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Today's Topics:
1. Fire damages 'Blues Brothers' church (Greg Williams)
2. "Tequila" songwriter dies (Greg Williams)
3. Pirate Radio Challenges Feds (Duane Whittingham)
4. The truth about the E. coli outbreak (George Antunes)
5. Delta 2 / GPS-2R-15 Upcoming Launch Coverage Mon (9-25)
2:30PM EDT. AMC-1 Trans 17C (4040 H) (Dishnut)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:46:30 -0400
From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Fire damages 'Blues Brothers' church
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Fire damages 'Blues Brothers' church
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-blueschurch23.html
September 23, 2006
BY DAVE NEWBART Staff Reporter
The Southeast Side church made famous by its appearance in the movie
"The Blues Brothers" -- Pilgrim Baptist Church of South Chicago -- had
planned a big celebration for its 89th birthday Sunday.
The church -- where James Brown sings a spirited rendition of "The Old
Landmark" in the 1980 movie -- had undergone major renovations over the
last few years.
But last week, an electrical fire at the church so badly damaged the
sanctuary that it can't be used for at least six months. Two rooms in
the church were badly damaged by smoke, flames and water. Firefighters
had to break out eight new stained-glass windows to fight the fire. The
pulpit and pews were taken away for repair from smoke and water damage.
"All the work we had done is gone," said pastor Hilliard Hudson. The
church has spent about $165,000 on the renovations, raised solely from
member donations.
This Sunday's service will be held at a nearby Baptist church -- and the
congregation will spend more time figuring out what to do next rather
than eating birthday cake.
"It was going to be a great, festive celebration," Hudson said, noting
that last Sunday's service featured many tears over the damage to their
home, but jubilation that no one was hurt and that the church escaped
major structural damage on the outside.
Total damage unknown
Two people were in the church preparing for a Bible study when they
heard a crackling noise Sept. 13. Someone outside saw smoke and called
the Fire Department.
On Friday, crews began ripping out the recently replaced carpet. They
took down some large curtains at the front of the church. Brightly
colored broken glass was still on the ground, as was a soot-covered
Bible, ceiling tiles, plaster and other debris. An old Hammond organ --
a model that's no longer made -- was taken away; church leaders don't
know if it can be repaired.
Church leaders can't say the total amount of damage yet. Although the
church is insured, board of trustees Chairman Maurice Carpenter worries
they don't have enough to cover everything. And parts of the church that
need repair might also have to be brought up to city code, costing even
more.
No tie to other Pilgrim Baptist
In the movie, it was referred to as the "Triple Rock Church." Filmmakers
took exterior shots and then re-created the interior on a set in Hollywood.
Church leaders said the building is more than 100 years old. Pilgrim
Baptist has made its home there since the mid-1940s, although it has
been in existence since 1917 at other locations. About 250 people attend
services each Sunday, Hudson said. Services will be held indefinitely at
Praise Tabernacle Baptist Church, 9511 S. Commercial, although they will
start at 9 a.m. and end by 10:30 a.m. so the other congregation can meet.
Although it shares the same name, the church at 3235 E. 91st is not
affiliated with the Pilgrim Baptist Church at 3301 S. Indiana where
gospel music was born. That church was destroyed in a fire in early January.
"In less than a year, two landmarks, two Pilgrim Baptists, both founded
in 1917, in the same city, caught fire. How ironic is that?" Hudson
said. At the time of the first fire, he recalled, "People were calling
us, asking us where do they send money."
Then, the church sent them to the other congregation. But now, they need
the help.
Donations can be made to the Pilgrim Baptist Church of South Chicago
Fire Relief Fund, c/o Charter One Bank, 9200 S. Commercial, Chicago
60617. Or call (773) 374-3888.
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Greg Williams
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:54:44 -0400
From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] "Tequila" songwriter dies
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"Tequila" songwriter dies
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003271956_floresobit23.html
By The Associated Press
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. ? Danny Flores, 77, who composed, played the
saxophone and shouted "tequila!" in the 1950s hit song "Tequila," has died.
Mr. Flores, who lived in Westminster, died Tuesday at Huntington Beach
Hospital, hospital spokeswoman Kathleen Curran said. He died of
complications from pneumonia, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reported.
Family members told The Orange County Register he had Parkinson's disease.
The man sometimes called the "godfather of Latin rock" was born in Santa
Paula but grew up in Long Beach. By 5 he was playing the guitar in
church and at 14 he was a member of a trio that performed Mexican music.
In 1957, Mr. Flores was in a group that recorded some work with
rockabilly singer Dave Burgess. One of the songs was based on a nameless
instrumental tune Mr. Flores had written. He played the "dirty"
saxophone part and repeatedly growled the single-word lyric: "tequila!"
The next year it appeared as the B-side of a single, credited to The
Champs. Mr. Flores used the name Chuck Rio because he was under contract
to a different record label.
"Tequila" went to No. 1 on the Billboard chart and won a Grammy in 1959
for best rhythm-and-blues performance. Mr. Flores continued to play it
for the next 40 years.
The song has been used in numerous commercials and TV shows. It became
popular with a new generation after it was used in the 1985 movie
"Pee-wee's Big Adventure."
The song also is frequently featured in the University of Washington
Husky Band playlist.
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K4HSM
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:22:02 -0500
From: Duane Whittingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Pirate Radio Challenges Feds
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Pirate Radio Challenges Feds
By MARTHA MENDOZA, AP National Writer
Published: September 20, 2006
OAKLAND, Calif.?To Stephen Dunifer, it was yet
another revolutionary moment. To the untrained
eye, it looked more like a geek fest.
Over four days, a dozen men and women shyly
bumped shoulders as they studied schematics and
tinkered with romex connectors, resistors,
microphone cords, meters, sockets and capacitors.
In the corner of this cluttered electronics lab,
hunched over a computer, sat Dunifer, their
teacher, ?the patron saint of pirate radio.? Part
rock star, part Johnny Appleseed and fully the
bane of the Federal Communications Commission,
Dunifer has long, gray hair, large, clear glasses
and a deep commitment to what he calls ?Free Radio.?
?We?re not stealing anything. We?re claiming
something that?s rightfully ours,? he says.
His goal is to create FM radio stations faster
than the FCC can shut them down.
?It?s always been our position that if enough
people go on the air with their stations, the FCC
will be overwhelmed and unable to respond,? he says.
Pirate radio is radio without a license, radio
without government regulations. It?s ?america the
criminal? at midnight on Human Rights Radio in
Springfield, Illinois and pre-dawn erotica on
Freak Radio in Santa Cruz, Calif. It?s an
inordinate amount of Frank Zappa at WFZR in West
End, Pa. (a station dedicated to playing his
music) and the ?Voice of the American Patriot?
("no support for liberals disguised as wannabe
Conservatives") at NLNR in Butte, Mont.
The rapidly proliferating scofflaws are usually
only audible within a few miles of their
?home-brewed? transmitters. They find unused
sections of the FM dial, fire up their
mini-transmitters, raise their antennas and set up their station.
Some opt to broadcast on the Internet as well,
opening up their audience to the entire globe.
Costs typically range from about $250 to $1,500.
Pirates draw loyal audiences in their communities
but complaints from the larger, licensed public
and private radio stations who say the
microbroadcasters interrupt their signals. And
they are a thorn in the side of the FCC, which is
tasked with shutting them down.
Ten miles away from Dunifer?s radio camp, at an
undisclosed location in San Francisco, an FCC
enforcement team is part of a nationwide campaign to thwart the pirates.
A record 185 unlicensed broadcasters received
fines, cease and desist letters or had been
raided by the by early September, up from 151
enforcement actions in all of 2005 and 92 in
2004, according to John Anderson, an expert on
pirate radio who tracks FCC enforcement at
University of Illinois? Institute of
Communications Research. His data show a steady
increase in pirate radio enforcement dating back 10 years.
?There are a lot more stations out there these
days, thus there are a lot more stations for the
FCC to find and bust,? said Anderson.
Despite federal laws that ban unlicensed radio,
efforts to shut down the stations are rarely
popular and appear to be ineffectual, at least some of the time. For example:
_The neon sign says ?ON AIR? at the storefront
KNOZ station in Sacramento, Calif., even though
broadcaster William Major was fined $10,000 by
the FCC in June. Major says he?s been wrongly
painted as a pirate station, and that the FCC
just overlooked his license application which he
says is still pending. And the fine? ?It?s 10
G?s,? he said. ?I don?t have 10 G?s. But they?re
being real gentleman about it, you know what I
mean? They gave us the fine and they?re letting us do our thing.?
_Residents of Brattleboro, Vt., are also once
again listening to free radio. Last summer the
FCC raided and shut down their 10-watt radio free
brattleboro, prompting an ongoing federal court
battle. This summer a new community radio station
received permits to open and raised a 30-foot antenna.
_When federal agents raided free radio Santa Cruz
in 2004, a crowd of several hundred protesters
soon gathered at the 10-year-old broadcast
center. The tires on the FCC agents? cars were
slashed before they could leave, and then they
received parking tickets before they could repair
them. A few days later a fundraiser brought in
more than $25,000 and Freak Radio, which is still on the air, was launched.
The FCC?s beef, insisted spokesman David Fiske,
is with neither the public dissent nor the
abundance of Frank Zappa music. The problem is
that pirate radio stations can make it impossible
for the public to listen to licensed broadcasting
and can cut into air traffic control communications, he said.
?We are completely complaint driven,? he said.
?If there are more enforcement actions, that?s
because there have been more complaints.?
The FCC?s 2007 budget includes an additional
$1,080,000 for Mobile Digital Direction Finding
Vehicles which can be used to sniff out pirate
radio stations. But that same budget includes no
extra staffing for the FCC?s 333-person
enforcement bureau, which is tasked with policing
everything from cable television to telephone
services. They?re supposed to investigate obscene
broadcasts, bust unwanted faxers and regulate the airwaves.
Pirate radio in its current form dates back 21
years to Zoom Black Magic Radio in Fresno,
Calif., founded by Walter Dunn to bring diversity
to the FM dial. The FCC raided his station and
fined him $2,000 two years later, but like
stations of today, he quickly popped up nearby.
At Dunifer?s Radio Camp, students are warned
about the FCC and taught how to evade the
enforcement agents. At the end of four intense
days, they walked out holding their own,
hand-built, ready-to-use FM radio transmitter, a
shiny box slightly larger than a brick.
Participants came from as far away as Namibia and
as nearby as five blocks away.
Their reasons for wanting their own station were
equally diverse: a neat, middle-aged woman from
Mexico, accompanied by a translator, said she
wanted to bring news and political information to
her community; two young men from Tucson in
flowered shirts and sandals said they wanted to
start a new pirate station to replace several
that have been shut down by the FCC; a
self-described ?boring insurance clerk? in a
lilac blazer was just ?looking for something
interesting to do?; a man with red dreadlocks,
green earrings and tattooed arms was slated to
take over the technology job at his local pirate station.
No one is sorrier to hear about these Radio Camp
graduates than Dennis Wharton, spokesman for the
National Association of Broadcasters, who
described Dunifer as ?the patron saint of pirate
radio.? And he didn?t mean it as praise.
He said his members, frustrated by interference
on their stations, push the FCC to enforce the rules against pirate operators.
?You?d be hard pressed to find a pirate radio
station that isn?t interfering with another licensed station,? he said.
Wharton conceded that the FCC?s policing efforts can be futile.
?It?s like whack a mole,? he said. ?You knock it
out in one place and it pops up somewhere else.?
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:37:03 -0500
From: George Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] The truth about the E. coli outbreak
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/22/e_coli/print.html
The truth about the E. coli outbreak
It's not the spinach, it's not the cows, it's not the water -- it now may
be the deer that are making people sick.
By Marc Siegel
Salon.com
Sep. 22, 2006
The current E. coli outbreak that has spread across almost half of the
United States isn't really about spinach. It's about a powerful bacterium
-- which today we have learned seems to be issuing from the deer population
in Salinas Valley, California.
While a number of scientists have considered a contaminated water supply to
be the possible culprit, Dr. Robert Tauxe -- a medical epidemiologist and
the deputy director of the Division of Foodborne, Bacterial, and Mycotic
diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- says it's
likely that the outbreak has spread through the droppings of deer that
dance unchecked across California spinach fields. Tauxe, with whom I spoke
today, mentioned that deer manure may have contaminated water supplies as
well as spinach fields.
Tauxe also says that this particular E. coli bacterium, which infects the
feces of many animals, including cows and deer, may be the worst E. coli
the CDC has seen.
As the CDC scientists test the culprit bacterium under the microscope and
compare DNA footprints, looking find its source, they are uncovering
characteristics that reveal why it has spread so far and so fast.
The CDC scientists were at work until almost midnight last night trying to
determine why people are getting so sick. They have discovered, Tauxe says,
that the strain of E. coli in question is the very virulent Escherichia
coli O157:H7. "This may be the worst actor we've seen," he said, "in terms
of all the kidney failure and hospitalizations."
Tauxe said that studies being done in the laboratory at the CDC are not
likely to show drug resistance because "less than 1 percent of E. coli is
drug-resistant."
E. coli O157 regularly resides in the intestines of animals including cows,
deer and pigs, where it doesn't cause disease. This bacterium makes the
powerful "shiga" toxin, which breaks down the inside walls of blood
vessels, causing bleeding and clotting. But cows and deer lack the
receptors for this toxin on their blood cells, so they don't bleed and they
don't clot. In fact, they have no symptoms at all. Cows and deer shed O157
into their stool, just as we humans shed thousands of kinds of bacteria
that live in our intestines but don't make us sick.
But very small amounts of the more virulent strains make us very sick. The
current outbreak, with 159 cases across 24 states, includes 83 hospitalized
individuals, of whom 27 (17 percent) developed the rare form of kidney
failure known as hemolytic-uremic syndrome that is characteristic of the
most severe form of this disease. This outbreak has included rates of
kidney failure and hospitalization at three times the rate that is usually
seen with this disease.
"There are many factors in addition to virulence that go into why this E.
coli is making us sicker," says Dr. Philip Tierno, director of Clinical
Microbiological and Diagnostic Immunology at the New York Medical Center
and author of "The Secret Life of Germs." "A heavier concentration of the
bacteria on spinach leads to more bacteria ingested. The more bacteria, the
greater the amount of toxin, which leads to more complications, including
the kidney failure we're seeing."
"Animals are incubators for E. coli O157," Tierno says. Once it is shed in
manure, it may spread to water and plants. A high concentration of this
bacterium on the initial spinach crop leads to an explosion of bacterial
growth within the harvested fields. Eleven outbreaks in salad foods have
occurred in the United States since 1995.
Tauxe at the CDC is confident that the outbreak will be controlled. "We're
not seeing a lot of secondary spread," he said. "Nothing among people who
have touched those who are sick, no one in nursing homes. That's a very
good sign."
But for those who have gotten the dreaded bug, a high percentage have
gotten sick. This is a wakeup call for the food industry. Inadequate
surveillance and easily contaminated crops -- and, perhaps, an
overabundance of deer -- are factors that promote the creation and
perpetuation of superbugs like the one that is currently riding our spinach.
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George Antunes, Political Science Dept
University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204
Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927
antunes at uh dot edu
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:39:55 -0700
From: Dishnut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Delta 2 / GPS-2R-15 Upcoming Launch Coverage Mon
(9-25) 2:30PM EDT. AMC-1 Trans 17C (4040 H)
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A Boeing Delta II rocket (7925 configuration) with payload NAVSTAR GPS
2R-15 spacecraft is scheduled to launch Monday Afternoon (9-25) from
pad 17A. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Launch is scheduled at 2:50 p.m. EDT. with a window extending to 3:03
p.m. EDT.
Satellite seperation is scheduled for 68 minutes after launch.
GPS 2R-15 (GPS 2R-M2) is the second in the new "Modernized" version of
the 2R series of satellites that feature many improvements for greater
accuracy, and tougher resistance to interference and enhanced
performance for users around the world.
GPS 2R-15 will take over the Plane A, Slot 2 position, taking over for
the GPS 2-12 craft launched in February 1992 which is showing symptoms
of failure in its internal clock system. GPS 2-12 will be repositioned
to the A4 slot within the GPS constellation to act as a backup for the
remainder of its life.
Broadcast coverage:
AMC-1 at 103.0?W, transponder 17C (4040 H)
Broadcast starts approx. 2:30 p.m. EDT.
Dont have a dish? a webcast is available:
http://www.boeing.com/news/feature/livewebcast/delta_webcast.html
Additional coverage at:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d318/status.html
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/next_launch.html
http://lmms.external.lmco.com/ (GPS IIR-15 spacecraft developer)
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/delta/delta2/gps_iir-15/index.html
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