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<B>Amina Tech Plaster-In-Walls:</B> <A HREF="http://www.amina.co.uk./"&gt; Amina Technologies Ltd.</A> of Huntingdon, England is introducing its Plaster-In-Wall speakers to the American market. The Plaster-In-Walls employ NXT-patented high-power flat diaphragms to create "undetectable in-wall or in-ceiling speakers." NXT technology is said to offer improved dispersion characteristics over conventional speakers, making location and listening position far more flexible, according to Amina.

I'll say one thing right off about the Infinity RS-1B: It sure <I>looks</I> as if you're getting your money's worth.

On August 29, Nonesuch Records gave its first donation of $1 million to Habitat for Humanity International. The funds, raised in only eight months through sales of 150,000 copies of Nonesuch's superb benefit album <I>Our New Orleans 2005</I>, will be used to build homes for displaced musicians and others in the New Orleans Habitat Musicians' Village, whose centerpiece will be the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.

Bagheera, gazing down on Huckleberry, can't believe he's too lazy to wake up for breakfast (and she's the svelte one).

Says Huckleberry: "I don't care what the ASPCA says, I am <I>not</I> diurnal&mdash;and even if I were, I definitely wouldn't be a morning kitty!"

Photographer David Burnett has posted his series of photographs of the Gulf coast, taken last January and published in the new <I>National Geographic</I>. It's stunning stuff. Burnett has the eye for both the big picture and the telling detail&mdash;his photo of the refrigerator-magnet&ndash;covered car of a worker at the garbage dump where they destroyed "white goods" is surprisingly touching and human, even though no people are shown.