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I am delighted to be taking part in the Gluten-Free Ratio Rally, this month hosted by Silvana at Silvana's Kitchen.
My Mum always taught me that baking is an exact science. Before I was born she worked in a laboratory and when she later went to catering college she was asked how her previous occupation could lead her to want to train as a chef: she explained, cooking is chemistry - if you understand the latter, then all you need are technique and creativity to do the former. As a child, I loved to perch at the kitchen counter and watch as she made scones and explained how all the various elements in the recipe combined and the chemical reactions that took place. Knowing all of this gave me the confidence to bake any recipe. After I was diagnosed with Coeliac Disease I lost that confidence - without gluten, I couldn't be sure that what I knew was still applicable - then I was further dispirited by some major flops in the kitchen (sausage flavour chocolate cookies, anyone?!).
It was time to go back to basics. I learned to accept that, with the right ratios, you can substitute regular flour for gluten free alternatives, Michael Ruhlman's book, Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking was a great starting point. Understanding the ratios of flours to fat to eggs to liquids, etc is the basis of successful baking; if you know the ratio, you don't even need a recipe - you are free to improvise and invent. Then I read about the Gluten-Free Ratio Rally on Gluten Free Girl's blog and I knew that I wanted to sign up.
Each month a growing group of bloggers will be focusing on one gluten-free baked good and coming up with recipes to inspire you. This month it's quick breads and muffins, the ratio for this is: 2 parts flour:2 parts liquid:1 part egg:1 part fat. Check out Silvana's Kitchen for the other recipes
Cardamon Banana Bread
I have found that using a combination of cream of tartar and baking soda gives me a lighter texture than baking powder, but you can substitute these for 1 level teaspoon of baking powder (check it's gluten free) if you wish.
106g brown rice flour
50g buckwheat flour
68g tapioca flour
2 level tsp (8g) cream of tartar
1 level tsp (6g) bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
2 large eggs
112g butter, softened
110g banana, pureed
114g natural yoghurt
100g golden caster sugar
10 green cardamon pods
1/2 tsp coarse sea salt
- Preheat your oven to 170 degrees Celsius/325 degrees Fahrenheit/Gas mark 3.
- Squash your cardamon pods and remove the little seeds from inside. Using a mortar and pestle, finely crush the cardamon seeds and salt together.
- In a large bowl, combine the flours, cream of tartar, bicarbonate of soda, sugar and crushed cardamon seeds/salt mixture.
- Beat together the eggs, pureed banana, yoghurt and softened butter. Add to the dry ingredients and combine using an electric whisk. The mixture will be a bit lumpy, don't worry about that.
- Pour the mixture into a greased, 2lb loaf tin. Bake for 1 hour, you'll know it's ready when a metal skewer comes out clean.
My Husband insists that the best way to eat this is warm, with custard, I like it with a dollop of yoghurt and a drizzle of honey. Or as is, with a cup of tea!
(The joy of the ratio is that if you don't do dairy, for example, you can use margarine and all banana instead of yoghurt, or, if you don't have one, or any, of the flours, you can swap it for whatever you have got!)


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Reverse Mortgage On Manufactured Homes In Portland Oregon
Can You Get A Reverse Mortgage on a Manufactured Home in Portland OR?
The quick answer is yes. However, there is more to this answer that you need to be aware of to make sure you understand what getting a reverse mortgage on a manufactured home in Portland.
Reverse Mortgage FHA Requirements For Manufactured Homes In Portland Oregon
1. Your home in Portland must have been built on or after June 15th of 1976. Homes built prior to June 15, 1976, even with modifications, do not meet the HUD standards and cannot be accepted as compliant with the HUD Code. FHA does not insure mortgages on manufactured homes built prior to June 15, 1976. Most other mortgage insurance firms follow FHA's policy.
2. You will need to have the home inspected by a structural engineer. The cost for the inspection can run anywhere between $300 to $750 or more. The purpose of the inspection is to ensure the home was installed to FHA requirements, any additions i.e. decks, porches do not affect the structural integrity and to determine if tie downs are required.
3. In most cases tie downs are required. Tie downs are steel cables that are attached to the home and concrete runners under the home. Installation costs of tie downs can range from $1000 to $2000 or more.
4. An IBTS report may be required. All manufactured homes built after June 15, 1976 are required to have one or more label(s) attached to them: a manufactured home HUD label(s) and a Data Plate/Compliance Certificate. If your home does not have these things or the labels or certificate is illegible an IBTS report will be required. This report can be several hundred dollars.
5. Most lender will require the home to be at least a double wide. In most cases lenders will not lend on single wide manufactured homes.
6. You must own the land your manufactured home is on. In other words if you are leasing the land, for example in a manufactured home part, you will not be eligible for a reverse mortgage. If your home is in a PUD (planned unit development) where you own the lot, you will be able to qualify.
7. If your home is on excessively large acreage you might not qualify for a reverse mortgage. It is best to speak with a reverse mortgage expert in Portland to find out the answer to this issue.
In other words, getting a reverse mortgage for your manufactured home in Portland could cost several hundred to several thousand dollars more than non-manufactured home.
Other than the things mentioned above, the process, fees and and amount you can borrow is the same as if it were not a manufactured home.
Other Questions About Manufactured Homes and Reverse Mortgages in Portland OR
What is a manufactured home?
A manufactured home (formerly known as a mobile home) is built to the Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards (HUD Code) and displays a red certification label on the exterior of each transportable section. Manufactured homes are built in the controlled environment of a manufacturing plant and are transported in one or more sections on a permanent chassis.
What is the difference between manufactured and modular homes?
Manufactured homes are constructed according to a code administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD Code). The HUD Code, unlike conventional building codes, requires manufactured homes to be constructed on a permanent chassis. Modular homes are constructed to the same state, local or regional building codes as site-built homes. Other types of systems-built homes include panelized wall systems, log homes, structural insulated panels, and insulating concrete forms.
My home was built before June 15, 1976. I've made some modifications to my home and believe it meets the HUD Standards. Can someone come inspect my home to make sure it's in compliance with the Standards?
HUD does not inspect homes. Homes built prior to June 15, 1976, even with modifications, do not meet the HUD standards and cannot be accepted as compliant with the HUD Code. As the homeowner, you may find a licensed engineer willing to inspect your home for compliance with your state's housing code. FHA does not insure mortgages on manufactured homes built prior to June 15, 1976. Most other mortgage insurance firms follow FHA's policy.
Will HUD issue certification labels (HUD tags) if my home was built before 1976?
No. The Department will not issue tags for a manufactured (mobile) home constructed prior to the enforcement of the Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards, effective June 15, 1976.
I have a park model home and have made upgrades to my home. I was told I need a HUD label. How do I get one?
Regardless of the upgrades made to your park model, it is not possible to obtain a HUD label on any structure that was not produced and inspected as a manufactured home in accordance with HUD's Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards and Regulations during its original construction. You may contact the Recreational Park Trailer Industry Association http://www.rvia.org/?ESID=PMRV for additional information and resources regarding park model homes.Manufactured Home Lenders


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Join us Friday, Feb. 24 at 10 a.m. for our Friday Financial Forum. We will meet at the Friday Forum Room at Arvest's East Side Branch, located at 4225 S.E. Adams Rd. in Bartlesville, Okla.*
This week's featured speaker is Thomas Lott, one of the University of Oklahoma's most celebrated alums. A native of San Antonio, Texas, Thomas was a decorated multisport high school athlete who was recognized as a Parade All-American quarterback. After earning a scholarship to the University of Oklahoma, in addition to being a member of the 1975 national championship team, he was the starting quarterback at OU for three years, 1976 to 1978, during which the Sooners won three conference championships and Thomas was a two-time all-conference selection.
Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals, Thomas spent several years on the professional level. In 2006 Thomas was inducted into the San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame, and in 2010 he was honored as an inductee into the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame.
Following his football career, Thomas successfully transitioned into coach and leader in the community. He has coached multiple sports including football, baseball, basketball and track at all levels from youth to semi-pro. Thomas has also trained athletes for nearly thirty years, having helped many student-athletes earn FBS and Division 1 scholarships.
Thomas resides in Oklahoma City with his wife, Beth, where he continues to coach and train athletes. He has recently authored a book, Getting in the Game: A Parent's Guide to Raising an Athlete. Thomas is a weekly sports radio guest with James Hale on KREF 1400 and internet and cable T.V. personality where he co-hosts Coaches Cabana (coachescabana.com* and Cox Communications channel 1333) with coach Barry Switzer and Mark Rogers.
What you can also expect at the event:
Invite a friend and come enjoy delicious homemade cookies and hear about what's going on in the Bartlesville area! If you have any questions or would like to be included on the invitation email list, please contact Billie Roane at (918) 337-4358. We look forward to seeing you there!
Links marked with * go to a third-party site not operated or endorsed by Arvest Bank, an FDIC-insured institution.
**Josh Randolph Oklahoma Insurance License #122041 and Sonya Reed Oklahoma Insurance License # 111796
Submitted questions will be answered by an Arvest banker and may appear on the Arvest Blog.
All Arvest banks are Equal Housing Lenders and Member FDIC.
Investment products and services are provided by Arvest Investments, Inc., doing business as Arvest Asset Management, member FINRA/SIPC, an SEC registered investment adviser and a subsidiary of Arvest Bank. Trust services are provided by Arvest Bank. Insurance products are made available through Arvest Insurance, Inc., which is registered as an insurance agency. Insurance products are marketed through Arvest Insurance, Inc., but are underwritten by insurance companies.
Securities and Insurance Products: Not Insured by FDIC or any Federal Government Agency, May Lose Value, Not a Deposit of or Guaranteed by a Bank or any Bank Affiliate.


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Nestled along a quiet stream on 15 acres, Old Mill Stream Campground at Dutch Wonderland offers modern camping amenities, and is conveniently located just steps away from the castle door of Dutch Wonderland Family Amusement Park and other area attractions including outlet shopping, restaurants and theaters.
The website you are about to link to is not maintained by Old Mill Stream Campground, and different terms of use and privacy policies will apply. By proceeding you agree and understand that Old Mill Stream Campground is not responsible for the site you are about to access.
- No thanks, I want to stay here.
Welcome! Whether you come to Lancaster, Pa. for the countryside, great food, shopping and area attraction or just a convenient getaway, Old Mill Stream Campground can provide you with a relaxing, clean, quiet stay. Take in the view of Amish farmland located across the stream from our campground. Enjoy amenities such as WiFi at your site, 50 amp hookups and cable - all included in your site rental. Our friendly staff is here to ensure your stay at Old Mill Stream is as enjoyable and hassle-free as possible. We hope to see you soon!
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Results and Limitations of This Approach
There are a couple of issues that limit the use of numerical problem sniffers relying on the runtime instrumentation approach:
- False warnings: Suspicious numerical events are not always errors. For instance, hash functions or random number generators may be responsible for overflows that are in fact part of the algorithms. Many floating-point issues mentioned earlier can be considered anomalies or perfectly sound code depending on the context. Because of this, Cojac enables the programmer to discard Cojac in particular classes/methods with the help of Java annotations.
- Compile-time evaluation: Some constant expressions are evaluated early by the compiler and directly replaced by the result. This step leaves no chance for the tool to watch for anomalies during the evaluation. It is another consequence of the "semantic distance" problem between source code and compilation result mentioned in the preceding section — the compiler has considerable freedom.
- Debug symbols: If the symbols (function name, line numbers) are missing in the code to be instrumented, the warning messages lose much of their value.
Predictably, instrumenting every arithmetic operation has an impact on the performance of the processed application. With Cojac, we designed experiments to estimate the slowdown caused by instrumentation. Our observations on individual operations and classic algorithms are summarized in Figures 3 and 4. Of course, it is hard to predict in general how the sniffer will impact the performance of a whole application, but our results suggest that the slowdown factor typically is around 2x, except for number-crunching applications where it can exceed 15x.
Figure 3: Estimated overhead per instruction for Cojac.
Figure 4: Estimated overhead in some code examples, for Cojac.
With Cojac-grind, the impact on the running time is greater, because the Valgrind framework more radically changes the way the application is executed. With the benchmark program nbench, we measured a slowdown between 6x and 60x (see Figure 5). The overhead is roughly similar to the well-known Valgrind Memcheck tool (from 5x faster to 3x slower than Memcheck).
Figure 5: Estimated overhead for Cojac-grind versus Memcheck, in some code examples.
These results suggest that the performance overhead of the numerical problem sniffing approach is quite acceptable.
Validation As A Diagnostic Tool
For the moment, we oriented our efforts toward the robustness of Cojac, ensuring that it can be used on any Java application. It has been verified on a wide range of different applications. The Cojac-grind prototype is available as is, but it is an ongoing development. So far, the functionality has been tested on only a couple of programs. Even though the tool has limitations and does not yet fully take advantage of the Valgrind machinery, we encourage interested readers to give it a try and share feedback. We plan to conduct a more in-depth evaluation in the future.
Raw number types come with limitations, which may create undesirable behavior. Ensuring that there is no window of input values that can open a numerical hazard, be it with integers or floating-point numbers, is a tedious business. Numerical problems are a plague for developers — numbers are omnipresent in code units and a program can be broken for very subtle reasons. In a sense, this is similar to the difficulty of managing dynamic memory with C pointers, and runtime memory checkers proved to be helpful in that context.
This is why we advocate the use of tools to highlight any suspicious numerical events at runtime, which might reveal bad practice, wrong hypotheses, or bugs. On-the-fly code instrumentation makes it possible to employ such numerical problem sniffers with no further constraints on the development process. Such easy-to-use tools can lend valuable assistance, particularly in the context of programmer education.
We created two open-source prototypes. Cojac is now a mature, freely available, highly customizable tool to systematically make observable every numerical problem symptom in any Java programs. Using Cojac is simple. It requires only a small addition on the command line used to launch the application. The current version of Cojac-grind is an experimentation prototype of a Valgrind tool and we are working on its improvement.
Dr. Frederic Bapst is professor at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Fribourg (Computer Science unit). Baptiste Wicht is currently obtaining his MSc in Computer Science at the same institution. He was previously a regular moderator of a public Java forum.


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Passionate about the strict geometry of the Egypt pyramids Nicole Trunfio creates her collection according to the trend. The Australian designer tries to combine the timelessness and the look to the future. All of her adornments have rigorous angular shapes. But in my opinion this conceals peculiar elegance.
The center of the first collection is the TRUNFIO Universe bracelet. The main trick of that bracelet is that you can build your own using online service. The line of materials used by the designer is very wide: sterling silver, 14k gold, rose gold, silver, and black rhodium, quartz and diamonds. The jewels finished with stones symbolize relations or feelings. I think these items will be suitable for young and stylish girls.
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In spring 2012, twin brothers and laid-off IBM employees Dennis and Daniel Richards opened Echo Brewing Company in the small Weld County town of Frederick with a simple guiding principle: brew one fine beer followed by another while sharing them with the local community.
The locals heartily approve – and so do judges at beer competitions.
The brewery's most popular beer, Balefire Irish Red, won a bronze medal at last year's Great American Beer Festival and took Best in Show this past weekend in the increasingly competitive Colorado State Fair craft beer competition in Pueblo.


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Turkakbay needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 55 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
We need a original logo for Om Masaj
The winning logo will be used for business cards, letter head and web site.
Clean lines is a must.
Om Masaj
Company is Om Masaj.
You can play with the name "OMmasaj" or emphasized "j" at the end is some ideas.
The client is NOT interested usual boring logos with hands and or massage process. She wants creative approach to her logo.
Feel free to use any color. But she leans towards purple, sage, and earth tones.
More feedback will be provided.
Bidders are encouraged to read feedback for others as we may not be able to give feedback for every one.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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[Charles Stalnaker shown here second from right in "El Condor". Photo courtesy Dan van Husen]
After graduating with a Liberal Arts degree from Oglethorpe University in Georgia, Chuck went on to enjoy a fulfilling and fascinating career as a writer and actor in Western films.
Beloved father of Aurelie Marie (Jason) Monroe of Phoenix, Arizona; very proud and loving "Grampy" of Jaice, Tristan, Lukas and the late Gabriel Monroe.
Former spouse and dear friend of Assunta Menetrier of Fort Lauderdale and stepfather of Carlos (Elaine) Lagunilla of Miami, Florida
Son of the late John McKinney Stalnaker and Virginia Grace Stalnaker (nee Wolfe).
Survived by one sister, Joann (Harold) Todd of Atlanta, Georgia
Preceded in death by his beloved German Shepard Fritz "Fritzy Boy".
He will be remembered by all as "Un Buen Hombre" and as an AWESOME father and grandfather.
STALNAKER, Charles (Charles Fredrick Stalnaker)
Born: 11/10/1933, Elkins, West Virginia, U.S.A.
Died: 8/2/2012, Flora, Illinois, U.S.A.
Charles Stalnaker's westerns – actor:
Death Valley Days (TV) – 1957 (Mac MacPherson) [as Chuck Stalmaker]
Bonco (TV) – 1959 (Lieutenant Putnam)
Custer of the West - 1967 (Lieutenant Howells)
Guns of the Magnificent Seven - 1968 (farmer)
El Condor - 1969 (bandit) [as Charles Stalmaker]
Land Raiders – 1969 (Frank Willis) [as Charles Stalmaker]
Cannon for Cordoba - 1970 (Captain Riggs)


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The Distinguished Lecture Series in Sports Medicine at Hope College will feature the address "Recognition and Management of Lower Leg Pathologies in Athletics" by Dr. Bruce Stewart of Shoreline Orthopaedics on Monday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The lecture will focus on the recognition, prevention and treatment of common acute and chronic disorders of the lower leg, including traumatic fractures, stress fractures, acute as well as exertional compartment syndrome, Achilles tendon injuries and tendonopathies of the leg.
Stewart is an orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in sports medicine, and has extensive experience dealing with high school, college and professional athletes. Since joining Shoreline Orthopaedics in 2009, he has become heavily involved in treating athletes at Hope as well as at the area high schools, and he has a close working relationship with the area's athletic trainers. He previously spoke through the lecture series in December 2009.
Before to coming to Holland, he completed a sports medicine fellowship at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. His activities in Houston included providing team and game coverage for the Houston Astros Major League Baseball team, Houston Texans NFL team and Houston Dynamo Major League Soccer team, as well as University of Houston athletic teams and several Houston-area high school football teams.
Prior to specializing in sports medicine in fellowship, he was in residency and an intern at Northwestern University in Chicago, Ill. While in residency, he trained with the team doctors for the Chicago Bears, the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago Fire and Northwestern University athletic teams; was involved in numerous sports medicine activities, including coverage of the Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament, the NBA pre-draft camp and the Joffrey Ballet; and performed athletic physicals and football game physician coverage for the Chicago Public Schools.
Stewart is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and his M.D. at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, and also holds an MBA from Georgetown University.
The Distinguished Lecture Series in Sports Medicine is designed for health care professionals with an interest in physically active patients, and is intended for students, educators and clinicians alike. It is co-sponsored by Shoreline Orthopaedics, Holland Hospital Rehabilitation Services, The Bone and Joint Center, and the college.
The series will continue during the spring semester with the presentations "Preventing Sudden Death in Athletes" on Monday, Jan. 28, by Dr. Douglas Casa of the University of Connecticut, and "Truths/Myths of Concussion Management" on Monday, Feb. 25, by Dr. Jeffrey Kutcher of University of Michigan Neurology.
Graves Hall is located at 263 College Ave., on College Avenue between 10th and 12th streets.


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It seems as if Kelly Rutherford can do it all, juggling a role on the hit show "Gossip Girl," being a great mom, supporting several philanthropic projects, and now working on her new website KellyRutherford.com. We chatted with Kelly about her many projects, dictator tendencies and her guiltiest pleasures.
You are a woman who is so incredibly busy with "Gossip Girl, your charitable work, parenting, and now you've started a website—what prompted you to take on another project?
I think women are so dynamic, and especially in your forties, you have so much to give back. KellyRutherford.com is my way of sharing what I love and staying inspired.
You are very active on Twitter and now you have this site. What do you want your readers to take away from your web presence?
From the website, a sense of style and fresh ideas. As for Twitter, this has definitely been a learning curve for me, but I'm having a lot of fun connecting with people. It's a great way to share your everyday in a fun way.
Any Twitter mishaps?
I'm still learning to retweet!
What is something about you that would surprise our viewers and readers?
That I'm a lot more quirky than the characters I play.
What is the most fun part of working on "Gossip Girl?" Any funny stories from the set?
I love the people I work with and everyone has such a great sense of humor. The outtakes are hilarious.
If you could be a benevolent dictator for a day, what is the first thing you would change in the world?
There would be more women involved politically, that's for sure.
I weren't an actor, I would be a ________.
Item I wish I had invented:
The Chair
Favorite guilty pleasure:
You are a Francophile in the chicest ways possible. What is your favorite French food and favorite French restaurant? What's the French "je ne sais quois" all about?
The steak frites at Amaranth is my favorite. My favorite French restaurant is L'Entrecote. And, I think je ne sais quois is about feminine individuality.


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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
coup coup ca choo
military intervention is what obama's exponentially accelerating agenda for "fundamental change" toward a marxist state is inviting upon america. a coup is not an ideal option, but obama's radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.
unthinkable? then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the obama problem. just don't shrug and say, "we can always worry about that later."
a spokeswoman for newsmax sent a statement to tpm admitting that the magazine removed the column after several reader complaints:
the whole truth is more interesting.
he's also a former senior editor for the site, working in that role from late 1999 until october 2001.
perry has written for the site regularly -- nearly every single week -- since november 1999. newsmax was founded in 1998.
on a related note, dave weigel notes that newsmax is sponsored in part by the republican national committee.
given the rnc's financial support of worldnetdaily, this isn't a huge shock, though it does point to the motley crew the republican national committee is willing to work with in order to connect with the right-wing base.
Park Your Carcass
Sequoia & Kings Canyon - Pinnacles - Acadia - The Everglades - Glacier Bay
Grand Canyon - Mesa Verde - Yellowstone - Grand Teton - Rocky Mountain
USS Arizona - Hawai'i Volcanoes
top ten reasons meg whitman failed to vote for 28 years
That's a pretty poor excuse, but being a man of infinite generosity, i thought i'd offer some better excuses for candidate whitman so that she won't sound quite so astonishingly lame when explaining her disinterest in her duties as a citizen in the future.
why meg whitman never cast a vote in any election in 28 years
10. the dog ate her registration card
9. she was spending too much time in argentina with mark sanford's mistress
8. her sympathies were with the republican party and didn't think women republicans were allowed to vote.
7. she was focusing on more important things, like evading taxes, which was why she moved so many times.
6. she sent her servants to vote for her and they didn't do their jobs.
5. she registered to vote via acorn.
4. ....okay, i ran out of stuff. letterman has a whole staff of writers to come up with this stuff. how about you folks add some of your own, hmm?
watery wall of terror
the idyllic virgin cove resort, on a secluded beach on upolu island, became a scene of mayhem this morning when a tsunami crashed into the collection of traditional samoan-style beach huts. -the age
a witness told radio new zealand that a village on the southeast coast of upolu, samoa's main island, had been flattened by the tsunami, and police were moving people to higher ground. - wsj
"it was very quick. the whole village has been wiped out," ansell told new zealand's national radio from a hill near samoa's capital, apia. "there's not a building standing. we've all clambered up hills, and one of our party has a broken leg. there will be people in a great lot of need 'round here." - latte times
Labels: earthquake, ocean, tsunami
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
skippy's tuesday nite music club
Labels: music, skippy's music club, youtube
burnsin' down the park
Mrs. Skippy and I DVR'd Sunday's episode and watched it last night. Admitted conflict: We both looovvved the national parks!
As Burns' premise points out, the idea of setting aside land in this country for use specifically for public viewing and enjoyment is a brilliant one, and apparently, a uniquely American one. The first episode delves into not only this idea, but the mechanics of how this idea evolved in the government of the time (the time being the late 1800's), and the specific individuals responsible for promoting this incredible new paradigm.
Of course, John Muir was highlighted. But so were Stephen Mather, John Colter, Galen Clark and other men who promoted the idea of making parks for the enjoyment of the American public.
Also richly detailed in first episode: how the first two parks, Yosemite and Yellowstone, came into being (Yosemite's land was set aside first, as a state park, but Yellowstone was the first national park).
I'm not a huge fan of Ken Burns' approach. His documentary style has been described as Talking Heads, Slow Music and Old Letters, which I would not disagree with. While this reverential approach worked for something as tragically epic as the Civil War, it rather seemed to be exactly the opposite of what was needed for something as exciting as baseball or American jazz.
And that's a bit of the problem with the National Parks films. As I said before, my wife and I love the parks system, and visit at least one a year. Nothing's more exciting and enriching than exploring the great outdoors, hiking through nature and enjoying new countryside.
But Burns' films make it seem like we're going to church. Sure, there's a lot to be awed by and thankful for, and far be it from me to dissuade anyone from communing with their God through Nature, but there was a severe lack of fun missing from Episode One.
The Narrators of the films are not to blame, as the Voice Actors used read their copy with great skill. Mrs. Skippy and I correctly picked out Peter Coyote (as the Main Narrator), as well as the voices of Phillip Bosco and Tom Bodette. But we missed other famous Voices, such as Amy Madigan, Carolyn McCormick and Tom Hanks. I'll chock that up to those actors doing such a fine job relating the words that I didn't get stuck on whose voice was doing the work at the time.
But, the great thing about a movie about the Park System is that you can watch it with the sound turned down, and it would still be enthralling. Burns' cinematographer Buddy Squires captured some of the most beautiful images found in the Parks, and while the pace of the films sometimes seems as slow as the glaciers in Glacier Bay, the pictures are spectacular.
I'd suggest everyone either DVR this series, or wait till it's out on DVD. It can get to be kind of slow at times. But it's certainly worth watching, if only for the views.
military coup "to resolve the 'obama problem' " is not "unrealistic"
there is a remote, although gaining, possibility america's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the "obama problem." don't dismiss it as unrealistic. - newsmax columnist quoted by media matterswhere do we draw the line of what constitutes treason? sedition? inciting riots? where are the republicans standing up and calling a stop to this hysterical chant advocating violence toward the president of the united states? where are the democrats calling for a stop to this? why is the corporate controlled media allowing this call to violence to be broadcast nationwide? worldwide?
these people aren't going to stop at the killing of healthcare for americans. they want to kill the president. they keep saying so in so many words. and not a peep from those elected officials sworn to protect the constitution. not a peep.
the lynch type killing of a census worker is just a start of the bloodshed advocated from the fringe right. where was the outrage from michelle bachman against this attack on american soil on an american by an american? there was no outrage. she endorses it with her silence.
there has been blood shed. i'm afraid here will be much more.
Labels: obama, republicans, treason, violence
never mind the politics, here's a yootoob...
it's got peter gabriel in it. that's good enough for me.
Labels: music
ebay announces new marketing technique
Labels: climate change, democrats, ebay, healthcare, iraq war, torture
Monday, September 28, 2009
ted barlow disease strikes yet another blogger
let's hope there is a cure (other than an unplugged life) out there just waiting to be discovered...
Labels: blogtopia, ted barlow disease
skippy's monday nite music club
Labels: music, skippy's music club
google earth meets climate change
google is using its google earth mapping tool to simulate on a 3d map of the world the predicted effects of climate change until the year 2100.
using data provided by the intergovernmental panel on climate change, the search giant created new layers for google earth showing the range of expected temperature and precipitation changes under different global emissions scenarios that could occur throughout the century. - sydney morning herald
Labels: australia, climate change, global warming, google
oh great
37-million dollars remain in the state budget for battling wildfires, with the typically most active month for blazes still ahead.
...if this year's firefighting expenses go over the top...then the state will begin dipping into it's 500-million dollar reserve.
that's the so-called "rainy day" fund - cpr radio
Labels: budget, california, fire, fires
at&t vs. google
the war between at&t inc. and google inc. escalated friday with the telecom provider asking for a federal communication commission investigation of the search giant. - bizjournals san jose
this week
Labels: books, censorship, censure
Sunday, September 27, 2009
skippy's sunday nite music club
Labels: skippy's music club
Saturday Night Dying
I've watched SNL since the Land Shark sketch (literally the first skit I ever saw), so it would come as no surprise to me if there was an episode with long stretches of uneveness. The surprise was a full 90 minutes with only one laugh (I'll get to that later). And the sketches which didn't produce any laughs (ie, all of them) also didn't produce any smiles or smirks, or thoughts of "That's clever," or "Ain't that the truth!" or even "Yeah, I could see where someone might think that was funny...if they were really, really stoned and stupid."
For the first time in my memory (and in 35 years of comedy) Saturday Night Live was not just "not good"...not just "bad"...but "completely and totally without reason to exist."
First, the good news: Megan Fox was actually kind of good, or at least really game to do whatever they threw at her. Unfortunately for us all, they didn't throw much besides "Stand there and look sexy" at her, which we already know she can do. The wonderful thing about SNL past is the chances it gave guest hosts to stretch themselves and try new things they wouldn't be caught dead doing elsewhere. Megan looked ready, willing and able...she held her own as a blonde southern stewardess playing against Kristen Wiig's blonde southern stewardess in a painfully-unfunny airplane sketch (which only made me nostaligic for David Spade and Helen Hunt: "Buh-bye! Buh-bye!").Megan's performance actually took her up a couple of notches in my book. She was definately not the problem.
And the problem, or problems were many: for the first time in my memory, the SNL main cast consists of only one female, Kristen Wiig. (I swear, as Don Pardo introduced the cast, I thought I was watching Logo's Big Gay Sketch Show).
Now, Kristen Wiig's characters are funny the first 8500 times you see them, but without Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolf and Rachel Dratch to fill out the comedic side of her gender, Wiig's limitations become painfully obvious. Like most SNL alumnae before her, the characters are little more than an idea, or a collection of erractic/eccentric mannerisms. Last night she brought back her recurring Judy Grimes, a travel pundit who is so nervous about being on live tv that she babbles, contradicting herself with a "Just kidding" ad naseum. Unfortunately for Wiig, she hasn't done anything new with this character in 5 or so appearances, and so this pointless ad naseum babbling produced exactly that...naseum.
And, sorry to say, Wiig was one of the stronger parts of the show. Bill Hader, whom I always loved before, seemed to be somewhere else. He obviously was reading off his cue cards in an excrutiatingly long and stupid skit about Russian Mail Order Brides. Even guest host celebrity "air head" Megan Fox memorized her lines, and she had to say them in Russian! What's the matter, Bill, too busy with your Voice Over Work to attend rehearsals?
The guys in the cast were (barely) competent, but without funny women to balance them out, there was a heavy creep factor laying heavily on the whole show.
Now a word about the "new kids." Of course, the big news is that one of them, Jenny Slate, said the F-word on air (though it was cut out for my West Coast viewing, much to my chagrin. At least that would have made the show interesting at some point!). She, Wiig and Fox were doing a sketch called "Biker Chick Chat," a parody of...wait for it...talk shows! Yes, it was that original! But the joke here was that...wait for it...they swore! A lot! Hi-larious!!! Unfortunately for Slate, she mistakenly said "f*ckin" instead of "frickin." Fans may remember that Charles Rocket, Norm MacDonald and Cheri Oteri swore on the show, and the two men were unceremoniously dumped soon thereafter (though rumor has it that MacDonald's continuous ribbing of O.J. Simpson, a golfing buddy of NBC honcho Don Ohlenmeyer, is what done him in). It doesn't appear that the same fate awaits Slate, however, as head writer and cast member Seth Meyers hugged her in a concillatory manner at the closing credits.
But aside from using a bad word, none of the new cast stood out. Abby Elliott is back, and still cute and blonde, and still as boring as ever. And considering her pedigree (father Chris, and grandpa Bob, two of the premier comedians of their respective generations), she's got some 'splanin' to do, at least to me. Apparently not to Lorne, who also brought back (inexplicably) Bobby Moynihan, a guy who makes you long for the subtle nuance of Horatio Sanz. Also on hand,
Nasim Pendrad, a woman I did not notice, and had to look up to find out her name.
If I were Lorne Michaels, I'd be kicking myself silly for letting the fabulous Michaela Watkins go (not so much Casey Wilson; she never seemed to rise to the occasion). Michaela, I thought, showed great diversity of characters and fine comic focus with her dead-on portrayl of Arianna Huffington, as well as Hoda Kotb. But one of the supreme hi-lites of last season for me was Michaela's appearances as blogger Angie Tempura, writer of Bitchpleeze.com. Perhaps because I'm a blogger myself, and know how the shallowness of blogs can get old fast, but I loved that character, and was waiting for more.
All in all, a terrible, terrible simply horrible show. Without question, it was the worst season opening in 35 years (considering they had all summer to come up with something). My advice to Michaels: if writing the extra Thursday night show is too much for the staff, give it up. Also, bring back Watkins as a regular cast member. Otherwise, forget about it.
Now, as promised, the one funny joke from the episode. Seth Meyers, during Update, told us:
Addendum: All right, I'll admit there was one other joke that made me smile (but not laugh out loud, like the Queens joke above). In a sketch called "Your Mom Talks to Megan Fox While You Get Ready," Kristen Wiig asks Megan, "So, Megan, you were in that movie, Transforms? Those giant robots, were they puppets or CSI?"
Also, Mrs. Skippy mused aloud during the show last night: Which is worse, SNL or the Jay Leno Show?
That's a toss-up. Like what both shows do to my cookies.
environmental news story sunday
from motown to hoetown. - businessman matt allen is pitching a radical and highly contentious solution for shrinking detroit. empty whole parts of the city, dig up the concrete, yank down the light poles, and reclaim what was here before a guy named henry ford moved to town: farmland
putting your investments where your dinner is. - combine poisonous factory-farm tomatoes with disgraced investment banker bernard madoff. then throw in a stock market disaster that cost investors their life savings. you may have the recipe for a revolution. - cbc canada
skulls found on mafia ship laden with toxic waste. - toronto star - pressure is growing on the italian government to act over revelations that 30 or more ships with radioactive cargoes, deliberately sunk by the mafia, may be polluting the mediterranean. - london independent
maldives' cabinet all wet over the climate. - politicians rarely admit when they sink to new depths but for the maldives government, it's a badge of honour. president mohamed nasheed will host an underwater cabinet meeting to draw attention to the impact of climate change on the indian ocean archipelago. - afp
another utility leaves u.s. chamber over climate policy. - a new mexico electric utility will leave the u.s. chamber of commerce because of the business group's position on climate change - greenwire
breathing problems as dust rolls north. - the second dust storm in a week is causing more health problems in new south wales and residents in south-western queensland are also struggling to see through the haze as it moves towards brisbane - abc news australia
dust storms spread deadly diseases. - huge dust storms, like the ones that blanketed sydney twice last week, hit queensland yesterday and turned the air red across much of eastern australia, are spreading lethal epidemics around the world. - london observer
hazed and confused. - a haze has choked southeast asia on and off for more than a decade. if singapore is wincing from an overdose of carbon monoxide, then so too is the entire indonesian archipelago along with malaysia, from the tip of north borneo to southern thailand and beyond - bankok post
lawsuit weighs atrazine's threat to water supplies. - a madison county class-action lawsuit filed in 2004 over the use of the popular herbicide atrazine is gaining steam, and one lawyer says it could reshape farming practices nationwide. - belleville news democrat
vanishing aspens. - fall is upon us. and for the rocky mountain west that means the beautiful gold colors of the aspens. but, increasingly, the aspens are dying. scientists report that drought conditions in the rocky mountain west are contributing to sad, sudden aspen decline. - living on earth
caring for resources key to smokies' future. - the challenges to the smokies ecosystem are well-known and well-documented - air pollution, invasive species and fringe development that constricts important habitats - knoxville news sentinel
mcdonald's spud has had its chips as quest begins for greener potato. - it's often criticised as a standard bearer of a global capitalism that puts profits before the environment. but the giant mcdonald's fast food empire has now launched a mission to produce an eco-friendlier french fry. - edinburough scotsman
harvesting hope.- a chicago homeless shelter's greenhouses are transforming soil and souls -- and not necessarily in that order -- thanks to an urban plant expert, a former heroin addict and a million or so worms - chicago tribune
30-mile fish kill at dunkard creek. - when fish started dying in dunkard creek, west virginia environmental regulators, along with federal officials struggled unsuccessfully to figure out what happened, but dunkard creek was having problems long before fish started going belly up. - charleston gazette
Labels: canada, ecology, environment, farmers, farms, michigan
vote for a good cause
brad slaight
please vote for "one million strong"—the breast cancer awareness psa susan sarandon gave us her voice! now it's your turn to give us your vote! vote here between friday, 9/25, and sunday, 10/4:
Saturday, September 26, 2009
skippy's saturday nite music club
Labels: music, skippy's music club
22-yr old constituent of congressman john boehner dies from swine flu
friends say the miami university graduate who died this week after reportedly suffering from swine flu delayed getting medical treatment because she did not have health insurance.
news of kimberly young's death wednesday, sept. 23, came as a shock to those who knew the vibrant 22-year-old who was working at least two jobs in oxford after graduating with a double major in december 2008.
young became ill about two weeks ago, but didn't seek care initially because she didn't have health insurance and was worried about the cost, according to brent mowery, her friend and former roommate. - daytona daily news
according to the kaiser family foundation, 30 percent of 19-24 year olds are uninsured, more than any other group. despite the conservative argument that young people are voluntarily refusing health coverage in favor of extra spending money, the reality is that high costs on the individual market put coverage out of reach. as suzy khimm notes at campus progress, young people "are far more likely to be working part-time or lower-paying jobs for employers who don't offer coverage" - think progress
let's see if one single talking head sunday corporate media peep asks a rethuglican a question about the tragedy of kimberly young's passing. one question...a single question to republicans who want to keep letting americans die needlessly.
Labels: flu, healthcare, passings, republicans
romanesco broccoli
Friday, September 25, 2009
flashforward, into the past!
but to say that flashforward is not lost is like saying the dharma initiative may have made a slight error bringing ben linus to the island: an extreme understatement.
for those of you not up on your science fiction premises, the entire world blacks out for 2 min and 17 seconds in flashforward. while they are asleep, every human being sees visions of themselves (at least, the lucky ones do). it turns out these visions are of the future; 6 months into the future, to be exact, for everybody.
like most science fiction on abc a good premise does not promise a good show (see defying gravity, invasion). clunky writing, confusing relationships, and a ham-fisted lack of subtlety handicapped otherwise good actors.
for instance, joseph fiennes (ralph's brother), as an fbi agent pursuing terrorists on downtown la streets, awakes from his blackout to find himself in the middle of the biggest traffic accident ever. after wandering around dazed for a bit, he finds his partner
a worse example of bad writing: after fiennes walks thru downtown a bit (and seeing a kangaroo...points for that one from skippy!), he joins some people staring into a television repair shop where all the tvs are tuned to the news.
the news casters say "it's happening all over the world!" and then someone in the crowd says "it's happening all over the world!" just in case you didn't hear it the first time.
that "on-the-nose" writing is not as bad, actually, as the idea that a mere 15 or 20 minutes after a world wide event that disrupts literally every human process going on, the news stations are smart enough to figure out what happened and where.
we lived thru the 1993 earthquake in la, and believe us, it took about 8 hours before the tv stations had cogent information to pass along. we doubt that every tv station would know so quickly the scope of a phenomenon without precedent.
it gets worse: back at the fbi, it takes a meeting of 5 or 6 agents about 3 minutes to figure out that everybody in the world saw the future. man, if we ever get kidnapped, we want these fbi agents on the case! they figure stuff out in record time!
the thing we love about lost (and we missed completely in flashforward) is the slow reveal. this is not to say that lost moves slowly; au contraire, the writing there is full of tension, depth, and character revelation. you first think lost is about survival, then about characters revealing their past, then about characters interacting...then, bam! it turns out it's about time travel, but you don't know that until the fourth season. lost takes its time revealing plot points, and often moves ahead in plot, only to revisit (and explain) plot points two or three episodes after they have happened.
if flashforward were lost, we wouldn't know that the entire world had blacked out until a couple of episodes later. we'd never know that people saw "the future" in their black outs until the end of season 1!
however, since "the future" that all the characters saw is coincidentally the same time as the last episode of the season, we suppose they have to move faster. we just wish they had more nuanced and clever writing.
acting ranges from great to "meh!" sonya walgner (from lost) as fiennes' surgeon-wife, and the afore-mentioned cho are great. however, fiennes does not have the gravitas or smoldering sexuality to carry a lead role that he will need for such an epic tv series (we are not homosexual, but if we crash-landed on an island w/matthew fox, we might change our minds)(altho if evangeline lilly was there, too, probably not)(tho we'd be open to a three-way).
and of course, courtney b. vance, the great ada from law and order: fat guy of a few seasons ago, as the head fbi guy brings his a-game, which is a delight.
however, we have seen our own future, and 6 months from now, we aren't watching flashfoward.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
skippy's thursday nite music club
Labels: music, skippy's music club, youtube
little legal heat in texas...and santa bar-b-que
Randy Quaid
Originally uploaded by Tommy Donovan
the santa barbara county sheriff's department has been informed that actor randy quaid and his wife evi quaid have been arrested near marfa, texas. each faces charges of burglary, defrauding an innkeeper and conspiracy; all three are felonies.
..in early september, sheriff's detectives received a complaint that the quaids had not paid a bill in excess of $10,000 due to a local hotel.- sbpolice department
fair warning...you don't wanna be stiffing hotels in a tourist driven economy destination spot during hard times.
Labels: felony, lawlessness, lawsuits, santa barbara, texas
we shouldn't negotiate with terrorists
Kyl was speaking in favor of a GOP amendment that could have prevented the government from implementing the bill - even if it's passed and signed into law.
Labels: healthcare, republicans, senate
digging digby
the methods of dissemination are the same as they ever were. they push the "scandal" through the right wing noise machine, work the refs hard (which isn't hard to do because the villagers are convinced that the right wing represents "real america") and they create the illusion that something "doesn't pass the smell test." here, we see that the wingnuts have convinced the washington post that "something is wrong," that the "van jones story" was a huge deal which they failed to cover and that they need to be more vigilant about ferreting out these important issues. at the same time the villagers are busily convincing themselves that the fact that all these players are black is coincidental and irrelevant because none of them have a racist bone in their bodies and yet they "feel" there must be something to all this. in fact, i think they are probably in the process of convincing themselves that only by relentlessly covering these scandals can they prove just how colorblind they really are.
unfortunately, the left won't be able to counter this by writing as many emails or complaining more vociferously since such tactics only reinforce the village's apparent fear that the liberals have taken over, thus motivating them to be even more vigilant in presenting the "opposing view." i'm not sure what to do about this, but i'm not sure one has to. after all, it's not like this is anything new. the last ombudsman also lamented the alleged lack of proper deference to conservative points of view in their straight reporting:
the post's latest circulation losses were less than many large papers suffered, and business executives say the advertising downturn has more to do with the economy than with political coverage. that said, the imbalance still needs to be corrected
a bit more difficult.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
skippy's wednesday nite music club
bad news from the anti-gummit front
the law enforcement official, who was not authorized to discuss the case and requested anonymity, did not say what type of instrument was used to write the word on the chest of bill sparkman, a 51-year-old part-time census field worker and teacher. he was found sept. 12 in a remote patch of the daniel boone national forest in rural southeast kentucky.
the census has suspended door-to-door interviews in rural clay county, where the body was found, pending the outcome of the investigation. an autopsy report is pending.
investigators have said little about the case. fbi spokesman david beyer said the bureau is assisting state police and declined to confirm or discuss any details about the crime scene.
"our job is to determine if there was foul play involved — and that's part of the investigation — and if there was foul play involved, whether that is related to his employment as a census worker," said beyer.
tho as dougj @ balloon juice sez:
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
mad about glenn beck & yom kippur
"a spire of gold? no, a trick of the eye..."
that's all...
Labels: and thanks for all the fish...
Monday, September 21, 2009
but how does that explain "the jay leno show"?
tommy westfall's mind is a live journal community exploring character cross-overs on tv shows, premised on the idea that since a couple of characters from st. elsewhere appeared on homicide: life on the streets, the latter show, like the former, must exist entirely in tommy's mind.
the last episode of st. elsewhere, you might remember, revealed that (much like newhart after it, which is also included in the tommy-verse) the entire action and cast of characters were simply the product of one character's imagination.
logic (if that's the right word, tho "snark" might be a closer fit) dictates that, because dr. ehrlich and dr. turner later appeared on homicide, ergo the entire universe of life on the streets must follow st. elsewhere as a product of tommy's flight of fancy.
and going from that, cross-overs of characters of homicide to and from law and order make that entire universe an extension of tommy's interior monologue.
(here's where the theory gets dicey, according to critics. the l&o aspect must mean that mayor michael bloomberg, who appeared to introduce district attorney dianne wiest in an episode, is also in tommy's mind, and therefor, all of reality, including you and us. maybe. that would explain the current state of the gop, at least.)
but since richard belzer's delightful character of det. munch has appeared on numerous tv shows, the tommy westfall universe expands ever-widening. and according to the key, everything from dr. who to de grassi high is involved.
we'd say that the guys who run this blog have way too much time on their hands, but that's rather like the cyberpot calling the cyberkettle slack.
and you can't spell "racism" without "g-o-p"
kathleen parker: what rush limbaugh and beck did in those two clips is to empower racists.
brooks: well, i think they would. first, i think father coughlin was objecting to fdr, and he -- that's what we're seeing, father coughlin, that's what these guys are –
matthews: and he was far right.
brooks: he was far right. the white house understands, you've got 10 percent of the country over here on the wacky right, 10 percent on the wacky left, that's not what they can pay attention to. and they're not going to pay attention to it. they're sticking with the independents -- that's what the health care, why it's tending toward the center.
the one danger -- the main danger of all this, the glenn and the rush and all that -- they're not going to take over the country. but they are taking over the republican party.
and so if the republican party is sane, they will say no to these people. but every single elected leader in the republican party is afraid to take on rush and glenn beck.
editor's addendum: in re: libaugh, we are concerned, but not surprised, that the hardly-ever-right is screaming about the "black kids beating up white kids on the bus," but have nary peeped about the cracker barrel incident.
the action of the kids, while disgusting, can be attributed to "run-of-the-mill" (tho still deplorable) school bullying. but of course, you're not hearing that in the hate-media.stltoday.com:
authorities later recanted that claim. but the accusation stuck, in both national media and among residents here.
the 14-year-old was arrested about 2 p.m. by belleville police and taken to the st. clair county juvenile detention center, said his father, joe fisher of belleville, who was present during the interview...
the ninth grader said the older student entered the bus and walked to the rear area and told the 14-year-old to move his books, and when he didn't, the 17-year-old pushed them to the floor.
"he told me to move my stuff, and then he pushed my stuff on the floor and sat down. i told him to pick up my books and he didn't say anything. he elbowed me, so i pushed him back. he pushed me again and then i started hitting him," said the youth, who has been suspended from school for 10 days. he receives his school assignments at home.
it's difficult to attribute the guy beating up the woman @ the restaurant to "run-of-the-mill" anything.
you can't spelled "emmy" without "m - e"
for an in-depth snarkfest for anything showbiz, of course, we turn to our correspondent in la-la-land, tallulah morehead:
when showing the nominees for supporting actress in a comedy series, band concert, or religious pageant, devout christer kristin chenoweth felt it necessary to show us she has a tongue. well, she's gone to great lengths over the years with her christian blather to show us she has no brain; i guess she felt a need to show us that her head contains at least one functioning organ.
they had my lovely cat deely announcing an opportunity for home viewers to vote during the show (more fun than watching it?) for an award to be given at the end. of course, watching in california, she was shown with a caption saying: "recorded earlier. voting is closed." how nice. a treat just for east coast viewers. whose bright idea was that? someone in new york, i'd guess.
the daily show's john hodgeman did a bit about being the off-camera announcer that ended with, "may i come on tv now?" to which harris replied, "not tonight, john, not tonight," a gag that might have played better if he hadn't been on camera as he said it! somebody clueless is handling the "comedy."
in the category best writing of a comedy series, verse play, or spelling bee, somehow there was one nominee that wasn't 30 rock, but of course the rogue nominee didn't win. matt hubbard, the writer who won, looks to be about 12 years old. he thanked his wife. gays aren't allowed to marry, but children are? shouldn't you at least go through puberty before marrying? his voice was higher than the chenoweth creature's. what is this, utah?
mad about chris wallace
Sunday, September 20, 2009
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environmental news story sunday
worsening water crisis in southern iraq drains hope for future. - water supply problems in southern iraq are escalating, with local officials warning of a humanitarian and political crisis, and residents claiming they are being prevented from fleeing parched land by security forces. - abu dhabi national
b.c. project in ethiopia means fresh water without long walk. - three quarters of ethiopians — approximately 64 million people, nearly double the population of canada — do not have local access to clean water. - vancouver sun
kenya's pain. - children are starving, cattle are dropping dead, crops are withered, lakes are empty, and still the rains haven't come. kenya is on the verge of a catastrophe of biblical proportions. is the once stable nation a warning to the world about the perils of ignoring climate change, government corruption, and global food and water shortages? - mongabay
keeping the breadbasket from drying up. - right now, america's bread basket relies on an aquifer that's nearly drained. and, many say, it will dry up if farmers keep pumping water from it at the current rate. so, the government plans to pay farmers as one way to get them to cut water use. - environment report
new study shows river runoff decreases in driest years in oregon, northwest. -in a warming world, scientists have told us to expect more rain and less snow. new evidence, however, suggests that both rain and snowfall may decrease across the region during dry years. increasingly severe droughts could intensify water conflicts - portland oregonian
israel mourns the dying dead sea. - the sea has, from a time beyond the memory even of the bible, been fed by that most famous of waterways, the river jordan. and therein lies the problem. today, by the time the river reaches its end, there is almost no water left, and dead sea is now shrinking at a terrifying speed. - bbc
some paw paw residents unhappy with coke plant as tainted water continues to cause problems. - the accumulation of juice wastes sprayed over more than 40 years on fields behind the coca cola north america plant, released naturally occurring iron, manganese and arsenic particles into groundwater. - kalamazoo journal
step up the pace on great lakes cleanup. - the report last week the cleanup of the most polluted sites on the great lakes is going so slowly that it will take 77 years to complete the job is disheartening to say the least. - sheboygan press
the crap shoot. - most people have about 0.14 grams of feces on their bottoms that, when rinsed off, can contaminate recreational water, according to the cdc. this suggests that d.c. pools have potentially hosted as much as 50 pounds of feces this summer. - washington city paper
polluters exploit lax oversight. - the obama administration, which has pledged to build a stronger environmental record than its predecessors, needs to reinvigorate the nation's commitment to upholding the standards of the clean water act and ensure that all states are enforcing the law. - hamilton roads virginian pilot
gov't stands by as mercury taints water. - abandoned mercury mines throughout central california's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people - the ap
gender-bending fish widespread in the u.s. - a survey of "feminization" of fish finds that a large percentage of male bass are producing egg cells. scientists suspect this abnormal phenomenon is the result of synthetic chemicals in water that mimic the behavior of female hormones - npr
Labels: a, climate change, drought, environment, epa, fish, global warming, great lakes, iraq, michigan, ocean, pollution, rivers, toxins, water
Saturday, September 19, 2009
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more pre-existing conditions that make americans uninsurable
- being a firefighter
- being a police officer
- having acne
- having bunions
- being pregnant or being an expectant father
- if lipitor is being taken for cholesterol level
- if advair is being taken for asthma
the insurance companies are creating 15 - 9/11's each year in the number of american deaths due to lack of coverage, under coverage and denial of coverage.
now...tell me who the real terrorists are?
Labels: healthcare, public health, terrorists
fox news: you suck! rick sanchez: you lie!
just like when thousands marched on washington to protest the war in iraq, we covered it as well. probably less than we covered this event. [ed note: no kidding!] but we didn't promote it. ... bottom line is, we do cover the news, and we did extensively cover this event.
we didn't promote the event. that's not what real news organizations are supposed to do. we covered the event. i would invite you to look into that distinction, between those two words: "promote" and "cover".
"cover" is kind of like a fair and balanced way of doing things. ya get it? you might want to look into that.
let me address the fox news network now, perhaps the most current way that i can, by quoting someone who recently used a very pithy phrase. two words. that's all i need. "you lie!"
Friday, September 18, 2009
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it was a simpler time. it was a period of exploration. it was fun. it was soul searching. there was always a beatles song to be part of the soundtrack of life. "once there was a way to get back homeward"...but, alas no more. john, paul, george and ringo were gods in my eyes...in many folks' eyes...and that image was a weight too mighty to carry...but boy did they carry it for years. and carried it so well.
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so where were these "budget hawks" when...
just because we that's what we really are, doesn't mean you have to keep pointing it out
"health care protesters, affirmative action supporters? racist."—i've not seen anyone anywhere actually accuse all healthcare protesters of being racist. certainly, plenty of people have quite rightly noted that the protests have had incidents of overt racism, and that the intensity of the protests, the violent hatred of the president, is disproportionate, quite obviously because of his race. to deny that evident reality is to deny a 200+ year national history of white mob violence against "uppity" blacks. of course there are people who object to obama's policies for reasons other than his being black; but there are also people who object to obama's policies because he is black, or object to them in a manner they would not if he weren't black. the only people saying, "all healthcare protesters are racists!" are rightwingers who are deliberately misconstruing a legitimate argument about the relationship between incendiary/violent rhetoric and racial animosity…
"but if everybody's racist, is anyone?"—ah, the old "if racism is that ubiquitous, it must not even be real" canard. straw-argument.
"the word is being sprayed in all directions"—another straw-argument. it is not "being sprayed," which connotes nonspecific targets, in all directions. there are people who "spray" accusations of racism all over the place, like throwing shit at a wall just to see what sticks. but responsible commentators, especially among social justice progressives, are not "spraying" accusations of racism, but painstakingly demonstrating patterns of historical racism and teasing out the cultural memes and narratives that underlie the rhetoric and actions they've identified as racially-motivated. that ain't spray; that's scholarship.
"creating a hall of mirrors"—the "spray" doesn't create the hall of mirrors. the media's refusal to distinguish between "spray" and scholarship does.
now, add this to the fact that joe wilson, as a state legislator, was one of only seven republicans to go against their own party and vote to keep the dixie rebel flag flying over the south carolina capitol:
a clearer picture of why this congressman might so virulently breach protocol and loudly interrupt an african-american president's speech to congress by calling him a liar does start to emerge, doesn't it?
the overton window of what is acceptable in race-baiting standards has moved perceptively. cnn actually had the gall to debate on whether this picture was racist or just clever satire;
of course, it's cnn that is using logical fallacies to promote their own agenda here (this one being the "we journalists are so neutral, we present both sides"). but this false binary is also muddying the waters. even if you could, by some stretch of the imagination, call this satire, that does not mean that it's not also racist.
there's no way the depiction of a black man as a stereotypical cartoon african native cannot be construed as demeaning, disrespectful, disempowering and race-based.
gene robinson points out:
i'm not talking about the majority of the citizens who went to town hall meetings to criticize obama's plans for health-care reform or the majority of the "tea bag" demonstrators who complain that obama is ushering in an era of big government. those are, of course, legitimate points of view. protest is part of our system. it's as american as apple pie.
i'm talking about the crazy "birthers." i'm talking about the nitwits who arrive at protest rallies bearing racially offensive caricatures -- obama as a witch doctor, for example. i'm talking about the idiots who toss around words like "socialism" to make obama seem alien and even dangerous -- who deny the fact that he, too, is as american as apple pie.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
skippy's thursday nite music club
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sex, drugs and royalties
the scandal-ridden program that allows industry to provide oil and natural gas directly to the interior department in lieu of cash royalty payments will be killed, interior secretary ken salazar said today."the royalty-in-kind program has been a blemish, in my view, on this department," salazar said at a house natural resources committee hearing. "there were allegations of sex and drugs and a whole host of other inappropriate conduct. ... my decision is that it's time for us to end the royalty-in-kind program."
...natural resources chairman nick rahall (d-w.va.) has introduced a sweeping bill, h.r. 3534 (pdf), that would overhaul the federal royalty system and make other broad changes to interior's regulation of oil and gas drilling on federal lands and waters. rahall's bill would also eliminate the royalty-in-kind program.- nytimes/greenwire
Labels: government, greed, scandals
with "educated" citizens like these
only one in four oklahoma public high school students can name the first president of the united states, according to a survey released today.no wonder these folks bash immigrants...those new to the country know more about it than those residents who profess to love it so much.
...about 92 percent of the people who take the citizenship test pass on their first try, according to immigration service data. however, oklahoma students did not fare as well. only about 3 percent of the students surveyed would have passed the citizenship test.-news9.com
tea baggers angry that socialist agenda didn't work well
wsj blog:
rep. kevin brady asked for an explanation of why the government-run subway system didn't, in his view, adequately prepare for this past weekend's rally to protest government spending and government services.
the texas republican on wednesday released a letter he sent to washington's metro system complaining that the taxpayer-funded subway system was unable to properly transport protesters to the rally to protest government spending and expansion.
we agree w/john:
mary travers of peter, paul, and mary has passed away
editors addendum: where have all the flowers gone?
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
skippy's wednesday nite music club
Labels: music, skippy's music club, youtube
rest in peace, by henry gibson
i think that i shall never see
a poem as lovely as a tree
but since i'm gone with both my boots
i'll just see trees mainly by their roots
rip henry gibson
editors addendum: even sadder, mary travers of peter, paul and mary has also left us.
we'll see your schuster and raise you a hamsher
more malkin lying
here's a live cam shot from the day of the event showing the same location. notice the american flag in the foreground in each photo? notice that in malkin's photo it's at half-mast? was the flag at half-mast on saturday?
is the stupidity of some liars not amazing?
journalist, investigate thyself
i sure hope those crack reporters over at the politico can use their awesome investigative skills to find out just what the connection might be between ridiculous drudge crap and "legitimate" news. it's almost like there is some sort of shadowy middleman...
mad about germs in your showerhead
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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teabaggers: 2 million! us: you lie!
"it is a record," barna said. "we believe it is the largest event held in washington, d.c., ever."
dozens - if not hundreds - of right wing blogs are running with this quote, portraying it as a statement about the tea party held last weekend: 'we believe it is the largest event held in washington, d.c., ever.'
the quote is from january. the national park service spokesman was talking about barack obama's inauguration
from pam geller:
a 9-12 participant in dc claims to have overheard dc police discussing the crowd numbers. they put the numbers at over 2 million -- and those were only the people who could make it into the city. the local authorities as well as many participants claim that many many more could not even get into the city to the core of the protest.
"it was in no way an official estimate," he said.
we asked piringer whether there were enough protesters to fill the national mall, as depicted in the photograph.
"it was an impressive crowd," he said. but after marching down pennsylvania avenue to the capitol, the crowd "only filled the capitol grounds, maybe up to third street," he said.
yet the widely posted photograph showed the crowd sprawling all the way to the washington monument, which is bordered by 15th and 17th streets.
there's another problem with the photograph: it doesn't include the national museum of the american indian, a building at the corner of fourth street and independence avenue that opened on sept. 14, 2004. (looking at the photograph, the building should be in the upper right hand corner of the national mall, next to the air and space museum.) that means the picture was taken before the museum opened five years ago. so clearly the photo doesn't show the "tea party" crowd from the sept. 12 protest.
also worth noting are the cranes in front of the smithsonian museum of natural history. according to randall kremer, the museum's director of public affairs, "the last time cranes were in front was in the 1990s when the imax theater was being built."
it appears that the photo was actually taken in 1997 at a rally for promise keepers, a group for christian men. according to the group's web site, nearly 1 million people attended the event. photos of the oct. 4, 1997, event that were posted on various web sites in 2003, 2008 and earlier this year show either the same picture or a similar photo that has identical tents and what appear to be tv screens in the same locations.
conservative bloggers who originally posted the picture have backed down.
happy holiest of holies
reflect on the words of his holy noodlyness today...
i'd really rather you didn't build multimillion-dollar churches/temples/mosques/shrines to my noodly goodness when the money could be better spent (take your pick):
a) ending poverty
b) curing diseases
c) living in peace, loving with passion, and lowering the cost of cable
i might be a complex-carbohydrate omniscient being, but i enjoy the simple things in life. i ought to know. i am the creator.
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September 9, 2013
Here is a Wordle diagram of the ALCS portion of the book:
I look forward to once again watching the Red Sox (99.9% probability of making the playoffs, for the first time since 2009) in the evening. ... Good timing with the FKR series starting tomorrow night.
10 comments:
- FenFan said...
- September 9, 2013 at 5:18 PM
- SeattleSox Fan said...
You can always use Kindle to self publish BTW. Congrats
- September 9, 2013 at 6:05 PM
- Maxwell Horse said...
I bet it's nice having that weight off. Just in time to truly enjoy some meaningful baseball.
- September 9, 2013 at 6:34 PM
- Tom DePlonty said...
Great going - I'm looking forward to reading it!
- September 9, 2013 at 7:43 PM
- Kathryn said...
Congratulations!! To me, it seems like that time went fast. To you, not so much I'm sure. Welcome back to the games.
- September 10, 2013 at 6:27 AM
- Amy said...
I can't wait to read it! It will be great to relive 2004.
(By the way, does anyone know why comments posted through an iPhone don't go through? I posted this earlier, but I see it didn't get through. It happens to me all the time...)
- September 10, 2013 at 1:32 PM
- mattymatty said...
Congratulations, Allan!
- September 10, 2013 at 8:05 PM
- Zenslinger said...
Big congratulations!
- September 11, 2013 at 10:15 AM
- MacLeodCartoons said...
Way to go, Allan - great news!
- September 11, 2013 at 2:01 PM
- laura k said...
Heh, I missed this thread. Probably too busy editing the manuscript! YAY ALLAN!!!
JoSers, the book is so much fun. You will all LOVE it. Please everyone buy a copy. No, buy two copies and give one to your best Red Soxy friend! :)
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May 22, 2013, Corrientes, Argentina (ISN) – Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ont., and Heather Bansley of Toronto won their first match together on Wednesday to open the third stop on the FIVB World Tour beach volleyball circuit and advanced to the main draw.
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