Saturday, June 23, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
Sunday, June 17, 2007
The War Inside - washingtonpost.com
The War Inside - washingtonpost.com: "WALTER REED AND BEYOND
The War Inside
Troops Are Returning From the Battlefield With Psychological Wounds, But the Mental-Health System That Serves Them Makes Healing Difficult
By Dana Priest and Anne Hull
Sunday, June 17, 2007; Page A01"
The War Inside
Troops Are Returning From the Battlefield With Psychological Wounds, But the Mental-Health System That Serves Them Makes Healing Difficult
By Dana Priest and Anne Hull
Sunday, June 17, 2007; Page A01"
Friday, June 15, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Monday, June 11, 2007
TRACK 16 GALLERY, Current Exhibition
TRACK 16 GALLERY, Current Exhibition
Glen Wexler: The Secret Life of CowsJuly 7 - August 4, 2007Opening reception on Saturday, July 7 from 7-10 P.M.View Invite...
Paul Joyce: Hollywoodland
Curated by Dennis HopperJuly 7 - August 4, 2007Opening reception on Saturday, July 7 from 7-10 P.M.View Invite...
Gail Greenfield Randall: Case Histories
Curated by Kristine McKennaJuly 7 - August 4, 2007Opening reception on Saturday, July 7 from 7-10 P.M.View Invite...
Glen Wexler: The Secret Life of CowsJuly 7 - August 4, 2007Opening reception on Saturday, July 7 from 7-10 P.M.View Invite...
Paul Joyce: Hollywoodland
Curated by Dennis HopperJuly 7 - August 4, 2007Opening reception on Saturday, July 7 from 7-10 P.M.View Invite...
Gail Greenfield Randall: Case Histories
Curated by Kristine McKennaJuly 7 - August 4, 2007Opening reception on Saturday, July 7 from 7-10 P.M.View Invite...
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Friday, June 8, 2007
A drought for the ages - USATODAY.com
A drought for the ages - USATODAY.com
By Patrick O'Driscoll, USA TODAY
DENVER — Drought, a fixture in much of the West for nearly a decade, now covers more than one-third of the continental USA. And it's spreading.
As summer starts, half the nation is either abnormally dry or in outright drought from prolonged lack of rain that could lead to water shortages, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a weekly index of conditions. Welcome rainfall last weekend from Tropical Storm Barry brought short-term relief to parts of the fire-scorched Southeast. But up to 50 inches of rain is needed to end the drought there, and this is the driest spring in the Southeast since record-keeping began in 1895, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
PHOTO GALLERY: Historic drought grips nation
By Patrick O'Driscoll, USA TODAY
DENVER — Drought, a fixture in much of the West for nearly a decade, now covers more than one-third of the continental USA. And it's spreading.
As summer starts, half the nation is either abnormally dry or in outright drought from prolonged lack of rain that could lead to water shortages, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a weekly index of conditions. Welcome rainfall last weekend from Tropical Storm Barry brought short-term relief to parts of the fire-scorched Southeast. But up to 50 inches of rain is needed to end the drought there, and this is the driest spring in the Southeast since record-keeping began in 1895, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
PHOTO GALLERY: Historic drought grips nation
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Ellen Dissanayake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ellen Dissanayake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ellen Dissanayake is an independent scholar whose work focuses on the anthropological exploration of art and culture. She is credited for re-defining art as 'making special'; that is, art making involves taking something out of its everyday use and context and making it somehow special.
As she states in her preface to 1995's Homo Aestheticus:
At first glance, the fact that the arts and related aesthetic attitudes vary so widely from one soceity to another would seem to suggest that they are wholly learned or "cultural" in origin rather than, as I will show, also biological or "natural". One can make an analogy with language: learning to speak is a universal, innate predisposition for all children even though individual children learn the particular language of the people among whom they are nurtured. Similarly, art can be regarded as a natural, general proclivity that manifests itself in culturally learned specifics such as dances, songs, performances, visual display, and poetic speech.
She lives in Seattle, and is affiliated with the University of Washington. She has taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Sarah Lawrence College, the National Arts School in Papua New Guinea, and the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka. In 1997 she was a visiting professor at Ball State University in Indiana, and the following year taught at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
Her work emerged out of her lived experience in the countries Sri Lanka, Nigeria, India, Madagascar, and Papua New Guinea, where she observed first-hand the cultural differences and attitudes toward art and culture amongst this variety of peoples.
Ellen Dissanayake is an independent scholar whose work focuses on the anthropological exploration of art and culture. She is credited for re-defining art as 'making special'; that is, art making involves taking something out of its everyday use and context and making it somehow special.
As she states in her preface to 1995's Homo Aestheticus:
At first glance, the fact that the arts and related aesthetic attitudes vary so widely from one soceity to another would seem to suggest that they are wholly learned or "cultural" in origin rather than, as I will show, also biological or "natural". One can make an analogy with language: learning to speak is a universal, innate predisposition for all children even though individual children learn the particular language of the people among whom they are nurtured. Similarly, art can be regarded as a natural, general proclivity that manifests itself in culturally learned specifics such as dances, songs, performances, visual display, and poetic speech.
She lives in Seattle, and is affiliated with the University of Washington. She has taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Sarah Lawrence College, the National Arts School in Papua New Guinea, and the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka. In 1997 she was a visiting professor at Ball State University in Indiana, and the following year taught at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
Her work emerged out of her lived experience in the countries Sri Lanka, Nigeria, India, Madagascar, and Papua New Guinea, where she observed first-hand the cultural differences and attitudes toward art and culture amongst this variety of peoples.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Worldandnation: Melting polar bear sends message
Worldandnation: Melting polar bear sends message: "Melting polar bear sends message
By TIMES WIRES
Published June 6, 2007
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UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. celebration of World Environment Day on Tuesday featured a melting polar bear, kids dancing with cardboard fish and an appeal from the daughter of late wildlife expert Steve Irwin to skateboard or take public transportation to school."
By TIMES WIRES
Published June 6, 2007
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UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. celebration of World Environment Day on Tuesday featured a melting polar bear, kids dancing with cardboard fish and an appeal from the daughter of late wildlife expert Steve Irwin to skateboard or take public transportation to school."
Worldandnation: EPA issues new water rules
Worldandnation: EPA issues new water rules: "EPA issues new water rules
Some streams and wetlands might lose Clean Water Act protection."
Some streams and wetlands might lose Clean Water Act protection."
Worldandnation: Scooter Libby gets 30 months
Worldandnation: Scooter Libby gets 30 months: "Scooter Libby gets 30 months
The judge says he's unlikely to allow Libby to be remain free during an appeal."
The judge says he's unlikely to allow Libby to be remain free during an appeal."
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper - Americas
Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper - Americas
Coke to cut water used in drinks
Published: Wednesday, 6 June, 2007, 01:57 AM Doha Time
NEW YORK: The Coca-Cola Co said yesterday it would reduce the amount of water used to produce its beverages and put more effort into recycling the water it uses in manufacturing.Coke, which along with its bottlers used 290bn litres of water for beverage production last year, said it would make a $20mn commitment to the World Wildlife Fund.“Our goal is to replace every drop of water we use in our beverages and their production,” Coke chief E Neville Isdell told the WWF’s annual meeting in Beijing.More than half the water Coke used in 2006 was dedicated to processes like rinsing, cleaning, heating and cooling, rather than going into the drinks themselves.Coke’s new measures include setting water efficiency targets for global operations by next year, and aligning its manufacturing system to return all water used in manufacturing to the environment. – Reuters
Coke to cut water used in drinks
Published: Wednesday, 6 June, 2007, 01:57 AM Doha Time
NEW YORK: The Coca-Cola Co said yesterday it would reduce the amount of water used to produce its beverages and put more effort into recycling the water it uses in manufacturing.Coke, which along with its bottlers used 290bn litres of water for beverage production last year, said it would make a $20mn commitment to the World Wildlife Fund.“Our goal is to replace every drop of water we use in our beverages and their production,” Coke chief E Neville Isdell told the WWF’s annual meeting in Beijing.More than half the water Coke used in 2006 was dedicated to processes like rinsing, cleaning, heating and cooling, rather than going into the drinks themselves.Coke’s new measures include setting water efficiency targets for global operations by next year, and aligning its manufacturing system to return all water used in manufacturing to the environment. – Reuters
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