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we will give further corespondence at @ 6pm Italian time as we are currently docked in Venice at a funny little garden

A bientot

Dear All,

I'm not sure if this is naughty or goes against any forum ethics. If so I'm sorry. Anyway here goes.

Me and three others mantain a website called UNEASYsilence www.uneasysilence.com . It's a "weird news" blog and in it we post articles relating to many categories including tech, gadgets, humour, stupid stuff and other information. It's highly updated daily with lots of cool things. I invite you to come by every now and then and leave comments if you so wish. :)

The site is mostly American and I'm the "European link" so to say. If you have any information of weird goings on in our side off the world please inform me! It'll be great to make the site more international.

Hello dear ark friends,

It's that time of the year again. The weather sucks, it's too cold for your shorts and too hot for your snowboard, so we need something to kill the time:

People that have had the pleasure of attending one of the earlier editions know what it's about. But this year, your humble hosts will also provide visitors with an architectural program.

So far, we have confirmations from:

Jovan_UK, Alex_BE, Kotryna_LI, Rita_POR, Jim_UK

not confirmed, but certainly interested:

Nawale_FR, Ivonne_DE, Jerome_FR, and others i can't remember right now.

If you are not on this list, but you do want to come, please send an email to mdashorst@gmail.com

no costs, we provide food, pivo's and accomodation, only the travel expenses are one's own responsibility.

till the 27th?

Your Pivo Sesam 2006 Hosts,

Jelk and Marten

Hello ppl!!!

APELA is this new portuguese association that represents the students and the new-graduated in architecture and we want to put everybody talking about all the problems we have in Portugal concerning architecture. I knew Herman in last October, in a congress we had in Coimbra, and we told him that we want to put Portugal again in the EASA map. So, here we are! The portuguese nc is missing for so long and I wonder how can we change it. APELA is preparing some summer activity and we hope to say somethig soon. I'm sorry for my english, I'm a bit rusty. ;)

Hopes and dreams to everybody!!!

Diogo Corredoura

(Presidente of the APELA)

1- What is an architect in today's society? 2- Define "innovative architect" 3- How should one practice architecture? 4- What are the architect's responsibilities? 5- What or where is architecture's laboratory? 6- How can architecture be taught today?

109 Provisional Attempts to Address Six Simple and Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today and Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow

On the occasion of the farewell to Wiel Arets and the welcoming of Alejandro Zaera-Polo as dean, Berlage Institute organized an international symposium and this special edition of Hunch 6/7 on the question: "What will the architect enact tomorrow?" More than 100 international architects, theoreticians and critics were challenged to address this question. [...] In the introductory article Roemer van Toorn analyzes the positions contemporary architecture is taking, the issues it deals with or denies, and the positions it could take in the future.

Dunk's invitation to us was to ask and answer those questions for ourelf ... and maybe share them here on the blog? ;-)

hello people i want to participate how and what should i do to get in? im from georgia but curently in germany. who should i contact? david the old nc is.... not nc eny more i think and new one is not listed yet. shoud i wait?

an open system of a book entitled "alvar aalto was an anarchist" is being put together. your contributions, questions, views, ideas are all most welcome. especially from our finnish friends and from obelix, i forget his real name; one of the swiss team who was at roubaix thanks dunk

for further reading, listening and viewing:

living (written piece)

anarchy and revolution (written piece)

Anarchy and Organisation (written piece)

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you can help stop this, please do take 30 seconds to help save a life

perhaps the kidnappers believe Margaret Hassan is british, or maybe they are confused about the fact that éire is nothing to do with the british state? (i say this as i spent some time in muslim countries and many thought we were part of britain)

there is no sense in killing her. i hope and believe she will be home soon. inshallah

you can help by telling the kidnappers and al-jezeera that she is irish and therefor can not be used as a bargaining chip with britain please go to their website and help make this point thanks to those that read this and help www.aljazeera.com

dunk

further news as it develops here www.indymedia.ie