| Raising money, having fun
Rustys Raptor Center at Woodleaf Outdoor School received a fundraising boost compliments of Hawk Flight 2007 at the Yuba-Sutter Fairgrounds. The event, in its 10th year, showcased not only birds from the raptor center, but animals from the Sacramento Zoo, Classroom Safari and Joe Roy Aerial Predators. Kids also created earth eggs and help craft a giant nest for the eggs in the events recycled art project. The event also included Hawk Drop, a giant balloon filled with origami hawks. Meanwhile, hundreds participated in the annual Yuba City MS Walk to raise money for multiple sclerosis research. Starting at the Feather Down Shopping Center, participants roamed a 5-kilometer course though town, with rest stops available along the course. The walk, sponsored by the Northern California Chapter of the National MS Society, was held in connection with walks in 11 other cities from Fresno to Santa Rosa.
An Artist in Many Media
Pigeonholing William Kentridge has become no easier in the three years since he visited New York in connection with his production of "Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria" ("Ulysses' Homecoming"), the opera by Monteverdi. "I wish there were a proper English word for the kind of artist I am," he told me then. "Not draftsman. That's someone who does technical drawings of buildings and bridges. Mainly I draw, and sometimes I film the drawings or make a theater production. But the process is still like drawing. It's working from the center outward. If somebody asks me, 'How would you do X?,' ... .
Big B guards thrash lensmen
MUMBAI: A photojournalist of a Mumbai-based newspaper fell unconscious after being kicked in the abdomen by security guards outside the Bachchan residence Prateeksha, on Saturday night. B L Soni, the journalist, had to be rushed to Aryogya Nidhi Hospital at Juhu, where his condition is said to be stable.
Three more lensmen who were trying to get close-ups of the newlywed couple as their car was entering the Juhu bungalow around 7 pm, received bruises after being caned by security guards.
Following this, journalists sat on a dharna outside Prateeksha demanding an apology from the Bachchans. The senior inspector of Juhu police station, P Shinde, has promised to look into the complaint of journalists in this regard. "The safari-clad security guards outside the Bachchan home were behaving very badly with the media today.
Senegal: An Ongoing Battle Against Deforestation
Where does a four-fold increase in a country's population over half a century make itself felt most acutely? Concerning Senegal, the answer to this might well be: in the forests. At the time of independence in 1960, the West African country was home to three million people. By 1976, the figure had increased to seven million, while in July 2006 it stood at some 11.9 million. .
A Not-So-Distant Past, And a People's Future
In the 1950s, at a time when most families vacationed in the country, at resorts, or even in Disneyland, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas spent her wide-eyed youth with her family in the African Bush. Through this experience and her vast sensitivity, Thomas, now in her 70s, tells the story of the Ju/wasi (the slash and other such symbols represent clicking sounds of their language, !Kung) of Nyae Nyae, Namibia, known by others as Bushmen.
Much of The Old Way reads like an anthropological text. While fascinating as such, a large quantity of the work, if taken out of context, is too academic to be moving. The author presents much factual information (at times it seems like a list), most, if not all, of which is methodically reasoned through - however, often in a less-than-objective manner.
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