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7 Nuclear program: Iran has agreed to more nuclear cooperation with Russia, the nation's official news agency, IRNA, reported Sunday. Iran's first nuclear power plant was built with Russian help and after years of delays is to begin a preliminary phase of electricity production today. Iran says its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes, but the United States fears Tehran is intent on a weapons capability.
8 Yemen violence: Two Yemeni soldiers were killed and four wounded Sunday by a roadside bomb blast during the battle for control of Zinjibar, a key city held by al Qaeda-linked militants for nearly four months. The militant takeover of Zinjibar has forced more than 100,000 residents to flee for safety.Writing contest is really great opportunities for the development of writing skills and creativity. The organization did an excellent job providing skills for being a better writer. The cam chat lets the people know how to get connected with the world so that they could enjoy their online browsing time with their partners!
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Jeremy’s libidinous literary efforts have been well represented at many of the erotica scene’s high-quality online venues (Black Heart, Clean Sheets, Erotic Woman, FeatherLit, Fishnet, Good Vibrations, Oysters & Chocolate, Ruthie’s Club, Sex-Kitten), and his stories have appeared in over sixty anthologies offered by Cleis Press, Xcite Books, Seal Press, Running Press, Coming Together, Logical-Lust, Ravenous Romance, Penguin, Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins UK, and other publishers. His work was selected for The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, vols. 7, 8, 9, 11, and 13, and he has been featured in the literary showcase of the Seattle Erotic Art Festival. Out on the newsstand, he was a frequent contributor to Scarlet and Forum/Foreplay magazines in their day, and his writing has been published in Meat for Tea: The Valley Review.
A popular guest on the Web circuit, Jeremy has been seen or heard such places as Erotica Readers & Writers Association, Lust Bites, LoveHoney, Dr. Dick’s Sex Advice, 4-Letter-Words, LiberatorOoh, and Cult of Gracie Radio. In the nonvirtual world, he has read his work at the In the Flesh, Essensuality, and Ravenous Nights series in New York; the Erotic Literary Salon in Philadelphia; the Rochester (N.Y.) Erotic Arts Festival; In the Flesh: L.A. (via telephone); and, in Western Massachusetts, Arts Night Out Northampton, the Greenfield Annual Word Festival, and Sexy Scribes Speaking (a 2013 event that he hosted).
All photos on this page by Mayumi Yoshimaru.
Content copyright © 1995–2014 Jeremy Edwards. This page revised May 7, 2014.Are You a Marketing VP Who Needs to Boost Leads?
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First created in 1979, one of the ritual centers of the home— the dinner table— became a place of action and political commentary. In the middle of a room, Maiolino placed a long central table, overlaid it with a black cloth to resemble a bier, and set it with dishes containing germinating rice (the grain brought to Brazil by African slaves) and beans (a staple of Iberian cooking). At the four corners of the installation, like the four corners of Brazil, she then set tables with white cloths and empty tableware.
In this setting, sustenance, humankind’s basic need, confronts scarcity. Created at a time when Brazil was emerging from economic depression but was still ruled by a military regime whose plans for modernization exacerbated the conditions of the unlanded poor, the work mocked the idea that a country of supposedly inexhaustible riches cannot feed its people. However, as she suggests, despite the implications of scarcity, the plates germinating with the fruits of the soil, hold in themselves the promise of plenty. An assertion of life over death, the installation is a site of renewal, offering a space where humankind can construct or reconstruct its own history and culture.
Maiolino’s work is remarkable for its freshness even after 28 years. Often work with a political message has a short shelf life, rendered moot by its topical nature. But in this case, alas, even though the military dictatorship has been replaced by a democratic government, the have and have-not chasm in South America’s wealthiest nation remains as a wide as ever. The government’s willingness to cope with issues of poverty and starvation is sadly on the back burner. Poignant and painful, Rice and Beans remains the same indictment today it was in 1979. The empty plate is a powerful signifier.
Installation view at the 29th Sao Paulo Biennial 2010, of Anna María Maiolino’s Rice and Beans, 1979-2007.
To wrap up the week we are delighted to welcome back Nadia Hassan, a Greensboro, North Carolina-based designer and illustrator. If you’re a long-time reader you may remember Nadia’s Pattern of the Week project which she started in 2013 to help her sharpen her skills, maintain a steady supply of new work, and share her creations with the world. Since then Nadia’s pattern design business has grown by leaps and bounds, with her work being featured in magazines such as Cloth and UPPERCASE, and exhibiting at Surtex with Pink Light Studio!
Just love all the beautiful posts coming from Pattern Observer. I am so inspired and “LOOK” for these posts to encourage me to push my boundaries. I love Nadia’s sense of color, shape & FUN and I really love her designs. Thank you so much for posting about her.
I just LOVE Nadia’s style – an absolute inspiration!
So excited to see another NC based surface pattern designer featured! Our state has been a traditional home for textiles in the past and hopefully is becoming one again for the future. Nadia’s work is so inspiring and her color choices stellar – thanks for sharing.class PlanetarySystem < ApplicationRecord
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While corporations are busy marketing themselves as environmentally responsible global citizens, scientists warn that global ecological systems are severely destabilized and three planetary boundaries are presently being crossed (biodiversity, climate change and the nitrogen cycle). The confusion created by the gap between frightening scientific reports and reassuring messaging from advertising and corporate media is a good enough excuse to continue shopping, TV watching and generally ignoring escalating social/ political/ economic crises (as long as you happen to be privileged enough to avoid the immediate impacts). Business as usual continues as both knowledge and reason are distorted by market forces. When markets determine what information is available in the public sphere ‘knowledge’ comes to reflect what is profitable for those with economic power. This distorted knowledge rarely takes the earth’s needs into account. While efforts are made by hopeful environmentalists and NGOs to create ecologically and socially beneficial projects and tweak the market to recognize the value of the natural processes, the overall dynamic of capitalism leads to greater ecological devastation.Screenshot of President Jokowi at the groundbreaking of the electric vehicle battery industry factory PT HKML Battery Indonesia in Karawang New Industrial City, West Java on September 15, 2021. (ANTARA/Desca Lidya Natalia/uyu).
Jakarta (ANTARA) - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) expressed hope that Indonesia would soon escape the trap of being a raw material-exporting country.
"Our main business strategy is to get out of the trap of being a raw material-exporting country at the earliest and to eradicate dependence on imported products by accelerating the revitalization of the