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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New rules adopted by the Office of Thrift Supervision today will help protect consumers from certain abusive credit card lending practices that can result in excessive fees and interest rate charges. The rules were developed in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Board and National Credit Union Administration, which are expected to adopt the same regulations later today. The new regulations will go into effect on July 1, 2010.
"Millions of families have been stung by unfair credit card practices that trap them in debt and make it harder to make ends meet," said Gail Hillebrand, Consumers Union Financial Services Campaign Manager. "When these rules finally go into effect, they will help protect consumers from being gouged by credit card companies and make it easier for families to manage their finances during these tough economic times." While praising the new protections, Consumers Union criticized the 18 month delay before consumers finally get relief.
Among other things, the new rules will protect consumers by:
Prohibiting credit card companies from raising interest rates on money already borrowed unless the money was borrowed on a variable rate card, or the minimum payment is made more than 30 days late.
Protecting new cardholders by prohibiting interest rate hikes in the first year of an account. The only way interest rates can go up in the first year is if the card issuer disclosed a future rate hike at a preset time when the account was opened.
Imposing a new rule that zero interest means zero, ending the practice of so-called deferred interest.
Prohibiting credit card companies from charging a late fee if the bill was mailed to the consumer less than 21 days before the due date.
Requiring payments to be allocated fairly among credit card balances with different interest rates. Payments must be allocated to the highest interest balance or pro rata.
Prohibiting credit card companies from charging interest on amounts already repaid, through two cycle billing.
Restricting the financing of fees on credit cards where the fees or deposits use up the majority of the available credit on the account.
Over a third of all credit card users were charged late fees in 2005, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO also found that top six credit card issuers collected $7.4 billion in penalty fees during that year.
On top of penalty fees, the vast majority of credit card contracts allow issuers to increase the interest rate for consumers who pay their bill late, even by a few hours. A low interest rate on a credit card can climb to 30 percent or more after a single late payment or if consumers fall behind on payments to other creditors. These penalty interest rates apply not only to future purchases but also the consumer's existing balance.
The new regulations were adopted after the Federal Reserve Board received a flood of comments from approximately 66,000 people who weighed in on the proposal - mostly in support of tougher protections for consumers. While the new rules will provide important new protections, more safeguards are needed to address other lending practices that can make it difficult for consumers to manage their credit. Other reforms needed to address some of the abusive practices that hurt consumers are:
- Limiting the amount of "penalty" interest rates, and how long card companies can keep you at these extremely high rates.
- Prohibiting fees for paying a credit card by phone or Internet.
- Prohibiting account-opening fees no more than 10 percent of the credit limit.
- Banning multiple over-limit fees during a single billing cycle.
- Ending all over-limit fees when it's the card company's fault. A consumer shouldn't be penalized when the credit card company approves a transaction, imposes a credit hold, or charges fees that put the consumer over the credit limit.
"The new credit card regulations adopted today will help restore some basic fairness to the credit card marketplace, but there is more work to do to protect consumers," said Pam Banks, Policy Counsel for Consumers Union. "It's time to end excessive credit card interest rates and fees that undermine the financial well being of millions of American families."
The three federal agencies decided to put off action on a proposed set of new rules regarding the automatic enrollment of consumers in overdraft loan programs and re-issued a new proposed rule for comment. These programs cost consumers $17.5 billion in fees annually, for $15.8 billion in loans. Consumer groups had criticized the overdraft proposal as too weak. Consumers Union has called on federal regulators to require opt-in before consumers can be charged overdraft fees. For more information on managing your credit or debt, visit Military.com's Credit and Debt Center.


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Medical insurance is the first line of defense with HIV, and your number-one priority in returning to work is to make sure you either improve or maintain your medical coverage.
When you went on disability, you probably learned a lot of things you never wanted to know about how benefits work. When you're thinking of returning to work, you will want to keep that information in mind as you weigh your options. And you do have a little bit of room to experiment: Social Security allows a twelve-month trial work period that you can use to test the waters before your benefits are terminated. More about that later; first let's review the ins and outs of disability benefits on and off the job.
Regulations differ from state to state. This article will deal primarily with those of New York State, which are the strictest and most pro-patient regulations in the country. New Jersey's are also pretty good. In the rest of the country, you will have to see how your state stacks up to the New York-New Jersey gold standard. [In New York, call (212) 480-6400; in New Jersey, call (609) 292-5360.]
Keep in mind that self-insured plans, which are offered by most large companies, are not subject to state insurance regulations. They are regulated only under federal law, and poorly at that, and may offer much less protection. On the other hand, large companies are often generous with benefits. There are major differences between industries, so it is important to read the benefits booklet before taking that new job.
Medicare Pitfalls
The biggest problem with medical insurance when returning to work is Medicare. The biggest problem with Medicare for someone with HIV is that it doesn't pay for pharmaceuticals. Two Medicare features that are designed to protect seniors from overinsurance can work against people who are on Medicare because of disability:
- First, you automatically become eligible for Medicare 29 months after you apply for Social Security. This often triggers the end of continued medical benefits from your last job (COBRA -- Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act -- benefits). And that means an end to drug benefits.
- Second, once you're on Medicare, you can't buy individual medical insurance. Many people with HIV wake up to this fact too late, and then have to scramble to pay for their meds.
Medicare Solutions
Disability Extension of Medical Benefits: An immediate, though temporary, solution is to look for this common but often overlooked clause in many group medical policies: A disability extension of benefits provision is required by law in some states and is historically in many group plans. If you are disabled when COBRA ends or employment terminates, this clause continues medical coverage without charge for an additional twelve months for the disabling condition only.
When applying for this extension, make sure your physician describes your underlying condition as broadly as possible so that you are covered for all expenses that may arise related to your disability.
Even if you have new group coverage, a conversion policy, or new individual coverage, you should invoke the disability extension of previous benefits simply because this free insurance may end up lowering your overall out-of-pocket medical costs. Also, costs covered under an extension of benefits will not be deducted from any policy maximum in converted group policies.
ADAP (AIDS Drug Assistance Plan): If your income is $44,500 or less and you have liquid assets of $25,000 or less (IRAs and other tax-deferred income are counted at 50 percent of face value), you may be eligible for ADAP coverage. But bear in mind that ADAP coverage is restricted to an approved formulary and that this government program is subject to budgetary ups and downs. (Remember not too long ago, right after protease inhibitors were first launched? Even New York's ADAP was cut back, and other state plans were severely crippled.) Of course, ADAP won't help with non-HIV-related conditions. No program like ADAP can replace individual or group coverage ... and Medicare or Medicaid.
Veterans Coverage: If you are a veteran with an income of $22,000 or less, you are eligible for coverage through the veterans hospitals. If your income is higher, you are eligible on a space-available basis and possibly at greatly reduced fees (e.g., $2.00 per prescription).
Blind and Young People: Special rules apply if your corrected vision is less than 20/200 or if you are under the age of 22 and in school at least eight hours a week.
Return to Work and Medicare
Going back to work for a firm that offers group medical benefits may be the easiest way to restore lost medical coverage for drugs. If you have been on Medicare or Medicaid, that will usually count as previous medical coverage, protecting you from any preexisting-condition exclusion.
Even though your new employer's medical plan may seem to be enough coverage, in today's era of mean and miserly managed care you'll need every bit of coverage you can get. So keep your Medicare active by paying for Part B at the end of Social Security's twelve-month trial work period. Here's how it works:
Social Security allows people to work nine months in any five-year period without losing benefits. Determinations are based on calendar months when you actually get the money, not when you earned it, and the months need not be consecutive. Any amount of money can be earned during these nine months and you will continue to get your checks, but earnings of as little as $200 can make a month count toward your total of nine "working" months.
After nine months, your checks will continue for an additional three months while Social Security reviews your situation and determines whether you are still eligible for benefits. The investigation is supposed to focus on whether a consistent pattern of work has been established, and lucky freelance jobs interspersed with illness setbacks may not be seen as a true return to work.
Even if your checks are stopped because you are working regularly, there is still a safety net in effect for an additional 36 months. If you subsequently become unable to work for a month or more, simply call the Social Security Administration -- by phone, no paperwork necessary -- and you will receive a check for any month you were unable to work.
Medicare offers many advantages and savings, even in combination with individual or group medical plans. Most important, it offers unlimited home care and outpatient psychiatric care, benefits that are often severely limited in private plans. It may reduce or eliminate all deductibles and copayments. Its more reasonable rate schedule will apply, lowering the part of the bill that you pay. If you lose your job and your employer plan disappears, medicare doesn't. Medicare is always there, whether you have a job or not.
If you have become eligible for group medical benefits and then must return to Social Security disability because you cannot work anymore, you can continue your new benefits under COBRA regulations -- a full 29 months of medical coverage, including pharmaceuticals. And, in this highly competitive job market, medium and large employers often offer eligibility in their medical plans from day or month one of employment.
Continuing Medicare After the Trial Work Period
Medicare remains in effect throughout the nine-month trial work period and the three-month review period. Then, when Social Security payments stop, you'll remain eligible for Medicare for three more years.
You're entitled to Medicare Part A -- the part that covers major expenses such as hospitalization -- without charge during this 36-month period, and you may keep it after that by paying a premium (now $170 per month). You should do this. If you have a serious illness, your medical expenses come first, and even overlapping coverage is a good thing. This budget item ranks right up there with rent in importance.
The big mistake most people make when they go back to work is to stop paying for Part B -- the part that pays for most outpatient expenses, such as doctors' visits, X-rays, lab work, and other diagnostic procedures -- medical services you normally can't get from private or group medical coverage. This is the part of Medicare that keeps you off Medicaid and out of bankruptcy. At a monthly premium of $45.50 per month, Part B is a financial lifeline
If you stop paying for Part B, you will be able to reinstate it, but only at a price. You will have the option or re-enrolling only during January through March of any year. Moreover, although you'll have to pay the premium from January through June of the new enrollment year, your Part B coverage will kick in only from July onwards. And to add injury to insult, the premium will be increased by 10 percent for each year you didn't have Part B.
If you can't afford Part B, you may be able to get welfare to pay the premiums through its Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary program. You are eligible for SLIMB if your gross monthly income, less any out-of-pocket medical expenses, is $1,896 or less. (SLIMB guidelines are available from Title II Community AIDS National Network, (202) 588-1775.) If your monthly earnings are under $1,427, welfare's Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) program will pay all your Medicare deductibles and copayments. If you can't afford the premium for Part A and your monthly income is less than $2,768, the Qualified Disabled Working Individual (QDWI) program will pick up the tab. (These income maximums are for individuals; those for families are higher. Also, the figures are revised in March of each year and may be out of date by the time you need the programs.)
Continuing Disability Review
One of the biggest hurdles posed by a return to work is that it can trigger a Continuing Disability Review by Social Security. If you flunk the CDR -- that is, if the review concludes that you are no longer disabled -- your Medicare or Medicaid stops.
But this isn't as great a problem as it could be. First, the simple fact that you are working does not by itself mean that you are not disabled, and Social Security cannot use that fact alone to change your status. A thorough examination of your medical records, just as was done when you applied for disability in the first place, is required before you can be ruled no longer disabled.
Practically speaking, Social Security has an enormous backlog of CDRs (even though Congress allocated billions a few years ago to enable the agency to catch up). If you return to work, you should decide whether to protect your disability status. If the answer is yes, you should take steps to ensure a good defense when and if a CDR arises (see sidebar).
If Social Security rules in its CDR that your disability is no more, you can appeal the decision to an Administrative Law Judge. In all Social Security matters, these judges have a track record of much higher approval rates than lower-level personnel. They may issue approvals if cases have been handled improperly, and they may assume that HIV-related symptoms constitute an underlying condition sufficient for a ruling of continued disability. The wheels can be put in motion by a phone call to the Social Security Administration asking for a review of your CDR.
Look for a major policy determination this year about whether Medicare can be continued simply because of an underlying condition. Current practice requires that it be a disabling underlying condition, but Congress has never clarified this point. Since millions of dollars in lost benefits are at stake, people with HIV and other chronic conditions, and the organizations that support them, should lobby for the more generous definition. This would enable many people with underlying conditions to keep their Medicare even though the condition was not immediately disabling.
Vocational Rehabilitation
It's not widely known, but you are allowed to keep your benefits, and are immune from the consequences of a CDR ruling that you are no longer disabled, if you are enrolled in a vocational rehabilitation program. And vocational rehab can be defined rather generously.
If you are worried that a CDR may go against you, it is prudent to establish a vocational rehab program for yourself. These programs offer many benefits for people with HIV, and will pay for all types of college courses and vocational training. In New York they are particularly generous -- supplemented by state funds -- and are usually available through VESID (Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities), 116 West 32nd Street, Sixth Floor, New York, NY 10001, (212) 630-2306.
Many people don't consider the vocational rehab option because of negative stereotypes. In fact, this approach is very flexible, and you can help write your own individual plan. The plan does not have to include educational coursework in order to protect your benefits. At the extreme, your state-approved vocational rehabilitation plan can simply mean that your return to work is monitored by a case manager at an AIDS service organization. The wording in the plan would be something on the order of "monitor my psychosocial adjustment to returning to the work world in light of my medical challenges." Thus regular casework on your behalf can itself be part of your state vocational rehabilitation plan. You should use the advice of a benefits professional to design a vocational rehab plan of this type.
When you approach vocational rehabilitation professionals, have a clear idea of what you want and how you want it structured. You'll get a reputation as an easy-to-deal-with client. You may have to press your right to these services, especially if you are asking for an individualized plan, but the financial benefits are worth it.
Individual Medical Insurance
People on disability in New York and New Jersey who are not yet Medicare eligible are allowed to get private individual medical insurance and to keep it even when they become Medicare eligible. This is a rare privilege that people in other states don't have, and it gives these lucky people powerful insurance that covers pharmaceuticals without having to qualify for ADAP, without having to spend down or impoverish themselves to qualify for Medicaid, without having to go through other eligibility hoops.
The problem is that many people become aware of this option only after they are Medicare-eligible -- when it's too late. Medicare is mandatory, and as long as they are on disability, they cannot get off Medicare to become eligible for individual medical coverage.
Going back to work can open a magic window -- briefly -- that will allow these people to purchase individual coverage and keep their Medicare benefits. It's all because of a little-known law that lets people pay their Part B premiums up to seven months after the initial due date. If you're one of these people, here's what you can do:
At the end of the trial work period, you are entitled to extend your Medicare Parts A and B when your Social Security checks stop. If you elect not to do so, however, you can honestly state that you are no longer covered by Medicare. You can then apply for individual medical insurance and check the box that says you don't have Medicare. It's the truth at that moment, and unlikely to be questioned; most health insurance intake personnel assume that Medicare stops when Social Security stops.
You can then repent of your rashness in letting Medicare get away and elect the extension retroactively -- in fact, back to the day the checks stopped. Thus you will have obtained your individual medical insurance while your Medicare Part B had lapsed, as required by law, only to reinstitute it later. (If the seven-month grace period has elapsed, you may still choose to reinstitute Part B, but this carries the penalties discussed above in the section on trial work period.)
Medicare Choice (HMO) Plans
Other states, such as Florida and California, offer Medicare Choice Plans that let you sign over your Medicare benefits in exchange for plans offering more services, including pharmaceuticals. The charge for these plans is usually small, but they may change the benefits offered or go in and out of business frequently. They do not offer the same security as group or individual medical benefits.
Catastrophic Medical Insurance
Once you are employed, you are again eligible for catastrophic medical insurance. These group plans, such as those offered by Workmen's Circle, (212) 889-6800, typically have only two major requirements: You must have a natural reason to be a part of the group, and you must be working at the time you apply. Thus this insurance can be obtained during a short trial work period. Do not get this insurance from employee associations (such as Civil Service of the New York State United Teachers) unless you are employed in that field.
These plans are inexpensive, with premiums of $400 to $500 per year, and offer comprehensive medical coverage. The deductible is high, typically $25,000, but can be satisfied by expenses paid for by other insurance, including Medicare or Medicaid. They will pay claims for several years up to their lifetime maximums of $1 or $2 million including pharmaceuticals.
Medigap Coverage
Medigap coverage is geared to the needs of seniors, not people with serious illness. It is expensive, and if it offers pharmaceutical coverage at all the annual maximum is typically $1,500. This is usually not a good option.
The bad news for Medicaid recipients is that any income and/or assets over the SSI (Supplemental Security Income) or AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) levels in your state may end your eligibility. The good news is that there are ways to get around this, and continue SSI and Medicaid even after you have returned to work:
Spend-Down: Medicaid allows income to be reduced by a "spend-down" equal to the amount of medical bills incurred in any given period. The bills don't have to be paid, just incurred, and may include Medicare and private medical insurance premiums.
For example, if you earn $800 but the eligibility level is $550, you are eligible for Medicaid if you have medical expenses of $250 or more that month. This alone may not seem like a great incentive to go back to work, but this adjusted, lower countable income may qualify you for other programs as well.
PASS (Plans for Achieving Self-Support) Accounts: Social Security allows recipients to earn and set aside income or gifts without limit to provide for future self-support, such as, for example, training or starting a business. To qualify, you must open a PASS account to receive the funds, and a self-support plan achievable in four years must be approved by a public or private agency. (For the requirements and procedures, get a copy of Working While Disabled: A Guide to Plans for Achieving Self-Support (PASS), publication #05-11017, from the Social Security Administration.)
To draw on these savings without jeopardizing your ability to bank your earned income and to continue Medicaid, get a credit card on the account; if your credit record is poor, this can be a secured card. You can then accumulate charges or cash advances on the credit card. As long as you make the minimum monthly payments and carry a balance on the credit card, your status is safe. But don't forget that you will have to pay off the credit card, and its accrued interest, at the end of the PASS period.
In addition, you may be offered disability and/or unemployment insurance on the card -- a common marketing move. Then, if you stop working because of health reasons, the insurance may pay your monthly minimum. Review a copy of the insurance contract to make sure this continues indefinitely; some plans pay only for one or two years. Bear in mind too that if the insurer decides to pay off your credit card balance, this may affect your PASS status and therefore your SSI and Medicaid benefits.
Do this only with extreme caution and careful planning.
AHIP (AIDS Health Insurance Program): One problem about leaving Medicaid and welfare to return to work is that premiums, deductibles, and copayments for private medical insurance can easily total $6,000 a year -- an amount that can lock many people into Medicaid and welfare benefits indefinitely. AHIP offers a way for people to get off Medicaid and welfare and acquire perhaps better medical care by paying the premium on individual or group insurance plans offered on their new jobs. If gross income remains below the AHIP qualification level of $1,257 a month, this program offers a way to obtain new improved coverage without unduly burdening the new income.
Section 1619: While SSI income benefits may be meager, the Medicaid that comes with it can be a lifesaver. Medicaid picks up the 20 percent copayment that Medicare doesn't, and pays for pharmaceuticals not covered by Medicare.
Section 1619 of the Social Security Act is little known and rarely used. It allows people who receive SSI to work and continue receiving benefits by waiving the Substantial Gainful Activity Rule if SSI and Medicaid contribute to your ability to work in spite of your medical condition. You need advance permission to invoke Section 1619.
To calculate a new countable Medicaid income, first deduct disability-related expenses. Then take off $85 as an income allowance, plus half of the remaining earned income. Compare the result to the SSI allowable income. Even if this new countable income is high enough to disallow your monthly SSI check, Section 1619 may allow you to continue to be eligible for Medicaid. These calculations are done by Social Security and transmitted to the state authorities responsible for Medicaid eligibility.
Since the idea is that you can remain on Medicaid as long as your new income doesn't equal the costs paid by Medicaid, you can continue to qualify for Medicaid under Section 1619 with an income up to about the average of $28,000 that is spent on people on Medicaid in New York.
This amount can be higher if you can show that your own medical and related expenses are higher than average -- which they often are for people with HIV. To do this, ask the Social Security office for an individual 1619 determination. This will include a computation of how much cash you spend on copays, how much Medicare and Medicaid spend on you, and how much any other insurance -- VA, ADAP, COBRA, Medicare -- spends on your medical expenses.
If it is determined, for example, that a total of $36,000 was spent on you, you are still considered poor enough to qualify for Medicaid even if your income is now $35,000. The key here is to know your rights, to be proactive, and to recognize the practical limits of the Social Security system. Getting an individual 1619 determination can take some time, and you may have to be rather insistent that all the figures be obtained. For example, if your Medicaid is provided under managed care, the Medicaid provider must recalculate the market cost of your care using rate tables and your medical records. If Social Security rules that you are no longer eligible for Medicaid, you can appeal this decision to an Administrative Law Judge who can subpoena this information. All this could drag on for quite some time -- during which you will remain Medicaid eligible.
New Legislation
In the fall of 1998, the Clinton administration announced plans to introduce legislation in 1999 that would allow people returning to work to purchase Medicaid coverage at reasonable rates. This would close a loophole that allowed insurers to charge extraordinarily high premiums for coverage that they were required to offer individuals without preexisting-condition exclusions.
Thomas P. McCormack, with whom the author consulted on preparation of this article, is a leading authority on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid regulations. He is the author of the AIDS Benefits Handbook and a frequent contributor to Body Positive. Among his relevant writings are:
"Can I Work While I'm on Social Security?" PWAC -- NY Newsline, May 1997
"Health Benefits Revised." Body Positive, January 1998.
"VA Benefits: Forgotten Resources for Forgotten People." Body Positive, October 1997.
Per Larson, author of the accompanying article, gives financial advice to people with HIV and other serious illnesses and conducts workshops at many healthcare and service organizations, such as Memorial Sloan Kettering, Cancer Care, Mothers of Children with AIDS, Friends In Deed, and Body Positive. He is the author of Gay Money and the following articles of interest to PWAs thinking of returning to work:
"It's Back to Work We Go" (teleconference). _Body Positiv_e, September 1998.
"Enough To Make You Sick: Protecting Disability Income." OUT, April 1998.
"Fine Whines: How To Keep Disability Benefits" POZ, April 1998.
"Disability: Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst: Designing Your Financial Future -- Now That You Have One." Positively Aware, March/April 1997.
"Disability Benefits: The Other Shoe Is Dropping." In The LIFE, December 1997.
"HIV: Back To Work?" In The LIFE, March 1997.
"New AIDS Drugs and the Realities of Disability Benefits." LGNY, March 7, 1997.
"Money Matters: Challenges Posed by the New AIDS Drugs." LGNY, March 30, 1997.
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Hey guys! Doing a redesign project based on the original trilogy, tackling the enemies, weapons, the player, bobs, the ships, etc...
Was wondering if any of you had thoughts on the Marathon's exterior shape itself. Being fashioned from Deimos, I do want it to have a somewhat organic shape to it, but sticking a satellite dish and some greebles on a lumpy potato shape could prove to look...odd.
If any of you have any suggestions (other ship designs, real spacecraft inspirations/tech specs, etc) to make it a bit more practical in design, without sacrificing its roots, I'm all ears!
Did a very quick sketch, more based off its sprite appearance from the first game, but admittedly it looks strange. Threw some influence from the USCSS Nostromo from Alien (1979) in there to break up the shape a bit, but feel it needs to be more streamlined, without going into generic territory.


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BALTIMORE – Visiting Vermont hit eight of its first 13 shots from behind the arc and went on to defeat UMBC, 73-47, in America East action at the RAC Arena.
The Catamounts won for the sixth consecutive time and improved to 10-8 overall and 4-0 in the conference. UMBC has dropped four of five, and slipped to 5-13 overall and 1-4 in league play.
The setback was UMBC's first at home since Nov. 20.
Vermont senior wing Candon Rusin buried his first four treys and scored 16 of his game-high 22 points in the first half. UMBC senior forward Chase Plummer (Plainfield, N.J./St. Patrick) led the Retrievers with 12 points and is one point shy of becoming the 12th player in school history to reach the 1,200-piont plateau.
The visitors bolted from the gate, as Rusin buried the first two treys of the game and Vermont took an 11-0 lead five minutes into the contest.
UMBC would get to within seven points on two occasions, both the result of scores by freshman wing Will Darley (Timonium, Md./Dulaney). His two free throws with 8:37 to play in the half cut the deficit to 19-12, but a subsequent run of 9-0 by Vermont restored a double-digit advantage.
UMBC misfired on 17 of 22 first half field goal attempts, committed 10 turnovers and trailed, 39-20, at intermission.
The Retrievers made a brief second-half run, cutting a 21-point deficit to 14 points on a Plummer layup with 13:14 remaining. But Vermont replied with a 8-2 surge, capped by treys from Luke Apfeld and Hector Harold and UMBC would not threaten the lead in the final 11 minutes.
UMBC freshman guard Rodney Elliott (Baltimore, Md./John Carroll) did manage to score 10 points, as he played only 17 minutes due to foul trouble. The first-year player has totaled double figures in 10 of his last 11 games and 14 of 18 this season.
But UMBC shot only 31.9 percent (15-of-47) from the field and were outrebounded, 41-24. Vermont cooled off after a torrid first half and settled at 44.2 percent (23-of-52) for the game. But the Catamounts connected on 9-of-17 from behind the arc for the game and 11-of-12 from the free throw line in the second half to salt the game away.
The Retrievers face another America East heavyweight on Monday, as Stony Brook visits on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The 2:00 p.m. contest will be televised by ESPNU.


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So you've got an iPhone 4 and you aren't 100 per cent sure about the onscreen keyboard.
While the easy option would be to just live with it and let the onscreen keyboard grow on you, the chaps at TypeTop have thought of a more round the houses way of dealing with the problem: create a Bluetooth keyboard that you can connect to the iPhone to tap out your emails on.
The TypeTop Bluetooth Mini Keyboard Case for iPhone 4 combines a hardwearing, protective koskin flip case and a full QWERTY Bluetooth mini keyboard.
The iPhone 4 slots into a plastic casing within the koskin case with the keyboard sitting beneath it in landscape.
Unfortunately it's almost impossible to get your phone out of the case quickly when you have a call and that means you'll have to hold it, the case, and the keyboard up to your face when talking to someone - yep it feels like you're back in the Eighties.
Out the back of the case is a flipout kickstand so the iPhone can be angled towards you so you can see the screen when typing, trouble is, it's not that sturdy and our test model kept falling over.
On to the keyboard, and there's no sudden turnaround. The QWERTY keyboard itself is about the same size and thickness of the iPhone with rubber ZX Spectrum style keys doubling the size of the device in your pocket, and making dedicated phones with slide out keyboards look decidedly thin.
The actual keys themselves are spongy with too much resistance making typing uncomfortable and harder than merely using the onscreen offering from Apple.
The keyboard does feature a built-in rechargeable battery, allowing the Bluetooth keyboard to be recharged via USB. When fully charged, the keyboard's battery should last for over 100 hours of use.
The case is also available as a French version iPhone 4 keyboard case and a German version iPhone 4 keyboard case, which can be purchased from sister sites mobilefun.fr and mobilefun.de respectively.
The TypeTop Bluetooth Mini Keyboard Case for iPhone 4 is a "nice" idea, but in reality it doesn't work, and should be avoided.


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Join us as Min Jin Lee, Alexander Chee, and Deborah Treisman gather to talk about and read from Denis Johnson final, posthumously published collection, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, featuring some of "the best fiction published by any American writer during this short century".
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Since the rancid Weiner (Anthony) announced his campaign for the mayoralty of New York, I've been looking for an excuse to enter the Weiner (punning) sweepstakes. Now I think the Houston Chronicle may have provided the fodder. Finding the local angle in a New York story, the Chronicle reports on Weiner's incredibly efficient rehabilitation in Houston:
Anthony Weiner's New York mayoral candidacy was only made more improbable today after he revealed that he visited a Houston psychiatric facility following his resignation from Congress in 2011.
Haunted by scandal surrounding his sexually explicit online communications with women, the Democratic former congressman sought treatment for his compulsive behavior from mental health professionals at the Gabbard Center.
According to its website, the facility provides "3-day outpatient psychiatric evaluation," particularly to "professionals who are in personal or professional crises."
While Weiner did not disclose his diagnosis, he told the New York Daily News that the Center was critical in his "journey" to becoming a "new man."
"It wasn't an addiction thing," he told the Daily News. "I mean, it was just a place to get away and to meet people…who might be able to help."
In his resignation statement, Weiner said that his main priority upon stepping down was to "heal from the damage that I have caused." Weiner told the Daily News that he "didn't go to rehab anywhere" – simply that he worked with a referred therapist at the Center over a few days.
In his resignation statement, Weiner brilliantly turned himself from a perpetrator into a victim. He needed to "heal from the damage" that he had caused. Let the healing begin! For a man in a hurry, three days sounds about right.
Where did Weiner turn for advice on his short road to rehabilitation? He could have turned to the Big He who officiated at his wedding, but Clinotn would surely have advised a more plausible timeline on the journey to becoming "a new man." Three days!
We know, however, that the journey to new manhood isn't over yet. It won't be complete without the help of the New York voters whose assistance Weiner requires to achieve victory in the race for the Democratic nomination.
UPDATE: I see Wesley Pruden is thinking along the same lines, and the New York Times is covering Weiner's raucous reentry on the campaign trail.


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Here's a remarkable surprise, an excellent independent comedy that was filmed in 1970 but shelved
as unreleaseable when audiences didn't laugh and distributors turned their backs. Twenty years later,
the filmmaker made a VHS transfer to show his kids, and the telecine operator thought it was
hilarious. Several film festival successes later, Michael Roemer's The Plot Against Harry
became an independent hit - long after it had been written off as a total failure.
Officially a 1989 release, The Plot Against Harry is like a New York time capsule back to
1969, a droll comedy with a loveably luckless leading man who becomes sympathetic in spite of
himself. Its style has been compared to Woody Allen and John Cassavetes but isn't really like
either of those films. The big disappointment in 1990 was that we would have liked to see the
actors do more work - they're marvelous - but they were all twenty years older.
Harry Plotnik is the sad sack of the New York underworld, a numbers middle-manager who probably
was given the easy job years before and immediately took the easy money and cushy lifestyle as
a given. His slightly sunken face and tired eyes know a good monetary deal from a bad one, but
apart from that he's a fairly confused guy. His racket isn't well organized and he hasn't the
gangster instincts to get things back in order after a short jail term - his underlings just walk
away with the business while he watches helplessly. Several films noir dealt with obsolete
hoodlums being deposed by evolving rackets (I Walk Alone, The Gangster) but Harry simply
realizes he's being eased out by sharper sharpies. Instead of being met with violence, he's just
plain ignored. It's a humiliation he has no choice to accept.
At the same time Harry rediscovers his family, a delightful bunch. His ex-wife Kay is quietly
amused to introduce him to his own grown daughters. One is married to a bookkeeper that gets
entangled in Harry's accounts, ledger books that should have "indict me" written on the cover.
The other daughter is a flighty model who wants to run away to get married.
Harry's only response to life's problems is to throw money at them, a habit Kay knows well. Immediately
after the reunion, he shows up with fur coats for all three of his girls. At first Harry seems
to be ingratiating himself with his estranged relatives because he'll need a new business, but
their attention and company grow on him. Without becoming sentimental in the slightest way, we
see Harry re-orient himself to a happier life.
As a comedy, The Plot Against Harry works almost entirely with droll situations and amusing
character interaction - there are no laugh lines or comedy contrivances. Harry's maladroit chauffeur
isn't very smart, but Harry soon realizes that yelling at him does no good. Leo, the new business
partner (Ben Lang), is an always-smiling and ingratiating fellow who asks Harry to don a yarmulke
in his kosher kitchen, and later tries to help salvage Harry's reputation by letting him join a
cockeyed secret society in a silly ceremony. Harry's newfound philanthropy is clearly an attempt to
buy back his good name, but after seeing the "charming" fund-raisers sink their claws into his
bank accounts, we're soon solidly on his side. In one hilarious scene Harry appears before
a crime-busting committee. He's so confused that he tries to plead the 5th Amendment, and then has
to be reminded that he's a friendly witness.
Harry's drama works itself into mock-tragedy mode, as he thinks that he's in line for an imminent
fatal heart attack. He's stricken while backstage at a telethon, in what might be taken as a parody
of Chaplin's
Limelight. The marvel is in the
perfect casting and consistent tone ... a bit slow but always attuned to character. With modern
audiences now more appreciative of ethnic comedy, The Plot Against Harry now plays like
a lost American classic.
New Video's DVD of The Plot Against Harry is a fine enhanced transfer of a very good B&W
element, showing off the film's crisp camerawork and snappy pace. We really like the actors,
especially leads Martin Priest, Maxine Woods and Ben Lang, and it's a shame that they had to wait
twenty years to see their good work appreciated.
Filmmaker Michael Roemer was already very well-known in film circles as the director of the
earlier independent film Nothing But a Man, a movie about race relations that was reportedly
a favorite of Malcolm X. He and cameraman-partner Robert M. Young appear in a crudely-shot but
entertaining interview piece, telling their entire career story. Roemer says he interviewed real
call-girls and befriended Harlem numbers kingpin Bumpy Johnson as research, and we feel his
disappointment as he explains how test audiences watched the film in bored silence and distributors
walked out of screenings. We're just happy that he didn't junk the film or lose track of it, as
has happened with other "orphaned" pictures like
Incubus. The Plot Against
Harry didn't have stars, big laughs or an easily-communicated genre hook; it wasn't until several
years later that tiny independent pictures like
Hester Street started
finding success despite the dominance of studio product in the theater chains.
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor,
The Plot Against Harry rates:
Movie: Excellent
Video: Excellent
Sound: Excellent
Supplements: interview docu
Packaging: Keep case
Reviewed: May 3, 2005
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (Blugolds.com) – The UW-Eau Claire football picked up its first win of the season, defeating UW-Stout 21-13 on Homecoming at Carson Park today.
The Blugolds defeated UW-Stout for the second straight year and will keep "The War on Interstate 94" trophy in Eau Claire.
Both teams started slow and the first quarter saw no scoring and a combined 71 yards of total offense (36 for Stout, 35 for Eau Claire).
But in the second quarter, Stout put points on the board just three minutes in with Ricky Marteney kicking a 43-yard field goal to give the Blue Devils the 3-0 lead. Three drives later, the Blugolds traveled 95 yards in 13 plays and Austin Neu (Sr.-Iron Ridge, Wis./Hustisford) capped the drive with a 14-yard pass to Jared Staege (Fr.-Waunakee, Wis.) for a touchdown. After the extra point by Josh Albrecht (Sr.-Eau Claire, Wis./North) the Blugolds took a 7-3 lead, a lead they took into halftime.
With the Blugolds starting with the ball in the second half, they were traveling down the field well but Neu threw an interception, which was returned 38 yards, and Stout scored five plays later.
Down 10-7, Eau Claire forced a fumble on Stout's next drive and recovered on the Blugolds' 36. After five plays, the Blugolds found themselves on Stout's 32 and Neu found some room to run, and he made it to the end zone to give the Blugolds a narrow lead again.
Stout closed the gap to just one point (14-13) early in the fourth quarter after Marteney hit a 20-yard field goal. But the Blugolds answered on the following drive as Neu completed a touchdown pass to Austin Goetsch (Sr.-Waunakee, Wis.) for 21 yards. Albrecht again made the extra point to give Eau Claire a 21-13 lead with 7:25 remaining.
On the Blue Devils' final drive, they moved the ball well but Tyler Janus (Sr.-Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) intercepted a pass to end the nine-play drive, and Eau Claire was able to run out the clock for their first win of 2012.
Despite the slow start, both teams finished with more than 300 yards of offense. The Blugolds had 302 (121 rushing, 167 passing) while Stout had 326 (164 rushing, 195 passing). Stout fumbled the ball four times, losing two of them, while Eau Claire fumbled once but recovered it. Each team picked off a pass.
Neu led the Blugolds with 93 yards rushing on 18 carries while Joel Sweeney (Jr.-Tomah, Wis.) finished with 32 yards. Neu actually had 130 positive rushing yards but he was sacked six times, which brought his total down. He finished 16-for-25 with 181 yards passing while Goetsch led the Blugolds with 46 yards receiving on four catches.
On defense, Nick Slade (Sr.-St. Cloud, Minn./Tech) finished with six tackles to lead Eau Claire while Jimmy Hall (Sr.-Howards Grove, Wis.) and Matt Hawley (Sr.-Hewitt, Wis./Marshfield) each had a sack. Sean Graham (Jr.-Hales Corners, Wis./Whitnall) and Jake Safstrom (Jr.-Grafton, Wis.) both recovered fumbles while Kyle Thorpe (Sr.-Stanley, Wis./Stanley-Boyd) and Nate Johnson (Sr.-Madison, Wis./La Follette) each forced one.
With the victory, the Blugolds improve to 14-1-1 all-time against Stout on Homecoming and 50-34-6 overall in a series going back to 1917. All-time on Homecoming, the Blugolds are 53-26-8, winning eight of the last nine.
Eau Claire is now 1-3 on the season and 1-0 in the WIAC. Stout drops to 2-2 overall and 0-1 in conference play.
Next Saturday the Blugolds will head to 21st-ranked UW-Oshkosh to face the Titans at 2 p.m. Oshkosh is currently 4-0 on the season and 1-0 in the conference after beating UW-River Falls 19-7 today.
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Arizona's Culture of Fear
A resulting example is that victims of domestic violence are not
aware that they are protected from deportation under federal law--Violence against Women Act.
[Comment: On Fear]
Two weeks ago, UCC General Minister and President Geoffrey Black and I visited Arizona.
Our purpose was to meet with and listen to church and community leaders who have been working on the various issues surrounding the passage of Arizona Senate Bill 1070. While 1070 is steeped in political debate about who is on the "right" side of the question, people are living in fear. Fear seems to be dominating the culture and climate of Arizona.
We were moved by the ongoing efforts of samaritans who go out into the heat of the desert sun to assist persons who may be injured or in need of food and water. We listened to their stories of human encounters with migrants crossing the desert, verified by our own trip into the desert where temperatures were nearing 110 degrees.
We found discarded backpacks, children's shoes, blankets, pieces of clothing, and empty water bottles; all evidence of human existence under brush and trees, in ditches, and on pathways leading northward. Saving lives is the primary mission of these courageous samaritans who want to continue their generous work but are afraid of the legal repercussions brought upon by this new Arizona law. Fear resides in circles of compassion.
Victims of crimes such as robbery and domestic violence are afraid to report it because they do not have the documents required for legal status in the United States. Organizations are doing their best to provide information through group meetings and public forums about legal protection, but fear prevents many from attending.
Information that is essential to victims is not reaching them. A resulting example is that victims of domestic violence are not
aware that they are protected from deportation under federal law--Violence against Women Act. Instead they tell stories about the threats by their abusers warning that if they report the abuse, they will see to it that the she is deported and lose her children. Fear prevails in the home.
We were privileged to be part of a church gathering where members came together to share a meal, demonstrating love and support to brothers and sisters making plans to leave the state or return to a country they have never known. These are families who are made up of members with differing documentation status. Some are in the legalization process, some who are citizens by birthright, and others who have lived in Arizona for decades but never had enough money to apply for legal documents.
Latino church members, afraid to go to church, shared their stories of how lonely it is to no longer be able to worship with their church family. Besides loneliness, they expressed fear. Fear of arrest for no reason; fear that a loved one will be deported without notification; or fear that their children will be left behind. Fear comes into the church sanctuary.
Community and church based coalitions are larger and stronger than at anytime in recent history. They are organizing nonviolent demonstrations, candle light vigils, prayer circles, visits to elected officials, educational forums, law suits, and voter registration. While fear is the dominating factor, hope and solidarity is also evident. It was an honor to be among courageous and committed church leaders who recognize that God is a God of justice and in that truth we take comfort.
The United Church of Christ (UCC) has more than 5,300 churches throughout the United States.
"Speaking Truth To Empower."
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Mike Rogers Tries To Make The Case That Glenn Greenwald Should Be Prosecuted For 'Selling Stolen Material'
from the is-he-insane? deptRep. Mike Rogers apparently just can't help but spin wild and ridiculous conspiracy theories. Fresh off his latest attempt to argue that Ed Snowden is a Russian spy -- an argument debunked by just about everyone, including his Senatorial counterpart Dianne Feinstein -- it appears he's now decided to pick up the ridiculously insane thread kicked off (purposefully) last week by Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, hinting that journalists who reported on Ed Snowden are somehow "accomplices" who can be prosecuted.
During a House Intelligence Committee in which many members (from both parties) angrily criticized the intelligence community, Rogers continued to do everything possible to defend them, including pushing the bogus argument that Glenn Greenwald "sold stolen goods" in questions to FBI director James Comey:
Glenn Greenwald is not named, but that's clearly who they are targeting. A few folks have brought up the ridiculous charges of him "selling" the Snowden leaks to news organizations, but that's clearly bullshit. Greenwald has been doing freelance journalism work for a while. Publications pay him in the same way they pay any freelancer. He's not selling any documents at all -- and in fact has shared many of the documents with multiple publications for their own reporting activities.
REP. ROGERS: You -- there have been discussions about selling of access to this material to both newspaper outlets and other places. Mr. Comey, to the best of your knowledge, is fencing stolen material -- is that a crime?
DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY: Yes, it is.
REP. ROGERS: And would be selling the access of classified material that is stolen from the United States government -- would that be a crime?
DIR. COMEY: It would be. It's an issue that can be complicated if it involves a news-gathering and news promulgation function, but in general, fencing or selling stolen property is a crime.
REP. ROGERS: So if I'm a newspaper reporter for -- fill in the blank -- and I sell stolen material, is that legal because I'm a newspaper reporter?
DIR. COMEY: Right, if you're a newspaper report and you're hocking stolen jewelry, it's still a crime.
REP. ROGERS: And if I'm hocking stolen classified material that I'm not legally in possession of for personal gain and profit, is that not a crime?
DIR. COMEY: I think that's a harder question because it involves a news-gathering functions -- could have First Amendment implications. It's something that probably would be better answered by the Department of Justice.
REP. ROGERS: So entering into a commercial enterprise to sell stolen material is acceptable to a legitimate news organization?
DIR. COMEY: I'm not sure I'm able to answer that question in the abstract.
REP. ROGERS: It's something we ought to think about, is it not?
DIR. COMEY: Certainly.
REP. ROGERS: And so if there are accomplices in purveying stolen information, shouldn't we be concerned about that?
DIR. COMEY: We should be concerned about all the facts surrounding the theft of classified information and its promulgation.
REP. ROGERS: Hmm. And interesting that over the -- again, the Munich Conference, where we had individuals tell us that in fact there are individuals who are saying to be in possession of this information who are eager to sell this information to other news organizations, would that be a legitimate exercise on behalf of a reporter?
DIR. COMEY: That's a question -- now you're getting from the general to the particular. I don't want to talk about the case in particular because it's an active investigation of ours.
REP. ROGERS: It's an active investigation for accomplices brokering in stolen information?
DIR. COMEY: We are looking at the totality of the circumstances around the theft and promulgation.
It's pretty clear that Rogers is continuing his desperate, despicable and downright McCarthy-like arguments in an attempt to create chilling effects and to protect his friends in the intelligence community. You'd think that someone who is supposed to uphold the Constitution would respect the freedom of the press, but Rogers seems to be actively trying to stifle it -- just like his staff did to me last year, when they lied about me and told reporters that they could sue me for defamation.
Rogers has shown time and time again that he's little more than a lumbering bully who will do pretty much anything to protect his friends in the intelligence community, even if that means trampling all over the Constitution. Rogers can push these claims as much as he wants. I think it's unlikely that the DOJ would go anywhere near charging a reporter with "selling stolen goods" in a case like this, because they know that argument would almost certainly fail. That means the only reason Rogers is doing this is to try to scare off people with bluster and threats. Thankfully, most of the people that's targeted at actually understand the law and the Constitution, and take such threats as clear suggestions that they're on the right track. It all makes you wonder, just what does Mike Rogers want to keep hidden so badly?
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On Saturday we went for a quick stop at Target to pick up birthday present for Nikolas' three year old cousin. We eventually found a present but on the way to the toy aisle I found myself veering off the intended path (as I often do) and spotting the most fantastic coral and orange striped ombre pillows.
Ombre and stripes…need I say more? I nearly died in the aisle at the gorgeousness of these pillows and they were on sale for $12.99 (unfortunately they're not sold online or I'd give you a link 😉 ). Score. I thought about it for a quick second, eyed them up again, looked over my shoulder to see if anyone else had spotted them…stalking me about to fly in and snatch them up right under my nose.
Of course, I couldn't let that happen so in the cart they went and I never looked back.
They're not advertised as outdoor pillows but I think that's more about what they're stuffed with rather than the fabric outside. It's a durable feeling cotton canvas material and because I love them so much I've decided they are worth it to keep outside for the summer and bring them in at night and during chance of rain.
Did I mentioned they also had a coordinating drink tray? The ex-waitress in me is jumping for joy. The added bit of color is just what I was looking for in this space. I'm loving them so far.
Anyone else make any recent awesome purchases lately. Do you get paranoid at someone might snatch it out of your hands when you find something you really love? Have you been to Target recently? They had so many amazing things this past weekend I could have brought the whole store home with me.
Well that's it for me today, talk to you all tomorrow 🙂


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The map is also downloadable below. Simply use the move and zoom functions in your Adobe Acrobat Reader to view different areas of the map at larger scales. You can print specific sections by selecting 'Print Current View' and then selecting 'Fit to Printable Area' and 'Colour' in your print settings.
Cycle paths have been introduced in Verulamium Park to provide better off-road cycling connections in St Albans. The map below shows where these cycle routes are.
If you notice any faults with roads or pavements, please report these to Herts County Council or call 01438 737320. Faults relating to the Alban Way or Nicky Line should be reported by emailing St Albans City and District Council's Green Spaces Team at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 01727 819366.
Separate leaflets are also available for each of the off-road cycle routes in the district. These can be downloaded by following the links below. Paper copies can be obtained from the Tourist Information Centre or by calling 01727 866100.


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June 8, 2013: Do You Believe In Magic - Includes a brief interview with Chris Stamey!
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|Lovin' Spoonful, The
|Do You Believe In Magic?
|Lisa Mychols
|Make Believe
|Jim and Jesse McReynolds
|Roll Over Beethoven
|Vernon and Jewel
|A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around & Fall In Love)
|Louis Prima with Sam Butera & the Witnesses
|Scuba Diver
|Wild Eyes
|Robbie Fulks
|Just The Way It Goes
|Lucky Millinder
|Grape Vine
|Sprague Brothers, The
|I'll Be true
|Challengers, The
|My Girl Sloopy
|Sanford Clark
|They Call Me Country
|Jackson 5
|Dancing Machine (alt version)
|dB's, The
|We Should Be In Bed
|Chris Stamey
|Chris Stamey
|Astronomy (live at WFMU)
|Buckinghams, The
|I've Been Wrong Before
|Rod Morris
|cOLD cold Cormbread
|Ricardo Ray
|Nitty Gritty
|Peggy Lee
|I Go To Sleep
|Amy Rigby
|Keep It To Yourself
|Jerry Reed
|Too Busy Cryin The Blues
|Lee Dorsey
|You're Breaking Me Up
|Evelyn Freeman
|Didn't it Rain, Children?
|Mark Bacino
|Russell Stone
|The Same Mistake
|Merle Travis
|Let's Settle Down (to running around together)
|Drifters, The
|Didn't It?
|Nick Lowe
|My Heart Hurts
|Liverpool Five, The
|A Shot of Rhythm and Blues
|Leroy Pullins
|Even The Worst Was Wonderful
|Ray Charles
|Tell the Truth
|Jonny Polonsky
|Truly Ugly And Dead, Too
|Don Win
|Viet Nam Refuge Center
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CLICK HERE for a not quite right piece called "The Rising Cost of New Vinyl"
CLICK HERE for 10 of the all-time greatest disc jockeys - with audio clips of their chatter
CLICK HERE this train wreck is a great microcosm of what is wrong with the world.
CLICK HERE for Nina Simone: nutty but good.
CLICK HERE for a few actual kind hearted people who would like to give $1 million to each and every person in America but are unfortunately not all that good at math
CLICK HERE for a series of Beatles vocal harmony tutorials
CLICK HERE to read: KISS' Paul Stanley: 'I Don't Need The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame'
CLICK HERE to read: An Open Letter From a Bar Owner to Musicians!
CLICK HERE to read "Van Dyke Parks: 'I was victimised by Brian Wilson's buffoonery' ".
CLICK HERE to watch revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.
CLICK HERE to watch a video that proves: Andy Kaufman Lives!
CLICK HERE to see why Bob Lefsetz thinks the Stones' tour is a greedy failure, and how the band is clueless.
CLICK HERE to see John Lydon's handwritten response to the U.S. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame regarding the induction of the Sex Pistols in 1996.
CLICK HERE for "Here Are Idiot Celebrities Talking Out Of Their Asses About Punk At Last Night's Met Gala".
CLICK HERE to watch the entire Minutemen documentary "We Jam Econo"
CLICK HERE for WFMU's Dave Mandl's Slate article "Same Old Song? Not Exactly. Many classic hits are secretly re-recorded. Can this be stopped?"
CLICK HERE for Lawrence O'Donnell's take on Wayne LaPierre's speech.
CLICK HERE for "22 geniously defaced textbooks & exam papers"
CLICK HERE to see Elvis & Elmo sing "The Monster Went And Ate My Red 2"
CLICK HERE for an horrifying video - who's behind this?
CLICK HERE to see Robin Zander's "son"
CLICK HERE to watch Antoine Dodson explain how he has renounced homosexuality, and has become a "True Chosen Hebrew Israelite descendant of Judah," and now wants a wife.
CLICK HERE to read what my man Eddie Deezen has to say about "Revolution 9".
CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.
CLICK HERE for Kim Shattuck.
CLICK HERE to watch what happens when 2 monkeys were paid unequally.
CLICK HERE for info in Eric Kayser - now in NYC on 3rd Ave.
CLICK HERE to find out why people believe in conspiracy theories.
CLICK HERE for Rachel Maddow on Alex Jones' Conspiracies.
CLICK HERE to watch "Music Man Murray," a short film about a record collector/dealer.!
CLICK HERE to see how to clean records with glue!
CLICK HERE to see kids at Coachella pretend they've heard of bands that don't actually exist.
CLICK HERE for a nice piece on The Cowsills!
I love THESE Beach Boy videos!
CLICK HERE for Jerry Lewis Telethon Bloopers - Part 1 !
CLICK HERE for Jerry Lewis Telethon Bloopers - Part 2 !
CLICK HERE for more Jerry. the whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.
CLICK HERE for The Worst Work Stations Ever
CLICK HERE to see Google interview Nick Lowe after his Live@Google performance in Mountain View. To get the two tracks for free from this performance CLICK HERE
There's some controversy about the coin toss that decided who would get seats in the plane that crashed on February 3, 1959 and killed Buddy Holly, Richie Vallens & Big Bopper. CLICK HERE for "An open Letter & Challenge to Dion from Tommy Allsup" then CLICK HERE for Dion's version from "The Wanderer Talks Truth"
CLICK HERE to explore & watch a short film on The Cosimo Code, an attempt to catalog every Cosimo Matassa 45!
CLICK HERE for the Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960s!
CLICK HERE to hear The Ramones comment on Phil Spector!
CLICK HERE for a great time waster.
CLICK HERE for Lance Shabazz's super cheaply made JOE TEX documentary!
CLICK HERE for "The Beatles - 12 Hours To Please Me!" from the BBC - featuring some interesting stuff AND that thing that drives me nuts - contemporary folks covering the Beatles - some ok, some blah!
CLICK HERE for proof: destruction of the Death Star was an inside job.
I'm a huge Sonny Curtis fan. CLICK HERE for a recent interview.
CLICK HERE for a nice Spin piece on Jerry "Swamp Dogg" Williams
CLICK HERE for a video about Wealth Inequality in America
CLICK HERE for info on why Brian Wilson is the devil!!
CLICK HERE for "I Was a Teenage Fake Zombie"
CLICK HERE and enjoy the part that starts 2:25 in.
CLICK HERE for Los Shakers - Siempre tú
September 21st, 1939, radio station WJSV in Washington, D.C., recorded their entire broadcast day -- CLICK HERE to hear it!
CLICK HERE for Albums that never were (but should have been!)
CLICK HERE for info on an amazing new drug: Unpretentiousil!
CLICK HERE for info session guitarist Vincent Bell.
CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!
CLICK HERE for Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby's "Do You Remember That" Official Video !
CLICK HERE for info and a trailer for a new documentary on the Muscle Shoals sound!
CLICK HERE for The dB's live on World Cafe!
CLICK HERE for some info on Gabriel, the genius behind "Buzzard Lope" !
CLICK HERE for Long Bets.
CLICK HERE for "Drifter Kills Guy With A Hatchet The Gives INSANE Interview".
CLICK HERE for "The Story of Pat and Lolly Vegas" - former guest Pat Vegas drives around L.A. and talks about their history.
CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!
CLICK HERE for some minor key songs reworked into major keys.
CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios
CLICK HERE to see Beastie Boy Mike D's lovely $9 a square foot wallpaper!
CLICK HERE to read "The Beatles and the Art of the Tambourine"
CLICK HERE to watch a robot band cover The Ramones
CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret"
CLICK HERE for "Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work" !
CLICK HERE for an article about Sandy Hook truthers who think they've found "absolute proof" that the Newtown shootings were a hoax.
CLICK HERE to find out who played bass on some of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
CLICK HERE for a great Beach Boys Interview from 1964 (starts @ 1:30).
CLICK HERE for seven minutes of David Bowie getting pissed off during interviews.
Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version.
CLICK HERE for a short film which explains how Mellotrons work.
CLICK HERE Led Zeppelin vs The Beatles - Whole Lotta Helter Skelter !
CLICK HERE for Chuck Berry's 1980 thoughts about The Sex Pistols, Talking Heads and Clash records.
CLICK HERE for Famous Album Covers Revisited Using Google Street View .
CLICK HERE to go to a useless website like THIS ONE.
CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン! (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)
CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete gargbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."
CLICK HERE for a similar 156 page "Book On Demand" titled "Nick Lowe" that boasts being made from "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!" What is the world coming to? Only $19.95.
CLICK HERE for info on Warren Zanes!
CLICK HERE for the FREE download of "No Good To Cry" by The Explorers Club!
Listener comments!
Sat. 6/8/13 11:03am
Mike East:
what a segue!
Sat. 6/8/13 11:10am
A great soundtrack to what has been an already "eventful" AM: I DO BELIEVE!!!
Sat. 6/8/13 11:27am
Mike East:
thanks for the nina simone, michael. great stuff
Sat. 6/8/13 11:28am
Juke Joint Jonny:
More Lucky Millinder please!
Sat. 6/8/13 11:29am
Michael Shelley:
Sat. 6/8/13 11:32am
I've gotta check out more of Lisa Mychols!
Sat. 6/8/13 11:38am
Michael Shelley:
If you like that song, you'll like the whole lp!
Sat. 6/8/13 11:44am
mark in toronto:
that sanford clark song is great. is there any lee hazlewood involvement ie production?
Sat. 6/8/13 11:45am
Phelger Nank:
5-sack Jon!
Sat. 6/8/13 11:47am
Michael Shelley:
Mark - yes
Sat. 6/8/13 11:52am
Phelger Nank:
Chris Stamey: 'e es my Christ.
Sat. 6/8/13 12:02pm
clarke martty:
i will go on record saying that yes: those first dB's records ARE very close to my equivalent of Big Star!!!
Sat. 6/8/13 12:03pm
clarke martty:
since i am friends with chris - i guess i never told him that (or peter)
Sat. 6/8/13 12:05pm
clarke martty:
once again: such a great interview thanks MS!
Sat. 6/8/13 12:07pm
Mike East:
Never thought I'd hear you encourage people to eat hotdogs...but now I rEally want a hotdog from Katz's
Sat. 6/8/13 12:08pm
Mike East:
Or a corned beef sandwich
Sat. 6/8/13 12:09pm
clarke martty:
das Pastrami ist zehr GUT!!!
Sat. 6/8/13 12:09pm
mark in toronto:
quick, who covers this Buckinghams song? it's driving me crazy.
Sat. 6/8/13 12:09pm
Phelger Nank:
As, hem, butch king
Sat. 6/8/13 12:13pm
pacific standard simon:
That Sneakers - In The Red 7" was one of my gateway records to indie productions; I bought it by mail from an ad in the back of BOMP! magazine, I think.
Sat. 6/8/13 12:15pm
Peggy Lee singing "I go to sleep." Perfection. Thank you for playing this.
Sat. 6/8/13 12:17pm
pacific standard simon:
Take that, Will Rigby!
Sat. 6/8/13 12:19pm
Well, I've only had the radio on for 20 minutes, but damn, it's been kicking ass so far. Once again, I'll say, Eric is one lucky guy.
Sat. 6/8/13 12:20pm
Mrs. Parq just said, Amy is channeling Porter Wagner.
Sat. 6/8/13 12:28pm
Sat. 6/8/13 12:29pm
clarke martty:
also, now that i think about it, since we are lauding Chris Stamey, today: the guy has given me all kinds of (free!) recording advice and suggestions, and guidance!!! not to mention recording and mixing a LOT of great records, himself!!!
Sat. 6/8/13 12:39pm
mark in toronto:
Sat. 6/8/13 12:43pm
Mike East:
<---this kid just ate almost a whole avocado!
Sat. 6/8/13 12:43pm
pacific standard simon:
No day is perfect without a hit of Nick.
Sat. 6/8/13 12:44pm
Michael Shelley:
I ate a whole one this morning
Sat. 6/8/13 12:45pm
Michael Shelley:
I average about 5 a week - usually for lunch
Sat. 6/8/13 12:45pm
Pacific... I concur.
Sat. 6/8/13 12:47pm
pacific standard simon:
Mashed avocado = perfect on a bagel if you've given up cream cheese.
Sat. 6/8/13 12:48pm
Mike East:
that was the last one. now off to the grocery store to get more. see y'all later. great show this morning, michael
Sat. 6/8/13 12:49pm
mark in toronto:
speaking of cream cheese, try the chocolate Philadelphia - not quite Nutella, but not bad
Sat. 6/8/13 12:56pm
Jimmy Wipper:
I remember seeing the fabulous Goofy Foot at Maxwells!
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The recently announced 2010 Opel Insignia and Vauxhall VXR could spawn another variant we would love to own: the Buick Regal GNX.
With the Buick Regal proving to be a huge sales success here in China, and the Regal 2.0 Turbo planned for a reveal at the Shanghai Auto Show next week, the chances of a high-performance version being developed (or badge swapped) is entirely within the realm of possibility.
As strange as it may sound, Audi is Buick's biggest competitor here in the People's Republic of China and the A4 is the Regal's main foe. Audi also sells the high-performance S4 model here, which is also the Opel Insignia OPC and Vauxhall Insignia VXR's performance target. Why not slap a Buick waterfall grille and a GNX badge on this biatch and call it a day? We've seen stranger things happen.


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Pharrell Reveals CeeLo Green Originally Passed on 'Happy' [VIDEO]
Pharrell surprised us all when he broke down in tears while speaking to Oprah Winfrey about the global success of 'Happy' earlier this month. However, that very well could have been CeeLo Green getting all teary-eyed since the movie soundtrack cut-turned-pop culture phenomenon was originally given to him to record.
The Neptunes producer revealed this gem of news during an interview with Howard Stern on Tuesday (April 29). CeeLo passed on 'Happy' before Pharrell made it his. The rest is history.
"The powers that be at the time did not see it fit for him," he says. "There was a much bigger agenda for him, he had an album to put out. He wanted to do it but some folks on his team just felt the priority should have been on his album at the time."
Though CeeLo didn't record that track, he had a similar chart-topping reign with his smash hit 'F— You,' often censored as 'Forget You.' The track was inescapable in 2010, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. 'Happy' currently reigns at No. 1.
Another interesting tidbit is the story behind the Pharrell-produced songs on Justin Timberlake's 'Justified' LP. He originally offered those songs to the late Michael Jackson before the King of Pop's team turned them down. Jackson was still a fan of his work, however.
"Later he sang me all those songs and told me they should have been his and I told him they were for him," Pharrell says.
Listen to Pharrell Speak on CeeLo Passing on 'Happy'