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Obama Mama | SIFF Obama Mama Intelligent, progressive, and steadfastly brave, Barack Obama’s mother Stanley Ann Dunham (a lifelong globetrotter who spent her teenage years living in Mercer Island) pursued an unexpected and profound life. Schedule May 31, 2014 6:00 PM Kirkland Performance Center Buy Add to My Siff June 1, 2014 11:00 AM Harvard Exit Buy Add to My Siff Stanley Ann Dunham was more than the mother of the first black President of the United States of America. As an anthropologist with a Ph.D and as a lifelong globetrotter, her intelligence, progressive politics, and activism made for a profound life—one whose inspiration continues to resonate through her son, President Barack Obama. Through interviews with high school friends and colleagues, film clips, and archival footage,  Obama Mama  explores Dunham’s travels from small-town Kansas to Seattle, Hawaii, and Indonesia as well as her work in the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements, her dedication to raising awa...

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Kiri Campbell – calling out for help please July 28, 2013  · by  kerischwed Last word out is that Kiri was arrested. We need to send messages from all over the world to the dept’s I have listed in my letter below. This woman has done a courageous thing for us all. If you believe a new & better world is ours for the taking then please send emails. Much love Keri Please feel free to copy paste my letter to send to the dept’s listed here in New Zealand. We are a small country so we could get 3% to tip this over ……easy. Let’s go! Keri hawera.dc@justice.govt.nz newplymouth.dc@justice.govt.nz http://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/contact-info To Whom It May Concern, I would like to voice my concern & extreme objection to the matter of Kiri Campbell & her treatment. Do not for one minute think this is a small matter as the eyes of the world are on you now. Too many of us are now aware of the reality of our situation here on Earth. If you are not yet awake to thi...

Exploring the relevance of Townsend’s ideas in the 21st century. Key points Abbreviated/picked over by Mark Aldiss About the study The research is mainly based on analysis of the first wave of the ESRC Understanding Society household panel survey. The data relate to almost 100,000 individuals in nearly 40,000 households that are representative of the UK population. The interviews were conducted in 2009 and 2010. The analysis of children’s participation utilises the separate Millennium Cohort Study; interviews were conducted with children and their parents or carers when the 19,000 sampled children were aged 8 in 2008. The findings are based on analysis using modern statistical tools. Poverty, participation and choice http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/society-poverty-participation-summary.pdf • Participation in society can be measured in terms of social relationships, membership of  organisations, trust in other people, ow...

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REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- Iceland, a nation of seafarers, has been stormed by pirates. They won't be forming the government, but online freedom advocates the Pirate Party were still big winners in the country's election. The party, just a few months old, took 5.1 percent of the vote in Saturday's poll, gaining three of the 63 seats in Iceland's parliament, the Althingi. It is the biggest electoral trophy yet for a movement founded seven years ago in Sweden by a group of rebellious file-sharing geeks and hackers who scoffed at copyright laws. Now, its Icelandic leader says, the party is "the political arm of the information revolution," dedicated to freedom of expression and political transparency, online and off. Birgitta Jonsdottir, the most senior of Iceland's three victorious Pirate lawmakers, argues that political and legal structures around the world have not kept pace with the technological change tha...

Welcome to the DIRHA EU project!  The DIRHA project addresses the development of voice-enabled automated home environments based on distant-speech interaction in different languages. A distributed microphone network is installed in the rooms of a house in order to monitor selectively acoustic and speech activities observable inside any space, and to eventually run a spoken dialogue session with a given user in order to implement a service or to have access to appliances and other devices. The multi-microphone front-end is based on the use of arrays consisting of analog microphones or Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) digital microphones. The targeted system analyses the given multi-space acoustic scene in a coherent way, by processing in a parallelized fashion simultaneous activities which occur in different rooms, and in case by supporting at the same time the interaction with users who may speak in different areas of the house. These very challenging objectives require a...