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New Rochelle Schools Superintendent Accelerates Departure to October 25th

September 14, 2013 - 21:54

NEW ROCHELLE, NY -- New Rochelle Schools Superintendent Richard Organisciak's tenure as the district's senior administrator will end in five weeks according to an open letter from Organisciak posted on the district's web site.

New Rochelle And Westchester County Police Searching Nature Study Woods

September 14, 2013 - 19:37

New Rochelle Police received a call about a woman screaming outside of the Nature study woods off Webster Avenue in New Rochelle early Saturday afternoon.When police arrived a woman walked back into the woods with police following her New Rochelle police requested help from Westchester County police who also responded to the scene." alt="I

Forest City Rep that Made Corruption Freudian Slip Gave Large Donation to Noam Bramson's Campaign

September 11, 2013 - 18:58

NEW ROCHELLE, NY -- In a stunning revelation, it has been discovered that the Forest City Representative that made a Freudian slip during the Echo Bay FEIS hearing gave a large personal donation to Noam Bramson's County Executive Campaign. This information was found on the NY State Campaign Financial Disclosures Contributions Search Page

Maisano Defies Independence Party Bosses, Trounces Endorsed Candidate by 4:1 Margin to Secure Party Line

September 11, 2013 - 17:25

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Lightning Strike Kills Woman on Horseback and Her Horse

A teen rider was also seriously injured
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(Newser) – A 37-year-old woman was killed by a lightning strike as she rode her horse on a trail in Sedalia, Colo. The Douglas County Sheriff's Office says the woman was riding along Rainbow Creek Road with a 15-year-old girl when lightning hit them at 3:24pm Sunday. They were on their way to meet the woman's mother, reports the AP. The office says the woman was pronounced dead at the scene along with her horse. The girl was taken in serious condition to a nearby hospital. The office did not release the names of the woman or the girl. It says both were residents of the neighborhood and experienced horseback riders.

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Steve Harvey Defends 'Do Not Approach' Order

He says dressing room became a 'prison'
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(Newser) – Steve Harvey has confirmed ordering his talk show staff not to approach him—and he says it was necessary. The Steve Harvey Show host told Entertainment Tonight Thursday that he had always tried to be an approachable boss, but some people were "taking advantage" of the policy. "I just didn't want to be in this prison anymore where I had to be in this little room, scared to go out and take a breath of fresh air without somebody approaching me," he said, per the Hollywood Reporter. His memo to staffers told them to stop "ambushing" him in the hallways or coming to his dressing room uninvited. "IF YOU OPEN MY DOOR, EXPECT TO BE REMOVED," he wrote.

Harvey, who was mercilessly mocked on social media after the memo was leaked, said he isn't going to apologize, but he admitted that, in hindsight, he probably should have handled the matter a little differently, the New York Times reports. Harvey is in the process of moving his show from Chicago to Los Angeles and the memo was emailed before the start of the current season, which finished production in Chicago Thursday. Sources tell Page Six that the host skipped the wrap party. "After that memo, he'd be stood on his own in the corner," one insider says. "He used to be such a nice guy."

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Catholic Bishop Tells Priests: No Funerals for Gay Couples

The Bishop of Illinois also denies same-sex couples last rites
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(Newser) – Two years after the Supreme Court made gay marriage legal, the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Ill., has issued a decree instructing his priests to not only refuse to perform gay marriage services but to deny Holy Communion, last rites, and funeral services to members of same-sex couples who don’t express "repentance before death." In the decree, Bishop Thomas Paprocki calls marriage a "covenant between one man and one woman" and the Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell vs. Hodges decision a "reversal of millennia of legal and judicial recognition of the marital union." When Illinois made gay marriage legal four years ago, Paprocki performed a public exorcism in response, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Paprocki's decree instructs that children of same-sex couples can be baptized and may receive first communion and the Sacrament of Confirmation but that the child's parents will not be allowed to serve as sponsors in those rites. The Washington Post reports Paprocki emailed his decree to clergy and staff last week, sparking anger among some church officials and Catholic LGBTQ activists hoping to build on the more liberal teachings of Pope Francis, who wrote last summer that while the church would continue to prohibit gay marriage, the clergy should not use "moral laws" like a weapon, reported the Post at the time. Paprocki completed his decree by saying that "while being clear and direct about what the Church teachers, our pastoral ministry must always be respectful, compassionate, and sensitive."

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Bill Gates is not returning to the space industry any time soon

Once upon a time, space enthusiasts had a fixation on Bill Gates. If the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft would just devote some of his massive wealth to space businesses, people argued back in the 1990s at the height of Microsoft’s dominance of the computer industry, startup companies would have all the funding they would need to develop reusable launch vehicles and other systems that would revolutionize access to and utilization of space.

In the last decade, a number of billionaires have done just that, backing space startups: Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic, Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin, and Elon Musk and SpaceX. While these ventures have enjoyed some success, don’t count on Gates to follow in their footsteps. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, journalist Brad Stone asks Gates if commercial spaceflight was “interesting” to him or worthwhile to humanity. Gates’s response:

Everybody’s got their own priorities. In terms of improving the state of humanity, I don’t see the direct connection. I guess it’s fun, because you shoot rockets up in the air. But it’s not an area that I’ll be putting money into.

That sounds like a no. Not mentioned, though, is that Gates once did invest in the space business—and it didn’t turn out well for him. In the 1990s he was one of the early investors in Teledesic, a company planning to operate a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites providing broadband data services. In an era when companies like Iridium and Globalstar were planning (and eventually did deploy) fleets of dozens of satellites, Teledesic’s plan stood out: it originally planned to launch on the order of 900 satellites to provide global coverage. Over time the number of satellites fell, to 288 and then 120, but it still stood out as a venture more audacious than anything being seriously considered at the time. (See this presentation from (likely) the late 1990s for an overview of their plans at the time.)

Teledesic, though, was a victim of the telecom bust at the turn of the century that hit satellite ventures particularly hard, thanks in part to the rapid proliferation of terrestrial alternatives. The company scaled back its plans further, proposing a 30-satellite system, but even that was too much. In June 2003, Teledesic surrendered the FCC license for its satellite system, ending its bid to deploy a system without launching anything more than a single test satellite. Gates invested an unspecified amount—thought to be in the tens of millions of dollars—into the failed Teledesic.

Despite that experience, though, Gates is not totally divorced from the space industry. He is an investor in Kymeta, a company developing advanced satellite communications antenna technology. Gates was an initial investor in the company, which recently raised a $50-million Series C round. Kymeta, though, appears focused for now on the groundbased aspects of antenna technology and not space-based systems.

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Richard Schmitt will leave Austrian free daily Heute this month after serving the paper for six years. According to Die Presse Schmitt was already warned some months ago because his ‘raw’ ways of dealing with people did not fly with all staff members.

Schmitt’s successor will be Wolfgang Ainetter who currently works for German boulevard newspaper Bild Zeitung.

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London, Oct 4 (IANS) Despite a massive surge in revenue in its UK operations, Facebook paid only 5.1 million pounds in corporation tax last year, media reported on Wednesday.

According to The Guardian, Facebook UK revenues were up from 210.8 million pounds to 842.4 million pounds last year.

The profits were 58 million pounds — compared to 52 million pounds — in 2015.

“But its UK corporation tax only rose to 5.1 million pounds from 4.2 million pounds a year earlier, and once deductible expenses were applied, the company only paid 2.58 million pounds,” the report noted.

In April 2016, Facebook began booking more advertising income via its UK office instead of in Ireland, BBC reported.

Facebook and some other tech firms like Apple came under scrutiny last year for using the “Double Irish” method to drastically reduce tax burdens.

“Last April, we actively chose to reorganise our company structure to record revenues from our large UK sales customers in the UK,” a Facebook spokesperson was quoted as saying.

“We believed this would provide greater transparency on our operations in London and be easier for people to understand. These accounts reflect that change,” the spokesperson added.

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Apple Doesn’t Rise On Record-Setting Homer

The Mets established a franchise record when Travis d’Arnaud hit the team’s 219th homer in the eighth inning. So, what accompanied the record-setting moment could best be described as “typical Mets’’ when the Home Run Apple failed to rise.

That prompted the scarce crowd to chant for the Apple, which resulted in a Bronx cheer when it finally was raised.

Just curious, but could the Apple have been damaged when Daniel Murphys homer struck the casing? It would have been apropos.

The homer gave the Mets a three-run lead, which turned out to be very important as the Braves scored twice in the ninth against Jeurys Familia.

Mets starters sharp: Chris Flexen’s line of four runs in five innings, looked worse than it really was. Three of those runs came in the sixth when Josh Smoker gave up those inherited runners, which was the decisive point in the 9-2 loss in Game 1 of the doubleheader.

What I don’t understand is why manager Terry Collins waited so long to replace Flexen. Why would Collins keep Flexen in the game to load the bases, with two of the runners coming on walks?

One criticism of Collins is that he has stuck with his starters too long, forcing the bullpen to enter with little-to-no wiggle room. Collins has to have a better understanding of how long his starters would pitch. He had to know Flexen wasn’t going to make it through the sixth after the leadoff hitter reached on a single.

In the second game, Seth Lugo struck out seven and gave up two hits in six scoreless innings.

Collins said Lugo will get another appearance to make another impression before the offseason, but wouldn’t say how.

If Collins sticks to the rotation order, it would be Saturday in Philadelphia, but he hasn’t defined how he’ll use Noah Syndergaard and Matt Harvey.

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  1. You nailed, John! What is Collins thinking by leaving these pitchers in so long. Other managers are pulling starters quicker than ever but Terry thinks he’s “teaching” them by allowing to get out of their own trouble! Enough is enough. That’s not teaching – that’s torture.


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A Compact Co-Planar Waveguide-Fed Zeroth-Order Resonant Antenna

Zeroth-order resonant (ZOR) antenna manufactured on microstrip transmission lines has attracted great interest in the small antenna applications. Many techniques have been employed in order to miniaturize the composite right/left handed (CRLH) transmission line (TL) unit cell size, such as using meander line shunt stubs [1] or using the Sievenpipe

r`s mushroom structure[2]. In[2], a mushroom-type two unit-cells ZORA with the small size of 0. 17 »0 0. 17 »0 at 3. 38 GHz was presented. The peak gain and radiation efficiency of this antenna were 0. 87 dBi and 70%, respectively. In order to further reduce the antenna size, a spiral slot structure on the ground was used[3]; the measured peak gain and radiation efficiency of this antenna were 0. 28 dBi and 62%, respectively. However, small ZOR antennas employing a CRLH resonator made up of two or three cells suffer from a low radiation efficiency and poor gain in the zeroth-order resonant mode[4]. Various solutions designed to improve the ZOR an- tenna`s efficiency have been under investigation. One approach used for ZOR antenna radiation efficiency has been to increase the vertical via-hole height over the improvement ground plane using an air substrate[5]. The drawbackof this design is in the difficulties found in manufacturing the antenna. Recently, a 0. 145 »0 0. 172 »0 at 2. 03 GHz co-planar waveguide (CPW) type ZOR antenna was presented in[6]. However, its measured peak gain and radiation efficiency were only 1. 35 dBi and 62%, respectively. This is thought to be due to the small radiator size, as well as from losses caused by the antenna structures, such as the shorted meander lines. In order to achieve an efficient ZOR antenna with a high gain, it is thought that the number of CRLH resonator unit cells needs to be...

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Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Putsch pendantry

The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson writes of the anti-Brown plot.

If they succeed a man or woman who has not been elected by the public would replace a man who has himself not been elected by the public.

This is without precedent - in this country at least.

Not true, since Neville Chamberlain took office in 1937, some time after the 1935 general election, before being replaced by Winston Churchill in May 1940. He is the only 20th century Prime Minister never to fight, win or lose a General Election as a party leader.

And, if you wanted to be super-super-pedantic (oh, go on then!), even if you added "without precendent in peacetime", that still wouldn't quite be right either.

Not a lot of people know that the Conservative government resigned, and let the Liberals govern, in December 1905 before their landslide defeat in the January 1906 General Election.

Which meant that Arthur Balfour was selected, without a General Election, in 1902 to replace his Uncle Lord Salisbury as PM, and that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman replaced him as Prime Minister in 1905 before the two men fought a General Election against each other in 1906.

Despite astonishingly using the Tory campaign slogan "We can't go on like this" today, I don't think Patricia Hewitt or Geoff Hoon are proposing that the Labour government should follow that precedent.

13eastie said...

"I believe it is peace for our time".

"No more boom and bust".

Katie said...

For maximum geek points, we would do well to remember that (Robert Cecil) Lord Sainsbury's propensity for propelling his nephew arthur to newer better jobs in his sinecure gave rise to the phrase "bob's your uncle".

Sunder Katwala said...

Yes, good point. extra points certainly.

Garry Chick-Mackay said...

Surely, if you wanted to be pedantic, you would merely point out that the public have never elected a Prime Minister, because that is not how our democracy works.


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Operation of the health unit in Mahdah area contributes to the provision of medical services to 8,000 people

In 2006, the health authorities established the health unit in Mahdah area. The residents of the area were very pleased with this achievement with hope that they will be provided with health services in their area and no need go to other Health Facilities which are faraway and needs an expensive transportation costs.
The area is located southwest of the capital of Sana'a and administratively belong to the Bani Matar district in Sana'a governorate and is about 75 km away from the capital. The population of this area are 8,000 people. The health unit has been closed since long time because of the lack of furniture, medical supplies and medicines, as well as the inability of the authorities to adopt an operating budget or employ a health staff.
Dr. Ayesha Al-Surihi, Director of the Public Health and Population Office in Bani Matar district, said that “the Health Unit remained closed since its establishment due to lack of operating requirements such as furniture, equipment and medical supplies”
In early September this year, the National Foundation for Development and Humanitarian Response (NFDHR) opened the health unit and provided it with furniture, medical equipment and medicines and supplied it with a solar energy system within the Emergency Medical Services Project (2017/2018) in coordination with the Health and Population Office in Sana'a.
The residents of the area were happy after the news of the opening and operation of the health unit and the provision of free medicines to patients. Since the first day, the percentage of daily beneficiaries has been very high compared to the population in the area, especially from poor families and the marginalized who arrive from far away areas for treatment. The average number of beneficiaries is increasing day by day.
The medical staff in this health unit provides primary care services, women and pregnant women, reproductive health and safe delivery services, as well as vaccinating children against the six deadly diseases. The number of patients that visited the health unit is increasing day after day, and the total number of patients receiving primary health care, pregnant care and safe obstetric care during the period from September to November is 1514, including 349 men, 273 women, 523 boys and 369 girls.
Dr. Al-Surihi confirmed that the health office in the district will ensure the continuation of the work of the health unit after the end of the project through the adoption of operating expenses for the unit, after all the operating requirements of furniture, equipment were provided by NFDHR.
The operation of the health unit in the area was a ray of hope for the residents of the area to obtain the health services they have always dreamed of. After years of suffering, they have suffered a lot from the faraway health facilities and the high expenses they were spent.


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Nine Inch Nails played in Riga, Latvia at the Arena Riga on May 6, 2014 for the NIN 2014 Europe/UK Tour. Cold Cave was the opening act.

  • This was the first show of the European leg of the tour.
  • "Only" was printed on the set list after "Burn" though was not played.
  • This is the first time "Closer" was played since the Made In America festival show on September 1, 2013.

  1. "Pinion" / "The Eater Of Dreams"
  2. "Copy Of A"
  3. "1,000,000"
  4. "Terrible Lie"
  5. "March Of The Pigs"
  6. "Piggy"
  7. "The Frail"
  8. "The Wretched"
  9. "The Becoming"
  10. "Gave Up"
  11. "Closer"
  12. "Find My Way"
  13. "Me, I'm Not"
  14. "Came Back Haunted"
  15. "The Great Destroyer"
  16. "Eraser"
  17. "Wish"
  18. "Burn"
  19. "The Hand That Feeds"
  20. "Head Like A Hole"
  21. "Hurt"

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I know nothing about the Land of Indines that many of Level 99's games are set in. I don't know a thing about the characters of 7 Card Slugfest or their back stories in the game. I'm not even sure how much this is a game rather than an activity. What I do know, is that every time I've brought this game out, all the players have laughed and had a great time.

In 7 Card Slugfest, you take on the role of 1 of 11 unique characters and engage in a bar room … “slugfest”, by simultaneously playing cards which represent your punches, into a pile next to one of the other players characters. (Or the non-player bartender who just gets to take a beating but throws no punches.) You only have 7 of these “punch” cards and you can only draw 1 at a time. The cards have a number on them representing the power of your punch. Some of them are special move punches.

Each character has a base life point value of 10, but the first player to play all their cards during the round can snag a token giving their character +3 life points. The last player to finish playing his cards must take a -3 life points token.

The overall object of the round is to do the blow that KO's (knocks out) a character. All other punches played before the KO just subtract from the characters life points and all other punches played after the KO are ignored. It may happen that a charter does not receive enough damage worth of punches to be KO'd. In this case, the owner gets a “survival bonus”. (Also another reason those life point tokens are important to play.)

When cards are played onto a pile, all players will see the damage that card does. (With the exception of one of the characters whose special ability is that his punches power is hidden.) This will not be easy but you'll want to try and pay attention in hopes of playing the card at the right moment to do that KO punch.

This is where players special punch cards make things really interesting. (The special ability is also hidden from players.) Each characters special punches make the characters play vastly different. Here are a few examples.

One characters punch card is worth a power of 3, +1 for each card played before it. So you'll want to stick this punch card on top of a pile that already has a few cards in it. One card has a power of 6, but that card can not KO a character. (The character remains dazed with 1life point remaining after the punch.) So if you play this one, you'll probably hope to be fast enough to play the next one onto the same pile. Some special cards discard other cards played, some get to be reinserted in the pile, and some show false values.

Once a round, or “stage”, is over, a stage scoring card will award coins to a certain number of players with the most KO tokens. These stage cards may also have special rules for the round that will mix things up and have players switching strategies. I use the term “strategy” loosely here because the game really does not have much room for it. A round usually takes about 30 seconds, in which time you have no time, to carefully pay attention to all the stacks of cards and be able to draw and play your cards fast enough and strategies about the best pile to play hem. More often than not, you're just going to have to hope you're lucky enough to have played your punch on the right pile at the right time.

But who cares! If you're a deep strategy player run away from this one. Go build a wine vineyard on the Nile. 7 Card Slugfest is a game that plays its theme out on the table. Bottles are flying, tables are being overturned, a piles of cards are being knocked over. Characters are getting punched, players are smashing their hands together, and the entire time, everyone involved is laughing and having a great time!

Designed By: D Brad Talton, Jr.

Published 2013: Level 99 Games

# of players: 3-8

Mfg suggested age: 8+

Play time: 30min

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Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews protest Zionist Brutality at Beis Shemesh

On Wednesday, August 21, at 1 PM, Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews demonstrated in front of the Israeli consulate 800 Second Avenue, NYC to protest current Zionist brutality against religious Jews in the Holy Land.

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Rabbi Alter Moshe Goldberger.

"For the sake of Zion we will not be silent and for the sake of Jerusalem we will not be still." (Isaiah 62:1) My friends, we have come out here to cry out in front of the nations of the world, to publicize the terrible murders that are going on in the so-called Jewish state, in the Zionist state, in the state of anti-religious coercion.

Their entire purpose was always to uproot the Jewish faith, to lead Jews away from Judaism, and now they are about to do it.

"They have given the bodies of Your servants as food to the birds of the sky, the flesh of Your pious ones to the animals of the earth. They poured out their blood like water around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them." (Psalms 79:2-3) Gevalt!

The Jews who come out to protest for the sake of the holy Creator, to defend the holy bones of our fathers and rabbis, are beaten and thrown into the Zionist jails.

For them, the Zionists, the worst sin is to deny the Holocaust. The irony of it is that we know, we heard many times from the Satmar Rebbe, and many books have been published documenting that the Zionists prevented the rescue of Jews from the Holocaust! Gevalt!

You Zionists, you are partners in the Holocaust.

 During the Holocaust, the world didn't know that every day they were deporting 10,000 Jews to the crematoria to burn them. Who did know? The Zionists knew about it. They followed the news, but they denied it. At that time they denied the Holocaust! While it was happening! And they didn't tell the world.

Now they have made a Jewish state. They came to the nations of the world and said they need a state so that no one should wipe them out. We must know, the whole world must know, that as long as this Zionist state has been in existence, 25,000 Jews have been killed.
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We want to announce, and we ask President Obama, and all presidents of the world: don't send military aid to the unkosher state, because by doing so you are killing people. They use the weapons you send them to make a holocaust against the Arab people, and they also make a holocaust against the Jewish people, against religious Jews.
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(With the money you send them,) With every dollar you send them, Â they anger G-d, and they anger the Jewish people.

Gevalt! Gevalt!

We learned from our holy Rebbe and from all righteous rabbis of the past generation that the State of Israel is holding back the coming of the messiah. The messiah can't come as long as it's here. The state has to be dismantled first.

We tell the whole world that there will be no peace in the Middle East as long as the state exists, until they give up the entire state, give it back to the ones they stole it from.

We are not allowed to have any state nowadays, we are not allowed to have our own country. It is a transgression of the Three Oaths. And they transgress the entire Torah there. Their whole goal is to uproot the Torah, to lead the Jewish people away from Judaism. And we ask President Obama and all nations of the world to take away the state from the wicked Zionists, the sinners, the heretics, may their names be obliterated. And the nations of the world should return it to its righteous owners. And then we will be privileged to see the fulfillment of the prayer, "May all evil vanish like smoke, when you remove the evil government from the world," and the glory of G-d is revealed, soon in our days, amen.

Anti-Zionist Jews to Protest Israeli Brutality

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NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Wednesday, August 21, at 1 PM, Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews, organized by Neturei Karta International,Â will demonstrate in front of the Israeli consulate at 800 Second Avenue, NYC to protest current Zionist brutality against religious Jews in the Holy Land.

Anti-Zionist Jews in the Holy Land have held a series of protests against the construction of a housing project over an ancient cemetery in Beis Shemesh, a city near Jerusalem. The protests have come to a tragic and bloody ending.

Bulldozers are now destroying the entire cemetery. As of today, 327 ancient burial caves have been desecrated. Such disrespect for a cemetery would not be tolerated by any other nation.

Protests began on August 12 with 3000 Jews in attendance. When three bulldozers arrived, the protestors threw themselves on the burial caves, kissed the soil and refused to move. Of course, none of the protestors were armed.

Riot police attacked the protestors, beating them mercilessly. Many had to be treated for their wounds. 29 people were arrested.

On Aug. 14, a protest was led by Rabbi Reuven Merzbach, a leader of Neturei Karta of Jerusalem. A lawyer was present to record any human rights violation. When the tractors left, Rabbi Merzbach's son entered the site to survey the damage. Suddenly, a security guard arrived riding on a four-wheeled off-road vehicle and ran him over twice. He is now critically injured and hospitalized.

Aug. 15, more bulldozers arrived, hundreds of protestors were there, and over 20 were arrested.Â

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Book Review – Insurmountable Risks

Insurmountable Risks: The dangers of using nuclear power to combat global climate change by Brice Smith. A report for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research 2006

Books on nuclear power don’t always easily cross the Atlantic, but this one is going to be invaluable. It starts by looking at two representative “nuclear growth scenarios” – one from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and one from the University of Chicago.

MIT suggests a global growth up to 1,000GW by 2050. Since all existing reactors would be closed by then, it means 1,000 new reactors. One might imagine that a tripling of installed capacity would have a significant impact on carbon emissions, but it doesn’t. Due to increases in demand nuclear power accounts for only 19.2% of the world’s electricity in 2050 compared with 16.3% in 2000. In the US, where the largest share of nuclear construction is assumed to take place, carbon emissions from electricity production actually increase.

The failure of nuclear power, so far, according to Smith, has been largely due to its inability to compete economically with coal and natural gas. The very large federal subsidies proposed in the US to make nuclear power appear more attractive to investors, according to Standard and Poor’s: “…may not provide sufficient incentive to pursue new construction.”

MIT says that although the cost improvements suggested for new reactor types are “plausible but unproven” even if they were all somehow achieved, which is highly unlikely, coal would remain cheaper and natural gas would only exceed the price of nuclear power in the highest fuel price scenario. The University of Chicago found that by the time the eighth plant is built – when cost savings due to learning would be complete – the cost of electricity would still remain higher that fossil fuels.

But, of course, cost comparisons with fossil fuels are not the most useful when looking at the role nuclear power might play in mitigating the impacts of climate change. In looking at MIT’s coverage of carbon taxes, Smith points out that the resultant increase in electricity costs would lead to an increased focus on efficiency and reductions in demand growth which would favour more flexible types of generation than large nuclear plants. Smith quotes a UK Government, Policy and Innovation Unit report which suggests that for a cost of between £130 per ton and minus £640 per ton, energy efficiency measures could reduce carbon emissions by 65 million tonnes by 2050. In contrast, nuclear power would cost between £70 and £200 per ton of carbon and could only reduce emissions by 20 million tonnes by 2050. Rather oddly, Smith makes no mention of studies by the Rocky Mountain Institute, and Amory Lovins, which many of us in the UK have found so inspiring.

Combined with energy efficiency, wind power offers the most economically competitive way to provide carbon-free electricity supplies. A joint study by Greenpeace and the European Wind Energy Association shows wind could be providing 10% of global electricity demand by 2020.

One Americanism perhaps is where Smith discusses the advantages of CHP, and says the number of industries large enough to efficiently operate their own generators limits its potential. Is he implying that domestic district heating wouldn’t work in America? If so, then what about University campuses, shopping malls, hospitals, schools and so on. His section on fuel switching suggests using liquefied natural gas as a transition fuel in combined cycle gas turbines – whereas in Europe there is a growing body of opinion that using gas in this way without CHP would be criminally inefficient.

Chapter Three is devoted to discussing nuclear power’s connection to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, which Smith describes as the “largest single vulnerability associated with the expansion of nuclear power”. A large increase in global nuclear capacity implies a proportional expansion of uranium enrichment. The diffusion of knowledge and the increase in trade in specialised materials and equipment would make it progressively more difficult to identify clandestine weapons programmes.

Also worrying is the significant prominence which reprocessing appears to have gained in the US in recent years where up to $580m has been allocated over the next three years to research and Bush has launched the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership to promote, so-called proliferation resistant recycling technologies. Under the MIT scenario the use of MoX would increase. It would take just 0.0025% of the MoX manufactured every year to provide the plutonium for a nuclear bomb. The number of reprocessing facilities required – given the inherent difficulty in attempting to safeguard large plutonium separation plant – would pose a huge proliferation risk.

In a useful section which explains how advanced reprocessing technology might work, Smith says it might offer some non-proliferation benefits compared to current technology, but would still pose significant risks if deployed on a large scale. The MIT study itself concludes that, on proliferation grounds, there are “significant questions about the wisdom of a global growth scenario … if the nonproliferation regime is not strengthened, the option of significant global expansion of nuclear power may be impossible.”

Proposals to restrict access to fuel cycle technologies are as old as the technology itself and are still politically untenable. Dr ElBaradei has suggested they should be under international control. But similar initiatives have failed in the past, and are likely to be just as unacceptable today. Smith summarises the case against using sources such as the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment which says there would be strong objections because it would reinforce “the discriminatory aspects of the NPT”.

A second unique vulnerability of nuclear power is the potential for catastrophic accident, or terrorist attack. The chapter on nuclear safety draws heavily on the work of David Lochbaum and the Union of Concerned Scientists. The accident rate for many complex technical systems follows what Lochbaum calls a “bathtub curve”. In other words, the accident rate is higher during the initial shakedown phase when the plant is new; then things settle down for a while, until ageing problems increase the likelihood of accidents again. Smith gives a detailed discussion of what he calls “the single most important discovery to date regarding degradation of reactor safety due to ageing”, which was the reactor vessel head cracking at the Davis-Besse plant in Ohio. Given the amount of cracking in various different components of UK reactors, this story offers a warning about the dangers of operators and regulators giving too much weight to commercial considerations. On new reactors Smith warns against curtailing public participation in the licensing process – US history shows that interveners have had a positive impact on safety. There is a useful section too on the various studies of the risk of terrorist attacks on spent fuel ponds.

The flawed logic behind Probabilistic Risk Assessment is highlighted by the prediction that a Three Mile Island type accident would occur once every 100,000 years – made only five years before the partial meltdown. But even if these risk levels are correct, the global growth in reactor numbers proposed by MIT would produce an unacceptable accident frequency – with 4 core damage accidents by 2055.

According to MIT, the worldwide deployment of 1000GW of nuclear capacity would require a new Yucca Mountain sized nuclear dump to be opened somewhere every three or four years. But even without new reactors, the US will need a second dump by 2012, if Yucca is to stick to the statutory limit. Smith emphasises the uncertainties regarding geological disposal and highlights a number of examples of errors in previous models used to support Department of Energy decision-making.

An appendix to “Insurmountable Risks” addresses the question of the adequacy of uranium supplies. In this Smith appears to be seeking to shift support away from reprocessing, MoX and fast reactors, which all have weapons proliferation implications, by showing that uranium resources are plentiful. A laudable aim, but unfortunately Smith does not appear to have addressed the argument made by Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen about the increasing amount of carbon emissions from uranium mining as we are forced to turn to poorer quality ores. Nevertheless this book would be a useful addition to any UK campaigners armoury.

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Normandy Post Office, about 1967Normandy Post Office

Normandy Post Office, about 1967

In the 1950s, the Post Office at the crossroads end of Station Road, (now Glaziers Lane) underwent the first of its three extensions making it possible to offer a wider range of goods. The Normandy Post Office, or more correctly speaking, the sub-post office was extended twice more almost doubling its size. In 1988 it took over the sale of fresh meat, under the supervision of Bob Howard the former manager of Preston House, supplied by Michael Jones who had moved to Yateley, where he continued to trade as 'Normandy Butchers' until 1992. Thus the move across the road from Preston House that began in 1924 was finally completed over 60 years later.

Normandy Postmark 14th October 1966 (900 Anniversary Battle of Hastings)

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One of the most popular uses of the Post Office was "British Postal Orders" as up to about the 1970s most working class villagers did not have bank accounts.

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Another very popular use for the Post Office was the Post Office Savings Accounts and for the younger, Savings Stamps.

Shopkeeping was not without its dangers. Normandy Post Office was several times the target for armed robbers and Dorothy Applebee won two bravery awards in the 1980s for her courage, on one occasion grappling with a raider armed with a sawn-off shotgun. The last attack on the post office, not long before it closed in late 1997, was featured on the Crimewatch TV programme and Hunts Hill Road was closed while the BBC staged a reconstruction of the events.

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Preston House, 1987

Preston House, 1987

First established as a butchers shop in the early 1920s in premises previously occupied by the post office, it continued to flourish and was a well-known feature of Normandy for over 60 years. It was run in succession by Frederick Hawkins, Martin Barlow with, in turn, his son by the same name, then Thomas Kirtley and finally Michael Jones. Regretably it was forced to close down in 1988 and Preston House and the adjoining house were converted into four terraced residences. The people are taking part in a Fun Run.

The houses that replaced Preston House in 1988 with the short lived video shop, now also converted to a house.

Video Shop and Adjoining Houses

Wanborough Stores, about 1970Wanborough Stores

Wanborough Stores,
about 1970

At the top end of Station Road the Wanborough Stores had its front rebuilt and modernised in the 1950s. Also in the 1950s the little wool shop and library at Gradeley was replaced by 'Dickie's Pantry'. Run by the Knaptons, it offered teas, snacks and hot lunches. Later on it was granted a drinking licence and some say, became a club with a questionable reputation, although others refute this Wanborough Stores was forced to close in 1976 and was demolished

The Corner Shop in the very cold winter of 1963The Corner Shop

The Corner Shop in the very cold winter of 1963

A small grocery, it was started in the 1920s by P A Pepin and his sister Muriel, who ran the tea shop in its early days. They were followed by George Astlet who also sold paraffin and stamps. In the 1930s it was taken over by Mr Little and Alfred Paice. Mr Little left very soon afterwards and Alfred Paice then ran it for nearly 20 years with his sister who was responsible for the off-licence - then the only one in the village. Tom Turner, who had worked for Mr Paice as a boy, took it over with his sister Ethel in the 1950s and they had it until they moved to the Westwood Lane Stores in the mid 1960s. Several other proprietors had it after them. It became a Wavy Line Grocer but eventually closed in about 1983.

The Corner Shop with June Davey

The Corner Shop
with June Davey c1977

Pinks, newsagent c 1955Newsagent
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Pinks, newsagent c 1955

It was built by Mr Cull, about 1930/1 and was only a tiny shop, selling papers and sweets, from 1933 to 1945 it was also a Post Office (Wanborough P.O.), In the 1930's listed as doing wirelesses (Tel Normandy 87). Occupied by Perce Pink, newsagent, stationer, confectioner, tobacconist, bookseller from 1945 to 63, the shop closed about 1999 and was converted to a private house.

Westwood Lane Stores, about 1991

Westwood Lane Stores

Westwood Lane Stores, about 1991

The shop was started in the 1930s by Mrs James and run by her son Dick James as a 'general emporium'. In the 1950s it was described as 'a little tin shack with greenhouses at the back' and sold mainly salad and vegetables. In the 1960s it was occupied by Stanley and Alice Gray and had a wider range of produce available - grocery, greengrocer, electrical, wallpaper, paints, esso blue and evening papers delivered. About 1970 Tom and Ethel Turner took over the shop and continued to run it for over 30 years.

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Experts from various disciplines at Quinnipiac University will gather for the panel discussion, “Real Talk About Fake News,” on Wednesday, April 5, from 5:30-7 p.m. in the Clarice L. Buckman Theater at Quinnipiac, 275 Mount Carmel Ave. This event is free and open to the public.

“While inaccuracy in news reporting is not new, public awareness and the usage of the term ‘fake news’ has exploded in recent months,” said Matt Wilcox, director of the Edward and Barbara Netter Library at Quinnipiac and panel moderator. “The surge of fake news claims is a great opportunity to dig into topics of authority, confirmation, bias, propaganda and to look at them from various cross disciplinary viewpoints.”

The panel will include: Margarita Diaz, associate professor of journalism, who will discuss “I Blame Jon Stewart: The Daily Show and the Emergence of Fake News,” Matthew Flaherty, outreach and instruction librarian, “Separating Fact from Fiction: Tips for Evaluating News,” James Stodder, visiting professor of accounting, “Russia’s Method: Flooding the Zone,” and Sharlene Walbaum, professor of psychology, “Cognitive Dynamics of ‘I Knew it All Along’”

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Friday, May 14, 2010

Oklahoma, what (on earth) have you done?!

Oklahoma just enacted legislation (HB 2656) which allows a doctor to “withhold information, mislead or even blatantly lie to a pregnant woman and her partner about the health of their baby if the doctor so much as thinks that fetal test results would cause a woman to consider abortion.”

Read that again.  It says that a doctor can LIE to a pregnant woman about the health of her child.  The Oklahoma legislature deliberately discussed and passed a law, allowing this!  So in Oklahoma, if I’m pregnant and have a genetic test, and it indicates that my child has any variety of genetic diseases, some of which would cause his/her death immediately after birth or lead to life in a vegetative state or render my child unable to walk, talk, see, hear, or even think, my doctor is allowed (encouraged, even? otherwise, why even pass legislation?) to LIE to me about MY baby.

It’s sickening!

This is yet another indication to me that America is moving backwards.  My parents immigrated to this country from Europe in the early 1950s because America was progressive, open-minded, and filled with opportunity.  Their grandson, my son, is now considering relocating to Europe after he graduates from college in two years.  It's things like THIS that make that seem like a good option to me, and if I were 20, I'd seriously consider bringing the family back to its European roots too.

The rest of the world is progressing now while America reverts to closed-mind, fanatical fundamentalism.  This is no longer the country my parents immigrated to almost 60 years ago and, in spite of a progressive, open-minded, smart president (who I still adore and support), it no longer feels like my country.  And I’m sure it no longer feels to my dad like the country he immigrated to as a German Jew who dared to hope for a better life for his family when he immigrated here in the early 50’s.

America, where have you gone?  America, please start THINKING (with reason and compassion) again!

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Tonya said...

Excellent post, Carol. It is so true, and it is so sad. (And it makes me SO MAD.)

Susanne said...

Carol sadly this is so true.I just cannot understand it. What is happening to this country?
It is scary........

Margaret said...

It is difficult for me to believe that any state would pass this sort of legislation; it makes me sad, angry and SCARED.

Goofball said...

what the fuck? that is so unbelievable!

and yet sadly to say....also in Europe conservatism is growing quickly. We're behind on the US, but it's moral police is also getting stronger here.

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Review: Killarney, Bayern Brewing

Bayern Brewing, Inc. — Missoula, MT

  • Style:  Red Lager
  • Bitterness:  Not provided
  • ABV: 5.7% ABV
  • Malts:  Two-row pilsner, caramel, Munich, wheat, and German Dunkel
  • Hops:  Not provided
  • Sampled: 12 oz. bottle.
  • Price:  $7.49 six-pack at grocery store

Description:  "Brewed for St. Patrick's Day, Killarney was created to honor the Irish influence on Montana's culture. Brewed first in February of 1988, before any other American breweries came out with their versions of an Irish Red style beer, Killarney is Jürgen's invention of the beer style and one of his favorite Bayern beers."  — Bayern Brewing, Inc.

Random thoughts:   This is part of my series on Spring seasonals.  In addition to this beer, Bayern also brews a Maibock as a spring seasonal.

The tasting:  Deep amber in color with a white head that dissipated slowly.  Killarney is clear and has lots of effervescent bubbles.  Aroma of molasses and bready malt.  Flavor very similar to aroma with the addition of some nuttiness and a hint of smoke.  I didn't notice the hops in aroma or flavor.  Medium bodied with a creamy mouth feel.  It finishes with a healthy dose of sweet malt that lingers.  Killarney's strong malt sweetness is present from the beginning to end of the taste, and ultimately diminishes its drinkability.

Rating:  2 star.  Drinkable, but not sure I want to.   Killarney is quite different from the lagers I have tasted in the past—it didn't have the crisp finish that I've come to expect.  While I don't pretend to know if this beer is a good representative of its style, I do know that the malty sweetness was a too much for my tastes.

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In response to the “performative turn” in the humanities, the ongoing interest in bio- and body-politics, and the growing attention to leisure, dance, and sport studies, the International Society for Cultural History invites paper and panel proposals for its 2018 annual conference on Performance, Politics, and Play. Scholars working on any historical period or location are encouraged to explore this theme. Topics may include (but are by no means limited to):

  • performative/bodily practices of politics and play
  • political performances
  • substance candidates vs. performance candidates
  • the relationship of performance studies to cultural history
  • leisure practices (reading, cooking, hiking, feasts, travel, holidays, café culture, theater, opera, cinemas, and restaurants)
  • the interconnection of labor and leisure (how the labor of some provides the possibility of leisure for others)
  • performances of leisure (sports, dance, parades, colonial encounters mediated by theatrical/musical/danced “exchanges”)
  • historical reenactment
  • performances of health
  • histories of sports/leisure and their relationship to cultures of health and/or to unhealth
  • histories of gaming
  • sports, spectatorship, and cultural practices of addiction (gambling, doping)
  • sports and spectatorship (players and audiences, the sport star)
  • global and local cultures of sport

We also welcome panel and paper proposals on methods and theories of cultural history.

New York City is at the intersection of performance, politics, and play. The United Nations headquarters and Trump Tower call attention to the city’s inextricable links to global politics.   The theaters of Broadway are renowned for their nightly shows. But performance also takes place in ballrooms and recording studios, in art galleries, as well as on city streets by activists, aspiring artists, and buskers. From Central Park to Coney Island, the city has long been associated with leisure. Reflecting the diversity of the city itself, conference events and prearranged cultural excursions will take place at a variety of different institutions.

Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in length and delivered in English:

  • Individual paper proposals should consist of an abstract (not exceeding 300 words) and a 1-2 page CV.

  • Panel proposals should consist of the name of the organizer, an overview of the panel (not exceeding 500 words), abstracts for each paper (not to exceed 300 words), and 1-2 page CVs for each presenter.

DEADLINE: January 15, 2018. Participants will be informed by February 5, 2018.

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Those whose abstracts are accepted for presentation will be expected to become members of the ISCH. Further details can be found on the society’s website:

Further information about the conference venues, including hotels with discounted group rates, will be available soon on the ISCH website. Presenters are invited to consider submitting articles to the ISCH’s official peer-reviewed journal, Cultural History (published by the Edinburgh University Press), and monographs to the book series it publishes with Routledge. Links to each respective publication opportunity follow:

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The company’s share of the search industry does not even reach 1 percent, and its name joins the scrap heap of fallen Internet brands, like AltaVista.

SAN FRANCISCO — A couple of weeks ago, the handful of people who were still trying to use InfoSpace.com to look up phone numbers and addresses started finding themselves on the homepage of SuperPages, the business-listings site owned by a Verizon spinoff.

Anyone who took note of this might remember that InfoSpace was once an Internet juggernaut, worth $31 billion back in March 2000. Supporters said at the time that it was poised to dominate the market for local online advertising.

Today, the company’s share of the search industry does not even reach 1 percent, and its name joins the scrap heap of once-formidable Internet brands, like AltaVista, that did not make it through.

InfoSpace is still around, although it is gradually dismantling itself, according to analysts who still watch the company. Late last year, it sold off its directory businesses — including Switchboard.com — for $225 million to Idearc, a spinoff of Verizon. It had bought the unit for $108 million in 2004.

At around the same time, it sold its mobile-applications businesses to Motricity, a vendor of content for mobile devices, for $135 million. The company has given shareholders $500 million in dividends since May 2007.

InfoSpace says it is now focused on its “metasearch” services, which include Dogpile, MetaCrawler and WebCrawler. Those services combine results from other search engines, like Google, Yahoo and Ask.com.

Jim Voelker, InfoSpace’s chief executive, does not pretend that InfoSpace can compete directly with the likes of Google. And yet, advertising sales rose 18 percent in the first quarter. “Users who use us, love us,” he said. “The problem is there are not enough users.” He said the company was stepping up its marketing efforts to bring in more traffic.

He also said the metasearch niche was a “very profitable business,” but when InfoSpace reported a net profit for 2007, the sale of assets made the difference. On an operating basis, the company lost money in 2007.

Still, a well-managed search site can thrive, he said, because it is “scalable” and does not require much capital investment. Comparing InfoSpace to Google, Mr. Voelker said, “is like saying the little latte shop on the corner shouldn’t try to compete with Starbucks.”

Selling off the directory business “was a great decision,” said Kevin Ryan, the global content director for Search Engine Watch. Verizon’s SuperPages and AT&T’s Yellow Pages dominate the market for paid business listings, and Web users are increasingly using Google and other search engines to find businesses online.

“The old idea that you had to be in a yellow book is going away,” Mr. Voelker said.

As part of its deal with Verizon, the Idearc unit will use the infospace.com domain for 18 months and then return it to InfoSpace.

Only 5 percent of InfoSpace’s directory traffic came from infospace.com itself. The remainder was from Switchboard.com, suggesting that SuperPages is unlikely to get much of a boost from the InfoSpace name over the next 18 months.


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Playlist #27 (CTM + Transmediale Special)

2-5 February

TRANSMEDIALE ever elusive

HKW, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin

2 Feb 8-11pm

Hybrid Pleasures: Early Films of Lillian Schwartz

HKW, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin

Lillian Schwartz (1927) is a pioneer of multimedia and computer-generated art – among many other things, she created 2D and 3D films as well as digital tools to analyse artworks, in a time (60s-70s) where computers offered no friendly user interface and no established software to produce graphics. Such experiments could be considered an expansion of the hand drawing techniques she had been using since she was a child, yet her work has gone well beyond that and managed to bring together fine arts and applied arts, scholarship and technical research in a unique way. A selection of her films will be shown during the (free entrance) Transmediale opening.

3 Feb 8-10pm

Feeling Algorithms

HKW, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin

This screening presents a selection of films produced over a large period of time – 1962-2016 –
that “addresses processes in art, music, and the financial market that are not fully rationalizable and the ambivalent longing for communication with non-human entities”. I have an ongoing cross-disciplinary research project about (read: a soft spot for) all things algorithmic, and I’ve already explored a bit the role they play in trading with the help of my friend mace.. Even without such personal reasons, algorithms and man-machine communication have become so relevant, in so many ways and in so many contexts – daily life, state-of-the-art technology, basic research, artistic production – that you all may wanna have a look at these films and take the chance to reflect, discuss and get inspired.

5 Feb 4-6pm

Material Agents

HKW, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin

Stan Vanderbeek worked at Bell Labs in the 60s – just like Lilian Schwartz, and like her, although with very different results, he was working on experimental films. He was strongly influenced by surrealist collage (Max Ernst, my big love!) and the cut-up technique of the Beat Generation. The Material Agents screening starts with the beauty of Vanderbeek’s concrete digital poetry, and proceeds with a selection of films that “combines stories of the present and future that examine the conditions of an inclusive concept of subjectivity, and at the same time the potentials of political resistance and economic empowerment in neoliberalism”. It is maybe a bit weird to recommend three screenings in a row but well, this are my personal picks and the full festival program is easy to find 🙂

until 5 February (exhibition until 13 March)

CTM 2017 Fear Anger Love

Various locations

28 Jan-19 March, 11am-8pm (or 10pm during the festival)

Critical Constellations of the Audio-Machine in Mexico

Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Mariannenpl. 2, 10997 Berlin

Mexico is coming up a lot in the news for not so nice reasons lately, in relation to a certain wall that has been already compared to the Berlin one (1961-1989). I assume the Mexico focus of this year’s CTM exhibition had been chosen before then, yet it’s interesting to see how fast topics and places can go hotter and how cultural events are there to feel, sometimes anticipate that. Also, experimental music has gone more and more international in the latest decades, but this is no reason to stop and try exploring national scenes and their relation with local traditions and political/historical context. I actually wouldn’t mind something like that about Italy as well.

3 Feb, 9pm

Berghain, Rüdersdorfer Str. 7, 10243 Berlin

This is more like a ‘classic’ CTM Berghain night – the rich lineup puts together several levels, genres, instruments and places that happen to correspond to different periods of my life experience as music lover – Berlin, Milano and Den Haag, dance floor and experimentation, Creme Organization and Warp, analog synths and Ableton Live … it even starts as early as 9pm so that I won’t feel too old.

4 Feb, 9-11pm

Festsaal Kreuzberg, Am Flutgraben 2, 12435 Berlin

Eylsia Crampton has been the talk of the town lately – although she has been active as musician for about ten years already – to the point that some people I know already feel she’s overrated. Yet some others, whose taste I happen to really trust, are completely under the spell of her eclectic “prog” music described as mixing hip hop, psychedelia, electronica and more. I haven’t explored her stuff in-depth yet, but I liked what I’ve heard and I will take this chance to get to know her better during a live performance. No less than a King Britt’s dj set on top.


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Body slams from the Coast Guard?

Jan 1, 2003

Mariners who are boarded by the Coast Guard in coming months should not be surprised if the routine check for life jackets and other safety equipment is accompanied by a body slam, a face-rake, or a flying leap from the vessel's lifelines (called the "Superfly"). Here's why: In an attempt to recruit new members, the Coast Guard in February teamed up with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in television ads and promotions of the Coast Guard by celebrity wrestlers. The reason for the match, according to a report published in the Coast Guard's journal in June, is that viewers of wrestling programs are 18 to 24-year-olds who are attracted to make-believe violence depicted in the programs. This is the same population the Coast Guard hopes to attract into its ranks, the report stated. The strategy is apparently successful, since during a two-and-a-half month period this Spring, the Coast Guard received more than 3,500 calls in response to the ads on WWF programs.

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Agent Dennis M. Burgos-Otero

Agent Dennis M. Burgos-Otero

Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto Rico

End of Watch Saturday, November 13, 1999

Dennis M. Burgos-Otero

Agent Dennis M. Burgos-Otero was killed while he and several officers intervened at a robbery in Morovis, Puerto Rico.

At about 8:00pm, Agent Burgos-Otero and other officers received a burglary call with the description of a truck and a compact car as the getaway cars. When the officers located the vehicles they blocked the intersection of highways PR-612 and PR-6622 with their patrol cars. The truck rammed the barracade and hit the Agent Burgos-Otero's patrol car and began an exchange of gunfire between the officers and the assailants, hitting the cadet in the side, killing him. All suspects were arrested and charged with first degree murder, robbery, and violation of the weapons act.

Agent Dennis M. Burgos-Otero served with the Puerto Rico Police Department for 10 months. He was part of class 201 of the Puerto Rico Police Academy, and at the time of his death was assigned to the Morovis District. He was posthumously promoted to the rank of agent. He is survived by his wife, parents, and two sisters.

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Your heroism and service is honored today, the 12th anniversary of your death. Your memory lives and you continue to inspire. Thank you for your service. My cherished son Larry Lasater was a fellow police officer murdered in the line of duty on April 24, 2005 while serving as a Pittsburg, CA police officer.

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Sorry...just noticed I was on 2009 with my last post, and couldnt resist! :oops: :lol:
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Very convenient!! :)
What are the odds of that happening I wonder???? :D 8O 8O
Cool, amazing synchronicity and amazing that you noticed. :lol:
I think I would play those numbers...I never really understand what that means when people say but it sounded good at this point :lol: :lol:
WOW Spooky 8O
LOL That is kinda cool :)
Way cool!
That is quite the number coincidence - get out there and bet on something! :wink:
Ok, now Ive ruined it...2011! :lol:

Uh oh...at 2012 will there be an apocalypse???!! :P

Im choosing to see it as a good omen for the coming year! :wink:
DON'T POST AGAIN!!! The forum will end!!!!!! 8O

Haha just kidding, please don't go :D
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Haha just kidding, please don't go :D

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The date and place of the next meeting of the OPEC Ministerial Committee were named

The countries participating in the OPEC oil production reduction agreement have changed plans for the venue of the upcoming meeting of the Ministerial monitoring Committee, the meeting will be held in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on April 14-15, RIA Novosti reported citing Kuwait's Minister of oil Bahit al-Rashidi.

In January, the OPEC Ministerial monitoring Committee reported that its next meeting would be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Thus in February, a RIA Novosti source in OPEC said that the meeting will be held on April 14-15.

OPEC and a number of non-member countries (OPEC+) agreed at the end of 2016 in Vienna to reduce their oil production by a total of 1.8 million barrels per day from the level of October 2016. The agreement was concluded for the first half of 2017, and then extended until the end of March 2018. In November, OPEC+ Vienna once again extended the deal until the end of 2018.

The OPEC + Ministerial monitoring Committee was established to monitor compliance with the Vienna agreement and to make recommendations for its adjustment. It includes the representatives of Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Kuwait, Algeria, Oman and Russia.

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Japanese Formula Pacific 1978

Masahiro Hasemi was best prepared for the new Formula Pacific category, driving the Chevron B40 that he had imported late the previous year. He had already raced the car in F2 with its Formula Pacific specification Nissan LZ14 engine and lapped all his competitors at the opening race in April. At Fuji in May it was a much closer race with Takao Wada in the Tomei Jidosha Nova 53P right on the tail of the Chevron as it took the chequered flag. Wada won the next race after Hasemi retired but behind these two, the fields were very thin. Kenji Tohira drove a March "78A" for the Central 20 Racing Team but this was actually an old March 752 converted to Formula Pacific specification. Two more locally-built cars, a Falcon 78A and a Nova 512, picked up minor placings and a Kojima KE010 appeared but did not start a race. The remaining runners had European cars: Naohiro Fujita driving a 1976 Chevron B35 and Kiyoshi Misaki appearing at the final race with a Ralt RT1.

Given the small number of Formula Pacific cars available, the grids were filled out with the local Japanese 1300cc formula cars. The quickest of these was Kengo Nakamoto in a March 743 with 1.3-litre Honda engine but even he could not keep pace with the Formula Pacifics.

The races

26 Feb 1978 > Tsukuba

23 Apr 1978 > Tsukuba

03 May 1978 > Fuji

27 Aug 1978 > Tsukuba

01 Oct 1978 > Tsukuba

05 Nov 1978 > Suzuka

1978 Japanese Formula Pacific Championship table

1Masahiro HasemiChevron B40 - Nissan LZ1448 pts4 wins
2Takao WadaNova 53P - Nissan LZ1440 pts1 win
3Kenji TohiraMarch "78A" - Nissan LZ14
March 752 - Nissan LZ14
26 pts
4Masayuki KanedaFalcon 78A - Nissan LZ1410 pts
5Kiyoshi MisakiKojima KE010 - Toyota 2T-G
Nova 512 - Toyota 2T-G Kuwahara
Ralt RT1 - Toyota 2T-G Kuwahara
10 pts
6Kenichi TakeshitaNova 512 - Toyota 2T-G Kuwahara8 pts


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School districts far apart on Prop. 227

Bilingual education still taught

Six months after California voters sounded the death knell for bilingual education with Proposition 227, such programs have dwindled but have far from disappeared.

While no exact tallies exist, initiative sponsor Ron Unz estimates 60 percent to 70 percent of students previously taught in their native languages are now learning in English, while state education officials place the figure at a more generous 90 percent.

“I think we’ve gotten rid of most of the bilingual programs in the state,” said Unz, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. “Even though implementation has been inconsistent and there are a lot of districts blatantly ignoring the law, we’re moving in the right direction.”

Educators say they are doing their best to obey the new law despite the struggle of implementing new programs with very little lead time and an ongoing shortage of qualified teachers and appropriate books for English learners.

Still, the proposition that promised that all students would “be taught English by being taught in English” has had vastly different results from district to district and even from school to school.

“You see in (California’s) 8,000 schools as many varieties of Proposition 227 programs as there were bilingual programs before,” said Sonia Hernandez, deputy superintendent of the state Department of Education. “I think there is a wide variation and, in truth, I don’t think that’s a problem.”

Prior to the initiative’s passage in June — with nearly 61 percent of the vote — public schools for decades were required to teach the state’s 1.4 million limited-English students in their native languages while they learned English.

But in reality, less than a third of those students were in such “bilingual education programs,” mainly due to a bilingual teacher shortage. Locally, the number was much smaller, about 5 percent.

While Sacramento County’s 34,000-plus English learners make up the state’s fastest-growing and ninth largest limited-English population, schools generally have placed limited-English students in mainstream classes and relied on bilingual translators and tutors because of the large variety of languages spoken. Surrounding counties have relatively few English learners.

Though Proposition 227 aimed to eliminate bilingual programs, a clause allowing parent-requested waivers has kept bilingual education alive in many districts.

In San Francisco Unified, for example, the percentage of limited-English students in bilingual programs actually increased from 40 percent to 46 percent. District officials, who say a court order mandates they continue providing bilingual classes, attribute the increase to successful programs and improved parent outreach.

But in Los Angeles Unified, which educates more than a fifth of the state’s limited-English students, enrollment in bilingual classes dropped precipitously.

Last year, more than 107,000 students took bilingual classes. By late October, parents of less than 12,000 students had requested waivers for them to continue receiving native language instruction — an 89 percent decrease.

The numbers varied greatly from school to school, with one campus receiving only three waiver requests, while at another, waivers were sought for 95 percent of students in the bilingual program, said district spokeswoman Socorro Serrano. Unz and his English of the Children organization, which is tracking complaints, claim some schools have coerced parents into choosing bilingual programs. Unz said he is considering suing some districts to force compliance with the initiative and next week will ask a judge to throw out a lawsuit by civil rights groups that say the proposition violates federal law.

Initiative backers point, for example, to information given to parents in Ventura County’s Oxnard Elementary district. It said choosing an English-only program would mean academics would be replaced with English-as-a-second-language instruction and kindergartners would receive no “reading/writing readiness.”

Stephanie Purdy, who oversees Oxnard’s programs for English learners, said the district wanted parents to understand that children with little or no English skills would not be immediately able to start reading or learning grade-level curriculum in English. Such instruction would be delayed until a student mastered enough English vocabulary, she said.

About 4,600 Oxnard students are now in bilingual classes, down to 60 percent of English learners from 80 percent last year.

Unz also is concerned that some districts are continuing to teach students in their native languages but calling it “English immersion.” While the initiative mandated that approach, it defined it only as being “overwhelmingly” or “nearly all” in English, and the state Board of Education let local districts decide what that meant.

Sacramento City schools have told teachers they should teach primarily in English but can “preview and review” lessons in students’ native languages, said Suanna Gilman-Ponce, director of multilingual education. For instance, no more than 122 minutes of a primary language can be used during a 300-minute day for fourth, fifth and sixth grades.

Other districts have taken a much stricter approach.

In Oceanside Unified in San Diego County, Superintendent Ken Noonan said Spanish can be used “only at the very end of the line to help the child understand.”

Noonan, a former bilingual teacher who thought the initiative would be “devastating,” said he nonetheless decided that a strict interpretation would “create less confusion, less ambivalence and focus more on the job at hand, which is teaching kids English.”

The district, which had 2,500 students in Spanish bilingual classes last year, now has none.

“All in all, I’ve been pleasantly surprised how well the staff has done, and most kids seem to be thriving,” Noonan said.

Elk Grove Unified also has adopted a strict reading of the law. While the district previously had no bilingual classes, it used bilingual aides to help tutor English learners in their first languages. Now those aides give that extra help in English. Primary language support is used only outside the school day.

San Juan Unified continues to use aides to provide some primary language help but did not get enough waivers — the initiative requires 20 per grade — to continue its handful of bilingual classes.

Isabel Johnson, who oversees the district’s English-language-learner program, said she is most concerned about what will happen next year when students deemed “reasonably fluent” in English are placed in mainstream classrooms under the new law.

She said schools are grappling with how to provide extra help until such students are fully fluent.

“Because the kid’s not fluent, he’s not going to be able to compete with an English-only child in that classroom,” Johnson said. “I think the families . . . and the kids are going to feel it, and they’re going to say, ‘What happened?’ ”

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