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Go with the Slow: Ragnar Kjartansson’s “The Visitors”
▻http://hyperallergic.com/66988/go-with-the-slow-ragnar-kjartanssons-the-visitors

Behind a curtain in the darkened gallery space at Luhring Augustine nine screens, each equipped with its own speaker have been arranged into two somewhat discreet areas. Eight of the screens feature the image of a single musician — a guitarist, pianist, banjo player, cellist, and so forth — and one screen offers a view of the porch of a large house where other instrumentalists, singers and assorted folks have gathered. Ragnar Kjartansson’s video installation titled “The Visitors” documents in a single take the 64-minute-long performance of one song.

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▻http://www.luhringaugustine.com/exhibitions/ragnar-kjartansson_1

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#art #musique #expo #vidéo

Uganda to officially pass ‘Kill The Gays’ bill
Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has said 2009’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill will become law by the end of 2012
12 November 2012 | By Joe Morgan
Uganda parliamentary speaker Rebecca Kadaga has said the country’s Kill The Gays bill will officially be passed by the end of 2012.

Uganda will officially pass the ‘Kill The Gays’ bill at the end of this year despite international criticism.

Speaker Rebecca Kadaga said the anti-gay bill will become law by December since most Ugandans ‘are demanding it’.

Referring to the law as a ‘Christmas gift’ to the population, she spoke of ‘the serious threat’ posed by homosexuals.

The law will broaden the criminalization of same-sex relationships by dividing homosexuality into two categories; aggravated homosexuality and the offense of homosexuality.

‘Aggravated homosexuality’ is defined as gay acts committed by parents or authority figures, HIV-positive people, pedophiles and repeat offenders. If convicted, they will face the death penalty.

The ‘offense of homosexuality’ includes same-sex sexual acts or being in a gay relationship, and will be prosecuted by life imprisonment.

Originally put to government in 2009, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill had been temporarily shelved because of international criticism.

Several European countries have threatened to cut aid to Uganda if it passes, with the UK government warning Uganda it would face severe reductions in financial help.

US President Barack Obama has described it as ‘odious’, and Canadian politician John Baird has said it is ‘vile, abhorrent, and offends decency’.

Uganda lawmaker Atim Ogwal Cecilia Barbara has even suggested there should be a continent-wide ban on homosexuality, saying all African gay people should be jailed for life.

Gay rights activist David Kato was murdered in Uganda in January 2011 shortly after a local newspaper published images of him and other gay people under a headline urging readers to ‘hang them.’

Despite this, Uganda’s LGBT community held a weekend of gay pride events this summer.

According to a 2010 survey by The Pew Research Center, homosexuality is morally unacceptable to 89% of Ugandans.

#Damascus: #Qsoor Neighborhood: A demonstration started in Qsoor mosque in Tijara area to condemn the isolation of Sheikh Fayez Ajlouni, the mosque’s speaker#Syria

Clint Parish — Yolo County Deputy District Attorney — Hereby Asked to Opine On Presiding Judge Dave Rosenberg Inappropriate Role As Political Advocate of Yolo County Superior Court Judge Dan Maguire

Consistent with The Leslie Brodie Report’s commitment to integrity and adherence to the highest level of ethical journalism, and in order to report on both sides of a controversy, Mr. Clint Parish — Yolo County Deputy District Attorney — is hereby being asked to opine whether Yolo County Presiding Judge Dave Rosenberg highly inappropriate role as spokesperson/political advocate of Yolo County Superior Court Judge Dan Maguire — may be in violation of California’s Cannon of Judicial Ethics

Specifically, in response to a recent controversy concerning a mailer sent by the Clint Parish’s campaign which sought to portray Judge Maguire as Arnold Schwarzenegger “bagman,” and being part of Schwarzenegger’s “inner circle” which recommended the release of convicted murderer Esteban Nunez, the son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez — a highly perturbed Judge Rosenberg launched an unprecedented attack on Parish. This, despite knowing full well that California Canons of Judicial Ethics permit a judicial officers to only “endorse” candidates for judicial office.

Specifically, and consistent with his new role, Judge Rosenberg resorted to sending a robocall out to many voters “to set the record straight” of what he called, “a nasty political hit piece” which “contains flat out lies and deceptions about a highly respected Judge here in Yolo County, Judge Dan Maguire.”

Judge Rosenberg also promised to retaliate against Parish and issued a thinly veiled threat against him. “This sort of phlegm tends to backfire. It flies back in the face of the expectorant,” Rosenberg stated.

Please observe that, rather than contacting Mr. Parish directly, the query is being delivered publicly, here and now.

Any comments,opinion or observation can be sent to lesliebrodie@gmx.com

visualisation of silent letters in language
►http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/20084/visualisation-of-silent-letters-in-language.html

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their project investigates the portion of a language which is silent and the potential for language comprehension with silent characters
removed from the text. the three designers note that one of the most challenging aspects of learning a new language is pronunciation
and the less phonetic the alphabet, the more difficult it is for the speaker to correctly sound out the words. miyazaki, robertsen, and
karambelkar’s project was born from an inquisitive approach to ’a common peculiarity amongst many western languages — the silent letter.
a silent letter is a letter that appears in a particular word, but does not correspond to any sound in the word’s pronunciation’.

Boombox in a Toolbox

“Chances are, if you’ve got something with sufficient volume and a rigid body, you can probably put a speaker in it. With a little trial and error you can come up with a unique speaker enclosure that will be both pleasing to the eye and appealing to the ear.”

►http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/23/boombox-in-a-toolbox

►http://artpentry.com

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#diy #hacking

Conseils pour ne pas copier Apple :

►http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/807407/Apple_Reply_Expert_declaration.pdf

For the iPhone design, alternative smartphone designs include: front surfaces that are not black (Exs. 2-4) or clear (Exs. 4-6); front surfaces that are not rectangular (Exs.7-10), not flat (Exs. 11-13), and without rounded corners (Exs. 9, 14, 15); display screens that are more square than rectangular or not rectangular at all (Exs. 8, 16, 17); display screens that are not centered on the front surface of the phone (Exs. 18-20, 37) and that have substantial lateral borders (Exs. 21-22); speaker openings that are not horizontal slots with rounded ends (Exs. 12, 15, 23, 24, 37) and that are not centered above the display screen (Exs. 12, 25, 26); front surfaces that contain substantial adornment (Exs. 9, 15, 19); and phones without bezels at all (Exs. 11, 13, 18) or very different looking bezels that are not thin, uniform, and with an inwardly sloping profile (Ex. 21).

For the D’889 tablet design, alternate tablet computer designs include: overall shapes that are not rectangular with four flat sides (Exs. 27-29) or that do not have four rounded corners (Exs. 28, 30-32); front surfaces that are not completely flat or clear (Exs. 27, 28, 33, 34) and that have substantial adornment (Exs. 28, 35); thick frames rather than a thin rim around the front surface (Exs. 28, 34-36); and profiles that are not thin relative to the D’889 or that have a cluttered appearance (Exs. 28, 33, 38).

Pendant qu’on supprime le mot Nakba des livres d’histoire en France, au même moment en Israël :

Rivlin, deputies reject Tibi bill... JPost - Diplomacy & Politics
►http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=227876

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin and his deputies rejected on Monday a bill proposed by MK Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List-Ta’al) to forbid government funding of any organization that denies the “Nakba,” the catastrophe, what the Arab world calls the founding of the State of Israel.

Les arguments des israéliens sont vraiment intéressants :

“This bill is clearly defiant and provokes the State of Israel, and therefore, its place is not on the Knesset’s table,” Rivlin explained, adding that he voted against the bill because it rejects the State of Israel as a Jewish state.

“This bill says the State of Israel is the reason for the Palestinian tragedy,” Rivlin said. “If the Nakba is a tragedy, then the establishment of the State of Israel is a tragedy. The Palestinians experienced a catastrophe that was brought on by their leaders, but the establishment of the State of Israel is not the reason for it.”

De fait, ils reconnaissent explicitement que le négationnisme de la Nakba est un élément central de l’identité israélienne.

Google I/O Extended
►https://sites.google.com/site/2011ioextended

Even if you can’t attend #Google I/O in person, this is a way to still connect with other talented #developers and watch the #keynote and other major sessions live. Part viewing party and part community building, Google I/O Extended are free events focused on live-streaming parts of Google I/O. Depending on location, the #event could also include local developer demos and other speaker sessions.