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TEXAS, USA: The electronics industry moved forward in 2013, with growth as high as 10 percent expected over 2012. It saw some continuing trends such as the expansion of ARM cores, as well as some unexpected innovations along with some new concepts that are now part of our collective vocabulary.
The proliferation of ARM processor cores across the globe has been remarkable. At the low end, nearly every microcontroller (MCU) manufacturer has added a new ARM CortexTM-M0+ or the higher-end ARM Cortex-M4 device to its lineup, effectively crowding out proprietary MCU architectures and pulling what might previously have been 8- and 16-bit applications to the 32-bit level.
Freescale, which only recently embraced ARM fully in its MCU product line currently boasts over 500 varieties, although with packaging, memory, and temperature options on baseline configurations, such totals can spin up quickly. At the high end, ARM introduced a 64-bit version of the architecture in 2013. Products designed around the new Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 cores are in the making.
Co-incidentally, Intel has now gotten into ARM's back yard. To better address battery-powered systems, Intel re-architected the x86 family years ago into a more power-aware, lower-performance configuration called Atom
Clearly, wireless devices such as smart phones, tablets, and wearables (smart watches) are significant new platforms that can be a key component of disparate consumer, commercial, and medical systems. Intel is making sure the Intel Architecture is a player in these high-volume markets with Atom and the new smaller-yet Quark processors and SoCs.
Open source hardware continued to build momentum in 2013. Arduino and Raspberry Pi were joined by the Beaglebone Black in April. The BBB offers a Texas Instruments 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor along with 65 GPIO and video interfaces, effectively bridging the gap between media and control applications. A new player emerged at the end of the year as Intel released the Galileo platform: An Arduino compatible board based on their new Pentium class Quark processor.
Terms like "Internet of Things" and "Industry 4.0" burst into the mainstream vocabulary this year, encouraging the use of the word "smart". Smart, of course, is a relative term. Generally, smart in electronics has come to mean highly autonomous, able to do a lot on its own without human intervention.
However, the industry uses "smart" lately to refer to highly-connected intelligent systems that make the use of all available information, some local, some gathered from nearby systems, and maybe from far away. Essentially anything attached to the Internet would be deemed smart.
The smart phone has become a key platform for expanding the use of all kinds of products. The phone may remotely control or accumulate data from the product, resources in the phone may perform special processing on the data, and cloud services may be accessed through the cellular network. The phone has become the always-with-me device that the laptop never really was.
Smart phones and tablets have also introduced new kinds of user interfaces (UI). The touch screen is now a staple, giving us the variety of a PC screen, unencumbered by the mouse. Support for touch user interfaces can come quite easily.


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British-based owners of the Porsche 911 GT3 are banding together to demand compensation for costs incurred stemming from the recall of the sports car last February after two GT3s caught fire earlier this year. Customers behind the GT3 Worldwide Action Group aren't too happy that GT3 owners from other parts of the world are getting compensated for their affected cars while those in the UK are getting nothing.
In a letter sent to Porsche AG senior management, the GT3 Worldwide Action Group is demanding a compensation of £145 ($243) per day payable from February 18, the day when owners were first advised by Porsche to stop driving the GT3 because of problems with piston-rod connectors that has forced Porsche to take the unprecedented step of replacing all of the car's engines .
The compensation being sought by these owners is intended to cover lease costs, deprecation, reduced warranty, insurance costs and lack of intended use. On top of that, the group also wants Porsche to pay &euro100 ($138) a day for customers whose cars are still in production and 50 euros for owners who have paid a deposit but have yet to be given a build slot.
It seems like a fair deal given that according to a statement the group released, U.S. owners of the GT3 are being compensated $2,000 a month for the duration of the recall while owners in Germany are getting &euro175 ($241) a day, the same amount the group is seeking for British-based owners of the sports car. The UK's Daily Telegraph has even corroborated these claims, saying that it had seen email from Dubai 's official Porsche dealer confirming to one GT3 customer that it will pay the owner $12,000 in compensation for the recalled GT3.
But UK customers have so far received nothing in compensation from Porsche, and the group, which represents around 30 to 35 owners in the UK, are rising up to force Porsche to pay them up. "We are massively disappointed by the way the manufacturer has conducted itself with its lack of transparency and blatant discrimination between markets," Sunil Mehra, the founder of the group, said.
Interestingly enough, one of those British-based customers who was forced to return the Porsche 911 GT3 was McLaren Automotive . Turns out, McLaren brought a GT3 and had plans to use it as it prepared to develop the McLaren P13 , the company's two-seat sports car that it plans to launch as a direct competitor to the Porsche.
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The winter doldrums have definitely hit here, despite the weather having been quite nice after a patch of gray skies earlier this month. My crafting has taken a hit, unfortunately, though I've still been working on my cross-stitch project (pictures soon).
I did spend the day yesterday working on a few items for a swap organized on Craftster though. The theme is "Hello Kitty & Tare Panda," and here are the goodies I made for my partner:
I'll admit that I bit off more than I could chew with the stuffed Hello Kitty head, seeing that I've never made a stuffed anything before. I had some initial problems when I threaded my sewing machine wrong, and nothing seemed to be working. After a short tantrum, during which I vowed never to sew again, I calmed down and got some help from my roommate, and we went through the manual together, just to make sure everything was in its proper place.
So, I machine-sewed most of the head, pillow-style, and then attached the eyes and nose by hand-sewing them on. I think next time I'll do that before pulling out the machine, though it wasn't as bad as it could have been. I stuffed the head and then hand-stitched the rest of the head. And the bow was entirely hand-sewn as well. Of course, it isn't totally perfect, but that's just my critical self speaking. For a first project, I think it's pretty good.
As for the drawstring bag, I'll admit that I made it in September, during my initial sewing experiments with the new machine. It is made entirely by me though, so it's not a full-on cheat.
And finally, the card set was done with a bag from a Sanrio store, and then I just used a Coluzzle template to cut the envelope shapes. Pretty standard for me at this point, so I can pretty much make them without thinking too much about it. I'd like to get to that point with sewing someday, but it'll take a bit more practice.
Now I just have to pack everything up and off they'll go! This was my first real swap through Craftster, and I will definitely be approaching the next one differently. Like starting a bit earlier, so that I don't forget until the weekend before. And making sure I can actually make what I want to make.
I think my next project will be felt ornaments, with at least one or two for an ornament exchange with the South Bay Craft Group (next meeting is on December 7!). If I can manage more, then perhaps I'll make some for our own tree or even as gifts. But we'll see how the first ones go before I promise anything


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Good Friends (Portrait of the Artist's Sister Bertha Edelfelt), 1881. Albert Edelfelt (Finnish, 1854-1905). Oil on panel. Hermitage Museum.
Edelfelt, from time to time, turned to scenes from Finnish history in his paintings. He went on to illustrate Runeberg's epic poem The Tales of Ensign Stål. He studied art in Antwerp, Paris and Saint Petersburg.
Edelfelt was one of the founders of the Realist art movement in Finland. He influenced several younger Finnish painters.
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What is the future of the global economy?
With the rise of new economic powers such as China, India and Brazil (and virtually every other country in one small way or another), is the global economy headed, even faintly, in the direction of equality for all nations?
As growing internet access spreads information, enlightenment, global exchange and commerce across the planet, the gross effect appears to be a leveling of standards, innovation potential and competitiveness. People increasingly have access to the same learning resources, technology and information. So people in one part of the world are setting up businesses to rival others across oceans and deserts, effectively leading to a more balanced world in which New York is not so different from Mumbai, for example. Is this the true direction of the global economy, even for third world nations, or is there some other trend that's harder to see?
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Aug 2 2013: ...third world nations???
...this composite word or a phrase in itself is contradictory...when I see material things western are developed and when for peace, meditation and relations eastern are...than who is third world nation...
...for material advancement economy has revolved around few nations in past for industrial revolution, now when it's human, others are taking a lead...and so as same for manufacturing, consumption and other things...
...one thing is assure than economy is stable and growing...nobody has taken the finances to mars...the faces behind the hands are changing...may be they are becoming fewer now...but they are not still fewer than the times kings and kingdoms...
...only one challenge to be looked into is the natural abundance and its judicial consumption and care...the balance...
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hey bubbles! thanks for your thoughtful insights. yes, we are all special (yet not special--that is, separate from each other). i do love the idea of the "spiritual friend" relationship instead of teacher/student dichotomy, which seems destined for abuse of power. anyway, the student often becomes the teacher of the teacher, no?
I've also been self-studying Shantideva's
The Way of the Bodhisattva
, and the first chapter entitled "The Excellence of Bodhichitta" contemplates how each of us are bodhisattvas (most of us in training) and that we each are amazing because of the impulse of bodhichitta in us:
"But those who fill with bliss
All beings destitute of joy,
Who cut all pain and suffering away
From those weighed down with misery,
Who drive away the darkness of their ignorance--
What virtue could be matched with theirs?
What friend could be compared to them?
What merit is there similar to this?"
Sounds pretty lofty, no? But Shantideva says that once we have one thought of generosity to another or others--a sincere wish to end the suffering of others--in that moment we grasp bodhichitta and become an amazing bodhisattva in training:
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Willing to set free the endless multitudes of beings,
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Even during sleep and inattention,
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You all are amazing bodhisattvas, which is nothing special (or separate) because that amazing light lives in each of you.
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Will legal pot in Washington State stop illegal cartels in Central America?
Initiative 502, which would legalize pot in small quantities in Washington, is being pushed by supporters as a way to interrupt and starve the Central and South American drug cartels. They clearly want a vote for pot to equate to a vote to shut down dangerous operations.
"Drug cartels are pocketing all the profits," former Republican U.S. Attorney John McKay, who is supporting the measure, said.
Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes echoes the sentiment.
"Out of Mexico, we know that 60 percent of the drug trade across that southern border is marijuana," he said. "There's no doubt that if we are able to wrest the marijuana market from cartels, that will be a painful blow economically."
But opponents of Initiative 502 don't buy the drug cartel argument.
"You aren't going to cripple them with just marijuana," Douglas Hiatt, an attorney who represents medical marijuana patients and who strongly opposes I-502, said. "They will push more coke, they will push more meth. They make much more money off that. It's less bulky, it's easier to transport."
Hiatt argues that all drugs throughout the U.S. would have to be legalized for the cartels to be affected. "This thing isn't going to have anything to do with stopping the violence in Mexico or anything like that," he said. "It's ridiculous to make those claims."
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FAIRBANKS-The Ice Dogs are finally back in the Big Dipper this week. They've been on a six game road trip following the Christmas break. They played those games over a span of just nine days. Fairbanks finished 3-3 after the roadie. Defenseman Johnny Mueller reflects on that stretch of games which actually ended up below Ice Dogs standards.
"It's good to be back in the Dip. I mean the road trip is always a lot of fun with the guys but I mean by the end we all are tired. No excuses for us though it was a tough series-six games in inie days but I felt like 3-3 not good enought for us but a lot of teams would be happy with that result," Mueller said.
Now they'll be back in their own barn for six straight. First things first, starting tomorrow they host the Minnesota Magicians in a three game series. But the Ice Dogs have one of the best players in the NAHL on their roster right now.
Tayler Munson aka "T-Money" has been money. He was named NAHL Forward of the Month for December and NAHL player of the week to ring in the New Year. He has 14 straight games with a point-best in the league and is 4th in scoring with 35.
This Midwest division series pits the first place Ice Dogs against the last place Magicians. The Magicians are coming off a solid series split with the Wilderness allowing three goals in two games to the division runner up.
For this series the Ice Dogs don't want to give over look the Magicians they may have something up their sleeves.
"We have the toughest division in the league and every team is really good," Munson said. "I don't think there's any team that's not as good as any other team so we got to make sure we're not taking these guys for granted. They're really good actually so we just got to be ready for them."


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A leak in a natural gas liquids pipeline operated by Enterprise Products Partners spilled fuel into the Missouri River on Monday.
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NEW YORK - A leak in a natural gas liquids pipeline operated by Enterprise Products Partners spilled fuel into the Missouri River in Iowa, the company said on Monday.
The leak was on the Iowa side of Enterprise's Conway North line in Monona County and the company was recovering products from the shutdown pipeline, company spokesman Rick Rainey said.
This is the latest in a string of pipeline accidents in a year, many of which — like the leaks on Enbridge's Inc two crude lines last summer and the 1,000 barrels of crude oil spilled from Exxon Mobil's Silvertip pipeline in July — have raised serious environmental concerns.
Controllers detected a pressure drop early on Saturday in a 10-mile section of the 33,600-barrels-per-day pipeline between Decatur, Nebraska and Onawa, Iowa and immediately shut down the pipeline, Rainey said.
At the time of the leak, the pipeline was carrying 140,000 gallons (3,300 barrels/636,400 liters) of natural gasoline, a volatile liquid hydrocarbon derived from natural gas, but may have spilled fewer gallons, Rainey said.
The pipeline, part of Enterprise's mid-America segment, which has a 2,800-mile network in its northern tier, serves refineries, the petrochemical industry and propane markets in the Midwest region, Rainey added.
The Environmental Protection Agency said it has not responded to the leak since there has not been a visual verification as of Monday morning while the U.S. federal pipeline regulator sent an inspector to Burt County, Nebraska to monitor the leak.
"It is still possible that this was an equipment malfunction," said Chris Whitley with EPA's Region 7 office.
"Our main challenge is that natural gasoline is very difficult to detect even in large amounts," Whitley added.
Rainey said the leak may have sprung in an area that usually is on a dry riverbed but was underwater following severe flooding along the Missouri River this spring and summer.
Enterprise said it had not detected any natural gas liquids on the surface of the river when it conducted a flyover and that most of the products had dissipated quickly.
"So far, the company (Enterprise) has recovered 3,000 gallons of product from the pipeline, and has started a vacuum process looking to recover more mix of gasoline and water," said Kathy Lee, spokeswoman at the Iowa Department Of Natural Resources
The company will need approval from the Department of Transportation to restart the pipeline.
U.S. Midwest natural gasoline markets did not respond to the leak with a significant hike on Monday.
Natural gasoline at the Conway, Kansas, hub rose 3.00 cents a gallon to a bid/offer spread of $2.02-$2.0675 a gallon, brokers said. Natural gasoline at the Enterprise hub near Mont Belvieu, Texas, similarly rose 3.00 cents above Friday levels and traded at $2.27 a gallon.
"It's hard to distinguish today's natural gasoline price rise that is due to crude (rising) or the leak. We think the leak probably further supported prices after an initial jump from stronger crude," said a Texas-based LPG broker who requested anonymity.
Floods responsible?
Enterprise has not determined if the leak is related to scouring, damage to pipelines caused by debris and other floating matter carried by floods.
"The portion under the riverbed isn't where the problem is," Rainey told Reuters.
The area near the leaking pipeline was still prone to flooding, according to the Iowa Department of Resources.
Frequent floods in the Midwest region, particularly on the Missouri River basin, have inundated urban regions and farmlands in the Midwest, causing havoc on parts of the region.
The product in the pipeline at the time of the leak has complicated the recovery and spill detection process, according to regional regulators.
"It looks like we've lost a significant amount of product from the pipeline. Because we have not seen it floating on the river, it's possible that a lot of it has volatilized or evaporated," Kathy Lee, with the Iowa Department Of Natural Resources said.
(Additional reporting by Joshua Schneyer, Ayesha Rascoe and Robert Gibbons; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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Policy Update for April 30, 2012
April 29, 2012 - Posted by Maurice BelangerAs Supreme Court Considers Arizona Law, Calls for Immigration Reform Increase
The Supreme Court heard arguments for and against Arizona's SB 1070 on April 25, the last day of its session. The case before the court was that of the government, arguing that Federal law pre-empts the Arizona law. At issue were four provisions: the "papers please" provision, requiring state and local police to determine the immigration status of persons stopped arrested, or detained, if the officer has "reasonable suspicion" that the person is in the country illegally; the provision that makes it a state offense for immigrants not to be carrying their federal "alien registration document;" the provision making it a crime in the state to work without authorization; and the section that allows an officer to arrest someone without a warrant if the officer believes that the person has committed a crime that makes him or her removable from the U.S.
As mentioned, the government's argument was about pre-emption, and at the beginning of Solicitor General Donald Verrilli's allotted time, Chief Justice Roberts had Mr. Verrilli clarify that the government was not challenging the law based on concerns about racial profiling. With that established, Mr. Verrilli had trouble convincing the justices that the state was not within its rights to make an inquiry to the federal government regarding someone who was stopped for some other reason, as long as they are not held for longer than they otherwise would have been held.
At one point, in response to a hypothetical situation posed by Chief Justice Roberts, Verrilli articulated the problem that is of most concern to the law's opponents:
"…the process of cooperating to enforce the Federal immigration law starts earlier, and it starts with the process of making the decisions about … who to stop, who to apprehend, who to check on.
The Justices, however, were going to stay focused on the preemption argument.
There was less discussion of other provisions of the law, but judging by the questioning, there was more skepticism about other provisions under consideration, particularly the provision making it a crime for undocumented immigrants to seek work.
You can read a transcript of the Supreme Court arguments here.
Not the Last Word
Whatever the Court decides, it will be far from the last word on the Arizona law or on laws modeled after it. There will be other court challenges to aspects of these laws not challenged in the Government's lawsuit—including the issue of racial profiling in the Arizona and other laws, the Alabama law's requirement to collect information on the immigration status of Alabama school children, etc. Ultimately, the fate of these laws will be decided by an electorate undergoing demographic change.
Those changes were on stark display in front of the court during the arguments. There were two sets of demonstrators imploring the court to strike down or uphold the law. Opponents of the law, about 500 strong, were Latino, African-American, white and, on balance, young. A much smaller group of supporters of the law were white and, on balance, elderly.
Within Arizona itself, we've already had a taste of the future when Russell Pierce, author of SB 1070, became the first Arizona legislator to lose a recall election. Regardless of whether that particular change sticks, the trend is inevitable, just as here in the northeast, we've witnessed wild swings this season as we get a taste of summer warmth only to be hit with more of the last throes of winter cold.
Faith Leaders Call for Immigration Reform
In the week leading up to the Supreme Court argument, a broad spectrum of faith leaders stepped up their calls on Congress to reform the immigration laws. On April 23, the National Immigration Forum issued a release with the statements of seven Evangelical leaders. Among them, Galen Carey of the National Association of Evangelicals noted that "the place to work out [a legal immigration system with a sensible plan for those who are already here] is in the Congress and the White House, not in the courts, and certainly not in the 50 state legislatures." Mathew Staver of Liberty University Law School echoed those sentiments, saying that our broken immigration system "is a national problem, and we need Congress to put aside partisan politics and fix it now."
A group of 15 interfaith leaders sent letters to Congress and the President, urging them to address the issue of immigration reform as soon as possible. The authors express their concern that, because Congress and the President have been unable to forge a solution at the federal level, "we are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of authority for immigration policy from the federal government to state and local governments, to the detriment of our nation and our local communities." Signers include, among others, the President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the President of the National Association of Evangelicals, the Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the President of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. You can find links to the letters in this release from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Senate Hearing on SB 1070
On September 24, there was a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security, "Examining the Constitutionality and Prudence of State and Local Governments Enforcing Immigration Law." Witnesses included Arizona State Senator Steve Gallardo, author of a bill that would repeal SB 1070; former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, author of SB 1070; former U.S. Senator from Arizona Dennis DeConcini; and Todd Landfried, Executive Director of Arizona Employers for Immigration Reform.
In his testimony, Mr. Pearce defended SB 1070, saying among other things that it has brought about a drop in violent crime in Phoenix. Phoenix Police Department officials told the Arizona Republic, however, that it was impossible to say whether reduced crime rates are related to the effects of the law or to more effective policing and other factors. As the Forum has noted previously, violent crime in the state as a whole peaked in 1993—decades before the passage of SB 1070.
Former Senator DeConcini, who now practices law in Arizona, said that SB 1070 unquestionably targets persons with brown skin, and "in my state, those are my neighbors, my friends, and successful business associates." The law was politically expedient for some of the state's politicians, and "whenever you mix politics and law enforcement, you create a toxic environment."
Mr. Landfried said the law hasn't met the claims of its proponents—that SB 1070 would result in economic benefits for the state by ridding the state of undocumented immigrants who were using state benefits and by opening jobs for citizen and legal resident workers. He cited several studies that had been conducted in other states that have passed similar laws, and in all cases the economic impacts were negative. In Arizona, Mr. Landfried said, SB 1070 resulted in a reduction of Gross State Product of 9.6%.
You can find all of the witness testimony, and a video recording of the hearing, on the Judiciary Committee's Web site.
VAWA Reauthorization Passes Senate
On April 26, the Senate passed by a vote of 68 to 31, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (S 1925). The bill makes a number of minor changes to VAWA that will expand protections for immigrant victims of domestic violence. Among them:
- Minor children of VAWA self-petitioners will be included in a petition for an immigrant visa in the cases where an immigrant victim of abuse has petitioned for a visa and her abuser dies during the adjudication process.
- VAWA self-petitioners and persons with U or T visas (or who are applying for those visas) will not be barred from admission to the U.S. on public charge grounds.
- If the annual U visa cap is reached, the Secretary of DHS may use up to 5,000 U visas that were not used in previous years.
- Children of the applicants of U visas are protected from "aging out," so they will be covered on their parent's application for a visa even if they turn 21 while the application is being processed.
- A number of changes are made to strengthen the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act, to protect potential recipients of K visas (for fiancés or fiancées) from potentially abusive marriages.
Also included in the bill is a provision, added to the original bill through an amendment by Sen. Grassley of Iowa, to make a third drunk driving conviction an aggravated felony for immigration purposes, making an immigrant drunk driver subject to removal.
On April 27, House Republicans introduced their own version of VAWA reauthorization. This bill contains several provisions that would make it more difficult for immigrant victims of domestic violence to gain protections than current law provides. That bill will be considered when Congress returns from recess the week of May 7.
Senate Holds Oversight Hearing on DHS
On April 25, the Senate Judiciary Committee held an oversight hearing on the Department of Homeland Security. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano was the sole witness. Some immigration-related highlights:
- Secretary Napolitano said that it was the "intent" of DHS to have a fully operational biographic exit system in place by June of 2012.
- Senator Feinstein of California said that she is concerned that aggressive I-9 audits of agricultural employers in her state "are going to decimate on farm and farm-dependent jobs."
- Senator Kyl of Arizona talked about the need for more resources at Southwest border ports of entry, and asked Secretary Napolitano to work with the Senate in requesting those resources.
- Senator Blumenthal of Connecticut asked about the protection of same sex couples from deportation, and Secretary Napolitano said that until the Defense of Marriage Act is repealed, the most DHS can do is administratively close the cases of those who merit an exercise of prosecutorial discretion.
- Regarding prosecutorial discretion, Senator Durbin of Illinois asked about the discrepancy between the percentage of deportation cases that have been reviewed and deemed eligible for administrative closure (7.5%) and the percentage of cases that have been administratively closed (1.2%). Secretary Napolitano said that the discrepancy is primarily due to the fact that people who have been offered administrative closure of their cases are thinking over the offer, but that she expects DHS will have completed review of existing cases by the end of this calendar year, and the percentage of cases closed will rise between now and then. She also said that DHS is "exploring how best to address" concerns that individuals whose cases have been administratively closed are not being offered work authorization.
Testimony from the hearing and a video recording can be found on the Judiciary Committee's Web site.
House Appropriations Committee Acts on Department of Justice Budget
On April 26, the House Appropriations Committee passed an appropriations bill that will fund the Department of Justice for Fiscal Year 2013. Among the immigration-related components:
- The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) received $313.4 million (as the Administration requested), $8.5 million above the 2012 allocation. (The Senate Appropriations Committee provided the same amount for EOIR.)
- Included in EOIR's budget was more than $8.4 million for the Legal Orientation Program (as the Administration requested). This is an increase of nearly $2 million over the fiscal 2012 allocation. (The Senate provided the same amount.)
- The State Criminal Alien Assistance Program received $165 million—$95 million above the Administration's request. (The Senate provided $255 million.) This money is to reimburse states and localities for the cost of jailing undocumented immigrants.
- The House provided $13.5 million for programs for victims of human trafficking, $3 million above the Administration's request.
The House bill is expected to go to the floor in early May.
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The Arizona Immigration Law's Day in Court Has Passed. So Has Its Day in the Sun.
April 26, 2012 - Posted by Ali Noorani
The following op-ed was published April 26, 2012, in Spanish at El Diario.
By Ali Noorani
What if the Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of Arizona's anti-immigrant law, S.B. 1070, doesn't matter?
No matter how the court rules, consensus is emerging that Arizona and the states that have copied its discriminatory law are engaging in bad policy and bad politics — the type that could turn neighbor against neighbor and state against state as disparate immigration approaches rattle communities.
The pushback against such policies is coming from a broad swath of American leaders: business executives concerned about such laws' economic impacts, law enforcement officers who need the trust of the communities they serve, and religious luminaries sick of seeing families and congregations torn apart.
The latter group has communicated a particularly powerful message this week. "Evangelicals are committed to laws that allow us to minister to and love the immigrant," said the Rev. Gabriel Salguero, president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition. "S.B. 1070 not only fosters profiling but also stands in the way of our Christian duty."
Hear also the words of Galen Carey, vice president of government relations with the National Association of Evangelicals: "The people of Arizona, and every state, deserve a safe and functional legal immigration system, and a sensible plan for those who are already here. The place to work out such a plan is in the Congress and the White House, not in the courts, and certainly not in the 50 state legislatures."
These leaders recognize that immigration is not and cannot be "us vs. them," but rather that it is simply "us." As one nation, we must rise above laws that engender distrust and suspicion.
Residents of Arizona — led by Citizens for a Better Arizona — already have moved in that direction. Even before the Supreme Court decided to rule on S.B. 1070, the bill's author, Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce, was recalled in November by a 55-44 margin.
The same week, a statewide poll found that 78 percent of Arizona residents would support legislation giving undocumented longtime residents the opportunity to pay a fine, pass criminal background checks, get a taxpayer I.D. number, demonstrate they can speak English — and eventually become citizens.
That's a far cry from the criminalization of undocumented immigrants woven into Arizona's enforcement-only law. Clearly, Arizonans are ahead of some of their political leaders in realizing that S.B. 1070 goes too far.
If the court rules in Arizona's favor regarding parts of the law, copycat laws will go into effect, and elected leaders in still other states could decide to follow suit. But they would do so at their peril, knowing that the vast majority of the electorate will not tolerate hate and prejudice.
It is up to all of us —those who remember coming here from somewhere else and those whose immigration stories have been passed down through generations — to call for the only immigration policy solution that can unite our country as a voice of liberty, equality and fairness: humane reform on the federal level.
No matter what the Supreme Court decides, we must move forward with policies that unite rather than divide.
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Immigration Policy Update for April 19, 2012
April 19, 2012 - Posted by Maurice Belanger
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Arizona SB 1070
Next Wednesday, April 25, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the federal government's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's SB 1070. Four key provisions of the Arizona law will be the focus of the Court's review. The most controversial provision is known as the "papers please" provision, which requires state and local police to determine the immigration status of persons stopped, arrested, or detained, if the officer has "reasonable suspicion" that the person is in the country illegally. Other provisions being reviewed by the Court are: the provision that makes it a state offense for immigrants not to be carrying their federal "alien registration document;" the provision making it a crime in the state to work without authorization; and the section that allows an officer to arrest someone without a warrant if the officer believes that the person has committed a crime that makes him or her removable from the U.S.
A decision in the case is expected by June 25.
The Forum has collected a list of links to useful materials about the Arizona law, the legal issues relating to the Supreme Court case, the economic damage Arizona has suffered since passage of the law and implications of a decision one way or the other. You can find all of that information on this page of our Web site, or by clicking on the Arizona v. United States graphic on our home page, http://www.immigrationforum.org.
Rally and Virtual Vigil
There will be a lot of activity surrounding the Supreme Court arguments. On the day of the argument, April 25 at 10:30 AM, civil rights, religious, labor and community leaders are organizing a rally at the steps of the Supreme Court. For those who cannot join a rally in person in Washington, please consider joining a virtual vigil, the Vigil for Justice and the American Dream, an on-line forum that will allow you to stand in solidarity with those who believe in equal treatment and equal opportunity for all. Join with thousands across the country in lighting candles for justice at VigilforJustice.org.
Senate to Hold Hearing on SB 1070
The day before the Supreme Court argument, the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security will hold a hearing, "Examining the Constitutionality and Prudence of State and Local Governments Enforcing Immigration Law." Subcommittee Chair Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) had invited Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to testify, but she declined. Instead, Russell Pearce will be one of the witnesses. He is the principle author of SB 1070 and was subsequently booted out of office in a recall election. Also testifying will be former U.S. Senator from Arizona Dennis DeConcini, co-author of the Moakley-DeConcini Act of the late 1980s (ultimately incorporated into the 1990 Immigration Act), which provided protection from deportation for Salvadorans fleeing civil war. Arizona state senator Steve Gallardo, and Arizona Employers for Immigration Reform Executive Director Todd Landfried are also on the witness list.
Citizenship Campaign Launched
Anti-immigrant laws such as Arizona's SB 1070 and Alabama's HB 56 have been good motivators for some of the 8.1 million immigrants who are eligible for naturalization to begin taking the steps to become U.S. citizens and have their voice heard in our democracy. A group of advocates and service providers have launched a new campaign to help immigrants obtain information about U.S. citizenship and to begin the application process.
Under the auspices of Reform Immigration FOR America, the campaign, Mas Respeto, Become a Citizen! will make use of a text messaging service created by CitizenshipWorks, where eligible immigrants can text "citizenship" or "ciudadania" to 877877 for the location of nearby citizenship assistance providers. There are also Web sites (www.mycitizenshipmyvote.org and www.masrespeto.org) where immigrants can go to find out more information about the citizenship process and where they will find links to resources such as CitizenshipWorks.
The National Immigration Forum held a press conference about this campaign on April 10. You can read the resulting press release here or find the recording of the press conference on this page of our Web site.
Child Tax Credit Again Under Attack
On April 18, the House Ways and Means Committee voted on a package of proposals intended to begin the process of cutting spending to comply with a Republican budget that passed the House at the end of March. That budget attempts to avert cuts to Defense scheduled to go into effect according to the budget agreement reached last summer. At the same time, it proposes to cut $5.3 trillion from the President's budget over 10 years. According to the New York Times, much of the burden will fall on nutrition, health care and welfare programs.
The Ways and Means Committee met on April 18 to begin drafting a measure to cut $53 billion over 10 years. Included in the package is a proposal to limit the child tax credit only to tax filers using Social Security Numbers (SSNs). (Those filing with Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, issued by the IRS to taxpayers without SSNs, would not be able to claim the benefit.) That proposal was approved by the Committee by a vote of 22 to 12.
This issue surfaced in January, when Republicans in the House at first insisted that cutting the child tax credit for tax filers without SSNs should help pay for extension of the Social Security tax reduction. The Senate opposed the measure, and eventually the House dropped its insistence on the measure.
The Senate is not expected to agree to the kinds of cuts the House will be proposing as it completes its budget and appropriations work.
For more information, see this fact sheet, created during the January debate on this subject by First Focus, an organization that advocates for children and families.
Racial Profiling Subject of Senate Hearing
On April 17, the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights held a hearing on "Ending Racial Profiling in America." It was the first time the Senate has held a hearing on racial profiling since June 2001, before the terrorist attacks of later that year.
In his opening statement, Subcommittee Chair Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) said that he was sending a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to close loopholes in the Justice Department's racial profiling guidance. The guidance, issued in 2003, does not apply to profiling based on religion and national origin, nor does it apply to national security and border security investigations. (You can find the letter from Senator Durbin et al. attached to this press release from the Senator's office.) Another step Congress could take towards ending racial profiling, Senator Durbin suggested, is to pass the End Racial Profiling Act, S. 1670, introduced by Maryland Senator Ben Cardin (D).
Witness included a panel of Members of Congress and a panel that included the Chief of Police of East Palo Alto, California, a law professor, and representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Equal Opportunity and the Fraternal Order of Police. You can obtain a video recording of the hearing, and witness testimony on this page of the Judiciary Committee's Web site, and you can find a statement from the National Immigration Forum here.
National Guard on the Border
On April 17, the House Homeland Security Committee Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security held a hearing, "Boots on the Ground or Eyes in the Sky: How Best to Utilize the National Guard to Achieve Operational Control."
In December of last year, the Obama Administration announced that it would begin to withdraw the 1200 National Guard troops who had been stationed on the Southwest border along with a record number of Border Patrol agents. The Administration is maintaining 300 National Guard troops, who provide a variety of support services to the Border Patrol, until the end of this calendar year.
The hearing provided an opportunity to assess the effectiveness of the Guard's deployment and the current strategy of providing aerial surveillance. Witnesses included representatives of the Defense Department, the Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection's Office of Air and Marine, the Texas National Guard and the Government Accountability Office. You can obtain all the witness testimony on this page of the Homeland Security Committee's Web site.
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Immigration Policy Update for April 11, 2012
April 11, 2012 - Posted by Maurice Belanger
Proposed Rule to Change Family Unity Waiver Process Published
On April 2, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published a Proposed Rule in the Federal Register seeking public comment on changes it is proposing for the process of applying for a waiver of inadmissibility based on unlawful presence.
Currently, a person is barred from re-entry into the U.S. for three years if the individual had accumulated between six and 12 months of unlawful presence in the U.S. If the total unlawful presence reached a year or more, the person must remain outside the U.S. for a minimum of 10 years. A waiver for the bar to re-entry is available if the person can show he or she is eligible for an immigrant visa and that his or her U.S. citizen or Legal Permanent Resident spouse or parent will suffer extreme hardship due to the lengthy separation. However, if the individual is not eligible to adjust status inside the U.S., he or she must depart the U.S. in order to obtain the immigrant visa from a U.S. State Department Consular office in his or her home country. At that point, the three- or ten-year bar to re-entry is triggered, and the person must apply for the waiver and wait outside the U.S.
What USCIS is proposing to do is to process those waiver applications before the individual has left the U.S. If approved the waiver is approved, the individual can complete the process of obtaining an immigrant visa from the U.S. Consular office in his or her home country without the long wait for adjudication of the waiver.
In the Federal Register notice, USCIS gives several reasons for proposing to change the process. The lengthy wait—over a year in some locations—itself creates the kind of lengthy family separation the waiver application seeks to avoid. The maintenance of staff outside the U.S. is expensive, and the shuffling of files back and forth between the Department of State and USCIS is inefficient.
While the spouses of Legal Permanent Residents are also eligible for this family unity waiver, USCIS is proposing to change the application process only for U.S. citizen relatives. USCIS cites the priority given by Congress to the immigration of the family members of U.S. citizens.
The new process will also be available only to those who would be subject to the unlawful presence bars to re-entry. (USCIS says that 80% of applications for waivers to inadmissibility filed abroad are filed by individuals who are subject to the three- and 10-year bards to re-entry.)
There is a 60-day public comment period; and comments should be submitted on or before June 1, 2012. The new process will not go into effect until all comments are considered and a final rule is published in the coming months.
There will be more detail about issues of concern with the proposed rule in a future update.
For more information: Here are some materials related to this proposed rule:
- Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers: Questions & Answers, from USICS.
- Proposed Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers, a summary by USCIS of what they propose to do.
- Entry without Inspection (EWI) & Family Unity Waiver in a Nutshell, by the National Immigration Forum.
Hearing on ICE Detention Mischaracterizes Administration Policy
On March 28, the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration held a hearing titled, "Holiday on ICE: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's New Immigration Detention Standards." The topic of the hearing was the new standards for immigration detention that were released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in February of this year.
Opening statements by members of the Subcommittee (as well as the Chair and Ranking Member of the full Committee) presented starkly different pictures of immigration detention and the need for reform. We also learned that Judiciary Committee Chair Lamar Smith (R-TX) would have made a lousy travel agent.
In his opening statement, Subcommittee Committee Chair Elton Gallegly (R-CA) suggested the new detention standards were too accommodating to immigrant detainees, and he complained that, in devising the new standards, ICE did not address the impact on the American taxpayer.
For her part, Subcommittee Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) read stories of women who were raped by prison guards while in immigration detention, noting that, in part, reform of the standards were necessary to prevent these kinds of crimes against detainees.
While Ms. Lofgren noted that Rep. Gallegly expressed to her his regret about the title of the hearing, Rep. Lamar Smith felt no such remorse. In his statement, he said that "the administration's new detention manual reads more like a hospitality guideline for illegal immigrants," and that, under the new guidelines "detention looks more like recess."
The views expressed by Mr. Smith touched off a well-deserved round of op-ed ridicule. Annie Sovcik, of Human Rights First, wrote in The Hill, suggesting that if Smith really thinks imprisonment in an ICE detention facility is a holiday, he should try booking his next vacation into one of the several detention facilities she has visited in the course of her work. Edwidge Danticat wrote in the New York Times about her uncle who, after fleeing Haiti and asking for political asylum, was thrown in prison without his blood pressure medication, where he died in ICE custody.
For his part, Smith asserted that the new detention standards should not come at the expense of the American taxpayer. If Smith were truly concerned about the American taxpayer, however, he would be opposed to the profligate waste that results from locking up immigration violators in prisons built for criminals. Approximately half of the immigrants held in detention by ICE have committed no criminal offense, and jailing them costs ICE $166 per day each. Mr. Smith has played a key role in blocking reform of the immigration laws that would give these otherwise law-abiding individuals a chance to stay on the tax rolls. Mr. Smith has also introduced legislation that would allow for the indefinite detention (at taxpayer expense) of certain immigrants, and he has supported funding even more detention capacity for ICE.
The Forum's Statement for the Record of that hearing can be found here, and a press release from the Forum about the hearing is here. A video recording and statements from the hearing can be found here.
Prosecutorial Discretion Court Review to Expand to Seven Additional Courts
On April 3, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) issued a release saying that DHS's case-by-case prosecutorial review of immigration cases will take place in seven immigration courts in the coming four months. Cases will be reviewed in the immigration courts of Detroit, New Orleans, Orlando, and Seattle from April 23 until May 4; in New York from May 7 until May 18; in San Francisco from June 4 until June 15; and in Los Angeles from July 9 until July 20. Case reviews in these courts follow reviews that have already taken place in Denver and Baltimore. The aim of these reviews is to clear the courts of cases that are low priority for prosecution by administratively closing them, and allowing the courts to focus on immigration cases that are higher on the priority list of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
According to information released to Congress by ICE on March 9, as of March 5, ICE had reviewed approximately 165,000 of the 300,000 deportation cases of detained and non-detained individuals. By that date, 1,583 cases had been administratively closed, and an additional 10,847 cases had been identified as provisionally eligible for the exercise of prosecutorial discretion, pending background checks. (Some individuals decide to pursue their cases, and decline offers to close their case.)
Supreme Court Rules Retroactive Application of IIRIRA Cannot Be Used to Deny Reentry for Certain Immigrants
On March 28, the Supreme Court ruled that a legal permanent resident could not be denied reentry into the U.S. based on retroactive application of rules set by the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). Panagis Vartelas is an immigrant from Greece who has been a U.S. permanent resident since 1989. In 1994, he pled guilty to conspiring to make a counterfeit security, and served four months in prison. In 2003, returning from a trip to Greece to visit his mother, the government denied him reentry, and placed him in removal proceedings. The government claimed that Mr. Vartelas was removable based on his conviction two years prior to passage of IIRIRA. The Supreme Court disagreed.
At the time of his conviction, immigrants in Mr. Vartelas' situation could travel abroad without jeopardizing their permanent resident status. The Court ruled that Mr. Vartelas could not be deprived of his right to travel abroad based on his conviction prior to passage of IIRIRA. For more information on this case and its implications for permanent residents in similar circumstances, see this Practice Advisory from the American Immigration Council.
Justice Department Cuts off Negotiations with Maricopa County Sheriff
The Justice Department has cut off negotiations towards settlement in a case against the Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff's Office involving several violations of federal law. The Sheriff's Office decided it would not accept the independent monitor the Justice Department insisted on to see that the Office ceases its violations of the law. In a press release, Sheriff Joe Arpaio defied the Justice Department's demand, saying that the Administration was trying to "strong arm me into submission only for its political gain."
It now appears likely that the lawsuit previously filed by the Department of Justice against the Sheriff's Office will resume. In a related development, former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas was disbarred by the State Bar of Arizona, after a three-judge panel ruled that Thomas abused his powers by targeting his political enemies. When he was County Attorney, Thomas worked closely with Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Syrians Get Temporary Protected Status
During the past several months, the government of Syria has been violently reacting to a rebellion in that country. On March 29, the Department of Homeland Security published a Federal Register notice designating Syria for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), due to the ongoing violence in that country. Nationals from Syria who have been continuously physically present in the United States since March 29, 2012, may apply for TPS and work authorization.
For information about application procedure and eligibility details, see the TPS page on the Web site of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
DHS Inspector General Releases Reports on Secure Communities
On April 6, the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (OIG) released two reports on Secure Communities. The first report focused on ICE communication regarding participation in Secure Communities. The OIG did not find evidence that ICE intentionally mislead communities about participation in Secure Communities, only that ICE communications were unclear and inconsistent. The OIG made three recommendations meant to ensure that communication in the future about participation in Secure Communities is clear.
In the second report, the OIG found that the program was effective in identifying criminal aliens; that in most cases ICE officers took enforcement actions according to agency enforcement policy; and that local law enforcement jurisdictions incurred little cost in implementing the program.
In a press release, Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who asked for the investigation, expressed disappointment in the reports, noting that while the OIG found that Secure Communities was "effective in finding and removing immigrants with criminal convictions. That wasn't the question. Does the program also ensnare victims and others with no criminal history? Is it susceptible to racial profiling? Does it ultimately undermine community policing efforts—leaving us all less safe?"
The Forum's release about these reports (which you can find here) echoed some of these criticisms.
IACHR Holds Hearing on Human Rights Abuses on the Border
On March 27, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held a hearing on the "Human Rights Situation of Detained and Deported Migrants along the Southern Border of the United States." Seven organizations, including the National Immigration Forum, petitioned the Commission to hold this hearing about abuses and human rights violations against migrants on the Southwest border. As noted in the Forum's press release about the hearing, the testimony before the Commission followed six years of documentation work by No More Deaths, a humanitarian and advocacy organization based on the Arizona-Mexico border. The organization conducted 15,000 interviews over six years with deportees who experienced abusive conditions in custody.
Another issue raised at the hearing was the lack of internal oversight mechanisms at DHS to punish and correct abusive behavior.
You can find a recording of that hearing on this page of the Web site of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
DHS Now Tracking Deportation of Parents of U.S. Citizen Children
Included in the Fiscal Year 2011 appropriations bill that Congress passed in April of last year was direction to the Department of Homeland Security to begin keeping statistics on the number of parents of U.S. citizen children it is deporting, and whether the children remain in the U.S. after deportation of the parents. On March 26, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) submitted a report to Congress with some of the statistics Congress requested.
In the period between January 1 and June 30, 2011, ICE reported that it had removed 46,486 persons who claimed to have at least one U.S. citizen child. ICE databases have not yet been revised to track what happens to the U.S. citizen child when the parents are deported.
You can find that report here.
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Will There Be Justice for the Victims of El Salvador's Jesuit Massacre?
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On the 20th anniversary of the Jesuits Massacre, the Center for Justice & Accountability (CJA), the international human rights organization which initiated the criminal case in Spain against those responsible for the massacre, brought a delegation of leaders from the human rights, legal and Jesuit communities, to show the new government that civil society in the US continues to stand in solidarity with the thousands of Salvadoran survivors from the civil war. CJA's delegation echoed the victims demands for truth and justice and offered support to the government, encouraging them to take the victims into consideration, making possible a true reconciliation. We specifically requested justice and the truth in the Jesuits Massacre.
The recent election of President Mauricio Funes provides an unparalleled opportunity to turn the tide on two decades of impunity and to secure justice and healing for the victims. This opening, combined with the first actions taken in CJA's criminal case in Spain, as acknowledged by some members of the Funes administration and the judiciary, creates possibilities to gain ground on the human rights front that have not existed for many years.
There are many hopeful signs. In a ceremony on Nov. 16th where the Jesuits were awarded El Salvador's highest honor posthumously, President Funes reaffirmed his commitment to seeking the full truth concerning the military's role in the massacre and justice for the survivors. "We pull back a heavy veil of darkness and lies to let in the light of justice and truth," President Funes said.
El Salvador's Defense Minister Gen. David Munguia Payes, who participated in the civil war, said that the military is willing to open its archives to investigators, something that CJA and other human rights advocates have long demanded, but the military consistently refused.
This historical moment is also marked by the return of many who fled El Salvador during the war, to work for justice and rebuild their country. CJA client and torture survivor, Neris Gonzalez, returned after eleven years in the U.S. "As a survivor, I have come to learn that a very important part of my healing has been my search for justice. I want to see justice for the family members of the Jesuits. For the first time, I have hope for my country and believe that justice and truth will finally prevail," Gonzalez said.
Dr. Juan Romagoza, CJA client and torture survivor who served as Executive Director of La Clinica del Pueblo in Washington, DC since 1987, recently returned to El Salvador to open a series of clinics to treat low-income, rural communities. Now, he has been appointed by the new administration to be the General Supervisor for the Medical System in Usulutan, where he is from.
In meetings with President Funes, Vice President Sanchez Seren, Attorney General Romeo Barahona, Inspector General Zaira Navas, Director of the Human Rights Office of the Executive David Morales, and members of the judiciary, CJA's delegation secured commitments that the rule of law will be honored. The delegation also offered the new government professional and technical support for their efforts to bring to justice those responsible for human rights abuses during the violent civil war.
The delegation encouraged the new government to support CJA's Jesuits Massacre case in Spain. This week CJA's International Attorney Almudena Bernabeu will present evidence in Madrid as part of the first investigative actions taken in the case. One of the legal team's hope with this case in Spain is to galvanize national prosecutions in El Salvador. This investigation may carry arrest warrants and extradition requests for the defendants that the Salvadoran state, observing its international obligations, needs to honor by either extraditing the defendants or prosecuting them in El Salvador.
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The process of getting all the releases by Back To The Future The Ride (member of Foot Village, True Neutral, Gang Wizard) available digitally is now almost complete. Today the 'Neutrino Based Lifeforms' cassette has been added to the Deathbomb bandcamp page. This leaves just the 'Pronoia Sunsets' cassette to post. But at the moment lets talk about this neutrino one. It is the only Back To The Future The Ride release that is programmatic. Not a musical word used much. To be honest, I had to look it up to remind myself. It just means that it is music that literally represents a narrative. Each sound being a specific character, event, action, etc. The most famous music like this might be "Peter and the Wolf". Curious what this all sounds like? Well, now you can stream it for free! If you love it, the cassette version is still available over at 5nakefork Records. (It is the only Back To The Future The Ride release still available in physical format, btw!) The art is from the genius known as Adam Roth!
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Aalto University has published an excellent book, edited by Kirsi Niinimäki, titled Sustainable Fashion: New Approaches. Where there were really no books before 2008, there are now many, some of great value, others of less. I've so far read two chapters and glanced through all of them, and I think this book adds value to the conversations, through precisely focused and thoroughly researched chapters. The absolute best thing about this book? You can download it for free! Click on the box that says 'Lataa ilmaiseksi'. Thank you to Aalto University and Niinimäki for making it freely available; I know it makes a huge difference to students around the world.
Nordes 2015: Design Ecologies
Design Ecologies
Challenging anthropocentrism in the design of sustainable futures
Konstfack – University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. Stockholm, Sweden
Sunday 7 – Wednesday 10 June 2015
Call for Submissions
Design hinges a natural-artificial continuum through humans' natural capacity to produce what we call 'the artificial'. At a time when human activity is threatening biodiversity and causing severe climate change, it becomes obvious that natural and artificial systems can no longer be conceived in isolation but only in relation to each other – or indeed as one. The coupling of natural and artificial systems poses challenges due to its complexity and partly reveals the anthropocentrism that has traditionally characterised design. Several questions arise in this context. How can design practices embrace pluralism by recognising, in the manifestation of design itself, biological as well as cultural diversity? In other words, how do we in design, and beyond, move from the kind of ego-system we seem to be so trapped in towards the kind of eco-system everyone and everything can gain from? How are designers, educators and researchers of design currently engaging with these challenges, and how might or should they engage with them in the near future? Designers in Scandinavia have shaped and influenced many local human societies to an important extent through a legacy of democratic and user-centred values. How can these be extended to acknowledge and celebrate humans' cohabitation on a global scale to also include the myriad of all other existing species and systems at alternative scales in time asnd space? How can the various design practices be genuinely sensitive to ecological complexity? And how can they be understood, designed and studied in relation to each other – or indeed as a whole? Addressing these issues and many others, the Design Ecologies conference includes the following tracks:
Design and Approaches for Sustainability
Design for Sustainability as we know it and as we might imagine it. This track is for both case studies we can learn from and more speculative alternative approaches. We especially invite submissions that scrutinize the tensions, and possible bridging, between: (i) radical and more incremental solutions, (ii) local and more global approaches and (iii) a non-anthropocentric versus a more anthropocentric design approach.
Design as a Political Agent
Critical or Discursive Design as we know it and as we might imagine it. We especially encourage submissions that scrutinize the tensions, and possible bridging, between approaches that nurture a more critical versus a more constructive discourse.
Design and Sustainable Businesses
Business- and management-driven design as we know it and as we might imagine it. We especially invite submissions that address the tensions, and possible bridging, between designing for (and running a business in) a growth versus a non- or post-growth economy.
Design and Sustainable Technologies
Technology-driven design as we know it and as we might imagine it. We especially invite submissions that address the tensions, and possible bridging, between designing for a specified technology versus facilitating the design of plausible technologies for a specified goal.
Design and its Educations
Sustainability in design educations as we know it and as we might imagine it. How can design education support students to become critical and creative in the light of the challenges that un/sustainability poses? We invite submissions that engage in visionary pedagogical approaches at all levels and especially those exploring the tension between ego- versus eco-awareness and the possibilities of bridging perspectives from both the 'Global North' and 'South'.
Design and its Wild Cards
What kind of hidden cards does design carry up its sleeve? This track is for all the papers that do not fit easily into the other themes. So don't worry; we have a place for you that is more comfortable than rejection even if it might be not a perfect fit. While having very open criteria, we especially invite submissions that tackle failures, tensions and complexities with a critical and provocative but also a constructive view. To conclude, this additional track is for papers that are uncomfortable but worthy.In order to develop the theme of Design Ecologies we invite a variety of disciplines to make contributions: full papers, exploratory papers, workshops, exhibitions and a doctoral consortium. Whilst being primarily underpinned by a core of established design and design research, NORDES also welcomes all new design voices – including perspectives ranging from the humanities to physics, from ethnography to art, from engineering to marketing. Papers may cover experimental and exploratory research approaches to design and the production of knowledge. Papers may also be based on historical, biological, geographical or philosophical studies that make qualified contributions to the field in terms of insights, concepts and ideas. Submissions are subject to an anonymous peer review process. Accepted contributions will be published electronically on the conference website prior to the conference and in the conference proceedings.
All submissions should be in English. All submissions are subject to a double-blind peer review by at least two reviewers. Accepted contributions should be revised according to the review reports and the language should be checked by a native English speaker.
Invited submissions
Full papers
Full papers must be of the highest international standard and contribute significantly to research and practice within design. Nordes 2015 aims to be a multidisciplinary forum for emerging and current research areas that influence the various design disciplines. Full papers should be a maximum of ten pages including illustrations, figures and references. Papers will undergo double-blind peer reviews and accepted papers will be presented in the conference programme and published in the conference proceedings. The proceedings will be available as an open-access online database during and after the conference.
Exploratory papers
We invite the submission of exploratory papers that include design cases, position papers, work in progress, and emerging new research areas that may as yet lack solid theoretical foundations but point towards exciting new directions for design research. Exploratory papers should be a maximum of four pages including illustrations and references. Exploratory papers will undergo double-blind peer reviews and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The proceedings will be made available as an open-access online database during and after the conference.
Workshops will enjoy a central position at Nordes 2015. The ambition is to create common experiences and to provide a variety of platforms for exchanging new ideas. A workshop proposal should be a maximum of two pages and state its purpose, a tentative programme for the day (or half a day), how attendees are accepted for participating in the workshop (e.g. through artefacts or position papers or just by signing up), and the requirements for the physical setting and materials.
Through the Nordes 2015 exhibition we wish to explore ways in which the display of works of art, craft and design can become a prominent venue for exchanging ideas and understanding. Artists, designers and researchers will be able to present their work to the conference attendees in dedicated exhibition sessions. We invite submissions of artefacts, installations and performances documented via pictures, videos or links to websites. A two-page paper explaining how the exhibition artefact relates to the conference's overall theme of experimentation should accompany each submission. Papers and visual documentation will be included in the conference proceedings and made available through an open-access online database during and after the conference.
Doctoral consortium
The doctoral consortium is an opportunity for doctoral students to receive feedback on their projects from some of the prominent researchers and fellow doctoral students within the field of design research. It is also an excellent chance to get to know others in the same situation or to meet again after last year's NORDES summer school. The doctoral consortium will take place immediately before the formal opening of the conference. Participants will be chosen based on the quality of their submissions. Submissions should be a maximum of four pages and can be published in the proceedings if the doctoral student wishes it. The proceedings will be made available as an open-access online database during and after the conference.
Important dates
7 – 10 June, 2015: Conference (Sunday – Wednesday)
1 December, 2014: Submission system opens
7 January, 2015: Submission deadline
20 March, 2015: Author notification
20 April, 2015: Submission of final versions
We hope many of you will consider the NORDES conference
as a venue for your work and research.
Mathilda Tham (Linnaeus University, Goldsmiths)
Håkan Edeholt (Oslo School of Architecture and Design)
Martin Ávila (Konstfack),
and Bo Westerlund (Konstfack)
The image is from Fashion North, a colloquium at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo
in October 2013. I think the amazing sandwiches were by Food Studio in Oslo. If I'm incorrect, please correct me!
Mariposa by George Plionis
Tomorrow evening Mariposa, an exhibition of jewellery by George Plionis, opens at Fitzgerald Jewelry in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. If you're around, please come along! I am biased in that George is my husband; nonetheless, the work is exquisite. The exhibition is open until August 29th so please check it out if in NYC over the summer. Above is our collaboration, a cardigan I based on the ones I made for the Fashion Art Biennale in Seoul two years ago. The hook and eye is a twig with resting butterflies in sterling silver; I already sense a new whimsy in my own work moving forward, due to this project.
Mariposa has collaboration at its heart. Mariano Garcia and Ellen Schiavone Pande-Rolfsen of iloveshoot have been essential to the process, by seeing and presenting the work in contexts that might not have been obvious to George. Similarly, Zoë Sadokierski has brought yet another dimension to the body of work through her work on the catalogue; these arrived a few days ago and they are beautiful. Andrew Cornell Robinson's ceramics are integral to what is perhaps my favourite piece in the exhibition.
Where: Fitzgerald Jewelry, 174 North 11th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211.
When: opening reception: Friday June 20th, 6-9pm.
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Textile Toolbox
For the past 18 months I've been a contributing writer to Textile Toolbox. My third and final post is now up, on fashion design, time and waste. Textile Toolbox is TED's web platform project with MISTRA in Sweden, aimed at creating systemic change within the fashion industry through 'interconnected design thinking and processes for sustainable textiles and fashion'. Textile Toolbox brings together an amazing array of researchers across a range of topics relating to fashion and textile sustainability.
In the project I was invited to engage in conversations about fashion and waste with Alabama Chanin and more recently also with Restructional Clothing. My first post discussed fabric waste, and the second focused on the systems within which wastes are created. The last post brings time into the conversation. My thanks to everyone at TED, Alabama Chanin and Restructional Clothing for the conversations!
Craft of Use event
The Craft of Use event, concluding the latest phase of the Local Wisdom project, in which Parsons participated under my lead, took place at the Center for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, in March. Kate Fletcher and Katelyn Toth-Fejel have done a tremendous job in creating a record of the day, available here. The day left me with an unwavering sense that change is already here, though I don't expect to run out of work before I reach retirement age. To quote Lynda Grose, we must continue to lock arms.
Monokini 2.0 at the Finnish Museum of Photography
UPDATE: The Monokini 2.0 Kickstarter campaign is now live!
Last October was insane for me. As the month began I was in Sydney for my graduation and to kick-start a book project. In the middle of it I was in New Orleans working with the Sustainable Apparel Coalition on the Higg Index within fashion education. October finished for me in Oslo, as I was one of the speakers at Design Colloquium: Fashion North at the Oslo National Academy Of The Arts. At the same time Boutique opened in Washington D.C. – thank you Salla Salin for covering me – and my small part in Monokini 2.0 happened at lightning speed somewhere in the middle. I'd like to thank all of my fall 2013 students for your generosity and patience with me.
Monokini 2.0 is a social art project that re-examines popular culture's narrow view of a woman's ideal appearance. It is a project by Vilma Metteri and Katriina Haikala, the art duo known as Tärähtäneet ämmät / Nutty Tarts. In the project they strive to expand what is accepted and considered beautiful by designing a swimwear collection for women who have gone through breast cancer. Swimwear is conventionally designed for women who haven't suffered a mastectomy. The fact is that many women who have had one breast removed due to breast cancer don't wish to have breast reconstruction surgery. Instead, they wish to continue their lives with one or no breasts at all. The original idea is by Elina Halttunen, PhD, the woman with one tit.
The Nutty Tarts invited a group of Finnish fashion designers to design a swimsuit each. Each suit was designed for a volunteer model, found through social media. This is where it got exciting for me. My amazing model, Camilla, came forward about two weeks before the scheduled photo shoot in Finland. Because of my October schedule, I had days, and in practical terms, hours, to bring the swimsuit into existence. For Katriina and Vilma, extraordinary women with an inspiring commitment, I did exactly that, with no complaint. Camilla told me she loved tulips, so that's what I went with, echoing the appliqués I used to make for Usvsu over a decade ago. I finished the suit at about 5.30am one morning in a hotel room in New Orleans, and I was at the Fedex office at 7am when it opened. The Tarts got the suit about an hour before the shoot. No sweat.
Monokini 2.0 is currently being exhibited at the Finnish Museum of Photography, until September 7, 2014. If you're in Helsinki, please go and see it! Watch out the project site or Facebook page for the May 30 crowdfunding announcement, too! I thank Katriina and Vilma for inviting me to be a part of this, and I thank Camilla for trusting someone she'd never met (and we still haven't) in all of this – you look amazing! Photography is by Pinja Valja, and the rest of the amazing team is here.
2014 Vaughan Lecture at ROM
In September I have the honour of collaborating with Dr Alexandra Palmer, on the 2014 Vaughan Lecture at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, titled Metamorphosis – Transformations of Fashion. Dr Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Senior Curator and Chair of the Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship in Textiles & Costume at the ROM, and a Co-curator of BIG, the latest exhibit in the Patricia Harris Gallery of Textiles & Costume. She is cross appointed and teaches in Fine Art History at the University of Toronto, and the Graduate Programme in Art History at York University, and the School of Graduate Studies at Ryerson University.
ROM, of course, was the 'home' of Dorothy K. Burnham, author of Cut My Cote, which has had an immense impact on my own work. Dr Palmer has influenced me, on the other hand, through her work on haute couture in Canada, and in particular the conventionally 'invisible' practices of mending and altering garments that careful study of museum garments reveal. It is therefore very exciting for me to be visiting ROM for this lecture. If you're in Toronto in September, please come along!
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These are the 10 best Italian restaurants in New York City, based on Zagat's 2012 restaurant survey, and they are all over the city.
Restaurants on the list are ranked based on a combination of food, decór, and service.
Il Mulino was the big loser this time around, sliding from #2 to #6. But last year's winner retained the top spot.
Zagat ranks restaurants on a 30-point scale based on food, decór, and service. Ratings of 26 to 30 are considered "extraordinary to perfection," according to the company.


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Alleged Drug Dealer Shot in Pot Buy Gone Bad
Uniondale (WALK) - A crime in Nassau County late Sunday night is a reminder that drug dealing isn't a very safe way to make a living.
Detectives in Nassau say that a man who'd arranged to meet someone to sell them marijuana was shot and wounded during a botched robbery. The 31-year-old victim and his 24-year-old girlfriend were waiting in his car on Jaffa Avenue in Uniondale, where he'd gone to meet a customer, when two men jumped in the back seat and demanded "everything you got." The victim was then shot in the back.
The victim, whose name has not been released by police, was taken to a hospital for treatment. The gunmen got away without anything. The woman was not hurt.
The suspects were described only as wearing gray hoodies. They were last seen running south on Matteline Street.
Detectives ask that anyone with information about this robbery attempt call Nassau Crime Stoppers at (800) 244-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
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Players have begun to arrive in Indianapolis for the 2013 NFL Scouting Combine, with workouts scheduled to begin this weekend. Unfortunately for fans that will be watching and NFL personnel members that are looking to evaluate the top talent in the upcoming draft class, one of the top wide receivers, Cal's Keenan Allen, will not be participating in workouts.
Allen is still recovering from a torn posterior crucial ligament (PCL) and will not be able to show his skills at the combine.
The Golden Bears wide receiver's agent, J.T. Johnson, told ESPN's Adam Schefter that Allen is still only seventy percent healthy, so the best decision will be to wait until April to run his 40-yard dash.
Allen aggravated his knee injury during workouts leading up to the combine and that is the reason for his decision to sit out the combine.
He will, however, run routes at Cal's Pro Day on March 14.
Allen is viewed as the second-ranked wide receiver prospect behind Tennessee Volunteers receiver Cordarrelle Patterson.
Hopefully Allen will be able to fully recover from the injury before the draft and show scouts that he is the kind of player many believe him to be.
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