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This is all about the money. The city wants a cut and the Cubs want a cut. It's so patently obvious. |
This is fine by me, it is out of control with everyone thats selling crap these days.... when it was only the "Drunk chicks dig me" tshirt guy 6 years ago, it was all good...its crazy how many people are selling stuff right there now. But i bet if they had a contract to give the Cubs 18 percent of everything sold, it w... |
Are you kidding me? The drunk fans pre/during/post game pose more of a "safety" risk than the vendors, and it's all part of the beloved Wrigley experience (I say beloved somewhat sarcastically but I don't want any of it to go away). |
Unreal - this is the best Tunney can come up with? |
What's the story on street performers? We have an entirely different city license from vendors. I've been kicked off Cubs "property" (aka the sidewalk) but the Bucket Boys are still allowed to bang away. |
Oh no! No more trashy tasteless t-shirts sold by tax dodging dirtbags! Next they'll make the scalpers...er, "re-sellers"...stay inside their businesses and stop harassing people out on the sidewalks by the El! The HORROR! |
why ban them? why not make them get a permit to sell stuff on the street and limit the number of permits handed out? any vendors trying to make money on city property should pay a city tax. it is part of the wrigley experience, but it can become too much sometimes. specially for the residents of that neighborhood. |
Ummm... Yeah Captain America, let's just take away personal freedoms and wiretap the peddlers like good Republicans! |
Yeah, it's complete *socialism* to prevent these peddlers (who mostly sell vulgar and illegal, bootlegged shirts) from completely blocking the sidewalks (like they do now) while 40,000 people are trying to get from the L stop to the ballpark (and vice versa after the game). |
Forcing these obnoxious clowns to move one block further away from the park is *exactly* the same thing as Soviet Russia. |
Geez, hyperventilate much, people? This is a minor safety regulation to help with crowd flow on game days. And a much-overdue one at that. |
Yay! More Nanny State protection. I'm so elated at how hard my elected officials work to save me from myself. |
This sounds like it would benefit the filthy rich. |
Half the point of having the Cubs play is so we can fleece the fans from out of town. This kind of ordinance isn't going to help. It's the economy, Ald. Tunney. |
Would this cover the scalpers? |
hey tunney start worrying about something that actually matters in the city!!! |
Let's see... ban the peddlers but stands on private property are okay. Arrest the scalpers but ticket brokers can gouge fans all they want. |
For someone who talks a big game about equality, the alderman sure has a funny way of practicing it in real life. |
It's part of the Wrigley experience, doging peddlers and peanut sellers. Let'em make a buck. |
They ought to ban the Cubs from Chicago for good! |
Seriously?? You "can't walk to the ballpark?" Tunny, get a life. Get a job! Why are you wasting our money and time??????!!!! |
Aren't these peddlers/vendors part of the atmosphere that typically surrounds a public event such as a baseball game? Why try to drive them away? |
I'd be surprised if the City Council passes up an opportunity to impose another tax! |
I simply don't believe this is a "safety issue." It either comes from the Cubs or the local merchants who compete with the street vendors. |
This is a great idea! Chicago has too many jobs! Unemployment is too low! Let us ban the peddlers and put them in the unemployment line. The State of Illinois is overflowing with budget money to spend on social services for them when they become unemployed. Good thinking! |
Any truth to the rumor that Tommy Tunney is a closet Soxs fan? |
I quaestion who exactly is behind this measure and who stands to gain from the proposed limitations on peddlers? My guess is the fixed-site commercial establishments who can't stand competition to their ripoff prices. Competition is good if it benefits the buyer - in this case mostly tourists. |
If the alderman and merchants are nowe so concerned about prohibiting nuisance peddlers, then why are the sidewalk ticket scalpers still a nuisance for blocks around Wrigley? |
Police & merchants must be blind not to see ticket scaplers flagrantly selling their tickets. |
Your Nexus One supports mulitouch, so why isn't it included in your stock browser? Don't know, don't care: here's how to get it, along with lots of other help tweaks, right now. |
WARNING: You should be fine if you follow the instructions closely, but there's a slim chance you could brick you phone. And unless your restore your stock bootloader and software image before sending it back to Google, rooting the phone can void the warranty. Additionally, with any ROM flashing comes data loss—back up... |
1. Unlock your SPL. Your SPL is your phone's bootloader, or the software that lets your phone choose what to boot from. You know when you have to choose a boot source on your PC to install Windows? (HDD, USB, CD-ROM, etc?) It's like that, except for your phone. You need to crack this open, so you can boot from whatever... |
On the device, go to the home screen, press MENU, select Applications > Development, then enable USB debugging. |
Then, if you're on Windows, you need to download the Android 2.1 SDK and USB driver, available here. This will give you the tools you need to talk to your Android phone from you PC, and to issue commands to it remotely. If you're on Mac, this just works. |
• Copy recovery-RA-nexus-v1.5.3.img to a location where fastboot can find it. |
• [run] "fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-nexus-v1.5.3.img" |
Once that's complete, you should be able to start your phone into a new bootloader by powering on while pressing "Home." You can navigate through the menus with your scroll wheel, but not your touchscreen. |
3. Install a custom ROM with multitouch. Given that Google just released the Android 2.1 source code to the public, there aren't a whole lot of options for custom ROMs. There is one, though, that includes multitouch, as well as a bevy of other small hacks. Download that here (or Google " MoDaCo Custom ROM 1.4" for mirr... |
After download, you should end up with a file called "Update.zip". Copy this to your device's SD card. Boot into your device's bootloader (remember: power button + home), execute 'nandroid backup' from the menu if you'd like to back up your current device configuration, then select "apply sdcard:update.zip" |
Once the operation is complete, restart your phone. The first boot may a take a while, and it's always good policy to run and Android phone through a second boot cycle after a ROM flahs, but once that's done, you've got a multitouch-capable Nexus One. Congrats! |
Congress president Rahul Gandhi claimed that the alliance of the Opposition parties will form the next government at the Centre and in Bihar after the Lok Sabha elections. |
Addressing Jan Akanksha Rally in Patna's Gandhi Maidan, Mr. Gandhi kicked off party's poll campaign in Bihar for 2019 Lok Sabha elections. |
Launching a blistering attack against the BJP government, Gandhi slammed PM Modi over several issues, including the Rafale deal and the NDA's cash transfer scheme for farmers. |
The Congress President reiterated the party's poll promise to waive off farmer loans in the country and provide minimum income guarantee for all. |
Besides Sharad Yadav, Hindustani Awam Morcha Chief Jitan Ram Manjhi, RJD's Tejashwi Yadav and leaders of RLSP also addressed the rally. |
As brands seek to better use the bounty of data they have about their customers, today's Mad Men are under pressure to shore up their "Math Men" analytical skills to know how to effectively reach a consumer across different devices. |
To help chief marketing officers navigate the explosion of data available, International Business Machine and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School are launching a new executive education program focused on big data and analytics for marketing executives. |
Forty-eight CMOs, chief customer officers and others in related leadership roles will be selected to participate in the new program, called “The CMO Advantage: Evolving Beyond the Digital Revolution.” Wharton marketing faculty members will teach the two-week course, which will address the impact of big data, analytics ... |
The rise of digital technologies and mobile devices has made it easier than ever for brands to collect information about their consumers, but it has also put pressure on marketing executives to know how to make use of all that data. While creativity is still critical for marketers to break through to a consumer, brands... |
"What information technology and the ubiquitious nature of it has allowed us to do is actually get very deep insight into individuals," said Kevin Bishop, vice president of IBM's ExperienceOne portfolio. "To do that, you need a lot of mathematical and statistical type of skills to manage all those types of information.... |
A study recently conducted by IBM found that nearly all of the more than 500 CMOs polled said that advanced analytics will play a significant role in helping them reach their goals. However, 82% of respondents said their companies are under prepared to handle the explosion of data that's now available. |
"The expectations of consumers is constantly reset by whoever is providing the most utility and delight the in end-to-end process," said Mr. Bishop, adding that the pace of digital change in marketing will likely accelerate over the next year. |
IBM executives and Wharton faculty jointly designed the curriculum for the CMO Advantage program, which will include case studies of different data-driven social, mobile and digital marketing scenarios and simulations of problems a CMO may face. Another key focus of the course, which Wharton and IBM plan to expand to o... |
"A CMO really sits in the middle," said Monica McGrath, vice dean of Wharton's Aretsy Institute of Executive Education. "The CFO, CIO, CEO are all looking to you to be the integrator of the vision of the organization." |
The program will take place in June and applications for the course will open on Oct. 20. |
This Phoenix one-story home offers an in-ground pool, a fireplace, and a two-car garage. Upgraded features include new pool equipment, new stainless steel kitchen appliances, and new cooking range. Home comes with a 30-day buyback guarantee. Terms and conditions apply. |
Mar 07, 2018 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has temporarily blocked social media web sites like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to avoid the spread of hate speech in the country. |
The Cabinet Spokesman Minister Rajitha Senaratne on Wednesday said the government has decided to block access to certain social media. |
Telecom Regulatory Commission (TRC) has started to monitor all social media platforms to curb hate speech related to communal riots escalated in Kandy district. |
Telecommunication service providers (ISPs) have also restricted internet access in Kandy district on the instructions of the TRC. |
Sri Lanka Telecom said in a twitter message that in line with the directive from the TRC, access to certain social media sites and messaging platforms will be restricted with immediate effect until further notice. |
Reuters, however, said in a news report quoting a TRC official that the directive will last for about 72 hours. |
Notice issued by Dialog Axiata is reproduced below. |
Xiaomi’s entrance into the Indian market has been rife with criticism, controversies and curiosity. There has been a lot of speculation about the company but never a concrete answer. This week, we go beyond the headlines and make you meet the headline maker, Hugo Barra, who walks us through Xiaomi’s inception, the succ... |
The story of one man's mission to promote peace by flying hot air balloons over his war-torn homeland. |
Murtada al-Hachami loves his country. But he hates the world's perception of it as a land of war and destruction. |
As a child, he was forced to flee Iraq with his family. But upon returning as an adult, he finds a place at odds with the media portrayals of it. It is Iraq - a place of peace, love and life - that he wants to show the world. |
He has a vision of how he can do that: by flying hot air balloons over the ancient city of Babylon. |
Iraq is not just a country full of war and killing and massacres, nor full of terrorism. It's full of people that love life. And they love peace. |
He persuades some of the world's best hot air balloon crews of his vision and 17 of them - from Poland, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States - gather at Copenhagen Airport in Denmark to fly to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. |
But as they wait for their flight, news comes through of the deteriorating security situation in the country. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) is in the ascendancy and growing increasingly dangerous. |
They have just minutes to decide whether to board the flight to Iraq and potentially risk becoming a target for an ISIL attack or to walk away and leave Murtada's dream in pieces. |
Murtada knows that it isn't only the international crews that are in danger. There are people in his country who do not share his vision and would like to see him stopped. "One day you will find me shot for what I'm doing," he reflects. |
Balloons over Babylon follows Murtada and the international hot air balloon crews as they encounter obstacle after obstacle in their pursuit of a dream. |
Will they be able to send a message of peace from Iraq to the world or will violence prevail? |
For more than a decade I had worked as a television correspondent, sometimes in war-torn places. I was part of a western media establishment responsible for images of chaos and devastation served to viewers on a daily basis. |
During the full-scale sectarian civil war in Iraq (2004-2007) I was reporting from Baghdad and my stories were full of pictures of death and destruction. Yet, I was at the same time aware of the fact that life went on as usual for most citizens in Baghdad and Iraq. People went to work, to school, to the market. However... |
Then I heard of Murtada, a man with a mission of promoting peace and love by painting a different, yet true, picture of Iraq. I immediately felt personally compelled to tell his story. |
Balloons over Babylon is, on one hand, a story about change. After decades of war and conflict, there is a want to change the negative image of Iraq. Our hero, Murtada, personifies that want for change. He, just like anyone else, wants his country to be the best in the world. |
At the same time, Murtada also represents the outside world. During his two decades in exile, Murtada, together with the rest of the world, were spoon-fed negative images of Iraq. Media showed nothing but war, conflict, looting and more. |
Balloons over Babylon shows the world, including the people of Iraq itself, that there exists a force for positive change. It is well overdue to show Iraq from its true perspective, as a magnificent country with a rich history of epic legends and a progressive population. |
But the road to change is long, difficult and dangerous. |
Balloons over Babylon also tells the story of the personal journey of Murtada. It is a story of seeking redemption and revenge for the little bullied boy in London. He fights his way through the complex Iraqi bureaucracy in search of funds to finance his project. |
It is a road he needs to navigate with great care. Corruption and contradicting beliefs in what Iraq should be put Murtada in the crosshairs of many powerful figures. How far is Murtada willing to go in order to reach his goals? At the end of the day, all he wants is, like all of us, to be recognised and acknowledged. |
Balloons over Babylon is also about peace and love. It is about Murtada's love for his family and depicts a sensitive relationship with his oldest son, 11-year-old Yousif. And it is about Murtada's love for his home country and his urge to show his Iraq to the world. |
It is not about promoting his country for the sake of financial gain. He wants to invite the world to Iraq to create an exchange between the visitors and the people, to promote peace and understanding. In the conflict-ridden world of today, that's an important message that should be much more promoted. |
It is a story that, in every sense, gives a counterweight both in terms of the generalising image of Muslims like ISIL fighters, and of Babylon and Mesopotamia, a place with a unique history and the cradle of our civilisation. |
The poignant refugee stories of an Iraqi artist, a Syrian screenwriter and a Palestinian filmmaker in Lebanon. |
Turkish pop-singer Metin Senturk became the world's fastest unaccompanied blind driver on Friday and said he felt he had danced with death. |
Senturk wept as he emerged from a Ferrari F430 at Urfa airport in eastern Turkey to learn from Guinness World Records officials his average speed of 292.89 kph broke the previous record of 284 kph, held by a British bank manager. |
"I don't think there are any words to describe this feeling. I am really happy. It was really hard, like a dance with death," said Senturk, who has been blind since the age of three. |
Following Senturk in a separate vehicle was former rally driver Volkan Isik, who guided the blind man by radio. |
BUDAPEST, April 17 (JTA) — Over the past five years, the center-right Italian government headed by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi emerged as one of Washington’s staunchest allies — and one of Israel’s strongest supporters in Europe. Now, however, Berlusconi’s loss in national elections to Romano Prodi— whose center-l... |
Bujumbura - One of Burundi's most popular private radio stations, African Public Radio (RPA), complained Tuesday of government harassment after several staff members were interrogated. |
"RPA is being harassed by the government," the radio's secretary general Andre Palice Ndimurukundo said, complaining that both administrative staff and journalists had been taken in for questioning over the past week. |
He said RPA's staffer in charge of transport had been detained by the intelligence services for 16 days. |
On Monday the radio's finance director Alain Ntamagendero was summoned for the third time before a commission made up of police and magistrates and a journalist at RPA's branch in the northern town of Ngozi was questioned for the second time by police, Ndimurukundo said. |
On Friday Leonce Niyongabo, who runs the Ngozi branch, was questioned and RPA's legal representative, Jean-Marie Vianney Hicuburundi, was interrogated on both Wednesday and Thursday. |
"It looks increasingly clear this is a complete set up concocted by the intelligence services who are using a man named Joel to implicate RPA in an arms trafficking affair," Ndimurukundo said. |
Joel (Eds: one name) is the Ngozi province head of the Movement for Solidarity and Development (MSD), the opposition party founded by the former journalist Alexis Sinduhije after he stopped running RPA. |
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