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		<title>&#8216;Psychic Numbing&#8217;: Why does mass suffering induce mass indifference?</title>
		<description><![CDATA['Psychic numbing' is a relatively new term, assigned to the phenomenon which shows people tend to feel less urgent compassion, and tend to give less, when the suffering in question is shown to be more systemic and more pervasive, or affecting larger numbers of people. Some psychologists believe it is linked to our intuitive sense that if one suffers alone, the suffering is worse, but if one is accompanied, there might be some security in numbers, not just emotionally, but practically. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/jr/2010/08/15/711/psychic-numbing-why-does-mass-suffering-induce-mass-indifference/</link>
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		<title>Citizens Climate Lobby Takes Campaign to Capitol Hill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Between June 21 and 25, Citizens Climate Lobby took its message to Capitol Hill, meeting with 52 different members of Congress, or their energy and climate staff, in both the House and the Senate. The first CCL national conference was fortuitously timed, as the ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has brought into stark relief the nature of the carbon-fuel problem and the urgent need for action to achieve a civilization-wide overhaul of energy infrastructure, and the climate bill pending in the Senate may not have the votes to override a filibuster. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/jr/2010/06/28/816/citizens-climate-lobby-takes-campaign-to-capitol-hill/</link>
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		<title>Clean Energy is not an Ideological Issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing ideological about the issue of renewable energy resources. Proponents tend to care about the health of the natural environment, which motivates their wish to see renewables replace high-polluting resources like oil and coal, but the technologies, the fact of their economic viability and their usefulness for society at large, are not in any way a matter of ideology. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/jr/2010/06/16/818/clean-energy-is-not-an-ideological-issue/</link>
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		<title>Arizona Immigrant ID Law Ignores Constitutional Protections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The governor of Arizona has signed into law a measure that would allow police to demand proof of legal residency in cases where they believe an individual might be an undocumented immigrant. The same law would also require people to carry proof of legal residency. It is unclear how the law would be enforced without racial profiling and whether or not US citizens would be subject to legal penalties if caught not carrying proof of citizenship. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/jr/2010/04/26/811/arizona-immigrant-id-law-ignores-constitutional-protections/</link>
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		<title>In Defense of the Book, in All its Forms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the Day of the Book, in part spurred by the urge to recognize two of the great progenitors of modern literature, William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, who both died on 23 April 1616, at least according to the official history. Their work and the various arts that go into making books, as such, are celebrated around the world as staples of modern global civilization and the human element of culture. But the book is more than those sweeping historical energies; it is a concrete, observable register of intent and of meaning, which carries evidence of our humanity forward and informs and improves future worlds. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/jr/2010/04/23/809/in-defense-of-the-book-in-all-its-forms/</link>
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		<title>How to Beat, Reverse &amp; Prevent Identity Theft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the digital medium putting down roots and expanding its reach into more and more aspects of everyday life, the risk of identity theft is increasingly of concern and increasingly hard to keep pace with, prevent and reverse. There are deep worries —expressed by every expert from privacy advocates, to civil rights lawyers to Microsoft and its founder Bill Gates— that the use of biometric markers for real-world identification will lead to an irreversibility problem and radical incentivization for identity thieves and fraudsters. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/jr/2010/04/19/805/how-to-beat-reverse-prevent-identity-theft/</link>
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		<title>Poesía en Villanova (antología del festival de poesía 2010)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[n Villanova, cada noche de lunes, la palabra sencilla y poderosa emprende su vuelo sin encender motores y no para de revolotear, de elevarse y planear como gaviota luminosa sobre la noche siempre cálida de la hermandad poética reunida en la mesa del Taller Literario Pinzon 9. La idea de un día dedicado a la poesía se transformó en dos días de poesía, y en un par de semanas había comenzado a tomar forma un festival que ocuparía todo un fin de semana. Así nació este festival y la presente antología de colaboradores. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/jr/2010/03/18/754/poesia-en-villanova-antologia-del-festival-de-poesia-2010/</link>
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		<title>Palabras / Words (bilingual edition)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The work of the poet is not easy to define. It involves imagination, observation, a musical ear and a kind of daring that allows words to forge new spaces for meaning. But none of these alone makes the poet, or the poem. In this bilingual edition of Carlos Trujillo’s Palabras, his first collection to be published in English, the award-winning Chilean poet offers the reader a hands-on experience of the creative work of the poet, and by his elegant, melodic approach, suggests a more intimate understanding of what poetry is and how it comes to draw breath. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/jr/2010/03/18/752/palabras-words-bilingual-edition/</link>
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		<title>Jaguar y cascada (libro)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[la pregunta básica, apoyada en el arte divino de una respuesta íntegra : la hermosura, la superación de la espera : la resistencia y el regalo sin aparatajes : el ser : el compartir y abrirse : porque sólo así se abre a la vida : sólo siendo rangos de color, entre lágrimas : sólo juntos : la nieve dio lugar a la frescura almada de los últimos días del invierno : entre el bullicio y la vastedad, la semilla : el primer paso, el futuro... ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/jr/2010/03/18/750/jaguar-y-cascada-libro/</link>
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		<title>Gender Links Roundtable on Governance Calls for Resource-building</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the second morning of the 54th Commission on the Status of Women, Gender Links and the African Woman and Child Feature Service —through the Gender and Media Diversity Centre— hosted a roundtable dialogue involving Marren Akatsa-Bukachi of the Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI), Francisco Cos-Montiel of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Revai Makanje of Hivos, Norah Matovu-Winyi of the African Women's Development and Communication Network, and Jennifer Lewis of Gender Links as facilitator, with Mwendabai Yeta Mkhize and myself providing event support and reporting. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/jr/2010/03/10/825/gender-links-roundtable-on-governance-calls-for-resource-building/</link>
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