Nomadic Art That Is Here To Stay
The News Review:
- Nomadic Art That Is Here To Stay
- Why I lost the plot and gave up booze
- Barnett: To rejoin world, US must rejoin conversation
- A recipe for success – New Zealand’s source for food & wine…
- FIFA: Premiership back with a bang
- An invisible youth policy
Nomadic Art That Is Here To Stay
Washington Post – Aug 12, 2007
You live with a crowd of relatives in a smoke-filled, felt-covered yurt 20 feet across, as your ancestors have done for a thousand years or more. Suddenly, you realize you need another belt to tie around your home, to keep the weight of the roof from pushing out its latticework walls. Do you pull together whatever kinds of belty things you can make or find, then get on with churning up the latest batch of fermented camel’s milk? Of course not. You take out your primitive little loom — barely a few sticks lashed together with some rope — sit yourself down on the dusty ground outside and, surrounded by piles of home-grown, home-dyed, home-spun wool, proceed to craft 50 feet of ferociously impressive weavings, in the certain knowledge that your belting won’t be done for many months or years. Forget the camel’s milk — there’s art to be made. In the 10-inch span of your tent band, you design and weave an impossibly intricate pattern, as notable for its carefully planned repetitions as for its fascinating stutters and riffs and variations on its larger themes… Suddenly, you realize you need another belt to tie around your home, to keep the weight of the roof from pushing out its latticework walls. Do you pull together whatever kinds of belty things you can make or find, then get on with churning up the latest batch of fermented camel’s milk? Of course not. You take out your primitive little loom — barely a few sticks lashed together with some rope — sit yourself down on the dusty ground outside and, surrounded by piles of home-grown, home-dyed, home-spun wool, proceed to craft 50 feet of ferociously impressive weavings, in the certain knowledge that your belting won’t be done for many months or years. Forget the camel’s milk — there’s art to be made. In the 10-inch span of your tent band, you design and weave an impossibly intricate pattern, as notable for its carefully planned repetitions as for its fascinating stutters and riffs and variations on its larger themes. You craft a blank background of bright, tightly woven wool and ornament it with a maze of lines, curls and dingbats worked up in an immaculately knotted pile, in burgundies and indigos and scarlets, rich and silky as any velvet. (Some of your threads may, in fact, be silk, bought or bartered in a local town.
Why I lost the plot and gave up booze
NEWS.com.au – Aug 12, 2007
article-tools –> Nui Te Koha August 12, 2007 12:00am MUSIC guru Ian “Molly” Meldrum has quit drinking after a series of painful and provocative incidents. "I am on the wagon — absolutely," Meldrum, 61, told the Sunday Herald Sun. "I want to focus. "
Meldrum’s decision follows a tragic period in which he lost close friends Billy Thorpe, Lobby Loyde and Lynne Randell. While overseas to privately mourn Randell, Meldrum delivered a drunken tirade against radio and TV identity Kyle Sandilands… In his first full interview since losing Randell and attacking Sandilands, Meldrum revealed that he had a pretend friend called Simon. He also talked about the tough decision to be openly gay in the pop world. Meldrum applauded home-grown pop stars Anthony Callea and Darren Hayes for revealing their homosexuality. "I admire them both," Meldrum said. "It is a tough thing to do. But the fact is, it’s a personal choice. "If one thinks coming out could jeopardise part of their career, then one can’t blame them for not coming out.
Barnett: To rejoin world, US must rejoin conversation
Knoxville News Sentinel – Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) – Aug 12, 2007
Arguably, the ICC’s venue in The Hague could have accommodated Saddam Hussein’s controversial adjudication. But America didn’t choose that option, losing yet another opportunity to build global case law in this long war. Meanwhile, a string of prison scandals and court challenges back home have prevented the U. government from putting even a single enemy combatant on trial in its flailing prosecution of suspected transnational terrorists. Despite America’s inability to succeed in Iraq’s postwar reconstruction, China, India and other emerging powers are ramping up their investment in previously war-torn sub-Saharan Africa, engaging in a resource grab and infrastructure-building boom that could easily be described as pre-emptive nation-building. America currently establishes its own, highly innovative African Command for the continent, but do we plan to go it alone here, too? If not, then where’s our high-level strategic dialogue with China regarding its burgeoning profile in the region? If we want to tame Sudan’s janjaweed or topple Zimbabwe’s cruel Robert Mugabe, doesn’t Washington engage Beijing first? Or is that Mia Farrow’s job?Despite America’s refusal to sign the Kyoto Agreement on climate change, financial markets for carbon credits are popping up all over the planet, and Al Gore’s made the issue both Oscar- and campaign-worthy in a manner too compelling to ignore… Despite America’s inability to succeed in Iraq’s postwar reconstruction, China, India and other emerging powers are ramping up their investment in previously war-torn sub-Saharan Africa, engaging in a resource grab and infrastructure-building boom that could easily be described as pre-emptive nation-building. America currently establishes its own, highly innovative African Command for the continent, but do we plan to go it alone here, too? If not, then where’s our high-level strategic dialogue with China regarding its burgeoning profile in the region? If we want to tame Sudan’s janjaweed or topple Zimbabwe’s cruel Robert Mugabe, doesn’t Washington engage Beijing first? Or is that Mia Farrow’s job?Despite America’s refusal to sign the Kyoto Agreement on climate change, financial markets for carbon credits are popping up all over the planet, and Al Gore’s made the issue both Oscar- and campaign-worthy in a manner too compelling to ignore. Washington might be chronically unable to marshal a national energy plan, but Brazil’s been pulling one off for the past couple of decades, quietly ridding itself of foreign oil through home-grown sugar-cane ethanol. Meanwhile, car-booming China is rolling out pollution-emission standards that rival California’s ambition while promising more hybrids than Detroit. When GM and Honda look for global leadership on this issue, they’re not looking to Washington. Add it all up, and America’s growing inability to talk with its friends, much less its enemies, seems to be isolating our country from a series of significant global realignments currently under way. So, no surprise that America polls globally just north of Kim Jong Il, while China’s charm offensive comes off like a clinic on soft power.
A recipe for success – New Zealand’s source for food & wine…
Stuff.co.nz – Aug 12, 2007
everybody is involved in food. You can talk about food to virtually anybody”. Through her kitchen, and past the piles of home-grown macadamia nuts are waiting to be cracked. Wedge them between the rubber ridges of an old-fashioned doormat, advises Flower. “And then, bang! They jump all over the place otherwise. They’re fools of things to open. ” Flower does not suffer fools.
FIFA: Premiership back with a bang
noticias.info – Aug 12, 2007
Blackburn Rovers started their campaign well with a hard-fought win over Middlesbrough at the Riverside, though it could well come with a cost as South African striker Benni McCarthy was stretchered off. England winger Stuart Downing put Boro ahead in the 31st minute with a free kick that flew straight through the wall. Paraguay striker Roque Santa Cruz equalised in the 63rd minute with a header, and it was Rovers’ home-grown striker Matt Derbyshire who won the match with 11 minutes to go. notas_de_prensa_archivo.
An invisible youth policy
Jamaica Gleaner – Aug 12, 2007
Rock Solid is, his conclusions are just as flawed as a recent piece of controversial research coming out of his ministry. While the crime rate might be affected by the drug trade, dons and deportees, the majority of perpetrators are local home grown. Like our domestic agricultural products that have to compete internationally, they are raised and nurtured in the same organic fertilisers that have been created by our political leaders, who lack a coherent youth policy and have little grasp on the core of the problem. The only reason that the dons and drug dealers are successful in their operations is because they have a large army of disenfranchised and disillusioned youth that they can readily recruit from. UnderemploymentA recent Gleaner Editor’s forum revealed that the youth feel alienated, disappointed and excluded from the debate. After all, young people comprise a sizeable chunk of the voting population.