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Mythological creatures share a New Jersey apartment together. Hilarity ensues.
The creation of Jay Donaldson, Kegel gets into all sorts of trouble!
Super Mario Bros Z
It's a crazy Mario / DBZ crossover!
This one took me a while, tried working on a little smoother animation, and better sounds. Unfortunately I don't have my own sound studio, so I am forced to search the net. Hope you guys like this one. Leave your comments.
UPDATE: The SQUIGO website is up and running at www.squigo.com. You can submit your own artwork or animations, even post a link to your site if you want. go check it out. Thanks for the comments
that was unbeleebabol! hope ders more 2 come!
Ya know i saw the title "gunslingers" and was just like omg
squigo + gun = bad
but things didn't even turn out close to how i expected
very original
good job
Pretty good
I thought he was going to get killed from a second shot, or that the light would hit him, but what was there is better. Good work, buddy.
lol i almost thought he might live but then again... it is squigo. any way its late so im gonna go to bed... id love to add more but my bed awates bye.
aaahh nice an umpredictable :p
that was awsome! i like how you have incorperated more unpredictable qualities to it, i never thought that THAT would happen! you would think that he would shoot himself or something, but NO no no no lol. keep up the good work!


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Windows 7 doesn't give letters to two of my harddrives
I have a computer with an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium motherboard, with 4 SATA II ports and 4 Silicon Image SATA_RAID ports. I am having trouble getting Windows 7 to acknowledge a pair of Seagate 80 GB ST380815AS ATA drives.
I recently bought Windows 7, and thought that as long as I was performing a complete install, I'd upgrade my computer by putting the new OS on an SSD and getting a pair of drives to run in RAID 0 for gaming.
First I installed the SSD and put Win 7 on it. Everything went fine. Then I put in the two new Seagate 80 GB drives and linked them as a RAID 0 drive. Everything went fine except for the minor detail that Win 7 claimed that it had no driver for the RAID Device.
While I was kicking around trying to find a solution, Win 7 updated itself a couple of times and downloaded a "Silicon Image RAID Light" update. When the computer rebooted, it stopped complaining about not having a driver for the RAID, but it didn't show me a drive letter for the RAID drive, either.
I decided that getting Win 7 to use the RAID on my ancient motherboard just wasn't meant to be, so I unplugged the drives from the RAID slots and plugged all 4 drives into the primary SATA II Ports.
Now, I can see drive letters for my SSD and my old Win XP drive, but I don't have drive letters for the two Seagates. When I look in the device manager, the drives are there under "Disk drives," and it says "this device is working properly." When I go to the "Volumes" and click "Populate," it says
Disk: Disk 2
Type: Unknown
Status: Not initialized
Partition Style: Not Applicable
Capacity: 76319 MB
Unallocated space: 0 MB
Reserved space: 0 MB
I've also noticed that it does not give drive letters to the parts of my Maxtor Media Reader (as Win XP did), but I assumed that this was because they didn't have media cards in them.
How can I get the two Seagate drives working? (Preferrably in RAID mode.)
Thanks for any help
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Welcome, David!
Have you tried assigning a drive letter for them in Device Manager? Right-click on them and select the option.
Hope this helps,
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Hi David,
In Disk Management, RT click on the HD - on the left where it says the word DISK - select intialize - select mbr.
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Thanks for the tips.
For anyone reading, I connected the drives to the Silicon Logic SATA_RAID ports, made sure that the drives were assigned to a RAID 0 drive by the motherboard and went into Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Drive Manager to declare the unlettered "Drive 2" as a MBR drive. After a bit of futzing around, I discovered that I had to then delcare a simple volume on the drive. (Also done from Drive Manager)
Interestingly enough, it looks like you can declare a striped volume on any two or more drives that have undeclared space available.
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I think this is true sort of.
I think that in order for it to be true a person needs good boundaries. They need to know themselves which many people dont.
If a person is nice they will see the nice in people. But if they dont have good boundaries they will give and give and give and get nothing back. They can get hurt because they think someone is nice but its not that person, its them. So they interact with themselves but they get surprised when the person is not nice back.
Or they may be very honest and think others are because you do see in others what is in yourself and they can get duped. And lied to an manipulated and hurt.
Or they are sort of vulnerable so they see vulnerability in others that doesnt really exist. And then give people all sorts of help they dont need and they can get used easily.
I think the words are true but not really I think lifes an echo in terms of waves of energy that interact and if you know what your energy wave is then you will know its you your looking at and start looking clearly at the energy waves coming back at you.
Maybe thats when you reach some sort of enlightenment when you know you are you and they are them but we are all us.
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James Franco - James Franco doesn't sleep
James Franco doesn't feel he needs sleep, but admits that takes its toll and he ends up crashing out in inappropriate places.
James Franco doesn't need sleep.
The multi-talented star is so invested in his various projects such as acting, directing, teaching film classes and his various art exhibitions, he has very little time to rest, but his hectic lifestyle eventually takes its toll and he ''crashes'' in inappropriate places.
Quizzed if he ever goes to bed, he said: ''Some nights. I don't need sleep. And then you do enough of those [late nights] and you eventually crash - you know, odd places, on set, or in class, or wherever.''
The 35-year-old hunk's busy career leaves little room for a social life, but the 'Oz the Great and Powerful' star says he has found a way to incorporate socialising into his work by surrounding himself with like-minded pals.
He explained: ''Well, I mean, as far as my social life, I've just learned to work with the people I love.
''I enjoy working creatively with people much more than getting wasted with them. I guess I just used those hours at the bar to do other things.''
Despite juggling many different careers ranging from actor, director, professor, PhD student and artist, James still has some unfulfilled ambitions to cross off his list - including the stage.
He added to Britain's GQ magazine: ''I love theatre. I'm actually supposed to act on Broadway in 'Of Mice and Men'. So I think that's gonna happen. [And] I'd like to write a play.''


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all the programs I've seen on Afghanistan, not one was more chilling
than Beneath the Veil, an hourlong documentary that has
appeared frequently on CNN. Its narrator, Saira Shah, a British woman
of Afghan descent, spent five days in the country to see what life
there was really like. Shah managed to penetrate places few
Westerners get to see, including a secret classroom for girls and a
village that suffered Taliban atrocities. She also visited a Kabul
soccer stadium that, she said, had served as a public execution
ground. To back up her point, the documentary featured a clip of a
man putting a rifle to the head of a woman clad in a burqa and
blowing her brains out. In an interview with the Taliban foreign
minister, Shah asked what he thought the international donors who
gave money for the stadium would say if they knew it was being used
for executions rather than for sports. Well, the minister said, if
they didn't like it, they should give money to build a separate arena
for executions.
Shah's report captures just how horrendous
life in Afghanistan has become. The Taliban's police-state tactics,
together with its harboring of terrorists, has fed a groundswell of
support for its ouster. That, in turn, has focused new attention on
the Taliban's main opponents, the United Front, or, as it's more
familiarly known, the Northern Alliance. Eager to report on it, US
journalists have swarmed into the sliver of territory the alliance
controls in northeastern Afghanistan, where they're cordially taken
on tours by rebel commanders.
"We're with the troops of the
Northern Alliance," MSNBC's TomAspell reported on September 27. The
alliance, he said, was eager to act as a guide for American forces
entering Afghanistan. CNN's Chris Burns, gesturing toward a mountain
ridge, said, "Thirty miles beyond that, is where Kabul is. And they
say if they had help from the Americans, they could take that city."
Meanwhile, a procession of alliance spokesmen have appeared on TV to
plead for US assistance.
The print media have been no less
accommodating. "Front-line Taliban Foes Eager to Help U.S.," the
New York Times declared on its front page. Reporter David
Rohde described how a Northern Alliance general "swaggered across the
top floor" of a demolished airfield control tower and pointed
southward. "'On the other side of those mountains,' he said, his
voice filled with yearning, 'is Kabul.'" While the alliance did not
pose an immediate military threat to the city, Rohde noted, it did
have "encyclopedic knowledge of the Taliban and its bombing targets,
units and tactics." The Washington Post has run a series of
glowing reports about the alliance and its grit, savvy and
"discipline." That discipline, correspondent Peter Baker noted in one
dispatch, has survived the September 9 assassination of Ahmed Shah
Massoud, the guerrilla leader who "by sheer force of personality had
managed to hold together this eclectic group of
In death, Massoud has been lionized by the US
press--literally. "The legendary 'Lion of the Panjshir,'" the Los
Angeles Times called him. "A Lion's Death," the New Yorker
declared in a headline atop a one-page eulogy by Jon Lee Anderson. In
1992, Anderson reported, Massoud's "moderately conservative group"
defeated the brutish regime backed by the Soviets, and he served as
defense minister and vice president until 1996, when the Taliban
gained control of most of the country.
What neither
Anderson nor the rest of the press has reported is that during their
time in power, Massoud and his fellow warlords ruthlessly fought one
another, reducing much of Kabul to rubble and killing tens of
thousands of people, most of them civilians. According to a
meticulously documented report by Human Rights Watch (Afghanistan:
Crisis of Impunity, available at www.hrw.org), the front "amassed
a deplorable record of attacks on civilians" between 1992 and 1996.
It was the lawlessness and brutality that prevailed under these
warlords that paved the way for the Taliban. Since then, Human Rights
Watch reports, both the Taliban and the United Front "have repeatedly
committed serious violations of international humanitarian law,
including killings of detainees, aerial bombardment and shelling,
direct attacks on civilians, rape, torture, persecution on the basis
of religion, and the use of antipersonnel landmines."
one of the few departures from the pack, Patricia Gossman noted in a
Washington Post Op-Ed that Afghans have been fleeing Kabul
"not only out of fear of US airstrikes but out of panic that the
[Northern Alliance] might take power there again." Gossman, a writer
whose research has been funded by the US Institute of Peace, wrote
that when she was in Kabul last year, "I was told time and again that
the only thing people there feared more than the Taliban was that the
warlords of the Northern Alliance might return to
Michael Sullivan, in a fine piece for NPR, pointed
out that the Northern Alliance is made up of Afghanistan's ethnic
Tajik and Uzbek minorities, "with only token representation from the
country's ethnic Pashtun majority, who've dominated Afghanistan's
political landscape for most of the country's history." Without
involving the Pashtuns, a Pakistani security analyst told him, having
a stable government in Afghanistan "would be simply impossible." (The
Taliban is made up mostly of Pashtuns.)
What accounts for
the media blackout on the United Front's true colors? As Ken
Silverstein observed in an astute piece for Salon, the front's
many abuses "can't be a surprise" to reporters. Since September 11,
he notes, several thousand people, "presumably many of them
journalists," have requested the Human Rights Watch report on
Afghanistan, but "most reporters and pundits seem to be patriotically
turning a blind eye to our new partner's shortcomings."
The press may at last be opening its eyes. Time, in
its October 8 edition, offered a balanced piece on the United Front,
referring to its "fractious makeup" and "disappointingly thin"
intelligence. And David Rohde, in another front-page piece in the
Times on the Northern Alliance, used the w-word--warlords--and
described their recruitment of fighters as young as
According to the Times, the Bush Administration
has decided to provide covert aid to several groups opposed to the
Taliban, the United Front included. In light of the urgent need to
root out war criminals like Osama bin Laden, it can be argued that
Washington needs every bit of help it can get. But at the very least,
the American public needs to know whom we are embracing. After all,
it was just a few years ago that the CIA--eager to confront the
Soviets--backed the mujahedeen, including many of the same Taliban
fighters we are now seeking to overthrow.
Labels like "Islam" and "the West" serve only to confuse us about a disorderly reality.
The two related questions before the house are these. Can the attacks
of September 11 be compared to an earlier outrage committed by
Americans? And should they be so compared?
Several individuals have attributed to me certain statements on the issue of the situation known as the "Pacifica Crisis." As I am quite capable of speaking for myself without easy-chai
I have been asked to respond to recent Nation articles by Christopher Hitchens (website, September 24; magazine, Oct.
With the news media playing such a pivotal--and questionable--role during the current crisis, we have asked Michael Massing, a contributing editor at the Columbia Journalism Review, to comment on the coverage in the coming weeks.
--The Editors
A few minutes into ABC's World News Tonight on September 21--the night after George W. Bush's speech to Congress--Peter Jennings somberly noted that it was "time for all Americans to begin learning more about Afghanistan." I immediately perked up. Since the calamitous events of September 11, the networks had focused heavily on the human and physical toll of the attacks and on the nation's fitful efforts to come to terms with them. And they performed admirably in those initial days, consoling and comforting the public even as they were informing it. But as the days passed, and as the government prepared to strike at Osama bin Laden and his Afghan hosts, the need for some sharp political analysis became urgent, and here, on cue, was Jennings, promising a mini-tutorial.
Leaning forward, I looked expectantly at my TV screen--only to find it filled with the pale, bespectacled face of Tony Cordesman. Cordesman, of course, was a ubiquitous talking head during the Gulf War, and now he was back, holding forth in the same nasal monotone. He dutifully recited some basic facts about Afghanistan--the small size of the Taliban army, the limited number of tanks and aircraft at its disposal, the scarcity of bombing targets on the ground. "The job is extraordinarily difficult if not impossible if you set deadlines and demand instant success," Cordesman burbled. Then he was gone, and the program was back to its ongoing coverage of victims, heroes and terrorists. We learned nothing about the level of support for the Taliban, about the strength of the opposition, about America's long history of involvement in the region.
The segment was typical. As the nation prepares to go to war, the coverage on TV--the primary source of news for most Americans--has been appallingly superficial. Constantly clicking my remote in search of insight, I was stunned at the narrowness of the views offered, at the Soviet-style reliance on official and semiofficial sources. On Meet the Press, for instance, Tim Russert's guests were Colin Powell and (as he proudly announced) the "four leaders of the United States Congress"--Dennis Hastert, Richard Gephardt, Trent Lott and Tom Daschle. "How did the events of September 11 change you?" the normally feisty Russert tremulously asked each. Seeking wisdom on the question of Why They Hate Us, Barbara Walters turned to former Bush communications director, now senior White House counselor, Karen Hughes. "They hate the fact that we elect our leaders," Hughes vacuously replied. On NBC, Brian Williams leaned heavily on failed-drug-czar-turned-TV-consultant Barry McCaffrey ("Americans are natural fighters," McCaffrey fatuously informed us), while on The Capital Gang Mark Shields asked former Middle East diplomat Edward Walker, "Can the antiterrorism coalition really count this time on Saudi Arabia?"
To a degree, such deference reflects TV's customary rallying around the flag in times of national crisis. Such a stance is understandable; in light of the enormity of the attack, even atheists are singing "God Bless America." But the jingoistic displays on TV over the past two weeks--the repeated references to "we" and "us," the ostentatious sprouting of lapel flags, Dan Rather's startling declaration that "George Bush is the President, he makes the decisions and, you know, as just one American, he wants me to line up, just tell me where"--have violated every canon of good journalism. They have also snuffed out any whiff of debate and dissent; the discussion taking place within the Bush Administration is no doubt more vigorous than that presented on TV.
But there's more than simple patriotism at work here. The thinness of the coverage and the shallowness of the analysis seem a direct outgrowth of the networks' steady disengagement from the world in recent years. Since the end of the cold war, overseas bureaus have been closed, foreign correspondents recalled and the time allocated to international news sharply pared. Having thus plucked out their eyes, the networks--suddenly faced with a global crisis--are lunging about in the dark, trying desperately to find their footing.
No outlet has seemed more blinkered than CNN. The network that once emulated the BBC has instead become another MSNBC, and while it can still count on Christiane Amanpour to parachute into the world's hot zones, and on the game efforts of such on-the-ground assets as Nic Robertson in Kabul, the network has seemed thoroughly flummoxed by the complex political forces set in motion by the events of September 11. Consider, for instance, that famous brief clip showing a clutch of Palestinians celebrating the attack on the World Trade Center. Within days, word began circulating on the Internet that the footage had actually been shot during the Gulf War. The furor became so great that CNN eventually had to issue a statement describing where it got the tape (from a Reuters cameraman in East Jerusalem who insisted that he had not encouraged the celebration, as some claimed).
The real scandal, though, is that CNN repeatedly showed the clip without commentary, without attempting to place it in the broader context of reactions from the Islamic world. What were people in Gaza and the West Bank actually saying? Where were the interviews with clerics in Cairo, editorial writers in Amman, shopkeepers in Jakarta and schoolteachers in Kuala Lumpur? It was certainly not hard to obtain such views--witness Ian Fisher's sparkling dispatch from Gaza in the New York Times ("In the Gaza Strip, Anger at the U.S. Still Smolders") and Peter Waldman and Hugh Pope's excellent front-page roundup in the Wall Street Journal: "Some Muslims Fear War on Terrorism Is Really a War on Them; West Undercuts Islam, They Say, by Backing Israel, Autocratic Mideast Rule."
Not all was bland on CNN. Jeff Greenfield, for one, made some genuine efforts to probe the Islamic world's complex love-hate relationship with the United States. On September 20, for instance, he had a spirited discussion with Afghanistan hands Barnett Rubin of New York University and Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland, along with Farid Esack, a Muslim scholar at Auburn Theological Seminary. Far more representative,though, was "What Do We Know About Islam?" an exceedingly brief Sunday segment in which a Christian minister and a Muslim cleric offered very vague observations about relations between Christianity and Islam. It was followed by an interview with a Muslim-American who assured us that "Islam means peace." Shot in Boston and New York, the segment drove home how CNN has lost that precious journalistic ability to work the streets of the world and discover what's really taking place there. Given CNN's critical part in keeping the world informed, one can only hope that it will soon regain its bearings.
Whether in his home district or in Washington, DC, Congressman Gary Condit is a discredit to his profession.
It's time to consider what would really improve our unequal society.
Not all readers liked my attack on the liberal/left tendency to "rationalize" the aggression of September 11, or my use of the term "fascism with an Islamic face," and I'll select a representat
Last night I had the
strangest dream...
All of America's wealthy,
conservative and safely belligerent pundits had been delivered by a
just and beneficent Almighty Power to a Palestinian refugee camp,
following the bulldozing of their homes--including vacation
homes--and the expropriation of all their possessions. Instead of
pontificating between beach walks and vodka tonics in Vineyard Haven,
these armchair bombardiers were treated to rivers of open sewage and
hopeless lives of beggary. Those who resisted were arrested, tortured
and selectively assassinated. Meanwhile, editorial pages across
America cheered the "restraint" of their tormentors.
extremely lengthy articles, the New York Times and The New
York Review of Books recently demonstrated beyond any doubt that
the Israelis (and the Americans) shared in the blame for the
breakdown of peace negotiations and ensuing cycle of violence that
now tragically appears to be engulfing the region. To the
punditocracy, however, these dispassionately argued, extensively
reported stories amounted to an existential insult of near biblical
proportions. Marty Peretz's New Republic published a vicious
attack on the articles by Robert Satloff, executive director of a
pro-Israel think tank. William Safire got so excited, he denounced
his own newspaper in a hysterical fit of ad hominemism: "Do not
swallow this speculative rewriting of recent events," he warned
readers. "The overriding reason for the war against Israel today is
that Yasir Arafat decided that war was the way to carry out the
often-avowed Palestinian plan. Its first stage is to create a West
Bank state from the Jordan River to the sea with Jerusalem as its
capital. Then, by flooding Israel with 'returning' Palestinians, the
plan in its promised final phase would drive the hated Jews from the
Middle East."
Mortimer Zuckerman, in his capacity as
chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American
Organizations, insisted, "This is just revisionist history.... There
is one truth, period: The Palestinians caused the breakdown at Camp
David and then rejected Clinton's plan in January." The baldest
comment came from the Zionist Organization of America's president,
Morton Klein: "Whether their account is accurate or not is
irrelevant.... I reject any discussion of what
In the wake of the suicide bombings, three
different Washington Post pundits demanded war three days in a
row. Michael Kelly, recently seen complaining about too many fatsoes
at the beach, advised the Israelis to unleash "an overwhelming
force...to destroy, kill, capture and expel the armed Palestinian
forces." The more moderate George Will called only for a "short war."
(Charles Krauthammer did not specify a length.) To read these
would-be warriors, you would think the Palestinians were summering in
Edgartown. A reader would never guess that a regional superpower is
carrying out a brutal military occupation, coupled with a settlement
policy that directly contravenes Article 49 of the Geneva Convention.
No one with any sense would argue that Arafat and his
corrupt cronies do not bear considerable responsibility for the
collapse of any hope of peace in the Middle East in the near future.
And suicide bombers against civilian targets in Israel are as
counterproductive as they are immoral (though those who settle in
occupied territory are knowingly putting themselves in harm's way and
hence share some responsibility when their families are forced to pay
for this fanaticism with their lives). Nevertheless, a conflict where
"our team" engages in terrorism, assassination and the apparently
routine torture of teenagers to defend a cruel and illegal occupation
is one in which neither side holds a monopoly on virtue.
Since a majority of Israelis supports a freeze in the
provocative practice of settlement-building, the mindless hysteria of
the American punditocracy must have other sources than mere logic.
It's dangerous to draw firm conclusions without any special knowledge
about the psyches of those involved, but much of the materially
comfortable American Jewish community has had an unhappy history of
defending the principle of Jewish sovereignty over captured
Palestinian lands right down to the death of the last Israeli.
Because of the sacrifices they demand of others, many American Jews
feel they must be holier than the Pope when defending Israeli human
rights abuses. The New Republic's Peretz is a particularly
interesting specimen. He reflexively defends everything Israel does
and routinely slanders its critics. Peretz, who owes his prominence
to money, in this case his (non-Jewish) wife's fortune--which allowed
him to purchase his magazine--has never published a single book or
written a significant piece of scholarship, reportage or criticism.
It's not hard to imagine that his self-appointed role as Israel's
American Torquemada--seen in his obsession with smearing the
world-renowned Palestinian scholar and activist Edward Said--is
inspired as much by guilt and envy as by more rational motivations.
(I say this as a supporter of the peace process who has respectfully
disagreed with almost all Said has said about the conflict in recent
Whatever the reason, the net result is the same.
For a brief moment in recent history, when Israel had a government
that was dedicated to finding a way to make peace, the warrior
pundits were placed on the defensive and the Palestinians received a
reasonably fair shake from the nation's elite media. More recently, a
review of leading editorial pages by the ADL found that "the major
newspapers across the country are viewing the situation in the Middle
East in a realistic and objective manner." The authors of the study
helpfully defined their terms. To the ADL "realistic and objective"
means "critical of and hostile to Arafat...directly blaming him for
the continuing violence and creating a climate of hatred" along with
the dismissal of all Palestinian peace overtures as "calculated tools
for his goal of gaining further concessions from
In a rational world, the ADL report would at least
complicate efforts by Safire, TNR and others to charge the
media with "pro-Arab" and "anti-Israel" bias. Alas, I'm betting
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CLAPTON (of Cream) EMULATION
(This video is target for the esoteric listener) Haven't got out my Bluesbird in a while so thought I would today. Because of it's thick sound my mind and hand technique automatically say "Cream" style Clapton and ultimately I never play as natural to myself as I do when I have my Fender in hand. (like the the last video) Anyway, thought I'd try and emulate as best as possible the intensity EC displayed in Live Cream. Warning: It's Frantic - but then again, so was Cream.
One of the coolest photos I've seen of Slowhand. Glad I spotted this.
Best EC photo I've found in a while? …YES
Eric Clapton , Sting , Jeff Beck
Eric Clapton , Sting , Jeff Beck
Eric Clapton , Sting , Jeff Beck
So there isn't much to say that the photo doesn't say itself……
Simply two friends who were bonded by, not their popularity or forthcoming fame, but their love, respect & passion for music (Blues to be specific). Both influenced each other in great respects. Clapton was the initial reason behind Jimi's decision to head for the Uk…& it was Hendrix energy & power that kept Eric on his competitive edge. The rest is history….such a shame they never had the time to cut an album together. Regardless, I'm sure when they jammed that night, it was truly magical. -T
I never get tired of EC's version of this song. If you don't have the patience to watch the whole thing - load the vid exactly 5 min in. His melodic sense and touch is still miles ahead of everyone. This is the kind of playing that encompasses every quality I tr y to bring out in my own playing. & in the fine words John Mayer "E.C is the only guitar player who can touch everybody with his playing. His melodic sense is just unbelievable"…so with that said, turn up & tune out. -T
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If all goes according to plan, sometime today the state Senate will pass a bill tinkering with Georgia's tax code. Thus will two years of ambitious thinking about tax reform end not with a bang, but with a whimper.
The way to think about this tax package, HB 386, is not whether it's bad on its face. Some parts of it are clearly good; others elicit more of a "meh." It's more good than bad.
Rather, the real problem is this bill makes it harder to achieve the very bold tax reforms discussed since 2010.
I'm talking about lowering the personal and corporate income tax rates as low as a flat 3 percent from today's top rate of 6 percent. That's a worthy goal for a state sandwiched between two rival states, Florida and Tennessee, with personal income tax rates of zero. A third, South Carolina, is currently moving toward halving its own income tax rate to 3 percent.
A special council created in 2010 to study tax reform recommended just such a reduction to help Georgia remain competitive. It was a big recommendation, a controversial recommendation, but also a well thought-out recommendation.
The businesspeople and economists who served on the special council came up with a list of tax increases to offset these reductions. State law requires a balanced budget, and spending is climbing again now that revenues are rising: The fiscal 2013 budget increases spending by more than $900 million. (State officials will tell you they had no choice about increases for education and Medicaid. Let's say they're right. The result — more spending — is the same even if it's not voluntary.)
So, offsetting tax increases seem politically necessary. The biggest recommendation of the special council, at $463 million per year, was reapplying the state sales tax to groceries. It was summarily dismissed by Gov. Nathan Deal.
Two of the other large offsets were taxing person-to-person sales of used cars ($151 million) and ending an exclusion for certain retirement income ($272 million). But variations on those ideas are incorporated into HB 386, so we can't count on them to help pay for future tax reform.
That leaves tax hikes on cigarettes, telecommunications and personal services such as auto repairs — all of which have been heavily lobbied against. Anyway, those three increases together would not offset a sizable cut in the income tax rate.
Failing that, we'd be left with an increase in the sales tax rate. And there are a number of legislators who say they want to shift the tax burden from income to consumption. But if the T-SPLOST they created passes this summer, boosting sales tax rates as high as 9 percent in Atlanta, don't expect to see the state raise the rate by another penny or two.
All this leaves the state mightily restrained in its ability to make those income-tax cuts, which are important to the state's future competitiveness. "Testimony given at Council meetings," the special council reported in 2011, "indicates cutting personal income tax rates would be the most advantageous change Georgia could make to attract high-technology companies and jobs."
Yet, HB 386 appears to put us even further from reaching that goal. Instead, we get a partial reduction of the "marriage penalty" that amounts to $120 or less per year for Georgia couples and is less important to most of them than a rate cut would be. That, and a renewal of the old back-to-school sales tax holiday that the special council described this way:
"Sales tax holidays appear to have no effect on consumption other than to change the timing of purchases and shift the mix of items" purchased. And while there may be some sales gained or lost along the borders of states that do have sales tax holidays, "there is no empirical evidence to suggest that holidays provide a material boost to a state's economy."
But it would take up another $32 million to $48 million a year that could have gone toward cutting income tax rates.
There are a couple of items in the reform that are clearly pro-growth. The best of these is the exemption from sales tax of energy used by manufacturers. No surrounding state charges that tax, and it helps both businesses new to Georgia (think Caterpillar) and our existing companies (think North Georgia textile mills).
But that change and a couple of other small ones could have been made alone, with less impact on the state budget, and without crimping our chances at truly comprehensive tax reform in the future.
– By Kyle Wingfield
March 22nd, 2012
6:13 am
You can't make "Bold" Tax reforms when you refuse to really cut spending. This bill like everything else the state legislature has passed has special interest and lobbyist written all over it. For the taxpayer the state legislature has no credibility left.
March 22nd, 2012
7:15 am
The lobbyists win again.
Why are we surprised? But we don't need no ethics laws to keep the lobbyists from funneling "gifts" to our legislators so they can return the favor with these kinds of changes.
March 22nd, 2012
7:33 am
Gotta love it when the idea of a "balanced budget" is that when revenues start rising make the spending rise to match it. Heaven forbid we should pay off some debt, put some in savings and then lower the tax burden on The People.
March 22nd, 2012
7:44 am
Race to the bottom. Prostrate before the holy lobbyists. Any of you legislators have family members that need jobs?
March 22nd, 2012
7:48 am
A used car sales tax, between individuals, by any other name, is still a used car tax. The citizens have already rejected that stinker once before.
March 22nd, 2012
7:58 am
Kyle good point about TSplost and the sales tax rate. Consumption tax only…should there be a balance between consumption tax and income/business tax or other "consistent" taxes? What would have happened to the budget/revenue stream if before this last recession, we only had consumption taxes? Would our predicament been different? Worse?
March 22nd, 2012
8:01 am
All they really need to do to remain competitive is to lay out the facts about their competition. Not too long ago, I did a quick and dirty comparison between costs in GA and FL…….the result?, about the same even though FL has no State income tax.
Don't equate no income tax with lower costs, as FL gets their money through "fees" and other taxes. FL does tax used car sales, they also charge 3 to 4 times as much for the basics like getting tags, titles and licenses. (GA title $18….FL $75).
Then factor in insurance costs……cross the ST Marys river, and insurance costs drop by the hundreds if not thousands.
And gas is normally at least 10 cents a gallon cheaper in Ga.
If GA wants to remain competitive, a not as costly advertising campaign would be the ticket.
March 22nd, 2012
8:03 am
Why not increase the fuel tax rate to raise revenue for infrastructure spending and job creation? Georgia taxes fuel less than other states. No one would notice a few more cents tacked onto a gallon of gasoline.
March 22nd, 2012
8:04 am
"State law requires a balanced budget, and spending is climbing again now that revenues are rising: The fiscal 2013 budget increases spending by more than $900 million."
So instead of playing with taxes to make up the $900 million, why not cut $900 million in spending by reducing the size of state government?
March 22nd, 2012
8:32 am
All this leaves the state mightily restrained in its ability to make those income-tax cuts
Conservatives always want their cake and the ability to eat it, too. Conservative refrain:
"I want, I want, I want"
Are you willing to pay for it?
"No, no, no. Let someone else pay for it. Not me!"
What is the consistent theme of the conservative?
me me me me me me me me me me me me me me
March 22nd, 2012
8:34 am
"Are you willing to pay for it?
"No, no, no. Let someone else pay for it. Not me!""
Sarcasm? Surely……or someone is mighty confused………
March 22nd, 2012
8:42 am
Add a new category for "sin taxes" and raise millions. Tax cosmetics and perfumes/colognes at the same rate as cigarettes and liquor. Theses are items we do not need to survive and most Georgians use them excessively. It would not only help most breathe easier, we could see people for who they really are and make money at the same time.
March 22nd, 2012
8:44 am
Ayn: Because they don't have the nerve to do something that is logical and needed….it's a tax…no….a user fee increase! The gas tax has not been adjusted for inflation since the 1980's!
The additional issue is that all cars don't get the same mileage/gal or have the same weight (heavier veh do more damage to the pavement). The desired move is to a mileage/congestion based system like the I 85 managed lanes….but for all lanes. No one has identified a good way to collect the "user fee" under the mileage program.
March 22nd, 2012
8:44 am
education costs should be brought down. salaries for education (college and k-12) administrators and the sheer number of those jobs are outrageous. look at what we pay college presidents for essentially doing fund raising. cuts should be made before taxes are raised. the sales tax needs to go back on groceries and the income tax lowered. all citizens need to be contributing to the taxes raised in ga. (broaden the tax base). this would also include persons passing through ga. as well as illegals buying groceries. now how fair is that! Just because times have gotten a little better doesn't mean every dime raised needs to be spent as fast as it is raised—we need politicians with more will to save for a rainy day rather than spend, spend, spend…. good luck on that. i agree that this was a lost opportunity to improve the ga. tax code.
March 22nd, 2012
8:47 am
jconservative: Do you realize GDOT has gone from 12500 employees in the 1980's to 6300 10m yrs ago to 4900 6 years ago to less than 4200 today? They are now cutting muscle and bone, in addition to the brain drain due to retirements.
March 22nd, 2012
8:56 am
Finn, I think you must have had a bad night's sleep. What a load!
March 22nd, 2012
9:06 am
…there are a number of legislators who say they want to shift the tax burden from income to consumption…
In other words, there are a number of legislators who say they want to shift the tax burden from the wealthy to the poor and the middle class.
The love affair that many Georgian's have with sales taxes is both counterproductive and cruel.
March 22nd, 2012
9:06 am
I already think this state is down to bone and marrow on cuts. The simple reality is that you paying the same, just from a different pocket. Consumption taxes would probably affect the lower income brackets more. In either case, the leaders of this bill weren't comfortable implementing the proposed revenue adjustments.
March 22nd, 2012
9:07 am
Can we cut out the entire state government? They don't seem to do anything worthwhile & are costing us tax money….
March 22nd, 2012
9:20 am
Road Scholar:
You really want to make the "usage fee" argument. Fine then.
1. I don't have any children in school, guess I won't pay my property taxes that goes for schools and educating kids that aren't mine.
2. I pay for my own healthcare. Guess I won't pay the part of my taxes that goes to Medicaid either.
Shall I go on. I (and a good many of us) pay plenty of taxes we don't "use."
Yes, Georiga does have a lower gas taxes than many other states. In some gases 30 or 40 cents cheaper. Is the gas 30-40 cents cheaper in Georgia? Nope.
Why don't you come up with an idea about actually CUTTING spending? I forgot, Democrats wouldn't be able to buy voters. Eventually the house of cards is gonna fall. The math doesn't lie.
March 22nd, 2012
9:24 am
Sorry Road Scholar, I meant Ayn Rant.
March 22nd, 2012
9:29 am
As a FL resident now, I will honestly say the tax cut from moving here made a huge difference to us. It will be daunting to ever contemplate moving back to GA and face an immediate 6% pay cut.
If GA doesn't lower the income tax rate, it will continue to lose to other states.
That said, GA could levy a higher property tax to offset an income tax reduction
March 22nd, 2012
9:39 am
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March 22nd, 2012
9:45 am
Sounds like the state's "education" and "medicaid" laws/practices are making us less competitive with other states in the region. That is what put the rust into the "rust" belt.
March 22nd, 2012
9:51 am
As a FL resident now, I will honestly say the tax cut from moving here made a huge difference to us. It will be daunting to ever contemplate moving back to GA and face an immediate 6% pay cut.
The irony of Jm's post is that he could very well be paying more in Florida taxes than he would have paid in Georgia. Florida nickels and dimes its citizens with higher state sales taxes than Georgia, a statewide property tax, relatively high fees on pretty much anything you can imagine, and so on. It's death by a thousand cuts.
The last I looked, Florida also had a higher unemployment rate than Georgia…and that's saying something.
March 22nd, 2012
9:52 am
It absolutely confounds me — and I can't think of a better word to describe the feeling than "confound" — that modern-day conservatives can literally spend years and barrels of ink talking about taxes without ever seriously addressing WHAT IT COSTS TO RUN A GOVERNMENT. And vague phrases about "the need to cut spending" don't count. You want police, courts, jails, schools, disease surveillance, restaurant inspections, roads? Well folks it costs money and that requires taxes.
In my kids' words, "grow the f*** up."
March 22nd, 2012
9:52 am
Kyle, Good article. Keep exposing the corrupt system we call our legislature. Ethics reform relative to lobbiest expenditures has to be the first step in change to get our government back to the masses as opposed to pandering to the select. Every current member needs to be unelected when the lobbiest are kicked out of the Capitol. Then maybe good citizens (as opposed to crooks and thiefs) will acutally seek public office for the right reasons.
March 22nd, 2012
10:22 am
Bart. My "property taxes" are $3000 more here. My auto taxes are $900 less. My water bill is $25 per month, what's yours. I done have a natural gas bill. My electric bill is $50 a month. And mustard income taxes are $12,000 less.
Do the math. I'm way better off down here. FL doesn't nickel and dime and the FL economy is coming back fast. Housing prices are going up where I am. And my company can't find enough qualified candidates to hire.
Unless something is done to radically fix GA and Atlanta, the state is going to stay stuck in the doldrums.
March 22nd, 2012
10:24 am
Don't, not "done"
March 22nd, 2012
10:25 am
Mustard? "my state" oy
March 22nd, 2012
10:46 am
When the bond rating companies do the analysis that the legislature should have done, they will take steps to limit Georgia's ability to borrow based on unstable revenue for the foreseeable future.
March 22nd, 2012
10:51 am
It is obvious that our legislators are having trouble reforming taxes to fit (pay for) the current services provided for or paid for from state funds. What Georgia really needs is a structural enema. Why and how do we, the state, provide the services we do? Because it's always been that way? Because we have incrementally added to many of the arcane and illogical laws regarding the functions ofthe state? Because we made once sane laws for providing services insane in complexity to appease a self-serving interest back home? These are the questions that should be asked. Why so many powers given to locally elected officials that are allowed to drain local citizens for cash? Why so many add on fines and fees for traffic tickets? Why must we have so many court administration bodies in Georgia? Why must the Secretary of State Office make so many requirements and do many of these requirements actually serve anyone other than a job placement? Why does the DCA hold so much power over local governments with costly regulation and reporting requirements? Whom does this serve? Just questions.
March 22nd, 2012
11:03 am
"So instead of playing with taxes to make up the $900 million, why not cut $900 million in spending by reducing the size of state government?"
When you look at what we are spending on, it's actually things we need. Here is a link to Georgia's budget. Quick links have the files you need.
March 22nd, 2012
11:36 am
GA is over spending on education subsidies for secondary education
The dirtbag republicans just don't have the will to do what they need to
In addition, a bold governor would say: we're going to reform Medicaid
If you don't like the solution, you can cut off all the poor people and then it is the fed's fault for being idiotic
March 22nd, 2012
12:32 pm
my FL company can't find enough qualified candidates to hire.
US unemployment rate: 8.3 percent
GA unemployment rate: 9.2 percent
FL unemployment rate: 9.6 percent
March 22nd, 2012
12:34 pm
When you look at what we are spending on, it's actually things we need. Here is a link to Georgia's budget.
Yes, we desperately needed that fishing museum and state-owned golf courses.
March 22nd, 2012
12:35 pm
Bart, note the poster's use of the word "qualified".
March 22nd, 2012
12:46 pm
John Moormans looks like a spambot.
March 22nd, 2012
12:53 pm
So what you're saying, Lil' Barry, is the Florida's education system sucks. Maybe if Florida had an income tax, then they could have improved their education system, Jm would be able to find "qualified" workers, and Florida's unemployment rate would fall. It's all connected.
March 22nd, 2012
12:56 pm
So what you're saying, Bart, is that government schools are inferior to private schools. Couldn't agree more!
March 22nd, 2012
1:19 pm
When will the politicos actually solve a tax-problem by mindful spending habits? Until we have a common-sense approach to spending in GA and the USA we will not see any far-reaching effects of any tax-bill, good or bad.
March 22nd, 2012
3:23 pm
Thank goodness the clown democrats are not in charge anymore. If they were this would be what is going on at the Gold Dome:
(1) Rich, evil kids would be removed from obtaining HOPE.
(2) The "Northern Arc" would be revisited.
(3) The redistricting maps given to us by the clowns would be shot-down by the Georgia Supreme Court
(4) Sunday alcohol sales would still be prohibited
March 22nd, 2012
6:26 pm
common sense can be uncommon in the Bible belt
March 22nd, 2012
9:27 pm
Share the wealth, tax the rich, fix the roads,rebuild the bridges, expand the airports and rail service… clean up the toxic waste dumps and expand educational opporturnities… Georgia don't need tax cuts, George needs to increase taxes on the rich, the businesses and the corporate bosses…
March 22nd, 2012
11:59 pm
Let me get this straight, I have to pay sales tax on my internet sales, because Deal wants to create more jobs in Georgia by giving the agricultural industries even more tax breaks. Has that industry even stop their dirty practices of hiring illegal aliens to make their profits grander each year?!!! Don't give them a penny in tax exemptions unless they can prove they don't have a single illegal alien working their fields (hire Georgia CPAs to monitor the tax giveaways). Hire real Georgians to make sure Americans are hired to work our agricultural fields. Bring Americans back to the fields. Americans are hard workers, who want a fair wage.
March 25th, 2012
12:33 pm
Tax wealthy individuals at higher rates: Obama = Bad, GA GOP Leadership = Good
Pass unpoplar legislation by tricks like joint committee and up/ down votes with no amendments in four days at end of session: Obama = Bad, GA GOP Leadership = Good
Our Republican leaders have learned well, they are just Pelosi-Obama puppets. Class war againist seniors, increase tax on individuals, I surely did not vote for this. Good luck Georgia.


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TRACK LISTING for CD: 1. Sentimental Journey - Les Brown and his Orchestra with Doris Day 2. (I've Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra with Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton and the Modernaires 3. Praise The Lord and Pass the Ammunition - Kay Kyser and his Orchestra with The Glee Club 4. They're Either Too Young of Too Old - Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra with Kitty Kallen 5. It's been a Long, Long Time - Harry James and his Orchestra with Kitty Kallen 6. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week) - Frankie Carle and his orchestra with Phyllis Lynne 7. I'll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby 8. Let's Get Away From It All - Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra with Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines and The Pied Pipers 9. He's Home for a Little While - Dinah Shore 10. (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover - Kate Smith 11. Lili Marleen - Perry Como 12. I'll Walk Alone - Martha Tilton 13. Stuff Like That There Paul Weston and his Orchestra with Billy Hutton 14. Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me) The Andrew Sisters Included also is a book about the history of the Big Band sound in the years before WWII, from 1941-45, following how now legendary performers like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra (and more) got their start singing with the big names bandleaders like the Dorsey Brothers, Harry James and others.
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Crime Scene
The San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com blog on crime in the Bay Area and beyond.
Monthly Archive for January, 2010
Murder suspect's defense: I didn't need his pot
Why would you rip off someone's marijuana if you could get all want from your aunt? That's the defense being put before a San Francisco jury in the murder trial of Max Reyes, 24. Prosecutors say Reyes helped rob a pound of marijuana from 36-year-old John Rogers in his Bernal Heights home Nov. 3, 2008. […] [Read More]
Missing girl's family keeps the faith
Michael Maloney Mike and Maddi Misheloff, parents of Ilene Misheloff, look at a family album in 2009. This Thursday, there will be sadness — and hope — yet again on the streets of Dublin in the name of a frizzy-haired girl with a shy smile. That girl is Ilene Misheloff. Twenty-one years ago, on Jan. […] [Read More]
Third conviction's the charm
Since he was 22, Frederick Lim Johnson has been under arrest, in prison or under court supervision without interruption. At one point, federal prosecutors urged a judge to remove the repeat bank robber from society "for a good deal longer than he has ever been removed before." The feds got their wish this week. At […] [Read More]
Tenderloin murder case unravels
They say a play about hell doesn't have angels for actors. Well, there weren't a lot of angels to be found at 4 a.m. Oct. 1, 2008, on a Tenderloin street corner. According to San Francisco prosecutors, 65-year-old suspect Leroy Brown, apparently mad about being sold $10 worth of fake crack, went after the 43-year-old […] [Read More]
Ramos case witness betrayed by tattoo
You may remember Marvin Medina, who was caught lying on the stand last year at the preliminary hearing for Edwin Ramos, a reputed MS-13 gang member who prosecutors say gunned down a father and two sons on a San Francisco street in 2008 after mistaking them for gang rivals. Medina, 23, was shot earlier the […] [Read More]
Diversion a 'success' for murder suspect
You might wonder how a man who San Francisco prosecutors say committed a murder could be ruled to have been a success at the court-ordered mental health program in which he was enrolled at the time of the killing. Such was the case for Charlie Sekona, 20, accused of the Oct. 12, 2009, stabbing death […] [Read More]
Wrong place, wrong time robbery suspect
Does anyone have worse timing than 60-year-old Stephen Richard Holmes? The convicted felon was busted for robbing a San Francisco bank, just as he happened to be walking near the same bank weeks later — as someone else was robbing it, authorities say. It all began the afternoon of Dec. 15, when an older man […] [Read More]
Silence is not a crime
Last year, San Francisco prosecutors launched an unusual case against a man for saying nothing. They accused Jose Fuentes, 34, of being an accessory to murder stemming from his refusal to testify against a man accused of committing a gang killing outside a nightclub in 1996. Fuentes was not just any witness, prosecutors argued — […] [Read More]
Oakland cop killings — the legal claim
Chronicle columnist Chip Johnson wrote last week about a legal claim filed on behalf on a unusual potential plaintiff. The Chronicle / Lacy Atkins Relatives of Lovelle Mixon (from left) Enjoli Mixon, Sharnell Mixon, Reynete Mixon and Tameaka Mixon. Reynete Mixon, 17, is the half sister of Lovelle Mixon, the parolee who killed four Oakland […] [Read More]


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Laura. 35. Born in the Year of the Horse. Intently studious Horsewoman --though sadly mostly retired from serious riding at age 30 due to chronic recurring back injury first incurred at age 16. Was SO alive and HAPPY in the saddle--Feel like I'm kindof slowly dying inside ever since. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
Pen collector.
Avid Thoroughbred racing fan, following breeding as well.
***WARNING WARNING WARNING*** Thoroughly, completely, and utterly ENTHRALLED by the Matthew Gray Gubler person. This WILL BE strongly reflected in this blog.
About me: [Bit of a tomboy:I love powerful trucks, tough tractors (yes, they are sexy!), fast cars (even sexier)]
On the more sophisticated side, I love literature, learning, sharing what I learn with those who care to know, and great conversation over a nice juicy fillet. Wordsmith of sorts.
Now, as to musica-- there will be on here rock, country, rap, alternative, classical/orchestral, techno/electronica, encompassing old, new, and in-between.
As for men--In chronological order by age of obsession here goes:
* Tom Wopat (Luke Duke - I saw even at the age of four that he was the smart one, and there was just something about the dark hair and blue eyes...and the hood-slide shot)
* K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Two Thousand - who needs human when you have smart, compassionate, strong, agile, air-conditioned, sleek lines and overhead cams?)
* Duncan Regehr (Don Diego de la Vega - HORSEMAN, scientist, engineer, extensive reader, painter, swordsman, mad whip skills)
* Scott Bakula (Dr. Samuel Beckett- genius, compassionate, singer, dancer)
* Michael T. Wiess (Jarod - genius, compassionate, haunted)
* Noah Wyle (Dr. John Carter - smart, compassionate, petite)
* Matthew Gray Gubler [CURRENT] (Dr. Spencer Reid - genius, compassionate, dapper, funny, omg just every little itsy bitsy little teeny weenie thing about him...)
Here is the vid that embodies my blog title: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBbyigJjFgI&feature=player_embedded
ALOPECIA/HAIRLOSS -- I also post alopecia TOTALIS/UNIVERSALIS stuff cause I have the damned, dreaded, uncurable condition. I mean, I've had it for well over a decade (actually its been closer to twenty years than to ten at this point) and of course will have it the rest of my life...so if you have lost all or part (less experienced in the partial loss dept--e..g. what to do with long hair under a wig) of your hair and have questions or concerns or comments or whatever feel free to hit up my ask. I know some great wig sites, alopecia forums, and alopecian groups/pages. I love to help people, I KNOW HOW DIFFICULT this hairloss journey can be!
Lastly, to clarify: I love horse (flat) racing, not steeplechasing. IMO they can have them race head to head OR have them jump things at high speed against the clock--NOT BOTH SIMULTANEOUSLY. I also give not a fuck about gambling, betting, odds or any of that mess. Except that the bettors and the slot machines bring bigger purses. Have never bet a race in my life. For me its about the animals, jockeys, trainers, outriders, grooms, track announcers, etc. doing what they love, not my own potential financial gain.
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West Virginia's wide receiver group is starting from scratch this spring, but if you ask new assistant coach Lonnie Galloway, that's precisely how he likes it.
The competition Galloway sees at his position is one that will push the players who are tasked with replacing the record-breaking careers of Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey.
One of Galloway's biggest weapons is the 6-foot-3, 211-pound junior college transfer Kevin White, who has everything you want in a receiver as far as physical attributes are concerned. Galloway admits as a coach, he would like to have five or six Whites in his rotation, but he also cautions that it's too early to know precisely what the one he does have is capable of.
"Kevin is coming along. I don't want to toot Kevin's horn right now because he's been practicing for seven days, so right now, he's still part of the group," says Galloway. "We're expecting him to do a lot of great things for us, but for right now, he's just one of the guys for us out of the 12 that we've got that's out there working."
A new face in the rotation is that of Logan Moore, a quarterback who told the staff he wanted to get on the field in whatever way possible and now is getting his chance as a receiver.
It's still very early in the transition for Moore, a Fairmont native, but Galloway believes he has the right mentality and a clear understanding of the scheme that can help him make an impact.
"For him, playing quarterback, he knows the offense very well, just being in there with Coach [Shannon] Dawson and Ford [Childress] and Paul [Millard]," says Galloway. "It's good to have Logan in there. He's competing hard and right now, we're looking for those six, seven guys to go out there and play."
Unlike last season, when the top two receivers had cemented their place in the rotation and J.D. Woods quickly proved himself as the No. 3 guy, this race could ultimately produce the sort of two-deep that head coach Dana Holgorsen wants to see out of his receiving corps.
The situation can be viewed as WVU not having anyone with significant experience returning, or it can be viewed that with such a level playing field, those six or seven receivers Galloway says he's looking for could all be up to the task after a tough competition this spring.
"During the spring, we've all been competing, we're working hard in the weight room, we started finally practicing and everyone's been going at it, everyone's been making plays, everyone's been blocking well," says sophomore K.J. Myers. "It just makes me want to work even harder. I go home every night, I'm not [satisfied] with myself with any practice because I want to be great."
Clearly the production from Bailey, Austin and Woods made it so that West Virginia did not need to find such depth a year ago, but even if the back-ups weren't contributing so much on the stat sheet, it could have helped to know there was a capable body waiting on the sidelines.
"It would have been nice, even when Tavon was here, if they had somebody that was close to Tavon to be able to rest him," says Galloway, who recruited both Austin and Myers to WVU. "That's what we're striving for, trying to find the best six, seven guys that can go out there on the field where you're not missing a beat when you have to rotate them."
Based on his play in spring practice and in the fall camp as a freshman, some pegged Jordan Thompson as that next in line to Austin. He began the season starting as the team's second slot receiver, but when his production failed to live up to what the staff hoped based on his practices, he found his way to the team bench.
Thompson finished 2012 with just 85 yards on 13 receptions.
"He's showing a lot of progression," Galloway says of Thompson, whom the team refers to as "Squirt." "Squirt's working really hard. He is really working hard and wants to compete and wants to lead and be early and stay late and watch film and run the right routes, but as far as him being the next one – I mean, not saying that he couldn't be, but there's only one Tavon and we all know that. Squirt will do what he can do and Jordan should be Jordan and not try to be anybody else."
One word that Galloway continues to preach to his players, and it's evident based on Myers' interview that it's sticking with them, is "great."
The coach does not want his players to be satisfied with anything they do on the field that's short of greatness and they have taken it to heart. Galloway hopes that if he continues to drill that into their minds, they will push themselves and each other to improve each and every day, all the way through the final game of the season.
"That's the biggest thing that I'm preaching to them, that Coach Holgorsen's preaching to them, is that we're going to be only as good as the group," he says. "We want to have a great football team and that's just buying in, doing the things that we're preaching and making them learn and they should want to do the things that we're preaching to them. I'm looking to have a great group, not three or four good players."


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Wild Bill and La-La Land Records Wants You to See and Hear 1941!
Greetings! ScoreKeeper here flying high on patrol of Los Angeles to provide you a stern warning that an awesome invasion force is rapidly approaching.
The army of La-La Land Records is at it again. On September 27th, 2011, a 2-CD re-issue of John Williams' complete score for 1941 (1979) will invade the United States! Your best shot at establishing an adequate defense is to attend a very special 35mm screening of Steven Spielberg's 1941 on Sunday, September 25th, 2011, at The Cinefamily in Hollywood, California. Tickets for this rare screening are only $10 and its expected to sell-out fast!
The film will be followed by a Q&A panel of special guests and copies of the soundtrack will be available on hand for $30. After that, whatever is left of the 3,000 unit invasion force will be sold off to the general public. This will be not pretty but it's going to sound oh so good!
I absolutely adore this score! John Williams' infectious main theme is one of the best he's written. There's no time to waste. Sound the alarm!
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Sept. 7, 2011, 9:03 p.m. CST
never saw this movie...am i scum?
by Mel
honestly, am i?
Sept. 7, 2011, 9:11 p.m. CST
by TheUmpireStrokesBach
It is a pretty sweet score though..I'd be there if I could.
Sept. 7, 2011, 9:12 p.m. CST
Who cares.The movie sucks.
by KilliK
Sept. 7, 2011, 9:15 p.m. CST
I own this movie and have never seen it either
by D.Vader
Have never seen it all the way through, I mean. I too hang my head in shame... *cue the Charlie Brown Christmas music*
Sept. 7, 2011, 9:21 p.m. CST
Blu to follow soon
by THE_CHOPPAH
Finally can rid meesa of the non anamorphic atrocity that is the DVD. Great doc though On there
Sept. 7, 2011, 9:46 p.m. CST
How could you not love this flick?
by THE_CHOPPAH
It's a great big glorious mess but damn it gave it's frenzied all. Wish I could say as much for The Color Purple
Sept. 7, 2011, 9:51 p.m. CST
by Kamaji
In a strange sense, 1941 feels like a Michael Bay movie, before Michael Bay. We talk about Bay having a big love of explosions, well 1941 was Spielberg being that kid in a candy store. Of course, one wonders if a blu-ray release will have both the theatrical AND extended cuts. I've kind of gotten used to the extended cut in places. Now this is a soundtrack that I'd drop money on. Been wavering on that single-CD release for years, but with this release, it'll have to be mine. This is one of those films that my Dad got a kick out of. He got most of the jokes and I remember him just loving the gag with the house at the end. I kind of wish someone would do for the post-9/11 hysteria what 1941 made fun of regarding the post-Pearl Harbor fear. One could imagine someone being as war-hysterical as Ward Douglas was in 1941...maybe attempting to blow shoot his wife because she comes out of the bathroom with her hair wrapped in a towel.
Sept. 7, 2011, 9:56 p.m. CST
The first of Spielberg's dogshit trilogy
by proevad
Always, and Hook round out the pack.
Sept. 7, 2011, 10 p.m. CST
As Intrada found out recently with EXPLORERS...
by justmyluck
... 3,000 just isn't enough. If you have 100 John Williams fans in every second state, you can imagine how fast that sells out in America, let alone around the world with an Internet sale. I already have the original 1941 Varese OST and the 1941 promo score in lossless format, so if I miss out on this blatant CD shortage, it's not a big deal.
Sept. 7, 2011, 10:06 p.m. CST
d.vader, I agree it's hard to watch 1941 all the way through...
by justmyluck
...though, I've made it through in bits and pieces more than a few times. I do appreciate 1941 overall, but the endless screaming and stupidity is hard to take in one sitting.
Sept. 7, 2011, 10:11 p.m. CST
I haven't even started it, justmyluck
by D.Vader
Shoulda been more clear. I've seen bits and pieces of the end on television, but that's all. I bought the DVD in a $5 bin last year. But I'm afraid to start it up from the beginning. So afraid.
Sept. 7, 2011, 10:22 p.m. CST
My Favorite Spielberg Anecdote (Yet Again)
by cymbalta4thedevil
While they were making HOOK and having difficulties on the set, Robin Williams looked directly into the camera during a two shot with Dustin Hoffman and said "Please Help Us. I was in POPEYE and THE SURVIVORS." Dustin Hoffman said "What are you complaining about? I was in ISHTAR and FAMILY BUSINESS." And Spielberg leaped from behind the camera into the shot and yelled "And I directed 1941!"
Sept. 7, 2011, 10:22 p.m. CST
C'mon fuckers, it has SLIM PICKENS in it!
by DickBallsworth
"Jesus Palomino... A NATZY!!! I knew it! Yer ALL in cahoots!" Sure it's a wild hit and miss flick, but the laughs that we remember are the ones that make the rest of the bullshit worth sitting through.
Sept. 7, 2011, 10:29 p.m. CST
Score is MAGNIFICENT. Film is underrated.
by Admonisher
I'm sorry, I just can't hate any movie that has Christopher Lee and Toshiro Mifune as feuding Axis commanders.
Sept. 7, 2011, 11:46 p.m. CST
1941 Is Extremely Underrated
by THX1968
1941 was loud. Really, really loud. It starts loud and ends even louder, an ever accelerating crescendo. The stellar cast spends quite a bit of the film screaming at the top of their lungs. The effects are deafening and spectacular. And I loved it. I think it's funny and gripping in the way that I can't stop watching it once it starts. It was supposed to be over the top! Hyped from the get-go (with one of the best teasers ever shot featuring Belushi), it was the Beard's stab at broad, raunchy, comedy. It ended up being something... else. The fucking thing is seriously epic. It's Herman Wouk epic. David Lean epic. It is also just plain goofy. The cast is totally amazing! Warren Oates, Robert Stack, Ned Beatty, and my God, so many more! There's a great rare quiet moment with Stack watching Dumbo. I gotta have it on Blu at some point soon. Audiences of the 70's didn't know what to make of it. I think it would play very well to today's audience (teen punks weened off Michael Bay's tit). And yes, the score is wonderful.
Sept. 7, 2011, 11:49 p.m. CST
Awesome movie - I wish I could attend this!
by Proman1984
Great score too!
Sept. 8, 2011, 12:23 a.m. CST
I Fucking LOVE this movie
by DarthMusashi2112
Belushi and Slim Pickens, 'nuff said!
Sept. 8, 2011, 12:25 a.m. CST
I envy people who have never seen this movie.
by SmokingRobot
In Stephen Spielbergs words it is 'a total conceptual disaster'. And a really bad movie to bad. Yeah, Pearl Harbor comedy. What could go wrong?
Sept. 8, 2011, 12:33 a.m. CST
The film isn't very good
by ObiBen
Neither are Hook and Always, but they're way above any of Lucas' prequels or Crystal Skull (a pie in which the latter more than likely stuck too many of his little pinkies into)
Sept. 8, 2011, 12:34 a.m. CST
Aand the score...
by ObiBen
...does the job.
Sept. 8, 2011, 12:34 a.m. CST
Directed by Spielberg, written by Zemeckis, scored by Williams. The film might've died on impact, but it was buried in a very nice suit.
by little_lebowski
Sept. 8, 2011, 12:41 a.m. CST
If 35mm screening looks good...
by Jay
1941 is in dire need of a restoration/remaster. The dvd wasn't even anamorphic. If the screening shows a great looking print, than perhaps this means we could be looking at a special edition Blu-ray down the line.
Sept. 8, 2011, 1:24 a.m. CST
Still haven't seen it
by TheMcflyFarm
but Always is pretty damn good and Hook is a fucking masterpiece.
Sept. 8, 2011, 1:34 a.m. CST
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad War
by JAGUART
Sept. 8, 2011, 4:44 a.m. CST
new Citizen Kane blu ray stretches the picture.
by irc-Hollywood
people are claiming it's "un-cropped" to me, it looks like the original image has been stretched... opinions? http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcompare/citizenkane.htm
Sept. 8, 2011, 6:32 a.m. CST
@ irc-hollywood
by justmyluck
If you have Photoshop (or equivalent) it's easy to scale-up and overlay the old DVD captures on top of the Blu-ray captures and have a look. Having done that, there isn't much stretching between the old Warner DVD and the new Warner Region Blu-ray. That comparison done, the new Warner Blu-ray appears horizontally stretched a bit in comparison to the old Universal PAL DVD transfer. Hope that helps. The Blu-ray transfer does look great.
Sept. 8, 2011, 7:28 a.m. CST
Come back next week and we'll bring in some negroes for a race riot
by Crimson Dynamo
Funniest line in the movie
Sept. 8, 2011, 7:55 a.m. CST
Best rendition of the 1941 march...
by sapno_krei
...can be found on Williams' By Request... CD. It's crisp, clear, and bombastic.
Sept. 8, 2011, 7:57 a.m. CST
I love 1941
by Samuel Fulmer
Can't really defend it, but I do.
Sept. 8, 2011, 7:59 a.m. CST
1941 Is a Classic
by kevinwillis.net
I love this movie. I don't know how much of it is nostalgia, but I loved this movie. John Belushi, Nancy Allen, Warren Oats, Treat Williams, Nancy Allen, Ned Beatty. Christopher Lee and Toshiro Mifune! Robert Stack was in this movie. And Dan Ackroyd and John Candy . . . what a frickin' magical film. The score was brilliant, the practical model work (of which there is a ton in this movie) is obvious, yet supremely satisfying at the same time. Nancy Allen as the hot chick only turned on by planes . . . Slim Pickens, Wendie Jo Sperber. Dick Miller (Murray Futterman!) makes an appearance. Joe Flaherty and Michael McKean both show up, and so does (believe it or not) Mickey Rourke (it's true!). James Caan is even a sailor in the fight scene (blink and you miss it). Penny Marshall shows up. Great soundtrack, great nostalgia beats, great practical model work, and great cinematography, and some great scenes--the whole opening sequence with Wild Bill Kelso filing up his airplane at a filling station. The scene at the end (spoiler!) where Ned Beatty nails a wreath up on the door of his battered house, only to have the entire house slide into the sea. The dance off, the tanking rolling through the city, the ferris wheel being blasted off it's base and rolling down the dock . . .
Sept. 8, 2011, 8:02 a.m. CST
Nance Allen: So Good (In that movie) I Said it Twice
by kevinwillis.net
Of course, I think Always (even the strange, hard-to-buy casting of Richad Dreyfuss as a hot-shot fire pilot) is a classic. Back when Spielberg still shot everything with this brilliant, careful eye . . . compare War of the Worlds to Always and tell me Always (and 1941) aren't from a period where Speilberg actually cared where the camera was and what it was doing.
Sept. 8, 2011, 8:05 a.m. CST
kevinwillis.net-Actually I think Spielberg still has it
by Samuel Fulmer
In the framing department, I just think his cinematography with Kaminski tends to go with too much hot/warm lighting that it makes everything and everyone look all glowy.
Sept. 8, 2011, 8:07 a.m. CST
Samuel, Don't Mind the Lighting, But . . .
by kevinwillis.net
It really doesn't age well. If it isn't cleaned up and restored, it turns washed out and blurry. If it's a pristine or restored print, I'm happy.
Sept. 8, 2011, 8:08 a.m. CST
even if you don't like the film of 1941
by Samuel Fulmer
This is a good Williams score, from that period of 1977-1984 where almost every score he did was excellent. Here's hoping The Fury gets a re-release from one of these specialty soundtrack companies (the last one done back in 2003 was a limited deal like this one, and it's been long out of print).
Sept. 8, 2011, 8:09 a.m. CST
Which version? Cut or uncut?
by the_rising
The film was cut by the studio and then released uncut on laserdisc, so which will be screened?
Sept. 8, 2011, 8:14 a.m. CST
I would guess the original cut
by Samuel Fulmer
Since I don't think an actual film print of the uncut 1941 even exists. From watching the dvd (which was basically a port of the deluxe laserdisc from the mid-90's), a lot of the cut footage integrated in is of even lower visual quality (which is saying something) than the original protions of the film. You can even tell many times when the cut portion is starting because there are little flash frames and white lights on the bottom of the frame. I think the uncut version was probably just cut together on high quality video.
Sept. 8, 2011, 8:17 a.m. CST
Citizen Kane Bluray question
by Samuel Fulmer
I wonder if they left in the scratches that Welles intended for the news on the march footage? They were cleaned up on the last DVD.
Sept. 8, 2011, 8:41 a.m. CST
Hook is a fucking masterpiece
by proevad
You need to take your meds, sweetie--or loan me some. Whichever.
Sept. 8, 2011, 8:47 a.m. CST
Crap movie, but great music
by impossibledreamers
I ripped cuts off an old LP of this soundtrack way back when and still love a lot of it. The swing music from the dance hall brawl scene is inspired and the classic war movie marches are all there. Great to see La-La dig this up. Oh, received my copy of the Nate and Hayes CD and I'm loving it! One of my favorite guilty pleasure films.
Sept. 8, 2011, 8:50 a.m. CST
They should have had an outdoor screening in the alfalfa fields of Pomona.
by Karl Hungus
I absolutely LOVE this film. It's a massive trainwreck of a movie but it's brilliant it's lunacy and over-the-top filmmaking. And that cast is astounding. Plus, more to the point of this thread, John Williams' score is sensational. I wish Spielberg was kinder to both 1941 and Temple of Doom. He did a fantastic job directing both. Just because they're not perceived as successes doesn't mean he should publicly disown them. They're his two most underrated films.
Sept. 8, 2011, 1:03 p.m. CST
waiting for the sequel...
by quintana007
...called 2001 - lets go crazy again...
Sept. 8, 2011, 4:32 p.m. CST
Saw this when released.(old man)
by Knobules
It came across as Speilberg trying REALLY hard to tap into the Animal House/Sat Live in its prime fun going on. "Hey lets get Belushi in this thing and make him wasted slob". He was shooting for Animal House and we got were lousy jokes with no laughs and that Jerry Lewis look alike helium screemer kid stuck on a Ferris Wheel. I will say great cast. Good job getting everyone in there so they could throw shit around and bore us to death.
Sept. 8, 2011, 5:01 p.m. CST
If you haven't seen this film...
by Plathismo
Don't spoil the mystery by actually watching it. It just doesn't work. Its reputation as a dud is pretty well deserved. But we can cut the man a break. He last movie prior to 1941 was one of the greatest films of all time, as was the the film he made immediately after it.
Sept. 9, 2011, 1:21 a.m. CST
I've been sitting on this AICN name for over 10 years so now... a love letter to 1941...
by wildbillkelso
Dear "1941," You are fantastic. God, you are utterly fantastic. I have seen you, in your entirety, more times than Lindelof's seen Raiders. I can't imagine there are a lot of people who'd admit to having seen you more though I think you're one of those movies that people don't want to admit that they watch when you're on. I really know you. I know that you're faint at the sight of your own blood, that you hate eggs and that you really, really like planes. And I'm sorry if that seems a little "creepy," but hey, we both can't stand seeing Americans fighting Americans, so we're speaking the same language, are we not? So what, exactly, is it that I love most about you, "1941"? Man … I don't even know where to start. But I'll get a few of the obvious items over with. A cast of thousands. Putting Belushi and Warren Oates in the same scene just because. Your score. One of Williams' best and surely the most fun. Explosions in the credits man. Explosions! Credits! Models. Hundreds and hundreds of models flying, driving, submarining, rolling down the pier, showing the LA skyline, shooting the LA skyline, burning the LA skyline, destroying the LA skyline. I along with countless other ten year olds who spent their summer of 1979 building and destroying worlds made up of hot wheels, Revel models and painted shoeboxes saw you and were in awe. With each subsequent viewing taking us from 'how did they do that?' to 'I want to do that'. You were an example of the same craft that I did at home, and those guys in the Starwars Making Of Specials did to create fantasy worlds but you showed us that you could build a realistic recreation of something on the same scale. Mad Cap. I'm not sure if everyone had cable but back in 1979 my Saturday afternoons were not filled with recent programming. I grew up with television by airwave, local stations who bought up and ran cheap programming, with weekends being reserved for older fare and plenty of classic madcap comedy. My Saturday's were filled with Our Gang, I Love Lucy and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Being 10 and not quite having a reverence yet for SCTV/SNL/National Lampoon, it was your tribute to the era of the madcap comedy that brought me in and introduced me to Belushi and Aykroyd, thankfully. I knew Wild Bill before I knew Bluto, and Sgt. Frank Tree before I knew Yortuk Festrunk. I thank you for giving me reason to beg to stay up late on Saturday Night's to get more of comics like this. Now that the gushing is over, just a few more things that some people miss and what we are truly indebted to you for... The two Bob's. Gale and Zemeckis. You weren't their first but you were their first crack at a big time knockout. A chance to impress and try out their best moves. Interwoven layers of plotline, dialog and characters all dependent on perfect timing and on the grandest scale Universal could afford. You were the grounds from which a template for perfection in a script were achieved shortly thereafter with Back to the Future. Bringing Steven back to Earth. Okay you aren't considered by most to be his best. Many call you a turkey. I think though that you may have given Steven his best filmmaking lesson ever, where to draw the line and when toeing it, knowing just how close to the edge to push it before the house falls over the cliff into the sea. You didn't need that line, you let Steven have his way with you and thats fine, maybe it was something to get out of his system. If not for you, this immaturity likely would have found it's way onto screen in his next movie, an equally ambitious, grand scale, big budget recreation of classic serials with incredible scene leading increduously to the next incredible scene. Raiders was cast from a mold that encouraged this (and showed it to a higher degree in its three sequels) but there was something that held Steven back on Raiders, I believe it was what he learned from you. It's what made it probably the best movie (okay second best) ever made. Warren Oates sums you up best in one line, "Show me your guns son". And you do. From start to finish you take this request and with childish glee you do so, over and over, escalating to the point of rolling yourself down a pier and right into the ocean. You do not let up, the pay off with you is in seeing how far you will go. And that is how I shall always remember you. Showing me your guns. Because I asked you son. Because you are the craziest son of a bitch I've ever seen. I love you. Always have. Always will. And I am deeply grateful for the countless hours we have spent together. I will treasure them more than you can ever know. Your Biggest Fan, –Z
Sept. 9, 2011, 5:06 a.m. CST
A litte love
by DrCavor
For the film and John Williams' astounding march: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGr2M2JGQU
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