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The Castro Valley Community Band will be concluding their 2005-2006 season with a Spring Concert next Wednesday, April 19 at 7:30 pm. Admission is FREE. We will be performing classical selections by Strauss and Ravel along with more popular numbers such as music by Chicago, Abba, and John Williams. The concert will be held at the brand-new Castro Valley Center for the Arts, on the Castro Valley High School campus. Castro Valley High School 19400 Santa Maria Ave Castro Valley,…

Alameda Times-Star: OAKLAND — Ice falling from the sky might seem unusual, but some Spanish and American scientists say it is becoming a frequent occurrence throughout the world. Like the estimated 200-plus-pound chunk that fell Saturday on Bushrod Park, clear ice from the sky has been reported around the world. Big and small ice-falls have happened in China, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Scotland, Hungary, England, India and more than half of the United States — often in summer and some…

Alright, I’ll admit it, I’m a map junkie. And I’m also a sucker for foreign policy discussion. So this morning, I find a link in the Canadian Cartographic Association’s blog an entry about one Prof. Thomas P.M. Barnett, who has this new book called The Pentagon’s New Map. His thesis is as follows: “The maps on these pages show all United States military responses to global crises from 1990 to 2002. Notice that a pattern emerges. Any time American troops…

MuniWireless.com: BART/Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (CCPJA), the operators of the Capitol Corridor commuter train, are asking the telecommunications industry to help them take the next big step in providing mobile broadband services, including Internet, email, Virtual Private Network (VPN) access, video downloads and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to their riders’ laptops, PDAs and cell phones—while the Capitol Corridor train is moving at full speed between Auburn and San Jose. Results of the initial technical trials will lead toward…

The Daily Northwestern: “Eviting” is a rising trend on Northwestern’s campus that has become a common term among students. The site — www.evite.com — was originally intended as a corporate tool, first popular with the “Silicon Valley techie circle,” said Heather Soule, the company’s public relations manager. She said there recently has been a demographic shift toward college campuses. Evite.com is a free event-planning Web site that was launched in 1998. InterActiveCorp, which owns Web sites such as Ticketmaster and…

“The Iran Plans”, The New Yorker; April 17, 2006: In recent weeks, the President has quietly initiated a series of talks on plans for Iran with a few key senators and members of Congress, including at least one Democrat. A senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, who did not take part in the meetings but has discussed their content with his colleagues, told me that there had been “no formal briefings,” because “they’re reluctant to brief the minority. They’re…

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Not to be outdone by Rolling Stone, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is looking for a new talent scout team: CPB will fund two competing teams who will each identify three new on-air hosts and work with them to produce broadcast pilots. Each team will receive a one-year $250,000 grant. At the end of the year, CPB staff and an independent panel will review the pilots and choose the top talent, whom CPB will recommend for additional funding to bring…

Reuters: “We know match officials are offered money or anything to influence matches and they can accept it,” [Fanny Amun, acting Secretary-General of the Nigerian Football Association] told Reuters on Friday. Amun first made the statement earlier in the week to a football seminar in the capital Abuja, prompting protests from other officials. “Referees should only pretend to fall for the bait, but make sure the result doesn’t favour those offering the bribe,” Amun said. [via MeFi]

New York magazine calls on The New York Times to abandon its print operation entirely. It is worth it to preserve value for the future, to make it so our kids don’t think, Let me go to Google for all the news that’s fit to print. Heck, in another couple of years they won’t even know that the New York Times exists as anything but private-label news source for an Internet portal. Memo to NYT: I don’t know anyone my…