American voters honour Martin Luther King's dream with victory for Obama
When the first African-American cast a vote in 1870 he thought the world had changed. Yesterday the US proved it really had
Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King, Jr: a result he could only have dreamt of Ben Macintyre

On March 31, 1870 Thomas Mundy Peterson, the son of slaves, did something that no African-American had ever done before: he voted.

Slavery had been formally abolished five years earlier, and the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution had established that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by any state on account of race, colour or previous condition of servitude”.

Tom Peterson, a 47-year-old school janitor, exercised that right in Amboy, New Jersey, casting his vote under the angry stares of the town’s white inhabitants. He voted Republican, in recognition of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator.

Peterson’s humble and courageous act reaches forward to the election of Barack Obama, and back through the generations of black people taken from Africa and forced to live in American servitude. The idea that a black man could vote would have been as unimaginable to Peterson’s slave ancestors as the idea of a black president would have been unthinkable to Peterson himself.

We imagine history to happen in a linear progression, in this instance a straight line from bondage to freedom to civil rights to equal rights, from Mundy to Martin Luther King to Barack Obama. But history — least of all the tortured history of black America — does not work that way.

For a brief period after emancipation, black democracy seemed about to flourish. Two black men, one a preacher, Hiram Revels, and the other a teacher, Blanche Bruse, were elected to the US Senate from Mississippi. To this day they are the only African-Americans ever to represent a Southern state in the Senate.

The dream of black democracy swiftly evaporated. The Ku Klux Klan had aleady come into being at the end of the Civil War in 1865. As Reconstruction collapsed after a few years, black voting rights were suppressed, racial segregation was imposed, lynchings, race riots and school burnings spread.

State-sanctioned racism emerged in the Southern states but infected the North. The systematic oppression of one race by the other in the “Jim Crow” system of laws would remain virtually intact until the 1950s. In Southern states blacks could not vote or sit on juries or take part in enforcing the law. Blacks could not go to the same schools as white people; they could not eat in the same restaurants, travel on the same train cars, live in the same neighbourhoods, or shop in the same places.

Between 1889 and 1922 about 3,500 people were lynched, most of them black men. This form of murder cruelly emphasised the powerlessness of the victim: the killing took place in public, the guilty were known to all, and effectively immune from prosecution.

From about 1915 black Americans headed north and west in huge numbers to escape the persecution, in what became know as the Great Migration. Slowly, painfully, African-Americans fought back, through litigation, education and lobbying. Campaigns of civil disobedience and direct action evolved into the civil rights movement.

In 1954 the Supreme Court finally outlawed segregation in schools. A year later a young seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on an Alabama bus. She was, she said, “tired of giving in”. She was arrested, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott and huge protests.

Six-year-old Ruby Bridges was accompanied to school by federal marshals in 1960, to become the first African-American pupil at the all-white William Franz School in New Orleans. The white pupils at the school promptly left, and all but one teacher. For more than a year, Ruby Bridges was taught alone.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination in employment and the 1965 Voting Rights Acts restored and protected black voting rights, nearly a century after Peterson’s first vote.

The rising hope was personified by Martin Luther King, the Baptist minister whose extraordinary natural oratory and energetic leadership of the civil rights movement earned him the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 36. King was prominent in organising the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, to dramatise the appalling poverty and discrimination against blacks in Southern states and to demand civil rights legislation.

More than quarter of a million people massed for the largest demonstration in Washington’s history, to hear King deliver his “I Have Dream Speech”, a masterpiece of public speaking that would offer a frame the civil rights movement in the same way that Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address had captured the moral momentum behind the civil war.

“I have a dream,” he said, “that one day, down in Alabama, with it vicious racists . . . one day, right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”
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This year pollsters predicted a record turnout of as much as 81 per cent in the state of Alabama, after black residents registered to vote in record numbers.

The protesters marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, but not before the first attempt to do so had been broken up by police using teargas and clubs. Footage of the violence would outrage public opinion as never before.

With hindsight, black rights were also marching forward, but it did not always feel like that on the ground. “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” declared George Wallace, Governor of Alabama.

Progress came soaked in the blood of African-American martyrs: Medgar Evers, field director of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, holding a banner that read “Jim Crow Must Go”, was shot dead by a member of the KKK outside his home; Martin Luther King was killed while standing on a motel balcony in Memphis, sparking riots in more than 100 American cities.

The political power of African-America swelled gradually, and hope rose. In 1967 Thurgood Marshall, the son of a railroad porter, became the first African-American to join the Supreme Court.

In 1983 Jesse Jackson ran for president. In 1989 Colin Powell became the first African-American to head the Armed Forces, and then later the nation’s first black Secretary of State.

In 1995 the Nation of Islam convened the Million Man March on Washington, in a powerful demonstration of African-American political engagement.

The following year a young lawyer named Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate. In the same year that Peterson cast his vote, Hiram Revels became the first African-American in the US Senate; 135 years later, Mr Obama would become only the fifth.

The pace of political change for black Americans had been, up until that moment, impossibly slow; but in the three years since then, it has seemed to move with impossible swiftness.

In his “I Have a Dream” Speech, Martin Luther King spoke of the promise of equality enshrined in the Constitution. “America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of colour are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds’.”

Yesterday American voters — black and white — symbolically honoured the unpaid debt in a way that Martin Luther King could only have dreamt of.

In 1870 Tom Peterson thought the world had changed forever, and he was wrong. Today, millions around the world will feel the same, and they will be right.

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MOVIES (2008)
Street Kings
Blindness
Bottle Shock
Ghost Town (David Koepp)

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IN THE KITCHEN

BROWNIES
Ingredients
1 Cup White Sugar
2 Eggs
1 teaspoon real vanilla
1/3 cup cocoa
3/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Mix butter and sugar. Beat until fluffy.
Beat in the eggs and the vanilla.
Sift cocoa with the flour, baking powder, and salt.
Work in nuts if you want.
Spoon this into a 8x8x2 inch pan and bake for 30-35 min at 350F until the brownies just begin to pull from the sides of the pan.
Cool to room temperature upright in the pan, on a wire rack.
Cut into 16 squares and serve.

SUSHI
Wash 2 cups rice (1 cup rice: 1 cup water)
Bring water to boil
Simmer until water has almost gone
Close pot for 20 minutes (let simmer)
Turn Off
Leave covered for 15 minutes

In a pot:
Put 1/3 cup rice vinegar (Japanese rice wine vinegar, Mitsukan)
1/8th cup sugar

Heat till the sugar is dissolved
Add 1/4 teaspoon salt

Open up rice, put the vinegar/sugar/salt mixture inside. Stir it.

Make little balls with your hands, put the slices of sashimi over it.

PASTA WITH RED CLAM SAUCE
Start boiling water for the pasta; vermicelli works just fine, but any spaghetti will do. Rinse and drain a can of chopped clams. Fresh would be better if you have them, but canned are easy.

To a saucepan, add a can of chopped tomatoes (plain is my preference), a clove or two of chopped garlic, a teaspoon of dried crumbled sage, a little white whine, a grating of black pepper and a couple of tablespoons of olive oil.

Simmer the tomatoes as long as you like or have time for. Mash the tomato mixture with a potato masher to break up the tomatoes if you like. Just before serving, add the clams and a tablespoon of chopped parsley, heat through and serve over the pasta. Garnish with more chopped parsley.

CREAM OF POTATO SOUP
Ingredients

2 cups diced potatoes
2 tablespoons chopped onion
2 cups low-fat milk
1 chicken bouillon cube
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon butter

Coat a large saucepan with nonstick cooking spray. Over medium-high heat, cook and stir potatoes, butter, and onion. Cover and cook for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. In a blender, add potato mixture, milk, bouillon, salt, and pepper. Puree until smooth. Return to saucepan and heat, stirring constantly, for about 5 minutes.

PANCAKES
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups flour
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 3/4 cups milk
3 tablespoons melted butter

Combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a large bowl.
Mix eggs, milk, and butter.
Add in the flour mixture and beat until smooth.

Serve with butter and syrup.

TURKEY
Arno Premium Stuffing

In a large sauce pan, add 2 cups of water and 1 stick of butter. Bring water to a boil with the butter.

Stuff the turkey and cover it with foil. Place in an aluminum pan at 350F. When turkey is ready, take off the foil and let it bake for 45 minutes. Spread juice over the turkey.

Cooking times

Sweet Potato
Boil sweet potatoes
Mash
Put marsh mellows on top. Stick it in oven till marsh mellows melt.

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Pop Artist: Kenny Scharf
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FROM THE ONION
6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling

August 15, 2008 | Issue 44•33

CARPENTERSVILLE, IL—Local first-grader Connor Bolduc, 6, experienced the first inkling of a coming lifetime of existential dread Monday upon recognizing his cruel destiny to participate in compulsory education for the better part of the next two decades, sources reported.

"I don't want to go to school," Bolduc told his parents, the crushing reality of his situation having yet to fully dawn on his naïve consciousness. "I want to play outside with my friends."

While Bolduc stood waiting for the bus to pick him up on his first day of elementary school, his parents reportedly were able to "see the wheels turning in his little brain" as the child, for the first time in his life, began to understand how dire and hopeless his situation had actually become.

Basic math—which the child has blissfully yet to learn—clearly demonstrates that the number of years before he will be released from the horrifying prison of formal schooling, is more than twice the length of time he has yet existed. According to a conservative estimate of six hours of school five days a week for nine months of the year, Bolduc faces an estimated 14,400 hours trapped in an endless succession of nearly identical, suffocating classrooms.

This nightmarish but undeniably real scenario does not take into account additional time spent on homework, extracurricular responsibilities, or college, sources said.

"I can't wait until school is over," said the 3-foot-tall tragic figure, who would not have been able, if asked, to contemplate the amount of time between now and summer, let alone the years and years of tedium to follow.

The concept of wasting a majority of daylight hours sitting still in a classroom when he could be riding his bicycle, playing in his tree fort, or lying in the grass looking at bugs—especially considering that he had already wasted two years of his life attending preschool and kindergarten—seemed impossibly unfair to Bolduc. Moreover, sources said, he had no idea how much worse the inescapable truth will turn out to be.

Shortly after his mommy, homemaker Ellen Bolduc, 31, assured him that he would be able to resume playtime "when school lets out," Connor's innocent brain only then began to work out the implication of that sentence to its inevitable, soul-crushing conclusion.

When pressed for more detail on the exact timing of that event, Mrs. Bolduc would only reply "soon." At that point, the normally energetic child grew quiet before asking a follow-up question, "After [younger sister] Maddy's birthday?" thereby setting the stage for the first of thousands of rushing realizations he will be forced to come to grips with over the course of his subsequent existence.

Madison Ellen Bolduc was born on Sept. 28.

After learning that the first grade will continue for eight excruciating months beyond that date, it was only a matter of time before Bolduc inquired into what grade comes after first grade, and, when told, would probe further into how many grades he will have to complete before allowed to play with his friends.

The answer to that fatal question—12, a number too large for Bolduc to count on the fingers of both hands—will be enough to nearly shatter the boy's still-forming psyche, said child psychology expert Eli Wasserbaum.

"When you consider that it doesn't include another four years of secondary education, plus five more years of medical school, if he wants to follow his previously stated goal to grow up to be a doctor like his daddy, this will come as an interminably deep chasm of drudgery and imprisonment to [Connor]," said Wasserbaum. "It's difficult to know the effect on his psychological well-being when he grasps the full truth: that his education will be followed by approximately four decades of work, bills, and taxes, during which he will also rear his own children to face the same fate, all of which will, of course, be followed by a brief, almost inconsequential retirement, and his inevitable death."

"Even a 50-year-old adult would have trouble processing such a monstrous notion," Wasserbaum added. "Oh my God, I'm 50 years old."

The first of Bolduc's remaining 2,299 days of school will resume at 8 a.m. tomorrow. On the next 624 Sundays, he will also be forced to attend church.

 

You'll Never Be Vice President: A Letter to My Daughter, the Community Organizer
Why didn't I nip all this in the bud and buy you a well-oiled Remington 12-gauge?
By Marc Cooper

Published on September 11, 2008

Daughter Dearest,

It is with great pain and a certain measure of shame that I write you this note. Having grown up in the ’60s and watched, sometimes at glaringly close range, the emergence of the women’s liberation movement, I had always harbored great dreams and aspirations for you.

But as I listened to Governor Sarah Palin address the nation the other night, I had to confess that — as your father — I have clearly failed. Honey, you will never be able to achieve the greatness of being nominated for vice president of the United States. Forget about it.

And for this sad reality, I accept all blame. ’Twas I who steered you wrong.

Here you are, almost 25, with what your mother and I believed was a solid education behind you, and yet you are nothing but a common community organizer. Yes, the labor union you work for represents nearly 2 million service workers — about three times the population of Alaska. But, alas, as Governor Palin pointed out, you have no real responsibilities. By helping janitors, security guards, nursing aides and orderlies gain a living wage, paid health care insurance and a retirement fund, you have only robbed them of the personal initiative to go out there and make something better of themselves. You have rendered them feebly dependent on Big Labor and tax-and-spend Big Government — and all in their own crass self-interest in survival.

I’m not sure when I helped nudge you on to such a mistaken road. Probably sometime while you were attending that government-run high school in which we enrolled you. You could have joined the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, as Ms. Palin did. Instead, I pushed you to become a columnist on the school paper. You could have spent your afternoons becoming the local barracuda on the courts. But, nope, your mom and I indulged your trivial passions for staging and directing the plays of Shakespeare. You could have competed to be Miss Woodland Hills or even Miss Congenial California, but — no — there were your mom and dad encouraging you to finish writing your first play. Sorry.

From there, the mistakes only multiplied. Instead of letting you wait until the responsible age of 44 before letting you secure a passport, we strained our family budget and squandered who knows how many thousands by putting you on countless Flights to Nowhere: New York, Washington, New Orleans, Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, Santiago, Mexico City. And to what end? So you could return home — as the huggable Mayor Giuliani so neatly put it — some sort of “cosmopolitan”? Exposure to so many foreign ideas (like the notion of spending an idle afternoon reading a book in a café instead of learning to field-dress a moose) only contaminated you, rendering you insensitive and contemptuous to the day-to-day needs of bowling league members in Michigan’s Macomb County. Worse, you returned from those European jaunts a brainwashed follower of the elite, angry, left media. By the 12th grade, all the warning signs were there. I’d walk into your room at 1 in the morning and catch you with a flashlight under the covers, reading the book pages of The Atlantic. Why didn’t I nip this all in the bud and buy you a well-oiled Remington 12-gauge so you could plink the coyotes south of Ventura Boulevard?

The real disaster came, of course, in college. Four straight years wasted at UCLA, when you could have been following the course of the governor, sampling five different schools in six years. You were reading Orwell. By then she was practicing doublespeak. You were studying public policy, by then she was figuring out how to win the 909 votes she needed to become mayor of Wasilla. You were inclined to donate $100 to the ACLU. She was way ahead of you, sweetie, as she calculated how to avoid the ACLU when she made her inquiries into pruning the local library of un-American and anti-Christian propaganda. She was on her way up and you, dear child, were dead-ended in the silly task of trying to organize seven hospitals back to back.

It’s not healthy to dwell on so many regrets, I know. And as I said, this is mostly the fault of your parents. While you are the victim of these reckless choices, your mom and I, nevertheless, pay a heavy price. If we had only been sage enough to bar you from sex-ed class and contraceptives and instead had let you rely on abstinence and prayer, there was an even chance you could have been pregnant by age 17. You’d have a joyous 7-year-old child right now to help you get through your 10-hour workday. The father might have married you. And we’d have a lovely grandchild who a mere decade from now could produce us a great-grandchild and we would all still be young enough to go snowmobiling together — the next time it snows in Woodland Hills.

Ah, but better not to dwell on the negative. Make the best of the little we have given you, and grant us your understanding and forgiveness. And don’t despair too much. Remember, when McCain-Palin come to power, real change is gonna come, and we’ll all be better off.

Love, Dad

 

Sicko "Marriage Contract" One For The Ages
Repulsive "Wifely Expectations" pact emerges in Iowa kidnap case

FEBRUARY 17--This country, as you know, is filled with the deranged. And then there's Travis Frey, a 33-year-old Iowa man who is facing charges that he tried to kidnap his own wife (not to mention a separate child pornography rap). Frey, prosecutors contend, apparently is a rather demanding guy. In fact, he actually drew up a bizarre four-page marriage document--a "Contract of Wifely Expectations"--that sought to establish guidelines for his spouse in terms of hygiene, clothing, and sexual activities. In return for fulfilling certain requirements, Frey (pictured right) offered "Good Behavior Days," or GBDs. Each GBD, Frey wrote, could be redeemed by his wife to "get out of doing the things" he requested daily. A copy of the proposed contract, which Frey's wife never signed and later provided to cops, can be found below. While we normally point out the highlights of most documents, there are so many in this demented, and very graphic, contract, we really can't do it justice. So set aside ten minutes--and prepare to be repulsed...

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IMAGES ON WOOD

Artwork by Chico Munson


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The progressive surrealism of PAUL WHITEHEAD
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INTUITION
You have recognized your life's pattern. People with great intuition know how to watch. They know how to observe and see patterns. Once they observe these patterns, then they can make calculated guesses. The unconscious mind can make a guess about something on the basis of you having picked a pattern.

The more you learn, the more patterns you'll see, the more intuition you'll have.

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Enjoy the little things. One day you may look back and realize they are the big things.

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Cool and artistic Jigsaw puzzles
www.editionsricordi.com

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Greek island: Skopelos
(kalokairi in the mamma mia movie)

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TIRAMISU

Ingredients
One pack of Lady Finger Cookies (@ Vons)
5 Eggs
150g sugar
450g mascarpone cheese (like Philadelphia Cheese) - 3 boxes
Espresso Coffee
Chocolate Powder

To make
Separate the yolk from the whites of eggs

Beat the yok with sugar until creamy (with whipper)

Whip the whites of eggs separately until "snowy." Test: Take a fork, put it in the middle. If it doesn't fall, it's ready.

Mix the white of the eggs with the mascarpone cheese (must be kind of solid).

Make the espresso coffee. Dump the cookies into the coffee just once. One by one. Don't hold them in the espresso coffee too long.

In a flat pan, put the cream.

Lay the cookies, upright, into the cream: | | | | | | |

Layer cream, then cookies, then cream, then cookies, then cream.

Sprinkle the cocoa powder on top

Leave the tiramisu in the fridge overnight. Eat the next day. Keep it in the fridge at least 2-3 hours before eating.

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Australia's top Muslim cleric at the centre of a storm over his comments about immodestly dressed women has asked for "indefinite leave".

"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside... and the cats come and eat it... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat?" Sheikh Hilali was quoted as asking during the sermon.

"If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab [headscarf], no problem would have occurred," he added.

Despite the three-month suspension imposed by Muslim leaders, Sheikh Hilali has been under increasing pressure to resign as the Mufti of Australia.

Prime Minister John Howard said that "unless this matter is satisfactorily resolved by the Islamic community, there is a real worry that some lasting damage will be done."

Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward accused the imam of inciting rape and said he should be thrown out of the country.
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SARAH PALIN'S RNC VICE-PRESIDENT SPEECH

Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States.

I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America.

I accept the challenge of a tough fight in this election... against confident opponents ... at a crucial hour for our country.

And I accept the privilege of serving with a man who has come through much harder missions ... and met far graver challenges ... and knows how tough fights are won - the next president of the United States, John S. McCain.

It was just a year ago when all the experts in Washington counted out our nominee because he refused to hedge his commitment to the security of the country he loves.

With their usual certitude, they told us that all was lost -- there was no hope for this candidate who said that he would rather lose an election than see his country lose a war.

But the pollsters and pundits overlooked just one thing when they wrote him off.

They overlooked the caliber of the man himself - the determination, resolve, and sheer guts of Senator John McCain. The voters knew better.

And maybe that's because they realize there is a time for politics and a time for leadership ... a time to campaign and a time to put our country first.

Our nominee for president is a true profile in courage, and people like that are hard to come by.

He's a man who wore the uniform of this country for 22 years, and refused to break faith with those troops in Iraq who have now brought victory within sight.

And as the mother of one of those troops, that is exactly the kind of man I want as commander in chief. I'm just one of many moms who'll say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.

Our son Track is 19.

And one week from tomorrow - September 11th - he'll deploy to Iraq with the Army infantry in the service of his country.

My nephew Kasey also enlisted, and serves on a carrier in the Persian Gulf.

My family is proud of both of them and of all the fine men and women serving the country in uniform. Track is the eldest of our five children.

In our family, it's two boys and three girls in between - my strong and kind-hearted daughters Bristol, Willow, and Piper.

And in April, my husband Todd and I welcomed our littlest one into the world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trig. From the inside, no family ever seems typical.

That's how it is with us.

Our family has the same ups and downs as any other ... the same challenges and the same joys.

Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge.

And children with special needs inspire a special love.

To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters.

I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House. Todd is a story all by himself.

He's a lifelong commercial fisherman ... a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope ... a proud member of the United Steel Workers' Union ... and world champion snow machine racer.

Throw in his Yup'ik Eskimo ancestry, and it all makes for quite a package.

We met in high school, and two decades and five children later he's still my guy. My Mom and Dad both worked at the elementary school in our small town.

And among the many things I owe them is one simple lesson: that this is America, and every woman can walk through every door of opportunity.

My parents are here tonight, and I am so proud to be the daughter of Chuck and Sally Heath. Long ago, a young farmer and habber-dasher from Missouri followed an unlikely path to the vice presidency.

A writer observed: "We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity, and dignity." I know just the kind of people that writer had in mind when he praised Harry Truman.

I grew up with those people.

They are the ones who do some of the hardest work in America ... who grow our food, run our factories, and fight our wars.

They love their country, in good times and bad, and they're always proud of America. I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.

When I ran for city council, I didn't need focus groups and voter profiles because I knew those voters, and knew their families, too.

Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.

And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.

We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

As for my running mate, you can be certain that wherever he goes, and whoever is listening, John McCain is the same man. I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment.< br>
And I've learned quickly, these past few days, that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

But here's a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion - I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this country. Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reasons, and not just to mingle with the right people.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

No one expects us to agree on everything.

But we are expected to govern with integrity, good will, clear convictions, and ... a servant's heart.

I pledge to all Americans that I will carry myself in this spirit as vice president of the United States. This was the spirit that brought me to the governor's office, when I took on the old politics as usual in Juneau ... when I stood up to the special interests, the lobbyists, big oil companies, and the good-ol' boys network.

Sudden and relentless reform never sits well with entrenched interests and power brokers. That's why true reform is so hard to achieve.

But with the support of the citizens of Alaska, we shook things up.

And in short order we put the government of our state back on the side of the people.

I came to office promising major ethics reform, to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is the law.

While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for.

That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.

I also drive myself to work.

And I thought we could muddle through without the governor's personal chef - although I've got to admit that sometimes my kids sure miss her. I came to office promising to control spending - by request if possible and by veto if necessary.

Senator McCain also promises to use the power of veto in defense of the public interest - and as a chief executive, I can assure you it works.

Our state budget is under control.

We have a surplus.

And I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending: nearly half a billion dollars in vetoes.

I suspended the state fuel tax, and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress.

I told the Congress "thanks, but no thanks," for that Bridge to Nowhere.

If our state wanted a bridge, we'd build it ourselves. When oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.

And despite fierce opposition from oil company lobbyists, who kind of liked things the way they were, we broke their monopoly on power and resources.

As governor, I insisted on competition and basic fairness to end their control of our state and return it to the people.

I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history.

And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence.

That pipeline, when the last section is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.

The stakes for our nation could not be higher.

When a hurricane strikes in the Gulf of Mexico, this country should not be so dependent on imported oil that we are forced to draw from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

And families cannot throw away more and more of their paychecks on gas and heating oil.

With Russia wanting to control a vital pipeline in the Caucasus, and to divide and intimidate our European allies by using energy as a weapon, we cannot leave ourselves at the mercy of foreign suppliers.

To confront the threat that Iran might seek to cut off nearly a fifth of world energy supplies ... or that terrorists might strike again at the Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia ... or that Venezuela might shut off its oil deliveries ... we Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas.

And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: we've got lots of both.

Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America's energy problems - as if we all didn't know that already.

But the fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we're going to lay more pipelines ... build more new-clear plants ... create jobs with clean coal ... and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources.

We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, and produced by American workers. I've noticed a pattern with our opponent.

Maybe you have, too.

We've all heard his dramatic speeches before devoted followers.

And there is much to like and admire about our opponent.

But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state senate.

This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger ... take more of your money ... give you more orders from Washington ... and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy ... our opponent is against producing it.

Victory in Iraq is finally in sight ... he wants to forfeit.

Terrorist states are seeking new-clear weapons without delay ... he wants to meet them without preconditions.

Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights? Government is too big ... he wants to grow it.

Congress spends too much ... he promises more.

Taxes are too high ... he wants to raise them. His tax increases are the fine print in his economic plan, and let me be specific.

The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes ... raise payroll taxes ... raise investment income taxes ... raise the death tax ... raise business taxes ... and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars. My sister Heather and her husband have just built a service station that's now opened for business - like millions of others who run small businesses.

How are they going to be any better off if taxes go up? Or maybe you're trying to keep your job at a plant in Michigan or Ohio ... or create jobs with clean coal from Pennsylvania or West Virginia ... or keep a small farm in the family right here in Minnesota.

How are you going to be better off if our opponent adds a massive tax burden to the American economy? Here's how I look at the choice Americans face in this election.

In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers.

And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.

They're the ones whose names appear on laws and landmark reforms, not just on buttons and banners, or on self-designed presidential seals.

Among politicians, there is the idealism of high-flown speechmaking, in which crowds are stirringly summoned to support great things.

And then there is the idealism of those leaders, like John McCain, who actually do great things. They're the ones who are good for more than talk ... the ones we have always been able to count on to serve and defend America. Senator McCain's record of actual achievement and reform helps explain why so many special interests, lobbyists, and comfortable committee chairmen in Congress have fought the prospect of a McCain presidency - from the primary election of 2000 to this very day.

Our nominee doesn't run with the Washington herd.

He's a man who's there to serve his country, and not just his party.

A leader who's not looking for a fight, but is not afraid of one either. Harry Reid, the Majority Leader of the current do-nothing Senate, not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee.

He said, quote, "I can't stand John McCain." Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps no accolade we hear this week is better proof that we've chosen the right man. Clearly what the Majority Leader was driving at is that he can't stand up to John McCain. That is only one more reason to take the maverick of the Senate and put him in the White House. My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of "personal discovery." This world of threats and dangers is not just a community, and it doesn't just need an organizer.

And though both Senator Obama and Senator Biden have been going on lately about how they are always, quote, "fighting for you," let us face the matter squarely.

There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you ... in places where winning means survival and defeat means death ... and that man is John McCain. In our day, politicians have readily shared much lesser tales of adversity than the nightmare world in which this man, and others equally brave, served and suffered for their country.

It's a long way from the fear and pain and squalor of a six-by-four cell in Hanoi to the Oval Office.

But if Senator McCain is elected president, that is the journey he will have made.

It's the journey of an upright and honorable man - the kind of fellow whose name you will find on war memorials in small towns across this country, only he was among those who came home.

To the most powerful office on earth, he would bring the compassion that comes from having once been powerless ... the wisdom that comes even to the captives, by the grace of God ... the special confidence of those who have seen evil, and seen how evil is overcome. A fellow prisoner of war, a man named Tom Moe of Lancaster, Ohio, recalls looking through a pin-hole in his cell door as Lieutenant Commander John McCain was led down the hallway, by the guards, day after day.

As the story is told, "When McCain shuffled back from torturous interrogations, he would turn toward Moe's door and flash a grin and thumbs up" - as if to say, "We're going to pull through this." My fellow Americans, that is the kind of man America needs to see us through these next four years.

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words.

For a lifetime, John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

If character is the measure in this election ... and hope the theme ... and change the goal we share, then I ask you to join our cause. Join our cause and help America elect a great man as the next president of the United States.

Thank you all, and may God bless America.

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Incest in the Bible
Lot’s daughters with their father (Gen. 19:33);
Son with his father’s concubines, as Reuben (Gen. 35:22), Absalom (2 S. 16:22; cf. 1 Cor. 5:1);
Father-in-law with his daughter-in-law (Gen. 38:15ff; cf. Ezk. 22:11)
Brother with the sister or half-sister, as Amnon (2 S. 13:14);
Brother-in-law with the sister-in-law (Mt. 14:3);
Both a woman and her daughter or granddaughter (Lev. 20:14: 18:17).

Illicit relation with the brother’s widow is designated (Lev. 20:21) as a disgraceful act.

And more... http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/lewis/lewun02.htm
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Aggressive dogs not allowed when renting some apartments:

Rotweiler
Doberman
Chow
Pit Bull
Stafforshire Terrier
Mastiff
Akita

Here's a quote:
"We do not accept certain dog breeds, including Akita, American Staffordshire Terrier, Bull Terrier, Chow, Doberman, German Shepherd, Husky, Pit Bull, Presa Canario, Rottweiler and Wolf Hybrid."

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HOW THE NOSE SNIFFS DANGER IN THE AIR
New York Times Article

By KENNETH CHANG
Published: August 22, 2008

The next time someone says, “I smell danger in the air,” that might literally be true — and the odor might be coming from you.

At the tip of the noses of mammals, including humans, is a ball of nerve cells known as the Grueneberg ganglion, named after Hans Grueneberg, the scientist who described the structure in mice in 1973.

Grueneberg thought it was just a nerve ending. Only in last few years, after scientists devised strains of mice that glow green under fluorescent light, did they deduce that the Grueneberg ganglion is a component of the olfactory system. But they still did not know what the ganglion smelled.

In the Aug. 22 issue of the journal Science, researchers at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland report that they have figured it out, at least for the green-glowing mice.

All sorts of organisms, including plants, insects and mammals, release “alarm pheromones” when they sense danger; the pheromones waft through the air to warn others. Very little is known about the alarm pheromones of mammals other than that they exist. Scientists have not identified the compounds; they do not know where in the body the pheromones are produced. Nonetheless, the Lausanne scientists could collect the pheromones by simply stressing mice and sucking up the air around them.

When other normal mice were exposed to the danger-scented air, they froze in their tracks. But mice whose Grueneberg ganglia had been excised did not notice anything wrong and continued to wander around their cages without a care in the world.

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PILL POPPING PETS

From the New York Times article:

“All of the behavioral issues that we have created in ourselves, we are now creating in our pets because they live in the same unhealthy environments that we do,” he said. “That’s why there is a market for these drugs.”

NOT EVERYBODY AGREES that America’s pets are facing a major mental-health crisis — or that whatever their problems, that drugs are necessarily part of the solution. One of the most passionate voices in the just-say-no camp belongs to Dr. Ian Dunbar, a veterinarian who has his doctorate in animal behavior and is the founder of a highly regarded instructional empire called Sirius Dog Training. “I have never in my life had to resort to using drugs to resolve a behavior problem,” he says. The rush to the medicine bottle for easily resolved problems like canine obesity — “Just feed the dog less!” — shows a disturbing parallel to the human approach to health care, he says. “We lead an unhealthy lifestyle and then rely on drugs to correct it.”

Modern owners are increasingly trying to “sterilize” pet ownership, he adds, trying to pharmacologically control dogs so that they don’t act like dogs. “What people want is a pet that is on par with a TiVo, that its activity, play and affection are on demand,” he says “Then, when they’re done, they want to turn it off.”

 
FILMS

The Warrior
Director: Asif Kapadia
With: Irfan Khan

Om Shanti Om
Director: Farah Khan

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4 Masterworks Are Stolen in Zurich

By UTA HARNISCHFEGER and GRAHAM BOWLEY
Published: February 12, 2008

ZURICH — Armed robbers stole four important paintings by van Gogh, Monet, Degas and Cézanne from a museum in Zurich, the Swiss authorities announced Monday, in what they said might have been the largest art theft in Europe.

Three thieves, wearing dark clothes and ski masks, walked into the emile Bührle Foundation, a private collection housed about a mile outside of Zurich’s city center near the shore of Lake Zurich, around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, a short while before the museum was due to close. The collection is considered to be one of the biggest privately owned collections of French impressionists in the world.

While one held a pistol and ordered visitors and staff members to lie on the floor in the main room of the museum, the two other men removed the four paintings from the wall: Monet’s “Poppy Field at Vetheuil,” “Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter” by Edgar Degas, Van Gogh’s “Blooming Chestnut Branches,” and Cézanne’s “Boy in the Red Waistcoat.” Their total worth is estimated at $163 million.

“It is a very bad experience because as museum director you live with these pictures day in day out, you become attached to them like family,” said Lukas Gloor, the museum’s director, at a news conference.

After the theft, the men fled in a white car, with the trunk open and the paintings visible, witnesses said.

“This is the largest ever art robbery in Switzerland, and it would be hard to find a bigger example elsewhere in Europe,” said Peter Rüegger, head of the police investigation.

The police said the fact that the theft took place while the museum was still open and the thieves were armed presented “a new dimension” for art robbery, and they said they were concerned it would set a new precedent.

The police said that they did not think the paintings were stolen “to order” because they were hanging in a row along one wall, and that the thieves seemed to have simply removed the row.

They were also not the most expensive paintings in the museum. The Cézanne was one of four variations of the same painting; the other three are in the United States, but the one in Switzerland was considered to be the most valuable.

The authorities speculated that the thieves stopped after taking four paintings because they were covered in glass casings and were heavy. Last week, two Picasso oils valued at $4.5 million were stolen from a Swiss museum in Pfaeffikon, Agence France-Presse reported.

The paintings, the 1962 ”Tête de Cheval” (“Horse’s Head”) and the 1944 “Verre et Pichet” (“Glass and Pitcher”), were on loan from the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany. But authorities said Monday that they did not think the two robberies were linked.

In February 2007, two Picassos estimated to be worth a total of about $66 million were stolen from the Paris home of his granddaughter Diana Widmaier-Picasso.

The two oils, “Maya With Doll” from 1938 and “Portrait of Jacqueline” from 1961, were taken from her home on the Rue de Grenelle in the city’s chic Seventh Arrondissement.

In August 2004, armed robbers grabbed “The Scream” — Edvard Munch’s masterpiece of existential angst and one of the world’s most famous paintings — and another painting off the wall of a crowded museum in Norway and sped off in a black station wagon.

Uta Harnischfeger reported from Zurich and Graham Bowley from New York.

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Jonathan Freedland
It's no beauty pageant - there are real differences between the candidates


The US campaign has been painted as all about image, but there are policy distinctions - and they do matter

Jonathan Freedland
Wednesday February 6, 2008
The Guardian


Funny, isn't it, how we have come this far in the US election campaign, reaching the milestone of results from 24 states in the early hours of this morning, and still a mystery remains - one that has vexed more than a few Guardian readers. Despite all the ink spilled, the pages filled and the airwaves crammed with coverage, they complain, there is something large they still don't know. What, exactly, do these warring candidates stand for?

Partly this is a media mea culpa, to go alongside the, er, misreading of the New Hampshire primary. For what have been the dominant themes so far? Barack Obama's rhetoric in Iowa, Hillary Clinton's tears in New Hampshire, the role - asset or liability? - of Bill, the cost or benefit of Obama's race and of Clinton's gender. On the Republican side, we've had Mitt Romney's Mormonism, John McCain's age and Mike Huckabee's wit. That's a bit of a caricature, but not so far off. Policy differences have not exactly been centre stage.

And yet, it would be a grave mistake to conclude that somehow this election is nothing more than a personality contest, albeit a gripping one. We could repeat the old cliche - that, under the surface, all these politicians are the same - but too many made that mistake before. In 2000 it was fashionable to say that Al Gore and George W Bush were ideological twins, the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of bland centrism. Now we know, to our cost, how wrong that was. So perhaps today, as the presidential campaign enters a new phase, we should take a hard look at what these candidates are about.

Start with Obama, the candidate who, more than any other, is accused of being light on detail. It's true that he offers nothing like the programmatic minutiae of Clinton, but it's still clear where he stands. During the last month, Obama's standard stump speech opened with a declaration that "The nation is at war and the planet is in peril". In that single sentence, he signalled two radical breaks with the last eight years, on Iraq and on climate change.

On Iraq, he cites his own early opposition to the war to draw one of his sharpest dividing lines with Clinton. Back in October 2002, when he was a mere member of the Illinois state senate, he addressed an anti-war rally. At that same moment, Hillary Clinton voted in the US Senate to authorise the use of force in Iraq, a decision she has never renounced. Obama doesn't quote his own speech but it would be powerful if he did. He condemned "a dumb war, a rash war" in terms that look remarkably prescient now.

More than five years on, Obama promises a US withdrawal and "no permanent bases" in Iraq, besides a garrison to protect the US embassy in Baghdad. He would send more troops to Afghanistan. He would then open talks with Iraq's neighbours, including Iran and Syria, because strong countries "talk to their enemies as well as their friends".

He would not only end the war in Iraq, he says, but end the "mindset that led to the war in Iraq". That means an effort to restore America's standing in the world. Accordingly, he would close Guantánamo and restore habeas corpus rights so that no suspect could be detained without charge. He speaks about the assault on civil liberties entailed by what he does not call the "war on terror".

Related will be his effort to wean the US off Middle Eastern oil, required anyway to make the move towards "green energy". (Both he and Clinton avoid the language of climate change and global warming, as if preferring to focus on the solution rather than naming the problem.) He suggests setting a new fuel efficiency standard of 40mpg for motor cars.

Domestically, he wants to pay teachers more, to offer help with college bills to young people who do voluntary work and to do the same for returning military veterans. He speaks about financial excesses, citing "the CEOs who earn more in 10 minutes than ordinary people earn all year". He wants to raise the cap on social security contributions which at present sees Bill Gates pay as much as a worker who brings in $97,000 a year. "Millionaires should pay their fair share," he says.

Clinton touches some of the very same points, even in the same language, though she has wavered on the social security payment question. She, too, is for help with student grants, and keen to forgive the debts of those who become teachers, nurses or police officers. She, too, wants greener energy, favouring micro-generating solutions that would feed electricity back into the grid or that would see solar panels on household roofs.

She also wants to "end the war in Iraq and bring our troops home", promising to start withdrawing personnel within 60 days of taking office. Her husband says "we're going to use diplomacy with friend and foe alike", a slight shift from her earlier condemnation of Obama as "naive and irresponsible" for suggesting he would talk to the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Fidel Castro.

Her signature difference with Obama is in the provision of universal healthcare. Both agree it's a calamity that tens of millions of Americans have no cover. She would impose mandates, obliging everyone to be insured; he proposes no such compulsion, assuming that people will buy insurance once it becomes affordable.

Crudely, then, she is to the left of him on healthcare and he is to the left of her on Iraq. Otherwise there is huge overlap between their programmes - and, what's more, both would be recognisable to European eyes as pitched firmly on the centre-left. That has not always been the case with America's Democratic party. (Much credit for that goes to former candidate John Edwards, whose message of economic populism dragged both Obama and Clinton leftwards and obliged them to replace platitudes with gritty policies.)

Given this closeness between them on so much of the substance, it's hardly surprising their contest has turned into a duel over their personal merits as candidates. But that should not obscure a larger truth, also made clear this primary season - that the gulf between them and the Republicans remains wide and real.

On the large themes that unite Obama and Clinton, the leading Republicans are squarely opposed. During the last month, they have competed to declare their support for the Iraq war: Baptist preacher Huckabee said that just because no Iraqi weapons of mass destruction had been found it doesn't mean they weren't there: "Just because you didn't find every Easter egg didn't mean that it wasn't planted." Romney promised to double the size of Guantánamo.

On climate change, McCain concedes the problem, but would have little support in his party for taking any action: his arch-rival Romney would only say that man "probably" plays a role in global warming. As for the rest, the social programmes favoured by the Democrats are condemned as wasteful spending, and the need for universal health coverage barely registers.

The battle so far may seem to have been about identity politics, résumés and political style. But don't be misled: the ultimate battle will be about two entirely different conceptions of the US and its place in the world.

freedland@guardian.co.uk
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THE WORLD SINCE 1998

FRANCE
Paris
Lyon

And...
Annecy
Aix-les-Bains
Valence
Divonne-les-bains
Beaune

ENGLAND
London
Manchester
Tollesbury in Essex
Stratford-upon-Avon
Oxford

SWITZERLAND
Geneva
Lausanne


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WORK

D. HANDS

ID CRISIS

THE SEP. COUP

NJM: FRAGMENTED MEMORIES

 
PARIS, DONE

MUSEUMS
The Louvre
Picasso Museum
Rodin Museum
Musee D'Orsay
Orangerie Museum
Georges Pompidou

SITES
Places Vendome
Places des Vosges
Place de la Concorde
Place de la Republique

Notre Dame
Palais Royal
Opera House
Le Grand Palais
Le Petit Palais

Tuileries Gardens (outside the Louvre)
Champs-Elysees
Arc de Triomphe
Pont Alexander III (+ four golden statues)
Eiffel Tower
Place du Trocadero
Palais de Chaillot
Ecole Militaire
Hotel Des Invalides (+ dome)
Institute of France
Monnaie de Paris
Jardins de Luxembourg

The Latin Quarter
St. Germain

Sorbonne University
Pantheon (housing remains of Voltaire, etc)
Hotel de Ville
Carnavalet Museum (including Hotel de Sully)
Place de la Bastille
Opera Bastille
Forum des Halles
Beauborg (Centre Georges Pompidou)
Place Igor Stravinsky (with Niki de Saint-Phalle sculpture)
Rue de Turbigo
Porte St-Martin (doorway/arch)
Porte St-Denis (doorway/arch)

Montmartre
Place du Tertre
Moulin Rouge
Sacre-Coeur

La Defense:
The Grande Arche
Musee de la Musique
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PARIS, TO DO...
Opera House, see show
Dance performance

Musuems:
Exhibition - Le Grand Palais
Exhibition - Le Petit Palais
Musee de l'Armee (Hotel Les Invalides)
Musee Montmartre
Palais Tokyo (home to the Modern Art museum)
Jacquemart-Andre Museum

Sites
Palais de Justice
Saint-Chapelle
Conciergerie
Institut de Monde-Arabe
Place des Pyramides (+ Joan of Arc sculpture)
Place de Theatre Francais
Theatre de Comedie Francaise
Church of St. Roch
Elysee Palace

Palais Bourbon
Palais de la legion d'honneur
St. Sulpice church
Montparnasse

Place St.Michel (Latin Quarter)
St. Severin church
St. Julien-le-pauvre church
Square Rene Viviani (square in front of church)
St. Etienne du Mont church
Val de Grace
Bibliotheque Nationale de France
Jardin des plantes
Hotel de Cluny

Bastille area:
Hotel de Sens

Beauborg area:
Place du Chatelet
St. Jacques Tower
St. Merri church
Fountain of the Innocents
Bourse de Commerce
St. Eustache Church

Chapelle Expiatoire
Opera-Comique
Parc Monceau

Eat at bar/restaurant on the Eiffel Tower

RIGHT OUTSIDE OF PARIS:

Vincennes castle

VERSAILLE
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ORANGERIE MUSEUM, PARIS

Edouard Gerg
Les Visiteurs du soir
Le Wagon de deuxieme classe

Chaime Soutine
L'homme aux Rubans
Le Patissieur de Cagnes
Les Maisons
Enfant de chouer
Le Garcon D'etage

Amedeo Modigliani
Portait de Max Jacob
Femme au Ruban de velours
Antonia

Paul Guillaume
Le Dictateur

Henri Matisse
Odalisque a la culotte grise

Andre Derain
Arlequin et Pierrot
Le Beau Modele
Le Modele Blonde
Grand nu couche
Arlequin a la guitare

Pablo Picasso
Grand nu a la draperie
Les adolescents
Nu sur fond rouge **
Femme au peyene
Composition: paysans
L'etreinte

 
GEORGE POMPIDOU MUSEUM

Alberto Giacometti exhibition
Cubist figure I
Four Women on a base (1950)
Three Men Walking
Walking Man
Standing Woman
Bust of a Man (1960)
Walking Woman (surrealist period)
Bust of a Man, called NY I
Yanaihara seated full-length
Stele III
The Forest (1950)
Bust of a Seated Man (Lotar III)

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Georg Baselitz
Les Demoiselles D'Olmo II
(Die Madchen Von Olmo II)

Niki De Saint Phalle
La Mariee (1963)

Dado
L'ecole de Precillia

Yan Pei-Ming
Survivant(s)

Marlene Dumas
The Human Body

Jackson Pollock
The Deep

Georges Mathieu
"Lothaire se demet..."

Jean Fautrier
Nu Noir

Brassai
Female Nudes (photography)

Georges Rouault
Le Clown Blesse
Lutteur

Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay
Autoportrait (RD)

Michel Larionov

Nathalie S. Gontcharova

Marc Chagall
A la Russie, aux anes et les autres

Kupka
Plans par couleurs
La Gamme Jaune

Francis Picabia
Sphinx
Le Rechire

Pablo Picasso
La Muse
Buste de Femme
Confidence
Femme aux pigeons

Antoine Pevsner
Metal sculptor

Fernand Leger
La Noce

Amedeo Modigliani

Chaime Soutine
Le Groom

Juan Gris

Henri Laurens
Tete de femme
(sculptor)

Marcel Duchamp
Les Jouers D'echecs

Raymond Duchamp-Villon
Les Amants (sculpture)
Le Cheval Majeur

Georges Bracque

Henri Matisse
Tete blanche et rose

Max Ernst
Capricorne sculpture
(on balcony of museum)

Vassily Kandinsky
Mit Dem Schwarzen Bogen
(avec l'arc noir)

Zao Wou-Ki
Vent

 
MUSEE D'ORSAY

Ferdinand Hodler (temporary exhibition)
L'avalanche
Regard dans l'infini
L'Amour
Femme en Extase
Valentine Gode-Darel paintings
La Bataille de Morat

Edouard Manet
Clair de Lune
Combat de Taureaux
L'evasion de Rochefort

Felix Ziem

Claude Monet
Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe
Ldres, le Parlement

Camille Pissarro
Eglise et Ferme D'eragny

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Monseigneur Darboy dans sa prison
(sculptor as well)

Edgar Degas
Cue Illette de Pommes (sculpture)

Vincent Van Gogh
La Nuit Etoiles, Arles

Paul Cezanne
La Madeleine ou La Douleur
Les Joueurs de cartes

Odilon Redon
Parsifal (1912)

William Degouve de Nuniques
Nocture au Parc Royal de Bruxelles

Lucien Levy-Dhurmer
Meduse or Vague Furieuse (nice!)

Georges Lemmen
Plage a heist

Pierre Bonnard
Nu Bleu
Femme Assoupie sur un lit or L'indolente

Alexandre Falguiere
Triomphe de la Revolution (sculpture)

Jules Dalou
Sculptor

Constantin Meunier
(Sculptor)
La Terre ou La Moisson
L'industrie
La Glebe

La Machine Humaine

Jules Desbois
La Misere (sculpture)

Auguste Rodin
L'hiver (white sculpture)

Cammille Claudel
Torse de Clotho

Honore Daumier

 
GUY FERRER at the MONNAIE DE PARIS, January 2008

THE LOUVRE

ARTISTS
Hubert Robert
Adriaen van Ostade
David Teniers
Rembrandt

 
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant

Documentary: RISE

Japanese Dance company: Butoh

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PARIS

Pattiserie:
PAIN DE SUCRE
14, rue Rambuteau, 75003, Paris

STOHRER
(depuis 1730)
Best Eclairs
51 rue Montorgueil, 75002, Paris

ESPACE D'ANIMATION DES BLANCS MANTEAUX
48, rue Vieille du Temple, 75004, Paris

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Writings - Grant Bailie:


FRIGG Magazine


Smokelong Quarterly


Shore Magazine

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AIX-LES-BAINS
Café des Bains
9, Rue des Bains, 73100 Aix-les-Bains France

Restaurant:
l'Ô à la bouche

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Pariscope