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Jūratė Statkutė de Rosales nuo 1984 metų yra Venesuelos savaitinio žurnalo „Zeta" vyriausioji redaktorė. Ilgą laiką bendradarbiavo su laikraščiu „Dirva" Klevelande, JAV. Retkarčiais rašo Ispanijos spaudai ir turi nuolatinę skiltį Venesuelos dienraštyje „El Nuevo Pais". Yra gavusi už kultūrinį ir žurnalistinį aukščiausius Venesuelos valdžios ir Karakaso miesto ordinus, 1989 metais buvo visos Pietų Amerikos „Iberų Amerikos Žurnalistų Organizacijos" diplomuota kaip tų „Metų asmenybė".  Lietuvos Prezidento apdovanota 1996 metais LDK Gedimino ordino Riterio Kryžiumi.

Šiuo metu Jūratės rankose esantis žurnalas atstovauja Venesuelos opozicinei minčiai. Žurnalas šalyje turi aukščiausią savaitinių leidinių tiražą.

Jūratė Statkutė de Rosales ispanų kalba yra išleidusi  knygą „Los Godos". Dvi laidos, 1998 ir 1999 metų, sukėlė ispanų kalbos pasaulyje netikėtą susidomėjimą. Šiek tiek vėliau knygą anglų kalba ir pavadintą „Goths and Balts" išleido Vydūno Jaunimo Fondas Čikagoje.

Daugiau apie Jūratę Rosales (ten pat galima paklausyt įdomų interviu Žinių radijo laidoje "Avilys")

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.
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Humanity knows nothing at all. There is no intrinsic value in anything, and every action is futile, meaningless effort.
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If we do have a food crisis it will not be caused by insufficiency of nature's productive power, but by the extravagance of human desire.

Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution (PDF of the book here)

Mano kvartirantas Adam'as jau antrus metus organizuoja knygų keitimosi renginį.

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Everyone has books that they have read before and will likely never read again. So instead of letting them sit there on your shelves, swap them with people at the Vilnius Book Swap.

The idea is that you bring books that would be interesting to others and take home books that you might not be able to get or just can't afford.

There are no particular rules, but generally it works like this - give a book, take a book. One for one. Of course if I bring the original handwritten works of Charles Dickens or Leo Tolstoy, you might want to trade that for two books :D

Books in any language are welcome.

The principles behind the Vilnius Book Swap are freecycling, and trade. There is no reason to give book publishers reason to cut down more trees and make more money when we can just trade the books.

If there are any left over books that people want, we will donate these to some worthy cause - it could be a school that needs reading material or just some other place. Its up for discussion.

One point however - do not bring 10 copies of last year's guide to a festival or 13 copies of an EU publication. No one actually wants these to swap. Put these in a recycling bin or give them back to the producer.

Date:
20 June 2009
Time:
13:00 - 15:00
Location:
Woo Bar, Vilniaus g. 22

Reikia knygų? Knygų yra. gigapedia.com

Here in Chicago, for instance, it is important to recover the memory of May First. The first time I came here, years ago, I was amazed that most people I encountered didn’t know that this universal worker’s fiesta—at once a tragedy and a fiesta, an homage paid to the Haymarket martyrs at the end of the 19th century—came from Chicago. And Chicago has deleted this memory, which is so important for the entire world. In present times, it’s more important than ever, because each May First, crowds and crowds of people, different languages, different cultures, different continents, all celebrate the right to organize.

Writer without borders - interviu su Eduardo Galeano, kyngos 'Atvertos amerikos venos' autorium

In April of 1925, a legendary British explorer named Percy Fawcett launched his final expedition into the depths of the Amazon in Brazil. His destination was the lost city of El Dorado, the “City of Gold,” an ancient kingdom of great sophistication, architecture, and culture that, for some reason, had vanished. The idea of El Dorado had captivated anthropologists, adventurers, and scientists for 400 years, though there was no evidence it ever existed. Hundreds of expeditions had gone looking for it. Thousands of men had perished in the jungles searching for it. Fawcett himself had barely survived several previous expeditions and was more determined than ever to find the lost city with its streets and temples of gold.

The world was watching. Fawcett, the last of the great Victorian adventurers, was financed by the Royal Geographical Society in London, the world’s foremost repository of research gathered by explorers. Fawcett, then age 57, had proclaimed for decades his belief in the City of Z, as he had nicknamed it. His writings, speeches, and exploits had captured the imagination of millions, and reports of his last expedition were front page news.

They were never seen again. Fawcett’s daily dispatches trickled to a stop. Months passed with no word. Because he had survived several similar forays into the Amazon, his family and friends considered him to be near super-human. As before, they expected Fawcett to stumble out of the jungle, bearded and emaciated and announcing some fantastic discovery. It did not happen.

The great mystery of what happened to Fawcett has never been solved, perhaps until now. The Lost City of Z is a riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure by David Grann.

Daugiau apie šią naują knygą ir interviu su autoriumi - Amazon.com.

Sausio 8 d., Lietuvos Respublikos Seimo liberalų sąjūdžio frakcijos nariai Dalia Kuodytė ir Vytautas Grubliauskas kreipėsi į Valstybės saugumo departamento (VSD) vadovą prašydami išsiaiškinti, ar keturi interneto tinklalapiai, tarp jų – ir anarchija.lt, nepažeidžia Lietuvos Respublikos įstatymų.

Pilnas anarchija.lt pareiškimas

Esu žemaitis, o gal ir kuršžemaitis (giminės šaknys eina nuo Kuršių ir Žemaitijos žemių ribos). Pastaruosius kelis metus mane vis labiau domina kuršių istorija ir kultūra. Daug nesiplėsiu, tik čia pasižymiu paskutinių dienų aptiktus įdomesnius straipsnius ta tema.

Šiaurės atėnai: Ar tebesame baltų civilizacija? Interviu su Latvijos nacionalinio istorijos muziejaus direktoriumi, archeologu dr. Arniu Radiniu (kokia pavardė!)

Kęstutis Milkeraitis (žr. Wikipedia). Juodkrantės spalvos. Apie kuršių ir kuršininkų likimą – ir užmiršimą - paskutiniaisiais amžiais. (Ačiū už nuorodą Kiprui)

Betyrinėdamas skaitmenizuotą XVII a. Oekonomische Encyklopädie, taip pat aptikau kuršių paminėjimą netikėtuose kontekstuose. Žr. čia (tiesa, tik vokiškai): Curisches Bier ir Curländische Eishunde.

Ir pabaigai paminėsiu bene išsamiausią šaltinį, nerealią A. Žulkaus monografiją “Kuršiai Baltijos jūros erdvėje” (Vilnius: Versus aureus, 2004).

Dar Lietuvos nacionaliniame muziejuje šiuo metu eksponuojama baltų archeologijos paroda "Kuršiai - baltų vikingai" iš Lietuvos ir Latvijos muziejų.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
- A. A. Milne

much still remains unknown about the sequence of events that led to war. But as the true facts slowly emerge, they raise many questions not just about Georgia’s actions, but also about western policies towards the region, and how the conflict was presented to the western public.

Daugiau - Businessweek straipsnyje.

(Ta, Aivars)