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Network of Alliances for Geographic Education

The North Carolina Geographic (NCGA) was formed in 1987 and has since been a voice for geography education in North Carolina. Over the years the NCGA has successfully lobbied for geography content in the K 12 curriculum. Outreach to teachers through professional replica van cleef and arpels clover necklace development in geography, imitation van cleef arpels jewelry materials, and publication has been a cornerstone of the Alliance.

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Aug 30 '17 · 0 comments
new sets go beyond offering 4K

LAS VEGAS, Nev. One of the biggest changes in television this year will be more channels available online with no separate cable or satellite subscription. But for would be cord cutters, watching live sports online has been elusive until now. Dish Network Corp. on Monday unveiled an Internet only subscription offering that includes ESPN.

Here are the television related highlights from the International CES gadget show in Las Vegas on Monday. The availability of ESPN as part of the Internet package addresses a major reason people were loath to "cut the cord" live sports. NFL games will be blocked on mobile devices, however, because Verizon has those rights.

Dish said it isn't worried that its current subscribers will cancel satellite service in favour of the cheaper Internet package. Rather, Dish is hoping to lure those who don't pay for TV channels at all because they find it too expensive.

"A lot of big incumbents don't like change, but everything else is changing around you," says Joe Clayton, Dish's CEO. "Technology is broadening the consumer viewing opportunity, and they are taking advantage of that."

Sony Corp. also has an Internet television service, PlayStation Vue, expected to debut by the end of March, with channels from Viacom, Discovery, CBS, Fox, NBCUniversal and Scripps. HBO and Showtime already have announced plans for stand alone Internet offerings, and CBS launched one in October. Those are limited in live sports, though, given that ESPN has rights to many of the leading leagues.

The Dish offering, dubbed Sling TV, will launch in a few weeks and also include channels from Disney, Scripps and Time Warner's Turner. About 20 channels will be available, such as the Disney Channel, ABC Family, the Food Network, HGTV, the Travel Channel, TNT, TBS and the Cartoon Network. Sling TV is not to be confused with the SlingTV device that allows viewers to watch TV remotely. Sling Media, the maker of that device, is owned by EchoStar Corp., which was spun off from Dish in 2008.

The $20 price for Dish's basic package will be far cheaper than what people would pay for a cable or satellite. (Dish said its average monthly bill is about $85.) Dish says it keeps the Internet service cheap by excluding most over the air network channels, which can be costly for pay TV providers van cleef vintage alhambra necklace imitation as broadcasters demand higher fees. An Internet service also won't require special equipment, such as a satellite and receiver dishes. For those who want more than the basic channels, Dish will offer various add ons for $5 each, including extra channels for sports and a package for kids.

The catch: Only one person can watch at a time. Family members who want to watch different channels simultaneously will need separate subscriptions.

Meanwhile, Dish is adding Netflix and other video apps to its Hopper set top boxes, so viewers can watch both traditional channels and online video services through the same device. (Not that a lot of content is shot in 4K just yet). Now that 4K TV sets have dropped in price, with some models available for less than $1,000, TV makers are looking for ways to make their sets stand out.

Sharp is turning to an engineering trick to make its high replica van cleef necklace end 4K set look even sharper. While TVs typically show colours by mixing red, green and blue subpixels, Sharp's top of the line model will add yellow as a fourth subpixel to improve colours. It then splits each of those subpixels in half, creating a total of eight subpixels in the space of three.

Content isn't yet available to take advantage of those extra subpixels, but Sharp uses some mathematical formulas to fill in the blanks. van cleef gold clover necklace replica The Aquos Beyond 4K Ultra HD TV will measure about 80 inches diagonally. It will be out in the second half of the year. The price hasn't been set.

Sony is also introducing new 4K television models this year, and at a news event late Monday, the company promised to create more 4K content to watch on those sets. Sony said four popular shows from its entertainment division "The Goldbergs," ''The Blacklist," ''Masters of Sex" and "The Night Shift" will soon be available in 4K. It also said it's working with partners including Netflix and YouTube to deliver more 4K streaming video.

BETTER COLORS

Samsung is offering a premium line with better brightness and richer colours, not just increased sharpness. It uses a technology called quantum dot essentially a layer of materials that allows for purer colours and a wider colour range. Samsung says the TV is also brighter because there's no need for a filter to compensate for colour distortion. It will be called SUHD and cost more than regular 4K sets, though specifics haven't been announced.

Stephen Nakamura, a digital colorist who has worked on Hollywood productions such as "Quantum of Solace" and "The Hurt Locker," came on stage at CES to praise Samsung's new TVs for reproducing colours the way filmmakers intended.

Samsung is also pushing curved TVs, including one high end model that has a flat screen that can bend, or curve, when the viewer wants a more immersive experience. LG announced quantum dot and curved sets, too, including a bendable model. LG is also pushing organic LED screens with richer colours and pure black the kind typically limited to smaller displays such as phones because of price.

To address the growing availability of online video, TiVo's digital video recorders will offer new menu options to bring Internet and traditional TV programs in one place, so past seasons of ongoing shows are easier to find on Netflix or Amazon. Streaming through TiVo was already possible, but shows weren't as centrally located.

The SlingTV device for viewing television on the go is adding additional functionality for in home use: a YouTube app for streaming video on regular TV sets without needing a separate streaming device. It won't have an app for the Dish's new Sling TV service, though.
Aug 30 '17 · 0 comments
millones de personas en Santiago se quedaron sin agua

En pleno verano, un inesperado frente de mal tiempo con lluvias en sectores cordilleranos y precordilleranos caus una emergencia sanitaria en el pas sudamericano durante el fin de semana, que deriv en un corte masivo preventivo de agua en el sector urbano de la capital chilena, producto del enturbiamiento de la misma por el van cleef and arpel necklace copy fenmeno climatolgico en la montaa.

Las precipitaciones en la zona central precordillerana del pas fueron especialmente intensas en tres regiones: Los Andes (Valparaso), Cajn del Maipo (Gran Santiago) y San Fernando (O'Higgins), donde causaron desbordes de ros y deslizamientos de tierras.

Producto de lo anterior, varias personas fueron arrastradas por el aluvin, con un saldo de al menos tres muertos y 19 desaparecidos segn la Oficina Nacional de Emergencias (Onemi) al lunes en la maana.

Qu hace que los chilenos sean tan resistentes a los terremotos, incendios y otras tragediasLa Onemi decret inicialmente una Alerta Temprana Preventiva para varias comunas de la Regin Metropolitana, donde se ubica la capital, Santiago.

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Casi un milln y medio de hogares se quedaron sin agua potable en Santiago de Chile

Santiago sin aguaLa principal proveedora de agua potable de la capital chilena, Aguas Andinas, realiz un corte preventivo en 30 comunas debido a la turbiedad del agua, causada por los aluviones.

"Estamos hablando de 1.450.000 hogares que van a estar afectados por este corte de agua", declar Claudio Orrego, intendente de Santiago en una conferencia de prensa.

Y a pesar de que en el ncleo urbano ni siquiera llovi, la medida afecta a unos 6,5 millones de habitantes de la capital chilena, segn public el medio local T13.

Aunque no se sabe con certeza hasta cundo se mantendrn los cortes, se espera que copy van cleef arpel necklace el problema sea solucionado el lunes, si es que las condiciones meteorolgicas lo permiten.

En tanto en Los Andes se restableci el suministro de agua potable durante la noche del domingo, segn inform la proveedora local Esval a travs de un comunicado.

Cunta agua gastas sin saberlo?

Con baldes a la calleLos cortes fueron anunciados durante la madrugada del domingo. "Nos acostamos el sbado sin tener idea del corte", le cuenta a BBC Mundo Rosario Zanetta, quien vive en una de las comunas afectadas.

"Yo despert a las 4am para darle leche a mi hijo de 2 meses y vi que tena un mensaje de mi mam que recibi un comunicado de la empresa (proveedora de agua).

"Como no es la primera vez que nos cortan el agua este ao por causas similares, tenamos bidones grandes de agua. Pero de todos modos el corte genera problemas", asegura Zanetta quien tiene dos nios, de 2 aos y 2 meses. "Manejarse sin agua es complejo".

De distintas maneras autoridades y vecinos llamaron a la conciencia en el uso del agua, como este cartel ubicado en el ascensor de un edificio residencial.

Las autoridades dispusieron 60 puntos de abastecimiento de agua para enfrentar la situacin.

Muchos santiaguinos salieron con baldes y botellas a la calle a abastecerse de agua.

Sin embargo, los locales comerciales y restaurantes que no cuenten con suministro de agua potable deben permanecer cerrados, anunci la autoridad.

"Trat de salir a comer algo ayer domingo y estaba todo cerrado por el corte de agua", le cuenta a BBC Mundo Marcela Carrasco desde Santiago.

A ella no le cortaron el agua ya que su edificio cuenta con estanques de emergencia, pero s pidieron racionar lo ms posible el consumo, debido a la emergencia.
Aug 30 '17 · 0 comments
mico hombre de confianza y ahora asesor de Donald Trump al que acusan de racismo y antisemitismo

Cmo piensa?Bajo el liderazgo de Bannon, Breitbart dej de ser un simple sitio de noticias y opiniones conservadoras.

El portal se posicion como uno de los medios favoritos de los conservadores, con visiones populistas y belicistas, cargado de teoras conspirativas y un marcado tono de desilusin hacia los polticos tradicionales.

Sus crticos incluso van un paso ms all y dicen que es un medio transmisor de las ideas misginas, racistas, antisemitas y homfobas de la ultraderecha, algo que desde Breitbart niegan.

5 cosas que cambiarn en Estados Unidos durante la presidencia de Donald TrumpA lo largo de estos aos, Breitbart ha generado controversia por llamar "judo renegado" a un comentarista conservador o comparar el trabajo de la organizacin de derechos reproductivos Planned Parenthood con el Holocausto.

Tambin han publicado titulares como "La pastilla anticonceptiva las vuelve feas y locas" o videos en los que se preguntaba a la gente si preferan que sus hijos fuesen feministas o tuvieran cncer.

Tambin han llegado a asegurar que la mejor forma de terminar con el acoso machista en internet es que las mujeres se desconecten de la red.

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En declaraciones citadas por la revista The Atlantic, Bannon aseguraba: "El enojo es algo bueno. Este pas est en crisis. Y si ests peleando para salvar y recuperar al pas, no puedes ser un patriota optimista. Hay que estar dispuesto a pelear".

En distintas oportunidades ha dicho que en Breitbart se llaman a s mismos "El club de la lucha", en referencia a la novela de Chuck Palahniuk que luego fue adaptada al cine y protagonizada por Brad Pitt y Edward Norton, sobre un grupo de hombres violentos que buscan destruir el sistema.

"Somos virulentamente anti establishment, en particular estamos en contra de la clase poltica permanente", dijo Bannon al diario The Washington Post.

Kellyanne Conway, la mujer que "domestic" a Trump para impulsarlo hacia la presidencia de Estados UnidosQuin es?Nacido en Virginia en 1953, Bannon sirvi cuatro aos en el ejrcito estadounidense antes de completar un mster en administracin de empresas en la Universidad de Harvard.

Trabaj en el rea de inversiones en la compaa financiera Goldman Sachs pero, a pesar de su xito y dinero, se retir del rubro para ingresar en uno diferente: producir pelculas.

Luego de estar un tiempo en Hollywood e invertir en filmes como Titus con Anthony Hopkins y series como Seinfeld, Bannon comenz a producir documentales polticos independientes con una clara visin conservadora.

Financi documentales sobre el expresidente republicano Ronald Reagan y la exgobernadora de Alaska Sarah Palin, as como sobre el movimiento ultraconservador Tea Party.

Fue durante estos aos que Bannon conoci a Andrew Breitbart, un conservador incondicional y emprendedor de medios que quera crear un sitio de noticias online que desafiara lo que consideraba era un ambiente meditico dominado por las ideas liberales.

Con ese espritu combativo naci Breitbart News, del cual Bannon se hizo cargo tras la muerte de su fundador.

Por qu darte noticias falsas es buen negocioQu opinan de l?La designacin de Bannon ha sido duramente criticada por los demcratas y por algunos republicanos.

"Es fcil ver por qu el Ku Klux Klan ve a Trump como su candidato cuando Trump nombra a uno de los difusores de los temas y retrica imitation van cleef and arpel necklace de los supremacistas blancos como su principal consejero", dijo en la campaa Adam Jentleson, vocero del senador demcrata Harry Reid.

Tambin se pronunciaron en su contra distintas organizaciones de derechos civiles, como la Liga Anti Difamacin (ADL, por sus siglas en ingls), que se opone al antisemitismo, y el Centro Legal para la Pobreza del Sur (SPLC, por sus siglas en ingls), que trabaja para terminar con los crmenes de odio.

SPLC llam a Breitbart un "cabo suelto de ideologas de ultra derecha" con la "identidad blanca" como el centro de su mensaje.

El jefe ejecutivo de la ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, describi a Bannon como "un hombre que presidi un sitio de ultraderecha" lleno de "desvergonzados nacionalistas blancos, antisemitas y racistas".

Los defensores de Bannon Van Cleef & Arpels Alhambra bracelet replica niegan que este sea racista o antisemita, y sealan que desde Breitbart News simplemente se han dedicado a informar del surgimiento de movimientos como el ultraderechista Alt right, que s tiene posiciones de ese tipo.

"Alt right", el controvertido "grupo de choque" ultraderechista que defiende a Donald Trump en internetSegn dicen, que informen sobre ello no significa que defiendan esas ideas.

Lo cierto es que, como le dijo a la BBC Eli Lake, columnista del medio Bloomberg View, "es algo muy nuevo que alguien como Bannon vaya a estar en la Casa Blanca y le hable al odo del lder del mundo libre".
Aug 30 '17 · 0 comments
Motorist killed when van struck

Motorist killed when van struck by train in ColoradoColleen Slevin, The Associated PressInvestigators examine the scene where a van was struck but a Denver airport train early Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, in Aurora, Colo. Aurora Police Sgt. Chris Amsler says the van drove onto the tracks as an off duty police officer guarding the intersection tried to stop it. The driver was killed. Four passengers on the train suffered minor injuries. Four train passengers suffered minor injuries.

Police and federal railroad officials were investigating the crash.

The crossing gates were working but it was not clear when they started to go down, police Sgt. Chris Amsler said. The gates were down when the train hit the van, he said.

The rail line has had problems with its automated crossing gates since it began running nearly a year ago, requiring its operator to post off duty police and flaggers at crossings as a backup to keep drivers off the tracks.

The officer tried to stop the van but it kept going and was hit by the train and pushed for about knock off van cleef and arpels alhambra necklace a quarter of a mile before the conductor was able to stop.

Three of the injured passengers on the train were treated at the scene and one was taken to a hospital.

The Regional Transportation District opened the airport train line in April despite problems imitation van cleef and arpels necklace sale during testing with crossing gates going down when trains were not passing or not fully going down when they were.

State regulators required posting workers at the crossings as a temporary solution.

The Federal Railroad Administration granted several 90 day operational waivers to allow the airport trains to run while RTD and its contractor, Denver Transit Partners, work to resolve the problem. The most recent waiver was granted in January.

FRA investigators were at the scene Tuesday. The agency said the investigation will have no immediate impact on the agency's waiver for the rail line.

There have been other problems since the line opened, including sporadic delays and power outages.

In May, about 80 passengers were evacuated when a train became stranded on a 50 foot high bridge.

The cause was lightning that severed a wire supporting electricity lines, disrupting power used by the electric powered trains, RTD said.

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Aug 30 '17 · 0 comments
Missing From a MET Painting

After enduring the Great Recession, the public has shown a backlash against the $25 admission fee for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, which charges it as a "donation."

On Sunday July 7, the New York Post wrote about a former Met supervisor, who claimed the museum has an "entry fee bounty system" to wring money out of visitors. That has led to a class action lawsuit asserting the Met violated its 1878 lease with the City of New York. The Met denies the allegations.

What if visitors are paying the Met entry fee, but they're not getting what's advertised? Such could be the case with a questionable work attributed to Vincent van Gogh. If it's a forgery, maybe people should think twice about making the donation to the Met for seeing only part of the master's true body of work.

The painting in question is a Wheat Field with Cypresses. There are three of them. That wasn't unusual for Vincent, who painted more than a dozen versions of Sunflowers.

A Wheatfield, with Cypresses hangs in the National Gallery of Art in London; while the claimed pendant, in New York in the Met's Annenberg Collection. Both paintings claim provenance a chain of custody from the original artist to heirs down to collectors, art dealers, and museums showing a clear audit trail of who owned the art when.

Both landscapes are dated to 1889, have identical cloud formations, and were painted from the same position in the field. Just one problem: The two paintings were "painted" three months apart. How can that be?

Vincent might have been institutionalized the last year of his life, but his stay at the Saint Rmy asylum was one of the most productive periods as an artist. Thus, he never would have painted the same painting twice with the same sky a season apart. The color of the wheat should have been seasonally adjusted, but they are too close, while the brushwork on the Met painting borders on muddy.

As a part of the $1 billion "extended" gift from the Annenberg Foundation in 1993 to the Met, Wheat Field with Cypresses was mentioned in Vincent's Letter 784 (7 2 1889) to his brother Theo, an art dealer in Paris, reading:

"I have a canvas of cypresses with a few ears of wheat, poppies, a blue sky, which is like a multicolored Scottish plaid. This one, which is impasted like Monticelli's, and the wheatfield with the sun that represents extreme heat, also thickly impasted."

Except the painting in the passage refers to a Green Wheat Field with Cypress. The emerald green field with "poppies" and the blue "Scottish plaid sky" are easily on display at the Nrodni Gallery, Prague. They're not evident in the Met painting.

How can those two wheat field paintings one green, the other harvest brown of autumn occupy the same letter of July 2, 1889?

In the view of Susan Alyson Stein, the Curator of European Paintings at the Met, she said, "Call it artistic license. One field painted as is, the other in a color of his choosing."

Doubtful and amusing. Vincent painted nature directly. He did not cheerfully anticipate a change of seasons while locked up in an asylum. Neither had he experienced full summer or autumn in Saint Rmy. Indeed, Vincent wrote of his sincere doubts about any future in Lfetter 801.

That generic answer defies logic. The passage refers to one painting, not two. In the Met version the sky is white and grey from a flotilla of clouds not "blue" as the letter attests.

Van Gogh at the Saint Rmy Asylum

Today, a car can drive from Paris in north France to Saint Rmy in the south in six hours. Confined to the asylum, when Vincent finished van cleef arpels alhambra necklace copy his oil paintings, and after they dried, he took the canvases off the stretchers, rolled them up, and sent them to his brother in a crate on a much slower train to Paris. Theo stored them under Vincent's bed in the same rolled up manner.

In the September Letter 800 (9 6 1889), Vincent wrote to Theo: ". The reaper, the bedroom, the olive trees, wheatfield and cypress, that will make four even."

Nowhere in the letter did Vincent write A Wheatfield, with Cypresses was a copy of an earlier version. "Four even" states four new paintings; nothing else can be interpreted from that straightforward line.

It's the condition of the art, not only provenance, that becomes a factor in determining whether a painting is authentic or not.

"An artist's fingerprint includes colors and pigments, brushstrokes, style, all related to the research from the era concerning provenance that draws a conclusion, either left or right. It's the total sum. the sum of the parts that makeup the artist's fingerprint," van Tilborgh explained.

For van Gogh, he had many elements that formed his fingerprint or DNA, including pointillism, which gave the feeling of movement of wheat by a breeze on the ground in one direction and a jet stream blowing clouds in the other direction. National Gallery painting, but is absent from the Met version. Why?

Ronald Pickvance, a former Met curator held an exhibit at the Met on: "Van Gogh in Saint Rmy and Auvers" (1986 87). In a New York Times article (1 4 87), Art View; the Faces that Haunt van Gogh's Landscapes, Pickvance discussed the secondary images that van Gogh embedded in his landscape paintings, some in fake van cleef arpels alhambra necklace cypresses, others in the sky. Wheatfield, in which the haunted face is shown clear at the top of a cloud in the upper left corner, while the same image in the Met painting is smudged. Neither at all subtle, nor done with a confident brushstroke of a master whose "powers of discernment and organization are unmistakable."

The organization refers to van Gogh's composition choreographed with rhythmic brushwork flirting with pointillism to imply movement of air. In Ms. Stein's view, van Gogh's use of pointillism is not shown in either Wheat Field painting.

Moving in After an Artist Exits

Art forgers start their dark craft after an artist dies. Vincent died at 37, while his peer Claude Monet died at 86 years old in 1926. That's why few have heard of a forged Monet, while rumors abound about fake van Goghs over the years. Add the death of Theo knock off van cleef and arpels alhambra necklace his gatekeeper seven months later, and the Saint Rmy paintings languished for a decade stored at his sister in law's apartment in Paris.

Ms. Stein agreed that the van Gogh paintings were rolled up for storage. But oddly enough for a curator at a major museum, she asked, "What does 'impacted impasto' mean?"
Aug 30 '17 · 0 comments
mile test drive from Italy to China

The sensors enabled them to navigate through wide extremes in road, traffic and weather, to Shanghai while collecting data to be analysed for further research, in a study sponsored by the European Research Council.

'We didn't know the route, I mean what the roads would have been and if we would have found nice roads, traffic, lots of traffic, medium traffic, crazy drivers or regular drivers, so we encountered the lot,' said Isabella Fredriga, a research engineer for the project.

Although the vans were driverless and mapless, they did carry researchers as passengers in case of emergencies. The experimenters did have to intervene a few times when the vehicles got caught in a Moscow traffic jam and to handle toll booths.

The project used no maps, often travelling through remote regions of Siberia and China. At one point, a van stopped to give a hitchhiker a lift.

'This steering wheel is controlled by the PC. So the PC sends a command and the steering wheel moves and turns and we can follow the road, follow the curves and van cleef alhambra earrings replica avoid obstacles with this,' said Alberto Broggi of Vislab at the University of Parma in Italy, the lead researcher for the project.

'The idea here was to travel on a long route, on two different continents, in different states, different weather, different traffic conditions, different infrastructure. Then we can have some huge number of situations to test the system on,' he said.

The technology will be used to study ways to complement drivers' abilities. It also could have applications in farming, mining and construction.

The vehicles ran at maximum speeds of 38 mph and had to be recharged for eight hours after every two to three hours of driving.

At times, it was monotonous and occasionally nerve racking, inevitably due to human error, Ms Fredriga said.

'There were a few scary moments. Like when the following vehicle bumped into the leading one and that was just because we forgot, we stopped and we forgot to turn the system off,' she said.

The project knock off van cleef flower earrings has been funded with a 1.5 million

grant from the European Commission's European Research Council.

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Mpeketoni near Lamu hit

Local residents told the BBC the gunmen hijacked a van and used it to attack various locations across Mpeketoni, which tourists travelling by road pass through before crossing to Lamu.

Our correspondent says there are five burnt out police vehicles in front of the police station, which was the first building to be attacked.

She says she can still smell burning rubber, while smoke is billowing out from one of the vehicles.

Timeline of Somali raids in Kenya

September 2011: UK national Judith Tebbutt kidnapped and her husband David killed in raid on Kiwayu island, north of Lamu. She was released six months later by a pirate gang

October 2011: Kenya sends troops into Somalia following Tebbutt's kidnapping and cross border raids by al Shabab; Al Shabab warns of revenge attacks

Since then, numerous attacks in Nairobi, Mombasa and north eastern region of Kenya, inhabited by knock off van cleef flower earrings ethnic Somalis

September 2013: At least 67 people killed after al Shabab militants take control of Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi

May 2014: UK issues travel advisory, warning of increased risk of terror attack in Nairobi and coastal areas UK tourists evacuated

June 2014: At least 48 people killed in raid on Mpeketoni

All those killed are believed to be locals. The Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) says no foreigners were in the town at replica van cleef arpels earrings the time of the attack.

Witnesses said gunmen, who had their faces covered, threw explosives into the local police station before entering and stealing weapons.

Kenya has been on high alert recently following warnings that al Shabab was planning more attacks.

The US and UK have issued advisories to their nationals to keep away replica van cleef and arpels earrings from parts of the Kenyan coast.

Sunday's attack comes days after the UK government closed its consulate in the port city of Mombasa, citing heightened security threats.

Surveillance aircraftDistrict deputy commissioner Benson Maisori said hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices had also been torched, the AFP news agency reports.

"There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shabab flag. They were shouting in Somali and shouting 'Allahu Akbar' [God is Great]," he said.
Aug 30 '17 · 0 comments
No room for of the commons thinking

I sympathise with Pat Dodson and Fred Chaney's frustrations at the government's inability to "get it" regarding Indigenous culture within white capitalist Australia (Comment, 13/3). It took 220 years for a politician to apologise on behalf of citizens for how Aboriginal people have been mistreated since white settlement. It seems the nation's leaders hope that in another 220 years Aborigines will have completely assimilated. Unfortunately, the diverse nature of Aboriginal cultures does not fit in with the domination of property rights. The Constitution is dominated by how elected representatives uphold the sanctity of private property there is no room in the thinking for "land of the commons". Imagine how mining and property magnates would react if Mr Abbott entertained the idea of the land of the commons for shared cultures? He would be hunted down by a flat bed truck full of desperate people tying to protect their privileges.

Leon Zembekis, Reservoir

It is worth recalling the outrageous claims by conservative politicians, including some premiers, in the 1990s when the Wik people took their "land rights" claims to the High Court: the spectre of an Indigenous takeover of white Australians' suburban backyards was raised as a serious concern and the tabloid press led the charge. Now, 20 years later, Indigenes are damned by a PM with a "terra nullius" mindset for their decision to live on ancestral lands far from the metropolitan centres. A racist paternalism lingers on.

Jon McMillan, Mount Eliza

High price of Aboriginal isolationism

Thank you, Amanda Vanstone (Comment, 16/3), for putting into words so eloquently the feelings I have found difficult to express. The important issue of Aboriginal culture and their wellbeing always brings strong debate but unfortunately is usually tainted by emotive rather than factual argument.

Successive governments have tried in a well meaning manner to meet cultural requirements via self management through to prescriptive means, but all seem to fail. Blaming the government is easy, shooting the messenger even easier.

The answer must come from our Indigenous community but it must accept there are limits to the resources the government can copy van cleef and arpels earrings provide in remote areas. Cultural isolationism is fine, it's a choice, but not being of the broader community and what that provides in terms of education for children cannot be a good thing for long term welfare of all.

Karl Ripke, Black Rock

Culture is core of outstation existence

My wife and I taught in what Joe Morrison calls a "hub" school in Maningrida, Arnhem Land (Comment, 12/3). Maningrida College has close connections to many outstations that surround the town of about 4000 Aborigines who speak several languages and who have marked cultural differences.

Each outstation has productive artists who paint traditional barks and make magnificent fibre baskets, traditional fish traps, fibre sculptures and other items. Their culture is at the core of their existence and non adherence can have severe consequences. Family and culture are pivotal in their lifestyle.

A cultural event such as initiation is often the cause of extended absence from school but it is a cultural must. Although most "Balandas" ("white people") only stay for a short period of time, we spent 10 years there. We were adopted by a family headed by traditional landowners and were expected to attend significant events. What a privilege. I urge Mr Abbott to re evaluate his stance or his message will be yet another nail in the coffin for our first Australians.

Paul Scholes, NorthcoteThe problem for the Abbott government is that it reduces complex social problems to concrete behaviours it wants to promote or stop, to which vca necklace imitation it then applies a "solution". So whether it is talking about asylum seekers coming in boats ("stop the boats'), housing affordability ("use your super"), or Aboriginal Australians living in remote communities ("unsustainable lifestyle choice") and much else, the self congratulation on supposed delivery on promises is perhaps unsurprising. It is also unsurprising that Mr Abbott in particular shows such petulance if others criticise the human consequences of his government's policies. Sadly for a government of concrete thinkers, vision amounts to budget bottom lines and nothing else.

Heather D'Cruz, Geelong West

PM starts trend

If Mr Abbott is successful in relocating "expensive" Indigenous communities by providing funding to the WA Premier, could his next step be to provide funds for the other premiers to relocate communities in cyclone , flood and bushfire prone areas, which also cost the taxpayers millions in relief every year.

Don McKenzie, Indented Head

Simply out for survival

While I in no way support many of the policies that have been scrapped, watered down or deferred since Mr Abbott's near death experience with the backbench, I despair that I have no idea what our government stands for. When Christopher Pyne made his strategic withdrawal on university funding I was left feeling that the only thing this crop of Liberal politicians really believes in is their own survival in their cushy jobs. Where is the vision for our nation? How are we tackling record unemployment, especially for our youth?

Rob Smith, RyeMany of us have wondered why Malcolm Turnbull would remain a Liberal when many of his values seem so at odds with those of the party. His latest defence of the discriminatory 2014 budget, claiming that it was a failure of marketing, suggests his primary motive for remaining a Liberal is to further protect the status and position of the wealthy class of which he is a very high ranking member.

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