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Film: How does a Havana film school attract lavish funding and the likes of Soderbergh and Spielberg? With a nod and a wink from Fidel Castro. Chris Payne reports. [Guardian Unlimited] 'The idea for the film school occurred to García 17 years ago. As he saw it, what the continent desperately needed was a "factory of creative energy" where talented people from all over the world would feed off each other. Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez has a house in Havana, and when García turned up to suggest the idea, Castro happened to be there. That same evening, the plan was agreed. I wondered how a novelist and an ex-guerrilla leader came to get so excited about building a film school. "I think they are both frustrated film-makers," grins García.' .< 9:55:11 PM  >Wired 11.12: The Key to Genius Matt Savage launched his jazz career by attempting to improve a Schubert sonata. His piano teacher told him that the G-sharp he just played was supposed to be a G-natural. "It sounds better my way," he protested. She replied that only when he wrote his own music could he take liberties with a score. Keen on taking liberties, he became a jazz composer. He released his fifth album this year, making guest appearances on the Today show,20/20, and NPR. Recently, his trio booked two shows at the Blue Note in New York City. In May, he will celebrate his 12th birthday.
A fascinating article. Long, but I wish is had been longer. Music and the mind. .< 8:07:45 PM >World leaders 'neglecting Aids' The world is losing the war against the Aids disease, according to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 8:06:57 PM >Critics of merger pounce on anti-gay remarks... Critics of merger pounce on anti-gay remarks
.< 5:32:52 PM >A possible recovery method for a dead startup disk If your PowerBook G4 ends up (like mine) booting to a folder with a question mark instead of Mac OS X, and happens that you do not have a System CD with you from which to boot and fix your startup disk, here is a trick that m... [macosxhints] .< 5:22:52 PM >Youth Music to protect endangered species... Charity launches £1m scheme to raise the popularity of the double bass, oboe, bassoon and brass instruments .< 5:20:09 PM >Johnny Cash's Legacy of Emotions, on CD's "Cash Unearthed," a five-CD box set, includes 64 previously unreleased recordings filled with Cash's trademark vulnerability and honesty. [New York Times: Arts] .< 5:19:07 PM >Justin retraces Trudeau's route...
His recreation of his father's canoe journey along the Nahanni River airs on The Nature of Things tonight [The Globe and Mail: Arts].< 5:11:43 PM >Harper fires Spencer for remarks on gays... Harper fires Spencer for remarks on gays
.< 1:57:05 PM >Bush makes secret visit to Iraq George Bush pays a Thanksgiving holiday visit to troops in Iraq - the first to the country by a US president. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] OK. That was slick. .< 11:42:14 AM >Faxing in Panther Are you neglecting your modem because you no longer use dialup for Internet connectivity? Thanks to Panther, you can breath new life into your modem by using it as a built-in fax machine. Wei Meng Lee shows you the ins and outs of this new Mac OS X 10.3 feature. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com] .< 11:41:05 AM >Myutopia Recordings Introduces The Cell Series DVD-Audio Discs Myutopia Recordings, a division of the 5.1 Entertainment Group and sister label to Silverline Records, has begun the rollout of The Cell Series, which is comprised of 10 new electronica releases in the DVD-Audio format mixed entirely in 5.1 Surround Sound. [ProSound News] .< 1:01:13 AM >Paul Knox: Mexico's hopes for new deal unfulfilled by Fox Mr. Fox's election was a momentous event for Mexico, and the political transformation it represented is highly beneficial. But it had the effect of siphoning attention from wrenching economic change. Several factors combined during the 1990s to depress real wages for most Mexicans and increase inequality [~] particularly among those who make their living from farming. As a study published this month by the Carnegie Endowment in Washington demonstrates, government policies and the North American free-trade agreement have left many Mexicans highly vulnerable to global economic upheaval.
Farmers with access to significant pools of capital [~] such as Mr. Fox's family [~] expanded into exporting fruits and vegetables, but others were left defenceless against a flood of imports. So we have Mexicans heading north by the millions to work in the United States because there are no jobs at home, while U.S. companies enjoying massive subsidies from an allegedly pro-free-trade government are allowed to flood Mexico with cheap rice, corn and meat. (Tell me how there isn't something screwy there.) At the very least, as the Carnegie study suggests, NAFTA ought to have longer timelines to allow Mexican farmers and industries to adjust.
Mr. Soros, whose large-scale currency market interventions have been blamed by some for the 1997 currency crisis in Southeast Asia, has said that his next goal is making sure U.S. President George W. Bush does not win re-election.
She said Poco follows divers around once he finds them, peering into their face masks and rolling in the air bubbles rising from their gear.
Ms. Kinsman said the divers and fishermen are not looking for the whale or going out of their way to pet him. Poco, she said, is seeking out their company.
[base "]He's so curious and interested in everything and anything going on,[per thou] she said.
A beluga is a rare sight in the Bay of Fundy. Ms. Kinsman said she suspects Poco is from the beluga population in the St. Lawrence River, although it is possible he swam down from Arctic waters.
"They are becoming more aggressive, maybe because they are frightened. I am afraid this is creating more resistance against them."
From the linked article: Congress approved a bill on Friday that expands the reach of the Patriot Act, reduces oversight of the FBI and intelligence agencies and, according to critics shifts the balance of power away from the legislature and the courts. A provision of an intelligence spending bill will expand the power of the FBI to subpoena business documents and transactions from a broader range of business -- everything from libraries to travel agencies to eBay -- without first seeking approval from a judge. [Kuro5hin.org] |
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