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I have cruised with Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, Holland America and Princess in the past with 8 cruises in total. Royal Caribbean has been my preference overall from the food, service, ease of embarkation etc. This trip was extremely disappointing for many reasons but primarily in all past cruises (on any ships mentioned) entertainment was enjoyable, and something that we thoroughly enjoyed after a day either at the pool or on shore. Unfortunately this was not the case on this particular cruise. We were in awe initally as to why there was no entertainment beyond a very poor "comedy" act which to many was quite offensive (except for the last comedian that I had seen before and was very good). Unless you were into trivia, (we were going to attend at one point but could not get into the lounge as it was overcrowded), interested in heavy drinking you were out of luck.
We could not enjoy the hot tub in the Solarium because 9 twenty somethings (and some were obviously NOT of age) More spent most of the days while on board - all yelling, drinking, and getting more loud as they drank. Many of the older travellers could not get in the hot tub nor would they want to as these individuals really took over the area. We were not aware of the rationale for the lack of entertainment in the theater until the last night there when told there was an issue with maintenance of the stage and the fact that the ship was going in for re-fitting. The morning we left we went to enter the elevator only to find everything had been already removed and the floor, walls, ceiling were just bare plywood. The feelings many got was that RC couldn't wait to get rid of us so they could proceed with the renovations. It was an insult I am sure not only to us and the few others who mentioned it. We were certainly not along in feeling that the bare necessities were provided this cruise because of the upcoming refitting. The schedule of activities was poor and except for the ice show far below what I have come to expect from Royal Caribbean...very poor experience. Several of us have booked for the 45 day repositioning cruise in 2015 in Europe. This will be costly but having travelled RC before, it this cruise proves to be a bust, we will certainly be considering alternative cruise lines. VERY VERY disappointing and we travelled from Vancouver Canada...pretty much a waste of 7 days we won't get back. Less
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3 of 4 Americans say technological innovation is "more important" than ever.
61 percent of Americans believe the recession has hurt U.S. businesses' ability to innovate.
Europeans largely believe that technology innovation has improved quality of life and the economy, yet only 14 percent predict they will lead in this area in the future.
63 percent of Chinese believe that China will overtake the United States on technologyinnovation over the next 30 years
NEW YORK and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2009 - Despite one of the worst recessions in history, Americans have increasing faith in technology innovation as an engine of economic growth, but are plagued with doubts about the nation's ability to maintain its global leadership mantle. These were among the telling findings of a report released today by Intel Corporation and Newsweek, and detailed in Newsweek magazine, available on newsstands today.
While a global majority said that the economic downturn has hurt the United States' ability to innovate, the prevailing view across every nation polled was technology innovation is critical to America's future economic success. In the United States, almost half of Americans said the recession has resulted in an increased reliance on technology innovation; and 3 of 4 Americans said that technology innovation will be "more important" during the next 30 years.
However, even as Americans see technological innovation as a key growth driver, they have significant doubts about their country's ability to hold on to global leadership. Despite many nations giving the United States credit for leadership in technology innovation today, only one-third of Americans saw themselves leading over the next 30 years.
Americans are not alone in their belief that they risk losing the mantle of innovation leadership. A large majority of Europeans gave technology innovation a nod for improved quality of life and positive economic impact. However, Europeans are even less optimistic than Americans about their own ability to be innovative long-term. Only 14 percent saw a European country leading on technology innovation in the future, and the rest ceded future leadership to nations such as China, Japan and India. In contrast, China shows strong confidence in its future strength as 54 percent of Chinese people predicted that their country will pioneer the next society-changing technology and overtake the United States in the next 30 years.
"Innovation is not merely an attribute, it's a process that starts with idea generation, research and development," said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer. "This report underscores the need for a culture of investment which leads to new ideas and discovery, along with a 21st century model of research in the United States - one supported by business, academia and policy to shore up America's historical pace of innovation."
"We are more aware than ever of America's faith in innovation and the necessity of its place in our future," said Kathleen Deveny, Newsweek's global business editor. "Newsweek's partnership with Intel is an opportunity to explore the importance of innovation as a driving force for economic and social transformation as we move forward in this new global landscape."
"Now more than ever, it is critical for us as a nation to recognize how critical innovation is to spurring sustained U.S. economic growth," said Dr. Robert D. Atkinson, president of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think-tank. "In the aftermath of the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression, we are collectively looking for solutions to propel our nation forward. The answer rests with technology and how collectively - business and government - can join together to bring about an innovation nation."
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Americans' doubts regarding future leadership are largely based on something they consider to potentially be the nation's biggest liability: 82 percent believed the United States is lagging behind other countries in the quality of K-12 math and science education. Reinforcing this concern, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly called the "nation's report card," revealed in a report released in October that fewer than 40 percent of fourth-graders and eighth-graders in the United States are proficient in math.
Most Americans look to the corporate environment as well as business start-ups for the next ground-breaking innovation. Others in the United States look to the government to offer incentives to spur innovation with 78 percent believing a "national innovation initiative" would be effective. In Europe, over 75 percent of Germans and Brits polled are supportive of a similar type of national initiative in their countries. In contrast with Americans, Europeans and Chinese are both more likely to look to universities to be future sources of innovation as well.
More details on the results, including perceived gaps and driving forces on innovation, can be found in print and online in the latest issue of Newsweek magazine.
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Your name in reverse order is "Yhtavrap". A random rearrangement of the letters in your name (anagram) will give "Vhyrapta". How do you pronounce that?
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Better than the sequels but not as good as the Boris Karloff film. Still it might be worth another view.
What's the differences between the three available versions (Collector's Edition, Ultimate Edition and Deluxe Edition)?
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New 2-disc Deluxe Edition due out on July 8th, 2008,
This review is from: The Mummy (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (DVD)
There was already a 2-disc "Ultimate" Edition of The Mummy back in 2001, but it's no longer available. The upcoming release of The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor has prompted Universal to release a new edition of The Mummy with the major special features from the Ultimate Edition plus a few new ones. It will be only in widescreen (the Ultimate Edition had both wide and full).
The Mummy is a peculiar movie, an Indiana Jonesish adventure originally intended as a low-budget remake of a 1932 horror film called The Mummy (also being released in a new Special Edition) that got spun in several directions before Brendan Fraser and huge special effects were settled on. Fraser plays an adventurer with the French Foreign Legion in 1920s Egypt who gets into serious trouble with, among other beings, a mummy (sort of) with terrible powers. Rachel Weisz plays the beautiful Egyptologist who both causes trouble and solves it. Fraser isn't ideally suited to a Harrison Ford-type role, his natural center of gravity tending more to the comic, but it's hard not to like him. The movie is less scary than just fun, if you don't insist on everything making sense.
Here are the new special features:
-- "An Army To Rule The World Part 1" featurette
-- "Unraveling The Legacy Of The Mummy" featurette
-- a digital copy of the movie
-- a sneak peak at The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
These are the features taken from the Ultimate Edition:
-- three audio commentaries:
. . . director Stephen Sommers and editor Bob Ducsay
. . . star Brendan Fraser
. . . actors Oded Fehr, Kevin J. O'Connor, Arnold Vostoo
-- "Building A Better Mummy," documentary about the making of the film (49:45)
-- "Visual And Special Effects Formation," on how the special effects were done
-- "Egyptology 101," text about aspects of Egyptian history
-- "Pharaoh Lineage," text on the history of the Egyptian Pharaohs
-- comparison of the storyboards and the movie (three brief snippets)
-- photo montage
-- theatrical trailer
The sequel, The Mummy Returns, is also being released in a 2-disc Deluxe Edition, also on July 8th; it's here.
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Better than the sequels but not as good as the Boris Karloff film. Still it might be worth another view.
What's the differences between the three available versions (Collector's Edition, Ultimate Edition and Deluxe Edition)?
In reply to an earlier post on Jul 14, 2008 11:47:32 PM PDT
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I didn't pay much attention to the Collector's Edition, so I can't say what was on that. But the new edition has pretty much everything you'd want from the Ultimate edition plus a couple other goodies. Unless you're big fan (which you aren't), I think either of those editions would be plenty.
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Count Orlok '22 says:
It wasn't that I hated The Mummy. Actually, I really enjoyed the first film from 1999. But the plot elements that were carried over from the first film and the very noticeable continuity errors made The Mummy Returns a disappointment. For me anyway.
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Sanpete says:
Oh, you weren't the only one disappointed. Professional critics were hard on it too. I don't know anyone who actually preferred Returns, but a lot of people thought it was OK for a popcorn movie.
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By Andi Tillman, NCTMB
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I had a wonderful experience this weekend that touched me, and with all this talk about community lately, I wanted to share it with you. As you may know, I live in Colorado, and as you also may know, there are large and out-of-control forest fires all over the state -- two of the largest in populated areas. I live very near the town of Glenwood Springs, where the first big fire struck (the "Coal Seam Fire"). My interstate exit was the one that was shut down when the fire jumped the interstate in Glenwood Canyon, stranding folks on both ends of the canyon for days. My house filled up with smoke one night, but was in no danger. Our whole valley is hazy and smoky. Fifty-five hundred people were evacuated from their homes, and 28 homes in a town of 12,000 were completely destroyed. The fire was 1/2 mile from the downtown main street, all through the second night. Our new community center couldn't serve the evacuees, because the wall of flame came literally right up to the back door, but that building was saved. A community college campus became the Red Cross evacuation site, staffed with over 50 faculty volunteers and countless students wanting to help. They even arranged to truck in food from their Aspen campus kitchen!
This community really rallied itself in the face of this tragedy. The Red Cross had to turn down clothing and volunteers. People were just showing up with blankets and pillows, or pots of soup and cookies, and taking off work to come cook breakfast for the evacuees and firefighters. Rafting companies and car dealerships donated their fleet of vans and employees to shuttle evacuees. The local radio stations stopped regular programming to take information calls 24 hours on the air, to share stories, updates, and help people find each other, and to get resident status reports from various neighborhoods that were on alert to evacuate, which evidently is rather unprecedented. It really served to cut down on the wild rumors. There are dozens of stories about neighbors caring for each other: fathers sending their families to the shelter, but refusing to evacuate themselves until the last second so they could care for elderly neighbors; people helping neighbors get out by making trips right up to the fire line with their SUVs; and so much more.
The students from Full Circle and I headed down to the base camp from Friday through Monday [June 14-17] to work on the firefighters when they got in for the night. Friday night, there were three tables and about six therapists, including students Sharon O'Grady and Janet Thomas. Word got out, and by the time I got to work Saturday night, I counted 18 massage tables and five massage chairs, all with a line of tired, dirty firefighters waiting. Two chiropractors and two acupuncturists were also there. Monday night, I took my Swedish massage students on a field trip to the camp, and it was the best experience I could imagine for them to have so early in their careers. They all got so much out of it! What a wonderful way for them to begin to understand the gift they have to offer with massage!
My most memorable experience was Saturday night [June 15th]. There were over 700 firefighters working here, with a base camp set up in a town park. That alone was a rather remarkable sight! What an operation! A local spa, The Yampah Spa and Vapor Caves, which is walking distance from the park and had been donating services to the firefighters, began to organize massage therapists to go to the camp. They contacted the Full Circle School of Alternative Therapies, where I teach massage, looking for volunteers. Our students were eager to go. They were jumping up and down at the chance. We all felt so grateful for what the firefighters were doing!
The whole camp was abuzz with healing stories. Many of the firefighters had never experienced any alternative therapies before, and they were all talking to each other and amazed at how much they were helped. They were so beat up and tired! I was able to help three injured people one night using SMRT. They were all dumbfounded that it could help so much. I heard stories all around me. Some of them just begged for a foot massage, after being on a steep slope in combat boots for 15 hours that day. They were all so appreciative and grateful, but we just kept telling them, "So are we! You are saving our town!"
Some said they'd been firefighters for 6-10 years and never had massage in camp, and never had a community be so grateful or offer them so much support. Most of the massage volunteers worked five hours straight every night, until almost midnight, and couldn't wait to go back again. Many had come from over an hour away! I couldn't help but see the community and healing and connection that a devastating fire gave rise to. It was very touching to be so close to that special warmth that comes up when people need each other in a crisis, and such a wonderful feeling to have something of value to offer. There are so many good hearts out there!
I know things that with the current world situation, things will probably get more difficult before they get better, but I have hope from a new place that we will be OK in the end. There are more of us out there who have what it takes than it seems when you watch the news!
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This is often misunderstood and leads to trepidation when documenting and subsequently billing timed services.
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Q: I do not always use physical medicine services but in my state I do have a scope of practice that allows me to provide many of these services. I am trying to understand what "direct one-on-one patient contact" means in relation to physical medicine services.
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Nearly every day in our practices, we see patients with chronic headaches that have not responded to traditional treatment. They present in our offices with a feeble hope that "maybe" a chiropractor can help.
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ISO-TC-249: You may look at these letters and numbers and wonder what they are and what they might mean. They turn into: International Standards Organization- Technical Committee – 249. There is a global organization called The International Organization for Standardization.
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Recently I've been thinking about all sorts of things which are hidden from our daily direct experience. That general category is what links nearly everything that catches my attention and then demands some kind of investigation.
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Hip Flexor Contractures & LBP in Above-the-Knee Amputations
Patients with above-the-knee amputations (AK or AKA) are particularly prone to developing hip flexor contractures. Not to be confused with muscle tightness, contractures are a permanent shortening of tissues which cause deformity or distortion.
Streamline Your Front Desk
Your front office can be your greatest source of efficiency or it can be a constant bottleneck. Increasing the productivity of this area, while not sacrificing the quality of patient interaction, can be a little tricky. However, with some focused effort and intention, your front desk can keep your practice running smoothly.
News in Brief
NYCC Aggregates Degree Programs in New School; Palmer Chancellor Receives Education Award From ICA; Oklahaven Announces "Have a Heart" Winners.
February, 2006, Vol. 06, Issue 02
Move Your Mind and Engage Your Brain
By Dale G. Alexander, LMT, MA, PhD and Lansing Barrett Gresham
This article describes a distinction between the mind and the brain. The unique proposal made here unravels the cobbled linguistic milestone of history which Rene Descarte postulated hundreds of years of ago, with his inference that the "mind" was the seat of rationality and intelligence.His construct was useful to the evolution of civilization within his context and the timing of history. This article offers a bridge specifically relevant to our collective humanity in its struggle to heal itself now.
To live fully in the present moment, you need to learn to move your mind into the past. Your brain has the ability to select for satisfaction and enjoyment. Your mind does not. It's limited to avoiding negatives by seeking them out!
The mind is a sliver of our human consciousness, only a piece of the pie. Your brain, your psyche, your physical body, your emotional, energetic and spiritual selves each contribute far more to the experience of your life, as they all directly process sensory information. The mind does not.
It's similar to a junior curator in a world-class art museum, spending his time silently criticizing the creativity all around, rearranging the pieces, switching some for others, storing and then losing many altogether, according not to their intrinsic value or meaning, but to manipulate the apparent importance between the creative examples.
Our collective human dilemma is that physical survival is no longer our sole objective. The mind did, and does, serve this end in the short term by assisting us to "fit in" as children. A baby not cared for dies.
The mind must live in the future in order to create predictive models and rules related to a broad range of stimuli to which the meaning of possible threat has been assigned. Inevitably, this morphs into an axis of black and white, assigning "right" and "wrong" values to all our feelings and behaviors. Under the guise of protecting you, the mind prompts you to avoid all that it has labeled as bad or wrong by inhibiting your movements and feelings.
The mind's orientation to prediction and avoidance is what displaces it in time and space. This splinters our capacity for present-time, adult congruence between intention and behavior. Intentions always are oriented toward the future. Behavior always is a present-time reality. No wonder we so often feel a lack of connection with one another and within ourselves!
The mind's inability to directly access sensory input also prevents it from distinguishing between what is symbolic and what is real. You can't have a relationship with a photograph. Minds do!
The mind's models exaggerate and distort the significance of stimuli such that codes of behavior are intensified to a point where noncompliance with them is interpreted as life-threatening. The mind's models produce rules which we subconsciously live by. Thus, a scolding by a parent for adventurous behavior might echo into one's adult life as an aversion to risk-taking in all venues of life.
The mind is organized to filter data by recognition of both sensations and images/symbols. Its models, translated as "beliefs about reality," eventually become substituted for reality. They are based on a past that no longer exists, yet which the mind insists is re-occurring. As a result, all of us in varying degrees, struggle with repeating negative patterns of attitude, behavior and relationships.
The mind designs its models both from information it has gathered and in response to what has been required by our caretakers. All rules inhibit spontaneity and thus creativity. When we hear, "children are to be seen and not heard," we are less likely to sing; when repeatedly admonished to be physically still, we are less likely to dance.
The models and rules become a self-stimulating, self-perpetuating and self-fulfilling labyrinth of prophecies. The mind shifts easily between compartments of ideas about the very experience from which its nature requires it to remain always aloof.
The mind's inherent limitation is that it distorts present-time information that would allow one to update its models, because it lives in its prediction of what's going to happen rather than in the unfolding of moment-to-moment direct experience. Remember, its primary function in our childhood was to assist us to conform, so that we would be included.
As just described, the mind is the source of our anticipatory anxiety and our disabling inhibitions, which escalates the degenerating effects of stress or trauma upon human physiology and the quality of our lives.
Now, the good news. The mind can be trained. When shown how, the mind does tend to prefer to notice what has just happened! Thus, it becomes consistently right in the moment and far more accurate in its predictions about the future. Such an orientation allows it to review its models in view of real-time data without conflict internal to itself or with the other levels of human consciousness. When dominance by the incessant predictions of the mind diminishes, it becomes possible for you to experience surprise, discovery and vulnerability without threat. That which seemed impossible or unattainable becomes tantalizing, interesting, and an open question. Your capacity for creativity and self-trust naturally is stimulated.
Creativity engages your brain! It's the single greatest preserver of intelligence and our guardian against dementia. Trusting your capacity to create what you actually desire for your life engages your brain! Allowing yourself to explore what you truly want and inviting success engages your brain! This includes developing an adult sensory and attitudinal preference for satisfaction and contentment in the present moment. The phrase "good enough for now" is particularly helpful to this cultivation.
You know you have engaged your brain when you find yourself behaving in novel ways and enjoying it. Curiosity becomes your attitude, replacing judgment and criticism. Appreciation and gratitude are felt more often. Your body moves with more positive anticipation toward others and a feeling of belonging within yourself.
The junior art curator is transformed into an individual who now begins to relate to art as an active expression of human awareness, trusting his sense of what will amuse, delight and inspire those who come to the museum. He now can deepen an experience of relationship within himself and with others as he seeks for ways to contribute to the world.
This article is the first of many which will introduce you to the concepts and principals of Integrated Awareness®. I am honored to be co-authoring these with the founder of the approach, Lansing Barrett Gresham. I will continue to write articles pertaining to the Inside-Out Paradigm as they flow from my heart. In this New Year, it feels as though my best contribution to our profession is to get the word out to you of this amazing and effective healing approach - one which I have been studying for 17 years, and which has added so much to the transformation and healing within my clients.
Integrated Awareness® recruits all the levels of consciousness. It's an expanding set of learning processes that directly engages your nervous system through movement, touch and higher perceptual states of consciousness. From these experiences, permission to explore and experiment might begin to flower. New sets of reference points can be created that transform your ability to make conscious choices to include more of who you are, resolve personal conflicts, and participate in the creation of a life and a world you prefer. To learn more about Integrated Awareness®, visit www.inawareness.com.
Click here for more information about Dale G. Alexander, LMT, MA, PhD.
Lansing Barrett Gresham, founder of Integrated Awareness®, has more than 30 years of touch and movement work utilizing enhanced perception. He has co-authored two books, Ask Anything and Your Body Will Answer and The Body's Map of Consciousness®. For more information please visit www.inawareness.com.
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How do you explain Hello Kitty? Why such a frenzy?
In case you're not hip…
Hello Kitty, is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, created by Yuko Shimizu and currently designed by Yuko Yamaguchi. She is depicted as an anthropomorphic white Japanese Bobtail cat with a red bow – Wikipedia
My city, Irvine, is the home of the first "Hello Kitty Cafe." It's located at the Irvine Spectrum, the outdoor mall with the Ferris Wheel.
Built into a shipping crate, HKC will stay at the Spectrum for a year before moving on. The cafe serves drinks and baked goods… all in pink.
It opened this past weekend to a five hour long line! This Tuesday evening Stef and I waited twenty minutes.
Irvine being Irvine the line was a self-contained United Nations. I watched three women in beautiful hijabs take a photo in front of the kitty. Actually, everyone took a photo with the kitty, even a woman with a dog wearing a skirt..
Adorable. A selfie magnet. Very pink. Well merchandised. Adorable. Overpriced.
I asked Stef if people will make pilgrimages here from far away? She didn't pause before giving me the look daughters give fathers. I'm going to take that as a yes.
I needed out of the house. I needed travel therapy. I hopped in the car Saturday afternoon and drove to the San Fernando Valley, home of Outlaw Radio.
Thursday (in the middle of-the-night) Google assured me the trip was one hour two minutes. It took an hour and a half going and one twenty coming home.
There is no time of the day-or-night when there isn't traffic in Los Angeles. It's a given. You plan for it.
I set up a little camera on the windscreen between my car's two seats and let the top fold itself into the trunk. The timelapse that resulted won't be posted. It was a reminder, parts of SoCal are beautiful, but nothing on this route!
It was worth it because of the destination.
Every Saturday at 3 PM PST, esteemed radio host Magic Matt Alan gathers in the legendary Lighten Up Lounge, accompanied by his famed Demons of Decadence. There, in the 1876 Virginia City, Nevada-style bar, in the hills of Encino, California, a rapacious evening of smoking, drinking, and interrupting commences! From celebrities to cigars, anything can happen on the program… and usually does!
Outlaw Radio's slogan is "We smoke, we drink, we interrupt." Stogies were lit, the hardest drink was beer and I did a s**tload of interrupting.
Outlaw Radio is streamed on-the-Internet. And we just talked. Over the course of the afternoon we had six or seven participants. Everyone had an opinion or two or more.
At one point Matt's brother, Marty, told me how much he "hated" Irvine, where I live. Even I admit it's a little… err… repetitive. But it's an amazing place designed for living. We traded words.
Holy crap! Working at home I'd forgotten all about arguing and how much fun it is. Matt Allen (our esteemed host) and I are diametrically opposed politically. And it was great fighting it out because he too is passionate and fact based.
In fact I brought home a new appreciation how similar the right and left feel about each other's candidate! An election driven by passionate hatred. How does this end well?
If Matt's name is familiar, it's because he's the morning man on SiriusXM's 70s on 7. He was on Saturday as I drove north to his home.
I know Matt because of Howard Lapides, our best man and my friend since college. Howard is a manager who brought more front line big name stars to TV than anyone I can think of.
Am I allowed to name drop? Probably not.
This trip was therapeutic. Just a chance to get away and blow off a little steam. It's good to have good friends. If they only lived closer.]]>
When my Mom and Dad moved to Milwaukee (and while they lived in Florida) they had beautiful widescreen TVs but subscribed to standard definition service on the cable. It drove me nuts. I tried to convince them. They were unshakable.
"It makes no difference," my mom would say. She said the same about decaf versus regular. Not a credible witness, your honor.
They used to stretch out standard def channels to make them fill the entire screen. As a stretchee I was not a shrinking violet expressing my displeasure.
They never budged.
I finally gave up on my dad. He only has one eye and it's not that great.
And then today…
"There's been a notice on the TV saying I was about to lose channels," he said earlier this afternoon. He asked LaTanya to call. Long story short Time-Warner is converting to all-digital. No more SD.
Last week she hooked up the boxes. She is beyond wonderful.
"I don't think I could have done it," he said, then reminded me how long it took his shaky hands to plug in headphones for this call. Headphones are the best thing that ever happened to our conversations.
And then he said, "Geoff, you won't believe the difference in the picture."
Our tiny patio is loaded with life. I like tending to plants. The fact that pots now surround plants growing from the ground attests to our overabundance.
Growing in the very corner of the patio is a plum tree. I like to keep it around seven feet tall, but it's been a while.
This year the tree produced a plum.
Here's the amazing thing — It's perfect. Well, perfect from the outside. My 'orchard' has had minimal contact with pesticides. The inside might be different.
Perfect. Holy crap!
And it tastes amazing. Sweet, yet simultaneously tart, it was juicy with firm fruit.
Now I have to wait another year!]]>
I was just talking with a friend and realized this is a story I haven't told (much).
I didn't take English junior and senior year in high school. Well, not in the conventional sense.
Instead of taking English, I was an actor, a radio actor. I was a member of the NYC All-City Radio Workshop. It all took place on my high school's ninth floor (seriously) at WNYE-FM.
WNYE was an anachronism. It was proof of a bureaucracy's resistance to change. What we were doing was appropriate in 1952. The was 66-67-68.
It didn't make a difference. I loved it. Voices and dialects. I mostly played kids.
Sometimes they were famous kids, like young Franklin Roosevelt or young Orville Wright. I played young Jackie Robinson. It was a long time ago. We didn't know.
I was an endless stream of Billys and Bobbies in two act plays. We were the late 60s multimedia teacher's helper. My grade school teacher's played shows like "Lets Look at the News" and "Sing, Everyone Sing" in the classroom.
I played alongside professional voice actors. This was a union gig for them. The writers were pro too. I started at 16.
We operated in a large studio with a variety of old school RCA mics. It was an RCA board as well.
Pushed up against a wall in the back of the studio was a "sound effects truck." They went out with the advent of tape! Remember tape?
Like Morse Code another totally worthless skill. Worth it.]]>
Tonight is Garrison Keillor's last as host of NPR's (actually, not NPR… but that's another story) long running "A Prairie Home Companion." The new guy's already been picked, there's no turning back.
Keillor is an enigma because it's easy to say, "What's his talent?" He is not show biz obvious.
Garrison Keillor and I stand on this Earth as opposites. He is a Protestant, born and raised in a very white, very rural, environmentally difficult environment. Not me.
One night while driving home from NYC with Stef I switched him on. I thought Stef was asleep. Maybe she was at the beginning.
When we got home she made fun of his audience shoutouts ("To my Aunt Bertha who just had a hip replaced…"), corny jokes and horrible taste in music. I'm with her on that last one.
That's when it struck me why APHC is so good. It's not just what's happening on one show, it's the amazing consistency. When Keillor reads an audience member's card long time listeners get it more because we know him well. We know the unnamed characters who appear each and every week and have developed consistent personalities.
Four decades.
There's another reason I like the show. It represents the last live big time on-stage radio show left. Like Benny and Hope there's a cast of regulars and a band. Everyone sings and joins in the skits. A well preserved relic of times-gone-by.
"A Prairie Home Companion" was not a weekly ritual for me. It is for some. If I was in the car and it was on I always listened.
Garrison Keillor is sensible and level headed. To a large extent we share values. He will be missed.]]>
"I'm lucky," I just said. My dad and I were on the phone.
"I understand how to be on-camera and how to write macros to make that happen."
It's an unusual combination, both sides of the camera. It allows me to do what I do at home. It's probably why there won't be many more like me, yet. You have to live in both worlds.
In one of the best tech support calls ever I explained this whole concept to a senior video engineer at NewTek. He seemed to get it. There is a whole new set of buyers for their products if they can make the tech part a little more invisible. A whole army of one-man-band content producers, like me.
Any steps in this direction make my life easier. Any productivity gains from me working less are welcomed. I expect to help shape their direction.
Alas, the reason I'm talking with the guys who write the code is because my problems are VERY unusual. At one point I described my TriCaster as being haunted. They are totally stumped. I can't begin to count the number of hours lost while trying to revive a desperately ill computer.
My correspondence on continuing problems is now over 100 pages.
Even though the reason for my problems seems obvious, the exact piece of miscreant code isn't! Something in my macros is doing the damage. But what? It's all happening in the background. These macros are pounded in the same exact order day-after-day. I'm probably their only user (of thousands) who does this.
My whole business revolves around that one piece of equipment. When it works as designed it's amazing. I make TV alone in the room next to our kitchen. Everything happening behind the camera is controlled by me in front of the camera in real time. It's totally mind boggling and one-of-a-kind in the world.
It's the world's coolest garage.]]>
Technology has brought us into the action. We see what's happening live. More impact.
Don't lose perspective. I cannot remember a time without terrorism. Seriously. It's no worse now than forever.
The world is not exploding any more than it's exploded in the past.
Don't believe me? Choose a year and enter something like, "terrorism 1971," in Google. Click on the Wikipedia result. There are no quiet years. None.
Our own Congress was shot up in the 50s by Puerto Rican Nationalists. In the sixties radicals from the far left brought us domestic terrorism. We've had it from the radical right more recently.
Terrorism is a tool only used by people who know they can't win. Small consolation.
My father reminded me information was harder to come by two generations back. It wasn't until WW2 that he remembers radio "News on the Hour." Until then one newscast a day.
It is very difficult to stop anyone who already plans on dying today.
Very sad.]]>
I consider myself a good editor, but it's so much easier to let Google do it for you. I had no idea this could be done. This was culled from our trip to Vegas.
Of course Google knew when I left and returned. That's not creepy yet simultaneously useful?
The original had a little sideways video. Tweaking to remove those clips was my only input.
Not a good poker trip for me. Helaine much better.
We drove here from Orange County. It took around four hours for the 260 miles. There was traffic all the way. I-15 needs more lanes. I shudder to think what construction would bring.
Last night we took a drive down the Strip. With the top down (a rare honor accorded by Helaine) we drove north on Las Vegas Boulevard. Caesar's, Mirage, Treasure Island on the left. On the right The Linq, Harrahs, Venetian, Palazzo, Wynn and Encore.
The real estate gets cheaper as you head toward Downtown. Downtown is the Vegas of Elvis movies. It's where you can still find neon.
We drove as far as the Stratosphere, made a u-turn and headed back. The neighborhood around the Stratosphere is very sad. Drunk, stoned, just out-of-it people walking as best they could. It's like the waiting room for hell.
It's not often I top off the tank, but we're heading home soon. Nine gallons.
The top's back up. The car is parked.]]>