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Hundreds of American Jews Coming to Jewish Gaza Next Month (INN-ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS) 05/04/05)
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Hundreds of American Jews will arrive in Israel on June 5th in order to join the Jews of Gush Katif in opposing the expulsion from their homes.
The organizer of the trip, Brooklyn assemblyman Dov Hikind, says he decided to put together the visit when he returned from his last visit to the threatened Jewish towns of Gaza, in which dozens of professionals and two New York State judges participated. My office was inundated with calls from Americans who want to be there for 8,500 people who have done nothing wrong and are being threatened with expulsion, Hikind said.
The Democratic assemblyman said on Israel National Radios Stutz & Fleisher Show that, The people who live in Gush Katif are the most amazing people I have ever met in my life. Anyone who goes there realizes what a tragedy it would be to lose this place.
Hikind says he, together with hundreds of ordinary Jews from the tri- state area who are taking a week out of their lives to spend with the men, women and children of Gush Katif, intends to give strength and support to the Jews living in Gazas 22 communities.
It is the least we can do, Hikind said. Last time we were here, the residents gave us much more than we gave them, but I know that our coming means something, not only to the residents, but to G-d.
Outside of Israel we have faith in G-d, but what does that really mean? How often are we tested? Hikind asks. These people have been tested day in and day out for 30 years and their faith has not been shaking. Their devotion to the Land of Israel and the People of Israel is something not to be believed.
Asked whether he felt that as a Jew living outside Israel he had reservations about opposing the will of the Israeli government, Hikind responded, The Land of Israel does not only belong to the people of Israel, but to the Jewish people. I would be negligent if I let it be abandoned without a response.
The seasoned politician says he is often challenged by those who see the withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria as a fait accompli. People say, Can we really make a difference? Can we really change anything? Sharon seems to have it all worked it out, it seems to be final but we as Jews know that it is in the hands of G-d, not Ariel Sharon. Things can change in a moment; forget about a week and a month, let alone three months.
A recent Anti-Defamation League poll showed most American Jews support the withdrawal plan, but Hikind says such a fact is irrelevant. The majority of American Jews also support dividing Jerusalem, he said, and the fact is, most Jews in America have never even been to Israel - so that doesnt say much.
Whether someone supports the withdrawal or not, Hikind said, It would be radical and extreme to allow these Jews to feel isolated at a time like this.
In response to reports that Gaza may be declared a closed military area by the end of May, Hikind said, It would be tragic if we would be prevented from entering Gaza. But hundreds will be traveling to Israel and are committed to emotionally fortifying the 8,500 individuals during this dark and desperate period. For more information, or to join the group, call Hikinds office: (718) 853- 9616 (IsraelNationalNews © 05/04/05)
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Morphological changes of the endolymphatic sac induced by microinjection of artificial endolymph into the cochlea
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AbstractMorphological changes of the endolymphatic sac were analysed in guinea pigs following microinjection of artificial endolymph into the cochlea, or withdrawal of a quantity of native endolymph. Injections were performed into the second turn of scala media with a micro-pump at a rate of 60-100 nanolitres/minute, lasting for a period of 4, 7.5, 15 or 18 minutes. In withdrawal experiments, endolymph was aspirated from the second cochlear turn over a period of 8 minutes. For each procedure the contralateral (non-treated) ear served as a histological control. Following artificial endolymph injections of 7.5 minutes or more there was an almost total absence of the normal intraluminal homogenous substance (HS) on the injected side. Our observations suggest that the disappearance of the HS occurs by both enzymatic and macrophagic activity. After endolymphatic withdrawals the ES was found to contain increased amounts of HS. The results could suggest that the volume of fluid in the ES, and hence the volume of the entire membranous labyrinth, may be regulated by a dynamic relationship between active secretion and enzymatic degradation of a lumen-expanding substance that is intimately related to the intraluminal macrophages. The exact mechanism governing these regulatory systems, and their relationship to ion and water movements across the epithelium of the sac, remain to be elucidated.
This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health through the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, Grant number DC01368
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" In 1958, William Draper was appointed to chair a committee which was advising President Dwight Eisenhower on the use of military aid to other countries. The appointment was made possible by Prescott Bush and Gordon Gray, both whom were frequent golfing partners of Eisenhower. Dillon and Reed employed Draper during the 1930s. It was with Draper's help that Prescott Bush was able to float the largest bond issue for Nazi Germany. Draper later served in post war Germany as the head of the economic unit in charge of dismantling the cartel system.
Draper was a racist and major funder of the eugenic movement. Draper used his position as committee chairman to direct the focus of the committee away from military aid to the danger of over population in third world countries. His racist views were dismissed by the Eisenhower administration. Draper went on to fund the Population Crisis Committee with money from the Rockefellers and du Ponts. In the 1960s, Draper served as an advisor to LBJ. He was instrumental in getting the Johnson administration to use the overseas aid program to fund birth control in non-white countries.
The Bush Rockefeller connection goes back to pre-WWI and Samuel Bush, president of Buckeye Casting. Samuel Bush was also director of several Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads. The railroads worked closely with the Ohio bred Standard Oil. Standard held a minority interest in Buckeye Castings. In turn, railroads transporting Rockefeller oil were required to purchase all of their couplings and related railroad equipment from Buckeye.
George Bush, Prescott's son, was a vocal supporter of Draper's policies. In 1964, he campaigned in Texas against the Civil Rights Act. In 1969, as congressman, Bush arranged hearings on the dangers posed by the birth of too many black babies.
In 1972, as ambassador to the United Nations, George Bush arranged the first official contract between the American government and the Sterilization League of America, which had, by then, changed its name, yet again, to the Association for Voluntary Surgical Contraception. Under this contract, the United States taxpayer was burdened with the cost of sterilization programs in the non white third world.
In the 1980s, as vice president, George Bush urged Reagan to appoint Draper's son as administrator of the United Nations Development Program, an organization connected with the World Bank and charged with supervising population control. Bush was also instrumental in the appointment of Draper's son to the Export-Import bank. During the 1980s the Export-Import Bank with the urging of the Reagan administration served as a funnel for funds to provide Saddam Hussein with funds and credits during the Iran-Iraq war.111
The Bush and Draper families have shared close relationships since the 1920s. In 1980, Draper's son was co-chairman for finance and head of fundraising for the George Bush for President campaign in 1980.
Dr. Clarence Gamble later established the Pathfinder Fund. The prime objective of the Pathfinder fund is to break down the resistance to sterilization in third world countries.
The racist policies of the Bush family extends into the administration of George W. Bush. Charles Murray, the Pioneer Fund's best known expert, has served as advisor to many of George W's top advisors and is often quoted by them. (The Pioneer Fund was established by Wickliffe Draper, not to be confused with William Draper) Both Tommy Thompson's and NYC Mayor Giuliani's welfare programs are directly influenced by Murray. Murray was a consultant on the Wisconsin plan when Thompson changed the Wisconsin welfare system. Murray's books The Bell Curve and Losing Ground, both about the inferiority of Blacks, serve as bibles for the school privatization and anti-welfare movements in the U.S.
There are a several things to note in the last few paragraphs. The first notable aspect in post-war period is how small and tight this group of eugenics was. Throughout this book, this is a reoccurring theme. American fascism is not broadly based; it is concentrated into a few wealthy families. When it does extend to larger number of families, those families are linked together by inner marriages. American fascism, like the Nazis in Germany is a product of a few elite families. Another circumstance worth noting is the concentration of these people in the Eisenhower administration. Eisenhower was certainly no supporter of Nazi Germany. In fact, he expressed his hatred of the Nazis and Germans in general countless times in letters to his wife. However, his administration was littered with Nazi supporters. In essence, he was duped. However, the old general was not the complete fool. In his farewell address he forewarned us about the military-industrial complex, a polite description for post-war fascism.
It is undeniable that the tentacles of eugenics extend into such noble causes as birth control, population control and Planed Parenthood. When such organizations and policies are under democratic control they can do much to alleviate poverty, human misery and famine. It is only when such policies and organizations slip under the control of such families as the Bush and Rockefellers that they become modern day weapons of genocide."
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Racism at it's root???
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Darwin has been used as a total tool
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Sterilization since 1907 has been legal in some states for the mentally handicapped or alcoholics...
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"Ram, ass, and horse, my Kyrnos, we look over
With care, and seek good stock for good to cover;
And yet the best men make no argument,
But wed, for money, runts of poor descent.
So too a woman will demean her state
And spurn the better for the richer mate.
Money's the cry. Good stock to bad is wed
And bad to good, till all the world's cross-bred.
No wonder if the country's breed declines-
Mixed metal, Kyrnos, that but dimly shines."
- Theognis of Megara on eugenics and dysgenics, circa 520 B.C.
"Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally."
- Francis Galton, first cousin and associate of Charles Darwin, circa 1883 (father of eugenics)
"What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction."
- Sir Francis Galton (1905)
"Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment."
- Theodosius Dobzhansky. Heredity and the Nature of Man. 1964
"…impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be thought not ladylike to have it performed in the natural manner."
- Bertrand Russell. The Scientific Outlook. 1972
"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it is just as bad not to say it."
- Jacques Cousteau, 1991 UNESCO courier
"Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind…. Any group of farmers who permitted their best stock not to breed, and let all the increase come from the worst stock, would be treated as fit inmates for an asylum…. Some day we will realize that the prime duty, the inescapable duty of the good citizens of the right type is to leave his or her blood behind him in the world; and that we have no business to permit the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type. The great problem of civilization is to secure a relative increase of the valuable as compared with the less valuable or noxious elements in the population… The problem cannot be met unless we give full consideration to the immense influence of heredity…"
- Theodore Roosevelt to Charles B. Davenport, January 3, 1913, Charles B. Davenport Papers, Department of Genetics, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
"I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feebleminded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them… The emphasis should be laid on getting desirable people to breed…"
- Theodore Roosevelt, "Twisted Eugenics," in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, op. cit., National Edition, XII, p. 201.
"Political unification in some sort of world government will be required… Even though… any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable."
- Sir Julian Huxley, UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy
"I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing… War… has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full… The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's… There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority…"
- Bertrand Russell, THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE ON SOCIETY 1953
"Out of the full spectrum of human personality, one-fourth is electing to transcend…One-fourth is ready to so choose, given the example of one other…One-fourth is resistant to election. They are unattracted by life ever-evolving. One-fourth is destructive. They are born angry with God…They are defective seeds…There have always been defective seeds. In the past they were permitted to die a 'natural death'…We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow…Now, as we approach the quantum shift from creature-human to co-creative human—the human who is an inheritor of god-like powers—the destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body. We have no choice, dearly beloveds. Fortunately you, dearly beloveds, are not responsible for this act. We are. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death. We come to bring death to those who are unable to know God…The riders of the pale horse are about to pass among you. Grim reapers, they will separate the wheat from the chaff. This is the most painful period in the history of humanity…"
- Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard (who wanted to create a Dept. of Peace)
"There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important."
- Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, April 28, 1997, Testimony before Congressional Committee
"And advanced forms of biological warfare that can "target" specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
- The Project for a New American Century, Rebuilding America's Defenses, p. 60
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MARGARET SANGER QUOTES, Founder of the Birth Control League (which later became Planned Parenthood)
"No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child… without a permit for parenthood."
- Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) in her proposed The American Baby Code, intended to become law.
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
- Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.
sounds rather hitlerish
"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."
- Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon's Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976
"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock."
- Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review
"Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems."
- Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda." Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5
"As an advocate of birth control I wish … to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation…. On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective."
- Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda." Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5
"The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics."
Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda." Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5
"Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying … demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism … [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant … We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all."
- Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization, 1922. Chapter on "The Cruelty of Charity," pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore College Library edition
"The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind."
- Margaret Sanger, quoted in Charles Valenza. "Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?" Family Planning Perspectives, January-February 1985, page 44(which means most everyone according to Sanger)
"Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization."
- Margaret Sanger, April 1932 Birth Control Review
"Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives."
In her book The Medical Mafia, Lanctôt writes about the ineffectiveness and dangers of vaccination. "Because of my professional status, my words weighed significantly in the public eye. The Medical Board's reaction was immediate and strong. Its leaders demanded that I resign as a physician. I answered that I would do so as long as they could prove that what I had written was false. The Medical Board replied with a call for my expulsion," she writes. "As I witnessed the disproportionate reaction of the Medical Board, I realized that, for the health establishment, the subject of vaccination was taboo. Unknowingly, I had opened a Pandora's box. I discovered that, despite official claims, vaccines have nothing to do with public health. Underneath the governmental stamp of approval, there are deep military, political and industrial interests."
During her trial in 1995, Lanctôt used an episode from the March 11th, 1979, 60 Minutes TV show covering the massive vaccination program foisted on the American public supposedly in response to the 1976 swine flu outbreak. It was later established by the CDC that the virus originated out of Fort Dix in New Jersey. "The Fort Dix outbreak may have been a zoonotic anomaly caused by introduction of an animal virus into a stressed population in close contact in crowded facilities during a cold winter," note Joel C. Gaydos, Franklin H. Top, Jr, Richard A. Hodder, and Philip K. Russell.
It was also characterized "a rare example of an influenza virus with documented human to human transmission," according to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. The virus is "thought to be a direct descendant of the virus that caused the pandemic of 1918," explained Richard Krause, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the time.
"Public health experts, fearing a possible replay of the 1918 pandemic, engaged in an intense debate about how to respond. Eventually they launched a nationwide vaccination campaign, which was announced by President Gerald Ford in March. By the end of the year, 48 million people had been vaccinated," write Robert Roos and Lisa Schnirring of the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy. "But the feared pandemic never materialized."
Instead, numerous people came down with Guillian-Barre syndrome, a paralyzing neurologic illness, after receiving the government-hyped vaccination.
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More than 33 years later, according to Dr. Russell Blaylock, a board certified neurosurgeon, "we are hearing the same cries of alarm from a similar lineup of virology experts. The pharmaceutical companies are busy designing a vaccine for the swine flu in hope that this administration will make the vaccine mandatory before another vaccine-related disaster can ruin their party…. Like SARS and bird flu before it, this swine flu scare is a lot of nonsense. Just take your high dose vitamin D3 (5000 IU a day), eat a healthy diet and take a few immune boosting supplements (such as beta-1, 3/1, 6 glucan) and you will not have to worry about this flu."
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Ring Nebula's true shape is like a 'jelly doughnut,' astronomers say
The Ring Nebula's unique shape makes it extremely popular with astronomers, but NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently revealed the nebula's true shape.
According to C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University, the Ring Nebula's true shape is more like a jelly doughnut than a bagel, because it contains material in the middle.
O'Dell and his colleagues turned to Hubble and several ground-based telescopes to obtain the most detailed image yet of the Ring Nebula. Upon analyzing the image, they discovered a much more complex structure than previously thought. Using this image, astronomers built a more accurate 3-D model of the nebula.
O'Dell points out that Hubble's detail allows astronomers to view a wildly different shape of the iconic nebula than what's been viewed for decades.
Found in the constellation Lyra, the nebula is approximately 2,000 light-years from Earth and measures about one light-year across.
Earlier observations by several telescopes had detected the "jelly" in the Ring Nebula, but it took the Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 to reveal the ring's central region in greater detail. According to Odell's team, the ring wraps around a blue, football-shaped structure. Each side of the structure sticks out of opposite sides of the ring.
In the Hubble image above, the blue structure is the glow of helium, which glows due to radiation from the white dwarf star (the white dot in the center of the ring). The white dwarf is the stellar remnant of a sun-like star that has used up all of its hydrogen fuel and has gotten rid of its outer layers of gas to gravitationally collapse to a compact object.
Hubble also gave astronomers a more detailed look at the random knots of dense gas entrenched along the inner rim of the ring. These knots of gas formed when expanding hot gas made its way into cool gas ejected previously by the ill-fated star. The astronomers matched up the knots with the spikes of light around the main ring, which are a shadow effect.
The original star was a lot more massive than our sun. After billions of years turning hydrogen into helium in its core, the star started to run out of fuel. It grew into a red giant. During this phase, the star got rid of its outer gaseous layers and started to collapse as fusion reactions began to diet out. Ultraviolet light from the dying star energized the gas, giving it its glow.
The outer rings were created when faster-moving gas collided with slower-moving material. The nebula is amplifying at more than 43,000 miles an hour, but the center is moving a lot quicker than the expansion of the main ring.
Over the next 10,000 years the iconic nebula will continue to expand, becoming fainter and fainter until it becomes lost in the interstellar medium.
Hubble's stunning image of the Ring Nebula gives scientists a better idea of what will happen to the sun in another six billion years.


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Briefly, Aveline's de Grandpré's story revolves around the cultural clashes between the French and the Spanish in New Orleans leading up to the Revolutionary War. Here, she seeks to find her mother as well as fight against the slavery movement that has begun to take over the area.
The visual overhaul isn't quite as immediate as I had expected. With the story beginning with Aveline's childhood, the first exposure to the world is very small time, making everything looks less impressive than it does later on; the camera's zoomed in much more early on as well, which leaves the finer details overexposed. After that, the world becomes more detailed as textures vivify and effects expand the experience further than the portable version ever could. The sounds of the game also beg for a surround sound system in a way that the portable version demanded headphones. Nouvelle Orléans features airborne particles like cotton and dust, leaving the dirt-road city very immersive when compared to the source. Even the beautiful Bayou is enhanced in a big way as natural wood, foliage, and water textures take the foreground, and new animals even wander around.
One visual that was very off-putting was Aveline's character model. Her attires all looked very detailed, but her face still looked rather un-enhanced, and it wouldn't be so bad if some supporting characters didn't have more accentuated facial animations. Not everything has been fixed, though. The whip is still overpowered in a way that's much overlooked. In a few cases especially ones that required full synchronization, using only the whip to fling people around forces enemies to wait for the animation to finish. Climbing and traversing issues take place as well. At times, a knee-high ledge on rooftops, as well as various other places, had an invisible wall that would force Aveline to press up against air, forcing me to move her to the side and try traversing at different angles. Similarly while in the Bayou, certain trees keep Aveline from climbing up to synchronization points on the first try, and I had to back up a few times in order to progress.
The other prominent issue pertains to combat. When forced to fight multiple enemies that have multiple attack patterns, I often was forced to think too hard about enemies that I hadn't seen for nearly four hours. The game is filled with basic enemies that take no effort to dispatch, but a few random fights on the tail end of the story feature combinations of enemies, which can only be defeated with specific counters. The problem is not having difficult enemies, but rather the lack of balance in enemy distribution as well as the user's counter mechanic not working as loosely as other titles in the series made for a few overly frustrating moments in a game that had been well paced until that point.


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Rachel from Smile and Wave is always making the prettiest things! Her Flower Bauble Wreath is no exception! The colors she chose are wonderful! She posted a DiY on her blog so you can make one too!
Completely in love with this Scandinavian Inspired Star Garland from Creature Comforts! It's so perfect! I think Eli could help make it too!
Over at the PurlBee, they are making these adorable cross-stitched ornaments! I've been itching to cross-stitch! This may be a great project to start on!
Anna Maria Horner is one of my favorite crafters/designers/quilters/mama - she does it ALL! Aren't these glitter covered bulbs too pretty!
Do you all have any Holiday DiYs you're loving!? Share em!Pin It


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Two factions of the Ku Klux Klan and 11 of their supporters were ordered to pay nearly $1 million to African-Americans who were attacked during a march honoring the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in predominately white Forsyth County, near Atlanta, Georgia. The marchers were pelted with rocks and bottles during the rally.
(Photo: GREG MATHIESON/MAI /Landov)


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We had a great tour guide, a National Park Service ranger who says his colleagues call him Ranger Santa in December (you'll see why a few pictures down).
Here's the house Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln bought in 1844. They lived there until Lincoln was elected president, when they rented it out and moved to Washington, DC. Robert Lincoln, their only surviving son, kept the home as rental property and donated it to the state of Illinois in 1887.
Here's the house as it looked in 1860, in a historic image on display at the visitors' center.
This is the Lincoln's doorbell.
The rear parlor is where a committee from the 1860 Republican convention formally notified Lincoln he'd been nominated as the party's presidential candidate.
In the living room, Lincoln would sprawl out on the floor (most of the furniture was too small for him) with his kids and the family dog, Fido.
Upstairs in Lincoln's bedroom, Santa Ranger pointed out how high the 6"4' Lincoln's shaving mirror was hung.
The stove in the kitchen at the back of the house is the one Mary Todd Lincoln used. Our guide pointed out some of the log cabins Lincoln lived in as a boy were no bigger than this kitchen.
The last Abraham Lincoln descendant, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, died in 1985. He was the grandchild of Robert Lincoln, the only son to survive into his 20s.Think you're related to the Lincolns?
Get a quick look the Lincoln family tree here. You can see more detail on Abe Lincoln's ancestors here. Click the links for first generation (Abraham Lincoln), second generation (his parents, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln), etc.
These websites will help you research potential presidential roots.
Here's a fun fact our guide shared: Abraham Lincoln didn't have a middle name. Find other First Family facts here.


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Paola :
Assuming your discussing handquilting, I also bend several needles per quilt, sometimes even snapping them! I have less trouble if I give the quilt a little more slack in the hoop but keep it taut enough to maintain a nice stitch. Experiment with the tension. Good luck:)
World Wide Quilting Page * Question of the Week


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Movies: Waking Life, Pulp Fiction, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Gattaca, Hero, Spirited Away, Serenity, Mirrormask, Pan's Labyrinth, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, Winter's Bone, and Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Shows: Sweeney Todd, Noises Off, Into the Woods, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and The Phantom of the Opera. And I sometimes play catch up with Elementary and Agents of Shield. (Also loved Firefly, the new Battlestar Galactica, and Torchwood.)
Music: Silversun Pickups, Earl Greyhound, Garbage, Tool, Warren Zevon, Bôa, Jasmine Rodgers, Electric Six, Cake, Peter Frampton, Muse, A Perfect Circle, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Lacuna Coil, The Radiators, Joe Walsh, The Grateful Dead, X-Japan, and Glay.
Food: Cajun and Indian are my favorites. Italian is good too, and if it involves braised meat or sauteed onions, it's probably a good bet.
my partners, snarkyxanf and jarofearwigs
a city to live in
a computer and internet access
a good pair of needle-nose pliers
a little bit of leeway (for questions like this and life in general)
Ok, something actually private-- there are four places I've found where I can be happy just by being there. One was the stage. Two is Marlborough Street in Boston, between Mass Ave and the overpass. Three is Park Güell in Barcelona. And four is the Magic Gardens on South Street. I go as often as I can.


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Infraction Procedure Guide
|This page refers to an official rules resource that can be found on the Rules Resource page at http://blogs.magicjudges.org/rules/ipg/. This page may only be edited by Administrators.
The Magic™ Infraction Procedure Guide provides judges the appropriate penalties and procedures to handle rules violations that occur during a tournament held at Competitive or Professional Rules Enforcement Level (REL), as well as the underlying philosophy that guides their implementation. It exists to protect players from potential misconduct and to protect the integrity of the tournament itself. Rules violations usually require a penalty or they are unenforceable. Tournaments run at Regular REL use the Judging at Regular REL document.
The most current version of the Infraction Procedure Guide can be found at http://www.wizards.com/wpn/Events/Rules.aspx . A helpful annotated and searchable version can be found at http://blogs.magicjudges.org/rules/ipg/#annotated-ipg .


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The broad coalition behind the overthrow of the Morsi government lies in tatters.
She was 26 years old and her life was in tatters, her future a black cloud.
Careers are ruined, countless lives destroyed (and, in some cases, lost), and reputations left in tatters.
But they may not have time with Putin challenging, Crimea invaded and an economy in tatters.
Meanwhile the economy is in tatters and the future looks damn bleak.
There are my bureau drawers—I can't keep them neat, and my clothes would be all in tatters if it were not for Edith and mamma.
The little old maid was remorselessly tearing it to tatters.
tatters ran up but received a kick, while Glendon dropped the gold-laden bags with a dull thud on the floor.
His garments hung in tatters; his boots were ripped and soleless.
And now I bethink me, those poachers' tatters sit very ill on your long carcass.
mid-14c., "clad in slashed garments," from Old Norse toturr "rag," cognate with Old English tættec, tætteca "rag, tatter," Low German tater "tatter." The noun is attested from c.1400.


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I did Radiesse to treat stage 1 facial lipoatrophy. I was impressed with the immediate results. I also liked the fact that I still have some of the Radiesse cartridge left over for a retreat (if needed).
I felt the procedure was very painful the syringe was entering into facial muscle tissue and caused some minor bleeding. The pain was gone within a few hours. When I was home I used Arnica montana gel and sublingual pellets to resolve redness and any discomfort.
The Radiesse is a very durable substance and massaging the area doesn't always make it smooth. I can still feel the product in my face. The "kissable" (noticeability) test on the Radiesse website is very misleading.
The only signs of the procedure I have left are red streaks that outline the treatment areas. No matter what I do massage, ice and alternative treatments nothing resolve this. How long will this last? Will this be permanent? and is there any way of correcting this?


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ADA is a national organisation advancing education, enabling discussion, collaboration and mentoring, passing on learning and expertise. ADA contributes towards the development of digital art, in all its manifestations, across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Past Work
In 2010 ADA hosted the masterclass tour of Professor Douglas Kahn to Auckland, Christchurch, Whanganui. ADA was a key partner for Electrosmog: Festival of Sustainable Immobility, an international networked conference and festival initiated by De Baile in Amsterdam. 2010 also marked the seventh ADA symposium, Energetics and Informatics. Over the past decade ADA symposia have maintained a reputation for inspired presentations by leading and emergent New Zealand artists alongside renowned international artists and critics. In 2008 ADA published The ADA Reader, a book that remains the only comprehensive text on media arts and their histories in New Zealand. This text has given an international depth and recognition to New Zealand's media arts practice. The ADA network continues to expand understanding of and exposure to digital and media arts (in all their variety) in Aotearoa New Zealand.
ADA is a charitable trust. Current trustees are Birgit Bachler & Ted Whitaker (co-chairs), Rob Carter, Sarah Jane Parton and Vicki Smith. Previous trustees include Honor Harger, Douglas Bagnall, Su Ballard, Stella Brennan, Janine Randerson, Zita Joyce, Don Hunter, Ana Terry and Julian Priest.
ADA List
The Aotearoa Digital Arts List is an e-mail based discussion list for artists, curators, critics and educators focused on the intersection between art and technology in New Zealand and further afield. To subscribe or manage your existing membership, visit http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/ada_list
Equipment Pool
The ADA Equipment Pool is a national technology resource made available for artists and galleries in New Zealand. This resource is dedicated to supporting artists and exhibitors working with video and new media technology. ADA intends to make this equipment available to use for artists and galleries at cost as a service to the art community.
Preference will be given to ADA List members. Contact admin(at)ada(dot)net(dot)nz for full details, terms and conditions.]]>
While this project was based heavily on the process, the outcome is also an artistic representation of simplification. The dome structure built from bamboo and covered with synthetic cotton wool houses a network of computers that send signals to one another when the cord is pulled. This is visualised through the lengths of LED lights connecting the nodes to one another.
This is what we imagine a brain might look like if it were simplified. We can clearly see the communication visualised by the different neurons sending pulses through the synapses.]]>
In November 2015, the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network (ADA) brought together eight artists and writers in post-quake Ōtautahi Christchurch for a 'book sprint', the collaborative writing of a book over the course of five days. The result, A Transitional Imaginary, juxtaposes and interweaves its authors' perspectives on the effects of the devastating series of earthquakes that began in 2010. Guided by the notion of 'the digital' in its broadest sense, this book offers a multiple view of the transitional city, attuned to the technologies, networks and virtualities that have always ordered our world.
background information can be found here: http://www.ada.net.nz/projects/booksprint-space-network-memory/
ADA Booksprint Participants; Su Ballard, Tracey Benson, Robert Carter, Tim Corballis, Zita Joyce, Helen Moore, Julian Priest & Vicki Smith
Facilitator: Adam Hyde http://www.booksprints.net
Designer: Trudy Lane http://www.miradesign.co.nz/
A Transitional Imaginary: Space, Network and Memory in Christchurch is the first title release for Harvest the academic imprint of Project Freerange: http://www.projectfreerange.com/project/harvests-first-release/
To purchase your print copy please visit the Freerange website:
Harvest – Fresh scholarship from the field
Published: December 2015
Download the 5MB PDF version of the book here: A Transitional Imaginary: Space, Network and Memory in Christchurch
Two eReader versions are now available:
ePub – (tested on the following – OSX desktop – ibook, google play books, Android tablet – UB Reader)
download from DropBox https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/65851393/ePubADA/ADA_MCepub-reflow_ATransitionalImaginaryAlpha01.epub
Mobi – (currently testing on kindle)
download from Dropbox https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/65851393/ePubADA/ADA_MCepub-reflow_ATransitionalImaginaryAlpha01.mobi
Strange land singing: the video art of Bridget Reweti (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngai Te Rangi)
Bridget Reweti's whenua-based video artworks (1) exude an everydayness so disarming it almost camouflages their wero to colonial landscape conventions (picturesque, sublime, wild, pure, natural). Almost, but not quite – because the everydayness is the wero. Each piece functions doubly, both as a gentle yet steadfast positing of one way of relating to the Aotearoa whenua, and as a casual subversion/negation/undoing of another. Double but not binary: the differences in inheritance also bubble up and mingle infinitessimally on the surface of these lands and Reweti's screens.
In the series undertaken in 2012 for Reweti's MMVA (Master of Maori Visual Arts) – including Can I be in your video?, Are you still recording? and Excuse me you're in my shot – small groups of people lackadaisically erect tents in outdoor spots, water sparkling and lapping in the background. In I thought I would of climbed more mountains by now (2015), mountain-climbers with backpacks walk nonchalantly across dual screens, glancing rarely at the high-altitude snowy ridges they traverse. In Get up earlier (2015), people again hoist on gear and amble off into the only-slightly-snowy tussock for a ski. What little happens, happens slowly. Acentred framing cuts people off at the shoulders or knees, picking out nothing for special attention. The action unfolds in a real-time that has already started and doesn't end. Small positings of what Reweti has called 'practical residency in outside space', marked by that quiet everydayness affect (and not a little wry humour).
Yet these works are also small negatings. Unaestheticised, uneventful, unheroic, unselfconscious, they are foils to the other views also glimpsable on Reweti's multiple screens. In the 2012 series, the makeshift tent slowly materialises as a camera obscura (early ancestor of the modern camera), and the view from within those tents appears alongside the 'action' scene on a second channel. The great outdoors, passed through a needle-eye, inverted and projected onto an interior canvas wall. Outside space becoming a flat, soft-focus, colour-tweaked image with a fade-out frame. That is a landscape. In I thought I would of climbed…, the mountain-climber scenes are Intro'ed and Outro'ed by a still, grave, triple-channel projection of snow, mountains and low-rolling cloud. And gradually the harmonic hum of voices on the soundtrack registers as a screwed version of rasta-pop classic The Rivers of Babylon (2). That is a landscape. But before you can get all Zion on the Adams Wilderness area where the footage was shot, inhabitants appear, the sublime surge passes and life goes on – complete with un-co' fumblings with high-tech tramping gear. Neither Zion nor Babylon.
In Reweti's titles, everyday phrases – 'your video', 'my shot' (all verbatim quotes from the foley sound of the videos) invoke a still-kicking possession-anxiety amongst users of the Conservation Estate. That possession-anxiety that came nestled inside European landscape imaginaries, and scarred whenua, cultures and psyches before settling again inside the contemporary photographic vernacular, now heard from passersby on the shores of Tauranga Moana. Unresolved desires sublimated in the easy taking of pictures? Shot as land grab?
But Reweti's replay of the possessives is teasing, and her shots don't possess. They tell the idealised landscape like it is: upside-down, inside-out, blurred, truncated. Her people don't possess either, nor do they ascend, triumph or conquer – unless invading the camera obscura image counts as conquest. There they are, part of the upside down picture, smiling in front of nature for another's camera; or gazing inscrutably at the sea-scene. Wait long enough, they suggest, and any landscape will reveal inhabitants. Inhabitants who instead of possessing, release the land from its representations. Back through the needle-eye. Inhabitants whose knowing of their whenua is enacted but undeclared, needing no witness to affirm or deny it (3). Inhabitants whose non-grand, non-euphoric, matter-of-fact actions in and with and for their whenua might be profoundly decolonising. Inhabitants who, being of this land, also keenly remember Poutini, Waitaiki, Tamaahua, but aren't about to offer them up here. Inhabitants who look just like any other mountain climbers, really.
For Reweti's frank image-making also practices an opacity with respect to cultural knowledge that operates as its own gatekeeper. If you know, you'll pass through. If not, you'll keep walking – but as you do listen hard and you might hear the teasing call: Excuse me? You're in my shot.
Cassandra Barnett 2015
1 Reweti has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows in galleries around Aotearoa including Te Tohu o Uenuku/Mangere Arts Centre, RM Gallery, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Hastings City Art Gallery, etc., and also with Mata Aho Collective in David Dale Gallery (Glasgow) and Toi Pōneke.
2 Boney M (1977) / The Melodians (1970). ('When the wicked / Carried us away in captivity / Required from us a song / Now how shall we sing the lord's song in a strange land?')
3 'Wherever we see nature as a passing scene rather than a rhythm and a process, we deny the umbilical connection to place implicit in the Māori word whenua. […] The most practical means of preserving wild nature is residency in it… the forests need their people back. Not visitors treating them as scenery, but people who consider them home and invest them with love and vigilance.' (Geoff Park, Theatre Country 142)
With the use of binaural sound recording, characters are heard speaking and moving as though they were present but never appear live. Moving video images complimenting the audio are projected down into the set; shadows grow longer, the lights switch on.
The interweaving of visual and aural systems of illusion amplify the relationship between the audience and the thematic material – that time is experienced subjectively, and our perception of time is shaped by the specific context of the present and/or past situation.
Exhibited as part of the Audacious Festival (http://audacious.org.nz/), Christchurch 2015. Produced by the clinic (http://www.theclinic.co.nz/).]]>
Welcome to Launch event for
The ADA BookSprint – Space, Network, Memory: Media Art and the Transitional City
When: 6-9pm on Saturday 28th November
Where: XCHC @ 376 Wilson Road
Music: By Toshi Endo with audio from SoundSky http://soundsky.org/
Food by Aliesha and a cash bar operating
XCHC is the venue for the ADA BookSprint. Exchange Christchurch XCHC is a space for the production, showcase and public exchange of creative work and is a collaborative, networked organisation. http://www.xchc.co.nz/
Space, Network, Memory: Media Art and the Transitional City is an innovative collaborative publication that critically addresses the themes, outcomes, and questions of the ADA Mesh Cities project. The book is being written by an invited group of eight people as a 5 day 'book sprint'. The book sprint is a publication methodology developed by New Zealander Adam Hyde that brings participants together to collaboratively conceptualise and write a book in an intensive and creative period of work.
More about the ADA BookSprint here: http://www.ada.net.nz/projects/booksprint-space-network-memory/]]>
Su Ballard
BookSprint info: I found this article from the booksprint website really helpful:
The conference was called The Geologic Imagination (I'll bring the book with me), the discussion was around geology and the Anthropocene and the way that sound artists respond to the different modes of the Anthropocene (geological, sublime, technological, warfare, screens, climate change)
Doug Kahn's 'Earth Sound Earth Signal' has a historical chapter on artists responding to and experiencing earthquakes, it also seeks to think sound together with energy and the environment.
Rebecca Solnit's book is a journalistic examination of the different ways that people responded to catastrophe. It has some harrowing stories and some very familiar moments. Its very much about humans and societies and communities.
Nancy's book is one of the first theoretical books to come out after Fukushima. It is a short (but extended) meditation on the meaning of equivalence, and argues that there is not such thing as an isolated natural disaster anymore. He says that everything is interconnected (this is the meaning of equivalence he uses) that there is not a natural disaster without a technological disaster, an economic disaster and a social disaster. It is very short and really helped me understand some of the work I've been doing on machines and nature.
This is a short frieze article on artist's responses to Fukushima.
Some romantic history that begins with the Lisbon earthquake and wanders its way around (mostly) Roman ruins, with some deathly morose pondering along the way. It is filed under Travel/ Archaeology (although he really doesn't like archaeologists as they strip away all the trees).
Tim Corballis:
The ADA reader! Remedial reading for me, since I'm coming a little from outside the digital arts community. Be gentle.
I just read Fredric Jameson in the latest New Left Review: https://newleftreview.org/II/95/fredric-jameson-on-re-reading-life-and-fate
Jameson is a touchstone for me in terms of style and dialectic. Even though this is literary criticism, and of a book I haven't read (tho I might one day) he gets to some great places in terms of what can be imagined aesthetically in a wrecked city (Stalingrad!).
Tung-Hui Hu, A Prehistory of the Cloud: https://mitpress.mit.edu/prehistory-cloud
Stumbled on this, and was expecting yet another 'material nature of the internet' thingamy, but this is more interesting – doesn't fetishise the wires and servers or the virtual spaces, but talks about the cultural genealogies of network technology. Not sure if it's of any direct relevance but great background/perspective reading.
McKenzie Wark's Molecular Red http://www.versobooks.com/books/1886-molecular-red
I haven't read his Hacker Manifesto, which should be more relevant I guess. But I've been interested in all the environmental humanities stuff lately – all the themes about living after the catastrophe (especially in Timothy Morton). The idea that everything is connected is also both a network and an environmental idea, though different in each case and I suspect truer in the latter (Tung-Hui does mention that it's also the definition of paranoia…). Wark has great chapters especially on Bogdanov (I'm also passingly interested in Russian Futurism, Soviet science and Biocosmism) and Harraway/Barad etc. It also sent me off to read Platonov. There's a chapter on Kim Stanley Robinson, whom I've also been reading lately.
Zita Joyce:
Novels + TV:
Novels: I've been reading novels about post-catastrophe cities and countries intermittently since the earthquake, including JG Ballard's Drowned World, and Richard Jeffries' After London. I'm still reading Riddley Walker, but that and After London have been big reference points for a number of artists and other discussion here, particularly in relation to nature taking over perviously built areas. (obviously there are a million post-catastrophe novels in the world, but I don't even remember all of the things I read in the first year or so of quake-brain, so these are the ones that linger most or keep coming up as references)
China Mielville's The City and the City is a really central novel for me being about Christchurch without at all being about Christchurch. I read it before the quakes, but afterwards it became a frame for thinking about the way Christchurch became 2 or 3 cities layered on top of each other – the past, remembered, city, the present destroyed city, and the future imagined city. The present and the past were the tangible layers, and the experience of post-quake Christchurch was, and maybe still is, an experience of living between what you can see and what you remember. In the novel people are not allowed to 'see' the other city intertwined with their own city, and that's how it felt here for a while as well – but more a sense that I couldn't let myself see the old city amongst the destroyed 'real' city.
TV / Documentary:
Treme, David Simon's wonderful show on post-katrina New Orleans. The first season was particularly resonant here – the sounds of helicopters, the USAR markings on buildings, the plywood over windows, the way people wait for and celebrate businesses re-opening, and every conversation begins with 'how much water did you take?' for the flood level in New Orleans, like accounts of damage here, and the unfolding stories of where people were in the disaster. The scale of Katrina dwarfs Chch in human and built terms, but Treme felt like documentary from here.
Also of course When a City Falls, and Gerard Smyth's TV series 'From the Streets – originally made for CTV, and then reworked for TVOne for two series.
Then the recent documentary on transitional projects, the Art of Recovery, which is a feel good booster of the most high profile responses to the earthquakes and recovery, with some solid critique of the top-down planning process vs the people as well
Su has already mentioned Rebecca Solnit's 'A Paradise Built in Hell' which was a key text here in the year or so after february – it was on high rotation in the public library and name checked several times in The Press around the time I was reading it. See also: Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine which is too depressingly accurate here (i.e. school closures, continued assaults on local democracy, etc)
The Villa on the edge of the Empire: One Hundred ways to Read a City
Fiona Farrell's account of the earthquakes and aftermath. I had to read it slowly because it made me so angry and sad all at the same time, so it captures much of the post-quake emotion of Christchurch, and includes really interesting comparisons with L'Aquila. At the Writers' fest in september I went to a panel discussion on 'Imaginary Cities' including Fiona Farrell, Urban Designer Hugh Nicholson, and Novelists Anna Smaill and Hamish Clayton. It was too short to develop the theme very far, but demonstrated the deeply felt resonance of imagining cities in Christchurch now.
Once in a Lifetime, City building after Disaster in Christchurch
The definitive analysis of city-building and post-disaster urban recovery in christchurch, from many different perspectives.
Christchurch the Transitional City pt IV
Documentation of 'transitional' projects in the first two years after the sept quake, following a simple format that identifies the project, location, and key details about it. Some major and some very fleeting projects, this now feels like a really important historical document.http://www.projectfreerange.com/product/christchurch-the-transitional-city-pt-iv/
Julian Priest
1. Earth Sound Earth Signal: Douglas Kahn
Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph lines and the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard through the first telephone; he then traces the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s and beyond. Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks energy at a global scale, from brainwaves to outer space, through detailed discussions of musicians, artists and scientists such as Alvin Lucier, Edmond Dewan, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James Turrell, Robert Barry, Joyce Hinterding, and many others.
2. The Natural Contract: Michel Serres
Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1990 book Le Contrat Naturel, Serres calls for a natural contract to be negotiated between Earth and its inhabitants.
3. Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950 : Kerry Brougher et al.
While destruction as a theme can be traced throughout art history, from the early atomic age it has remained a pervasive and compelling element of contemporary visual culture. Damage Control features the work of more than 40 international artists working in a range of media – painting, sculpture, photography, film, installation and performance – who have used destruction as a means of responding to their historical moment and as a strategy for inciting spectacle and catharsis, as a form of rebellion and protest, or as an essential part of re-creation and restoration.
4. LSM303 datasheet
I've been tinkering with accelerometers the last couple of weeks so just thought I'd put this in as a flag for technical implementations of sensor networks – I'd like to consider instrumentation in relation to the world.
5. Who Else Takes Part? Admitting the more-than-human into participatory art. : Simon Pope 2015
This publication is a companion to a number of artworks, (a list of which can be found towards the end of this book) which have been produced so as to conduct this research project through art. They embody and emphasize aspects of this thesis in various ways. The texts in this book take the form of correspondence with those people who took part in artworks over the course of this three year project, and who have been significant interlocutors in the thinking of this thesis. They are arranged thematically to address conventional aspects of research, such as methodological concerns, ethical considerations, and accounts of specific artworks discussed in relation to theoretical concepts.
Helen Moore
My reading/viewing lately has been eclectic, although it would be no surprise that there's an ongoing thread that tends to follow up provocations that the Christchurch context throws up … and that often provide lens on our human relationship(s) with the natural and material worlds, and the tensions between citizen and government led 'recovery' … consequently my 'list' has many overlaps with texts that Zita shared …
Gerard's films: http://www.frankfilm.co.nz/current-works.html
Christchurch: From the streets
When a city falls (and during earthquake period)
A paradise built in hell. The extraordinary communities that arise in disaster. Rebecca Solnit. 2009. Penguin Books
More recently:
The Art of Recovery Filmmaker : Peter Young
Articles such as:
Once in a Lifetime: City-Building after Disaster in Christchurch – 55 written essays; 39 visual essays (Freerange Press, 2014)
The Press newspaper as an ongoing source of local information/voices re the impact of natural disaster intensified by human decision making eg;
Johnny Moore Once upon a time there was an earthquake in Christchurch " can you imagine how boring corporate storytelling is?"[The Press October 15,2015]:
'EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT' [September 28, 2015]: British artist Martin Creed's public artwork for Christchurch.
Vulnerability as resilience wears thin:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/68769392/Earthquake-stress-triggers-mental-health-issues data provided by CDHB to the Ministry of Health about the need for more investment to deal with long term psychosocial problems caused by the earthquake has been ignored. So have the traumatic accounts of staff who work in Canterbury's mental health services – politicians ignore clinicians' warnings at their peril.]
Continuum (Journal of Media & cultural studies, 2015 issues) including themes of memory and interactive digital media
A recent commentator role at a performing arts gathering in Northern Japan (place of the 3/11 triple disaster) , led me to delve further into themes under investigation there such as … the body in crisis, pilgrimage, place, spirituality, the response of artists to catastrophe post World War ll (eg Hijikata Tatsumi, founder of Butoh dance), and following 3/11
… on return revisiting the following ;
Tohoku, through the eyes of Japanese photographers. [Japan Foundation]. The catalogue title for exhibition in Christchurch supported by New Zealand Japanese Embassy, the Japan Foundation and CPIT.
Reading that touches on themes of identities and place eg for example a shift in what 'patriot' might mean in The power of place – Tim Flannery on Tim Winton's 'Island Home' [The Monthly – Australian Society, Politics and Culture – November 2015 pp 56-57] and
Tracey Benson
My list is a combination of books I would like to read and some that I have already started (that are on my kindle). Broadly speaking I am drawn to texts about place, storytelling and mapping cultural experience.
Rob Carter
I really like the video you posted, i'm often unsure how I relate to academia / science / art, so it was nice to see poets and creative writers represented . Many times my thinking is influenced by scientific processes / people. I'm lucky in that I can go ask my friendly local scientist about earthquakes for example.
This article describes how the electromagnetic waves are created in the atmosphere prior-to and during earthquake events. In a way this is a kind of earthquake radio, which is detectable from satellites.
Vicki Smith: I also had many similar to Zita & Helen for this page but add a couple further here too…
Christchurch focus:
Gapfiller – creatively activating the gaps http://www.gapfiller.org.nz/
Life in Vacant Spaces – as above http://livs.org.nz/
Ministry of Awesome's Canterbury Innovation Ecosystem Map http://innovationmap.co.nz/
Te Putahi – People Building better Cities (Christchurch centre for Architecture and City-Building
… and an article by David Killick discussing the exhbition that was in Chrictchurch in August 2015
An Article by Will Harvie looking at Tranisitional then and now…
I have a copy of Once in a lifetime and Christchurch the Transitional City.
I also have a copy of the Listener with the local writer Becky Macfie's article about the CTV and accountability and a few other bits and pieces).
A Project Lyttleton walking festival (morning of 29th be part of the Global walking action ahead of the ICC Meeting in Paris)
The Otautahi Food Foraging Network (particularly initially from the Red Zone but also the greater Christchurch area)
Scape8 (biannual sculpture festival ) but with legacy projects around town http://www.scapepublicart.org.nz/
Sound Art Festival Audacious – also check out Auricle Gallery
An open call from eFlux that might be of interest
My personal reading has been around my most recent art research foci navigation (ongoing), George Bolt, Barometers, hydraulic rams and 'Local to Nelson' lost features & Interactive fictions.
Rebecca Solnit http://rebeccasolnit.net/book/a-field-guide-to-getting-lost/ (mapping, memory and renaissance painting)
The Catch: Micheal Field http://www.awapress.com/products/published/books/ScienceNature/thecatch (the beginnings unfolded in Christchurch)
An Ocean in Mind: Will Kyselka – celestial navigation alongside an analysis of how the mind captures and processes information]]>
The participants actions reveal and control this provocative interactive multimedia installation. Upon entering the hallway the visitor finds a virtual stranger facing them. The visitor begins to activate the movement of the stranger – when he/she moves, the figure moves, when the spectator is still, the figure is still. With each new visitor the virtual figure is different; each meeting is unique and private. A new encounter is created, one that lies in the margin between physical and virtual realities.
The Body Festival: Christchurch, New Zealand. October 2015
Mostra Sonora i Visual Festival: Barcelona, Spain. June 2012.
Created in residency at the Convent de St Agusti, Barcelona, Spain.]]>
Data Made Flesh was a installation work developed in collaboration with the Australian artist Simon Berman, that was exhibited at Bus Projects, Melbourne, Australia. The work explored the materiality of code, and the underlying structure of "the network" by representing and making explicit the flows of binary data that circulated through the localised network that we established for the project. The work employed QR code barcodes, smart phones, and audio-visual synthesis, to produce generative audio-visual outputs that played out across myriad screens and surfaces.
Richard B. Keys // http://www.richardbkeys.net
A supplementary essay that traces the genealogy of the aesthetics of technological failure in the arts and the notion of the aura of the digital was released as an adjunct to the exhibit and is available online at http://www.richardbkeys.net/errormessage.]]>


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I have been looking into forehead recontouring, and am looking for information about a price estimation. Input on the recovery & procedure for my case would be helpful. As for the overbite, I am currently using invisalign to straighten my teeth and pull them back in; however, I also have a weak chin. I think jaw surgery is too costly & severe for my overbite and am wondering if there other solutions.
Do I Need Forehead Recontouring & Overbite/jaw Fix? (photo)
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Forehead Recontouring and Chin Augmentation
Unfortunately your pictures are a little dark so it hard to see precisely the profile of the forehead. But I think you are referring to brow bone reduction to have a smoother forehead. This is done through a scalp incisional approach and the convex shape of outer brow bone is changed to a flat one. Your chin is short and would most certainly benefit by a chin implant augmentation. Both could be done during the same procedure. Your outline tracings of the before and after are fairly representative of the potential result with the minor exception of a little too much brow bone flattening and a little too much chin projection. It would be in your interest to have formal computer imaging done by a plastic surgeon to make sure that what is achievable meets your desired goals.
Learn more: http://www.eppleyplasticsurgery.com/browlift.html
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Part fantasy, part romance, Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson is a time travel novel featuring Richard Collier, who falls in love with a turn of the century actress and travels back in time to meet her.
In 1971, Richard, on finding out that he is suffering from terminal cancer, embarks on a road trip from Los Angeles to Denver. On the way, he stops at a historic hotel on the coast in San Diego where he sees a play program from the late 1800s and falls in love with the woman pictured on the front. Captivated by her beauty, Collier researches the actress, Elise McKenna and finds out that she never married, had an overbearing manager named W.F. Robinson, and that she had a brief encounter in 1896 with a mysterious man at the hotel he is currently staying at. Throughout his research, he realizes that he has fallen deeply in love with the woman, and convinces himself that he is the mysterious man with whom Elise had an affair.
In the year 2194, there are three Zimbabwes. There is the Zimbabwe of the rich such as the luxurious compound of General Amadeus Matsika, the country's Chief of Security. His children, Tendai, Rita, and Kuda want for nothing. The robots take care of all their needs, and the Mellower, the house poet, makes everyone feel so much better when he sings their Praises in The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer.
In another part of the city dwells the woman who is called the She-Elephant. She has her own compound, her own kingdom, in the abandoned waste dump. She has her servants, too. Fist and Knife are good for running errands-- a little thieving here, a little kidnapping there... When they find Matsika's children by themselves in downtown Harare, the opportunity for profit is just too good to let go.
This is a short book, but it is a gem as so many of M.B. Goffstein's are. Our Snowman has a very simple, very true plot that is not the slightest bit exotic. It is as comforting as hot cocoa and a perfect book for young ones on a night when a Snow Watch is called.
In Seth Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, Abraham Lincoln uncovers a terrible truth at a tender age: that vampires infiltrate every corner of society and are "living man's" mortal enemy. Lincoln's father, a classic underachiever, idiotically defaults on a loan to one of the bloodsuckers, who warns that he will have to "take it in other ways." It is no coincidence then that Abraham's aunt, uncle, and beloved mother die quickly thereafter from a painful illness with "scorching fevers, delusions, and cramps." Old folks called this the "milk sickness," believed to be brought on by drinking tainted milk, but that wasn't the case this time. Eventually Abraham learns of the connection and vows to "kill every vampire in America."
"All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hidden in plain sight."
In Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, an unemployed Web designer, a bookstore that never closes, a series of beloved fantasy novels, a secret society, and a typeface known as Gerritszoon are all embroiled in the search for immortality. While eternal life is a frequently-pursued prize in history and popular culture, Sloan's rendition of this classic quest revolves around quirky characters and a cadre of technophobic code breakers.
Clay Jannon's life has been disrupted by the economic recession. Since losing his job as a Web designer for a bagel company, he has struggled to find a sense of purpose and a source of income. One night while aimlessly wandering the streets of San Francisco, he happens upon a fascinating sight: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. Clay is drawn to the store and takes special notice of the help wanted sign hanging in the front window. Once inside, Clay discovers Mr. Penumbra's labyrinthine store requires parkour-like maneuvers: "The shelves were packed close together, and it felt like I was standing at the border of a forest – not a friendly California forest, either, but an old Transylvanian forest, a forest full of wolves and witches and dagger-wielding bandits all waiting just beyond moonlight's reach."
Blue, daughter of the town psychic, has grown up hearing that if she ever kisses her true love, he will die. So she has resolved to stay away from boys and, especially, to stay away from Raven boys – students at the exclusive Aglionby Academy. The Raven Boys, by Maggie Stiefvater, is the story of how Blue comes to break her own resolution and is drawn into the lives and adventures of some of those Raven boys she swore to avoid.


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ODS Students on Denali
Outdoor studies students made UAS history climbing Denali
Outdoor studies students made UAS history in May when they climbed North America's highest peak for their capstone course. Three members of the party reached the peak. See the UAS-ODS Denali blog here: http://uasods.blogspot.com
Sheaview: Shea Mack takes in the view on Mt. McKinley
See the Juneau Empire article "UAS hits its peak on Denali" here: http://juneauempire.com/stories/061810/out_655825689.shtml.


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Lenten recipes your whole family will enjoy!
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Cook and share these recipes with your loves ones this Lent. The meatless dishes are from Catholic Relief Services' Operation Rice Bowl. For 33 years, this program has helped US Catholics become more aware of global poverty, while encouraging prayer and almsgiving.
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UCPN (Maoist) chief Dahal meets Chinese President
UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal met Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday afternoon.
The meeting revolved around four main issues -- economic development in Nepal, bilateral ties between the countries, relations between UCPN (M) and the Communist Party of China and the 'free' Tibet movement, said a member of Dahal's entourage.
During the 45-minute-long meeting, Xi said China valued its relations with Nepal and wanted to take the partnership to a new level, Chinese media reported.
President Xi told Dahal that the Chinese Communist Party would continue to cooperate with the UCPN (Maoist) and other major political parties as they have played a positive role in promoting friendship between the two countries.
During the exchange, Dahal said Nepali parties hope to improve cooperation with China in the fields of economy, technology and infrastructure. He also highlighted the need to jointly promote friendly relations in the neighbourhood . Dahal said Nepal would continue to maintain its one-China policy, a report added. nepalnews.com


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5 vie for 4 open seats on Penn Hills school board
Candidates for the Penn Hills School District Board of School Directors all have different ideas for how they would like to improve the district, but all agree on one thing: improvement is an absolute necessity.
"Funding continues to be the greatest issue, with cyber and charter schools accounting for over $10 million this past year," said incumbent Jennifer Burgess-Johnson, 41.
Pauline Calabrese, one of three challengers including William Phifer and Linda Molitierno, said losing students is a problem that needs corrected.
"We are losing legitimate students to charters, cyber schools, private schools, etc.," Calabrese said. "Parents and students who live in Penn Hills, and those who would consider moving here, need to be assured that our district is safe and is a place of learning."
William Phifer, 56, said his whole platform is based on "raising the lagging test scores in the district."
Phifer has 20 years of experience as a child welfare worker and wants to put that experience to work "restoring open communication and competitiveness in the Penn Hills School District."
Incumbent Robert Hudak, 69, is a former district teacher with 35 years of experience in education.
His focus is on showing the positive side of a school district he felt has been maligned in recent years.
"We need to inundate the region with the myriad of successes and achievements of our students," Hudak said.
"Too often, these significant accomplishments are overlooked and unmentioned. As residents, we're aware to some degree that the excellence of the Penn Hills community is dwarfed by the isolated negative incidents."
Hudak said if the school board can elevate the perception of the district, "we'll see correlated increases in our property values and enhance the reputation of the community."
Due to a family emergency, candidate Linda Molitierno was unable to respond to press inquiries.
Burgess-Johnson, who was appointed to fill the seat vacated by Linda Gallo in 2012, said if she is elected, she wants to continue to focus on "increasing parental involvement, district-wide accountability and the completion of the long-overdue update of all district policies."
Calabrese said she would spend her first year working with teachers along the lines of Phifer's goal to improve district test scores.
"I'd also like to improve the enforcement of discipline and improve our relations with the media so that the good things that are happening here can be reported more often," she said.
Hudak and Calabrese both would like to see a dedicated effort to ensure that all district students are, in fact, district residents.
"It's an ongoing effort, but it's a process we must continue," Hudak said.
Calabrese said the district needs to focus on increasing the student body "by legitimate residents of Penn Hills, not those who are illegally coming in from the City of Pittsburgh or elsewhere."
Phifer said that if elected, he would work to "keep an open line of communication with teachers and parents."
Patrick Varine is an editor for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7845 or email@example.com.


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My first french interactive book: Zapzap the bee
By Alexandre Minard
Open iTunes to buy and download apps.
"Zapzap the bee" is an interactive book only in French (the user interface, but also the story).
This book is part of our educational games collection "Learning is fun". Visit our website for more info: http://ar-entertainment.net/learning/ and http://ar-entertainment.net/learning/ipad.html
This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
- ₦ 600.00
- Category: Education
- Released: 23 July 2011
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 92.3 MB
- Languages: English, French
- Developer: Alexandre Minard
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Oakmont eyes view protection for Hulton Road
Oakmont Council is considering new landscaping, parking and other requirements for future Hulton Road developments with the goal of improving aesthetics and environmental impact.
Councilman Thomas Briney on Monday presented a proposed View Protection Overlay Zone that would impact Hulton Road properties from the Hulton Bridge to Allegheny River Boulevard.
Briney said PennDOT's forthcoming replacement of the bridge prompted the proposal, which is aimed at reducing "visual clutter" and improving sustainability.
"It is timely for us to begin thinking of how we can best leverage the changes for the community," Briney said.
Ideally, Briney said they would like people coming into Oakmont from the Hulton Bridge to see landscaping along both sides of the road uncluttered by signs, lights and utility infrastructure.
Briney said the overlay zone would apply to commercial and residential properties in the corridor.
However, existing property owners would not be required to make any changes unless they propose to redevelop or sell their land.
The proposed overlay zone would set restrictions on:
• How close buildings can be constructed to Hulton Road.
• How much parking space and other pavement can be located between buildings and Hulton Road.
• The amount of landscaping required to create a buffer zone in front of the developments.
• The size of signs.
• The height and intensity of exterior lighting.
The zone would encourage links with the Arboretum Trail that runs along the railroad tracks and any other trail networks.
The proposal would provide for an expedited review process for development plans that include some environmentally friendly provisions, such as meeting the criteria for federal certification of using green building practices.
Council approved the first reading of the View Protection Zone Overlay on Monday.
The ordinance will be up for final approval July 8.
Also at the July meeting, council is expecting to hear a proposal from Ohio-based Speedway to construct a convenience store at the former Lieberth & Sons car dealership on Hulton Road.
Briney said Speedway's site proposal would not be required to meet the requirements of the overlay zone because Speedway's application was submitted before the zone was proposed.
However, he said he believes the company's plans are largely consistent with Oakmont's vision.
Liz Hayes is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-226-4680 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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About the performer
Caetano Veloso
Brazilian legend Caetano Veloso's 41st album, zii e zie, released in 2009 in South America and Europe, earned him a Latin Grammy for 2009 Best Singer-Songwriter album; Nonesuch released the record in the United States on March 30, 2010. The samba-inspired album's title is an Italian phrase for "uncles and aunts" that the singer/songwriter liked for the way it looks and sounds, and selected "because of the freedom of the mysterious choice."
On zii e zie, which was produced by Pedro Sa and Caetano's son Moreno Veloso, the singer is joined by the same youthful trio he employed on 2007's Cê, an album of rock-oriented tracks. "We are people of different generations sharing similar musical and human interests," Veloso says. David Byrne said of Cê in Artforum, "Veloso has found a sparse, post-rock beauty in which strange yet simple rock instrumentation is juxtaposed with softly seething vocals."
For zii e zie, Veloso reverses the equation. Here, samba is the foundation, filtered through a rock sensibility. Veloso calls this approach "transamba"—"as if it were samba transcending itself," he said in an interview. His subject matter, as always, can be intensely personal, but he also takes a broader view of the world at large. As Veloso says of the lyrics, "Mostly they focus on Rio. But even there, they go from the favelas to Leblon, from Lapa to the beach, from Chico Alves to Los Hermanos, from its typical anonymous characters to its atypical celebrities. But they look further still: to Guantánamo, to the caverns in Afghanistan, to Washington, DC."
Says London's Guardian, "The songs are intimate and surprising, with sudden bursts of electric guitar transforming the easy-going 'Falso Leblon,' and handclaps and funk guitar lines matched against the laid-back vocals on 'A Cor Amarela.' Best of all, there's the half-spoken 'A Base de Guantánamo,' which sounds like a classic and angry protest song even if you can't speak Portuguese."
Caetano Veloso is among the most influential and beloved artists to emerge from Brazil. Known there since the 1960's, Veloso has made more than thirty recordings to date and has developed a strong international following.
Born in Santo Amaro, Bahia, in 1942, Caetano Veloso began his professional musical career in 1965 in Sao Paulo. In his first compositions he drew on the bossa novas of Joao Gilberto, but rapidly began to develop his own distinctive style. Absorbing musical and aesthetic ideas from sources as diverse as The Beatles, concrete poetry, the French Dadaists and the Brazilian modernist poets of the 1920s, Caetano, together with Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, his sister Maria Bethania, and a number of other poets and intellectuals, founded a movement called Tropicalismo. By experimenting with new sounds and words, adding electric guitars to their bands and utilizing the imagery of modern poetry, Caetano became a musical revolutionary.
This short-lived movement, founded in 1968, ended abruptly when Caetano and Gil were sent into exile and lived in London. Now universally credited with redefining what is known as Brazilian music, it laid the groundwork for a renaissance of Brazilian popular music both at home and abroad. Caetano and Gil returned to Brazil in 1972 and found that Tropicalismo had remained intact and their audience had continued to grow.
Although Tropicalismo set the tone for Caetano's career, his music has evolved greatly over the years. Incorporating elements of rock, reggae, fado, tango, samba canao, baiao and rap— with lyrics containing some of the best poetry in a musical tradition rich in verse— Caetano's music is sometimes traditional, sometimes contemporary, often hybrid. At once an astute social commentator and balladeer of highly emotive love songs, Caetano is one of the most respected poets in the Portuguese language. Indeed he is one of only a handful of artists who has resolved how to be musically modern and still undeniably Brazilian.
Veloso followed his 1999 Grammy Award-Winning Nonesuch release Livro, an album which garnered widespread critical acclaim in the US and brought with it his first-ever US tour, followed by a soundtrack for the Carlos Diegues film Orfeu.
In spring 2001 Nonesuch released Noites do Norte (Nights of the North), a meditation on themes of race, slavery and Brazil's quest for a national identity. Caetano recently completed a book on Brazilian music and culture, to be published in the US on Knopf later this year. Caetano's current release is Omaggio a Federico e Giulietta, a live recording made in 1997 in Rimini in honor of two masters of Italian cinema, Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina.
Caetano's long-awaited memoir, Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil, was published by Knopf in Fall 2002, alongside the release of a 2-CD set, Live in Bahia, signaling a period of unprecedented activity in the U.S.
His first album sung entirely in English, A Foreign Sound (released in 2004) was a culmination of Veloso's longstanding and multifarious exploration of American music. Surprising and imaginative interpretations of American songs have been a staple of his recent live shows, and they have made occasional appearances on his studio albums over the years. As he explains in his acclaimed memoir, Tropical Truth: A Story of Music & Revolution in Brazil (Knopf 2002), he came to some of his favorite American singers and musicians—including Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, and the Modern Jazz Quartet*—by tracing the steps of his foremost musical hero, *Joao Gilberto. On A Foreign Sound, Veloso interprets several songs he first learned listening to these artists in the early 1960s, including "So In Love," "Love for Sale," "Manhattan," and "Body and Soul." Other songs have particular significance in the context of Brazilian culture.
Caetano Veloso's Cê was released by Nonesuch Records on January 23, 2007. The record includes twelve original songs by Veloso (vocals, nylon and steel guitars), who recorded them in the spring/summer of 2006 with a rock band of younger musicians: Pedro Sá (electric guitar), Ricardo Dias Gomes (bass, Rhodes piano), and Marcelo Callado (drums); it was produced by Sá and Moreno Veloso. Additionally, Pedro's brother, Jonas Sá, sings guest vocals on one track. (Cê was released in Brazil in the fall of 2006.)
"Pedro Sá and Moreno are my sons—the latter, biologically speaking, and both in the familiar sense of the term," Veloso says. "They are both in their 30s, have a vivid relationship with the routes taken by musical taste in the last decades—as well as making remarkable personal interventions on the direction of these routes. Ricardo Dias Gomes and Marcello Callado are in their 20s. It was Pedro who suggested their names when he heard my themes and my ideas. Our communication was so clear that in a few minutes of rehearsal, the tracks were ready to be recorded. All of them. Not even one got stuck. We recorded everything on two-inch tape, without Pro Tools.
He continues, "Cê is not a rock album like the ones I listen to and that interest me: the songs are mine, my voice is still the same, my hair is greyer than it is black, less curly and always shorter than when it was really long—or longer than when I decided to wear it short."