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Footloose (2011)
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Writer/Director Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan) delivers a new take of the beloved 1984 classic film, Footloose. Ren MacCormack (played by newcomer Kenny Wormald) is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and Bomont's local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid) responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister's troubled daughter Ariel (Julianne Hough) in the process.
Footloose Release Date
In Theaters October 14, 2011
Footloose Credits
Starring: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Andie MacDowell, Dennis Quaid
Written By: Craig Brewer, Jon Hartmere
Directed By: Craig Brewer
Produced By: Neil Meron, Dylan Sellers, Craig Zadan, Brad Weston
MPAA Rating: [ PG-13 ]
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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Friday, 7 August 2009
I suddenly have a daughter
Ever wonder how to start being a full time parent of an eight year old girl? Two weeks ago step-daughter moved in to live with SR, The Lorax and me in Næstved. I was more than a little nervous about it. What do I (or SR for that matter) know about allowances, house rules, chores, etc? Add to that the fact that step-daughter loves a meat and potatoes diet and I have been a vegetarian for my entire adult life and don't have a clue how to prepare meat. Plus, her moving in corresponded with me starting a new full time job in Ophthalmlogy.
But what did step-daughter think? There were a million things going on subconsciously in her mind, but what she talked about was wanting frequent fast food, dessert with every meal, full access to the Disney Channel and not being forced to ride a bike.
I remember what it was like to be a kid. I would have been devastated if someone had taken away my Nintendo, Reading Rainbow or desserts!!
The thing is, SR and I just weren't going to put up with nights sitting around the tv eating fast food. We are too interested in the outdoors, exercise and staying healthy to live a life like that.
How could this work? One important thing SR has taught me is as long as kids have routines and attention, they are happy. As it turns out, we could decide the daily routine and still make step-daughter happy.
Here's how it's worked:
First we taught her to ride her bike. It involved a small amount of money. But now she loves it and she can ride to school and back and also ride along side of us while we run. Dare I say she is proud of how good she has gotten?
Here she is with SR after a muddy ride.
We have also played tennis with her a bunch of times and now she is good enough to start playing along. The Lorax takes pride in being the ball boy and also swings the racket a bit.
Yesterday we went to the pool and I taught her the crawl. She was an amazingly fast learner and is already better than a lot of adults. She can even put her head under and breath correctly. Now she can do laps next to me at the pool. I'm excited to see how quickly she will progress.
Arranging a healthy eating plan has not been as easy. We said no candy or desserts except for on the weekend. And we make three healthy meals a day. This has worked remarkably well as far as SR and me losing weight, but we're not so sure it's working yet for step-daughter. I knew we had a set back when I found a garbage can half full of peanut butter cup wrappers that had been smuggled in from the US. What kind of rules do you use with your kids in regards to eating? I'm certainly open to suggestions.
Here is a poem she just wrote:
Oh cheeseburger
Were are thou
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But the best part of having step-daughter here is no doubt how close we've become. Some of our best moments were taking walks in the woods, playing Matador (Danish Monopoly) or sitting in the sauna and talking about how gross boys are.
Last night she made some comment about not wanting to visit the United States unless it was with me. She is the type of girl who knows the right thing to say, but I think she meant it. We have both changed a lot, but perhaps me the most. She is no longer afraid of me deserting her and I am no longer afraid of really loving her.
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- The Chapples said...
Can you let her have fruit, yogurt, or some cut-up veggies for a snack? Kids do need to eat frequently and have different needs than adults do. Just a thought. That doesn't mean she needs to snack on junky stuff, just hate for her to feel deprived - that could just set her up for issues later. Most studies show that frequent small meals are a good way to even out both metabolism and food cravings. That way, one would never feel too hungry or too full.
I'll get off my soapbox, but as a chubby kid whose pediatrician told her mother that I should lose weight, it affected me in a terrible way. I think it's great you're encouraging exercise, but maybe have available a bowl of fresh fruit for her to take at any time?
- 9 August 2009 at 13:10
- sea legs girl said...
Oops!I wrote "snacks" instead of candy. No, we'd never drop snacks. I just had to edit it.
Great advice, though! All of it.
- 9 August 2009 at 14:10
- Phat Girl Slim said...
We'll have actual dessert in my house maybe twice a week. That's when we break out the ice cream or cookies ect. My kids really enjoy snacks like yogurt and apple slices. We're big fruit eaters here. We'll also get wild and crazy and have a fat free jello pudding cup for dessert sometimes!
I was a chubby kid too. I've battled with weight issues all my life and try hard not to pass my insecurities on to my kids. I try to talk about being a healthy weight more than being "thin". Not that I think this is what you're doing.
- 9 August 2009 at 17:47
- SteveQ said...
You shouldn't be agreeing with your daughter about how gross boys are - and I might tell you exactly why, once I wipe the boogers off this keyboard.
- 9 August 2009 at 19:54
- olga said...
I suddenly have an extra-son, but it is a bit easier for me:) It's like I got put back in time. Like my kids who are 5 years apart, Stephen and Harrison are also 5 years away. So, now I get to see Stephen do things Alex used to do to him. Play and nag all together:) I just need to make sure my new kid's real parents are ok with him maturing a bit faster, like staying home with Stephen with no adults, skate-boarding with no pads and diving off the couch to get a rug-rush occasionally. Oh, and NOT throw unfinished food into garbage and eat what is served to clean up the plate!
- 11 August 2009 at 00:09
- green light said...
One thing I remember most about travelling to Europe as a kid was how much better the food was. Everything was a treat -- the yogurt, the fruit, the bread, butter. I bet it won't be so hard to replace unhealthy habits with good stuff, while allowing space for the occasional true treat (ice cream, good european chocolate...). My guess is that eventually missing fast food will be more of a symptom of homesickness than a true craving for her.
- 11 August 2009 at 14:09


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Rude seems to be the rule in the workplace.
Are we getting ruder at work?
According to a recent survey, half of workers reported in 2011 that they were treated rudely at least once a week, an increase in from the one quarter reporting boorish behavior in 1998.
COLUMN: Tech gives new ways to be rude
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Richie Frieman, known as the Modern Manners Guy on QuickAndDirtyTips.com, says that yes, indeed, people are rude in the workplace.
They leave dirty dishes lying around. They fire off snarky e-mails, and they show up late on a regular basis. They dress and act like they're in a locker room and have no qualms about bugging busy co-workers.
Despite such mannerless behavior, Frieman has hope.
"I think good manners are coming back," he says. "I think it's hip and cool to be mannerly."
Let's hope so. Not only does working with a boor add a level of stress to every workday, but it has a bottom-line effect.
Specifically, a survey of rude behavior by Christine Porath and Christine Pearson finds that workplace incivility leads to less creativity, greater turnover, less high-quality work and poorer customer relationships.
It also drives people nuts, Frieman says.
That's why he has written a book called Reply All ... and Other Ways to Tank Your Career, that outlines some of the worst behavior and why it matters. The bottom line is that rude behavior can hurt your chances of getting ahead in the workplace because people simply don't want to work with or be around people seen as slobs, louts and fools.
"People assume that manners are about white gloves, fine dining and very stuffy — what our grandparents did," Frieman says. "They object to it because they see it as a sign of being told what to do."
But that's wrong, he says.
"Manners mean that basically you don't act like a jerk," he says. "You drop your ego at the door."
While most of us know not to belch the alphabet in the office or stick our stinky feet on the conference table, Frieman offers some advice on other workplace situations:
• Clean up after yourself. Too many people act as if "their mom is going to go right behind them and clean up," as they leave empty food containers and dirty dishes in their cubicles or other work areas, he says.
While everyone snacks in the office, Frieman says no one wants to be near someone who has food and other gunk stuck between the computer keys and trash piled on a desktop or nearby chair.
"It's like leaving a mess when you're a guest in someone's home," he says. "You are just using that desk for a few hours a day. It's not yours, and you don't own it. So clean up and stop throwing stuff around."
• Don't be overbearing about charity contributions. In some companies, managers set a policy of forbidding any solicitations for good causes, whether it's your daughter's soccer team or feeding kids in Africa.
This policy often has been established because of complaints from workers that they're being hit up nearly every day to contribute to a good cause, and it contributes to uncomfortable situations among colleagues. If your boss allows such collections to continue, don't be one of those people who takes the passive-aggressive approach of sending "friendly reminders" or "I guess you didn't get my last e-mail" to colleagues who haven't ponied up.
Also, don't walk from cubicle to cubicle, soliciting donations.
"You can just send an e-mail explaining what you're collecting for, and tell them to let you know if they want to contribute," he says.
• Be nice when traveling. The airport procedures that the Transportation Security Administration require should be pretty routine to most travelers by now, especially those who travel on business.
No, you cannot walk through the metal detector while talking on your phone. No, you can't jump the line by offering a TSA agent $20.
And huffing and puffing about how slow the security line is? Forget it. All that rude behavior only makes you look like an idiot and a jerk, not something your company will appreciate when representing the firm on business.
"Everything is out of your control, so just accept it," Frieman says. "The TSA could care less who you are."
Anita Bruzzese is author of 45 Things You Do That Drive Your Boss Crazy ... and How to Avoid Them, www.45things.com. Twitter: @AnitaBruzzese.


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SAN JOSE — Eager to distinguish himself as more ethical than his scandal-prone predecessor, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen promised to take on and promote only "the best people." But halfway into his first term, questions are being raised about whether merit was his only consideration when he hired his top aide's brother-in-law, the girlfriend of his wife's close colleague, and a longtime protege of a local congresswoman who gave him a key campaign endorsement.
Rosen said he would have hired the investigator and two prosecutors even without those connections, based on their impressive qualifications. But critics both inside and outside the District Attorney's Office note that each of the hires proceeded in an unusual fashion, with either the candidate's work history or the way they were chosen varying from the norm.
"It is disappointing to hear that DA Rosen has been accused of politicizing the hiring process, despite having committed to an open, honest, fair and transparent hiring process," said Max Zarzana, president of the Government Attorneys Association, which represents county attorneys including those in the DA's office. "We hope that none of our members are tainted by Mr. Rosen's actions."
Rosen's supporters say concern over the hires is unwarranted and blame the controversy on the union, which is locked in a feud with Rosen over his willingness to investigate and discipline attorneys.
"For almost every person that applies to be a prosecutor, I receive phone calls and letters encouraging me to hire that person … often … from elected officials, judges, community leaders and those in law enforcement," Rosen said. "This is a normal part of the hiring process. It would not matter if anyone tried to pressure me or apply undue influence on an applicant's behalf. I only hire those who are excellent."
The hiring flap comes on the heels of another Rosen-centered controversy, involving his efforts to compensate his top deputies, whose bonus pay was cut under a union agreement, by giving them extra administrative leave. He has been rebuked by county managers for that move, and the county counsel says it may have been illegal.
At the least, the twin brouhahas suggest the DA — who had no prior management experience — is not always adept at recognizing the appearance of impropriety, observers say.
The economy was still reeling from the recession when Rosen took office in 2011 after narrowly defeating one-term DA Dolores Carr. But there was a silver lining to the dark cloud hanging over the economy: More than 600 attorneys and police officers applied for jobs, giving Rosen and Chief Assistant Jay Boyarsky their pick of extraordinarily qualified candidates.
Rosen has added more than 38 attorneys and 15 criminal investigators in his first two years in office, partly to fill retirement vacancies.
Among them is Robert Longwell, the brother-in-law of his best friend and top aide, Boyarsky. Rosen hired him as an entry-level investigator in December for $84,524 a year.
Longwell is something of a Renaissance man — a Stanford University-educated civil engineer, private attorney and philanthropist, according to a short profile distributed by the DA's office.
But unlike every other investigator Rosen hired, Longwell has never been a full-time police officer. Instead, he met the minimum requirement for an entry-level investigator position — including three years of patrol experience — as a volunteer reserve officer with the Palo Alto police working at least two days a month for the past 26 years. A spokesman for that department described him as "stellar," and the short profile put out months ago by the DA's office says he wrote grants there "to obtain sophisticated investigative tools," worked in financial investigations and served as a departmental gunsmith. It does not mention his relationship to Boyarsky.
Pete Oliver, the DA's chief of investigations, said the office is "lucky" to get someone like Longwell and denied that Boyarsky played any role in the hiring process.
County officials say the hire doesn't violate the county's nepotism policy, which applies to only the spouse, parent, child, brother or sister of a department head.
But Deputy County Executive Luke Leung said Rosen should have taken clearer steps to wall off Boyarsky from the Longwell hire and to be transparent about their familial connection. "There's no specific regulation," Leung said. "But it is not a good, clean process if you get involved and use your influence to get a relative hired."
Cameron Day, a former aide to Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, and son of her husband's former business partner, took a tortuous route to the job he landed in the DA's office in March 2012. He was originally interviewed by an advisory panel made up of Boyarsky and five other prosecutors, but the group recommended he not be hired — even after being told of his potentially useful connections to Lofgren, who was Rosen's most prestigious endorser in 2010, a source close to the hiring process said.
The Rosen administration abided by the advice of the panel, which viewed Day's credentials and interview performance as relatively lackluster, though he speaks Spanish and had done well as a volunteer law clerk with the office for six months. Day graduated from De Anza Community College magna cum laude before transferring to UCLA and attending law school at Santa Clara University, a fine record in normal times.
But the office had its choice of UCLA alums — and eventually hired another who graduated summa cum laude from that college and then with distinction from Stanford Law School; she also served as an intern in the prosecutor's office for the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The panel-interview process has yielded other noteworthy hires, including a decorated former U.S. Marine, a leading authority on juvenile justice and top-notch prosecutors from all over California.
Undeterred, Day applied again, and this time a second panel made up of a different group of prosecutors chosen by the Rosen administration recommended him among a group of qualified candidates. However, Day was hired on an essentially temporary basis — as part-time "extra help," at a lower hourly salary than the other new permanent hires. He was paid $67,161 during his 11-month stint, according to county records.
After 11 months, he was not offered a permanent position or kept on as extra help, "so I elected to resume private practice," he said in an email.
Both Day and Rosen insist his connection to Lofgren had nothing to do with his hiring. "I was hired based on my own merit, persistence, and hard work including two unpaid internships at the office and academic coursework focused on criminal law," Day said.
In contrast to hundreds of other job candidates, prosecutor Jenny Jiang was one of only three who were vetted in a series of private one-on-one interviews with Rosen administration officials.
The more typical process involves candidates appearing before the six-member panel, as Day had. The idea is to test their poise in a courtroom-like situation, in part by having them respond to a hypothetical problem involving such matters as trial tactics or ethics.
At the time of her interviews, Jiang was dating Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Nedrow; Jiang and Nedrow have since married. Nedrow is a close colleague of Rosen's wife, federal prosecutor Amber Rosen. Nedrow ranks higher than Amber Rosen, but Jeff Rosen said his wife does not report directly to Nedrow.
Rosen said he condensed the hiring process for Jiang because she has superb credentials and had been offered a job by the San Diego City Attorney's Office. Jiang, who makes $117,350 a year, is fluent in Mandarin in a county where more than a quarter of the population is of Asian descent but only one or two other prosecutors speak the language. Her résumé includes a law degree from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall, a federal clerkship and a stint at one of the best law firms in the state.
"We believe that every deputy district attorney, including Ms. Jiang, is highly qualified," union president Zarzana said.
Asked to comment on the three hires, Gerald Uelmen, a former federal prosecutor who teaches at the Santa Clara University School of Law, said he was unperturbed.
"None of this smells that bad," Uelmen said. "I'm generally impressed with the quality of his hiring."
But another outside expert had concerns.
"The hirings raise suspicions," Dick W. Simpson, a political-science professor at the University of Chicago and co-author of a series of anti-corruption reports, including one on patronage and cronyism. "Particularly in a sensitive office like district attorney, the way these hirings were done might cause citizens to lose their faith in government, and that makes them less likely to follow laws, turn in offenders and pay taxes because they don't think the government is being fair."
Staff researcher Leigh Poitinger contributed to this report. Contact Tracey Kaplan at 408-278-3482. Follow her at Twitter.com/tkaplanreport.


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MLB Could Take Endorsement Hit Due To Manny, A-Rod
By Barry Janoff
Executive Editor, NYSportsJournalism.com
May 7, 2009: The news that Manny Ramirez of the Los Angeles Dodgers has been suspended for 50 games for violating MLB's performance-enhancing drug testing program, coupled with the recent news linking Alex Rodriguez to banned substances, and added to the ongoing news associating Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and others to such substances, has marketers rethinking endorsement deals using baseball players.
"A lot of companies have stayed away from [Ramirez] already because of his personality. This will make him a far reach for anyone looking for a baseball player for an endorsement," said Robert Tuchman, president and founder of TSE Sports and Entertainment, New York, and author of the new book, 100 Sporting Events You Must See Live. "Unfortunately MLB hasn't hit bottom yet with all these new revelations. They need to clear this stuff up and move on past this era to come out of this. They will soon enough. They have a lot of young stars in the pipeline."
Ramirez, does not have far to fall in the world of marketing as he earns only about $4-5 million in endorsements. Ramirez has a deal with RecoveryX, an energy drink from Changing Times Vitamins, Scottsdale, AZ; and FatHead has a Ramirez product. But beyond a 2008 campaign in which he was among a group of ball players to do a Father's Day effort for Macy's, his presence among national marketers has been limited.
The Dodgers have to dismantle at least until Ramirez's scheduled return on July 3 their "Mannywood" section at Dodger Stadium, unveiled during the team's current record-setting home stand. Already taken down soon after his suspension was a section on the Dodgers' Web site for selling seats in Mannywood, located in Sections 51 an d 53, closest to where Ramirez plays left field, for which fans had been able to purchase two seats for $99 and receive a limited-edition "Mannywood" T-shirt. On May 5, the Dodgers, in celebration of Cinco de Mayo, even issued a limited edition "Yo estuve en Mannywood" ("I was in Mannywood") T-shirt to fans who purchased tickets in Mannywood. Harder to remove will be numerous billboards throughout Los Angles also supporting Mannywood. And M. Ramirez remains an option on the team's Web site among Dodgers being touted for nomination to the 2009 All-Star Game.
Ramirez was banned for what he called a medication that was prescribed to him by a doctor for a "personal health issue" and not steroids. But the image of a top-level, and very high profile player, being suspended by MLB for 50 games only adds to the public perception of baseball. According to recent column by Kurt Streeter of The Los Angeles Times (which broke the Ramirez suspension story), "L.A. loves Kobe [Bryant] because of his skill, swagger and cold-blooded-killer 'tude. But Ramirez - softer, goofier, wearing the befuddled look of a man who has just lost his keys while still an assassin with a bat - is already right up there with Kobe." Bryant was able to come back from sexual assault allegations in 2003 (a case that was settled out of court), which saw his endorsement earnings drop from $65 million to under $20 million, but which have since returned to about the $35 million level. Likewise, swimmer Michael Phelps took a serious endorsement hit after the release of a photo showing him holding a bong.
Ramierez, working with his agent, Scott Boras (who also handles A-Rod), was quick to admit responsibility, to apologize to the Los Angeles Dodgers and fans and to also distance himself from the "steroid" cloud hanging over some of the game's top players. "Unfortunately, the medication was banned under our drug policy," Ramirez said in a statement. "Under the policy that mistake is now my responsibility. I have been advised not to say anything more for now. I do want to say one other thing: I've taken and passed about 15 drug tests over the past five seasons."
If history holds true, Ramirez' popularity among fans and consumers - aka those people who voices directly influence how marketers act and react - will fall. After being association with illegal substances, both Rodriguez and Phelps saw significant drops in trust, appeal, endorsement, and aspiration awareness numbers in the Davie Brown Index, which tracks the ability of athletes and celebrities "to influence brand affinity and consumer purchase intent." Back to Home Page


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It happens to all of us at one point in time. We get into an automobile collision and need the best auto body shop in Summit. Hopefully, it is not too bad and we are not seriously injured. But usually the car does not fare as well and comes away with significant damage.
What is the next step after your collision and you need an auto body shop?
Likely, after informing the insurance company you take your vehicle to one of their "approved" vendors.
Here is what happens next. You tell the insurance company what company you choose. By this time they have already taken phones of the car and know how extensive the damage is. If you need an expert to take a look, make sure you go to a repair shop in Summit.
They have a computer system that gives them a printed estimate stating what the replacement parts and labor will be based upon a set hourly rate.
This statement is given to the body shop. It comes with a break down of what the labor and parts "should" be and the company has to usually be able to totally fix the car for that price.
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Keep in mind that what is printed out represents the best case scenario and doesn't allow for items on the car that was missed or problems that come up.
Now here are some things to watch out for. a local auto body shop in Summit is operating under very, very thin margins and the incentive to "cut corners" is huge. Getting an extra $300 off a job can really add up over the course of the month when you are talking about doing at least 3-5 vehicles every week.
Secrets of the Auto Body Shop
Replacement Parts in Auto Body Shops
Make sure the parts being used on your car are OEM parts. These are replacement auto body parts in Summit are sent directly from the car manufacturers and are designed with the same specs as the vehicle came with.
Aftermarket parts can be significantly cheaper yet are not the same quality and make not hold up the same in the event of another accident.
No Realignment? Talk to Your Auto Repair Team!
The frame is usually somewhat bent when a car goes through an accident of any kind. It needs to be properly realigned. You need a serious all hands on deck auto body shop to take care of you here.
Unfortunately, because the money made off one car can be very little the propensity to skip this step is very high. Later down the road this will cause your car to not drive straight but at a tilt and your tires will wear prematurely. So if you need to brush up on some tire repair, ask your mechanic straight away.
Using Bondo (Fillers) Instead of Replacing the Part
Filling any damage in with bondo is not bad in itself. If you know what the auto body shop in Summit is doing, they tell you, and this is what you are paying for then it is fine.
The problem comes in when you think you are getting a vehicle back that is 99.9% the same as before it was wrecked and it is not. Filling a damaged part in with filler rather than replacing the expensive part is a common tactic and you want to make sure it is not done on your vehicle.
What Is An Damage Repair Estimate? - Auto Estimating Part 1
All damaged parts should be replaced unless you are paying a lower price for the car to just be fixed (in the case you want the cheapest price and do not care about having a car exactly the same as before). Again, you should really speak to your best auto body shop nearest you!
Keep in mind that most auto body repair shops are honest and are surviving in a tough industry.
One of the most important parts of your bike is the braking system. Without working brakes you would soon get into big trouble. Keeping your brakes in best shape is important. Fortunately, it is also relatively easy. Here is short bike brake overview.
Nowadays, you have three popular types of brake systems:
– Rim Brakes
– Disk Brakes
– Hub, or Drum, Brakes (including the Coaster Brake)
A number of other types of brakes have been used and are still used but they are not as popular as the three types mentioned above. Note that some recumbent bikes have no brakes. Obviously, don't use such bikes in traffic. You may have noticed that track bikes are fixed-gear bicycles without any brakes. Actually, they don't even have freewheel. But they are only used at a velodrome.
The old foot brake is not as popular as it used to be. It is also known as coaster brake and belongs to the drum brake category. The first coaster brake was invented back in 1898. The foot brake has one important advantage, since it is internal it works fine in all weather conditions. Foot brakes work for years without any maintenance but if it breaks, repairing it is generally very complicated. Since coaster brakes can only be applied to rear wheels, skidding is always a possibility. Another problem is that the brake can overheat if used too much. A practical problem is that the pedals need to fairly level, otherwise it will be difficult to brake. But combination of a hand-operated front wheel brake and a foot brake is efficient.
Mountain recumbent bikes generally use disk brakes. The system is simple, a metal disc is attached to the wheel hub. When the brake is applied, the pads squeeze against the disc. There are two types of disk brakes, mechanical and hydraulic. Disk brakes have many advantages but they are generally more expensive and heavier than other brake types. They tend to perform well in all weather conditions. They don't overheat like rim and hub brakes when heavily used. Unlike rim brakes, they don't heat up the rim and cause the tire pressure to increase.
Rim brakes are cheap, light-weight and relatively easy to maintain. The principle is very simple, two brake pads, typically made of rubber, squeeze the rim and slow down the cycle. You have a number of different models of rim brakes. The most common are Cantilever, V and center-mount brakes. Their main disadvantage is that they work badly in wet conditions. In muddy conditions, clogging can be a problem. They can also overheat the rim, which increases the air pressure in the tire. This could in worse case cause the wheel to explode.
Obviously, your budget will determine which stationary bikes are worth having a closer look at. Often the difference between the bikes is small, despite that the price difference is large. Although exercise bikes are fairly simply devices, some of them can get noisy after a couple of months. It pays off reading reviews from buyers of the stationary bikes you are interested in. For most people, the number of workouts you get with the bike is not especially important. Nowadays, almost all exercise bikes include the very few basic workouts you really need. More important is that the bike is sturdy, a flimsy bike is very annoying to use. Almost all of the exercise bikes from the well-known manufacturers are of good quality. But if you are thinking of buying a cheap exercise bike from an unknown manufacturer, make sure to test it thoroughly before buying it.
Note that especially recumbent exercise bikes are large and heavy, so it can be both difficult and expensive to return them. Thus, the cheapest bike may not the best exercise bike to buy.
What Are Collision Services? How Do They Work?
The insurance companies nickel and dime them at every turn and they are made to give them at time ridiculous discounts to get any business. That's why having an auto body shop in your corner can't be stressed enough.
Nevertheless, all an auto body shop should be on is your side and corners should not be cut at your expense and being watchful is just a smart way to go.
Your Auto Body Shop In Summit Should Help You With What Car Needs Exactly?
Regular wheel alignments are an important part of conscientious car maintenance. Unfortunately, many car owners fail to understand the importance of good wheel alignment, and therefore don't have their alignment checked often enough.Here are five reasons why getting regular wheel alignments is good for your car, your bank account, and your peace of mind.1: Better gas mileage. When your wheels are aligned properly, it cuts down on rolling resistance, which means that you car doesn't have to work as hard or burn as much fuel in order to move forward. This is good news for everyone: Not only do you spend less money on gas, but you also get the satisfaction of knowing your car is responsible for less pollution.5: Easier to drive. One of the biggest advantages of having your wheels aligned properly is that your car is easier to drive. No annoying pull to one side or the other. It's much easier and more pleasant to drive a car that has had regular wheel alignments.As you can see, there are many reasons why a car owner should be sure to get regular wheel alignments. Not only does having your wheels aligned properly save you money on gas, tires, and other potential repairs, but it also gives you better peace of mind to know that your car is being cared for properly.


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CONCORD, N.H. — The Public Utilities Commission approved new rates for Public Service of New Hampshire on Friday afternoon, amid warnings from the Office of Consumer Advocate, PUC staff and the commission itself that PSNH energy charges are rising at a rate that will cause more customers to leave the regulated utility for competitors, in a spiral that will push PSNH rates even higher in the future.
CONCORD, N.H. — The Public Utilities Commission approved new rates for Public Service of New Hampshire on Friday afternoon, amid warnings from the Office of Consumer Advocate, PUC staff and the commission itself that PSNH energy charges are rising at a rate that will cause more customers to leave the regulated utility for competitors, in a spiral that will push PSNH rates even higher in the future.
The orders approving an energy service charge of 9.54 cents per kilowatt hour and a stranded cost recovery charge of 0.737 cents per kwh came with expressions of concern by the PUC over the steady migration of customers away from PSNH and the growing burden left on those who remain.
The commission estimated that a residential customer using 500 kwh per month would see the energy service part of their bill go up by $12.15 per month, from $33.55 to $47.70.
The 9.54 cent energy charge was predicted in the PSNH forecast filed with the PUC in mid-December, while the stranded cost recovery charge is higher than predicted. The stranded cost recovery, designed to compensate PSNH for costs brought about by deregulation of the energy industry in the state, was projected by PSNH to be 0.67 in a filing dated Dec. 12, but on Dec. 18, PSNH revised the request upward.
The PUC didn't take issue with the higher-than-predicted increase in stranded cost charges, but sounded the alarm on the energy charge, which is higher than the current PSNH energy charge of 7.11 cents per kwh, and much higher than competitors offering rates as low as 6.99 cents.
According to PSNH, the increase in the electric service rate is primarily due to the company's forecast of higher prices for power and an increase in the estimated rate of customer migration to other companies. In addition, PSNH predicted that its energy services sales would be four percent lower than estimated, primarily due to customer migration.
The trend is setting off alarms among regulators.
The Office of Consumer Advocate, in its portion of the order, warned that "PSNH's operation model causes the fixed price of generation to be borne by a shrinking customer rate base, consisting primarily of residential customers, and the result is unfair to those customers."
Most of PSNH's large commercial customers have gone over to alternative energy suppliers.
The OCA stated that "as PSNH's energy service rates move higher than the market price, more customer migration will result. It is unfair that large customers are not supporting the fixed cost of generation."
While agreeing that the filing is "reasonable," the Consumer Affairs Office warned that "the overall structure of PSNH's energy service rates cannot continue."
Those concerns were echoed by the commission staff report, which said the company's proposed rate is over-market, and cautioned that the rate "may cause more customer migration which would continue to push PSNH rates higher going forward."
The commission order pointed out that there is no technical deficiency in the filing, but added, "the fact that the proposed rates are increasing by such a significant percentage impacts PSNH energy service customers and could exacerbate customer migration."
The PUC order comes a month after several environmental groups held a press conference in front of the Merrimack Station coal-fired plant in Bow, at which they warned that "PSNH's coal-fired business model is in free fall."
Representatives of PSNH were unavailable for comment Friday afternoon, but have said before that they are under legislative mandates regarding renewable energy sources and other requirements that do not burden independent energy suppliers.
(c)2012 The New Hampshire Union Leader (Manchester, N.H.
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Andrew Jackson Downing, "On the Moral Influence of Good Houses," Horticulturist 2 (Feb. 1848): 345-47.
A dwelling-house, for a civilized man, built with no higher aspirations than these, we look upon with the same feelings that inspire us when we behold the Indian, who guards himself against heat and cold by that primitive, and, as he considers it, sufficient costume--a blanket. An unmeaning pile of wood, or stone, serves as a shelter to the bodily frame of man; it does the same for the brute animals that serve him; the blanket covers the skin of the savage from the harshness of the elements, as the thick shaggy coat protects the beasts he hunts in the forest. But these are only manifestations of the grosser wants of life; and the mind of the civilized and cultivated man as naturally manifests itself in fitting, appropriate, and beautiful forms of habitation and costume, as it does in fine and lofty written thought and uttered speech.
Hence, as society advances beyond that condition, in which the primary wants of human nature are satisfied, we naturally find that literature and the arts flourish. Along with great orators and inspired poets, come fine architecture, and tasteful grounds and gardens.
Let us congratulate ourselves that the new era is fairly commenced in the United States. We by no means wish to be understood, that all our citizens have fairly passed the barrier that separates utter indifference, or puerile fancy, from good taste. There are, and will be, for a long time, a large proportion of houses built without any definite principles of construction, except those of the most downright necessity. But, on the other hand, we are glad to perceive a very considerable sprinkling over the whole country--from the Mississippi to the Kennebec--of houses built in such a manner, as to prove, at the first glance, that the ideal of their owners has risen above the platform of mere animal wants: that they perceive the intellectual superiority of a beautiful design over a meaningless and uncouth form; and that a house is to them no longer a comfortable shelter merely, but an expression of the intelligent life of man, in a state of society where the soul, the intellect, and the heart, are all awake, and all educated.
There are, perhaps, few persons who have examined fully the effects of a general diffusion of good taste, of well being, and a love of order and proportion, upon the community at large. There are, no doubt, some who look upon fine houses as fostering the pride of the few, and the envy and discontent of the many; and--in some transatlantic countries, where wealth and its avenues are closed to all but a few--not without reason. But, in this country, where integrity and industry are almost always rewarded by more than the means of subsistence, we have firm faith in the moral effects of the fine arts. We believe in the bettering influence of beautiful cottages and country houses--in the improvement of human nature necessarily resulting to all classes, from the possession of lovely gardens and fruitful orchards.
We do not know how we can present any argument of this matter, if it requires one, so good as one of that long-ago distinguished man--Dr. Dwight. He is describing, in his Travels in America, the influence of good architecture, as evinced in its effects on the manners and character of the inhabitants in a town in New-England:
"There is a kind of symmetry in the thoughts, feelings, and efforts of the human mind. Its taste, intelligence, affections, and conduct, are so intimately related, that no preconcertion can prevent them from being mutually causes and effects. The first thing powerfully operated upon, and, in its turn, proportionately operative, is the taste. The perception of beauty and deformity, of refinement and grossness, of decency and vulgarity, of propriety and indecorum, is the first thing which influences man to attempt an escape from a grovelling, brutish character; a character in which morality is chilled, or absolutely frozen. In most persons, this perception is awakened by what may be called the exterior of society, particularly by the mode of building. Uncouth, mean, ragged, dirty houses, constituting the body of any town, will regularly be accompanied by coarse, grovelling manners. The dress, the furniture, the mode of living, and the manners, will all correspond with the appearance of the buildings, and will universally be, in every such case, of a vulgar and debased nature. On the inhabitants of such a town, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to work a conviction that intelligence is either necessary or useful. Generally, they will regard both learning and science only with contempt. Of morals, except in the coarsest form, and that which has the least influence on the heart, they will scarcely have any apprehensions. The rights enforced by municipal law, they may be compelled to respect, and the corresponding duties they may be necessitated to perform; but the rights and obligations which lie beyond the reach of magistracy, in which the chief duties of morality are found, and from which the chief enjoyments of society spring, will scarcely gain even their passing notice. They may pay their debts, but they will neglect almost every thing of value in the education of their children.
"The very fact, that men see good houses built around them, will, more than almost anything else, awaken in them a sense of superiority in those by whom such houses are inhabited. The same sense in derived, in the same manner, from handsome dress, furniture, and equipage. The sense of beauty is necessarily accompanied by a perception of the superiority which it possesses over deformity; and is instinctively felt to confer this superiority on those who can call it their own, over those who cannot.
"This, I apprehend, is the manner in which coarse society is first started towards improvement; for no objects; but those, which are sensible, can make any considerable impression on coarse minds."
The first motive which leads men to build good houses is, no doubt, that of increasing largely their own comfort and happiness. But it is easy to see that, in this country, where so many are able to achieve a home for themselves, he who gives to the public a more beautiful and tasteful model of a habitation than this neighbors, is a benefactor to the cause of morality, good order, and the improvement of society were he lives. To place before men reasonable objects of ambition, and to dignify and exalt their aims, cannot but be laudable in the sight of all. And in a country where it is confessedly neither for the benefit of the community at large, nor that of the succeeding generation, to amass and transmit great fortunes, we would encourage a taste for beautiful and appropriate architecture, as a means of promoting public virtue and the general good.
We have said beautiful and appropriate architecture--not without desiring that all our readers should feel the value of this latter qualification as fully as we do. Among the many strivings after architectural beauty, which we see daily made by are countrymen, there are, of course, some failures, and only now and then examples of perfect success. But the rock on which all novices split--and especially all men who have thought little of the subject, and who are satisfied with a feeble imitation of some great example from other countries--this dangerous rock is a want of fitness, or propriety. Almost the first principle, certainly the grand principle, which an apostle of architectural progress ought to preach in America, is "keep in mind PROPRIETY." Do not build your dwelling-houses like temples, churches, or cathedrals. Let them be, characteristically, dwelling-houses. And more than this; always let their individuality of purpose be fairly avowed; let the cottage be a cottage--the farm-house a farm-house--the villa a villa, and the mansion a mansion. Do not attempt to build a dwelling upon your farm after the fashion of the town-house of your friend, the city merchant; do not attempt to give the modest little cottage the ambitious air of the ornate villa. Be assured that there is, if you will search for it, a peculiar beauty that belongs to each of these classes of dwellings that heightens and adorns it almost magically; while, if it borrows the ornaments of the other, it is only debased and falsified in character and expression. The most expensive and elaborate structure, overlaid with costly ornaments, will fail to give a ray of pleasure to the mind of real taste, if it is not appropriate to the purpose in view, or the means or position of its occupant; while the simple farm-house, rustically and tastefully adorned, and ministering beauty to hearts that answer to the spirit of the beautiful, will weave a spell in the memory not easily forgotten.
June 27, 1996


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It's Not A Sprint
Your questions:
When my friends without kids tell me they're "so busy," I have to laugh quietly to myself. Juggling two children, two mortgages, and two jobs, I have to run fast just to stand still. It all often seems like an incredible grind. I drop into bed exhausted, and then rev up the engines yet again when the alarm goes off in the morning. I feel a growing need for some sense of perspective. Otherwise, what's the point? No doubt, I love my children SO MUCH. But what IS the point? Just a grind until they're launched themselves? And then when my daughter becomes a mom herself, she just gets to go through it all over again?
Rick and Jan Hanson answer:
You ask some very powerful questions, and in response, we'd like to offer this short piece from our book, Mother Nurture.
Motherhood is a long journey, a marathon, not a sprint
It begins before your first child is born: that incredible moment when you know you've conceived a new being, the long pregnancy, fixing up the baby's room, finally the birth itself, and then the little breathing bundle, the life delivered into your arms. The details differ a bit if you've adopted a child, but the essentials are the same: anticipation, nervousness, and an extraordinary love.
Some parts are a blur and others a long slow grind. Feeding, diapers, long nights with the baby, the first steps, the first words, the first everything. Tantrums, story time, bouncing a ball, wiping a chin, high chairs, tiny chairs, wiping crayons off chairs. Day care, nursery school, the first day of first grade, watching that sturdy back trudge down the hall to class.
Camps, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, bullies, buddies, soccer games, Little League, balls caught, dropped, kicked, and lost. Chores, bedtimes, discipline, angry words and loving forgiveness.
The grades tick by, good teachers and bad, science fairs and spelling lists, too much homework or not enough, that great moment when your child knows the answer to a question and you don't. Somewhere in there your youngest turns eight or ten and you think, It's half over, where has the time gone? Middle school, high school, pimples and makeup and dating and fingernails chewed after midnight until you hear a step at the door. Strange music and stranger friends, coltish and gawky, solemn and wise. All the while, the birthdays have ticked by, some with numbers that echo: one, two, six, ten, thirteen, sixteen. Then the eighteenth: what now?
The marathon doesn't end there, though it becomes more meandering and less consuming. Loans that are really gifts, advice that is rejected loudly and followed quietly, graduations, postcards from Mexico or Maui, the bittersweet joy of watching your child walk down a wedding aisle, a down payment with your name on it. If your children have kids, your journey takes on a second sort of mothering.
You age and your children don't seem to
There comes that time when the trajectory of your life is clearly falling back to earth as your children's ascends. You drift into old age and there is a subtle shift of care and power. And then the final moments come, your veined and aged hands in the strong ones of your children, squeezing, a kiss, a final blessing, a farewell, an ending to the path you walked as a mother, and the beginning of a mysterious new one.
It's a long, long road. You have to pace yourself down it, not racing like it's a hundred-yard dash. You have to set aside time to catch your breath -- and admire the view! You need good companions, like a loving and supportive partner, and the company of other mothers. You need to keep replenishing yourself with good nutrition, exercise, sleep, and enjoyable activities. You need realistic expectations for yourself. And faith and hope that the months and years ahead will give you more chances to get things right.
If you regarded motherhood as a long marathon, spanning 20 years or more, how might you shift the demands you place on yourself? How might you assert yourself to get more help from others? How might you take better care of your body? Or better nourish your inner being? Or simply be nicer to yourself?
When you start taking the long view about the incredible and profound matter of bearing and rearing children, it starts to make more sense, the daily hassles are less irritating, you're likely to take better care of yourself -- and the journey becomes less stressful, more meaningful, and more rewarding!


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The Conversion Van Marketing Association (CVMA) has kicked off a two-pronged marketing program aimed at automotive dealers and consumers.
It may be its last for awhile.
The $500,000-plus marketing effort will end Jan. 1, as will the financing that paid for it through a Go RVing-type assessment added by General Motors Co. to the wholesale cost on vans converted by association members.
"General Motors contributed to the organization, and they pulled the plug on that," said Gary Miller, an independent sales rep for Explorer Van Co., Warsaw, Ind., who is a consultant to the association. "The conversion companies are going to keep the association going, but it won't be funded by General Motors."
The seven-member CMVA was formed after conversion van manufacturers exited the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) in October 2007. GM financed much of the association's efforts through the assessment that was used to market vans to Chevy and GMC dealers.
"We are just trying to get the word out that the van conversion business is alive and well, and it is," said Miller, who designed the ad campaign.
The new marketing campaign includes ads in trade magazines and consumer publications such as Parenting and Triple A's Home & Away, along with placements on social media websites such as Twitter and FaceBook and promotions in assorted blogs.
"On the consumer end of it, we went after our largest demographic — the family with $100,000 per year or more income with three kinds or more," Miller said. "Our second demographic is senior travelers."
A recent trade ad in Automotive News offered Chevrolet and GMC dealers a "free franchise" while promising a gross profit of $4,000 per vehicle. "Conversion vans are the best-kept secret in the automotive industry today," the ad declared.
"The price you pay is not published on the web," the ad continued. "This means selling vehicles like the good old days."
The CMVA website (www.personalizedvehicles.com) directs consumers to CMVA members. They include Explorer Van, Warsaw, Ind.; Customizers Conversions, Hagerstown, Md.; Majestic Van, Saginaw, Mich., Accubuilt, Elkhart, Ind.; Rocky Ridge Custom Vans, Franklin Springs, Ga.; American Luxury Coach Division of Jebaily Enterprises, Florence, S.C.; Southern Coach, Kernersville, N.C.; and Waldoch Crafts Inc., Forest Lake, Minn.


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Dee Dee Ramone
Dee Dee Ramone
Dee Dee Ramone performing live with the Ramones in 1977
|Background information
|Birth name
|Douglas Glenn Colvin
|Also known as
|Dee Dee Ramone
Dee Dee King
|September 18, 1951
Fort Lee, Virginia, U.S.
|June 5, 2002 (aged 50)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
|Punk rock, hip hop
|Musician, songwriter
|Bass guitar, vocals, guitar, synthesizer
|Years active
|Sire, Wanker, World Service, Other People's Music, Corazong
|Associated acts
|Ramones, Nina Hagen, Furious George, los Gattos, False Alarm, Paul Kostabi, Christian Martucci, Stefan Adika, GG Allin
Douglas Glenn Colvin (September 18, 1951 – June 5, 2002), known professionally as Dee Dee Ramone, was an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as founding member, songwriter, bassist and occasional lead vocalist for the punk rock band the Ramones.
Though nearly all of the Ramones' songs were credited equally to all the band members, Dee Dee was the band's most prolific lyricist and composer, writing many of their best-known songs, such as "53rd & 3rd", "Commando", "Wart Hog", "Rockaway Beach", "Poison Heart" and "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg", retitled "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down"; the song "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" won the New York Music Award for best independent single of the year in 1986 and Animal Boy won for best album. Beauvoir and Dee Dee later co-wrote the song "Cut Me To Pieces", which was featured in the film Rock and Roll High School Forever.
Dee Dee was initially the band's lead vocalist, though his (then) inability to sing and play bass at the same time resulted in original drummer Joey Ramone taking over the lead vocalist duties (however, he still sang lead vocals in the band on occasion). Dee Dee was the band's bassist and songwriter from 1974 until 1989, when he left to pursue a short-lived career in hip hop music under the name Dee Dee King. He soon returned to his punk roots and released three solo albums featuring brand-new songs, many of which were later recorded by the Ramones, he toured the world playing his new songs, Ramones songs and some old favorites in small clubs, and continued to write songs for the Ramones until 1996, when the band officially retired.
Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction for much of his life, particularly heroin, he began using drugs as a teenager and continued to use for the majority of his adult life. He appeared clean in the early 1990s but began using heroin again sometime later, he died from a heroin overdose on June 5, 2002.[1]
Personal life[edit]
Douglas Glenn Colvin was born on September 18, 1951, in Fort Lee, Virginia, US,[2] he was the son of an American soldier and a German woman. As an infant, his family relocated to Berlin, Germany, due to his father's military service, his father's military career also required the family to relocate frequently. These frequent moves caused Douglas to have a lonely childhood with few real friends, his parents separated during his early teens, and he remained in Berlin until the age of 15, when he, along with his mother and sister Beverley, moved to Forest Hills, New York, in order to escape Dee Dee's alcoholic father.[3] There, he met John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi (later dubbed Johnny and Tommy Ramone), then playing in a band called the Tangerine Puppets, named after a Donovan song.
In the early 1970s, Dee Dee Ramone worked at The Bureau of Advertising, located at 485 Lexington Ave., Manhattan, NYC. Later renamed The Newspaper Advertising Bureau, the agency promoted newspapers as the best media source for advertising. Dee Dee was a printer's helper for maybe one year in the company's small in-house print shop; because of his creative abilities he would hang out, when he could, with the graphic designers in the company's art department.
Bassist Monty Colvin from the progressive metal band Galactic Cowboys is one of Dee Dee's cousins.
In 1978, he married Vera Boldis.[4] According to Vera, Dee Dee's struggles with mental illness and drug abuse put a strain on the couple's relationship,[5] they separated in 1990 before finalizing their divorce in 1995.[6][7] By then, Dee Dee was making music as the Ramainz with his second wife, Barbara Zampini (also known as Barbara Ramone). Since his death, she continues to manage his estate, calling herself Barbara Ramone Zampini.[8]
Colvin, later Dee Dee, and Cummings, later Johnny, quickly became friends, as they were both social outcasts in their heavily middle-class neighborhood. After an unsuccessful guitar audition for Television, Johnny convinced Dee Dee to form their own band with then-drummer Jeffrey Hyman, later Joey Ramone, in 1974. Joey took over vocal duties after Dee Dee decided that he could not sing lead vocals for longer than a few songs as his voice shredded. Dee Dee would continue, however, to count off each song's tempo with his signature rapid-fire shout of "1-2-3-4!"
It was Dee Dee who first suggested naming the band the Ramones, after reading that Paul McCartney often signed into hotels under the alias "Paul Ramon", he added an 'e' to the end of that surname and the band members all agreed to adopt the surname "Ramone" as a means of conveying their unity.
Dee Dee wrote or co-wrote much of the Ramones' repertoire, such as "53rd and 3rd" (a song about male prostitution at 53rd Street and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, allegedly based on personal experience), "Glad to See You Go" (written about his then-girlfriend, a stripper and fellow drug user with a volatile personality), "It's a Long Way Back", "Chinese Rocks" (originally recorded by Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, as guitarist Johnny Ramone was not enthusiastic about the Ramones doing songs about drugs) and "Wart Hog" (a song Dee Dee wrote in rehab). After he quit the Ramones, Dee Dee continued to write songs for them, contributing at least three songs to each of their albums.
According to Mondo Bizarro's liner notes, for example, the Ramones once bailed Dee Dee out of jail in exchange for the rights to his songs "Main Man", "Strength to Endure" and "Poison Heart", which would become a minor hit for the band. The band's final studio album, 1995's ¡Adios Amigos!, features several of Dee Dee's solo songs, such as "I'm Makin' Monsters for My Friends" and "It's Not for Me to Know" from his album I Hate Freaks Like You.
Dee Dee was present when the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, the first year they were eligible, and not long after lead singer Joey had died. Dee Dee humorously congratulated himself at the induction, he died later that year.[9]
Later projects[edit]
In 1987, before leaving the Ramones, Dee Dee embarked on a brief hip hop career as rapper "Dee Dee King" with the album Standing in the Spotlight. Dee Dee had recorded "Funky Man" as Dee Dee King in 1987. Music critic Matt Carlson wrote that the album "will go down in the annals of pop culture as one of the worst recordings of all time".[10] After the album failed, he returned to punk rock with various short-lived projects such as Sprokkett (which also featured Richard 'The Atomic Elf' Bacchus of D Generation and the Spikey Tops). In 1987 Dee Dee wrote and produced a song called "Baby Doll" for the Chesterfield Kings ("Baby Doll"/"I Cannot Find Her", acoustic version 1987, Mirror Records, later recorded by American rock and roll band the Connection, on their album New England's Newest Hit Makers). Months after he left the Ramones, in the fall of 1989, Dee Dee already performed songs such as "Poison Heart" and "Main Man" (later to be recorded by the Ramones) with his band the Spikey Tops.[11]
In 1991, Dee Dee was briefly involved with transgressive punk rock singer-songwriter GG Allin, playing the guitar with Allin's backup band the Murder Junkies, his involvement lasted approximately one week, enough for him to be briefly interviewed during the filming of Todd Phillips' Allin documentary Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies. In the film, Dee Dee reveals that he was unaware of the band's name, even after joining. Rehearsal recordings of him with Allin and the Murder Junkies appears on the Hated soundtrack, as well as on the posthumous live Allin compilation Res-Erected. Video footage of the rehearsals is available on DVD through Allin's estate's website.[12] Dee Dee never actually played a live gig with the band.[13]
In 1992, Dee Dee formed another short-lived project named Dee Dee Ramone and the Chinese Dragons, which was followed by the most successful of his post-Ramones projects, a group named Dee Dee Ramone I.C.L.C. (Inter-Celestial Light Commune), which lasted from 1994 to 1996. The group featured New York City bassist John Carco (formerly of Queens hardcore group Misguided) who befriended Dee Dee when the two attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings together during the summer of 1992. After writing more than a dozen songs and recording several demos for an upcoming Ramones album with producer Daniel Rey, Dee Dee decided to keep the material for his new band. After working with several drummers and playing several live shows in the New York City area, Dee Dee and Carco moved to Amsterdam to record a four-song EP and fourteen-track album for Rough Trade Records. I Hate Freaks Like You was released on April 17, 1994, featuring Nina Hagen on two of the album's fourteen tracks; the three-piece line up now consisted of Dee Dee (vocals, guitar), Carco (bass, vocals), and Dutch drummer Danny Arnold Lommen.
I.C.L.C. would go on to promote the I Hate Freaks Like You album by touring 22 countries over a 10-month period. During this tour, in November 1994, Dee Dee met 16-year-old Barbara Zampini while searching for his lost guitar outside his hotel in Argentina.[14] Zampini was a big fan of the Ramones and had been playing bass for two years, heavily influenced by Dee Dee's early work, they later married and remained together until his death. Barbara had some tours with Dee Dee Ramone.[15]
In January 1995, the group had completed their 10-month tour and returned to their headquarters in Amsterdam to begin recording a second album; the group was soon dropped, however, by their record label, Rough Trade World Service. With this development, bassist John Carco left the group and moved to Los Angeles where he formed and played with Frankie O. and Pete Stahl (singer of D.C.H.C. group Scream) in the group Metro. Carco would later pursue an acting career. Songs written by Dee Dee and Carco for the never released second I.C.L.C. album would eventually be recorded by the Ramones on their final album ¡Adios Amigos!. One of these songs, "Born to Die in Berlin", would ultimately be the final song on the final Ramones' album, and featured Dee Dee singing in German on the bridge of the song; also the song Fix Yourself Up eventually recorded by Dee Dee on the album Zonked.
Dee Dee was also a special guest at the final Ramones show at the Palace in Los Angeles on August 6, 1996, performing the lead vocals on the song "Love Kills".
Dee Dee formed a Ramones' tribute band called the Ramainz with his wife Barbara ("Barbara Ramone", bass) and former Ramones' member Marky (drums), they recorded an album, Live in NYC, released in Argentina and many other countries, and played a couple of times with C.J. Ramone.
Dee Dee also recorded several solo albums. Zonked!, the first album release under the Dee Dee Ramone moniker, was re-titled Ain't It Fun? for the European release, but other than the addition of the bonus track "Please Kill Me", the music is identical. The line-up for this album was Dee Dee Ramone on guitars and lead vocals, Marky Ramone on drums, longtime partner Daniel Ray producing and on guitars, and Barbara "Ramone"/Zampini on bass and lead vocals. Guests included Joey Ramone singing lead on "I am seeing UFOs", and the Cramps' vocalist Lux Interior doing the same on "Bad Horoscope".
The second solo album was called Hop Around; the line-up consisted of Dee Dee Ramone, Barbara Ramone/Zampini, Chris Spedding on guitars and Billy Rogers on drums. Dee Dee also released Greatest & Latest, with Barbara, Spedding and Chase Manhattan on drums; this album consisted of re-recordings of Ramones songs, a re-recorded solo song ("Fix Yourself Up", originally from Zonked!/Ain't It Fun?), cover-songs and an unreleased new solo-song ("Sidewalk Surfin'").
In the 21st century, Dee Dee teamed up with Paul Kostabi, leader of the hardcore punk band Youth Gone Mad and former guitarist for White Zombie. An established artist, Kostabi was instrumental in getting Dee Dee's new career as a painter off the ground. Together with Barbara, the trio collaborated on several hundred works that sold quickly for a few hundred dollars each. In 2012, the tenth anniversary of Dee Dee's death was observed by a show at a prominent art gallery in California.[16]
On Halloween, 1998, while staying at the Hotel Chelsea, Dee Dee and Zampini met the Hollywood band SEXYCHRIST, which featured adult film star Kurt Lockwood. Lockwood encouraged them to move to Hollywood, and together the two bands shared a successful tour of the U.S. in early 1999. Afterwards, Dee Dee formed the Dee Dee Ramone Band, with members including Christian Martucci (vocals and guitar), Anthony Smedile (drums), Chase Manhattan (drums), and Stefan Adika (bass). With the exception of one show at the Spa Club in NYC and a Club Makeup performance, this would be his last touring band. Dee Dee would release a book, entitled Legend of a Rock Star, A Memoir: The Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone, written while on tour in Europe in 2001.[17]
Dee Dee later moved to California where he continued to make music and pursued an acting career. Though largely unsuccessful as an actor, he landed a major role in the 2002 low-budget film Bikini Bandits,[18] he also contributed the song "In a Movie" to the film's soundtrack, which features his wife Barbara on lead vocals.
His next album—a live album produced by Gilby Clarke (ex-Guns N' Roses), to have been recorded on June 12, 2002, at Hollywood's Key Club—never materialized. Several bootlegs of the Dee Dee Ramone Band exist, including, Live in Milan, Italy. Dee Dee's final studio recordings were released by tREND iS dEAD! records as the 2002 album Youth Gone Mad featuring Dee Dee Ramone. He also worked with the band Terrorgruppe.
Dee Dee Ramone was found dead on the evening of June 5, 2002, by his wife Barbara at his apartment in Hollywood. An autopsy established heroin overdose as the official cause of death, he had been booked to perform at the Majestic Ventura Theater, which ended up being a memorial show in his honor.
Dee Dee Ramone is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, not far from the bronze memorial to his former Ramones bandmate, Johnny Ramone, his headstone features the Ramones seal with the line "I feel so safe flying on a ray on the highest trails above" taken from his song "Highest Trails Above", from the Ramones' Subterranean Jungle album. At the stone's base is the line "O.K...I gotta go now." A picture of the headstone can be seen in the music video for the Dropkick Murphys song "Rose Tattoo" from their 2013 album, Signed and Sealed in Blood.
In the 2013 film CBGB Dee Dee Ramone is played by actor Steven Schub (lead singer of ska bands the Fenwicks and HaSkaLA). [1]
Dee Dee Ramone used Ampeg amplification during his entire career with the Ramones,[19] his preferred bass guitars included:
- Danelectro Bass: natural, white pickguard, rosewood fretboard (1974–1975)
- Fender Musicmaster Bass: red, white pickguard, rosewood fretboard (1974–1975 )
- Fender '62 Precision Bass: white, tortoise pickguard, rosewood fretboard (1975–1977)
- Fender '75 Precision Bass: black, black pickguard, maple neck (1975–1977)
- Fender '76 Precision Bass: white, black pickguard (changed to red), maple neck (1977–1983) (He used at least three such basses.)
- Fender '78 Precision Bass: sunburst, black pickguard, maple neck (1982–1983) (He used at least two such basses.)
- Fender '79 Precision Bass: black, white pickguard, maple neck (1983–1988)
- Fender '83 Precision Bass: white, white pickguard, maple neck (1983–1988)
- ESP Custom Precision Bass: cream, white pickguard, rosewood fretboard (1986–1988)
- ESP Custom P-style Bass: orange with spider graphic, rosewood fretboard (1986–1989)
- ESP Custom Thunderbird Bass: yellow with Chinese dragon graphic and "Ramones" lettering, rosewood fretboard (1988–1989)
Dee Dee Ramone released an autobiography, first titled My Right to Survive then published as Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones, in 1998, it was later republished as Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones in 2016.
He wrote one book related to his music career, Legend of a Rock Star, a daily journal of commentary on his last, hectic European tour in the spring of 2001.
He also penned a novel, Chelsea Horror Hotel, in which he and his wife move into New York City's famous Hotel Chelsea and believe they are staying in the same room where Sid Vicious allegedly killed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. In the book, Ramone is visited by Vicious himself, as well as other dead punk rock friends such as Johnny Thunders, Stiv Bators, and Jerry Nolan.
- Ramones (1976)
- Leave Home (1977)
- Rocket to Russia (1977)
- Road to Ruin (1978)
- It's Alive (1979)
- End of the Century (1980)
- Pleasant Dreams (1981)
- Subterranean Jungle (1983)
- Too Tough to Die (1984)
- Animal Boy (1986)
- Halfway to Sanity (1987)
- Brain Drain (1989)
- ¡Adios Amigos! (1996) (guest appearance on "Born to Die in Berlin" only)
- You Don't Come Close (2001)
- Standing in the Spotlight (1989)
- I Hate Freaks Like You (1994)
- Zonked! (1997)
- Hop Around (2000)
- Greatest & Latest (2000)
- 1987 – Funky Man
- 1994 – I'm Making Monsters For My Friends
- 2002 – In a Movie (OST "Bikini Bandits")
- 2012 – The Crusher (Short Promo)
- ^ The tombstone tourist: musicians By Scott Stanton. Simon & Schuster. p. 204
- ^ "DDR.jpg". Retrieved July 20, 2011.
- ^ Pareles, Jon. "Dee Dee Ramone, Pioneer Punk Rocker, Dies at 50", The New York Times, June 7, 2002. Accessed June 17, 2009. "Tony Colvin moved her children to New York in the late 1960s. They settled in Forest Hills, Queens, where Douglas met the future members of the Ramones, described in Lobotomy as 'the obvious creeps of the neighborhood.'"
- ^ Vera Was a Punk Rocker
- ^ Poison Heart: I Married Dee Dee Ramone Archived September 14, 2012, at Archive.today
- ^ Vera Ramone: Poisoned Heart
- ^ Melnick, Monte & Frank Meyer (2004). On the Road With the Ramones. Sanctuary Publishing Limited. ISBN 1-86074-514-8.
- ^ "Happy Birthday Dee Dee Ramone!". Deedeeramone.com. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
- ^ "Dee Dee Ramone, Pioneer Punk Rocker, Dies at 50 – New York Times". Nytimes.com. June 7, 2002. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
- ^ Carlson, Matt. "Standing in the Spotlight – Dee Dee King". AllMusic. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
- ^ "Dee Dee Ramone & The Spikey Tops – Street Animal, November 1989". Retrieved November 2, 2013.
- ^ "Official Site of the True King of Rock and Roll". GG Allin. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
- ^ "Thirsty : December 2006 : Merle Allin Featured Interview". Staythirstymedia.com. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
- ^ "Ramones: Interview With Barbara Zampini". Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
- ^ "Dee Dee Ramone touring in Europe". Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
- ^ "Happy Birthday Dee Dee Ramone!". Deedeeramone.com. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
- ^ Ramone, Dee Dee (2002). Legend of a Rock Star, A Memoir: The Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone. Thunder's Mouth Press, formerly Four Walls Eight Windows. ISBN 978-1-56025-389-1.
- ^ Bikini Bandits (Video 2002) – IMDb
- ^ Ramones: Bass equipment rockometer.com Retrieved:2009-10-01
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