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An old pine tree in the courtyard at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem inspired architects Ifat Finkelman and Deborah Warschawski to design a modern treehouse. The slatted wood structure sits at the entrance of the museum’s Youth Wing for Art Education, and it’s attracting children and adults in equal numbers. Who would think a museum installation could  incite aerobic activity ? “As a tribute to the childhood collective memory of a treehouse, we positioned a small roofed structure where children can hide and overlook at high up a tilted trunk raised above the meticulous surroundings of the museum,” the architects told Archiscene. The structure arises from a ground level deck, an open walkway that proceeds to a series of ramps that lead to the actual treehouse. That walkway dies double duty as a seating area, a popular gathering point for museum visitors and watchful parents. Children can also access the interior via a metal pole with foot pegs. An old pine tree anchors the de

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The Colombian government and the left-wing Farc rebel movement have both asked the UN for a mission to oversee the end of their decades-long conflict. Negotiators for the two sides at peace talks in Cuba said they would ask the UN to send a 12-month mission to oversee any ceasefire.  The UN has yet to agree to the proposal. The two sides have been holding peace talks for three years. Both sides say they hope to reach a final peace deal by March 2016. The BBC's Colombia correspondent Natalio Cosoy says the mechanism would only start to work once a final deal is agreed.  Q&A: Colombia's civil war How would a peace deal change Colombia? "We have decided to ask the UN Security Council to create (a mission) of unarmed observers for a period of 12 months," the two sides said in a joint statement at peace talks in Havana on Tuesday. They said the mission would guarantee that any ceasefire and disarmament would be genuine and permanent, calling the annou

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EL ESPAÑOL DE TODOS ¿Es el tuit periodismo? Si acaso diría que es el breve de los breves, con una aspiración a la totalidad En estos últimos años ha desembarcado en nuestras vidas el tuit desplegando pasiones, amistades, información, groserías y hasta amenazas de muerte. En un artículo anterior me referí a Twitter como organización, pero en este trataré específicamente el tuit en relación a una cierta polémica sobre si es o no periodismo. Y me adelantaré a cualquier cuestionamiento diciendo que no lo sé. Pero veamos lo que creo saber. El tuit tiene elementos que podemos considerar para-periodísticos. Es un poco como la vuelta de calentamiento en las competiciones deportivas, una gimnasia sumamente útil para el periodista. Se trata de meter en 140 caracteres una información y siempre de una sola idea porque dos son multitud. Para ello, como en el periodismo, hay que aclararse primero qué queremos contar, repetírselo a uno mismo todas las veces que sea preciso hasta

WORLD   ISIS Exclusive: Watch the Trailer for HBO’s New Jihadi Documentary Karl Vick   @karl_vick   6:00 AM ET         Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma  looks at terrorism in the age of ISIS VIDEO:  http://ti.me/1Oqzx7I A new HBO documentary takes a look at the changing face of terrorism in the U.S. almost fifteen years after 9/11. Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma,  which premieres on Feb. 8, is the latest HBO documentary from Gregory Barker, who also made  Manhunt: The Search for Osama bin Laden . The new 90-minute feature examines the threat of self-radicalized individuals in the age of ISIS, the challenge of detecting plots that can spring up wherever there’s an IP address — and the danger of overstating the threat to a public saturated by warnings about terror. “You could argue there are a lot more dangerous things than terrorism: cancer, obesity, gun violence,” says Andrew Liepman, formerly no. 2 at the National Counter-Terrorism Center, in the fil

LINK:  http://foreignpolicy.com/slideshow/the-world-this-week-in-photos-19/ Police fire at armed militants in Jakarta; Filipinos celebrate the Black Nazarene; and Syrian refugees leave behind graffiti at a building in Turkey. BY  FP STAFF JANUARY 15, 2016

The Ottoman caliphate Straddling two worlds ORHAN OSMANOGLU cradles a French handkerchief embossed with the letter H. “This is all I have left that’s my great-great-grandfather’s, the caliph’s,” he says. His family has fallen far since those illustrious days. Abdulhamid II lived in a palace, Yildiz, in the heart of Ottoman Istanbul; Orhan lives in a high-rise at the end of an Istanbul bus route. Europe’s royals flocked to caliphal functions, but when Orhan’s daughter married, Turkey’s present rulers stayed away. Worst of all, an Iraqi impostor has stolen the title his family bore for hundreds of years. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s barbaric outfit, Islamic State (IS), promises to restore the caliphate. Does Mr Baghdadi know what he is talking about? For 1,300 years the caliphs, or “successors”, prided themselves on developing the Islamic community the Prophet Muhammad left behind. The Ottoman Empire, which rivalled the Roman one in longevity, came to include not only the Middle East,

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Beyond sectarianism: The Saudi-Iran confrontation A look at the media's coverage pitting Sunni against Shia Muslims and its failure to address larger geopolitical issues. 10 Jan 2016 15:04 GMT  |  Media ,  Middle East ,  Saudi Arabia ,  Iran ,  Hassan Rouhani Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran reached new heights this week after the kingdom severed diplomatic relations with Tehran. The current media discourse didn't come from Saudi media outlets but externally, and Iran successfully took advantage of that. [Iran] forged it, and spread it until it reached international media outlets. Four of the executed were Shias while the others were Sunnis. Salman Aldossary,  Editor-in-Chief, Asharq Al-Aswat newspaper  The diplomatic rupture, which has further split an already divided Middle East, came after Saudi executed 47 people on January 2, including a prominent Shia cleric - Nimr al-Nimr. Within hours of the death sentence being carried out, Iranian protesters

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http://lasillavacia.com/historia/si-el-si-gana-el-plebiscito-el-uribismo-estara-en-jaque-hassan-52710 ‘Si el sí gana el plebiscito, el uribismo estará en jaque’: Hassan Por:  Juanita León , Jue, 2016-01-07 22:01 Hassan Nassar, cuyo programa de televisión ‘En Jaque’ cada vez gana más adeptos, se ha convertido en uno de los pocos periodistas que hoy en día piensan diferente frente al proceso de paz con las Farc.  La Silla, con su tradición de entrevistar a principios de año a un periodista nacional, habló con él sobre su balance del año que pasó y sus perspectivas para el que arranca. La Silla Vacía: ¿Quién empezó el 2015 en jaque? Hassan Nassar:  En jaque lo empezaron el gobierno y el uribismo. Siguen los dos enfrascados en la misma discusión. Uno, con el afán de sacar adelante el proceso de paz y el otro con la premura de seguir oponiéndose a una negociación que parece cada vez más avanzada y sobre la cual, si bien hay muchos reparos, se están quedando fuera del bus.