text: Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XVIII Studio:Shout! Factory US DVD Release Date: July 13, 2010 Rated: Not Rated Running Time: 400 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 full screen Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 (English) Subtitles: None In the not too distant future, somewhere in time and space… Movie: 3.5 out of 5 Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) was the brainchild of Joel Hodgson, a former prop comic and frequent guest on Saturday Night Live and Late Night With David Letterman. Basically an extension of the popular hosted movie format made famous by Vampira and Elvira, the original premise was that Joel (and later Mike Nelson), along with his robot companions Crow and Tom Servo, were sent into space, orbiting the planet and forced to watch bad movies by Dr. Clayton Forrester (Trace Beaulieu). The show first aired on local Minneapolis-St. Paul UHF station KTMA in a very crude form in 1988, but was picked up by the Comedy Channel (now Comedy Central) as one of its first series a year later. The series survived for seven seasons, then moved to Sci-Fi for three additional seasons, finally falling out of first-run orbit in 1999. Volume 18 is the sixth set of episodes to be released by Shout! Factory. Disc One features an episode from season two, Experiment #208, The Lost Continent, starring Cesar Romero (best known as The Joker from TV's Batman) and Hugh Beaumont (best known from TV's Leave It To Beaver). A rocket armed with a nuclear warhead is lost, and pilot Romero leads the rescue mission, with a team of scientists in tow, and find a prehistoric world on the top of a mountain. The episode is best known for Joel and the robots' agony of watching the film's never-ending rock climbing sequence (Servo: No one will be admitted during the breathtaking climbing scene. Joel: Rock climbing, Crow.), as well as the numerous references to Syd Field's How-To books on screenwriting. Although considered to be a fan favorite, I found the pacing of the riffs to be slow, and the overall episode to be average. But this is from the second season, and MST3K didn't hit its stride until season three, with such episodes as Cave Dwellers, Pod People, and The Amazing Colossal Man. Disc Two includes an episode from season four, Experiment #417, Crash of the Moons, edited together from a three-episode story arc from the 1950s television series, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, in which Rocky and his crew try to bring two civilizations together before the two moons they are living on collide and explode. The only notable star in the film is John Banner, best known for his role as Sgt. Schultz from Hogan's Heroes, as Bavarro, the leader of the more civilized world. As with the episode on Disc One, I found Crash of the Moons to be somewhat laborious to get through, but the laughs are more consistent, even referring back to the General Hospital excerpt that is riffed earlier in the episode. Host segments include Joel and the 'Bots performing an advertisement for a Banner-Gram, Crow trying to earn money selling Grit (not the magazine, but actual grit), and Tom Servo, Crow, and Gypsy perform their rendition of the song Gypsy Moon. Experiment #621, The Beast of Yucca Flats, from season 6, completes the Coleman Francis MST3K Trilogy on DVD. Before the feature, Mike and the 'Bots are forced to watch the educational short, Money Talks!, in which a silhouetted Ben Franklin instructs teenager William on how to manage his money and keep to a budget. The riffs are pretty good, including references to Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Wizard of Oz, and Dragnet. The guys are then subjected to a promotional film from 1973 on Puerto Rico, Progress Island, U.S.A. The short is very dated, with its leisure suits and jazzy Shaft-like score, and the riffs enjoyable. Servo: A Quinn Martin Production, All: Puerto Rico!! The feature film, The Beast of Yucca Flats, is a truly horrible film, only made better by the constant riffing on the bizarre directing style of Coleman Francis (all dialogue is spoken off screen, lots of shots of approaching cars). Favorite quotes include: Mike: Tor Johnson as The Beast, that's just smart casting. Crow: Real, actual dialogue! Servo: There was no such thing as clinical depression until this film was made. Servo: This movie stops at nothing, and stays there. Disc Four contains a gem of an episode from season eight, Experiment #813, Jack Frost, the first Sci-Fi Channel era episode to veer away from science fiction or horror. This is a very goofy Russian-Finnish production, sort of a mish-mash of fairy tale legends of the likes of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, with a dash of Hansel and Gretel for good measure. Characters in the film include the lovely Nastinka who is despised by her wicked step mother, Ivan the handsome hero who must learn to be polite to elderly mushroom men otherwise they will turn you into a bear, along with an assortment of witches, mountain men, and the title character himself, Jack Frost, who doesn't appear in the film until the last half. Favorite riffs from the episode include Mike: The names are all Russian for Allan Smithee, Crow: Bite me, Wok-Head!, Servo: I'm a welder by day and a dancer by night, Crow: I thought Jerry Garcia was Father Mushroom, Servo: Apparently there is no Finnish word for "subtle." Host segments include the odd Michael Nelson: Lord of the Dance, Brain Guy having to tend to Bobo's hygiene routines, Crow turns into a bear, Servo's impression of Nastinka, and Crow desperately trying to hire someone (with Mike's money) to explain the movie, including comedian Yakov Smirnoff and butcher Earl Torgeson. Video: 3 out of 5 As I've stated in my previous reviews of these sets, judging the video quality of an episode of MST3K is difficult. The movies are usually in fairly bad shape, and in the case of this set, the source tape for the Lost Continent episode has suffered some major wear and tear over the years, with occasionally visible dropouts and tracking noise throughout the latter half of the show. It should be noted, however, that Shout! Factory has included a disclaimer stating that the best available master was used. The only fair thing to do is to judge the host segments, and the quality improves as you get later into the series. Disc one has an overall softness to it, in addition to the tape anomalies, but colors are consistent. Disc two fairs somewhat better, with greater detail and color fidelity. Discs Three and Four are excellent, with increased detail and well-defined colors. Audio: 3 out of 5 As with the video, the audio quality is best judged by the host segments and the actual riffing during the movie. All four discs include a Dolby Digital 2.0 track, encoded at 192 kbps. Dialogue is intelligible and overall the tracks have good fidelity. The stereo mix on disc four generally adds some ambience to the host segments, giving the musical segments some added depth. Special Features: 3.5 out of 5 As with Shout! Factory's other MST3K boxed sets, the menu designs on each disc are themed with the episode, with decent CG animation, and are very funny. My only complaint is that the menu volume is much louder than the episodes. Also included in the set are a set of original comic book style mini-posters for each episode, identical to the DVD covers. Disc One Theatrical Trailer (1:50) for The Lost Continent looks and sounds worse than the feature does. New Introduction by Frank Conniff (5:36): Conniff played Dr. Forrester's sidekick, and also chose most of the films for the series during the five seasons he was with the show. Here, he discusses the film, the riffing, and the rock climbing sequence. The featurette is presented in anamorphic widescreen. Disc Two Mystery Science Theater Hour Wraps (5:01): Mystery Science Theater Hour was a short-lived hour-long version of the series for syndication (splitting each original episode in half), with Mike Nelson, in his Jack Perkins character, bracketing each episode. Disc Three No Dialogue Necessary: Making an "Off-Camera Masterpiece" (27:36): Larry Blamire, Bob Burns, Frank Conniff, and Lee Strosnider discuss the making of The Beast of Yucca Flats and the impact both the film and the MST3K episode made on them. The featurette is presented in non-anamorphic widescreen. Coleman Francis: The Cinematic Poet of Parking (8:26): An extended interview with cinematographer Lee Strosnider, where he talks about working with Coleman Francis. The featurette is presented in non-anamorphic widescreen. Theatrical Trailer for The Beast of Yucca Flats (1:17): The original trailer, proclaiming the film as "one of the most exciting movies ever made," is in good condition, presented in a slightly window-boxed 1.33:1 full frame. Still Gallery: A set of 8 lobby cards from the film's promotional kit. Disc Four New Introduction by Kevin Murphy (8:58): The voice of Tom Servo discusses how for the first half of season eight that the Sci-Fi Channel was fairly strict regarding their policy on choosing only science fiction films, the MST3K history of Russion-Finnish co-productions and how goofy and bizarre these films are, and that the films usually had very good production design but were always badly dubbed. Murphy also discusses the Lord of the Dance skit. The featurette is presented in anamorphic widescreen. Overall: 3.5 out of 5 Shout! Factory continues to put a lot of much-appreciated effort into their MST3K sets, and the show's fanbase will again likely not be disappointed with this release, although the choice of episodes for this set is somewhat weaker than previous sets released by the studio.


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Home > Poe in Fiction (part the first)
Poe didn't leave us with an inordinate amount of work so rabid fans must look elsewhere for their Eddie Poe fix. Happily, talented writers often include him in their stories. Here are the first two I could find. More reviews will be forthcoming.
Batman: Nevermore by Len Wein and Guy Davis: This five issue series takes place outside of the Batman canon and features Poe as a young reporter in Baltimore during a string of horrifying crimes. At the first two of the crime scenes, the police see a figure that looks like a giant raven near the scene and therefore dub them 'The Raven Murders.' The victims both belonged to the Gotham Club, an exclusive club for gentlemen (of the smoking room variety, not pole-dancer variety). Poe goes to the club to interview them about an upcoming costume ball (Masque of the Red Death alert) and meets M. Valdemar, Roderick Usher and Arthur Gordon Pym. Also in attendance is a young man named Bruce Wayne. The series incorporates many of Poe's plots and themes, both from his fiction and poetry. It's entertaining even for those of us who've never read a Batman comic and should please Poe fans, as well. (There's only one thing that may irk some, which is that our man is portrayed as a weakling, whereas, in reality, he was quite physically fit.) Still, I give it 8/10.
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe by Jonathan Scott Fuqua, Steven Parke and Stephen John Phillips
I prefer to review things I enjoyed rather than slagging off something I didn't, however, since this falls into the category of 'Poe in fiction', here goes.:
The only good thing about this…thing is the cover, which is above. The premise is that Poe's talent came from demonic sources/his dead father and if he leaves Baltimore it fails. It turns out that the demons are all in his head and he could have been creative anywhere. Fuckin' hell. But that's only the crap icing on the crap cake, because the plot and graphics are execrable, as well. Rather than a straight up graphic novel, the 'characters' of Poe, Mrs Clemm and Virginia, are played by actual people. Poor sods.
The 'plot' includes the infuriating idea that Poe was in a love triangle with his aunt and niece. What a load of tosh. Look, I know, when someone says something's dreadful, it's human nature to be tempted to see if it's really as bad as all that, but please, heed my warning: don't. Just… don't. 0/10.
Seriously… just don't.
Wikipedia has a list of other work that feature Poe as a character, some of which are on my shelves and will be reviewed upon being read.

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Make a statement with the Shooting Star of David Necklace handmade from sterling silver on a sterling silver 10-strand cable wire necklace. This is a stunning piece that is may make you the star of the evening.
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The future of the web is fast approaching. The specifications for HTML 5, the successor to today's HTML 4, are still in the draft phase, but already forward-looking browsers are starting to add limited support for HTML 5 elements.
The web has grown and changed in remarkable ways since the release of HTML 4 in 1997. No longer are sites just a loose collection static pages joined together by some hyperlinks. The web is now Ajax-powered and full of video, audio and interactive widgets.
HTML 5 is an attempt to give developers a way to create pages which harness the newest technologies but still work in any browser on any platform — be it a traditional desktop, a mobile phone, a game console or (one day) even your toaster. For more background on HTML 5, check out our earlier coverage or have a look at the draft specification.
However, until browsers begin to support the new version of HTML, developers won't be able to take advantage of the new capabilities. Thankfully, that support is beginning to arrive.
So far Opera is the clear leader. The browser supports the following HTML 5 components:
- The Canvas element
- contentEditable
- Cross-document messaging
- Element.tabindex attribute and the Element, {blur, focus} methods
- getElementsByClassName
- Embed and Video
- Navigator.onLine attribute and the Window, {online,offline} events
- Server-sent events
- Web Forms 2.0
Most of those elements have been available since Opera 9.2, though the <video> element is new in the Opera 9.5 beta.
Safari is also no slouch when it comes to HTML 5 support. With the recent release of version 3.1, Safari introduced support for the <video> and <audio> tags, which make it much easier to embed media in a page.
Safari 3.1 also supports the offline data storage API, which will be a boon for web developers looking to build offline apps.
Internet Explorer 8, currently in beta, supports the embed element and the contentEditable attribute (which was actually dreamed up by the IE team). However, a Microsoft spokesperson tells Wired.com that the IE team "isn't adding specific elements over what is in HTML 4.01."
Although that's disappointing for web developers, Microsoft does plan to support some of the new APIs in HTML 5, including the offline storage capabilities.
IE 8 will also support the cross-document messaging framework which allows documents from different domains to communicate with each other in a safe manner.
HTML 5 support in Firefox 3 will include the offline storage mechanisms and partial support for the canvas element. The next version of Gecko, the engine that powers Firefox, is also slated to add some more support for some of the APIs and the contentEditable attribute.
As you can see there's quite a ways to go before HTML 5 enjoys wide-spread support, but the groundwork is being laid. Once the HTML 5 specification is final, expect to see all the browsers step up their efforts.
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Draft of HTML 5 Hints at a Brave New Web
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- Mozilla: Final Version of Firefox 3 Will Ship in June
- Microsoft Quietly Launches Private Internet Explorer 8 Beta
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Victor Hwang, Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital, on Innovation Ecosystems
The JD/MBA Association hosts Victor Hwang, Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital, for a discussion about Innovation Ecosystems. Mr. Hwang will be sharing insights from a white paper he has written titled, "The Rainforest: How 'Chicago Thinking' Explains Silicon Valley." He has collaborated with Professor William Hubbard on the paper.
Mr. Hwang, a 1996 graduate of The Law School, is the co-founder and Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital, a Silicon Valley venture firm at the intersection of private venture and public policy. T2VC grows startups, manages capital, and builds innovation ecosystems around the world. T2VC advises governments on capital formation, innovation policy, and entrepreneurial programs. Mr. Hwang is a Kauffman Fellow, a member of a selective program to groom leaders of the venture capital industry. He is the immediate past President of Larta Institute, one of the nation's leading organizations helping to commercialize technology from key government agencies, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Before joining Larta Institute, Victor was a corporate attorney in technology matters with Irell & Manella and the international firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt. Victor practiced in a variety of legal areas, including negotiating venture capital investments, public and private equity and debt, and multi-billion dollar mergers and acquisitions.


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It's hard to know where to start with Get Online Week. So many of the arguments for and against are old and given it has morphed from 'Get Online Day' four years ago, it suggests this seemingly irrefutable logic is likely to come around again in another four years anyway (Get Online Month?), if not much sooner. That said both the duration of the promotion and its greater media coverage show it is a more pressing topic than ever before... especially for those already comfortable online.
For those not in the know, Get Online Week has a simple and self evident message: a one week drive by some of the largest brands in the UK to try and persuade some of the estimated 9.2m Brits who have never used the Internet to take that brave first click. Partners behind the scheme include the BBC, Post Office, BT, Google, Sky, 3, PriceGrabber, Microsoft, Facebook, McDonalds, TalkTalk, Directgov, ITV, Comet and the Daily Mirror.
More than 3,000 events are planned for the week which runs 18-24 October in which it is hoped over 80,000 people will become online converts - 8x the number achieved by 2006's Get Online Day.
"With most new jobs now requiring IT skills, government and corporate services going online, new internet bargains and cheap communication channels, being left behind technology has some serious side effects," stressed government network UK Online Centres. "What's more, the problem is worse for those already at a disadvantage - if you're older, disabled, or on a low income, you're far more likely to be offline. The idea of Get Online Week is to give some of those people a chance to catch up."
No doubt as you're reading this on TrustedReviews - an online site with a technology focus, this message is preaching to the converted. It may also seem crazy that in 2010 (going on 2011) one in six Brits has never clicked a mouse, loaded up a website or shown any inclination to do so. More shocking, however, is these figures look extremely conservative.
Back in July data from the UK Online Measurement Company (UKOM) reported there are just 38.8m active web users in Britain. This leaves over one third of the population, more than 20m people, offline - a vast increase on the 9.2m Get Online Week claims. The upside is the tide is turning. Worrying as these numbers may be, UKOM points out they represent a five per cent rise on the same period last year: a 1.9m annual increase. Furthermore the biggest part of this gain was from the over 50s who accounted for in excess of a million.


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Cleaning an asphalt shingle roof
This is my first post to this website. I hope someone can help me.
I am a 62 yr young widow living in South Florida. I don't want to be scammed by some guy trying to get me to do something that will not be good for my roof.
The problem is that my roof looks dirty. It has dark streaks and clean streaks on it and looks nasty. It is exposed to full sun all day long and has nothing overhanging (no trees, branches, etc.) Why does it look like this? Is it mildew? mold? something else? Another similar roof nearby, that is also 5 yrs old looks beautiful.
One man wanted to powerwash it, but I don't want to loose the gravel on the shingles. I've seen him do this to another unsuspecting woman. He says he has had no complaints...however, the big storms haven't hit yet either. I'm afraid the shingles will fly away in high winds.
Another man told me not to let anyone powerwash the roof! He tried to sell me his product to clean the roof and uses a simple hose to rinse it. All the plants surrounding the house have to be covered and something is placed in the gutters to protect them also. Sounds like a dangerous product to me. His treatment must be maintained again every 6 mos.
Is there someone out there who knows of a way to clean this kind of roof without losing the integrity of the shingles? :(
Thank you in advance for any info.
I would avoid both the contractors you mentioned.
1. Power washing is bad for your shingles.
2. There are several products available for washing your roof that will not harm your shrubs, lawn, etc.
There is a Florida contractor that post both here in this forum and in the Contractor Talk forum, I will see if I can find his website and post it here.
Sly, it's Apple Roof Cleaning, Tampa Fla. From what I can tell he hasn't posted since October.
I don't know much about Florida. Are you near Tampa?
Thanks dood, I guess I was wrong about pressure washing asphalt shingle roofs?, because he and three other sites I found all show/state they use that method.
I'm going to look into this more before I post any more on the subject.
Thanks for your replys, guys. See what I mean about not knowing what to do? By the way, I'm on the east coast of South Florida, near Palm Beach. I'd appreciate any recommendations for this area. :)
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My brother-in-law just had this same problem and used half clorox bleach and half water mixture in a sprayer to clean his roof and siding. His wife said he started on the front and worked his way to the back. He was going to power wash when he was finished but by the time he came back to the front it did not need it. His wife says it looks brand new, they have white vinyl siding. I know you wash baby toys in the sink with this same solution to kill germs and bacteria, so if it's safe for babies why not on a tough roof? Something that you could look into and is potentially safer.:thumbsup:
Thanks, teacher. This sounds like the best solution yet! Do you think the bleach/water solution should be rinsed off with a hose after it sets a while?
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Hockey Team Planned for Fall 2013
Rochester College is developing a men's ice hockey team for Fall 2013. Supporters of the project are currently in the process of raising awareness, recruiting and raising funds.
Scott Cagnet, director of extended learning operations for RC, said, "We anticipate joining Division 1 of the American Collegiate Hockey Association, playing against teams from Oakland University, Western Michigan, Davenport, Eastern Michigan, University of Michigan Dearborn, among others."
Nick Tomczyk will serve as head coach of the hockey team. Tomczyk comes to RC from Oakland University where he served as the associate head coach for the Golden Grizzlies' ACHA Division 1 program for the past two seasons, which included: a national championship runner-up finish for the 2011-12 season, GLCHL Regular Season Championship in 2011-12 and a GLCHL Playoff Championship in 2010-11.
The hockey team will play all home games at the Troy Sports Center, located at 1819 East Big Beaver in Troy. Find out more about RC hockey, by going to www.rchockey.com. The program will be funded through a combination of fund raising, player fees and RC contributions. Anyone wishing to donate to the RC hockey program can do so by online to www.rc.edu/donate. Type RC "hockey" in the comment line.


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Cohen: And that's where it comes in now, the difference, it certainly, as I mentioned, the Clinton administration wanted to control the media, as I mentioned. It was involved in that. It engaged in quid pro quo and so forth, but the difference here, and this is the difference in kind, I believe, is the ideology that the Bush administration has and that's this amassing of power and control, this global domination theme, and this is what it lives and breathes for. Control. And, so, when you have this voracious appetite for control and then you have the media set up to accommodate it, there is a difference here that's going on between what we've seen in America before. And it's the kind of control and desire for control that's analogous to what we saw in Nazi Germany. ... What's different about this case is that we have technology that we never had before. If Nixon had more than his little tape recorders, he could do a lot more than he did as well. But you see—.
Scheer: Yeah, I understand. It's just interesting to look at, say, watch a movie, or read the book, "All the President's Men," and go "Nixon's pretty bad with wiretapping and in terms of election fraud, and corruption, and those types of things"; it seems that it kind of goes in a revolutionary cycle. I want to talk about hope because we had a conversation with somebody the other day and it was talking about how some people don't hope, and that even [I] have been a little cynical. And I want to talk about your book because at the end you have something called "What's Now, Compatriots," and you talk about what you can do as an average citizen, and you put in a selected media guide, even though Truthdig's not in there yet. ...
Harris: We need to talk to you about that.
Scheer: But, I want to know, does that mean you have hope? Do you have hope that this system can be changed or do you think that it's hopeless and we should just kind of cower and go away?
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By roulette money guide, March 12, 2009 at 2:38 am Link to this comment
At the time of financial crises we need to come together united and try to solve the problems which are responsible for such a hazard. We need to overcome it. It is meant to bring calm to the population and markets and display government strength and stability.
By John Borowski, September 17, 2007 at 3:35 am Link to this comment
The Republicans (The Conservatives aka right wing) ardently supported Craig despite the fact they probably knew about his orientation. When he was exposed in the current incident, most of them disowned him. Did they want him immediately dismissed or jailed? In my opinion, homosexuality is not a sin or crime. Its an anomaly in the dark depth of the mind that medical science is too incompetent to cure. These same Republicans (Conservatives aka right wing) were so shocked and abhorred sin so much they wanted to impeach Clinton (They spent millions of tax payers money in the failed attempt) and have McGreevy dismissed as governor of NJ immediately. (It wouldn't surprise me if one of the Conservatives was Craig) All of you right wing hypocrites can cast the first stone if you never had oral sex like Clinton. Gov. McGreevy didnt announce his homosexuality from the toilet bowl, but rather from the state office. I can see the common format the boiler room crowd uses. They will use snippets of a comment they dislike instead of the entire comment. This indicates they all read from the same instruction sheet. Right wing lackeys when the evils in London and Washington take down the world you will all be losers like the rest of us. To show how cunning the boiler folks are they know that Bushs popularity is lower than whales poop so they disassociate from him. The Republican Conservatives (Aka right wing) passed all of his requests and ardently supported all of his actions? (Basic violations of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution) They give him thunderous applause every time he addressed them. The Republicans (The Conservatives aka right wing) voted Bushs tax cut into law. (3 to seventeen pennies a day for the average Johnny Q and two hundred thousand forty-seven dollar tax cut for the rich. Where did they get the money, you guessed it from Social Security. They will tell Johnny Q when the time comes (Between 2010 and 2020) that sorry the Social Security is busted. Regarding the Clintons, you are not anywhere near them as a human being. The Clintons are so superior its ludicrous to compare. The right wing goons (Aka Republican Conservatives) broke into the office in Florida in 2004 and stopped the recount. If Do Good (Good is bad) Liberals broke into any office in the US and tried to stop a recount They would all be sitting in a jail cell with bloody heads and blood on the floor up to their ankles.
By Skruff, September 16, 2007 at 3:00 pm Link to this comment
#100692 by John Borowski on 9/16 at 4:35 am
"When you read articles about Hillary Clinton or any democrat on any web page, you will have the illusion that ninety percent of the people are against them. The opposite is the truth ninety percent of the people are for them."
I buy your argument about the word liberal (liberals would be against gun control if the word was used correctly. I must say however, that the left wing has done the same thing to the word "conservative"
No true conservative can be in favor of a bush-like administration. Spending trillions in the red, involved in a unnecessary war, hobbling the Constitution… Conservatives value their rights. they also value their money.
Now to the meat of your post. You say 90% of the people favor Hillary (Obama, Edwards)? That the "vast right-wing conspiracy" is here on truth-dig talking her down? That a vote for Hill-the business-shill is a vote for "liberalism"
Friend, you need to do some extensive research. Hill&Bill;may be a comedy team, but they are definitely NOT liberal, nor conservative for that matter. They are self-serving money grubbing business shills, just exactly, like GWB.
By John Borowski, September 16, 2007 at 5:35 am Link to this comment
When you read articles about Hillary Clinton or any democrat on any web page, you will have the illusion that ninety percent of the people are against them. The opposite is the truth ninety percent of the people are for them. There is a small right wing group that inundates these web pages, probably working out of the same right wing boiler room. They claim the media is Liberal oriented. This is the same media that made the word Liberal worst than coitus. They have virtual control over the media and are now working on the Internet to make the word Liberal you know what.
By John Borowski, September 16, 2007 at 4:41 am Link to this comment
In my opinion, the war is lost; anyone voting is insulting his human dignity and intelligence. The Democrats won the majority only because the Republicans wanted them to. Despite the Democrats have a majority they are a castrated party that has no power to change things. With globalization, you can't have the people in the US making fifty dollar an hour and the Far East making fifty cents an hour. If I made thig-a majigs (Only an old timer knows what a thig-a majig is) and was paying my workers fifty dollars an hour and my competitor was paying his workers fifty cent an hour, how could I compete with him? We cant have ships from the fifty cent people coming here loaded to the gills and ships going back to the Far East almost empty. The only way an American company can compete with a foreign company (Not owned by the foreigners, but rather by the British or their American colony) is to go over there and feast on the cheap labor. What happens to the decent paying jobs in America? They will all vanish. What will the Americans do for income? The right-wing Republicans will have to kick the asses of the immigrants out of the country that have dead-end jobs with no future and give them to the white Americans. (They are already working on it)
By S.A. BROWN, September 15, 2007 at 10:45 am Link to this comment
Elliot Cohen's comments on the corporate press are right on target. A really free, unimpeded press is essential for a truly functioning democracy; this is crucially important, and the United States simply does not have it. In most cases we cannot blame the journalists at the writing level for failure to discuss relevant issues without pulling their punches. I'm not sure we can blame the editors most of the time either; it is the owners who are mainly at fault, and as Cohen says, their prime concern is the bottom line.
By Skruff, September 15, 2007 at 6:10 am Link to this comment
100250 by Nitro on 9/13 at 2:34 pm
"... maybe you ought to check out the article on Carl Bernsteins interview w/Ms. Hillarys political career since 1968, at the Truthdig home page. It was really hard for me to tell which side of the coin shes been on since her initiation to politics."
Been to bernstein's article, but even further that that. Have researched Hill-the-business-shill and have found which side of the coin shes been on since her initiation to politics;
She is head of the India Caucus, and a proponent of expanding the H-1b visa program, so that Indian companies doing business in the United States can hire more workers from India… The reason these companies wish to do this, is they can get immigrant Indians to work for an average of $12,000 less per year than US workers for doing the same job in the same city.
As a member of Walmart's board of directors, she never suggested that that company pay workers a living wage, nor did she push for Walmart sponsored health care for employees. For business reasons, Walmart considers workers to be full-time if they work 28 hours a week. Do the math at 2 dollars above today's minimum wage X 28 hours might just pay for a small apartment in some mid-size cities. This leaves taxpayers to pick-up the cost of food, health care, and transportation. Walmarts merchandise isn't so cheap when that scenario is factored.
The business-shill also contends (on the record) that among the 300 million US citizens there are not enough skilled workers to fill Microsoft's needs. (maybe because Bill Gates has deep fund raising pockets) (remember he can get these H-1b workers cheap!)
On a personal note she also lobbied her fat, hamburger-munching spouse to pardon the FALN terrorists who (in the mid Seventies) planted a bomb which killed a security guard in my father's office building. They also bombed 65 other sites in and around New York killing people, and destroying property.
No, I'm done discussing Pandering Hill! I would vote for ANYONE other than her.
By Rich in Montana, September 13, 2007 at 10:31 am Link to this comment
Though I agree with most of the discussion comments, there's nothing really new, to me anyway - maybe for others. But the rise of human insanity has certainly got my attention. Nothing more I desire than to understand it all, and see it resolved.
My issue is simple - we're all caught up in a human-made quagmire, individually and societally, from which we can't seem to break free and really see clearly what's what. "Something's wrong, they did this, I'm a victim, blah, blah, blah." Some say "take action." What action? Don't they mean "reaction", which just further perpetuates the whole mess? The idea of fighting the "bad" people, revolting, insurging, is not transcendent. It just perpetuates the same song into another verse. And round and round we go…
Friends, each of us has an "ego" problem, from about 2 years old onward. All fear, greed, loneliness, selfishness, defensiveness, arrogance, violence, etc., etc., stems from this single delusion: that I am a separate, autonomous person, on my own and out for myself allsupported by one story after another that I make up and believe. This is what needs deconstructing, not other people, not political/ideological/economic systems. Just deconstruct your own belief system centered in the imagined idea that I am a separate person. Just see it and it deconstructs itself. Do this, then see what's what, then live and act from a wholly different place.
Read Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth." Great insight into the root cause of human insanity and confusion. Byron Katie is another one who helps undo the primal human mistake. And there are others, more all the time it seems. Pick the one that resonates. Regardless, they only point, each must find out alone.
Be well and go in peace!
By Ken Mitchell, September 9, 2007 at 5:35 am Link to this comment
It should read "Last days of freedom".
As Ben Franklin put it,
"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch."
"Freedom is one well armed sheep contesting the results".
By Malcolm Martin, September 1, 2007 at 9:58 pm Link to this comment
A US attack on Iran now appears imminent. Multiple sources are providing evidence to this effect.
Our bourgeois democracy, which has been narrowing in recent years will be shut down completely under the pressures of an expanding war in the Middle East and the deep economic crisis which is just around the corner. People who still wonder if Hillary or Obama can become our next president, who still tilt at windmills for Ron Paul, who wonder if scandals have crippled GOP prospects for 2008 have to be among the most pollyannish group in history. Elections will never again decide matters of substance in the United States of America.
There is only one discussion worth having now with the little time that's left for such things. People like myself are certainly known to the government and will be carted away to the camps when the crackdown comes but other potential rebels would benefit from the collective wisdom on the question: What does an effective insurgency look like?
There are many elements to the question ranging from the ideological to the theoretical to the practical. Like, how do we communicate when the cell phones go dead as they did the other day in Bangladesh and the "world wide web" is shut down in favor of the parallel military-industrial interNet?
By 1drees, August 22, 2007 at 1:06 am Link to this comment
With the signing of the North American Union papers today in Montebello, all i can presume is that BIG CHANGES ARE AFOOT, but lets wait and see them unfold coz they neer asked anybody about it all so its stupid to expect much from what you dont even know coz they never even bothered to ask about it. I mean if they been hidingit so far, then most probablyits nothing at all good.
By Skruff, August 14, 2007 at 7:29 am Link to this comment
"Get over it, eh, Skruff. Hillary has had to arduously rebuild her career and remake her image over the years as a senator and she has done well. Add that to her previous knowledge and experience and she is still the best and most exerienced and most qualified person for the job. Your problem is simply that she is not the best man for the job, duh!"
Your lack of education is showing again. Although I am convinced your assessment of Hill-the-business-shill is incorrect, as well as your assessment that there are not enough qualified workers for Microsoft among the 300 million US citizens, I choose to address your personal attack.
You contend that I am opposed to the business-shill because she is a woman;
Lets examine that;
I have identified myself as a dissatisfied New England Republican. Although most folks seem to believe that the Southern Baptist brand of Republicans is the total, that is untrue. Here in Maine we have a fine tradition of fiscally conservative socially liberal Republicans. You may have heard of Margaret Chase Smith the first woman Senator? You may not be aware of this, but Maine is one of two states (Cailfornia being the other) without a male Senator. both our Senators are Republican, although Maine is a blue state.
I have voted for Susan Collins, and Olympia Snowe and plan to vote for Collins again in 2008! She is a fine competant Senator, and far more qualified than the business-shill. Olympia Snowe is a three term Senator, and before that a five term represenative, If who she is married to qualifies her further (as you seem to contend with your candidate) The man is Jock McKernan, former two term Governor of Maine, and head of the New England Economic Project.
Sort of upstages a one-term senator-lawyer who near as I can determine has not had a single success since her ill-considered health-care initiative went down in flames.
No, it's not her gender which bothers me.
You realy ought to get that "DUH" fixed. it detracts from your message.
By Skruff, August 13, 2007 at 6:39 am Link to this comment
"I wouldnt give anything for John Edwards, though - hes just another snake-in-the-grass! They (he and others like him) make all the noises you want to hear and then will proceed to do whatever their masters tell them if they get elected."
Let me see;
Hill-the-business-shill is a lobbiest for India, and a sponsor to provide unlimited H1-B visas so Indian firms can locate cheaper labor from India here.
She urged her husband (at the end of his presidency) to Pardon members of the FALN who had committed no fewer than 85 acts of Terror in and around New York City, including the murder of a security guard at the Mobil Oil Building, and the Murder of four others at Fraunces Tavern. She did this to gain a few hispanic votes in her run for the New York Senate seat she now holds.
She talks about the lower-middle class, pretending to be conserned about their wel-being, BUT as a board member for Walmart, she never stood up for the workers; Wal-Mart workers make an average of $3 per hour less than union supermarket jobs, $2 per hour less than all supermarket jobs, and $1 per hour less than the average retail wage. An average Wal-Mart employee makes about $11,700 a year (working 30 hour weeks which is the national average in discount stores) � nearly $2,000 below the poverty line for a single mother with two children. A 40-hour week—which most Wal-Mart employees don't work—would figure out to $15,000 a year, which is the government's poverty level for a family of 4.
Even with the above knowledge she stood by while her husband cut federal aid to these same workers.
I could go on about her work for Tyson Chicken, her poor relations at the Rose Law Firm, and her endless talking one-way while walking another, but why bother.
I agree with you fully about John Edwards, but Hill-the-shill belongs in the same group. After all, they wer DLC buddies before this primary season.
By Skruff, August 12, 2007 at 3:59 pm Link to this comment
94302 by ardee on 8/12 at 2:13 pm
"I havent even noted that the idea that Betsy Ross made the original flag is an urban myth..until now, she didnt. You could look it up."
No not an "urban Myth" until you can tell folks who did in fact made the flag. I agree she may not have made it, but there are no absloutes here yet. By-The-Way, if we are going to be exact, stop calling her Betsy Ross, she was Elizebeth Claypool!
By John Borowski, August 11, 2007 at 7:31 am Link to this comment
My dear Doug, what we infidels would like to know is if the historic xxxxxx is in the same league with the Magna Charta. Surely, it must have some substance if the plotters would want to circumvent it. I have notice your comments are replete with your inanities not only in Last Days, but also all over the place. Surely, you can get a renewal from xxxxxx to post this historic xxxxxx. After we read this historic xxxxxx, we will be able to decide if the hanky panky is evident. God bless you Doug and all of the rightys posing as leftist. Such an important xxxxxx should not be kept hidden from us masses.
By Skruff, August 11, 2007 at 6:23 am Link to this comment
"I wonder if Skruff places special significance upon a flag made in the USA as opposed to one made elsewhere?"
A-yeah I do! and a washing machine, and a TV set, and a Caterpillar back hoe. As a former resident of Lawrence Massachusetts, my five years there gave me a GREAT appriciation of US made textiles. And as a Yankee, I do have an inordenately high regard for my area of the country. BUT having lived in many places from Arizona to Oregon, and Maine to Florida
AND, NO I do not "wrap myself in the flag" (although that comment gave my children a laugh) My flagpole has been nude since January 2000, and it will remain so until we have a President who did not steal the election. I currently love my country, but hate its government (both parties through at least 4 administrations)
By Skruff, August 10, 2007 at 6:56 am Link to this comment
93600 by cyrena on 8/09 at 8:38 pm Asks:
And I thank YOU Skruff, from providing the same. If you also know the names of these EXISTING manufacturers, (because I think the New Hampshire flag making headquarters are gone now and I dont remember where Betsy Ross hailed from) I would be delighted to know that myself.
Here are my top three Flag Companies. I checked for you, and found that indeed, most US flags are still made in the USA. Who would want a flag from anywhere else?
Valley Forge Flag Company
Piedmont Flag Company
Betsy "Ross" (a married name she was no longer using at the time she sewed the first US Flag) hails from
By John Borowski, August 9, 2007 at 3:05 pm Link to this comment
The following is an updated version edited by my Honeybunch to celebrate the finding of her glasses. This is Dougs fantasy logic. I will refer to Dougs something because he doesnt like my terminology. Therefore, I will call it xxxxxx. The plotters at Truthdig somehow knew he was going to deliver an earth-shaking xxxxxx. They hurriedly eliminated the article Last Days so they could head him off at the pass from doing so and it wouldnt be their Last Days. The xxxxxx apparently had an ephemeral life, because even when Last Days was back on board in two days xxxxxx was useless. This prevented poor Doug from having another go at it when Last Days came back on line. Unlike the Space Station, my logic is more down to earth. The technical people will remove an article for a reason. It might mean there is a bug that crawled into it. The techies might be trying to step on the bug before it has babies. They might be making room for a new article on the home page, or a myriad of other reasons. If you try to load this article when they are working on it, you will be unable to do so for technical reasons. Anybody that has worked on a computer will from time to time experienced this inability to load what you want. The older version of this epistle I tried to sneak in while she was glassless.
By John Borowski, August 9, 2007 at 7:14 am Link to this comment
This is Dougs fantasy logic. I will refer to Dougs something because he doesnt like my terminology. Therefore, I will call it xxxxxx. The plotters at Truthdig somehow knew he was going to deliver an earth-shaking xxxxxx. They hurriedly eliminated the article Last Days so they could head him off at the pass from doing so. The xxxxxx apparently had an ephemeral life, because even when Last Days was back on board in two days it was useless. This prevented poor Doug from having another go at it when it came back on line. Unlike the Space Station, my logic is more down to earth. The technical people will remove an article for a reason. It might mean there is a bug in it. They might be making room for a new article on the home page, or a myriad of other reasons. If you try to load this article when they are working on it, you will be unable to do so for technical reasons. Anybody that has worked on a computer will from time to time experienced this inability to load what you want. My love-mate also lost her glasses. As a result, our honeymoon will be delayed for a day.
By Skruff, August 8, 2007 at 6:20 am Link to this comment
93071 by cyrena on 8/08 at 2:23 am
"Meantime, I have no problems with taking the flags out of the classrooms, especially since every last one of them is manufactured in China anyway."
The truth is; most flags (31/2X23/4) were manufactured in that communist den of iniquity, Manchester New Hampshire at the old Amoskeag textile mill.
Other on shore manufacturers are located in Missouri, North Carolina, and Illinois.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to inform posters on this site of American manufacturers still in business!
By GW=MCHammered, August 7, 2007 at 11:35 pm Link to this comment
re: #92044 by Douglas Chalmers on 8/03 at 6:00 pm
I own me. The malcontent that cheered Carlin possesses me. TruthDig endures me to bits.
By mike, August 7, 2007 at 12:15 pm Link to this comment
This has been in the work for years. I remember a interview on cost to cost am back in 03 or 04 with a ex CIA agent who was complaning about being taken of the hunt for Ossama so they could work on the war on porn on the internet. Gonzoles was put into the justice dep to start that war. The whole thing with the patroit act and the libarys was to check on people surfing porn. And now you have the necons in control of most media outlets but what THE INTERNET.Who has burned bush and comp over and over agian with their lies. The internet.
By John Borowski, August 7, 2007 at 7:01 am Link to this comment
The biggest prison ever built on the earth for the American people is debt. Once you are imprisoned, you have a life sentence. Who owns the prison? It is the evils of London and Europe. Why are they allowed to degrade life for the American people? The have total control over the vast ocean of ignorance. This ignorance is only allowed to hear from TV, newspapers, magazines, and right wing talk shows, what the British and Europeans want them to hear and believe.
By John Borowski, August 7, 2007 at 5:28 am Link to this comment
Doug, Thanks for the revelations in your explanations for the ambiguities that somebody (Probably dress in all black) absconded with your documents. Im sure your only motive was to make the world better again. Ill pray for you.
By John Borowski, August 6, 2007 at 1:11 pm Link to this comment
One of the cabal of wealthy Europeans and British (The Federal Reserve) stated, "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes its laws." People dont want to confront or believe in evil things in life. This is why they will kill the messenger bearing bad news even if it is true. They will honor the messenger bearing good news even if it is false. Without hope in life, the will to carry on is restricted. Lets assume a hypothetical situation. I was given the right by the government to have a miniature money machine that prints money that is legal tender. I could go to an automobile dealer and buy a Rolls Royce complete with moon roof and spoiler on the back. If the dealer refused my funny money, he would go to jail for refusing legal tender. Rightys please don't read this if your taking medicine and operating farm machine
By John Borowski, August 6, 2007 at 7:31 am Link to this comment
Doug, in reference to my dissertation entitled Aint got no education. Another trick I used to find an article I want is to list it in my favorites. I give it a name that is easy to remember. When I want what I want, I just go to my favorites. I usually give it second place right below first place sex. This procedure will bring it up quick as a cat can wink his eye. How you lost your comment on the article you couldnt find Im still trying to figure out. The white board is usually at the bottom of the article. You can only type a comment on an article if you have the article on screen to begin with. I am please and amused by how many retorts I get. So far it is going swell.
By Skruff, August 5, 2007 at 6:05 pm Link to this comment
92381 by ardee on 8/05 at 4:42 pm
"Skruff, I do not know what you read when you come here but I see as much or more criticisms of the Democrats as I do of the GOP. Are you really so very agendised as all that?"
I don't know what you read, but (yet again) it wasn't what I wrote.
Try answering again;
What is facism called when the D's do it?
By John Borowski, August 5, 2007 at 3:26 pm Link to this comment
As I type this, I'm praying no right-winger is sitting by the pool. The reason this government doesnt have any law on the books regarding taxation is because they dont tax. The Federal Reserve taxes the American people. Anytime the government wants money for something. The Federal Reserve (A cabal of wealthy Europeans) prints the real funny money on their printing presses. This arcane loan to the government is secured by taxes from the American people. The first country to establish this arrangement was England in the late 1600s (They called it the Bank of England) like the Federal Reserve it had nothing to do with the English government). Today almost all major countries participate in this fraud.
By Skruff, August 5, 2007 at 1:46 pm Link to this comment
So from the derth of comment about the D's hijacking the vote on foodstamps and housing for criminal aliens, I guess that means only R's can be facists? When the D's do it it's called???? ?
By John Borowski, August 5, 2007 at 5:58 am Link to this comment
My dear Leefeller will you please stop using paragraphs. I misplaced my glasses and it is impossible to find them if Im not wearing my glasses. It is so much easier for me to read comments with out paragraphs when my glasses are hiding some place.
By John Borowski, August 5, 2007 at 5:12 am Link to this comment
My dear Mike Mid City, in one of your recent comments you stated (Besides Doug, Im the only one here who is religious). How do you know the personal history and preferences of all the other extreme right on this file? Do you all work in the same right wing boiler room? If I were an extreme right-winger, I wouldnt patronize this type web page. I would find the extreme right wing web pages more to my liking. On the right wing web page, I could cluck cluck and all of the rightys would cluck cluck back in full agreement. All of us would be pleased as a pig in warm mud with our truths.
By Margaret Currey, August 5, 2007 at 2:27 am Link to this comment
When Bush won (stole) the election the manager of my apartment was sick as were a lot of people the signing statements and now Bush wants his FISA thing his way or he wont sign it, what he is doing is holding Congresses feet to the fire, you know they want to leave for their month vacation, of course they probably don't take a long vacation like Bush does I think they talk to their people and I hope that listen because between signing statements and Bush selling arms to the Sadis who are also the enemy, I just hope the American people wake up and see that this gang has to go, no laws will pass and to say Impeachment is off the table is just crazy becuase these people just want one power and the people are just like in the old days if you have no money you are nobody. If you have no connections you are a no body.
By louis, August 4, 2007 at 7:43 pm Link to this comment
By 4real, August 4, 2007 at 11:55 am Link to this comment
Federally sponsored goon squads already at work:
See also "residentcynics diary" at:
By Can of Whoop Ass, August 4, 2007 at 9:30 am Link to this comment
Dont sell the young people short. Remember, these republicans are a generation raised by their GRANDPARENTS, because Daddy is out stealing and getting crack and Mommy's selling her ass on the corner.
By John Borowski, August 4, 2007 at 5:30 am Link to this comment
Douglas Chalmers, you aint got no education. Truthdig rotates their articles as food stores rotate their food products. Some files are put in the bleachers because they want some new articles on the home page. If you want Last Days you use the search to get it. There might be a conspiracy in 9\11, but Im sure there is none in Truthdig.
By John Borowski, August 4, 2007 at 5:02 am Link to this comment
My dear Leefeller
My paragraphs sit idly by
From the wind, the cold,and the pain.
And they bolt the door against my heart
Out wailing in the rain.
By 1drees, August 3, 2007 at 7:49 pm Link to this comment
God Help Humanity against the American-Zionist attack, i know that iraq, iran & others will Survive the Zionist attacks. Good Luck to All Honest Americans!
ZIONISTS:Ones who believe they are the "only" humans(God's"Chosen ones")& rest is "Trash" to be consumed / used. MODUSOPERENDI:start as business and bilk the populations while laying down Organisations that are for (fake)trade & "our protection" whose actual purpose is surveillance & Harrassement of "nonZIONIST". they keep screaming "Hitler's holocaust, Hitler's holocaust" while they been doing WORSE since 1948 in their Fanatic Fantasyland called Israel aka "shitty little state", armed with 300 nuclear bombs that they dont want to talk about.(these are peaceful people!lol) GOAL: creation of some nutty global empire based on pureness of "Chosen Ones" ENEMIES: anyone that does not Comply with them or their propaganda (is also branded an
By John Borowski, August 3, 2007 at 2:33 pm Link to this comment
To show how the ruthless right are really a covert dictatorship, I will tell you about an in your face insult to the Democratic Party and to the Kennedys. We have the father an ambassador to Great Britain who served his country honorably. The oldest son Joe a pilot volunteered to do a suicide mission to knock out a German super gun during World War 2 died in the attempt. Two more Kennedy brothers gave their life for their country by right wing assassins. (In my opinion) Senator Edward Kennedy (The last surviving brother) has served his country honorably for many years. Senator Kennedy, while attempting to board an airplane recently was denied passage because the right wing had him down as a terrorist. After it occurred, the right had a good laugh about it. These right wing moral cowards hide themselves and their children from serving in the wars. This way they are not used as canon fodder.
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Harry Partch (1901–1974), while one of America's best-known maverick composers, is also one of the least performed—mainly due to the one-of-a-kind instruments he created in order to generate the sounds his music demanded. The instruments themselves are difficult to transport, and they require performers with specialized knowledge of how Partch intended them to be used.
This week during a symposium and festival, co-hosted by New England Conservatory and Northeastern University, many of Partch's instruments will travel from New Jersey to NEC's Jordan Hall, with the help of their custodian, Dean Drummond. Visitors will be able to examine them and hear them used in concert. Scholars will gather to explore the continuing impact of Partch's work, with a combination of academic conference sessions, interactive workshops, and concert performances housed at both NEC and Northeastern.
Thomas McGeary and John Schneider lecture on "Partch's Americana Works, 1940–1943"
In his "Americana" compositions Partch set vernacular texts that he encountered in his travels in the 1930s and early 1940s, from hitchhiker inscriptions on a roadside railing, to episodes from life in federal work camps in California, Oregon, and Washington, to phrases overheard during a hobo trip to Chicago. These works capture and record authentic expressions of Depression-era American life. The presentation will discuss the occasions of the texts, Partch's aesthetic ideals in setting them, and how the Americana works chimed with broader movements in American art, literature, and music in response to the Great Depression.
The continuity of the Americana works with Partch's previous Li Po settings (performed on last night's concert) will be noted. Partch shortly thereafter turned away from Americana, moving toward theatre works and social satire; but he did return to them in the mid-1950s when he enlarged their instrumentation and grouped the works as The Wayward (1956). The program will include live performances by John Schneider of the first versions for voice and adapted guitar of Partch's Barstow: Eight Hitchhikers' Inscriptions and an excerpt of U.S. Highball.
Harry Partch is best known as a radically individualistic musical experimentalist, an emblematic "American maverick." Seeking to create a music close to human speech, he found himself "seduced into carpentry" to create an orchestra of unique instruments and a substantial corpus of instrumental, vocal and dramatic works. His 25-year career cut across composition, music theory, and instrument building, and its conscious links to music making outside of Europe have attracted the attention of a diverse following of listeners, musicians and scholars.
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The Los Angeles Galaxy recovered from a terrible first half to earn a 2-2 draw against defending MLS champ Houston Dynamo on Saturday. Once again, the team owed its goals to Landon Donovan and David Beckham. Beckham assisted on each of Donovan's goals, which came in the 67th and 84th minutes.
"First half -- terrible," Beckham said in an interview with ESPN's Andrea Canales.
"We had no fight in the first half, no urgency at all. Throw-ins, free kicks, everything was slow." Galaxy coach Ruud Gullit said the team was slow to adapt after regular starters Ely Allen and
Alvaro Pires were late scratches. "It was improvising from the start with the personnel we had, and it didn't work out," he said. "In the first half, we were just outplayed."
The Galaxy
turned things around in the second half, thanks to the leadership of Donovan and Beckham. "I'm very proud of my team," Gullit said. "Landon [Donovan] and David, they really showed how big of leaders
they are. I think they did everything to win this game." After the match, Houston coach Dominic Kinnear was also forced to hand out kudos to the duo: "If you give David Beckham time -- the one thing
about Landon is that his running off the ball is exceptional -- so that's a pretty dangerous situation, or combination," he said.


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I rarely agree with anyone when it comes to music (or what passes for music in my twisted world). So my band consists of me. I sometimes list my late friend Ricky. That's because we had plans. But he passed. So it's hard for him to play now. I'm self taught, so there are plenty of mistakes. And lacking the time or energy to fix them, I post imperfect pieces. So it goes.
As a young and impressionable college student, I sat slack-jawed in Professor Griffith's Literature class at University of Oregon, and he explained life. In all the years since, I haven't read, seen or heard it explained any better. Simply put, we live in a duplicitous world. There is the known. There is the unknown. Just like there are night and day. So I sit and write. My topic: Hope? Or despair? I'll be lucky if I can find a piece of paper.
Listening to a playback before I post another half-baked musical misery tour. Then it hit me. That little bit I liked. Don't just settle. Work on it. Make the parts come to some resolution. Work that lick into a transition. Write some words that fit the phrasing that made you begin in the first place. These are things I can do. They require time, and effort. Aww hell. Think I'll just post the piece of crap. And end it.
When I was young, words flowed like stale beer on Sunday morning. I wrote pages and pages of lyrics, and some of them were good. Now, not so much. It's like I was driving all night, and came over a rise, and saw my destination in the soft light of the setting sun. And inspiration washed over me like a little wave on the social security beach. And I begin to write the song that will re-define all songs. And then I realize; "it's only words." But words are all I have. Shit. Stole another one.
The making of the music is really for the young, the single, or the chronically unemployed. I can't get anything done in less than three hours. And then people are wanting to know just what the hell is so important that I can't come out for dinner. "The red light, I say, the red light is on!"
I will admit to posting material that is flawed, incomplete or otherwise unworthy. While driving down the road I hear the part or correction I should have done. But then I go "Naw. Too much work." Then I see something sparkely, and chase after it.
All things raw and rocky


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Maine has no plans to halt oil rail shipments after Quebec tragedy
By Dave Sherwood
BOWDOINHAM, Maine (Reuters) - Maine has no plans to review shipments of crude through the state on rail lines after a deadly oil train derailment just across the border in Quebec's Lac-Megantic over the weekend, the state's Department of Transportation said.
The train was hauling about 50,000 barrels of crude from North Dakota's Bakken shale development to Irving Oil's 300,000 barrel per day (bpd) plant in Saint John, New Brunswick.
A derailment and explosion early on Saturday near the small town of Lac-Megantic killed five people, and another 40 people are still missing, authorities said.
Nearly 30,000 bpd of crude crossed through Maine in March, up from under 2,000 bpd a year earlier, as part of a surge in oil by rail transit caused by the U.S. shale boom. The growth in oil shipments through Maine has caused protests among environmental groups in the state.
Ted Talbot, spokesman for the Maine Department of Transportation, called the Quebec accident "tragic," but said the state had no plans to review movements of crude oil through Maine.
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Friend or Foe? is a SpongeBob SquarePants DVD that contains 7 episodes from Season 5. It is based on the episode of the same name.
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- This DVD was re-released on September 25, 2012 along with 4 other DVDs (SpongeBob's Pest of the West, The Seascape Capers, SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis, and SpongeBob vs. The Big One) as part of the new Super Square Collection.
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- Fungus Among Us was released on this DVD (April 17, 2007) before it aired on TV (September 29, 2007).
- This DVD was released on Victoria Beckham's 33rd birthday.
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Exclusive Samsung Galaxy S® 5 Sport, available July 25, and other mobile technology innovations will support healthy lifestyles with fitness tracking, educational information, applications and more
CHICAGO (BUSINESS WIRE), June 23, 2014 - Sprint (NYSE:S) is stepping up its presence in the growing health and fitness markets, announcing today the launch of an exclusive device from Samsung Telecommunications America and a collaboration with health and fitness market leaders Under Armour and MapMyFitness to offer mobile solutions for today's active lifestyles.
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Sprint will launch on Friday, July 25 the Samsung Galaxy S® 5 Sport, an exclusive new Spark-enabled smartphone with both the hardware and software for today's health-conscious users. Among the handset's many features is S Health™1, an integrated mobile health platform to access health info, map out workouts, and make healthier eating choices. It even monitors heart rate before and after activity with a built-in heart-rate monitor. Samsung's exclusive Activity Zone app is preloaded on Galaxy S 5 Sport offering the ability to open active lifestyle features, including a barometer, compass, flashlight and stopwatch from a single screen.
Galaxy S 5 Sport features a textured body making the smartphone easier to hold and preventing it from slipping from the hand. It features three hard keys so the smartphone is easier to operate when active. The Galaxy S 5 Sport is also IP67 water and dust resistant2 so it can be as active as its user.
Starting July 25 and for a limited time only, customers who purchase Samsung Galaxy S 5 Sport will get $50 off Samsung Gear Fit to help achieve health and fitness goals by tracking steps and monitoring heart rate.
The device will serve as the launch pad for Sprint Fit Live, a complete mobile health and fitness package giving customers instant access to their favorite fitness applications and activities, relevant health information when they want it and integration capability with their Spotify playlists. Sprint Fit Live also will be available on all new Sprint Android-powered smartphones in 2014.
Sprint Fit Live -- Key features of Sprint Fit Live include the ability to:
"We continually innovate to provide our customers with new products that can improve their lives," said Dan Hesse, Sprint Chief Executive Officer, today during an event in Chicago. "Previously, Sprint brought together Harman Kardon, HTC and Spotify to redefine how music should sound on the modern smartphone. Today, Sprint joins leading innovators in Samsung, Under Armour and MapMyFitness to drive technology advances for fitness, health and wellness."
Todd Durkin, internationally recognized performance-enhancement coach, personal trainer and author, said at the Chicago event, "Integrating fitness and an active and healthy lifestyle into technology is the cornerstone to getting athletes moving. The Sprint Fit Live innovative platform has the ability to educate, motivate, track, monitor, measure and analyze overall fitness – there is nothing better than instant feedback for my clients to help them achieve their overall health and fitness goals."
With Sprint Easy Pay, well-qualified buyers can purchase Samsung Galaxy S 5 Sport with $0 down (plus tax) and 24 monthly payments of $27.09. Customers can preregister for more information at www.sprint.com/galaxys5sport. Galaxy S 5 Sport will be available in Electric Blue and Cherry Red color options.
Sprint accelerating mobile health
In addition to the health and fitness innovations announced today, Sprint is actively helping shape the evolution of mobile health at the startup level. From mid-March to early June, Sprint conducted in Kansas City the inaugural Sprint Mobile Health Accelerator powered by Techstars, an immersive, mentor-driven program for startup companies. The participating companies are developing solutions that include hardware, software platforms, transformative services, big data and mobile applications. At Demo Day June 12, Sprint announced plans for the second Sprint Mobile Health Accelerator powered by Techstars, coming in 2015.
About Samsung Telecommunications America
Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, (Samsung Mobile) a Dallas-based subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., researches, develops and markets wireless handsets, wireless infrastructure and other telecommunications products throughout North America. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.
About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in technology, opening new possibilities for people everywhere. Through relentless innovation and discovery, we are transforming the worlds of TVs, smartphones, tablets, PCs, cameras, home appliances, printers, LTE systems, medical devices, semiconductors and LED solutions. We employ 286,000 people across 80 countries with annual sales of US$216.7 billion. To discover more, please visit www.samsung.com.
About Under Armour, Inc.
Under Armour (NYSE: UA), the originator of performance footwear, apparel and equipment, revolutionized how athletes across the world dress. Designed to make all athletes better, the brand's innovative products are sold worldwide to athletes at all levels. Under Armour's wholly owned subsidiary, MapMyFitness, powers one of the world's largest Connected Fitness communities. The Under Armour global headquarters is in Baltimore, Maryland. For further information, please visit the Company's website at www.uabiz.com.
About Sprint
Sprint (NYSE: S) offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint served nearly 55 million customers as of March 31, 2014 and is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United States; leading prepaid brands including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. The American Customer Satisfaction Index rated Sprint as the most improved U.S. company in customer satisfaction, across all 43 industries, over the last six years. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America in 2011, 2012 and 2013. You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint
1This device, S Health, and related software is not intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease.
2This device has been tested and received an IP (Ingress Protection) rating of IP67, which tests for dust intrusion and for water submersion up to 1 meter for up to 30 minutes. Not shockproof. Covers must be tightly closed.
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The Congressional emergency appropriation resulting from the January 17, 1994, Northridge earthquake provided the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) an opportunity to expand its activities in earthauake engineering under the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP). In addition to the post-earthquake reconnaissance, BFRL focused its efforts primarily on post-earthquake fire and lifelines and on moment-resisting steel frames. In the area of moment-resisting steel frames damaged in the Northridge earthquake, BFRL, working with practicing engineers, conducted a survey and assessment of damaged steel buildings and jointly funded the SAC (Structural Engineers Association of California, Applied Technology Council, and California Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering) Invitational Workshop on Steel Seismic Issues in September 1994. Forming a joint university, industry, and government partnership, BFRL initiated an effort to address the problem of the rehabilitation of existing buildings to improve their seismic resistance in future earthquakes. This design guideline is a result of that joint effort. BFRL is the national laboratory dedicated to enhancing the competitiveness of U.S. industry and public safety by developing performance prediction methods, measurement technologies, and technical advances needed to assure the life cycle quality and economy of constructed facilities. The research conducted as part of this industry, university, and government partnership and the resulting recommendations provided hereing are intended to fulfill in part, this mission. This design guide has undergone extensive review by the AISC committee on Manuals and Textbooks; the AISC Committee on Specifications, TC 9 - Seismic Design; the AISC Committee on rEsearch; the SAC Project Oversight Committee; and the SAC Project Management Committee. The input and suggestions from all those who contributed are greatly appreciated.
Proceedings Title: North American Steel Construction Conference | 12th | 2001 North American Steel Construction Conference Proceedings : AISC Steel Design Guide Series, Guide No. 12
Volume: 19.1-19.14
Conference Dates: May 12-13, 1999
Conference Title: American Institute of Steel Construction
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I had my first mod installed last week. I have not posted before now 'cause well, driving a WRX is more fun than reading about one :)
Anyhow I ordered pinstripes from [URL="http://www.stripeman.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=Graphics&Product_Code=4485Flame&Category_Code=FEATURED"]Stripeman.com[/URL] then I had them installed by Auto Body Techniques in Wheaton, IL. I think they turned out pretty good... I went with Bay Gold Metallic because Gold Metallic was a little to bold... Bay Gold is a shade lighter.
The best part is that in ricer tradition, I just added 5 hp per side... that's a gain of 10 hp for less than $200 !Thumbs Up
Meh, never liked pinstripes because when you wax/detail it they always seem to add an hour to the time hahahaha.
And these may add 3 hours to your time :p
Good luck.
Personally, I don't like it, but way to be different!
I don't like it either. But as long as it makes you happy than thats all that matters.
I've always been a fan of flamed out hot rods....I guess this is as close as is it gets for a WRX!Thumbs Up
If you want flames, a nice painted set of white ghost flames would probably look sick.
Man rough crowd... I don't think I have said anything negative about someone else's car here... There is enough hate in the news I shouldn't have to see it in a post about my car.
Maybe I'm being over sensitive, but I have wanted a new WRX for a very lonnnnnnng time. Now that I finally have it, I'm making it MINE. So if you don't mind, I have a date with a plasma blue WRX with flames... we're going for a drive.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wui-PNqJrxs]"If you can't say something nice, don't say nothin' at all" - YouTube[/ame]
To those who had something nice to say, or thought I was crazy, but moved on, Thank you. And if I somehow misunderstood what was said, I apologize.
[quote=man show;275723]If you want flames, a nice painted set of white ghost flames would probably look sick.[/quote]
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You asked for opinions in a way by sayin "I think they turned out pretty good".
All that matters is that you like it.
Nobody said anything bad about it. They said there own opinions and as long as you like it, it shouldn't matter what anyone else says.
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Part of the 1000 Acre sport city International Cricket stadium in the vicinity
Indian Railway is also constructing a dedicated Freight Corridor which will run nearby.
India's one of the largest 765 KV electricity power stations in the proximity to provide round the clock power supply
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Dropped soffit over shower?
I'm remodeling my bathroom. Gutted it to the studs, and today even took out the shower pan and everything (it's a colossal mess in there still!). But I'm wondering about the ceiling - I think I'm going to have to put new drywall on the ceiling for a number of reasons:
1. There was damage to the ceiling when removing drywall from the walls - 30 years worth of paint layers peeled off with the paper corner tape in some areas, and took some drywall paper with it from the ceiling in large areas (is that easily repairable to make it smooth again?).
2. I want to install a new ventilation fan. The current one makes tons of noise and is obviously very old. I know I can do it through the attic, but it would be easier to get a nice new vent cover and everything.
3. The big question - there is a dropped soffit just over the shower area. The ceiling drops down about 8 inches or so there. It's there in my other bathroom, too, just above the tub area only. There's no ducting up there, because this house has no ducting at all (no central air, and heat is zonal electric wall units). I knocked a couple of holes in the soffit above the shower area and insulation is there from the attic. So I pulled some insulation out and shined a bright light up at the hole and went up into the attic, and couldn't see the light coming through at all anywhere. Could mean this is a closed soffit on the top, but I suspect it means I didn't pull enough insulation down through the hole, since there's a ton of insulation up in that attic. I hate the dropped soffit, though. I want to tear it all down, put up the drywall on the ceiling all at one level throughout. Is there any reason not to do this? Does the soffit have to be there for some reason? If it does have to be there, I have some work to do to repair the drywall on that, since I knocked a hole about 8 x 4 inches in it!
Help, folks!
The only way to know for sure is to pull out the rest of the insulation and have a look.
Drywall is really cheap right now, and if you're doing all the walls it seems like you'll likely get a better finish if you do the ceiling too.
Besides, tearing stuff out is fun!
The ceiling over our shower is low, but that's because the roof is low. I've noticed that the fan does a super job of pulling the steam out of the room. I think it's because there's so little clearance between the shower door and the ceiling. Don't know if that actually makes sense or not.
I've got a soffit in my kitchen that I hate too, but it is because there's a 2' (approx.) "bump out". Sort of a square "bay window", but the roof framing wasn't modified to compensate for the inside ceiling height. That may be the reason in your case too, but further demo is necessary to find out, as stated above.I thought about doing a slope as opposed to the square boxy look (and may do so in the future), but will wait until ready to do a full blown kitchen remodel (which I'm told by "THE BOSS" is in the near future....)
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While the Samsung Galaxy S4 will be the star of the Samsung Mobile department, other Samsung products from tablets to other smartphones will be displayed. Later in the year, a second wave of Best Buy stores will be updated with the Samsung Store and the remodeling will continue until there is a Samsung Store in every Best Buy location.
Best Buy's move shows the power that Samsung has found itself wielding ever since the Samsung Galaxy S II too off in 2011. Last year's Samsung Galaxy S III did phenomenally well and the OEM expects 100 million units of the Samsung Galaxy S4 to be sold before the model is put to pasture.
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