via BoingBoing. Jack Black, international rock god, movie idol, and philosopher, wants to stamp out piracy, and he’s sending us this message in the form of an embeddable YouTube vid with a copyright notice and the cover of his latest album one sheet for his new Tenacious D movie. Hmmmmmm…
I’m posting this for Raj, as he’s one of the 30, making the rest each only one of the 29 left over. Not that I’m elitist at all, now that I’ve gotten my charming mug into the social columns…of course, I was wearing a mask. Hmmm, good thing for my ego I don’t believe in causality.
30 for 30 – A Benefit for Make a Wish Foundation
Vancouver’s top 30 business leaders unite the evening of Thursday, October 19th, 2006 to raise funds for Make A Wish foundation.
DATE: Thursday, October 19th, 2006
VIP Reception: 5:30PM
Main Event: 7:00PM
LOCATION: Rocky Mountaineer Station, 1755 Cottrell Street (close to Terminal and Main), Vancouver
PRICE: $40, VIP $75
You are invited to attend an evening of great food and great entertainment – all to raise funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of BC.
Help us achieve our goal of granting 30 wishes for 30 children with life threatening illnesses. Join 1,000 of your fellow Vancouverites as we celebrate the power of a wish at the Rocky Mountaineer Railway Station on October 19th, 2006.
Tickets can be obtained by email at ticketsatthirtyforthirtydotorg, phone at 604-897-8478, or visit us on the web at www.thirtyforthirty.org.
Tell your friends and co-workers, and together we’ll make Thirty for Thirty one of the most successful fundraisers in the history of Make-A-Wish BC.
Sound familiar? It should by now, but it’s going to get a damn site more familiar as we approach the Olympic construction deadlines.
From the Pivot Newswire:
October 18, 2006
Empress Hotel’s new owner plans to shutter it
Employees of the Empress Hotel, a landmark low-income rental building in the DTES, are reporting that the new owner of the hotel has told them they are fired, and that he intends to evict all of the tenants within three months. The Empress Hotel has 74 rooms available to Vancouver’s poorest residents.
“He told me that my job was over, and that he was giving all of the tenants three-month eviction notices,” said Charles Humble, an employee and resident of the hotel.
The new owner has apparently applied for a business license to continue operating the hotel as a low-income rental building; however, the story being told to employees of the building is a different one.
“This is just like the American Hotel,” said David Eby, lawyer with Pivot Legal Society. “The owner says one thing to city hall, and a different thing to the rest of the world. The American is now closed because the City refused to look beneath the surface or act when everybody else was telling them that the building was going to close. The same thing must not happen with the Empress.”
This week is Homelessness Awareness Week, an ironic twist on the recent news coming out of the Empress Hotel. In addition, on Thursday a motion is coming before city council to ban the conversion of low-income housing in the DTES to other uses.
“When these 76 rooms close, which is clearly the owner’s intention, those people who live in the Empress and have lived there for years and years will be living on Vancouver’s streets,” says Kim Kerr of the Downtown Eastside Residents’ Association. “The residents of the DTES are tired of their housing being closed while council waits for funding that is never going to come. Council must act to protect this housing from conversion immediately.”
The 74 rooms in the hotel represent more than 1/3 of all of the 175 wet/cold weather shelter beds opening for this winter in Vancouver. Current vacancy rates for housing available to people on welfare is near 0, as reported in Pivot’s recent report on housing in the DTES “Cracks in the Foundation” which found only two rooms available in the entire city for people at the current welfare shelter rate.
For more information contact:
Kim Kerr – DERA – (604)785-0009
Charles Humble – Resident and employee of the Empress – Room 701
David Eby – Pivot Legal Society – (778)865-7997
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Bummer, dude.
from SETI.org Spaceref.com which if I’d realized back when I posted the first one, I’d not have posted them at all. So much for trusting Fark. I knew there was a reason I hadn’t blogrolled them.
Here is the actual Tuesday announcement. And below is the hold-your-boosters post from Spaceref.com.
Major SETI Institute Announcement
Editor’s update: For all of you out there who have been waving your arms around and speculating, this is not an announcement about finding a signal from ETs, the face on Mars, or anything else. It is far more mundane. Details of the announcement were released – under press embargo – to reporters last week. A press release about the announcement will be issued on Tuesday by the SETI Institute.
Editor’s update: To those of you who have been speculating about what will be announced tomorrow: The original calendar posting on this page simply had date, time, and location. Nothing else. It was posted here a week ago – on 9 October. A detailed – but embargoed – media alert was sent out at the same time to reporters by the SETI Institute in which no mention is made of signals from outer space. Yet, the announcement is indeed a major one for the SETI Institute.
Please ask yourself this: do you (1) really think that the SETI Institute would issue some sort of major announcement i.e. detection of a signal from another civilization – a week ahead of announcing it formally – and then (2) expect the media to sit on such amazing news – for an entire week? The next time y’all start to whip up a frenzy – out of thin air – use a little common sense before you hit [send].
10:00 – 11:00 am PDT
Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Location: SETI Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA, US
Web Site Address: http://www.seti.org/
Seti‘s heard a murmur. via Fark. Tune in Tuesday and check it out.
Major SETI Institute Announcement
10:00 – 11:00 am PDT
Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Location: SETI Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA, US
Web Site Address: http://www.seti.org/
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