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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

international news

 
Samira Ibrahim is speaking out against mistreatment she said she was subjected to by the Egyptian Army. The Tahrir Square protester said she was detained back in March, beaten and abused, including being subject to a "virginity test."
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Samira Ibrahim is speaking out against mistreatment she said she was subjected to by the Egyptian Army. The Tahrir Square protester said she was detained back in March, beaten and abused, including being subject to a "virginity test."
 
As a rule, the US tends to avoid international treaties to solve big international problem especially when it comes to war, but when it comes to cyber war, America might want to reconsider.
www.pri.org
 
Governments around the world are investing in training "kids" in cyber hacking in the hopes that they could be useful in a cyber war. And in this emerging area of warfare, the advantages the United States often has in warfare may not apply.



Imagine 80% of your energy from solar, Now imagine doing it in Canada. See how it's done. Welcome to Drake's Landing Solar Community. Thanks to this link to Ken Hughes again at NM ENMRD http://www.dlsc.ca/index.htm
 
This one for Sid: Is Africa set for a Renewable Power Revolution? #GallupSolar is but a speck in a great universe of people and organizations promoting a new future. People asking Is Africa a RE Superpower? "The need to provide electrification to remote communities is one of the key drivers of renewable energy development on the continent." concludes a report: “Mega Trends in Africa: A bright vision for the growing continent,” a study by Frost & Sullivan.
www.frost.com
 
Although Africa is endowed with fossil and renewable energy resources, which could more than adequately cover its energy needs
 
 
The organization TheNew7Wonders is tallying the results of their poll to update The Seven Wonders of the World ( http://bit.ly/unwQ30
 
). Among the preliminary finalists is Iguazu Falls in Argentina/Brazil (pictured below). What's on your Seven Wonders list?
IEDs have taken hundreds of U.S. lives in Afghanistan and Iraq and the U.S. military is spending billions to try and combat them. But they're also trying to go after the fertilizer that fuels the explosive devices.
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IEDs have taken hundreds of U.S. lives in Afghanistan and Iraq and the U.S. military is spending billions to try and combat them. But they're also trying to go after the fertilizer that fuels the explosive devices.
 
 
 

National News



See Maria Hinojosa's piece (previously produced for Latino USA) on the Tats Cru artists of the South Bronx on PBS today at 4pm and 6pm EST! Also on BBC World.
 
 
Ginger White, a single mom in Atlanta, says for 13 years she and Herman Cain engaged in an extramarital affair. Cain admits knowing the woman but vehemently denied the affair. The National Review, however, said that on Tuesday Cain told his staff he was considering dropping out of the race.
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Ginger White, a single mom in Atlanta, says for 13 years she and Herman Cain engaged in an extramarital affair. Cain admits knowing the woman but vehemently denied the affair.
 
 
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/progress_alerts.cfm/pa_id=647
 
How to guides Better Buildings Neighborhood Program's website. Just think of all the buildings (over 100 million US), all the jobs, all the cost savings, all the fossil fuel not consumed. We see a bright future.
apps1.eere.energy.govThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced new case studies and other online resources available to local governments that are designing, expanding, and enabling residential energy efficiency programs across the country.
 
Occupied Now ! Podcasting live from New Mexico shared a link.
www.democracynow.org
 
The Senate is set to vote this week on a Pentagon spending bill that could usher in a radical expansion of indefinite detention under the U.S. government. A provision in the National Defense Authorization Act would authorize the military to jail anyone it considers a terrorism suspect

Native America Calling and Native News Wire shared a link.
www.hcn.org
 
Presidential meetings and promises aren't enough; a dysfunctional democracy hurts Native peoples
 
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Native News Wire and Native America Calling shared a link.
campaign.r20.constantcontact.comWhile there has been ongoing research on the effects of residential schools on survivors, there have been few studies looking at how the schools have affected the children of residential school survivors. Researchers Roberta Stout and Sheryl Peters will share insights from their report
 
 
http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/thanksgiving-day-or-%E2%80%9Cthankstaking%E2%80%9D-day-0021882
 
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The Stream speaks to actor and activist Russell Means about indigenous land rights and preserving Native American culture.
 
 
NMAI's own Mandy Foster shares how she came to work at the museum!
blog.nmai.si.edu
Cultural Interpreter Mandy Foster (Cheyenne River Sioux) with her grandmother at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. 
 
 
SOTRU contr @RichHarwood of @HarwoodInst reflects on the Thanksgiving season & how the turkey "chase" intertwines with and affects our daily lives.
stateofthereunion.comA Reflection of Meaning Although Thanksgiving has come and gone, the spirit that it ushers in is one of charity,
 
 
Sales on Black Friday broke records. Sales on Cyber Monday broke records. The American consumer is spending again, but economists say it's not necessarily something to get too excited about.
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Sales on Black Friday broke records. Sales on Cyber Monday broke records. The American consumer is spending again, but economists say it's not necessarily something to get too excited about.
 
 
The political season so far has been dominated my debates and free video ads aired on YouTube. But many of those YouTube videos contain out-of-context statements or outright inaccuracies that are going unchallenged.
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The political season so far has been dominated my debates and free video ads aired on YouTube. But many of those YouTube videos contain out-of-context statements or outright inaccuracies that are going unchallenged.
 
 

New Mexico News

Lobos, our old copy editors are leaving and we are in need of some more. If you got editing skills please come to Marron Hall at 7 p.m. on Monday. In the meantime, read a cry for help from our current copy chief.
http://www.dailylobo.com/index.php/article/2011/11/if_you_dont_taek_his_job_well_keep_bieng_wrong
 
www.dailylobo.com
 
URL: http://www.dailylobo.com/index.php/article/2011/11/if_you_dont_taek_his_job_well_keep_bieng_wrong
 
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By Heath Haussamen • News • I was on the statewide radio program News New Mexico earlier today to talk about Secretary of State Dianna Duran’s probe of the voter rolls, the 2012 presidential election and more. Click on the headline to listen.
 
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By Dennis Kintigh • Commentary • It has been with tremendous sadness that I have followed the recent developments regarding certain members of the New Mexico state judiciary in various parts of the state.  

Do you see yourself owning an electric car in the next five years?
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- They were predicted to be the most used parking spaces in Albuquerque, but two electric car charging stations haven't quite lived up to that reputation. Tuesday, November 29, 2011.
 
 
Clean energy projects mean jobs for New Mexico. A new bio-diesel project in Hobbs by Joule Unlimited could create hundreds of jobs.
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This week’s clean energy jobs report shows that solar, advanced biofuels projects and electric vehicle manufacturing projects are continuing to create much-needed jobs in the U.S.
 
 
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By Heath Haussamen • News • The executive director of the N.M. Foundation for Open Government is leaving that post to pursue graduate studies, and the group is seeking a new director.
 
 
www.KOB.com
A Four Corners food bank said they are in desperate need of more food.
 
 
Billy The Kid and the Long Walk? Hello Fort Sumner! Check out this Touring New Mexico article! http://www.nmmarketplace.com/index.php?q=content%2Ftouring-new-mexico-fort-sumner
 
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Fort Sumner is famous for two reasons: Billy the Kid and The Long Walk. Although the story of Billy the Kid will never be as important as the very serious history of the Navajo’s Long Walk and imprisonment, the death of Billy the Kid is what draws most tourists to Fort Sumner. 
 
 
Santa Fe Reporter - BlogsTwo Los Alamos National Laboratory supercomputers that would have put HAL to shame made the top 10 on a recently-released list of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers. 
 
www.KOB.com
Catholic Archbishop Michael Sheehan of Santa Fe says the new Roman Missal translation went smoothly across New Mexico parishes, although he said some priests still need time to adjust.
 
Ring in the Holidays Sale: Some 300 butterfly species make their homes in the state. Learn all about them in the lavishly illustrated guidebook "Butterfly Landscapes of New Mexico." Take 40 percent off today only.
newmexico.mybigcommerce.com
 
Don't miss out on this screening of The Garden at UNM tomorrow. An amazing documentary!!! Wednesday, November 30, 2011 6:00 PM. Discussion to follow.
George Pearl Hall Auditorium (Architecture Building) - UNM Main Campus. Introduction by Claudia Isaac, Associate Professor in Community and Regional Planning. Suggested donation $5 for students; $7 for others. APA UNM raises these funds to help students attend planning conferences.
sust.unm.eduThe American Planning Association, UNM Chapter is proud to present the award-winning documentary The Garden. The documentary details a fourteen-acre community garden at 4st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles, the largest of its kind in the United States. 
 
www.KOB.com
City officials are mulling a possible disband of Aztec's police department over budget concerns.
 
 
 
 

Gallup area news





Not to advertise for a law firm but this is relative to Gallup area : Stoel Rives Energy Law Alert: BIA Proposes Regulations for Surface Leases of Trust Land for Energy and Other Uses. link to 44 pages of regs in Federal Register there.
www.stoel.com
 
Energy Law Alert: BIA Proposes Regulations for Surface Leases of Trust Land for Energy and Other Uses 11/29/2011
 
 
POLICE BLOTTER

Fatal stabbing in Tuba City

http://www.navajotimes.com/news/2011/1111/111711blotter.php
 
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N avajo Nation Police are investigating an aggravated battery that turned into a homicide Nov. 11 in the Tuba City area.
 
 
Visiting pilots for this weekends rally: The Red Lion Hotel does not have their big sign up yet, (as of last night). The hotel is located on West 66 between the Ranch Kitchen and Taco Bell, West of last year's headquarters.
 
ON AIR = Jordan Lomahoema discusses his recent trip to Washington D.C. to be honoured with meeting First Lady Michelle Obama & receiving a National Arts / Humanities award.
www.azarts.gov
 
This November, 15 year-old Jordan Lomahoema from Keams Canyon, on the Hopi Nation was at the White House to receive the 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, on behalf of the Grand Canyon Music Festival’s Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP).
 
ON AIR = Hopi High School's beginning radio class.
www.hjshs.k12.az.us
 
 
ATTENTION AZ RESIDENTS: Meet Mindy: A Native Girl from the Southwest, by Susan Secakuku (Hopi), has been selected as one of the four kids’ book finalists for ONEBOOKAZ, a statewide reading program that brings communities together through literature. In April every year, this program encourages communities across Arizona to read the same book at the same time and participate in discussions, author visits, and programs centered around that book. One title is chosen for adults to read, and one title is chosen for kids. For more information, and to vote for your favorite kids’ book visit, click on the link above. Voting is through Dec. 4. and open to Arizona residents only.

www.onebookaz.org
 
Hey Kids! Read to celebrate the Arizona State Centennial in 2012 with ONEBOOKAZ for Kids. Help pick the book that all of the kids in Arizona will read in 2012. Choose from four fun and exciting books about Arizona people and places.
 
 
NEWS

Shelly seeks emergency fund

http://www.navajotimes.com/news/2011/1111/112311fund.php
 
www.navajotimes.com
 
Shelly said Tuesday that the $25 million should be considered "untouchable" until the Navajo Nation government has a "clear outlook on what the federal budget will look like."
 
 

Friday Forum on KGLP: Arts & Medicine @ UNM

The next Friday Forum will feature Rachel Kaub's documentary about the Arts in Medicine program at the UNM hospital in Albuquerque, which she produced as part of the Arts in Medicine course taught by AIM director Prof. Patrice Repar, featuring music and interviews recorded in the studios of KUNM seven years ago. Friday at 1 p.m. on 91.7 fm.
 
Uploaded by on Oct 1, 2010

For the second straight year, Q Tango, an Albuquerque-based tango ensemble, performed in UNMH's Arts in Medicine concert series. For Q Tango's director, the venue offers an opportunity to express his appreciation for life-saving medical care he's received over the years.
  http://artsinmedicine.unm.edu/
Arts-in-Medicine at UNM
Mission
The University of New Mexico Arts-in-Medicine Program (AIM), based at the University of New Mexico Hospitals (UNMH), holds the following as its mission:
To enhance the healing process by facilitating creative encounters in local, regional, and international medical environments and communities while educating health care professionals and others on the integral role the arts play in wellness and health restoration.
Goals
One-on-one with patients, their families, and medical professionals
  • To encourage participants to stop, examine, and transform the quality of their lives;
  • To provide opportunities to express painful and/or suppressed feelings;
  • To co-create new perspectives on and increased meaning in life;
  • To facilitate positive experiences and heightened self-esteem;
  • To stimulate spiritual expression and;
  • To relieve pain, discomfort, anxiety, restlessness, respiratory difficulties, insomnia, isolation, depression, withdrawal, loss of speech, grief, and anticipatory grief.
For the community-at-large
  • To build collegial and supportive relationships among faculty, staff and students at UNMH and the greater UNM community;
  • To recognize and celebrate the cultural diversity of local and regional communities;
  • To provide opportunities for collaboration between community members and the academy;
  • To provide new and meaningful opportunities for artists to contribute to society;
  • To expand awareness and stimulate dialog regarding the nature of health and wellness, health care, and death and dying;
  • To contribute to UNM's role as an international leader and innovator in medical education;
  • To build partnerships with international health care professionals and communities.


This program is funded by University of New Mexico Hospitals; the Cancer Research and Treatment Center; New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts; the McCune Charitable Foundation; Johnson & Johnson/Society for the Arts in Healthcare Partnership to promote Arts in Healing; the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation; Edison International; the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts; and the Partnership for Arts in Medicine.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

international news





According to various media outlets, militant students are in the process of raiding the United Kingdom's embassy in Tehran. They've burnt the British flag, seized and burned documents and broken out windows.
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According to various media outlets, militant students are in the process of raiding the United Kingdom's embassy in Tehran. They've burnt the British flag, seized and burned documents and broken out windows.
 
 
As Spain’s economy has unraveled, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has dug himself a deeper and deeper hole. A growing number of Spaniards say that because the government has not taken decisive action, like cutting spending and making it easier to hire and fire workers, Spain lacks competitiveness. And that makes putting the breaks on mounting sovereign debt impossible.
www.pri.org
 
With debt and government crisises in Italy and Greece making international news, people in Spain, as well as lenders, are worried that country will be the next to become financially instable.

New Mexico News

Hope to have a great turnout next Wednesday! Bring your donations for Roadrunner Food Bank!

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Teresa Johansen will talk about how the Roadrunner Food Bank has "greened up" their operations and improved service delivery to needy families.
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By Heath Haussamen • News • Las Cruces Magistrate Judge Olivia Nevarez Garcia is stepping down to avoid being disciplined by the N.M. Supreme Court, the Las Cruces Sun-News is reporting.
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By Heath Haussamen • News • How did former Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block Jr. feed his prescription drug addiction? E-mails may shed light on the situation.

New Mexico Environmental Law Center and Local Food in New Mexico shared a link.

www.hcn.org
When a giant dairy proposed building near Jerry Nivens' beloved New Mexico home, the chain-smoking Texas hermit became an activist who organized other locals to fight the industry.

Jon Block, the attorney who represented the citizen coalition, calls New Mexico's rules some of the strongest in the country. "While none of this is a magic wand, from the point of what we care about, these regulations are going to slowly change the face of dairy production in this state and bring it in line with higher and higher levels of best practices."
 
 

www.KOB.com
University of New Mexico pharmacy professors are slated to hold a teach-in on the fuel plume underneath Kirtland Air Force Base.
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By Heath Haussamen • News • Former N.M. Gov. Gary Johnson is considering running for president as a libertarian and conceding that he won’t become the GOP nominee.

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By Heath Haussamen • News • The Albuquerque Journal is expressing serious concerns about the Martinez administration’s awarding of a 25-year lease for the racino at the state fair grounds.

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SANTA FE, N.M. -- Officials say an operation in Santa Fe involving round-the-clock police presence, thousands of dollars in electronics and a bait car didn't work over the weekend. Monday, November 28, 2011.

u local member nab1053 shared this incredible photo of snow geese taking flight nearby over the weekend. Share you thoughts on the photo in the comments below, then check out our other great wildlife photos on u local! http://bit.ly/srhVAg