When I attended school, part of a course offered within Broadcast Communications was, 'Subliminal Images Used In Commercials Based On Demographics and Geo-Demographics'. The above graphic represents two separate headlines listed in different locations on the front page of a news site, February 4, 2009; raising the question, Irony or mind control? ... and posted because it fell under a (90000) "Too Weird" category.
During the 6am [East] Dreamstreets segment, for the 1st Saturday program, will be a program about Wilmington's greatest poet few have heard about. At 7am [East] you'll hear a "My World" segment from 1949. The last half of Boptime will go back to 1955, including the music Clifford Brown was making during the same time of the year in the "Club Baby Grand" segment -- and of course, a visit from Uncle Richard. And if everything works out okay tomorrow, I'll be automating radio for 3am to 5:30am [East] again for this Saturday morning. Happy listening. Best to you, Steve
David Normal filled me in on past and present. Here are some things he mentioned I would like to share:
One of David's friends is Max Hunter, who, with his brother Josh, are involved with Western Dovetail.
The Giant Anus was one of the central attractions of Burning Man 2000, and was an essential part of that year's "Body" theme. The above drawing is the initial conceptual drawing executed in Bangli, Bali. It's ultimate form was a two story tall wood sculpture complete with inflating and deflating rectal tissues, an interactive sound system, sequencing Las Vegas style lighting, two mighty legs, a slide out the back, wax-cast faces of the seven sins, and a dysfunctional control room in the base. I estimate that most of the people present at the festival experienced its sphinctral pulchritude, so perhaps more than 20,000 people passed through the Anus . . . [Continue Reading]
Currently David is dividing his time between painting and gif animation; some of which are located on his MySpace page. David's home page is located here.
If you have a dog ... PLEASE read this and send it on. If you don't have a dog, please pass along to friends who do.
I had heard somewhere about raisins AND grapes causing acute Renal failure but hadn't seen any formal paper on the subject. We had her bring the dog in immediately. In the meantime, I called the ER service at MedVet, and the doctor there was like me - had heard something about it, but... Anyway, we contacted the ASPCA National Animal Poison Control Center and they said to give IV fluids at 1 & 1/2 times maintenance and watch the kidney values for the next 48-72 hours. The dog's BUN (blood urea nitrogen level) was already at 32 (normal less than 27) and creatinine over 5 (1.9 is the high end of normal). Both are monitors of kidney function in the bloodstream. We placed an IV catheter and started the fluids. Rechecked the renal values at 5 PM and the BUN was over 40 and creatinine over 7 with no urine production after a liter of fluids. At that point I felt the dog was in acute renal failure and sent him on to MedVet for a urinary catheter to monitor urine output overnight as well as overnight care. He started vomiting again overnight at Med Vet and his renal values continued to increase daily. He produced urine when given lasix as a diuretic. He was on 3 different anti-vomiting medications and they still couldn't control his vomiting. Today his urine output decreased again, his BUN was over 120, his creatinine was at 10, his phosphorus was very elevated and his blood pressure, which had been staying around 150, skyrocketed to 220 ... He continued to vomit and the owners elected to Euthanize.
Poison control said as few as 7 raisins or grapes could be toxic. Many people I know give their dogs grapes or raisins as treats including our ex-handler's. Any exposure should give e rise to immediate concern. Onions, chocolate, cocoa and macadamia nuts can be fatal, too.
Even if you don't have a dog, you might have friends who do. This is worth passing on to them. Confirmation from Snopes about the above ...
For George W. they they asked for suggestions from the public. Here are some of their favorite responses:
Hal sent a photograph of the recent plane crash in the Hudson River pointing out why First Class seating has its perks. Notice the Coach passengers have wet feet and are standing on the wing, while the First Class passengers are being put into life boats:
Bruce sent a graphic image depicting an elementary school question: List, In Any Order, The Four Seasons, where 67% of the students responded: 1) Dove season 2) Deer season 3) Duck season 4) Turkey season.
~@~ is currently busy doing seismic research with Dr. Randall D. Peters (check links on right side of his page) Department of Physics, Mercer University and having a lot of FUN! == Did I say extremely busy (-; ?
In some cases, you may be able to use the finger command to verify an address or find more information for someone at another institution about whom you already have some information. The finger command is available on most Unix systems. - http://kb.iu.edu/data/aasp.html
The earthquake audio was included for effect and does not pertain to the FFT-CSP data. USGS has a collection of earthquake sounds here.
The brutal exposure and possible arrest of alleged pothead Michael Phelps, probably the best athlete on earth, demands fresh attention to an old question: Why is marijuana still illegal in the United States?
As the world now knows, poor Phelps was chilling with a few friends and a glass bong when caught on camera. This would have been no problem had London's News of the World not published the photo over this caption: "This is the astonishing picture which could destroy the career of the greatest competitor in Olympic history."
That caption was sensationally misleading. Phelps has lost a major endorsement contract with Kellogg and has been suspended from competition for three months. But certainly there was nothing "astonishing" or even mildly surprising about the fact that a superb swimmer, or a top competitor in any form of sport, might puff on a blunt from time to time. By now, there have simply been too many other exceptional athletes who have admitted to smoking dope for recreation or relief.
Within the last several months, in fact, four ranking sumo wrestlers have been busted and booted out of the sport. No doubt the Japanese wrestling authorities meant to humiliate the sumo stars, using shame to maintain the forbidden aura around the drug, just as we do (which proves that there is at least one other advanced industrial nation as hypocritical on this issue as we are).
But more than a few of the athletes who have identified themselves as cannabis users in past years have done so without the shame that Phelps claimed to feel when he offered his endorsement-saving mea culpa. Some insist that using marijuana eased physical pain or even improved their game. Former Dallas Cowboys lineman Mark Stepnoski, who played on two Super Bowl-winning teams and is now an active proponent of legalization, said he smoked pot throughout his career without impairing his game.
And Stepnoski is not alone in American professional sports, where marijuana use is common. More than a decade ago, the New York Times reported that nearly three out of four NBA players had smoked. Not much has changed since then, according to Dallas Mavericks forward Josh Howard, who told an ESPN radio host last year that not only did he use marijuana in the offseason, but so did "most of the players in the league."
None of this rampant toking seems to have impaired athletic performance -- unless we assume that Phelps, for instance, would somehow have won more than eight gold medals at last summer's Olympic Games. So much for the argument that marijuana damages motivation, or prowess, or leads inevitably to more dangerous narcotics.
Of course, it isn't only athletic stars who have been known to indulge in reefer madness. Important scientists such as Richard Feynman, Stephen Jay Gould, Margaret Mead and Carl Sagan, billionaire executives like Richard Branson and Bill Gates, and a great many of the literary and musical geniuses of the last century or so -- William Butler Yeats, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Bob Dylan among them -- got high. So have many of our top elected officials, notably including California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a highly successful actor and businessman whose pot habit was immortalized on film in "Pumping Iron"; New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, another hard-driving billionaire who once told a magazine interviewer that he had not only smoked dope but "enjoyed" it; Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, and Al Gore, former vice president, Google director, and winner of an Oscar and the Nobel Peace Prize.
What should be the most devastating blow to the foundations of marijuana prohibition was struck just last month, when Barack Obama, yet another confessed former pothead, ascended to the presidency. Obama has never tried to conceal that he smoked quite a bit of marijuana in his youth.
So why do we still need to feign outrage over Michael Phelps? Why must he humble himself before the cameras as if he had tortured a puppy? Why should the law treat cannabis as a damaging addiction, when in fact nearly anyone who has accomplished anything worthwhile seems to have taken at least a toke or two?
Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? - Barbara [Heartless POS] Bush, 3/18/2003
The above video is a nice depiction of how the eigenmodes of a plate change with increasing forcing frequency. ARPSN Seismic FFT-CSP Comparison animations are currently painting an interesting picture.
Curtis, The band is going hot and heavy. I have people fighting to join including Ira Walker, a blues psychedelic guy on bass who has opened for B.B. King, Etta James and Al Green, to name just a few. He is managed by Herbie Herbert, the guy that formed Journey and managed Steve Miller, Joe Satriani, and Santana. He is trying to bring Greg Rolie from Santana to play keyboards. I have a female vocalist with a 3.5 octave range. The bass player from Iron Butterfly wants to play and my guitar player can and will play anything Hendrix and Roger Waters played ...and sings like Jim Morrison. We are doing some covers of known and obscure psychedelia like: Too Much Too Dream Last Night by the Electric Prunes. You know how much original music I have from Sunny and Larry Dunn. I'm hoping to contact Eric and do some Happy Valley songs. Jimmy Sweetwater is playing blues harp on some songs. I feel like Rumplestiltskin awakening from a 20 year sleep and I'm pinching myself. Very busy with both the band and my business. Once again, you helped make this happen and I won't forget that. Be well, be happy, peace Howie P.S. Sunny, has signed on as a musical director on his music and is wowed by the talent I've assembled.
Howie's MySpace page is located: http://www.myspace.com/hgongcrazy and this is the location of his FaceBook page (login required to view). United State Cafe page on Jumpin Jupiter and here is one of my favorite Jumpin' Jupiter tunes from the past: Why Not Try Love Again - MP3 and there are more MP3 Jumpin Jupiter songs on the Podcast page.
If anyone owning a PC, Macbook, or Macbook Pro is interested in Earthquakes and would like a FREE way to monitor them, check out the current progress log page provided by ARPSN (Amateur Radio Public Seismic Network) for a guideline.
This is my newest painting "The Pool". I had the initial idea for it when I went out with some friends to see a turtle derby in Los Angeles in the summer of 2005. Perhaps the large rectangular ring set up as a racing rink for turtles suggested the cubic bath central to the composition. I'm not sure. Besides - I never saw any racing turtles - the atmosphere of the club was unbearable - a college frat scene pick up joint - so I just hid in a corner since I didn't like it. I amused myself by making the preliminary sketch for this painting. Since that time I have worked on the painting off and on until finally I have completed it - three and a half years later. Oil on Panel, 61 x 91.5 cm, 2009 - View painting at MySpace - Visit David Normal's page.
Henry Selick, director of Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas chats with Karl Cohen, editor of ASIFA-SF newsletter, at a reception at the Cartoon Art Museum (where art from the film was on display) following a preview screening of Coraline, which opens on Feb. 6.
PS The excellent exhibit of concept art, models, etc. from the film is at the Cartoon art Museum. I think it ends on Feb. 17. - Karl Cohen [Continue Reading]
Barney Bubbles also worked under the name A1 Good Guyz for a time (with David Wills, a fellow Twickenham Art College student). They undertook work for Motor Racing magazine and the English Egg Marketing Board, and with an extended group of contributers they created Oz magazine issue 12 The Tax Dodge Special. Barney Bubbles also worked on Oz 38.
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