Send Medianews mailing list submissions to medianews@twiar.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://twiar.org/mailman/listinfo/medianews_twiar.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Medianews digest..." 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:46:30 -0400 From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Medianews] Fire damages 'Blues Brothers' church To: Media News <medianews@twiar.org> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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. -- Greg Williams K4HSM [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twiar.org http://www.etskywarn.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:54:44 -0400 From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Medianews] "Tequila" songwriter dies To: Media News <medianews@twiar.org> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed "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. -- Greg Williams K4HSM [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twiar.org http://www.etskywarn.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:22:02 -0500 From: Duane Whittingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Medianews] Pirate Radio Challenges Feds To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Medianews@twiar.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed 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.? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Duane Whittingham (N9SSN) - Producer Tom and Darryl Radio Shows Heard on C-Band Analog Satellite (W0KIE) - Telstar 6 (IA6) Ch 1 6.2/6.8 mHz Also on WTND-LP Macomb 106.3 FM, WQNA 88.3 FM, WBCQ 7415 kHz & the Internet. Heard Fridays 9pm ET, Sundays 12am ET and Tues 2am ET (Folk) An Independent Freeform Eclectic Radio Show. http://www.tomanddarryl.org http://www.wtnd.us ------------------------------ 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 To: medianews@twiar.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-647323F4 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. ================================ George Antunes, Political Science Dept University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204 Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927 antunes at uh dot edu ------------------------------ 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) To: Medianews <medianews@twiar.org>, Satellite TV Wild Feeds List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom & Darryl Mail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, TVRO Newsgroup <TVRO@yahoogroups.com>, TVRO Talk Newsgroup <TVRO-TALK@yahoogroups.com>, WildFeeds List <wildfeeds@twiar.org> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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 -- Dishnut-P ==================================================================== Operator of RadioFree Dishnuts - Producer of The Dishnut News heard Saturdays at 10pm EST. on RFD, W0KIE Satellite Radio Network IA-6 (T6) Transponder 1 / 6.2 & 6.8Mhz (4DTV T6-999) WTND-LP 106.3, and many micro LPFM stations. http://dishnuts.net RFD Listen Links: http://dishnuts.net/#Listen Show Archives: (Partly Up) http://dishnuts.net/archive/ ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Medianews mailing list Medianews@twiar.org http://twiar.org/mailman/listinfo/medianews_twiar.org End of Medianews Digest, Vol 41, Issue 1 ****************************************