EVENT # 259: HEROIC
EVENT # 259: HEROIC G21 LATIN AMERICA:
When Business & Conservation Join ForcesJON KOHL
While the conservationist round table today may still have more chairs than stakeholders, they are starting to even out.
A couple of weeks ago Pico Bonito National Park in Honduras filled another seat with some help from RARE Center, a non-profit conservation organization based in Arlington, Virginia. On January 19, the RARE Center board of directors -- while visiting the Lodge at Pico Bonito, Honduras's hottest new eco-resort, located in the port city of La Ceiba -- witnessed the signing of a unique alliance. This new alliance brings an important tourism business and a conservation organization together around the same table. Also during this meeting, board members heard from the president of the new Mesoamerican Ecotourism Alliance.... More
Rosemary Nelson & The Quest for JusticeJAMES J. BROSNAHAN, ESQ. & DAN VANDEMORTEL
Two years ago, around midday on March 15, in Lurgan, Rosemary Nelson climbed into her car, backed out of her driveway, and set off on the short distance to her office in the city center. At the first intersection, less than 100 yards from her home, a bomb planted underneath her car sometime within the previous 48 hours, detonated. Nelson's three young children, in a nearby school, heard the explosion. Neighbors and family rushed to the scene, followed by a mobile medical team, but there was little that could be done. Nelson lost both legs, suffered severe abdominal injuries, and died a few hours later after unsuccessful surgery to save her life. She is survived by her husband and three children... More
Like Frank CapraROD AMIS23 March, 2001 - It seems we have our own shooting stars. If you looked at the video of the space station Mir re-entering Earth's atmosphere, available here online, it was impossible to escape that conclusion. Another event to add to my list for this celebratory month of mine. Those of you who pay attention to such little details will have noticed that I've been not-so-quietly hacking (as we used to call it) the cover of The World's Magazine during this month. It's actually looked different from one day to the next.
I've been working toward something you'll see congeal on Monday. That's when the OFFICIAL Year Six cover design kicks in... More
TanzaniaBINYAVANGA WAINAINAI landed in Dar es Salaam so numb from grief that I felt detached from everything. Tanzanians amaze me - they have a languid self-assurance I have seen nowhere else. It really goads us Kenyans - we like to feel that we are a progressive people who have left all this commmunal African nonsense and acquired a hard-nosed get-with-the-programme attitude. In which other African airport can you get real assistance?
I walk from one official to another, irate that my luggage seems to have disappeared. Everyone is hugely supportive and soon the entire airport seems to know that my luggage is missing and I am headed for a funeral. I am overwhelmed by assistance. ...More
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MEMOIRS OF THE INFORMATION AGE:
The Search EnginesROD AMIS19 March, 2001 - The shake-up at Yahoo!.com this month, with CEO Tim Koogle stepping over to Board chairman and announcing a search for a new person at the helm, highlights the fact that even the portals and search engines are looking for more stable models. To look at where this development, coupled with other incidents among the search engines is taking "surfers", Silicon conducted a broad assessment of the sector. Relational.com analyst Dixon Jones had this to say: "Yahoo and AltaVista may be happy to ignore a young upstart like Goto when the going is good, but not when they start to take market share.
Thus we find Yahoo! announcing that it is changing its model to focus on the business services side of its offerings --- a major departure from the advert-based model which it has used since its inception. This move means becoming akin to an ASP and could put Yahoo! in direct competition with Loudcloud, for example... More
And She Said...RADIO RAHEEM
I was kindah hopin', as he said he was leaving Baltimore in June, that our publisher would be my best man. But I know I can depend on him like I can expect Secretary of State Colin Powell to support Andrew Young for Ambassador to Kenya, if you understand where I'm comin' from. So maybe I should ask Aziz. Now that we have officially announced our plans to get married it seems like folks are comin' out of the woodwork with advice about what we should expect. Not only that, of course, but also we have been talking more to each other about what people are sayin' and what we think about the whole thang.... More COMING MONDAYA new look for the magazine; NATALIA ABAKANOVITCH on pop culture in G21 EUROPE; KEVIN CAREY on the food virus in Europe in DAY ONE; BOB POWERS returns to look at music in POWERSSOUND AND MORE!
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RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT: : [EDITOR'S NOTE: We've admired the work of Los Angeles journalist and author Lionel Rolfe from a distance and wanted to feature him here. The problem was that we couldn't think of anyone better to interview Lionel than... well, Lionel. So that is what we commissioned him to do. --RA]
G21: Your book DEATH AND REDEMPTION IN LONDON & L.A. presents a convincing case that your soul already belongs to London, yet you stay in the City of the Angels. What gives? Into pain or something? Lionel Rolfe: I think of that a lot. Obviously I get some enjoyment from Los Angeles, and it is a place where people still know me as a writer -- for better or for worse. My daughter Hayla is here and I have a lot of good friends here still. My book LITERARY L.A. (a third edition is due soon) was originally published in 1981 by Chronicle Books. But going to London a few times this last couple of years, in addition to a long stay in 1971, made me realize I feel at home in London and out of place in the city that Los Angeles is becoming. My mom, Yaltah Menuhin, lives in London and at 80, she is starting to give concerts again and getting rave reviews. Ižm sure inertia has a lot to do with why I have stayed in Los Angeles, though. Ižve been published a lot in Los Angeles newspapers and magazines, even though these days Ižm reduced to being a police beat reporter for a wire service in L.A. Still, I hope Ižm ultimately headed to living in London. A transition began for me when I then wrote FAT MAN ON THE LEFT: FOUR DECADES IN THE UNDERGROUND which attracted a fair amount of attention, but only sold so so. Can I tell a bit about that? It relates to DEATH & REDEMPTION. G21: Sure. Lionel Rolfe: I wrote Fat Manū originally as an op-ed piece for the San Francisco Chronicle, where I once worked as a reporter. Nigey Lennon, who is now my estranged wife but was then quite married, and I had driven around the streets of Sacramento, where we were visiting an old newspaper friend of mine from my days at the Chronicle in the late sixties. We heard this bizarre shock jock. His name was Rush Limbaugh. It was all put-down stuff -- not very appealing, really. When this same bizarre fellow was elevated to national status, I wrote the Chronicle piece -- and later published FAT MAN. DEATH & REDEMPTION talks about what happened after Nigey left me after 25 years of marriage. The book began as a personal odyssey to work out the man-woman thing. I figured there really are no such things as experts in that area -- wežre all equally expert.
But a few months into the project, I was less sure of that. Besides, my uncle Yehudi Menuhin, the world famous violinist, suddenly died, and so did a friend, Nieson Himmel, who worked at the Times as a cop reporter. So to sex and love and all that stuff, I added death. That combination of things demands one find some sort of redemption... "Rolfe on Rolfe" LIONEL ROLFE More
The California Zephyr, which crashed this week, was a happy enough ride for me a month ago, but then Amtrak is always a little dicey. Even my own safe trip was not without grim possibilities, or, even, consequences. That it is now crashed only lends to the deeper mystery of its long traverse across the continent -- well, at least from Chicago, through the Rockies, onward to San Francisco. The cause of the crash is still up in the air, but even if ruled as an accident it must mean -- something.
The "accident" being in the Midwest, in Iowa, where the train derailed for reasons unknown, with one dead and 90 injured, it's easy enough to see: It can happen here..."The Mysterious California Zephyr" DOUGLAS MC DANIEL More
It makes sense.
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HONDURAS - If you have ever immersed yourself in the scriptures of natural park conservation, you may have come across the Legend of the Perfectly Managed Park. In this faraway land, there was a park where all the subjects and royalty (called "stakeholders" in the old texts) periodically convened at a round table. They debated battle strategies and logistical campaigns in the name of park protection and development. Then each threw down his share of gold and pledged his sword to the Perfectly Managed Park.
St. Patrick's Day provides everyone with an annual opportunity to partake in a "wee bit" of Irish song, dance, food, and drink, as well as to reflect on Irish accomplishments and history, both on the "old sod" and here at home. Recently, it has also become an occasion for legal professionals and those concerned with Irish affairs to remember Rosemary Nelson, a courageous human rights lawyer slain in Northern Ireland under suspicious, unsolved circumstances.
OAKTOWN, CALI - NOW we get down to it. Me and Tanya are makin' lists and checkin' 'em twice. She's got kinfolk I never suspected or heard of before now. And then I have to invite my own Louisiana geechie relatives back up here this summer --- like I didn't have enough of them last winter.
Maybe one of the golden spikes for the continental railroad gave out. Or, something else. One could just as easily imagine a group of barn-storming right wingers, as a kind of vigil and protest for Timothy McVeigh, America's least wanted murderous youth -- one could just as easily imagine something from out of the Turner Diaries. Such has been in the case in Arizona, where Nazi youth calling themselves the Vipers derailed a train in the boon-dock desert of that state. When we were kids we used to say you could derail a train by putting a quarter on a railroad track. I never tried, but we could imagine the sparks that might make.
