ONE Vote '08 launches in Nevada: Movement could impact presidential election - With wholesale optimism and stunning bipartisan support, the ONE Campaign launched its ONE Vote '08 mission Tuesday in Nevada with a clear goal in mind: Make the global fight against disease and extreme poverty key foreign policy issues in next year's presidential election - and for reasons that transcend building good will. Not surprisingly, Nevada was chosen as one of a handful of states to be chosen for a formal launch given the fact early caucuses will be held in the state, which, in turn, will put Nevada at the forefront of choosing the country's next president. "Millions of people will be thinking of the world's poorest people this election," said Jack Oliver in a Tuesday interview with the Free Press. Oliver is a Republican strategist who worked for President Bush and now is co-chairman of the ONE Campaign. To illustrate the bipartisanship, U.S. Reps. Jon Porter, R-Nev., and Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., served as honorary chairpersons at the launch, which occurred at the Andre Agassi College Preparatory School in Las Vegas. Tennis great Agassi is also an honorary chairman. The voter mobilization effort has been driven by former Sens. Bill Frist, a Republican from Tennessee and Tom Daschle, a Democrat from Nebraska, both former majority leaders. Two other key leaders are Bill Gates and Bono, the frontman for the rock group U2. Both men have long pushed top world governments to aid the world's most vulnerable citizens. The ONE Campaign's motto is Saving Lives, Securing our Future. The mission to provide basic health care and economic opportunity to the chronically downtrodden is as pragmatic as it is humanitarian. Details are specific, from mosquito netting to help protect children in Africa from malaria, to providing drugs to those afflicted with HIV/AIDS, this is a political movement that appears to offer solutions rather than rhetoric. A visit to www.onevote08.org reveals key political strategists on both sides of the aisle are on board, including military figures, pastors and others involved in religion - and 2.4 million Americans, 17,000 from Nevada have joined the movement. The humanitarianism is obvious. The pragmatism less so, but equally promising. ... elkodaily
Light show exhibition - Internationally renowned Willie Williams is the man behind U2's ground-breaking Zoo TV and PopMart tours, and has worked with the likes of The Rolling Stones, REM, David Bowie and George Michael. He will launch Lumina Domestica at the Turnpike Gallery in Leigh – the first time he has accepted an invitation to create an art gallery installation. He said: "It will encompass many of the themes incorporated in my performance work." Martyn Lucas, visual arts officer for Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust, said: "Willie's light themed installation playfully incorporates a range of household objects and is a really unique and exciting event – cake stands will never appear the same again!" There will be a chance to view the free exhibition and speak to Willie at the Turnpike on Saturday, between 12.30pm and 3pm. It runs until September 1. wigantoday
BONO IS A TECHNICAL MAGICIAN - U2 frontman BONO has a secret power - he can erase the memory from his friend's mobile phones. Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell says he experiences a bizarre technical hitch soon after speaking to the Irish rocker on the phone. He says, "Nobody has Bono in their contacts! Bono doesn't have a number that can stick in contacts. The last time Bono phoned me, it wiped all my saved text messages out of my phone. "It went 'ching, ching, ching, ching' like that - like a Pac-Man thing. He deleted all my text messages - it was amazing! "Maybe he was using Al Gore's phone of some secret service stuff, but there was no way you could get the number to call him back because not only had the number gone but the whole call history had gone. I don't think anyone's got Bono's number." contactmusic
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The Mandeville fishing pier at the break of day on the first day the pier has been open since Katrina on Saturday July 14th 2007. ... 
These photos from FLIP in Paraty mean a homage to Nelson Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 - December 21, 1980), who was an important Brazilian dramatist, journalist and writer. Many of his plays and novels became movies and/or TV programs. Beginning in 1940 Nelson divided his time between his job at O Globo and his personal work as dramatist. In 1941 his first play debuted, A Mulher Sem Pecado (The Woman Without Sin, in English). It was a fiasco, but his second play, Vestido de Noiva (Wedding Dress or Dress of a Bride) was a thundering success.
This t-shirt was worn by U2 guitarist The Edge at a 2003 (2001) concert and sold at auction in April "In this case, we have a picture of him wearing the shirt, which helps bolster the value of it" says Darren Julien, chief executive of Julian Auctions, which ran the sale. Look for on 
Argentine Alan Pauls presented in the FLIP if love is illness. He debated the subject of his book “The Past” with the psychoanalyst Maria Rita Kehl. Considered the new great name of Latin American literature, Pauls, 48 years old, is also confirmed as the most waited of the Latin writers: the tickets for his debate in Saturday (7), at 3:00 pm. with the psychoanalyst Maria Rita Kehl, sold out since last week. The two discussed the subject of his book - the love is or not an illness. And the success of the Argentine must be extended: in fall of the year, the history of love of Rímini and Sofia will be in the cinemas, directed for Hector Babenco and having the actor Gael García Bernal. In “The Past” (CosacNaify), Pauls tells under the form of a male auto-analysis the torment and the depression of the translator Rímini to try to reconstruct his life without Sofia, with who lived 12 years. But it is not the missing Sofia who pursues him. Also disturbed with the separation, the former-wife asks for him, threatening him with the 'value' of the past, exactly at the moments of higher affirmation of his new life. In the book, Pauls still shares the hard life and the workmanship of the fictitious painter Jeremy Riltse, who uses the automutilation as artistic expression, in a parallel with the loving tragedy of Rímini and Sofia. “The Past” has a strong narrative, that it arrests the reader, until the beginning of the third part. With the history of Riltse painter and his picture painted, that passes then to monopolize the romance for about 80 pages, it has one cut: the reader cannot more keep its comfortable position of identification with Rímini. Alan Pauls, doesn't consider it as a division of the structure in the book, but yes as a shunting line. Riltse is always in the romance. He appears early, in the first pages, and he runs all the history as a wire that appears and disappears. And, in some way, is a personage who incarnates and takes until the limit an experience that Rímini and Sofia know very well: the experience of an aesthetic life, converted into art. In relation to the shunting line, Pauls enjoys this ability that the romance has since its origins: the possibility by that the narrative takes routes unexpected, that if moves away from its main trunk, explores other dimensions and comes back. This freedom to go jumping of twig in twig is perhaps most characteristic of the soap opera tradition. Some writers, when opting to a language that shocks and until cause aversion, repeat an aesthetic way already walked by the plastic artists. Pauls believes that literature shares in the maximum, cultural contexts, but what they make one and another one with this context is specific in each case. A language - in his way thinking - is a alway multiple field, where there are interferences of forces, tunes, very heterogeneous attitudes: the same language that reaches the highest poetry is the one that can sink, a line later, in the silt dirtiest. A language is a field of intensities and the shock or repulses are so interesting and productive as the emotion and the beauty. In his book, Rímini does not have mother. Or his mother does not appear in the romance not even as a memory. To Pauls “The Past” is a patrilinear (of paternal ancestry) romance. Nor Rímini nor himself needs mothers. But if it is necessary, there is the personage of Frida Breitenbach, who is a specie of supermother (incestuous, in the limit) of the two, of Rímini and Sofia. In Rio De Janeiro, Rímini had allergy. In São Paulo, a desolation lesson. Pauls says that nothing of this is related to Brazil. If Rímini had travelled for Uruguay, would have asthma; in Bolivia, he would break a leg; and, in Chile, would have a bad day with shellfishes. Any unknown territory would unchain a system of delicate and capricious sensors of his paranóic organism. “Nothing kills in such a way as to have that to represent a country”, said Jacques Vaché (French writer that influenced Andres Breton of the surrealista movement at the beginning). Pauls would add: “Nothing kills in such a way as to have that to represent… something, anything”. I don't want to represent. The only thing that interest me is to write: the unique experience truly unknown that I know. 
(Ishmael Beah joking at Morro do Vidigal - Rio de Janeiro) - Former child soldier Ishmael Beah has seen his memoir, A Long Way Gone as a highlight. For a young man whose village and family were burned, who evaded capture amidst the war-torn landscape of Sierra Leone, and finally was given an AK-47 and coerced to join the government army, a best-selling book comes as quite a twist in the road. Ishmael heard his commanding officer frequently tell him and his comrades, “Visualize the enemy, the rebels who killed your parents, your family, and those who are responsible for everything that has happened to you.” In their drills when they did not properly bayonet a banana tree, the officer reprimanded them by saying: "Is that how you stab someone who had killed your family?” As Beah's story unfolds, one cannot help but wonder about the fate of such children, suckled on revenge from such a tender age. What is strong enough to overcome that kind of past? The answer does not come as a surprise. It is the power of forgiveness and unconditional love. When UNICEF forces showed up one day and negotiated with Beah’s commander for the release of the children soldiers in his command, Ishmael and others found themselves suddenly transported to a rehabilitation camp. One would think that these children would be grateful for release and embrace these workers for their role in their redemption. But, you're wrong. It would take months for these children to lose their appetite for brown-brown (cocaine mixed with gun-powder), for violence, and for revenge. Day after day these young kids would lash out at the workers and the other children. Day after day, the workers would respond with forgiveness and love. Beah recounts the story of one of the workers in the rehabilitation compound named Poppay, whom the children beat, stabbed and left unconscious. Several days later, Poppay returned from the hospital, limping, but with a smile on his face. "It is not your fault that you did such a thing to me," he said. As Beah recalls, “Most of the staff members were like that; they returned smiling after we hurt them. It was as if they had made a pact not to give up on us.” Wittingly or unwittingly, they were displaying the turn-the-other-cheek kind of love that Christ taught. And through their display of grace, they sent a powerful message: Revenge stops here. But Beah’s horrific tale is, sadly, too common. There are an estimated 250,000 child soldiers in the world today. Recently, U.S. Senators Durbin and Brownback introduced The Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007 to help protect these exploited children. This bill would curtail U.S. military assistance to governments that do not work to demobilize and stop the forcing or recruiting of children into military service. I want to encourage you to call your Congressman to support the bill. Meanwhile, Ishmael Beah has a lesson worth learning for all of us. As he says, “To forgive is not to forget but to transform all that happened into something positive because the other route can only bring more suffering to [ourselves] and to those around [us].” He lives, since 1998 in NYC with his adoptive mother. Ishamel was on July 8, 2007, in Paraty to discuss the violence and childhood. I´ll post his day at FLIP.
Linda Heron works in the mobile food cart Taqueria Los Poblanos in New Orleans. Civil rights groups say crackdowns on such eateries may signal residents' rising sentiment against the Hispanic community. ... 
Earlier this week, I asked you to send me pictures of your favorite rock 'n' roll T-shirts, and I received a huge response -- so huge that I was forced to delete some messages from my inbox several times. ... Dara sent me a photo of this U2 shirt she had in high school, which is funny, because someone else sent me a photo of the same shirt ... and I also had this shirt in high school! ... 
Rush is on to finish Superdome renovations - In '08, exterior to be replaced and club room escalators added ... 
Jonea Ellis,11, Trachelle Barnes, 10 and Brooke Polius,11 look on a computer screen at a photo that Jonea was learning how to manipulate in Adobe Photoshop Wednesday, July 11,2007 during Cybercamp at Stella Worley Junior High School in Westwego. ... 
Nobel Prizes and English language are the highlights of literary party Flip, in Paraty (RIO DE JANEIRO); brings winning South Africans of the maximum prize of literature. British writers and from former-colonies are highlights of this edition. J.M. Coetzee, winning South African author of the Nobel, maked the opening in this Wednesday (4) of its fifth edition having the English language in prominence. Of the 18 invited stars or foreign revelations, seven - J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Ishmael Beah, Ahdaf Soueif, Kiran Desai, Will Self and Robert Fisk - are English authors or from British former-colonies of Africa and Asia, awardees and good in the United kingdom. And would be eight, if William Boyd had not cancelled his participation in the last hour. A record number, if comparative to previous editions. Adding it the Americans, are 11 (more than the half) the total of writers in English language. Spanish and Portuguese are the others two languages of the Flip. This time, doesn't have not even French or Italian, that had passed for other editions. Beyond sharing the language, these seven authors focus in their workmanships the different realities of the center and the periphery of the former-empire. Almost all have still the experience to transit between the worlds of colonized and the colonizador, giving the voice to the personages from this hybrid cultural environment, tragically 'tattooed' for the unfoldings of the domination politics. It's the debate on the old imperialism, reviwed to the light of the September 11th and the War of Iraq. And to read or to re-read these authors. Awardees with Nobel, South Africans J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, that have their workmanships strongly marked by the effects of apartheid, confirm in Paraty their position of stars: the tickets for their lectures had been soldout quickly. Biggest celebrity of the party, Coetzee, that lives today in Australia, read in worldwide release, in Saturday at night, stretches of his new book, 'Diario De Um Ano Ruim' - “Daily Of A Bad Year'. With shy fame, Coetzee, 67 years old, was the only foreigner to present alone and not to answer the questions of the public or the press. 
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The levee system that was designed to protect New Orleans, but failed catastrophically during Hurricane Katrina, was completed under severe financial and political pressure, including opposition from local officials and environmentalists, according to a federally sponsored report set to be released today. ... 
Langston Hughes Elementary School is being demolished to make way for a the new public Langston Hughes Academy Charter School scheduled to open in modular buildings in the fall. Friday, July 6, 2007, photos. ... 
Mary J. Blige struts her stuff on stage. ... 
- FLIP 2007 - To reunite 76 writters from 11 countries and a crowd visiting the place of a number higher than 30.000 during 5 days, isn´t easy; but it happened last week, in a small beach-colonial-city, called Paraty, in the middle of the way between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (a remote colonial seaside town 400 kilometers, 250 miles south of Rio de Janeiro, where the streets are still paved with original 16th- century cobblestones). Another great success was the FLIPinha (small FLIP 2007) with the kids at Matriz Square. The winners of Nobel, as the South Africans J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, the promise to the new generation, as the Lyon Sierra Ishmael Beah, were the highights in Paraty. Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee shies away from publicity. He never turned up to receive his two Booker awards. At the 2003 Nobel Prize ceremony, he delivered the mandatory Nobel lecture in half an hour, gave a two-minute thank-you speech and left without talking to admirers. This year, the 67-year-old native of Cape Town, South Africa, is one of the star authors attending Latin America's biggest international literary festival in Paraty. Coetzee fans may finally got a chance to talk about his new book, ``Diary of a Bad Year,'' and past works that raise questions about oppression, racial and social tensions, and power structures. The fifth annual edition of FLIP, as the book fair is known, started July 4 and runned through July 8. It features first-tier foreign authors such as Lawrence Wright and Amos Oz, and younger writers like Kiran Desai, a 35-year-old who won the 2006 Man Booker Prize for ``The Inheritance of Loss,'' a novel included in last year's 100 Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times. Nadine Gordimer, 83 and a far more talkative Nobel laureate, also was in Parati to take part in one of the 21 discussion panels in two huge tents in the town's main square. Gordimer, who said ``any writer of any worth at all hopes to shine a small light into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience'' when she received the Nobel Prize in 1991, is scheduled to talk with Israeli novelist and peace campaigner Oz, author of ``A Tale of Love and Darkness,'' about the role that literature plays in saving humanity from injustice. One of the most sought-after events of this year's FLIP, with more than 900 tickets sold in just a few days, Coetzee presented extracts from ``Diary of a Bad Year.'' He read fragments of essays written by his new novel's protagonist, an aging Australian academic expressing his views on contemporary world affairs. Several authors, including Desai and Wright, closed the festival Sunday night, discussing books they would take with them to a desert island. 
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Workers construct a fake damaged home in the Lower Ninth Ward to be used in the filming of the upcoming movie "Black Water Transit" ... 
A seaplane flies about 200 feet above what's left of Curlew Island after Hurricane Katrina devastated it. ... 
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Hey Daniel Johns of Silverchair, take care of your words, and I agree with you: you really should just shut up and stick to singing ... 
Portable classrooms sit ready to place on footings at the site of the temporary Holy Cross School Tuesday, July 3, 2007, at the Cabrini site on Paris Ave. The school will consist of portable buildings until the permanent structure can be built. ... 
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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks during a symposium, the Essence Festival, in New Orleans, Louisiana July 6, 2007
Hynes Elementary school is not yet cleaned up. The school has not been touched since Katrina. ... 
JACKIE Hayden is a titan in the Irish music journalism business, with a career on both sides of the fence. He got his start in the record industry with Polydor Records in the 1960s and for most of the ‘70s was marketing manager with CBS Ireland, where he signed a little known band called U2 to their first record contract. ... Some artists I talked to, like Hothouse Flowers, actually felt a huge weight lifted off of them when the record companies stopped looking for “the next big thing” in Ireland. It came in two waves. Every record company zoomed into Ireland to sign the next U2. A lot of those acts did not make it internationally. A more organic growth came through when the pressure was off to find the next U2. The whole idea of another U2 is bland and blasé. You need something fresh. They were the first U2, which is what made them so fresh. They were breaking the mold, not copying the formula. ... 
My niece Mariana, as you´re the oldest in the new generation of the family, I offer 'Original Of The Species' for you. God Bless you my beautifil girl. God Bless you with health, peace, love, success! I love you dear Mariana! 
A man with food walks by people waiting to be served at the annual "Feed the Multitudes" hosted by the Victory Fellowship Church held at Marconi Meadows in City Park. The event featured food, games, health screenings, spa services, music and more. ... 
A DVD version of 'PopMart Live From Mexico City' ? giant mirrorball lemon, cocktail stick plus Haring, Warhol and Lichtenstein - is released on September 10th (except US - date TBC). Everything you need to know here.
Crowds gather at Lafreniere Park in Metairie while fireworks light up the sky on Tuesday - 
- A recent volunteer mission by Berklee staff members to build homes in New Orleans will be featured in the TV special American Spirit on WBZ-TV's Fourth on 4 programming, July 4 at 7:00 p.m. The Boston CBS affiliate's hour-long special will include interviews with and video footage shot by Roya Nassery, Kris Quinones, and Jason Clinkscales on their week-long construction effort in the Musicians' Village, a Habitat for Humanity development in the New Orleans's Upper Ninth Ward. When complete, the village will feature 70 single-family homes for musicians and other residents who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The centerpiece of the Habitat project will be the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, dedicated to the education and development of homeowners and others who will live nearby. ... Berklee response to Katrina: 
