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The UK officially has the highest coronavirus death rate per capita in the world
The latest statistics on coronavirus fatalities have revealed that the UK currently has the highest per capita death rate of any country in the world.
A chart produced by The Independent, using data from Oxford University research platform Our World in Data, ranked countries by their average coronavirus death toll over the previous seven days (as of 18 January 2021).
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Measuring deaths per million people, this put the UK at the very top of the world chart for coronavirus deaths, followed by the Czech Republic and Portugal.
The chart does not cover overall, cumulative death tolls from coronavirus, though the UK still ranks highly on this measure, behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico, all of which have much higher populations.
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In spite of this, the UK has undoubtedly been hit badly by coronavirus when compared to other countries across the globe.
No Covid deaths in New Zealand since September
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There have been more than 3.4 million confirmed infections in the UK, equating to one in every 20 people.
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Asked on Sky News about the chart, Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland secretary, said that it was inappropriate to draw global comparisons on coronavirus: "It's not really appropriate, or entirely accurate, to do direct comparisons with other countries around the world at the moment. Things move at different points in the cycle. We're not through this virus yet.
"But [...] every single death, let alone the scale of deaths that we've seen from this virus, both in the UK and across the world, is one too many. It's an utter tragedy."


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"S'uyulu Island"
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James is more than an acrylic artist and more than a woodworker; he has honed the ability to take his considerable talents and apply them across many disciplines.
His early life was all about sports. As a hockey and lacrosse player, athletics were his original passion. Each day was filled with training, practice or big games.
Two years into his junior hockey career, he suffered a severe shoulder injury that forced him away from the life in which he felt comfortable and safe.With his routine changed for the foreseeable future, James unexpectedly stumbled upon a new passion: Art. By trading in my hockey stick for a paint brush and pen I found myself reconnecting and rediscovering the outdoors. I started by simply combining my favourite West Coast colours on Dollar Store canvases. With a little time and practice this act slowly translated into a style that I feel is a combination of Abstract and Post-Impressionism.
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Visit the East Bank of Luxor where you can see the Karnak and Luxor temples. The Karnak temple is an open air museum and is considered the second tourist attraction after the great pyramids of Giza. The temple consists of a main area the precinct of Amun Re and other fewer temples and sanctuaries located outside the enclosing walls. The Luxor Temple was the focal point for rituals and festivals. The temple has great pylon with carved episodes from the battle of kadesh when Ramses defeated the Hethisi.
Pick you up from the hotel in Luxor, to the east bank of Luxor where you will be accompanied by Private English Egyptologist guide to visit the Karnak Temples, the greatest example of worship in history and was dedicated to the God Amon, his wife Mut and their son Khonsu. It was constructed from the beginning of the Middle Kingdom to the Greco-Roman Kingdom.
Then move to Luxor Temple. It was built by Amunhotep III in 18th Dynasty in the New Kingdom and it was completed by Ramesses II during the 19th Dynasty. King Ramses II was the most famous king in the 19th Dynasty. He ruled Egypt for about 67 years. It was dedicated to the great god Amun-Ra, his wife Mut and their son Khonsu together representing the Theban triad. Enjoy visiting Obelisk of Ramses II in front of the 1st Pylon. After that your will be transferred back to your hotel in Luxor.
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2016 Mobile Security & Business Transformation Study
How Has Enterprise Mobility Changed How Your Enterprise Conducts - and Secures - Business?We recognize that mobility is now ubiquitous within global enterprises, and we recognize the security threats that target mobile devices as an entry point to infect networks and compromise data. But how has mobility truly transformed how enterprises conduct business? And by extension, how has mobility transformed how enterprises view security?
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Voltairine de Cleyre
Anarchism and American Traditions
"Nature has the habit of now and then producing a type of human being far in advance of the times; an ideal for us to emulate; a being devoid of sham, uncompromising, and to whom the truth is sacred; a being whose selfishness is so large that it takes the whole human race and treats self only as one of the great mass; a being keen to sense all forms of wrong, and powerful in denunciation of it; one who can reach in the future and draw it nearer. Such a being was Voltairine de Cleyre."
What could be added to this splendid tribute by Jay Fox to the memory of Voltairine de Cleyre?
The real biography of Voltairine de Cleyre is to be found in the letters she wrote to her comrades, friends and admires, for like many other women in public life, she was a voluminous writer.
Born shortly after the close of the Civil War, she witnessed during her life the most momentous transformation of the nation; she saw the change from an agricultural community into an industrial empire; the tremendous development of capital in this country with the accompanying misery and degradation of labor. Her life path was sketched when she reached the age of womanhood; she had to become a rebel! To stand outside of the struggle would have meant intellectual death. She chose the only way.
Voltairine de Cleyre was born on November 17, 1866, in the town of Leslie, Michigan. She died on June 6, 1912, in Chicago. She came from French-American stock on her father's side, and of Puritan on her mother's. Her father, Auguste de Cleyre, was a native of Western Flanders, but of French origin. Being a freethinker and a great admirer of Voltaire, he named his daughter Voltairine. She did not have a happy childhood; her earliest life was embittered by want of the common necessities, which her parents, hard as they tried, could not provide. A vein of sadness can be traced in her earliest poems — the songs of a child of talent and great fantasy.
Strength of mind did not seem to have been a characteristic of Auguste de Cleyre, for he recanted his libertarian ideas, returned to the fold of the church, and became obsessed with the idea that the highest vocation for a woman was the life of a nun; so he sent her to the Convent of Our Lady of Lake Huron at Sarnia, Province of Ontario, Canada. But Voltairine's spirit could not be imprisoned in a convent. After she was there a few weeks she ran away. She crossed the river to Port Huron but as she had no money she started to walk home. After covering: seventeen miles, she realized that she could never do it; so she turned around and walked back, and entering the house of an acquaintance in Port Huron, asked for something to eat. They sent for her father who afterwards took her back to the convent. After a while, however, she again ran away, this time never to return.
Reaction from repression and the cruel discipline of the Catholic Church helped to develop Voltairine's inherent tendency toward free thought; the five-fold murder of the labor leaders in Chicago in 1887 shocked her mind so deeply that from that moment dates her development toward Anarchism. When in 1886 the bomb fell in the Haymarket Square, and the Anarchists were arrested, Voltairine de Cleyre, who at that time was a free thought lecturer, shouted: "They ought to be hanged!" They were hanged, and now her body rests in Waldheim Cemetery, near the grave of those martyrs. Speaking at a memorial meeting in honor of those comrades, in 1901, she said: "For that ignorant, outrageous, blood-thirsty sentence I shall never forgive myself, though I know the dead men would have forgiven me, though I know those who loved them forgive me But my own voice, as it sounded that night, will sound so in my ears till I die — a bitter reproach and a shame I have only one word of extenuation for myself and the millions of others who did as I did that night — ignorance."
She did not remain long in ignorance. In "The Making of an Anarchist," she describes why she became a convert to the idea and why she entered the movement. "Till then," she writes, "I believed in the essential Justice of the American law and trial by jury. After that I never could. The infamy of that trial has passed into history, and the question it awakened as to the possibility of Justice under law has passed into clamorous crying across the world."
Voltairine spent the greater part of her life in Philadelphia. Here, among congenial friends, and later among the Jewish immigrants, she did her best work, producing an enormous amount. Her poems, sketches, propagandist articles and essays may be found in Open Court, Twentieth Century, Magazine of Poetry, Truth, Lucifer, Boston Investigator, Rights of Labor, Truth Seeker, Liberty, Chicago Liberal, Free Society, Mother Earth, and in The Independent.
In an exquisite tribute to her memory, Leonard D. Abbott calls Voltairine de Cleyre a priestess of Pity and of Vengeance, whose voice has a vibrant quality that is unique in literature. We are convinced that her writings will live as long as humanity exists.
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Anarchism & American Traditions by Voltairine de Cleyre
American traditions, begotten of religious rebellion, small self-sustaining communities, isolated conditions, and hard pioneer life, grew during the colonization period of one hundred and seventy years from the settling of Jamestown to the outburst of the Revolution. This was in fact the great constitution-making epoch, the period of charters guaranteeing more or less of liberty, the general tendency of which is well described by Wm. Penn in speaking of the charter for Pennsylvania: "I want to put it out of my power, or that of my successors, to do mischief."
The revolution is the sudden and unified consciousness of these traditions, their loud assertion, the blow dealt by their indomitable will against the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from then till now has gone on remolding and regrappling the instruments of governmental power, that the Revolution sought to shape and hold as defenses of liberty.
To the average American of today, the Revolution means the series of battles fought by the patriot army with the armies of England. The millions of school children who attend our public schools are taught to draw maps of the siege of Boston and the siege of Yorktown, to know the general plan of the several campaigns, to quote the number of prisoners of war surrendered with Burgoyne; they are required to remember the date when Washington crossed the Delaware on the ice; they are told to "Remember Paoli," to repeat "Molly Stark's a widow," to call General Wayne "Mad Anthony Wayne," and to execrate Benedict Arnold; they know that the Declaration of Independence was signed on the Fourth of July, 1776, and the Treaty of Paris in 1783; and then they think they have learned the Revolution — blessed be George Washington! They have no idea why it should have been called a "revolution" instead of the "English War," or any similar title: it's the name of it, that's all. And name-worship, both in child and man, has acquired such mastery of them, that the name "American Revolution" is held sacred, though it means to them nothing more than successful force, while the name "Revolution" applied to a further possibility, is a spectre detested and abhorred. In neither case have they any idea of the content of the word, save that of armed force. That has already happened, and long happened, which Jefferson foresaw when he wrote:
"The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may become persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right, on a legal basis, is while our rulers are honest, ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will be heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion."
To the men of that time, who voiced the spirit of that time, the battles that they fought were the least of the Revolution; they were the incidents of the hour, the things they met and faced as part of the game they were playing; but the stake they had in view, before, during, and after the war, the real Revolution, was a change in political institutions which should make of government not a thing apart, a superior power to stand over the people with a whip, but a serviceable agent, responsible, economical, and trustworthy (but never so much trusted as not to be continually watched), for the transaction of such business as was the common concern and to set the limits of the common concern at the line of where one man's liberty would encroach upon another's.
They thus took their starting point for deriving a minimum of government upon the same sociological ground that the modern Anarchist derives the no-government theory; viz., that equal liberty is the political ideal. The difference lies in the belief, on the one hand, that the closest approximation to equal liberty might be best secured by the rule of the majority in those matters involving united action of any kind (which rule of the majority they thought it possible to secure by a few simple arrangements for election), and, on the other hand, the belief that majority rule is both impossible and undesirable; that any government, no matter what its forms, will be manipulated by a very small minority, as the development of the States and United States governments has strikingly proved; that candidates will loudly profess allegiance to platforms before elections, which as officials in power they will openly disregard, to do as they please; and that even if the majority will could be imposed, it would also be subversive of equal liberty, which may be best secured by leaving to the voluntary association of those interested in the management of matters of common concern, without coercion of the uninterested or the opposed.
Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that the local must be the basis of the general; that there can be a free federation only when there are free communities to federate; that the spirit of the latter is carried into the councils of the former, and a local tyranny may thus become an instrument for general enslavement. Convinced of the supreme importance of ridding the municipalities of the institutions of tyranny, the most strenuous advocates of independence, instead of spending their efforts mainly in the general Congress, devoted themselves to their home localities, endeavoring to work out of the minds of their neighbors and fellow-colonists the institutions of entailed property, of a State-Church, of a class-divided people, even the institution of African slavery itself. Though largely unsuccessful, it is to the measure of success they did achieve that we are indebted for such liberties as we do retain, and not to the general government. They tried to inculcate local initiative and independent action. The author of the Declaration of Independence, who in the fall of '76 declined a re-election to Congress in order to return to Virginia and do his work in his own local assembly, in arranging there for public education which he justly considered a matter of "common concern," said his advocacy of public schools was not with any "view to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better the concerns to which it is equal"; and in endeavoring to make clear the restrictions of the Constitution upon the functions of the general government, he likewise said:
"Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage for themselves, and the general government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants."
This then was the American tradition, that private enterprise manages better all that to which it IS equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society. And it quotes the particular two instances, Education and Commerce, which the governments of the States and of the United States have undertaken to manage and regulate, as the very two which in operation have done more to destroy American freedom and equality, to warp and distort American tradition, to make of government a mighty engine of tyranny, than any other cause, save the unforeseen developments of Manufacture.
It was the intention of the Revolutionists to establish a system of common education, which should make the teaching of history one of its principal branches; not with the intent of burdening the memories of our youth with the dates of battles or the speeches of generals, nor to make the Boston Tea Party Indians the one sacrosanct mob in all history, to be revered but never on any account to be imitated, but with the intent that every American should know to what conditions the masses of people had been brought by the operation of certain institutions, by what means they had wrung out their liberties, and how those liberties had again and again been filched from them by the use of governmental force, fraud, and privilege. Not to breed security, laudation, complacent indolence, passive acquiescence in the acts of a government protected by the label "home-made," but to beget a wakeful jealousy, a never-ending watchfulness of rulers, a determination to squelch every attempt of those entrusted with power to encroach upon the sphere of individual action — this was the prime motive of the revolutionists in endeavoring to provide for common education.
"Confidence," said the revolutionists who adopted the Kentucky Resolutions, "is everywhere the parent of despotism; free government is founded in jealousy, not in confidence; it is jealousy, not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power; our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go... In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
These resolutions were especially applied to the passage of the Alien laws by the monarchist party during John Adams' administration, and were an indignant call from the State of Kentucky to repudiate the right of the general government to assume undelegated powers, for said they, to accept these laws would be "to be bound by laws made, not with our consent, but by others against our consent — that is, to surrender the form of government we have chosen, and to live under one deriving its powers from its own will, and not from our authority." Resolutions identical in spirit were also passed by Virginia, the following month; in those days the States still considered themselves supreme, the general government subordinate.
To inculcate this proud spirit of the supremacy of the people over their governors was to be the purpose of public education! Pick up today any common school history, and see how much of this spirit you will find therein. On the contrary, from cover to cover you will find nothing but the cheapest sort of patriotism, the inculcation of the most unquestioning acquiescence in the deeds of government, a lullaby of rest, security, confidence — the doctrine that the Law can do no wrong, a Te Deum in praise of the continuous encroachments of the powers of the general government upon the reserved rights of the States, shameless falsification of all acts of rebellion, to put the government in the right and the rebels in the wrong, pyrotechnic glorifications of union, power, and force, and a complete ignoring of the essential liberties to maintain which was the purpose of the revolutionists. The anti-Anarchist law of post-McKinley passage, a much worse law than the Alien and Sedition acts which roused the wrath of Kentucky and Virginia to the point of threatened rebellion, is exalted as a wise provision of our All-Seeing Father in Washington.
Such is the spirit of government-provided schools. Ask any child what he knows about Shays' rebellion, and he will answer, "Oh, some of the farmers couldn't pay their taxes, and Shays led a rebellion against the court-house at Worcester, so they could burn up the deeds; and when Washington heard of it he sent over an army quick and taught 'em a good lesson" — "And what was the result of it?" "The result? Why — why — the result was — Oh yes, I remember — the result was they saw the need of a strong federal government to collect the taxes and pay the debts." Ask if he knows what was said on the other side of the story, ask if he knows that the men who had given their goods and their health and their strength for the freeing of the country now found themselves cast into prison for debt, sick, disabled, and poor, facing a new tyranny for the old; that their demand was that the land should become the free communal possession of those who wished to work it, not subject to tribute, and the child will answer "No." Ask him if he ever read Jefferson's letter to Madison about it, in which he says:
"Societies exist under three forms, sufficiently distinguishable.
Without government, as among our Indians.
Under government wherein the will of every one has a just influence; as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our States in a great one.
Under government of force, as is the case in all other monarchies, and in most of the other republics.
To have an idea of the curse of existence in these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep. It is a problem not clear in my mind that the first condition is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population. The second state has a great deal of good in it...It has its evils too, the principal of which is the turbulence to which it is subject. ...But even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government, and nourishes a general attention to public affairs. I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing."
Or to another correspondent:
"God forbid that we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion!...What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take up arms... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Ask any school child if he was ever taught that the author of the Declaration of Independence, one of the great founders of the common school, said these things, and he will look at you with open mouth and unbelieving eyes. Ask him if he ever heard that the man who sounded the bugle note in the darkest hour of the Crisis, who roused the courage of the soldiers when Washington saw only mutiny and despair ahead, ask him if he knows that this man also wrote, "Government at best is a necessary evil, at worst an intolerable one," and if he is a little better informed than the average he will answer, "Oh well, he [Tom Paine] was an infidel!" Catechize him about the merits of the Constitution which he has learned to repeat like a poll-parrot, and you will find his chief conception is not of the powers withheld from Congress, but of the powers granted.
Such are the fruits of government schools. We, the Anarchists, point to them and say: If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never entrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people, and teaching whatever will tend to keep it secure in its seat. As the fathers said of the governments of Europe, so say we of this government also after a century and a quarter of independence: "The blood of the people has become its inheritance, and those who fatten on it will not relinquish it easily."
Public education, having to do with the intellect and spirit of a people, is probably the most subtle and far-reaching engine for molding the course of a nation; but commerce, dealing as it does with material things and producing immediate effects, was the force that bore down soonest upon the paper barriers of constitutional restriction, and shaped the government to its requirements. Here, indeed, we arrive at the point where we, looking over the hundred and twenty five years of independence, can see that the simple government conceived by the revolutionary republicans was a foredoomed failure. It was so because of:
the essence of government itself;
the essence of human nature
the essence of Commerce and Manufacture.
Of the essence of government, I have already said, it is a thing apart, developing its own interests at the expense of what opposes it; all attempts to make it anything else fail. In this Anarchists agree with the traditional enemies of the Revolution, the monarchists, federalists, strong government believers, the Roosevelts of today, the Jays, Marshalls, and Hamiltons of then — that Hamilton, who, as Secretary of the Treasury, devised a financial system of which we are the unlucky heritors, and whose objects were twofold: To puzzle the people and make public finance obscure to those that paid for it; to serve as a machine for corrupting the legislatures; "for he avowed the opinion that man could be governed by two motives only, force or interest"; force being then out of the question, he laid hold of interest, the greed of the legislators, to set going an association of persons having an entirely separate welfare from the welfare of their electors, bound together by mutual corruption and mutual desire for plunder. The Anarchist agrees that Hamilton was logical, and understood the core of government; the difference is, that while strong governmentalists believe this is necessary and desirable, we choose the opposite conclusion, No Government Whatsoever.
As to the essence of human nature, what our national experience has made plain is this, that to remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature. That has happened which was prophesied: we have gone down hill from the Revolution until now; we are absorbed in "mere money-getting." The desire for material east long ago vanquished the spirit of '76. What was that spirit? The spirit that animated the people of Virginia, of the Carolinas, of Massachusetts, of New York, when they refused to import goods from England; when they preferred (and stood by it) to wear coarse, homespun cloth, to drink the brew of their own growths, to fit their appetites to the home supply, rather than submit to the taxation of the imperial ministry. Even within the lifetime of the revolutionists, the spirit decayed. The love of material ease has been, in the mass of men and permanently speaking, always greater than the love of liberty. Nine hundred and ninety nine women out of a thousand are more interested in the cut of a dress than in the independence of their sex; nine hundred and ninety nine men out of a thousand are more interested in drinking a glass of beer than in questioning the tax that is laid on it; how many children are not willing to trade the liberty to play for the promise of a new cap or a new dress? That it is which begets the complicated mechanism of society; that it is which, by multiplying the concerns of government, multiplies the strength of government and the corresponding weakness of the people; this it is which begets indifference to public concern, thus making the corruption of government easy.
As to the essence of Commerce and Manufacture, it is this: to establish bonds between every corner of the earths surface and every other corner, to multiply the needs of mankind, and the desire for material possession and enjoyment.
The American tradition was the isolation of the States as far as possible. Said they: We have won our liberties by hard sacrifice and struggle unto death. We wish now to be let alone and to let others alone, that our principles may have time for trial; that we may become accustomed to the exercise of our rights; that we may be kept free from the contaminating influence of European gauds, pageants, distinctions. So richly did they esteem the absence of these that they could in all fervor write: "We shall see multiplied instances of Europeans coming to America, but no man living will ever seen an instance of an American removing to settle in Europe, and continuing there." Alas! In less than a hundred years the highest aim of a "Daughter of the Revolution" was, and is, to buy a castle, a title, and rotten lord, with the money wrung from American servitude! And the commercial interests of America are seeking a world empire!
In the earlier days of the revolt and subsequent independence, it appeared that the "manifest destiny" of America was to be an agricultural people, exchanging food stuffs and raw materials for manufactured articles. And in those days it was written: "We shall be virtuous as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case as long as there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there." Which we are doing, because of the inevitable development of Commerce and Manufacture, and the concomitant development of strong government. And the parallel prophecy is likewise fulfilled: "If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface." There is not upon the face of the earth today a government so utterly and shamelessly corrupt as that of the United States of America. There are others more cruel, more tyrannical, more devastating; there is none so utterly venal.
And yet even in the very days of the prophets, even with their own consent, the first concession to this later tyranny was made. It was made when the Constitution was made; and the Constitution was made chiefly because of the demands of Commerce. Thus it was at the outset a merchant's machine, which the other interests of the country, the land and labor interests, even then foreboded would destroy their liberties. In vain their jealousy of its central power made enact the first twelve amendments. In vain they endeavored to set bounds over which the federal power dare not trench. In vain they enacted into general law the freedom of speech, of the press, of assemblage and petition. All of these things we see ridden roughshod upon every day, and have so seen with more or less intermission since the beginning of the nineteenth century. At this day, every police lieutenant considers himself, and rightly so, as more powerful than the General Law of the Union; and that one who told Robert Hunter that he held in his fist something stronger than the Constitution, was perfectly correct. The right of assemblage is an American tradition which has gone out of fashion; the police club is now the mode. And it is so in virtue of the people's indifference to liberty, and the steady progress of constitutional interpretation towards the substance of imperial government.
It is an American tradition that a standing army is a standing menace to liberty; in Jefferson's presidency the army was reduced to 3,000 men. It is American tradition that we keep out of the affairs of other nations. It is American practice that we meddle with the affairs of everybody else from the West to the East Indies, from Russia to Japan; and to do it we have a standing army of 83,251 men.
It is American tradition that the financial affairs of a nation should be transacted on the same principles of simple honesty that an individual conducts his own business; viz., that debt is a bad thing, and a man's first surplus earning should be applied to his debts; that offices and office holders should be few. It is American practice that the general government should always have millions [of dollars] of debt, even if a panic or a war has to be forced to prevent its being paid off; and as to the application of its income office holders come first. And within the last administration it is reported that 99,000 offices have been created at an annual expense of 1663,000,000. Shades of Jefferson! "How are vacancies to be obtained? Those by deaths are few; by resignation none." [Theodore] Roosevelt cuts the knot by making 99,000 new ones! And few will die — and none resign. They will beget sons and daughters, and Taft will have to create 99,000 more! Verily a simple and a serviceable thing is our general government.
It is American tradition that the Judiciary shall act as a check upon the impetuosity of Legislatures, should these attempt to pass the bounds of constitutional limitation. It is American practice that the Judiciary justifies every law which trenches on the liberties of the people and nullifies every act of the Legislature by which the people seek to regain some measure of their freedom. Again, in the words of Jefferson: "The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may twist and shape in any form they please." Truly, if the men who fought the good fight for the triumph of simple, honest, free life in that day, were now to look upon the scene of their labors, they would cry out together with him who said:
"I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifices of themselves by the generation of '76 to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be that I shall not live to see it."
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of our early freedom? We say this, that the sin our fathers sinned was that they did not trust liberty wholly. They thought it possible to compromise between liberty and government, believing the latter to be "a necessary evil," and the moment the compromise was made, the whole misbegotten monster of our present tyranny began to grow. Instruments which are set up to safeguard rights become the very whip with which the free are struck.
Anarchism says, Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license"; and they will define and define freedom out of existence. Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations. On the other hand, so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
The problem then becomes, Is it possible to stir men from their indifference? We have said that the spirit of liberty was nurtured by colonial life; that the elements of colonial life were the desire for sectarian independence, and the jealous watchfulness incident thereto; the isolation of pioneer communities which threw each individual strongly on his own resources, and thus developed all-around men, yet at the same time made very strong such social bonds as did exist; and, lastly, the comparative simplicity of small communities.
All this has disappeared. As to sectarianism, it is only by dint of an occasional idiotic persecution that a sect becomes interesting; in the absence of this, outlandish sects play the fool's role, are anything but heroic, and have little to do with either the name or the substance of liberty. The old colonial religious parties have gradually become the "pillars of society," their animosities have died out, their offensive peculiarities have been effaced, they are as like one another as beans in a pod, they build churches — and sleep in them.
As to our communities, they are hopelessly and helplessly interdependent, as we ourselves are, save that continuously diminishing proportion engaged in all around farming; and even these are slaves to mortgages. For our cities, probably there is not one that is provisioned to last a week, and certainly there is none which would not be bankrupt with despair at the proposition that it produce its own food. In response to this condition and its correlative political tyranny, Anarchism affirms the economy of self-sustenance, the disintegration of the great communities, the use of the earth.
I am not ready to say that I see clearly that this will take place; but I see clearly that this must take place if ever again men are to be free. I am so well satisfied that the mass of mankind prefer material possessions to liberty, that I have no hope that they will ever, by means of intellectual or moral stirrings merely, throw off the yoke of oppression fastened on them by the present economic system, to institute free societies. My only hope is in the blind development of the economic system and political oppression itself. The great characteristic looming factor in this gigantic power is Manufacture. The tendency of each nation is to become more and more a manufacturing one, an exporter of fabrics, not an importer. If this tendency follows its own logic, it must eventually circle round to each community producing for itself. What then will become of the surplus product when the manufacturer shall have no foreign market? Why, then mankind must face the dilemma of sitting down and dying in the midst of it, or confiscating the goods.
Indeed, we are partially facing this problem even now; and so far we are sitting down and dying. I opine, however, that men will not do it forever, and when once by an act of general expropriation they have overcome the reverence and fear of property, and their awe of government, they may waken to the consciousness that things are to be used, and therefore men are greater than things. This may rouse the spirit of liberty.
If, on the other hand, the tendency of invention to simplify, enabling the advantages of machinery to be combined with smaller aggregations of workers, shall also follow its own logic, the great manufacturing plants will break up, population will go after the fragments, and there will be seen not indeed the hard, self-sustaining, isolated pioneer communities of early America, but thousands of small communities stretching along the lines of transportation, each producing very largely for its own needs, able to rely upon itself, and therefore able to be independent. For the same rule holds good for societies as for individuals — those may be free who are able to make their own living.
In regard to the breaking up of that vilest creation of tyranny, the standing army and navy, it is clear that so long as men desire to fight, they will have armed force in one form or another. Our fathers thought they had guarded against a standing army by providing for the voluntary militia. In our day we have lived to see this militia declared part of the regular military force of the United States, and subject to the same demands as the regulars. Within another generation we shall probably see its members in the regular pay of the general government. Since any embodiment of the fighting spirit, any military organization, inevitably follows the same line of centralization, the logic of Anarchism is that the least objectionable form of armed force is that which springs up voluntarily, like the minute men of Massachusetts, and disbands as soon as the occasion which called it into existence is past: that the really desirable thing is that all men — not Americans only — should be at peace; and that to reach this, all peaceful persons should withdraw their support from the army, and require that all who make war shall do so at their own cost and risk; that neither pay nor pensions are to be provided for those who choose to make man-killing a trade.
As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself. It demands no jealous barrier of isolation; it knows that such isolation is undesirable and impossible; but it teaches that by all men's strictly minding their own business, a fluid society, freely adapting itself to mutual needs, wherein all the world shall belong to all men, as much as each has need or desire, will result.
And when Modern Revolution has thus been carried to the heart of the whole world — if it ever shall be, as I hope it will — then may we hope to see a resurrection of that proud spirit of our fathers which put the simple dignity of Man above the gauds of wealth and class, and held that to, be an American was greater than to be a king.
In that day there shall be neither kings nor Americans — only Men ; over the whole earth, Men.


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Height: 30 feet
Spread: 20 feet
Hardiness Zone: 2b
An interesting hybrid accent tree, featuring unique semi-compound foliage with silver undersides, turning shades of yellow in fall; showy clusters of white flowers in spring, dark red berries in fall; needs well drained soil, resistant to fireblight
Ornamental Features
Oakleaf Mountain Ash features showy clusters of white flowers held atop the branches in mid spring. The orange fruits are held in abundance in spectacular clusters from early to late fall. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The glossy lobed leaves turn an outstanding gold in the fall. The smooth gray bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape.
Landscape Attributes
Oakleaf Mountain Ash is a deciduous tree with a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
This is a relatively low maintenance tree, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It is a good choice for attracting birds to your yard. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;
- Disease
Oakleaf Mountain Ash is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Accent
- Shade
Planting & Growing
Oakleaf Mountain Ash will grow to be about 30 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 20 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 4 feet from the ground, and should not be planted underneath power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 years or more.
This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations, and should do just fine under average home landscape conditions. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.
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Breast cancer gene does not boost risk of death
Young women with the BRCA gene mutation that prompted actress Angelina Jolie's pre-emptive and much-publicized double mastectomy are not more likely to die after a breast cancer diagnosis, scientists said Jan. 12.
In fact, they may have a "survival advantage" over non-carriers if diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, a form that is particularly hard to treat, a team wrote in the journal The Lancet Oncology.
"Women diagnosed with early breast cancer who carry a BRCA mutation are often offered double mastectomies soon after their diagnosis or chemotherapy treatment" compared to non-mutation carriers, study co-author Diana Eccles of the University of Southampton said in a statement.
"Our findings suggest that this surgery does not have to be immediately undertaken along with the other treatment."
According to the American Cancer Society, women with a mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes have a seven-in-10 chance of getting breast cancer by the age of 80. They are also more likely to get it at a younger age than other women.
In 2013, Hollywood star Angelina Jolie announced she had had both breasts surgically removed as a preventative measure after tests revealed she carried the mutation, despite not having been diagnosed with cancer.
For the new study, Eccles and a team recruited 2,733 British women aged 18-40 who had been diagnosed with breast cancer between 2000 and 2008. Twelve percent of the women had a BRCA mutation.
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"However, risk-reducing surgery will still likely be beneficial for BRCA mutation carriers to prevent another new breast or ovarian cancer from developing in the longer term."
While only about five percent of breast cancers are diagnosed in women younger than 40, a high proportion of deaths fall in this age category.


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Portage files
Configuration directives
Portage comes with a default configuration stored in /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals. All Portage configuration is handled through variables. What variables portage listens to and what they mean are described later.
Since many configuration directives differ between architectures, Portage also has default configuration files which are part of the system profile. This profile is pointed to by the /etc/portage/make.profile symlink; Portage's configurations are set in the make.defaults files of the profile and all parent profiles. We'll explain more about profiles and the /etc/portage/make.profile directory later on.
When changing a configuration variable, do not alter /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals or make.defaults. Instead use /etc/portage/make.conf which has precedence over the previous files. For more information, read the /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example. As the name implies, this is merely an example file - Portage does not read in this file.
It is also possible to define a Portage configuration variable as an environment variable, but we don't recommend this.
Profile-specific information
We've already encountered the /etc/portage/make.profile directory. Well, this is not exactly a directory but a symbolic link to a profile, by default one inside /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/ although one can create their own profiles elsewhere and point to them. The profile this symlink points to is the profile to which the system adheres.
A profile contains architecture-specific information for Portage, such as a list of packages that belong to the system corresponding with that profile, a list of packages that don't work (or are masked-out) for that profile, etc.
User-specific configuration
When Portage's behavior needs to be changed regarding the installation of software, then the right set of files inside /etc/portage/ will need to be changed. It is highly recommended to use files within /etc/portage/ and highly discouraged to override the behavior through environment variables!
Within /etc/portage/ users can create the following files:
- package.mask which lists the packages that Portage should never try to install
- package.unmask which lists the packages Portage should be able to install even though the Gentoo developers highly discourage users from emerging them
- package.accept_keywords which lists the packages Portage should be able to install even though the package hasn't been found suitable for the system or architecture (yet)
- package.use which lists the USE flags to use for certain packages without having the entire system use those USE flags
These don't have to be files; they can also be directories that contain one file per package. More information about the /etc/portage/ directory and a full list of possible files that can be created can be found in the Portage man page:
user $
man portage
Changing Portage file and directory locations
The previously mentioned configuration files cannot be stored elsewhere - Portage will always look for those configuration files at those exact locations. However, Portage uses many other locations for various purposes: build directory, source code storage, Gentoo repository location, ...
All these purposes have well-known default locations but can be altered to personal taste through /etc/portage/make.conf. The rest of this chapter explains what special-purpose locations Portage uses and how to alter their placement on the filesystem.
This document isn't meant to be used as a reference though. To get 100% coverage, please consult the Portage and make.conf man pages:
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man portage
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man make.conf
Storing files
Repozytorium Gentoo
The default location of the Gentoo ebuild repository is at /var/db/repos/gentoo. This is defined by the default repos.conf file found at /usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf. To modify the default, copy this file to /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf and change the location setting. When storing the Gentoo ebuild repository elsewhere (by altering this variable), don't forget to change the /etc/portage/make.profile symbolic link accordingly.
After changing the location setting in /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf, it is recommended to alter the following variables in /etc/portage/make.conf as well since they will not notice the location change. This is due to how Portage handles variables: PKGDIR, DISTDIR, and RPMDIR.
Pre-built binaries
Even though Portage doesn't use pre-built binaries by default, it has extensive support for them. When asking Portage to work with pre-built packages, it will look for them in /var/cache/binpkgs. This location is defined by the PKGDIR variable.
Source code
Application source code is stored in /var/cache/distfiles by default. This location is defined by the DISTDIR variable.
Portage database
Portage stores the state of the system (what packages are installed, what files belong to which package, ...) in /var/db/pkg.
Do not alter the system state files manually! It might break Portage's knowledge of the system.
Portage cache
The Portage cache (with modification times, virtuals, dependency tree information, ...) is stored in /var/cache/edb. This location really is a cache: users can clean it if they are not running any Portage-related application at that moment.
Building software
Temporary Portage files
Portage's temporary files are stored in /var/tmp/ by default. This is defined by the PORTAGE_TMPDIR variable.
Building directory
Portage creates specific build directories for each package it emerges inside /var/tmp/portage/. This location is defined by the PORTAGE_TMPDIR variable with portage/ appended.
Live filesystem location
By default Portage installs all files on the current filesystem (/), but this can be changed by setting the ROOT environment variable. This is useful when creating new build images.
Logging features
Ebuild logging
Portage can create per-ebuild log files, but only when the PORT_LOGDIR variable is set to a location that is writable by Portage (through the Portage user). By default this variable is unset. If PORT_LOGDIR is not set, then there will not be any build logs with the current logging system, though users may receive some logs from the new elog support.
If PORT_LOGDIR is not defined and elog is used, then build logs and any other logs saved by elog will be made available, as explained below.
Portage offers fine-grained control over logging through the use of elog:
- PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES: This is where users can define what kinds of messages to be logged. This can be any space-separated combination of info, warn, error, log, and qa.
- info: Logs "einfo" messages printed by an ebuild
- warn: Logs "ewarn" messages printed by an ebuild
- error: Logs "eerror" messages printed by an ebuild
- log: Logs the "elog" messages found in some ebuilds
- qa: Logs the "QA Notice" messages printed by an ebuild
- PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM: This selects the module(s) to process the log messages. If left empty, logging is disabled. Any space-separated combination of save, custom, syslog, mail, save_summary, and mail_summary can be used. At least one module must be used in order to use elog.
- save: This saves one log per package in $PORT_LOGDIR/elog, or /var/log/portage/elog if $PORT_LOGDIR is not defined.
- custom: Passes all messages to a user-defined command in $PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND; this will be discussed later.
- syslog: Sends all messages to the installed system logger.
- mail: Passes all messages to a user-defined mailserver in $PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI; this will be discussed later. The mail features of elog require >=portage-2.1.1.
- save_summary: Similar to save, but it merges all messages in $PORT_LOGDIR/elog/summary.log, or /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log if $PORT_LOGDIR is not defined.
- mail_summary: Similar to mail, but it sends all messages in a single mail when emerge exits.
- PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND: This is only used when the custom module is enabled. Users can specify a command to process log messages. Note that the command can make use of two variables: ${PACKAGE} is the package name and version, while ${LOGFILE} is the absolute path to the logfile. For instance:
PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND="/path/to/logger -p '\${PACKAGE}' -f '\${LOGFILE}'"
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Money Actions & Free Money
Money Actions and Free Money are an ongoing series of situations in which I give away money in various settings, exploring the interactions and experiences that result.
The Emancipation of Money at Open Engagement, May 18-21
I'll be at Open Engagement in Portland, Oregon May 18-21 with a new project, The Emancipation of Money.
The Emancipation of Money is an experiment in circulating an alternative form of currency (the Free Dollar) among the participants of Open Engagement. With no predetermined purpose or use, the Free Dollar is designed to invite questions and provoke interactions. Hand printed "dollars" will be infiltrated into the social community in a number of ways: left for the taking on open plates, given in spontaneous acts of admiration or amusement, slipped into publications and papers, or offered on request.
The Free Dollar intentionally has no specific use. It has no denomination, no conventional value. It is not, like the Ithaca Dollar, the notes of the historic Cincinnati Time Store, or the currency of the recent Time Bank, meant to represent labor. It is closer in spirt to children's play money, but unlike video game gold or monopoly cash which transmute effort, skill or luck into value, the Free Dollar is untethered to any particular form of reward. Free Dollars, like any kind of money, can be given, stolen, asked for or accumulated. They are peculiar in that they most likely cannot be spent. The Emancipation of Money asks: What can happen to money in the absence of that familiar act of spending?
The Emancipation of Money is part of an ongoing series of Money Actions in which Randolph has been using the social dimensions of money as the basis of an interactional and interventionist art practice. For the past several years she has given away (real) money in streets, stores, galleries, cafés, at talks, at dinners, over coffee, sometimes anonymously, sometimes in groups or person to person. Because money is caged in rules, simply acting outside these rules opens up new ranges of social action and interaction. This project for Open Engagement extends Money Actions beyond the real, into realms of play and invention. It is hoped that a purposeless form of money might offer a means of critically engaging the purposes of real money.
If you're in Portland, join me at a Happy Hour Discussion on Alternative Economies with Stephanie Diamond, Caroline Woolard, Kathryn Kenworth, Sal Randolph
Location: Shigezo. 910 SW Salmon
NOTE: If you have free dollars with a history written on them, you're encouraged to photograph them, scan them, or send them in to the project archives - contact me at salrandolph [at] gmail [dot] com for details.
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If You Need Money, Take Some. If You Have Money, Give Some.
Street actions currently taking place in New York and elsewhere.
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Money Actions in the Ljubljana Biennial
I'm excited to report that two Money Actions will be part of the 29th Ljubljana Biennial, opening September 23, 2011. On view will be documentation from "$1 Near Something Red" and "100 Money Actions for 14th Street. A live money action will take place in Ljubljana in November (date forthcoming).
$1 Near Something Red was originally produced as part of The Case of the Curious Pedestrian in October, 2010
Free Money Appointments, New York, Fall 2011
Meet with me, and you will receive a sum of money and a choice.
A number of Free Money appointments will be available in New York over the course of the spring. If you'll be in New York, and have an hour free to meet up with me in a café, contact me at salrandolph [at] gmail [dot] com to set up a time.
Art in Odd Places 2009: Sign - October 1-31, 2009
Money actions on and around 14th street throughout the month of October 2009.
Art in Odd Places Blog & Money Action Photos
Money Actions: February 2008 - May 2009
- $10 left in an outdoor ATM
- $5 at the Greene street post office
- $20 in a copy of Marx' Das Kapital
- $1 left at eye level
- $10 left somewhere along 26th street
- $20 in a bodega on stanton
- $2 side by side on a loading dock
- $1 left at eye level
- $5 given to an anarchist
- $5 near the corner of Grand & Wooster
- $20 left in a copy of the New York Post
- $10 buried in the sand at Waikiki Beach
- $5 left at the feet of Duke Kahanomoku
- $20 in the lock of a public surfboard stand
Follow current Money Action updates on Twitter twitter.com/moneyactions.
$1 Left at Eye Level
February 12, 2009: I placed $1 bills at eye level along Canal Street and throughout lower Soho. Each rolled bill had a hand stamped print inside, bearing the words "$1 Left at Eye Level." An additional set of bills & prints was handed out to vistors at Glowlab with the request that they be left anyplace in public at eye level.
$20 in a copy of the New York Post
Language documenting money actions. Unique rubber stamp prints & various other forms.
Free Money
As part of the Live Biennale in Vancouver (2007), I met with 22 people one on one in Vancouver cafés. I gave each person $50 (Canadian) and asked them to make a choice as to whether they would keep the money or give it away to someone else. During the meetings, which lasted about a half hour each, I had a remarkable series of conversations about money, work, art, and life.
Free Money was presented as part of the Participatory Dissent program at Western Front, curated by Natalie Loveless (invited by iKatun).
>>Live Biennale blog Lori Weidenhammer
>>Live Biennale blog Margaret Dragu
Please Take One
Please take one and pass it on.
Dollar bills were given away in in gallery settings on recent occasions, with Glowlab at the Bridge Art Fair (2008) as part of the show "Keep the Change" at the Nathan Cummings Foundation in New York (2007) and as part of You Can Have it All. at the Salvation Gallery in New York (2007)
Free Money Release
A Free Money happening, Free Money Release was part of the Conflux Festival in September of 2006. During the Conflux, $1000 was distributed in the public spaces of Williamsburg in shiny gold envelopes for anyone to find. Participants from the first Free Money found places for the envelopes throughout the neighborhood in cafés, supermarket shelves, subway corridors, the public library, and telephone booths.
The first Free Money event was held during be something's one2one festival of intimate performances. During that event, the artist met with eleven people tête à tête in a Wiliamsburg café.
Each participant was offered a choice between $20 to keep, and $100 to give away to someone else—a total of $1,020 was distributed over the course of the afternoon.
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LONDON – GLOBAL – Brazilian Indians have appealed for global assistance to prevent further killings after the reported massacre of uncontacted tribespeople, and have denounced the government cuts that left their territories unprotected.
Paulo Marubo, a Marubo indigenous leader from western Brazil, said: "More attacks and killings are likely to happen. The cuts to FUNAI's funding are harming the lives of indigenous people, especially uncontacted tribes, who are the most vulnerable." (FUNAI is Brazil's indigenous affairs agency).
Mr. Marubo is the leader of Univaja, an indigenous organization defending tribal rights in the Uncontacted Frontier,the area with the highest concentration of uncontacted tribes in the world.
COIAB, the organization representing Indians across the Brazilian Amazon, denounced the massive cutbacks to FUNAI's budget that has left many tribal territories unprotected:
"We vehemently condemn these brutal and violent attacks against these uncontacted Indians. This massacre shows just how much the rights of indigenous peoples in this country have been set back [in recent years].
"The cuts and dismantling of FUNAI are being carried out to further the interests of powerful politicians who want to continue ransacking our resources, and open up our territories for mining."
Unconfirmed reports first emerged from the Amazon last week that up to 10 uncontacted tribal people had been killed by gold miners, and their bodies mutilated and dumped in a river.
The miners are reported to have bragged about the atrocity, whose victims included women and children, in a bar in a nearby town. The local prosecutor's office has opened an investigation.
The alleged massacre was just the latest in a long line of previous killings of isolated Indians in the Amazon, including the infamous Haximu massacre in 1993, in which 16 Yanomami Indians were killed by a group of gold miners.
More recently, a group of Sapanawa Indians emerged in the Uncontacted Frontier, reporting that their houses had been attacked and burnt to the ground by outsiders, who had killed so many members of the community that they had not been able to bury all the bodies.
All uncontacted tribal peoples face catastrophe unless their land is protected. Survival International is campaigning to secure their land for them, and to give them the chance to determine their own futures.
Survival's Director Stephen Corry said: "The decision by the Brazilian government to slash funding for the teams that protect uncontacted Indians' territories was not an innocent mistake. It was done to appease the powerful interests who want to open up indigenous lands to exploit – for mining, logging and ranching. These are the people the Indians are up against, and the deaths of uncontacted tribes won't put them off. Only a global outcry can even the odds in the Indians' favor, and prevent more such atrocities. We know public pressure works – many Survival campaigns have succeeded in the face of similar odds."
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VANCOUVER — Two key British Columbia cabinet ministers are expected to outline the government's next steps Thursday on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion after campaigning against the project.
No details have been provided about the announcement by Attorney General David Eby and Environment Minister George Heyman, but the future of the $7.4-billion project has been heavily scrutinized since the NDP government came to power.
Premier John Horgan promised on the campaign trail earlier this year to use "every tool in the toolbox" to stop the project, but a mandate letter to the Heyman softened the language, saying instead that he must "defend B.C.'s interests in the face of" the expansion.
Last month Eby said the province would not artificially delay permits for the project, because doing so would risk a costly lawsuit from proponent Trans Mountain, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Canada.
Several First Nations and municipalities have filed legal challenges against the expansion, which would triple the capacity of the Alberta-to-B.C. pipeline and increase the number of tankers in Vancouver-area waters seven-fold.
The project has been approved by Ottawa and the province's former Liberal government.
Trans Mountain says construction is set to begin in September.
The Canadian Press
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Smart City Expo World Congress 2018
its services and solutions for the cities of the future at Stand B290 – experts from the Center for Energy and the Center for Mobility Systems will showcase innovative tools for urban planning, urban management [...] Transport, Innovation and Technology together with AIT is inviting to the Workshop "Towards Positive-Energy-Districts" scheduled on Nov. 13, at 15:00 and hosted by the funding programme "City of Tomorrow"
USE-iT: H2020 Project Focusing on Transport Infrastructure Is Successfully Concluded
faces many common challenges across its modes related to topics such as carbon reduction targets, energy security and depletion of natural resources. The road and rail infrastructure in particular are ageing [...] have more resilience and better reliability in their systems. USE-iT (Users, Safety, Security and Energy In Transport Infrastructure) is a 24-month Coordination and Support Action (CSA) project funded within [...] providing better customer information, improving safety and security and reducing carbon emissions and energy consumption. In the longer term, the ambition is that there will be a vibrant community of stakeholders
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"Smarter Together" gewinnt VCÖ-Mobilitätspreis
sichergestellt. Zum Gewinn des VCÖ-Preises meint Projektleiter Hans-Martin Neumann vom AIT Center for Energy abschließend: "Das EU-Projekt 'Smarter Together' verfolgt einen stark integrativen Planungsansatz
AIT Seminar Series: Mobility Systems
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Dyed Tencel Top in a Soft Pink Color.
This is ultra fine, high quality Tencel top. It has a lovely shine and is super soft with a beautiful Deep color! Beautifully dyed by Dying House Gallery into a marvelous collection of 11 colors.
Use this as a replacement for Silk in your projects. This fiber is great blended to add softness to your wools or it can be spun by itself or felted (must use a cobweb of wool to anchor).
Tencel is a new world fiber created with a more earth friendly process then rayon. It takes fiber reactive dyes brilliantly and is considered a vegan replacement for silk with a very similar shine, shimmer and color.
Sold in increments of 1 oz. You will receive a continuous piece if more than 1oz is ordered.
I try to get the colors on the screen to look like the actual fiber but as monitors will vary the colors might not be exactly as pictured.
If you are unhappy with your purchase for any reason I do offer returns as long as they are in the same condition as they were when I shipped them. I do not refund your return shipping.
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1/24/2017 Just a small general update. The Transmission Information page has been updated with a correction and also trim levels have been added to the car descriptions to further identify what transmissions came on what cars. Updates:
3/5/2015 Intake manifold and throttle body insulators are back! They've been redesigned for superior performance and reduce cost. They're now on sale and available on the My Products page. They're now quick and easy to order with a buy now paypal button. I also updated the install articles for the insulators with some notes about the mk2 insulators. Updates:
3/5/2014 I've added a page to list the transmissions that are availble in the 4th and 5th generation Tercels and 1st and 2nd generation Paseos. This info was buried in the specs pages for each generation, but now its all together on one page for easier access. Updates:
4/5/2012 Well, its been a while since the last update. I have since moved the site to a new server which resulted in a bunch of image links going bad which I'm sure you've noticed. I think I've fixed them all, so if you notice any please let me know. Updates:
1/26/2010 Well, its been almost a year since the last update. The Paseo has come a long way and that is the first of hopefully a few updates here. It is no longer the 60 mpg Paseo project now though. Take a read and find out why. Updates:


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The first twenty years of his career –– as in the case of Zoltan Jeney and László Sáry –- were connected with the most important composers' workshop and ensemble involved in experimental music in Hungary: the Budapest New Music Studio. His solo and chamber music works often feature audiovisual elements and constructions associated with various stage actions. In the 1990s his attention centred on the player piano, which he used as a solo instrument in solo pieces, chamber music and orchestral compositions. His works, even the shorter ones, are dense, large-scale creations which spectacularly avoid every vestige of narrativity. Only with individual 're-tuning' do they make use of the elements of traditional musical rhetoric. The structural severity of his music is softened by the varied nature of the tone colours and a wealth of internal happenings. It is exactly this complexity that makes these works the embodiment of artistic discipline.
1944 Born in Békéscsaba, currently lives in Pécs, Hungary 1962-67 Composition studies with Ferenc Farkas at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest 1970 Studied in Paris with UNESCO scholarship in the Groupe de Recherches Musicales of French Radio and in the composition classes of Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire. Foundation of the New Music Studio in Budapest, with Zoltán Jeney, Péter Eötvös, László Sáry and Albert Simon Since 1984 Professor at the University of Pécs 1992 Bartók-Pásztory Prize 1997 Member of the Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts Since 1999 Professor at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest 2010 Awarded the Kossuth Prize by the Hungarian state
Double (1972) for two prepared piano Schroeder's Death (1974-75) for piano and 2-3 assistants (20-40') 405 (1979) for prepared piano and chamber ensemble: fl, ob, cl, bsn, hn,tpt,tbn, org, archi (20') Narcissus and Echo – opera in one act, in 21 short scenes, based on László Ungvárnémeti Tóth's Narcissus by Ágnes Meller and Judit Rácz (1980–81) for 4 soloists (sopr, a, t, b) , female choir and chamber ensemble: cl, tpt, perc, pf, vln, vc, (24)' Romantic Readings No. 2 (1985) for orchestra (9') Twelve Duos (1987-89) for violin and viola (18-20') German dances (1989) for string quartet (12-14') Soft errors (1989) for chamber ensemble: fl (afl), cl, hn, cel, vla, cb (10') Studies for MIDI-Piano (in 5 volumes) (1990- ) (4-5th volumes in progress) Nine little Greeting Chorales to Kurtág (1996) for piano or two pianos (15') Zwölf Streichquartette (2000) (45-50')
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Deep Sleep Protects Against Alzheimer's, Growing Evidence Shows
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During deep sleep, the brain appears to wash away waste products that increase the risk for Alzheimer's disease.
A host of new research studies suggest that this stage of sleep — when dreams are rare and the brain follows a slow, steady beat – can help reduce levels of beta-amyloid and tau, two hallmarks of the disease.
"There is something about this deep sleep that is helping protect you," says Matthew Walker, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.
The research comes after decades of observations linking poor sleep to long-term problems with memory and thinking, Walker says. "We are now learning that there is a significant relationship between sleep and dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease."
The strongest evidence involves deep sleep, he says. That's when body temperature drops and the brain begins to produce slow, rhythmic electrical waves.
So Walker and a team of scientists set out to answer a question: "Can I look into your future and can I accurately estimate how much beta-amyloid you're going to accumulate over the next two years, the next four years, the next six years, simply on the basis of your sleep tonight?"
To find out, Walker's team studied 32 people in their 70s who had taken part in a sleep study that looked for the slow electrical waves that signal deep sleep. None of the participants had memory problems.
The scientists used brain scans to monitor levels of beta-amyloid in each participant for up to six years. And the results, published in the Nov. 2 issue of the journal Current Biology, showed people who got less deep had more beta-amyloid.
"We have a specific sleep signature right now that seems to help us better understand where you may sit on the Alzheimer's risk trajectory in the future," Walker says.
Other studies have found that a lack of deep sleep is associated with higher levels of tau, which forms toxic tangles inside the brain cells of people with Alzheimer's.
Scientists have some ideas about why deep sleep seems able to reduce both beta-amyloid and tau.
In 2013, a landmark study of mice found that their brains switched on a sort of dishwasher during sleep.
"So things like amyloid beta, which are implicated in Alzheimer's disease, seem to actually be removed more rapidly from the brain when an animal is asleep versus when they're awake," says Laura Lewis, an assistant professor of biomedical research at Boston University.
In 2019, Lewis led a team that showed how this dishwasher works in people.
"We realized that there's these waves of fluid flowing into the brain during sleep," she says. "And it was happening at a much larger and slower scale than anything we'd seen during wakefulness."
What's more, each wave of fluid was preceded by a large, slow electrical wave.
So now scientists are looking for ways to induce the slow waves that signal deep sleep. Lewis says it's easy — in rodents.
"There's a specific deep brain structure that if you stimulate it, you can cause these sleep-like slow waves in the brain," she says.
In people, there's some evidence that rhythmic sounds can increase slow waves.
It's also possible to boost slow waves by treating certain sleep disorders, says Dr. Yo-El Ju, an associate professor of neurology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Ju was part of a study of people with obstructive sleep apnea, which repeatedly blocks the airway. These patients "seem to have a change in their ability to clear proteins or waste products from their brain," she says. "And people with sleep apnea are at higher risk for dementia down the line."
So Ju's team looked to see what happened after patients had been treated successfully for apnea. The scientists found that treatment resulted in more deep sleep and more beta-amyloid cleared from the brain.
And Ju says there was another effect: Participants' brains began making less beta-amyloid.
"So I don't know whether it's that sleep increases clearance or whether sleep decreases the production of waste products," she says.
Either way, sleep is important to brain health, Ju says – though she admitted to being a bit sleep deprived on the day we spoke.
"My 2-year-old decided to sleep in my bed and eat a tortilla and a banana at 2 in the morning," she says. "But usually I get a pretty good sleep."
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Have you ever heard a song on the radio that you fell in love with, but you weren't able to open that shazam app fast enough? The only thing you can do is make a desperate attempt to find a lyric that stands out.
There I was on my break at work, when I heard this song. I retained the word "savages" and I was convinced that was the title of the song. I typed in "savages song 2015" and all that came up was the equally entertaining Marina and the Diamonds song of the same name. Not the one I was looking for. |
The group is made of four people. The lead vocalist a gorgeous Bonnie Mckee figure with her pink hair. Anna M'Queen is the only woman in the band, reminiscent of how Blondie was set up, and her vocals vary somewhere in the range of Icona Pop and their style of "I Love It"
Not surprisingly they went on tour together. |
Anna lends the band a voice that makes their music more mainstream oriented then similar work done by beleaguered industrial pop artist Black Porcelain. At times her voice even recalls the wailing of The Ting Tings fronted Katie White.
Their debut album is fun. It certainly has a rebellious air to it. The most rateable lyric being "I only want you for your money." There are certainly improvements that could be made, but as a debut it's solid and strong and most importantly it's fun. A lot of the record plays like cuts from one of Kesha's debut album without the auto tune. "Oblivion" and "Love You To Death" being solid cuts.
Their a dance/pop/rock group for the twenty first century. It seems unlikely that their going to change the face of pop music, but their certainly playing with it's aesthetic, much to their credit. |


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