China bans Western religious music - Telegraph
Chinas culture ministry has banned public performances of Handels Messiah and other major works of western religious music.
It would seem that the with the Olympics over, China is again free to reveal it’s position on basic human rights.
UK Indymedia - The Fight to Save Annociate Nimpagaritse
Save Annociate Nimpagaritse
Echo and the Burundimen | 18.09.2008 10:45 | Sheffield
Arrested and awaiting deportation
On Friday September 12, 8 policemen raided a house in Burngreave at 6.15 a.m. Frightened women woke up to find police in their bedrooms. The purpose of the raid was to arrest and detain a young Burundian woman, Annociate Nimpagaritse, and prepare the way for deportation to her country of origin.
This a sad story of a young woman who fled to this country to escape persecution. Follow the blog Free Annociate set up by Graham Wroe and take what ever action you feel is right.
Sign from above for city club (From York Press)
A CHURCH has used the renaming of a refurbished York nightclub to put out its own message.
A poster outside St Edward’s Church on Tadcaster Road declares: “SALVATION… more than a nightclub.”
But the marketing people behind Club Salvation – formerly Nexus – in George Hudson Street reckon God moves in mysterious ways.
Following my earlier rant about Salvation - the club - placing a promotion outside The Salvation Army it’s good to see another York church getting in on the act. But it’s one of those eternal dilemmas. At what point are you just creating more promotion for the event you object to. Two sayings come to mind. Imitation is flattery and All publicity is good publicity.
The fact still remains Salvation is not found in a Night Club.
RedEye | iPhone, Therefore I Blog
Normally, unless they are those pretty, puffy fair-weather ones, clouds aren’t so great. They’re dreary and stormy.But Apple’s cloud is not only puffy and fair-weather, its the beginning of the companys beautiful future.
Is it just me noticing it more or is everyone waking up to the potential of The Cloud at the same time?
I’ve been talking about it for years - and what’s more other people have talked to me about it.
“The day will come when everything we use will be “out there” not on your hard drive. Data, applications, personal stuff all accessible from anywhere - anywhere with a connection that is.”
The iPhone - recently acquired with 3G connectivity - stores very little data. Ok it’s an iPod too and there’s 16Gb potential for tunes and movies - but the connectivity brings trillions of gigabytes to that small 640 px wide screen. (more…)
ONE of York’s oldest butchers has closed its doors for the final time, citing council red-tape and corporate customers’ debts for the decision.
Scott’s Butchers has been at its Low Petergate home for 130 years.
What sad news. This was The Place to buy good meat and pies. To my mind no one matched Scotts, but I have to confess I rarely bought anything there. I guess I contributed to its demise - in a very small way. It looks as though bad debts and poor access were largely to blame for the closure of the business.
Online ads to overtake TV
The internet will overtake TV as the biggest advertising platform in the UK this year with total ad spend of around £3.56bn, according to a report by Enders Analysis.
But does this mean it’s more effective? I think I would still rather have 30 seconds on peak time TV than the equivalent cost on t’internet. I confess I have no idea if I know what that would mean in web exposure, but TV still feels like you’re in lots of living rooms where it matters more than being on the “lean forwards” screen..
Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008
Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We’re not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.
OK so I’m a confirmed Safari user but Firefox is my backup and it’s one in the eye for MS Explorer which I despise. The idea of pledging to do nothing except download the new version of Firefox is novel - but over 68,000 people in the UK have pledged. That’s more than 0.1% of the population. Kind of awesome ……
MySpace.com - York Youth Mysteries - www.myspace.com/yorkyouthmysteries
York Youth Mysteries - A day of free performance in and around the streets of York City Centre. 21st June 2008!
Riding Lights Youth Theatre is performing one of the plays. It’ll be a fascinating day. Just what will our young people make of the traditional bible stories?
Find out in the streets of York on June 21st, 11am - 5pm
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Speed up, life’s too short
Just as dieting makes you fat, time management courses make you inefficient.
An insight from Lucy Kellaway - a columnist in The FT - I have been known to take issue with her in the past. But this time I think she may be on to something - maybe.
