Wikimedia's Conference of the Americas: Atlanta (also COTA2008) is to be held in 2008 and will be dedicated to Wikimedia as well as the free culture movement.
"The first annual Conference of the Americas will be held on May 15-18, 2008 at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA" sponsored by Georgia Institute of Technology, University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science, ibiblio, , and .
"The first annual Conference of the Americas will be held on May 15-18, 2008 at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA" sponsored by Georgia Institute of Technology, University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science, ibiblio, , and .
Inter- and Intra-Departmental Disagreements About Who Is Our Enemy is the title of the second report published by a legal team lead by Professor Mark P. Denbeaux, based on documents the US Department of Defense about the captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
Joshua Denbeaux, Mark Denbeaux's son, represents two of the captives, with his father, in presenting their writ of habeas corpus, as well as being a co-author of the reports. The other co-authors are eight law students: David Gratz, John Gregorek, Matthew Darby, Shana Edwards, Shane Hartman, Daniel Mann, Megan Sassaman and Helen Skinner.
Executive Summary
*The report's Executive Summary identifies the different agencies within the United States Government which have published official lists of organizations identified with, or suspected of, an association with terrorism.
*The report's Executive Summary then establishes that the detention of many Guantanamo captives was justified based on a suspicion of association with organizations that were not on those official lists.
*The report's Executive Summary points out that membership in the organization intelligence analysts used to justify their continued detention would not have prevented the captives from getting a visa, and visiting the USA.
*The final point in the report's Executive Summary states:
:"This inconsistency leads to one of two equally alarming conclusions: either the State Department is allowing persons who are members of terrorist groups into the country or the Defense Department bases the continuing detention of the alleged enemy combatants on a false premise."
The extra organizations the DoD suspects
The report contains an appendix entitled: "Defense Department list of terrorist organizations other than the Taliban or al Qaeda"
Joshua Denbeaux, Mark Denbeaux's son, represents two of the captives, with his father, in presenting their writ of habeas corpus, as well as being a co-author of the reports. The other co-authors are eight law students: David Gratz, John Gregorek, Matthew Darby, Shana Edwards, Shane Hartman, Daniel Mann, Megan Sassaman and Helen Skinner.
Executive Summary
*The report's Executive Summary identifies the different agencies within the United States Government which have published official lists of organizations identified with, or suspected of, an association with terrorism.
*The report's Executive Summary then establishes that the detention of many Guantanamo captives was justified based on a suspicion of association with organizations that were not on those official lists.
*The report's Executive Summary points out that membership in the organization intelligence analysts used to justify their continued detention would not have prevented the captives from getting a visa, and visiting the USA.
*The final point in the report's Executive Summary states:
:"This inconsistency leads to one of two equally alarming conclusions: either the State Department is allowing persons who are members of terrorist groups into the country or the Defense Department bases the continuing detention of the alleged enemy combatants on a false premise."
The extra organizations the DoD suspects
The report contains an appendix entitled: "Defense Department list of terrorist organizations other than the Taliban or al Qaeda"
Gil Saint Christopher Salmon-Boyd was born in Saint Arnoult en Yvelines in 1086. He was a master architect who is more recently accredited with designing the Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France, in 1142. Chartres was completed long after his death in 1158, but his original design was prevalent even after the cathedral was burnt twice, and finally completed in 1260.
Maryse Casol (born December 7, 1957 in Bordeaux, France) is a contemporary artist painter.
Living in the south of France, and being very imbued with numerous journeys all over the world, Maryse Casol is renowned for her exotic landscapes and blazing still lifes.
Driven by her love for philosophy and a constant desire for spiritual and mystic transcendence, she studied the Scriptures of the Torah, and the thoughts of famous philosophers such as Aristotle, Epictetus, Maimonides, and Spinoza.
Moved by the desire to express the imponderable musicality of emotions, and the persistence of her passionate love for art, Maryse Casol enrolled at the Académie Arts et Beaux-Arts in Varennes, Quebec, where she had the great honour to receive comprehensive training over several years from Sam Aberg, Master, international Art Critic and Art Historian.
Completing her studies with resounding success, she integrated the rhetoric of the compositional aesthetics of art, both classical and modern, with art history, iconographical, semiotic and philosophical concepts. She also took courses in comparative art criticism covering the various movements in painting.
What Casol intends to express in her works, "is not the visible concrete, but the imponderable musicality of emotions and the quintessence of the intangible".
In September 2007, Casol dedicated a rare piece of her art collection, Melodia Gitana, to the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai..
Highlights
*In 2004 (Renaud-Bray building) hosted a 3 weeks solo exhibition called "Empreintes, effets d'impression!".
*In 2005 hosted a museum-like solo exhibition of her collection "Lumières Méditerranéennes".
*In 2006 hosted a museum-like solo exhibition of her collection "Lumières Méditerranéennes".
Works
*Bourgeonnement (2003), Collection L.Amore, Montreal.
*Eté Indien (2003), one of the five paintings to go to a Russian Private Collector at a $1,200,000 sale, New York, September 2007
*Géraniums et fruits (2003), Private Collection, Donation during a charity auction, reseau HEC (HEC Business School)
*Transcendance philosophique (2004), second of the five paintings to go to a Russian Private Collector at a $1,200,000 sale, New York, September 2007
*Contemplation (2004), Private Collection, Dr. DiBattista
*Après-midi printanier (2004), Private Collection, Dr.DiBattista
*Instant d'Eté (2004)
*Fruit de la passion (2004)
*Vendange (2004)
*Epanouissement (2004), Private Collection, Mr. Lecler, Montreal
*Tempête en Pays Catalan (2004)
*Pays Catalan (2004)
*Après-midi d'été (2004), Corporate Collection, Sidev, Mr. Benatar
*Rêveries (2004)
*Evasion lyrique (2004), Corporate Collection, Altus Group
*Cerisiers en Fleurs (2005)
*Valée de Baho (2005)
*Parfum Vénitien (2005)
*Essence d'Iris (2005)
*Géranium de Murano (2005)
*Tendresse (2005)
*Jardin Secret (2005)
*Instant de méditation (2005)
*Passion Immortelle (2005)
*Miroir Fleuri (2005)
*Passion, Transcendance, Espoir (2005)
*Parfum de Toscane (2005), Private Collection, Montreal
*Dodâ'im, caresses (2006)
*Musique des Sphères (2006)
*Mélodie Yeddish (2006)
*Murmure de cithare (2006)
*Violon mélancolique (2006)
*Melodia Gitana (2006), Painting dedicated to the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai
*Espace, Lumière, Amour (2007)
*Roses et Lys (2007)
*Espace fleuri, l'être aimé (2007)
References
Living in the south of France, and being very imbued with numerous journeys all over the world, Maryse Casol is renowned for her exotic landscapes and blazing still lifes.
Driven by her love for philosophy and a constant desire for spiritual and mystic transcendence, she studied the Scriptures of the Torah, and the thoughts of famous philosophers such as Aristotle, Epictetus, Maimonides, and Spinoza.
Moved by the desire to express the imponderable musicality of emotions, and the persistence of her passionate love for art, Maryse Casol enrolled at the Académie Arts et Beaux-Arts in Varennes, Quebec, where she had the great honour to receive comprehensive training over several years from Sam Aberg, Master, international Art Critic and Art Historian.
Completing her studies with resounding success, she integrated the rhetoric of the compositional aesthetics of art, both classical and modern, with art history, iconographical, semiotic and philosophical concepts. She also took courses in comparative art criticism covering the various movements in painting.
What Casol intends to express in her works, "is not the visible concrete, but the imponderable musicality of emotions and the quintessence of the intangible".
In September 2007, Casol dedicated a rare piece of her art collection, Melodia Gitana, to the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai..
Highlights
*In 2004 (Renaud-Bray building) hosted a 3 weeks solo exhibition called "Empreintes, effets d'impression!".
*In 2005 hosted a museum-like solo exhibition of her collection "Lumières Méditerranéennes".
*In 2006 hosted a museum-like solo exhibition of her collection "Lumières Méditerranéennes".
Works
*Bourgeonnement (2003), Collection L.Amore, Montreal.
*Eté Indien (2003), one of the five paintings to go to a Russian Private Collector at a $1,200,000 sale, New York, September 2007
*Géraniums et fruits (2003), Private Collection, Donation during a charity auction, reseau HEC (HEC Business School)
*Transcendance philosophique (2004), second of the five paintings to go to a Russian Private Collector at a $1,200,000 sale, New York, September 2007
*Contemplation (2004), Private Collection, Dr. DiBattista
*Après-midi printanier (2004), Private Collection, Dr.DiBattista
*Instant d'Eté (2004)
*Fruit de la passion (2004)
*Vendange (2004)
*Epanouissement (2004), Private Collection, Mr. Lecler, Montreal
*Tempête en Pays Catalan (2004)
*Pays Catalan (2004)
*Après-midi d'été (2004), Corporate Collection, Sidev, Mr. Benatar
*Rêveries (2004)
*Evasion lyrique (2004), Corporate Collection, Altus Group
*Cerisiers en Fleurs (2005)
*Valée de Baho (2005)
*Parfum Vénitien (2005)
*Essence d'Iris (2005)
*Géranium de Murano (2005)
*Tendresse (2005)
*Jardin Secret (2005)
*Instant de méditation (2005)
*Passion Immortelle (2005)
*Miroir Fleuri (2005)
*Passion, Transcendance, Espoir (2005)
*Parfum de Toscane (2005), Private Collection, Montreal
*Dodâ'im, caresses (2006)
*Musique des Sphères (2006)
*Mélodie Yeddish (2006)
*Murmure de cithare (2006)
*Violon mélancolique (2006)
*Melodia Gitana (2006), Painting dedicated to the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai
*Espace, Lumière, Amour (2007)
*Roses et Lys (2007)
*Espace fleuri, l'être aimé (2007)
References