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| Bullfight backers get reprieve in Spanish region as ... - FOX News Posted: 07 Jun 2010 07:52 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. MADRID MADRID (AP) — Spaniards fighting to save bullfighting won a reprieve Monday as lawmakers in the proud and powerful Catalonia region decided to hold off on a vote to ban the cultural pillar that opponents consider cruel to animals. A vote in the wealthy region around Barcelona had been scheduled for Wednesday and signs were that the deadly duel of toreador and beast could be outlawed there on the grounds that it is cruel. There appears to be less concern over matadors, one of whom, Julio Aparicio, survived a hellish goring last month in which a bull's horn punctured his throat right above the Adam's apple and came out his mouth. But the Catalan regional parliament said Monday the vote has been delayed because the center-right Popular Party requested a ruling from a legal advisory body on whether such a move would violate Spain's constitution or the charter that gives Catalonia a large degree of self rule. The advisory body now has a month to issue a ruling. Many Catalans consider themselves a country within a country, with their own language and substantial self-rule. For many people there the idea of banning bullfighting is as much about rejecting something that smacks of traditional Spain as it about protecting animals from death by sword. If it approves the bill, Catalonia would become the second Spanish region to ban bullfighting. The Canary Islands, off Morocco's coast, did so in 1991. The bill began last year as a petition by grass roots activists who collected 180,000 signatures, more than enough to force the regional legislature to take up the proposed ban. The local branches of Spain's two main parties — Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's Socialists and the Popular Party — oppose the ban. Supporting it are a small Catalan pro-independence party and an ecologically based party. The final tally will apparently be decided by the region's traditionally dominant party — Convergence and Union — a Catalan nationalist coalition that is center-right and pro-business but also a fervent supporter of the distinct Catalan identity. The party says it will allow its members to vote their conscience on banning bullfighting. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Decorative bike racks to rival Cows on Parade - Chicago Sun-Times Posted: 07 Jun 2010 04:06 PM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it.
The $1.15 billion deal that privatized Chicago parking meters — and the subsequent switch to pay-and-display boxes — cost bicycle riders thousands of parking spaces. They used to hitch their wheels to meters. Now, they can't. The shortage of spaces is about to become a boon for local artists.  The City Council's Transportation Committee on Monday authorized an innovative public art program that could someday rival the wildly-popular Cows on Parade. Artists will be asked to design decorative bike racks that double as pieces of public art wherever chambers of commerce, neighborhood groups or a so-called "special services area" bankrolled by local businesses comes up with the money to pay for them. Decorative bike racks are already being installed in a host of cities, including Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Louisville and San Antonio, according to Nathan Mason, curator of special projects for the city's Department of Cultural Affairs. They could become every bit as popular in Chicago, adding a whimsical boost to the city's inventory of 10,000 mundane bike racks that encourages cycling. "I can see it motivating families to bicycle. It's like, 'Let's take the kids and go lock our bikes up to the dog down the street,' " Mason said. "It's a good thing because it addresses the need for more bicycle parking. But, it's a better thing because it employs artists. … People like to use the term `whimsy' in public art a lot. It can be that. But, it can also be a serious design solution." Mason said the project is likely to begin with a design competition wherever the money is found. "It would be fabulous to have hundreds of them. Every ward could get them. … They could be ward-specific," he said, speculating that the design for Lincoln Square might be a 21st Century German. "But, if there's something that some artists comes up with that really takes everybody by storm, then maybe that one gets made more frequently." Ken Herndon, director of operations for the Louisville Downtown Management District, said his city installed the first of its 32 decorative bike racks nine years ago. Instead of asking local artists to submit possible bike rack designs, city planners simply asked to see their portfolios. Those with the most impressive bodies of work were then assigned a location and given free rein to come up with their own design. "We spend only $2,500-apiece, including materials. So, they basically are giving them to the city. But, they have a piece of public art with their name on it over which they have almost complete creative control," he said. Don't expect a surge in bike parking if Chicago follows Louisville's lead. Its decorative bike racks serve anywhere from two-to-12 bikes apiece. "We push the artists to do a piece of art first and a bike rack second. We wanted them to be pieces of sculpture that could also be used as bike racks the general public would enjoy, even if they weren't on bikes," Herndon said. "Any time you can get art in the public way, it makes walking down the street more interesting." In Chicago, Ald. Vi Daley (43rd) came up with the idea for decorative bike racks while working with the Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce to install racks on Clark Street, between Armitage and Diversey. "We wanted to do, not just the regular bike racks. We wanted to do something unique and something different," Daley said. "But, all of the sudden we ran into this obstacle along the way because the city would rather have their standard bike racks. They were concerned about having something bigger, whether it's shaped like a fish [or something else]. How does it fit on the street? Is it too big? Is it too small? Is it too close to the curb?" The new public art program will force the city to be more flexible. And bike riding will benefit. "People come to the ward to see the sculptures. They might do the same thing with bike racks, if they're that unique," she said. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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| Plan To Build Mosque At Ground Zero Draws Fire - KWTX Posted: 07 Jun 2010 12:09 PM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. NEW YORK (June 7, 2010)--A plan to build a mosque and cultural center near ground zero in New York City is drawing fire from families and friends of those who died in the 9/11 attacks. Pamela Geller, executive director of Stop Islamization of America, organized a protest Sunday against the proposal, calling it "an insult" and "demeaning to non-Muslims to build a shrine dedicated to the very ideology that inspired 9/11." She said the mosque should be built somewhere else. Rosemary Cain, whose firefighter son died on 9/11, said a mosque at ground zero is insensitive. A New York City community board approved the plan overwhelmingly last month. Board member Rob Townley said the board believes building the mosque is "a significant step in the Muslim community to counteract the hate and fanaticism in the minority of the community." Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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