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By Ecologique Fashion
San Francisco's Favorite Sustainable Marketplace Returns on August 17th in a New Location
By Ecologique Fashion
Urban Air Market, the largest outdoor sustainable shopping event, brings makers, music and art to Portland's Zidell Yards on August 2nd and 3rd
By Savory Institute
2014 International Conference in London, UK on August 1st & 2nd at the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel and Conference Centre
By Audubon International
The private community of Hammock Dunes has become the sixth community in Florida to join Audubon International's Sustainable Communities Program.
By Sustainable Brands
New research and partnerships to launch exclusively at SB'14 San Diego, June 2nd-5th
By Beaverdam Fresh Farms
Demand for pasture raised livestock is high in Mississippi, but regulations for small farms are tough.
By Sustainable Brands
Activation Hub at SB'14 San Diego to include interactive conversations with HP, Coca-Cola, Nissan, SAP, BASF, Target and more
By Vital Systems, Inc.
GoodFoodWeb.com is a new platform to help food and farming entrepreneurs build a better food system
By S2 Entertainment (S2e)
Sustainable Action Network (SAN) Announces the Launch of Newly Revamped Innovative, Comprehensive Website
By Intersan Manufacturing
A 21st century lavatory solution that defines sustainability.
By CompostNow
Did you know that 40% of food waste in the U.S. is thrown away? CompostNow, a community composting service based in Raleigh, NC, is leading efforts with community partners to not let food go to waste.
By Sustainable Brands
CEOs of Campbell Soup, Plum Organics, Avery Dennison, Desso, gDiapers, Mission Measurement among others confirmed for SB'14 San Diego in June
By Sustainable Brands
Ten environmental and social-impact entrepreneurs will compete for top honors at global startup competition
By Sustainable Brands
World-class forum at New Metrics'14 will examine performance metrics
By Dunphy PR
Local Government representatives and energy experts from throughout Ireland and Europe gathered in Limerick County Hall this week to participate in a sustainable energy seminar.
By McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
New laboratory will accommodate and attract preeminent faculty dedicated to advancing biomedical research and educating future generations of scientists and physicians
By Sustainable Brands
Activation Hub at SB'14 San Diego to offer brand innovation tools and collaboration opportunities
By Seedles
Chris Burley has chosen to fight back after a massive bee die-off at the Hayes Valley Farm in San Francisco. The Grow the Rainbow project aims to plant one million wild flowers nationwide using safe and effective seed balls.
By Sentry Electric
Sentry Electric, one of North America's most experienced manufacturers of outdoor luminaires, announced that Architectural SSL Magazine has selected the company's SRL-LED Roadway Luminaire as a recipient of a 2014 Product Innovation Award.
By NEWH-The Hospitality Industry Network
The NEWH Sustainable Hospitality Committee brings back the popular Green Voice Conversations for a third year, to be held during the May 2014 HDExpo in Las Vegas, featuring a combination of panel discussions and 1-on-1 interviews.
By Campus Bike
This is a unique program that offers 24/7 automated bike sharing, creating healthier and more environmentally friendly college campuses.
By Aruba Tourism Authority
Carnival revellers in the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba will be playing their part in helping the environment and powering their own hotel.
By Sustainable Brands
Avery Dennison, LEGO, and Levi Strauss & Co. among confirmed speakers for SB'14 San Diego in June
By Modish Living
The launch of the new Gothenburg dining range, where British history meets Scandinavian style!
By Alice & Ted
The brand Alice & Ted is looking for families with children ages 2-8 who want to help test new products. Visit our website http://www.aliceted.com and register your interest. We need your help to develop new durable styles for our collection.
By Naturewalk, Turrubares, Costa Rica
The Naturewalk Furniture Center, located in the Pavona Craft Village has been expanded to allow additional furniture manufacture in response to a number of recent large orders.
By Encasement Ltd
It has been 15 years since the Kyoto Protocol set the framework to tackle climate change and global warming by the reducing the levels of harmful 'greenhouse gases' such as carbon dioxide and methane, produced by the world's major industrialised...
By SolaVis
Data analysis of past tends show global expenditure for energy rose sharply due to rising cost of extracting fossil resources. Under a renewable high investment scenario, global energy expenditure will be halved by 2030 compared to a fossil scenario.
By PRDA
Tasmania, the island state of Australia, lies 40 degrees south of the equator south-east of mainland Australia in the temperate zone of the southern hemisphere.
By Be Naturally Fabulous
Be Naturally Fabulous arrives bimonthly and is an affordable way to experience natural, eco-friendly and sustainable products effortlessly. BeNaturallyFabulous.com seeks to become the designation for all things natural.
By Native Learning Center
The Native Learning Center (NLC), a Seminole Tribe of Florida program dedicated to the development of cultural and quality of life skills for all Native and Indigenous people, is pleased to present its Training for Building Sustainable Communities in...
By Boral TruExterior Trim
Justin McErlain has been named Territory Sales Manager for the Boral TruExterior® Trim product line in Central Virginia.
By Maya Culpa, LLC
Backers vote to determine locations of organic food production centers
By 3waybeauty
3WayBeauty's Newest Product Line Combines Home Fragrance, Sustainability and Body Care
By Carbon Care Asia
According to the latest report by the Hong Kong Observatory, there is a high risk that the average temperature in Hong Kong can be sharply increased by 6 degree Celsius in the period of 2091 to 2100, compared with the period of 1986 to 2005.
By The Smart Light Co.
LED Smart Lighting for Home and Office Use With 40% Energy Savings
By Formablok Enterprises
Onsite cement recovery is a practice that will be used more in the future as companies strive to be more sustainable.
By Klas Kristiansson, founder
Our kids love to run, slide, roll around, and play without limitations. To go sliding on a flat rock or roll down a grassy slope are fun games. The problem is that they tear apart all their clothes too short quickly.
By The Smart Light Co.
Hassle-free project financing and rebates for residential and commercial applications
By Black River Caviar
Black River Caviar Master Educates & Entertains Caviar Connoisseurs
By Costa Rica Invest
Naturewalk farming company begins to harvest the tiqusque planted in Permalife Farms, Naturewalk, Costa Rica.
By Ecoprint
Bobby Firestein, owner of Sveconway Printing, today announced the merger of his firm with another local printer, Ecoprint, which had been owned and operated for more than 35 years by Roger Telschow.
By Sustainable Brands
Sustainable Brands® is set to begin its pan-European conference to be held at the Lancaster London, November 18-19th.
By NewAge Industries Inc.
Plastic tubing manufacturer NewAge Industries has released its first sustainability report. It highlights the company's ideas and actions that have helped it save energy, reduce waste and become a better community member.
By Andrew Watson Design
Choosing Andrew Watson Design to design and manufacture the trophies for the 2013 BCIT Alumni Awards, made sure the trophies presented were modern, unique and sustainably sourced.
By Friend of the Sea
Golden Omega SA, a Chilean producer of Omega 3 concentrates, has obtained Friend of the Sea sustainable seafood certification for its products originating from anchovies' fish oil.
By Seedstock
Southern California sustainable agriculture conference unites innovators and inventors whose vision will provide the answers and approaches necessary to sustainably feed a growing world population
By Katch Kan Holdings Ltd
EDMONTON, Alberta - Katch Kan Holdings Ltd. today announces the signing of a new distributor agreement with Mas-Pro Oilfield Supply for the Canadian market.
By Naturewalk, Turrubares, Costa Rica
Naturewalk Brands announces their intention to include Papas Chino also known as Yampee in Permalife Farms, Naturewalk 3. Planted and managed on a sustainable basis, this crop will provide excellent returns for Naturewalk owners.
By Friend of the Sea
Dardanel Önentaş Gıda San. A.Ş., the major canned and seafood producer in Turkey, has obtained Friend of the Sea certification for its entire tuna and clams product line.
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"New Zealand should be commended for its hard work in some of the most vulnerable and disaster-prone parts of the world, particularly in its own Pacific region," said DAC Chair Erik Solheim. "But its ODA to GNI ratio has not exceeded 0.3% in recent years, which does not compare well with countries of a similar size. I encourage New Zealand to do more of what it already does well."Read more
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White New Year's Eve Theme PartyEveryone dreams of a white Christmas, but snow on New Year's Eve is just as beautiful. Take your cues from the snowy landscape and have a White New Year's Eve theme party this year. Using a color as a party theme makes planning easy. Decorations and party supplies in white (with touches of silver and light blue) will make a breathtaking backdrop for your New Year's Party.
New Year's Party Invitations
Sending a unique invitation is important because many of your guests will be receiving multiple invitations to New Year's parties, so you need to convey that yours is the party that can't be missed! We love these personalized ticket invitations (go with the gray or blue). You can even opt for magnet backers or even a pouch and lanyard!
Party411.com has personalized Winter Wonderland invitations that you can customize with your New Year's party info. To make it extra special you can include a little iridescent snow in the envelope for some winter sparkle.
Add a line on your invite that says "White attire is encouraged", and your guests will arrive perfectly coordinated to the decorations. It will be fabulous!
New Year's Decorations and Party Supplies
Welcome your guests by lining your driveway or sidewalk with candles in the snow to create an elegant glowing path. You can use milk jugs with the top half cut off, weighted with sand. Decorate the outside of the house or venue with white twinkling lights and a personalized snowflake banner.
As everyone walks inside give them a hat or tiara. Everyone will look fabulous, so get them to stop in front of a photo op for a quick picture. You can try try this Sterling New Years Party Kit or one of these other themed wearables:
- Create balloon bouquets from white, silver and light blue balloons. Throw in a few snowflake balloons in each bunch for variety. These can go around the room, near doorways, or on tables.
- Linking snowflake balloons make creating balloon arches a snap. Do one over your buffet or entrance.
- White votive candles are your best friend. Buy them in bulk and use them to decorate the side tables, mantle, windowsills and buffet.
- Make is seem like it is snowing inside. Paper snowflakes suspended from fishing line that is attached to the ceiling will do the trick. Or go with silver swirls and a few snowflake ceiling decorations.
- Fill a few vases with large bunches of babies breath. It's economical and looks like little snowflakes.
- Continue the white twinkling lights inside as well. Take all of the decorations off your Christmas tree and cover it in white lights and tinsel. Bonus points if you set up a white tree! I've also seen white lights heaped along the back of a buffet table as backlighting, and it looked wonderful!
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- Cover the tables with white linens and sprinkle the tops of the table with iridescent snow.
- If your having a sit down dinner, break out the white china. Snowflake paper goods are perfect for a buffet or more casual affair.
- Instead of having centerpieces, hang white lanterns or glowing blue starlight spheres from the ceiling above the table or buffet. It's different, easy and dramatic!
- LED votive candles would glow around a white flower centerpiece or balloon bouquet. Plus, they're reusable!
- Can you afford to splurge? Get an ice sculpture for the buffet or bar. Wow!
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- Fettuccine Alfredo
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- Champagne - This is a must! If you can't afford to serve it all night save it for a toast right before the clock strikes twelve!
- Signature Cocktail - A few good ones come to mind; White Russian, Eggnog Martini, White Cosmopolitan, Mojitos, and White Sangria. Pick your favorite and serve with fun glow accessories, like white LED ice cubes and glow straws.
- Non-Alcoholic - Make sure you have a variety for those choosing not to imbibe. Go with clear sodas, carbonated grape juice and some nice bottled water with a personalized winter theme label. You can also do virgin versions of your cocktails!
- Something Warm - Nothing is better than a hot drink on a winter night. White hot chocolate, white green tea, and warm eggnog will hit the spot.
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As the New Year approaches, pass out champagne for toasting and silver horns for celebrating. Try one or more of these ideas to surprise your guests, too:
- If you have a large enough space, why don't you do a balloon drop at midnight? Add some white pearl balloons of course!
- Open up a dance floor for guests to boogie down! Make sure to play some classic New Year's tunes like What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? by The Orioles, After New Year's Eve by The Heartbeats, and Auld Lang Syne by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians.
- If you have kids attending your event, have them decorate their own snowflake cookies. Provide white frosting and bunches of toppings, like blue sprinkles and white and blue M&Ms.
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- A few fortune cookies are an inexpensive and fun favor that guests will love.
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Frankie Edgar > Rocky Balboa (Only one is as real as it gets)
UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar has often been referred to by fans as MMA's Rocky Balboa; his bosses feel that same way.
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2/25/12 4:16 PM by Lehman
2/25/12 2:51 PM by Mitey Mouze
2/25/12 2:44 PM by fightcity
The other video was good except for the rap crap in the middle totally ruins that section
2/25/12 2:12 PM by DamnSevern
lol at these viral promos being made by "a fan"
2/25/12 2:11 PM by dudefromisrael
Thanks Whistler
2/25/12 2:06 PM by Chisel Chest
Freakin awesome. MMA SuperStars are on the rise. Reminds me of the good O'l boxing days. How could you not get hyped for this fight just from that video.
2/25/12 12:21 PM by Tweener
Last time Dana twitted a trailer for a UFC fight made by a fan, Zuffa also had it removed after the event.The Dragon vs Shogun 2 fan made one that was pretty good is the one I speak of. He used it and then when the fight was over Zuffa had it removed from youtube on copyright grounds.
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Put the Supremes on Your iPod
Our friends at OYEZ.org have now made it ridiculously easy to download MP3s of classic U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments for free under a Creative Commons license.
Here's a list of the first wave of Supreme Court recordings that OYEZ has embedded with license information.
Download (warning: big) a few here if you like, then browse OYEZ for a few dozen more:
(1) Roe v. Wade;
(2) the Pentagon Papers case;
(3) Miranda v. Arizona;
(4) the Sam Sheppard (a.k.a., "the Fugitive") murder appeal;
(5) the justly titled Loving v. Virginia (in which the Court overturned a Virginia law banning inter-racial marriage).
OYEZ also has the audio from the recent affirmative action cases Gratz and Grutter.
Not jogging music, exactly — but many of them do get the blood going. Hats off to OYEZ for this ongoing public service.Comments Off on Put the Supremes on Your iPod
Digital Mix: A Special Bay Area Event Celebrating Illegal Art
On July 25th the Electronic Frontier Foundation will host a night of music, art, and conversation to celebrate digital culture. Hosted at the Black Box in downtown Oakland, this all-ages event will bring up-and-coming artists of electronica, digital film, and illegal art together with leaders from the cyber-rights movement. Among the event's speakers, Creative Commons' Glenn Otis Brown will be there to discuss the new sampling license. For more information, please proceed here.Comments Off on Digital Mix: A Special Bay Area Event Celebrating Illegal Art
BitPass + Creative Commons
Musicians Joshua Ellis and Big Friendly Corporation have implemented a new technology called BitPass to sell their Creative Commons-licensed content via micropayment.
Joshua has offered his songs under an Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license. If you buy a song for 50 cents, or the entire album for $3.50, you're then free to copy, distribute, and make derivative works — as long as you give Joshua attribution, don't make commercial uses, and release all derivative works under an Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license. Joshua says he's sold over $100 of content within a few days.
Anyone interested in mixing these songs, or putting them into your student film?Comments Off on BitPass + Creative Commons
Commons on the Hustings, II
Our licenses make another appearance on the campaign trail. Check out AmericansForDean.Comments Off on Commons on the Hustings, II
An Opsound Exchange
You've got to hear this. This week's featured content is exactly the sort of innovative co-authorship that Creative Commons, and good folks like Opsound, make possible.
Colin Mutchler explains:
About a month after submitting a few acoustic guitar tracks to
Opsound's sound pool [and thus releasing the song under an Attribution-ShareAlike license], I got an email from a violinist named Cora Beth, who had added a violin track to one of the guitar tracks, "My Life." She called it "My Life Changed," and I think the track is definitely more beautiful now. Maybe eventually we'll add drums and words.
This is collaboration across space and time, as our Flash movie puts it — with no rights-clearing needed. Great stuff. We'd love to hear more of this sort of thing, so tell us if you have a similar story.4 Comments »
The Phoenix Trap
This week's featured content is Philadelphia-area rock band The Phoenix Trap. All their songs at MP3.com are available under a Creative Commons license (which also has streaming versions). Fans can purchase a CD of their full set of songs as well. "Not Me" and "You're on Fire" were definitely my favorites.1 Comment »
Metadata embedding and verfication plan for MP3 & other formats
A big part of the OYEZ Supreme Court audio announcement today is our new strategy for helping people associate license information with MP3s. (We'll soon move on to other file formats.)
Right now we're just showing people how to associate verifiable license links with files. But we want to encourage the developer community and various file-sharing and media player companies to build tools that take advantage of the embedded links to make our licenses useful in the P2P and other non-web contexts.
More info:
(1) Metadata embedding in MP3s and other files
(2) The advantage of the verification link
(3) Verification link: also a traffic engine
(4) Geek-readable version of embedding strategy
Please give us your feedback below, or on the metadata discussion list.6 Comments »
Supreme Court Audio Classics Enter P2P Zone Thanks to Creative Commons Licenses
Today, the OYEZ Project announced the first-stage, 100-hour release of MP3s from their 2000+ hours of Supreme Court recordings using Creative Commons' licenses.
The release also marks the debut of our new metadata tagging and verification strategy, which explains how to attach and verify license information to MP3s (and soon, other files) for distribution on the Net.
Read the Featured Commoner interview of OYEZ director and founder Jerry Goldman, by Creative Commons' Laura Lynch.
Check out some Supreme Court audio, such as the recent Affirmative Action case.
Read the press release.Comments Off on Supreme Court Audio Classics Enter P2P Zone Thanks to Creative Commons Licenses
Adelante con Swartz
Creative Commons has signed on in support of Aaron Swartz's call for "forward motion" on blog protocols. We will be participating in helping define licensing extensions to the new specification.
(I've worked with Aaron, our metadata advisor, for over a year now, and this isn't the first time I've followed his lead. You should try it if you haven't.)Comments Off on Adelante con Swartz
Help! I'm in a nutshell!
In a newly posted interview on the Apple site, "O'Reilly in a Nutshell," Tim O'Reilly discusses how his publishing company came to be, how it follows open source trends, and how it publishes many titles under a Creative Commons Founders' Copyright license.
We should note that the Founders' Copyright isn't just for big publishing houses. Anyone can apply for a license to release their works after 14 (or 28) years.Comments Off on Help! I'm in a nutshell!


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Some photos from my trip to The Met on my birthday this February. I enjoy going at least once a year - I feel it refreshes my mind and helps inspire me to be more productive.
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Some photos from my trip to The Met on my birthday this February. I enjoy going at least once a year - I feel it refreshes my mind and helps inspire me to be more productive.
Currently Reading // Library Picks - 2.10.15
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|Thomas Hardy, Sappho, Woman & Demon
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Neuromancer - William Gibson (Review)
Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.
Rating: 3.5 / 5
Review: Never in my life have I been this simultaneously impressed AND bored while reading a book! I had a lot of mixed feelings about Neuromancer which leveled me out at about a 3.5; because of the sheer immensity behind the concept, and no sexism to boot, I'm letting it fall just a bit over the halfway mark into the positive. This book is most well-known for its very in-depth, visual descriptions of a "cyberspace" that was conceived before the internet. Some even go so far as suggesting that this book potentially put the "concept" of the internet into the public consciousness which eventually led to its creation. Just from reading it (and doing very little further research) I wouldn't go quite that far - but there is an obvious correlation. I will always have a very strong sense of identity wrapped up in the internet. As a 90's baby my childhood development occurred simultaneously with the growth of the internet. I've spent a lot of time wondering how it must have felt to grow up without an innate understanding of this huge shift in the way the world works which is what made Neuromancer sound so interesting to me.
When I say I was bored, that's not to say that the book did not deliver on the aforementioned subject. To the contrary - Gibson's bizarre descriptions of the physical cyberspace his characters inhabit were interesting, to say the least. Despite being written before our current conception of the internet - Gibson's universe seems to have made a logical jump in such a way that it still could be a variation on our own future. Everything made sense in a way that ties in very well with the current state of technology.
The story follows a "cyber cowboy", Henry Case, a hacker who was recently laid off and has damaged his central nervous system making it impossible for him to re-enter the "matrix". He is contacted by another company and offered the option to have this damage fixed and paid for given that he agrees to work with them on a project. Henry eagerly agrees, wanting nothing more than to return to his fast-paced lifestyle within cyberspace. The story continues to follow Case as he works with his mysterious benefactors, along with his partner Molly Millions. I was grateful to Gibson for allowing Molly to unapologetically take on the physical, "kick-ass" role while Henry primarily remained safe at his virtual station. Too many stories (lets even think modern day television: Arrow, The Flash) feature the amazing male hero out in the field and the nerdy, brilliant female counterpart relaying information from a desk. To see someone immediately flip that dynamic before it became such a cliché was a wholly pleasant experience. No complaints a la Stranger in a Strange Land - I realize one was written in the 60's and one in the 80's but there's a stark difference in it's treatment of women only 20 years later.
Despite these many positives, I'd be lying if I said this wasn't a difficult one for me to dredge through. While I can admire much of what Gibson created, I found the story difficult to understand. In retrospect, I can follow the plot, but paragraph to paragraph I would get lost and have to re-read things before I could even figure out the location of a scene. Naturally the metaphysical aspect of the story doesn't make this any easier, but I think I've read enough sci-fi and magic realism to say that I'm pretty good at following that sort of thing. The characters personalities themselves were non-existent which was the stories biggest downfall for me. If you asked me what the defining aspects of Henry, Molly or any of the other characters were I wouldn't be able to give you any. The personalities held no distinction and I felt no emotion towards them. Nothing really stuck out at me as far as "the human experience" is concerned, and the more impressive technical aspects of the story were too complicated to really have fun with. Was there a moral? I'm not sure, but if there was I certainly didn't leave understanding it.
Final Thoughts: I probably wouldn't recommend this to most readers. If you love science fiction and cyber-punk is something you're into, it's worth a go. I know that's not the case for the average person, and while I stand by my 3.5 for what it did bring me, I would imagine a lot of people getting just as bored as I was.
I know this is a favorite for some people so I'd love to hear what you took from it in the comments!
The Wicked + The Divine - Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson (Review)
Rating: 4 / 5
Review: Welp, Image Comics has come through again and added a second MUST-READ series to my collection. I tore through the current issues this week and am now sulking while I wait for the next issue, along with Saga. I wasn't sure going in - the synopsis was so grandiose that it seemed like it might be easy to miss the mark. But Gillen and McKelvie manage to gracefully give the story a sense of playfulness despite the darker themes.
The idea of celebrity and the power that naturally comes from it is fascinating and well explored by making the Gods in this universe literal 'Pop Stars'. In this way they are able to receive the public adoration that seems to be one of their main driving forces. The idea of entertainment & the media being revered as a modern form of religion pops up a decent amount in contemporary fiction. It reminded me in a very indirect way of Neil Gaiman's book American Gods which personifies these forces. I know it's a popular book, but I wasn't a huge fan. I found TW+TD explored these themes in a manner that was more engaging and not nearly as heavy handed.
There are a decent amount of PoC in the cast (including our lead!) as well as a trans character which was really exciting. The story itself isn't as tight as Saga (sorry, it's just my benchmark for A++ quality right now) and the world-building isn't as immersive but it's plenty interesting. To be fair - there's a LOT less material out right now (only 5 issues) and it has a great foundation to build the story off of. Occasionally the characterization was a little flat - I did like Lucifer but some of her dialogue was a little cliché. I enjoyed the book so much I almost feel guilty writing that, but it definitely crossed my mind a few times haha. And there was one scene in particular at the Morrigan's show in the subway that went on for a few pages and I had no idea what was going on. Maybe it was just me, but something about the panels/dialogue confused the heck out of me. Art is a bit more of the same - it doesn't touch Fiona Staples (I don't think anyone does??) but I thought it was clean and engaging once I started getting into the story.
Final Thoughts: Hiiighly recommend! If you see this, pick it up and give it a try - it's universally likable. I would suggest reading at least the first 3 issues before making a judgment on it. I will be happily continuing on with this series!
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This July 23, I ask fellow residents to join me in voting to renew Berlins longstanding support for Central Vermont Adult Basic Educations free education instruction for our neighbors. For many years, Berlin town residents have consistently committed $1,200 in town meeting appropriations to support the free adult basic education and literacy services provided to Berlin community members by Central Vermont Adult Basic Education.
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Estero Rotary to host Third Annual BBQ & Family Fun Fest
ESTERO - Southwest Floridians will get their chance to "pig out" and party this Saturday at the Third Annual BBQ & Family FunFest.
This signature event of the Rotary Club of Estero Foundation offers an array of barbecue and other food vendors, as well as a full lineup of onstage entertainment. Children will enjoy playing in the Kids Zone, while car enthusiasts will be able to admire autos from two car clubs: Corvettes of Naples and Gulf Shore Mustang Club.
"We'll have both American iconic brands," said event Chair Joe Faerber.
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"We have a nice variety of vendors, and we have some great entertainment," Faerber said.
In the Kid Zone, Xtreme Air Sports will provide an array of children's activities from noon to 5 p.m., including inflatables, water balls, rock climbing and bungee jumping. Roving magician Keith Raygor will amuse and mystify as he strolls through the crowds waiting in line for barbecue or enjoying the live music.
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Nashville recording artist, songwriter and guitarist Tim McGreary takes the stage at 5 p.m., with his popular "Americana" style of country music. The Tim McGreary Band returns to the BBQ Fest this year, having headlined the inaugural event in 2011.
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Beverly MacNellis, a retired art teacher of 25 years, has organized the Festival of the Arts since 2009, with support from the Estero Community Improvement Foundation. As a member of the Rotary Club, MacNellis proposed conjoining the student art show with the BBQ festivities, drawing larger crowds to both events.
Winners from the Estero Festival of the Arts will be announced onstage at 4:30 p.m., with cash prizes for the top three entries from each school, made possible through a sponsorship from Extra Space Storage. Awards also will be given to the most creative birdhouses decorated by fifth grade students from each elementary school.
MacNellis provided the birdhouses to local art teachers, encouraging students to use paint, paper shreds, organic materials or anything else they can dream of to make their birdhouses unique.
"So much of our youth feels, in order to be accepted and rewarded, they have to look like the others, dress like them, talk like them and copy them -- not so!" MacNellis said. "The arts in the public schools don't get enough credit for teaching our children to think on their own and to become problem solvers."
The day's festivities also will include another Rotary event, the Day of Smiles, organized by Katy Errington. The Day of Smiles will take place in the morning, just as the BBQ Fest kicks off. A group of junior Rotarians -- the "RotaKids" from Three Oaks Elementary -- will hear from a dentist and other health professionals to learn about proper toothbrushing and hand washing. Then, they'll put on hair nets and gloves to package pinto beans and rice for Interfaith Charities of South Lee.
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True to the Rotary Club's mission, proceeds from the BBQ and Family FunFest will benefit local children's charities. Instead of designating three specific charities as the Rotary Club has done in the past, this year's proceeds will be used to support a variety of charitable organizations throughout the year, Faerber said.
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Heurisis. Category:Communication. 2009 Pathologies sociales de la communication. Category:Media theorists. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. McLuhan pointed to the light bulb as an example.
A light bulb does not have content in the way that a newspaper has articles or a television has programs, yet it is a medium that has a social effect; that is, a light bulb enables people to create spaces during nighttime that would otherwise be enveloped by darkness. He describes the light bulb as a medium without any content. McLuhan states that "a light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence. "[1] More controversially, he postulated that content had little effect on society — in other words, it did not matter if television broadcasts children's shows or violent programming, to illustrate one example — the effect of television on society would be identical. The book is the source of the well-known phrase "The medium is the message".
Summary[edit] In Part One, McLuhan discusses the differences between hot and cool media and the ways that one medium translates the content of another medium. U n d e r s t a n d i n g . m e d i a - good morning! Good Morning!
Welcome to U75102 'Understanding Media', an undergraduate module that was taught by Tom Tyler at Oxford Brookes University UK between 2004-05 and 2008-09. Students at Brookes who signed up for this module may initially have found the Module Overview or the weekly pages the most useful. Everyone is welcome to browse round the site, of course: you may find the pages on Marshall McLuhan, The Matrix or Videodrome the most interesting.
Category:Communication by type. Catégorie:Chercheur en communication. 3'-Sémiométrie. Semiotics - Chance and Choice. The structure of all languages have been naturally shaped by the basic form of the brain.
Just as all humans have the same brain structure, so too do all human languages. This chapter will explore the Wisdom inherent in language and grammar. We will show the common structural denominators of speech - the "Grammar of Man". This grammar unites the thousands of spoken languages on our planet and allows for translation. Language structure is derived from brain structure: Sémantique. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
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Vol 1 (2008) Open Semiotics Resource Center. 10 TED Talks That Will Change the Way You Communicate. August 1st, 2012 By: Alvina Lopez Even the most eloquent of public and private speakers could always stand to tweak their communication skills just a little bit.
After all, the ability to convey feelings and facts stands as essential to keeping the human species rolling along. Both the Internet and bookshelves sport advice a-go-go on how to get points across as clearly as possible, and the venerable open source lecture series TED does not disappoint in this regard. Its best offerings regarding human connectivity encourage essentials not always discussed in manuals and textbooks, so give them some consideration and use them to launch more exploration into how to grow into an effective, evocative communicator. SciencesCom >> L'école de la communication et des médias. Les dossiers de l'observatoire. La théorie du discours ouverte à de nouvelles épistémologies. LASCO. Sciences de l'information et de la communication. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Pour les articles homonymes, voir SIC. Schéma simpliste de la transmission linéaire de l'information dans la communication (paradigme mécaniste) Historique des SIC[modifier | modifier le code] Le champ de connaissance a émergé après la seconde guerre, sans que l'histoire des sciences de la communication et de l'information ne se confondent entièrement[1]. L'histoire des sciences de l'information s'enracine dans l'évolution des techniques documentaires et le développement de l'informatique. Communication. Speech act. A speech act in linguistics and the philosophy of language is an utterance that has performative function in language and communication.
According to Kent Back, "almost any speech act is really the performance of several acts at once, distinguished by different aspects of the speaker's intention: there is the act of saying something, what one does in saying it, such as requesting or promising, and how one is trying to affect one's audience. " The contemporary use of the term goes back to J. L. Austin's development of performative utterances and his theory of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts.
Speech acts are commonly taken to include such acts as promising, ordering, greeting, warning, inviting and congratulating. Locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts[edit] Catégorie:Communication. Une page de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. On classe ici la communication par domaine d'analyse pour faciliter l'intégration des nombreux portails liés. La science de l'information inclut tous les domaines d'analyse de la communication (en tant que système, par la société et pour ses aspects techniques).La communication humaine inclut tous les domaines d'analyse avec pour optique la communication comme aptitude spécifique à l'homme et les concepts généraux.La littérature, l'art, la langue et le langage… sont des domaines inclassables de la communication.
Sur les autres projets Wikimedia : Catégorie:Sciences de l'information et de la communication. Une page de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Cette catégorie traite des Sciences de l'information et de la communication en tant que domaine à part entière. Meme.
A meme (/ˈmiːm/ meem)[1] is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. "[2] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.[3] The word meme is a shortening (modeled on gene) of mimeme (from Ancient Greek μίμημα Greek pronunciation: [míːmɛːma] mīmēma, "imitated thing", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, "to imitate", from μῖμος mimos "mime")[4] and it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976)[1][5] as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.
Dawkins' own position is somewhat ambiguous: he obviously welcomed N. History[edit] Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan - Library and Archives Canada. Harold Innis's communications theories. Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 – November 8, 1952) was a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on Canadian economic history and on media and communication theory. Timeline Outline View. Derrick de Kerckhove. The Medium Is the Massage. The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects is a book co-created by media analyst Marshall McLuhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore, and coordinated by Jerome Agel. It was published by Bantam books in 1967 and became a bestseller with a cult following. The book itself is 160 pages in length and composed in an experimental, collage style with text superimposed on visual elements and vice versa.
Some pages are printed backwards and are meant to be read in a mirror (see Mirror writing). Some are intentionally left blank. Most contain photographs and images both modern and historic, juxtaposed in startling ways. The Big Ideas podcast: The medium is the message. The writing of the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday this Thursday, has entered popular jargon like that of few other modern intellectuals. Is there another line that has been quoted – and misquoted – as enthusiastically as 'the medium is the message'? McLuhan, of course, was perfectly aware of his status as the thinker du jour of the media age, the man everyone liked to quote over dinner but hadn't bothered to read – for proof, just watch Annie Hall.
But what does "the medium is the message" really mean? In the first episode of our new The Big Ideas series, Benjamen Walker gets to the bottom of the slogan with the help of Canadian novelist and McLuhan-biographer Douglas Coupland, academic Lance Strate, Marshal's son Eric McLuhan, record producer John Simon, and the Guardian's media correspondent Jemima Kiss. McLuhan - Le médium EST le message) Sémiotique. Center for Semiotics. Signo : Sémiotique - Théoriques sémiotiques appliquées / Semiotics - Applied Semiotic Theories.
Semiotics Encyclopedia Online - Welcome. This reference website is freely usable for educational and personal use. It will provide in-depth articles written by experts in a great variety of disciplines bearing upon the ways in which organisms in general, and humans in particular, process information, discover or construct meaning, represent and share their knowledge, interact through the mediation of signs and symbols that change over time, and elaborate diverse cultures and systems of thought. It will offer articles documenting the historical development of semiotics while emphasizing that this variegated epistemological movement is still in the making. The Semiotics Encyclopedia Online will endeavor to bring into focus important advances in the sciences, which are bound to have an impact on our understanding of the issues which have been traditionally raised by semiotics.
It will also critically reexamine the basic concepts and models that form contemporary semiotic literacy. Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Web Sound - Marshall McLuhan. "The World is a Global Village," May 18, 1960 Credits: Medium: Television Program: Explorations Episode: Teenager Broadcast Date: May 18, 1960 Hosts: Alan Millar, John O'Leary Guest(s): Marshall McLuhan Duration: 8:44The book is no longer "king," says Marshall McLuhan, a professor at the University of Toronto's St. Michael's College. McLuhan studies the effects of mass media on behaviour and thought. In this CBC report on the teenager, he discusses how our youth facilitate the global shift from print to electronic media. Television has transformed the world into an interconnected tribe he calls a "global village.
" MMXI – Celebrating 100 years of McLuhan – Marshall McLuhan. Global village (term) Marshall McLuhan - The World is a Global Village (CBC TV)


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Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the good things I have to announce, is that I am continuing my podcast series with Microsoft IT Pro evangelist, Blain Barton. Blain and I have been doing monthly TechNet Radio IT Time shows for over a year. The latest installment just went live, and it is available for viewing on Channel 9. In this show, I talk about my forthcoming Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step book. It is cool, so you may want to check it out.
Join me tomorrow when I will talk about more cool Windows PowerShell stuff.
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ATLANTA - Virginia Tech hopes this trip to Atlanta goes better than the last one.Having played themselves back into the national championship race after losing their opener to Alabama, the fourth-ranked Hokies face what appears to be their last major hurdle of the regular season today when they head south again to take on No. 19 Georgia Tech. Virginia Tech (5-1, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) already played once in Atlanta this season, losing to the second-ranked Crimson Tide 34-24 in a neutral-site game at the Georgia Dome. Five straight wins have quickly pushed the Hokies back into contention for a national title. 'You've got to keep it simple,' coach Frank Beamer said. 'I think everybody wants to get it big, but to me, the bigger it gets, the simpler you think. There's a lot at stake, no question, but the way you attack that is have great preparation. Then you can go down there and hopefully play great. That's the only way you can come out on the other end of this. All this talk about what it means all week, that's not going to help us win.' But this certainly appears to be the most challenging game left on Virginia Tech's schedule. Georgia Tech (5-1, 3-1) can cause major problems with its funky spread offense, which relies mostly on option-oriented runs with an occasional pass thrown in to keep defenses honest. The Yellow Jackets rank fourth nationally in rushing yards (277 per game) and they've produced 91 points and 1,011 yards of total offense over the past two games. 'This week is a huge game for our team and program,' coach Paul Johnson said. 'We set a goal of wanting to compete for the ACC championship and we've gotten ourselves to the point where this game is meaningful along those lines. If we can win the game, we may have a chance. If we lose the game, we probably have no chance.' Virginia Tech will have a much clearer path to the ACC title game - and possibly a shot at competing for No. 1 - if it can get past Georgia Tech. The Hokies' last five regular-season opponents have a combined record of 14-15. If there are no stumbles along the way, Virginia Tech is assured of playing in the Dec. 5 ACC championship game at Tampa, Fla. - even if No. 9 Miami wins out. The Hokies hold a tiebreaker edge because of their 31-7 win over the Hurricanes three weeks ago. Georgia Tech is still right in the mix, as well, giving the Coastal Division what appears to be the three strongest teams in the ACC. Of course, there's only room for one of them in the title game. 'I think we're right in stride,' Yellow Jackets quarterback Josh Nesbitt said. 'Everybody is doing good, right on top of their game, and we've just got to carry on to the next game.' Carry being the operative word. Nesbitt is the conference's third-leading rusher (83.8-yard average) and he's coming off a 140-yard, three-touchdown performance that powered a 49-44 shootout win over Florida State. Defenses have focused much of their attention on running back Jonathan Dwyer, last year's ACC offensive player of the year, and that's opened things up for the junior quarterback. 'Since he likes to run it, we've got to treat him like a running back and stick him,' Virginia Tech linebacker Jake Johnson said. 'He's a tough guy. He runs a lot, so he's used to it, but we're going to treat him like a running back.' Nesbitt can put the ball in the air, too. Last week, he passed for 131 yards and a touchdown against the shell-shocked Seminoles. 'I entered the season just thinking I need to do whatever I can to help the team win,' Nesbitt said. 'I was willing to do anything.' If there's anything that makes the Yellow Jackets one-dimensional, it's the defense. Not many teams would still be contending for a championship with a defense that's allowing 385 yards each time out. But that's just where Georgia Tech finds itself, ranking 82nd nationally and 10th in the ACC. Johnson, who runs the offense, ordered the defensive coaches to cut back on the number of formations and plays they're calling, hoping that will make it easier to contain quarterback Tyrod Taylor and the rest of a steadily improving Hokies offense. SideBar: VIRGINIA TECH AT GEORGIA TECH When: Today, 6 p.m. Where: Atlanta TV: ESPN2
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The Pathfinder SRD says that a skald's raging song lasts "for that ally's turn or until the song ends," and my GM is insisting that this means they gain no benefit from the song when it is NOT that turn, meaning that they gain no benefit from the boosted will save or the effects of the extra con (increased fort saves, hit points), or things like the superstition power.
I am inclined to disagree, as it specifically says "allies gain a bonus to will saves" and the very fact of Greater Skald's Vigor's existence. and he says that for it to work that way, I need to show him something concrete. Has there been any clarification on this? Can someone show me where?
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Christopher Hiscock described the ranch in court as "beautiful"
At 5ft 3in, she too frail to be a speed skater. Yet she's the one to beat in World Championships – and she likes it that way
Of all the Idle No More protests that sprung up on Wednesday's national day of action across Canada, what may have worried the conservative government of Stephen Harper the most was a gathering of aboriginal young men banging tribal drums outside a hotel in downtown Vancouver.
Vancouver Island in British Columbia has a mighty mountain at its heart. By Minty Clinch
Music fans have been told that two UK concerts by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen have been switched to a different venue about 75 miles away.
With the eurozone crisis showing no signs of waning, people around the globe are looking to less traditional models, a new poll shows
Beach shots depict her as a curvaceous beauty queen. But 23-year-old Jenna Talackova was born male and that has led organisers to disqualify her as a finalist in the 61st Miss Universe Canada pageant.
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At nearly one million square kilometers of pristine wilderness and with a burgeoning population of grizzly bears and cougars, the forests and mountains of British Columbia are not a good place to get lost.
Vancouver was living up to its historic nickname "The Big Smoke" yesterday after it woke up to discover that ice hockey fans dismayed at their team's defeat in the final of the sport's biggest competition had turned the streets of the city centre into a riot zone.
About 100 sled dogs were killed inhumanely and dumped in a mass grave when a tour operator's bookings dropped sharply after the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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Gravitational force overpowered out-of-control Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili and left him unable to avoid the crash that claimed his life hours before the opening ceremony at the Vancouver Olympics, the International Luge Federation concluded in a report Monday.
Amy Williams arrived back in London last night admitting her gold medal at the Vancouver Games felt "absolutely amazing".
Driving a bobsleigh through Whistler's gut-wrenching turns at 90mph was probably not the advice Janis Minins was given by his surgeon after having his appendix removed on the day the Games opened.
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Liberalism vs. Diversity
The high stakes in the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision.
Feb 10, 2003, Vol. 8, No. 21 • By STANLEY KURTZ
Better to begin with what will not happen. If the Supreme Court outlaws racial preferences in higher education, there will be no social unrest--no urban riots or torched college campuses. In the states that have abolished affirmative action in public higher education, no social upheaval ensued. Affirmative action was ended by court order in the relatively conservative state of Texas, and by the governor in Florida, but liberal California and Washington did the deed by referendum. They could do so because Americans everywhere oppose preferences. From the beginning, the practice was imposed by judicial and administrative fiat. The public will not rebel at the abolition of something it never wanted in the first place.
Academic affirmative action, then, is not the stuff of revolutions. Racial preferences come into play only at relatively selective institutions--at most, 20 percent of all colleges and universities. And an even smaller slice will feel the effect of national repeal, since many schools in states without affirmative action have adopted race-neutral ways of increasing minority enrollment.
Even black Americans seem likely to accommodate themselves to the banning of preferences. The truth is, nearly all fairly worded polls show that between one-third and two-thirds of African Americans (along with lopsided majorities of all Americans) reject affirmative action. National Journal columnist Stuart Taylor Jr. concluded as much from a careful survey, earlier this month, of polling on affirmative action in higher education. For example, the Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University racial attitudes survey in the spring of 2001 found that only 12 percent of African Americans agreed that "race or ethnicity should be a factor" in college admissions, hiring, and promotion, while 86 percent of African Americans agreed that such decisions "should be based strictly on merit and qualifications other than race/ethnicity." The upshot of Taylor's survey is that the black community is at best divided on the question of academic affirmative action and on balance arguably opposed. No doubt a Supreme Court decision against preferences would precipitate protests on some campuses. Yet even at a relatively radical school like Berkeley, opponents of affirmative action lack broad student support, and have been unable to mount mass demonstrations since California abolished racial preferences.
BUT IF ENDING racial preferences in higher education won't kick off a revolution, what it will do is spur measures designed to restore minority enrollment to something like its current levels. Those measures will fall into three broad categories--outreach, percentage plans, and thinly veiled defiance--and will occasion the new battles in our long-running war over preferences.
Before academic affirmative action was turned into a quota system, it was meant to be outreach. The idea was to identify promising minority students in high school (or earlier), and help them gain the skills and experience needed for admission to college. The most welcome result of an end to racial preferences would be a return to genuine outreach. In fact, it was only the abolition of affirmative action by Proposition 209 that forced the University of California system to create the Berkeley Pledge, an outreach program designed to help low-income students with no family history of higher education qualify for college the right way--without preferences. And some of the less glamorous campuses in the University of California system, like U.C. Riverside, have been particularly successful, since Prop. 209, at operating sound outreach plans.
The percentage plans adopted in Texas, California, and Florida present a more problematic alternative to affirmative action. By guaranteeing a place at a state school to students who graduate in, say, the top 8 percent of their high school class, percentage plans restore a significant minority presence to colleges, and do so on a race-blind basis. Because of percentage plans, every public college in California and Texas now has an enrollment of underrepresented minorities that exceeds 10 percent. That's important, because the University of Michigan claims that 10 percent is the level of minority representation required to create a "critical mass" of diversity on campus.
So percentage plans effectively ward off the scare scenarios purveyed by the advocates of affirmative action. And, in addition to being race-blind, percentage plans have another advantage: They reward hard work by students at the weakest high schools.


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World famous French artist attaked by four Muslims over Coexist painting
Advocating religious tolerance ends in mob beating for famous artist
Advocating religious tolerance ends in mob beating for famous artist
ISIS wants an active front inside of Europe
As Muslims radicalize, Front National soars
French establishment in full scale panic
Some Muslim veterans of the French army are taking their skills to ISIS
PEGIDA banned from marching in Paris
Charlie Hebdo was behind massive effort to ban National Front
Was Holder meeting with French Muslims as 40 world leaders marched in Paris?
Massive marches in cities all over France
Chairle Hebdo once fired a cartoonist for associating Jewishness with success
Paris saw huge Muslim riots in 2014
Third Muslim terror attack in Paris in three days
North African man kills female police officer in Paris
Suspects in terror attack are of Algerian origin.
Massive spontaneous protests all over France
Muslims attack the office of Chairle Hebdo magazine, 12 killed
Media thinks everyone is too dumb to know what is really going on
Nation Front gathers European conservative leaders to unite against 3rd world immigration
French court protects Femen vandals, send anti-Islam activists to jail
More Europeans than ever are demanding the borders be closed.
Heavily Jewish suburb of Sarcelles attacked by Muslim mob,
Jews and Muslims beat each other with clubs and chairs in the streets of Paris
Marine Le Pen talks about the upcoming EU elections
Christian Broadcast Network published bombshell video on anti-white violence in France
Christian Broadcast Network: Whites are routinely attacked by Muslims in France
Pro-Democracy Left riots in France to protest results of Democratic election
Media intentionally falsifies Muslim on Jewish hate crimes
Left-wing/Center-Right alliance against National Front is collapsing.
French citizens protest the legalization of homosexual marriage by the Socialist regime
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