| Bringing AIDS awareness to the black community
Monday through Friday. Black Leadership Council on HIV Community meeting: 6-8 p.m. Feb. 27, Yesler Terrace Community Center, 917 East Yesler Way. POCAAN (People of Color Against AIDS Network): www.pocaan.org/home.html; 2200 Rainier Avenue S.; 206-322-7061. .
A giant has fallen: Remembering Barry Barclay
It's been a couple of days now since the phone rang, and I heard from his sister Pauline that Barry Barclay had died. Barry was - and remains - an absolute giant in New Zealand and the World's film communities. He is widely and famously regarded as the first member of an Indigenous nation to direct a feature film, and often held up in New Zealand as being possibly our greatest and most influential documentary maker. But I think it's important to remember now that Barry's more celebrated achievements - Ngati, the Tangata Whenua series, The Feathers of Peace - were founded on the back of a long and compassionate journey of discovery of self, of others and a rigorous, vigorous, disarmingly playful and punishingly sharp mind. .
Pimp Gate Update: MSNBC's Ethics Don’t Extend to Bush Twins
KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: It‘s rare when the world of politics and the world of entertainment fit together as neatly as they do in our number one story in the COUNTDOWN tonight. A tale of two pairs of girls, all of them in their mid 20‘s, all of them famous, all of them providing rich fodder for the tabloids with their latest exploits. In a moment the phenomenon of Paris Hilton and her new sidekick, Britney Spears. But first Jenna and Barbara Bush. They have regained their party girl crowns thanks to reports from their 25th birthday celebrations in Argentina this weekend. After reports of lack security, a media frenzy and at least one lurid tale in the Argentine papers about the girls running naked down a hallway of their hotel, denied fervently by that hotel, by the way, ABC News reported the situation was so bad that the U.S.
Radio silence
If sombody lives in a high rise and can't get AM, there's always this internet thing I've heard so much about and am using right now.
Many urban areas are limited in the amount of urban music they can get because of the nearly lilly white talk CBC stations on FM. Posted 05/02/08 at 11:28 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Don't be scared of digital
Question: I'm worried about the digital TV transition. Will digital-to-analog television signal converters be available? I heard the government would be helping out. Can you explain?
Answer: In February 2009, all television broadcasts will go digital. Owners of analog televisions will need a digital conversion box. Otherwise, you won't be able to receive over-the-air television signals. This issue only applies to those using an antenna. Converter boxes will be widely available before the transition. The government has a program to help. It's offering coupons to offset the cost of a converter box. You must apply for a coupon and can find a link to the program at www.tulsaworld.com/komandonews.
Q: You often mention the benefit of 802.11n over 802.11b and 802.11g.
'We know we are losing kids'
South Pole brand is popular. Blue bandanas are hung over the shoulder or tucked into a back pocket. Blue cloth belts are worn with buckles that display an S. Local groups: Southside Criminals, who tag with SSC graffiti, and Union Park Locotes, who leave a UPL mark. Brown Nation, a Sureos group that was active here but had largely disappeared, is having a resurgence and tags BN 13. Territory: The Sureos actively work to control Union Park and have "jump-ins," where they initiate new members by beating them there. — Medford police and www.knowgangs.com Norteos Meaning: Northerner. Originated: Among Mexican-American inmates in California prisons who organized into gangs in the 1960s. Those from Northern California called themselves Norteos.
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But President George W. Bush, the Catholic Church and right-to-life groups have cited the same moral objections they raise to abortion in demanding that human embryos — which they regard as the beginning of life — not be sacrificed, even in a search for cures to save human lives. Instead, they pressed for research into non-controversial adult stem cells. The latest discovery satisfies those with moral objections and dramatically tips the balance toward more work on skin cells. But for scientific reasons, embryonic studies won’t be abandoned just yet. Embryonic stem-cell research is still the "gold standard" for scientists, said Jonathan Moreno at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics. "Everyone is saying the future is with the new cells.
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