civilian commission found that one officer’s tactics in shooting Keunang had violated policy, but did not say how. ‘We’re extremely, extremely disappointed,’ one police-oversight activist said. I expect there will be more variability in how much time is spent reflecting on the questions. Those who choose to simply journal their reflections may be able to get as much out of it as they would like after 30-60 minutes, though others may take longer. Those who decide to engage in the process with others, may find themselves spending a great deal of time in conversation around the topics. However, in my experience, this is time well-spent. 1. What is the im-

portance of islands to environmental conservation? 2. How have humans changed island ecosystems through history? 3. What are the future challenges for island ecology and evolution? 4. How can island conservation contribute to human wellbeing? 5. How are islands dealing with the challenge of balancing development with sustainability? 6.

How can we incorporate the value of island environments into conservation? 7.

How can indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) be used to improve island environmental futures? 8. How can we build island communities that are resilient to the impacts of climate change and environmental hazards? 9. What role can the humanities play in island conservation? 10.

How does environmental governance on islands currently operate and what forms of governance produce the best outcomes? 11. How can we improve island conservation through integrated marine and terrestrial management? 12.

What is the current state of knowledge of island extinctions and how can this be used to set ba selines for restoration? 13. How well are island conservation issues addressed in international conventions and agreements? 14.

What have we learnt about invasive species on islands and what are the best strategies for dealing with them in the future? 15. What is the role of environmental education on islands? 16. What are the island conservation lessons for the planet? Definitely! They are very heavy duty, break resistant, yet light weight. The (re)making of bodies, often portrayed more grotesquely today in the practices of skin bleaching and the enhancement and reduction of various parts of the body are increasingly pervasive practices in Africa that have generated much debate and discussion. The health implications of these practices and the markets that underpin them have received attention both among scholars and in the popular press.

Further, discussion has focused on the implications and effects of these practices on identities and hierarchies of being at a global as well as local level.

The International Monetary Fund?s executive board announced on 30 November that the Chinese currency, the renminbi (RMB) or yuan, would soon be included in the basket of currencies that make up its Special Draw-

ing Rights (SDR), beside the US dollar, the euro, the British pound and the yen. The decision recognised the growing role of the Chinese currency in international trade settlements. Since the launch in 2009 of a pilot programme for cross-border RMB trade settlements in Asia, the share of Chinese trade settled in RMB has risen from 3.2% to 25%, and should, according to the Financial Times, soon reach 46% (1). Offshore centres clearing the currency have been set up in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, London and Frankfurt. The RMB is still far from world reserve status, requiring full convertibility and complete capital market liberalisation, which China is not ready for and carries significant risks. But the RMB?s rise is a ?momentous event in [...] international finance?, according to a former IMF economist (2) the beginning of a slow shift towards a tripolar world monetary system no longer exclusively centred in the West. Migration and cosmopolitanism are consubstantial. Cosmopolitanism means to be a citizen of the world, with no borders or, at least, with permeable borders.

Migration means to move from one place to another.

Thus, migration, without impediments, appears to be the natural starting point for a cosmopolitan view, and theories of cosmopolitanism, as a rule, take the division of the globe into different nations and their borders as an obstacle for a cosmopolitan arrangement of the world. Avantika Bawa, Portland Carla Bengston, Eugene David Bithell, Ashland Pat Boas, Portland Mike Bray, Springfield Bruce Burris, Corvallis Julia Calabrese & Emily Bernstein, Portland Cherry/Lucic, Portland David Eckard, Portland Tannaz Farsi, Eugene Jack Featherly, Beaverton Howard Fonda, Portland Julie Green, Corvallis Midori Hirose, Portland Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Portland Colin Kippen, Portland Anya Kivarkis, Eugene Michael Lazarus, Portland Charlene Liu, Eugene Giles Lyon, Portland Ellen McFadden, Portland Whitney Minthorn, Pendleton Donald Morgan, Eugene Brenna Murphy, Portland Julia Oldham, Eugene Rebecca Peel, Portland Lisa Radon, Portland Jon Raymond, Portland Jack Ryan &Chi Wang, Eugene Heidi Schwegler, Portland Rick Silva, Eugene

Storm Tharp, Portland Weird Fiction, Portland Ryan Woodring, Portland Regina Agu Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze Daniel Bejar Cammisa Buerhaus, Alexander Fleming, and Karin Schneider Danielle Dean Mustafa Faruki Eric Ramos Guerrero Sheree Hovsepian Sue Jeong Ka Olalekan Jeyifous Rafael Kelman Arnold Kemp Nsenga Knight Florentine and Alexandre LamarcheOvize Carolyn Lambert Lei Lei JC Lenochan Thessia Machado Srinivas Mangipudi James Mercer Irini Miga Ana Penalba Sreshta Rit Premnath Jennifer May Reiland Gabriela Salazar Slinko Sun Moqing Edwin Torres Hong-An Truong Tuguldur Yondonjamts Rodrigo Valenzuela Ezra Wube Sara Yan Located in the heart of the country in Bentonville, Arkansas, Crystal Bridges explores the unfolding history of America by collecting and exhibiting outstanding works of art that illuminate our artistic heritage and enrich our understanding and appreciation of our nation and ourselves. With 120 acres of native Ozark forest, Crystal Bridges’ grounds invite visitors to enjoy the natural environment as a continuation of their museum experience. The Museum’s distinctive architecture immerses visitors in the landscape, while three miles of nature trails encourage exploration and reflection. Through our ever-expanding permanent collection of American art, temporary exhibitions, and a wide variety of entertaining and educational programs, Crystal Bridges has become an invaluable resource for our community, and a must-see attraction for tourists to Northwest Arkansas. In addition, a number of groundbreaking exhibition and education initiatives place Crystal Bridges at the forefront in scholarship and outreach innovation. Contribute to a long-term vision for the museum that includes contemporary art. Conduct research on the collection and disseminate the research through oral, written and other means of communication to provide the widest possible access to both inhouse staff and the public. Propose and develop creative and engaging exhibitions of various scale and content.

Manage contemporary collection presentation in collaboration with internal team. Create and implement collection development strategies that include purchases and gifts. Create and activate outdoor sculpture program. Work with fellow staff to ensure the best available standards of care and protection for all works in the permanent collection and borrowed art works. Work in close partnership with Education and Interpretation Division colleagues to contribute to programs related to the collection and special exhibitions, including, but not limited to, lectures, workshops, gallery presentations and other in-gallery interpretation efforts. Serve as an ambassador for Crystal Bridges locally, nationally, and internationally, being an active member in the field as well as with the general public. Assist in exhibition and collection related fundraising by providing necessary project and object information and participating in grant writing and personal solicitations to potential donors including corporations, foundations and individuals. Supervise guest curators in area of specialization, consultants and support staff including curatorial assistants, and interns as require Perform additional duties as assigned. Hi there! Every so often, we send automated emails in customer service. This is one of them. Sorry about that. It’s been a few days and we haven’t heard back