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BORAT IN D.C – NEW TIME


Thursday, September 28, 2006


*****MEDIA ADVISORY*****


WHO: Borat Sagdiyev (Kazakhstan’s second most famous journalist!)

WHAT: To make honor of Washingtons D.C. visit of Kazakhstan Premiers Nursultan Nazarbayev to meet with Premier George Bush, Mr. Sagdiyev to say he so excite that Kazakh Premiers helps make benefit new movie, BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN.

WHERE: Hotel Rouge, 1315 16th St.
Washington, D.C. 20036

WHEN: Thursday, September 28, 2006, 1:00PM EDT

BORAT IN WASHINGTON, D.C. – LOCATION ADDED

Thursday, September 28, 2006


*****MEDIA ADVISORY*****


WHO: Borat Sagdiyev (Kazakhstan’s second most famous journalist!)

WHAT: Mr. Sagdiyev will make a statement regarding Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s visit to the U.S. to meet with President George W. Bush.

WHERE: Corner of 16th Street and “O” NW
Washington, D.C. 20036

WHEN: Thursday, September 28, 2006, 1:30PM EDT

For further information, please contact:

National Press
Carol Sewell, (310) 369-5519
Robin Davids, (310) 369-4264
Elizabeth Petit, (212) 556-8610

Online Press
Carol Cundiff, (310) 369-1996

International press
Hilary Clark, (310) 369-5156

Washington, D.C. local press
Brandi Dunnegan
(202) 742-8743

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Man bites panda

Those drunk migrant workers, always good for a laugh. good stuff.

Man bites panda in Beijing zoo as retribution
Drunken migrant worker jumped in cage, was bitten after petting bear

BEIJING - A drunken Chinese migrant worker jumped into a panda enclosure at the Beijing Zoo, was bitten by the bear and retaliated by chomping down on the animal’s back, state media said Wednesday.

Zhang Xinyan, from the central province of Henan, drank four jugs of beer at a restaurant near the zoo before visiting Gu Gu the panda on Tuesday, the Beijing Morning Post said.

“He felt a sudden urge to touch the panda with his hand,” and jumped into the enclosure, the newspaper said.

The panda, who was asleep, was startled and bit Zhang, 35, on the right leg, it said. Zhang got angry and kicked the panda, who then bit his other leg. A tussle ensued, the paper said.

“I bit the fellow in the back,” Zhang was quoted as saying in the newspaper. “Its skin was quite thick.”

Other tourists yelled for a zookeeper, who got the panda under control by spraying it with water, reports said. Zhang was hospitalized.

Newspaper photographs showed Zhang lying on a hospital bed with blood-soaked bandages and a seam of stitches running down his leg.

‘No one ever said they would bite’
The Beijing Youth Daily quoted Zhang as saying that he had seen pandas on television and “they seemed to get along well with people.”

“No one ever said they would bite people,” Zhang said. “I just wanted to touch it. I was so dizzy from the beer. I don’t remember much.”

Ye Mingxia, a spokeswoman for the Beijing Zoo, confirmed the incident happened but would not give any details. She said Gu Gu was “healthy.”

“We’re not considering punishing him now,” Ye said in a telephone interview. “He’s suffered quite a bit of shock.”

Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.

Congress dosen't trust your kid

This is soooo wrong. The legislators know it to; why else would it be held to a simple floor vote and allowed to by-pass committee? Call your senator, tell him if he votes for this tripe he better start packing come November. More reason never to send your children to a public school.

House Approves Strip Search Bill
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

A bill approved by the U.S. House yesterday would require school districts around the country to establish policies making it easier for teachers and school officials to conduct wide scale searches of students. These searches could take the form of pat-downs, bag searches, or strip searches depending on how administrators interpret the law.

The Student Teacher Safety Act of 2006 (HR 5295) would require any school receiving federal funding--essentially every public school--to adopt policies allowing teachers and school officials to conduct random, warrantless searches of every student, at any time, on the flimsiest of pretexts. Saying they suspect that one student might have drugs could give officials the authority to search every student in the building.

DPA supporters and others who opposed this outrageous bill called their members of Congress this week to express their disapproval. However, House leaders circumvented the usual legislative procedure to bring the bill to a quick vote. It did not pass through the committee process, but went straight to the House floor. There, it was passed by a simple voice vote, so constituents cannot even find out how their Representative voted.

The bill moves next to the Senate, but it is unlikely to be considered there this session.

Bill Piper, DPA's director of national affairs, said, "It looks like this bill was rushed to the House floor to help out the sponsor, Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY/4th), who is in a tight re-election race. This vote lets him say he's getting things done in Washington. But I would be surprised to see a similar push in the Senate."

HR 5295 is opposed in its current form by several groups, including the Drug Policy Alliance, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the ACLU, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Parent Teacher Association, the American Association of School Administrators, and the National School Boards Association.

DPA will be watching the bill so that if and when it does come up again, this wide array of opponents can mobilize to stop it.

Diebold = Dunces

Nice article here describig how dreadfully poor the e-voting machines are. We trust our democracy to these idiots?

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marx cafe Tonight!!

Come out to the Marx Cafe tonight to hear myself playing some garage and 2step goodies. music starts at ~10pm. Cheers!

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Jackass 2 Movie breaks new ground for advertisers.

You know the jerks who put together Jackass, CKY and Viva L Bam are always going to push the envelope as much as possible in search of killer footage of foolery. You may have not realised it's also one of the first movies scheduled for theatrical release that allows for dynamic inseration of advertisments. Yeah! pretty wild, huh? read all about it.

Dynamic Backing for 'jackass’ Movie
Studio Makes Use Of On-Demand Insertion Tools
By Linda Haugsted 9/11/2006

However it performs theatrically, jackass number two will earn a mention in cable’s history books as one of the first national products to promote itself with ads inserted on the fly into on-demand programming. Viewers of comedy programming on demand by Sunflower Broadband of Lawrence, Kan., will see ads for the Paramount Pictures release. The studio and its agency, Mediaedge:cia, which designed the campaign, control the ad content, which is inserted as users select content via the platform.

The studio will be able to change the on-demand spots, offering pre-release movie promotion then changing the message as the movie is available in theaters. Sunflower has been dynamically inserting local ads into its VOD content, using equipment from SeaChange International Inc. (AdPulse On Demand Advertising System) and Atlas Solutions (On-Demand Media Console).

On-demand video typically contains ads that appear throughout the run of a specific program. The technology used in the 30,000-subscriber Kansas system allows the ad agency to handle media planning, creative management and campaign tracking remotely, and to change ads on the fly. The ads will appear in Comedy Central on-demand programs, including two episodes of South Park, one episode of Mind of Mencia, stand-up performances from Premium Blend and a stand-up comedy concert featuring Louis C.K.

“In general, MTV Networks thinks it’s a great deal. [We] want dynamic ad insertion as a standard,” said Caroline Everson, senior vice president of ad sales strategy and business development for MTV Networks. “We’re bullish” on the Lawrence test, she said. “We think the whole industry needs to be going in this direction.” The Sunflower Broadband ads will include some 15-second and 30-second pre-rolls. Other ad units will be placements on the larger screen, around the streaming content, that will make the appearance different from TV and more like a Web experience.

With the technology, the partners will be able to monitor which ads are viewed or skipped, and can replace ads that aren’t working, Everson said. She declined to discuss the revenue split on the ad deal. Terri Swartz, director of advanced advertising for SeaChange, said cable operators, content providers and ad agencies have yet to hash out the thorniest question about ads on demand: how the advertising should ultimately look.

In linear TV, there are eight minutes of commercials per half-hour. The network sells six minutes; the local operator or station retains two. But it’s still uncertain whether consumers will exploit video on demand if it carries the same ad tonnage as traditional TV, Swartz noted. Ad agencies have embraced web advertising because it’s more measurable and targetable. With static ads, cable has not been able to blunt that argument, he said.

Ad buyers also are reluctant to have to cut deals on an operator-by-operator or system-by-system basis. No one has created the ultimate business model for determining who owns the on-demand ads to sell, Swartz added. “There are a whole number of moving things” that need to be resolved before there is widespread national advertising on VOD, “and the cats are still unherded.”

Swartz differed with Everson in one respect: “This is not a test,” she said. “This is the real deal.” She would not detail subsequent campaigns, but added, “I’d be astonished if more [national advertisers] don’t step up.” Everson said MTV Networks would wait until the movie advertising has been completed, regroup, and then see about going to the broader marketplace. But the company has already received great feedback from ad buyers she said.

Winstons drummer died - RIP G.C. Coleman

The drummer for the Winstons, a funk and soul band from the 1960s, has passed away. Gregory Sylvester Coleman played the drums on the Winstons song 'Amen Brother', the drum breakdown on this track has become the most widely sampled peice of music in the history of the world. His ten second drum solo has been used on countless jungle, drum and bass and hip hop tracks over the years, and he never saw a dime for it. Lotsa history here!

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U.S. Park Police officer shot and killed Precious

I can't begin to think about this story in today's washington post. this is sooo sad. What the hell is wrong with people? that must have been one vicous dog that it had to be delt with like that. Did the officer even try and call animal control, why did he have to shoot a dog? there should be an investigation.

Dog Shot, Killed After Charging Officer, Police Say
By Allan Lengel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 12, 2006; Page B03

A homeless Texan named Joe often preached about the Lord and hung out in Dupont Circle with his white dog, Precious. People say she was harmless. The same for Joe.

But a U.S. Park Police officer shot and killed Precious yesterday after the unleashed, 6-year-old pit bull charged him shortly before 6 p.m. about 35 feet from the circle's fountain, police said. Witnesses said the park was filled with people.

"When I . . . saw it, I was shocked," said Carolyn Stromberg, 27, who was sitting by the fountain with her brother. "I started crying. We hadn't heard any dogs attacking."

She said the dog's owner ran toward the animal, asking: "Why did you shoot my dog? He was just chasing squirrels."

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Voting snafu highlights looming disaster

These problems will continue to foul vote tallies, and spoil our democracy for generations to come until something is done to nationalize our voting system. The mechanisms of voting needs to be removed from the corrupt, incompetent and lazy local officials that are allowed to choose any voting system they feel will work, or where a vendor is willing to take them out to a ballgame or cruise. These local election officials are too willing to cheat as their loyalties lie not with democracy and the preservation of our way of life; but instead with the political party which they happen to belong. An independent class of federal workers should be entrusted with running elections on a national scale, these folks should be culled from a consortium of our nation's most talented system engineers and integrators and should hold democracy as a cherished value. To many local election officials are involved in the political parties present in those localities and in all frankness can't be trusted to fairly carry out their duties.

It is absolutely a national disgrace that we don't have accurate election tallies in our country, that a recount should ever be necessary is lubricious.

'It's Not the People Who Vote that Count; It's the People Who Count the Votes' Joseph Stalin said that, and nothing could be truer. We need to remove the vote counters to be replaced with an infallible automatic electronic system, each vote should be tabulated instantly across the nation and added into the tally in presidential elections as soon as that vote has been placed. That way each citizen can watch the voting being counted in real time, so there's never any need for a recount.

Electronic voting can work, it just needs the right people managing and directing the project for it to be a success. People who know that democracy transcends individual political parties, that the sanctity of the process is more important then who wins; we need people who are bent on dedicating theirs lives to preserving democracy.

It will never happen.

Election Glitches Thwart Montgomery Voters
Inoperable Voting Machines Also Affect Parts of Pr. George's

By Debbi Wilgoren
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 12, 2006; 12:08 PM

Election Day in Montgomery County and parts of Prince George's opened in chaos and frustration this morning, as a series of problems and missteps left thousands of citizens unable to vote or forced to cast provisional ballots.

By mid-morning, a bevy of statewide and local candidates had begun calling for polling stations to stay open past the scheduled 8 p.m. closing time. Montgomery County's Board of Elections held an emergency meeting and agreed to petition the Circuit Court to extend voting times until 9 p.m.

No electronic voting machines were operational when polls opened at 7 a.m. in Montgomery County, because election officials failed to deliver the required voter authorization cards to the county's 238 precincts. Voters were supposed to be given provisional paper ballots instead. But several precincts quickly ran out of those backup ballots.

At Lynkbrook School Center in Bethesda, one voter said poll workers went scurrying to a photocopy shop to make more provisional ballots.

"This is just obscene that we can live in one of the most forward-thinking counties in the country, and have so many advantages open to us, and for some reason we can't get our polls to work," said campaign volunteer Valerie Coll, who was stationed outside Cannon Road Elementary School in Silver Spring. She said poll workers turned voters away until the campaign volunteers told them to offer paper ballots instead.

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Invisibility cloak LOLZ CALL HARRY POTTER

This shit is bbank yo!

Theoretical Blueprint for Invisibility Cloak Reported

Once devised using exotic artificial 'metamaterials,' the cloak will have numerous uses, from defense applications to wireless communications

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Note to Editors: David R. Smith can be reached at drsmith@ee.duke.edu or (919) 660-8258; David Schurig can be reached at david.schurig@duke.edu or (919) 660-8259. More information about metamaterials is available at http://www.ee.duke.edu/~drsmith.
Durham, N.C. -- Using a new design theory, researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and Imperial College London have developed the blueprint for an invisibility cloak. Once devised, the cloak could have numerous uses, from defense applications to wireless communications, the researchers said.

Such a cloak could hide any object so well that observers would be totally unaware of its presence, according to the researchers. In principle, their invisibility cloak could be realized with exotic artificial composite materials called "metamaterials," they said.

"The cloak would act like you've opened up a hole in space," said David R. Smith, Augustine Scholar and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke's Pratt School. "All light or other electromagnetic waves are swept around the area, guided by the metamaterial to emerge on the other side as if they had passed through an empty volume of space."

Electromagnetic waves would flow around an object hidden inside the metamaterial cloak just as water in a river flows virtually undisturbed around a smooth rock, Smith said. The research team, which also includes David Schurig of Duke's Pratt School and John Pendry of Imperial College London, reported its findings on May 25, 2006, in Science Express, the online advance publication of the journal Science. The work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

First demonstrated by Smith and his colleagues in 2000, metamaterials can be made to interact with light or other electromagnetic waves in very precise ways. Although the theoretical cloak now reported has yet to be created, the Duke researchers are on their way to producing metamaterials with suitable properties, Smith said. "There are several possible goals one may have for cloaking an object,” said Schurig, a research associate in electrical and computer engineering. "One goal would be to conceal an object from discovery by agents using probing or environmental radiation."

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Women banned from Mecca?

good stuff. Although not mentioned directly in this article; see how interwoven Islam and Judiasm are, there's many references to their shared history here. These are facts many people would be good to recognize.

Saudis Consider Banning Women From Mecca

By DONNA ABU-NASR
The Associated Press
Thursday, September 7, 2006; 2:25 PM

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Officials are considering an unprecedented proposal to ban women from performing the five Muslim prayers in the immediate vicinity of Islam's most sacred shrine in Mecca. Some say women are already being kept away.

The issue has raised a storm of protest across the kingdom, with some women saying they fear the move is meant to restrict women's roles in Saudi society even further. But the religious authorities behind the proposal insist its real purpose is to lessen the chronic problem of overcrowding, which has led to deadly riots during pilgrimages at Mecca in the past.

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Steve Irwin - RIP 1962-2006

Crikey! That's really awful. I hear that there is a tape.

Steve Irwin: The incredible story of the wildlife warrior
5 September 2006 09:21

To some, he was just a reckless attention-seeker. To others, he was the lovable bloke from the Outback whose antics with the world's most dangerous creatures made him irresistible. But the shocking death of Steve Irwin has deprived Australia of one of its most colourful personalities. Were the voyeuristic demands of television to blame? Or was it just a random, tragic accident? Kathy Marks reports
Published: 05 September 2006

Unlike most Australians, who shrink from the tropical sun and shudder at the dangerous creatures that surround them, Steve Irwin was a man in tune with his environment.

Nothing fazed him - not the sharks or killer jellyfish, nor the man-eating crocodiles, nor the dozens of snakes and spiders capable of delivering a fatal bite. For Irwin, Australia's animals were "like a magnet", and he acquired fame, and considerable fortune, by getting up close to them. He appeared to have no fear. And it was, perhaps, that sense of invulnerability that killed him yesterday.

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London ravers know how to do

Sounds like a wild party for sure. I think though if anyone ever tried to do that in DC's foxhall or palisades neighborhoods they would quickly find themselves in jail, and the pigs would take the turntables for sure. It's wacky that cops in England are powerless to evict squatters like that. read the comments on the link, some interesting quips on the squatter laws in merry olde England.

Ravers seize £10 million house
31.08.06

Revellers are flocking to this house in north London.

Squatters have seized a £10 million home to host drug-fuelled raves, it has emerged.

Furious residents of the exclusive Primrose Hill area of North London say their lives have been made a nightmare since the eight bedroom house was taken over two months ago. The occupants charge hundreds of ravers £5 each to attend all-night parties which shatter the peace of the area that is home to celebrities including David Walliams, Gwen Stefani, Sadie Frost and Jamie Oliver.

The front of the house is littered with beer cans, broken glass and used needles, while inside the carpets have been ripped up and the walls covered in graffiti. But despite scores of complaints, police say they are powerless to act until the owner of the property gets a court order to evict the revellers. The squatters boast that the only thing the police have done is to politely ask them to keep the noise down.

The takeover comes amid a resurgence in illegal rave parties, fuelled by confusion over the Government's reclassification of drugs and pocket money prices for substances. Kitty Massey, whose home backs on to the garden of the occupied house, said the scale of the raves was 'unimaginable'. 'Hundreds of screaming teenagers are turning up in droves and heavy metal and rock music has been blasting out day and night.

'It was a beautiful and magnificent home but now it is a wreck. 'I am shocked that nothing has been done to stop it. I've made hundreds of complaints in the last eight weeks. 'It appears that squatters' rights are more important than my own. The law is an ass if it cannot control criminal activity of this nature.'

She said the home, which is set on an acre of land on Radlett Place, was bought by a Russian businessman last year. Jane Anderson-Craig who lives near the house said the parties were highly organised and well-advertised.

'The squatters are charging the guests to come in and making a small fortune selling them cans of beer and drugs. 'The police say there is very little they can do and that they are at the mercy of the squatters until they get a court order.

'In the meantime the residents are suffering and are frightened to go out at night.' The squatters have fitted metal grills over the windows and pasted a notice to the front door declaring: 'Take notice that we live in this property. It is our home and we intend to stay here.'

Inside three stages have been erected for DJs to perform on and signs have been put up over makeshift bars selling cans of beer at £2.50 each and spirits at £2 a shot. Cans and bottles litter the floor of the house which has been 'decorated' with graffiti covered walls and psychedelic flags.

Upstairs en-suite bedrooms have been turned into communal sleeping areas where at least eight punk squatters are living. One squatter, sporting a huge green mohican haircut and nose piercings, said: 'All we were doing was having peace parties, man. 'The police came round but they were fine with it, they just asked us to turn the music down.'

A DJ who played in the most recent party said: 'I think people have the right to party in beautiful houses with beautiful gardens.' A police spokesman said: 'Officers are aware of the problems residents have been experiencing in regard to excess noise and are liaising with the council and residents to try and resolve the matter.'

Last week nine police officers were injured by an angry mob of partygoers as they tried to stop an illegal rave in Great Chesterford, near Saffron Walden, Essex.