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http://www.tofu-magazine.net/newVersion/pages/silencio.html 
 
Silêncio
François-Jacques Ossang... Silêncio (2007, 19:45 music: Throbbing Gristle). "...I had the opportunity to go back to Portugal with a 16mm camera nearly 10 years after my previous movie. I don’t like to work with video. And I filmed a little at random, with a particular interest in windmills. I couldn’t quite figure out how to make a movie out of these images. Then I was invited to mix music one evening in an event called 'the Cinema of Poets' at the Cinémathèque with Lydia Lynch, and I put on 'Convincing People' by Throbbing Gristle. And coming back home and thinking about it, I understood that TG’s shamanistic industrial music would fit perfectly."

http://www.tofu-magazine.net/newVersion/pages/silencio.html

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I wrote to Kristi --> If I am to help addicts find and experience recovery from addiction - why would linking to your site help. Passing a drug test may result in that addict continuing harmful behavior resulting in Jails Instituitions and death!

Dear Webmaster,
I visited your site http://www.intervention.org and liked it a lot. I have a related website and I would like to know if you would be interested in exchanging links with my site. This will help both your site and mine to gain search engine popularity...Would you be interested? If so, please consider listing us here: http://intervention.org/recovery.htm Our text link details are:
Title: Passing Drug Test
Description: Knowing how long drug toxins stay in your system will help you choose the correct product in order to pass a drug test.
URL: http://www.DetoxLabs.com
Then let me know where our link is located on your site and send me your information if you would like a link back. Your link will be placed in the best category here http://www.detoxlabs.com/resources/index.html
Thanks,
Kristi
DetoxLabs.com
9831 E. Bell Road Suite 110
Scottsdale, AZ 85260

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The Ritz Rehab

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Tel:  (230)259 3232
Fax:  (230)247 4977

Please mention Addiction Services Guide when contacting.
 
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Female bonobo chimpanzees have sex with dozens of males to obscure the paternity of offspring and thus stop males from killing infants to get their mothers to stop breastfeeding and become fertile again.
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Shi Pei Pu, Singer, Spy and ‘M. Butterfly
Associated Press

Shi Pei Pu in the mid-1960s.


Shi Pei Pu, Singer, Spy and ‘M. Butterfly,’ Dies at 70
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We're told Jackson wanted the drug to sleep and that he had cravings for anesthesia -- whenever he had even the most minor medical procedure ... he had the doctor put him under.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propofol


This poor guy did not stand a chance of survival. Any way you look at it he was a sick motherfucker.
JHC



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till then....
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Israel Threatens Free Gaza Aid Ship in International Waters

Meanwhile, a ship trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza from Cyprus has been threatened by Israeli violence in international waters. The sailing is the Free Gaza movement’s first since it aborted an attempt in January after the Israeli navy threatened to shoot the civilian passengers on board. That sailing had come just weeks after an Israeli navy vessel deliberately rammed another of its boats, almost forcing it to sink. Before it left Cyprus on Monday, Free Gaza movement founder Huwaida Arraf said her group is undeterred.

Huwaida Arraf: “We do not constitute any threat to Israel’s security, and that we just want to get to the people of Gaza. And so, if they attack us, which they have threatened to do on previous occasions, and even this time they have informed the Cypriot authorities that they will not let us enter, then we hope it’s clear to the international community that this is a deliberate attack, and we hope it also opens their eyes to the policies of Israel, which have nothing to do with security. It has to do with punishing an entire population, and we just can’t accept this.”

The sailing comes as the International Committee of the Red Cross has criticized the Israeli blockade of Gaza. On Monday, the Red Cross said Israel’s restrictions are crippling reconstruction efforts.


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http://www.claudiasmigrod.com/main.php

On the morning of April 20, 1982, my husband and I purchased a house at 15 West Masonic View Ave., in the Rosemont neighborhood of Alexandria. That afternoon, I gave birth to my son Sam. Six weeks later, I found myself living on a street of front porches and abundant greenery, with my world becoming a series of still images played out on the sidewalk beyond my front door. Because photographers take pictures, I did exactly that. Fireworks on the Fourth of July, after-school play dates, backyard sprinklers on a summer afternoon. Over the years, the children matured into teenagers, of course, and they had little interest in having their pictures taken. The street population also was no longer a constant. The Wilsons, the Tighes and the Walkers, along with my family, moved from West Masonic View Avenue. Over the years, many of those participants scattered across the country. My younger son, Jake Dingman, returned home after a year in California. His brother, Sam, joined him for a reunion weekend in Alexandria in June 2007. Still the recorder of moments, I took their pictures again.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/artsandliving/alexandria-then-now-062809/slide2.html

In June 2008, I realized 20 years had passed since I had begun photographing the young people of Rosemont. I set out to contact them all and photograph them as they returned to Alexandria that summer. Rather than simply create a group of pictures documenting the details of change, I wanted to give the participants the opportunity to reflect in writing on their thoughts, hopes, dreams, desires of 20 years ago and also to consider them now. I wanted to acknowledge their individual voices while also celebrating the coincidence of growing up together in the same neighborhood. -- Claudia Smigrod

Claudia Smigrod is a professor of photography at the Corcoran College of Art & Design. Her upcoming exhibition, "Neighborhood Watch," a selection of vintage and contemporary photographs, will be on view in the Corcoran Corridor, Corcoran Gallery of Art, from July 1 to Aug. 9. She can be reached at www.claudiasmigrod.com.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/artsandliving/alexandria-then-now-062809/slide2.html
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HAVING been a muse to other artists for years, Manon, a Swiss-born model and fashion designer with a short-lived shop in Zurich that sold her sequin-appliqué jackets, picked up a Polaroid camera in the early 1970s and started taking pictures of herself. The results, which are now on display at the Swiss Institute in what is her first retrospective in this country, reveal a complex woman.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/06/26/fashion/20090628-PULSE_index.html

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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/06/25/arts/20090626-ANTI_index.html

Kahlo: Diaries, Letters, Recipes, Notes, Sketches, Stuffed Birds, and Other Newly Discovered Keepsakes.
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For those of you have the time and inclination, this is a statement (Elliot Abrams) plus rebuttal (Lara Friedman) on “natural growth” and the settlements.

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WSJ/Opinion

Hillary Is Wrong About the Settlements
The U.S. and Israel reached a clear understanding about natural growth.
By ELLIOTT ABRAMS

 
Despite fervent denials by Obama administration officials, there were indeed agreements between Israel and the United States regarding the growth of Israeli settlements on the West Bank. As the Obama administration has made the settlements issue a major bone of contention between Israel and the U.S., it is necessary that we review the recent history.
 
In the spring of 2003, U.S. officials (including me) held wide-ranging discussions with then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem. The "Roadmap for Peace" between Israel and the Palestinians had been written. President George W. Bush had endorsed Palestinian statehood, but only if the Palestinians eliminated terror. He had broken with Yasser Arafat, but Arafat still ruled in the Palestinian territories. Israel had defeated the intifada, so what was next?
 
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In a commentary posted yesterday, Dr. Michael Brenner, Professor of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, includes the following insightful observation:

A statesman’s effectiveness depends on keeping his mouth closed unless his words serve a dedicated policy objective beyond that of playing the vapid, distracting game of domestic image politics.


BRAVO!!  Exactly right! 

Imagine the potentially catastrophic situation we would be facing today if John McCain, rather than Barack Obama, were president of the United States and had been exhorting the oppositionists in Iran to continue their protest demonstrations in the face of the regime's overwhelming application of brute force.  Such overt encouragement from the Leader of the Free World, with its implicit commitment of American support, could only have disconcerted and divided the opposition movement itself --- no doubt inspiring many with pro-American inclinations, but angering many who are motivated solely by their own patriotism and desire for internal reform.  Aggressive and bombastic cheerleading from Washington would probably have intensified and prolonged futile violence and bloodshed --- while giving the regime the political and legal justification for brutal repression that (to their enduring shame) they have so far conspicuously lacked.   
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For MJ

For MJ... Shinehead... Billie Jean (1984, ALM 7005 .mp3 audio 03:02) and... Mama Used To Say (1984, ALM 7009 .mp3 audio 02:50). From April 09.
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