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PARALLEL LINES is the story of a deadly rivalry on both sides of the law. With criminal rival and would be underworld kingpin Declan Meehan on the verge of controlling Glasgow's lucrative illegal drug trade, Detective Sergeant Angus Thoroughgood vows to bring him down.An edgy and fast-paced crime thriller set in the seedy criminal underworld of Glasgow, Scotland, Parallel Lines is the first book in the critically-acclaimed DS Thoroughgood series. With Meechan bludgeoning his competition into submission, seizing the city piece by piece, his conflict with Thoroughgood gets all too personal when Celine Lynott, the woman who broke Angus' heart ten-years earlier, falls for his nemesis.Parallel Lines sees author RJ Mitchell drawing from his twelve years of experience as a Glasgow police officer to drag readers into the city's sleazy underbelly to encounter the violent and lawless stories that can be found there.

In its materialization of regard and disregard, the 2015 introduction of the Starbucks luxury line prompts new questions about the impact of an emergent app ascetic on the everyday practice of order. In this article, I build on previous studies of time and power, while simultaneously exploring the material practice of luxury narrated by, but practiced in contrast to, promises of community and social consciousness. I argue that time is made luxurious through the power to redistribute how one is positioned in relation to others and that this materialization reveals the role of disregard in luxury relations more generally. I examine how the formation of luxury lines that involve inserting oneself in spatial and temporal relation to others exposes the underlying disregard involved in the practice of ordering and consuming in time and space. I then explore the ways in which this practice exposes how consumption of luxury lines of material goods—particularly those goods produced by companies that make a claim to benevolence—has involved a false sense of accord narrated by tales of community-producing luxury that purport to be practicing regard for others in the practice of rewarding oneself.

James Worner is an Australian-based writer and scholar currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Technology Sydney. His research seeks to expose masculinities lost in the shadow of Australia's Anzac hegemony while exploring new opportunities for contemporary historiography. He is the recipient of the Doctoral Scholarship in Historical Consciousness at the university's Australian Centre of Public History and will be hosted by the University of Bologna during 2017 on a doctoral research writing scholarship. 'Parallel Lines' is one of a collection of stories, The Shapes of Us, exploring liminal spaces of modern life: class, gender, sexuality, race, religion and education. It looks at lives, like lines, that do not meet but which travel in proximity, simultaneously attracted and repelled. James' short stories have been published in various journals and anthologies.

This installation is one of three –matrix sets– that was created for the Great Hall of Les Tanneries Centre for Contemporary Art in Amilly, France. Entitled Life Line, it reactivates Lucy Orta's interest in the increasing fragility of human populations by associating a military ambulance with a large deployment of customised camp beds. These new Life Guards are designed as genuine individual refuges, echoing her Refuge Wear project from the 1990s. While questioning the fragility and precariousness of the body and of human nature, the artist also underlines resilience and outbursts of solidarity.

Lines can evoke notions of form, contour, and trains of thought; they may indicate order or randomness, continuity or division, give rise to complex meanings or shapeless chaos. Their 'breadthless length' (Euclid) serves as a foundation for geometry, the basis of alphabets and writing, the elementary component of visual representation; it provides the frame for musical notation, the basic unit of poetry and literature, the possibility of political division and segregation, and a fundamental resource for philosophical and historical reflections on the nature of movement, temporality, (dis)continuity, and change. What is the red thread running through these different notions and manifestations of linearity? Or does their multiplicity point to the boundless variety of possible trajectories and discontinuities already present within the one-dimensionality of the single line? Is every line a wandering away from another, or an extension of the line's innate errant potential, its play of tangential forces? The ICI Library Event explored the creative and menacing potential of the notion of lines within the context of the core project, ERRANS. Part 1 A Nonlinear Panel With Rosa Barotsi, Pearl Brilmyer, James Burton, Antonio Castore, Maria José De Abreu, Preciosa Regina de Joya, Walid El-Houri, Ewa Majewska, and Zairong Xiang Part 2 To Draw a Line: Writing Performance with Axel Malik Over the course of the last 25 years, Axel Malik has explored, in his daily writing practice, varied potentials of the scriptural line freed from all signification. He will demonstrate his 'scriptural method' and present a single canvas on which he wrote for an entire year. Malik will be introduced by Claire Nioche-Sibony. ; Errant Lines , ici library event, ICI Berlin, 10 December 2014

The neutrality of medicine and health care professionals in different conflict settings in the Middle East have come under scrutiny in recent human rights reports, and should be seen as part of the broader fallout of the US-led 'global war on terror.' The last two decades of US military attacks on health infrastructures in Iraq and the use of polio-vaccination campaigns to track down 'terrorists' are acts of war that have further blurred the lines between health care and warfare. The failure of international legal processes and institutions to prevent such assaults or to prosecute those responsible raises questions about the Eurocentric system of checks and balances that shape international humanitarian law and its invocation as a 'legal' and 'moral' framework.

Cheapened by the Millions, Sea Lions in the Crosshairs, A Ministry for Pet Owners, Stamps Plug Shelter Adoptions, Pit Bull Politicking

Seal Hunt on Its Last Legs; Prop 2 Ripple Effects; War on Animal Fighting; Military Base Shelter Transformed; Antifreeze Activist; Birth Control on Assateague

America's moral meltdown -- What's really going on with our culture -- Millennials: a complex generation -- Millennials: losing their faith and religion -- TV then and now: how the tides have changed -- Scripting culture: driving home an agenda -- Movies then and now: the paradigm shift -- Lyrical conundrum: music's devolving state -- The greatest irony of our age -- Campus chaos rages -- The rise of colleges, all-comers policies -- The true impact on academia -- The media paradox: ignorance versus intentionality? -- Is there proof the media are biased? -- How did we get here? -- Is free speech under attack? -- Religious freedom battles abound -- The solution