Patricia Damery: Farming and Politics: A Personal Story

Some years ago my oldest son Jesse interviewed my father for a school project. My father lived his entire life on a small Illinois farm. In early years he and his family raised several crops as well as hay for the cattle and sheep. Chickens provided eggs and meat, and the cows, milk. For many years the farm was self-sufficient.

His family was close friends with the neighboring Sutman family. At the turn of the last century, in their wild and wooly days, Mr. Sutman, as he was always called, and my grandfather traveled north into Wisconsin photographing farm families. We still have these photographs which are a record of a unique period in history. For years the Sutmans and the Damerys helped each other whenever needed. After Mr. Sutman died, his unmarried daughter Leona lived in the farmhouse and my father did the farming.

At the time of the interview, Leona had died and her nephew had inherited the property, acquiring a farm manager. My father still did the actual farming, but the manager made the decisions: what to plant and when to harvest. My father was in his 70?s at the time. He knew the land intimately: where it flooded, where the crop would be thin, what areas you could get back into easily after a rain. The land was haunted by memory: the old dirt road (Lover?s Lane) along the eastern boundary where couples once parked; the blackberry bramble that used to be a tennis court; the magnificent, obsolete barns, soon to be torn down to make more ground for corn.

My father lived through death of the small farm as an institution, and then, he lived in its wake, farming until two days before his own death. In the interview he was resigned. He did not know what would happen to the family farm when he died: that would be up to us. He believed that our farm was no longer large enough to be viable financially.

Farmers are fiercely independent, one of the reasons they are often Republicans. Republicans are for less government, more grass-roots control. My father donated enough money to the Republican Party that they were always sending him calendars, the last of these with a picture of a smiling George W. Bush on every month. (My mother said that more than once my father?s and her votes canceled each other out!)

There is a term C. G. Jung used to describe a situation like this: enantiodromia, meaning, when something gets too extreme, it turns into its opposite. Lack of government regulation, still an agenda for Republican politicians, opened the door for corporate control. It began after the Second World War when there was an excess of ammonium nitrate once used for weapons. Farmers were encouraged to use it as an easy, cheap source of nitrogen. In the 70?s the Nixon administration encouraged becoming more efficient through mono-cropping and farming everything: getting rid of hedgerows (where native birds and animals reside), ?industrially? farming animals. Barns and sheds and soon farmhouses were no longer needed and torn down and the ground planted as well. Farmers leveraged their land to buy more, grain prices dropped as supply increased, and many farmers lost their shirts or sold their land. Now those few left use air conditioned tractors the size of sheds to farm 2000 plus acres, and GMO seed (genetically modified organism) and chemicals make it possible to grow only one crop. Monsanto seems to have been given full reign to control seed, suing farmers whose organic seed becomes contaminated for impingement, as well as to suppress research showing the dangerous impact of the chemicals on the endocrine systems of living things, including humans, and on the larger environment. Corporations have even been able to suppress the identity of food that has genetically modified ingredients in it, now most of our processed foods in United States, denying the consumer the right to ?make his or her own decisions about consuming it. This is hardly grass-roots decision making!

To his dying day, my father bought what he was sold: not only the poisoned seed, which killed rodents and anything else that got into it, including my brother?s pig, not only the the GMO seed requiring expensive chemicals to grow, but also the belief that we had to farm this way or we could not feed the people in the world. By the 90?s small farmers like my father were no longer making the decisions about how to relate to our earth.

In 2002, my husband and I attended a trade show in Austin, Texas, All Things Organic. There were a number of small farm-based businesses there, including our own Biodynamic organic lavender business. I will never forget that conference, the excitement among the exhibitors, the common feeling of mission, and last, but not least, the keynote address, given by Robert Kennedy, Jr..

Kennedy is a tall, lithe attorney whose classrooms of students are responsible for some of the more important watchdog-inspired cleanups of our waterways. More recently his work has turned to the treatment of animals in so-called ?industrial? settings. That day he as walked onto the stage, he rolled up his sleeves, and with tears in his eyes, thanked the small farmers there for doing what we were doing. He then went on to tell us why the belief that we can only feed the people of the world through large farms using industrial techniques was simply a distortion of the facts, perpetrated by corporations. He talked about the clean up factor of industrial meat farming, how it contaminates ground water, not to mention the inhumane treatment of the animals. Small farms are an economically viable way to raise food, he proclaimed, and in fact, the only sane way, particularly when you factor clean up cost now on the tax payer.

Farmers like my father were caught up in a collective tidal wave of proportions previously unknown, exploited by politicians through their belief that a hands-off government meant grass-roots control.

But Jesse?s generation is another matter. They are not so naive! Independent, yes, but not trusting in the powers that be in the way my father?s generation often was. Jesse has become a farmer, something I never imagined, though I should not be surprised! I recognize that spirit in him: the love of hard work, ?the willingness to accept the risks, that passion for the earth. (See my own story of return in?Farming Soul: A Tale of Initiation)?But I also see commitment in this group of farmers to true grass-roots action, giving meaning to that slogan,?Think globally; act locally. Even in our independent action, we need to consider the impact on all. Otherwise, we can become pawns to larger forces. Perhaps farming?s phoenix is rising.

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?Modernist Painting? by Clement Greenberg ? Art History Unstuffed

THE MODERNISM OF?MODERNIST PAINTING, 1960/1?

Clement Greenberg?s ?Modernist Painting,? originally given as a radio broadcast in 1916 for the Voice of America?s ?Forum Lectures,? was printed in 1961 in the Arts Yearbook 4 of the same year, reprinted in 1965, ?66, ?74, ?78, and 1982.?? The article achieved a canonical status and served as one of the definitive statements of formalism as a mode of visual analysis and of formalism as a critical stance, and possibly, of formalism as a mode of making art.?? In his 1961 essay on ?Modernist Painting,? Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) defined ?Modernism? as the period (in art) roughly from the mid-1850s to his present that displayed a self-critical tendency in the arts.

Greenberg considered Immanuel? Kant the first Modernist.? The essence of Kant?s thesis was the employment of the characteristic ?methods? of the discipline to ?criticize the discipline itself.?? According to Greenberg, Kant used logic to establish ?the limits of logic.?? The Modernist goal of self-criticism grows out of the critical spirit of the Enlightenment philosophical system which was based upon the belief in the power of rational thought and human reason. ?Critique,? as a method, analyzes from the inside, from within the object being examined and does not judge from the outside, according to external criteria.

Painting must analyze itself to discover its inherent properties. Painting, according to Enlightenment methodology, must be interrogated according to its inherent purposes.? The key term here would be ?inherent,? for analyzing an object according to its essential definition must preclude bringing forward any non-essential or external criteria. In other words, a painting telling a ?good story? is not necessarily a good painting.?? In this article, Greenberg carries on his attempt to ?save? and to define ?high art,? and ?Modernist Painting? of 1960 can be compared to ?Avant-Garde and Kitsch? of 1939.? Two decades had passed and Greenberg had progressed from being an up-and-coming art writer to being the arbiter of fine arts in New York, enjoying a truly hegemonic position.? His crusade was all the more urgent in 1961, as territory of the avant-garde was being invaded by popular culture and the forces of disrule, exemplified by Neo-Dada and Pop Art and Fluxus.? Greenberg had also shifted his political position, from being an intellectual Marxist, to being a Kantian formalist, a far safer situation which removes the critic and art from current cultural considerations.

Greenberg stated that art can ?save? itself from being entertainment by demonstrating that the experience it provides is ?unobtainable from any other source.? It is the task of art to demonstrate that which is ?unique? and ?irreducible?, particular or peculiar to art and that which determines the operation peculiar and exclusive to itself.? All effects borrowed from any other medium must be eliminated, rendering the art form pure.? ?Purity? becomes a guarantee of ?quality? and ?independence? of avant-garde art.? All extrinsic effects should be eliminated from painting.

One could say that it is not the essential to the definition of a painting that it re-create the world realistically.? Today, that role can be fulfilled by photography or film. ?Film and theater are defined by storytelling and narrative, enhanced by illusions of everyday reality.? Following Greenberg?s line of reasoning, realism and story telling and illusionism should be eliminated from painting.?? For Greenberg, art was used to call attention to art.? Clement Greenberg logically worked out the limitations and peculiarities of painting, which are a flat surface, the shape of the support and the properties of the pigment. These physical and material limiting conditions became positive factors.

Once suppressed by artists through under-painting and glazing, these material aspects of painting were now acknowledged by Modernist painters.? Because he appeared to have considered and taken into account the limitations of painting as the application of paint upon a flat surface, or a stretched canvas, ?douard Manet is designated by Greenberg as the first Modernist artist.? Manet ?declared the surface;? his follower, Paul C?zanne, fit the drawing and design into the rectangle of the painting.? In Modernist painting, the spectator is made aware of the flatness and sees the picture first, before noting the content.

Modernist painting abandoned the principle of representation of Renaissance illusionistic space inhabited by three-dimensional objects, giving the effect of looking through the canvas into a world beyond. Modernist painting resists the sculptural, which is suppressed or expelled.? The question is that of a purely optical experience.? With Greenberg, flatness alone is unique to painting.? For this critic, ?art? carries within itself its own teleology.? As art seeks self-definition and determines its own uniqueness, it becomes more pure, more reductive in its means.? More is eliminated?subject matter, content, figuration, illusionism, narrative?and art becomes independent, detached, and non-objective, that is, abstract.? Content becomes completely dissolved into form.? Greenberg, in looking back selectively at the history of art, presented a map of progress and evolution of painting, away from representation and toward purity, abstraction, reductiveness; to flatness, to pure color, to simple forms that reflected the shape of the surface.

The essay noted that Modernism ?resists sculpture? or three-dimensionality and reminded the reader that this ?resistance? was by no mean recent. The critic pointed to Jacques-Louis David as an example of an artist whose work was flat and surface based.? Greenberg insisted that the scientific method justified the demand that painting (and art) limit itself to ?what is given in visual experience.??? Greenberg equated the artist to the scientists, both of whom ?test? and experiment.? The equation of art with science, replaces his earlier equation of the avant-garde with politics:? ??a superior culture is inherently a more critical culture.?? One can ?only look? at a work of visual art, which is discernible only to the ?eye.?? Poetry is ?literary,? art is not and should not attempt to be, for as Greenberg reminded us, any translation of the literary into the visual ?loses? the literary qualities.

Like Avant-garde and Kitsch, Modernist Painting, had a subtext, Enlightenment philosophy, especially that of Kant?s Critique of Judgment.? The 1939 article concerned itself with aesthetics but more with the ?experience? of the aesthetic.? In Avant-garde and Kitsch, it is possible to believe that Greenberg was writing of the experience of the aesthetic in terms of the placement of art in the culture, in other words, it is not so much the ?how? of the experience but of the ?where? of the aesthetic.? In Modernist Painting, the experience of the aesthetic is located in the realm of the how one looks at a work of art.

The proper attitude of the spectator was important to Kant who recommended a posture of detachment from personal desire and indifference to artistic content in search of a universal means of judging the efficacy of art.? The Enlightenment philosophy cherished the idea of the universal or the absolute, for some kind of standard had to be erected to replace the all-knowing presence of the now-banished God.? Kant was not interested in defining what ?art? was but in establishing the ground for the judgment of art.? Working in the new philosophical field, aesthetics, Kant attempted to establish the epistemology of art, based, not in individual works but in a method of knowledge.

Greenberg?s understanding of Kant led him to use the methodology of critique but the critic took ?critique? in a rather different direction.? Writing two centuries after the German philosopher, Greenberg looked backwards in time and implied another favorite Enlightenment idea, that of progress.? Modernist art, if one understands the essay correctly, seems to ?progress? and move forward in time, away from manifestations of extrinsic properties and towards a purity of means.? ?Modernist art develops out of the past without gap or break, and wherever it ends up, it will never stop being intelligible in terms of the continuity of art.?

The ground has shifted away from a means of judgment (Kant) to a theory of the evolution of art along telelogical lines with a goal in mind: purity.? Even though as Greenberg pointed out, ?The first mark made on the canvas destroys its virtual flatness,? purity seems to imply a historical rejection of representation and a validation of abstraction.?The point of noting Greenberg?s development of Kantian theory and its application toward Modernist Painting is that, without the notion of progress, the critic?s theory of artistic development would have to include some of the masters of flatness, such as William Bourguereau and some of the masters of the surface such as Thomas Kincaide, both of whom Greenberg would have excluded from the family tree of modernism.

While Kant would at least judge these two artists (and perhaps find them wanting), Greenberg seems to imply a connection between Modernism and the avant-garde and establish ground for exclusion of the unworthy. The oppositions of the dialectic are implied: those who did not follow the path of Modernist reductionism were, like dinosaurs, left behind.? If one reads in a connection between Modernism and the avant-garde, even if only through the names of the canonical artists Greenberg mentioned and thought his previous articles, then the conflation between the continuity of art and the avant-garde, which supposedly breaks with the past, becomes rather awkward.???? Indeed, Greenberg does not mention the avant-garde, he uses the term ?authentic art,? instead.

?Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity.? Art is, among many other things, continuity. ?Without the past of art, and without the need and compulsion to maintain past standards of excellence, such a thing as modernist art would be impossible,? Greenberg stated.

However, as pointed out in his earlier work, Greenberg refused to connect the avant-garde with a rejection of the past: ??the true and most important function of the avant-garde was not to ?experiment? but to find a path along which it would be possible to keep culture moving?? (Greenberg?s italics).? The underlying continuity of the two articles can be seen in the precursor remark in the 1939 writing on the role of the avant-garde artist: ??Art for art?s sake? and ?pure poetry? appear, and subject matter or content becomes something to be avoided like the plague.? Given the openness of the construction of this essay and the plurality of texts mobilized by Greenberg, it is no wonder that ?Modernist Painting? lent itself to so many causes, whether as a rallying point or as a b?te noir.

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VOIP Phone Systems : Communications

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VOIP phone systems or Voice Over Internet Protocol is the newest technology that uses an internet connection to have a phone conversation. It takes the audio and converts it into a digital format that is then sent through the internet connection.

The VOIP phone systems will take your voice and convert it into an electronic signal. It will then break your voice down into packets that are compressed and then will be sent to the receiving phone. When these packets are sent to the receiving phone, they are put back together and they can hear your voice.

If you want to use VOIP phone systems, you will need to have the proper equipment, which is not much. You need an internet connection that is high-speed and a VOIP phone or a VOIP adapter that will go on the phone. There are three ways that you can use VOIP phone systems.

The first is ATA. Or in other words, Analog Telephone Adapter. This method is the most popular ones for the VOIP phone systems. This adapter is connects your regular phone to your computer that has an internet connection to it. The ATA works by converting the analog signals to digital signals and then they are sent to the receiver over the internet. This type is the easiest out of all VOIP phone systems. You simply ask your VOIP service provider for an ATA to plug into your computer and that is all.

The second type of VOIP phone systems is the IP Phones. You will have to get rid of your regular phones and switch to an IP phone. It is no much different from your normal phone, except it has an Ethernet connecter. You will plug the IP Phones into your router instead of the wall. There is no software necessary.

The last type of VOIP phone systems is the computer-to-computer method. This is the cheapest way to use VOIP phone systems since all the phone calls are totally free and you do not have to purchase a plan. You will need to download some software, but it is completely free online. You will also need an internet connection, microphone and speakers which most people already have.

Most people think it will be expensive to make the switch to VOIP phone systems, but it is fairly cheap. The providers make it easy for any business to switch by giving them options to how they want to use the VOIP phone systems. You can keep your regular phones and buy a little adapter or get rid of the phones altogether. It is completely up to you.

When you switch to VOIP phone systems, you will notice that there are a lot of great features that will help your business. There are the normal ones like voicemail, call waiting and caller ID. You can also get more advanced features such as, video conferencing and managing your system online. VOIP phone systems are really nice because you can do everything from your computer. There are also different plans to choose from depending onthe size of your business. You will be glad you made the switch!

VOIP Phone Systems

The first is ATA. Or in other words, Analog Telephone Adapter. This method is the most popular ones for the VOIP phone systems. This adapter is connects your regular phone to your?. Learn more at VoIP Phone Systems and voip services

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Pharmaceutical Care ? Blog Archive ? Narcotics Anonymous

some AA groups are less than accepting of people who are addicted to substances other than alcohol. Bill Wilson was opposed to allowing heroin addicts to become part of AA. However, there are self-help groups for drug abusers based on the twelve-step approach, such as Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and Cocaine Anonymous (CA).

There are more than 20,000 registered NA groups holding over 30,000 weekly meetings in more than 100 countries. Attendance records are not kept either for NA?s own purposes or for others. Because of this, it is sometimes difficult to provide interested parties with comprehensive information about NA membership.

NA membership is open to all drug addicts, regardless of the particular drug or combination of drugs used. When adapting AA?s First Step, the word ?addiction? was substituted for ?alcohol,? thus removing drug-specific language while maintaining the ?disease concept? of addiction. As in AA, there are no dues or fees for membership, although most members contribute in meetings to help cover expenses.

Medications prescribed by a physician and taken under medical supervision are not seen as compromising a person?s recovery in NA. Some term paper could be a good reference under medical supervision and related topic surrounding it.

The twelve steps of Narcotics Anonymous
1. We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and practice these principles in all our affairs.

(Thanks for Reading).

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How Do Zero Percent Auto Finance Work

If interest rates scare you faraway from taking auto loans choose a zero percent auto loan and avail the freedom of no interest payments on the loan.

When you are available to get a financial loan, you definitely be attracted to a low rate car loans. The loan advertisements may be begging you to get their services. They present those offers in such an enticing way that the customer is bound to give them attention. There are auto loans given for a price as low as 0%. Floored? Yes, you heard that right. Now zero interest car loans are being offered. What is the best advertising feature in such a loan? Everyone wants to get a lot for nothing; it draws people to car dealers and lenders. But before you make the selection, you need to know certain facts about zero percent auto financial.

These loans are provided with a discount feature but you can find conditions to it. Some lenders require the repayments of loan within a period of 3 to 5 years. So even without an interest repayment the monthly installments are pretty hefty and borrowers need excellent finance management to produce high payments monthly.

You might not be able to avail rebates on your loans. This reduces the attraction to this loan a little. You must select between a regular loan package which includes benefits such as rebates on loan, and then a 0% auto loan. Additionally, some lenders require want you to provide 25% of that loan repayment as down payment.

When you look with these conditions and options, you have to know that you desire extra finances on hand to take this loan. High monthly payments need to be made and those who makes it should go for this loan. It is a great way to acquire a car by paying for it very quickly and without interest.

If you dot know where to begin looking from suggest that you should look into online car loan. Youll find loans offering in the lowest market interest rate to your highest. It depends on the requirements which one? the best for you.
When you are searching for a car loan bad credit ranking is hindering the chance for getting a loan at a low rate? There is exactly the right kind of car loans in the market for you. These are termed subprime loans. As the name indicates these include given to subprime borrowers with a low or bad credit score. In view of the down steep in the economy there?s a need for lenders who are prepared to take the risk associated with providing such loans. There are also auto refinancing, debt arrangement plans, and debt management for people with debt problems or bad credit score.

So take up a car loan wisely and then the rest is history.Emma Smith is a financial advisor who has been working with the government for 15 years. She likes to give out advice on 0% Car Loan and Pre Approval For Car Loan to people so as to make their financial choices wisely.

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Waze 3.0 brings Yelp, Foursquare integration


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Waze this morning has taken the wraps off Version 3.0, which brings Foursquare and Yelp integration to the Android navigation app. It's also bringing a new minimal user interface, and social location stack, meaning more community-currated information than ever.

We've got the full press release and download links after the break.

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Seized Chinese workers freed in Egypt (AP)

BEIJING ? A group of 25 Chinese taken hostage in Egypt has been freed, but a second group seized in Sudan over the weekend are still being held, state media reported Wednesday.

The incidents several days apart reflect the dangers China faces as it pushes more into unstable areas in search of energy and business.

The official Xinhua News Agency quoted the Chinese Embassy in Cairo as saying the 25 were freed Wednesday, a day after they were grabbed off their bus on the way to a cement factory in the northern Sinai town of Arish.

Xinhua said the people who seized the workers demanded that the Egyptian government release relatives who had been detained several years ago for suspected involvement in attacks in south Sinai. The workers were freed in good condition, the agency said, citing an embassy official.

China has already sent a crisis team to Sudan and summoned a Sudanese diplomat to express its shock after the 29 workers there were taken by militants in the South Kordofan region.

"The Chinese government attaches great importance to protecting overseas Chinese nationals," Vice Foreign Minister Xie Hangsheng was quoted as saying in a statement posted on the ministry's website.

China hopes Sudan will "keep in mind the overall situation of bilateral friendship" and ensure their swift release, Xie told Sudanese Charge d'Affaires Omer Eisa Ahmed, according to the statement. China has close political and economic relations with Sudan centering on exchanging Chinese infrastructure projects for access to Sudanese oil.

China sent a group of security experts to assist in the rescue work and the head of the team, Qiu Xuejun, told Chinese state television in Khartoum that "as far as we know, the Chinese workers are safe. They are safe. They are not hurt."

Xinhua said 47 Chinese workers were caught in the attack in the South Kordofan region of Sudan. It said 29 were captured and the other 18 fled, and that one of those who fled remains missing. The attack took place near Abbasiya town, 390 miles (630 kilometers) south of Khartoum.

Sudanese officials have blamed the attack on the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, a branch of a guerrilla movement that has fought various regimes in Khartoum for decades. Its members hail from a minority ethnic group now in control of much of South Sudan, which became the world's newest country six months ago in a breakaway from Sudan.

Sudan has accused South Sudan of arming pro-South Sudan groups in South Kordofan. The government of South Sudan says the accusations are a smoke screen intended to justify a future invasion of the South.

China has sent large numbers of workers to potentially unstable regions such as Sudan. Last year it was forced to send ships and planes to help with the emergency evacuation of 30,000 of its citizens from the fighting in Libya.

South Sudan and Sudan are in bitter dispute over oil, which is produced primarily in South Sudan but runs through Sudanese pipelines for export.

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Podio Adds New Languages As It Scales Internationally

podioWe first reviewed online workspace startup Podio on its launch in March last year, and it looked pretty promising. A little like Box.net or 37Signals, Podio is closer to a more sophisticated Yammer, with lots of customising possible via its own internal 'app' store. Today it launches in two new language, Brazilian Portuguese and Italian, adding to its existing English, German, French, Danish and Spanish translations. Spilt between San Francisco and Copenhagen offices, Podio is now in use in 170 countries so, as CEO Tommy Ahlers says, the translations now make a lot of sense. Though you would think Chinese might also be a good addition?

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Can You Be a Pirate on Land?

Why, then, do news accounts refer to them as pirates? Because they arr. The kidnapping was reportedly carried out by a gang whose leader is a well-known pirate commander. The commander, Ali Duulaye, is thought to have helped hijack a Seychelles-flagged fishing vessel in December. A pirate source told the website Somalia Report on Saturday that Moore was being held on land, alongside two hostages taken from that vessel, though he has apparently since been moved. Somalia Report?s editor, the Canadian journalist Jay Bahadur, tells the Explainer that the proliferation of armed guards on vessels plying the Arabian Sea has forced pirate networks to focus more on land-based operations of late.

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Irishman makes "billion-euro home" of shredded notes (Reuters)

DUBLIN (Reuters) ? An unemployed Irish artist has built a home from the shredded remains of 1.4 billion euros ($1.82 billion), a monument to the "madness" he says has been wrought on Ireland by the single currency, from a spectacular construction boom to a wrenching bust.

Frank Buckley built the apartment in the lobby of a Dublin office building that has lain vacant since its completion four years ago at the peak of an ill-fated construction boom, using bricks of shredded euro notes he borrowed from Ireland's national mint.

"It's a reflection of the whole madness that gripped us," Buckley said of what he calls his "billion-euro home."

"People were pouring billions into buildings now worth nothing," he said. "I wanted to create something from nothing."

A wave of cheap credit flowed into Ireland in the early 2000s after Ireland joined the currency zone fuelling a huge property bubble that transformed the country.

The bubble's collapse since 2007 plunged Ireland into the deepest recession in the industrialized world, forcing the former "Celtic Tiger" to accept a humiliating bailout from the EU and the IMF.

Buckley was given a 100 percent mortgage at the peak of the boom to buy a 365,000 euro home on the far reaches of Dublin's commuter belt, despite the fact he had no steady income.

He has separated from his wife who lives in the home, which has since lost at least one-third of its value.

Living in his "billion euro home" since the start of December, Buckley is working on adding a kitchen to the living room and hall.

The walls and floor are covered in euro shreddings and the house is so warm Buckley sleeps without a blanket.

Pictures made from notes and coins decorate the walls, including one of a house, made from Irish 5 pence pieces.

"There are houses in Ireland worth less than that," Buckley quips.

Buckley said he wants Europe's politicians to solve the eurozone debt crisis without destroying its currency. But if the currency ultimately fails, he will happily use the euro zone's defunct notes as fodder for future projects.

"Whatever you say about the euro, it's a great insulator."

($1 = 0.7704 euros)

(Reporting by Conor Humphries; editing by Carmel Crimmins and Paul Casciato)

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