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January 30, 2006 5:42 AM PST
Are politics delaying the $100 laptop?
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In the year since MIT's Nicholas Negroponte unveiled his prototype, he has found himself wrestling with Microsoft and software politics.
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- Rediculous Statements
- "Some business and development policy specialists have raised
questions about Negroponte's laptop, pointing to the price of
Internet connectivity, which can cost $24 to $50 a month in
developing nations."
Clearly, the United States is still a developing nation.
The cell phone idea is a poor play by Microsoft to spread FUD
about the laptop project. They don't want open source to gain
mindshare in potential future markets. When Gates talks about
the ubiquity of cell phones, he's also talking about the very
markets that don't need a $100 laptop program.
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- "He also acknowledged that months of discussions...
- ... with Microsoft and Apple Computer about using their operating system software for his computer had been fruitless, and that as a result, the laptops would use a version of Linux, the open-source operating system"; it appears that no mention was made about approaches to IBM which offers the OS/2 Operating System (which they no longer support except on a fee paid basis; this could be offered for "free" toward the educational development of students and teachers around the world) reputed to be a superior Operating System to Windows Operating System!
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- OS/2 is dead
- There is no doubt IBM is now backing Linux. Why proposing OS/2 in developing countries? To me it makes no sense. I could understand the unexistance of feasible, real, open source alternatives. But Linux is there. I salute Negroponte's idea of sticking with Linux, not because it'ss free but because it's open and it can count on a wide range of developers. His hope, I guess, is to have the third world countries to be not just user, but active player in developing the platform.
For this reason Windows or MacOSX do not qualify.
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- M$FT is at it - Vaporware
- When will this cellphone see the light of the day. Given that Symbian still rules this market and Windows plays are about $500 (4-5 times the cost of this laptop) I think it is going to be a long time.
Also, wasn't Mundie the same guy who said that a striped down operating system won't do well? I think he fails to realize that there is a full fledged OS for no cost. It is called Linux.
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- Microsoft Not Using Tactics of the Past?
- Yep. You couldn't be more right there.
I am just glad that M$ didn't give the OS away for free. This would have been smarter than letting Linux get onto the laptops. One day these countries could see the potential in technology and in Linux and one of them might produce the next Google.
It is naive of Microsoft to write these countries off so quickly because one day it could happen. And if it does they will be using Linux, not Windows.
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- Open source version of... Windows CE?!?
- From the article: "According to several people familiar with the discussions, Microsoft had encouraged Negroponte to consider using the Windows CE version of its software, and Microsoft had been prepared to make an open-source version of the program available."
Funny: I'd be extremely interested to see the open soure version of CE.... How stripped down can that be?
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- let me get this straight
- Children are going to have to carry TVs on their backs? While I am not an M$ basher, sometimes their ridiculousness is hard to ignore. The point of the $100 Laptop is, well for one it is $100! Let me see a cell phone with that much processing power cost a 100 bucks. The laptop is meant to be a device that every child in the developing world could (again could) have. I don't know which developing country Mr Gates has been visiting, but TV in every room is a develped-country phenoumenom.
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- the third world can't afford this
- the majority of the third world, lets take Africa, living below the poverty line makes less than $1 a day. $100 laptop doesn't do anyone any good. this is nothing more than a perfect example of just how detached from 3rd world reality the 1st world truly is. they want medicine, education, and jobs... not a subsidized laptop with linux.
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- Ummm...its not politics...
- its the $100 price tag. i love how people get all riled up on the fact that MS has the balls to say what every other company approached by this guy is thinking. this product is not sustainable at $100 without heavy subsidies from the technology companies. sure, you want a goodwill grant from the tech community...i have nothing against that and i'm sure MS will be the first in line with its money. but what you are asking the tech companies for is to give away its products for free or at a loss perhaps for what is probably a long long time and how can any company begin to support such a commitment? Chips, displays, hard drives, chassis, even hand cranks don't grow on trees.
the only reason its a $100 laptop is that this guy probably has PR'ed his way to financial commitments from these oompanies to offset the actual costs.
again, you want a goodwill grant to get your good idea off the ground? no prob. you expecting an annuity of money, products or services? ummm...don't be surprised if companies aren't so keen on that one.
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- what's your point?
- The point of the $100 Laptop is that it will be subsidized, obviously no usable Laptop cost a $100 at the moment nor is there a cellphone that does the work of a Laptop and cost <$100. I don't know what your point is, but it is clear to everyone that this is a non-profit endeveur and I am pretty sure when Mr Negroponte approaches companies with his proposal it is clear to them as well that this is not a cash generating commitment. The key point is that the idea is implementable if the cost of producing the Laptops can be substantially reduced, which is why he choose the components (Linux,AMD,hand crank...) as he did. Ofcourse Bill Gates has enough money to bank-roll the whole project, so it seems M$'s gripe is that windows wont be on the devices.
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- Negroponte does not need Gates' permission
- As usual, MS is spun to be the bogeyman here. Apple gave essentialy the same response but somehow that's not the headline. MS is offering alternatives as well.
Of course Mr. Gates could fund the entire thing just like he could fund any number of projects. His foundation does exactly that. Because he doesn't sign on to this one somehow he's preventing it?
Mr. Negroponte himself says that "I chose open source because it's better". So then how is this a Microsoft problem?
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- This is wack
- Maybe Mr. Negroponte could focus on getting food and pencils and paper to all the world's kids first? Maybe he could help the UN focus on getting rid of corrupt governments that keep their population poor for the sake of more tanks and machine guns?
This is ALL a PR game to let the UN look good. Maybe Mr. Negroponte doesn't remember that when HE was a kid what he needed was some paper, pencils and teachers.
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- Agreed
- LEt's give third-world kids computers when their dying of AIDS and mal-nutrition and cancer. Hell, let's just neglect the needs of the abused and abandoned children in the US, because you know, third world countries deserve a crank-up computer to work with when there isn't even suitable network technology in place.
**** the 100 dollar laptop.
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- Did I miss something?
- Ok, the man did not create the "MIT Edible Paper and Pencils Laboratory". He created the MIT Media Lab. He can't possibly do what you demand. He can try to create a $100 laptop. It might not be edible, and it might not get rid of corrupt governments, but it will hopefully open up a whole new world to these kids.
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- necessities for life
- i agree. the main thing that these kids need is good food and clean water and a better environment first then the focus can be put on their technology. the guys heart is in the right pplace but not at the right time. you need food and water and doctors and medicine to live but you dont need a computer to live.
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- Get out of my wallet
- Why do these goons constantly see the need for government intervention? If this idea is SUCH A GREAT IDEA, why can't he set up a non-profit organization like "Save the Children" or "The Red Cross" or "The United Way" and have people volunteer their money as an act of charity?
Why does this little weasel need to use the power of government to dip into my personal wallet and fund his work...
And this c|net article plays right into that. Crying like a baby that "darn it, those mean governments and politicians just hate third-world kids". **** c|net.
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- You said, "Mr. Negroponte could focus...
- ... on getting food and pencils and paper to all the world's kids first?"... it appears that you have left out schools, the school furniture et cetera (with all the requisite electrical and electronic "gizmos" to set up the networking) including the "shipping" and "handling" costs to get the laptops to the school children around the world; and, don't forget, some may need clothing and a place to live (re: the Street Children)!
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- if you have such great ideas
- if you have souch great ideas about what deveploping counties need why don you get of you cumfy suburban fat A%$ and try doing something about it
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- education is not a panacea!
- access to information is one thing...
but schools (ie: institutions) are an entirely different matter.
there are many ways to structure a brain.... and I find it quite concerning why the global elite are preoccupied with structuring these societie's minds.... especially in the context of all the homelessness and advertising in industrialized worlds.... what makes the elite think they can take care of the rest of the world when they cant seem to do much for their homeless neiborhood brethern? this is ethno-centric to the max.
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- Don't be rediculious
- Nobody's suggesting the kids should learn how to hack the OS.
Let's say somebody develops a great piece of cheap hardware that's perfect for this laptop that requires a change to the kernal. If you were to put your faith in one organization, that organization might not be willing to make the change you need for a number of different reasons.
Somebody might want to design a more intuitive file system that makes more sense for kids, or parts of it may need to be translated another language.
There are a million things that might need to be changed on the OS level. If you go with a closed source solution, you're screwed.
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- Wahhh, why didn't Negroponte use us as consultants?
- I find it odd that Negroponte didn't seek out the wise comments from CNET readers before pitching his $100 laptop to the UN.
Obviously, there are some people here who can acutally predict the future by looking in their rearview mirror.
The bottom line is their is somebody who is actually doing something, not just talking. And, the product is REAL, it's tangible, it's done.
Why is the product being delayed? Because everyone else in the world is just like us - they want to talk, not execute. Those folks are experts at not doing anything, so they'll say anything in order to avoid actually doing something. We can put the blame on companies (like Microsoft), but in reality, it's individuals who actually do the doing.
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- The UN is doing something...
- When the UN actually does ANYTHING let me know...
I know...let's pitch the idea of 100$ cars to the 3rd world too...I'm sure I could get everyone that currently gives up their car for a $75 tax receipt to give it up for $100 instead. Then the 3rd world could have cars too...thats just great.
I don't have a problem with the idea of a computer for all BUT I do have a problem with it being funded by governments when their money could be spent on more pressing needs. If Mr. Negroponte wants to enlist companies to give of their free will without tax breaks directly to the people in 'need' great...but leave governments out of it.
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- Some Clarifications Are In Order ...
- here for those who haven't been following this project. These laptops are not for the poorest of the poor who are starving, dying of AIDS, and don't have a roof over their heads, and there already are programs for addressing those needs (ever hear of those "minor" catastrophes like the Indonesian tsunami, the Pakistani earthquake, the Darfur and Rwandan genocides, etc.?). Once those people are fed, getting medical care, housed, etc., then they will start needing this kind of technology.
These are meant for the huge chunk of the world's population that is living in the economic band between stark survival and self-sufficiency, with the goal being to get them up to the latter rung of the ladder as inexpensively and quickly as possible. The target families this is geared toward has some form of shelter, but generally doesn't have any phone service and little, if any, electrical service, much less power for TVs (Gates really is such an idiot for even suggesting the cell phone and TV idea - he obviously knows nothing about what Life is like beyond the walls of Billionaireville). The idea is to seed a village with these, provide a terrestrial or satellite Internet connection with local wireless access, and that is then shared among all of the families. Their primary purpose is to improve education that would lead to employment, while eliminating the digital divide for sociological reasons.
This approach doesn't cost additional money to the governments involved, it's meant to make more efficient use of the money available. One of the goals is to replace the cost of textbooks and the ancillary tools used to learn to read and write, and at $100 per family, the payback is essentially immediate, since governments spend well over $100 per student just for such materials in one year. The content in the laptops will be able to be updated continuously, thereby further reducing future costs, at least until the hardware fails (which should be at least several years, even in the harshest environments).
The cost per student of providing the Internet access for a village is well under a dollar a month, if that, which is almost certainly below the cost of providing cellular phone access, particularly in a remote area, where a cell phone tower/station could easily cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on how much coverage is needed, and a link to a terrestrial phone/data system would still be needed anyway. The per-laptop bandwidth outside the local network area doesn't need to be that fast, as once one computer has been updated, the rest in the vicinity can use it as a proxy server to obtain their own copies of the same data (e.g., textbook and document updates, course material such as syllabuses and homework and exam questions, media reports and other material associated with current events, such as news, weather, science and technology, etc.). Besides, it's not like each student is going to be downloading a college dorm's worth of MP3s and DVDs every day (at least, not until they discover BitTorrent!).
I've said it before, but the economy of scale for these devices could be improved by marketing them to whomever wanted them, and I wouldn't mind having a spare laptop with wireless network capability that didn't have to be plugged in to charge, that I could toss under the seat in my car for when I needed to map someplace on MapQuest or Google Earth, or be able to use if my primary laptop crapped out, if only for basic e-mail, Web surfing, inane posts in response to C|Net stories anywhere, anytime ... If it helped bring the cost of these to the originally-intended users and their governments down even further, so much the better. I wouldn't even mind paying a 10%, or so, premium to help get things going. Basic laptops are still starting around $450 and up at retail, and the slightly-larger screens, hard drives, AC power bricks, and other whippy-keen features they have over the $100 laptops don't cost anywhere near the $350 differential being charged, which means it's mostly middle-person costs, and those wouldn't exist in a word-of-Net, direct-sales market.
As for Microsloth's offer of an open-source WinCE (the marketing weenies must still be wincing over that blunder-of-a-name), thanks, but no thanks. The open source community (even the nascent Third World portion that will sprout around the $100 laptops) already has a robust, useful OS and plenty of tools and applications to do much more than WinCE ever could, and it's a bit late to ask anyone to finally rewrite WinCE to be reliable and secure, especially for free, and more especially because it's crippled by design, compared with any other OS in widespread use today. For those wondering why some are beating up on Microsloth for making its seemingly generous offer, they're only doing it for the same reason they plea-bargained many of the court cases they've lost at the state and local levels, such that they got off with "donating" or providing discount coupons to school systems for their products. The reason is so they can get their foot in the door on the bet that it will lead to future sales, although I can't imagine how even they could convince Joe Biafran to spend a cent on their buggy bloatware, when Joe is just trying to learn to read (although I suppose the volume of security alerts, update notices, and error messages certainly would provide enough for Joe to read until a very ripe old age! :)). I do also have to admit that it would instantly create jobs, though ... as in lifetime employment for local sysadmins and network admins (Microsloth certified at a substantial additional cost, of course - batteries not included, shipping and handling extra, your mileage may vary, caveat emptor, etc.).
A software user community that is substantially different from those found in more affluent societies may eventually emerge that is focused squarely on the needs and desires of the recipients of this technology, rather than the estimated or imagined (and likely incorrect) guesses that well-meaning people who have no clue as to how this technology could best be used by the populations inheriting it. This would be a terrific outcome, especially if a dialog can begin that results in better mutual understanding between the have-a-lots and the have-very-littles, which might be just what's needed to break the cycle of poverty that inevitably leads to a rich recruiting pool for terrorists, tyrants, and other low-lifes who prey on uneducated masses to do their bidding. $100 a kid would be incredibly cheap if it were able to contribute anything at all toward that goal. In that case, sign me up for 100 of these laptops.
All the Best,
Joe Blow
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- I see that CHINA is on the list of potential purchasers...HMMM the 4th or 5th largest economy in the world that currently is purchasing North American companies and resources left right and center and these are the people that need help?
Perhaps the problem is the political structure in these countries and not the inherent 'poor'ness of their people.
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- Microsoft and the Politics of Software
- "(Negroponte) failed to reach an agreement with Microsoft on including its Windows software in the laptop, leading Microsoft executives to start discussing what they say is a less expensive alternative..."
Hey, I thought Bill Gates was a charitable man! Why would he want to short-change the third world kids, especially concerning a product he can easily afford to provide?
Maybe India and other third world countries where Bill Gates has so generously contributed should pool up the charity money and pay Mr. Gates for the correct Windows software.
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- It's not politics....
- .... tho this concept is definitely becoming a political football for
anyone who wants to kick it around. But the basic problem is
that so far, no one has shown that they can build and support a
PC, especially a crank powered PC, with adequate OS and
software in multiple languages for a $100 out the factory door
price. Then, are there Distributors? Warehousers?, Shippers?
These people/companies work for free?. And if the price
delivered to the customer is supposed to be $100, the factory
cost will probably have to be less than $20. This is realistic?
Nicholas Negroponte is an idealist and a dreamer, but he is not a
miracle worker, at least so far. Nor does he seem to show much
skill in gaining help from the big boys. The situation is not likely
to change, and an idea, dubious in the first place, will probably
just fade away.
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- Not Entirely Accurate...
- Earl:
There was an article a couple of months back on
CNET News.com, on a practical $100.00 laptop that had been developed. It was a prototype, but the plans for it were beyond the prototype stage. It was a hand-crank type---probably the one that is championed by Mr. Negroponte.
I would like to add that your arguments about the cost of manufacturing such a laptop are not exactly to the point. In the earlier article concerning the $100.00 laptop, it was mentioned that the laptops would be paid for by the governments of the third world countries, to improve the educational situation in their countries. So the cost of manufacture in this country is not as much of a concern as you might believe.
As to Mr. Negroponte being a "dreamer", I would say---It is "dreamers" that with enough effort make the world a better place. If it were not for "dreamers", then Thomas Edison would not have begun to "dream" of the light bulb. Of course, he invented the light bulb later---but everyone has to start somewhere.
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- China as the 4th Power
- You do realize that China is (or will be) the 4th economic power for a matter of volume.
The biggest portion of the population does not live in Shangai, it does live in rural areas in very poor conditions.
One thing is to have a great purchasing power (because they are a lot), the other is how that welth is distribute. The population of China (and India) will be the perfect candidate for starting with these project.
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- politics delay everything...
- the question to ask is Is politics delaying it more than it would usually?
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Artist Mel Kendrick, a part-time North Haven resident, talks about showing his series of sculptures, "jacks," at the Parrish Art Museum, the process of sculpting with concrete and the geometry of art.
These are definitely structures you have to see in person. Can you tell me a little about their construction?
They're kind of massive. They're very solid concrete, cast and laid. And this white is the natural color of the concrete. And the pigmented is the black, and it goes all the way through, you know, so they're solid. It works as sort of a progression from one end to the other in a way. They're called "jacks" for numerous reasons. One is that mainly they have that three-point connection that a jack has in the game of jacks. But it's also something about the box and these things being brought up outside. So, if you look at them, you'll realize that what you're seeing on top is really what what's missing underneath.
These "jacks" were first displayed in the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City. Why did you decide to display them now at the Parrish?
It's very interesting, because I installed them very differently there. It's kind of a large, very rectangular room; I installed them so they sort of had a dialogue, you know, diagonally, across the space, and they were turned different ways. The room gave a nice structure. But at the Parrish Museum it's linear and it's almost like a church basilica. Everything kind of fit together and I like the way you move past them on the path. They create a whole different structure here. It's great. And I put them in numerical order, actually. So, they're all called "jacks," small j. But they're just number one, number two, number three, number four. And if you move through them, you see there's kind of a progression of relationships there.
Moving them to the Parrish, that was really something Mary Boone and Terri Sultan got together on. And you know, Terri saw the show in New York and it just seemed like a great idea, because these pieces are really meant to be outdoors. I mean, with the material and the weight and sort of the relation to architecture, I think they should be outside.
You've used many different materials in the past. Why the decision to work with concrete this time around?
It started with a group of sculptures called "Markers" that I showed at Madison Park in New York City. A lot of things that I'd been working on came together, primarily by investigating this idea of using recast concrete; but also by the layering of the black and white so that you have these lines that carry through the whole block and all the shapes. And then, you know, they were also installed in a line, because that bit of geometry was good. So I like the reading of one to the other and back again. It's sort of a back and forth of information.
How long did this project take?
Well, this project probably took a year. It's always – like everything else – it's all the pre-work. I worked small with these at first, because I was going for a clarity and almost a simplicity of relationships. That required me to kind of analyze and do a lot of them small. And of course they change when I make them larger, because they're not computer enlargements. So, then I make the molds in EPS foam, kind of like beer cooler foam, and with that I slice it and make these molds – the stacking molds from which this is cast. Then I have fabricators step in and do the concrete, because you really need a factory to do this. So, once I've made the molds and base, you start pouring. When everything is set, they can do one layer a day. And the one layer joins to the next. When I started out, I had this idea about striations. I thought it'd be cool to cast each one separately and then stack them somehow or glue them. And considering the weight and everything that became an impossibility. So, we came to the better idea of just stacking the molds so that the black is poured on top of the white, and then the white is poured on top of the black, and the black on top of the white, and they're all interlocking, you know, with the rebar structure inside. Rebar is what you see in concrete when it's poured, with the stainless steel rods inside to help hold it together.
Do you think this physicality of art draws you to sculpture?
In this case I chose the size of these blocks and the fact that each of them had four layers. But you know, I'm always pushing against and limited by the materials that I'm using. And that's interesting to me. I don't know what I would do if faced with a blank canvas, because obviously what people do – they invent their own structure, they invent their own physicality. At this point, I'm doing that too by just saying that I'm going to work with this one size block, this material, and then figuring out how to make it work; and very often making this concrete do things that concrete doesn't usually do. But the same thing is true in my wood pieces. People will say, oh, are you interested in woodworking? I always say no. They don't believe it. I'm aware of the beauty of the wood, but I like other aspects of the wood. I like the fact that the way I work is kind of like drawing. That I cut apart, and if I don't like it, I glue it back together. These pieces led to something else. They're layers of the block or entry cuts. Some are clearer than others. I mean, now that I say that, I don't see one that's particularly clear.
Can you explain the design of black and white stripes?
In some ways it's hard to focus on both the stripes and the shapes at the same time. That creates this sort of inner dialogue, which is really what the piece is all about; perceptually the eye I think goes black and white. Then you begin to understand the surface things. A friend of mine looked at it and said, 'Oh they're camouflage.' And I said, 'No, they aren't camouflage. These are attention getting devices.' This is what people used for prison clothes before day-glow. That's why the first group is called markers – white houses, crosswalks, the black and white was the attention indicator. This is after the fact, but there's a type of camouflage they experimented with in World War I called dazzle. And they would paint everything black and white zigzags, including battleships. You'd think that would be terrible camouflage. But what it did was break down the geometry so you didn't know where something began and where something ended. These are much more self-contained and clear.
Can you walk me through "jacks" as individual pieces?
Well they're very different. And they are individual pieces; but I like having the chance to do it this way. It's kind of like a countdown. I think it starts [with number one] from the most architectural, with a feeling of striped Italian cathedrals. And then it starts taking one twist, another twist. And then the final one, I have to say is the culmination – all diagonals and strange points. In the Mary Boone Gallery, these pieces were kind of freshly poured and they were really black and white. They were very graphic. And now, what I really like that is happening with the water and the outside is the physicality of the stone is coming into play. The stone kind of lives. When you get close and you touch it, you know, you suspect the weight. As opposed to seeing them from a distance and in all black and white, then you might think, 'Oh well, that's just hollow.'
You reference geometry in your work. How does that influence your art?
Geometry to me is a catch-all when you're talking about volumes. But it's an intuitive geometry, because I don't use a computer. There are lots of ways that one can make perfect objects, but I'm much more interested in the physicality and the decision making. There are no formulas, no perfect circles. They're all very hand drawn. But I just think that somehow that's important to me, to be working with basically hand made objects of this scale and mass — I think that's what I discovered with the concrete. You know, I'm interested in geometry and physics and the physical relationship. But it's also more playful than that. The interior space of this work is something that you want to enter into mentally; you project your understanding of what's on top by understanding what's been taken out from the bottom.


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In this May 2, 2013, photo, Iranian President Hasan Rouhani delivers a speech during his campaign for the presidential election in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
DUBAI: An Iranian official said on Wednesday that he saw an "opening" in Iran's nuclear dispute with the West, a news agency reported, in the latest signal that Tehran expects fresh movement to break a decade-old deadlock.
The United States and its allies believe Iran is seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and have imposed sanctions aimed at stopping it. Iran denies it wants a bomb and says its nuclear energy program has peaceful aims.
Iran and world powers have been engaged in negotiations which have so far failed to resolve the dispute. The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, said he expected there could be a breakthrough in the talks by the end of the current Iranian calendar year, 1392, which ends in March 2014.
"This year, in the coming months, we will witness openings in this issue...We expect that in the coming months we will see the start of the process of exiting the nuclear issue," Salehi said, according to the Mehr news agency.
The election in June of centrist cleric Hassan Rouhani as president has raised expectations of a settlement to the nuclear dispute. Rouhani has called for "constructive interaction" with the world and more moderate policies at home and abroad.
Salehi, who served as foreign minister under Rouhani's predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said the groundwork for a breakthrough in talks was laid during Ahmadinejad's administration.
"With the information that we had seven or eight months ago, and the indications we saw, we were certain that 1392 would be a very good year especially on Iran's nuclear issue, and today as well we see indications to that effect," Salehi said, according to Mehr.
His comments came a day after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the ultimate say on nuclear policy, said he was open to "flexibility" when it came to diplomacy.
Salehi also said he doubted news reports that Rouhani had offered to shut Fordow, an underground uranium enrichment facility near the religious city of Qom.
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After 4 hours of shoveling snow, I went for a walk... I spotted this Snowy Owl on top of a hydro pole... the only lens I had with me was a 70-200, but in spite of the short reach it came out ok.... (Image is heavily cropped) Santa, I could use a 600F4 this year.... I've been very good
I think this is a hawk (I'm not a birder so id help is appreciated).Here is the back story. I was looking for some wildlife to shoot today. It is very cold here in TX, and not much here to begin with. Anyway, there is an area with some wetlands, so I decided to give it a try. Driving along, I saw something that didn't look like it belonged in the barren tree- sort of like trash? It was about 100 yards away, so I pulled out the camera with 300 mm and there was the bird. I sure could have used more reach to put more of the bird on less pixels, but with a lot of crop, and some sharpening, not bad. I was pleasantly surprised, because when I checked the image in the camera, it looked so bad I almost deleted it.
A Quick heron shot.
Scott in FW - looks like a Cooper's Hawk..which are very similar to a Sharp-shinned except a few attributes such as a squared off tail which I'm unable to tell in this shot. The Sharpie's have a black marking over the eye sometimes as well as their calls are higher in pith than a Cooper's. That being said, I'd lean on a Cooper's.Don - Love the Snowy Owl shots - truly excellent for the gear you had handy..most enjoyableDolina - nice work on the The Brown Shrike photo..the chest markings look most similar to that of a Nutmeg Mannikin (not native for us - Asian bird). Here in the US we get only the Loggerhead (aka the Butcher Bird) and the Northern Shrikes.Here's a male (red shaft) Northern Flicker shot here in southern Cal today at the tail end of dusk at 12,800 ISO with a 400mm and a 5D Mark 3 hand heldNorthern Flicker (12256) by Revup67, on Flickr
My new favorite hawk photo! Just made it a couple hours ago at sunset:Ferruginous Hawk: 7D + 600/4 II, 1/400s f/6.3 @ ISO 400


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Pinch of Curry Powder
Pinch of Black Pepper
Pinch of Garlic Powder
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Pre-heat oven to 400
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Directions for Preparing Rice
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3/4 Cup Chicken Broth
1 Cup Heavy Cream (heavy whipping cream)
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3 Tbsp Butter or Margarine
1/2 Tbsp Onion Powder
1/2 Tbsp Parsley (Chopped)
2 tsp Curry Powder
1/2 tsp Black Pepper
1/2 tsp Salt
1/4 tsp Celery Seed
1/4 tsp Coriander
1/4 tsp Cumin
1/4 tsp Dill Weed
Pinch of Cayenne Pepper
Directions for Curry Sauce
Add all contents except cream into a saucepan.
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Traffic notes for Tuesday, July 10: AM updates for morning rush + today's road construction
Updated list of road construction for Tuesday
- N TAMPA: One lane will be closed in each direction of Fletcher Avenue under I-75 from 9 AM to 4 PM
- TAMPA/YBOR CITY: 4th Avenue may be reduced to one lane in each direction between 28th and 32nd streets, with traffic flagged through, from 9 AM to 4 PM.
- TAMPA/YBOR CITY: 7th Avenue may be reduced to a single lane of traffic in each direction between 26th and 32nd streets from 9 AM to 4 PM.
- TAMPA: One lane will be closed each way on 20th, 21st and 22nd streets from Grant Street to State Road 60 from 9 AM to 4 PM.
- TAMPA: Traffic may be flagged through at times on 26th Street between 12th and 15th avenues (under I-4) from 9 AM to 5 PM.
- TAMPA: One lane will be closed in both directions of 34th Street from State Road 60 to Grace Street (under the Selmon Expressway) from 9 AM to 4 PM.
- N TAMPA: One lane will be closed in each direction of Fletcher Avenue under I-75 from 9 AM to 4 PM
- ST. PETE: Drilling under Bear Creek at La Plaza Ave in South Pasadena. Delays possible, 8 AM-5 PM. Bridge will remain open, however there will be crews north and south of the bridge and interruptions to traffic are possible.
- INDIAN ROCKS BEACH: Crews working in right-of-way along Indian Rocks Rd
- SEMINOLE: Median lanes closed in both directions of Park Blvd., 113th St. to Seminole Blvd., 9 AM to 3 PM for landscape maintenance.
- DOVER: Branch Forbes Road will be closed at I-4, including the entrance and exit ramps (Exit 17), 8 PM to 6 AM. Branch Forbes traffic should use Thonotosassa Rd. and US-92.
- DETOUR for EB I-4: Use Exit 19. For Branch Forbes Road south of I-4, go south on Thonotosassa Road, then turn right and go west on U.S. 92 to Branch Forbes Road. For north of I-4, turn left and go north on Thonotosassa Road to Branch Forbes.
- DETOUR for WB I-4: Use Exit 19. Go north to Branch Forbes Road (for points north of I-4) or south to U.S. 92, then west to Branch Forbes (for points south of I-4).
- DETOUR to enter EB I-4 from Branch Forbes: For traffic south of I-4, go east on U.S. 92, then north on Thonotosassa Road to entrance ramp. For traffic north of I-4, go south on Thonotosassa Road to entrance ramp.
- DETOUR to enter WB I-4 from Branch Forbes: Traffic south of I-4 will go west on U.S. 92, then north on McIntosh Road to use that entrance to westbound I-4. Traffic north of I-4 will go east on Thonotosassa Road to the westbound I-4 entrance ramp.
- TAMPA: Fletcher Ave. entrance ramp to northbound I-75 will be closed from 11 PM to 6 AM. DETOUR: Drivers can get on southbound I-75, exit to Fowler Avenue (Exit 265), turn left and go east on Fowler Avenue under I-75 to the entrance to northbound I-75.
- I-275 N. TAMPA: One lane may be closed on southbound I-275 between I-75 Apex and US-41, 9:30 PM to 5:30 AM
- I-275 TAMPA: One to two lanes will be closed on northbound I-275 from Floribraska Avenue (south of MLK, Exit 46B) to Yukon Street (south of Busch Blvd., Exit 50) from 10:30 PM to 6 AM.
- TAMPA: One of three lanes will be closed in either direction of Hillsborough Avenue from Central Avenue to Nebraska Avenue from 11:30 PM to 6 AM.
- TAMPA: One lane will be closed in either direction of Chelsea Avenue under I-275 from 9 PM to 7 AM.
- TAMPA: One lane may be closed on eastbound and westbound I-4 between 22nd Street (Exit 1) and 50th Street (Exit 3) from 8 PM to 5 AM. Two lanes may be closed on eastbound I-4 after 10 PM and up to three lanes closed on eastbound I-4 from 11:30 PM to 4:30 AM.
- TAMPA: One lane may be closed in each direction of State Road 60 (Adamo Dr.) between 26th and 39th streets from 10 PM to 3 AM.
- TAMPA: One lane may be closed in each direction of the Selmon Expressway from 50th Street to Maydell Drive (between exits 11 and 12). Westbound closures will be from 7 PM to 5 AM and eastbound closures will be from 8 PM to 6 AM.
- SELMON EXPRESSWAY: One lane will be closed on the eastbound Selmon from Nebraska Avenue to 22nd Street (Exit 9) from 8 PM to 6 AM. TAMPA: Twiggs Street closed between Nebraska and Meridian avenues, 7 PM to 5 AM (for construction related to the Selmon Expressway)
- SELMON EXPRESSWAY: One lane will be closed in each direction of the Selmon between 22nd Street (Exit 9) and 50th Street (Exit 11) from 8 PM to 5 AM
- RIVERVIEW: One lane will be closed in each direction of Gibsonton Drive at I-75 from 9 PM to 5 AM.
- PINELLAS CO: New project begins along Duhme Rd/113th St. between 54th Ave N. and Tom Stuart Causeway. Lane closures expected between 7PM and 7AM nightly.
- WESLEY CHAPEL: One lane may be closed in either direction of I-75 from State Road 56 (Exit 275) to north of County Road 54 (Exit 279) from 8 PM to
8:47 -- I-275 TAMPA UPDATE: Crash #1 SB past Fletcher on right shoulder. Crash #2 past Fletcher blocking left lane.
8:44 -- I-275 TAMPA: Come on people! Second crash now SB 275 past Fletcher. I'm guessing people were looking at crash #1.
8:34 -- I-275 TAMPA UPDATE: Found the crash. Looks like 3 cars, right shoulder, SB 275 between Fletcher & Fowler. No FHP on scene yet.
8:33 -- I-275 TAMPA: Looking for crash SB near Fletcher. So far no sign of it. Generally slow traffic SB at Fletcher.
8:22 -- SELMON EXWY: WB delays between Kennedy Blvd/Exit 8 and Florida/Morgan/Exit 6.
8:18 -- E TAMPA: Accident reported WB Adamo/60 @ US-301
8:05 -- SEMINOLE: Crash on 83rd St N @ Park Blvd.
8:04 -- I-75 TAMPA: Delays NB near SR-60/Brandon Blvd (Exit 257)
8:01 -- HOWARD FRANKLAND BRIDGE: Fender bender NB I-275 just past hump on right shoulder. Generally backed up from hump to Tampa side.
7:57 -- S. TAMPA UPDATE: Crash on Dale Mabry @ Henderson has been moved into a parking lot. Not a traffic issue now.
7:38 -- NOKOMIS: Crash US-41 @ Albee Rd. Unknown roadblock per FHP. #Sarasota County
7:34 -- S TAMPA UPDATE: Per Action Air 1, crash blocking one NB lane of Dale Mabry approaching Henderson.
7:32 -- BARTOW: Hit and run with injuries on Spirit Lake Rd @ US-17
7:30 -- S TAMPA: EMS on scene of crash on Dale Mabry & Henderson.
7:29 -- W TAMPA UPDATE: Tow trucks on scene of crash, EB MLK @ N Blvd. Should be out of the way soon.
7:28 -- LAKELAND: Crash on Lakeland Highlands Rd @ the ramp to EB Polk Pkwy. No roadblock reported.
7:22 -- TAMPA: Accident blocking EB MLK @ N Blvd.
6:53 -- TEMPLE TERRACE: Crash on EB Bullard Pkwy east of 56th St. at Temple Park Dr.
6:34 -- VALRICO UPDATE: Per Action Air 1, all lanes of Mt Carmel Rd. are open at Brentwood Hills Blvd. TECO has finished repairs to a pole damaged in an overnight crash.
6:21 -- TAMPA/CARROLLWOOD: FHP says all lanes are open on SB Dale Mabry @ Stall Rd.
6:00 -- CLEARWATER BEACH: Coast Guard called in to assist in a search for someone that might have gone over the Memorial Causeway Bridge.
5:59 -- OLDSMAR: Crash reported on Tampa Rd @ East Lake Woodlands Pkwy.
5:54 -- TAMPA/CARROLLWOOD: Crash blocking lanes of SB Dale Mabry near Stall Rd. (past Fletcher)
5:43 -- I-275 TAMPA UPDATE: Roadwork has wrapped, NB 275 between I-4 and MLK.
5:08 -- I-275 TAMPA: Lanes closed northbound between I-4 and MLK for roadwork. Should wrap by 6 AM.
5:00 -- VALRICO: Mt. Carmel Rd remains closed at Brentwood Hills Blvd, between Brandon Blvd/60 and Lumsden Rd. while TECO repairs a power pole damaged during an early morning crash. Use Valrico Rd. or Lithia Pinecrest Rd. as alternates.


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December 13, 2012
Surprisingly, in the week preceding finals I have entertained an almost unprecedented number of nonacademic pursuits. Ideally, I would have utilized my free time for studying—and I have, to some extent. But really, the majority of my commitments are decidedly nonacademic.
Monday night found me at a rather energetic debate practice. Side government brought the case that we should institutionalize production, and therefore grant citizenship to, genetically-engineered humans. Side opposition's main critique was that the resolution seemed almost copied from the game Halo, and he did not want to live in a virtual reality.
Tuesday I decided to venture out for a long run shortly after 4 in the afternoon. The sun set around 5. I managed to find my back to campus a little before 7. It was pitch-black out; my legs ached from pushing through countless miles on concrete. It was an exciting night, filled with fast cars, loud music, and plenty of farm animals—all of which I ran by.
Wednesday, a friend and I went to a lecture by author Wade Davis, explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society. He talked in great detail about Mallory and the first great mountaineers on Everest. He considered the role World War I played in the lives of these explorers—most of them had, in fact, been fighting in the trenches not three years prior to their expeditions on Everest. Davis concluded the Great War gave them new outlooks on life—one filled with greater vigor and ambition in life and less fear of death.
And finally, we come to Thursday, the last week-night. Outside of the usual debate practice, I am heading off to the premiere of the Hobbit at midnight. I've given my roommate ample warning: expect a return around 3 in the morning. But the short night of sleep will definitely be worth it—I hear rumors some movie-goers may dress up as wizards and hobbits and all sorts of magic creatures.
But of course, the end of this week brings the full weight of finals to bear. Once Friday comes, I've no excuse; I need to start studying. But this week has been one last burst of fun.
Majors: Government and Economics (intended)
Activities: Cross Country, Debate Society
Favorite Pastimes: Late-night Diner breakfast, reading the paper in KJ through the morning, wandering the Root Glen and sipping a latte from Cafe Opus.
Hometown: Newfane, Vt.
High School: Concord Academy


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|President and Prime Minister Mohammad Daoud's interview with the editor of the daily New Times of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, April 17, 1974 : interview / Mohammad Daoud.
|President and Prime Minister Mohammad Daouds speech concerning establishment of the first Loya Jirgah / Ministry of Information and Culture
|President and Prime Minister Mohammad Daoud's speeches of July 17 and August 23, 1973.
|President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan : 1384 budget decree / .
|President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan : 1384 budget decree / .
|Presidential election Afghanistan 2004 : manual for counting officials / United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan(UNAMA), Joint Electoral Management Body Secretariat, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
|Presidential election Afghanistan 2004 : manual for polling officials / United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan(UNAMA), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
|Presidential election Afghanistan 2004 : manual for polling officials / United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan(UNAMA), Joint Electoral Management Body Secretariat (JEMBS), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
|Presidential gift catalogue 2007 : turquoise mountain, Boumi, Gulestan, Nooristan handicraft, Shamali farms, Tarsian and Blinkley, Zardozi, Zarif design.
|Press Release / United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
|Press briefing by Prof. Abdul Sattar Sirat, head of the Rome group delegation and other members of the delegation / Abdul Sattar Sirat
|Press conference: the use of chemical weapons in Afghanistan
|Press release / World Health Organization (WHO).
|Press release Afghanistan (EXT) : news and events Afghanistan / World Bank Group.
|Pressklipp om Afghanistan / Svenska Afghanistankommitten.
|Prevalence of incurable blindness in Afghan refugees in Pakistan / Herb Friesen ... in:
|Preventing Aids: a guide to effective education for the prevention of HIV infection / by Nicholas Freudenberg
|Preventing HIV infection, promoting reproductive health: UNFPA response 2003 / UNFPA
|Preventing a crisis: aids and family planning work / produced by Gill Gordon & Tony Klouda
|Preventing and controlling iron deficiency anaemia through primary health care : a guide for health administrators and programme managers / E.M. DeMaeyer with the collaboration of P. Dallman ... .
|Preventing child trafficking in the Gulf countries, Yemen and Afghanistan : policy options / Krishna Belbase …
|Preventing disability in leprosy patients / Jean M. Watson
|Preventing infection HIV promoting reproductive health: UNFPA response 2002 / UNFPA
|Preventing infection promoting reproductive health: UNFPA'S response to HIV/AIDS / UNFPA
|Preventing maternal deaths / edited by Erica Royston and Sue Armstrong
|Preventing trachoma : a guide for environmental sanitation and improved hygiene / World Health Organization, International Trachoma Initiative.
|Prevention and control of malaria in Afghanistan / HealthNet International
|Prevention and control of malaria in Afghanistan : final technical report, 1 December 1997-31 January 2000 / HealthNet International (HNT).
|Prevention and treatment of cholera / translated by Aminullah Saboor
|Prevention and treatment of diarrhea / Health Education Resource Center
|Prevention is better than cure : curriculum for health education in schools / by Gabi Steiner-Eder, Abdul Rahman Zamani.
|Prevention is better than cure: curriculum for health education in schools / by Gabi Steiner-Eder and Abdul Rahman Zamani.
|Prevention of maternal deaths in developing countries: program options and practical considerations / Deborah Maine ...
|Prevention of sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus / World Health Organization.
|Preventive prolonged labour: a practical guide / World Health Organisation
|Preview / International Women's Tribune Center.
|Prewar school buildings : an inventory survey in Wardak Province / Short Term Assistance for Rehabilitation Team, Afghan Consultants (START).
|Price of honour: Muslim women life the veil of silence on the Islamic world / Jan Goodwin
|Price stabilization project / Solidarities, Afghanistan.
|Primary Health Care Program (PHCP)
|Primary anaesthesia / edited by Maurice King ...
|Primary child care: a guide for the community leader, manager, and teacher, book two / Maurice King, Felicity King, Soebagio Martodipoero
|Primary child care: a manual for health workers, book one / Maurice King, Felicity King, Soebagio Martodipoero
|Primary education for all: learning from the BRAC experience, a case study / Manzoor Ahmed ...
|Primary education: a world bank policy paper / The World Bank
|Primary health care & mother child health / developed by WHO, IPH (MOPH), IMC, MCI, MSH & SCA, funded by USAID
|Primary health care / Public Health Institute
|Primary health care from theory to action / World Health Organization
|Primary health care level management of trachoma / World Health Organization Programme for the Prevention of Blindness
|Primary health care progrm: progress report (January 1st- June 30th, 2000) / Afghan Health & development Services


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I snagged this at Barnes and Noble today. I've been on the lookout for it for awhile because it's about books. I've never read any manga before, but this was a good place to start.
The main character is a geeky bookworm type who just happens to be a paper master. She can make paper do anything she wants. It's her weapon of choice. She tracks down her favorite author just before said author is kidnapped by the evil henchmen of a crazed fan. He calls her Paul S. Like in Stephen King's Misery. Loved that part.
Several parts made me smile. I'm sure I'll read it again. I don't think I quite understood all the pictures even though I got the general gist of the story. And it's only volume 1. I just wish my library system had this series.


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The theatre (formerly His Majesty's) was designed for John
Fuller and Sons Ltd. by Mr Henry Eli White Architect, structural engineer
and contractor. (See the Grand
for another White designed Theatre in Petone)
It was the first steel framed, concrete coated proscenium arched theatre in the southern hemisphere. The steel frame allowed for an unsupported 80 ft span roof structure and also provided good resistance to earthquake damage.
The theatre boasts a Edwardian facade and inside a large
shallow domed auditorium of Theatrical Rococo style derived
from Louis XIV, modelled plaster work decorated box fronts, parapets,
proscenium and gallery. White aimed to design a theatre with a clear
vision line from every seat. He achieved this managing to have only
3 columns in the stalls, the circle being cantilevered on massive steel
beams. The theatre was designed primarily as a picture house but could
also accommodate live shows.
His Majestys opened on 26 December 1912 with a picture screening to a full house. Until the '30s there were many live vaudeville shows there and the theatre came to be known as Fullers. In 1930 the theatre was wired for sound and functioned through until the '40s predominantly as a picture house.
The 1960s brought television and reduced audiences for the St. James. In the 1970s shows at the St. James were rare and the theatre fell into disrepair. By 1982 Kerridge owned the Embassy, the Regent, the Majestic and the St. James. The Regent was demolished and replaced by the multiplex Regent Centre built in its place. The Majestic and St. James were placed on the market.
In 1986 Kerridge abandoned screenings at the St James and the theatre was bought by Chase Corporation who considered the theatre stood on a prime redevelopment site - in September 1986 they applied for a demolition permit. The save the St. James campaign set about securing heritage protection for the theatre and a notice was placed on it 2 weeks after the demolition application.
The St James is under category 1 of the Historic places
Act 1993 as a place of special or outstanding historical or cultural
significance and value. In 1988 Chase went into receivership and
under the direction of the receivers the Wellington City Council and International
Festival continued to use the theatre periodically.
In November 1993 Wellington City Council announced they would take over the theatre and set up the St. James Theatre Charitable Trust, who are the current owners. They set about to implement the objectives under the trust deed to conserve the heritage value of the theatre building and to adapt the building to enable it to operate as a viable theatre venue to foster and encourage the performing Arts community.
In July 1995 Phil Conroy and Roger Shand of Shand Shelton Ltd. put a proposal to the council as part of the total development of the theatre including conservation and adaptation of the auditorium, a new stage house and next door theatre foyers and bars and a purpose built home for new long term tenants the Royal New Zealand Ballet.(www.nzballet.org.nz)
Mainzeal Property and Construction won the contract for the development and engaged Opus International Architects do outline drawings to interpret the Shand Shelton concept and brief into working drawings. Everything behind the proscenium arch is new!
Work began December 1996. The theatre reopened in February
1988 in time for the International Festival of the Arts.
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There has been a great deal of discussion about the Military Commissions Act
of 2006 [.pdf], recently passed by both houses of Congress, and most of it has
to do with the provisions allowing torture of alien detainees, that is, of non-citizens
apprehended in, say, Afghanistan or Iraq, and their treatment at the hands of their American captors. Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and John Warner,
all Republicans, grandstanded for weeks over the torture provisions, then capitulated.
Another "Republican maverick," Arlen Specter, zeroed in on the real
issue, however, when he said the bill would set us back 800 years by repealing
the habeas corpus protections against arbitrary arrest and jailings — and then went ahead and voted for it, anyway.
Liberal opposition mainly centered around the morality
— or, rather, immorality — of torture, but the debate largely ignored the ticking time-bomb at the heart of this legislation, scheduled to go off, perhaps, in tandem with some future crisis, e.g., another terrorist attack on American soil: the redefinition of the "unlawful combatant" concept that lays the foundations for this administration's reconstruction of the gulag. Here is the new, broadened definition, as enunciated in the legislation recently passed by the House:
"The term 'unlawful enemy combatant' means ñ (i) a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents who is not a lawful enemy combatant (including a person who is part of the Taliban, al-Qaeda, or associated forces); or (ii) a person who, before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the president or the secretary of defense."
It doesn't say "alien" or "terrorist," although it specifically includes members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda.…Continue reading
Defining existential politics.
by Byron Belitsos
With the inauguration of George W. Bush for a second term, we enter a nightmare phase of American history, a descent into the era of what might be called "deep politics."
In this short essay I reach out for an expanded definition of a phrase first coined by the distinguished author Peter Dale Scott. In Deep Politics and the Death of JFK1, Scott refers to the "underlying continuities of deep politics" displayed by the apparent convergence of the covert interests of military, rightwing, intelligence agency, and organized crime conspirators that coalesced in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Veteran journalist Jim Marrs points in a similar direction with his Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, as does the Oliver Stone movie based in part on that book. Marrs then works out the implications in later books, including Rule by Secrecy and Inside Job2, an expose of US government collusion with the 9/11 plot. Big-picture writers like Scott, Marrs, and investigative journalist Mike Ruppert, author of Crossing the Rubicon3, have succeeded in synthesizing a growing body of evidence that support the notion that America now inhabits a surreal realm of deep politics, where amoral, Machiavellian, covert action directs (or conditions) the agenda of the overt world, and cover stories are spun by self-deceived politicians, "pundits," and mainstream media.
Meanwhile, the truth and the facts about the black-budget world of covert action migrates to isolated ghettos inhabited by independent… Continue reading
By Jeremy Baker
No sensible person would attempt to minimize the gravity of W's recent re-selection to the highest office on the planet, and the implications of his extended reign is understandably sending shockwaves through the hearts and minds of those who are enlightened enough politically to see through this administration's hypocrisies and Christianity-abuse.
Amidst this medieval evolutionary backslide it's understandable that well-meaning social reformers and dedicated 9/11 activists might feel compelled to fold their wings and founder beneath this manufactured, illusory wave of conservatism, frustrated that their simple goal — that this country can emerge from its 9/11 induced coma and right itself again — may remain but a quixotic delusion, the windmills we tilt at having been recently reinforced with DU girded blades.
But I believe, and have said so many times before, that a republican victory in 2004 may not be the disaster that it seems and may, in fact, allow us the protracted opportunity to pursue justice for those who fell victim to 9/11 and the Bushites and finish the job that we spent so much of 2004 beginning. With W and his minions still tight under the spotlight we can deprive our "friendly fascists" of the chance to ride off on their gold plated saddles into an oily Texas sunset.
Certainly we've seen this sort of thing before. The Warren Commission debacle, which predictably concluded that bullet enchanter and Castro confidante Lee… Continue reading