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This valentine's give yourself or someone else a tree...

http://www.tree-nation.com/community/shop.php

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Narrated by Gwyneth Paltrow, The Gift is a dramatisation of a new poem by Simon Armitage, to highlight UNICEF UK's Born Free from HIV campaign.

Almost every minute of every day, a baby is born with HIV, passed on by their mother. This is because only one in five mothers with HIV receive the right medicine and care to prevent passing on the virus to their babies.

But it doesn't have to be like this. There is an effective treatment, costing less than £1, which can prevent a mother passing HIV to her baby. With the right medicine and care, more than 98 per cent of mothers with HIV do not pass the virus to their baby.

With your help, the Born Free from HIV campaign aims to ensure that all mothers with HIV receive this medicine and care. We want world leaders to keep their promise, made at the G8 Summit in 2007, to ensure that all babies are born free from HIV.

To find out more, visit:

http://www.unicef.org.uk/youthvoice

http://www.unicef.org.uk/thegift

http://blogs.takepart.com/tag/simon-armitage/
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Animal associations and shelters need our help, animals looking for homes need our help, we do what we can, it may not be much or glamorous but at least it's something and better than nothing...

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START CARING, DO SOMETHING LOCALLY, THINK GLOBALLY...
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YOU CARE, you give back to the world, because it's not somebody else's life, it is also OUR OWN life...

she did it, why don't more do it as well??...START CARING PEOPLE...
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The night is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole . . .
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.
Under the eyes of the stars and the moon's rictus
He suffers his desert pillow, sleeplessness
Stretching its fine, irritating sand in all directions.

Over and over the old, granular movie
Exposes embarrassments--the mizzling days
Of childhood and adolescence, sticky with dreams,
Parental faces on tall stalks, alternately stern and tearful,
A garden of buggy rose that made him cry.
His forehead is bumpy as a sack of rocks.
Memories jostle each other for face-room like obsolete film stars.

He is immune to pills: red, purple, blue . . .
How they lit the tedium of the protracted evening!
Those sugary planets whose influence won for him
A life baptized in no-life for a while,
And the sweet, drugged waking of a forgetful baby.
Now the pills are worn-out and silly, like classical gods.
Their poppy-sleepy colors do him no good.

His head is a little interior of grey mirrors.
Each gesture flees immediately down an alley
Of diminishing perspectives, and its significance
Drains like water out the hole at the far end.
He lives without privacy in a lidless room,
The bald slots of his eyes stiffened wide-open
On the incessant heat-lightning flicker of situations.

Nightlong, in the granite yard, invisible cats
Have been howling like women, or damaged instruments.
Already he can feel daylight, his white disease,
Creeping up with her hatful of trivial repetitions.
The city is a map of cheerful twitters now,
And everywhere people, eyes mica-silver and blank,
Are riding to work in rows, as if recently brainwashed.

Sylvia Plath

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Love Letter

Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, then I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it,
Staying put according to habit.
You didn't just tow me an inch, no-
Nor leave me to set my small bald eye
Skyward again, without hope, of course,
Of apprehending blueness, or stars.

That wasn't it. I slept, say: a snake
Masked among black rocks as a black rock
In the white hiatus of winter-
Like my neighbors, taking no pleasure
In the million perfectly-chisled
Cheeks alighting each moment to melt
My cheeks of basalt. They turned to tears,
Angels weeping over dull natures,
But didn't convince me. Those tears froze.
Each dead head had a visor of ice.

And I slept on like a bent finger.
The first thing I was was sheer air
And the locked drops rising in dew
Limpid as spirits. Many stones lay
Dense and expressionless round about.
I didn't know what to make of it.
I shone, mice-scaled, and unfolded
To pour myself out like a fluid
Among bird feet and the stems of plants.
I wasn't fooled. I knew you at once.

Tree and stone glittered, without shadows.
My finger-length grew lucent as glass.
I started to bud like a March twig:
An arm and a leg, and arm, a leg.
From stone to cloud, so I ascended.
Now I resemble a sort of god
Floating through the air in my soul-shift
Pure as a pane of ice. It's a gift.

- Sylvia Plath

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1. Gaiman, Neil:
aka The Man Who Gave Reading Back To Me! When the depression hit I basically stopped reading, I didn’t read for like 3 years, it was too frustrating, I couldn’t remember anything, couldn’t concentrate and seemingly kept reading the same 3 lines over and over again, because everything was take 2. 3 years ago around xmas I went shopping for a gift for somebody else, at the bookstore a book called "Stardust" lay on top of a display, its cover shot a forest gleaming with beautiful shimmering stardust. I knew the graphic novel Gaiman but I had never read his novels, so I picked it up and also Auster’s “The Invention of Solitude”. I read “Stardust” in a day, I couldn’t put it down, it was about LOVE LOVE LOVE and gave me back my faith in who I am in terms of how I love and feel…the gift he gave back to me shall never ever be repaid.

2. Gold Dust
For a long time I couldn’t stand to hear this song by Tori Amos. It cut through me like a hot knife cuts butter. This summer I was going through a Tori high and put on “Scarlet’s Walk”, I felt the track coming and usually I’d get up and turn it off, I did so for more than 3 years. Not this time, as tears slowly filled my eyes, I regained my song back, all the memories attached to it were gone and I only heard what is one of her biggest musical moments. I also slowly begun regaining a lot that was taken from me since then.

4. Gave up
I tried! I Gave up! - I lived to fight another day and eventually rebuild my life. NIN! TRENT! and Broken! the CD that sparked a full on war with my ex-bf, which Trent won because he left and Trent remained in my life. 3 gigs this year just in time for my bday are etched in my soul, as is having Trent singing Closer to my face on the first night, talk about treats!

5. Great, Bloody, Bruised And Silent Veil Of the World, The
Current 93, LOVE LOVE LOVE, Of Ruine or Some Blazzing Starre, the first CD Pacheco gave me, I miss him dearly and wish I could see him more often because he’s one of the finest human beings I know and that I met due to our mutual love for Current 93. Well, my love, his eternal devotion.

6. Get the girl! Kill the baddies!
Grebo never sounded so tight as it did with this musical gem with a final ecological message. PWEI for life!! Can you dig it?! HELL YEAH!

7. Gregson-Williams, Harry
Who knew that all it took for my fave fusion composer (Spy Game y’all!) to cross-over to another dimension was to do fantasy (Narnia) and an epic (Kingdom of Heaven – the complete score not the poorly edited commercial release). Something happened, a lot clicked, the man emerged a better and stronger composer. Breathtaking moment: the moment in the battle scene in Narnia where he just stopped the music and replaced it with a heartbeat. He took my breath away and left me gasping for air and for more…he delivered more in "The Number 23" film score.

8. Gaudí
Tie-in with Frank Lloyd Wright, Gaudí is a long standing passion, I know Barcelona well because of him, I walked to the middle of nowhere to go see my fave piece of his architecture. It never gets old, I never get tired, the man was a genius, he defined organic architecture, everything he does is ALIVE.

9. Girl, Interrupted
Woman Resurrected…depression, sanity and insanity...my life with it all, haunting to see it well depicted on screen...being threatened with institutionalization made this movie a reality for me. That threat also determined a firm decision that my life is MY OWN and nobody ever dare ever again to threaten to take it from me.

10. Getting there
How far is it?
How far is it now?
The gigantic gorilla interior
Of the wheels move, they appall me ---
The terrible brains
Of Krupp, black muzzles
Revolving, the sound
Punching out Absence! Like cannon.
It is Russia I have to get across, it is some was or other.
I am dragging my body
Quietly through the straw of the boxcars.
Now is the time for bribery.
What do wheels eat, these wheels
Fixed to their arcs like gods,
The silver leash of the will ----
Inexorable. And their pride!
All the gods know destinations.
I am a letter in this slot!
I fly to a name, two eyes.
Will there be fire, will there be bread?
Here there is such mud.
It is a trainstop, the nurses
Undergoing the faucet water, its veils, veils in a nunnery,
Touching their wounded,
The men the blood still pumps forward,
Legs, arms piled outside
The tent of unending cries ----
A hospital of dolls.
And the men, what is left of the men
Pumped ahead by these pistons, this blood
Into the next mile,
The next hour ----
Dynasty of broken arrows!

How far is it?
There is mud on my feet,
Thick, red and slipping. It is Adam's side,
This earth I rise from, and I in agony.
I cannot undo myself, and the train is steaming.
Steaming and breathing, its teeth
Ready to roll, like a devil's.
There is a minute at the end of it
A minute, a dewdrop.
How far is it?
It is so small
The place I am getting to, why are there these obstacles ----
The body of this woman,
Charred skirts and deathmask
Mourned by religious figures, by garlanded children.
And now detonations ----
Thunder and guns.
The fire's between us.
Is there no place
Turning and turning in the middle air,
Untouchable and untouchable.
The train is dragging itself, it is screaming ----
An animal
Insane for the destination,
The bloodspot,
The face at the end of the flare.
I shall bury the wounded like pupas,
I shall count and bury the dead.
Let their souls writhe in like dew,
Incense in my track.
The carriages rock, they are cradles.
And I, stepping from this skin
Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces

Step up to you from the black car of Lethe,
Pure as a baby.

By Sylvia Plath

**I was challenged to write a list of 10 things I like starting with G, anybody can pick up on this if they want to, just pick a letter and run with it.**

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In eight days Al Gore is going to address the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia. At his urging, I've signed an important petition showing I support his important call for a visionary treaty to address the climate crisis. I hope you will too.

http://www.climateprotect.org/standwithal

The world's elected leaders must take the steps necessary to solve global warming. It's not too late. We have the opportunity now to improve the Earth's future for our children, and their children. If we don't act, we will only have ourselves to blame.

Please sign the petition today: http://www.climateprotect.org/standwithal

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http://www.tree-nation.com/the_project.php

please sign up and support this project sponsored by the UN, the planet is all of our concern, not just of the people in each region...

be the change, think globally and act locally...make a difference and care!
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EVERYBODY PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION ON:

POR FAVOR ASSINE ESTA PETIÇAO:

ONDERTEKEN DEZE PETITIE;

http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html

Um cão morreu de fome e sede por causa dum projecto de "Arte" num museu. Se quiser deixar a sua opinião sobre este "artista" e o boicotar, mande um email ao Bienal: mais informação espanhola em baixo:

bienalcostarica@ gmail.com ,

info@ madc.ac.cr

A dog was left to die from starvation and thirst as part of an "art project", children were asked to provoke and scare the dog. The dog died during this "exposition" and because of this art project the artist was selected to take part in the Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008.

Please don't let this monster get away with this cruelty and sign the petition on the petition site and send your opinion to the Bienal:

bienalcostarica@ gmail.com ,

info@ madc.ac.cr

Een zogenaamde artiest uit Costa Rica liet een verhongerde hond sterven voor kunst. Tijdens de tentoonstelling stierf het hondje. De artiest wilde niet dat hem eten noch water gegeven werd en vroeg kinderen het hondje op te jagen en betaalde daarvoor het vuile werk. Hiervoor is hij verkozen zijn land te vertegenwoordigen op de "Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008. Om dit te voorkomen onderteken de petitie en schrijf een mail aan de Bienale:

bienalcostarica@ gmail.com ,

info@ madc.ac.cr

Artista deja morir a un perro en una de sus obras. El artista costarricense Guillermo Vargas, más conocido como Habacuc , está envuelto en una gran polémica debido a la muerte de un perro callejero dentro de Exposición N° 1 , muestra que se realizó en agosto pasado en Managua (Nicaragua)

Boicot a la presencia de Guillermo Vargas en la Bienal Centroamericana
Honduras 2008
Por haber dejado morir de hambre a un perro en una de sus "obras de arte"

Por Favor Firmen para que este acto de cobardia no se repita nunca mas!!

Petición Online:

http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html

http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2007/octubre/04/aldea1263590.html

Exposición realizada en galería Códice en Nicaragua

Artista tico envuelto en polémica por muerte de perro en obra

'Habacuc' recogió a animal hambriento y lo usó en su trabajo "Exposición N°1"

Defensores de animales repudian la acción y piden excluir a artista de bienal

El artista costarricense Guillermo Vargas, más conocido como Habacuc , está envuelto en una gran polémica debido a la muerte de un perro callejero dentro de Exposición N° 1, muestra que se realizó en agosto pasado en Managua (Nicaragua).

Varios defensores de los animales en Costa Rica se enteraron de su obra a través de un blog y lo acusaron ayer de crueldad.

MÁS SOBRE ESTE TEMA

En este blog se pueden observar imágenes y una descripción acerca de la exposición de 'Habacuc' en Nicaragua.
Lo que se vio en Managua. Como parte de su exposición, el artista enfrentó al espectador a un perro callejero flaco, enfermo y con hambre amarrado a la esquina de la sala. Él capturó al animal en un barrio pobre de Managua.

El perro murió tras un día en la exposición, según se lo confirmó a La Nación Marta Leonor González, editora del suplemento cultural de La Prensa en Nicaragua.

La muestra también incluyó la frase, escrita con alimento de perro, "Eres lo que lees"; así como de un audio con el Himno Sandinista al revés, fotos y un incensario , donde se quemaron 175 piedras de crack y una onza de marihuana.

Habacuc dijo ayer que su obra fue un homenaje a Natividad Canda, nicaragüense que murió tras ser atacado por dos perros rottweiler en un taller en Cartago.

"Me reservo decir si es cierto o no que el perro murió . Lo importante para mí era la hipocresía de la gente: un animal así se convierte en foco de atención cuando lo pongo en un lugar blanco donde la gente va a ver arte pero no cuando está en la calle muerto de hambre. Igual pasó con Natividad Canda, la gente se sensibilizó con él hasta que se lo comieron los perros", explicó .

Incluso agregó: " Nadie llegó a liberar al perro ni le dio comida o llamó a la policía. Nadie hizo nada".

Al ser cuestionado acerca de si alimentó al animal o no, el artista se negó a responder.

¿Por qué no usó otro medio de expresión? " Recojo lo que miro... El perro está más vivo que nunca porque sigue dando qué hablar", dijo .

Enojo tico. Varios defensores de los derechos de los animales repudiaron ese trabajo de Habacuc , lo descalificaron como obra de arte y sugirieron que al artista se le excluya de la Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008, ya que él será uno de los seis representantes del país.

"Me espanté al ver que se fomenta la crueldad hacia los animales en una obra de arte. Presentaremos una carta para que se prohiba la crueldad en el arte y para que este muchacho no represente al país en la bienal", expresó Gina Malavassi, defensora de los animales.

José Morales, vicepresidente de la Unidad Especial de Protección y Rescate Animal, opinó. "El perro estaba amarrado y sin comida; no entiendo en qué cabeza eso es arte".

Liliam Schnog, presidenta de la Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal , dijo que no entiende cómo se dejó morir de hambre a un animal si a la par había una frase hecha con comida.

Estas organizaciones estudian el caso con el fin de ver si procede alguna denuncia.

http://www.abc.es/20071006/cultura-arte/provocacion-repugnante_200710060253.html

La provocación repugnante

ABC Dos imágenes del perro al que Guillermo Vargas mató de hambre

FERNANDO CASTRO FLÓREZ

. MADRID

Más madera, esto es la guerra del escándalo «artístico». Tras la polémica de la fotografía de Nam Goldin de las niñas desnudas ahora tenemos el más difícil todavía, esto es, la manifestación de la crueldad «estetizada». El artista costarricense Guillermo Vargas ha dejado morir de hambre a un perro callejero en una instalación que ha montado en una feria de arte en Nicaragua. En una pared ha escrito, con comida de perro, la frase «Eres lo que lees», añadiendo acciones sonora y olfativa o, mejor, narcóticas , que convierten su pieza en el colmo de lo caótico. Así puede escucharse el himno sandinista al revés y asistir a la quema, en un incensario de 175 piedras de crack y una onza de marihuana. No contento con ese cóctel, el artista conocido con el sobrenombre de «Habauc» atrapó un perro en un barrio marginal de Managua y lo ató a una de las paredes de su demencial montaje. Al día siguiente el animal había fallecido .

Homenaje a Natividad Canda

Haciendo frente a la indignación generalizada y a las críticas, el responsable de esta lamentable acción ha venido a decir que su intención es ir contra la hipocresía social. Entre sus confusas intenciones estaba la de homenajear a Natividad Canda, que fue atacado en Cartago (Nicaragua) por unos perros rottweiler. «La gente -subraya Vargas- no se sensibilizó con ese hombre hasta que se lo comieron los perros», añadiendo que tampoco nadie tomó la decisión de alimentar al perro que él estaba «exponiendo», colaborando de esa manera a su muerte. Como es lógico, las asociaciones de defensores de los animales han descalificado esta pretendida obra de arte.

Es realmente sorprendente la proliferación de acciones artísticas que se caracterizan por su violencia como si confiaran en la magia homeopática. Pero no es cierto que en todas las circunstancias «lo semejante con lo semejante se cure». Los contemporáneos sufrimos el «síndrome de Medusa», estamos, literalmente, estupefactos ante la pantalla contemplando toda clase de horrores sin que ni nuestras conciencias ni nuestros estómagos reaccionen. Algunos artistas, convertidos en unos aprendices de mago, profesionales del exorcismo pachanguero, deciden presentar a lo que todavía, inercialmente, llaman «mirada burguesa», cosas repugnantes o sencillamente delictivas. Sus provocaciones encuentran la respuesta convencional: la apatía o la vergüenza ajena.

La brutal «obra» de Guillermo Vargas nos lleva a pensar de nuevo en el sinsentido del arte contemporáneo. Obsesionado por el tabú, esto es, entregado al delirio de tocar y profanar lo que sea, no repara en gastos y gestos. Todas las gesticulaciones , solidarias con la empanada del reality-show, terminan por llevarnos a pensar que sería necesario recuperar la capacidad crítica o, por lo menos, aceptar que, en ciertas ocasiones, tenemos razones para la indignación. Porque el arte no puede ser el paraguas para el vandalismo y, consecuentemente, no tendría que garantizar la impunidad. Chris Burden disparó contra un avión al borde de un aeropuerto, Santiago Sierra llenó una sinagoga en Alemania de gases irrespirables, Teresa Margolles genera vapor con el agua que sirve para limpiar los cadáveres. En alguna ocasión he calificado a estas formas artísticas contemporáneas recurriendo al término «idiota». Y resulta que en vez de dejarnos estupefactos o hacernos pensar, el «realismo cruel» en el que se instala Guillermo Vargas revela más que la idiotez el cumplimiento cínico de la estetización contemporánea . No hay en esa obscena exhibición de atrocidades otra cosa que búsqueda de impacto mediático . Parece ser que este joven artista que se columpia entre la perogrullada y la política de la denuncia estaba invitado a la próxima Bienal Centroamericana. Su estilística era típicamente «bienalista»; tenía todos los elementos de la salsa de moda: un poco de sociología blanda, una tajada de retórica multicultural y algo escabrosa para que se pueda calificar el potaje indigesto como «radical». Rilke encontró en los ojos de una perrita abandonada en su peregrinaje español una interrogación metafísica, algo así como la indicación de una solidaridad melancólica. Seguramente, Guillermo Vargas no ha leído aquellos versos rilkeanos en los que convoca a los perros que nos ven pasar «por un mundo interpretado ». Él, con toda su rabia decorativa, no necesita la poesía: le basta con la brutalidad y ser así, faltándole tanto que leer, un analfabeto bestial. Su provocación es , sencillamente, repugnante.

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Because my life, because this is who I am, because I should clebrate it as it is the GREATEST of qualities...

Wendy - You are the perfect guy.

Xavier - you´re making a mistake... I´m really not! If there is someone on earth who is a wreck, it´s me.

Wendy - That´s what I just said you´re a perfect guy.

Xavier - How come you´re such a nice girl?

Wendy - I´m not being nice... you just happen to be the best thing that´s happened to me in past 26 years.

Xavier - I´m not sure I´m the one guy you´re talking about. The one you think I am.

Wendy - I know you're not always perfect. I know you have tons of problems, defects, imperfections... but who doesn't? It's just that I prefer your problems. I'm in love with your imperfections. Your imperfections are just great!
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I know most girls they get weak on their knees for what's beautiful, you know, that's all they see, that's all they want. But I'm not like that. I don't just see what's beautiful. I fall for the other stuff. I love what's not perfect. It's just how I am.

From the lovely lovely lovely Poupées Russes, you can see the scene here with the amazing track by beth gibbons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_JOxzOM3lk

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She's back!

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