The court’s decision means that they will be able to stay in Canada only if they can obtain a special permit from Canada’s immigration minister, a remote prospect. Is that what is means? War resisters Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey learned today that the Canadian Supreme Court would not hear their appeal. Somehow the New York Times (”Canada Rebuffs 2 U.S. Deserters”) can read tea leaves. After the mainstream media flaunted their ignorance over the issues in Ehren Watada’s appeal (for the rec

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K Klingensmiths post Pictures of You., on medical images of the body, asks the question, For the person who sees a copy of their X-ray, MRI, or sonogram, how can it seem like their body? Im fascinated with this complicated sense of dissonance between the body that we experience and the image that we see between the body that we experience

Because I didn’t want to write a too short blog entry and post it in Hollywood novels, I checked some search engines on scott fitzgerald and found this:

Free Agency Fallout: The Beginning

1 wide receiver) and then Larry Fitzgerald was picked sooner after to take his spot in the lineup. … Hamza Abdullah, C. C. Brown, Bryan Scott and Brandon McGowan: Sounds like the Bills are not satisfied at the strong safety position as they want to move Whitner o ver to free permanently….

I tried several more searches on ’scott fitzgerald’ but after 10 minutes I got lazy, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Hollywood novels’. Still, I think it was an interesting time.

For example, in the Prado there was a painting of Moses being picked up in the river by Pharoah’s daughter, but Pharoah’s daughter was wearing a fancy Renaissance b allgown. . . . hmm. … and the face of Judas is that of Francisco Pizarro, a Spanish conquistador of Peru and very hated by the Peruvians: http://travel. webshots….

W00t, not exactly what I was looking for, but a good read nevertheless.

The collective and participatory reality of the Bengal Renaissance as a form of communitas

… he discussion out of its provincial Bengal reference and relating it to a trans-national context. … wo essays by Krishna Roy (Rammohun Roy on womens liberation) and Tirthanath Bandyopadhyay (renaissance aspects of Vivekananda)…. … liberation is Madhumita Chattopadhyays finely crafted essay on Outlook Towards Women: Influence of Indian Renaissance. … Two essays, one by Rama Prasad De (on Satis Chandra) and one by Amal Kumar De, deal with this saga of education in nationalist Bengal and Sri Aurobindos part in it…. … enaissance in the context of Bengal are invoked, where he demonstrates the presence of three successive strands or movements within it … orms and structures of a variety of modern disciplines originating in post-renaissance and post-Enlightenment Europe…. … n the ideational context of what has been called the Bengal Renaissance….

Ah, well, back to the drawing board and try again.

Win, Wine and Wedding

We got to the hotel, The Renaissance Downtown, about noon, checked in, dropped off our stuff, freshened up and left for the game. … We visited several times and Lindsey and I even travelled to Europe to visit my cousin in high school, but the last time I saw her was after sophomore year o f college - about five years ago….

I tried several more searches on ‘renaissance high school’ but after some time I got tired, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Middle Ages and Renaissance’. Still, I think it was an interesting exercise.

I finished James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia a few days ago. Lee had a copy of White Jazz, so combined with the novels I’d already read I’m now done … self-parodying in White Jazz. The pressure on his characters mounts. It was fascinating to see

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Steve Holm’s two-run homer in the seventh proved to be the difference as the Giants edged the Phillies 4-3 in the rubber match of a three-game set at AT&T Park. The shot was Holm’s first of his major league career. John Bowker was 2-for-3 with an RBI for San Francisco, which has won two straight on the heels of a five-game losing streak. Jack Taschner tossed a scoreless inning of relief to improve to 2-and-0 with the win. Brian Wilson shut the door in the ninth for his 11th save. Ryan Howa

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On Progressive U, we encourage you to express yourself. We want to hear all the opinions you have, so long as you dont attack others for their opinions. Many others have not been so lucky. Throughout history, a number of authors and books have been banned from being read by various governments and communities for one reason or another. While Banned Books Week is not until September, we wanted to have a special contest in remembrance of all those books that have been challenged or banned over

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Moleskines are notebooks made by a Italian firm who copyrighted the name of a defunct French manufacturer whose notebooks were said to have been used by generations o … Perusing some of their comments and hints, I came across this leather shop in Santa Fe, Renaissance Art, that makes leather covers specifically to fit moleskines….

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pacifism_large.jpg This is a comment on the section “The False Choice of Pacifism” in Sam Harris’ book, The End of Faith … more than a willingness to die, and to let others die, at the pleasure of the world’s thugs. It should … this “would have aroused the world and the people of Germany to Hitler’s violence.” We might wonder

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Last hired, first fired on American Idol The last two singers selected to be among the 24 semifinalists were among the first to be eliminated, as American Idol began the unpleasant business of whittling down the larger group on Thursdays results show. On last weeks selection show, Joanne Borgella became the final woman picked to sing this week, and Colton Berry the 12th man. But ultimately, all that bought them was an extra week, as the viewing audience heard them sing, looked at the te

I tried several more searches on ‘the magic barrel’ but after some time I got lazy, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Book Awards’. Still, I think it was an interesting time.

Pierre Boulez might have made the familiar journey from enfant terrible to grand old man, but he has neither renounced his project nor found that popular opinion h as come round to his way of thinking. … His reputation was sealed with the 1955 premiere of his work for chamber ensemble and voice, Le Marteau sans ma& #174;tre (The Hammer Without a Master)….

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Sigh. Well. So, my back has been bothering me and making it difficult to sit for any length of time, and moving around has also been a pain. No major problem. I did begin a new exercise regime, though, and that plus another situation and my muscles are spasming. Spasm.ming My muscles are in spasm. My back. Oh, the pain

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Fraud crackdown comes with a loophole By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer Tue Feb 12, 6:35 PM ET A Bush administration plan to crack down on contract fraud has a multibillion-dollar loophole: The proposal to force companies to report abuse of taxpayer money will not apply to work overseas, including projects to secure and rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan. For decades, contractors have been asked to report internal fraud or overpayment on government-funded projects. Compliance

I tried several more searches on ‘john jakes’ but after 10 minutes I got tired, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Historical novels’. Still, I think it was an interesting time.

The tone of petulant annoyance that the right-wing can adopt utopian ideas similar in kind to his … has unsurprisingly been featured in fiction, as in Lloyd Kropp’s Sargasso-based The Drift and Neal Stephenson’s “The Raft,” in Snow Crash. Utopianism has always had two, usually though not always

I tried several more searches on ‘neal stephenson’ but after 10 minutes I got tired, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Historical novels’. Still, I think it was an interesting exercise.

F, LA, NY, Lima, Rome, Bangkok, that sort of thingand the most prominent tag of all is a very official, plastic-coated thing that says P hotog. Playboy Mag. … ********** The next day was heavy. With only thirty hours until post time I had no press credentials andaccording to the sports editor of the Louisville Courier-Journaln o hope at all of getting any….

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(please see Chapter 8 â “Breaking Bush’s Spell”, in my book The Madness of George W. … Government propaganda has inverted the perception of what is actually happening, as lies are presented as truths, and up is portrayed as down in a truly Orwellian u niverse of confounding doublespeak….George Orwell once said that omission is the greatest form of lie â…

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Weve already seen a backlash against Facebooks Social Ads platform, however something far more serious may get in the way of Mark Zuckerbergs quest for social networking domination. According to the NY Times, Facebooks Social Ad platform may be illegal in New York under a 100 year old privacy law that states that any person whose name, portrait, picture, or voice is used within this state for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade without the written cons

Hmmm, I have too look further into that for my Books blog.

Global or Local?::Africa’s Social Media Conundrum

Mark Glaser is traveling this week, but were happy to have Sokari Ekine filling in as a special guest blogger. Ekine started the award-winning Black Looks blog in 2004, and covers challenging issues such as gender, sexuality and racism. Glaser will return to the blog next Monday. Web 2.0 a venture capitalists paradise where investors pocket the value produced by unpaid users, ride on the technical innovations of the free software movement and kill off the decentralizing potential of

I tried several more searches on ‘forums muti media’ but after 10 minutes I got tired, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Multi-media forms’. Still, I think it was an interesting time.

Okay, so I cant not-opine. There is this idea out there that a womans brain turns to mush when deprived of adequate adult interaction and … gushed some vague, meaningless mush about how proud I was of a fellow whos moved out of boyhood

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Words by Lorna Li, Photos By Brian Caldwell Source: Fast Company On Wednesday July 18th, I walked into Jimmy Jimbo Wales Q&A presentation thinking I would drop to my knees and swoon in the presence of the man who launched the most ambitious Internet endeavor of our time - free access to the sum of human knowledge on the planet. I didnt

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This naked statue of Napoleon Bonaparte, as Mars, by Canova, stands in the stairwell of the Duke of Wellington’s town house. Although you can pay entrance throughout the year, on the weekend Open House it was free, so I made my way down. It’s not entirely certain whether the Duke placed the statue there in triumph or in respect. What is certain is that Napoleon’s sring of victories had been brought to an end. Trivia of the day: it was this event with the statu

I tried several more searches on ‘bernard cornwell’ but after 10 minutes I got tired, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Historical novels’. Still, I think it was an interesting time.

Cross-posted at Media Mythbusters: From Rockets Brain Trust: BREAKING - Spokane, WA Mark Fuhrman Radio Show Axed by KGA1510 To All A blow against the right of a free people to be informed/educated by a free press. The Mark Fuhrman Radio Show was axed this morning by KGA1510 in Spokane, WA. Fuhrmans Show was MIA this morning without notice. This may be a further move by the River Park Square developers that also own and control 80% of the media in Spokane including the Spokesman-Revi

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More than three quarters of the states 351 communities saw foreclosure rates increase in the past year, with 73 municipalities seeing at least a 75 percent i ncrease in filings….Consumers are gaining an inflation psychology to an extent that I have not seen since the 1970s and early 1980s,’ he said. … The first three months of 2008 saw another record number of foreclosures in Massachusetts, according to the latest statistics….

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My friend Harvey

Sure, I imagine a lot of comics had autobiographical content in them previously, but Mr Pekar turned that content into the actual point. … The guys great for so many reasons I tell you what, Ill leave you with a link to some footage of Harvey in action on Letterman and answering s ome quickfire questions….Whilst everyone else was writing comics about men in spandex or war-hardened heroes, Mr Pekar took the novel approach of writing about his own life in American Splendor. Hes an autobiographical comicker. … the deal Harvey writes the comics, about his life and thoughts, and then someone else draws him…Well, thats only half the story the other half is how Harvey Pekar made me, and many others, comickers….

Aargh, not exactly what I was looking for, but a good read nevertheless.

David Olofson Was Set Up

TUCKER: Army veteran, Reservist, father of three, David Olofson is looking at spending up to six years of his life in prison, the reason? … The neighbor fired hundreds of rounds at a local shooting range and all was well until the rifle fired two multi-round bursts, drawing the attention of local police a…

I tried several more searches on ‘drawing from life’ but after 10 minutes I got lazy, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Autobiographical comics’. Still, I think it was an interesting exercise.

Leonard Da Vinci: Its not about fresco, its about the music, Dude! Now, I know there are many roads to Belief, many roads to personal salvation, to the peace of mind in God or No-God. I think, in this search for meaning, in this permanent yearning, we need to avoid being too-clever-by-half. Italian Musician Uncovers Hidden Music in Da Vincis Last Supper .An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vincis Last Supper

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The collective and participatory reality of the Bengal Renaissance as a form of communitas

… he discussion out of its provincial Bengal reference and relating it to a trans-national context. … wo essays by Krishna Roy (Rammohun Roy on womens liberation) and Tirthanath Bandyopadhyay (renaissance aspects of Vivekananda)…. … liberation is Madhumita Chattopadhyays finely crafted essay on Outlook Towards Women: Influence of Indian Renaissance. … Two essays, one by Rama Prasad De (on Satis Chandra) and one by Amal Kumar De, deal with this saga of education in nationalist Bengal and Sri Aurobindos part in it…. … enaissance in the context of Bengal are invoked, where he demonstrates the presence of three successive strands or movements within it … orms and structures of a variety of modern disciplines originating in post-renaissance and post-Enlightenment Europe…. … n the ideational context of what has been called the Bengal Renaissance….

Hmmm, I have too look further into that for my Books blog.

A Comparison of Colonial Museums with Colonized Museums: A Focus on the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo and Western Museum Display of Egypt

… weden and the Netherlands) As we can see form this, even had I been able to learn about Egyptian museology, it would be at best difficult to disentangle it from o ngoing training in Western methods. … The Louvre still stresses the importance of the European Renaissance, no matter which direction a visitor takes….

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These twin-stacked 90-footers suffered the indignity of being delivered on barges via the Hudson, East, and Hutchinson Rivers–perhaps less humiliating treatment, a … On another note entirely, May 1 has come and gone and the Disneyland Encyclopedia I blogged about back in March does not seem to have been released as planned….

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Some South and Latin American dishes are also among the daily specials, including a Cuban pork dish, masitas de puerco, and the Peruvian lomo saltado (sauteed beef s … But in recent months, the photo mail has experienced something of a renaissance, including the opening two weeks ago of a Trader Joe’s, several blocks north in the n ew Burnt Mills Shopping Plaza….

I tried several more searches on ‘native american renaissance’ but after some time I got lazy, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Middle Ages and Renaissance’. Still, I think it was an interesting time.

Science Books Get Short Shrift A fellow science writer has called my attention to The New York Times Book Review list of the 100 Notable Books of 2007. Conspicuously absent from the list are any science books. Even medicine only rated a couple of titles. Apparently the reviewers who compile the list prefer history, politics and poetry to even a smidgen of science. Fortunately, some reviewers do share our love of science. For example, check out the The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books

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… atricia Correa, Adger W. Cowans, Robert Creamer, Christopher Cunetto, Emily Cunetto, Christopher Cunningham, Jasmine Daraie, John Deamond, Adam de Boer, Marianela d … Jaecks, Chris Jamison, Susan Jamison, Ian Jehle, Ryan Carr Johnson, Sue Johnson, David Jolkovski, Adam Jones, Coty Jones, Benjamin Gray Jones, Courtney Jordan, Mila K…Madeline Marshall, Myra Maslowsky, Leah Matthews, Cory May, Lisa McCarty, John McDaniel, Joseph McSpadden, Robert Mellor, Ashleigh Nicole Meusel, Trace Miller, Adrienne M … aul So, Judy Southerland, Ashley A. . Sullivan, Lynn Sures, Zach Storm, Erik Swanson, Jordan Swartz, Tim Tate, Steve Taylor, James Stephen Terrell, Katurah L….

Aargh, not exactly what I was looking for, but a good read nevertheless.

kinkfest claims!

July 6: Revolutionary Girl Utena - Utena/Anthy - realism (post-series) - touched her earthly flesh Have always wanted to do something post-series with these two. … July 20: A Song of Ice and Fire - Jaime Lannister/Cersei Lannister - first time - Thrill of the forbidden. I don’t even LIKE Cersei. At all. But this. Yeah….

I tried several more searches on ‘a song of ice and fire series’ but after some time I got lazy, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Fantasy novels’. Still, I think it was an interesting time.

I have wanted to get back to this for a long time. Anyone care to jump in & discus it? Yes I actually put “Rev Marc Roney Universal Circle of Magick ” on the paper I handed in. I was feeling a bit perverse that week. lol I still got an A on the paper. She didn’t even comment on the fact that I didn’t get to everything I said I was going to, though she did say I should have developed the numerology argument more. Gods I’m so over the top. _____________________________ A Pagan Perspective

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Jason Burns: You’ve heard of lofts blogging. Public toilets, too. But what about your favorite L.A. hotels? Renaissance Hollywood is straight-up blogging, and has been since July 2007. Lots of fun news, straight outta Hollywood & Highland! Did you know that new spa director Helen Storer comes to L.A. from Kirkland, WA, and that she began her career in the music industry with her own band? I wonder why she made the move. Photo of a blogger from palmsrick’s photostream

Frankly, not what I was looking for, but you might find it an interesting read.

Crusades (A Synopsis)

Both the cultural and the economic capital gained after of the sack of Constantinople played a significant part in the rise of the Italian cities that gave birth t o renaissance. … In Spain, the popular reputation of the Crusades is outshone by the particularly Spanish history of the Reconquista. El Cid is the central figure….

I tried several more searches on ’spanish renaissance’ but after some time I got tired, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Middle Ages and Renaissance’. Still, I think it was an interesting exercise.