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Echoing Bush, right-wing media advance disputed claim that waterboarding "saved lives"
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Following the release of former President George W. Bush's book Decision Points, right-wing media are promoting Bush's claim that waterboarding "saved lives." But this claim is disputed by intelligence experts, including former British officials who have "cast doubt" on Bush's waterboarding claims.
Right-wing media rush to defend waterboarding as having "saved lives"
Kilmeade: "If you watch [KSM] in court, the results saved lives. ... I'm amazed at the ... sanctimonious tone [Lauer] took last night" in questioning Bush about the procedure. On the November 9 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade reacted to an interview between Bush and NBC host Matt Lauer by promoting Bush's claim that waterboarding "saved lives":
KILMEADE: You don't understand, it's -- he asked his lawyers, can I do this? He goes and does it; he says I have no regrets.
He's proud of it, because at the end of the day, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed ended up on a chalkboard outlining where and how the whole hierarchy of Al Qaida ends up. He's 100 percent today. If you watch him in court, Abu Zubaydah, and there's just one other guy that's been waterboarded. The results saved lives, stopped attacks, and I'm amazed at the sactimonious -- sanctimonious tone that Matt Lauer took last night and that others will.
Co-host Steve Doocy characterized the interview by claiming that "Matt Lauer did his as best acting as a prosecutor trying to take a look at some of the things that happened during the Bush administration."
Kilmeade on Bush's waterboarding claims: "George W. Bush telling his critics who's boss." Later on Fox & Friends, Kilmeade called Bush's comments, "President George W. Bush telling his critics who's boss." After playing Bush's statement that waterboarding "saved lives," Kilmeade said, "That's one of the things he's most proud of."
Kilmeade: "I challenge anyone to say we'd be better off without knowing" information obtained through waterboarding. Later on Fox & Friends, Kilmeade further promoted Bush's claim, saying that "there's really three people that were waterboarded: this Hambali guy [Riduan Isamuddin], [Abu] Zubaydah, as well as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. ... And the results that they gave, I challenge anyone to say we'd be better off without knowing that. And all three of those people are alive today and having no after-effects." Hambali was not known to have been waterboarded; Kilmeade presumably meant Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was the third confirmed victim of waterboarding. Guest-host and former White House press secretary Dana Perino claimed, "The information that" waterboarded prisoners "provided helped prevent attacks, and the president talks a lot about that in his book."
Human Events: "Many people are alive today because George W. Bush" pushed waterboarding, adding "God help us if another such moment arrives before 2012." In a November 11 Human Events article, John Hayward pushed the claim made by Bush in his book Decision Points "that the procedure was 'highly effective,' resulted in 'no lasting harm,' and produced intelligence that saved lives. Waterboarding broke al-Qaeda cave-troll Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who spilled vital information about planned biological warfare attacks." Hayward concluded by claiming: "Sweeping these tactics off the table means gambling with countless innocent lives. Many people are alive today because George W. Bush was the President when the decision point for waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his associates was reached. God help us if another such moment arrives before 2012."
The Blaze: "Bush: 'Damn Right' I Approved Waterboarding." A November 5 Blaze post titled, "Bush: 'Damn Right' I Approved Waterboarding," stated: "Though many have condemned the George W. Bush administration's use of so-called 'enhanced' interrogation techniques to extract sensitive intelligence to aid the United States' war on terror, the former president's new memoir makes clear his unapologetic approval of the method."
Big Government: "Through the use of" waterboarding, "our government learned of additional terrorist plots against the US." In a November 5 Big Government post, Jeff Dunetz wrote: "For years, the left has been screaming for an investigation to determine who approved the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs) against Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed. Through the use of those techniques our government learned of additional terrorist plots against the US and other western targets potentially saving thousands of innocent lives." Dunetz posted reporting from Bush's book and claimed, "According to the Washington Post that use of waterboarding saved American lives."
British official doubts Bush's claims about waterboarding
Former Commons intelligence and security committee chair reportedly "cast doubt on Bush's claim that it helped saved British lives." A November 9 U.K. Guardian article reported that "[t]he former chair of the Commons intelligence and security committee, Kim Howells, cast doubt on Bush's claim that it had helped save British lives. 'We are not convinced,' said the Labour MP." The article added:
The claim that waterboarding prevented London attacks was challenged by Howells, [sic]. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that there had been and still were "real plots", but added that "we're not convinced" that waterboarding produced information which was "instrumental in preventing these plots coming to fruition and murdering people".
Howells said Bush was trying to "justify what he did to the world", a viewpoint echoed by the former shadow home secretary David Davis.
Davis told Today that although security information provided from abroad would have to be used regardless of how it was obtained, torture did not work and should be discouraged.
"People under torture tell you what you want to hear," he said. "You'll get the wrong information and ... apart from being immoral, apart from destroying our standing in the world, and apart from undermining the way of life we're trying to defend, it actually doesn't deliver."
Former Tory shadow home secretary highlighted the dangers of false intelligence that comes from waterboarding. Responding to Bush's claims, the BBC reported that former Tory shadow home secretary David Davis "said a large part of the false intelligence on WMD that led to the war in Iraq came from torture and illegal rendition." According to the BBC, Davis added:
"That's the problem - people under torture tell you what what you want to hear. Apart from being immoral, apart from destroying our standing in the world... it doesn't deliver."
In October, the head of MI6 Sir John Sawers said torture was "illegal and abhorrent under any circumstances and we have nothing whatsoever to do with it".
He outlined the "real, constant operational dilemmas" faced by his organisation in trying to avoid intelligence gathered by torture.
He said: "If we know or believe action by us will lead to torture taking place, we're required by UK and international law to avoid that action, and we do, even though that allows that terrorist activity to go ahead.
OPR concluded Bush legal advisers "engaged in professional misconduct" in EIT recommendations
OPR: Bush attorneys "engaged in professional misconduct by failing to provide 'thorough, candid, and objective' analysis" regarding "enhanced interrogation techniques." In July 2009, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) issued a report concluding that "former Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) attorneys John Yoo and Jay Bybee engaged in professional misconduct by failing to provide 'thorough, candid, and objective' analysis in memoranda regarding the interrogation of detained terrorist suspects." According to a January Defense Department Memo, "In its final analysis, OPR found that John Yoo intentionally violated his 'duty to exercise independent legal judgment and render thorough, objective, and candid legal advice' with respect to five documents," which included Yoo's legal interpretation of the Bush administration's "enhanced interrogation techniques." As The Washington Post reported, "The Justice Department memos, which date to 2002, gave legal blessing to slapping, cramped confinement, sleep deprivation and simulated drowning of terrorism suspects." The Washington Post also reported that "[Associate Deputy Attorney General David] Margolis concluded that despite significant flaws in the documents, the memo authors did not intentionally violate ethics rules."
CIA Inspector General report repeatedly describes difficulties in assessing effectiveness of EITs
IG report: "The effectiveness of particular interrogation techniques in eliciting information that might not otherwise have been obtained cannot be so easily measured." From the "conclusions" section of the 2004 CIA Inspector General report on "Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities":
The Agency's detention and interrogation of terrorists has provided intelligence that has enabled the identification and apprehension of other terrorists and warned of terrorist plots planned for the United States and around the world. The CTC Detention and Interrogation Program has resulted in the issuance of thousands of individual intelligence reports and analytic products supporting the counterterrorism efforts of U.S. policymakers and military commanders. The effectiveness of particular interrogation techniques in eliciting information that might not otherwise have been obtained cannot be so easily measured.
IG report: "[T]here is limited data on which to assess [EITs'] individual effectiveness." From the IG report:
Inasmuch as EITs have been used only since August 2002, and they have not all been used with every high value detainee, there is limited data on which to assess their individual effectiveness. This Review indentified concerns about the use of the waterboard, specifically whether the risks of its use were justified by the results, whether it has been unnecessarily used in some instances, and whether the fact that it is being applied in a manner different from its use in SERE training brings into question the continued applicability of the DoJ opinion to its use. Although the waterboard is the most intrusive of the EITs, the fact that precautions have been taken to provide on-site medical oversight in the use of all EITs is evidence that their use poses risks.
IG report details reasons why "[m]easuring the overall effectiveness of EITs is challenging." From the IG report:
Determining the effectiveness of each EIT is important in facilitating Agency management's decision as to which techniques should be used and for how long. Measuring the overall effectiveness of EITs is challenging for a number of reasons including: (1) the Agency cannot determine with any certainty the totality of the intelligence the detainee actually possesses; (2) each detainee has different fears of and tolerance for EITs; (3) the application of the same EITs by different interrogators may have different results; and [REDACTED]
IG report: "Some participants" in CIA program judged that assessments that "detainees are withholding information are not always supported by an objective evaluation." From the IG report:
Agency officers report that reliance on analytical assessments that were unsupported by credible intelligence may have resulted in the application of EITs without justification. Some participants in the Program, particularly field interrogators, judge that CTC assessments to the effect that detainees are withholding information are not always supported by an objective evaluation of available information and the evaluation of the interrogators but are too heavily based, instead, on presumptions of what the individual might or should know.
Separate CIA reports on the intelligence detainees provided do not discuss the effectiveness of interrogation techniques. As The New York Times noted, the partially declassified CIA memos on "Khalid Shaykh Muhammad: Preeminent Source on Al-Qa'ida" and "Detainee Reporting Pivotal for the War Against Al-Qa'ida," do not contain reference "to any specific interrogation methods and do not assess their effectiveness."
Numerous media outlets have noted that CIA reports do not prove that enhanced interrogation techniques were effective
Salon's Greenwald: It is "patently clear" that CIA reports don't back claims about effectiveness of EITs. From Glenn Greenwald's August 29, 2009, blog post on Salon.com (emphasis in original):
That the released documents provide no support for Cheney's claims was so patently clear that many news articles contained unusually definitive statements reporting that to be so. The New York Times reported that the documents Cheney claimed proved his case "do not refer to any specific interrogation methods and do not assess their effectiveness." ABC News noted that "the visible portions of the heavily redacted reports do not indicate whether such information was obtained as a result of controversial interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding." TPM's Zachary Roth documented that "nowhere do they suggest that that information was gleaned through torture," while The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman detailed that, if anything, the documents prove "that non-abusive techniques actually helped elicit some of the most important information the documents cite in defending the value of the CIA's interrogations."
ABC says reports "do not indicate whether such information was obtained as a result of controversial interrogation techniques." In an August 25, 2009, article, ABCNews.com reported that the CIA had released two memos that "former Vice President Dick Cheney requested earlier this year in an attempt to prove his assertion that using enhanced interrogation techniques on terror detainees saved U.S. lives." The article added that the "documents back up the Bush administration's claims that intelligence gleaned from captured terror suspects had thwarted terrorist attacks, but the visible portions of the heavily redacted reports do not indicate whether such information was obtained as a result of controversial interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding."
Newsweek: The "newly declassified material does not convincingly demonstrate" that EITs "produced ... useful information." In an August 25, 2009, article, Newsweek reported that the CIA reports show that "the CIA's interrogations of suspected terrorists provided U.S. authorities with precious inside information about Al Qaeda's leadership, structure, personnel, and operations." However, the article added that "the newly declassified material does not convincingly demonstrate" that "the agency's use of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' -- including sleep deprivation, stress positions, violent physical contact, and waterboarding" was what "produced this useful information. In fact, though two of the newly released CIA reports offer examples of the kind of details that detainees surrendered, the reports do not say what information came as a result of harsh interrogation methods and what came from conventional questioning." Newsweek also reported that "based on this evidence, it is impossible to tell whether waterboarding and other brutal methods really were more effective than nonviolent techniques in extracting credible, useful information from Abu Zubaydah or other detainees."
Los Angeles Times: Documents offer "little to support the argument that harsh or abusive methods played a key role." The Los Angeles Times reported in an August 26, 2009, article that the CIA documents "are at best inconclusive" as to the EITs effectiveness and offer "little to support the argument that harsh or abusive methods played a key role."
Media reports, experts also dispute effectiveness of waterboarding
Washington Post reported: "[N]ot a single significant plot was foiled as a result of Abu Zubaida's tortured confessions." In a March, 29, 2009, article, The Washington Post noted:
When CIA officials subjected their first high-value captive, Abu Zubaida, to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods, they were convinced that they had in their custody an al-Qaeda leader who knew details of operations yet to be unleashed, and they were facing increasing pressure from the White House to get those secrets out of him.
The methods succeeded in breaking him, and the stories he told of al-Qaeda terrorism plots sent CIA officers around the globe chasing leads.
In the end, though, not a single significant plot was foiled as a result of Abu Zubaida's tortured confessions, according to former senior government officials who closely followed the interrogations. Nearly all of the leads attained through the harsh measures quickly evaporated, while most of the useful information from Abu Zubaida -- chiefly names of al-Qaeda members and associates -- was obtained before waterboarding was introduced, they said.
CIA interrogator called waterboarding "ineffective, slow and unreliable"; disputed claims that it provided actionable intelligence. In May 13, 2009, Senate testimony, CIA interrogator Ali Soufan said enhanced interrogation techniques "from an operational perspective, are ineffective, slow and unreliable, and as a result, harmful to our efforts to defeat al Qaeda." Soufan also disputed the claim that waterboarding provided useful intelligence, noting:
SOUFAN: [I]t has been claimed that waterboarding got Abu Zubaydah to give up information leading to the capture of Jose Padilla. But that doesn't add up: Waterboarding wasn't approved until 1August 2002 (verbally it was authorized around mid July 2002), and Padilla was arrested in May 2002.
The same goes for KSM's involvement in 9/11: That was discovered in April 2002, while waterboarding was not introduced until almost three months later. It speaks volumes that the quoted instances of harsh interrogation methods being a success are false.
Slate: "While [Zubaida] did possess some very useful information ... most of it was obtained before he was water-boarded." In a March 29, 2009, Slate article, Jesse Stanchak wrote:
CIA officials initially believed [Abu] Zubaida was an al-Qaida ringleader and that information he divulged after being water-boarded would prove crucial to preventing terrorist attacks. Both assumptions were wrong. Zubaida wasn't even an official member of al-Qaida. While he did possess some very useful information about al-Qaida's membership, most of it was obtained before he was water-boarded. The leads he provided later were almost all dead ends that wasted agents' valuable time and resources. The paper says that Zubaida might now prove to be a thorny legal issue for the White House. If he's brought to trial in the U.S. after being water-boarded, he could very well be set free and establish a dangerous precedent for other Guantanamo detainees. The administration is examining the possibility of transferring his custody to another country instead.
Washington Post: KSM said he "gave a lot of false information ... in order to make the ill-treatment stop." From an August 29, 2009, Washington Post article:
Mohammed, in statements to the International Committee of the Red Cross, said some of the information he provided was untrue.
"During the harshest period of my interrogation I gave a lot of false information in order to satisfy what I believed the interrogators wished to hear in order to make the ill-treatment stop. I later told interrogators that their methods were stupid and counterproductive. I'm sure that the false information I was forced to invent in order to make the ill-treatment stop wasted a lot of their time," he said.
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Five km east of downtown Ningbo sits the Qita Temple (Seven-Pagoda Temple), originally the Dongjin Monastery (later renamed Xixin Temple) founded in 858, or the 12th year of the Dazhong reign of the Tang Dynasty. During the Song Dynasty the temple was known as the "Chongshou Temple," a name that was briefly replaced by "Wanshou Palace" (sounding like a Taoist establishment) before being restored. During the Ming Dynasty it was once called the "Botuo Temple." By the Qing Dynasty, it was renamed after the seven pagodas engraved in a brick engraving on the façade of its gate hall, a name that has remained. The temple's more than 1,000 years of ups and downs culminated in its destruction at the hands of the Heavenly Kingdom peasant uprising.
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This series consists of talks in the area of Quantum Gravity.
Dynamical Triangulations" (CDT) is a lattice theory where aspects of quantum
gravity can be studied. Two-dimensional CDT can be solved analytically and the
continuum (quantum) Hamiltonian obtained.
In this talk I will show that this continuum Hamiltonian is the one obtained by
quantizing two-dimensional projectable Horava-Lifshitz gravity.
We construct a
self-consistent model which describes a black hole from formation to
evaporation including the back reaction from the Hawking radiation. In the case
where a null shell collapses, at the beginning the evaporation occurs, but it
stops eventually, and a horizon and singularity appear. On the other hand, in
the generic collapse process of a continuously distributed null matter, the
black hole evaporates completely without forming a macroscopically large
Both AdS/CFT duality and more general reasoning from quantum gravity point to a rich collection of boundary observables that always evolve unitarily. The physical quantum gravity states described by these observables must be solutions of the spatial diffeomorphism and Wheeler-deWitt constraints, which implies that the state space does not factorize into a tensor product of localized degrees of freedom.
I will review some problems of the black hole paradigm and explore other
possibilities for the final state of stellar collapse other than an evaporating
black hole. In particular I will use the so-called transplanckian problem as a
guide in this search for a compelling scenario for the evaporation of
ultracompact objects.
I will recall the
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(GFT) versions, which are quantum field theories defined on group manifolds. As
for any other quantum field theory, a fully consistent definition of the latter
must involve renormalization. I will briefly review a specific class of GFTs,
called tensorial, for which progress in this direction has recently been possible.
A new just-renormalizable model, in three dimensions and on the SU(2) group,
Tensor models are
generalization of matrix models, and are studied as discrete models for quantum gravity for more than two-dimensions. Among them, the rank-three tensor models can be interpreted as theories of dynamical fuzzy spaces, and they generally have the feature of
We describe of the evaporation
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degrees of freedom resident at the horizon, as identified by the Loop Quantum
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first law of quantum dynamical horizon in terms of a fluctuation-dissipation
relation applied to this fundamental discrete structure. In this way, the
horizon evolution is described in terms of relaxation to an equilibrium state
It is known that the entanglement entropy of quantum
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divergences can be absorbed into the renormalization of gravitational
couplings. By introducing a Wilsonian cutoff scale and the concepts of
the renormalization group, we can expand this observation
into a broader framework for understanding black hole entropy. At a
given RG scale, two contributions to the black hole entropy can be
combinatorial problems associated with the counting of black hole states in
loop quantum gravity can be analyzed by using suitable generating functions.
These not only provide very useful tools for exact computations, but can also
be used to perform an statistical analysis of the black hole degeneracy
spectrum, study the interesting substructure found in the entropy of
microscopic black holes and its asymptotic behavior for large horizon areas.
There are several
fundamental predictions of quantum field theory, such as Hawking radiation (i.e., black hole evaporation) or the Sauter-Schwinger effect (i.e., electron-positron pair creation out of the quantum vacuum by a strong electric field), which have so far eluded direct experimental verification.
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Procrastinated & Missed It: Rayman's Sinclair DemolishedPosted on June 25th, 2012 3 comments
8000 South Laclede Station Road
St. Louis County, MO
As I drive around, I make mental notes of buildings to photograph. When they're places passed on a regular basis, I guess I take them for granted as being part of the landscape – they'll always be there when I get around to it.
Rayman's Sinclair, at Heege and Laclede Station Roads has always been one of those "taken for granted" places. It was a full service Sinclair station in pristine condition, looking like a vintage postcard.
In 2010, there was a corporate shake-up that forced some Sinclair station owners to cease-and-desist with the brand name. The last dinosaur riding into the sunset is covered here.
At that time, Rayman began removing any Sinclair signage and verbiage from his shop. He even got clever, creating a cartoon character that was the classic Sinclair green, and looking like a cross between an alligator and dinosaur. I appreciated his cheekiness. While driving through the intersection, I took the shot above, as he was in mid-transformation.
All the pictures I have of this place are hasty shots from the car while traversing this busy and slightly awkward intersection during rush hour traffic. And with every such shot came the mental note to come back, park and get good photos of the place that was built in 1958.
And here is my very last hasty shot of Rayman's Auto Sales, Repair & Gas. According to the Affton-Shrewsbury Patch, it will become a new Courtesy Diner.
What I'm most disappointed with myself about is that the shop closed about 2 or 3 months ago. That should have been a red flag for me to photograph it, right? But I assumed someone else would move into the building, being in such great shape, conveniently located and all.
What is most ironic about a Courtesy Diner going in is that they do look like and/or try to evoke the very same porcelain tile facade of the Sinclair station they demolished. Here's an example of the new-ish Courtesy on Hampton Ave. But I understand there's issues with gas tanks underground and such, so I'll let it pass… just like I did with all the opportunities to properly record it for photographic history.
There are two Sinclair stations, proper, that I know of. Above is the station at Chippewa and Giles Streets in South St. Louis, built in 1953.
And here is one at 1st Capitol Dr and South 5th Street in St. Charles. Note that both of them still have the round white neon clock still hanging in the window. Wonder if that was a corporate-issue item back in the day?
While researching all this, I ran across a new Sinclair corporate website, and it reports that there are about 140 Sinclair stations in Missouri, including the South St. Louis station. Was there another corporate shake-up and retail Sinclair was OK once again? Do we get the dinosaurs back? Their corporate history is fascinating, but dry (lots of great building photos, though), so who knows.
All I know is I blew it. Hopefully what happened to Rayman's will be a positive photographic lesson I learn to act on.
The Sinclair Dinosaur is Extinct in St. LouisPosted on May 7th, 2010 19 comments
South Broadway & California
South St. Louis, MO
One of the most delightful sights in South St. Louis is the pristine green Sinclair dinosaur on South Broadway near Interstate 55. Or it was…
…until May 5, 2010. I drove by on that evening and its absence was glaringly obvious. Where did he go?
His disappearance was bothering me more than I felt comfortable with, so I drove to the station two nights later to get some answers.
A hastily erected canvas Conoco over the Sinclair sign revealed all. But I went inside, bought anything to stand in line and ask the guys behind the counter, "What happened to the dinosaur?"
They said some men came on the very day I noticed it gone, picked it up and carted it off on a flatbed truck, and that they were collecting all the dinosaurs because Conoco had bought out all St. Louis Sinclair stations. Did they ask where the dinosaur was headed to? Their responses were "Probably someone's back yard" and "I heard one guy say something about an amusement park."
A half hour of web research did not reveal any news about Conoco buying out Sinclair, but since the dinosaurs have been going extinct for quite some time, at least one site has been cataloging what remains and helping out those who want to buy or sell the green dinosaurs with the sardonic smile.
The Sinclair station (above) at Big Bend near Hwy 44 closed in the summer of 2007. Its dinosaur disappeared a few days before the "Sorry, We're Closed" sign hit the door. The building has since been re-purposed as a scooter and ATV retail outlet.
The reason for this Sinclair's demise seemed obvious; QT is the Walmart of gas stations. But Sinclair has been dwindling in the Metro St. Louis area for the past 10 years, and I've been snapping the empty buildings across the region for several years. Because of the gas tanks underground, the sites tend to sit unused in perpetuity. Only mega-corporations like CVS have the cash to sniff around their vacant sites.
So, the few remaining Sinclairs in operation have a deep, nostalgic resonance in my soul, and when one so close to home still had a dinosaur, it was a point of privilege and pride.
Saint Louis Patina may have the last official photograph of our South Side dino. And I will call the Conoco media relations during normal business hours to see if they have an official process for retrieving and re-using the dinosaurs. I can already feel their eyes rolling as I ask the question. I'm also picturing a Citizen Kane-like warehouse filled with hundreds of dinosaurs, their necks intertwined, a fine coat of dust dulling their luster…
In the scheme of things, the extinction of the Sinclair dinosaur in St. Louis is a pimple on the ass of the universe. But it's the little things that tend to bring the most satisfaction, and I already miss that little jolt of happiness received every time I passed by Dino. Farewell my prehistoric fossil fuel friend!
Ferguson's David & Goliath MomentPosted on February 7th, 2010 10 comments
One of the most prominent intersections in Ferguson, MO has lately become notorious. CVS is mining the St. Louis area, and as they require being near an existing Walgreens, they want to move into the intersection of Hereford and North Florissant, on the spot of the now-vacant Sinclair gas station (shown above). The issue is covered in depth here at NOCO StL, and that post also includes comments that capture the tone of the debate.
In essence, CVS wants to buy and tear down 8 homes and receive a 5-year TIF in order to build a new store on the northeast corner of a desirable intersection, and have been working on procuring the homes and advancing the plans since spring of 2009. Ferguson neighborhood associations did not learn of these plans until September 2009. It's become a case of who in Ferguson City Hall knew of these plans (and when did they know it), and were they purposely trying to usher in this development without public discourse?
The group Preserve Our Ferguson Neighborhood's concisely explains why they are opposed to the plan here, and note that they are not opposed to CVS coming to Ferguson, just opposed to this plan.
The photo above – and the next two that follow – are photos I took in May 2007 as part of a personal photographic survey of Hereford/Chambers Road from N. Florissant east to Halls Ferry Road (I hope to document straight through to Riverview Dr.). These homes atop the hill on the northside of Hereford are a long-standing, iconic representation of Ferguson. Even though everything to the southwest of them long ago turned commercial, these houses remained. Meaning, that even during the boom years of Ferguson's mid-century development, planners left this stretch of homes alone.
From 1945 – 1970, the clear delineation of commercial and residential in Ferguson is what made it so desirable for St. Louis city dwellers looking to relocate to the suburbs, and the long-standing respect for that pattern is a huge contributor to the renaissance Ferguson is now experiencing. There is a growing and tangible St. Louis population reclaiming both our city neighborhoods and inner-ring suburbs because of the distinct flavor (and existing infrastructures) they retain. It is an organic reaction against anonymous homogenization that depletes resources and a reclamation of community that is at the core of the human experience. Ferguson is quickly becoming a poster child for inner-ring possibility, which is a responsible balance of respecting the past while moving forward.
From casual observation of how CVS has grown in the Midwest, it is clear that there is a corporate game plan that requires their stores to be in close proximity to a Walgreens. I'm not debating their strategy – it must work for them or they wouldn't insist upon it – but I am noting that there stubborn adherence to this strategy finds them offering lame excuses when faced with community opposition.
For instance, in the Ferguson situation, the community has suggested other nearby commercial sites that could most likely be had without disrupting residential, and most of these sites are within eyesight of the Walgreens. But CVS corporate responds that there might be a lease restriction on the site, and they want to work only on the Sinclair site they have been working on for almost a year.
The City of Ferguson may have already offered them a 5-year TIF, and CVS might also get a Brownfield tax credit for building on the site of a gas station. Note that Ferguson can extend TIF to most any location it desires, so that's not a crucial factor for CVS staying put with the Sinclair Plan. But one thing is very clear from our brief history of the company in St. Louis: they want empty commercial and seemingly expendable residential buildings near a Walgreens because dealing with an existing corporation can get tricky.
For instance, their Ferguson plan procures 8 occupied homes, but spares the Little Caesar's pizza building at the northern end of the block on N. Florissant. It is cheaper to pay above-market price for private homes than wrangle with an existing business that full-well knows the rules of the real estate game. This may be why the Aaron Rents site mentioned as another possible location for CVS at the same intersection was immediately dismissed; who wants to tangle with evicting a retail chain when the goal is to get in, get what you need and seal the deal as quickly as possible?
From the CVS perspective, these location strategies are logical, and it worked perfectly for them at the intersection of Gravois and Hampton in South St. Louis City, the former site of a vacant Amoco station that also required 3 homes to be demolished. The Ferguson site is a repetition of that same game plan, so why not? But there's another example that Ferguson needs to keep in mind: the failed attempt for a CVS at Lindell and Sarah in the Central West End.
Yes, the plan took place over vacant commercial buildings, but this property was not in eyesight of the existing Walgreens, just a few blocks east on the same side of the street. So, not the most ideal way to meet the corporate mandate, but still a viable property on a valuable street. But the next problem was persistent community opposition. In general, the majority of residents affected were not opposing the store being there, but rather the layout and design of the store. CVS played ball for one inning with some design modifications, but residents still weren't satisfied and asked for further revisions. Without fanfare, CVS took their ball and left the game, and the CWE CVS plan was abandoned.
Simply because a corporation with deep pockets says it should be so does not make it fait accompli, especially within a proud community committed to the safe-keeping of their town's present and future.
It is easy to understand the need to increase the Ferguson tax base, and this is classically accomplished in two ways: more residents and more business. It is a delicate balance, and Ferguson is once again facing the hefty kid on the playground who wants to plop down on the other end of their seesaw. The important message of this "controversy" is that Ferguson residents are expecting transparency and fair negotiations about developments that will produce the most good for their city, and that is the sign of a community with healthy self-esteem and optimism about their future potential. Ferguson's heartbeat is gaining strength, and it is now healthy enough to fight for a fair deal.
There is valid concern about what to do with the Sinclair site if the CVS deal should fall through. Size-wise, old gas station plots can be problematic if you're thinking inside the retail box. Though, considering the current revitalization in the heart of Downtown Ferguson, extending that line of thought a few blocks up to Hereford is not a stretch of the imagination.
And when it comes to revitalizing odd-shaped, vacant gas station sites in Ferguson, I do need to point out the photo above, also taken in May 2007. This is at Ames Pl. and (Hereford turns into) Chambers Road, less than a mile east of the Sinclair intersection. I once lived within walking distance of this former gas station, and was always intrigued by it because it appeared to be growing out of the side of a hill. Plus, those people above it could walk out their side door and onto the gas station roof, if they wanted to (and I really wanted to).
The building is short and narrow, while the lot is long but very narrow. So when the gas station finally folded many a year ago, it sat in this forlorn, vacant state. The asphalt was removed, and once the grass grew in, it really looked odd, like a cedar and glass carbuncle growing out of the greenery. But the last time I drove by, the site was back in use as a used car lot, which was a pleasant shock because I thought that plot of land and the building was a goner. Instead, against all odds, it's reborn!
I am not at all suggesting that the Sinclair site should become a used car lot. I am just pointing out that even the oddest, and seemingly hopeless sites can find another life when it's in a community that works together to make such things possible.


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NEW YORK - An ex-convict pleaded not guilty Wednesday to viciously stabbing two small children, leaving one dead, reports CBS New York. The Brooklyn courtroom was filled with furious family members of the victims.
Daniel St. Hubert, 27, was in court for a new arraignment following an indictment last month on one count of second-degree murder, one count of second-degree attempted murder, one count of first-degree assault and one count each of third- and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, according to the station.
The Brooklyn man was charged in connection with the June 1 knife attack at a public housing development in East New York that killed 6-year-old Prince Joshua "P.J." Avitto and critically wounded 7-year-old Mikayla Capers.
The children had been playing outside that Sunday evening before going up to get some ice cream from P.J.'s sixth-floor apartment. That was when St. Hubert allegedly followed them into the elevator and used a steak knife to stab each child multiple times, according to CBS New York.
P.J. died at a hospital and was buried last month.
Aricka McClinton, the boy's mother, was among the dozens of family members in the courtroom Wednesday. "Our baby's been murdered by this monster, this killer, freak," she told the station. "Who does this to kids?"
Mikayla's great-grandmother, Regina Trevathan, said she saw St. Hubert for the first time Wednesday. "We won't speak of him. We don't think of him," she said. "He has his day in court, and we'll be here till the end."
St. Hubert is also the main suspect in a separate fatal stabbing case involving 18-year-old nursing student Tanaya Copeland.
CBS New York reports Copeland was killed two days before P.J. and Mikayla were stabbed, and only a few blocks away. However, St. Hubert has not been charged in that case.
The suspect has a long criminal history, according to the station. Investigators said he had been let out of prison May 23 after serving a 5-year sentence for domestic assault and attempted murder for trying to kill his ex-girlfriend. He also has nine prior arrests, including two for assaulting police and correction officers.
In 2008, St. Hubert's mother filed an order of protection against him. Months later, police said he punched her several times in the face, wrapped an electrical cord around her head and told her he was going to kill her. He was sent to a psychiatric facility for seven months following the incident.
The station reports St. Hubert's defense attorney said his client is not competent for trial. "There is some comprehension," attorney Ed Friedman said. "Whether it's comprehension that's legally sufficient is another thing."
The suspect did not speak during the hearing, according to CBS New York. He is due back in court in August. If convicted, he faces life in prison.


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Mumbai: Electronic hardware companies got a breather on Thursday, with the government extending the deadline for mandatory registration of the products they sell to January, according to a person familiar with the development. Companies were earlier given till 3 October to get their models certified by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), a mandatory requirement for the sale of such products.
The decision was taken late in the evening at a meeting between Kapil Sibal, the Union minister for communications and information technology (IT), and representatives of industry and trade lobby groups, said the person, who did not want to be named.
"Two important decision were taken. First, companies can import only those products that are based on self-declaration and have been submitted to the testing labs. Second, the government has agreed to allow companies do the (BIS) labelling in their own warehouses," he said.
Calls to P.K. Gambhir, deputy director general of BIS, for comment on this issue went unanswered.
Hardware companies have for long argued that BIS certification is a drag. They point out that of the 325 applications submitted to BIS, only 250 registrations have been issued till date, a fact that Gambhir confirmed over the phone earlier on Wednesday.
"With new applications being submitted every day, it will impossible to clear the entire backlog before 3 October," said J. V. Ramamurthy, president of the Manufacturers' Association of Information Technology (Mait) and president and chief operating officer of HCL Infosystems Ltd.
Industry experts added that even if some of the 100-odd new models of laptops, notebooks, tablets, televisions, microwave ovens, printers and scanners do get certified by the 3 October deadline, consumers may not be able to buy them during the peak Diwali season as it typically takes 14-16 weeks to get the products labelled with BIS stickers and ferried to retail outlets.
Electronics companies and industry lobby bodies say any delay in issuing the mandatory BIS registration number potentially leads to lack of supply in the market, directly impacting their revenue. The electronics hardware industry has already been hit badly by the rupee's depreciation against the US dollar, given that it imports 80-85% of components from abroad.
Much of the delay in certification, allege companies and trade bodies, takes place due to lack of an adequate number of BIS-authorized testing labs, frequent changes in guidelines, and missing technical details, rendering many of the new models almost obsolete because of the rapid pace of change in technology.
BIS, on its part, maintained that the electronics industry's grouse was unreasonable as it was given over a year to comply with the rules. "We are only doing a job. Extending the deadline is the government's job. But we have given the industry adequate notice," said Gambhir.
Lenovo India, for instance, submitted 150 products, but has had only about 50 certified till date. "The 3 October deadline is unrealistic and the government has to put more resources on the job to shorten the turnaround time," Rahul Agarwal, executive director (commercial business segment) of the personal computer maker, said before the government's decision to delay the deadline,
S. Rajendran, chief marketing officer of Acer India, said his company had given over 50 new models for testing in March, which "took over six months to test". Only one-third of the products have been certified till date, he said.
On 23 September, three US trade bodies—the Consumer Electronics Association, the Information Technology Industry Council and Telecommunications Industry Association—wrote a letter requesting the Barack Obama administration to take up the matter with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his Washington visit.


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Dual Pen/Stylus from STM
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Available in all silver and in black and looking at first glance just like an ordinary ballpoint pen, even though it has a quality "feel", it is a double-ended tool. At one end is the ballpoint and the other is the soft rubber stylus tip.
Rotate the end of the Tracer remote from the stylus in one direction to get the black ballpoint or, in the other direction, red. In the mid position both are retracted so there is no risk of the ink staining one's pocket. A small hole in the body below the clip acts as a window to indicate which colour has been selected.
When the ink runs out, the end of the unit pulls off to enable one to insert a replacement universal mini-pen refill.
The rubber stylus tip, which can be used for both typing and drawing – such as when using Swype's continuous stylus movement across the keyboard to input text -- requires a slightly higher pressure than one's finger. However, this is far from being a problem as, after all, the Tracer, being similar to a pen or pencil, feels a more natural way of doing things than when just using one's fingertip. Furthermore, being smaller than a finger, one has better control over one's actions and so can work faster and better.
In addition to the Tracer being a ballpoint and stylus, it is also a mini toolkit. Removing the stylus end cap reveals a tiny double-ended screwdriver bit and a SIM card ejector pin. While I have not had to put them to use, they could well be useful.
Overall, this is a well-designed and convenient tool that fits comfortably in one's hand and is a useful complement to those phones and tablets which seem to have become essential to our way of life. While, obviously, one can buy cheap plastic ballpoint pens and an equally cheap styli, the Tracer, which has an RRP of £24.95 and it is available on Amazon, has a feel of quality and precision. Hence, I don't think that one will have much difficulty in justifying the cost.
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As they say, "what's old is new again," and 19th century furniture is a prime example of that; as the Furniture Detective points out in his column.
Federal furniture
Federal Pembroke table fetches seven times estimate – $36,800 – in Conn. sale
A Federal mahogany Pembroke drop-leaf table, probably made in New York circa 1810, sold for $36,800 at a two-day, two-session sale held Oct. 20-21 by Nadeau's Auction Gallery, earning top-lot status in the auction.
A primer on furniture styles
Learn about the sometimes subtle differences in various styles of furniture, and some history about them too!


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Sorry for the bummer of a posting.. you've been warned.
I nearly quit on my run today. Had I been closer to home I would have. My goal was 8 to 10 miles. I started slow, hit a familiar part of the neighborhood run, and felt good for the most part. But after mile four, I could just feel a breakdown of sorts.
My body: my legs hips, ankles, and IT band just didn't want to push anymore. I hit six miles in exactly 60 minutes (I can do better). I stopped and walked around a bit. I started again; I got about a tenth of a mile and had to stop. "You better quit it's not happening" was the phrase entering my head. I couldn't lift my legs right (in the running sense). It was like they were on strike.
I walked a bit more and started on a flatter piece of road. I was able to run to the next hill (Hill from Hell to those who remember that reference). I got to a point and walked the rest to the top. I hit the Garmin in the middle figuring "what's the sense in timing this?"
I got to the top of the hill – stopped stretched, caught my breath a bit and started again; this is just before mile 7. I looped around and said "I'm making 8.. I don't care". I got to my normal stopping point, the voice said "close enough" but the other voice said "finish it". I doubled back until the mid-point turned and finished the eight. Honestly, I hurt right now. Physically, and a bit emotionally: I was scared of that voice.
So myself analysis has me thinking, as I expressed in an earlier bloop that I'm too lazy to link, that started slow, especially after doing the three mile speed runs, that started at a slow pace to help gain distance is not working. My body feels broken down. I'm in fairly good shape.. I shouldn't feel like I need to be put back together again like some running version of Humpty Dumpty. Get the king's horses!! (btw.. don't you think it's obvious Humpty Dumpty couldn't be put back together by horses? Mother Goose is overrated – I digress). The slow running I feel puts more downward impact on my legs, which in turn I think until the next excuse is found, that this may be a contributing factor to the body "broken" feeling.
Then I'm thinking, am I in… a FUNK! Funk NO! It can't be? Denial is not just a river in Egypt, John!
Something's in my life right now – not worth the words to write about – are not happening the way I hoped. Family is good – don't worry, but anything else that could go wrong pretty much is. It's a bit of a downer. With the soon to be job transition, I feel a bit of a "cold shoulder" at work. My coworkers yesterday learned they have 90 days to find jobs. So, you see I have a lot to be grateful for. But to give you an idea, when running usually clears your head, today mine felt cloudy.
Next run, Friday. I'll give the body a rest tomorrow.
Sorry to bum you out. Hope the rest of your week is great!
Later Loop!


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Leaning Tower of Pisa Stops Sliding, Now Solid as Rock
Italy's famous leaning tower of Pisa has stopped moving for the first time in its 800-year history, say the engineers who are trying to take the "ever more precariously leaning" part out of the tower's slump.
Taking more than 10 years to fix the tower and moving 70 tons of dirt to the sinking side encouraged it to stand up a little straighter. The man in charge of the $40 million project says the tower should be comfortable for another 200 years. As the project went on, the tower started to straighten a bit, but special monitors in the ground show it's solid as a rock now, and not moving anymore.
Has the Leaning Tower always been such? Yup. Even while it was being built, in the late 12th Century, workers saw it starting to tilt. Trying to fix as they went resulted in the completed tower being very slightly bent. Oh, and it's not the crookedest building anymore. That honor now goes to a slouching steeple in Germany.
Well that's one thing in Italy that's been straightened up. . . I wonder how Naples is doing with their trash situation?


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Xbox 360 Tops August Gaming Sales for Second Consecutive Month
The video game industry suffered its worst month of sales since August 2006, according to a new report from NPD Group.
Total industry sales fell ten percent to $818.9 million, as compared to the same period of time last year when gaming pulled in around $910 million. The decrease is split between hardware sales, which dropped five percent to $282.9 million, and software sales, which took a 14-percent hit to the kidney and dropped to $403.5 million. Portable gaming is suffering a bit more than its hard-wired brethren, losing 25 percent of its sales as compared to August 2009's figures. Console-based sales only took a four-percent cut.
"The 360 and PS3 platforms both grew in dollar sales versus last year. In fact, the 360 platform contributed more than one-third of total new physical retail sales across hardware, software and accessories while the PS3 platform contributed over one-quarter of total dollar sales," said NPD Group's Anita Frazier.
Although Microsoft's Xbox 360's did achieve year-over-year growth, its August sales figures356,700 unitsare still a significant drop-off from July's 444,000 units sold. The 360 retained its sales lead versus Sony's PlayStation 3, however, an accomplishment it finally wrested away from its rival in July. The PS3 actually gained a little bit of oomph in the market, selling approximately 11 thousand more units in August than July's total sales of 215,000 devices.
In total, the Xbox 360 led the month in hardware salesits third consecutive triumph for the console category and second straight month in a row at the top of all video game hardware sales, period. Nintendo's DS came in second place with 342,700 units sold, with its Wii console a bit further behind at 244,300. That's the Wii's lowest monthly hardware sales since the device's launch in 2006, but upcoming titles like Wii Party should help to invigorate gamer interest in the system, says Frazier.
As well, Frazier looks to the future for Xbox 360 sales, believing that the upcoming September launch of Microsoft's much-anticipated Halo: Reach will do much to benefit corresponding console sales.
"If hardware sales react in a similar fashion to what was experienced when Halo 3 was launched in September 2007," she says, "September could be a huge sales month for Xbox 360 hardware."
Although sales of PC titles aren't included in NPD Group's report, Frazier notes that Starcraft IIwhich pushed more than 300,000 units in Augustwould have been the month's second-best selling game. Electronic Arts' Madden NFL 11 took the top prize, selling a combined 1.975 million units across all five versions of the title.


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Is Short Sea Shipping A Traffic Solution?
The City of Miami is planning two underground tunnels to allow trucks to access the Port of Miami. Until those tunnels are built, the City may be looking at short sea shipping as a way to get freight cargo off trucks on the road and onto barges on the Miami River.
Miami Today News reports that short-sea shipping could move 1,200 containers daily, taking 1,200 trucks off downtown streets, projections show. The system could be up and running in 60 to 90 days.
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Louisville, Ky. — In 2007, the church reform group Call To Action held its conference in Milwaukee, called "From Racism to Reconciliation: Church beyond Power and Privilege." In the years before, the Chicago-based group had mandated an anti-racism initiative and created an anti-racism team to address racism in church and society.
This year's conference, held here in downtown Louisville, with the theme "Justice Rising," carries on that work.
"There's the saying that there is no justice without racial justice," Rose Elizondo told NCR. Elizondo presented this morning in a workshop about issues of institutional and internalized racism.
"So if everyone is not at the table as we are speaking about reform, as we are trying to collaboratively bring reform in our church, then we are not going to have a powerful reformation movement," said Elizondo, who does restorative justice work at San Quentin State Prison in California.
"But if everyone is included in all stages, then we can together, as people of God, as interconnected souls, come up with solutions."
We say: Charlottesville reveals the weeping wound of racism. What do we, the American Catholic faith community, do next? Read the editorial.
Also presenting was Myra Brown, a member of Call To Action's anti-racism team along with Elizondo. She told NCR that "the work of anti-oppression and anti-racism is not in addition to church justice work but it is a part of church justice work because I think the church mirrors the struggles in society, around oppression, power, relationships, race relationships.
"It's part of our call to follow Jesus in creating justice, peace and love in the world," Brown said. "We can't really step over oppression and feel like we're really doing that to the best of our abilities."
For the most part, conversations around race do not happen in the Roman Catholic church, Brown said. Because of the church's position as a guide in the world, it's critical that these conversations happen, she said.
"We've been given a mandate to be light in the world, to be salt in the earth, to show some leadership and justice," she said.
(Keep checking NCR Today and follow us on Twitter at @NCRonline for updates on what's going on at the conference in Louisville.)
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|From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 6 19:14:46 EDT 2009
At Sun, 6 Sep 2009 14:22:34 -0600, Doug Williams wrote: > These look like good things for me to use for efficiency in the science > collection. Will these these be in the upcoming 4.2.2 release? Yes, that's the current plan. > I assume that if I use these and introduce a dependency on 4.2.2 or later > that I should also bump the version number of the science collection in > PLaneT - even if the interface remains the same. Does that make sense? No, I think you wouldn't change the major version, since there's no API change. > I guess the term 'experiment' here confuses me. Is this something that might > go away again? Should I wait until everyone is comfortable with the results? Well, we need your help experimenting... I think of it as an experiment in that I'm not sure that this is the right approach for better performance. But it seems worth a try, and if it works well for many purposes, then it'll stick. > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote: > > > Version 184.108.40.206 (now in SVN) starts an experiment with > > performance-oriented unsafe operations. > > > > The new `scheme/unsafe/ops' library provides operations such as > > `unsafe-vector-ref' and `unsafe-fl+' (for inexact real addition) that > > are inlined by the JIT without contract checks. If a call violates the > > contract of a function from `scheme/unsafe/ops', arbitrarily bad > > things can happen. As long as contracts are satisfied, however, > > performance should be a little better than with corresponding safe > > operations. > > > > As part of the experiment, the expansion of `for' with `in-range' and > > `in-vector' now uses unsafe operations (in a safe way). For example, > > `in-vector' uses `unsafe-vector-ref' as well as a fixnum comparison > > for detecting when it has reached the end of a vector; it also uses > > unsafe fixnum arithmetic to increment the index as long as the step is > > 1 or -1 (in which case no overflow can occur during the > > increment). These improvements make a 10-20% difference in a tight > > loop over a vector. > > > > Future possible directions include making the JIT specialize > > combinations of inexact operations to avoid boxing intermediate > > results. > > > > The exports of `scheme/unsafe/ops' are protected, so that a code > > inspector can prevent access to unsafe operations by untrusted code.
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Despite predictions of a strong south-easter, it's all systems go for Cape Town Stadium to host international band Red Hot Chili Peppers on Tuesday night, says the city.
Last year, a concertgoer died and 19 others were injured when a howling wind tore down an advertising tower outside the stadium during the Linkin Park concert.
With winds expected to reach up to 35km/h tonight, Grant Pascoe, mayoral committee member for tourism, events and marketing, assured concertgoers that safety is a top priority.
"The City of Cape Town will ensure that the event organisers put the necessary safety measures in place for the event, as they do with all city events. We are looking forward to a great evening."
Meanwhile, complaints of overcrowding marred the Joburg concert at the FNB stadium at the weekend.
Some ticket holders reportedly left the stadium before the main event as they feared for their safety, according to a report in The New Age. In addition, poor sound, event management and accusations of bribery of security guards were some of the other issues that surfaced after angry fans took to social networks to air their grievances.
Justin van Wyk, spokesman for Big Concerts, denied any allegations of mismanagement.
"The inferences drawn by The New Age article are sensationalist; every large event has one or more operational issues behind the scenes and this concert was no different to any previous concert held at this venue."
Road closures can be expected around Green Point with Beach Road to Helen Suzman Boulevard, closed from 2pm to midnight. Waterkant, and Lower Burg and Buitengracht will also be closed in both directions from 4pm to midnight.
There will be free shuttles from the Civic Centre to the stadium. There will be no parking at the stadium and concertgoers are encouraged to use the transport systems provided.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The second annual One Spark Festival was in full swing Wednesday night in downtown Jacksonville.
Thousands filled the streets to see more than 600 inventors and entrepreneurs who are competing to win hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money. Everything from live music to robots were on display for the crowds.
Among the creators Wednesday night was musician Jordan Poole of Music Nat. Poole is trying to raise money to fuel a project of providing funds to help families in another country.
"To raise money for families in need in Guatemala that need houses and need $3,500 to do so," said Poole. "I'm taking proceeds from the album to do that and I'm using One Spark to do that," said Poole. "Anything I can get in One Spark, I want to win, definitely. That's why I came out here."
Robotics engineer Marin Day is also hoping her idea is a success during One Spark this year. Day is part of a group that's been building robots at Stanton College Prep.
"We build all of these robots in a little backyard shop all from scratch," said Day. "This is the latest robot from 2014, and what it does is pick up a large ball about 20 inches in diameter and feeds it. It will fire into a goal, the size of a basketball goal."
One Spark attendees can vote on their favorite inventions, as well as see pitches from inventors as they compete for a cash reward in various categories.
RELATED: One Spark 101: What you need to know
One Spark continues through Sunday, April 13. It's based in Hemming Plaza in downtown Jacksonville.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Same-store sales for McDonald's (MCD) were down for a second month in a row in February.
While U.S. based stores saw a 1.4% decline in sales during the previous month and African and Asian based stores saw sales fall by 2.6%, European stores saw a 0.6% increase over the same period.
McDonald's sales last month in the U.S. market were down 3.3%, but overall sales were up 1.2% thanks to strong performances in the European, Asian, African and Middle Eastern markets.
McDonald's says that severe winter weather is to blame for the disappointing run the global fast food company has endured this year. McDonald's stock hasn't fallen too heavily despite the bad news and is only down 0.48% in early trading.
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How to fix a session_start() error
See this help page
You get a session_start error and it references a si-contact-form.php file
The error is similar to this (the line numbers and directory may even be slightly different)
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/tmp/sess_aa3rmj2iquntm19df3d2higua3, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in /wp-content/plugins/si-contact-form/si-contact-form.php on line 1745
Or the error is similar to this (the line numbers and directory may even be slightly different)
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/tmp/sess_aaa16408141656d9755cf49548472883, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in /wp-content/plugins/si-contact-form/si-contact-form.php on line 1745
Also, it may or may not be followed by these two other errors:
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie – headers already sent
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent
The first error is the cause, the other two are effects of the first error. There is nothing wrong with the plugin code. This plugin is just asking the PHP server to open a session to set a cookie. The problem is that PHP sessions are currently not working on your server and the cookie cannot be set. The PHP server is not allowing the session to start and the error is how you find out.
The error is telling you that it cannot open the required session temporary folder because the folder does not exist or that the permissions or ownership is incorrect. This is purely a server misconfiguration, not a program error with the plugin.
Make a trouble ticket with your web host. Ask them to fix the broken PHP session feature of the web server. It will better help them resolve the problem if you include the error message and a URL to your page with the error on it. They can create the proper temporary folder needed for PHP sessions. If the folder is already there, they can check and make the necessary adjustments to the folder permissions or group ownership. Then the sessions will work as they should.
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Councilmen question preferred library site
Two members of Oconee County Council raised questions this morning about whether the library board's preferred property to build a new Seneca library is best. Councilman Paul Corbeil, as chairman of the county's Capital Project Advisory Committee, said he would like to hear an expression from the city's leadership about the library board's preferred property—-4.3 acres on E. North First Street near the 123 intersection. Seneca officials, such as City Administrator Greg Dietterick, have touted a downtown location, but county Library Director Phillip Cheney said a downtown library would require land deals with multiple property owners. Councilman Archie Barron also raised questions, although both he and Corbeil made clear they support library improvements. Corbeil explained that he foresees improvements in libraries countywide as a project to be submitted for a potential referendum in November 2014.