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Monday October 13, 2008 - 05:37:00 PM
BERKELEY SCHOOLS
Editors, Daily Planet:
I am the parent of two school-age students in Berkeley public schools. I take the upcoming BUSD election very seriously. Unfortunately, most of the candidates don't. On Oct. 1, I e-mailed each of the candidates, asking them their position and opinions on the biggest elephant in the room in BUSD—unauthorized out-of-district students. Sadly, three of the four candidates have ignored my question. Only one, Beatriz Leyva-Cutler, bothered to respond. If the candidates won't answer fair questions from a parent/voter, how can we trust them to make fair and open decisions with millions of tax dollars and the precious resources that are our children? Berkeley parents and voters—demand answers from these candidates and demand attention to the serious issues facing our schools.
Peter Shelton
LINDA MAIO AND ANTENNAS
The Oct. 9 article "Court Orders Maio To Testify" is informative and eye-opening. Linda Maio has caused enormous suffering for people on the southside in the past three years by approving cell-phone antennas on the UC Storage building owned by Patrick Kennedy. She was later rewarded a loan by Mr. Kennedy. This is really shameful. Linda Maio must resign.
I remember distinctly that when the City Council was voting on the antennas, she said, "My heart is with the people, I want to vote no, but I vote yes." She should have said, "My heart is with the people, I want to vote no, but 45K is coming from Patrick Kennedy, so I vote yes."
This is selling out the people of Berkeley. I have been witnessing how people have been struggling since 2002 to stop cell-phone antennas. Bates, Maio, Moore, Capitelli, Wozniak, and Terry Doran have been consistently approving these antennas. You wonder whether they do so in return of loans, gifts, etc.
Now I know how I am going to vote. For Mayor, my vote goes to Shirley Dean. For council seats in Districts 2, 4, 5, and 6, my votes go, respectively, to Jon Crowder, Jesse Arreguin, Sophie Hahn, and Phoebe Sorgen. Hopefully, we will bring the power back to the people and stop behind-the-door deals between the city officials and those who have cash.
Mina Davenport
SHIFT POWER FROM FEW TO MANY
In 1933 Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act to control the financial speculation which had caused the 1929 Stock Market Crash. In 1999 Congress passed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act repealing the Glass-Steagall Act that has resulted in the current market crash.
The Republicans and the Democrats are now blaming each other for this crash; however, the 1999 bill was passed in the Senate: 90-8-1 and in the House: 362-57-15 and signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
The recent bailout bill which helps Wall Street but keeps Main Street disenfranchised was passed in the Senate: 74-25 and in the House: 263-171.
Until the late 1970s Democrats still represented the workers' interests and Republicans represented business interests, but it is evident that both parties are now vassals of the business interests. They have co-opted political debate so that the only issues that the voters can weigh in on are social issues but they have no say in the economic issues which are the basis of power.
The people need to turn to politics and work to shift the power from the few to the many; otherwise, as can be seen, the politics will turn on us.
Akio Tanaka
THE ADDISON
Where will the hundreds of residents of the proposed The Addison project shop? There is the Grocery Outlet for the budget-minded, and Fourth Street for those few left with disposable incomes. This deal ought to be quite interesting.
Phil Allen
SOUTH BERKELEY TABLEAUX
On a recent sunny Berkeley weekday morning, blue, bright, clear and crisp, I could not help but think of the sad irony seeing a group of young people lounging in the Tot-Lot of our neighborhood park swathed in plumes of pot smoke as they idled by while toddlers played gleefully on the slides and stairs of the play-structures oblivious to the wafting clouds of second-hand elective pollutants. Add to this the adjacent Neighborhood Drug Watch sign so lovingly adorned with new posters, to wit: "Neighborhood Watch, Police Not Welcome."
Now, I am not going to bore you by drifting off into the obvious lectures, regarding this all too common occurrence in Berkeley, about how Berkeley citizens are currently being murdered and maimed over this "harmless" substance, or how these young people should be engaged in constructive academic or vocational pursuits, or how drug use at a young age stunts mental, emotional, and physical development, or that, while the tides come and go, that we really are not , in this period of American history, endangered by the presence of Police in our neighborhoods, etc.
But I will bore you by submitting a question to the Abeyant Leadership currently dictating policy for the citizens of Berkeley:
What vested interest do you have in avoiding and dismissing neighborhood concerns about the serious problems that afflict our young people, keeping them at risk, marginalized, and unprepared to participate on an equal level to take advantage of the prosperity our society still (despite current economic woes) engenders, especially in a town with the intellectual, financial, and visionary resources at your disposal?
John Herbert
HISTORICAL OBSERVATION
Back in 1929, when the stock market crashed, some depressed CEO s and bankers, feeling disgraced for having brought the country into financial chaos, jumped out of tall Wall Street buildings. The result: "Plop!" Today, CEO s and bankers jump out of Wall Street buildings securely strapped to golden parachutes. The result: "Whoopee!"
Robert Blau
CHECKING UP ON TOM
I met a friend for tea at Peet's Friday morning and on the way back down Solano I stopped at Colusa to pick up my weekly Planet. There were none. A little odd, as it just came out yesterday, but I would pass another at Ensenada and Solano. None again. Hmmm. Oh well, I had another chance as I was getting on BART in North Berkeley a little later. Really? None here either? It wasn't until the afternoon dog walk past Strawberry Design center that I finally found one. Ohhhh, the Planet endorsed Shirley Dean! Time to check Tom's garage?
Jackie Simon
LIES, DAMNED LIES AND STATISTICS
I can't figure out if Berkeley Transportation Commissioner Rob Wrenn hasn't read the Bus Rapid Transit draft environmental impact report or if he is willingly parroting AC Transit's deceptions about the project.
In his Oct. 2 letter to the Daily Planet, Mr. Wrenn accuses me of "misrepresenting" the draft EIR. I guess Mr. Wrenn has read as far as the executive summary of the report, since that's what he quoted in his letter. Too bad he didn't read the entire report. Then he would have understood what Mark Twain is supposed to have said about statistics and lies.
Mr. Wrenn is right about one thing. The EIR does say that BRT would "increase corridor ridership 56 percent to 76 percent." The key word in that sentence is corridor. In other words, ridership along the International Boulevard-Telegraph Avenue corridor would increase.
Had Mr. Wrenn bothered to read the chart on page 3-26 of the EIR, however, he would have seen the entire ugly picture. As a result of BRT, AC Transit ridership is projected to increase between 3.7 and 6.2 percent. BART ridership, on the other hand, is projected to actually decrease, somewhere between 0.5 and 1.5 percent as a result of riders switching to BRT. The resulting net increase in total transit usage in the East Bay would be between 0.7 percent and 1.4 percent.
How did Mr. Wrenn and AC Transit get to that "56 to 76 percent" increase? By counting people who switch to BRT from other bus lines or from BART. These are not new transit riders. By switching from one bus line to another they do nothing to reduce greenhouse gases. People who switch from BART to BRT will, in fact, generate more greenhouse gases, not less.
Here is the fabled bottom line, direct from the EIR: Without BRT, transit use in the East Bay is projected to be 659,800 trips per day by 2025. With BRT, the number of trips is projected, at a maximum, to be 670,100. That's a 1.4 percent increase. This number is so small that the draft EIR says that the energy savings from BRT would be "negligible." This number is so small that the projected decreases in air pollutants are nearly zero (0.03 percent to be precise).
So who's "misrepresenting" the draft EIR, Mr. Wrenn? And tell us again, Mr. Wrenn, if you would, why we should spend $250 million on a project which is expected to do, essentially, nothing?
Jim Bullock
GET WITH THE PROGRAMS
There is a disconnect between the on-air program messages at KPFA and the actions of the management toward staff and volunteers. This inconsistency was revealed to the public when management and personnel at the radio station called the police on Nadra Foster during a dispute. This decision resulted in the police brutalizing Nadra, who is a long-time, black woman programmer.
KPFA radio, 94.1 FM, has many programs denouncing racism and the prison, military industrial complex. Among these programs are Hard Knock Radio, Flashpoints, JR and the Block Report, Without Walls, Critical Resistance, and Mumia Abu Jamal's Commentaries from Death Row. Reporters address the abuses of the police and of the dominant culture. The economically powerful and privileged use the police as a tool to control political dissent and to oppress people of color.
Police are not a solution to resolving our conflicts or solving any problems at the radio station. We should utilize alternatives such as sensitivity training, NVC-Non Violent Communication, and Conflict Resolution. These approaches, which have also been presented on-the-air, could be facilitated at teach-ins and community meetings. Additionally, management and staff should be familiar with de-escalation techniques and should have trained community support available if disputes and difficulties arise.
Management, with paid and unpaid staff, need to support the intention of KPFA in the studio, as well as on the air, by utilizing alternative approaches to calling the police. We need to do as we say at KPFA. Management, there is a better way—get with the programs.
Beverly Dove
I really want to know from presidential nominees how a low-income individual can survive, unlike rich people who have plenty to throw away and waste. I heard the Republican candidate say that a $5,000 government credit will enable people to buy health care of their choice in the open market. I am a dedicated teacher with limited means. Is $5,000 the total amount I will have to pay? The government credit must make sense not just for rich and upper-middle class people, but for poor people as well.
Romila Khanna
I just realized that many politically powerful people and organizations are opposing Measure KK!
Why am I surprised and upset? Answer: I live near Telegraph Avenue. The prospect of losing two out of the four lanes of traffic to busses only was unpleasant. Probably the most important problem to me is losing most of the parking on Telegraph. Parking is already tight near here because of Cal students. Neighbors like me and merchants on Telegraph have worked hard to put KK on the ballot—the merchants for customer parking, the neighbors for local parking near our homes.
If you do think of voting no on KK, please think that if it wins, it will decrease customers for the merchants on Telegraph, and, worst for the local residents, it may keep us from having visitors! (In most cases, it will not affect your life at all.)
Julia Craig
SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES
Thank you for devoting space in your Oct 9 issue to school board candidate statements. Local school boards make important decisions that affect every family in their community, yet it's often hard to determine which candidates offer the best solutions. I confess to not voting for local candidates in the past who are running for positions such as school or park district boards because I just didn't know enough to make an informed choice.
Having read the statements of the three school board candidates who chose to present their case to Berkeley residents, I was very impressed with Priscilla Myrick's knowledge of the issues and her prescriptions for improvement.
I don't understand why the schools in my hometown of New Delhi are so much more rigorous than those in Berkeley. New Delhi schools have less funding, more students and extreme poverty. But the academics are highly valued and produce better results than many U.S. schools, including my adopted town here in Berkeley.
The United States needs well-educated students now more than ever.
Kavita Mohindroo
OAKLAND'S MEASURE N
Oakland Measure N provides inequality for charter school teachers
At the last Oakland School Board meeting, State Administrator Vincent Matthews explained that it was his concern for "equity" that lead him to make $1.8 million charter school tax a part of Measure N.
State Administrator Matthew could have placed the question of funding Oakland's corporate charter schools on the ballot as a separate measure and provided "equity" for charter school taxpayers. The Oakland voters could then have decided if they wanted to fund "successful charter school programs."
Instead of going to the public with a straight forward request to fund Oakland corporate charter schools, he buried the charter schools' request for local funding in a parcel tax designed to fund Oakland Public teachers' pay increase.
Under Measure N, all the parcel tax money for Oakland Public Schools must go to pay for Oakland teachers' salary increase. Yet, each charter school administration qualifying for the money gets to decide how to spend the money at its school.
Measure N leaves charter school teachers behind. If State Administrator Matthews truly wanted equity, why didn't he at lease write Measure N to provide equity for Oakland's charter school teachers and ensure they too get a raise?
Inequity for charter school teachers is only one of many reasons to vote no on Measure N Nov. 4.
Jim Mordecai
NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY
Last Saturday, Oct. 11, was National Coming Out Day! This happens once a year, every year, but this year it is of extreme importance with the upcoming election, and Proposition 8!
In an unprecedented display of solidarity and diversity, in April of 1993, an estimated one million people came together for the National March on Washington for GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) rights!
One of the highlights of that day came when Martina Navratilova gave an emotional speech on the importance of coming out and on the need to be open and honest about one's sexual identity.
The parts of her speech that moved me the most, and that I believe are the most pertinent to the issue of the marriage amendment known as Proposition 8 coming up for a popular vote this Nov. 4, I quote below:
"What our movement for equality needs most, is for us to come out of the closet! We need to become visible to as many people as possible, so that we can shatter all those incredible myths that keep us in the closet!
Our goal is not to receive compassion, acceptance, or worse yet, tolerance, because that implies that we are inferior, we are to be tolerated, pitied, and endured! I don't want pity, do you? Of course not! Our goal must be equality across the board. We can settle for nothing less, because we deserve nothing less!
One's sexuality should not be an issue, one way or another. One's sexuality should not become a label by which that human being should be identified! My sexuality is a very important part of my life, a very important part of my being, but it is still a very small part of who I am!
Being homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual is not good or bad. It simply is.
So now we are here today so that one day in the hopefully not-too-distant future, we will be referred to not by our sexuality, but by our accomplishments and abilities, as all Californians, Americans and people everywhere have the right to be!
Melissa Etheridge, k.d. lang, Elton John, Greg Louganis and many, many others have come out of the closet, including recently, Clay Aiken! Each and every one had something to lose by that action, and each and every one could have made all kinds of excuses not to come out, but they didn't!
So, now, I urge all of you who are still in the closet to throw away all the excuses!
If we want the world to accept us, we must first accept ourselves! If we want the world to give us respect, we must first be willing to give ourselves respect! We must be proud of who we are and we cannot do that if we hide!
By coming out to our friends, family, employers, and employees, we make ourselves personable. We become human beings, and then we have the opportunity to show the world what we are all about—happy, intelligent, giving, loving people. We can show our moral strength, dignity, character."
We can be ourselves! I urge you to come out now and be true to yourself and tell your family, friends and everyone you know to vote no on Proposition 8, and that to do otherwise they will be hurting someone they know and love—you!
Robert Sodervick
Justice and Equality for All
HEALING AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
The KPFA management talks "healing" from their recent police incident. But more is required here, there's also gaining progressive understanding of the social forces involved.
There's a historic struggle to change the present objectification approach to madness/'mental illness' to a humanistic model based on community values and responsible self-expression, a struggle that falls within the framework of Kuhn's "paradigm shift" in science. Ignoring that is—politically—like ignoring gender role, ethnicity, or the exploitation of labor.
Some 15 years ago, Berkeley Mental Health came together around a "denial" strategy regarding "paradigm shift," and moved systematically to break every ongoing initiative in sync with the historic change process. Wendy Georges was fired from the Berkeley Food Project, sell-out deals were offered the prominent client/survivor activists (I refused mine and was personally threatened by BMH).
A general climate of stigma/discrimination promotes what activists call the "freedom train" problem. Are the 'crazy people' invited; is there a role for our values in the progressive movement? Or do people practice what Martin Luther King, Jr. called the "behavioral science" that accommodates or embraces oppression, denying torture, when dealing with us?
KPFA has had programs related to this concern. Once a leader of the client/survivor movement helped run Youth Radio, for instance. Yet—like most progressives, KPFA management and programming still does not take the stigma/discrimination process into account. Recently for instance Phil Zimbardo, a progressive social psychologist who is still confused about the "freedom train," was shamelessly praised on the Morning Show when interviewed about his new book (on the behavioral science of attitude management). I shuddered when I heard that.
The August 20 incident showed the face of racism, many say. It also showed the face of denial, what—by civil rights metaphor—is the "watermelon" approach to the movement to bring the client/survivor activists into the freedom train. Where is principle hiding?
In September, the American Psychological Association voted 60 percent by referendum ever to ban psychologists from involvement in torture in the service of national security. The questions implicit in King's advocacy for reforming "behavioral science" so as to promote "creative maladjustment" based on the values of freedom and dignity are now, at last, on the table: When does "treatment" mean "torture"?
Andrew Phelps
Former Chair, Berkeley Mental Health Commission (1990-93)
P.S.: King's 1967 speech to the APA can be found at www.apa.org/monitor/jan99/king.html.
BURIAL GROUNDS
Last Tuesday's publication of the Daily Californian mentions that archeological tests are been done near the proposed athletes' complex near Memorial Stadium.
The mentioned place is a sacred burial ground for the Muwekma Ohlone who inhabit the Bay Area from San Jose to beyond Berkeley and the San Francisco Peninsula. For instance, the Moscone Center and the Presidio National Park in San Francisco, the Bay Bridge ends, Emeryville Shopping Mall, Fourth Street in Berkeley, the University of California campus at Berkeley, and many other places in the Bay Area contain sacred burial grounds. The oak grove and Memorial Stadium, where a waterfall existed, are also burial grounds.
On Thursday, June 19, the Daily Californian reported, "Ohlone tribe member Andrew Galvan agreed with the university's claim that native burials at the site are unlikely, saying that he is "unaware of any proof saying current burials exists in that area." But allow me to let you know that Andrew Galvan is a not an Ohlone representative, he is three quarters non-native mexican, half quart sicilian and less than half quart Ohlone, therefore he is not even Ohlone, and obviously, neither by spirit.
Andrew Galvan is a divisive figure among the Ohlone community who since his early age has been a traitor to his almost non-Ohlone controversial identity. During the Alcatraz Occupation of the 1970s he wrote a letter and sent to president Nixon opposing the Native American Alcatraz occupation. As a teenager he was a franciscan seminarian and his brother Michael is a priest. Andrew Galvan has promoted the saint hood of father Junipero Serra who was the cause of the great devastation of California's Native Nations including the Ohlones. I remember when Andrew Galvan opposed the Ohlone Nation for the repatriation of the 13,000 human remains by UC Berkeley, such incident happened at the International House Auditorium 20 years ago.
Andrew Galvan has a B.A. in history from the California State University at Hayward and co-owns an archeological firm that has repatriated over 5000 human skeletal Ohlone remain and charges $60 an hour during excavations where construction will disturb Ohlone sacred burial grounds. For instance, he charged the county of Contra Costa $58.000 for 12 skeletal remains during a project of Big Break Regional Shoreline in the year 2002. He reburies the remains at the Ohlone Indian Tribe, Inc. cemetery in Fremont where he has denied the access to Ohlone tribe members who are looking for federal recognition.
The list goes on and on with this alleged "Ohlone," (see the San Francisco Weekly, Nov. 21, 2007 article for more information about Andrew Galvan misrepresentation).
Well, the University of California at Berkeley is alleging that the current archeological tests at the oak grove are being supervised by a "representative of the local Ohlone tribe is on site every day to oversee the excavation." But they don't give the name of such "Ohlone." Who is he/she? Most likely the traitor and renegade Andrew Galvan, curator of Mission Dolores.
I must add that Chancellor Birgenau of the University of California at Berkeley is another traitor to the Native American community for not protecting the oak grove and the sacred burial Ohlone ground and for not returning the 13,000 human Ohlone remains for proper reburial. Ironically, chancellor Birgenau alleges to be a Canadian First Nation Native.
Bernardo S. Lopez
VP PALIN
Imagine if you will: President John McCain all of a sudden keels over, and Vice President Sarah Palin has become the leader of the free world. That is inexperienced and figurehead Sarah Palin is now the commander in chief of the United States. Palin was selected in the 2008 presidential election to attract millions of evangelical voters to the GOP ticket.
President Palin has transformed the Supreme Court into a fundamentalist sounding board with the addition of more anti-abortion and anti-gay justices. Roe vs Wade is a memory and women no longer have freedom of choice over their own bodies.
America is experiencing a population explosion as the Palin administration pushes its "abstinence only" policy on the country. Sex education in the schools has been banned under the threat of lost funding.
Under President Palin, "Onward Christian Soldiers" has become the battle cry of the foreign policy and he economy is still stumbling along under Bush-like ecomomic policies. Far fetched?
Ron Lowe


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What does Time mean?
Pink Floyd: Time Meaning
Tagged: Time | Figurative Language [suggest]
Song Released: 1974
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Time Lyrics
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine...
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Mar 5th 2007 report
This song is for each individual to interpret through his own feelings. The song may mean something to Roger Waters personally, but it should also have a personal meaning for yourself.
The introduction suggests the weight of time that we all feel from being in an inevitably decreasing life in which we are always walking towards the end. The entire introduction is to represent the entire plane and span of your time of consciousness, starting from the heavy silence which is present only before we turn our hour glass. We are awoken by the loud alarm clock which represents the first acknowledgement of time. From there time only grows more intense, a heavy presence which is ceaselessly building towards a culmination or climax. It continues to grow until our emotions are reawakened into the present dimension of time in which we become conscious after a loud clash of drums.
As if a voice in the back of our heads, it mocks how we try to play it cool; how easily we slide time into the back of our minds. So we just stick around where our decisions have already been made for us, because it's easier to just sit around and wait. We have all the time in the world and besides, we don't know what's right – no one told us. So we wander in circles; waiting.
Then comes the beautifully done jam session, which suggests how we will eventually begin to drift forward into life, instead of standing on our feet and taking it on. The music takes on our emotions in the sensation that we are lost. It begins to sound like a burning monotonous pain, our hearts constantly yearning for something that we just can't reach and are constantly battling in our weariness, every once in awhile coming upon our own internal clocks; waking up and realizing we are getting older.
So we pretend to except who we are to quiet our anxieties; picking a better character to play the parts of ourselves, because we were too cowardly to follow the truth. All the time, we are dwindling towards our end, living as zombies who can't come face to face with ourselves or time's destiny lying before us. For hanging on a quiet desperation has become our society's way. Be proper and follow the rules is what we were told even if you deny yourself freedom.
Then we are dropped into another dimension of time where we have accepted, without resistance (though still painfully), an empty existence. And when the cold iron bell comes ringing our names and taking our numbers, we do just what we did in life.
This song basically says time is no joke and to find the answers in this life you can't look to anyone else but yourself. Time does catch up.
Jan 16th 2011 report
A song that becomes more meaningful as you get older. Time runs faster the older you get; when you are young time runs slowly and your lifetime ahead of you seems like an eternity. When you get to 30, you suddenly become aware that your life is ticking away and you haven't done anything with it yet - "ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun". From then on, you are battling against the ticking clock but because of the pressures of life (job, family etc) you dont accomplish the things you wanted and you become increasingly aware of your own mortality until you die feeling that your life could and should have been so much more "the time is gone, the song is over, thought i'd something more to say".
Sep 3rd 2009 report
To the above, the first half of the paragraph represents that the author/person who is thinking about time has accepted that sooner or later he is going to die. At the end of the day, being in a comfortable place where you are happy is important as you only have so much time and you might as well enjoy it. The second part of the paragraph refers to church/religion and its role in helping others who still fear death/the end of time. The softly spoken magic spells are the lessons we hear about the afterlife that awaits as in order to quell our fear of the unknown.
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
This is the death experience with home again being the afterlife.
Tolling of the iron bell means it is rung at death. The tolling of the iron bell occurred for each death to signify the count in the 1666 English plague.
Calls the faithful to their knees is literally those who drop to their knees and say a soft prayer (magic spells).
The death occurred with the line, Thought I had something more to say.
kooljohn176
Dec 29th 2018 report
One of my favorite PINK FLOYD Songs of old times that came out in i974. a timeless song that i believe could also be about one's unfortunate transformation throughout ''time'' that gradually gotten ahead of oneself within that time. from his/her starting home point town or city. who suddenly feels a little older and left behind now in the present future. but who always feels good being back home to warm his/her bones by the home fire. even if it's only 'mentally' if not physically nowadays. it's like in a small way,when one is experiencing ''time'' on a personal micro level to compare and think of what might have happened on a macro level to the great Tartarian Empire and Her people's astronomical geocentric clock that was Earthly centered and aligned in one with our mind,body and soul that got all severely interrupted,streched out and divided. by which placed our time by the speed of a thousand years in the future with that invention of the fast moving and spinning heliocentrick 'magic spell' model of time. cause like they[the invading parasites] say ''time is money''. but for who's control towards the end. when one gets old, usually and natuarally just yearns to get back home and warm his/her bones by the fire of the natural and original home time of god the creator, who's time was robed from us towards that future. all for slave driving and speeding things faster with us by the invading parasites that reset the timeline that moved us around faster.
Dec 8th 2017 report
You know things are strange or relative. Why should anybody at any given moment should say "heureka" and find "time is ticking away"...Youve been in passing time for this moment all of your life and suddenly you "discover that time is passing by"...This sounds like entering into maniacal thinking and starting to run "somewhere"..going into anxiety mode.. . Maybe this is some kind westernist modern flaw..abscence of "death culture" which existed in medieval times where there was much more talk and symbolism about death which in strange ways was oriented to life meaning. In past times people where happy to live and not to die for some plague..happy to be strong and therefore i think they were thankful for seeing years lived so far. But now we think some problem for ourselves..."time is passing by" or "what have i done the last 10 years" and son on... Why ? This thinking is not necessary, we should try to be aware and content to be live and that past 10 years have not extinquished us. We have learned something.
Sep 21st 2016 report
When you're young, TIME seems to move much slower running with your mind into the future, who had to leave his loved ones and his loving home behind on his travels immigrating overseas where one day he realized after 10 years or more on the road and away from ''home'' that it really feels good to be back and warm his bones by the fire and wonders, being ''back in time'' where did all the time went that he lost from the starting gun he jumped ahead in the future from and with going overseas by and with all the magic spells that kept him there running away from his home and into the future.
May 4th 2015 report
To me this verse is clearly reffering to media. How media controlls everyone via television.
When most people get home nowadays, they turn on the tv. "Warm my bones beside the fire.."
Far away the show or whatever, gets broadcasted, the tolling of the iron bell. Calls the faithful to their knees, people that are depending on tv. It's their source of information.
"Hear the softly spoken magic spell" is reffering to the brainwashing nature of todays television (that is owned by ca 6 huge corporations.
May 29th 2012 report
I believe Waters explained in an interview that he felt like he was wasting his time with this rock and roll band and not doing what society says he should be doing. His added that his mother wanted him to get a respectable career.
Mar 18th 2012 report
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day - not making use of your time
This hits very close to home, where not only do I not easily make use of time, but when I want to do something important, other trivial things get in the way.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you - Midlife crisis right here
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older - More midlife crisis: the realization has passed and now you're trying to make up for what you missed, in vain.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines - We all make plans for important things, then Life leaps up with a big "DENIED" stamp and your dreams are crushed
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire - Realizing the futility of it all, it's nice to come back home and cope with the nice things you still have and cherish
The very last stanza is about religion, alluding to the deception of it all.
Can anyone tell me what that verse really is about? I'm assuming since it's the end of the song that it's possibly about death? Maybe a funeral? I'm a little confused on that
The song is describing the phenomenon in which time seems to pass more quickly as one ages often leading to despair in old age over missed oppertunities of the past.
Oct 30th 2007 report
To pompey, no he is not high, you just do not posses the analytic capacity to understand but the title of the song, unlike the guy who posted that
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yes, that's what is beautiful
pompey
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Are you high?
Jan 7th 2007 report
From what I've gathered listening to the song over and over again, the first line explains the song. "Tickling away, the moments that make up the dull day." It's about all the time we spend at school or at work just wishing the clock would hurry up. Saying "2 more hours and I'm out of here!"
Then "Ten years has got behind you" and "You're one step closer to death" just completely dumbfounded trying to figure out where the time has gone.
Nov 22nd 2006 report
person above me,
he wasn't in the band since '67
time was released 5 years after that.
he was NOT in the band at that time.
Jul 23rd 2006 report
To the person above me: Syd Barret was still in the band at the time.
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The Science of "Enlivenment" and the Commons
Tue, 05/28/2013 - 05:33am
One of the more provocative talks at the Economics and the Commons Conference last week was Andreas Weber's critique of the "bio-economics" narrative that blends social Darwinism and free market economics. Bioeconomics is the default worldview for contemporary economic thought, public policy and politics. The only problem is that, by the lights of the latest biological sciences, this narrative is wrong, seriously wrong.
Worse, it is impeding the emergence of a more accurate account of natural systems and life itself. It is thwarting our ability to develop a new, more respectful relationship with nature. Weber proposes instead a new story of "enlivenment" that points to a different vision of the "more than human world" and to commons-based based ways of organizing our political economy.
Andreas Weber is a Berlin-based theoretical biologist, independent scholar and ecophilosopher who explores new understandings of "life as meaning," a sub-discipline in biological sciences known as "biosemiotics." This is the idea that living organisms are not just automatons who respond to various external, impersonal forces, but rather are intrinsically creative, sense-making organisms whose subjectivity and "consciousness" matter. Indeed, our subjectivity is an indispensable part of biological evolution, Weber contends.
Weber's essay "Enlivenment: Towards a Fundamental Shift in the Concepts of Nature, Culture and Politics," was just published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation. It can be downloaded here. (Full disclosure: I gave Weber some editorial advice about his text.)
Weber's complaint about conventional biology is that it refuses to study life itself. It is too committed to Enlightenment categories of the individual, rationality and competition, and it insists upon a reductionist logic that cannot address, let alone provide answers, to what is life itself. Weber argues that organisms are "sentient, more-than-physical creatures that have subjective experiences and produce sense." He notes that current biological sciences do not ask, "What do we live for? What are our inner needs as living creatures? What relationships do we have, or should we have, to the natural order? How do we produce things for our immediate needs or the market?....What is life and what role do we play in it?"
The "bioeconomic worldview" that conjoins Darwinism and free market economics claims that nature is all about individuals, competition, efficiency and growth. But Weber argues that these basic assumptions are flat-out wrong. As he notes: "The biosphere is not efficient. Warm-blooded animals consumer over 97 percent of their energy only to maintain their metabolism. Photosynthesis achieves a ridiculously low efficiency rate of 7 perent. Fish, amphibians and insects have to lay millions of eggs only to allow for the survival of very few offspring."
Nor does the biosphere grow constantly; the quantity of biomass is fairly constant. Nor has competition been shown to spur the rise of new species, Weber writes: "Species are born by chance: they develop through unexpected mutations and the isolation of a group from the remainder of the population through new symbioses and cooperation…." Scarcity of resources does not lead to a creative diversification of species, as bioeconomics holds, but to an impoverishment of diversity and freedom.
But if the standard Darwinian narrative is incomplete and skewed in misleading directions, how do we begin to explain evolution and life itself more accurately? Weber calls his alternative account "Enlivenment," by which he means an "upgrade" of the deeply embedded metaphysics of the Enlightenment. We must augment the story of individual rationality and competition with a new story that he calls "life-as-meaning," or "biopoetics." In the emerging new picture of biology, as confirmed by a growing body of empirical research, "organisms are no longer viewed as genetic machines, but basically as materially embodied processes that bring forth themselves. Each single cell is 'a process of creation of an identity.' The simplest organism must be understood as a material system displaying the intention to maintain itself intact, to grow, to unfold, and to make a fuller scope of life for itself."
Life, then, amounts to more than inert physical matter that is animate. It is about "a meaningful self that is producing itself." Life amounts to a subjective/material process to maintain and preserve a specific identity. "A system that intends to keep itself intact automatically develops interests, a set of perspectives, one might say, and therefore a self. It becomes a subject with a body." Life itself is a paradox in conjoining the material and the subjective, but that paradox is central to the essence of life.
This is the radical idea behind enlivenment -- subjectivity as a serious force in evolution and living systems. Our inner lives matter. They are not peripheral to the grand epic of evolution; they are essential, driving forces of it. If market economics and modernity have banished our subjectivity and spirituality as vestigial curiosities, biopoetics asserts that our subjectivity is central to our creativity and freedom as evolving organisms and to the grand march of life itself.
This has far-reaching implications for how we conceptualize our economics. Rather than see nature as inert, dead matter that we can manipulate for whatever purposes we choose, we must see that "nature" is not an other, something apart from human beings, but rather as something we are wholly integrated with. Nature amounts to an open-source commons – a realm in which exclusivity or property rights do not exist. Indeed, the dualisms of "individual" and "collective" do not make sense because the two notions are blurred and integrated with each other. Human beings themselves amount to a "super-organism" of smaller organisms aggregated into a whole; humans are not strictly separate from nature but rather deeply embedded in it.
From these ideas, Weber develops the idea of "interbeing," the ecological principle that "everything is hitched to everything else," as naturalist John Muir put it. Material resources do not operate on a separate plane according to external forces beyond our control; they are linked to (immaterial) meaning and sense that living beings are constantly refining.
An "enlivened economy" is one that promotes these sorts of relationships among living, natural processes. "If nature actually is a commons," writes Weber, "it follows that the only possible way to achieve a stable, long-term productive relationship with it is by building an economy of the commons. It can help dissolve the traditional duality of humans and nature, and orient us toward respectful, sustainable models of engaging with the more-than-human aspects of nature."
Weber's account of "enlivenment" is sure to be controversial precisely because it challenges some core assumptions of the modern, scientific worldview. It spans the worlds of science, politics, economics and the commons in a way that certainly raises many questions. His essay is also likely to be misunderstood or its implications resisted, as when one questioner at the conference declared, "But we are not animals!" Surely not in many significant senses, but we have yet to come to terms with our actual biological existence. Our identities, consciousness, morality and sense of the world are embodied in living, breathing, material organisms. The standard bioeconomics narrative has little to say about this realm.
To me, Weber's accout has far more explanatory power than the standard accounts of homo economicus or Enlightenment categories. Recent discoveries of biological sciences seem to confirm that the commons and the "more-than-human world" are different aspects of life itself – while the metaphysics of modern civilization is one that sees nature as "dead matter." It's time to "enliven" this dead matter by recognizing and reclaiming the inner subjectivity of living things.
This blog post can't do justice to a remarkably complex and thoughtful argument that, in its complete form, requires 71 pages. Read the entire piece and you may never look at the world in quite the same way.
Link Broken
Tue, 05/28/2013 - 11:55am by Sue VanHattum
(I see that the site is in German. Is the linked article in English?)
Tue, 05/28/2013 - 12:00pm by David Bollier
Sorry about that! The essay is in English. --David
Mind-blowing
Mon, 08/05/2013 - 22:42pm by Jeff
I read both of David Abrams' books last year, along with Richard Nelson. Weber picks up where they left off and, if Abrams and Nelson didn't blow your mind, then Weber will. What an incredible essay, if it can be called that. It deserves wide dissemination. I'll do what I can to "popularize" it, though it requires a bit of background to understand what Weber is driving towards. Not that I fully understand what he wrote, but it sure "feels" right. For me, he united a plethora of avenues of exploration that I have been researching for the last 5 years. He's just brilliant!


I was not alone. Many fans were confused.
In Arsene Wenger's pre-match press conference and interviews over the weekend, the injured players he spoke about had never included first-choice centre-back pairing Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny, yet mysteriously, over the space of two days, both were ruled out. While illness and a back injury overwhelmed them respectively, one young man prepared for his first game of the season.
The main reason for many fans' worries were the inexperience of Chambers and partner Gabriel. Whether they could handle the brutality of striker Christian Benteke was the biggest doubt, but they managed to get a clean sheet, although this was more due to Petr Cech's heroics in goal.
Still, it was another test for young defender Chambers, who is not only looking to nail down a place in the first 11, but who is yet to find his best position. He arrived from Southampton a right-back, after moving from midfield in their youth teams, with experience at centre-half for England's underage squads.
The majority of fans, as well as manager Arsene Wenger, see his future in the heart of defence, though for different reasons. While Hector Bellerin's emergence last season hugely contributed to this, his lack of pace is at the heart of critics concerns. This was exposed in last season's loss to Swansea, when Jefferson Montero initially introduced himself to the league as a threat with his speed and skill, something that Chambers never even got close to matching.
When looking at his strengths, it seems that he would be suited to life in the middle, where his height, reading of the game and technical skills learnt in his secondary positions are his biggest advantages. This was highlighted by his strong start to last season, where he partnered Koscielny in the absence of the World Cup winning Mertesacker.
He was moved around the place during the rest of the season, where he featured at right back, and even returned to midfield against his first team, Southampton. After this, he did not return to the heights of his early season form, and was knocked down the pecking order by the increasingly impressive Bellerin, and new signing Gabriel.
Now, he has a point to prove. After gaining his first England caps, some would say too early, he is still considered as a player with a lot of potential, but in the wrong place to fulfil it. In line to become the spine of the England Under-21 team along with Tottenham's Eric Dier, the consensus is that the competition at Arsenal is too much for him to break through, especially as he is in the process of changing position for the third time in his short career.
Wenger is keen to keep him at the club, but for me it is the wrong decision. Wenger is predictable. No player has managed to break the Mertesacker/Koscielny bond, and no player is likely to until either one of them leaves, or a player of Wenger's standard arrives.
What puzzles me is how neither Gabriel or Chambers, who Wenger has laid praise on for their potential, have not been given enough games to prove themselves as heirs to the throne, ready to stand in when needed.
In Chambers case, it is imperative that he gets the game-time to fine tune his skills, where he can learn as a centre-back how to be a centre-back. Look at John Stones, for example. The world (bar Chelsea fans) are crying for him to stay as an Everton player, where he can play regularly and improve faster, rather than wait for both John Terry and Gary Cahill leave the club. The same goes for young Chambers, who has plenty of time to turn into the world class defender Wenger expects him to be.
It will be a big season for Chambers, despite him being not far into his career. Whether he will follow the exodus of youth players out on loan remains to be seen. It will mainly depend on the availability of Koscielny and Mertesacker before the international break.
What is for sure is that if there are no signs of improvement by January, there will be increased speculation about his short-term future at the club.


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Telotte, J. P.
Animating the Science Fiction Imagination
Borító: Fűzött
ISBN: 98019065279
Méret: 23,5
Kiadó: Oxford University Press
Kategóriák: Művészettörténet
Long before flying saucers, robot monsters, and alien menaces invaded our movie screens in the 1950s, there was already a significant but overlooked body of cinematic science fiction. Through analyses of early twentieth-century animations, comic strips, and advertising, Animating the Science Fiction Imagination unearths a significant body of cartoon science fiction from the pre-World War II era that appeared at approximately the same time the genre was itself struggling to find an identity, an audience, and even a name. In this book, author J.P. Telotte argues that these films helped sediment the genre's attitudes and motifs into a popular culture that found many of those ideas unsettling, even threatening. By binding those ideas into funny and entertaining narratives, these cartoons also made them both familiar and non-threatening, clearing a space for visions of the future, of other worlds, and of change that could be readily embraced in the post-war period.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Animation, Science Fiction, and the Modernist Spirit
Chapter 2: Flights of Fantasy
Chapter 3: Robots and Artificial Beings
Chapter 4: Alien Visions
Chapter 5: Inventions, Modern Marvels, and Mad Scientists
Postscript: New SF Images for a Postwar World
A Select Filmography of Science Fiction Animation
A Science Fiction Animation Bibliography


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Q: How to allow access to my Angular 8 app from outside network? I've checked my ip addresses and I get the following:
In host file I have: 127.0.0.1       localhost
My wifi ip IPv4 is: 192.168.1.102
I've tried to start angular with: ng serve --host 198.168.1.102
And I'm getting:
listen EADDRNOTAVAIL: address not available 198.168.1.102:4200
Error: listen EADDRNOTAVAIL: address not available 198.168.1.102:4200
    at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1262:19)
    at listenInCluster (net.js:1327:12)
    at doListen (net.js:1460:7)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:832:11)
    at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:283:19)
    at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:622:3)

Any idea what I'm doing wrong ?
Here is the modem/router menu with the forwarding entry:

A: for me works ng serve --host 0.0.0.0, but to hit your app from outside you'll have to know your public ip, and 198.168.1.102 is your local ip - in local network

A: First of all, you'll need a public IP address that can be reached from the outside (I assume you already have it).
Then you'll have to forward some ports from the outside, through your router and to your server. In the case of your router it's probably under "NAT forwarding". With all probability, you will have to provide these information:

*

*Source or outside port: the port you want to use to access your service from outside (i.e. you access from outside with 8.8.8.8:444 > 444 is your source port)

*Destination or inside port: the local port of your service, in this case I imagine 4200

*Destination IP address: the local IP of your server, in this case 192.168.1.102

Some routers can't make a distinction between source and destination port, in that case they will be the same.

A: If by outside your network you are saying over the internet, you'll have to forward a port from your local internet box.
You just have to open your internet box settings and forward port 80 to your device's port. For node server it's usually port 4000 but for ng serve it's port 4200.
Once done, just open your public ip address.
Don't hesitate to read ng serve doc and port forwarding explanation.

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SimpleCommands can always continue to expand the variety and number of available devices (which we are constantly working on!), but Routines represent the next big step in the platform's evolution.
Routines enable a certain level of automation across SimpleCommands. I'm sure you have seen countless media outlets promoting the powers of automation and its promise of increased productivity, lower costs, and ability to allow you to pursue more creative, less monotonous pursuits; and that is the exact goal of many companies involved with IoT.
SimpleCommands is no exception. We would love to enable our users have more free time and peace of mind so they can pursue their passions. But what separates SimpleCommands from other devices and services is the feeling of control. Whether you're a tech-junky who has everything in your house, car, and office hooked up to a network or are hesitant to buy your first smart light bulb, you want to feel like you're in control of your own life. The combination of the simplicity of our platform with the ubiquitous nature of our Companions allows anyone to always be in control of all their devices! Routines just expand this control to a point where it's automated (and express your creativity with Routines)!


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"We are thrilled and proud to be working with Reconnecting McDowell on this very exciting project. Our firm specializes in creating environmentally-responsible, affordable communities, which will be the foundation of whatever design the partnership ultimately chooses," said Colin Arnold, managing principal of CHP Design Studio. CHP's architecture team has also designed projects in White Sulphur Springs and Oak Hill, West Virginia.
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Reconnecting McDowell, the nearly two-year-old public-private partnership, was created to revitalize West Virginia's long-struggling McDowell County by improving schools, encouraging economic development, and addressing families' social and healthcare needs.
Manchin said the partnership will be working on obtaining financing this winter and expects groundbreaking this spring.


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Q: Error when changing a post privacy with the Facebook PHP SDK What I'm doing is creating a post with the Facebook PHP SDK(v4)(and the app is set to use the v2.3 API) with the privacy settings of value to SELF, then later on changing the value to CUSTOM, and allow to the ids of the friends that have accepted the app.
Until recently everything worked fine, and now out of the blue I'm getting this error(nothing changed on our part): "(#100) Object does not support message editing", which I couldn't locate in their documentation. Has anybody encountered this situation and this error?
Here is the code I'm using (like I said everything worked fine until recently)(if you need more details please let me know)
        $fb_token = 'FB_TOKEN';

        $FB_session = new FacebookSession($fb_token);
        try {
          $FB_session->validate();
        } catch (FacebookRequestException $ex) {
          // Session not valid, Graph API returned an exception with the reason.
          //echo $ex->getMessage();
          throw new RestException(501,'FB error: '. $ex->getMessage());
        } catch (\Exception $ex) {
          // Graph API returned info, but it may mismatch the current app or have expired.
          //echo $ex->getMessage();
          throw new RestException(501,'FB error: '. $ex->getMessage());
        }

        //make posting request to FB
        if($FB_session) {
          try {
            $fb_array = array(
                'privacy' => array(
                                'value' => 'CUSTOM',
                                'allow' => 'USER_ID'
                                )
              );

            $fb_req = new FacebookRequest(
              $FB_session, 'POST', "/POST_ID", $fb_array
            );
            $response = $fb_req->execute()->getGraphObject();
            //echo "Posted with id: " . $response->getProperty('id');
            $fb_post_id = $response->getProperty('id');

          } catch(FacebookRequestException $e) {
            //echo "Exception occured, code: " . $e->getCode();
            //echo " with message: " . $e->getMessage();
            throw new RestException(501,'FB error: '. $e->getCode() .'-'. $e->getMessage());
          }
        }


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VH1 Is Celebrating The 40th Anniversary Of 'SNL' With A 19-Day Marathon
Jason TabrysTwitterFeatures Editor
Last year, I decided that I would go back and watch every episode of Saturday Night Live that had ever aired, including all the ones that I had grown up watching in the heyday of the 90s. I would do this at a casual clip, because to go through 40 seasons of television would take months and months of dedicated viewing. I only finished about two seasons in because I have follow-through issues, but thanks to VH1 Classic's 19-day 433-hour marathon I've got another chance to go on an epic SNL binge. All I need to do is to quit my job, stock up on Gatorade, and make peace with the act of urinating in a bottle and I can live the dream.
Here are the details for the marathon, which will run from January 28th to February 15th.
Starting with season 39 and working back to season 1 from 1975, VH1 Classic will bring fans the most loved moments and original skits that became cultural juggernauts. The last episode of the marathon will be "SNL's" first episode ever, hosted by the late George Carlin, originally aired live on October 11th, 1975. VH1 Classic will air it on Sunday, February 15 from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m., leading up to NBC's three-hour special (8-11 p.m.) celebrating 40 years of "Saturday Night Live."
The marathon showcases 40 seasons of Not Ready For Primetime Players many of whom are now known around the world: Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy, Billy Crystal, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Kristen Wiig, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers. VH1 Classic will deliver the best moments — which will leave fans demanding "even more cowbell."
The decision to not go in chronological order is an interesting one, but it doesn't seem like this is going to showcase every single episode, so I suppose it doesn't matter. Instead, the event will be broken into mini-marathons thusly:
Saturday, January 31 (4 PM – 10 PM)
Six episodes featuring pop superstar Justin Timberlake, now one of "SNL's" most popular guest hosts.
Tuesday, February 3 (6 AM – 2 PM)
An eight-hour celebration of some of the biggest pop artists in the world, including Christina Aguilera, Black Eyed Peas, Maroon 5, John Mayer, Pink, Britney Spears and Usher.
Friday, February 6 (2:30 PM – 10 PM)
Former "SNL" cast members return to take on host duties. Featuring Dana Carvey, Chevy Chase, Phil Hartman, Mike Myers and Martin Short.
Saturday, February 7th (12-10pm)
"Remembering Chris Farley": Highlights from Farley's brilliant "SNL" career including Chippendales dancer, insightful interviewer on 'The Chris Farley Show,' graceful Lunch Lady, beautiful Gap Girl, and Chicago Bears Super Fan.
Sunday, February 8 (1 PM – 12:30 AM)
Party Time! Thirteen straight episodes featuring legendary sketch "Wayne's World," starring Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) and Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) direct from the basement studio in Aurora, Illinois.
Wednesday, February 11 (9:30 AM – 12:30 AM)
"The Eddie Murphy Years": Mr. Robinson, Buckwheat, Gumby, Dion and more of Murphy's legendary characters from the 1981-1984 seasons, not to mention a visit to "James Brown's Celebrity Hot Tub Party."
Saturday, February 14 (2:30 PM – 10 PM)
Five episodes hosted by Steve Martin from the series' first three seasons – featuring Georg Festrunk: the original "Wild and Crazy Guy."
Each Saturday of the 19-day marathon, VH1 Classic will take a break from 10 pm to 1 am to show a film starring an SNL alum:
Saturday, January 31 at 10 PM "Macgruber" (Will Forte, Kristen Wiig); 11:30 PM "Black Sheep" (Chris Farley, David Spade)
Saturday, Feb. 7 at 10 PM – "Trading Places" (Eddie Murphy)
Saturday, Feb. 14 at 10 PM – "The Blues Brothers" (John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd)
So, in that way, even though this is a bigger overall chunk of time, it doesn't seem like this marathon can match FXX's Simpsons marathon from last fall. But even if they had gone in chronological order and shown every episode, it would still be impossible to experience every second of every episode for reasons beyond our own pathetic physical limitations thanks to the heavily edited state of the syndicated Saturday Night Live reruns. Which is a shame when you think about it, because how can we fully understand SNL's highest peaks if we can't also look at the deepest valleys for contrast?
Topics: #The SimpsonsTags: 40TH ANNIVERSARY, MARATHON, saturday night live, THE SIMPSONS, VH1 Classic


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Great results in the Beverley Road and Newland Avenue areas of Hull thanks to Humber Talking
Following the thousands of doors we've knocked on as part of our Humber Talking surveys, officers were out in the Beverley Road and Newland Avenue areas of Hull for five full days last week responding to the concerns of local residents.
The Beverley Road 'corridor' was the first in the force area Humber Talking was brought to. We listened to what residents said, we acted upon their concerns, and we've had some cracking results.
Some of the main issues flagged up to us through Humber Talking were about antisocial behaviour, street drinking, littering, groups of people hanging around, fly tipping, nuisance vehicles and nuisance parking. Another concern was about illegal cigarettes being sold.
We've been working hard in partnership with the council, trading standards, environmental officers, accommodation teams, licensing officers, volunteers from Absolutely Cultured, people doing community service and specialist 'tobacco' dogs.
The area we concentrated on from Monday 2 to Friday 6 September were in the streets south of Cottingham Road to Cannon Junction. We visited Beech Grove, Ash Grove, Alexandra Road, Grafton Street, Lambert Street, De Grey Street, Brooklyn Street, Washington Street, Suffolk Street, May Street, Ryde Street and Ryde Avenue.
Here's what we've done…
Eight people arrested
Three men arrested on suspicion of drugs offences. This followed a suspected drug deal on Fitzroy Street which led to a property on Edgecumbe Street. Cash and 40 wraps of what's thought to be wraps of class A drugs were seized.
Two men were arrested in connection with two previously reported incidents. One for going equipped to steal and theft of a pedal cycle, and the other for theft of a pedal cycle and aggravated vehicle taking. Officers had seen them acting suspiciously at the junction of Cottingham Road and Beverley Road. After being searched, their details were checked and we found they were wanted for the other offences.
A man was seen who was wanted on prison recall. After a short foot chase on Beverley Road he was arrested. Another was arrested for failing to appear at court. He was taken straight back there.
An eighth man was checked during a traffic stop on Lambert Street. He was found to be wanted on suspicion of an alleged sexual assault.
Three warrants executed
The first one we executed at a flat on Beverley Road alongside trading standards, Hull City Council's licensing officers and tobacco dogs from Inter K9 limited.
In the property 157,000 illegal cigarettes and 240 pouches of illegal tobacco were seized. Three people's details were taken. They will be interviewed and dealt with by trading standards and licensing at a later date.
A second warrant was executed at another flat on Beverley Road. Around 3,000 illegal cigarettes were seized. The flat was above a shop and the cigarettes were being passed to the store through a chute. The details of two people were taken, and they will be dealt with by trading standards and licensing.
We estimate that more than £40,000 worth of counterfeit tobacco in total was discovered.
The third was executed at an address on Washington Street thanks to intelligence given by residents living nearby. Unfortunately nobody was in the address at the time and nothing was found. However it's hoped that this action will disrupt any potential illegal activities at the property in future.
Alcohol seized.
Three people had alcohol taken off them. They were also given advice about the Public Space Protection Order that is in place in the area.
Residents and members of public told us about illegal parking, speeding, large groups being picked up in cars, cars having more than five people in them and, and unroadworthy vehicles.
Eight vehicles were seized for having no insurance. All drivers reported will be issued with fines.
Two drivers were reported for having no licence. Two disqualified drivers were interviewed at the roadside and reported for summons.
One driver was reported for going through a red light, and Vehicle Defect Rectification Schemes (VDRS) were used for two drivers with defective tyres.
Traffic wardens were also working in the area to address parking issues. They said they'd given out seven fixed penalty notices to motorists parking on double yellow lines and in bus stops.
Public health concerns about properties
Environmental officers issued three 28 day notices to properties on May Street, Suffolk Street and Washington Street. The people living there are now required to clean up their properties at the front and back. This came from residents living near to them complaining. If they fail to comply with the notices, legal action can be taken.
The 'Love Your Street' team have been in the area all week picking up litter. On Wednesday there was a van with a cage being driven round from the waste management team which allowed residents to bring out their rubbish and put it in the van.
Love Your Street team were looking at gardens which had rubbish in, and knocking on the doors inviting residents to clear it up and put it in the van. On the back off this some residents have said they'd like to start up their own group to keep the area clean. They're being given help and advice so they can start this up.
Gating scheme
Hull City Council and residents are looking into funding a gate that leads to alleyways behind May Street and Suffolk Street.
The reason for this is that people are using the alleyway as a toilet and are dumping rubbish down there. There have also been reports groups drinking alcohol and being involved in antisocial behaviour. It's hoped the gate could reduce this and make he residents feel safe in their homes.
So far no-one who was asked has said no to the gating scheme. This is still an ongoing process, as some landlords and residents have still to be consulted.
Inspections of private rental properties
A supported housing accommodation team carried out a number of visits to privately rented accommodation in order to carry out inspections.
They were checking the condition of the properties to make sure that standards were acceptable and that tenants were following any housing benefit rules that may apply. All was ok and there have been no further reports to say otherwise.
PC Wayne Mellors, Community Beat Manager for the Beverley and Newland Ward said: "There was some really hard work done last week as part of our week of action in our ward area.
"The information we got from people living there through Humber Talking has been invaluable.
"What our neighbourhood teams do is serve their individual communities, listen and address any issues, and come up with solutions to solve any problems.
"It just shows the benefits of working directly with communities and with our partners. We have officers speaking with residents, and are putting further work in place to make sure the Beverley and Newland Ward is a good area to live and work."
North Hull Neighbourhood Inspector Mark Peasgood said: "I am so very proud of my officers and our partners having achieved so much in just a few days, acting on the information and intelligence we collected through Humber Talking.
"These few days have been a huge success. We know the specific issues people have and what needs to be done. So we're doing it.
"The work we're doing through Humber Talking is not just about catching suspects, making arrests, and issuing fines but also about keeping people safe and identifying vulnerable people within our communities.
"We're getting to know those communities even better than before, building up a strong picture of what's needed, and building trust. That's particularly important with people who might not have a lot of contact with police.
"It's a joint effort by ourselves and other agencies in Hull that will see big improvements in all our communities area. We always like to say 'you said, we did' and this is a great example of how that works."
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Alfred Wegener is a man driven. In 1930 he sets out for his fourth and final expedition to Greenland. The enthusiastic scientist wants to collect evidence for a theory that matters to him more than anything else. But there are difficulties and he does not make it back to the coast.
From Wegener's icy grave, Jo Lendle looks back at the life of this last great hero of polar exploration whois laughed at by the scientific community for his daring theory of continental drift – a theory he does not win recognition for until three decades after his death.
"It's a literary, lyrical, informative, exciting reading experience. It's funny, it's quirky, it's smart because he brings Alfred Wegener to life and adds his own tone to it."


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Attendance at religious services among adults who feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and wellbeing at least once a week by gender
Attendance at religious services among adults who feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and wellbeing at least once a week by gender (2014) Switch to: Gender composition among adults who feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and wellbeing at least once a week by religious attendance
% of adults who feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and wellbeing at least once a week who attend religious services…
Gender composition
51% 29% 19% 1% 11,565
Learn More: At least once a week, Once or twice a month/a few times a year, Seldom/never


Thank you all for submitting your student success tips! We will be collecting tips at every conference we attend this year, so keep checking back for more tips.
Stay informed and involved…you can make THE difference!
If an opportunity presents itself, take it!
Check out the videos - it's all there. all the time.
Get involved..trust me..it could change your life!
Seek tutoring help. Go see an advisor.
Always create opportunities to enhance a student's sense of belonging to the institution.
Get involved early, find a mentor & call mom/dad every once in a while!
Read your assigned chapters before class - you'll be amazed how much you'll retain in lecture if you've seen the material before.
Everyone has leaned on someone else at some point in their life.
Manage your time..don't let it manage you!
Don't go home for the first month - stay on campus & make memories with new friends.
In working with a student of color, involving family members in the process is helpful.
Reach outside of your comfort zone & try something new.
Do stuff alone, movie, lunch. Don't be afraid of "me time" It is critical to set aside to do something you love each day instead of solely focusing on your studies all day.
Give yourself at least 15 minutes you can disconnect from email & FB!
Ask for help early & often.
Helping students to connect over just 1 thing can be so important.
One of my first-year students and I connected originally over our love of the Philadelphia Eagles. This connection has served as a great opportunity to connect him with resources. So, find a mentor to connect with!
Go deep instead of broad.
Behave in the manner you expect of your students.
The classroom is the safest place to be wrong.
Start! Get & stay involved on campus!
Learn about all services offered & take advantage of them.
Build relationships with as many staff & faculty & ask for help no matter what you need.
Learn to pay attention in class; you're going to be in future meetings that will be far more boring.
Make a weekly to-do list/timetable to not miss deadlines.
More than just time management, consider volume management with course content.
Never ever, ever forget what it was like being a student - the struggles, the barriers, the frustrations & the joys.
Meet students where they are & help them see their potential for growth. If you communicate this in word, body language & action, they will respond in amazing ways.
Get to know your professor outside of class & ask questions.
The most involved influential families? Parents of 1st gen students/African American/Latino Learn names, relate to current world, be consistent & fail.
Start with your end in mind.
When studying for an exam, close the book & write out what you know.
Introduce yourself to every instructor on Day 1 - just say hi!
Meet with your instructors early and often.
There is much to learn by the way people show up!
Create communtiy in the classroom by having students learn about each other and see each other as resources.
Use your professor's "Student Hours"!
Show students their value, be excited for their goals so that they can believe in themselves.
It isn't enough to help students see their potential, you have to help them learn how to harness their potential.
Enjoy what you do. Be happy.
Always engage students in activities and make them feel more involved in the community.
Build working relationships with your instructors beginning the first week of class - don't wait until there's a problem!
Connect right away with each student and provide feedback as soon as possible.
Assignment idea: Have students create 30-60 second infomercials to "sell" their classmates on why their assigned campus resource is important.
Online courses: Create support groups with the class first week. This allows them to ask questions they may be afraid to ask the teacher. They share tips and resources Not only does it save many emails to the instructor, but it also helps make connections among the students.
Before every major assignment, I have students create a "KW" chart - 3 things that you know or understand about the assignment and 3 things that you WANT to know about the assignment.
Ask how they are doing. And don't let fine or okay be the end of the conversation.
When helping students make career decisions challenge them to be honest with themselves. Ask them, is this true of you or do you wish this were true of you?
Teach people to appreciate the developmental power of failure.
Where our energy goes, your focus goes. Put your energy into your school work.
Hold students accountable for their learning, by setting expectations early and giving them the resources to achieve it.
Don't try to avoid failure, learn how to grow from it.
I send each of my students a handwritten birthday card with a personalized message through snail mail, with the aim of fortifying our relationship and building their confidence.
Meet the student where they are at. Follow-up, interact, follow-up, interact…until they are ready to act.
A great big welcoming smile from someone at the college sets a positive tone for students!
Be present and go to the class.
If you are unsure of anything on a syllabus, talk to your instructor right away.
I use roadrunner cartoons to explain creative and critical thinking.
Get to know your students, so you can better serve them.
Invest and engage with the students.
We have created a 3-prong approach to orientation/first-year introduction. The attend a one-hour orientation where they get all the information they need before their advising appointment. Then they meet with their advisor and are more prepared. At that appointment, they register for classes. Last, we host a new student welcome day where they go to sessions for their pathway, where they learn about their industry. Once that is over, they can set tours, meet clubs and organizations, and take care of last-minute business with the offices. Breaking up info this way keeps them from information overload.
Get to know your students. Take the journey with them.
Each course should be taught with a personal quality that encourages students to come to class.
Don't talk - listen, instead. Listen both to what your students say and what they don't say.
As instructors, we need to change up our teaching every 10-15 minutes. A punctuated lesson.
If you never ask, you'll never know.
Trust the small steps to reach the "main goal."
Always listen, be kind and just be there to provide support. Making a connection with students really makes a difference and affects their success.
Connecting with students on things outside of their education. I am able to understand them better and they feel more comfortable with coming back to ask for help if they need it.
Get to know your instructors. Don't be afraid to ask for help.
Know what resources are available to you and use them. Example: tutoring.
Be proactive - ask questions!
I ask students where they would go when the alarm goes off in the morning - if they could go anywhere.
Understand the difference between equality and equity.
Always contact the instructor if you can't make it to class, or if you are struggling. Instructors can't help if they don't know what's going on. Just emailing them can change a lot!
Arm yourself with information. Knowledge is power!
Read the chapter & think of questions before class so you know what is going on!
Let your students know you care!
Take notes & review them!
Remember when writing a paper, you're not writing the great American novel! First draft is just a page of info.
Support systems are essential in college! Keep in touch with loves ones, make friends & create relationships with faculty & staff! They will motivate & encourage you through it all in college!
Put in proper prospective..they can't eat you!!
Review notes after each lecture..review, review, review!
Build relationships with students first, show you care!
Make a connection with someone on campus..a professor, an advisor, etc.
A student is not an interruption of our work. They ARE our work!
Meet students where they are at!
Have pre-advising sheets to give to students when they check-in. Gives them space to list questions & start thinking about why they're there & what they want to get out of their advising session.
Think with the end in mind!
Move forward - don't look backwards!
Make a personal connection with your students, send pics of pet!
You're not alone - ask questions!
Reach students outside of the walls. sporting events, student activities, etc.