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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">L.A. Times Sunday July 24 reports that groups of 40 or more may request a show</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> at the Visualization Portal at UCLA</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">. It is free and lasts about one hour. Could we get together a Friends group of 40</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> persons</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> to go? If so, I will try to set it up. I can guarantee at least 8 to go.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Judy Nollar</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#333333" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">The time machine drops you onto the dusty streets of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B> <FONT COLOR="#333333" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Santiago</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#333333" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> de Compostela in northwestern Spain. The year is 1211.<BR>
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A few hundred yards ahead is a Romanesque cathedral, nearly complete after 100 years of construction</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#333333" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">……</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#333333" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">…</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#333333" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#333333" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">The pilgrimage is so central to Spanish culture, it just pops up everywhere. It's like a major artery or spinal cord for Spain," said professor John Dagenais, who spearheaded the 4-year-old virtual cathedral project. Using writings of the Middle Ages inspired by the pilgrimage, Dagenais said he was able to develop more of "an itinerary than a syllabus,"</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#333333" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">…</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#333333" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#333333" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">When looking at the 9-by-24-foot curved screen with 160-degree views, observers also can access backup data and historical documents</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#333333" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#333333" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">To enhance the Santiago de Compostela model, Dagenais has independent-study students in Spain collect data from the cathedral each summer. Last year, Reid was part of a group that recorded ambient sound. Armed with digital equipment, Reid and seven other students simultaneously recorded sounds throughout the chapel that now play in the UCLA theater.<BR>
"The sounds [in 1211] would have just blown you away," Dagenais said. "It was noisy, with conversations in many languages and music from pilgrims who came from different countries."<BR>
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You're back inside the cathedral, walking down the center of the pewless building. Above is a barrel-vaulted ceiling the length of a football field. To your right, on the second floor, is an open gallery where pilgrims stay.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#333333" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR>
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