The Sunday Papers.

by Disgusted Sun Sep 21, 2003 19:01

Dear Madam,
I think it's long past time we scratched our heads a little.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60490

by disgruntled Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:35

I really feel moved to bring your attention to this morning's RTE show, of the 12 issues,

1. Justice Minister's wife reveals fears over reporting crime
3. Fears allayed over hospital beds crisis
4. Hearing opens into controversial plans for incinerator
6. Half a million euro payout after woman claims gardaí torture
7. Union shows support for jailed bin charge protestors
8. TDs and Senators under fire for keeping local politics in the
family
9. The M50's second bridge opens

I found 7 suggestive and cute.
but why isn't "The Sunday Papers" in the "what's in the papers"/"what's really on the agenda" section?
Use your influence.

by middle class Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:42

Dear Sean,
How long will it be before the cracks show in the rabble and mob now that their demagogues are locked up? I look forward to seeing the next generation of "socialist" party. Do we get a leadership challenge?
yours etc.,
(loving every minute of it).

by conor - ucdsa Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:43 conor at ziplip dot com

shut the fuck up donny

by formerly working class Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:43

Dear Sir,
I've read on the german news sites that Joe Higgins has been transferred on the sly to an open prison outside of Dublin, is there any truth it in? Are we being played for fools?
....again.

by editor. Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:43

·Habeus Corpus·


you're Latin is very small.

by editor of the Sunday Papers. Mon Sep 22, 2003 13:46

Adrian,
I'm getting these threatening notes from the anarchists, and they're getting into my head. What is the walrus? Who is Donny? I checked the filing cabinet, you know where we keep everything, and well Donny is on release, and the walrus anniversary is in't up for a while, what do you reckon I should do?
yours Séan.

by former British Army Officer (now resident in Eire) Mon Sep 22, 2003 13:53

Séan,
This is what we wanted you know that. If you open a new window on your computer (leave this email open) (so you go on receiving instruction from me) now go to the address:
http://irlgov.ie/oireachtas/frame.htm
Click on the list of deputies and their constituencies. Look at their little faces. One of their big days, of course the more experienced didn't fuss over that photo, but take a look @ the newer ones. The care some took to get the hair just right, the grecian 2000 oiling the locks as we used to say in the regiment.
Now why did they take such care over their hair? and the suits? (dark and sombre or light and business like?) because they wanted the ..... recognition.

A day is a long time in politics as it is in the offices of a Sunday Paper, Séan and so is a month.
Isn't it interesting how the oldest games never change?

by Tweedy Tekno Gaeilgóír. Mon Sep 22, 2003 15:11

Mo chara,
Caill do chlú agus faigh ar ais é, agus ní hé an rud céanna é. Is é buille an phinn an buille is fealltaí. Agus Ná díol caora dhubh, ná ceannaigh caora dhubh, agus ná bí gan caora dhubh.
is mise le meas,
Tweedy Tekno Gaeilgóír.

by by looking at your own shit. Mon Sep 22, 2003 15:29

No. we filed the other leader candidates a long time ago.
They're a Bunch of fecking muppets.

by pat c Mon Sep 22, 2003 16:06

I thought this might be of interest tothe esteemed readers of your journal.Are kangaroos native to Catalonia.

Yours Sincerely

Lt Col Pat C (retd)

Lulu the roo to the rescue
September 22, 2003


Keeping an eye out ... Lulu the one-eyed hero roo. Photo: AAP

Farmer Len Richards may owe his life to his pet kangaroo Lulu, which alerted the family after he was badly injured by a falling tree branch.

Today the RSPCA called for Lulu to be given a national bravery award.

In a scene straight out of the TV series Skippy, the kangaroo stood guard over her master's unconscious body and "barked" for help like a dog.

"She was making this noise which sounded like a dog barking and she was obviously trying to get our attention because she never acts like that," said Mr Richards' 17-year-old daughter Celeste.

"It went on for about 15 minutes, so we went outside to investigate and we saw Lulu standing upright with her chest puffed out over Dad's body."

Mr Richards, 52, had been checking a tree in a paddock about 300 metres from the house when he was struck by a falling branch and knocked unconscious.

After his wife Lynn, Celeste, and son Luke found him he was taken from the hobby farm near Morwell, north-eastern Victoria, to Melbourne's Alfred hospital with head injuries. He was released last night.



"If it wasn't for her, my Dad could have died. We might not have found him for ages," Celeste told AAP today.

"Lulu and Dad are very close and she follows him around but we all just love her so much.

"Lulu is my hero."

The family adopted the western grey as a joey 10 years ago when they found her in the pouch of her mother, who'd been killed by a car.

She said Lulu was a loving, friendly and very smart kangaroo. "She thinks she's a dog."

Healesville wildlife sanctuary senior veterinarian David Middleton said the "Skippy-like" behaviour was conceivable in a hand-reared kangaroo.

"There is zero chance a wild kangaroo would act like that," Mr Middleton told AAP.

SKIPPY TO THE RESCUE
Here are some of the rescues put down to Skippy the bush kangaroo in the popular '60s TV show:
Episode 1 - Skippy sounds the alarm when three men try to steal koalas from the park under the cover of night.
Episode 11 - An escaped convict holds Clancy and Sonny hostage. Skippy brings help and jumps on the convict, allowing Sonny to get out of his clutches and Matt to overpower the criminal.
Episode 16 - Skippy rescues a baby.
Episode 64 - Two teachers go hiking through the bush where one is bitten by a snake. Skippy takes the snake to the one of the rangers who is able to identify that it is harmless.

"Rescued kangaroos, or roos which have been hand-reared, are less timid about people and will come up to them quite readily.

"But, I have never heard of a wild kangaroo doing anything helpful to a human, so some kind of trusting relationship with this kangaroo and the family must have developed over the years.

It was the second time an animal helped save its owner's life in the past week. Rescuers say Dazzie the blue heeler helped keep her elderly owner Janette Luscombe alive by providing body warmth when she was lost in the bush for six days outside Broken Hill, NSW.

AAP

by the lovin' little Ms. Mon Sep 22, 2003 21:52

I really think you're one of our younger readers with your charming respect for our wilder species, sure wasn't it only last week in Vol1.Ed.2 [published on indymedia!? your headfucking us- http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=61096]
that you brought the attention of all the cruel grown ups to that poor Albino Gorila in Barcelona.
Well himself is pacing.
Pacing up and down.
He's pacing in solidarity, Pat, I thought I'd put him on kitchen duty for the day, because like I know him and his sensitive moods he goes into. But I can't do anything about the pacing for the moment.
Pat, it's the smell that I can't communicate through the internet. Anyways he's finding all this new responsilibity since he became the only European anarchist in history to nominate himself to deal with the little Rascals of the Oireachtas's (¿?) official business, Friday last.
His attendance has been very poor Pat.
It's the concentration span.

So today he was on kitchen, took him a full seven minutes to come to the orgasm, it's the gear Pat, interrumpts him. And then about Five he went and spoke to the americans. You know him, deal with the piper directly and all that.

he's gone back to the pacing.

by conor - ucdSA Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:17 conor at ziplip dot com

donny...... youre out of your element


___________________

Lebowski 3:17

by pat c Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:11

thank you for your kind words. Is there a prize for best letter? How about introducing a comics section? I attach more animal tales.

Best Wishes,

Vice Admiral Pat C (RNVR) CB,
DSO (Bar)*, MC (Bar)**

*Thomas Reeds
**The Welcome Inn

Stampeding mice behave like fleeing humans


22:00 22 September 03

NewScientist.com news service

A series of experiments on how panicked mice escape an enclosed area shows that they behave in much the way computer models predict that panicked humans would. This verification provides important new information for preventing future human disasters, the study's authors say.

Disasters such as the May 2001 stampede at a football stadium in Ghana that killed more than 120 people, and the February 2003 Chicago nightclub stampede that killed 21 people, have spurred scientists to develop models to predict how penned in people behave when trying to flee a disaster situation.

But computer models have remained unverified because escape panic experiments on humans are difficult to perform - they would only be effective if they introduced real panic and they would have to be repeated several times for statistical viability.

Now, scientists at the University of the Philippines have developed an experimental model based on a group of 60 mice escaping from a contained water pool onto a dry platform, through doors of various widths and separation.

Caesar Saloma, professor of physics, who led the study says the mice made the most efficient getaway when their escape route was only large enough for a single mouse to squeeze its way to freedom. This made the mice queue in an orderly fashion rather than stampeding through a wider escape route.


Delay jamming


The researchers videoed mice trying to escape a water pool. They varied the width of the exit doors to allow just one mouse through at a time, then two, three and four. The distance between the doors was also altered. The number of mice in the enclosed wet pool was maintained at 30 - with a new mouse added each time one escaped - to keep the panic level constant.

"Interestingly, we found that the most efficient escape was when the door size was only large enough for one mouse to squeeze through, as it promoted self-organised queuing. However, as soon as the door width was increased, the mice stopped lining-up and competed with each other, which slowed down the overall escape rate," Saloma told New Scientist.

However, if the escape doors were positioned too close together, the "arches" of mice which form naturally around exits interfered with each other, slowing the mice down. "Our results are consistent with the computer models for humans," he adds.

"Hopefully our study will help architects design buildings and escape routes that induce people to queue and delay jamming. It is not enough to increase the size and number of doors, as it may have the opposite of the desired effect," Saloma says.


Selflessness





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Dirk Helbig from Dresden University of Technology, who has developed computational models for panicked crowd dispersal, called the animal study interesting and important. But he adds the experiment did not go far enough. Ideally a greater number of mice could be used.

However, Ed Galea, an expert in fire safety at the University of Greenwich in London, UK, says that most computational models and this animal study fail to take into consideration the psychological effects of the group dynamics. "People do not behave as disconnected individuals during an evacuation, there is an extraordinary amount of selflessness.

"'Panic' implies irrational and destructive behaviour to self and others, but often crushing occurs due to an individual tripping over a physical obstruction," he adds.

Journal reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (DOI/10.1073/pnas.2031912100)


Gaia Vince

by pat c Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:21

A baboon that stole a piece of chocolate cake from a house in South Africa's Western Cape province has been shot dead by a policeman from the serious violent crimes unit.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3128996.stm

by marmite. Tue Sep 23, 2003 13:51

when do they eat?

by formerly homeless Tue Sep 23, 2003 15:31

I have enclosed a short essay I wrote on the anniversary of Theodor Adorno, musician, theorist, musicologist, writer, Frankfurt critical schooler and nose picker.
Though I know you're very busy in the office these days, what with the Solidarity pacing and stuff, so I'll give you a brief outline instead:

Mr Adorno is well worth few maggie pages.
His essay Bach gegen seine Liebhaber verteidigt (translated as Bach defended from his devotees) is a good one.
Bach was very clever.
BWV 211 is the coffee cantata.
BWV 212 is the peasant cantata.
Bach's students were very clever, they did the numbering. Mr Adorno was very clever.

by the lovin' little Ms. - filling in for the editor. Tue Sep 23, 2003 15:33

You're a sweetie. Lovely idea. & you're very clever too.

by formerly abused Tue Sep 23, 2003 18:52

I would like to remind all those who received correspondence today that like it's
just what it says.
faithfully yours.

by the Sunday Papers Tue Sep 23, 2003 19:10

Try talking to a trusted loved one.
You're not alone in your plight.
These worries can happen at any time.
Pick up the pieces.
Make do.
Put a smiling face on it.
Do your best to put it behind you.
Be careful of feelings of resentment.
Mark time.

by pat c Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:53

Dear Editor

Here is another bit for your petting zoo. Do I win a prize?

Air Commodore Pat C GCVO DSO DFC


(AP Photo) Creature Thought Extinct Found in Cuba
Living Example of Male Insect-Eating Mammal Thought Extinct Found in Cuba, Agency Reports

The Associated Press



HAVANA Sept. 23 —
A living example of an insectivore native to Cuba but believed for years to extinct has been found in the island's eastern mountains, a Cuban news agency reported.

The discovery of the male insect-eating mammal known as an almiqui (pronounced ahl-mee-KEE) raises hopes "that it will not wind up in the catalog of the irretrievable animals disappearing from the face of the Earth," Prensa Latina said in reporting the discovery.

by Editor of the Sunday Papers. Wed Sep 24, 2003 13:59

Send your postal address to the office by fax or telephone [ to avoid the transparent record available to all readers of indymedia at:
Vol 1 Ed 2.http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=61096
Vol 1 Ed 1.http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60983 ]
And we'll send it out to you.

by formerly married Thu Sep 25, 2003 16:45

Dear Problem Page,
I am classified by modern social theory and market research as being an "A1 adult". I wasn't always an "A1 adult" though, I started out as a "D2 child" then through hard work and the cultivation of the right connections became a "C2 adult" later a "B2 adult" and then for a quite a while I seemed stuck at "B1 adult".
However that us all forgotten now, I have been "an A1 adult" for some years now, heading an organisation of over 100,000 employees and many shareholders. I'll cut to the chase, my current problem, my woe, my reason for sleeping badly, is the demands being placed upon me by some of my key shareholders.
As you know, leadership and management have gone through many distinct phases in the last thirty years, the organisation I lead has found itself struggling with the new jargon: "outsourcing", "delegation", "accountability", and the most recent "fluid dis-organisation".
The organisation I lead has always had a difficult relationship with it's largest shareholders, they indeed seemed to favour a previous stock flotation and have been constant directors, and in recent times seem to frown upon my vision for "the organisation".
I had thought to deal with the increasing challenges to our corporate image (which indeed has been much influenced by contemporary american business practise) by craftily playing an old card:
"The communists of Kerry" we call it.
I'd appreciate any thoughts you might have on my current problem, and whether or not the strategy we are using is the wisest.
yours etc.,
"A1 adult"

by editor of "a problem shared is a problem halved and a page Sat Sep 27, 2003 16:19

Well you have touched on a widespread concern there, rest assured you are not alone in your plight, there are many others just like you, have you tried talking to a trusted loved one?
I think after carefully considering your letter, that you real worry is "are there really more categories than I was ever led to believe?".

These type of worries hit us all at some stage, and rest assured you are not alone, there are many others just like you.

Thank you for writing to the Sunday Papers, previously the Sunday Review/Preview/View/Sunday Papers previously the Rival Sunday Review/Preview/View/Sunday Papers.

We will of course withold your personal details, and they have been safely filed away with the welsh language minutes of the 1922 little chats.

yours sincerely,

sorry if our advice is difficult at times, but we have a lot to worry about. & so do you.
%-)

by author name - boycott "mail.com" Sun Sep 28, 2003 15:17

They are charging me $$$ to keep the email accounts open after 29th IX 2003.
this means diplomats, mad scientists, archaeologists and rescueteam will nomadize for a while. unless anyone wan'ts to pay the bill.

by pingin Tue Apr 04, 2006 22:40

Coz she's done time. As was writ above :- Interesting Facts:
The elected representatives of the Rich in Ireland did not go to prison.
The elected representatives of the Poor in Ireland did go to prison.
The other people in that back issue Mr Ahern and Mr Haughey of course didn't go to prison. But they'll get flag draped coffins.

"Don't vote" is a general rule for anarko-types. But if you "have to vote" - like "really have to vote" - try voting for someone who went to prison especially for political reasons.
That makes a change. Normally you're asked to vote for people who don't go to prison .
And you could be "neo-con" and vote for someone who got themselves off hard drugs, like GW Bush ; probably the only admirable achievement of his life.
Also if faced with options on voting for people (in so doing voting against the regime) its a good rule of thumb not to vote for anyone whose name you can pronounce. Last tip on regime change and tactical "first time ever voting but not admitting to afterwards because of the anarcho-street-cred" -

don't vote for anyone who is a millionaire, a lawyer, an economist, an academic, or an IT worker.