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27 February 2012
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The Planet Earth podcast - 'River Thames pollution, Arctic freshwater bulge'.
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Sue Nelson:Hello, and welcome to the Planet Earth podcast. Today we're in London beside a stretch of water that is 215 miles long, beloved by artists and first crossed by a bridge built by the Romans 2000 years ago. It is, of course, the River Thames and I am here because of what can be found in the capital's famous waterway. There's also news from the natural world which includes a fossil cricket's love song and I'll also be popping into University College London to learn more about the huge body of fresh water recently discovered in the Arctic.
Dr Catherine Giles:It's over a 1000 kilometres across, so that's the distance between roughly, say, London to Venice, so it's quite a large area of the Arctic Ocean.
Sue Nelson:I'm beside a section of the River Thames near Waterloo Bridge which offers one of the best views of the City - St Paul's Cathedral in the distance on one side and on the other Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament.
50 years ago this river was so polluted it was considered biologically dead. Today, though, it is considered one of the cleanest rivers through a major city. Pollutants though such as nitrates harm newborn babies and trigger the rapid growth of algae in rivers killing fish and choking plants. As a result nitrates are removed from water supplies but even so the amount of nitrates in the River Thames has trebled since the 1930s. Scientists wanted to know why and so a team from the Universities of Bristol, Durham and Cranfield has been studying how nitrates move through the land to end up in rivers, springs and other sources of water. To do this they use a paper trail of archives containing records of water quality dating back 140 years, the longest continuous record of its kind anywhere in the world. To discuss what they wound I'm with two of the team members, Dr Nicholas Howden, a senior lecturer in water at the University of Bristol and Tim Burt, Professor Geography and Dean for Environmental Sustainability at Durham University. And I'm going to begin by asking you, Nicholas, where have these nitrates in the Thames come from?
Tim Burt:Well, a proportion of the nitrate in the Thames has come from sewage effluent discharges. That has largely been controlled in the last 20/30 years with lots of new treatment processes being put in place. A lot of that comes from point source discharges, so we can see them and we know where they are, we know who's discharging them and they've been largely cleaned up as they can be and regulated. The compartment that we've been mostly interested in looking at the diffuse sources - so those are the sources that are widely distributed throughout the Thames catchment and that's one of the largest catchments in the UK and it's some 10,000 square kilometres, so it's a very big area, and that is predominantly coming from our agricultural activity to grow food, so ploughing, fertilizing, use of animals and the natural processes of biological fixation and also some atmospheric deposition as well. So, it's a combination of factors that have come from our use and our more and more intense use of the river catchment from which all of this water drains to then end up in the Thames.
Sue Nelson:How does ploughing release more nitrates into the soil? Tim.
Tim Burt:Well ploughing mineralises organic matter, it basically aerates the soil and you get organic matter of being oxidised and that works through to first of all, sort of, ammonium salts and then though to nitrates. So it's the aeration of the soil. It's what, in a sense, ploughing is actually about turning organic matter into nutrients which can then grow crops.
Sue Nelson:So does this mean then that during World War II, for example, when everybody was being encouraged to 'Dig for Victory' and the records that you've been studying have gone further back in time than that, did you notice an accompanying spike in a way then of nitrate levels?
Tim Burt:Yes, we did. In fact in the first war as well, but the second world war in particular and there wasn't much use of fertiliser other than animal manures then, but the mere fact of ploughing and widespread ploughing, a huge increase in the area of land under the plough and that does show through. It showed through to an extent straight away, but it also showed through in a big delayed response which came several decades after the war. But, yes, you can definitely see a link between 'Food for Victory' and all those sorts of campaigns and the water quality in the Thames decades later.
Sue Nelson:I know that, Nicholas, one of the important things here is about when you saw the link as well. It took time to get those nitrates from the surrounding land into the River Thames.
Dr Nicholas Howden:Yes, that's right. So what we've tried to do is to estimate what the inputs were in any particular year and then we've used this long record of what was going on in the river to try and match the inputs to the outputs using a series of stores. So, in this case, two stores - one which is run off, so that's the water that hits the land and it makes it way to the river in that year and then there's a second store which is a ground water pathway and so the water that falls in any particular year takes nitrate with it and then it ends up in the river sometime later. In producing our model we allowed that delay time to vary up to a number of decades from zero to about 50 years or even more. And what we found was by using the estimated pattern of inputs that we come up by considering what fertilizers were used, how much ploughing there was, how many animals there were in any year. We were able to match that input to what we actually observed in the river and by doing that we can estimate what these different delay times are and how long it takes for something we do in, say, 1940, to reach the river. It turns out the answer is reaches us in about 1970 and the split is roughly 50:50. So a 50% of what goes onto the land comes out in that year and 50% is delayed by approximately 30 years.
Sue Nelson:That's incredible though isn't it - 30 years. I mean that's a real case of thinking about the future isn't it in terms of the effect of behaviour will have on the land and how it will effect nature around us.
Dr Nicholas Howden:Yes it is and we think it is very important because a lot of what we do we think that if it doesn't have an effect shortly after we've done it then it doesn't have an effect at all. Whereas in actual fact to deal with this problem we are going to have to think in terms of 50 year cycles, and that's because we're dealing with a natural system that has this natural time constant and it's very important that we start to understand this when we're setting policy objectives, when we're trying to understand how what we do now will effect the future. For example, a team in New Zealand have started to set travel times on their land around certain freshwater lakes and saying you can only have this much nitrate that you can use in this year, and once you've used it up you are on the 50 year travel time, it can't happen. You can't do anything else for a number of years. So, this sort of management strategy is being piloted and it's the sort of thing that we're going to have to think about if we want to reduce the levels to the land at the moment, so we can affect a 50% decrease in the run off. That's the maximum we could affect if we stopped everything now. Because 50% of it is still what's happened in the last three decades.
One of the very important things as well is that we talked about 'Dig for Victory' and that has an image of me going and digging up my garden. Just to put that into perspective - what we're talking about in the Thames catchment, as a whole, is a 30% change in the amount of arable land that there was. So we're not just talking about people digging us their gardens, we're talking about wholesale ploughing of every piece of grassland that there was more or less available for arable crops to be grown. So we're talking about a lot of land.
Sue Nelson:Behind you, at the moment, there's the potential of a land also being ploughed up but for building new houses particularly around the London area and the greenbelt area. How do you convince politicians then, Tim, that they have to look beyond the four years of their next voting terms of getting into parliament and think 30, 40, 50 years ahead - that's not going to be easy.
Tim Burt:It's not because I think the natural tendency is to look in political cycles and assume that any management policy and strategy will have a payback in time for the next election, and I think it will some very clear excited and selfless politicians to say this is a long term strategy and these are things we need to do over the longterm, and I think the nitrate pollution is just one aspect of that where we may be looking at long term ground water levels or long term changes in other parts of the system. But it is very difficult to get people to put in place strategies where the payback will be, you know, well after my time, probably and it may be our children or our grandchildren who see the benefit of strategies that are put in place now.
Sue Nelson:Nicholas Howden from the University of Bristol and the University of Durham's, Tim Burt. This is the Planet Earth podcast and as you can hear I've left the banks of the River Thames and have travelled just over a mile north to the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at University College, London. Recently British scientists discovered a dome of fresh water in the Arctic Ocean using two European space agency satellites and the lead author of the study was Dr Catherine Giles here at University College, London. First of all, Catherine, could you describe what this dome of water actually looks like?
Dr Catherine Giles:Well, if you're imaging you are looking down on the earth over the north pole and you can see the Arctic ocean, if you cast your eyes over to Canada, then go north of the Canadian coastline then you're in the Beaufort Sea, and in the Beaufort Sea there's a circulation system called the Beaufort gyre, so that's a rotating dome on water that rotates in clockwise direction and what we've seen from the satellites is that dome increasing in height. The area is about - well it's over 1000 kilometres across, so that's the distance between roughly, say, London to Venice, so it's quite a large area of the Arctic Ocean.
Sue Nelson:And when you say a dome, are we talking like a huge Millennium dome rising of water above the sea surface?
Dr Catherine Giles:I imagine it more like a contact lens rather than a Millennium dome, but it's still quite a large amount of water, it's about 8000 cubic kilometres of fresh water which is roughly about 10% of all the fresh water that's stored in the Arctic Ocean.
Sue Nelson:Now, did you have clues that there was this body of fresh water in among a salty ocean?
Dr Catherine Giles:Well yes. Measurements taken from ships and moorings have shown that there has been an increase in fresh waters, say, over the past 15 years or so. But it is really difficult to make measurements in the Arctic because of the cold, dark winters and the ocean itself is covered by a layer of frozen seawater so it makes it hard for the ships to break through. So this is why this satellite data is really useful. It helps to tie these snapshots of data taken from the ships and from the moorings to give us an idea of the overall picture of how the Arctic Ocean is changing.
Sue Nelson:Now you were using two European space agency satellites, the ERS2 and MV Sat which is sort of the double bus analogy always gets used on this, but it is a huge, huge environmental satellite. Were they both looking at the saltiness of the ocean or sea surface tide in order to work out that, hold on, we've got this enormous amount, and it is enormous, amount of fresh water in the Arctic?
Dr Catherine Giles:What these satellites do - we use an instrument on board them called a radar altimeter and what that does is measure the elevation or the height of a surface. Now, as I said, the Arctic Ocean is covered by a layer of frozen water known as sea ice but as the sea ice moves around it breaks up and it exposes bits of the ocean and the satellites are sensitive to those bits of the ocean, they can see them from space and we can measure how high they are. So, the data we're using is actually looking at changes in the sea surface height and from that combining it with data from another satellite called Grace which measures changes in mass we can estimate the change in the fresh water. Sue Nelson:Now do you know how this body of fresh water came to be there in the first place, what caused it?
Dr Catherine Giles:Well it's well known that the Arctic Ocean gets fresh water from rivers running off into the ocean itself. So, again, if you imagine looking down over the top of the earth, over the North Pole the Arctic Ocean is surrounded by land - you've got the Russian side and then Canada and America and Greenland. Now, as we go into the summer the rivers on that land start to thaw and as they thaw that fresh water pours into the Arctic Ocean, so what we're seeing here is either that water being redistributed around the ocean or it being stored in the Arctic Ocean whereas it might have gone elsewhere, it might have actually left. Now that's not the only source of fresh water as the sea ice cover melts that can add fresh water to the Arctic and also changes in evaporation and precipitation can also change the amount of fresh water that's stored in the Arctic Ocean.
Sue Nelson:Is there a possibility that this fresh water could flow into other circulatory systems around the earth?
Dr Catherine Giles:Well, what we've seen in our data is that the fresh water that has been stored over the past 15 years that the winds seem to be controlling that storage of fresh water. So it's possible if the winds then change direction then that fresh water could be released out into the western Arctic, to the rest of the Arctic Ocean or beyond. And we're interested in that because changes in fresh water leaving the Arctic Ocean can influence the deep confection in the North Atlantic. Now, part of the reason that Northern European enjoys a relatively mild climate in the winter is because of heat transported by currents that are derived from the Gulf Stream. So this circulation system we call the global overturning circulation system, and that's bringing heat from lower latitudes up to the north in the ocean currents and as that water reaches the north it cools, it releases its heat to the atmosphere and the cooler water it then sinks and then more water moves up to take its place. Now, this is a density during the circulation. The water is sinking because it's more dense, so if you then add less dense fresh water from the Arctic possibly you could effect that circulation system and in the past we've seen than an amount of water of a similar size to this 8,000 cubic kilometres may have influenced this confection in the Labrador Sea which is one of the areas in the North Atlantic where you get this kind of overturning circulation. Whether that had an effect on our climate is something that we don't know.
Sue Nelson:Catherine Giles from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at University College, London, thank you very much indeed.
And now for a round up of recent news from the natural world with Tamara Jones from Planet Earth Online. And we're going to begin with news of a songbird with quite an impressive range of flight.
Tamara Jones:It's pretty amazing this songbird. I mean it's quite a small bird - it's a northern [unclear 0:16:32.6] and it's about the size of a robin and researchers have attached minature tracking devices to them to find that their epic migrations are around about 30,000 kilometres every year. That's about 18,000 miles, that's a round trip and they're travelling from the Arctic to Africa all the way from, sometimes, Alaska, so you've got a sub-species that live in Alaska and you've got another sub-species that live in Eastern Canada and Greenland and Iceland and you might expect the Alaskan species to go down to California if they want, somewhere warm, but in fact they travel overland over Russia, over the Arabian Peninsula to get to Eastern Africa to find somewhere warm to spend the winter.
Sue Nelson:So what will the scientists do now?
Tamara Jones:The thing is the very fact that they know that they go to Africa and they don't go anywhere else, they don't go to North America suggests that we need to take that into account when it comes to conservation and making sure that these birds are okay.
Sue Nelson:Blue tongue virus now - now this is a virus that infects animals like cows, sheep and deer and in fact there was a outbreak in Europe in 2006 and there's been some progress, I believe, in terms of the spread of blue tongue.
Tamara Jones:Well that's right. Researchers have discovered that midges, tiny little insects, you know, the midges that bite you in Scotland in the summer, that they might expect that they just get blown around by the wind and they're just completely at the mercy of the elements, but in fact these midges can flow both upward and downwind and the midges actually carry the disease so the animals don't get the disease from each other and so this means that the researchers can find out a little bit more about how some of these outbreaks might spread in the future.
Sue Nelson:So that a sort of unexpected outcome there from such a tiny little insect in terms of the effect it is having on cattle and sheep, and we're going to end with, I think, quite an incredible story about the song of a fossil cricket.
Tamara Jones:This is an amazing story - it's gorgeous. These scientists have found that this fossil cricket - it's basically a cricket that lived a 165 million years ago actually made a sound very similar to the crickets that are alive today.
Sue Nelson:Which makes you immediately want to say, how on earth did they manage to work that out.
Tamara Jones:The only way they managed to work it out was that the fossil was so well preserved which meant that its wings were perfectly, perfectly preserves so they could figure out the noise that this cricket would have made when it rubbed one wing against the other.
Sue Nelson:I assume then one of the scientists must have the equivalent of a back catalogue of cricket noises and knowing how crickets make the noise normally which is, as you say, rubbing their wings together and are ridges of teeth. They can work out then that what the tone would be as well because not all crickets must make the same noise.
Tamara Jones:No, exactly, it depends on the number of teeth on one wing and the way it rubs it against the other plectrum on the other wing. So, these researchers they actually compared the shape of the wing and the shape of the teeth with crickets that are alive today to figure out exactly what sound it would.
Sue Nelson:Well I think we ought to have a listen then to what sound they've come up. [sound of cricket] That's incredible, so that's a recreated sound of a 160 million year old cricket sounding incredibly fresh but it's the tinkling sound that gets me, it's very clear and crisp. So that would have been heard in rainforests I assume.
Tamara Jones:That's what they say that the rainforests might have been quite dense so a single tone sound would have actually would have been projected a lot further than a kind of rasping sound that some crickets today use, so it would have been heard by the dinosaurs for sure.
Sue Nelson:Tamara Jones, thank you very much indeed. And that ends this edition of the Plant Earth podcast from the National Environment Research Council, and you can find out more about all of those stories and more on Plant Earth online. Don't forget to visit us on Facebook and do follow us on Twitter. I'm Sue Nelson, thanks for listening.


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Last night, Radiohead were set to play a show at Toronto's Downsview Park. But during the setup for their show, the stage collapsed, killing one person and injuring three others. The person who died has been identified as Scott Johnson, a drum technician for the band.
In a statement on their website, the band wrote:
We have all been shattered by the loss of Scott Johnson, our friend and colleague. He was a lovely man, always positive, supportive and funny; a highly skilled and valued member of our great road crew. We will miss him very much. Our thoughts and love are with Scott's family and all those close to him.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Johnson was 33 years old, and he'd previously worked with other bands like Keane. He died after suffering a "crushing injury." The band immediately canceled the show.
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Beltway proposal
Writer Dan Green says "the facts are," but he is obviously unaware of many facts.
2) Only a small fraction of the southbound I-25 traffic is headed for the mountains via I-70, and that traffic is mostly on weekends, when commuter traffic is low. The "congested central core of Denver" is easily avoided by drivers using I-76 from I-25; drivers coming from Boulder and Longmont face little congestion on week ends by using SH-93 and US-6 to get to I-70 West.
3) The facts from the EIS are that building the western toll highway would reduce future traffic on Wadsworth from 65,000 vehicles per day only to 60,000.
The reason that Wadsworth traffic is heavy, and three times as much as projected for the toll highway, is that commercial development is so dense, especially just north of I-70. Why would Broomfield or north Arvada drivers opt to pay a toll going west to Golden and then back-track to the east on SH-58 and I-70 to get to their Wadsworth destinations?
4) The idea of completing the beltway down the Indiana-McIntyre corridor was addressed in the NW Quadrant Feasibility Study. Although the beltway route east of North Table Mountain would give greater relief to Wadsworth traffic than the route through Golden, neither beltway alignment would reduce future congestion in north Jeffco as well as improving the arterials. Even though they want the beltway, Arvada ruled out the eastern alignment absolutely.
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Message to Golden: The parkway's coming, Baby! If y'all continue this obstructionist nonsense, the U.S. Congress is going to have to give you a spanking, like they did with the TV towers.
You only get to be insolent so often before it becomes a cry-wolf thing.
Posted by Damn Skippy! on November 14, 2007 03:01 PMjust as long as its not in your back yard you dont care one bit. now how do you feel driving down 6th ave or I70 going through all those neighbor hoods and making noise and polluting their lives?
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Other Moderately Interesting Crap
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- Bosom Buddies?
- Rodney Harrison Is Done Playing With Balls...
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- He Must Think "White" House Is A Racist Term...
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June 19, 2009
June 18, 2009
Your Daily Dose of "WTF?"...
The internet is an amazing place.
Not only can you find a site catering to just about any interest, but it has now become such a pervasive medium that athletes and celebrities are regularly leveraging it's awesome power in ways that are usually more or less brilliant revenue generators.
And here I am blogging for free.
What can you do?
Anyways, yesterday the internets were quite a boon for me, as a lowly Steelers blogger.
So as a result, I have several interesting tidbits to share with you this morning...beginning with Jeff Reed...because, why not?
If you want a glimpse of the Super Bowl XLIII ring up close, check out Jeff Reed on Fox Charlotte's "Got Game" segment. This is the same segment in which he relates that when the Steelers went to the White House to meet Obama, he forgot he was a team captain...which should surprise no one.
And if you just can't get enough of Jeff Reed, and I know you can't, in clip 2 he talks about watching the Pens win the cup, the pressure of being an NFL kicker, and he reveals his stylish new haircut.
Thankfully for everyone at Fox Charlotte, it appears their bathroom was chock full of paper towels.
Otherwise, shit could've gotten real ugly.
Moving on...
Earlier in the week, thanks to The Pensblog, I thought I had found a new ringtone...
I'd give you the High Quality version of that, but we all know it doesn't exist.
But that was until Mikey from the Kiss 96.1 Freakshow alerted me to this set of magical ringtones from Super Bowl MVP and erstwhile "Pussy Monsta," Santonio Holmes.
Big PM has given us eight fantastic tones to choose from - including such gems as - "Gotta Score This Touchdown," "Hey Yo Homeboy," and "You Screening Your Calls Now?"
Conspicuously missing were "Because I Got High," "Smoke Two Joints," and "I Saw The Sign."
I'd say something else about this, but honestly, they're ringtones...I've got nothing.
Chuck Norris ain't got shit on Samurai Big Ben.
Also, notice the lack of helmet, there.
.../I'm a terrible Steelers fan
And lastly...
If OFTOT looked like this for you at any point yesterday, I apologize. I've mentioned blogger/blogspot's shortcomings before, but never has anything quite like the entire site showing up in italics happened.
...I'm so happy to be finally getting off this shithole.
Which reminds me - I'll be [tentatively] unveiling the "new" OFTOT tomorrow for Meeting People Is Easy. But, since I make it a point never to be like Anthony Smith, I can't guarantee that.
Until then, email me if you want in on MPIE, OR if you'd like to contribute to the "Cotter is broker than the City of Detroit and writes this thing for free" fund.
Yes, I do accept payment in mint milano cookies.
I can haz eight hours of sleep?
...not likely
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June 17, 2009
Someone's Got A Staph Infection In The Brain...
I mean, that's really the only reasonable explanation for this nonsense below.
Stop me if you've heard this one...
"Pittsburgh was the worst franchise in the NFL until it hired Cleveland-born Chuck Noll as its coach. He led the Steelers to four of their first six Super Bowl championships. Keying Noll's indomitable defense was Hall of Famer Jack Lambert, a graduate of Crestwood High in Portage County and Kent State, and considered by some as the best linebacker ever.Cotter Sidenote: Let the record show that Belichode won all three of those championships with the Patriots, that he only posted ONE winning season with the Browns, and to boot, that he was head coach of the Browns when they packed up their bags and moved to AIDS city, I mean Baltimore, in 1996 (where he was not retained).
Former Browns linebacker and assistant coach Bill Cowher led Pittsburgh to its fifth Super Bowl win. Cowher, despite his accomplishments, wasn't good enough to be head coach for the Browns. Don't believe it? Former Browns owner Art Modell chose Bill Belichick over Cowher as Cleveland's new coach in 1991. Proving that the Browns' decision-makers have always known what's best, Belichick has coached three Super Bowl championship teams.
Meanwhile, all Cowher did while Beliturd was Browns head coach was post four consecutive winning seasons (with four playoff trips), and take the Steelers to the Super Bowl in '96 - the same year that the Browns had to close up shop in Cle-heave-land (of course we all know how that worked out for Cowher, and we won't mention it either).
But, hey, that was probably all just luck.
In fact, one might say that the best move the Browns ever made was the one they made to Baltimore...where within the 1st five years, they won a Super Bowl...something they hadn't been able to do in any of the prior 30 years when they were in Cleveland (while the Super Bowl existed, of course).
Who's the reigning NFL defensive Player of the Year, and a linebacker on Pittsburgh's last two world champion teams? Akron's James Harrison, another former Kent State star.Wait, is he trying to say that Cleveland is somehow responsible for the Steelers successes?
What would the Steelers have been without such guys? And, all of their championships have been won since NFL games became more a dance than a brawl. After all, it was Lambert himself who famously said, "Quarterbacks should wear dresses," after he was reprimanded by the league for hitting a quarterback too hard. The Browns won all four of their titles when the game wasn't supervised like a croquet match.
We think Ron has really Cooked the books on this one. Cleveland has it all over Pittsburgh culturally, anyway. Do you know that Pittsburgh is so lacking in creative thinking that its football team was named the Pirates from 1933-40 (when it went 24-62-5, by the way)?
- Mike Pettica, Cleveland Plain-Dealer
Uh, either way...does anyone even care at this point?
I sure don't.
Though, I did find it kind of funny that even his own Cleveland commenters provided zero support.
Here's just a taste...
I'd go ahead and rip on the sack of canine excrement that wrote this garbage, but I trust that Vern will take care of that one for me. In fact, rumor has it that when he returns from sunny SoCal he may do just that.
That is, if he makes it back from SoCal.
Until then, Cleveland...
I think that about says it all. Don't you?
Now, if you'd like something to really entertain you, might I suggest this post, which is right below, but I'm going to link to it anyway, because that's just easier for you, so much easier than reading this sentence, with it's 1000 commas, and no actual ending...
Proper English is for real writers. Eat me.
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June 16, 2009
Tupac Who...
"I knit sweaters, yo."
It's what's going on in the streets, son.
If you didn't know that, you need to get your head out of your ass.
...I mean, I don't know what's funnier - Taylor Swift rapping, T Pain's general appearance or the fact that I thought Taylor Swift wasn't half bad.
I'll leave that one up to you all.
h/t to my boy Mikey at the Kiss 96.1 Morning Freakshow!
The Steelers? They're probably doing something. But I can guarantee it isn't as funny or as interesting as this. It's the offseason. Deal with it.
PS - Happy Birthday, Tupac! You are still missed.
2nd h/t to my buddy Andy from The Arena for the 'pac tip!
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Headline of the Day...
Let's be honest, as a contributing member of the Pittsburgh sports blogosphere, I'd be remiss if I didn't send the Pens a big time congratulations for taking Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final on Friday, thus securing their first cup in 17 years!
The Pens run up to, and through the NHL playoffs was not altogether that dissimilar from the Steelers run up to and through the NFL playoffs en route to Super Bowl XL. But what the Pens did was really incredible. A month out of the playoffs, no one thought they'd even get in. Their record certainly suggested that, and they had recently supplanted the veteran HCMT with noob HCDB, who himself was only several years removed from being a player. And yet, just a few months later, they now stand as league champions!
I'm sure they were all waiting for this post to really feel accomplished about it, too...
Anyways, besides the fact that at this time of year, there's more going on in your garden than there is in the world of sports, yesterday's lack of posting was mostly my acknowledgment that even if anyone read this blog in the first place, no one would have cared what I had to say yesterday - a fact to which the 375,000 people attending yesterday's victory parade certainly gave credence.
As for Game 7, I spent it in good company - with Tec (whom you can see right at the beginning of the video below) and Christmas Ape (whom it was great to finally meet in person!) - at Foley's, the Penguins bar here in Manhattan. Here are a couple of highlights (because I know you care)...
It was a great game to watch, albeit a nerve racking one. But in the end, the Pens had an answer for almost everything the Wings tried to throw at them. Go rewatch even the first period and count how many times the Pens shut the door on the Wings. They played with conviction and fire - this year, they weren't going to be denied. And in the end, that intensity and discipline brought them something they'll never forget.
Congrats, Pens! This post's for you!
And for no particular reason, here's a bonus photoshop of HCDB wielding a lightsaber...
Now, here are a bunch of links to keep all of YOU occupied until I can get my act together...
Mitch Berger doing his best Jeff Reed impression [Deadspin]
Big Ben shot an 81 at Bethpage, with ROCCO MEDIATE as his caddy! Also, Ben > Tony Homo, Michael Jordan and Justin Timberjoke [Post-Gazette]
NFL franchises certainly shouldn't need a rule telling them to interview minority candidates for front office positions, but if that's what it takes, then kudos to the league for extending the Rooney Rule [AP]
The Arizona Cardinals Ben Patrick has been suspended for four games for Adderall...First, Go Blue Hens! Second, this is further proof that I wouldn't last a day in the NFL [AP]
You think you're a Pens fan - well then, pop quiz... [Sean's Ramblings]
As the Legend puts it, now we wait... [The Legend of Cecilio Guante]
A note on fandom [WHYGAVS]
Words cannot properly describe how hilarious this song about trading Nate McLouth is...and yet, it's not as funny as the fact that some guy actually wrote a song about trading Nate McLouth (PS - many of you may have already seen this) [Walkoff Walk]
The Pirates old school uniforms - coming in at a respectable #7 on this list of the ugliest uniforms of all time...Sidenote: there's no way you can rank the Bucs unis higher than Syracuse football jerseys and old school Padres unis...there just isn't [Moondog Sports]
If you haven't seen it, be sure to check out Artie Lange on Joe Buck...Joe Buck = Stunned [Sports Crackle Pop]
Two solid old school WWF videos...Somewhere today, Koko B. Ware is thanking Deuce of Davenport for reminding people that he once existed (no word on whether he still exists) [Deuce of Davenport]
Even liquor stores can be clever marketers, I guess [FAIL Blog]
New week, new beat from Maticulous! [Maticulous Music]
PSA for Tuesday: Be patient with old people driving...sooner or later, that'll be you [Grumpy Old Dog]
Now, on a completely unrelated note - I don't know if it's just because it's the offseason or what, but for the last several weeks, I've really felt off of my game. Every time I go to write a post, it's like each sentence is a struggle to overcome some kind of mental block. And while, frankly, my writing was never going to win a Pulitzer or anything, it's definitely seen better days.
Usually this happens when I'm manufacturing posts or when I haven't been writing as much. Maybe right now it's a combination of the two. Either way, if you've read this site for more than just these last several weeks, you'll remember that at some point, it won't completely suck anymore (maybe).
Anyways, I just felt like that needed to be said.
Thank you all for sticking with me in this time of emotional distress. Your allegiance will not be forgotten.
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June 12, 2009
Meeting People Is Easy...
So, every week I do this whole intro thing, in which I say a bunch of stuff that doesn't matter. And really it's mostly just filler.
I mean, if there are new panelists, it makes sense to introduce them, because, you know, maybe you're not as familiar with their work as you are with that of the MPIE regulars. But when it's just the All-Star cast, I think that work's already been done several times over.
Anyways, as you will see, this week's panel is...
1. Neena
2. Tiny350z
3. Marc
4. Vern
5. Lori
6. John Woods
7. Grumpy
8. Steve
9. Ladi Izz
10. laclips
11. Doug
12. Nate
13. Matt
14. Sean
15. Noah
16. Hey, what's up?
Once it gets up over like 14, I feel like I should split it into two different photoshops. But when I was doing this at 1AM last night, I didn't quite have the good judgment or the foresight to realize that. Actually, I didn't even realize until just now that there were 16 people on this week's panel.
Clearly I'm well aware of life...
In any case, I've written my filler, introduced the panel, and made jokes at my own expense, which means now you should just read the actual questions and answers.
I dare you to salvage more than 10% of your brain cells by the time you're done.
Oh yeah, and Lori sent me this video that goes with her Favorite Song of the Moment...
Now, just for the hell of it, since I got my hands on some pictures from the Steelers workouts...
Ziggy Hood is all business.
"You see, Bruce. That's how you take down a motherf*#@er."
As usual, Jeff Reed took this shit real seriously...where did he even find a construction helmet? ...let's hope in Ben's locker. HEYO!
Pictures of everybody wearing helmets except Ben.
And finally...
See you at Foley's for Game 7!
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June 11, 2009
Headline of the Day...
Anyone who's been hitting the pavement, searching for a new gig in the last oh, I'd say nine months or so, knows what this ad is talking about (you probably wanna click to enlarge that bad boy).
What a state of affairs right now.
I'm not pretending to have the answer.
But if I had a dollar for every time I saw an ad offering something like $12/hr for a full time, non-entry level, professional position, I'd probably be able to single-handedly stimulate this economy back into being the well oiled machine it ought to be.
Put it this way, when employers have to explicitly say "with benefits" in a classified ad, you know there's a problem.
Anyways, totally not Steelers related at all.
What can you do?
Oh well, let these links atone for my Steelers blogging sin...
China Jack is a good man. And thorough. His latest toast is NOT to be missed... [PSaMP]
You think YOU know how to handle pressure? Read this, about Willie Gay [Post-Gazette]
Mike Wallace says he's the fastest guy on the team...a claim to which you have to give credence when a guy runs a 4.33 40 [Beaver County Times]
Solid NY Times piece on the Steelers SB XLIII rings (which yielded the images below this list of links) [NY Times]
Drew Brees doesn't puke when he drinks. He pukes when he doesn't drink [The Sports Hernia]
NFL moving in the right direction - starts spinal treatment program for retired players [AP]
Pens fans - Remember 1909 [The Pensblog]
I've been totally neglect in my duty to point out Lori's contest to counteract the Red Wings douchey video contest. There may not be time for more entries, but at least you can still laugh at Vern's videos [HFSS]
Hey baby, my name is Geno and I'm good with a stick... [Deadspin]
If you wanna know whether Raul Ibanez is clean, just take a look at his stool [Tirico Suave]
A breath of fresh air from Steve...and Bip Roberts??? [Steve Is Alive]
The Amish go west, like Fievel... [Grumpy Old Dog]
How Marco Polo makes beats...listen up... [Maticulous Music]
Sean...er, I mean Sean's friend, tries to get a kid's meal without having a kid [Sean's Ramblings]
Tiny's "great adventure" to Denver... [Cheese People]
Disc 2 of Radiohead's "In Rainbows" now available in digital form [Radiohead At Ease]
Tiny350z with the Best Song to Sing in Your Car! I hear her selection is Tec's favorite too.. [Sheena Beaston]
Blink doing "Dammit" and "What's My Age Again" on Kimmel [Punk News]
Download the entire Finch EP for FREE! [Finch]
Now, that's what I call good branding [FAIL Blog]
Speaking of FAIL Blog, THIS is Jon Gosselin's "mistress?" [The Superficial]
Now that my Google Reader is finally clean (for the next five minutes, that is), here are those pretty pictures I promised...
What a coincidence, that's also how they measure my manhood!
You're missing a couple, there.
If you had any doubts that two rings would get you lei'd, eliminate them. Awful pun. Whatevs.
Lastly, because Matt reminded me of this classic...
Video: Will Ferrell is Robert Goule
Will Ferrel is on another plane.
PS - Meeting People Is Easy is going to happen again tomorrow. If you weren't part of the email I sent out, but want to be on the panel, drop me a line and let a brotha know - firstname.lastname@example.com.
PPS - Scrotum. Good word.
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June 10, 2009
Everything's Coming Up..."Pussy_Monsta?"
Last night, Super Bowl XLIII hero and MVP, Santonio Holmes got a surreal new piece of jewelry.
Today, those pesky weed charges against him were dropped ("no probable cause" for stopping him in the first place...IE - see line above about Super Bowl XLIII).
But lost in all of this is his change in Twitter identity, which is another WIN - albeit more for us than for him.
If you aren't on Twitter, or hadn't noticed...
WOW. I mean, A+ for creativity?
At first, I was somewhat morally conflicted about whether or not to post this - effectively "blowing up" the man's stealthy spot.
Plus, given the natural difficulty in verifying whether someone is or is not, in fact, the Pussy_Monsta, there's still a chance that it's not him.
But then I realized, no one reads this blog.
So you can all thank my virtual anonymity for this one.
And also The Bish, who gave me the tip in the first place!
Only the most hard hitting news here at OFTOT...nahmeen?
As you were, then...
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Health care fraud no longer a faceless crimeWASHINGTON - Health care fraud used to be a faceless crime - until now. Medicare and Medicaid scams cost taxpayers more than $60 billion a year, but the average bank holdup is likely to get more attention. Seeking the public's help to catch more than 170 fugitive fraudsters, the government has launched a new health care most-wanted list, with its own website. More » |
Obama says people who hate him don't know himWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says he doesn't take it personally when people say they hate him. And the thing he dislikes most about being president is the constant, intense scrutiny. "The people who dislike you don't know you. The folks who hate you, they don't know you," Obama said Sunday in an interview broadcast during Fox's pre-game coverage of the widely watched NFL football Super Bowl. More » |
Houston black leaders laud release of police videoHOUSTON - Prosecutors and Houston Mayor Annise Parker criticized a community activist's release last week of a surveillance video that appears to show four former city police officers kicking and stomping a black teenage burglary suspect last year, saying it could jeopardize the cases against the officers. More » |
Stop the presses: First iPad newspaper debutsNEW YORK - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. launched the first iPad-only newspaper last week. It is hoping the right combination of traditional reporting and technological wizardry will lure enough subscribers and advertisers to pay for a new way of delivering journalism. More » |
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Patrick (UK) and Atman (Singapore) formed DIPHTHONG SOUND CLUB to produce chill ethnic electronic lounge music featuring Atman's evocative flute compositions. Diphthong Sound Club are in the vein of Cafe Del Mar and Bhudda Bar and are distinguished by their varied styles ranging from transcendental club to film.
Atman and Patrick are award-winning musicians - in 2009 and 2008 they reached the semi-finals of the UK Songwriting Contest. One of their successful tracks - Iota - is being released in December on WOA Records' Goa Chillout Zone Volume 3. Iota is sensual and haunting, evoking the cool lounges of the Far East. They got airplay in May 2010 on BBC Bristol who called them "fantastic".
Their road to this modest success began in Singapore in 2002 where they formed a 5-piece eclectic ethnic band 'Sutra Asia' playing gigs in Hard Rock Café and other venues. When Sutra Asia split up in 2003 Patrick and Atman continued working together and gigged in the tourist heartland of Singapore during 2005. They are now compiling material for their first album to launch Winter 2009/2010 and planning to play in festivals in UK in Summer 2010.
Check out the following clip from a gig we did in 2003 in a group called Sutra Asia - the predecessor to Diphthong Sound Club:
Media coverage of Diphthong Sound Club to date:
Bath Chronicle – Weekly paper – Thursday 11th September, pg 12
The Galloway News – Weekly paper - Thursday 11th September Radio:
BathFM radio – Monday 8th September, Morning news on the hour
URB1449 radio – to be played, upcoming interview
Bath University Campus - homepage feature – Weds 10th September til Friday 12th - http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/2008/9/10/dipthong.html
BA2 E-Newsletter Autumn Issue 2008 – Bath University
Patrick Stacey - keyboards, recording and production.
Atman - flutes.
BBC Bristol Introdicing played "The door behind you".
Track 'Iota' will be released on WOA Records' Goa Chillout zone Vol 3 CD in Dec 2009.
Iota was featured on BathFM Radio, UK. Our demo comprises: Iota, Vue and Arpeggio Moon.
Lyricist Peter shows he's made of the write stuff
[+ Show ]
extract: Patrick Stacey, who lives off Lower Bristol Road in Bath, also reached the semi-finals of...
Interview on BathFM radio
Diphthong were featured on BathFM news on Monday 8th September 2008
PhD graduate reaches semi-finals of national song contest
[+ Show ]
Patrick Stacey, a graduate from the University's School of Management, has reached the semi-finals o...
Iota, Sioux, Gio, The door behind you, Vue, Hypnosis, June, 0510, Vinyl: 45 mins set.


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Time | 3:45 pm |
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Colts Neck High school is apart of the Freehold Regional High School District, and is home to the Colts Neck Cougars. Enrollment includes students from all over the district, based on special programs offered such as the Law and Public Learning Center and the Naval Junior ROTC Academy.
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Salseras DIVAFEST/Atlanta - March 11 -13, 2011 www.jobybrava.com/salserasDIVAFEST.htmJOBY BRAVA PRODUCTIONSFriday, March 11, 2011 at 5:00 PM - Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 6:00 PM (EST)Atlanta, GA |
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It's finally autumn.
/ Avy
- September 28, 2012 at 1:23 AM
- Zoobia said...
Oh, how I love Emannuelle's style. She stays true to her own aesthetic, and it's such an easy aesthetic to emulate, if you so desire.
- September 28, 2012 at 2:40 AM
Ahhh, so true! Thank God someone feels the same about AdR. I hate all that bling. Talking about mutton dressed in lamb... she's a bit pathetic.
- September 28, 2012 at 5:23 AM
I'm so happy that you've mentioned where you got your jeans! After seeing them so beautifully cuffed in the last couple of posts, I was going to ask where they were from?
Could you possibly shed some more light? They're beautiful.....as is your blog and essentially anything you write!
xx An avid fan - September 28, 2012 at 3:30 PM
- Fashion Tidbits said...
Oooh harsh anon.
I think ADR has her own take on things which is admirable.
Loving Alt's look ALWAYS <3 - September 28, 2012 at 4:38 PM
- hannah-rose said...
Avy - at last!
Zoobia - I love that too. She definitely has a clear idea of her style, which is the best.
Anon - I used to love how playful she was with fashion but now it's just going a bit far!
Anon - ohhh the jeans in my last post aren't actually from k-mart, they're a really old pair of levis 501s from a chain store.. But I just got a new pair from k mart haha which are a darker wash of blue, I love them... I get them from the men's section so that they've got more of a swagger!!
Fashion tidbit - I love that she does her own thing, but I'm getting tired of the whole street style circus.. it's mental this season!
xxxx - September 28, 2012 at 5:02 PM
- PlainJane said...
Well said, that last comment made me laugh.
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- Alexandra said...
It's fun to dress up but this season is on another level!
http://herribbonsandherbows.blogspot.co.uk - September 28, 2012 at 6:51 PM
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Doppelganger Stalker - Hostile Cloud
Protective Spirit - Backward EVP
Fairy Sighting - Friendly Gnome
Fight with a Demon - Accurate Channeling
Visit from St. Michael - "Don't You See Them?"
Hooded Men - Kangaroo Monster
The Woman Upstairs - I Saved Me from Myself
Missing Time - Bob, the Ghost
Gnomes in the Philippines - Why Babies Don't Talk
The Old Man - The Jockey's Ghost
Many Disturbances - Grim Reaper Visits
The Line of Monks - Prophetic Dreams
The Old Parish Hall - Strange Phone Calls
Bill, The Ghost - Brahma's World
Voice at the Door - Shimmering Apparition
Story of the Month: Small Beings
UFO Sightings - Voices in the Night
Unexplained Horoscope - Family Ties Beyond the Grave
Ouija Prediction - Blessed Marriage
The Ghost of Woolyburger - Chased By Chupacabras
Evil Presence - Phantom Dish Washer
Phantom Phone Call - Ghost Portal
Ghost of Christmas Present - Grandpa Returns
The Fiery Ghost - Miracle Crash
Guardian Angel - Spirit Sights and Smells
Warning Lights - Ouija Sleepover Scare
Phone Call from Heaven - Spooky's Spirit
Out of Control OBEs - Poltergeist Message
Cures from Outer Space - Little Girl Ghost
Story of the Month: The Third Bridge
What I Saw - The Special Place
Grandma Didn't Like Microwave Ovens
Strange Footsteps - Three Years of Ouija
Angel in Uniform - Gangster Ghost
Ghost in the Machine - Ghost Dog
Grandpa's Last Visit - Guardian Angel
Guardian Angel Rescue - Shocking Premonition
Haunted Nuns - Thunderbird Sighting
Life After Death Does Exist - Little Faeries
Man in the Hallway - Eric Says Goodbye
Angels Do Exist - Old Hag Attacks Children Too?
Ouija Board Story - Past Life and OBE?
Past Lives - Poltergeist Borrower
My Brother and "The Guy" - Ghost in a Top Hat
The Demon Man - Giant Bird Sighting
Red-Eyed Robot - The Phantom Lantern
Chupacabras Sighting? - The Ghost That Left the Cemetery
The Blue House - The Green Thing
Vivid Shadow People Encounter - Shadow on the Balcony
Church Camp Ghost - Edison's EVP Device
Story of the Month: The Devil Wore a Tuxedo
The Caped Phantom - Weird Dream Come True
It Started with the Ouija - Another Grieving Ghost
The Boy in the Mirror - Alien Hand Syndrome
Atlanta UFO - Celestial Wonders
Time Slip to D-Day - Telekinesis Claim
Ghost by the Trail - Mystery Dimes
Old Hag Theory - Our Apartment is Haunted
"I Didn't Kill Aaron" - Shadow Creature
Library Ghost - The Giant Frog
Tarboro, NC Spooklight - Ghost from the Well
Voice on the Baby Monitor - The Truck That Drove Itself
Silver UFO - I Spoke to an Angel
What Does an Astronaut Do in the Woods?
Unexplained Sparks - Three Ghostly Tales
We Both Saw It!
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