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How not to Hear
http://www.sandeepweb.com/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ how-not-to-hear/Dear Abhishek, Thanks for investing your time to respond to my post on the recent judgement relating to M.F. Hussain. You misread my entire post by asking me not to speak for you. Upon reading your post, it seems that I should speak for you because you haven’t correctly heard whatever I spoke.
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New cartoon mayhem in The Netherlands
http://fistfulofeuros.net/ afoe/ culture/ new-cartoon-mayhem-in-the-netherlands/…In The Netherlands cartoon artist Gregorius Nekschot has been arrested following complaints by imam Abdul-Jabbar van der Ven that his work discriminates against, notably, Muslims and dark-skinned people. I really do not have the time right now to write a decent post about this and I am also waiting for more information, but Dutch weblog Polderpundit has dedicated a long post on this subject.
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One Iraqi veteran’s Remarkable Story
http://www.kendallharmon.net/ t19/ index.php/ t19/ article/ 12511/Heartwarming to the point of tears for me--watch it and see what you think.
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Modernaire & the Culture of Ownership
http://songbytoad.com/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ modernaire-the-culture-of-ownership/I got an email a couple of days ago from Ruth. You may not think you know who Ruth is, but I bet you do really: she is in two of my favourite recent discoveries, The Moulettes and Modernaire. In fact, the only reason I know about Modernaire in the first place is because they appear on the Moulettes MySpace page.
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An End to Outsourcing
http://dailypundit.com/ ?p=30572U.S. Legal Work Booms in India He is part of a booming new outsourcing industry in India that employs thousands of English-speaking lawyers such as him to do legal work at a small fraction of the cost of hiring American lawyers.… We can bring together a large number of skilled lawyers in no time
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absolutely intercultural 57 +++ teaching culture +++ international teamwork +++ intercultural seminars +++
http://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/ ?p=83Working in internationally mixed groups can offer a number of unexpected benefits, but also tremendous intercultural challenges. In this show we concentrate on how you can prepare yourself or other people to master these challenges. absolutely un-teachable?: Thomas, an international project manager from Slovakia talks with Nicole who worked for the European project “Teaching-Culture”.
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“Where do you find the time?” Clay Shirky and the Cognitive Surplus
http://rooreynolds.com/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ where-do-you-find-the-time-clay-shirky-and…Clay Shirky and the Cognitive Surplus might be a good name for a band. I found this video of Clay Shirky at the recent Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco via Warren Ellis. It is 15 minutes long, and the territory covered includes… The critical technology for the early phase of the industrial revolution was gin.
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Go and see Black Watch
http://www.leightonandrews.com/ 2008/ 05/ go-and-see-black-watch.htmlBlack Watch is tremendous. You can see it tonight or tomorrow night in Ebbw Vale. EBBW VALE: Leisure Centre (01874 611 622), National Theatre Of Scotland’s Black Watch. 1pm, 7.30pm. Tickets £18/£15.You are subscribed to an RSS Feed from Leighton Andrews.
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US Arts debate reported in UK.
http://preaprez.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 16/ us-arts-debate-followed-in-uk/The Guardian’s Chris Wilkinson. Obama brought it up. The recent discussion on the value of Arts Education has traveled across the Atlantic. Chris Wilkinson, who writes on the Arts for the Guardian in the UK, summarized the debate, which can be found here. He includes my response to Alexander Russo’s condescension.
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Courage for the Great Turning
http://namelesscreek.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ courage-for-great-turning.htmlIt feels like a change in the tides, a turning if you will. Here's one way of imagining it: The Great Turning is a name for the essential adventure of our time: the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization. The ecological and social crises we face are inflamed by an economic system dependent on accelerating growth.