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12/14/11--09:03: jonubian: The Nobel Peace Ladies.... (chan 1068790)





jonubian:

The Nobel Peace Ladies. <3

slumbeauty:

whb2:

OSLO, Norway — Three women who fought injustice, dictatorship and sexual violence in Liberia and Yemen accepted the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, calling on repressed women worldwide to rise up against male supremacy.

“My sisters, my daughters, my friends — find your voice,” Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said after collecting her Nobel diploma and medal at a ceremony in Oslo.

Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically elected female president, shared the award with women’s rights campaigner Leymah Gbowee, also from Liberia, and Tawakkul Karman, a female icon of the protest movement in Yemen.

The peace prize was announced in October, along with the Nobel awards for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economics. Worth 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) each, the Nobel Prizes are always handed out on the anniversary of award founder Alfred Nobel’s death on Dec. 10, 1896.

By selecting Karman, the prize committee recognized the Arab Spring movement that has toppled autocratic leaders in North Africa and the Middle East. Praising Karman’s struggle against Yemen’s regime, Nobel committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland also sent a message to Syria’s leader Bashar Assad, whose crackdown on rebels has killed more than 4,000 people according to U.N. estimates.

“President Assad in Syria will not be able to resist the people’s demand for freedom of human rights,” Jagland said.

Karman is the first Arab woman to win the prize and at 32 the youngest peace laureate ever. A journalist and founder of the human rights group Women Journalists without Chains, she also is a member of the Islamic party Islah.

Wearing headphones over her Islamic headscarf, she clapped and smiled as she listened to a translation of Jagland’s introductory remarks.
In her acceptance speech, Karman paid tribute to Arab women and their struggles “in a society dominated by the supremacy of men.”

According to an English translation of her speech, delivered in Arabic, she criticized the “repressive, militarized, corrupt” regime of outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh. She also lamented that the revolution in Yemen hasn’t gained as much international attention as the revolts in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria.

“This should haunt the world’s conscience because it challenges the very idea of fairness and justice,” Karman said.

No woman or sub-Saharan African had won the prize since 2004, when the committee honored Wangari Maathai of Kenya, who mobilized poor women to fight deforestation by planting trees.

Sirleaf, 73, was elected president of Liberia in 2005 and won re-election in October. She is widely credited with helping her country emerge from an especially brutal civil war.

The Nobel chairman noted that she initially supported Charles Taylor but later dissociated herself from the former rebel leader who is now awaiting judgment from the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes in Sierra Leone.

Gbowee, 39, challenged Liberia’s warlords as she campaigned for women’s rights and against rape. In 2003, she led hundreds of female protesters through Monrovia to demand swift disarmament of fighters, who continued to prey on women, despite a peace deal.

By John McConnico

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01/05/12--08:57: 519. The best way to ruin an apology is with an explanation. (chan 1068790)




01/06/12--00:41: A short history of glitter. (chan 1068790)





A short history of glitter.




01/06/12--22:27: Photo (chan 1068790)






01/11/12--09:28: rocks-n-bones: Iron Age horse burial, Britain (chan 1068790)





rocks-n-bones:

Iron Age horse burial, Britain




01/12/12--21:44: Well done, Wessex. That’s some nice... (chan 1068790)





Well done, Wessex. That’s some nice diggin’.

archeo-zine:

Cliffs End Farm - skeleton of an old man by Wessex Archaeology on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Five skeletons were found in a Late Bronze Age pit, this one appears to be pointing towards the centre of a large horshoe ditch which was the focus of ceremonies.
There is a piece of chalk in his left hand.
To find out more about the excavation site at Cliffs End Farm, Ramsgate, visit www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/kent/ramsgate/cliffs_end/




01/13/12--02:45: Switchman throwing a switch at Chicago and Northwest Railway... (chan 1068790)





Switchman throwing a switch at Chicago and Northwest Railway Company’s Proviso yard. Chicago, Illinois, April 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress




01/13/12--04:10: Academic Job Interview Questions (chan 1068790)

Academic Job Interview Questions


01/14/12--04:50: "The cost of excavating, which Duncan Mackenzie had predicted “would involve an enormous outlay..." (chan 1068790)

“The cost of excavating, which Duncan Mackenzie had predicted “would involve an enormous outlay of funds,” was considerably diminished by the decision of several residents of Dhiban to make use of stones from the medieval Arabic level to construct new houses, moving the stones by truck and camel at their own expense after the surveyor and photographer had completed their work on Stratum I.”

- William L. Reed, The Excavations at Dibon in Moab


01/14/12--07:04: "Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a..." (chan 1068790)

“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.”

- General Sir Charles James Napier on the practice of sati in India.


01/14/12--07:10: From the Hannah Arendt Papers housed at the Library of Congress. (chan 1068790)





From the Hannah Arendt Papers housed at the Library of Congress.




01/17/12--07:59: postpunk: “Here is a scan of a school notebook from Pitchfork... (chan 1068790)





postpunk:

“Here is a scan of a school notebook from Pitchfork contributor Philip Sherburne, defaced when he was a teenager in the late 1980s.” (via Resonant Frequency: Taking Pictures of Taking Pictures | Features | Pitchfork)




01/24/12--07:20: "For a while now psychologists have debated just what that picture looks like. Some believe we need..." (chan 1068790)

“

For a while now psychologists have debated just what that picture looks like. Some believe we need to orient ourselves by local reference points. Under this theory, we’re lost until we see that certain street or certain landmark, at which point the rest of the grid emerges in our minds. Others argue that experience is our mental cartographer. This idea suggests that if you cruise around the city enough, you develop a spatial memory that helps you find your way no matter which direction you face; at the same time, if this is true, it should become harder to reach a destination that’s farther from your familiar starting point.

A third alternative suggests that our internal GPS system is informed by frequently looking at maps. In other words, the more time we spend finding directions on Google Maps, the more our minds may grow familiar with the officially documented outline of our city, rather than the one created through our own experiences. This idea receives support in a recent study published online late last month, ahead of print, in the journal Psychological Science. A team of psychologists led by Julia Frankenstein of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, found evidence that we’re best oriented when facing north — just like a reliance on maps would suggest.

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- from “How Our Brains Navigate the City” By Eric Jaffe, The Atlantic (via tinkerkid)


01/24/12--08:07: fuckyeaharchaeologymajordog: I’m British- I’m not sure if this... (chan 1068790)





fuckyeaharchaeologymajordog:

I’m British- I’m not sure if this is a universal thing or…

There is no such thing as orange in archaeology. No, that soil is not orange. NO SUCH THING.

And Munsell chart y u so expensive?

This is someone who has never seen burned mudbrick. <3




01/24/12--19:37: Sugar Skull plush by Deadly Sweet. (chan 1068790)





Sugar Skull plush by Deadly Sweet.




01/25/12--07:11: skinnyfists: Taken with instagram (chan 1068790)





skinnyfists:

Taken with instagram




01/26/12--23:17: homoarchaeologicus: Faience statuette of a hippopotamus, Middle... (chan 1068790)





homoarchaeologicus:

Faience statuette of a hippopotamus, Middle Kingdom - 12th Dynasty, 1981–1885 BC, Egypt.

This well-formed statuette of a hippopotamus demonstrates the Egyptian artist’s appreciation for the natural world. It was molded in faience, a ceramic material made of ground quartz. Beneath the blue-green glaze, the body was painted with the outlines of river plants, symbolizing the marshes in which the animal lived. - metmuseum.org




01/28/12--00:50: Roboti - Kaos (1982) (chan 1068790)





Roboti - Kaos (1982)




01/28/12--00:53: Photo (chan 1068790)






01/29/12--04:40: somethingturkish: via ileftmyheartinistanbul: (via Instagram) (chan 1068790)





somethingturkish:

via ileftmyheartinistanbul: (via Instagram)