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One Of The Most Important Scientists In The World: "Most Cancer Research Is Largely A Fraud
May 14, 2015 by JJink
Filed under General News
Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organisations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them." (source)
The above quote comes from Linus Pauling, Ph.D, and two time Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (1901-1994). He is considered one of the most important scientists in history. He is one of the founders of quantum chemistry and molecular biology, who was also a well known peace activist. He was invited to be in charge of the Chemistry division of the Manhattan Project, but refused. He has also done a lot of work on military applications, and has pretty much done and seen it all when it comes to the world of science. A quick Google search will suffice if you'd like to learn more about him.
This man has been around the block, and obviously knows a thing or two about this subject. And he's not the only expert from around the world expressing similar beliefs and voicing his opinion.
Here is another great example of a hard hitting quote when it comes to scientific fraud and manipulation. It comes from Dr. Marcia Angell, a physician and long time Editor in Chief of the New England Medical Journal (NEMJ), which is considered to be one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals in the world. I apologize if you have seen it before in my articles, but it is quite the statement.
"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine" (source)
The list goes on and on. Dr. John Bailer, who spent 20 years on the staff of the National Cancer Institute and is also a former editor of its journal, publicly stated in a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that:
"My overall assessment is that the national cancer program must be judged a qualified failure. Our whole cancer research in the past 20 years has been a total failure." (source)
He also alluded to the fact that cancer treatment, in general, has been a complete failure.
Another interesting point is the fact that most of the money donated to cancer research is spent on animal research, which has been considered completely useless by many. For example, in 1981 Dr. Irwin Bross, the former director of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Institute (largest cancer research institute in the world), said that:
"The uselessness of most of the animal model studies is less well known. For example, the discovery of chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of human cancer is widely-heralded as a triumph due to use of animal model systems. However, here again, these exaggerated claims are coming from or are endorsed by the same people who get the federal dollars for animal research. There is little, if any, factual evidence that would support these claims. Practically all of the chemotherapeutic agents which are of value in the treatment of human cancer were found in a clinical context rather than in animal studies." (source)
Today, treating illness and disease has a corporate side. It is an enormously profitable industry, but only when geared towards treatment, not preventative measures or cures, and that's an important point to consider.
Another quote that relates to my point above was made by Dr. Dean Burk, an American biochemist and a senior chemist for the National Cancer Institute. His paper, "The Determination of Enzyme Dissociation Constants (source)," published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1934, is one of the most frequently cited papers in the history of biochemistry.
"When you have power you don't have to tell the truth. That's a rule that's been working in this world for generations. And there are a great many people who don't tell the truth when they are in power in administrative positions." (source)
He also stated that:
"Fluoride causes more human cancer deaths than any other chemical. It is some of the most conclusive scientific and biological evidence that I have come across in my 50 years in the field of cancer research." (source)
In the April 15th, 2015 edition of Lancet, the UK's leading medical journal, editor in chief Richard Horton stated:
"The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Science has taken a turn toward darkness." (source)
n 2005 Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis, currently a professor in disease prevention at Stanford University, published the most widely accessed article in the history of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) entitled Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. In the report, he stated:
"There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false."
In 2009, the University of Michigan's comprehensive cancer center published an analysis that revealed popular cancer studies are false, and that there were fabricated results arising due to conflicts of interest. They suggested that the fabricated results were a result of what would work best for drug companies. After all, a large portion of cancer research is funded directly by them. You can read more about that story here.
There is so much information out there, and so much of it is coming from people who have been directly involved in these proceedings. There is really no shortage of credible sources willing to state that we live in a world of scientific fraud and manipulation.
All of this can be attributed to the "corporatocracy" we live in today, where giant corporations owned by a select group of "elite" people have basically taken control over the planet and all of its resources.
This is precisely why so many people are flocking towards alternative treatment, as well as focusing on cancer prevention. Much of what we surround ourselves with on a daily basis has been linked to cancer. Everything from pesticides, GMOs, multiple cosmetic products, certain "foods," smoking, and much much more. This is something that is never really emphasized, we always seem to just assume that donating money to charities will make the problem go away, despite the fact that their business practices are highly questionable.
That being said, so many people have had success with alternative treatments like cannabis oil – combined with a raw diet or even incorporated into their chemotherapy regimen – that we should not feel as though there is no hope for the future.
The official stance on cannabis is a great example of the very practice of misinformation that I'm talking about. Its anti-tumoral properties have been demonstrated for decades, yet no clinical trials are taking place.
I am going to leave you with this video, as I have done in previous articles. It provides a little food for thought. Ignorance is not the answer, although this information can be scary to consider, it's nothing to turn a blind eye towards.
BCA: Couple Shot to Death in Hwy. 212 Shooting Had Knife
February 15, 2014 by JJink
Filed under police brutality/terror and accountability
Authorities are identifying the four police officers involved in a fatal shooting on Highway 212 in Eden Prairie last week. Agents with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the state's top law enforcement agency, interviewed the officers Wednesday who…
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National Guard trains to fight 'anti-government' Americans
February 13, 2014 by JJink
Filed under General News
Internal documents from an Ohio Army National Guard training drill conducted in January 2013 describe the details of a mock disaster in which Second Amendment supporters with "anti-government" beliefs were portrayed as domestic terrorists.
The Guard's 52nd Civil Support Unit and first responders in hazmat suits conducted the training exercise last year in Portmouth, Ohio. In the terror-attack scenario, two Portsmouth Junior High School teachers follow orders from a white-nationalist leader to poison school lunches with mustard gas to advance their "right-wing" beliefs about gun rights.
"It's the reality of the world we live in," Portsmouth Police Chief Bill Raisin told WSAZ-TV. "Don't forget there is such a thing as domestic terrorism. This helps us all be prepared."
The TV station's website described the drill as "timely."
"Two school employees who are disgruntled over the government's interpretation of the Second Amendment, plot to use chemical, biological and radiological agents against members of the local community."
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/national-guard-trains-to-fight-anti-government-americans/#SqhB3pPQ7oXM7Bvx.99
CIA documents reveal Israeli stockpile of chemical weapons
September 11, 2013 by JJink
Filed under General News
A newly-discovered document of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency revealed Monday by Foreign Policy magazine shows that the U.S. agency had decisive evidence dating back to at least the 1980s that Israel had a stockpile of chemical and biological weapons.
The revelation comes in the midst of reports about the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government on August 21st, although there is still no clarity as to whether the regime or the rebels carried out the attack, or whether it was an accident.
Israeli nuclear and chemical weapons manufacturing facility at Dimona (image by sodahead.com)
While U.S. President Barack Obama threatened to go to war with Syria over the attack, the Syrian government has denied responsibility, and has agreed to a proposal by the Russian government to open its stores of chemical weapons to international inspection and destruction.
The document revealed by Foreign Policy magazine on Monday shows that, in addition to building up a nuclear stockpile of an estimated three hundred nuclear weapons during the 1960s and 70s, the Israeli military also developed an extensive stockpile of chemical and biological weapons.
The 1983 document stated that U.S. spy satellites had identified "a probable CW [chemical weapon] nerve agent production facility and a storage facility… at the Dimona Sensitive Storage Area in the Negev Desert. Other CW production is believed to exist within a well-developed Israeli chemical industry."
"While we cannot confirm whether the Israelis possess lethal chemical agents," the document adds, "several indicators lead us to believe that they have available to them at least persistent and nonpersistent nerve agents, a mustard agent, and several riot-control agents, marched with suitable delivery systems."
The single page of a larger CIA report was discovered at the Ronald Reagan Library in California in its unredacted form – the report had been released several years ago to the National Archives, but was heavily censored.
According to the Foreign Policy report, "Israeli historian Avner Cohen, in his 1988 book Israel and the Bomb, wrote that Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion secretly ordered that a stockpile of chemical weapons be built at about the time of the 1956 war between Israel and Egypt. The CIA, on the other hand, believed that Israel did not begin work on chemical weapons until either the late 1960s or the early 1970s.
The article included the following assessment from the 1983 CIA report: "Israel, finding itself surrounded by frontline Arab states with budding CW [chemical weapons] capabilities, became increasingly conscious of its vulnerability to chemical attack. Its sensitivities were galvanized by the capture of large quantities of Soviet CW-related equipment during both the 1967 Arab-Israeli and the 1973 Yom Kippur wars. As a result, Israel undertook a program of chemical warfare preparations in both offensive and protective areas."
The Israeli government has harshly criticized the Syrian government for its alleged use of chemical weapons three weeks ago, and has encouraged President Obama's pledge to respond militarily.
Israel did sign the Convention to Ban Chemical Weapons, but the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) never ratified the treaty. Israel has never opened its nuclear facility or its chemical weapons stockpile to international inspections.
Advocate of Secret Infiltration, Cass Sunstein, on Obama's "Committee To Make Us Trust the Dragnet" – See more at: http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/22/advocate-of-secret-infiltration-cass-sunstein-on-obamas-committee-to-make-us-trust-the-dragnet/#sthash.Y4EdpPNC.dpuf
August 24, 2013 by JJink
Filed under General News
ABC reports that, along with former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell, former Homeland Security Czar Richard Clarke, and former Obama special assistant for economic policy Peter Swire, the White House (or James Clapper — who knows at this point) has picked Cass Sunstein for its Review Committee on NSA programs.
Frankly, a lot of people are investing misplaced confidence that Richard Clarke will make this committee useful. While he's good on a lot of issues, he's as hawkish on cybersecurity as anyone else in this country. And as I keep pointing out, these programs are really about cybersecurity. Richard Clarke is not going to do a damned thing to rein in a program that increasingly serves to surveil US Internet data to protect against cyberthreats.
But Sunstein? Really?
As Glenn Greenwald (yeah — that Glenn; did they really think no one would raise this point?) reported back in 2010, Sunstein wrote a paper in 2008 advocating very creepy stealth measures against "conspiracy theories."
In 2008, while at Harvard Law School, Sunstein co-wrote a truly pernicious paper proposing that the U.S. Government employ teams of covert agents and pseudo-"independent" advocates to "cognitively infiltrate" online groups and websites — as well as other activist groups — which advocate views that Sunstein deems "false conspiracy theories" about the Government. This would be designed to increase citizens' faith in government officials and undermine the credibility of conspiracists. The paper's abstract can be read, and the full paper downloaded, here.
Sunstein advocates that the Government's stealth infiltration should be accomplished by sending covert agents into "chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups." He also proposes that the Government make secret payments to so-called "independent" credible voices to bolster the Government's messaging (on the ground that those who don't believe government sources will be more inclined to listen to those who appear independent while secretly acting on behalf of the Government). This program would target those advocating false "conspiracy theories," which they define to mean: "an attempt to explain an event or practice by reference to the machinations of powerful people, who have also managed to conceal their role."
And remember, a big mandate for this committee is not to review the programs to see if we can make them more privacy-protective, but simply to increase our trust in them. Which goes to the core of what Sunstein was talking about in his paper: using covert government propaganda to, in this case, better sell covert government spying.
Well, if Obama and Clapper's rollout hadn't already discredited this committee, Sunstein's selection sure does.
Update: Adding some quotes from Sunstein's paper.
The importance of undermining conspiracy theories is especially important with terrorism.
Our main though far from exclusive focus – our running example – involves conspiracy theories relating to terrorism, especially theories that arise from and post-date the 9/11 attacks. These theories exist within the United States and, even more virulently, in foreign countries, especially Muslim countries. The existence of both domestic and foreign conspiracy theories, we suggest, is no trivial matter, posing real risks to the government's antiterrorism policies, whatever the latter may be. Terrorism-related theories are thus a crucial testing ground for the significance, causes, and policy implications of widespread conspiracy theorizing.
True conspiracy theories shouldn't be undermined.
Of course some conspiracy theories, under our definition, have turned out to be true. The Watergate hotel room used by Democratic National Committee was, in fact, bugged by Republican officials, operating at the behest of the White House. In the 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency did, in fact, administer LSD and related drugs under Project MKULTRA, in an effort to investigate the possibility of "mind control." Operation Northwoods, a rumored plan by the Department of Defense to simulate acts of terrorism and to blame them on Cuba, really was proposed by high-level officials (though the plan never went into effect).13 In 1947, space aliens did, in fact, land in Roswell, New Mexico, and the government covered it all up. (Well, maybe not.) Our focus throughout is on false conspiracy theories, not true ones. Our ultimate goal is to explore how public officials might undermine such theories, and as a general rule, true accounts should not be undermined. [my emphasis]
– See more at: http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/22/advocate-of-secret-infiltration-cass-sunstein-on-obamas-committee-to-make-us-trust-the-dragnet/#sthash.Y4EdpPNC.dpuf
Six Plainclothes Cops Attack and Arrest University of Virginia Sorority Woman After She Buys Water From Grocery Store
June 29, 2013 by JJink
Filed under General News, police brutality/terror and accountability
Modern policing! Public safety! No amount of snarky irony can prepare you for this tale of police idiocy in the name of the most minor and absurd of laws, reported in Daily Progress out of Virginia:
When a half-dozen men and a woman in street clothes closed in on University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly, 20, she and two roommates panicked.
Photo credit: Fergal Mac Eoinin / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA
That led to Daly spending a night and an afternoon in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Her initial offense? Walking to her car with bottled water, cookie dough and ice cream just purchased from the Harris Teeter in the Barracks Road Shopping Center for a sorority benefit fundraiser.
A group of state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents clad in plainclothes approached her, suspecting the blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water to be a 12-pack of beer. Police say one of the agents jumped on the hood of her car. She says one drew a gun. Unsure of who they were, Daly tried to flee the darkened parking lot.
"They were showing unidentifiable badges after they approached us, but we became frightened, as they were not in anything close to a uniform," she recalled Thursday in a written account of the April 11 incident.
"I couldn't put my windows down unless I started my car, and when I started my car they began yelling to not move the car, not to start the car. They began trying to break the windows. My roommates and I were … terrified," Daly stated.
The authorities agree with her tale, but, you know, she had pissed the cops off by then.
Charlottesville Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Chapman read Daly's account and said it was factually consistent.
Prosecutors say she apologized profusely when she realized who the agents were. But that wasn't good enough for ABC agents, who charged her with three felonies. Prosecutors withdrew those charges Thursday in Charlottesville General District Court, but Daly still can't understand why she sat in jail….
Agents charged Daly with two counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer and one count of eluding police, all Class 6 felonies carrying a maximum penalty of five years in prison and $2,500 in fines per offense….
Daly incurred the assault charges when she "grazed" two agents with her SUV, according to court records. She drove the SUV past the agents after her front-seat passenger, in a panic, yelled at Daly to "go, go, go" and climbed into the rear of the vehicle to gain space from the men on her side of the car, the records state…
Oh, the irony!
The women dialed 911 as they pulled out of the parking lot to report what was happening and ask whether the agents were police officers. Daly said she was planning to drive to a police station. She stopped the SUV nearby for an agent driving a vehicle with lights and sirens, Chapman said.
FBI Tells 911 Rescue Worker
June 22, 2013 by JJink
Filed under General News
Editors note: I found this earlier today nd thought it would be a great rehashing of the war on whistleblowers
source:By Greg Szymanski
Two ground zero workers go public about finding cockpit and flight data recorders from Flight 11 and 175. Government claims 'black boxes' from the doomed 911 flights were never found. 911 Commission ignores information and fails to interview rescue workers. A 911 rescue worker said this week he was told by FBI agents to "keep his mouth shut" about one of the "black boxes" found at ground zero, contradicting the official story that none of the flight and cockpit data recorders were ever recovered in the WTC wreckage. Honorary firefighter Mike Bellone claims he was approached by unknown bureau agents a short time after he and his partner Nicholas DeMasi, a retired New York firefighter, found three of the four "black boxes" among the WTC rubble before January 2002. The pair first claimed to find the data recorders in an August 2003 book entitled "Behind The Scene: Ground Zero" when DeMasi said the "black boxes" were found while he traversed ground zero in his ATV with three federal agents. FBI and New York fire officials have denied ever finding the voice and data recorders. Now Bellone claims agents were adamant about keeping the discovery a secret. "They confronted me and told me to not to say anything," recalls Bellone, referring to one of three reddish-orange boxes with two white stripes he saw in the back of DeMasi's ATV. "I said give me a good reason? When they couldn't, I told them I wouldn't shut up about it. "Why should I? I have nothing to hide and nothing to gain. It's the truth and Nick and I are sticking to our story as we always have." Bellone said he and DeMasi were not the only 911 rescue workers to see the black boxes. He said there were several other witnesses and knows first hand they have been silenced by federal agents. "I know two or three others saw what went down, but they are not talking," added Bellone. "They got to those guys after they talked to me. The only reason I can figure they are trying to hide the truth is that the government knows it screwed up and the recorders would prove it." Asked to give names of the other witnesses, he said he wouldn't break a fellow-worker's confidence, privacy and firm desire to remain anonymous. "I can tell you this, though, it was all very strange. I worked on the spaceship Columbia clean-up and you know when something important is found and when something is not" he recalled, saying the day the 'black boxes' were secretly carted away agents acted like "something big was going down." Bellone also recalled never learning the FBI names as this type of personal contact and information wasn't exchanged between the civilian workers and government officials working side-by-side at ground zero. "We worked together, but nobody knew their names," added Bellone. "They had on their FBI jackets, but I'm sure I could pick them out of a line-up or recognize their pictures." The pair's bombshell accusations blows a big hole in the official story as well as the findings in the recent 911 Commission report. In Chapter 1, footnote 76, there is the sole but definitive reference to the airline "black boxes": "The CVR's and the FDR's (voice and flight data recorders) from American 11 and United 175 were not found." Asked if DeMasi and Bellone were questioned or subpoenaed, Commission spokesman Al Felzenberg said: "I can't tell you now if he was is one of the 1,200 people we interviewed or if the book was one of the countless ones we researched. We explored every lead, but I will try to find out if we talked with him and get back to you" However, Bellone said he and DeMasi never were contacted by Commission members or asked to appear regarding their statements even though the book was published well before the hearings commenced. And it's amazing with a story of such importance that in over a year since the book surfaced almost nobody else has called them either. It's hard to imagine a story with such magnitude has not been thoroughly checked out unless the mainstream press purposely ignored it. "I have been contacted by only one newspaper reporter from the Philadelphia Daily News. That's it," he said, referring to an October 2004 story by reporter William Bunch, recapping DeMasi's book statements as well as the usual official denials. Those close to the 911 investigation said the recovery of the "black boxes" is important, holding vital clues and leading to the truth of what really happened on the morning of 911. The cockpit voice recorder uses a pair of microphones to capture all cockpit sounds for the last 30 minutes of a doomed flight. The flight date recorder is also significant since it records altitude, heading and airspeed. Both recorders are designed to withstand enormous impact and heat. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials said they should have withstood the conditions at the WTC. And finding the boxes after a crash seems to be standard procedure, according to the NTSB. "It's extremely rare that we don't get the recorders back,' said NTSB spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz. "I can't remember another case which we did not recover the recorders." Bellone is retired and was made an honorary New York fireman for his efforts after 911. DeMasi also recently retired from Engine Co. 261, nicknamed the "Flaming Skulls," after serving a brief stint after 911 with the fire department's marine unit.
Anonymous threatens to expose the FBI and other government agencies for their alleged set-ups
May 27, 2013 by JJink
Filed under police brutality/terror and accountability
Author: Ben Franklin
Source: FederalJack
Subject: Porngate Scandal
Related Articles: Hidden Tor website encourages uploading child porn through people's personal Wifi Routers, setting them up, The Government Is Planting Child Porn On Your Computer, 11 reasons why the sex offender registry fails to protect kids and does more harm to society then good, Any Whistleblowers whom wish to expose Porngate, I ask you to come forth and tell us
Note: As I continue covering the porngate scandal I am asking whistleblowers to do the right thing and still report tips on government corruption regarding child pornography set-ups and statistics padding to email@example.com. I am sure with Anonymous lurking around and making bold statements through mass emailing, they will likely start targeting government employees using internet hacking as that is their specialty then investigate government networks to find evidence that they are moving child porn files around to set people up with. I know many government workers and agents are afraid of getting in trouble and or being arrested on child porn charges themselves for speaking out but this trend cannot keep continuing as many innocent Americans will likely kill themselves or have permanent psychological repercussions as a result of these wrongful child porn raids and sex offender convictions.
Right now it appears that the hacktivist group named Anonymous with the Anonops decentralized branch has claimed that they have sent emails to all of the media around the internet world. They have claimed they will expose and gather evidence that government employees are directly or indirectly planting child pornography on people's computers to pad the child porn bust statistics, taking care of political enemies in all isles of politics, and keeping up the police arrest quotas as a majority of child porn busts seems to be using local police and detectives for the ICAC while the feds conduct Operation Flicker.
So far the mainstream media has not made a peep which will make it hard to determine if Anonymous had really contacted the media around the internet world as there is so many alternative and mainstream media outlets, the amount of emails this group will need is likely in the tens of thousands however if they are committed to their cause, along with all the volunteer hacktivists, they will likely reach that anywhere between a week to three days.
Here is the pasted content and subject right from an email that appears to be an Anonops email address hosted on Tormail:
Subject: This is Anonymous, with a special Announcement for the Press and the world
Dear Entire News media of the Internet world,
We are now aware that thousands to tens of thousands of innocent children and adults are being set up with child pornography which includes Andrew Rose whom downloaded Mp3 files with child porn attached to the MP3 tags. We watch how so many innocent people are being paraded around in your news programs as child porn watching child molesters and this angers us. We wish to find out the truth then take action. Now the US Government plans to punish whistleblowers and any reporters whom meet with them so that they can continue to plant child pornography on more kids and adults computers to set them up as child sex molesters and offenders then parade them on the news as disgusting child sexing monsters when the truth is they been set up from the gitgo. Then added onto a sex offender registry and beaten and tarnished in their communities. Many to all have to live in dumpsters and homeless because they cannot find a job once they are tarnished on the registry.
We've heard the story of Andrew Rose and other mainstream media and alternative media reporters, political activists, and even small bloggers are being targeted and framed with child porn, drugs, or other felony conviction level contraband or people being paid off to start infighting or making violent political statements as a result of the corrupt establishment by the Bilderberg Group that has taken over various government and police departments throughout the world including the United States. These child porn busting task forces are a fraud. They didn't even prosecute the over 5,000 Pentagon employees for their purchasing and downloading of child porn on the tax payers dime. These people don't care about stopping child exploitation and are only used as a political tool of destruction to destroy good and innocent people's lives through the corrupt and costly criminal injustice system which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars just to prove innocence with attorney fees. Poor folks can't even get an attorney until they are indicted and forced to sit in jail for months and months until the prosecutor is satisfied with making innocent people suffer like hell. Some form of justice we've got eh!
We've sent emails to every alternative media, mainstream media, and other activists emails we got through various email collecting agents to get the message of Anonymous out to everyone.
Anonymous IRC chats and other mediums of contact had to keep turning away people begging us to prove them innocent of child pornography and they were set up by a trojan or virus that shares child porn. We hated this and now we have decided to send a message to the entire Internet World and to the corrupt FBI.
Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Operation Flicker, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other tragedy law enforcement agencies, WE KNOW YOU ARE PLANTING CHILD PORN ON INNOCENT PEOPLE'S COMPUTERS using trojans, physical file set-ups using flash drives and sd cards, putting child porn inside the MP3 tag headers of music files on Limewire and eMule to entrap music downloaders as child porno possessors, and we know all the child porn fighting organizations get kickbacks and sustained funding for every arrest and prosecution you get according to various documents we have received through our agents we have everywhere in every level of government. How shameful you make money off of ruining people's lives forever including twelve year boys, 17 year olds and other little kids and teens. You FBI people must love putting all your enemies on sex offender registries, that must really make you enjoy yourselves thinking of us all rotting in prison with the dumb juries doing blanket convictions on innocent people just for being accused of pornography.
We have a message for you, We will find out the truth!!!! We will find out who in the government is planting child porn on innocent people's computers then we shall publish all their names on the real "Anonymous sex offender registry" which lists every government employee that has set up innocent people with child pornography and this also includes police officers on the task forces. This will also go out to all the media and all the child porn sharers in the force that had innocent people condemned to mandatory sex offender reporting, the truth will be known about ya. Beware you aren't Anonymous crooked cops and agents whom enjoy setting up people with child pornography. You must be proud of yourselfs pedomakers or pedobuilders.
To all child exploiting government people whom set the innocents up: We shall expose the truth on YOU
We are Anonymous
We never forgive
We never forget
We are legion
Little does Anonymous realize that my friends alternative media website is no longer but nevertheless Anonymous wants the whole world to get their message that they are sick and tired of innocent people begin set up with child pornography including a autistic teen named Andrew Rose whom got in trouble when he was around 17 years old. Andrew's family has run a support group on Facebook and amount of membership has grown exponentially since the Porngate scandal investigating articles started coming out on alternative media website with the exception of big name ones like Infowars and Activistpost as those are the most reputable and will take to research and confirm things before those websites start writing articles about the next big government scandal since Bengazigate, Climategate, IRSGate, and Watergate.


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Toronto's Slim Twig is a smokey mirror man. A figure as mysterious as he is alluring. Despite a prolific output over the last seven years, or perhaps because of the wide range of styles and ideas explored with this output, Slim Twig is a mercurial entity.
Whether he's creating found-sound-hip-hop-ish records or churning out short order crackle-pop singles, there has always been a distinct sense of pomp and sophistication. Slim Twig strikes as one of those rare figures born for the spotlight: a jack of all shady trades, a magnetic live presence, an impeccable, resourceful self-promoter, singer, actor, record label owner, etc.etc.etc…
His music, up until now, has embodied this busy-body model, running from touchstone to touchstone, lashing out into new territory and rescinding into bubbling abstruseness. His past projects felt like sprawling, backwater curiosity shops where you could spend hours digging without ever expecting to take something home; just getting your fingers filthy and marvelling at the textures and tints of the recovered and refurbished miscellanea.
Sof' Sike, on the other hand, feels like one of those crisp, ornate vintage boutiques with minimal stock, impeccable decor and quality goods for which you don't mind shelling out a little extra. There's a Ziggy Stardust fridge magnet, an old VHS copy of Performance, a pair of killer leather boots, a rack of pristine paisley shirts, a sleeve of ? & The Mysterions with the record missing.
That is to say, the stylistic references are still there, but the focus has narrowed (specifically to 60's psych-pop), and because of Slim's expert consideration, I find myself returning to see what little pieces of the collection I missed on first visit. Interestingly, most of the lyrics also seem to have a specific bent to them: Slim is playing the underdog card pretty heavy, wondering when his true stardom will shine more brightly. It's a topic that could easily work against him, but because he's put his best foot forward, with great tact and temperament, I'm left nodding along in jangly agreement, wondering the same thing myself. With records this good, it shouldn't be long now.

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#02 Cetinje / Coexistence
#02 CETINJE: second stage for Coexistence... for a new Adriatic Koinè
After the success of the first stage at the Piramida in Tirana, the City of Cetinje welcomes the second of the five stages of the contemporary art exhibition "ART IN PORT - Coexistence: for a new Adriatic Koine". It opens in Montenegro, at the National Art Gallery - Miodrag Dado Duric of Cetinje on 5th September at 8pm and involves artists from the five partner countries of the exhibition: Albania, Montenegro, Croatia and Italy (Veneto and Apulia). The next stages will be displayed in Rijeka, in Croatia, Venice and Polignano a Mare in Italy, until March 2015.
Working together to give voice to art, to multiply its visions, to create a narration with many voices, connected together into a large Adriatic and transmedia network.
The exhibition is part of the project "arTVision. A live art channel" funded by the European IPA Adriatic CBC Programme 2007/2013, with the purpose of activating and connecting the creative energy of young artists invited to participate as protagonists.
It is an experimental project, led by Puglia Region - Area Policies for the Promotion of Territory, Knowledge and Talent with technical support by Apulia Film Commission, which involves: Pino Pascali Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art; Veneto Region - Direction of cultural and performance activities; Academy of Fine Arts of Venice; Ministry of Culture of Montenegro; Faculty of Dramatic Arts of Cetinje – Montenegro; Ministry of Culture of Albania; University of Arts of Tirana - Albania; Primorje-Gorski Kotar County – Croatia; Kanal RI - Croatia.
The core idea is to establish a strict dialogue among cross-border Nations through a set of cultural actions, aimed at finding out commonalities and discontinuities amongst people sharing the Mare Nostrum of the Adriatic Mediterranean.
There are five versions of one exhibition in different locations and territories with the aim of stating the concept of a new linguistic Koinè which is capable of translating territorial identities into the dynamics of relationship, open-mindedness and comparison. The artists from different geographical areas, coordinated by a team of curators, headed by the Pino Pascali Museum Foundation, in collaboration with the coordinators of the partner countries, have dealt with such shared topics as stories and narrations, myths and legends, spirituality and religions, migration and nomadism, with the aim of strengthening the idea of a common Europeanness too often forgotten.
The exhibition is curated by the critic and curator Maria Paola Spinelli, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro (referent Mr. Boris Abramovic) and the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of Cetinje – Montenegro.
1 – Albania August 1st - 24th, 2014
2 - Montenegro September 5th – 25th, 2014
3 - Croatia November 20th – December 6th, 2014
4 - Veneto December 20th, 2014 – January 18th, 2015
5 - Apulia January 31st – March 1st, 2015
Albania Tirana – Piramida
Montenegro Cetinje – National Art Gallery
Croatia Rijeka – Muzej Moderne I Suvremene Umjetnosti
Veneto Venice – Magazzino del Sale
Apulia Polignano a Mare, Bari – Pino Pascali Foundation
Info: The exhibition will run from 5th to 25th September 2014 Opening Hours from 6th September, every day, from 10:00 -14:00 h and 17:00 - 21:00 h National Art Gallery // Miodrag Dado Duric - Balsica pazar bb, Cetinje Montenegro.
COEXISTENCE Opening
Great success for the first stage of the travelling exhibition "Coexistence: for a new Adriatic Koinè"
On Friday, 1st August 2014, many art lovers crowded the International Culture Centre of Tirana, Albania (the so called Pyramid). Lost in the memories of years gone by, the building's internal spaces have provoked the curiosity and astonishment of those who attended the inauguration of the exhibition "Coexistence: for a new Adriatic Koiné" (August 1st to 24th), which involves 25 emerging artists from Albania, Croatia, Italy (Veneto and Puglia) and Montenegro. It was the first stage of a journey that started in Albania to then proceed to Montenegro on September 5th, and then Croatia and finally Veneto and Puglia.
The promoting idea is the research, aimed at structuring a close dialogue between cross border nations, through an operation designed to track common cultural characteristics and differences that distinguish the populations sharing the Mare Nostrum of the Mediterranean Adriatic. In fact, the selected artists confronted themselves on everyday issues such as stories and narratives, myths and legends, spirituality and religion, migration and nomadic life, in order to arrive at a reinforced idea of a common Europeanism, often forgotten.
The exhibition is part of the project "arTvision. A live art channel", funded under the European Programme IPA Adriatic CBC 2007/2013 with the intent of mobilizing and connecting the creative energy of young artists, invited to take part as protagonists. It is a pilot project led by the Puglia Region - Area Policies for the Promotion of Territory, Knowledge and Talents, with the technical support of the Apulia Film Commission involving the Foundation Pino Pascali - Museum of Contemporary Art; Veneto Region - Directorate Cultural Activities and Events; Academy of Fine Arts of Venice; Ministry of Culture of Montenegro; Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje - Montenegro; Ministry of Culture of Albania; University of the Arts Tirana - Albania; Primorje Gorski Kotar County - Croatia; Kanal RI - Croatia.
Luigino Rossi's view
Luigino Rossi's view on arTVision and Coexistence
The Koine, a dialect that - precious oxymoron - has turned into a bridge language, is the road to follow to achieve a collective participation. A common language, conveyed by artistic practice, capable of regenerating ancient social and cultural sharings that have always animated the routes of our sea. A metaphorical port made of several landfalls, which gather, under one aegis, intentions and visions, history and stories, even in front of complex geographical geometries.
The young artists selected by the Venice Academy, along with their colleagues from Apulia, Croatia, Montenegro and Albania, are not heirs to Diomedes: they have not laid down the sword to go back in the good graces of an offended Aphrodite. They need to keep on sailing to learn, to use their knowledge to search for further knowledge through comparison and exchange; since there are no sins to atone for. Therefore, they share the desire to build long and solid bridges from shore to shore, nothing more necessary. In this seed is the common language.
For the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, "Art in Port – COEXISTENCE FOR A NEW ADRIATC KOINE" is this: the first sighting, shouted from the bow, of a new land to explore, a choral landing along the yet to be built coast of the Adriatic.
Luigino Rossi
President of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice – Italy
Dragica Milic's view
Dragica Milic's view on arTVision and Coexistence
International cultural cooperation support is among the highest priorities of the Ministry of Culture. Policy and strategic projects implementation-wise, the Ministry appreciates the significance of ARTVISION - A LIVE ART CHANNEL, aimed at cooperation and improvement and creation of new models for sustainable cultural development between Adriatic countries' cultural sectors.
ARTVISION defines culture as significant dialogue improving resources, and a precious means of contribution to the togetherness of people and prosperity of the Adriatic region. Project activities include contemporary art exhibition Coexistence – for a New Adriatic Koine, derived from combined forces and the exchange of experiences and ideas of partner institutions and young creators from Albania, Croatia, Montenegro and the Italian regions of Veneto and Puglia.
Through a series of shows at referential gallery spaces, the display travels the cultural map of Adriatic territories. Selected artists' recent production, of expressive sensibility, is presented using broad spectrum of contemporary artistic expressions. Integration, togetherness and dialogue, important Adriatic countries' mission guidelines, are central themes of Coexistence, which introduces socially engaged and meaningful segment of contemporary artistic reflection, and discovers new points of perceiving the Adriatic, as an area of versatile dialogue and intercultural fusion. Connected by strong spiritual, cultural and civilization ties, we'll continue to improve cultural cooperation and inherit coexistence of the Adriatic region, as basis of togetherness and precious driving force towards European integration of the Adriatic countries.
Dragica Milic
General Director of the Directorate for Cultural and Artistic Creativity
Ministry of Culture of Montenegro
Silvia Godelli's view
Silvia Godelli's view on arTVision and Coexistence
The time is ripe for intercultural dialogue to take a leap forward and create a real sense of community, a shared and dynamic belonging that nourishes itself by synthesizing the differences of origins, languages, traditions and symbols of the partner Countries.
The very title of the traveling exhibition, featuring 25 young artists in search of new horizons and new languages, contains a program, a promise: Coexistence as a point of arrival and restart, art as an instrument of cohesion, but most of all as a push towards comparison, combination, the challenge of a wider and more inclusive cultural community.
Apulia has worked very hard to create the best conditions to promote this qualitative leap: an Adriatic region that has always been a border region, a landing place for many people, both exiles and builders of the future. From Aeneas, who fled from his destroyed land and finally came to our shores thousands of years ago, up to the human clusters of the Vlora, men and women in search of a better fate and a fair life. Over the last decade, Apulia, a land of sea and welcome, has woven the web of a development path based on Adriatic relationships, looking beyond the sea, towards the Western Balkan countries, rich in history and culture, all aiming, in their turn, to become part of a wider and innovative Europe, a Europe of peoples and democracy.
And now that Albania has finally obtained the status of candidate Member of the European Union, now that Croatia compares itself as an equal with the other EU countries, now that Montenegro is a vital and independent nation, culture and art, and especially the young talents who are animating the international scene with their original attitude, have the task of creating a true Adriatic Koine, a symbolic space, able to involve not only artists, but also all the peoples on both shores.
Then, the exhibition: a powerful journey across the most fascinating and significant Adriatic cities: from Tirana, a fervent place of artists, to vibrant Cetinje, to Rijeka, the former city of Fiume, a Central European and cosmopolitan port, to the wonders of Venice, a glorious Adriatic capital, and finally here, in the magical town of Polignano a Mare, on a dreamful cliff and in a museum dedicated to one of the greatest inspirers of contemporary art, Pino Pascali.
Have a nice journey then, Coexistence, have a nice journey and a great future; this is the wish for the exhibition, for the artists, for the Adriatic-Ionian Euroregion that is about to be born, and for all of us, men and women, institutions and social actors, that are making the Adriatic the flag of a common future.
Silvia Godelli Regional Minister for the Mediterranean, Culture and Tourism of Puglia Region
Francesco Palumbo's view
Francesco Palumbo's view on arTVision and Coexistence
An exhibition, "Coexistence: for a new Adriatic Koine", that seals and makes the precious heritage of Art and Culture, which makes up the mosaic of ArTVision, travel to the Adriatic ports as a vessel of ancient memory. Art is an eternal being and an exchange of knowledge and relationships. Culture is the engine for the development process generated by innovation and creativity.
It is on this combination that we need to focus today, on the ability to release the "know-how" that distinguishes the individual and the community, and which comes from history, from a deep-rooted knowledge, from the ability to create and generate new ideas. Over the last few years, the mission of the Apulia region has been precisely to create, together with local communities, "culture-based" development paths absolutely consistent with the goals of the smart, sustainable and inclusive growth of the EU 2020 strategy, and with the goals of the EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020. The key words were cooperation, integration and participation, which have been implemented through a variety of policies and instruments.
Funded by the IPA Adriatic CBC Programme 2007-2013, "ArTVision – a live art channel" is the most vivid expression of this process: if, on the one hand, it promotes innovative forms of cultural and inter-institutional communication between Adriatic and European countries, on the other hand it is indeed a generator of experiences, interactions, creativity, art and culture. And it does so by combining localism and globalism, by enhancing the existing while going beyond it, with a strong push towards transmediality and cross-border cooperation, which means not only to share projects and economic resources, but also to pool people, to be open to comparisons, to multiply ideas. The hope is that a common feeling, a nascent Adriatic identity, a new koine can travel together with this exhibition and across this sea.
Francesco Palumbo Area Director of Policies for the Promotion of Territory, Knowledge and Talent - Puglia Region
Rosalba Branà's view
Rosalba Branà's view on arTVision and Coexistence
"Each life is an encyclopedia; a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable."
Italo Calvino
The action Art in Port "Coexistence: for a new Adriatic Koine" will consist of five contemporary art exhibitions to be organized in the five Adriatic areas involved in the project IPA ART VISION.
The event will involve 25 young and emerging artists and the cities of Tirana, Cetinje, Rijeka, Venice and Polignano, headquarters of the Pino Pascali Foundation. The main purpose is to strengthen the young art network and establish a dialogue between the two shores of the Adriatic. Today, our global consciousness cannot do without the local spirit of places, by which they interact with the aim of defining a cultural practice that can be identified as a single Adriatic civilization.
The exhibition investigates the concept of identity, which needs to be reshaped and used 'without any bounds'. Identity and difference are key concepts in the research carried out by contemporary art. More than any other category, artists create strict relationships between the time of historical memory and their native places. The theme "Coexistence" asks ART to dress identity in a world where isolation is no longer possible. Migration flows and increasingly global economic processes have radically transformed the perception of territories and the limits of boundaries.
The contemporary artist works in a 'borderless society', in search of a shared global territory. Indeed, today art is moving across that utopian space which sociology defines as the 'territorialisation of desires', a new concept of territory, based on a desire for physical and mental mobility. In the liquidness of the sea that unites and divides us, such closed concepts as 'territory', 'boundaries', 'borders' will be virtually diluted and replaced with 'extra-territorial', 'otherness', 'hybridization', 'multiculturalism'. There are five versions of one exhibition in different locations and territories with the aim of stating the concept of a 'new linguistic Koine'. Thus, the exhibition focuses on a strong and precise theme, the artists have worked on shared topics such as history, memory, migration, nomadism...
The exhibition has been conceived with the essential contribution of our critics, appointed by the Pascali Foundation: Roberto Lacarbonara, Antonio Frugis, Marinilde Giannandrea, Mariapaola Spinelli, who, together with the representatives of the partner countries, have selected the artists and coordinated the exhibition, in order to make it harmonious, homogeneous and accessible. The organizational and logistical aspects of this complex itinerant event are managed by Susanna Torres and Natale Parisi. All partners have selected very charming and prestigious locations, both institutional and unconventional, so that, in each of them, the exhibition will feature different characteristics and will integrate with the host architectural spaces.
An exhibition project in progress, that changes its shape from time to time, whose cornerstone and main purpose is to give voice to different realities through the common language of ART, so that those involved, from authors to visitors, will be able to know and recognize each other within a system of linguistic sharing.
Rosalba Branà Director of the Pino Pascali Museum Foundation, Polignano a Mare (BA) Italy Scientific Director WP5
Mirela Kumbaro's view
Mirela Kumbaro Furxhi's view on arTVision and Coexistence
"I am particularly pleased to present "Coexistence: for a new Adriatic Koine", part of the project "arTVision - a live art channel", funded under the European Programme IPA Adriatic CBC 2007/2013, because this itinerant exhibition represents one of the most important events currently organized in the contemporary art in Albania, at least considering the number of artists involved.
I do not think I exaggerate when I say that the project "arTVision" has been a difficult path, and not only for the Ministry of Culture of Albania, but for all partners. However, I believe even more strongly that this exhibition justifies these difficulties and the daily sacrifice of all those who have contributed to this event.
"Coexistence" promotes in fact the dialogue between the neighboring countries, such as those bordering the Adriatic Sea, and it helps to give a common voice to art, promoting young emerging artists. Albania is here represented with 5 young artists: Alketa Ramaj, Anila Rubiku, Endri Dani, Sulejman Fani and Ilir Kaso. There are four countries and five regions involved; 25 artists coming from those areas, from those landscapes and horizons, communicating with us with their heart and with the language of contemporary art.
It is a project that involves young artists able to freely communicate from all horizons of the Adriatic Sea, and I truly believe that this maritime area can be transformed into a cultural shared space. We decided to hold the first exhibition in the Piramide, a myth of the dictatorship period which nowadays is a centre where everyone can freely express themselves".
Mirela Kumbaro Furxhi Minister of Culture of Albania
Petrit Malaj's view
Petrit Malaj's view on out arTVision and Coexistence
I am honoured to share the pleasure for the participation in the event "Art in Port" of 5 young Albanian artists who are integrated into a "community without borders" in an exhibition of contemporary Art and, in an Artistic Coexistence of 25 selected artists coming from Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Veneto Region and Puglia Region Italy.
"Coexistence": for a New Adriatic Koine is a signifcant artistic event with a smart and functional curatorial concept, which crosses interesting routes and is offered to talk about the research, challenges and individual creativity of the artists participating in the project of ArTVision - a live art channel.
The exhibition launched in this Adriatic journey has now turned into a platform for artistic communication and open dialogue for the 25 participating artists. It clearly demonstrates the role of art for triumphing over artificial barriers of prejudices and the capacity to build spaces of human, talent and professional exchanges. I take this opportunity to say thank you for the communication, harmonization and fruitful cooperation for the realization of our project activities of ArTVision Puglia Region and the entire institutional and technical partners. Good Luck!
Petrit Malaj Rector of the University of Arts in Tirana - Albania
Sehad Cekic's view
Sehad Cekic's view on arTVision and Coexistence
In the ever accelerating modern world, marked by one of the main themes of our age – rapid increase in all kinds of the communication, paradoxically, there is less and less mutual understanding. The arts and culture remain the true mediators, connecting the past and the present, as well as making us connected, in indescribable and immeasurable forms, with all parts of the world of today. This is, also, the most precious asset of communication with our neighbors, which, due to many political and economic setbacks, we haven't embraced to the fullest, as much as it has been needed. The Mediterranean experience represents the basis of our common identity and art is our common and timeless language.
The project 'ArTVision', with its broad collection of artwork production, lectures and residencies, cultural policy investigation and debate, and, of course, collection of audiovisual reports on contemporary art, becomes the brave and irreplaceable basis for the next phases of building togetherness. Mapping and presentation of many of the contemporary artists and artworks will create grounds for similar projects in social and economic areas that will lead us, less burdened, into a permanently more indistinct and less certain future. It is, in many ways, a privilege to be the part of this distinguished, pioneering and far-sighted project.
Sehad Cekic Dean of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje - Montenegro
Valery Jurešic's view
Valery Jurešic's view on arTVision and Coexistence
Coexistence – 100 years after, can we do better? In the year which recalls memories of a series of events that thoroughly shook more than just the European continent an exhibition to bring Adriatic people closer has been organized.
Moreover, the title of the exhibition announces the quest for a new common language of the Adriatic. The 20th century started with the disastrous war placing a shadow over dreams of the modern time, ended with the fall of Iron curtain thus wakening hope for better lives in a united Europe.
However, this 20th century brought a lot of pain and suffering to countries of the Adriatic. Italy, Albania, Montenegro and Croatia have found themselves on different sides in both World wars, during the Cold war, and taking part in the last series of wars on the Balkan states in last decade of 20th century, after the fall of the Wall.It was not the century of understanding. The Adriatic was dividing people more than bringing them together at that time. Today, together in the European Union, or on its doorstep, countries of the Adriatic are seeking a common understanding and cooperation.
Can we do better than the 20th century? Can we recall and rethink modern ideas of humanity and arts? Of times when art was meant to give a sense of wellbeing? Nothing else but art is given to ask these questions and to thrive to answer them.
Valery Jurešic Head of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Department of Culture, Sports and Technical Education - Croatia
Neven Šantic's view
Neven Šantic's view on arTVision and Coexistence
When several years ago the idea of ArTVision emerged, Kanal Ri, having already gained the reputation of one of the best regional TV networks in Croatia, accepted the opportunity to join the project without a moment of hesitation. There were three main reasons behind that decision.
Firstly, one of the aims of our network is to produce and/ or broadcast high-quality content, and the experience exchange among colleagues that takes place while working on a project like this can result in developing a long-term program concept with inhouse production or co-production of documentaries as one of the pillars. Secondly, the development of visual technologies has been increasingly merging contemporary art and electronic media, which includes television.
None of us knows what will happen in ten or twenty years, but one thing we know for sure: providing support and encouragement for contemporary art scene is the least that television can do, while this would also provide us with a chance to explore new perspectives and widen our own horizons. Last but not least, this is an EU-funded project that not only promotes the collaboration between countries and regions connected by the Adriatic Sea, thus prompting us to surpass the existing and imaginary boundaries, but also offers the possibility of evaluation of human and creative potential that exists within this part of the European cultural and artistic scene. And there is so much to be seen, as ArTVision will undoubtedly prove.
Neven Šantic
Director of "Kanal Ri"
Ksenija Orelj's view
Ksenija Orelj's view on ut arTVision and Coexistence
Defying romantic vistas such as those smirking at us from tourist postcards, we come across the stumbling blocks arising from our home grounds in these times of post-transition. Difficulties in adapting to the altered political, economic and cultural framework, ambivalent attitudes towards language and history, confusion in "self-understood" patriotic and religious categories, are all a part of the reality of living; not to mention the disorientation on the seemingly hospitable map of Europe, where each movement is defined by the priorities of favorable citizenship and market profitability.
The works of the invited artists - Gildo Bavcevic, Fokus Grupa, Ana Hušman, Nika Rukavina and Davor Sanvincenti – provide a shelter in the contemporary living space, while moving away from artificial creations that divide people based on territorial affiliation and sums in their bank accounts. Reminding us that definitions of borders - national or regional - are the privilege of cultural, economic and political elites, Nika Rukavina raises the issue of natural resources as a common good that should belong to everyone. Along the same utopistic lines, Davor Sanvincenti depicts the spaces of the sea as the common good where little stories and unnoticed experiences flow in the sounds of waves and form bonds that link people, regardless of the temporal and spatial distances. By challenging artificial distinctions and landscape manipulations, the products of harsh identitarian politics aimed at promoting the national unity, Ana Hušman and Fokus Grupa take notions such as "original", "pure" and "unique" and put them under a critical magnifier.
These artists explore the strongholds of (the Croatian) nationalism, historical and mythical themes, linguistic formulas and stylizations of natural and cultural surroundings. By doing so, they point at the bizarre relationships between the above mentioned identitarian politics and consumerism, where communications gaps, latent aggression and anger form the usual epilogue.
Gildo Bavcevic exposes the deceiving mechanisms of the contemporary political and economic system which propagates free trade, elimination of borders and the illusive freedom of choice, while the notion of a free human being loses its meaning. Seemingly vast and intractable space of the sea serves as a metaphor of terre firme (See: http://balticworlds.com/on-the-liquefaction-of-culture/ 10/06/2014), the territory whose borders are strictly monitored and where movement is limited. Mirroring the problems of everyday life, these works warn against the dark side of globalization and integration processes, against the weak points of bureaucracy, and offer some hidden alternatives. Resisting the predator logic of capital accumulation and redistribution of borders, the logic that cuts through the mainland and the sea, they suggest that a brighter future should be sought away from the principles of quantity and classification habits.
We have been taught that the grand inquisitor cannot be sent away, "…but we can astonish it with a gentle kiss on the mouth" (Govedic, Nataša: 2014, Ispracaj? Optužnica? Tragedija? Spektakl? Crna kutija?; Zarez XVI/385, June 5, p. 33), and, instead of falling into general despondency because the dominating system is unjust, we should feel the urge to explore different possibilities: out of necessity, out of spite; for the sake of pleasure offered by imagination.
Ksenija Orelj
Senior Curator Muzej Moderne I Suvremene Umjetnosti in Rijeka - Croatia
(Artists selector with Slaven Tolj)
Marino Zorzato's view
Marino Zorzato's view on arTVision and Coexistence
A travelling exhibition along the Adriatic Sea, on the ideal route of a ship/boat, which keeps a taste of culture from each port it visits. This is the soul of this exhibition, which speaks to the audience offering an overview of contemporary art and at the same time gives a message: culture that creates art and art that creates culture. There is a mutual contamination of artists, works and languages, which connect people from the two opposite sides of the Adriatic Sea, creating a KOINE for the XXI° century. A mutual exchange among local frameworks and Europe, achieved thanks to the common meaning of arts.
ARTVISION PROJECT, through the exhibition ART IN PORT, represents an important opportunity for young artists to express themselves in a new intercultural framework, promoting and developing the awareness of Europe support for arts and culture.
This European project remarks the Veneto Region's involvement on art and cultural issues, perceived in their whole meaning, with particular importance on young languages, knowledge exchange, and creative dialogue among the Countries.
Marino Zorzato
Vice President Regional Minister for Culture of the Veneto Region


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What a setting for this fairytale 5-bedroom rural farmhouse; picture perfect with its traditional whitewashed walls and a stunning outlook down the Troutbeck Valley towards Lake Windermere. Refurbished with an air of sophistication, The Property remains quite the quintessential 17th century Lakeland farmhouse. You'll be charmed by the dramatic oak beams, the quirky alcoved walls, the magnificent woodburner fireplace and the deep-silled cottage windows.
You'll also find plenty of room for group occasions and family gatherings, with a stunning kitchen complete with Aga, a magnificent dining area with walls of glass and bifolding doors out to the garden and elegant fireside comfort for socialising late into the night. Each bedroom has a view to die for, and a style of its own - all presented to impress. In its own little rural world, with a country pub nearby and only a 5 minute drive from Bowness and Ambleside, this really is a fabulous property for a memorable Lake District holiday.
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An old oak door, topped with stained glass, leads into the entrance hall. The sweeping drawing room has fabulous views, with sumptuous furnishings around a magnificent woodburner and a door to the extensive garden.
The breakfast kitchen has an Aga at its heart, and is equipped well for large group meals. The glass dining area is ideal for every occasion with a magnificent glass wall, a place for relaxing in and gazing out at the view! A separate snug or games room, perfect for a family game or two. Ground floor utility room and cloakroom.
Upstairs to even more spectacular views and the 5 bedrooms, one with en-suite luxury slate bathroom and all featuring splendid brass beds. Luxurious house bathroom with designer double ended bath having a shower attachment and separate power shower cubicle.
This 5 bedroom Lake District holiday cottage in the Troutbeck Valley offers a unique opportunity for families or friends to 'get away from it all', without straying far from the Lake District's tourist attractions and other scenic highlights. Troutbeck is one of the Lake District's quieter villages, set in blissful rural surroundings between Ambleside and Windermere, and right at the start of the famous Kirkstone Pass which provides your scenic route to Ullswater. The valley is laced with renowned Lake District walks, and scattered with traditional Lakeland cottages and the local country pub (The fabulous Mortal Man Inn is literally a stone's throw away!). It's a truly magical scene.
Windermere village is only a short drive away, with shops, restaurants and an excellent Booths supermarket for stocking up the kitchen. Drive only a couple of miles further and you'll reach Bowness on Lake Windermere's eastern shores. There you'll find an array of evening entertainment, boating activities, the Royalty Cinema and the Old Laundry Theatre.
The same distance to your west is Ambleside, on Lake Windermere's northern shores. This cosmopolitan Lake District village is a place to while away an entire day - lose-yourself shops, acclaimed Lake District restaurants and of course the delights of the lake shore.
Standard check-in is 4pm and standard check-out is normally 10am on your day of departure. In some cases these times vary. Always check your booking confirmation paperwork for correct timings.
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The rural county of Cumbria is one of the most attractive in England. It contains the whole of the area known as the Lake District, as well as the northern part of the Pennines mountain range and, somewhat counter-intuitively, a part of the Yorkshire Dales.
The county is replete with attractions for the visitor, its historic heritage ranging from houses and gardens to stone circles and activities ranging from walking and climbing to watersports and fishing. Cumbria's lakes, valleys and fells can loosely be broken down into eight areas.
The North Lakes are the most popular with the serious outdoor enthusiast and the South Lakes draw most of the holidaymakers. The Western Lakes are less busy but still hold some varied attractions and appeal to the walkers as well as families and groups. They are home to England's tallest mountain, known as Scafell Pike.
East Lakes has its quota of mountains too, including the well-known Helvellyn, and is a fairly quiet area. Visit the Eden Valley and North Pennine area for wilderness, castles and rural villages, or perhaps consider North and South Cumbria. In the former we find Hadrian's Wall and the city of Carlisle. In the latter, coastal resorts and the biggest town, Kendal. Finally, the edge of the Yorkshire Dales is a beautiful part of Cumbria with country pubs, easy walking, and a thriving arts scene.
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We are all volunteers that operate the Hall Rental program and do our best to ensure that your contact is returned in a timely manner. To help you determine if the hall is available, please review the Hall Usage Calendar (above). There is several ways to contact our Hall Rental Rental Representative to schedule a viewing and complete a contract, if the hall meets your needs;
- Through our online application form Hall Rental Application Form
- Seated Capacity - 275 (with small dance floor)
- Internal dimensions - 55 FT X 65 FT (16.8 M X 19.1 M)
- Forty Three 30 IN x 60 IN (rectangular) tables (seats 8)
- 275 chairs
- Coatroom
- Air conditioned
- Small single riser stage (about 8 IN high)
- Plenty of parking for weekend events
- Wheel Chair accessible
- Industrial kitchen appliances, with walk in cooler
- Microwave, freezer, dishwasher
- Separate bar area with two door refridgerator
- Covered back patio
- Fire Pit (bring your own wood)
- Enclosed rear area
- Playground and basketball court just outside the hall
Not Included
- Linens
- Pots or Pans
- Glassware, Plates, or Cutlery
- Host Liquor Liability Insurance
- Liquor License
- Cleaning Services
- Audio or Video Equipment
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|Weekday evenings or extra hours
|Saturday 10:00 AM to Sunday 10:00 AM
|Sunday 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
|Friday 6:00 PM to Sunday 10:00 AM
|Saturday 10:00 AM to Sunday 5:00 PM
|Friday 6:00 PM to Sunday 5:00 PM
Notes and exceptions
- Damage Deposit and final rental payment is due 30 days in advance of the event
- Damage Deposit is $500 and will be refunded upon inspection of the hall after the event
- Sunday rate on a long weekend is $250.00
- Parking is constrained in the area and the parking lot is not available until after 5:00pm during the school year
- No hourly rates on weekends
- All rentals require a signed contract


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Sounds familiar? Well if you're a Facebook devotee you will undoubtedly have seen this 'friendly' message on the world's most used social networking tool of choice.
And therein lies the problem. Facebook quickly evolved to be a social networking tool and caught on by the millions – apparently about 300million of us use FB every day. Sounds great, particularly when you see how many wonderful fun applications have been developed to work on this social platform. Again wonderful – BUT by the very nature of what Facebook is all about – connecting with friends and other people to NETWORK you would think there would not be a problem with trying to ADD FRIENDS. But this seems to be by far the biggest issue to me and those people I've surveyed, as well as the stacks of disgruntled Facebook fans affected by draconian steps taken by FB hierarchy to limit you requesting to add friends, that you'd wonder why Mark Zuckerberg hasn't taken the logical step of issuing an edict stating you are limited to asking friends to connect with you via FB to x no. friends per hour or per day. That way there'd be no ambiguity or changing goalposts as it appears to be – certain people can add 10 people, others 30, others 3 before they receive this wonderful You will Be Exterminated message equivalent!
From what I can understand and I'm a relative newbie to FB but have already fallen foul trying to connect with others, you can receive as many friend requests as you want but you can only ask to be a friend of others a certain number of times in a day or is it an hour before you receive this type of message.
There's an interesting blog post by sparkah.com on how they created a new account and added friend successfully. It's also a recent one – but don't know if it will still work as Facebook is a law unto themselves and the rules seem to change with the wind – or so it appears.
With the people I've already spoken to about this problem they are jacked off because they couldn't ask friends to join them in Mafia Wars because they needed to build their 'base ' up and had invested $280 (real dollars) in the same. Now they are blocked out. Not Happy!
Others have been trying to add their Classmates – going to a reunion and wanting to connect with as many as possible to make the event a real success.
Still others have been endeavouring to use Facebook's own Friend Suggestions and then get rewarded by the friendly You will be blocked message! Feedback is – why the heck does Facebook suggest friends for me to connect with if you make it so difficult if not impossible to connect with them.
Then there are the Captcha's – that's another story altogether. Not only do you have to key the code in to try to request a friend, but sometimes for just about every other activity with FB. Is this Overkill or what? What's so social about this site again? I've forgotten.
And then there's the 5000 friend limit – sorry – this IS a social networking site isn't it?
With all the technological know how these days, surely it can't be that difficult for Facebook gurus to work out a bit of STANDARDIZED limiting code for people requesting a number of friends per hour or day to join them on Facebook – and then PUBLISH THIS in their terms and conditions or on a FB update. I'm positive word would get around and there'd be less disgrunted Facebook users.
My other suggestion for Facebook would be to engage in FREE LIVE CHAT – with the apparent billions Facebook is worth, why not invest a little bit of money towards the FREE LIVE CHAT scenario for users of Facebook. That way people not understanding some of Facebook's rules – in particular the one mentioned above re requesting friends, can get a straight answer from someone actually looking at their site at that moment.
Just viewing the various blogs and topics relating to unhappy Facebook viewers and members there MUST be a better way. If blind freddy can see it, why can't Mark? Or is there a hidden agenda?
BTW – don't forget to add me as your friend!
Would love your thoughts and your experiences with using Facebook. Anyone been blocked from using Facebook? What did you do? Have you found a 'workaround' for a Faceook requesting friends problem? Anyone know the all important figure of how many people you can request to be your friend on Facebook every day or every hour? Any other Social Networks you think will give Facebook a run for it's money?


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Written by Chris Pendleton and Sean Dahlin
BUENA VISTA, Va.—Southern Virginia University Athletic Director Scott Y. Doxey today announced that the university's football program will join the New Jersey Athletic Conference effective July 2014.
Southern Virginia's addition to the conference became official following successful votes on the university's membership application by both the NJAC Presidents Council and the league's Board of Athletic Administrators.
"The New Jersey Athletic Conference is proud to welcome Southern Virginia University as the newest affiliate football member of our conference," said NJAC Commissioner Terry Small. "Our membership is excited about the addition of Southern Virginia's program in the 2014 season, and very thankful to President Paul K. Sybrowsky, Vice President Doxey, and Head Coach DeLane Fitzgerald for their work in helping to make this affiliation possible."
Currently in its first year of provisional NCAA Division III membership, Southern Virginia University announced last June that it will become a full member of the Capital Athletic Conference effective July 1, 2013. While the Capital Athletic Conference provides a competitive home for 12 of Southern Virginia's 13 sanctioned varsity sports, the CAC does not currently sponsor football.
"The New Jersey Athletic Conference is a great fit for our football program and we are thrilled to be joining the conference as an affiliate member," said Doxey. "This affiliate opportunity, along with full membership in the CAC, allows us to offer a full D-III athletic experience that is focused on academics and the overall educational experience of our scholar-athletes."
Founded in 1985, the New Jersey Athletic Conference is currently in its 28th season as an all-sport conference sponsoring championships in 19 varsity sports. The NJAC ranks as one of the strongest athletic conferences in the NCAA Division III, with member schools capturing 43 national championships over the past 15 years.
The addition of Southern Virginia's football program in 2014-15 will increase the NJAC's football membership to eight institutions, including full-conference members Kean University (N.J.), Montclair State University (N.J.), Rowan University (N.J.), The College of New Jersey (N.J.) and William Paterson University (N.J.), as well as three affiliate football members in State University of New York College at Cortland (N.Y.), Morrisville State College (N.Y.), and Southern Virginia University (Va.).
"Becoming a football member of the NJAC will facilitate scheduling, while allowing us to build new competitive rivalries with fellow conference members," said Doxey. "It will also provide our football scholar-athletes a common goal—competing for a conference championship."
Southern Virginia's ten-year old football program competed as an independent member of the National Athletic Intercollegiate Association from 2003-11, producing three NAIA All-Americans and 20 NAIA All-Independent selections during that time. In their first year of provisional D-III membership this past fall, the Knights competed in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association and recorded the program's second-highest single-season win total (5), going 5-6 under fourth-year Head Coach DeLane Fitzgerald, including three consecutive wins to closeout the season.
"The NJAC is a top football conference within Division III," said Fitzgerald. "We're excited to become a member of such an elite group of teams and we hope to be competitive right away. Our players will have a chance to compete for a conference championship to earn a bid to the national tournament, while gaining the finest liberal arts education available in an LDS environment."


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David Weidner has an excellent column on the unfortunate case of Sergey Aleynikov, better known as the guy who stole computer code from Goldman Sachs.
Last week, a federal judge handed Aleynikov got eight-plus years in prison for the theft. The fact is, Aleynikov is a thief, and Weidner makes sure you know he's not minimizing that fact. But he contextualizes it, and it's enlightening:
On March 18, the same day that U.S. District Judge Denise Cote handed down Mr. Aleynikov's sentence of eight years and a month in prison, a different judge sent William J. Cannon, 22, of Ukiah, Calif., to prison for seven years. Mr. Cannon was convicted of the attempted rape of a 16-year-old girl.
Rodney Williams, 42, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Norfolk, Va., for shooting his victim eight times in a fight outside a sports bar, got 12 months in prison and a $2,500 fine.
Weidner also notes that a Societe Generale code thief got a three-year sentence recently.
The lesson: While nobody on Wall Street has gone to jail yet for the financial crisis, justice is swift and severe if you pilfer from Goldman Sachs. Even if the theft was "very, very immaterial," according to Goldman's own CFO.
It's particularly good that Weidner covers this since the Journal's news coverage of this story was underwhelming. Its only piece on the sentence was less than 400 words of wire copy stuffed on B5 and didn't note that Aleynikov's tough sentence was four times the length probation officials recommended.
Weidner also makes a smart comparison between the fortunes of Aleynikov and those of former Goldman board member Raj Gupta:
It's one thing to under-sentence dangerous criminals, quite another to over-sentence white-collar criminals and even more outrageous to prosecute little fish when the big fish swim away fat and happy.
Case in point: The Securities and Exchange Commission has alleged in a civil proceeding that former Goldman director Rajat Gupta passed to his friend, Galleon Group's Raj Rajaratnam, non-public information about Goldman.
Mr. Gupta hasn't been charged criminally, raising eyebrows in the securities-law community.
In other words, a prole (relatively speaking) steals from Goldman and doesn't profit: Eight years in the clink. A Goldman board member steals from Goldman and helps his crony make millions: Eh.
Which leads to the kicker:
But if Mr. Aleynikov decides to do it again, he should reconsider the computer programming bit. These things are better done from the top. Landing a spot on the Goldman board might be a good start.
Well put.


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Multilateral Trade Liberalization and Regional Integration under Stress – Workshop in Honor of Prof. Dr. Rolf J. Langhammer
Editor: Dennis J. Snower and Peter Nunnenkamp, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
The situation has hardly improved since Rolf Langhammer's warning in 2009: "The global trading system faces severe challenges. The combination of the stalled Doha Round, the global financial and economic crisis, and a rising number of protectionist measures initiated in industrialized countries and emerging markets alike has raised the risk that the global trading system will degenerate into a series of bilateral agreements" (R.J. Langhammer (2009), Why a Marketplace Must Not Discriminate. Business and Politics 11 (3): Article 3; DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1262). The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations has not officially been declared dead. But various deadlines were missed, and "with Doha paralysed, regional alternatives to a multilateral deal are springing up" (The Economist 2012: 10).
Against this backdrop the Kiel Institute for the World Economy organized a workshop in honor of Rolf Langhammer, its leaving Vice President, on August 31st, 2012, to discuss the prospects of the world trading order and in particular the tension between multilateralism and regionalism. This special issue presents four contributions to this workshop under the overall theme Multilateral Trade Liberalization and Regional Integration under Stress. Arvind Panagariya and Gary Hufbauer provide general accounts of past achievements, current challenges and possible ways out of the impasse. Peter Draper and Andreas Freytag as well as Heribert Dieter take regional perspectives from Africa and Asia, respectively.


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The goaltender from Quebec City played four seasons in the "Q" with stops in Moncton, Acadie-Bathurst and Val d'Or and was the 1999-2000 QMJHL Goaltender of the Year after sporting a 31-15-1 record with six shutouts and 2.61 goals against average.
A goaltender who anticipates the play well and has strong positioning in his net, Lajeunesse spent the majority of the 2001-02 season with the Senators AHL affiliate in Grand Rapids, 13 games with the ECHL's Mobile Mysticks and one game with the NHL club. Lajeunesse was on the move a lot during the 2002-03 season playing for the ECHL's Peoria Riverman and spending time with both the Binghamton Senators and the San Antonio Rampage of the AHL.
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Sixty-four firefighters from the Bridger-Teton National Forest and Grand Teton National Park, along with essential firefighting equipment, have responded to support wildfire response in the Southwest and southern United States. Teton area firefighters are available to assist firefighting efforts on large-scale fires across the country because local conditions in Wyoming remain exceptionally green after a prolonged winter and a wet, cool spring.
Currently, four Teton Interagency Fire engines with crews and one Sublette County fire engine and crew are on assignments in Arizona, New Mexico and west Texas. One engine just returned after a two-week assignment on the Wallow Fire in Arizona. Fire engines from Kemmerer and Moose are waiting for fire assignments, and a Teton Interagency contract helicopter left Monday with a crew of six for the Pacheco Fire in New Mexico. In addition, a 20-person hand crew mobilized Sunday for the Wallow Fire in Arizona.
An additional 16 people from Bridger-Teton National Forest and Grand Teton National Park are on fire assignments, primarily in supervisory roles.
The total number of Teton Interagency Fire personnel supporting fires in other states stands at 64.
"Out-of-area resources often help us when we are experiencing a busy fire season in the greater Jackson Hole area and other parts of Wyoming, so it's good that we can return the favor," said Chip Collins, fire management officer with Grand Teton National Park. "When the 20-person Teton crew goes out to a fire, we are able to get folks from other program areas on assignment. It's a great opportunity for people to get important fire experience."
Teton Interagency Fire began sending resources to Texas and the Southwest in April. Fire assignments typically last 14 days, with additional travel days factored in. Firefighters are dispatched through a national resource ordering system, and trained using National Wildfire Coordinating Group standards. Rigorous physical fitness standards are also required.
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Awake NY
Launched in 2012, by New York native Angelo Baque, Awake New York captures the unique cultural spirit and sensibility of the city.
Awake NY is a reflection of the diversity that has defined the city's cultural landscape. Simultaneously classic and contemporary, the brand evokes both the changing aesthetic vibrancy and timelessness of New York.
Starting at the Stüssy store on Wooster St in NYC, Baque then managed the Nom De Guerre store and recently left his post at Supreme as Brand Director to create his own agency 'Baque Creative'.
While the brand was previously only available in Japan. For its reintroduction, Angelo hand picked a select few stores to inaugurate it's worldwide presence.
The first item to come from the range are a set of caps adorned with the Awake NY logo, taking the approach of making something when he has something to say rather than for the sake of selling clothes, Awake is determined to take an honest approach.


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Retail Reader Fall 2016
The retail market in Oregon continues strong. New retail centers are opening nearly 100% leased, rents are at historic highs, and national tenants in all categories continue absorbing additional locations.
Nationally, retailers are reporting strong comparable store sales. Ulta Beauty is up 16.7%, Ross is up 7.0%, Dick's Sporting Goods is up 5.2%, The TJX Companies is up 5.0%, and The Home Depot is up 4.9%. With strong sales, expansion in Oregon continues.
The population in Oregon increased by 62,505 (1.6%) from July 1, 2015 to July 1, 2016 to 4,076,350 (PSU), employment has grown 3.3% (tied for third in the nation), and per capita income has grown 3.3% year-over-year (compared to 2.6% nationally). Locally, housing prices are up 11.5% over the past year to an average of $393,900 (Oct '16), with single and multifamily housing starts up 8.01% and 18.16%, respectively (U.S. Census).
Portland is again on Monocle Magazine's "Top 25 Cities" list, ranking world cities by quality of life. This is Portland's seventh consecutive appearance and the only mainland US city on the list.
With all this positive news, retail vacancy is only 4.1% for the Portland metro area (Q3 '16).
Downtown Portland, while still strong, has numerous vacancies/opportunities on the horizon (perhaps a result of the continued homeless situation). Macy's announced the spring 2017 closure of its downtown store, with plans underway by KBS Capital Markets Group and Sterling Bay to redevelop the first floor into retail space and upper floors into creative office space. At SW Broadway & Morrison, Abercrombie & Fitch and Shreve & Co. Jewelers are or will become vacant, as will a portion of the Brooks Brothers space at The Galleria, two blocks west. Core Spaces is also underway with The Collective on 4th project at the corner of SW 4th & Harrison with 36,000 square feet of retail space and 417 apartment units. That project will serve the students of Portland State University, residents of the Southwest Hills, and the condo and apartment dwellers of the South Waterfront, with 25,668 residents within a one-mile radius.
In the suburban market, Gramor opened the 191,793 square foot Fred Meyer anchored
Happy Valley Crossroads in Happy Valley at 97% leased with rents ranging from $35.00 to $52.50 per square foot. Additional retail is proposed on surrounding property.
Also in Happy Valley, Grocery Outlet leased the former Haggen at Sunnyside Village Square, bringing the center back to 100% leased.
In Tualatin, CenterCal is completing Nyberg Rivers with the addition of a 7,766 square foot pad building to be occupied by Mattress Firm, a bank, and Good Feet and an 8,892 square foot Cracker Barrel restaurant, planned to open in Spring 2017.
Unfortunately, we still have 16 big boxes (657,000 square feet total) left over from the Safeway/Albertsons/Haggen reshuffling and 141,000 square feet from Sports Authority closings in Portland.
In Salem, with the closures of Sports Authority and Macy's at Lancaster Mall, CE John will redevelop the 655,700 square foot center to include de-malling and additional anchors. Construction will start next year.
In Medford, Regency Centers completed the 179,870 square foot Phase II of Northgate Marketplace, located at the intersection of Hwy 62 & Hwy 99, anchored by Dick's Sporting Goods, Field & Stream, HomeGoods, and Marshalls. Together with the 80,900 square foot Phase I, anchored by REI, Trader Joe's, Petco, and Ulta, Northgate Marketplace is the dominant center in the market.
The state of Oregon and its metro areas are alive with growth in population, employment, and housing starts. This economic expansion is different, however, in that we have high quality new developments and extensive second-generation inventory available for retenanting, resulting in numerous opportunities for retailers entering the market.