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More than any other photographic subject, energy is the most decisive – and divisive – factor in the climate change debate. The energy sector is the single largest source of climate-changing emissions. According to the IEA, global energy consumption will double by 2040. The UN's IPCC suggests that renewable energy could supply 80% of global demand by mid-century IF there were political will.
For me, the question is not "if" we will transition away from fossil fuels, but "when". In Quebec, that transition has already started: Quebec is leading the rest of Canada with a massive construction boom of renewable energy – notably wind – in the context of coastal erosion, shorter winters, unpredictable weather. Like GEO magazine's Peter-Matthias Gaede, I am convinced that people will turn away from environmental issues if presented only with disasters/problems. I have therefore turned my camera toward a positive side of the energy sector: the rapid expansion of renewable energy in the context of climate change in North America, with a focus on the wo/men who are building our green energy future.
Currently, I am the only photographer in Quebec dedicated to documenting the rapid development of wind energy in the context of climate change.
I have recently transitioned into video production, and am currently the Director of Photography of a documentary film about climate change in eastern Quebec: Living on the Edge.
In 2013, I won the Grand Prize in an international photo competition for Global Wind Day, sponsored by the International Wind Energy Association (IWEA).
In 2014, I have been invited as the Keynote Speaker for a two-day conference in Melbourne, Australia on Green Cities.
In my spare time, I am an organic garlic farmer in rural Quebec.
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After working in Africa on HIV prevention for almost 20 years in several conflict/post-conflict countries (Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger), I returned to Québec in 2007 to dedicate the second half of my life to an even greater cause: climate change.
Here in eastern Quebec, along the banks of the Saint Lawrence River, the locals talk about climate change as a fait accompli: increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, little-to-no sea ice, significantly less snow cover, earlier springs, longer growing seasons (which no one is complaining about), coastal flooding, storm surges and erosion. After moving to this rural region in 2008, I have been looking for different ways to document climate change beyond the typical natural or man-made disaster photos.
This has become my new mantra: find a different way of raising awareness about climate change, since the status quo is just not working. A priority for me is to use photography to facilitate the transition to a clean energy economy, i.e., to wean ourselves from fossil fuels. Hence my current focus on the rapid development of renewable energy throughout North America, part of a long-term personal project that I hope will inject some positive energy into the often bleak debate about climate change.
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I'm very glad you've heard that walkers should be avoided, as the American Academy of Pediatrics has long urged parents not to use traditional baby walkers, and has even recommended that the US government ban wheeled walkers altogether. This cautionary recommendation is based on compelling injury data. In 1992, there were an estimated 25,700 injuries involving children under the age of 15 months who were treated in US emergency rooms for walker-related injuries.
Wheeled walkers at that time not only allowed children too young to walk on their own to scoot around, turn over, and reach otherwise out-of-reach hazards, but put them at real risk of suffering potentially life-threatening injuries from falls down stairs (or off decks, into pools, etc.). As the numbers of injuries and related concern rose, a voluntary safety standard was put in place in 1997 recommending that walkers have features built in to stop them from moving if their wheels were to go over an edge, thus protecting against stairway falls. While the results were dramatic, with an 88 percent reduction in walker related injuries between 1992 and 2003, wheeled baby walkers that don't conform to the safety standard are still on the market and continue to put young children at risk.
So there's the background on baby walkers for you, which will hopefully give you a healthy respect for the dangers of wheeled walkers. The good news is that it's easy for me to give parents definitive safe and practical advice not to use wheeled walkers because there are plenty of safe alternatives—most notably the stationary activity centers (such as the Excersaucer™) you referenced in your question. These products are designed to allow babies to sit up, stand up, and eventually bounce up and down in a seat surrounded by age-appropriate toys, but without wheels and therefore, without the ability to wheel themselves into trouble.
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Who is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art? According to the museum it's Jeffrey Deitch, the former New York art dealer who — with virtually no prior museum experience — assumed the top job at one of America's leading institutions two years ago.
But don't be so sure.
Late Wednesday, MOCA dumped Paul Schimmel, its chief curator for 22 years and a prime reason for the museum's stellar international reputation. No curator working in the United States today has a more impressive record of exhibitions and acquisitions in the field of art since 1950 than Schimmel.
His sudden firing speaks of an intrusive board of trustees and a weak professional staff, which is a lethal combination for an art museum.
Here's the shocking part: Trustees voted on the firing, and Eli Broad, one of eight life trustees at MOCA, delivered the news.
The board voted? On a curator's job status?
And a trustee did the dirty work? Where was the museum director?
"The trustee's duty," in the pointed words of museum historian Laurence Vail Coleman, "is to have the museum run, not to run it."
Not since the bad old days of the late 1960s and 1970s, when the then-new Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the old Pasadena Art Museum suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous trustees, have we seen something like this. The result back then was one hobbled museum (LACMA) that was barely a national joke, and a once adventurous institution (PAM) that went under.
It is the job of the director, not trustees, to — well, direct the day-to-day operation, including professional staff. What MOCA's board did is what a corporation's board might do in dealing with a company president or CEO. That's chilling.
An art museum is not a business, but MOCA has a businessman installed in the director's office and a billionaire-clogged board (at least four, with a total net worth in excess of $21 billion). Schimmel's dismissal means that the museum's institutional culture is now entirely corporate.
What an extraordinary, tragic devolution. MOCA was born in 1978 and 1979 when a group of artists — not collectors, art dealers, civic leaders or wealthy businessmen and -women — got together to brainstorm. The seed germinated. The new museum slowly professionalized during the next decade.
Over the course of a generation, it grew into an international powerhouse. For most of that time Schimmel was lead curator.
His 20-year run of ambitious exhibitions is remarkable. It began with 1992's eye-boggling "Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s," which catapulted the city's burgeoning reputation as a production center for new art, and "Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62," an incisive historical show that revised our understanding of the way Pop art emerged from an age of abstraction.
That initial artistic focus — L.A. plus history — came together in last fall's "Under the Big Black Sun: California Art, 1974-81," Schimmel's sprawling extravaganza for Pacific Standard Time. The wide-ranging survey scanned the difficult years bracketed by the ouster of Richard Nixon and the coronation of Ronald Reagan — two U.S. presidents from Los Angeles — in no fewer than 500 works from 130 artists. Not incidentally, it also surveyed the city's artistic run-up to MOCA's birth.
Many shows came in between, including one from 2006 that ranks among the great modern museum achievements.
"Robert Rauschenberg: Combines" was based on MOCA's unparalleled collection of 11 works from a revolutionary series that, between 1954 and 1964, cross-pollinated painting, sculpture, photography and printing in ways that still resonate in today's art. Schimmel managed to assemble 70 combines — works that are fragile, extremely valuable and difficult to borrow. That no one had done it before spoke volumes about the museum and its chief curator.
Now, with Schimmel's departure, no one is left on MOCA's staff with the stature or experience to pull off a coup like that — including its director. He certainly wasn't the only gifted curator building the permanent collection and doing important exhibitions. But as chief curator, he just as certainly set the tone.
One less-noticed measure of a museum's long-term institutional success is the quality of the jobs filled by curators who leave, moving on to expand their horizons. Take two of MOCA's curatorial defections, both after the tumultuous 2008 fiscal meltdown.
Ann Goldstein, 55, is now director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, since World War II one of Europe's most adventurous museums. In September, Philipp Kaiser, 39, assumes the directorship of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, epicenter of new European art.


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Occupy Atlanta today will focus its attention on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and what it calls "critical flaws in the judicial system."
It's no secret that much of Occupy Atlanta's emotional energy is derived from the recent execution of Troy Davis, put to death last month for the 1989 murder of an off-duty police officer.
Immediately upon arrival two weeks ago, the occupiers of Woodruff Park" have renamed their living space "Troy Davis Park." This no doubt has contributed to the tension between the protestors and law enforcement.
Woodruff Park is named after Robert Woodruff, the Coke CEO and philanthropist.
An 11 a.m. press conference is to feature civil rights leader Joe Beasley and a close friend of Davis who goes by the name of "E Red." Two hip-hop artists will also be participating. One will be Michael Render of Atlanta, whose presence is being advertised via his stage name: Killer Mike.
Which sounds like an unfortunate case of mixed
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Jaipreet Virdi-Dhesi is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. She works at the intersection of history of medicine, history of technology, and disability studies. Her research and teaching interests include the history of medicine, science and technology studies, the history of deafness, and material and visual culture studies.
Her dissertation, From the Hands of Quacks: Aural Surgery, Deafness, and the Making of a Speciality in Nineteenth-Century London traces the development of British aural surgery, a subset of medicine concentrating on diseases of the ear. Analyzing the nature of specialty-building, her dissertation looks at various challenges these practitioners (called "aurists") faced in their quest for surgical authority: from educators for the deaf who resisted surgical and medical intervention for pupils; intra-professional strife and rivalries; accusations of quackery from the broader medical market; and the general difficulty of observing and diagnosing ear diseases. A primary focus of her analysis concentrates on technologies as an integral to the formation of surgical authority and identity. The dissertation has been successfully defended.
Virdi-Dhesi received a B.A. degree in Philosophy from York University (Toronto) and a M.A. in the History of Science from the University of Toronto. She has held a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, working with Sabine Arnaud's research group, "The Construction of Deafness in Western Europe and the United States (17th to 19th Centuries)."
Her blog, "From the Hands of Quacks," explores a diversity of topics relating to the history of medicine, the history of deafness, and disability history. The title of the blog derives from the otologist Joseph Toynbee (1815-1866), who infamously declared (according to some historians) that he planned to "rescue aural surgery from the hands of quacks."
A key focus of FTHOQ is to bridge a historical understanding of deafness and the "medicalization" of the deaf by going beyond modern technological "cures" (such as the cochlear implant), to examine the historical role and conflict between medicine and social efforts to cultivate the isolated deaf for social integration.
Be sure to also "Like" the From the Hands of Quacks page over on Facebook for a daily dose of all things related to the history of medicine and the history of disability. Virdi-Dhesi can also be found on twitter: @jaivirdi


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A commercial for everyone's favorite sugary snack!
Rated 5 / 5 stars June 12, 2012
The author forgot to mention that the white chocolate is smaller and less intimidating then it's black counter part.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars June 12, 2012
Good line work and character expressions, content was a little diluted - intresting but bland as well. The racy jokes were punchy, but not really haha funny.
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lol clever... I'm glad I've never seen The Ruse ;)
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Quite good, but I'm a bit disturbed.... Are you trying to warn about danger of subliminal messages and other brainwashers or do you use it?
I couldn't brainwash someone if you gave me a sponge and a scalpel.
It's just a joke so don't fear it.
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its ok
the only part i really found that funny was the scene with the paid actor, animations pretty decent though so a 2.5 rating it is.


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Our civil and criminal enforcement programs ensure compliance with our nation's environmental laws and act as a powerful deterrent, sending the message that violations of the laws that protect the environment and the health of communities will have serious consequences. Strong enforcement also levels the playing field for corporate America. Ensuring that companies that cut corners or put communities and the environment at risk are brought to justice.
In 2010, we took enforcement actions at more than 4,500 facilities throughout the United States. These actions will reduce more than 1.4 billion pounds of harmful air and water pollution, save billions of dollars in avoided health costs, and lead to an all time record investment of 12 billion in environmental controls that will reduce pollution and create green jobs.
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Before Lauren Preston opened the cover of the book "Spring" to read to her pre-kindergarten class at Mary Ann Winterling Elementary School, her students excitedly told her why, and showed her how, the season was underway.
Daffodils — not just "yellow flowers" — were appearing from beneath the soil, they said. Hyacinths were blooming, they demonstrated with the slow unfolding of their tiny fists. And butterflies were emerging, the students showed by flapping their curled arms.
In pre-K classrooms around Baltimore's school system, subtle changes like interactive reading are having a substantial effect in helping prepare 4-year-olds for elementary school — addressing an achievement gap that city schools have faced for years.
"They are talking to me, they are more involved in the stories, and I'm getting them to understand new vocabulary," Preston said. "They may only be able to show me they understand by drawing pictures or moving around. But they understand."
The students in Preston's class are part of an effort in Maryland to create a new era in early-childhood education. The city's advanced introduction of rigorous academic standards, the "common core" that will be introduced in all state public schools this fall, targets its youngest learners.
Some educators nationwide have cautioned that the new emphasis could lead teachers to ignore other important lessons, including social development. And in Baltimore, some teachers were anxious about the change, fearing that "rigor" meant limiting the traditionally nurturing environments in which young children develop.
But that strategy has shown results in the city. In 2012, Baltimore kindergartners showed an unprecedented rise on the state's standardized "readiness" assessment — even as scores in the highest-performing districts were stagnant or declined. The performance of those students, among the first pre-kindergartners introduced to the revamped curriculum, also allowed the city to close in on the statewide average.
"To us, that means that there's something happening in pre-K in Baltimore City that is showing an added effect beyond what's happening in pre-K statewide," said Rolf Grafwallner, assistant state schools superintendent for early childhood development.
Early-childhood education has become a major initiative of President Barack Obama's recent budget, which called for a tax increase to offer universal preschool. In addition, the annual "State of Preschool" report to be released Monday shows a nationwide 10-year low in access to quality early-education programs and state funding for the programs.
The common core, designed with international competition and college- and career-readiness in mind, will drastically transform curricula, particularly in literacy and mathematics, across the nation.
Elementary school students will be required to know the difference between informative, explanatory and opinion writing by kindergarten; and to add and subtract fractions and comprehend, quote and compare literature and historical texts by the time they leave fifth grade.
In 2010, the state adopted the common core standards, designed to start in kindergarten, with guidance for pre-K curriculum. Baltimore immediately overhauled pre-K lesson plans for the 2011 school year — a process now underway in most other school systems — in preparation for a full rollout of the standards next school year.
Grafwallner said Baltimore's "very deliberate and targeted effort in pre-K" has sparked an interest at the state level in surveying other districts' efforts to prepare their youngest students for the common core.
"There seems to be some strategic moves that we want to investigate further," he said. Baltimore "started early. And it should be gratifying for them to have figured that out."
In the classroom, that meant swapping "Jack and the Beanstalk" for "From Seed to Plant" to teach how plants grow, making way for nonfiction authors on the shelf next to Dr. Seuss and requiring a grocery list for playtime on the kitchen set.
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Hassan's daughter, 6-year-old Uzziyah, went through the program last year. The 28-year-old West Baltimore resident said he was adamant that his son have the same opportunity.
"It just helps them develop early," Hassan said. "If I put them in a day care, they're going to sit around and play all day, and then once they get to the stage where they're in school they may be a little lost — they may not be in tune with the other kids."


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Daniel Torrez never imagined he'd help celebrate the inauguration of a U.S. president when he emigrated from his native Bolivia years ago.
On Jan. 21, Torrez will do just that as instructor for the Utah Hispanic Dance Alliance. The troupe will travel to Washington, D.C., to perform in the 57th inaugural parade. About 50 other dance and music groups will also perform including a Pennsylvania Boy Scout Troop from Germantown, Military Spouses of Michigan and the St. Louis' Lesbian and Gay Band Association.
The parade, of course, will mark the beginning of President Barack Obama's second term.
"Of course we're excited to go. This is like a gift for all the hard work we do every year," Torrez said.
The alliance performs dances from a variety of Latin American traditions, including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.
More than 2,807 organizations submitted online applications for a chance to perform as part of the parade, according to a statement from the Presidential Inaugurating Committee.
"The talented groups chosen to participate in the inaugural parade reflect the spirit, values, and diversity of our great nation," Obama said in a statement. "Vice President [Joe] Biden and I are honored to have them join us in the parade."
Every selected organization will pay its own airfare and lodging expenses, the statement said, but the committee helps them find reasonable accommodations.
The alliance hasn't yet decided which dances its members will perform during the parade. That will be decided when the group meets for rehearsal later this week. Utahns might be familiar with the alliance through the Salt Lake Arts Council's annual Living Traditions Festivals, where the group has regularly performed.
"We try to bring every Latino dance tradition to life," Torrez said.
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Utah Hispanic Dance Alliance
The Sandy-based group, dedicated to performing Latino cultural dances from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, have been invited to perform in the 57th Inaugural Parade in Washington D.C.
When • Monday, Jan. 21
Where • Public access points to the parade will be available between 4th Street and 14th Street, Washington, D.C.
Info • No ticket required for entry to the parade, but tickets are required for bleacher seating. Visit http://2013pic.org/about for more information.


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Putin Red Ribbon Beer. While working on this image I came this recent news article by chance: Russian Brewer Buys Pabst Blue Ribbon - Sep. 19, 2014
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good finish.... like the English in Russian font well done
The Russian font is called KREMLIN. It only has capital letters and the "b" and the 'f" letters require revisions to read properly in English.
Impressive work. I'd bend the front circular logo to follow the can's shape (it looks flat otherwise)
Funny Obama And Putin Hug For Peace
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Charming couple - from the Cold War to a hot relationship. Clean work, Hidden.
Cool chop. Sometimes ennemies are better than friends.
Funny demonic peace ,obama,isis,demon,putin.
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No disrespect, but what Bush has to do with ISIS.
There are no saints in paradise...Awesome chop hidden.
Bright, Bold, and Bizarre. Just the way we like it.. Congratulations on the Gold, Elegary.
Funny Putin Cholafied
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The background, the hat, the war eyebrows and tattoo, the nail work and the lipop - what a showcase of brilliant work.
Thank you guys again Hitspinner, are you feeling alright.
That's quite a nice compliment NewsMaster. Thank you. I'm glad you liked it
ts420here and silver..... congratulations...
I'm okay, thanks for asking. I get a little melancholy around the 11th. It is a bit of a sacred time around here. Why do you ask.
Just wondering Hitspinner, you usually beat me is all Thank you again SplatShot
Funny putin is a nuclear monster 2014
putin is a nuclear monster mr. putin, if you see this, do not take it personally. I appreciate very much.
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Putler is not "SIR" and he has take it only personally.
I see Putin literally had a brain storm. Impressive work.
Out of the box..... All secrets are store in Putin's head and how to manage Mr.Putin of this big head...
Multiple eys in his brain keeps himself to explore all the necular secrets Great caricature done and the his face with brain looks awesome good use of necular elements in the pic
You should be consistent. If Obama is a cartoon, so should Putin be.
I liked it much better without Obama addition - the composition got cluttered now
Funny Putin the Clown
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Waiting for a letter that won't ever arrive.
Funny concept. Putin's face is a bit large for that head though
Funny obama and putin playing
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Excellent caricature. As often, some difficulties in understanding the meaning of the objects inserted.
I like big butts I can not lie, but when you put them on that guy.... uhh congrats.
Quality work, but I would do heads much smaller - they are excessively big for those bodies
I appreciate you toning down the overexposure/haze lately. I can't tell if you are washing out your mistakes when you do that. So this lowered exposure actually shows your skill involved. Congrats on the gold.
GOLD Congrats, Elegary. High quality art.
Funny Putin Rides Through Red Square
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Excellent work, looks quite real too. Love the realistic heads and shadows. Obama cleaning up.
Yes it does look real. you matched the character of these two characters, perfectly..
I agree, shadows are perfect and everything matches correctly. Technically excellent.
Congratz, Doc. Funny Stuff...everyone I showed this to, loved Obama's pink shoe coverings.
Thanks, Bob, Splat(did it on purpose), hidreley, UncleChamp, G-Man and its420.
Funny New Putin's sport
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Very news-related. I could see this picture in any decent magazine article like
From a good one as lucianomorelli this doodie is not me 's expected. Malaysia MH17 flight was shot down by 'Ukrainian aviation sector.
Funny Putin with friends will feed Russian
Russian sanctions Goats are not food. They are citizens of Russia. Left. Igor Sechin is Executive Chairman of Rosneft. Right. Guennadi Timtchenko is the owner of the private investment group, Volga Group, which specializes in investments in energy. In the middle. Krim Pu Tin - Supreme ruler and beloved lord Russia
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Three people, three different levels of light/shadow.
These goats give oli, not milk for sure . Great political chop, Hidden.
i like the idea, but i think you need to adjust color/ saturation/ contrast levels to make the faces match the arms and eachother.
Light sources don't agree. And there is the hassel to creating a good of friggin excellent chop. Stay the course until you find all compatible sources. Or get so good at painting that you can alter light source at will. It took me a long, long time to figure out those skills. Practice a bunch with the overlay brush, Wanderer. In a few months you will be able to master light sources like the best of them. Your theme here is excellent by the way
Thank you, Gentlemen. Always ready to take master class. Any your advice always appreciated, but often I am away from my PC with Photoshop or I don't know how I can fix problem.
Funny Let Putin Save Face
The latest round of sanctions against Russia, its political and economic isolation, has put a lot of strain on President Putin and it shows dramatically on his face. Although he tries to appear as "still a strong national leader", his rapidly aging face shows he's suffering from stress and insomnia, analysts say. He erratically recorded one of his urgent speeches to the nation at 2 am, with minimal preparations and makeup - something he's never done before - which again proves he's under a lot of distress and can't sleep at 2 am. Four plastic surgeons studying Putin's appearance in the last 6 months confirm his face goes through regular botox injections, and he's been using more makeup to hide the bags under his eyes and his sweating skin. Today we'll help Putin save face, by putting him through plastic surgery and/or makeup. Many thanks to Xray for the themepost.
Funny Reading Putin
This Friday we continue our freaking experiment with provided source images. Russian President Putin is under fire these days for his recent annexation of Ukraine's Crimea and Sevastopol. Though he tries to appear calm and confident in front of the cameras, his posture and face mimics usually say otherwise - Putin is under a lot of stress. The photo we present you today is from the 2012 APEC Summit held in Russia - when Putin was really calm and confident, and was treated with respect by other world leaders. Photoshop this photo of President Putin reading a document any way you wish. Photo credit: RIA NOVOSTI
Funny Putin's Press Conference
This Friday we continue our freaking experiment with provided source images. Photoshop this photo of two Putin's press conference any way you wish. Some examples are: showing what surprises Putin may show during this press conference, what guests or journalists may ask Putin some questions, etc.
Funny Foreign Affairs: Obama & Putin
This Saturday we continue our freaking experiment with provided source images. After the recent tensions over Snowden, and then Syria, the foreign affairs between the US and Russia has hit the new low and descended into the state of mistrust and cold treatment. Are we heading to a new cold war? Photoshop this image of Obama and Putin any way you wish. Some examples are - turn this "state of confusion" into a happy affair between the presidents, use the photo in billboards and promotional posters. These are just some ideas.
Funny Obama & Putin at G20 Summit
This Saturday we continue our freaking experiment with provided source images. Photoshop this image of Obama and Putin at the G20 Summit in St.Petersburg, Russia, on September 6, 2013 any way you wish. Some examples are - show how things could go wrong between Obama and Putin on this summit, use the presidents in propaganda posters and movies, demotivational posters. These are just some ideas.
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JESSUP, Pa. (AP) — Police say a burglar in northeastern Pennsylvania fled after taking an elderly woman's crochet work — possibly because the person needed a bandage.
The Scranton Times-Tribune (http://bit.ly/1cBzzHn ) reports that the unidentified 87-year-old Jessup woman called police at about 11:45 p.m. Monday to report a burglar in her basement. That's just outside Scranton.
The burglar fled, but not before he grabbed the woman's crochet work. Jessup Police Chief Joseph Walsh says the burglar may have used the crochet work as a bandage, since there was blood around a broken window that was used to enter the house.
Police are still investigating, and no arrests have been made.


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Peter Sunde, a co-founder of the Pirate Bay, is claiming that a group of Swedish book publishers illegally scraped the torrent tracker looking for pirated book titles, reports TorrentFreak.
And in a complete reversal of roles, he is passively threatening them with a lawsuit of his own if they don't pay up. He says they own the copyright to the database of torrents, and according to the policy, violators must pay a "basic fee of EUR 5,000 plus bandwidth and other costs that may arise."
"I called them up and asked them to present more information about the technical things, so we can send them an invoice if they don't want to be dragged into court," Sunde told TorrentFreak in a comment.
The organization of book publishers was gathering information for a report that found 85 percent of the best-selling books in Sweden are available on the Pirate Bay.
Sunde told TorrentFreak that he's actually "a bit sad that it's not 100%."
This latest conflict follows a post last week where Sunde requested that someone send him an Amazon Kindle, because he was working on a new project involving e-books. He wouldn't elaborate on the details until he received one of the e-book readers.
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Decrepit jail described as just short of "horrific"
police chief Mike Haslip is joining other county law
enforcement officials in asking voters to approve a new
sales tax to build, maintain and run county jails. "If
you don't you'll have what you've got
now, and that is not good," he said. What we have
now, according to Haslip, is drunk drivers, petty thieves,
bullies and vandals who don't go to jail because
there isn't room, and who know it.
"All we can do is write him another ticket for him to laugh at and send him to find another car," Haslip said of a reckless driver with a suspended license, no insurance and warrants outstanding for drunk driving stopped earlier this month by local police. "What we have now is a criminal justice system that is broken because of the bottleneck created by the inadequacies of the jail."
Overcrowded jail means early releases
Wendy Jones is the county's chief of corrections, in charge of running the jail in downtown Bellingham. The jail opened in 1983, she said, designed for 110 inmates and was quickly expanded to handle 148. "Our average daily population is now running at 253," she said. "A month ago the peak was 269. At that point we have people on the floor, in holding cells, in shower rooms."
Overcrowding in the jail is a safety risk for those who work or are incarcerated, Jones said. Violence between inmates increases. "It wreaks havoc," she said. "They get jammed in here, they have no privacy and they irritate each other. Assaults go up."
As the population in the jail climbs over 200, Jones starts to look for ways to ease the pressure – by releasing people early. "I basically take a stack of files over to a judge and say pick 10," she said. "I'm asking a judge to overturn bail. There are obviously files I won't put in that stack but you have drug dealers, burglars, forgers, domestic violence assailants. It used to be when we had to look for early releases we went for the DUI, but those days are long gone."
The jail is the only detention facility in the county, where cities, the county, border agencies and state patrol send those accused of criminal activity pending trial. If a person is sentenced to more than 366 days in jail, they will serve that sentence in the state penitentiary. Otherwise they will serve that sentence in the county jail. Government agencies who use the jail pay $61 per inmate per day.
limits prevent 'horrific' conditions
Jeffrey Schwartz, a consultant hired through the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) acknowledged the jail was overcrowded, but not "horribly overcrowded" and therefore did not have the "runaway violence, suicides, staff problems and other by-products of horrific overcrowding" found in some county jails in the country. In his report Schwartz gives credit for avoiding "horrific overcrowding" to a policy of limiting bookings, put in place in 1991 and tightened in 1998 and 2000.
"Basically if you're not a domestic violence misdemeanor or a felony, you aren't going to jail," Jones said. Under the booking restrictions people who are contacted for drunk driving, hit and run, trespassing, theft, assault, vehicle prowl and other misdemeanors are given a citation and directed to appear in court. "The offender population has picked up on this and they'll tell a police officer 'hey, you can't arrest me, you've got booking restrictions, the jail's full.' The only thing the officer can do is write a ticket and they know it," Jones said.
While the booking cap and early releases have avoided "horrific overcrowding" it has led to policies that "go to the heart of the credibility and respect of the criminal justice system," Schwartz found in his report, because it has led to a situation in which offenders, and especially repeat offenders, know there is no consequence for their actions. "The very fabric of the law itself is held in less regard by criminals and law-abiding citizens alike," he wrote.
Many offenders given citations rather than being booked into jail don't show up for their court date and warrants are issued for their arrest, but with no space in jail those warrants aren't actively pursued. Schwartz reported that last year 1,732 of those warrants expired, effectively allowing those offenders to avoid any consequences of their actions, and denying the county and municipalities of a source of funding through fines. "I have about a quarter of a million dollars in warrants in a stack in a drawer," Haslip acknowledged ruefully.
infrastructure means health, security risks
The NIC report may not have found the jail horrific, but it did conclude that the county needs a new one, not only to deal with overcrowding and no room to book offenders, but with a poor design and failing infrastructure. Locks that malfunction, floods from leaks and breaking pipes, seismic instability and a fire suppression system that hasn't worked for years and is too obsolete to be repaired the report found "shocking, particularly in a jail that's understaffed and overcrowded."
In the prison control booth Mark Reis and other prison staff members put in three hour shifts opening and closing doors and monitoring prison security with a hodgepodge of equipment, some of which works and some of which doesn't. "You've got just about every decade of technology represented here," Reis said. "Some of this stuff leaves me totally blind." Flooding has severely damaged the building's wiring, he said, which makes the whole control system vulnerable.
In the kitchen inmates serve up fish sticks, rice, salad and fresh bread for dinner, surrounded by stacked supplies. Carts block the entrance to the dish washing room. "This kitchen was designed for 400 meals a day," Jones said. "They're putting out around 1,500." Jones said equipment was failing in all areas of the jail, some so obsolete staff were looking on Ebay for replacement parts. "You use a building this hard and it just gets beat up," she said.
tax would build new jail
Whatcom County Sheriff Bill Elfo said the county was today spending a substantial amount trying to keep the current jail running that he would rather see put into a new facility. "We're putting millions of good dollars after bad just to keep the place together," he said.
Elfo is one of the most vocal proponents of Proposition 1 on the November ballot, which will ask voters to approve an additional 1/10 of one percent in sales tax. Elfo said the sales tax approach was the fairest as it targets visitors and residents alike, and a third of the county's jail population comes from outside Whatcom County.
Washington sales tax is currently 6.5 percent and Whatcom County collects an additional 1.1 percent, for a 7.6 base rate in the county. Cities can also charge sales tax and Blaine collects 0.6 percent, for a total rate in Blaine of 8.2 percent, which would rise to 8.3 percent if the proposition is adopted, which translates to an additional ten cents per hundred dollars spent.
The new jail facilities sales tax would generate $2 million in 2005, an amount that would increase with growth in subsequent years. The county's plan is to build a $5.9 million interim jail facility next year on Division Street off Hannegan Road in Bellingham. The minimum security facility is being planned to house 155 inmates, most of whom will be involved in work release programs. Jones said 68 percent of inmates serving time in the county do so through work release or similar jail alternatives, including home detention. The county houses up to 50 inmates in a facility operated by SSP, a private company. Some leave for work in the morning, others work on county crews and are joined by out-of-custody work crew members. The new tax would also pay for additional staff at both the new facility and the main jail, and increased operating costs.
A new $45 million 600 bed jail, expandable to 1,000 would be planned for five to seven years later, along with a new Alternative Corrections Center at $1.8 million. "Any unneeded space can easily be rented to other counties, the state and the federal government," Elfo said. Blaine currently sends some of its inmates to the county prison in Yakima, which rents beds. "Because they have room," Haslip said. Elfo stressed that in the long-term ideas such as shipping inmates to other counties or "tent-city" prisons, would end up costing the county more than building their own facility to meet county needs.
than just a jail problem
Jones was asked if the county needed six times more jail beds because the crime rate was six times worse than when the current facility was designed 20 years ago. "Interestingly, incarceration rates tend to run independently of crime rates," she answered. "It's probably more an increase in population." State changes in sentencing limits have also moved more and more cases to local jurisdictions, increasing the burden on courts, prosecutors and public defenders.
Since 1997, booking limits have kept down the average number of days inmates pre-trial or sentenced to misdemeanors spend in jail, and sentenced felony days are low as any felons sentenced to more than a year go to state prison. However, the average monthly bed-day use for pretrial felons has more than doubled since 1997. "Four years ago the average stay here was 12 days, now it's 24," Jones said. "What's driving that is pre-trial felons. Felonies just take longer." The rate of felony filings went up 25 percent in 2001-2002, she added, putting an even greater burden on the courts, and by association on the county jail.
prosecutor David McEachran acknowledged that his department
was part of the bottleneck, but he said the jail was
the most pressing problem to address. "The
jail is the first problem. That is huge," he
said, adding he was working with the county executive
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and the public defenders. "Where we really
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expectations are shaped by television crime dramas
like CSI, which show a reality miles away from
what his team has to work with, McEachran added. "Without
a trial date it can take four months to get DNA
analysis," he said, adding the county
sends crime lab and ballistics analysis to Marysville
or Seattle, lacking any local facilities.
Haslip said the jail facilities tax was only the first of a number of measures needed to get the county's criminal justice system back on track. For example, a $1 million federally funded data integration project will tackle poor communication among county law enforcement agencies. "Right now there can be five data entry points from booking to court," he complained. However, he said that without someplace to put offenders there was little need to book them or prosecute them. "The jail. That's critical."


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Interview: Rodney Stotts, Earth Conservation Corps
Washington, D.C. has been my home for many years. It is where my foundation is headquartered, where my family resides. It is also home to members of the Earth Conservation Corps, a service organization that teaches at-risk teenagers and young adults from the poorest, most violent neighborhoods to clean up their local Anacostia River – and their lives.
Corps members come to intimately understand through their ten months of service, environmental education, and job skills training that saving the planet isn't just about furthering some liberal "environmentalist" agenda. It isn't even exclusively about saving animal species, such as the native bald eagle, from extinction. It's about quality of life for every living, breathing being around – including people. It's about making home a sweeter home.
When it rains, D.C.'s sewer system overflows into the Anacostia, and as a result two billion gallons of raw sewage get dumped into the river each year. "This is the biggest toilet in the world," says Earth Conservation Corps member Marco.
I asked the youth how working to restore the river is connected to people's lives. Patrick answered, "If you don't take care of your environment, it's just filthy. You don't care anymore about the place you live. You don't have any respect for it. So you stop taking care of yourself, too. You treat yourself like trash." He shaked his short, spiky dreads. "If people have a cleaner place to live, they care more about themselves. They want to make changes to themselves."
Patrick spoke from experience. With his movie star looks and eloquent way of speaking, he has the potential to make it big. But first he had to choose to change his ways. "I was lucky. I could have died. I got shot here," he pulled up his shirt to reveal a round scar just a few inches from his spine. "That's when I knew I had to do something different. I feel like giving back to the community because I took so much from it. Being an environmentalist means caring about your community."
Rodney was a lanky 38 year-old when we spoke with him and proud father of twelve. He has worked for the EEC since its inception. "It's the best thing that ever happened to me–besides kids. I used to be the problem. Now I'm part of the solution. That feels so much better. My kids are some of the biggest environmental activists you can find!"


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